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# ? Nov 8, 2015 21:31 |
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 10:20 |
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My God, 4-komas. It truly is an anime.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 21:49 |
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E. Bad Seafood posted:BattleCattle making good headway on keeping up the tradition of all threads BattleCattle participates in having the most posts by BattleCattle. I'm chatty. BattleCattle fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Nov 8, 2015 |
# ? Nov 8, 2015 21:49 |
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Darth Walrus posted:Actually, now I'm wondering - what's better (OK, less bad) - RWBY or Mahouka? I don't think rwby has incest or any really terrible things beyond bad writing and animation. So Mahouka is probably worse.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 21:57 |
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RWBY IS poo poo FROM AN rear end
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:18 |
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season 2 started fine somewhere in the bowels of my bowels a ray of hope sprouted i was betrayed e. we're never doing this again
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:21 |
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If only they had made a season of food fights
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:23 |
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BattleCattle going through the 5 stages of grief was the best part.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:23 |
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That was bad. The entire show relies on a framework that it never bothers to build. We're meant to be afraid for characters when they face down monsters but the monsters are mowed down by the dozen, and enemies that are meant to be mysterious but lose every time. Big changes happen to relationships based on five minutes of build up or nothing at all. The tone changes from episode to episode. Characters clearly want to be sympathetic do nothing to earn that sympathy. Mysteries are boring. The finale of season two is a huge world-shaking event that an episode later is used as a showcase for four more super-special combat students in a series that already has at least fourteen of them. It's real bad.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:24 |
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The food fight was cool and then they fought a robot at some point which was neat and then I stopped watching because committing 15 minutes a week to watching rwby was a lot harder than committing 7 minutes of a week to watch rwby. And i'm fairly certain I made the correct choice.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:24 |
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oobleck came and ruined everything i trusted you oobleck everybody betray me. i fed up widdis whorl.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:26 |
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BC, baby, shh, it can't hurt you now.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:29 |
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There's still the two episodes of season 3 left.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:30 |
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I remember a local anime convention having a RWBY panel with Rooster Teeth staff and stuff. Perhaps next year I will attend that panel and be slightly terrified from sitting among a crowd of RWBY fans. Not for any sort of irony, but because RWBY and everything about it interests me in a horrible way. Something tells me the Q&A session would comprise entirely of shipping.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:39 |
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SyntheticPolygon posted:There's still the two episodes of season 3 left.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:40 |
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Level Slide posted:I remember a local anime convention having a RWBY panel with Rooster Teeth staff and stuff. Perhaps next year I will attend that panel and be slightly terrified from sitting among a crowd of RWBY fans. Not for any sort of irony, but because RWBY and everything about it interests me in a horrible way. RWBY is pretty interesting, mostly in the ways of how it manages to be popular while having some of the worst storytelling i've ever seen. You're probably right about the Q&A though. If it makes you feel any better I think they were better than what I saw of season 2. Not that that means much.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 23:45 |
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I had some time to think. First, I take back what I said about the whole "Jaune is a creepy self insert story hijacker" thing. He was annoying and creepy, but ultimately it wasn't as bad as I was led to believe. second, I can see why it's popular. It's bad, but you can tell that, at least at first, they're invested in the story they're trying to tell. When they're actually trying, it's bad in a charming way. In the first half, that comes across pretty well. The action was neat, the camera work was fairly well thought out, and on the whole, the out of combat animation was marginally better than in season 1. It was by no means good, but it showed enough growth that I felt comfortable getting a little invested in it. Then... I don't know... Episode 8 or 9, I'm not sure exactly where, but every part of the production seemed to just give up. They didn't give a gently caress. It's most evident with the camera in the last two episodes: The dynamic camerawork that's as much monty's trademark as his choreography is just gone by the end. The textures take a hit, too, reverting to season 1 quality. If you bother to get invested in it, at all, the change in quality just hits you like a truck. The plot takes a massive dump on your face at the end, too. See, Attack On Titan was released in the states around the same time Season 2 started coming out, before the last episodes were written, and you can definitely see how it affected the one impressionable writer. He was inspired to rip off the first episode, but that required a huge tonal shift that he wasn't prepared to execute, and everything the show had going for it just evaporated all at once. Then it just went loving insane. Sad insane. The fight scenes stopped being interesting, Nora showed up for a second, but not long enough to redeem anything, Oobleck hit a dog with a flaming wifflebat, characters we've never seen or heard of before show up and make mincemeat out of everything, and the deviantart bunny showed up and contributed absolutely nothing. My brain turned off by the end. I don't really remember the rest. I'm sure it was a self defense mechanism going off. SyntheticPolygon posted:If it makes you feel any better I think they were better than what I saw of season 2. Not that that means much. So, when you say that the beginning of season 3 is better, you can understand where I'm coming from when I say "That just makes it worse". They're going to drop the ball again. It's guaranteed to happen. BattleCattle fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Nov 9, 2015 |
# ? Nov 9, 2015 05:01 |
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BC, don't put more effort into writing about a show than the show writers did.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 05:10 |
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...The gently caress is X-ray and Vav?
