Koikoi7_01 raw: take all the most corny high-school shounen cliches, mix them and serve them at mad speed and in no special order. The chara designs are too close to the manga - they copied the errors too (the eyes are drawn too close, for one thing.)
Ichigo 100% raw: some kind of preview? The episode happens in the middle of the series. 'Seems to follow the manga religiously. I had a laugh or two, so it can't be that bad.
FutagoHime 1 raw: a sugar candy show for little girls. I couldn't stand all the syrup, but the production value seems high.
Izumo_-Takeki_Ken_no_Hirameki-_01 raw: looks like a non-hentai, cute-ified remake of the hentai anime Izumo. Lots of clothed girls, one too-serious guy. I fear that the show's interest will be low.
The Law of Ueki 01 RAW: angsty fighting anime using trees.
Trinity Blood Pre-review: SO TACKY
Two of the airships:
http://www.wowow.co.jp/anime/toribla/images/set_mecha_iron.jpg
http://www.wowow.co.jp/anime/toribla/images/set_mecha_itan.jpg
That red cross insignia on those airships look familiar...
WAIT A SECOND!
Jesus.... those things could NOT look any more outrageous. I wish airship designers would take a cue from Last Exile. >_<
Sousei no AQUARION 01 RAW:
Mechas vs invaders in post-apocalyptic world. Zomg graphics.
EREMENTAR_GERAD_ep01 raw:
Adventures in a strange land using strange weapons. Good adaptation of the manga. Fun.
I guess >>9 uses a design based on the Cross Fitchy (http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefsfitchy.htm) to invoke the image of crusaders.
And I guess >>6 knows to copy the best. Actually, now that I look closer at it, it also looks a bit like the Scientology Cross (http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefsscientologycross.htm).
Eye Shield 21 01 RAW: Comedy sports anime. Bullied loser boy gets enrolled into the school's American football club. Hilarity ensues.
Gokujo_Seitokai_01 raw:
Dual-personality loser girl with a hand puppet arrives at new school, hilarity ensues. Large cast.
Futakoi Alternative 01 raw:
Similar plot to Futakoi, but sort of redone by the Nanaca+Crash flash game author. :) Ep01 introduces the characters (mad speed mayhem-style).
I'm sort of looking forward to >>15, but of the shoujo shows this season, Honey & Clover looks sort of promising.
MAR: weak school boy gets transported to fantasy land. Fights ensue.
[oops - I misplaced this entry in the wrong thread. Reposted here.]
LOVELESS 01 raw:
Boylove anime. In this world, virgins have cat ears and tails. Confused catboy changing school gets caught in a magical conspiracy. Whirlwinds of dead leaves ensue, amongst other flashy happenings. Lovely catgirl gets snubbed.
Speed Grapher 01 raw:
Photographer investigates the rotten sides of life.
He's My Master 01 raw:
Maid's comedy anime from Gainax. The voices are familiar, the style too. Lots of similarities to Mahoromatic, except that the maids are human, the master more lecherous, and no conspiracy in sight. Service, service!
Sentou Yousei Tasukete! Mave-chan:
When the worlds of Yukikaze and an anime convention collapse.
TSUBASA Reservoir Chronicle 01 raw:
Happy Sakura-chan is a princess in a happy magical land but evil doers are planning evil deeds in the shadows. Tragedies ensue.
Good music. The voice actor for Sakura is unnatural, it sounds like she's reading her text. OTOH it doesn't seem like she'll talk much in the next episode(s?).
Ichigo 100% 01 [TV]:
The adaptation seems relatively faithful to the manga at first glance. The girls are cute. That Dabada music was nice, but at other places the music was too loud and covered the voices. And my, are those school skirts short - it's almost embarrassing. ^^;
Eureka7 01 RAW
Samurai Champloo goes sci-fi. A boy stranded in the boondocks dreams of becoming a sky surfer. Suddenly all hell breaks loose as one of "them" crash into his house.
There is a clock in the top left so it's prolly gonna be teenage-rated at most. Good animation.
I am japanese, but I have not enough time to watch all anime.
Why can you watch so many
We are NEET!
