General anime thoughts/discussion thread.
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As someone who absolutely adores Puella Magi Madoka Magica, it's embarrassing to see the reactions some people are having about many critics and blogs not including Rebellion in their Oscar nomination predictions. An Oscar nomination is simply not going to happen because:
1) It's a sequel to an obscure TV series that requires full knowledge of said TV series to make a lick of sense.
2) It only had a limited theatrical run as opposed to other films in the category from big name name studios.
3) Connected to #2, but it's up against the likes of Frozen, Monster's University and Despicable Me 2 - three films from top US animation studios.
4) It's not American and isn't even in English.
5) The title is hella long and nonsensical.
I mean, I'd love for it to receive a nomination, I really would. I just don't see it as possible.
1) It's a sequel to an obscure TV series that requires full knowledge of said TV series to make a lick of sense.
2) It only had a limited theatrical run as opposed to other films in the category from big name name studios.
3) Connected to #2, but it's up against the likes of Frozen, Monster's University and Despicable Me 2 - three films from top US animation studios.
4) It's not American and isn't even in English.
5) The title is hella long and nonsensical.
I mean, I'd love for it to receive a nomination, I really would. I just don't see it as possible.
Shiroi Hane
Dragon Knight
Not exclusively (although he has been banned from ANN under multiple usernames) - you should see his rants about Fencedude and others on YouTube.reborn said:
And I don't him ranting in a video, he makes videos that are pages of text.
I found the Miiverse community for the High School DxD game and it allows you to post pictures...oh dear xD.
And why the heck didn't FUNimation put Wolf Children forward? Did it not qualify for some reason or are FUNimation still pouty about Summer Wars?
Yeah, it's such a shame we have the Academy deciding though.Lawrence said:
Pixar Power and Disney er...Disneyness though. But yeah, this year was pretty weak all around for animation.
And why the heck didn't FUNimation put Wolf Children forward? Did it not qualify for some reason or are FUNimation still pouty about Summer Wars?
Ath
Pokémon Master
Campaigning for an Oscar nomination is a long and expensive process. I'm not surprised at all that Funimation didn't bother with Wolf Children this time. Are there people out there who seriously thought that Madoka Magica Rebellion was in with a shout? That's not a jibe at the quality of the film mind you, but rather the realistic likelihood of it ever making the nominee list.
To be honest, I still hold the belief that Rebellion shouldn't have happened and that it the series should have been left as is - it had a perfectly closed ending.Lawrence said:
However, with the events of Rebellion, we now have a God (Madoka), a devil (Homura) and the one human who can remember the actions of both of them (Sayaka). In effect, Sayaka truly has become a Magical Girl of justice in that she is left as the sole judge between the two. That's what interests me so much and what can happen with that.
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Animefreak17
Godhand
Joshawott said:
I think it's ok I don't mind it having a second season or movie I think it's a awesome series that should give more to fans
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Whilst debating whether I could be bothered to regurgitate my rant about why I hated Psycho-Pass on another board, it finally hit me what it was that it reminded me of, other than GitS.
I felt the need to share.
I felt the need to share.
Dan
Stand User
Professor Irony said:Whilst debating whether I could be bothered to regurgitate my rant about why I hated Psycho-Pass on another board, it finally hit me what it was that it reminded me of, other than GitS.
I felt the need to share.
NNNNNOOOOOO!!!!!
I was really looking forward to Psycho Pass getting a UK release in the future but if it's like WHR, I'm not so sure now, although I do really like GitS.
Admittedly, I didn't watch much of it, but I was bitterly disappointed in Psycho-Pass. It has a similar police procedural type setup to GitS and WHR, but it seemed to me like they'd responded to accusations of GitS being difficult to follow by giving us Baby's First Cyberpunk Adventure, populated with cardboard characters. I do seem to be in the minority on this one, however, so your mileage may vary.
bakum4tsu
Pokémon Master
Dan said:
Just skip the fillers and should be just a couple more episodes. AS far as i remember the last 2 years frm the first series were jus fillers so thats around 100 episodies. Around episode 145 its the best fight of the first series... in case you wanna know that... one that you not forget while you keep watching Naruto. I never watched all the fillers frm the first series when they were airing in Japan, I just skipped.
robot monkey
Hunter
bakum4tsu said:
Made my way through every episode, some fillers are better than others so it wasn't all negative.
I'd completely missed this - apparently the Kill la Kill team have been accused of plagarism:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/inter ... lagiarized
http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/inter ... lagiarized
robot monkey
Hunter
Kite said:
Manga have recently mentioned looking into this.
I think in many cases they'd need to negotiate extra rights to do it so it would probably only apply to new acquisitions (if they ever decided to go ahead). I have never used a digital copy from a disc I owned ^^;
Perhaps a future version of Wakanim would be capable of making this work for anime, if you could link physical purchases to your account.
R
Perhaps a future version of Wakanim would be capable of making this work for anime, if you could link physical purchases to your account.
R