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07-06-2014, 05:22 PM | #6477 |
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Just to be clear, I'm not talking about Barakamon. I'm talking about another series which does what you described. (And is what I thought you were poking fun at.)
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07-08-2014, 06:23 PM | #6478 |
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Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
I watched this for the cute girl. The artwork is solid in spite of this with some nice animation sequences. It's like Penguindrum artwork at perpetual high quality throughout, with no budget saving techniques like the balloon people. Oh, I laughed some too. I can relate to the main guy somewhat, both in interest and personality.
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07-08-2014, 11:25 PM | #6479 |
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New shows and whatnot. Himegoto has a bunch of groups subbing it. I don't like the thought of following a 3 minute anime, but maybe it's worth a damn if every sub group and their mothers wants to sub it.
Sabagebu! Oh joy. It's a show about girls and guns. Not sure why that's a big thing nowadays, and I'll have my fill of it in Kantai Collection. This show is meh for the most part. The only thing I liked was how sadistic the main girl could be. I will probably drop it in a few weeks. Hanayamata What's a season without an obligatory show about cute girls doing cute things? Actually I think this might end up being a yuri story rather than SoL. Not crazy about the idea, but the show is very pretty. I also don't like how sniveling the main girl is. Maybe that will make her development better? Let's hope so! I have Hamatora downloaded, but not watched. I'll get on that shit sometime! |
07-09-2014, 02:46 PM | #6480 |
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Glasslip [Good]:
Spoiler: show Akame ga Kill! [Average]: Spoiler: show Ao Haru Ride [Good]: Spoiler: show SAO 2 [Bad]: Spoiler: show Tokyo Ghoul [Very Good]: Spoiler: show Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun [Average]: Spoiler: show Last edited by Midgeorge; 07-09-2014 at 04:27 PM. |
07-09-2014, 04:34 PM | #6481 | |
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There's a ton of throw away characters in the story, not everyone is well developed, only the characters the author wants you to care about. The rich girl here for example was kind of innocent until she exploded with a very villain-esque "so how I did it" rant that got her dead. Takahiro draws his characters in monochrome, "black, white, and grey" = there are white characters, like Tatsumi's village friends, black characters like the rich girl, and a lot of grey that gets a fudge load of development. Some characters like Esdeath trend toward a lighter (or darker) colour than just pure grey. That's the meat of the tale, not what you saw in the first episode. It wasn't rushed, if anything the episode was longer than the corresponding manga chapter which was of ordinary length. Give it time, about 5 episodes in the series should start to roll out the bloodstained red carpet.
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The main problem I had is that the show tries to suprise you with the whole good girl actually a sadist kind of approach, but it doesn't work because the episode moved so quickly that it lacked any tension or suspense or build up for me to feel suprised, emotional, or whatever in any kind of situation. It was just a bundle of events happening one after the other with some dialogue. Sure we get a lot out of the first episode but it gives you no time to catch up with your own feelings about the characters. It was also fairly predictable. The night raid are obviously not bad guys because they're on the cover art, you know that when you hear that they are targetting high ranking nobles they have a good reason, and we know that the protaganist is going to be involved. Grisly violence interrupted by moments of comedy isn't something that swings well with me. In the same way that having ecchi moments in the middle of zombie fights in HSOTD made the show so much less enjoyable for me, the same applies here. Its like, you get so involved in the dark atmosphere and you can feel the intensity... and then you're snapped out of it by a cheap joke that, because you're in the mindset of the dark atmosphere, you can't find it funny even if it is. I think if you want a good dark show with lots of blood and a nice concept Tokyo Ghoul just smashes this show straight out of the park. Such a better concept, much better animation, cinematography, atmosphere, colour scheme, emotional impact, etc. Even if you might have a clue to what happens, it still suprises you when you get to it. I'm hyping Tokyo Ghoul to be the best show of the season if it continues like the first episode. Let me know how the second episode goes though and I might give it another shot. |
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The tendency I feel is, like with Higurashi, Elfen Lied or Brynhildr, to focus on the "cute girls getting sawed in half" element which doesn't hold true as the main message. That is often an attempt at cheap shock factor which doesn't extend much beyond "anime art style + violence uncommon graphic violence". Although it does serve to reinforce the idea that Akame ga Kill! is not a nice story where everyone lives happily ever after. It's like animating a scene from Doom. Quote:
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07-10-2014, 12:55 PM | #6484 |
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I guess I've started all of the new shows I intend on watching until Kantai Collection airs. On to update on what I've seen so far and a short season summary!
