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Topic Started: Jan 7 2012, 01:00 AM (10,893 Views)
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As much as I would like for them to make Heaven's Feel a series, I'm not totally convinced they could make it work for broadcast, considering some of the subjects covered. Another thing to note is Caster's background was expanded far beyond anything that was in the VN. (Please note I am still super far behind and haven't seen anything of note.)
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Woo Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection of F is actually going to be in my area. I can't say I expect much, but it should be a 105 minute throwback to my teenage years, which will definitely be worth my $7 plus whatever nomz I'm unable to sneak in, fuck theater prices. I'll buy my ticket this week because that's just so damn cheap.


Also realized I said nothing about Rinne. I don't have a whole lot to say anyway. It feels like an Inuyasha "what if" scenario in a lot of ways (namely, "what if Kagome stayed home"), though this is probably in large part due to having the same creator. The artstyle/character designs, the humor, the characterization (or lack thereof, if you're so inclined), a lot of things are just so damn similar to Inuyasha and the comparisons are unavoidable. I'd probably care more about the similarities if I had watched Inuyasha in, idk, the last decade. As it is they're just there.

It'll never blow you away, but it's consistently watchable and humorous. That's about all I expected, so I'm not disappointed. I find it a good breather anime (you know, before the weekend onslaught), since it airs on Wednesdays and isn't all that srs.
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So I popped on Netflix just because today, and saw that Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blad Works] was up. That in and of itself isn't too big a deal, since Fate/Zero was up relatively fast. But what is impressive, is that the English dub is up already. That has to be some kind of record for how fast it got done, since the series only just ended not too long ago.
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Holy fuck, the animation in this episode of Dragon Ball Super was just terrible. Imagine the infinite monkeys writing Shakespeare, but assigned to producing an episode of this show instead while on drugs, because shit like whatever the fuck this is supposed to be (during a climactic moment, no less!) can only be drawn by animals on hallucinogenic drugs that were heretofore unknown to man.

Screenshots are generous to this scene. My words are generous to this episode's abominable animation. Only in motion can its truly terrible majesty be appreciated. If you value your sanity, you'll have a few drinks first.

What the fuck happened? Did Toei give the animation budget to its executives as a bonus for firing competent animators? Did they just spend it all on hookers and blow? Was it given to the yakuza as "protection money"? I mean, if I produced this and Sailor Moon Crystal, I'd probably want protection from angry fans too. Did they light it on fire? Is there a Scrooge McDuck-esque swimming pool somewhere deep within Toei HQ? Wherever the money for this show went, IT DIDN'T GO TOWARDS THE ANIMATION. That's kind of important. You're watching this for the fights, which need to be animated well because there's literally no other draw (well, nostalgia, but you know) to the show, but episode 5 exists and they couldn't even do THAT much.

I just don't get how you can put this out in 2015. This isn't even nitpicking; the animation is noticeably horrific for many seconds at a time. Even NGE episodes 25 and 26 are better than this, if only because they aren't pretending to be anything other than fucking incomprehensible/the results of running out of money.

Maybe we're lucky that Crunchyroll and Funi were unable to get this show, for whatever reason(s). The furor would be a lot worse if one of those sites had it because more people would actually try and watch the damn thing.

If I could sue Toei for battery against my memories, I'd do it in a heartbeat. This isn't the Dragon Ball Z I grew up with. This is something masquerading in its skin Buffalo Bill-style.
Edited by Romanticide, Sep 10 2015, 03:37 AM.
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Toei's an awful company. It really is unfortunate they hold the rights to so many huge series. With the amount of money they must rake in, their quality is unacceptable.

At least they'll touch it up for the Blu Rays for dem sales doe
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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-09-14/rumiko-takahashi-rin-ne-manga-gets-2nd-anime-season-in-spring-2016/.92909

Unexpected given its lack of popularity. Glad to see it tho.
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It's that time of the season again. So many shows are ending later this week, but at this point my thoughts are pretty firm on most of them.

Possible spoilers, etc.

Looking at it, this season was pretty damn good. Most things fall in the 6-7 range, though there are a few outliers either way, which I suppose is about what you'd expect. It was pretty hectic keeping up with so many shows, though, so I'll be thankful if fall has a bit less.

