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[Trapezohedron]

why did you do it reelya

[inteuniso]

Spoiler: Damned superhuman hippies (click to show/hide)

[Reelya]

Dimension W - not sure about this show, but the setting is interesting enough to continue watching. The best I can describe it is as a less-edgy version of Darker Than Black (which I'd recommend over this however).

Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R - amazing effort, this manages to be much worse than the original show, which wasn't very good to start with. The point of the original was that she's an incompetent idol + magical girl with a fairly shitty personality (similar to Sailor Moon's bitchy moments, but with none of the redeeming qualities). So the entire point was that she's useless and she sucks, i.e. pathos. But in the new version they transplanted her to highschool, and made her an optimistic and popular upcoming idol with lavish CGI concert scenes. So they took the parody out of a parody, and what's left is a boring husk.

Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut - synopsis seems designed to make me not want to watch this: Lux, a former prince of an empire named Arcadia that was overthrown via a rebellion five years earlier. Lux accidentally trespasses in a female dormitory's bathing area, sees the kingdom's new princess Lisesharte naked, and incurs her wrath. Lisesharte then challenges Lux to a Drag-Ride duel. Drag-Rides are ancient armored mechanical weapons that have been excavated from ruins all around the world. Lux used to be called the strongest Drag-Knight, but now he's known as the "undefeated weakest" Drag-Knight because he will absolutely not attack in battle. After his duel with Lisesharte, Lux ends up attending the female-only academy that trains royals to be Drag-Knights.

[Evilsx]

Decided to start watching The Asterisk War over on crunchyroll after watching Digibro video on it (Which I would highly recommend over watch this show), seeing how bad this anime could really be...
I only just figure that that this is made from the the studio that made SAO and now I got to watch this to the end out of pure spite from the amount of plot hole that are popping up from just one episode and along side all the 'Fan Service' which just seem really trashy and out of place while getting in the way for character (one of the first scenes with the main female character is a prev scene on her for no reason)

[Reelya]

You should look at the director of Asterisk Wars, not the studio who released it. None of his previous shows were done with A-1 Pictures. But he is responsible for Irregular At Magical High School (Madhouse studios), which is the show that we're always bashing in this thread. He was also responsible for the complete dribbling mess that was Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere (Sunrise studios). So, the studio keeps changing but this guy churns out crap most of the time. There's your smoking gun.

The large studios are more like publishers, making a wide range of shows, and directors/producers often move between them (as seen above). A-1 pictures also make some really great shows.

Even with directors you can't always tell. The director of Sword Art Online has made some pretty good stuff as well, such as Silver Spoon, and he was assistant director on a number of great movies and shows such as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Death Note. Right now he's directing Boku dake ga Inai Machi, which looks like the most interesting show of the season to me. In other words, a director can only do so much with the source material they're given to adapt.

[Evilsx]

Ah ok, thanks Reelya

Finally at the end of episode 2 and this is not getting any better right now, sound design of the weapon sound really silly (It sound like a plastic toy is being swing when people attack each other), the characters seem to have little depth to them with ill-logical reason for being in the show with the main female lead only reason for going to the school in this is to earn money even though she is part of a Royal Family that give her MONEY.

Edit:I just feel like watching 'Jojo Bizarre Adventure' once more because it did all the stuff that this show is doing horrible at right, great character design with personality and understandable motive, great villains that you love to hate and just want to watch how they get beaten, the greatest of sexy posing and funny/bizarre moments.

[Reelya]

"Techno-magical artificial-island battle-academy harem" is becoming common enough to be it's own genre now. A Certain Magical Index and Strike the Blood are two other shows I've seen which have that exact setting. One show = unique, two shows = someone ripped someone's idea off, three+ shows = genre.

[TheBiggerFish]

...Well then.

[Orange Wizard]

That's a weirdly specific genre.

[Neonivek]

That's a weirdly specific genre.

Let me see... probably will have magical weapons and skirts... and a loud mouthed brat, a shy one, and a smart one... and be somewhat perverted.

[Sonlirain]

That's a weirdly specific genre.

Let me see... probably will have magical weapons and skirts... and a loud mouthed brat, a shy one, and a smart one... and be somewhat perverted.

Don't forget about cameltoe.
And the skirts are too short to cover the panties even from the eyes of people walking on the other side of the road.

[Neonivek]

That's a weirdly specific genre.

Let me see... probably will have magical weapons and skirts... and a loud mouthed brat, a shy one, and a smart one... and be somewhat perverted.

Don't forget about cameltoe.
And the skirts are too short to cover the panties even from the eyes people walking on the other side of the road.

I love how we aren't even eliminating any animes yet.

[Orange Wizard]

An exaggerated tsundere, at least one loli, and if the MC has a sister, her route will also be open.

[Reelya]

That reminds me of something from Gokukoku no Brynhildr (which was by the Elfen Lied guy). The tsundere is paralyzed and can only communicate via typing into a voice synthesizer, ala Stephen Hawking. But her synth does the full range of tsundere vocal inflection. Very impressive display of technology there.

[IronyOwl]

"Techno-magical artificial-island battle-academy harem" is becoming common enough to be it's own genre now. A Certain Magical Index and Strike the Blood are two other shows I've seen which have that exact setting. One show = unique, two shows = someone ripped someone's idea off, three+ shows = genre.

I was gonna say this is probably just a common setting or set of features in an extant genre, but then I got sort of tripped up about whether battle academy harem was its own genre or the academy harem genre with battle features. So I guess it's sort of a "where do you want to draw the line" type thing, ala languages vs dialects or species vs breeds.

That reminds me of something from Gokukoku no Brynhildr (which was by the Elfen Lied guy). The tsundere is paralyzed and can only communicate via typing into a voice synthesizer, ala Stephen Hawking. But her synth does the full range of tsundere vocal inflection. Very impressive display of technology there.

Well, you start letting it yell when you do all caps, and then the features keep snowballing...

Also I'm gonna take a wild guess and say she probably wasn't doing a whole lot other than vocally tsundereing, so it was kind of important for her.