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I've always thought Kirito's character design is great but it's attached to Kirito so...
What I could find of the older design(s) seems all over the place.
As for Kirito, aside from the long hair I'm pretty sure they just changed details on his face and added the long hair entirely for the effect of making him look a bit more feminine (I think heard somebody say this is a plot point or a comedic thing at times but I can't be sure).
just post it here lol
ONGAKU SHOUJO PV WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SANJO NO HOLMES PV WOOO (I can't believe I'm excited by a Seven anime)
Re'Union, my favorite LN anime from next cour (yes I have one) has announced four cast members and a whole bevy of designs for other characters. I particularly love MC's pants. It's also being made by Lerche, and I cannot stress how much Lerche is practically DEEN levels of the best.
This months BBC Films to Watch list included Okada Mari's directorial debut, Maquia. It was quite something to see that there (but not as fun to see them call her an "unknown".
ISLAND suddenly got appealing, I'm not sure why.
I should totally become an anime news aggregator person. If only that didn't involve so much work.
WARNING: serious/tragedy/heavy. also spoilers obviously.
http://bridgebunnies.com/?p=2271
There is an anime version of Minase's beverage commercial. Because of course there is.
> villain reveals a bunch of damning information to the protag
> protag gives in
> gives villain what villain wants
> other knowledgeable character finds out about this
> basically says "the villain just bullshitted at you with a bunch of lies and you're gonna believe it? seriously dude it was glaringly obvious"
> character wears a distinctive article of clothing
> character is known to have a special ability
> does not reveal special ability
> (erstwhile) villain demands to know why character wears that clothing
> character refuses to answer or just states that it is personal preference (I can't remember which)
> much later, character's special ability revealed to be completely unrelated to said article of clothing
[02:51:12] [fourteenwings> BLACK AND RED BULLET
[02:51:17] [GMH> ah
[02:51:25] [GMH> best answer
This is still something that bugs me. How is this meant to match up 1:1?
I watched some Eureka Seven AO today. It still holds up, and I'm glad I revisited it. Koji Nakamura is a musical genious.
I also watched Seikaisuru Kado: Beyond Information. It is hilarious how it holds up even less once streamlined. Cutting out 70% the second half made it better in some ways, but it now also only barely makes sense (the only thing given in the way of an explanation is a 2 second shot of a production factory).
I genuinely thought the ending had been improved by leaps and bounds when it paused once Shindo told zaShunina he'd made the wrong decisions up to this point, but it just. kept. going.
Plus, I still don't understand the reasoning of this plot. On one hand, if the Anisotropic beings created the Earth for the express purpose of harvesting information, they should probably be allowed to. Not only that, but being able to give humanity the ability to live a billion years (!!!) doesn't sound so bad.
Saraka continuously downgrading the universe's mechanisms just so things can progress at the pace she finds comfortable is annoying, because that means she's gone past every single war in human history and just let it happen. She's much worse than zaShunina, who accidentally hurt Shindo once (whilst trying to eliminate Saraka) and almost immediately realized what he'd done was wrong.
She definitely feels like a scientist who has gone way too far into her own experiment to see what's right anymore. It's even worse because she's the one who made the universe she's inhabiting. At some point, she had the power to cure everybody of everything but she chooses not to do it because humans need to overcome everything by themselves, or something? But humanity is just an artificial thing inside a universe cocoon, and it makes no sense that she's treating it as if there's something special in allowing us all to suffer.
At one point, zaShunina says the uniqueness that can't be cloned is due to "two of the same vector/organism being assigned different values" and it was like dude, this isn't basic programming, you're a magical extradimensional being, you should know that.
Well, at least this time Saraka didn't sexually assault Shindo whilst he was asleep/half dead, and their relationship (and eventual child) being contrasted with zaShunina's feelings for Shindo didn't make it come off like a man having romantic feelings for another man was part of his devious unnatural ways.
In the end, I guess the ending was way better than "Our fifteen year old magical anisotropic/human child who was raised in .5 seconds in a time bubble comes to save the world... somehow".
Oh and by the way Saraka has lied to everybody she's ever known and will probably continue to do so when she's reborn by possessing somebody else's baby. I have no idea who decided she should be the voice of reason.
Also; I've always liked the Nanomis-hein, which was basically an on the go rom-hacking tool for real life. This show (movie now, I guess) was always really great until it turned into an LN anime.
Seems like other people who tried decoding the title screen came to the same conclusion -- they just sorta mangled it.
h/t to someone else who dug this up
I think that might be because YuYuYu tried to present the strangest most authentic version of "what if the gods tried to murder us all" that "the little girls would save us!" would allow.
Thematically, Tokyo seems to call for some technical innovation, so it chose to establish itself in way more "rural" places connected to the overall "spirituality" of the land.
Though this isn't guaranteed anymore thanks to YuNoShou's ending. Who knows what happens next?
I liked when FFVII did it. Though in that case the knowledgeable character kinda helped support villain's point.
I'm most interested in his sprawling narratives that branch multiple teams across different timelines in the same setting, like YuYuYu. I hope it can find a similar foothold in the anime zeitgeist.
You mean time periods, right?
Though YuYuYui is it's own... something.
Homura Suzuko is probably one of my favorite card game anime characters in all of ever. There's just something about the way she does things, a real energy and strength about it. I think she communicates perfectly how an anime character can really grab your heart.
She's a real leader, even in situations where she finds herself a follower. She's always thinking before she acts, always putting her friends first. She takes calculating moves, but never in a way that feels too choreographed or devious. Her relationships are all well-charted, from her OG Lostorage friends to her budding relationship with Kiyoi, which really amazed me in episode 11 of conflated.
And for goodness sakes, girl makes a mean choco-banana anything.
That's a different thing.