Still need to watch at least Umaru-chan and God Eater, too. x.x I'll probably watch them in the downtime between seasons, assuming my reading/P4DAN don't eat all my time. (DAN totally will)


Continuations:


Rinne


Durarara


Food Wars


Arslan Senki



Originals:

Dragon Ball Super


Aoharu x Machinegun


Gate


Shimoneta


Charlotte


Rokka


Gangsta


Actually, I Am


Castle Town Dandelion


Snow White With the Red Hair


Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace


Gakkou Gurashi
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This season is better than I thought, but I also don't look forward to much outside of the top 5 or so shows. Pretty much everything else just gets pushed off to another day because I don't feel like watching it right away. It predictably leads to me marathoning this clusterfuck in the middle of the week so I don't get slammed by the weekend anime.

The Perfect Insider, Beautiful Bones, Utawarerumono, and Young Black Jack are my top tier shows this season. Barring a massive disappointment (*glares at Charlotte*), those will stay good. Osomatsu is growing on me and may very well join those four by the end. Comet Lucifer has been good so far, but it's starting to introduce its plot, and I haven't seen any indication it'll be better than "meh". I feel like that show's quality is probably going to drop, but I like the cast thus far, and that's probably why I'll stick with it. That and the nice artstyle.

Heavy Object and One Punch Man got the drop treatment. Heavy Object has done nothing to convince me it's anything but a generic mecha anime with fanservice. One Punch Man just isn't funny. Pretty to be sure, and the action scenes are very well-done, but it's not funny and I don't care about anything happening to anyone on that show. Granted, most shonen anime are bad at making you give a shit, but they give a token effort and have at least one character you can latch on to. Everything in OPM exists to poke fun at, which wouldn't be so bad if it were fucking funny. Pushed Asterisk War to the middle of the week; I don't see much use in watching that and Chivalry right next to each other since they're functionally the same damn show.

Speaking of Chivalry, it's the most surprising show for me this season. That or Osomatsu. I expected most everything I'm watching to be... about what it is... but Chivalry is something that's surprisingly good in spite of being cliche. It's just executed well and the strong personalities/humor help me overlook some fairly obvious flaws.

Back to the clusterfuck, I guess.
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Is it time for drunk anime thoughts?

DRUNK ANIME THOUGHTS.

Spoilers because there will be spoilers.


Utawarerumono
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Is it time? I think it's time. Fall season thoughts.

Everything outside of the top 5-6 shows is just... kinda there. It's watchable but none of it is really what I'd call great, and even "good" feels like a stretch some weeks. However, the top shows make up for the lack of depth this season. I guess in a way, it's a strong season, just more top-heavy than others I've watched.


Continuations:


Dragon Ball Super


Seraph of the End


Utawarerumono: The False Faces



Originals:

I was going to write something for Concrete Revolutio but realized I don't care enough. The tl;dr would be that it's meh outside of Kikko and the aesthetics anyway, the former of which isn't there enough, the latter can't carry a meh show, and a non-standard calendar/non-linear storytelling do not help. If I finish it, it'll be because I say "fuck it, only 3-4 eps left". Might be with the aid of vodka too, who knows.

I just didn't have the energy to continue this. Tuning in felt like more of a chore than it was worth, especially given all that's going on. Utawarerumono and Osomatsu amuse me for 24 minutes a week, which helps me push all that shit to the background for a little bit. Young Black Jack/Beautiful Bones are just compelling enough to make me tune in, as was The Perfect Insider. Chivalry and Seraph aren't all that great and I wound up not watching those for a couple weeks, but I wanted to see where those went regardless because they had not-shitty elements. Concrete Revolutio just didn't have anything that made me feel "yeah, I need to motivate myself and watch this".


The Asterisk War/Chivalry of a Failed Knight


Comet Lucifer


Osomatsu-San


Beautiful Bones


The Perfect Insider


Young Black Jack



Also, my top ten anime of the year. I believe I've said my piece on most of these anyway.

1) Yuri Kuma Arashi
2) My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!
3) Utawarerumono: The False Faces
4) Sound! Euphonium
5) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
6) Beautiful Bones
7) Rokka
8) Gakkou Gurashi
9) Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works
10) Parasyte

Anime I want to mention but didn't make the list:
Young Black Jack, Osomatsu-San, Snow White With the Red Hair

Young Black Jack is enjoyable and all, but rather ridiculous at points for a mostly "realistic" medical show. Osomatsu-San probably falls a bit because of my preference for srs stories, but it's one of the funniest shows of the year and is only beat by Utawarerumono in the lulz department. You should def watch it. Snow White is just a refreshing change from the usual shoujo stories with the usual shoujo leads. Hype for the next cour of that. The Perfect Insider/Charlotte should have easily made this list but didn't after they crashed and burned.

