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darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Endorph posted:

Mekaku City Actors is based on some songs I like and there are a few neat ideas in the videos for the songs, but since they're just three-minute long PVs I'm not sure how they're going to make a full anime out of it. I think there's a manga, but I've never read it.

Hm? The vocaloid guy in question has released four best-selling light novels and three manga volumes with this setting, if I understand correctly. Seems to be enough to animate something.

Can't stand his songs, though.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 18:41

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 03:10

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

New trailers to excite you!

The Comic Artist and Assistants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0E-c7pkyO4

Live-action ImoCho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuXT4Gca9mg

(Warning - the above video may break your soul)

# ¿ Mar 7, 2014 11:59

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

A couple of summer trailers.

Glass Lip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjHPAEnUiqw

Love Stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkqvrnxIugI

# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 14:21

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

The Black Stones posted:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-21/saenai-heroine-no-sodate-kata-light-novels-get-anime-on-noitamina - Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata announced for next January. This uh, doesn't sound all that great. I can only hope it's not Guilty Crown levels of bad, or kinda boring like Natsuyuki Rendezvous was. Based off a light novel. So that's not great news.

Not sure why you're bringing up Guilty Crown as an object of comparison, since they're nothing alike.

Anyway, I read the first of the novels last year, and wrote down my thoughts, so I may as well spam them here for your ridicule.

My light novel impressions posted:

Finished reading Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata vol 1 by Maruto Fumiaki. After all the doomy gloom books, I wanted something more cheerful, and a silly romcom seemed just the ticket.

I didn't know it until I hit the afterword, but this is Maruto's first novel. Instead he's pretty famous as a scenario writer for "erotic games", and I guess someone decided to try to aim those powers of imaginative production at a younger audience. In any case, it explains why the novel starts out with a tedious parade of nerd jokes, mostly focusing on visual novels in the harem genre.

Our protagonist is a nerd's nerd, renowned at school for his passion for all things otaku. He has a part-time job to fund limited edition blu-ray boxes, stands in line to get the latest games, and of course writes a blog about his favourite light novels. One day he has a chance encounter with a pretty girl in a white dress, whose wind-caught beret he helps recover, and while he was too dazzled by the perfection of the moment to remember her face, he's certain it must be destiny. A month later he finally realizes the fated girl is his completely inconspicuous classmate. So shocked is he by her lack of any characteristic traits found in a harem heroine that he decides to make her into one. A proper, full-fledged harem main heroine that any nerd would sperg about!

So yeah. The book is almost as bad as it sounds. Strangely, the conversations start to seem charming at some point, and by the end I had to concede that this is one of the better examples of super-nerdy hyper-dialogue based light novels I've come across. With the caveat that I pretty much hated the others. I don't know if it's the author's background in eroge, but he barely has any descriptive passages at all. Almost every scene is handled as dialogue or internal monologue. Someone kicking the guy in the face is inferred by the way the characters go "Ow, why'd you kick me in the face?!" sort of thing. Not much of a literary masterpiece, but it works as entertainment.

While I'm not going to bother with the rest of this series, it has at least made me curious enough to take a look at the fall anime White Album 2, which is based on the game Maruto wrote. I just hope it has as little to do with the predecessor as Final Fantasy games.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2014 19:34

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Zorak posted:

"Things in the noitaminA block that don't belong in the noitaminA block" is what The Black Stones was going for, I think!

Which it certainly sounds like. I mean, this is the slot aimed at "target audiences beyond the typical young male demographic" and uhhh

Can't really disagree with that, but Noitamina's reputation has been getting pretty diluted in the past few years. And it's just so harsh to compare anything to Guilty Crown. I mean, it's Guilty Crown.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2014 20:01

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Trailers.

Terror in Tokyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ7HkhTmTDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KeRvmgSnDw

Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPpweNdOqWg

Argevollen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHpHFaKdNJU

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 15:10

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Anyone remember this thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMRqCp1SvwI

More trailer spam, sorry.

