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Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Sept 11, 2008, 4:31pm

It's that time again.
I'm already watching Xam'd, so the new shows that I'm interested in are:
-Gundam 00 2nd season (I'm Gundam. Just check my MAL profile.)
-Kurogane no Linebarrell (Gonzo...)
-Clannad: After Story (TOMOYO!)
-Tytania (Will it be another classic like LoGH?)
-Michiko and Hacchin (By Manglobe of Champloo and Ergo)
-Kyou no 5 no 2 (Loli-Minamike)
-Lucky Star OVA (MMORPG BATTLE & Kagami cosplaying as Miku)
-Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OVA (I need to finish ZSZS)

Some maybes are:
-Fist of the North Star: Raou Gaiden (not a fan of the newer style though)
-Casshern Sins
-Gairei -Rei-
-Ride Back (Robot bikes)
-Kemeko Deluxe
-Astronomical Warrior Sun Red

And...
Apparently, Gurren-Lagann's movie a big hit. Exceeded Gainax expectations, so we can probably expect more spin-offs from Gainax.

http://www.bunkatsushin.com/modules/bulletin/article.php?storyid=23531

The results from Ikebukuro's Cinema Sunshine is that in the first two days, 4140 people attended, with box-office takings of 6.57 million yen, the theater packed to capacity and people having to stand in many showings.

http://www.varietyjapan.com/news/movie_dom/2k1u7d00000ci6zp.html

Box-office takings for September 6-7 equal 21 million yen. Despite being for the moment only a limited release, the average per screen showed enough force to exceed 20th Century Boys. It's the number one movie of the week in Japan.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Sept 11, 2008, 5:08pm

Fall 2008 Posters
English list
Japanese list

As usual, kudos to anonymous for making the poster, animeph for the English list and Moon Phase for being the best anime news source on this planet.

Something to think about:

MSNBC: Anime erotic subculture goes mainstream

What's true-or-not-true:

- When anime conventions started in the U.S. back in the mid-1990s, the main demographic was mostly Asian college-age male students, says 32-year-old otaku expert Lawrence Eng. “Now, at least 50 percent are female," he says. "Fandom itself is more diverse than ever.”

- But sexually-suggestive and explicit anime like "Gurren Lagann" and "Legend of the Overfiend," is finding an eager audience of adult Americans who are drawn to the post-modern, almost post-human mash-up of playful, blurry morality found in the genre.

- “The appeal of Japanese pop culture [to Americans] is that it is a moral-free zone,” explains Patrick Macias, editor in chief of Otaku USA, a bi-monthly magazine with a circulation of approximately 60,000.

- Because some of the edgier elements such as “Lolicon” (or Lolicom, a combination of “Lolita” and “comic”) involve very young anime girls in erotic situations, adult otaku media is a “really sensitive topic,” in the U.S., says Macias.

- Whatever it is, for a true otaku, Eng says, it is not pedophilia. “Fans abhor young looking [real-life] models,” he said. “They abhor real child porn. They do not want to be associated with that stuff.”

- “Among Japanese fans — the guys — it is a badge of honor to say, ‘We do not need real women; [these] figures are better, they do not talk back’” said Macias. “Americans are not there yet, but at the rate things are going, we are going to be seeing that.”

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by jrpopdog on Sept 11, 2008, 5:15pm

ooo, rosario, akaneiro, clannad, ef. Most stuff for me to watch and i'm backlogged 2 anime seasons.... ara ara @.@

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Sept 11, 2008, 5:36pm

Sept 11, 2008, 5:08pm, shuchung wrote:

- But sexually-suggestive and explicit anime like "Gurren Lagann" and "Legend of the Overfiend," is finding an eager audience of adult Americans who are drawn to the post-modern, almost post-human mash-up of playful, blurry morality found in the genre.

Gurren Lagann != Legend of the Overfiend.
I can tell that this guy has done his research, about as much as Jack Thompson did.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by ringtails on Sept 11, 2008, 6:07pm

Nodame Cantabile (why not?)
Today in Class 5-2 (OVAs were funny)
Gundam 00 (my mech for the season)
Clannad: After Story (heck yea!)
ef: a tale of melodies (OMGOMGOMG)
Vampire Knight Guilty (because... uhh... "expanding my horizons")
Rosario and Vampire (does Gonzo have the guts to follow the manga this time?)

Let's see... all seven of those are... sequels (kinda).
I'll just let other people formulate my opinions for me and go with the flow.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Sept 11, 2008, 9:07pm

Sexploration? Are you serious? I did have to turn to the part of the article that involved a bit (just a bit) of what I hang around.

Or, as British sociologist Sharon Kinsella suggests, the Lolita-complex anime culture appeals because it's rebellious. “Depictions of sexual deviance and uncontained energy projected onto girls in stories in boy’s comics ... contain an antiauthoritarian impulse that gains intense vicarious pleasure from viewing scenes of social chaos, misbehaviour and sensual liberation,” she has written.

You know, as much as I believe there are educational explanations for some situations, I'm not sure if going this far works.

Whatever it is, for a true otaku, Eng says, it is not pedophilia. “Fans abhor young looking [real-life] models,” he said. “They abhor real child porn. They do not want to be associated with that stuff.”

For example, on a Lolicon chat board recently, someone posted a Japanese DVD cover showing real schoolgirls, around 8 years old, dressed in uniforms, showing their panties, smiling, giggling. The community was outraged and urged harsh punishment for the makers of the DVD, arguing that there is a vast and important difference between “2-D” and “3-D.”

This is what I was rather happy to read, gives me warm fuzzies. And I have some reason to worry that the board they're mentioning here is a place I frequent. Especially since I remember this situation occurring...hmm...

Getting to the point though.

Going to Watch
Kyou no 5 no 2 - I haven't watched something of the genre for awhile. I'm hoping it will be a decent brand of humor (yeah right).

Fist of the North Star: Raou Gaiden - A character focus entirely on Raoh? I have little reason to believe it won't be badass. Hopefully they don't screw him up though.

Zettai Shougeki -Platonic Heart- - This one, in my opinion, looks like it's going to crash and burn. Sure a lot of big companies are going into it but I just don't see success written all over it. Especially with Lantis handling the music/character CDs. Oh boy for another 30 character CDs.

Tales of the Abyss - The game was good and the characters are highly memorable. A lot of potential for success as long as they don't go into left field with it.

Noramimi 2 - Sweeeet.

Rosario to Vampire CAPU2 - I called this sequel after seeing five episodes of the first season, so I feel some odd obligation to watch it. Plus, I enjoy counting panty shots.

Nodame - I'm expecting more of the same which is good enough for me.

