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Yeah, they could have cut out a ton of the angsty teenage existential stuff and long dramatic shots of nothing happening and probably taken five episodes out of the total length and sacrificed none of the plot or impact of the show, or maybe had time to try and fill out the plot in something other than the last 20 mins of the series

But not a terrible watch, it was pretty at least.

I should rewatch NGE, at least it had a reason for its awkard ending (budget issues) that they then fixed with a movie.

Im watching The Disappearence of Nagato Yuki-chan right now.

Waiting impatiently for the next episode of Jojo Duwang is- I mean Diamond is Unbreakable.
Also noticed there was a new Gundam anime on Crunchyroll. Gundam Unicorn 0096 I think it was called? Always hoped to get into it, so I'm hoping it winds up being good. First episode was awful, but the second one was decent, so I'm feeling a bit optimistic.
There's also a Phoenix Wright anime. It's actually not too bad so far.

So...NGE begins to fall apart after episode 20.
Its apparent that Gainax was running of money, as they started to pad the episodes out with psychological probing of the main characters, which featured...let's say abstract animation, with repeated scenes.
I don't mind it per se, as I still find it interesting, but it does feel a bit tedious to watch, like during Asuka's mind probing where it repeats that sequence about her identity like 3-4 times.

I do appreciate that they tried to do something with what limited resources they had, but it still felt a bit awkward.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So...NGE begins to fall apart after episode 20.
Its apparent that Gainax was running of money, as they started to pad the episodes out with psychological probing of the main characters, which featured...let's say abstract animation, with repeated scenes.
I don't mind it per se, as I still find it interesting, but it does feel a bit tedious to watch, like during Asuka's mind probing where it repeats that sequence about her identity like 3-4 times.

I do appreciate that they tried to do something with what limited resources they had, but it still felt a bit awkward.

Being that I am a fan of the show as well, I do agree that their quality began to go down from a lack of a budget and the last six episodes suffered because of it. But it does not help the studio got a little over-ambitious with the animation of the battle scenes (which are still pretty damn good in my opinion), hence I can assume most of the money went towards that. I am almost tempted to tell people to skip episodes 25-26 and watch EoE which gives a better indication what is truly going on and conveys it much better in my opinion.

 SkavenLord wrote:
Waiting impatiently for the next episode of Jojo Duwang is- I mean Diamond is Unbreakable.
Also noticed there was a new Gundam anime on Crunchyroll. Gundam Unicorn 0096 I think it was called? Always hoped to get into it, so I'm hoping it winds up being good. First episode was awful, but the second one was decent, so I'm feeling a bit optimistic.
There's also a Phoenix Wright anime. It's actually not too bad so far.

Gundam 0096 is a television reedit of Gundam Unicorn OVA. It does kind of require a little knowledge of the events of Mobile Suit Gubdam, Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta, Double Zeta, and Char's Counterattack. But they do a decent job of explaining what the major events are.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 SkavenLord wrote:
Waiting impatiently for the next episode of Jojo Duwang is- I mean Diamond is Unbreakable.
Also noticed there was a new Gundam anime on Crunchyroll. Gundam Unicorn 0096 I think it was called? Always hoped to get into it, so I'm hoping it winds up being good. First episode was awful, but the second one was decent, so I'm feeling a bit optimistic.
There's also a Phoenix Wright anime. It's actually not too bad so far.

Gundam 0096 is a television reedit of Gundam Unicorn OVA. It does kind of require a little knowledge of the events of Mobile Suit Gubdam, Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta, Double Zeta, and Char's Counterattack. But they do a decent job of explaining what the major events are.

Ya the series is insanely good, at least the OVA was. Hopping they add stuff to it like with the BreakBlade ova. Also there's Gundam Thunderbolt out, it's super awesome as well

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So...NGE begins to fall apart after episode 20.
Its apparent that Gainax was running of money, as they started to pad the episodes out with psychological probing of the main characters, which featured...let's say abstract animation, with repeated scenes.
I don't mind it per se, as I still find it interesting, but it does feel a bit tedious to watch, like during Asuka's mind probing where it repeats that sequence about her identity like 3-4 times.

