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Topic Started: Jan 7 2012, 01:00 AM (10,898 Views)
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LightningBolt
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Sep 22 2014, 02:18 PM
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I have three Crunchyroll guest passes if anybody's interested. I never do anything with them so figured I'd ask. I think most people here have subscriptions though.
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MrMarill
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Sep 24 2014, 02:40 PM
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Just finished Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I really, really liked it and it was the longest series I've watched before. It took a number of episodes to get properly interesting but I have some issues with the series as a whole. I'd definitely still recommend it.
More thoughts It was a 64 episode series with a 17 episode final sequence. Just what. The amount of content packed into each episode was pretty insane but it suffered from having millions of characters when I only cared about a select few. I'm pretty sure General Buccaneer or w/e his name spent three episodes dying and I didn't give a shit about him... and don't get me started on the Armstrongs fighting Sloth in the throne room for centuries. I really, really loved the arc with Mustang vs Envy underground and pretty much everything else besides those two I mentioned.
As I've mentioned, I love Winry an awful lot so it's kinda disappointing she wasn't in the final sequence but it made sense, of course. I wasn't a huge fan of the way they resolved EdwardxWinry either because they've both admitted to themselves that they love each other two years before in Briggs and then they never actually say it? I refuse to believe they're both that incompetent. Blargh.
I don't think the show explained the Father thing too well. He's in the flask... how'd he get there, again? Okay, he got wrecked by the souls of Xerxes but then he didn't and then he got wrecked by Greed but then he didn't and then he got the power of God and then he got wrecked by the reverse transmutation circle and then he couldn't hold God and then he could hold God and then Greed wrecked him and then he wrecked Greed and oh my GOD his power was inconsistent. Occasionally I thought that was that and he was done then BAM NOPE LOL LASER THAT KILLS EVERYONE EXCEPT THE MAIN CHARACTERS
The more I think about it, the more flaws present themselves and the more stuff I have to rant about but it doesn't stop Full Metal Alchemist being incredibly good. Edward is one of the best leads I've seen in a long time and, in general, the main cast introduced fairly early on are all very strong - Mustang, Hawkeye, Al, Scar, Ling. As it advances, the plot maybe tries to do a bit too much and ends up fumbling occasionally but I can't fault it for dropping the ball on a few aspects of the most convoluted, insane ending I've ever seen in anything. All in all, I absolutely loved it but I wish that some nagging issues had been addressed
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Outlaw454
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Sep 24 2014, 03:50 PM
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I still haven't gotten around to watching Brotherhood. I absolutely love the original anime, though it was one I never saw to completion because Adult Swim and poor sleeping habits.
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LightningBolt
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Sep 24 2014, 04:29 PM
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My issue with Fullmetal Alchemist is basically that it gets too "big" towards the end. It just tries to get a bit too epic in scale as far as the final conflict goes and I really don't like when shows do that (unless it's blatantly over-the-top and purposefully so like Gurren Lagann). I just feel like the author loses a level of constraint when that happens and it pulls me out of it.
Also Winry's meh and you should feel bad.
But yeah it's a great series outside of me being so-so on how the ending unfolded. The resolution to the brothers' problem is fantastic, though, and one I didn't see coming. I loved that solution.
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MrMarill
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Sep 24 2014, 04:41 PM
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Yeah, it was very, very busy and hard to keep track of where everyone and everything was. I definitely agree on the resolution with the brothers thing, it was really great. I feel I can just go on and on about what went wrong in the series but I still loved it. It's very weird.
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Outlaw454
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Sep 24 2014, 05:11 PM
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A sign of how truly good anything is is if you can point out all of its faults, nitpick it to death, and, at the end of the day, you still enjoy the ever-loving fuck out of it.
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Sep 25 2014, 07:26 PM
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Terror in Resonance My biggest worry going into the finale was that they'd ruin the show, somehow. I felt this was setting up for two cours because the pacing through the first six episodes was slooooooooow. It was mostly world-building, getting to know the characters, and of course EXPLOSIONS because plot. Then episode 7 happened and I felt shit was going to get real. It did, and a lot faster than I'd have liked. It still feels kind of rushed, but whatever.
