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Eela6 posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rym6jnnhXJ0 fuckig baller op though
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Not something I paid much attention to at the time as I'm not much into ecchi type shows, but I recently finished watching Punch Line with the local group and it wasn't bad. The story of a boy living in a boarding house, for whom hijinks ensue after his soul ends up displaced from his body, it's not one I'd go running out to recommend to people, but it was a far more interesting series than I'd ever have given it credit for. If you can look past the considerable fan-service content, it has some clever narrative devices that it puts to good use. It gets a bit convoluted towards the end, but the only thing I feel really lets it down is the characterisation - the main cast never really seem to move past broad archetypes - and it smacks of being a visual novel adaptation, where you need to follow a character specific route to learn more about them, even though it wasn't. It does make me wonder if the subsequent game was planned from the start for that very reason though.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:56
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I'm gonna assume movies count, and say I just watched Venus Wars. It started off pretty strong but it wound up kinda losing me a little past halfway through. Around the 1 hour mark it shifts toward a fairly uninteresting military scenario, and it feels like they ran out of ideas for stuff for the other characters to do, before they just wind up leaving. Solid 7.5, mostly on the visuals and the first half. Not really sure what was up with the out-of-place, sort of offensive gay stereotype soldier who shows up for like 2 scenes in the last 20 minutes, though. Like there weren't any horrific jokes or anything, I more just couldn't figure out what the point of him was, he didn't really do anything. TriffTshngo fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Apr 11, 2018 07:52
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Movies count, OVAs count, if it's anime tell us about it!
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Apr 11, 2018 11:06
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i finally watched devilman crybaby and now I'm sad
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Apr 11, 2018 21:24
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Cronodoculous posted:I watched Angel Beats after a friend told me it was his favorite anime. I still don't know if he was kidding or not. It wasn't a bad show, but there's a lot of shows that do its schtick better. It takes an adequate premise, then does basically nothing with it. My soul, your beats More than just a song title...
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Apr 12, 2018 01:52
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lezard_valeth posted:Also the fact that most plot twists they couldn't keep it in their pants and gave them away way too early and in an anticlimatic way, and the fact that the studio definitely operated under the assumption that you've watched 03 first and fastforwarded over some of the early arcs, leading to some "Uh?" moments near the end of the series when a character would call back to one of these early arcs and how big of an impact it had on them when it definitely wasn't depicted as such namely talking about the Tucker/Nina incident In general that incident always seems to be given more importance then I actually think that it is worth.That and the raging hate boner that Edward has for Scar always seemed a bit off considering just who he is able to forgive. To add to the thread I recently finished watching both seasons of Blood Blockade Battlefront which turned out to be a lot more fun then I thought it would be. In terms of general tone I think it is one of the closest things I have seen to Baccano and by the end I was truly sad to not be able to watch any new content resolving around the band of misfits that make up the main cast.
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Apr 12, 2018 02:09
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Hunt11 posted:In general that incident always seems to be given more importance then I actually think that it is worth.That and the raging hate boner that Edward has for Scar always seemed a bit off considering just who he is able to forgive. It's a pretty important event in their lives. Trying to revive their mother was a stupid mistake that they both paid for, but at the end of the day her death wasn't something they could have prevented in the first place. What happened with the Tucker incident was something they could have easily prevented if they had picked up on what was going on with him. It was them utterly failing to recognize the horrible poo poo that had happened and was about to happen again, and being faced with some of the absolute worst of humanity in the process. I don't think they have another failure on that level again in the rest of the series, so it makes sense it would weigh on them so heavily.
