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Stuff I'll probably check out at least one episode of or interests me in some way: JoJo Part 3 - It's JoJo. Ping Pong - It's a Yuasa anime. Captain Earth - I enjoyed Star Driver from beginning to end, so I'm looking forward to what Igarashi and Enokido cook up next. Hopefully we get good Enokido (Utena, most of Star Driver) and not bad Enokido (some parts of Star Driver, that scene in Diebuster where a dude goes "I don't wanna grow up so I'm gonna rape a robot"). If She Triggers A Flag - Normally this would be the show of the season I watch two or three episodes of, bemoan that it isn't doing anything interesting with the concept while being even creepier than you'd think it could be in the worst-case, and curse light novels from the bottom of my soul. But the promotional material makes me want to throw up already so I'll just skip to the end and go "gently caress 99% of light novels" and sit this one out. Black Bullet - I've actually heard some decent things about this one. I've seen a few posts elsewhere comparing it favorably to Nitro+ material. I'm not particularly hopeful or optimistic that it'll be good though because gently caress 99% of light novels. EDIT: Also Kamen Rider Gaim will be continuing. We're 20 episodes in and so far the series just keeps getting better and better. You should check it out if you haven't seen it yet. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Mar 4, 2014 |
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Psycho-Pass 2 was also confirmed for Fall 2014 on the noitaminA block. One cour this time around.
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Mar 21, 2014 20:26
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Sakurazuka posted:Gonna watch all the yuri/yaoi shows, die cis scum. From what I've read of Akuma no Riddle at least it just looks kind of boring instead of brazenly bad like Sakura Trick was.
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Aldnoah.Zero has some cast announced and a promo video. It looks an awful lot like a Sunrise not-Gundam show. Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill) is attached for the music. Gargantia's followup project has been confirmed to be a two episode OVA released this Fall. So between Gaim (regular reminder: please watch Kamen Rider Gaim it's great), Psycho-Pass 2, Aldnoah.Zero, and Gargantia OVAs I'm wondering just how Urobuchi is going to be shuffled around here. Probably the Gargantia OVAs will get Gargantia'd and Urobuchi won't actually be writing anything there. I'm most worried about Psycho-Pass 2, which Urobuchi hasn't been confirmed on yet, although he has retweeted some stuff regarding it so he's probably still involved somehow. EDIT: Oh yeah, there's a promo out for Expelled From Paradise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwYtT76j_Qc EDIT 2: Ahhhh I see. Buried right there at the bottom of the article ANN mentions that the person billed for series composition for Aldnach.Zero isn't Urobuchi but a guy who does a shitload of adaptation stuff (ranging from "really good" to "god awful"). So I guess Aldnach.Zero is the one getting Gargantia'd this year. EDIT 3: I'd probably care more about the above usually but Gaim will still be airing in the Summer and it owns so I'm not really upset by this development. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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Dramatical Murder's anime has been confirmed. Gonna go die of laughter now.
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The first chapter of that Ikuhara Bear manga is out.  :itisanikuharathing: jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Mar 28, 2014 |
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:What. Ikuhara's a weird dude. I'm pretty sure an anime for this was supposed to be planned at some point? Hopefully that pans out.
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Fiend Computer posted:So it is invasion of the body snatchers but with bears? Here's a summary of the first chapter. "HEY TRANSFER STUDENT YOU SURE DO SMELL NICE" "She's a bear. I think. Is she a bear? I'm having dreams about her being a bear. She likes salmon, is that because she's a bear?" "Hey I think you're a bear." "Yes. No. Maybe." "Wanna be 'friends'?" "Yes let's be 'friends'." And then Ikuhara blasts off into space by farting lilies. wielder posted:Is that manga monthly? I really want to watch (or read) something new from Ikuhara, but I'd rather do it on a weekly basis or even in marathon form. It runs in Comic Birz, which is a monthly publication. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Mar 28, 2014 |
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Mar 28, 2014 07:51
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Made a thread for Captain Earth because I'm probably going to want to talk about it and there still wasn't any thread for it.
