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Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Ahahaha.

Maybe they can use it to fund something that will actually Save Anime.


Edit: Trigger has already lost their way.

Phobophilia fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Mar 11, 2014

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Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Don't care, C-c-c-c-combodriver is the best name.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

Yeeees. S1 dropped the ball and never lived up to one of its coolest plot points.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
DRRR PV

Yeeess. Can't loving wait. Hope the fact that the three kids are at the end means they are the least important to the story.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Ano Natsu was a rather dumb show, but I liked it anyway. Not sure why they're making a sequel, it wrapped up, and nothing more needed to be said.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

The Black Stones posted:

Who knows? They know sports shows sell like poo poo, so maybe after the success of Kick-Heart maybe their banking on at least doing a sub only release with this?

Sports shows seem to sell terrible unless you fill the shows with a ton of gay innuendo, I'm not sure Yuasa could offer that.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Mahouka takes itself so god drat seriously that it wraps around and I can't help but laugh at how lame and self-obsessed it is.

(it is bad, I don't feel like watching more)

Edit: at least the fight scene looked good.

Phobophilia fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Apr 6, 2014

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

Autonomous Monster posted:

No. Remove the horrible incest poo poo and what you are left with is yet another magical high school anime with a bland-beyond-belief protagonist who manages to be simultaneously the plucky, underrated underdog and the hyper-competent prodigy, and a supporting cast constructed with a checklist and a careful eye to removing anything of interest or substance. Oh, yes, and if I'm remembering correctly, a whole load of natwank. And then it, by some magic I do not fully understand, takes this poo poo sandwich of a premise and makes it even more obnoxious. There is not a single element of this whole thing which is not a thin streak of diarrhoea. :argh:

Phew. Okay, rant over.

I don't know what it is about Mahouka that makes me really loving mad about anime, but I am real loving mad about anime. :smith:

See, I could see the appeal of SAO, it had a strong first couple of episodes. I can understand it getting popular over in the west. Mahouka is no just boring, but also puts the shameless power fantasy and the sister fetishising right up front and centre. It's going to loving bomb over here no matter what this mysterious western fanbase says.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

XboxPants posted:

I really thought you were maybe going to say he has autism and/or OCD.

Apparently he does!

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
The Cart Driver blog suggested that it's best to pretend that the main character is actually Sakamoto. I sort of agree, taking that angle actually makes it tolerable.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
I've heard that Ayn Rand is a character in Black Bullet. Haha, is that true?

P.S. As an objectivist I am comfortable with the exploitation of anime children within the military. Maybe they should have thought twice before entering into a contract to gain chuuni powers and fight aliens.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

I can't believe I'm agreeing with Mercrom about animation, but yeah, that's retarded.

Seriously, there are times to reduce the framerate a bit, but not during zoomed in motions. Like the walk to the robot, you're zoomed in to the character's boots and it just looks choppy.

The clones have legitimate reasons to be there, it's not hard to say that this society has abandoned old conventions of bioconservatism and are going around freely modifying themselves for a number of economic and social reasons. Total modification isn't available for everyone, not everyone gets immortality, but variations on the baseline are probably fairly cheap. And there's also been time for these new conventions to settle in, which instead of giving it that cyberpunk "transitional" state, lets us set up a status quo and then smash it.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
And hopefully oblivion.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Being a paragon of free thought, I'll give Brynhildr a try regardless. It doesn't seem terrible yet. Ep2 was about establishing the setting. The whole precog vigilantes thing is rather silly though.

Edit: I haven't watched Elfen Lied so I can't make any judgement calls.

Phobophilia fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Apr 14, 2014

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
What hath I brought upon the world?

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

Dick Spacious CPA posted:

so that oregairu show (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) whatever you want to call it is getting a second season. i enjoyed the first season so this is kind of neat.

Oregairu 2: The Dark Knight Returns.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Black Bullet E2 might be better than E1 but it's still an incredibly stupid and sleazy show that is utter failure at whatever incisive and cutting >>social commentary<< it attempts.

