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Title: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Failure McFailFace on June 21, 2014, 11:05:27 PM
Just finished "Attack on Titan" today; I might continue "Hetalia: Beatiful World" tomorrow.
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Post by: Silent Harmony on June 22, 2014, 01:49:23 AM
Considering I'm not really following anything right now:

Manga I need to catch up on:
Seiken no Katanakaji
Usagi Drop
Aria

Anime I need to catch up on:
Love Live
Usagi Drop (debating this vs manga)
R.O.D. the TV
Ruroni Kenshin
Pretty Cure
5 Centimeters Per Second
Gurren Lagann
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on June 22, 2014, 01:59:06 AM
Watching: 55
Plan to watch: 448

Uh. I feel like listing all the stuff I'm watching right now would be a bit excessive. Screw backlogs.
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on June 22, 2014, 02:24:51 AM
Thread moved to appropriate board.

I'm mostly watching Happiness Charge Precure right now, but I've also been watching Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Hyperdimension Neptunia off and on too.
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Post by: The ⑨th Zentillion on June 22, 2014, 02:45:33 AM
I will also have to say Happiness Charge Pretty Cure! :3 Also watching the rest of the series, currently watching Suite while I've finished the first six seasons. ...Speaking of which I've been putting off Suite for a few weeks... should get a move on... :V
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Post by: Abraham Lincoln on June 22, 2014, 03:43:20 AM
Don't know if I should continue Shugo Chara and Kill la Kill or start Hyperdimension Neptunia.
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Post by: Suikama on June 22, 2014, 03:50:20 AM
not finishing kill la kill would be a grave mistake

especially if you havent even gotten to the good part

even more so if you have
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Post by: HakureiSM on June 22, 2014, 03:57:18 AM
How will you know if anime was saved if you don't finish Kill la Kill

Also doing Nisekoi right now. Goddammit Shaft.
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Post by: Bio on June 22, 2014, 04:31:11 AM
Hyperdimension Neptunia.
dumbest anime if you don't like the characters
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on June 22, 2014, 04:50:27 AM
Blame Amra for making me look into it.
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Post by: LadyScarlet on June 22, 2014, 05:31:41 AM
Plan to watch:
* Gurren Lagann
* World Conquest Zvezda Plot
* Bakemonogatari franchise
* Log Horizon
* Non Non Biyori
* Chaika
* Fate/Zero
* Anohana
* Another
* Chuunibyou
* Arpeggio of Blue Steel
* Samurai Flamenco

Yeah, my backlog is pretty large. Makes me wonder why I spend my days aimlessly browsing the internet.
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Post by: Kasu on June 22, 2014, 05:37:06 AM
I'm watching and reading way too much at the moment mainly due to summer and barely having a job.

The main thing I'm watching though is Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which was a really good choice I made. I'm at episode 87 and I'm enjoying the crap out of it.

All dat political and militarist suspense.
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Post by: Yukarin on June 22, 2014, 05:40:30 AM
No Game No Life, Mekakucity Actors and Witchblade.

After that comes Nisekoi and a bunch of other things.
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Post by: ♛ Apher-Forte on June 22, 2014, 07:38:18 AM
rECENTLY READING TOP 5
1. Ajin - http://mangafox.me/manga/ajin/  - intense, quick paced, a challenging to read, something I had no expected in recent works, deeply confounding storyline with a hated main character, who is unrealistic to me, but the bad guy for now, in the recent chapters showcases the extreme calculative, strong characterization that is few and far in between, a strong established base of challenging people to question - what will you do if you are immortal?

2. Mahouka - http://mangafox.me/manga/mahouka_koukou_no_rettousei/ now currently running anime with the coolest school uniforms ever introduced in manga, anime and light novels ever. (fact) follows the story of one Shiba who is a mysterious soldier like student who runs away from a powerful family behind all the magic and plots to destroy them from within one day, agenda not yet known. Good read, as good as the slow pacing in the show itself, but I will take on the novel for progress. Cool characters and supportive role cast of equal numbers of males (WITH MEANING, NOT TREES THAT INTERACT) that means something makes this a NOT harem (although it reeks of one, it really isn't) good read.

3. Koi Kano x Ai Kano - an intensely clearly hentai established adult oriented love story of two kinds of love - abusive oppressive obsessive love and loving caring and mutual love, it is focused on the three characters who are interacting closely on these relationships, and how they strive to overcome little blockades they themselves place in order not to move away from one another too much, or hurting the actual relationship itself. The male character is weak, and is submissive to a strong female cast, worth reading simply because it reflects on a whole lot of strong female x weak male relationships and how they actually work in a real life setting. (not a manga setting where the weak male doesn't have to do anything other than being kind and he gets all the pussy.)
(NSFW)

4. AOT - Before The Fall  - http://mangafox.me/manga/shingeki_no_kyojin_before_the_fall/ - grossly intense read on the story of the 'Son of the Titan' and how 100 years later Eren's time came to be. Now you can read the prequel to the intensely gripping series that caught the anime and manga world by storm, and that which inspired countless fanfictions and yaoi offsprouts. A serious as hell read by famed author and artist of Blade and I.S. (not the love manga, the one about underground water cities) Strong art with heavy lines remind me of GITS.

5. Cooking Master B-- I mean Shoukugeki no Soma - http://mangafox.me/manga/shokugeki_no_soma/ Another intense series from famed author of the most erotic adult manga ever now going clean and worksafe (though clearly influencing his worksafe side with peppered nudity here and there) with some of the most DELICIOUS FOOD terminologies ever inscribed in manga ever (AND THEY ARE ACTUAL TERMINOLOGIES) that work and showcase them to the reader. Never has after Cooking Master Boy bought about another character as hot blood, as strong and as characteristic of a cook to the books since then. This is a guaranteed grandstand level of involvement, if you love cooking, and you love reading about cooking. THIS is your thing. Any cooks in the house? read this. You might open a restaurant one day based on this thing you read about.

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Post by: BT on June 22, 2014, 07:57:00 AM
~Stuff I'm finishing up right now that isn't airing:
Mushishi
Katanagatari
Nichijou

God bless Mushishi.

~Big titles on my backlog, because it's way too big(tm):
Evangelion
Death Note
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
A bunch of Ghibli, Kon Satoshi and...other movies.
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Haibane Renmei
Kino's Journey
Princess Tutu
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Usagi Drop
Baccano
Trigun
Shinsekai Yori
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Post by: Raikaria on June 22, 2014, 09:46:37 AM
Watching:

Jojo's Bizzare Adventure

Reading:
Toriko
Ippo
Naruto
Bleach
One Peice
Assassination Classroom
Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Jojoloin


Not technically Manga [Manwha; they are Korean]:
Tower of God
G.O.D of High School

I don't read or especially watch that much anime honestly. I give ones I hear about a lot a try but most of them very quickly wear thin. For example; Kill La Kill. I'm not really an anime/manga hipster; except maybe the Manwha I read; but even those are the more popular ones. I'm a conformist. Although I picked up Toriko and Assassination Classroom before they became popular-ish. Especially the latter. I think I got into Classroom on the 3rd issue.

dumbest anime if you don't like the characters
I can think of a lot of animes that are probobly dumber if you don't like the characters. Kill la Kill being one of them. [Although maybe that dosen't count considering the whole thing about KlK is that it is supposed to be incredibly stupid]
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Post by: wailofthebanshee on June 22, 2014, 10:15:40 AM
not finishing kill la kill would be a grave mistake

especially if you havent even gotten to the good part

even more so if you have
But the best part is ryuuko's/satsuki's design? It's all downhill once you get to their personalities and the actual show.


Jojo
Chaika
NGNL
Wixoss
Kino
there are a few more that are on eternal hold it seems.

Steel Ball Run
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: DNAbc on June 22, 2014, 12:23:29 PM
I still have the A Certain Scientific Railgun in my backlog forever, but its hard to get past the graphics, I can only stomach top notch animation (biased lol) even by current standards.
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Post by: Kaze_Senshi on June 22, 2014, 12:59:18 PM
* Suisei no Gargantia;
* Kill la Kill;
* Id0lm@ster;
* Gin no Saji;
* Little Busters;

Also I am reading Strongest Disciple Ken'ichi RAW to train my Japanese skills

I still have the A Certain Scientific Railgun in my backlog forever, but its hard to get past the graphics, I can only stomach top notch animation (biased lol) even by current standards.

Railgun's second season = Fanservice and deception;
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Mr_Bob on June 22, 2014, 08:15:56 PM
The main thing I'm watching though is Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which was a really good choice I made. I'm at episode 87 and I'm enjoying the crap out of it.
All dat political and militarist suspense.
Yeah, I just got a glowing recommendation for this.  Going to look into this.

Finished Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, and read All You Need is Kill, which the movie Edge of Tomorrow is supposed to be based on.
Working on Teekyuu.
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Post by: commandercool on June 22, 2014, 11:04:35 PM
I still have the A Certain Scientific Railgun in my backlog forever, but its hard to get past the graphics, I can only stomach top notch animation (biased lol) even by current standards.

The only thing I'm watching right now is Railgun, and I like the animation. I think it looks great. Maybe my standards are off though. In theory I know what you mean though. I can't watch any anime pre-mid-eighties because the animation is too distracting, and I feel bad about it. I wish I liked Macross, I just can't follow it because I'm so hung up on how crazy it looks.

I don't watch or read much, but I'm currently watching Railgun, theoretically watching Steins Gate (which I haven't touched in a year and a half) and Aria (eight plus months), and reading the official Touhou manga that I never got around to. Just got caught up on Forbidden Scrollery and Wild And Horned Hermit, trying to decide which one to go to next.
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Post by: Widermelonz on June 23, 2014, 08:04:48 AM
Did someone say MAL (http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Watermelonz) thread?

Currently I'm really enjoying GochiUsa
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Phlegeth on June 23, 2014, 01:49:36 PM
I finished Sket Dance and now I don't know what to watch.  I probably should finish Kill la Kill too.
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Post by: HakureiSM on June 24, 2014, 03:59:02 PM
I finished Akuma no Pickle this week, it's a shittle
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Post by: chema1994 on June 28, 2014, 01:57:11 PM
Currently watching:
- Kill la Kill. It's funny and stupid but enjoyable.
- Death Note (just three episodes to finish)
- Girls und Panzer. Even if I don't like the slice of life genre, tanks are tanks.

Wanna watch:
- Akuma no Riddle
- Black Lagoon
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Post by: UnendingEmpire on June 28, 2014, 04:49:56 PM
Watched and recommend:
Fist of the North Star
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
WataMote
Kill La Kill
Claymore

Planning to re-watch and still recommend:
Working!
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Hellsing Ultimate
DeathNote
Gurren Lagann

Planning to watch and will probably recommend:
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Bakemonogatari
maybe Blue Exorcist
Tiger & Bunny

Don't recommend:
Hand Maid May (okay for the first couple episodes, but gets boring quick)
Yu-Gi-Oh GX/ZEXAL (just...no)
Every Pokemon anime excluding Origins (love the games, though)
Hellsing not Ultimate (half-decent animation, dull plot...just watch Ultimate instead)
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on June 29, 2014, 11:44:04 PM
I picked up the first volume of Akira a few days back, and I am also reading The Heart of Thomas because I found it by chance at the library and was intrigued.
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Post by: Abraham Lincoln on June 30, 2014, 10:12:18 AM
I can't decide between Arpeggio of Blue Steel or Neptunia, can anyone help?
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Post by: Kasu on June 30, 2014, 04:22:35 PM
I can't decide between Arpeggio of Blue Steel or Neptunia, can anyone help?
I preferred Arpeggio over Neptunia.  It honestly felt like a bit of a chore when I watched Neptunia, but I probably would've been more into had I played the games, so take from that what you will.
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Post by: Desu_Cake on July 01, 2014, 09:17:01 AM
Currently trying to watch Precure in its entirety. I'm on Max Heart at the moment, but it's a pretty tough slog, so I might give up.
Manga-wise, I'm keeping current with Claymore, and I've just finished Aku no Hana.

I can't decide between Arpeggio of Blue Steel or Neptunia, can anyone help?
I haven't seen Neptunia, but Arpeggio's great.
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Post by: Shimatora on July 02, 2014, 12:49:40 AM
Just started C3-bu today. This anime is totally my cup of tea.
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Post by: Jq1790 on July 02, 2014, 01:02:28 AM
Watching:
-LoveLive!
-The Irregular at Magic Highschool
-If Her Flag Breaks
-NGNL

Recently finished(current):
-One Week Friends(it's adorable.  Go watch it.)

Recently finished(not current):
-The Pet Girl of Sakurasou(I want more.  Season two please?)

I feel like I'm forgetting some...oh well.
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Post by: Fetch()tirade on July 02, 2014, 03:19:06 AM
Just started C3-bu today. This anime is totally my cup of tea.
(http://i.imgur.com/34a30PV.png) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_6LvKWy5vo)
(pic is also link, which is also spoilers)

From this season
NGNL: s2 when
Mahouka: source material was lots of wordswords yet still more entertaining than this adaptation
Chaika: good show, but full of QUALITY and standard Bones changing things
Brynhildr: entertaining and solid adaptation until they jumped two whole arcs
777: Good start but I dropped it somewhere in the middle, just couldn't hold my attention
Kanojo Flag/Gaworare: see below
(http://i.imgur.com/RH2fPom.jpg)
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Post by: ToyoRai on July 02, 2014, 08:01:43 AM
Started watching: Haiyore! Nyaruko-san.

Waiting for: Persona 4 The Golden Animation.
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Post by: BT on July 02, 2014, 08:44:44 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/34a30PV.png) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_6LvKWy5vo)
(pic is also link, which is also spoilers)
  :*

So I marathoned Shinsekai Yori. You really gotta resolve to watch it all, because I only got fully invested around episode 11. It's a really good story.

Now I'm watching NHK, which has been... pretty unoriginal so far, except for the wacky comedy. Hoping it gets a lot better plot-wise.

EDIT: Fuck me, episode 13 made me cry. I'm pretty sure I wasn't even meant to. I don't remember the last anime that broke me like that. Where Grave of the Fireflies fails, Welcome to the NHK succeeds, apparently.
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Post by: commandercool on July 08, 2014, 01:24:28 AM
I finished Railgun last night and I'm not really sure why. I don't usually like "long form" anime that much. It was just weirdly watchable. Every episode was put together well enough that I wanted to watch the next one soon after, and the first season went down in like two weeks. Very uncommon for me. Wasn't great, but was fun to watch.

So this afternoon I decided to try Index. Finished the first two episodes and did not enjoy them at all. I have no interest in seeing any more of these. I might give it another try later, but I dropped it, watched the first episode of the second season of Railgun, and enjoyed the shit out of it for no clear reason. Not sure why I like one of these so much and the other so little. This is weird. Anime is weird.
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Post by: Jq1790 on July 08, 2014, 01:28:42 AM
Quote
From this season
Kanojo Flag/Gaworare: see below
(http://i.imgur.com/RH2fPom.jpg)
Still have to finish the last episode when it gets available for free people, but...this is so accurate it hurts.
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Post by: Silent Harmony on July 08, 2014, 02:08:25 AM
Add Koe no Katachi to my manga list. It's personally hard for me to follow sometimes
since I was a victim of bullying growing up
but it has it been an great, emotional read so far.

Now I'm watching NHK, which has been... pretty unoriginal so far, except for the wacky comedy. Hoping it gets a lot better plot-wise.

EDIT: Fuck me, episode 13 made me cry. I'm pretty sure I wasn't even meant to. I don't remember the last anime that broke me like that. Where Grave of the Fireflies fails, Welcome to the NHK succeeds, apparently.
NHK is one of the rare series that I successfully marathoned from beginning to end. When it's off, it's pretty slow. When it's on, it's pretty emotional.

That said,
while I loved the humor, the story arcs in the second season were not as good as the first season in my opinion. That is until
the final 4 episodes, which wrap everything up spectacularly in my opinion
.


Recently finished(not current):
-The Pet Girl of Sakurasou(I want more.  Season two please?)

To me a second season would kind of ruin it, especially since
outside of Yūko I really didn't care about any of the new residents
. In my opinion the series was simply above average until
the graduation episode
which pushed the emotions up to 11 and was one of the few times I've ever cried over an anime (to be fair I tend to avoid obviously depressing stuff).
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Post by: KrackoCloud on July 08, 2014, 02:30:40 AM
I finished Railgun last night and I'm not really sure why. I don't usually like "long form" anime that much. It was just weirdly watchable. Every episode was put together well enough that I wanted to watch the next one soon after, and the first season went down in like two weeks. Very uncommon for me. Wasn't great, but was fun to watch.

So this afternoon I decided to try Index. Finished the first two episodes and did not enjoy them at all. I have no interest in seeing any more of these. I might give it another try later, but I dropped it, watched the first episode of the second season of Railgun, and enjoyed the shit out of it for no clear reason. Not sure why I like one of these so much and the other so little. This is weird. Anime is weird.
Railgun is definitely better than Index. Magic just isn't as cool as all that physics-bending ESP. More importantly, Railgun isn't bogged down with a lame protagonist and shallow harem devices.
That said, Index gets way more Accelerator later on, which is fun.

As for me, I just started watching Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun! I'm a huge fan of the manga, and the first episode of the anime didn't disappoint. Really looking forward to following this show.
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Post by: BT on July 08, 2014, 07:59:31 AM
NHK is one of the rare series that I successfully marathoned from beginning to end. When it's off, it's pretty slow. When it's on, it's pretty emotional.

That said,
while I loved the humor, the story arcs in the second season were not as good as the first season in my opinion. That is until
the final 4 episodes, which wrap everything up spectacularly in my opinion
.
I kind of liked NHK in the end, but sometimes they went a bit too far with the absurdity. I realize it was meant to be realistic, but
Sato's and Misaki's interactions throughout the second cour
were a bit... dumb.

I wasn't able to marathon it, though. Took about 4 days, but sometimes I couldn't watch more than 2-3 episodes at a time, and not because of the themes. Because it was a little boring.

To me a second season would kind of ruin it, especially since
outside of Yūko I really didn't care about any of the new residents
. In my opinion the series was simply above average until
the graduation episode
which pushed the emotions up to 11 and was one of the few times I've ever cried over an anime (to be fair I tend to avoid obviously depressing stuff).
I thought it was cringey as fuck. :( Which is sad, because the emotion was there as well. I was never a fan of the unrealistic wrap-up episodes. I thought the school ceremony hijack was bad in Persona 3 too.

I do appreciate Sakurasou for having a purpose and generally dealing well with drama. So, like, I forgave
episode 22 undermining episode 21 with FRIENDSHIP
because in the end it was just them exploring the pros and cons of chasing your dreams in the arts. Or something.

Oh, and I'm watching Baccano now. That first episode was a really extreme case of all over the place, but the rest of the show is already doing well to fill in the gaps, so I guess I'll let it slide. :derp:
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Post by: Conqueror on July 08, 2014, 09:11:46 AM
Uhh I should probably finish Madoka since I started it. I've been watching clips of Love live so maybe I'll watch the rest of the show.

Backlog is too big but if I ever get to it I'll probably start with Mushishi because it looks promising. Oh right, and I should finish FMA Brotherhood too.
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Post by: BT on July 08, 2014, 10:36:41 AM
Backlog is too big but if I ever get to it I'll probably start with Mushishi because it looks promising.
Watch one episode every few days and start with the original 2005 series obviously.
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Post by: Zerviscos on July 08, 2014, 03:22:39 PM
Still have to finish the last episode when it gets available for free people, but...this is so accurate it hurts.
The show was horrible imo.
Generic in a way that's not generic.

Have you ever wondered why the series is called To Aru Majutsu no Index, when Index gets less screen time than other characters and the latter is called To Aru Kagaku no Railgun when Misaka herself gets A LOT OF SCREEN TIME?~
I actually liked the Index series. Including magic. Othinus ftw!

Anyways, I just finished Black Bullet (http://myanimelist.net/anime/20787/Black_Bullet). T'was a whole lot better than I expected. I'll explain in a pseudo-wall of text.

I actually thought it would be some generic harem/action/rom-com/loli/sci-fi. I was kind of wrong.

The theme is post-apocalyptic events. The cause is an unknown virus. So one would think it's zombies....WRONG. It's insects, GIANT EFFING INSECTS.
Well actually there are also various hybrid monster animals, but insects pretty much dominate everything now. Humans are part of the low-tier in the food chain.

You get like a Guilty Crown/Full Metal Alchemist/To Aru hybrid. With less to no magic nonesense, more post-apocalyptic chaos and a bit of science.
It's actually ironic really, it's science-oriented, yet those giant insects defy the Square-Cube-Law.

It's like the To Aru series and those other 2 in a way since it's divided into arcs instead of the usual "intro-filler-climax-end" gigs most does.
Full Metal Alchemist? Well, you'll see once you read/watched far enough...Plus, there are a lot of deaths...a lot.
There aren't any fillers, since everything happens rather fast and straightforward. Which how I like mah non-generics.

I would say the genre should be around drama/action/sci-fi.

It's not the best anime of course, but it was the best I watched during last season IMO. And it's starting to rise in popularity too. Baka-Tsuki has now been getting numerous recent translations now.

That, and whoever the artist of the Light Novel is pretty top notch. But I liked the manga art style better. Hon Morino makes everything adorable. He also does Touhou fanart btw.

(http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140125060655/blackbullet2/images/4/4d/LN3Cover.png) (http://safebooru.org//images/1080/8bfb3db09198d6e73159bab5f1dae216c96840ad.jpg?1120855)

I rate it a carrot/10. I'm gonna write my review on it on MAL soon.

I dunno if Nisekoi was part of last season though, but if it was. That would be the best adorable one yet. Still it's generic rom com.

Edit:
Oh yea, I also watched Akuma no Riddle.

It was "meh" for the most part. I could've watched it longer if they gave more screen time to my Akuma no Waifu, Nio Hashiri.
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Post by: Hainiryuun on July 08, 2014, 04:01:24 PM
Currently watching: none as there arent really any summer series that are a must watch for me atm. Which gives me time to catch up on my VN backlog at least.

Anticipating: Grisaia no Kajitsu anime in the fall. My only fear is that it will fall well short of what is the best VN Ive ever read.

Current manga I keep up with: To-Love Ru, Nana to Kaoru, Kiss X Sis, Onii-Chan control
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Post by: AlterEgo on July 11, 2014, 01:20:06 AM
Current

Anime

> RO-KYU-BU! SS
> Love Live! Season 1
> Hunter x Hunter

Manga

> Touhou Suzunaan - Forbidden Scrollery -
> Gintama
> Prison School
> Kamen Teacher
> GTO
> Kuroko no Basket(I'm reading this because of how ridiculous it's escalating right now. Spoiler Alert:
Talking about the people in Rakuzan in court are all in the Zone. Especially that "2nd Zone".
> Assassination Classroom

Planning to

Anime

> Black Bullet
> To aru Kagaku no Railgun S
> Non non Biyori
> Baka to Test Series
> Sket Dance

Manga

> Touhou Ibarakasen - Wild and Horned Hermit -
> Shaman King: Flowers
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: ToyoRai on July 11, 2014, 04:12:00 AM
Recently finished: Haiyore! Nyaruko-san

Currently watching; Persona 4 Golden: The Animation
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Post by: Jirachi on July 11, 2014, 04:34:19 AM
I only watch/follow Hunter X Hunter, will read mango once the animu ends/enters hiatus.

Other than that I pretty much only follow The Legend of Korra which isn't animu. :V
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Post by: Mеа on July 12, 2014, 04:26:36 AM
Planning to:
Anime:
Date a live: Seemed like a deconstruction/parody of dating sims, so it sparked my interest
Maria Holic: Catchy intro, seems interesting
Saint Seiya Omega: The art immediately reminded me of, like, a hybrid of some sort between Pretty Cure and Casshern Sins, so I'm willing to try it out.
Dog and Scissors: Premise seems interesting. I mean, a guy helps a girl but dies in the process and gets turned into a dog and lives with said girl? What?
Nyaruko: Theme song, general curiosity
End of Evangelion: I've been putting off this mindrape for long enough
One Piece: I hear it's really good, it's just so bloody long

Not technically Anime:
Kamen Rider Gaim: Fruity
Kamen Rider Faiz: I started this, but I stopped because of that ass KUSAKA

Finished
Manga:
Necromancer (technically re-finished): Oh please somebody read this, I love it so much. It's really short and sweet--just 20 chapters. It's set in a very dark and stark mood, and the sparseness of the pages compliments it really well. I also love this guy's art style. The character designs are quite cool too. It also features the only instance, that I know of, of a guy using Reimu's sidelock hair ribbon/clamp things. I hope he/she makes more.

Currently watching/reading
Anime:
JJBA Stardust Crusade: Not much to say here, I mean it's JJBA. On the other hand, I do like part 2 with Joseph more. Joseph always had to use his head to defeat more powerful foes. Jotaro just waits until the end to STAR PLATINUM the guy just for the lulz.

Manga:
Naruto: Guilty pleasure, but it's kind of this thing I kept up with since way long ago and I must see it through to the end. It's a been pretty typical shonen ever since Shippuden power creep, but it's enjoyable at least, even with all the ridiculous retcons. At least it's not Bleach.
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu/Assassination Classroom(aka AssClass): Possibly one of my now favorite mangas of all time. I think it handles its own situation very well, not afraid to be serious or humorous when the story requires it to be.
Detective Conan: omg don't even
D.N. Angel: Seriously wth Amano, it's been over THREE YEARS. DON"T MAKE ME LIVE WITH THIS CLIFFHANGER
D. Gray-man: Seriously Seriously WTH, two series that I liked that have been on hiatus for more than a year (almost two years in this case) and they both start with 'D.'s. Well, at least Allen got to be in the new Jump Victory VS game, so at the very least I know that Jump still acknowledges his presence. Or lack thereof.

Light Novels... though not technically Manga
Nanana's Buried Treasure: I haven't seen the anime, and I don't intend to until I finish all the volumes I bought (which is just 2). I seriously want to like this; I want to be hooked. I just have no clue how to take this seriously--it's so bad. And I don't mean not-interesting bad, I mean my-brain-cells-are-dying bad. The book starts off with obviously evil dad casting son out to some distant academy island's academy. MC meets titular Nanana, who (or is it 'which'?) happens to be a ghost bound to the room he's to live in. As if this isn't bad enough already, but if handled smartly it could be good. Heck, as a guy it is a rather... a bit of a hook. The first thing they do is decide who is the 'owner of the room'. They do this by wrestling. Whee. Now apparently this ghost girl is a genius who also knows actual wrestling, not to mention she can make herself intangible at will, so now he's pinned down. Now comes the stupid part. Apparently he's being pinned in a position such that his hand is between her breasts. So the guy goes through this entire 2~3 pages of monologue of stupid BuShwa of how as a man, he has to take the opportunity to "touch god", aka: grope OPPAI. He even outlines his plan to do so while not being seen as a pervert by taking advantage of the wrestling context he's placed in. So he does so and gets his arm dislocated (not because of his act, per se. He had to provoke her into doing so so that it would give him the few microseconds of freedom of movement to move his pinned arm. She remained unaware that this happened) in the process, which good for him. I wish the arms of every transparent, dull, and obviously self-insertable MCs of retarded harems that perform contrived and avoidable-to-anyone-with-even-a-handful-of-neurons OPPAI grabs would break (Shinji of Evangelion doesn't count though; that was more of a character defining moment for Rei). I recently read about people's gripes with how Light Novel MCs are usually always so snarky, meta-aware, and arrogant. It wasn't until I actually read this LN that for the first time I understood why people had this problem. As an example, the MC is then lead around the campus grounds by the class representative girl. After being toured around, he thanks her and immediately she does this stupid "D-don't misunderstand" crap. I hate hot-off-the-mold tsunderes anyway, but the MC has to be obnoxious enough to POINT OUT that: oh, isn't this a tsundere phrase? Omg, this is so exciting! stupid bushwa. Meta and 4th wall breakage is an interesting use of comedy, but not when the MC has to obnoxiously be aware of every single damned anime/manga trope out there and comment on it. I'm not necessarily saying that he does this all the time, but every single occasion that it does happen is laced with such an overwhelming flair of otaku-inside-joke-ism that it's really aggravating. I'm not hooked, but it's frustrating because I want to like it. I'm not even half way in and all this nonsense is happening. I'm reading it because I want to like it and I want to learn to read Japanese. Too bad it's so unintelligible. It's especially bad because I just finished reading Enders Exile and Earth Unaware (prequel, if you're curious) from the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. His books are amazing, and his dialogues are very clever, witty, and intelligent (although I did feel that Enders Exile carried a bit too much of this in a way that kind of delivered this sort of pseudo-voice heavy handed, though I reread it and the feeling passed). In fact, I realized from Enders Exile that sexuality/sexual-ness is a very powerful tool; it has the ability to instantly hook into my young hormones and keep my eyes and mind glued on every word. It also only worked because of how masterfully, emotionally, and intelligently Card handled this one scene. And I feel that this very powerful tool is very gravely misused in Nanana, and perhaps many other cheap fanservice-y scenarios in other anime/manga/light novels. I don't object to their use much though, since this medium's purpose--more of less--is to provide easy entertainment, and fanservice-y scenes are often funny because of how ludicrous they are. Also I'm a functioning male. Anyway, I'm hoping it gets better because I'm going to keep reading. But did I really have to use the word 'stupid' 4 times in the same essay (holy crap I just wrote an essay)? Five times now.
Baka and Test: Liked the show, bought the LN
TMoHS: Part of the reason I'm not going to watch the anime of light novels I want to read from now on--until I finish, that is--is because of how dull reading this LN became because I've already watch both seasons and the movie.
SAO Progressive: I hated the anime, but since I watched it so dismissively, I'm going to give it another try
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Koog on July 12, 2014, 06:18:49 AM
Currently watching:
Saber Marionette J
Ore no Imouto
Joshiraku
Currently reading:
Pok?mon Adventures (I have to admit it's better than the anime)
World of Narue (Bought)
NANA (bought)
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Post by: Hainiryuun on July 13, 2014, 02:28:05 PM
Detective Conan: omg don't even

It will end... one day... maybe... probably not.

That moment when you realize your DC folder alone is over 200 GB
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Post by: Mеа on July 14, 2014, 02:46:34 AM
It will end... one day... maybe... probably not.
For serious.
The author said he had an idea for what to do to end the series, what, 5 years ago?
On the other hand, that new girl with Sera piques my interest
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Post by: Freeze-Ex on July 15, 2014, 05:17:47 PM
frankly I dont rly watch a lot of anime or manga
but for now

Anime
- SAO2 (can't wait for trap Kirito |O//w/O>
-Dragonball Z Kai
- The Greatest Disciple Kenichi  (just finish couple weeks ago
- Mangaka and assistant (Read the comic since 6 yrs ago, also a touhou doujin artist

Manga
- Attack on Titan (planning to read after a break cuz I hate reading just 1 ep
- One punch man (very inspiring battle scene and might take it for references too
- The Greatest Disciple Kenichi
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Lunatic_Alice on July 17, 2014, 06:49:09 AM
I'm currently watching Nichijou: My Ordinary Life, Madoka Magica, and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

I'm also re-watching Ouran High School Host Club, Hetalia, and Black Butler.
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Post by: Yukarin on July 17, 2014, 11:57:18 AM
Just got done with Log Horizon.

The anime needs more Akatsuki.
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Post by: The ⑨th Zentillion on July 18, 2014, 03:00:17 AM
And I can now put Suite Precure down as finished, huzzah! Just three seasons left other than the current. RNG has told me to go with Doki Doki, the worst entry of all. May as well get it out of the way. :X

Also planning on watching K, I've already been impressed with the animation and music, so it's on the agenda!
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Post by: Mеа on July 18, 2014, 03:07:50 AM
I forgot a few. These are really obscure ones, so if you're curious or interested, I'll suggest them to you.

Current Manga:
+C Sword and Cornett: The genre is Josei (female equivalent of seinen). Which basically means lots of pretty boys (like shoujo), but with a more mature storyline. Art is cool, which is why I started it, and I wanted to try a Josei manga. It's very story driven, but whether that story is actually good will be up to you. It's interesting enough to continue reading, and the plot is interesting enough. Try it out.

Ubel Blatt: Beware, a NSFW manga. I was first hooked to this one because of how cool the MC's four hair-sword super mode looked (basically, imagine if Flandre could use her wings as weapons, except it's attached to her hair and not her back). The first few chapters are pretty typical ecchi style, which means nudeness (and some sex, in this case) for no reason. Past that, the characters start to settle into their roles and the plot takes off (and the rest of the sex scenes after this have a context, and it's only the villains, pretty much). It's pretty exciting, and I wish it didn't have the ecchi parts sometimes. But then, it's kind of goes past being a fanservice-y thing (except for when you can tell it's fanservice) into a sort of grime-y dark thing that adds a sort of edgy-ness to it all, which--along with the dark plot--mixes together into a coherent whole of sorts. Like I said, first few chapters, the MC doesn't act like himself, like the author didn't really decide on what to write yet. Then it settles down and the plot starts, so if you find yourself struggling--but want to like it--I suggest you keep reading through it a bit more until some backstory kicks in.
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Post by: RaintheNoob on July 18, 2014, 05:27:54 AM
Though I stopped watching anime,I vowed myself to finish Kill la Kill and Madoka Magica.
I have some of the merchandise,so better to know behind it.
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Post by: commandercool on July 18, 2014, 08:39:54 PM
Though I stopped watching anime,I vowed myself to finish Kill la Kill and Madoka Magica.
I have some of the merchandise,so better to know behind it.

If you're going to not watch anime but watch two things, you picked the right things. Madoka and KLK are probably the most notable (and, I would say, best) things of at least the last five years.
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Post by: Massaca on July 19, 2014, 08:40:17 AM
Only thing I'm watching weekly this season is Hanayamata and I'm expecting to love it quite a lot. Watched the first ep of Locodol but eh, it didn't give me enough interest at all to watch it weekly.

And just watched the first season of AKB0048 which I really loved. Though I found it quite emotional to me and teared up a little right throughout, more often than I really should have but I couldn't help it. Pretty wonderful though. About to watch the second season right now.

Edit: Well season 2 (eps 13-26) was... Iunno. Really disliked the first 4 eps each of which left me with a 'this is gunna be crappy :/' mindest but it was alright I guess. Just a lot of stuff I really didn't like developing/happening and I felt disconnected from it as well as it feeling weird compared to the first but I'm not sure and can't express why. Just no-where near as fun, exciting and wonderful as the first season for me and I barely had that emotional connection.
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Post by: Aya Reiko on July 22, 2014, 09:39:56 AM
Watching: Sailor Moon Crystal

Will finish... maybe: Madoka, if and when the prices stop being insane.
 
Will buy when it comes out:  The re-mastered BSSM DVDs when Viz releases them.
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Post by: aranicar on July 23, 2014, 03:22:21 AM
Currently:
Monthly Girls? Nozaki-kun < very enjoyable characters and comedy
Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club! < I really like the lead and the narrator is awesome
Sword Art Online II < just for the action and trap goodness

Need to catch up on:
Saki
Lucky Star
Day Break Illusion
The World is Still Beautiful
One Week Friends

To anyone looking for an anime to watch, I would recommend (more recommended up top):
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (I would also recommend Rebellion, after finishing it I was speechless for 15 min.  Make sure you finish the main series though)
No Game No Life
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The World God Only Knows
Kill la Kill
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Log Horizon

If anyone has a Crunchy account, I have some extra guest passes that I can give out.
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Post by: Gpop on July 23, 2014, 03:32:27 AM
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Only the first season. The second was just...ugh imo
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Post by: aranicar on July 23, 2014, 03:47:10 AM
Only the first season. The second was just...ugh imo

I liked both seasons, but the first one really was better than the second one.
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Post by: Gpop on July 23, 2014, 05:15:44 AM
The biggest problem I had was both the amount of useless filler episodes and how they bullshit changed the ending from the light novel.

There's also the part where Shichimiya got shat on like mad but that's just my own general opinion that got me frustrated.


Anyways I'm watching Hanayamata right now and it's really cute and enjoyable. Now I get to learn about Yasakoi from one of the biggest weaboos I've seen in anime.
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Post by: Koog on July 29, 2014, 07:30:11 PM
Add to the list:
CLANNAD: Fu-chan!!!! :qq:
SAO II: Lol Kirito.
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei: can't stop laughing. Poor Kuroe...
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Post by: BT on July 29, 2014, 07:44:18 PM
Today I read Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan (http://myanimelist.net/manga.php?id=11734). It's great and it's 8 chapters so you have no excuses here.
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Post by: commandercool on July 31, 2014, 10:13:01 PM
Finished Railgun last night. It was fine. Slightly less than the sum of its parts, but watchable enough that I watched way more of it than I usually do of anything, and in a pretty short time. The ending wasn't very satisfying so I guess I'm reading it now too. Should I bother starting from the beginning, or should I pick up where the anime ends?
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Post by: Massaca on August 01, 2014, 01:33:35 PM
Watched Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya last night and tonight. It was alright and I enjoyed it. Caught up on Zwei afterwards and oh boy, will be sticking with this. But I do hope they
properly go for Illya x Miyu in the end. End of first season and Zwei so far are teasing me too much dammit >_<


And I ended up watching Locodol eps 2 and 3 on the third week and decided to stick with it. It's alright too.


