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Phobophilia posted:Edit: I haven't watched Elfen Lied so I can't make any judgement calls. I have. Don't watch or read anything by that author.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Even the elfen lied anime cut out the incontinent girl.
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Apr 14, 2014 12:49
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I have. Don't watch or read anything by that author. This. gently caress this author and his violence, fetish and violence-fetish porn.
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Apr 14, 2014 13:56
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:I remember watching part of Elfen Lied years and years ago and I'm pretty sure this statement is incorrect seeing as I remember it and never read the manga. There might have been incontinence, yes. But in the manga, there was a girl who wore diapers and constantly wet herself. Thankfully, she wasn't in the anime.
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Apr 14, 2014 14:11
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I own the Elfen Lied box set. Elfen Lied owns.
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Apr 14, 2014 15:08
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First two episodes of One Week Friends were fairly promising, so I made a thread.
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Apr 14, 2014 19:17
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Namtab posted:I own the Elfen Lied box set. Elfen Lied owns. You're bad and you should feel bad.
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Apr 14, 2014 22:39
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Elfen Lied is like the anime equivalent of the kid who lights neighborhood pets on fire to show everyone how hardcore he is. What I saw of Brynhildr wasn't quite that bad, but it wasn't exactly instilling much confidence that it would actually be worth watching.
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Apr 14, 2014 22:45
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paragon1 posted:You're bad and you should feel bad. You didn't cry at the ending?
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Apr 14, 2014 22:59
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Namtab posted:You didn't cry at the ending? Too busy alternating between boredom and disgust.
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Apr 14, 2014 23:14
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You guys are making me curious about Elfen Lied now. Is the violence more Quentin Tarantino stylishly gratuitous violence, or just needlessly brutal and gory violence all the time for no reason?
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Apr 14, 2014 23:35
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ViggyNash posted:You guys are making me curious about Elfen Lied now. Is the violence more Quentin Tarantino stylishly gratuitous violence, or just needlessly brutal and gory violence all the time for no reason? The latter. It's a very emotional anim but also features extremely problematic elements.
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Apr 14, 2014 23:37
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It's problematic alright. I could see which parts people liked when I watched it. Those exist, but they're actually not that good. So overall it wasn't worth my time.
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Apr 14, 2014 23:40
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Elfen Lied did have one of the all-time great OPs.
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Apr 14, 2014 23:43
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Saw the second episode of Mahouka and I'm not sure how to feel. I think I've been watching enough anime that I can mostly ignore the completely transparent not-actually-incest setup. The overpowered protagonist isn't so bad as long as he remains kind of stick in the mud instead of most obnoxious person ever. The art is nice enough and if I keep watching it I'll probably have a better time than I did watching Kyoukai no Kanata.
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Apr 15, 2014 00:04
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I watched no game no life and thought it was OK.
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Apr 15, 2014 00:13
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ViggyNash posted:You guys are making me curious about Elfen Lied now. Is the violence more Quentin Tarantino stylishly gratuitous violence, or just needlessly brutal and gory violence all the time for no reason? I was a 15 year-old goth kid who liked "edgy" Jhonen-vasquez-style-poo poo when I watched it, so exactly the target audience. It still managed to bore me. I thought it was ridiculously angsty, dumb, and pointlessly violent.
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Apr 15, 2014 00:55
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Elfen Lied is basically the hospital escape scene from Akira, but with Tetsuo replaced with Chi from Chobits. Except actually worse than that description makes it sound like.
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Apr 15, 2014 01:04
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The opening scene features the naked female lead ripping off a defenseless woman's head just to give you an idea.
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Apr 15, 2014 01:08
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paragon1 posted:The opening scene features the naked female lead ripping off a defenseless woman's head just to give you an idea. A defenseless woman who shows up on screen in the most hilariously contrived and bafflingly stupid way possible.
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Apr 15, 2014 01:12
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What this conversation is telling me is that we should totally do Elfen Lied next simulwatch, so we can argue about it in realtime.  What d'you say, Zorak? Worth a laugh?
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Apr 15, 2014 01:17
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What hath I brought upon the world?
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pe
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Apr 15, 2014 01:18
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Eej posted:Saw the second episode of Mahouka and I'm not sure how to feel. I think I've been watching enough anime that I can mostly ignore the completely transparent not-actually-incest setup. The overpowered protagonist isn't so bad as long as he remains kind of stick in the mud instead of most obnoxious person ever. The art is nice enough and if I keep watching it I'll probably have a better time than I did watching Kyoukai no Kanata. Oh no, they are absolutely siblings. No adoption or anything involved. The sister totally wants to bone the brother and there is never the slightest hint of ambiguity about it. This comes up a lot, as she never does or says anything unrelated to him.
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Apr 15, 2014 01:21
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Zorak posted:Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo It sounds like a dumb idea even having not watched it. Yes, lets torture ourselves getting angry at bad anime because it is cool and fun. From what you guys have been saying, I'd probably have the worst time since I'd be coming in blind.
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Apr 15, 2014 01:42
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ViggyNash posted:It sounds like a dumb idea even having not watched it. Yes, lets torture ourselves getting angry at bad anime because it is cool and fun. From what you guys have been saying, I'd probably have the worst time since I'd be coming in blind. Watching terrible anime with friends and alcohol is loving amazing.
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Apr 15, 2014 01:59
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Next simulwatch Sword Art Online/Accel World together, make the thread ok to drunkpost in
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Apr 15, 2014 02:13
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boredsatellite posted:Watching terrible anime with friends and alcohol is loving amazing. If there is a dubbed version we could treat it like a MST3K but with bad anime. MAT3K if you will. Add everything by Gonzo except for Gankutsuou, and all marvel anime and we'll have enough material for years.
