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On the other hand, plenty of hard evidence hetero ships too. Syaoran x Sakura, Meilin @ Syaoran, etc. But yeah, holy shit at Tomoyo.
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05-30-2015, 07:49 AM | #6827 |
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Correction: DIC dub. 4Kids was not the only butcher in the '90s.
... Syaoran x Sakura feels like a forced ship. I mean the ingredients are there, but it's far less organically tasting than most of the others, and what happened in Tsubasa makes it seem like CLAMP was pressured to make it happen rather than let the love play out naturally.
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Unless Cardcaptors was a joint project, it was 4Kids' butchery. Cardcaptors was a 4Kids release.
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The proof is truly in the pudding: Kadokawa would not have solicited Mr. Pai's work on the North American localization of the books if they did not feel his translation was up to snuff. I can't speak for my occasional disappointments with the book's translation, but my memories of the television translation are exceedingly positive. Quote:
It still drives me crazy though that we do not standardize this in history lessons, i.e. historical figures from before the 20th century are almost universally known in the West by their Eastern name order names (e.g. Oda Nobunaga) whereas ones from the 20th century onward flip over to Western name order (e.g. Shinzo Abe). Pick one! Either he should be Nobunaga Oda to your audience or else the other one should be Abe Shinzou! But pick! Pick one, historians & journalists, and stick with it!
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05-30-2015, 08:36 AM | #6830 |
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Welp, after watching the first season back in Jan/Feb, I decided to put off K-On!! and the movie until summer just to give myself something to look forward too + I was getting too busy to consistently watch anything with soccer season starting. And now that I've watched it all, I can easily say it's my favorite anime and the best series that I've watched. The development of the characters is so real and natural it's stunning, and I just felt myself growing more and more attached as the series went on, the second season, while the first season was still very good, being extremely strong. I didn't expect to, but I was actually crying some towards the end of the shows run because the entire pacing of the conclusion, and all of season two really, is absolutely fantastic.
Probably gonna just catch up on some currently airing stuff now, so Hibike, Mikagura, Food Porno, and I want to check out Kekkai Sensen.
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"Cute" as in "adorable, like a kitten," not "cute" as in "attractive." K-ON!'s wild success with otaku, I suspect, is that it appeals to a hybrid of male emotions -- the girls are one part surrogate daughters, one part surrogate female friends, one part girlfriends, one part idols (in the otaku culture sense of the term), and more that I can't really pinpoint or put into words. They're girls who you want to cheer on, coo at, hug, etc. Girls who make you go "aww" a lot. You mention that you were impressed by the character development in K-ON!. Character development is certainly not one of the first things I'd go to when trying to list off K-ON!'s strengths. :o It's interesting for me to read you say what you've said. It just goes to show how different works of art affect different people differently. For me, I felt that K-ON! had a startling lack of character development. Tsumugi is pretty much non-developed, as blank and unchanged as the day we met her. Characters who are upfront rich with personality, like Azusa or Yui, don't really show any growth or change over the course of the story either. It's not like we find out in S2E07 that Azusa's reason for picking up guitar was that her father who abandoned her at age 7 had been a guitarist and she felt it would help her to better understand him somewhat. It's not like in S1E12 we find out that Mio's stage fright ties into a traumatizing childhood experience on stage. Characters have traits that are revealed at varying early/late degrees of the game, but I feel like "what you see is what you get is what you see" with K-ON!. I dunno. That's just me. Interesting to hear your take on it. I definitely never cried while watching K-ON!. ^^; And I've been known to cry while watching a number of anime. (Clannad After-Story's famous tearjerker ... Hikaru no Go's kifu room scene ... the flashback to end all flashbacks in Kanon ...) I dunno. K-ON! obviously touched you on a much more emotional level -- or at least on a different emotional level -- than it did me. K-ON!'s kind of a weird beast. It's become hugely polarizing in the community, with many loving it and many more reviling it. It is often identified as a key player in the downfall of mid-to-late-2000s & early-2010s anime, a time period characterized by what has been called "moeblob" anime. 2006's Lucky Star is usually accredited with getting the ball rolling, but 2009's K-ON! is the superstar of the moeblob genre. Haruhi fans like myself get upset that K-ON! a) distracted KyoAni from working on more Haruhi and b) transformed KyoAni's character drawing style from a more Full Metal Panic-esque style to a more K-ON!-esque style. (See: Hyouka, Tamako Market, Chuunibyou, and Free! which all borrow K-ON!'s character designs.) But despite a lot of the hate that K-ON! gets, there's undeniably a lot of love as well. The sales figures and the mountain of moeblob copycats reflect this. To the delight of many, the moeblob train seems to have finally ~_~ run out of steam. It doesn't mean moeblob is dead. But we're seeing a lot more diversity in anime now than we were around the turn of the decade where it seemed like 50% of all animes that came out were K-ON! wanna-bes. That stated, this gives you a pretty fantastic launchpad: if you want to find other shows that are like K-ON!, I'd suggest looking for shows that came out between 2006 and 2012, inclusive. The latest example I can think of -- sort of a K-ON! / Idolmaster hybrid, from what I can tell of it without having watched it -- would be Love Live!. In fact, I've noticed a lot of overlap within the K-ON! fandom between those fans' love of K-ON! and their newfound love of Love Live!. Maybe it's the exclamation marks.
