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On January 04 2018 23:03 Unleashing wrote: To me kimi no na wa is a 8/10 at the very best and that's mostly it being carried by visuals and sound, story and characters were mediocre.
6/10 for me. There was literally nothing besides the visuals that stood out. Definitely one of Shinkai's weaker works.
On January 05 2018 00:57 BrTarolg wrote: as much as i'd like to do one of those ranking things everyone else is doing
idk i'd just put maid dragon on the top for everything
and kujira no kora for "it was amazing and u guys didn't watch it"
On January 05 2018 09:05 BigFan wrote: Benio wasn't too bad imo but they should've toned it down in the last couple of episodes. Instead, they just maintained it throughout which is why I can see how some folks believe it was obnoxious.
On January 05 2018 07:36 BigFan wrote: Just finished Mikakunin de Shinkoukei. Not sure if anyone else watched it, it's from 2014. Something felt missing in this anime. I still liked the overall antics of the sister, even if it seemed to take over a good portion of each episode but the whole Kobeni x Hakuya moments felt unsatisfying at times. + Show Spoiler +
It feels like Hakuya just walked in, said some nice stuff like how "anything she makes is good" and helped out with general chores like getting groceries. Of course, the background story of him saving her and him being the one to save her at the end was nice to grow the relationship but Kobeni also just went with everything, blushing whenever she was complimented (how can he compliment when he has barely tried her cooking? lol).
I would think that she'll at least have someone she might like or be more resistant to the idea of marrying so young but the whole "grandfather's word is law" and then "pidge-holing her" to accept the idea some more based on the "you wrote an essay on being a wife" felt a bit off and limiting as well. If she's a great cook and likes it, why not have a dream of being a chef? Even the addition of Konoha felt a bit off. She proposed to him on the spot and all of a sudden, Kobeni is flustered? I mean, sure, you develop feelings the more you spend with someone but it didn't feel like much time was spent between them doing actual stuff that can grow the relationship. Granted, I think that was probably more the fault of it being 1 cour so they had to focus on the most important stuff and the manga still seems to be running as I just checked.
Regardless, would still recommend because the interactions overall were just too cute to pass up!
On January 02 2018 15:24 Miragee wrote: Happy new year everyone!
So, for those who have finished Inuyashiki: I'm 3 episodes in right now and sure if I should continue. I think the random superpowers they got are not going to explained in a satisfying manner because that's pretty much impossible. What I want to know is whether the show is going to tap into some philosophy on how to use those powers etc. Or is it going to stay as simple as it is now, with one edgelord killer and one superhero?
honestly, I would say give it another episode or two before deciding if it's for you.
If only you would actually follow that advice yourself...
haha I've probably done 4-5 episodes before even dropping any anime so I don't think you can say I don't follow that advice...
On January 05 2018 07:36 BigFan wrote: Just finished Mikakunin de Shinkoukei. Not sure if anyone else watched it, it's from 2014. Something felt missing in this anime. I still liked the overall antics of the sister, even if it seemed to take over a good portion of each episode but the whole Kobeni x Hakuya moments felt unsatisfying at times. + Show Spoiler +
It feels like Hakuya just walked in, said some nice stuff like how "anything she makes is good" and helped out with general chores like getting groceries. Of course, the background story of him saving her and him being the one to save her at the end was nice to grow the relationship but Kobeni also just went with everything, blushing whenever she was complimented (how can he compliment when he has barely tried her cooking? lol).
I would think that she'll at least have someone she might like or be more resistant to the idea of marrying so young but the whole "grandfather's word is law" and then "pidge-holing her" to accept the idea some more based on the "you wrote an essay on being a wife" felt a bit off and limiting as well. If she's a great cook and likes it, why not have a dream of being a chef? Even the addition of Konoha felt a bit off. She proposed to him on the spot and all of a sudden, Kobeni is flustered? I mean, sure, you develop feelings the more you spend with someone but it didn't feel like much time was spent between them doing actual stuff that can grow the relationship. Granted, I think that was probably more the fault of it being 1 cour so they had to focus on the most important stuff and the manga still seems to be running as I just checked.
Regardless, would still recommend because the interactions overall were just too cute to pass up!
