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.)
>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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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?