So, Anime You Like Lately

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:07 am

by the elder gods but gargantia is beautifull o.o

rampaging-poet · Post by **rampaging-poet** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:48 am

Agreed. I just watched it earlier today, and I'll definitely see it through.

I also watched the first two and a half episodes of Majestic Prince, and it's got the most well-thought-out set of giant robots I've seen in awhile (save the "DNA Wants to Live!" pseudoscience). There's a mobile, close-range skirmisher, a sniper, a dedicated scanning and command mech, and two all-purpose fighters, one of which has a backup senser array in case the main sensor mech goes down. Furthermore, they're designed to resupply in the field from dedicated support craft, reducing the risk of running out of ammo mid-combat.
That said, so far it's more about the character's reactions to being in combat than the combat itself. The theme seems to be how stressful combat actually is.

Valvrave was also interesting. While the main character is a bit of an idiot (not being an idiot would resolve a subplot too fast), it has decent action scenes and I want to learn more about the setting. Just make sure you watch past the credits of the first episode.
Yes, I did just watch all the mecha shows because they have giant robots.

Completely unrelated, Sparrow's Hotel was pretty good. Episodes are short, but they jam a lot of humour into each one. I highly recommend watching it; even if you don't like it you've only lost three minutes.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 10:02 am

Wait, a second Plot-Arc in Railfun S? O.o
Now i am getting confused @.@

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:45 pm

Majestic Prince . . even after 3 Episodes, i don't want to watch that.

Valvrave on the other hand, that one has great promise . .

rampaging-poet · Post by **rampaging-poet** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:11 pm

The first episode of Majestic Prince was definitely the best so far. I'm hoping it picks up in the next episode or two. If it doesn't I'll drop it, but I'm only watching a few series so I may as well wait and see.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:16 pm

the character designs and motivations are as horrible as the technical aspects are interesting <.<

rampaging-poet · Post by **rampaging-poet** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:30 pm

Pretty much. I was just about to edit my post to state how annoying it is that the Leader and Forward look almost identical other than the latter's blue hair (which isn't distinguishable in some scenes). I was also about to complement them on not letting busty romance girl's breasts defy gravity, but then I remembered that the pit boss's do.

I can enjoy a work with flat characters, but there has to be some substance somewhere else.

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:21 pm

rampaging-poet wrote:I was also about to complement them on not letting busty romance girl's breasts defy gravity, but then I remembered that the pit boss's do.

I can enjoy a work with flat characters, but there has to be some substance somewhere else.

Am I supposed to read this in context?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:47 pm

*snickers*
probably not ^^

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 3:14 pm

So, campus anime marathon yesterday/this morning

Revolutionary Girl Utna: There's this magic ghost castle and whoever is engaged to the Rose Bride at some point in time will get to enter it and... something. I dunno, people seem to think it's of world-shattering importance. So people with the right magical ring can duel eachother to become engaged to the Rose Bride. Utna discovers this after dueling the last asshole to be engaged to her, making her morally obligated to duel other assholes as they show up.

Zettai Karen Children: The main characters are three ten-year-old girls with vast supernatural powers. Including the ability to do a transformation sequence regardless of circumstances, to the great confusion of onlookers. However, the main antagonist of the moment has quite possibly the most batshit god-modding I've ever seen, and I've watched A Certain Magical Index season one. See, every Esper has exactly one power, except this guy who has at least four and totally ignores the power nullification tech.

We also did a thing where people watched the first and last episodes of shows and attempted to infer the plot. One was Chaos;Head, for which I inferred that it was a reverse-TRON scenario. Apparently this makes more sense than the actual plot.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 3:39 pm

name_here wrote:Zettai Karen Children: The main characters are three ten-year-old girls with vast supernatural powers. Including the ability to do a transformation sequence regardless of circumstances, to the great confusion of onlookers. However, the main antagonist of the moment has quite possibly the most batshit god-modding I've ever seen, and I've watched A Certain Magical Index season one. See, every Esper has exactly one power, except this guy who has at least four and totally ignores the power nullification tech.

