Why is Yuno the best Hidamari?

>>718
Do you think Kana Asumi will keep doing Hidamari after her marriage? I want to hear what a pregnant Yuno sounds like (´･ω･`)

>>723
If Asumin is happy then so am I.

>>325
Shit like that is why I just pick and choose animus here and there based on directors/writers/studios that have put out stuff I've seen and liked and completely avoid any kind of fandom forum, anime review sites, etc etc etc because they are just cesspools of emotionally stunted, escapist weirdos.

What I usually do is read up on the people involved in a series or movie via Wikipedia and see what else they've been involved in. This will lead me six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon style to other series, writers, directors, etc, and if a premise sounds cool, I'll give it a try.

But at all costs, I avoid fan-written ratings, reviews, synopses, etc.

>>694
Thank you for this. I am enjoying this man.

>>694
>>695 again. First I just enjoyed his silly videos, now I'm thoroughly enjoying his 3-parter contrasting NGE with the Rebuild movies.

>>697
Nice, man. Yeah, he has good stuff and unlike a lot of places, he's able to do well-timed editing to good comedic effect, even if he has serious things to say about a subject.

Also, my personal feelings on it are that it's pretty benign, but if you find one who is being an asshat, you can troll the fuck out of overzealous lolicon worshippers with his rebuttle video.

>>699
Yeah, a lot of youtubers seem to think that random little jump cuts in the middle of sentences makes for a quirky, funny video. DouchebagChocolat seems to know how to edit for enhanced comedic effect. His narration work is also excellent. I love his trip to "Japan."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyIy5nwJ5wI

>>666
Hmmm ... Interesting, I'll have to give it a try.

I actually didn't find this show to be really bad. It was just...underwhelming.

Thing is, the first two episodes REALLY promised tons of fanservice and mecha action and politics and shit, but after the fourth episode, it became clear they didn't know what to do with the source material (this is an adaptation of Light Novels, mind you).

The Light Novels will most likely NEVER be translated, so you won't get the real meat OP.

At least the BDs fixed some of the QUALITY, however, although the LN/manga art is much...tastier, so to speak.

What did you expect OP? This show is just a side dish for the people who enjoyed the original VN's (snd LN's) and are dying for more.

Could've been betters. The chicks are smokin, though.

>>686
Yeah, if there's anything ML is consistent in, is having hot chicks.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUuu~

I never heard that 'N'

Yes let the tiny little girl represent the neckbeards of the chans. AOTY

It's over. My tears will not stop coming.

At least the manga still has semi-regular updates.

No idea. What search terms were you using? Not sure why that would lead you here, and it doesn't when I search for it, unless you were really going to deep pages.

I googled hinoka + ameno torifune (his flying machine), and from the results i got a believe they are both porn stars.

>>628
>>629
These guys got it pretty much spot on.

If you're still around, OP, you should give this page by 8thsin (perhaps the most respected translator in the fansubbing scene) a read:
http://8ths.in/fansub-review-grading-scheme-2/

Scroll down to the "Liberal Scale (LS)" section.

The problem isn't liberal translations, it's liberal translations that are done poorly (by the likes of groups like Coalguys who essentially make joke-subs half of the time).

Also, no, most people watch subs because the majority of dubs are awful and fail to convey the same emotion from the original Japanese audio. Trying to learn Japanese by reading subs is inefficient at best and impossible at worst since no two translators will interpret the same line in the same way; for them to do so would mean using a translation so literal that it wouldn't even make sense in English.

>>645

i seen it not too long ago
i liked it

it's kind of...edgy/dramatic and soap-operaish at times, but there are parts that made me feel non cheesy things and are done well

it was the most interesting early on and peaked between when eureka got her hair cut through the episode or two after renton comes back

it's mostly boring after that

except the soccer episode i liked that one

SAGE has been used.

>>649
That felt kinda filler-ish to me.

I do agree with you about it being cheesy in some parts. I mean this (pic related). The ending episode would've been great without all the wow fucking hearts and shit.

>>650
Ah, almost forgot. Butterflies and cherry blossoms.

Isn't the moral of the story "don't be a drama queen". at least that's what I took from it

Just the time travel stuff made me head-desk so hard I ragequit everything. I just got done playing Blazblue like 3 months prior to this.

I didn't even mind some of the other dumb VERY UNNECESSARY twists, like the thing you're fighting was once just like you!!!!111.