On January 02 2018 15:24 Miragee wrote: Happy new year everyone!
So, for those who have finished Inuyashiki: I'm 3 episodes in right now and sure if I should continue. I think the random superpowers they got are not going to explained in a satisfying manner because that's pretty much impossible. What I want to know is whether the show is going to tap into some philosophy on how to use those powers etc. Or is it going to stay as simple as it is now, with one edgelord killer and one superhero?
honestly, I would say give it another episode or two before deciding if it's for you.
I am preeeeeetty sure a lot of people watched Mikakunin de Shinkoukei. The show was hella popular, with all kinds of videos/gifs/memes spawning from it like the "I hate sundays", her dancing in front of the TV or the roughly 105896206286290 different versions of the ED that people uploaded for shitz and giggles, like:
sure, there probably are a bunch of people who haven't watched it but you can say that about almost every series.
Imo it fell kind of apart midway/later on. It was really funny early on, the main girl (the small one) was just pure gold. Even when it was super obvious what was about to happen I still laughed at her constantly getting nothing but nessies in the gacha thing etcetc. But once it tried to be "serious" about it's romance it just got boring.
hmm is it? It aired in 2014 and I had just started to follow anime end of 2013 so might explain why I missed watching it when I was watching another 25 shows or something. Ya, the whole sister-in-law vs older sister was really funny, even till the end of the show. I would've preferred it if there was a little warming up done between them for character progression but oh well.
I had lots of laughs at the nessies too haha. Some of the best comedic parts of the show. I think the VAs did a great job and the animation overall was great. My main concern was that honestly, I didn't really see much romance in it. Heck, they never even held hands once! Majority of the romance happened in like the last episode or two, if you can call it that. They never held hands, never kissed, rarely had a proper conversation other several times etc... The humour was imo, the major highlight of the show. The feelings felt a bit rushed or rather, they needed more time to develop imo because they didn't much outside the norm to develop them. Feels like there was some lost potential...
yeah... I'm having a hard time remembering what exactly happend or didn't happen because it's been such a long time but the romance was laughable. Not in a good way. For me it wasn't even so much about them not getting together afterwards but more about it being some cheap asspull. I guess you could call it a "shocking reveal" but it was just so cliché that it felt so bad.
Idr about the voice acting but the little girl was pure gold like I aready said, and that includes her voice :3 Dunno about the other characters.
But to put it in perspective... asking if anyone watched it is probably a bit like asking "not sure anyone here has seen it, but do you know this thing called Eromanga-sensei?" would be today. It really was everywhere. Maybe not that extreme but I even heard oldman Uta talk about it and he never talks about anime.
On January 04 2018 23:03 Unleashing wrote: To me kimi no na wa is a 8/10 at the very best and that's mostly it being carried by visuals and sound, story and characters were mediocre.
6/10 for me. There was literally nothing besides the visuals that stood out. Definitely one of Shinkai's weaker works.
On January 05 2018 00:57 BrTarolg wrote: as much as i'd like to do one of those ranking things everyone else is doing
idk i'd just put maid dragon on the top for everything
and kujira no kora for "it was amazing and u guys didn't watch it"
I watched it and it was terrible.
Visuals and sound are very important to me as far as anime goes. Which is why i've rated it so 'high', the visual and audio design is just really super fucking good. Same reason redline has such a high rating for me despite its average plot (Almost want to give that one a 10/10.) While redline is close to 10/10 kimi no na wa is closer to 7/10.
Too bad as with everything i've watched by shinkai the characters and story are generally pretty bad. If not for the visuals of his works nothing he's made would get above 4/10 for me honestly.
On January 04 2018 23:03 Unleashing wrote: To me kimi no na wa is a 8/10 at the very best and that's mostly it being carried by visuals and sound, story and characters were mediocre.
6/10 for me. There was literally nothing besides the visuals that stood out. Definitely one of Shinkai's weaker works.
On January 05 2018 00:57 BrTarolg wrote: as much as i'd like to do one of those ranking things everyone else is doing
idk i'd just put maid dragon on the top for everything
and kujira no kora for "it was amazing and u guys didn't watch it"
I watched it and it was terrible.
