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[JoshuaFH]

I just watched the first ep of Young Black Jack, and the art design is... odd to say the least. Black Jack was never an ugly guy, but it seems they went WAY out of their way to make him stereotypically shoujo-handsome. It's really offputting seeing Black Jack redrawn as an underwear model basically..

Just alot of things feel 'off', not just his looks and his speech, but like sitting at the park bench just imagining a surgery while he mumbles to himself and waving his arms in the air. It just feels so... bullshit? And how the very first scene in the episode is him revealing his handsome muscular shirtless body to his young female friend. That just feels bullshit.

[JoshuaFH]

Picked up Concrete Revolutio and I'm loving it so far. It's like anime Watchmen with expies of Japanese cultural icons from the 60s and 70s.

tri-tri-triple post!

This comment made me decide to give Concrete Revolutio a whirl... and I'm not sure if I'm just brain damaged from watching 60 back-to-back eps of Yowamushi Pedal, but the plotlines of these episodes are *impossible* to follow. I'd be enjoying it, then characters and sequences start jumping around and I just instantly get lost.

Show is stylish as hell, but I wish it'd stop making me feel retarded. This is Last Exile all over again.

[i2amroy]

So.

I finally got around to watching the third Puella Magi Madoka Magica film.

Spoiler: Serious Spoilery Discussion (click to show/hide)

I'm simultaneously amazed by the sheer audacity that Homura displays in the ending twist, and horrified by what she's done. It's not often you see a series end with the coolest character (and main protagonist of the last segment) essentially turning themselves into the devil, and the sheer audacity of being willing to say "screw the universe and everyone else, I want this so I'm going to take it and everything else can go to hell" is crazy. (It probably helped a fair bit that Homura looked even more badass than normal as she was doing it too ).

I wouldn't say that I hated the ending, but I'm not quite sure I can say that I liked it either, my feelings are more "stunned" than anything else I'd say.It would be like if they suddenly released a fourth Lord of the Rings films that takes place after the first 3 where Legolas suddenly reveals that he's secretly forged a new ring of power and rises up to become even worse than Sauron was; you just don't see that reversal ever happening in stories; it's not your standard good beats evil ending at all (though we do get hints that there might be conflict down the road with that "almost waking" that Madoka nearly pulled). Honestly I'd expect this type of thing more as a prequel origin story from the devil's point of view, not as an epilogue to a story that was already "won".

And add on top of that the fact that even though she's a "demon" she's still not necessarily "evil"? (She only stole part of The Law of the Wheel, so presumably it's still functioning, though maybe not as well, and she apparently represents "love", which while it can certainly be terrible, is usually at worst a tragic emotion, not a "bad" one.) Things get very confusing emotion wise, to say the least.

Also that ending scene made me want to feel sad for Kyubey which was... disconcerting.

[Neyvn]

Watching 'Assasination Classroom' on Animelab.
Its the 13th episode and its the chapter I both Loath and Love at the same time. Where Nasigo shows his fangs... ^_^
I hate it cause I so want to Kill that arse of a teacher myself. OH GOD I wish I had that ability...

[Furtuka]

Picked up Concrete Revolutio and I'm loving it so far. It's like anime Watchmen with expies of Japanese cultural icons from the 60s and 70s.

tri-tri-triple post!

This comment made me decide to give Concrete Revolutio a whirl... and I'm not sure if I'm just brain damaged from watching 60 back-to-back eps of Yowamushi Pedal, but the plotlines of these episodes are *impossible* to follow. I'd be enjoying it, then characters and sequences start jumping around and I just instantly get lost.

Show is stylish as hell, but I wish it'd stop making me feel retarded. This is Last Exile all over again.

Yeah it can get a bit disorienting at the start of an episode, but it gets easier when you figure out which timeline is which. It's just that it's divided into two sets of events taking place in the past and the future, and each scene in the past provides context for the future scene which happens right after. Easiest way to tell them apart mostly is about recognizing the clothing everyone's wearing in each time period and it becomes a lot simpler.

[JoshuaFH]

Picked up Concrete Revolutio and I'm loving it so far. It's like anime Watchmen with expies of Japanese cultural icons from the 60s and 70s.

tri-tri-triple post!

This comment made me decide to give Concrete Revolutio a whirl... and I'm not sure if I'm just brain damaged from watching 60 back-to-back eps of Yowamushi Pedal, but the plotlines of these episodes are *impossible* to follow. I'd be enjoying it, then characters and sequences start jumping around and I just instantly get lost.

Show is stylish as hell, but I wish it'd stop making me feel retarded. This is Last Exile all over again.

Yeah it can get a bit disorienting at the start of an episode, but it gets easier when you figure out which timeline is which. It's just that it's divided into two sets of events taking place in the past and the future, and each scene in the past provides context for the future scene which happens right after. Easiest way to tell them apart mostly is about recognizing the clothing everyone's wearing in each time period and it becomes a lot simpler.

I mean, I'm ok with nonlinear storytelling. I followed Baccano just fine! It's just that the segues between scenes are seemingly seamless, and every time it happens that train of thought in my head gets thrown off the rails and has to restart again.

[IronyOwl]

So.

I finally got around to watching the third Puella Magi Madoka Magica film.