Also not anime but I just watched Ch. 1 and 2 of RWBY volume 2... The wrong way around >_> but I'm quite glad it turned out that way. First volume I waited until the BD (and then a few weeks after) to watch it despite being more hyped for it than anything else ever. And as such was left with terribly shattered expectations but still enjoyed it. Thinking I'll be watching this as it comes, well I'll try to anyway. Not expecting the greatest action scenes to ever be seen from it anymore so should be fun.
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Post by: Koog on August 02, 2014, 02:40:56 AM
Time to add to the list:
Shingetsutan Tsukihime. - It's pretty darn great! Arc looked sinister at the beggining (she's a vampire after all).
Pok?mon - The Origins. - the only anime of Pok?mon I like (just because I like the games.)
CLANNAD After Story. - Finished watching CLANNAD in a day! Also, now Fuko is in my avatar and my signature.
NAGISA!! I'm going to kill the writer!!
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Post by: Kuremisago on August 03, 2014, 02:58:30 PM
Finished Railgun last night. It was fine. Slightly less than the sum of its parts, but watchable enough that I watched way more of it than I usually do of anything, and in a pretty short time. The ending wasn't very satisfying so I guess I'm reading it now too. Should I bother starting from the beginning, or should I pick up where the anime ends?

IMO read from the beginning, the anime changed quite a few things and added a filler arc. If you haven't watched season 2, I implore you to only watch ep.2-16, since those are the notfiller episodes. (oh, and look up Cloverfield/Nagai Space on the Index/Railgun wiki)


Shingetsutan Tsukihime. - It's pretty darn great! Arc looked sinister at the beggining (she's a vampire after all).
[/spoiler]

NO. NO NO NO NO NO
THE TSUKIHIME ANIME DOES NOT EXIST.


OT: Watching basically everything from this season, save for a few shows. Nozaki, Tokyo Ghoul, and Rokujouma are AOTS so far.
Also playing catch-up on Fairy Tail S1 and Hunter x Hunter (2011)
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Post by: commandercool on August 03, 2014, 05:38:11 PM
Started Psycho Pass a few days ago finally. Seems fine. Also been watching Aldnoah.Zero, which has been very good so far.

IMO read from the beginning, the anime changed quite a few things and added a filler arc. If you haven't watched season 2, I implore you to only watch ep.2-16, since those are the notfiller episodes. (oh, and look up Cloverfield/Nagai Space on the Index/Railgun wiki)

I watched all of season two. Aside from the last episode being a mess that arc everyone hates didn't strike me as being that off. Plus it had more Shinobu, which I was allkay with. :V And it seemed like it had some semi-major character stuff, although I assume that got moved to somewhere else in the anime or something. Anyway, I'll start from the beginning.



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Post by: Arjuna1356 on August 07, 2014, 10:42:54 AM
Well, I'd been watching Attack on Titan recently, but I still don't understand what all the fuss is about... Ok, mankind's on the edge of extinction from a bunch of giant humanoids, they try to fight back, and there's some kid who can transform into a titan because he got experimented on by his dad... Not exactly the stuff of legends, I'd have to say.
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Post by: Kuremisago on August 07, 2014, 02:57:15 PM
Well, I'd been watching Attack on Titan recently, but I still don't understand what all the fuss is about... Ok, mankind's on the edge of extinction from a bunch of giant humanoids, they try to fight back, and there's some kid who can transform into a titan because he got experimented on by his dad... Not exactly the stuff of legends, I'd have to say.
Ditto on this. Reading around, I couldn't find much reason for the popularity other than HYPE.
The plot was twisty-turny and all that, but had more than a few holes..characters died off too fast for me to remember their names...and the MCs had plot armor.
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Post by: Dorakyura on August 07, 2014, 03:47:13 PM
Ditto on this. Reading around, I couldn't find much reason for the popularity other than HYPE.
The plot was twisty-turny and all that, but had more than a few holes..characters died off too fast for me to remember their names...and the MCs had plot armor.

well, the Anime had good animations, lots of actions, lots of dead people, German in the Intro Song :V
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Post by: Kirisame on August 07, 2014, 04:54:04 PM
Only watching Fairy Tail atm, i hope Magi comes back with a 3rd Season soon xD
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Post by: commandercool on August 07, 2014, 05:10:17 PM
Well, I'd been watching Attack on Titan recently, but I still don't understand what all the fuss is about... Ok, mankind's on the edge of extinction from a bunch of giant humanoids, they try to fight back, and there's some kid who can transform into a titan because he got experimented on by his dad... Not exactly the stuff of legends, I'd have to say.

Personally I liked the way it was paced... When it was well-paced. And much of the time it wasn't. But when it was its most fun to watch it was because it achieved that pace/narrative drive/level of detail balance that anime sometimes hits but can rarely maintain.
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Post by: iPetalchaser on August 07, 2014, 07:01:09 PM
Planning to rewatch Sora no Woto soon™.  Also need to clear some room to read the Non Non Biyori manga, because its... well... Nyanpassu!
Also, i have been missing out on the second season of Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! for way too long...

Ditto on this. Reading around, I couldn't find much reason for the popularity other than HYPE.
Don't know why i watched it, but the thing i liked most about Shingeki no Kyojin were the Potatoes...
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Post by: commandercool on August 08, 2014, 04:18:24 AM
I'm almost done with Psycho Pass, so I went to Wikipedia to look up Gen Urobuchi to try to decide which of his shows to watch next. Turns out I'm already watching one. I had no idea he was involved in Aldnoah.Zero. What a cool guy.
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Post by: Kaze_Senshi on August 08, 2014, 03:10:26 PM
I started to watch Jojo's Bizarre adventures from 2012, it is awesome. Now I know how to read the WHRRRRRYYYY. Jojo! Jojo! ♪
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Post by: Koog on August 08, 2014, 06:15:15 PM
Started the manga of Tsukihime, you're right. Anime doesn't exist.
Also watched the whole Carnival Phantasm, if you're looking for laughs with TYPE-MOON characters, then watch it.
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Post by: Gpop on August 08, 2014, 08:25:23 PM
Carnival Phantasm is the best thing ever.
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Post by: Phlegeth on August 08, 2014, 09:32:48 PM
Carnival Phantasm is the best thing ever.

Berserker out shopping was the best skit.
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Post by: Koog on August 09, 2014, 01:18:45 AM
BERSERCAR!!!
I also loved how Lancer died in every episode.
I also loved Hisui in ep 2.
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Post by: Ineednoname on August 10, 2014, 10:12:00 PM
Currently watching Space Dandy S2, Yugioh Arc-V, and 2wei, along with various stuff in my backlog. I'll probably pick up more things from this season if I ever decide to not be lazy.
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Post by: Kuremisago on August 11, 2014, 05:29:46 PM
Carnival Phantasm is the best thing ever.
SEASON 4! SEASON 4!
...pls? ;;
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Post by: commandercool on August 13, 2014, 05:16:10 PM
Finished Psycho Pass, so I started watching Suisei No Gargantia. Is it just me, or is this show terrible? I watched the first three and was really bored. Does it pick up at some point, or should I give up?

Also finally gave FLCL a second shot. The guy who introduced me to anime tried to show it to me as my second ever anime and I was confounded by it. My current roommate wanted me to try again now that I've seen more different stuff, and I'm still confounded by it. All that changed was that now I'm pretty sure it's the pacing, more than the content, that confuses me so much. It's short though, so I'm probably going to finish it regardless. Maybe I'll figure it out in later episodes.
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Post by: Kuremisago on August 16, 2014, 04:59:32 AM
Finished Psycho Pass, so I started watching Suisei No Gargantia. Is it just me, or is this show terrible? I watched the first three and was really bored. Does it pick up at some point, or should I give up?

Also finally gave FLCL a second shot. The guy who introduced me to anime tried to show it to me as my second ever anime and I was confounded by it. My current roommate wanted me to try again now that I've seen more different stuff, and I'm still confounded by it. All that changed was that now I'm pretty sure it's the pacing, more than the content, that confuses me so much. It's short though, so I'm probably going to finish it regardless. Maybe I'll figure it out in later episodes.

Gargantia starts promising, delves into low-tier SOL for the majority of the middle, and picks up again at the end. It's your call.
I'll never understand FLCL.
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Post by: Koog on August 16, 2014, 06:15:00 AM
Final Thoughts:
Clannad & After Story:  :qq: Cried over 3 times, I think it's true, if you don't cry you're heartless...
Carnival Phantasm: EPIC!!
Love Live: It was fun and ended quite nice.
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Post by: Suikama on August 16, 2014, 04:37:05 PM
FLCL is basically Kill la Kill but instead of life fibers it's NO portals
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Post by: Mеа on August 17, 2014, 02:29:08 PM
So I just started and got caught up on this really bizarre manga called Arachnid. It's a bit hard to read at first, with a strangely emptying-depressing atmosphere and unnecessary fan service in the beginning (with a few NSFW panels, these being the hardest bits. The beginning in general has a heavy creepy rapey guys sort of theme, kind of like stuff you'd find in post-apocalyptic stuff), but the coolness of the MC's weapon should keep you reading for a bit. Also, the MC is named Alice and uses a jackknife thing that can detach its blade. The thing is that this manga has a HUGE bug motif/theme going on, the MC's being a spider. Her knife-thing shoots out the blade end, to which it remains attached via an infinite spool of spider thread. If you haven't guessed, Alice's bug motif is a spider.... Arachnid, title drop. So it's interesting, especially for us, since she kind of looks like our resident rainbow puppeteer and even uses the threads like marionette strings.
So why should you keep reading?
The premise becomes more and more ridiculous, especially past chapter 18 or so when the first arc kicks in. What starts as a sort of theme just goes off the far end into sheer ludicrousness, into the realm of extremes. In a Kill la Kill sort of way. There's also a character in it who's the biggest Kamen Rider chuuni I've seen in manga/anime yet. And a character who has a COCKROACH theme... and she's a girl. In fact, the characters in general kind of have a Touhou-esque-quasi-expy-ness to them.
If you can get past the beginning creepy NSFW bits, then you get to experience your suspension of disbelief-shoulders getting dislocated. Then you set them back in and accept, only for the next chapter to re-dislocate them again anyway with new ridiculousness.

TLDR; A random story about Wikipediac anthromorphic bugs (mostly girls +2 chuuni Kamen Rider nerds) thrown into a pit against each other.

Also, I recommend Mangahere.co because of its tsukkomi system where you get to post comments on the manga pages; kind of like a static niconico, except instead of groping your way through the site trying to register an account in Japanese, you just need to type in a simple Captcha key. Comments are pretty golden. A few shitposts now and then, but its the internet full of humans, what do you expect.

edit:
Ah, there's another one I forgot about: Cahe [sic] Detective Club. The title is based on the MC's inability to properly pronounce 'Cafe' 「カフェ」, becoming 'Cahe'「カヘ」. It's similar to the likes of multi-story segment chapters like Azumanga Daiou, in that each chapter is separated into a slice-of-life-y comedy shorts. But with a little more emphasis on linear progression of events. I avoid 'story', because of no plot, like many in the genre. I read it just for some light-hearted comedy and fun. It's nothing super exciting or amazing, but it features references to stuff I like (more on that later) and even a cute, rather original (compared to typical manga/anime), romance between two main characters.
The premise is basically that the school only has space for one more club, and 5 freshman girls each have different ideas. They decide to just create one giant detective-gaming-tokusatsu-dress up-cooking cafe. If you couldn't deduce already, those were the primary defining traits of each of the main cast girls. I like mysteries, games, Kamen Rider, maid outfits, food, and the cafe is a fairly amusing Local Hangout spot, so all is well with me. Obviously this is where the references come from, though most of the comedy comes from character quirks (which is granted, given the genre once again). Interactions between the characters drive the comedy and is actually pretty fun to follow along with. Especially because of how much of a little troll the MC is.
It's actually kind of therapeutic in its light-heartedness. The completely ineffectual fanservice is pretty parodical. I do recommend.
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Post by: commandercool on August 17, 2014, 08:10:39 PM
I abandoned Suisei No Gargantia. Not good enough, not really worth my time.

Next stop on the Urobuchi train is Phantom: Requiem For The Phantom (apparently this train goes in no particular order). It's about a Japanese tourist who witnesses a mob hit and gets brainwashed to become a hitman. Based on a visual novel, possibly suffers a little from visual novel harem syndrome but it's not too bad. I like it a lot up so far. It's the only anime I've ever seen that's set entirely in the United States so far, which is an interesting change of pace. Based on the arc of the story so far the fact that it's 26 episodes is a little worrying since that leaves a lot of room to go off the rails. We'll see.

Also caught up on Terror In Resonance. I do not like it at all. The first episode rubbed me the wrong way for a few reasons, but my roommate's been enjoying it so he convinced me to catch up. Unless it gets a lot smarter, more interesting, and less repetitive soon then it's clear I should have trusted my first reaction. Maybe all of the things I don't like about it will turn out to have been setup for something cool, but if that's the case it waited too long to pull the trigger.
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Post by: BT on August 17, 2014, 08:15:57 PM
It's the only anime I've ever seen that's set entirely in the United States so far, which is an interesting change of pace.
You haven't watched Baccano? Go watch Baccano.

Also caught up on Terror In Resonance. I do not like it at all. The first episode rubbed me the wrong way for a few reasons, but my roommate's been enjoying it so he convinced me to catch up. Unless it gets a lot smarter, more interesting, and less repetitive soon then it's clear I should have trusted my first reaction. Maybe all of the things I don't like about it will turn out to have been setup for something cool, but if that's the case it waited too long to pull the trigger.
Nothing groundbreaking has happened, sure, but it's a good production with good directing, which makes it interesting enough for me. There were some nice scenes along the way. The climax better be good, though!
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Post by: commandercool on August 18, 2014, 12:58:41 AM
You haven't watched Baccano? Go watch Baccano.

Nope. I haven't seen most anime, and that one is no exception.

Looking at the summary though, it's like someone was thinking "How can I engineer a show specifically to interest commandercool?", so that's a good sign it's going to get watched some time very soon.
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Post by: aranicar on August 20, 2014, 03:27:54 PM
SAO II: Lol Kirito.

SAO II...............

I'm sorry, I gave this one a shot after the brain-numbing first season (I feel as though I lost an important part of myself after watching it).  Maybe this one would be better, seriously that new girl;  she has so much potential.  She hates him to so no adding on to harem right?  I'm going to get nice action right?  It's going to be great... right...?

I am disappointed, more-so on myself for putting so much anticipation into what is obviously an SAO sequel.  I should have expected this.  After the sixth episode I just dropped it (what kind of action sequence was that?!?  That's not action, that's just angst.).  No use continuing.  If somebody can convince me it gets better later on I might continue it, but I highly doubt it.

Oh well, I don't need action, good comedy is enough for me :D.                            \/\/\/
                                                                                                                                   Monthly Girls? Nozaki-kun
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Post by: Gpop on August 20, 2014, 03:37:48 PM
Guys

Zai x 10

Read it.

It's fucking hilarious.
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Post by: BT on August 20, 2014, 03:45:11 PM
Guys

Zai x 10

Read it.

It's fucking hilarious.
Oh, okay, it's by the same guys who did High School Boys. No wonder the art is the same.
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Post by: Mеа on August 21, 2014, 11:00:02 PM
She hates him to so no adding on to harem right?
Wait SAO is a harem show?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised considering its light novel origins but I'm kind of disgusted. In fact, the single reason I've heard why people liked season one was because of how differently they handled the 'romance'. As I expected, 'marriage' is a bit of a novel way to introduce some new ideas, but it's very hard to keep dragging in new sources of tension and plot. As is my opinion with shows like this, you kill the show if you make one girl too prominent/canon. No resolution until the end, and only ship teases here and there are what keep stuff like this floating. In which case SAO was dead to begin with, I suppose.
So it seemed kind of obvious, but I'm still a little disappointed. The author could have at least used a new MC or something.
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Post by: Cirno Jambalaya Jones on August 22, 2014, 01:53:32 AM
Nichijou and Fooly Cooly. I May start KLK/Kill la kill sometime.
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Post by: aranicar on August 23, 2014, 09:41:29 PM
Wait SAO is a harem show?

Considering that every single girl  has feelings for Kirito, I consider it a harem.  There is one canon pairing (Kirito and Asuna), but *ha* she's basically a background character now.  Asuna started out pretty decent too, strong, adaptive, independent... now reduced to 'obligatory romance partner' *sigh in frustration*.

The new girl could have been a very interesting and fresh new main, but so far it doesn't seem to be happening.  Then again, I stopped on the sixth episode, so I could be wrong.  Given the show's track record; however, I highly doubt anything worth watching would happen.
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Post by: Amraphenson on August 23, 2014, 10:37:36 PM
ah yes lets marry off our protagonist in the first arc and then spend every arc after adding to his harem despite the fact we married him off
yes
good idea.
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Post by: Drake on August 23, 2014, 11:03:16 PM
sao is godawful for so many reasons

and yet i'm still watching it
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Post by: BT on August 24, 2014, 05:29:02 PM
There's this trend lately. What's KyoAni doing next? Oh, something boobies. (http://myanimelist.net/anime/22147/Amagi_Brilliant_Park) Trigger? Generic LN awesomeness. (http://myanimelist.net/anime/25159/Inou-Battle_wa_Nichijou-kei_no_Naka_de) Ikuhara? Yuri bears? (http://myanimelist.net/anime/26165/Yuri_Kuma_Arashi) Did I miss a "challenge accepted" somewhere?
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Post by: Kuremisago on August 25, 2014, 03:05:11 AM
Finally caught up on HxH.
What. a. ride. Damn shame that it's ending, though. I should work on the manga - haven't touched it since Togashi went on hiatus (again).

Also picking up the Mushoku Tensei LNs, all the threads on /a/ got me interested.
Looking forward to a nice fantasy work. The Machine TL drama concerns me, though.
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Post by: commandercool on August 25, 2014, 12:55:46 PM
Just finished Phantom: Requiem For The Phantom. It's great. Why don't people talk about it more? Given how popular Urobuchi is I would think it would come up more. It's a little rough around the edges, the budget seems a little lower than I'm used to, and there are summary episodes that also contain plot, but mostly it's great. I think I liked it slightly more than Psycho Pass, and I liked Psycho Pass a lot.
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Post by: aranicar on August 25, 2014, 11:50:52 PM
Guys

Zai x 10

Read it.

It's fucking hilarious.

I don't know what I'm reading.  But it's awesome.  Can't wait for more :D.

I personally like the robbery arc, that woman really reminds me of Homura lol.
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Post by: Mеа on August 26, 2014, 10:01:55 AM
Read the first volume of D-Frag at a nearby Barnes & Nobles
I'd have to say it's pretty interesting. Good comedy, good characters.
Premise: A guy gets forced into his high-school's game dev club. Said club is comprised entirely of girls. Seems pretty standard setup? If it is, the 'story' movement seemed fun enough to warrant it. I hope it doesn't go harem route. Also, there's another game dev club in the school that challenges this game dev club to a devvy showdown. And the girls have different elemental alignments/powers, in a practical sort of way. Like tasers, matches, and water bottles practical.
Also, there's an Alice-y character in this one too. I'm starting to notice a trend in my manga choices
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Post by: commandercool on August 26, 2014, 12:49:21 PM
Started Fate Zero last night. Watching the first episode was a chore in a way that I don't think I've ever experienced watching TV before. Ugh. This better pick up fast.
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Post by: Mеа on August 26, 2014, 01:18:45 PM
I'll revise my earlier post's opinion.
D-Frag is golden. It's diamondized hilarity. By all means, try it out.
(the manga though, apparently there's an anime which I will try out as soon as I get through the manga)

edit: caught up with the manga. Aaaaugh, every girl is best girl. And every minor character is best minor characteeeerr.
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Post by: Mr_Bob on August 26, 2014, 09:47:16 PM
Recently saw Paprika, and was quite entertained.  Somehow the library has the (non-comic) book on it, which will hopefully explain more of the dream stuff.
I've lots of people comparing Paprika to an acid trip, but the craziest LSD trip, Not Safe For Mind is Yume Tsukai.
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Post by: Kuremisago on August 26, 2014, 10:30:15 PM
Started Fate Zero last night. Watching the first episode was a chore in a way that I don't think I've ever experienced watching TV before. Ugh. This better pick up fast.
1st ep. was largely to infodump the Grail War for people who haven't read/watched f/sn. Do hold out, it gets much better.
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Post by: commandercool on August 26, 2014, 11:33:00 PM
1st ep. was largely to infodump the Grail War for people who haven't read/watched f/sn. Do hold out, it gets much better.

Watched the second one on my lunch break earlier, and I liked it more. It still seemed like mostly exposition though, which doesn't really feel necessary given that this basic structure isn't that uncommon in anime. I'll keep watching unless it can somehow keep up this rate of exposition for even longer, and I don't imagine that will be the case. Something has to start happening soon, and when it does I'm sure it will be fine.
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Post by: pokemon123 on August 27, 2014, 02:01:18 AM
do vn's count? If so I just started higurashi after watching some of the anime(wow it's amazingly better than the anime so far) and uh reading tsukhime and just kohaku's route left to finish.
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Post by: t_prinny on August 28, 2014, 02:42:29 AM
Outside of a few stuff that is currently airing right now, I'm kind of on and off watching Fist of the North Star. Started watching it to see some of the influences Jojo's Bizarre Adventure took in. Currently finished the first season.
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Post by: Mеа on August 28, 2014, 03:07:58 AM
Fist of the North Star
yes (http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/11/116531/1655402-1240393095655.jpg)
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Post by: Massaca on September 05, 2014, 11:05:15 AM
Hanayamata might be wavering, I've yet to watch the latest ep though
Locodol is still enjoyable
Fate/Kaleid Zwei is still great
RWBY vol.2 is going well so far.


On Fate/Stay Night, I haven't seen it or read the VN so i was going to watch the TV Reproduction version (the condensed movie type, however they're reffered to) but the two reviews on MAL were like lolno so now i'm a little torn since I really don't feel like watching 25 episodes and heard it wasn't that great (maybe just compared to the VN? Iunno) but then if the condensed version is that poorly done... I'd probably have trouble sticking with the 25 eps either way but it would be harder going back after the condensed ver.
Think I should just say "**** it" and just watch the condensed ver not caring to take in the story too much before going on to UBW or try to watch the 25 eps?
I've done like no research to avoid spoils other than a quick glance at the MAL reviews.






A couple weeks ago I started reading Girl Friends at work when it was quiet. Got it for christmas but hadn't felt like starting it until then.
http://i.imgur.com/YtSWHq7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/18RaHor.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gBLeoAF.jpg


Read about a third of the fist half of the it (1st half ends half way through volume 3) that day but never got back to it until today when I read the rest of the first half.
I'd really liked it up until that point but the way the first half ended was like a brick to the heart, my stomache just dropped. Why Mari, how could you be so ****ing stupid ;_; big spoils
she had sex with her boyfriend (whom she doesn't love and is just going out with partially out of pity and to escape her feelings for her best friend, Akko, after having kissed her) just to be "just like" Akko (http://i.imgur.com/zLnm3Um.jpg), that she's truly in love with but she (Akko) never actually did so... And the look on Mari's face is like she's a bit in shock, like she realised how stupid of a mistake it was. I'm hoping so much that she's lying. Edit from the 5 hours later: oh my thank goodness she was. Damn that got to me.
What's worse is that it will be a couple hours before I get home to continue it on the second half, too much time to dwell on it.


**5 hours later**

So I never hit the post button... anyway...

Well as soon as I got home I got stuck into the other half and didn't stop until I'd finished reading it. A bit too much drama for my liking (don't like much at all) but in the end I really enjoyed it
and I'm so glad it ended nicely
. And it got to me emotionally quite a bit, I can feel it and know this is gunna hit me later tonight and all tomorrow :/

Also got "Kisses, Sighs and Cherry Blossom Pink" and "Strawberry Panic" to get to in the future sometime (also got for christmas) though I'm not sure I'll like Strawberry Panic now so I'm really hesitent about reading it (and it lacks pictures >_>; ). The other I have no idea.
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Post by: Gpop on September 05, 2014, 06:07:21 PM
okay I don't think I've ever mentioned what I'm watching this season atm.

Hanayamata - Cute girls doing blushing things. Also yasakoi I guess. Typical subtext yuri anime of the season, but it's really cute at times. Especially Hana. Actually all of them are cute in general.

Fate/Kaleid Zwei - watched this after watching the first season and caught up with this one and oh my god, this show is glorious. Watching this during my Fate binge atm. But this is great. Excellent comedy, great action on top, and maybe a little bit of fan-service here and there but it doesn't pull away from how great this show is. It's so intentionally cliche as a mahou shoujo anime, but it also has all the Fate feel to it still.
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Post by: commandercool on September 05, 2014, 07:22:38 PM
Speaking of Fate, I finished Fate Zero a few days ago. I have many thoughts, but I didn't like it much. It's an interesting piece of the "look at everything Urobuchi has ever touched" puzzle. Worth watching, parts of it were great, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts. And I'm realizing gradually that I just don't like Type Moon very much.

On a related note, people are watching Aldnoah.Zero, right? I know I mentioned it before, but I'm mentioning it again. It is great.
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Post by: BT on September 05, 2014, 07:30:50 PM
On a related note, people are watching Aldnoah.Zero, right? I know I mentioned it before, but I'm mentioning it again. It is great.
It's great when it remembers to tap into that amazing setting it has. Otherwise, enjoy that SAO-tier screenplay.
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Post by: Gpop on September 05, 2014, 08:46:21 PM
Funny I'm also watching Fate/Zero atm though slowly because I'm also currently watching Log Horizon and the Idolm@ster (the latter probably whenever I remember to watch it rofl).

It satisfies my Fate needs though I really didn't appreciate that one scene in Episode 2 that introduced Ryuunosuke. Sure it's gruesome and all but a bit too much for my liking that I had to skip ahead.
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Post by: commandercool on September 05, 2014, 08:58:30 PM
Funny I'm also watching Fate/Zero atm though slowly because I'm also currently watching Log Horizon and the Idolm@ster (the latter probably whenever I remember to watch it rofl).

It satisfies my Fate needs though I really didn't appreciate that one scene in Episode 2 that introduced Ryuunosuke. Sure it's gruesome and all but a bit too much for my liking that I had to skip ahead.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

All of the child murder stuff seemed pretty gratuitous, but what really turned my stomach was all of the implied bug rape/near-tentacle rape stuff. Not necessary, just exploitative and gross.

At any rate, let me know what you think of it when you're done. As someone who likes and knows Fate I'd be interested to hear how your experience relates to mine.
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Post by: Mеа on September 05, 2014, 11:53:20 PM
Just finished reading Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro. I'd have to say it has the most beautiful use of subtle and gradual character development I've found in Shounen manga. Really quite enjoyed it.
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Post by: Suikama on September 06, 2014, 05:00:35 AM
NEW FINAL EPISODE OF KILL LA KILL IS AMAZING

11/10 FUCK YES
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Post by: BT on September 06, 2014, 05:50:08 AM
NEW FINAL EPISODE OF KILL LA KILL IS AMAZING

11/10 FUCK YES

oh yes, KLK OVA

20 minutes of zzzz
2 minutes of ohhhhhhmyyyyygooooooddddddaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
worth it so much
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Post by: Chiruno on September 09, 2014, 12:33:36 AM
Let's see.

Currently rewatching:
ef - A Tale of Memories/Melodies
Tegami Bachi
Tegami Bachi Reverse

Watching:
Katanagatari
Kobato.
Pandora Hearts
Darker than Black

Reading:
No Game No Life LN
Oyasumi Punpun
One Piece

Recently saw Paprika, and was quite entertained.
Paprika is an amazing movie, everything Madhouse does has amazing art and at least a mediocre story.
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Post by: aranicar on September 09, 2014, 02:15:15 AM
oh yes, KLK OVA

20 minutes of zzzz
2 minutes of ohhhhhhmyyyyygooooooddddddaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
worth it so much

KLK OVA is out?  I must have missed it b/c of work lol :D.

Currently reading a manhwa called Twelve Nights.  What's really keeping me going is its story and the character relationship web.  While I don't really like love polygons, I really want to know the end to this one haha.  It's drawn pretty well to imo.
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Post by: Abraham Lincoln on September 19, 2014, 11:52:07 PM
I fully know this is not an anime, but I'm watching Battle 360?.
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Post by: Colticide on September 20, 2014, 01:23:07 AM
Currently watching: Jojo's bizzare adventure (noo do I really have to wait till January for new episodes?)
Reborn (has some decent parts but satisfies my need for anime when I'm feeling casual.
Sword art online II (just like it better then the fairy arc.)

Currently reading: Ace attorny, megaman gigamix, Rosario vampire, and another one I'd rather not name.
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Post by: Shimatora on September 20, 2014, 01:29:24 AM
Finished watching Love Stage!! today. AOTY.
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Post by: commandercool on September 20, 2014, 04:17:35 AM
Just started Saya No Uta, since I've finished most of Gen Urobuchi's credits and I really don't want to start Blassreiter because it sounds dumb. Seems fine so far I guess. Not used to visual novels with quite this level of production quality.

From the first five minutes I was thinking "I hope I don't spend hours reading this to have it end on the obvious sub-Twilight Zone twist where the girl is actually a monster". That ends up out in the open in the first half hour or so, so... Good, the game doesn't think I couldn't figure that out. Thanks game.
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Post by: Colticide on September 20, 2014, 04:42:47 AM
Just started Saya No Uta, since I've finished most of Gen Urobuchi's credits and I really don't want to start Blassreiter because it sounds dumb. Seems fine so far I guess. Not used to visual novels with quite this level of production quality.

From the first five minutes I was thinking "I hope I don't spend hours reading this to have it end on the obvious sub-Twilight Zone twist where the girl is actually a monster". That ends up out in the open in the first half hour or so, so... Good, the game doesn't think I couldn't figure that out. Thanks game.

I feel so bad for you, that game leaves me with chills and questions. Its a mind @#$%!
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Post by: Zerviscos on September 20, 2014, 05:02:24 AM
For some reason, I am getting addicted to Fairy Tail. Even though I dislike most mainstream anime, except One Piece(still dropped it though).
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Post by: BT on September 20, 2014, 07:31:40 AM
PSYCHO-PASS was great. The PSYCHO-PASS 2 trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfQipxKwPbo) is pretty great too!

More on Psycho-Pass, though, right now I think it's more or less the best you can expect from modern anime mainstream. For both PP2 and more Mushishi to be airing in Fall... Fall is already a pretty amazing season.

Finished watching Love Stage!! today. AOTY.
:colbert:  I've heard about this, like, best BL anime n' stuff, but is it worth it?
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Post by: commandercool on September 20, 2014, 01:39:48 PM
I feel so bad for you, that game leaves me with chills and questions. Its a mind @#$%!

It's legitimately unsettling in an interesting way. So far it reminds me of Psycho Pass in that it works largely because of what it does't do, rather than what it does do.

(Psycho Pass spoilers below)

At their cores, and this could be way off because I haven't finished Saya No Uta yet, they're not very novel concepts. But Psycho Pass is compelling, thought-provoking sci-fi because it isn't a bleak dystopia and because Akane isn't a "special" person.

In the hands of a less skilled writer that setting could have been a black-and-white 1984 "bad end" world and Akane would be resistant to having her Psycho Pass cloud because of government experiments or because she's secretly an android or something. But that's not what happens. The society in the story isn't all bad, as the plot moves along it reveals that it does legitimately seem utopian in a lot of ways, although not without significant cost and probably not sustainably. And there is no big reveal about why Akane seems to have an unnaturally resilient Psycho Pass, as far as we can tell it's just because she has firm morals and seeing terrible things isn't enough to shake them. I'm a little concerned that season two is going to throw both of those things out the window, but hopefully it doesn't.

Similarly, Saya No Uta so far is remarkable not because anything major that it does, but because it doesn't have the pretense that what's going on is supernatural (well, aside from the crazy monster). A worse horror story would have the character under the belief that he actually is in Hell only to realize at the very end that it's been the real world the whole time, but it's much more interesting and much more disturbing for him to know that everything around him is just fine and that he's the problem. That also implies that he probably knows on some level that he's fucking a rotting flesh monster, and the implications of that are deeply upsetting. Maybe all of that will change by the end, and surprise double twist it was Silent Hill World all along, I guess I'll find out.
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Post by: KrackoCloud on September 21, 2014, 11:52:35 PM
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun just ended today. Man, that makes me sad! I really hope it gets a second season.
You should definitely watch it.
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Post by: Mr_Bob on September 23, 2014, 08:32:18 AM
Paprika is an amazing movie, everything Madhouse does has amazing art and at least a mediocre story.
The animation during the opening credits is especially ingenious.  Read the book that the story is based, and honestly it was pretty bad.  It certainly had an interesting concept, but the execution was painful to read.  Some of it could be attributed to being lost in translation, but most of the time I felt like I was reading a grocery store novel.  On a positive note, Oyasumi Punpun is great.

Other Reads:
Moriyama Tsuru's Oyaji is about a man reconciling with his family. EXCEEDINGLY MANLY
Nagayoshi Takeru's Sumire 16-sai!! proves that old men make the best high school girls.  Funny, and somewhat heart-warming.
Sano Nami's Sakamoto desu ga? is just a hilarious read.  Slice of life with so much style.

Watched:
Kill la Kill 25.  The entire show is an over the top shonen style growing up story, with a girl being the protagonist.  Enjoyable, to say the least.
Tokyo Godfathers.  This is a great movie, especially during Christmas.
Aldnoah Zero.  Reminded a lot of Code Geass while watching this.  Except not as overly dramatic.
Furikio Pendulum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJBt2V5-Q-E) Amazing animated short.  Try not to cry.
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Post by: commandercool on September 26, 2014, 04:34:09 AM
Just finished Saya No Uta.

By the end it became a full-fledged Lovecraftian story, complete with implications that Saya was a Shoggoth and references to The Gates Of The Silver Key. Thematically it's one of the more successful stories of its kind I've read outside of Lovecraft himself. I don't think I could ever really review it positively or recommend it to anyone because of the gratuitous rape, but that aside, and maybe even that inclusive, it's technically really good. I'm inclined to compare it to Alan Moore's Neonomicon for tackling similar material and stumbling in a similar place, but unlike Neonomicon this actually had storytelling and an interesting perspective behind it, rather than just being all "Guys, looks how shocking all of the rape is I'm so edgy honk honk Alan Moore".

So to summarize without spoilers for those who haven't read it, I liked it but probably don't read it.
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Post by: Colticide on September 26, 2014, 04:38:03 AM
Just finished Saya No Uta.

By the end it became a full-fledged Lovecraftian story, complete with implications that Saya was a Shoggoth and references to The Gates Of The Silver Key. Thematically it's one of the more successful stories of its kind I've read outside of Lovecraft himself. I don't think I could ever really review it positively or recommend it to anyone because of the gratuitous rape, but that aside, and maybe even that inclusive, it's technically really good. I'm inclined to compare it to Alan Moore's Neonomicon for tackling similar material and stumbling in a similar place, but unlike Neonomicon this actually had storytelling and an interesting perspective behind it, rather than just being all "Guys, looks how shocking all of the rape is I'm so edgy honk honk Alan Moore".

So to summarize without spoilers for those who haven't read it, I liked it but probably don't read it.

I might have to finish it then, not very good with the "stuff" that happens so I stopped but I may power through it.
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Post by: pokemon123 on September 26, 2014, 06:16:41 AM
I feel the same way. I also finished saya no uta a few days ago and although I felt it really was good I was against recommending it. It's just a very brutal visual novel.
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Post by: commandercool on September 28, 2014, 09:53:41 PM
Finally just got around to finishing Terror In Resonance. I wish I liked it, but it was such a mess. It just seemed like whoever wrote it had no regard at all for trying to put anything together in a plausible way. Nearly every single thing that happened in the entire plot was facilitated by crazy leaps in logic or weird lapses in realism in what is allegedly a serious, realistic world. Things that, by themselves, could probably be overlooked, but compounded on top of themselves over and over and over painted a picture of a script that the writer just couldn't be bothered to work out the problems in. And on top of that the story wastes a lot of time on making the same moves over and over or on out-of-place anime cliches. It's ridiculous, and I didn't like it.

Up to the very end I kept hoping there was be some genius reveal that would justify all of the bullshit, but no, I think it was just a mess. If anyone who liked it wants to explain to me what I missed I'd be glad to hear what you have to say, since consensus seems to be that it was great as far as I can tell, but I don't understand why.
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Post by: Mеа on October 22, 2014, 07:10:16 AM
How has no one recommended the manga How I stalked some dude with an exposed nipple and stumbled upon the Zenithian Sword yet!??

Come for the title, stay for the story
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on October 22, 2014, 07:57:19 AM
Stuff I've watched recently:
Kill La Kill - good animation, good music, complete disappointment in everything else. Trigger should have put that budget toward more Little Witch Academia.
Hanayamata: Absolutely stunning animation, wonderful character development for 12 episodes, good music, satisfying ending. Best show of 2014 so far.
No Game No Life: Watched first episode after Hanayamata last night after hearing it was good. Fanservice of a fucking 11 year old girl is a major turnoff and the plot seemed dumb too. The thread here did nothing to fix those impressions after doublechecking it. Dropped.

