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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:I am almost 100% certain the Sabagebu anime is not shoujo It is. The source material is serialized in Nakayoshi, which is indisputably a shoujo magazine. (Same magazine that used to run Sailormoon, as a matter of fact.)
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chumbler posted:To be fair, with the way it's going there will probably be at least one heavily shoujo portion of a future episode. The main character is a hilarious rear end in a top hat. I'm surprised by how much I laughed at it
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Jul 13, 2014 18:08
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Sabagebu and Nozaki are primarily comedies. The difference between demographics is not as notable there. I must also concur that Sabagebu is getting stupider in the best possible way. On other notes: Majimoji Rurumo is based on a manga by the author of "Weak Pedals", and it has that same style of jokes. On the downside it has an annoying amount of fanservice.
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boredsatellite posted:Nozaki is Shounen actually. And having just watched the next episode I am confident it will be the funniest show of the season. Everyone should watch it According to Baka-updates one of the places it's published is called "Shoujo Romance Web Girly". Which seems like an odd name for a shounen magazine. Even if it is a web thing  musouka posted:It is. The source material is serialized in Nakayoshi, which is indisputably a shoujo magazine. (Same magazine that used to run Sailormoon, as a matter of fact.) Maybe it was a joke about how the anime is even less shoujo than the source material (which was already pretty atypical, I think)? The manga had a fashion competition instead of an airsoft battle at the gun store, for example. I think overall the adaptation has been pretty decent. Playing up the main character's assholishness a little earlier than the manga is a good idea because it really is the core of the show's comedy. And most of the changes have been to add a bit more action which makes sense since animation is a lot better at that then drawings are.
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In ep2 of Akame ga Kill I enjoyed seeing everyone laugh at him when he called them assassins of justice. So far it's looking good for this show.
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Joshlemagne posted:According to Baka-updates one of the places it's published is called "Shoujo Romance Web Girly". Which seems like an odd name for a shounen magazine. Even if it is a web thing 
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 "I surrender." Shoots her. "It's a tie." Shoots her. Best MC
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Basically the protagonist from Binbougami ga got transplanted into C3-bu and everything is much better for it.
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Blhue posted:Basically the protagonist from Binbougami ga got transplanted into C3-bu and everything is much better for it. It's even better because she's a complete reversal of the typical "Nice, doormat newcomer gets forced into club and bullied until they come to understand each other" storyline. No, gently caress that. ~Mokarin~ ain't gonna let that poo poo happen. Also somebody should make a Nozaki thread. Show of the season. chumbler fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jul 13, 2014 |
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Jul 13, 2014 20:36
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seo_laughing.gif Nozaki-kun still really great.
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Jul 13, 2014 21:15
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Nozaki's Best Character does not disappoint. Y'all should be watching this show.
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Nozaki-kun is the greatest thing and everyone should watch it.
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Blhue posted:Basically the protagonist from Binbougami ga
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Jul 13, 2014 21:45
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Checked Akame again to see if the people who were still hyping it up despite everything might be on to something. Answer: nope. Second episode was less strikingly terrible than the first, but it's still not a good show. The characters are charmless, overly-anime cliches, the humour is severely forced, and while this one's less abjectly terrified of letting the audience develop an emotional connection with its events, you can still see its eyes darting for the exits/another dumb joke every time it tries to let a scene breathe.
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OK, I've updated the OP with links to the current ADTRW threads for shows airing this season, let me know if I've missed anything. Reminder that if you're enjoying a show, a good way to get folks to check it out is to make a thread for it. You don't have to go crazy mega-effort with threads, it's just enough to describe the show and sell people on it. There is a three-episode rule limiting the number of episodes that can be discussed in this thread so as to encourage folks to make threads for them. Still a week or two out from that for most shows this season, but something to keep in mind.
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Akame ga Kill! - I thought this was going to be Bleach but it got dark and then cheese monkey wacky then gory. The tonal shifts are enough to give someone soft tissue damge. Also it kinda looks like the main character is wearing Mr. Rogers sweater. This show doesn't seem to be saying anything. Murder is praised and condemned in the same scene. No one is likable. Just no. Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club - Better than anticipated. Some actual laughs and the combat sequences are really fun. It's self aware and the slice of life stuff is cute. Just a quirky show in general. Random platypus is dumb but whatever. Gonna three episode test this one. Aldnoah Zero - The first episode feels like a different mecha show. Episode two is some real comic book villainy however, so kind of a wash. The main character is painfully generic, but that might be a plot point later on. Hoping for some more political machinations, we'll see if we get that. If episode three picks up, I'm in. ARGEVOLLEN War (HUH!)What Is It Good For! (Absolutly Mecha!). Three episode test Magimoji Rurumo Why did I watch this?
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Ulta posted:Akame ga Kill! - I thought this was going to be Bleach but it got dark and then cheese monkey wacky then gory. The tonal shifts are enough to give someone soft tissue damge. Also it kinda looks like the main character is wearing Mr. Rogers sweater. This show doesn't seem to be saying anything. Murder is praised and condemned in the same scene. No one is likable. Just no. best woman hasnt even showed up in that show yet. that being said just read the manga if you are interested in it. this adaptation is really not bringing anything to the series
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Akame Ga Kill is dumb, but oddly watchable. That said, I do not blame anyone for wanting to move onto stuff that might turn out to not be dumb as gently caress.
