Anime Discussion Thread - Page 2575

On January 08 2013 02:14 KazeHydra wrote:
Monogatari series in July huh? It might just be me but seems like the novel translators picked up the pace since the announcement in an attempt to finish before anime. After Neko Kuro, I'd much rather read before I watch especially if 6 novels in 26eps means cutting out all the good lines to fit it. Kizu by 2015?

Too lazy to write wall of text but masterpieces should be rare, very rare. 5% is pretty damn high. The thing is, after watching a ton of anime and having a large number of favorites, how do you distinguish between all your 10's? Even if we maintain pure subjectivity, then why is your favorite anime better than your 20th favorite anime which is also a 10? It's more a matter of re-scaling your ranking system so you can clearly show x anime is actually even better than some other favorites you might have. If you're going to use an academic grading scale argument, I know my professors give 1-2 A+'s to classes of 300-400 students.

On January 08 2013 02:14 KazeHydra wrote:
Monogatari series in July huh? It might just be me but seems like the novel translators picked up the pace since the announcement in an attempt to finish before anime. After Neko Kuro, I'd much rather read before I watch especially if 6 novels in 26eps means cutting out all the good lines to fit it. Kizu by 2015?

Too lazy to write wall of text but masterpieces should be rare, very rare. 5% is pretty damn high. The thing is, after watching a ton of anime and having a large number of favorites, how do you distinguish between all your 10's? Even if we maintain pure subjectivity, then why is your favorite anime better than your 20th favorite anime which is also a 10? It's more a matter of re-scaling your ranking system so you can clearly show x anime is actually even better than some other favorites you might have. If you're going to use an academic grading scale argument, I know my professors give 1-2 A+'s to classes of 300-400 students.

On January 08 2013 03:31 Rebs wrote:

And to your point about distinguishing it from everything else. I dont think anyone really has a 20th favourite anime, unless they were forced to pick one

On January 07 2013 17:31 Elem wrote:
This wierd discussion aside, I started watching Tasogare Otome x Amnesia. The anime itself is so far kinda interesting after 4 eps, but holy shit that OP. That god damn OP. I take back what I said from the 2012 review, this is easily best OP 2012 imo.

On January 08 2013 04:29 generalyao wrote:
I thought the ending of TOXA was pretty touching. Well,

+ Show Spoiler +

On January 08 2013 04:30 OutlaW- wrote:

Your spoiler talks about the ending, not the ED, correct?

On January 08 2013 05:07 Ushio wrote:
As long standing Gundam fans, what are your thoughts about Gundam AGE? Worth the watch or better left alone

On September 24 2012 10:37 Sentenal wrote:
At long last, Gundam AGE is over. My TL;DR thoughts on it is that it isn't nearly as bad as it seemed like it was going to be when it was first announced, but its also not nearly as good as it could have been. I'll try to keep spoilers to a minimum here, and put big spoilers in tags.

The thing that makes Gundam AGE what it is, is its Generational mechanic. The show starts off with Flit Asuno, and takes about the start of a war with a mysterious enemy. Then like 20 episodes later, there is a time skip, and Flit's son, Asemu takes over as the MC. And then after that, Asemu's son Kio finishes off the series. I can't really think of any anime in existence that does this. This style has both its good and bad parts. The good part is that its really interesting to see Flit go from an idealistic kid, to a + Show Spoiler + old man by the end. Seeing Asemu go through this, to a lesser extent, was good as well. The bad part is that this means that these 3 different stories all have to be fitted into 50~ episodes with each other, so each individually are shorter than what a normal-length Gundam story would be. But overall, I think the Generational part of AGE was a plus.

Now lets talk a bit about the anime in more detail. Lets start with Generation 1, where Flit was the main character. It starts off rather generic, but it isn't really bad. There is one really boring/bad part of Generation 1, but the conclusion of it was good enough. Additionally, Generation 1 designs seems like they were intentionally made bland, in terms of mecha. Only the AGE-1 Titus I really liked. Generation 1 was also fairly annoying in that the Federation of the time were extremely weak, and lacked the means to fight the new mysterious enemy, other than the Gundam. But at the end, they are finally able to counter attack, and its revealed who the enemy actually is.

Generation 2 is widely considered the best part of AGE. This part had some of the best fights, and the best plot to go along with it. Generation 2 really concentrated on Asemu, and his inferiority complex towards his father, Flit. Unlike the majority of other Gundam protagonists, Asemu wasn't an equivalent to a "Newtype" (or X-Rounder in Age). He was an "Oldtype", meaning totally normal, no special abilities. So much of Generation 2 is Asemu trying to overcome this, to try and live up to his father's expectation. There are alot of cool fights in this part, AGE really loved beam sabers during this. Mecha wise, designs had taken a step up from Generation 1, but nothing really great. AGE-2 was pretty good though.

Finally, we get to Generation 3. In my personal opinion, it went off on a good start, but then about halfway through, just started piling on stupid stuff. This arc is about Kio, Asemu's son. Asemu has disappeared, so he is raised by his grandfather, Flit. Eventually, the war comes to earth, and Kio is gets in the AGE-3 to fight them off. Mecha wise, there are lots of designs I liked. Fight wise, there are some pretty cool fights. But plot wise... Well, I'll spoiler tag all this stuff, since I'll essentially be spoilering the end of the show. If you don't want to read it, the unspoiler version is just that after a certain point in Generation 3, things start getting stupid. + Show Spoiler +

AGE had its ups and downs. The combination of which makes me give the show 6/10. If things had gone different towards the end, this score could have been very different, but oh well.

On January 08 2013 08:07 BlackMagister wrote:
So Medaka Box season 2 did shift genres like I feared it would after watching the season 1 ending. It shifted from a school comedy with a superhuman into a battle anime vs superhumans with lives on the line. The ending of season 2 and from what I've skimmed of wiki makes it seem like season 3 will be even more serious... I'll probably still watch it, but it's depressing. Did the manga have a ratings failure and have to switch into a battle manga or something? Comedies in Shounen Jump fail so they must become battle mangas?