I do appreciate that they tried to do something with what limited resources they had, but it still felt a bit awkward.

Yeah, the first time watching it was like "wtf is going on...", and it *kinda* works as a sub-par psychological twister ending, but man there is zero reason to watch those episodes again, when they hit the "We ran out of money" point, just put the movie on and pretend the last few episodes don't exist...because they really don't

That said, it was amusing looking at the DVD box in stores when they would try to play it off as the directors "amazing genius thriller ending"...

 Tanakosyke22 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So...NGE begins to fall apart after episode 20.
Its apparent that Gainax was running of money, as they started to pad the episodes out with psychological probing of the main characters, which featured...let's say abstract animation, with repeated scenes.
I don't mind it per se, as I still find it interesting, but it does feel a bit tedious to watch, like during Asuka's mind probing where it repeats that sequence about her identity like 3-4 times.

I do appreciate that they tried to do something with what limited resources they had, but it still felt a bit awkward.

Being that I am a fan of the show as well, I do agree that their quality began to go down from a lack of a budget and the last six episodes suffered because of it. But it does not help the studio got a little over-ambitious with the animation of the battle scenes (which are still pretty damn good in my opinion), hence I can assume most of the money went towards that. I am almost tempted to tell people to skip episodes 25-26 and watch EoE which gives a better indication what is truly going on and conveys it much better in my opinion.

Aye, just skip the last bit and go straight to EoE, no reason to bother with the ending TV episodes

Holy crap, I just realised how heavily Aru from Mirai Nikki is inspired by Kaworu.

If Yuki Amano is a Shinji expy, then Aru is a Kaworu expy, right down to the homoeroticism.
I keep expecting "yaranaika" to be uttered.

I do like episode 24, its one of the best of the series. The sequence with beethoven near the end was incredible, though I felt the bit where Eva 01 is holding Kaworu while Beethoven is playing in the background went on for too long; it killed the mood a bit.
But there's a plot hole

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Holy crap, I just realised how heavily Aru from Mirai Nikki is inspired by Kaworu.

If Yuki Amano is a Shinji expy, then Aru is a Kaworu expy, right down to the homoeroticism.
I keep expecting "yaranaika" to be uttered.

I do like episode 24, its one of the best of the series. The sequence with beethoven near the end was incredible, though I felt the bit where Eva 01 is holding Kaworu while Beethoven is playing in the background went on for too long; it killed the mood a bit.
But there's a plot hole

Spoiler:

If Seele wants 3rd contact to happen, and for Angels to inherit the Earth, why form Nerv? Why not just let it happen?

 Tanakosyke22 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Holy crap, I just realised how heavily Aru from Mirai Nikki is inspired by Kaworu.

If Yuki Amano is a Shinji expy, then Aru is a Kaworu expy, right down to the homoeroticism.
I keep expecting "yaranaika" to be uttered.

I do like episode 24, its one of the best of the series. The sequence with beethoven near the end was incredible, though I felt the bit where Eva 01 is holding Kaworu while Beethoven is playing in the background went on for too long; it killed the mood a bit.
But there's a plot hole

Spoiler:

If Seele wants 3rd contact to happen, and for Angels to inherit the Earth, why form Nerv? Why not just let it happen?

Spoiler:

It has been a while since I watched the show some of the details will evade me, but Seele essentially Human Instrumentality(Third Impact) on their terms and needed the angel eliminated because of that. Along with that, the Humans were the Angels born under Liltih and Adam so hence why Rei was created between a mix of Human and Angel DNA in order to accomplish that goal.

Also, is it customary for husbands to take the last names of their wives in Japan? Ikari was Yui's family name, and Gendo was originally Gendo Rokubunji.

