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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

The Glumslinger posted:

The new Fate is from the same studio that did UBW, right?
no, but the director did charlotte so we're in good hands *a-okay emoji*

tbf what we've seen of the animation looks pretty good at least.

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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Waffleman_ posted:

I'll finally check out Apocrypha. The novel series turned me off really early because of course the guy who designed the worst design would focus the first chapter on his own bad character, but apparently that was just the first chapter.
jack's barely even in the thing, spoilers

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

honestly jack's an okay character and honestly kind of fun in some of the fate/grand order stuff that just writes her like a goofy kid who wants to be friends with alice, but her design is p. bad so big rip

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

The Colonel posted:

if it was the same director as zero would the show open with a double-length episode about jack doing nothing
take the scene where tokiomi and kotomine's dad walk around kotomine while explaining things for twelve minutes, replace kotomine with a roast chicken, tokiomi with amakusa, and kotomine's dad with shakespeare. then place it in the middle of the season. grats, that's fate/apocrypha.

edit: that said nobody cares about f/a and it doesn't have WRITTEN BY GEN UROBUCHI slapped on it so maybe the anime will have the freedom to make some changes. the manga of f/a made some changes, for instance.

Endorph fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jun 21, 2017

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

it has jeanne and mordred but jeanne just looks similar to arturia and isn't an exact replica of her and mordred has, uh, obvious reasons to look like arturia, so it's pretty low on the saberface rankings

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

jeanne has a different design from arturia, she just looks similar because she's a blonde knight lady drawn by takeuchi. nero is just arturia with a different outfit, they even have the same hair. okita sits between these two extremes.

proof: jeanne doesn't have an ahoge, nero does.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

it's based on the later tylor novels about tylor's kid

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Plutonis posted:

jack the stripper

lol

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Rangpur posted:

For real though, the premise that a world full of assorted monster people probably wouldn't end up with an identical set of laws and cultural norms is one of the reasons I liked the manga. As for what it says about the author's politics... Eh, I'm reminded of the people who said Attack on Titan shows the author's endorsement of fascism.

it was more the author's weird tweets about korea that showed his endorsement of fascism

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Space Flower posted:

everything you mentioned is just military fiction with near-zero intrinsic political slant except the GATE source material that apparently some goons liked to sit in a circle around and bash. it's not like the AoT kids finally get in the basement and it's the Italian fascist manifesto or a framed photo of Hirohito.
frankly that would have been more interesting

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

horizon isn't about the chinese being genetically inferior i think

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

yeah whenever people whine about a show in the most nerdy that guy with the glasses way, it actually comes out sounding pretty badass

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Sakurazuka posted:

I watched four episodes and it was boring and nothing made sense.

is that about gundam wing or horizon

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

owned

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

hello all, goon reviews here with my review of ninja scroll. *scoffing vociferously* let's just get this one out of the way first, folks: the shogun of the dark was NOT a real historical figure. shameful that they'd try to pass it off like it was.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

death comes for us all

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Wark Say posted:

Here's an example that came to mind: Imagine if Quantum Leap was written by Kouhei Kadono (Boogiepop) and we get to follow Al instead of Sam and, while Al does have other matters to attend to, some of his efforts do concern Sam's whereabouts, so the story would focus on Sam at times. It's just not the main focus.
my brain is melting

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Srice posted:

The mother frickin' trainwreck meme

Can't wait to see this train go off the rails in the dullest way imaginable like all those other shows :cool:

code geass was cool actually

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

stair's parroting opinions from 4chan

that said f/a isn't very good at the start or at the end either. it's just kinda mediocre. some good characters but it's very messily written and is trying to juggle too many people, and there's a whole lot of scenes that do nothing to advance the plot and are just characters talking about what the plot will eventually be

