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masamune: dull, for a bitch queen the main girl isn't nearly mean enough. sure she ridicules in public, but nicknames like pudding king? really? make her give people some harsher nicknames or make her beat guys up at least! youjo senki: better than expected. the key art was hideous but the show is pretty good. the war is actually hellish and the sound design is good too, with it distorting during explosions. the whole reincarnation thing seems largely gone, with just a salaryman joke to remind of it. might change later of course but i liked the ep Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu : seems like a perfectly mediocre moe sol about biking, the mc forgot how to ride a bike somehow. the char designs seem very 2010, main girl is straight up haruhi. nice looking backgrounds too. well i don't care for moe sols with no big selling point anymore tho, so i shut it off after 5 minutes schoolgirl strikers: seems like budget symphogear, couldn't be bothered to finish the episode seiren: with it having the director of amagami s2, which was disappointingly normal compared to season 1 of amagami i was afraid of it being dull, but no its just as bizarre as amagami s1. young guys with beards, discussions on how being an idol with a baby would be, horror sequences and and more so yeah, youjo senki and seiren are the good ones of this batch. im gonna try and hold off on rakugo since i prefer binging it
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I was hoping youjo senki would get me at least a sixer, but other than the dank faces there's nothing wrong with it. Ofc I bet episode 2 is the big flashback episode.
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oh wow the lovely face animation made that last scene hilarious
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Tanya the Evil seems pretty rad and like, combines so many things I like. It has the military nerd factor without it being some kind of fetishistic apologia for either Nazism or the Imperial Japanese Army. It's WWI, a WWI that went just as wrong for the Germans for the 'Empire' too*. It's like a Harry Turtledove novel in Anime form, it's great in all the right ways. I think I might break my thread cherry by episode three, so far it seems fairly accurate as a WWI story and as a resident of the ASK/TELL Military History thread I love that there's a lot of actual military history stuff to potentially nerd out on without the negative connotations.
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Jan 7, 2017 00:08
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... that's adorable. What show is that?
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My understanding of WW1 artillery is: There was a fuckton of it and not a lot of counter-battery capability or at least not much to do with it since even the artillery was entrenched. At least they hadn't figured out MRSI yet.
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:... that's adorable. What show is that? schoolgirl strikers
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Everything Burrito posted:same but it was enough to tell me not to watch it Knowing who the mangaka for Fuuka is is enough for me not to watch it.
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Ranzear posted:My understanding of WW1 artillery is: There was a fuckton of it They also had some trouble figuring out the whole Actually Hitting Things You Wanna Hit thing, why is there was the aforementioned fuckton of it. If you bring enough tubes, you're at least going to gently caress something up really badly. v  v
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In addition to Youjo Senki, should I try out Akiba's Trip?
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Grouchio posted:In addition to Youjo Senki, should I try out Akiba's Trip? The fisticuffs so far seem animated pretty decently.
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MrLonghair posted:e: novel illustrations look fine. The anime is what it is. How.. Now that I've watched the first episode of Youjo Senki, I can see where you're coming from. This must be one of the ugliest character designs I can remember. Especially with the novel covers being so striking.
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Masamune: I liked this show better when it was called High School RomCom SNAFU (they even included the androgynous boy fawning over the main character) because at least Hachiman was passive aggressive to everybody and not directly pandering to the Red Pill crowd. Fuuka: Watched one episode, don't see what's unique about this yet. It's okay.
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The faces in Tanya are loving hilarious. Fun stuff. e: Holy poo poo the Bikini Cavalry showing up at the end of Schoolgirl Strikers lmfao LibrarianCroaker fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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first ep of tanya is about halfway through the first volume so yeah they're probably going to jump back
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By the way, I see this often in anime. "Hey! I'm an [x] too!" Whenever a character feels like they are being excluded from something important but otherwise are probably entitled to the piece of the action. In Tanya it was "Hey I'm an Imperial Army solider too!" But, does anyone ever talk like that? I can see, "Hey I'm in this fight too!" But the full title as explanation seems weird to me.
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I don't know what version of Youjo Senki some of you must have watched, because the version I saw had some of the greatest faces I've ever seen.  Aoi Yuuki is doing a good job with Tanya's voice, too. She sounds like a cruel toddler, which is perfect for the character.
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They have this somewhat off putting style where they add an upper lip which is a little uncanny valley territory but otherwise I think its fine.
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Raenir Salazar posted:By the way, I see this often in anime. A more literal translation would be "Even me is an Imperial Army soldier!". Besides being really awkward grammatically, with "Even I am" not really getting the point across adequately, the character is reasserting her identity, not her presence. "I'm in this fight too!" might be more natural in English, but it's not quite the same thing.
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NEW RAKUGO IS AMAZING Checks all boxes: ✅ look has clearly developed, it's gorgeous ✅ new characters are great ✅ yotaro is an idiot ✅ gay subtext ✅ cute baby ✅ is definitely going to break my heart
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Kytrarewn posted:A more literal translation would be "Even me is an Imperial Army soldier!". Besides being really awkward grammatically, with "Even I am" not really getting the point across adequately, the character is reasserting her identity, not her presence. "I'm in this fight too!" might be more natural in English, but it's not quite the same thing. That isn't quite my question; it's more the asserting identity thing that confuses me, the general concept; the situation was whether she had the physical energy to carry on without compromising the unit. Instead of saying something more straight forward and relevant "I can handle it!" why specifically mention that in that way what you are? I can't think of any war films I've seen that given a similarish scene, has anyone respond similarly; but it happens quite often in war related anime. Would a Tuskegee airman answer "Hey I'm a American too." If a superior officer was concerned whether to commit him to the next sortie? That movie I haven't seen yet so I don't know how that plays out.
