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Anime |OT| Spring 2019 - Kappas and Stray Dogs and Fox Girls, Ara Ara~
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Been marathoning Revolutionary Girl Utena and the Black Rose Saga arc is such a drag. Just finished episode 21, which was really weak, and it feels like Ikuhara and his team didn't know what to do and just reused episode structures and ideas from Sailor Moon. The first episode of the arc had me intrigued in how the format of the show would change but I've been unimpressed. Only one or two of the duels so far have been all that creative, and like a Sailor Moon fight they end just as they are beginning.
same, i really enjoyed the arc - but i can also see how it might seem repetitive to some people
So I finished season 2 of date a live and watched the ova at the end expecting it to be a pointless filler like most ovas are but I have to say this is probably the best ova episode I've seen from any anime. It's better than any of the main episodes of the show and now I know why kurumi is such a popular waifu.
Kurumi was the first fig I ever bought, she's the bestSo I finished season 2 of date a live and watched the ova at the end expecting it to be a pointless filler like most ovas are but I have to say this is probably the best ova episode I've seen from any anime. It's better than any of the main episodes of the show and now I know why kurumi is such a popular waifu.
On paper it isn't so bad but yeesh the execution left a lot to be desired. Sure, the first arc was formulaic in its ways, but as I said this arc straight up felt like Sailor Moon in terms of the villain, his methods, and the very repetitive and predictable story structure (for the most part). I like the attempt at giving some side and new characters depth while continuing stories/arcs for the student council members. What bothers me the most is the arc ends with an Ikuhara mindscrew that made me question what was even the fucking point. Then there is the fact that Utena and Anthy feel like secondary characters during all this, as well as them and the student council doing jack shit about the problem until the very end when it didn't even matter. The recap episode felt extremely out of place, which made the arc feel even more superfluous. The previous arc had a more meaningful recap.
The duels feeling like rushed magical girl battles, complete with stock footage finisher, also really killed it for me. Only two of them were worthwhile with any real weight to them.
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Brother !
I don't even remember what my beef with it was other than Utena turning into a mindless drone but I do distinctly recall bloody hating it !
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Started watching the remake of Fruits Basket (1-5). Already like the whole cast and very relaxing show. Kaguras entrance was gold lmao Finished A Place Fruther Than The Unisverse. Yeah that anime is a masterpiece. Ep12 broke me so hard im still recovering from that. The potrayal of friendship in this show really makes you think and reflect on your life.
She totally is, her powers are also ridiculously op no one can beat her.
So I finished season 2 of date a live and watched the ova at the end expecting it to be a pointless filler like most ovas are but I have to say this is probably the best ova episode I've seen from any anime. It's better than any of the main episodes of the show and now I know why kurumi is such a popular waifu.
Kurumi is the best
The show get's so much more interesting anytime she's there lol
iirc, the meat and potatoes of the arc happens over the next couple episodes and are some of the most important episodes of the entire series. And the series really kicks into high gear from there.
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Lmao at Atsushi entering the hideout at the speed of light and then being unable to catch up to their target as he slowly ran away.
Have to wait to see how it plays out but I've been somewhat underwhelmed with the second half of the season despite the compelling premise for the big arc. Kind of feels like we are general beats in a less interesting way, and Fyodor as essentially evil Dazai hasn't brought much to the table to me. Hopefully the last episode will change my tune a bit.
Lmao at Atsushi entering the hideout at the speed of light and then being unable to catch up to their target as he slowly ran away.
Have to wait to see how it plays out but I've been somewhat underwhelmed with the second half of the season despite the compelling premise for the big arc. Kind of feels like we are general beats in a less interesting way, and Fyodor as essentially evil Dazai hasn't brought much to the table to me. Hopefully the last episode will change my tune a bit.
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I'm glad to see it wasn't just my own desire for internal consistency that got triggered by that.
Watching Flying Witch right now. It's cute, if a little uneventful (which is saying something considering I love healing animes lmao). Might check out Evangelion on Netflix since I still have never seen it yet
You shouldn't expect jack shit from Netflix's anime offerings. Doesn't surprise me at all Eva has all the same issues it usually does (sub timing, not translating on screen text)
Only Sarazanmai and the new AoT season though I haven't watched the latter.
