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[i2amroy]

So, I'm getting the impression I'm the ONLY person on Bay12 who likes RWBY...

I liked about the half of it that I've watched. Definitely not tv-level quality, but it's still pretty good and I've laughed several times.

[RekkaAtsuma]

So, I'm getting the impression I'm the ONLY person on Bay12 who likes RWBY...

I liked about the half of it that I've watched. Definitely not tv-level quality, but it's still pretty good and I've laughed several times.

Honestly? If any series has to rely on action to be good, it's a terrible series in general, these 'characters' have personalities and lives do they not? According to fans, yes. And those exact same fans want to see that personality and life unfold, as well as the action. Slicing five guys with one swipe from a bayoneted pistol on a ribbon is hardly what i'd call character personality or life development.
Yet RWBY S1 ep1 was well recieved for it's inventive combat, RWBY S1 EP2 was frowned upon for lack of combat, the major bulk of RWBY S2 EP1 was nothing but combat surrounded by very little plot, and worst of all one our loved secondary character only got 1 line that was reused from a previous episode.

Season 1 was good, Season 2 is on-going. My synopsis may change, but right now, if it's going to be mostly-action & little-to-no chara dev, I'm sad it's another one-trick pony.
The humor is good but...again, if violence must convey the joke, it is a terrible joke.

Of course I'm also currently highly focused on Pretty Cure and other Magical girl anime right now so...While RWBY indeed fits the fantasy and almost-all-girl-cast focused genres, RWBY is Sci-Fantasy, not MG.
(Which also annoys me: they keep teasing us with dust shop robberies but we rarely see any dust in play, it's all semblance and aura, where's the fire twisters from finger tips and elemental supercells dust can bring? I sincerely hope we see some soon.)

[Reelya]

Probably because it has a sexualized under aged girl with large breasts who gets into her underwear a lot who is Tsundere and has magical powers which she uses to punish men when she isn't crying and needing to be comforted.

Large breasts??? Louise???

She's a classic petanko. i.e no noticable breasts and she's self-conscious of this fact.

[Flying Dice]

Probably because it has a sexualized under aged girl with large breasts who gets into her underwear a lot who is Tsundere and has magical powers which she uses to punish men when she isn't crying and needing to be comforted.

Large breasts??? Louise???

She's a classic petanko. i.e no noticable breasts and she's self-conscious of this fact.

That said, it's an easy mistake to make if you haven't watched/read the source material in a while, considering how many sexualized underaged girls the series has. >.>

As far as I'm concerned, ZnT falls into much the same category of fiction as Naruto and Harry Potter, insofar as that it is a mediocre-at-best, idiotic-at-worst snoozefest which wasted a cool idea in favor of pandering and/or the author's hangups. Which makes it fertile ground for high-quality fanfiction to throw all of that out the window and do fun things with the world and the skeletons of interesting characters which are faintly visible underneath the reprehensible crap.

[Boksi]

Jitsu wa Watashi wa is great as always.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Neonivek]

Probably because it has a sexualized under aged girl with large breasts who gets into her underwear a lot who is Tsundere and has magical powers which she uses to punish men when she isn't crying and needing to be comforted.

Large breasts??? Louise???

She's a classic petanko. i.e no noticable breasts and she's self-conscious of this fact.

Wait until she gets into her underwear, they actually grow a few sizes. Mind you I can barely remember since that was about the point where I was mortified with the series.

Not that her being a petanko hurts my description since later on there is an EXACT clone of her.

Not that it matters if I am wrong though. Since if I am wrong it means she is underaged with a body visually similar to a 12 year old who is being sexualized.

I'd just admit I am wrong but I cannot remember how it goes either way and I don't want to watch it to find out.

As far as I'm concerned, ZnT falls into much the same category of fiction as Naruto and Harry Potter, insofar as that it is a mediocre-at-best, idiotic-at-worst snoozefest which wasted a cool idea in favor of pandering and/or the author's hangups. Which makes it fertile ground for high-quality fanfiction to throw all of that out the window and do fun things with the world and the skeletons of interesting characters which are faintly visible underneath the reprehensible crap.

No this is pretty accurate. The only thing that kept me watching until a quarter through season 2 is because Season 1 had so much potential with its political intrigue, changing character dynamics, and interesting characters... that and I honestly thought the abuse would stop season 2. NOPE!

