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ibanezmonster

Quote from: haydnfan on May 23, 2011, 04:33:18 PM
Oh no!  Cross posting facebook on gmg!!  It really is the end of days! :o ::) :'( >:D
Well, it saves time for typing.  :)

Here's where I watched the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwcYIIX_eM

This and a couple of other shows I watched recently air in Japan on a timeslot devoted for new anime, (Friday 12:45-1:45pm there and Thursday 11:45-12:45pm in my time zone (Eastern Time Zone)).  It's called noitaminA ("Animation" spelled backwards), and it's on Fuji TV. I might just turn on my KeyHole TV program and watch it live for a while.  :D It's just too bad that my Japanese isn't fluent and I have to wait for fan subs to be uploaded to understand the shows.

Sylph

Quote from: eyeresist on May 15, 2011, 05:54:51 PM
Learning Japanese would probably help.

Bitchiness to the left.

eyeresist

Greg, I don't know if you go to animenewsnetwork much (I used to, but don't bother much anymore). I posted this regarding a critical review of old series Chobits:

QuoteErin's verdict in this case seems founded on an instant dislike, which then twisted every part of the show into an instance of "bad". The dislike seems founded on the sexual politics of the show, but really, sex exists, sexual relationships exist, and very few of us are comfortable with every existing parameter. In this case, what Erin perceived as nothing better than sexual slavery CAN also be seen as the growth of a loving relationship. There are plenty of real-life relationships in which one partner is mentor to the other, and arguably this is not necessarily unwholesome.

For myself, I find the show charming. The two main characters are both complete innocents (porn collection not withstanding), which is important in making the story palettable and frequently comic. The people around them guide and protect them in their guilelessness, which is also a nice element.

The fanservice elements have to be taken as a ubiquitous but not essential anime element (just as collectors of neo-classical art have to accept that their paintings are full of T & A). The harem fantasies definitely seem kluged onto the show artificially, but are funny in their deliberate disparity from the girls' coy real-life personalities, and of course the remorseless mocking of Hideki's countrified innocence (which is more personality than most harem protagonists are granted). There is nothing nasty in the tone of all this.

The chief problem with the show (apart from the ending) is the notion that Chi could acquire a complete personality in such a short time, or else have a definite personality despite being devoid of memories.
There is also the existential dilemma which Futurama best summed up as "Don't date robots!" - i.e. the legitimacy of emotionally bonding to an artificially created personality.
But these are not insurmountable obstacles - this is, after all, a fantasy.


ibanezmonster

Yeah, nowadays I pretty much just visit MAL.
Do you have a link to "Erin's" review? It's been a while since I've watched that show, but I remember it was pretty funny.

ibanezmonster

#284
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan- The most nonsensical, messed up show you'll ever watch. There is season 1 and season 2, and it all adds up to just under 3 hours, so it's watchable in one sitting.

It's about an angel who suddenly comes into this 8th grade guy's life and lives with him. She has to protect him from other angels in the future who want to kill him because he supposedly grows up and invents a machine that keeps all the girls in the world at the age of 12 (he can't imagine he'd do such a thing). She beats him to death with her spiked club several times an episode (with the most dramatic blood spurting ever) and revives him many times. And she does this while smiling in an innocent way. It's practically part ecchi, but in a good way, because it can be extremely funny.

Recommended.  8)

This sums it up right here:
http://www.youtube.com/v/485h0Sg4BuY&feature=related


Sensitive Salaryman (Binkan Salaryman)
http://www.youtube.com/v/fNHGpVSU0ww


The demented theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/v/9ELRZ08hNaU

Kikumana, Mizu no Kotoba, Noisy Birth, Pale Cocoon- These are all shorts by Yasuhiro Yoshiura and Studio Rikka. Kikumana and Noisy Birth are completely avant-garde, and Noisy Birth has music in it. (Out of these 4, Kikumana is my favorite).
Pale Cocoon is a bunch of people dealing with "archives" in the future. Didn't interest me much, and felt too blatantly serious.
Mizu no Kotoba seems like a precursor to Eve no Jikan, with its cafe setting. Just a bunch of people talking, to sum it up.

eyeresist

Quote from: Greg on May 31, 2011, 08:42:52 AM
Yeah, nowadays I pretty much just visit MAL.
Do you have a link to "Erin's" review? It's been a while since I've watched that show, but I remember it was pretty funny.

Review at this address.

