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Mentat Radnor posted:My updated list: Please watch Haibane Renmei. It pains me not to tell you to watch Mushishi or Gatchaman Crowds, though, since they're so good. My list: 1. The Big O 2. Saint Tail 3. Terra e 4. Gurren Lagan 5. World Conquest Zvezda Plot Van Dine fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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Gurren Lagann episodes 1 & 2 I can see now why some people have said that Gurren Lagann's animation style has some similarities to Kill la Kill's. They both seem fluid and a bit twinkly and ka-bamm. It's a good style. The voice acting is good too. Simon's an okay character so far, pretty quiet and meek, but presumably he's going to get a ton of character development over time. I like that a big part of the interaction between him and Kamina is Kamina encouraging him. Kamina is indeed very cool and manly and has great sunglasses, but what osmosis had not lead me to pick up on prior to watching was that he's also an annoying idiot type. But I like him and the end of ep 2 was quite touching. Yoko is my favourite character so far because she made a cool entrance and gets to shoot things with big guns, and she seems like a nice person. The fanservice of her would be more irritating if it wasn't that lots of the male cast is running around without shirts anyway. Going by these two eps the series is fairly fun and entertaining with a big reliance on action. Not bad at all. I'm not totally hooked on it yet but I expect for eps 3-5 to deliver.
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Sep 3, 2015 22:26
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Gurren Lagann episodes 3, 4 and 5. Episode 3 bored me a bit, although I do think that the mecha combining via drilling is a great idea, and nice detail there with Kamina having to dodge his head out of the way lest he meet with a terminal drill accident. Episode 4 was my favourite one yet, with lots of silly comedy. Episode 5 wasn't as good as 4 but wasn't bad either. I've seen episodic plots like this one plenty of times before, so it wasn't fresh in and of itself, but was still well executed. I feel as if Kamina is having to carry the show a lot, via being noisy and pushy in ways that the rest of the cast isn't. The verdict: yep, I expect I'll continue to watch this series. As long as it still doesn't have a strong central plot, I won't be hurrying to get through it quickly, but it seems a fun series to watch a bit of now and then. If it ends up with a stronger plot I'll probably sit down and watch a lot of it at once.
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Sep 9, 2015 02:40
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Glad to hear it! And yes, I'll take care not to drop the series at that point. I've heard a couple of out of context spoilers in passing over the years, so I could be guessing wrong, but I think I know what it is.
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Sep 9, 2015 03:21
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AnoHito posted:1. Toradora! Out of those, I've only seen the last two. So you should watch Concrete Revolutio, because I really love that series. And I wouldn't wish Nobunaga the Fool on you. My list: Kaitou Saint Tail Terra e The Big O Gosick Nagi no Asukara Punch Line
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The Big O, episode 1 I was struck by how good and appropriate the background music was (although as for the ending song, I hated that). The art style is interesting and gives a U.S. cartoony feel to it, which is added to by the setting. I'm not sure if its art appeals to me, exactly, but it's got a clear sense of style and is setting its atmosphere well, so thumbs up to that. As for the characters, so we have a negotiator/giant robot pilot Bruce Wayne type who likes to pose in an understated but artistic way, and a super heavy and fast deadpan robot girl who for some reason seems to think she needs a squishy human bodyguard. I like them both. I think it's fair for a protagonist to be introduced with sunglasses and a sweet Batmobile-wannabe car and a rocket-briefcase. I knew there was going to be an amnesiac city plot, but I was surprised to hear the amnesia event happened 40 years before the show is set and the only people who care about the memories are the elderly. I wonder how the amnesia plot is going to play out. The only thing which I didn't like much about the ep was the giant robot fight, which was just a little on the dull side, but perhaps there'll be improvement in that department later. All in all, The Big O looks like good stuff. I started watching with high expectations and wasn't disappointed. I'll come back later to comment on further eps.
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The Big O, episodes 2 through to 5 Yep, I like this series. It has plenty of style and individuality, I like the core cast, and as an episodic thing it works pretty nicely and is a fun watch, although I'm sure there'll be a longer plot eventually. Roger is a good and competent protagonist with an actual personality, Dorothy is excellently deadpan and has a lot of potential as a character, the military police guy is fairly likeable, and Norman the butler is impressively good at everything. The giant robot fights...well, they're hit and miss. Just have to accept that there'll be a big thing to fight in every ep. Suspension of disbelief has to be employed every while, but that's okay. The opening theme is in the so bad it's good category and I still hate the ending theme, but the use of BGM remains good. Oh, and I love the next-episode teasers with the phone calls and someone with a strong U.S. accent reading out the next episode title in a scenery-chewing manner. "Bring Back My Ghost" sounded very silly. A+. I'll certainly be continuing to watch. I can't really think of any other anime series I've seen which fit the same niche. Van Dine fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Rotoru posted:1. Ideon You should watch Lupin! I don't know which series of it you're thinking of there, but the recent series (admittedly the only one I've seen so far) is really good and fun. And I haven't seen any of the others on your list. I'll go with a longer list this time: Barakamon D.N.Angel Earth Maiden Arjuna ef - a tale of memories Galilei Donna Gosick Kaitou Saint Tail Nagi no Asukara Punch Line Rinne no Lagrange Terra e World Conquest Zvezda Plot Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo
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Mar 23, 2016 12:50
