Which anime are you currently watching?

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Originally Posted by Gare

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I thought I read a comment about Urobuchi only writing two episodes or something, but now it isn't there? :thot:
I wrote out my stuff anyway, so here it is. :-/

How they designate writing credits for television is a bit complicated. From interviews, Urobuchi gave the impression he was intimately involved with the writing of the entire series; they just credit whoever actually typed out that episode.

Typically the writing is done by a High Council board of writers, and depending on the production, the director or producer often do the biggest share of the plotwork; the "writer" for that episode just follows along. For example, Dai Sato was only credited for like four or five episodes of Ergo Proxy, even though it was his own brainchild, and he said in interview that the show's (perceived) flaws were the result of him having more control than he'd ever been given before, and he went a bit overboard. And if you've ever seen behind the scenes stuff for GitS, Kenji Kamiyama might as well have been credited as the writer for each episode, he's such a control freak.

Likewise with the American show Lost: I saw like 12 people agree on something once just for the executive producer to say, "No. It happens like this," and Mary Randomnamestein gets her name in the credits for taking dictation.

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I'll still watch the upcoming second season though.

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I don't even remember them leaving an opening for a second season. Either I forgot some integral untied plot thread, or they're just milking it; either way, I'll probably avoid it. One sci-fi of life is more than enough for me. If I read it has a good plot, I'll watch it afterward, but I don't need more braindead beach hijinks that I can find in literally any other anime made these days.

Beast King GoLion

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Originally Posted by Ikusagami

I thought I read a comment about Urobuchi only writing two episodes or something, but now it isn't there? :thot:
I wrote out my stuff anyway, so here it is. :-/

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Yep, I removed that bit because I then saw him credited for series composition and original concept and figured he was a bit more involved with the project than "lol 2 eps kbye". So basically what you explained in this post.

And more on that topic:
Somebody cut out all the important scenes from Gargantia and made a 1:30 minute summary.
http://youtu.be/n1uGnIdBFOA

I'm thinking of adding a point to my score on MAL.

And in other news, I just finished Neon Genesis Gasaraki. Really good show, but it has some serious flaws. I've seen people bitch about it being inspired by Eva, but I fail to see how that's a bad thing. It had conspiracy, mythological overtones, and robots that were more than robots. I'm yet to see a truly original anything, so "lol. Another anime already did that" is a pretty redundant complaint.

My only complaint is that instead of focusing on the characters, it focused on the conflict. It's an original approach, but it also made it drag at times. The episodes focusing on the protagonist or the history of the mecha were much more interesting than the cutting back and forth between newscasters and war-room briefings. The economic warfare toward the end was interesting, but even less exciting than watching one country's robots fight another countries robots in the desert. And then the climax, while a bit surreal, felt tacked on and anti-climactic.

It gets points for originality though; I'd like to see more anime embrace a panoramic view and intelligent themes, though with better balance.

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Originally Posted by Ikusagami

And more on that topic:
Somebody cut out all the important scenes from Gargantia and made a 1:30 minute summary.

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It really wasn't *that* bad of a show... :wacko: Just nothing mind-blowing.

Also, watch the Petit Gargantia shorts if you haven't already. They're fairly entertaining.

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Originally Posted by Gare

It really wasn't *that* bad of a show... :wacko: Just nothing mind-blowing.

Also, watch the Petit Gargantia shorts if you haven't already. They're fairly entertaining.

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I was kidding, obviously, but that scene is actually what stands out in my mind when I think of the show. Usually my mind skips the fanservice and goes to the plot (I'm that one dude who liked Ergo Proxy, remember :wacko: )
But Gargantia, my mind says: Belly dancing. Yum.
There were some good points, really, but like 5 SoL episodes back to back ruined it for me. But then, Urobuchi flat out said the point of the show was a metaphor for young people adapting to "grown up" society, and the whole "learning to fit in" theme just appeal to me. After the social satire of Psycho-Pass, it just really felt weak to me.

Yeah it's not Gen's best work I've seen (that would be Fate/zero for me), but like I said I enjoyed the first half.

