Well, they stopped Keroro, that gives them one extra studio to help other productions compared to what they had in previous years. Aside from that, Gundam still isn't confirmed.
What, and make me hate most anime? If I did that, I doubt I'd keep watching much of it... there's already enough things about anime to dislike as it is.
What, I can't imagine why you'd say that... oh right, because you have said you dislike every single show this season, as far as I know? Right. That's probably why.
In my defense most anime this season, and every season prior, does suck. Yesterday I watched the first episode of Sket-Dance, that was crappy, I watched about one third of We, Without Wings which was terrible and then I watched about 5 minutes of Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi which really wasn't my thing either. All three of those shows legitimately suck. Now sure I didn't like Nichijou but all I said about Hanasaku Iroha was that I didn't think it was my type of show and while there's still a few shows that are promising coming up there's even more shows that are guaranteed stinkers, Maria+Holic, Dog Days, Battle-Time-Paradox-Girls-Shit this is considered a good season because there's a handful of decent shows not because the majority of the shows are good. If there's a person who likes most of the shows this season they're the one's that are fucked in the head.
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A Black Falcon said:
Yeah, I guess so (that there had to be an explanation). I didn't think about it and probably just assumed that it'd be something stupid. I mean, it was surely done for the sake of providing him with a large harem, after all... but yeah, that they actually have some sort of an explanation is better than nothing.
No matter what it is it's still stupid, I can promise that.
A Black Falcon said:
I believe I mentioned many such events throughout the series, so suddenly stopping at the end would be inconsistent... I know the series does it a lot and said so, but it bothers me so why not mention it anyway?
No, it's that you and, who was the other, kept still trying to rank the girl's progress despite the show proving on many occasion that you couldn't apply that logic to it.
A Black Falcon said:
I'd probably be happier if they never made anything more from the franchise (it is far too bad to deserve sales that good...), but if they do I probably won't be able to resist watching...
So? And back then? The very concept of sending a four man team across their stream in some little vanship to carry such an important treaty was hilariously stupid. They could have just sat on the treaty and waited for their next battle and done it then. Then they could have also have a good reason to introduce Guild as the bad guys because Guild could have intervened back then and stopped it to keep the wars going which would then make the present story make sense.
A Black Falcon said:
And as for the Guild, remember that they forced (using behind the scenes means I guess) the two sides to fight regularly, to keep the planet from developing much so that it wouldn't run out of resorces... once both sides realized that and that there was another option of course they're going to work together. But really, you just don't make sense when you blame it all on Alex disliking the Queen. I don't clearly remember it, so I could be wrong about some things, First, she was horrible and deserved his dislike, both for personal and policy reasons. And second, maybe that helped start it, but the more he learned about the Guild clearly the more he disliked them, with all the wars they cause and all... oh, and looking it up on Wikipedia, he blames her for his fiancee's death. That seems like a solid reason to me, to start it off.
Lol, Alex blaming her for his fiancee's death is a solid reason? She had nothing to do with it! I don't mind personal vendettas but I'd like for them to make some damn sense. And again with Guild, they're not shown doing anything wrong until the present, when Guild didn't enforce the rules of warfare at the first battle we were shown they were surprised which implies that prior to this they were doing their job. Of course it's not necessarily fair that one side can control the surface but they did a really poor job setting the conflict up with Guild, so up to the point where Guild does start acting crazy all the years that Alex and the Princess are working together basically stems down to a misplaced personal vendetta that just happened to be ok because that side did indeed turn out to be the bad guys.
It explains everything you need to know just well enough for you to be able to follow it if you pay attention and maybe watch it again. It's a complex world and the story is complicated, there's nothing wrong with some complexity sometimes as long as it's done well. It is here.
You don't even know if the ship they'd been fighting for took them to a new planet or just terraformed a nice spot on their current planet.
That's not a well done ending, that's not a complex ending, that's bullshit. That's Gonzo.
A Black Falcon said:
I thought Dio dies... looking it up on Wikipedia I guess there were a few hints that maybe he lived, but I don't think it's entirely confirmed. The musketeer guy living was a little surprising though, it did seem like he'd died until he shows up in that scene. I didn't mind too much, why not have a happy ending for them, but it was a little annoying that they tried to convince us that he'd died, and then bring him back like that. Oh well, minor point.
