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On July 08 2014 15:36 Kipsate wrote:
Wait so is the first ep all we gon see of Hanakana in Tokyo Ghoul?
that would be dissapointing.
+ Show Spoiler [possibly big spoiler] +I heard she's not actually dead and she comes back in some way. I donno, once i read the sentence "she's not really gone" i closed the page so I wouldn't be spoiled more than that
On July 08 2014 14:29 BigFan wrote:Show nested quote +On July 06 2014 21:51 ForTehDarkseid wrote:First time quality posting in TL's Media section, let's do it, would appreciate any kind of feedback. First batch of summer ongoings watched and reviewed. Tokyo Ghoul 9/10: + Show Spoiler ++ Show Spoiler [About that intro] +Hey Jason you know your metal mask sucks even more than usual and how dare you are getting your ass owned by stupid girl once again. Don't you remember what your dear mother taught you, you useless piece of shit, huh?! Honestly, wasn't fond of direction and plot handling for first half of episode at all, but the second part is alone worth the praise. Touka is so much Noein it hurts, guro handled right is delicious. Sailor Moon Crystal 8/10: + Show Spoiler +Usagi's seiyu is doing a tremendous work, didn't expect it, hands up for her! Animation, coloring and scene direction are top-notch, direct manga adaptation at it's finest, OP and ED are crazy good, but god, how I hate this fucking cat! Tuxedo is a crappy retard dude, too. And I'd have to wait to for a course to see Venus and Uranus in action once again, right? Rail Wars 8/10: + Show Spoiler +Couldn't care less about visual approach, sub-par music and cheap, even broken sometimes, animation, stereotype stereotype characters, obnoxious fanservice and all that fansy stuff we usually tediously nitpick. I came here for delicous knowledge bombs drops and I left satisfied and hungry for more, after I was prepaired to instadrop the show after PV. Sailor Moon: + Show Spoiler +wait a course? what do you mean? I want to see Sailor Mercury in action. I think she was my favourite back when I watched it as a kid lol. Good episode though I wish Usagi stops crying so much! lol. I guess that'll improve slowly after she becomes sailor moon. The cat isn't that bad, at least he's trying to guide her though I think he should've explained things a lot more. Tokyo Ghoul: + Show Spoiler +so bloody lol. The concept is quite interesting though I wonder just what kind of approach they want to take with this. Well, I dunno, first part wasn't that bad lol. I mean, they presented the story and it seems like it'll be quite an interesting one. Will definitely be watching it  Rail Wars! + Show Spoiler +This was actually pretty entertaining lol. A bit of fanservice but meh. So, I guess they'll be fighting crimes for the rest of the anime. Could get pretty good depending on what types of crimes and security needs arise. ya, lots of knowledge and info which is good. Music was ok, nothing special. Will definitely keep an eye on this one as well Akame ga Kill: + Show Spoiler +can't believe they killed his friends :/ I guess it was the best way to make him join night raid and make him realize this how messed up the imperial capital is. This looks like it could be really good! lol. Can't wait to see what happens next. Hope they eventually get to that prime minister and in turn helps the citizens (you know they likely will lol) :D
+ Show Spoiler [Akame ga Kill] + I was shocked to say the least, that that family was so twisted like that. My brother said as soon as the girl said "I think you'll see your friends soon enough" he thought that the dude was gonna wake up in a dungeon with them. He wasn't far off. Still, I wasn't expecting his friends to be any sort of characters of substance. I'm definitely way into this one though!
+ Show Spoiler [rail wars] + I think it's gonna get more complicated than "just fighting crimes" thing. But who knows, maybe it'll end up just being fanservice with little to no storyline. Still, it hasn't gone downhill so far that i'd drop it yet.
+ Show Spoiler [Tokyo Ghoul] + From what i can tell, it's gonna be your basic half human-half monster MC that becomes insanely strong b/c he's half of each or something. I've definitely seen this a few times in anime, and while it's somewhat of a repeated idea, it could turn into a really great show. First half was a little slow, and the MC was really annoying, but that 2nd half got so bloody and made up for it definitely!
