Now watching - Solty Rei - Dub


Haven't seen this one before - it's actually really good :3

Updated warframe, rage quit cuz I couldn't get anything to work lol

At least in Dust there's PC - and FF14 has a cool PvP mode.

WF's PvP would be the best of them all by MILES if they just put a bit more attention into it - but they never do.

Also watched the first episode of yuri kuma arashi last night... Dafuq is this? Kinda different
I've watched cute high earth defense club love.. Now that's an awesome anime.

Playing Destiny highlighted how garbage our overall gungame is and how technically weak it is in comparison. I'd play it but unfortunately everything Destiny does outside of the gungame is ******* terrible too. So I play Counter-Strike these days instead. Really can't enjoy Dust as much in its (barely and on a good day) 30FPS incarnation. Hoping Legion improves it but theres been some worrying signs on the F2P front for Dust that Im probably not gonna bother with that either.



These are the two shows that I've seen so far as well. I actually loved Yuri Kuma's overall style, a lot of Madoka-isms in its choice of music and background art and, though the premise in itself is absurd as an outside looking in, the characters are deadly serious about the implications of that world on their everyday lives. The drama works. Apparently the director of the series, Ikuhara, had his previous works (Revolutionary Girl Utena) hugely inspire the development of Shaft and Madoka to begin with so I suppose it makes sense that so much of this first episode gave me that feeling. Hoping the characters and mechanics of the world get fleshed out a bit more in the coming episodes.

Contrast that with Earth Defense Club and lol. The first few moments that episode were pretty dry for me admittedly but I really enjoyed pretty much every moment that Blondie was on screen, dude's just so high energy and fun. It's a neat twist to the magical girl genre by taking a bunch of random dudes and sticking them in skirts and telling them to fight with the power of love. Hoping the comedy stays on point for the later episodes.

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Parasyte - 13 was ... kind of crap actually.

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Like the absurdity of some of the scenes presented in this episode were really distracting. First you have Murano reflecting on how unusually calm and collected Shinichi is despite what he's gone through and flashes back to the point where he's jumping out of a goddamn 2 story window and jumping over a huge fence as if that were the only strange part about that moment. Not that he'd become superman or anything. Then you have the entire interaction with the Detective in which, in their first meeting, Shinichi can't hear him sneaking up on him despite the show establishing like 2 minutes later how much his senses have improved. Then in their second meeting after they've established what a danger he is due to how much he's seen and potentially heard about him Shinichi lets the guy hobble away from the street right in front of his goddamn house instead of jumping down and clearing the air. Just a really strange progression of events.

i just could not get into earth defense club. i don't like watching a bunch of dudes.

the one where the dude has the two step sisters seems promising.

now im trying to finish girls and panzer

I agree but come on those dudes are funny.
Them sisters would be great "I feel something hard" lmfao

i may try to watch another episode of the earth defense club, but if it is boring again, then i am done with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg

for those interested, the final heavens lost property movie is on kiss anime. no its not that sucky angeloid of clockwork one either.

Any recommendations for I should watch this season, preferably something on crunchyroll? I plan on checking out KanColle, because why not, and Saekano, because it looks like it could be a good romance anime, but aside from that there doesn't appear to be much else.

Also just started watching Nagi no Asakura from winter 2014, and wow that is amazing so far. Much, much better than Glasslip.

A combination of Funimation picking up some of the really interesting stuff this season and the season having just literally started means I can't say that I'm comfortable recommending anything but of what I've seen and what I'm anticipating will be at least worth giving a shot ...

Seen -
Death Parade*
Yuri Kuma Arashi
Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! (Magical boys!)

Anticipating -
Rolling Girls*
Durarara S2
Maria the Virgin Witch

* = Funimation has the rights to stream it, rip.

But like I said, we've just started here. Even Terror in Resonance and Aldnoah Zero were good for their first few episodes. Judging a show by, at best, its FIRST episode is pretty dangerous territory so take all of this with an appropriate grain of salt.

Also hi.

Hi! Long time no see.

While we are at it I have a list of shows I am planning in watching. Could you, or anyone else, tell me which of these I shouldn't even bother with, so I don't end up wasting my time diving into a completely **** show.

K-on
Vocaloid
Idolmaster
Noragami
Tokyo Ravens
Clannad (And Clannad After Story)
Nisekoi
Haikyu

Any and all opinions appreciated. Also if you say a show is ****, please explain why, without spoiling anything.

Hi! Long time no see.

While we are at it I have a list of shows I am planning in watching. Could you, or anyone else, tell me which of these I shouldn't even bother with, so I don't end up wasting my time diving into a completely **** show.

K-on
Vocaloid
Idolmaster
Noragami
Tokyo Ravens
Clannad (And Clannad After Story)
Nisekoi
Haikyu

Any and all opinions appreciated. Also if you say a show is ****, please explain why, without spoiling anything.

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Just a heads up to you Glantix, after going through this thread and posting for a few months while talking with you, I can say that this guy's tastes align pretty closely with yours.

After reading his post I can definetly agree with you on that statement. The problem I have now is that I was trying to shorten my list, but I'm pretty sure SoTa just made my list longer.

I'm a Romance and Slice of Life lover, setting to me doesn't matter, just the content of the feelings and experiences characters go through.

Oh, one show on CR I forgot to mention and should be on the TOP of your list - Madoka Magica. A magical girl anime that will leave you both ****** and humbled. It's genres are mind **** a nd magic with yuri.

And this is where we differ! For me the mechanics of the world and its characters are fundamentally tied. In the best cases the characters become a reflection of the world and the conditions in which they've developed and this makes up for a lot of the enjoyment I get out of a piece of media. Sure, there are exceptions, I loved Nozaki-kun and more light hearted comedies. But for a show that has ambitions beyond the comedy (like Kokoro Connect) I find it extremely important that the mechanics of the world and its character flow together seamlessly. It's a lot of the reason why I couldn't enjoy Kokoro as much as most people.

On the flipside shows that dedicate a lot of their time to just exploring the people and places around them within the framework of what they've created I appreciate all that much more. Mushishi will forever be one of my favorite shows and I have a soft spot for the more episodic or Science Fiction leaning shows that either create a far off goal to create an excuse to have adventures or are more dedicated to creating a mechanically sound experience.

Basically what I'm saying is to watch Planetes.

A couple paragraphs about his opinions on anime, snipped for the sake of character limit.