Alex live at that point? And the two kids parents?
It's fucking stupid Gonzo tripe.
A Black Falcon said:
As for the rest of the ending, I did say that I wished they'd been a little clearer about a couple of things (
whether they go to another planet, etc.
), and it wasn't the best thing about the show, but it explained what happened and it provided a conclusive ending, which puts it well above lots of anime endings. Obviously though if you didn't like the characters and story you weren't going to like it, but I and many other people did like the story and characters, so that wasn't an issue.
See you just give shit too many excuses. You see a mediocre show that had a few interesting things and give everything a pass, I see a mediocre show from a mediocre studio with a few interesting things and think of what could have been.
A Black Falcon said:
I dislike some Microsoft programs -- I can't stand Word (I use Wordperfect instead) and never use IE (I use Firefox and/or Seamonkey) -- but Windows I know and like well enough to not want to switch to Linux (Apple I quite dislike). And plus, I like computer games, and those are on Windows.
I've used Linux a little, but it's more complex and doesn't really seem that much better, so it doesn't seem worth the hassle it'd be to really learn...
I do like some of the less popular Windows versions, though. My older computer (from fall '01, still working) runs WinME, and my newer one (a few years old now) has Vista, and I think both are decent OSes... I never regretted not upgrading that older computer from ME to XP.
Lol, you still use Win ME? Lol, this puts some of your anime tastes in perspective, lol.
Anyways, it's not even so much about knowing Windows. On linux to install my ATI drivers I just downloaded them and typed a single command to install them and they were done. For sound though, I had sound it was just choppy and shitty, so for sound I go and download the Realtek Alsa drivers and try to install them using their installer, it fails. Ok fine, probably because I'm using some other sound shit, so I remove those, still no go. So I download and install ALSA and it's dependencies and install them despite some of it already being installed which seems to work but I still have no sound. So now I retry installing the Realtek drivers which this time say they install. Oh yeah, making progress but I need to run alsaconf to choose my sound, alright, I do that and reboot. No sound, well I was pretty sure I installed alsamixer so I can unmute my channels but now it wont run, lets download and install that again, now alsaconf isn't found and alsamixer wont run? What the fuck? Reboot, now I can't even get a GUI? What the fuck is this shit? It was just a sound driver so fucking boot into a GUI anyways so I can at least look up readme's and shit.
And in a way it's funny because linux isn't hard but it also is. I'm sure I have some conflicts going on but since I don't know every fucking package Ubuntu installs by default I don't really have much of a starting point, between apt and deb packages installing things in linux is easy, it's getting rid of shit that's a royal pain in the ass, at least for a newbie like myself.
Cencroroll: Doing an film based around things that transform is a pretty good way to show off some cool animation.
That's about it.
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Mazinger Z vs. Devilman: Sometimes people will say something along the lines of "show X is like a Saturday morning cartoon!". I can assure you that they have probably forgotten what a true Saturday morning cartoon looks like.
It involves odd design choices, inconsistent animation, a complete lack of narrative logic, scenes just follow on from each other, very little character work, very odd/bad cinematography and woeful editing. Although thankfully these were the days before rapid-fire editing and shaky cam.
Was going to give the P3 anime a shot but never came around to it, considering I've still yet to play that another story in FES might give me the perfect excuse.
No, it's that you and, who was the other, kept still trying to rank the girl's progress despite the show proving on many occasion that you couldn't apply that logic to it.
To be fair it was a non sequitur and started off as a way to correlate each character's popularity with how much screen presence they got. And also, a troll on harem anime logic, but it became its own thing from there.
There isn't any show this season that won't turn bad after 7-8 episodes. Hanasaku Iroha? Christ, did you guys see what happened to the last Ando+Okada P.A. Works show? And you expect them to keep it up for 26 episodes? Tiger & Bunny? It's Sunrise, for fucksake. Dororon Enma-kun? Brain Base shows not directed by Omori usually fall apart long before the ending. X-Men? They blew their budget in the first three episodes, clearly.
