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MazEi · Thu, 8th-Dec-2011, 10:23 AM

Well I just watch bad anime. Period. Quite literally the only anime I'm watching every week as its released is Guilty Crown and Mashiro-iro Symphony.

But on about Shana, its become "Yeah, its just Shana" to me. Its kinda what happened to me with Baka to Test second season. I was excited as hell for it but just ended up watching it and thinking, well there ain't much new stuff to it, might as well have been 1 long season rather than 2. I think if Shana was 1 long 78 episode season or something like that, I wouldn't really mind it.

All I hope for now is this doesn't happen with Nisemonogatari since I loved Bakemonogatari.

Cute · Thu, 8th-Dec-2011, 10:30 PM

Mirai Nikkai or Steins;Gate? Anime Thread, tell me what to watch tonight!

Nobunaga · Fri, 9th-Dec-2011, 5:49 AM

Steins;Gate.

Watch it all in one sitting.

I'm surprised your not watching Haganai mazei...seems like something right up your alley.

MazEi · Fri, 9th-Dec-2011, 11:27 PM

Guess it slipped passed my radar. Will check it out

MazEi · Sun, 11th-Dec-2011, 8:27 PM

OH LOL. Didn't know the short form of that series was Haganai. Yeah I was watching it but ended up not following with it. Will definitely watch it all in one seating when the season ends though.

Nobunaga · Sun, 11th-Dec-2011, 10:33 PM

I posted this rant somewhere else about Mashiro, but I will post it here for some discussion. Contains major spoilers for episode 11:

Quote:

You know, even though this isn't your traditional main character end, it still feels really sucky. Out of all the girls, Miu is the one that really lacks any personality at all. From all the episodes so far, all that I know from Miu is that her weakness is that she works too hard, which is probably the biggest cop out weakness you can ever have. Although Airi and Sana were rather traditional tsundere archetypes, at least they had some sort of conflict either with themselves or with the main character, and showed some weakness and personality other than "I am the perfect wife".

I actually did want an Airi end, because they worked through her problems together which flowed to Airi actually helping friends out. We saw some nice character growth from her, and a bit from Sana but what happened to Miu? Her club didn't work and she worked too hard. That was it. I really felt that there really was no point in the story where she was building into a "complete" character.

MazEi · Mon, 12th-Dec-2011, 12:07 AM

I totally agree with you. It felt weird to me that it wasn't Airi since she was basically involved in just about everything as well as being the one that changed a lot(character that developed). But I think(along with a friend of mine when we discussed this early on at like ep5 or something) this results from this being adapted from a VN where they tried to put in a lot of what happened in the VN, which by itself is 10-30 hours of gameplay(According to VNDB), and as a result just suffered from lack of depth.

Along with that I've always felt that there are some things which work well in a VN that just won't work when you animate it, especially when you adapt it badly. Now I have not played Mashiro-iro the VN but a lot of the things I find that it totally fits if I was playing the VN but it just seemed really weird on the anime. That's just my opinion.

In short I'm kinda "errr" on the heroine end as well as "errr" on how the whole anime was done. But I still watch it anyway since its Romance =)

EDIT
To add to the point about the VN thing, Clannad and Afterstory did a good job at it because there was so many episodes that they could fit everything in and fit it in nicely I feel.

Nobunaga · Mon, 12th-Dec-2011, 6:11 AM

I didn't play Mashiro either (I don't play VNs) but the way most do it, is introduce the main characters at the beginning while giving 2 episodes to each character (one to show the conflict and the next to show the resolution) Instead, it felt like We had Airi's episodes for 4 episodes, Angie and Sana both had couple of episodes, and Miu who was just in the background all the time gets a few episodes and bam. love interest. They pretty much showed Airi then pushed her to the background? it feels like they had pretty terrible pacing.

