anime

[Twig]

Haha. Damn right using shift key! People who use the caps lock key for all caps are WEIRD.

 

*first post new page dance*

 

In other news, I'm sort of slowing down on Princess Nine. I think maybe I'm TOO MANLY for this girly sports girliness.

 

I kid, but it is definitely focusing a lot more on personal relationships and romance outside the context of the sport they're playing, and less on the camaraderie and sheer joy of the sport that the typical sports anime so strongly embraces.

 

You might say it veers more toward shoujo than shonen. O:

 

Not that any of this is bad, but it's not what I like about sports anime, which, as I've stated before, is totally my junk food anime. I still like it, but for different reasons, I guess. It might be more likable for other people, though. (The romance, etc. is pretty juvenile, though. But that's to be expected!)

 

EDIT: The other thing I guess is that they've had a total of two games of baseball in 20 episodes. And now they're doing a training camp. Training camps, as everyone knows!, ARE the best part of every sports anime, though.

[Blambo]

 

I

 

fucking

 

love

 

Nichijou

[Cyborg771]

You might also enjoy Barakamon

 

[N1njaSquirrel]

I've been away from the forums for a while, so excuse the use of old posts that people have probably lost interest in by now:

 

Could've sworn you had mentioned Princess Jellyfish in here before! Am I wrong? I guess I'm wrong. Well you have horrible taste then!

 

(It comes from the fact that I like pretty much every cartoon you've recommended that I've watched.)

 

That was me. Just sayin'.

 

More abstract stuff.

 

May I recommend FLCL? It's a 6 episode anime (so super short), and is fantastic. It's my favorite anime actually. It's hard to say what exactly is so great about it, but it's superb, and a show that you can re-watch and pick up new things about it. The short synopsis is that a girl called Haruko hits Naouta, a boy who lives in a town where 'nothing interesting happens', with a bass guitar, and a mech grows out of his forehead. Then stuff happens. The show can be confusing, but only at the sheer rate of things that are thrown at you. Idk what to really say about it that makes it great, but damn it's great. Also the sound track is completely done by one band, the pillows, and it's amazing. I do think that the sound track fits the show so well, and it wouldn't be as great without it:

 

 

 

The people who went on to become Trigger mostly worked on this show and it shows, I think.

 

 

wakfu is a french anime. avatar is an american anime

 

(ps this argument is one of the oldest and dumbest anime arguments i hope you all feel really bad about yourselves)

 

I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but Wakfu's animation was done by a Japanese studio. Just to confuse matters.

 

Also, is anyone watching Agami Brilliant Park? It's flippin' ace! It's like Kyoani never made K-On! or any other moe shows, and just did Clannad and Haruhi. It's really, really good. I didn't even realise it was Kyoani until the end of the second episode.

[Ozzie]

Is the implication of your post that Clannad is good? Because I would question that...

[Gormongous]

Is the implication of your post that Clannad is good? Because I would question that...

 

I'm more surprised that he doesn't consider a Key property like Clannad to be moe. After all, Ayu from Kanon is one of the three mothers of moe in otaku lore, the other two being Lum from Urusei Yatsura and Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

[N1njaSquirrel]

Is the implication of your post that Clannad is good? Because I would question that...

 

Get out. Clannad's great.

 

I'm more surprised that he doesn't consider a Key property like Clannad to be moe. After all, Ayu from Kanon is one of the three mothers of moe in otaku lore, the other two being Lum from Urusei Yatsura and Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

 

Yeah, it is pretty moe I guess, I just meant that there was more to the anime than just cute girls doing cute things like in shows like Chuunibyou and K-On!, which seems to be Kyoani's jam at the minuet.

[Twig]

Amagi's on my list, but I haven't gotten to it, yet.

 

I did finish Princess Nine. It was decent! I think my previously stated opinion from ~20 episodes in (it's 26 long) still stands. The last episode was particularly amusing when

the captain of the girls' team and the captain of the boys' team declared their love for each other for everyone to hear after she'd spent 8 full innings being too nervous to properly pitch to him for various reasons (DRAMA) and then she finally did and he hit a homerun and the girls lost

ohhh boy.

 

I watched the first episode of The Flowers of Evil last night. I went in blind, only picked it because the rotoscoping made it look interesting. I'm not sure what it is, yet, but it seems to have a sort of Imminent Dread feel to it.

 

Also it taught me that the Japanese name for Army of Darkness is... Captain Supermarket.

[Ozzie]

Get out. Clannad's great.

 

Clannad's the worst, you get out!

 

I'm not honestly interested in debating the merits or lack thereof of Clannad, since it's been a long ass time since I last saw it, and I can't remember much of it anyway. Probably for the better...

[Twig]

Also Flowers of Evil has some really really pretty and hyper detailed backgrounds. I guess they can afford to do that because the rotoscoping is cheaper? (I honestly have no clue.) I really love the way it looks, so far. And the music.

[Apelsin]

What I remember of Clannad was lightweight comedy being interspersed with some very odd segments with a strange introspective tone... Only watched the first 6 or so episodes though 

[Dewar]

I know this is a conversation from a couple of pages back, but japanese words still kinda roll off my brain and I get confused.

Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou means "Daily Lives of High School Boys".

 

What was the name of the other series that had Nichijou in the name that's being confused with the High School Boys one? I love Azumanga Diaoh and would be really interested in watching something in the same vein. My wife has wanted me to watch more anime with her. The only thing we're currently watching together is Polar Bear Cafe.

[Twig]

It was just called Nichijou. Everyday. Or whatever. I'm rusty on my Japanese (implying I was ever any good HA HA HAHA), but that's close enough. Nichi is day! I know that! Jou must be every...

