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Paracelsus posted:Rail Wars failed to display multi-track drifting. But they did master in a few hours at most, what real steam engine firemen spent years learning, that is firing a steam engine well. Also characters showing generally poor judgment in handling that purse snatcher situation. Still way better than the Locodol poo poo.
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Jul 4, 2014 22:43
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http://ch.nicovideo.jp/fever-huruhi They're doing some sort of live stream or contest for that Haruhi Pachinko game on Monday. Only worth noting since it's on Tanabata and we're waiting for Yuki-chan anime details.
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Jul 5, 2014 01:26
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Tokyo Ghoul: I made it as far as the ominous chanting before I started laughing. I was kinda hoping that the adaptation would try to play up the manga's more serious, psychological side, but gently caress it, I can work with full-on campy gorey bullshit too.  I did appreciate how quickly it's running through the story, though- a lot of shows would have spun out the opening segment and placed the she's a ghoul!!!!! twist at the end of the first episode. And it must be an absolute joy to be voicing this show: it's wall to wall ham in here. No scenery left unchewed.
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Jul 5, 2014 01:58
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Paracelsus posted:Rail Wars failed to display multi-track drifting. Is there at least an obscene amount of train detail? American personal rail transport is poo poo and I've always been fascinated by other countries with great public transport systems. Or is it just trains as a vehicle for a bunch of anime tits bouncing around?
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Jul 5, 2014 08:47
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pentyne posted:Is there at least an obscene amount of train detail? American personal rail transport is poo poo and I've always been fascinated by other countries with great public transport systems.  quote:Or is it just trains as a vehicle for a bunch of anime tits bouncing around?
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Jul 5, 2014 09:47
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Paracelsus posted:American rail is set up primarily for long-distance cargo transport, which it is utilized for at a much higher rate than in places like Europe. It's less romantic than people-carrying trains, I suppose, but given the population density of the US it's probably a much more efficient use of the system. Public transport in most cities is also poo poo. Aside from NY, DC, and SF I can't think of any other major metro areas with good public transport.
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Jul 5, 2014 10:22
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Argevellon is pretty poo poo. It's completely derivative, it's a post-LGoH setting we've heard a billion times before. And they can't even disguise the irony behind all the statements by the characters for even a moment. Even the robots looked poo poo. I like big clunky realistic robots, but they made the combat completely weightless and boring. There was one good fight scene with the idiot MC getting flanked and torn to shreds, but the rest were long slow shots of people walking into gunfire. And perhaps it's because my animewatching pedigree is lacking, but the MC is like the worst bits of Eren Jaeger without any of his upsides. Let's make him constantly mad and on edge all the time, except we don't know why he's angry, and let's not have anyone respond properly to his actions. Instead of having him make mistakes under pressure, let's have him flub elementary poo poo like walking. Let's power him up with none of the physical and emotional downsides. And let's have all our characters casually sit around and amble to and fro in a loving warzone. Can't you rip of Spielberg properly?
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Jul 5, 2014 10:52
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I'm hoping Argevollen will be saved by the seemingly competent colonel and captain, but I didn't think it was nearly as bad as you did. The MC didn't strike me as angry so much as earnest. They were casually sitting around because it wasn't a warzone yet and once it was they ambled to and fro because the robots are slow and cumbersome.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:10
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Crunchyroll servers are dying from all the people trying to watch SAO 2 I guess.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:11
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Phobophilia posted:Argevellon is pretty poo poo. It's completely derivative, it's a post-LGoH setting we've heard a billion times before. And they can't even disguise the irony behind all the statements by the characters for even a moment. And the animation is really bad except for the male main character's really great rear end for some reason
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Jul 5, 2014 18:12
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Demicol posted:Crunchyroll servers are dying from all the people trying to watch SAO 2 I guess. That or the new Sailor Moon.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:40
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Crunchyroll's servers don't actually need a reason to die
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Jul 5, 2014 18:43
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Argevellon episode 1, like a "making mech anime for dummies" book was behind it, much like I have encountered death metal bands having composited and written their songs after a "for dummies" book. It was a plethora of predictable plop and a bundle of boring business until things started happening, then cycling back to that. Certainly appreciating keeping it down to earth and realistic in an earthbound scifi way though, sticking with it for another two because I have a hunch it'll go one way or another. For now it's a mech anime with the least amount of cliches ever seen and it is not going to become a surprise-LoGH of mech series, you know who you are, you hopeful beautiful bastard.
