EPTHas my name, has yanagi nagi, has hanakana, has komatsu mikako, has miuna, has drama, has + Show Spoiler +
hayamin getting 1-2 lines (voicing a dead character) in the last episode lol.
Now Eca has to watch it.
AOTS.
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Nagisama
Canada4481 Posts
Has my name, has yanagi nagi, has hanakana, has komatsu mikako, has miuna, has drama, has + Show Spoiler + Now Eca has to watch it. AOTS. | ||
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KazeHydra
Japan2788 Posts
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Naphal
Germany2099 Posts
On April 04 2014 13:24 WolfintheSheep wrote: 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. E7 AO had such good music though <.< the only strong point sadly, well it can compare with last exile 2 xD oh and stereopony ed ofc, but i dont want to spam to much. | ||
BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
The Sea God hearing Miuna's and Manaka's feelings and not realizing that the love in ojishi's heart that he decided to seal away was actually for him and not for her former lover did seem a bit odd but since they've had everything blending together, the feelings being realized would work. Miuna moving away from her feelings for Hikari is probably the only part that I feel maybe needed more clarity although I think she came to see Manaka's own feelings and accepted them. She's also got that other guy in her class who likes her and I think she's more likely to give him a chance now. Nice to see it end on a good note for all including poor Kaname and the ending of Hikari and Manaka talking about their feelings even though they never explicitly mention them was just the right ending. Too bad we'll never get to see them date or become grownups or something lol. Z Ignition: happened as I thought it would. + Show Spoiler + Part of the angels plotting against the other angels was funny lol. ok episode but the ending with everyone just leaving at once seemed out of the blue. On the bright side, it does mean that there is more to the story though hard to tell if there'll be more anime or not though.  | ||
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RuskiPanda
United States2906 Posts
On April 04 2014 13:37 WolfintheSheep wrote: 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. Star Driver could have been fun if they didn't recycle so much animation -_-. Rahxephon was ok... felt like it was trying to one up evangelion in pseudo-mysticism/symbolism too much though. | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50607 Posts
On April 04 2014 14:39 InfSunday wrote: Blade and Soul first impressions: + Show Spoiler + 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. + Show Spoiler + its funny how the things you pointed about was apparent within the first minute of the show | ||
Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
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BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50607 Posts
On April 04 2014 18:44 Kipsate wrote: Is it just me or is the animation in Blade and Soul fucking terrible. no, its not just you, it really is fucking terrible. | ||
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On April 04 2014 18:26 RuskiPanda wrote: Star Driver could have been fun if they didn't recycle so much animation -_-. Rahxephon was ok... felt like it was trying to one up evangelion in pseudo-mysticism/symbolism too much though. RahXephon was like...Evangelion where the director didn't go off his rocker at the end. And where the Aztec/Mayan/Pre-Columbian references were at least connected to the end, instead of "Angels and God and Bible, now consciousness Blob". | ||
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Emnjay808
United States10665 Posts
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
On April 04 2014 08:28 Kipsate wrote: why the fuck would either of the two of you go mid unless we come to a mutual argement that we just have you guys 1v1 SF each other while we all sit back and watch which is not that bad of an idea. that's actually a decent idea imo. We could just play normal, ignore the Toad vs emnjay mid and make a toad vs emnjay SF 1v1 afterwards as a bonus grudgematch. On April 04 2014 19:14 Emnjay808 wrote: Wow this SYD was REALLY good. Lots of Uomi x Tsuda x Shino foreplay. yeah probably one of the best episodes it had. | ||
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Reaper9
United States1724 Posts
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
[12:32:04] <Emnjay808> hey toad [12:32:07] <Emnjay808> some new stuff came out [12:32:16] <Toad|> ? [12:32:22] <Toad|> like what [12:32:23] <Emnjay808> anime season [12:32:35] <Emnjay808> i have infected wixoss [12:32:41] <Darth_> Blade and Soul toad [12:32:42] <Emnjay808> and the bokura minna kawa anime dling [12:32:54] <Darth_> its got a lot of plot [12:32:56] <Toad|> "infected wixoss" please tell me there's nothing that's called like that [12:33:06] <Toad|> because wixoss is pretty much the noun for wanking in german [12:33:13] <Emnjay808> selector infected WIXOSS [12:33:15] <Toad|> that's disturbing [12:46:58] <Toad|> I'm still freaked out by that name btw [12:46:59] <Toad|> http://www.moviepilot.de/files/images/0253/7722/wixxer.jpg [SFW] [12:47:03] <Toad|> that's "the wanker" In case people didn't know. Technically speaking it's written with an CH instead of XX but both is fine really ever since that movie. So now everyone knows what that anime is about! | ||
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Reaper9
United States1724 Posts
