A New Year of Anime Begins: Winter Anime 2012 thread - Page 5

phil_ · 02-08-2012, 02:37 PM

I'm your friend, Ryong. Watch Chihaya Furu. It's sports anime but instead of being hot-blooded, it's emotionally relatable to anyone who has ever done a competitive team anything.

It also has pretty pictures, really subtle gags, and really unsubtle gags; gags coming in both the visual and and situational varieties. And sometimes it gets trippy, both in the standard "This is based on a shoujo manga thus we must simulate screentones" way and in the more unique to anime "She's talking about poetry and I'm trippin' balls" way. The characters are likable and introduced fairly quickly once the main story begins, including the standard jerk love interest. He's not even that much of a jerk, either! Probably has to do with being voiced by Mamoru Miyano, who cannot voice an unlikable character.

Like, I'm making an attempt at standard English and actually explaining things, here. I am trying to sell you on this show because it's really good. It's not an experience like Gurren Lagann or Penguin Drum, but I would almost tell grown adults who don't watch cartoons that it's worth watching. "Almost" because it gets pretty Japanese sometimes, being a show about a Japanese poetry card game and all.

Ryong · 02-08-2012, 03:52 PM

I read the first three chapters of that just now!

What I have to say: Hey this trio of characters will be interesti- CARD GAMES.

Maaan.

Fifthfiend · 02-08-2012, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Liz

Horizon is dumb and also absurdly racist.

From wiki:

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In the far future, humans abandon a devastated Earth and traveled to outer space. However, due to unknown phenomenon that prevents them from traveling into space, humanity returns to Earth only to find it inhospitable except for Japan. To accommodate the entire human population, pocket dimensions are created around Japan to house in the populace. In order to find a way to return to outer space, the humans began reenacting human history according to the Holy Book Testament. But in the year 1413 of the Testament Era, the nations of the pocket dimensions invade and conquer Japan, dividing the territory into feudal fiefdoms and forcing the original inhabitants of Japan to leave. It is now the year 1648 of the Testament Era, the refugees of Japan now live in the city ship Musashi, where it constantly travels around Japan while being watched by the Testament Union, the authority that runs the re-enactment of history. However, rumors of an apocalypse and war begins to spread when the Testament stops revealing what happens next after 1648. Taking advantage of this situation, Tori Aoi, head of Musashi Ariadust Academy's Supreme Federation and President of the student council, leads his fellow classmates to use this opportunity to regain their homeland.

Every single sentence of that is stupider than the preceding sentence.

Karrrrrrrrrrrresche · 02-08-2012, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

From wiki:

Every single sentence of that is stupider than the preceding sentence.

so they... they can leave but they choose to go back but then they don't know how to leave again so they have to reenact history?

Aldurin · 02-08-2012, 04:50 PM

Get the names of everyone involved in that on a watchlist so they can't sneak into one of the Squeenix development teams.

Ryong · 02-08-2012, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Aldurin

Get the names of everyone involved in that on a watchlist so they can't sneak into one of the Squeenix development teams.

And then we find out that we're actually talking about the same people.

Gregness · 02-08-2012, 09:53 PM

Since the other anime thread died out can we use this for other anime happenings than the newest stuff? All my anime watchings are limited to what's on Hulu/Netflix so I'm not really seeing much of the bleeding edge stuff.

I bring this up because I just finished watching Claymore and holy shit, it was fantastic.

phil_ · 02-08-2012, 10:10 PM

I just read this month's Claymore and, Jesus, have we been on this fight for a year already? Just die already; no one cares.

Gregness · 02-08-2012, 10:53 PM

I wouldn't say no one cares. Miria's a gigantic badass and it looks like the fight's going to end with something other than "RAAAAAA MID BATTLE POWERUPS" which is honestly one of my favorite things about Claymore.

Aldurin · 02-09-2012, 12:49 AM

Claymore is manga, since the anime was ok until it railroaded the story at The War in the North chapter. You rose my hopes for a proper reboot for mentioning claymore in an anime thread, but crushed them when I realized it's just commenting on the current manga.

Also, it seems like claymore is starting to hit the peak of the level of power possible since now the outrageous battle abilities are around abusing the battlefield or their own yoki. Like, how do you outdo Priscilla vs the twin abyssal tower at that point?

02-08-2012, 02:37 PM	#41
phil_ Just sleeping Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: At home, probably in bed. Posts: 6,482	I'm your friend, Ryong. Watch Chihaya Furu. It's sports anime but instead of being hot-blooded, it's emotionally relatable to anyone who has ever done a competitive team anything. It also has pretty pictures, really subtle gags, and really unsubtle gags; gags coming in both the visual and and situational varieties. And sometimes it gets trippy, both in the standard "This is based on a shoujo manga thus we must simulate screentones" way and in the more unique to anime "She's talking about poetry and I'm trippin' balls" way. The characters are likable and introduced fairly quickly once the main story begins, including the standard jerk love interest. He's not even that much of a jerk, either! Probably has to do with being voiced by Mamoru Miyano, who cannot voice an unlikable character. Like, I'm making an attempt at standard English and actually explaining things, here. I am trying to sell you on this show because it's really good. It's not an experience like Gurren Lagann or Penguin Drum, but I would almost tell grown adults who don't watch cartoons that it's worth watching. "Almost" because it gets pretty Japanese sometimes, being a show about a Japanese poetry card game and all. __________________ Be T-Rexcellent to each other, tako.

02-08-2012, 09:53 PM	#47
Gregness Never give up. Never give in. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 1,034	Since the other anime thread died out can we use this for other anime happenings than the newest stuff? All my anime watchings are limited to what's on Hulu/Netflix so I'm not really seeing much of the bleeding edge stuff. I bring this up because I just finished watching Claymore and holy shit, it was fantastic. __________________ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein Last edited by Gregness; 02-08-2012 at 10:02 PM.

02-08-2012, 10:10 PM	#48
phil_ Just sleeping Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: At home, probably in bed. Posts: 6,482	I just read this month's Claymore and, Jesus, have we been on this fight for a year already? Just die already; no one cares. __________________ Be T-Rexcellent to each other, tako.

02-08-2012, 10:53 PM	#49
Gregness Never give up. Never give in. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 1,034	I wouldn't say no one cares. Miria's a gigantic badass and it looks like the fight's going to end with something other than "RAAAAAA MID BATTLE POWERUPS" which is honestly one of my favorite things about Claymore. __________________ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein

02-08-2012, 03:52 PM	#42
Ryong Professional Threadkiller Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brazil Posts: 3,798	I read the first three chapters of that just now! What I have to say: Hey this trio of characters will be interesti- CARD GAMES. Maaan.

02-08-2012, 04:50 PM	#45
Aldurin Lakitu Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4,648	Get the names of everyone involved in that on a watchlist so they can't sneak into one of the Squeenix development teams.

02-09-2012, 12:49 AM	#50
Aldurin Lakitu Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4,648	Claymore is manga, since the anime was ok until it railroaded the story at The War in the North chapter. You rose my hopes for a proper reboot for mentioning claymore in an anime thread, but crushed them when I realized it's just commenting on the current manga. Also, it seems like claymore is starting to hit the peak of the level of power possible since now the outrageous battle abilities are around abusing the battlefield or their own yoki. Like, how do you outdo Priscilla vs the twin abyssal tower at that point?