>>26
I don't watch them all, only a few. Except here but those are first episodes, I'm doing my selection. And even then, there are a lot of anime I end up not watching, put on DVD "for later". ^^;
Onegai_My_Melody-ep01[raw]
Whiny school girl who wants to become a violin player gets involved with a fluffy evil magical being from Hello Kitty land. Fluffy good magical being from same land comes to her rescue. Happy happy la la.
Honey_and_Clover_TV_01+02 raw:
Shoujo anime? A bunch of men together rambling about and thru life. Only one girl, a frustrated, not-so-pretty pottery maker, who gets barely any screen time. "Action" is provided by one of the guys, a lolicon, who is harassing the daughter's owner. <cough>
I don't think you quite got that one. The young-looking girl is the 18-year-old daughter of the owner's cousin, and is as much a main character as anyone else.
She's the reincarnation of Tsubasa Shibahime!
>She's the reincarnation of Tsubasa Shibahime!
You do know that this reply is the last reaction you'll ever get to mentioning Tsubasa Shibahime, don't you? You could just as well mention Hitler.
Basilisk_-Koga_ninpou_chou-_01, subbed:
Duels, loves and betrayals amongst superninjas in old Japan. Lost of ugly male characters, a few sexy babes. For the fan of those kinds of stories.
Trinity_Blood_01_raw:
A filthy rich Church uses lost technologies to rule a decadent, post-apocalyptic world destroyed by vampiric invaders. Effeminate men, strong women. Will Good prevail over Evil? Will Man regain his rightful place? Will we witness this grand epic subbed soon? Only time will tell.
Cool graphics, airships, pretty babes, church music.
KARAS 01 RAW:
When law enforcement agents from multiple dimensions meet in Tokyo, the result is gonna be messy. Also, beware of the Kappa.
Dark dogfights, dark fighters, dark secrets.
Zettai Shonen_01 raw:
In the boondocks, life is boring for our young hero. The main action is provided by the dog and the cats roaming about. Until one day, when strange occurrences start to happen.
Looks interesting. Washed out colors, babes are cute, artwork and animation is good, plot is mysterious enough.
GENCO show! GENCO show!
I'm checking it out for sure.
Lol why did they choose GENCO as name?
That name's so close to GONZO...
A homage maybe?
403
I wouldn't think so, but on the other hand, the opening credits for Kujibiki Unbalance lists "G*N*O" as the production company.
The Snow Queen 1 RAW:
Some kind of "Heidi of the Alps" remake? In the mountains boondocks, life is not boring for our very young, brave, always smiling heroine. She has all kinds of minor problems she has to solve that I could care less about...... huh, the chara design put me off, the "full of good intentions" spiel put me off, the overly melodramatic scenery put me off... I couldn't watch more than a few parts here and there.
Prolly a "old style" shojo title, aimed at very young viewers. I'll pass.
By ep 3, all the wotakus have agreed that Zettai Shounen is a semi-ero-anime disguised as a children's anime.
No seriously, what were they thinking? It's a good show, of course, but what's with the... oh never mind.
>>44
I have only seen 1-2 so far but "Zettai Shounen is a semi-ero-anime" doesn't make sense to me. It looks more like a coming-of-age anime to me, with a little scifi/mystery thrown in. The boy hasn't shown any interest to girls so far, more the contrary. If there is nudity/erotism/sex in 3, well that's fine, that's also part of a coming-of-age plot.
Ok I watched ep3. Not a single bit of nudity. >>44 is a joke.
If they allowed nudity at that time on NHK I'll tell you that the next Ghibli movie will be directed by Quentin Tarantino.
What I mean is that it's got interesting camera angles. And they focus on weird places. I'm not the only one saying it's at least a little weird for a kid's show, there were some similar comments on some other blogs, like for example this:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/zgok0079/20050604#p1 or http://d.hatena.ne.jp/zgok0079/20050521
http://www.accessup.org/anime_j/Zettai%2520Shounen.html
http://blue-cosmos.seesaa.net/category/393522.html
http://xera.dyndns.org/usrbbs/test/write.php?res=1693(imageboard)
And of course, the 2ch official thread here:
http://anime.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/anime/1117453810/
All talking about Zettai shounen being ero in some-way or another...
Of course at it's core the story is a fantasy/sci-fi/coming of age thing, but what's with all the other weird stuff?
Of course it's weird. It's about aliens/skyfishes/invisible thingies that watch you without you knowing it.
Of course the angles are weird. It's the aliens' viewpoints! That's the whole point.
