So, Anime You Like Lately

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:14 am

DSMatticus wrote:
TOZ wrote:
icyshadowlord wrote:However, I am surprised about the lack of talk concerning Akame ga Kill.
Fuck, anyone can die in this one.
Really? Because I thought most of the deaths had been massively telegraphed.

Edit: Caught myself up on the episodes and I see what you mean. Keep in mind the previous statement was made after only watching up through Kill the Three Part 1.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 6:36 pm

Best episode so far. 10/10.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 4:28 am

Watched Kara No Kyoukai 5 today. I have to love the extent to which Shiki Ryogi (Do not confuse with Shiki Tohno, she has tits and no glasses) completely and utterly does not give a shit.

Dude: Can you give me a place where no one will see me?
Shiki: If you want that, go to your house.
Dude: Obviously I'm asking because I can't go home! Or are you going to invite me to your house!?
Shiki: Sure.
Dude: You see, I'm a murderer.
Shiki: Oh.

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Dude: Don't you mind having a strange man sleeping in your apartment?
Shiki: No.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 11:21 am

I have just watched the entirety of Genocyber on youtube . . *sighs* they just don't make Anime like that anymore . . and, truth be told, i ain't sure wether or not that is a bad thing either . .

GreatGreyShrike · Post by **GreatGreyShrike** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 2:07 pm

name_here wrote:Watched Kara No Kyoukai 5 today.

Paradox Spiral is fucking amazing, and by itself totally justifies watching KnK. It was the best part of the series by a huge margin. Well, that and the soundtrack in general, which is amazing throughout.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 4:16 pm

Today's episode of Fate sets up a running gag in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia.
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I call this image "Rider's a jerk".

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 4:48 pm

Huh. Hollow Ataraxia translation patch was finished in the last four years. There goes my week.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:54 pm

So the new evangelion movies are still bad. Just not as bad as the old ones.
And appearantly, 4.44 will only be at the end of 2015 according to wikipedia.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 11:16 pm

Infinite Stratos managed to become creepy within 11 minutes, by anouncing that the characters are 15.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 2:48 am

The only girl worth a damn in Infinite Stratos is Charlotte (with Laura was 2nd). The show is basically awful, but inspired a lot of porn.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:29 pm

Apparently Persona 4 Golden anime and Persona 3 moive (a trilogy, first two movies) are out. I just can't get a day of studies this week, can I?

Yu is clearly on his third playthrough.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:58 pm

Been watching Psycho Pass Season 2.

I have to say, it's lost some of the effect by having the technological systems be less competent. I mean, in the original season, the Lethal Eliminator mode was for use on dangerous people with no hope of recovery, and frankly it was hard to fault its judgement, because everyone who was targeted by it either wasn't a good target for the paralyzer mode for whatever reason and immediately dangerous, or was a serial killer. Actually, it didn't even always trip on serial killers; there was a guy who'd been going around murdering his tormentors and he was a bit shy of the execution threshold. It's way the hell touchier in season 2, triggering for people who clearly just needed a lot of PTSD counseling.

Pixels · Post by **Pixels** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:09 pm

name_here wrote:Been watching Psycho Pass Season 2.

I have to say, it's lost some of the effect by having the technological systems be less competent. I mean, in the original season, the Lethal Eliminator mode was for use on dangerous people with no hope of recovery, and frankly it was hard to fault its judgement, because everyone who was targeted by it either wasn't a good target for the paralyzer mode for whatever reason and immediately dangerous, or was a serial killer. Actually, it didn't even always trip on serial killers; there was a guy who'd been going around murdering his tormentors and he was a bit shy of the execution threshold. It's way the hell touchier in season 2, triggering for people who clearly just needed a lot of PTSD counseling.

Except in the first episode, when it mysteriously sets to lethal on a traumatized girl who had been tortured and raped, and just saw her tormentor explode into a gory puddle. She calms down with a few soothing words from Akane, so goodness knows how the Sybil decided that she had no hope of rehabilitation. The numbers the Dominators spit out were also all over the place, so I really think Urobuchi hadn't nailed down the system 100% before they had to lock in the scripts for the early episodes. It was one hiccup. After that, things became more sensible. If you paralyze a criminal and later decide that he cannot be helped it is easy to dispatch him, but if you unleash explode-o-mode on a criminal you cannot change your mind. He is a puddle. It makes sense that non-lethal force would be used in all but the most extreme cases.

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I have only seen the first episode of season 2. In it, they clearly tried to make a parallel to the first episode of season 1, but fail epically by having Akane put herself, her coworkers, and a whole building full of innocents at risk. The target has explosives strapped to his body, and had previously set off explosives in the middle of a busy city. The girl in season 1 was a risk to nobody but herself, but this guy needed to be neutralized. Immediately.

Characters being stupid or taking idiotic risks is fine, but the narrative paints her actions as the just and moral thing to do. They clearly are not. And this is Akane Tsunomori! Her knee-jerk reaction is to play the hero, but in season 1 she tempered this with intelligence. She never hesitated to put her life on the line, but she did not carelessly play with the well-being of others.

