So, Anime You Like Lately

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:39 am

Cynic wrote:I finally got a decent enough copy of LOGH. I've zoomed through the first 11 episodes. This show is all sorts of awesome. It even fits the space opera kick I've been on. Space battles, Strategy, Politics, Romance, and ambition. That's just only some of the awesomes I can count.

I'm looking for a specific screencap from that show

It's a bearded man looking sad because he was called "nice" by a woman, and he says "nice" is the word women use for men that women perceive as having not a mote of mystery to them.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:13 pm

sadly, the only non moe-blob show i am watching right now seems to have been dropped by my favourite subber group <.<

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:51 pm

name_here wrote:Lastly was one about SPAAACCCCEEEE! pirates. Well, actually, the main character is currently considering whether to inherit a pirate ship and currently going off on a cruise with the members of the girls' school space yacht club on a ship that happens to have also been a pirate ship. Although I think technically it's a privateer ship, which the subtitles somewhat confusingly translate as "official pirate".

Bodacious Space Pirates is a new era following old principles. Piracy doesn't "exist" and isn't legally allowed by the gov't.

Kato an the Bentenmaru is licensed with a Letter of Marquee, which does make them what we know as privateers. Chiaki likewise, and the Odette was a former pirate ship turned high school club "yacht". They work within the law, within their "sector" of space, but do things that can't legally be done by the gov't. such as all privateers of one country that were considered pirates of other countries. it is a good series, but the yuri really seemed out of place. it reminds me a bit of Oban Star Racers or something like that. a girl coming into a mans world and shaking everything up.

wait until you see the episode where the entire thing about piracy and such and the galactic empire gets explained, and you will be more confused than the people it is being explained to.

of course you can watch it legally online if you dont want to wait. i think the series is free to everyone, or you might have to register to watch it here. of course this is a NA distributor sight, so might not be allowed to show it depending on your country on the online player.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:23 am

OgreBattle wrote:
Cynic wrote:I finally got a decent enough copy of LOGH. I've zoomed through the first 11 episodes. This show is all sorts of awesome. It even fits the space opera kick I've been on. Space battles, Strategy, Politics, Romance, and ambition. That's just only some of the awesomes I can count.
I'm looking for a specific screencap from that show

It's a bearded man looking sad because he was called "nice" by a woman, and he says "nice" is the word women use for men that women perceive as having not a mote of mystery to them.

I have that on my old HD. I can see if I can retrieve it for you. Need it in any sort of hurry? No guarantees.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:17 pm

New week, new set of episodes

Baccano! has finally begun to make some degree of sense. Train faction count remains constant. Episode 7 finally explains where the MacGuffin originally came from. Incidentally, I love the episode titles for the show. They are so direct and to the point.

Sampler was for a show called Love, Elections & Chocolate. It's a harem anime centering on the Food Club, which is at risk of being disbanded for school budget reasons and lacking any notable accomplishments besides the decanter of endless candy. It was kind of funny but not all that great.

Blue Exorcist had a filler episode, in which it turns out that the main character is good at cooking (The female members of the anime club were most pleased) and he angers and then befriends the kitchen spirit while his brother desperately tries to avoid fangirls offering him lunches because he can't eat that much food and picking just one would rapidly turn ugly. It was pretty hilarious. The next episode explained exorcist types, which we're referring to as character classes.

Lastly, the main character of Moretsu Pirates is now officially a space pirate, complete with hat. There was also a priceless exchange where another character told her to drop the ditz act and received a look of blank confusion.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:47 pm

Watched Sword Art Online. Is garbage. Season 2 is worse.

Reasons why not to like season 2:

1) It feels a lot tacked on, less epic, and less meaningful. The villain only exists because his boss is super dumb and hands off and completely does not give the tiniest shit about his daughter. The "urgency" is that someone in a coma will be nonconsensually married but not really married in a way that is totally revocable because she was in a coma. And you had damn well better promise me, show, that if they had taken a week longer that her real body would not have been raped while in a coma in a hospital with her fucking dad living and ostensibly concerned about her.

2) The best female character becomes a largely powerless damsel in distress, and her character as established in the last show basically doesn't exist. It gets kinda rapey with her at points, both the main villain, and some fucking tentacle monsters which I swear only had tentacles so that they could make a technically PG reference to tentacle porn.

3) The familial sister/genetic cousin falls in love/is in love with her brother. Thank you Japan, I was worried you wouldn't find a way to put incest in this otherwise non incest show.

