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Yeah, they're fucking bad.
It's like. Sub-Goosebumps level at times.
I tried making myself read them just because I do kind of want to know how this particular narrative turns out, but just can't.
Same.
The specific weird translation that stuck out at me the most is a bit in the first book where they pretended you could use "teacher" as an honorific in English.
The novels are selling extremely well. Therefore, Kadokawa doesn't see any need to make more anime to advertise them.
>Why is Evangelion so succesful?
Basically the same reasons Twin Peaks was succesful. It's a show that was ahead of its curve in terms of everything that was previously done while adopting things from various older shows and movies and creating a clever little mish-mash of elements that work together for the most part. They both even have the same issue (Namely that their quality is incredibly fluid as the show continues because of the personal issues that both creators faced in the middle of production)
Overall, I think it's a great animu but Rebuild is actually much better for the most part (The only thing Rebuild fails at in comparison with the original series is Asuka)
Say what you will about it, but that was definetly the best period and episode of the show for me, except for maybe 24-26.
I think that's actually a big of an issue with early!Evangelion and it's that, as the whole show hinges on slowly peeling back the covers that each characters create to interact with other people, we only see the personas they create to socialize. So we don't really see their actual depth as people for a quite a while.
Okay, so it does get better then.
Not sure if that makes me happy, or disappointed because now I have to start watching it again.
To be perfectly honest, as much as I love Jellyon, I don't think you're going to really like it if you can't stand it when you're six episodes in.
I recommend you just check Rebuild instead and if you really like what you see there, then go back and rewatch the show.
Also the first Rebuild movie is nearly identical to the first six episodes of the TV series, except not as good (though with better animation I guess) and the third and fourth movies aren't out yet.
Three's out next year, but of course, it won't be localized right away so whatever.
Rebuild one is particularly weaker than the period of the series it's allocated to, but there are some wobbly bits in terms of quality. It definetly has a much better climax than the Rei two parter did, though. (Even if it plays out the same on the series, the lead-up to it makes it much more meaningful)
*stares at the people shitting on Shinji for being a wimp or something*
I think the "he's a wimp" thing tends to be code for people seeing way more of themselves in Shinji than they'd like to. Which is probably half the point of the character.
so guys
is it just me
or are there waaaaaaaaaaaaay more female characters with unrealistically colored hair in anime
than there are males (which tend to have black/brown hair instead)
Audience self-insert characters tend to have ordinary hair colors, while the opposite-sex members of the cast are more likely to have unrealistic hair colors since it makes them look more distinctive. So in shounen and seinen anime, you're likely to have males with brown/black hair and girls with whatever, but shoujo has plenty of girls with normal hair and boys with more colorful hair.
I guess I just haven't seen enough shoujo anime then (and I don't pay all that much attention to the color manga pages...if it's even included)
(like, seriously, I would have NEVER known about the hair colors of lots of characters if I didn't intentionally look for the color pages)
Madoka has its flaws but I'll take it every time over the series with that toothbrush scene.
While I'm definitely still interested in watching the -monogatari series, seeing mere fragments of that toothbrush scene managed to make me feel like a pervert. Not a particularly easy feat, that...
I have heard more than once about this "toothbrush scene". I have never seen it, and am not entirely sure I want to.
I have never seen that scene myself, either.
*looks it up*
...
ok then
I was eating at the beginning of that scene and suddenly I felt sick to my mouth.
what the fuck did i just watch
and doesn't she need a spittoon
a guy brushing his sister's teeth/porn crossover
so, i don't think i'ma watch this show, like, ever
>watches, against my better judgment
edit: well, ok. At least the second one looked like it was supposed to be funny (was he being....raped in a...giant...bowl of rice....?) but it's still pretty weird, and the first one is just....strange.
It took a while for me to find this again.
As far as I recall, no other novel in the series is as innuendo-heavy as nisemonogatari, and that one wasn't even made with the public in mind, NisiOisiN seems to have made it just for himself.
^^ Indeed.
^ That doesn't exactly leave me further inclined to want to watch/read any more of his stuff, though. o_o
On a lighter note: apparently Avril Lavigne, of all people, is contributing two themes to the upcoming One Piece Film Z. On the one hand, the correspondence between her and Oda is really neat, it's nice seeing popular figures indulge in nerdy things, and I can totally get behind the Strawhats wrecking shit to the tune of "Bad Reputation". On the other hand, she's gonna be getting Nickelback in my One Piece.
The second episode of Blast of Tempest has alleviated any fears of Mahiro becoming an absolute crazyperson and the show portraying this as a normal course of action. It actually managed to humanise him and make him a sympathetic character.
I didn't like Fraulein at first, but after Yoshino manages to outsmart her she becomes much more tolerable. I wouldn't say I like her yet, we'll have to wait and see.
Aika is cool for a posthumous character. I like how the secret relationship hangs in the air without taking over every scene, I like how magic works too.
Maybe it's a bit too early in, but I'd like to know a bit more about their villains. Not their overall motives, just their basic personalities and short-term goals.
Finally, I may have to read Hamlet again, thank you Yoshino.
^ Oddly enough, her producer Evan Taubenfield has formed a band with two members of STEREOPONY (A band who've contributed quite a few anime theme songs, and broke up a couple of weeks ago so two of the members could form said band), I mean EVANPONY.
Huh. That's also pretty cool.
If you're not going to watch, say, Katanagatari just because the writer also sometimes writes ecchi, then... I don't even know what to say to that, but just stop being like that I guess.
As for Zetsuen no Tempest, I'm not really liking it much so far but it's also not so bad that I want to drop it. So... I dunno. Maybe something will happen to make me like it more/less in the future and I can have a stronger opinion on it then.
^^ Well, creepy ecchi, specifically. Especially with all the other stuff I could be watching that isn't as creepy.