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Genshiken Nidaime: It's time I make this thread. While I have no doubt that Rozen Maiden will ultimately be my pick for Show of the Season, it's taken a while to ramp up to the really exciting bits. By contrast, Genshiken Nidaime has been very good at worst, stellar at best four weeks in a row now. This week's episode was no exception, chock filled with good and great moments. It's funny. It's emotional. It's hugely relatable. I wasn't the happiest camper in the world with the original Genshiken's second half, but Nidaime has been a highly pleasant bounce back up in entertainment quality. While it's still perhaps not quite as epically high as the original series for me yet, it's been really, really satisfying.
Episode 04 spoiler discussion: Spoiler: show As for the sneak peek for next week's episode ... Spoiler: show Kind of disappointed by how little Ohno there's been in this season so far. It feels like she's been relegated to the role of quirky aunt and/or awkward 6th-year college student who's still hanging around a club she should have long since graduated from. Ohno's probably my second or third favorite character in the original series (right behind Madarame and maybe Saki), but she's definitely being eclipsed in Nidaime by Hato and the others. Maybe that's the way Kio Shimoku wants it to be. *shrug*
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So, I'm just sort of curious ... has anyone here ever seen Ashita no Nadja before? I saw the opening credits for it the other night and decided to look it up. The name sounded familiar to me and sure enough it's a production from around 2004, but the animation is this bizarre mix of modern-feeling computer effects with early 1990s-feeling character designs and general aesthetic. The plot premise of the series is:
Nadja is an orphan who lives at the Applefield Orphanage, in early 20th century England. Nadja is called by Miss Appleton, the orphanage's owner, to receive a package delivered to her. The gifts sent for her thirteenth birthday are a dress and a diary. She is told in the accompanying letter that her mother is still alive. She later joins a traveling street performance act called the Dandelion Troupe in search of her mother after a fire breaks out in her orphanage. She travels the world, finding many friends along the way that teach her things about herself, ultimately having to learn the truth about her parentage and discovering her own destiny.I don't plan to check this out any time soon myself, but I was curious to know if anyone else here had already seen it and would recommend it. (And if so then how highly.) Quote:
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I've looked it up before, but either it had no subs or it was after I moved and couldn't torrent. I distinctly remember looking it up and being disappointed, though.
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Grisaia no Kajitsu
I read the opening parts of this title. The first of the game heavily hints at the main guy being part of some illegal organization, but maybe they'll make it something else. Well the main guy is a sharp-witted badass of sorts, and that's always a huge plus. Hopefully he won't go dumb like the one in Period. One neat thing I noticed is that some of the characters look like they're from Bakemonogatari, and after looking it up, I realized the artist for it does indeed do some characters in this. That's one plus, since I do like the character designs for Bakemonogatari. For everything else, I have a hard time buying why they make a full high-budget full-sized school that only has 6 students in it, but maybe they'll surprise me with a good explanation? I like the character interactions well enough. So in all, I enjoy this fairly well. Hopefully things will stay on a good note for me. EDIT: I read a few hours into Grisaia. So far I like this. Like I expected, this is mostly about the way people think, which is always a plus to me. It seems the characters have good well-thought-out stories behind their issues. Like one is how the "idiot" character is reserved towards anyone new because she thinks they'll hate her for her stupidity. It's not anything grand, but I like it. I've been kind of glued to this VN ever since I started. I've always been a sucker for stories about how people's minds work. Oh, also that girl I mentioned is voiced by Natsume Rin! Last edited by big bad birtha; 07-30-2013 at 01:22 AM. |
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Why doesn't WataMote have a thread already?
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I don't think it's worth having its own thread. Madoka never even got its own thread.
I'd be fine if it was made one, but I'm not going to make it. It's an okay show to leave a few comments on once a week, but there's nothing worth in depth discussion (as you'll see with my three word opinion on this week's episode) + the whole show is kind of a trigger of bad teenage memories and experiences. |
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Something you have to understand about the history of the Anime forum is that we've gone through several phases.
If someone wants to make a Madoka thread, then they are certainly welcome to. I'd probably post a post in there that had hyperlinks to all of my past posts in the suggestion box (as I have done before on other occasions) and then leave it at that. "If you want to see what Talon had to say about this anime, click these. If not, well, then you probably weren't going to read my posts anyway even if they were in this thread all along. " It's also worth pointing out that not every anime that gets its own thread arguably "deserves" it. I made a thread for OniAi but ended up dropping that show after only three or four episodes. I made a thread for Senran Kagura but that was largely motivated by just what a famous property Senran Kagura is in certain circles. Those threads might be seen as spam by some of the other forum regulars, but they're not seen as spam by me tbh and Nature took its course anyway eventually with any of them that no one was watching (e.g. OniAi), the thread bubbling down onto Page 2 and even Page 3 in very little time.