Shugo Chara! 2 - ....Ican'tbelieveI'mstillwatchingthisIcan'tbelieveI'mstillwatchingthisIcan'tbelieveI'mstillwatchingthisIcan'tbelieveI'ms tillwatchingthisIcan'tbelieveI'mstillwatchingthis

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Sept 12, 2008, 1:06am

Sept 11, 2008, 9:07pm, leek wrote:

For example, on a Lolicon chat board recently, someone posted a Japanese DVD cover showing real schoolgirls, around 8 years old, dressed in uniforms, showing their panties, smiling, giggling. The community was outraged and urged harsh punishment for the makers of the DVD, arguing that there is a vast and important difference between “2-D” and “3-D.”[/i]

This is what I was rather happy to read, gives me warm fuzzies. And I have some reason to worry that the board they're mentioning here is a place I frequent. Especially since I remember this situation occurring...hmm...

It happens all the time, people get offended by that easily. They don't want to be grouped together with pedophiles, yet they can't take their eyes off prepubescent children's panties, granted those are fictional. I say as long as you aren't hurting anyone, you're free to live in any kind of fantasy world you please.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Sept 14, 2008, 1:55pm

Gundam 00 2nd Season CM #4:

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Sept 14, 2008, 5:19pm

Linebarrel PV:

Interesting they got the Pokemon director. And I thought Goro Taniguchi is retiring after Code Geass. He even said it himself in Bamboo Blade. Ugh Hisaishi Hirai. I've been avoiding his character designs since Infinite Ryvius. Depends on how often the male characters blush for no reason and how big and round their eyes are, that may be the deciding factor of whether or not I will pick up this series. Finally, Ichiro Itano for Special Effects. No complain here. Best man for the job.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Sept 14, 2008, 5:31pm

Hisaishi Hirai. Ugh.
Seed. Destiny. Scryed. Fafner. Heroic Age. and now Linebarrel?
This guy ruins everything with his copy-pasta faces.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by kira on Sept 16, 2008, 4:13am

I just saw the PV for Tales of the Abyss, and I wonder if they'll use a shortened version of Bump of Chicken's "Karma," or if they'll actually go ahead and get another intro song. I guess I'll have a reason to watch another Sunrise show after all. It'll be good blogging material too, as I haven't played the game, so I don't have game-fanboy expectations.

Might possibly watch Vampire Knight Guilty and Rosario + Vampire CAPU2, but the previous seasons of each, I have never finished. I'm especially wary of R+V, after Episode 8, I lost interest in the anime completely because they always deemed it necessary to keep re-using Moka's transformation animation and the little annoying bat. Vampire Knight I never finished because I was too interested in 4 other series to keep track of.

Oh, and of course Clannad After Story. Prepare for BAAAAAWing. ^^;

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Sept 22, 2008, 10:04am

Updated Fall 08 English List

Initial D Extra Stage 2 OVA (...I've watched all the D stuff so far, so why not?)
Hell's Angels
Eve no Jikan (Indie gone big)
Candy Boy (Yuri FTW)
Zettai Yareru Greek Shinwa (Erotic Greek Mythology? Sign me up!)

IMO the BIGGEST show that might be overlooked for this season:

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Sept 22, 2008, 10:58am

Well, if you're someone like me who do a little background check before they got into a show, Tytania is definitely something you won't miss. So let's take a look at Tytania's page listed on ANN.

Staff: Macross/Orguss/LoGH production crew
Original creator: Yoshiki Tanaka
Animation: Artland
Broadcaster: NHK

A veteran crew, a good production company, a popular writer, and a guaranteed budget from NHK. I guess my only concern for this show will be the director, who is like in his 70s, and the last time he directed anything was over 15 years ago. Also, I remember he said something like he wish he could have directed more comedy series during his last interview. Other than that, this show is probably going to be amazing.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by bellelikesbooks on Sept 22, 2008, 11:00am

I may check it out simply because it shares the name of the Fairy Queen of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. ^_^

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Sept 23, 2008, 5:32pm

More news in the way of "free" internet anime:

Joost and Hulu are streaming full, subtitled and dubbed episodes of shows like Naruto, Mushi-shi, Death Note, etc.

ANN Articles with more expansive lists:
Joost article
Hulu article

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Sept 24, 2008, 12:22am

So now that Macross F is finally wrapping up, with all the attention and praise it's got (on top of having a sweet OST ^_^) I was thinking I'd get around to watching it.

Question is, can I just start with F and will the plot be fairly understandable to a complete newcomer to the series? Or is it semi-essential that I go through the roughly 80-90 episodes of its prequels?

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by neur0manc3r on Sept 24, 2008, 1:51am

@Lucky*Star*Zubon: I think it's pretty understandable for someone who doesn't know a lot about the Macross universe/franchise. There are some references to the prequels, but they're not terribly crucial to enjoying the show. Just be warned -- some of the songs are addictive. =)

For e.g. I watched the original Macross a long time ago as a kid & can barely remember it, but I still caught a few references in Macross F -- some of the characters are designed to be homages to the earlier prequel counterparts & that made me cheer. And of course, there's Skull Squadron and pineapple cake...

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Sept 24, 2008, 11:08am

Sept 24, 2008, 12:22am, liuxuande wrote:

Question is, can I just start with F and will the plot be fairly understandable to a complete newcomer to the series? Or is it semi-essential that I go through the roughly 80-90 episodes of its prequels?

As neur0manc3r said, you don't necessarily need the knowledge of prequels. If you have time though, you can watch the movie Macross: Do You Remember Love?, which is a retelling of the original series. You can also check out the OVAs Macross Plus and Macross Zero. Plus is the little gem of this franchise, and Frontier had one episode dedicated to referencing Zero. Finally, you can download Macross 7 theme songs and inserts performed by Yoshiki Fukuyama, which can be heard in the background occasionally.

That will pretty much cover most of the references you will encounter in Frontier.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Sept 26, 2008, 1:06am

Macross Frontier Movie announced when the TV series ended.

New Tytania trailer.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Sept 26, 2008, 1:45am

To comment further on the ease of viewing on Macross F, there's no real background needed. But it's basically just a perk to have seen the previous series. There's a lot of parallels that are drawn between the main characters that get people like me excited. Plus once you're used to the Macross pattern (basically how all the series kind of move) it adds a bit and you can catch the smaller things they throw in.

Talk between Macross fans about Frontier basically sounds like gibberish. At least when I try to view my conversations with my friends about it I realize that it take some serious merit to understand what the heck we're saying.

@Above Article
Yeah, even without announcing it the movie would have been pretty obvious. Not only because Macross F was such a big series but the fact the ending was so open ended.

There's so much they could cover in the movie that it gets me pretty excited, I can only how long it'll be before I'm able to see it though. I really doubt they'll match the scale of the battle that was reached at the end of Frontier as well. Unless they just plan on viewing the main story from a different perspective or something. I'm kind of hoping for a continuation in plot though myself.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Sept 28, 2008, 3:29pm

Latest Gundam 00 Preview that was aired after Geass' finale:

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Sept 30, 2008, 12:55pm

Same posters ordered by air dates

Brace for Fall season impact!!!

