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So, just watched Wasurenagumo. It was great. The animation was gorgeous (and not just during that one scene that everyone likes so much) and the story and characters were pretty solid and I couldn't really ask for any more out of a 25 minute movie (or TV special I guess, but whatever). Except maybe for it to be more than just 25 minutes, I guess.
Also it's the only anime I am aware of with spider girl moe so that's a plus too. >.>
"Cour"? I am confused.
^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cours_(TV_production)#Seasons.2Fseries
I enjoyed an episode of Accel World.
Granted, the protagonist, 7/8ths of the main cast, the main setting, the current plot and overarching plot weren't it it, and I only enjoyed the real world parts. But I did enjoy some of it.
Kokoro Connect has 16/17 episodes? How unusual...
Well, it's so that they can adapt the first four books instead of just three (which is a good thing, based on the one thing I know about the fourth book). But it's not really that unusual. It's the same thing as with Bakemonogatari and Oreimo. The first 13 episodes will be broadcast on TV, the rest will only be streamed and then released on DVD/BD.
It kind of is unusual, three examples a pattern don't make.
Are there any Kiddy Grade fans other than myself who see Éclair first and foremost as a champion of social progress, rather than as a female superhero or as a sex symbol?
No.Yes.
Yes.
You still can't avoid the female superhero part though.
I thought they'd be broadcasted on TV. Well, I wonder if it's popular enough for people to care about the ending...
It's doing pretty well, so yeah, probably (not that the fourth novel counts as the ending any more than the third does, since there are like 8 books and they're still writing more). Based on Amazon preorders for the first BDs, it's the sixth most popular anime this season, behind Tari Tari, Sword Art Online, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II, Oda Nobuna no Yabou, and Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita. (and unrelatedly, Ebiten is hilariously unsuccessful)
(assuming I'm reading this page correctly)
The singer for Binbougami Ga!'s OP is male.
...
^That's a lot of Tari Tari preorders...
Wait what the fuck? That's a hell of a high pitch
I guess the "female" part is kinda inherent to Éclair's character. And is also more symbolic of social progress.
But hey, at least "sex symbol" isn't the first thing you think of.
>Anime fans complain about how everything produced in the past five years is horrible.
>Why not move on already then?
Moving on takes too much effort.
And staying in a fandom to nitpick at everything doesn't?
I mean, I'd get it if they were giving us actual criticism, but all they say is "I look at every preview and feel nothing" or "I gave the first episode 15 minutes and didn't like it" over and over.
Less so than moving on. I think it might be a comfort zone thing or something.
^ Hence why it takes less effort than moving on.
They're so annoying. but I can never really say anything to them since it's pointless (They just go "blah blah blah Subjectivity blah blah blah despite the subjectivity since you like this stuff you must be a pander-loving pedophile").
No Accel World WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?
Maybe they have to realize that it wasn't anime that changed, but their tastes. I'll admit, back in high school a lot of anime held my attention because it was foreign and violent and smarter than cartoons I was used too. And then I started seeing a lot of the cliches for anime and it's own conventions and it started holding less appeal for me outside of shows with a big hook. So I guess anime stopped being a draw in and of itself and I actually wanted to find something good.
^Dat feel. I know it.
Got into anime because of generic high-school comedies and moe stuff.
Therefore, I will never be disappointed, or something.
I got into anime only when various sources put together convinced me that it wasn't just about power levels and cosplayers and socially-awkward gratuitous-Japanese users. So I watched Evangelion.
Not exactly my favorite show anymore now that I've seen a few more, but it did open the door. I guess you could call it a gateway series.
It didn't exactly lead me in, though. I'd heard good things about Noir so that was next on my to-watch list. And I figured I would basically do this--hear this or that series was good and then check it out, and do only that much--then I discovered Kiddy Grade by accident.
I got into anime because I like animation, transformation sequences and girl-protagonists.
Generic can be good too, I like Anime!Generic.
My gateway series was the original Negima! anime which everyone hates, so either I have some serious Nostalgia Filter or that show is an awesome comedy/action series with a great ending.
The show that really got me into anime, IIRC, was Eden of the East. It wasn't my first, but it was the one that made it stick.
...and several more series later, I've realized that anime, like all other media, is pretty much randomly hit-or-miss for me.
Well, until I figure out exactly what makes me really like something. Because I haven't yet.
I just got into anime with Naruto, Bleach, and Death Note. Of course, eventually I moved on to the shonen show that you all know by now that I love, and somehow got exposed to other, better anime, as well. Actually, I think I have TVTropes to thank for actually getting me into decent stuff that isn't shonen.
Zoids: Chaotic Century was the first anime I ever seriously watched (I'd seen Pokemon, Digimon, other shows before then, but never really cared much about them), but School Rumble was the first anime I watched when I decided to actually be an anime fan. Though I think Haruhi was the first anime I ever actually watched all the way through.
First anime series I watched "properly" (i.e. from beginning to end rather than random episodes on TV) was Cowboy Bebop. It did a pretty good job of getting me into it, but the next series I watched through was Gurren Lagann, which remains my favourite.
Come to think of it almost all my favourite anime are things I watched right near the beginning. That's kinda depressing.
I just remembered that I still want to finish Hyouka, but dunno when I'll actually get around to that.