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Can't get invested in a battle I know nothing about. Some of them were very emotional, but it was a battle of wills more than an actual battle (Except when Ruko is concerned because she just wins everything anyway).
The only battles I really found appealing were the Aki-Lucky ones because she she was almost as hilarious as BRS Kagari for a few minutes a pop.
Yeah. There are a lot of people who will say "It's not about the battles, it's about the characters!" but I can't even empathize with the characters if I have no idea what's happening. The battles basically amount to the characters saying "Grow!" a few times and then one of them starts crying, which isn't exactly engaging. It's a lot better for the rules of the battles to be consistent and make sense, since then we can actually follow what's happening and feel excited/nervous/whatever as appropriate, and so that we can actually tell the difference between a good player and a bad one without just having to wait for the show to tell us who's better.
My favorite battle was Ruko vs. Iona in the middle of the series, mostly because that was basically the only battle that was both actually important to the plot and not supposed to be tense, so the lack of me knowing what's going on didn't really matter.
Ping Pong works a lot better as a people-competing-against-one-another show because, while it still focuses more on the psychology of the characters than the mechanics of the game, I at least actually know how the sport is played, and they show enough of what's happening, so when they show the characters playing it I can tell who's winning, or if they both look like they're evenly matched. It's also better for fifty million other reasons but shhhh.
Aren't there like, nine? (No actual idea since Part 3 doesn't seem to be solicited yet).
My favoraite anime that started this season are probably Cardfight!! Vanguard: Legion Mate-hen and Lady Jewelpet. I like Vanguard more mostly because I guess I've seen more but it actually is great and fun (also it turns out if you watch more than ten episodes the battles start making sense).
Captain Earth will probably be a favoraite if I ever watch enough of it.
Kamigami no Asobi is what I expected, sort of? I like the Baldr/Loki plot and the Cinderella episode. It was good Otome stuff most of the time but it wasn't as unique as I'd hoped or something like that. UtaPri is crazy and AMNESIA is even worse, but KamiAso had actual gods and is more sane than either.
Aikatsu! had a good cour, Buddyfight had maybe the best cour out of everything I watched.
And that's everything not Chaika (will watch eventually) and ToQGer (not anime and also horridly behind).
I like Yuzuki. I've always liked Yuzuki (Even more so as a card), and Ruko's dedication to Tama is very endearing. Tama herself is, of course, best girl.
The problem with Okada is she writes good characters and then tramples them in the dirt in some misguided and quite frankly sociopathic belief that meaningless conflict and angst ridden suffering builds character. The only show really spared from Okada's abuse and humiliation of her characters is AnoHana (And even then the audience had to share the humiliation of Yukiatsu dressing like his dead waifu to get over her death ten years down the line).
I like 'suffering' that reflects the beauty and goodness of the human soul like in Madoka, Tokyo Magnitude or Texhnolyze. Okada characters just get thrown through the mud so they can uniquely stink.
Also I haven't slept in like forty hours so I really apologize if that post didn't make much sense. There's a point somewhere in there. I think I forgot to link it to why I hate Yomi from BRS or something.
There are eight parts, the eighth part is still going. I believe the original idea was to animate the first seven.
I watched about half of the third season of Vanguard with my BFF and really enjoyed it (Though she'd obnoxiously seen the first two seasons, the cad!) I do plan to watch the whole thing eventually. The battle system seemed like something you could get your teeth into and would be really satisfying once you know how wverything works.
Captain Earth is the least frustrating BONES original ever (They actually revealed backstory details before the halfway point!!!!) but I'd still definitely recommend marathoning. Week long waits for the plot to advance at a glacial pace are... suffering.
Chaika is good. I already can't wait for the second cour of Chaika and the first hasn't even ended yet. I need to see Scrapped Princess sometime this summer too. I'm really liking this writer after Outbreak Company and now this.
I need to watch Aikatsu. I've only seen the first two episodes but Regina is already my favourite. Aoi is cool I guess and Ran looks like she could be great.
Yuzuki has gone kind of weird. Now that she knows her brother really did love her in "that" way (all Hanayo could do was confess) can't she be mad at herself for not just admitting it, or mad at Hanayo for going along with it and effectively stealing him from her?
