Spring 2012 Anime Season

[Tymon]

Also that secret announcement was an announcement of a "secret trailer" at the next type-moon fest in a few weeks

[Tymon]

BEHOLD!



MANSERVICE!

ufotable had to know exactly what they were doing here. Blatant pandering.

[Elcura]

So I wouldn't call myself the biggest Fate fan out there, but holy shit Fate/Zero was pretty fucking amazing. I dunno what I'm missing out from having never read the novel (and my even with limited and hateful memories of the FSN anime I still liked the links and all), but what they showed was fantastic. Beautifully paced, great characters, story, atmosphere, art, animation and music. Truly one of the best anime I've watched in a long time.

Often the hype surrounding an anime makes it fall flat (this happened a little with Steins;Gate for me) when you finally watch it, but Fate remained impressive no matter what.

[Cleverness]

That whole scene was just glorious. Gilgamesh gives zero fucks.

Edit:

So I wouldn't call myself the biggest Fate fan out there, but holy shit Fate/Zero was pretty fucking amazing. I dunno what I'm missing out from having never read the novel (and my even with limited and hateful memories of the FSN anime I still liked the links and all), but what they showed was fantastic. Beautifully paced, great characters, story, atmosphere, art, animation and music. Truly one of the best anime I've watched in a long time.

Often the hype surrounding an anime makes it fall flat (this happened a little with Steins;Gate for me) when you finally watch it, but Fate remained impressive no matter what.

Fate/Zero is much different from Fate/Stay Night at least in anime form. Mostly because the Fate routes tend to follow one of the female characters as the main character for that specific route so there's alot more fanservice stuff going on involving Shiro and such, while Zero is more from Kiritsugu's perspectives with none of that to really distract. And also none of this;
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/.../peopledie.jpg

If you want a read through of Fate/Zero someone posted a link to the translation on a wiki a few posts back, can use that to see what it was like originally with a few pictures thrown in here and there.

[Tymon]

the F/SN anime had Shirou tracing Ilya a blanket for no particular reason

Enough said.

[Zilong]

Shirou can't even trace blankets with that kind of speed, on the basis that a blanket is not a sword :/

Anyway, I have no idea why Kirei is thinking so hard and obsessing on what his wish was.

Spoiler: show

Really, it's right in front of his face, just how much do you need to be in denial to not acknowledge the fact that the grail has granted him his dearest wish?

[Khajit]

From what I hear alot of important stuff(like half of that section) got skipped out in the final episode. I guess it's time to read the LN now that baka tsuki has enough translated material around for download.
I am disappoint that this wasn't included.

Spoiler: show

Taiga X Waver FOREVER!

[GRT]

I wonder if people watching this without knowing anything about FSN get the same kind of goosebumps as I do watching the last scene.

[Xanthe]

I wonder if people watching this without knowing anything about FSN get the same kind of goosebumps as I do watching the last scene.

Spoiler: show

My initial thoughts watching that scene were that time flows differently in the place Saber was, and that ray of light she witnessed was the moment that Avalon resonated inside Shirou during his declaration to succeed Kiritsugu and summoned her back for the 5th Grail War. In the space of a short monologue five and five more years years had passed in the real world.

Which also reminds me, they neglected to mention Kiritsugu placing Avalong inside Shirou to save him. That is a plot point they really should have addressed, no matter the time crunch.

Regarding the whole Dark Sakura thing, I don't know much about it because I haven't finished the VN, read the LN, or read any of the B-sides, but Kairya's end in the F/Z anime kind of fit your description. While they din't directly show it, it is quite possible she let Kairya fall or directly pushed him into the pit given her comment.

Awesome anime on every level. It's definitely on my rewatch list when I have the time, right there with Kara no Kyoukai. Two TypeMooniverse shows animated by ufotable and scored by Kajiura Yuki worth rewatching; coincidence? I think not. Ufotable, please do FS/N justice and animate it!

[Gulkeeva]

When kirei got up I was almost expecting a...

Spoiler: show

for others to start reviving O_o (never read the manga myself so...)

[Ker]

Aquarion EVOL Ep26 (End)

Amazing Final. Really loved the way the fight was directed and the way, even with an episode in which 90% of the time the characters were fighting, the moment it was time to tap on your "feels good" emotions, they hit it pretty well.

My only complaint would be that a couple scenes felt a little off, but it's pretty minor and with the fact that there is so much in motion it's even more marginal.


Overall:

This show is such a guilty pleasure of mine. The premise in itself is just absurd and stupid but I don't say it's bad or something since it's those aspects what made it outstanding.

FUCK YEAH.

[Kalima]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Saber say in FSN that she was defeated by Gil before she had a chance to destroy the grail? Or at least was defeated somehow by him? I know it would have been cliche' to have a "final battle" scene, but I was actually looking forward to those two throwing down (and thus making up for there crappy last fight in FSN)

[Skai]

Hyouka 10

Spoiler: show

Whoa I totally forgot about the rope too. Thought Oreki's conclusion was pretty good though. Can't wait to see whether the rope plays an important role.

