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Haterater
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Got done watching Princess Tutu and it was simply amazing! So many twists and the pacing was right on with me. Felt like I can never skip an episode and each one having some importance, thus no filler for me. The characters were so charming and the overall story was so simple, yet creative in such a way. The last episode with Duck really got to me and the VA of her and Falker just floored me!
Seemed like it could have really have been spoiler[a real fairy tale from way back then]. Combined with the classical music, ballet, and the way its told, its one of my favorite anime. That's the type of creativity I like to see. |
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kilaria
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I watched all of Tokyo Majin over the last couple of weeks. I have to say, this was a good anime... but one I feel could have been so much better. At the end, I feel that things were not full explained and they could have gone into more detail about Tatsuma and the conclusion of his fight spoiler[with the black dragon.] Also, what was the deal with the teachers Maria and Morihito? spoiler[Their stories and true nature are shown briefly, but what was the point? I assumed they were vampires, but looking online come to find out that one is some sort of 'dog-god' and the other an Org? Did they mention it in the series and I just miss it? ]
Someone who really made the show for me was Kyouichi. I loved his personality and attitude. Another that I've been watching is Heroic Age. I've had this blu ray box set sitting on my shelf for months, and finally decided to watch it. I'm probably halfway through and enjoying it. The story is laid out well, leaving slight cliff-hangers at the end of most episodes that make you want to immediately start the next. I'm already completely attached to Age and his boyish innocence. I'll post my review of it once i've finished the series. The ending of an anime usually highly influences my overall opinion of the show. |
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Jen526
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I think I posted this recently in another thread here, but imo, folks who rave about Utena are doing a disservice to future viewers if they don't also give a caveat that the first arc is... kinda lame. When I watched the series a while back, I was ready to drop it cold after the first arc. It wasn't until about halfway through the next arc that I started to see some of the magic. They do this cyclical thing where the first arc sets a sort of baseline of standard shoujo tropes, and then the same scenarios are revisited in the next arc, and the next, gaining new layers each time through. I think they need that first arc as the baseline, but it doesn't make for good viewing when someone is coming in and expecting a masterpiece. |
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kimbeey13
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Ar Tonelico - I'm interested in this video game series, so when I found out there was a one episode OVA I decided to watch it. I got what I was expecting from it - nothing special, but it did make me want to play the game more to find out all the missing background info.
Origin: Spirits of the Past - I've had this movie in my collection for awhile, but I watched it for the first time a few days ago. It was slightly different than I was expecting and the movie itself was better than I was expecting. It was a fun and quick ride. Norageki - Okay, this one was kind of a fail. I didn't despise it as I felt it had some plus sides, but I really couldn't stand the CG, it was painful to watch sometimes. I also thought the ending was pretty terrible. Tamayura - I've been meaning to watch this one for awhile now and hearing the news it was going to get a full-length series finally kicked me into gear on this one. I'm so glad I watched this as it is currently my favorite slice-of-life anime! I nearly teared up during the last few moments of the final episode and I'm really looking forward to watching the series. Hopefully, the series is just as good if not better than the OVA! IdolM@ster: Xenoglossia - I just started watching this one and I'm only going onto episode three, but I've been enjoying it so far. I started watching this one due to the IdolM@ster series that is starting up in July which looks more about actually becoming idols where this on is more about becoming mecha pilots known as Idol Masters. I also want to mention there seem to be a lot of penguins in this. |
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Unicorn_Blade
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So I finished Red Garden.
And I loved the second part, up until the last, pointless episode. The series build up my expectations, to leave me with.. this. I did not really get the message- did they spoiler[loose their memories in the end? It did not seem as if they regained their bodies back or anything of that sort], and why was Lisa killed in first place. Did they ever explained it? I wish they showed a bit more at the end than a panorama of NYC, but that's me wanting, and the series ended as it did. If not the last episode, I would give it an excellent rating, but now I think it will have to be good or something along those lines. I think I will watch Kaze no Yojimbo now, it has been a long time since I had it on my to watch list... |
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Surrender Artist
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Ahh, you're swell, and I'm a dork. I am more curious about Ideon after reading your opinion, but bleak stuff usually interests me anyway. I'm curious about Bubblegum Crisis 2040 too, but maybe for no other reason than my intermittent weird fascination with Chiaki Konaka, who wrote much of it, and his strange mix of some clever, deft, sometimes very smart storytelling with odd choices and a penchant for frustrating ends. If one counts all the way back to Armitage III: Polymatrix, I've been in this abusive, on-again-off-again relationship with him for something like thirteen or fourteen years. Also, you very thoroughly mentioned Kite and some of your impressions were close to mine.