Bokura wa minna Kawaisou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfoleFR03wU

Break Blade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV520I5QQYs

No Game No Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV7nGIUuyzA

And finally, Barakamon. gently caress Youtube and this stupid country restriction bullshit.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 20:29

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Fall trailer, Sora no Method.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tMLSCTWCfM

# ¿ Mar 23, 2014 16:28

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Silver2195 posted:

I believe it's one of the actual LN titles the generator was based on.

Indeed.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2014 21:51

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Paracelsus posted:

Is The Irregular that series that went into spergy amounts of detail about an automated transit system that has two-seater pods that receive power from the track they're moving on?

That's the one. It's the most insanely boring world building ever. Hopefully the anime will just show us a loving train and be done with it.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2014 19:27

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

So the good news is that Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei looks and sounds very nice, with nearly all the bloated exposition mercilessly cut out. The bad news is that the incest aspect somehow sticks out ten times more when animated; the way they touch each other left me gaping. The circumstances are a bit, uh, unfortunate, but I'm feeling a reluctant admiration for how the studio is depicting intimacy in this show. It's so unusual that I can't even think of a series in recent memory with scenes like that.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2014 22:48

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

First episode of Haikyuu is pretty much perfect. Gave me the fuzzies.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2014 02:00

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Before anyone gets their hopes up about Gokukoku no Brynhildr, this is a public service announcement to say that the mangaka's previous work Nononono contains stuff that's highly disturbing. No idea how this new one will turn out, but you have been warned.

Edit: Realized that the linked stuff may be way too inappropriate.

darkgray fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Apr 8, 2014

# ¿ Apr 8, 2014 17:54

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Great Rumbler posted:

Looked up that manga to see how bad it was and I was actually surprised by how good the first 15 chapters or so were. Then...really super-creepy attempted rape out of nowhere that served no purpose. And as an added bonus, it was also incredibly homophobic.

Yeah, I read a few volumes because I've had a thing for ski jumping ever since I discovered Funaki Kazuyoshi back in the '90s, so I had to check out this new ski jumping manga. Only, well, it turned into something very different, so I gave up. And the first rape attempt is really mild in comparison to the poo poo that comes up later. Ironically, I wasn't even aware of it until I googled the title a couple of days ago when trying to explain to a friend how Brynhildr might take a turn for the worse eventually, with an example image. Oh well. I'm not even sure chapter 89 is legal in most Western countries.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2014 01:52

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Serious Frolicking posted:

I watched the first episode of Kindaichi R, and I really can't believe that this is a popular and long-running franchise. It is just so incredibly bland. Bland protagonist, bland female lead, bland mystery. Every single plot point required a different completely stupid coincidence. The modeling agent just happened to drive by a girl who just happened to be identical to a missing model and then when that bland girl got abducted the bland protagonist just happened to find the model in a nearby park who then randomly decided to trust him completely. See, if any of those utterly stupid events hadn't happened, then blandy wouldn't have been present at a murder mystery.

At least Detective Conan has the distinction of being completely nuts. This is just lazy. Oh, and blandy has a horrible nasal voice.

I've read 6 volumes of the Kindaichi manga, and watched about, uh, 500 episodes of Detective Conan. Kindaichi is way, way more gruesome and bloody. Much darker arcs. This particular anime case doesn't seem interesting at the moment, but I'm sure it'll spin out of control and have headless corpses and axes in the face soon enough! Mostly I'm curious to see if their buddy's constant video filming will prove to be a ~vital clue~ later on. My arm would hurt so bad keeping it raised like that for six hours straight.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 16:52

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

I guess I need IQ supplements to understand Mekaku City Actors.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2014 21:38

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

XboxPants posted:

I guess that's true, there are plenty of j-dramas that aren't set in high school.

Luckily some still are, though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FafO9XHhCE

* Sailor Zombie *
starring AKB48 girls!!!

(oh god)

# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 20:47

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

This new summer show looks massively exciting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XgK0QGrT7c

# ¿ Apr 25, 2014 22:29

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 03:10

darkgray: Dec 20, 2005; My best pose facing the morning sun!

Eh, apparently there's a new Initial D movie (remake) coming out, and they've changed the entire voice cast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkjfHGdkDfQ

Such a waste.

# ¿ May 15, 2014 12:35

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