Do you have enough hard disk space?

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Sept 30, 2008, 3:55pm

Where do those charts come from anyway?

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Sept 30, 2008, 6:21pm

Probably AnimeSuki. They get bounced around everywhere though, I usually catch them in /a/.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Oct 1, 2008, 9:51pm

Lucky Star OVA is out.

Good 45 min OVA is good (KagaRin & KagaMiku FTW!)

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Oct 2, 2008, 12:13am

Oct 1, 2008, 9:51pm, liuxuande wrote:

KagaMiku FTW!

・・・

（・∀・）ｶｴﾚ!!

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 2, 2008, 5:12am

Anyway....
Casshern Sins started:
- Extremely stylized retro action (think 70s anime drawn with modern technology) by Tatsunoko Productions

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Oct 2, 2008, 12:21pm

Oct 2, 2008, 12:13am, leek wrote:

Oct 1, 2008, 9:51pm, liuxuande wrote:

KagaMiku FTW!

・・・

（・∀・）ｶｴﾚ!!

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Scanning internal knowledge of Japanese language.... Entry found.

Quote:

"kaere" - command form of kaeru, "to return" as in "to return home", among its other uses.

Computing english slang equivalent combined with westernized emotional icon...

Oct 2, 2008, 12:13am, leek wrote:

Oct 1, 2008, 9:51pm, liuxuande wrote:

KagaMiku FTW!

...

Go home!!

Translation success! Understanding of 2chan-being achieved.

I think I'm going to do this for every obscure 2chan reference that's posted, just play dumb out of spite

And in response...how can you say no to that face?

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Oct 2, 2008, 5:22pm

So I just finished Rosario's second season opener. All I can really say to GONZO is...

　　　_、_　　Good Job!
　（　,_ﾉ` ）　　　 n　　　　　　
￣　　　＼　　（ E）　
ﾌ　　　 /ヽヽ_／／　

Honestly, you have to be totally lame to hate this show. 68 panty shots in one episode? And that was seriously me being kind of nice, I'm pretty sure I let one slide every now and then.

Anything that can be so terrible that it makes it good automatically ranks it high in my book. That and the ending theme (or was it the opening) What ever it was, was awesome.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 3, 2008, 1:18am

Clannad After Story first ep:
It's the same old Clannad: gags and miracles.
But, グリリバ(緑川光）自重しろwww.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by ringtails on Oct 3, 2008, 10:21am

You people and your moon runes and chicken scratches...
アイアムアンイヂオト.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 3, 2008, 3:56pm

Linebarrels of Iron is available on crunchyroll with official subs:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-460626/Linebarrels-of-Iron-Boy-and-Iron.html

Story has been changed from the manga a lot, but the action scenes are good so far.
I still can't stand Hisaishi's art though.

Also, Tentai Senshi Sunred is available on nico now.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Oct 3, 2008, 4:41pm

Oct 3, 2008, 3:56pm, mistcore wrote:

Also, Tentai Senshi Sunred is available on nico now.

BEST SHOW EVER.

Okay not really. But it is Seiji Kishi in his element and it is really d**n funny.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 3, 2008, 5:04pm

Oct 3, 2008, 4:41pm, leek wrote:

BEST SHOW EVER.

Okay not really. But it is Seiji Kishi in his element and it is really d**n funny.

It's awesome, just like Gyagu Manga Biyori.
Good guy is bad, and bad guys are nice.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 3, 2008, 5:07pm

Yup, Crunchyroll is offering free streaming and two direct downloads, 1.99 for Xvid encode, and 2.99 for h.264 encode. I think they changed the story around so they can showcase their CG action scenes in the first episode. Sunred is great, Seto no Hanayome staff strikes again.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Oct 3, 2008, 5:14pm

Yeah, but luckily it won't have to crash like Seto did after the first half of the show.

The thing about Seiji Kishi as a director is that he's really good at doing over the top humor and essentially gag humor. The only problem is that it can't really be retained to be entertaining for too long.

Galaxy Angel-Rune he screwed up royally. The GA series was built for humor but not always over the top. So he seemed to struggle in coming up with a good direction for the series. Seto no Hanayome lended itself to a lot more his style. The problem was that it also needed some substance. It went well for those first 13 episodes or so but once they added in the additional characters it also got run into the ground. Not like I'm blaming all of this on him entirely though.

So seeing as how Sunred is a 15 minute gag reel, there's no real way for him to screw up. It's basically what I think he was meant to do.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 4, 2008, 9:23pm

Alright, three more shows and some hopefully helpful background.

Kannagi from A-1 Pictures. Of course, A-1 Pictures is really just the animation front of Aniplex, the actual animation studio behind Kannagi is Ordet, founded by series director Yutaka Yamamoto sometimes in 2007-2008. Yutaka Yamamoto, also known as the director who got fired after three episode in Lucky Star, is nevertheless a very capable animator, and his Ordet studio appears to be consisted of his buddies from Kyoto Animation. Along with veteran writer Hideyuki Kurata, Kannagi is looking good.

Toradora! Nothing new here. J.C. Staff, Rie Kugimiya, you know the rest. Because we can't survive a season without hearing Louise/Shana/Taiga shouting BAKA and URUSAI in our face.

Shikabane Hime: Aka from GAINAX. Original manga is mediocre at best, and GAINAX is already moving things around and making some interesting artistic choices here and there.

Standing by for Gundam 00...

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 5, 2008, 12:55pm

Gundam 00 2nd season:
A good setup for the new season.
Explaining a good amount of time jump questions and bringing up the new season plot points simultaneously.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 5, 2008, 2:36pm

Second season definitely had a good start. 00's been criticized for the slow pace in the beginning and lost many fans, but it's finally paying off now as all the side characters from last season are coming together onto the center stage.

More new shows.

To Aru Majutsu no Index. Another one from J.C. Along with potential Slayers Revolution 2, Shana 3 and Zero 4, J.C. seems to be doing extremely well these days.

Kuroshitsuji. Another one from A-1. Don't really notice anyone on staff except Taku Iwasaki. Premise is about an impeccable butler serving a young noble Englishman. Other than the obvious yaoi underlying plot, not really sure if the story is supposed to be comedy, supernatural horror, or whatnot. Nice VA though.

The rest is alright, Yozakura Quartet, Skip Beat!, Kyou no 5-2, etc. Quartet has Rozen's production team, Skip Beat! is exactly the same as the manga, and 5-2 is already covered in the OVA, so it's not as funny.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Oct 5, 2008, 4:56pm

I'll just in some new/additional comments to what I've seen over the past few days.