Visuals and sound are very important to me as far as anime goes. Which is why i've rated it so 'high', the visual and audio design is just really super fucking good. Same reason redline has such a high rating for me despite its average plot (Almost want to give that one a 10/10.)
Too bad as with everything i've watched by shinkai the characters and story are generally pretty bad. If not for the visuals of his works nothing he's made would get above 4/10 for me honestly.
I can live with an anime purely being about the visuals. I gave his other works I watched a 7/10 for different reasons. I mean, Garden of Words was purely carried by it's atmosphere (mainly visuals and sound) for example. Here is the difference for me though: While Kimi no Na Wa surely had stunning visuals it lacked the atmosphere for me. Like, visuals and sound didn't connect to become one and was void of all the magic Garden of Words had for me.
On January 05 2018 09:05 BigFan wrote: Benio wasn't too bad imo but they should've toned it down in the last couple of episodes. Instead, they just maintained it throughout which is why I can see how some folks believe it was obnoxious.
On January 05 2018 07:58 Harem wrote:
On January 05 2018 07:36 BigFan wrote: Just finished Mikakunin de Shinkoukei. Not sure if anyone else watched it, it's from 2014. Something felt missing in this anime. I still liked the overall antics of the sister, even if it seemed to take over a good portion of each episode but the whole Kobeni x Hakuya moments felt unsatisfying at times. + Show Spoiler +
It feels like Hakuya just walked in, said some nice stuff like how "anything she makes is good" and helped out with general chores like getting groceries. Of course, the background story of him saving her and him being the one to save her at the end was nice to grow the relationship but Kobeni also just went with everything, blushing whenever she was complimented (how can he compliment when he has barely tried her cooking? lol).
I would think that she'll at least have someone she might like or be more resistant to the idea of marrying so young but the whole "grandfather's word is law" and then "pidge-holing her" to accept the idea some more based on the "you wrote an essay on being a wife" felt a bit off and limiting as well. If she's a great cook and likes it, why not have a dream of being a chef? Even the addition of Konoha felt a bit off. She proposed to him on the spot and all of a sudden, Kobeni is flustered? I mean, sure, you develop feelings the more you spend with someone but it didn't feel like much time was spent between them doing actual stuff that can grow the relationship. Granted, I think that was probably more the fault of it being 1 cour so they had to focus on the most important stuff and the manga still seems to be running as I just checked.
Regardless, would still recommend because the interactions overall were just too cute to pass up!
On January 02 2018 15:24 Miragee wrote: Happy new year everyone!
So, for those who have finished Inuyashiki: I'm 3 episodes in right now and sure if I should continue. I think the random superpowers they got are not going to explained in a satisfying manner because that's pretty much impossible. What I want to know is whether the show is going to tap into some philosophy on how to use those powers etc. Or is it going to stay as simple as it is now, with one edgelord killer and one superhero?
honestly, I would say give it another episode or two before deciding if it's for you.
If only you would actually follow that advice yourself...
haha I've probably done 4-5 episodes before even dropping any anime so I don't think you can say I don't follow that advice...
On January 05 2018 08:43 Toadesstern wrote:
On January 05 2018 07:36 BigFan wrote: Just finished Mikakunin de Shinkoukei. Not sure if anyone else watched it, it's from 2014. Something felt missing in this anime. I still liked the overall antics of the sister, even if it seemed to take over a good portion of each episode but the whole Kobeni x Hakuya moments felt unsatisfying at times. + Show Spoiler +
It feels like Hakuya just walked in, said some nice stuff like how "anything she makes is good" and helped out with general chores like getting groceries. Of course, the background story of him saving her and him being the one to save her at the end was nice to grow the relationship but Kobeni also just went with everything, blushing whenever she was complimented (how can he compliment when he has barely tried her cooking? lol).
I would think that she'll at least have someone she might like or be more resistant to the idea of marrying so young but the whole "grandfather's word is law" and then "pidge-holing her" to accept the idea some more based on the "you wrote an essay on being a wife" felt a bit off and limiting as well. If she's a great cook and likes it, why not have a dream of being a chef? Even the addition of Konoha felt a bit off. She proposed to him on the spot and all of a sudden, Kobeni is flustered? I mean, sure, you develop feelings the more you spend with someone but it didn't feel like much time was spent between them doing actual stuff that can grow the relationship. Granted, I think that was probably more the fault of it being 1 cour so they had to focus on the most important stuff and the manga still seems to be running as I just checked.
