Spring Season 2017: they don't make it to the basement in this season

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Sakurazuka posted:

I'm also gonna watch whatever that Fate looking thing with the boobs was.

it doesnt really look much like fate, op

anyway, bokuhero, re:creators, eccentric family, and sakura quest

sakura quest's premise doesnt sound fantastic but it shares some staff with shirobako and comes from the same pa works initiative to make anime about daily working life that got us shirobako and iroha, so i have some hope that it'll actually go into working in a tourism agency.

re:creators has a sawano ost.

eccetric family s1 was p. good

# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 19:37

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 01:14

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

littleorv posted:

So what was in the basement anyways? Was it some hosed up poo poo?

a plot-twist that made the setting even more like muv-luv

photos showing scientists in labcoats and poo poo, the setting is actually post-apocalyptic not fantasy

# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 19:40

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

The Glumslinger posted:

So what are going to be the good actiony shows, especially since a lot of people seem to be expecting disappointment for AOT2.

Hi, I'm the normie, nice to meet you

this season of my hero academia is gonna be 50% a tournament arc so if you want dudes punching, there you go.

Darth Walrus posted:

Kind of surprised that Souryo to Majiwaru is even showing up in the season listings. The source material is straight-up porn.

a work having explicit sex doesn't make it porn, what makes it porn is how that sex is framed. i havent read the original but it runs in a josei magazine and seems to have some kind of plot and drama to it, which makes me think it's a drama where a lot of the drama comes from sex and sexual relationships, not a thing where people gently caress because loving is hot.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 21:31

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

lol if anyone of you think ive read attack on titan

# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 22:31

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

https://twitter.com/pKjd/status/840842701159378944

Aoi Yuuki as Kino, replacing Ai Maeda. No mention of studio or director. The director of the original anime passed away in 2013, and A.C.G.T. hasn't made an anime of their own since 2013 (their two anime since, dai-shogun and girls cycling club, were collabs with J.C. Staff,) so those will have replacements as well.

Endorph fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Mar 12, 2017

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 09:50

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

oh, that's actually really sweet. I forgot Aoi Yuuki voiced young Kino. No wonder they went with that casting.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 12:23

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Guy Goodbody posted:

That sounds like something Catholic teens would do so they could say it wasn't technically sex

grinding is fun, op

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 19:40

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

my rear end is spread open and stimulated, op

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 03:27

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Tamba posted:

If you don't like melodrama, you should stay far away from this, but I don't think they handled that plot point badly.
Kutori really is the only one of the girls who has any romantic feelings for the main character, and she's the oldest of them.
A 14-15 year old girl crushing on an authority figure really isn't all that unbelieb, doubly so if the guy really is only 4 years older than her (unless you count the 500+ years he was petrified).
And when he realizes what's going on, he goes to the other adult around and has this conversation:

And after that, he talks to the girl, who was basically prepared to suicide bomb herself in the next battle:

the way it keeps emphasizing 'opposite gender' is pretty lol

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 22:04

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

list of anime girls i would call daddy:

tsubasa kazanari

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 23:18

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Waffleman_ posted:

So this is happening:

https://twitter.com/MinovskyArticle/status/842124985414111234

E: Ah gently caress, I shoulda looked up.

agraph (the composer for pingpong and space dandy) is doing the music, also. and the script is by ichiro okouchi (the geass creator, though he also did the scripts overman king gainer, planetes, kabeneri, and valvrave)

Endorph fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Mar 15, 2017

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 22:55

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i mean, the director also plays a big factor in how a script/story turns out, especially in the case of an auteur type like yuasa.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 23:13

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i mean ping pong was a 4 and kaiba was like, a 3.5

tatami galaxy was good tho

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 23:20

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i don't think anything incesty happens, but on the other hand, he's 15 and she's 12.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 04:06

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

the oreimo author wrote a yuri visual novel about a detective club at an all girls' school, i owe him the benefit of the doubt

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 04:10

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Darth Walrus posted:

I think it can be handy when used to mean 'aspiring to depth and profundity that your writing quality can't handle'. I mean, that's subjective, but so are most terms used to criticise literature.

i think everything should aspire to some kind of depth and profundity, even if its' telling a simple story or story isn't the main focus of the endeavor. stuff that tries and fails is interesting, not pretentious.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 00:23

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

chumbler posted:

Hopefully they all live, rather than dying horribly.

ah, you mean like half the f/sn endings

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 00:53

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i mean, what should a show do, act like it's failed?

episode 7: "actually, capitalism... is bad :twisted:

'

episode 8: "poo poo, sorry, i hosed that up. im sorry. this show sucks. we should all go home."