On a side note, only 2 more episodes of Bakemonogatari until i've finished. Definitely really into it, but it's not as easy to marathon as the other ones i've done this summer so far. Still, I now know..that when i'm in arguments over whether or not Anime is an amazing art form...I can shove that show down all the cinema-snobs throats. It's a debate i've had numerous times, and usually the cinema artists are the hardest ones to convert to my thinking...and Bake is right up their alley.
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On July 08 2014 09:38 KazeHydra wrote:
Are we really judging anime based on the number of genres it covers? Jinsui should've already explained why this is dumb.
That's partly how anime industry works. If you are mecha or shoujo or shoujo-ai fan, for example, in most cases you are going to start watching given shows based on the sole fact it made in your favorite genre, and meet show more friendly than usual because next season such opportunity might not exist (because else you aren't watching ongoings at all, only completed shows, most probable oldschool), therefore it only seems rational to merit the season by it's diversity.
From experience, it should be more convincing than presenting to your opponent certain major hits that aired season (let's take last season for a nice example). Mushishi S2, JoJo Bizarre Adventures, Ping Pong, Matsutaro Sumoist and Hitsugi no Chaika are all insanely good and that should be enough for everybody.. if everybody watched the same thing, that's it. There wasn't a single shoujo show at Spring 2014, can't you see that season was garbage, guys.
@BigFan
Sailor Moon Crystal: + Show Spoiler + Show is confirmed to be 2-cour, and it seems that Uranus, Neptune and Mercury don't come untill the second part. Cat is just extremely annoying in everything it does, and as my childhood washed memories tell me that's even not it's final form, lol
Akame ga Kill:+ Show Spoiler + It's kind of refreshing to see morally grey main characters trend growing after how much I've enjoyed Bones' Chaika previous season. After White Fox's previous greytoned-to- death-with-terrible-CG-to-boot take on professional assasins (Jormungand), this one is bloody, colorful, and has cute girls, which is definetely a step into right direction.
Nobody could have predicted the twist with MC's friends, it was really, really nice.
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Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii is shoujo. The industry also does its best to make sure every major genre that sells is present in any given cour. Diversity is a given in this day and age.
I should also have some comments about how hooks function but I'll wait a few weeks or till the season ends for that, I think.
On July 08 2014 15:44 Ryuhou)aS( wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2014 15:36 Kipsate wrote:
Wait so is the first ep all we gon see of Hanakana in Tokyo Ghoul?
that would be dissapointing. + Show Spoiler [possibly big spoiler] +I heard she's not actually dead and she comes back in some way. I donno, once i read the sentence "she's not really gone" i closed the page so I wouldn't be spoiled more than that Show nested quote +On July 08 2014 14:29 BigFan wrote:On July 06 2014 21:51 ForTehDarkseid wrote:First time quality posting in TL's Media section, let's do it, would appreciate any kind of feedback. First batch of summer ongoings watched and reviewed. Tokyo Ghoul 9/10: + Show Spoiler ++ Show Spoiler [About that intro] +Hey Jason you know your metal mask sucks even more than usual and how dare you are getting your ass owned by stupid girl once again. Don't you remember what your dear mother taught you, you useless piece of shit, huh?! Honestly, wasn't fond of direction and plot handling for first half of episode at all, but the second part is alone worth the praise. Touka is so much Noein it hurts, guro handled right is delicious. Sailor Moon Crystal 8/10: + Show Spoiler +Usagi's seiyu is doing a tremendous work, didn't expect it, hands up for her! Animation, coloring and scene direction are top-notch, direct manga adaptation at it's finest, OP and ED are crazy good, but god, how I hate this fucking cat! Tuxedo is a crappy retard dude, too. And I'd have to wait to for a course to see Venus and Uranus in action once again, right? Rail Wars 8/10: + Show Spoiler +Couldn't care less about visual approach, sub-par music and cheap, even broken sometimes, animation, stereotype stereotype characters, obnoxious fanservice and all that fansy stuff we usually tediously nitpick. I came here for delicous knowledge bombs drops and I left satisfied and hungry for more, after I was prepaired to instadrop the show after PV. Sailor Moon: + Show Spoiler +wait a course? what do you mean? I want to see Sailor Mercury