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RIP MAL and your 3rd party API access, I tried waiting for you but summer is here and I gotta update my list! Buncha shot-in-the-dark shows this season, but Grand Blue and AoT Season 3 should be unfuckupable locks.
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DisDisDis posted:Chio chan's one of those cases like Hinamatsuri and the gay gnome show where I wanted to check it out based on loving the source material but the source material's so strong that I'm skeptical the anime can add anything. Disagree; after just a few chapters of Chio I knew a ton of value could be added by adding motion, and knowing an anime was coming I just stopped reading. I mean it's effectively the entire premise of the comedy. The huge red flag is the production and execution. The source material is strong enough even with static images, and given a dash more confidence in competence this should have been a slam dunk adaptation, yet all expectations are tempered.
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Jun 25, 2018 15:25
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Ccs posted:Is this a weak season or have my tastes just changed? Summer and Winter are weaker than Spring and Fall, p much every time.
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Jun 25, 2018 22:34
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Endorph posted:also lol at anyone whos going to watch backstreet girls ok I'll bite: how bad is it?
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Jun 26, 2018 01:00
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cosmo321 posted:I feel like the seasonal average is more even now. Winter and summer isn't necessarily that much worse than spring and fall. Personal preference will also have an impact on whether a season feels strong or weak as well. Oh it definitely has. With streaming on the rise and cross-media marketing, there's no longer a rat race for all the car commercial/baseball-dodging timeslots/school vacation  .
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Jun 26, 2018 14:50
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an actual dog posted:did u read the description You can't just leave me hanging like this, it makes me way too curious! I read a few chapters, hot take: Back Street Girls is a weird mishmash comedy of jokes that didn't work for me, jokes in poor taste, and jokes that I chuckled at in that "boy that sure was incredulously edgy" kind of way. While having the dual VAs is a fun concept, I don't think there's enough that can save this show. Also a lot of the humor was the juxtaposition of visual art styles, something that seems like it will get lost in the anime adaptation based on the PVs. Also it looks like this adaptation exists primarily to sell softcore porn/gravure stuff or something. Verdict: Back Street Girls is indeed a pass.
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Jun 26, 2018 16:58
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an actual dog posted:That anyone would read that description and then decide to check out the manga is the goonyest loving poo poo lmao No, I read the description and ignored it. The fact that ADTRW pointed it out to explicity say to avoid it amongst all the other easily avoidable shows any season, without explanation and contrast to general reviews of it, makes me curious enough to verify.
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Jun 26, 2018 17:40
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Sharkopath posted:I like to trust people here to be honest and am less inclined to believe general anime reviewers about anything. Same, which is why I'm still here, but I still verify when I want. Everything Burrito posted:A bunch of people saying wow this is repulsive + that description is pretty self-evident imo But that's the problem, that isn't what happened. a handful of people here said it's a bag of poo poo, but this time there were few other voices confirming it, and other voices saying it was just a bag, and nobody actually claiming it was poo poo actually approached the bag when the others have. As it turns out, my view is that it is a shitbag, but there is less poo poo in there than y'all think.
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Jun 26, 2018 18:02
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Ghosts n Gopniks posted:Hanebado production studied badminton and its players really well, can say that much from one episode. Rather had a curling/squash/fencing anime done. Squash is not an Olympic sport, and curling is a winter olympic sport so is not in scope of trying to hype up for Tokyo 2020, op
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Jul 2, 2018 00:04
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Davincie posted:Aru Zombie Shoujo no Sainan This was absolutely hilarious. The inconsistent GONZO quality fit perfectly with the tone and themes. The story and plot have so many holes, but it was just so stupid it didn't matter. It simultaneously was cheesecake, yet edgy. Like razorblades in the cheesecake, and you just laugh and pick them out while you consume the delicious dessert. I hope the high-schooler that wrote this got paid well. 9/10
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Jul 4, 2018 02:17
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Whoa... Chio-chan... was actually kinda ok! It has that dry absurdist humor, and does a better Watamote than Watamote did imho. The pacing was about what I expected given what I've read of the manga so far, and the visuals do seem to add value over the static manga images. Chio's VA has quite excellent range too, and adds a ton more value. I'm pretty stunned it's not a complete trainwreck, I mean sure it could be better, but yea I'd call it watchable 
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Jul 7, 2018 06:27
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Grouchio posted:
I like the slime isekai more, but this is kinda nice
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Jul 7, 2018 16:12
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Special first episode review: Harukana Receive is a more slice-of-lifey sports show, and I think is watchable alongside the heavier melodrama sports show (Hanebado) without too much overlap. Aside from the striking eyeball aesthetic design, there is a notable filter over the entire show that makes it look like a lower color depth (like taking 32-bit color and reducing it to 16-bit), which I think is there to mute the bright sunlight, especially the shots aimed straight up, so they doesn't just blind the viewer. But yea aside from some scenes that linger in silence awkwardly for a tad too long, the show features: an aggressive sponsorship plug:  awkward high fives:  non-consentual turtle touching:  will continue watching!