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Out of curiosity, does K-ON! have a thread? I tried typing K-ON! into the search bar and nothing shows up (???????). I might want to decide if I want to watch K-ON! by reading some of the reviews.
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K-On's development is much less about change (It's there but not the main portion) and more about having real, believable characters by exploring all aspects of their characters completely. @Azusa and Yui Spoiler: show Another reason why K-On probably works really well for me is that I just found tons of things I could connect to with nearly every character and many of the events in the show. I'm still in high school, and while I'm not a girl, a bunch of the experiences presented in the show I've had or am currently having, just not in exactly the same way.
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05-30-2015, 11:18 AM | #6835 |
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I need to rewatch Haruhi sometime. I would like to see how it holds up after all this time, and I would like for those freaking special edition DVDs I felt the need to blow my money on to get some use. That, and the Nagato show is beginning to make me feel sour towards Haruhi, which is bad!
The CCS manga is another thing I need to get into. I am curious about which crazy relationship idea CLAMP had for it that was too wild for the anime. I do recall the teacher x student one being much more obvious, but that's about it. I enjoyed K-On well enough. It's almost embarrassing to admit, considering it's the cool thing to hate on. I just liked it as a fun anime to chill out to and enjoy an laugh here and there. While not entirely substantial, it's entertaining enough to keep you from being bored, and there's not much drama. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy Yui doing weird shit. I can't say I cared for how it changed Kyo-ani though. They should be still doing Keystuffs, but nooooo. We get forced attempts at re-living the K-On experience! Rewrite is crying! Show By Rock is proving to be an entertaining band show. The sad thing about it is the fact that the best bits are stolen by Shingan Crimson S. The main band isn't that entertaining, but these guys are just so awesome. I'm not going to hold back on spoilers because no-one else is going to watch this anyway. The show goes on about how special Cyan, the main girl, is, but in the past two episodes, these guys have pulled things off that she has done by simply being badass. Also I found this amusing jab by ZUN when looking for news on a fight during the latest Reitaisai about people selling Kancolle stuff. Didn't find what I was looking for, but that was good enough! |
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What other slice of life shows have you watched, Sparkbeat? Maybe this is a case of you discovering the genre and loving it. If that's the case I suggest you try out the GOAT slice of life show Minami-ke (well, at least in the opinion of Talon and myself. big bad birtha seems to enjoy it well enough but doesn't quite put it on that level).
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Minami-ke: one of the best shows I've ever seen.
Minami-ke: the show I never ever sell to newcomers because I'm scared the up sell will ruin it for them and I'm also scared they haven't seen enough anime yet to appreciate what Sakuraba Coharu has to bring to the table. I won't say don't watch it. But I'll be biting my fingernails in worry as I await your verdict.
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05-30-2015, 05:23 PM | #6838 |
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So, user with practically no taste in anime would like a reccomendation of sorts, if that's not too troublesome. I tend to gravitate towards Shounen anime (Pokemon, Yugioh, DBZ), and sadly, that's about the only real experience I have in anime. I haven't watched many big name titles (Naruto, One Piece, AOT, SAO), and I can't say I have much interest in them, oddly.
Anyway, I have been meaning to watch something non-Shounen-y. I've been meaning to get into the fate/Night franchise, but I'm not sure where to start. I'm open to other reccomendations that arent excessively violent or overly fanservicey either, though.
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Studio DEEN's F/SN anime isn't really great but if you don't want to go into the VN its a good start and ufotable's UBW anime is pretty good from what I've heard although I don't know how much is lost in the transition. Talon will likely say what I say better though. |
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The PG-13 version is called Realta Nua~
Although if you want any more Shounen in your life, I would recommend Kuroko no Basket aka Kuroko's Basket(ball). One of the few sports Shounen I would actually call a Shounen (in terms of tropes used). |
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If you like watching character growth of a young man but want to try something non-shounen actiony, then Barakamon's definitely worth a try. It's a nice slice of life story that was actually the third anime (not included stuff I watched as a kid) that I picked up, and I really enjoyed it so maybe you would too.
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Death Parade: the best anime I've seen in 2015. (Admittedly I've not seen much but this one was an easy 9 out of 10. Practically a modern masterpiece.) Start with Death Billiards though! It's the original work. It was Billiards' popularity which gave rise to Parade. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu: one of my favorite animes of all time. For a nine-year old production it's held up pretty well visually. The characters, story, and voice acting are untouchable. IMO, anyway. *jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii @ Yuki's Haruhi stream audience who wasn't that impressed with it* Planetes: Garbagemen in space. Compelling character stories draped across an important problem confronting mankind. It's a great show.
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EDIT: >Death Parade It and Death Billards dont ooze blood at every turn like its title suggests, right?
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Join the club, friend ;;. I say try your best, but I spent a good few hours trying to get FSN to function with Wineskin on my Mac, and I sadly couldn't get it to work. >Death Parade There is blood, but there actually aren't deaths every episode like the name would suggest, and compared to other things, it's pretty tame. There's no excessive gore, if that's what you're asking. But yeah, seconding Talon that it's very good.
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Mac owners: if you want my honest advice, I would suggest the following course of action:
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Ehhhhhhhhhhhh ...
Just play the VN first. -.- No watching the prequel first!
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So I'm not actually looking for a slice-of-life anime, but what would you guys say is a top-tier slice-of-life anime from the past 5 years?
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Minami-ke Tadaima.
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