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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:As for the nudity it's probably not a troll, SHAFT usually has their characters nude in their OPs, we're just now realizing how creepy SHAFT is now that the main character is 12. Did no-one remember that extended tits-and-vulva shots scene with Fujiyoshi (the yaoi fangirl) from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei? According to Wikipedia it was episode 3 of the second series. The whole thing was ridiculous and completely unnecessary. It was at this point I understood the rumours of Shaft being a creepy studio. That said this show is looking interesting (I didn't even notice this nude scene in the OP because I skipped it... I'm a terrible person); I just hope we see more of the crazy nightmare scenes and that they aren't reserved for the finale from here on in.
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| # ¿ Jan 10, 2011 16:47 |
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Happiness posted:I'm glad someone was finally able to get to the bottom of this rumored "fan service." I wasn't sure if it truly existed or not before seeing this damning evidence. Man I didn't realise there was anything to be debated here and I didn't want to drag this thread off-topic into some retarded "acceptable level of fanservice" debate. Fanservice doesn't bother me, but 7-10 minutes of what is normally a comedy/skit show merely focusing on an under-18 character "being sexy" with a quiet radioplay over the top is not "just fanservice." It's creepy objectification, plain and simple. Now if you really want to continue discussing levels of fanservice feel free to hit me up with a PM but let's not poo poo up this thread.
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| # ¿ Jan 10, 2011 20:28 |
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I'm not saying that Shaft are the devil or anything I'm just saying that scenes like this in the episode were wildly inappropriate: (NSFW, not that you should be opening images from ADTRW at work) http://i.imgur.com/MyotK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pAMKV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VlTps.jpg http://i.imgur.com/69agX.jpg On top of her being in her bra for basically the entirety of the part. The radio play? Funny. I liked it. The images of scantily clad anime girl? Unnecessary. Better than Queen's Blade, worse than I expected for this. Plorkyeran posted:It says something about you that you interpreted that scene in that way. Look I said I didn't want this to become a ridiculous fanservice argument because there'll always be prissy people like me who prefer women to wear clothes most of the time (and I hope you will respect my future Mormon Marriage) and there'll always be creepos who find scenes like the one I complained about more than acceptable (and I hope you'll respect their future pillow wife). There is a middle ground, heck, I rather enjoyed Soredemo (also by Shaft, for anyone who didn't know), now let's both agree to disagree and get this thread back on track. So, how about that Kyube? Dude annoys me, I'm hoping he takes a serious case of mid-season death.
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2011 06:33 |
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e: ^^^^ oh Jesus shut up, PM me if it's so important but I won't continue this in the thread any longer To Fangz: It's hard to say this early on, but the first episode was written well enough to give us a good introduction to the cast and manages to convey all the information in an interesting way. The pacing felt a tiny bit slow (primarily during the school scenes) but really it was handled well enough to just give it a relaxed pace, which is fine too. Have you not watched the first episode yet? Okay, fine, I'll add an addendum, "yes, a lot of those were creepy too but in just short enough bursts that I could grimace and then there'd be a scene change and something funny would happen and I'd block out the crap parts" that doesn't mean I forgot them, I just try and ignore them, but minutes at a time of the stuff is not ignorable. I already goddamn said that I'm pretty whiny about objectification but yes, underage boys and girls being sexualised / attracted to their elders et al do offend me. Hence why I said that Shaft can be creepy. Sorry what are you arguing? That Shaft aren't creepy because they took the creepy elements to a maximum? VVVVVV Tesseraction fucked around with this message at Jan 11, 2011 around 07:04 |
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Haha, I did love that skit even having never watched a Magical Girl show. It seemed to successfully parody the clichés of magical girl shows that I always get told about. The Darker Than Black reference was pretty neat, too.
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2011 07:43 |
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jonjonaug posted:Not entirely sure what's going on here but this looks like a pretty cool fanart too. This is pretty much how I'm imagining the twist ending to be. Although since it seems obvious enough to appear in fanart I guess the twist will be this isn't?
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2011 08:20 |
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Ah, well I'd try watching the first episode anyhow as a litmus test... just take a leaf from my book, I guess, and skip the OP (good old mkv chaptering, after all).
