Animefreak17
Godhand
claymore 9/10 it kept me on the edge of my seat and my favourite character is Priscilla and at the end i was like dont do it dont do it but raki saves her and................... man i hanged on everything
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Animefreak17
Godhand
the first dvd of hetalia
lets see....................its the most annoying but exactly right
it annoys me really bad super bad but everything said in it is right italians would give up lol
so far
iv watched season 2 and i got hooked on it, its not the best anime but very funny and very accurate so 7/10
and stereotyping hasn't been this much fun
lets see....................its the most annoying but exactly right
it annoys me really bad super bad but everything said in it is right italians would give up lol
so far
iv watched season 2 and i got hooked on it, its not the best anime but very funny and very accurate so 7/10
and stereotyping hasn't been this much fun
Animefreak17
Godhand
innocent venue 7/10
sanji no 1
Vampire Ninja
shikabane hime part 1
9/10
WTF was the person who review'd this on this site thinking about? Its an awsome anime! Loads of action, interesting characters and some good animation.
Goods things:
Loads of action
good animation as to be expected from Gainax
characters were pretty interesting
story was pretty good
bad things:
Episode 13 was a bit boring
Looking forward to the second volume!
9/10
WTF was the person who review'd this on this site thinking about? Its an awsome anime! Loads of action, interesting characters and some good animation.
Goods things:
Loads of action
good animation as to be expected from Gainax
characters were pretty interesting
story was pretty good
bad things:
Episode 13 was a bit boring
Looking forward to the second volume!
Animefreak17
Godhand
gravion seasons 1 and 2 .............................awesome just plain awesome if your a giant robot fan i suggest you watch gravion its got
1 fan service
2 a great story
3 twists
4 funny
i got the whole series a while ago and the only regret i have is not watching it sooner
9.5/10
1 fan service
2 a great story
3 twists
4 funny
i got the whole series a while ago and the only regret i have is not watching it sooner
9.5/10
My goodness, I haven't watched a series all the way through in about half a year.
Slayers
Overall this is an excellent series, the way it blends High Fantasy and Comedy reminds me greatly of comics such as 8 Bit Theater, the plot twists were excellent and any moments where I think that I can anticipate what comes next, it continuously surprises me, the characters were highly memorable from Lina's self serving attitude and Gourry's idiocity right through to Amelia's"Hero of Justice" nonsense to Zelgadis being a complete and utter badass, well worth watching
9/10
Slayers
Overall this is an excellent series, the way it blends High Fantasy and Comedy reminds me greatly of comics such as 8 Bit Theater, the plot twists were excellent and any moments where I think that I can anticipate what comes next, it continuously surprises me, the characters were highly memorable from Lina's self serving attitude and Gourry's idiocity right through to Amelia's"Hero of Justice" nonsense to Zelgadis being a complete and utter badass, well worth watching
9/10
sanji no 1
Vampire Ninja
i just finished Baccano! today. I have to say, it was Fantastic!!!
Baccano!
10/10
Good things:
great and original story telling
I loved all the characters
great animation
loads of violence
Bad things:
last 3 episodes were pretty pointless
Im so glad i decided to re-watch this and actually finish it. Its definitely up in my favorites!
Baccano!
10/10
Good things:
great and original story telling
I loved all the characters
great animation
loads of violence
Bad things:
last 3 episodes were pretty pointless
Im so glad i decided to re-watch this and actually finish it. Its definitely up in my favorites!
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, 10/10. (Spoilers... plot points referenced throughout. Sorry!)
It was an almost perfect feature, and I wish I wrote this a few hours ago so I had it in my mind better. It's an ambitious tale that works in parts but doesn't necessary feel right as one whole. It's a long film, 160 minutes in fact and that works both as both a detriment and advantage to it. The first half, both the original bouncey Haruhi and the slow deconstruction Kyon when he realises his world has changed is It continues in that trend up to and including the scene in the clubroom when Kyon contacts the other side. The problems begin when he's thrown into the past. I'm okay with time-travel, and the show excels at explaining complex theories in ridiculous phlebotinum so that the audience both understands the emotions of the situation (through Kyon) without necessarily getting the finer points of the space-time continuum (which, by the way, is there much behind them? Many interviews with Tanigawa?). The (relatively minor) problem is in the awkward transition in switching the focus to Yuki. This was originally setup in the first half which worked well on a thematic level but lacked the audience, and Kyon, lacked investment in that girl because she's not OUR Yuki. Nagato Yuki has always been a character the show has had trouble defining and switching gears to provide an quasi-forced look at her individual sad undercurrent felt almost unnecessary although it works to give the plot extra emotional resonance.