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Zorak posted:I haven't heard of anything in awhile, but to be honest SHAFT hasn't exactly done anything very "daring" or intensive for some time now. The new Madoka movie is visually stunning and turns the original series on its head soooooo not really?
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Eej posted:poo poo I think my mind just filters it out at this point. Some of the LN art ended up in my twitter feed and it doesn't look even remotely near tolerable. E: Seriously we're talking "basically indistinguishable from lolicon porn" awful. Don't watch it. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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ViggyNash posted:This trainwreck seems to be fraught with soft-core porn and pantyshots of an 11 year old girl who her brother wishes wasn't his sister so she could be his girlfriend and who consequently used the absolute rules of the world to force a mostly naked girl to unconditionally be his girlfriend and satisfy his "sexual needs". (This all happens in the first 10 minutes of the episode, btw.) Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:So you stopped before the bath scene featuring a fully nude 11 year old girl with nothing but Godiva hair covering her? I have no idea what happened after that because I instinctively alt+f4ed out of that poo poo. No Game No Life may have ditched any notions of a possible incestuous romance but that's not stopping them from exploiting the hell out of the little sister anyways. See, this is why you Google LN covers and artwork BEFORE watching the adaptation.
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Opinions on shows. Inugami-san: This sure is a 4koma adaptation. Kinda wanna punch the twintailed girl in the second episode. Dull and not that funny. JoJo Part 3: Looking good so far, but there's already signs of the production team having to cheap out (that shot of Jotaro falling down the stairs was hilarious). Hopefully this won't get as bad as some of part 1 was. Still too early in the game to give it a real verdict, but looks good so far. Captain Earth: Star Driver team makes Star Driver-ish anime. It's pretty fun so far, but I'm not a big fan of the character designs. The launch sequence for the Earth Engine was great. The ending of the second episode warmed me on the main character quite a bit. The Mangaka and His Assistants: This sure is an adaptation of a Hiroyuki manga. I'm kind of disappointed they couldn't/didn't get the drama CD VAs to reprise their roles, we could've had a goofball ecchi manga artist voiced by Jun Fukuyama. It's the sort of really dumb crap that I can't actually get mad at for being bad because it's very self aware about the whole thing (and not in that "wink wink nudge nudge" sort of way light novels tend to do but with a big glowing neon sign with "THIS IS STUPID" in giant letters). It's a very low effort adaptation but I guess that kind of fits? Might watch more, might forget that it exists entirely. Chaika: I couldn't find any overtly awful looking stuff about this after a two minute Google search so I gave this a try. So I'm watching this and I'm like "This is the chuu2est poo poo I've ever seen but its a nice setup for a fantasy adventure show I'm kinda curious where it goes from here" and then they introduce the non blood related overly attached younger sister character and had a scene with the goth lolita character covered in bread dough all suggestive-like and I'm like "WELP". I did last through the second episode, which was better. If it sticks with the action and avoids the dumb light novel style fanservice poo poo I can see this being enjoyable. Mekaku City Actors: 22 minutes of a shut-in MC being hosed with by Kana Asumi while crazy stuff happens around him because of magic eyes as animated by Shaft. OK I guess I'm down for now. Akuma no Riddle: Somehow works a lot better as an anime than it did as a manga. Sugita hamming it up is always entertaining. Will probably stick around. Ping Pong: Very well done to the great surprise of no one. Yuasa stylin on hitting balls back and forth, good times. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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Rexides posted:I am just watching JoJo this season. I am tired of playing cat and mouse with lovely anime that might not be poo poo let me watch another episode or wait it was poo poo after all gently caress it. It was probably Space Dandy that turned me off with how underwhelming it was, or finding joy again in western animation (Adventure Time, Rick and Morty), but last season I decided that anime is not really for me, unless it does something cool that western studios don't really touch like JoJo. You're not a true anime fan until you've experienced anime burnout at least once. This sounds like a good plan.
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Inferno Cop 2 now officially in production. Edit: Or it might just be Trigger loving around again, take that article with a grain of salt.
