That's fine. I actually almost mentioned that at the end but figured you'd know. Also, wow it is. Fuck me and my life.
Liking Alma. In 2013. Get out. But in all seriousness, giving a series to someone else is the worst possible thing you can do. To me it should be considered a cardinal sin of storywriting to just think you can let someone else do it. It's why the American comic industry is pumping out these massive sprawling, garbage heaps of continuities that have long since rotted to the roots and ruined the industry. The reason why this is bad is because the only person who can truly know and understand where to take the series in its true form, for better or worse, is the original author. Any other person touching the continuity taints it with new perspective and ideas that do not belong in the universe at all. Also, I wouldn't blame someone for wanting to continue a) making enough money to afford a living rather than gambling on starting over entirely and b) writing a story they want to tell.[DOUBLEPOST=1389078271][/DOUBLEPOST] You're not interpreting me correctly. It looks different in an explicitly bad way and that's why I don't like it. I also compared it to Air Gear because it went of the rails into conspiracy theory land and no other reason.
The animation was pretty weak in the fight scenes. But remember if a fight is relatively simple and mindless, without advanced tactics or strategy I'd prefer that it be movie quality and you're not gonna get that in most series. So I call it weak in comparison to a feature length production not the average televised program. The characters also looked kinda tweaked. I'll say that about a lot of manga->anime adaptation but I think it was noticeable and a problem. The manga was good enough for a while, but it really fell apart later on. Started feeling a bit Air Gear for me. Then the hiatus hit and it was over for me. Couldn't continue.
D.Gray-Man is pretty overrated.
I like the reviews in that it's mostly just you explaining the series in terms of what it was and not casting it in terms of what you thought was good and bad about it. It feels more complete and correct. But I really do think more clips would benefit your discussion of the animation or specific scenes because from this is a lot like a conversation you're having with someone rather than a proper review with examples from the work. I read watamote back when /a/ first started posting images from it and I kept up for a while. But in the end, I can't really follow it consistently because it hits too close to me as a person. When I read the manga I cringe and alt+tab away a lot out of embarrassment and self awareness on a regular basis. I haven't done a lot of the direct things Tomoko's done or thought the things she's thought, but I've felt that way and I've handled social interactions with similar levels of finesse. When I found out the series was somewhat autobiographical I stopped reading entirely. I tried to pick it up with the anime but it felt too painful still. Too close. Since 2011 I really haven't grown too much as a person so I still struggle with the same things. Personally, I think Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come Wa Machigaiteru was both easier to watch and pulled off better. You should also review something you didn't like once so we can see if your more critical reviews are any better/worse.
First things first, crunchyroll is ****. Okay, moving on. Madoka wasn't supposed be about heroic sacrifice at all. The whole point was that they're being swindled by the devil and no matter how heroic or selfless they are it all comes to the same conclusion because their actions basically don't matter. Being meguca is suffering. It's a Faustian build where once you make the deal you're in an eternal grind with no way out. Except returning to God, which is actually played with further in the films than in the series. The author is nicknamed Gen the Butcher because he likes this kind of thing. I do agree that it can be tough for certain people but I basically finished it in a day without any thoughts of stopping. But I do think they made the only correct call with holding the information back. It puts you in the same position as the characters to a certain extent and that colors your view of the world they're presenting for each of the events. If you knew mahou shoujo became witches episode one you'd see everything completely differently. If you knew it was a ploy to get them to sell their souls you'd see it differently too. But possibly even more importantly, they gave the viewer enough information to guess all of these things with fair certainty without ever actually saying it. There were people who called Homerun being a time traveler before the episode aired and there were people who knew soul gems became grief seeds. Long story short, they made a good choice making it something that you had to think about a lot and rewatch episodes to be able to predict. That just fits. I feel like anti-establishment is not the word to use here. Gurren Lagaan was anti-establishment because it supported individualism over the established group mentality and supported breaking rules etc. Madoka wasn't about anti-establishment ideals. What I think I've heard used before to describe it is an inversion. The way everything in Madoka is upside down, from gender roles to the big bad to the portrayal of mahou shoujo. The series constantly inverts tropes from the genre to get its message across. That's why some people call it an inversion series. But that's really more semantics than anything else. I just thought that was interesting. Also, latefag is late. But seriously, good on you forming your own opinion and not just jizzing over the series because it's poplar.
Judging single episodes alone is a really bad thing, because you end up missing the forest for the trees. You can pick things you like and dislike out of each but the full set of episodes is the work and each individual one isn't a separate work of its own that can be judged separately from the rest. None of the things you mentioned should be considered bad or a reason for them to "step it up". I also really wanna say that it didn't do nothing. It did a lot of things and that's why none of them progressed far enough for you to know the full story about them, which is a good thing. It shows that there is actually a reason to watch further, if everything that was introduced in a given episode was explained within that episode or even within the next couple of episodes it'd make the thing feel like a series of small self contained arcs that build on each other rather than a continuous journey. Maybe you like the more episodic feel, but I do think that Space Dandy is supposed to be closer to a space odyssey than a sketch comedy. At the end of the day, I don't like your analysis of this at all and it seems highly shallow and impatient. Maybe you're misrepresenting yourself of I'm not catching your meaning, but seriously, it was a decently strong first episode, nothing to feel so lukewarm about at least.
I keep reading your name as "who loves the tsun?"
Only when the bass drops.
The topic just happened to fall on something I felt strongly about. It's not like I did this for anyone in particular or anything.
To do this, one would first need hands.
Log Horizon is good if you don't mind people sitting around talking about complicated things a lot. I honestly think it's one of the more charming series of this year and the MMO style combat carries through even though I've never played one. I can't really point out a specific weakness other than the fact that a lot of detail and time goes into world building and some people won't like that. Personally, I watched ten episodes of it yesterday because I broke and couldn't patience it out until the end of the season since it was too good to not follow through on. Also, the theme song, about as good as Sirius, WOW WOW.
I thought the Scott Pilgrim film was awful. The comic was brilliant. Probably top ten on my list of favorite American comics. I can't accurately describe how I feel about it because I keep on thinking back to how I heard it described once and how perfect that was and how not perfect my description feels in comparison. The least eloquent way of putting it was it was a story about a guy who was so emotionally immature that he locked himself in his own little dream world where he is totally blameless. The story is about how you can't be in that place when you're a grown up. But at the same time the whole thing is a surreal ballad of young love. The fighting felt like just another part of that surreal dream world vibe that really made Scott Pilgrim feel different from a lot of other romantic comedy based series. You can even tell by how vague most of the fight scenes are after the first volume and how unimportant the really are in the grander scheme of things. It's hard to explain it, I really just like it for everything it was. When I first saw the movie and there were basically no similarities when it came to the characterization and message, I just got mad. I saw the movie again later and just felt underwhelmed. It wasn't funny or charming and it felt like a poorly conceived cash in. I know I'm in the minority here because there's only one person I've ever talked to that really shared my view on this. I can't understand why though. Anyone who has read the comics should by default think the movie was pretty much a desecration of the original material. But then again, I feel that way about a lot of things and people keep the movie machine ticking along like it's nothing.
Here you go.
The fire nation attacked.
I'm gonna dedicate the rest of my life to forgetting it.
Man, you can't like that movie the models clip in it.
You're still wrong.
Stuff.
You know what? You're right. I remember that time I was alone and masturbated myself to sleep. Yeah, shit was real. closeasI'llevergettosexcapades