Of course the aliens' views are used. It gives an atmosphere to what would otherwise be a boring daily routine in a boring remote neighborhood.
You are really, really making me want to watch this now.
Any translations yet?
dragosmore said he's doing it for some group or another (heaven knows what), and Faith/Shi-fa said they'll be doing it too.
Ain't seeing any sign of them yet, hope they com esoon...
And well, it being from the alien's point of view is a good idea, I guess. I just can't shake off this slightly ero vibe from the show, ...
Viewpoints from below. That has soooo many possibilities to explore. I doubt they'd go so far as to have any panty shots though. No way. Now that's too much.
I wouldn't mind to see some nudity, they are some babes in there. The show has been remarkably tame so far. I suspect they are holding out the nudity card for additional shock value in a later episode. Right now it's just tease.
ep 4:
http://s05.imagehost.org/1191/zettai_shounen1.jpg
http://s05.imagehost.org/1191/zettai_shounen2.jpg
http://s05.imagehost.org/1191/zettai_shounen3.jpg <- very clearly, panchira
stolen from 2chan. But anyway, what the hell??
>>52
Big deal, a fully clothed girl. Those seem very tame to me.
And, knowing 2chan, those frames most likely appear very fast and one has to go frame by frame to even notice it.
Methinks that those claiming it's ero are actually hoping, wishing and longing for the show to turn into a porn fest. :/
They should go back to watch KoiKoi7.
Never heard of a panty shot on an 8:00 show on NHK though...
Tell me why should I care about NHK's execs opinion.
http://a.scarywater.net/triad/%5BTriad%5D_Zettai_Shonen_-_01.avi.torrent
All right all right ALL RIGHT!
Should I watch this show?
The first episode looked like the first episode of something I like. I just wish the whole show would look like the opening, which is the most stylish thing ever.
Also, it gets bonus points for the Prince Igor ringtone.
On the basis solely of the intriguing nature of this discussion, I went and watched the first two episodes, and my verdict is in: this one is very watchable, indeed.
I don't get the ero-vibe that others have mentioned... but I have to say, I'm getting a slightly creepy feeling that this one may take a turn for the darker, later on - like Narutaru did.
It's this summer's Summer Series.
Also, they had me at the first episode title - "The Beginning of a Depressing and Strange Summer".
おまんこ全開
4-ch mentioned in Zettai SHounen thread #3
http://anime.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/anime/1118447062/
(Currently at 640 posts)
As usual half the thread is talking about ero tendencies...
Re-reading the theead, I realized that some of the replies may have not been directed at me and so I may have over-reacted. Sorry. As usual with anonymous boards, it gets confusing as to who is speaking to who.
>>63 swap/theead/thread
>>n for the win!
My season instant reviews are so instant that I've already finished them all!
http://raspberryheaven.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=28533#28533
Yeh, speaking of which, wtf is the GLF on Ayumu's shirt for? (Surely not Great Leap Forward, please...)
Oh, one nice thing is that it seems like some of the characters actually change their clothes.
GLF, maybe a misspelling of GOLF?
I've now seen the first four eps. (everything Triad has fsubbed), and I still can't see the supposed ero tendencies.
Honestly, I suspect this is all in the mind of a certain class of viewers - the ones who are so conditioned to erotic responses to anime that they'll fap to Hamtaro or Crayon Shin-chan. :-)
>>69
(;´Д`)ﾊｱﾊｱ
You can go explain to ttp://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php?disp=comments (look quite a way down) If anything, he isn't your usual "kimowota"
GLF 最高 (・Д・)ﾉｼ
"kimowota"?
"kimoi wotaku".
In other news, I had great fun looking up the "rods" (or "sky fish") mentioned in episode 3. This really is stuff people believe in, although even among UFO nuts, this one's considered pretty suspect.
http://www.roswellrods.com/
http://www.forteantimes.com/exclusive/rods.shtml
http://www.ufotheatre.com/rods/rods.htm <-- Not even misspelled UFO sites believe this.
http://skepdic.com/rods.html
http://www.roswellrods.com/ab7.html <-- This is totally awseome - a sky fish figure!
And "kimoi" is? I don't find the definition.
As for skyfishes, it seems to have caught in Japan, but not in other countries. My first exposure to the name was from an anime (The World of Narue).