Stuff I'm watching now:
Cromartie High School: Promised Purvis I'd watch it after finishing Hanayamata. Not disappointed at all. Genuinely surprised that I'm finding the dub more enjoyable than the original Japanese, which was also a Purvis suggestion.
RWBY (guess it kinda counts): Watched pretty much all of it with a friend tonight. Pretty excellent so far.
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Another magical girl series geared toward the seinen demographic. If they execute it better than Madoka Magica I'll be very pleased. So far it's pretty great.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Gotta catch up on this at least. 10 episodes or so behind.
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Post by: BT on October 22, 2014, 12:35:59 PM
Hanayamata: Absolutely stunning animation, wonderful character development for 12 episodes, good music, satisfying ending. Best show of 2014 so far.
I dropped Hanayamata on the first episode because I thought the dancing was dumb. Hmmmm. It can't be better than Ping Pong (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,16957.msg1101866.html#msg1101866) so at the very least I can tell you you're wrong. :smug:

In other news: Tsukimonogatari. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaB69GZfXcI&feature=youtu.be)
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Post by: commandercool on October 22, 2014, 01:03:34 PM
I'm watching a lot of stuff right now, at least for me:

Parasyte Maxim: Pretty good. Second episode didn't impress me quite as much as the first, but there's nothing much wrong with it. Except maaaaybe the music, but I think it's just weird, not bad.

Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works: Just barely holding my attention enough for me to keep watching it. Still don't really understand why people like this franchise so much, but good for them if they do. Probably going to get dropped at some point unless it gets really interesting really fast.

Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de: Bad. First episode was the most aggressively mediocre thing I've ever seen (it was well-animated though), second episode was so un-funny it made me temporarily forget what humor was. And it seemed like it was getting harem-y fast. New Kill La Kill this is not. Good effort Trigger.

Shingeki no Bahamut Genesis: Pretty good. There's still something about it that feels "off", possibly with the pacing or the cinematography, although I haven't been able to exactly place it yet. Regardless, very fun and manages to not piss me off in any way despite being medieval fantasy, which is amazing. Wins the "show I was most surprised to find that I like" award.

Psycho Pass 2: Not very good so far. Feels a little flat and dumb compared to the first series. Still willing to give it time to get up to speed (and honestly I'll probably finish it even if it keeps up this lackluster performance, it's not terrible, just disappointing), but the fact that it started slow despite having laid all of its groundwork already in another series seems like a bad sign.

Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!: Great. Missed this when it was airing, but people were right to not shut up about it. Precise character comedy that probably rings personally true to everyone on this site to at least some degree. Just about all of the humor fully translates, which is rare for Japanese comedy, at least for me (no obvious reliance on confounding wordplay, for example).

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Technically good, but hard to watch. I've been watching this for well over a year and I'm a-l-m-o-s-t done, but it's a real grind. The parts of it that are actually new content are interesting and incredibly pretty, but there's so much filler. To a certain extent that can be passed off as thematic, and to a certain extent it is, but no matter how much thematic weight it has repetition to this extent is gratuitous. Possibly the only series I've ever seen that seems like it would work much better as a couple of compilation movies.

To Aru Majutsu No Index: Slowly making my way through this as well. I liked Railgun a lot despite its many flaws, and this has even more flaws. The core concept (science versus magic) sounds interesting to me and is occasionally well-executed, but it's kind of a mess overall. I've been stuck on the Sisters episodes for a few weeks because I'm not really that interested in watching something I've already seen but way more incoherent. Index somehow feels like a spinoff of Railgun the way it doesn't feel the need to explain tie-in elements that viewers originally wouldn't have even seen yet, and the way it occasionally drops flashes of characters I like more doing cooler things off-screen. Still, once I got past the first few episodes it's watchable.

Space Dandy: I wish I liked Space Dandy more. Individually the parts of it are all cool, but the finished product doesn't work for me. It's not really funny enough to be a comedy, but it's not really enough of anything else to be anything else. I'm still not quite done with the first season though, so maybe the second season will work better for me. There have been a couple of fantastic episodes so far and a lot that left me going "Wait, what? Was that it?".
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on October 22, 2014, 03:50:41 PM
I dropped Hanayamata on the first episode because I thought the dancing was dumb. Hmmmm. It can't be better than Ping Pong (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,16957.msg1101866.html#msg1101866) so at the very least I can tell you you're wrong. :smug:

I don't recall asking for your shitty opinion.

It's fine though, you only missed out on something wonderful. :smug:
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Post by: Reddyne on October 22, 2014, 07:46:41 PM
Parasyte Maxim: Pretty good. Second episode didn't impress me quite as much as the first, but there's nothing much wrong with it. Except maaaaybe the music, but I think it's just weird, not bad.
This was like one of THE big names in terms of manga scanlation for a spell and that's a good enough reason to give it a look. As for the tunes, they've got a serious case of the wubs, which can be a love-it-or-hate-it kinda thing.
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Post by: commandercool on October 22, 2014, 09:36:22 PM
Almost forgot, as manga goes I'm reading Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. As it goes along it gradually become less of a horror manga and more of a comedy manga, and the goofier it gets the better it is. It has some possibly dubious sex stuff underlying it, but it's mostly really, really good.

This was like one of THE big names in terms of manga scanlation for a spell and that's a good enough reason to give it a look. As for the tunes, they've got a serious case of the wubs, which can be a love-it-or-hate-it kinda thing.

It's not only the actual music that's the issue, but the bizarre contrast with the sort-of-retro aesthetic (particularly with the character designs). It's an odd thing. Although I think I can safely say I neither love it nor hate it so far.
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Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on October 23, 2014, 03:31:39 AM
Because I'm so great and awesome, I know that you've all been waiting for a post like this from me for a long time. Of course, this is just the new shows from this season. I'm not listing things that I'm still watching from prior seasons etc.

Currently watching this season:

Still need to start watching this season:

Things I don't plan to watch this season:
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Post by: Widermelonz on October 23, 2014, 04:49:08 AM
FSN - My favorite this season. Great so far. Some say it's too slow, some say too fast. If it were faster, important info would fly by too fast; and if it were slower, it'd too much of an info-dump. I think this pacing's good. Everything else about it is absolutely fantastic.
Inou Battle - Probably my second favorite this season. Fun characters, decent MC (such rarity!), clean designs, nice music. Really really really fun overall.
Log Horizon 2 - I liked Log Horizon, and I like Log Horizon 2. Not much to say. I like it, not everyone's cup of tea.
Psycho-Pass 2 - Similar beginning to the first psycho pass. We'll see if the plot develops.
Twintails - Fun sentai anime. Mech designs are awesome. Character reactions are a liiiiittle too slapstick for me. The MC personality is cool (another rarity!), the antagonists are 10/10. I like it.
Shigatsu - Pretty good. Characters could use some depth though, but it's still too early to judge. Cinematography, camera angles, colors, and narration are fantastic.
Amagi - Good. Characters are a bit simple, not much goes on, the art/animation is nice, music fits. The show doesn't try to be anything more than what it's supposed to be, I like that.
Grisaia - Animation is a little clunky at times. Characters are okay. I'm very curious about the characters' backstories. Music is nice. Okay so far.
Parasyte - It's alright so far. Interesting premise, holds enough of my attention. Has huge potential, we'll see.
Cross Ange - Characters are range from bad to okay. Mech designs are passable. The show's not terrible, but it's not good by any measure.
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Post by: Kuremisago on October 24, 2014, 05:54:28 AM
Amaburi - Kyoani finds a way.
Cross Ange - Trainwreck of 2014
Daito - Watching for fluffy romance. The art is barely passable compared to the VN, but at least it's not getting Ushina's treatment...
Denkigai - I don't even know.
FSN - I just need ufotable to do Tsukihime and my life will be complete.
Garo - Has a rather nice older vibe to it. Gonna give it time to grow on me.
Grisaia - I expect a failed adaptation.
Kokkuri-san - Okay SOL
Chaika - S1 was okay
Inou Battle - Trigger saving anime
Kiseijuu - This was long overdue. Madhouse doing a good job so far.
LH 2 - /r glassesadjust.exe
Madan - At least the MC isn't too much of a faget
NnT - The manga was a good read.
Ookami Shoujo - Haven't seen many shoujo, not sure how to judge this. It's okay so far.
Twintails - Stupid fun, and it knows it. Actually look forward to this every week.
PP2 - Not sure where it's going so far. I hate the new girl.
WIXOSS - Okada is a good writer, amirite guise?
Shigatsu - Really hopeful for this one, generally love music oriented shows. A1 is doing great with the art.
Bahamut - A really fun show so far. I'm going to need time to get used to MCs hair though.
Shirobako - Maybe going in and expecting Bakuman is too much.
Sora no Method - Cute grills and aliens doing cute grill and alien things
Terra Formars - Sh*t on a stick, made worse by that horrid censorship.
Trinity Seven - The MC is surprisingly likable, despite being harem. Been meh so far.
Ushina - CG and rotoscoping? Really? This studio...it just shat all over Kurehito/Shinobu's god-tier art.
World Trigger - Largely generic shounen.
Yowapedal - S1 was a surprisingly fun ride(heh), hoping for good things.
Yuki Yuna - I've heard that this goes full Madoka. I'm expectant.


tl;dr Must find a way to not watch almost everything in every season
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Post by: Shimatora on October 31, 2014, 12:09:45 PM
Currently watching Natsume Yuujinchou and thoroughly enjoying it.
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on November 01, 2014, 08:06:53 AM
I've picked up Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and Kyoukai no Kanata. Enjoying both more than I had expected to.
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Post by: Sahgren on November 05, 2014, 02:20:44 AM
I just finished Ghost Hunt, and I'm left oddly confused on whether I actually liked it or not. It's one of the rare series that I've felt compelled to watch from beginning to end, but I can't really think of a reason as to why I did.

Edit: Thinking about it, it's probably that the series doesn't actually answer a number of the questions that it raises. It looks like I'd have to find the manga or light novel for some parts of it to make sense.
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Post by: FlamingRok on November 05, 2014, 11:53:10 AM
I've always only watched one anime at a time, so that I either can't run away from the one I'm watching, or so that I can enjoy it. SAO? The first arc, or the first half of season one, was stupid, but entertaining. As you venture onward though, the former applies more, and the latter applies less. ALO was just straight out uncomfortable to watch near the end.

So how was transitioning to SAO II? There were like one or two okay episodes in there, but the rest was absolutely terrible. The GGO arc was the most disappointing to me, as I recall the light novel version was actually alright to read. After GGO, they decide to throw a recap episode at us, which is also terrible to trek through. I was just about drained of motivation to continue watching this trainwreck. No longer was it entertaining. It was only incredibly stupid. The Caliber arc had begun, and already it seemed to be better than the previous arc. We have Kirito just being carefree and an asshole, we have those other girls that are somewhat bland, but were okay to watch this time around, and best of all, we had Klein back. Second episode had finally brought back the entertaining part. With scenes like this...
(http://puu.sh/crkMY/1ec27abb27.gif)
...you can't really go wrong. The show is still dumb by all means, yes. But it's now actually fun to watch. The third episode continued this (Klein never gets anything nice though  :( ), but my depression hit me then: this was the end of the Calibur arc. No more silly fun events, or at least probably no more. I am probably going to be plunging into something that just will continue to disappoint.

Oh, and to all of the Asuna fans that are depressed about her being a background character, good news! You've got an entire arc with her starting next week! I really hope this continues to be entertainingly stupid, because this has mostly been a mudslide down, with a few grace points. Please show, at least try to be amusing.
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Post by: Kasu on November 05, 2014, 04:35:46 PM
Apart from the stuff I've been watching this season, I've also been slogging my way through Soukyuu no Fafner...

Why won't it end?  I'll admit that it's gotten less annoying as I near the end of the series, but at this point I just wanna marathon the rest and get to watching The Big O.  University's not letting me though. ;-;
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Post by: Suikama on November 06, 2014, 03:44:59 PM
Holy shit after all these years Naruto has ended :o


Also this weeks One Piece has the I replaced with Naruto :V
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Post by: KrackoCloud on November 10, 2014, 09:23:41 PM
It took me this long to get on Madoka, but I'm glad I finally watched it.
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Post by: BT on November 10, 2014, 10:14:25 PM
It took me this long to watch Eva & End of, but... yes. :V  That was certainly impressive.

The soundtrack was pretty great. One of the tracks basically features Satori's theme in it (http://youtu.be/3GXU3t1dZWM?t=16s). Or I guess that would be the other way around.
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Post by: commandercool on November 10, 2014, 11:49:13 PM
It took me this long to watch Eva & End of, but... yes. :V  That was certainly impressive.

The soundtrack was pretty great. One of the tracks basically features Satori's theme in it (http://youtu.be/3GXU3t1dZWM?t=16s). Or I guess that would be the other way around.

Holy shit, I never noticed that. It totally does. :o
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Post by: Colticide on November 11, 2014, 05:45:56 AM
Holy shit, I never noticed that. It totally does. :o

I only noticed due to a tumblr touhou series that has quick tips and stuff, like the Eva X Satori music and a few other stuff too!

Well started to watch the new sailor moon, at first wasn't sure going into it, I did watch the old one when I was a child but god I really like this new one, it feels very quick and to the point in each episode, and that new intro is just awesome! Glad I took a look.

Anime's that I need to watch is Madoka (I heard that it gets dark...), ... well there are a few that I can't think of right now but I really need to give berserk a try!

Also I was recommended Gantz... should I give it a try? I read the quick paragraph on wikipedia and says gore and sexual content, so I'm kinda not sure what I'm getting into. I can handle some gore and for sexual content... most I've gone far into in reading is Monster Musume (which is funny and light hearted and despite the nudity, if you can get past that it's a heart warming and great read, also dat touhou reference!)

SAO

I'm interested in the Asuna part, I felt she really been shafted just to give the new girls the bigger spotlight. I'll say that I disagree about the first part of SAO, I can see why people don't like it but when I first went into it I got out of it a serious story that dealt with topics in a mature way and the growth of a character hunted by the deaths of innocents. But after the first part ended it turned into another fan service harem anime and that's where I lost my interest. ALO is as you say uncomfortable and I can't stand the fact that some characters roles were destroyed and made into a pathetic mess, IE: Asuna. After each new part Kirito gets a new girl that into him and I can't seem to get away from these kind of shows, they always end up as harems even when the first parts don't give that kinda of hints. GGO I have mixes feelings about, I like how it became serious again with a actual dangerous plot (but I'm still only halfway with GGO so I don't know if I should even be talking about this.), but I did like how they tried to bring back issues that were in SAO... but they also shoehorned in a plot device that wasn't in the first part of the show just to give Kirito a common place with the new heroine, not sure if I like it but I mostly get a negative feel from it so IDK. Still that your opinion on it and I mostly agree with them, but we all view different animes in a different light.
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Post by: Kuremisago on November 15, 2014, 03:23:55 AM

Also I was recommended Gantz... should I give it a try? I read the quick paragraph on wikipedia and says gore and sexual content, so I'm kinda not sure what I'm getting into. I can handle some gore and for sexual content... most I've gone far into in reading is Monster Musume (which is funny and light hearted and despite the nudity, if you can get past that it's a heart warming and great read, also dat touhou reference!)


Gantz has gore EVERYWHERE and all the time, I assure you. Heck, chapter 1 has people run over by a train.
As for nudity, it isn't that prevalent until the later arcs but there are lots of boobs. Also coitus.
Once you get past that, it is definitely an amazing read.
Btw, avoid the anime. Manga is miles better.

If you need a closer look, skim the reviews or something
http://myanimelist.net/manga/564/Gantz/reviews
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Post by: Colticide on November 15, 2014, 03:28:22 AM
Gantz has gore EVERYWHERE and all the time, I assure you. Heck, chapter 1 has people run over by a train.
As for nudity, it isn't that prevalent until the later arcs but there are lots of boobs. Also coitus.
Once you get past that, it is definitely an amazing read.
Btw, avoid the anime. Manga is miles better.

If you need a closer look, skim the reviews or something
http://myanimelist.net/manga/564/Gantz/reviews

Thank you very much, that was gonna be my next question. I'll definitely check out the manga.
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Post by: KrackoCloud on November 27, 2014, 05:52:30 AM
I've been watching Yuki Yuna. This show ruins me...

There's so many dark theories circulating right now, and after I found this very plausible theory (http://hyperforce-monkey.tumblr.com/post/102563431569), my heart just sank some three feet deeper.
I'm so worried about the future.
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Post by: Teewee on November 27, 2014, 06:01:53 AM
I don't watch/read anime/manga as the average person who likes the genre, but every now and then I read a couple chapters of this manga called Futari Ecchi. Despite a mostly-cardboard cast and at least one outdated piece of info regarding condoms, I find it entertaining enough to read.
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Post by: Mеа on November 27, 2014, 08:05:02 AM
Just picked up the manga of Zettai Karen Children. To be honest, it was actually the art style, surprisingly enough, that made me interested in it at first. It wasn't until the end of the first or second chapter that I got the 'woah, this is going to be really good' vibes. After which I promptly caught up with near fully, spending a good 3 or so entire days to do so. It's really good, but my only complaint is that I feel like the primary focus shifted a little to resolve one of the major plots, which I'm hoping it shifts back to the initial focus. It's big spoilers so I can't really say it out loud here, but if you've read it, I think you might know what I'm talking about, the Phantom Daughter arc.
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Post by: Suikama on November 28, 2014, 08:43:17 PM
watched ME!ME!ME!

that certainly was something :V
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Post by: commandercool on November 28, 2014, 11:35:46 PM
People have said it a bunch of times, me included, but Parasyte is real good this season. The tonal balance is crazy, it's really fun to watch.

Haven't been reading a ton of manga (although I'm almost caught up on Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and I started Railgun), but I have been reading a truckload of American comics. Strangers In Paradise is great but it's like ten million volumes long, John Ostrander's run on The Spectre is full of interesting ideas that never quite pan out, Scott McCloud's Zot! is hard to find but very underrated and is one of the first American books to be heavily manga-inspired, and catching up on Hellboy is fantastic (Hellboy In Hell may be the best the book has ever been, which is nuts).
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Post by: U95111 on November 29, 2014, 12:39:10 AM
Slowly watching 'Texhnolyze', 'Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei', 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' and 'Durarara'.
Rewatching: 'Ghost in the Shell', 'C for Control' and 'Steins;Gate' (for what might be the fifth time).

Been reading Abara. Planning on reading Blame eventually.
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Post by: Mеа on December 12, 2014, 10:54:26 PM
I did it.
It finally happened.
I just finished Naruto.
After like a freaking decade of following it.
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Post by: commandercool on December 21, 2014, 09:45:49 PM
I've said before that Junji Ito (the Uzumaki/Enigma Of Amigara Fault guy) writes much better short stories than long fiction. His longer stories always end up feeling like a disjointed mess of small ideas loosely tied together by a shaky premise, and that's why I've never liked him as much as I wish I did. Although until recently I didn't realize just how many short stories he had actually written. He has tons of them, and over the last couple of weeks I've been doing my best to hunt them all down. They're mostly great. There are two basic kinds, the "By-the-numbers, Twilight Zone/EC Comics-esque ghost story" and the "Excuse to draw something really really gross" story. And he's great at both of them. There are occasional misfires, but reading those is a lot less frustrating than watching one of his continuing manga slowly go off the rails. Highly recommended if you like weird creepy ironic spooky stories, weird fiction, or monstrously disgusting drawings.
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Post by: Zengar Zombolt on December 21, 2014, 11:17:04 PM
Finished Wixoss, jumped straight into Yuuki Yuna.
Why do I do this to myself?
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Post by: ♛ Apher-Forte on December 22, 2014, 04:45:47 PM
Psycho Pass Season 2 has so far more of everything season 1 has to offer, character development for Akane is really well made. Background as she is in the recent episodes she has been an amazing growth stimulation since season 1, a hardboiled detective now, she is true blue the kinda thing I wanna see anime girls do more.

Strength to strength her character has diminished a bit, but the fact she is so real makes it a very enjoyable experience.

Her fears really hone the show to its extent.
That said, strong characters in the season probably all awards goes to Yuuki from SAO.

Seriously I never cried so hard since AIR.
Best writing ever for a character. Asuna has regain all her importance. ALL OF IT.

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Post by: commandercool on December 23, 2014, 03:33:58 AM
Finally caught up on Fate/Stay Night. I didn't really enjoy the first half or so of this season, for many of the same reasons I didn't like Fate/Zero as much as I really, sincerely wish I did. It introduces too many characters, too many of them don't actually matter than much, and it spends too much time talking about rules that it either doesn't care about or doesn't consistently follow. But the second half of the season has been great. Unlike in Fate/Zero once the tertiary characters are introduced they're not constantly referred back to, so the show actually has time to focus on the primary characters. It's pretty good and I want to see more of it. And I know people historically don't like Shirou, so I think it's a testament to the strength of this adaptation that he seems very likable this time. I don't know what he did to piss people off in the visual novel or the other anime, but I like him just fine.

Psycho Pass Season 2 has so far more of everything season 1 has to offer, character development for Akane is really well made. Background as she is in the recent episodes she has been an amazing growth stimulation since season 1, a hardboiled detective now, she is true blue the kinda thing I wanna see anime girls do more.

Strength to strength her character has diminished a bit, but the fact she is so real makes it a very enjoyable experience.

Her fears really hone the show to its extent.
That said, strong characters in the season probably all awards goes to Yuuki from SAO.

Seriously I never cried so hard since AIR.
Best writing ever for a character. Asuna has regain all her importance. ALL OF IT.

Wait, really? Someone likes Psycho Pass Season 2? I'm not trying to be a dick, but are you serious? I don't know of one person who has started watching it and didn't quit in disgust five or six episodes in. I hate Psycho Pass 2, and I feel like it hates me and the original Psycho Pass. Interesting.
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Post by: Widermelonz on December 23, 2014, 06:17:07 AM
And I know people historically don't like Shirou, so I think it's a testament to the strength of this adaptation that he seems very likable this time. I don't know what he did to piss people off in the visual novel or the other anime, but I like him just fine.

I think most of the people that disliked Shirou were the ones who only watched the Deen FSN anime. And that's understandable, Shirou was terrible in Deen's version. Most people that I've seen who have actually read the VN really like Shirou as a protagonist. Personally I think Shirou is great.
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Post by: pokemon123 on December 23, 2014, 07:22:38 AM
I hated him in the fate route, ubw and heavens feel he was okay.
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Post by: ♛ Apher-Forte on December 27, 2014, 02:03:04 PM
Well, opinions man. The way I see it, Psycho Pass has this whole I am not sure what I wanna do Akane, but Psycho Pass season 2, she was the kind of detective drama five -o I wanna see in action.
Plus, it covers up many loose ends, and I think it is well made.
Not too sure if it will 2 cours or single tho.
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Post by: commandercool on January 21, 2015, 04:03:31 AM
It took me quite a while, but I eventually slogged through the first season of Index. Kind of hated it. It was boring, it spent way too much time setting up complicated rules for its magic system that it then failed to fully follow, and it didn't really pay off on its premise. There were some cool scenes and Touma's arc is interesting if slow, but I think the whole thing could've been shaved down to ten episodes easily and come away much stronger for it.

I'm five episodes into the second season now though, and it's great. Much more exciting, much more consistent, better animation, and the Railgun cast is in it way more. Plus there aren't a ton of other places to see nuns getting the crap kicked out of them like that. It's still too much "magic guys versus other magic guys" for a show that I want to be about science versus magic, but the underpinnings of that idea are there, and when they come through they work well. It's pretty good so far, too bad it seems necessary to watch the first season to fully enjoy it.
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Post by: Sect on January 21, 2015, 06:16:57 AM
I am really behind on my animus. Right now I'm halfway through Kill la Kill and following Yurikuma Arashi, and hopping in and out of other series willy nilly. Also, rewatched Baccano! for the umpteenth time. I love that show.
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Post by: commandercool on January 23, 2015, 01:34:53 AM
I was at the library yesterday and noticed they had MPD Psycho, so given my enjoyment of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service I decided to give it a try. They didn't have the second volume so I just checked out the first, and I finished it earlier. It's every bit as unpleasant as it has a reputation for being, to the point where I almost don't want to continue reading it. It has little or none of KCDS's good nature or humor so far to counterbalance the extreme body horror.

I'm going to give Eiji Otsuka some credit given that it's one of his earlier works and assume that it's going somewhere other than just unadulterated grossness and read the next few. The premise is trite as hell now (and may have been at the time-was multiple personality disorder already the worst plot device ever by 1997?) but the plot is reasonably compelling and, being a Dark Horse translation, the book is exceedingly well presented. So there's that.
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Post by: Sect on January 23, 2015, 03:57:42 AM
Stumbled across something called "Gakkou Gurashi (http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/gakkou_gurashi_ch01#2)". It's a cute manga about a trio of girls and their advisor teacher doing things around their school. Still ongoing, but waiting to see what happens next. Lot of girls get locked to things by handcuffs, though...
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Post by: Sahgren on January 23, 2015, 06:24:07 AM
For some reason I'm on a manhwa kick, so I just picked up Hero Waltz. It manages to stay compelling enough to read despite nothing about it being particularly original.

Finished watching Akame ga Kill. Given that the entire draw of the show is that the strongest plot armor around seems to be made of wet tissue paper, I'm kinda wondering why people were so upset at the ending.

Stumbled across something called "Gakkou Gurashi (http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/gakkou_gurashi_ch01#2)". It's a cute manga about a trio of girls and their advisor teacher doing things around their school. Still ongoing, but waiting to see what happens next. Lot of girls get locked to things by handcuffs, though...

Okay, that completely baited me in. Interesting opening to say the least.
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Post by: An Odd Sea Slug on January 29, 2015, 01:59:27 AM
I too am now addicted to Gakkou Gurashi. Also, reading Girls und Panzer: the Ribbon Warrior.
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Post by: Kasu on January 30, 2015, 02:03:27 AM
Just finished Fate/Zero, and hoo boy. That was quite the ride.

I already knew the basics of what was going to happen due to gifs I'd seen around and from having watched the 2006 series first, but it was still pretty crazy.  Can't wait to get started on the first half of Unlimited Blade Works now.

Also, my favourite parts were the Waver and Rider interactions.
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Post by: Failure McFailFace on February 03, 2015, 06:13:38 PM
I have no idea why I'm watching Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo....

It's insane.
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Post by: An Odd Sea Slug on February 04, 2015, 09:18:32 PM
Bobobo is life. Bobobo is love.
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Post by: commandercool on February 05, 2015, 01:59:24 AM
MPD Psycho is not going well. Maybe I'm just in the wrong mood for it, but it seems to be just as cynical and tired as the first volume suggested. The amount of violence isn't just tasteless, it's ridiculous in the worst way. Truckloads of people die in almost every scene, with an established character going on a postal-style terrorism spree for minimally explained reasons suddenly only to immediately be forgotten about, buildings full of people being blown up left and right, civilians getting killed constantly as collateral damage with most of the characters barely even acknowledging it... There's so much of it that the stakes have dropped a lot. Basically the entire population of Japan has been killed with no few or no consequences, so what does it matter if another bus or office building or whole goddamn city dies if the heroes don't stop the bad guy? And all of the villains have faked their deaths so many times already that killing them seems like a waste of time.

The only recurring character who acts even remotely like a human is the one crossover character to Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, so I guess he escaped into a better book. It might be interesting if it slowed down the pace enough to actually think about anything that happens, but everything moves so fast that developments are forgotten about the moment they're explained so we can zoom along to the next irritating gibberish about multiple personalities and government experiments on children that make them psycho killers (seriously, the ONE plot element lamer than multiple personalities and they hit in on the head?). I might read one more volume just to double check that it's not going anywhere good before I drop it, because at least it reads fast, but yeah... Bad. Maybe this is all building to something profound to make it all worth the time, but I've read a decent chunk of it and it seems to get worse as it does, so I'm not holding my breath.
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Post by: Berzul on February 17, 2015, 09:58:53 AM
Onnanoko ga Shinu Hanashi Is really good, I enjoyed it. It has the best Shoujo time skips.
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Post by: commandercool on February 18, 2015, 04:33:38 AM
I'm almost done reading Junji Ito's work, just wrapping up a few loose ends. In light of his recent autobiographical manga about Kazuo Umezu's influence on him I decided to read him next.

I'm starting with (as far as I can tell) his earliest published manga, Orochi, which is excellent so far. The influence is obvious but they're very different in a lot of ways. Obviously I haven't read enough Umezu to know much yet, but just comparing their earliest works it seems like he can carry a plot a lot longer than Ito can, and his stories tend to be much less overtly supernatural (although all of them have supernatural elements). Most of them so far have been about people ending up in horrible situations for reasons that aren't necessarily anyone's fault, whereas Ito tends to have some kind of villain or other malevolent force most of the time.

Umezu is a solid artist, but at least early on most of his people look kind of same-y. All of his children look the same, all of his adult men look the same, and he has like three different women. Definitely none of the sheer visual craziness Ito had even from his earliest works, but his writing is a lot more even and the art is certainly serviceable. I haven't seen any of his trademark expressions yet, so I imagine those come later.
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Post by: Marron on February 18, 2015, 09:57:12 AM
I'm on Hajime no Ippo these days. But I can't watch animes these days so it's "stop" for now.
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Post by: An Odd Sea Slug on February 24, 2015, 04:48:09 AM
We finally get confirmation of the Gakkou Gurashi anime (http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/02/23/moe-zombie-apocalypse-manga-gakkou-gurashi-anime-site-launches-cast-and-staff-announced)
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Post by: ♛ Apher-Forte on February 25, 2015, 04:51:37 PM
Following this season:

Kantai Collection - everything about it I like, except Wo-class bullying. (the fact she remain voiceless in the anime as well) Fubuker's funny ass face. Poiface Tragedy will follow, I guarantee it, and it will be damn x sad

Koufuku Grafitti - cooking anime, not up to mark. Kinda cute.
will drop this show when Shokugeki Soma shows up

Bad shows:
Binan shounen love making thing. I don't even.

So far kinda hard to watch for real:
Tokyo Ghoul not quite the same as mango. But finally there is EL DORADDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Absolute Duo, for once I agree with the whiners, the book is so much better by ep 8, it is tits and ass the movie


Great show surprises:
Sengoku Musou - aside from the QUALITY issues, some serious storytelling here. and the fact people never take off their armor is weird. (unlike the Basara anime, both seasons are as good and people actually looking confortable not fighting all the time. Naotora and Naomasa confuses the fuck out of me. (the lack of Naotora makes me cringe as well)

Death Parade - not bad, very intrigue, much slow plot development
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Post by: commandercool on February 27, 2015, 04:39:39 AM
I've put Kazuo Umezu on hold to a degree since I found Ochazuke Nori. I'm on the last chapter of Orochi, which is great, but incredibly slow. Ochazuke Nori, by contrast, is a bunch of short, turbo-violent horror stories that take a lot less investment to read, which is more in line with my schedule right now. His (Her? Their? I haven't been able to find much information about them so far, especially since I keep getting the food when I try to search that name) art is a little on the crude side, but it's stylized in a way that I like a lot, especially more recently. Check out their current ongoing manga, Fear Infection, if you get the chance and like horror manga. Every story in it has been at least decent, and the first one was pretty great.
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Post by: Kasu on March 03, 2015, 10:57:05 PM
Oh lord.  Carnival Phantasm is absolutely wonderful. I don't think I've laughed this hard since Nichijou.
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Post by: Spotty Len on March 03, 2015, 11:31:34 PM
Oh lord.  Carnival Phantasm is absolutely wonderful. I don't think I've laughed this hard since Nichijou.
All my yes.

Akatsuki no Yona is approaching its end, which is kinda sad, I got attached to it.
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Post by: Spotty Len on March 19, 2015, 08:08:54 PM
(http://a.pomf.se/pctqxn.gif)

Hataspin retuuuuuuurns.
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Post by: Silent Harmony on March 26, 2015, 06:24:27 AM
I just finished Genshiken. Thank you again MJP for selling it, it was worth every penny.

I may edit in my thoughts later, but for now I'd just recommend it to anybody looking for a slice-of-life staring older characters (in this case college). It's so refreshing after numerous series staring middle and high schoolers.
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Post by: KrackoCloud on April 09, 2015, 02:41:34 AM
Just caught up with Wakabayashi Toshiya's 4-koma Collection. Great stuff.
Cute 4-koma rom-com, not a harem. Think Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun but more episodic and with some actual romantic development. This manga makes me smile!
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Post by: Tribow on April 12, 2015, 02:21:16 PM
Has anyone seen Shirobako? I'm thinking to start watching that since I just finished Kancolle.
I saw Shirobako under the comedy genre and I love comedies. I haven't seen a good one since Sabagebu.
So if anyone has seen it, could you tell me how funny it is?
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Post by: KrackoCloud on April 12, 2015, 10:11:12 PM
It's pretty interesting just because it revolves around the anime industry, but I'd hardly call it a comedy.
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Post by: An Odd Sea Slug on April 13, 2015, 02:53:41 AM
Shirobako was my favorite of the 2014/15 winter season by far. That said, I'd call it a workplace dramedy at the most, with emphasis on the drama. For a more pure comedy, I'd recommend Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun if you haven't seen it already. It is hilarious.
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Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on May 05, 2015, 04:27:03 PM
Just watched the first 3 episodes of Ore Monogatari... which Puppy has been enjoying. Not my sort of thing, but pretty damn cute in terms of the whole 'don't judge a book by its cover' motif~

Then watched the first episode of Punchline... What the ever loving f**k did I just witness here? o_O
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Post by: Phasm on May 05, 2015, 04:41:47 PM
I have watched Madoka Magica a while back and i loved it! And i am currently watching SailorMoon Viz Media Dub and i am in episode 14 where Nephrite is introduced. I have been enjoying SailorMoon a lot! Cristina Vee does a great job as Rei Hikawa. This was my secound time being exposed to her brilliant voice acting skills, she was great as Homura Akemi, and she is great as Rei Hikawa as well. The other actresses do an excellent job as well, the characters fit the voices and all. I have been suffering of depression and this show is making wonders againts it.
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Post by: commandercool on May 19, 2015, 02:31:57 AM
I just read all of Fuan No Tane (Seeds Of Anxiety) in like two sittings. It's a super-short, almost flash fiction-style horror manga, primarily about people having inexplicable encounters with weird youkai. Masaaki Nakayama's art is genuinely freakish and upsetting. It's technically pretty tame, most of the monsters are basically just people with weird proportions making crazy faces, but the brevity of the stories and the author's excellent dramatic timing makes it bone-chilling to read in a way that I rarely experience. Some stories are duds, some are more funny than scary, but the really scary ones are something special. I tried it a few years ago and it didn't click with me at the time, but I gave it another shot on a recommendation and it didn't take long to get hooked.

For an example, hunt down the story "Blind Eye" from the sequel Fuan No Tane Plus. It made me physically recoil when I read it despite basically being nothing, and it takes like ten seconds to read. If you like that, get ahold of the rest. It's a good read.
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Post by: Mitsuhide on May 19, 2015, 06:46:32 PM
Reading Rin-ne Nobunaga no Yabou.
It's a nice little manga about what if history of Japan, but I can't find the last chanywhere u.u
I hope it was not cancelled, because it was the last chapter. Could be Koei (the company that created the game Nobunaga no Yabou, for which the manga is made and it's about japanese history) is working on it. In the sites I've been to it says it's still running, so there's still hope.

Also, re started One Piece, but I don't think I'll finish it. It's really long and that's the reason why I gave up reading it, but who knows. I'm liking it more than before, tbh.
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Post by: Tribow on May 30, 2015, 11:26:39 PM
I recently finished the anime Hozuki No Reitetsu

and it was beautiful
I haven't seen so many references in an anime for a while, nor have I laughed that hard.
10/10 would watch again.
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Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on June 01, 2015, 04:34:34 AM
I remembered I have a Funi account and I've become fixated lately so I wound up watching Dragon Ball. From the beginning. I've watched over 40 episodes in 5 days, I'm already on the Blue arc. It's a bit weird to hear the Funimation dub/VAs when I grew up with the Blue Water dub, honestly.
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Post by: NekoNekoRex on June 07, 2015, 05:24:40 AM
So my asked my friend who watches much more anime then I do for some recommendations for 'something cute' and 'something actiony' that was airing currently

The suggestions he gave me were Kiniro Mosiac for 'something cute'. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it's heart-attack moe. Like, holy hell, it's Bottle Fairies cute. I was almost in tears before the end of the first episode because it was too adorable. So I'm gonna enjoy that.

For 'something actiony'...
Quote
Etotama is airing this season and it's literally made for you

And...
well...

YES (http://i.imgur.com/uS4tKia.jpg)
YES (http://i.imgur.com/2xkh373.png)
THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER (http://i.imgur.com/qgzMSUx.gifv)
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Post by: PX on June 07, 2015, 04:41:07 PM
So my asked my friend who watches much more anime then I do for some recommendations for 'something cute' and 'something actiony' that was airing currently

The suggestions he gave me were Kiniro Mosiac for 'something cute'. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it's heart-attack moe. Like, holy hell, it's Bottle Fairies cute. I was almost in tears before the end of the first episode because it was too adorable. So I'm gonna enjoy that.

For 'something actiony'...
And...
well...

YES (http://i.imgur.com/uS4tKia.jpg)
YES (http://i.imgur.com/2xkh373.png)
THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER (http://i.imgur.com/qgzMSUx.gifv)

Etotama is the greatest thing ever des des

Also
(http://i.imgur.com/3v1AH3A.jpg)

E: OMG THIS ED IS BEYOND GODLIKE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UKfMF9vYjI)
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Post by: Mew seeker on June 27, 2015, 05:53:09 PM
I just read a translated version of the original webcomic version of One Man Punch (http://galaxyheavyblow.web.fc2.com/index.html) and I love it! ^-^
It's too bad it's still in progress and basically ends up in a cliffhanger but anyway...

