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Lazy, rapid and unfair ongoing reviews part two~! (Started exactly weak ago with this post).
2.1 "Okay, I guess.." (judgement pending)
Donten ni Warau (6.5/10): Down-to-earth adventure series set up in a interesting period of Japanese history with magic, betrayal, and inhuman material fighting skills involved. Animation is fluid, voice acting is solid and character profiles are done decent, though humor gags might not be anyone's cup of tea. Main characters are likeable and fit the theme of friendship/family rather well and secondary female cast aren't used as fanservice ploys.
Don't try this series if you want to see outstanding action though: while it's definetely well-animated, the staging and cut scene selection are formulaic and outcome is always obvious, no tension presented so far.
Psycho-Pass 2 (7/10) : At first glance season two is the exact carboon copy of season one - nice OP/ED/OST, low-medium 3CG, scene directing and scenario are full of western triller cliches. No more quality drops and lazy static animation lay-outs, but action is still poor, especially with robots involved. Ordinary urban decay atmosphere with no means of world setting's development, most males are rather criminals or latent criminals again. Nothing reminds you about the first season final reveal, but the hook is still the same - one talented criminal individualist fights unfair system with some batshit plans and device hacks.
I think you get the general picture, so let's speak now for what have changed. First of all, no more shocking content and philosophy simulacres for the sake of it and more attention to technical details. Unfortunately, series don't build on it yet, but now motives and means of accompishing crimes / fighting criminals are a little a bit more complex than, for example, "my farther was an taleneted painter who was never acknowledged, so I became a sophisticated serial killer for his sake" or "I can't enjoy sex or food anymore since I became cyborg, so I added manhunting underground to my hobby list". Secondly, and it's even a better accomplishment, characters don't annoy the hell of you anymore and get a decent and non-forced part in a narrative. I can't say they got an outstanding personalities already, but for a procedurial it should do.
On the other hand, while Urobochi's approach to cases wasn't well-though out (started well, but then turned into lame faggotry in the end), the sharp social comments and touching character's stories made for it. I don't get such a vibe from Ubukata yet and he has twice as less screen time in his disposal, and this season will be mostly viewed as a filler between the direct movie sequal, so don't expect new characters being important from now on anyway. To sum up, it's a nice continuation which corrects some mistakes of predecessor and changes approach a little, but it's not as personal piece of work as it was under Gen's pen.
2.2 Watch it for a laugh
Rage of Bahamut (7/10): For a card game adaptation, this has really cool and outstanding MC. I don't care about pretty much everything else in this series, morally grey characters are always welcome. Demons, dragons, demon girls, gods, angels, knights on unicorns and other typical fantasy stuff are included in a package, too, for those who fancy fantasy stuff. I don't have any major complaints about designs, 3D Graphics, action and sound direction are done very well - time to cautiously enlist myself as a MAPPA studio fan.
On a side note, Hellheim is a hella stupid name and MC's friend is a faggot. More romance and less magic bullshit, plz, main girl is almost my type.
Parasite (6.5/10): No, I won't throw a fit because of a dubstep soundtrack in a first episode. It's not exactly the brightest decision in composer's career, but it was the only memorable moment of action after 10+ minutes of slowplay, so it's only fair I won't complain much. This show is basicly a succesfull Super Sentai recipe in nutshell: glorious eyecandy transformations, quirky dialogues and premature masturbating gags made into 4chan macros pictures afterwards.
I have finished original manga long time ago, and have to say it: while it was surely groundbreaking when first published, won several awards and so on (the art is crisp. narrative is unique, and interactions are gritty), it's almost nothing to write home about nowadays when the average viewer has already been spoiled by Death Note, Gantz, Mirai Nikki and others likes. So, don't expect a revelation or interesting side-stories, it's basicly Japanese Ben10 with more gore inside and close to no love drama.
