Anime Thread. [Prob not 56k safe]

**Deadgye** · 2011-01-24 14:09

I think it was that key's style is more similar to a lot of other styles. If you just move the eyes in a little bit it'd look perfectly normal. Not to mention when they're moving or when it's a side view I can't find anything wrong with it at all. Durarara was just something I wasn't used to, so it took a little bit longer. Mitsudomoe irks me a bit.. I got used to it after a few episodes but they're still all gigantic chipmunks to me, especially the teacher.

Ker's listed failures makes me sadface a little bit. The shows I like the best usually end up being either loved or hated by everyone, with no middle ground. Key shows are a great example. I still a friend who refuses to watch it because of "herp derp" face, which actually occurs just as often in clannad as it does in every other anime we watch. Even refuses after admitting that the onii-chan scene in clannad was pure awesome.

**Elcura** · 2011-01-24 14:36

It's not just the eyes, it's the entire face. The nose and mouth are tooooo far up, the eyes are toooooo far apart. From the side the ears and eyes usually don't match up, and the nose/mouth are still too high. The whole art style is fucking weird and wrong in the face. You can like it, you can love it even, but it's still soooo wrong, lol. Compared to that, DRRR is just more normal (in terms of anime).

To say you had problems adjusting to the art style... I mean, what's there to adjust to? Everything is placed correctly, anatomy etc is correct, colours aren't fucking weird or out there. I'd understand if you said you had to get used to something like Maria+Holic or Bakemonogatari (or any Shaft anime), cause those have weird art styles/directions. I just don't understand what there is to get used too...

But honestly, it isn't a big deal. I know you aren't saying that Key's art style is better than DRRR, but for some reason I can't help but think it. So, sorry for that, lol

**Man0warr** · 2011-01-24 14:55

Unwatch the Clannad movie, it was done by Toei rather than KyoAni and it was awful. They used the worst ending and messed up the adaption of it.

I don't really watch Key anime for the visuals, and Key does some great looking backgrounds and stuff. I agree their style for characters is different but I watch it to bawl my eyes out.

**Binkie** · 2011-01-24 17:05

Originally Posted by Elcura

Also, what happened to Kuragehime? It was coming out until around Xmas, then it disappeared. The last episode I saw was 10, but I haven't checked past TT for any more.

It only had 11 episodes and was left quite unfinished.

**Sylvrdragon** · 2011-01-25 01:35

Originally Posted by Man0warr

Unwatch the Clannad movie, it was done by Toei rather than KyoAni and it was awful. They used the worst ending and messed up the adaption of it.

I don't really watch Key anime for the visuals, and Key does some great looking backgrounds and stuff. I agree their style for characters is different but I watch it to bawl my eyes out.

I really didn't mind the movie. It was different, sure, but a lot of that is because they only had 2 hours to work with and didn't have time to set up the Harem atmosphere or to develop the characters very much. As such, they had to move everyone a notch or two closer to normal so people could relate to them in a much shorter time-span. They didn't have time to put their personalities into perspective, so they had to make them more realistic. I think they made as good of use of the time they had to work with as possible, and if the series/visual novel didn't exist, it would do just fine as a stand-alone. Unlike the Unlimite Blade Works movie where anyone new to the franchise would be completely fucking lost in the first 10 minutes.

Edit: Also, Level E is fucking hilarious. It might be a bit too similar to Gintama though. I guess we'll see how it develops.

**Sylvrdragon** · 2011-01-25 02:09

Originally Posted by Deadgye

This. I recommend not skipping the openings/endings every episode, and watching the last half in one sitting if possible.

Is there sometimes story content in the OP/ED in After Story then? I fucking hate when Animes do that... I always sit through the OP/ED at least once just to show some appreciation to the artists that made them, but when I'm marathoning a series, I don't feel like watching the shit 1-2 dozen times (except in the few cases where I really enjoy them, like Black Lagoon, Elfen Lied, Death Note, Evangelion, etc.)

**Kaylia** · 2011-01-25 02:24

Originally Posted by Zilong

So decapitation and mutilation gets preorder?

