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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Sequels on Lock
Shokugeki no Souma
Kino no Tabi
Live Live!
Umarau-chan
YuYuYu
Cindarella Girls

New Series Watching
Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou
Blend-S
Boku no Kanojo ga Majime Sugiru Shojo Bitch na Ken
Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte Kara

New Series For 3Ep Test
URAHARA
Two Car
Imouto sae Ireba Ii.
Anime-Gataris

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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Guy Goodbody posted:

I read a bit of the manga, and in the beginning at least it's not that she wants sex. It's just that because of porn and society she thinks her boyfriend is automatically going to want all kinds of crazy sex

This. She's actually super shy about it when it gets to actual physical interaction, but it 100% over the top with innuendo and being suggestive.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Gawain The Blind posted:

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou sounds really interesting, but the character design is so blagh, I dunno if I can ignore it enough to get into the show. Weird blobby heads.

The number of characters that show up could be counted on one hand. The surroundings and the atmosphere are where the bulk of the design work goes and should be the focus of attention.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
The anime about drinking also came out today and it's cute and good.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Lemon-Lime posted:

Their "cocktails" are still poo poo.

They're meant to be things you could make at home I think so they're intentionally simple

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

nielsm posted:

Okay yes Urahara was pretty strange. But not as strange as any of that other Japanese animation (not anime) I saw earlier this evening at a screening event. So overall, Urahara made a refreshing amount of sense.

It was still pretty strange and loaded with pastel madness.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

an actual dog posted:

It has such a simple, breezy premise yet it feels weirdly plodding. I hope the show eventually finds its grove cause I really want to like it.

I originally saw that as genre and not groove. Both seem accurate.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Not as smug as I liked, but it's just a PV. Probably going for more of a flirty tone.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Davincie posted:

its clearly not ww2 post apoc judging by the fact that they show multiple pieces of cold war equipment. its just that everything the girls carry is ww2 german, and most of the destroyed stuff ww2 soviet. i don't need a voiceover ofc, if anything the total lack of exposition is good. its just that the setting comes over more as a grab bag of things the author found cool looking, then consistent. all of this might change later of course

It's totally a grab bag of stuff that the author thought looked neat and I don't think it was meant to take place in a specific time other than as some point in ~the future~. It's sorta like Kino's Journey where the different places are wildly disparate in tech levels and organization yet are all part of the same world.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Sindai posted:

I'm most of the way through the first season of Yuuki Yuuna and I was expecting dark but I wasn't expecting it to be outright cosmic and body horror. :gonk:

EDIT: Kind of a disappointing ending. Madoka convinced me Homura's obsessive insanity was sufficient to change the world, this show not so much.

We never learn much about the Shinju-sama in the first season and it's sufficient to consider it a proper god. As such, the girls don't seem to have much agency over their fates beyond prayer and hoping. There are LNs that do go over what happened to start the whole thing 300 years ago and another one that goes more into how the secret organization works.

It's definitely not quite as good as Madoka, but it is just as interesting, if not more so

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

The Colonel posted:

tbh the episode got a lot stronger when it moved away from the stuff with umaru and her brother

Umaru and her brother has the last interesting relationship in the series. This is not helped by the fact that Umaru is the worst of the four main girls.

The OP of the new season is a little odd to and it's miles behind S1's

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Anime-gataris seems interesting enough from the first episode. It's obviously far from being a typical anime about anime fans, but the direction it's going is still a mystery (which is very likely intended). It's a shame they couldn't get more meta with the ED, but that costs money which original series don't get much of.

edit: and if you want to talk about dark horse series that no one will take notice of, this is it. The last series that was produced by this company was Time Travel Shoujo

Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Oct 9, 2017

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

dogsicle posted:

i'm gonna recommend everyone watch the first 90 seconds of the imouto show

And then immediately stop so as to not get any kind of context. No it doesn't help and idk why they led with it besides it being how it started in the source material (I assume).

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
The more I watch of Urahara, the less I care about anything that happens due to the most meager of explanations for anything. Something about how everything is framed also feels tight. Like they wanted to skimp on backgrounds and take up the screen with as much of the characters as possible. The color pallete was initially novel, but it also went to dull instantly.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

did you ever watch majestic prince? it was from the same season as valvrave and gargantia, both of which had a lot of hype but ended up disappointing. mjp was the low budget dark horse mecha show, but it ended up being much better than the other two.

as for kuromukuro, i don't think a third season was ever planned. the japanese school life was a pretty big part of the premise, plus any third season would have ditched the majority of the cast.

MJP was my favorite of the three, but it never quite got the hype it deserved since one ended up as a train wreck that entrapped any who even glimpsed at it and the other was a ball of potential that didn't seem to pay off enough. MJP was a pretty standard mecha series overall, even if it had a few episodes that riffed on certain conventions like an entire episode setting up and waving the biggest death flags for the B team

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Nate RFB posted:

God that show was such a bummer after a couple of really strong opening episodes.

