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Watched the 4 episodes of Gekkan Shoujo Noazki-kun. It's good, not great. The first part of episode 4 was amazing though
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08-04-2014, 08:17 AM | #6527 |
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Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Ep 5
Spoiler: show Speaking of which, I'm two weeks behind Glasslip! Maybe because of life, or maybe because almost everyone dropping it made me lose motivation. Also need to get Barakamon - can you ever get too lazy to watch anime?!
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08-04-2014, 09:46 AM | #6528 |
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Kadokawa released the first trailer for the Kantai Collection anime. I'll let you go and watch the trailer before I give anything away.
Spoiler: show We'll probably want to make a thread soon. Two, in fact. One dedicated to discussion of the anime in Anime, and another, franchise-encompassing one in Video Games ŕ la the Touhou thread. I don't know if I'll have the time to do it today. If someone who is an even bigger KanColle fan than me (I know of at least one person ...) wants to make the threads instead, be my guest. Otherwise, I'll try to make them some time in the next week.
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08-04-2014, 05:07 PM | #6529 |
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I just hope the Kantai Collection anime won't be another freaking Strike Witches. God Strike Witches was unbearable. Judging from the trailer, it should LOOK nice at the very least. I know almost nothing about the characters other than the names of some of the more popular ones. Well that and the fact that Shimakaze is supposedly fast and has a weird grunt.
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Episode 5 was another winner. This show has edged ahead of Barakamon in terms of my favorite show of the season. Though it's not uncommon for a hilarious show to sputter out, so I'm still a bit on edge. Also this show keeps adding interesting characters. So far, none have been duds for me. |
08-04-2014, 08:04 PM | #6530 |
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Because of Yuki , I have had "Koisuru Fluorite" stuck in my head for the better part of the day. I may or may not have put the actual song on play some five to ten times already. ¬¬; (1m06s = all of my approval.)
I haven't seen a visual novel trailer nor a light novel cover out of Noizi Ito in a long while. Yuki and I were looking at her Wikipedia page, and it suggests that she's had projects here or there, but it doesn't look like, from a casual anime fan's perspective, she's been terribly busy since her heyday with Haruhi and Shana nearly ten years ago. Though did you know she was the character designer for Another!? :o そっと、そっと、繰り返す… 明日は、昨日より輝くように…!
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08-06-2014, 11:39 AM | #6531 |
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Coμ - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku -
I read a few hours into this, so I guess I can give first impressions. The writing isn't bad, and it gives a nice view on people. Nothing beats cynical views on society! The art is also really nice. Sadly I HATE some of the character interactions. They're repetitive and needlessly intense. Also the main character is your usual boring protagonist who lets everyone push him around. JOY, right? So far I can't say I really like or dislike Comyu. It has potential, but I wonder if it'll even be met. I just hope the childhood friend character in this dies. I. Do. Not. Like. Her. |
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HENTAI YES HENTAI YES HENTAI YES HENTAI YES
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08-09-2014, 10:25 AM | #6535 |
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A week behind on posts, a week or more behind on shows. Been busy, and free time was redirected to other things this week. Will try to catch up when I can. For now though ...
I find myself gushing about the JJBA OPs this morning. They were great to start off with, but mild nostalgia has aged them like a fine wine. I really love these OPs. Their only fault is the fugly CG character models. And while those are ruinous for fans like Doppel -- CG is to him what sunlight is to a vampire! -- they're tolerable for folks like myself. But seriously, the CG character models are the only thing wrong with these OPs. Phantom Blood OP: so epic! Battle Tendency OP: so magnificent! Stardust Crusaders OP: so rockin'! Ugh. I have to get ready and head out here in a second. If I didn't, I'd watch this week's JoJo right now. D: Oh well. Will have to wait until later.
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08-09-2014, 10:47 AM | #6536 |
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Actually, I've warmed up to the CGI in Jojo's OPs, but the presumption still isn't wrong: CGI has to prove itself to me before I will accept it. I'll never go in to most shows anticipating I'll like the CGI.
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08-09-2014, 01:18 PM | #6537 |
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I actually like the CGI in the JoJo openings. Maybe it's just something I'm not seeing though.
Not much of an update, but one nonetheless! Sabagebu I've given this a final chance at episode 5, and it did nothing to convince me to not drop it. Episode 5 was another pile or dry, dull humor. Episode 2 was the only funny episode of this show, and it was a joke that could easily get old. It's a letdown that it's something directed by the guy who directed some of the best SoL comedies on my list, but I guess you can't always come up with winners? Coμ - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku - I'm a few more hours into this, and I think I'm in the next chapter of the story. Not much has changed. The dialogue is still insanely repetitive and almost amateurish, but the FSN-like story still keeps me somewhat interested. I want to drop it, but this would be the third VN in a row that I didn't finish, so I want to see it through to the end. My main reason for posting is that I decided to look into this to see what others thought....and almost everyone thinks Kagome (the girl I said I hated last post) is one of the best heroines they have ever seen. I get a difference in opinion and all that, but why? She reminds me so much of Okabe Rintarou from Stein's;Gate. She's just the writer shamelessly begging the readers to love her with very sloppy and obvious tricks to make her seem awesome. Every turn she's always hurling some insult (she only has like 5 different insults) at a character with that grin expression. That's all she is. Seeing so many people sing undeserved praise for her really does remind me of all of the people getting tricked by Okarin. She's cool in the battle scenes, but otherwise, she's obnoxious. |
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Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun ep 6
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08-11-2014, 11:20 PM | #6540 |
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Comyu
I've started this, although I'm pretty far from the first H-scene. Far from the madding crowd, I largely agree with BBB on the dialogue being amateurish and juvenile. The writing is peppered with meta-speak, including memes, random and inappropriate video game references, and fourth wall commentary: such things have become staple cliches in trying to break the perception of cliche lately, and they're just casually dropped in this script without gelling much like Kyoukai no Kanata. It's premature, but I'm largely un-impressed, but I shall trek onward!
