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Still have not watched any Jojo, which I know I need to rectify. Is it available streaming anywhere? I'll probably check out Kindachi Case Files because it's detective mystery (which I like), Ping Pong because it has Ping Pong (also the trailer owns), Mekaku City Actors because of Shinbo/SHAFT (they really can make anything work), Blade & Soul purely for posterity (watch this somehow be good, given its staff), Captain Earth because it sounds like crazy poo poo will happen, and Mushi-shi Second Season because HOLY poo poo THERE'S MORE MUSHI-SHI? (I've actually never finished the first season, don't know why). I watched the Broken Blade movies a while ago and they were meh. Neat action sequences at least, and given that the whole thing seems to be an excuse to have mechas smash each other to bits, I at least don't feel robbed of my time. Probably won't watch this new one though.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:One Week Friends PV I'm definitely putting this on my list. The trailer gave me Usagi Drop vibes, even though the premise is pretty different. Maybe it's the visuals?
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Mar 5, 2014 02:07
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New summer thing by PA Works about a girl who wants to be a glass artisan. It's a weird premise, but then again I thought Nagi no Asukara would be poo poo when I first heard of it.
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Mar 10, 2014 20:31
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Phobophilia posted:Ahahaha. That's honestly what I think they should do. As awesome as KLK's style is, the budget issues are really apparent. Maybe it'll be their Haruhi and they'll end up swimming in money, who knows.
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Allarion posted:Chaika the Coffin Princess I'll probably watch out of the hopes it'll be good like Scrapped Princess was. I just finished watching Scrapped Princess, and I agree that if Chaika the Coffin Princess is anything like that it'll be pretty good.
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Mar 12, 2014 19:14
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I thought it was pretty good, or at least no worse than an average episode of Mushishi. Just longer.
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Mar 13, 2014 21:57
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More Jojo, More Mushishi, and more Durarara. What have we done to deserve such kindness?
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Mar 16, 2014 05:36
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I'm mostly excited to see more Shizuo/Izaya city-wrecking adventures.
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Mar 17, 2014 16:22
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More info and a visual about that random mecha thing that popped up earlier.
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Mar 18, 2014 16:38
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Great Rumbler posted:That image CR uses doesn't inspire much in me, but the one ANN has certainly does: Woah. Now I'm pretty curious.
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Pootybutt posted:Watanabe's new project has dropped; it's an original Noitanima series called Terror of Resonance (Zankyo no Terror) slated for July. MAPPA's doing animation, and Yoko Kanno's doing the music. I didn't notice Kanno was on this, but it's not too surprising since she did both Bebop and Kids on the Slope with him. Looks like I have another soundtrack to look forward to. jonjonaug posted:Aldnoah.Zero has some cast announced and a promo video. It looks an awful lot like a Sunrise not-Gundam show. Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill) is attached for the music. Aw... I really hope Urobuchi plays more of a role in that because watching Gargantia get butchered in real time was rather painful. At least it'll have some good music. Irritated Goat posted:
I highly doubt it. Gargantia would have been a whole lot worse if Urobuchi didn't save the last episode, but it was nowhere near near Valverave terrible.
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Mar 22, 2014 15:02
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Please let this be a series that tries to out-Valvrave Valvrave.
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darkgray posted:No Game No Life This just looks bad, barring some of the environment designs. I was kinda interested in this, but not so much anymore.
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Mar 23, 2014 04:17
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Cooked Auto posted:At the same time I haven't really seen anything mention in this season that has really attracted me or make me go "ooh", most of it just seems kinda. I guess I might change one they get going and I hear some general opinions but right now I'm just kinda Neither Ping-Pong, Mushi-shi, nor Jojo's have interested you? For all the random junk airing this season, there's a few guaranteed gems for people to be excited about.
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You sure it wasn't just the Hulu player on the free version? They sometimes embed the Hulu versions instead of using their own player. Hulu's works well, but since the stupid commercials are coded into the player you can't get rid of them except by having Hulu Plus.