Fruits Basket
Attack on Titan
heard demon slayer has been pretty good but I haven't watched any of it yet.
Sarazanmai was the best by a country mile. Bungo Stray Dogs is a good as always. Fruit Basket is ongoing.
Fruits Basket
JoJo, but that's been ongoing for a while.
The music has been great. The story not as much, tho I'm glad we got a more meaningful turn at the end of the last episode.
Yeah we're finally (hopefully) done with this horrible Cybelle plotline and the pretty weak contest.
AOT
Demon Slayer
Bungo Stray Dogs (Although it's on its third season)
Fruit Basket
Welllll
If you like baseball, slideshows, a sort of obnoxious protagonist and feel like watching the 126 episodes from the first act, then Ace of Diamond Act II is exactly what you're looking for! Training, eating, playing, arguing, drama, motivation, oh my! And so much more!
- I have been really enjoying Mix but I am a Adachi fan so I'm pre-disposed to like it. I think it's the first time I've actually seen one of his manga turned into a show though and it totally nails it.. but honestly, if you've read anything from him, you've read everything from him. :P
- Demon Slayer has some of the best animation I've ever seen in a TV series -- I think it's definitely worth watching.
- Fruits Basket is lovely and I'm so happy to revisit it after all these years.
- Wise Man's Grandchild is not especially good but I'd say in general I've enjoyed it. The animation is generally horrible though -- the budget for this show must be next to nothing.
- I have thoroughly enjoyed Dororo as well.
Speaking of new shows.. I see one on Netflix called Revisions. It apparently aired in the Spring as well -- anyone have any thoughts on it?
As someone who has forgotten most of the first 126 episodes... you really don't need to know them that badly to watch the current season lol.
I guess it's not super important, but there is some important character development for a few of our characters. And, Chris-senpai!
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - Detonation
So my copy of this movie finally came in this morning and I was finally able to watch the second half of the two-part Nanoha revival movies that started with Reflection in 2017.
And I got what I wanted. This was basically Nanoha in its purest, most beautiful form, barring a few niggles.
Right from the start the movie wastes no time and picks up right where Reflection left off, delivering sakuga moment after sakuga moment. There's so many fantastic animation sequences in this film I don't even know where to begin in making webms of them.
Detonation is probably the darkest and bloodiest Nanoha's ever been. Though that's not really saying much. It's about as dark and bloody as the average dark Symphogear episode, but for Nanoha standards it was quite a sight to behold.
Iris and Yuri were both fantastic characters with a very compelling story, but this unfortunately leads to the movie's biggest problem for me, in that the villain is terrible. I hate to bring up Symphogear again, but imagine a villain from that franchise but with zero charisma and with motivations that make even less sense.
Seriously, the government shuts down his planet restoring committee, so he decides that the logical thing to do was take his super AI and murder everyone in said committee. It's not even clear why he's doing it or what is goals were. I think he mentions something about using his super AI on the planet everyone's immigrating to and using it to take it over I guess? It's not explained very well and it mostly just comes off as an excuse to redeem Iris and Yuri and have a good Nanoha laser battle. Which was fantastic and I don't mind.
There was also less screen time of Nanoha herself that I would have liked. Although everybody (except Arf) gets their time to shine in this movie, I do wish there was a little bit more of a focus on Nanoha's character in all this. There's a beautiful moment near the end with her that's perfect, but I would have loved it if it was fleshed out a bit more. There should have been some more scenes that involved Nanoha pushing herself too far, or others being concerned about her, and how she's focusing too much on others and not enough on herself. Again, that's stuff there, but I would have liked it if there was a bit more.
All in all though, glaring problem with the villain aside, I still loved this movie and think it's 100% up there with Nanoha's best, and I certainly hope we get more Nanoha in the future. Personally, I hope we get a nice slice-of-life TV series about Nanoha's high school years, which is another central element of the franchise that the movies just can't portray enough of.
So my copy of this movie finally came in this morning and I was finally able to watch the second half of the two-part Nanoha revival movies that started with Reflection in 2017.
And I got what I wanted. This was basically Nanoha in its purest, most beautiful form, barring a few niggles.
Right from the start the movie wastes no time and picks up right where Reflection left off, delivering sakuga moment after sakuga moment. There's so many fantastic animation sequences in this film I don't even know where to begin in making webms of them.