Fate Kaleid Liner PRISMA ILYA 2wei! What a stupid STUPID development. I swear (episode 1 spoilers) Spoiler: show Glasslip Episode 2 was watched. This show is getting sillier. (episode 2 spoilers) Spoiler: show So all-in-all: Akame ga Kill: Decent action show. Barakamon: Potentially a very sweet show about an artist. Fate Kaleid Liner PRISMA ILYA 2wei!: Meh.... Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun: Shoujo about a manga artist and his assistant. Let's hope it doesn't pile in the cliches (atleast outside of writing). Glasslip: I LIKE HIM, BUT HE LIKES SOMEONE ELSE, BUT THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS A DEAD CHICKEN! Hanayamata: Pretty, and I like the blonde girl, but it'll probably get boring really quickly. Re:_Hamatora: Looks like it has started out quality-wise where season 1 left off! Sabagebu: Boring, but Oota Masahiko directed it, so I'm going to try to give it more of a chance than I intended. Sailor Moon Crystal: Not a bad remake, but still has all the flaws the original had. So far, Barakamon is my favorite of the season. I'm hoping Sabagebu will prove to be better with the discovery I made about it. Everything else is okay/meh. |
07-10-2014, 01:03 PM | #6485 |
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I feel like I'm spamming with this post, but I also feel like I should say something ... so ...
1. I have yet to watch Glasslip but plan to watch Otaku's (EveTaku's) release later today. 2. I also have yet to watch Ilya S2. Waiting to watch with UTW since they say they'll work on it. 3. If neither Glasslip *nor* Ilya S2 prove worth watching, then I still probably won't preference a Summer 2014 series before preferencing a highly recommended series from a previous season. (Leading contender right now would be NGNL since it's still somewhat fresh on people's minds.) Crossing my fingers that I'll like Ilya S2 despite bbb's warning that something stupid happens. Crossing my fingers even tighter that if Ilya S2 falls through that Glasslip won't be boring.
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07-10-2014, 07:54 PM | #6486 |
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Knights of Sidonia
Once again another boredom fueled night with Netflix, although this one is a bit interesting in that Netflix themselves had the series licenses, translated and dubbed in both English and Spanish. This review will include both a review of the series itself as well as Netflix's English dubbing of the series. The series itself is very similar to Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan but with overall better content. So if you somewhat liked AoT, you should like KoS. If you didn't like AoT, you can still like KoS because of it's much stronger science fiction aspect, better writing, and overall better everything. Setting: Humanity has been driven off the Earth. A giant alien blob monster called the gauna destroyed the planet, forcing the human race to live in enormous colony ships that look like a rectangle sticking out of a rock.. Sidonia, the colony ship- is built on Japan's heritage and is considered humanity's last hope for survival. Characters & Plot: Spoilers. Spoiler: show There are a lot more characters of some import, but since I saw spoilers on Wikipedia just because I wanted to check name spellings, I'm not going to post more about this topic. Animation: The show is done in cel-shaded computer animation. This is somewhat troubling early on because of how weird it looks, especially shading. Another issue was how little color is used. Almost everyone is pale white, they wear wear and grey uniforms, their city is made out of white structures. WHITE WHITE WHITE. Most likely it's to show how sterile and clean this future world is, but it makes things look very weird and alien, which I guess could be the whole point. The character's faces also look awkward at times due to the 3d modeling of what is essentially a 2d show. Shading on the lips looks like weird make up, but they don't wear make up so it's just weird looking. All of the stuff outside of Sidonia (in space) looks fine. English Dub: I can't say how good Japanese voice acting or translations are since I myself don't speak Japanese. I can say that the dub is done pretty well. Netflix didn't really hold back, hiring several anime voice acting veterans like Johnny Yong Bosch who was the Black Power Ranger as well as Vash the Stampede in Trigun and Lelouch in Code Geass. There were others but I'm not looking at the Wikipedia page to check more. Nothing ever felt out of place in terms of the characters tones. There were a few moments (literally only one I can think of) where some voices sounded a bit dull for the scene, but overall it was good. THE SCORES: Plot: 8.5/10 - The setting is extremely interesting to me as a big science fiction nerd. The characters