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Nate RFB posted:Yes but it's being done in "conjunction" with Gainax. I don't think Anno owns any particular rights to the Evangelion franchise. That's what I thought. Even if Eva is Anno's brainchild, it's still Gainax that produced the original stuff and owns the copyrights.
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Delusibeta posted:It's April 1st, so take this with some salt, but Crunchyroll may have landed rights to JoJo. Which makes it the worst news of the week... Unless they just want us to think it's a joke and they put up the show page later on.
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Apr 1, 2014 18:46
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Considering that a grand total of e: Checked the linup page, and they've also picked up Mushi-Shi and (if anyone wanted to watch it for its trainwreck/hilariously terrible potential), Blade and Soul.
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Apr 3, 2014 23:28
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Oh man, I just realized that Mushi-shi and Jojo's are starting today (well, today in 15 minutes, technically). Looks like Friday will be the new Thursday.
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Blade and Soul was just plain bad, not even amusing bad. If you have a tattoo that recognizable, why aren't you hiding it? When an enemy soldier recognizes you, why wouldn't you at least incapacitate him? e: VV It's not like they have to rip the story straight out of the game. I honestly don't think the premise is that bad, but the screenplay was poo poo. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Apr 4, 2014 |
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Apr 4, 2014 14:49
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Kindaichi R was... interesting. It hasn't wowed me at all yet, but this episode felt purely like setup anyway. It might be a good show if it improves a little.
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Apr 5, 2014 15:41
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The World is Still Beautiful had a decent first episode. I feel like it's a little more silly than it needs to be, and it had a couple of pretentious fanservice jokes that weren't all that funny. Other than that I thought it was pretty good.
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MagicalDuck posted:Sekai's direction and humor remind me a lot of Fushigi Yuugi, but the heroine is x100 better. Nike is awesome. Yeah, Nike owns. She's a really fun character, and the show would probably be rather boring if she wasn't.
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First episode of Wixoss wasn't too bad. It's still weird that it's a super serious, grim dark, card game show, but the setup in this first episode was decent, if maybe a little too Madoka for its own good. It also reminded me of Utena and the whole "we must fight each other to become the Eternal Girl/Rose Bride", but Wixoss hasn't setup the stakes for its protagonist yet. I'm curious to see where this goes.
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I agree with the people that Akuma no Riddle had an interesting start. It's got a very death-gamey tone that fits like a glove. It's got a good mix of characters too, though imo there could still be more variety in their personalities.
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Rexides posted:Hey first episode testers, the reason I liked Madoka was less because of all the grimdark moe, and more for the trippy Zetsubo Sensei OP battles, should I even bother watching First episode was surprisingly decent. I'm giving it the 3 episode test out of curiosity, but at the end of the day it is a card game anime, no matter what it wants to be. e: Tried out Haikyu!! on a whim, and it actually owns. That was a fantastic first episode. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Ulta posted:The World is Still Beautiful - ...Self aware in a way that annoying and rapey. What does that even mean? Nondevor posted:One Week Friends had an adorable first episode. The pastel colors, innocent characters, chill soundtrack made it really relaxing to watch. It'll be a good weekly source of Adorable it was, but also a little dry. There really wasn't much to it that we didn't already get from the previews, and Hase's overreactions were a bit annoying. Still, the art and music is great and I want to see where they go with the premise. e: First episode of Baby Steps was pretty good. The animation isn't the best, but it sure looks like they're playing actual tennis (not whatever silly slapping poo poo they did in Prince of Tennis). The warm-up was pretty legit too, if a little too hardcore to make someone do on their first day. I'm not sure how to feel about the whole "I memorized how to play tennis by putting it all down in a giant stack of notebooks" thing; no one does that because it's plain dumb, but maybe they can make it work in the show without sounding dumb, somehow. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Ulta posted:At one point two characters make a joke about raping a girl, the gist of which is "We need to rape this girl because that is what the viewers want" I know that, but you made it sound like every joke is self-aware and about rape. That was only a single joke, though in you're defense it's still dumb.
