Zablorg wrote:and at the end of the day after she thinks she's screwed up yet again (in front of senpai who just continues to think she's cute and needs a little help), Tomoko practically sprints home crying while the intro theme plays.
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I think her attitude at the end was just the old "it can't be helped" attitude. Although I think the show really just suffered from having to end because the manga doesn't have a definitive end (does it?). It really just feels like it was an arbitrary and hence very artificial ending.
Nagi no Asukara was kind of fascinating. It has what I'd charitably describe as a somewhat wonky depiction of male-female relationships, but at the same time it's an original work with a neat premise (middle schoolers from UNDER THE SEA have to integrate into a middle school on the surface), has some cool imagery and design work and has a character I can only describe as Setsuna F. Seiei CASANOVA. I'm going to give it another episode for sure.
I also watched KILL la KILL. It was as visually and kinetically impressive as I was expecting, though it is approximately 2000% Imaishi, so brace yourself.
Ok I brought a friend along and managed to get through the rest of Gatchaman Crowds. Some parts were very rough but I liked it.
Baks if you read this thread I recommend you check it out. From stuff you've said earlier I figure you'd like a superhero story that explicitly rejects the fascist and masculist cores that the genre is so rife with.
Plus Hajime and Rui are just super great characters.
He's one of the most exciting and kinetic animators of recent history. He's the foremost extant student of the legendary Kanada Yoshinori. He was a top level staffer at GAINAX and when he left to form his own studio he took a bunch of them with him. As a result his works tend to be quite striking visually. He's been responsible for Re: Cutie Honey, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt.
Whiiich should probably tell you something about what his shows contain lol. He has a crass style and visual language. Gotta brace yourself, as Zab perhaps did not
I didn't like it very much, honestly? Visually I found it was kind of ugly, weirdly enough. And I just kinda don't like the main characters very much? Obviously how it works with anything is that they grow on you, but the general feeling I get is just blegh.
In any case it has all kinds of quite deliberate stylistic stuff in its presentation. I don't think it looks like an 'old' anime because that's not really a particularly meaningful comparison, because technical quality of animation isn't really dependent on era. I actually think KILL la KILL demonstrates the effect of Studio TRIGGER's familiarity with non-standard, computer based techniques, most of which are pretty recent innovations.
Japanese speakers can understand it immediately, especially with 極制服 written out on the screen, but it's meaningless to anyone else. Apparently they're just using Crunchyroll's subs so at least they didn't come up with it themselves, but it's still disappointing.
Looking around I find that Underwater translated it as ultima uniform, which is much better.
So anyway, I watched Infinite Stratos 2 episode 1. 70% of it was Laura and Charlotte going on a date/adventure and was basically great. The remaining 30% was everything I hate about Infinite Stratos. It's almost frustrating how those two have to exist within this whole other thing which is awful, because they're genuinely really fun characters.
I also watched Coppelion. Go Hands was basically the correct choice for a show like this, given the strength of their scenery and background work in K. It has that distinctive Go Hands look from all the colour filters, too. It has an interesting premise too, but I'll reserve judgment until something more happens.
I watched Golden Time. Once again a slightly wonky depiction of relationships, but the setting being a law school appeals. Also it's got Horie Yui in it which is a plus. I'm willing to give it another episode.
Aaaand I watched Kyousougiga. The first episode is called a 'recap' and is basically a higher quality release of the original ONA, so worth price of admission. The new OP carries the same kind of zany energy that made the show appealing back when it was released. I'm really glad that it's getting to continue.
I apolgize if this is a stupid question that's already been answered, but it's been a while since I tried to be 'in the loop' on anime.
Attack on Titan appears to be the hot shit for a lot of people right now. If I wanted to start digging into it, where should I go for the best experience?
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mystery solved 