Yasuomi Umetsu is supposed to prefer the edited version of Kite, which is the one that I've seen since I'm rather attached to the idea of never buying pornography (It just seems likely to yield a poor return on investment, among other things). So far as I recall, there are two pornographic scenes, both involving Sawa and Akai, that remain, but neither is protracted or especially explicit. The dramatically best edit might be somewhere between the available ones. I find it to have a hypnotic effect. I watched it several times not long after I first saw it and I'll doubtless revisit it later. It has a way of sticking in the head. I was particularly drawn into the calmer, often contemplative scenes that surround the rawer, more violent ones. They had the gently-moving, quiet quality that can draw me deeply in to something and made for damned stark contrast with the preposterous action scenes. I always wonder if there was some sort of purpose toward that contrast or if Yasuomi Umetsu just happens to like wild, absurd violence. Whatever the intention, for me it enhanced the sense that Sawa had been psychologically wounded such that part of her that should make the things that she did matter or affect her was missing or suppressed. I hope that Umetsu returns to the sensibilities, well perhaps not the pornographic ones, of Kite one of these day. The freewheeling high-spirits of Mezz DSA were fun, but he he seems to have a good feel for darker, moodier material that I'd like to see more of.
That makes sense and goes some way toward reconciling the series' reputation with my reaction of finding it good, but not remarkable or particularly unconventional. What you've described seems like something that will be satisfying in the long run, which is how I seem to like things anyway. It's nice to be reassured that I'll have something to look forward to by getting the rest of the series besides some more very handsome shelf decoration. |
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PetrifiedJello
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I've become a fan of the 13 episode series more now than ever before. The reason for the change: streaming.
Currently, I have 40 series queued at Crunchyroll and 27 on Netflix. TANoD still has a couple I'm watching (Angel Beats being the latest addition to view). Throw in my DVD purchases, and shit... there just isn't enough time in the day to view them all. Enter the 13 episode season, where I can easily flush one of these out in an evening, since it takes about 5 hours to burn through. They're perfect viewing for weekday nights, provided I do nothing else (such as play games, which I save for the weekend now). By the time I think I'm caught up, here comes an onslaught of new titles. It never ends, though I'm certainly not complaining. It's funny to see I now have a backlog thanks to the availability of anime online. There would be no way I could watch so much on DVD alone, even with a decent disposable income. There's alot of crap out there, but I don't care. With 13 episodes, it's not a problem because the next night may offer me something better, such as... ...Milky Holmes. Okay, "better" is most certainly subjective here because there's no way in hell this series is "better" than, say Occult Academy, but this depends if one sees these series in the same category. Milky Holmes is an attempt at comedy by taking famous detectives and milking them for every ounce they can offer and placing them into the descendents of 4 girls, hence the title as one of them is, you guessed it, from Sherlock's family line. In order to be detectives, they must have this power called "Toys", which gives them non-human properties. I'm not sure why these "Toys" are needed to solve cases, but there you have it. If you're perhaps thinking about the brain power needed to solve crimes, as the Great Ones used, forget it. We're talking about 4 teenage girls who'd rather shop than study (score a victory for cliches). Put off yet? Don't be, because this is supposed to be a comedy, and honestly, I did laugh pretty good at some parts. Unfortunately, not every episode is funny, though it tries its best to be. Comedy is subjective, and when it's playing for laughs by using cliches (like the one above), well, there's going to be more "down time" than tear-wiping. I'm not sure if I can recommend it for streaming, simply because I felt there just wasn't enough comedy to carry its 12 episodes. However, it's cute enough that 5 hours wouldn't kill viewers to get through it, as the comedy parts are well spaced. Therefore, tread with trepidation on this one. If there's no smile by episode 4, then drop it, because that's about as good as it gets save for a few moments out of the ordinary (especially episode 9). *** With the latest announcement from FUNimation's licensing of We, Without Wings, I decided to try watching this again. 10 minutes into the first episode, and I said "Not today, I'm not in the mood for this crap." I, again, question what the hell FUNimation is thinking with this license acquirement. If their target is the 14-18 year old demographic who masturbates at anything that moves, perhaps they forgot this is also the same demographic who doesn't earn a paycheck large enough to spend on panty shots? Regardless the reason, this is definitely one series which will not enter my collection. Hell, the artwork isn't all that great, either. FUNimation should have gone after the better Under the Starry Skies. It's still tripe, but it's better tripe. It comes with lemon. Well, that's all for today. See you at the next stream, viewer. |
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Blood-
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PJ - I happen to like both Bridge to Starry Skies and We Without Wings, but they are pretty different shows, albeit both have fanservice and harems. WWW's first episode is a pretty dreadful introduction to its world, but the show does get better in my imo and actually starts making sense. It does take a while, though.