Raoh Gaiden - I still can't adjust to the new look of Hokuto no Ken. I know it's not impossible to create a reminiscent feel either so I somehow hold a grudge that they won't do it. Other then that, they essentially did what I requested the series be about: "Raoh punches things". Essentially the first episode.

Tales of Abyss - Episodes 1 and 2 are out now which leaves it open for more judging. They're hugging the game plot pretty nicely and they still kept Karma as an opening. And obviously since it's Sunrise the animation doesn't suffer from any glaring flaws. Tales of the Abyss gets crazier as it gets deeper in so I'll be more critical when they start getting into real plot. But it does give me a huge excuse to fanboy Arietta again.

Kyou no 5-2 - Personally, I still like it. It's simple and I always go for that kind of thing. And the fact there will be more leads me to be pretty solid with it. I don't have high expectations so it's all good for me.

To Aru Majutsu no Index - This show interests me a lot. A lot of huge potential for action along with some nice ladies thrown into the mix. I remember hearing a few things about the novels but I can't say I remember too much of the criticisms/compliments that came out of it. But the manga is being published in Gangan who tend to have a decent showing. I may try reading through some of it to see what the series could get to be like in the future.

Shugo Chara Doki - Why in the hell did I watch a 52 episode series if they were just going to recap it in the first f**king episode of the second season? Seriously, why couldn't you just have a normal intro episode to make me feel slightly less bad? Other then that, it looks like they'll be bring back my favorite trap ever, so it's all good.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by godzilla71 on Oct 5, 2008, 10:47pm

Gundam 00 2nd season 1st ep is out with subs! rejoice gundam/mecha fans!!!

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Oct 5, 2008, 11:50pm

Oct 4, 2008, 9:23pm, shuchung wrote:

Toradora! Nothing new here. J.C. Staff, Rie Kugimiya, you know the rest. Because we can't survive a season without hearing Louise/Shana/Taiga shouting BAKA and URUSAI in our face.

I'm sold.

Oct 3, 2008, 10:21am, ringtails wrote:

You people and your moon runes and chicken scratches...
アイアムアンイヂオト.

アイ　シー　ウアット　ユー　| 82;ド　ダール。。。

はいはい、もう止めてる... ((((>.>)

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 6, 2008, 1:10am

Kemeko Deluxe:
Not sure what made me decide to check this....
Maybe it was the action scenes in the PV.
Comedy isn't that great, as it adds fan service to a cheap imitation of the Hare Guu style.
Action is ok, but I can see this quickly turning into a generic show for me.

Tytania, here I come.

EDIT:

Ga-Rei Zero:
HAHA OH WOW.
Um...I can't say much, but man.
I have to go check the manga to see if that's how it started.

Update:
Ok....I have no idea why the anime started as it did.
Ga-Rei's manga version is ghost hunting comedy, while the anime is serious action ghost hunting.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 7, 2008, 4:28pm

I don't like double posting...

Anyway, Type-Moon is doing a new anime called 428.

EDIT:
TYTANIA~.
I wished that the style was less modern, but w/e.
The VA's of Annerose, Allelujah, Tieria/Zetsubou Sensei, and Kamina are the ones that I recognized.
Tea, wine, and gum for everyone.
And...it has potential to be good.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by bellelikesbooks on Oct 11, 2008, 11:33pm

Oct 5, 2008, 4:56pm, leek wrote:

Tales of Abyss - They're hugging the game plot pretty nicely and they still kept Karma as an opening.

Anything that would slight Bump of Chicken doesn't deserve to be watched! So yay that they didn't, for they would have my scorn...which I've heard is just dreadful... ^_^

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Oct 13, 2008, 2:41pm

I need your opinion guys. Just a couple weeks back, every Saturday night, like a kid for Saturday morning cartoons I'd be like "Saturday! Geass night!"

Just this Saturday I thought, "Hey, it's Geass night!" but then I remembered ;_;

Is there any epic show that I can substitute to fill my void of epicness?

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 13, 2008, 7:20pm

My 3 current recommendations:
-Tytania (You'll probably like this one if you liked LoGH)
-Gundam 00 2nd season (IFF you have watched the 1st season)
-Tentai Senshi Sunred (I'm serious)

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Oct 14, 2008, 2:17am

Oct 13, 2008, 7:20pm, mistcore wrote:

-Tentai Senshi Sunred (I'm serious)

This. Like big time. It's worth it for almost opening alone.

ねっ☆

Otherwise I'll say Tales of Abyss to be on the safe side. Assuming Sunrise decides to put money into the action scenes then things should heat up later. I'll blow a blood vessel if they half ass the bigger battles in the series.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by pucman on Oct 14, 2008, 10:51am

Oct 5, 2008, 4:56pm, leek wrote:

Shugo Chara Doki - Why in the hell did I watch a 52 episode series if they were just going to recap it in the first f**king episode of the second season? Seriously, why couldn't you just have a normal intro episode to make me feel slightly less bad? Other then that, it looks like they'll be bring back my favorite trap ever, so it's all good.

Glad to see I'm not the only one watching Shugo Chara this season. It's still too early to tell what will be good or not, but a partial list with impressions for now is as follows:

Gundam00 - Setsuna is the gundam
Kannagi - dancing OP and moe
Index - Mx0 anyone?
Shugo Chara - delicious Amu. Must lick.
Tytania - tea.
Maccademi Wasshoi - magic lolis
Linebarrels - herp Hisashi, your character art still looks terrible, but I'll watch it for the mechs
Ga-Rei Zero - ep 1: wut?
Shikabane Hime - GAINEX
Kemeko DX - JESUS JESUS GOD
Kuronutssuji - need my GAY replacement this season since antique is over
Yokozura Quartet - youkai moe

I'm still skeptical over Toradora. It's basically RIE IS TSUNDERE AGAIN: The Animation Part 56. I watched the first two for the parrot, but if this show can be dropped without hesitation.

I chose not to watch Rosario because I never finished the first season, and unless they decide to show Tsukune being GAR, I doubt I'll pick it up either.

Sunred needs subs badly.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 14, 2008, 11:59am

I don't have subs for Sunred, but here is the comparison ver. of the OP with its real life location counterparts:

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 14, 2008, 12:14pm

Oct 14, 2008, 10:51am, pucman wrote:

Index - Mx0 anyone?

From now on I'm going to pretend Index is Mx0 because I know it will never be animated. Or complete.

Argh...

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 15, 2008, 12:01pm

ANN: Live-Action Film of Kaiji Manga to Open Next Summer
Too bad Tatsuya Fujiwara's nose is not nearly long enough as Kaiji.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 15, 2008, 8:17pm

Nico news stated that Oshii Mamoru is going to be working on a Miyamoto Mushashi film for next year.