It would HANDILY make its way into my imaginary list of Top 10 Animes that squandered its interesting set up.

[IronyOwl]

Was this posted here already?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1300298569/under-the-dog

I know I'm a bit late, but this honestly looks terrible. Tragic superheroes forced to murder each other, by which we mean legions of faceless mooks, while wearing low-cut jackets.

Euuuuugh.


Also:

IronyOwl's sleep-talking: "...Heheheh...so much...magical boy...wafuu..."

By Ufotable, a 5000 episode sci-fi anime about IronyOwl's love life.

IronyOwl is made of loyalty, rhinos, and dullness. With a dash of Twitter.

IronyOwl is the Ojou-Sama.

IronyOwl is destined to marry Tsumugi Kotobuki on March 23, 2013 おめでとう^o^/ !!

I have absolutely no comment at this time, who's Ufotable again but I think I'm going to vomit regardless, fuck you too, screw the rules I have money, and a little late there. Also I'm not sure how I feel about marrying a marshmallow.

IronyOwl's magical girl power is "Flute Spinning Tears!" http://en.shindanmaker.com/267602

IronyOwl is magical insecure nurse. Special attack is Sparkling Fruit. http://en.shindanmaker.com/273145

Magical Girl IronyOwl's hair color: gold, outfit theme: musician, weapon: taser. http://en.shindanmaker.com/214003

I have no idea what to make of the first two. I know exactly what to make of the third, and that is "Zap zap motherfucker."

Zangi's Criminal Coefficient is 450; Lethal Eliminator enabled. Carefully shoot and kill Zangi. #sibylscanning http://en.shindanmaker.com/285692

IronyOwl's Criminal Coefficient is 95; registered Inspector. The trigger has been locked..

Heheheheh.


These are fun.

Oh and it's launching into the "main plot" now. Oh wow, now they're enrolling Tatsuya in a "9 school thesis writing contest". As if "enrolment arc" (arc 1 is seriously called this) and "sports day arc" weren't exciting enough, now we get "debating team arc".

Christ. Was this guy's high school really that bad, or has he just painted himself into a corner somehow?

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Spoiler: No Wait What (click to show/hide)

Tatsuya is a mulberry colored magical girl with a teal soul gem which is shaped like a diamond. Their outfit can be described as layered . Tatsuya uses (a) morning star. Tatsuya ends up living. http://en.shindanmaker.com/474246

Louise is a silver colored magical girl with a teal soul gem which is shaped like a moon. Their outfit can be described as cleric like. Louise uses (a) mace. Louise ends up throwing away their soul gem by accident. http://en.shindanmaker.com/474246

Harry is a sapphire colored magical girl with a black soul gem which is shaped like a moon. Their outfit can be described as dressy. Harry uses (a) fire extinguisher . Harry ends up trying to convince other girls not to become magical girls. http://en.shindanmaker.com/474246

Naruto is a coral colored magical girl with a pearl soul gem which is shaped like a flower. Their outfit can be described as frilly. Naruto uses (a) sai. Naruto ends up beating Kyoko's Dance Dance Revolution score. http://en.shindanmaker.com/474246

IronyOwl is a azure colored magical girl with a coral soul gem which is shaped like a square. Their outfit can be described as full length. IronyOwl uses (a) hatchet . IronyOwl ends up kills a good amount of witches before being killed in battle. http://en.shindanmaker.com/474246

  So we've got a pink Tatsuya aiming his teal soul gem at witches who then immediately disintegrate while he explains how witches rely on their underwear to function so because he's a genius HE gives THEM wedgies while the rest of the team fawns over how brilliant he is. His morningstar obviously goes completely unused, which is convenient given his dire weakness relating to it.
 Meanwhile Louise is repeatedly assaulting team members in classy silver, but it's funny because it's funny. "She" eventually "accidentally" throws her soul gem away.
 Harry's lookin' good in fancy dark blue, complete with tragic-looking moon gem. He also spends most of his time futilely trying to convince everyone else not to fight and smother the current problems before they get worse. Good luck, Harry.
 Naruto's vibrantly colored reddish fits him like a glove, as does his eastern weapon of choice. Flower gem's a bit harder to explain, maybe it's a reference to a certain someone. Needless to say, he's a useless jackass whose primary contribution to the party is challenging other people to danceoffs.
 IronyOwl in what may be a blue butcher's apron savages witches with a hatchet for a while, before either earning release from this hell or faking it to finally be freeeeeeee!

