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I'm coming up on finishing this series and I REALLY enjoy it, aside from some of the silly 'I'm a girl therefore my main role in life is to blush and stammer until I pass out' things. I was very surprised with how good I thought this show turned out. Forgive my somewhat disjointed posting below. I liked a lot the society building and social interaction, and the focus on the strategic and teamwork aspects of the combat and in general, too. It still felt like a solid and well thought out show. I also liked that there wasn't really fanservice (although I could have done without the waste of time scenes between that little assassin girl and the one who tried to dress her up all the time  ).I've heard that a show called Spice and Wolf is similar in regards to being less focused on sick spinning sword backflip headslice explosions and more to do with social/economic/diplomatic relationships and whatnot. I've also seen online recommendations for a thing called Code Geass: Lelouch. Is that similar? However, reading things about Sword Art Online or dotHack that also seem to be getting recommended a lot don't seem to interest me. I really love Legend of the Galactic Heroes, too, if that matters. Are there other
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Ah thanks. I'm checking out those comics and I have Spice and Wolf queued up so I'm solid. I'm sad there aren't more things on video that are like this, though. I can't wait for season 2. Also, the studio really went down some interesting paths, what with actually letting the higher level female characters keep all their clothes and armor on. I gotta give them props for trying something new. I just finished all 25 episodes and wow. I really liked Log Horizon. Gosh, I am very pleasantly surprised. I just wish there were more like it - doesn't matter the actual setting. I watched, a while ago, a show called Drifter fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Mar 27, 2014 23:31
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I think I saw the first season of SAC, which was good fun, yeah. So Season 2 of LH will only be books 6 & 7? Is that enough, or will there be a shitton of filler in there? The first season had 5 books, ~5 eps a book, right? I'd love for them to dig in deeper with everything, but so long as it isn't stereotypical Dragonball Z/One Piece half a fight per episode bullshit. Blargh.
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Mar 28, 2014 04:22
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Serious Frolicking posted:Who knows, maybe there will be another book or two released in the interim. LN's come out fast. Right, but this is coming out in the fall of this year, reports have said. Can an arthouse draw that fast? I am not an animes expert but I don't think you can have parallel, near-synchronous series.
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Mar 28, 2014 06:13
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pandaK posted:They create the episodes literally the week before they air. Are you kidding me? I know South Park does that, but I always thought that was just them having a pipeline that was automated and simple enough to manage that. That's pretty hardcore.
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Mar 28, 2014 07:03
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ViggyNash posted:I remember hearing that a bunch of animators and directors found out that the Lupin III: Fujiko Mine was being worked on 3 weeks in advance and they were extremely perplexed by the notion of not procrastinating to the week of. Perpetual college students.
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Mar 28, 2014 15:52
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I have no idea what you guys are talking about, specifically. One of the things I dislike about stories is the perfect character GMary Stue stuff. So even though Shiroe is an example of that, the other characters took up enough screentime that he was actually more of a background manipulator so it didn't grate pretty much at all. It was a show about relationships, rather than a show about whose sword is more powerful. I didn't think Shiroe in Log Horizon was as overpowered as, say, Light (or the main character) from Death Note or something (although I loved Death Note). Redcrimson posted:No, the fact that it's an ineptly written power-fantasy proxy thing makes it bad. Say what you will about Log Horizon, at least it has internal consistency and clearly articulated thematic beats. How is Accel World? Waste of time, mildly interesting, or wow that's an amazing show?
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Mar 29, 2014 01:02
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Serious Frolicking posted:I'm sure that there will be some legitimate adversity eventually. The new Plant Hwydan (or whatever) guild seems pretty effed up and hardcore, and also that Silver Swords guild who left the original council meeting was shown to be meeting up with the bad guys in that 'slave' city. I think they'll have their share of adversity in the next season. Not to mention Some parts of the People of the Land seem to be trippin'. it ought to be really good. 
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Mar 29, 2014 17:18
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So they would run that city if they can capture it? That'd be pretty cool.
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Mar 29, 2014 21:33
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Serious Frolicking posted:Log Horizon is actually really unrealistic because all of the top raiding guilds on that server we've seen have been led by reasonable, intelligent people instead of power-tripping caustic autists. haha, yeah. That's the fantasy aspect of this anime.
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Mar 29, 2014 23:01
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User0015 posted:This is what I like most about LH. I wouldn't even consider Shiroe to be a power fantasy as you described, but more as a trope or stereotype turned on its head. Shiroe is actually the weakest in terms of combat, and is completely reliant on other people: Not just in battle, but in everything. Shiroe is a main hero, but is entirely dependent on the cast to get anything done. I think you're digging to fit your hypothesis. In many parts of the show Shiroe is shown not only holding his own but beating the gently caress out of things without the help of other people, or making brand new magic, or doing somethingorother.
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Mar 30, 2014 23:47
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User0015 posted:Compare SA:O and LH. Kirito spends his time leveling, getting items and generally growing strong, so he can defeat the final boss and escape. He's so awesome at being strong, the game even rewards him with a unique skill that only he can use, that makes him more powerful than anyone else that is his equal. He is a man above everyone else. No don't compare. Why would you? LH has a very powerful main character and it doesn't matter that some other anime has an even more powerful one. It's a great show BECAUSE it spends a lot of time developing more of the social aspects of whatever, but it doesn't make Shiroe LESS powerful like you are trying to explain.
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Mar 31, 2014 02:08
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What's going on there, are they just making a joke about running away or something? Slowest person gets eaten by the lion, or something?
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Apr 4, 2014 15:47
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Well this kinda jumped around. Eh. I wouldn't have been very impressed by this episode had I not loved the first season.
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Oct 4, 2014 20:53
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Dante Logos posted:
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Oct 4, 2014 22:06
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Xelkelvos posted:It'd be like someone naming their character Shinji Hiroshima or something. Look, it's a videogame. It's nyant like I'm having sex with cats in the real world, okay?
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