Also I still don't get what she was explaining to Ruuko in the hospital; I didn't want to tell Hitoe the truth until I wanted to even though when I didn't I did?
Also Okada didn't have that problem in AKB0048 (I guess aside from the RANDOM MURDER OF CHIERI'S FATHER THAT WAS NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN).
I meant BDs.
But... BONES is best studio, what are you saying.
Ichigo came before Regina.
AKB was more Kawamori angst than Okada suffering. It's a different flavour and it's in EVOL as well. It's a flavour I'm quite partial too actually.
I seem to have forgot EVOL existed for the purpose of this discussion, even though I spent like two hours fawning over it earlier on my thread/blog on another forum.
I liked the first season of AKB better, though I remember being really scared in the first episode of S2 they were going to dark magical girlify Chierie and that would be terrible.
BONES is a very very good studio
however
Eureka Seven was the most frustrating thing I've ever seen and Xam'd was downright terrible. RahXephon and Star Driver were amazing though. First season of DtB was eh, second season was hilariously bad then kind of good then awful awful awful series ruining ending.
Teasing desu wa
Well. Star Driver was amazing until the end of Mizuno's arc
Then why the fuck did those lesbians need four episodes???
Eureka Seven is my favoraite anime! is what I would've said but actually my favoraite anime is Eureka Seven AO.
Also X'amd had RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY to erase any bad memories leftover from previous episodes.
Never watched Darker than Black, I have a more lax policy with non-Original stuff (This doesn't explain why I'm not watching Space Dandy but shhhhhhh).
Anyways, I enjoy snails pace plots (.hack//SIGN is a favoraite of mine) so I don't mind Captain Earth as much, also I need time to remember who the two factions and their many names are.
Right now I'm at episode 5, and it did actually make me like Teppei (I felt he was the weakest out of the main four) but I'm not too sure about how he'll intergrate with the other two MCs.
The thing about Captain Earth is the main mecha isn't my favoraite, I know this is dumb but it matters and promo art had all four of them in pilot suits and seriously can we get another BONES show where everybody gets a mecha already so the battles can be more choreographed? The Earth Engine doesn't choreograph as well as Kiltgang mecha.
are you
criticizing You-san
i'll fistfight anybody who does such a thing
no jokes
Don't get me wrong, I am liking Captain Earth a lot. I have total faith in the writer (Less so the director, but hey I enjoy looking at fabulous sparkles). This last episode in particular was very good. It's something to speculate about and really sink your teeth into. Also Akari best girl etc
I've kind of always assumed that everyone is going to get a mech anyway. I want to see if Hana's is as hilariously over-feminine as I imagine it being.
N-no
Rather I think the show was that much weaker for her leaving the island. It started the weakest arc of the series and ehhhhhhh Keito was no Mizuno or Fishy girl
Holy shit, a long chain of posts that are not mine!
It got so bad it almost looked like I was the biggest weeaboo on tihs board...I also preferred the first season of AKB0048. The story felt like there was more direction to it, and the music choices/placements were better too.
The first half of Eureka Seven is definitely long and slow. However, I'd argue that it's effective, in a roundabout way -- you spend a good lot of time being kinda dissatisfied with how things are going, but that happens to be exactly how Ren is feeling, and when stuff goes wrong and the feels start coming in, they start pouring in.
I probably would post here all day e'ryday but I talk about anime so much on the IRC that it seems pointless.
I'd hardly say that. Last third was kind of bad and mostly felt like it wasn't even really the same show, but I at least liked the first two thirds a lot.
>while I still breathe
pffft
I'll fight you for the title of biggest weeaboo.
I play visual novels.
ehhhhhh. I never really felt like the creative team had even once considered the show had an audience. It's like they had total artistic freedom to do what they wanted and kept constantly trying to one up one another while forgetting to make it cohesive and accessible. I liked the first episode a lot, but the large portions MC was on the airship felt totally useless (And my God was the captain a horrible character) and the plot never quite got past the level of 'Things happen and keep happening' for me.
The final arc of Eureka Seven is way more frustrating than the first half. Those little kids, man.