4) Giant Kirito plothole. The guy is named Kagami Kazuto or something in real life. His game name is Kirito. At the end of the first season, anyone who gives even the tinniest shit watched the news and learned about how Kirito saved everyone by beating the game, and Kirito is this fucking guy. The villain even calls him that. Everyone knows this.

So he makes a character in the next game, called Kirito, and for some goddam reason, his sister is totally unaware that it is him. They even do teases about when they will find out, but I missed the first two, because I just assumed she knew it was him until she literally plot expositioned that she didn't know what her brother was doing while she did know that the character was in game.

This is really weird, because the entire point of one of the conflicts is that she decides to stop loving her brother and instead love this other guy in the game who is her brother, but for the above mentioned reason, she should have damn well known it was him.

But none of that stuff comes up in the first season, which is just mediocre.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:48 pm

@name_here
So, Moretsu Pirates has cought your fancy then? O.o
Good on you, it's really superb in my eyes ^^

Furthermore:
Yay! Horrible Subs did NOT Drop Robotics:Notes!

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:40 pm

I rather liked the first part of SAO, but not so much the second. That admin was one creepy fucker, Jesus christ.

Still, I really liked the SAO portion of SAO. The whole setting was great, as were the characters. Certainly better than the plot of .hack/Sign, I'd say.

I'm hoping they animate Gun Game Online at some point. It's one of the next parts of the book series SAO was based on. The part I find unfortunate is that it adds another girl to the Kirito harem. Apparently strong female characters can't not fall for the male protagonist.

Sure must be nice to have rich parents in SAO, common folks like Kirito end up as emaciated shells, but Asuna certainly didn't look that way. Then again, I suppose that'd be 'Fan Disservice'. He was an emaciated shell, while she looked normal in a coma. Money really does pay.

Another thing, does anybody else find it fucked up that Japanese hospitals basically close every night and on weekends, leaving all these bedridden people seemingly to fend for themselves until the next shift? It was a bit jarring when I saw the climax at the hospital.

I really need to get around to finishing Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star...

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:30 pm

Meikle641 wrote:

I'm hoping they animate Gun Game Online at some point. It's one of the next parts of the book series SAO was based on. The part I find unfortunate is that it adds another girl to the Kirito harem. Apparently strong female characters can't not fall for the male protagonist.

Sure must be nice to have rich parents in SAO, common folks like Kirito end up as emaciated shells, but Asuna certainly didn't look that way. Then again, I suppose that'd be 'Fan Disservice'. He was an emaciated shell, while she looked normal in a coma. Money really does pay.

Another thing, does anybody else find it fucked up that Japanese hospitals basically close every night and on weekends, leaving all these bedridden people seemingly to fend for themselves until the next shift? It was a bit jarring when I saw the climax at the hospital.

Yeah, the harem thing is... weird, but honestly, it wasn't even that bad in the SAO part. I mean, in SAO you had one episode where he rescued a girl from death and saved her puppy, and she fell in love with him, but frankly, that's totally normal. The other cowardly girl who liked him because he saved her and was obviously powerful before she died, relatively normal. Lisabeth you could just chalk up to someone who liked him for relatively decent reasons, and then never thought of it again, giving him over to her friend, except the non SAO part decided she was going to compete for him for some reason, even though she totally didn't when they were married for months.

But then not SAO made her and little girl back part of the harem, and added his sister, and added two random guild leaders who totally don't see him for more than 12 minutes and shouldn't fall for anyone who saves their life like the little girl.

But yeah, SAO better than ALFheim.

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:39 pm

Ben-to is definitely has one of the more odd premises I've ever digested but it was entertaining enough.

Just got done watching Battle Librarians again and it is just as good as I remembered.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:44 pm

can't believe i never knew of this before, but i just watched the Black Lagoon Omake and it's hillarious ^^

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:25 pm

... There's an omake? Wasn't a third season coming soon as well?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:32 pm

here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDAYhBt_s-8
there are 7 of these just folow the youtube links ^^

and no, not really a third season, i think it was an OVA called Robertas Blood Trail.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:32 am

So sampler this week was from Sasami@unmotivated.

What the actual fuck. What was even going on.

I have demanded that the second episode be shown, because apparently it explains things. I have got to see how they pulled that off.

EDIT: Full thing:

Baccano included Isaac and Miria being themselves, including a police detective asking partway through a slideshow of their activities if the chief was just fucking with them. Also, it is becoming increasingly clear that Ladd and the Lemures picked the wrong train.

