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Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.

Davincie posted:

if its terrible gore poo poo namtab has to buy everyone icecream
The most important rule.

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Kytrarewn
Jul 15, 2011

Solving mysteries in
Bb, F and D.
Active Raid:

For all of the effort they go through to obscure the identities of the members of Unit 8, you'd think that they'd refrain from talking openly about it in public restaurants and on wide-open city streets.

I get that they don't want to have all of the conversations take place in the Cone of Silence, but still...

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
I wish active raid had better writing. But nah, it is pretty bad in general.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

drat Spring is gonna be stacked and Winter was already a strong start to the year.

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
2016.

A good year for anime.

Yaoi Gagarin
Feb 20, 2014

Bad Seafood posted:

2016.

A good year for anime.

Will this be the year that anime is saved?

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

Anime doesn't need saving

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
anime saved itself through self-confidence and its friendship with all who watch it

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer
the fujoshi saved anime

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

It's probably Akira that saved anime 30 years ago and proved there was an international audience

wielder
Feb 16, 2008

"You had best not do that, Avatar!"

Serious Frolicking posted:

I wish active raid had better writing. But nah, it is pretty bad in general.

For me it's just okay, neither great nor terrible, as a fun distraction. Some episodes are better than others. Like many Tokusatsu shows, except with police instead of heroes.

Which is why I don't feel the need to nitpick the licenses taken by the writing. At the end of the day, it's more interested in silliness than seriousness.

wielder fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Feb 26, 2016

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

In Training posted:

It's probably Akira that saved anime 30 years ago and proved there was an international audience

in the united states maybe, tons of anime was getting released in france and italy and other euro and south american countries before all throughout the 70s and 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTY04Hhk2Pg

Sharkopath fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Feb 26, 2016

Blhue
Apr 22, 2008

Fallen Rib
Saving anime is easy to do with a removable hard drive

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSdBUs0ORxY

Lemon-Lime
Aug 6, 2009

Sharkopath posted:

in the united states maybe, tons of anime was getting released in france and italy and other euro and south american countries before all throughout the 70s and 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTY04Hhk2Pg

I'll just repost these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usb0Gxh6QRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUBnnrvTC2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3wNRsn02HI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xq19HAeI2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDQ0g3-5878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-NV7FG3974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR-E0PQaRNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNE0xz9lnhs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWHdoOKfr_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQm_mIO2Wj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyjigMmvFhE

GorfZaplen
Jan 20, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J59YDToG5MA

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


Blhue posted:

Saving anime is easy to do with a removable hard drive

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


Spring Season 2016: Requiem for a DEEN
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3766031

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Kytrarewn
Jul 15, 2011

Solving mysteries in
Bb, F and D.
18 episodes later, with one episode left to go, finally the "Qwenthur pleasures Princess with a flute" scene in Heavy Object gets some payoff, and the show finally becomes interesting.

God the pacing was hosed up on this one. Who makes a major plot revelation like that on the second to last episode?

Basically, the pilots have a special code, upon the hearing of which they will go into a mode in which they treat every order as a double-entendre for "Murder everything". This could have been interesting if it had come up with enough time for a full plot arc, but alas...

Coincidentally, this also seems to be the point at which the animators have been forced to stop using the LNs as inspiration and come up with an anime-original ending.

Guess that may be indicative of the quality of the franchise...

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