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Jul 5, 2014 19:43
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I daresay Aldnoah.Zero is shaping up to be the superior Mecha show, but it's too soon to say. Going to give it another episode. I'm not the best judge though, I kinda hate mecha shows. Not that I can't appreciate a giant robot now and again but the whole genre is married to the most aggravating and repetitive tropes, it makes shonen fighting shows look innovative by comparison. Has there been an actually revolutionary mecha show in like, the last 10 years? 15? Sailor Moon is alright, coming from the perspective of someone who watched a dozen episodes when he was 13.
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Jul 5, 2014 20:02
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After the first ep, I'm pretty optimistic about Aldnoah.Zero myself, though I'm not much of a mech fan either. Then again this episode had barely any mech, reading more like a political thriller with a hint of space opera, info-dumping and all. In any case, the setting seems interesting, the writers seem competent, and it looks pretty good production-wise, so I'm gonna keep watching, robots or no. As far as the other shows I've checked out, Sailor Moon's alright and I'll probably keep watching because hype train, Glasslip is pretty and I loved NagiAsu so I'll give it a few more eps to get interesting, Tokyo Ghoul seems like it could be decent but I'm not that hopeful, and Free! is dumb as hell but I'm gonna watch it and I'm gonna love it.
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Jul 5, 2014 20:39
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Put me down for really digging the new Sailor Moon. It's easy to get into, and while it'll probably take a few episodes to click for some if you have any affection for the series at all you'll probably like it right away. Direction and pacing is solid and it looks gorgeous. There was a risk that it'd end up mostly pandering to male fans but it still feels like a girls show, to a greater extent than even Pretty Cure. Actually it just feels like an all ages and genders kind of deal, which is good.
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Jul 5, 2014 20:52
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SAO II is just as somehow unintentionally hilarious and absurdly boring as everyone always said it was(never stuck with the first series long, myself), the new Sailor Moon looks and sounds like garbage and Alnoah.Zero just makes me wanna watch Turn A Gundam again, but at least there's new Dandy tonight.
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Jul 5, 2014 22:12
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Sailor Moon was great. Even better than I expected.
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Jul 5, 2014 22:56
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So, the AV Club of all places is reviewing the new "Sailor Moon".  Did not expect to see that, especially since "Space Dandy" just got a single review from them. Here's their review.
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Jul 5, 2014 23:11
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Aldnoah.Zero was really kinda cool, and the real action hasn't even started yet. The graphic design was nice, and the backstory and world-building seemed interesting. It felt like I was jumping into the middle of a narrative that had been going on for a long time, but the show did a good job explaining the setting. Sailor Moon was fun and quite good. The soundtrack was okay, I liked it. I also liked the soundtrack of Aldnoah, but is it just me or does every soundtrack by Hiroyuki Sawano sound the same? I watched Glasslip yesterday. I thought it was incredibly laid back, but it felt sorta filler-ish, which may be a bad sign for the first episode. Rail Wars, I didn't like. I stopped it after getting to the second half. The entire show felt really kinda cheap. It could become 'so bad it's good', but I doubt it.
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Jul 5, 2014 23:12
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NETVERK posted:Aldnoah.Zero (...), but the show did a good job explaining the setting. Perhaps I missed a few lines on the subs but I found the show did exact opposite: terrible job of explaining the setting. Well, the "opposing forces" perhaps, but general history makes no sense to me whatsoever. Alternative history where Apollo 17 founds ~ancient alien technology~, humans starting to colonize Mars, HUMAN interstellar Empire appears out of nowhere but they're originally from Earth - Like they left in ancient history or some poo poo? What year is it even supposed to be in the show? Current year? I don't understand where the Empire or w/e came and how did humans colonize Mars and why are they called "martians" and.. What the Christ. 
