Huzzah, Gate is back and Durarara

Still more interested in D.Grey-Man.

What else is coming out, other than Jojo 4?

Dimension W is pretty cool. Classic car cyber punk ninja action is always nice.

 LordofHats wrote:
Erased has my immediate attention.

I spent 5 minutes looking for this show... Realized you were using the american name. Silly Americans.

It's called Boku dake ga Inai Machi for those like me who couldn't find it. xD

I liked Dimension W, I'm interested to see where it goes. Apparently the creator has done some work with Marvel, perhaps they're hoping for a good west crossover, ala Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, etc...)

There's a few more shows to check out, but it's looking like this season might be Haikyuu and Iron Blooded Orphans as hold overs from last season, and then Dimension W, Erased, and Ojiisan and Marshmallow (don't judge me).

And I'm trudging through Evangelion, it remains meh.


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 Soladrin wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Erased has my immediate attention.

I spent 5 minutes looking for this show... Realized you were using the american name. Silly Americans.

It's called Boku dake ga Inai Machi for those like me who couldn't find it. xD

Ya know, for those that aren't into the whole brevity thing

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar also has a nice first episode.

 Soladrin wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Erased has my immediate attention.

I spent 5 minutes looking for this show... Realized you were using the american name. Silly Americans.

It's called Boku dake ga Inai Machi for those like me who couldn't find it. xD

Sorry XD I knew it had a Japanese name everyone was using, but I couldn't remember it let alone spell it so I took the easy route

That is one of the most annoying parts of watching anime. Trying to keep straight the names and such. As a non speaker, it makes them essentially strings of gibberish, and starting out each season trying to remember which strings of gibberish on the list of new episodes were the ones I'd decided to watch.

 AduroT wrote:
That is one of the most annoying parts of watching anime. Trying to keep straight the names and such. As a non speaker, it makes them essentially strings of gibberish, and starting out each season trying to remember which strings of gibberish on the list of new episodes were the ones I'd decided to watch.

That's why I'm going to make an effort to really only use the names that show up on the streaming sites like Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Hulu, since those services are generally aimed at an English speaking audience.


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 Soladrin wrote:
Hai to Gensou no Grimgar also has a nice first episode.

It is beautifully animated. I'm a little concerned about the plot, nothing really happened in the first episode.

So far I gave "Erased", "Active Raid: Kidou" and "Schwarzesmarken" a try.

Erased was fething amazing, the other 2 hurt my soul.

I need to check out Hai to Gensou no Grimgar and Dagashi Kashi.

I didn't like Grimgar all that much, seemed ok till they got weird and fan servicey. I was thinking of looking at Schwarzemarken, but it doesn't sound good based on your response lol


But hey at least Iron Blooded Orphans is finally heating up!


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 darkcloud92 wrote:
I didn't like Grimgar all that much, seemed ok till they got weird and fan servicey. I was thinking of looking at Schwarzemarken, but it doesn't sound good based on your response lol


But hey at least Iron Blooded Orphans is finally heating up!

I have too many shows to catch up on from last season still to start this one. Noragami was sweet! Now I can finish Heavy Objects (for the lawls), and Lance N' Masques

And Snow White continues. Let the dramatic build up begin!

Grimgar has my curiosity peaked. Seems like another "oh no we're trapped in a game" story, but the art is lovely and the little twist is intriguing.

 LordofHats wrote:
Grimgar has my curiosity peaked. Seems like another "oh no we're trapped in a game" story, but the art is lovely and the little twist is intriguing.

That was my line of thinking as well. I might wait for the dub like I am with Shomin Sample (which looks like a gender flipped Ouran High School Host Club) or if I get bored/hear good things.

Funimation seems to have a decent loadout this season.

I got "treated" to a spoiler last night. It apparently gets kind dark soon, so it.doesn't appear to be like any/most of the trapped in a video game shows

 Alfndrate wrote:
I got "treated" to a spoiler last night. It apparently gets kind dark soon, so it.doesn't appear to be like any/most of the trapped in a video game shows

That's the good kind of spoiler; That's the kind that motivates me to watch it because my interest is now piqued.

Or as our friendly southern american slave owner would say:

Ok, new Roster for the Anime club nd my feelings on all of them
1: Ghost Stories: Im honestly surprised this made it one with how bland the first episode is.
2: Mononoke: This is quite frankly a boring anime, I have seen it before and it doesnt hold my interest
3:Kinos Journey: Ehh, its alright
4: Spice & Wolf: Ahhh, why did she have to put clothes on :(

I'm not a big fan of dark. I have enough real life stuff to deal with.

Speaking of, Dagashi Kashi is the comedy I needed this season, apparently.

Although that is a lot of piercings.

I will admit I Grimgar has some really cool artwork. One of my friends didn't like it because they thought the background looked kinda low budget and bad, like an old disney cartoon film. Maybe from an animation standpoint it does look a little weird at first, but I like the look of it.

Just finished watching one punch man...

i hope to see more of that asap.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
I got "treated" to a spoiler last night. It apparently gets kind dark soon, so it.doesn't appear to be like any/most of the trapped in a video game shows

That's the good kind of spoiler; That's the kind that motivates me to watch it because my interest is now piqued.

Or as our friendly southern american slave owner would say:

Dang Light Novel readers spoiling gak for me!

I will probably watch it, but I've been going through a gakload of dark anime during December (Utena, Paranoia Agent, and now Evangelion), so I might just wait till it's finished airing and binge it.

Also, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju is pretty funny, but it's not your typical anime. It's designed with an adult audience in mind. Not lewd things mind you, but like a television drama you'd see on like NBC, CBS, or ABC. About a recently released prisoner that wishes to become a rakugo performer (think radio dramas, where 1 man performs all the parts). The first episode is 47 minutes long and contains pretty much a full rakugo performance. I found myself chuckling at some of the word play and the jokes, but I can see why it might not be everyone's cup of tea.

 Alfndrate wrote:

Also, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju is pretty funny, but it's not your typical anime. It's designed with an adult audience in mind. Not lewd things mind you, but like a television drama you'd see on like NBC, CBS, or ABC. About a recently released prisoner that wishes to become a rakugo performer (think radio dramas, where 1 man performs all the parts). The first episode is 47 minutes long and contains pretty much a full rakugo performance. I found myself chuckling at some of the word play and the jokes, but I can see why it might not be everyone's cup of tea.

I saw that and heard similar things, but I was thinking of giving it a go anyway.

How dense was the wordplay stuff? I can barely understand English puns sometimes, and Japanese language puns have never really been able to do it for me (which considering I don't know the language or kanji isn't surprising.)

Ooohh, Paranoia Agent, ehat an awesome anime. It gets strange like all hell, but very cool! The OP is one of my favorites, it's so nuts.

Welp, Grimgar has my love. Those 20 mns just flew by, I'm excited for more. From the preview, either someone dies or they kill their first goblin.

In either case, I'm loving the Dark Knight. Usually cocky as hell isn't my cup of tea save rare exceptions (Kamina 4ever) but he's so damn fun.

Video-game stuff certainly has taken off after SAO. I'm still waiting for more seasons of LOG Horizon and Overlord, personally.

Hoitash wrote:How dense was the wordplay stuff? I can barely understand English puns sometimes, and Japanese language puns have never really been able to do it for me (which considering I don't know the language or kanji isn't surprising.)

I didn't notice any of the puns in Japanese, sorry, but the subs on Crunchyroll were done well enough for English puns. The voice actor for "Yotaro" is good enough, that during his rakugo (when I found myself chuckling the most), the puns in the English subs lined up with changes in his tone and voice.

TheDraconicLord wrote:Ooohh, Paranoia Agent, ehat an awesome anime. It gets strange like all hell, but very cool! The OP is one of my favorites, it's so nuts.

Welp, Grimgar has my love. Those 20 mns just flew by, I'm excited for more. From the preview, either someone dies or they kill their first goblin.

In either case, I'm loving the Dark Knight. Usually cocky as hell isn't my cup of tea save rare exceptions (Kamina 4ever) but he's so damn fun.

Ranta, the Dark Knight, is played by probably one of my favorite voice actors. He generally plays the boisterous characters in any series, and is immediately recognizable. He was Favarro in Rage of Bahamut and Taro in Shirobako. He's pretty prevalent in a lot of series now that I'm looking at what he's played in. Generally, if I hear him, I'm hooked on the show (at least until he leaves)

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Video-game stuff certainly has taken off after SAO. I'm still waiting for more seasons of LOG Horizon and Overlord, personally.

Video game anime have been around forever. Even the trapped in a video game isn't new

 darkcloud92 wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Video-game stuff certainly has taken off after SAO. I'm still waiting for more seasons of LOG Horizon and Overlord, personally.

Video game anime have been around forever. Even the trapped in a video game isn't new

Honest question: What more was there besides the .Hack//Sign anime? I don't remember any other with that theme besides that one.

(oh man, .Hack is from 2003... I feel so fething old)

I liked the first episode of Grimgar. More DnD to me than video game. Animation was nice.

Checked out Dimension W and Bubuki Buranki and thought both were pretty good and also had some good visuals as well.

Luck & Logic and Shwarkzein were OK, with Shwar being the "worst" new one I've checked out so far. Will at least watch a second episode of each.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 darkcloud92 wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Video-game stuff certainly has taken off after SAO. I'm still waiting for more seasons of LOG Horizon and Overlord, personally.

Video game anime have been around forever. Even the trapped in a video game isn't new

Honest question: What more was there besides the .Hack//Sign anime? I don't remember any other with that theme besides that one.

(oh man, .Hack is from 2003... I feel so fething old)

While not anime, there is the classic TRON movie from ’82. Concept has been around forever.

