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You should learn to have good anime-dark-horse-sense, like me. hides rage of bahamut virgin soul
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It just makes me laugh because it reads exactly like the reactions to Divine Gate a year ago, where I went "seems like a meh season, guess I'll try this" and it became known as not just bad but REALLY bad. All I want is simple things: Action, a little suspense, and at least a balanced gender ratio.
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Oct 8, 2017 20:40
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Craptacular! posted:It just makes me laugh because it reads exactly like the reactions to Divine Gate a year ago, where I went "seems like a meh season, guess I'll try this" and it became known as not just bad but REALLY bad. Houseki no Kuni/Land of the Lustrous may fit your bill.
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Fangz posted:You should learn to have good anime-dark-horse-sense, like me. hides rage of bahamut virgin soul 2. I'd expect Ancient Magus' Bride to fill this season's spot. 3. Would Kino's Journey be considered dark horse or established? 4. I wonder if UQ Holder will....hold up.  5. Did I miss anything else?
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dogsicle posted:i don't see what is tonally inconsistent about characters created to mirror leo and his sister. the eps didn't suddenly excise doug hummer, zapp, or any of the other sources of random wacky poo poo either. episode 11 is definitely one of the best in the entire series, and that's probably at the point where you will genuinely care about white, whereas before she is only a likable side character. i don't think the manga is some sacred cow that requires we devote all 12 episodes of the anime to adapting its goofy episodic stories, and the black/white stuff basically exists as a second two-parter a la Z's Last Day. all this to say i understand the lovely production delays may have turned people off at the end, but hating the original stuff because its original is dumb. I tried watching episode 11 again last night and my eyes glazed over just like the last two times. I like White and her relationship with Leonardo but Black sucks and I can't give a poo poo. I also don't know if there being another supernatural brother sister relationship actually adds anything to the show besides another supernatural brother sister relationship. Even if it's thematically called for I think it was presented in a way that was different from even Leonardo's relationship with his sister. That's what I meant by tonally inconsistent
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Like I said it all comes down to how you feel about the original characters and it's up to Drothman if he cares enough
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Oct 8, 2017 20:52
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If anything it speaks to how good BBB was that people still feel this strongly about it even a year later.
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chumbler posted:Houseki no Kuni/Land of the Lustrous may fit your bill. Really? A rough image search brings up these team action shots of what appears to be about ten women and one big guy. I mean I can get down with that if the show is good enough and it's not just for the boys at home to play "find your type". The only reason I brought up gender ratio is because I usually avoid a show if it looks like it has a cast intended for gently caress/Marry/Kill.
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Caught the first ep of Ancient Magus' Bride today. Not sure how I feel about it yet - but to be fair I don't think the show wants me to be sure how I feel about it yet. Chise and Elias' relationship/romance is obviously going to be the key to the whole thing, but however Elias conducts himself at home, the fact that their relationship started with him buying Chise at a slave auction means they're going to have to write this thing very carefully indeed.
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Craptacular! posted:Really? A rough image search brings up these team action shots of what appears to be about ten women and one big guy. I mean I can get down with that if the show is good enough and it's not just for the boys at home to play "find your type". The only reason I brought up gender ratio is because I usually avoid a show if it looks like it has a cast intended for gently caress/Marry/Kill. I don't see why having fewer female characters prevents this.
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Craptacular! posted:Really? A rough image search brings up these team action shots of what appears to be about ten women and one big guy. I mean I can get down with that if the show is good enough and it's not just for the boys at home to play "find your type". The only reason I brought up gender ratio is because I usually avoid a show if it looks like it has a cast intended for gently caress/Marry/Kill. I've only read a little bit of the manga but it was my impression that they're all androgynous and nongendered
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yeah the characters in houseki are nongendered, they're all gem people
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Spiritus Nox posted:Caught the first ep of Ancient Magus' Bride today. Not sure how I feel about it yet - but to be fair I don't think the show wants me to be sure how I feel about it yet. Chise and Elias' relationship/romance is obviously going to be the key to the whole thing, but however Elias conducts himself at home, the fact that their relationship started with him buying Chise at a slave auction means they're going to have to write this thing very carefully indeed. The manga is great so the show will probably also be good.
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So yes watched first episodes of Anime Gataris and Blend S, both were good fun with cute designs.
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Speaking of houseki, I noticed that the moon people look like lotus root when sliced up. I assume that must be symbolic of something, but I don't know what.
