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On April 04 2014 06:00 Ecael wrote:Show nested quote +On April 04 2014 05:27 BigFan wrote:On April 04 2014 05:18 Spazer wrote:
It's an original anime for an original card game.
Oh, and it's by JC Staff. what's wrong with being original?  Well, some of the animes I've seen by JC Staff have been pretty good so that part doesn't bother me lol Depends on the kind of original content that the studio can churn out. More often than not original is just another word for shit.
I swear that BONES is the only studio that can pump out original content and not completely shit the bed. That and the only studio that can have consistently good animation for a full 26 episodes (must be that SquareEnix funding).
Of course, now that they're pumping out like 6 series a year instead of one or two, it's probably down hill from here on out.
Please Kyoto make series again instead of merchandise.
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I think for Bones they run into a really strange problem where they have a good first few episodes, then their middle just falls apart, and then the end kind of ends on a semi-good semi-bizarre/out of place note.
I think the biggest example of this is Bounen no Xam'd. Great first few episodes, then it devolves into....a really boring middle, and then the ending is kind of cool but it's also kind of weird and out of place. It didn't help that the main love interest got little to no development and was super annoying but that was peripheral to some of the other things.
And I know this is probably common in a lot of anime, but I think for Bones specifically it almost feels like a stylistic choice for some of their more original works and it doesn't work as well for me.
I mean it's still a good show, but yeah.
Edit: I picked up this manhwa called Girls of the Wild's. It's a super fun read. :3
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Anyone watched selector infected wixoss? The synopsis sounds fking terrible but i heard ppl from steins gate were working on it. Not sure If i wanna waste bandwidth on this anime
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On April 04 2014 09:54 TAMinator wrote:
Anyone watched selector infected wixoss? The synopsis sounds fking terrible but i heard ppl from steins gate were working on it. Not sure If i wanna waste bandwidth on this anime
The director or something, except s;g is written and produced by Nitro+ and adaptation didn't really do shit. The said people doesn't really matter at all.
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On April 04 2014 09:14 Zergneedsfood wrote:
I picked up this manhwa called Girls of the Wild's. It's a super fun read. :3
yeah much better than most standard romcom harems.
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Girls of the wild... Dat Korean humor stronk. Sometimes gets a grin out of me, mostly makes me roll my eyes and groan lol
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On April 04 2014 10:16 BLinD-RawR wrote:Show nested quote +On April 04 2014 09:14 Zergneedsfood wrote:
I picked up this manhwa called Girls of the Wild's. It's a super fun read. :3 yeah much better than most standard romcom harems.
Meh, I dropped it :/... just got bored + Show Spoiler +of them practically never developing the main character in martial arts or personality wise and introducing a bunch of meaningless side characters instead. Like he's made out to have some great potential or something (from what I can remember) but instead its just endless chapters of Dal Dal pandering and getting bailed out of fights.
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That's my big problem with it too. It was really good at the beginning but it just kind of died down after a bit. Kind of disappointed with the direction that the authors took it. It's like they had a great idea and decided they were just going to push it in all the wrong directions. :/
Not enough real fighting and it gets repetitive since they just beat on gang members all the time. Dal Dal is also super annoying. And that one new wimpy guy they add in is also atrocious.
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Any recent anime that I should keep an eye on?
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I don't know your tastes but I know these are the three I am keeping my eyes out for :
Mushishi season 2
Black Bullet
Knights of Sidonia
edit: also mentioned a few pages back for summer Tokyo Ghoul
Edit: As of this post these aren't out yet, but soon
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knights of sidonia is by the guy who did Blame and NoISE right?(incidentally Knights of Cydonia is my favorite muse song.)
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Aye that would be him. He's pretty messed up in the head, but that's what I like about him lol
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my most anticipated is of course tokyo ghoul though.