I wasn't aware of MAL. I will check it out, but as I only watch on DVD I will probably be out of the loop on most discussions.

ibanezmonster

Hm, her observation of a parent-child relationship is not something I thought of. Not sure they intended that...

eyeresist

That reviewer has a bee in her bonnet about pedophilic connotations in some anime, which might be fair enough in some contexts, but surely doesn't apply to human-robot relationships.

eyeresist

I received a box of anime DVDs in the mail yesterday (from the UK):

Death Note
Code Geass (season 1)
Shigurui Death Frenzy

So that's what I'll be watching over the next few months :)

ibanezmonster

If you've never watched Death Note before, you're in for a ride!  :)

eyeresist

Well, I've seen the first two movies, so I get the gist of it. I'm looking forward to the series getting much more complex than that.

ibanezmonster

Well, if you try to wrap your head around the details of the show, don't, because it'll explode!  :D

And the ending... wow! I remember Joe Campbell going through the series and being satisfied about 20-something episodes through (it really should have only been this long, honestly), but I don't think he ever watched the ending. It is something very, very, intense- one of the best anime endings, for sure.

I'm assuming you watched the live action movies. I don't think I've seen the second one, but the first one was pretty cool. Now, if they actually had shows/movies like that on TV over here, I'd actually watch TV!  :D

eyeresist

Quote from: Greg on June 09, 2011, 04:01:26 PM
I'm assuming you watched the live action movies. I don't think I've seen the second one, but the first one was pretty cool.

Yeah, I meant the live action. It was a while ago now, but I think they were basically a two-parter, meaning if you only watched the first one you didn't get the whole story (which I understand was a different ending to both the manga and anime).

Looking forward to Light EATING ANOTHER POTATO CHIP!

ibanezmonster

Lol, nothing compared to L's eating habits...

eyeresist

How to lose weight:

Step 1. Become a hero in an anime

ibanezmonster

#295
Quote from: eyeresist on June 09, 2011, 07:53:42 PM
How to lose weight:

Step 1. Become a hero in an anime
LOL yep...
I bet if you could compare a typical hero in an anime and the women that surround him, he is probably like a foot taller and 10 pounds heavier.  :D
I just started watching Air, and it's the same way... also, in this show, apparently there is only one male character in the whole city, and the rest are either beautiful women or little girls.  ::) :D

ibanezmonster

Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen (movie)
A remake of one of the story arcs of the original Gintama series.
I just found this one mainly to be boring. Gintama is the most critically acclaimed anime series right now, and I don't really see why. There were some funny parts in the movie, but the rest was just boring action to me.

Air
This was an enjoyable series that I've been wanting to watch for a long time.
13 episodes + 2 episodes that tell a certain story arc in more detail (episode 13 was a recap, so I didn't need to watch that one).

It follows the same formula as Kanon and Clannad- a guy gets surrounded by beautiful ladies, and it starts off like a lighthearted romantic comedy, but progresses through really bittersweet moments and then onto stuff so bittersweet that it just ends up very tragic.

Air + Kanon + Clannad/Clannad After Story... all the same story, and a very similar formula for the story. They start off as somewhat adult games produced by Key, and then get adapted by KyoAni and made into an anime. Then the anime pretty much turns it into something that involves practically no romance, but involves lots of death and despair, and a real sense of bittersweet melancholy and transcendence. A very interesting formula for all three of these- and it can even be easy to think of these as a progression, each time getting better- Air was good, Kanon was very good, and Clannad After Story a masterpiece. Or something like that- depends on opinion, but that's consensus, anyways.  ;)

eyeresist

Hmm, I thought Air was better than Kanon, but all I really remember about Kanon was they ran the arcs one after the other without any real connection, and I think I was disappointed by the ending. I'm still planning to see Clannad sometime.

I'm currently on holiday, which involves trying to finish my novel, watching Code Geass, and being woken up by the cleaning staff early every morning. One of these is pleasurable! I like Geass, but I think I'd like it much more if the style was a bit more realistic, and if there weren't so many "anime" elements. Mao's resurrection was very unlikely and fairly pointless, and I'm just at the bit where Euphy has declared the "Nippon" administrative district, which comes from nowhere and is completely out of character. In the first audio commentary, the director talked about the mecha being influenced by Gasaraki, but it's really nowhere near as realistic. The pilot modules sticking out the back are just stupidly vulnerable.

Back to the grind.

ibanezmonster

I probably enjoyed Air and Kanon equally.
Code Geass- that's the one I have my eye on next. Last weekend, I was thinking of just watching it within a day or two, but changed my mind. I probably will do that on my vacation next month if I don't any earlier. Kinda funny that you happened to mention that one.

ibanezmonster

Almost done with Ano Hana... next week, the next episode is the finale (12/12)!
This last episode turned the show from an elegy into an intense catharsis. They build a rocket to send away the spirit of their dead friend into heaven- however, it leaves off at the end that she is still there. Before that leads a series of heartbreaking and intense moments.

Overall, it's a very good show. The characters have a ton of depth (and wtf surprises) and it maintains a clear direction. The only thing that gets tiresome is being a little too focused on Menma's death- just wish it had some more subplots or something- just anything to make it feel a little less claustrophobic.

Watch this and prepare to be miserable...  8)

If the finale is good, I might not be able to hold back from writing my thoughts (not like anyone cares, but it's just nice to write them anyways)... ::)

(this show is already #32 on MAL- if the finale is brilliant, it might even move up!)