Michiko and Hacchin (By Manglobe of Samurai Champloo and Ergo Proxy):
The OP & ED are old school and stylized.
The actual episode itself doesn't have too much going on, but started off well with Hacchin's daily life.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 16, 2008, 2:59am

Yep, and that movie is going to be competing against Evangelion 2.0, thus continuing Oshii's records of box office flops. At least he's not the director this time around. He's probably too busy working on writing screenplays and directing his new live-action movies nowadays.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by theduke on Oct 17, 2008, 6:22pm

Just saw Michiko and Hacchin. Pretty good probably going to be great. Didn't expect any less from such a creator.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 18, 2008, 11:55pm

Michiko and Hacchin was indeed delicious. Easily one of the best first episodes this season.

Shikabane Hime is rather low key compare to GAINAX's previous effort. I'm not particularly drawn to the story or characters, but the atmosphere and tone of the picture are well painted, and the action gig by Akira Amemiya is satisfying.

Kurozuka was a pleasant surprise for me. It is adapted from the manga by the same name. The highly sensual style reminded me strongly of Yoshiaki Kawajiri, or Takeshi Koike, in terms of character design and animation. The original manga has some semblance to Battle Angel Alita, with the same amount of gore and extra full frontal nudity. However, I don't think the sex bit will be translated to the TV anime adaptation.

Kannagi is still very well animated after three episodes. It almost feels malicious the way this show steals all the conventions established by Kyoto Animation. Granted the staff is consisted of former Kyoto Animation members. Perhaps this is all just part of Kyoto Animation's marketing scheme?

Ga-Rei -Zero- is killing off more main characters...and breaking things. Because killing off your characters toward the end of a series is simply not enough to shock the viewers anymore...

Mizushima's Kemeko Deluxe is interesting, to say the least. Not quite as genius as his Hare+Guu, but definitely on par with the absurdity in his Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan. Though to be honest, compare to these laugh-out-loud's, I prefer his slice-of-life, light comedy series like Genshiken, and Oofuri.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Oct 19, 2008, 8:17am

Gundam 00 S2 EP 3:
f**k YEAH!
300 SECOND ASSAULT & RESCUE OPERATION + ALL GUNDAM MEISTERS TOGETHER = VICTORY RAINBOW!

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 23, 2008, 4:39pm

NY Times: Manga and Wine Culture
Publisher Weekly: The Mainstreaming of Haruhi Suzumiya

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 23, 2008, 6:48pm

AFTERNOON's spin-off magazine good! AFTERNOON revealed an amazing lineup of over 15 new series from well-known authors such as Kōsuke Fujishima, Hiroaki Samura, Masayuki Ishikawa, and Eiji Nonaka. /Paradise Residence/ will be the first new serialization for Kōsuke Fujishima in two decades since Ah My Goddess! and You're Under Arrest. Tsutomu Takahashi will also be reviving his Jiraishin stories after nearly a decade.

http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/3660119/s/

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by jrpopdog on Oct 24, 2008, 12:19am

oh god, don't let amanda read that they're coming out with a haruhi novel ~.~

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Oct 24, 2008, 12:43pm

Is the novel a translation of the Light novels? Or *shudder* a fresh adaptation >.<

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 24, 2008, 10:18pm

Oct 24, 2008, 12:43pm, liuxuande wrote:

Is the novel a translation of the Light novels? Or *shudder* a fresh adaptation >.<

Translated.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by pucman on Oct 25, 2008, 1:42am

One Outs ep 1 finally came out. God this show looks amazing. The opening makes me just want to rip my shirt off. MANLY. The only baseball I've watched before this was Princess Nine (Is that what it is? The baseball anime, not Princess 69...). Never really been too interested in baseball since it's slow and boring to me. One Outs is pretty awesome though. Baseball and Akagi level MINDGAMES.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Oct 25, 2008, 4:26am

Yeah, I wanted to rip my pants off when I watched Princess 69 too...wait, what are we talking about again?

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by ringtails on Oct 25, 2008, 11:31pm

I am so glad the characters in One Outs are not high/middle schoolers. Adds to the epicness.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Oct 26, 2008, 1:10am

So, After Story is doing WS HQ broadcasts just like Clannad did. Awesomeness.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by ringtails on Nov 3, 2008, 3:04pm

Hurray for new Soul Eater opening!
http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/3850004/10506725

And for Soul Eater game!
http://www.psphyper.com/psp/soul-eater-battles-into-psp-ps2/

In other news, here's the opening for a cute PSP Higurashi fighting game.
http://www.gpara.com/comingsoon/higu_dbp/081107/movie.php

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by jrpopdog on Nov 7, 2008, 3:21am

Needs more DS rather than PSP/PS2 imo =x (since I have a DS)

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 10, 2008, 3:13am

ANN: A Look at Key Animation
Hey an interview on ANN that I actually care! How did I miss this!

Jokes aside, this is a rather technical interview with the owner of AniPage, one of the few blogs that I follow loyally. What's interesting about this interview is that the three interviewers have very diverse backgrounds which makes for a good display of anime fans' different opinions and understanding to animation. I think for a lot of younger animation fans such as myself, we were first exposed to individual key animators through Norio Matsumoto's good work in early Naruto. And from then on, recognizing the characteristics and influences of key animators has become a great pleasure for me. It's a field I'd definitely recommend other fans to delve into.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by ringtails on Nov 11, 2008, 7:51pm

So, this dude from Tytania ep. 5 has nearly the same name as me, same pronunciation and all.
Met a noble end... too bad this isn't a Sunrise series.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Nov 12, 2008, 3:54pm

Wow lol havent been here in so long. My roommate's friend from University of Texas, Scott, keeps showing up and going to JAC lol. Thought Id see whats going on here ^^

I was following:
Tytania - good promise but seems slow and lack the epicness of LoGH.
Ga-rei -zero- amazing animation too bad it is a prequel to a mediocre manga. As a standalone it is good
Kannagi - def the best romance/comedy this season
Skip Beat - a gem, very funny but this series will be LONG
Shikabane Aka - gave up on, as dull as it gets. So much for being the "secret anime" by Gainax
Toradora - tossup, funny but Rie Kugimiya as the seiyuu for main character. Says enough

then of course Bleach and other never ending stuff lol.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Nov 12, 2008, 11:48pm

Tytania: It is not quite up to the quality of LoGH. I'm starting to think that I'll wait until the entire show is done to catch up.
Ga-rei zero: It is okay, but the fact that it is a prequel to the manga already ruins the end of it for me. Especially considering the story in the manga...
Casshern Sins: BAD ASS.
Sunred: Does less screen time for Sunred mean a bad thing? NEVER.
Gundam 00: Hopefully the pace won't continue to slow down. Needs more Ali and Mister Bushido.
Michiko to Hacchin: It took 3 episodes to finally achieve the same atmosphere that was in Bebop and Champloo. I just hope there will be more comedic episodes.
Xam'd: FURUICHI STOLE THE SPOTLIGHT.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by pucman on Nov 13, 2008, 6:19pm

Tytania is hard to gauge still because of lack of battles (only 1 in 5 episodes) and lack of GAY. LOGH had homo vibes emitting from it like a uranium cell. Tytania comes off as very straigh-ohgodIcan'tstopfappingtoLira.

