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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!

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firehawk12

Subete no aware
Wandering Son 10

Holy shit this show is good.


With this recent, more serious turn of events, it'd be easy for the show to devolve into melodrama. Instead, things are played with a steady hand. Time passes. Painful encounters are avoided or handled indirectly. Everyone struggles with things suddenly being thrown off-kilter. It's tough to watch, because you want everyone to be happy.


Nitorin obviously gets it worst of all, and it's hard watching him blame himself for everything that happened. His mom, his sister, his classmates, Momo... they beat a message into him that he can't help reinforce. He made up his mind about his decision, but he's not strong enough to fight it alone. And most of his friends grasp the unfairness of how he's being treated, but there's only so much they can do.

Next week should be great.

Please make sure you are watching the uncut version of this episode!
 

Kurita

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Oooooh :O no doubt it will be me asking you for recommendations soon!

These 3 are must watches (for different reasons).

Nobuta wo Produce - great story about friendship

Hana Kimi (old version, not the 2011 remake) - one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. so many great characters.

Shinzanmono + Special + Movie - awesome detective drama

Thanks!
I see a lot of actors I like in these three dramas...
I remember watching the first episode of Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, it was pretty funny.

Freeter was fucking ace. I finished watching it ages ago, but I never got around to posting about it.

So many feels. The karaoke scene was just heartbreaking.
 

/XX/

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The rocket tits were not big enough.
The excellent repelling properties of the ultra smooth combat 72-type surface really works wonders!

The new /a/ ones are shit because it was literally the result of one thread rather than the board as a whole. And not to sound elitist but it's a fact of life that some people are better at things than others and some of the banners just look amateurish. The Blood C one (you'll know it when you see it) is bad bad BAD. Yes there is a slight bitterness here.
One thread? There were like 8 months (between this https://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/55910151/#55910684 and this https://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/59913700/) of parsing through the images in the '.ZIP' file submission that initiated it all plus the ones being continuously sent through e-mail, which spawned from various 'banner threads'... I swear I've seen ones that were incorporated very late after the "deadline"!
 

fertygo

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Martian Successor Nadesico 1-2

Another mecha show from my backlog, Corvo keep hyping it so its make me want to start it now.

First thing I gonna mention, chara design are nothing special but particularly the heroine.

ZQuOmOX.jpg

What wrong with your faec

And I just hate the anime hair slip to eyebrow thing.
 

Taruranto

Member
Any dramas you would recommend?
Right now I'm watching :
Priceless
Mother
Buzzer Beat
Last Friends
Mirai Nikki
dinner
Ryuusei No Kizuna
Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou
Saikou no Rikon

Completed :
Kagi no Kakatta Heya
Hungry!
Rich Man Poor Woman
Freeter Ie wo Kau (thanks again for this one, fantastic)
Liar Game

Fantastic Children
Please Save My Earth (the mango)
 

wrowa

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Is Robotics;Notes worth watching? Quite liked the VN to Steins;Gate, but after watching 6 episodes of Robotics I can't say that I feel the same for that one. Is it going to pick up or can I stop watching? :S
 
Is Robotics;Notes worth watching? Quite liked the VN to Steins;Gate, but after watching 6 episodes of Robotics I can't say that I feel the same for that one. Is it going to pick up or can I stop watching? :S

Yeah Robotics;Notes has been much more entertaining than Steins;Gate, one I look forward to each week. The school club stuff, with the mystery, robotcs, and the huge mystery as little details are gradually given out have made it fun especially all second half of the series.
 

DiGiKerot

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Is Robotics;Notes worth watching? Quite liked the VN to Steins;Gate, but after watching 6 episodes of Robotics I can't say that I feel the same for that one. Is it going to pick up or can I stop watching? :S

Robotics;Notes takes about eighteen or nineteen episodes to go anywhere in particular - which isn't to say that there aren't things that I found interesting prior to that, but there's a lot of really frustrating false starts going on. It's a little too much of a grind for me to recommend to anyone who is going to be watching it in bulk rather than at a weekly pace.
 

faridmon

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I am catching up to the new HxH series and I am loving it (of course except for the censoring) but there is one thing that I do remember clearly from the old series is the introduction
of the Bomber being a big surprise and tense
but here his introduction wasn't as impactful since he was never given any screen time before announcing himself as such which clearly have an effect on his story and his danger within the group in Greed Island.