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08-14-2014, 12:15 AM | #6541 |
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Comyu
Perhaps I'm where BBB was when he made his first post. Suffice to say, I do not like this VN at all. Visually, it is gorgeous, the art and animation are both top-tier even without mouth movements. I like some of the characters, especially Benio (a few gripes notwithstanding). Issues: -I find some of the music to be inappropriate and tempo killing, and the voices are like that too. -There's a lot of narrative style swapping and flash forwards/flash backs. Many a scene will start off in media res then flash back to something earlier. Why? I don't see the point of this disjointed style, it's not cool or anything. The swapping is more a pet peeve, it's pretty common in non-anime Japanese media and is looked down on, but good writers generally stick to one style and don't randomly add a narrator. Comyu is pretty bad about this. -MC is godawful. BBB described him as boring, but he's actually repulsive for me to play as. Shy pervert virgin who needs to be protected by strong women, but all the hot girls are fighting over themselves for his D! Totally not an overused vehicle for wish-fulfillment. -I dislike the eye level of the game. Because the dialogue box is so low to the bottom of the screen, you (the player) miss 90% of the animation occurring with the character face expressions. -The actual plot is boring and not very convincing as a "real-life" story. Mayuki also talks like a loli version of UM. I'm totally serious.
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08-14-2014, 10:03 PM | #6542 |
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Comyu
So I got to the first H scene. I must say I was a bit surprised by it. Spoiler: show I also find it silly that much was made about the Rounds mistaking Kagome as one of the five members, but it looks like no one in the Babylon group picked up on that. They're all dumbos.
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I beat two routes in Comyu myself. Nothing really changing as far as my opinion goes. I really don't like the main guy's attitude towards killing people. It gets painful, especially considering how evil his avatar looks. Also the routes are really unsatisfying. Not sure if there's a reason for it, but I feel like I'm missing a bunch. This VN is not the masterpiece people are making it out to be. If anything, it's a 5 to me so far. It's pretty flawed and amateurish, but I'm still reading, so that's something.
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I finished Comyu. It was umm...I normally make threads about these VNs, but this one doesn't deserve it.
Coμ - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku - From start to finish, this VN was a pathetic attempt at being cool. The meta speak, the shitty attempts at being deep, the hollow, forced characters. Trust me though, a 12 year old would love this freaking VN. The dialogue from beginning to end is just a repetitive pile of annoying. Why couldn't they add some variety to that? The art is high end, so you'd hope they'd put in that same effort into the writing. Though I will say this. I did have an alright time with it. I managed to keep reading without much difficulty. I also got into some parts. I believe reading Comyu is like eating fast food. You know your ingesting garbage, but you still kinda enjoy it. Short thoughts on all the routes: Benio - 5 Benio's route had some alright development on Benio's end. She's one of the few characters that feel like more than the same recycled lines over and over. Despite that, her route was still unsatisfying. It had more irritating dialogue filler than the other routes, and there was no real ending. Also Benio's morals really got in the way this route. Hisoka - 5 Eh. I just don't feel her. She feels like a background character rather than a romantic target. When things started happening between main guy and her, it seemed from out of nowhere. Nothing else in the route really did anything for me. Mayuki - 6, 4 without bias towards Mayuki Yeah, if I wasn't HNNNGing at Mayuki half the route, it would be a pretty bad route. Nothing plot related happens, and the meta speak Doppel loves so much is 100x worse this route. Still, watching Mayuki slowly open up was charming. Ayaya - 3 What a pointless route. Why couldn't they have a Kururi route instead? The best thing about this route is the fact that it's short. It had nothing to do with the main plot, and Ayaya is an obnoxious character. Kagome - 6 This is supposedly the route that'll nail your balls to the floor. That never really happened, but it was an alright route. It had less irritating dialogue than the others, and stuff from all routes happened, so you could feel satisfied from it. Akihito is maximum obnoxious this route, ruining so much shit with his ever-changing attitude towards death. Gasai would have been a much better protagonist! Overall, Coμ - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku - gets a 6. It probably deserves a 5 or less, but the fact that it kept me reading and interested should count for something. If you're 12 years old and can't tell the difference between good and bad, check this out. If not, then passing it up won't really hurt you. |
08-21-2014, 08:45 PM | #6545 |
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Comyu is also obnoxiously hipster. The characters are constantly plugged in to social media and glorify it to the point of comic absurdity. Then you the player realize that this novel is at least four years old.
For me, the main character being a stock "shy handsome pervert loser" has killed a lot of my enthusiasm for continuing. The meta talk, as bad as it is, is secondary to the issue of the main guy being repulsive to role-play as. Everything from his sexual apathy, forced manzai and ideal of the day attitude burns my skin. If you're a devout religious person, or a strong supporter of women's rights, reading Eliot Rodgers' manifesto must have been the most excruciating torture in the world. Instead, strap yourself into his skull and force yourself to experience the manifest's events in the first person. It's maddening, and for a lot of VNs (and a big reason why I'm working on my own!) have characters so distasteful to play as, it's practically work just to trudge through them.
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I'm curious- How much of that do you personally think is due to the original script, and how much is due to the translators?
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What was shocking was Ammy rated Comyu as an A-ranked title (9.5) with a average variance (+0/-2). Meaning, 100% of people should be between 9.5-7.5. BBB already gave it a 6, and - here's a spoiler - I'm probably going to give it somewhere in the 3-4 range, if that. And it's propped up ENTIRELY by the art and voice work.
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Haven't watched much. Writing.
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