I don't think Co'Tor was saying that SAO started the whole thing. He was saying that the popularity of SAO has sparked a new wave of "trapped in a video game" animes. Prior to SAO, we saw them but they weren't frequent. Now every new anime season has one in its lineup.

Okay, Showa Genroku has my attention. Then again I happen to like theater, so I figured I would (the normalcy of the plot is nice, too.)

 LordofHats wrote:
I don't think Co'Tor was saying that SAO started the whole thing. He was saying that the popularity of SAO has sparked a new wave of "trapped in a video game" animes. Prior to SAO, we saw them but they weren't frequent. Now every new anime season has one in its lineup.

exactly.

That makes more sense, it was the most popular in the last few years. Although it didn't even get that popular till a year or so after it aired.

Ok, Dagashi Kashi reminds me a lot of D-frag. That is such a good thing! Only tried 5 animes so far and out of those, 3 already conquered me. It's being a good season so far!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Ok, Dagashi Kashi reminds me a lot of D-frag. That is such a good thing!

Yeah, when I found out Funimation got that show I went "huh?"

It made sense after I watched it. I'd make a joke about the dub cast being the same as D-Frag!, but it's Funimation so odds are good at least one of 'em will be.

I've liked every series I've tried this season, which is 3 so far (two on Funi not counting Snow White, and one on crunchyroll.)

Also watched Sound! Euphonium between seasons. Did not realize fist bumping was a thing in Japan.

Also to reply about anime that takes place in video games I think .hack is the most notable one, although there are quite a few spin offs if you want to count those. Also Digimon and it's sequels/spin offs kinda count. Aceel world, No Game No Life, Summer Wars. Those are just the ones I can think of off that top of my head that I've seen, I'm sure there's way more that I've come across and never watched

Ok, "Kono subarashii sekai ni shukufuku wo" is just wonderful it's a comedy about a guy that dies in an hilarious way (he's even mocked about it! ) and gets the chance to revive in a RPG like world.

The first ep was funny and it has just a tiny bit of ecchi to make it a la dente (can't have a decent fantasy world without busty tabern wenches!)

Also, I loved how Aqua was completely screwed by him

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Ok, "Kono subarashii sekai ni shukufuku wo" is just wonderful it's a comedy about a guy that dies in an hilarious way (he's even mocked about it! ) and gets the chance to revive in a RPG like world.

The first ep was funny and it has just a tiny bit of ecchi to make it a la dente (can't have a decent fantasy world without busty tabern wenches!)

Also, I loved how Aqua was completely screwed by him

I'm in.

Y'know, I have a massive problem of not being able to watch SUBS, cause I typically want to paint while watching, so I cant atch Subs.
but I feel like im missing alot :(

Just teach yourself Japanese, problem solved.

Well I know Kawaii Desu, Snepai, Baka, San. I think im good.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Well I know Kawaii Desu, Snepai, Baka, San. I think im good.

You also need Kakkouii (cool), urusai (shut up), and the combination of ningen and ningen janai (human being and not human being respectively).

 Alfndrate wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Well I know Kawaii Desu, Snepai, Baka, San. I think im good.

You also need Kakkouii (cool), urusai (shut up), and the combination of ningen and ningen janai (human being and not human being respectively).

I thought Sugoi was cool?

Also,
Anta bakaaaa!

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Well I know Kawaii Desu, Snepai, Baka, San. I think im good.

You also need Kakkouii (cool), urusai (shut up), and the combination of ningen and ningen janai (human being and not human being respectively).

I thought Sugoi was cool?

Also,
Anta bakaaaa!

Sugoi is "amazing", "wonderful" or "terrific". Can also mean "terrible" (like The sheer destruction was amazing.).

Side note: Finishing Evangelion tonight. Observations (probably going to have a lot of people disagree with me) 1) This show fills the same gap as "Catcher in the Rye" it speaks to people (generally young people) at a very specific point in their life. If you're not at that point in your life, it'll be like pulling teeth to watch it. 2) Their budget issues and Anno's depression really caused this show to take a giant crap in the final third of the series. 3) Evangelion is best when Shinji gets into the fething robot. 4) Congratulations.

It basically has the exact same uses as, "Wow."

 Alfndrate wrote:


Side note: Finishing Evangelion tonight. Observations (probably going to have a lot of people disagree with me) 1) This show fills the same gap as "Catcher in the Rye" it speaks to people (generally young people) at a very specific point in their life. If you're not at that point in your life, it'll be like pulling teeth to watch it. 2) Their budget issues and Anno's depression really caused this show to take a giant crap in the final third of the series. 3) Evangelion is best when Shinji gets into the fething robot. 4) Congratulations.

That is kinda my problem in general with YA fiction. It doesnt hold up unless you are in a certain mindset, preaching to the choir so be it, and that doesnt make it a good story. Maybe its because I skipped over the whole "Your special, your not like the rest of the sheeple, your different and everyone is just a poser" but all YA fiction is about that and I hate it. Because all it takes is one moment to realize, holy gak, everyone is fething different, and so are you, so your NOT SPECIAL AND GET INTO THE ROBOT HOLDEN

As someone who LOVES Evangelion, and was his Number 1 anime until Kill la Kill and HATES Shinji with a passion, I'll just leave this here:



Yeah, you are right, this still doesn't show how much of a fether Shinji is. Here's another



Final one


Have I mentioned I hate Shinji yet?

Edit: "Erased" for anime of the season. This is some top quality work, this last episode felt like 5 mns tops.

Finished Evangelion, episodes 25 and 26 were piles of hot garbage. If the series ended at the halfway point of episode 25 it would have been better. If it ended at 24, it would have the best outcome.

Time to cleanse the palette with Build Fighters because I need some Yu-Gand-Oh in my life...

Just finished Aldnoah Season 1.
Know I have to wait for the Dub of season 2.
Seriously. how hard is dubbing? Jesus, it must take a months work top.

 Alfndrate wrote:
Finished Evangelion, episodes 25 and 26 were piles of hot garbage. If the series ended at the halfway point of episode 25 it would have been better. If it ended at 24, it would have the best outcome.

Time to cleanse the palette with Build Fighters because I need some Yu-Gand-Oh in my life...

There an actual movie to retcon that ending, it's called The end of evangelion. It's pretty fething great.

Oh I know, maybe in a month or two I'll start to seek out The End of Evangelion, or the rebuild movies, but right now I just want anything that isn't Eva.

Erased keeps getting better and better, and feth you if you judge me, but Ojiisan and Marshmallow is 3 minutes of sugary adorableness.

Debating whether or not to watch the Little Busters anime. I can watch it for free on Crunchyroll, but I was hoping on getting the visual novel. Anyone know how much it costs and where I might find it?

Well ghost hunt is getting a bit oy my interest so im not sure.

So I uh decided to watch One Punch Man and I only watched 2 eps. It just seems rather bland and boring. Wheres the tnesion and the drama? Its a bad sign when you main character isnt the focus of the viewer. I'm more interested in Genos and his story. Not this bald guy guy who does this as a hobby.

I dunno, maybe I need to watch a bit more before it gets interesting.

 johnscott10 wrote:
So I uh decided to watch One Punch Man and I only watched 2 eps. It just seems rather bland and boring. Wheres the tnesion and the drama? Its a bad sign when you main character isnt the focus of the viewer. I'm more interested in Genos and his story. Not this bald guy guy who does this as a hobby.

I dunno, maybe I need to watch a bit more before it gets interesting.

The tension and the drama is "will Saitama have to use a second punch?" The early episodes are mostly just setting up for the Hero Association stuff. The thing about One Punch Man, is that it's not deep, it's not a deconstruction of the superhero genre, it's a comedy series. Most of the humor comes from the "hype meter" or, how much detail is given to Saitama. He's so laid back because he doesn't have a challenge, as shown with the Subterranean King, he got so hyped in the dream that everything was detailed, when the actual fight occurred it was over in seconds.

Most of the joy I got from the series besides the situational humor is just how much care went into the whole production. It was so well animated (even when there was no detail) that you can't help but be impressed. I mean I know it's Madhouse, but still it was such a well done series.

Edit: Grimgar is still dark as feth, and if you enjoyed Log Horizon, you should enjoy this. Dimension W is shaping up to be a decent action show.

Tried Ghost Hunt, it was Meh.
Now im watching genshiken. Im wondering if I should watch the Anime Within an Anime they have.
After that is "The Disappearence of Nagato Yuki-chan"

Hi guys. I'm still not dead. Just easily distracted and busy. Excellent season so far to my eye. Some serious surprises too.

"Hai to Gensou no Grimgar" was a good ep2 but I feel the sloooow pace of the second half was a wee bit too much.

In either case, it must suck to live in a Fantasy world where



Also, Ranta keeps being awesome and the one who gets gak done.

That scene in Ep2 was fething brutal man XD

My inner D&D nerd was trying to stat out that fight.

And was super impressed by the goblin while super dissapointed in all the 1s and 2s the party was rolling for everything.

Well, on a lighter note, Konosuba has arrived!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Ooohh, Paranoia Agent, ehat an awesome anime. It gets strange like all hell, but very cool! The OP is one of my favorites, it's so nuts.

Welp, Grimgar has my love. Those 20 mns just flew by, I'm excited for more. From the preview, either someone dies or they kill their first goblin.

In either case, I'm loving the Dark Knight. Usually cocky as hell isn't my cup of tea save rare exceptions (Kamina 4ever) but he's so damn fun.

Wow it's been a while since I've been here new thread and all that( yeah really It's been a while)


I just started watching Paranoia Agent I'm on ep 7 atm...strange as hell but yet somehow I just need to know what happens next. It was the opening that got me to give it a shot....weird as hell but some how interesting.

I also hear they are finally doing Ep 6 for Hellsing Abridged...bout damn time I reckons.