Btw I missed your comment on the sequel -- yeah, it pretty much ends with everything tied up on Earth/Gargantia. I can still see them doing a sequel in this way though: they could either show more of the ongoing war with the aliens in space (I'd hate that personally, but still), or they can do a timeskip and tell a story about their descendants or some shit. Or use the same old cast and just pull a brand new conflict outta their asses (oh hey there's *another* guy who crashlanded on Earth) and roll with that. Either way it's pretty much milking it, but to be fair, the series only had 13 episodes, so there's room for more development and belly dancing.

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Originally Posted by Gare

Yeah it's not Gen's best work I've seen (that would be Fate/zero for me)

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Ah, well since my laptop died on me the previous month and it took about 3 weeks to get a new one, I couldn't play anything so decided to watch virtually anything even remotely interesting this season on my Smartphone to kill boredom.
These are: Tokyo Ravens, Strike the Blood, Golden Time, Nagi no Asukara, Little Busters!, Coppelion, Kill la Kill, Log Horizon, Infinite Stratos and Kyoukai no Kanata...
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Never again... It's entertaining and all, but... for someone who normally doesn't watch more than 4-5 animes per year and only critically well acclaimed ones like Fate Zero/Madoka Magica/Death Note/Psycho-Pass (yeah, count me in as a Urobutcher-sympathisant :wacko:), it was a bit shocking to see that there was NOT EVEN A SINGLE anime this season as cerebral, dark, intriguing and suspenseful as the above works (or I'm just completely missing them by chance). So much Harem (wasn't really familiar with this term till now), Fanservice, cheap Shounen action and Romantic comedys... It was enjoyable to watch and all, but pretty generic and nothing worth remembering. A bit more originality in these genres wouldn't hurt (I don't hate any of them, but find them too similar to each other).

Gundam AGE

Pretty entertaining, interesting how it goes with the generations theme.

I watched all the Rebuild of Evangelion movies (again). I like the first two, but the third one is just... what the fuck was this. Like, seriously. I just... the words, I do not have them. Ugh.

Fourth movie better fix this shit. :wacko:

Okay, I'm watching Utawarerumono, and I just need to get this off my chest.
THE ENTIRE POINT OF HAVING A FORTRESS IS THE 1 TO 10 KILL RATIO!!!!!!!!!!!
If a vastly superior force is laying siege, you rain arrows, drop rocks, spill boiling oil, set pikemen on siege ladders and outnumber those crossing from siege towers.
YOU DO NOT OPEN THE FUCKING GATE FOR A FRONTAL CHARGE AT AN ARMY THAT DOES NOT EVEN HAVE SIEGE EQUIPMENT!!!
God damn, what kind of Rain Man level retarded suicidally incompetent martial nonsense is this?!

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Originally Posted by Gare

I watched all the Rebuild of Evangelion movies (again). I like the first two, but the third one is just... what the fuck was this. Like, seriously. I just... the words, I do not have them. Ugh.

Fourth movie better fix this shit. :wacko:

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Did you stay tuned after the credits of the second movie to see the preview for the third? That makes it even funnier. The whole movie was a troll.
That said, I actually liked it. Does it measure up to the rest? No. Does it even fit in with the rest? Fuck no. But I still found it entertaining as an individual entity, despite its Lost-rip-off-contrived-mystery foundation. It wasn't a bad movie, it was just a terrible sequel.

Utawarerumono is shounen/harem stuff, what do you expect. Like seriously. :wacko: Edit: As far as I remember, anyway. It's been at least 5-6 years since I watched it so who knows.

As for Eva 3.0, GearBrain's post over here sums up all of my frustrations pretty much. Yeah, I later found out that the preview was a troll. I just really don't like how the characters acted in this one. Taking 5 minutes to explain shit to Shinji instead of being all passive aggressive and treating him like human garbage would've solved ALL their problems. Also, screen time was spent on piano lessons and flashy action scenes instead of actually explaining what happened during the 14 year skip and fleshing out characters. Hell, Misato has like 10 minutes of screen time in the entire thing.

