nohman Posted June 16, 2015 Posted June 16, 2015 Watched another 3 episodes of Yamato 2199. I'm up to episode 6. I'm trying to take it relatively slow so I can savor the series, I'm going to be sad when it's over. Quote
Kosakyun Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Started watching Seitokai Yakuindomo S2. Damn. I missed watching this show. It's still great. Also, props to more special effects for Suzu's head. Quote
Stray Cat Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 To Love-Ru Darkness is everything I could have hoped for and more: Yami and Momo focus No more idiotic humor but yet with more fanservice Actual threat of death What's not to like. Quote
Nosebleed Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Watched 15 episodes of Aikatsu. Can confidently say I have lost sight of my life. Ai Katsu! Ai Katsu! Ai Katsu! Ai Katsu! [Proceeds to stuff face with Pop'n Popcorn] Quote
Kosakyun Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 At Episode 57 of Ai Tenchi Muyo! I'm happy to say that it actually has some sort of story. The events finally made sense. I guess it wouldn't make sense at the start if you didn't watch the original series, but whatever. All the conflict made me geniunely interested in Tenchi Muyo. I think I'll watch the original series as well. Quote
Getsuya Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Saint Tail has just established itself as a Good Anime because it had a scene with tarot cards and instead of using 'Death' like every other show ever made that knows nothing about tarot cards they used the Tower which is the actual correct 'bad things are coming your way' card. If you ever see a show that has The Tower instead of Death for tarot card foreshadowing that is immediately a Good Show because someone writing the story actually bothered to do 5 seconds of research. Quote
joehawks12 Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 watching your lie in april. Bracing myself for the inevitable feels and crying like a bitch that everyone says will happen. Quote
XReaper Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 drunk as fuckk & starting my city hunter night....s1 aight! SaintOfVoid 1 Quote
SaintOfVoid Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 sounds good to me, as i like the series as a whole very much. still a bit sceptical when it comes to the new one planned, because everything felt quite complete after angel heart ended. hope they wont ruin it with some mediocre bullshit. Quote
Stray Cat Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 watching your lie in april. Bracing myself for the inevitable feels and crying like a bitch that everyone says will happen. It didn't for me. I can't believe how over-hyped that show is. Quote
Kosakyun Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Finished Ai Tenchi Muyo. I might watch the other Tenchi Muyo shows as well. Maybe. It was alright, I guess. Though everything only made sense by Episode 37 or so. Quote
nohman Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Still pacing myself with Yamato 2199. I wrote a bunch of stuff fanboying over the show, but I'll save that until I actually finish the series. I will say the OST is thoroughly kicking my ass however. Quote
Kurisu-Chan Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 currently watching Higashi No Eden, Sugoi animu. Quote
Heizei_koukousei Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 I love Shaft. And I don't know why I waited this long to watch Madoka✮Magica. Quote
Nosebleed Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 30 episodes into Aikatsu. At this pace I feel like I'm going to start crying rainbows. This series is so much fun. It's well paced and uses the formula really well. The friendship is always developing and new girls still keep coming. The show doesn't seem to have a clear goal but at the same time it takes its time developing everything in the Aikatsu universe and it's just so fun to watch. Yurika x Ran is my new OTP. Love the dynamic the two have in the show as well. Yurika is just too damn adorable. Seriously shipping these two is basically making the show 10 times better. I hope that for the next 110 episodes everything stays just as fun because I plan on dedicating a lot of my time watching this series. Finally a kids show that really got me hooked. Quote
Fred the Barber Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Watched the first three episodes of From The New World. It's very pretty, and it's doing a fantastic job of making me feel uneasy. I wanted to relish the calm atmosphere it has going now, because I can see that all the nice everyday stuff is going up in flames very soon, but the show keeps jabbing me with reminders that all is decidedly not well. I don't recall any show every leaving me feel quite this nervous before - it's both pleasant and unpleasant, but mostly I'm savoring the feeling. FinalChaos and Flutterz 2 Quote
Stray Cat Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Finished To Love-Ru Darkness and the OVAs. The OVAs were Motto level but Darkness is amazing. Can't wait for season 2. Quote
Moka♡ Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Just finished isshukan friends the other day. Now im watching Hibike! Euphonium. Quote
Kosakyun Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Finished Seitokai Yakuindomo S2 and its OVAs. I guess that ending was to be expected. Though the little tease at the end about meeting again in the future makes hope live within me. Future, please have SYD S3. What I love about this show is, of course, the sex jokes. Not only that, but the fact that most of the characters that act the 'straight man' role actually get the joke. That's good. It just sucks whenever you pull off that kind of joke and nobody gets it. You're left looking like a fool. Of course, it doesn't really matter if they get it or not. You'll still look like one at the end. Overall, that was enjoyable. Loved the jokes. It was an improvement. I like the second season's OP better. Also, I sometimes feel that most of their budget goes to giving 'Suzu's head' great effects. You can't deny it. Suzu's head has some mighty effects. Oh, also, I really like Uomi. Tsuda, you lucky guy. Will start Pupa next. Hopefully, Nosebleed's a trustworthy guy. Quote
