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Thanks, watched them. OVA was fun, though a little much, I think the biggest laugh was what they did in the credits. The epilogue was unnecessary and I wouldn’t recommend it.

Episode 13 really was a kick in the balls. 1-5 and 13 were definitely the high points, the rest was a bit of a mess.

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I liked the epilogue and would prefer to replace a certain aspect of the normal ending with it, but I can easily see why one might prefer the standard ending as-is.

And yes, the whole point of the OVA is to go over-the-top. It’s bound to get tired out at some point, but I think the final bits make it worthwhile.

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I had forgotten about the post-end credits (ep13) when I typed that. I would be happy to remove the bit after the credits because it seems to make the bit just before the credits pointless and removes its impact.

I was unsure exactly who he was supposed to be waiting for in the epilogue. Or rather, I can only think of one person and I cannot see why he would expect them to come back.

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Angel Beats spoilers

[spoiler]Kanade’s one wish was to thank the donor of her heart for the opportunity at continued life. The heart donor logically would have died prior to Kanade, and yet she arrived in the afterlife realm before he did. Time means nothing there, and since Otonashi’s one wish is to have her back, he’s pretty much stuck there until that happens. Even if it seems highly unlikely, the afterlife is screwed up and there’s a minute chance of it coming to pass. Essentially, Kanade’s wish to thank him was directly contradictory to Otonashi’s eventual wish to keep her around. Only one of them could have what they wanted, and the other was going to end up (likely) stuck forever in the afterlife.

In the meantime, he fills the void left by her absence by providing an authority figure and helping others move on, though he’s probably much more effective at that than she ever was.[/spoiler]

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Dragon Age movie.

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From that page, “Similar Shows - Shows you might also like”

‘Record of Lodoss War’

Fuck. You.

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Mawaru Penguin Drum 12. :O

Seriously people, watch this series. Bittersweet episode, new mysteries, stuff happens, great art used.

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Well, they are both D&D based fantasy…

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Yeah, the show did play pretty fast and loose with the small number of “rules” it came up with, so I wasn’t sure if that was the case.

I hadn’t read into the ending quite as deeply as you did though, so thanks, that makes it all the more bittersweet. Except for that bit after the credits, urgh.

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First episode of Fate/zero was absolutely fantastic. I’m looking forward to getting my grubby hands on the next one as soon as possible. Ufotable is likely going to give us the first legitimately good Fate adaptation if they keep this up.

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Is it… good? I mean, from a more objective perspective of someone who haven’t read or seen anything related to Fate/zero before (i think there are novels and videogames about it??).

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Have you ever watched or played Fate/stay night in one of its various incarnations? Fate/zero is a prequel that pretty much expects you to have experienced F/SN beforehand, so if you haven’t done so then I cannot recommend it in any objective sense. It assumes far too much knowledge of how the universe works and (unless they go on to explain more in the next episode) you’d probably end up lost.

If they do end up explaining the details of how everything works, which may very well happen in episode 2, then this would function as a stand-alone story that would end up spoiling most of Fate/stay night for you were you ever to be interested in watching or playing it.

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I’ll keep to 3 shows this season: Persona 4, Fate Zero, and Working. I’ll add more if you guys rave about something, much like Tiger & Bunny last season (at eps 13 now…wow it’s great!).

As a community service, I watched Blood C, so you don’t have to. Let’s see how the spoiler tag works…

What happened after Saya stopped drinking coffee and eating guimauve and going to school…

[spoiler]The whole country-town/school environment is an experiment to see if Saya (the original Saya from previous Blood series) will become a more controllable personality if appropriately brainwashed and perhaps grew up differently. This is setup by the coffee shop guy, who previously captured Saya (losing all of his personal army in the process).

The floating red glass balls are filled with Saya blood, which can be used to make or control those “elder brains”. So Coffee Shop guy has been controlling the elder brains all along.

Coffee shop guy hired hundreds of people to act as townspeople. He was willing to let all but a few key ‘actors’ die during the episodes. The twins were an example of key ‘actors’, who showed up again at the end of episode 11 to…uh…screw around.

In the end, everybody and everything dies…except coffee-shop guy & the one classmate that acts cool all the time (they fly away in a helicopter), and of course Saya. Saya loses an eye, so now it drips blood behind the blindfold, which is cool, I guess.

