Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Reelya]

and that's exemplified in that Rei's power-up arc does in a few minutes what Luke's took 2+ movies to achieve.

So in a few minutes this Rei guy gets powerful enough to lose instantly to the main villain and then spend the next minute or so being shocktortured? That's not too unrealistic I think

Rey's the girl ... And I'm talking about how she instantly learns Jedi mind tricks that took Luke 2+ movies and lessons by Obi Wan and Yoda, basically over the course of a couple of minutes, without even knowing that those tricks were possible.

[BFEL]

Someone missed the joke.

[Reelya]

Yeah sorry I'm tired. I got it afterwards. And it's not just Rey, you have all the shit with untrained non-force-sensitive Joe Blows being suddenly able to wield lightsabers, holding their own against trained Sith Lords. It makes a lot of what everyone went through in the rest of the franchise suddenly meaningless, which ties into what Neonivek was saying.

~~~

Back on topic, No Game No Life the movie has been announced. But the movie is apparently from light novel volume 6, which is a prequel set during the war between the gods. There's no info yet on which studio is actually doing the work, which is not how it usually goes. Madhouse did the TV series, but if my theory is correct then they won't be involved again due to them publicly accepting blame for the author's multiple plagiarism scandals. So there's some fallout that hit the previous production company due to the author's sloppy ethics, and perhaps they're keeping who's actually working on this movie on the lowdown to avoid speculation on the reasons. Maybe it will be Madhouse again, but I'd be real curious as to why they wouldn't just announce that along with the movie: it's usually a big selling point.

[Max™]

On a dare, I must now view two anime. The first:
Valkyrie Drive. Yeah. Aaand..

THE ASTERISK WAR
HOHOHOHOHO

Valkyrie Drive is so dumb that it winds up being fun.

Then a friend of the missus asked her what we were watching, she mentions a couple shows, Valkyrie Drive being one of them, turns out she was asking for her teenage cousin. She later said "he uh, appreciates the awesome suggestion" but she didn't think it was quite as funny.

[Flying Dice]

There is a boruto movie and a manga of some sort (I typed magma first, dammit df) which basically amounts to "oh hey, you know everything that everybody fought and died for, all the progress they made breaking the cycles of parents making mistakes and children repeating them, the peace that had been established due to all of the sacrifice and bloodshed throughout this entire series? Well guess what..." from what I can tell.

It is kind of the major flaw sometimes of sequels... In that they often have to drag up conflict that was resolved or create new ones making the original seem pointless.

It is why I am starting to SERIOUSLY respect series that decide that they are over (Unlike say... Halo the series that never ends).

Halo ended with the conclusion of Halo 3. Everything else is just hallucinations caused by the dust Microsoft raises every time they toss the corpse off a cliff to see how much money comes out.

[NullForceOmega]

*Applause*

[IronyOwl]

Yeah sorry I'm tired. I got it afterwards. And it's not just Rey, you have all the shit with untrained non-force-sensitive Joe Blows being suddenly able to wield lightsabers, holding their own against trained Sith Lords. It makes a lot of what everyone went through in the rest of the franchise suddenly meaningless, which ties into what Neonivek was saying.

It's not just competency, the movie felt rushed in general. Pilot Guy was obviously supposed to be kind of important, but the movie blew through his characterization at breakneck speed. Captain Chick was worth naming and giving shiny armor, then did nothing except get taken hostage. Finn's (FIN's?) motivation is kind of abrupt and never super clarified, there's a pretty brief gap between "oh shit there's a Death Star, again" and "well let's blow up the Death Star, again," Innmaster Fishyoda is super easy to find and has all the answers anyone needs, and so on.

But the movie is apparently from light novel volume 6, which is a prequel set during the war between the gods.

Out of morbid curiosity, how's that quality wise, if you're (or anyone else is) familiar with it? I'd expect crap, but it sounds like he'd have to break out of the formula or Mahouka himself cramming the formula in.

Then a friend of the missus asked her what we were watching, she mentions a couple shows, Valkyrie Drive being one of them, turns out she was asking for her teenage cousin. She later said "he uh, appreciates the awesome suggestion" but she didn't think it was quite as funny.

I'm not sure whether to say Mission Accomplished or Great You've Inflicted Poor Taste On Another One.

So Mission Accomplished, probably.

Everything else is just hallucinations caused by the dust Microsoft raises every time they toss the corpse off a cliff to see how much money comes out.

Aaaaand now I need a second new quote to refresh my sig.

[Karnewarrior]

Spoiler: Toradora Episode 8 (click to show/hide)

Karnewarrior: these ads... I don't trust any "Tactical shooting game" that flashes the MCs panties
Sprin: Lol
Karnewarrior: Panties aren't tactical
Sprin: Ofc not
Sprin: Magic underwear is
Karnewarrior: Damn Mormon tactiticans

Karnewarrior: OH NO, A JAPANESE PERSON WROTE IN JAPANESE?!
Sprin: Time to drop another bomb

Karnewarrior:Taiga is so cute in the water =^-^=
Sprin: It looks like Minnie Mouse drowning
Karnewarrior: So cute...

Karnewarrior: If anime has taught me anything, it's that going to Japan will give you high blood pressure