I would have liked to get to know these characters a bit more. I suppose you can't really focus on Five, Nine, and Twelve too much; we know that the orphanage was a shitty place and that's where they were for most of their lives. Even so, I wouldn't have minded more Five/Nine/Twelve stuff. I didn't really like Five much, but the events leading up to her death cast her more in a sympathetic light. I always did feel there was something between Five and Nine, but the way it was expressed in episode 10 was really poignant. Could have used more Shibazaki and Lisa stuff though. I liked both characters, but I would have liked to know more about Shibazaki outside of the one case that got him discharged, and more about Lisa's backstory. I feel like they could have did something with Lisa's family situation (it sounded positively awful), but they never went into much detail other than to show a strained relationship between Lisa and her mom.
I didn't think they could top the ferris wheel scene in feels, but the second half of the finale is right up there with it. I really thought Nine and Twelve were going to live through it, somehow, even if that meant they got captured in the end. I was rooting for them to pull off their plot and ride off into the sunset with Lisa. Nope. Unlike Aldnoah.Zero and the ending of its first cour shitting all over Slaine, this ending *makes sense* because it's consistent with how the Americans had acted throughout the series. Outside of their deaths, it was nice to see the three of them acting like normal teenagers would. It showed us a side of them that we had never seen. I suppose all that really does is create the expectation that Nine and Twelve get out alive, only to see it shattered, but it was nice nonetheless.
Of course the music was da best, but it's Yoko Kanno so that's par for the course. The artstyle wasn't anything spectacular, but it worked well enough. I wish I could have watched in glorious 1080p as usual, but being able to watch it a week before Funi/Hulu get it is clutch as fuck.
But yeah, a great ending cements this as my favorite anime of the season.
Other Anime I hope for a second cour of Blue Spring Ride. The ending is open-ended enough to result in that, even though it's beyond obvious that Kou will wind up with Yoshioka at some point. We knew this from like episode 2, but whatever. They also introduced a random character for no good reason in episode *11*, which doesn't really make much sense (in terms of the anime only; I know it's a manga adaptation) unless you plan on continuing the series.
I didn't really like Kou until episode 9 or so. He just seemed like another jerk who hid his emotions behind a wall of his own construction. Booooooooooring. But then he finally starts coming somewhat out of that shell and showing that he cares about Yoshioka, despite all his bullshit about caring being too difficult to bother with. Uh-huh. It's never that one truly doesn't care; it's that they care *too much*.
The show doesn't do anything original (what *is* original in storytelling in 2014, though?), but what it does, it does well. That's all I can really ask for.
Idk what to say about Nozaki-kun, really, but I guess I'll try. Comedy isn't my thing because 90% of the time, a dedicated comedy will put the lulz above the plot. I suppose that's what you're watching comedy *for*, but I tend to prefer srs stories. Not that humor doesn't have its place; I just don't think it should be a primary goal in most of the stories I enjoy.
This show easily had the best cast of the season, but let's be cereal: That bar isn't set very high. Outside of Terror in Resonance and Blue Spring Ride, none of the shows I watched had really good characters. I love the P4 cast to death, but P4GA isn't meant to develop them. Anyway, Sakura is a good lead and in the running for GOAT character design, Nozaki is... interesting, to say the least; he's not the typical male in anime and I think that's what I like about him. My favorite of the bunch would probably be Kashima and I can't really put my finger on it. Maybe it's just her bombastic manner, idk. But yeah, everyone on this show is hilarious and likable.
I'm not surprised in the least at how this one ended. I expected a trolltastic show with zero real romance to have a trolltastic ending with zero real romance. It doesn't really matter; what you watched this one for were the hijinks of whoever was featured this week.
I can't be assed to write much about the others. Suffice it to say I don't *regret* watching anything this season, but the other shows I watched weren't essential viewing either. They had their moments, but on the whole I find myself wishing they were better in various departments/more focused on what their core premise was.
It's still too early to judge Sailor Moon Crystal, though.
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Sep 26 2014, 05:28 AM
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Persona 4 Golden Obviously I love Persona 4 and all, but this was... pretty meh, to be honest.
