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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Wark Say posted:

Or is that bad? :unsmigghh:

ill tell you what's bad: that smilie

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Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

monogatari is what's good

AnoHito
May 8, 2014

Spiritus Nox posted:

I've only watched Bake, and I liked it, but it is a mess. A fascinating mess but still a mess.

Between watching Bake and what I've heard about the rest of -monogatari, I'd say Nisio was probably at his best in Katanagatari.

You should read Medaka Box. It's good.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Good is a strong word there.

As in it probably has high attack power.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Endorph posted:

ill tell you what's bad: that smilie
Then please suggest how to better emulate that one moment of Katanagatari. You know that one.

Cake Attack posted:

monogatari is what's good
Monogatari is good. Warts and all.

AnoHito posted:

You should read Medaka Box. It's good.
Medaka Box has more misses than it does hits, but when it hits (especially when using Kumagawa) goddamn it hits.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Wark Say posted:

Then please suggest how to better emulate that one moment of Katanagatari. You know that one.
perhaps using words

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
avtest

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

AnoHito posted:

You should read Medaka Box. It's good.

Better than Katana, you think? Just curious.



Fiesta cat confirmed. Fafnir continues to look on with scorn.

Space Flower
Sep 10, 2014

by Games Forum

Wark Say posted:

Medaka Box has more misses than it does hits, but when it hits (panties over bodysuit) goddamn it hits.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Spiritus Nox posted:

Better than Katana, you think? Just curious.


Fiesta cat confirmed. Fafnir continues to look on with scorn.
Nope. Katanagatari is consistently better, both as a Novel and as an anime. The Medaka Box anime was utterly dogshit and the Manga doesn't get really good up until... Chapter 54 or something? It has some interesting bits somewhere along the line, but it's not until around that chapter that it gets from okay to much better. But no: It's not better than Katanagatari.

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild


Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.

nice av

AnoHito
May 8, 2014

Spiritus Nox posted:

Better than Katana, you think? Just curious.

Probably not, but they're both good in sort of different ways for different reasons.

I wasn't kidding when I said that, after watching it again, the Nanami fight/episode really reminded me a lot of Medaka Box.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Everything Burrito
Jun 2, 2011

I Failed At Anime 2022

Wark Say posted:

Nope. Katanagatari is consistently better, both as a Novel and as an anime. The Medaka Box anime was utterly dogshit and the Manga doesn't get really good up until... Chapter 54 or something? It has some interesting bits somewhere along the line, but it's not until around that chapter that it gets from okay to much better. But no: It's not better than Katanagatari.

lol just give it the ol' 54 chapter test

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild
On that note, my BRD/DVD combo pack of Kyousoygiga finally came in! :toot: It includes both the TV series and the ONA series. It even has the 5.5 and 10.5 live action thingies and creditless OPs/EDs.

It's gonna be a good time.

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

Space Flower posted:

The scene where he reflects on this and just laughs coldly over a knocked out Mayoi is when you know the show owns

Erg
Oct 31, 2010


hi

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

Everything Burrito posted:

lol just give it the ol' 54 chapter test

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro (Yuusei Matsui's previous work, before Assassination Classroom), was about 200 chapters, and the last 80-ish of it were so satisfying, but oh man, the first 50 or so chapters are dire (Art so bad it would make a "How to draw Manga" artist blush, not to mention it bills itself as a mystery manga, but on that aspect, it fails), and it only really steadily improves from there until the final villain gets introduced.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011


This is bullying

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild
Basically, as a mystery series, it sucks. But as a character growth arc the the main protagonist Yako? It owns.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

I have had it with these motherfucking crabcats on this motherfucking fiesta

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


Fallen Rib
change the fiesta crabcats to fiesta giggling anime girls imo

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

homeless snail posted:

I have had it with these motherfucking crabcats on this motherfucking fiesta

Okay, you can have a crabcat too.

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

DoubleDonut posted:

change the fiesta crabcats to fiesta giggling anime girls imo

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

DoubleDonut posted:

change the fiesta crabcats to fiesta giggling anime girls imo

AnoHito
May 8, 2014

I don't like how the crabcats are frowning despite the fiesta. It's creepy.

What I'm saying is death to all crabcats, imo

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Lol.

Loool.

Everything Burrito
Jun 2, 2011

I Failed At Anime 2022

Julias posted:

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro (Yuusei Matsui's previous work, before Assassination Classroom), was about 200 chapters, and the last 80-ish of it were so satisfying, but oh man, the first 50 or so chapters are dire (Art so bad it would make a "How to draw Manga" artist blush, not to mention it bills itself as a mystery manga, but on that aspect, it fails), and it only really steadily improves from there until the final villain gets introduced.

I liked Neuro and read the whole thing, and I only give manga the most brief window possible to get my attention (like maybe a couple of chapters) but am forgiving of bad art if it's compelling or interesting in some way and/or has a lot of potential and also have super low standards for mystery manga because none of them are ever good at it; if I had been using those two things as major criteria probably wouldn't have stuck with it that long though.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Everything Burrito posted:

lol just give it the ol' 54 chapter test
I know that, with any other series, most of those chapters would fly by. But Nisio is really bad at reining his word diarrhea. Though sometimes he goes for broke and the results are often CRAZY (and frankly awe-inspiring).

Everything Burrito
Jun 2, 2011

I Failed At Anime 2022
lol if you actually read all that instead of skipping that entire page

Mentat Radnor
Apr 24, 2008

~Water flowers every day~



http://i.imgur.com/TbkdcAO.gifv

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Everything Burrito posted:

lol if you actually read all that instead of skipping that entire page

Burrito being rude and not taking her feelings seriously.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
monogatari second season is one of the best things ever made

Phimose Knight
Mar 5, 2013

The Colonel posted:

monogatari second season is one of the best things ever made
Air conditioning and thigh-highs are still better

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

The Colonel posted:

monogatari second season is one of the best things ever made

I will protect Kanbaru's smile (and dirty jokes) to the end of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg62NhLLkZM

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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

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