Btw I genuinely like it, and will defend it to the death, just think it had a ton of wasted potential by being stupid.

>>569
>I'll remember PMMM since it's an affront to what mahou shoujo are supposed to be about (I guess that's why I shouldn't too LOL).

>affront
But, PMMM is exactly the throwback to the ancient magical girl genre while paying homage to both the classical magical girl genre and the modern magical girl genre. The entire show plays out like *the* quintessential university thesis papers on deconstructing and reconstructing the entire genre, to demonstrate what magical girls are about.

The magical girl genre emerged from dark fantasy/fairy tale literature with heavy dose of grim, dark, horror, surreal, absurd, and/or derange in dream-like worlds full of symbolism. Then, the genre was subverted with light-hearted slice-of-life stories and escapist wish-fulfilment stories with mundane magic and generally gradually shifted to younger audiences. Later, the genre was fused with the superhero genre and military scifi genre as the main conflict in stories escalated from simple magic rivalry to world-threatening super-villainy. Now, the genre goes full circle (lol, Madoka=circle) by bringing back some of cosmic psychological horror, while retaining some of other aspects it gained.

>>571
>Just the ... stuff made me head-desk so hard I ragequit everything.
It's a refreshing break, since a lot of magical girl shows focus on prophecy, fate, destiny, predeterminism.
>I didn't even mind some of the other dumb VERY UNNECESSARY twists, like ...
LOL, the tainted heart crystal/shards/gem and the magical corruption are such common elements in magical girl show, it'll be hard to NOT have that in Madoka.

>>571
>Isn't the moral of the story "don't be a drama queen". at least that's what I took from it
I thought the moral of story is "beware of those offering to grant you great power and to guide you on your way". Madoka Magica's Kyubey drives this point home much more than Princess Tutu's Drosselmeyer and Revolutionary Girl Utena's Akio ever could.

Although, come to think of it, if this trend continues in magical girl shows, this element might becomes cliche soon. I mean, how many in the audience don't suspect Kyubey's intention from the beginning?

btw anyone have any good gifs or edits

particularly did anyone photoshop/draw a parody of that flanders thing after episode 7

that's the first thing i thought of

>>622
It'd help if I could hear that "other side" song first.

And for the record and future reference this might be more suitable for /ask/ or even /r/ if you phrase it well enough.

You're a long way from 4chan at this point. You can try and post and inject some life in it, though.

It's okay OP @_@

I feel the same about the music board, hehe

99s as a whole is pretty slow/dead from my experience.

The facebook chat is more active, and that's full of ircfags.

>>368

LOGH (the main series as well as the movies) is available on Nyaa (they even have a 720p BD release of the main series and some of the movies using CentralAnime's subs).

SAGE has been used.

I use animetake.com for all my animes.

currently airing anime can be found at fansubbers websites. use mIRC to directly download w/o torrents. you might stay a week behind the japan schedule, but with the time difference (and language diff) that's not so bad.

SAGE has been used.

I used to use animefreak.tv a lot, and animecrazy, but lots of their links got taken down after the MU and megavideo shutdown :( however there are mirror links and some videos are even embedded on the animefreak site. And if you're looking for a good site that streams anime legally, there's always crunchyroll.

animetosho.org. A comprehensive DDL list shows up a few minutes- an hour after the torrents show up on the fansubbers' websites.

Ok...

I found this through Google.

It was made by some 60 year old Japanese guy. He's skewed towards liking things with magical girls and mechs but it was still more useful than any other list I've seen (not that I've looked for many).

>>591
Uhh.. that's not a list. Cool mech though.

>>591
I looked at your picture again. Is that supposed to be Megatron? That's makes it even cooler.

>>593

oh

http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tsuribe/anime/animeTe.html

lol

idk, according to gelbooru it's an original work. I'd tell you the artist if I remembered who it was. I tried searching some tags but I can't find it again.

He mostly draws girlies. It cracked me up because it was a stray bad ass picture.

>>594
Yeah I found his profile.
http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1491749

From what I'm seeing here, I wouldn't be surprised if there was actually a little girl inside that mech.