On April 04 2014 18:49 BLinD-RawR wrote: no, its not just you, it really is fucking terrible. There is a reason they call terrible animations Gone Gonzo/ Gonzo quality LOL... Blazblue was my first experience with them for the 2nd game... or rather, the first time I was made painfully aware of them XD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mdh7XFNzpM... 2nd one is a MAD remix...but you'll see their animation in all their glory. Also from Blazblue. From wikipedia. [6]+ Show Spoiler + Financial issues[edit] The studio had a financial problem in their closing account in the 2008-2009 term and stated its deficit was estimated over 30 million dollars. The Tokyo Stock Exchange announced that on July 30, 2009 Gonzo would be delisted from the exchange. This delisting is the conclusion of a notification made to investors in March 2008 that the studio's financial liabilities exceeded its total financial assets. Since Gonzo was unable to reverse this, paperwork for delisting was filed at the end of June.[2] The studio is still able to operate, and its parent company GDH has absorbed it in an effort to consolidate management. The combined company now simply refers to itself as Gonzo.[3] By April 2009, the merger was complete. As part of the restructuring, GDH also sold the Gonzo Rosso game development subsidiary, GDH Capital financing subsidiary, and remaining shares of Tablier Communications initially acquired in March 2006.[4] Gonzo Rosso K.K. was sold to Chushou service kikou kabushikigaisha (division of Incubator Bank of Japan, Limited) on 2009-03-31.[5] Since this deficit, Gonzo has started to post better earnings due to the release of titles such as Rosario Vampire to Western online streaming websites such as Netflix. The marketing of these products to western audiences has returned Gonzo to financial stability, and Gonzo posted higher than expected profit margins in the April-September 2012 period. For a studio that animated Hellsing.... hahahahaha. Also the Blade and Soul MMORPG story itself is boring enough. Throw Gonzo in the mix and jiggle physi-...er I mean Humans, the most boring race in the game, and you got yourself an incoming train wreck :D pstttt hint... 90% of the population plays the furry eared race lol. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
On April 04 2014 18:56 WolfintheSheep wrote: RahXephon was like...Evangelion where the director didn't go off his rocker at the end. And where the Aztec/Mayan/Pre-Columbian references were at least connected to the end, instead of "Angels and God and Bible, now consciousness Blob". I still think the references to various religions in Evangelion should just be considered heavy flavoring for the story that Eva wants to tell and shouldn't be used as a means of heavily degrading the value of the work. >.> | ||
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ragz_gt
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But since it (indirectly) produced this epicness, all is forgiven: | ||
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XenOmega
Canada2822 Posts
On April 01 2014 14:25 BigFan wrote: ya, I thought it was great too. The fights were pretty cool and everything that I thought would happen did+got some more story to go on :D + Show Spoiler + I actually hoped against an infinite loop lol. I mean, at some point you'll have to break it or otherwise they'll never be an ending and I figure that's what we(or me lol) and the author wants. I think Aoba figured it out but Dio didn't stop him since he made up his mind. The first time he saw her go through was him thinking about it it seems. I for one am glad that he caught her before she went back in time because I would hate to see the anime end with an infinite loop. It still does feel a bit odd to me that she defected to their side but considering he saved her twice, was there for her and he trusted her, that was enough to convince her that he cares about her and not that she's from Zogilia which is why she was able to couple with him even better than Dio did(>120% :O). Asides from that, being close friends with Bizon and co into defection but I'm glad she defected lol. I wonder how Bizon survived though. I mean, he got blasted and we can only presume he died or if not, he went back in time but then how did he come back after that? He's in a wheelchair and immobile so what does that mean? Hope we gets more explanations at some point because Bizon's case is a bit confusing lol. I think they needed the Guy with the mask (something we see in every Gundam show :D) I don't see how Aoba could have figured it out... but I guess it depends on how the author sees the time travelling thing. If one sees time/events as statics, determined, then unless something changed, things should remain the same. BUT, if things remain the same, its hard to see how Aoba could have figured it out... If one believes humans have a free will and are not determined entirely by their environment, I guess divergence is possible between two pasts... | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
On April 04 2014 20:35 Zergneedsfood wrote: I still think the references to various religions in Evangelion should just be considered heavy flavoring for the story that Eva wants to tell and shouldn't be used as a means of heavily degrading the value of the work. >.> Except that's the most reasonable way of looking at it? On April 04 2014 08:39 WolfintheSheep wrote: 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. Bones had some good runs with their original stuff some years back, nowadays though they are mostly diluted as hell. Though I guess for the most part still entertaining enough to avoid getting labeled trash. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
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BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50607 Posts
On April 05 2014 00:06 Zergneedsfood wrote: ^ Yeah, but a lot of people on other places have told me differently, so I thought I'd just throw that out there. TLADT is the only place that matters. | ||
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