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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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I dunno dude 'Murano has red hair now' :qq: being some nit-picky poo poo and thinking that the anime character designs are worse than the never more than passable art that the manga has isn't really helping your case.

edit: Also I can barely even remember mobile phones being brought up and certainly not 'whoops I've dropped them into the water/no signal', if anything the anime exists in an alternate universe 21st century where tablets were invented but mobile phones weren't.

Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Dec 23, 2014

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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Okay, wow, you got me, they mentioned mobile phones once, show ruined.

If you honestly think that this is crazy anime hair colour rather than normal person hair colour I don't know what to say.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

laplace posted:

Mentioning it once doesn't ruin the show, it's the build up of little quirks like that in the writing that show how haphazardly the adaptation is. Especially when one of the points of the overarching narrative was that communication not being a thing was huge to the invasion, whereas nowadays youtube and smartphones are prevalent and people use them actively in the show... except conveniently when the writers decide that everyone forgets that they own them. This also is a problem with the weird parasyte otaku brother character, who for some reason draws out a picture of the parasytes for his sister when... the computer with the internet is right there and he talks to people on the internet about the Parasytes. The setting change wouldn't be so bad if they... actually rewrote the show to take advantage of it but slapping a comic about the horrible world of the 90s onto the 2010s doesn't work like that.

Also: Murano has a hair color that is completely unique to her in the show. Her hair is tinted red, her eyes are weirdly red too. Unless I'm colorblind and don't know it, the picture you posted totally demonstrates that. While this wouldn't be a huge problem, the show tries pretty hard to give everyone else regular human design, which really greatly contrasts with the main characters. It's an anime thing to do but it's still stupid and poor design. Tamiya is the biggest culprit in this regard because she has purple hair.

Little things that add up and create larger narrative problems. They're there. You can't erase them by going "BUT I LIKE IT WEH!!!! YOU'RE BEING TOO CRITICAL!!!" in a thread that is literally about being critical about anime.

I can't really argue with you because you're not incorrect, it's just that that stuff doesn't really bother me and to be honest wasn't even something I'd noticed or thought of until you mentioned it. Mobile phones and modern technology have pretty much ruined horror movies and I'm quite happy for the show to pretend they don't exist, though I agree it would have worked much better if they'd just set it in the 90's. And girls having tinted hair doesn't bother me because girls having tinted hair is a thing that happens in real life, it's not like they've got Shiki style hair in a realistic setting. The worst I can honestly say about the Parasyte anime is that it looks a little flat and dull.

And I'd say that this thread is less about being critical about anime than is is laughing at actual irredeemable poo poo like Mahouka and that dog girl shoujo one.

Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Dec 23, 2014

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

My actual vote for worst series are Nobanagun, managed to make a show about a girl using a weapon possessed by the spirit of Oda nobunaga to fight aliens boring, Wizard Barristers, should have been less wizards and more barristers also QUALITY and Sakura Trick which I subjectively enjoyed because sadly I am the target audience for girls kissing voyeuristically but was objectively bad.

Honourable mentions for Soul Eater Not! for annoying me by constantly going 'these girls have the hots for each other... NOT!' and Kill La Kill for daughter finger rape (a shame since I liked most of the rest if it.)

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Not intrinsically, but when you use it as a lazy way to go 'look how evil this character is' it doesn't help.

Edit: Actually honestly yes, I think depicting on-screen rape is pretty skeevy and unnecessary no matter what the circumstances are.

Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Dec 24, 2014

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Ernie Muppari posted:

i dont like show

is good show

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Rodyle posted:

I have had conversations with people who have only ever been moved to tears by Madoka Magica, so I can believe that WH is serious sadly.

Hey, it was Madoka AND Final Fantasy 7.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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RatHat posted:

This thread is the worst anime of 2014.

You're the worst anime of 2014 :colbert:

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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StandardVC10 posted:

Well if nothing else this thread has taught me that no, Sakura Trick is probably not worth checking out. No longer will it inspire mild curiosity while I scroll past the "S" section on crunchyroll.

It's basically Japanese lesbian porn without the sex (so, lots of slobbery kissing) bolted onto a bog standard SoL show.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Not even close.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Bury me with my moe...

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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LoGH is barely space opera anyway, replace the ships with horses and shave a couple of zeros off the casualty figures and it could be set anywhere in medieval Europe.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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No-one that wants to admit to it anyway.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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BtB had amazing action scenes but everything else was awful.

Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Dec 31, 2014

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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99% of most things are trash. 99.9% of anime is trash.

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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Both Tetsuo movies (I've never seen the third one but I've heard it's not good) are loving great if you're a fan of Cronneberg-esque bodyhorror.

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