"Erased" is such a roller coaster of emotions sadness, disgust, happiness, fear, I went through them all in this episode. The end was straight out of a Disney movie, it was so beautiful <3

Erased is probably one of the best pieces of drama I've seen in modern anime. Like these kids feel like real kids, the tension, the home life seems very realistic. Listen up Jun Maeda, this is how you write a good drama.

I'm going to be sad in 9 weeks when this is over.

I'm not sure what's worse, the sheer length of this particular Naruto filler arc, or that they released a movie that spoils some of the ending stuff that hasn't happened in the series yet.

 AduroT wrote:
I'm not sure what's worse, the sheer length of this particular Naruto filler arc, or that they released a movie that spoils some of the ending stuff that hasn't happened in the series yet.

Probably the filler. If you're talking about the Boruto movie, remember, the manga ended over a year ago and it's been 6 months since the side story came out. For the most part, the anime industry lives to increase the sales of the source manga, so the movie being released makes sense from that point of view. The file is worse because there's no reason for it to exist anymore...

Also, Kishimoto is writing a Boruto manga that comes out this spring, sooooo the movie is most likely also an advertisement for that. :/

So, we finished death parade and this is my second time watching it in the anime club. and I realise why I hate it, it blatantly contradicts itself.
there are rules for what an arbiter is. number one is "an Arbiter cannont stop being an arbiter, for that is why they exist" except in the series, you see one clearly stop being one.
and the fact that it says they have no "Human" emotions despite every one of them having emotions.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So, we finished death parade and this is my second time watching it in the anime club. and I realise why I hate it, it blatantly contradicts itself.
there are rules for what an arbiter is. number one is "an Arbiter cannont stop being an arbiter, for that is why they exist" except in the series, you see one clearly stop being one.
and the fact that it says they have no "Human" emotions despite every one of them having emotions.

I quite loved it, tbh. Many scenes moved me to tears, and I found the ice skating scene to be stunning.
About what you said, yeah, but don't forget our main arbiter is an experiment. Nona wanted to change the system so she implanted human emotions in Decim. The Red-haired dude, Ginti, that one I have no explanation, he clearly has a distaste for humans. Quin, the one Arbiter who quit being arbiter, and I quote the wiki:

"Quin is the only arbiter that seems to have been exempted from the first of the Four Rules, as she eventually stopped making judgements and moved on to working in the Information-Processing Bureau."

In all honesty, I blame this on "having a friend in high places." Nona clearly is her friend AND she needed a spot to run her experiment, so she managed to promote Quin and get a bar for Decim.

The funny part is that we have no idea what arbiters are. They never fully explained their origin, we only know from the rules ( "Arbiters cannot feel emotion, for they are dummies.") that they shouldn't feel emotion because they are judges. That "Cannot" in the rules makes me think they have at least some emotions, they just shouldn't use them when judging. If they didn't have emotions at all, why do they need a rule? (and yes, I do understand this is at the same time silly, because Nona's experience consists of having an arbiter filled to the brim with human emotions)
Ya know, like in real life, there are many things you shouldn't do when it's personal because of your emotions.

Grimgar is interesting.

I know they are doing world and character building, but man it feels slow.

Yeah, I like the premise of Grimgar, but slooooooooooooowwwwwwwww....

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So, we finished death parade and this is my second time watching it in the anime club. and I realise why I hate it, it blatantly contradicts itself.
there are rules for what an arbiter is. number one is "an Arbiter cannont stop being an arbiter, for that is why they exist" except in the series, you see one clearly stop being one.
and the fact that it says they have no "Human" emotions despite every one of them having emotions.

I quite loved it, tbh. Many scenes moved me to tears, and I found the ice skating scene to be stunning.
About what you said, yeah, but don't forget our main arbiter is an experiment. Nona wanted to change the system so she implanted human emotions in Decim. The Red-haired dude, Ginti, that one I have no explanation, he clearly has a distaste for humans. Quin, the one Arbiter who quit being arbiter, and I quote the wiki:

"Quin is the only arbiter that seems to have been exempted from the first of the Four Rules, as she eventually stopped making judgements and moved on to working in the Information-Processing Bureau."

In all honesty, I blame this on "having a friend in high places." Nona clearly is her friend AND she needed a spot to run her experiment, so she managed to promote Quin and get a bar for Decim.

The funny part is that we have no idea what arbiters are. They never fully explained their origin, we only know from the rules ( "Arbiters cannot feel emotion, for they are dummies.") that they shouldn't feel emotion because they are judges. That "Cannot" in the rules makes me think they have at least some emotions, they just shouldn't use them when judging. If they didn't have emotions at all, why do they need a rule? (and yes, I do understand this is at the same time silly, because Nona's experience consists of having an arbiter filled to the brim with human emotions)
Ya know, like in real life, there are many things you shouldn't do when it's personal because of your emotions.

Except Ginti Clearly has emotions, as does Quin. they both clearly have emotions at many times, but the show expects us to think they all have no emotions?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:


Except Ginti Clearly has emotions, as does Quin. they both clearly have emotions at many times, but the show expects us to think they all have no emotions?

Exactly. Like I said, Ginti has a clear distaste for humans, that's an emotion. Quin, she shows lots of love for alcohol and she's friends with Nona; I don't think anyone would be friend with a mindless dummy. That's why I can only assume the rule means they shouldn't judge using their emotions but Decim is the experiment proving it would actually be good if they did.

I dunno, I admit there's lots of contradictions for me to "get it".

And about Grimgar, yeah, I agree. It's getting REALLY slow.

I assumed that the normal 3rd episode extravaganza was going to happen. I think the grimderp the series is wanting hits us next episode

Got done with Girls un panzer.
pretty fun anime, kinda wish some of the sie characters that appear in every episode, the girls piloting the STUG and the volleyball team seemed really interesting.....but not time for them.

Panzer was an ok series, I just disliked how they kept changing the rules to make the heroes even bigger underdogs in each match.

it seemed like that, But I think it might have been an escalation like thing, where most other schools could afford to escalate, they could not.
I had some gripes, wish I had more of it.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
it seemed like that, But I think it might have been an escalation like thing, where most other schools could afford to escalate, they could not.
I had some gripes, wish I had more of it.

There's a movie out that will hopefully get a release someday.

I really wish Sentai had a freaking budget to do better dubs and releases -the GuP dub is okay, but you can tell if they had some more time they coulda done better. /rant

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So, we finished death parade and this is my second time watching it in the anime club. and I realise why I hate it, it blatantly contradicts itself.
there are rules for what an arbiter is. number one is "an Arbiter cannont stop being an arbiter, for that is why they exist" except in the series, you see one clearly stop being one.
and the fact that it says they have no "Human" emotions despite every one of them having emotions.

Hardly the first series to have a set of rules stated by some central authority that are then contradicted by the lives and actions of the characters. A lot of stuff with robots, androids or artificial intelligence is all about this.

"There will be plenty of time to ask him later."

Oh shoot son, no, you cant say that. You done jinxed him you did. Yep, there he goes. He dead.

 AduroT wrote:
"There will be plenty of time to ask him later."

Oh shoot son, no, you cant say that. You done jinxed him you did. Yep, there he goes. He dead.

Well to be fair, I think this was bloody obvious from episode one. Someone like that? They never make it XD

So time for another round of Anime Club roundup
Kinos Journey: So, the adults try to murder the little 12 year old girl, yup, that was dark
Mononoke: So she got pregnant, expanded to the size of a 9month old, than gave birth to a fish.......2 episodes after they talk about ghosts that are the spirits of aborted children.....their working through something
Seven Deadly Sins: We have looked at the death count, so far, like 2. Someone even has city dropped on his head...nope im fine.
Your lie in april: ALL THE FEELS, he really does love his mom :(
Ghost Stories: DUES EX MACHINA
And Im bored of spice and wolf despite all the nudity, so meh

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

And Im bored of spice and wolf despite all the nudity, so meh

This sums up that series so well;



XD

 LordofHats wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
"There will be plenty of time to ask him later."

Oh shoot son, no, you cant say that. You done jinxed him you did. Yep, there he goes. He dead.

Well to be fair, I think this was bloody obvious from episode one. Someone like that? They never make it XD

I figured it was either him or the dark knight, but his death flags were just too huge and too many this episode.

I finished Overlord the other day, which was pretty enjoyable.

I also liked the Seven Deadly Sins, I understand that is getting a second season before too long.

 AduroT wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
"There will be plenty of time to ask him later."

Oh shoot son, no, you cant say that. You done jinxed him you did. Yep, there he goes. He dead.

Well to be fair, I think this was bloody obvious from episode one. Someone like that? They never make it XD

I figured it was either him or the dark knight, but his death flags were just too huge and too many this episode.

I have to say, I'm glad it was him; The Dark Knight probably is the only character I like.

I find it interesting how much the animes either make me care extra hard about the characters or just not give a damn.

In Erased:

In Grimgar:

So Snow White just took an interesting turn.



And Dimension W decided

Which I'm cool with. Now then, my copy of season one of Familiar of Zero just arrived, so I need to get on that.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:


In Grimgar:

Spoiler:

I couldn't give less of a feth about someone dying. In fact, I was happy. Something actually happened. The anime was trying to shove feelings down my throat with everyone crying, everyone going "OH NO, OUR FRIEND IS DEAD" and there I was, not giving a single feth about it.
In fact, I'm actually more curious about the Goblin party than them at this point. Goblins can be absolute badasses! The blue one was amazing, the dude was using sword techniques, used crossbows like a boss and he seemed to be the leader to boot!

I totally agree.
I was super apathetic about the event in the episode.

