What anime are you watching right now? Dec10-Apr11

[IrkenEvangelion]

Well I wasn't around at that time so I did not know.

[chazthesilencer]

Been a while. Time for some quick reviews/thoughts:

Giant Killing - Thanks for the recommendation Mr.Tines
Nothing particularly new or exceptional as a series, but the overall message was basically- "Enjoy whatever it is you do and you'll perform at your best." something we can all appreciate. GRADE: C
The only other sports series I've seen to compare to this is Princess Nine; at least Giant Killing didn't fall into the trap of introducing nine main characters only to neglect all but two of them.


The real “giant killing” is done using that nose.

It had its own splooging thread, so I checked out So Ra No Wo To next.
OP reminded me of something out of Shuki Levy, which was nice...
However, I knew the story was doomed the moment Kanata explained her motivation for becoming a soldier was:
"I want to learn how to play music". Oh god. Get the tea and cakes ready.

Highlight of the series was probably Noel poking a bug. How sad.
No, Episode 7 was a load of nonsense. GRADE: D

The KyoAni smile will destroy us all.

The "An*me no Chikara" project got me interested, so I’m making my way through Occult Academy.
6 eps in and it has been pretty dull so far, characters aren’t interesting nor the occult-y things going on.
Maya is a rather unlikable character, although she’s the closest one I can empathise with… if you replaced her distain for the word “occult” with “an*me” instead.

Squid Girl and The World God only Knows have been welcome, casual viewing, but I doubt they’ll leave a lasting impression on us when they’re through.
That said, SqG ep.9 I found genuinely funny.

the endings I liked…diebuster, gunbuster…

When it comes to good (and certainly more-down-to-earth) endings, I favour an example like that of Fruits Basket’s.
As for the -Buster endings, I still don’t get it. Somebody help me.

[Xard]

GRADE: D

it's too bad one can't buy good taste

Occult Academy had potential and entertained me while watching it but in retrospect it was utter shitfest though. Too bad as Maya was awesome

Speaking of good taste, Plastic Little had some of the finest animated tits and jiggle physics I've ever seen. I kinda wanted to give it 10/10 for the bath scene alone but the climax (no pun intended) was a bit cheap and easy for heroes so I settled for 7/10.

Gotta love Satoshi Urushihara, the God Of Nipples.

Masami Obari, that Uwe Boll of anime, doesn't deserve it though. Conclusion that my recent viewing experiences unfortunately didn't save. Tits he draws are just grotesgue and when tits are absolutely only thing going for work that is bad. *adds Battle Arena Toshiden to list of shitty Obari anime*

[Merridian]

Plastic Little

I would recommend Legend of Lemnear, but even the tits couldn't save that one.

I'm kinda surprised you didn't splooge over Itano's contributions to Plastic Little, though. That underwater action sequence was kickass.

Masami Obari, that Uwe Boll of anime, doesn't deserve it though.

hey man don't shit on the genius that gave us the Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer OVA

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Finished Bakemonogatari

The good: music, animation, surrealistic landscapes/backgrounds, and nice-looking pairs of tits

The bad: just about everything else

I didn’t think it was possible to abuse lolAnno Formalism to the point that I was tired of it, but Shinbo found a way with BMG. The whole presentation quickly became ultra-formulaic after the first handful of episodes, which was disappointing considering Shinbo’s usually fairly on the ball with his editing. A few characters were interesting, but for a show that people seem to want to compare to genre-defining classics like Utena or NGE, there wasn't much there. The protagonist was dull, and the harem around him were basically mixed and matched from various fetishes and hard-worn character traits. I really don't mind any of this, but I'm puzzled as to how anyone could call most of these characters "interesting" or "incredibly complex". They were about as well-developed as Love Hina's cast, the only difference was that their psychoses were more pronounced.

The first two episodes were IMO better than the rest of the series, with the last two episodes being the only other high-point. The rest of it wasn’t terrible, but certainly irreverent and meandering. I at least enjoyed it enough to finish it in three sittings.

I'll probably finish Katanagatari and then move onto Mononoke, since there was a little debate about that & BMG a few weeks ago. It's been on my list, so now's a good a time as any to see how it stacks up.