Cute · Mon, 12th-Dec-2011, 2:30 PM

I liked how Amagami SS did it, just restarting the whole thing every arc. Aiiiiiiii~~~~~

CZE · Mon, 12th-Dec-2011, 2:39 PM

My favorite anime:
- Hunter X Hunter was amazing when I watched it (many years ago now). Shame the author got sick and started doodling for its manga counter-part

. It's being rebooted atm in Japan and its called Hunter X Hunter 2011 and so far its living up to its predecessor.

- Code Geass. Simply amazing. If you haven't watched it, watch it IMMEDIATELY. Nothing else needs to be said here.

- Full metal alchemist: Brotherhood. Many times better than the original.

Sorry if these are too 'mainstream' T_T

MazEi · Tue, 13th-Dec-2011, 11:18 AM

Oh no, didn't know that School Food Punishment did the OP for UN-GO. Hmmm... is UN-GO nice or at least barely watch-able?

EDIT
Saw Nodame Cantabile on tv today, made me realize how much I actually loved that series. I'm dl-ing it again =)

Cute · Thu, 15th-Dec-2011, 11:59 PM

Steins;Gate was cute

MazEi · Fri, 16th-Dec-2011, 1:15 AM

Well if I played the VN I'd probably choose her too

Btw, did I say how much I loved Nodame Cantabile?

Cute · Fri, 16th-Dec-2011, 2:06 AM

Gonna start on C^3 now! Any good?

After that, I feel like compiling a top ten or whatever list for this year, but I'm so behind on all these shows, I might have to spend these holidays just catching up before I can compile one ><

Fate · Fri, 16th-Dec-2011, 2:29 AM

Wow i've been on sc2sea.com for so long! And I've only just found this thread?

Btw I highly recommend this season's "Mirai Nikki"
http://myanimelist.net/anime/10620/Mirai_Nikki_%28TV%29
My review of it is currently still 1st as well (lol some silly bragging rights :P)

Fate · Fri, 16th-Dec-2011, 2:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mazei

Oh no, didn't know that School Food Punishment did the OP for UN-GO. Hmmm... is UN-GO nice or at least barely watch-able?

EDIT
Saw Nodame Cantabile on tv today, made me realize how much I actually loved that series. I'm dl-ing it again =)

Un-GO is watchable, i'll give it a 6, it has clever plots.

Fate · Fri, 16th-Dec-2011, 2:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cute

Gonna start on C^3 now! Any good?

After that, I feel like compiling a top ten or whatever list for this year, but I'm so behind on all these shows, I might have to spend these holidays just catching up before I can compile one ><

C^3 is interesting as well, initially you might think its a lolicon romance story, then it goes into full blown shonen battle anime. Nice turn of genre if you ask me. But the fights seem entertaining. You might also wanna check out this season's "Ben-To" Ridiculous battle anime about discounted food (yea you read correctly, fighting over FOOD....)

Cute · Fri, 16th-Dec-2011, 2:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fate

Wow i've been on sc2sea.com for so long! And I've only just found this thread?

Btw I highly recommend this season's "Mirai Nikki"
http://myanimelist.net/anime/10620/Mirai_Nikki_%28TV%29
My review of it is currently still 1st as well (lol some silly bragging rights :P)

Holy ****. I read that review literally five minutes ago while hunting for something to watch. Scary hah

And shame on you for not having joined us sooner!

MazEi · Fri, 16th-Dec-2011, 10:11 AM

I watched the first few episodes of C^3 and it seemed okay and something I'd watch. Though from the episodes I watched it seemed like very generic stuff. Guess I'll know once I start watching the rest of it.

I've only been hearing good things about Mirai Nikki so I guess you can't go wrong with it =P

Nobunaga · Fri, 16th-Dec-2011, 12:42 PM

The only good thing about C^3 is the opening theme. It starts off boring, tries to interest you with a bit of a twist but really doesn't have the sustainability.

Chihayafuru is the best animes.

Top 10 this year is like:
1. Fate/Zero
2. Chihayafuru
3. Steins;gate
4. Gosick
5. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
6. Ben-to
7. Carnival Phantasm
8. Tiger and Bunny
9. Usagi Drop
10. Oreimo (haha cheated with the OAVs)