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Angel Beats wasn't really long enough to really hit you with the 'feels'. It tried really hard at the end but then kind of contradicted itself. Nothing close to Clannad. Enjoyed both to one degree or another though so this Charlotte may be something to look into.

Wow. I was expecting an epic episode from Overlord, but that was... utterly amazing! I really hope that this one goes for another season or more.

I just caught up myself in my usual way of bingeing stuff. It's very good. Definitely deserving of a second season



I really haven't watched any anime this season, not even old ones. I did watch redline last weekend with my brother though.

I finaly thought to myself "It's time to get off my lazy butt and watch some god damn anime! Wait.."

There are good anime, and then there 's the class above like Overlord. <3 I thought it already gave me enough, but no

I can only hope it gets the second season it deserves soon, because these 13 episodes are in no way enough! More, we need much more!!

Btrw, here's how the scene goes in the novel <3

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
There are good anime, and then there 's the class above like Overlord. <3 I thought it already gave me enough, but no

Spoiler:

It gave me a beautiful animated 40k moment to <3 That was a lovely moment of a normal human trying to fight a Space Marine <3 she just got crushed so easily. Literally.

I can only hope it gets the second season it deserves soon, because these 13 episodes are in no way enough! More, we need much more!!

Btrw, here's how the scene goes in the novel <3

Spoiler:

No matter how she struggled, she couldn’t break free of the arms’ restraint. But Clementine didn’t stop struggling, it was hard for her to breathe and her vision narrowed.
“The dance of death?”
She didn’t have the strength to listen to the soft voice.
With the sound of vomit, filth was sprayed onto Ainz. The red light within Ainz’s eye socket flashed with disgust
Clementine who had been using both of her arms while struggling to escape had become a spasming corpse.
Ainz didn’t lessen the strength in his arms, but squeezed harder. Shortly after, Ainz felt the sensation of a thick bone cracking from his arms.
Ainz release the body that couldn’t even spasm.
With a splat, Clementine’s body fell to the ground like trash. Her face was twisted into a bunch from pain and horror, a terrible sight. She was like a fish caught from the ocean, her organs visible from her mouth.
Taking out his infinite flask, Ainz washed himself clean from the vomit with the endlessly flowing water. At the same time, he said quietly to Clementine:
“I forgot to tell you… I am very stubborn.”

Its stubborn in the novel?
That's odd, in the sub I watched it was hypocritical.

I'm starting to get bored of Overlord personally. I thought we were going to get a good fight, and instead it was just more excessively OPness. With there being no challenge to overcome there's little to get me invested.

Well, they are basically gods in this world.
Now that Shalltear has turned traitor, there might be a good fight.

At this point the series has given me zero reason to expect there might be.

 AduroT wrote:
I'm starting to get bored of Overlord personally. I thought we were going to get a good fight, and instead it was just more excessively OPness. With there being no challenge to overcome there's little to get me invested.

There was never going to be any decent fight when one of the few people (she claimed) that could face her was the Captain from episode 3-4. You know, the dude who for a human was OP as hell and extra manly, that actually managed to beat a ton of angels. LOW level angels and yet he was near death.
Personally, I couldn't wait to see how he was going to toy with her until he finally killed her because there was no chance in hell she was gonna put ut up a fight. And thankfully I was not disappointed.



@ChtululsSpy - Yes, in mine too and according to Reddit comments Ains says the same thing as the novel, stubborn. I'm guessing this is one of those localised situations where in a certain kind of situation it means hypocrite. Lords knows every language and culture has plenty of those.

It is fun to have someone that overpowered. The only question is when will someone come who gives a decent fight.

Although I (personally) would not expect them to be human. I find just plain old humans dent to be rather weak in these sorts of thing.

Gotta say, I think swapping "Hypocritical" for "Stubborn" sounds much better and makes more sense. I really enjoy the utter OPness; it's reminiscent of having a high level character and running around one-shotting lower level mobs.

Same for me, I don't expect a proper fight, nor do I really need one from the show. I love how they are essentially toying with their food.

I think hypocritical works better personally, since the starts off the encounter commenting that being mad at her for killing the adventurers would make him such.

Anyone care to guess how many weeks they'll drag out the pointless Genjutsu illusion filler storylines?

 AduroT wrote:
Anyone care to guess how many weeks they'll drag out the pointless Genjutsu illusion filler storylines?

Are we talking the big infinite tsukuyomi thing? If I remember from the manga it was like 10 chapters? Soooo... 3 weeks, maybe?

Lovely little clip at the end of this weeks episode of Gakkou Gurashi. After a nice episode this next one is probably gonna get real dark.

 AduroT wrote:
I think hypocritical works better personally, since the starts off the encounter commenting that being mad at her for killing the adventurers would make him such.

Yeah, I thought hypocrite worked just fine.

He would be hypocritical for being angry at something he would have done himself. So instead he's mad that she mucked up his plans.

 sierra 1247 wrote:
Lovely little clip at the end of this weeks episode of Gakkou Gurashi. After a nice episode this next one is probably gonna get real dark.

Yeah, this episode had plenty of fanservice and happy fun times. gak is gonna hit the fan so hard. this was probably the calm before the storm.

I will say something about the overall story though: there WILL be a graduation. I'm guessing this season is gonna stop there.

Finished Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood today, damn I wish it was still going on, but that story was well executed in number of episodes created.