Anime has like never moved me before. like never. I found a few things sad, maybe even a bit bummed(IM LOOKING AT YOU BLACK LAGOON)
But my god, that Shiki OVA, I cried at the end, that was such a gut wrencher. I couldnt even.......When he started sticking them with the metal rod and the women smiled, I balled like a baby.

I remember being floored at Kamina's death in Gurren Lagaan, and I cried at the ending of Code Geass. Those are the two I most recall.

I got pretty teary when Lockon bit it at the end of Season 1 of 00,

 AduroT wrote:
I remember being floored at Kamina's death in Gurren Lagaan

One thing about that death was how it jarred with the flavor of the anime. You start with a cartoony look, slapsticky characters, and feel-good “fighting spirit, you can do it if you try!” expecting a light hearted romp. Then *BLAM* now we’re talking about dealing with loss, picking up the pieces after a tragedy, etc.

I liked the series, but kept asking myself what demographic they were aiming for.

 AduroT wrote:
I remember being floored at Kamina's death in Gurren Lagaan, and I cried at the ending of Code Geass. Those are the two I most recall.

That one hit me, too, even though it was spoiled for me because

And I always get a bit teary

Hey, HEY! Spoiler that stuff, kay? I know it, but not everyone has seen that yet.

Spoilers have a 5 year expiration date

Mhm. Saikano got a couple tears out of me.

And Wolf's Rain when....



And I'm getting close to just stopping with Grimgar, jezus chrits it's boring and spoon feeds any notion of tension.

Grimgar is only holding me because of the art

Oh, also a note on Grimgar, is got more RPG/video game-ish in this last episode with them all picking up a "new skill" from their guilds.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Spoilers have a 5 year expiration date

The anime is 1 year shy of being a decade old. I might go shorter than 5 years but there comes a point regardless where people just no longer have any reasonable expectation to be protected from spoilers. EDIT: Honestly this entire thread should be carried with an underlying assumption that there will be spoilers XD


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 Alfndrate wrote:
Grimgar is only holding me because of the art

I actually rather like it (more than other trapped in a game animes). The goblins have actual character which is interesting, the art is lovely, and the main party has a nice chemistry. That being said, it is going hella slow and they really need to pick up the pace or even I'm gonna get bored XD

 LordofHats wrote:

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 Alfndrate wrote:
Grimgar is only holding me because of the art

I actually rather like it (more than other trapped in a game animes). The goblins have actual character which is interesting, the art is lovely, and the main party has a nice chemistry. That being said, it is going hella slow and they really need to pick up the pace or even I'm gonna get bored XD

What you are saying is the GM needs to railroad them a little bit right

Rocks fall everyone dies

Roll new characters! I mean I'm still watching it, but they need some action.

Dammit, for some reason now I want to rewatch crime dramas and add a commentary track as if it was an RPG.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Dammit, for some reason now I want to rewatch crime dramas and add a commentary track as if it was an RPG.

That would be a potentially hilarious take on an Abridged series XD

 LordofHats wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Spoilers have a 5 year expiration date

The anime is 1 year shy of being a decade old. I might go shorter than 5 years but there comes a point regardless where people just no longer have any reasonable expectation to be protected from spoilers. EDIT: Honestly this entire thread should be carried with an underlying assumption that there will be spoilers XD

Most agreeable.

Damnit Aduro, I was gonna read the Bible eventually. Jesus dies? That's bs not reading it now

 LordofHats wrote:
Damnit Aduro, I was gonna read the Bible eventually. Jesus dies? That's bs not reading it now

Eh, it's a comic book death though. He comes back shortly after.

Speaking of adding RP's to shows...
It's pirates of the caribbean but as a D&D campaign.
http://imgur.com/a/duNCA

Not anime but hilarious as hell.

Are you unawares of the "Movie/TVshow DnD Campaign Screencap Comics" thing?

Darths & Droids, One Piece: Grand Line 3.5, DM of the Rings, Benders and Brawlers, etc. etc.

I've read Darths and Droids, but I didn't know it was a thing XD

Only knew of darth & droids. :O

In other news. ITS HERE;




Its four days old, but finally I can see it XD Bayonets for DAYZ!

Whooop! All aboard the hype train! Ah, I love Hellsing abridged!

Knights of the hanging knoose.........I lost it

Erased is one of the best things I have seen if you are into "Mystery" with awesome characters to boot. I'm resisting so much not to read the manga too. It should be illegal to end episodes as they are.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Erased is one of the best things I have seen if you are into "Mystery" with awesome characters to boot. I'm resisting so much not to read the manga too. It should be illegal to end episodes as they are.

I watched the first 2 eps and stopped. Way too many cliffhangers. I will binge this when it's done.

I want my season 2 of panty & stocking damnit. I just finished it. And I want more. Damnit gainax, stop rebooting evangalion every 3 years and get on that.

The newest season of Gate is pretty interesting.

They stepped up the drama, politics and world building.

So on that latest episode of Gate...

 AduroT wrote:
So on that latest episode of Gate...

Spoiler:

Do you think the Emperor is dead or will his life be saved by superior Japanese medicine?

Is that even a question?

 FacelessMage wrote:
The newest season of Gate is pretty interesting.

They stepped up the drama, politics and world building.

There's another season of Gate? That was quick.

Has the UN gotten involved yet? You'd think they would be all over a portal into another world, due to pressure from its members.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 FacelessMage wrote:
The newest season of Gate is pretty interesting.

They stepped up the drama, politics and world building.

There's another season of Gate? That was quick.

Has the UN gotten involved yet? You'd think they would be all over a portal into another world, due to pressure from its members.

I was pretty surprised too.

They are up to episode 6.

And no UN yet from what I could see. But hey more animal people and dark elves! That is just as good as the UN right?

Gate is practically a lengthy recruitment video for the Restoration Party, but it has its moments.

Outbreak Company is in a similar genre, but less serious, though still well done, imo.

Konosuba's probably my favorite this season, probably because I have a thing for comedies that refuse to take themselves seriously. It's the only show this season (not counting Snow White) that I'd be willing to buy if it gets a disc release.

The second season appears to be better, at least.
I'm enjoying it more than its predecessor.
The dragon killing was pretty overkill, but considering how they were expecting a bigger target, I guess that's understandable.

So...finished watching guilty crown.
Its fine I guess. Enjoyable, anyway. Cool music. Characters were passable. Very pretty.
Plot is...odd. Like, the virus is clearly a big evil magical macguffin that somehow gives people the ability to materialize their thoughts into weapons, but it only happens to people 17 and under. Something that has something to do with Mana. Idk, gak is weird. Also, lol at UN being super evil.
Ending is pretty sad though.

I gave up 3 episodes in, thats my rule.
but my god.........was it a ripoff of Code Geass

I never understood that complaint.
It didn't feel like Code Geass to me. I got more of an Evangelion vibe from it.

Wait, they're materializing weapons? Sounds like Busou Renkin.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I never understood that complaint.
It didn't feel like Code Geass to me. I got more of an Evangelion vibe from it.

Guy meets mysterious girl.
Girl gives him power
Uses power to overthrow oppressive regime.

That's basically half of Shonen anime right there.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I gave up 3 episodes in, thats my rule.
but my god.........was it a ripoff of Code Geass

Both shows were written (predominantly) by the same guy so I think that was to be expected

Still, one was Ok, the other was gak.

Eh. Guilty Crown was okay, but definitely not as good a CoDe Geass. However! GC had the sickest season one opening!




Listen to the full version sometime. It's a beautiful song.

 LordofHats wrote:
Eh. Guilty Crown was okay, but definitely not as good a CoDe Geass. However! GC had the sickest season one opening!




Listen to the full version sometime. It's a beautiful song.

Oh yeah, Guilty Crown has its problems. The virus and setting doesn't really make sense. They...added too much, you know? Like, they had a concept, then they added more concepts, and they forgot to refine them.
The show is enjoyable, but if you try to think about the virus you may BSOD. Its like they tried making a ham sandwich, but they made it too big and choked on it.

To be fair, Code Geass sort of does the same thing near the end with that collective consciousness thing, in that it sort of not made sense, but at least it was coherent.

I prefer Euterpe. What a nice melody.

 LordofHats wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I gave up 3 episodes in, thats my rule.
but my god.........was it a ripoff of Code Geass

Both shows were written (predominantly) by the same guy so I think that was to be expected

Isn't there a third show by the same guy that follows the same basic story as well? I'd swear it was a trifecta from him. But yeah, I thought GC was a weaker version of CG.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I never understood that complaint.
It didn't feel like Code Geass to me. I got more of an Evangelion vibe from it.

Guy meets mysterious girl.
Girl gives him power
Uses power to overthrow oppressive regime.

If you watched more than the first few episodes you'd find those are the only real similarities.
You might as well say Star Wars is a rip off of Lord of the Rings.

Boy meets old magic man
Old Magic Man gives him a special doodad
Boy beats ancient evil ruler

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I never understood that complaint.
It didn't feel like Code Geass to me. I got more of an Evangelion vibe from it.

Guy meets mysterious girl.
Girl gives him power
Uses power to overthrow oppressive regime.

If you watched more than the first few episodes you'd find those are the only real similarities.
You might as well say Star Wars is a rip off of Lord of the Rings.

Boy meets old magic man
Old Magic Man gives him a special doodad
Boy beats ancient evil ruler

It's the Hero's Journey ...

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I never understood that complaint.
It didn't feel like Code Geass to me. I got more of an Evangelion vibe from it.

Guy meets mysterious girl.
Girl gives him power
Uses power to overthrow oppressive regime.

If you watched more than the first few episodes you'd find those are the only real similarities.
You might as well say Star Wars is a rip off of Lord of the Rings.

Boy meets old magic man
Old Magic Man gives him a special doodad
Boy beats ancient evil ruler

It's the Hero's Journey ...