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Apr 12, 2018 02:36
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I watched Hyouka over the weekend. I went into it knowing nothing about it besides being a mystery show and it taking place in High School. It ended up being one of those things for me, that just feels like its somehow almost tailor made for you. I love mystery, but like Chitanda I can get bum out by characters dying, so right off the bat the show was giving me good vibes. And like, the show is pretty laid back, but still has this like sense of tension and often left me enrapt (the second bit where Oreki and the empress are in the tea house for example). It was also excellent at like, taking mystery elements/character types, inserting them in the setting and playing it straight, while at the same time keeping it level headed enough for it to work. Such a good good show. Also Ibara is low key the real hero of the show. as an aside, I swear I seen Knox and the other rulesets reference way more in Japanese mystery than anything else 
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Apr 16, 2018 22:07
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The Honkaku Mysteries Writers Club is a group of Japanese mystery novelists basically founded on the principles of the golden age of detective fiction. The rules are also referenced in Detective Conan more than a few times. Whereas modern American mysteries have pretty much completely eschewed a lot of that stuff, focusing in more on hardboiled loose cop type stories and noir fiction, Japanese mystery novels have evolved much more into active discussion of the 'rules' of the work, in a very metafictional way. The author of the original Hyouka novels is a member of the Honkaku Club, and has been nominated for their yearly writing award three times. Japanese mystery fiction is built much on exploration and addition to the works of Christie and Doyle than on subtraction or subversion. The works of Rampo implement elements of horror while still adhering to the core tenents laid out by the golden age of detective fiction. Japan had its noir era, too, but after the crime wave in the 1980s, Japanese society was more interested in stories where criminals were wily but defeatable, and the heroes were mostly intelligent, rather than stories of trouble authority figures trying and failing to bring people to justice. So there were a wave of more traditionalist stories in the 80s that never really let up. Hence, Japanese detective fiction is still very invested in Knox and the Ten Rules. I'd recommend checking out the Tokyo Zodiac Murders or The Decagon House Murders if you wanna see some of that trend making its way back into Japanese popculture at large. Or just reading Detective Conan. Endorph fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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Apr 17, 2018 00:11
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Endorph posted:The Honkaku Mysteries Writers Club is a group of Japanese mystery novelists basically founded on the principles of the golden age of detective fiction. The rules are also referenced in Detective Conan more than a few times. Whereas modern American mysteries have pretty much completely eschewed a lot of that stuff, focusing in more on hardboiled loose cop type stories and noir fiction, Japanese mystery novels have evolved much more into active discussion of the 'rules' of the work, in a very metafictional way. Thanks for detailing this out, Its pretty interesting and cool! Honestly that sounds more up my alley than most of the modern American mystery stuff I have consumed. Like, they are still often good character pieces, but I guess I am traditionalist because there no where as fun as Christie. I'll be sure to check out both of those books. They look neat.
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Apr 17, 2018 00:38
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I finally finished up the last episode of Isekai Shokudou today. Food-based entertainment is a guilty pleasure of mine and that was enough to get me into the show. I want to blame the food manga thread for dropping the name onto my queue... but I could be wrong about that. So, Isekai Shokudou is about a bunch of fantasy characters stumbling through a door into a restaurant located in another world... our world. Specifically, it's a restaurant located in modern day Japan named Nekoya that specializes in Western-style food. The cast is your standard fantasy fare and each episode focuses on a particular character and their favorite dish at the restaurant. The show is extremely chill and there's very little conflict. The most violent thing that happens in the show is like... there's an argument and a chair gets knocked over. With that said, the show is extremely formulaic and most of the writing is focused on expanding the setting as opposed to developing a plot or any of the characters outside of their one episode. Even the food aspect feels like it was just thrown in haphazardly. If there's some sort of parallel or dichotomy between any of the characters and their chosen favorite food, I don't see it. As an Anime, it's fairly mediocre... but as a Food Show, it does a good job. I may not have cared about anything else going on in any particular episode, but the show never failed to get me hankering for something whenever the food came out. Kudos to the cast making me believe that everything anyone ate was the most delicious stuff ever.
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Apr 17, 2018 12:40
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etotama: only good anime cgi out there
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Apr 22, 2018 14:26
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b the beginning. I liked it but kinda think it would have been better if it had been a more grounded detective thing. koku's end of the plot was really important and they couldn't just cut it out without reworking the entire story, but it did kinda lose me compared to keith's. also lol at the part in the end where they have to say keith's sister is adopted to make it less weird that she was in love with him and that his love interest looks just like her
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Apr 23, 2018 07:59
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I just finished Violet Evergarden and while I think it had some stumbles and awkward dialogue, for the most part, I really enjoyed it and was not prepared for Violet's emotional breakdown in episode 10. Also the episode where she writes letters from the dying mom to the daughter for the next 50 birthdays really caught me hard since it made me think about my dad dying a couple years ago
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