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I’m 9 episodes into Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist and I absolutely love this damn show. I think it’s hilarious with some really outrageous and messed up stuff happening each episode. Hooked me from the first episode with that ‘fly’ ending.

Love the concept of all the students being completely ignorant about sex and then suddenly being exposed to it from the antics of ero-terrorists. I really like most of the characters. Anna just goes absolutely batshit from episode 4 on since she doesn’t know the difference between love and lust. That girl is seriously messed up. Tanukichi works well as a median between the extremes of Anna and Blue Snow. Definitely not for everyone, but I haven’t seen anything I find annoyingly gratuitous or unearned, though some would probably feel different. Its intentional censorship just makes it more amusing to me. It’s a stupid show, but it continually cracks me up, and I cannot wait for a dub to come out. It could be glorious.

3822

Censorship in the real world is a absurd thing. Books illegal, list of illegal books illegal, list of illegal list of illegal books illegal.

The real world is stupid and absurd:

I find Shimoneta too tamed.

3823

I’m suddenly bored. Non-plot spoiler explanation of the term “nice boat” below.

I promise, no School Days spoilers inside!

In Japan, certain channels suddenly needed to…not broadcast the entire last episode for spoiler reasons. To fill the dead air, the tv stations put up a picture of a river/valley scene with a boat traveling down it. Twitterverse exploded when people raged over not seeing the finale, and somewhere there, a serendipitous ‘nice boat’ comment went viral.

3824

Watched season 2 of Log Horizon recently. I really like what they’ve done with the world-building and high-level plotlines. Plenty of MMO references, of course, since the basic idea is still gamers trapped in a game world. They’re building up from that into something more than a “game world”, though, with important NPC characters and exploration of the world outside of the game rules. It’s got an overarching “big mystery” aspect to it that really appeals to me. Unfortunately, to get to it you have to put up with a lot of the worst of the silly anime tropes, from “villain in glasses” to cross-dressers to unrequited middle-school girl crushes. If you can get past that…and believe me, it takes some effort…it’s a fun ride.

3825

I just finished Season 1 of Log Horizon, but it was dubbed. I found it much better than I had expected after being an SAO fan for so long. I really want to watch Season 2, but it does not appear to be dubbed yet, and I really like the voices. I’ve read that hopefully the dub will be out in October, but I suspect I’ll have to just prepare to deal with subtitles.

3826

Hunter X Hunter
So. I’m guessing I’m 40 episodes in. Gon just listened to a cassette tape.
Has anyone finished the series? I have 2 questions before I invest anymore time.

Show Direction

[spoiler]

  1. Does the show move on past the pokemon yugi-oh this is Nen and you need this to combat blah blah blah. Becoming a hunter was great fun, but this series of fights in the tower just completely turned me off.

  2. Does he actually meet his father? A simple yes or no. I really don’t want to watch the show and have it come down to him leaving a note for his father that says, “I’ve been tracking you for some time. I could have come up and said hello, but I thought you’d lose respect for me. So I just left you this note. I realize that the best but of being a hunter is the hunt”. While I can respect and think the show should end like that. I don’t really want to watch 400 + episodes to get there. [/spoiler]

3827

If you are watching the recent remake of Hunter X Hunter, the last episode is numbered 148. This is nowhere like trying to catch up on Naruto or One Piece.

Hunter X Hunter for Shieldwolf

[spoiler]1. Oh yes, you’ve just finished the Arena arc and are starting the Yorknew arc. Things will get much better, especially when Gon can finally act on the cassette tape content. Although there are still fights because Shonen.

  1. Yes.[/spoiler]
3828

Hunter X Hunter went off the rails for me during the chimera ant arc. I thought the arc was almost over and I looked at the synopses for the future episode list and saw that it goes on for 61 episodes. I dropped the whole thing right there and then. Honestly it was always a little on the edge of anime that I like so I figured if that was it, then I didn’t need it. It’s not like there’s not a bunch of good anime.