Spoiler:

Yep, except in anime it seems they replace the old wise man with attractive mysterious girl.
Its all the same thing, really. No need to start throwing around rip off.

Hey, I'm looking for a good mech anime with mechs more or less along the lines of Battletech. That is, less flying super laser gundam light show. More slower moving heavy duty weaponry and firefights.

Cheers,
Ghazzy

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Hey, I'm looking for a good mech anime with mechs more or less along the lines of Battletech. That is, less flying super laser gundam light show. More slower moving heavy duty weaponry and firefights.

Cheers,
Ghazzy

Let me know when you find it.

Ditto.

Patlabor isn't bad as far as I can tell- the Mechs are slower and smaller, anyways. But that's really about it- Japan likes its quick-mechs.

Big O might be a good one- the MegaDeuces are behemoths rather than giant ninjas, but it's a smaller series.

And Battletech had actual animated shows in the 80s- you might be able to find those guys out there.

Aldnoah zero maybe?

Wait a minute, I knew I was forgetting something! Macross! (and the various shows it was made from)

Caught up on the last six episodes of RWBY yesterday and... wow. I mean, they made a disclaimer that was essentially "this gak's about to get dark, don't watch it with your kids", but...

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Caught up on the last six episodes of RWBY yesterday and... wow. I mean, they made a disclaimer that was essentially "this gak's about to get dark, don't watch it with your kids", but...

Spoiler:

That's two of my favourite characters (Penny and Pyrrha) dead and everything gone to hell. Well played, RoosterTeeth. Well played.

 AduroT wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Caught up on the last six episodes of RWBY yesterday and... wow. I mean, they made a disclaimer that was essentially "this gak's about to get dark, don't watch it with your kids", but...

Spoiler:

That's two of my favourite characters (Penny and Pyrrha) dead and everything gone to hell. Well played, RoosterTeeth. Well played.

Spoiler:

Well, Penny is a robot, so she could still come back. Also I'm waiting for Yang's inevitable bad arse robot arm.

Spoilers dawg XD

People are already talking it, and its not my fault if you are too slow to watch something that was released on the RT site about 2 days ago

Ok, Why. Did No one. Mention. That is there a fethmothering second season of assasination classroom?
I am annoyed.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
People are already talking it, and its not my fault if you are too slow to watch something that was released on the RT site about 2 days ago

Ok, Why. Did No one. Mention. That is there a fethmothering second season of assasination classroom?
I am annoyed.

Yeah, in spoilers, don't be a dick.

 Soladrin wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
People are already talking it, and its not my fault if you are too slow to watch something that was released on the RT site about 2 days ago

Ok, Why. Did No one. Mention. That is there a fethmothering second season of assasination classroom?
I am annoyed.

Yeah, in spoilers, don't be a dick.

Oh, well that's embarrassing. I somehow did not add the spoilertags. Could have sworn I clicked the button.
Fixed now.

Ok, so its starting to becoming time for the anime club to bring up new anime.....
So, I need a messed up disturbing anime to go out on a bang with.
So far Im thinking
School Days
Future Diaries

Bottle Fairies. It's a Children's anime meant to be semi-educational (like Blues Clues, sorta), that follows a bunch of tiny chibi pixies that're learning about the human world. If your club doesn't already know about it, they'll watch this super-saccarine anime, just waiting for something terrible/horrible to happen, and then the end credits roll without anything going wrong at all.

School Living Club! (Gakkou Gurashi!).

If you can get to the end of the first episode, the show turns horribly dark...

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ok, so its starting to becoming time for the anime club to bring up new anime.....
So, I need a messed up disturbing anime to go out on a bang with.
So far Im thinking
School Days
Future Diaries

Naaah mate.
You need Boku no Pico

Then there's violence jack, which is super rare and has been banned most places.

In fact, you can throw in most early 90s OVAs in there as well, since the 90s was apparently the time of hyper violence.

Now that's the hard stuff.

If you want to try something more...accessible, try Another, Elfen Lied or Corpse party. Those have a bit more of a following.
But yeah, Mirai Nikki is good.

I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

 FacelessMage wrote:
I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

Sounds like a good description of Konosuba, too (in a good way, I mean.)

 FacelessMage wrote:
I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

/clap I can now only imagine Grimgar as casuals stuck in Dark Souls. Well done, very, very well done!

 Hoitash wrote:

 FacelessMage wrote:
I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

Sounds like a good description of Konosuba, too (in a good way, I mean.)

Thank you for mentioning that. I looked that up and started watching.
Hilarious. The poor's guy death at the beginning xD


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 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 FacelessMage wrote:
I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

/clap I can now only imagine Grimgar as casuals stuck in Dark Souls. Well done, very, very well done!

Grimgar : Git gud - The Anime

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Hoitash wrote:

 FacelessMage wrote:
I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

Sounds like a good description of Konosuba, too (in a good way, I mean.)

Thank you for mentioning that. I looked that up and started watching.
Hilarious. The poor's guy death at the beginning xD


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 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 FacelessMage wrote:
I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

/clap I can now only imagine Grimgar as casuals stuck in Dark Souls. Well done, very, very well done!

Grimgar : Git gud - The Anime

Followed by Season 2:

Grimgar: Goblinz 2 Hard Plz Nerf

Holy feth does Erased just continue to get better and better.

Finally got around to Tokyo Ghoul.
First Season is amazing.
Root A is gak. The overall drop in quality is absurd.

Reminds me of Black Butler, really; great first season, gakky sequel.


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 FacelessMage wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Hoitash wrote:

 FacelessMage wrote:
I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

Sounds like a good description of Konosuba, too (in a good way, I mean.)

Thank you for mentioning that. I looked that up and started watching.
Hilarious. The poor's guy death at the beginning xD


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 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 FacelessMage wrote:
I just found the best description of Grimgar that someone posted in the comments of a streaming site:

randomguy01 • 2 days ago


Documentary about a group of filthy casuals stuck in an RPG with a "hardcore" mode they didn't ask for. Lots of crying, care-bearing, and the usual pains and strife's of a casual gamer.

The elite gamers are only shown in passing. If a future society where we can send people into an RPG game world, and we watched only the casuals progression, this would be that show.

/clap I can now only imagine Grimgar as casuals stuck in Dark Souls. Well done, very, very well done!

Grimgar : Git gud - The Anime

Followed by Season 2:

Grimgar: Goblinz 2 Hard Plz Nerf

I saw that. That Gobbo was either really tough, or those kids were that incompetent.
Git gud at killin', nubs

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Hey, I'm looking for a good mech anime with mechs more or less along the lines of Battletech. That is, less flying super laser gundam light show. More slower moving heavy duty weaponry and firefights.

Cheers,
Ghazzy

How about the battletech anime. There is a battletech anime btw. Its really bad.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Ok, so its starting to becoming time for the anime club to bring up new anime.....
So, I need a messed up disturbing anime to go out on a bang with.
So far Im thinking
School Days
Future Diaries

Well if you want edgy, those are a good start. Might as well throw elfin lied and higorashi onto the pile. Please be over 18.

You could go deeper though. Go watch all of evangelion the original season and continue on with the end of evangelion movie while its still fresh. Take a deep look at the human condition.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Hey, I'm looking for a good mech anime with mechs more or less along the lines of Battletech. That is, less flying super laser gundam light show. More slower moving heavy duty weaponry and firefights.

Cheers,
Ghazzy

I'm going to still suggest Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team. It takes place on earth for 90% of the show (it starts in space). Since the suits are stuck in Earth's atmosphere, they tend to not be able to do all the flying space lazer fights and it takes place in a jungle, so more firefights.

The problem with mech shows is that they're almost always just backdrops for the story that the creator actually wishes to tell. However I'm going to suggest a few shows that you might be interested in that aren't Gundam shows.
Patlabor (cop drama with mechs)
Big-O (it's a big mech, slow fights, but again not really about the mechs)
Armored Trooper Votoms (this one I haven't seen, but it comes as a suggestion from Cyporiean).

Gunbuster, before it goes into SuperRobot territory, is very much a 'real robots' style genre (well, to an extent. The Mech calisthenics, though silly looking, actually serve an interesting function that most Mecha shows just gloss over- that of the pilots getting used to their equipment's capabilities and controls)

It's all space fights, but they actually take into consideration things like Time Dilation for moving at near-light speed, and stuff like that.

 Ledabot wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Hey, I'm looking for a good mech anime with mechs more or less along the lines of Battletech. That is, less flying super laser gundam light show. More slower moving heavy duty weaponry and firefights.

Cheers,
Ghazzy

How about the battletech anime. There is a battletech anime btw. Its really bad.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Ok, so its starting to becoming time for the anime club to bring up new anime.....
So, I need a messed up disturbing anime to go out on a bang with.
So far Im thinking
School Days
Future Diaries

Well if you want edgy, those are a good start. Might as well throw elfin lied and higorashi onto the pile. Please be over 18.

You could go deeper though. Go watch all of evangelion the original season and continue on with the end of evangelion movie while its still fresh. Take a deep look at the human condition.

Its funny, alot of the people are "youngtaku" who dont know about the old stuff. I suggested BIG 0 and there like "What is that" and I cried. Im not old damnit. im not old. But they know aboit higurashi and evangalion and elfen lied.

A lot of the youngtaku that you're interacting with is due to what is easy to get your hands on. Big-O was on Toonami when college aged kids were 10 or so. Elfen Lied is on Netflix, Eva is so saturated in the anime discussion that you almost can't scroll past a series without seeing someone making an Eva comparison. Higurashi was most likely a thing when they were being teenagers so they most likely experienced it with their peer groups. Though I've never heard of it until you mentioned it. I'm assuming you mean Higurashi when they cry?