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Ghost Sweeper Mikami sounds good, going by the above! I approve of things which are Takahashi-esque and involve flimsy excuses for wearing shades. I've also started watching my latest selected show: Punch Line, episodes 1, 2 and 3 Episode 1 started out action packed and crazy, which is good. The nose bleeds and underwear-focus kicked in, and I have to say that the opening sequence gives a really bad first impression of the show. It's still a colourful and energetic and unusual OP, but yeah, I would not be surprised if there were people who saw the op and decided to nope out (or to see the nosebleeds and wonder if they ended up watching Maria Holic). But I'm glad I was watching the show for this thread and couldn't do that, because it turns out that Punch Line is actually good. The fanservice is tolerable because it's otherwise a good show, there's a plot reason (however flimsy) for it, and the show is really self-aware and silly. The animation and art style look nice. This is a really lively show; no time for boredom. Strange Juice the hero of justice fights her enemies using a straw in this ep, and that was amazing. (Who chose the name Strange Juice? Who?) So ep 1 sets up the premise of what happened to the MC and what he needs to do to get his body back, guided by a spirit cat who doesn't even try to justify random plot conditions (and also keeps trying to accidentally-on-purpose show the MC voyeuristic cat-on-cat porn videos on the computer. Oookay.) Ep 2 is the one I've seen a bunch of animated gifs from, and this ep is the one which sold me on the series by having a bunch of really funny jokes. I wanted to know what the hell the context of those scenes which look as if they're from Hotline Miami was, and I was not disappointed. Also, I reckon that the second scene where Ito tries to cover up the bear cub's presence is good enough that it justifies the existence of this entire show all on its own. Ep 3, the cast continue to be terrible liars. It's great. I like that the Strange Juice secret identity thing doesn't get dragged out. And I was not expecting Meika to be a robot. I swear, with her ridiculous hairstyles, Meika could sign up for a role in Shiki. So three eps in we find out about the organisation Justice Punch and some of the title is thus explained. I was disappointed by the lack of actual Martians, but the costume was nice. My favourite thing this ep was the masked trooper man summarily slapping Miyazawa Kenji about the face. Nice comic timing! On the info so far I can only speculate that perhaps Miyazawa's identity is the spirit who's body-napped the MC. I will laugh if the reason he wanted the MC's body was in order to use it to become a hero of justice. As of yet, I have no idea what the hell is up with the bear or with the turtle motifs.
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dogsicle posted:you could say Justice Punch relates to the shows title, but it's just as much a pun about the central premise. Punch Line sounds like panchira, which refers to a brief glimpse of someone's underwear Ah, that makes sense. Especially given the lyrics of the opening song. Anyway, I've been watching more Punchline, and it's been getting really good. I'm hooked and after I've posted this I'm going to go and watch the rest. Punch Line, episodes 4, 5 and 6 No wonder people have been saying that this show is underrated. Also, in these later eps it becomes increasingly obvious that Kotaro Uchikoshi wrote the script for this. Hahaha, so Yuta body-napped himself! If I understood the end of ep 6 right, it seems there's a time loop thing going with Yuta failing and then going back in time and stealing his own body. And now, Yuta's been sent back to the first scene of the show, so I really have no idea what's going to happen from here on in, which is great. Good work, Uchikoshi, for including someone going back in time and taking over their own body in order to put right what's about to go wrong.  Now Yuta is possessing himself, I want to know whether this means he's stuck with a 7 minute limit or if it doesn't count as a possession. Interesting that Yuta is biologically female. I suppose we'll find out later if he's trans or if he's in disguise or something like that. Yuta's hair shape looks like the hair of Chiyoko from Narugino's flashbacks in the facility, so it'd be no surprise if they were the same person. But if that's the case, it's confusing that back in episode one when Yuta was falling in the water, there was a scene with him (presumably) hallucinating/imagining little Narugino and Chiyoko holding his hands to save him. Would he really imagine his child self turning up to save him? Yuta also recognised the marks on Narugino's neck, and "Miyazawa Kenji" knew the rhyme (though he could have learned that from other means) so this suggests he was one of those three kids, and if it's not Chiyoko it would have to be Pine. Yuta seems similar in personality to Pine from the flashbacks. But Pine is almost certainly the shifty dude from the bus-jacking in ep 1. Little Narugino and Meika's backstory is cute, but yeah, the hero gig is wrecking Narugino's health. Meika is the best backstory narrator. Also, was little Narugino dressed up as Ranma Saotome on purpose? One thing that confuses me is the look of the eyelashes on the flashback kids. This series has far more distinctive eye designs than most, so it's strange. Narugino's hair and eye colouring and neck tattoo matches Guriko, but Guriko's eyes and eyelashes look a different shape. The one whose eye and eyelash shape matches Narugino's is Chiyoko. Yet, when Meika meets kid Narugino, kid Narugino's eye shape does match older Narugino's. If Yuta is meant to be Chiyoko, it's strange that the one of the three kids whose eye designs he matches best is Pine's. Some sort of strange body-swapping thing going on between those three? (Chiyoko/Narugino in Guriko's body, Pine/Yuta in Chiyoko's, and Guriko in Pine's?) All in all, I'm very pleased. All I ask from the remaining episodes is that at some point the bear gets possessed by someone.
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ninjewtsu posted:trigun <- i watched some of this when i was like 14 and remember very little aside from a train If you're still around, I suggest you watch Trigun. It has a really good opening song and Vash has an excellent trenchcoat and shades. Honestly it's been a long time since I watched it and I only saw half the series, but it was pretty good if I remember it right. I wonder how well it holds up. My list: Barakamon Darker Than Black D.N.Angel Earth Maiden Arjuna ef - a tale of memories Galilei Donna Gosick Kaitou Saint Tail Nagi no Asukara Rinne no Lagrange Terra e World Conquest Zvezda Plot Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo
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