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Akame ga Kill is not really a show for people new to the story, because all its weaknesses are easily apparent early on and it takes time to get to the good parts, and it takes even longer in an anime. Like Dick Spacious said above, if you're interested, go check out the manga; read it for a while and see if it's your thing. I quite like the manga and even I'll admit that its opening arc is weak as hell.
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Ulta posted:Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club - Better than anticipated. Some actual laughs and the combat sequences are really fun. It's self aware and the slice of life stuff is cute. Just a quirky show in general. Random platypus is dumb but whatever. Gonna three episode test this one. Show owns and the blue haired girl's fighting outfit is the one Jill wears in Resident Evil 3 and that owns.
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Sabagebu is amazing if only for the main character being an rear end in a top hat in the best way possible.
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Holy poo poo Sabagebu just did a reference to the loving elevator lobby shoot out from the Matrix. Sticking to this.
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Both Barakamon and Nozaki-kun are apparently published by Square Enix in Gangan Online (which looks to be a mix of Shonen and Seinen manga)
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One think I've noticed about Akame Ga Kill is that Akame herself is a take on the main character in Yu Koyama's manga Azumi who also was bought as a child by the government to be raised as an assassin along with others, had all the other assassin children she knew die and had a friend hide a wound and die from poison. The two character's personalities are shockingly similar too.
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A trailer for that new Ghibli show in the fall has been released.....Its a 2d/3d hybrid show for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsYWw0AzMAs
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Both Sabagebu and Nozaki are really, really funny. This is probably the best comedy season since whenever High School Boys aired.
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Finally started watching a bunch of stuff this season. Aldnoah Zero is pretty interesting, but I feel like it spends way too much time infodumping and the main character is really boring and flat. Akame ga Kill was really trashy, stupid, and uneven, yet I'm kind of intrigued to see where it will go. The juxtaposition between mediocre generic shonen and gritty, ultraviolent Frank Miller-ish pulp is really awkward and doesn't mesh well at all, but it's fun enough for me to want to keep watching, at least for a little bit. Terror in Resonance is great, as expected. Tokyo Ghoul was really fun, really interested to see where that goes. Am I the only one who can't get behind the new Sailor Moon show at all? Maybe it's because I don't have a huge attachment to the original, but it just felt like a really dull, blatant nostalgia cash-grab to me. The art is also really ugly to look at for me; it feels it combined the worst aspects of 90's and 00's animation and design.
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Yeah, for Sailor Moon, it's just mostly geared towards the nostalgic people (like me  ). So if you didn't care about it in the first place, you probably won't now.
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The Sailor Moon thing seems weird. As someone who hasn't actually watched much of any Sailor Moon, the general visual style for the old one seems way superior to the new one. I'd expect this feeling would grow the more I was actually a fan of the old one, and I'm not sure who the new one is for except totally new viewers who wouldn't enjoy the really old style of the original.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:A trailer for that new Ghibli show in the fall has been released.....Its a 2d/3d hybrid show for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsYWw0AzMAs That's such a shame. That computer 2D/3D/CGI never works for me -- there's something about hand drawn that can put the life into characters. Its the reason I can't watch Knights of Sidonia, all the characters look and move the same. Contrast that with some of this season's shows like Nozaki-kun and Barakamon, which have fantastic facial expressions and animation sequences that I don't know if you could do with a computer doll thing.
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Fair enough, read into it a bit up to Doctor Stylish and stopping here because what the hell is going on in this thing 24  If you've only read up to there, you haven't even met the best girl yet although I didn't think much of Leone in the manga, she's a lot more entertaining in the anime.
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Yesss, the best character in Nozaki-kun is played by Sawashiro Miyuki. That's exactly the voice I imagined for her and it fits perfect.
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I was making jokes about is this Hanamonogatori because of it. But yeah the best character was indeed the best
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Sabagebu is pretty hilarious but only because the staff is taking very large creative liberties with it. Basically the shojo manga parts have been removed in favour of making the characters 100% more crazier. For example, a scene where the main character gives a girl her handkerchief is replaced with her beating the other character up instead. Quite a large leap. What's interesting is that C3-bu also also took large creative liberties but Sabagebu focuses strongly on the comedy aspect instead of being a jumbo mess of genres like C3-bu was.
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Sabagebu is not a jumbo mess because the team behind it is actually a team. The writer and director did the anime adaptations of Minami-ke, Mitsudomoe, Yuru Yuri, and Love Lab. They have the formula for that type of comedy down. C3-bu was three or four people taking turns trying to tell different stories with the same characters and setting.
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I've just made a thread for Monthly Girls' Nozaki, since it seems like a decent amount of people are watching it.
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You could probably have some fun getting drunk by playing Spot the Clichés with Blade Dance. Tremendously bad.
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darkgray posted:You could probably have some fun getting drunk by playing Spot the Clichés with Blade Dance. Tremendously bad. The first five minutes alone is like some sort of escalation game where the show gets 100% worse every 10 seconds. "Well at least they haven't pulled the old...poo poo...and that...and that...AND THAT...surely they won't also throw in...poo poo. Shitshitshitshitshit."
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