Most other series are tough to get your hands on if it's not streaming somewhere or there hasn't been a recent DVD/Bluray release of it. I would suggest you bring in an episode of Big-O for them to watch and see if they like it.

I tried watching Claymore.
I just..I just can't. The animation and art is crap. Everyone has fish faces, I can't bear it.

If it didn't look so cheap and poorly made it would have been fine I guess. Has a trace of The Witcher about it.
But...dem Tau faces.

When I see "Higurashi" I think "Higurashi no Go".

Well I finally caught up with RWBY;

 LordofHats wrote:
Well I finally caught up with RWBY;

Spoiler:

Always knew the series was gonna go dark dark, I mean you every actually read the lyrics for the openings? But damn. That gak escalated quickly XD

Read? Nah, I just listened to them. Its a tad foreboding. Even the title is ominous.
The first OP was better though in terms of composition. The new one sounds jarring to me...which I guess was the point considering the subject matter.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Well I finally caught up with RWBY;

Spoiler:

Always knew the series was gonna go dark dark, I mean you every actually read the lyrics for the openings? But damn. That gak escalated quickly XD

Read? Nah, I just listened to them. Its a tad foreboding. Even the title is ominous.
The first OP was better though in terms of composition. The new one sounds jarring to me...which I guess was the point considering the subject matter.

I agree with you in that the second was worse, however I don't think it was the point, it just sounds like a bad song to me.

 Soladrin wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Well I finally caught up with RWBY;

Spoiler:

Always knew the series was gonna go dark dark, I mean you every actually read the lyrics for the openings? But damn. That gak escalated quickly XD

Read? Nah, I just listened to them. Its a tad foreboding. Even the title is ominous.
The first OP was better though in terms of composition. The new one sounds jarring to me...which I guess was the point considering the subject matter.

I agree with you in that the second was worse, however I don't think it was the point, it just sounds like a bad song to me.

Actually its the third OP.

The First was This Will be the Day
The Second was Time to Say Goodbye
The third and newest one is When it Falls

I got the first and the second confused; got them swapped around.

Okay, the latest one. Whatever. This seasons intro is crap.

Op 3 wasn't very good (though definitely the most foreboding). I'm actually surprised there's fan backlash about the step up in dark edginess. It was pretty apparent all the way back in season one that some of these things were going to happen.

Yeah, there's been significant forshadowing from the very beginning that the series started in a time of peace, and that peace wasn't going to last.

Anime roundup
Seven Deadly Sin: So, King Arthur and his army showed up literally out of nowhere.....that was weird
Ghost Stories: The mirror one is by far the weakest
Spice and wolf: Now that where on the dub instead of Sub, I wan understand it
Monoke: Second part of the story, I was getting food during it
Kinos Journey: I fell asleep
Her lie in april: Somehow we all skipped that and just started debating about how the anime club might not exist next year.

 DarkLink wrote:
Yeah, there's been significant forshadowing from the very beginning that the series started in a time of peace, and that peace wasn't going to last.

Yeah. The baddies have been one step ahead since episode one, and the RWBY girls and their friends have only ever gotten in the way mostly by happenstance. When you go back through RWBY's fighting record, the only fights they've managed to win were as a team (and almost always against Roman, easily the weakest of their enemies). Their duels tend to go badly for them, and a lot of the time they're saved by someone else's intervention. Season 2 spent an entire episode covering their motivations for becoming Huntresses, and what came out of that was a bunch of lovable idealists in what was patently a crap sack world (and that never ends well). Plus all three opens were foreshadowing pretty hard that a peaceful happy go lucky action series this was not.

None of these girls were really ready for when gak hit the fan, and gak just hit the fan in a pretty brutal way.

I'd applaud Monty Oum for his great skill at foreshadowing, but well, a bit late for that. EDIT: Eh what the hell. Doing it anyway;

Devastated as I am at the events, I'm still impressed by how much RT had managed to make me care about the characters in RWBY. If I didn't care so much, I wouldn't be as sad, so I can't even argue that it's bad writing.

Haven't gotten that far in RWBY, but from what I'm hearing so far,

I would expect about the same as Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.

 LordofHats wrote:
Op 3 wasn't very good (though definitely the most foreboding). I'm actually surprised there's fan backlash about the step up in dark edginess. It was pretty apparent all the way back in season one that some of these things were going to happen.

Anyway, has it been mentioned yet that D Grey Man is slated for a 2016 release? Because its slated for a 2016 release.
I'm super hyped. I love that show.

So there's this anime about a Japanese girl living in 19th century France called Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth, and it's adorable and if you liked Kinmoza or any other show in that vein you might like this one.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Hey, I'm looking for a good mech anime with mechs more or less along the lines of Battletech. That is, less flying super laser gundam light show. More slower moving heavy duty weaponry and firefights.

Cheers,
Ghazzy

I'm going to still suggest Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team. It takes place on earth for 90% of the show (it starts in space). Since the suits are stuck in Earth's atmosphere, they tend to not be able to do all the flying space lazer fights and it takes place in a jungle, so more firefights.

The problem with mech shows is that they're almost always just backdrops for the story that the creator actually wishes to tell. However I'm going to suggest a few shows that you might be interested in that aren't Gundam shows.
Patlabor (cop drama with mechs)
Big-O (it's a big mech, slow fights, but again not really about the mechs)
Armored Trooper Votoms (this one I haven't seen, but it comes as a suggestion from Cyporiean).

Thanks for those suggestions. I'll check them out now that I've finished all the Supernatural on Netflix

I'm well aware of the battletech show. Why is it all the coolest stuff never gets anything good aside from video games! No good 40k shows or films and no good Battletech shows or films!

My biggest complaint about Gundam style stuff is that it always seems like the machines power levels are associated with the level of determination.
Something like Villain: Hahaha! You're so weak! I'll punch your girlfriend! Hahahah! Hero: NO! NOT MY GIRLFRIEND! YAAAAAAAA!! *Kills villain despite the fact that he 's been getting pounded on for the last hour and the villain is still fresh*

In like a battletech thing it doesn't matter if you're determined to do anything. If you're in a hunchback and other guy is in a Atlas. You gon die son!

Gundam anime has the same problem as a lot of shows and movies. When pushed to a certain limit the main character suddenly gets a huge power boost out of nowhere. Meaning that the guy he was getting stomped by before now can only just barely defend himself before getting defeated by the charcater he was just beating up on earlier.

@Hotsauceman
I love Seven Deadly sins. You're in for some awesome happenings
No plot spoilers but more sort of character spoilers for those only who haven't seen this amazing program


Anyways, love that show. 2nd favorite anime after FMA:B. Seen the whole thing twice and can't wait for season 2
(FYI I watched the dubs. They're well done and IMHO improved on the original Japanese audio same as Fullmetal)

inb4 "Gundam isn't like that, you must have been watching G Gundam, wahh wahh our giant humanoid robots are technologically accurate!"

That does seem to be an issue with a lot of Mecha anime, even the Real Robot varants- Part of it is the idea of the Underdog being the protagonist, and how lazy writers, instead of actually showing a gain in skill or a separate side of them that's actually going to allow them to win, make it so that the 'determined last stand' always works.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

@Hotsauceman
I love Seven Deadly sins. You're in for some awesome happenings
No plot spoilers but more sort of character spoilers for those only who haven't seen this amazing program

Spoiler:

One of the things I love most about are just how absurdly powerful the sins are. I'm sick of underdog comes to up to beat overcat. Just like my min rant above. It's refreshing to see characters that can defeat almost anyone in a straight up fight with such ease. The only time something bad typically happens to them, it's them holding back too much, or getting tricked somehow.

if talking about the animu and not the manga than


imho.

i do like the idea of anime where the protagonists are op and the show is more about the interactions of everyone around them. you know they are not really going to fail like one piece or one punch man.

I believe 7 Deadly Sins is going to have a second season, just going by the ending. So I wouldn't lose hope yet.

Iirc it's already been approved for one.

The manga has just recently seen Pride, and is free to read on Crunchyroll, if you care about legal sources for your manga.

"I promise, we'll have our talk as soon as this battle is over."

Me: Well that's guys a goner.

 AduroT wrote:
"I promise, we'll have our talk as soon as this battle is over."

Me: Well that's guys a goner.

That and "I can drive a mobile worker." raised such a death flag that I was like "well feth, this can't go any other way..." It was a stupid bullgak death that had no meaning. But hey in a show about child soldiers I guess we have to expect bs deaths.

Out of curiosity, what are your feelings on Gate II?

I've been loathing it. Right now, I'm only watching because:

- I already watched the entire Season I, so, since I'm already so balls-deep, I want to see the end of it.

- The bunny-girl has access to probably one of the most 1337 Ninjas I have ever seen. I'm curious to see more of it.

Its better than the first season, now that we're actually in the other world this time, but its still pretty mediocre.

The last episode was a load of nothing.

I find it amusing though that they don't take the foreign diplomat into protective custody, when one of their soldiers already beat the gak out of that prince. I think they're already past the point of diplomatic niceties. If they are that worried of protecting them, the smart thing to do would be to to accuse that diplomatic and girl of being spies and arrest them.
If the cleaners have a problem with that, then they can say hello to Mr Bullet and his 1000 friends.

Eh, I really like it. It's really the only show I'm even watching anymore this season.

I dropped grimgar, divine gate and I'm saving erased for when it's done. Can't wait for spring season to begin cause this ones gak.

Next season has some more potential stuff though, winter season was light to begin with.

In no particular order for spring season:

New season of Magi (story of Sinbad)
Bungou Stray Dogs looks interesting
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri also could have potential
Joker Game looks like it's probably going to be my personal winner already.
Terra Formars second season (It's not great but I did enjoy that show)
New gundam Unicorn stuff

May have missed one or two shows.

New Jojo next season as well >_>.