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Jul 5, 2014 23:31
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Dessel posted:What year is it even supposed to be in the show? Current year?
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Jul 6, 2014 00:07
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Aldnoah.Zero: In the grim darkness of the alternate near future, there are still Snuggies. I went into Barakamon knowing absolutely nothing about it, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Jul 6, 2014 00:08
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Paracelsus posted:I went into Barakamon knowing absolutely nothing about it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ah right, the one that's region-locked...Yeah, that's actually a pretty good show. If it stays as entertaining as the first episode, I'm in.
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Jul 6, 2014 00:39
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Dessel posted:Perhaps I missed a few lines on the subs but I found the show did exact opposite: terrible job of explaining the setting. Well, the "opposing forces" perhaps, but general history makes no sense to me whatsoever. Alternative history where Apollo 17 founds ~ancient alien technology~, humans starting to colonize Mars, HUMAN interstellar Empire appears out of nowhere but they're originally from Earth - Like they left in ancient history or some poo poo? What year is it even supposed to be in the show? Current year?
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Jul 6, 2014 00:43
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Quad Cape posted:I think what happened is that the colonists took over the hyper gate or w/e, and started the empire. fast forward a few years there is a big war between the colonists and the earth which is ended in the "ceasefire" when the colonists drop the hammer and blow up the moon Aldnoah Zero What I understood is that humans found the gate on the moon, used it to go to mars, found ancient technology, then this alien empire shows up and says its theirs and a war breaks out which causes the moon to blow up, after which there has been a peace for a while. How and when these "aliens" left earth isn't explained yet.
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Jul 6, 2014 01:06
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Can someone tell me what the backlash against Free! was about? It wasn't just because the studio made a show with a female audience in mind, was it?
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Jul 6, 2014 01:42
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Hocus Pocus posted:Can someone tell me what the backlash against Free! was about? It wasn't just because the studio made a show with a female audience in mind, was it? A lot of people claimed they were mad that KyoAni was funding "fujoshi bait" instead of the next Nichijou or whatever, but basically yes, you're right.
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Jul 6, 2014 02:02
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Hocus Pocus posted:Can someone tell me what the backlash against Free! was about? It wasn't just because the studio made a show with a female audience in mind, was it? No, pretty much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNR9JFP_TU
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Jul 6, 2014 02:02
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HenryEx posted:No, pretty much. This reminds me how, even if Fumoffu is one of my favorite comedic animes of all time (Tomokazu Seki as the stoic funny-man will never not be funny), there will never be a 3rd Season of FMP.  Also, is it weird to be jealous of fictional characters with toned musculature? Seeing the first episode of the 2nd season of Free makes me feel like hating my body.
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Jul 6, 2014 02:20
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Just saw the first episode of Sailor Moon Crystal, without having seen any Sailor Moon before. I can't say I'm a big fan of the main character so far; she reminds me a bit of Tsuna from Reborn. (The magic jewelry is also kind of like Reborn, amusingly.) Unlike Tsuna, she doesn't even get any more competent when she transforms; she basically wins the fight by accident. Hopefully she'll develop character traits beyond "bad at everything" eventually. This franchise has a reputation for appealing to some creepy people despite being aimed primarily at teenage girls, but the transformation scene was thankfully not at all creepy. I thought the animation for it was really cool, although it could get old if they recycle the whole thing every time she transforms. The shapeshifter telling Naru she couldn't be allowed to live made me wonder why it didn't kill Naru's mother. Maybe it can only take the shape of a living person? Overall, I guess it's earned the three-episode test, narrowly.
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Jul 6, 2014 03:04
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Robert Denby posted:So, the AV Club of all places is reviewing the new "Sailor Moon". They also did a TV Roundtable for the DIC version of the first season finale a while back. http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/sailor-moon-crystal-act-1-usagi-sailor-moon-206562 Genevieve Koski clearly chose this one. Just look at what the other panelists say: Zack Handlen: "This was definitely my first exposure to the show" Carrie Raisler: "this was my first experience with Sailor Moon—and my first experience with anime at all.." Todd VanDerWerff: "I have seen exactly one episode of Sailor Moon before this one..."