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Opposing Farce posted:Everything I hear about this show makes me think "there's a decent premise in here but I'm pretty sure I don't want to watch this thing" but gently caress I might actually have to watch that thing. Let me help you with that decision. Here's what the cover of volume 3 looks like (NSFW). Here's one illustration of what is apparently a scene from the books (NSFW). Here is another (NSFW). Seriously for all of my complaining about light novels I've certainly sat through worse over in VN land to get to the "good parts", but that's harder with anime and people are kind of willfully ignoring and understating the unsavory aspects of NGNL right now in favor of HEY GUYS JOJO/ACE ATTORNEY REFERENCES, particularly when recommending the show to others. The basic premise actually does look pretty cool by taking the "dorks get transported to game world" premise and not even trying to hide how ridiculous it is and just having fun with it, but you should probably be aware of the awful looking bits too before jumping in. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Apr 24, 2014 |
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Namtab posted:Seems like it'd be easier to skip to good bits with anime what with fast forward being available from the start and the fact that a VN usually requires you to actively contribute to advancing things. You'd think that, but in my experience the awful parts in VNs are usually all relegated to individual scenes that you can just hold CTRL until they're over. Whereas with anime it tends to be more pervasive throughout a work and harder to see coming, and therefore harder to ignore. Like, to avoid dumb poo poo in a VN I'd have to hold CTRL for 20 seconds every 2-10 hours and it's usually really obvious when something retarded is about to happen, but for avoiding dumb poo poo in a light novel adaptation with particularly bad content I'd have to click around a bunch to fast forward multiple times an episode, and even then you'd have random pantyshots or cameltoe or dumb camera angles all over the place. That's most of the reason why I can stand reading 18+ visual novels but light novel adaptations drive me up the wall.
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Zorak posted:Why not just watch Actually Good Things and then maybe read a book or something. Sounds like a plan. Think I'll go read that John Lindqvist novel I've had my eye on this weekend.
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Franz von Dada posted:Any recommendations? I got around to reading Little Star over the weekend because of Zorak's "read a book" posts. It was really fun, I haven't read an emotional roller coaster that good in ages. I also enjoyed the fact that I knew nothing about the book going in (I'm a fan of the author's other works so I didn't bother looking up info beforehand) and it turned out to be a really good story about love between young girls and singing when I was getting mad at this season for it's mediocre idol and yuri anime.
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Delusibeta posted:Yeah, I thought it was good too, but not best of the year. I'm genuinely surprised it beat JoJo. Those rankings aren't really good for determining "ADTRW thought it was best" because they're not weighted at all. It's "this many people ranked it in their top five shows of the year". It's good as a measure of popularity but not for relative opinions on quality.
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aers posted:It has new staff, it'll be completely reanimated etc. What in the... Why? E: No seriously why? If its another 2 cour P4 anime then what is even the point?
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Sakurazuka posted:Episode 6 of Akuma no Riddle was pretty I might do it when I get home from work if no one has one up by then.
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, and here I was ribbing on it for being show about assassins where no-one died. Someone make a thread, I'm too lazy.
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Strange Quark posted:I did only watch a single episode of swimming anime before deciding it wasn't my kind of thing, but I never got the impression it was a sports anime. It felt like another show about a club doing things and those things happened to be about swimming. Essentially, yes. The first five or so episodes were fun enough but the novelty wore off pretty fast. There's really not much to separate it from the dozens of shows like that following a bunch of middle/high school girls around other than the gender of the cast.
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Wark Say posted:Is Love Live the show about a bunch of High School girls becoming idols in order to get enough moolah to save their school? Was that show really that good? You know how dumb and crazy someone has to be to pay Japanese prices for anime? Add "idols" to the mix and suddenly you have fans that are many times dumber and crazier. In any case, the first volume will likely sell much more than the rest of the show (although the rest of the show is going to sell really well too). It has an event ticket and costs about 20 dollars less than the other volumes, despite having the same amount of content on the disc. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 16:34 on May 31, 2014 |
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