Not sure if anyone's going to like it, but there's a Chinese anime with a pretty good production quality. The culture difference with Japan is pretty obvious. It's pretty crazy watching an anime in a language that I understand, must be pretty nice for those of you that can speak Japanese. China's Google equivalent put it up on Youtube for free with subs [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSjaP1eV5eQ[/URL]
Don't blink, Chinese gets a lot across fast so the subs are pretty quick to disappear.
[editline]18th June 2017[/editline]
Guess it was pretty big news before huh?
[editline]18th June 2017[/editline]
This one's fantastic, but there's no subs for it anywhere, it's not well known.
[URL]https://bangumi.bilibili.com/anime/5741[/URL]
Yeah that show is pretty good. If it had Japanese voice acting in sure it could have been a decent success in Japan/the west
I feel like they still need to improve on the voice acting front. Feel that the Vas didn't accurately portray the emotions the animations were showing.
I think the voice acting is alright, it gets better after a few episodes, Chinese is difficult if you don't speak it I guess. It's a tonal language so the way you stress a word is a bit different. I guess I can see a dub really helping in that case.
If I had to complain about anything it would be the lack of depth in the story. It's using the popularity of games in China to its advantage. Good business, but lacking as an art.
finished Blame!
[I]fucking incredible[/I]
10/10
[editline]17th June 2017[/editline]
now i'll help myself to the movie
I tried watching kings avatar but it felt too different from how I was picturing it when I was reading the novel, doesn't help that his umbrella looks super cool in it too.
kings avatar is surprisingly good for what it is
the reused animation can become a bore after a bit, but the sass of the op mc and his merry band helps it along
Saiteihen no Otoko is pretty damn good
im pretty sure its a tokyo ghoul parody
incredible
it's like onani master kurosawa
So how are they gonna do Attack on Titan 3 if that "break" halfway through the episode spoiled quite a bit although the anime was already doing so.
[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;52372128]So how are they gonna do Attack on Titan 3 if that "break" halfway through the episode spoiled quite a bit although the anime was already doing so.[/QUOTE]What was in the halfway info card this time? You guys really blew up the proportions of the infocard last time which had almost no real significance from the perspective of a animeonly viewer.
[quote]although the anime was already doing so[/quote]dont let manga hindsight bias get the best of you.
I own this now:
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[QUOTE=kamikaze470;52372171]What was in the halfway info card this time? You guys really blew up the proportions of the infocard last time which had almost no real significance from the perspective of a animeonly viewer.
dont let manga hindsight bias get the best of you.[/QUOTE]
just more manga hindsight bias
[sp]It literally only mentions that "Titans are not sent from the heavens to punish us for our sins, and they are almost certainly of human origin"[/sp] which spoils fuckall considering the characters in the show mention the same shit later in the episode. I run the risk of sounding like a broken record at this point, but this is stuff any viewer with half a brain already understood the second it was revealed that a certain two someones did a certain thing.
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[I]Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul (2017)[/I]
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[I]Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul (2017)[/I][/QUOTE]
I'm kind of still on team Charioce.
I mean yeah, he's got the whole genocide and slavery and cycle of hatred thing going on, but it's difficult to feel sympathetic towards a race that has been trying to genocide humanity since forever for no reason other than they felt like it and the gods all have their heads stuck up their asses and mostly only do anything when they feel personally threatened.
I finally finished watching all of the Gintama anime after putting it off for so long.
[QUOTE=kamikaze470;52372171]What was in the halfway info card this time? You guys really blew up the proportions of the infocard last time which had almost no real significance from the perspective of a animeonly viewer.
dont let manga hindsight bias get the best of you.[/QUOTE]
I haven't read the manga so I'm not even sure what you're trying to say.
[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;52373083]I haven't read the manga so I'm not even sure what you're trying to say.[/QUOTE]Nothing was really spoiled for you so basically just don't worry about it.
Also just blitzed thru Paranoia Agent today, I don't think I've ever been this bamboozled by a anime this much before.
[QUOTE=kamikaze470;52373502]Nothing was really spoiled for you so basically just don't worry about it.
Also just blitzed thru Paranoia Agent today, I don't think I've ever been this bamboozled by a anime this much before.[/QUOTE]
The s3 promo trailer however contains hella spoilers :v:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCpa4UgHlgA[/url]
Linked because thumbnail alone is a huge spoiler. Based on this though, we can expect the [sp]basement[/sp] reveal in the next season.
Finished watching Mushishi
Its a beautiful anime with amazing soundtracks
Tsuki ga kirei is actually pretty decent. Honestly looking forward to it more than BnH at this point. It's really nicely presented. It actually goes full 5cm/s at one point with the artsy cinematography in a moving train carriage at dusk. It's only got two episodes left [sp] and i'm honestly wondering where the fuck the end point of this series is? Do they go off into the sunset? Makoto Shinkai gutpunch? I'm sure how the relationship can keep progressing story wise. I feel like it's reached an endpoint for how far a middle school romance can really go.[/sp] Excited to see how they cap it off tho. It's for sure the surprise of the season for me.
i'm halfway through sCRYed and i still can't tell if it's a good anime or a hilariously terrible anime
i tend to crack up a lot during its serious moments because of how poor the execution is most of the time
Rewatched all of DRRR s1, maybe I can enjoy DRRRx2 with all the characters still fresh in my mind.
More importantly I can watch it in one sitting rather than watching it once a week for three months, then a three month gap, then once a week for three months, then a three month gap, then once a week for three months.
Has anybody ever read Yandere Kanojo?
