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[USEC_OFFICER]

Uhh... was there a Lucky Star/Haruhi Suzumia crossover?  Because I found 2 dvds in my basement of "The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumia Nyorop Chuyuru-san" and the art style on the box is pretty much the same as Lucky Star's.
Where the hell did this come from?

Sounds like the start of a crappy creepypasta to me. Let us know how hyperrealistic the blood is when you start watching the thing. That's a dead giveaway that it's haunted you know.

[Cthulufaic]

Uhh... was there a Lucky Star/Haruhi Suzumia crossover?  Because I found 2 dvds in my basement of "The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumia Nyorop Chuyuru-san" and the art style on the box is pretty much the same as Lucky Star's.
Where the hell did this come from?

Sounds like the start of a crappy creepypasta to me. Let us know how hyperrealistic the blood is when you start watching the thing. That's a dead giveaway that it's haunted you know.

One of the cases is unopened, and I don't want to open it. ;_; 2spoopy4me

I'll check it out eventually, probably tomorrow.

[Reelya]

I didn't really like the haruhi-chan one but I really like the Churuya-san one. Poor Churuya and her pathetic life.

[Orange Wizard]

I watched the first couple of episodes of Mysterious Girlfriend X. And, uh. Right. This gets a Rank 1 out of sheer uniqueness.

[JoshuaFH]

I watched the first couple of episodes of Mysterious Girlfriend X. And, uh. Right. This gets a Rank 1 out of sheer uniqueness.

I really liked that show, it was clearly angling for the weird fetish crowd, but it achieved so much more.

[Reelya]

"Weird Fetish" defines the company that produced that anime (Hoods Entertainment). They traditionally do borderline hentai-esque shows. They're basically the guys you go to to adapt your manga after every other studio's reps started vomiting when your described the source material. They were most well-known for Seikon no Qwaser. So that's probably the reason they ended up doing an anime involving characters who drink each other's drool.

After they did Mysterious Girlfriend X I think they started realizing they can make more money by doing less creepy stuff however, and now they do more mainstream ecchi shows.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah I got squicked out by the fanservice. They're all what? 14, 15?

Japan has a thing about sexualising minors, if you watch much anime you should know this by now.

#YokoIs14

Yoko is 14 only by Littner's counting of time. By Jiha's, she's 18.

I was going to say. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that everyone was initially living underground in neobarb squalor and couldn't really into accurate timekeeping.

[Tack]

Finished Kuroko no Basketball. But...

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I feel like Wildcard Kagami wasn't exactly necessary...
I mean, the whole "beat everyone, wake them up and make them feel all nice" thing would've happened in the second year when Kise came into his own...
(May be just me, but I feel like Kise's the best)

[Furtuka]

SO PEOPLE HAVE NOTICED A CERTAIN SOMETHING HAS POPPED UP IN THE CHINESE TRAILER FOR THE UPCOMING SUPER ROBOT WARS ORIGINAL GENERATIONS GAME

I WANT TO BELIEVE

CROSSPOSTING BECAUSE MANY FEELINGS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR AND SURPRISE AND FEAR

DOUBLE-CROSS POSTING BECAUSE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

[Reelya]

Well, I watched Evangelion 3.0 now, and liked the fact that it's really started to break out from the plot of the original series. The second movie did that a bit, but pretty much sticks to the stuff you'd expect. 3.0 felt more fresh because it's uncharted territory story-wise.

Then, I notice it's got much lower ratings than the previous movies. Reading reviews, people's main gripe seems to be that it diverged from the "known" storyline it's "meant" to have, and that things were confusing and not fully explained through character dialogue.

Confusing? Not explained? Unexpected shit happens? Oh no, how dare they have such things in an Evangelion movie!

[Furtuka]

I haven't seen it, but to my understanding the issue people have with it isn't only that it's confusing so much as the fact that it kills all the new plot threads that were set up in the first two movies people had become invested in unceremoniously thanks to the timeskip, and that most of the new plot threads introduced in it get barely any exploration or explanation in exchange for the Shinji and Kaworu piano hour, leaving the viewer with absolutely no understanding of what the state of the setting actually is anymore or what happened to anyone during the timeskip and whatever character development must have happened during it. Also more complaints about the face that Mari seems to exist just for fanservice and that the Evas leaving her and Asuka unable to age seems gratuitous and loses some opportunities.

[Neonivek]

Also more complaints about the face that Mari seems to exist just for fanservice and that the Evas leaving her and Asuka unable to age seems gratuitous and loses some opportunities.

Wow, they are pulling a Tekken.

[Reelya]

I think the main problem with the plot threads set up in the first two movies is that they're largely indistinguishable from the plot threads in the TV show. But they probably realized this was a problem too late, and decided to just do a clean break with the third and fourth movies, rather than just rehash everything that came after it in the TV show. If they just ended up doing a complete remake of End of Evangelion, what would be the point of new movies at all? For that reason I'm glad they threw a wrench in the plot for movie three. Movies 1 and 2 just felt like a dull rehash of stuff I already saw, they don't leave you with any questions to ask.

And in fact "Mari = fanservice" was more a problem in the second movie than the third one. Bringing her in movie #2 was the only really new thing, but she doesn't actually have any backstory or plot threads attached whatsoever, she's just "there".

[Furtuka]

I don't think anybody expected End of Eva to be redone, especially since 2.0 zipped to Zereul so quickly and the way it ended. It's that the plot went off the rails in a way that seem to come out of nowhere even for Evangelion, and left a lot of people feeling trolled.

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2.0 had a ton of moments teasing that there was something new going on in the background, what with the changes in the ordering of the angels, Mari showing up and being implied to be a spy for someone, the fact that there is what appear to be four Adams, the implications that the origins of Unit 02 might have changed due to its new abilities and the fact that Mari could pilot it, the background references to the events of End of Eva with the red sea and the blood stain on the moon, the existence of the Mark 06 and whatever its true nature is suppose to be, all that weird stuff that was lying around on the moon, the implications in Kaworu's dialogue that the reoccurring theme from Super Robot Wars where his lines heavily hint that he's the exact same person looping through the events of Eva in every single incarnation might actually be canon, and lastly the minor detail that Shinji's sdat player now has a 27th music track.

And then it became a double whammy because the events of trailer shown at the end of 2.0 hyped people up but wound up having all its events either not happen or instead occur during the timeskip, and according to what I've heard most of the stuff listed above wound up either not being followed up on or resolved offscreen, and like I mentioned earlier left people feeling cheated that not even the new plot lines got much elaboration on. Didn't help that the tone set by 2.0 was rather different from where things wound up actually going immediately after the events of its ending.

I mean it's Eva so trolling shouldn't be that unexpected, but from what people have been saying the majority of them feel it went too far and wound up losing their trust as opposed to being impressed *shrug*.

[Neonivek]

The thing is... EVA is what happens when a hack writer stumbles into making a great plot... and getting lucky with symbolism fitting (Well debatable).