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[ToonyMan]

if Nishi wasn't a huge coward and loser.

[quinnr]

Looking at Charlotte, now one episode from the finale (it's all I've been watching as of late, no time!) I can't figure out why I like it so much. I mean, honestly there are a lot of issues with it: plot holes (may be explained in the last episode?), a really bland main character, and I'm not a bit fan of the pacing they used either. Despite all that, though, it's still a really nice show. The animation is beautiful, the music is great, and when the show does have one of its few emotional moments, they do hit them right on. I think my main issue is that I keep comparing it to Angel Beats when it is totally its own show.

Spoiler: Charlotte Ep. 11 (click to show/hide)

I really am having trouble understanding this whole "I'mma become a God" plan. First of all, they already stated that they could only get the vaccine out to Japan, not having the foothold in the rest of the world. Second, unless this plan is publicized, it won't do anything to protect the children that the various governments are already tracking. They won't know that these kids lost their abilities, and are still going to hunt them down. If it was publicized, Yuu is still gonna be super-hunted. My monies on him dying at the end.

The declaration of love between Yuu and Nao was just...way over the top and cheesy. We knew that those feelings were there, and the scene at the end of the episode alone would have been more than enough.

And the biggest plot issue I've had so far is that everyone, from the beginning of the show, has been super eager to give up their abilities/agree to stop using them. I could understand a few being alright, but if I had awesome unique super-powers, I'd probably consider them a large part of me and be really upset at losing them. Misa, though, that was painful

And HOW THE HECK is he going to plunder 1000's of people's abilities? Even if he has a Poo-like ability-wielder, he's already 16. It'd take years to hunt them down. That's less an issue with the show and more a question to be answered next week, though.

[Reelya]

If Key couldn't get those emotional catharsis moments right, then they'd really be doing something wrong, since that's what Key is all about. Everything else is build-up to those moments.

[Orange Wizard]

I keep thinking Charlotte would have been more interesting if they'd gone more the route they were starting to go with the first episode, what with MC dude cheating on tests and perving on girls. Things a teenager would actually do with wacky powers. I guess you could the child-dissecting scientists in there to keep it from being too slice-of-life-y, but the way it's done in Charlotte seems too forced.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Hey, so I'm watching Actually, I Am.
It's alright? I wasn't expecting much after Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls, which took my standards with it to the center of the earth, but I like this one, it's about as formulaic as you can get for a harem show, but since I've never watched anything like it before, it's refreshing.

[Frumple]

... I wouldn't really call Jitsu Wa "as formulaic as you can get for a harem show", unless the anime does a serious number on the manga. In broad strokes, maybe, but the details and character interactions and whatnot are quite, well. Not formulaic, as harems go. Much at all.

You can get a lot more by the numbers, and involve significantly less quality in the process, heh.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Well, that just shows my ignorance on the topic, doesn't it?
Like I said, the only harem thing I read/watched was that one where the kid gets turned into a ghoul, the one with the vampire that always drank his blood, I think it was called Vampire+Rosario or something.

[Reelya]

Rosario to Vampire. ("to" is Jap for "and").

One of the most unusual harems I watched was Futakoi ("Twin love"). In that, every member of the harem was a set of twins. There are 6 total sets of twins the MC interacts with. He's in a love "triangle" with two of the sets of twins. But what happens when one of the sets of twins "wins" him. Is he supposed to date both of them or something? The anime didn't seem to have thought through this bit very well. It was a pretty cute series, and had almost zero fanservice, which would be virtually unknown in a modern harem series.

[Mattk50]

Watched the released episodes of overlord.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This and Gate this season, there is just something that entertains me about seeing some ludicrously overpowered force completely obliterate another one, especially when there is some good reason to do so. Some element of this was probably the only thing that i could stand in mahouka even if their "good reason" was always dogshit and the main character probably deserved more of the same.

[Neonivek]

Mahouka or whatever the one with Shiba...

Could be good if it had a shovel full of self-awareness. Either going the parody route (which honestly it is so bad I have a hard time believing it isn't a parody). Or simply by having the anime recognize that our broken hero is that amazing... then deal with the consequences (especially since it isn't like his methodology is unknown... he doesn't really keep himself all that hidden all things considered).

Actually it would be an interesting anime if the main character was this overpowered broken hero who, without effort, defeats the villains... Which causes a global arms race out of fear with countries performing horrible atrocities to close the gap on our hero, who is dealing with an encroaching reality where the difference between himself and others is getting less and less and the worry that brings.

[Sergarr]

Actually it would be an interesting anime if the main character was this overpowered broken hero who, without effort, defeats the villains... Which causes a global arms race out of fear with countries performing horrible atrocities to close the gap on our hero, who is dealing with an encroaching reality where the difference between himself and others is getting less and less and the worry that brings.

One-punch man seems to vaguely fit here.

[JoshuaFH]

Mahouka or whatever the one with Shiba...

Could be good if it had a shovel full of self-awareness. Either going the parody route (which honestly it is so bad I have a hard time believing it isn't a parody). Or simply by having the anime recognize that our broken hero is that amazing... then deal with the consequences (especially since it isn't like his methodology is unknown... he doesn't really keep himself all that hidden all things considered).

Actually it would be an interesting anime if the main character was this overpowered broken hero who, without effort, defeats the villains... Which causes a global arms race out of fear with countries performing horrible atrocities to close the gap on our hero, who is dealing with an encroaching reality where the difference between himself and others is getting less and less and the worry that brings.

"Global Arms race incentivizes rivaling countries to spy on the child prodigy" cue a lot of suspiciously old 'high schoolers' attempting to blend into the school and befriend Shiba.

[Reelya]

Oh god what a shitass person: http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-856407/myanimelistnet-is-rubbish

Thread Title: "myanimelist.net is rubbish"

Okay, well I'm always open to reading what people have to say in criticism about things I like, if it's constructive ... So what's this guys argument? Apparently myanimelist is "rubbish" because sometimes the other users' reviews on myanimelist say bad things about animes he likes. His argument is that people should be encouraging people to watch more anime, therefore they should only "review" anime by saying 100% nice things about it and pretend any negative elements don't exist. Which is kind of ironic that he's reviewing the site, and labeling the whole thing rubbish based on one element he doesn't like

I think the thing with MAL is that the part that gets criticized is all the fan-created material, and the people doing the criticizing are equally-douchebag fans on other sites. One CR comment was that MAL is as bad as Kotaku. But that's really not correct. Kotaku has paid writers who write commentary, reviews and opinion pieces. There are no such articles in MAL. The "News" section of MAL is just a listing of all the official announcements of new shows and other industry-published information, there is no opinion, commentary or analysis involved in that, whatsoever.

[Putnam]

anime is not a monolithic entity

it's... actually insulting to suggest so?

saying that all anime should be reviewed similarly is basically functionally equivalent to saying that all anime is similar enough that you can just review it all the same

[Reelya]

Yeah, basically saying your LoGH's are the same deal as Highschool DxD or something.

I ... guess we could give a glowing review to *all* anime like the guy suggests, to get more people watching it. But then what happens when one of these newly-interested fans actually picks up their first title as something like Highschool DxD or even worse, Kiss X Sis, which we've both given "10/10 would watch again" reviews, and then decides all anime is perverted rubbish, because those are apparently the best it has to offer? That sort of false advertising is more likely to turn previously neutral people into anti-anime activists bad mouthing the medium as a whole.