Great production value and stellar art. They did go all out for this series and I can't wait to see what lies beyond, since I haven't read the manga at all.
 

fertygo

Member
Is Robotics;Notes worth watching? Quite liked the VN to Steins;Gate, but after watching 6 episodes of Robotics I can't say that I feel the same for that one. Is it going to pick up or can I stop watching? :S

Don't waste your time with any of Bermudas Triangle of Fall 2012 :

Psycho-Pass, Pet Girl of Sakurasou, and Robotic; Notes.

Stay away.
 

yami4ct

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I am catching up to the new HxH series and I am loving it (of course except for the censoring) but there is one thing that I do remember clearly from the old series is the introduction
of the Bomber being a big surprise and tense
but here his introduction wasn't as impactful since he was never given any screen time before announcing himself as such which clearly have an effect on his story and his danger within the group in Greed Island.

Great production value and stellar art. They did go all out for this series and I can't wait to see what lies beyond, since I haven't read the manga at all.

Outside of the Hunter Examination arc, what's really been censored? It's been as violent as I remember the manga being, perhaps some small stuff here and there. They even got the
auction house scene
in and uncut. Honestly, I wouldn't complain at all about the censor right now.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
That's sad. The manga is just so good.

Manga is dragging, soon it'll be like those three other manga of which we shall not speak of in this thread, which people only read out of habit.
 

faridmon

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Outside of the Hunter Examination arc, what's really been censored? It's been as violent as I remember the manga being, perhaps some small stuff here and there. They even got the
auction house scene
in and uncut. Honestly, I wouldn't complain at all about the censor right now.

I agree with you that they have been showing a lot of more gore lately than the examination arc, but it is way less bloody and some of the scenes are cut way too fast. The amount of blood shown in teh auction house was joke since they never showed the extend of damaged done. There is a lot of heads flying around, but in the original series, you could see bloody pumping out of the body for a second or two.

I am not complaining, since I have gotten used to it, but I wish they depicted the deaths more prominently. This series is about the effect of deaths and killings and the emotion that is attached to it, and if you can't feel the gruesome part of it, what is the point?

I am still loving it though, so I hope my critique of the amount of blood showed doesn't deter the fact that I am enjoying it as much as the older version.
 

fertygo

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I agree with you that they have been showing a lot of more gore lately than the examination arc, but it is way less bloody and some of the scenes are cut way too fast. The amount of blood shown in teh auction house was joke since they never showed the extend of damaged done. There is a lot of heads flying around, but in the original series, you could see bloody pumping out of the body for a second or two.

I am not complaining, since I have gotten used to it, but I wish they depicted the deaths more prominently. This series is about the effect of deaths and killings and the emotion that is attached to it, and if you can't feel the gruesome part of it, what is the point?

I think I read the comparison before and the new series actually more gory in that scene.
 

faridmon

Member
I think I read the comparison before and the new series actually more gory in that scene.

Is that so? Then my mind must be playing tricks on me. Maybe is due to expectation. Granted Its been long since I have watched the old series...

Never mind my drivel then. Apologies.
 

Jex

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I will say though, for better or for worse, Shaft is the only studio with a cohesive style that can be attributed to the studio itself. The individual directors that actually make the show after Shinbo presumably barfs on a manuscript before fucking off to do "boss-like" things Miyamoto-style do have distinct personalities, it's all under the same type of framework of weird angle shots, discontinuous edits and so forth.

Very few studios try to take advantage of the fact that, while we still view animation like we do with television or film, there isn't a camera to worry about
.
I think that's partly due to a certain artistic laziness and probably more to do with the extra expense/effort in drawing things from different angles of moving a camera through a space in a manner that's not possible in reality. The later, in particular, either requires extensive use of CG or lots of background animation which is a lot of hard work.
I suppose it's just a matter of whether or not that wankery amounts to anything... but I will say, part of the charm of HidaSketch is how weird it can look at times. If it was just another JC Staff show or whatever, it'd probably be as banal as any of the girls being girls shows out there (like say, and I say this as a fan of the show, Joshiraku).
I believe I wrote an essay on that subject.
 