Wiki's entry doesn't even bother to give the pros, only the cons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_%28cryptozoology%29
"Kimoi" is a very rude word for "disgusting" or such.
Were there skyfishes in Narue? I must have forgotten.
kimoi = kimochi warui
Are there only like 3 people who use this board regularly?
>>79
That appears to be the case.
80 GET
3rd person reporting!
Hay I'm here too.
I'm a person too!
I think this quick rising of posting rates is suspicious.
I advocate enforcing ID codes!
I think this suspicion of posting rates is suspicious.
I think this suspicion of this suspicion of posting... oh, forget it.
Zettai Shonen 5 subbed ﾁﾝ☆⌒ 凵＼(＼･∀･) まだぁ?
</whine>
>Zettai Shonen
Was that the pedo or the furry one? I'm pretending I've forgotten which is which again already....
Wonderful, Zettai Shonen 5 by Triad is now out. (･∀･)
It's not furry so I think it's 'pedo'.
The previews are definitely furry, though.
Instant review of new Speed Grapher OP in ep 12:
Holy fuck.
If only the rest of the series looked this cool.
Come on, don't tell me I'm the only one who watched it so far.
I must say that this season isn't very exciting.
The shows I'm looking for: Bleach (tho it has lost some of its original spunk), Zipang (dry, but good stuff - tho not even from this season), Erementar Gerad (well, it has decent action scenes and art), Trinity Blood (it's prettyyy) and One Piece (I love it).
The rest, like Gundam Seed Destiny, Speed Grapher, Futakoi Alternative etc., I have on the back burner, to be watched later.
What on earth are you talking about? This season has three shows that are both high quality, entertaining and intelligent, when usually you'd be happy to have just one. There's Emma, Honey & Clover, and Zettai Shounen.
I'm agreeing with Waha here. Those 3 rock my socks, underwear and spectacles off... I'm really glad that there are these 3 shows I can enjoy so much.
The rest of the stuff I'm watching so far is
SG (okay story, great potential but SHIT animation - thanks Gonzo!)
Sousei no Aquarion (guilty pleasure from laughing my ass off at the intended cheesiness of it all. Really, it's not that funny, but...)
Eureka Seven (was getting annoying, but recently okay - it's not as good as I thought, great production values but rather bland storyline)
'sit.
>>95 'Seems that we don't have the same tastes. Nothing wrong with that, that's why we are different individuals.
Emma: anime is so-so, I don't get the same elated feeling as with the manga. Manga is great.
Zettai Shounen: I'm watching it to find out the mystery, but otherwise it's a somewhat boring slice-of-life anime.
Honey & Clover: BORING! Boring boring boring. I'm comatose after I watch an episode. No thanks. >_<
Sousei no Aquarion: cheesy, monster of the day stuff. The art is okay tho. But I cannot relate to any of the characters.
Eureka Seven: good start, then went into Stellvia mode (self introspecting loser boy). I cannot identify with anyone in the show anymore. Art is okay. And, it's not getting subbed anymore it seems? Last I saw was ep5.
It seems to be the case. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate One Piece and Erementar Gerad and Trinity Blood (I personally think Gonzo shouldn't have done this and left the budget to SG), and of course GSD (though it's staaaaarting to get a biiiit itneresting now).
Sling, I'm sorry we're not (･∀･)人(･∀･)ﾅｶｰﾏ.
100GET
>>97
Try Gokujo Seitokai or Futakoi Alt. Futalt's plot is going somewhere odd and uncomfortable now (~7), but according to those weird anime blog people it gets better again later.
Is there a current review site with lots of screens and quick impressions like http://jascii.net/ used to have?
Or I could just download ep01 of every single series that comes out, is that what everyone else does?
>>104
http://matthew.animeblogger.net/
http://home.nc.rr.com/momotato/
They have amazingly bad taste, but they sure watch a lot of anime raws.
I kind of like http://hkenshin.soldats.net/ too.
>>103
Gokujo Seitokai: the art/animation/plot was so bad after ep1, I gave up early. When an anime is a comedy and I'm not laughing, there's something wrong. Most likely I'm not the intended audience.