Sasami@unmotivated has the main character stay inside her house at all times in fear of the dread Daystar and watch her idiotic brother whose face is hidden behind objects whenever he's onscreen via some kind of hidden camera drones. She gets him chocolate for Valentines Day, then he gives it to another girl and it is revealed he doesn't know what Valentines Day is. Then abruptly the world is covered in chocolate and the three girls her brother had talked to during the day turn out to be a magical girl, a robot girl, and a sword-wielding mage, and they battle chocolate demons. No one in the room knew what the fuck.

Blue Exorcist had a bunch of people learn the value of teamwork in a secret test fighting a demon. Meanwhile the main character killed an equivalent demon via stabbing it once.

Space Pirates started off with people introducing themselves to each other like six times. The same two people, actually. Also, the Yacht Club gained yet another member with a highly unusual status. There was also a shining example of a lie so blatant it was clearly intended to be disbelieved by anyone who knew so much as the job description of the guy who said it.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:29 am

New Sampler: Sacred Blacksmith. It is about a female knight who sucks at fighting and a dude who saved her three times in one episode and has magical rapid sword forging skills. Also it reminds me very heavily of Fire Emblem. I will have to watch more of it.

rampaging-poet · Post by **rampaging-poet** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:52 am

We finished Eden of the East last week. I felt it was a pretty good series, but the early episodes were much better. Watching people try to find out what was going on was much more satisfying than seeing them find out. The series ended on somewhat of a cliffhanger, but there are two movies that probably tie everything up. I haven't watched them yet.

Next up: the second season of Genshiken and the first season of Bakemonogatari. I'm still not caught up on the first season of Genshiken, but I watched the first two episodes of Bakemonogatari and they were ok. The incredibly fast flashes of text were super annoying though.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:54 pm

*twitch twitch*
i just watched episodes 12 to 16 of Robotics; Notes and my god have they taken a nose dive from happy go lucky to conspiracies and murder . .

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:50 pm

I watched Dead Leaves. That was bizarre and silly and strangely satisfying.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:55 pm

i think i may have actually heard of that movie before somewhere O.o

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:15 pm

I haven't watched Dead Leaves yet, but looking forward to it, that dude went on to make REDLINE, which is just a work of PURE LOVE

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:37 pm

I watched the Japanese subtitled version of Pokemon's 1st movie again. There are huge differences between the JP and US dialog.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:44 pm

The JP version ain't geared towards kids quite as much.
It's similar with most stuff that actually makes ot over the pond.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:02 pm

Ancient History wrote:I watched Dead Leaves. That was bizarre and silly and strangely satisfying.

if you want something similar but not as Heavy Metal 80s MTV try Five Numbers.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:13 pm

Meikle641 wrote:
OgreBattle wrote:
Cynic wrote:I finally got a decent enough copy of LOGH. I've zoomed through the first 11 episodes. This show is all sorts of awesome. It even fits the space opera kick I've been on. Space battles, Strategy, Politics, Romance, and ambition. That's just only some of the awesomes I can count.
I'm looking for a specific screencap from that show

It's a bearded man looking sad because he was called "nice" by a woman, and he says "nice" is the word women use for men that women perceive as having not a mote of mystery to them.
I have that on my old HD. I can see if I can retrieve it for you. Need it in any sort of hurry? No guarantees.

No hurry, it's just a memorable scene.

On the Pokemon movie, well it still was a kids movie. I watched it when I was... 10 or 12, rented a subtitled version from the Asian supermarket's bootleg videostore, before the movie came out in the US. It was great. It didn't have the scene with the clone girl though, that was only added for the DVD release.

It really bugs me, the content of American tv/books/movies for kids.

I spent a few years in Thailand (an hour's drive from Deathtrap Dungeon) and as a 5 year old I was watching Kenshiro punch badguys into geysers of blood and shedding manly tears for the death of good men. When I returned to the US I remember thinking that GI Joe and He Man had strangely neutered conflict, they were fun to watch but... it was like a little microwave weiner compared to a juicy steak. I was drawing super muscular Dragon Ball and Fist of the North Star characters in 1st grade, all my classmates thought they were mega-cool (DBZ hadn't aired in the US outside of mexican tv stations)

Redwall books were great though, they had fighting and justice.

It was cool though that the hispanic immigrant kids all knew Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball, and even Mazinger, the rest of the world is more similar to each other than it is to the US.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:07 pm

Mo(r)e Death.
This time Little Busters Episode 21 . . the hell is wrong with Authors? <.<