Ga-rei Zero. Pretty good for a lesbian anime. I've watched worse for lesbians. Like Kannazuki no Miko. Although Re-sublimity is god tier. And good (wasted) mech design wtf. Only thing that bothers me about Ga-Rei is that everyone's mouths have weird shading so it looks like they're always doing this :< for some reason.

I can't believe I'm the only one watching Kuroshitsuji. In b4 homolust. It's better than I expected though. Insane chainsaw shinigami was out of left field and stabbed me in the face.

I'm still trying to watch Earl and Fairy. The annoying chimes in the background are driving me literally insane though. Takes me like 2 hours to watch an ep because I have to pause every time I hear a chime just to try not to break something with my face.

Edit: lol autocensor censored Kuroshitsuji

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Nov 14, 2008, 10:24pm

Ga-rei isnt yuri or isnt supposed to be lol. At least the manga wasnt. I dont mind it turning yuri though...

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 15, 2008, 8:21pm

Some genius on 2ch came up with the idea of comparing the most revisions pages on en.wikipedia and jp.wikipedia, and below is what he found.

en.wikipedia

1. George W. Bush
2. Wikipedia
3. United States
4. Jesus
5. 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
6. Wii
7. Adolf Hitler
8. World War II
9. Deaths in 2006
10. RuneScape

jp.wikipedia

1. List of One Piece characters
2. My-Otome
3. One Piece
4. BLEACH
5. Gintama
6. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
7. Ultraman Mebius
8. List of porn actresses
9. Kamen Rider Den-O
10. Current events

And this is why we love Japan. Thank you very much.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by theduke on Nov 16, 2008, 7:09am

At least they have their priorities straight.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Nov 16, 2008, 6:44pm

Runescape...

Brings back good memories lol. I sold my account for nearly $4k. lol.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by ringtails on Nov 21, 2008, 12:47am

4... k??? Geez. That's quite the profit.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 23, 2008, 5:58am

So what are people's opinions on Dattebayo dropping Naruto/Crunchyroll officially turns legit/More legal small fee/free nearly simultaneous release options?

To start off, see this article.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Nov 23, 2008, 6:07am

I'm sorry, but this on the side being labeled as Buried Treasure bothered me far more to ever care about Naruto.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by jrpopdog on Nov 23, 2008, 2:22pm

I'm for it if the price is right. =x although it's kinda sad that it's not gonna be for free anymore but it is the point of fansubs... to provide subs until the licensors license the said anime... wonder why it's crunchyroll they picked =x

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Nov 23, 2008, 2:29pm

I agree, I had a little

[image]

reaction when I saw that too.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 23, 2008, 5:43pm

Oh it's a good decision to work with Crunchyroll despite whatever ANN forum has to say. They are definitely ahead of the game in terms of technology and user base, ie., multiple subtracks, high quality streaming/direct download option, and payment method. And even though there is no official report yet, GONZO's experiment earlier this year probably showed some positive results that drew in more business deals. Now that Crunchyroll has sealed a contract with the largest copyright holders in Japan, the implication is huge. If everything goes right, we will be effectively bypassing US television and licensor, and still be legal.

Of course there are still doubts of whether this plan will fly or not, and I'm interested in how many animation studios will depart from TV broadcaster to sign up with Crunchyroll independently.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by jrpopdog on Nov 23, 2008, 6:07pm

Well, another factor would be the subs/dubs... when they say that it's gonna be almost instant, would it include the subs/dubs or just the raws? After a week, would that be the raws or with subs ~.~

Also, say hello to commercial breaks XD

I dunno, i'll have to see the details

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 23, 2008, 7:24pm

There will be subs for sure, since they are working with the Japanese creators, the translators can grab the scripts beforehand. As for pricing, there is no official announcement yet, but you basically have two options on Crunchyroll, free streaming or paid direct download. Generally speaking Crunchyroll provides one of the higher end streaming video services, however, where direct download is available, they scale down the streaming video quality to appetite the paid option.

Back in April when it first started, Crunchyroll let the buyers decide the price they are willing to pay, but they have since then narrowed down the pricing range to around $2 and $3 per episode, for DivX and H.264 encodes respectively, which is roughly the same as retailing price on the cheapest box set? And dramatically less than buying single episodes disks.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Nov 24, 2008, 10:36am

Whoops. Yeah, I was responding to this post lol:

Quote:

I'm sorry, but this [Lain] on the side being labeled as Buried Treasure bothered me far more to ever care about Naruto.

But either way, I made a similar post on ANN...it's a bit ironic of DTB to say "now you guys have finally cleaned up your act" or whatever.

Quote:

If everything goes right, we will be effectively bypassing US television and licensor, and still be legal.

That's awesome.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 25, 2008, 5:20am

Nov 24, 2008, 10:36am, liuxuande wrote:

Whoops. Yeah, I was responding to this post lol:

Ah, I see.

Anyway, I hope I'm not the only person who missed this...but Youtube apparently upgraded their video quality once again from &fmt=18 to &fmt=22...

See the difference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0TKdTaLto&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0TKdTaLto&fmt=22

Sample video is AIR opening.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Nov 25, 2008, 10:33am

Holy crap. Yeah I saw that they have WS now, but that looks (and sounds) incredible. Watch, people will still find some way to complain about quality...but for internet streaming that's sick (doesn't work on all videos though)

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 25, 2008, 1:00pm

Nov 25, 2008, 10:33am, liuxuande wrote:

Holy crap. Yeah I saw that they have WS now, but that looks (and sounds) incredible. Watch, people will still find some way to complain about quality...but for internet streaming that's sick (doesn't work on all videos though)

It just means that Youtube now has the capacity to play even higher quality videos. It's not going to do videos with poor encoding to begin with any good. But yeah, Internet streaming can get some pretty amazing stuff at the expense of CPU power.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Nov 26, 2008, 3:30am

I've used Crunchyroll to preview series for a long time now. Not sure I like the direction the site is going but I cant really complain since the service is free. Skip Beat is an excellent choice though. Storyline is pretty stereotypical shoujo but the execution is great. I liked it so much I read the manga for it. Havent liked a manga this much since Pastel and the Pastel is like stereotypical shounen lol.

