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[Neyvn]

What other THE Sunglasses are there guys, your right Frumple, though I was thinking about the pointy ones from Gurren Lagann cause I had seen him through a AMV that I was watching while GTAV was downloading and couldn't remember, these other Glasses guys are awesome to learn about...

[Tellemurius]

What about the Nudist Beach?

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[DreamCarver]

Once again, the internal war of greed and reservation:
Do I curse my future self and watch two episodes of this fantastic series that I've been waiting to watch today, or keep up the one-a-day regimen that will extend the experience to at least a month of viewing?
Sakurasou, why are you making me fall in love again?

[Neonivek]

Rule of Anime:

Even after the main character's love interest becomes so superfluous to the series that she almost never EVER appears. It doesn't mean she won't appear in the intro, eye catch, or end credit preferably with some revealing or sexualized clothing.

I am FINALLY THANK GOODNESS watching the last three episodes of Hikaru No Go...

[Reelya]

Speaking of sports animes, Diamond no Ace looking like it's starting season 2 with 3 recap episodes in a row.

Which sounds really shitty, but in this case I don't blame the animators at all. The show was originally meant to be about 26 eps, that got extended to 52 ... then 75, then they got told season 2 is airing straight away 1 week after the finale of season 1. Including 3 OVAs, the team behind this has churned out an episode a week almost non-stop for 18 months, and only one of those weekly episodes was a recap (there were other recaps but they were in addition to the weekly episodes). And the animation quality has been pretty consistent for the whole show's run.

I guess the show is that popular in Japan that the network is demanding they keep it on the air non-stop. I can just imagine the execs coming in to tell the animators that the end of the show is just the beginning, and we're going right back into production the next week and everyone there going "oh, god no!" and rebelling. Usually shows hit crunch-time near the end of a season with lead times reduced to a few days. Doing a weekly show with no breaks for multiple years would be like constantly living in crunch-time.

[Neonivek]

I forgot that Hikaru No Go had the "Ring my bell" song xD I was humming it recently.

Kind of funny in that it is an intro and ending that has NOTHING to do with the show... whatsoever.

But I'll forgive it because "riiiing my beeeeell"

Edit: It actually might make it into my top ten favorite anime opening/closing themes.

Also: Lex Luthor... Why are you in Hikari No Go? Goodness you like to make your way in all my animes don't you?

[IronyOwl]

Started reading Akame ga KILL! lately. Not nearly as dumb as I was expecting, though still pretty dumb. The characters are alright and the art is superb, but then it does dumb hyper-high fatality shonen things so now the world's utterly uncompelling and everybody's been instantly cut in half by legendary artifacts.

Probably would have been much more interesting as a low-fatality, high-character-focus punchfest. The video game terminology that keeps leaking in is amusing, but I'm curious if he had wanted to do a game-thing from the start; that also probably would have been more interesting than the current thing.

[Reelya]

Started watching Tesagure! Bukatsumono recently, which is a 10 minute show and pretty funny, though it's mostly pure dialogue with four characters sitting in one room, so don't expect any action or plot developments. The show is in CGI which took me a while to get used to, I dropped the show at the first ep originally, but I eventually picked it back up. Going to complete it now as there's a new season of it airing.

It's pretty much a pure deconstruction of all the common moe / highschool anime tropes, and very self-referential. I love the lyrics from the OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2NHwqqaGpU

If you've seen those specials where they film a group of seiyuu sitting around and just chatting, the dialogue in Tesagure! Bukatsumono feels natural in the same sort of way. That's because the scenes were done by just sitting the seiyuu in a room and having them mostly ad-lib, then the animation was created to fit, which is the opposite of the normal method. About half of each episode appears ad-libbed, once they get past a 'set up' for whichever trope that ep is going to explore.

The 'plot' is more or less that they didn't know what they wanted to do, so they made a club to come up with ideas. They refer to it as not wanting to join any of the existing school clubs, but it's basically them sitting around each episode trying to come up with ideas for what the show is going to be about. Since the 'ideas' part is ad-libbed the ideas are sometimes funny but mostly dumb, and a lot of the humor is in how the other girls react to each other's ideas. Each episode explores one genre of anime/manga (like soccer mangas) then they try and brainstorm ways to make it novel and fresh, usually ending with some sort of bizarro-world version of the sport or activity the episode was about.

[Flying Dice]

Hah, the first episode of Tesagure! Bukatsumono sold me on watching it more than anything else because I think it's the first time I've heard genuine, non-forced laughter in an anime.

[Reelya]

Ok new show "BAR Kiraware Yasai" - short eps (90 seconds long). I recommend just download the first ep and watch it but avoid checking out any cover art etc by grabbing it from nyaa.se or somewhere. what did i just watch?

[DreamCarver]

Ok new show "BAR Kiraware Yasai" - short eps (90 seconds long). I recommend just download the first ep and watch it but avoid checking out any cover art etc by grabbing it from nyaa.se or somewhere. what did i just watch?

Broccoli is my spirit animal.

[Furtuka]

And Getter Robo Go just went full on cosmic horror story. Kei, Gai ;_;

Edit: OHDEARGODSHINGETTERISTERRIFYINGIWANTTOGETOFFISHIKAWASWILDRIDE

[Frumple]

I'll admit I haven't watched, like, any of any of the getter robo animated material, but from what I understand from SRW, hasn't the getter robo stuff always been a cosmic horror story? Getter rays are some wonky junk.

[TempAcc]

Getter Robo Armageddon was nice, but I haven't watched the older series. The manga does go all cosmic horror later with t

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he getter emperor

and all. I should probably try getter robo go.

IIRC, getter rays are like some form of primordial energy thats the main cause behind evolution, and that can be used for absolutely anything. Its where gurren lagann got its concept for spiral energy from.

[Furtuka]

Oh it's not the animated material, it's the original manga saga. The anime are all very different from the manga in some way or another (The Getter Robo Go anime is particularly notorious for how different it is, as in its considered a crime against the franchise). However up until the three fourths point of Go it's not really a cosmic horror story so much as it's an edgy super robot series with really freaky villains and lots of violence, but still kinda underlyingly goofy.

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Prior to that the only hints you get about the Getter Rays is the fact that they killed the dinosaurs, directed human evolution, and that the Hyakki Empire's tech came from a spaceship that was sent back in time to destroy the Getter Robo to prevent some sort of catastrophe. And then suddenly the ghosts of the supporting cast of the original manga start appearing  and sending messages to this psychic messiah kid (having all been killed in a Getter Rays accident between series), Shin Getter starts eating people and the Getter Rays speak to Go in his dreams. And the shit that goes down in the final battle is just terrifying

Finished Go by the way. Moved on to the Shin Getter Robo manga prequel. The events of Go really cast a shadow on it and I keep internally screaming at everyone to stop messing with the Getter Rays before it's too late. T_T