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Fall 2010 Anime Thread: Reboots, Retreads, and Rediscovery

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Steroyd

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Regulus Tera said:
Episode ends on a cliffhanger: Broccoli monkey Solar Beams Wotter. Wotter defends against the attack by using his little shell. No recoil, no nothing..

EDIT: http://imgur.com/VCVqS.jpg[/MG]

STOP IT

SERIOUSLY STOP IT NOW[/QUOTE]

WHAT THE FUCK HAVE I BEEN PLAYING ON NINTENDO'S HANDHELDS FOR 12 YEARS!?
 

Dresden

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Negima mou hitotsu no sekai 4: There's always time for Negima though, and lots of Eva makes for a wonderful episode! Is there any doubt she's the best character in the entire series?
No debate at all, Eva is the best, with Chisame following closely behind.

Crazy people like Asuna.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Jexhius said:
It's kind of a huge monster though. And certainly not marketable for TV consumption because it's horrifically bleak and violent.
I think anime could use a good bleak and violent story right now!
 

Reknoc

Member
Regulus Tera said:
Episode ends on a cliffhanger: Broccoli monkey Solar Beams Wotter. Wotter defends against the attack by using his little shell. No recoil, no nothing..

That's because Wotter is the best character in the show. He's so awesome he transcends types. Clearly that was a mistranslation and what he actually said was "Battle types don't matter in a Wotter battle".

Ken's Rage demo made me realise something when playing; I had no idea who any of these dudes but Kenshiro were. So I've decided to sit through all of Fist of the Northstar, he's just beat a fire breather and a witch in a castle... yea.
 

DrForester

Kills Photobucket
Jexhius said:
Zakuro Yokai whatever : You know how you could improve every scene? TAKE OUT THE TALKING BUNNY THING.
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It's a bit annoying but it's barely in the show, so I don't really care. Rest of the show is great.

And it's actually nice to have a mascot character like that that isn't meant to be mind numbingly cute.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
mAcOdIn said:
When you get to the part where the stupid silver haired girl shows up, don't worry, she's an unimportant side character and her time is thankfully brief so don't drop it there.

We all know you're tsundere for her!

Jexhius said:
Another sin committed by Firehawk12! The correct response should be : So it's more like Do You Remember Love?

Oh right, that "original" Macross. :lol
 

mAcOdIn

Member
A Black Falcon said:
Post containing possibly the worst order for ranking this season's shows.
No, no, no, no, no, this show is bad. It gets no excuses, and what the fuck at all that crap being higher than Squid Girl? Is that really a ranking?

Anyways, there is one other man in Samurai Girls so far, the Princess's brother who's probably an evil General.
Jexhius said:
So...the spirits working for the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs are much maligned for some reason. I guess it's because all those other people are racists!

Or it could be because these spirits go around spreading false hope, demolishing buildings and attempting to kill children!

Also, this is a disgustingly unprofessional organisation. They're supposed to be working together, not getting together.
I like how one episode blames it on westernization, lol.

Anyways, yeah, seems hard to believe they'd be a government organization, looks like some kind of arranged government breeding program for half spirits not some kind of unit tasked with keeping order. I wonder if they have a psychic onboard or some shit since the pairs all matched up so nicely or maybe they're just all that dedicated to their jobs and the concept of a partner that they all happened to love their respective counterparts.
firehawk12 said:
We all know you're tsundere for her!
Truer words have certainly been spoken.
Halycon said:
I think anime could use a good bleak and violent story right now!
Anime's 4d now, look at each season's line up and tell me that's not bleak.
 

Jex

Member
Halycon said:
I think anime could use a good bleak and violent story right now!
There's bleak and then there's Hiroki Endo. He just wants to punch you in balls AND I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Jexhius said:
There's bleak and then there's Hiroki Endo. He just wants to punch you in balls AND I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM.
Is it because of
Helena's death?

Because I am so with you on that.
Anime's 4d now, look at each season's line up and tell me that's not bleak.
That's some meta shit right there. Wasteland of Moe.
 

Jex

Member
Quite. He's just a sadist!

Star Driver 4 : This is the first episode I didn't like. Sure, some people disliked the opening but it's been scientifically proven that they're bad people.

This one however, just felt a bit flat. BONES have done better 'alternate world' stories in RahXephon. And 'two characters trapped in space X' is a classic Gundam device.

Plus I didn't feel that they really got that much closer. This kind of defeats the point of the whole encounter.

I feel a problem with the show may lie in it's concern with trying to develop two characters an episode : usually the duellist and their master. This hasn't worked out terribly well so far.