Magic Kaito 1412 (6.5/10): By the look of things, I hopped on a Western popculture references train just in time. If you follow DC universe close enough, you should know that every superhero has a different appearance in a swarm of parrarel worlds and there's one numbered "Earth 3" where everything is reversed: heroes are evil, villains are heroic. so their Batman kills, robs and rapes like pro, for example. Well, this show is could be viewed as a light-hearted teen-targeted adaptation of this scenario.
Batman is a thief, Alfred steals his identity to bring Robin in light, Dick is deadly afraid of fish and lives next door to Barbara Gorgon who wears white pantsu. Additionally, show is full of magic tricks with mirrors, ropes, cards, pistols, coats and Joker is lurking nearby. Believe me, this is fun.
2.3 Garem Shit
Trinity Seven (6/10, dropped): The plot is as ridiculous as this title sounds, exactly. The magic school is full of beatiful girls and the sun is black, that's everything you need to know about this series to decide whether it's worth your time. OP is perfomed by ZAQ of Chunibuyo franchise's fame, main girl has red hair, glasses and called Lilith, despite having zero experience with boys and one of a beatiful girl mages is a HORNY NINJA, dageso.
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete (6.5/10): Traditional VN opening with non-linear narrative and sudden beatiful alien girl appearance. Don't really know what's the plot is all about, but Hentai CG slides for the original game is one of the most beautifully drawn 2d art I've seen in my life, go check it out.
I haven't decided whether I should go on watching series or wait for original to be translated in English first instead. Really dig girls designs and can relate to MC - observing stars and planning planetariums is smart, and smart, as you know, is sexy.
Grisaia no Kajitsu : Apparently, writing is tiring, so let's call it off for a day.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51621 Posts
On October 18 2014 22:31 Nachtwind wrote:
Garooooooo O.O/
I'm watching the first EP now, why do they overdo the armor animation, such a turn off, good design though.
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On October 18 2014 19:54 Capped wrote:
Ok since ive only watch 8 of fma which is 4 of fma:b im gonna switch then, since everyone seems to agree its better :/
I hope youre right! :D
Brotherhood is leagues better.
FMA did a few things better with emotional moments + Show Spoiler +Chimera girl being the best of them imo
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On October 18 2014 21:34 Zergneedsfood wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2014 17:49 SkelA wrote:Never ever get invested into harem shows. There is no such thing as a good harem show. They are all terrible and anyone who says otherwise is fooling themself. You didn't like Ouran? D:
That was first harem show i've watched and realised if thats the best from harem shows than its not my cup of tea.
It was little better than average, probably because it focused more on the comedy than the harem part.
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i thought amgi park is related to FSN but its UBW isnt it... so can i watch amagi park without seeing anything prior?
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Canada8036 Posts
On October 18 2014 23:18 BLinD-RawR wrote:I'm watching the first EP now, why do they overdo the armor animation, such a turn off, good design though.
The whole point of Garo is to have fights in overly ornate amputee, so abandoning the cg isn't exactly possible for a franchise like this.
On October 19 2014 00:49 FFGenerations wrote:
i thought amgi park is related to FSN but its UBW isnt it... so can i watch amagi park without seeing anything prior?
Amagi isn't related to anything, least of all FSN.