I'm watching Durarara, Haikyuu, Erased, Iron Blooded Orphans, Dimension W, and I'm binging the feth out of Fairy Tail.

I dropped Grimgar because it was beautiful but god was it boring to watch... :/

Dimension W is pretty sweet, and I'm glad Toonami got the dub.

Konosuba, Dagashi Kashi, Rakugo, and Snow White are the other shows I'm watching this season. Next season looks to have a couple shows that have my interest.

Next season of Magi is Sinbad focused? Is it just airing the OVAs then, or something else?

A TV anime adaptation of manga Magi: Sinbad no Bouken has officially been announced via its official website. The announcement was made after today's special airing of Magi. According to the announcement, the staff and cast from the OVA will be reprising their original roles for the TV series. It will broadcast in Spring 2016 and premiere on MBS' "Animeism" block.

So no, it's not the OVA's, they are doing the full story.

 Alfndrate wrote:
New Jojo next season as well >_>.

I'm watching Durarara, Haikyuu, Erased, Iron Blooded Orphans, Dimension W, and I'm binging the feth out of Fairy Tail.

I dropped Grimgar because it was beautiful but god was it boring to watch... :/

Wait. The new Jojo season is coming out that early?!? I would have expected around a year or so before they started releasing it. Any specific dates yet?
If it comes this early, it will certainly be a beautiful DUWANG.

Yeah, the details can be found here

No.official start date other than April. KonaSuba seems to be one of the last to begin airing (besides Ajin) so that'll probably end around the last week in March. Give a week or so for other shows to wrap up, and I expect sometime before April 15th for Jojo

Ok, episode 21 of gate is already dumb in the first 4 minutes.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Ok, episode 21 of gate is already dumb in the first 4 minutes.

Spoiler:

1) Why are there no Japanese soldiers defending the Jade palace? You'd think they would respond by now.

2) What do you mean rescuing the vice minister will involve capturing the capital? No it won't. Just send in a helicopter or 2 and extract them. Mission completed. What are the natives going to do, throw spears at it?

3) I do like how they're finally letting other countries see the Special Region. I was wondering when that was going to happen. Seems illogical not too

4) Lol at evil reporter.

I loved the Reporter. He's such an avatar of douchebag reporting that it's funny.

Ah well, I started getting very disappointed with Gate, but at least Aijin and Dimension W were amazing surprises this season.

Ok, so, Anime club roundup
1: Seven Deadly Sins: Just pur action, nothing more really for this episode
2: Ghost Stories: We all loved the bunny episode,
3: SPice and wolf, if it wasnt the end of the quarter, we would vote to drop it, its just that boring
4: Kinos journey: "Critics are mentally damaged people who ruin the joy and fun of others with their critiques" wow, this show went there
5: Your lie in april, WHY WONT SHE DIE ALREADY
6:Mononoke: BORING!!!!!!!!!

Also, the men in the club have started a bet for over spring break. Two people have to suggest an anime for the other they have to watch, the looser(The one that cant make it through the anime) has to buy lunch for the winner. if both fail, pizza lunch for those that do win.
I got Monster Misume. I gave my partner Kantai Collection

 Alfndrate wrote:
Yeah, the details can be found here

No.official start date other than April. KonaSuba seems to be one of the last to begin airing (besides Ajin) so that'll probably end around the last week in March. Give a week or so for other shows to wrap up, and I expect sometime before April 15th for Jojo

Oh wonderful! Thanks for sharing the link.
Glad they're using an actor that already voiced the character from Eyes of Heaven. Stops it from being too jarring if you've already played the game, and the actor isn't half-bad.

There's gonna be a Phoenix Wright anime ...

I AM FRAKING ROCK HARD RIGHT NOW. AND YES, I NEED TO BE WRITING IN CAPS. HOLY gak, PHOENIX WRIGHT ANIME!

CAPCOM announced at a stage event at Tokyo Game Show on Thursday that its Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) courtroom battle game franchise is getting a TV anime adaptation that will premiere in Japan in April 2016.

No game no life already did Pheonix Wright in Anime tho


Problem?

Monster Misume is amazing. It's almost pure fanservice, but it's all tied together with a story that serves the fanservice- and there's enough actual emotional attachment to the characters, and straight up comedy, that it's not a JAHA like so many others of its kind- more like Tenchi Muyo than Infinite Stratos.

Well we both hate fan service anime, so we both gave eatchother one lol.

Finally got around to watching Madoka Magica : Rebellion

Absolutely gorgeous film, but also really tragic.

Guys, is it weird I cant to build gundams, but not want anything to do with the anime cause They all seem lackluster?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Guys, is it weird I cant to build gundams, but not want anything to do with the anime cause They all seem lackluster?

Nope not weird at all. I've got a couple built and haven't watched a single episode of the anime.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Guys, is it weird I cant to build gundams, but not want anything to do with the anime cause They all seem lackluster?

Yes! How dare you want to build cool robots without all the crap-tastic Yoshiyuki Tomino writing and character death.

But srsly build the models if you like the look of them. I love Gunpla kits, and have been eyeing a perfect grade kit recently.

Don't forget the Sound Assets that they haven't updated since the 70's!

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Guys, is it weird I cant to build gundams, but not want anything to do with the anime cause They all seem lackluster?

It is totally wrong!

If you like one thing you have to like it all!

Isn't that how fandom works?!

Deathscythe kit, here I come.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Deathscythe kit, here I come.

Be careful on that kit. Depending on which one you buy you'll end up with a piece of garbage. There were a few Master Grade kits released within the past few years that aren't bad, and the Ver. Ka kit is decent, but anything older and anything that's 1/100 but isn't a MG is garbage.

Watching the original NGE.
Turns out Shinji in Japanese is not as annoying as everyone keeps saying. He's actually less irritating than his successors (you know, the weak 14 male character, like Ganta Igarashi and Yuki Amano)

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Watching the original NGE.
Turns out Shinji in Japanese is not as annoying as everyone keeps saying. He's actually less irritating than his successors (you know, the weak 14 male character, like Ganta Igarashi and Yuki Amano)

I've never watched it in anything other then Japanese. In Japanese he's still an annoying crybaby only rivaled by Shinn Asuka from Gundam Seed Destiny...

Okay, he's not THAT bad.

 Soladrin wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Watching the original NGE.
Turns out Shinji in Japanese is not as annoying as everyone keeps saying. He's actually less irritating than his successors (you know, the weak 14 male character, like Ganta Igarashi and Yuki Amano)

I've never watched it in anything other then Japanese. In Japanese he's still an annoying crybaby only rivaled by Shinn Asuka from Gundam Seed Destiny...

Okay, he's not THAT bad.

Oh, don't get me wrong, he is an introverted sadsack with the mother of all daddy issues. Like everyone in the show, he has his share of psychological problems.

Its just that unlike Yuki and Ganta, I have not yet received the urge to slap his trauma out of him, just like Patton would have done.

So, the new episode of Gate...

 AduroT wrote:
So, the new episode of Gate...

Spoiler:

Holy crap did that seem excessive for a prison break, not to mention the polictical overreach of even going full scale prison break and not just securing their ambassadors at the Jade Palade. I mean they just straight up went in and started killing anyone and everyone in uniform with no warning and no quarter given. And as typical of the show, zero casualties, with only a single fairly minor wound to any SDF shown.

Didn't the USA in real life try opting for Japan to show more military force to curb China's expansion in fairly recent times? This show seems like it's trying to ruin people agreeing with that decision. Not that I'd mind. It's been 70+ years since WWII and things have changed. Most of the people that did any atrocity in WWII are probably dead one way or another. It also isn't cool to blame the sins of the father on the son in a sense and they seem to have changed somewhat.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
So, the new episode of Gate...

Spoiler:

Holy crap did that seem excessive for a prison break, not to mention the polictical overreach of even going full scale prison break and not just securing their ambassadors at the Jade Palade. I mean they just straight up went in and started killing anyone and everyone in uniform with no warning and no quarter given. And as typical of the show, zero casualties, with only a single fairly minor wound to any SDF shown.

Didn't the USA in real life try opting for Japan to show more military force to curb China's expansion in fairly recent times? This show seems like it's trying to ruin people agreeing with that decision. Not that I'd mind. It's been 70+ years since WWII and things have changed. Most of the people that did any atrocity in WWII are probably dead one way or another. It also isn't cool to blame the sins of the father on the son in a sense and they seem to have changed somewhat.

While I agree sins of the father isn't a good thing, the modern Japanese government has repeatedly whitewashed and even outright denied the warcrimes of Imperial Japan ever took place.

 AduroT wrote:
So, the new episode of Gate...

Spoiler:

Holy crap did that seem excessive for a prison break, not to mention the polictical overreach of even going full scale prison break and not just securing their ambassadors at the Jade Palade. I mean they just straight up went in and started killing anyone and everyone in uniform with no warning and no quarter given. And as typical of the show, zero casualties, with only a single fairly minor wound to any SDF shown.

Yeah, I noticed that too.

They pretty much declared war.

If it were just the Jade Palace they would have had justification for using lethal force, as the Jade Palace counts as Japanese territory, but Bassoon was deep in the capital.

Welp, Erased was being amazing, but after the latest episode? Hard to describe how good it is, and we have one last episode to tie it all up ... no idea how they'll be able to, but if it's with the same quality we had so far, it's gonna be awesome.

Konosuba is already over but at least a 2nd season has been already confirmed! HURRAY! I can always use more of this kind of quality comedy anime, 10 eps was such a small number, but at least each and every one of them was amazing

Just got done with "another" best way to describe it? Anime Slasher movie.
Doing Trigun now cause i just realizeds, i never actually watched it. just half watched it during Adult Swim.