This series added little to nothing in terms of the plot. Anything that was added had to do with Marie. How I felt about her wildly varied from moment to moment. I was obviously most annoyed with her when she was acting like a damn tsundere. The whole tsundere thing is boring as hell, mostly because it's used to cover up what everyone watching and what half the characters already fucking know: The girl in question likes the guy. She had her moments, but those moments didn't alter the plot much from the original game. Generally I think that's for the best, but if you're going to add a whole new character (who in this case is linked to the antagonist of the True Ending), there better be a damn good reason for it. I fail to see it because the plot is functionally the same damn plot.
The characters weren't developed further at all, but I don't know where else you could take these characters. Their social links are how you get to know them in the game and most of that stuff was probably dealt with in P4A anyway. So yeah, the first ten episodes wound up being fanservice and the last two wound up being MARIE MARIE MARIE. It could be worse; I could have dropped $350 on a Vita and this game.
If this is indicative of how the True Ending was in P4A, it fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. I'm not a fan of the True Ending in the first place for various reasons, the biggest being that it feels like it was made to add 15 hours to your playtime, but this was even worse than it was in the game. Blah. I REALLY don't like how they brought Marie back as a weatherperson; it would have been better if she were just (mostly) an ordinary teenager. And then they change Marie's and Kanji's appearances to whatever those travesties are. My eyes.
Again, I don't *regret* watching this, but it was definitely one of my worst anime watches ever, even when considering that I love Persona 4.
Also inb4 Persona 4: Dancing All Night anime.
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Sep 27 2014, 02:59 PM
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So the new season is upon us, and I really don't have that much that I want to see. I haven't read super in-depth into the new shows, but I know that I want to watch Mushishi Zoku Shou 2nd Season, as well as the new Trigger anime. What are you guys going to watch?
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Outlaw454
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Sep 27 2014, 06:18 PM
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Fate/stay night being the obvious thing I am watching. Might give that Ghibli series a try, I didn't even know they knew how to make anything other than movies and a game I still need to play. Beyond that, there's an Infinite Stratos OVA that I will probably watch whenever I can bring myself to finish the series (goddamn idiot harem protags, ho!) and Sword Art Online, though I haven't watched any of this new season yet.
EDIT: and, yeah, probably that new Trigger because Trigger.
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LightningBolt
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Sep 27 2014, 06:58 PM
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Akame ga Kill! Cross: Ange Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo Fate/stay night Grisaia no Kajitsu Gugure! Kokkuri-san Hitsuji no Chaika: Avenging Battle Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu Mushishi Zoku Shou 2 One Piece Sailor Moon: Crystal Sword Art Online II
11 shows. Leaves room to add new ones that get some good reception.
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Romanticide
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Sep 28 2014, 01:47 AM
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Mushishi, Sailor Moon, the Trigger show, Grisaia no Kajitsu, FSN
Looks less barren than I'd have thought, but most of this is continuing shows. Whatever. I could use the time to catch up on other things, etc. Also leaves a lot of room if I hear about anything worth a fuck in spite of these meh premises.
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LightningBolt
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Sep 28 2014, 03:51 AM
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I think that Trigger show is going to disappoint a lot of people. It's fully possible it turns out better than it currently looks and sounds, but the things that made Kill la Kill great were mostly the traits of a specific person (the director, who was also the director of a lot of other fun/ridiculous/over-the-top shows like Gurren Lagann) than the traits of Studio Trigger, in my opinion. The director of this show has worked with the director of KLK/Gurren Lagann on a few occasions, so maybe his style has rubbed off on him a bit, but my expectations are pretty low.
Grisaia and Cross Ange have been announced as Crunchyroll simulcasts woot.
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Romanticide
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Sep 28 2014, 04:05 AM
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I don't know what to expect from it. I'm just interested to see if they can do something that isn't essentially Gurren Lagann with a new coat of paint and a different premise. Unless, of course, this turns into Gurren Lagann 3.0. (KLK is obviously 2.0, but that's okay since both were worth watching.)
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Sep 28 2014, 04:54 AM
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I don't know what to expect from it. I'm just interested to see if they can do something that isn't essentially Gurren Lagann with a new coat of paint and a different premise. Unless, of course, this turns into Gurren Lagann 3.0. (KLK is obviously 2.0, but that's okay since both were worth watching.) Pretty much this.
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