Only 4 eps in? SWEET- a shonen show I'm not massively behind on!
[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
Hey, No Game No Life was awesome. 
Yeah. They never catch the episode where Roy Fokker dies, or the Battle of Reflex Point, it's always one of the soap opera episodes.
Yeah, I was watching Fairy Tail on the PS3 and anytime my dad walked by it was always during the ecchi shit, not the epic battles.
Didn't see it mentioned yet, but Naruto has officially ended at 700 issues. There's a final movie due out, and that's pretty much it for the series as far as the main author is concerned (some other guy is putting out a couple side-stories next year).
Bleach already had the anime cancelled. I don't see it lasting much longer.
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I have the same problem with anime. Every time my wife is awake, it's one of those stupid between-arc happy-giant-head stupid episodes. Every time. It's uncanny. Then as soon as she falls asleep, it's like the characters see it, and turn serious suddenly. My wife is convinced that the whole genre is that stupid stuff.
my father walked in on my watching the bonus episode of Date-A-Live, right at this moment:
so yeah, its always that moment someone comes in and sees what I am watching, not the adorable stuff like this:
I'm curious what'll take Naruto's spot in the Big 3 with OP and Bleach. Maybe Fairy Tail? I know there's a other series with the same feel, so it could really be one of a few different titles.
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Naruto is a tough act to follow. People love to hate the king of the hill, but it deserved the attention it got. Like I said earlier in the thread, it diverged quite a bit from Bleach in that Kishimoto created characters you actually cared about, and emotional moments that were pretty powerful. Fairy Tail is probably the closest big shounen--it's admittedly had me choked up a few times, too, whether I want to admit it or not.
Also, of the Big 3 authors I think Kishimoto has the best and most consistent art, too. Kubo does a lot of blank backgrounds, which is okay in small doses but not as often as he does it, and Oda's characters are crazily exaggerated (though really, his landscape/background work is fantastic).
Don't get me wrong, though, Oda's a talented man, but I think Kishimoto is king when it comes to art between the three of them.
Don't get me wrong, though, Oda's a talented man, but I think Kishimoto is king when it comes to art between the three of them.
Bleach's anime should have been called "Bleach: Hope You Like Filler". Have to admit the opening theme by Asterisk was pretty damn catchy.
Kubo's character design is interesting, though, and a lot of the personalities were somewhat memorable, even if it was just because they were ridiculous.
Kubo's character design is interesting, though, and a lot of the personalities were somewhat memorable, even if it was just because they were ridiculous.
With One Piece I don't find the exaggerated designs a problem but I will admit a lot of the young female characters have really similar face designs which is odd because he goes all out with male facial designs regardless of age. Every time I see a female character with a different looking face, I practically almost APPLAUD the series.
Personally I think the guy doing Seven Deadly Sins is ruling in terms of background work. I haven't seen it this amazing since the likes of Toriyama. Dragonball, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger and the rest suffer from horrible same-face, but Toriyama's composition and overall design work is still the tops.
And some of them same hair style, dude loves his bowel cuts.
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Best typo ever, I AM THE KING OF ACCIDENTAL COMEDY!
GasBandit
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I saw that exact typo a few years ago at the supermarket, and made a demotivational poster about it.
More new things on Netflix. Magi, both seasons (solid action-comedy), Freezing, all 3 seasons (it's not very good), Samurai Flamenco (surprisingly entertaining), and My Little Monster (a fun rom-com).
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I... I just got to the episode of Fairy Tail in which
[DOUBLEPOST=1415490150,1415490100][/DOUBLEPOST]Granted it's only implied, but it's pretty clear.
Ultear gives her adopted daughter a hand job in order to stop Jellal from completing a spell. Wow. The daughter is an adult and Jellal was body linked with her a la the Corsican Brothers.
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Started watching Sword Art Online. It's a good concept, but sometimes it's such a thinly veiled otaku fantasy/fan service it's sort of embarrassing. Oh, the main character is a "solo" who is a badass but also all the chicks really dig him. And he can dual wield???? It's just...I dunno. Kind of sad.
One of the things I really enjoy about Sword Art Online is that a few things happen:
- Kirito can fail. Hard. He usually doesn't pay the price but bad shit can and does happen because of his failures.
- Kirito's selfishness and closed mindedness are on full display for basically half of the entire first season. He might help others but he's barely a hero by any stretch of the word.
- Kirito does not return the affections of most of his "harem" beyond friendship. This isn't Tenchi, where there's some actual doubt who he might pick. He only has eyes for one girl and she calls him out on his shit all the time.
- The show has a bit of light ecchi at times (which is fine, whatever) but there is a line: if it ever would be something you'd call molestation or sexual harassment, it is shown as such. It's not afraid of showing stuff incredibly darkly to get it's point across that this shit is not okay in real life.
Sword Art Online is actually pretty well thought out. I enjoy it a hell of a lot more than a lot of dreck that came out during the Great Recession.
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I see some of that, but some of it just drives home the point further. Take his "selfish" actions that lead to the death of his first guild. The only thing he did wrong was not tell them his true level, which really didn't cause anything, or if it did, it was tenuous at best. And that is used for him to have a brooding "darkness" about him later on, which is just sort of laughable. It reminds me of the South Park Goth Kids. Plus he's like the only character that wears black and he wears that black duster everywhere, reminds me of Mac from Always Sunny. I'll admit it's hard for me to describe exactly what it is about him, but there's something there.
It's actually that he didn't tell them he was a beater that got them killed. If he had spoken up and told them what he knew, NONE of them would have died. They'd have skipped the treasure room and lived. It's squarely his fault for not being more careful with a guild full of newbs. That he feels bad for getting all of them killed (when he could have saved them by risking them rejecting him for his beater status) makes sense.
The black coat thing though sticks around though, even once he lightens the fuck up. It's mostly because virtually everyone else is in a bold color (Klein is Red, etc). It's not nearly as annoying once he stops acting like a little bitch.
tl;dr - He gets better as a character, but the show never really shakes the young adult light novel feel until the middle of Season 1.
It's especially funny seeing how the author wrote Kirito when you look at the MC of his other big hit, Accel World.
He's a tiny, clumsy, awkward fat kid who's virtual avatar is a pig thanks to a bully's prank.
Of course, in the battle areas he's exactly like Kirito, in that he's got some secret ability nobody else does that makes him a beast.
He's a tiny, clumsy, awkward fat kid who's virtual avatar is a pig thanks to a bully's prank.
Of course, in the battle areas he's exactly like Kirito, in that he's got some secret ability nobody else does that makes him a beast.