Do you guys mind if we turn this into a general animation thread? The Western cartoon talk over in the TV thread is threatening to completely consume it and just makes more sense to do a general animation thread then have two separate ones, especially considering the crossover people we have between the two.
[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
Awesome. I'm sure it can wait til later, unless someone wants to do it in the mean time.
Mentioned it in the TV thread but I'd rather keep it to just anime here as I use this thread often and don't really care much for AT/RS/etc lately, that's just me though.
I second the new topic idea, I feel if we mixed the two topics here it'd be the same problem we had with the TV thread.
Monster Musume no Ichijou (MonMosu) started up today, and it's a fun harem show. I've been reading the manga for awhile and it's a nice new twist on the harem genre, replacing regular girls with a lamia, harpy, centaur, mermaid, etc. The comedy's great, the animation's some of the best so far this season (though generally first episodes seem to have a bigger budget for that), and it might end up being one of my favorites this season.
It's good. The main characters get sucked into a world with no war/violence, where every dispute from common folks to the various countries is solved with some kind of game. The MCs are shut-in geniuses and start working their way up the social ladder by wining games. It's a lot of fun.
A friend of mine loves it, and I think he's also caught up on the manga. If you're into fantasy action, it's apparently pretty good.
I've heard Claymore described as Berserk for kids, for whatever it's worth. I watched it, I thought it was okay. I wouldn't necessarily go out of my way to see it, unless you dig the genre. Mild spoiler:
The ending of the anime isn't great, since the manga is ongoing. Had that "let's hope we get a second season since this finale resolved nothing" feel so common in anime.
Kinda wish I hadn't read any of the School-Live! manga before watching the show, because the first episode would have been much better. Still, should be an interesting series.
Ushio to Tora is 90's shounen as hell and I fucking love it.
Also Kenji Ohtsuki's OP song is awesome.
Also Kenji Ohtsuki's OP song is awesome.
I loved that anime, but $100 is a lot for as short as it is!
WOW, this got green-lit? Did not expect that to happen after YEARS of nothing. I've heard its the shonen version of Calvin and Hobbes, I'll keep a third eye open.
I mean, he names the demon Tora because it looks like a tiger, but I wouldn't say it's Calvin and Hobbes-ish outside of that. Tora's not imaginary, and has already been seen by a few people by the end of episode 3.
Im going to probably wait for the next sentai sale.
In other news i found this...
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You linked the image wrong, but I saw it by right-clicking.Im going to probably wait for the next sentai sale.
In other news i found this...
Anyone want to take bets on what madness i wrought for myself?
Anyway, the remake that's going on right now was kinda boring, so I didn't get past the 4th or so episode. If anything maybe being shorter will make that one better.
I'm kind of surprised Everyday Life with Monster Girls got green lit for this season. It's source is like a 5 issue doujinshi that is fairly explicit hentai. Did they just drop that angle and turn it into a rom/com ecchi series ala Tenchi? I mean... it wouldn't be the first time that happened. Fate/stay was an eroge PC game that got turned into a shonen style anime. But it's rare enough that it still raises an eyebrow.
He's been doing it as a regular manga for awhile now that's less focused on straight up sex and falls more in line with an ecchi/harem.
That would totally explain it then. Ironically, Highschool of the Dead went in reverse: the manga was kind of cheesecake, but the anime takes that aspect and makes it as ridiculous as possible.
I still want a second season though. Or more copies of the manga.
In 1976, Muhammad Ali fought Antonio Inoki (a Japanese professional wrestler who knew many styles of Eastern martial arts and had real street fighting experience). Ali's people thought it was going to be a choreographed exhibition but then caught Inoki training, where he was doing brutal drop kicks and grapples against his partners. The teams quickly had to renegotiate the rules to make it a fight worth watching, so they banned Inoki from kicking unless he was on the ground (assuming he would just try to do sweeps and such) and grappling.
