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Apparently there's also a whole movie first that precedes the series.
Also, Chain Chronicle's "Feena" is also a blue-haired girl, but...her named is spelled Phoena.
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One problem with watching more Asterisk War is that the ED is no longer "Waiting in the Rain".
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This is why I should avoid reading synopses before starting watching things.OH C"MON WHY CAN"T SHE BE THE PROTAG INSTEAD
perhaps minus the threatening to gun down everyone part of course
i guess the OP is kinda cool
For some reason MAL doesn't call this a Harem show. wut
i feel somewhat disappointed; i thought this would be cooler
i mean it certainly looks cool
aria does look pretty awesome
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the Crowds are a little too strange for my taste.
and that one girl is a little too loud i guess.
kinda cool though i guess.
the music really kicked up a notch when the guy started doing business around the four dragons.
I can see why this friend of mine who likes tokusatsu/sentai stuff likes it.
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OH HEY LOOK
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32595/Seisen_Cerberus__Ryuukoku_no_Fatalités
people are calling this trash.
clearly i need to watch this
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"Unfortunately I've had many friends slain by the things they like most, y'know, like liquor and women and jewels and such."
"Sounds a lot like humans."
Honestly, if we were actually confronted with this sort of crazy fantastical lizardshit actually happening in real life, Kobayashi's response to it might very plausibly be a pretty common response. Now I don't expect the rest of the setting to adapt to this sudden change in...uh, species composition, I guess (though if it did that would be rather amusing to see).
wait, Kobayashi is so "everyperson" that she doesn't even have a second name
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I have no idea what Cybuster is, but it certainly opens with a convincing theme song.
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I wonder why I dropped Plastic Memories the first time around. Just saw the intro again and it's quite convincing.
oh hey Asami Imai sings the ending theme for this show
Also yay I'm still the only person who likes Ryuukoku no Fatalite.
But...but...http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=604248
GET OUT
NO HE STOLE IT FROM THE KHMER ROUGE LELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELIMADEASTUPIDPUNLELELELELEL
First arc was okay for this sort of show, but after those four episodes it was really pointless.
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speaking of getting introduced in different ways:
more anime series dredged up by doing a sporcle quiz (with MUSIC ONLY)
the quiz in question: https://www.sporcle.com/games/kanto/anime-openingending-quiz-2012-2014
NOTE: ALL THE FOLLOWING ANSWERS ARE SPOILERS FOR THIS QUIZ
first,
let's list things I could recognize: Kyoukai no Kanata, Sword Art
Online, Mondaiji-tachi (Problem Children, Attack on Titan, No Game No
Life, Kill La Kill
+Yahari Ore no Seishun LoveCome wa Machigatte Iru.
-Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou
[discovery] "love me baby" sung by guys is from Kuroko's Basketball
+Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami Hen (orchestral theme song)
+Black Bullet (almost certainly a fripSide theme song)
+Nisekoi (one theme song sounds vaguely like Four Rhythm's ED)
[discovery] Aldnoah.Zero has a theme song with that phrygian mode
[discovery] "one way two way three way four way" is from Binbougami ga!
+Railgun S (another fripSide theme song)
+Tonari no Seki-kun
[discovery] Mushishi Zoku Shou has a contemplative theme song
+Psycho-Pass
+Chuunibiyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
[discovery] Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! has a drunk person singing
+(maybe) Nourin (denpa theme song)
[discovery] Death Parade has an Ab mixolydian/aeolian theme
+Kantai
Collection (has a theme with motifs that are reminiscent of Arpeggio's
theme, and this is something I noticed even without knowing it was
KanColle)
+Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
[reminder] Kill La Kill's theme song does NOT sound wild
+Tokyo Ravens
[discovery] Tamako Market's theme song sounds vaguely like Strain's theme song
results:
the following shows have been bumped up:
is probably why.
(edit: oh I thought this was the generic rec thread and not just GMH talking about anime he might watch nvm)
I've already seen first-season Railgun.
Is this because you feel it's too toyetic or otherwise made to sell merchandise (as you were saying on IRC earlier) or for some other reason?
That's what I got from Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, anyways.
...ehh, not really? Well the one series I didn't watch is ViVid, but I didn't get the "ogling their new superpowers" sense from ViVid Strike at all (how the superpowers work is sort of just assumed), and there's sort of what I think is just a regular amount of superpower-ogling in the first season and not much that I can remember from A's or StrikerS.
Maybe the audience is subjected to more of it than the from things like transformation sequences and spell animations, but the characters certainly don't spend that much time talking about/mulling over it.
Well actually I guess you could say they do in StrikerS since upgrades are part of their training and they do get some new stuff, but to me that was part of the story.
And backstory, yeah, there's definitely a lot of that, but that's what I like about the stories; they really go into depth about the characters' backstories and really humanize them. That part really shines in ViVid Strike. And it's because of that backstory that the things happening "here and now" are happening and it's also based on that backstory that the protagonists make their decisions to try to change things (and thereby "create new stories" I guess).
This does lead to StrikerS having a long build-up time until the major conflict really breaks out in spades (though it IS built up to too, alongside the characters' just doing things, since they do run into pieces of the antagonists' plans multiple times and there is action when that happens), but I guess slow-burn shows that really get intense later on when everything comes together are sort of my thing. That seems consistent with my complaining that one cour isn't enough time to tell a good story, and also my appreciation of Eureka Seven's first two cours which do have extended periods of relatively slow plot advancement but that just makes the finale of the first half that much more intense and worth it in my opinion. I think it's because it gives me time to really get used to and get to know the characters, and the Nanoha series seems to play straight to those tastes.
Well it's pretty much all about the two of them, so...
(also this is a problem that could be solved by having more time to go into character backstories, such as having two cours instead of one)
The specific way that it's "because of her body" isn't realistic, though, but I figured that part doesn't really matter much to anyone who's starting with ViVid Strike. (spoiler: