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Props to whoever knows what song this is. I don't, nor does Naas. Do you, fourteenwings?
Also, cute girls doing cute things is a stereotype of anime anyway. Now, cute girls doing awesome things...now we're talkin'.
All I know about Hajime no Ippo is that there was a scene of a guy punching out a bear... with the Ultra Seven theme song playing. Seriously.
Anyway,
@glennmagusharvey I think that song might be from a Super Robot Wars game, but I'm not really sure.
How is that in itself remarkable? I mean, when you're talking anime that have female characters doing like, anything at all, they're almost always designed to be cute, so unless you have an overly narrow definition of "awesome"...
Being cute and being awesome isn't mutually exclusive.
Uh, I did not say it was mutually exclusive. I'm saying that anime characters (at least young female characters) are pretty much "cute" by default, so cute characters doing or being anything whatsoever sounds like the definition of unremarkable.
Although the Robot Girls Z promo somehow covers "cute girls doing specifically uncute things", and that was kind of, peculiar.
Speaking of which, apparently that show will include a Getter Robo girl and a Jeeg girl. (Getter is fourth from the left, Jeeg is fifth) I don't really know anything about Jeeg, but Getter might make the characters' apparent unpleasantness somehow be like, not a bad thing.
I'm not sure if it was the head of series composition or director or what; I just found the shared credit incredibly strange, and given the mixed things that I have heard about Lagrange, a bit surprising given how excellent the show is. I guess good material makes a difference?
Good material definitely makes a difference when it comes to adaptations like Uchouten Kazoku, but Lagrange is an original anime written for no real reason.
Well, at least Lagrange had Marble.
and TRY UNITE
Apparently, "teenage girls with red blades" is in this season.
I have not seen either of these shows.
a musician reacts to the premise of Suite Precure
> In the musical world of Major Land, peace is protected by the "Legendary Score" and the Melody of Happiness contained within.
Okay, par for the course for this type of series.
> On the annual performance of the Melody of Happiness, the Score is stolen
Okay this is getting cheesy.
> by the jealous king of Minor Land, Mephisto, who turns it into a Melody of Sorrow.
wait what
> To stop Mephisto from sucking the happiness from Major Land right then and there, the queen of Major Land, Aphirodite, scatters the Notes of the Score and sends them to Earth.
> Minor Land
> Major Land
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ROFLMAO
imlaughingforrealrightnow.wav
> Siren attempts to take the G-Clefs within their hearts for the Melody of Sorrow
Oh you gotta be kiddin' me.
Kill la Kill is awesome.
Speaking of Suite Precure, I just finished episode 16.
If Hibiki can see and recognize Siren's necklace, why does she fall for her disguises anymore? Hibiki was all "hey, I definitely recognize that thing".
Also, looks like Maria's joined them. Doesn't seem like this one has a deep-voiced male chorus that chants whenever she does something like Symphogear's Maria, though. And this Cure Muse mystery is dragging out a little. I kinda wish it's Maria, even though she's probably too tall.
> If Hibiki can see and recognize Siren's necklace, why does she fall for her disguises anymore? Hibiki was all "hey, I definitely recognize that thing".
Because too few ranks in Spot, probably.
Well nobody tried to destroy the moon (Well actually Ver did but the "OH GOODNESS IT'S A THING" part was more about defeating the Nephilim). M'am VITALIZED it.
VITALIZATION.
Anyways, Shirabe was my favorite new character [Jiiii] (But Maria was so Maria and Ver was so Ver, so especially Ver). Chris is still my favorite character, but Tsubasa and Hibiki were also almost the best.
The character CDs were awesome. And Dark Oblivion was truly a thing.
Beyond the limits of sense, Symphogear G was the best anime of this year. I swear.
> this year
You mean this forever. Anyway, I think I knew what felt missing:
Although, hearing a variation of the Zesshou in Japanese was really cool too. Possibly an even better idea than all the other songs this show had.
OVA/season 3 when?
So, I decided to check out Kill la Kill, because @fourteenwings apparently doesn't want to. And pretty much everywhere I go, anyone who's seen the first episode sounded impressed, or just generally liked it. (Seriously, this lack of negativity is more than a bit ridiculous)
It's a bunch of insanity, the setting might be some bizarre parody of anime high school settings. The cartoonish and fluid animation makes the brutality less uh, pronounced, which is somehow disappointing. It's not silly enough to actually be slapstick, but it didn't descend into actual gorefest, IMO.
Also, the bizarre nudity stuff (yes, there's quite an amount of it) seems to be more for shock value or wtf-ness rather than actual fanservice. There's a difference, even when it involves characters that aren't ugly. Although I'm not really sure what that difference is and it's probably inappropriate to try and describe it.
The animation goes "SKETCHY LINES EVERYWHERE" (as this MAL club would put it. Anyone got a better term?) on occasion, and I kinda wished something would start glowing green.
Also, Ryuuko's voice is awesome. Maybe not Maria Cadenzavna Eve awesome, but still.
That uniform is damn creepy, though. Even ignoring how little it covers.
You
Are
Forgetting
That
Nijiiro no Flugel
Was a thing
@Naas: Did they play Sirius?
Sirius?
I saw the first episode of the new Yozakura Quartet. Did not take long at all to get used to the new art style, mainly because the show revisited a few certain running gags (especially the Tsundere song)pretty damn quickly. And I think the cast is still the same.
Also, Ryuuko from Kill apparently shares a VA with a certain magical girl named Hibiki (Cure Melody, not Gungnir)
Kill la Kill's OP.
When did I get to the point where I'm interested more in the singers than the shows they sing for (Tokyo Ravens, Valvrave, etc)...