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PetrifiedJello
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This is my issue, actually. If a series "takes a while" to get going, I'd rather burn through those that pick up and move quickly than to sit and wonder. Starry Skies did this rather well, I thought, which is why I completed it. I'll get to WWW, but with 70% of my CR listing featuring the exact same plot elements, a first episode only has a short amount of time to carry itself before I move on. Something has to give when I've 60+ series begging me to watch them. Get ready for this shocker: I have unopened DVDs I still haven't gotten to because of online streaming. So, so much to watch. Cursed job. I'd knock 2/3 off my list if I could stream while at work. 
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Unicorn_Blade
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I started watching Fafner.
Seems to have a NGE ring to it, and I quite liked the first episode. Although, I would like more time to establish the characters and the setting, rather than seeing all the simplifications that happened at the end of the episodes. So a giant evil being attacks the island and of course within seconds our hero, an average high school student like me and you, gets chucked into a mecha that has a power to kill it. - I can't do it! - Yes, you can! Just become one with Fafner! You would think 'easier said than done', but no. 5 seconds is enough for the boy to master piloting a mecha. And he does not even look surprised. Well, that's nitpicking perhaps. The series definitely looks promising, I like the art, and all in all, it looks like a very good series, so I hope they will keep up a good pace and decent character development, and Ill be happy 
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Spastic Minnow
Bargain Hunter Exempt from Grammar Rules  Posts: 4609 Location: Gainesville, FL |
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Anyone else catch Spelunker is a Teacher?
I'm not a gamer so I'm glad I looked up info on Spelunker before watching it (with a name like that you knew there was a story behind it) so I understood the joke. The story: The orignal Spelunker Atari game and NES game often get named "worst game ever" notoriety, the main problem is that the main character dies reeeaaallly easily. HE gets killed by falling bat poop and if he jumps while walking down a hill it will be judged as a fatal distance. For some reason Japan loves this game. The OVA is a two-part gag anime in which Spelunker is a teacher in a high school and keeps getting killed by normal daily activities (and comes back to life). My favorite is the one that uses that standby cliche of the student running late for class, bread in mouth, and runs into him while rounding a corner. She falls back on her butt, rubs her head and asks if he's OK but looks up to seem laid out dead before him. I got a kick out of it, it couldn't last long but as a half hour of jokes it kept itself entertaining enough. |
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EmbraceMe
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Watching Ef - A Tale of Memories and I'm up to episode two. Liking it so far. The background scenery looks amazing and I heard Makoto Shinkai was involved with the scenery so that's not a surprise.
I have also just watched the Shiki OAD, episode 20.5, and wow. It is... I can't quite describe it but it is dark, I guess. spoiler[Here, in this episode, we see the humans going through the mentioned irrigation tunnel back in the original episode 20. The humans attack the Shiki without really thinking about it. We see the humans at their worse to be honest. They kill the Shiki and do not care who the Shiki were. The episode sort of makes you sympathize with the Shiki. The episode is kind of through Nao's point of view. Nao says she never wanted to attack her family (and others). She only did so because she believe they could be happy together, and she was wrong. Nao, as a Shiki, regrets her attacks.] Gruesome episode, but an amazing series still. I think there's still an episode 21.5. |
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Unicorn_Blade
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I was not looking at the new Shiki episode since I kind of read the manga (skimmed through it at a time). But although Nao's story was really sad, since she ended up all by herself and no one from her family came back, I still never felt for the Shiki. Despite brutal attacks of the human, well, it did sort of feel that it was justified by all the mental tortures the vampires inflicted on them. However, I did not remember this episode from the manga, it looked a lot different in the manga than they showed in the extra episode somehow. |
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kilaria
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I finished Heroic Age . What a gem of an anime! I can't believe I waited so long to watch it! The plot was great and well executed in my opinion. The characters were well done and multi-dimensional. That includes both the ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’. Age was by far my favorite character. But maybe that’s because I’m a sap for his innocence and sweet demeanor. I kept worrying that the ending would ruin the entire experience for me, but I have to say, I ended up shedding a tear of happiness during the last scene. Even though it did leave things a little open. spoiler[Did Age come back to stay? Did he come and grab Dhianeila and take her back with him to the universe where the Tribe of Silver had gone? ]The answer isn’t clear, but I am happy with it either way.
I’m rating Heroic Age as “excellent”. It’s on the edge of being a masterpiece, but I won’t rate it as such until I watch it a second time. No matter how great an anime is, I don’t want to rate it as a masterpiece until it has proven re-watchability and the ability to stir up the same strong emotions (or stronger) than it did the first time. Next on the list is Black Cat. |
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Mylene
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I liked the series through the second to the last episode. I fell in love with it after watching the final episode. It really isn't until you've seen the whole thing and realize what everything meant that it goes up from being a fairly enjoyable shoujo to something beyond. Or at least that's how it was for me. (By the way, I like the first arc, don't like the second arc, and really liked and then loved the final arc.) |
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