Basically, it's the story of Saitama who, after losing his job, realized he wanted to become a super hero.
Cue the super training of 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and running 10 km every day which allow him to become one allowing him to defeat any opponent with a single punch.
However, it had the nasty side effects of making his super hero hobby become too easy and uninteresting and, far more worse, made him BALD!  :P

Also, this webcomic (made by ONE) apparently gained so much popularity that someone called Murata who worked on Eyeshield 21 decide to do a remake of it.
And now, this (https://youtu.be/6Bdb1V0Io_g).

I guess it wouldn't hurt if I told more about the story? ^^
In the setting, super heroes are classed by ranks from C to A and then S.
Soon enough, a prophecy is made that the Earth is trouble but due to the medium's death, no real detail is known beside something really, REALLY BAD will happen in the next 6 months.
And it might be true as attacks from extremely powerful monsters keep happening more and more often.

There are various heroes seen through the story.
Some which are way out of there league and yet willing to put their life on the line because someone has to, other who are competent but being big jerks,
some who are ranked way more higher than they have any right to be and other like Saitama who are underated.
Very often Saitama is basically treated like a nobody and his cyborg disciple who's not as strong get more respect. XD

Anyway, I recommend it and have big hope about the series for the future. ^-^
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Post by: Keiti on July 03, 2015, 07:12:00 PM
Reading Tokyo Ghoul and watching Watamote.
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Post by: aranicar on July 03, 2015, 09:14:46 PM
We finally get confirmation of the Gakkou Gurashi anime (http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/02/23/moe-zombie-apocalypse-manga-gakkou-gurashi-anime-site-launches-cast-and-staff-announced)

This and Jitsu wa Watashi wa are the only two reasons I'm hyped for this season.  Last season was filled with stuff that didn't interest me, with the exception of " I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying" #2.
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Post by: Raikaria on July 03, 2015, 09:30:59 PM
Catching up on Assassination Classroom now it's got decently far and Jojo's done for now. Next on the list is Unlimited Blade Works. I don't get that much anime-watching time atm so I fell behind this season. That said; not much coming out for a while which catches my eyes.

I'm impressed.

Still reading the same stuff for the most part. Tower of God and God of Highschool are going well; and aside from that it's mostly mainstream stuff for me in terms of manga. Ippo's translation/release/length being so irregular throws me off however. Just recently 4 chapters got translated more or less at once; but each chapter was really short.
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Post by: Tsuken Yasashi on July 04, 2015, 10:01:17 AM
Street Fighter Alpha comics, I am revising.
Also, been reading through The Sacred Blacksmith.  Interesting sword terminology and making lore, it has.

Trying to find an anime that piques my interest at the moment.
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Post by: Sombres on July 08, 2015, 03:19:08 AM
I finished Elfen Lied last, it was fairly entertaining to me. I'm not sure about what to watch next, but I'll have a look at my list handy soon.
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Post by: Naitorii on July 09, 2015, 10:04:33 PM
Mirai Nikki, although I've been a bit slow with that, last time I watched an episode of it was several weeks ago. Also, No Game No Life.
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Post by: BT on July 26, 2015, 06:01:45 PM
Shimoneta Ep 4.

Anime... has changed.
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Post by: Spotty Len on July 26, 2015, 09:38:24 PM
And it changed great. I mean, it may not be very subtle but I'm having a blast.
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Post by: Sahgren on August 01, 2015, 09:51:13 PM
It took a bit to ramp up, but I think Rokka no Yuusha would be my favorite anime this season if Gakkou Gurashi wasn't currently airing. I love the mystery aspect that kicks in after the cast meets up, and Adlet is an awesome character if only for how fun it is to watch him fight.
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Post by: BT on August 02, 2015, 10:25:46 AM
Fave anime this season has got to be Prison Schooo tho. It's really really good.
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Post by: Yukarin on August 02, 2015, 10:30:46 AM
I'm currently rewatching Ah! My Goddess.

It's pretty weird to hear Mamiko Noto and Kikuko Inoue banter like this. :v
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Post by: Kyo Tanaka on August 03, 2015, 11:27:30 AM
Currently watching Monmusu, Dragonball Super, and Gurashi Gakkou. Though I'm embarrassed to say I haven't been really been acting up on my anime... Anything else airing lately that's a good watch? Please let me know.
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Post by: Gpop on August 03, 2015, 06:04:13 PM
This seasons is probably the most I've watched while they are airing, mostly because this season has a lot of sequels to anime I've previously watched.

Charlotte - Jun Maede hype
Working!! S3
Non Non Biyori Repeat
Idolm@ster CG - Love Live who?
Fate/Kaleid
Wakaba Girl
Gakkou Gurashi - Heavily recommend people watch the first episode without any previous knowledge whatsoever, not even any synopsis lookup, you'll see why everyone is watching this SoL :V
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Post by: BT on August 03, 2015, 06:07:25 PM
Currently watching Monmusu, Dragonball Super, and Gurashi Gakkou. Though I'm embarrassed to say I haven't been really been acting up on my anime... Anything else airing lately that's a good watch? Please let me know.
Fave anime this season has got to be Prison Schooo tho. It's really really good.
(Prison School!)
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Post by: Spotty Len on August 03, 2015, 07:03:50 PM
I also have a bigger list than other seasons before, beside leftovers and longrun things.

Dragon Ball Super
Durarara!! x2 Ten
Himouto
Overlord
Shimoneta
Ushio to Tora
Working!!!

I tried watching Gakkou Gurashi too, but I found out I can't handle that kind of stuff. I also tried Prison School but didn't enjoy it much.

Shimoneta is probably the one I'm enjoying the most since this season began.
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Post by: Massaca on August 04, 2015, 02:34:53 AM
Just Illya Zwei Herz so far.
Planning to catch up on iM@S Cinderella Girls, Gakkou Gurashi (but
it seems it might be too sad?
) and Joukamachi no Dandelion. Yet to try Million Doll, Wakaba Girl and Sore ga Seiyuu, so some maybes there.
Waiting for DBSuper to finish before watching that. Also for Revival of F to come out so I can see that first.
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Post by: Sahgren on August 04, 2015, 03:24:06 AM
Currently watching Monmusu, Dragonball Super, and Gurashi Gakkou. Though I'm embarrassed to say I haven't been really been acting up on my anime... Anything else airing lately that's a good watch? Please let me know.

GATE -Thus the JSDF Fought There- is pretty cool. Rokka no Yuusha is good if you're willing to sit through the 4 freakin' episodes it takes to get to the mystery/betrayal laden main plot.  :V
Or at least the 3 episodes it takes to hear Flamie's adorable yelp when the main character unexpectedly throws a smoke bomb at her.

I also heard Charlotte is amazing, but I personally couldn't get into it for whatever reason.
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Post by: PhoenixMaiden on August 05, 2015, 01:04:27 AM
Right now I'm trying to watch Toradora. I'm on episode three currently. I think Taiga and Ryuji are cute. :3
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Post by: Gpop on August 05, 2015, 02:54:00 AM
Right now I'm trying to watch Toradora. I'm on episode three currently. I think Taiga and Ryuji are cute. :3
Taiga is best Kugyuu.
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Post by: Delfigamer on August 05, 2015, 04:36:48 PM
What Gakkou Gurashi did right (among other things):
- Uncanny Valley
- 3D CG in anime IYKWIM ( ͡? ͜ʖ ͡?)
- imagination and friendship
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Post by: commandercool on August 07, 2015, 02:59:01 AM
Finally getting around to watching Noir. I'd been meaning to watch it forever, but was reminded to get on it by the blu-ray release. It's pretty good. Definitely a product of its time, but in a way that I find kind of charming as someone who didn't watch anime back in the early 2000s. I respect its simplicity, both in plot and in design. The plot is as hokey as this kind of thing comes with every single trope in the book (fuuuuucking amnesia seriously), but the actual plots so far have all been straightforward, mostly self-contained, competently-executed pulp/crime stories, and I like that kind of thing a lot as a general rule.

As far new stuff, I'm weirdly only watching Monster Musume this season. I don't usually care for ecchi, but I haven't found much of anything in this show offensive so far. It watches more like a parody of a sex comedy than an actual sex comedy, it's well-animated, and the sexual content doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. It's not quite a shining beacon of positive, healthy sexuality out of context, but for what it is it might as well be. I didn't particularly set out to watch it, I certainly didn't think it would be the only show this season I would make time for, but it's fun.
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Post by: ♛ Apher-Forte on August 07, 2015, 03:20:51 AM
Sure is long time no postan for me here...

{now reading}

1. Sousei no Omyouji - I am not sure if it was ok to link here, but I use DM5.com to read it, it is chinese subbed but english is up till chapter 12. (chinese is up till chp 21.)

A boy with a tragic past who refuses to take up the family/orphan home trade of become an exorcist/spirtual warrior/shaman is plunged into the shamanic war against Impurities after he meets by chance this girl from a traditional long-hailed descendant family of Abe no Seimei, the first and most powerful shaman of Japan in ancient times. He must find in him the courage to step up and fight to protect those he love.

A huge departure from Sukeno's first work - Binbougami ga!  which is about a spirit of poverty possessing a particularly well-endowed female student, the story takes on a very shonen feel. But make no mistake, it is quite a read, long chapters, huge ass fight scenes that puts any of Goku's exploit to shame (and they don't dwell very long on Namek) and it has a seinen feel in terms of the how the Impurities work. I would call it a darker version of Bleach but with very good character constructs. The characters actually beg for you to understand them more. Introduction of the girl for example, starts off distanced at first, and so is the main protag - Rokurou, but you can really feel warmed up to them.

Powerlevels play a good show here, and it is something for everyone to enjoy. It takes two to become one, as the saying goes, and every fight our protag gets on, he learns a valuable lesson that no man is an island, even though he is the foundation, he can be shaken. What they do as they embrace each other;s weaknesses and fight the Impurities become a show to look out for.


-----
Overlord

the current season anime makes about the best show I watched in SAO'esque stories. For one, I start off as the final final boss.
That alone is worth watching.

I watch it so I can feel the yandere vision of Albedo
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Post by: NekoNekoRex on August 07, 2015, 04:36:18 AM
Watching Chaos Dragon right now. It's based off the producers playing a fantasy tabletop game and using the results for a story. Doesn't actually contain any tabletop elements. Good story so far, although there's a lot of blood, which is just a tad off-putting for me in particular.
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Post by: Spotty Len on August 10, 2015, 08:45:18 PM
After watching Dragon Ball Super 05. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_L3bAm30Q)
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Post by: Dahel on August 10, 2015, 08:51:28 PM
This season is full of stuff for me :

Monster Musume
Overlord
Himouto
Gakkou Gurashi
Durarara x2 Ten
Working !!!
Shimoneta
Charlotte
Rokka no Yuusha

Outside of this season's anime, I've got far enough in Di Gi Charat ( around ep 70, where suddenly the audio/visual quality became really bad, with matching subs. ) and now i'm starting the next entry in my list,  Hayate no Gotoku.
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Post by: Mew seeker on August 11, 2015, 04:05:54 PM
I'm watching Chi's New Home and it's adorable and funny.
The bunny is IMHO an epic troll, not unlike another in a certain video game  series. :P
It's kinda funny this series started as a Seinen manga. XD
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Post by: Moogs Parfait on August 11, 2015, 04:20:41 PM
I'm reading The Real Her (http://dynasty-scans.com/series/the_real_her), which is the cutest story about BDSM ever.

(http://i.imgur.com/oroyWTfl.png) (http://imgur.com/oroyWTf)
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Post by: commandercool on August 11, 2015, 04:42:15 PM
There's a new Junji Ito hardcover out (I think it's called Fragments Of Horror?) that has official translations of some stuff that's never been, well, officially translated before. I haven't actually read it yet so I can't speak for the quality of the translation, but it's got some solid stories in it (and a handful of fairly weak ones, but whatever, that's gonna happen with Ito).

I'm reading The Real Her (http://dynasty-scans.com/series/the_real_her), which is the cutest story about BDSM ever.

(http://i.imgur.com/oroyWTf.png) (http://imgur.com/oroyWTf)

Ha ha neat I'm gonna read that later.
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Post by: Massaca on August 14, 2015, 02:19:02 PM
Really loving Joukamachi no Dandelion.
Illya Zwei Herz ep 3 was mostly great and hilarious, much better than ep 2 anyway.
Gakkou Gurashi - watched up to ep 6 tonight,
a bit too depressing, glad it was ep 6 I watched right through to as it seems a good place to stop. Maybe when it's all done I'll get an idea of how it was and decide whether or not to finish it.
Wakaba Girl - eh, just entertaining enough I guess.
Sore ga Seiyuu - As above, but with some slight interesting-ness as well.
Million Doll - first 3 eps, not interested at all.
Haven't caught up on iM@S Cinderella Girls yet. Probably wait until it's done.
And re-watching Aikatsu from the start to at least the movie, currently at ep 30. I stopped at ep.142 when watching for the first time (first started the series late-may or early-June this year), gunna wait till the next season starts before continuing from 142.

Finished a manga a couple nights ago, had been reading it over a few weeks. Sisterism... http://i.imgur.com/eD80OiU.png Comedy, quite perverted, often kinda creepily so, but it had enough entertaining parts/chapters for me to keep reading with the occasional hilarious moment along with it's share of boring chapters. TBH, looking back at some of the earlier chapters I'm not too sure why I kept reading, must've been really bored when I started. But overall it was enjoyable enough and worth it for some of the Akira & Mari chapters (first introduced halfway through) in particular Ch.#'s 23, 24, 28 & 30 (of 34) were my favs by quite a bit and were mostly much less uh, like what you get from the main two.
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Post by: PhoenixMaiden on August 15, 2015, 06:08:13 PM
I've been thinking of watching Persona 4 the animation again. I used to love watching it but I never got around to finishing it. >_<
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Post by: Mеа on September 04, 2015, 11:33:32 AM
I'm finally getting around to watching every episode of Avatar. I've seen probably about half of every book here and there whenever I caught it airing, but it feels so good to have EVERYTHING, you know.
Haah~ Toph makes my heart go doki doki. Oh Zuko you too.
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Post by: Delfigamer on September 05, 2015, 09:41:56 PM
And here I thought The_Strongest+The_Bunniest will sail into a sunset.
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Post by: Spotty Len on September 06, 2015, 03:21:12 PM
Hoooo, boy, one month left for Onepunch-man. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzmFKUDOUgw)

I read somewhere that the first episode could be watched on NicoNico, I'll check that.
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Post by: BT on September 06, 2015, 07:11:21 PM
There's no way the show will look as good as that.

prove me wrong please prove me wrong

that was phenomenal


EDIT: I found the animator to blame for this eye-porn. Thanks Reddit. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eNRZkgDV9E)
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Post by: Raikaria on September 06, 2015, 09:18:01 PM
Hoooo, boy, one month left for Onepunch-man. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzmFKUDOUgw)

I read somewhere that the first episode could be watched on NicoNico, I'll check that.

Hype levels rising.

Slightly surprised they revealed voice actors for some of the characters shown. Unless I'm mistaken some of the ones shown A: Hardly have any lines at all and B: Don't show up for quite a long time. [Although I dunno what sort of pacing the adaptation will have]
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Post by: Massaca on September 07, 2015, 03:07:16 AM
Nanoha A's last night, enjoyed it enough but it still felt a little like it was dragging on slightly at times like with the first series. Might watch the two movie versions before moving on to StrikerS but I'm not sure. Want to get to Vivid, could still be a while yet...

Um, also up to Aikatsu! ep.83. Just rewatching occasionally, might watch an ep or 2 one day then nothing for a week then 10 eps one night then nothing again for a while. Nothing consistent.

Dandelion still <3

Illya Zwei Herz, getting a bad feeling on where this is going.
Really don't want to loose good Kuro/Chloe <3
and [Drei thing]
accidentally saw a page from Drei with Illya using Sapphire so like what? and aww now I'm worried for Miyu and Kuro.
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Post by: Dahel on September 07, 2015, 12:39:32 PM
Nanoha A's last night, enjoyed it enough but it still felt a little like it was dragging on slightly at times like with the first series. Might watch the two movie versions before moving on to StrikerS but I'm not sure. Want to get to Vivid, could still be a while yet...

If you felt that the anime was dragging on, then yeah the movies will be a better experience, especially the first one.

Vivid, I'd say watch it only if you plan on reading the manga afterward, because it ends way too suddenly.
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Post by: Massaca on September 08, 2015, 10:54:32 AM
Got to and finished Nanoha StrikerS much, much quicker than I expected, 15 eps last night then the rest today. Really disliked a lot of it and it was hard to watch through at several points, especially the last quarter. Found myself yelling at characters to do/not to do something a few too many times >.> And also a bit too violent and cruel for my liking, even more than the first series but it still had some good moments at least. Liked the new four too, and all the returning characters roles but noticeable lack of Arf. Fate and Vivio are adorable though. And I learned you shouldn't piss off Nanoha holy hell.

So anyway, finally off to start Vivid! Maybe... not enough time left to watch it all tonight.

If you felt that the anime was dragging on, then yeah the movies will be a better experience, especially the first one.

Vivid, I'd say watch it only if you plan on reading the manga afterward, because it ends way too suddenly.
I'll watch the movies sometime later on, I too expect they'll be more enjoyable being condensed. Hopefully.
As for Vivid, thanks, I prolly will then.

Edito: Nanoha Vivid was mostly great. Not sure if I'll start reading it, don't think I'd enjoy reading it much. Prolly just wait for the next season.
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Post by: Kasu on September 14, 2015, 08:22:28 PM
So I just finished Cross Ange after watching it on a dare by a friend who'd forced himself through it while it came out.

I have to admit, for all it's stupidity and weirdness at points, it was actually a fun ride. I had fun making fun of it and I'd totally do it again if it got a sequel, haha.

I actually got the better end of the deal though. My condition for watching it was that my friend had to watch Soukyuu no Fafner (never again).
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Post by: Delfigamer on September 17, 2015, 02:07:20 AM
Busou Renkin (ノ?∇?)ノ
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Post by: BT on September 17, 2015, 09:06:09 AM
Ace Attorney anime coming in April. (https://twitter.com/CourtRecords_/status/644360188581904384?lang=en)

Oh god oh god oh god please don't bomb.

(Should this have a thread? Maybe.)
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Post by: Mеа on September 18, 2015, 09:17:39 AM
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOKkkkkkkkk... oi my head
I just finished the manga of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. It's been on my list for awhile but I finally got around to it. That was the biggest brainsktuttlefunkit I've ever experienced. Stuff just kept getting weirder and weirder and more bizarre and bizarre until logic itself actually broke apart along with my head. They fixed things somewhat in the end though. My head still remains broken. At the same time, oddly enough, I didn't for one moment doubt the writers, like they were pulling stuff out of their asses, maybe it's because I give CLAMP slack for making CCS, but things felt inevitable in a way. Now I need to go read the wiki to ground myself in reality and make sure it wasn't all a hallucination.
And then I'll start xxxHolic and the sequel of TRC.

e: Ugh I'm an idiot, why'd I reread CCS again? It's been several years, I don't even remember when I last read it, but I should have known that I'd be tied down to the feels train track. Inception style. Oh no, this is really counterproductive to productivity. Why why why. It's like trying to rush a hangover
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Post by: fortytwoeffects on September 21, 2015, 05:17:50 PM
Watching

As you can tell I have a hard time finishing thing
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Post by: commandercool on September 22, 2015, 02:32:56 AM
Just finished Domu: A Child's Dream at the recommendation of my roommate. It was technically well-written and drawn, but I just really don't care about psychic powers that much. I've never been able to get much into Akira for the some reason. I recognize Katsuhiro Otomo's craftsmanship, but his subject matter is not  my bag. I think roommate was hoping my interest in horror manga would mean I would love this and he could use it to springboard me into Akira, but I'm not even sure I would call Domu horror. It moves along very, very quickly and most of the terrible stuff gets breezed past in action sequences or happens far afield offscreen. It probably didn't help that I was reading the 1996 Dark Horse translation, which is reverse printed and I kept getting turned around and trying to read backward. Definitely a fine story, probably worth looking at if you like Akira and can find it, not for me.

Also been slowly crawling my way through Noir, and as it goes along it's gone from pretty good to near-excellent. For being such a slow show it really doesn't waste a lot of time. After the first handful of episodes it doesn't really have filler. Every episode contributes to either the plot or the characters in a lasting way. The action sequences tend to be very similar, with most of them just being a showcase of the numerous ways the two leads can fight their way out of being cornered by armies of hitmen over and over, but at least the writers are still coming up with cool new ways for  teenage girls to kill a room full of goons. I'm definitely going to at least try Bee Train's followup series, although I know conventional wisdom is that they're not as good. I loooove Requiem For The Phantom though, so they're 2/2 so far in my book.
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Post by: Delfigamer on September 24, 2015, 01:54:59 AM
At first I was like "why t f am I even watching this".
But then... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYNFl1rEOmA)
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Post by: Mеа on September 28, 2015, 02:42:31 AM
For anyone also watching Yugioh Arc-V, they finally showed Kurosaki's sister, and everyone is hysterical, we finally have everyone
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Post by: commandercool on September 28, 2015, 04:03:19 AM
Having more or less wrapped up all of the authors I was working on during my tour of horror manga, I just started reading Hideshi Hino this afternoon. I started with Panorama Of Hell, which is really something. It's one of the grimiest, grossest things I've ever read. It made me feel genuinely unclean. Still not sure what my impression of it is, I haven't decided if I like it or not yet. And that experience is surely worth enough to justify reading at least a few more of his books. If I do that, maybe I can get a better idea of what he's about and that will help me decide what I think of this book. But at any rate, I think I'm going to take a shower now.
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Post by: Dahel on September 28, 2015, 05:59:33 PM
For anyone also watching Yugioh Arc-V, they finally showed Kurosaki's sister, and everyone is hysterical, we finally have everyone
Hype for the orbital bombardment bird
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Post by: Mеа on September 28, 2015, 07:04:22 PM
Hype for the orbital bombardment bird
I'm a little disappointed with the name honestly, couldn't they have come up with something better than satellite cannon? I mean that name's already taken
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Post by: redxmaverick on October 03, 2015, 03:52:02 PM
Watching Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders
Reading Kangoku Gakuen
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Post by: commandercool on October 05, 2015, 02:05:41 AM
I just re-watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion (for like the fifth time), and if you're one of those forsaken souls who hates that movie, please watch it again. I was watching it with a guy who had seen it before and didn't like it, and he loved it after a re-watch. It seems like that's pretty consistently true as long as you go into it with anything approaching an open mind. It could definitely be considered a flaw of the movie that it's structured in a way that makes it more enjoyable on subsequent viewings, but as someone who loved it the first time I swear I like it even more every time. It is genuinely one of my favorite movies at this point.

Season two when? Please season two. Please Urobuchi, give me this.
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Post by: BT on October 05, 2015, 05:40:38 AM
I just re-watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion (for like the fifth time), and if you're one of those forsaken souls who hates that movie, please watch it again. I was watching it with a guy who had seen it before and didn't like it, and he loved it after a re-watch. It seems like that's pretty consistently true as long as you go into it with anything approaching an open mind. It could definitely be considered a flaw of the movie that it's structured in a way that makes it more enjoyable on subsequent viewings, but as someone who loved it the first time I swear I like it even more every time. It is genuinely one of my favorite movies at this point.

Season two when? Please season two. Please Urobuchi, give me this.
Second season, fourth movie, anything. I'm a forsaken soul who didn't like how they clearly teased a continuation and we don't even have an announcement after two years. :V
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Post by: Mеа on October 05, 2015, 08:43:33 AM
lolwut D. Gray-man's back?
Nice of Hoshino to give us a quick recap and then blow our minds again with sudden plot progression.
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Post by: Abraham Lincoln on October 07, 2015, 02:39:27 AM
I'm planning to watch Classicaloid when it comes out. Does this count?
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Post by: pineyappled on October 09, 2015, 02:35:22 AM
Im@s CG season 1 was honestly bad in pretty much every conceivable way. 3/10, one point each for Ranko, Rin, and Miku.
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Post by: DNAbc on October 11, 2015, 02:07:52 PM
Owari is amazingly polished, confident and engaging atm, even as a standalone arc the only premier comparable this season would be Perfect Insider, and if you haven't been watching Monogatari before id highly recommend diving in. While obviously the more complete experience would be starting from the beginning, Monogatari has always been episodic enough that it can take a while to hook you on, but I feel that Owari centres exclusively around previously underdeveloped characters anyway and even as a standalone it has a masterful control of the atmosphere and is a very impressively articulated show

Madhouse OPM is amazing, but that pretty much goes without saying since everything by madhouse is amazing, except mahouka.
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Post by: Gpop on October 11, 2015, 04:08:10 PM
I'm so happy GochiUsa is back.

BUT I WAS NOT READY FOR THIS ED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlgRsmKjOgs)

My heart has died 5 times over watching this the first time.
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Post by: BT on October 11, 2015, 05:23:34 PM
Owari is amazingly polished, confident and engaging atm, even as a standalone arc the only premier comparable this season would be Perfect Insider, and if you haven't been watching Monogatari before id highly recommend diving in. While obviously the more complete experience would be starting from the beginning, Monogatari has always been episodic enough that it can take a while to hook you on, but I feel that Owari centres exclusively around previously underdeveloped characters anyway and even as a standalone it has a masterful control of the atmosphere and is a very impressively articulated show

Madhouse OPM is amazing, but that pretty much goes without saying since everything by madhouse is amazing, except mahouka.
About Owarimonogatari, I'm not sure. Might be confusing watching the show and not knowing the cast and stuff, more than it is usually. Add in the fact that Nisio's dialogue can get on people's nerves if they're not eased into it, and... I think I'd still suggest starting from the beginning.

But if you've brought up Perfect Insider, I dropped it because the director did an atrocious job. Every single scene juggled the same two perspectives over and over again. Couldn't even make it through the entire thing. :V

EDIT:

KYOANI ARE DOING THE KOE NO KATACHI MOVIE (http://i.imgur.com/nTRaYa7.jpg)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Post by: commandercool on October 11, 2015, 08:52:13 PM
Just got around to finishing Everyday Life With Monster Girls. It was fine. Mostly fun and harmless, it got a little too raunchy for me one or two times an episode, but for a Japanese sex comedy that's not bad.

The last episode is basically just a string of references, and there's an overt yukkuri (http://i.imgur.com/3QpC4GE.png) at one point.
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Post by: Massaca on October 11, 2015, 10:17:06 PM
I'm so happy GochiUsa is back.

BUT I WAS NOT READY FOR THIS ED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlgRsmKjOgs)

My heart has died 5 times over watching this the first time.
Haven't watched the ep yet but I'm really excited to. Rewatched the first season the week before in anticipation, had forgotten just how much I liked it. In addition to new Yuru Yuri it should be fun times this season.
Haven't looked at anything else.

Also, Illya 2wei Herz special 1, whilst 95% fan-service type thing gave me that same sort of reaction. Watched it over a couple times and damn the end is super cute and <3 Could well be the only good one of the 5 though so I'll see how that turns out >_>

Edit: Hmm, I'm half and half on the first ep. Didn't care much for the OP or ED either *shrug*
I'll rewatch it later in the week, might change my mind.

Oh yeah, bonus points to Cocoa bribing Sharo.
But now I've got the OP and ED from season 1 stuck in my head... somehow from S2 OP and ED. Got Wonder Stella out for now though >_>
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Post by: DNAbc on October 12, 2015, 11:32:53 AM
About Owarimonogatari, I'm not sure. Might be confusing watching the show and not knowing the cast and stuff, more than it is usually. Add in the fact that Nisio's dialogue can get on people's nerves if they're not eased into it, and... I think I'd still suggest starting from the beginning.

But if you've brought up Perfect Insider, I dropped it because the director did an atrocious job. Every single scene juggled the same two perspectives over and over again. Couldn't even make it through the entire thing. :V

EDIT:

KYOANI ARE DOING THE KOE NO KATACHI MOVIE (http://i.imgur.com/nTRaYa7.jpg)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Perfect insider was grinding, yes, but I actually felt the execution was believable, and portrayed rather well the kind of insecurity and cynicism that plagues that kind of people in general

Kyoani doing koe no katachi is something I am actually not sure about :v, I mean, yeah, they have fluid animation but their house Moe style may not work for that type of story, and chu2ren was a pretty big flop imo

That said though! Euph was a joy to watch, and so was hyoka, so I am excited to see if they can pull off a similar one, fingers crossed on that one
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Post by: Delfigamer on October 17, 2015, 08:12:50 AM
Current AOTS candidate: Hobogami (http://myanimelist.net/anime/30503/Noragami_Aragoto). Delicious.
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Post by: BT on October 24, 2015, 11:50:05 AM
Just watched the first four episodes of Princess Jellyfish. I knew it'd be good, but it's even better than I thought.
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Post by: ふねん1 on October 31, 2015, 02:43:01 AM
Though I've known about it for years, I've just recently started watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I went in having already spoiled myself of a lot of stuff, but somehow that's not making a difference. Actually seeing all this stuff play out is still making me feel really uneasy afterward, to the point where I've had trouble even watching more than one episode at once (at least after the first few). Against my better judgment, I did episodes 7-9 all last night, and hoo boy, I feel like that was the ending of a major story in itself. Don't know if I'll feel the same way about the rest considering the transition after episode 9 (I became surprisingly attached to
Sayaka, but now that she's dead...
), but we'll see. It's been a long time since a story has affected me this deeply.
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Post by: BT on October 31, 2015, 07:52:53 PM
Aaaaaand Euphonium gets a sequel.

YAY.
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Post by: DNAbc on November 03, 2015, 11:23:35 AM
someone showed me rakudais op

"Shit, that's some sick animation for another of these adaptations, do you actually get to see this?"

Cue a classic "eh give it 3 EPs"

I am so confused, if I follow even this one that would totally make my schedule intolerable, what do?

Side note: marina inoue as oikura hollllllly balls that's some very sharp shit there, I literally think I got teary eyed off that exchange, both from like, dunno, relatability? Sympathy? I must sound totally ridiculous though given I don't have nearly as bad a situation, but the presentation of that entire fiasco and its aftereffects on such a vibrant and outstanding character is something, sasuga nisios

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Post by: commandercool on November 04, 2015, 03:54:24 AM
Though I've known about it for years, I've just recently started watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I went in having already spoiled myself of a lot of stuff, but somehow that's not making a difference. Actually seeing all this stuff play out is still making me feel really uneasy afterward, to the point where I've had trouble even watching more than one episode at once (at least after the first few). Against my better judgment, I did episodes 7-9 all last night, and hoo boy, I feel like that was the ending of a major story in itself. Don't know if I'll feel the same way about the rest considering the transition after episode 9 (I became surprisingly attached to
Sayaka, but now that she's dead...
), but we'll see. It's been a long time since a story has affected me this deeply.

Don't actually read this until you finish Rebellion but...

You haven't seen the last or the best of Sayaka even though she's dead. Nobody in my circle of anime friends really liked her that much compared to all of the other characters in the main series, but her arc in Rebellion is incredibly fulfilling and sweet and she's gone way up in all of our estimation since watching it a few times. She actually gets to be the badass white knight she wanted to be in the series, she gets closure with Kyoko, and the whole movie seems to basically be setup for a Puella Magi Sayaka Magica sequel series.
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Post by: ふねん1 on November 05, 2015, 02:23:41 AM
Don't actually read this until you finish Rebellion but...

You haven't seen the last or the best of Sayaka even though she's dead. Nobody in my circle of anime friends really liked her that much compared to all of the other characters in the main series, but her arc in Rebellion is incredibly fulfilling and sweet and she's gone way up in all of our estimation since watching it a few times. She actually gets to be the badass white knight she wanted to be in the series, she gets closure with Kyoko, and the whole movie seems to basically be setup for a Puella Magi Sayaka Magica sequel series.
Unlike the anime, I did go into Rebellion mostly spoiler-free. I still knew a very small handful of details, such as
Sayaka returning and that she had some hidden role
, but I didn't spoil what that was exactly. It was refreshing to see her (and others) in more "traditional" battles this time, though at least partly because of how much it contrasts her story arc in the original show.

The reason I found her so compelling a character was because
I've gone through a form of depression myself in the past. Different circumstances, not even counting the whole "being a magical girl" business, and not so deeply as to become suicidal, thankfully, but it was more the "process" of it that I could identify with. The kinds of negative thoughts she had, and understanding where they come from and how they could steadily twist her mind into despair. That affected me more closely than any fighting display ever could.

On a much lighter and more superficial note, I do also like her
musical motif
. This (http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1142736) has become my new phone wallpaper lol.
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Post by: commandercool on November 05, 2015, 03:16:49 AM
Unlike the anime, I did go into Rebellion mostly spoiler-free. I still knew a very small handful of details, such as
Sayaka returning and that she had some hidden role
, but I didn't spoil what that was exactly. It was refreshing to see her (and others) in more "traditional" battles this time, though at least partly because of how much it contrasts her story arc in the original show.

The reason I found her so compelling a character was because
I've gone through a form of depression myself in the past. Different circumstances, not even counting the whole "being a magical girl" business, and not so deeply as to become suicidal, thankfully, but it was more the "process" of it that I could identify with. The kinds of negative thoughts she had, and understanding where they come from and how they could steadily twist her mind into despair. That affected me more closely than any fighting display ever could.

On a much lighter and more superficial note, I do also like her
musical motif
. This (http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1142736) has become my new phone wallpaper lol.

My appreciation of Sayaka in Rebellion doesn't have much to do with her fight scenes (she didn't really get to do that much except in the big group fight), but in her redemption as a hero. I think her heart was honestly in the right place when she made her wish, even if it was selfish, and it never sat quite right with me that she got punished for her mistakes as hard as she did. Her arc feels a lot more satisfying after Rebellion, since now she gets to learn and grow from her mistake rather than being completely ruined by it, but without compromising everything she went through in the series. We get to see her grow as a person rather than being dragged down and destroyed, which seems like a more fitting fate for someone who had such noble intentions.
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Post by: ふねん1 on November 05, 2015, 03:53:32 AM
My appreciation of Sayaka in Rebellion doesn't have much to do with her fight scenes (she didn't really get to do that much except in the big group fight), but in her redemption as a hero. I think her heart was honestly in the right place when she made her wish, even if it was selfish, and it never sat quite right with me that she got punished for her mistakes as hard as she did. Her arc feels a lot more satisfying after Rebellion, since now she gets to learn and grow from her mistake rather than being completely ruined by it, but without compromising everything she went through in the series. We get to see her grow as a person rather than being dragged down and destroyed, which seems like a more fitting fate for someone who had such noble intentions.

That is true I guess. Something else I can relate to after how much I've improved as a person myself. Though I would disagree that her fate in the original show was "undue punishment" either,
unless you count the whole "fate worse than death" aspect of becoming a witch, which is certainly not anything anyone in real life can say they've experienced
. One point of the show as a whole was to demonstrate that noble intentions aren't all-powerful or worthy of total entitlement - that what you think constitutes "doing the right thing" doesn't mean that everything afterward is going to come up roses, often because one's perception of reality happened to be mistaken. Just like in real life, really.
Even Madoka's wish had drawbacks, some of which weren't immediately apparent
. Yes,
Sayaka becoming a witch
was a downer, but the progression to that point made perfect sense to me from a storytelling perspective.
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Post by: commandercool on November 05, 2015, 02:38:07 PM
That is true I guess. Something else I can relate to after how much I've improved as a person myself. Though I would disagree that her fate in the original show was "undue punishment" either,
unless you count the whole "fate worse than death" aspect of becoming a witch, which is certainly not anything anyone in real life can say they've experienced
. One point of the show as a whole was to demonstrate that noble intentions aren't all-powerful or worthy of total entitlement - that what you think constitutes "doing the right thing" doesn't mean that everything afterward is going to come up roses, often because one's perception of reality happened to be mistaken. Just like in real life, really.
Even Madoka's wish had drawbacks, some of which weren't immediately apparent
. Yes,
Sayaka becoming a witch
was a downer, but the progression to that point made perfect sense to me from a storytelling perspective.

I feel bad about continuing to hijack this thread for a side conversation, but apparently not too bad because I'm still doing it.

I don't think becoming a witch is completely unrelatable to people, since it's ultimately a case of becoming everything you hate, which is a real fear with real-world applications

In Madoka the moral of Sayaka's story seemed to be "Don't try to help other people for selfish reasons, or you'll end up doing more harm than good". That's a very reasonable lesson, and not necessarily anything I take exception to. I start to have a problem, though, with the fact that this doesn't seem to be a persistent problem in Sayaka's character*. It's her response to being given an unfair, exploitative offer by Kyubey. So she certainly deserved to learn a lesson from it, but I think being utterly destroyed and seeing all of her work undone by her own hand and then some is needlessly harsh.

The addendum to this lesson that Rebellion makes is that, with enough suffering, perserverance, and reflection you can fix your mistakes to some degree. It's ultimately more productive to try to understand where you went wrong and try to fix it in an informed way than it is to give in to your failure. That's not a contradictory message to the first one, just a more hopeful addendum to it, and one that I think has more real world applications than the idea that your failures will destroy you.

Gen Urobuchi has this trend going with the movie sequels to his series that they bring thematic flaws in his original work to light and address them. I think Rebellion does that and I think the Psycho Pass movie does that. In Sayaka's case her arc wasn't a thematic flaw per se like the other major thing Rebellion addresses, but it feels more complete to me now than it did before, and it went from being a facet of Madoka that I didn't feel a strong personal connection from to one that I do. I recognize tjat that's just opinion, but it worked very well for me personally.