And as previously established. It is the best goddam thing ever.

Also... not every Esper has one power, but yes, he has all the basic ones. After the show, there is another show about Hyubi.

rampaging-poet · Post by **rampaging-poet** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:58 pm

ishy wrote:
rampaging-poet wrote:I was also about to complement them on not letting busty romance girl's breasts defy gravity, but then I remembered that the pit boss's do.

I can enjoy a work with flat characters, but there has to be some substance somewhere else.
Am I supposed to read this in context?

No. I noticed it before I hit submit, but I was too lazy to reword it.
Also, none of the women in Majestic Prince are flat in that sense.

My anime club watched Utena last year. It was ok, but the budget restrictions were obvious. I also have mixed feelings about the last episode.

During the climactic battle between Utena and the Chairman, Anthy shows initiative for the first time in the entire show by literally backstabbing Utena, saying that because she is a woman, she could never by Anthy's prince. In my opinion that betrayal came completely out of the left field. Most of her characterization to that point had been that she was an empty shell that was slowly growing a personality under Utena's care, and that threw all her growth out the window.Also, I figure that with the power to revolutionize the world at their fingertips a minor detail like the physical sexes of the two characters wouldn't be an issue for long, but that's probably my transformation fetish talking.
Thinking back, there was a little bit of foreshadowing, but it wasn't obvious when I actually watched the last episode. She reverted to her previous behaviour when Utena lost her briefly, and she became the Rose Bride for her brother's sake so it's possible he always had control over her. Watching her walk out on him at the end was almost satisfying enough to make up for the betrayal.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:23 pm

so at least it wasn't predictable then?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:21 pm

Nyaruko-San W is still supremely silly and it's dropping references to other anime left, right, front, rear and center . . this time, Dragon Ball.
Also, Hastur can actually kick ass O.o

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:36 am

Today, all three of the shows in Anime Club involved flashbacks and main character parents/grandparents getting focus.Sankrea has Rea's dad being the worst, Blue Exorcist has its main character's dad being himself, and Moretsu Pirates had the main character's mom being the best. She is apparently going through the awesome people version of a midlife crisis, wherein she attempts to recapture her youth and succeeds magnificently.

Also, in Blue Exorcist, one of the characters who was almost totally silent previously spoke for a while. But not about good things.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:06 am

Yes, Blaster Ririka is awesome ^^
And Valvrave the Liberator keeps delivering O.o

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:41 pm

Railfun S Episode 3 - The Trouble with Clones.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:18 pm

name_here wrote:Zettai Karen Children: The main characters are three ten-year-old girls with vast supernatural powers. Including the ability to do a transformation sequence regardless of circumstances, to the great confusion of onlookers. However, the main antagonist of the moment has quite possibly the most batshit god-modding I've ever seen, and I've watched A Certain Magical Index season one. See, every Esper has exactly one power, except this guy who has at least four and totally ignores the power nullification tech.

whether it gets axes like Gauken Alice or Elfien Lied and the series ends well before the manga.. most anime are only 12 episodes or so, and what you have see with the Major is likely jsut the preface or first chapter if it were a book. there is a lot more, and if you are confused now, just wait until later WHEN it gets explained.

dont jump to conclusions thinking you know thinking will follow chronologically. stories have a way of unfolding that works best for them, even if you are left guessing for a while.

also as a spoiler... just because the speedometer on a car only shows up to 160, doesnt mean the car cant go at speeds higher than that. think about that in terms of Espers and it may let you understand more shows from Japan in the future.

also it is like Clamp series where you may see Chii from Chobits in another series, like PIXAR places Mike from Monsters Inc as a stuffed toy in the next movie they make, or some such. Crossovers happen, and like a often crossover or cameo character, ZKC follows Hayate Combat Butler line of jsut being a fun anime and not afraid to make fun of other popular anime and manga... thus the transformation scene being silly, and copying Power Rangers, Ultraman, etc

it doesnt go for the story depth of Mirage of Blaze or Fruits Basket, but is more fun like Crayon Shinchan and Milk, without being fully of senseless nudity and the word FUCK every other word.

it is as meant to be a campy series with some real thought behind it, but no so much as say Akira in regards to how people treat people with ESP and such.... ergo "Muscles" guy.