Nosebleed Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Seitokai Yakuindomo started getting pretty repetitive in S2 and a lot of the jokes started falling flat. It should have stayed an OVA series because those adapt the best jokes while keeping the show fresh with a bigger interval in between episodes. While I enjoyed season 1 I quickly understood how stale sex jokes can get if you repeat them too much, because at some point you'll just end up recycling a lot of the previous ones. It wasn't a bad season, just didn't have as much charm. I don't know why on earth you're watching Pupa but may god be with you. Quote
Kosakyun Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 I guess it would depend on how much you enjoy those kind of jokes. ...Yeah, I don't really get tired of them. It does have its dull moments, but that's something that's found in a lot of shows. Once again, personal opinion, I guess. I decided to watch Pupa because I have it in my stash and your blog post inspired me to do so. Quote
Nosebleed Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 It's not that I can't appreciate the sex jokes, it's just that they started reusing the same gags way too much and it started growing stale because after a while there's just not many original and good jokes, most of them were just average and reused a lot of elements. In each episode there were 3 or 4 good jokes for every 10 "eh" jokes. I also watched it when it aired and not immediately after the first season so the hype probably died down by the time. I will say the quality of the show improved, but the comedy really felt more stale in S2. Even the level of dirtyness seemed to have been toned down. And if you read the manga like I do, it grows even more stale if you try to marathon it. It made me realize that series is just not meant to be marathoned, at least not if you want to appreciate the gags, you need to know how many of them does it take for it to get boring, and then stop reading and not force yourself to keep going, otherwise the jokes that come after just stop impacting you in any way. Quote
Kosakyun Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 It made me realize that series is just not meant to be marathoned, at least not if you want to appreciate the gags, you need to know how many of them does it take for it to get boring, and then stop reading and not force yourself to keep going, otherwise the jokes that come after just stop impacting you in any way. Quote
nohman Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 So I just watched episode 9 of Yamato 2199, "A Clockwork Prisoner" and I want to write down my thoughts on it real quick. This is probably my favorite episode so far in terms direction. While the themes of "can robots have feelings," and "what does it mean to be human" have obviously been done to death in these kind of stories and there's not really much to take away from them anymore, this episode does an awesome job at establishing and maintaining a mournful and frantic tone that really makes the episode for me. Speaking visually, there are a few absolutely gorgeous and eerie shots at the end with Analyzer standing on the bridge of the Yamato against the backdrop of a star. There's also some pretty cool cuts to a radio dial while everything is being wrapped up and book-ended. The thing that really made the episode was how Alter was characterized though. He was inarticulate and like a child. In a lot of these kind of stories, like Blade Runner for example, the robots are designed to be human, they're very communicative, and you get the feeling they're trying to convince the other characters that they're more than just circuitry and programming. Here, it's the opposite. There is not a question of subterfuge. We don't get much, other than the sense that Alter is trying to make sense of things. He never tries to justify his existence to the viewer and during his escape, he's just frantically moving forward leaving the other characters to fill in his motive. Combine this with the composition of the episode - the music, all the little cool shots, the whole "friend" thing in Alter's task logs, and the "Heart of Observer" parable that's related throughout the story - it was an episode that really left an impression on me. /end fanboy Quote
joehawks12 Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 your lie in april. Finished it in pretty much one sitting. What a terribly overhyped piece of hot garbage. The protagonist is not someone i could ever sympathize with, since he doesn't seek professional help, meaning he likely enjoys the attention he recieves for it. The female protagonist is pretty cool, but i knew that since she was the one character that i liked she was going to have a death flag of some sort, surprise! she did. Every other scene was like watching an episode of a soap opera, they had to rack the drama up to the maximum levels, to where it's fucking absurd how much dirt they kick up over non-issues, and the other characters i just did not like at all. Especially that whiny bitchy best friend, who was slinging mud at every chance she got. And then there's the completely inappropriate comedy. The timing in breaking jokes was worse than a black guy showing up to a neighborhood bbq only to find out the cul-de-sac was exclusively kkk members. It just did not mesh at fucking all. Then again, ever since i've discovered vns i've become quite the stickler for something that usually runs for 30 minutes and is wrapped up in 13-24 episodes. Quote
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