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[Leafsnail]

26 episodes or so is a good length.

My issue with long series is less filler and more the fear that the author is making it up as they go along and they will drag it out indefinitely.

[JoshuaFH]

I FINALLY got around to finishing the last 4 eps of Spice and Wolf. The arrogant, pretentious verbosity of the dialogue makes me physically ill, I can't believe somebody actually wrote page after page of this shit. Other than that though, it's a fun watch when the show EVENTUALLY decides to pick up the pace and get into economics and merchant schemes, the thing it does best.

[Neonivek]

26 episodes or so is a good length.

My issue with long series is less filler and more the fear that the author is making it up as they go along and they will drag it out indefinitely.

Oddly enough no matter how short a series is it can still feel like that.

I laugh whenever someone looks at Full moon and goes "52 episodes? it must have a lot of filler" (it has filler) and then goes "I'd rather watch a 18 episode anime, no filler".

Yeah there is no anime too short for filler.

Now if you will excuse me I will be crying in a corner

[FearfulJesuit]

I highly suggest Legend of the Galactic Heroes. One hundred and ten episodes and not a single piece of filler.

[empfan]

26 episodes or so is a good length.

My issue with long series is less filler and more the fear that the author is making it up as they go along and they will drag it out indefinitely.

Oddly enough no matter how short a series is it can still feel like that.

I laugh whenever someone looks at Full moon and goes "52 episodes? it must have a lot of filler" (it has filler) and then goes "I'd rather watch a 18 episode anime, no filler".

Yeah there is no anime too short for filler.

Now if you will excuse me I will be crying in a corner

I can agree with this, and usually I prefer 26 or so length, else it can feel a bit rushed in my opinion, but not always

[Leafsnail]

Well you seem to have a unique skill for inflicting terrible shows on yourself Neonivek.

[kaijyuu]

Some shows are a lot better during their filler episodes, though. Slayers comes to mind.

[Neonivek]

Some shows are a lot better during their filler episodes, though. Slayers comes to mind.

My favorite comedy episode was in Rozen maiden and it was a filler episode and was hillarious. Especially because of how seriously all the characters were and how little slapstick was involved (I don't find slapstick funny... possibly because I grown up with TONS of it to the extent that it no longer seems like it is trying to be funny)

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On a side note I am being driven insane. Everyone has watched crazy insane animes and saw weird things. so much so that their "weirdest anime moment" is probably something truely bizaar

Yet... The weirdest moment for me was a Bike Race anime (it was on TV... so this time it wasn't me finding a randomly bad anime) where Dracula was in it.

Now Dracula was about to kill everyone. So they challenge him to a bike race.

Then they proceed to put him in a Bike Riding outfit and he has no powers.

It was soo weird... It was like if Goku was suddenly challenged to Hopscotch and they put him into a bear costume that you couldn't see him in that took away his powers.

[ToonyMan]

Some shows are a lot better during their filler episodes, though. Slayers comes to mind.

My favorite comedy episode was in Rozen maiden and it was a filler episode and was hillarious. Especially because of how seriously all the characters were and how little slapstick was involved (I don't find slapstick funny... possibly because I grown up with TONS of it to the extent that it no longer seems like it is trying to be funny)

I so agree.  I think it requires a bit of thought to be funny.  So series that take the extra step in effort (and this always seems to be the serious ones) always gets the laughs out of me.  Even if the main point isn't to be funny they certainly have a sense of humor I can agree with.

I should give a recent example in Chaos;Head since I'm on chapter 6 of that now (it's truly a bizarre semi-serious VN):

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Takumi starts freaking out because he recognizes the situation he's in right now is a 'flag' event.  If you don't know what those are it's probably not worth explaining.  Either way I found it funny.  TWGOK does something similar with Keima but that's a manga.

Argh I have so much to say, OKAY MIGHT AS WELL DO IT ANYWAY

The Fukumoto mangas

I finished Buraiden Gai, it's still missing the magic Kaiji had but I just need to read all of Fukumoto's works.  I'm on volume 6 of Zero now I think.  Zero is good but again it's not 'the best' Fukumoto has shown he can do.  So I end up being the most excited when new Kaiji chapters are scanlated.  Akagi is good too.  Kurosawa is okay but it's much more...coming of age.

I do like Zero the character himself too.  Some of the other characters are good too.  I suppose I still have Ten and stuff to read but I'm not sure I want to go through another Mahjong adventure.

Spoiler: Zero images (click to show/hide)

It's like Kaiji and Ichijou combined.


The holy fuck guy is amazing.  Also notice the guy PUKING IN ECSTASY


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That...face.  Hahaha


MINAGOROSHI NO MAJO

(yes I'll go back to Berserk after my Fukumoto fix)


As for VNs, mainly just Chaos;Head and Alicesoft games right now, Daibanchou and Sengoku Rance in particular.  They're fun to play pretty light-heartedly but it can get pretty freakin' hardcore.  Meanwhile Chaos;Head has been pretty much a kinetic novel with minimal involvment, it's a good read so far.  I have a few issues but I'm generally impressed.  I'm getting to the point where VNs start blending together in my memory though, it's...weird.  Because I'm starting to gather quite a large collection of fiction I can make a lot of comparisons in what something does, well or poorly.  I also have a lot of character archetypes down so I find myself more impressed when I'm surprised by something.

