Spring 2012 Anime thread: Welcome home, Space Cowboy

[Ryong]

Fate/Zero 14 was pretty damn nice. That is all.

I have been told to watch Accel World. How's it?

[Ramary]

Originally Posted by Ryong

I have been told to watch Accel World. How's it?

The worst anime of the season
The best anime of the season

Yeah you are gonna have to watch it yourself. I will pick it up eventually because it will ether be train wreck or actually good, so that fits my bill.

[phil_]

Eureka AO is better than the comic. I am full of hope.

[Regulus Tera]

The ( o ) ( o ) of the woman named Fujiko Mine 02

It's a good thing that the art is as expressive as it is, because the animation was very choppy at times. It gave the episode a very strange "vignette" feeling instead of the moving painting one of the pilot. It worked despite that, and in a way it accentuates the stagnation both main characters live throughout the story.

The narrative, on the other hand, was much stronger than last week's. It went beyond the simple sexy-action plot of the first episode and became something a lot more personal and engaging. It's nice to know that the entire thing won't be just tits and guns, even if I am well satisfied by said tits and guns.

Tsuritama 01

Started really slow, but things got going as soon as Haru met Yuki. The colour design is really impressive and the water animation sumptuous. The amount of beautiful non-derivative anime airing this season is making me hopeful that maybe anime doesn't have be all trash moéshit.

Goddamn Haru is genki as fuck.

Kids on the Slope 01

This hit all the right notes for me where Tsuritama couldn't regarding the "anti-social angsty teenager meets a more vivacious and sporadic boy" element. It is essentially the same story told more subduedly: Haru's over-the-topness was obviously alienating (lol) in nature, whereas Sentaro seems like a dude I would meet somewhere and totally become bros with.

What can I say about Watanabe's direction that hasn't been pondered before? I hate to use the word, but the whole thing has a cinematic style missing from most anime today. It's nothing at all like Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo, but it clearly is made by someone who knows what the fuck he is doing. I feel relieved.



...it can't all be honey and roses, right? Of course it can't, this is anime. Shit's gotta suck at times:

Medaka Box 02

This is the worst thing in the history of worst things ever. The art is bad, the animation is stiff, the music is generic, the humour dull, the characterisation cliché, the premise stupid, and everyone is a twat. Also, furries:

Fuck you GAINAX. Stay in your fucking coffin and never come out again.

[Satan's Onion]

In re: the doggy-style dog lady.

1. The fuck is that?
1a. Do I even want to know?

[Regulus Tera]

She wanted to catch a dog/wolf thing. [/shrugs]

Have a video of Norio Wakamoto singing the Nyarlathotep anime OP instead.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Medaka is the worst thing in Medaka Box.

I don't care for the adaptation but I know the manga picks up a ton later. Especially when Kumagawa comes around.

God I love Kumagawa.

[stefan]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

Fuck you GAINAX. Stay in your fucking coffin and never come out again.

GAINAX isn't dead, they just don't give a fuck about anything that isn't self-referential nerd humor and stopped pretending otherwise when their Getter Robo homage show made them a shitload of money.

[Regulus Tera]

Sankarea 02

It's... not trash like I was expecting! It's not haremshit! Praise to the heavens, for DEEN is risen!

If this were any other animu I bet the disturbing backstory included here would have been shown with much more levity. This show is proving to be very strong despite the offensive OP and the (unsurprisingly) lewd camerawork. Like, seriously, I wanna rip my ears out every time I listed to that fucking OP.

Ginga e Kickoff! 01

They are playing football! And it doesn't look like shit!! It even has a main character named Erika who is all about girl power! It's not like The Knight in the Area where I was expecting some nice-looking matches with decent animation but got cardboard-cutout crap. I didn't care for the melodrama, nor the cast full of dipshits (Seven aside). I just wanted football, and that didn't deliver.

Then I went on to this. The football animu of my dreams.

Eureka Seven AO 01

Maybe I'm just too critical after watching a lot of great animu last night, but I didn't like it. It felt like a disaster movie where they didn't even attempt to make the characters relatable, to the point where the obvious love interest is an asthmatic girl in a rather vicious attempt to make her as moé as possible. The episode is full of character introductions and it made it lose a lot of focus. I understand this is done to give the events a grander scale, but instead of getting engaged I end up confused because of the multitude of factions and terms introduced. The first episode of Eureka Seven accomplished the "grander than life" vibe without having to resort to such idiocy, and even the sentimental element (Renton and Eureka vs Ao and Eureka) was inserted into the plot more naturally.

There's also a lot of expository dialogue going on. There's a moment when the band of dealers or whatever explain to each other what the hell are they doing and with whom they are making business with no other motivation than to make the audience privy of the plot. Shouldn't they have discussed these shenanigan before setting off? Not to mention stupid dialogue like "there's a giant hole now where the explosion occured" while showing said giant hole. Redundancy of the worst kind.

Like I said, maybe I'm just too discerning after last night. It looked very nice and it sounded gorgeously. I am just disappointed because this is the animé that has seemed the most "animé" out of everything I watched this season when they could have easily done without all the fluff. Imo Guilty Crown did the same type of pilot episode much better.

Originally Posted by stefan

GAINAX isn't dead, they just don't give a fuck about anything that isn't self-referential nerd humor and stopped pretending otherwise when their Getter Robo homage show made them a shitload of money.

The only two people worth giving a shit last decade at GAINAX were Anno and Imaishi, and both have already left for greener pastures.

[phil_]

Watched Tsuritama tonight. I like the pretty colors and visual metaphors. Also, Haru talks funny. Also also, a man having a drink with a goose is always funny.

Sankarea won't stay this unique for much longer, Tera. You'll call it haremshit or shonenshit in two weeks, and I'll be disappointed in you when you do it, just like I always am when you use "XXX-shit" terms.