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 02:08

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Guy Goodbody posted:

Isn't that basically Eureka 7 AO?

lol

Darth Walrus posted:

I guess not getting too self-serious. 'Pretentiousness' usually implies a degree of failed drama, where a lighter touch might have made the wobbly messaging go down a bit smoother.

failed drama is cooler than successful drama, ime

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 03:00

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Gyra_Solune posted:

i mean, it is by the aldnoah zero studio, directed by the guy whose works include aldnoah.zero, fate/zero, ga-rei zero, and for some reason girls bravo

also the first kara no kyoukai movie

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 14:08

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Grouchio posted:

I'll watch Re:Creators to see if the MC is less insufferable than Shirou Emiya.

shirou emiya is cool and my boyfriend

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 18:39

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

littleorv posted:

hello

uh

Sakura?

i wish

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 20:18

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Fangz posted:

Shinji.

i wish

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 20:27

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i dont think shirou hates jews

fate/zero is also a bunch of really boring misery porn about a dude whose character is only sketched out by the actually interesting women around him dying. waver and iskander are good tho

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 08:14

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Sindai posted:

Also it gave us Gil's magic airship

yeah that too. that was good

really any time kiritsugu wasn't onscreen, f/z was pretty enjoyable. though iskander and gilgamesh just sitting around talking about how saber's ideals are pointless and being proven right in the end was pretty dumb.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 08:18

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Dryzen posted:

a scene that started so strong too....

really that entire scene was kind of dumb. it's just characters spouting philosophy at each other in an unnatural way and then hundred-faced hassan pops out for literally no reason and gets owned by iskander for literally no reason. and i can understand why gil wouldn't bother lifting a finger but you'd think saber would fight off the assassins instead of just sitting there. really the assassins being an actual threat and the three of them working together to defeat them would have capped off that scene better and in a more interesting way.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 08:23

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Fangz posted:

UBW was definitely a weaker show than Fate/Zero.

Shirou's character is potentially deep and nuanced but the adaptation (if not the original game as well) portrays that really poorly. The adaptation should have been much less faithful.

(Like, when I played the game, I thought I actually knew what was going on in that climactic Archer/Shirou scene, but now I don't even know any more. Wasn't the original confrontation about whether or not self-sacrifice for an ideal makes sense?)

it was more about whether something flawed and impossible is still worth trying to achieve. that said, i agree that the ubw anime is a pretty messy adaptation. it's too faithful when it needs to be looser, it doesn't really take into account that it's adapting from a visual novel and so needs to incorporate more character movement into dialogue scenes/trim some of the fat of the exposition (a character talking for a long time is much more palatable in a vn than in an anime, since you can read at your own pace in a vn), and for some reason gets really loose when being faithful would actually be a good idea. Adding a bunch of CG and poo poo to the archer/shirou fight completely ruins it. The fact that it's just them having a swordfight, Archer's skill against Shirou's skill, is the entire point. The Shirou/Gilgamesh fight is a ltitle better, but they still went really overboard on the flipping around. I'd honestly say the DEEN movie adapted those two scenes better.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 15:24

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Yeah. That's another thing that works better in a VN.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 16:06

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

ViggyNash posted:

So I've been gone for a while. What the hell is with all this F/Z vs F/SN talk?

re:creators shares some staff with fate/zero and f/sn unlimited blade works, so it came up

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 20:32

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Guy Goodbody posted:

So which Saber is gonna be in recreators, the blue one or the red one with the boobs?

yes. those are the only two sabers. *tugging at collar nervously*

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 21:19

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Guy Goodbody posted:

are Maid Saber and Bridal Saber distinct Sabers, or are they just one of the other Sabers wearing a different outfit?

maid saber is saber alter in a maid outfit, bride saber is nero in a bride outfit

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 22:52

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Sindai posted:

Just how many Sabers are there total now?

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 11:10

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

just play the vn, it's cool

and nasu is a way better writer than urobuchi

source: ive read like ten paragraphs from each of them in japanese

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 15:06

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Dryzen posted:

If you want to find out how Fate is watching a part of it not written by nasu is not going to help you figure that out at all

the thing that completely goes against all the themes of the actual core of the franchise and is terribly written, is definitely the best entry point to the series, instead of the thing that came first, is a pretty decent and enjoyable read, and actually communicates what the franchise is about very clearly

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 15:09

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Fangz posted:

There are cooler things that waste less of your time.

if you think something is cool, it isn't wasting your time.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 15:20

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i choose to interpret you as a bitch-rear end fucker

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 15:28

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

did you ever consider that maybe the guy would like the thing you didn't like

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 15:34

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Aurora posted:

I'm a girl

guy in the gender neutral sense

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 15:49

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Aurora posted:

I think I'll give the VN a shot, I just have a harder time playing through one of those rather than just watching something, but if it's the better option to start off with I'll try to.

if you don't enjoy the format after giving it a shot you could try the ufotable ubw anime, though it kinda sticks too rigidly to the VN in places so there's lots of scenes of characters just sitting around talking.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 15:57

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 01:14

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i dont think you followed this conversation at all, and also there's a difference between a dissenting opinion and 'heh that's poo poo don't bother'

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 19:38

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