Regardless, would still recommend because the interactions overall were just too cute to pass up!
On January 02 2018 15:24 Miragee wrote: Happy new year everyone!
So, for those who have finished Inuyashiki: I'm 3 episodes in right now and sure if I should continue. I think the random superpowers they got are not going to explained in a satisfying manner because that's pretty much impossible. What I want to know is whether the show is going to tap into some philosophy on how to use those powers etc. Or is it going to stay as simple as it is now, with one edgelord killer and one superhero?
honestly, I would say give it another episode or two before deciding if it's for you.
I am preeeeeetty sure a lot of people watched Mikakunin de Shinkoukei. The show was hella popular, with all kinds of videos/gifs/memes spawning from it like the "I hate sundays", her dancing in front of the TV or the roughly 105896206286290 different versions of the ED that people uploaded for shitz and giggles, like:
sure, there probably are a bunch of people who haven't watched it but you can say that about almost every series.
Imo it fell kind of apart midway/later on. It was really funny early on, the main girl (the small one) was just pure gold. Even when it was super obvious what was about to happen I still laughed at her constantly getting nothing but nessies in the gacha thing etcetc. But once it tried to be "serious" about it's romance it just got boring.
hmm is it? It aired in 2014 and I had just started to follow anime end of 2013 so might explain why I missed watching it when I was watching another 25 shows or something. Ya, the whole sister-in-law vs older sister was really funny, even till the end of the show. I would've preferred it if there was a little warming up done between them for character progression but oh well.
I had lots of laughs at the nessies too haha. Some of the best comedic parts of the show. I think the VAs did a great job and the animation overall was great. My main concern was that honestly, I didn't really see much romance in it. Heck, they never even held hands once! Majority of the romance happened in like the last episode or two, if you can call it that. They never held hands, never kissed, rarely had a proper conversation other several times etc... The humour was imo, the major highlight of the show. The feelings felt a bit rushed or rather, they needed more time to develop imo because they didn't much outside the norm to develop them. Feels like there was some lost potential...
yeah... I'm having a hard time remembering what exactly happend or didn't happen because it's been such a long time but the romance was laughable. Not in a good way. For me it wasn't even so much about them not getting together afterwards but more about it being some cheap asspull. I guess you could call it a "shocking reveal" but it was just so cliché that it felt so bad.
Idr about the voice acting but the little girl was pure gold like I aready said, and that includes her voice :3 Dunno about the other characters.
But to put it in perspective... asking if anyone watched it is probably a bit like asking "not sure anyone here has seen it, but do you know this thing called Eromanga-sensei?" would be today. It really was everywhere. Maybe not that extreme but I even heard oldman Uta talk about it and he never talks about anime.
ya, it's fine. It just felt like progression was really slow, even after 12 episodes but overall, I still enjoyed it even if it was just for the comedy.
The little girl's VA was her first VA role I believe, she did well. As for the last bit, well, I had no clue that it was popular back in 2014. I randomly stumbled onto it and decided to watch it. As I mentioned earlier, I started watching anime late 2013 and probably missed some 2014 goodies purely based off that.
On January 04 2018 22:48 Toadesstern wrote: you know what's wrong with the world? People who prefer the Eromanga OP over the Eromanga ED. I'm a bit sad that I didn't put Kuzu no Honkai's ED in my top3 EDs but I thought about it and there was just so much good stuff from EDs (at least for me personally) this year around that I really had to cut something.
Like, I don't even listen to the Demi-chan ED ever. But when I talk about OPs/EDs in here outside of the year round-up it's usually about them being bad or really unfitting imo. Like the OP for the dictionary-making-anime a couple seasons ago, whatever the name was. So Demi-chan ED for me just had to be in there despite being nothing special visually, nothing I actively go out of my way to listen to either just for the fact that I really felt that's one of the most fitting songs I've heard in a while for anime endings.
Shit was tough this year. Oh and I totally should have made a "fav Waifu 2017" category as well. Both for 2D and 3D.