Futakoi Alt.: great start, then it became some kind of existentialist cinema, with endless instrospection. It picked some speed with the Gothic Lolita episode then went back to "I have no job" "My dad was so great" etc. The art/animation is amazing so I keep plodding thru (actually I'm fastforwarding thru nowadays, it has sunk that low to my eyes.) The ep with the twin teachers left a bitter taste - the reason they broke up is not really explained, instead they go into an acid trip scene. Maybe the anime is a metaphor for someone who lost everything because of drugs and is slowly climbing his way back?
Giving up on Gokujou Seitokai at episode 1 was the wrong decision. It's one of the few shows worth following this season.
Kamichu ep 01 raw:
Girls coming of age doing miko things, calling out spirits and stuff. Main girl is small and meek and whiny and shy but potentially powerful. Fluid animation.
So far I don't understand a single thing that's happened in Kamichu. Nice animation, though.
Kamichu ep 1 raw
WTF is this kami-sakuga?
Very good audio direction, it's coming from the same person who did Emma - really get a scale of the damage and whatever, very detailed. Great music also. I look forward to seeing more!
Okusama wa Joshi Kousei ep 01 raw:
anime adaptation of the Hiyoko Brand manga, a schoolgirl is married to a teacher in secret. Embarrassing situations ensue.
I'm a bit disappointed in the anime version. The girl in the anime version seems to suffer from exotropia (=divergent strabismus, eyes look outwards) which detracts from her manga image of a charmingly naive lovely girl. And sometimes one of her eyes is located out of place. Hopefully the animators (Koreans? I see a bunch of Korean names in the credits. No Japanese post-production Quality Control?) will have caught up to the manga style for the other episodes.
Da Capo Second Season - 01(RAW):
I need to see this subbed, it looks like good fun.
At at glance, it seems that it's a similar story to the first season, but using different characters this time. I suspect that the similarities to the first season will soon stop and branch elsewhere.
Amaenaideyo!! ep 01 raw:
Not sure what is going on in this one. Apparently, it's the story of a boy who visits an all-girl buddhist temple and falls in love with one of the girls and so ends up joining the team. Hilarity and ecchi situations ensue.
Similarly to Kamichu, the boy seems to have strong latent powers that are useful against evil spirits. Kamichu would be the shoujo version, and Amaenaideyo the shounen version.
Moeyo_Ken_TV_01 raw
A Takahashi hodge-podge. Let's see, we have ancient Japan, rocket launchers, youkais, paper shinigamis, a bunch of obasan fighters, a cocky young boy with a pigtail, a giant cat with a big appetite...
The plot plays out like a series of sketches put together, a bit stiff but probably because it's the first episode.
Pani Poni Dash! ep 01 raw
A teacher first day at school. Problem is, she's a kid so things don't pan too well. Plus, her class - actually, the whole school - no, actually the whole town - no, the whole planet and surroundings - is a bit crazy (but overall enthusiastic).
Cuteness abounds.
Okusama_wa_Mahoushoujo_01 raw:
An married, modern witch lives in a town with her mother. Husband is not there so she's lonely. New characters arrive to the scene to liven things up. A feel-good episode with warm colors, tho I suppose it's going to get darker later on.
Gun_x_Sword_01 raw
A Western from the East (Eastern?): gunfights, swords, saloons, giant robots, Western towns, nano metal. The hero is named Vash, er I mean Van. Not Van the Stampede or anything, just Van. And his trench coat is black, not red.
Sugar_Sugar_Rune_01 raw
Some Queen from some magical world sends her 2 daughters to the human world/school for training. One has blue clothes and is subdued, the other has red clothes and is unruly. Everybody has way too much make-up and jewelry and weird hairdos, even the men. A bad example for the young viewers, methinks. At least in school the extravagancy is toned down, whew. Chara design is standard shoujo, tho I find this one here a bit creepy.
For some reason I kept falling asleep while trying to watch the episode... ^^; I gave up before the end. The art and animation is well done but there is no life in it.
TIDE-LINE_BLUE_01 raw
A planet that doesn't look like Earth, or more likely Earth got partially submerged. People are living a simple life in a remote island, near a military base (uh-oh). Things get heated up suddenly as many life-changing events begin to take place.
A grand saga it seems. Some very dramatic moments, wow. And the ostrich is a riot.
Suzuka_01 raw
A boy arrives in a new town and will work at a bathhouse while srudying. The neighbors are all pretty girls, as well the landlord and her daughter. The only other man in sight is in the preview, and looks like a rival.