in action. I think she was my favourite back when I watched it as a kid lol. Good episode though I wish Usagi stops crying so much! lol. I guess that'll improve slowly after she becomes sailor moon. The cat isn't that bad, at least he's trying to guide her though I think he should've explained things a lot more. Tokyo Ghoul: + Show Spoiler +so bloody lol. The concept is quite interesting though I wonder just what kind of approach they want to take with this. Well, I dunno, first part wasn't that bad lol. I mean, they presented the story and it seems like it'll be quite an interesting one. Will definitely be watching it Rail Wars! + Show Spoiler +This was actually pretty entertaining lol. A bit of fanservice but meh. So, I guess they'll be fighting crimes for the rest of the anime. Could get pretty good depending on what types of crimes and security needs arise. ya, lots of knowledge and info which is good. Music was ok, nothing special. Will definitely keep an eye on this one as well Akame ga Kill: + Show Spoiler +can't believe they killed his friends :/ I guess it was the best way to make him join night raid and make him realize this how messed up the imperial capital is. This looks like it could be really good! lol. Can't wait to see what happens next. Hope they eventually get to that prime minister and in turn helps the citizens (you know they likely will lol) :D + Show Spoiler [Akame ga Kill] + I was shocked to say the least, that that family was so twisted like that. My brother said as soon as the girl said "I think you'll see your friends soon enough" he thought that the dude was gonna wake up in a dungeon with them. He wasn't far off. Still, I wasn't expecting his friends to be any sort of characters of substance. I'm definitely way into this one though! I think it's gonna get more complicated than "just fighting crimes" thing. But who knows, maybe it'll end up just being fanservice with little to no storyline. Still, it hasn't gone downhill so far that i'd drop it yet. From what i can tell, it's gonna be your basic half human-half monster MC that becomes insanely strong b/c he's half of each or something. I've definitely seen this a few times in anime, and while it's somewhat of a repeated idea, it could turn into a really great show. First half was a little slow, and the MC was really annoying, but that 2nd half got so bloody and made up for it definitely! On a side note, only 2 more episodes of Bakemonogatari until i've finished. Definitely really into it, but it's not as easy to marathon as the other ones i've done this summer so far. Still, I now know..that when i'm in arguments over whether or not Anime is an amazing art form...I can shove that show down all the cinema-snobs throats. It's a debate i've had numerous times, and usually the cinema artists are the hardest ones to convert to my thinking...and Bake is right up their alley.
The art flick people that also watch anime here hates bake for the most part lol
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On July 08 2014 16:13 Ecael wrote:
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii is shoujo. The industry also does its best to make sure every major genre that sells is present in any given cour. Diversity is a given in this day and age.
I should also have some comments about how hooks function but I'll wait a few weeks or till the season ends for that, I think.
crap I forgot about that show despite watching it half through, my bad. I remember being other spring seasons being diverse almost every year too, but when it's Summer Holiday Season, that's a different case.
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On July 08 2014 15:50 ForTehDarkseid wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2014 09:38 KazeHydra wrote:
Are we really judging anime based on the number of genres it covers? Jinsui should've already explained why this is dumb. That's partly how anime industry works. If you are mecha or shoujo or shoujo-ai fan, for example, in most cases you are going to start watching given shows based on the sole fact it made in your favorite genre, and meet show more friendly than usual because next season such opportunity might not exist (because else you aren't watching ongoings at all, only completed shows, most probable oldschool), therefore it only seems rational to merit the season by it's diversity. From experience, it should be more convincing than presenting to your opponent certain major hits that aired season (let's take last season for a nice example). Mushishi S2, JoJo Bizarre Adventures, Ping Pong, Matsutaro Sumoist and Hitsugi no Chaika are all insanely good and that should be enough for everybody.. if everybody watched the same thing, that's it. There wasn't a single shoujo show at Spring 2014, can't you see season is garbage, guys.