Karnewarrior: or at least that being japanese will
Sprin: Im American
Sprin: Whats that do
Karnewarrior: make you fat?

Karnewarrior: PINKIE KNOWS WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER

Had to cut the quotes short due to technical issues on sprins end.

We've agreed to finish 8 individually since it's giving us so many problems. Next is 9


EDIT: And then I watched Eva with BFEL

Spoiler: EVANGELION EPISODE 1 (click to show/hide)

Karnewarrior: naked misato
bfel001: VAGINA OUTLINES MMM
Karnewarrior: people are fapping already
Karnewarrior: WELCOME TO EVA
bfel001: INDEED
Karnewarrior: VAGINAL OUTLINES ARE OUR BREAD AND BUTTER
Karnewarrior: DON'T WORRY
Karnewarrior: YOU WON'T BE THINKING ABOUT SEX BY THE END OF EVANGELION! HAHA!

bfel001: TURNS OUT DISASTER ZONES ARE GREAT PLACES TO PICK UP CHICKS

bfel001: I SMOKE 90 CIGARETTES A SECOND
Karnewarrior: LUNG CANCER?! WHAT LUNG CANCER
bfel001: GIVE ME CLOSE AIR SUPPORT ON LUNG CANCER

Karnewarrior: Gendo is out
Karnewarrior: Fuyutsuki is like..."Fuck"

bfel001: Gendo is like "Yo son. Go murder things for me"
Karnewarrior: "No fuck yoou dad!"

Karnewarrior: "Even Rei ayanami!" The girl has the personality of a rock
Karnewarrior: if anyone would suck at synchronizing with a lobotomized hate machine, it would be her

bfel001: The robots like "DAMN IT, I thought I was gonna get one of those hot chicks to sit in me"
Karnewarrior: The robot is a girl
bfel001: So it is a lobotomized hate machine

bfel001: REMOVING TERTIARY RESTRAINTS
bfel001: REMOVING QUATRINARY RESTRAINTS
Karnewarrior: REMOVING SEPTENARY RESTRAINTS!

[Max™]

I just remembered I haven't seen Ep. 7 yet, so I keep having to reread because the characters Rey and Finn don't sound like ones in any current anime but I have no basis for who they actually are.

[Reelya]

Ok, I've had time to check out a few more of the season.

91 Days is looking pretty good. Great muted art style, lots of no-nonsense 1920's gangsters gunning each other down. Hero with a vendetta willing to just blow motherfuckers away in cold blood / shoot people in the back, so no pussy-footing around "good guy" stuff.

Days - soccer anime. Sticking with the tradition in sports anime of the hero being a complete noob, but plucky. Other than being terrible at soccer (likely to kill himself if he tries to kick a ball), I'm not sure what the hook here is. The best of these shows have the hero having some sort of personality quirk that's at odds with their sport's stereotypes, but this guy is more the blank slate type. Still ok, since by definition such a series must include character and plot progression.

Amanchu (latest thing by the Aria mangaka + director of Aria / Princess Tutu) is looking nice. Cute and fun slice of life. The setting is a bit more mundane than Aria however, so I don't think this will quite hit the same sweet spot. So just "nice". Flying Witch last season was a more standout charming slice of life.

Handa-Kun, which is a prequel to Barakamon, is pretty good. But the premise is somewhat similar to Sakamoto desu ga?, which just aired. Kinda bad timing there. Handa-kun is a massively paranoid neurotic mess who believes the whole school is out to bully him, so he is always trying to weasel out of any situation he's in. But the reality (unknown to him) is that he's popular and widely liked. Inadvertently, his cowardly actions are misconstrued by everyone else and only serve to make him more popular.

Time-Travel Shoujo is a science anime, with actual science in it (obviously barring the time travel). The opening credits showcase the characters in the anime. Kinda looks like any average anime up until the 50s mark ... then you get the supporting cast, which is a little "different". The science part of it is actually pretty valid. There was a CPR scene in the first episode which was actually very realistic.

Fukigen na Mononokean - first episode looks ok. Highschooler dude who can see youkai. Nothing revolutionary, but so far it's tasteful and there's no sign of the magic battles or harem type shit that is so prevalent with that sort of setting.

Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru: man what a dull first episode. I don't think I can watch any more of this. The humor sucks and there aren't any likeable characters, as well as the premise being boring. There's no real hook that I can see.

[Madmachine]

Time-Travel Shoujo is a science anime, with actual science in it (obviously barring the time travel). The opening credits showcase the characters in the anime. Kinda looks like any average anime up until the 50s mark ... then you get the supporting cast, which is a little "different".

Fucking sold.

[Max™]

Pretty funny about the robot and hot chicks thing when you consider what Eva-01 really is.

[Flying Dice]

I gotta echo the comments, y u no Tesla?

[Max™]

So Bleach is ending soon apparently, and there's some trollan' going on of course, which led me to crap this out. If you care about bleach spoilers (hah!) go read the newest one, otherwise, hopefully you appreciate the joke here.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I assume a better shoop artist will end up doing this sooner or later but I had to see how it looked dammit.

[SquatchHammer]

bfel001: I SMOKE 90 CIGARETTES A SECOND
Karnewarrior: LUNG CANCER?! WHAT LUNG CANCER
bfel001: GIVE ME CLOSE AIR SUPPORT ON LUNG CANCER

Weld Galvanized steel!! It's just like smoking a few dozen cartons every second with that smoke!! I'm not joking. Last year my work's welding side was welding drainage corrugated galvanized steel with the grate on top. You should have seen the smoke.