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MGuy wrote:I enjoyed most of the first season. It looked like they were going to seriously get into what it'd be like to have to suddenly rely on eating people and all the things that entailed. Then they just didn't. Copy paste that sentiment for each and every potentially interesting direction they could've taken the story and then just didn't. It had me even up to the end of the 1st season but they did so little that when the second season came out I couldn't make it past the first episode of it.

I couldn't make it past the first two episodes.

Shrapnel wrote:Well now I know where I'll be spending my afternoon.

Yeah, it just came out, so there's no sub yet. I wish subs came out sooner and were better, because I mostly multi-task while watching things unless I'm in a theatre.

I was actually slightly surprised they didn't advance the kids further in age. I mean, I watched the original series as a... middle schooler, I think? and I'm in college (and have been for ten years...). It was a bit weird to see them only in high school, with the exception of Jou, who's doing entrance exam stuff.

Koumei wrote: My to-watch list is still huge... BlazBlue, Yuruyuri, Rozen Maiden, Ghost in the Shell, K-On!, Maken-ki, Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai, Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!, Onee-chan ga Kita, Aki-Sora, Mahoromatic 2...

Send help ;_;

Rozen Maiden has some detailed characters, but the main guy is your standard harem wimp. A few weird moments because his harem is all dolls. Story is actually good. The most recent season is garbage. They tried to reboot the story, but forgot to actually include the things that made the first 2 enjoyable.

K-On! is adorable, but doesn't have much beyond that. Characters are standard tropes, there isn't any story, and it is all based on being cute. That being said, the character interactions feel very natural. A good presentation, but if you don't like Kiniro Mosaic, you won't like K-On! either.

Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai is about bullying and pretending that it is friendship. It made me very uncomfortable.

Mahoromatic 2 is exactly the same as the first one, but the ending is breathtaking. So, if you liked the first one, you will like the second.

Watched Letter to Momo, heartwarming story about being considerate towards others as you do not know how they truly feel or what tomorrow will bring.

Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai is about bullying and pretending that it is friendship. It made me very uncomfortable.

que? O.o

Stahlseele wrote:

Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai is about bullying and pretending that it is friendship. It made me very uncomfortable.

que? O.o

3/4s of the show is black haired bitch manipulating others into embarrasing themselves, and hitting them with a flyswatter.

EDIT: and the rape scene was... bad.

AndreiChekov wrote:

Stahlseele wrote:

Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai is about bullying and pretending that it is friendship. It made me very uncomfortable.

que? O.o

3/4s of the show is black haired bitch manipulating others into embarrasing themselves, and hitting them with a flyswatter.

EDIT: and the rape scene was... bad.

That summary, and the early comments, could all have been needless, all anyone had to say was "Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai has a rape scene" and that would have been everything we needed to know.

Kaelik wrote:

AndreiChekov wrote:

Stahlseele wrote: que? O.o

3/4s of the show is black haired bitch manipulating others into embarrasing themselves, and hitting them with a flyswatter.

EDIT: and the rape scene was... bad.

That summary, and the early comments, could all have been needless, all anyone had to say was "Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai has a rape scene" and that would have been everything we needed to know.

Or just skip the last episode of the first season

Kaelik wrote:That summary, and the early comments, could all have been needless, all anyone had to say was "Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai has a rape scene" and that would have been everything we needed to know.

Very true. That was on my "maybe watch?" list, but thanks to these revelations, I can happily remove it.

... What rape scene? Am I forgetting a scene, or do you mean the thing with Sena molesting Kodaka's sister?

Yeah, i don't really remember that rape scene either O.o
As for the bullying . . Well, they don't really like each other and are more or less competing for the male main so that's about the same as it is in many harem shows.

I just want to point out that in Princess Lover, all the girls ended up in the same room at one point (on the mandatory hot springs episode*), and spoke about how they all like the same guy and how one day he's going to choose someone "And it might not even be one of us". And they promised then and there to not be bitter or resentful about it because that'd just make everyone miserable.

I mean, the show then decided to be more of an Action Team thing and started forgetting about the harem bit, and that turned out pretty well, but they showed that it really isn't necessary for a harem show to do "the standard thing".

*It's the law. Every anime needs one. The creators could go to jail if they don't include it.

Hey now, don't exaggerate about the hot springs episode.

Beach episodes are an accepted substitute.

Meikle641 wrote:... What rape scene? Am I forgetting a scene, or do you mean the thing with Sena molesting Kodaka's sister?

"What rape scene? Am I forgetting a scene, or do you mean the rape scene?"

Out of curiosity as to how a rape scene can go unnoticed by people who watched the show, I found this:

OVA2
Feeling they don't have much to do today, Kodaka suggests that everyone participate in a relay novel, in which everyone takes turns writing a chapter of a novel. Naturally, things don't go well as each member tilts the story towards their preferences and desires. Yukimura starts the novel and makes Kodaka the protagonist. Yozora, next in line, fills her section with acts of Sena being raped, making the real Sena angry.....

It seems like it happens in a fanfic the characters are writing about themselves in an OVA (so some people may have just skipped that).

i did not even know that there were OVAs to the series untill now O.o
only watched the normal series episodes.

Ninja Scroll has a rape scene, but then again most MadHouse productions do.

If only there were ratings like for American movies.

name_here wrote:Hey now, don't exaggerate about the hot springs episode.

Beach episodes are an accepted substitute.

That's true. Or a bath-house. That's acceptable as well. Some shows stay on the safe side by going for all of the above, of course.

Anyway, I started on Rozen Maiden. It is delightful.

I only watched the show, hadn't heard of the OVAs. The show is worth watching, I guess. I got laughs from it.

Yozora is a piece of shit, though. Meat is bad in different ways, given her fucked up obsession with Kodaka's sister. Typical for anime and Lena Dunham.

i watched GITS-The New Movie
i didn't understand GITS-The New Movie

I didn't think it was all that terribly complicated.

whatshername in the wheelchair and the priest guy have been murdering people and having wheelchair lady remote-pilot prosthetic bodies that look like the people who were murdered and also one that looks like The Major. This is part of a plan to ascend people to digital heaven because they picked the Betamax of the cyberbrain format wars and can't get replacement parts. They're playing all sides of various political and military conflicts to advance this agenda.

There's another GITS movie? And it's not a prequel? Wow

I watched like, 1-2 episodes of arise, but my understanding is that basically, GITS rebooted itself, so the movie isn't a prequel, but it sure isn't a sequel either, since it doesn't cover events happening after Stand Alone and 2nd GIG, it describes events that happen in an alternate universe where none of that ever happened.

Kaelik wrote:I watched like, 1-2 episodes of arise, but my understanding is that basically, GITS rebooted itself, so the movie isn't a prequel, but it sure isn't a sequel either, since it doesn't cover events happening after Stand Alone and 2nd GIG, it describes events that happen in an alternate universe where none of that ever happened.

I'm pretty sure it's prequels.

sigma999 wrote:

Kaelik wrote:I watched like, 1-2 episodes of arise, but my understanding is that basically, GITS rebooted itself, so the movie isn't a prequel, but it sure isn't a sequel either, since it doesn't cover events happening after Stand Alone and 2nd GIG, it describes events that happen in an alternate universe where none of that ever happened.

I'm pretty sure it's prequels.

Have you watched them?