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I'd gently caress that weapon.
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Mar 24, 2016 00:53
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Not sure about what Akira Yasuda was thinking with that gear lance design, but the robot is pretty badass once it gets to fight.
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Mar 24, 2016 00:55
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Mar 24, 2016 01:29
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Srice posted:Punch Line is a well crafted show that was criminally underlooked because of the initial premise, so I say go with that! Ghost Sweeper Mikami, 90s yokai anime look so cool What anime will I watch tonight: Osomatsu-san Galactic Drifter Vifam Saint Seiya Soul of Gold Take the X Train
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Mar 24, 2016 01:37
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As of episode 1 of Symphogear, I have no idea what's going on, but whatever it is is loving awesome.
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Mar 24, 2016 09:02
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Srice posted:Punch Line is a well crafted show that was criminally underlooked because of the initial premise, so I say go with that! I remember thinking about this show when it was/just finished airing and thinking how awful it was that everyone would probably forget about it pretty quickly since it's a really good show.
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Mar 24, 2016 09:04
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2 eps into Ghost Sweeper Mikami. Will go into more detail when I'm not phone posting, but my gut impression is that it really wants to be a Rumiko Takahashi series. It's moderately entertaining but yikes the animation isn't so hot. The designs are fine but anything beyond basic motions looks dire. I am looking forward to watching more though, since shows that use this particular formula tend to improve after more of the cast is introduced and I'm hoping that holds true here.
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Mar 24, 2016 12:38
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Also, the ghost problem in the second ep was a thinly-veiled excuse for Mikami to put on shades and rob a bank so that was fun
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Mar 24, 2016 12:42
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Ghost Sweeper Mikami sounds good, going by the above! I approve of things which are Takahashi-esque and involve flimsy excuses for wearing shades. I've also started watching my latest selected show: Punch Line, episodes 1, 2 and 3 Episode 1 started out action packed and crazy, which is good. The nose bleeds and underwear-focus kicked in, and I have to say that the opening sequence gives a really bad first impression of the show. It's still a colourful and energetic and unusual OP, but yeah, I would not be surprised if there were people who saw the op and decided to nope out (or to see the nosebleeds and wonder if they ended up watching Maria Holic). But I'm glad I was watching the show for this thread and couldn't do that, because it turns out that Punch Line is actually good. The fanservice is tolerable because it's otherwise a good show, there's a plot reason (however flimsy) for it, and the show is really self-aware and silly. The animation and art style look nice. This is a really lively show; no time for boredom. Strange Juice the hero of justice fights her enemies using a straw in this ep, and that was amazing. (Who chose the name Strange Juice? Who?) So ep 1 sets up the premise of what happened to the MC and what he needs to do to get his body back, guided by a spirit cat who doesn't even try to justify random plot conditions (and also keeps trying to accidentally-on-purpose show the MC voyeuristic cat-on-cat porn videos on the computer. Oookay.) Ep 2 is the one I've seen a bunch of animated gifs from, and this ep is the one which sold me on the series by having a bunch of really funny jokes. I wanted to know what the hell the context of those scenes which look as if they're from Hotline Miami was, and I was not disappointed. Also, I reckon that the second scene where Ito tries to cover up the bear cub's presence is good enough that it justifies the existence of this entire show all on its own. Ep 3, the cast continue to be terrible liars. It's great. I like that the Strange Juice secret identity thing doesn't get dragged out. And I was not expecting Meika to be a robot. I swear, with her ridiculous hairstyles, Meika could sign up for a role in Shiki. So three eps in we find out about the organisation Justice Punch and some of the title is thus explained. I was disappointed by the lack of actual Martians, but the costume was nice. My favourite thing this ep was the masked trooper man summarily slapping Miyazawa Kenji about the face. Nice comic timing! On the info so far I can only speculate that perhaps Miyazawa's identity is the spirit who's body-napped the MC. I will laugh if the reason he wanted the MC's body was in order to use it to become a hero of justice. As of yet, I have no idea what the hell is up with the bear or with the turtle motifs.