Just look up Haganai

I think this was a show with a lot of potential that got lost in Meat's tits and moe. The concept of lonely people trying to form a friendship group and connect to each other is quite unique, but I think the concept was eventually lost to fanservice (Close up on Meat's tits in ever episode.) The twist was interesting, but could be seen from a mile away. In the end, I think that Haganai was a show that could have been amazing and quite poignant, but the direction it took just did not fit it very well. Attempt to mix lonely people making friends and fanservice just did not grab me somehow. It would be like Watashi ga Motenai (Unpopular Girl) being made into an anime where the main focus is fanservice and teen comedy rather than her utter awkwardness and social ineptitude. Though I could see where people would like this show. The drawing is quite nice. The comedy is decent. Not the best show I watched, but not the worst either.

Season 2 is due in January

>>266

It's a decent anime. The first season is better than what's going on right now I think, because it focused more on their social ineptness. Now it's mostly fanservice shots of Meat, and she annoys me to death.

I really think she is a lesbian and has the hots for Yozora, considering how much she stalks her, smells her wig (pic), cares what she thinks, takes photos of her for a collage on her wall, etc. In fact, if she openly admitted she was in love with her, and that she was gay or bi, I would probably like her a lot more. But at this point she seems like a totally in denial future-slutty girl who could be friends with any people in the school but has too big of an ego to approach them.

Yozora, on the other hand, puts more meaning into the few relationships she does have with others, and while in this season they kind of warped her character to be more childish along with her shorter hair, she is certainly better than Meat in everything but body shape.

This season I am actually kind of liking Rika more than anyone else. She is unique and the only one being herself instead of caring what others think to the point of messing up her own life.

As for the romance aspect that they like to tease us with, I think Yozora would best fit to be dating Kodaka. While I love Rika, she just doesn't seem to click well with Kodaka in that sort of way and I don't think he likes her in that way either. Later on I'm sure she would be able to find a guy that fits her a lot better. Same with Miku, she could find tons of guys later on she'd probably feel the same sort of way about, she just never gave anyone a chance before because she was too selfish and focused on herself and how much better she was at stuff than everyone around her, and totally oblivious to those people. Yozora obviously very deeply cares for Kodaka, and he cared a lot about her in the past, though right now he doesn't seem to "like" any of the girls in that sort of way. He's got that annoying stereotypical Japanese average highschool guy denseness they put in all anime and all guy main characters except Akatsuki (estethica) and Izayoi (mondaiji-tachi).

Plus, if she doesn't date, she will probably be forever alone. Everyone else would easily be able to find someone later on except her, especially considering she's had only eyes for him for years.

April 24. You could at least wiki it or something.

Hoo boy. Now only if they would make Despera...

Sounds like it's going to be a prequel.

Have you seen the OP?

It's pretty bad.

I'm really looking forward to this.
They better not fuck this up.

>>>/quatra-phalli/

SAGE has been used.

>>468

Try it like BBcode: \[spoiler\]\[/spoiler\]

>>468

Try it like BBcode: <spoiler></spoiler>
But replace the < and > brackets with [ and ], respectively.

>>469
G Gundam was absolute shit. Just saying.

Best Gundam series are 08th MS Team, 0080, 0083, Unicorn, and Gundam 00 gets an honorable mention. Wing holds a special place in my heart, but it really doesn't stand the test of time. Great mech design and memorable characters aside, the melodrama and pretentiousness of the characters (like Relena, Treize, etc) really damages the credibility of the series for me. I don't understand why people liked SEED. It struck me as wanting to combine the best story elements of 0083 and Wing and cram it down the throat of the original. I understand the need to try and keep the franchise alive, but I didn't care for this attempt. And yes, I mean SEED, not just Destiny.

Unicorn = Seed + G

I am watching Gundam: Unicorn and it is very interesting. The plot is unfolding into a web of conspiracies and the protagonist,who has high morals on life, is caught up in the web. He is on one side but doesn't treat what his allies call enemies as actual enemies. Unfortunately for him, he has blood on his hands and must deal with the situation he is caught up in.

Unicorn doesn't seem to be a generic over the top mecha film and there is great animations. The typical anime character archetype is ,somewhat, avoided and it is aimed towards an older audience


Gundam: Wing holds a really special place in my heart. It may have closer archetypes but it treats itself more seriously than majority of anime

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I think FLCL is overrated.

I gotta say the animation, at times, is just so fucking crazy good. It's the perfect happy medium between anatomical correctness, kinetic energy/physics and cartoon wackiness. Wish there was more shows with that kind of animation style, I love it.