Anyone else following Joker Game? I'm enjoying it. Plots within plots. Its pretty much "JUST AS PLANNED" the anime. Tzeentch's no1 show.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Tanakosyke22 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Holy crap, I just realised how heavily Aru from Mirai Nikki is inspired by Kaworu.

If Yuki Amano is a Shinji expy, then Aru is a Kaworu expy, right down to the homoeroticism.
I keep expecting "yaranaika" to be uttered.

I do like episode 24, its one of the best of the series. The sequence with beethoven near the end was incredible, though I felt the bit where Eva 01 is holding Kaworu while Beethoven is playing in the background went on for too long; it killed the mood a bit.
But there's a plot hole

Spoiler:

If Seele wants 3rd contact to happen, and for Angels to inherit the Earth, why form Nerv? Why not just let it happen?

Spoiler:

It has been a while since I watched the show some of the details will evade me, but Seele essentially Human Instrumentality(Third Impact) on their terms and needed the angel eliminated because of that. Along with that, the Humans were the Angels born under Liltih and Adam so hence why Rei was created between a mix of Human and Angel DNA in order to accomplish that goal.

Spoiler:

Ah, so Rei was created under orders of Seele to act as a trigger for Human Instrumentality, but seeing as Rei belongs to Gendo, they tried to get a real Angel to do it then, under the pretext that they believe angels should inherit the earth, when really Seele wants to be god as well? How would that work though? Wouldn't Kaworu become god?

Also, is it customary for husbands to take the last names of their wives in Japan? Ikari was Yui's family name, and Gendo was originally Gendo Rokubunji.

Anyone else following Joker Game? I'm enjoying it. Plots within plots. Its pretty much "JUST AS PLANNED" the anime. Tzeentch's no1 show.

And yeah, I think it is somewhat customary that the husband does take the surname of the wives. Need to check into that.

Yeah Joker Games on of the fun ones I'm following this season, I liked the episode set in France during the Invasion.

Yeah, that episode was great. I liked the latest one, where

Saw the last two episodes of NGE. Not as bad as I was expecting. I've seen worse. The last episode wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible.

Episode 25 was better, as it hinted to what was going on in the real world, outside of god-shinji's mind. It was apparent that he was peeking into everyone's souls when they were tang.

I did see EoE a long time ago, but I didn't like it that much; the ending was too open for my liking, and it was apparent that Anno had an axe to grind with the fanbase and his own creation.


Anyway, now off to Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, an anime about a suicidal eternally pessimistic teacher who carries a noose around, and is put in charge of a class full of misfits.
Shenanigans ahoy.
8 minutes in and I love this show already. Its the best thing to watch after NGE. Its so dark, yet so funny.

Bah. Disappointed that the Magi:Sinbad series is just the OVAs from a bit ago. Was hoping it would continue where they left off. With luck maybe there will be more in them later than there was in the OVAs.

Ok. anime club time
Episode 7 of
Erased: Can none of these end happy? And I want ti love in a bus on the side of a road
Kekkai Sensen......Wow, That was sexist. That sometimes men just want to punch eachother.....I mean its TRUE
Goddess OF poverty. who would let her where just bandages around her breasts at school?
Gakku Gurashi........Ehhh, to much Slice of life
Danki Gai: We dropped this. It slipped into porn far to many times. Like when their all massaging breasts
Episode Two of Kyosa Giga: Im sure I went insane watching that.

Today's episode of Re Zero was hype. That ending was awesome.

So, Paramount Pictures has a YouTube channel where they've released a bunch of movies that you can watch for free on their channel.

One of the films they released today is Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress, which so far, is a fantastic film. it's very surreal in how it blends the present day characters with the past, and the movies the actress starred in.

Edit: Gorram was that good. very very good movie, a bit of a tearjerker, but Satoshi Kon really knows how to play with emotions.

I've heard of Millenium Actress. I'll have to check that out.