Vampire Princes Miyu is losing steam fast as a bad Blood+, but it was made a decade before, so maybe jsut late and its style has past its prime for the times?

Too many like Bodacious Space Pirates end too soon, leaving you with a felling... "and what next?" unlike the Harlock series that kept going and merging with things progressing or filling in the back story, or Tenchi Muyo

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:27 pm

Longer Series were more common back 20 years ago.
Today, even a 50 episode series is pretty seldom it seems.
At least stuff that's not made just to sell toys is usually shoter.
It's a society of people with a goldfishs capacity for staying interested in something <.<

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 12:39 am

i would say it is more that businesses look for the newest "fresh" gimmick so people dont have time to "lose interest" in something.

it is why when one studio does prehistoric movie, the others quickly make one too, and then they all move to sci-fi, aliens, western, fantasy, etc.

luckily anime is already all over the place, so they are just jumping on the highest yield characters. Bleach and NAruto are needed new each week, but the anime can progress quicker than the manga gets written so they add in filler to give time for the 3 second fight scene to be written into the 20 chapters of manga, or like Inuyasha, they just drop it and piss everyone off.

compound that with the western ignorance of thinking anime=cartoon cartoons=children.. they think everything must fit with the attention span of children, like your goldfish example, and most children these days are ALLOWED to have that kind of attention span because all the tech they are flooded with and playing Ash Ketchum and having to catch each new device when it comes out.

its sad that so many good stories get cut short, and they dont even bother with the long ones or cut them up so badly it missed the depth people liked about it and dont want to see the mutilation done to it.

thus why Hayate Combat Butler and World God Only knows have had missing time between their seasons as they tried to decide if continuing was worth it, and others end before it starts getting good. its all economics.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:39 am

It's especially bad for surprise hit anime series . . even if people actually to love it, the makers don't anticipate a big impact and don't even plan a second season in most cases <.<

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:55 am

I did only watch the first 13 (of 52) episodes. However, as for the speedometer thing

I did see the team telekinetic flipping the hell out. But the dude managed to hold a shield up against her death aura, grab her, and teleport her into his cell, which proceeded to shut down her powers. Then he teleported out of the power-nullifying cell allegedly designed to hold him specifically. And in addition to telekinesis and teleportation, he has hypnosis, illusion generation (distinct from his hypnosis, since that requires eye contact and he didn't make eye contact with everyone he was concealing things from), and biological immortality.

Oh, and I hear Space Pirates is going to have a movie soon, set after the show.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 4:43 am

name_here wrote:I did only watch the first 13 (of 52) episodes. However, as for the speedometer thing

I did see the team telekinetic flipping the hell out. But the dude managed to hold a shield up against her death aura, grab her, and teleport her into his cell, which proceeded to shut down her powers. Then he teleported out of the power-nullifying cell allegedly designed to hold him specifically. And in addition to telekinesis and teleportation, he has hypnosis, illusion generation (distinct from his hypnosis, since that requires eye contact and he didn't make eye contact with everyone he was concealing things from), and biological immortality.

Oh, and I hear Space Pirates is going to have a movie soon, set after the show.

they explain it in his backstory episode

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 10:22 am

@Space-Pirates Movie and soon:
Sure, if you see some time, probably middle 2014 as soon . .

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:45 pm

surprisingly, Photokani is not actually about Anthroform Canon Photocameras.