[Tymon]

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia - END

I am legitimately upset about this. They had the series set to end on a fantastic note, and then randomly pull out the most stupid thing I've seen in a long time.

People weren't going to end their lives. It was a good ending. Didn't have to ruin it. I'm not anti-happy ending, but that was just stupid.

[Vaspinne]

Hyouka 10

Spoiler: show

Whoa I totally forgot about the rope too. Thought Oreki's conclusion was pretty good though. Can't wait to see whether the rope plays an important role.

I'm not normally a big fan of mystery shows at all, maybe the new BBC Sherlock is the only one I'm really interested in that isn't a movie. But this show has been really entertaining thus far. And yes, I forgot too, lol

[octopus]

With Saki Achiga-hen 11, we're officially caught up to the manga. Of course the regular Saki had this problem and the animation staff was able to collaborate with the Mangaka so we don't have a situation where we have an original anime ending. I'm hoping this is again the case here.

Anyway, it has been such a great series that I can't wait to see how this match ends...

Edit: this is just an awesome pic:

[Khajit]

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia - END

I am legitimately upset about this. They had the series set to end on a fantastic note, and then randomly pull out the most stupid thing I've seen in a long time.

People weren't going to end their lives. It was a good ending. Didn't have to ruin it. I'm not anti-happy ending, but that was just stupid.

Yeah that was a pretty contrived end. on one hand the previous episode was amazing but the ending was just the exact opposite. The grandmother is nothing like that in the manga and now that I think of it they cut the scenes where the grandmother shows up out of the anime.

Spoiler: show

My initial thoughts watching that scene were that time flows differently in the place Saber was, and that ray of light she witnessed was the moment that Avalon resonated inside Shirou during his declaration to succeed Kiritsugu and summoned her back for the 5th Grail War. In the space of a short monologue five and five more years years had passed in the real world.

Which also reminds me, they neglected to mention Kiritsugu placing Avalong inside Shirou to save him. That is a plot point they really should have addressed, no matter the time crunch.

Regarding the whole Dark Sakura thing, I don't know much about it because I haven't finished the VN, read the LN, or read any of the B-sides, but Kairya's end in the F/Z anime kind of fit your description. While they din't directly show it, it is quite possible she let Kairya fall or directly pushed him into the pit given her comment.

Awesome anime on every level. It's definitely on my rewatch list when I have the time, right there with Kara no Kyoukai. Two TypeMooniverse shows animated by ufotable and scored by Kajiura Yuki worth rewatching; coincidence? I think not. Ufotable, please do FS/N justice and animate it!

To give you a short synopsis of dark sakura

Spoiler: show

We see sakura holding it together despite her crappy life and dark sakura is what happens when she finally snaps and you realize that you probably should have seen this coming when you take into account just how bad things were for her. It also establishes Rin as a complete bitch thanks to a comment she makes. She gets her comeuppance for it big time though.

Spoiler: show

Sakura tells Rin how bad it was, wonders why she didn't even try to save her etc etc etc and Rin's response was along the lines of "so what? I had to live out a life as a prodigy doing my best to live up to the expectations people had for me." Sakura isn't amused to say the least and makes Rin relive her life. Rin turns into a gibbering mess screaming/begging for mercy before the first hour is up. Oh and sakura starts om nom nomming on people's souls, has unlimited mana, powers the freakin grail, when gilgamesh defeats her she erupts back to life like a goddamned chestburster which results in his probably quite grisly death. This is what i've managed to piece together from hearing people talk about things back when no complete translations were availiable.

[Xanthe]

To give you a short synopsis of dark sakura

Spoiler: show

We see sakura holding it together despite her crappy life and dark sakura is what happens when she finally snaps and you realize that you probably should have seen this coming when you take into account just how bad things were for her. It also establishes Rin as a complete bitch thanks to a comment she makes. She gets her comeuppance for it big time though.

Spoiler: show

Sakura tells Rin how bad it was, wonders why she didn't even try to save her etc etc etc and Rin's response was along the lines of "so what? I had to live out a life as a prodigy doing my best to live up to the expectations people had for me." Sakura isn't amused to say the least and makes Rin relive her life. Rin turns into a gibbering mess screaming/begging for mercy before the first hour is up. Oh and sakura starts om nom nomming on people's souls, has unlimited mana, powers the freakin grail, when gilgamesh defeats her she erupts back to life like a goddamned chestburster which results in his probably quite grisly death. This is what i've managed to piece together from hearing people talk about things back when no complete translations were availiable.

Heh, I see. I'm guessing that comes from the Heaven's Feel arc?

[Khajit]

Yup. I hear it's 60~80% translated now but the translators stopped working on it at least a few months ago.

[Xanthe]

Is that a transcription of the VN you're talking about, or the arc in the VN itself? I thought the VN was 100% translated.