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Fall 2012 Anime |OT| Meet the new world, same as the old world

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jbug617

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Is Initial D series any good? Does it mostly revolve around racing or is about relationships (friends, girls etc) with racing to settle disputes.
 

SDBurton

World's #1 Cosmonaut Enthusiast
Welp, I'll be more active now since I got my fill of fighting games for awhile. Will be back on my yuri expedition starting tomorrow.
 

Enron

Banned
Is Initial D series any good? Does it mostly revolve around racing or is about relationships (friends, girls etc) with racing to settle disputes.

The former. And no, it is not good. It was kinda cool in the late 90s early 00s to see what were cool cars at the time going at it, but add 10 years and its aged horribly.
 

Ultimadrago

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Andrew J.

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Will watch:

Chuunibyo
Code Geass Akito
Code Breaker
Girls und Panzer
Gothicmade
Magi
Medaka Box Abnormal
Psycho Pass
Robotics;Notes
Shin Sekai Yori
Zetsuen no Tempest
 
Details on this year's Lupin TV special.

A new Lupin III anime special, Lupin III: Tōhō Kenbunroku ~Another Page~ (Lupin III: Record of Observations of the East ~Another Page~) will air on NTV on November 2.

The special will revolve around a long-lost page of Marco Polo's Record of Observations of the East travel journal (known in French as Livres des merveilles du monde and in English as Books of the Marvels of the World). Theo Argent, a professor who found this missing page, has been murdered, and Lupin is suspected as the killer. As Lupin is being chased by the police, he receives unexpected help from Argent's granddaughter Lisa (voiced by Marina Inoue). Additional cast members include Romi Park, Yuka Terasaki, and Sora Tokui.

Hajime Kamegaki (Lupin III vs. Detective Conan) is directing the special. Hidaka Katsuro (Kaitō Royale, Natsu Yasumi no Koibito) is writing the script, and Yuji Ohno will handle the special's music.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Kyousogiga (2012) 1

Marginally more coherent than the last incarnation, but still pretty disjointed and too short to do much beyond show off the creative art direction - though the web broadcast doesn't really do that justice anyway. It felt like an extended teaser trailer, with the way it briefly showed the various factions(?) at the end. I'll watch the next episode when it comes out; if it's not longer and more fleshed out I probably won't continue past that.
 

cuilan

Member
This shall be my first and only post in an anime OT, at least until Wandering Son gets a 2nd season.

Hello and goodbye.
 
Polar Bear Character 26

this show has three characters voiced by sugita: a penguin, a bystander and a wolf. by the sugita law, this is the greatest show ever made.

I wish I was able to enjoy this show.

Gonna be my first anime season to actually wait weekly for episodes to come out from the beginning. When's the first show?

From the New World has its first airing in Japan in a little under 15 hours.

but does it have those delicious Koike Character designs?

No, it looks fairly similar to last year's Lupin special. It's back to business as usual for the franchise.
 
Sengoku Collection 26 (end)

As the anime that was a grab bag pick for me two seasons ago, I think this final episode was actually really good. I liked how they closed the season out (ignoring the awkward plot this episode, which I wont mention). Playing Unlucky Girl full version (season 1 ending theme) was really nice because that song grew on me and is quite catchy and then this seasons ending theme too. Music was consistently one of the animes high point, as the first OP "Me wo Tojite Guyusshiyo" is awesome and catchy, and then this ones "Back into my World" was also good (love the way she says World). The background ost is solid, I think there was never a dull track and it kept the often dull episodes interestings.

Unfortunately this is a not good anime, too much inconsistency in quality. Bad episodes were really bad and decent episodes were decent, like no middle ground. Anyway of the 26, I did find these watchable and pretty decent.

Episode 7: Basho and the Haiku, restuarant
Episode 8: A war between rice and wheat
Episode 9:
Episode 10: Shinku/Jun school stuff
Episode 11: Casino/Hisuhide
Episode 12: Saturday Night Rider
Episode 17: Lu Bei/Pig + Old lady
Episode 18: Angel/Yoshitsugu
pen pals to Angel then finally visiting her and then just learning of what happened to her, my emotions
Episode 21: Shingen/Fassad
Episode 23: Playground
Episode 24: Ieaysu/Kaoru

So I guess less than half. Character designs were really lacking, only Kaoru, Fassad, had good character designs while the rest needed massive improvements. 3/10.
 

7Th

Member
Awful confession time - I don't think of this as "anime". It doesn't fit into the neat visual boxes I think of for anime. That's not to say it's bad - because it really isn't, it's beautiful and enjoyable - but it means it gets upgraded to "animation"...

Anime is cartoons is animation.
 

Narag

Member
Angel Densetsu


1996 two episode OVA adaptation of a manga of the same name about a kid that is pretty nice but has a rather sinister face. Misunderstandings ensue har har

It was pretty average.
 
Glad the Fall season is finally here since I was only able to complete YuruYuri♪♪ during the Summer season. I did get through more of my backlog though during the past three months.
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Rinne no Lagrange S2 06:

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You'd think I'd eventually get tired of using ironic screencaps, but noooooooooooo.

Okay, so let me get this straight: the show has already established for several episodes that S2 will happily sink to new lows of crass ecchi content, it decides to do an episode about
two attractive female characters switching bodies
, and NOW it decides to have tact and proper priorities? smh.

If there's one thing worth saying about this episode, it's to point out the flagrant asspull of
Madoka-in-Yurikano drifting off into space in the escape pod only to be IMMEDIATELY rescued by Vox Aura even though it was established minutes earlier that Aura was rejecting her due to her body and consciousness being mismatched.
Not content with being merely bad, the really hamfisted attempt to play the scene for laughs by no time passing between
Madoka-in-Yurikano tearfully bidding Earth goodbye in the escape pod as it vanishes and subsequently flying right back in an explosion of genki exuberance
made it vastly more terrible. You expect me to laugh off your total apathy toward constructing a serious and believable scene just because
Vox Aura
comes zipping back like Road Runner out of a tunnel or something? Wrong.

Yurikano
shit is still kind of incomprehensible.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Rinne no Lagrange S2 06:

Not content with being merely bad, the really hamfisted attempt to play the scene for laughs by no time passing between
Madoka-in-Yurikano tearfully bidding Earth goodbye in the escape pod as it vanishes and subsequently flying right back in an explosion of genki exuberance
made it vastly more terrible.
Okay, no, sorry, dude, that scene was the best thing out of the entire second season of Reverse Accel World.
 

Instro

Member
Some of these banners are hilarious. Nice work.

I feel like Litchi DE Hikari Club is one of the big wildcards for me this season. No director or staff mentioned, studio has done very little and nothing I have heard of, however the premise sounds very interesting and I really like what I have seen of the art in the manga.
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Why now? We already know better.

I have just enough good will toward what the show used to be to see this through to the end. Everything's pretty dumb now, but still well within my personal limits of watchability.
 

cajunator

Banned
Yeah, she does have that affect when you've listened to too much typecasted Kugimiya. Blew my mind when I found out she was Alphonse, much like my shock when I found out Omigawa was Nazuna.

OK Ill give you Mizore, because she is indeed greatness.
And she was also not tsun and stupid.
 
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