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On January 05 2013 15:52 atombombforpeace wrote:
After not really watching much anime for most of the past year (or two?) ish, I marathoned a couple shows while forced to be with relatives over the holidays and didn't have much else to do. The break seemed to have done wonders, as I've quite enjoyed the shows I did watch. Cheers to the thread, and back to lurking for shows to watch.
IMO you should get around to actually watching LoGH sometime, Atombomb, you would really enjoy it I think.
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I really don't think you can judge honey and clover on the first to episodes.
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Yeah, that's why I never really dropped it, just postponed it. I might marathon it now that I caught up to a lot of series (like psychopass, shinsekai, bakuman) while I wait for new episodes zzz
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Supposedlies, R;N has C;H and S;G tieins, and their universe is supposed to be tied together, but I can't really see it.
Also as far as VN adaptaions go C;H was about as good as the Tsukihime adaptation, which is really fucking sad for both. If you haven't read C;H I highly recommend you do so, it's in my top 5 VNs. White Album was a very good VN adaptation and is also my favorite VN of all time, buuuut it's not for everyone as it has a lot of melodrama. Protag is a badass though, in his own way.
On January 05 2013 16:24 tonight wrote:
I really don't think you can judge honey and clover on the first to episodes.
H and C and LoGH are must watches in their respective genres, I can understand people not liking both. Both are my favorites.
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Rewatched Maoyuu ep1, it's actually decent if ignore all the extra movement
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On January 05 2013 21:25 ragz_gt wrote:
Rewatched Maoyuu ep1, it's actually decent if ignore all the extra movement
Then you realize that it is butchering source in order to get that loveydovey Fukujun-Koshimizu pairing when the former doesn't even make sense as yuusha.
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Eh... there is really rhyme or reason behind Fukuyama anymore. I just assume he is in every anime now
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On January 05 2013 16:05 Emnjay808 wrote:
What did you watch? What type of genres interest you the most?
Just out of curiosity.
Went back a few seasons and watched rinne no legrange, hyouka, kokoro connect, chihayafuru and persona 4 animation recently. Also saw the movie screening of madoka a while back since my friend invited me. I'd say my personal favorite shows are mostly slice of life/drama, but I'm open to most genres, though most harem shows bother me.
On January 05 2013 16:09 Sentenal wrote:
IMO you should get around to actually watching LoGH sometime, Atombomb, you would really enjoy it I think.
I actually did get around to watching that at some point! Also nice to see you around, its been a while.
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On January 05 2013 11:53 Southlight wrote:
Steins;Gate anime was alright, but it missed some big nuances. You can probably search one of my rants about it with Milkis, where it was accepted that the S;G anime missed a significant aspect of Okabe's character, which may or may not damage the anime for you.
I thought the F/SN anime was horrible, but most people in this thread are biased because they dislike the canon Heaven's Feel route from the VN. To clarify, the VN has three "routes," but the third is universally considered canon while the first two are considered "what if" type stories. The anime really only details the first, most straight-forward and bland route, while the third (HF) is more a continuation of Fate/Zero. Fate/Zero on the other hand is from a book, so there is no VN, and is also written by a different author (Urobuchi Gen, who generally belonged to Nitro+, which in an amusing little connection for this discussion is one of the two companies behind Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate).
I loved Clannad, but I'm apparently a sucker for slice of life and tearjerkers.
VN adaptations tend to struggle because VNs individually usually have more textual content than novels and come with a lot of "tricks" that cannot be performed as well via a book medium. After all, we're looking at an industry that catastrophically fails whenever presented with source material with more depth than a 200-page Middle School level book. The vast majority of VN adaptations then end up being adaptations of standard School RomCom Harem stuff. The ones that are actual quality source material that ARE picked up tend to also be picked up by said companies that are willing to grab the school RomCom stuff, because the stigma of being a porn game tends/tended to shy people away. That trend is obviously slowly being changed, but at the same time some of the better VN works have either already been taken or are basically impossible to animate. Hence the dilemma of Little Busters, where so many people pined for an anime, but it was always waved off by KyoAni due to its impossible nature. So then it gets picked up... by a much reviled studio. The end result you can imagine.
Tsukihime anime was horrible, again for similar reasons as the F/SN anime, except that the Tsukihime VN was less of a start-to-finish affair and thus is even rougher to storyboard/animate. As a result you get an entire season of a single, bland route, which is fantastic for lore/background purposes but is useless in the context of a VN adaptation. There were if I remember correctly six routes, each of which diverged significantly from each other, and as a sum gave insight into the Tohno household and the world. Combined with ineffective storyboarding and horrible production quality you get something that many would rather carry on as if it never existed.