[Oz]

@Merri: I totally agree with you on Bakemonogatari although I would add one more thing to "the good": the dialogue. Even though it was pretentious as hell, it was very cleverly handled.

[Heromaster111]

Disapperance of Haruhi in glorious 1080p=jizz fest

[InstrumentalityOne]

^

It´s out?

Maybe I´ll re-watch the final scenes in 1080p because the movie wasn´t really that visually appealing apart from a few scenes, as far as I could tell from the camrip.

[Oz]

Well, the blu-ray was released in Japan yesterday, but I haven't seen a rip of it anywhere yet.

[Heromaster111]

You aren't looking hard enough

[NatTheWriter]

Episode 10 of Clannad.

Kotomi's arc is definitely looking more interesting than Fuko's. Hopefully it all goes uphill from here.

[Twin Drive Sigma Aquarion]

Masami Obari, that Uwe Boll of anime

Oh boy did you open Pandora's Box.


First of all, Uwe Boll's a good director as long as he's not given a serious movie to work on. Second, Masami Obrai is the third best anything in anime period after Go Nagai and Shoji Kawamori. Third, he's more like Michael Bay if anything. Mind you I don't care for sex junk either, but there's always plenty of action to be make things entertaining, so there. The guy will eventually be one of the biggest names in the mech genre if not has already.

[BrikHaus]

@Merri: I totally agree with you on Bakemonogatari although I would add one more thing to "the good": the dialogue. Even though it was pretentious as hell, it was very cleverly handled.

Oz, I just realized that I was quoted in your sig. I don't remember the exchange, but it gave me a laugh to re-read it.

[Xard]

I would recommend Legend of Lemnear, but even the tits couldn't save that one.

I watched this one just before Plastic Little!

I rather liked it. Art and animation were gorgeous as well as Urushihara's character designs and tits. Really, I'd say it's even better in tits regard (:E) than Plastic Little was. Writing was horrendous but whatever, I'm always ready for sum chainmail bikini fantasy due to mistakes of my youth. I'm quite forgiving with the genre, to say the least. Especially when it looks as good as this. It's pulpy trash but for sake of tits and awesome action it was enjoyable watch.

I gave it 5/10 which perfectly balanced between art & animation (9/10) and of course tits (10/10) and horrendous writing (2/10)

Well I didn't give these elements any numerical values but you get what I mean.

I'm kinda surprised you didn't splooge over Itano's contributions to Plastic Little, though. That underwater action sequence was kickass.

Whole OVA was gorgeously animated, including action sequences. I didn't know Itano himself was involved though. I mean at this point Itano Circus had been copycatted to death so its mere presence in work doesn't automatically indicate his own involvement...

But yeah, action was great if a bit too easy for heroes, as I mentioned. And the resolution to fight was pretty hilarious borderline bs asspull move. lolcredibility.

hey man don't shit on the genius that gave us the Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer OVA

I haven't watched that one yet, actually. And he is easily better director than Boll, the comparison is just valid because Obari just as gleefully churns out shitty game adaptations. Only medium is (relatively) different.

Finished Bakemonogatari

Shinbo is a hack and I'm so glad SHAFT didn't get a chance to ruin Katanagatari too. Praising animation was also more than a bit lolwut for such Powerpoint show.

Speaking of BGM, I just might've finally found out way to watch this show. Hell yeah!

Senjougahara is awesome (as well as loldialogue), that's all I care about anyway.

Maybe I´ll re-watch the final scenes in 1080p because the movie wasn´t really that visually appealing apart from a few scenes, as far as I could tell from the camrip.

you know IO, sometimes you write just as WAT inducing stuff as TDSA if not moreso because you're completely unpredictable with these things. O__o

Oh boy did you open Pandora's Box.


First of all, Uwe Boll's a good director as long as he's not given a serious movie to work on. Second, Masami Obrai is the third best anything in anime period after Go Nagai and Shoji Kawamori. Third, he's more like Michael Bay if anything. Mind you I don't care for sex junk either, but there's always plenty of action to be make things entertaining, so there. The guy will eventually be one of the biggest names in the mech genre if not has already.

I'm pretty sure as long as guns are blazing and there are explosions on screen you'd consider show good...