Typical hentai anime plot, animation style and dialog. But without any unf action, it's just a simple love story.
Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge ep 01 raw
Parody. Incompetent alien dirty pair clone versus 5 competent human magical witches. All girls. It feels a bit like Puni Puni Poemi, but with much less of the manic pace and the over-the-top jokes.
Animation is of high quality. Pretty to look at.
SHUFFLE!_01 raw
A schoolboy who is hesitating between several girls get chosen to be the husband of two non-human girls. "What?" Well, it's not well explained in the episode either. The teaser/preview explained more than ep1: the human world connected with two other worlds, the devils and the angels. So now non-human exchange students are in schools.
I was distracted in this ep1 by the shadows of the characters: from one scene to the next, the shadows are never at the same place, and in one scene there is even two charas with opposite lighting. ^^;
Ep1 plays at a much more leisurely pace than the teaser, I think I liked the teaser better. OTOH the soundtrack for the teaser was cheap h-game music, which has been corrected in ep1.
The girls all look the same, except for the hair and the ears. Even the personalities seem to stem from the same mold. Hopefully this will change in future episodes.
Tide Line Blue
Great animation, good direction (keeps my attention) and nice visuals overall (though knowing the director I'm wary of whether the 3D will get too obnoxious). The story might just be interesting, but we don't know yet so I won't say anything. The characters are a little familiar but also a little different. The big thing that makes you wonder is why the hell was the main female lead pregnant at the age of 16? Who screwed her? Was it rape? Personally I can feel there's something different about the character relationships compared to most anime. Firstly the main girls in the seires are both older than the guys (16 and 19 vs two 14 year olds). Secondly it's not like people are really mean - Teen may have seemed a little mean but he was still nice enough to ask them to come over to his ship. And also, usually in most adventure stories you don't have a little baby tagging along. Now how is Kiiru going to play a 'father'ly role? Which anime have we seen where 14 year olds do that?
Ok, that's enough crap for now.
Petopeto-san ep 01 raw:
Looks like a variant of Shuffle!, but instead of demons/angels at school, the foreign students are youkai (=demons, monsters, goblins). One boy gets stuck on a youkai girl, and they have to sleep to get rid of the curse. But the boy is young and he can't sleep with the girl he felt in love at first sight so close to him. Hilarity ensues (or not).
GUN SWORD Instant Review:
Van (NOT SPIKE) has a very goth costume and his gimmicks seem to be apathy and covering all his food in condiments. His opponent in episode 1 is, as far as I can tell, transplanted from Bobobobobo Bobobo. I don't care about anything else, that guy and his constant shouting of LUCKY are enough to make up for anything. I'm sold.
MUTEKI! SUTEKI!
episode 2 addendum: he fights a legion of mustache fighters led by "Baron Mayor". I still think this is actually Bobobo.
Ichigo_Mashimaro_01 raw
Very young girls doing cute nothings. One quarter of the episode was about fighting sleepingness while working on a birthday present. Zzzzz...
> Zzzzz...
Comment on the episode, or your reaction?
Wouldn't that be the same, kinda?
It's a pedo lolicon anime. It's not supposed to feature anything but very young girls doing cute nothings.
>Comment on the episode, or your reaction?
Both.
I mean, it's well animated, and it does appeal to one's "mother's instinct", seeing one's kids growing up and trying to do things that are difficult for kids, things like that.
But I failed to get involved. The kids are working their asses off to make a birthday present for the older sister, but the older sister comes out as a lazy, revengeful, chain smoker bitch, so why should I care that she gets a birthday present? ^^;
Yeah yeah I know, in the end she shows up to be compassionate... in the very end. And even then she had to go and scribble on the girl's face some (nasty?) comment. Oh boy. This place needs some parenting... hey where is everybody, anyway? I have yet to see a single other soul around.
>This place needs some parenting... hey where is everybody, anyway? I have yet to see a single other soul around.
see 133 for your explanation
I fail to see this episode as being "lolikon".
No sex, no naked children, no older men lusting for younger ones (whee, "Card Captor Sakura"), no kids undressing getting filmed by grown-ups (whee, "Paranoia Agent"), no nothing.
Don't confuse lolicon with pedo. It isn't the same thing.
