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[Anime Thread] S2: Haruhi Strikes Back
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The basketball stuff doesn't really start to happen until midway of episode 4. Ep. 5 really showcases the great animation. 3 on 3 with robots with the whole city as the court? yes, please.
Until then it's boobs, yelling, and inuendo. Oh, and don't forget the princess who is mystified and drawn to the whole thing. Always gotta have one of those.
I can't believe I forgot about that. Such an amazing show. Go watch it now. Right now. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Minami-ke, however, is pretty decent. The change of art style in the second season is a bit off-putting, but if you can get past Mako-chan, you can get past that.
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You're dumb and wrong, and no one should listen to anything you say.
Do movies work as well or just series?
Sword of the Stranger was pretty rad, awesome action, gorgeous animation and an alright story.
The fact that he picked Minami-ke over it cements that fact, especially when he mentions the god-awful second season. The first season was good, though. Season three was...largely mediocre.
Movies are actually better. Bite sized.
Ovas and shorts are fine too.
When I get up tomorrow morning I'll note down all the suggestions.
Thanks to those who are making them don't worry if you say something I've seen.
Have you watched the Kara no Kyoukai movies?
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Minami-ke is better than mediocre. I'll take it over Toradora.
But the only reason I'm really continuing to watch it is because the cross-dressing shenanigans is too hilarious.
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Wait, what? You make it sound like Mako-chan is something to be endured.
Toradora was a cliched but decent harem comedy until it hit the latter episodes, and then jumped the shark so fast my head was spinning. The writing really got atrocious at the end.
*fingers in ears* nanananana I can't hear you.
When'd it jump the shark, 'round about the culture festival?
It is something to be loved and cherished.
And changing animation studios will do that.
I thought everyone came to the conclusion that it wasn't a harem show?
Oh well, I don't care what anyone else says, Toradora kicked ass and you can all go to hell!
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Hahahaha, thank you for that
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Well...yea...but...bah, I have nothing.
Anyways, in other news I popped in my Black Lagoon today, getting ready to hear Dutch and Revy kick some ass
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Watch it in English, bro. Trust me, it is much better that way.
Tvtropes really is the best website.
Also to everyone who keeps talking about Cross Game... I watched the first episode and even though I figured out it was coming... my tearducts hate you guys.
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Saying that SEED is a serious mecha anime is like saying that Samurai Deeper Kyo is a serious samurai anime. They have serious drama in them but they do not really treat the setting in a serious way.
I shall give it a shot in a few minutes, thanks for the recommendation:)
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First, my friend lent me the two Eva movies to watch over spring break while I was home. So I'm sitting in my room, watching End Of Eva, not understanding a damn thing, and my mom walks in. Probably wanted to know if I wanted a sandwich or something. Except Rei's head is doing the crazy falling off thingy. She turns to me (not angrily) "What the heck are you watching?" My response: "I don't know either!"
Second one was at my school's anime club. We use the big lecture hall with the projector, so it's like being at the movies. I can't even recall what show it was, but it involved a mermaid. She got beached for some reason, so she's flopping around moaning and gasping for air. I think you can see where this is going. Janitor walks in. Janitor looks at screen. Janitor walks out.
We can have a cross event with the S&EM thread. Get pizzas, play some Halo, have a good time.
Black Lagoon is totally fucking awesome in either language. It's the journey, not the destination, and all that crap.
Edit: Potentially embarrassing was when my dad freaking borrowed my Gantz dvd to see if the dvd player was working in the living room. I didn't know until afterwords when i noticed it was in a different place than where I left it.
Well, the first Ghost in the Shell manga does have one crazy lesbian sex orgy. And to his credit, Masamune both offered a rationalization to it and also admits, "...yeah, plus, I kind of wanted to draw a lesbian sex orgy. Expect more in the future!"
Thankfully, none of them made it into Dominion Conflict No. 1, so it's all good. It gets cut out in the big, colorful US release and replaced by something that makes ab it more sense in context (virtual reality vacation). If you weren't aware before, you'd probably never know.
The second manga for GitS takes it a lot farther, I'll leave it at that.
As for Stand Alone Complex...honestly, given uncomfortable a lot of audiences are with any form of homosexuality, I think it handled it in a pretty dignified fashion. The Major happens to like women. She has a long term (at least 2 year long) relationship with two other cyberized women, who presumably knew eachother before they knew her. If anyone snickers during the grand total of 3 minutes they spend on that in the first season, you say "Oh, grow up you freaking prude! It's the Twenty-First century, everyone's at least a little gay, Jesus!"
I know that's what I told my dad when we watched it together, anyway.
Try selling Azumanga without people hitting the Chris Hansen button.
I attempted to read the second GitS manga one time.
It's nothing but reams and reams of technobabble and countless drawings of naked or semi-naked women. Just page after page. And lots of footnotes for the technobabble too, and endnotes, Masamune takes that shit way too serious when I'm sure 90% of the people buying were just looking at the illustrations.
Now Kodomo no Jikan that's the impossible task.
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I've started watching Gunslinger Girls - Il Teatrino. It's isn't the change in art style that gets me (it's not too bad of a change actually but quite inferior to the first season's very artistic look), it's that the entire casting has been changed from the first season. Some of the characters still sound okay but it's very strange to me right now. Feels like a Minami-ke S1 --> S2 transition.
Mako-chan just comes out of left field and some people might just scratch their heads and go "this is too much for me". Or maybe they aren't secure with their identities.
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I know, they kind of telegraphed it.
Prettty much. To its credit, the actual story part of it, which is there, believe it or not--it's still about 200% the story you'll find in a lot of the cyberpunk or action we get today (then again, the competition is pretty damn weak in this department and GitS already had an established audience with certain expectations back then).
The technobabble is a problem if you can't handle it, but it's basically GitS expanded on. Not that hard or incomprehensible. Honestly, I thought the weakest part of Man-Machine Interface was the destruction of GitS's awesome sense of humor.
Then again, that's probably why I thought the Oshii movie sucked. Okay, maybe not sucked, but wasn't that good. And I love Oshii's Jin-Roh and Patlabor. It obliterated any humor that was in the manga, even in the Puppeteer Arc.
EDIT: Ah. Top.
A episodic comedy taking place in a high school staring a group of girls?
Sign me up.
I loved Azumanga Daioh--though I can't explain precisely why. I suppose it's because I could relate to the experiences somewhat (I'd just arrived in the US to finish high school), and because I enjoy that sort of sense of humor. No one sold it to me, deliberately--I just heard about it and thought, "Wow, I could like that." And I say this as someone who hates most high school comedies--or at least the high school part of them.
Though selling it to other people can be hard.
You haven't watched enough. Minami-ke S2 is nowhere near as fucking terrible as Il Teatrino.
If you get past episode 4 or 5, post about it in the thread. I think you'll be the first here to do so.
I actually had the Azumanga manga out on my coffee table for a while. I think it's pretty harmless.
And really, it only starts getting good after the first episode or two
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I dunno, Shin-Chan's dub has its moments.