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y eri mizutani so damn cute
yayoi is best idolmaster
But I'm not much of an iDOLM@STER fan so... yeah.
Been a long time since I saw it, but I think the people who weren't stuck in the game spent most of the movie looking for the creator?Holy.Shit
It's cool, but... it's only cool because it's pretty much exactly the same as the actual Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OP, which is also cool.
I am offended. Guilty Crown is anything but mediocre. It's a crowning archievement! The crown jewel of what's bad with anime today. To suck that badly you have to try.
What kind of bad are we talking here? Mad Bull 34 levels?
^Lemme put it this way, imagine Code Geass.
Now imagine Code Geass if they did everything wrong.
That's Guilty Crown in a nutshell.
Am I supposed to be imagining two different things here?Code Geass had spinzaku, and that one episode where they made a pizza, and that episode where Lelouch was chasing a cat all day. So there are definitely several things that could have gone more wrong.
Or something.
Code Geass was pretty good.
Don't get me wrong, there was a lot wrong with it, but there was also a lot right with it, especially in the first season.
I was kidding; I actually like Code Geass despite all its faults. I just couldn't resist the chance to take a cheap shot there.
I like the first season well enough, but I don't think I'll go on to R2 any time soon.
Can't blame you. It gets better over the course of the season, but it gets off to a really rocky start.
To R2's credit, nothing in it is nearly as stupid as what happened to Euphemia.
As stupid? Maybe not, but the start was pretty bad.
The point is, Code Geass was a lot better than what I've seen of Guilty Crown, at least. Not the successor to Death Note so many people thought it was, but still.
@ClockworkUniverse: True, as was the end. The middle was okay I guess, and that one scene with the mirror was pretty cool.
Let's have the normal kid gains superpower and helps a rebellion plotline, but let's make him, in the words of the writers themselves, not be the fabulous leader who is charismatic, let's have him be the Shinji Ikari of the 21st Century. Let's have the mysterious waif who guides him to his power, except let's strip her of any personality. Let's have the school crowd participate in b-plots no one gives a damn about, and it goes downhill from there.
The Euphemia thing was the writers getting themselves into a corner. Lack of foresight, not really that bad when you think about it.
It's a shame because Goro Taniguchi is the same guy behind Planetes.
@vandro: They could totally have done it differently without changing anything before that episode. Let's see...she gets assassinated by a member of a more radical revolutionary group. The Black Knights are assumed to be affiliated with the shooter, a riot breaks out, people die, Lelouch feels responsible for her death and Suzaku thinks Zero wanted to kill her. Since the other Britannians never really wanted to go along with her plan, it gets cancelled and the assassination is used as an excuse to oppress the Japenese further. The Japanese get pissed off and fighting breaks out. Oh hey look that achieves more or less all the same results except it makes some fucking sense.
Of, if they really did need to have the Lelouch losing control of his Geass thing, they could a) have given it some better foreshadowing (even if it was just earlier in the same episode), and b) had him, say, accidentally make her kill herself instead which seems way more likely than what actually happened.
They would have to include another revolutionary group which makes no sense as the black knights had already assimilated all other groups.
If he had made her commit suicide, he most likely would have been able to make some grandoise statement to weasel out of it.
Maybe it's a lone guy. Maybe it's someone who is part of the Black Knights but decides to go rogue. Maybe someone in Britannia who doesn't want to see her succeed does it. I'm just throwing shit out here.
They were alone in a room and as far as the Britannians could tell he had reason to kill her. Not exactly hard to imagine them not believing him.And that guy gets past Suzaku, believable.
"MY FELLOW CITIZENS! POWERS WITHIN THE BRITANNIAN ROYALTY DID NOT WANT EUPHEMIA'S DREAM TO COME TRUE! THEY HAVE KILLED HER WHILE SHE VALIANTLY DEFENDED ME!"
Please, he made lies on top of lies.
Not going to deny there are holes in these suggestions, but I still think they're better than what we actually got.
I remember when people were talking about Code Geass all over TV Tropes.
At the time I didn't realize it was a current anime, and thus thought that it was as good as shows of notably high repute such as Evangelion and Haruhi.
Then after a while, I realized that Evangelion is more controversial than actually well-regarded, and that people don't talk about actually good shows like Eureka Seven.
Code Geass was airing at around the same time as Haruhi. They even referenced it in Lucky Star, I think.
Also, Evangelion is very well regarded, and one of the most popular anime series ever. Or, rather, the reason it's so popular is because a fuckton of people really do love it, not just because it's controversial.
Though anyway it should be obvious that the anime fandom is mostly going to be talking about current shows (or at least shows that are still getting merchandise made for them), because that's what people are actually watching.
Accel World's opening BD sales are in the 9000s...
WHY OTAKU WHY?
On the bright side, Natsuiro Kiseki actually charted and AO, 0048, Hyouka and Symphogear are doing well.
Given the criticisms y'all have said about Accel World, what good aspects does it have?