The value of a season should consider the quality of the shows, rather than (arbitrary) categorization. That you ignore other significant factors indicates that you have entirely shallow desires. The industry "working" in one way does not require that the way is right or even relevant in judging a season; in fact, I would even say that how television happens to be scheduled has nothing to do with seasonal quality (at least, in this context). How a show is able to attract initial viewers has little to do with the quality of the show - and, ultimately, the quality of the season; otherwise, the industry would comprise of only single-episode shorts designed to maximize initial viewers (and we would all be happy about that).
You also reject several other initial "selling points" of anime in favor of only genre; however, I wouldn't be surprised if the largest informants about prospective quality were source materials rather than genre. If genre alone were the sole (or even most important) factor, then a season of only known stories would still be considered great if the genres were diverse, despite flaws known about the sources.
Furthermore, if we accepted your idea that a season is valued primarily for genre diversity, then entire seasons would be no different to audiences of equally diverse tastes. There are plenty of people who watch anime, and many enjoy multiple genres; however, there are clearly different opinions about entire seasons (source: this thread) because genre itself is not an ultimate factor.
Finally, if looking merely at the diversity of genre were a good enough observation to judge a season as worthwhile, then it would be an equally valid proposition to look only at other, shallow factors to judge seasons. I propose that shows with the words "the," "and" or "dog" in their titles airing concurrently in a season makes seasons good, and I hope you have no issues with that.
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On July 08 2014 16:13 Ecael wrote:
The art flick people that also watch anime here hates bake for the most part lol
I'm never gonna win aren't I?
On July 08 2014 16:36 Zeke50100 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2014 15:50 ForTehDarkseid wrote:On July 08 2014 09:38 KazeHydra wrote:
Are we really judging anime based on the number of genres it covers? Jinsui should've already explained why this is dumb. That's partly how anime industry works. If you are mecha or shoujo or shoujo-ai fan, for example, in most cases you are going to start watching given shows based on the sole fact it made in your favorite genre, and meet show more friendly than usual because next season such opportunity might not exist (because else you aren't watching ongoings at all, only completed shows, most probable oldschool), therefore it only seems rational to merit the season by it's diversity. From experience, it should be more convincing than presenting to your opponent certain major hits that aired season (let's take last season for a nice example). Mushishi S2, JoJo Bizarre Adventures, Ping Pong, Matsutaro Sumoist and Hitsugi no Chaika are all insanely good and that should be enough for everybody.. if everybody watched the same thing, that's it. There wasn't a single shoujo show at Spring 2014, can't you see season is garbage, guys. The value of a season should consider the quality of the shows, rather than (arbitrary) categorization. That you ignore other significant factors indicates that you have entirely shallow desires. The industry "working" in one way does not require that the way is right or even relevant in judging a season; in fact, I would even say that how television happens to be scheduled has nothing to do with seasonal quality (at least, in this context). How a show is able to attract initial viewers has little to do with the quality of the show - and, ultimately, the quality of the season; otherwise, the industry would comprise of only single-episode shorts designed to maximize initial viewers (and we would all be happy about that). You also reject several other initial "selling points" of anime in favor of only genre; however, I wouldn't be surprised if the largest informants about prospective quality were source materials rather than genre. If genre alone were the sole (or even most important) factor, then a season of only known stories would still be considered great if the genres were diverse, despite flaws known about the sources. Furthermore, if we accepted your idea that a season is valued primarily for genre diversity, then entire seasons would be no different to audiences of equally diverse tastes. There are plenty of people who watch anime, and many enjoy multiple genres; however, there are clearly different opinions about entire seasons (source: this thread) because genre itself is not an ultimate factor. Finally, if looking merely at the diversity of genre were a good enough observation to judge a season as worthwhile, then it would be an equally valid proposition to look only at other, shallow factors to judge seasons. I propose that shows with the words "the," "and" or "dog" in their titles airing concurrently in a season makes seasons good, and I hope you have no issues with that.