Grimgar's been heating up for those of you who dropped it. They did an "instance raid" several episodes ago, and now they're hitting heavier monsters inside a mine. Was still a down time episode between those, but it's hitting the fan again.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Just got done with "another" best way to describe it? Anime Slasher movie.
Doing Trigun now cause i just realizeds, i never actually watched it. just half watched it during Adult Swim.

Trigun is awesome.
One of the best I've seen.

 AduroT wrote:
Grimgar's been heating up for those of you who dropped it. They did an "instance raid" several episodes ago, and now they're hitting heavier monsters inside a mine. Was still a down time episode between those, but it's hitting the fan again.

really?

I dropped it a while ago. it was just soo.... unnessicarily emotional

I'd gauge most anime could be called unnecessarily emotional

Grimgar's still leaning heavy on the emotion. Their little dungeon raid is against the group of goblins that killed their priest. The mine they're going into next is where their new priest's former party was killed.

I might give it another go, but it just seemed sooo boring. I can deal with emotions but there still needs to be something to keep me there besides pretty animation.

I've been dragging myself through Fairy Tail... I don't think I'm ever going to pick up another shonen series if I don't get in within the first season or so.

Also Iron Blooded Orphans is shaping up to be a mediocre 25 episode series, we'll see how the next 25 episodes drive it to good or bad.

Also Haikyuu and Durarara are ending quite nicely.

Got bored of trigun......
So now i just got done watching Prison School. my god was that fun, and i normally.

So, question, how was 7 deadly sins rated by dakka's anime crowd? I thoroughly enjoyed it, but wanted to hear the opinions of others. Figured it was a good time to ask, 2nd season on netflix sometime this year I heard? (Anything firm on that date by the way?)

I liked it. Looking forward to the next season.

It's one of the better shoenen battle series out there. I thoroughly enjoyed the series and I've been reading the manga for a few months now.

I would say it's better than practically every other battle series out currently out there. Naruto is has no reason for the filler, One Piece is too long to really get into it now, and Dragonball Super has garbage animation. But 7 Deadly Sins is short atm, good animation, and fun characters.

I recommend it to pretty much everyone that's not an anime fan but is looking for one. Granted I recommend One Punch Man first, if they liked that then I recommend 7DS.

I really liked 7 deadly sins too. Looking forward to the next season.

I am liking it...just too much unnecessay fanservice.
And the fact that the death count is actually really low.

That last Erased... One or two manly tears may have been shed.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I am liking it...just too much unnecessay fanservice.
And the fact that the death count is actually really low.

I think the death count might actually be negative numbers now...

 LordofHats wrote:
I'd gauge most anime could be called unnecessarily emotional

While I admit to this I was surprised during 'monster' when it first shows adult johan about to shoot some burglar he hired to death I kind of didn't care for all the massive emotion. I was more like "Just get on with it!" and then "Finally!" once johan killed the guy. Maybe I'm a bad person or maybe that character wasn't fleshed out enough for me to care. Maybe a bit of both.

That said the young boy being abused though. Holy crap that scene where he walks away with the main protagonist away from his abusive adoptive father was just too much. Wow I got emotional. I don't think I cried but jeez.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I am liking it...just too much unnecessay fanservice.
And the fact that the death count is actually really low.

I think the death count might actually be negative numbers now...

Heh, well that's hardly unusual for that type of anime to be fair.

Here is my problem. Granted im 5 episodes away so things might change
Guila got her hand striaight cut off, and they healed it right back on.
So what happens? The princess gets hurts in an explosion, but she died? Why couldnt they feed her one of the magic balls to heal her?
And the scale keeps escalating, but if no one dies, what is the point? If death cannot happen or has no meaning, why should I care?

Death does happen for at least two characters that I know of. Death in this series is meant to be an emotional battle rather than a physical one. You watch this battle series for cool fight scenes and the interaction of the characters.


Edit: I'm not sure how I feel about Haikyuu taking a 2 season break for the finals match.

So, I find myself listening to reviewers alot lately cause of painting and so forth.
Who is everyones favorite anime reviewer.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Here is my problem. Granted im 5 episodes away so things might change
Guila got her hand striaight cut off, and they healed it right back on.
So what happens? The princess gets hurts in an explosion, but she died? Why couldnt they feed her one of the magic balls to heal her?
And the scale keeps escalating, but if no one dies, what is the point? If death cannot happen or has no meaning, why should I care?

Just wait for it. That gets explained later.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So, I find myself listening to reviewers alot lately cause of painting and so forth.
Who is everyones favorite anime reviewer.

I like Tristan Gallant over on Youtube (Glass Reflection is the channel name.) I've noticed I agree with his reviews on most points, and he's into stuff I wouldn't normally look for that I tend to like.

I even ended up supporting his Patreon, because it's the future and being able to make a living on anime reviews is cool.

I'm a big fan of the Anime World Order podcast, but they release episodes so sparingly I've just been working my way through their backlog. The big plus of AWO is that they tend to review older shows, so it's good to pick from things I've never heard of.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So, I find myself listening to reviewers alot lately cause of painting and so forth.
Who is everyones favorite anime reviewer.

Me. I don't need someone else telling me what to think of an anime.

Im not sure what this is....but im sure it is silly

 Hoitash wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So, I find myself listening to reviewers alot lately cause of painting and so forth.
Who is everyones favorite anime reviewer.

I like Tristan Gallant over on Youtube (Glass Reflection is the channel name.) I've noticed I agree with his reviews on most points, and he's into stuff I wouldn't normally look for that I tend to like.

I even ended up supporting his Patreon, because it's the future and being able to make a living on anime reviews is cool.

He seems like a cool guy. I remember he hates 'School Days' with a passion. He also dresses fancy (that aspect reminds me of zap brannigan).

@cthuluisspy: I'd say you're on the right track then. Freaking critics ruining everything for everybody. That said the ones with a stick up their *** are the worst. Least some highlight the good and bad but the ones on sites are paid for good reviews and are just awful.

That's... apparently Horse-girls? That's a thing?

Well the Bronies will be pleased, I suppose. I like how they put horseshoes on the toes of their, uh, shoes.

Anvildude wrote:
That's... apparently Horse-girls? That's a thing?

Well the Bronies will be pleased, I suppose. I like how they put horseshoes on the toes of their, uh, shoes.

All the ones I know have been treating it as a joke actually.

I told my local brony about Horse Girls and how strange the premise is. . they're girls with horse tails and ears that do horse things, they're also lesbians and idols... That might be a drunk watch...

I did it, I've watched all of Fairy Tail and holy crap was that a lot of anime in a short span.

Also, standard alert: Spring Season starts Friday with a staggered schedule of new shows over the next two weeks.

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That and "Genki saikyo" (Feeling spiffy) are the two things I really remember from that show.

I’ve been watching Fairy Tail on Netflix. It’s fun and lighthearted, without getting too fanservicey a/o grim. But with some meat to it, rather then just saccharine.

Would recommend it to others.

 Nevelon wrote:
I’ve been watching Fairy Tail on Netflix. It’s fun and lighthearted, without getting too fanservicey a/o grim. But with some meat to it, rather then just saccharine.

Would recommend it to others.

I would too, but man it's looooong 277 episodes atm. It's no Naruto, Bleach, or certainly One Piece, but it's still a long haul.

Watching Shimoneta:A World where the concept of dirty jokes done exist.
My god is this a fun anime about terrorism.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Watching Shimoneta:A World where the concept of dirty jokes done exist.
My god is this a fun anime about terrorism.

Supposedly it gets bat **** crazy eventually. Not really 'school days' crazy but still fairly crazy.

I does. It basically has the main cast educate students on how babies are made, because none of them know.
like, literally none, there is a whole character based on learning how babies are made because, by high school, she doesnt know because all the words are forbidden.

That's nothing. I saw some clips from the show and holy crap the later episodes must be nuts.

Watched the show as it aired, it gets uh... Like a thin veneer of slime...the humor of the show kinda died because you can only make D jokes so many times.

NONSENSE, D-jokes are best jokes.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
NONSENSE, D-jokes are best jokes.

But it was basically the same one several times for 12 episodes. The story got good, and it was always funny to see how they would try to teach the kids about sex ed, and I wouldn't mind seeing another season so I can see the two MCs develop. There were genuinely parts that made me cringe more than anime usually does.

Just got done. The 11th episode felt like a finale to much. But the 12th was so fun.

So my streaming site of choice just punked me like a boss. I jumped on to check on the upcoming summer season line up, and noticed "Highschool of the Dead: Keep Wishing" and I was like "oh sweet new epsidoes of HotD?!"

No.

No.

NO.

I don't know what the feth I just saw, but HotD it was not @_@

Happy premature April Fools everyone XD

I'm surprised the title didn't tip you off.

 LordofHats wrote:
So my streaming site of choice just punked me like a boss. I jumped on to check on the upcoming summer season line up, and noticed "Highschool of the Dead: Keep Wishing" and I was like "oh sweet new epsidoes of HotD?!"

No.

No.

NO.

I don't know what the feth I just saw, but HotD it was not @_@

Happy premature April Fools everyone XD

Apparently it was Agent Aika.
I will have to do more research.

At least it wasn't Guro. That'll just be evil.

 Alfndrate wrote:
I'm surprised the title didn't tip you off.

It really should have XD

Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju may have the most appropriate season ending since Chaika.

Either way, onward to the spring season.

You saw that Rakugo Shinjuu is getting season 2 yes?

 Alfndrate wrote:
You saw that Rakugo Shinjuu is getting season 2 yes?

Yeah, that's what I meant.



It was such a perfect amalgamation of the show itself. Plus incredibly meta, as befitting a series about theater.

So, saw episode 16 of NGE. You know, the one with the extradimensional angel that has a Sea of Dirac in it.