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Craptacular! posted:It just makes me laugh because it reads exactly like the reactions to Divine Gate a year ago, where I went "seems like a meh season, guess I'll try this" and it became known as not just bad but REALLY bad. juuni taisen
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Craptacular! posted:How is it that this keeps happening to the shows I circle as possibly interesting? kings game is actually fine and you should ignore that other post
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Fangz posted:I don't see why having fewer female characters prevents this. I want to watch Sailor Moon but the gender ratio means it must be a harem show starting Tuxedo Mask
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Oct 8, 2017 21:23
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GorfZaplen posted:I tried watching episode 11 again last night and my eyes glazed over just like the last two times. I like White and her relationship with Leonardo but Black sucks and I can't give a poo poo. I also don't know if there being another supernatural brother sister relationship actually adds anything to the show besides another supernatural brother sister relationship. Even if it's thematically called for I think it was presented in a way that was different from even Leonardo's relationship with his sister. That's what I meant by tonally inconsistent black is bad and really aggravates the fact that ep12 does not need to be 40 minutes. i don't think i can really defend the finale other than it having some cool bits interspersed throughout. and i guess i'm coming at ep11 as "this is an incredible episode of anime that rie matsumoto has directed" and maybe that's a bit too much bias when the average person may not care about white, let alone the person behind the camera. the premiere of season 2 ended up being the strongest i think the show has ever been, so now i'll just obsess over that.
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Oct 8, 2017 21:26
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I like all the set-up for bbb's anime original plot which is basically everything added in the first 11 episodes but the finale didn't really pull it all together for me and i'm not super fond of it. That's still the vast majority of the show though where I thought the anime original stuff was really solid.
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Fangz posted:I don't see why having fewer female characters prevents this. I, as a straight man,
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Watched so far:
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children of the whales aired today but it's a netflix show, so hope for fansubs or wait until 2018
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Lemon-Lime posted:They definitely do, but that's consistent with Kino using "boku." I guess there's probably some people who don't know there's ambiguity there since it's a new series so they wanted to preserve it. If they wanted to preserve ambiguity, they'd have had Hermes remain ambiguous rather than using a male pronoun. The translator obviously just didn't know and made an educated guess.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Caught the first ep of Ancient Magus' Bride today. Not sure how I feel about it yet - but to be fair I don't think the show wants me to be sure how I feel about it yet. Chise and Elias' relationship/romance is obviously going to be the key to the whole thing, but however Elias conducts himself at home, the fact that their relationship started with him buying Chise at a slave auction means they're going to have to write this thing very carefully indeed. Elias is a decent guy who means well, but he's also an ancient thorn-demon with a totally inhuman mindset who's had minimal human interaction outside of his job, and he has no idea what the gently caress he's doing where Chise is concerned. Any creepy vibes (well, creepy vibes not involving being a skull-faced demon) are due to incompetence rather than malice.
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There's a surprise Natsume's Book of Friends episode our today and it's a good one. It's some kind of OVA thing and there's a second one coming soon! Praise Natsume. 
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The Colonel posted:
challenge accepted
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VostokProgram posted:challenge accepted Congrats, now you're next in line for ADTRW Modship.
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is that what happens when you pay for an anime strike subscription
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tbh the episode got a lot stronger when it moved away from the stuff with umaru and her brother
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The Colonel posted:tbh the episode got a lot stronger when it moved away from the stuff with umaru and her brother Umaru and her brother has the last interesting relationship in the series. This is not helped by the fact that Umaru is the worst of the four main girls. The OP of the new season is a little odd to and it's miles behind S1's
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Land of the Lustrous rules. I was expecting just melancholy action stuff, but the script was pretty spunky to offset all that and it worked. And yea the action was cool.
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For me this is already the best season since Kemofriends season. Kekkai Sensen  Land of Lustrous is fascinating, a reminder why the tests are three episodes and not three minutes.
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It feels like it's been forever since I watched any anime but really it's been like 5 months. Finishing Rakugo and binging Made in Abyss was a hell of a way to get me back in tho. Also caught the first episode of the new Kino's Journey (not sure how I feel about her new design yet) and finished off Virgin Soul... which was kind of disappointing. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Oct 9, 2017 |
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GorfZaplen posted:If anything it speaks to how good BBB was that people still feel this strongly about it even a year later. For me it was Matsumoto's style in directing the show that sold it for me, especially after the knockout that was Kyousogiga. It's just a shame that the story didn't hold up though.
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The first episode of Garo was alright. I kinda feel bad for it, an urban fantasy action series airing the same time as BBB. But the characters and plot hook were really generic, so I think that's gonna be an anime I only watch more of if people start saying it's gets really good as it goes.
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