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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On May 13 2015 08:15 plasmidghost wrote: Anyone here seen Xam'd? I liked Eureka Seven and heard it's pretty similar, but is it worth watching? Xam'd is basically Eureka Seven, just without the power of love and rainbow power. So basically just all the weirdness. | ||
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Sentenal
United States12398 Posts
On May 13 2015 10:46 XenOmega wrote: Ufotable always make good animation? I was just rewatching some fight scenes from FZ on youtube... got me hyped! Ufotable stuff does look really good, but for some reason I have a gut feeling i'm being tricked somehow. Its like they are trying to pass special effects and filters off as good animation, and are succeeding wonderfully at it. At any rate, its nothing to complain about, I just wish I knew what they were actually doing to get their stuff to look like they do. | ||
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IceHism
United States1903 Posts
On May 13 2015 11:18 Sentenal wrote: Ufotable stuff does look really good, but for some reason I have a gut feeling i'm being tricked somehow. Its like they are trying to pass special effects and filters off as good animation, and are succeeding wonderfully at it. At any rate, its nothing to complain about, I just wish I knew what they were actually doing to get their stuff to look like they do. They have a lot of budget because they used to make movies not TV series. | ||
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Just_a_Moth
Canada1952 Posts
On May 13 2015 10:57 WolfintheSheep wrote: Xam'd is basically Eureka Seven, just without the power of love and rainbow power. So basically just all the weirdness. I haven't seen Eureka Seven, but "all the weirdness" is a pretty good description of Xam'd. Still a good show though, if you like weird stuff. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
On May 13 2015 09:09 IceHism wrote: Are you saying that you are not healed when things get better for people who suffer overwhelming adversity. No, not really. That's really not the point of Madoka either. On May 13 2015 08:15 plasmidghost wrote: Anyone here seen Xam'd? I liked Eureka Seven and heard it's pretty similar, but is it worth watching? The same team that made E7 made Xam'd. I thought that E7 was pretty meh and Xam'd was a lot better. I think it can get a bit dry, and I don't think the characters have the same flare as some of the people you find in Eureka, but I think it has the better world building, and a lot more humanistic elements in its characters that adds a level of depth/realism to the story. Anime such as these really depend on their world building, and while Xam'd is ultimately, in my view, woefully incomplete, I'd pick it over E7 any day. | ||
BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
On May 13 2015 00:08 Unleashing wrote: Knowing that the MC of an anime is a magical ninja jesus batman going into it doesn't magically mean you can no longer say that you dislike that aspect of it. I thought mahouka had a fairly interesting setting with some good characters but overall i felt that Tatsuya being not just OP but overall a very boring character kind of ruined it. I wasn't wondering how anything would end or be solved, because in the end the answer would always be SASUGA ONII-SAMA, which frankly got boring after the 20th time. I didn't hate mahouka though, i thought it was passable/enjoyable and i felt like a lot got lost in the transition from text to animation because frankly i couldn't imagine anyone creating such a boring main character, i'm sure if i read the LN i wouldn't dislike him quite as much. Disliking and complaining about one aspect of an story doesn't mean that you hate all of it. You misunderstand. I'm not saying you can't complain or enjoy the story, far from it actually. I'm just saying that if you already know that's the case, the anime isn't going to magically change his character so that he overshadows characters less etc... In other words, Tatsuya will always be OP and overshadow other characters (even more in the anime it seems lol) unless they decide on their own approach (I think this is rare though?). My comments were more directed at those (not anyone specific, in general) who would keep complaining about it despite knowing that it won't change. The Tokyo Ghoul example I presented in my earlier post illustrates this well. People kept complaining about TG despite knowing that it won't be the same as the manga at all. Anyways, not really much to discuss at this point since there's no disagreement between us  | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On May 13 2015 08:15 plasmidghost wrote: Anyone here seen Xam'd? I liked Eureka Seven and heard it's pretty similar, but is it worth watching? The same team that made E7 made Xam'd. I thought that E7 was pretty meh and Xam'd was a lot better. I think it can get a bit dry, and I don't think the characters have the same flare as some of the people you find in Eureka, but I think it has the better world building, and a lot more humanistic elements in its characters that adds a level of depth/realism to the story. Anime such as these really depend on their world building, and while Xam'd is ultimately, in my view, woefully incomplete, I'd pick it over E7 any day.