*
Although now that I think about it, that scene witj Sayaka bringing Kamijo that CD in the hospital and him freaking out at her is a counter-example. I suppose maybe the intent was, at least where he's concerned, this has been a pre-existing flaw in her character. My point still stands more or less the same, but I never thought about that connection before.
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Post by: Massaca on November 07, 2015, 02:21:07 PM
Last Wed and Thurs, read Wife and Wife during quiet time at work. Lovely and very fun yuri manga. Ran 18 chapters. 13 of them were 16-17 pages and 6 were 8 pages. Final chapter came in at 24. Plus a couple tiny bonus ones and extras. There was also an extra doujin chapter the author did for Comiket 78 at 26 pages showing how the main couple met and got together.
I just loved this so much. Mostly just the usual comedy fun and flirty times. The main couple are _adorable_. There's a second couple introduced in Ch.05 or 06 who are quite annoying every now and then with this whole embarrassed > punch/headbutt thing the short one does to her partner but otherwise they're fine. There is a love triangle sort of thing not involving the main and second couples but its only like 2 chapters IIRC and resolves fine.
It was a wonderful read for me with a really nice ending but now I need to find something else to go through at work... might re-read through Nanoha StrikerS Nano, that was great last time and it's been a little while. Then read this again ^_^


Just caught up on Aikatsu! I was up to ep 127 of my rewatch but Akari and co are just, iunno, kinda not as fun. I mean I like Akari and Sumire but Hinaki is kinda just ok and Juri is half ok and half annoying then when the two new ones come in (Rin & Madoka) and I don't care for them much, esp Madoka. And oh god how I hate Kokone (but she's only there for a couple eps IIRC). So I skipped to back to where I left off, ep 143, and well apart from one bad one they were all really good to excellent eps. Couldn't stop watching until I ran out after ep 156 haha. I even enjoyed Juri, Rin & Madoka in these ones. Been a few crappy songs lately but hells yes Diamond Happy (my fav Aikatsu song) and the original Idol Katsudou came back once each.
Anyway, I really wanted to catch up because I'd heard the new pair as of ep 152-ish are good and refreshing so I wanted to check them out. And yes, they were fantastic for the 3 eps they've had so far and I quite like the new ED (also their song for now). Really excited for new eps again.


Gochuumon wa Usagi desk ka?? still feels off a lot of the time. Has its moments for sure but not a great amount by any means. It's a lot weaker than the first was for me, seems to have much less charm and I'm not fussed on much of the comedy part. Rather disappointing so far overall.


Yuru Yuri San Hai! mostly great. Enjoying more Ayano especially since the Nachuyachumi eps, also like how she doesn't even retort when Chitose uses the words "the one you love". And more Akane (Akari's sister) is great too ^_^ Little bit more of her and Tomoko (Chinatsu's sister) would be nice but I'm guessing that'll pretty much have been it. But hey then I'll just be excited if there's more. But yeah, apart from Kyoko being overly annoying in the second half of ep 5 (and I normally love her), going pretty great.


Also waiting excitedly for subs for Illya 2wei Herz special 2, watched it raw last Monday and it looks quite promising. More Kuro and Illya is just such a damn great thing <3
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Post by: StainGlass on November 10, 2015, 07:14:04 AM
Currently watching the second season of Mushishi Zoku Shou, it really helps to de-stress which is exactly what I need.
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Post by: Mеа on November 12, 2015, 04:05:17 AM
Just finished reading Pandora Hearts. I had stopped some time a few years ago, just dropped it for whatever reason, so I had to reread it from the beginning and finished it through to the end. Boy what a ride that was. Such a twisted, but beautiful tale. Very unexpected too. It certainly didn't lead anywhere at all where I was expecting it to by like the half way point. So it was pretty interesting in that regards too.
Haah, I hate finishing series' that I enjoy, makes me so empty afterwards.
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Post by: Delfigamer on November 20, 2015, 07:33:40 PM
DNIWE 35 (http://myanimelist.net/anime/24133/Taimadou_Gakuen_35_Shiken_Shoutai), ep. 07
(http://i.imgur.com/eGbDzv5l.png)
I refuse to believe. The next episode must start from a violent cokb, and then there will be 4 nude girls and 1 boy with his fly undone.
__

It's either Somera-chan (http://myanimelist.net/anime/30746/Fushigi_na_Somera-chan) getting better from episode to episode, or just me becoming weaboo-er faster than I expected. Or both.
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Post by: Spotty Len on November 20, 2015, 11:12:45 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/vn5Dvet.jpg)

Some parts weren't stellar (because Toei), but the fight scenes were great (because Toei), and it is a nice start for a new season. The characters are even better than before and seeing the group reunited again is sooooo nice.

I already can't wait for the second film now.

Seriously, Omegamon vs Alphamon was too good to stop there.
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Post by: NekoNekoRex on December 04, 2015, 08:10:04 PM
Currently watching Shimoneta at the behest of a friend.

Usually I'm not too interested in dirty jokes but it's funny so far, I'll admit. Especially how they make a joke of censoring everything.

there's also the deeper meaning in realizing the irony that a society like Japan having no indecency would mean they wouldn't know how to reproduce, much like their declining birthrates due to the same phenomenon that this very show flanderizes.

EDIT: Okay I'm watching the OP of #2 right now and NOW I'm interested. It's going full Excell now.
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Post by: BT on December 04, 2015, 08:34:02 PM
Currently watching Shimoneta at the behest of a friend.

Usually I'm not too interested in dirty jokes but it's funny so far, I'll admit. Especially how they make a joke of censoring everything.

there's also the deeper meaning in realizing the irony that a society like Japan having no indecency would mean they wouldn't know how to reproduce, much like their declining birthrates due to the same phenomenon that this very show flanderizes.

EDIT: Okay I'm watching the OP of #2 right now and NOW I'm interested. It's going full Excell now.
Taking the porn away from the Otakus won't hurt Japan's birth rate any more, I'm sure.  :fail:  Okay I don't actually want to start a discussion on this but it's complicated, and the show does have a deeper meaning which is cool.

And you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Post by: Raikaria on December 04, 2015, 09:07:14 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/vn5Dvet.jpg)

Some parts weren't stellar (because Toei), but the fight scenes were great (because Toei), and it is a nice start for a new season. The characters are even better than before and seeing the group reunited again is sooooo nice.

I already can't wait for the second film now.

Seriously, Omegamon vs Alphamon was too good to stop there.

I'd have watched it but it dosen't air in Europe Crunchroll so I've not actually WATCHED it yet.

I'm still keeping track of all the promotional news and everything.

Promotion images confirm the other 6 are getting their Megas; since it shows Mimi and Joe with Rosemon and Vikemon. Because while Adventure did do well keeping the ones stuck at Ultimate relevant compared to the other seasons, Omnimon kinda makes those stuck at Ultimate... yeah.
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Post by: NekoNekoRex on December 04, 2015, 09:09:23 PM
I could have sworn that one of the Shimoneta characters was Mayumi Shintani (Non Non, Haruko), which would have made this anime all the sweeter, but it's unfortunately just a soundalike.

Still caught me off guard though
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 05, 2015, 10:20:05 AM
Arai Satomi was all I've been asking for since Naoko-san (http://myanimelist.net/anime/9608/Yuri_Seijin_Naoko-san), and until Shimoseka was announced.
Holy balls, that stuff was even better than I expected, and I expected a lot. In fact, its only rival for AOTY2k15 is One-Punch. Though, that's my personal opinion.
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Post by: Emelia K. Fletcher on December 10, 2015, 08:24:34 PM
just started Shomin Sample and this is the first five seconds of the OP

(http://puu.sh/lQIAu/fb26d5644e.png)

is gon be good



(i hear from a friend it's a pretty riproaring comedy and i should fully expect to just be cracking a smile throughout)
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Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 11, 2015, 03:37:21 AM
just started Shomin Sample and this is the first five seconds of the OP
At the last second, you'll see macho men that haunt your mind forever.
The five seconds of the OP bothered me though, maybe it's because of its recycled animation. (Look at her lifting her leg, look at her spinning roun' and roun')

I never thought watching Lupin III's adventure would be so much fun, especially the newest one. The only problem with the newest anime is the first scene is Lupin marrying a new character. That scene leaves me (a newcomer) and (maybe) long time fans dumbstruck. It's like watching Hyperdimension Neptunia where the first scene is a treaty of the four nations without introducing us to the characters first.


Toys: miracle blossoms flowering in the hearts of the chosen.
Some bloom into flowers of purity, others into flowers of poison.
It is the age of the Great Detectives.
These two flowers wage war to see which is the most beautiful:
the Great Detectives or the Gentlemen Thieves.

I applause anyone who can narrate that without feeling weird. Whereas Lupin III is fun, Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is..... insane. It's like seeing a bunch of retarded high-school girls/ hilariously incompetent detectives doing cute things.
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 11, 2015, 03:57:53 AM
At the last second, you'll see macho men that haunt your mind forever.
Oh yes. One of the recurring jokes is that MC is into macho men, and it will be used, so prepare your mind bleach beforehand (http://wrongeverytime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ShominSample.jpg).
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Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 11, 2015, 04:07:30 AM
Oh yes. One of the recurring jokes is that MC is into macho men, and it will be used, so prepare your mind bleach beforehand (http://wrongeverytime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ShominSample.jpg).
His real fetish is thigh though. He'll have to force himself to like macho men, otherwise he'll lose his... part.
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Post by: Emelia K. Fletcher on December 11, 2015, 07:29:22 AM
Oh yes. One of the recurring jokes is that MC is into macho men, and it will be used, so prepare your mind bleach beforehand (http://wrongeverytime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ShominSample.jpg).
i don't see why i'd need mind bleach for this into the third episode and luckily they seem to have realised the muscle fetish joke instantly got stale and aren't using it too much
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 11, 2015, 01:33:56 PM
i don't see why i'd need mind bleach for this
Yep. After gems like "Macademi Wasshoi" and "Busou Renkin", Shomin Sample is pancakes. And there's a reason why I don't link them.
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Small Fry Platoon 10
By Freud's super-ego, it's Embers of Love all over again (http://i.imgur.com/Mj3TMbX.png).
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Post by: Sect on December 11, 2015, 10:49:54 PM
It's like seeing a bunch of retarded high-school girls/ hilariously incompetent detectives doing cute things.
That's not how similes work.
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Post by: Moe Hentai Miku on December 11, 2015, 11:39:40 PM
I'm digging Shingeki no Soma and Bleach at the moment with a side of One Punch Man!
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Post by: Emelia K. Fletcher on December 12, 2015, 03:24:42 AM
okay i just got sucked into Gakkou Gurashi for the last three hours and god am i an absolute sucker for this it is so amazing i cannot sing its praises well enough

Kurumi the best character obviously
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Post by: BT on December 12, 2015, 08:28:29 AM
Yesterday I actually gave SAO Abridged (SWE) a shot and it was really good. Like, wat.
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Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 12, 2015, 01:42:02 PM
That's not how similes work.
My grammar isn't exactly the best and this is the first time I've heard the word "simile".

I got a question to ask
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Where is this song come from? I know it's from anime 'cause I've seen this PV in Anime Festival Asia but I haven't got it's title. Could you guys help me?
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Post by: Kasu on December 12, 2015, 07:31:11 PM
My grammar isn't exactly the best and this is the first time I've heard the word "simile".

I got a question to ask
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Where is this song come from? I know it's from anime 'cause I've seen this PV in Anime Festival Asia but I haven't got it's title. Could you guys help me?
Gotcha covered. It's Hacka Doll: The Animation (http://myanimelist.net/anime/30721/Hacka_Doll_The_Animation) by Studio TRIGGER.

It's fairly amusing, but it's only eight minutes per episode.
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 13, 2015, 01:37:16 PM
Are you (http://i.imgur.com/8Ii7sum.png) even trying? (http://myanimelist.net/anime/25943/Hacka_Doll) (http://i.imgur.com/WVoHJPq.png)
Edit: oh, there was another page in the thread.
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Post by: Sect on December 21, 2015, 09:03:04 PM
Dungeon Meshi, a manga about eating monsters in a dungeon. It's so good. And it makes me hungry. And it's super in depth about dungeon ecologies.
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Post by: Hibiki on January 01, 2016, 08:34:51 PM
Right now I'm read the light novel for Oregairu
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Post by: Kasu on January 04, 2016, 05:26:30 AM
Just finished Pretty Cure Max Heart and now I'm gonna knock off the two movies in the next few days before the Winter season begins. In addition to that, I started the first season of K-On with plans to start Pretty Cure Splash Star right after that.

I have way too much free time. ;>;
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Post by: Mеа on January 07, 2016, 08:22:52 AM
Imouto ga Dekimashita / I Got Myself a Big Sister is one of the cutest things I've ever read. And the art is absolutely gorgeous, that scenery especially omg. I'm getting diabetes. Cute af. More releases hurry scanlators.
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Post by: NekoNekoRex on January 11, 2016, 01:17:26 AM
Hrrrrrk.....

My feels....

I just finished Comet Lucifer, the feels are strong with the ending.
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Post by: Drake on February 11, 2016, 11:19:34 AM
kizumonogatari please show in my city please asvgfjahdbgbf
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Post by: CenturyEgg on February 15, 2016, 06:59:16 AM
Seconding dungeon meshi because it is really good and has some fun characters.

Other stuff on the read list is Ajin (really disappointed with the animation). The only thing I am watching this season is Konosuba.

Abit of a throwback but I went to reread Kenji. It is a really old manga but i recommend it to anyone who is into chinese martial arts and fighting mangas.
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Post by: commandercool on February 23, 2016, 01:55:55 AM
After not getting around to it for literally years I'm finally watching Gregory Horror Show. It's a 1999 CGI horror anime that I've seen a few different people call the best horror anime ever made. I'm not really sure I agree. It's okay. It watches sort of like a Japanese take on Tales From The Crypt, but it's kind of hobbled by the fact that episodes are less than three minutes long and relatively self-contained, so individual ideas don't get that much development even though it tells a coherent story. The animation is the most interesting thing about it and it's pretty effective. It looks like a weird fucked up PS1 cut scene in a good way, and all of the character designs are super crazy.
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Post by: Mеа on February 24, 2016, 08:21:15 AM
My roommate picked up Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash and I decided to watch it with him. It's, I'm guessing, an online rpg setting, though very subdued and not even implied, you just have to guess from the general feel of the setting. Relaxing, mysterious, nicely slow paced. But omg it has some of the most beautiful art I've seen in anime. It's artiful. Man this really makes me want to pick up digital painting somehow...
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Post by: Phasm on March 08, 2016, 01:11:21 AM
Currently watching Mirai Nikki and damn is this anime good... im only on episode 5 and i'm already hocked ^~^
I am also reading Love/Death which is a cool story about what would happen if 2 Yanderes, fell in love for each other, i swear i was laughing my a## off in some scenes!
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Post by: Kasu on March 08, 2016, 05:49:51 AM
Oh God. I'm almost done the second season of K-On now and I see why it was so talked about. The hilarity cannot be contained.
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Post by: HalfGrand on March 08, 2016, 12:06:30 PM
My anime watching habits are a bit on and off (seriously, sometimes I watch an anime series right up until the last episode and then I just forget about it or come back to it months later) but here is what I have been familiarizing myself with lately.

Oreimo

Seriously, the main heroine in the anime makes me cringe hard sometimes because it is simply an anime about a teenage girl who plays hentai visual novels and is tsundere as hell to her older brother. The weird sexual tension between her and her older brother can be quite disturbing sometimes as well. What makes me keep watching it is her two otaku friends that show up in the middle of the first season. They are probably the only interesting things that I find in the anime.

Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn?t Exist

An anime about a dystopian future that is ruled by tyrannical censorship and tracking devices with a resistance group that is lead by a female nudist? Sign me up! Douse it make any statements or tell a message about the importance of liberty and how pointless censorship is or anything like that? No. Such a good opportunity for deep cultural commentary is wasted to make way for drama and gags. Oh well, I still plan to see it through to the end.
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Post by: BT on March 08, 2016, 06:21:31 PM
My anime watching habits are a bit on and off (seriously, sometimes I watch an anime series right up until the last episode and then I just forget about it or come back to it months later) but here is what I have been familiarizing myself with lately.

Oreimo

Seriously, the main heroine in the anime makes me cringe hard sometimes because it is simply an anime about a teenage girl who plays hentai visual novels and is tsundere as hell to her older brother. The weird sexual tension between her and her older brother can be quite disturbing sometimes as well. What makes me keep watching it is her two otaku friends that show up in the middle of the first season. They are probably the only interesting things that I find in the anime.

Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn?t Exist

An anime about a dystopian future that is ruled by tyrannical censorship and tracking devices with a resistance group that is lead by a female nudist? Sign me up! Douse it make any statements or tell a message about the importance of liberty and how pointless censorship is or anything like that? No. Such a good opportunity for deep cultural commentary is wasted to make way for drama and gags. Oh well, I still plan to see it through to the end.
I've seen people argue that Shimoneta does enough on the politics front. I mean, no, it's not a deep show at all, but it's not meant to be, and it accomplishes enough by being as absurd as it is that the message comes through.

And ohh boy you're gonna have fun with the rest of Oreimo.*

* depends gravely on your definition of fun
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Post by: CenturyEgg on March 09, 2016, 02:36:09 AM
While it has potential, treating Shimoneta as a in depth satire of society is abit of a leap haha imho.

Speaking if which, is anyone watching Konosuba? This season's stuff and it is pretty entertaining.
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Post by: Delfigamer on March 09, 2016, 08:06:34 PM
Speaking if which, is anyone watching Konosuba? This season's stuff and it is pretty entertaining.
Yup. Our party almost universally agrees it's half an AOTS, the other one being this (http://myanimelist.net/anime/31043/Boku_dake_ga_Inai_Machi).
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Post by: Sect on March 13, 2016, 10:33:10 PM
Seen in reddit: "Ojisan to Marshmallow had a bigger plot twist than Erased this week!"
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Post by: Spotty Len on March 13, 2016, 10:40:36 PM
Seen in reddit: "Ojisan to Marshmallow had a bigger plot twist than Erased this week!"
Marshmallow did take me by surprise this week.
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Post by: Fetch()tirade on March 16, 2016, 10:32:14 PM
Gifting the Wonderful World with Explosions confirms a season 2
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Post by: Sect on March 16, 2016, 11:51:48 PM
Me and UK marathoned volumes 2 and 3 of RWBY over the last week. The feeeeeeeels... ;_;
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Post by: commandercool on April 09, 2016, 03:14:31 AM
Everybody I know has been going nuts over Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans since it started and I'm finally getting around to watching it. I just finished the fourth episode and it's okay so far? It's some real Gundam shit. That's fine I guess. Maybe it gets way more exciting later and it's certainly not bad. I'll keep watching for sure, but I'm in no particular hurry.

I love Biscuit though. One of the things I dislike most about anime (and to a greater and lesser extent just about all media, but it's consistently true in anime) is that "fat" is always code for "gross and incompetent". He's a fat guy who's smart, good at his job, and a good dude. Best character.
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Post by: CenturyEgg on April 09, 2016, 03:28:07 AM
Just caught an episode of Kotetsujou no kabaneri. The aesthetic and steampowered theme really makes it feel like a grimmer version of Sakura Taisen. Definitely gonna follow this series for this season.
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Post by: BT on April 09, 2016, 08:05:43 AM
KUMA MIKO DANCING DANCING

So it's like totally the anime thing to do to have a show with great comedic timing and a serious case of pedophilia. Or pedobear. Your pick.
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Post by: Kasu on April 09, 2016, 08:12:28 PM
I wasn't expected Anne Happy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9mDXFQl2kw) to be so amazing, oh lawd. That first episode was absolutely wonderful.
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Post by: Sect on April 10, 2016, 03:09:46 PM
Just caught an episode of Kotetsujou no kabaneri. The aesthetic and steampowered theme really makes it feel like a grimmer version of Sakura Taisen. Definitely gonna follow this series for this season.
If it doesn't have takarazuka in it then I'm not interested.
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Post by: Delfigamer on April 10, 2016, 07:50:40 PM
It sure is a good season today. There are, among other things, a Touhou fanfic (http://myanimelist.net/anime/32438/Mayoiga), the second season of SnK (http://myanimelist.net/anime/28623/Koutetsujou_no_Kabaneri) and, chew, even the beautiful Duwang (http://myanimelist.net/anime/31933/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Diamond_wa_Kudakenai), chew.
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Post by: An Odd Sea Slug on April 14, 2016, 10:06:51 PM
Anne-Happy makes me very happy. :)
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Post by: Kasu on April 14, 2016, 11:36:15 PM
Anne-Happy makes me very happy. :)
I can't do anything other than agree with this, haha.

Also, this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaqZoph265U) pretty much sums up Samurai Flamenco as I near the end.
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Post by: HalfGrand on April 15, 2016, 12:32:50 PM
Bloody hell, I found out last night on the Touhou wiki that Mimi-chan (the ballistic missile that PC-98 Marisa rides on her PoDD ending http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Minor_Characters#Mimi-Chan) was based on a manga series called Don't Leave me Alone, Daisy which was later on years later turned into a 12 episode series anime. Since ZUN referenced it in his PC-98 days, I decided to give the first episode a look and see what it was like.

Oh boy, it's bad you guys, seriously!

Here is the description of the series:

"The story begins when an innocent, but busty, young schoolgirl goes to recover her hat from what she thought was an abandoned house. But within that house, spying on her, is a deranged madman. Seeing her he becomes obsessed with controlling her, owning her, bending her to his every whim. He, and his array of high tech tools, will threaten her with death, mutilation, control, humiliation and the loss of her own will and identity. Terrors biological, chemical and nuclear will come into play in the nightmare that is her new, controlled, life."

THIS ANIME IS CREEPY AS HELL!!!

The first episode was hard to watch through because of all the creepy stalker undertones throughout it. Near the end of the first episode, Techno (yes, that's the male leads name) tries to cryogenically preserve "Daisy" in a tube while shouting "I'm going to protect you from this harsh world, Daisy!" all against her will. I kept expecting the dude to kill her and wear her skin at any moment.  :ohdear:

I'm going to keep watching this simply because it is so shockingly bizarre and bad. I mean, this is seriously a feminists nightmare fuel!  :D

ZUN... did you seriously like this manga so much that you decided to reference it in you PC-98 game? Why ZUN, why?
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Post by: Mеа on April 15, 2016, 07:01:49 PM
I'm going to keep watching this simply because it is so shockingly bizarre and bad. I mean, this is seriously a feminists nightmare fuel!  :D
You got the fuel part right, would probably be more of a dream accelerant for them though.
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Post by: Romantique Tp on April 15, 2016, 07:06:46 PM
You don't need to have watched or read anything to reference it.
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Post by: Delfigamer on April 16, 2016, 02:21:04 PM
Could it be just a coincidence? Or something else entirely that gave similar ideas to ZUN and whoever created that manga.
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Post by: Kasu on April 16, 2016, 10:58:27 PM
So I've managed to get myself invested in High School Fleet this season. I went in expecting cute girls, school life, and boats. What I didn't expect was
cute girls being branded mutineers after being baited into attacking their instructor's ship.
;>;
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Post by: Sect on April 16, 2016, 11:43:56 PM
So I've managed to get myself invested in High School Fleet this season. I went in expecting cute girls, school life, and boats. What I didn't expect was
cute girls being branded mutineers after being baited into attacking their instructor's ship.
;>;
Share in Roukan's misery. (http://rou-kan-ken.tumblr.com/post/142903462570/a-fleeting-promise-rou-liveblogs-haifuri)
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Post by: Kasu on April 17, 2016, 01:10:29 AM
Share in Roukan's misery. (http://rou-kan-ken.tumblr.com/post/142903462570/a-fleeting-promise-rou-liveblogs-haifuri)
This makes me happier than it should, haha. It's been awhile since I've seen any of Rou's commentary.
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Post by: Delfigamer on April 17, 2016, 05:41:40 PM
Share in Roukan's misery. (http://rou-kan-ken.tumblr.com/post/142903462570/a-fleeting-promise-rou-liveblogs-haifuri)
Now that I think about that, if the instructor for whatever reason wanted to bait the Harekaze, it was only natural to aim for non-essential parts (or the water around).
On another note, once the dust settles and the girls are put under court martial, shouldn't they check the instructor's ship's logs and see who was the one to open fire? Unless the girls are dumb enough to oppose the actual military and get sunk.
_

But seriously. Filling a bunch of live warships with nobody but schoolgirls and leaving them in the sea is such a good idea that I don't even.
Also,
how the smoke screen have worked if there are radars on both ships?
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Post by: BT on April 17, 2016, 09:14:45 PM
But seriously. Filling a bunch of live warships with nobody but schoolgirls and leaving them in the sea is such a good idea that I don't even.
Also,
how the smoke screen have worked if there are radars on both ships?
Yeah there were some dumb parts like that, and I almost reeled when
in response to the one girl saying "oh yeah, we should also turn off our engines as a sign of define surrender", captain-san decides they're going to retaliate with live ammunition because they have no other choice... except for what they literally told her. :V

I mean, I'm watching this for the moe anyway, so...
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Post by: Delfigamer on April 17, 2016, 09:27:26 PM
Yeah there were some dumb parts like that, and I almost reeled when
in response to the one girl saying "oh yeah, we should also turn off our engines as a sign of define surrender", captain-san decides they're going to retaliate with live ammunition because they have no other choice... except for what they literally told her. :V
That's actually legit. The crew is dumb confirmed. :derp:
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Post by: Sect on April 18, 2016, 01:37:04 AM
On another note, once the dust settles and the girls are put under court martial, shouldn't they check the instructor's ship's logs and see who was the one to open fire? Unless the girls are dumb enough to oppose the actual military and get sunk.
Apparently
the instructor sunk her own ship and was put into a coma to sell the story that they attacked her ship.
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Post by: Kasu on April 18, 2016, 02:04:59 AM
Apparently
the instructor sunk her own ship and was put into a coma to sell the story that they attacked her ship.
Amusingly enough, I've seen theories such as
aliens
and
mind control
thrown around because of the instructor's glazed over look.
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Post by: Delfigamer on April 18, 2016, 02:13:49 AM
Apparently
the instructor sunk her own ship and was put into a coma to sell the story that they attacked her ship.
They should still check the black box (or however that thing is called is called on ships) nevertheless. Just in case the girls are actually telling the truth. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence) It's not like Japan is still at war with Russia, isn't it?
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Post by: Drake on April 18, 2016, 06:42:25 AM
Silly Delfi, innocence until proven guilt doesn't exist in fictional settings
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Post by: Mеа on April 18, 2016, 11:36:52 AM
/begin rant
forewarning: biased, blind opinion article, proceed with caution. knowledge of discussion topic: haven't seen the show
That show seems like astronomical bs. I have a kneejerk reaction to moe war-related shows like this one because its the worst kind of 'cute girls do stuff' show. It just can't be justified inverse or otherwise. It makes no sense at all. The premises of IS is bollocks, strike witches blows my mind and kancolle (the anime) was also astonishingly bad. At least with strike witches its like oh they're witches or something, and all witches are grrrllllszz, let's just lock them in fucking panties and look all pedo-y to appeal to those dirty impoverished eyes somewhere. I know Japan isn't on the forefront of the social justice war, but that's still shockingly blind, insensitive, unaware, etc etc for the reason, the only reason they could come up with for this show, as Rou pointed out. I mean, god. They somehow manage to be landmine-kaboom-inducingly oblivious/sexist and present filthy moeshit at the same time. Like what the actual nautical dolphin hell?
When it comes to war stuff, I want there to be grim and grime. I want toys broken and wings clipped. I want angels fallen and innocence lost. Why are we suddenly back in like, freaking pre-WWI era war is glorious type nonsensica? As much as the primarily teen cast of the various gundam shows grate on me from time to time, at least they consistently try to play up the angle of war-is-hell theme, probably one of the greatest fruits of the depressed-Anno era of Gundam. What's the point of the war setting? How does it add to the story if it's just there to have the girls be moe on a ship instead of a classroom? Can we finally get a madoka magica of these stupid moe-war shows, a really good deconstruction of this stupid ass genre to finally let it sink forever? One that has some shred of respect for its material to at least get its salutes correct? I'm looking at you, kancolle.
/end rant

e: though to be fair, since apparently kancolle was designed to appeal to WWII era japanese naval ship fans, I suppose the blame for that part lies more on the animation staff than the actual creators, who didn't expect it to be such a big hit. Still, if the source material is actual japanese battleships et al, and the creators were digging from that, why would they make such a lousy, non-deathy, script for such a perfect opportune show? The character designs are already moe, lets show some creativity
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Post by: commandercool on April 18, 2016, 12:29:07 PM
Aa someone who doesn't necessarily disagree with you, how do you feel about Girls Und Panzer? Moe anime usually makes me cringe, but I actually really like Girls Und Panzer as a really solidly constructed sports anime. It's not directly about war, but it is war-adjacent and some of the same criticisms could apply, or maybe not.
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Post by: Mеа on April 18, 2016, 01:11:36 PM
I haven't seen it so I can't tell you. I should warn you that I'm the sort of loser that likes hating things I haven't seen until I actually see it and usually end up not hating it, or as much, or not for the same reasons since I can actually have an informed opinion about it. Perfect example: SAO.
Moe shows about things that shouldn't reasonably be moe shows like war genres I do dislike more than other things though.
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Post by: commandercool on April 18, 2016, 01:19:46 PM
Well I'd say give Girls Und Panzer a try, if just because it'll be an interesting experiment. It's short and I can vouch for its entertainment value, for what it's worth.

Basically it's either in that genre ir very near to it, but it's not a war show. It's a sports anime where the sport is tank battles. I'm not incredibly clear on whether the tanks are supposed to be an absurd comedy premise, military fetishism (fairly likely) or a jab at how seriously people take sports, but I can tell you they make the show pretty exciting.

I could see it rubbing some people the wrong way since it's still kind of a glib handling of something that's right next to a topic that's way too serious for the fairly light tone of the show, but maybe that little bit of distance and possible comedy/commentary goes a long way. I think I can safy say it did for me.
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Post by: Mеа on April 18, 2016, 03:12:23 PM
My limited exposure to the above and more comes from my courting with a hilarious series of mads involving redubbing these moe shows with the grim dark armored core characters.
But since you recommend it, I'll check it out. (So sorry about the nge thing btw, it bothers my conscience it kind of slipped through my fingers like it did, I kinda left you hanging, it's a really bad habit of mine)
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Post by: commandercool on April 18, 2016, 03:20:34 PM
(So sorry about the nge thing btw, it bothers my conscience it kind of slipped through my fingers like it did, I kinda left you hanging, it's a really bad habit of mine)

Oh yeah, don't worry too much about it. If you happen to get around to picking it back up I probably will as well pending schedule, but I'm not super worried about it. We got through most of it and I think I got my time's worth out of it.

As for letting things slip through your fingers, I relate. I mean, I still haven't even opened .y copy of Rebuild 3.33, much less watched it. Doing things is hard.
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Post by: Mеа on April 18, 2016, 04:00:30 PM
Wait so you haven't seen 3.0? (and yeah, it is 3.0 and not 3.33, confusing right? cuz it's a maaa~aassive reset of sorts)
Oh boy.
I'd love to hear your opinion about it once you get around to it. I'd imagine it was either generally not well liked or very divisive, people liked it or not. I fell into the meh camp when I first watched it since I was expecting a rebuild 1 or 2 but not... this. Probably have to rewatch it at some point.
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Post by: commandercool on April 18, 2016, 04:09:05 PM
Oh no, I've seen 3.0 quite a few times. I saw a few different times right after it came out and in the theater twice. 3.33 is the extended home release that kept getting delayed. I don't know how extended it is, but if it's anything like the differemce between 2.0 and 2.22 it's probably got a few additional full scenes.

As for what I think of 3.0, I think it's fine. It's all setup for 4.0, which means as a standalone piece of film it falls a bit flat. As setup though, I think the groundwork it lays out is super interesting. It's kind of up to 4.0 to pay everything off which is kind of unfortunate, but I'm relatively confident that will happen. And I think it gave a fair amount of support to my "Rebuild is actually another concurrent ending to the original series" theory.
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Post by: Mеа on April 18, 2016, 06:19:57 PM
Oh you did, yeah the 'as a standalone it wasn't good' part was the meh part. Kind of hard to blame for not being super good if it's mostly setup, I mean this was like truly a new frontier, no where near anything Eva's traversed so far. I hear it was only originally supposed to be a trilogy but got extended, I wonder if that means there was originally another 'safer' ending or story. One of the complaints I heard people making was that at the end of 2, people were accepting of Shinji's decision (mostly Misato) but antagonized him in 3 which made no sense, a complete 180. Reintroducing angst again, which leads to Shinji jumping at the first hope at 'redeeming' his actions, which turned out to cause the thing Wille was formed to prevent in the first place, good going.

Anyway, since I'm posting I guess I might as well mention that I started Nekota no koto ga kininatte shouganai. Which, unusually for me, is a shoujo romance manga, like shoujo shoujo. And, I note with amusement, another cat related manga. It follows pretty much your general shoujo manga, but with 6th graders, in some love thing except that the main heroine sees the main character's head as a giant cat's head. It makes the whole thing surreal and more enjoyable than one would initially expect. If it weren't for that it would so so fall short, it doesn't deviate from any preconceived conventions, the main heroine is a mary sue, random drama inducing girl also included (though thankfully, within my tolerance levels, not to mention she shipped off on another boat quite early). Also it's about children, so the whole thing is written with a flair of childlike ignorance and, I guess, giddiness that makes all the bad drama nature of shoujo romance stuff softer and less sharp. Also she's totally oblivious but it actually works because she's a kid and not a blockheaded shoujo heroine. Or even worse, those lovesick-with-love heroine types. Like a gaussian blur or something. Not something I'd recommend, but w/e, might as well contribute to the thread.
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Post by: commandercool on April 18, 2016, 06:30:34 PM
Incidentally since it was mentioned recently in a other thread, I picked up Junji Ito's Cat Diary for like nothing last night thanks to a gift card I forgot I had. Haven't read it yet, but it's on top of my reading list.

Also finished the first Chi's Sweet Home omnibus last night. I liked the second half more than tbe first half, since there's more conflict than just "cute cat is cute". Will probably read the second omnibus I guess.
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Post by: qMyon on April 19, 2016, 03:26:37 PM
/begin rant
forewarning: biased, blind opinion article, proceed with caution. knowledge of discussion topic: haven't seen the show
That show seems like astronomical bs. I have a kneejerk reaction to moe war-related shows like this one because its the worst kind of 'cute girls do stuff' show. It just can't be justified inverse or otherwise. It makes no sense at all. The premises of IS is bollocks, strike witches blows my mind and kancolle (the anime) was also astonishingly bad. At least with strike witches its like oh they're witches or something, and all witches are grrrllllszz, let's just lock them in fucking panties and look all pedo-y to appeal to those dirty impoverished eyes somewhere. I know Japan isn't on the forefront of the social justice war, but that's still shockingly blind, insensitive, unaware, etc etc for the reason, the only reason they could come up with for this show, as Rou pointed out. I mean, god. They somehow manage to be landmine-kaboom-inducingly oblivious/sexist and present filthy moeshit at the same time. Like what the actual nautical dolphin hell?
When it comes to war stuff, I want there to be grim and grime. I want toys broken and wings clipped. I want angels fallen and innocence lost. Why are we suddenly back in like, freaking pre-WWI era war is glorious type nonsensica? As much as the primarily teen cast of the various gundam shows grate on me from time to time, at least they consistently try to play up the angle of war-is-hell theme, probably one of the greatest fruits of the depressed-Anno era of Gundam. What's the point of the war setting? How does it add to the story if it's just there to have the girls be moe on a ship instead of a classroom? Can we finally get a madoka magica of these stupid moe-war shows, a really good deconstruction of this stupid ass genre to finally let it sink forever? One that has some shred of respect for its material to at least get its salutes correct? I'm looking at you, kancolle.
/end rant

e: though to be fair, since apparently kancolle was designed to appeal to WWII era japanese naval ship fans, I suppose the blame for that part lies more on the animation staff than the actual creators, who didn't expect it to be such a big hit. Still, if the source material is actual japanese battleships et al, and the creators were digging from that, why would they make such a lousy, non-deathy, script for such a perfect opportune show? The character designs are already moe, lets show some creativity

I can't really speak for the rest, but the Kancolle anime definitely felt like it was just plain confused. I mean, you have one episode where a known character gets killed with depressing moments, but then the next is funny shenanigans with the comic relief characters. Heavy mental whiplash. And that's not even counting the asspull ending and the character premise that didn't even make much sense in-context. Many of the game's fans dislike it apart from eye candy.

Really have to delve into fanworks for decent stuff. I'm following Kant'o-celle Quest for something that turns up the realism a notch while preserving the Kancolle setting. Then again it's a 4chan quest, so YMMV. At least there's someone transcribing it on Spacebattles.
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Post by: Kasu on April 19, 2016, 07:47:47 PM
Really have to delve into fanworks for decent stuff. I'm following Kant'o-celle Quest for something that turns up the realism a notch while preserving the Kancolle setting. Then again it's a 4chan quest, so YMMV. At least there's someone transcribing it on Spacebattles.
Well damn. Never thought I'd see someone on here post about Kant-o-celle quest.
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Post by: qMyon on April 20, 2016, 04:01:12 AM
More on-topic, I'm just getting my comedy fix with Sakamoto (absurd humor, think Daily Lives of High School Boys) and Space Patrol Luluco (Slightly more cutesy absurd humor) this season. For anything more story-based, I prefer to wait and binge-watch.

