Animefreak17
Godhand
mangaman74 said:
not a bad idea
and what can i say i brought it on a whim.
Rate the last anime you watched out of 10
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not a bad idea
and what can i say i brought it on a whim.
ilmaestro
State Alchemist
It wasn't specifically what I meant, you could maybe say it was half of what I meant. Some people (I am one of them) prefer Place Promised... for just giving you a lot more time and atmosphere to wallow in, but a *lot* of people I see who would maybe say "I wish Voices... had been longer" end up saying "you know what, Place Promised... was a bit too long", so I was interested to see what you thought.teonzo said:
I'm maybe more surprised that you preferred 5cm... overall, given how much you like Voices...
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fabio de lunatico
Claymore
Oreimo TV - 8/10
My new favourite show about otaku that isn't Genshiken.
14 year-old Kirino is a talented athlete and model student, adored by all. But she's also an otaku, something she feels she must keep secret because of how otaku are viewed in Japan. But when her brother finds out, it presents Kirino with an unexpected chance to finally share her passions with someone.
Oreimo is a mostly amusing look at otakudom, sympathetic towards its characters and audience while acknowledging that some of it is a bit strange. Kirino does, after all, have a penchant for little sister eroge.... but as she points out, 2D and 3D are different worlds, and it turns out that any incest undertones are exploited strictly for comedy purposes. And, well, maybe to attract a certain type of viewer who may go in expecting something that isn't there.
By rights I should hate Kirino. She's a spoilt and often nasty little bitch, and it can be galling to watch other characters go out of their way, in some cases risking their own reputations, to please such an ungrateful monster. But she's funny (especially when verbally sparring with sharp-tongued, deadpan gothloli and undoubted star of the show Kuroneko), and a lot of viewers will be able to relate to her in some way, and she does redeem herself somewhat towards the end. Plus she's cute - which is, let's face it, a free pass to be as obnoxious as she wants.
Where it does misstep is when cranking up the melodrama, as it does a few times. I've already mentioned characters going out of their way to please Kirino, and these scenes are so overplayed they ended up making me cringe a bit. Otherwise the writing is sharp and the comedy spot-on.
Speaking of cute, Oreimo's character designs are exceedingly adorable, and clearly a lot of effort was put into expressive character animation. It looks classy. One thing I don't like is the silly way that still images are manipulated during the ending sequences, but since each episode has a different song (like HotD) I can forgive that.
Now that a certain forumite's head has exploded, I believe my work here is done. Time to watch the OVA (ONA?) for more Kuroneko goodness.
My new favourite show about otaku that isn't Genshiken.
14 year-old Kirino is a talented athlete and model student, adored by all. But she's also an otaku, something she feels she must keep secret because of how otaku are viewed in Japan. But when her brother finds out, it presents Kirino with an unexpected chance to finally share her passions with someone.
Oreimo is a mostly amusing look at otakudom, sympathetic towards its characters and audience while acknowledging that some of it is a bit strange. Kirino does, after all, have a penchant for little sister eroge.... but as she points out, 2D and 3D are different worlds, and it turns out that any incest undertones are exploited strictly for comedy purposes. And, well, maybe to attract a certain type of viewer who may go in expecting something that isn't there.
By rights I should hate Kirino. She's a spoilt and often nasty little bitch, and it can be galling to watch other characters go out of their way, in some cases risking their own reputations, to please such an ungrateful monster. But she's funny (especially when verbally sparring with sharp-tongued, deadpan gothloli and undoubted star of the show Kuroneko), and a lot of viewers will be able to relate to her in some way, and she does redeem herself somewhat towards the end. Plus she's cute - which is, let's face it, a free pass to be as obnoxious as she wants.
Where it does misstep is when cranking up the melodrama, as it does a few times. I've already mentioned characters going out of their way to please Kirino, and these scenes are so overplayed they ended up making me cringe a bit. Otherwise the writing is sharp and the comedy spot-on.
Speaking of cute, Oreimo's character designs are exceedingly adorable, and clearly a lot of effort was put into expressive character animation. It looks classy. One thing I don't like is the silly way that still images are manipulated during the ending sequences, but since each episode has a different song (like HotD) I can forgive that.
Now that a certain forumite's head has exploded, I believe my work here is done. Time to watch the OVA (ONA?) for more Kuroneko goodness.
