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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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nintendoman58
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Now now, let's not get too ambitious here. Clannad After Story may be the god of the entire anime high-school romance genre that everybody should watch, but I can name at least three shows that are better than it as an anime in general.
I see mostly kids shows, sports and mecha. The generic kind of stuff seems to be mostly supernatural/magic kinda stuff, not much slice of life
Admiral Woofington
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Isshukan Friends, at least at first glance, look like it might be one of the more heartfelt shows this season. Assuming it doesn't go into megadrama region. What has Brain's Base done before? Should I be worried?
edit: Oh god saw the PV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvQtV2ijHM
This.... this is going to take me to FEELS TOWN. Looks pretty good not gonna lie, it might end up being my anime of the season... after Jojo.
edit: Oh god saw the PV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvQtV2ijHM
This.... this is going to take me to FEELS TOWN. Looks pretty good not gonna lie, it might end up being my anime of the season... after Jojo.
Dedication Through Light
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Theres been shows revealed since 2.24.2014 like m3.
PshycoNinja
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From the New World 14
Things just got real.
That hearing with Saki I sat on the edge my seat the entire time. Satoru's grandmother
. I guess Mamoru is getting
. The way love is dealt with in this show is still super weird and made more weird seeing as how they
.
So that monkey/bamboos theory was bullshit when it concerns them which further infuriates me about how this show has structured itself early on. It's on the right track now but those early episodes all the way up to episode 9 was, indeed, bullcrap.
Also I don't know why the show feels the need to use the imagery like the picture above. At this point in the show/plot it feels out of place.
Things just got real.
That hearing with Saki I sat on the edge my seat the entire time. Satoru's grandmother
is 267 years old? What?! Crazy
his wish to be with Maria
haven't been messed with and are able to freely think for themselves
So that monkey/bamboos theory was bullshit when it concerns them which further infuriates me about how this show has structured itself early on. It's on the right track now but those early episodes all the way up to episode 9 was, indeed, bullcrap.
Also I don't know why the show feels the need to use the imagery like the picture above. At this point in the show/plot it feels out of place.
There is more on that chart still.
It misses Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo...
PshycoNinja
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Unless that is your favorite genre of anime. That genre envelops like 95% of anime at this point.
So that declaration isn't too far off.
Basileus777
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Meh, in most season you get a couple of decent shows from things you have no expectations of and half (or more) of the hyped showed disappoint. I certainly wasn't expecting Silver Spoon and D-Frag to be the best shows of the Winter.
Has dat Masamichi Amano OST.
I'm still bitter towards it since it's taking over Space Brothers' timeslot...
I'm looking forward to it, too bad I don't see a lot of hype around here for it.
MikeHattsu
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Unless that is your favorite genre of anime. That genre envelops like 95% of anime at this point.
So that declaration isn't too far off.
Hey, there's high-school comedy too! ;P
March 10-16 was a pretty boring week for sales, but in the interest of completeness:
http://www.someanithing.com/?p=1067
I mean, the highest-selling anime-related item at 8,683 BD+DVD was the Precure Ending Movie Collection, which has creditless versions of all the CG Precure endings from Fresh through Doki, along with videos to help you learn the dance moves at both normal and half speed.
http://www.someanithing.com/?p=1067
I mean, the highest-selling anime-related item at 8,683 BD+DVD was the Precure Ending Movie Collection, which has creditless versions of all the CG Precure endings from Fresh through Doki, along with videos to help you learn the dance moves at both normal and half speed.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I rather post that here than in OT, considering how that other thread went.Not here apparently.
Are you at least going to post here when Sailor Moon Crystal is airing?
The iDOLM@STER - Series Review
So after me asking multiple times in the last thread where certain screencaps/artwork came from I decided to finally get into this series and marathon in the course of 3 days. Again my initial interest in this series was the artstyle that appealed to me from screencaps posted; my only knowledge beforehand was that this series was based off of some rhythm/music game (series) of some kind.
I have to say I think I enjoyed this a bit 'too' much. Maybe I was just missing 'that' type of anime filled with a group of girls striving for a common dream/goal, plus it has music (my gawd the music).
