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Waffleman_ posted:Soul Eater NOT: Zorak mentioned on Anime Dissection that this might be good for people who enjoyed the setting of Soul Eater. Yo, setting of Soul Eater loving ROCKS let's slice some life with weapon buddies! I didn't realize that site existed until you mention it: http://animationdissection.libsyn.com/ Looks interesting; I'm surprised Zorak hasn't publicized it more.
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Dehry posted:The lower left girl has a healing ability. Having a healing ability and not actually doing much with it seems pretty morally irresponsible.
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Yuri fans infuriated by the existence of yaoi (and yaoi fans infuriated by the existence of yuri, but there don't seem to be as many of those) are not the dumbest anime fandom thing (there are a lot of dumb anime fandom things), but they're pretty dumb. Lucy Heartfilia was joking, of course, but it's a sentiment I've seen unironically elsewhere. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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Mar 22, 2014 01:21
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StandardVC10 posted:"The little sister is a dragon and the older brother is prematurely balding" sounds like one of those randomly generated light novel titles that had a thread a few months back. I believe it's one of the actual LN titles the generator was based on.
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Mar 31, 2014 21:43
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Autonomous Monster posted:protagonist who manages to be simultaneously the plucky, underrated underdog and the hyper-competent prodigy Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus...wait, this isn't D&D! The main character being somehow "the weakest and the strongest" is oddly common; it's also seen in Index, Naruto, and Bleach, for instance. I suppose SAO deserves credit for never trying to pretend that Kirito was in any sense the weakest. In general, I think it makes for a better story if the main character starts out above or below average but nowhere near the weakest or strongest.
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Apr 6, 2014 22:21
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Chas McGill posted:I took that as a swipe at other manga/anime that would actually have that scene rather than an indication of where this show is actually going. I quite liked the rest of the episode. Nike seems like an interesting character and I usually enjoy odd-couple stuff if it's done well. Yeah, it was a pretty good first episode.
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Apr 6, 2014 22:32
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Strong Mouse posted:If they made this just slightly faster paced, dropped the incest, and made the outfits more interesting, this show could easily be good. No, it would still be bad because the main character is bad.
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Apr 13, 2014 01:27
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Eej posted:I thought this was obvious enough when every female is giving him the anime equivalent of the sex eyes and he's totally oblivious to it (apparently forever? I suppose that's an upgrade from Kirito). The difference between Tatsuya and Kirito is that, aside from being an MMO addict, Kirito's Mary Sueish traits tend to be actual positive qualities, while Tatsuya is creepy and inhuman in ways that the author inexplicably admires.
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Apr 15, 2014 05:19
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:is this the part of the season thread where we moan about how bad everything is? It's like clockwork I swear This year has been legitimately not-great so far, compared to the last couple years. On the other hand, it's probably not a significantly worse year for anime than, say, 2010, and there are still some watchable shows.
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Apr 18, 2014 19:13
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Srice posted:Hella escapist fantasies can be p popular. See also: Sword Art Online. That doesn't fully explain it for me. I can understand why someone would want to be like Kirito, but I don't really get why a sane person would want to be like Tatsuya.
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Apr 19, 2014 23:53
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Sakurazuka posted:Amazingly good at everything, has women fawning over him (including his hot sister, who to only-child Japanese nerds is like A GIRL who LIVES IN YOUR HOUSE) and yet is completely bland and personality free so you can project yourself onto him. I understand it up until the blandness, because in a way, he's not bland enough. There's a difference between having no distinctive personality traits and having things like shallow affect be your primary personality traits.
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Apr 20, 2014 00:02
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Having a job doesn't imply having a personal life, though.
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Apr 20, 2014 03:49
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Ulta posted:While were discussing the finer points of Japan's obsession, could someone explain the "this teacher/authority figure looks 10 but is actually really old!" It happens here in America, with Doogy Howser but no where near the frequency. Is there a cultural thing that makes this hilarious every time in Japan or is Occrums Razor leading me to lazy writing ? Convincing oneself that a lazy cliche has some cultural origin to justify it is a hallowed tradition among Western anime fans.
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Apr 21, 2014 00:24
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XboxPants posted:Only outstripped in popularity by saying "stories have no meaning, they're just words The fallacy generally lies in the bolded words. Otaku culture is not synonymous with Japanese culture. I'm not saying there's never a specific cultural reason, just that this type of argument tends to get overused as a justification for bad writing. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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Apr 21, 2014 00:39
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I'm not saying mistaking something that's good writing in its cultural context for bad writing can't exist (witness Confused Matthew's review of Spirited Away, where he criticizes it because various youkai-related things "make no sense"). It's just a lot less common.XboxPants posted:There's are reasons certain kinds of shows and certain kinds of characters are popular among Japanese otaku, and it's not "a wizard did it". The reasons don't necessarily make it good writing; they're often as simple as "people copy from better shows." Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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Apr 21, 2014 00:56
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Sakurazuka posted:Anime isn't allowed to have any characters over 20 unless they're grizzled old veterans so they just contort themselves in knots justifying having a 17 year old lawyer. That was arguably one of the least dumb things in Wizard Barristers. In the episode where they go to America, it's noted that there are no American lawyers as young as her, reflecting the fact that American law schools, unlike Japanese ones, are graduate schools. This is the only thing about real-world law the show gets right. 
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Apr 21, 2014 01:35
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:A textboard must be the worst pornsite imaginable. Did you mean futaba? He was referring to Sankaku Complex, not 2chan. Currently reading The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco.
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Apr 30, 2014 07:05
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XboxPants posted:Yeah, to be fair the "English" title as created by the author does actually mean the total opposite of what it's supposed to mean. But there's a difference between correcting grammar and changing noun choice. I mean if he says that in the fictional world he created, these particular monsters are called "titans" then he kinda has final say on that, even if it was a stupid choice. It's not really the role of the translator to correct mistakes in the story. Them being called "titans" makes sense, since they're obviously inspired by the painting Saturn Devouring His Son.
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The Devil Tesla posted:Another one of those top ten lists split by men and women, and once again women have better taste (though of course there's some poo poo on there). The difference is pretty slight, though; Mahouka is #2 on the women's list.
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