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Fall 2010 Anime Thread: Reboots, Retreads, and Rediscovery
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Regulus Tera
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Digimon.Steroyd said:
Regulus Tera said:
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
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Jexhius said:
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:
We all know you're tsundere for her!
Jexhius said:
Oh right, that "original" Macross. :lol
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?A Black Falcon said:
Anyways, there is one other man in Samurai Girls so far, the Princess's brother who's probably an evil General.
I like how one episode blames it on westernization, lol.Jexhius said:
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.
Truer words have certainly been spoken.firehawk12 said:
Anime's 4d now, look at each season's line up and tell me that's not bleak.Halycon said:
Jex
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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 :
Panty and Stocking 7 : Great episode.
Panty and Stocking 8 : Bad episode.
I guess there can only be one.
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 :
Panty and Stocking 7 : Great episode.
Panty and Stocking 8 : Bad episode.
I guess there can only be one.
Jex
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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.
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.
DrForester
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Branduil said:
I liked the focus on the secondary characters.
Jex
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You mean that she's Johnny Smith from The Dead Zone?Branduil said:
Blue is kind of an asshole. Yuki is semi-pathological "Worthless junk" "pathetic weakling" etc etc,Hitokage said:
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.
A Black Falcon
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mAcOdIn 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.
... 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?
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.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
My man, although I don't hate Asuna at all.Dresden said:
Kettch said:
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.
Her development from a timid bookworm into, well...this, is great.InfiniteNine
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InfiniteNine said:
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
Crash Station
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Nishastra said:Asuna's boring. Yue was always my favorite.
I've not read any in at least a year, though
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.
Infinite Justice
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cosmicblizzard said:
Nishastra said:Indeed, it seemed at first that she would be pretty much relegated to "Nodoka's friend", but thankfully that didn't happen
that started happening ever since they became "rivals" imo.
It was great to see her getting involved with the magic and adventure aspect though.
Ah, it was.icarus-daedelus said:
icarus-daedelus said:
We need a secret handshake or secret salute.
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.Jexhius said:
I agree it's nothing special itself.A Black Falcon said:
Hmm of your shows?A Black Falcon said:
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.
Yep, gotta be an evil general.A Black Falcon said:
Probably, I'm sureBranduil said:
pretty boy commander is evil even if he's not the guy in the OP.
Crash Station
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Halycon said:
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.
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.
Yeah, she's rejecting handsome dude, but the existence of the dream per se means that subconsciously she wants his cock.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Halycon said:
i've been spending too much time talking to icecream
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
7Th said:
I'm not the one having erotic dreams about masked men in cape.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I really wonder who Chao's mom is... If there weren't so many possibilities I could probably narrow it down better!
Crash Station
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InfiniteNine said:
Ku Fei seems to be the front runner. I think they even commented on her being the likeliest ancestor.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
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.cosmicblizzard said:
I'd be down with Ku Fei. Girl knows what's up. Having an infinitely extendable pole helps too.
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.
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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