+ Show Spoiler [TLDR] +
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Eh, just because summer isn't a major season historically doesn't make diversity a sign of quality either. The anime broadcasting industry is still in flux, the difference of amount of animes between years for the same season, the stations they are available on, etc. Those are really things affected more heavily by external factors, price of certain timeslots at a particular station and region. Would a season with a ton of anime airing in only say, Hokkaido, be a sign of diversity to you? The fact is that that long running mainstream animes such as doraemon has been on a decline since early 2010s, leading to a stronger push from studios away from golden time toward late night broadcasts. Without these long time staples, the gradual increase of more otaku-targetting anime is honestly inevitable. This isn't a sign of the industry growing bigger either, it is just getting even more specialized at the niche of what you see and call anime.
Quantity is certainly a quality of its own, but for all purposes of a discussion about how good something is...yeah, no.
On July 08 2014 16:42 Ryuhou)aS( wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2014 16:13 Ecael wrote:
The art flick people that also watch anime here hates bake for the most part lol I'm never gonna win aren't I?
You could try to sell it to those people, be my guest o/
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On July 08 2014 16:36 Zeke50100 wrote:
The value of a season should consider the quality of the shows, rather than (arbitrary) categorization. That you ignore other significant factors indicates that you have entirely shallow desires.
I am mostly talking from experience of sci-fi, mecha and shoujo-ai (the most rare shit even nowadays) fans. Before 2012 came you don't have much mecha to chose from, there was only Gundam and Shin Mazinger from 2009 to 2011, and people who for some reason wanted more (or didn't dig the sub-genre) was forced to watch some sub-par cheap shows with power-suit kind of powers like Symphogear, or Viper's Creed or turn their eyes to tokusatsu shows (Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Super Sentai) or whatever else.
There were like 5 sci-fi TV series in a 5 years of 2009-2013 period (Humanity has Declined; Psycho Pass, Shinsekai Yori, - and they both came at best fall season to boot; Space Brothers, Steins;Gate - which didn't fully satisfy me for example, despite people constantly praising them, hah), even-even less of shoujo-ai, so as much as things are looking good now, don't take it for granted - it took signifact amount of time to get here.
If genre alone were the sole (or even most important) factor, then a season of only known stories would still be considered great if the genres were diverse, despite flaws known about the sources.
Yeah, that's basically what mecha and shonen [and arguably shoujo, though mainly in manga form] are all about, welcome aboard.
Furthermore, if we accepted your idea that a season is valued primarily for genre diversity, then entire seasons would be no different to audiences of equally diverse tastes. There are plenty of people who watch anime, and many enjoy multiple genres; however, there are clearly different opinions about entire seasons (source: this thread) because genre itself is not an ultimate factor.
It's still better than arguing about OPINIONS to death.
Finally, if looking merely at the diversity of genre were a good enough observation to judge a season as worthwhile, then it would be an equally valid proposition to look only at other, shallow factors to judge seasons. I propose that shows with the words "the," "and" or "dog" in their titles airing concurrently in a season makes seasons good, and I hope you have no issues with that.
As long as you have solid arguments for that point of view, I would take any shit, I am that kind of guy.
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I watched the first episode of Hanayamata. It's hard to justify watching this just for the pretty colours over reading the manga.
The colours are really pretty though. Think nogenora style. Same director actually.
Also, there are still people using the word shoujo-ai?