Let me step back a bit first though: Kyon. This is Kyon's film. The show has always been Kyon's show, but there have definitely been points when Haruhi takes the spotlight because... Kyon doesn't exactly want it, but it's his story and his life no matter how you slice it. It's a bold choice to adapt this, but I can't imagine this tale working in a long-form narrative at all so here we are: A story about Haruhi, without Haruhi. And so there's sense of eerie familarity when she finally disappears. The series does the fantastical so often and in the few months they have known each other they have survived an endless summer, the destruction of a universe and a culture festival so what's a small alteration when we know its going to go back to normal? Nothing, really, except to destroy Kyon's very soul...
The story works because of its character-based history. The timey-wimey stuff does indeed matter as a matter of plot, but the reaffirmation is something that Kyon was beginning to need. I haven't read beyond so I don't know exactly how him choosing the real world (with aliens, time-travels and espers) changes him on a superficial level but I can't imagine his attitude flipping to positive. It wouldn't be what Haruhi wants, nor natural to him. Without the show noticing his complaining, however, the act would have become trite and downright annoying so its a fantastic answer to a reoccurring theme and almost problem even if the results aren't immediately obvious.
How a fantasy like this, with several different parts linking together, would tie up in at the end was always going to be an interestingly difficult task (and one that the show or film will eventually delve into again) and I don't think it felt it accomplished as well as it could have. I understood the pity towards Yuki (through some plot-hammering, obviously) but I don't think it was earned in the slightest. The sequence on the hospital rooftop only emphasised it. His growing-appreciation for Nagato has been a slow development and I think something like this could theoretically work, but it simply didn't. One of the reasons I think it felt off was because has to do with her function as a narrative god - the scene didn't have the expected necessary wink to say the world was real (it did feel awful "it was all a dream" in that hospital for a while). Rather, it felt like it was tying up loose character-ends because that's the motions it needed to go through than staying true to the world at large. It's not a huge problem, and one that I might be okay with in the future.
(Less spoilers)
To end, though, even though I had my problems the 10/10 still stands. It's as perfect as a Haruhi mythology film is going to get (...for now). It's characters work, it done the Haruhi twisty-turny time-travel plot with that almost incestuous location three years ago. It's emotions grounded all the actions and it both resolved and opened many questions. KyoAni done impressivework and from purely an aesthetic standpoint, the cinematography and direction was outstanding. It's not surprising for the franchise to be creatively bold but the use of repetition and inspired music choices like the always-fun Gymnopedie No. 1 just made me happy. I think that's probably the take-away from the film. It's not perfect and you have to go through hell to get where you want to, but upon arrival all you feel is happiness. Until that other upcoming shitstorm.
It was an almost perfect feature, and I wish I wrote this a few hours ago so I had it in my mind better. It's an ambitious tale that works in parts but doesn't necessary feel right as one whole. It's a long film, 160 minutes in fact and that works both as both a detriment and advantage to it. The first half, both the original bouncey Haruhi and the slow deconstruction Kyon when he realises his world has changed is It continues in that trend up to and including the scene in the clubroom when Kyon contacts the other side. The problems begin when he's thrown into the past. I'm okay with time-travel, and the show excels at explaining complex theories in ridiculous phlebotinum so that the audience both understands the emotions of the situation (through Kyon) without necessarily getting the finer points of the space-time continuum (which, by the way, is there much behind them? Many interviews with Tanigawa?). The (relatively minor) problem is in the awkward transition in switching the focus to Yuki. This was originally setup in the first half which worked well on a thematic level but lacked the audience, and Kyon, lacked investment in that girl because she's not OUR Yuki. Nagato Yuki has always been a character the show has had trouble defining and switching gears to provide an quasi-forced look at her individual sad undercurrent felt almost unnecessary although it works to give the plot extra emotional resonance.
