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boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Rodyle posted:

ADTRW Anime of 2014 Maoucdonalds taught me that no matter how dumb a LN premise sounds, it can still be good. I'll give it a chance for the Trigger part at least.

Yeah that's my reasoning for watching the show. Also it could be another Chunni sort of show which I am fine with.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2014 21:36

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 05:51

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

The Devil Tesla posted:

As you may already know, there are two ways to judge the value of a light novel: title length and covers. Lets begin by comparing title length to one good light novel and three bad ones:
code:
Inou-Battle in the Usually Daze
The Devil is a Part Timer
My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute
The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat
I Couldn�t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job
As you can see, it isn't long enough to reach LN title hell, but it's still basically a synopsis. (worth noting: The Devil is a Part Timer actually has a great title in the original Japanese: Hataraku Maō-sama)

The second is how close the cover of the books looks like pornography. The Devil is a Part Timer actually puts the main, male character on there in a central role that goes beyond angrily peaking out behind one of the women. If you caught the covers for Inou-Battle, you'll see that holding one of those in America might get you arrested.

So yea, even before it became an anime The Devil is a Part Timer was a pretty good story based around a funny observation (that Satan would actually make a good part timer) and a cast that appeals to a wide audience. "They have superpowers, but they never have battles??" doesn't have the same kind of hook, and the cast is designed around the taste of narrow group of viewers.

One thing I notice tho: this a tragic choice for Trigger, but if KoyAni picked it up people might actually get excited.

Yo dude are you seriously using the English translations to compare. Hell you even pointed that Maou Sama has a decent Japanese name. That's doubly silly.

I think this is probably going to something silly and entertaining and it's not really "tragic" that Trigger is animating it. Hell Trigger will probably make the whole thing fun to watch anyway and isn't that why we watch anime in the first place?

# ¿ Mar 12, 2014 07:49

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Great Rumbler posted:

That image CR uses doesn't inspired much in me, but the one ANN has certainly does:

Well drat. That's a good setting to have. I will tentatively raise my hopes

# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 17:16

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Apparently the composer is a profesional saw player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CE3Er08l8Q

Well that wasn't the type of music I expected when you said saw player. drat

# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 18:32

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Dehry posted:

The first manga chapter of Inou Battle (the next anime Trigger is doing) was translated a couple days ago.
It's not licensed and the scan comes from a free preview on a Japanese news site, so I assume this is fine to post.

http://imgur.com/a/0XbUA

I'll give it a chance if one of the streaming companies pick it up.

It seems pretty decent. And anything that makes reference to Jojo is alright in my books

# ¿ Mar 21, 2014 19:07

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

I'm so excited for this

# ¿ Mar 23, 2014 10:20

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

It is indeed an HF scene which is raising a lot of hype everywhere. I thunk you meant Sakura right?

# ¿ Mar 23, 2014 19:39

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Nate RFB posted:

The actual novels for Kara no Kyoukai are a bit of a mess to begin with; Nasu famously didn't seem to care for them at all before ufotable took a crack at it. Seemingly they were able to cover for the weaknesses in the other chapters better than they were able to do so in Oblivion Recorder.

Interestingly Nasu offered to clean up his stuff when it was going to get adapted but ufotable was like that's not needed as the original is fine.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 04:34

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Polsy posted:

Is The Irregular at Magic High School highly anticipated, then? I don't think anyone's said a word about it in this thread.

Does looking forward to a trainwreck count? This apparently is something that causes Koreans to go on spergy rants about how terrible it is. I was reading the compilations of them and boy this show is going to be god awful if half of what they said is true.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2014 18:55

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Oh. Oh my. That's even more terrible than I expected

# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 18:05

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

The Devil Tesla posted:

Avoid Black Bullet It's bad in general and then it gets to the pedo stuff. Fans of Zeveda last season can now say "at least our show isn't as gross as Black Bullet".

So you're saying... I dodged a bullet by avoiding that show?

