Anime Discussion Thread - Page 757

On February 23 2011 17:01 Athos wrote:
I'm really enjoying watching Dragonball Kai. Maybe it's nostalgia but I really think this show holds up pretty well, at least in the beginning.

As of February 20, K-ON! became the first television animation series to sell over 500,000 Blu-ray Discs on Oricon's sales chart in Japan. It accomplished this feat when the eighth limited first edition Blu-ray volume of the K-ON!! television anime sequel sold 26,000 copies (rounded to the nearest thousand) during its first five days of sales (February 16-20). The DVD version of the same eighth volume sold 3,178 copies.

On February 23 2011 20:23 TimeOut wrote:
K-ON! is 1st TV Anime Franchise to Sell 500,000+ BDs



Haha, I guess they'll stop producing DVD copies soon, with that tiny amount of sales compared to the BDs.

On February 23 2011 15:48 Southlight wrote:
The problem is Xuse split, a huge chunk of the EienShinken crew formed their own company (Immortal Will) but their games have been pretty rubbish of late. Meanwhile I don't think Xuse has the employee infrastructure to make an SRPG anymore.

Edit:
Sorry, Eternal Will.
http://www.eternal-will.jp/products/index.html

Meanwhile Xuse is stuck in a loop of just re-making their old stuff or making random spin-off shooters of Aselia that suck.

On February 23 2011 23:42 JSH wrote:
Just finished watching Bakemonogatari

It was pretty fun, but took a while to get used to the animation style
I only disliked episode 12, which was basically a filler episode...

Eh the main character is almost too unselfish though
I mean I'm pretty nice to everyone but...
+ Show Spoiler +

On a side note, I lost interest in watching Madoka... after the long winded episode with Sayaka and the violin dude...
That really disinterested me

On February 23 2011 23:55 Ecael wrote:

A lot of people have raised similar points, and the real explanation to that is to watch Kizumonogatari when that airs. Most of Bake involves Araragi being emo and still wanting to die. At that, it is already an improvement because the Araragi from Kizumonogatari would've just died without even thinking about the consequences. At any case, if you finished, ep15 is a pretty good example of how Araragi is changing.

Also if ep12 was the date episode with Gahara-san, it is anything but filler lol.

Also lol, losing interest in Madoka because of that?

On February 23 2011 23:55 Ecael wrote:

A lot of people have raised similar points, and the real explanation to that is to watch Kizumonogatari when that airs. Most of Bake involves Araragi being emo and still wanting to die. At that, it is already an improvement because the Araragi from Kizumonogatari would've just died without even thinking about the consequences. At any case, if you finished, ep15 is a pretty good example of how Araragi is changing.

Also if ep12 was the date episode with Gahara-san, it is anything but filler lol.

Also lol, losing interest in Madoka because of that?

On February 24 2011 00:20 Sentenal wrote:

I've always been curious, is Gahara-san your nickname for Senjogahara, or is that what they call her in the LN/whatever the source material was? Since I don't remember her being referred to as that.

On February 24 2011 00:21 Ecael wrote:

Araragi made up the nickname for her (Gahara-san) and starts calling her that in Nisemonogatari vol 1 and on. I'd use more random LN nicknames but this is the only one that actually stuck with me.

On February 24 2011 00:15 JSH wrote:


mm yeah I can kind of see how he changed from the beginning

Eh... I thought it was basically a filler, all they did was go on a date lol
I guess, there was the development with her parents and and about her in general but since it was in the middle of Hanekawa Arc so I wanted that to go on haha

Bleh yeah, I dunno, I guess I can't say that was the only reason. I liked Madoka and I heard it gets even better but I don't really feel like watching it for some reason...

On February 24 2011 00:25 Ferrose wrote:


That actually sounds better to me. I imagine that the seiyuus in Bakemonogatari might have had a difficult time pronouncing "Senjougahara" "Araragi" "Hachikuji" etc..

Dunno, those are actually not that hard to pronounce?

On February 24 2011 00:41 JSH wrote:
mm yeah now upon reflecting I guess, that part was pretty important especially in part to the ending.
I guess I didn't realize it at the time haha
I thought it was 17 episodes long or something so when I realized 15 was the last one I was like ah...

Eh are the LN more different/explains more about the story?
I'm kind of confused as there seems to be lots of them



Arararagi-san
Oops I stuttered

Hachikuji seems like a pretty weird name

On February 24 2011 00:52 Ecael wrote:

The Bake anime adaptation was imo a very well done job, it really bought out the feel of the original LNs. There aren't any real differences plot wise, but I personally felt that the LNs do a better job conveying some things. Then again I just like text. But yeah, Bakemonogatari is only the first 2 vols of the novel, after that, there is Kizumonogatari, Nisemonogatari (vol 1 and 2), Nekomonogatari (Kuro and Shiro) and it is up to Kabukimonogatari at the moment. I am waiting on the next book myself...looks like the March release is going to get delayed ><

Well, Nishio Ishin is known for making weird names, but they aren't exactly difficult to pronounce.