A surprisingly good anime adaptation was OreTsuba (Oretachi ni Tsubasa ha Nai), despite it having some of the more nasty storyboarding obstacles in VNs. I would still highly recommending reading it instead if the possibility exists (I'm not very knowledgeable about translations), but if it is not possible, and you're not willing to wait however many years it may take, or don't intend to read anyways, then watching it is perfectly fine.
For FSN: Instead of what-ifs, I considered the first two routes as sort of "informational" routes, in that the information you obtained from them let you enjoy Heaven's Feel, and if Heaven's Feel was the only route it'd be far more difficult to understand. I also don't understand people hating on Heaven's Feel, it was the best route by far.
Agreed that all FSN anime has been horrible(F/Z was good), can only hope that Ufotable animates Heaven's Feel and it gets 24 episodes.
About Tsukihime: Agreed that the route the anime chose was quite bad. It indeed is more of an introductionary route, but in the end was one of my least favorites. Ciel's would probably have been more interesting, though I very greatly preferred the Akiha/Hisui/Kohaku routes over Arcueid/Ciel's. For some reason they were many times more interesting to me. I actually took like 2 months to finish CIel and Arcueid, after which I basically marathoned the last three.
I haven't watched the whole S;G anime, but they sure completely failed to have the effect the VN had with THAT scene.
I think that they should try animating some of the VNs that only have one route and where other routes aren't important to them at all, even for the purposes of information.
Examples: G-Senjou no Maou, Sharin no Kuni ...Muv-Luv Alternative as well but it needs at least 2 seasons.
On January 06 2013 00:54 ragz_gt wrote:
Eh... there is really rhyme or reason behind Fukuyama anymore. I just assume he is in every anime now
It's sort of a shame, his voice was really good and didn't feel too overused for stuff like Death Note and Code Geass(And G-Senjou no Maou), but I guess he became too popular.
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On January 05 2013 16:24 tonight wrote:
I really don't think you can judge honey and clover on the first to episodes.
or the first 10 or 20.
if its not something people can sit through its not for them. For those who can its pretty good.
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I didn't like it at first when I watched it, but once I got into it I now consider it one of my favorites.
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I think 2nd season is better than first. First was OK but second season really made it a great piece.
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On January 06 2013 02:01 atombombforpeace wrote:Show nested quote +On January 05 2013 16:05 Emnjay808 wrote:
What did you watch? What type of genres interest you the most?
Just out of curiosity. Went back a few seasons and watched rinne no legrange, hyouka, kokoro connect, chihayafuru and persona 4 animation recently. Also saw the movie screening of madoka a while back since my friend invited me. I'd say my personal favorite shows are mostly slice of life/drama, but I'm open to most genres, though most harem shows bother me. Show nested quote +On January 05 2013 16:09 Sentenal wrote:
IMO you should get around to actually watching LoGH sometime, Atombomb, you would really enjoy it I think. I actually did get around to watching that at some point! Also nice to see you around, its been a while.
Yep, has been a while. You still play BW? Me and some dudes on #tladt have made a team for the D-Rank Team League.
What did you think of LoGH, like it?
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Yeah, Sent wants more people to PvP with.
He loves to PvP all day.
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I've been playing quite a bit recently. I'm mostly on Fish, but if anyone wants to play and I'm around I'm all about it
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On January 06 2013 04:00 Harem wrote:
Yeah, Sent wants more people to PvP with.
He loves to PvP all day.
gross.
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Kokoro Connect Michi Random -
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/qMMSk.png) INNNAAABBBAAA!!!! ;D Was getting a little annoyed towards the end but Inaba makes it all worth it <3
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On January 06 2013 04:51 phathom321 wrote:Kokoro Connect Michi Random - + Show Spoiler +INNNAAABBBAAA!!!! ;D Was getting a little annoyed towards the end but Inaba makes it all worth it <3
she can be quite adorable
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On January 06 2013 04:51 phathom321 wrote:Kokoro Connect Michi Random - + Show Spoiler +INNNAAABBBAAA!!!! ;D Was getting a little annoyed towards the end but Inaba makes it all worth it <3
Still cant believe some people didnt see this pairing coming from a mile away. It was pretty obvious from near the start.
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