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Apr 15, 2014 02:17
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Cao Ni Ma posted:If there is a dubbed version we could treat it like a MST3K but with bad anime. MAT3K if you will.
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Apr 15, 2014 02:18
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Add everything by Gonzo except for Gankutsuou, and all marvel anime and we'll have enough material for years. We're already doing that every week with Disk Wars.
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Apr 15, 2014 02:18
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ViggyNash posted:It sounds like a dumb idea even having not watched it. Yes, lets torture ourselves getting angry at bad anime because it is cool and fun. From what you guys have been saying, I'd probably have the worst time since I'd be coming in blind. Bad anime are fun to watch. But there are bad anime and there are bad anime.
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Apr 15, 2014 02:38
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I honestly could never get past the first episode of Elfen Lied just because it felt so mean-spirited, so there was always this sense of dread that she would just murder the whole cast in later episodes at the drop of a beat. I have no issues with Berserk, Hellsing, and other similar stuff, so not quite sure other than just distaste at the 1st episode.
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Apr 15, 2014 02:51
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I got vibes that it was the latter. I'd totally be up for a simulcast of hilariously terrible anime. I never did finish the second season of Symphogear.
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Apr 15, 2014 02:52
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Allarion posted:I honestly could never get past the first episode of Elfen Lied just because it felt so mean-spirited, so there was always this sense of dread that she would just murder the whole cast in later episodes at the drop of a beat. I have no issues with Berserk, Hellsing, and other similar stuff, so not quite sure other than just distaste at the 1st episode. At the very least I never got the feeling that we were supposed to sympathize with most of the characters in Hellsing.
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Apr 15, 2014 02:53
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Never caught Elfen Lied myself, but I'm all for a thread/simulwatch of awful anime. I've even got some personal research of craptacular poo poo to donate to the cause. In the meantime though there's still the Marvel Disk Wars thread for all your G-rated bad anime needs.
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I guess I'll be the contrarian and say I thought Elfen Lied was ok. Although it was certainly over the top in its violence and nudity. I read the manga and never saw the anime, though, so maybe that makes a difference. Basically it felt like a typical magical girlfriend thing with the main character finding a naive, super-powered girl pursued by a shadowy organization. The difference is that the girl was an actual monster who absolutely should be locked up or else she would cause the extinction of humanity. Watching the second episode of Gokukoku no Brynhildr it struck me that the story was really similar except with all the parts that made Elfen Lied interesting stripped out. Other stuff from this season: Mekaku City Actors was certainly an animated entertainment program produced in Japan and distributed to televisions around the country. Presumable for people to watch. Soul Eater Not seemed alright. The strongest part of Soul Eater was the setting and this seems to focus on that. Hopefully without the writers deciding that Black Star also needs to become the terrible protagonist of this show as well halfway through. Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san seems like its schtick would get old pretty quickly. One girl acts like a dog, the other acts like a cat. Hilarious. Even at three minutes long it was getting a bit tired by the end of the first episode. Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka was a pretty standard comedy slice of life thing. With quite a bit more fanservice than you tend to expect from the genre, however. Hopefully it was just a first-episode thing to try and get some (terrible, smelly) fans. Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin was not too terribly cliched in its opening episode. But it's really hard to say at this point what kind of show it's even going to be. There are a lot of directions they could go with it. Knights of Sidonia seemed pretty interesting to me. The animation is a bit awkward but it didn't bother me too much. I haven't read the manga to compare, though. Hitsugi no Chaika felt pretty solid in the first episode. I'm apparently the only person who didn't like Scrapped Princess, though. I do recall liking that show pretty well after the first episode as well, so I'm a bit leery of this in the long term. Ping Pong seemed like a pretty typical sports thing with a more interesting animation style. I don't know if it will surpass Chihayafuru as best sports anime, but I expect it'll be fun to watch.
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Joshlemagne posted:Soul Eater Not seemed alright. The strongest part of Soul Eater was the setting and this seems to focus on that. Hopefully without the writers deciding that Black Star also needs to become the terrible protagonist of this show as well halfway through. Unless they change something from the manga, I'm pretty sure Black Star never shows up again.
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Apr 15, 2014 03:33
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Serious Frolicking posted:Oh no, they are absolutely siblings. No adoption or anything involved. The sister totally wants to bone the brother and there is never the slightest hint of ambiguity about it. This comes up a lot, as she never does or says anything unrelated to him. I was told by someone in vague terms that it's not really incest but it would be a spoiler to go further than that but I will defer to your greater incestual knowledge.
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Eej posted:I was told by someone in vague terms that it's not really incest but it would be a spoiler to go further than that but I will defer to your greater incestual knowledge. I decided to read spoilers since I got curious since I probably stopped reading in either the first or second volume, and man, what I've learned is that Irregular is a loving hilarious power-fantasy in how many dumb traits are jammed into the main character in making him perfect yet supposedly flawed. Basically think up any usual aspect that people would give their self-insert characters, and you'd probably be spot on.
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Allarion posted:I decided to read spoilers since I got curious since I probably stopped reading in either the first or second volume, and man, what I've learned is that Irregular is a loving hilarious power-fantasy in how many dumb traits are jammed into the main character in making him perfect yet supposedly flawed. Basically think up any usual aspect that people would give their self-insert characters, and you'd probably be spot on. I thought this was obvious enough when every female is giving him the anime equivalent of the sex eyes and he's totally oblivious to it (apparently forever? I suppose that's an upgrade from Kirito).
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