Well damn. Never thought I'd see someone on here post about Kant-o-celle quest.

Oh? Why is that?  :3
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Post by: Kasu on April 20, 2016, 04:23:39 AM
Oh? Why is that?  :3
Just never thought any of the quests on 4chan would ever show up in conversation, haha. It's always interesting and hilarious to read Deme's stuff though.

So anyway, I started reading Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen and it's been awhile since I've laughed this hard to a manga. The passive-aggressiveness of everything just makes it better.
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Post by: commandercool on April 20, 2016, 04:49:54 AM
I just sat down and read Junji Ito's Cat Diary. I thought it was great. Ito has a real problem with losing the thread of his narratives, which is why I tend to strongly prefer his short manga to anything continuous. His autobiographical stuff doesn't have that problem at all though. I don't know if that's due to tight editing or just the fact that a realistic scenario doesn't let him drift off into ridiculous scenarios after a while, but I would love to read more autobiographical manga from him.
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Post by: Delfigamer on April 26, 2016, 02:58:53 PM
I must be going insane. For me, the entire 4th episode of Re: Zero whatever (http://myanimelist.net/anime/31240/Re_Zero_kara_Hajimeru_Isekai_Seikatsu) had "TOUHOU" written on top with big red letters.
...And now I've started to find similarities in the earlier episodes. I might require assistance!
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Post by: BT on April 26, 2016, 03:37:33 PM
I must be going insane. For me, the entire 4th episode of Re: Zero whatever (http://myanimelist.net/anime/31240/Re_Zero_kara_Hajimeru_Isekai_Seikatsu) had "TOUHOU" written on top with big red letters.
...And now I've started to find similarities in the earlier episodes. I might require assistance!
What? Oh... Patchouli and the SDM. Yeah, I noticed that, but I assumed it was an extended librarian trope. I don't know my tropes well enough.
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Post by: Delfigamer on April 26, 2016, 09:28:00 PM
Let me make a little correction:
What? Oh... Patchouli and the SDM Palace of Earth Spirits.
I mean, twins with stupidly colored hair reading the MC's mind's contents aloud? Seriously.
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Post by: Mr_Bob on April 27, 2016, 05:43:43 PM
/begin rant
forewarning: biased, blind opinion article, proceed with caution. knowledge of discussion topic: haven't seen the show
That show seems like astronomical bs. I have a kneejerk reaction to moe war-related shows like this one because its the worst kind of 'cute girls do stuff' show. It just can't be justified inverse or otherwise. It makes no sense at all. ... When it comes to war stuff, I want there to be grim and grime. I want toys broken and wings clipped.
/end rant
Agreed.  I very much enjoy war/survival movies, but it's not something I've seen a lot of anime do all that well. As was pointed out, a lot of the drama and tension is eliminated by lightly treating the subject matter, or distracting the audience and distancing itself with "cute characters".  Cannon Fodder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_%281995_film%29) had a very interesting take on industro-military slice-of-life.  Desert Punk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Punk) was a kind of fun romp, and the manga version actually has some nice gun porn.  Marine Corps Yumi (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/MarineCorpsYumi) is more cute, but is really accurate in portraying boot camp.  Recently read Groundless, which is a fairly grim story following a sniper, and reads somewhat like a shonen.  I thoroughly enjoyed the submarine combat in Blue Submarine No. 6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Submarine_No._6).  There are others, if one takes the time to sift through the chaff.

Sakamoto desu ga seems like the most entertaining this season.  Pretty good adaptation of the manga so far.
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Post by: Drake on April 27, 2016, 10:53:59 PM
Guys help Luluco is really good and is only getting better
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Post by: Spotty Len on April 28, 2016, 06:10:52 AM
Guys help Luluco is really good and is only getting better
It's up there with My Hero Academia as my most entertaining show of this season. Every episode is good so far.

Although, Sakamoto desu ga is not far behind...
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Post by: Delfigamer on April 28, 2016, 07:32:04 PM
Oh yes. Recommending Colonthree: The Animation (http://myanimelist.net/anime/2963/Minami-ke) to Delfi was indeed a very good idea.
It's been three seasons and I still can't stop being amazed at how Kana manages to look stupid at all times. That must be some special talent.
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Post by: Kasu on April 30, 2016, 09:09:53 PM
So, Uh... Haifuri got weird. Like really weird.

I never actually thought that the mind-control conspiracy theorists would be right. I also never thought it would be mind-controlling hamsters.
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Post by: BT on May 01, 2016, 07:18:55 PM
It's time to rec one of the strongest shows of the season: Sansha Sanyou. Yes, the super generic-looking 4koma one. There's no mistaking it.

Serious. Go watch it.
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Post by: Nobu on May 02, 2016, 05:38:38 PM
Is no one watching Kuma Miko? It's so damn cute.
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on May 02, 2016, 06:52:43 PM
I decided to pick up Kiznaiver; it seems pretty promising.
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Post by: Sect on May 02, 2016, 09:44:43 PM
Is no one watching Kuma Miko? It's so damn cute.
I've read the manga and will watch it eventually, but not at the moment. The only anime I'm really following at the moment is Jojo.
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Post by: Spotty Len on May 03, 2016, 10:44:06 PM
Is no one watching Kuma Miko? It's so damn cute.
I do, it's pretty fun.
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Post by: Nobu on May 04, 2016, 11:19:24 AM
I've read the manga

Just tell me this: does this series pull a Madoka?
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Post by: Delfigamer on May 04, 2016, 05:24:37 PM
Just tell me this: does this series pull a Madoka?
...Had to look up to see what you're talking about.
Why, of all animes this season, you'd think Kumamiko would do this? It's not 100% impossible, of course, but that would be a plotbreaker even worse than Samurai Flamenco, besides making it a completely different story. Madoka was moderately dark from the very beginning, kept going downwards and the surprising thing was it didn't stop sinking steadily into despair and Urobuchi.
Kumamiko though? ...Seriously?

By the way, if what you wanted is Madoka, Japan has actually got you covered (http://myanimelist.net/anime/31240/Re_Zero_kara_Hajimeru_Isekai_Seikatsu).
_

I Spy With My Little Eye (http://myanimelist.net/anime/31405/Joker_Game) has finally conceded to engrish and gone full POOTIS. :getdown:
I laugh so much from this it could be considered a good comedy. I seriously expected a spy movie, but this is way better.
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Post by: Delfigamer on May 08, 2016, 06:40:24 PM
It's been 4 episodes of 200% Shounen (http://myanimelist.net/anime/28623/Koutetsujou_no_Kabaneri) and not a single named character has died yet. This is bullshit. I revoke my comparison, this thing is 10 000 lightyears too easy to stand near SnK.
Even Haifuri got better plot moves, with their
hamster conspiracy (wait what)
. This thing?
Quote
"I am not a zombie. I am a Zombieoidus!"
100x pathos music starts playing
THE END
I can't see it as anything other than some stupid story made by a middle schooler about this "cool dark and edgy boy" (excuse me (http://myanimelist.net/anime/32542/Sakamoto_desu_ga)) who is not understood by society, but eventually proves that he was right all along. Seriously (http://myanimelist.net/anime/14669/Aura__Maryuuin_Kouga_Saigo_no_Tatakai).
Edit: Ah! I remembered the word. It's "cringy". That's how I wanted to describe the Zombie Train.
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Post by: Silent Harmony on May 13, 2016, 08:14:26 PM
Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu (http://myanimelist.net/manga/89467/Hitoribocchi_no_%E2%97%8B%E2%97%8B_Seikatsu) is maybe the greatest manga you've never read. It's like an anti-Watamote (which I admit I haven't read extensively) where instead of cringe it's full of heartwarming, heartbreaking, and plain adorableness. The best word I've ever heard to describe this manga is "precious."

Seriously support this comic. It's so nice to see social anxiety comedy done right in a main character for once.
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Post by: BT on May 14, 2016, 07:49:23 AM
Luluco is back in full throttle. My sides.

Warning: really hilarious Kill la Kill callouts.
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Post by: Sect on May 17, 2016, 10:25:34 PM
Every time I think a genre has been tapped out in creativity, something new pops up that I've never noticed before. Currently reading Helck (https://bato.to/comic/_/comics/helck-r17710), a fantasy manga about demons being misunderstood and overpowered hero characters. It's great because it's delightfully shounen, the tournament arc (which I hate, usually) was both the beginning of the manga, completely absurd, and didn't do anything tournament arcs typically did, and is refreshingly non fanservicey (the most fanservice laden character is the title character, an always shirtless slab of man beef). It also avoids the boring overpowered hero trope in a way different than One Punch Man: while OPM focuses on his goofy character and his being bored with never having a struggle, Helck has a different character as the primary main character, with her trying to figure out the mystery that is Helck.

Also, catgirl coffee drinking spy is cute in a boyish way. (http://img.bato.to/comics/2016/01/18/h/read569c624500d93/img000016.jpg)

EDIT: Man, rereading this manga reveals SO many hints and clues. This manga is well plotted and planned.

Also, catgirl coffee drinking spy is still cute in a boyish way. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/asuta%20glasses.png)
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Post by: Delfigamer on May 21, 2016, 02:01:46 AM
Oh my god why haven't I read it earlier aaaaa it's so perfect aaaa every grill is best grill aaaa catgirls aaaa aaasdfhresenvd
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Post by: NekoNekoRex on May 22, 2016, 10:07:56 AM
Holy shit, Re;Zero is so fucking intense.

Holy motherfucking shit, Kabaneri. It's even better then Attack on Titan. I've only seen one episode but I haven't been so completely fucking blown away by an anime since Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
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Post by: Drake on May 22, 2016, 01:00:23 PM
cried like a lil bitch at kiznaiver
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Post by: Delfigamer on May 23, 2016, 06:08:08 PM
Hooo boy ΑΩ Nova (http://myanimelist.net/anime/32681/Uchuu_Patrol_Luluco) is such a little troll cunt, playing with MC's heart like it's a stuffed toy. There's no way he's not familiar with the concept of *responsibility* and doesn't blatantly ignore it for the heck of it. Good thing Luluco is near 0% yandere, or by this point he'd be in stuff so deep even the Greeny's black holes won't be able to shoplift him out. Seriously.

> Yukako Yamagishi appears
Thanks, this is exactly the point I'm trying to make. There is a reason why safety rules exist.
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Post by: CenturyEgg on June 02, 2016, 08:55:16 AM
Holy shit, Re;Zero is so fucking intense.

Holy motherfucking shit, Kabaneri. It's even better then Attack on Titan. I've only seen one episode but I haven't been so completely fucking blown away by an anime since Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

Of yeah Kabaneri is wonderful animation eyecandy. I really like the aesthetics for their devices as well. Imho the plot is abit meh but I wont air my thoughts until the season is over i guess.

Speaking of which, has anyone here read koe no oshigoto? I picked up again after a long hiatus and was reminded how adorable the characters are. It is also slightly lewd... but refreshing and rather unique?
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Post by: Delfigamer on June 06, 2016, 02:11:01 PM
I mean, twins with stupidly colored hair reading the MC's mind's contents aloud? Seriously.
Putting the idea flow in reverse, Satori closing Koishi's eye so she could walk among humans sounds like an interesting concept. Or even better, the friendly youkai was Satori, but their good girl/bad girl scenario did not go as planned.
Holy shit, Re;Zero is so fucking intense.
RE:ZERO INTENSIFIES.
_

INJUSTICE INTENSIFIES.
The more episodes this season gets the more injustice is happening. The high school is invaded by terrorists, (http://myanimelist.net/anime/31964/Boku_no_Hero_Academia) the hype train has become a scientific test ground, (http://myanimelist.net/anime/28623/Koutetsujou_no_Kabaneri) the village is lacking girls again, (http://myanimelist.net/anime/31240/Re_Zero_kara_Hajimeru_Isekai_Seikatsu) the gentleman has met a primordial delinquent. (http://myanimelist.net/anime/32542/Sakamoto_desu_ga)
And the Space Patrol won't arrest these criminals, because the Space Patrol is dead. It's not to be continued. The end.
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Post by: Mеа on June 09, 2016, 01:18:49 AM
holy.
FUCKING.
%#!%$#@^$SHIT!%$#@%$#



Wait for it...














Card Captor Sakura has a new manga serialization

This was like my childhood
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Post by: Delfigamer on July 24, 2016, 10:06:38 PM
RE:ZERO INTENSIFIES.
IT STILL KEEPS INTENSIFYING
AOTY 2016, hands down.
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Post by: Mеа on August 03, 2016, 11:38:46 PM
I picked up the ggo arc of sao, the light novels, and was surprised by two things. One, I can actually read about half of it without aid and understand like 90% of it through context even if I can't read some words.
The second, I actually enjoyed sinon as a character more in text form than the anime. The whole deal felt less melodramatic and hamfisted if perhaps only because it had a lot more time to disperse the drama out over time and space in the book. Not that I didn't like her already before, if only more than that terrible waifu of a character that is asuna, but I definitely like her more now. It's a strange paradox of an irony that harem heroines are cooler when they don't fall for the mc but end up being shipped more because of it.
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Post by: Kasu on August 04, 2016, 12:03:47 AM
So I've started reading Murci?lago and... well it's certainly something. I find it a little odd that a manga so bloody seems to mainly run on comedy, but it's pretty entertaining so far.
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Post by: shadowbringer on September 04, 2016, 07:13:43 AM
manga recommendations (for now):
- Dungeon Meshi
- Female Robot
- Gin to Kin
- Hope
- Inari, Kon Kon, Koi Iroha (liked the manga, liked how the anime version looked like but the anime is a compressed adaptation and ended before the manga; I appreciate the anime for being "the anime version of the manga", not much because it's a "proper" story that would "justify" skipping the manga)

enjoying so far:
- I am a Killer Maid
- Sperman
- Wombs

as for anime, I've stopped following anime since the tv channels (that were available to me) stopped running them, somewhere between the 90s and 2000s, and since they were mostly long series, I mistakenly assumed that most anime shows are long like them (and thus didn't want to risk looking up anime on my own and being disappointed after watching so many episodes, and overestimated the amount of time needed to keep up with many anime by using said long-running anime as a basis). Though I still haven't followed any seasons after that, I've watched some few anime, however.

All this said, I'm going to follow this fall's season (don't even know for sure how to get started) because of one manga that I've read and liked (and it's still ongoing): Keijo!!!!!!!!
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Post by: An Odd Sea Slug on September 07, 2016, 02:03:15 AM
Rewatching Engaged to the unidentified was a good decision.
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Post by: Candra Software on September 08, 2016, 06:21:51 PM
I haven't watched much anime recently. In fact, I have so much anime in queue, I don't know where to start...

-Dragon Ball
-Dragon Ball Z
-Iketeru Futari
-Kiki's Delivery Service
-Magic Knight Rayearth
-Mahou Tsukai Sally
-Maicching Machiko-sensei
-Maken-Ki!
-Miracle Girls
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Post by: Delfigamer on September 18, 2016, 08:12:16 PM
Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he conquered came into intimate relationship with space and time. After that, his cute girl was killed.
Not agreeing with this order of things, he continuously relived his last few days, however, regardless of how he changed the events, the cute girl would die either way. Sometimes, he seemed to save her, but then, even greater forces would emerge that wanted to kill her on the next day.
In his quest, he is helped by his trustful friends: a cute smart girl, a cute maid girl, a cute soldier girl, other cute girls and a cute trap.
And the coordinator of the evil forces was in the same house all along.

What is this, you ask? Of course it is one of the best anime I've ever witnessed, made by White Fox.
10/10, would die for cute girl's smile again - MC.
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Post by: Rin Kagamine on September 19, 2016, 02:21:47 PM
White Fox.
I usually rank White Fox as one of my favorite studios along with SIlver Link and SHAFT, but I realize that it's mostly for how much I loved Katanagatari and Steins;Gate and not much else.  Looking through the other shows they've done (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fox) nothing else really registers as that impressive.  If they don't get cracking on S;G0 or drop the ball on Matoi like they dropped the ball on Re:Zero then I might have to find a new favorite studio :<
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Post by: Kasu on September 22, 2016, 05:23:32 AM
I just finished watching both Macross Frontier movies. I'm now of the firm belief that the series would've been way better had it originally been the first movie spliced with the second half of the anime.
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Post by: Mеа on September 27, 2016, 12:18:03 PM
This is... really. good. I don't remember the last time I've been so completely hooked by a manga/book/novel/etc.

蜘蛛ですが、なにか? > Kumo desu ga nanika? > I am a spider, problem?

Anyone else read it here?
I wonder how I've never noticed/heard of it before. The manga seems recent but the web novel seems to be updating almost daily for like the past year or so.
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Post by: Kasu on September 27, 2016, 04:35:03 PM
This is... really. good. I don't remember the last time I've been so completely hooked by a manga/book/novel/etc.

蜘蛛ですが、なにか? > Kumo desu ga nanika? > I am a spider, problem?

Anyone else read it here?
I wonder how I've never noticed/heard of it before. The manga seems recent but the web novel seems to be updating almost daily for like the past year or so.
Ah, I've been reading the manga for awhile now. I'm always excited when they release a new chapter, haha.
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Post by: Mеа on September 28, 2016, 11:03:10 AM
Ah, I've been reading the manga for awhile now. I'm always excited when they release a new chapter, haha.
There seems to be a group that's translating the web novel into english. I found the reddit thread and also the group's site that's actually almost quite caught up. If you're impatient for the manga, I'd suggest that. It's not top notch of a translation, but it should do. The manga's gonna be quiiiiiiiiiite a while before getting to the part where it gives the first big hint of a larger scale stuffs. Well it's about half way there, but even then it's still a ways apart from where the story really starts to get going in unexpected directions.
But everything before then is pretty exciting too so there's no rush, I mean it's all supers amazing

e: oh yeah, and if you do, make sure you take in all the information. I'm always surprised by how consistent the various information in the past is used and added on to as the story progresses. Said another way, there's a heckton of foreshadowing that you wouldn't even realize or notice.
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Post by: Kasu on September 28, 2016, 03:42:07 PM
There seems to be a group that's translating the web novel into english. I found the reddit thread and also the group's site that's actually almost quite caught up. If you're impatient for the manga, I'd suggest that. It's not top notch of a translation, but it should do. The manga's gonna be quiiiiiiiiiite a while before getting to the part where it gives the first big hint of a larger scale stuffs. Well it's about half way there, but even then it's still a ways apart from where the story really starts to get going in unexpected directions.
But everything before then is pretty exciting too so there's no rush, I mean it's all supers amazing

e: oh yeah, and if you do, make sure you take in all the information. I'm always surprised by how consistent the various information in the past is used and added on to as the story progresses. Said another way, there's a heckton of foreshadowing that you wouldn't even realize or notice.
Not sure if I'll go for the web novel or not, but I'll keep all that in mind. Thanks for the info!
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Post by: Mеа on September 29, 2016, 06:51:18 AM
Not sure if I'll go for the web novel or not, but I'll keep all that in mind. Thanks for the info!
aww, well ok then LET ME KNOW if you ever need someone to nerd out about kumoko with or if you ever reach out to the web novels and start getting mind blown
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Post by: NaCl on October 03, 2016, 12:42:57 PM
I'm following a bunch of manga right now, not so much when it comes to anime. I am watching JoJo though. Expecting the just announced One-Punch Man Season two a lot!
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Post by: BT on October 03, 2016, 01:10:19 PM
Got done marathoning the recent Mob Psycho 100, and I gotta say, ONE the creator is some kind of legend. The adaptation was mad impressive to boot. Best show I've watched in recent memory.
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Post by: Kasu on October 03, 2016, 07:25:46 PM
Finished Heartcatch Precure a few days ago as part of my resolution to eventually watch all of the Pretty Cures. It was probably the most fun I'd had with a Pretty Cure series so far.
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Post by: CenturyEgg on October 04, 2016, 03:27:35 AM
aww, well ok then LET ME KNOW if you ever need someone to nerd out about kumoko with or if you ever reach out to the web novels and start getting mind blown

Oh shit the webnovel really went from 1 to 10 really fast. Glad to see more people reading the series here!
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Post by: Mеа on October 05, 2016, 06:33:40 PM
Oh shit the webnovel really went from 1 to 10 really fast. Glad to see more people reading the series here!
1 to 10? you mean like how intense and ridiculously complex despite how simple leveling lighthearted adventures it was in the beginning? Oh jah lol (are you caught up?)
If you are, I made a wiki (http://nai-waa.wikia.com/wiki/Kumo_Desu_ga,_Nani_ka%3F) for it because there wasn't one and I'm trying to fill it out so if you're bored please help ; ;
although for anyone curious but not caught up DON"T YOU FLAKING TOUCH THAT LINK because hot damn would I hate be the trigger to spoil even one teaspoon of eggnogs on this awesome thing
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Post by: CenturyEgg on October 10, 2016, 01:21:40 AM
Nice! I'm not fully updated on the webnovel because I realised I shouldn't have been skipping the side stories. Maybe I'll contribute when I've gone back and tied in the loose ends.
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Post by: Mеа on October 10, 2016, 07:11:21 AM
Nice! I'm not fully updated on the webnovel because I realised I shouldn't have been skipping the side stories. Maybe I'll contribute when I've gone back and tied in the loose ends.
Eh what??  >:( I don't quite get why people dislike the side stories. I mean, yeah, it's not kumoko adventures but they're not terrible. People seem to hate Shun a lot too. Maybe I'm just used to his type of character, I don't see the reason for all the hate. Just think of it as a satirical take-that of the typical reincarnating into RPGs as a hero genre.
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Post by: CenturyEgg on October 17, 2016, 04:39:55 PM
Eh what??  >:( I don't quite get why people dislike the side stories. I mean, yeah, it's not kumoko adventures but they're not terrible. People seem to hate Shun a lot too. Maybe I'm just used to his type of character, I don't see the reason for all the hate. Just think of it as a satirical take-that of the typical reincarnating into RPGs as a hero genre.

I don't hate it, I just thought they were shorts from the same universe until I read so ahead and realised they contained relevant plot tie ins, ORZ. Too eager for more cute spider shenanigans
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Post by: Drake on October 18, 2016, 04:45:47 AM
I just watched all of FMA Brotherhood in 6 days. I had been meaning to for a long time, as I only ever watched the first episode way back when it first aired, and finished the manga when it ended; before I had gotten back into anime. Definitely amongst the best shows I've ever seen. Everything is excellent, and as an adaptation it basically just amplified everything from the manga. Easy 10/10, highly recommend.
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Post by: Delfigamer on October 21, 2016, 06:13:50 PM
I've been reading Needless (http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/needless-r415) for some time now, and oh god, it's like it was written specifically for Delfi. It has nearly ideal proportion of ecchi to action, fabulous dudes to fabulous ladies to cute girls and it even keeps getting better with each chapter.
Also, I keep seeing "Editor: Kefit" in the credits, is this the Kefit (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=5) I think about?
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Post by: Drake on October 22, 2016, 01:44:49 AM
Kefit founded Pew Pew Scans. There's a reason it's called that, after all.
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Post by: Delfigamer on October 22, 2016, 03:48:35 PM
The new season of FMP is promised for Fall 2017. (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-10-22/full-metal-panic-iv-tv-anime-revealed-for-fall-2017/.107970)
In the meantime, Volvo keeps pushing community updates and neato sprays, which looks even worse in comparison, but that's a story for another time.
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Post by: Delfigamer on October 26, 2016, 03:36:48 PM
Thanks Black Dawg, I now sit here and wonder whether transparent socks (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33668/Soushin_Shoujo_Matoi) is gonna be a thing from now on or not.

Seriously, the story in Magical Slayer Girl Transparent Matoi looks so stupid. "Hey look, we are so edgy we use English everywhere, isn't that cool?" "Hey look, we got a transforming cyber-techno-something giant frikkin' sword, isn't that cool?" "Hey look, we got frikkin' gods, isn't that cool?" "Hey, ISN'T THAT COOL? (https://youtu.be/cgLOlH_OjhQ?t=3m12s)"
...No, it isn't, so can we just stop showing off and spend the screentime on something that actually matters? That is, cute girls and their tendencies of being naked and with socks. Transparent socks. Dear god, I haven't even thought they could even exist until today.

On another end of the spectrum, once the giant boobs are set aside, Occultic;(9) turns out to have quite a good story that is presented very well. It even has a delicious soundtrack, something I haven't heard for a long time.
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Post by: Tashi on October 29, 2016, 03:00:06 PM
Old anime rocks! (Some of them, atleast) Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (Zatch Bell!) is the one i'm currently watching. Anyone remember it?
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Post by: Delfigamer on October 29, 2016, 08:37:41 PM
I.. I just... just... I have no words for this (https://myanimelist.net/anime/32686/Keijo). Is this a sprots anime? Is this porn? I have no idea what is what anymore. All what has left in my head are three words. Vacuum. Butt. Cannon.
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Post by: Tashi on October 29, 2016, 08:48:02 PM
I.. I just... just... I have no words for this (https://myanimelist.net/anime/32686/Keijo). Is this a sprots anime? Is this porn? I have no idea what is what anymore. All what has left in my head are three words. Vacuum. Butt. Cannon.

Ah, Keijo... In other anime page the image that tells you that a new episode has come is a... butt...
Dat synopsis tho. Just... wonderful...
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Post by: Spotty Len on October 30, 2016, 07:57:25 PM
Keijo is incredible. It's fun and over-the-top, doesn't take itself seriously, and has pretty good fights. And if you're afraid of fanservice, there is barely any, it's all comedic and nothing erotic.
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Post by: Delfigamer on November 02, 2016, 07:26:47 PM
⑨;Balls (https://myanimelist.net/anime/32962/Occultic_Nine) makes me so happy I'm going to write here again just to announce how happy I am. Yay!
2000% real AOTS no crack legit.
_

Somehow I totally missed Flip Flappers until now. It starts well, and it keeps getting better. Also, it reminds me of Renko, Merry and Watashi (https://myanimelist.net/anime/10357/Jinrui_wa_Suitai_Shimashita).
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Post by: Koumepatchy on November 08, 2016, 01:01:19 AM
Finishing up Smile Precure while also starting up Heartcatch Precure, I'm excited about becoming a true precure fan.
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Post by: CenturyEgg on November 08, 2016, 01:49:00 AM
Following Keijo and Drifters this season, not much else. And caught up with the LN for kumo desu ga, nani ka?

I reccomend the LN tensei shitara slime datta ken. It is in some ways quite similar to Kumo, but has abit more development to the cast of characters and feels better paced. Kumo wins by far by having a likeable main character but the overall development of Slime appeals to me more haha.
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on November 16, 2016, 01:44:40 AM
Mostly shotgunning Re: Zero right now and it's destroying my heart

rem ;;

Edit:
what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck


Edit 2:
God damn it all Rem is breaking my heart WHY MUST THIS STORY CONSTANTLY MAKE HER SUFFER
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on November 17, 2016, 03:37:07 AM
okay i really need to rant all of a sudden because what the hell

i just finished re: zero and

what the HELL was that ending dear god that was the fucking worst

oh? was there supposed to be plot for the story, that was so elegantly and specifically set up throughout the series? well fuck that, it's all about subaru and emilia and his complete lack of chemistry with her

what about elsa? she said she'd return. she's not dead! what about rom and felt? they were relevant characters, dropped like a sack of bricks, only to be given a dramatic return to be dropped YET AGAIN

and come on I just can't feel anything for emilia when you drop her as a character from the plot halfway through the story and only use her as a plot device up until the last episode that's so fucking dumb

and whatever happened to roswaal and beatrice? they didn't even show up at all in the end

and oh, was there supposed to be some overarching plot to the story, like I DUNNO THE ENTIRE PLOT BEING SET AROUND CHOOSING A NEW RULER and it was just forgotten

and god damn that last fight, while a clever duo with subaru and julius, was so fucking stupid and betelgeuse was the worst villain ever

the white whale fight was FAR more exciting

especially since not only was it far more dynamic, it contained far more relevant characters and subaru was paired with someone who actually mattered a WHOLE FUCKING LOT to the entire story as a main character aka rem, and was just FAR MORE MEANINGFUL IN GENERAL

and what? just after all that, after the whale is dead, you just drop rem from the story entirely and never mention her again? just so you can just continue railroading the plot right into subaru finally becoming a decent enough person to apologize for how much of a fuck he was through the whole story to emilia, who barely fucking mattered at that point? what gives?

and that final confession wasn't even that impactful, meanwhile, the part where subaru is fucking spilling his guts and tearing himself apart, revealing how he truly feels to rem was FAR more character defining and it was just so fucking CRUEL

first you beg rem to run away with you because you're scared, realistically and understandably so
and rem just completely bares her soul to you and tells you how much she deeply loves you after you saved her and she got to know you better and become your friend
to the FUCKING POINT WHERE SHE EXPLAINS EVERY DETAIL OF THE LIFE SHE WANTED TO HAVE WITH YOU ALL THE WAY TO HER VERY LAST BREATH while you are breaking down
and returns every last bit of your self hatred with even more love, love for the person she genuinely would have run away with had he not forsaken the part of himself that she fell in love with
and all of a sudden, you feel better, you feel energized and driven... to find emilia, who can't even fucking trust you because you're a selfish fuck who forced her to stay on a pedestal she did not want to be on to the point of causing her to end her friendship with you
right in front of rem, after you beg her to run away with you, after she tells you how much she loves you, you reject her

and yet, to her, you're her goddamn hero and she stays faithfully by your side, love unrequited, as your friend and confidant

until you just drop her from the plot after she served her purpose against the whale

just

fuck this

rem was by far and away the most dynamic and relevant character outside of subaru himself (certainly a BETTER and more well-written character) and she was discarded like she was nothing

she was made to suffer through the ENTIRE STORY and wasn't even given a happy ending

i am so, so mad

this whole series had SO MUCH potential but you wasted the last few episodes on a fucking stupid villain, a pitiful romance subplot, and loose ends for days

that's not even mentioning that subaru STILL never managed to explain why he was able to do everything he did because of the witch possessing him or whatever, whenever he tried to do so

AND THAT WAS STILL NEVER EXPLAINED OR RESOLVED

i am mad

ok

i would say i feel better now but i don't

i feel like i was given a gift that was beautifully wrapped and i was delighted to unwrap

only to find that the contents of the box is a little paper that says nothing but "fuck you"

sigh
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Post by: commandercool on November 17, 2016, 04:03:29 AM
Yeah, Re:Zero was on my to watch list for a while, and then people turned on it and now it really isn't... What do you think all things considered? Worth a watch despite the ending, or not?
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on November 17, 2016, 04:28:57 AM
I don't even know how to respond to that, really.

I would say "please watch it for
Rem because she is a precious, wonderful character
" but if you stop at the episode I'd recommend you stop at, it's still a massive cliffhanger that resolves nothing to the point of even saying that nothing was resolved at the end of the episode. It was pretty great up until episode 18, which had one of the most heart-stompingly beautiful scenes I had seen in a long while, and it continued to do okay (with some frustration) up until episode 21. After that, it's absolutely fucking stupid.

I don't know how to recommend it. I could speak very happily about a lot of Re: Zero, but I'm so fucking mad at it right now that I'll leave it up to your discretion. Just know that the ending was the biggest letdown you could ever imagine (and from what I am hearing, the source material only gets worse). In fact, it goes beyond letdown straight into betrayal. I can't forgive it.
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Post by: Delfigamer on November 17, 2016, 07:25:57 AM
emilia master race (http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/164/397/b94.jpg)

Let me also remind you that the main focus of the story was Subaru/white-haired-half-elf relationship since episode 1, and it has never changed.

Spoilers from the source say
Subaru decided to go the harem route. Rem was okay with that. Emilia was like
"who the fuck is Rem?"
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on November 17, 2016, 01:51:38 PM
I honestly don't give a shit who he got paired with. My point is that the writing and execution of his relationship with Emilia was fucking garbage and held next to no weight-- meanwhile, his relationship with Rem was far better executed and dropped like it was insignificant. And to drop Emilia from the plot half way through the story and treating her as a delicate flower to be rescued COMPLETELY FUCKING UNDERMINES the type of person she was outlined to be. And what was that reconciliation? Three minutes at the very end of the last episode, Subaru basically fucking parrots all of the very beautiful things Rem said to him in episode 18, says he loves her, and says he's sorry for being a dick, and all of a sudden Emilia reverses all of the negative feelings she had? Are you kidding me? That was a throwaway plot that was dug up in the most lazy way.

I don't care what was intended, the execution was completely unforgivable.
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Post by: Delfigamer on November 17, 2016, 05:13:57 PM
I honestly don't give a shit who he got paired with.
From what I've seen, nearly all of the people who weren't happy with how the adaptation turned out were also fond of Rem, at least more so than of Emilia.
I, on the other hand, happened to stumble into a somewhat paradoxical situation, where I want Emilia to be the best girl, but understand that, objectively, she probably isn't (as you've said, her character hasn't been really shown yet). And I was quite satisfied with the series till the very end.

We've already talked about it on another site, and the general consensus was that White Fox screwed up with the adaptation. Many important things were left out, the last arc was basically rewritten, and the last episode just makes no sense. Also, many of the unresolved questions you've asked here are actually dealt with in the books. So, I think you shouldn't avoid the novels just based on what whoever you were listening to said.
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Post by: BT on November 17, 2016, 06:30:35 PM
We've already talked about it on another site, and the general consensus was that White Fox screwed up with the adaptation. Many important things were left out, the last arc was basically rewritten, and the last episode just makes no sense.
This sounds like Akame ga Kill!

I can't take that seriously, though, since Rem:Zero was a huge success for White Fox. They know how to capitalize on these sorts of shows.
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on November 17, 2016, 06:46:46 PM
I can see why it was successful, because it was fantastic up until around episode 21, and then the plot was complete shit that insults the quality of the rest of the show. People were already invested by that point.
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Post by: Chaore on November 17, 2016, 07:51:54 PM
This sounds like Akame ga Kill!

I can't take that seriously, though, since Rem:Zero was a huge success for White Fox. They know how to capitalize on these sorts of shows.

Knowing the cuts made- honestly I disagree too. White Fox did pretty good with an otherwise poor franchise for the first half, and would make me believe a mansion arc ending.

If anything, I'd say their problem was giving it way too long a run and not finding a good stopping point. They were way too trigger-happy with the 25 episodes, and probably had an S2 planned before they realized how fucking badly the missing part of the final episode would make the series plummet.

If they stopped at Mansion arc or early... whatever happens after I gave up on the train wreck, it might have ended better. Many questions, sure, but too many of those aren't capable of being answered in any speedy time format because jesus christ nothing really happens if you think about it.

Re:Zero honestly mostly suffers from having been an overambitious test that... failed, if only because the audience clearly liked the wrong parts of the story. Because the story was also ADMITTEDLY made to troll consumers and not play for them ahahaha but that's another story, but in short, it's not White Fox, it's Re:Zero itself honestly.
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Post by: Delfigamer on November 18, 2016, 12:56:45 AM
If anything, I'd say their problem was giving it way too long a run and not finding a good stopping point. They were way too trigger-happy with the 25 episodes, and probably had an S2 planned before they realized how fucking badly the missing part of the final episode would make the series plummet.
That's unlikely. Most of the stuff they cut were Chekhov's guns to much later arcs (some of them didn't shoot even in the books yet), and the last episodes basically killed any continuity whatsoever. I personally think WF specifically planned not to make S2, and tried to cut the first three arcs in a way that would make sense by itself, which came to bite them in the ass.

Rem:Zero was a huge success for White Fox
See, that's what I'm talking about. Everyone was so invested with a girl that was only a plot device designed not to let Subaru fall into depths of despair; so when the anime dealt with her like with a device, it accomplished nothing but fueled the already present anger.
Again, from what my sorces say, the books promote Rem to a proper heroine instead, so they should go better even on this front.

Lemme just copy what the sources quote.
Quote
As he continued to realize many things, there was the protection and clean-up of the village. The future seemed full of difficulties. —Also, before that, there was another mountain that Subaru had to climb.

“Ahh, umm, Emilia-tan… I have a really important thing to talk to you about, but..”

“Yes, what is it?”

Emilia had put one finger in her silver hair, and she slowly turned her neck to face Subaru. Her bluish purple eyes were full of trust, and seeing them Subaru was able to feel that his actions had been worth it. However, he was still scared when he thought of how those eyes would react to what he would say next.

Subaru had a problem that he could not avoid that he needed to tell Emilia– that was naturally, about Rem.

If you were speaking of people he needed to thank, in this time’s loop there was not a single existence who had so wholeheartedly helped him than Rem.

Thanks to her deep love and dedication Subaru she had kindly healed his heart that was once broken, and she had called back to him a resolve to stand back up and fight against fate.

If there hadn’t been that moment, Subaru would not have been standing here right now, were it not for her existence he would never have been able to escape from the hell of giving up.

Rem had stayed by his side and continued to support him during his most bitter and painful moment.

Towards her, who had done all of this for him, Subaru held the deepest affection and wonder.

Up until now, Subaru had believed that his thoughts were earnestly focused on only one person. In reality, to Subaru the person on his mind was also Emilia and no one else.

However, the existence of Rem, while leaving his affection towards Emilia unchanging, had become just as large to him and remained in his heart.

And so Subaru made a clear choice. It may be unsightly to become serious all of a sudden, but since he was unable to give up on his thoughts towards either party,

–He decided to take both Emilia and Rem.

Also, he had already received permission from Rem for this insolent idea. All that was left with this problem was persuading Emilia, and he had been told by Rem to talk to her together, but,

“If I depended on Rem up until that point, I’d be the worst of the worst.”

