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So I decided to try watching the raw for episode 1 of Gyrozetter, since I felt like it's probably simple enough that I could understand it despite not knowing the language (because kids' show about mech fights), and I want to see what it's like. So I'm watching the show, and thinking it's strange that there's so much focus on the cars. Then suddenly, "OH! GT-R ja yo!" and a Nissan GT-R shows up, prominently displaying the Nissan logo and everything.
Why are car companies sponsoring/making so many anime lately?
Also...
Just use Google, seriously.
@vandro:
I fail to see how that makes it less stupid.It's the context that makes it so terrible, besides. Lelouch losing control of his Geass is something you might guess will happen as of the beginning of the series, and is pretty much completely guaranteed to happen after the Mao arc. But it happened in a way blatantly designed to move the plot forward rather than actually make any sense, requiring him to say something that he had no particular reason to actually say, while he just happens to be making eye contact.
I might even have been able to forgive it if him being unable to control his powers became a major long-term thing, but no, he comes up with a solution within the next episode and then the only effect it has after that is that they have to show him taking the contact lens out every time he uses it.
^ I could do that but I would lose an excuse to generate continued mentions of Precure on the forum.
Glennmagusharvey,
I think Cure Moonlight is in Heartcatch.
Code Geass from the very start made itself about anything but subtlety. Now, it is correct to think that he had no reason to say so outright, but simply:
-she had to die.
-he had to do something with it
-and it had to be a proverbial mistake.
Now, I agree that there are less blatant ways to have the same end result. But I reiterate. Code Geass was all about being as unsubtle as possible.
Honestly I'm not completely certain what you mean by subtlety here. Most of the plot twists feel substantially more natural than that one (which isn't to say that they aren't often somewhat absurd).
It isn't.
I hadn't even watched the first episode but I looked up the toys online. Each and every one of them is named after an IRL car.
Itasha?
@GMH: Though Heartcatch should be watched for the Tsubomi/Erika dynamic though.
There is no reaction image in the world that can describe how I feel right now.
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/shinsekaiyori/bd_dvd/
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's first episode was hilariously fast-paced, but I guess that's probably a good thing since it means they can get to the more interesting stuff quicker.
Busou Shinki is more about cute doll girls doing cute doll things than cute doll girls fighting, but that's alright.
Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankei Nai yo Ne has a cute art style/character designs (I like how everyone's default expression is a c: face) but otherwise seems pretty dumb even by harem standards. Still, I was able to actually make it through the first episode, which is more than I can say about last season's imouto anime.
And Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb was as expected.
Also, Ebiten is apparently getting a TV airing this season which means it's watchable in not 360p, but that doesn't change the fact that it sucks. I tried to watch the first episode three times already and I still can't finish it.
Heartcatch should be watched because it has Dark Precure.
And I still haven't seen the first season.
Maybe I will eventually. I dunno.
Oh, so ANN has it wrong then.
Oh, and that.
The character designs in that show are cute! I hated everything else though...
I found vids of Cure Moonlight fighting Dark Cure and I thought they were awesome.
Why would you ever do this?
Just watch the show so you see everything in context and avoid spoilers.
The very first scene in the show is a fight between them anyway.
> Why would you ever do this?
Because I was just searching for random Precure footage?
But I don't know why you'd even want to do that in the first place.
If you want to see if you'd be interested in something... you could, like... just try it.
It's easier to find random Youtube vids of something than to find whole first episodes of it.
^ I disagree with this.
The number of times i've tried to find clips from whole episodes on YT and failed is countless.
But you're looking for specific clips.
I didn't know anything about Precure and all I was looking for was just, whatever footage might seem interesting.
Well, in that sense, I think it may be limited far more than it needs to be, in the quantity of entertaining scenes.
I haven't watched anything Precure and have only seen specific scenes from what others have linked me though, so I do not know of how much out-of-context video from Precure is available on youtube.
And, well, in general, whole episodes on the internet is not very hard to find, especially for something as popular as that show, because of rampant anime piracy.
Yeah, let's be frank here, the success of anime in western countries like the United States is built largely on the contributions of digital pirates. Many of whom are quite conscientious about their actions, in fact, often including "if you like this, buy the DVD" messages.
Except no group has actually included a message like that in forever, because everyone realized how stupid it looks.
Is it just me or does anyone else perceive at least some anime characters as white/Caucasian?
Like, my mental image of Iori Minase is not Japanese at all; it's a brown-haired little brat with an attitude but a heart of gold, and said brat looks something roughly like this: http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/14453776/2/stock-photo-14453776-cute-little-girl.jpg (substitute facial expression and fancy clothing as appropriate; that's the closest thing I can find on the web).
Which makes it funny when characters have twintails, because I have some trouble picturing them in real life. Because no one wears twintails.
^ I've seen it in pirate group releases, actually. Maybe it was "CD" rather than "DVD". And this was in a separate text file, not, like, included in the video.
Wut
Every single one that has blonde hair and blue eyes
I'm not going to include the ones specifically drawn with the intention of seeming that way
Most anime characters with blonde hair either dye their hair that way or exist in a universe where hair can naturally be any color at all. Or actually, even when weird hair colors are normal, a lot of blonde characters actually do either dye their hair or are from America/Europe.
I'm not really bothered by the blonde thing if they outright state it's dyed or from being half-British or whatever
And well obviously the Westerner characters with blonde hair and blue eyes are...well...westerners anyway.
My issue comes up when there is a person that seems to be a Japanese person with no excuse whatsoever as to why they have blonde hair and blue eyes
Which happens a lot more than it should, for some reason
^ But here's the thing, though:
I perceive Iori Minase as caucasian, and yet I don't feel anything instinctively wrong with her Japanese name.
*looks up*
I don't see anything wrong with her Japanese name either
on the basis of how I don't think she looks like a westerner
<_<
(I also think that she looks almost nothing like that photo you linked earlier)
It seems that nearly everyone besides me views styled characters as some sort of thing like a realistic human
most of the time I just consider them "not even human" so I rarely think of something like "X character looks like (insert real-life thing here)" with the exception of when culture-specific stereotypical traits show up (such as a Chinese woman wearing qipao)
Well it's more like, the basic appearance data is translated into some sort of generic form of appearance data which can then be fitted to basically anyone fitting those descriptors. For example, in the case of Iori, we have the following properties (among others):
Some of these things get filled in automatically when the data is not available. Heck, this is how I once looked at a picture of someone and felt that she looked like the girl who starred in xkcd comics. As in, the stick-figure with mid-length (monochrome) black hair.
On the other hand, I find it annoying when I can't fit a drawn fictional character into a set of characteristics from which one could imagine a real human. This happens sometimes but I haven't yet figured out why or how this happens.
Cartoon characters are not any specific race unless their race is relevant to the plot. That's how I see things.
Also we have someone here whose username is a tableflip emoticon. I'm surprised, but I shouldn't be.
Edmania, FYI
glennmagusharvey,
Is it just me or does anyone else perceive at least some anime characters as white/Caucasian?
I cannot really speak to that perspective, but the Sketchbook TV series actually does give Kate a noticeably different skin tone to signal that she is a foreigner. Even it might be a little tough to see here, they give her a much paler complexion than everyone else.
While I have not really seen that in other shows, I would be interested to find out if any other series do the same kind of thing to distinguish North American/European characters from Japanese ones. Honestly, touching on DYRE said, I would think having distinctions like that is probably pretty pointless when people have natural green and purple hair. I am not sure whether singling out foreigners is such a good thing either, but I am not really qualified to speak to that point so yeah.