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[Sirus]

I DEMAND LINKSSSSSS

please

[Furtuka]

I can't find them quite as easily and assure quality since im not at home and on my phone, but they're called Gurren-Hen and Lagann-Hen

[IronyOwl]

Fixed something small there, hehe.

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Honestly I just gave up in disgust once the first part of the story ended. It's like the author got bored with his good idea and decided to skip to the end so that he could start a new story full of creepy fetishism and trite, tired plot. Seriously, the elf part is an absolute rotting gem. Let's count:

1. Interesting, competent character is reduced to helpless pretty princess to drive the plot. One point for lazy, one for creatively bankrupt.
2. Corrupt businessman takes comatose girl hostage, threatens to rape her, makes gloating monologues. One point each for creepy, creatively bankrupt, and lazy author.
3. Setting is pretty much a copy of the last one, except with more pointless fluff and no sense of danger or exploration of morality. Let's make that one point each for lazy and creatively bankrupt author.
4. "That fucking Japanese hangup again", AKA "We have the hots for each other and we are for all intents and purposes siblings, but it's okay because we're actually (first) cousins, even if there is also a fairly large age gap!", make that one point each for creatively bankrupt and creepy.
5. Kirito gets to keep all of his bullshit powers from SAO because author didn't want to have to detail him doing things to improve. Lazy. So lazy. I have no words for how lazy this is. It's almost like SAO wasn't plotted out ahead of time, so the power levels bloated too much for it to continue all the way up the tower, but the author didn't want to start over for the next part.

And I'm too put-out to continue. Eh, I stopped watching a few episodes after the SAO part of SAO ended anyways. :/

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I positively loved the elf and creepy businessman thing. This requires context to understand.

See, I'd been warned against the second season, and was only watching the first against my own better judgement. So I figured I was just going to watch however much of the first season I felt like, it'd range from kinda dumb to seethingly stupid, and then I'd stop. For the most part, this is exactly what happened, including the first season giving me no reason to doubt that the second would be infinitely stupider and less worth watching than the first.

But then I decided to watch the first episode of the next season just to see what was up (I think I may have noticed that they were elves already). So what do I get but SAME THING EXCEPT ELVES NOW and OH NO CREEPY BUSINESSMAN ENGAGED TO YOUR GIRLFRIEND.

It was perfect. Absolutely flawless way to cap off the series by way of saying OKAY WE'RE GETTING REALLY DUMB NOW SO YOU KNOW IF YOU'RE DESPERATE FOR MORE IN ANY FORM HERE WE ARE OTHERWISE UHHHHH


If you really liked S1 and were hoping for more, I can see how it'd be... well, a stereotypically bad sequel, basically. But for someone who wasn't that into it and was getting off anyway, it was really the best "ending" I could've hoped for.

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It was more that it was one of those things where you're watching and think to yourself, "Huh, this has a lot of potential. I can't wait to see where they take it!"

And then the second half rolls around, drawing a reaction more akin to a... different sort of emotion.

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It'd have been better if they just let it end at the SAO arc or like make it longer. Another thing is how all the secondary characters appear in like one episode.

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Yes, it could have been something I liked a lot.  Sad thing is I'm gonna be a sucker and watch this supposed 3rd season you people are talking about. 
Agree with both Flying Dice and Cheesecake.

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I think they ruined a lot or most of the potential well before the end, though. The dual-wielding thing for no reason we hear about until it turns out it's railroaded, for one thing.

Also not really going into how the game actually works or what's happening. That had, I think, a lot of their potential in or tied to it, but they just sort of glossed over it in general and then used it where convenient (ie character levels in typical power level fashion).

I just finished Gurren Lagann.

Holy fuck that was awesome.

Most excellent.

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Though speaking of ruined endings, was not fond of that one. :<

[JoshuaFH]

Now you just need to check out the two batteries of music videos. And the spinoff comics setting them in highschool. and the manga in the making. and the art book. and the fan comic Double K!

And there's probably more content that I'm missing, Gurren Lagann has an inordinately large amount of material.

[Sirus]

Eh, probably not. I'll see if I can find the movies and call the series done.

In semi-related news, watched the first episode of Kill la Kill. Sheesh, and here I thought Yoko had the most fanservice-y outfit ever

[Boksi]

In semi-related news, watched the first episode of Kill la Kill. Sheesh, and here I thought Yoko had the most fanservice-y outfit ever

Enjoy the outfit while it lasts, that's all I'll say.

[Cheesecake]

Gonna watch Ghost in the Shell. Heard a lot about it, so hopes are up.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Be prepared for the cars man.

Be prepared for that sweet car animation.

[kaijyuu]

Look, the CG looked good in the day

Okay no it didn't, but still~ It's part of the 90s charm.

* kaijyuu hopes he's thinking about the right thing.

[Hanslanda]

@The thread title: I actually don't like anime, but I have seen/know surprisingly more about it that I intended to admit to. o.O

[kaijyuu]

@The thread title: I actually don't like anime, but I have seen/know surprisingly more about it that I intended to admit to. o.O

There's probably something out there you'd like.

[NobodyPro]

I just finished Gurren Lagann.

Holy fuck that was awesome.

Did you have that moment when you realised that you weren't actually watching the finale and that things were going to get bigger?

[Hanslanda]

@The thread title: I actually don't like anime, but I have seen/know surprisingly more about it that I intended to admit to. o.O

There's probably something out there you'd like.

FLCL was pretty good. And I liked End of Evangelion. Everything else was sorta meh to me.

[Sirus]

I just finished Gurren Lagann.

Holy fuck that was awesome.

Did you have that moment when you realised that you weren't actually watching the finale and that things were going to get bigger?

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[Parsely]

Be prepared for the cars man.

Be prepared for that sweet car animation.

And don't forget the Tachikomas.