Spoiler: Serious Spoilery Discussion (click to show/hide)

I'm simultaneously amazed by the sheer audacity that Homura displays in the ending twist, and horrified by what she's done. It's not often you see a series end with the coolest character (and main protagonist of the last segment) essentially turning themselves into the devil, and the sheer audacity of being willing to say "screw the universe and everyone else, I want this so I'm going to take it and everything else can go to hell" is crazy. (It probably helped a fair bit that Homura looked even more badass than normal as she was doing it too ).

I wouldn't say that I hated the ending, but I'm not quite sure I can say that I liked it either, my feelings are more "stunned" than anything else I'd say.It would be like if they suddenly released a fourth Lord of the Rings films that takes place after the first 3 where Legolas suddenly reveals that he's secretly forged a new ring of power and rises up to become even worse than Sauron was; you just don't see that reversal ever happening in stories; it's not your standard good beats evil ending at all (though we do get hints that there might be conflict down the road with that "almost waking" that Madoka nearly pulled). Honestly I'd expect this type of thing more as a prequel origin story from the devil's point of view, not as an epilogue to a story that was already "won".

And add on top of that the fact that even though she's a "demon" she's still not necessarily "evil"? (She only stole part of The Law of the Wheel, so presumably it's still functioning, though maybe not as well, and she apparently represents "love", which while it can certainly be terrible, is usually at worst a tragic emotion, not a "bad" one.) Things get very confusing emotion wise, to say the least.

Also that ending scene made me want to feel sad for Kyubey which was... disconcerting.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Still more coherent than my reaction, which is basically to scratch my head. I feel like I didn't really get it, not just on a larger scale but in terms of why X is doing Y. It felt more like incoherent fanfiction than a sequel or next chapter to me, honestly. Maybe I need to think about it more and/or less.

That said: Homura was never the good guy. Well, maybe at the very beginning. But by the time we saw her, she was soullessly grinding through timeline after timeline, single-mindedly focused on the only thing she had left. It may have looked noble from a certain angle, but it was always pretty selfish and probably never particularly healthy. For her to pay any price to get Madoka back- and to an extent, any price to continue to seek Madoka- wasn't just in character for her, it was what had come to define her as a person.

The fact that she/they had already "won" does make that somewhat more awkward, though on the other hand recall that she was slowly turning into a witch. That might also have taken a toll on her decisionmaking process.

Watching 'Assasination Classroom' on Animelab.
Its the 13th episode and its the chapter I both Loath and Love at the same time. Where Nasigo shows his fangs... ^_^
I hate it cause I so want to Kill that arse of a teacher myself. OH GOD I wish I had that ability...

...who's the busty blonde? I didn't get very far in the manga, but she doesn't seem familiar. Does she come in later, or was she added to the anime because reasons?

[Twinwolf]

She's introduced later on.

[crazyabe]

Anime I am Interested in
Nurarihyon no Mago
Inuyasha
Darker then black
Soul eater
Death note
Bleach
kaze no stigma
Tokyo Ghoul
A good amount of other anime I find boring after a few episodes, and I cant gain access to them most of the time because paywall.

[Neonivek]

I will admit the one advantage Action animes often have on normal ones is that... well...

An action anime can be boring, trite, and stupid... but if the action is fine then it is an entertaining sit.

While a normal anime if it is boring., trite, and stupid... is REALLY boring, trite, and stupid.

But that advantage doesn't usually come out a lot. Since even action animes are often boring once you scratch under the surface. I don't have to remind you of Saint Saiya and the Lost Turn Based Battle.

[Flying Dice]

She's introduced later on.

"Bitch-sensei!"

[JoshuaFH]

I started watching Shokugeki No Soma, aka Intense Foodgasms allday errday.

You know, I'm not the only one that is always comparing anime to food and using metaphors that always fit with that idea, so it just makes sense that an anime about food is so naturally lovable. I'm of the opinion that the gratuitous fanservice with women taking a bite of something, and then all their clothes explode off as they're catapulted into another dimension of culinary sextasy, is kinda excessive and unnecessary; but it's growing on me. It's kinda the shameless fun kinda fanservice that Cutey Honey and Godannar won me over with.

[Frumple]

Can't speak for the anime, but I can tell you that the manga is at least somewhat equitable in regards to the cloth explosions and foodgasms. There's both beef and cheese cake in fair abundance. The gratuitous fanservice has both women and men in glorious food induced dishabille. It makes it better :V

[Neonivek]

Can't speak for the anime, but I can tell you that the manga is at least somewhat equitable in regards to the cloth explosions and foodgasms. There's both beef and cheese cake in fair abundance. The gratuitous fanservice has both women and men in glorious food induced dishabille. It makes it better :V

Yeah fact that they will do the exact same thing no matter who it is (except children) helps.

They will give old women foodgasms... fat men... And make them rather nude while they are at it.

[Reelya]

I finally finished Yowamushi Pedal: Grand Road. MAN I liked that alot. It really is basically Hajime No Ippo on bikes

I'm really glad someone else enjoyed the recommendation. It's not a show that gets plugged a lot, but it is really good at what it does. Andy and Frank will agree with me there.

BTW, a YowaPedal movie was released in Japan at the end of august, it's meant to be a sequel not a recap too. Probably be out on DVD before christmas I'm guessing. And there's season 3 coming next year as well.