Not Sorry. I'll take a Claris over TrySail any day. I liked the ed but not enough to mention it. Demi chan ed over kuzu no honkai ed smh. Everything Sayuri releases is generally very good. Demi chan ed is just more trysail.
On January 05 2018 04:33 Spazer wrote: The awards are pretty arbitrary anyways. Do what you want.
On January 05 2018 00:07 abuse wrote: Guess it's time to watch Koe no Katachi. Honestly have a hard time imagining it to be "better than kimi no na wa", considering I've read the manga and know all the events. Can't imagine it all being captured well in just 1 movie, hence why I haven't bothered watching it. But welp, hopefully I'm wrong, wouldn't mind it.
It was a decent adaptation. I enjoyed it. Despite knowing the story, it still had emotional punch.
Kimi no na wa is prettier, but Koe no Katachi just slaughters it storywise.
On January 04 2018 21:24 IceHism wrote: Best Thing That Nobody Watched of 2017 Tsuki ga Kirei - I remember me and Nagi talking about this on irc but i dunno anyone else watching. it was pure diabetes and i always looked forward every week. Princess Principal - I dunno who else watched this. but ghost in the shell except replaced by moe girls is a winning combination. Shoutouts to Beatrice for some how always tripping or getting her voice box muted.
Re:Creators - I don't think i cared about this show for like 14 episodes through the middle (maybe like 5-18) but i don't know how they ruined a show that had a big budget and a good premise. Literally just had to get characters from other series instead of making up its own
It's easy. Their writers sucked and had no idea where to take the story. Pretty hilarious, considering the premise of the show. Heck, I don't even think that their downfall was having original characters. It's just that they did nothing interesting with them.
Wait so you are telling me that there were more people that watched TgK besides Nagi and I here. Wow.. I dunno how i missed it.
The director of pp was the same as SaC though. Yea the story is different, but there were a lot of similarities i felt in the atmosphere and directing.
I think the story would have been a lot different if they already had established characters and personalities. The way they incorporated Magane for example as if they wanted to try so hard to make it so Souta's fake setsuna would come alive just really limited what the show could have been doing. Also meteora did the same thing with all the infodumps.
On January 05 2018 10:46 Nagisama wrote: Kaze and I watched and talked a lot about tsuki ga kirei.
Recreators OPs were really good. (Gets you pumped for the show at least, too bad it couldn't deliver) Kobeni is waifu material. I completely understand Benio's obnoxiouness over her.
Koe no katachi was good too.
yep, very waifu material. Agree 100%.
edit: on that note, anyone else want to recommend me a similar romcom with waifu material? haha. I actually really enjoyed Kobeni's reaction and VA. Pretty cute all around.
On January 02 2018 15:24 Miragee wrote: Happy new year everyone!
So, for those who have finished Inuyashiki: I'm 3 episodes in right now and sure if I should continue. I think the random superpowers they got are not going to explained in a satisfying manner because that's pretty much impossible. What I want to know is whether the show is going to tap into some philosophy on how to use those powers etc. Or is it going to stay as simple as it is now, with one edgelord killer and one superhero?
honestly, I would say give it another episode or two before deciding if it's for you.
Honestly, I think Kimi no Na Wa is Shinkai's best work so far. Every other show including 5cm/s, garden of words, etc all left a bitter taste in my mouth, and by the end I wasn't even sure if I saw a complete show or not.
Kimi no Na Wa is satisfying. I don't even know where most of you are coming from when you say that the story sucked, cause I honestly thought it was great and had so many little details scattered around everywhere which you could see only on repeated viewings. I haven't gotten any of that from any of his other works. The only possible reason I can imagine of "not getting enough atmosphere" is because in this show, we actually focused on 2 characters instead of "kind of 2" in his other shows. Plus there's the time-paradox thing. It's just a bit of a different show, and I honestly think, in the runtime it had, it did as much as physically possible, leaving all the unneeded fluff outside the door.
by the way... Has anyone here watched Sousei no omyouji? Don't think I've ever seen anyone here talk about it, but I think it's worth talking about how shit it was/is cause it is.