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First episode of Hanayamata had some pretty cringey parts, but I sense potential from it. I feel like, for the first time ever, I may actually like the meganekko the most. But I'm cheating and not including the Toyomegu teacher, which is a bias of mine. :3
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My take: I realize that many people have certain genres that they like watching and others that they shy away from however as an example, even if a season has a ton of romcoms (assuming many viewers love that genre), if the quality of those anime is poor (art, story etc...) then those romcoms won't be watched much. In other words, while having a diverse set of anime can be a good idea (can consider different genres here), it can backfire if their quality is pretty bad since most viewers will drop them within an episode or two. Best way to maintain viewers is to give them an intriguing story withholding just enough information to keep them guessing, have interesting characters and interactions and top that off with good art and music. It's a hard mix to get right but it would make for a great anime
Captain Earth: + Show Spoiler +Akari lol. Good to see Hana finally use blume, crazy good! Also, the whole you won't like what you see seems like a common theme in a lot of anime I've seen, not that I mind since I'm sure they'll eventually get together lol. Enjoyed the episode overall. Wonder what'll happen to Setsuna come next episode.
On July 08 2014 15:44 Ryuhou)aS( wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2014 15:36 Kipsate wrote:
Wait so is the first ep all we gon see of Hanakana in Tokyo Ghoul?
that would be dissapointing. + Show Spoiler [possibly big spoiler] +I heard she's not actually dead and she comes back in some way. I donno, once i read the sentence "she's not really gone" i closed the page so I wouldn't be spoiled more than that Show nested quote +On July 08 2014 14:29 BigFan wrote:On July 06 2014 21:51 ForTehDarkseid wrote:First time quality posting in TL's Media section, let's do it, would appreciate any kind of feedback. First batch of summer ongoings watched and reviewed. Tokyo Ghoul 9/10: + Show Spoiler ++ Show Spoiler [About that intro] +Hey Jason you know your metal mask sucks even more than usual and how dare you are getting your ass owned by stupid girl once again. Don't you remember what your dear mother taught you, you useless piece of shit, huh?! Honestly, wasn't fond of direction and plot handling for first half of episode at all, but the second part is alone worth the praise. Touka is so much Noein it hurts, guro handled right is delicious. Sailor Moon Crystal 8/10: + Show Spoiler +Usagi's seiyu is doing a tremendous work, didn't expect it, hands up for her! Animation, coloring and scene direction are top-notch, direct manga adaptation at it's finest, OP and ED are crazy good, but god, how I hate this fucking cat! Tuxedo is a crappy retard dude, too. And I'd have to wait to for a course to see Venus and Uranus in action once again, right? Rail Wars 8/10: + Show Spoiler +Couldn't care less about visual approach, sub-par music and cheap, even broken sometimes, animation, stereotype stereotype characters, obnoxious fanservice and all that fansy stuff we usually tediously nitpick. I came here for delicous knowledge bombs drops and I left satisfied and hungry for more, after I was prepaired to instadrop the show after PV. Sailor Moon: + Show Spoiler +wait a course? what do you mean? I want to see Sailor Mercury in action. I think she was my favourite back when I watched it as a kid lol. Good episode though I wish Usagi stops crying so much! lol. I guess that'll improve slowly after she becomes sailor moon. The cat isn't that bad, at least he's trying to guide her though I think he should've explained things a lot more. Tokyo Ghoul: + Show Spoiler +so bloody lol. The concept is quite interesting though I wonder just what kind of approach they want to take with this. Well, I dunno, first part wasn't that bad lol. I mean, they presented the story and it seems like it'll be quite an interesting one. Will definitely be watching it Rail Wars! + Show Spoiler +This was actually pretty entertaining lol. A bit of fanservice but meh. So, I guess they'll be fighting crimes for the rest of the anime. Could get pretty good depending on what types of crimes and security needs arise. ya, lots of knowledge and info which is good. Music was ok, nothing special. Will definitely keep an eye on this one as well Akame ga Kill: + Show Spoiler +can't believe they killed his friends :/ I guess it was the best way to make him join night raid and make him realize this how messed up the imperial capital is. This looks like it could be really good! lol. Can't wait to see what happens next. Hope they eventually get to that prime minister and in turn helps the citizens (you know they likely will lol) :D + Show Spoiler [Akame ga Kill] + I was shocked to say the least, that that family was so twisted like that. My brother said as soon as the girl said "I think you'll see your friends soon enough" he thought that the dude was gonna wake up in a dungeon with them. He wasn't far off. Still, I wasn't expecting his friends to be any sort of characters of substance. I'm definitely way into this one though! I think it's gonna get more complicated than "just fighting crimes" thing. But who knows, maybe it'll end up just being fanservice with little to no storyline. Still, it hasn't gone downhill so far that i'd drop it yet. From what i can tell, it's gonna be your basic half human-half monster MC that becomes insanely strong b/c he's half of each or something. I've definitely seen this a few times in anime, and while it's somewhat of a repeated idea, it could turn into a really great show. First half was a little slow, and the MC was really annoying, but that 2nd half got so bloody and made up for it definitely! On a side note, only 2 more episodes of Bakemonogatari until i've finished. Definitely really into it, but it's not as easy to marathon as the other ones i've done this summer so far. Still, I now know..that when i'm in arguments over whether or not Anime is an amazing art form...I can shove that show down all the cinema-snobs throats. It's a debate i've had numerous times, and usually the cinema artists are the hardest ones to convert to my thinking...and Bake is right up their alley.
