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Anime anyone?
Taekwondoin:
If I were to tell you that most of the Internet is referring to it as Mekaku Shitty Actors, that might tell you just how good an adaption of the source material it is.
Anyway, after 4-5 weeks in, here's my assessment of what's currently airing.
Akuma No Riddle - Reeks of wasted potential. First episode was a great setup into what could have been an intensely dark anime about assassins in a school, what we actually get is a monster of the week formula, where things happen with absolutely no explanation and no setup. And Haru is one of the most annoying characters I've seen in a long time.
Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san - A cute short, the characters are fun and the comedy tends to hit mostly the right notes, but it's not up there with the likes of Miss Monochrome.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - The JoJo franchise has always been close to my heart, and this is the best adaption I could ever have hoped for, as well as one of the best manga adaptions I've ever seen. It's fabulously masculine and cheesy, the character poses are fabulous and ridiculous, it has fabulous characters, and it's altogether Fabulous. Did I say that it's Fabulous? Cause it is.
Kantoku Fuyuki Todoki - Best comedy this season, a short about the master Anno? What true anime fan could say no to that? We get an insight into his giant geekhood as well as his married life, and it's absolutely hilarious.
Mahou Shoujo Taisen - Another short, it has a gorgeous colour palette and I love the character designs, so far the story hasn't amounted to much, and I can't help but feeling bad that this is the best Gainax can do right now. However, for something to switch your brain off and enjoy, it's pretty good.
No Game No Life - First 3 episodes were great, 4th was a massive step down from that. As long as the show doesn't take itself seriously it works and it works really well, as soon as it tries to go for the serious stuff, it falls flat and feels contrived.
Ping Pong The Animation - Excepting JoJo, this is the best show this season by a long shot. A sports anime that doesn't follow the classic shounen cliches (thankfully), a protagonist that is easy to identify with, an art style that is right out the left field and total eye candy, a fast pace that doesn't make you feel lost, and a cast of characters that feel real. I cannot recommend this enough.
Sidonia no Kishi - from the best, to the worst show that I'm watching. To call this wasted potential is just not a strong enough phrase, the first episode was great, and then everything afterwards just pisses and shits all over that. We go from this amazingly detailed dystopian science fiction world, to high school antics and a harem with OP MC because the plot calls for it. Also, the CGI is so horribly ugly, I've seen MMDs that look a fuckton better.
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii - A properly self aware shoujo, it's not trying to change the face of anime with what it does, but it's a hell of a lot of fun, and even when the story itself isn't all that interesting, Princess Nike carries it through by being an absolutely brilliant character.
Also, a quick note on the Raildex universe, it depends what you like in anime, Railgun was always supposed to be more of a SoL with it's story (except for that arc in the second season), whereas Index was always supposed to be a generic shounen. If you liked Railgun, you won't necessarily like Index, I didn't, Touma is completely insufferable, his speeches are total bullshit, the whole I AM STRONG BECAUSE I AM WEAK HURR DURR thing is boring and is just a gaping plot hole inside it's own universe, and Accelerator is a boring as fuck villain in Index, and I abhor what they do with him in the second season of Index too.
Asterus:
That is one of the more telling summaries for Index on TvTropes: Everyone who shows up to be an antagonist and has a name has to be horribly overpowered, just to make sure Touma is the only person who could possibly defeat them without technically handwaving anything.
Thrillho:
I've decided I just don't get anime.
We're watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood in Anime club with the students and we just got to the episode of it where
(click to show/hide)The guy turns his kid into a dog or whatever the fuck that's supposed to be this only minutes after goofball comedy with the dog jumping on the kid. You can't expect me to take that shit seriously when you have that awkward a tonal shift. This is like taking time out from fucking Arthur the Aardvark to make an AIDS joke.
Taekwondoin:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 12 May 2014, 00:46 ---I've decided I just don't get anime.
We're watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood in Anime club with the students and we just got to the episode of it where
(click to show/hide)The guy turns his kid into a dog or whatever the fuck that's supposed to be this only minutes after goofball comedy with the dog jumping on the kid. You can't expect me to take that shit seriously when you have that awkward a tonal shift. This is like taking time out from fucking Arthur the Aardvark to make an AIDS joke.
--- End quote ---
The original manga does it so much better. As does the original FMA anime.
My problem with FMA: B is that they try to make the disturbing parts extra bad by these weird tone shifts, trying to lull you into a false sense of security before hitting you with something pretty awful so you're dumbfounded by it, occasionally it works, more often than not it doesn't. The original manga just deals with these things in a very cold way, things happen, and they're terrible, and the emphasis is on the act itself, not in trying to build everything up as a-ok before trying to crush your spirit.
GarandMarine:
*shudder* That whole arc was still really not okay.
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