Now I need to decide what to binge next, I'm thinking Baccano. Though I've started to check out some Kamen Rider series. Not anime I know, but it's still Japanese and I feel like there might be a KR fan in here, somewhere.

So I was browsing netflix and came across something called Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher. I'm not sure it's *technically* an anime but many/most/all? or the people behind it had curiously Japanese looking names. And the art style, animation, and so on... So I'm counting it.

Starts off moderately boring with the principle characters looking at monitors for a few seconds each, maybe a title. Until about two minutes in and some unlucky thug gets his throat slit. Wooo, this is not yet another avengers show set for kids? Decided to watch it through.

Holy crap Castle and Romanoff are perfect for this art/animation style. Several epic hand to hand and gun fights. In that first scene alone the Punisher makes Segall look bad for the number of necks snapped per capita/second.

Several of the Avengers get called in towards the end and while fun to watch, their big smashy powers were not nearly as fun as watching Punisher and Widow beat the crap out of people. And since their names were in the title, they got to fight the last fight themselves anyway.



The voice acting was kind of meh, I dunno if it was the actors, the script, or what. Widow especially came across as kind of i dunno.. awkward somehow. Not my favorite fury voice either. Punisher had an acceptably gravely 'Batman Voice'. Music/audio was ok, just not sure I liked the voice acting a whole lot. If that was the worst thing, it did pretty well overall.

The plot was kind of straight forward and nothing you wouldn't expect, but if you watch it for the fight scenes, totally worth it.

That evil organization really over hyped those "super" soldiers, didn't they? "So powerful you'll never have to fear the Avengers again!" Punisher and Black Widow, the two normal humans, show up and take dozens of them on at a time. They were really pretty ineffectual.

 AduroT wrote:
That evil organization really over hyped those "super" soldiers, didn't they? "So powerful you'll never have to fear the Avengers again!" Punisher and Black Widow, the two normal humans, show up and take dozens of them on at a time. They were really pretty ineffectual.

If I may do a slight correction: Black Widow is not a "normal" human, she's like the "Russian Captain America". She was injected with the Red Room's Super-Soldier Serum.

The Punisher is just made of awesome and win. <3 That's better than any serum <3

When did Widow have super soldier serum? I'm sure its possible in one continuity, but I know she's a vanilla mortal in at least some Avengers stuff. Maybe I blanked it out if they explained during this particular show. Would explain why she was going toe to toe with whatshisname who 'made himself super' and still couldn't beat what I thought was a normal human.

Super soldiers were sucky lol.

Punisher IS filled with awesome and win I love that guy. He's everything I wish some other comic book heroes would be. I mean, I know it's good to give kids and young adults (and adults too, really!) the message that killing is wrong and that super heroes shouldn't be above the law and all that but, meh. Punisher gets gak done, violently, and permanently. It's just refreshing to watch I mean think about it, in all but the kiddiest versions of Batman, whenever the Joker breaks out of Arkham.. he kills multiple guards escaping. Then they just put him back in, and the cycle repeats. Just kick him off a damn rooftop already Bats... or get a cross-dimensional teleporter built and call in Frank Castle, he'll do it.

 GrimDork wrote:
When did Widow have super soldier serum? I'm sure its possible in one continuity, but I know she's a vanilla mortal in at least some Avengers stuff. Maybe I blanked it out if they explained during this particular show. Would explain why she was going toe to toe with whatshisname who 'made himself super' and still couldn't beat what I thought was a normal human.

Super soldiers were sucky lol.

Punisher IS filled with awesome and win I love that guy. He's everything I wish some other comic book heroes would be. I mean, I know it's good to give kids and young adults (and adults too, really!) the message that killing is wrong and that super heroes shouldn't be above the law and all that but, meh. Punisher gets gak done, violently, and permanently. It's just refreshing to watch I mean think about it, in all but the kiddiest versions of Batman, whenever the Joker breaks out of Arkham.. he kills multiple guards escaping. Then they just put him back in, and the cycle repeats. Just kick him off a damn rooftop already Bats... or get a cross-dimensional teleporter built and call in Frank Castle, he'll do it.

There's actually a comic with both the Punisher and one of the Batman's replacements when's trying to get his spine fixed after Bane kicked his ass, Azrael. It's GLORIOUS.

Bah! Wanna watch Gate but apparently there is some kind of delay with Subbing it this week!

 Alfndrate wrote:
Finished Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood today, damn I wish it was still going on, but that story was well executed in number of episodes created.

Now I need to decide what to binge next, I'm thinking Baccano. Though I've started to check out some Kamen Rider series. Not anime I know, but it's still Japanese and I feel like there might be a KR fan in here, somewhere.

Go watch Baccano, it's amazing.

Don't know that I've heard of Baccano...

So, the SDF was fighting not against a country, but 3 at the same time, not taking any losses and making "SQUAD MORALE BROKEN" left and right. Gods, the author's *FAP* sounds are increasing exponentially.

And of course "those" 3 countries are the bad guys oh Gate, you so Bond villain-level silly sometimes

 AduroT wrote:
Don't know that I've heard of Baccano...

Its a great show. Watch it.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
So, the SDF was fighting not against a country, but 3 at the same time, not taking any losses and making "SQUAD MORALE BROKEN" left and right. Gods, the author's *FAP* sounds are increasing exponentially.

And of course "those" 3 countries are the bad guys oh Gate, you so Bond villain-level silly sometimes

Man, those tank barrels must be super dirty for them to be polished all the time