Meanwhile I just googled it and people think it’s the best arc. Apparently I’m not the target audience anyways.

I thought the first arc (the Exam) and the Yorknew arc were the best. Greed Island, the whole thing, I could have done without.

Overall I felt like Hunter x Hunter cannot figure out what kind of anime it wants to be. It flounders around and tries different things but almost any of those things you can find a better anime for.

3829

Finally finished the first season of Bakemonogatari.

I really, really, reaaaally like this series. It helps that the animation is exceptional and way above 99% of non-feature anime production.

3830

Hunter X Hunter: I also almost dropped it during the chimera ants. There’s some redeeming qualities to pushing through to the end, but oh god I never want to sit through them again. The election arc, right after the chimera arc, has 2 of the best scenes in the series. (Well, at least 1…I might be dreaming of the other one…)

The monogatari series is AWESOME! It gets a little better as it goes along, and remains very good to the end…? I need to check if there are more… Anyways, it is funny about your remark on its animation…people have criticised it as merely a series of sharp stills. I’m sure the same people just couldn’t stand all the talking and talking and talking.

3831

Oh, yes, it does have many sets of “stills” per episode. However, these stills are quite well animated sometimes (hair in the wind and stuff) while also being stylish. But more importantly, they allow the series to have fantastic animated scenes several times per episode. The stills are cheaper/faster to produce, so you get time and money left for the several money shots each episode (or that’s what’s looking like to me).

It feels way more expensive than it probably is precisely because the slideshow style works and when the series decides to go dynamic, man it does… At the end, for me it looks and feels more polished than pretty much any series out there :)

3832


Here’s a little mix of anime music that is fantastic. I’d love to find the Attack on Titan Soundtrack for Season 2 that’s in this mix, but I haven’t found it anywhere.

3833

Owarimonogatari’s first half is getting 12 episodes soon, no announcement on how they plan to adapt the second half. Koyomimonogatari is supposed to be adapted as well but they don’t know what format they want to use either. There are no revealed plans at this time to adapt the ending of the novels but I imagine that’s inevitable after they get the rest of it sorted out.

3834

Ok, watched the OVA (OAV?) of Black Rock Shooter with my wife and we both loved it (I did more than she, I think). A very cool, tender, simple friendship/love story. Tonally weird, surreal (I think it’s more a magic realism metaphor than a straight up fantasy thing), but subtle and somewhat insightful in it’s simpleness (it doesn’t say much, but there’s not much to say, and it definitely hits home in several ways).

So we decided to watch the series. Two episodes in and, man, you can notice it’s not the same director. The subtlety is gone, substituted by more obvious TV trappings, but still allowing a very unique feel and style to it. My wife is loving it, I’m more ambivalent. Interested, and thinking the series holds potential given this opening, but annoyed we couldn’t get a full series like the OVA.

3835

Pulled Plastic Memories off the Crunchyroll queue recently, and I’d say arrendek had it nailed. I enjoyed the first 6-8 episodes and tolerated the rest. Fortunately it’s only 13 in total so it’s not too much of a drag to finish it out. I will say that I’m glad I did, though. Despite being thoroughly predictable in just about every way, I still got a little choked up during the last half of the last episode. Which says two things, I suppose: 1) I’m an old softie and 2) the ending may have been predictable but at least it was well executed.

3836

Yeah WTF what happened with this show. I just started Chimera and it’s like I jumped into Dragon Ball Z and not in a good way.

3837

I’ve been having a blast with Overlord this season. Easily the most fun I had with the recently ridiculously popular “MMO fantasy” genre. I really hope somebody will pick up light novels for official english releases, as seeing it’s a Madhouse show I seriously doubt we’ll get second season.

3838

Chimera Ant Arc is great, if a bit too slow.

3839

Final episode is confirmed to air on October 3.

3840

Can you elaborate a bit? What makes it great?