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Yea Tokyo Ghoul is just a next level of awesome, if not just as demented at times lol. Tres Bien! Needs an appropriate SAUCE. Ahahaha Cracks me up every time. And every character has dem unique personalities
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On April 04 2014 09:14 Zergneedsfood wrote:
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I think for Bones they run into a really strange problem where they have a good first few episodes, then their middle just falls apart, and then the end kind of ends on a semi-good semi-bizarre/out of place note.
I think the biggest example of this is Bounen no Xam'd. Great first few episodes, then it devolves into....a really boring middle, and then the ending is kind of cool but it's also kind of weird and out of place. It didn't help that the main love interest got little to no development and was super annoying but that was peripheral to some of the other things.
And I know this is probably common in a lot of anime, but I think for Bones specifically it almost feels like a stylistic choice for some of their more original works and it doesn't work as well for me.
I mean it's still a good show, but yeah.
Edit: I picked up this manhwa called Girls of the Wild's. It's a super fun read. :3
Xam'd was just plain weird in general. It was basically Eureka Seven without any of the grounding elements that made that series so good.
I know what you mean, though. Darker Than Black, Eureka Seven, RahXephon, Wolf's Rain, etc. all rely on some weird metaphysical philosophies to tie the stories together. The only reason I like Bones' original series more than other mind-fuck stories is that the characters are almost always the focus, even with the weirdness.
Plus they don't get pretentious with all their in-series philosophy by pretending that everything's some big metaphor.
What they really suck at is sequels...DtB2 and Eureka Seven AO must never be mentioned.
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On April 04 2014 10:53 RuskiPanda wrote:Show nested quote +On April 04 2014 10:16 BLinD-RawR wrote:On April 04 2014 09:14 Zergneedsfood wrote:
I picked up this manhwa called Girls of the Wild's. It's a super fun read. :3 yeah much better than most standard romcom harems. Meh, I dropped it :/... just got bored + Show Spoiler +of them practically never developing the main character in martial arts or personality wise and introducing a bunch of meaningless side characters instead. Like he's made out to have some great potential or something (from what I can remember) but instead its just endless chapters of Dal Dal pandering and getting bailed out of fights.
On April 04 2014 11:38 Zergneedsfood wrote:
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That's my big problem with it too. It was really good at the beginning but it just kind of died down after a bit. Kind of disappointed with the direction that the authors took it. It's like they had a great idea and decided they were just going to push it in all the wrong directions. :/
Not enough real fighting and it gets repetitive since they just beat on gang members all the time. Dal Dal is also super annoying. And that one new wimpy guy they add in is also atrocious.
Sounds like more people need to read Meguru.
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On April 04 2014 13:24 WolfintheSheep wrote:Show nested quote +On April 04 2014 09:14 Zergneedsfood wrote:
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I think for Bones they run into a really strange problem where they have a good first few episodes, then their middle just falls apart, and then the end kind of ends on a semi-good semi-bizarre/out of place note.
I think the biggest example of this is Bounen no Xam'd. Great first few episodes, then it devolves into....a really boring middle, and then the ending is kind of cool but it's also kind of weird and out of place. It didn't help that the main love interest got little to no development and was super annoying but that was peripheral to some of the other things.
And I know this is probably common in a lot of anime, but I think for Bones specifically it almost feels like a stylistic choice for some of their more original works and it doesn't work as well for me.
I mean it's still a good show, but yeah.
Edit: I picked up this manhwa called Girls of the Wild's. It's a super fun read. :3 Xam'd was just plain weird in general. It was basically Eureka Seven without any of the grounding elements that made that series so good. I know what you mean, though. Darker Than Black, Eureka Seven, RahXephon, Wolf's Rain, etc. all rely on some weird metaphysical philosophies to tie the stories together. The only reason I like Bones' original series more than other mind-fuck stories is that the characters are almost always the focus, even with the weirdness. Plus they don't get pretentious with all their in-series philosophy by pretending that everything's some big metaphor. What they really suck at is sequels...DtB2 and Eureka Seven AO must never be mentioned.