Now that I think about it, Japanese anime industry and American video game industry had a lot more in common in term of appeal, scrutiny, and plot depth

Japanese video game industry isnt flying very high either.

Finding quality nerd content is getting harder and harder.

Really? I mean, that's just strange to me. DRRR's art style is much easier to grasp compared to Key anime, which makes you wonder WTF is wrong with their faces. I like Key stuff, but the art style is fucking weird. Good animation though, so that helps.

I can't stand key's style, the girls just look retarded.

[edit]
Well, they are actually retarded, so I guess the look kinda fit.

**Zilong** · 2011-01-25 05:00

I just mentioned the american video game for the sake of the joke, but yeah, the whole shin megami tensei being a japanese facebook game and ffxiii-2 announcement did little to keep my faith in the industry there, but that's a discussion for another topic altogether.

Watching the isekai no seikishi monogatari, the spinoff ova of tenchi muyo universe, I'm enjoying it a lot more than I though I would, but really the series could have cut down on the fucking high school life faggotry and just go straight on berserk kenshi murdering everything. Plus the pacing and the plot storyline is getting kinda stupid now. But at least the tits are well animated I suppose.

**popsiclestix** · 2011-01-25 07:08

Level E has to be the best trolling ever! F-U-C-K-I-N-G hilarious

**Ratatapa** · 2011-01-25 07:37

Originally Posted by Sylvrdragon

Is there sometimes story content in the OP/ED in After Story then? I fucking hate when Animes do that... I always sit through the OP/ED at least once just to show some appreciation to the artists that made them, but when I'm marathoning a series, I don't feel like watching the shit 1-2 dozen times (except in the few cases where I really enjoy them, like Black Lagoon, Elfen Lied, Death Note, Evangelion, etc.)

It's mostly to get you in the mood of the episode

Best proof Clannad OP has some segment that you will only see at the end of after story lol

**Ker** · 2011-01-25 08:12

Random Stuff about Index(Aqua's voice actor has been revealed but I'd rather not mention who he is, since he will appear in final Arc of Index Season 2, and I'd like to keep that as a surprise as J.C.STAFF putting some serious money on the voice cast selection. such as Norio Wakamoto).

Railgun SS 2(included with Season 2 DVD/BD).
Haha I knew it, Lessar is Bisexual.

^
Love Those Crazy Eye's. you just know she is up to no good.

The Cross between My little Sister X Index continues

Episode 12 TRUE ROUTE *My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute* is Dated for Late Feb
http://www.oreimo-anime.com/

**Sylvrdragon** · 2011-01-25 10:20

I finished After-Story...

Spoiler: show

**Ratatapa** · 2011-01-25 11:18

Spoiler: show

**Elcura** · 2011-01-25 12:00

I didn't much like the ending (it feels great for a video game where you have to earn it, but it seemed really out of place in the anime). But the parts leading up to it were fantastic.

Ushio and Tomoya in the field was really heart wrenching.

**Man0warr** · 2011-01-25 16:29

What was with the last scene with Ushio lying under the tree? I thought they were already within the "Happily-Ever-After" ending in which she never got sick... It almost seems like part of a different ending that they had considered using that the director just liked too much to cut out despite it not making any sense...

The girl under the tree is The Girl from the Illusionary World (aka future? Ushio who lost her memories). The tree is where Nagisa's father begged for her life earlier in the story. The same scene is shown after the true end in the visual novel too, I'm not sure what meaning it's supposed to have.

**Judai** · 2011-01-25 16:55

Anyone have Maria+Holic Ep12 I can dl? All the ones I have found either have no seeders or crash my vlc for some reason. DL'd it from 3 different sites and none of them worked. The other 11 Ep were fine and never had something else crash my vlc before.

Also, wondering if I should bother watching Gundam Zeta/ZZ? I remember loving Gundam was I was growing up but 8 episodes into Zeta and it's absolutely horrid imo, lol. I never really watched a complete series until 00, just whatever I caught on TV or w/e.(watched MSG, 0080, 08th MS team and Stardust as well now)

Spoiler: show

**Zilong** · 2011-01-25 17:58

I'm not much of a gundam buff, but those that I actually talk to consider the UC timeline as the best of the series, with Zeta being one of the best series.