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Originally Posted by Ikusagami

Okay, I'm watching Utawarerumono, and I just need to get this off my chest.
THE ENTIRE POINT OF HAVING A FORTRESS IS THE 1 TO 10 KILL RATIO!!!!!!!!!!!
If a vastly superior force is laying siege, you rain arrows, drop rocks, spill boiling oil, set pikemen on siege ladders and outnumber those crossing from siege towers.
YOU DO NOT OPEN THE FUCKING GATE FOR A FRONTAL CHARGE AT AN ARMY THAT DOES NOT EVEN HAVE SIEGE EQUIPMENT!!!
God damn, what kind of Rain Man level retarded suicidally incompetent martial nonsense is this?!



Did you stay tuned after the credits of the second movie to see the preview for the third? That makes it even funnier. The whole movie was a troll.
That said, I actually liked it. Does it measure up to the rest? No. Does it even fit in with the rest? Fuck no. But I still found it entertaining as an individual entity, despite its Lost-rip-off-contrived-mystery foundation. It wasn't a bad movie, it was just a terrible sequel.

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I'm not sure how far the anime strays from the original story, but hey, they're all HILARIOUSLY inbred so that probably explains a lot.

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Originally Posted by Gare

Utawarerumono is shounen/harem stuff, what do you expect. Like seriously. :wacko: Edit: As far as I remember, anyway. It's been at least 5-6 years since I watched it so who knows.

As for Eva 3.0, GearBrain's post over here sums up all of my frustrations pretty much. Yeah, I later found out that the preview was a troll. I just really don't like how the characters acted in this one. Taking 5 minutes to explain shit to Shinji instead of being all passive aggressive and treating him like human garbage would've solved ALL their problems. Also, screen time was spent on piano lessons and flashy action scenes instead of actually explaining what happened during the 14 year skip and fleshing out characters. Hell, Misato has like 10 minutes of screen time in the entire thing.

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I actually like Utawarerumono; the writing's been reasonably intelligent. . . until that scene.
And I saw the harem tag, but it really doesn't fit, at least not yet, even though I know the game was a harem. I'm especially glad the protagonist is nothing like a harem protagonist, even if the story does go that way.
He's actually one of the few NT (MBTI talk) types to get a leading role who isn't an antihero (Intuitive Thinkers include Light Yagami and Lelouche vi Britannia. . . that's it). He may be introverted enough to lack in the personality department, but, well, while his soldiers were retardedly abandoning their battlements to charge into a larger force, he was at least doing something intelligent by sabotaging the enemies supply outpost.
Usually intelligent, non-emotional characters are portrayed as amoral, so it's a nice change of pace.

As for Eva, if they'd explained it to Shinji, then the contrived mystery factor would have been gone! Shinji is a proxy for the audience, after all! (God, doesn't that just make it even more likable! :wacko:) Basically, it was an episode of Lost. While I could enjoy it (independently) for what it was, I will admit the entire rebuild series is fucked because of it, even if the fourth movie is great.

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Originally Posted by Raype

I'm not sure how far the anime strays from the original story, but hey, they're all HILARIOUSLY inbred so that probably explains a lot.

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Says the guy who defends inbreeding. :P
I didn't know you could climb DOWN the evolutionary ladder--it would explain the ears and tails.

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Originally Posted by Ikusagami

Says the guy who defends inbreeding. :P
I didn't know you could climb DOWN the evolutionary ladder--it would explain the ears and tails.

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It was genetically engineered evolutionary climbing down. We became so evolved that we stopped being able to survive outside of our specially designed sealed bunkers and power armor. Evolving back to being able to live on the surface takes a while. So instead let's cross breed this unevolved neanderthal with some animals to get some idiot lab rats to run errands on the surface for us. Then godzilla hulk shows up and... well it's a long story.

Yeah well Hakuoro is voiced by the same dude that did Kiritsugu's voice. So he has that going for him, too. :wacko:

I completely forgot about Kiritsugu. I was happy with him too for being an xNTJ. . . until near the end, where the writing flunked out of psych class and made him, spontaneously, into an INFJ, retconning his entire modus operandi.
Lol. Save people based on quantity rather than quality. Yeah, cuz that's consistent with his character psychology. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Ikusagami

Lol. Save people based on quantity rather than quality. Yeah, cuz that's consistent with his character psychology. :rolleyes:

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He's a Christian.