Even if he had created the chance for Rem to also join in on the conversation, it was Subaru’s responsibility to begin speaking about it. He was scheming to receive the love of two girls, so it was a hurdle that he had to overcome.

Taking a breath, he chose his words while feeling his heart throbbing quickly. His forced his line of sight that was swimming around to face forward, and looked at Emilia. She was staring back at him. Super cute.

“It’s something that is really hard to talk about, but I would like you to hear me out. Of course, I think that I’ll need to report this to her sister eventually as well, but… First, I wanted to tell you.”

“….Yes?”

In hesitation, Subaru had made an unnecessary introduction, confusing Emilia. Agonizing over his weakness of putting it off like this, Subaru desperately racked his brains for words.

His head was put into full gear, the fastest it had been during these past few days. He worked his synapse so hard it seemed like sparks would come out, and tried to find the best response – !

“Actually, it’s about Rem. Rem is, uh, she.. to me… Uhh, you know? And so, by that confession I was really acting for myself but..”

Sweat slowly spread over his forehead as Subaru started to speak. It seemed like he was already trying for some sort of excuse, but he thought that Emilia, who was good at guessing would understand with him saying just this much.

In front of Subaru who was covered in sweat, Emilia raised her hand and said “wait.”

“Subaru, calm down. I lost track of what you were trying to say. I understand that you are trying your best to explain it. You’re a good kid, so slow down.”

“Saying it’s because I’m a good kid, it feels like my rating went down.. No, I’m not being manly. Ahh, I’ll say it cleanly. Um, so… actually Rem also said that she loved me, so since Emilia-tan also likes me… uh, you’ll both be mine, uh how should I put it..?”

Entrusting himself to the momentum he made a two-timing declaration.

Thinking back to his statement just now, he drew back considerably. Of course, Emilia’s response would be similar to his own, or she would probably look at him with eyes of disappointment and scorn. After imagining such a pessimistic situation, Subaru nervously looked at her, and

“ ——-”

Emilia’s response was completely different from Subaru’s imagination.

She frowned at his words, and stayed quiet while putting a finger to her lips in deep thought. Scrutinizing his declaration, she was thinking of a proper punishment to give to him – it wasn’t a light atmosphere like that.

“Subaru.”

“Yes.”

After his name was called, Subaru turned to face Emilia directly.

She also faced directly towards his gaze filled with resolution. However, her eyes were full of bewilderment, and Subaru was unable to understand her reaction.

And then, the following words completely went beyond Subaru’s comprehension.

“–Who is Rem?”
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on November 18, 2016, 01:39:11 AM
The biggest problem is that, as far as the anime goes, they wrote Rem, who I guess was supposed to be a plot device (which doesn't do the quality of her character justice tbh), far, far better than they wrote Emilia. to the point where she may as well have been the main female character, and just dropped her once she had served her intended purpose. Had Emilia's character not been executed so poorly, I would not have minded this as much as I did.

And don't get me wrong, I don't hate Emilia at all and if her romance with Subaru is meant to be a core piece of the plot, they shouldn't have dropped her from the story as abruptly as they did and just ignored her existence until the last episode. I really wanted to like her! But it's hard to get attached to a character when all of the plot lines that involve her are completely ignored for half of the series. After the episode where Subaru makes a complete ass of himself in front of her and the Astrea knights, she loses all trust in him and leaves. Good, I liked that. She NEEDED to leave so Subaru could stop being such a pathetic fuck, and honestly, she deserved better than the way he was treating her. HOWEVER, she should not have been gone from the plot for so long. There was no chance for her to grow or develop in the story at all, which left her a flat, one-dimensional character. She became the plot device and Rem, who was already a very prominent character in the story, took further prominence as she gained all the action and screen time. And even then, if Rem was meant to be the plot device that pulls Subaru out of his madness and self-loathing, that would have been fine had Emilia been able to pull her weight as a character, and she just didn't. THAT is what is making me so upset with how the story played out. She just got railroaded into the last few minutes of the last episode. They could have made the last few episodes, that were complete garbage, so much better had they allowed Subaru to resolve his issues with Emilia soon after the White Whale fight and let her be a significant character during the fight with Betelgeuse and the Fingers. She had a moment where she got to fight, once the writers remembered that she actually has neat ice powers and is a very formidable fighter, but then Subaru died and she got thrown right back on the pedestal of delicate damsel that she should have never been. She should have been right at Subaru's side fighting Betelgeuse (and then removed that stupid chase scene after he gets crushed by rocks) to spend more time actually resolving the story instead of leaving everything hanging. THAT is why I'm so irritated, the execution was so unforgivably bad.

I'm also rather irritated at the notion that I'm somehow bitter that Rem didn't end up with Subaru and that's why I didn't like the way the anime played out, and that couldn't be farther from the truth. Honestly, Rem doesn't need to be paired with anyone because the quality of her character is quite solid the way it is (and she already has a pretty good dynamic with Subaru and Ram anyway). So to push her into a romantic relationship just for the waifuism doesn't matter to me at all. What irritated me is that the story wrote her into suffering every step of her way through the story, and she grew very well from it, but there was no payoff, no resolution, nothing. She spent so much time being a significant character with lots of screen time to simply not existing. That's why the audience was far more taken with her-- because she actually had presence and impact and overall SIGNIFICANCE in the story that Emilia never achieved.

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Post by: Chaore on November 18, 2016, 02:06:02 AM
That's unlikely. Most of the stuff they cut were Chekhov's guns to much later arcs (some of them didn't shoot even in the books yet), and the last episodes basically killed any continuity whatsoever. I personally think WF specifically planned not to make S2, and tried to cut the first three arcs in a way that would make sense by itself, which came to bite them in the ass.

As far as I know actually a lot of them aren't guns and are basic info on what's going on, actually. But if that's the case no they're cut because they weren't immediately relevant and we have to make the plot go along at a much faster pace than a written novel. 'Not shot' means 'Not relevant yet so we have 0 reason to save and need to make cuts' and 'shot gun' means 'will return later and can be adressed then' essentially.

Novels of any kind get sliced when made into animation format, no matter if it's a book novel or cheap web novel anime.

Again, from what my sorces say, the books promote Rem to a proper heroine instead, so they should go better even on this front.

This is where I laugh at you like a hyena from now on because you think proper heroines get
written out of the story by surprise gluttony priests
.

Oh my goodness, no, Novel Rem gets it much worse.

Also, that scene was originally included in the episode storyboards for the final episode. That's my key clue that they were considering an S2 originally, but they decided on bailing at some point before storyboard->episode. Or packed a spare cut without the part.
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Post by: SEI on November 18, 2016, 02:15:31 AM
aww, well ok then LET ME KNOW if you ever need someone to nerd out about kumoko with or if you ever reach out to the web novels and start getting mind blown

I CAME HERE FOR DISCUSSIONS ABOUT MY PRECIOUS SPIDER CHILD. That said, there have been so many chapters, I've pretty much forgotten the names of most non-spidery characters.

Also, Sophia looks way cuter than I expected and I wish I hadn't seen the illustration for Ariel so at least I don't have to know what a hot mess she looks like.
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Post by: Drake on November 18, 2016, 10:38:33 AM
So I just watched the first episode of the Pokemon Sun/Moon anime.

I really liked it.

The voice actors for the new characters are great, and the aesthetic of both visuals and music were solid. Everything about the episode felt like it came from one of the early Pokemon movies, down to the explanations of why they're in Alola, the various establishing shots of all the different Pokemon and interactions with them, to the casual upbeat battle, and so on. The animation style really didn't bother me at all, and the animation direction and overall quality were much better than I anticipated. Of course, it's just the first episode, but I hope they keep it up. Also, the OP and ED are extremely catchy, and the VA for Satoshi sings the OP.

That being said, the whole episode was just establishing various things and I haven't gotten Sun yet so I have no idea what structure the plot is going to have besides "beat the trials". It didn't really clarify what role the school has either besides "Ash is going", but I'm totally up to see where this goes.

EDIT: Oh wait I forgot they aired two episodes lmao brb
EDIT: nvm no subs in an hd encode yet

Ok so episode 2 was good too. Not as good, animation wasn't as fantastic besides in some key parts, but still good. If this is the standard for the animation I'm not worried at all. It also seems to be pointing that Ash is going to go adventure to beat the trials, but the school is going to be used as a hub point or something? Anyways it's looking decent. I like how they give you a taste of the Z-Move (being Gigavolt Havoc, not Pikashoot) but don't actually give it to him yet. Good decision for multiple reasons.
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Post by: Delfigamer on November 19, 2016, 10:29:52 PM
Ah, so that [spoiler] explains why Nyankoro (http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/not-lives-r1153) is so perfect. I mean... she is so perfect!
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Post by: Delfigamer on November 20, 2016, 10:09:56 AM
Wait, did Shun Moritsuka (https://myanimelist.net/anime/32962/Occultic_Nine) just talk with who I think it was (https://myanimelist.net/anime/31240/Re_Zero_kara_Hajimeru_Isekai_Seikatsu)?
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Post by: Koumepatchy on November 22, 2016, 03:05:44 PM
Focusing on the second season of Gochiusa after watching the first season in two day. What a shame with re;zero from the looks of conversation it turned shit at such a weird time, will still have to check it out at some point considering it still has an otokonoko.
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Post by: Bardiche on December 02, 2016, 01:32:45 AM
#YuriOnIce

I need nothing else in my life, now or forever.
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Post by: Koumepatchy on December 02, 2016, 05:58:18 AM
#YuriOnIce

I need nothing else in my life, now or forever.
Can't help but be a tiny bit disappointed that it seems to be about boys named yuri opposed to ice skating lesbians.
Also I didn't even finish gochiusa, time to work on that tonight, I suppose.
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Post by: Drake on December 02, 2016, 06:21:46 AM
watch flip flappers if you want lesbian
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Post by: Jq1790 on December 04, 2016, 04:54:16 AM
Oh right, I guess I'm actually able to post here.  Got sent to watch Hibike! Euphonium. Watched S1 in like 2-3 days, am current on s2 except the most recent one because :CR free member: No regrets.  Give me more KumiRei scenes.  All the KumiRei scenes.

(the other characters are nice too don't get me wrong, but the interactions between Kumiko/Reina give me life.)
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 04, 2016, 12:24:40 PM
Wow, ViVid (https://myanimelist.net/anime/25939/Mahou_Shoujo_Lyrical_Nanoha_ViVid) was such a different experience they should've dropped the label of Nanoha since then. It feels much more like YuriOnMahjong (http://myanimelist.net/anime/5671/Saki) rather than What's The Worst That Could Happen Between Terrorists And Children; and, for me personally, it was a good thing. Frankly, the old Nanoha was quite boring for me.
Yeah, since I'm a heretic already, let me add one more thing: I like Einhardt's device Teo much more than Engrish Projectors. I still don't understand the point in using "English", as well as "German", both storytelling-wise and lore-wise. It's not like they are produced in Germany, or TSA has any regard for industrial languages on a planet they don't even administrate; and you could shave a good amount of narm (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Narm/Main) off just by using a translation convention.
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Post by: TenPlates on December 06, 2016, 06:06:33 PM
I'm still trying to catch up with One Piece, that anime is entertaining to watch. Then again, there are others shows that I need to watch, like Madoka Magica or Nichijou... Even if that last one doesn't make that much sense.
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on December 06, 2016, 07:23:21 PM
Totally late to the show, but I finished Kyoukai no Kanata last night. Pretty good, but the fanservice episode in the middle, while cute, was totally OOC and out of place. Would have worked better to make that an OVA or something and put something more substantial to the plot in that episode slot.
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Post by: BT on December 06, 2016, 07:41:01 PM
Totally late to the show, but I finished Kyoukai no Kanata last night. Pretty good, but the fanservice episode in the middle, while cute, was totally OOC and out of place. Would have worked better to make that an OVA or something and put something more substantial to the plot in that episode slot.
KnK's plot has...serious issues, though. It shines through in the last few episodes and then in the movie, it's nonsense. I like it when they flair up the characters instead, especially with how attractive they look.

Actually, wait, we agree on that. Episode 6 should be an OVA. Guess I just wanted to talk about the plot.
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on December 06, 2016, 10:15:22 PM
It definitely has plot issues, but they weren't as unforgivably bad as SOME CERTAIN SERIES THAT I'M STILL MAD ABOUT. I wonder if the novels are worth reading.
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 08, 2016, 01:58:38 AM
Occultic;Nine is the best zombie survival movie of the 21 century.
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Post by: Lt Streko on December 09, 2016, 05:56:01 PM
I recently finished Re:Zero. I thought it was really good though I'm enjoying all the angry reaction videos of episode 18 possibly more than the last few episodes of the anime itself. I'm also officially a Remtard and Felix is best trap. My friend is trying to get me to watch Plastic Feels, though I'm not sure what I want to watch next.
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Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on December 09, 2016, 06:01:15 PM
I still think Re:Zero 18 is absolutely fucking fantastic. I love Rem to pieces and think she had far better chemistry with what's-his-face-i-already-forgot, but didn't care if there was a romance between the two. They were fantastic as friends. It's just that the direction the anime took after that was unforgivable shit.
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Post by: Lt Streko on December 09, 2016, 08:07:49 PM
I don't think the end was THAT bad. I still enjoyed the last few episodes. That being said, there were certainly some issues with the last few episodes. My biggest issue is the fact that Emillia doesn't really do ANYTHING. Kind of reminded be a bit of Asuna from SAO. Probably my favorite thing about those last few episodes was Betelgeuse.
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Post by: Jq1790 on December 10, 2016, 12:22:17 AM
Plastic Feels
If this means Plastic Memories, WATCH IT.  Be ready, you heard that nickname for it for a reason.  It's a WONDERFUL series though and one of my favorites I've watched this year.
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Post by: Lt Streko on December 10, 2016, 02:13:40 AM
Lol yeah, that's what I meant. My friend always calls Plastic Memories "Plastic Feels" so I kind of got that name stuck in my head. Not gonna lie though, it's not TOO difficult to make me cry from an anime. I mean I still cry to the ending of Angel Beats.
Anyways, I'll probably end up watching it next, I've only heard good things about it. I'll let you know what I think.
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 10, 2016, 03:09:34 AM
Anyways, I'll probably end up watching it next, I've only heard good things about it. I'll let you know what I think.
Well then, here's a bad thing from me: I didn't buy the drama. I don't remember what exactly was wrong with it, but Taiga claims I tagged it as "stupid", so... that.
...My responce after watching 11 episodes says "My feel train stays still with its suspension (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief) broken", so here's also that.
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Post by: Lt Streko on December 11, 2016, 07:59:46 PM
So I JUST finished Plastic Memories, and even though I saw the ending coming since episode 1 (I mean who didn't?) I still cried. Isla was too damn cute. Best girl. I enjoyed the show even though it was VERY predictable and relatively standard, though this makes it easy to watch in a casually manner. Honestly, the show to me was very similar to Eden, particularly both of the main female protagonists Isla and Sion.
I mean they were both artificial beings created by humans who ultimately came to terms with their inevitable deaths and perished.
They even look the SAME.

Regardless, I did enjoy the show. Now time to find something else to cry to watch.
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 12, 2016, 01:40:28 AM
Psst, LtStreko... have you seen Clannad (https://myanimelist.net/anime/2167/Clannad)?
it was VERY predictable and relatively standard
That was one of the reasons why PM failed for me. Another was that they started with "feels" straight away, before I even got a chance to get attached to them. Overall, it looked more like "Look at me! Isn't it sad? Look at me! LOOK AT ME!"
In contrast, Clannad has a whole season that serves no purpose but to build up to the actual story (seriously, by itself it's pretty meh).
Helck (http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/helck-r17710) starts with a good comedy, before it gradually lets you in on how serious the character's problems are, and then there's the flashback. The only thing that disapponts me is that it's not adapted into anime yet.
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Post by: Lt Streko on December 12, 2016, 06:06:06 PM
Psst, LtStreko... have you seen Clannad (https://myanimelist.net/anime/2167/Clannad)?
I've not only seen it but I've even played the VN as well (have only done two paths). Clannad was pretty good, but one of the things I love about it is how time actually passes and the characters legit grow up and become adults. Those last few episodes though, my god, all the feels. It was extremely well done overall and I felt the first season by itself was decent, though it was obviously a setup for the second season. I was told to watch it after I became obsessed with Angel Beats! Pretty much anything done by Key I've found has been worth while to watch. I plan on watching Little Busters soon, though I've been prioritizing other shows over it.
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Post by: Delfigamer on December 31, 2016, 04:57:06 AM
Quote
The (cold) joke is 'mint' in Japanese is "hakka", and Yasuo is a hacker. (http://bato.to/reader#6c2ebd25383093e2_6)
I know an even cooler joke (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=224) and I feel moderately ashamed for this.
Ammy's OS of choice is
Linux Mint.
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Post by: Delfigamer on January 11, 2017, 07:32:18 AM
Okay, let's review this season's supply of cute girls.
Urara Meirochou (https://myanimelist.net/anime/32924/Urara_Meirochou) looks very promising. The Second Coming of Umaru-chan (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33731/Gabriel_DropOut) starts pretty good too. Half-chan (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33988/Demi-chan_wa_Kataritai) kinda pales in comparison, actually, though there's still hope. Pork-men Strike Back (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33487/Masamune-kun_no_Revenge) has a good trap. The kickstarterted one (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33489/Little_Witch_Academia_TV) is okay. Akiba'strip (https://myanimelist.net/anime/34051/Akibas_Trip_The_Animation) is I don't even.
By the way, did you know catgirls are cute? Well, of course you did, but, you see, there's one thing that is even better than catgirls; that is, foxgirls. So, with reasoning like this, I've also started Wagaya no Oinari-sama (https://myanimelist.net/anime/3322/Wagaya_no_Oinari-sama), and from the 2 episodes I've seen so far, this stuff is old (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny). So, is there something else about foxgirls you'd like to recommend me?
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Post by: Phasm on January 12, 2017, 10:45:06 AM
I'm on episode 6 of Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
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Post by: Think Komachi with a Rifle on February 12, 2017, 08:22:32 AM
demi-chan seems to have struck a chord with me on disability stuff.
So this is what it's like to find characters actually relatable. Episodes covering anxiety over disclosure, adaptations/ assistive tech,  support networks, so good...
 
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Post by: Nobu on February 15, 2017, 06:33:19 AM
Hibike! Euphonium and Avatar: The Last Airbender, both rewatches. Also going to start Diamond is Unbreakable soon.
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Post by: Fetch()tirade on February 15, 2017, 09:55:24 AM
Konosuba consistently delivers
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Post by: Delfigamer on February 15, 2017, 01:12:29 PM
So, a few episodes later, the cream of the current season seems to be Scum's Wish (https://myanimelist.net/anime/32949/Kuzu_no_Honkai), Konosuba and Vigne is the best girl and this is why (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33731/Gabriel_DropOut).
Scum's Wish is a romantic comedy with elements of drama, following a little bunch of girls and boys on their journey to discover what is good, what is bad, what they really wanted all along, why they don't have it and why they are scum. Yuri included.
Gabriel Dropout should strongly remind you of My Little Sister Can't Be This NEET (https://myanimelist.net/manga/50133/Himouto_Umaru-chan), but I personally find it closer to Nyaruko-san (http://myanimelist.net/anime/11785/Haiyore_Nyaruko-san) in terms of comedy, soul and, of course, best girl arsenal (which makes GDP (http://bato.to/reader#cb1b181d22b6666c_10) even better).
As for the rest, Demi-chan somehow doesn't intrigue me as much, Kobayashi-san seems good, but not exceptional, Yuri On Oracles (https://myanimelist.net/anime/32924/Urara_Meirochou), with its yuri removed, remains kinda dull, and Grill Bill (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33487/Masamune-kun_no_Revenge) is a trainwreck of a Chinese knockoff of Oregairu on vegetables.
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Post by: Kasu on February 19, 2017, 03:51:44 AM
Finished DokiDoki Precure and it's cemented its place as my third favourite Pretty Cure series behind Heartcatch and Smile. Now I've only got Happiness Charge and Go! Princess left. That said though, KiraKira is turning out to be pretty good so far, but I can't wait to see how things go once they've gotten past the introductory arc.
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Post by: Mеа on February 21, 2017, 04:25:11 PM
For those of you kumo fans who may have stopped following the series for a bit, kumo desu ga nanika? has finally managed to catch up to the elf war timeline and so we can finally expect to have story development starting tomorrow or so (or later today if the author feels generous).
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Post by: Silent Harmony on February 25, 2017, 07:20:05 PM
I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I really love Demi-chan (http://www.crunchyroll.com/interviews-with-monster-girls) as a series; at the very least I find it underrated. To me it's the best written "monster girl" manga/anime out right now, mainly because it does a brilliant job of writing fully fleshed-out characters that just happen to be part monster. In fact the series itself goes into detail over the "are they monster or are they human" question. It's a near-perfect blend of serious moments and comedy that the genre desperately needed.

Also, as any slice-of-life show needs to succeed, the characters are (almost) all enjoyable and grow over time. Today's episisode showed
Yuki, who up until now displayed nothing but shyness and insinuated innocence, is secretly a fan of shounen gag manga, echii-ness included and, in fact, a guilty pleasure itself.
That said, she still doesn't ursurp
Hikari
as the best character of the show, with
Hikari's unintentional double-entendre basically pulling her ahead for good. God I love that goofball so much.

Also I'm honestly shocked how much I'm enjoying Kemono Friends. Like seriously there's obvious flaws (especially in the animation) but it's so charming I can't not enjoy it.

EDIT: SPOILER LINK= This blog post does a pretty good job explaining part of the charm to me. (http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2017/02/21/feature-aniwords-whats-the-deal-with-kemono-friends)
It was indeed around episodes 2 and 3 that the creepy feeling of "what the fuck happened to the Humans who built this place and why is Bag-chan here?" really started to occupy my mind. In retrospect, part of that is indeed the fact that nobody else questions this at all and instead just goes on being cute and doing cute things. It leads to the viewer (or at least crazy people like me) feeling like that one character who always seems to notice something is off when their buddies ignore it, leading them to exclaim "Wait, wait! Are we really just going to ignore [the elephant in the room]?" followed by reluctantly following along, the questions ever gnawing away at the back of our minds. It's rather clever, though maybe unintentional? Either way it's shockingly entertaining.
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Post by: Spotty Len on February 26, 2017, 09:44:28 AM
I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I really love Demi-chan (http://www.crunchyroll.com/interviews-with-monster-girls) as a series; at the very least I find it underrated.
Unpopular?
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Post by: Delfigamer on February 26, 2017, 01:37:20 PM
He probably saw me underwhelmed by it, and thought that was the majority's opinion.
Not like Demi-chan is a bad story, it just doesn't engage me personally as much as some others.
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Post by: Silent Harmony on February 26, 2017, 10:35:27 PM
He probably saw me underwhelmed by it, and thought that was the majority's opinion.
Not like Demi-chan is a bad story, it just doesn't engage me personally as much as some others.

Not just you, I've heard the same opinion thrown around, especially compared to other shows this season.
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Post by: Spotty Len on February 26, 2017, 11:46:36 PM
I'm surprised to read that, it had been more or less the opposite for me.

I mean, best girl is in this.

(http://i.imgur.com/Qz7RxFP.jpg)
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Post by: Delfigamer on February 27, 2017, 07:21:50 AM
Welp, you know what they say. In a room with 6 weaboos, you are guaranteed to find at least 7 best girls.
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Post by: CenturyEgg on February 28, 2017, 10:21:59 AM
Maid dragon is a pretty strong shot for me cause it does heartwarming pretty well I think. Not sure how to explain it, but I really like how the anime somehow conveys Kobayashi's growing fondness for her two dragon tenants in a way that isn't yuri bait.

Also the opening lines of the OP is catchy as all hell.
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Post by: Delfigamer on March 04, 2017, 01:08:17 AM
Suddenly, the anime of this season comes out to be I Am Surrounded by Raging Animals (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33089/Kemono_Friends), which is neatly summed up in this picture (http://i.imgur.com/C0k19AE.jpg).
A little note: when it starts out with disgusting CG, bear with them, it gets better later.
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Post by: Mew seeker on March 05, 2017, 10:18:24 PM
Suddenly, the anime of this season comes out to be I Am Surrounded by Raging Animals (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33089/Kemono_Friends), which is neatly summed up in this picture (http://i.imgur.com/C0k19AE.jpg).
A little note: when it starts out with disgusting CG, bear with them, it gets better later.

I am watching it too. First episode was... well, not representative of the series as a whole I guess. XD
But because it shown up on knowyourmeme among a few place, I kept watching and it's nice.
Basically, a young girl wake up in some kind of huge animal park filled with animal girl people
and seem to have amnesia as she doesn't know what animal she is even though it's obvious she's a human.
She meet Serval who offer her to bring her to the library so that she finds answers.

It's a series of cute girls meeting more cute girls and they get to know each others and help each others.
That being said, as those thing happens, there are vibes of something that happened in the past before the series started.

If I go by the fanart, the Shoebill girl, the Toki girl and the Penguins girls are very popular.
Also, bkub has made at least 2 comic strip referencing the anime.

Anyway, I can't wait for episode 8, I want to see the Penguin Idols. XD
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Post by: Drake on March 06, 2017, 02:02:18 AM
Pokemon continues to be super good. More people need to watch this.
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Post by: Spotty Len on March 06, 2017, 06:51:41 AM
I'd watch it, if only for the Trial captains (always okay with more Mallow), but Satoshi throughoutly annoys me.
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Post by: MysteriousUsername on March 06, 2017, 11:37:21 PM
Rarely watch anime now but I currently got back into watching Samurai Champloo. I stopped at episode 18 and I haven't watched it in like a year :V :V.

Should probably rewatch it when I finish it. Show helped me go through a really horrible period in my life
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Post by: Lt Streko on March 07, 2017, 07:00:15 PM
Anyone else been watching the new season of Konosuba? I'm not really the biggest fan of shows that are just pure comedy, but this show just always makes me crack up laughing. It's the only anime I've been watching as new episodes come out (I usually wait for shows to be complete then either binge watch the whole series or watch the episodes in chunks).
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Post by: BT on March 07, 2017, 10:08:35 PM
Sangatsu no Lion has been grrrrreat.
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Post by: Delfigamer on March 08, 2017, 07:34:03 AM
Anyone else been watching the new season of Konosuba? I'm not really the biggest fan of shows that are just pure comedy, but this show just always makes me crack up laughing. It's the only anime I've been watching as new episodes come out (I usually wait for shows to be complete then either binge watch the whole series or watch the episodes in chunks).
Yes.
Also, speaking of comedies, I highly recommend Gabriel Dropout (http://bato.to/reader#4bda73db9fa94f27). I very much recommend it.
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Post by: Spotty Len on March 08, 2017, 10:48:49 PM
Gabriel Dropout is the best Reaction Faces material I've seen for a while, and the show is fun overall.
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Post by: Jq1790 on March 09, 2017, 11:56:11 PM
Currently airing:  Maidragon and Fuuka.  Former is hilarious, latter seems to be (albeit predictable as all heck) enjoyable drama.

Considering watching Charlotte since I think I heard that was good too and if it's the one I'm thinking of it had some interesting concepts.  That was good right?
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Post by: Lt Streko on March 10, 2017, 04:20:07 PM
I enjoyed Charlotte. There's some good character development and it's an interesting concept that I enjoyed. If you enjoyed Angel Beats you'll probably enjoy Charlotte. Hell, one of the characters is pretty much the same as one of the side characters in Angel Beats (There's even an Angel Beats cameo in one of the episodes). However, be warned, the ending I felt was rushed and I didn't care too much for it.

Yes.
Also, speaking of comedies, I highly recommend Gabriel Dropout (http://bato.to/reader#4bda73db9fa94f27). I very much recommend it.
My friend (the one I watch Konosuba with) always shows me different clips from the show, It is pretty funny. I'll probably watch it once the season ends.
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Post by: Kasu on March 15, 2017, 05:51:51 AM
Figured this'd be the place to post this. I'm finally getting back into working my way through the light novels I've had backlogged on my shelf for the last several months. I was dreading making my way through SAO's Mother Rosario arc (for reasons that are probably obvious) and it looks like I've accidentally lit a fire inside of me that makes me want to just buy all the English versions that're currently out so that I can finally work my way back up to where I'd left off when the series was still on Baka-Tsuki.

Either way though, now that I've finished it I can finally get into more new territory with The Devil is a Part-Timer and No Game No Life. I... think that the volume of Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? that's sitting unread at the moment is the last volume covered by the anime, but I'm not sure at the moment. I kinda hope it is though because I have the bad habit of either watching/reading the source material after something interests me to pick out any corrections/changes/missed stuff that wasn't initially covered so that I get the full story and it can occasionally be a real slog before I get to anything that'd be considered "new" to me.

Case-in-point, I'm not actually sure if I'll ever be able to read the entirety of A Certain Magical Index, but I'm sure as hell gonna try.
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Post by: Rin Satsuki on March 15, 2017, 11:52:15 PM
Planning to watch Nanbaka!

...

This anime is full of traps...
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Post by: elminster1372 on March 22, 2017, 10:28:56 PM
I'm surprised nobody brought up Little Witch Academia yet. It's been amazing so far, with the right blend of comedy and action, and the characters are extremely relatable (especially Akko^^). Many of the other airing anime of this season, however, have left me significantly disappointed.

Masamune Kun no Revenge, while it started with a possibly interesting premise, it turned out to be borderline unbelievable, with unrealistic character relations. Moreover, most of the characters are way too mean spirited to inspire any sympathy in the viewer. This in itself would not be a major problem, as many other good anime have a cast of not-so-sympathetic chars (Death Note comes to mind). But in those shows, what saves the chars is that, even if their intentions are generally ambigous or outright evil, at least they have something (be it valor, wits, or something else) to be admired for. Masamune-kun's chars, on the other hand, not only are unsympathetic, but also lack any other redeeming traits which might spur your admiration or respect. Pass.

Seiren also seemed promising at first sight, what with the animation being actually good and fresh, as well as Tsuneki being somewhat interesting as a char. As the show progressed, though, the complete lack of reasonable char development killed it for me. The fact that each arc only lasts 4 episodes is no excuse, either - the first arc of Kokoro Connect lasts 5 episodes, and by then you already get extremely attached to the MCs, to the point of actually weeping for them. In Seiren, on the other hand, we have a pathetically useless MC who proves, time and again, to be too embarassed from just about anything to do something worth the viewer's respect or sympathy, while the girls inexplicably fall in love for him despite his apparent uselessness. Pass.

Fuuka suffers from most of the same flaws Seiren has, except that you're stuck with only one arc and so it gets boring quite faster. The triangle is simply unbearable - not because it is predictable in its outcome (most triangles in anime are - just look at Toradora or White Album 2), but because the chars dynamics are unbelievable and often relying on extremely poor communication skills. If 50%+ of the drama comes from the chars being willing to misunderstand everything, not doing a thing, and just sitting around mellowing in the consequences of their stupidity, then you can't help but wonder why should you care in the first place. They brought it upon themselves, over and over again. Pass.

Demi-chan... this show could've been good. And I mean, quite good. But here's the problem. If you make a show about girls who are stuck with a problem which impairs their integration in normal social life, you should at least make an attempt to portray them as actually rounded characters, rather than just focus on their anormality. The demis, however, have few - if any - quirks to speak of, and basically no issues or problems which do not stem from their demi nature. What's worse, the show actually shoots down the whole idea of treating them as normal people, basically approving the excessively caring attitude of Takahashi-sensei at the expense of any actual char development of anyone involved. What we get, thus, is mostly a bunch of pointless heartwarming moments spotted by made-up drama which is quickly wrapped up before the episode ends. If you want to see a fictional treatment of disability which actually takes disabled chars as real, well-rounded chars who're not defined by their disability only, I'd suggest you to try the visual novel Katawa Shoujo, rather than wasting your time with this anime.

Urara no Meirochou... I don't even know where to begin. Unlike the above shows, I noticed I was in for a less than satisfying experience from day 1. But I stuck with it because hey, maybe it could get better (see below for an example of this actually happening). Maybe the show will eventually grow tired of the same sexual-related jokes, give up on the excessive fanservice, and actually deliver an acceptable blend of action and comedy (like LWA). But no. If anything, it got worse as the series progressed. The only episodes which are somehow barely tolerable are the last two - not only because we finally get something resembling action/plot, but also because one of the chars actually gets called out on the excessive fanservice-pointing-out attitude. However, this does not even begin to redeem this trainwreck of a show. Seriously, what the hell JC Staff? What happened to the studio that made Toradora and Golden Time?

Thankfully, there are also two more shows which are worth watching in this season, besides LWA. On the one hand, Kuzu no Honkai mixes unusual and eye-pleasing art with an equally unusual romance which is a far cry from the whiney-blushy mess of Fuuka or Seiren. It feels sorta like School Days, but a tad more believable and with significantly better art. I did expect this to be good from the get-go and, while it hasn't been as good as I hoped, it still is definitely a worthy watch. Gabriel Dropout, on the other hand... I didn't like this show much at first, but it progressively grew on me and now I am actually starting to like it - which is something I rarely happen to experience when it comes to anime (as you noticed from the above list, generally it's the other way around). I am glad I stuck with this up to this point, at least. In hindsight, it's probably not for everyone, as some of the jokes are a bit repetitive (unlike LWA) and it takes a while to start finding the chars relatable (again, unlike LWA). But if you look past this... it's actually a decent show. And it might get you to laugh.

So, in the end... Kuzu no Honkai and Gabriel Dropout, you might like. Little Witch Academia... definitely give it a try, it's an incredible show. The rest, you're not losing out on anything, really. Especially Urara and Demi-chan.
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Post by: Jq1790 on March 23, 2017, 01:03:58 AM
I keep hearing good things about Scum's Wish/Kuzu no Honkai and it makes me hopeful that it'll eventually get localized be it subbed only or dub/sub so I can see it finally.  (I don't have the anime thing for Amazon who has exclusive legal NA distro rights for it right now)
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Post by: Delfigamer on March 23, 2017, 09:16:24 AM
What we get, thus, is mostly a bunch of pointless "heartwarming" moments spotted by made-up drama which is quickly wrapped up before the episode ends.
Couldn't have worded it better. This is exactly what I feel about Demi-chan, along with a critical lack of best grills.

Urara no Meirochou... I don't even know where to begin. Unlike the above shows, I noticed I was in for a less than satisfying experience from day 1.
I had a different experience with this, though. Maybe because I expected a yuri moeshit fest from the very beginning, and got exactly that. Remember, I am that one guy who thinks Needless (http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/needless-r415) is JoJo done right.

Also, regarding good shows, Elminster seems to have missed D is for Dragon (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33206/Kobayashi-san_Chi_no_Maid_Dragon) and Abandoned Zoo (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33089/Kemono_Friends) (which was abandoned so hard the animals became sentient), though they both were mentioned in the thread already.
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Post by: Silent Harmony on March 25, 2017, 06:40:38 PM
Finished Interview with Monster Girls (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33988/Demi-chan_wa_Kataritai). No spoilers or discussion, just opinion.

Hikari-chan is still best girl.
Satou-sensei is still best woman.
Yuuki-chan is still my vote for dark horse (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark%20horse) of Winter season.

That is all.
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Post by: Spotty Len on March 25, 2017, 10:37:48 PM
Finished Interview with Monster Girls (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33988/Demi-chan_wa_Kataritai). No spoilers or discussion, just opinion.

Hikari-chan is still best girl.
Satou-sensei is still best woman.
Yuuki-chan is still my vote for dark horse (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark%20horse) of Winter season.

That is all.
Agreed with all of the above.

I will add that Takahashi-sensei is best teacher.
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Post by: Silent Harmony on March 25, 2017, 11:42:13 PM
^ The more I think about it, the more guilt I feel for not naming him too. Seriously I can't remember the last time I enjoyed and admired a depiction of a male, adult, high-school teacher as much as Takahashi. His interactions with Hikari and Sakie especially were basically perfect from a writing standpoint.

Also gotta love that he's total eye-candy for all the people into buff men; not my thing personally but it's definitely a refreshing sight that's dreadfully underused.