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On October 18 2014 23:08 ForTehDarkseid wrote:Lazy, rapid and unfair ongoing reviews part two~! (Started exactly weak ago with this post). 2.1 "Okay, I guess.." (judgement pending) Donten ni Warau (6.5/10): Down-to-earth adventure series set up in a interesting period of Japanese history with magic, betrayal, and inhuman material fighting skills involved. Animation is fluid, voice acting is solid and character profiles are done decent, though humor gags might not be anyone's cup of tea. Main characters are likeable and fit the theme of friendship/family rather well and secondary female cast aren't used as fanservice ploys. Don't try this series if you want to see outstanding action though: while it's definetely well-animated, the staging and cut scene selection are formulaic and outcome is always obvious, no tension presented so far. Psycho-Pass 2 (7/10) : At first glance season two is the exact carboon copy of season one - nice OP/ED/OST, low-medium 3CG, scene directing and scenario are full of western triller cliches. No more quality drops and lazy static animation lay-outs, but action is still poor, especially with robots involved. Ordinary urban decay atmosphere with no means of world setting's development, most males are rather criminals or latent criminals again. Nothing reminds you about the first season final reveal, but the hook is still the same - one talented criminal individualist fights unfair system with some batshit plans and device hacks. I think you get the general picture, so let's speak now for what have changed. First of all, no more shocking content and philosophy simulacres for the sake of it and more attention to technical details. Unfortunately, series don't build on it yet, but now motives and means of accompishing crimes / fighting criminals are a little a bit more complex than, for example, "my farther was an taleneted painter who was never acknowledged, so I became a sophisticated serial killer for his sake" or "I can't enjoy sex or food anymore since I became cyborg, so I added manhunting underground to my hobby list". Secondly, and it's even a better accomplishment, characters don't annoy the hell of you anymore and get a decent and non-forced part in a narrative. I can't say they got an outstanding personalities already, but for a procedurial it should do. On the other hand, while Urobochi's approach to cases wasn't well-though out (started well, but then turned into lame faggotry in the end), the sharp social comments and touching character's stories made for it. I don't get such a vibe from Ubukata yet and he has twice as less screen time in his disposal, and this season will be mostly viewed as a filler between the direct movie sequal, so don't expect new characters being important from now on anyway. To sum up, it's a nice continuation which corrects some mistakes of predecessor and changes approach a little, but it's not as personal piece of work as it was under Gen's pen. 2.2 Watch it for THE LULZ (template for now, will finish in between Starladder CSGO games) Rage of Bahamut (7/10): Parasite (6.5/10): Magic Kaito 1412 (6.5/10)2.3 Garem Shit Trinity Seven, Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete, Grisaia no Kajitsu.
It's only two episodes in and I really, really disagree. Newbie girl is the most annoying thing in the franchise thus far and the entire time I'm watching it's just "man, I wish the old man were here again." Outside of Akane and the new and improved (minus the one-glove look, what are you thinking) Ginoza I don't like anyone there at all. There's still time for that to change, but as of episode 2 everyone but those two grate whenever they take screentime up.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Saturdays are back.
Log Horizon, Mushishi and Ace of Diamond. 2gud.
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Agreed Dismay, but the season is still young and I hope it will improve. I think his 7/10 rating is pretty spot on so far.
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Vanadis episode 3 might have been my favorite today. Best episode of it as well. Hope it continues to be great.
(unintended double post, didn't check last page :D)
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LoH#3, that dude looks just like arthas lol. Nice ED.
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On October 19 2014 00:49 FFGenerations wrote:
i thought amgi park is related to FSN but its UBW isnt it... so can i watch amagi park without seeing anything prior?
You definitely can watch UBW without prior FSN.
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SAO II new episode:
+ Show Spoiler +Meh... this season so far is rather weak and while some awesome fights may happen during the next quests, there's no exciting plot. Atleast no GGO anymore as of now, I didn't like that very much. I'd probably rate the 2nd season 6/10 so far.
Log Horizon new episode:
+ Show Spoiler +More fighting than I would've thought, the episode was decent but I kinda got mad at them explaining so many obvious things. Well... better than SAO so far but not exactly my favorite. That episode also kinda troubled me as in that they could die over and over, which isn't very exciting imo. No thrill in the battles.
But as others said, LH is more about character interactions and less about epic battles, and I kinda agree with it. I think I wouldn't complain if I wouldn't have loved the early SAO S1 so much. I definitely will keep watching LH anyway because it's good enough imo.
