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[JoshuaFH]

I watched the first two eps of Mirai Nikki, and this is quickly spiraling into a show I might really love. It hits off really fast, doesn't fuck around, and is ambitious as hell. Let's hope this is an upward trend.

[StupidElves]

I watched the first two eps of Mirai Nikki, and this is quickly spiraling into a show I might really love. It hits off really fast, doesn't fuck around, and is ambitious as hell. Let's hope this is an upward trend.

It is awesome, and it is worth it. The last few episodes are sheer mind screw.

In other news, I have found my old love of anime fighting games. Oh, they are glorious.

[Hawkfrost]

Is Gankutsuou any good? I feel like I may have asked this before.

Yes, if you like tragedies. It's an interesting take on the book, instead thrusting it into a psychedelic future setting. It's certainly not perfect, but I found it pretty compelling, emotional, and well executed.
Hated the OP theme, though, and some of the CGI is sketchy.

I watched the first two eps of Mirai Nikki, and this is quickly spiraling into a show I might really love. It hits off really fast, doesn't fuck around, and is ambitious as hell. Let's hope this is an upward trend.

I have so many problems with this show, it beggars belief. It tries at every turn to shock you with events and scenes so gorn'y it just comes off as ridiculous and detestable, and every character is either a cardboard cutout or "inspired" from another popular work. People have tried to tell me to resume it, but honestly, after watching an episode where a little girl is literally raped by hundreds of men and then having the show try to use that as a legitimate plot point, I just quit in exasperation of both the lack of quality writing, and a repulsion to what the writer thinks is engaging.

It might as well be Elfen Lied. But hey, if you liked Elfen Lied and it's ilk, it's probably for you.

[i2amroy]

It also kicks into incest mode once the first arc is over with, so yeah maybe just watch that.

It definitely hints, but I wouldn't say that it goes really any farther than that (and even that doesn't last long). The fact that there is an outright canon love interest by the end of the first arc sorta relegates any other relationship teases to the "if you ever leave this person then I'm going for them" realm (which certainly happens enough in the real world).

As for Log Horizon, I never really got into it just because it seemed like they hadn't fully accounted for just what the inability to die would do. Like with the bandit guy they end up playing his defeat up like it's this huge thing when it happens (if they changed later I apologize, I didn't get too far beyond this) when in reality all they did was slightly inconvenienced him with a level penalty (even less so if players give xp, which would mean he would just have to sit outside and farm players for an hour or so). The fact that the only way to beat a large group of people at their own city would be to somehow imprison them with no way for them to get killed or kill themselves (else they would just keep perma-respawning at the cathedral, meaning you'd be facing a loss by 1000 cuts from them, while your people spawned back at your cathedral several days away) didn't seem like it was really being considered.

[Furtuka]

There's a couple penalties for dying that gets revealed later on, and Shiro eventually figures out a way to have effective law enforcement in Akihabara.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Everytime you die a small segment of your old memories leak out and are lost forever. To add to this its a really unpleasant experience as when you die you're forced to relive some of your memories in a way arranged to paint yourself in the worst possible light. It's basically the world telling you that you suck.

Later on when they're setting up the Round Table government Shiro purchases the cathedral so that they can set up a ban list that will force banned players to get kicked outside of the city as soon as they respawn iirc. Also I think I heard that in side materials there's a city in either... China or America? I forget, that had its defenses shut off letting high level monsters that are just auto killing everyone endlessly.

The situation with Demikas gets resolved between seasons due to one of the strongest raid guilds among the players moving into the city and bringing it to order, along with Demikas wound up marrying one of the People of the Land who forces him to stop misbehaving so much. However the guy still holds a big grudge which looks like it's gonna cause some trouble in S2

[Arcvasti]

I would actually recommend the first arc of SAO. I think people just get more in arms about what it could have been, rather than what it is. It's still pretty good. If you then want to see more of that kind of world explored you could move on to Log Horizon.

I'd second this. While I wasn't hugely bothered by the second half of SAO (Might've been worse, or better *shrug*), its pretty much 'And now this happens, because the title game doesn't have a postgame and its been finished.'

Yeah, that's been my experience with it. SAO before they left SAO proper was decent. What hapened after... The whole incest teasing and new pedophilic adversary just weirded me out and the actual plot and such wasn't compelling enough to make me want to slog through that.

ANYWAYS.

Been binge-watching Fullmetal Alchemist[On episode 30. I started a week ago. People are wondering why I'm always so tired.]. Best show about magic Nazis I've ever seen, even if every plot twist and development is massively telegraphed. And I DON'T even want to strangle the protagonist, which is one big advantage it has over Attack on Titan.

[Frumple]

It also kicks into incest mode once the first arc is over with, so yeah maybe just watch that.