Did you really expect something else? :wacko:

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Originally Posted by Raype

He's a Christian.

Did you really expect something else? :wacko:

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NT types can be Christians. Just ask Machiavelli's Prince! :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia
Jesus Christ, who does that guy remind me of? :wacko:

But Kiritsugu went from being an old School Catholic to a Mormon.
Didn't even get the harem.

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Originally Posted by Ikusagami

I completely forgot about Kiritsugu. I was happy with him too for being an xNTJ. . . until near the end, where the writing flunked out of psych class and made him, spontaneously, into an INFJ, retconning his entire modus operandi.
Lol. Save people based on quantity rather than quality. Yeah, cuz that's consistent with his character psychology. :rolleyes:

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Sorry to butt in, but I'm curious as to what xNTJ and INFJ mean?

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Originally Posted by SOLDIERSeeD

Sorry to butt in, but I'm curious as to what xNTJ and INFJ mean?

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Personality sorter nomenclature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-B...Type_Indicator
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html
http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html
http://www.personalitypage.com/ENTJ.html

the "x" I used marks a variable, denoting an uncertainty in preferred function (he's socially introverted, but also a "man of action" which types toward extroversion).

Over halfway done with Gundam AGE, hope it ends well, been good so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbpWiSdcf8#t=0

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I expect plentiful booty from this season.

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Originally Posted by Gare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbpWiSdcf8#t=0

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I expect plentiful booty from this season.

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mmmph

MORE ASS

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Look at dat ass

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Originally Posted by Ikusagami

Personality sorter nomenclature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-B...Type_Indicator
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html
http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html
http://www.personalitypage.com/ENTJ.html

the "x" I used marks a variable, denoting an uncertainty in preferred function (he's socially introverted, but also a "man of action" which types toward extroversion).

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Ah, interesting stuff. Will read through the articles, thanks for the links, Ikusagami!

Finished Gundam AGE today...................the ending SUCKED ASS!

I mean seriously the show was good but the ending............... :Low:

Bingeing on Bleach while I wait for the next Kill la Kill

Checking out some of the new series starting this season, namely the new Seitokai Yakuindomo because I've been waiting for a second season for ages.

And the Sonico anime because, well... it's Sonico. :revwacko:

Finished "The Big O" yesterday.
I really liked the heroes, the way the plot went, all that stuff with "tomatoes", memories and visions, and music was simply amazing, but ending...
It didn't ruin the show for me by any means, but end the story like this is simply cruel to the viewers and characters alike.
I wouldn't be so dissapointed with this ending if there was a 3rd season, but there will not be one. Ever.

Watching Blue Submarine No.6

Pretty good for a late 90s anime that's only 4 episodes long, kinda like a movie :wacko:

Holy Crap!

I forgot just how awesome the fight between Naruto and Pain was, Really Epic :awesome:

Currently watching Gundam Build Fighters.

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Originally Posted by Rasgrez

Currently watching Gundam Build Fighters.

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Same :awesome:

Still watching Gundam wing (almost done) and Gundam Build Fighters, good stuff.

Besides my huge list of currently watching.

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Monday

D-frag

Tuesday

Hamatora

Wednesday
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha
Chuu2
Tokyo Ravens - Anime Koi

Thursday

Strange+
Golden Time

Friday
Wake-up girls
Strike the blood

Saturday
Log Horizon
Sekai Seifuku

Sunday
Noragami
Nobunga the Fool
Nobunagun

I've decided all of them are pretty good by my standards. A few are sub-par but still worth 20 minutes a week.

I'm still deciding on Wake-up, Girls! First episode and the movie were great and worth watching, was very happy with them. The second episode I feel is going to set the tone, since watching it I still can't decide what I feel. I enjoy that it portrayed the negatives of the idol scene. But it was on the border of being so echi it would ruin it for me. Not being a huge fan of that category it was pushing, but the way the episode made me very happy and glad it decided the route it was going to take with that.

Currently watching Shin-Chan. Good stuff.

Watchin Gundam X, pretty good so far.

Recently picked up Space Dandy, Magical Warfare and Witch Craft Works.