Like all animes I watch for the first time I can't help but compare to past animes I watched, and the most similar to The iDOLM@STER is K-On!! But the former is just better imo. Instead of centering on girls lazing around doing a combination of both nothing and sometimes creating music, The iDOLM@STER centers around girls striving for a goal and producing music (it helped that there was an insert song in practically every episode). Perhaps I'm not comparing the right anime to it, but K-On!! is the one that most relates from what I've watched.
One flaw I noticed with this anime, is however perhaps its greatest draw and that's its large cast of characters. While each character did technically receive an episode dedicated solely to them, the anime focused on only half of them leaving the others as background; during the end said half was also cut and the anime focused on two-three characters. While I didn't mind the focus of two-thee character becoming the main characters during the end I would've preferred that this was better hinted at rather from watching the Opening Songs.
As for music, well its fucking great:
Jitensha (Bicycle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6oWCXyggUg
Yakusoku (Promise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwvMN5Yl3NE
Nemuri Hime (Sleeping Princess)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni_b-X_B8A0
Sometimes its nice to watch a laid-back anime but I find to make a show enjoyable of any sort there has to be some sort of plot or rely heavily on tropes such as humor and whatnot. The iDOLM@STER is part of the former and so far one of the top I've seen in this area of anime, glad to have watched it.
^Best idol
Well you seem to have nailed down the best idol so you got the most out of it. Also, you cant enjoy a show "too much".
Thats so true
Not that I can think of right away. Its kind of a hard way to tell a story, though Ive seen a few episodes of shows attempting to do it.
R_thanatos
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No just a hungry man with not enough time to check afterwards.
There is a video game too !
Well it wasn't supposed to be a fully serious statement. There are quite few stuff that I liked more than it. Let's just say episodes 16, 18 and 21 of AS are probably some of my favourite episodes anime I have seen.
It's not. That's an aspect of their genetics, and it's completely unrelated to their hypnotically-reinforced social conditioning.
Otakumegane
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Dont we get Free S2 next season.
amishpriest99
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Especially not iDOLM@STER
.While Makoto is certainly a valid choice as best idol...I would counter with:
PshycoNinja
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From the New World 15
This is not a concept of love that I like. Yo! I love you and all but I have another person that I make out with just cause. It's a dumb concept to me. This show is best when it doesn't focus on it's relationships between characters.
The show is best when there's tension and when the crap hits the fan. The episode was alright. The only thing that was exciting in this episode is the cliffhanger ending. I could care less about Monster Rats and their colonies.
I don't trust this Monster Rat. Not one bit.
This is not a concept of love that I like. Yo! I love you and all but I have another person that I make out with just cause. It's a dumb concept to me. This show is best when it doesn't focus on it's relationships between characters.
The show is best when there's tension and when the crap hits the fan. The episode was alright. The only thing that was exciting in this episode is the cliffhanger ending. I could care less about Monster Rats and their colonies.
Deputy Dangle
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C'mon guys. If you aren't on the Mushishi train, you need to catch up ASAP.
While Makoto is certainly a valid choice as best idol...I would counter with:
I have successfully completed... nothing this season. I have the best intentions of catching up with Noragami, Space Dandy and Samumenco, though.
In April I suppose I'm looking forward to new Mushishi, Ping Pong and Captain Earth. Maybe One Week Friends and Knights of Sidonia as well - and I suspect I'll keep an eye out for impressions of the execrable looking Nanana's Buried Treasure to see if it's noitaminA or newtaminA.
In April I suppose I'm looking forward to new Mushishi, Ping Pong and Captain Earth. Maybe One Week Friends and Knights of Sidonia as well - and I suspect I'll keep an eye out for impressions of the execrable looking Nanana's Buried Treasure to see if it's noitaminA or newtaminA.
PshycoNinja
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It's still pretty stupid. Even with the "oh it's in there genes" excuse.
The "everyone loves everybody on an emotional and sexual level" is.... just really weird.
Everything wishes it could be Hidamari Sketchy.
I have a week thats almost all work and a week thats almost all play. Seems to work out ok.
Yeah its looking a bit sparse but Date A Live II is in there.
It just made me ugh...
Artists interpretation of Nafe trying to read that thread.
PshycoNinja
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Your description is a little bit of a simplification, IMO. Sex in the society is less about emotional or physical commitment but as a way of defusing tension or conflict; that's where the bonobo element comes in. Most of the sexual activity in FTNW occurs out of stress.