I'm just going to link to someone who basically had the same drat thought process go through his head and save me the effort of calling it garbage.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Joke's on you fuckers I've already dropped it.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
It's the kind of wacky action direction you get from watching old Jackie Chan movies.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Remind me again, why did this franchise make a ridiculous amount of money in the first place?

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Brynhildr is still a pretty trashy and silly show, but it does push my pathos buttons and the MC has enough presence of mind that I can get behind his motivations. I guess I'm a sucker for big dramatic reunions and fighting secret government organisations in the name of love.

And lo, what a cliffhanger to end on. Are we going to have a Madoka Ep3 already?

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Mekaku #2 was better than #1, and that was the one with kids with superpowers fighting terrorists. I guess Momo's a better character than loser Arararagi. And I found #1's nerd metahumour irritating.

M3 has potential, it does wear everything on its sleeve, and doesn't look like it's going to surprise us very much. They've dumped a load of pre-marked plot threads to follow up on. The mechs have a nice elegant design, like a practical version of the Code Geass mechs.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Battle Tendency is the greatest thing. Jonathon Joestar was a staid, boring man, full of naive nobility, who was gifted with incredible power by his betters.

Joseph Joestar is a swaggering rear end in a top hat who repeatedly fucks with everyone around him and never fights fair when he could pull off some ridiculous gambit and humiliate you.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
ty for these before/after comparisons of anime porn

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Aw sweet, I'm gonna check that out. I quite liked those shorts that came out. It's such a weird show.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

The_Guy posted:

Anime tends to be made as a composite of various awful fetishes to win over many tiny groups of niche interest nerds. It's no wonder that most shows make you sit through distasteful shite to get to the good stuff (if there is any).

You could play Otaku fetish bingo with the average production.

jackofarcades posted:

Yeah basically everything that implies. Indiana Jones but with high schoolers, a crossdressing maid, a super detective, and some fan service. Well, I guess Indy had some fanservice.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Paging Brother Jonathon, paging Brother Jonathon.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Plus Attack on Titan. And since we're aiming for the zero attention span LN reader, we're going to strip out everything interesting about the worldbuilding and make it straight up retarded.

Also why is that man from FMA living in the sewers with a dozen little girls?

Phobophilia fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Apr 26, 2014

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Hataraku Maou-Sama was basically a love letter to the freeter lifestyle. Yeah, you're probably hot poo poo in the alternative world of FF14 or Dark Souls, but sometimes, you just gotta take responsibility for your life, and make the most of working at McDonalds. May as well hang out with your other loser friends in your tiny apartment, get drunk and eat lovely food, and hit on high schoolers.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
I just gave myself an award for Best Post in this Thread.

Congratulations!

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
All I know is that the rest of the anime nerd internet had a collective meltdown over the show.

We should have allowed it for honeypot reasons.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
If there was one thing KLK did better than Gurren Lagann, it was that the side characters were great. I literally can't remember anything about TTGL's side characters. Those in KLK were great.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
pretty sure commie is made up of a few dozen guys and some are competent some have brain problems and xythar will defend them all

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Jojo's was hilariously british only in Part 1, the rest was pretty standard.

Phobophilia serenely skedaddles from the conversation.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
I mostly like commie and gg's work, but eotenas is just silly.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

pandaK posted:

Okay wait, I needed to actually draw this poo poo out to fully understand. So is the right side what you're saying the plot twist was?

Well, it's not really the earth's core, it's just a giant cavern for the Aigans to live in. Who promptly turned against the scientists' descendants for some reason or another.

Doesn't really explain why those Patema's village decided to live out a scavenging lifestyle, you'd think they'd have recolonised the surface world properly.

I think Yoshiura loves certain motifs and imagery. Tall buildings standing alone in a grassy field. Bright post apocalyptic concrete jungles. Bridging an impossible gap.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
no ping pong no loving taste

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Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
i dont know about you but

HiveCommander posted:

There's a difference between 'making out with his 11 year old sister' and 'circular breathing because there is no oxygen to be breathing in'.
Context is important.

context is extremely important

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