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Thoom posted:It's pretty much the main character's gimmick forever. He makes detailed notes on his opponents' strengths, weaknesses, and plays and uses those notes to strategize. Not being a tennis person, I have no idea whether his strategies are legit or not, but at least they're not ~~magic tennis powers~~ like most sports anime. I didn't mean that people don't strategize in that way; the higher the level you play at, the more aware you have to be of your opponents strengths/weaknesses. But what he had looked didn't look like a player analysis. More like notes on types of shots and maybe techniques.  I have no idea what the words say, but the images look various types of shots and how the balls bounce. From left to right: Groundstroke, Topspin Groundstroke, Drop Shot/???, Slice, Side-spin Slice, Lob, Approach Shot. (mostly cross-court, for some reason) You generally don't need to memorize what they are or how they work since you pick that up from experience and training, but it seems like he's able to hit any shot without a lot of experience. I find that weird since it's pretty hard to connect a type of shot with how it feels to hit it. If you don't have the muscle memory to understand the act of hitting a particular shot, it ain't gonna work. Maybe his gimmick is that he's able to develop that muscle memory really quickly in the same way he quickly understands and organizes things he learns in school: through sheer concentrated effort. But even if that's his gimmick, to be able to compete in a tournament at a high enough level where your match gets a personal ref after playing for only a year is loving absurd. Unless you're some kind of tennis prodigy, that should take at least a few years. Buuut this is still a shounen sports anime at the end of the day, so I can't really expect the characters to be normal human beings. With how much I  just now, I should probably make a thread for this.
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Eeevil posted:It's notes on types of shots and techniques his opponent specializes in. Overly detailed notes are kind of his thing. So it is a player analysis then. Still absurdly superfluously detailed, but yea its his thing. Obsessive documentation is his shounen superpower.
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StandardVC10 posted:Goons are very defensive about things that they like. As for me, I haven't watched whatever this thing is, I'll catch up on everything next week and if there's anything super badass renew my Crunchyroll subscription. At the least Mushi-shi and Jojo are on Crunchyroll, what more reason do you need?
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Kawaii Complex is freaking gorgeous. I didn't like much of the humor for most of the episode, but I liked the later parts when the characters started playing off each other a bit. If the show continues more like the latter half, I'll probably stick with it.
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Xelkelvos posted:It's Kaiji, but all of the drama and life threatening grimness is replaced with fanservice and fantasy. Don't forget that the 2 second preview shows him squeezing her gigantic boobs, and that there doesn't seem to be a single male character apart from the protagonist. This is gonna get skeevy as hell. Ironically, the MC's VA is the same as Kirito from SAO.
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Chaika The Coffin Princess owned. Great characters, plenty of intrigue, neat designs, and it's pretty well animated.
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Scrapped Princess stayed relatively interesting throughout, but not without a few lapses. Chaika had a stronger start, so hopefully it'll stay consistently better.
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jackofarcades posted:Coffin Princess has a lot of things that should annoy me but it's done so well that I'm into it. I think it was the unicorn. I was not expecting the unicorn, but I thought it was awesome.
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It was so overtly Yuasa it felt like overdosing on sugar.
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Nanana's Buried Treasure was pretty neat. Towards the end, I noticed one of the games she was playing was Terraria. Are the other things she played also real games? I didn't recognize any of the other ones. e: As if Friday and Saturday weren't stacked full of anime, CR picked up Akuma no Riddle to stream on Fridays and Mekaku City Actors to stream on Saturdays. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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aers posted:Sanzigen, who did Arpeggio, have outright stated they made it low framerate to resemble non-CG anime. I don't think that's a terrible idea, but in practice it doesn't work too well. My theory is that they're trying to direct the animation the same way as traditional 2D, and I feel like that doesn't work well. I haven't seen the first episode of Sidonia, but if they're handling it the same way then I imagine it looks just as awkward.
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