It definitely hints, but I wouldn't say that it goes really any farther than that (and even that doesn't last long). The fact that there is an outright canon love interest by the end of the first arc sorta relegates any other relationship teases to the "if you ever leave this person then I'm going for them" realm (which certainly happens enough in the real world).

... you should probably have absolutely nothing to do with the games based off it, then. "Hints" they do not, because there's official SAO games where K outright beds his sibling-thing.

[i2amroy]

... you should probably have absolutely nothing to do with the games based off it, then. "Hints" they do not, because there's official SAO games where K outright beds his sibling-thing.

Ah okay yeah, I've never played the games based on it nor read the books, just watched the show.

There's a couple penalties for dying that gets revealed later on, and Shiro eventually figures out a way to have effective law enforcement in Akihabara.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Everytime you die a small segment of your old memories leak out and are lost forever. To add to this its a really unpleasant experience as when you die you're forced to relive some of your memories in a way arranged to paint yourself in the worst possible light. It's basically the world telling you that you suck.

Later on when they're setting up the Round Table government Shiro purchases the cathedral so that they can set up a ban list that will force banned players to get kicked outside of the city as soon as they respawn iirc. Also I think I heard that in side materials there's a city in either... China or America? I forget, that had its defenses shut off letting high level monsters that are just auto killing everyone endlessly.

The situation with Demikas gets resolved between seasons due to one of the strongest raid guilds among the players moving into the city and bringing it to order, along with Demikas wound up marrying one of the People of the Land who forces him to stop misbehaving so much. However the guy still holds a big grudge which looks like it's gonna cause some trouble in S2

That makes sense, I might have to give it another go then.

[Flying Dice]

There's a couple penalties for dying that gets revealed later on, and Shiro eventually figures out a way to have effective law enforcement in Akihabara.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Everytime you die a small segment of your old memories leak out and are lost forever. To add to this its a really unpleasant experience as when you die you're forced to relive some of your memories in a way arranged to paint yourself in the worst possible light. It's basically the world telling you that you suck.

Later on when they're setting up the Round Table government Shiro purchases the cathedral so that they can set up a ban list that will force banned players to get kicked outside of the city as soon as they respawn iirc. Also I think I heard that in side materials there's a city in either... China or America? I forget, that had its defenses shut off letting high level monsters that are just auto killing everyone endlessly.

The situation with Demikas gets resolved between seasons due to one of the strongest raid guilds among the players moving into the city and bringing it to order, along with Demikas wound up marrying one of the People of the Land who forces him to stop misbehaving so much. However the guy still holds a big grudge which looks like it's gonna cause some trouble in S2

That makes sense, I might have to give it another go then.

This right here is part of what I was saying earlier. LH really isn't comparable to SAO (or any other death-game series, for that matter) because it isn't a death game. The conflicts which create drama and drive the plot are more complex than characters trying to not die. That's not to say that that can't be a valid thing to orient a series around, but subtle and nuanced it ain't.

[GreatJustice]

I watched the first two eps of Mirai Nikki, and this is quickly spiraling into a show I might really love. It hits off really fast, doesn't fuck around, and is ambitious as hell. Let's hope this is an upward trend.

It starts off strong, gets a bit weird, has a stretch of what I found to be pretty dumb filler with unoriginal characters/stupid plots, and then gets interesting again at the end. It's actually pretty good if you can make it to the actually interesting twists near the end, at least.

[Spehss _]

I watched the first two eps of Mirai Nikki, and this is quickly spiraling into a show I might really love. It hits off really fast, doesn't fuck around, and is ambitious as hell. Let's hope this is an upward trend.

Hope you like yandere. Because there's loooooots of yandere. Lots. Hell, Yuno's like the TVtropes goddess of yandere.

[Neonivek]

Wow, this is rare.

I am playing a game and it is a JRPG except it kind of has an interesting twist.

Most JRPGs that try to be rather anime sort of blend them together to get a sort of RPG twist on anime.

Yet this... feels like an anime that somehow was turned into a game.

Sakura Wars... I mean... A bunch of stage performers by day, super soldiers by night? You would never get that in a game.

I am suddenly so drawn in and I originally only got my hands on it because it was the 3rd or 4th best "Turn based game" for the PS2.

Well time to play! I'll keep you posted if the game turns out to be good along with being very anime.

[Lord Shonus]

Which game is it?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Sakura Wars, which for some reason I think has something to do with the Japanese secret police in 1920. Except in an alternate dimension. Or something.

He did mention the name in his post...

[Frumple]

...

Sakura Wars

?

And ninja'd. And yeah, it's something along those lines, versus... magical evil giant robots or something. It's one of the very, very few steampunk giant robot games in existence. Never got around to playing it, but it's definitely held in decently high regards in SRPG circles.