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Jul 7, 2018 18:32
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Hmm, lets see what this Planet With things is that y'all are tal-quote:Manga creator Satoshi Mizukami (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Spirit Circle) announced a new original... quote:Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer  quote:...mecha anime and manga project...  oof that cuts deep. But the show is good and fun anyways! AnacondaHL fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jul 8, 2018 |
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Jul 8, 2018 17:42
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The Colonel posted:asobi asobase has a cool ed I love it and want the track and I think it's a way better representation of what the show is all about.
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Jul 8, 2018 17:43
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Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer is also bittersweet nostalgia for me personally, because it was one of the first times I felt compelled enough to make an animated GIF out of static manga images. But it was like 8 years ago, prior to me actually having a workflow for backups and saving project work, so it has been lost to time.
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Jul 8, 2018 18:12
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Paper Triangle posted:I've never understood what the deal was here because this pillows album came out in 2002, LBH started in 2005, and I have no idea what a biscuit hammer is despite the fact that it was my name on here until my awareness of the existence of LBH caused me to change my name to the name of a different pillows song. Biscuit Hammer is a weird translation of the big wooden hammer used to pound rice into that delicious gooey mochi. Think 4kids replacing riceball with hamburgers type of translation. LBH is the weird localization of the Japanese title "Hoshi no Samidare" or "Samidare of the Stars" so it's all charmingly arbitrary anyways.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:28
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Special 1-ep review: Props to Jashin-chan Dropkick for stunning me so much that I watched through the end of the episode instead of turning it off after a few minutes. It took me longer than it should have to figure this out, but it's basically a cheaper knock-off of Gabriel DropOut in every way. The music, the jokes, the animation and visual quality, hell even the title of the series. Combine all that with absolutely garbage slice-of-edgy-life comedy and I just couldn't help but want to watch to the end to see how bad it would get. Unfortunately, nothing really happens. It is just simply bad.
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Jul 10, 2018 23:55
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Space Flower posted:2012 series Jashin-chan Dropkick is just completely facelifted from Gabriel Dropout (2013), next show pls ok, change "cheaper knockoff" to "was improved upon in every conceivable way" and my post still stands!
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Jul 11, 2018 02:04
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There's a Deen -> Konosuba charm going on with Chio-chan, where the visual aesthetic happens to enhance the comedy and the series. Overall I'm happy the adaptation is going well enough as card-holding member #001 of the doubter-turned-believer fan club 
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Jul 14, 2018 06:29
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Araki posted:I haven't seen episode two yet, but that gif looks like complete dogshit, and nothing like the charming expressiveness of Kobosuba. the gif is there not as an exemplary instance of the animation, but to represent my "I win, suck it haters" sentiment
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Jul 14, 2018 06:53
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Endorph posted:narumi has a decent amount of definition honestly Yeap  like how much more could y'all be asking fo- fa-GYO posted:I'd appreciate harukana recieve more if the thighs magically popped out of my computer and obliterated my skull with the force of a hydraulic guillotine. ah.
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Jul 15, 2018 19:15
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Space Flower posted:its a reductive word that shames sexuality for being associated with consumerism. its super buzzwordy because a show can use sexuality in tons of ways and people will just throw 'fanservice' at them all instead of focusing the term onto cases such as a blu-ray release of a show containing a new OVA that's about all the chars going to the hot springs or the beach or w/e. Because the show features both. In the volleyball scenes and some general beach idle scenes, it's all natural and there is no "fanservice" as described, as none of it gets in the way of the narritive. Everyone is in a bikini, no one cares because it is just what they are doing. But the show also features what you'd think more of traditional fanservice, with unnecessary lingering shots on body parts, closeups on cleavage, etc. that would have been just fine framed normally. This show just happens to define a paper thin border between the two, but it does cross it.
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Jul 16, 2018 21:33
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chumbler posted:One could argue that a beach volleyball show is inherently fanservicey regardless of anything else about it because they chose to depict beach volleyball instead of not beach volleyball. This is a fair argument, and even applies to the entire sport itself. But also if they can't do every summer olympics sport in time they have to pick and choose, so I can't blame them when this concept made the cut.
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Jul 16, 2018 22:49
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chumbler posted:When will there be an anime about sexy HVAC maintenance, for true fan service? oh god trap so loving sprung, but this manga definitely exists
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Jul 17, 2018 01:03
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I don't think anime can portray/satirize anything close to the real-life horror being revealed rn at Michigan State and Ohio State, and earlier Penn State...
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Jul 19, 2018 00:35
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Spiritus Nox posted:I feel like Hanebado may be starting to try to hard at this point. The drama's started to get seriously overwrought, and Connie in particular is kind of loathsome and hard to watch in any capacity. Look, badminton kidnapped and possibly killed both of their moms. Cut them some slack!
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Jul 29, 2018 20:31
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Grouchio posted:Should I wait for episode 6 of hanebado to start watching or not? Nah, go for it. It's a fun weekly watch show, and is very up front about what it is and wants to be (i.e. you can tell after 1-2 eps if you want to keep watching).