Three mecha series premiered that season. Only one didn't end up as a train wreck or otherwise problematic

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Droyer posted:

That's probably because the character designer was a hentai artist.

There's not really anything wrong with that given the industry. Shokugeki no Souma's artist also used to do hentai manga and it's pretty much on par with other series in Jump

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

dogsicle posted:

also SA barely rates in terms of where I'm looking for discussion that indicates wider popularity/reception.

You could go to /a/.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Winter Season 2018: These are all the bad shows this season:

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxrsEAIMT4

Idk if this was posted yet. Not my favorite, but still amusing.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Phobophilia posted:

So, uh, what is the cosmology of Yuki Yuna? Like the world they live in is like a tiny bubble world on the surface of a roiling sea of chaos, what gives? Did Amaterasu return and bathe reality into the sun, and is Shinjyu merely one of the gods that allowed some humans to live and give worship?

I mean, one of the thing they sorta get across the unreality of Shikoku, the place is barely populated, streets lie clean and empty, like there was a great war that scoured the population.

I think this is why I can forgive the show for peppering it with Togo's wacky nationalism. She's not very bright, she immediately tries to kill her god when she feels betrayed, and then respond with horrendous guilt over her actions. Oh, and all terrifying monsters are actually their fellow nihonjin, and come over the bridge from Honshu.

From what I know, there was an invasion of Vertex that happened ~300 years prior to the start of YukiYuna. There's a LN series that sorta details the start, but it hasn't really gotten to how that connects to the present other than the locations that are involved and that the main character of the LN is the ancestor of Nogi. From what I can gather from the wiki and other sources, as for why the world outside the barrier is a burning hellscape it's because the "Heavenly Gods" wished to exact judgement on humanity and eliminate them. The Shinju (actually a group of gods) opposed this, creating Heroes (the formal system wouldn't be developed until later) to fend off the invasion in order to protect humanity. All of the monsters are monsters and the world beyond the barrier is basically like the outside of their bubble of reality. One of the LNs set around the same time as the main series involves a push to extend the barrier to eventually try and reach Osaka.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Animegataris is super duper meta and loaded with all sorts of anime references. It's great. If you like Genshiken, you should give this a shot.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Kyte posted:

Yeah a lot of the world building came from NoWaYu. Fortunately, that one's actually translated to something above Baka-tsuki level. I don't have the link on hand, it's probably easy to find if you go to /vg/ and from there /yyy/ which is the mobile game's general. I have 4chan blocked at work.

Here's a pastebin with all of the things from /yyy/ (as for what /vg/ is and why the YukiYuna info repository is linked there instead of /a/ is largely about 4chan's board culture that I could go into if asked). It includes TL'd chapters as well as the various audio dramas

https://pastebin.com/2wvjCyrV

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Eela6 posted:

Anime-Gataris has a fantastic soundtrack. Huh.

(Actually, it's use of the soundtrack is probably the selling point, not the songs themselves. The show has a great sense of timing and rhythm, and uses the soundtrack as part of that.)

It has a fantastic sense of other things too.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Eela6 posted:

Anime-Gataris' OP is insanely catchy.

Can't wait to see the annual SA Anime stats to know who has superior taste based on watching Animegataris

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

YggdrasilTM posted:

Because in this case it's an anime technically inside my watching range, but it is
1) a remake
2) of a soccer anime
3) that I didn't like in the first place.

I get mildly annoyed at pokemon reboots too.

Wtf is a "watching range"?

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Araki posted:

chuuni taisen

I would watch that. Half the series is dramatic life or death superpowered battles. The other half is what it looks like in real life and them just faffing about like "normal" kids.

Edit: So exactly, like Chuunibyou, but with more Chuunis

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Sindai posted:

It took 11 episodes but Animegataris finally delivered on the plot it teased in episode 1 and got incredibly meta.

I liked the scene where the sides of the frame slowly slide inward until it's 4:3 and then when a character tries to walk out the side she almost falls into the endless abyss.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HugeHighKodiakbear-mobile.mp4

Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Dec 19, 2017

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Cipher Pol 9 posted:

Was Animegataris as good overall as these examples are making it seem? It didn't catch me enough to start it but if the jokes are that good throughout that may have been a mistake.

It's a bit of a slow burn with regard to the big twist. The latest episode is where they went full Meta, but they've been creeping towards it the entire series. The series also calls out and lampoons a lot of anime tropes including calling out the Three Episode Test on Episode 3. The beats regarding the Anime Club are fairly generic, but it sorta comes together as it progresses (part of the slow burn).

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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Kashuno posted:

Konohana Kitan had a really good last episode, but there is no reason that series can’t continue forever

The manga is certainly continuing.

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