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

i hope they make changes too and the fact that nobody cares about f/a unlike f/sn where people'd cry bloody murder if they changed shirou's hair color means they might, but iunno, they'd have to do some pretty drastic reworking to make f/a work and there are just base problems of the premise (the amount of characters, sieg,) that they can't really change so much as try and work around.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

if i like an anime, I'd call it good.

if something is fun and exciting even if the minute-to-minute plot doesn't make much sense, then that's just because they chose to emphasize something other than detailed plotting. while they could have done that in a way that didn't create holes, I can't fault them for using an animated medium to string together a series of cool, interesting animation sequences. That makes it good.

imo the trainwreck meme is just people being very afraid to say they like a show in spite of its plot holes or weirder moments. if you like kabaneri or valvrave or whatever, just say you like them.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Silver2195 posted:

I think a lot of the idea that Code Geass is a train wreck is just people mindlessly repeating the memetic circle jerk from 4chan or wherever back when R2 was airing. With stuff like Symphogear it's just a way of pretending that you don't like it unironically. With gross stuff like Cross Ange it's often a way of pretending you don't fap to it.
cross ange is cool, imo.

well.

it has things in it that are cool.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

The Colonel posted:

show about magical girls powered by singing wearing revealing outfits broadcasting in 2012, not a cool thing to like on older adtrw

*in extremely woke voice* you could have just said 'show about girls' *revs up motorcycle*

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Homura and Sickle posted:

if you're wondering what an anime trainwreck looks like watch handshakers, a series that hosed up everything
id call handshakers, bad

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

i mean qwaser of stigmata isn't really bad writing just because it's a huge titty show, maybe it's good at being a titty show. im not gonna watch it, but it could be

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

im not sure what you mean by that when the staff of godannar literally drew tentacle porn of the series to fund a s2

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

an actual dog posted:

There's a dozens of industries that amazon has waltzed into, undercut everyone, and left behind a desolate wasteland so no, Amazon getting into anime is not a good thing.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

netflix might have dumb release schedules but at least they fund anime themselves and stuff. and crunchy has issues but at least they aren't undercutting everyone and have a free option of some kind. everything ive seen about amazon's anime ventures has just seemed terrible.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Homura and Sickle posted:

out of severe boredom i watched Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu and its an all right action show but it does have some real impressive background art, i'll give it that

the only innovative (i assume, i haven't seen this before)thing it does is the next episode previews appearing as a vn
tales of zestiria did that, kinda. isn't touken ranbu ufotable too? maybe that's just the trick they like

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

fate/apocrypha's first ep wasn't as exposition heavy as fate/zero, at least. and there was actual character animation and sight gags to break it up, which was nice. still a bit infodumpy but way better than f/z's first episode. helped that it wasn't double length.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Grouchio posted:

If you still hate the first-episode or so expositions you might as well blame the author.
the authors for fate/apocrypha and fate/zero were different tho, and also its totally within an anime adaptation's control to downplay those

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

sex? sex???? *yells horny and thirst seventy times*

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

nah the dude isn't the main character whatsoever

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

im glad we've moved into giving shows mal scores based off 30 second pvs

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

by this time next year we'll be giving shows mal ratings based solely on their titles, and then by 2020 we should be able to rate them based just on their first letter

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

F is a solid, sturdy letter. Many good words begin with it, such as Fruit, gently caress, Fan, Filling, and Fire. In anime terms, it has given us Fullmetal Alchemist, the fire emblem anime, Free!, Full Metal Panic, Fruits Basket, and of course, the Fate series. Based on this pedigree, I am giving FLCL 2 a solid 8.17/10

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

adult swim should have made chihayafuru season 3

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

adult swim should've made season 2 of mushiuta

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-26HSUALSI

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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

i wasn't familiar with that one, since the whole "otherworlders screech and moan like orgasmic chimps in response to japanese food" thing never appealed to me. the dorks writing those wn's really don't quite understand that different cultures and nationalities have varying palates, so no person has ever been waiting their whole lives for some lovely instant curry.
:catstare:

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