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fabio de lunatico
Claymore
Remove the last five minutes of ep. 3, all of ep. 8, and the last ten minutes of ep. 12 and it's an easy 9 and better than Uncharted 3. The (what I saw as) over-dramatic moments just dragged the show down a bit and forced me to knock a point off. Still, it definitely is one of the best shows I've watched this year; I don't think I glanced at the timer on my DVD player once, which is always a good sign.
Speaking of the best character, my favourite scene would be in episode 9 where Kuroneko received a surprise call from Kyousuke and was visibly taken aback before quickly composing herself and getting back "in character". She's usually so poised that it was too cute seeing her defences down for a split second.
Speaking of the best character, my favourite scene would be in episode 9 where Kuroneko received a surprise call from Kyousuke and was visibly taken aback before quickly composing herself and getting back "in character". She's usually so poised that it was too cute seeing her defences down for a split second.
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Animefreak17
Godhand
nerima daikon brothers
ok what if i said that this anime was about
two cousins and there friend that lives together in a field with a stage and that the one cousins in love with his cousin thats a girl which is in love with there friend and they dress up like the blues brothers and they grow daikons on that field and the 3 of them have formed a blues band called the nerima daikon brothers even tho one of thems a girl with a Okayama prefecture accent and the friend works at a host clud and they dream to build a dome so they can sing there songs and the anime is a musical
what would you say to that.
well the singing suck and i couldn't understand what they were saying half the time.
but i its insane and really really funny, the animations ok and all the characters are funny.
im giving this bad boy a 9/10
ok what if i said that this anime was about
two cousins and there friend that lives together in a field with a stage and that the one cousins in love with his cousin thats a girl which is in love with there friend and they dress up like the blues brothers and they grow daikons on that field and the 3 of them have formed a blues band called the nerima daikon brothers even tho one of thems a girl with a Okayama prefecture accent and the friend works at a host clud and they dream to build a dome so they can sing there songs and the anime is a musical
what would you say to that.
well the singing suck and i couldn't understand what they were saying half the time.
but i its insane and really really funny, the animations ok and all the characters are funny.
im giving this bad boy a 9/10
ilmaestro said:
It's a bit difficult to explain why I enjoyed "Place" less than the other 2 Shinkai works I saw. The main thing is the flow of the story: I like when a story has the same pace from start to finish, or when it has a crescendo, but usually I don't like when the rhythm slow down towards the end. There are various "slow" shows I like (Mushishi, just to make an example in the anime realm), but I always found hard to really enjoy a show which goes in diminuendo. Plus I had a strange sense of deja-vu, during the vision I thought for the most time "I already saw this", but to be honest I can't point which show/book/whatelse had really similar themes and progression (my associative memory is not that good).
ilmaestro said:
"5cm" hit a soft spot with me. I really liked the progression of the 3 sub-stories, and I loved the way it ended. I like that attitude of facing some "ghosts" from the past: remembering the positive aspects of what happened, recognizing it's time to change, and move forward with a smile. I really appreciated the scene of the railway crossing, I thought it was the perfect way to end the movie, and I'm a bit maniac about endings: it's relatively easy to find a show with a good story in the beginning and in the middle, but it's really hard to find a show with a "perfect" ending, so when I found one then I'm much more impressed. And the ending of "5cm" gave me the same feelings of the train scene at the end of Only Yesterday, a similar way to close a troubled period of someone's life and going forward with a positive attitude. Uhm, maybe I could say that even the ending of "5cm" gave me a sense of deja-vu, but in this case it was a positive feeling. Well, it's almost impossible to rationalize our emotions.
Teo
Sparrowsabre7
Za Warudo
teonzo said:
QFT. This applies to pretty much anything, a truly magnificent ending is hard to pull off. I'm not sure even many of my favourite films manage that.
Sword of the Stranger
WOOOOOWW!! This has to be one of my new favorites now. I wasn't really expecting the story to be as engaging as it was given its abject simplicity. The main characters were great to watch (i love that frigin dog) and the villains and side characters interactions were also not mindbogglingly stupid. The animation on the other hand was definitely the star of the show with intricately choreographed and fluid fights and an amazing orchestral soundtrack. the dub was decent but not amazing (its an ocean dub) and Also not forgetting Yutaka Nakamura's Impressive work on the final fight of the movie (he did the key animation for it). I definetly reccomend this movie for anyone who hasnt already seen it.