are all fairly well done and although a harem thing pops up, it feels natural and realistic rather than forced. The show also isn't shy about killing people off, although some were cheap tricks to 'move' the audience, it isn't used often and is done well. Animation: 8/10 - Starts off weird, get's much better over time, although there's still a bit of awkwardness with celshading. Some episodes I have to remind myself it's not traditional animation. Sometimes the show will remind me. Looks great for the fight scenes. Music: 8/10 - Music quickly disappears from my mind, but the important scenes of the series had the right music for the moment to enhance the moods of the scenes. English Dub: 9/10 - I thought it was fine. No weird Brooklyn accents. Very few moments of poor tone of character. This show doesn't really end on a proper end point, I guess similar to Attack on Titan in this sense too, but there is a second season coming so hopefully it won't be a giant ad for the manga. OVERALL: 8.5 If you have Netflix, check it out. Last edited by Loki; 07-10-2014 at 08:00 PM. |
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Glasslip: I watched Episode 01 just now. The show seems to be, as I told Yuki, cute-okay with intrigue. I can see why some people might choose to watch this one all the way to the end. And I can see why others might choose to drop it immediately. Me? I don't think I'll know either way for certain until seeing at least one more episode. I'll offer this much outside of the spoiler box: if you liked what you saw here, you should probably check out Nagi no Asukara and Tari Tari. They are by the same animation studio and their stories bear quite a bit in common with what's been shown in Glasslip thus far, Nagi for one set of elements and Tari Tari for another. Alright then. On into the spoiler box. Spoiler: show Okay, reading through guys' thoughts on Episode 01 ... Spoiler: show
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Kantai Collection: In latest KanColle news, it appears that the Summer 2014 anime poster people may have been misled and that the English-language Wikipedia article has been edited at some point in the past few weeks. Both had previously indicated that the KanColle anime would be debuting this season. When no KanColle episode showed up, I went looking on the official site for answers. Nothing. Not a peep about a date. So I went looking on the Japanese blogosphere and eventually the Japanese-language Wikipedia article. And I found this: the anime will be airing "2014年夏以降". The hangup is the word 以降, which translates into English as "on and after." So the phrase 2014年夏以降 likely translates to "Summer 2014 or later" in this case. But it seems like most news reporters decided to go with the more optimistic interpretation of "Summer 2014 onward" and slated KanColle for a Summer 2014 showing. A close look at the official site shows that they have made no promises yet about an air date; and Japanese Wikipedia reflects this at the top of their KanColle article with アニメ(公開日未定) in their list of other adaptations of the popular computer game: "Anime (release date not yet decided)".
So yeah. I think it's safe to say that Kantai Collection is a no show for Summer 2014 and that the soonest we can expect it is in October. Which is fine by me since it means that's one less potentially awesome show I have to give a pass to because too many shows, too little time. ^^;
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07-13-2014, 06:00 PM | #6490 |
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Golden Boy
Rating: Good (7/10) I was gonna give this a 5, then a 6, but the final episode was just so fun and (frankly) godly the series ends up in solid territory for me. BPK is a famous fan of this and finally got me to watch it all the way, although he had to use a cheat code to make that happen. Golden Boy has a lot of cringe-worthy scenes in it, especially when Kintaro drops his spaghetti, but it was also funny in some places (just not a raucous, continuous laughter emporium) and the show was actually pretty smart all in all. I accidentally skipped the first episode (or the important part of it) so I didn't get this until Episode 3, but it didn't ruin the series for me. I also watched it dubbed. The sub isn't very good surprisingly, I thought the sub would be less explicitly lewd but it's the same stuff. I guess the original was just that perverted. Recommended? Maybe. For people with an open mind. I think the show as aged a bit since the golden days (pun!) of animation but it's still very relevant.
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Gonna make a thread for Tokyo Ghoul tomorrow. Easily the best show so far this year based on the first 2 episodes.
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Second episode on three new shows!