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Mar 24, 2016 14:13
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you could say Justice Punch relates to the shows title, but it's just as much a pun about the central premise. Punch Line sounds like panchira, which refers to a brief glimpse of someone's underwear
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Mar 24, 2016 14:47
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lol at the characters in Akito the Exiled getting scammed by gypsies
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Apr 1, 2016 02:47
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Finished ep 3 of Code Geass Akito the Exiled. It's a good show. Decent characters, interesting world, fast ground-based robot fights. And, starting in episode 3, the crazy political schemes you'd expect from Code Geass. I'm definitely gonna keep watching, especially since there's only one episode left
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Apr 1, 2016 03:40
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GorfZaplen posted:Ghost Sweeper Mikami, 90s yokai anime look so cool VIfam my list Patlabor (terebi) Vifam Haikyuu Hades Project Zeorymer Owarimonogatari
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Apr 1, 2016 03:44
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sorry I misunderstood thought this was the help me find an anime thread - carry on
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Apr 1, 2016 09:27
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dogsicle posted:you could say Justice Punch relates to the shows title, but it's just as much a pun about the central premise. Punch Line sounds like panchira, which refers to a brief glimpse of someone's underwear Ah, that makes sense. Especially given the lyrics of the opening song. Anyway, I've been watching more Punchline, and it's been getting really good. I'm hooked and after I've posted this I'm going to go and watch the rest. Punch Line, episodes 4, 5 and 6 No wonder people have been saying that this show is underrated. Also, in these later eps it becomes increasingly obvious that Kotaro Uchikoshi wrote the script for this. Hahaha, so Yuta body-napped himself! If I understood the end of ep 6 right, it seems there's a time loop thing going with Yuta failing and then going back in time and stealing his own body. And now, Yuta's been sent back to the first scene of the show, so I really have no idea what's going to happen from here on in, which is great. Good work, Uchikoshi, for including someone going back in time and taking over their own body in order to put right what's about to go wrong.  Now Yuta is possessing himself, I want to know whether this means he's stuck with a 7 minute limit or if it doesn't count as a possession. Interesting that Yuta is biologically female. I suppose we'll find out later if he's trans or if he's in disguise or something like that. Yuta's hair shape looks like the hair of Chiyoko from Narugino's flashbacks in the facility, so it'd be no surprise if they were the same person. But if that's the case, it's confusing that back in episode one when Yuta was falling in the water, there was a scene with him (presumably) hallucinating/imagining little Narugino and Chiyoko holding his hands to save him. Would he really imagine his child self turning up to save him? Yuta also recognised the marks on Narugino's neck, and "Miyazawa Kenji" knew the rhyme (though he could have learned that from other means) so this suggests he was one of those three kids, and if it's not Chiyoko it would have to be Pine. Yuta seems similar in personality to Pine from the flashbacks. But Pine is almost certainly the shifty dude from the bus-jacking in ep 1. Little Narugino and Meika's backstory is cute, but yeah, the hero gig is wrecking Narugino's health. Meika is the best backstory narrator. Also, was little Narugino dressed up as Ranma Saotome on purpose? One thing that confuses me is the look of the eyelashes on the flashback kids. This series has far more distinctive eye designs than most, so it's strange. Narugino's hair and eye colouring and neck tattoo matches Guriko, but Guriko's eyes and eyelashes look a different shape. The one whose eye and eyelash shape matches Narugino's is Chiyoko. Yet, when Meika meets kid Narugino, kid Narugino's eye shape does match older Narugino's. If Yuta is meant to be Chiyoko, it's strange that the one of the three kids whose eye designs he matches best is Pine's. Some sort of strange body-swapping thing going on between those three? (Chiyoko/Narugino in Guriko's body, Pine/Yuta in Chiyoko's, and Guriko in Pine's?) All in all, I'm very pleased. All I ask from the remaining episodes is that at some point the bear gets possessed by someone.
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Apr 1, 2016 13:38
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Hyouka Tried to give this a a healthy shot but it's really not grabbing me at all, I like the visual style of the show quite a bit and the music is pretty good, but all of the characters grate on me in just the wrong way  .Maybe if this had been a thing I watched week by week I'd have enjoyed it, but as it is I'm having a hard time continuing with it. I might come back to it some time down the road, but for now I'm gonna have to set it aside.
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Apr 8, 2016 05:47
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I thought I'd posted this, but the Love Live dub is excellent. I've been continuing on with it.
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Apr 8, 2016 14:55
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Thread dead too long. You know what that means!boom boom boom posted:Haikyuu Your list was boring but you get sexy volleyboys. Euphonium or euphonium with guitars (k-on) Gundam Wing <-- Someone said I'd like this Concrete Revolutio, though I saw like 1 ep Additional Chihayafuru, though I might do this anyway Another anime you can remember me bashing but think I haven't seen
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gundam wing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7SloE7AjqI i've got a few old animes that are probably really good that i've never actually seen trigun <- i watched some of this when i was like 14 and remember very little aside from a train future diaries ghost in the shell death note kaiji ninjewtsu fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Apr 22, 2016 17:17
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Cowboy Bebop is good.