9/10
WOOOOOWW!! This has to be one of my new favorites now. I wasn't really expecting the story to be as engaging as it was given its abject simplicity. The main characters were great to watch (i love that frigin dog) and the villains and side characters interactions were also not mindbogglingly stupid. The animation on the other hand was definitely the star of the show with intricately choreographed and fluid fights and an amazing orchestral soundtrack. the dub was decent but not amazing (its an ocean dub) and Also not forgetting Yutaka Nakamura's Impressive work on the final fight of the movie (he did the key animation for it). I definetly reccomend this movie for anyone who hasnt already seen it.
9/10
ilmaestro
State Alchemist
You will, I'm sure, be totally unsurprised that eps 8 and 12 are the anime original ones.fabricatedlunatic said:
(8 is quite similar thematically to one of the LNs, but has heavy changes to the content that ruin it - 12 is obviously just a total betrayal of the two main characters and doesn't work on any level, totally forced to provide an "end" to the TV series)As for your favorite scene... let's come back to that once you've seen the OVAs. ^_^
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Animefreak17
Godhand
blue submarine no.6
i was on the edge of my seat watching this. its about humans and seam monsters - human people or something thats fighting each other its like each side sees each other as the bad guys and theres two bing a guy and a sea lady that trys to understand each other and trys to get there people to understand each other.
i love the effects
i love the story
the characters aren't bad
this series deserves to watched by everyone
9.5/10
i was on the edge of my seat watching this. its about humans and seam monsters - human people or something thats fighting each other its like each side sees each other as the bad guys and theres two bing a guy and a sea lady that trys to understand each other and trys to get there people to understand each other.
i love the effects
i love the story
the characters aren't bad
this series deserves to watched by everyone
9.5/10
Sparrowsabre7
Za Warudo
Redline 7/10
Not much I can say that hasn't been said already, to say it revels in excess would be an understatement, it's an enjoyable watch though, assaulting the senses violently at each turn.
It puts me in mind of a 90's anime remade with a decent budget; all the 90's anime trends are there: simplistic plot, ludicrous action with characters only winning by pulling out even more extreme **** than the other racers/ wanting to win bad enough, gratuitous tits scene, smug villains, eldritch abominations.
The end was really abrupt though and the funky boy thing didn't go anywhere... the subplot literally just got cut off before it had even gotten going, but the visual design was glorious and Madhouse never fail to impress.
Not much I can say that hasn't been said already, to say it revels in excess would be an understatement, it's an enjoyable watch though, assaulting the senses violently at each turn.
It puts me in mind of a 90's anime remade with a decent budget; all the 90's anime trends are there: simplistic plot, ludicrous action with characters only winning by pulling out even more extreme **** than the other racers/ wanting to win bad enough, gratuitous tits scene, smug villains, eldritch abominations.
The end was really abrupt though and the funky boy thing didn't go anywhere... the subplot literally just got cut off before it had even gotten going, but the visual design was glorious and Madhouse never fail to impress.
Otaku-san
Chuunibyou
vashdaman said:
More like nostalgia to me.
Pan-pan-pan-pan-pan Melon-pan-pan-pan-pan
(you'd get it if you've been here as long as I have)
mangaman74 said:
Well it's got Johnny Yong Bosch playing a role, if that accounts for anything. MB redone this title with a dub like they did for Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, maybe several others, I've been meaning to pick them up. Quite unheard off for a company to go back and dub a sub only show
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Animefreak17
Godhand
giant robo what can i say........... this anime has more twists then a twister it has a really good story and some good characters, i also like how this anime shows theres two sides of a story, at first you think that the main villains evil for no reason but at watching it though to the end it makes you think about stuff. but i was unimpressed with *giant robo* the robot, i mean it wasn't bad its just that it failed to impress me * dai guard the robot was more impressive. but despite that the story was really good.
i love the ginrei special they was fun to watch.
9/10
i love the ginrei special they was fun to watch.
9/10
alexrose1uk
Straw Hat Pirate
Planetes
Likeable characters; and a plot that really doesn't go where you expect it to a lot of the time, refusing to conform to the cliche'd expected events at many points (not to say there were none).