Just mentioning winter anime as a whole because only Yuri Kuma made my list and I never posted about them. There aren't many, so that's probably why. I wasn't watching 10-15 shows a season. The tl;dr is you should watch Maria the Virgin Witch and The Rolling Girls, if you haven't. Neither is a top tier anime obv, but they're still very enjoyable watches. Still need to watch Koufuku Graffiti from that season.

Still missed some things this year. Your Lie In April would have probably made it if I watched it. Shit sounds relevant to my interests. And of course there's the whole Monogatari series, which I'm sure Lightning will harass me about next year too. And the year after that, and the year after that, which is to say I'm never watching it. (trolololol)
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double post but whatever

Anyway, finished my readings for the night and it's too late to throw myself into X for a few hours because early Christmas for me, so I figured it's time...

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Continuing:
Snow White
GATE
Utawarerumono (FUCK. YES. I didn't know this was continuing next season.)
Osomatsu-San
Durarara

I expect the first four to be good; their first cours were. Not sure about Durarara, but if it can finally go somewhere with all these characters and plots, then I'll have some hope for it.

But I'm happiest to get my Kuon/catgirl fix.


New:
Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi
Dagashi Kashi
Dimension W
Haruchika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun Suru
Musaigen no Phantom World
Norn9: Norn + Nonet (still need to get this VN)
Schwarzesmarken
Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu

This season seems heavy on the romance/slice of life stuff. I can always approve of this. Of course with my luck half of it will suck, but whatever, we'll see soon enough.
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Caught up on most things I want to watch, finally. I'll definitely catch up on Norn9 and Lupin III before the season is over. Dunno about Girls Beyond the Wasteland/Luck and Logic. Neither was on my list, haven't heard good things (admittedly, I haven't looked hard for thoughts on these two), and we're into like week eight of the season so catching up is going to be a pain in my ass anyway. Doable but still, a pain in my ass for shows that might be mediocre.

Saving more in-depth thoughts for the season-ending post, of course. (oh god that's only like 4-5 weeks away kill me)


Erased and Showa Genroku are the best new shows of the season, and it's not particularly close. Everything else has noticeable flaws in at least one area, but these two have very minor flaws, if that. Erased is probably the easier to watch show, and at this point the more compelling, but Showa Genroku is a master level course in character development and setting the atmosphere/mood. Both are amazing shows in their own ways.

This said, I have higher hopes for Showa Genroku. It'll simply be the harder show to ruin. Erased has a number of ways in which it can go wrong (plot, a terrible deus ex machina, killing Airi, etc); Showa Genroku can only really be ruined if the writers forgot who their characters are.

Osomatsu is the only thing in the same stratosphere as these two shows, but it's obv a continuation. While I'm on Osomatsu, it's only gotten weirder and better and I'm thinking I might have underrated the first cour at this point because bias. It's just so consistently great.


Not sure how I feel about Utawarerumono. On one hand, I still like the slice of life elements; the cast's tomfoolery is always hilarious. On the other, the war elements of the plot are still as weak as ever. We had never seen most of these characters fight until this cour, and we've certainly never seen them train to stay in fighting shape (would take time away from the aforementioned tomfoolery), but all of a sudden they're kicking asses and taking names. Outside of that, we don't *see* much of the war; we just see a few skirmishes where named characters are fighting. This makes perfect sense given that it's character-driven, but it's hard to care about a world you don't see a whole lot of. It's pretty obvious they want us to give a fuck about Yamato, but I just can't do it because we know little of it outside of named characters.

I guess at least Kurou gained a level in badass between the first series and this. Makes sense though; he was always a dedicated soldier whereas most of those fighting him... haven't been. It restores some order to the universe. Don't think it redeems the war aspect of this series, but it helps I guess.

I'm feeling this will have another season. Kuon may well end the war, but it'd feel like a very unsatisfying conclusion, and it also feels like there's more to this war than a simple land grab for Yamato. Another season would help flesh out those motivations, as well as the ultimate destination of the plot.


Aokana is probably the series that's surpassed expectations the most. It's just straight up joyful. I expected a meh tier sports anime at best, but I've gotten a somewhat compelling sport with some of the best humor/reactions of the season. Also the cutest cast. I'll accept this. The show's biggest flaw is probably the pacing. I'm supposed to believe that in a matter of months, a once-defunct program now has athletes that can hang with the best academy in the nation. Riiiiiiight. I'd care more, but I'm watching this because it's funny as fuck and less so for the sports. Next biggest is that every character is essentially one-note, but as with Tales games, it doesn't matter because the character interactions are that damn good.


