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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:34 am 
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I don't know what to think of Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 1:06 pm 
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Mown wrote:
I don't know what to think of Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei.

I'm in despair!
This indecisiveness of Mown has left me in despair!

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 1:10 pm 
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Mown wrote:
I don't know what to think of Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei.

I'm in despair!
This indecisiveness of Mown has left me in despair!

Did you bring your own noose or would you like to borrow mine? :V

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:28 pm 
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I have one ready to go already. Playing lots of mafia means having props around :V

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:46 pm 
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I hear the ending was actually rather... yeah.
I never got that far though. The manga pretty much lost its charm after volume 1.

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:49 am 
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I can't comment on the ending, I've only seen the first season.
The OP really grew on me though. It has a few really good soundtracks.

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:08 pm 
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The OP really grew on me though. It has a few really good soundtracks.


I can say the same thing about Guilty Crown. And yet....


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 Post subject: Re: Anime
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:11 pm 
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Hey, Guilty Crown is bad, I never said otherwise.
And I've grown tired of the soundtrack, fwiw, and never cared for either of the OPs. Bios has stopped giving me goosebumps.

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:41 pm 
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:( I was responding to LLIM talking about, and I quote, "going ahead and watching the whole **** thing." You, I was not worried about. :) :( Just a heads up about something that really threw me. The one piece dub switches voice actors in the direct middle for a little bit. I don't remember if they switched back or not, but I could swear several people's voices changed drastically and I was thrown by it. :) Definitely the sub is better anyways.

I already knew this; but One Piece does utilize much of the same formula as Dragonball Z -- but One Piece is rather unique in that instead of "hero defeated -> hero trains to get stronger -> hero returns to win", it's often a sort of on-the-fly energy whereby "Luffy battles enemy -> enemy does something to gain upper hand -> Luffy comes up with some new Gum-Gum technique to win". In a recent (although I use that term relatively loosely as it was around 5 weeks ago) episode on Toonami, Luffy was fighting against some superpowered guard with the "shave" and "iron body" techniques, and in response he decided to copy the shave technique, making his body super-heated as he adjusted his mass apparently? and won with basically one blow. But the transformation was so cool and it was so much different from the 4Kids dub that I remember, that I couldn't help but buy into the absurdity.


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 Post subject: Re: Anime
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I'm not sure if Yuuki Yuuna finally decided to go somewhere, or just decided not to go anywhere.
I'm putting my faith in you, Tougo.

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
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Dog Days fans are crawling out of the woodwork again with S3 set to start airing in January.
I'm also looking forward to it. Rumor has it this season will mostly be world building with one centered character each episode.

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For the past many years Tsuzuki has been being held hostage by the anime production companies forcing him to pump out more and more Nanoha, a bastardized version of his original creation.

Then one day he got sick of it. He told them he would write no more Nanoha unless they let him use some of the money he made them to make the series he always wanted to make. Back to cute animal people and ninjas and magic, and much less sci-fi. He created Dog Days and we love him for it.

Dog Days is the anime that Tsuzuki always wanted to create, but sadly he still has to help his masters milk Nanoha for all it's worth.Thats why Dog Days is so happy. It is a stark contrast to the less colorful and tryhard schi-fi edginess of Nanoha. Tsuzuki is trying to show the world the light inside of his heart that has been yearning to burn brighter for so long.

When you insult Dog Days, you are supporting corporate slavery.

Shine on crazy Flonyard, shine on.

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
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Am I wrong in thinking that Ufotable's F/SN is really, really slow? I suppose I should expect a lot of talking from a VN adaptation, but each episode feels so unfulfilling.
Edit: Add LH S2 to that list as well. Not that S1 was really fast, but even less happens in this one.

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
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You could also say Ufotable's F/SN is really, really fast if you refer to the movie.
If the series is supposed to last 2 cours, I'm not surprised they're having to drag it out.

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
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Mown wrote:
Am I wrong in thinking that Ufotable's F/SN is really, really slow? I suppose I should expect a lot of talking from a VN adaptation, but each episode feels so unfulfilling.


Bah. Stein's Gate was a video novel adaption and it doesn't have that problem. Glacial pacing is glacial pacing.


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 Post subject: Re: Anime
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Having just watched episode 17 of SAO2, I'm starting to wonder if Sword Art Online isn't just a harem anime and I've been looking at it wrong all this time.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:59 am 
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You didn't realize it was halfway through SAO1?

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There isn't even more than one female protagonist traveling with Kirito at any point in time in the first series. How is that a harem anime?


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It's been a while, but I remember seeing somewhere anything is considered harem once you have 3+ girls vying for a single guy's attention.
We have 5 at my last count.

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 Post subject: Re: Anime
PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:41 am 
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In SAO?

Give me a second......

*googling and going to edit this post*

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I only count 2. And not even at the same time or even in the same season. Assuming we are going by your criteria.


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The paradigm I use to understand these phenomena is Cato's theory of media (patent pending):
1: People like to feel good about themselves.
2: People will consume media that gives them something they like.
3: The number of people who consume a given piece of media is directly proportional to the amount of money it makes.
4: Media is produced by people.
5: People like money.
6: People will produce media that gives them something they like.

The end result is that people will produce media that makes their audience feel good about themselves by fulfilling whatever fantasies are common in that demographic. When that audience is adult women, you get sex in the city. When that audience is adult men, you get the expendables 3. When that audience is teenage girls, you get twilight. When that audience is teenage boys, you get sword art online.

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