It looked fairly good, sound was average, and nicely, the story didn't 'forget' characters. Even at the ending, every character I remembered from the show made an ending somewhere. The only downside was, the plot wasn't the sort that grabbed you, and pulled you into shooting through the show, as although there was an overplot, there was a lot of individual show material as well.
Personally, I think it's a shame there's not more decent Sci-Fi out there, whether high futuristic, or contemporary, reality-based near future as in this show.
It's all about the 'Ai'!
8.5-9/10
Likeable characters; and a plot that really doesn't go where you expect it to a lot of the time, refusing to conform to the cliche'd expected events at many points (not to say there were none).
It looked fairly good, sound was average, and nicely, the story didn't 'forget' characters. Even at the ending, every character I remembered from the show made an ending somewhere. The only downside was, the plot wasn't the sort that grabbed you, and pulled you into shooting through the show, as although there was an overplot, there was a lot of individual show material as well.
Personally, I think it's a shame there's not more decent Sci-Fi out there, whether high futuristic, or contemporary, reality-based near future as in this show.
It's all about the 'Ai'!
8.5-9/10
Redline
My copy arrived this morning and me and my friends proceeded to watch it straight away and IT WAS GLORIOUS!! The plot gave way for some incredibly retarded a** races and I LOVED IT!! It also helps that a was sipping wine while watching it with my friends who were scoffing down beer. while i did love it, it didnt quite reach the level sword of the stranger did for me. good thing is at least my friends who dont usually like anime came all over the screen :wink:
8.5
My copy arrived this morning and me and my friends proceeded to watch it straight away and IT WAS GLORIOUS!! The plot gave way for some incredibly retarded a** races and I LOVED IT!! It also helps that a was sipping wine while watching it with my friends who were scoffing down beer. while i did love it, it didnt quite reach the level sword of the stranger did for me. good thing is at least my friends who dont usually like anime came all over the screen :wink:
8.5
Vashdaman
Za Warudo
Sparrowsabre7 said:
What more could you want! It also features a biochemical monster called Funky boy! In my opinion this was still better then like 85% of feature length anime from the 90's.
I think the only puropse of the Funky boy subplot was to have an excuse to animate a glorious fight between it and the mutant whale
such a good idea.As for the ending, for me it wasn't abrupt it just didn't outstay it's welcome(as most movies do) and ended on a superb climax.
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fabio de lunatico
Claymore
Oreimo OVA - 8/10
So, uh, what was the point of the final TV episode deviating from the source material when it was put right in the first episode of the OVA? Gimmick? Either way, it was a much less dramatic finale and it got that pesky Kirino out of the way for a bit.
Some hilarious moments in this OVA, not least of which was the revelation that the fujoshi had put gay porn into her RPG, basing the characters on members of the game club, and there's plenty of cute Kuroneko moments too.
Then came the second half of the final episode and, oh lawd, more melodrama! Dry your eyes you pussy. You know, maybe it's just the cynicism/perversion talking but that was the first time I started to wonder about the exact nature of Kyousuke's feelings towards his sister...
So, uh, what was the point of the final TV episode deviating from the source material when it was put right in the first episode of the OVA? Gimmick? Either way, it was a much less dramatic finale and it got that pesky Kirino out of the way for a bit.
Some hilarious moments in this OVA, not least of which was the revelation that the fujoshi had put gay porn into her RPG, basing the characters on members of the game club, and there's plenty of cute Kuroneko moments too.
Then came the second half of the final episode and, oh lawd, more melodrama! Dry your eyes you pussy. You know, maybe it's just the cynicism/perversion talking but that was the first time I started to wonder about the exact nature of Kyousuke's feelings towards his sister...
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Brave Story
Decent movie.
Likes: the story has a good pace and the direction is flawless. I liked the animation and how the CG was integrated, this time the guys at Gonzo made a really good job.
Dislikes: a bit too childish for me; the story is quite predictable.
Curiosity: I didn't know that Jar Jar had a cousin acting for anime companies.
Score: 7 / 10
Teo
Decent movie.
Likes: the story has a good pace and the direction is flawless. I liked the animation and how the CG was integrated, this time the guys at Gonzo made a really good job.
Dislikes: a bit too childish for me; the story is quite predictable.
Curiosity: I didn't know that Jar Jar had a cousin acting for anime companies.
Score: 7 / 10
Teo