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Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

April 04 2014 15:18 GMT

#73001

Some people in here matter BLinD-RawR. Some people.

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES50754 Posts

April 04 2014 15:21 GMT

#73002

I am not making a contract with you.

Slaughter

United States20254 Posts

April 04 2014 15:24 GMT

#73003

The Claymore manga makes me hate whatever studio was responsible for that anime original ending.

BlackMagister

United States5834 Posts

April 04 2014 16:10 GMT

#73004

I don't blame the anime too much. It was well done until the ending and they really didn't have a choice with making a crappy ending. I doubt Claymore would have gotten a second season even if they had left it open ended anyways.
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Newest chapter builds up a lot of hype though I'm not sure what's the difference between using Teresa's yoki reading ability like she always has and awakening Teresa. I assume the last picture is not literal with Clare becoming Teresa physically, but just her using more of Teresa's strength. Will the manga really end with a "Teresa" vs Priscilla rematch or are we going to have mainland Dragonkin warriors show up or the group going there?

Reaper9

United States1724 Posts

April 04 2014 16:21 GMT

#73005

I see claymore ending soon... My hype meter at claymore was max at 12 for a while, then it fell to 4, now to 6 (does not indicate my like for it, hovers at a respectable 8). Just... this can be a hit or miss, hence my hype meter at 6. (Note that my like meter is 10 max, but my hype meter goes to 12

) So in layman's term, I'm half excited for the awakening, and half apprehensive of the pure bullshit it might pull

.
Although for the last 50 chapters, Yagi was REALLY pulling shit out of his ass,+ Show Spoiler +

trying his hardest not to kill anyone lol. Miria just made me roll my eyes, he might have been planning to kill her, but any semblance of that was probably killed by hate mail lol.

Edit: A better way to express myself, would be to say Claymore is like a Birthday Cake. Things delicious as shit in the beginning, and now it's a somewhat stale, but still edible tasty birthday cake

. It's me thinking "Oh hey, the cream might be going bad soon, but hell, I'll finish it before it does!"

BurningSera

Ireland19621 Posts

April 04 2014 16:40 GMT

#73006

Rahxephon started off really similar to EVA (seriously, even the characters highly resemble to the main characters of Eva lol) but then it pull together the stories of its own, whether you enjoy or not it depends on your taste of the artwork in it, the unique pacing of the story, that rather jazzy soundtrack and some unnecessary (overly) complicated plot. All in all i think one would need some (good) patience to finish the show lol

I didn't really bother to watch it until I played rahxephon in SRW:MX1, his bow attack looks really cool in that. And then it is one of the rare animes that I watch the full OP everytime i started an episode.

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BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES50754 Posts

April 04 2014 16:50 GMT

#73007

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How do you like them apples?
yeah fillers

Spazer

Canada8033 Posts

April 04 2014 17:21 GMT

#73008

On April 05 2014 01:21 Reaper9 wrote:
I see claymore ending soon... My hype meter at claymore was max at 12 for a while, then it fell to 4, now to 6 (does not indicate my like for it, hovers at a respectable 8). Just... this can be a hit or miss, hence my hype meter at 6. (Note that my like meter is 10 max, but my hype meter goes to 12

) So in layman's term, I'm half excited for the awakening, and half apprehensive of the pure bullshit it might pull

.
Although for the last 50 chapters, Yagi was REALLY pulling shit out of his ass,+ Show Spoiler +

trying his hardest not to kill anyone lol. Miria just made me roll my eyes, he might have been planning to kill her, but any semblance of that was probably killed by hate mail lol.

Edit: A better way to express myself, would be to say Claymore is like a Birthday Cake. Things delicious as shit in the beginning, and now it's a somewhat stale, but still edible tasty birthday cake

. It's me thinking "Oh hey, the cream might be going bad soon, but hell, I'll finish it before it does!"

But that description applies to every battle manga where the mangaka panics and prolongs shit needlessly to keep the cash rolling in.

tonight

United States11130 Posts

April 04 2014 18:02 GMT

#73009

I haven't read claymore in quite awhile, but I was enjoying it

Dark_Chill

Canada3353 Posts

April 04 2014 18:18 GMT

#73010

On April 05 2014 01:50 BLinD-RawR wrote:
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How do you like them apples?
yeah fillers

As if almost everything wasn't.

Also, Kenichi gonna need a pretty big asspull to get out of this one looks like.

Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

April 04 2014 19:04 GMT

#73011

+ Show Spoiler [nsfhkf (not safe for hanakana fans)] +

TUTURUUUUUU~~~

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Someone (*cough* popo *cough*) posted this on Nagi's wall. Needed to repost. HAHAHAHAHAHA

Kipsate

Netherlands45349 Posts

April 04 2014 19:12 GMT

#73012

not cool

V0ren

Netherlands233 Posts

April 04 2014 19:14 GMT

#73013

That is one of the most disturbing and hilarious things I have seen in some time.

tonight

United States11130 Posts

April 04 2014 19:14 GMT

#73014

Hahahah

Spazer

Canada8033 Posts

April 04 2014 19:18 GMT

#73015

There's more where that came from. IIRC it has its own tag.

ragz_gt

9172 Posts

April 04 2014 21:06 GMT

#73016

Mushishi time

Yorbon

Netherlands4272 Posts

April 04 2014 21:14 GMT

#73017

hahaha, wtf.

First mushishi was good. It seemed a little less specific on mushi 'type' than most episodes during season one if i recall correctly, but for a first episode of the second season it was nice.

Maxie

Sweden2653 Posts

April 04 2014 21:36 GMT

#73018

Mushishi was relaxed

Jojo was hype

Sentenal

United States12398 Posts

April 04 2014 21:55 GMT

#73019

On April 04 2014 20:35 Zergneedsfood wrote:

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On April 04 2014 18:56 WolfintheSheep wrote:

On April 04 2014 18:26 RuskiPanda wrote:

On April 04 2014 13:37 WolfintheSheep wrote:

On April 04 2014 13:32 Zergneedsfood wrote:

On April 04 2014 13:24 WolfintheSheep wrote:

On April 04 2014 09:14 Zergneedsfood wrote:
^

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.

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".

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. >.>

"Flavoring" is a positive way of putting it, but it definitely should be used as a means of degrading the value of the work, since it degrades the value of the work.