I'm still most interested in the songs themselves. I still like Hajimari no Kaze despite having no idea what Saiunkoku Monogatari is about, or what the lyrics say, or...okay I think I forgot who sang it again. Aya Hisakawa? Is that even a name? Though to be honest, I'm less a voice person and more a composer person so...
And if not for the fact that Melocure had so many songs I liked, I never would have really paid much attention to them. Of course, just my luck, they no longer exist anyway...
Oh, it's Ayaka Hirahara. Oops. Well I got the initials right...
and I still associate the song with Sky Girls because of this one AMV that's long since been takedown'd
So the animé club here had a night themed on videogames and web-original series. Things that made an appearance included:
Pokémon: the Origin - now this was awesome. It's like, what I actually the Pokémon animé series to be like, when I first watched it -- much more true to the first-gen game. There were a few differences, of course (including the gimmick of the latest Pokémon generation, which was probably my least favorite part of it), but overall...IF ONLY IT COULD HAVE BEEN LONGER AND DONE THE ENTIRE FIRST GEN GAME PLOT...
Kill La Kill - I think I saw one episode of this? The tennis episode, apparently? This show appears to be one character with a K-On!-like character design, plus some other characters, but with less cute, more fanservice, over-the-top action, exaggerated action, and even more fanservice. And the main character seems to have an armor/suit/thing that was designed solely for fanservice...and the show really has no qualms about further pointing that out. So why do people like this again? Why do I keep hearing praise for it?
Animal Crossing: the Movie - There was one guy next to me complaining that this lacked plot, and also various rowdiness (albeit some of it relevantly explaining AC jokes I didn't get), but I thought it was decent. and SO ADORABLE.
Dick Figures: the Movie - I'm sorry, there's a whole bunch of things wrong with this movie. From the fact that Red gets all the awesome moves despite being a complete jerk, to how much the series uses LOUD YELLING AND OTHER HORRIBLY CONTRIVED VOICES JUST BECAUSE, to the fact that the guys are stick figures but the girls are stick figures plus boobs and skirt...and then on top of that, I didn't enjoy the potty humor style at all. There were a few good lines (such as the one about animé), but that was about it.
No Time of Eve?
If you mean the girl who hangs around the main character a lot, I'd say her design is more " retro-ish cartoony cutenes" than "Kyoto Animation". Much more rounded than anime character designs in general.
Well, it does those things in a more "mocking" sort of manner. It's like some meta-commentary of (Japense?) entertainment in general. You can't tell me things like bishie teacher's "obligatory sexy posing" was not done as a joke. And to quote a review I found:
(emphasis mine)
Also, I think the setup (i.e. all the high school-related stuff) takes anime cliches to their (il)logical extreme.
Anyway, the appeal is just really easy to see. It's an action series with over-the-top characters and overly expressive animation (sketchy lines, loads of deforming/stretching that should be physically impossible). Even if you don't like it, I don't see how this is even remotely hard to understand.
On another note, it's bizarrely amusing to see the hero of this series do comically unheroic things. Specifically, stealing an old person's vehicle to escape in episode 1 and retreating while going "I'll totally fight you someday!" in episode 2.
Sadly, no. Though it was shown last year, and like no one in the entire anime fandom other than me seems to have much reverence for old series that are not huge iconic things. Alternatively, no one in club seems to realize that club meets are far more effective at introducing new people to series you already like, than watching new episodes/series that you aren't even familiar with.
I guess I get what you mean, on an intellectual level. It just doesn't appeal to me at all, considering my preference for subtlety, unintrusive fanservice, and narratives justifying the action (rather than the reverse).
So uh, what about the high school setting? Just looking at the show itself, it doesn't really make sense, but when you consider anime in general, it's almost like a parody.
I think it's somewhat similar to the appeal of Pacific Rim. The morality and such is overly simplistic, but you know it isn't because it was made by idiots. On a meta level, it's more like they were demonstrating the idea that simple things can be fun and have a message, and perhaps intentionally going against the trend of "dark" media becoming popular.
tl;dr the story itself being simplistic or shallow does not mean something didn't have actual thought put into it. Sometimes this is more clear from a meta perspective. I mentioned PacRim mainly because it's a well-known example rather than anything else.
And what do you mean by "on an intellectual level" anyway? Just because something lacks mystery, moral dilemmas, complex plotlines, etc., doesn't mean you don't get something to think about.
Man, that ^^ sounded kind of incoherent.
Also, triple posting, but I don't mind as much because I like my avatar a lot.
^^^ Maybe it's just that I haven't seen enough anime (or that I generally avoid the sorts of series with the tropes it mocks), for that to jump out at me. And yeah, I get your point.
^^ By that phrase, I meant simply saying, postulating, "some people like over-the-top action and exaggerated characterization", rather than actually understanding specifically why they like those things and being able to put myself in the mind of a fellow viewer with a different taste than mine.
Yeah, I haven't seen enough anime to really "get" the stuff it's parodying, but it must be fun for people who think concepts like "absurdly powerful student council" are way ridiculous, and should be presented as such.
This is mostly a guess, but since being generally over-the-top is something that's just easier to do in animation than live-action, (you can stretch or deform things in impossible ways, put in silly visual cues, replace the background with explosions or fire without endangering your actors or costing loads of money, and so on) it's probably an inherent appeal of animation.
Also, watching something over-the-top is like, pure fun. Even when the animation isn't all that impressive.
Well if I headed a creative team at an animation studio, and I think this concept is ridiculous (which I do), my response would just be to...well, not make stories involving it. (Which I guess is more up my alley since I wouldn't be making stories set in high school in the first place...)
Eh, not my thing, I guess.
If you think something is ridiculous you have to make it obvious for others it's ridiculous as well, that's what satire is all about.