On January 05 2018 16:17 abuse wrote: Honestly, I think Kimi no Na Wa is Shinkai's best work so far. Every other show including 5cm/s, garden of words, etc all left a bitter taste in my mouth, and by the end I wasn't even sure if I saw a complete show or not.
Kimi no Na Wa is satisfying. I don't even know where most of you are coming from when you say that the story sucked, cause I honestly thought it was great and had so many little details scattered around everywhere which you could see only on repeated viewings. I haven't gotten any of that from any of his other works.
by the way... Has anyone here watched Sousei no omyouji? Don't think I've ever seen anyone here talk about it, but I think it's worth talking about how shit it was/is cause it is.
I've watched it. They gave 50 episodes to a manga that doesn't even have 50 chapters
On January 05 2018 10:30 IceHism wrote: Wait so you are telling me that there were more people that watched TgK besides Nagi and I here. Wow.. I dunno how i missed it.
On December 27 2017 17:31 abuse wrote: Best Thing That Nobody Watched of 2017 Tsuki ga Kirei - really loved this show. Very refreshing to see a proper show about realistic relationships in such a young age of kids.
On January 04 2018 22:48 Toadesstern wrote: you know what's wrong with the world? People who prefer the Eromanga OP over the Eromanga ED. I'm a bit sad that I didn't put Kuzu no Honkai's ED in my top3 EDs but I thought about it and there was just so much good stuff from EDs (at least for me personally) this year around that I really had to cut something.
Like, I don't even listen to the Demi-chan ED ever. But when I talk about OPs/EDs in here outside of the year round-up it's usually about them being bad or really unfitting imo. Like the OP for the dictionary-making-anime a couple seasons ago, whatever the name was. So Demi-chan ED for me just had to be in there despite being nothing special visually, nothing I actively go out of my way to listen to either just for the fact that I really felt that's one of the most fitting songs I've heard in a while for anime endings.
Shit was tough this year. Oh and I totally should have made a "fav Waifu 2017" category as well. Both for 2D and 3D.
Not Sorry. I'll take a Claris over TrySail any day. I liked the ed but not enough to mention it. Demi chan ed over kuzu no honkai ed smh. Everything Sayuri releases is generally very good. Demi chan ed is just more trysail.
On January 05 2018 04:33 Spazer wrote: The awards are pretty arbitrary anyways. Do what you want.
On January 05 2018 00:07 abuse wrote: Guess it's time to watch Koe no Katachi. Honestly have a hard time imagining it to be "better than kimi no na wa", considering I've read the manga and know all the events. Can't imagine it all being captured well in just 1 movie, hence why I haven't bothered watching it. But welp, hopefully I'm wrong, wouldn't mind it.
It was a decent adaptation. I enjoyed it. Despite knowing the story, it still had emotional punch.
Kimi no na wa is prettier, but Koe no Katachi just slaughters it storywise.
On January 04 2018 21:24 IceHism wrote: Best Thing That Nobody Watched of 2017 Tsuki ga Kirei - I remember me and Nagi talking about this on irc but i dunno anyone else watching. it was pure diabetes and i always looked forward every week. Princess Principal - I dunno who else watched this. but ghost in the shell except replaced by moe girls is a winning combination. Shoutouts to Beatrice for some how always tripping or getting her voice box muted.
Princess Principal is many things, but it really doesn't have much in common with GitS.
Re:Creators - I don't think i cared about this show for like 14 episodes through the middle (maybe like 5-18) but i don't know how they ruined a show that had a big budget and a good premise. Literally just had to get characters from other series instead of making up its own
It's easy. Their writers sucked and had no idea where to take the story. Pretty hilarious, considering the premise of the show. Heck, I don't even think that their downfall was having original characters. It's just that they did nothing interesting with them.
Wait so you are telling me that there were more people that watched TgK besides Nagi and I here. Wow.. I dunno how i missed it.
The director of pp was the same as SaC though. Yea the story is different, but there were a lot of similarities i felt in the atmosphere and directing.
I think the story would have been a lot different if they already had established characters and personalities. The way they incorporated Magane for example as if they wanted to try so hard to make it so Souta's fake setsuna would come alive just really limited what the show could have been doing. Also meteora did the same thing with all the infodumps.