BTW anyone seen the commercial for Hanatoyume featuring a gaijin learning Japanese culture? It is in the raws for Skip Beat.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 26, 2008, 7:00am

I read 18 volumes of Skip Beat on a whim some time ago. It had a nice start, felt refreshing for its genre, but then slowly lost its momentum. Pastel and Parallel...I almost forgot about these series. I can't believe Pastel is still ongoing...o.o

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Nov 26, 2008, 10:53pm

Lol Pastel is pretty generic 'Girl comes to live with Boy" series. They kissed in Pastel....and that is about it. It is fairly light and Kobayashi knows when to throw in fan service however.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Nov 29, 2008, 1:37pm

So I decided to skip out on both Kannagi and Toradora in exchange for Akane iro (ry.

Don't ask me why, I think it's because watching things like this gives me a bad excuse to dig out and play through the source eroge again. But yeah, bad and incredibly generic if I had to describe the anime. Not like that would ever be a surprise.

I also just checked and realized that Shugo Chara is one of the recent series that CrunchyRoll decided to grab. Wow...what? That one just seems a little silly to me.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Nov 29, 2008, 1:56pm

Shugo Chara wins for sheer absurdity, lol.

Quote:

incredibly generic

Like about half the current season -.-

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Nov 29, 2008, 6:34pm

Nov 29, 2008, 1:37pm, leek wrote:

So I decided to skip out on both Kannagi and Toradora in exchange for Akane iro (ry.

How dare you. (ry

Toradora is toradorable.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by jrpopdog on Nov 29, 2008, 8:37pm

As a Yui Horie fanboy, I say : wahhh how could you ditch toradora T.T

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Dec 2, 2008, 7:19pm

Point is with these types of series for me it's what gets me the better deal out of it. Like I said, watching an eroge base gives me some justification to dig things out again just to check back with source material.

If I watch Toradora!, I have to deal with listening to Hocchan's fans, Kugyuu's fans, and Minorin's fans. It has Eri Kitamura in it which is somewhat beneficial but her alone can't justify me having to listen to three of the most obnoxious CV fan groups out there if I want to try and discuss it.

Kannagi just doesn't give me any benefit period. So it's just kind of out because of that. I realize it's had some decent CVs in there, two of which I'm really fond of. It also has Mai Nakahara though, and if you know me, then you know that I believe her to have a curse over her head. Not that I dislike her voice but about every series she's in crashes and burns for me at some point.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by pucman on Dec 2, 2008, 8:28pm

Nov 29, 2008, 6:34pm, shuchung wrote:

Toradora is toradorable.

You're THAT GUY that keeps spamming Taiga aren't you? Don't be THAT GUY.

Best show this season is Macademi Wasshoi. Claymation censorship is superior to bats or what have you. This show puts out superior references (WHAT? NO INFINITE BREAST MISSILES? ANGEL ATTACK).

I'm still watching Kannagi, but I have a feeling its one of those anime that is going to end with me RAGE'ing everywhere. Like True Tears. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Sorta makes sense that crunchyroll picked up Shugo Chara though. It has a ridiculously wide audience.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 2, 2008, 9:20pm

Dec 2, 2008, 8:28pm, pucman wrote:

You're THAT GUY that keeps spamming Taiga aren't you? Don't be THAT GUY.

Hey, it's not my fault people keep spamming Taiga on the board. Maybe she's just THAT TORADORABLE...jokes aside, Toradora is enjoyable. Good pacing and directing so far. I'm actually impressed by Kugimiya for once. And of course Minori is just completely out there...

Dec 2, 2008, 8:28pm, pucman wrote:

Sorta makes sense that crunchyroll picked up Shugo Chara though. It has a ridiculously wide audience.

female: age 5 to 9
male: age 5 to 9 and age 18 to 22+

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by jrpopdog on Dec 3, 2008, 11:15pm

upon reading the age group for shugo chara, i looked it up on anidb on what it is... it looks adorable >.>

Yes, Hocchan is the best~

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Dec 5, 2008, 6:08pm

Kannagi Ceases Publication: Otaku Blamed

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 5, 2008, 7:57pm

So typical of 2ch freaks. Just like when Kakyūsei 2 came out four years ago.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Dec 5, 2008, 8:39pm

laaaame.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Dec 5, 2008, 9:27pm

People wonder why I go to the VIP board of all places on 2ch. Not because the people don't do nuts like that but because we get to hardcore mock events like this. But yeah, this isn't news to me to be honest since I've been reading those threads for awhile now. More or less, it's pretty hillarious to see reactions.

Not like I understand the series enough to care.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 6, 2008, 4:28am

The rumors have been going around for a while now. Unfortunately there are people who care enough about 2ch's opinions to help them spread their horrible lies. I hope the author works their rumors into the story just to spike them.

Anyhow, seeing as how C75 is approaching, I'm more inclined to believe that the lady who drew Kannagi just took a break to work on her own booklets. After all, she's a famous Type-Moon ~~doujin~~ artist...

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 7, 2008, 8:29pm

Leapt Through Time's Hosoda to Direct Summer Wars Film

By now everyone should really take note of who Hosoda is. AFAIK, Mamoru Hosoda was an ordinary key animator working at Toei before his directorial debut, the first Digimon movie, at 2000. After that he's been recruited by Studio Ghibli to direct Howl's Moving Castle as one of the young talents to succeed Hayao Miyazaki, which he later declined for unstated reasons. Hosoda's next achievement is his Louis Vuitton commercial "Superflat Monogram" based on modern artist Takashi Murakami's character designs. Since then he has directed two more films, the sixth One Piece movie in 2006 and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in 2007. Girl Who Leapt Through Time is his first movie to gain international recognition as well as grand awards from film festivals all around the world. Now at the age of 41, Mamoru Hosoda's clearly established himself as a prominent animation director in Japan, and his every movie in the future is definitely worth looking forward to.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Dec 9, 2008, 6:09pm

YES!!!!!!

And that seiyuu list looks downright incredible. I think I'm dreaming, someone pinch me.

(loltouhouhijack)

This calls for a celebration:

[image]

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 11, 2008, 2:46pm

Haha, the touhou anime...too bad it's really a glorified MAD with an all-star seiyuu cast. Though I am curious how far they can go with this.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by jrpopdog on Dec 11, 2008, 2:57pm

probably gonna be hella expensive in the secondary market = =;

*goes back to admiring morning musume and perfume instead of studying*

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Dec 11, 2008, 4:41pm

I could comment on this CV cast forever only because a cast has been suggested how many times over for this series? I can tell you most of these weren't anywhere close.

Mai Nakahara: See comment about her on Page 7. I find this ironic.

Miyuki Sawashiro: I love Miyuki but I can only think of her as younger boys rather then just a tomboy. I'm somewhat upset they didn't choose Marina Inoue.

Rie Tanaka: About the only CV here I could approve of for their role. I'm pretty sure a few of the voices she's done have been steered towards Sakuya.