There isn't any show this season that won't turn bad after 7-8 episodes. Hanasaku Iroha? Christ, did you guys see what happened to the last Ando+Okada P.A. Works show? And you expect them to keep it up for 26 episodes? Tiger & Bunny? It's Sunrise, for fucksake. Dororon Enma-kun? Brain Base shows not directed by Omori usually fall apart long before the ending. X-Men? They blew their budget in the first three episodes, clearly.
There isn't any show this season that won't turn bad after 7-8 episodes. Hanasaku Iroha? Christ, did you guys see what happened to the last Ando+Okada P.A. Works show? And you expect them to keep it up for 26 episodes? Tiger & Bunny? It's Sunrise, for fucksake. Dororon Enma-kun? Brain Base shows not directed by Omori usually fall apart long before the ending. X-Men? They blew their budget in the first three episodes, clearly.
after the impression on gaf, I came with low expection, but i really enjoyed this, young paranoide scientist is pretty funny aswell as the rest of the cast such forum nerd and happy hostage girl.
Was curious how they were going to do a TV episode of the OVA's (could easily see the show running thin very quickly) but keeping it at a half episode length keeps the balance in check.
Wait wait I see an uncensored version of what I watched, I don't normally double dip but now I'm curious...
There isn't any show this season that won't turn bad after 7-8 episodes. Hanasaku Iroha? Christ, did you guys see what happened to the last Ando+Okada P.A. Works show? And you expect them to keep it up for 26 episodes? Tiger & Bunny? It's Sunrise, for fucksake. Dororon Enma-kun? Brain Base shows not directed by Omori usually fall apart long before the ending. X-Men? They blew their budget in the first three episodes, clearly.
The only show i have a good feeling about falling apart mid-way is Tiger and bunny and maybe X-men? (still not completely convinced on that even if the second episode was gud). Yeah I'm being optimistic.
Dororon enma-kun director track record seems to say that he's really good with these type of shows, plus being a go nagai adaptation probably means it will get more crazy and over-the-top as it progresses, don't really see it falling apart tbh. (again I'm being optimistic!)
As for Hanasaku iroha while canaan ended up pretty terrible, i think it's terribleness was telegraphed from the first episode, the only good thing about that premiere was the direction and action that's it, as soon as those things went downhill the shitty writing and characterization (which were all in the first episode) started to stand out more, iroha at least has endearing characters and solid writing (without any of the silliness canaan had) to keep it going.
Was curious how they were going to do a TV episode of the OVA's (could easily see the show running thin very quickly) but keeping it at a half episode length keeps the balance in check.
Wait wait I see an uncensored version of what I watched, I don't normally double dip but now I'm curious...
I'm not sure what was censored, but I downloaded the UNCENSORED version, and there wasn't really anything too questionable. No pervo material. It's just really weird and gross.
CencrorollMazinger Z vs. Devilman: Sometimes people will say something along the lines of "show X is like a Saturday morning cartoon!". I can assure you that they have probably forgotten what a true Saturday morning cartoon looks like.
It involves odd design choices, inconsistent animation, a complete lack of narrative logic, scenes just follow on from each other, very little character work, very odd/bad cinematography and woeful editing. Although thankfully these were the days before rapid-fire editing and shaky cam.
That movie was subpar even compared to the 70s show. The animation was better though, so you might get an idea of how bad the animation of the tv show was, but otherwise... Not to say that the original 70s show doesn't feel like a Saturday morning cartoon though, especially with oddities like an episode that featured a random talking crow. However, the movies generally managed to be worse, in spite of better animation - the one exception might be Mazinger Z vs Ankoku Daishogun, but that one is really hurt by its first few and last few minutes.
The Devilman/Mazinger movie, specifically, aside from the obvious crossover, also was a replacement for one of the Mazinger Z 70s tv anime arcs (introducing the Scrander) and it's just a really poor work compared to that story, in spite of the superior animation.
The anime had an entire continuous arc (its first one after the first few episodes, actually) devoted to showing the Mazinger's limits, in order to introduce the Scrander... In the movie, it's just a random invention introduced near the ending. In fact, almost everything there just felt "random".
It clearly says the page header is "Persona 4 Animation".
Seems like an open and shut case to me. Will wait for announcement to see if there's a better staff/studio assembled this time. Trinity Soul was awful.