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 05:19 |
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BattleCattle posted:...The gently caress is X-ray and Vav? RT commentators, Ray Narverez Jr. and Gavin Free, were doing a guide for Halo 3's terminals. Gavin called Ray "X-Ray" as a joke and it lead to a discussion on Superhero names. Gavin decided his would be Vav. Pretending to be the team X-Ray and Vav became a running joke for years on the channel. X-Ray and Vav became popular with the fans and the two commentators would often dress as the superheroes at conventions. Many fans followed suit. Two years ago, the RT animation team decided to make a flash series under the premise of the running joke, like those SNL character movies of the 80s and 90s. It often uses the Achievement Hunter's running jokes to make characters like the Mad King Ryan, Mogar, and the Corpirate. Never watched it. Probably bad.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 05:27 |
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Covok posted:RT commentators, Ray Narverez Jr. and Gavin Free, were doing a guide for Halo 3's terminals. Gavin called Ray "X-Ray" as a joke and it lead to a discussion on Superhero names. Gavin decided his would be Vav. Pretending to be the team X-Ray and Vav became a running joke for years on the channel. I read this
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 05:35 |
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Covok posted:RT commentators, Ray Narverez Jr. and Gavin Free, were doing a guide for Halo 3's terminals. Gavin called Ray "X-Ray" as a joke and it lead to a discussion on Superhero names. Gavin decided his would be Vav. Pretending to be the team X-Ray and Vav became a running joke for years on the channel. It's definitely better that RWBY. X-Ray and Vav is just a superhero comedy with a loyer of Achievement Hunter in-jokes on top. It's a lot like Gundam Build Fighters in that you'l get a good chunk of the jokes without prior Gundam knowledge, but there are a few jokes that are based on being familiar with stuff from other parts of the franchise.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 06:47 |
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Gundam Build Fighters was good despite its callbacks to other Gundam shows, because the fight scenes were loving awesome. I'm not surprised that Japan likes RWBY. Their target demographic for this show has standards even lower than we do.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 06:59 |
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BattleCattle posted:I had some time to think. No it was bad
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 09:09 |
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IMO RWBY, much like anime in general, is good, and if that statement makes people mad that anime fans aren't critical enough of their chosen popular medium or haven't signed a disclaimer prepared by a team of lawyers stating that anime is bad and they're bad for liking it and japan is bad for making it, even better
icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Nov 9, 2015 |
# ? Nov 9, 2015 09:11 |
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.jpg posted:Just out of curiosity what is the "popular in japan" claim based on? Has it shifted a lot of merch? Tickets to see it in theaters sold out in less than 24 hours and it's being advertised extremely heavy. Also: Japanese twitter. A bunch of anime "critics" have praised it for "getting" anime or w/e that means.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 13:30 |
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Namtab posted:No it was bad That's what I said. It sucks the calcium off my showerhead and I should never have given it the benefit of the doubt. icantfindaname posted:IMO RWBY, much like anime in general, is good, and if that statement makes people mad that anime fans aren't critical enough of their chosen popular medium or haven't signed a disclaimer prepared by a team of lawyers stating that anime is bad and they're bad for liking it and japan is bad for making it, even better Still, it has fans, and I won't judge them. BattleCattle fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Nov 9, 2015 |
# ? Nov 9, 2015 14:38 |
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I do not like RWBY, however I will respect the opinions of those who do.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 19:32 |
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Namtab posted:RWBY IS poo poo FROM AN rear end
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 19:40 |
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but for real yeah it's bad
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 19:56 |
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Anyone want to talk about the game they have up for stream greenlight?
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 20:00 |
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Ignoring all the stuff about the humor or fight scenes or whether it "gets" anime, I think the biggest issue with RWBY is that it just feels like an amateur production. It seems like something that would be really impressive if it were a project for a university class, but simply doesn't compare with what professional animators/writers/other important roles do.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 20:38 |
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Level Slide posted:I do not like RWBY, however I will respect the opinions of those who do.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 20:40 |
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Honestly a lot of the RWBY fanart is much funnier than the actual show.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 21:37 |
Venom Snake posted:Tickets to see it in theaters sold out in less than 24 hours and it's being advertised extremely heavy. Also: Japanese twitter. A bunch of anime "critics" have praised it for "getting" anime or w/e that means. Well it is pretty anime. It's like they just took every popular anime and stuck it in a blender then poured it over their favorite anime girls. It's not that surprising that this is popular in Japan considering both Naruto and Bleach are popular as well.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 00:42 |
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Bleach isn't very popular anymore.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 00:46 |
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RWBY is like if the Fullbringer arc from Bleach was an entire series. e: Which is to say that it's not very good. JordanKai fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Nov 10, 2015 |
# ? Nov 10, 2015 01:12 |
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Nuebot posted:Well it is pretty anime. It's like they just took every popular anime and stuck it in a blender then poured it over their favorite anime girls. It's not that surprising that this is popular in Japan considering both Naruto and Bleach are popular as well. Bleach hasn't been popular for a long, long time. That series is dragging itself on and on without the good sense to just end.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 01:17 |
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JordanKai posted:RWBY is like if the Fullbringer arc from Bleach was an entire series. Fullbringer arc was good because it was when I realized "I'll just drop this bull crap"
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 02:11 |
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Oh god that was like 3 years ago and it's still going,.
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