Akame: + Show Spoiler +well, we were told that the capital is pretty twisted so it's not that surprising when you think about it. They just played nice so that they can drug him and torture him later on.
Rail Wars: + Show Spoiler +well, of course, it's not that simple but that's the general approach in this show it seems. Regardless, I think it'll be a fun ride and I'm all ready
On July 08 2014 15:50 ForTehDarkseid wrote:@BigFan Sailor Moon Crystal: + Show Spoiler + Show is confirmed to be 2-cour, and it seems that Uranus, Neptune and Mercury don't come untill the second part. Cat is just extremely annoying in everything it does, and as my childhood washed memories tell me that's even not it's final form, lol Akame ga Kill: + Show Spoiler + It's kind of refreshing to see morally grey main characters trend growing after how much I've enjoyed Bones' Chaika previous season. After White Fox's previous greytoned-to- death-with-terrible-CG-to-boot take on professional assasins (Jormungand), this one is bloody, colorful, and has cute girls, which is definetely a step into right direction.
Nobody could have predicted the twist with MC's friends, it was really, really nice.
Sailor Moon: + Show Spoiler +nooooooooo! We saw some of Mercury at the end of the first episode so I figured maybe soon. I mean, I don't mind if she doesn't get in by the next episode or two but still, at least before the first cour is up. lol at the cat's final form. Cat confirmed for frieza?  Well, unfortunately, I don't remember much from my childhood in regards to Sailor Moon asides from Blue being my favourite and some episode where they end up being in some lake with Tuxedo (all of them I think) splashing each other after some fight. Regardless, as long as I can get over Usagi's voice acting (it feels really high pitched), I think I'll enjoy this XD
Akame: + Show Spoiler +ah yes, of course. I think this will be a fun anime to watch and yes, some cute girls. It's not as bloody as tokyo ghoul but not that far either. I'm interested in the background of the different characters so I'm hoping for some good stuff there and for good character interactions and such
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Updated with the summer chart, sorry for the delay!
Personally excited for Aldnoah.Zero, and Tokyo Ghoul (though I think the manga is just fine)
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On July 08 2014 17:48 konadora wrote:
Updated with the summer chart, sorry for the delay!
Personally excited for Aldnoah.Zero, and Tokyo Ghoul (though I think the manga is just fine)
No worries No Akame ga Kill?
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Akame has lots of moe stuffs in it, to the point that I find death flags in it are so adorable. It might doesn't make sense to anyone who doesn't read the manga though lol
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Sent if you dropped it because of the death of that girl then you shouldn't lol
Caused you are gonna miss some amazing fightings soon and more adorable characters will show up (that Loli Jesus i usually don't fandom any Loli but she makes me want to protect her >_>)
On July 08 2014 15:36 Kipsate wrote:
Wait so is the first ep all we gon see of Hanakana in Tokyo Ghoul?
that would be dissapointing.
If you saw my post the other day, i said that she probably won't show up again unless the season is really long or they might go as far as showing her in the end of the season as a cliffhanger.