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Aug 2, 2018 14:50
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I'd normally do a midseason review of shows without threads, but I just got a 4K monitor and it has completely changed what 24fps video looks like, now that frames divide evenly into the 120Hz rate. Some animes looks better, some look way awkwardly worse.
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Aug 11, 2018 17:34
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mogarbage
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Sep 1, 2018 18:30
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Julias posted:Here's the ANN article on it The depressing reality that Happy Sugar Life is satirizing, jfc :/
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Sep 3, 2018 17:42
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A large part of the charm are the weird reaction faces, which are only adapted slightly above average in the anime, and are only slightly above average to begin with IMHO.
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Sep 3, 2018 19:18
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I hope the slime isekai adaptation is
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Sep 9, 2018 18:15
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SPYCE GIRLS He who controls the SPYCE controls the universe
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Sep 9, 2018 19:06
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My Little Sister Can't Possibly Slay This Many Eromanga Goblins!
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Sep 9, 2018 21:41
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In a vacuum it's fun when something is looked poorly upon initially only to become critically acclaimed later. It's also fun to like something that not many other people like, a sense of self-satisfaction at your personal evaluation. Not saying those things are applicable in this case, but just sayin.
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Sep 10, 2018 03:41
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Guy Goodbody posted:I watched the first episode of SAO and it seemed like pure wish fulfillment about a guy whose really good video games so he becomes the best person when everyone gets locked in a video game. Does it actually get good? Should I have given it more of a chance? Short answer: Yes it gets good briefly, and no you don't need to give it more of a chance. Long answer: I just re-watched the first 14 episodes of SAO a few weeks ago, having not watched it since it first aired. I remember thinking the first 14 episodes were pretty good (quote me, something like: "if it were just the first 14 episodes, it could have been one of the top shows I've ever seen"), followed by garbage, thus averaging to an above-average show, and I moved on. So I kept getting stunned year after year seeing the show gain so much traction and popularity and counter-praise/hate. So I was looking to see if my views on it had changed, to see how fair the common defenses and criticisms were, and if I fell on either side of the debate or approached it more moderately. In conclusion: the first 13 episodes are actually pretty good, but the 14th episode is unfortunately more garbage than I remembered, and I won't speak for the garbageness that comes afterwards. This is why yes, the show does get good, as following Asuna's character development and seeing the dungeon set pieces is quite enjoyable. And this is also why no, if you're already checked out by the 1st episode then you don't need to give the show more of a chance. It's not pure wish fulfillment, as there is at least some depth to Kirito's character, a lot more than the hater sounding board of "lol OP" constantly hawks. But it's not like the best written thing ever, and the show isn't clear that it's actually about the stages of grief and crisis management. However, credit given where due: the show benefits greatly from not having a narrator, since chances at mind-numbing unclever exposition are cut down (only appearing like twice). Instead things are presenting more often than not in a refreshing way, where scenes, timestamps, and loaded single sentences are given to you and you fill in the rest with your imagination and your personal experiences to make those parts of the story as relevant as you want it to be. It's similar to listening to jazz, where you hear the notes being played but think about the implication of the notes not being played as well, and of there are some divisive opinions on jazz as well. As such a lot of the most venomous criticisms of the show are pretty unfair IMHO, again only for episodes 1-13. So for example: Kirito actually does have interesting personality flaws, and the show will present his viewpoint, but it's left up to the viewer to understand that the narration is biased. And Kirito's overpoweredness comes at the cost of grinding the most utterly boring MMO grind ever every day for 2 years, mixed with the risk of the death game premise, but this isn't shown explicitly on screen for obvious reasons. This is why some viewers interpret this as "pure wish fulfillment", while others like me (who have wasted more than enough time playing MMOs) interpret this as wishing to never be in Kirito's position ever because it sounds miserable but I'd do it almost the same as he did given those terrible circumstances. Anyways, SAO also ushered in a whole era of isekai copycats, for better or worse, so if you are looking for more understanding of why all these garbage shows are coming out afterwards, and what they are trying to copy, you should probably just finish the first arc of the original and experience it for yourself.
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Sep 10, 2018 23:31
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Sharkopath posted:We havent poisoned our blood with the devils bean and therefore can function normally early. Hey, Hataraku Maou-sama wasn't that bad
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Sep 18, 2018 15:02
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The space for Yama no Susume's first season got engulfed by Girls und Panzer before, and Chihayafuru during, both in terms of quality execution and discussion. And back then shorts weren't really given any benefit of the doubt, and Yama no Susume's slightly awkward pacing and lower visual quality in those first episodes made it easy to dismiss.
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Sometime in the middle of Harukana Receive they settled on this aesthetic decision to have all impacts between a volleyball and a body part explode like a sand grenade, regardless of context. I'm still  at how all the last few episodes looked during the games: like a fireworks show, but with sand.Otherwise yea, good show.
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