Syrinx

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Futari wa Pretty Cure 21

So Kiriya finally fights Nagisa and Honoka. And yes, he does indeed pull a heel-face-turn that could be seen from a mile away through black fog. He just gives them the prism stone and goes back to the Land of Darkness.

Kinda a sad ending for him (sad for Honoka too). But it really couldn't have ended any other way. Eh, seems this arc is almost over anyway. They now have six Prism Stones. Now they only need one more or to lose them to Dotsuku Zone to set up a battle with Jyaku King, which tends to happen a lot when there's a big bad they're showing literally every episode.
 

Jex

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Don't a lot of OT threads die. Most impressions also end up here as well and usually people discuss things in this thread. The SAO thread basically only stayed alive because of Kayos and I have silly Q&A sessions.

A lot of initial impressions are also places on IRC rather than any particular thread, which further reduces the likelihood that a show-specific thread will live on.
 

Syrinx

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A lot of initial impressions are also places on IRC rather than any particular thread, which further reduces the likelihood that a show-specific thread will live on.

Didn't the Jojo |OT| stay pretty active? I often saw it on the front page. But yeah, if an anime is going to have an active thread in the main off-topic, it seems to need significantly broader appeal than to the people in this thread.
 

Jex

Member
You know, I think I'm just going to stop posting impressions for every episode I watch. Sometimes I really can't think of much to say, especially with something like Hidamari Sketch. Like episode 7, which I just watched. The whole thing was just the four of them chilling around the house waiting for a typhoon to pass. It was fun to watch, but you can't exactly say much about it, y'know? I mean, I'm not tryin' to do an in-depth analysis of Hiro's dieting issues or anything. It's just a laid-back slice-of-life show, so I'm just going to enjoy it and not worry about impressions or anything.

Well a number of types of worth don't really lend themselves to impressions, such as comedies. There are always exceptions, such as when a work is so well produced that there's something to discuss such as certain skits from Nichijou.
 

Jex

Member
Didn't the Jojo |OT| stay pretty active? I often saw it on the front page. But yeah, if an anime is going to have an active thread in the main off-topic, it seems to need significantly broader appeal than to the people in this thread.

It really depends on the show and the fanbase. Certain shows will just naturally attracted dedicated fans e.g. Madoka. That's usually a good sign that the show has 'hit it big'.
 

faridmon

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Oh, those are really lovely.

This has led me to discover, rather astonishingly, that apparently Kids On The Slope is getting a Bluray release in the UK! How did I miss this? Instabuy!

I wish I could say the same for Penguindrum :(

I am still waiting for Toradora!!!

DAMMIT!!!

but a kids on the slop release over here is fantastic, I might get it

[EDIT] the release date is June. might give me enough time to save up money
 
Is Robotics;Notes worth watching? Quite liked the VN to Steins;Gate, but after watching 6 episodes of Robotics I can't say that I feel the same for that one. Is it going to pick up or can I stop watching? :S

It's a very different show from steins:gate so throw those expectations away right now. I'm personally with the crowd on how terrible it is but if you have similar tastes to DTL then by all means take his recommendation. I think it's those expectations that made me waste so much time on it because I kept waiting for a major turning point where everything came together in a brilliant fashion and it just never happened, not well at least. So no it doesn't pick up in the way S;G did at the halfway point and those weak early episodes are about as good as it gets, especially if you're in it for the fun like DTL.

edit:eek:h, weird. DTL updated his post to elaborate on what he found fun about the show. Which I find kind of odd since the tone of the second half is far from lighthearted or fun in my opinion.
 
I think that's partly due to a certain artistic laziness and probably more to do with the extra expense/effort in drawing things from different angles of moving a camera through a space in a manner that's not possible in reality. The later, in particular, either requires extensive use of CG or lots of background animation which is a lot of hard work.

I believe I wrote an essay on that subject.

Is it really laziness rather than efficiency though? Even in the cheaper motionless scenes I've found they tend to at least try to frame the scene in an interesting way. Also it's not like their shows are completely devoid of any fluid motion or well animated scenes. I don't know, I just find it odd that Evangelion gets praise for only needing 700 frames on the first episode but SHAFT well, gets the shaft in that department.
 
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