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.~*the island*~. => ~♪♫Anime and Manga Spa♫♪~ => Topic started by: McJongJing on March 28, 2015, 09:33:57 PM

Title: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on March 28, 2015, 09:33:57 PM
What did you guys think of the Winter season?
Are you hyped for the Spring season?
I enjoyed the Winter season.
Shirobakos second half was amazing, already AOTY
Milky Holmes was disappointing, as expected of J.C Staff.

Spring looks fun.
I never got into Lupin the Third, so I'm hyped for the new show.
Digimon Tri looks like fun. It's nice to see the old designs.
I'm cautiously optimistic for Yuki-chan.
I heard the manga's shit, but the art style looks quite nice in motion.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: bubblecat on March 28, 2015, 11:28:30 PM
Winter was really awesome. I think Death Parade is one of the best non-adaptation series in at least the last 5 years, easy. And having that in the same season as an Ikuhara show in Yuri Kuma made it beyond amazing.

Spring looks like shit though, which is strange since it's usually the best season of the year. It has a retarded amount of sequels, of which the only one even moderately interesting to me is Sidonia. The only original that stands out is Punchline because of the writer, but the director is that guy who made the shitty Dantalian show and got fired from Gainax, so I don't have high hopes.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on March 28, 2015, 11:34:00 PM
And Winter's usually the shittest season of the year too.

I was going to write that you could at least look forward to laughing at trainwrecks.
But none of these shows seem like they have potential for that. They either look good or mediocore.

Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ming on March 29, 2015, 04:33:12 AM
I only watched 3 shows.  :laugh:

Gundam Build Fighters Try, Gundam Reconguista in G, and Garo.

Try was awful, but it did give us OBARI GUNDAM and some cool model kits.

Reconquista was really neat on the other hand. Different, but in a good way. It's a bit weird how I get my start on UC by watching the epilogue of the whole thing.  :damn:

Garo was great for a lower budget production. Amazing finale too. Already has a S2 coming and a movie. Garo is blowing up I'm telling you. At least in Japan. Baka gaijins just don't understand.

For the spring season I will be watching the second cour of Unlimited Blade Works, and Digimon or at least giving it a chance. While not anime, I will be watching the next installment of the Garo live action, Gold Storm.

It's a sequel to a spin-off season they did which was, absolutely terrible, until like the last 5 episodes where it shot up to mediocre. So I'm a bit cautious. But it seems to be more like regular Garo now so it might be cool.

Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on March 29, 2015, 05:10:50 AM
I've never heard anyone talk about Garo other than you.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ming on March 29, 2015, 05:47:32 AM
It's not surprising.

Anime is a niche interest, non-mainstream anime is even more niche, Toku is even more niche than that here in the west, and amongst Toku, Garo is a very niche show which until recently had years in between the release of material.

So finding someone talking about is like finding a needle in a hay stack.

(http://i.imgur.com/SBEmkfn.gif)
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Kami_sama on March 29, 2015, 10:37:12 AM
I droped death parade and Rolling☆Girls after the first episode and Koufuku Graffiti out of boredom.

Parasyte and Kantai collection are great, I still have to catch up on fate and watch shirobako who seems to be the cute show who's good of the season. :kyaa:

Junketsu no Maria looked like something I could enjoy but I never found the motivation to sit and watch it. :tears:

As for the upcoming season, Arslan Senki looks like something who could be nice.

Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka?, Etotama, Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku, Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu and Ore Monogatari!! could be stupid but enjoyable/cute show I'd watch.

I'm definitely going to watch Yahari S2, Kiniro mosaic S2 and the second part of fate.

I'll maybe give a chance to GitS.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ollistar on March 29, 2015, 12:33:55 PM
I may eventually finishing Rolling Girls and KanColle, only watched the first episode of both. Rolling Girls was cool, I really liked the sentai feel of it.

The only upcoming anime I'm excited for is Sound! Euphonium. I forget if that's spring, I think it may be fall.

Other than that I've been, and will continue to be, working on backlog. Finally made a myanimelist which is super helpful with that.

Also, @Ming G Reco is UC?
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ming on March 29, 2015, 01:00:46 PM
G Reco takes place 1000+ years after Universal Century ends.

So it's the same universe, but everything and everyone from the original UC shows are long gone.

The story goes that at the end of the Universal Century, the powers that be went to live at the moon, and placed a ban on technology on Earth and took control of the management of resources. So that war and the atrocities committed in the UC would never happen again, and so that the Earth may heal and recover.

G Reco starts with factions among the moonfolk being tired of living "exiled" in space while the Earthlings get to live in what is now paradise. So they try to reconquer Earth (which is why it's called Reconguista, from the spannish word Reconquista meaning reconquer) by sowing seeds of discord and creating a civil war on Earth.

