watching cartoons this season has made me realize something: yeah, the shows that I'm watching are good and enjoyable and everything
but I miss Cross Ange
I miss my weekly shot of the absurd and nonsensical and while shows this season are technically sound and interestingly written, they don't compare to the devil may cry attitude of throwing insanity against the wall and seeing what sticks and also the wall is made of rampant lesbianism
at least Fukuda is threatening the world with a second season
oh well, two more months until Symphogear continues the ridiculous train _________________
thing I thought I wouldn't be saying: I am legitimately impressed by the often subtle character animation in season 2 of Yahari/SNAFU and it goes a long way towards making these LN characters seem real instead of being ciphers for an author that hates society and that also hates people who hate society
I'm also concerned that Hachiman will self-destruct in flames by the end of his story simply because that's what he wants _________________
I think that's what they might be going for. And I also believe the official word is that GT isn't canon and can be disregarded entirely. And Toriyama is actually involved in this one instead of just lying back and collecting royalties. I have reasons to believe.
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cross ange feels unpredictable in a way that you sense even the show's makers didn't even know what the next episode would be about until they made it _________________ http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/ - newest post: Snezhaja Koroleva (Arcade)
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I believe a lot of the humor comes from the straight-faced delivery, so I think it goes just far enough. any further would just be too self-aware (not that the animation isn't already doing that).
I'm actually glad this is getting a broadcast dub, I want this on Adult Swim to confuse the masses. but they have to keep the ending themes. _________________
Watching the Alessi bits on Jojo: it's creepy and horrible in a way the manga just didn't convey. I suppose actually hearing Polnareff kid voice, also characters not perfectly posing 100% of the time brings the thing more down to earth.
(still without a job) _________________ Get Xenoblade Chronicles!
udoschuermann wrote:
Whenever I read things like "id like to by a new car," I cringe inside, imagine some grunting ape who happened across a keyboard, and move on without thinking about the attempted message.
Nah, really, I'm still shocked by how much that show turned around after the first four episodes or so. Most of that first season is kind of genuine in a way I really wasn't expecting from a three-minute gag show. _________________ http://www.mdgeist.com/
Blood Blockade Battlefront continues to be pretty dang great but the last episode preview said there were only a few episodes left and I'm sad it's going away so soon.
BBB is pretty amazing. It has that late 90s "we have a setting and characters and loose loops around stories" feel that made watching anime in the 90s so rewarding. Some times you can be at your best when paying tribute to your heroes, and for Nightow it definitively feels like that. Someone let him make a Hellboy show already.
Kyoukai no Rinne is basically Ranma, down to the deadpan female character, hard headed protagonist with a deadbeat father and really unphasable onlookers with the memory of a goldfish. That Rumiko still managed to pull off something that is entertaining is pretty amazing. I'd have problems calling it "funny", tho.
It's still kinda interesting comparing it with Re-Kan, especially because that show has a strong grasp of teenager behaviour (say, how mobile phone ties into their lives, considering Ganguro an incredibly outdated fad, etc) and Rinne highschoolers act like 60 year olds around technology (there are ATM jokes in it).
Owari no Seraph is the blandest millenial shounen with plot twists visible from a million kilometers away and that's okay in an era where everyone wants to be the next Gen Urobushi. _________________
Kyoukai no Rinne is basically Ranma, down to the deadpan female character, hard headed protagonist with a deadbeat father and really unphasable onlookers with the memory of a goldfish. That Rumiko still managed to pull off something that is entertaining is pretty amazing. I'd have problems calling it "funny", tho.
Didn't know this existed and I will watch a new Takahashi in the year of our lord 2015, yessir! No such a thing as Inuyasha, so it must be like 20 years or more since the last one? Kill me now
I'm in the midst on catching up on Sound! Euphonium and I'm willing to give the sheer KyoAni-ness of the show a pass because they did a marching band version of Rydeen
I do wish it was more Whiplash though _________________
The sheer shock of realizing that Rydeen is probably actually 1) old and 2) popular enough in Japan to be played by high-school bands kinda crushed me _________________ http://www.mdgeist.com/
I've been reading Jitsu wa Watashi wa and how regularly it makes me chuckle is really quite a surprise. It manages to transcend being just another supernatural harem anime. I think it's getting an anime adaptation and I'm sure they're going to homogenize the art to make it more palatable for a mass audience and that's a shame. It's got almost a hyper-refined, 2000s-era anime webcomic vibe (it's more attractive than that makes it sound).
Started to read Shut Hell these days. It definetly fills my urges for well choreographed/drawn action sequences. It is set on medieval China, while the mongol empire raved through occupied territories all around Asia. There is an underlining focus on themes such as the preservation of dialects and writing systems on the brink of extinction; clashes of cultures, overall.
Sure, it has somewhat of a supernatural-hughschool setting gig into it that doesn't really makes sense yet, and some of character's motivations and the build-ups for their arcs seems bland-ish, but it's still being rad to follow.
And it sure is nice seeing badass medieval stories that aren't europe-centered.
TRIVIA: whenever I'm reading it i think about Aria, from the Berserk soundtrack, and the song of storms from ocarina of time.
Kyoukai no Rinne is basically Ranma, down to the deadpan female character, hard headed protagonist with a deadbeat father and really unphasable onlookers with the memory of a goldfish. That Rumiko still managed to pull off something that is entertaining is pretty amazing. I'd have problems calling it "funny", tho.
Didn't know this existed and I will watch a new Takahashi in the year of our lord 2015, yessir! No such a thing as Inuyasha, so it must be like 20 years or more since the last one? Kill me now
Back from this adventure, the characters unconcealed cynism left me mildly nostalgic. The intro suggests that this might turn into a Bleach lookalike soon: bone chilling.
Watching Fist of the Northstar, finished the first arc. I love it. In general, been watching quite a bit of old shows from 70s and 80s. Dig the innocent melodrama and energy of the era a lot. Modern anime just makes me feel sad about Japan.
Kaiji is one of the greatest though, and Aoi Bungaku was beautiful, so there.
The ending to the TV series was ludicrous in a kind of endearing way but the movie is just goddamn get the fuck out _________________ Just another savage day on Planet Earth.
I'm finally all caught up on Drama High School Band and they actually spent two episodes on drama involving Background Girl Trumpets Nos. 1 and 2 and Trumpet Girl We Actually Care About Who May or May Not Be At Least Bisexual. I now eagerly await the conclusion so I can see them not get a gold at competition because what kind of bullshit would that be anyway
I'm excited for next week, because new Symphogear
(yes, everything about Symphogear is as stupid as this picture suggests. yes, it's fun)
oh, and I guess Little Witch Academia 2 is next week as well _________________
I'm sure Expelled From Paradise thinks it's great whimsy that the AI who became sentient being the most "human" character (of three characters) in the entire movie was a good joke, but, it's really not!
notbov wrote:
going to mainline all the movies later this week, at which point I will burn all animes at the show's current trajectory
The first two 'dokes movies are pretty much just the TV series exactly as you saw it with some more reanimated footage, you can skip right to the third one if you wanna do this.
Still haven't watched the third one, probably won't
e: Euphonium is wallowing in the Anime Lesbian Uncanny Valley, where you can't tell if they're trying to write an intense, but non-romantic friendship and are just failing badly, or are actually trying to show a romantic relationship but keep it on the down-low for cultural/audience-teasing reasons _________________ http://www.mdgeist.com/
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