General anime thoughts/discussion thread.

Anyone else here a fan of Mamoru Nagano? His designs just blow my mind:

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I have to be honest, I love the Nisekoi manga and the first anime season but...I'm really mixed on the second. I get that due to the self-contained nature of a lot of the more recent manga chapters, the story wasn't going to be as focused as before and there was probably going to be a lot of chapters that didn't make the cut in order to trim things down but one thing that has really stood out to me is the fact that Haru Onodera has been featured heavily in the advertising for this series (Well, she is a popular character) but we're five episodes in and she hasn't been introduced; yet the latest episode adapted a chapter that was released six months after Haru's introduction, so of course she appeared in a very minor role.

My initial feeling that SHAFT's animation style doesn't suit the series has also cropped up again.
 
I borrowed the Attack on Titan Junior High comedy spin-off manga from my library. Now I want there to be an anime of this. Is there an anime of this? There should be an anime of this!
 
Sometimes I wonder if people in the 80s talked about how much better things from the 60s like Astro Boy and Eight Man were than filthy casual nonsense like Macross and City Hunter.
 
Professor Irony said:
Sometimes I wonder if people in the 80s talked about how much better things from the 60s like Astro Boy and Eight Man were than filthy casual nonsense like Macross and City Hunter.
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Of course they did.

They'd have been wrong, unlike people of taste who prefer '80s anime, but still.
 
ayase said:
Professor Irony said:
Sometimes I wonder if people in the 80s talked about how much better things from the 60s like Astro Boy and Eight Man were than filthy casual nonsense like Macross and City Hunter.
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Of course they did.

They'd have been wrong, unlike people of taste who prefer '80s anime, but still.
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There isn't exactly right or wrong, it's all opinion based. Personally, I don't like 80s anime, but that doesn't mean others who do are incorrect.
 
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Nox is a Xelor, but the important thing here is that you clearly haven't watched Wakfu. WATCH WAKFU. Don't make me post the image and get banned.
 
Having given it some considerable thought, I decided to stop my CR premium subscription from automatically renewing when it came to the end of the term yesterday. I've found myself getting far more use out of Viewster lately and the autumn lineup is uninspiring enough that I think I can live with ad-supported streams for a while.
 
That makes sense if you're not watching much. The way I sometimes try to figure it out is if I add up all the time I spent watching adverts and spent it working instead, how much would I earn? If it's more than the cost of the subscription then I'll pay that. To be fair, I tend to value my time higher than what I actually get paid but it's a decent basis for a rough calculation.

I'm not sure how that'll actually come out though, I'm not sure how much advert you get per episode on Crunchyroll these days (a minute and a half maybe?) so you might have to watch quite a lot for it to match up (especially if you don't earn a lot). I guess it might also be difficult to figure out what you earn by time depending on how you're paid and what you do.

Still, if you pay yearly it's a bit cheaper even if you don't always watch the same every month. Just watching something like Space Brothers could get you about two and a half hours worth of adverts. I guess at minimum wage you'd be looking at over 300 episodes in a year, maybe something like 7 simulcasts per season. Ooh, that's a lot. Still, if you also throw in some catalogue titles it's probably not so bad. Space Brothers, Polar Bear's Café and Hunter x Hunter would get you 299 episodes. Maybe throw in Non Non Biyori, which you should be watching at least once a year anyway, and you're about there.

I wonder how much money I could have earned in the time I spent overthinking this.
 
For me, it's not even about the ads, It's about the quality. Free users only get SD content which I find increasingly hard to watch when I know there are 1080p versions available or even just 480p versions for some older shows. I could deal with a delay in Simulcasts, I could deal with ads but I don't think I could cope watching shows below 480p.
 
IncendiaryLemon said:
For me, it's not even about the ads, It's about the quality. Free users only get SD content which I find increasingly hard to watch when I know there are 1080p versions available or even just 480p versions for some older shows. I could deal with a delay in Simulcasts, I could deal with ads but I don't think I could cope watching shows below 480p.
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CR now streams 480 as standard for free. It's 720 and upwards that demands the subscription.
 
I've watched the first few eps of FMA Brotherhood, and while it's early days I am enjoying it thus far, even though I have to say it's not exactly breaking any molds. The biggest cop out for me so far is how they deal with Ed's missing limbs, as so far it seems his metal replacements are if anything even better than the limbs he lost and his only hindrance is the awfully cool appearance of them. Not only that, but even despite this he still refuses to accept his loss and has made it his life's mission to find a way to alchemy his old limbs back. Don't get me wrong, if I was Ed, and especially if I was living in Ed's world, I too would probably refuse to accept the loss, but still I have to say I don't feel like this show is particularly affirmative for the disabled audience. In fact it's using the loss of limbs as a cheap and easy plot device really, the cause of a epic quest to regain them,

Still, I'm looking forward to finding out where this all goes.
 
I think if it were just his limbs then you'd maybe you'd have a point but I think it's more to do with Alphonse than Ed. Alphonse lost his entire body and because of that he pretty much isn't even human any more. Not sure if you've gotten that far but there are parts when Al starts lamenting things such as being able to eat food and stuff.
 
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