The fight went like this:
It is, to this day, one of the most fiercely debated fights in history. The Japanese and MMA guys think Inoki was following the rules and came up with a winning, viable strategy. The Western and boxing guys think it was a sham fight because the entire point was to see Ali throw his fierce punches against Inoki and that Inoki won by refusing to fight Ali, period. It's also why the Japanese think Americans fighting is always boxing (it's the iconic style we have, despite getting it from Europe, and our love of professional wrestling).Wikipedia said:
So the answer to your question is basically:
- There haven't been a lot of East Vs. West fights outside of professional wrestling ring.
- America doesn't have a long history with another fighting style.
- Their version of "All Asian people know martial arts" is "All Americans fight like boxers" and it's dumb for the same reason.
DB Super's just past episode 3, and man the VA for King Kai/Kaio-sama is just too old to be doing voice work, I guess. He basically mutters all his lines with no enunciation/emotion at all, which is doubly odd with an animated character emoting in ways the VA just isn't.
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Not really. There's not really a style so much as training in good ways to throw a punch. It's a sport or contest bound by strict rules where two guys throw punches at each other until one can't stand. It doesn't work as a general fighting style unless the other guy is bound by the same rules.[DOUBLEPOST=1437654140,1437653718][/DOUBLEPOST]But all that being said, it still doesn't mean westerners don't understand really basic concepts like "all power comes from hip rotation" which always seems to surprise the giant western opponent in anime. Hell, that's the first thing my dad taught me about fighting and he's by no means a fighter or even interested in fighting.
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That time I used drone as an adjective, and someone thought I was talking about a specific genre. I can't help that there are forty-seven thousand subgenres of rock people have attached names to so that an adjective I used happened to match one.
Boxing is a game with set of rules, not a style. Lest ye think this is simply me, this is definitely a contentious topic. Just type "is boxing" into google, and the first suggestion is "is boxing a martial art". Regardless, it doesn't matter, this is semantic. Choose whatever descriptor you want, it's not a [insert your name here] you'd take into a non-boxing fight because that's not what it's for. And that's the point, to go back to anime. The writers seem to think that "punching as one would in a boxing match" is the only way westerners know how to fight, and that westerners would seriously go into a real fight like it was a boxing match.
Boxing is a game with set of rules, not a style. Lest ye think this is simply me, this is definitely a contentious topic. Just type "is boxing" into google, and the first suggestion is "is boxing a martial art". Regardless, it doesn't matter, this is semantic. Choose whatever descriptor you want, it's not a [insert your name here] you'd take into a non-boxing fight because that's not what it's for. And that's the point, to go back to anime. The writers seem to think that "punching as one would in a boxing match" is the only way westerners know how to fight, and that westerners would seriously go into a real fight like it was a boxing match.
Well, that's the trope/stereotype. Really all there is to it, IMO. Given how mangaka tend to be otaku about what they write about, it's not like they're unaware. But it fits into the story they want to tell, so they use it.
And really, most westerners have had no formal training in any martial art (including boxing). They likely would throw a shitty haymaker in a real fight, if LiveLeak is any indication.
And really, most westerners have had no formal training in any martial art (including boxing). They likely would throw a shitty haymaker in a real fight, if LiveLeak is any indication.
Sword Art Online II part one
We need to find out who this dude is whose killing people through the game even though its supposed to be impossible now!
Me:HOLY SHIT, that's some consequence!
Sword Art Online II part two
We need to clear this dungeon or else we won't be able to play our favorite video game any more!
Me: Um....consequence? I'm hoping there's a twist, cos that's kinda weak. BUT- Asuna is actually FIGHTING again so I ain't complaining too much!
We need to find out who this dude is whose killing people through the game even though its supposed to be impossible now!
Me:HOLY SHIT, that's some consequence!
Sword Art Online II part two
We need to clear this dungeon or else we won't be able to play our favorite video game any more!
Me: Um....consequence? I'm hoping there's a twist, cos that's kinda weak. BUT- Asuna is actually FIGHTING again so I ain't complaining too much!