Spring 2012 Anime thread: Welcome home, Space Cowboy

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

Sankarea 01: Zombie moé? Zombie moé. The first episode raised a lot of flags that it might become another wacky harem hijinx show with an undead theme, but at the same time it kept an otherwordly ambient reminiscent of SHAFT shows (not surprising considering the director). I will watch it until it offends my sensibilities.

Unless they add new characters for the cartoon, it won't turn into a harem. Not that most of the characters aren't girls, it's just most of them aren't into cat-face Furuya. I haven't been able to watch the first episode yet; I'm looking forward to hearing Babu.

Zombie of the Dead's first episode pretty much wrapped up what the show is about.

Ozuma has killed my crack theory that Bynas is Sam's mom already, but at least it did so by making everyone's (except Maya's) relationships pretty clear.

[Kim]

Ozma continues to be awesome. Caught the first ep of Space Brothers yesterday, and that was also fantastic.

[phil_]

You know what was crazy? The latest episode of Fate/Zero. I mean, it wasn't very complicated plot-wise or anything, but we got the fighter jet part that made me want to watch this thing to begin with, and it was all I hoped it would be. Well, maybe not all, but it was rad, none the less.

Also, I have heard Babu. It was a fine "babu." The rest of the show was pretty good, too. I like some of the liberties they took with Sankarea, like putting a bowling alley in the abandoned building. I'm curious as to how they're going to direct the rest of the show, though, since they made the first episode really dark in bits, but most of the time Sankarea is kinda cheery and silly. On a different note, one thing the comic has going over the cartoon is that you can't linger over all the awesome zombie goods Furuya has all over in the cartoon like you can in the comic. The reverse of that statement is it's awesome that all Cat-face's zombie toys carried over to the cartoon. That right there makes me feel like DEEN might actually care about this silly zombie romcom.

[Ramary]

Fate/Zero 14: We got Ancient Babylon spaceship fighting a demonically hijacked jet fighter. But also my favorite master died. I am mixed on it (well yeah it was obviously COOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL but seriously I loved that sick son of a bitch).

Mysterious Girlfriend X:
Urabe's VA being really good: Check
Good soundtrack: Check
Animation not shit: Check
Sounds to go with all the drool fetishism: Check
Everyone unfalmiar with the manga being completely freaked out/disgusted by said drool fetishism: Check


PERFECT ADAPTION (until the shitty arcs start happening.)

[phil_]

Minori Scramble got English subs. It was what I wanted, in that it was silly and there were penguins. Whether you have forty minutes to blow on a pointless story about a girl and her robot demi-penguin is your own business.

[Regulus Tera]

Saint Seiya Omega 02
Slownen gonna slownen. I am still liking this, but I can see people being put off by the pacing. Just like Heartcatch Precure, this show might work better at half the length.

Mirai Nikki 25
The problem with this trite is that you cannot expect to sell this as an emotional climax when you've treated the entire world with the utmost of incompetence and ridiculousness. It doesn't fit the tone of the story, and it's even more jarring that you are introducing all this sentimental revelations by combining it with Dragon Ball shenanigans.

On the other hand, it was very well animated, to the point where I found it distracting because the rest of the show looks like utter shite.

Space Bros 02
;_; Mutta...

The most emotional animu of the season, and probably the most honest. Too bad that people aren't too high on it for not being the same old shitty shit as usual.

Ozma 04
If there's one thing this show does good it is the action submarine battles. The bad: everything else.

Mysterious Girlfriend X 01
Less trashy than expected and even quite reminiscent of nineties animu. Saliva swapping is a weird fetish, but at its core is nothing you haven't experience on a kiss before. It was very well animated too.

Area no Kishi 14
Even Captain Tsubasa had better animation than this. I am only watching it for the Nadeshiko Japan shenanigans, because everyone else is a twat.

And one more I just came around to watching even though it was first shown like four years ago:

Sonic: Night of the Werehog

This was pretty good. Not only the animation was expressive and fluid, but the script isn't half bad. It's a silent short with no dialogue so you don't have to worry about the stupid Sonic voice acting, but even so the sound effects were supreme. It's short and inoffensive too: about ten minutes long and there's hardly anything to scoff at.

There's a myriad of complaints you can make about Sega's in-house departments, but their CGI studio is among the best. I would say they are even better than Squeenix's. 5/5 gotta go fasts

It also had a moé ghost. Moé. Ghost.

[phil_]

The problem with Mirai Nikki is that it's Mirai Nikki. You signed up for a trainwreck ending when you started watching a cartoon based on a completed comic with a trainwreck ending.

And ghosts are often moe. Like, top of my head, Hanyuu, Yuyuko, that kid from the first chapter of Bleach, Hachikuji.

[Regulus Tera]

Just wanna point out that Kids on the Slope is already out and it's classy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-m7LG-CDkQ

Watanabe is back!

Originally Posted by phil_

The problem with Mirai Nikki is that it's Mirai Nikki. You signed up for a trainwreck ending when you started watching a cartoon based on a completed comic with a trainwreck ending.

The trainwreck was fun before. Now it's just painful because of the melodrama.

[Ramary]

I told you it was bad. Beyond enjoyment bad. It is pain pain.

[Locke cole]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

It also had a moé ghost. Moé. Ghost.

They're not the first.