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I still prefer only making a thread for something I think deserves a thread. Making a decent thread is so damn time consuming, and more often than not, it is wasted time on something only I like. Even so, making a thread for something is a good way of giving a show you really like some attention. Maybe I'll watch "I'm a Frog" if a thread is made about it!
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So what you're saying is if I make a Stella thread people might actually try it?
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Basically, this is yet another legacy concern, one in the long list of legacy concerns for UPN. The reason I like stand-alone threads is that:
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I didn't know about any of this.
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So, I still haven't seen the London movie but ... OH ... MY ... GOD ...
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Well, K-ON! is a money-grabber franchise. I watched the London-movie, actually, and it had a few cute moments but that's about it. This is sequel isn't exactly surprising and...I'm not interested in the least in the contents.
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PhotoBucket Adventures: Just a brief update on my PhotoBucket situation:
Spoiler: show K-ON! College: Yeah, I definitely agree that K-ON! has been a shameless moneygrab from the moment its anime's first episode aired. Maybe before that point it was just another innocent manga, but the moment that first episode aired and forever after, it's pretty much been a franchise which is milking the otaku to whom it panders for all they're worth. Pretty damn obvious in that Season 2 was twice the length of Season 1, then there was a movie, now there's a sequel in college ... yet the girls still haven't really done shit as a band. That stated, when the first and second seasons came out, it was during a time that (for me, anyway) was a major dry spell in anime; and so I'd pop K-ON! on just because. It was pretty much a timewaster, but an at least pleasant timewaster. Part of the reason I haven't bothered checking out the movie is that I just don't have the interest. Like, the Haruhi movie? I friggin' leapt at the chance to watch that one. The K-ON! movie? Can't really be bothered to seek it out. It doesn't mean that I don't ever want to watch it, just that ... I'm not really a fan of the franchise and would only be watching it so I could say that I too have seen it. The reviews I've read of K-ON! College seem to suggest that it's not very good. As in, it continues all of the problems that plagued the original and only offers very marginal improvements in other areas. That's not a good sign. But would I at least want to check out the first episode or two of an eventual anime adaptation? Well sure, why not.
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I think the K-On manga went in two different directions after they graduated. They had two different releases. One about Azusa's third-year high school group, and one about the college group. I never read into them, but apparently the high school continuation was the more popular one. I'm going by a vague memory though, so I might be wrong.
Grisaia no Kajitsu After three days of constant reading, I think I've finally branched off into a path. I've mostly been through a bunch of funny little comedy scenes and minor character development. Kinda like a 4Koma. In that sense, it's like Little Busters, spending alot of time on comedy scenes, getting you to like the cast. It even has the VAs from 3 of the main LB heroines. The comedy is good though, so I'm liking what I've read so far. Also this girl's foul mouth never ceases to amuse me. I'm genuinely curious about what's bothering the characters and I'm making guesses about what caused them to need to go to a special school. Hopefully the this title will stay good when it becomes serious. |
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That stated, even an Azusa Group manga would seem kind of dull without the other HTT girls there. Never really was a fan of Jun, and Ui never really seemed that interested in joining a music group, so really all you've got is Azusa. I mean, that was one thing the author sort of dodged in the way the series originally ended -- the whole "so what's Azusa going to do now? " question. Sure, she broached it, but she never really had to contend with actually satisfactorily answering it. And I'm not even sure that she could. Let's face it: when you're the sole underclassman in a club filled with nothing but graduating seniors, you're going to be bummed out next year.
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TALON GET YOUR BUTT TO MAKING THE GENSHIKEN THREAD, BECAUSE THE NEWEST EPISODE OF NIDAIME IS SO MUCH AWESOME MARVELOUS FABULOUS AMAZING I'M GOING NUTS AND SQUEALING LIKE A TOTAL FANGIRL BECAUSE HATOOOOOOOO AND
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Genshiken Nidaime: That episode was incredible.
I have had all of the pictures for a thread ready since mid-week except for Yajima and most of the various important supporting characters (e.g. Saki). Was hoping this episode would give me some more to work with. Will try to make thread tomorrow, along with Episode 05 detailed thoughts. P.S. Spoiler: show
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