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2011 08:38 |
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Hey now it's the Neon Genesis Evangelion of SZS OPs!
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2011 14:33 |
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ChibiSoma posted:So if Kyube can grant any wish, why not go "I wish that [person] wasn't evil and that the apocalypse won't happen"? Because someone already wished for poo poo to hit the fan. First come, first served, bitches!
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2011 15:11 |
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jonjonaug posted:Animage, interview with Gen Urobuchi. Interesting, this could very well be a hint that the two girls will end up at loggerheads or work against each other. But oh well, speculation is speculation.
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2011 13:15 |
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Haha, not to mention this tweet. "The 'kyu' in 'kyube' is the 'cu' from 'cute'!"
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| # ¿ Jan 18, 2011 19:02 |
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 I wonder what Gen would say about those.
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| # ¿ Jan 18, 2011 19:15 |
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AnacondaHL posted:And the "be" is the "bee" from "Beelzebub" But thankfully with 100% less of the babydong. 
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| # ¿ Jan 18, 2011 19:56 |
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Pffft, that's how Japan has always looked. Hell, the only way you can tell the skyline isn't just a video of Japan's sky is the severe lack of fighting mechas / nude women.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2011 15:17 |
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"I wish for this world of deception to become more transparent." afterwards "Kyubey you poo poo this wasn't what I meant  !"
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2011 15:54 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:Some previously contracted Magical Girl must've really liked glass. She regretted it shortly after discovering the glass walls applied to the toilets too.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2011 22:40 |
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Kjoery posted:But seriously, the amount that people have been obsessing about the series is really excessive; it certainly is nothing to lose your head over. Who's been obsessing about it? Apart from the two or three people discussing whether this show is set in the future or not, at length? Also you don't need to spoiler that.
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| # ¿ Jan 20, 2011 17:45 |
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Oh right, I thought he was only talking about people in this thread. Yeah, the wiki is pretty detailed, but hey, some people are moved to do this kind of thing.
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| # ¿ Jan 20, 2011 19:22 |
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Oh come now, if anything it allowed her to die happily. Well, insofar as being momentarily terrified and then horrifically mangled could allow you to be happy.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2011 02:58 |
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Earlier when someone mentioned a timeskip, I was thinking of photoshopping Mami onto Kamina with Madoka as Simon and Sayaka/Homura as Yoko/Rossiu respectively. It seems that in hindsight it would've been a spoiler in one respect. All it needs is the timeskip and we're done.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2011 17:35 |
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It's getting pretty obvious that you've been perusing the 4chan Madoka threads, helopticor. To be fair when they provide you with awesome fanart like this piece of glory then it's understandable.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2011 23:24 |
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What's wrong with what?
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2011 23:30 |
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I never said anything was wrong with it. It was more that the image popped up in the /a/ thread and a small number of posts later someone posted a screencap of the SA forums complaining about this thread being stickied, so I glanced back here and saw the art being posted in here. This wasn't some grand "BURN THE 4CHANNERS" post it was just me chuckling at the coincidence while also posting a piece of good fanart. There's no need to get angry about it. 
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2011 23:35 |
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Ah, well, in that case I'm wrong! My bad. Additionally, here's another spoiler fanart image http://i.imgur.com/379w5.jpg.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2011 23:45 |
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Y'know, the spoiler tags really ought to give you a heads up.
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| # ¿ Jan 23, 2011 00:15 |
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It seems 2chan have a theory. I was "eh" about it until I looked at Mami taking up the yellow and the cue ball. I thought "she's yellow sure, but what about the cue ball." ...cue ball. Cue ball. Cue bay... Kyuubey? ◕ ‿‿ ◕
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| # ¿ Jan 25, 2011 06:09 |
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^^^^ yeah probably, but the cuebey thing made me chuckle so I felt like sharing the joy. Hungry Gerbil posted:◕ ‿‿ ◕ 
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| # ¿ Jan 25, 2011 13:43 |
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jonjonaug posted:
 edited version http://i.imgur.com/kAxjw.png apologies for shittiness in second panel's last bubble.