And that is why I have only seen the one episode. I do not trust the new writer at all. He clearly does not understand the characters, and from what you say he is basing his understanding of the system on the first, inconsistent episode of the first season. How incredibly frustrating.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:55 pm

It went to lethal at the start because that girl was holding a lighter in the middle of spilled gasoline. It would have been very bad if she twitched wrong while being paralyzed. It went back to nonlethal the very second she tossed the lighter. Like how it was nonlethal on the guy who kidnapped her until it turned out he was on drugs that interfered with the paralyzer.

Though as for the first episode of Season two, it was pretty important they take him alive for questioning, he'd pointedly avoided killing civilians, and they did evacuate the building. Then again, the first season does have a case of someone just getting their arms blown off.

Pixels · Post by **Pixels** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 1:53 am

And how is paralyzer not also an answer to the girl? Shoot her with either and you run the risk that she drops the lighter. Lethal is for when "nothing will work anymore, not even therapy." If an inspector, untrained in providing criminal therapy, can convince them otherwise then that assessment is completely off. Sibyl can make mistakes, but that is really wildly wrong. And as stated, I really believe that was an early mistake in the writing that was thankfully ignored for the rest of season 1. I do not hold it against Urobuchi, I was just mentioning it because it has been latched onto as the theme of season 2.

I rewatched season 2 episode 1 to make sure, and it really was as terrible as I remembered. Rather than shooting the guy in either an isolated facility or on a deserted street, she lets him run into a skyscraper with tons of lights on. Later on, you see people evacuating the skyscraper, leading children. She let a mad bomber into a packed apartment building. Fine, she wants to know the way he keeps his hue clear, but she can talk to his friends and family or search his house and lab to try to piece together evidence afterwards. It cannot justify putting innocent families at risk.

Here is a thought. Let us say season 1 Akane had been offered the chance to know how Makashima could avoid the Sibyl System's judgement, but in exchange she would have to gamble with one thousand random civilian lives. She gets a coin flip - heads and she learns about criminally asymptotic people, and tails the thousand are burnt alive. Do you really think she would take that wager?

Mistborn · Post by **Mistborn** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 6:48 pm

Wow, today's episode of Unlimited Budget Works was such a tease.

Eikre · Post by **Eikre** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:40 pm

My girlfriend had me watch Madoka Magica. It spends nine episodes being really, really pretty, and then it suddenly pile-drives your ass through a whole different narrative conceit and blitzes the ending.

Recommended.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:55 am

Lord Mistborn wrote:Wow, today's episode of Unlimited Budget Works was such a tease.

Indeed. 6 episodes, and not enough Archer!

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:46 pm

Another one bites the dust in Akame Ga Kill this week.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:15 pm

I've been catching up on One Piece. It is a fun series.

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 4:18 am

I've only semi-recently gotten on board the Avatar train thanks to Amazon Prime having the entire first series complimentary with Prime, and the first season of Korra for free as well. We just binged through season 2 of Korra on the weekend after getting the DVD Friday.

My 5 year old is already looking forward to December 2nd when season 3 becomes available.

Eikre · Post by **Eikre** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:51 pm

Avatar is a cool series. I appreciate that every Korra season so far has conceded an element of ideological reason to the antagonist. In switching to a season-long arch, they also kind of force themselves to get better at endings; the end of the three-season-long Aang story is effectively a deus-ex-machina/super-saiyon-fight combo, and the end of the first Korra story is that the bad guy is a far less interesting figure than we were lead to believe, and then he just sort of fucks up without any extraordinary doing on the part of the protagonists and runs away.

But season two and three throw down just as hard in the final acts as they do in the lead-up, and I have no reason to expect that season four isn't going to do the same.

EDIT: Caught Aachi and Ssipak the other day. It is exquisitely vulgar. It opens up, metaphorically speaking, with a fat rail of cocaine, and spends the next hundred minutes screaming like a crazed megafucker. Recommended.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:50 am

Amagi Brilliant Park is looking interesting. It's not a show about underwear or lesbians, as people would be forgiven for assuming of anything I like. It seems like it has a backstory that's brewing. the central character isn't Generic Anime Guy (instead he's a massively narcissistic asshole who also happens to be pretty smart, but has weaknesses he actually acknowledges, and mostly uses his intellect and narcissism to get shit done). Remember Hammer Space? That thing seems to have just stopped happening in the last decade. Well it's back. In the form of fully automatic muzzle-loaded rifles.

Also, the lead mascot, Moffle, is seriously Bonta-kun from Full Metal Panic!? Fumoffu (Yes, it's the same production company.)

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 3:35 pm

I've been watching Digimon, and something I've noticed about the series* is that every fight - even the ones with the BBEGs - last at the most for about five minutes or less. Like, the final battle with Vamdemon (Myotismon in the west) was literally two minutes long, after a ten episode build-up. It's like the exact opposite of Dragon Ball Z fights.

*Well, Digimon Adventure, mostly. Tamers didn't have this problem so much.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:38 pm

Archer is sufficiently GAR this week.