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On October 19 2014 03:05 HolydaKing wrote:SAO II new episode: + Show Spoiler +Meh... this season so far is rather weak and while some awesome fights may happen during the next quests, there's no exciting plot. Atleast no GGO anymore as of now, I didn't like that very much. I'd probably rate the 2nd season 6/10 so far. Log Horizon new episode: + Show Spoiler +More fighting than I would've thought, the episode was decent but I kinda got mad at them explaining so many obvious things. Well... better than SAO so far but not exactly my favorite. That episode also kinda troubled me as in that they could die over and over, which isn't very exciting imo. No thrill in the battles.
well, there's still memory loss at the very least and it was hinted that there might be something else last episode in SAO.
The explaining part... well it's been that way since the show started and really I was pleasantly suprised because it was done way better (faster) than with the noob group where you had to watch them fail at super obvious stuff like 4 episodes straight.
If we ignore the fact that it still looks like hell it's probably an improvement over season 1 so far.
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PC gaming is dead in japan compared to the western world.
So for the most part MMORPGs never really made it big there so for the target audience said explanations make sense to include although a bit tedious for people that know MMORPGs.
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Actually I think I liked the LH episodes with the noob group the best.  Rundelhaus was pretty funny and watching them fail was kinda entertaining.
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Canada4481 Posts
So you get mad at watching a raid, but not mad at them pulling one trash mob in a low level dungeon? The noob group had even more tedious explanation. Watching them spend the entire episode just to pull 1 trash mob was painful. Easily the worst part of LH season 1.
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Well, it probably helped that I didn't have to wait 1 week for the next episode as I stopped watching it after 8 episodes (due to not liking it much) and came back later to watch the rest. But I definitely didn't dislike the noob group doing the dungeon, iirc.
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MMORPG 101 was tedious to read and watch. Not that raiding is much better, but at least it provides for more graphics effects.
On October 19 2014 03:18 Unleashing wrote:
PC gaming is dead in japan compared to the western world.
So for the most part MMORPGs never really made it big there so for the target audience said explanations make sense to include although a bit tedious for people that know MMORPGs.
Except the target audience is a bunch of people who actually do use computers and play MMOs regularly. Very few of the game based fantasy world stuff I've seen so far has the balls to just forgo all the explanations about things sadly. It invariably turns into infodumping of stuff that the gamers would already know in something that's meant to appeal to gamers. Let's be honest, the raid style combat description isn't particularly interesting if you haven't already done it before.
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On October 18 2014 19:21 Capped wrote:I just went and found / watched the episode i spoke about, Brotherhood does in ~10 minutes what the original spent 2 episodes building up. It felt pretty subpar tbh. + Show Spoiler +In the original you spent 2 episodes watching them grow a relationship with this little girl and her alchemist father, only to find out he was a sick fuck. In Brotherhood within the space of 10 minutes he's introduced, super-fast mother backstory, turns daughter into chimera, both then murdered. It really didn't have the same "effect". What makes Brotherhood so much better? I could switch since im only a little into it :-)
At the part you are at, the original does it better. However, pretty soon you will come up on a place called Lab 5. After Lab 5 stuff finishes, the original and Brotherhood diverge completely, and the original diverges into absolute shit, while Brotherhood diverges into really cool and good stuff. However, on the shared materials, the part of the original you are currently at, it does do a better job than Brotherhood. Its partly because that stuff had already been done in the original FMA that Brotherhood sped through it.
Also, Elem, FYI, coming into discussions like this and calling everyone who doesn't share your opinion a liar, or saying they are simply spouting bullshit, is the exact reason I got pissed at you in regards to Muv-Luv last week. And then on top of it, you call the other guys the rude ones. Pot, meet kettle.
On October 18 2014 14:31 RuskiPanda wrote:It's awesomeness is inverse to how disappointing Reconguista is so far  . Still gonna hold out for a few more episodes though.
When its almost exactly how it was expected to be, IDK how it could be disappointing. The directoral style is just like Turn A or King Gainer.
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