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no, because languages are different and often express concepts and ideas in different ways
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Cake Attack posted:no, because languages are different and often express concepts and ideas in different ways I mean yes, but usually the root concept being conveyed doesn't strike me as a non-sequitor. I feel like her response would've made sense if the reason for leaving her behind was out of something that diminished her identity as a brave soldier of the Empire; like if they had insinuated that it was because she was a woman; then I feel like asserting her identity would make more sense.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I feel like her response would've made sense if the reason for leaving her behind was out of something that diminished her identity as a brave soldier of the Empire quote:the situation was whether she had the physical energy to carry on without compromising the unit its not an expression you'd use in english really but it makes sense as you describe it?
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I just can't get over the faces in Youjo Senki. They look like alien ducks, terrible knock-offs of the Hellsing-style crazy faces.  Who thought they were a good idea?
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anime dudes get to have weird faces all the time, why can't the women
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StrixNebulosa posted:I just can't get over the faces in Youjo Senki. They look like alien ducks, terrible knock-offs of the Hellsing-style crazy faces.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I mean yes, but usually the root concept being conveyed doesn't strike me as a non-sequitor. Japanese uses that sentence construction all the time. The language puts a lot more emphasis on positions/roles/titles than you're probably used to in English (which is where you get stuff like calling people senpai instead of their name). Basically the idea in this specific instance is "I went through all the same training and have been working as an Imperial soldier just like everyone else, I've proven myself and am on equal footing here [so don't tell me I can't do it, but other soldiers can]" (though I'm taking it a little further than it probably really goes, for clarity's sake). You're basically trying to provide some evidence for your claim that "I can handle it" or whatever. I don't really like falling back on this explanation, but you could look at it as representative of the stereotypical "western individualism vs. eastern collectivism" thing too if you wanted. For instance, in English you might say something like "I can do it," focusing on you, while in Japanese you might say something conceptually more like "An imperial soldier can do it, and I'm an imperial soldier" (though it sounds less wordy/awkward in Japanese of course), focusing on your membership in the group.
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Grouchio posted:Someone hasn't seen Higurashi. But, Higurashi DID have aliens. Or are you doubting Rena? She has a solution for that. A rather pointed one. On a serious note, I think the issue is that it's only the two characters so far that have the really SD faces, and it rather bothered me too upon looking it over. Okay, multiple things are bothering me about the show in general, but in terms of the animation that is really jarring. Generally I feel it should either be all the characters or none, though exceptions exist.
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Grouchio posted:Someone hasn't seen Higurashi. Higurashi went full bore with its alien designs - so did CLANNAD and all of those related works. For some reason it wasn't as jarring? But instead here we get the weird kid voice with that jarring design and it's just...really, really creepy? Especially at the end where it flips between blond duck face to serious "normal" looking anime dude, and then to bug-eyed alien - and I mean, that final shot of her evil grin was fine, but the rest of it....
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StrixNebulosa posted:Higurashi went full bore with its alien designs - so did CLANNAD and all of those related works. For some reason it wasn't as jarring?
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Grouchio posted:Maybe you're sensitive? Very likely! I'll put the show itself on the back burner for a while, see if I can't marathon Flip Flappers instead. Here's to hoping it turns out to be actually good, designs aside, so I can enjoy it later. 
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Command Ant posted:I don't know what version of Youjo Senki some of you must have watched, because the version I saw had some of the greatest faces I've ever seen. It looks good when the characters are doing something extreme like that, but kinda looks real janky when they're just talking.
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rakugo shinjuu is really loving good and i love absolutely everything shinichi omatadoes
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With only one episode aired and a hole bunch of shows still to premiere, i doubt anything will come close to Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu S2.
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i think it matters with the source material he has to work with he's really only helmed a handful of shows. sankarea is a flawed manga, and rozen maiden has a ton of baggage behind it. i think this is his real talent, he can straddle naturalism and stylism and draw out the strengths of the characters
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I thought Tanya the Evil looked ok enough, although I do really hate the secondary girl's character design. As for the episode as a whole, that was ok too. It's neat, but there's not enough in the first episode to say much of anything.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Tanya the Evil seems pretty rad and like, combines so many things I like. It has the military nerd factor without it being some kind of fetishistic apologia for either Nazism or the Imperial Japanese Army. It's WWI, a WWI that went just as wrong for the Germans for the 'Empire' too*. historical inaccuracy #1: world war 1 ended in 1918 historical inaccuracy #2: there were NOT any mages, there have NEVER been mages, magic is not real
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Namtab posted:historical inaccuracy #1: world war 1 ended in 1918 No no you're wrong because according to First Squad the Nazi's summoned a Demon Knight Templar to assassin a Glorious Hero of the Soviet Union.
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