The first few chapters of Chaos;Head aren't too great, but the later ones have been quite interesting.  I'm on chapter 6 as I said earlier.  I have 18 hours right now I think.  It's cool because I really have no idea what could happen next, that is a GOOD thing.

Spoiler: Well I can still give some thoughts *spoilers* (click to show/hide)

Who is 'Shogun'?  No seriously.  He's an old man in a wheelchair but his body is like a small child.  Yua said we were Shogun at one point but I don't understand!

Whose eyes are those eyes?  This phrase first 'showed up' in the group dive suicide but the video was posted after the fourth murder, the Vampire House, which was the first we saw that mentioned it.

Actually...I don't even remember when that phrase first showed up.  I need to check who or what mentioned that first.  It couldn't possibly be Takumi himself would it?

The Let Me Pass ring tone pranker.  It definitely means something.  The second time we heard it that white flash and earthquake happened.  Some people witnessed a mushroom cloud(!!!).  This makes me worry that Shibuya was nuked for some reason and the entire city itself was fabricated as VR.  Geez...that's horrible.

Also we saw Rimi show up and Shogun controlled and 'killed' her but it ended up being a 'delusion'.  We haven't seen Rimi since the earthquake I think.  I'm pretty sure I'm on chapter 6.  Anyway shit is getting real.

Ban talked with that Freesia lady too.  That was interesting.  Ban always looks different in his CG art though, heh.

GE rates are ridiculous.  It's like they're trying to explain people's insanity.  Like when Ayase tried to fall off the roof all the students around her wanted to see her fall and were being completely chaotic.  It's too bad Misumi got cut off there, Takumi just ran off after creating that flowerbed.

So far we've seen Sena and Ayase with a Di-Sword.  We also saw Sena destroy some machine that was most likely raising GE rates ridiculously high.

Suwa hasn't been seen since the earthquake.

Rimi seems...suspicious.  The transfer student hasn't done much either.  Yua seems innocent, just investigating herself probably?

NOZOMI is completely suspicious, they have to be the one that want to control GE rates.

Images:


Yes I understand the....VR.
It doesn't actually stand for virtual reality at least, visual reception I believe or something.


Paranoia and fear is a big part of Chaos;Head.  It's a valid horror thing I think.  I also like doubt and supsicion stuff.  Takumi even pukes when his anxiety gets so bad at one point (with...sound effects).  I really like Takumi's VA.


Oh right, the end of chapter 4 was really good.  I completely jumped.  I haven't' jumped since reading Saya no Uta I think.

SPLAT

EDIT:
I also can't get Inganock to work, which makes me saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.  The screen goes black after Liar-soft goes away.  I tried moving the movies but the title screen won't even come out.  The game works perfectly before the English patch. 

[JoshuaFH]

I picked up a little two ep OVA by the name of Natsuki Crisis. It was just on a whim, since I thought the name and cover art were cool.

First ep: Wow, this is pretty awesome.

Second ep: HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME! I can't believe this isn't it's own series!

This is going up with Riding Bean as OVA's that are just too awesome for their own good.

[ToonyMan]

I picked up a little two ep OVA by the name of Natsuki Crisis. It was just on a whim, since I thought the name and cover art were cool.
First ep: Wow, this is pretty awesome.
Second ep: HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME! I can't believe this isn't it's own series!
This is going up with Riding Bean as OVA's that are just too awesome for their own good.

It looks like originally it was a fighting game for the Super Famicom.  That's cool.
Oh god I have it backwards.  The game was made because of the OVAs and manga.

Anybody else think Jormungand looks awesome?  The first eight volumes are scanlated.  I'll be sure to check them out and possibly the new anime of it.

[JoshuaFH]

I picked up a little two ep OVA by the name of Natsuki Crisis. It was just on a whim, since I thought the name and cover art were cool.
First ep: Wow, this is pretty awesome.
Second ep: HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME! I can't believe this isn't it's own series!
This is going up with Riding Bean as OVA's that are just too awesome for their own good.

It looks like originally it was a fighting game for the Super Famicom.  That's cool.
Oh god I have it backwards.  The game was made because of the OVAs and manga.

Anybody else think Jormungand looks awesome?  The first eight volumes are scanlated.  I'll be sure to check them out and possibly the new anime of it.

That looks really familiar. I just can't place where I saw it before though...

[Reelya]

Tnx JoshauFH, Imma gonna grab that one, I love short series too, i saw another 90's OVA Battle Angel Alita a little while ago, damn depressing future though, the only profession choices seem to be bounty hunter or organ harvesting, or maybe scavenging rubbish heaps. Interested to read the manga now, since the OVA only covers the first two volumes, and I have more questions than answers about who da fuk Alita actually is, and what da hell is actually in the place the organs end up.

[Neonivek]

Anime info request

What is the difference between a seeded and unseeded school?

[Reelya]

'seeded' in sports mean 'ranked', so this might mean school which have been assessed in some national ranking system, whereas unseeded schools do not participate in the rankings.

Googling around with the term "seeded school" i only find references to team sports, so it might be a shorthand for the school team's rank in a particular sport.

The only references in anime i can see is Slam Dunk, and the other reference to "seeded school" on page 1 of google, is to an American school's football team.

Almost every reference in general seems to be to school basketball teams.