I also think there's a difference between something being "weird" and something being "stupid". Of course it's weird - it's deliberately so, and much of what makes the show effective is the distortion of modern morality that we see as a byproduct of the existence of Jyuryoku or whatever the Crunchyroll subs call it.
Society has changed so much that the cultural and sociological values (if that's the right word) in Kamisu 66 are completely different from those in modern Japan or anywhere else in the world. Physically Saki and the gang are outwardly the same as we are - but culturally they are completely different.
cg mecha in peanuts? Now I've seen everything
No worries. Something really cute always pops up on the schedule.
Im quite ok with that sort of imagery
The best part of course!
cosmicblizzard
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You have NO idea.
Well, everyone doesn't love everyone equally on an emotional level, since they break down into monogamous pairs at some point. But for the other thing, what's so stupid about it? The show even cites existing examples in nature for you.
It's different from our modern society because we aren't wired the way they are, but that's a part of the core premise.
Clannad + After Story
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So this was a pretty good ride, at least the second half of it. Original Clannad is plagued with problems. The most noticeable thing is the lazy direction of the earlier parts of it. Completely feels like a VN adaptation where it's just random encounters of events with various characters and then moving on to the next event and so on. No rhythm or anything special. Not to mention the use of music is atrocious, repetitive and resorting at bad times to silence when it's not needed. The source material also wasn't that exciting either. The Fuko arc
After that, the series ranged from mediocre to average. Kotomi's arc
Everything after I got sort of a fuzzy memory about it. Not sure if it's cause I wasn't paying that much attention or if it's really just forgettable. Either way it probably wasn't that good.
After Story on the other hand was somehow able to up the production values and make it actually pleasant to look at. I'm not sure if KyoAni decided to put more effort or if they got a bigger budget or something, but there is a really noticeable difference in quality. They lessened the effect of the ugly character designs, had some really nice looking backgrounds in some episodes and the use of music got much better.
I still don't care much for the first half of After Story.
In a way, Clannad is sorta like Anohana. The entire series dips in quality from mediocre to average to something watchable. But then when you get to the highs, the really good parts like Anohana's ending or Clannad specific 3 episodes, they really make up for it. It's pretty much an uneven series when looked at completely, but really I don't care about that when I think about it. I'm only remembering the highs of the series and I think they help overshadow most of the flaws at least for me.
contract completed
So this was a pretty good ride, at least the second half of it. Original Clannad is plagued with problems. The most noticeable thing is the lazy direction of the earlier parts of it. Completely feels like a VN adaptation where it's just random encounters of events with various characters and then moving on to the next event and so on. No rhythm or anything special. Not to mention the use of music is atrocious, repetitive and resorting at bad times to silence when it's not needed. The source material also wasn't that exciting either. The Fuko arc
is probably the only highlight of the first series. The ending with the cheesy music and everyone crying with the ghost girl is probably the closest thing to Anohana and I think that's a good thing.
wasn't that exciting despite them having a good tragedy event. The whole thing just ended up being far too silly.
After Story on the other hand was somehow able to up the production values and make it actually pleasant to look at. I'm not sure if KyoAni decided to put more effort or if they got a bigger budget or something, but there is a really noticeable difference in quality. They lessened the effect of the ugly character designs, had some really nice looking backgrounds in some episodes and the use of music got much better.
I still don't care much for the first half of After Story.
All the school arcs and I don't really remember them that well now weren't that good. Didn't cover any new grounds and felt just like watching original Clannad but with better production values. Of course the graduation it suddenly got a whole a lot better. It probably has to do with the fact that all of Tomoya's friends were gone which allowed the series to stop with the slapstick comedy and go over some meaningful parts of life after graduation.
Which takes me to episodes 16, 18 and 21 being really my favourite parts of this anime, highly memorable stuff too. I'm still in the opinion that episode 18 with a sort of epilogue was a nice send off to the series. Having Ushio die really wasn't necessary. I mean sure I ended up liking the scene in the snow with her and Tomoya, but I think as a whole the series has peaked at episode 18. The nice parallels of Tomoya's relationship with his dad and how he was heading towards that path with Ushio and then the eventual scene where he accepts his responsibility of Ushio was really good.