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Jul 6, 2014 03:33
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Pootybutt posted:SAO II is just as somehow unintentionally hilarious and absurdly boring as everyone always said it was(never stuck with the first series long, myself), the new Sailor Moon looks and sounds like garbage and Alnoah.Zero just makes me wanna watch Turn A Gundam again, but at least there's new Dandy tonight. "Unintentionally hilarious" is how I'd describe that first episode, but I'm not so sure about the "unintentionally" part. The melodrama felt so intentional that I have a hard time believing A-1 isn't trying to make it look silly as hell. But despite all that the writing managed to stay half competent. Or maybe I'm deluding myself, idk. I checked out the new Sailor Moon too, and it was a decent introduction I think. This coming from someone who has never watched any of the original and knows nothing about it except that it is a famous MG show from the 90's.
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Jul 6, 2014 03:41
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I have seen literally one episode of Sailor Moon original flavor, and I have to say that the song in Crystal's OP is nowhere near as good. I'm not really feeling the new character art. Something about it is "too pretty"; the high contrast in the colors make the characters look almost like painted plastic dolls. It's kind of distracting. The CGI in the transformation scene wasn't very good either, if you want to charitable. I'm sure I'd get used to it quickly enough, but for now I feel like watching the old show would be a better fit for me. Even if what I saw of the show terrified me as a little girl.
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Jul 6, 2014 03:50
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Strange Quark posted:I'm sure I'd get used to it quickly enough, but for now I feel like watching the old show would be a better fit for me. Even if what I saw of the show terrified me as a little girl. Just in case you didn't know they've been releasing a brand new subbed version on Hulu a couple of episodes a week. There's a new DVD/Bluray version of the entire thing (new dub and all) coming this fall too. http://www.hulu.com/sailor-moon The original has a looooot of filler, some of it is very fun filler, but holy crap it's 8 episodes before there's even a second sailor scout. I like Crystal so far, it definitely has some issues, but so does the first series and even the manga as well and I love those so we'll see how it turns out.
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Jul 6, 2014 03:56
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a kitten posted:Just in case you didn't know they've been releasing a brand new subbed version on Hulu a couple of episodes a week. There's a new DVD/Bluray version of the entire thing (new dub and all) coming this fall too. Yeah, that's where I watched the first episode actually. I held off on watching the rest to see how Crystal panned out, but their first episodes were basically one to one. I heard that there was some guide to watching the show that labeled or cut out the filler. Is that still around or did it vanish into the ether? e: Some googling turned up this, but none of the descriptions really help in telling me what's actually important as a total newcomer. VVV Thank you! Strange Quark fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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Jul 6, 2014 04:05
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Strange Quark posted:Yeah, that's where I watched the first episode actually. I held off on watching the rest to see how Crystal panned out, but their first episodes were basically one to one. I heard that there was some guide to watching the show that labeled or cut out the filler. Is that still around or did it vanish into the ether? I have an archive of the original(?) in my bookmarks, dunno if anyone has re-hosted it somewhere else. http://archive.today/9WvI8 Edit: oh it's mostly the same, the archived one seems slightly easier to parse. a kitten fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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Jul 6, 2014 04:11
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Aldnoah Zero definitely giving off a Gundam vibe, in a good way. If nothing else, it has some of the most ridiculous, over the top musical cues in an anime that I've seen in quite a while.  SAO 2 was pretty much what I expected from the first episode, hopefully we get more of the action from the ED going on in the next one though. Sailor Moon's opening was 90s anime as gently caress. Great first ep too! Only minor complaint is the lack of wacky facefaults you'd get in the original show, or Utena. That hella shoujo moment when Usagi met Mamoru was great though, haha.
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I don't think anyone's mentioned this, but Crunchyroll has announced that they will be broadcasting Akame ga Kill, Blue Spring Ride, DRAMAtical Murder, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, and the new Persona anime. I have no idea if they're simulcasts or not but it doesn't look like they're delayed by any substantial amount of time.
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