[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
Oh floppy discs, you and cassette tapes used to be capable of anything weren't you?
I've heard a lot about Sailor Moon and I know they were popular and all that, but, even being from the right generation, I've never seen an episode and probably couldn't correctly identify a clip unless it has some really iconic imagery in it (can't see the video here so don't know what they were shown).
Sure, it was a big show back in the day, but who watched all big series ad shows across genres and types? I've never watched an episode of DBZ either, for example. And I'm not exactly PatrThom
Sure, it was a big show back in the day, but who watched all big series ad shows across genres and types? I've never watched an episode of DBZ either, for example. And I'm not exactly PatrThom
I mean, was anime a big thing in the early-mid 90's there? There was a point that it was being dubbed and put in most Saturday or post-school-time cartoon blocks here so if you're late 20's to early 30's odds are you saw it at some point.I've heard a lot about Sailor Moon and I know they were popular and all that, but, even being from the right generation, I've never seen an episode and probably couldn't correctly identify a clip unless it has some really iconic imagery in it (can't see the video here so don't know what they were shown).
Sure, it was a big show back in the day, but who watched all big series ad shows across genres and types? I've never watched an episode of DBZ either, for example. And I'm not exactly PatrThom
Sure, it was on. But it's not like there's only one TV channel, after all. If after school I had to choose between, I dunno, Power Rangers or Sailor Moon, or Simpsons and DBZ, or whatever, it's perfectly possible for the anime to lose out. I'm the right age and the right focus group, but even so, I can't watch everything.
It was the theme song/intro.I've heard a lot about Sailor Moon and I know they were popular and all that, but, even being from the right generation, I've never seen an episode and probably couldn't correctly identify a clip unless it has some really iconic imagery in it (can't see the video here so don't know what they were shown).
Sure, it was a big show back in the day, but who watched all big series ad shows across genres and types? I've never watched an episode of DBZ either, for example. And I'm not exactly PatrThom
I think it's generally just a case of it being easier to leave it up then demolish it because of costs and time, especially for REALLY old schools that may have things like asbestos. And this happens here in the US too: the middle school closest to me just built a new building and is waiting to tear down the old one this summer.
GasBandit
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When I was in college, they put Sailor Moon on weekday mornings at 5:30 in the morning right after gargoyles, which is how I ended up watching it because I wanted to watch gargoyles.
But I couldn't watch it every morning though, because if my roommate woke up I wasn't about to let him catch me watching what was plainly a cartoon for little girls.
But I couldn't watch it every morning though, because if my roommate woke up I wasn't about to let him catch me watching what was plainly a cartoon for little girls.
GasBandit
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It might be a boom-and-bust thing as well. Perhaps at one time attendance merited the construction of a second, newer building, but then the population decline happened. Then as the student body shrunk they simply put the older building into mothballs. You will note that artificial Academy, in which halforums Academy takes place, there is also an "old building" but it is still in use. Perhaps the game was designed that way out of an idealized nostalgic mindset.
what I love is the population decline is getting so bad many high school setting animes are "WE HAVE TO DO X, TO RAISE ATTENDENCE OTHERWISE THE SCHOOL WILL CLOSE AFTER OUR GRADUATING YEAR!" (where x=start a pop idol club, etc) and of course it still closes, until the invetiable movie. im looking at you moe slice of life girl-centric animes
GasBandit
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I'd not seen any of those, though I don't doubt they exist.
This is literally a point in Little Witch Academia: Luna Nova has had to start accepting non-witch blooded girls in order to stay open because they couldn't fund it otherwise. There just aren't enough witches anymore.
Population decline is a thing in Japan, especially in the country. I'm not surprised it comes up so often.
Off the top of my head girls and panzer and love live are tropers.
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GasBandit
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Those are both shows I know through memes only, and almost nothing of the actual show's content.
I've seen Sailor Moon. Kati's a big fan, couldn't escape it.I'm not exactly PatrThom
Recognized all but three solely from memes.
And then Digimon just because they said the name a dozen times.
Never heard of the high school one and didn't recognize Bleach's intro. Haven't seen any of them.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Monster Musume.
This... this is just.. this is the most absolute pure example of fanservice harem wish fulfillment I've seen in a great long while. I mean, the only other non-hentai example with this much emphasis on boobs and eroticism that I can think of is Keijo. I mean, the protagonist "accidentally" stimulates a monster girl to orgasm in the first scene. The audio track is literally indistinguishable from hentai. Funnily enough, the show also adheres to the old 1990s anime "can't get mad, she doesn't have nipples" school of breast exposure.
And yes I watched the whole thing. I mean, there's only 12 episodes, so it isn't exactly a long run. But still.. it's like guilty pleasure chocolates... they're so bad for you but you can't stop eating them and before you know it they're all gone. And then you feel a little bit gross.
The plot summary is basically "20-something year old japanese man with no defining characteristic other than 'nice' inadvertently becomes exchange host to various different female D&D monsters who all can barely contain their desire to shag him into oblivion."
This... this is just.. this is the most absolute pure example of fanservice harem wish fulfillment I've seen in a great long while. I mean, the only other non-hentai example with this much emphasis on boobs and eroticism that I can think of is Keijo. I mean, the protagonist "accidentally" stimulates a monster girl to orgasm in the first scene. The audio track is literally indistinguishable from hentai. Funnily enough, the show also adheres to the old 1990s anime "can't get mad, she doesn't have nipples" school of breast exposure.
And yes I watched the whole thing. I mean, there's only 12 episodes, so it isn't exactly a long run. But still.. it's like guilty pleasure chocolates... they're so bad for you but you can't stop eating them and before you know it they're all gone. And then you feel a little bit gross.
The plot summary is basically "20-something year old japanese man with no defining characteristic other than 'nice' inadvertently becomes exchange host to various different female D&D monsters who all can barely contain their desire to shag him into oblivion."
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I'm not sure but I believe the creator of the manga also made some hentai stuff.
GasBandit
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I have no trouble whatsoever believing that.
He did. Like, Monster Musume LITERALLY started as a hentai comic that got picked up, turned into a normal manga, and then became a TV series. The only difference between the non-H manga and the normal manga/TV show is that the non-H version doesn't have the protagonist ceaseless fucking everything and that the main character is more of an explorer type, not some student. He even has the same name between the two versions.
And it's not coincidental... this is stuff from the same artist (Okayado) and I've seen it as early as 2008. He didn't start the non-H manga until 2012.
EDIT: In non-monster girl news... Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartey had another cameo in Little Witch Academia in this week's episode.
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Much like Wonder Woman, yet another franchise based on pornography....only, without the feminist overtones and crime fighting kangaroos and sorority sisters.
It wasn't pornography, you dingbat, it's called erotica... damn puritan rubes the lot of you.
GasBandit
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It's rotoscoped? Or just 3d rendered with a cartoon postfilter, a-la Knights of Sidonia?
Pretty certain it's cartoon postfilter, definitely not rotoscoped.
I really enjoyed this one, very funny and as usual KyoAni visuals are top notch.
So I binged the 102 episodes of Shugo Chara that the internet said were worth watching (I'll go back for season three later). It was an enjoyable magical girl anime, and I have been able to get my daughter to start watching it and read the subtitles. I continue, however, to laugh at the Japanese anime perception of a 5th grader (which is the same age as my daughter), and always end up mental aging the kids to teenagers.
Attack on Titan Season 2 will begin April 1st. (In Japan at least... maybe CN is doing the simulcast thing with this too?)