And yeah Zeveda was a solid show and I hope for S2

# ¿ Apr 8, 2014 19:04

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Eej posted:

I watched the first ep and thought it seemed kinda bland and stereotypically Light Novelly in terms of harem building, imouto weirdness, totally overpowered main character who's hiding his power level and will probably never encounter actual difficulty during the story and so forth. Then I read this whole weird Nationalistic angle plus my roommate told me that the sister was described in the LN as "as a lovely, beautiful girl who captivates whoever sets their eyes on her. Her arms and legs are slim, slender without looking unhealthy." So yeah, typical otaku power fantasy show coupled with typical unrealistically (literally, SLIM WITHOUT LOOKING UNHEALTHY) beautiful little sister who is wildly in love with the main character.

If I wasn't aware this was based off a generic LN I would have assumed this show would be a setup for a magical high school anime that turns really dark when the sister gets all yandere on the main character and starts straight up murdering the rest of the harem so he only has eyes for her. Of course, that would pull in a totally different and arguably worse fanbase so I'm not sure if that would be an improvement.

It's more than a power fantasy. It's a nationalistic power fantasy for all the right winged otakus lap up

# ¿ Apr 9, 2014 08:49

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

It certainly seems colorful but I haven't gone around to watching it yet

# ¿ Apr 9, 2014 19:25

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

madmac posted:

This season really blows. Hopefully Coffin Princess doesn't disappoint.

Edit: Ok, Coffin Princess at least is pretty good. I'm up to three shows this season that seem watchable.

Please at least tell me you are watching Jojo and Mushishi. There's going to be that Ping Pong animation as well

# ¿ Apr 10, 2014 00:13

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Yeah I didn't watch the first season (a huge shame) and there was no difficulty in getting into S2

# ¿ Apr 10, 2014 01:35

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

ViggyNash posted:

It sounds like a dumb idea even having not watched it. Yes, lets torture ourselves getting angry at bad anime because it is cool and fun. From what you guys have been saying, I'd probably have the worst time since I'd be coming in blind.

Watching terrible anime with friends and alcohol is loving amazing.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 01:59

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Xelkelvos posted:

It's literally Fantasy Kaji with all of the despair replaced with fanservice.

Instead of ZAWA ZAWA there's there's anime boobs

# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 21:07

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

They are adding in the fight scenes they cut out and I think fixing the original ending?

Shame they changed the OP

# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 22:16

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Emalde posted:

Grabbed an animation for it because why not, anything referencing jojo deserves it

God only if the rest of show was as good as that

# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 08:27

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

For comedy this season I'm putting Kawaisou at the top, have you given that an ep?

# ¿ Apr 19, 2014 00:06

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Dude that show was rad, don't be making GBS threads on it

# ¿ Apr 28, 2014 20:28

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Joshlemagne posted:

In the interest of being on-topic here's a list of shows from this season that are both pretty decent to watch and mostly fanservice-free:

Mekaku City Actors
Isshukan Friends
Hitsugi no Chaika
Ping Pong
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (unless fabulous burly men counts as fanservice)

Where the hell is Mushishi man?

# ¿ Apr 30, 2014 04:11

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

Kawaisou doesn't get better by the way. Dropped.

Really? I'm finding it to be picking up in terms of comedy and actual romance stuff

# ¿ May 3, 2014 17:42

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Ah fair enough, I do like the characters and their chemistry and humor but I can see other people disliking it. Different strokes for different people.

# ¿ May 3, 2014 18:09

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Some more words in this and we would have a proper LN title.

My D&D campaigns I play alone at home hiding from everyone else from society now suddenly has so many lolis??????

# ¿ May 5, 2014 22:21

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

We have a winner

# ¿ May 6, 2014 03:03

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

They better have the game soundtrack in the anime one way or another. There's a lot of memorable ost in the VN

# ¿ May 9, 2014 20:36

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 05:51

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Srice posted:

Imouto Shrugged

e: Mahouka/Irregular at Magic Highschool is *insanely* bad, but the thread for it is a funny read so I recommend that anyone who hasn't looked at that thread to take a peek.

Imouto shrugged is spot on. And yeah that show is hilariously bad, like it's pretty much on the offensive bad because of what it says but still hilarious. And yes read the thread, it's as much if not more hilarious

# ¿ May 31, 2014 04:03

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