Eh, I thought E7 was fairly average and Xam'd was much better.
Also, I think I'm one of the few people in this thread that really like DtB...I thought that shit was super boring through and through. It was boring to begin with....and then the show went Bones-mode and did the boring middle and I literally had to drag myself across the finish line because somebody said the end would be worth it or something....and it wasn't.
I have not watched RahXephon or Wolf's Rain though. I was supposed to watch Wolf's Rain earlier with Elem, but I have yet gotten past episode 2. It's a good OST and the story is intriguing, just haven't found time.
I watched 10 seconds of RahXephon and turned it off. Eh. Maybe I'll get to it someday. Not a high priority pick for me.
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On April 04 2014 13:32 Zergneedsfood wrote:Show nested quote +On April 04 2014 13:24 WolfintheSheep wrote:On April 04 2014 09:14 Zergneedsfood wrote:
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I think for Bones they run into a really strange problem where they have a good first few episodes, then their middle just falls apart, and then the end kind of ends on a semi-good semi-bizarre/out of place note.
I think the biggest example of this is Bounen no Xam'd. Great first few episodes, then it devolves into....a really boring middle, and then the ending is kind of cool but it's also kind of weird and out of place. It didn't help that the main love interest got little to no development and was super annoying but that was peripheral to some of the other things.
And I know this is probably common in a lot of anime, but I think for Bones specifically it almost feels like a stylistic choice for some of their more original works and it doesn't work as well for me.
I mean it's still a good show, but yeah.
Edit: I picked up this manhwa called Girls of the Wild's. It's a super fun read. :3 Xam'd was just plain weird in general. It was basically Eureka Seven without any of the grounding elements that made that series so good. I know what you mean, though. Darker Than Black, Eureka Seven, RahXephon, Wolf's Rain, etc. all rely on some weird metaphysical philosophies to tie the stories together. The only reason I like Bones' original series more than other mind-fuck stories is that the characters are almost always the focus, even with the weirdness. Plus they don't get pretentious with all their in-series philosophy by pretending that everything's some big metaphor. What they really suck at is sequels...DtB2 and Eureka Seven AO must never be mentioned. Eh, I thought E7 was fairly average and Xam'd was much better. Also, I think I'm one of the few people in this thread that really like DtB...I thought that shit was super boring through and through. It was boring to begin with....and then the show went Bones-mode and did the boring middle and I literally had to drag myself across the finish line because somebody said the end would be worth it or something....and it wasn't. I have not watched RahXephon or Wolf's Rain though. I was supposed to watch Wolf's Rain earlier with Elem, but I have yet gotten past episode 2. It's a good OST and the story is intriguing, just haven't found time. I watched 10 seconds of RahXephon and turned it off. Eh. Maybe I'll get to it someday. Not a high priority pick for me.
You either enjoy the metaphysics wackiness or you don't.
But that still leaves Heroman, Star Driver and Space Dandy for plain-old dumb fun.
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I remember Heroman, haha. I watched I think one episode or something. Was kind of fun...or maybe I just read a good portion of the manga or something. @__@
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Blade and Soul first impressions:
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Crazy badass MC cutting everyone is good. Made better by the fact that Aruka has white hair, and now it's short. These are very good things.
What's bad is the action and animation which seem subpar. My friend pointed out the sound effects and a couple times they were pretty cringe-worthy. Dialogue in certain areas was decent. Overall setting and especially the background evil characters need more backstory, but the first episode was more focused on big fights to draw attention so it's ok that I'm not entirely sure what's going on yet. Good guy side characters, especially the town-leader girl whose name I've already forgotten, need to improve/exist.
If it doesn't impress me by episode 5 I might drop it. Impressing me would likely involve MC talking more (I get if she has a quiet personality / rage and doesn't want to talk much, but you can't have an MC that never actually interacts with anyone besides stabbing) and/or Marina Inoue's character being awesome. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
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