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I watched the Ginrei OVA specials that were something of a parody/fanservice/lulz addition to Giant Robo. Ginrei is pretty hot and cool (shut up oxymorons are fine too) so it was awwwright. 6/10


Star Driver ep 12 = HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT


PILER CRUUUUUUUUUUUSH

Star Driver is starting to deliver its promises, all according to keikaku. Fantastic episode and second time in a row I'm saying "best episode so far". I'm making prediction here right now:

During the ongoing Second Arc Star Driver reaches level of Katanagatari and solidifies its rating to 9/10. Starts to close in on PSG and Tatami Galaxy for title of best anime to debut in 2010.


Third Arc: Surpasses PSG and Tatami Galaxy, reaches the highly sought after 10/10 level and becomes the best title of 2009-2010 (possibly excluding Disappearance).

Habeeb it.

Anyway, I'm just about to start Communion with Goddess.

You all know what I mean. My ever so flimsy avatar will propably change, again.

[Twin Drive Sigma Aquarion]

I'm pretty sure as long as guns are blazing and there are explosions on screen you'd consider show good

You don't know me well enough to say that, if that was truly the case I would find Saving Private Ryan watchable.

[InstrumentalityOne]

you know IO, sometimes you write just as WAT inducing stuff as TDSA if not moreso because you're completely unpredictable with these things. O__o

Sometimes I type messages, stop in the middle, think a little about, delete some words, write something different and then I repeat the whole process until something unrecognizable materializes.

Just like... now.

[Dr. Nick]

And he is easily better director than Boll, the comparison is just valid because Obari just as gleefully churns out shitty game adaptations. Only medium is (relatively) different.

Actually, Obari kinda surprised everybody with SRW: OGIN, because it's supposedly a big leap forward in quality compared to the absolute tripe that previous SRW anime adaptations have been. Hell, Cybuster the anime is basically /m/'s Tsukihime, Divine Wars was cheapest possible 3D shit and that short OAV (that actually takes place after OGIN but was animated first) wasn't really OAV quality. So give the man some credit. How often has Uwe Boll been called forward to resuscitate an ailing franchise?

[Merridian]

I would add one more thing to "the good": the dialogue. Even though it was pretentious as hell, it was very cleverly handled.

I thought the dialogue was overlong, boring, and utterly irreverent most of the time. In fact, most of those long expositions became so boring that they took all the punch out of the work. Only a few of them successfully managed to build any kind of tension (a couple in the last few episodes, which were more info dumps rather than more lolpuns), but not all of those ‘dramatic’ expositions were all that great anyway.

Whole OVA was gorgeously animated, including action sequences. I didn't know Itano himself was involved though. I mean at this point Itano Circus had been copycatted to death so its mere presence in work doesn't automatically indicate his own involvement...

Yeah, it was Itano alright. The animation quality as a whole was one of my favorite things, but man his action scenes just can’t be beat. I half-wondered if it has him the first time I watched it because it was so incredibly fluid and detailed, but I still had to check the credits.

I haven't watched that one yet, actually.

bitches in latex

Praising animation was also more than a bit lolwut for such Powerpoint show.

it wasn’t SZS for chrissakes

There was a fair amount of actual motion for a work of Shinbo’s, actually. And it looked pretty damn good, too. It’s just… “lolShinbo” so it doesn’t happen nearly as often as it should.

Senjougahara is awesome (as well as loldialogue), that's all I care about anyway.

Yeah, I really only watched it for her and the class rep (and the scenery porn). It soon became apparent that the plot was bogus after the second episode; I'm just ashamed that it took me that long to figure that out.

[Oz]

@Merri: No love for Kanbaru? I thought she was by far the most interesting character of the series. Senjougahara is just a silly self-aware troll/tsundere in comparison to Kanbaru's brilliance.

[MasonFighter]

Just finished the Oreimo Finale. It was a fitting end, I suppose. We didn't get to see him pick a girl, though, so, that's up in the air for now.

I couldn't help but grin stupidly at the "I LOVE HOMOS" part.

[child of Lilith]

It ended pretty much how I thought it would. All and all it was a good final episode for the TV run. I just hope they have some real fireworks planed for the four alternate ending episodes coming out latter on dvd.

Heck, maybe we'll get lucky and they'll go so far as to have him finally choose a girl.