Meanwhile the main protag just travels around in space with his space pirate crew killing hundreds of people while shouting ME NO WANT ANY TRUBBURU.

(http://i.imgur.com/lPLYvLc.jpg)
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on March 29, 2015, 03:07:38 PM
I couldn't get into Kancolle.
I gave it two episodes and I was already bored out of my skull.
All the characters felt like a bunch of suits had gotten together and said "what do anime fans find moe?" and then focus tested everything.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: bubblecat on March 29, 2015, 03:28:21 PM
Kancolle actually didn't have a single merit to it whatsoever other than being short.

I put G Reco on hold after the first cour ended because my enthusiasm for it started dropping consistently week to week. Once I got past the cool throwback visual style and interesting setting I realized I never actually connected with most of the cast so the action and drama held no significance to me. Plus the retarded brown girl was pissing me off.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ming on March 29, 2015, 03:58:56 PM
She stops being retarded halfway through. Then she goes on to pilot this sexy thing:

(http://i.imgur.com/TAy6pdz.jpg)

I love you, G-Lucifer!

(http://i.imgur.com/xigiBja.jpg)
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ollistar on March 29, 2015, 04:25:20 PM
Quote from: bubblecat on March 29, 2015, 03:28:21 PM
Plus the retarded brown girl was pissing me off.

Sounds like 0079
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: bubblecat on March 29, 2015, 04:29:55 PM
Quote from: Ming on March 29, 2015, 03:58:56 PM
She stops being retarded halfway through. Then she goes on to pilot this sexy thing:
This is good to know. I might finish the second half this season actually, since it doesn't seem like spring has much for me anyways.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: bubblecat on April 09, 2015, 05:05:44 PM
I recommend any of y'all who are interested in drama check out the first episode of Plastic Memories, as it was surprisingly well done and is the standout in this season of shit in my eyes. The basic rundown is that it's set in the near future where androids are capable of emotion and are treated as family members. It follows a team that is forced to go to peoples homes and retrieve androids that are nearing the end of their lifespan, which basically means they showing signs of memory failure. It gets pretty sad, as you can probably imagine.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ming on April 09, 2015, 05:07:36 PM
Sounds very interesting, I'll check it out
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on April 09, 2015, 10:49:24 PM
Does anyone know when the new Lupin's supposed to start?
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: bubblecat on April 16, 2015, 04:46:51 PM
It's a bummer Ninja Slayer just ended up being another low budget comedy show like Inferno Cop. Boris doing the ED is really, really cool though.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ming on April 16, 2015, 05:58:24 PM
Oh..

I'll check it out tomorrow

 :sad:
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on April 16, 2015, 11:46:46 PM
I liked it.
I was a bit disappointed at first, because I was expecting an action show.
Inferno Cop 2 is pretty fun when you get past your initial expectations though.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Kami_sama on April 17, 2015, 02:19:12 AM
>Inferno cop 2

Say no more, I'm picking it up!  :omg:
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ming on April 17, 2015, 04:48:03 PM
It was okay, I'll give it 2 more episodes  to woo me :laugh:
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: ScumbagSoldier on April 19, 2015, 03:12:14 PM
>All these people talking about this season when I still need to get caught up with last season thanks to school and Bloodborne

 :plz:
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Kami_sama on April 19, 2015, 03:32:27 PM
Turns out that ninja slayer is not as good as I expected it to be. The episodes are too long for an Inferno Cop-like show IMO.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: lmoa on May 01, 2015, 03:20:00 AM
It's successfully preserved the clunky, slapstick humor of Inferno Cop while pasting together the bits with quality animation. What's there not to like?
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Ming on May 01, 2015, 06:22:35 AM
Oho I forgot to watch the new episodes of it, I'll get on it later today
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Kami_sama on May 01, 2015, 09:02:34 AM
Quote from: lmoa on May 01, 2015, 03:20:00 AM
It's successfully preserved the clunky, slapstick humor of Inferno Cop while pasting together the bits with quality animation. What's there not to like?
I really didn't like of it switched from standard animation to shitty, inferno cop-like, animation.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 03, 2015, 06:26:11 PM
Ninja Slayers third episode bored me.
I didn't care about either of those girls.

What do you guys think of Arslan Seki?
I'm enjoying it so far.
I like the battle tactics they use, like inciting the slave riot, or when Luistania burned the parsian cavalry to death in the trench.
Shame about some of the character designs though.
A lot of them feel too similar to the ones from Full Metal Alchemist.
I think it was the same artist.