Honestly I usually avoid (or at least put off) manga adaptations because something tends to get lost in the process making the experience inferior to the original; usually pacing in my experience gets thrown out the window. This season's adaptations that I watched- this show and Kobayashi-san- have me thinking I may have to reconsider that attitude. :3
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Post by: Sakkun on March 27, 2017, 03:16:02 AM
Currently watching:
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon
Flying Witch
KonoSuba

I used to be into gritty-gory action-packed anime, but I realised that sometimes its nice to watch something fun, friendly and slow-paced.
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Post by: commandercool on March 28, 2017, 04:02:42 PM
I've been watching Bakemonogatari recently. I'm six episodes in, and it's pretty fascinating for sure. The shared genes with Madoka are apparent, although I think Madoka refined that style to a point that made it a bit more palatable. Bakemonogatari is exhausting to watch because it's so fucking busy. It's interesting so far, I like it, but I have no interest in sitting through two episodes in a short time.
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Post by: BT on March 29, 2017, 09:24:57 PM
I've been watching Bakemonogatari recently. I'm six episodes in, and it's pretty fascinating for sure. The shared genes with Madoka are apparent, although I think Madoka refined that style to a point that made it a bit more palatable. Bakemonogatari is exhausting to watch because it's so fucking busy. It's interesting so far, I like it, but I have no interest in sitting through two episodes in a short time.
I suggest you binge it or it'll hard to follow the plot later. The plot gets busier than the animation later on trust me.
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Post by: Delfigamer on March 30, 2017, 01:10:46 AM
Wait I thought Bakemonogatari was just a nice harem anime with a mental disability fetish.
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Post by: commandercool on March 30, 2017, 01:40:48 AM
Wait I thought Bakemonogatari was just a show where teens talk about inane topics for twenty straight minutes and sometimes there's a goblin or some shit.
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Post by: Mеа on May 12, 2017, 05:10:09 AM
First episode of yugioh vrains aired yesterday. There weren't any duels, surprisingly, but the writers decided to spend the first episode on world building and setup. There's a lot to be excited for and can't wait for next week. I'm a sucker for hidden-identity hero type settings.
We can only hope that the show will develop into something good and most importantly continue to be good, unlike the shitshow arc-v unraveled into.
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Post by: Delfigamer on May 25, 2017, 09:35:58 PM
hey is this meme dead yet (http://i.imgur.com/VfffqMr.jpg)
Eromanga-sensei is so consistently terrible, it's actually quite entertaining and well-made. It's like you're watching porn that's more hilarious rather that arousing (think tuna).
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Post by: Koba on May 26, 2017, 12:56:54 AM
I've been starting to watch Akashic Records which is surprisingly better than what I expected it to be, so it's a pleasant surprise for me this season, and I've been planning on watching Spice and Wolf since I heard it's really good but I haven't been able to get any time to watch either really, I haven't even caught up with Akashic Records because of how busy I've been. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up before it ends, though.
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Post by: Drake on May 26, 2017, 08:10:52 AM
I prefer to experience that show vicariously through the words of Digibro and Best Guy Ever (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BpTbDxtjPE). Undoubtedly more entertaining than actually watching the show
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Post by: Delfigamer on May 26, 2017, 10:26:12 AM
Definitely watch Spice and Wolf. It's one of the few anime classics that is actually very-very good. Compared to that murky Eva, that boring Nanoha, that cheesy Higurashi, stuff like that (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny).
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Post by: TableCloth on May 26, 2017, 08:36:36 PM
Can't stop rewatching Mouretsu Pirates. It's just so entertaining watching cute girls that are actually competent in what they're doing. Marika Kato is best gurl 10/10

Also, been watching SnB: Virgin Soul and Re-Creators for the current season. Both are pretty good at the moment, although Virgin Soul is definitely better (that, or I'm just having Shadowverse flashback all the time ._.)
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Post by: Silent Harmony on May 26, 2017, 09:18:54 PM
I recently binged-watched Mouretsu Pirates in 2 seperate sittings, and it became a much more entertaining show second season not for anything it did, but from my mindset going into it. I was disappointed watching  the 1st season constantly waiting for "epic space pirate action" to break out, but once I treated it more like a slower-paced love song to sci-fi and girls being low-key bad-asses, it instantly clicked. Basically it's the difference between how I go into a  Star Wars movie vs a Star Trek episode.

Also I was very pleasantly surprised to see a show from over half a decade ago
with a canon lesbian couple (even if they weren't main characters) in a show that's not revolving 100% around lesbians being lesbians (Strawberry Panic, Yuru Yuri, Sakura Trick, etc). Bonus points for how tasteful and nonchalant the whole reveal/confirmation was.
Even today you almost never see that in anime.
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Post by: Mеа on May 27, 2017, 12:57:20 AM
I know a friend recommended Steins Gate to me before multiple times but it wasn't until that digibro fellow showered it with praise after praise that I decided to check it out now and I'm so hooked, so good. This is why I should listen to people more often.
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Post by: Drake on May 27, 2017, 02:27:05 AM
Can't stop rewatching Mouretsu Pirates. It's just so entertaining watching cute girls that are actually competent in what they're doing. Marika Kato is best gurl 10/10
I recently binged-watched Mouretsu Pirates in 2 seperate sittings, and it became a much more entertaining show second season not for anything it did, but from my mindset going into it. I was disappointed watching  the 1st season constantly waiting for "epic space pirate action" to break out, but once I treated it more like a slower-paced love song to sci-fi and girls being low-key bad-asses, it instantly clicked. Basically it's the difference between how I go into a  Star Wars movie vs a Star Trek episode.

Also I was very pleasantly surprised to see a show from over half a decade ago
with a canon lesbian couple (even if they weren't main characters) in a show that's not revolving 100% around lesbians being lesbians (Strawberry Panic, Yuru Yuri, Sakura Trick, etc). Bonus points for how tasteful and nonchalant the whole reveal/confirmation was.
Even today you almost never see that in anime.
Yes yes yes Mouretsu Pirates is excellent. Definitely not for everyone but if you can get into the groove it's so good. And then the payoff for when stuff really does go down, oh man.


Steins;Gate is a noteworthy case where it's not only just a good show, but the staff was competent and instrumental in making it what it is. When it aired I just liked it for what the show was, but in retrospect I've realized that the story itself doesn't grip me as much as the experience does.
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Post by: Mеа on May 27, 2017, 09:20:11 AM
Wonderful, absolutely wonderful, steins;gate was a great run. It's been a while since I've genuinely enjoyed something so fully. I don't know where it would place on my list of favorites once my initial high dies down, but it's easily one of my favorite shows atm.

Also I seem to have a soft spot for
future child characters
, I notice. Usually they turn out to not be too well written (trunks, lucina), but that moment when they went back the first time really hit me in the feels. It was such a massive mood whiplash from touching to heartbreaking.
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Post by: Tengukami on May 28, 2017, 06:59:35 PM
I'm like 2 years late to the party, but an ex-girlfriend messaged me out of the blue and told me to watch Shimoseka.

I am only two episodes in and I haven't stopped laughing. No, it isn't very deep as far as social commentary is concerned, and when it is, it seems almost by accident, e.g., "I thought this was just picture of a girl savoring a mushroom. What's obscene about this?" raises a really good point whether it knows it or not.

Mostly, I'm watching it for the wordplay and the dong jokes.
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Post by: Your Everyday NEET on May 30, 2017, 01:51:37 PM
Bullying is a real trouble that still persist. Even to this day, a lot of students falls victim to bullying. It is a serious problem. Of course, there are some mangas that tries to address this problem. And there are mangas that gives their reader a sense of revenge fantasy fulfillment.

Revenge fantasy:[/u]

Fukushuu Kyoushitsu
The MC is bullied by most of the students. Female students abused her. Male students raped her. She thought if she endured it and stayed quiet, she could get through her ordeal. But then some jackass decided to push her into oncoming car. She survived. But then, she realized something: They won't stop until she dies. Before that could happen, she decides to take revenge to everyone in her class, even those who have nothing to do with her bullying.

Using her 3 months worth of research. Her revenge plan went perfectly well. She may screw her victims indirectly, but she would never set them to be killed. It's all well and good, until she accidentally caused 2 of her former best friends to commit suicide. The she snaps.

Overflowing 2 lockers with crow's corpses. Geez... How bored the bullies can be to commit such a thing like that? You have to kill like 20-50 crows (that is not to say that killing them was easy). Then you have gather them up and stomach the smell of the corpses. And then, you have to arrive at school early and hope that there's no one there 'less you wanna have trouble with police. And they did it everyday.

Kangoku Jikken
The MC is a pathetic man. Everything about him is average. He got bullied everyday. Heck, the bully leader is a girl. One day, he receives an invitation to participate in a game called prison game. Each participant can choose a person to be their prisoner for a month. The participant can do anything to their prisoner provided they don't kill their prisoner. The prisoner have to guess the identity of their captor (They wore masks) within a month. Winner get 1 million yen as a prize. Let the game begins.

While the manga follows MC Point of View, there are hints that the MC may not be as you think he is. After all, he and his bully were used to be friends.

The comment section for this manga... It's... a thing.

Anvil dropping:

Tomodachi Gokko
Out of the 4 that I've read, this is the most grounded in reality and thus the most depressing. The MC moved from Tokyo. In the new town, she enrolled into all girls school. There, she met her old friend who is now being bullied. Seeing that, MC decided to help her friend despite her repeated warning not to do that. Soon enough the bullying target switched from her friend to herself and her friend stopped hanging out with her. At first she tried to endure the bullying, it didn't work. Then, she tried to endure it with smile (okay, that was honestly creepy), it didn't work. Months later, she can't handle it anymore and commit suicide.

God take pity of MC and gave her a second chance. She got sent back to the past. In the new timeline, she must try to avoid becoming the bully leader's shitlist whilst providing moral support to her friend from the outside- waiiiit waitwaitwaitwait...! WHAT?

I got a fucking question: Ms. MC friend, your friend sacrificed herself for you. You knew your friend is in distress, you have her phone number. So, let ask you this: Why the fuck do you NOT help your friend you UNGRATEFUL LITTLE BITCH?! It's not like the bully leader watch you 24/7! Oh wait, she probably is. Because she is a goddamn supervillain!!!

Misu Misou
What. The. Fuck did I just read?! Is this for real? There's a manga like this? Those guys aren't human! They're creatures from another planet posing as humans.

The motive for the bullying is just fucking ridiculous. The MC got bullies because... she just transferred to the school. The school is closing soon and the rest of the  student don't want an outsider to graduate with them? What the fuck?! That's the worst motive I've heard since SPECTRE (Hue Hue... My father paid more attention to my adopted brother. So I will become the leader of a super villain organization and fuck my brother). The teacher won't do shit about it since the school is closing. So the MC doesn't go to school anymore. Good choice, but the bullies don't accept that. So they fucking burn her house with her parents and her sister still inside.

The fuck?! These guys are not human! They're supervillain! Psychopaths! Sociopaths! They're MONSTER! When MC tried to talk to the teacher, he got attacked by one of the bullies with a shoes laced with spikes. Normal bullies as bad as they are, they don't fucks with parents. One of the bullies even has a fully functional crossbow. That's not even mentioning the whole house burning thing. That's a murder!

I should've dropped it at the first chapter. And yet, I continued on. I got worse. Every character besides MC's family is completely insane (the bully leader is also one of the sanest character. She's the only one with enough common sense not to kill a whole family). Most adults are either useless or evil. And the thing slowly decent into horror as the MC snapped and tries to murder all who responsible. Soon, there will be no one left to attend the graduation. I consider this the most fucked up manga I've read. For now.

Geez, I need a drink. Reading 4 ultra bleak mangas in quick succession takes a toll in my mind.
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Post by: CyberAngel on May 30, 2017, 08:53:46 PM
Strangely, I find Masamune-kun's Revenge rather hilarious. Both with how it treats the usual romcom meta, and with just how much of a dumbass the main character really is. Normally I'd cringe and drop trash like this in an instant, but it seems to me all this was done wholly on purpose. (Not something I'd ever watch/read a second time, though. Neither for humor nor for fanservice.)
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Post by: Mеа on May 31, 2017, 03:22:07 AM
I am now completely caught up on jjba. I've watched parts 1-4 and read parts 5-7 along with the released chapters of 8. Must say that part 4 is by far my most favorite part with the most loveable cast and story and best villain. I'm really glad kira comes back (kind of) in part 8 and I'm looking forward to how he'll contribute in the future.

I'm rather torn on part 8. The josuke/yasuho pair is one of the better jo-duos we've seen so far and I like their characters, I just hate the higashikata family and that they're so integral to the plot is really grating on me. If josuke and yasuho had a comedic adventure like part 3 or 4, I think I would be less irritated. If I can get passed the irritation, then part 8 is already better than 5 or 6 for me, but I'll have to withhold judgement until it finishes.
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Post by: Your Everyday NEET on May 31, 2017, 03:40:32 PM
(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/youreveryneetz/80171864/77106/77106_900.jpg)
I think you have no right saying that when every english natural speaker consider YOUR english awkward as well, Ms. Cartelet. That said, the english in this anime is actually quite decent. The grammar and pronunciation is better than any other anime.

Speaking of awkward english, it reminded me to when me and my brother watched Kuroko's Basketball: The Last Game movie in the theater.

Kuroko's Basketball: The Last Game takes place after the manga/anime. It is about Japan's top basketball player unite as team Vorpal Sword versus an eeeeeevil American Team called Jabberwock. Yeah... That's an Alice in Wonderland reference in a freaking basketball.

But enough of that, I'm not gonna talk about the movie itself. Instead, I'll be talking about the engrish. Since the opponents is American, we can expect some english in their dialogue. While their english is actually quite passable, they'll be speaking in very good Japanese for 90% of the movie. You know what caused the most laugh at the theater? It's when Vorpal Sword's leader deliver a badass boast to the Jabberwock in english. A heavily accented engrish. That engrish is just magnificent and full of cheese it caused the whole theater to be filled with laughter.
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Post by: Delfigamer on June 05, 2017, 03:40:42 AM
Boo (http://i.imgur.com/NY7dWL4.jpg) hoo (http://i.imgur.com/n6vomj4.jpg) hoo-oooh! (https://youtu.be/2Y6VbodKsaM)
Too bad Elf is the best girl, that means there's no chance she will win.
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Post by: The ⑨th Zentillion on June 05, 2017, 05:18:06 AM
It'll probably just wind up ending like Oreimo. G R O S S.  :barf:

And now that I've ruined that for you and every other EMS fan who ISN'T into THAT:
I'm mainly watching Dragon Ball Super's dub, even though it's currently still in the movie adaptation arc phase. Mainly hoping it'll tide me over until Stardust Crusaders starts airing on Toonami in the hopefully, hopefully near future.
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Post by: Zelinko on June 18, 2017, 11:55:46 AM
Been picking up Arpeggio of Blue Steel both Manga and Anime and found both to be very enjoyable and realized that with how the manga is the way the Anime adapted it was really the best option they had for amount of episodes they had available.

I mean I've had Haruna in World of Warships for almost a year or more now but just now started to poke where she came from.

On other fronts group watches of Space Battleship 2199 with friends.
Might have other stuff on the list soon.
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Post by: Delfigamer on June 18, 2017, 11:06:22 PM
So, I've decided to check this RWBY thing out.
My thoughts: "cheesus, so much cheese!", "do these animators just hate it when something stays still?", "omg just behave like a sane human (https://myanimelist.net/character/90181/Megumi_Katou) already come on", "hey the music is kinda nice", "(actually covers his face with hands) my god this joke was already bad and they keep dragging it on!", "ahaha dude you're so right these are weird children man this dude is the ray of fresh light in this cheesy yellowness dear god".
"I liked it better when I was watching GMod machinimas."
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Post by: Spotty Len on June 19, 2017, 05:25:05 AM
Season 1 kinda sucked, Season 2 got good, Season 3 was alright, considering what happened.

Season 4 was there, I guess.
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Post by: BT on June 22, 2017, 09:04:46 PM
I'm fresh outta the oven with Koe no Katachi, or at least I was yesterday. Anybody seen it and wanna share thoughts? I was snuggling a blanket for, like, half the movie.
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Post by: Kasu on June 23, 2017, 02:00:51 AM
I've got no idea why, but ever since I've gotten passed the anime in the DanMachi novels, everything just got way more awesome. I'm seriously hoping that they announce a second season at the end of spinoff anime now because they definitely have enough material for at least a second season by now.
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Post by: Jq1790 on June 29, 2017, 12:43:00 PM
I'm fresh outta the oven with Koe no Katachi, or at least I was yesterday. Anybody seen it and wanna share thoughts? I was snuggling a blanket for, like, half the movie.
I want to see this so badly after a friend turned me on to looking into it...  It's out?  Or do I not want to ask (due to...questionable means of watching)?
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Post by: Aya Reiko on July 12, 2017, 10:01:12 PM
Just wrapped up Eromanga-sensei.  All I can say is, "Meh."

It's not bad, but it's far from good too.  All it has going for it are moeblobs and memes.  The story isn't very good and feel so by-the-numbers, and the characters are underdeveloped.  And let's not get into the (pseudo-)incest angle it's aiming for.  (Other than can the author write anything else?)  It's the type of series that's hot today, forgotten tomorrow.

Borrowing Jeremy Jahn's rating scale, I give it a "Will forget about it in about T-1 Day (Yup, already forgotten about it.)"
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Post by: Delfigamer on July 13, 2017, 06:49:47 AM
Eromanga is trash, and so is Emilia.

I think it was fine. It was consistently funny, which I can't say for (https://myanimelist.net/anime/31404/Netoge_no_Yome_wa_Onnanoko_ja_Nai_to_Omotta) a lot (https://myanimelist.net/anime/32937/Kono_Subarashii_Sekai_ni_Shukufuku_wo_2) of titles (https://myanimelist.net/anime/31564/Sansha_Sanyou).
As for moeblobs and memes, well, of course, Eromanga is full of them, that's kind of the point of the show: how much trash can you pack into a 20-minute episode withouth it spilling into an R rating? I think the creators were successful in packing a lot.
I liked Emilia more though.
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Post by: Lt Streko on July 13, 2017, 08:32:29 AM
I thought both seasons of Konosuba was consistently funny. I mean the ending of the second season with the constant
harassing by the Axis cult members
started to get old, but it only lasted for two episodes and really drives home the fact how
annoying Aqua's worshippers are
.

Anyways, not really a lot of interesting anime coming out this season. The only thing I'm somewhat interested in is the new Fate series, and after watching the first two episodes I think it's okay. I just want an anime with some sort of engaging/exciting plot, there's too much silly stuff now.
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Post by: BT on July 13, 2017, 09:47:42 AM
I thought both seasons of Konosuba was consistently funny. I mean the ending of the second season with the constant
harassing by the Axis cult members
started to get old, but it only lasted for two episodes and really drives home the fact how
annoying Aqua's worshippers are
.

Anyways, not really a lot of interesting anime coming out this season. The only thing I'm somewhat interested in is the new Fate series, and after watching the first two episodes I think it's okay. I just want an anime with some sort of engaging/exciting plot, there's too much silly stuff now.
Check out Made in Abyss. It's the resident "show that's actually pretty good but with a name that makes people laugh every time you gush over it".
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Post by: CF7 on July 13, 2017, 08:08:52 PM
Symphogear AXZ. Episode 2.
Fist 1, reason 0!
That's pretty much Symphogear in nutshell.
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Post by: Jq1790 on July 13, 2017, 09:47:16 PM
Watched much of Little Witch Academia recently, no regrets.  Started Hyouka, got paywalled on Funi but got enough of a taste I WILL end up buying it later or asking for it so it definitely hooked me, KonoSuba I'm almost done with and think is hilarious and clever in how it does things.  Gotta finish the last episode or two tonight(EDIT:  Done and found out it might have just been meant to promote the manga version and so there won't be a s3?  That's....Kinda makes me hope it bombs out of spite).

Pretty good times so far.  Gotta catch up on more cool things I've ignored over the past year+.
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Post by: CenturyEgg on August 02, 2017, 02:59:25 AM
I think the unexpectedly good find I have from this season is Princess Principal. For one, the music is by Kajiura Yuki so it really stands out nicely. The storyline is still running pretty strong so I hope it doesn't wind up becoming too much of a cute girl doing cute things series.

Other than that, Knights and magic (the Light novel is a pretty good read too) and Aho girl (Jesus christ Hiroyuki) are on my watch list this season.
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Post by: Kasu on August 02, 2017, 03:21:02 AM
I think the unexpectedly good find I have from this season is Princess Principal. For one, the music is by Kajiura Yuki so it really stands out nicely. The storyline is still running pretty strong so I hope it doesn't wind up becoming too much of a cute girl doing cute things series.

Other than that, Knights and magic (the Light novel is a pretty good read too) and Aho girl (Jesus christ Hiroyuki) are on my watch list this season.
I'm watching all of that as well, and Princess Principal is definitely up there. It's a lot better than I thought it'd be. That said though, I look forward to Tuesdays simply because of Aho Girl's randomness and New Game!!

Also, Made In Abyss is really good too. The scenario intrigued me, so after watching a couple of episodes I went ahead and got myself as up-to-date on the manga as possible.
I certainly wasn't expecting things to go from a happy-looking SOL/adventure series to delve right in to suffering and nightmare fuel.

Also, Vatican Miracle Examiners is looking like it's gonna be an absolutely wonderful trainwreck of a series after episode four's shenanigans. I haven't had this much fun with an anime since Cross Ange.
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Post by: Delfigamer on August 02, 2017, 04:50:37 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/CKiefG2.gif)
Gamers! is gold. Yes, it is consistently funny, but what truly amazes me is how well they used (http://i.imgur.com/LdVbtEU.gif) their noticeably limited animation budget. Duke (https://youtu.be/n5JH3jCMX0M?t=6m7s) would be proud.

Also, Karen is my new Emilia, and this time we can even see her gitting gud within the anime! (As opposed to ten volumes after the last episode.)
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Post by: BT on August 02, 2017, 06:15:39 AM
This season has a lot of unexpected gold. Just yesterday I watched all of the Tsurezure Children shorts and was flooooooored.
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Post by: Mеа on August 19, 2017, 03:06:10 AM
been reading around random mangas left and right for awhile.

but! I just found Hakumei to Mikochi (http://www.mangahere.co/manga/hakumei_to_mikochi/), a story following the random lives of two kobitos out of a whole civilization of them. It's really cute and the scenery/background art is gorgeous. There's a lot lot of love put into the art in this manga, as it should, to fully make use of the size and dimensions of the characters and settings.

Really makes me want a kobito friend, I would give so much random crap to them, like bottle caps and what not. There's got to be a alice sukuna fic out there somewhere.
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Post by: Delfigamer on August 24, 2017, 10:17:02 AM
I can't believe I just spent 6 hours shopping a shitty (http://imgur.com/a/vwl1i) anime into a story of its own. (http://imgur.com/a/05r41) Dear god.
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Post by: Lt Streko on September 01, 2017, 07:43:21 PM
So I've been reading the light novels for Overlord. Been slacking but I'm at the end of the second volume and I have to say it's actually REALLY good. Maybe even better than the anime. To be honest though it gives me more appreciation for the anime since the show follows the books almost perfectly. It also goes into a little more depth of some of the side characters Ainz meets along the way. It's getting me super hyped for season 2 that's supposed to come out later this year. Can't wait!

I can't believe I just spent 6 hours shopping a shitty (http://imgur.com/a/vwl1i) anime into a story of its own. (http://imgur.com/a/05r41) Dear god.
I'd potentially watch that. lol

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Post by: Delfigamer on September 02, 2017, 06:59:51 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/mdDGRWSl.jpg)
But actually, Isekai Shokudou (https://myanimelist.net/anime/34012/Isekai_Shokudou) is a pretty good. Did you ever see Hero Union BBS (http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/hero-union-bbs-r12956)? It's a bunch of loosely connected cool stories just like it, except now the heroes also get to eat.
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Post by: Jq1790 on September 04, 2017, 04:21:01 AM
E:  Forgot there was a Gamers! thread.  Delete please.  ;D
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Post by: Lt Streko on September 05, 2017, 03:36:27 PM
But actually, Isekai Shokudou (https://myanimelist.net/anime/34012/Isekai_Shokudou) is a pretty good. Did you ever see Hero Union BBS (http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/hero-union-bbs-r12956)? It's a bunch of loosely connected cool stories just like it, except now the heroes also get to eat.
To be honest, I've never heard of either of them. I'll have to look into it, but right now I'm too busy being on the Fate hype train and watching Fate Zero. I'm near the end now...so good. As usual RIP
Lancer
. Also god damn
fake priest kirei
. More importantly, Irisviel best girl.
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Post by: Orreries on November 13, 2017, 08:02:46 AM
Made in Abyss - amazing story and characters, full of emotion and adventure in a mysterious world, great OST too. A couple scenes of extreme SUFFERING but at least it's part of something meaningful.  There's some uncomfortable detailj sometimes, but it's still out of this world good. I immediately went to read the manga after, and am enjoying it immensely

Shoukoku no Altair - Arslan 2: Ottoman Boogaloo pretty much, exciting diplomacy, war & economic strategy, great characters. Has the bishounen design going on, but it's a good watch. I read the manga, and am thrilled to be able to watch it in animation.

Mahoutsukai no Yome, full TV anime - Magic and feels There's a mild "suffering otome player character" vibe here, but it's a good story with interesting events and characters.

Kino no Tabi 2017 - Traveler visits countries with various unusual customs. I hear "it's not the same" a lot and indeed it doesn't fully channel the atmosphere of Kino, but it's still really enjoyable.

Kekkai Sensen S2 - Supernatural anime that's cool, comical, chaotic. Mood is reminiscent of FLCL, if it took place in an eldritch abomination -invaded NYC

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou - Post-apocalyptic daily life with military aesthetic, chibi characters

Kujira no Kora Something-or-other - So far it's like Shinsekai yori in many crucial ways, but with more blood and death. Interesting story about the weight and problems of living in a psychic society (Please don't get awkwardly psychosexual later on)

Fate/Apocrypha - All sorts of charming Servants in this Grail War, plus a cool shotgun necromancer ossan! Cons: Go away Sieg. What's gotten into Jeanne? I half suspect that A-1 will asspull some ridiculous ending (inb4 Jalter).

Tsurezure Children - Romance, delightful (and a little lewd) interactions

Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
somewhat older one but I finally got around to it
Fully a comedy, great gags with a little bit of story behind the comedy
It's rumored the writer is Bomber Grape, and it does make perfect sense for that to be the case
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Post by: Kasu on November 15, 2017, 09:22:23 PM
I accidentally put myself onto a bit of a Houseki no Kuni kick recently. I'd been enjoying the anime (and seriously, the CG animation is way better than what you usually see) and I ended up marathoning most of the chapters yesterday in order to get caught up on the manga. Needless to say, I'm ready for Phos's wild ride.
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Post by: Mr_Bob on December 14, 2017, 04:45:25 AM
Thank goodness someone else is watching it.  Caught off guard by the manga about a year ago and was engaged with the setting and its other-worldliness.
Heard about a production (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYWOG9q2HpI) being put out for it awhile back, but didn't think it'd actually get an adaptation.
Was quite let down to hear it being CG, but was rather blown away from what a competent team could do with the medium. It's surprisingly a visual treat.
The whole moon arc has had me on edge. The ocean arc was when I knew I was in for some shit with this series.
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Post by: Kasu on December 14, 2017, 06:06:33 AM
The whole moon arc has had me on edge. The ocean arc was when I knew I was in for some shit with this series.
I didn't find myself completely invested until the fallout resulting from the finale of the Winter arc. That's when I knew things were getting good, haha. The Moon arc has had me on edge as well and the chapters can't come out fast enough for me, especially with the last few that've been released.
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Post by: Mеа on May 08, 2018, 05:48:57 PM
Wow this thread has been getting dusty.

So I read the manga Assassin's Pride and it was interesting enough for me to get a jp kindle account and start the light novels. Currently I'm on the 2nd book.

And I have to say I like it I do. It starts off by introducing the heroine who lives in a world of magic, where nobles are the only ones with magic. But she can't use magic and there's a growing rumor spreading in the under world that she's an illegitimate child. The MC is an assassin dispatched as her home tutor to determine if she is and kill her if so (because politics, her father is in a very influential position).

It goes on to show the first day of the MC's new job observing the heroine and it's absolutely miserable for her. It does a really good job of making you sympathize for her. And even the MC feels so sorry for her terrible life (of getting bullied at school, being unable to make any results and being beaten so one sidedly all the time) that he decides to kill her that same night out of mercy. He doesn't, obviously, but ends up putting himself in a very precarious position. Go read it yourself.

I feel like there's even a lot of thought put into the setting for a story of this kind, you know, what with the extremely low standards that light novels sets the bar at. It's good and I like it but there are some issues I have with it. The biggest one being that she's only 13 and the novels go into some creepy ass descriptions sometimes when describing her body. Like god, is this necessary? It's especially creepy because the MC is 17 and it so teeters on pedophillic, these descriptions. If the author stopped this, then I would have almost no complaint like complaints. Because everything else is handled so well! I almost feel like the publisher is forcing them to include some of these things because it's so out of place. These problems don't show up in the manga, obviously.

Hope it gets an anime sometime.




edit: I have finished reading all the published volumes (1-7 + one extra side stories volume) for this, Assassin's Pride. It's a bit unfortunate. I think the author is good at storytelling, I'm always curious about what'll happen next. It flows smoothly and even though it jumps around characters sometimes, it's not frustrating leaps between viewpoints that completely break the pace like Durarara or the Kumo Desu ga novelization. This author, they have a talent for storytelling. But they're also trapped in some of the stupid ass conventions of "light novel shenanigans", mainly the aforementioned uncomfortable sexual "fanservice" moments. Like seriously, take them out and this will be good without question. The last volume, volume 7, had a particularly terrible one that I don't even feel like talking about. If this ever gets an anime (and I hope it does), please, please take them out or tone them down a lot.

Then there is one other thing I don't like, which is the harem direction that the relationships between the main cast of girls seems to be taking with the MC. There's only one I care about, which is the sweet relationship that the MC and the heroine have, the rest I don't care for. Someone once said that power has to be distributed carefully among characters in a story and I feel like the same works with romance. When you spread romance too thinly, it drops the quality for every character involved in it. It's annoying that the relationship between the MC and the heroine gets watered down by her having 3 other 'extras' that are also clamouring for attention from the MC.

But the thing is, I'm invested enough in the characters and the story that I can understand and almost accept why these other 3 girls like the MC so much. It makes sense, these girls are from nobility and attend all-girls academies and the one male they know is very cool and strong. Like, of course they would form a crush on him. I understand it but it dilutes the relationship between the MC and the heroine because the story doesn't seem to give any indication of the harem status being resolved any time soon. And sometime somewhere we got stuck in this romantic gaga stage of the relationship when I feel like there's still a lot of exploring that can be done between the MC and heroine's teacher-pupil dynamic.

There's still a couple of other things that are kinda dumb but I can accept as being 'diagetic' too, because I'm invested in the characters and story and view them as being legitimate characters (and not cheap light novel standard trite cliche sitcom cardboard cutouts). A good example being Myul, the most likable 'harem' member besides the heroine, whose shtick is being seductive which is kind of creepy for a 13/14 year old but I can accept as being a part of who she is. It works (just barely. Well to explain, it's made very clear that she has no idea what she's really doing or of the actual affect it may have on people--males--and that she's actually just a massive bookworm who is naive about things. It works,) and I can accept it. Again, because I'm invested in the cast.

The heroine is legitimately cool and its great to read along and try to cheer her on. Her fights are the best and they're done really well. Everything she does feels like a great accomplishment and worthy of celebration considering where she started from. The effect starts to wear off a bit but not a whole lot, the author does a whelmful job of making sure that the story doesn't keep hanging off of the same premise and get tiring. The earlier volumes are the better ones, I think volume 2 was the best, followed closely by 1, then the others in no particular order. The others are held back by being either pretty uninteresting in hindsight of the story, not particularly advancing the character relationships, or not having a good battle. But it's worthy of credit to the author that even these other ones still have at least one or two of the three things so that I have a difficult time sorting them. Volumes 2 and 1 are great for having all three.

tldr; good storytelling with memorable characters and good fight scenes that is held back but not crippled by some light novel shenanigans.
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Post by: commandercool on June 17, 2018, 09:01:57 PM
This is obviously the coldest take imaginable, but I have been enjoying the absolute hell out of My Hero Academia lately. The anime specifically, I haven't read the manga.

This week's episode is one of the single best episodes of television I've ever seen. It made me cry twice. So good~
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Post by: Mеа on June 23, 2018, 07:13:48 PM
So for whom it may concern, D.N. Angel is getting a continuation after a 7 year hiatus starting July. Like, wow, I thought I would go to my grave cradling this dream but now it's actually a thing. Feels weird.
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Post by: commandercool on August 19, 2018, 06:16:26 PM
I started watching the new Pokemon anime. People keep saying it's surprisingly great and they're right, it is. The fight scenes are usually pretty weak and there are a lot of pointless filler episodes that are hit or miss, but the animation is fantastic and the writing quality is much higher than I'm used to from a Pokemon anime.
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Post by: BT on November 08, 2018, 08:30:59 PM
I'll drop the Hourou Musuko manga a resounding recommendation. It's been a true friend to me for the past few weeks, and I couldn't be sadder to part ways with it.
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Post by: Deftera Ikari on November 21, 2018, 10:37:39 AM
Uh, Boku no Hero Academia guess I'm not really that attracted to anime or manga....

I watch Touhou Memories of Phantasm
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Post by: Kasu on November 22, 2018, 08:52:09 PM
Zombieland Saga is like an idol anime on crack and I'm loving every second of it. The concept is so dumb, but it's weird just well it works. I can't believe that they've even managed to make it as dramatic at points as they have without making it feel out-of-place.
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Post by: BT on December 10, 2018, 11:23:14 PM
I've been obsessing over Gridman lately... I can't stop...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpaF2xxXUAA27G-.jpg)
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Post by: commandercool on March 15, 2019, 06:46:40 PM
Did anybody see the new Fate movie? I'm not a huge Fate fan but I try to see anime in the theater when I can and there was a showing yesterday. Watched the first part with a bunch of friends Sunday in preparation and we liked it fine, but I REALLY enjoyed the second part. Enough that I kind of wanted to see it again, but unfortunately it's out of theaters already after that one showing.
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Post by: Suwako Moriya on March 15, 2019, 06:53:25 PM
Watched it last night and holy shit was it excellent. Already can't wait for spring 2020.

You should be able to watch it again in theaters before then once the dub is released. My wife and I actually missed the stateside sub release of the first movie in theaters but caught the dub release; I can't imagine they would have stopped the dub after just one movie.
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Post by: commandercool on March 15, 2019, 08:10:27 PM
Oooh that's exciting! One of the guys I saw the first part with earlier missed it and he was really bummed when he heard how much the rest of us liked it.
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Post by: BT on March 15, 2019, 09:38:41 PM
Just making sure, these are the Heaven's Feel movies, right?

I'm jelly that you guys have anime movies in theaters.  :qq:
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Post by: Kilgamayan on March 15, 2019, 09:49:55 PM
Yeah, Presage Flower and Lost Butterfly. Part 3 is slated for spring of next year.
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: commandercool on March 15, 2019, 09:50:16 PM
Yeah, those are the ones.

It's inconsistent what we do and don't get. We get all the major stuff (Dragon Ball and Gundam movies) but not some of the more critically acclaimed stuff. I couldn't find a showing of Liz and the Blue Bird or Mirai within driving distance.
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: BT on March 15, 2019, 10:00:11 PM
It's inconsistent what we do and don't get. We get all the major stuff (Dragon Ball and Gundam movies) but not some of the more critically acclaimed stuff. I couldn't find a showing of Liz and the Blue Bird or Mirai within driving distance.
oh my god stop bragging inadvertently  :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Mеа on April 14, 2019, 01:12:38 AM
Gave Inuyasha a couple episodes on a whim, never having seen it before. First impression is that gorgeous animation style and quality. Wikipedia says it aired in 2000, but it's got that classic handdrawn quality to it from years ago. I view the animation of anime in the early 2000s like I do early CG in movies from that same time period: mostly low quality with the new digital tools, hasn't aged well. Not so with this.

I'm also incredibly surprised by how un-useless and competent(?)/proactive Kagome is. Maybe it changes later, but it seems almost unusual to me.

Most, most likely will not finish the show given how many episodes there are, but I can see why it had such high appeal at the time. Back before anime was a big thing here in the west, all the anime I ever heard people talking about were this, Sailor Moon, and Fruits Basket.
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: commandercool on April 17, 2019, 02:56:21 AM
Just saw Penguin Highway. It's fantastic, definitely see it in the theater if you can. I don't want to spoil too much about it, but it's a weird slow surreal movie that is absolutely fascinating. There are some spectacular sequences that wouldn't quite be the same on a small screen. Hiroyasu Ishida is going to be a big deal.
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Hainiryuun on April 18, 2019, 01:51:35 AM
Just want to say that Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life, while being an isekai and having a stupidly long title, is actually really, really good.
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: NorwegianboyEE on May 05, 2019, 10:11:17 PM
I read a manga called "Gou-Dere" not so long ago.
It's a older title and very short. But it's extremely funny. I recommend!
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: An Odd Sea Slug on May 11, 2019, 07:37:03 PM
Anime to watch this season (imo):
*Carole and Tuesday

*Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu

*Kimetsu no Yaiba

*Senryu Shoujo

*Fairy Gone

*Robihachi

*Joushikausei

I'm also reading Goblin Slayer, Kase-san and Tadokoro-san; the latter two are hecking cute, and I recommend them deeply.
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Drake on May 12, 2019, 12:55:47 AM
watch carole and tuesday
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: BT on May 13, 2019, 07:46:31 PM
watch carole and tuesday
Sell me on it.  :derp:
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Drake on May 14, 2019, 09:20:17 AM
PV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBak9m0bcB0). Bones' 20th anniversary project, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Kids on the Slope, Space Dandy). Two girls from different backgrounds find each other and aim to make music together as talented underdogs in a somewhat near future where the majority of entertainment is created by AI. Show's whole vibe is very feel-good, great character chemistry, nice and not-often-seen focus on the music and the creative process and hits hard when it does so. Looks good, great sound design in addition to the actual songs themselves. Probably gay.
Title: Re: What anime(s) and/or manga(s) are you watching/reading right now?
Post by: Sheep on July 22, 2019, 03:22:32 AM
A few weeks ago I finished watching the second season of one punch man. Honestly the end of the season was abrupt and rough compared to the first season, that great fight against Boros.

But well, now I'm just waiting for the special chapter of jojo.
The history of rolling stones is boring and something unnecessary added that is abrupt for what happened before.
I just hope that there is an advance of Stone Ocean, that will be worth everything.