Also, their back-stories need to be far more over-the-top and melodramatic. Not "I can't go and sing!" but something with a bit more crazy in it. This show is silly and OTT and the characters should reflect that, in an Utenaesque way. BONES has done rather more adult and developed characters in X'amd but I assumed this cast would be a bit more energetic in their eccentricities.

Also YOU'RE A LIAR :

badliar.jpg


Panty and Stocking 7 : Great episode.

Panty and Stocking 8 : Bad episode.

I guess there can only be one.
 

jman2050

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icarus-daedelus said:
Schoolgirls: check
-subcategory: zettai ryouiki: check
Nuns: check
Nurses: check
Maids: check
Furries (weird bear hat!): check

Did I miss anything?

Are any of the above either the glasses-girl or the token loli?
 

Jex

Member
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru 3 : The show that surprisingly keeps giving?

Infinite Ryvius 19 : Wherein we achieve a moment of perfect balance as the show realises it doesn't need to focus on any outside aggressors when the internal struggles of the Ryvius are equally exciting.

Infinite Ryvius 20 : Wherein we achieve one too many flashbacks. A pity, because the rest of the episode is good as usual. Ikumi, you crazy dog.

Kouji's definitely working on his "only sane man in a crisis" routine whilst Yuki continues to devote his energies into being an inexplicable fuckwad.
 

Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
Jexhius said:
Kouji's definitely working on his "only sane man in a crisis" routine whilst Yuki continues to devote his energies into being an inexplicable fuckwad.
Yuuki being a constant asshole does bring the show down a tad.
 

Branduil

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icarus-daedelus said:
One of the schoolgirls has glasses, so I s'pose meganekko could be added as a subcategory. Not sure about lolis, there don't appear to be any in the preview but they may be hiding somewhere in the show itself.
The zombie girl is pretty young.

This week's Demon Maiden Zakuro wasn't as good as last week's. The big silent guy and the quiet waif are easily the most boring characters, even if her power is kind of interesting.
 

DrForester

Kills Photobucket
Branduil said:
The zombie girl is pretty young.

This week's Demon Maiden Zakuro wasn't as good as last week's. The big silent guy and the quiet waif are easily the most boring characters, even if her power is kind of interesting.


I liked the focus on the secondary characters.
 

Jex

Member
Branduil said:
This week's Demon Maiden Zakuro wasn't as good as last week's. The big silent guy and the quiet waif are easily the most boring characters, even if her power is kind of interesting.
You mean that she's Johnny Smith from The Dead Zone?
Hitokage said:
Yuuki being a constant asshole does bring the show down a tad.
Blue is kind of an asshole. Yuki is semi-pathological "Worthless junk" "pathetic weakling" etc etc,

All Kouji has to do is walk across a room and Yuki will flip his lid. Dude needs a psychiatrist. Although, by the end of this series, I guess everyone will.
 
mAcOdIn said:
No, no, no, no, no, this show is bad. It gets no excuses, and what the fuck at all that crap being higher than Squid Girl? Is that really a ranking?

Squid Girl's not bad, it's just not that interesting. I found it a bit boring. Average (for an anime this year) maybe, I guess, which is why it's about in the middle of the list.

... On that note, maybe it could be moved up a few spots, MM! and Star Driver aren't exactly great either, Squid Girl might be better than them. Not above that though.

What order would you put those shows in?

Anyways, there is one other man in Samurai Girls so far, the Princess's brother who's probably an evil General.

Oh yeah, you're right, there is the princess's evil bishounen brother. I mean, we don't KNOW he's evil yet, but he sure looks evil, so I'm sure he will be revealed as evil eventually.

As you say though, I agree that he's almost certainly a general already.
 

Kettch

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Dresden said:
No debate at all, Eva is the best, with Chisame following closely behind.

Crazy people like Asuna.

I don't know anyone who likes Asuna. Setsuna and Chisame are my favorites. Eva is pretty awesome though. Shaft has done a great job with this, I hope they go back and animate the Chao arc eventually.
 

luka

Loves Robotech S1
Kettch said:
I don't know anyone who likes Asuna. Setsuna and Chisame are my favorites. Eva is pretty awesome though. Shaft has done a great job with this, I hope they go back and animate the Chao arc eventually.

Battle of Mahora and Negi vs Rakan deserve full big budget theatrical treatment. In my opinion they are probably the greatest shounen action sequences ever put on paper.

I absolutely love the way they chant the incantations in both Japanese an Latin simultaneously (in the OVAs). It's wickedly dramatic.

Personally, I like Honya-chan. :D Her development from a timid bookworm into, well...this, is great.
 
InfiniteNine said:
I really need to catch up on Negima.

Same.

As for characters Eva was always awesome, Setsuna and Konoka is :lol and Asuna was "ok " at first and "interesting" during the reveal of she hanging with Nagi.

