I watched it with a friend until ep. 7, then I moved countries, so I’m slipping behind.
What about it makes it worth watching aside from how completely and utter ridiculous it seems to be? If that alone is the main selling point, it’ll be a tough sell, but if there’s more to it than that then I could probably be talked into it.
The thing with Ikuhara is that while it’s certainly utterly ridiculous a lot of the time, he usually has a real story working at some level, and actually makes the symbolism matter, while never giving too much away. Of course, I’m an unabashed Revolutionary Girl Utena-fanboy, and I have the tattoo to prove it, so I might not be unbiased here.
As an example from that series, sure, it has its “Curried High Trip”-episodes, and photo sessions with pretty boys on red sports cars, but it also has ep. 34, where the main characters go see a play that is actually a stylized, fairy-tale version of the past of two of them, which also warns the completely oblivious protagonist of the situation she’s in. The second part of the episode is a dream where we find out that the intro giving the series premise is at best a half-truth. It’s pretty awesome.
The moral of the story is that if you just beat people up enough, they’ll like you!
Did anyone else watch the first episode of Last Exile Fam? It’s very pretty looking, and pretty fun. Not sure how far after the original series this one is set at…
Lynxara
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Yeah, Nanoha pretty much paved the way for a show like Madoka to get made. Nanoha’s story is fairly simple action anime stuff, there’s none of Madoka’s time loops or other sci-fi concepts.
HRose
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Well, I noticed they have the same director, the SHAFT god.
But with three seasons + movie I expect it has to go somewhere. I’ve read the movie is just a summary of the 1st series so I guess I’ll watch it in that order.
It certainly changes in schope from the original series to A’s and especially StrikerS.
Guilty Crown 2
Action!
Plans!
Tits!
Asses!
Moe! (including the classical neko-moe and the new wheelchair-moe!)
scifi gadget stuff!
Evil, evil badguys!
Badly explained special powers!
Romantic interest for the MC with the character of a fish and which already “belong to him”
Hilarious hijinks on the school!
Otaku bait, in other words.
What…
I don’t really understand where the unjustified hate for guilty crown on this board comes from.
This could be used to describe basically every sci fi themed anime/movie/book out there, especially when you can add tits and ass just from rare, mild fan service scenes (a woman wearing a jumpsuit with reason that is perhaps a bit too tight).
And seriously a woman in a wheel chair? There might have even been a black man in there too if we’re talking about things that are rarely in anime!
You also really can’t expect everything to be fully explained in the 2nd episode of a 22 episode series.
…on this board
It’s pretty much the same in other boards.
And yep, the concept is similar to other stories, but he execution here is pretty bad.
HRose
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In the desperate attempt to understand Touhou, I’m watching a fan anime.
I’m quite impressed. First fans make an anime indistinguishable from standard productions, but without dub. Then fans make a dub indistinguishable from standards production.
One girl. Doing all the voices.
HRose
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So whats the consensus on whats worth watching this season? I haven’t really had a problem before picking out stuff I like but so far only C3 has caught my eye.
Still haven’t watched C3, but so far for me:
Guilty Crown – it’s no Death Note or Code Geass (and you will see a lot of parallels to the latter) but it’s good fun. Mechs, superpowers, oppressed Japanese, etc. Very pretty, I’ll say that much.
Hunter x Hunter re-telling – no-brainer. It’s just as good as the original series.
Fate Zero – never watched Fate Stay/Night, but you don’t need to. The series is great so far.
Last Exile – Dooo eeet!
Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!! – completely off-the-rails, but fulfills the harem quotient. With super-powers! It’s weird. Watch the first ep and decide if you like it.
I’ll also toss Gundam AGE into the pile, for Gundam fans. It’s not great, but it’s Gundam. If I had to use a Gundam metric on this, it’s better than Gundam X but worse than Turn A. So far.
Apart from GitS, I haven’t seen any of those other shows and I can still tell how cliche-ridden GC is. But to quote a friend, when you’re this pretty, it doesn’t matter that you’re completely derivative and yet still don’t make any fuckin’ sense.
Maken-Ki! is for people who found “Freezing” too subtle and hard to understand.
Maji de Watashi ni blah blah blah - the first episode is pretty zany fun, the next two are much less so (and really dial up the “buy the DVDs!” fan-service / censoring); but it’s just offbeat enough to inject a little life into the usual high-school martial-arts / harem setup.
CxCxC - the first episode and a half is a pretty bland “teenage boy winds up living with annoying magical girl” setup (a la Kannagi or To Aru…Index); but the second half of episode 2 suddenly kicks into high gear. It may not be good, but at least it gets dark & bloody in a hurry, and that’s the next best thing!
Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai looks like a typical light-novel-turned-anime high-school harem comedy setup, except it might actually be - what’s the word? - oh right, funny. Here the premise is a bunch of anti-social misfits form a club in order to learn how to make friends - hijinks presumably ensue. So far the best scene is when the three main characters attempt to bond while playing videogames. [Protip: next time disable friendly fire if you actually want people to get along.]
Thrawn
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^ On Maken-Ki, it might be last season’s (Or last-last season’s) Boobs Hiken-chou, without the censored nudity.
Code Geass! Wait… no theatrics? What a rip.
Watched the first half of the first episode of School City Valanoir and it’s a crappy looking slideshow of creepy bored clones and a wannabe casanova named Faust. Also the main wins the battle in the second half of the first episode despite having no training and going up against one of the best students in the school.
And I thought Funny Pets looked like crap.
Oh my, on episode 17 right now and woooooooow, Steins gate gets much much MUCH better than I had originally given it credit for after only seeing 2 episodes.
Also very glad I didn’t watch this while it aired, it would have driven me insane!
HRose
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There was an interesting leak that revealed we are currently watching something unexpected: Steins;Gundam.
I’m up for it (but episode 3 delivered already some HUGE hints).
Here’s a weird one. I was previously using MPC and k-lite as my codec pack and followed the instructions here uninstalling everything etc and while the player functions perfectly when I make it fullscreen it disables my ability to use the scrollbar for firefox. Even if I’ve made Firefox the focus by clicking on it it’ll use my middle mouse button to change volume and I can’t even drag my scroll bar around. When it’s a window I can change focus like normal, my scroll wheel on my mouse switches to the application that’s focus’d and my scroll bar in firefox works correctly.
Just changing the volume buttons for fullscreen from the mousewheel to nothing fixes nothing except that it no longer controls the volume for MPC when I use it. I still can’t scroll in any form in Firefox.
I installed MPC-HC and madVR as well as the other things they recommend for 10 bit under the setup guide for MPC-HC and madVR.
I read somewhere, a while back, that the series would “span generations” and I don’t think the suffix “AGE” is accidental. Can’t find the link to that description, but I know I read it. Haven’t seen #3 yet, but I’m actually curious now.