The show is about alot of twisted stuffs in humanity (and great fighting scenes). Highly recommend for any gore (and blood) lover, that male character appeared at the very first scene against the hot girl? Goddamn he is the sickest bastard I have seen in any movie/tvshow lol
+ Show Spoiler +He later served as as a level up tool for main character, that part has so much pain. So mch pain.
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PLANETES 14
AWW YES
+ Show Spoiler +wait is over.. they finally got together.. i think ? need to make sure with the next EP
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On July 08 2014 17:43 BigFan wrote:
My take: I realize that many people have certain genres that they like watching and others that they shy away from however as an example, even if a season has a ton of romcoms (assuming many viewers love that genre), if the quality of those anime is poor (art, story etc...) then those romcoms won't be watched much. In other words, while having a diverse set of anime can be a good idea (can consider different genres here), it can backfire if their quality is pretty bad since most viewers will drop them within an episode or two.
Yeah, ofc it can always backfire, but anime industy isn't that collaborative planning conglomerate in my eyes, every maker and studio competes with each other. On the other hand, not many anime fans can rather objectively judge the quality of niche anime that doesn't appeal to them, while genre distribution should be clear for anyone)
Sailor Moon: + Show Spoiler +I messed up again, what a day! You're totally right about Mercury, she would be right from the beginning, I though we were speaking about a girl with OP death destruction abilities which is named after Saturn, haha, I mean it was so freshing to see it her at first time and medium went insta massproducting that character type after, or so it seems, so I guess she was quite popular, too.
The worst thing about cat is that it starts obnoxiously teaching Usagi how to act in real life to the point where latter would always inevitable fail because how pressuring those "wise" advices are, this is a one unnecessary prolonged joke if I've ever seen one. And than cat would sometimes interfere in daily lives of other Sailor Warriors, some damage would be caused because of her (in)decisions, and then there would come even more cats, one of them is Luna's (name of the said cat) love interest and they would act as lovey-dovey drugged retards all the time.
And then comes their's cat daughter from future, and in the film cat becomes a human, which doesn't positively change a single trait in her character , she is even more sloppier and now has means to control situation not only orally, but physically too. Add "omg so kawaii" acting to that, and you'll understand why film bombed like no tomorrow, hahaha.
Maybe it won't reach that level of tiring in remake, but holy poly in first episode her dialogue is totally unpolished and taken from manga word by word, so she speaks generic awkward sounding one-liners in over-generic cat voice, which doesn't boot my confidence in better future at all.
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On July 08 2014 17:06 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
I am mostly talking from experience of sci-fi [...]
There were like 5 sci-fi TV series in a 5 years of 2009-2013 period (Humanity has Declined; Psycho Pass, Shinsekai Yori, - and they both came at best fall season to boot; Space Brothers, Steins;Gate - which didn't fully satisfy me for example, despite people constantly praising them, hah), even-even less of shoujo-ai, so as much as things are looking good now, don't take it for granted - it took signifact amount of time to get here.
Uhhh it's been quite a while since there's been a good science fiction TV series in general, as far I can remember lol. Just based on my list I don't think I've seen a good science fiction show since Ergo Proxy (2006), though it's less sci-fi and more psychological. @__@
Why are we also talking about whether or not number of genres represented suddenly makes a season better than others? Is it merely because of amount of anime you can select? Because at that point, you can say every season has gotten progressively better than the next, because if you take a look at the # of anime being shown in Summer 2011 to now, I believe the number has drastically increased with each season.
In any case, this season isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, and compared to past summers, I think it's decent relative to some of the other summers that were really bad. I believe the summer season that had Photokano was the worst I've experienced since I dropped almost every anime I tried within the first fifteen minutes and made me go on a break for anime for....a few months I 'd say.
But as far as actual quality of shows go, I think Summer 2013 was the last time a season produced shows that I actually had more than one good thing to say about them (Uchouten, Gatchaman), and before that I hadn't liked most new anime since last 2012 or something.
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