[Blambo]

Nichijou mango spoilers (it's weird but there are some)

 

The Nichijou manga just made an insane leap in time. The translation I'm reading doesn't go past the first chapter in the sequence so I'm left here without any context. It's probably just a long flash forward that has to do with the theme in the volume. Is this kind of thing common? I'm verging on learning Japanese so I can order full volumes as they come. This is a spiral of insanity.

 

Earlier in the volume the high school aged main characters created a time-capsule, and some secondary characters were talking about memories and how they'll forget today in ten years. Also some characters almost die from a rogue daifuku.

 

Hakase's going to high school (and apparently to science conferences worldwide), Yuuko left Japan, Nakamura lives with Nano, Hakase and Sakamoto as a robotics intern.

 

 

Something about the themes of appreciating mundane life is helping me through a rough patch.

 

EDIT:

Just downloaded a raw of the volume and it ends with the timeskip chapter. Dangit.

 

NOTHER EDIT: Found out that the guy who does the nichijou OPs voices both the male and female voices through digital modifiers:

 

 

Which I guess isn't surprising when I go back and listen to it.

 

K that's my Nichijou dump/scoop. 

[Gormongous]

Things I ended up liking about Honey & Clover after watching all forty episodes against the advice of everyone here:

• Yamada's story is awesome. I wouldn't say it makes the rest of the show watchable, but just seeing a strong and smart female character try to keep her love for someone alive because it's important to her, even though there's no hope for it, is unique and beautiful to me. Her monologues were the best monologues, especially compared to the facile bullshit that Takemoto spouts while he's having his walkabout. The interlude, in episode sixteen maybe, about the dying beefsteak plant is as good a metaphor of unrequited love as I have ever heard. I wish her story were the entire anime, but we have to have the disgusting love-polygon around Hagu take the spotlight instead, with the lukewarm sideshow that is Mayama and Rika to dull my senses further. None of the characters have any inner life besides Yamada, which is ironic considering that she's so easily put into the category of tsundere at the beginning.
• The OP for the second season is really catchy and captures the emotional heart of the show. Too bad that the label has pulled it from every YouTube video they can find.
• The idea of college-centered anime really appeals to me, even if the specific art college of Honey & Clover is this weird place where no one goes to classes or makes new friends or does anything besides work on their senior theses and have drinking parties. Not to mention, no character in the show graduated on time, is that common or just a symptom of being a long-running manga with a relatively small cast of characters? Either way, I think Golden Time is in my future...

The rest of the show was really bad. It's so hard to watch a show about love and growing up when you don't actually wish any of the characters happiness or fulfillment. How this is one of the greatest shoujo works of this generation is beyond me.

 

Found out that the guy who does the nichijou OPs voices both the male and female voices through digital modifiers:

 

 
Which I guess isn't surprising when I go back and listen to it.
 
K that's my Nichijou dump/scoop.

 
Hyadain is awesome and I hate that it's so hard to get his music anywhere besides NicoNico and YouTube.

[Gormongous]

Also, the KILL la KILL OVA might be my favorite thing from the entire series. It's so good.

[Blambo]

Holy shit the art in yotsuba is amazing.

 

[Tanukitsune]

Is anybody watching this new "Parasyte" anime? Apart from the interesting alien "Cronenbergian" design I don't think it has much going for it, kid gets alien in hand, they fight other aliens... I think I'm no longer in action anime anymore. 

[Twig]

So far it's doing Tokyo Ghoul better than Tokyo Ghoul.

 

It's not very interesting but it's fun to watch and that's all that really matters with this kind of anime.

[Cyborg771]

The guy I usually go to for anime critique is a big fan of the manga and says it explores some pretty interesting themes. I like how the character is appropriately scared of everything happening but isn't just a Shinji parody or a shonen badass stereotype. It's fun enough to continue until the real meat of the show picks up.

 

Here's the critic's blog btw. Check out some of his essays, they're fantastic.

[N1njaSquirrel]

So far it's doing Tokyo Ghoul better than Tokyo Ghoul.

 

It's not very interesting but it's fun to watch and that's all that really matters with this kind of anime.

 

I totally thought this too. It's also going at a pace, probably because the manga is like 10 years old now.

 

Also, the sound effects of Migi (and i think all the parasytes) are done by a teenage beat boxer from South Korea. Now that's all I can think about when I hear it.

[Twig]

I've warmed on it even more since my last post as I caught up on the latest two episodes I hadn't seen. Parasyte is really good if you're at all interested in what it's trying to do. Weird body horror, in particular. Love it!

 

Haven't been keeping up with many currently-airing anime (same as last season, really - watching a lot of older anime instead, because I won't have to wait for the newer episodes!), besides that, and now I'm watching ep 3 of Denki-Gai. It's yet another good implementation of slice-of-life comedy anime, and the setting is different enough from the usual that I don't see myself getting bored with it.

[Blambo]

I am reading oyasumi punpun. I hate god.

Edit: this is killing me.

[Codicier]

On a whim I watched a couple of episodes of Rage of Bahamut: Genesis, which I was expecting to be pretty much utter trash but was actually a pretty lively, well animated, and with some nice world building touches guilty pleasure.

Imagine Berserk mixed with Space Dandy with a strong Mediterranean rather than Northern European flavour and you wouldn't be far wrong.

I think Twig might enjoy it because it hits some of the same 'generic fantasty' notes that Log Horizon does with just enough variation and self awareness to be enjoyable.

[Twig]

Please don't make me watch an anime based on a card game. Thank you.