[Gnorm]

So, just finished NGE and EoE for the second time, and I'm considering watching the Rebuilds now. I'm a tad hesitant about it though, as I'm worried that they'll not live up to their source. Can anyone that has seen any of them tell me if they're good or not?

[Redzephyr01]

[real name]'s magical girl power is "Light Crimson Blade"

I'm okay with this.

[ToonyMan]

So, just finished NGE and EoE for the second time, and I'm considering watching the Rebuilds now. I'm a tad hesitant about it though, as I'm worried that they'll not live up to their source. Can anyone that has seen any of them tell me if they're good or not?

theyre good

[Hawkfrost]

So, just finished NGE and EoE for the second time, and I'm considering watching the Rebuilds now. I'm a tad hesitant about it though, as I'm worried that they'll not live up to their source. Can anyone that has seen any of them tell me if they're good or not?

Shinji and Asuka are less entirely terrible and unlikable, most of the silly school and shower scenes are cut, intro song is not as good.
The third movie is weak due to it feeling like a prequel to something else, but the first two made me unable to hate Evangelion anymore. At least not completely.


Basically if you had things you didn't like about the original series, you have a much better chance of enjoying it. If you liked the show being all "deep" (pretentious) and Shinji being a completely useless twat, you'll dislike the changes.

[Draxis]

On the other hand, if you liked the characterization not being butchered for catering/trolling (depending on which movie), a plot that makes sense, or characters not being generic flat protagonists who can magically work through any problems only to get rekt by plot, you'll also dislike the changes.

Basically if you had things you didn't like about the original series, you have a much better chance of enjoying it. If you liked the show being all "deep" (pretentious) and Shinji being a completely useless twat, you'll dislike the changes.

It's Gainax (for the first two movies) trying to milk the fanbase for money by giving them what they want, instead of trying to tell a story they care about.  Pretty sure that's the opposite of less pretentious.

Basically, they're pretty good mecha action movies, just think of them as glorified fanfiction rather than part of the continuity.  It's not supposed to be better, it's supposed to be different, and they would fail in the role most people think of the original series in. 

[Hawkfrost]

Pretty sure that's the opposite of less pretentious.

I think it's hard to be less pretentious than the original Evangelion at times, due to the entire thing coming off seeming like it was written by a first year psychology student trying to combine Freudian analogies with the half of the Bible he read while dozing through Sunday school.

I'm probably being unfair to it, but I found the frequent quoting of Biblical verses and terminology grating; especially when every action and motivation by every character seems driven by Freudian complexes, and the writer displaying a clear lack of understanding about both fields.


The show started off interesting and held my attention up until I realized the main characters would undergo no development that would make them any more tolerable, and that they were literally going to defeat an Angel through the power of synchronized ballet. Do people forget these parts? Because 70% of Evangelion was stupid anime bullshit, fanservice shots, reused animation, and dreadfully dull tsundere harem romance.

And nothing, NOTHING, can forgive how terrible those last two episodes are. "Hey, we have no money and our director is borderline suicidal, what should we do?" Oh, give him a box of crayons and overlay it with incohesive, uncomprehendable dialogue and imagery that serves no purpose but to trick guillable people into thinking they are witnessing something profound while in actuality it's all vapid, melodramatic nonesense hiding behind big words and a solemn tone.

Either I am seriously missing something, or other people are reading far more into the series than what is actually there.

[Neonivek]

Here is the thing about pretentiousness and characters who try to pretend they are much deeper then they actually are, reused action shots, fanservice... what have you.

Some people just buy it.

I've spent enough time in school with my rage against fiction I've been taught only to find out much later down the road that all my complaints were just things fabricated by my school because essentially school teaches fiction like a fanboy. For example 1982 was a novel I hated for so long because it is just total BS because I was taught it in a way that was "Yeah it totally could happen!", yet that was never the attempt of the novel.

Evangeleon's bad qualities are the reason people like it.

[Furtuka]

it's worth noting that the symbolism/allusions has nothing to do with the actual point of the series and was added in to be more exotic to japanese audiences.