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Apr 22, 2016 17:35
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Gundam Wing Ep. 1: My new transfer student is a war criminal Haha wow I'm not really sure what to make of this. It's got an introductory exposition dump into to rival starwars, complete with it's own darth helmet, in his silly bird mask. The show's certainly taking some of itself seriously. It felt like it was trying for some realpolitik stuff but I couldn't keep track of it. There's like, and alliance, an oz, earth, and colonies, and I don't who's a part of who. Maybe it'll explain better later. Them talking about overheating in atmospheric reentry gave me some kerbal space program ptsd flashbacks, which is a good sign for a show with spaceships. It was actually starting to draw me in until the actual gundams showed up. Ho boy those things look silly. I mean I knew what gundams looked before, but the rest of the robots and military hardware look like something an engineer might actually design. Putting them side by side really makes the gundams look like kids toys, breast gatling guns and flamethrower hookshots not even considered. I hope we get to meet the head engineer for those things, they must be a loving hoot and a half. Anyway our main character is kind of a prick. I mean I assume he's the main character because he's the first guy we see in a gundam, but if we didn't I probably would have assumed him an antagonist because his list of accomplishments so far include: Almost blowing up a passenger plane Dropkicking some paramedics Stealing an ambulance Handing a death threat to a college chick he just met Also through some twisted japan logic he's a new transfer student too? I think it's just a law of anime that new characters must become transfer students and reality will bend over backward to accommodate it. Final thoughts: IDK I'm more confused than anything else. Better than madoka though.
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I appreciate your detailed account of your reaction to gundam wing. This is far less mocking than I expected
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Apr 23, 2016 17:20
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Don't worry there's plenty of time for it to get more mockable. For instance: Gundam Wing Ep. 2: He kept the ambulance First let's mention something I enjoyed: It's always nice when you shout "Shoot her drat it!" at the protagonist and he obliges you. If only his trigger finger was quick enough. At least he didn't add 'catches bullets' to his absurd skillset, which currently includes: Ace pilot, pro martial artist, master fencer, superhacker, one man heist team, and capable equestrian. Where the gently caress did he learn to ride a horse in space? Pouty chick meanwhile has a terminal case of anime heroine syndrome, and keeps humping the leg of the Actually most of the show is still stuff I don't understand. Like what anyone's goals and motivations are besides, 'there's a war, we're fighting someone'. Are the gundam guys supposed to be fighting each other? Is OZ fighting with the Alliance? Wtf is OZ again? Did 5 giant robot battles really happen around the world without getting leaked to the press? Transfer student? It's keeping me engaged, but out of the possibility this could all make sense, but not because it currently does. Alternate review: 
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Oz is part of the alliance. They're like the robot making organization The alliance is corrupt and being mean to the colonies so some terrorist scientists in the colonies sent 5 gundams to earth to be terrorists. They're all aware that there's other gundams but they don't communicate at all with each other, and I don't believe they even know how many other gundams there are
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Apr 24, 2016 17:41
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^^^ Makes sense, good to know. If only the anime had decided that it too wanted me to know that.
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Apr 24, 2016 19:32
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It does eventually which is why reviewing single episodes as you watch them is almost as dumb as your posting.
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Apr 24, 2016 19:35
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And neither of those is as dumb as the show he's watching 
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Apr 24, 2016 22:03
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Linnaeus posted:And neither of those is as dumb as the show he's watching Negative.