LUISTANIA DID NOTHING WRONG.
PARS ARE GODLESS HEATHENS.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Royalkitten on May 03, 2015, 06:28:36 PM
Only thing I am watching is Sidonia and catching up on Yuri Kuma Gonna watch Nadia after this school semester is over.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: bubblecat on May 03, 2015, 07:11:20 PM
Quote from: McJongJing on May 03, 2015, 06:26:11 PM
What do you guys think of Arslan Seki?
I'm enjoying it so far.
I like the battle tactics they use, like inciting the slave riot, or when Luistania burned the parsian cavalry to death in the trench.
Shame about some of the character designs though.
A lot of them feel too similar to the ones from Full Metal Alchemist.
I think it was the same artist.

LUISTANIA DID NOTHING WRONG.
PARS ARE GODLESS HEATHENS.
It definitely is the same artist, that's the reason a lot of people picked it up. Personally I'm not going to watch it only because historical settings don't interest me, but it does give the impression that it's one of the more well crafted shows of the season.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 03, 2015, 07:12:32 PM
It's certainly better than most shit this season.
And the source novels were written by the same lady who wrote LoGH
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Kami_sama on May 03, 2015, 07:50:10 PM
I considered picking up Arslan seki, but ended up not doing it. Is it really good or just entertaining ?

I like how Yahari is going so far. Gonna give a chance to Ore monogatari and punchline, maybe they are good.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 03, 2015, 07:55:08 PM
Arslan is mostly just entertaining.
But it's pretty good entertainment.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 05, 2015, 01:27:36 AM
Me too.
It's nice to see a more Persian medieval culture instead of the typical Britain one.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 05, 2015, 06:45:52 AM
I've been catching up on Death Parade from the previous season.
What did the celebrity mum do to get voided?
Having five kids was irresponsible, but she still took on a lot of work to try and care for them.
She wasn't there for them all the time, but she had to work to support five kids.
Sure she bashed the otakus head into the arcade machine, but she was lead to believe it was a life or death situation.
If she fought him through the game, it would have been the same result.

Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Royalkitten on May 05, 2015, 07:10:57 AM
probably the fact that she neglected her family to get fame and only regretted it when she realized she was dead
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 05, 2015, 07:21:45 AM
I thought it was the other way around.
I thought she neglected her family to make money to support them as a celebrity.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Royalkitten on May 05, 2015, 07:25:20 AM
Quote from: McJongJing on May 05, 2015, 07:21:45 AM
I thought it was the other way around.
I thought she neglected her family to make money to support them as a celebrity.
I think thats what it was initially but then she became absorbed in it and got lost in her fame game and sent to HECK.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 05, 2015, 07:32:59 AM
I think the show could have communicated that a bit better.
We even see her bitch slap her manager for scheduling shit without permission and thus getting in the way of her family life.
Maybe the family is actually totally irrelevant and she was just a MAJOR CUNT to her manager.

Oh well, bitch is in the void so it ain't our problem.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: bubblecat on May 05, 2015, 02:18:53 PM
I don't think they wanted her to be a clean-cut bad person. What makes her tragic is that there clearly was a caring side in her, but her acts of selfishness outweighed the caring aspect, and she died before she could have potentially changed that.

Personally I think she should have been voided just for being a huge slut that sleeps with a bunch of abusive men, and brings those unsavory types around her children.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: Royalkitten on May 05, 2015, 03:23:45 PM
Quote from: bubblecat on May 05, 2015, 02:18:53 PM
Personally I think she should have been voided just for being a huge slut that sleeps with a bunch of abusive men, and brings those unsavory types around her children.
Amen  :wave:
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 05, 2015, 04:30:08 PM
I'm not sure she could have picked them out. Otherwise, why would she date men she knew would abuse her?
I thought she was looking for a genuine relationship. She clearly attempted to marry one of them, so it's not like she was just sleeping around.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: bubblecat on May 05, 2015, 05:28:36 PM
Regardless, she should have been focusing on raising her first child and not her selfish desire for "relationships" in the first place. But instead she goes and spends her time getting pregnant by 4 other dudes who clearly didn't care about her in the slightest, but she was still irresponsible enough to hop on that dick anyways before being able to judge their character properly. If she really wanted a genuine relationship she should have put the time in to get to know them well enough over the course of several years, then consider marriage, THEN consider having a kid with them. Not just fucking them right off the bat and then going "hey we should probably get married now that we already have a kid together" that's not how healthy relationships work. That's how a succubus works.

It was only at the end of her life that she finally realized she should probably stop screwing around with guys and focus on her children, but too little too late by then.
Title: Re: Spring Season/ Winter Season reflection
Post by: McJongJing on May 05, 2015, 06:11:26 PM
Lol k void the bitch.