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[Neonivek]

In all fairness to Umineko... He directed it brilliantly.

Just that... Nothing could make that visual novel good. The anime actually ends right before the visual novel becomes outright tripe.

[Reelya]

He's not a director, but he scripted about half the episodes. But I retract that anyway based on the fact that I've only heard Umineko sucks second-hand from people here.

The main concern then is that the scriptwriter's most recent work was series composition and scripting for Hidan no Aria AA. The boobs were well drawn is about the only good thing I can say about that show.

Other incidents that make me very wary of new hyped shows/movies include stuff like M3, which had Juinichi Sato as director (Aria the Animation, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, Princess Tutu) and Mari Okada as scriptwriter (AnoHana, Hanasaku Iroha, Hourou Musuko, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Nagi no Asukara, Wixoss, Toradora!), doing an anime-original. You'd think an accomplished director and an accomplished screenwriter being able to go all-out on an original anime would produce something great. Hope again. Most people thought M3 was utter shit.

Then you have Expelled from Paradise which was directed by the director of the first Full Metal Alchemist and Concrete Revolutio among other shows, and scripted by Gen Urobuchi (who was responsible for many shows such as Madoka, Psycho-Pass, Suisei no Gargantia). You think these people could make a movie that's better than shit? Guess again ...

So yeah, "good director" and "good scriptwriter" now mean nothing to me anymore until I actually sit down and watch the film in question.

[Neonivek]

Umineko does suck... but it is accurate to the Visual Novel and tries as hard as it possibly can to raise the bar with great music.

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DANG IT!!! two shows in a row that I would totally watch if they weren't three minutes long.

Also WOW is Sushi Police very... American so to speak. Forgive my lack of language I have no idea what else to call it.

[inteuniso]

Started watching Dagashi Kashi. Much like everyone, Haruhi stays Haruhi-like, despite having a name change to Hotaru.

[Leafsnail]

Umineko does suck... but it is accurate to the Visual Novel and tries as hard as it possibly can to raise the bar with great music.

There were a lot of issues with things it skipped, and ED aside I think the VN's stellar soundtrack is not very well utilized in the anime.  I seem to remember there was some plothole that would screw up the second season if they ever made it but I'm not 100% sure on that.

[Orange Wizard]

I started watching Shiki yesterday. It's really good, but everything happens so slooooow. Which... is actually kinda refreshing. Hopefully it's not rushed towards the end like so many other shows.

[Reelya]

Watched a few new season animes today at random.

Best so far is Boku Dake ga Inai Machi. Mystery + time travel anime.

Worst was Norn9: Norn Nonet, unwatchable shoujo fantasy show about magic bishonens on a flying ship.

"Prince of Stride " is basically a school sports competition anime but where schools have Parkour teams. It's ok, but cliched highschool sports anime.

"Active Raid" was ok, and has a bit of a Patlabor mecha + police-procedural thing going, but I'm not 100% on some of the elements.

"Ojisan to Marshmallow" is about an obese guy and his girlfriend, 3 minutes / ep.

"Tabi Machi Late Show" is low budget visually, but the characterization seems pretty good. Looks like it's standalone short stories, 8 minutes each.

[Trapezohedron]

The shittening starts soon. I'll go watch the entire PSO2 Animation and kill myself. Hopefully I can report back about a bunch of glaring hateshit.


it looks nice

[Tack]

Replace every face with Tatsuya.

[Reelya]

Sekkou Boys is an 8-minute anime that's just started. I recommend checking out at least the first episode, since it's ... not something you see every day.

[Neonivek]

The shittening starts soon. I'll go watch the entire PSO2 Animation and kill myself. Hopefully I can report back about a bunch of glaring hateshit.


it looks nice

Wait a minute... They ALL have the same face! One is trying to hide it by frowning but no really... they all have the exact same face.

[Reelya]

The guy on the far-right and the guy in the middle are the most obvious "same face" culprits. But they're clearly the same person if you look closely at everyone (other than the silver-hair person, each person is shown twice, once in school uniform and on the outside in some sort of battle-gear).

[Trapezohedron]

Here's a preview of the shitty thing.

Intro's honestly fine, at least the intro song. If there's something PSO2 has consistently delivered, it's that it has spectacular sound design (YMMV).

But yeah, the more I watch this, the more I cringe. Some shady website already hosted the anime, but I figure I'll wait for HorribleSub's "horrible subbing" before I watch any further.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

you gotta be fucking kidding me.
1. they just ripped off a scene from the game itself. result is jarring
2. ps vitas in 2027. okay that's new
3. why do they still have a shitty vita its a dying console


cleeeeeeeeeeeever. Verrrrry clever.
Seiga = SEGA. okay so colleges are apparently owned by megacorps and the most popular japan MMO is pso2
who knew

Not pictured, but will be soon:
mary sui thanking a guard and guard blushing oh senpai

a few scenes on the intro sins prior to the actual anime intro:

op spells in mining base, with our protagonist using a fucking gunslash (widely known in game as a supporting weapon intended to be used as a backup when you run out of pp - and you never will)

and the gunslash being a common one.

okay...

also VERY SPECTACURAE SEE GEE it stutters

[Neonivek]

The guy on the far-right and the guy in the middle are the most obvious "same face" culprits. But they're clearly the same person if you look closely at everyone (other than the silver-hair person, each person is shown twice, once in school uniform and on the outside in some sort of battle-gear).

Want a bonus? The BIRD is based on their face.

But by same face I mean they "all" have the same face... All of them!

[Trapezohedron]

don't worry neo. it gets better.

really better.

and by really, i mean worse.