Just want to clarify, now that we have a whole board devoted to the novels, comics, movies, TV, etc., that we love, posters should feel free to open multiple threads about anime. Only caveat - try to keep the discussion about a certain series to a single thread. Thanks!

But, but, Megathread! You don't want to break up such a great team, do you?

We could always keep the mega thread around (kinda like the "what game are you playing now" thread in Video Games). Would be cool though now that we have the ability to have threads on specific animes. We can tag with with [SPOILERS] or some such, and avoid cluttering up the super thread with discussions about ongoing series that some member might not be caught up on

Round up for episodes 8 of
Gakkou Gurashi: Wow, so the school was.....just wow.
Goddess of Povety: I went to go get food, thought nothing of it.
Kekkai Sensen: Ok, that was legitimatly funny.
Erased episodes 8/9............Oh God, The Feels. when she started crying when she saw the breakfest. God. I was really Really hoping Satoru's MoM would just adopt her. The bath scene though. Satoru is scarred for life. Like man, piling on the feels man.
Episode 3 of
Kyousa Giga. Stilldidnt interest me that much. very much Meh.

 LordofHats wrote:
We could always keep the mega thread around (kinda like the "what game are you playing now" thread in Video Games). Would be cool though now that we have the ability to have threads on specific animes. We can tag with with [SPOILERS] or some such, and avoid cluttering up the super thread with discussions about ongoing series that some member might not be caught up on

My only worry is that we would spread the discussion out and it would just be like three of us discussing some moe show that most of Geek Media doesn't care for.

The benefit is that other Dakkanauts might come across a show that they find worthwhile and start watching it.

The question becomes 1) What show gets the first nod to its own thread? Should it be an older show that is pretty easy to find and we can do a Dakka rewatch of it to test out the Show Threads?

Edit: Hotsauce, glad you are finding Kekkai Sensen funny. It's a solid show, and you're lucky that you don't have to wait 3 months for the final episode to come out.

That could be fun. I've been re-watching Bleach, and a dedicated thread for that might be a good idea- to mayb give people ideas of which are the arcs to skip (and which episodes to do so with).

Or maybe the 'Dakka Darling' shows that people all seemed to like...

 Alfndrate wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
We could always keep the mega thread around (kinda like the "what game are you playing now" thread in Video Games). Would be cool though now that we have the ability to have threads on specific animes. We can tag with with [SPOILERS] or some such, and avoid cluttering up the super thread with discussions about ongoing series that some member might not be caught up on

My only worry is that we would spread the discussion out and it would just be like three of us discussing some moe show that most of Geek Media doesn't care for.

The benefit is that other Dakkanauts might come across a show that they find worthwhile and start watching it.

The question becomes 1) What show gets the first nod to its own thread? Should it be an older show that is pretty easy to find and we can do a Dakka rewatch of it to test out the Show Threads?

Edit: Hotsauce, glad you are finding Kekkai Sensen funny. It's a solid show, and you're lucky that you don't have to wait 3 months for the final episode to come out.

Yeah. I'd say in general there's maybe four or five main posters in this thread like you and hotsauce, and then maybe a dozen or more posters like me who hop in and out. Certainly, we don't want to flood Geek media with threads about every new anime in the Summer lineup. I think posters can just use their best judgement. It's not like there's a thread here for every single tv show people are watching. General anime talk could just stay here, and if a thread pops up on an anime it'll either live or die based on its own interest.

So, this week's re zero was pretty tragic
Da Feelz

Out of curiosity, is anyone watching "Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress"? I kinda dropped everything this season until I was told how good this was, and boy, they were NOT kidding. This anime is flippin' amazing, binged the whole available 6 episodes when I decided to give the first ep a look

Well, truth be told, it's amazing if you are into action-oriented, post-apocalyptic anime.

If you are up to a tiny bit of spoilers for the 2nd ep, here's a sample of the amazing action (and music! Even the OST is sexy)