Schwarzesmarken hasn't made me feel like I flushed $80 down the toilet, so on that front alone it's good. Other than being supr dupr dark and srs, it's a pretty good show and I like the cast. I probably value a good cast above all else where my VN fare is concerned. I'm going to be reading way too many words when this trilogy drops (along with other VNs oh gawd send halp), so they best be about people I come to care about.


Durarara is finally going places. It kind of has the feeling of "I've invested so much time, might as well stick with it", though. I would have liked things to happen a cour ago, but there were just too many characters introduced and most of them haven't done anything that furthers this plotline. I'm still mad they introduced Hollywood and did nothing with her, because I liked her character more than jabronies like Varona or this Kasane chick. To be fair, I guess both Varona/Kasane are contributing, but I find it hard to give a damn about their contributions.

I should feel like it's finally paying off. I don't because it's taken so long and because it's now involving characters I know little of and care for even less. It's the most enjoyable watch of the new Durarara, so there's that I guess. Not sure how much that's saying.


The Tuka arc in Gate was much needed. She had easily done the least of any main character until this cour, so we needed *something* to develop her character and make it feel like she had a reason to be on the team. I would have liked her to be more involved with the fire dragon fight, but she was insane, her attack led to the team's victory, and we got character development. Pretty good, all things considered. I like Lelei, but her arc thus far is excruciating, in large part because I don't give a fuck about Arpeggio. I'm supposed to care about this rivalry, but it's obvious Lelei outclasses her and will eventually outclass every mage in the other world (combining magic with another world's advanced science will do that), and Arpeggio is the most annoying character in the series bar none. They wasted like half an episode on a fight that was fun to watch but ultimately meaningless. I would have liked a fair bit of that time to go towards the political side of things, which was fairly important given recent events.


Grimgar is another surprising show. I would have expected a premise that generic to lead to a generic show, but I like the cast. I also like the willingness to have a party comprised of average people and not badasses that are amongst the world's strongest. I find it more relatable and you can do more with that kind of cast in terms of storytelling than you can do with the world's strongest people. Maybe I'm just getting sick of playing typical JRPGs, who the fuck knows. Also, dat artstyle.

Konosuba is essentially Grimgar's opposite. It takes the same premise and takes the piss out of it. Every character being highly exaggerated and having outrageous personalities leads to a lot of funny situations. It's a better watch than I had anticipated, probably because there's so damn much to lampoon about JRPGs and because the cast is funnier than I thought it had any right to be.


Hit on most things, so I think I'll call it a post. And a night. Have to save something, though really I just can't think of much atm for shows I didn't bother to talk about.
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I kind of think they're making Tusukuru forces in Utawarerumono too strong. Yamato's a pretty huge nation that has so far kicked everyone's asses, so it's kind of weird to see them just completely outclassed against Tusukuru. Tusukuru wasn't even THAT strong in the first season. They were resilient and scrappy more than just some kind of powerhouse military. I guess they could have come a long way in the years since the first series, but I just kind of feel like the power's skewed in Tusukuru's favor way too much in this current war.
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A 3-part prequel OVA of the Ancient Magus Bride manga was announced today. It's being produced by Wit Studio (Attack on Titan, Rolling Girls, Seraph of the End) and holy shit it looks incredible. I was caught up with the manga a while back, but it's a monthly release so it's pretty tough to stick with. It's a pretty damn good story, though. Hopefully this will lead into a TV anime adaptation.
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Dec 24 2015, 08:57 AM
It's that time of season again.

Continuing:
JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE (obviously)
Rinne

New:
ACE ATTORNEY (I mean, duh.)
Kiznavier
Joker Game
Kuma Miko
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Bungo Stray Dogs

Maybe:
Bakuon!!
Hai Furi
Hundred
Mayoiga
Sakamoto desu ga?
Space Patrol Luluco


Not much grabbed me, really. Something unlisted will probably come out of nowhere like it usually does, but after 20 shows last season, I'd be okay with a more laid-back season (10-13 shows) so I can do backlog stuff and/or play Muv-Luv/FE.

I'll make my Winter season post tomorrow after Showa Genroku. It's mostly finished, but I want to see the finale before I make that post.
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