You're not reading the show quite right. It's not supposed to be heartwarming stories about people showing compassion, it's understated character-driven humor about people who act badly, while still being cute. Cute, and appealing to the pedos, there's no denying that.
And if you don't care what some guy on the internet says, how about a dictionary?
http://solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dosearch?sDict=on&H=PS&L=J&T=lolicon&WC=none
>>139
Actually, I could dig a show where all characters look cute but are in reality complete bastards (yay for PaniPoni_Dash!). :)
But here I only see the older sister as being so sinister.
Okay, maybe that's the point? One single grown-up, doing mean things to less knowledgeable, more gullible younger ones, and we are to laugh about how "stupid-but-cute" those kids are?
Yeeeeeeech...
Nah, Miu (pigtails) is supposed to be the randomly mean one, the manga is pretty funny and being done by #akatsuki-manga...
Unless it's been licensed, which it might've with me not paying attention.
The group often posts the tag line "it''s not just for lolicons."
Well, the fact that the show's intended (not incidental) audience is adult males gives it a few notches up the loli ladder. The occasional bath scene and panty flash in the manga don't hurt much, either.
Though we have yet to see if the anime will go that far...
Finally got myself to watch ep2 of Ichigo Mashimaro.... hey, it was pretty good! Thumbs up.
絶対少年今期のベストアニメ決定
Shit, I love this series. I just hope they do Yokohama as well as Tana though!
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絶対少年今期のベストアニメ決定 = zettai shounen konki no besuto anime kettei
what to review instantly this season: http://raspberryheaven.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1702
Banner of the Stars III 1: I tried to watch it raw but there was too much speaking, I need a sub.
Bioboosted Armor Guyver: I read such much bad press about this one that I hesitate to even look at it.
Stratos 4 Advance CODE:204: all the Stratos sequels I have looked at so far were crap, I fear for this one.
To Heart 2: I'm in love with this one already without having seen a single frame. ^_^
She, The Ultimate Weapon Another love song: I have it, I must gather some courage to watch it... (I hated the tv series.)
Rozen Maiden Traumend: I love this one in advance.
XXXHolic Movie / Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Movie: I hate those in advance. Tsubasa was so slow going, un-animated and unnaturally voiced that I gave up on it mid-series.
Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place: woot!
More Stratos 4? What the hell is going on here? Is anybody actually watching that?
Don't go lumping XXXholic in with Tsubasa just because CLAMP keeps crossovering them. XXXholic is a different beast altogether, and one I thoroughly enjoy.
Also, the movies are being done by Production IG, so the last thing I expect is bad animation quality.
Saikano OVA - Another Love Song Mission 1:
retelling of the same story, from another viewpoint - an older girl who was the prototype before Chise. Same long, mushy antiwar ramblings that rub me the wrong way. Same incomprehensible, unexplained reasons for the ongoing war and for using young females to be ultimate weapons. Top notch animation, better than the TV series.
After looking through it closer, it sure looks like slim pickings this season. There's the XXXholic movie which I MUST HAVE, and more Komugi and Dokuro-chan is always welcome, but TV-series-wise, it's looking pretty sparse. Jigoku Shoujo has my interest piqued, and noein seems to have some chance to be somewhat interesting. Apart from that... no, it's weak.
At least Zettai Shounen will keep running next season, too.
What about Mushishi? Give that a chance!
Oh, I was ignoring it because of the lack of information, but now that I look closer, I see that's it's an Afternoon publication, which means I am likely to enjoy it.
Go read the 1st volume scanlated by mangascreener. It's a very odd but nice and somewhat surreal manga. I can't wait to see what it's like in anime format. They better do a good job.
In other news
http://a.scarywater.net/anbu/Seikai_no_Senki_III_OVA_01-02_%5BANBU%5D_%5BF3586B5E%5D.avi.torrent
SUB KITA----------------\o/--------------!!
Banner of the Stars III, subbed:
Aka, Jin/Jinto gets slapped around. :) Good stuff.
I'll have to go into details if I want to nitpick:
Has anyone seen the first Zeta Gundam movie?
>>158 Hahaha! Funny.
its true though Stratos 4 is a masterpiece from Studio Fantasia, the Japanese sure love it, thats why its having so many sequals without having a fucking story right?