I just finished it. I'm unclear on something:
[Sp]One of the main themes of the series, I thought, was that people are not always as they seemed. The yankee wound up having a heart of gold, the nerd was brave and passionate, and every "bad guy" had their own humanizing elements; the evil principal wound up genuinely caring for his students, the abusive mom wanted to save her firstborn from misery by shunning him from a messed-up family, the domineering uncle wound up being insecure and traumatized by his wife's coma and passing, etc. Without fail, every antagonist gets a humanizing element that added depth to what is essentially a dumb comedy slice of life. These are but a few examples, every character got an arc that resolved in reasonable and sensible ways.
Except for Tanaka's father. He's universally hated by the entire cast, is completely spineless, and on top of that is eerily similar to Tanaka himself. I felt like there was no resolution there, what did I miss? It seemed to run contrary to the aforementioned theme. He was just a piece of shit. Did I misinterpret the scene, or the entire series? Was it just sloppy writing?
And also maybe the ghost girl's twist could've been handled better, it sorta came out of nowhere.[/sp]
Also, the penultimate chapters were a huge mess. [Sp]The ball shenanigans were entirely out of left field and had no place, I thought, as the capstone to the whole story.[/sp]
Overall, though, great read. Some parts hit me on a personal level and made me cry, which was not what I was expecting from a dumb rom-com slice of life.
Little Witch Academia EP 24 [sp] I have mixed feelings toward the show. I'm loving it, i love majority of the characters and the pacing but Croix is just not tolerable, plain antagonist and her plan was 100% guaranteed to backfire and shown her strongest emotion. Not even her backstory really helps this much. I have to say though, the show still needed an antagonist and i'm glad it didn't involve with Diana. Also lightstaber Chariot, oh yeah she's still badass[/sp]
[QUOTE=Sweater;52377552]Little Witch Academia EP 24 [sp] I have mixed feelings toward the show. I'm loving it, i love majority of the characters and the pacing but Croix is just not tolerable, plain antagonist and her plan was 100% guaranteed to backfire and shown her strongest emotion. Not even her backstory really helps this much. I have to say though, the show still needed an antagonist and i'm glad it didn't involve with Diana. Also lightstaber Chariot, oh yeah she's still badass[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]For me it feels like the show had two sides of the studio not agreeing on how the show should go, one side thinking it should be harry potter while the other thought it needed a more serious plot, so you get standalone episodes and near the second half they start sprinkling a lot of foreshadowing scenes until the climax.
Croix yes was a shoehorned in antagonist but I think Trigger could at least agree on not making the series some large epic and kept the ending mostly contained and not make the Croix vs Chariot finale a death battle. I think it was a good idea that they reined it in and made it so Croix isn't a cold blooded killer. I think at this point the perfect ending would just be Akko regaining the power that Chariot took and just leaving it at that. But i'm willing to wager Chariot loses all her power or something bittersweet happens as that seems to be the trend in Trigger anime[/sp]
Is there any grounded, non-sci-fi, non-fantasy, etc. manga or anime, starring and created for adults?
What I mean is, psychological thriller or drama type stuff, that could technically "happen" in the real world. Breaking Bad, Law and Order, Dexter and such are grounded in the real world and don't star school children, to name a few examples.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52378806]Is there any grounded, non-sci-fi, non-fantasy, etc. manga or anime, starring and created for adults?
What I mean is, psychological thriller or drama type stuff, that could technically "happen" in the real world. Breaking Bad, Law and Order, Dexter and such are grounded in the real world and don't star school children, to name a few examples.[/QUOTE]
watch jin-roh if you haven't, it's leaning towards the sci-fi side a bit but has that tone you're looking for, i think
for TV shows, 91 days was pretty good, space brothers is a reasonably mature comedy (though i didnt watch much so i dont know how sci-fi it gets) and if time travel isn't too out there, steins;gate should fit the bill as well
Baccano! is surprisingly grounded in comparison to most popular anime. It has a cast of 90% adults, is set in 1930s New York & and a transcontinental rail line, and features supernatural elements that are treated pretty realistically by the characters.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52378806]Is there any grounded, non-sci-fi, non-fantasy, etc. manga or anime, starring and created for adults?
What I mean is, psychological thriller or drama type stuff, that could technically "happen" in the real world. Breaking Bad, Law and Order, Dexter and such are grounded in the real world and don't star school children, to name a few examples.[/QUOTE]
Psycho Pass is pretty sci-fi but I'd recommend it regardless.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52378806]Is there any grounded, non-sci-fi, non-fantasy, etc. manga or anime, starring and created for adults?
What I mean is, psychological thriller or drama type stuff, that could technically "happen" in the real world. Breaking Bad, Law and Order, Dexter and such are grounded in the real world and don't star school children, to name a few examples.[/QUOTE]
Are movies ok? Most of Satoshi Kon's stuff was like that. Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Perfect Blue were all pretty grounded in reality. Perfect Blue was probably the least grounded out of those, but just because of psychological elements, like the main character starting to question her identity. And the series, Paranoia Agent, was great, but it has more fantasy elements as the series progresses.
Most of the "realistic" anime I know of is in the form of depressing movies like Grave of the Fireflies and Shojo Tsubaki.
Welcome to the NHK is a pretty good series to fit the bill too. Very few fantasy elements to speak of. Again, whatever is there just comes from a psychological slant.
You might also look into Masaaki Yuasa's stuff. I hear Ping Pong is great, but haven't watched it myself. Mind Game was a pretty good movie. Tatami Galaxy is good too. The biggest fantasy element of that one is that it's all about the main character re-living his first semester (year?) of college, rebooting at the end of each episode to make different choices. A little like Groundhog Day.
Thanks all.
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