Chrome SHelled Regios spoilers
The biggest thing which pissed me off is they never explained the random other world scenes AT ALL. I think they are actually important to the light novel’s main story, but i haven’t read directly, only heard some about it.
They also almost never talked about layton’s (his name was something like that, been a while) past, even though you would think it would be important. I know i was hoping to hear more about it only to be severely disappointed.
Then there were the plot points about the city spirits or whatever they were called.
The series just needed another season to explain all of the strange shit going on. They even opened up new plot points near the end of the season that were never really went in to much.
Still, i wouldn’t recommend against watching it. Enjoyable and i’ve seen worse endings sadly.
Okay, reading the whole High School of the Dead manga in one go is not recommended. The ensuing dreams are… disturbing at best. Admittedly, I like the manga better than I liked the anime series. I couldn’t stand the characters after half an episode, but found them reasonably interesting in the manga.
Good choice. If you didn’t like the first 3 episodes, you won’t like the series since, well, it’s basically just the same episode repeated for 2 seasons. Near the end they start to wander into interesting territory before snapping back into the tried and true formula. If I wasn’t a completist, I would have given up on it fairly early.
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Hmm, there are sequels to Eureka Seven, Last Exile AND Moyashimon now?
I watch Angel Beats. That was weird but I like it.
Ramen Fighter Miki
saw all 12 episodes and enjoyed them all. miki is a waitress/poster/delivery girl at the ramen shop. she has crazy fights and rivalries while making deliveries.
check out the opening credits: there’s destroyed cities, miki riding a delivery box like a hoverjet, and using it to shoot an energy beam to blow up a building. this has nothing to do with the series, which is set in a ramen shop in a small market district.
There are anime fans, and then there is this girl.
Creepy.
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I watched some Nyarko-san (Haiyore! Nyaruko-san) on crunchyroll. Not much story or plot, but still pretty funny. The people who did this series read a fair amount of Lovecraft, and they also played Call of Cthulhu – characters are always losing Sanity points…
The image above: aggghhhh!!
So I didn’t post in this thread in a while. Being honest, the summer season was pretty bad.
If people want to watch something good from this year, they should watch Tsuritama.
After that, they have
Fate Zero
Sakimichi no Apollon
Moyashimon Returns
Natsuyuki Rendezvous started very good as a josei, but it fell into the last three episodes.
Hunter x Hunter is also a good choice, the only shonen I like, and the new adaptation is being very faithful to the original story and being well executed.
This season the star seems to be “From the New World” / Shinsekai Yori, it had a very good start.
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is a competent if kind of normal shojo.
In honor of it being Halloween, I re-watched Elfen Lied. The screwed-up-kids-killing-people-with-their-minds thing is about as close to horror as I like. I’d forgotten how short it is, just 13 episodes, but that seems like about the right length. I’m not a big fan of the “oh this girl I just met happens to be someone I knew years ago and forgot” plot mechanic, but at least there’s a semi-plausible reason for the memory loss. Not one of my all-time favorites, but it’s worth a spot on the DVD shelf (or the virtual equivalent).
I just burned through 11 episodes of Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse over 2 nights. Some of you may know its origins as a derivative story from what was originally a galget visual novel. But this is instead a mecha show, and one with very Serious Business. I am surprised at the tension it is able to achieve in episode 10 and 11. Try to ignore the skin-tight plug suits while watching…at least there are male pilots stuck with those suits too.
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Total Eclipse is actually twice removed from the original visual novel, being a side story of the spinoff. It doesn’t quite get everything right, but it’s at least entertaining and the payoff of watching it is considerably higher if you’re familiar with the source material. Total Eclipse has been a cakewalk in terms of seriousness to the original Muv Luv Alternative. Considering it can take upwards of 50-60 hours to play through the core three games (of which Total Eclipse is not one), not all that many people will have the background necessary to really appreciate what TE is trying to do.
It stands reasonably well on its own, thankfully. There’s just more to it than meets the eye.
I’d love to see Sakmichi no Apollon, but it’s not the sort of thing that would ever get dubbed. I’m a huge Yoko Kanno fan, we imported the OST from Japan earlier this year.
It’s on Crunchyroll: http://www.crunchyroll.com/kids-on-the-slope
But not dubbed, of course. And not available to non-NA people.
Oh wow. I thought you guys said they only would have a few episodes for a oven series. I must have misunderstood. Apparently they have an iPad app goes off to check
Anybody use the crunchyroll iPad app with an Apple TV? How well does it work? I had been thinking aout getting a new receiver with buil-in AirPlay, but this has me rethinking that and getting an AppleTV instead (and maybe a non airplay receiver…there’d be no reason to pay extra for it).
Actually, I’m going to move the PS3 next to that TV anyway, and that an do it too apparently…
From the New World had a pair of bad episodes (5-6), I hope the series recover.
I had no problem watching it here in the UK, so it’s certainly available to some non-NA people.
The show needed more jazz and less melodrama in the final third.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpqYN9qKBxM
So originally I thought this was just a re-imagining of the intro sequence, which I had seen a few weeks ago. Then it keeps going and going… and so now I have no idea what I’m watching. You wouldn’t just re-do random clips from the show without context, so what the hell is this? Are they “modernizing” the entire first series?
— Alan
I just started watching Linebarrels of Iron this weekend, and wow, it’s bad. Kid meets giant robot, has personal crisis, is unable to understand girls, participates in fights apparently won by who screams loudest, etc, etc. They can’t decide whether to go full fan-service or act all “I’m too young for sex” which leaves it right in the puke-inducing middle. I’m debating whether to put myself through the last half of the series in hopes that it gets better, or just delete it off my video drive right now.