I've heard Chisame has gotten really awesome though :lol
 
Nishastra said:
Asuna's boring. Yue was always my favorite.

I've not read any in at least a year, though :p

Yue is awesome. I love how she went from a nobody background character to an important main one. I mean we knew Nodoka would get a big role eventually but nobody could've guessed that about Yue.
 

Nishastra

Banned
cosmicblizzard said:
Yue is awesome. I love how she went from a nobody background character to an important main one. I mean we knew Nodoka would get a big role eventually but nobody could've guessed that about Yue.
Indeed, it seemed at first that she would be pretty much relegated to "Nodoka's friend", but thankfully that didn't happen :p
 
cosmicblizzard said:
Yue is awesome. I love how she went from a nobody background character to an important main one. I mean we knew Nodoka would get a big role eventually but nobody could've guessed that about Yue.

Nishastra said:
Indeed, it seemed at first that she would be pretty much relegated to "Nodoka's friend", but thankfully that didn't happen :p


that started happening ever since they became "rivals" imo.

It was great to see her getting involved with the magic and adventure aspect though.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Only fat girl hasn't had any real screentime right?
 

mAcOdIn

Member
icarus-daedelus said:
Sounds exceptionally generic. ...wait...
Ah, it was.
icarus-daedelus said:
I endorse this message. *salute*

We need a secret handshake or secret salute.
Jexhius said:
You mean that she's Johnny Smith from The Dead Zone?
.
Hey, Johhny Smith was bad ass, don't bring him down to that girls level, plus he usually only saw the future and sometimes the past but he never really read anyone's mind. Anyways, the Dead Zone tv show rocked, the movie, not so much, Cristopher Walken was just way too weird a choice for that role.
A Black Falcon said:
Squid Girl's not bad, it's just not that interesting. I found it a bit boring. Average (for an anime this year) maybe, I guess, which is why it's about in the middle of the list.
I agree it's nothing special itself.

A Black Falcon said:
... On that note, maybe it could be moved up a few spots, MM! and Star Driver aren't exactly great either, Squid Girl might be better than them. Not above that though.

What order would you put those shows in?
Hmm of your shows?

Squid Girl
MM!
Ore no Imouto
The World Only God Knows
Star Driver
Panty and Stocking
Samurai Girls
Milky Holmes - Unknown as I haven't seen it.


A Black Falcon said:
Oh yeah, you're right, there is the princess's evil bishounen brother. I mean, we don't KNOW he's evil yet, but he sure looks evil, so I'm sure he will be revealed as evil eventually.

As you say though, I agree that he's almost certainly a general already.
Yep, gotta be an evil general.

Branduil said:
Also, Zakuro, calling it now.
The guy in the OP who's wearing a mask is that pretty boy commander.
Probably, I'm sure
pretty boy commander is evil even if he's not the guy in the OP.
 

Kagari

Crystal Bearer
In one of my retro anime moods again so...

going to watch:

Samurai Troopers!

I don't think I've ever watched it in order in its entirety.
 
Halycon said:
Only fat girl hasn't had any real screentime right?

She got like a chapter. Apparently everyone loves her and she has no enemies at all. Kinda weird since she helped Chao do stuff but whatever. She's boring anyway.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Japan hates fatties :(

Maybe if her hobby was like, sumo wrestling, then her Pactio card would turn her into a decked out battle blimp.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Heartcatch Precure! 3: Is it okay for a girl that young to be having those kind of dreams?

Yeah, she's rejecting handsome dude, but the existence of the dream per se means that subconsciously she wants his cock.
 

7Th

Member
Regulus Tera said:
Heartcatch Precure! 3: Is it okay for a girl that young to be having those kind of dreams?

Yeah, she's rejecting handsome dude, but the existence of the dream per se means that subconsciously she wants his cock.

Tsubomi is 14, dude.
 
InfiniteNine said:
I really wonder who Chao's mom is... If there weren't so many possibilities I could probably narrow it down better!

Ku Fei seems to be the front runner. I think they even commented on her being the likeliest ancestor.
 

InfiniteNine

Rolling Girl
cosmicblizzard said:
Ku Fei seems to be the front runner. I think they even commented on her being the likeliest ancestor.
Yeah, but it seems a bit obvious. If it is her I wouldn't be shocked though, but I just cast it off as too obvious.
 

Dresden

Member
I'd be down with Ku Fei. Girl knows what's up. Having an infinitely extendable pole helps too. :p

I don't think the series will ever touch on who marries who, though. The only true pairing in the manga is Setsuna/Konoka. And that's fine, Negi is still like 12. So long as there's no Asuna victory. She's like, his aunt. And a ho.
 
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