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Apr 24, 2016 22:04
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Some of that I think you kind of have to infer a bit. I don't remember if the show actually tells you that the gundams don't know each other, so much as youbjust kinda see gundams find each other and have no idea who each other are. It seems kinda weird if you don't connect the dots right away that operation meteor isn't supposed to be terribly well thought out At some point the show explains oz but i don't remember how early, I wouldn't be surprised if they just namedropped oz constantly without letting the viewer know why they're important, then explain oz later and hopes the viewer remembers all the stuff they've previously seen about the organization that they didn't actually have much understanding of at the time, which is a legit thing to not like. ninjewtsu fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Apr 25, 2016 |
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ninjewtsu posted:trigun <- i watched some of this when i was like 14 and remember very little aside from a train If you're still around, I suggest you watch Trigun. It has a really good opening song and Vash has an excellent trenchcoat and shades. Honestly it's been a long time since I watched it and I only saw half the series, but it was pretty good if I remember it right. I wonder how well it holds up. My list: Barakamon Darker Than Black D.N.Angel Earth Maiden Arjuna ef - a tale of memories Galilei Donna Gosick Kaitou Saint Tail Nagi no Asukara Rinne no Lagrange Terra e World Conquest Zvezda Plot Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo
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Oh right I was doing a thing wasn't I. Gundam Wing Ep. 3: Guys, I think the gundams are terrorists Someone's got to tell me, is this the gundam people always talk about fans siding with a fascist state on? Cus if so I can totally believe it. So far the only reasonable people in the show have been the soldiers in the enemy alliance. I assume they're fascist because they used a zepplin, and that's code for nazi if I ever saw one, but they haven't even been shown doing anything bad besides some vague exposition in the intro. The gundams on the other hand seem to spend most of their time bombing hospitals, oil refineries, shooting at civilians and fighting among themselves. The main character mentioned that he should have died this episode. I'm inclined to agree, not a good sign. He wakes up in a featureless, windowless hospital room and says, "I'm on floor 50, military building No. 3 in south J.A.P". The writers are just giving him new powers every episode. Other gundam guy with the huge braid seems to realize how much of a mary sue the MC is because he just assumes he can read lips (and of course he can). I don't get why braid guy let the MC get taken to he hospital, where they didn't even treat him, just so he can break him out of it. Meanwhile two other gundams have a fight, then one remembers that they're on the same side and shouldn't be fighting. They've yet to explain why they were fighting in the first place. I'm doubting they ever will. Final Verdict: I think I'm just going to pretend bird mask is the main character now. Old MC can just be mary sue.
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Pavlov posted:Gundam Wing Ep. 3: Guys, I think the gundams are terrorists no, that's a different gundam. the alliance being somewhat reasonable and the gundams being child terrorists is very much intentional though Pavlov posted:Oh right I was doing a thing wasn't I. oh right i'm supposed to be doing a thing too i actually ended up watching 15 episodes of trigun in a single sitting a few days ago. trigun is really good, which i was expecting, though i was actually surprised at the manner in which it was good. i went into trigun expecting it to be cool, flashy action due to being made by madhouse, with a serviceable story with some neat points. i actually got somewhat the opposite: the action is honestly kind of underwhelming usually (later on it's better, not i don't think i'd really call it amazing), but the story it tells is surprisingly compelling. at first i thought it was a little dumb, since vash is kind of the most boringly perfect protagonist possible. he's basically completely unbeatable in combat, to a pretty ridiculous degree. the dude can dodge machinegun fire from multiple people at the same time, and has perfect accuracy from a very powerful gun. he's so good, in fact, that he's able to completely outclass his opponents in every fight to the point where he not only beats hordes of opponents, but does so without allowing a single person to die. i kind of had to force myself to watch through the first 3 episodes or so. they weren't especially bad, so much as just fairly uninteresting. what i really like about the story is how it takes the idea of "the protagonist is the most perfect thing to ever grace this earth" and really explores that concept. a lot of tension gets created not from "how will vash get out of this situation alive" but "how will vash manage to get out of this situation without letting anyone die," which seems like an appropriate reflection of vash as a character. after a few episodes it becomes more apparently that vash isn't actually quite perfect. he's invincible, when but your goals revolve around other people that isn't always quite enough. he still has his limitations: he can only be in one place at one time, he can only shoot things in his line of sight, sometimes he has to worry about ammo, and if someone is pointing a gun at someone else already, vash can't necessarily trust himself to shoot the gun-holder before they pull the trigger and kill someone. it's cool seeing how vash's childish, simplistic moral goals end up impeding him a lot, despite his absurd skillset, as if the show is a commentary on mary sues rather than simply a show where the main character is a mary sue. although i said the action isn't amazing, i should note that visually the show does look really good, and a lot of fights end up being really enjoyable (if not exactly my idea of "incredibly well animated and choreographed") simply due to how stylish and badass the characters look and act. i've enjoyed trigun thoroughly and will certainly continue to watch it to the end.
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ninjewtsu posted:no, that's a different gundam. the alliance being somewhat reasonable and the gundams being child terrorists is very much intentional though Just incidentally; but Trigun: Badlands Rumble is well worth a watch if you want more Trigun after the series. It's a standalone adventure rather than a sequel though, and could've really been slotted anywhere in the middle of the show as an extra three episodes worth of fun.
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