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| # ¿ Jan 27, 2011 00:54 |
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jonjonaug posted:I don't know, Madoka strikes me as the "bros before hoes" kind of character. The female equivalent was "sisters before misters," where I'm from. As a teen I always wondered how "ho" and "mister" were considered the same level of politeness/impoliteness. In the meantime, episode 4 was a decent episode but I have to admit I'm pretty sad about how quickly Mami is basically abandoned as permanently dead, obviously we saw the characters in shock, but we never saw them in denial and I would've at least expected the desperate plea we make when we lose someone we love. "Please Kyubey bring her back please surely we can wish it?" Don't worry, I'm just moaning like anyone does when their favourite character lacks the favour of the director.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2011 12:40 |
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I did also wonder if Sayaka having magical power terrifies Kamijou, causing him to fear her, thereby making the wish backfire pretty easily. Additionally, it might be that Sayaka manages to kill Kyouko but Kamijou sees it and thus goes from fear to mortal terror.
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2011 03:35 |
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helopticor posted:is there some "scanlating made easy" program I'm unaware of? What part of scanlation? If you mean image editing with regards to comic pages I can give you some pointers but if you mean "fonts to use with strip editing" then there's no real standard, although WildWords for text and whatever fits for sound effects is generally accepted. Homura's fantasy seems to be in augie, though.
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2011 15:13 |
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helopticor posted:Sorry, somehow I got that idea because one of the translated pixiv images you posted was blazingly fast after it appeared on pixiv, IIRC. He's generally chilling out on IRC where these kind of things get posted quickly and translated almost as quickly.
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2011 19:42 |
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jonjonaug posted:Episode 5 was still great anyway, despite some lower quality animation and a little too much SHAFT-ish fast camera angle changes in the scene where Madoka and Homura were talking. Yeah, not to mention Madoka looking like a stick figure while talking to Sayaka outside her house / while sitting down and talking to Homura in the cafe Kjoery posted:They really did Heh, if you check the chaptering that part was titled "mfw I delayed the release by an hour to add this -koda" AnacondaHL posted:*while twisting mustache with monocle and top hat* "Curses!" This actually reminds me of an image about episode three (has a slightly memetic ending) http://i.imgur.com/38wXw.jpg This episode wasn't bad, but apart from the commonly-mentioned animation problems in it, the fight scene between Sayaka and Kyouko was a little padded-out and seemed to take way to long for Homura to intervene. I was actually mildly bored (well not bored, but felt it was dragging unnecessarily) and going "come on get on with the intervention already" by the time she arrived. And yes it seems others picked up on the side effect thing and how it could allow Mami to be unable to die. Let there be hope.
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2011 19:04 |
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I've never used Nutbladder's releases but I do generally enjoy reading the joke chapter titles gg put in most of their releases.
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2011 19:25 |
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jonjonaug posted:Homura's first phase is her mysterious personality, obviously. I was of the opinion that it was time related, as Raenir also picked up on, since she is capable of extremely fast movement. Remember episode three with her teleportation?
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2011 11:28 |
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Hmm, I suppose it could be an after-image, which would fit the description of both.
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2011 13:49 |
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pointlessone posted:Why are gg's files so dang big? Half a gig for 25 minutes of video? 6-7 gigs for a Faustian Girl anime seems so excessive, even if it is really good. High quality encodes, basically. If you think it's bad now just wait 'til CoalGirls get on it. Their torrent for 26-episode Heroic Age is 66 gigs.
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2011 18:08 |
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I believe the witches have been added in using green-screening, so they're probably recorded being used as hand-puppets / stick puppets with the sticks/strings edited out.
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2011 18:50 |
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This is clearly an affront to me and I will now commence five pages of arguing with you about speculation of animation techniques. I hope you are ready for the ad hominem rally of the century.
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2011 20:18 |
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Veryslightlymad posted:Ex Media Major here, and I'm pretty confident that the animation is NOT done with any sort of Green-screen/Chroma Key. Nearly all of that stuff will cause a telltale blurring around all the edges of the things that aren't keyed out. It's really frustrating to know about, because now I can't stop noticing it when I see it on TV. I know what you're talking about, but things like this (admittantly the source was lossy)  Give me the impression of that kind of thing. The background imagery is almost certainly CG. But the edges of this look just fuzzy enough to be standard high-quality green-screening.
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