I at least really liked Anemone's subplot and thought that ended really satisfyingly with one of the best payofs I've seen in anime. With all my problems with Eureka Seven I really can't find the heart to hate it.
DTB was original though...As far as Star Driver goes, I too stopped enjoying it as much aftern Mizuno left (even though she wasn't actually my favourite), but the major problems with the show (completely nonsensical main plot, boring-as-shit battles) became apparent long before that. I'm pretty sure I stopped considering it anything resembling "amazing" after like...episode 4 or 5.
I don't think the main plot was complete nonsense. It was basically Utena for boys with a much worse director.
As for the fight scenes... I appreciate what they were going for as a subversion of the norm, but yeah. It became really not interesting to watch.
lol, the only thing I know abuot Darker Than Black is that Rie fu did a theme song for it.
People that have superpowers with really fucking dumb restrictions fight while nonsense politics (That has a frankly insulting resolution) happens on one side and nonsense worldbuilding (That has no resolution) happens on the other.
It also has a really cute Russian girl with an anti tank rifle that everyone except me seems to hate and denounces as 'pedo-bait'.
On the other hand it does have a really cool talking cat and three great openings.
i like suouI pretty much disagree with everything else you said though.
My reaction to the explanation for the Syndicate's existence at the end of the OVAs was basically 'What? Seriously?! Come on!' I was really enjoying them until that too. It wasn't a total dealbreaker like the second season ending was, but it still poisoned the well on what had been a very high quality four episodes.
While we may disagree on their effectiveness in the narrative, it's pretty much a fact that the setting, down to the contractor's remunerations, never gets explained and starts feeling very artificial and arbitary. The ones for the main players make sense to a given value of 'sense' but a lot of the minor ones are just random and weird.
Oh I actually kind of forgot about that. It was sorta dumb, yeah. It didn't bother me as much as you, clearly.
Honestly I didn't hate the second season ending. Like I didn't love it, but I never really got the hate. Maybe I'd just set my expectations really low from how much everyone else hated it. I quit my rewatch of season 2 halfway through (for reasons entirely unrelated to the show itself) so I don't know whether it holds up, but the first time I was mostly okay with it.
I liked the random and weird prices tbh. Other than that the world seemed coherent enough to me, albeit a lot was left unexplained.To be fair a big reason why I hated the second season ending so much was probably because I was exposed to so much hate about it in the form of 'The second season is awful and it ends awfully' and I actually really enjoyed most of the second season. Basically I was expecting it to either be surprisingly good or a magnificent trainwreck and it was neither, which kind of stung really badly.
I didn't dislike DtB half as much as it probably seems I did. The show was at the very least always entertaining and Yin's two parter in the first season was really really good.
Also one of the few shows I've only seen dubbed (Which I don't think negatively affected my enjoyment of it any) and the cast was phenomenal. Close to Baccano tier.
Yeah the dub was fantastic. I watched it after seeing the sub, and it might be the only time I did that and not a single voice bothered me.
I finished Akuma no Riddle. My mind cannot accept that that was an ending.
I'll probably finish Nobunaga the Fool soon so I can watch next season's Nobunaga show, because whatever.
Not sure what to feel about more Wixoss.
I liked the first season of DtB, the aesthetic was nice, the setting is fun as long as a lot of it goes unexplained, the characters were likable and I'm a fan of episodic shows (I also liked that it was basically a western length show disguised as a 30 minute one). The ending might been a bit too BONESy for what the rest of the series was, but it wasn't too bad. I haven't watched any of the rest, at first because it didn't have a dub, and afterwards because I had kind of lost interest.
Also, reminder that BONES also did Wolf's Rain and Ouran... and the Cowboy Bebop movie.
I accidentally started watching Haruhi.
So I know that Haruhi is a reality-warper. I've heard all the jokes about her being God. And I know that Yuki isn't a normal human by any means and I saw it coming a mile away that Haruhi would meet an alien, a time-traveler, and an esper, after saying that she wanted to do exactly that. Yes, I've run across the mountains of silly TVT speculation about whether we, too, live in a world Haruhi made up. I've even been spoiled with the climax of episode 6 already.
Having seen the first six episodes now, I...am not really too sure what to make of it yet. I'm going to do something else in the meantime.