The tone of Princess Principal is worlds apart from SAC. GitS is extremely grounded. The anime takes itself seriously so that the audience will take its themes seriously. Princess Principal revels in spectacle more than anything else. It's why the entire cast is composed of "spies" when in reality they're more like a paramilitary group. It's why they sit down for afternoon tea when they shouldn't be associating with each other at all. It's why one of the characters is a literal loli samurai. It's why Dorothy's cleavage is apparently the height of espionage. Hell, FMP of all shows had better examples of seduction for subterfuge than this. GitS uses its cyperpunk setting as a basis to develop its characters and tell a story about humanity. Princess Principal uses its steampunk setting to develop its yuri relationship and emulate James Bond.
I still don't get your point with Re:Creators. For all we know, shit writing with original characters could've been shit writing with existing characters. Using existing characters also sounds like a great way to make various fanbases mad.
On December 28 2017 09:16 Sentenal wrote: This new Devilman anime looks like its some Shaft anime, not sure if I like:
Its not actually being made by Shaft, but visually it has that uninteresting flat look to parts of it with all the artsy stuff crammed in between. Would rather have a style like whats in Devilman vs Cyborg 009 instead of.... this.
Its not actually being made by Shaft, but visually it has that uninteresting flat look to parts of it with all the artsy stuff crammed in between. Would rather have a style like whats in Devilman vs Cyborg 009 instead of.... this.
its by yuasa, 100% chance it will be good
Looking at the work history for the guy, he has actually directed just a few anime series so far, and done a ton of key animation for others. Basically nothing to go off of with his history, and the trailer is concerning.
On January 05 2018 10:46 Nagisama wrote: Kaze and I watched and talked a lot about tsuki ga kirei.
Recreators OPs were really good. (Gets you pumped for the show at least, too bad it couldn't deliver) Kobeni is waifu material. I completely understand Benio's obnoxiouness over her.
Koe no katachi was good too.
yep, very waifu material. Agree 100%.
edit: on that note, anyone else want to recommend me a similar romcom with waifu material? haha. I actually really enjoyed Kobeni's reaction and VA. Pretty cute all around.
I don't think I can think of anything else quite like it, in particular when it comes to the waifu.
Like, I could tell you to watch Hataraku Maou-sama once again (or for the first time if you haven't watched it yet) because there's some overlap between the comedy/romance in general I guess but the Hikasa Yoko char (whatever her name was) is completly different with her being a tsundere and all. It also doesn't have that "arranged marriage + end up falling in love with each other" element to it at all (it only has the "end up falling in love with each other" part going for it). But I'd say Hataraku Maou-sama is the better show overall aside from the ED
In that regard it's probably even closer to something like Nisekoi but with Nisekoi it's a) more on the harem side of things b) the gorilla is the "waifu" while Kobeni is probably closer to Onodera character-wise.
so yeah, I don't think I can think of something that really fits the bill of it being comedy/romance + waifu character that is a bit like Kobeni + possibly arranged marriage. Also Mashiro is super important to what the show ends up being, or at least was for me.
On January 04 2018 23:03 Unleashing wrote: To me kimi no na wa is a 8/10 at the very best and that's mostly it being carried by visuals and sound, story and characters were mediocre.
6/10 for me. There was literally nothing besides the visuals that stood out. Definitely one of Shinkai's weaker works.
On January 05 2018 00:57 BrTarolg wrote: as much as i'd like to do one of those ranking things everyone else is doing
idk i'd just put maid dragon on the top for everything
and kujira no kora for "it was amazing and u guys didn't watch it"
I watched it and it was terrible.
Visuals and sound are very important to me as far as anime goes. Which is why i've rated it so 'high', the visual and audio design is just really super fucking good. Same reason redline has such a high rating for me despite its average plot (Almost want to give that one a 10/10.) While redline is close to 10/10 kimi no na wa is closer to 7/10.
Too bad as with everything i've watched by shinkai the characters and story are generally pretty bad. If not for the visuals of his works nothing he's made would get above 4/10 for me honestly.
I think great visuals and sound should be expected of anime, especially the higher budget ones. Having great visuals/sound doesn't really make something standout for me, because I expect it, so I don't usually give something a better rating for doing its job.
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