Let me step back a bit first though: Kyon. This is Kyon's film. The show has always been Kyon's show, but there have definitely been points when Haruhi takes the spotlight because... Kyon doesn't exactly want it, but it's his story and his life no matter how you slice it. It's a bold choice to adapt this, but I can't imagine this tale working in a long-form narrative at all so here we are: A story about Haruhi, without Haruhi. And so there's sense of eerie familarity when she finally disappears. The series does the fantastical so often and in the few months they have known each other they have survived an endless summer, the destruction of a universe and a culture festival so what's a small alteration when we know its going to go back to normal? Nothing, really, except to destroy Kyon's very soul...
The story works because of its character-based history. The timey-wimey stuff does indeed matter as a matter of plot, but the reaffirmation is something that Kyon was beginning to need. I haven't read beyond so I don't know exactly how him choosing the real world (with aliens, time-travels and espers) changes him on a superficial level but I can't imagine his attitude flipping to positive. It wouldn't be what Haruhi wants, nor natural to him. Without the show noticing his complaining, however, the act would have become trite and downright annoying so its a fantastic answer to a reoccurring theme and almost problem even if the results aren't immediately obvious.
How a fantasy like this, with several different parts linking together, would tie up in at the end was always going to be an interestingly difficult task (and one that the show or film will eventually delve into again) and I don't think it felt it accomplished as well as it could have. I understood the pity towards Yuki (through some plot-hammering, obviously) but I don't think it was earned in the slightest. The sequence on the hospital rooftop only emphasised it. His growing-appreciation for Nagato has been a slow development and I think something like this could theoretically work, but it simply didn't. One of the reasons I think it felt off was because has to do with her function as a narrative god - the scene didn't have the expected necessary wink to say the world was real (it did feel awful "it was all a dream" in that hospital for a while). Rather, it felt like it was tying up loose character-ends because that's the motions it needed to go through than staying true to the world at large. It's not a huge problem, and one that I might be okay with in the future.
(Less spoilers)
To end, though, even though I had my problems the 10/10 still stands. It's as perfect as a Haruhi mythology film is going to get (...for now). It's characters work, it done the Haruhi twisty-turny time-travel plot with that almost incestuous location three years ago. It's emotions grounded all the actions and it both resolved and opened many questions. KyoAni done impressivework and from purely an aesthetic standpoint, the cinematography and direction was outstanding. It's not surprising for the franchise to be creatively bold but the use of repetition and inspired music choices like the always-fun Gymnopedie No. 1 just made me happy. I think that's probably the take-away from the film. It's not perfect and you have to go through hell to get where you want to, but upon arrival all you feel is happiness. Until that other upcoming shitstorm.
fabio de lunatico
The Wildcard
Akira (rewatch) - 9/10
I had dropped the rating to 8/10 after reading the superior manga, but having seen the film in high definition I had to change it back. As a story it's not always successful, with some aspects not explained too well, but as spectacle it's still unrivalled. The sheer amount of detail packed into many of the film's scenes is just outstanding, and it boggles ze mind to imagine how much work went into animating them. And the soundtrack is as fresh and haunting as ever.
Any shortcomings the story has are made up for by the breathless action and the palpable atmosphere of corruption and imminent social collapse. There really is hardly ever a dull moment in Akira and its two hour run time just flew by.
I had dropped the rating to 8/10 after reading the superior manga, but having seen the film in high definition I had to change it back. As a story it's not always successful, with some aspects not explained too well, but as spectacle it's still unrivalled. The sheer amount of detail packed into many of the film's scenes is just outstanding, and it boggles ze mind to imagine how much work went into animating them. And the soundtrack is as fresh and haunting as ever.
Any shortcomings the story has are made up for by the breathless action and the palpable atmosphere of corruption and imminent social collapse. There really is hardly ever a dull moment in Akira and its two hour run time just flew by.
Animefreak17
Godhand
so far im watching holic and its charming
ilmaestro
State Alchemist
My issue is not whether the English dub is good or otherwise, if that's your thing. It's the fact that you would watch it in the first place to find out! I can think of few types of show that seem less appropriate for a "foreign" dub.Jaymii said:
Actually going to report you to Jesus for goading me in this fashion.Lawrence said:
Brother was viewing it and tbh, I often find myself watching the dub when its on DVD. Here are my reasons threefold: 1) The subtitles are fugly. 2) Dub is default. 3) I like consuming information in the easiest manner, especially when its on a big[ger]-screen. Haruhi, for all intents and purposes, works in any language. I accept there's an otaku-barrier but when you don't realise that exists, it's nothing more than another quirky character or banal reference.ilmaestro said: