What anime are you watching right now? Feb-Dec 2010
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Episodic writing means both the way I understood Merri's post + the way you described it.
Yes, Kino's Journey has a strong narrative for each episode, but as far as I've understood slice of life's "lack of dramatic narrative" is more about one for a complete series/season. Kino doesn't have anything like that. Hence, I think of it as slice of life. Oh well, Kino is more like "slice of world" (= slice of life with the world as the "main character"). Comparing it to Mushishi doesn't really help since I haven't seen show.
Okay, maybe my choice of word was bad there ("definition"), but I was referring to the fact that Aria and YKK represent only one sort of slice of life - the one occupied with mono no aware. There are other sort of slice of life series as well.
As for Haibane and SnW, I would like to point out that I didn't initially mean that they are 100% slice of life. Instead when I wrote the original post I was thinking about shows that are similar, not specifically slice of life even though the post doesn't really reveal that. Haibane does have a rather extensive slice of life bit which is almost half the show (first 6 episodes). Whether slice of life is its "true goal" or not is not what I question here. I'm trying to say slice of life is nevertheless a significant part of Haibane.
Yes, Kino's Journey has a strong narrative for each episode, but as far as I've understood slice of life's "lack of dramatic narrative" is more about one for a complete series/season. Kino doesn't have anything like that. Hence, I think of it as slice of life. Oh well, Kino is more like "slice of world" (= slice of life with the world as the "main character"). Comparing it to Mushishi doesn't really help since I haven't seen show.
Okay, maybe my choice of word was bad there ("definition"), but I was referring to the fact that Aria and YKK represent only one sort of slice of life - the one occupied with mono no aware. There are other sort of slice of life series as well.
As for Haibane and SnW, I would like to point out that I didn't initially mean that they are 100% slice of life. Instead when I wrote the original post I was thinking about shows that are similar, not specifically slice of life even though the post doesn't really reveal that. Haibane does have a rather extensive slice of life bit which is almost half the show (first 6 episodes). Whether slice of life is its "true goal" or not is not what I question here. I'm trying to say slice of life is nevertheless a significant part of Haibane.
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"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
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FWIW, I think Xard defines slice-of-life a bit more strictly than it was originally intended. It's not that slice-of-life doesn't have plot, characters, and conflict, it's merely that the narrative does not use the typical tools of narration to artificially enhance these elements and focus on them. Life is full of these narrative elements to begin with, so fiction has typically just been about neatly ordering, enhancing, and focusing on them, while slice-of-life presents them in a more natural, unhyped element. I think Haibane Renmei straddles that line between slice-of-life and traditional dramatic narrative. Once it establishes the setting and (quite quickly) the characters, it does become more about their daily existence rather than being driven by plot or character development. The most dramatic elements of the series happen at the beginning and very end, but the real meat of the series doesn't feel very dramatically "enhanced" (for lack of a better word) to me.
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^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
Honey and Clover....it's a little over the top but funny. I've only watched 2 episodes so far so will reserve judgement.
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What makes it hard to watch Cowboy Bebop? Is it the great animation? Is it the outstanding soundtrack? Is it the wonderful character dynamics? Is it the genuinely funny humor? Is it the well crafted action sequences? Or is it the perfect cast (in Japanese or English)?
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-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
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The fact that some episodes can be very boring and since they are completely unrelated to the plot it gave me no... incentive, will, or perhaps desire to continue watching it. It doesn't even have to be a cliffhanger ending each and every episode, but sometimes I just had no interest in what was going on for some reason and wanted to get it over with really.
This does not apply at all to the last 3 episodes though, which do (almost, at least) live up the insanely built up hype CB has.
I'd rather not get into this because I know I'm in the severe minority here.
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Just finished Princess Lover! Only 12 episodes... depressing. It is my new all time favorite anime. Eva's #1 in a different class... Bastard should've married Charlotte in the last episode.
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Have it. The animation in the OVA leaves something to be desired. Also Charlotte isn't in it, so that's disappointing as well.
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'Cause I sure as hell know mine doesn't.
Your copy of Evangelion has porno in it?
ANYWAY Funimation.com is streaming the first four episodes of Welcome to the NHK and I thought they were pretty good. Still, whenever I'm watching an anime lately (or any show, really) all I can think is, "I could be watching Evangelion right now." So I don't have really much to contribute to this thread these days.
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Speaking of porno...sorta
Watched the first episode of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt.
...I feel like a bit of a sicko, typing out the name. ._.; The epic art style was the only real reason I wanted to watch it. Didn't care all too much for the premise.
I found the first half to be kind of mediocre. It has an interesting art style although Scott Pilgrim v. The World did the written sound effects better and neat music, but other than that...blah. It just keeps repeating the same jokes. I'm not a fan of potty humor, either, so those parts were lost on me.
Second half is a step up, mostly because of the epic fight.
Watched the first episode of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt.
...I feel like a bit of a sicko, typing out the name. ._.; The epic art style was the only real reason I wanted to watch it. Didn't care all too much for the premise.
I found the first half to be kind of mediocre. It has an interesting art style although Scott Pilgrim v. The World did the written sound effects better and neat music, but other than that...blah. It just keeps repeating the same jokes. I'm not a fan of potty humor, either, so those parts were lost on me.
Second half is a step up, mostly because of the epic fight.
The final extra episode of K-ON!! was quite good and left me wanting more. Let's hope the movie will be good. I also watched the first episode of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. That was awesome in an outrageous/sick way.
"I'd really like to have as much money as you have, Oz" - robersora
"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
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Yeah, that was a pretty good way to end the series. I actually thought that the first season was a little better than the second, but I think it's not so much that it was "better" but that it seemed more consistent. There are probably several episodes of the second season that I don't even remember because it just seemed like it just trudged along and passed right through my brain.
Been away for a few days, but I have managed to catch a few things worth mentioning here.
Panty & Stocking's first episode delivered everything I expected, along with DAT TRANSFORMATION. Worth the wait; all trust in Imaishi & Yoshinari has been validated.
Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works recent BD/DVD release - watched the raws since I already knew what was going to happen (been playing the game over the last week or so... in what spare time I've had, anyway). Action, action, action, action, action, violence, and action. One really shouldn't bother oneself with pacing, development, and drama when one can be satisfied with so much fluid action and speechifying. I'll watch it again when I find subs, but at the moment I'd only recommend it to people who liked the game and know wtf is going on.
I started Canaan as well, in part due to this recent Type Moon binge I've been on. Its first two episodes have been pretty good, but with all the things they've introduced in these scant 40-some minutes, I'm rather puzzled as to how they'll be able to tie it all up in only 13 episodes or so.
Panty & Stocking's first episode delivered everything I expected, along with DAT TRANSFORMATION. Worth the wait; all trust in Imaishi & Yoshinari has been validated.
Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works recent BD/DVD release - watched the raws since I already knew what was going to happen (been playing the game over the last week or so... in what spare time I've had, anyway). Action, action, action, action, action, violence, and action. One really shouldn't bother oneself with pacing, development, and drama when one can be satisfied with so much fluid action and speechifying. I'll watch it again when I find subs, but at the moment I'd only recommend it to people who liked the game and know wtf is going on.
I started Canaan as well, in part due to this recent Type Moon binge I've been on. Its first two episodes have been pretty good, but with all the things they've introduced in these scant 40-some minutes, I'm rather puzzled as to how they'll be able to tie it all up in only 13 episodes or so.
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On my own time: Panty and Stocking with Gaterbelt.
In my anime class: Various anime. And I mean, really various.
For instance, up this coming week in my class is: Ninja Scroll and To Shoot without Shooting.
This past week was Lupin III: Albatross Wings of Death, Memories: Cannon Fodder, Mt. Head and La maison en petits cubes (The House of Little Cubes).
Week 1, in contrast, was: Cockpit: Mach Thunder Force (Sonic Boom Squadron), Cockpit: Knight of the Iron Dragon, Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus.
Several of these are Miyazaki, which is great. And La maison en petits cubes is an absolute gem, I can see why it won the Academy Award. Why Mt. Head didn't win the award when it was eligible, however, is beyond me.
I'll add what we're watching in my class to this thread each week, just in case anybody wants to make any comments on 'em.
In my anime class: Various anime. And I mean, really various.
For instance, up this coming week in my class is: Ninja Scroll and To Shoot without Shooting.
This past week was Lupin III: Albatross Wings of Death, Memories: Cannon Fodder, Mt. Head and La maison en petits cubes (The House of Little Cubes).
Week 1, in contrast, was: Cockpit: Mach Thunder Force (Sonic Boom Squadron), Cockpit: Knight of the Iron Dragon, Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus.
Several of these are Miyazaki, which is great. And La maison en petits cubes is an absolute gem, I can see why it won the Academy Award. Why Mt. Head didn't win the award when it was eligible, however, is beyond me.
I'll add what we're watching in my class to this thread each week, just in case anybody wants to make any comments on 'em.
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