As ‘expected’, the guimauve is made with elder brain blood, the one thing Saya can drink. It tastes yummy to her.

There are even more stupid contrivances in episode 12, but it makes my brain hurt to think about them.[/spoiler]

Blood C is not finished yet. There’s a direct sequel movie coming June 2, 2012.

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A friend of mine recommended Tekkon Kinkreet. I got about 50min in and… well, it just isn’t doing it for me. I feel bad for the guy, he recommends me stuff and I never enjoy it, but I put him onto Steins;Gate and Tiger & Bunny and he loved them both.

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Tekkon Kinkreet is gorgeous on Bluray. Storylinewise…eh.

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Well I made it half-way through an episode of Ano Hi Mita Hana No Namae O Bokutachi Wa Mada Shiranai before a feeling of having seen it all before took over and I stopped. I’ll come back to it later I think.

So I’m now onto Welcome to the NHK (NHK Ni Youkoso!) which is… surprisingly good. Seeing the world through the eyes of a weird shut-in, while having the far too nice to be real female anime character. I think there’s even a fourth wall joke about that in there. Oh, and even if you don’t enjoy the anime you have to give props to one of the best end credit sequences ever :)

Four episodes in and if it weren’t for the need for sleep I’d keep going.

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I watched the first episode of Phi Brain. Meh. I might give this another episode, I might not. If I am watching a show about solving puzzles, I don’t really want someone to have a supernatural puzzle-solving ability that makes it so they don’t have to reason it out. I did like the main character’s childhood friend, though. At first blush she’s a generic abusive tsundere, but she’s actually played up as being the muscle and while she doesn’t have very strong puzzle-solving skills, she has a great memory and observation skills. So she actually complements the main character pretty well.

But he just got supernatural puzzle-solving skills. And that sucks.

Edit: Quitch, Welcome to the NHK is really good.

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I watched Phi Brain as well.

This is basically a low quality shounen fighting school anime, except it replaces the weekly randomly boss fight with a weekly random puzzle.

The puzzles (in the first one at least) are just not interesting at all. They just aren’t. This is not a detective show and he is not solving mysteries of that sort, they are puzzles.

Going from watching the first episode and the preview of the second episode, there doesn’t seem to be any reason for solving these puzzles, he just comes across a puzzle and solves it for no good reason. Don’t expect some reason for him to be doing random puzzles or some grand plot that makes things interesting. Random Puzzles.

I also kind of liked the childhood friend, although she is 95% standard childhood friend who is overly violent, focuses on sports, tomboyish and a love interest.

The main character is also the standard shounen fighting schools lead. Loner, thinks he is the strongest and feels he is too good to join the gang under his seniors.

Among the anime i decided i would check out this season, this one clearly seems to be the worst by far. Although in the interest of full disclosure, i almost never like low quality shounen fighting school anime.

I also check out C3 (cursed X Cube X curious i think it was). It doesn’t seem to be a super unique anime. The first episode hugely reminded me of Kannagi. On this note, going by the first episode, the description and the previews, this strongly sounds like a more action packed version of kannagi with much less singing (sorry, i always skip over the singing/karaoke scenes).

None the less it was enjoyable. Not great or a unique snow flake, but enjoyable. I always laughed when the female lead exploded on people. “Shut Up! I’ll curse you!”

oh and I also thought Welcome to the NHK was really good as well, although it can be somewhat depressing at times.

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I’ve been watching Mushi-Shi again.

It’s becoming my favorite anime.

And I just bought a new HDTV 32" and it looks amazing.

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When any season starts, I end up watching the first few episodes of a lot of shows and then drop a substantial number of them. C3 is actually first on the chopping block for the season so far. I always allow for more than a single episode, since the first one will not always be representative of the series as a whole, but I’ll be damned if the first episode of this wasn’t some of the most cliche trash I have seen in years.

Mysterious girl, female childhood friend, high school boy whose parents live abroad… The “comedy” was shoehorned in, unnecessary, and (most importantly) unfunny.

I have it on reasonably good authority (and as is hinted by the last minute of episode one) that this show gets better. The question is whether or not “better” will justify my continued investment of time given the low starting bar.