[/QUOTE] Really, you thought Xam'd's World Building was better than Eureka 7's? I mean, E7 got really weird and pseudo-sciency, but at least everything stayed consistent with the setting they made. And even ignoring all the kooky stuff, it was really just a coming-of-age story for Renton and a love story (multiple, actually) alongside the messy character dynamics of people, friends and family in a war. Xam'd just...barely made sense, and most of it is only explained during or after the fact. | ||
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
pretty solid. | ||
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MichaelEU
Netherlands816 Posts
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Miragee
8509 Posts
On May 13 2015 08:38 XenOmega wrote: I just realized that I'm 1 completed anime from hitting the 100 completed show! The next completed show will likely be one from this season... but is there a serie out there that I MUST watch and that is worthy of being my 100th? :D Semester ends Friday and after corrections, I'll have tons of free time! http://myanimelist.net/animelist/RobertL In all honesty, how does the compatibility graph on MAL work? We have like 16 shared animes with a mean difference of 2 in scores and still have the compatibility "extremly high" (86,2 %)? lol Anyways, if you have lots of free time marathon Hunter x Hunter 2011. It should be worth it as your 100th completed anime. | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
On May 13 2015 16:17 Miragee wrote: In all honesty, how does the compatibility graph on MAL work? We have like 16 shared animes with a mean difference of 2 in scores and still have the compatibility "extremly high" (86,2 %)? lol Anyways, if you have lots of free time marathon Hunter x Hunter 2011. It should be worth it as your 100th completed anime. i get 70.6% with 21 shared anime and mean 2.29 diff | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
On May 13 2015 16:17 Miragee wrote: In all honesty, how does the compatibility graph on MAL work? We have like 16 shared animes with a mean difference of 2 in scores and still have the compatibility "extremly high" (86,2 %)? lol Anyways, if you have lots of free time marathon Hunter x Hunter 2011. It should be worth it as your 100th completed anime. I have an average mean difference of 1.69 with and that apparently makes us 69.4%, Somewhat High. That makes him Sentenal tier of compatible with me, because he's at 68.8%. I might have to add that I have never watched a gundam series in my life, except for one gundam movie with gay tendencies (Goody would not approve) during ADT movie night. | ||
Nagisama
Canada4481 Posts
On May 13 2015 08:38 XenOmega wrote: I just realized that I'm 1 completed anime from hitting the 100 completed show! The next completed show will likely be one from this season... but is there a serie out there that I MUST watch and that is worthy of being my 100th? :D Semester ends Friday and after corrections, I'll have tons of free time! http://myanimelist.net/animelist/RobertL LoGH. On May 13 2015 16:37 Toadesstern wrote: I have an average mean difference of 1.69 with and that apparently makes us 69.4%, Somewhat High. That makes him Sentenal tier of compatible with me, because he's at 68.8%. I might have to add that I have never watched a gundam series in my life, except for one gundam movie with gay tendencies (Goody would not approve) during ADT movie night. Which gundam movie was that? | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
It also had hayamin as random engineer chick, never seen before in the movie, telling some other unknown guy that she loves him before one of them got deployed. So she's like "I love you. I want to make babies with you" and instantly dies of course. Or him idr | ||
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goody153
44125 Posts
Kumiko so cute letting her thoughts known twice without her realizing lol ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/XTM99qT.png?1) nononono .. no!! it's supposed to be Kumiko and him not Kumiko's friend. Whatever | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
Turns out it's true. Out of all the things season 1 of Highschool DxD is currently airing on german TV: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/r12ANRZ.png) they're also airing Black bullet and Highschool of the dead. Sasuga German TV | ||
Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
lol. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
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