At most watching the old series will give you timeline and history of some of the characters/factions in the UC, at least as far as unicorn's story is concerned.

**Deadgye** · 2011-01-25 18:31

I finished After-Story...

Spoiler: show

Anyone have Maria+Holic Ep12 I can dl? All the ones I have found either have no seeders or crash my vlc for some reason. DL'd it from 3 different sites and none of them worked. The other 11 Ep were fine and never had something else crash my vlc before.

Delete vlc and whatever codecs you're using and install CCCP. I got Maria Holic from gg/ggcaust and they all worked fine. Code for episode 12 was [FFFFFFFF].

**Judai** · 2011-01-25 18:52

Zeta must get alot better if it's the best cause it's really bad imo so far, lol. Guess I'll keep pushing through it and hope for the best. The new chars just seem really retarded so far. Maybe it's just me though, I didn't like NGE much either and my friends give me shit about that all the time.

I have cccp, and it's up to date, and the ggcaust[FFFFFFF] didn't work for some reason, just ep12 though...

**Sylvrdragon** · 2011-01-25 19:43

Originally Posted by Deadgye

Spoiler: show

HEAVY HEAVY SHOW-RUINING SPOILERS WITHIN! DON'T DEPRIVE YOURSELF OF THIS EXPERIENCE BY READING THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN CLANNAD AFTER-STORY YET!

Spoiler: show

The transition into the ED that episode was absolutely perfect. I was bawing like a baby throughout the whole episode (I believe it was at the end of the Train/Field episode), and then that happened and brought a big dumb banana-grin to my face. If anyone had gotten a picture of it, I'm sure I would have had to kill them to defend my manhood. I daresay that that episode may have worked better for an ending than where they went, but I suppose they just couldn't resist one more good wrench on my heart after that...

When I read here that After-Story had the "perfect" ending, I recall thinking to myself "What? Do they bring Nagisa back to life or something? Or maybe she never dies?" and then they went ahead down the death-in-childbirth route after all and Tomoya still got depressed and still gave up Ushio for 5 years. Then the Train episode happened and I thought "Well, I don't know if it's "perfect" as far as a big happy ending, but it is pretty damn close. This should be over right?". I then saw that there were like 4 episodes left and I wondered what the hell they had left to tell. It then went into Tomoya making up with his Father (another highly emotional moment), and then to realizing that Kyou was Ushio's teacher, and finding out that Fuko was awake. and I thought perhaps they were just wrapping up loose ends... then in the episode where they ran out of loose ends, just at the very end of the episode... Ushio gets sick and collapses and there are still 2 more episode >.<. Two eps later, Ushio finally talks Tomoya into taking the trip and I think "Oh, they're gonna go to the field and meet his father well on his way to recovery and find her toy robot and she's gonna get better. Cool." but noooOOOOOOooo. The show isn't done fucking with me yet! The next thing I know, Ushio's status is unknown, and I'm in some abstract RL footage of Japan floating through the air and traveling back in time and POOF~ Nagisa wakes up ,where previously she didn't, and everyone lives happily ever after... and THEN the scene with Fuko? What?

Some of that just doesn't sit right with me. Your audience should never be sitting around watching your show waiting for it to end. Maybe it was different when the episodes were still coming out and nobody really KNEW how many were left? Maybe people were SUPPOSED to be there one week after another asking themselves "Is this the last episode?" and then BAM! Something huge happens? If I had to explain After-Story to someone without spoiling it, I think I would call it Emotional Whiplash.

I find myself wondering if perhaps Tomoya died out in the snow with Ushio and the "Abstract" scenes flying around as the Lights with the RL scenery was supposed to be their souls or something. Perhaps that explains the Fuko scene? Maybe they both died and after living the life out in heaven the way it was supposed to be, Tomoya and Nagisa sent Ushio back to where Fuko would find her under that tree?

Wow... that fits almost perfectly... I think I just made myself sad again.

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