Barakamon Episode 2 was a heartwarming episode. This would have been better with a bit more development before this episode, but it was nice nonetheless. This show remains my favorite of the season, but the two other shows I'm going over have been pretty good too. Sabagebu What I wished for last episode has happened, and it was great. I can't say much more because I don't want to bother with a spoiler tag on something else no-one is watching, but I also don't want to spoil anything. I will say this: The main girl is awesome. Here's to hoping the brutality multiplies! Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Episode 2 was awesome. All of the characters so far have been really funny, and seeing how the main guy puts them into his story is equally amusing. I hope the shoujo cliches in this story stay outside of the "real life" events. If so, I'll continue enjoying this show. Looks like I know what my three favorite shows of the season are! |
07-14-2014, 10:53 AM | #6493 |
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Black Bullet - Episode 4
Holy jimmy johns, this episode was bad. On a technical and voice standpoint it was pretty good, but the plot was really predictable (and dumb) by the time Hiruko was defeated. I figured Rentaro would put himself in the cannon chamber, but it was just the arm (hence the title 'Black Bullet') and the whole plan to kill the scorpion just turned into firing one bullet? That shouldn't work under any circumstances. The tension over the shot was also un-explained and needless. Haven't seen the hilarity yet but I am hopeful.
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07-14-2014, 08:07 PM | #6494 |
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Black Bullet - Episode 6
I'm going to stop here until after my board, I think. This show isn't "so bad it's good" really, it's just dumb. Pretty, but dumb. I'm sure some guys love dating girls like that but I, a person of considerable expectations, would not lower my standards for a low-born anime! However, this anime is very clearly heckle material. It's the kind of show I should be watching with concurrently with Morg because it's certainly more fun to make fun of. There's some cool aspects, especially the main character who is probably "GAR" reincarnated into a modern body, and an interesting reversal of surprise especially in this episode because of that personality. Namely, when two people discover they're on opposite sides of a conflict, one person hardens resolve and the other panics. Usually, it's the moraltastic main guy whose knees wobble. This time it's the loli he's fighting against, which is unusual and refreshing. Kisara is a really weak character. I dislike her a lot because she's not only useless, but stupid. It's no exaggeration, in the words of LittleKuriboh, to call her "a walking pair of breasts" because that's her greatest contribution to the plot. Supposedly, before the first episode "the shock of seeing her parents die caused her kidneys to fail". That sounds almost funny in a less literal sense, but it's actually possible when it comes brain-kidney communication. But the kidney is so distal to the brain, the interaction is entirely hormone driven, so there's no reason that a "non-physical trauma shock" couldn't be corrected with hormone therapy or at least time. Even assuming her kidneys are "physically damaged", she gives this justification: "Finding a donor is really hard". Nuh-uh. People are dying in the streets by getting ripped apart by giant insects. I'm pretty sure it would be easy to salvage organs from flayed human body bits. And, given her age and health I seriously doubt she has any type of type incompatibility. Next, "If I were to forget this pain, I would probably forget to exact revenge." Her grasp on logic is as unerringly straight as a river bend. Since she's a cripple, she can't exact revenge. If she weren't a cripple, she could take it. But she would rather remain a cripple so she can think about how she wants to exact revenge. Let's substitute some words and play around with her thinking: "If I were to forget this hunger, I would probably forget to eat lunch." Given she's a lazy git who loves to force her man to cook, but is too chicken liver to seduce him despite his scent causing her passion to "blaze out of all control", I'm confident this is what she really wanted to say with that revenge comment. Although it's interesting. Adult chat? Spoiler: show
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>Black Bullet discussion
I finished the anime. Somehow. Very much in a "well, only X episodes to go, might as well" manner. I'll warn you right now: the plot goes into a direction so dumb and predictable, it's not even funny. The development staff also confused screaming and crying and watching people die a lot as character development. Anyone who's not Rintaro/redhead loli/Kisara and gets more than 5 seconds of screen time is either totally evil or going to die within 10 minutes. I liked the soundtrack. The show looked good, too. But otherwise it was A Bad Time.
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Rentaro is an excellent main guy. He's a bit stone-faced, but as far as determination goes, he's everything I value in a quality lead character. Competent, rational, considerate, but not all-powerful...nor does is he enamoured with spitting condescending speeches. Adding icing to the cake is he's voiced by Yuuki Kaji. Kaji was asked somewhere, I forget where, about why he was always playing whiny beta otaku characters, and he said "I'd like to play someone manlier". He did, and he's done a great job! Eren doesn't count.
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Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Lanturn's been bugging me to watch this, so I finally did. Caught up to episode 02. Spoiler: show
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It's really obvious to me why Nozaki is attractive! Such a strange thing to say...
Also, I don't think the romance is legit here. It seems like it just exists to be exploited for laughs.
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