Stratos 4 rules
wish someone said otherwise but no ones posted since you have :(
> the Japanese sure love it
If they do, they're pretty quiet about it!
then why are they making so many sequals? we all japanese companys dont just produce sequals for the sake of it, their has to be a demand?
Thus my confusion!
its kinda like how shows like Divergence EVE had a sequal because of the perverts that like the breasts, but Stratos 4 had no storyline it tried to take itself seriously but ultimatly failed, its a good show but they really seem not to not know what direction to take the show in
i mean say the end of stratos 4 introduced "Star Seed", but never went any further in the series after Karin was rescued, the OVA introduced more insight behind that woman commander onboard the station and how she went insane from the star seed, yet that show ended when the station was rescued, the best part about Stratos 4 was the 5 minute ova
kinda makes you think they should of just made it a 26 episode series and left it like that
but then crap like Pocket monsters and Beyblade went on for hundreds of shows =/
one of the many mysterys of anime i guess
Pani Poni Dash is the most inspiredly overactive show I've seen in a while. Excel Saga doesn't even begin to catch up to it. People seem to be comparing it to Azumanga Daioh (and apparently Sensei no Ojikan, although I never watched that), but it's not really all that close. I'll probably forget about it long before Azumanga, but it sure is entertaining until then.
(Also, I have two drama CDs of it, and I see a marked lack of people translating drama CDs. I guess that'll go on the pile of projects I'll never have time for)
おまえら電車男見たか？
I just tried watching an episode of Pani Poni Dash, and I guess I just didn't get it. There were all these individual fragments of jokes and moe, but none of it fit together or was funny in any way. It felt like it was written by MegaHAL, except without the fortuitious humor.
Well, the class president trying to poison everyone was somewhat amusing, even if the joke was underplayed in the strangest way.
Overall, it just fell flat. Does it get any better?
2 and 3 have a plot, though if I said what it was it might ruin it. I can't say I remembered 4, though.
Also: The otakusploitation is getting kind of blatant. I mean, putting shobon in the opening?
Well, there are a lot of fans of it because of it's unusual and trippy visuals and well, moe, and maybe some of them are just Akiyuki Shinbo's bitches.
Most otaku think the enshutsu is very good. I've never watched it though because it seems too plastic. I'll just get sick of it. And if it's too moe I'll get sick of it too. Sorry, Kamichu, I had to ditch you for that reason too although you have one of the best production values.
gsd sucks ass. but gseed s1 is great. i don't know how one person can take a good series like GS and make a shitty one likeGSD
good thing Meyrin's ass makes up for the lack of quality in GSD. more ass please.
OVA Majokko Tsukune-chan ep 01 raw:
Based on a 4-frame manga? A happyhappy magical girl in a house out there helps good people and punish bad people. Minimal animation, belching-style gags, no real story, superfastspeak, some backgrounds are photographs, what.
Shin_Angyou_Onshi:
Based upon the manga(manwha?) of the same name, a man sent by the central government goes around and put things right. Except that the central gov is no more, so he's on his own quest for justice.
Amazingly well done animation, very smooth. I don't usually like to rewatch an anime I have seen, and I rewatched several parts of this one. The lovely scantily-clad babe also contributed to the overall enjoyment. ^^ My only regret is that this is all there is beside the manga. OTOH, if they had gone for a TV version we may not have had the same superb animation.
>>172
i don't see how GSD could be worse than GS
not that i'm very interested in finding out how exactly they would accomplish that amazing feat of badness
-maeda
Instant reviews of things I saw in DragonCon anime video room!
Shuffle!: I saw five seconds of this. It was enough to convince me not to watch more.
Tide-Line Blue: That is the least manly male lead character design ever not made for an FF game.
Hay guys, can you recommend sites that have screen-heavy reviews of current series? I used to rely on http://www.jascii.net/ back in the day when it was updated... (BTW I've asked this question here before, but lost the links posted when my bookmarks were hosed.)
>>177
this was a fascinating step into the time machine, wasn't it guys? time solves all mysteries.
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/ is the new http://matthew.animeblogger.net/ is the new http://home.nc.rr.com/momotato/
damn, i'm pretty sure 177 was me posting, looks like something i would write, especially the 'badness' part
but i cannot for the life of me remember posting it, or signing it maeda, which, if i did post this, is probably a cromartie referral
can someone explaing this to me please?