Miracle stuff of the last episode wasn't really what I expected. My ideal scenario would really have been just Nagisa dying and maybe Ushio facing death, but eventually getting saved while concluding that little girl and robot. Nagisa really didn't need to come back. I fully accepted her loss, but I suppose Key had to go and give us a completely happy ending.
Which takes me to episodes 16, 18 and 21 being really my favourite parts of this anime, highly memorable stuff too. I'm still in the opinion that episode 18 with a sort of epilogue was a nice send off to the series. Having Ushio die really wasn't necessary. I mean sure I ended up liking the scene in the snow with her and Tomoya, but I think as a whole the series has peaked at episode 18. The nice parallels of Tomoya's relationship with his dad and how he was heading towards that path with Ushio and then the eventual scene where he accepts his responsibility of Ushio was really good.
Miracle stuff of the last episode wasn't really what I expected. My ideal scenario would really have been just Nagisa dying and maybe Ushio facing death, but eventually getting saved while concluding that little girl and robot. Nagisa really didn't need to come back. I fully accepted her loss, but I suppose Key had to go and give us a completely happy ending.
In a way, Clannad is sorta like Anohana. The entire series dips in quality from mediocre to average to something watchable. But then when you get to the highs, the really good parts like Anohana's ending or Clannad specific 3 episodes, they really make up for it. It's pretty much an uneven series when looked at completely, but really I don't care about that when I think about it. I'm only remembering the highs of the series and I think they help overshadow most of the flaws at least for me.
Excellent. Its one of the best recent anime.
Very unique and original.
Have you watched Tsuritama? Highly recommend that one!
Theonik
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And dat Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Refuse.
Hinjaku! Hinjaku!
PshycoNinja
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I get what you guys are saying and how "it is supposed to be like that".
But I personally don't like how it's handled and no amount of excuses the show throws out can make up for it. I get others here on AnimeGAF may enjoy the lame excuse they use but I don't. The show is at it's best when it doesn't focus on it or tries to defend it. But insists on doing so every so often. Honestly I am quite puzzled some on here would defend it so much given how when other series give a lame excuse for why they do their own love thing people bash it.
Nice. Thanks for the thoughts. Glad you got something out of it. That's the entire point and goal to this challenge.
I want to try and finish one of Branduil's challenge anime before I finish yours. But I promise to finish yours as quickly as possible since you were so good at finishing Clannad so quickly.
GochiUsa/Is the order a rabbit?. It's another Manga Time Kirara series, so quality and cuteness is assured.
Nope, I didn't really watch much anime until last November. It's been my go to free time thing since then. I'll check it out since it's on CR as well.
KirbYuuYuu
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I would definitely recommend doing seperate posts for the last few Doremi episodes. Mainly 40 onward, which pretty much gives you an idea of how things go down from there. And I guess if you didn't group everything, you would've watched less episodes in each burst. Some people did that with Doremi at least.
That and I actually grouped some Gintama episodes, based on the arc.
I believe even being through the entire franchise, I'm finding qualities and aspects of SS that aren't there any more. I mean, it's not going to say... go for a large amount of side characters like HC is, but it did give you a set of characters, who appear very fucking often, and it's like.... I miss that. Like... it feels perfect in terms of size. Helps that it improved on FW in many areas. Plus there's also the moral code differences between FW-GoGo and Fresh-Doki/HapCha(?)
It feels different enough to the point that it doesn't feel like a drag, and frankly, I'm really enjoying this run.
PshycoNinja
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From the New World 16
Well the end to this episode has been coming for a long time. Since one of the earlier episodes.
is a thing now I guess. Please don't time skip again anime. I've noticed that every time one arc starts to wind down or
they do a time skip. Gonna be mad if they do it again.
I am not sure what I want from this show anymore. A lot of the elements that drive the show frustrate me. The thing is that the show has it's moments of brilliance like with Episode 14.
This episode reused a lot of animation from previous episodes. I'll admit
was a bit sad.
But so far the show has been aggressively mediocre.
Well the end to this episode has been coming for a long time. Since one of the earlier episodes.
Satoru x Saki
members of group 1 leave for good
I am not sure what I want from this show anymore. A lot of the elements that drive the show frustrate me. The thing is that the show has it's moments of brilliance like with Episode 14.
This episode reused a lot of animation from previous episodes. I'll admit
Maria narrating the letter
But so far the show has been aggressively mediocre.
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