Yo. Don't go insulting my childhood. Power Rangers were the bee's knees.
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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!
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Chet Rippo
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To draw in a new audience I'd guess. Same reason some anime get English dubs.
Power Rangers were fun, when we were kids in the 90s. They haven't kept up with the times. They're still stuck. Sentai shows have a certain timeless quality, while Power Rangers has not aged well. New ones are especially horrific to watch. Their adaptation of Shinkenger was soulless.
Ugh, I remembered hounding my mom to buy me that $80 Power Rangers beat-em-up for the SNES so long ago.
Jex
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He should just apologize for Psycho-Pass.
Kayos keeps the spirit of the 90s alive. Ya dig?
I think I actually stopped watching Power Rangers after the first series when they got a new cast and a subtitle (in Space or something right?). I just remember the baddies growing super large and turning everyone into kids and me thinking Yeah, the awesome characters won! Go out on a high note.
It's odd to think that as a child I cheered for the baddies.
I think I actually stopped watching Power Rangers after the first series when they got a new cast and a subtitle (in Space or something right?). I just remember the baddies growing super large and turning everyone into kids and me thinking Yeah, the awesome characters won! Go out on a high note.
It's odd to think that as a child I cheered for the baddies.
Derp. Reading what you guys were saying about Sentai while not really knowing about them (not American) I thought it was real ahah.
amishpriest99
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I'm glad I wasn't into Powers Rangers as a kid. Might've ended up with that on the SNES rather than, say, Final Fantasy III.
R_thanatos
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Don't get your hopes up.
Waouh ...they made an extra effort to be worse than usual ...
Wait ... it's not real ? that's some sick joke you guys are making ....
Unsolved Fishteries: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Bro Back in the Water: The Scheme-a in Enoshima.
And this is why AnimeGAF needs to pool its resources and open an anime licensing company.
Yeah, they're actually calling it Psychicks Go Wild, and Mad Pierrot made a mistake on his comedy mock-up.
Not really, we've no idea what Sentai are going to call it, but I'd be shocked if it wasn't just From The New World
First order of business... destroy all that is left of Harmony Gold and take back what is rightfully ours.
Dedication Through Light
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I mean, Ive never seen Sentai of Funimation change the title after offering a press release of the anime's name in it.
amishpriest99
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YES. THIS. Harmony Gold is evil and must be destroyed.
Don't get your hopes up.
You make the best covers
Don't get your hopes up.
Now make one with Satoru and Shun.
I would have except there's no official art of the two of them together. They foolishly banked on yuri fans showing up instead!
kogami pls
First season was best season.
I stopped watching after episode 8 or whatever one that delivered. Am I missing out on more?
No idea, actually. Even though I was enjoying it immensely I stalled out at episode 11 with the intent to marathon the rest in time for the end.
Regulus Tera
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Never read the manga, for your sanity's sake.
I'm aware of how the manga ends. So yeah, I think I'll be content to stick to this.
I should probably do the same.
Chet Rippo
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Maybe they should revise all of the episodes.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Nuke this thread from orbit.
This isn't real, right? It can't be real. How could it be real? No way it's real.
...Right?
Of course it's not real.
The dialogue isn't, the sex totally is, though.
(Open to your own sanity, also spoiler)
http://i.imgur.com/uLIN2GP.jpg
(Open to your own sanity, also spoiler)
http://i.imgur.com/uLIN2GP.jpg
Dedication Through Light
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Naruto Shippuden 301
Rasenshurikan again and again never gets old, reminds me of when Ichigo would Spam Getsuga Tenshou, I dont know, I just really love seeing it in action and being dodged and reflected.
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Forgot how the next fight turns out.
Rasenshurikan again and again never gets old, reminds me of when Ichigo would Spam Getsuga Tenshou, I dont know, I just really love seeing it in action and being dodged and reflected.
Too bad it wasnt the winning move here, though having Sage Jutsu powered Rasengan to do that side arm attack at fast speeds was definitely good, not Minato good but still good
Forgot how the next fight turns out.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
fuck the pain away
The Unlimited: Hyoubu Kyousuke 3, 4, 5, 6, 7:
Underwhelming, cheap, ugly, predictable, slow. Protip: if you're going to make a show about a cast of (mostly minor) antagonists from an existing property--antagonists that were largely one-dimensional but enjoyable in small doses and operated in a manner not unlike a more sophisticated version of the Monster of the Week in mahou shoujo--simply coating everyone in a layer of grimdark does not automatically translate to a better character. In fact, the little spark of personality that each of them had in ZKC has been sucked out in the name of making them SERIOUS TERRORISTS and they're decidedly worse for it. The writing is partially to blame for this because no one acts or speaks in a remotely naturalistic manner, but let no one doubt now that the whole idea of this show was a bad idea from the start.
I mean, I know that the show is about Kyousuke and not his peons, but let's face it--he can't carry the thing on his own. The insights into his psychology are utterly redundant if you've seen ZKC, and even if you haven't, the show has done nothing to make the viewer feel or Kyousuke appear conflicted about his objectives. He's just a haughty genocidal maniac, and we really have no indication of why these not particularly malevolent or dogmatic-acting people following him believe in him or share his extreme convictions apart from cliched flashbacks of a benevolent Kyousuke extending his hand to them as crying children in burning rubble.