Detonation is probably the darkest and bloodiest Nanoha's ever been. Though that's not really saying much. It's about as dark and bloody as the average dark Symphogear episode, but for Nanoha standards it was quite a sight to behold.
Iris and Yuri were both fantastic characters with a very compelling story, but this unfortunately leads to the movie's biggest problem for me, in that the villain is terrible. I hate to bring up Symphogear again, but imagine a villain from that franchise but with zero charisma and with motivations that make even less sense.
Seriously, the government shuts down his planet restoring committee, so he decides that the logical thing to do was take his super AI and murder everyone in said committee. It's not even clear why he's doing it or what is goals were. I think he mentions something about using his super AI on the planet everyone's immigrating to and using it to take it over I guess? It's not explained very well and it mostly just comes off as an excuse to redeem Iris and Yuri and have a good Nanoha laser battle. Which was fantastic and I don't mind.
There was also less screen time of Nanoha herself that I would have liked. Although everybody (except Arf) gets their time to shine in this movie, I do wish there was a little bit more of a focus on Nanoha's character in all this. There's a beautiful moment near the end with her that's perfect, but I would have loved it if it was fleshed out a bit more. There should have been some more scenes that involved Nanoha pushing herself too far, or others being concerned about her, and how she's focusing too much on others and not enough on herself. Again, that's stuff there, but I would have liked it if there was a bit more.
All in all though, glaring problem with the villain aside, I still loved this movie and think it's 100% up there with Nanoha's best, and I certainly hope we get more Nanoha in the future. Personally, I hope we get a nice slice-of-life TV series about Nanoha's high school years, which is another central element of the franchise that the movies just can't portray enough of.
any news on if this will be on crunchyroll or funimation
Sadly it probably won't be on either. Neither of them got AXZ so unless they get that too I don't know.
Yep, Netflix is dog shit even with Western produced animation. My girlfriend likes watching everything with subtitles and even a Netflix original series like She-Ra has subs that don't even match the spoken dialogue at times.
how are the animes for Parasyte and Akame Ga Kill?
i don't know how much of the manga was adapted but there's only 4 volumes and it started in 2013 so it'll probably be unlikely for a while if they adapted most of the stufff
Parasyte is from what I can tell a solid adaption of the source material. I know they made some changes, but from what I saw most of those changes were to just make it feel a bit more modern given how much later the anime came compared to the manga.
Akame Ga kill is an alright adaption of the source material. Not true to it, but roughly the same mediocre try hard edgy quality of the manga :P
Hey if you go in knowing you will have tonal whiplash and a number of edgy moments it can be a decent way to waste some time :P
Neon Genesis Evangelion 1-6
Finally get to watch this! Funny thing is that despite how legendary this show is, I didn't know what the story is about. All I knew is that it has teens piloting giant robots and they go through psychological trauma. People keep posting spoilers, but without context I just forgot them. Now that I'm actually watching this, I'll have to really avoid spoilers now.
Anyway, it's great so far.
Finally get to watch this! Funny thing is that despite how legendary this show is, I didn't know what the story is about. All I knew is that it has teens piloting giant robots and they go through psychological trauma. People keep posting spoilers, but without context I just forgot them. Now that I'm actually watching this, I'll have to really avoid spoilers now.
Anyway, it's great so far.
You can watch Mitsuboshi Colors if you want something similar as it is another work made by the same author.
Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu END
i was surprised i liked this as much as i did. Really well made but also very funny, most of the comedy is focused on bocchi extreme shyness(which already manages to be funny) but when it adds other characters it goes into absurdity and that's when it shines. there's was at least 3 times i remember bursting out laughing, which is a lot for a show that looked pretty regular.
it is also very wholesome and heartwarming, nako stole the show being as nice as she was to bocchi.
i was surprised i liked this as much as i did. Really well made but also very funny, most of the comedy is focused on bocchi extreme shyness(which already manages to be funny) but when it adds other characters it goes into absurdity and that's when it shines. there's was at least 3 times i remember bursting out laughing, which is a lot for a show that looked pretty regular.
it is also very wholesome and heartwarming, nako stole the show being as nice as she was to bocchi.
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