There's also Andy, of course, and his whole double agent plotline was what initially gave me a little hope that the show could at least be competent as a spy thriller. Maybe it's just because I marathoned Homeland this week, but the show's attempts at depicting espionage, blackmail, and covert operations are so straightforward and unimaginative that I've lost all interest in that aspect of the show. The revelation of Andy's true objective wasn't worth the several episodes it took of tiptoeing around the issue and B.A.B.E.L. has shown him up in every way imaginable in terms of posing a real challenge to Kyousuke.
There's a lot in the show that I want to address more specifically, but it ain't worth it. Show's boring. A question to cosmic, though: just how much of what's occurring here is canonical? Up to where the ZKC anime ended there was no indication that
It feels........off somehow.
Underwhelming, cheap, ugly, predictable, slow. Protip: if you're going to make a show about a cast of (mostly minor) antagonists from an existing property--antagonists that were largely one-dimensional but enjoyable in small doses and operated in a manner not unlike a more sophisticated version of the Monster of the Week in mahou shoujo--simply coating everyone in a layer of grimdark does not automatically translate to a better character. In fact, the little spark of personality that each of them had in ZKC has been sucked out in the name of making them SERIOUS TERRORISTS and they're decidedly worse for it. The writing is partially to blame for this because no one acts or speaks in a remotely naturalistic manner, but let no one doubt now that the whole idea of this show was a bad idea from the start.
I mean, I know that the show is about Kyousuke and not his peons, but let's face it--he can't carry the thing on his own. The insights into his psychology are utterly redundant if you've seen ZKC, and even if you haven't, the show has done nothing to make the viewer feel or Kyousuke appear conflicted about his objectives. He's just a haughty genocidal maniac, and we really have no indication of why these not particularly malevolent or dogmatic-acting people following him believe in him or share his extreme convictions apart from cliched flashbacks of a benevolent Kyousuke extending his hand to them as crying children in burning rubble.
There's also Andy, of course, and his whole double agent plotline was what initially gave me a little hope that the show could at least be competent as a spy thriller. Maybe it's just because I marathoned Homeland this week, but the show's attempts at depicting espionage, blackmail, and covert operations are so straightforward and unimaginative that I've lost all interest in that aspect of the show. The revelation of Andy's true objective wasn't worth the several episodes it took of tiptoeing around the issue and B.A.B.E.L. has shown him up in every way imaginable in terms of posing a real challenge to Kyousuke.
There's a lot in the show that I want to address more specifically, but it ain't worth it. Show's boring. A question to cosmic, though: just how much of what's occurring here is canonical? Up to where the ZKC anime ended there was no indication that
Kyousuke had avoided confrontation with Kaoru for years or that he had anime wasting disease. It all feels unnatural considering that the implication in ZKC was that Kaoru was in real and immediate danger of being drawn over to the dark side at any time, and yet she's suddenly in middle school and there's seemingly not just no progress on that front but an extended lack of any sort of interaction between her and P.A.N.D.R.A.
Kinda a shame that this is kinda gonna hover like a cloud over my viewing of the anime, especially since the makers of the anime had the good sense not to do this (right?). Of all the ways you could end this kinda story...WHY?!
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Goddamnit why did I click.
dakkumauji
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Puchimas! 39
Fish must be their natural enemies.
Fish must be their natural enemies.
I did the same thing. Now I'm sad.
dakkumauji
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Ai Mai Mi 08
Torturing whatshername.
Torturing whatshername.
Crash Station
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They were actual terrorists. I don't know anything about the first anime, but there's enough in the manga to show how merciless they are even if they do sometimes get their own comedic scenarios.
I do agree though, it is odd why certain people follow him, especially people that are actually friends of the main trio. Makes me wonder if people like Patty or Mio really know about the horrible things Hyobu does.
There is a time skip in the manga, though I don't remember what went on during it beyond the girls aging.
Other than that, I don't think anything else but the current flashback is canon.
Well. This explains a lot. LOL.
dakkumauji
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Disappointed employees looking for free stuff.
Disappointed employees looking for free stuff.
The Hero Yoshihiko and the Key of Evil Spirits – 01
That new opening, that new Murasaki haircut
HNNNNNNNGHHH
That new opening, that new Murasaki haircut
HNNNNNNNGHHH
Granted, my memory of the anime is fuzzy in places, but I don't remember much in the way of murder or terroristic action on a grand scale from Kyousuke's minions. There was espionage, hostage-taking, perhaps some assassination or bombing plots that were thwarted, but I remember most of the truly evil stuff being limited to Kyousuke himself.
The way that most of the characters are depicted in The Unlimited, I can't imagine them as megalomaniacs earnestly devoted to exterminating not just sources of esper oppression but all normals, so I suppose that both series have done a poor job of depicting P.A.N.D.R.A's true nature. If memory serves, ZKC was a clockshow which would mean that it aired in a supposedly kid-friendly timeslot, so it wouldn't surprise me if the anime was toned down from the manga. I'll have to rewatch a few selected episodes to refresh my memory.
Interesting. I should really just pick up the manga and satisfy my curiosity for myself now that the chances of an anime continuation of the main story are less than zero.
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