I could comment on the others. But these are the semi-nice comments I had that I could give. Back to EV Training Pokemon rather then studying.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Dec 11, 2008, 7:16pm

So, you mean to say that...Bamboo Blade, Clannad, Higurashi, and My-Otome all "crashed and burned"? That happening escapes my memory for some reason...

I can say that, I am (and likely other touhou fans are) just excited something (at least better than that previous circle's attempt) is coming to fruition, which hopefully bodes well for a future studio adaptation haha (like that'll ever happen...)

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Dec 11, 2008, 7:31pm

Bamboo Blade can hardly count since Mai played one of the most minor characters in that show. I don't even have to bother voicing my opinion on Clannad anymore. Higurashi was never good to me, just a nuisance. As for Mai-hime/Otome, don't get me started. Those are FINE examples of series that truly did crash and burn at the end rather then just in the general way of things.

Either way, most of all that matters to me about the Touhou series is the game themselves (like most of the people I know) which are getting worse by the second. But with all the hype it gets nowadays it was hard for it not to start eventually. A shame but not like it could have been avoided.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Dec 12, 2008, 10:07pm

Eh well, I guess we have different takes on that, My-Otome was one of my favorite shows of 2006, probably only second to Honey & Clover. Higurashi season 1 was great (save for some snags and lost in epic points from overhyping). Clannad actually brought a harem eroge's plot to somewhat normalcy (as opposed to previous harem anime eroge adaptations, where somehow magically every girl's plot is mutually exclusive from another). Point acknowledged on BB.

For Higurashi and Clannad, you're trying too hard to compare it to their source material, rather than looking at the anime as a standalone. Granted, that's pretty hard to do, but it's like Lord of the Rings fans complaining about the exclusion of a minor character in the films that sings and dances, whose only purpose is to give the main characters their weapons (true story, forget who it was though since it's been ages since I've read the book). Claymore, for example, diverged from the source material...but that's not why it ended badly, it ended badly because the ending itself sucked and was a poorly written, rushed way to end a series. On the other hand, FMA diverged as well and came up with a surprisingly interesting, unique ending. Death Note's manga ending was a lot better, but the anime was still amazing as a standalone. If you look at it objectively, there's a lot less wrong with some shows than you make them out to be

As for the Touhou games themselves, I'd wait till TH12 to see if ZUN is listening to some of the complaints voiced by fans after Subterranean Animism. But...MoF and SA really aren't that bad of games. I'd say they both have more enjoyable story modes than PCB (because Prismriver and Yuyuko are not fun, ugh). MoF has one of my favorite Extra stages, probably only second to PCB Extra (Ran ftw). And Subterranean Animism has some of the coolest concept spells ever. It's also a huge step up graphically, for a Touhou game. ZUN made your characters suck more, and the game 10x harder...which, if you're up for a good challenge... I would love to see a resurrection of more playable characters in the next one though (but most importantly...a FIXED homing Reimu, geez)

Oh, and PoFV is amazing. おれすげえーつえーよ　:P

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by leek on Dec 13, 2008, 1:43am

MoF was only worth it for Guncannon, Kerochan, and of course Kappa. That's about all though. I didn't really hate the cast for Subterranean but nothing in that game made me like them.

Subterranean was FAR from difficult though. The difficultly may be considered harder because of the new continue system but I was able to go through that game waaaay too far on no shot on my first run.

That and along the lines you said, I'd like to see Sakuya a permanent addition to the main playable cast. I think everybody would be happy about that one.

To say something anime related. We're long approaching Winter season. And now we get more Maria-sama ga Miteru, Minami-ke, and Hajime no Ippo. Finally a season that can't suck no matter what happens.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 13, 2008, 7:36pm

Yeah let's move on. Somebody go open the winter thread.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Dec 14, 2008, 2:21am

SA...Far from difficult? Haha, getting a no-continues Normal clear was pretty much hell since I'd be down to the wire by the time I'd reach Utsuho. Like everyone and their pet ravens, I cleared it with 0 lives left and Reimu A... only to die about 50 times before I figured out how to beat Sanae without losing a life in the Extra Stage. The cast wasn't extraordinary, but you have to admit, Utsuho's spells were pretty WTF.

Scoring [well] is also ridiculously hard in SA. With how most of the harder spells are, you have to graze...at high speeds to keep that meter up so you can autocollect? You're gambling so much for so little gain, since you have to continuously do that to score. It's not like Imperishable Night where you have a choice how to collect Time, or PCB where all you need is fast kills and to pick up the Cherry Point items.

And geez, Sakuya would be incredible. Gimme Sakuya A from PCB and I'll be happy. Or Youmu from IN (Reimu C in SA is kinda like Youmu, except awfully weak in comparison...)

But yes, before this turns into (as if it hasn't already, oops) a touhou thread, a Winter thread is in order. Someone who knows what's actually airing open it haha, I've been so out of the loop lately ^^;;

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 17, 2008, 3:46am

In other news: Japan's best-selling books (fictions, general, and comics) in 2008.

1. One Piece Vol.50 - 1,678,208 copies
2. One Piece Vol.51 - 1,646,978 copies
3. NANA Vol.19 - 1,645,128 copies
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 1,624,630 copies
5. One Piece Vol.49 - 1,544,000 copies

As you can see, One Piece takes up three spots on the top five list. Seriously, with this pace One Piece will be the best selling title in the history of Shounen Jump next year. It's also kind of impressive that after 51 volumes I'm still in love with this series.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Dec 19, 2008, 1:55am

I love NANA.

And I love your sig

I guess I'll just post this here...

Um, so look what my friend just did. He seriously is probably one of the best US players I've seen post vids.

Part 1
Part 2

WTF D:

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by pucman on Dec 19, 2008, 4:41am

Dec 9, 2008, 6:09pm, liuxuande wrote:

YES!!!!!!

And that seiyuu list looks downright incredible. I think I'm dreaming, someone pinch me.

(loltouhouhijack)

This calls for a celebration:

[image]

Does anyone know about how many copies they'd have? I'm going to winter comiket, but I don't feel like lining up forever...

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by liuxuande on Dec 19, 2008, 2:43pm

Thanks for quoting Udonge too, she really appreciates it

Quote:

I'm going to winter comiket

But sorry, no idea. As you can see from Maikaze's site: http://maikaze.com/, they've taken down most of what used to be there, except for a recent response they posted to ZUN. I suspect it's for reason of a lot of the high traffic they've been getting, and will continue to get (as I can vaguely infer from what it says on the bottom, lol).

The Comiket catalog won't have number of copies listed, will it?

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 19, 2008, 2:56pm

Dec 19, 2008, 4:41am, pucman wrote:

Does anyone know about how many copies they'd have? I'm going to winter comiket, but I don't feel like lining up forever...

Going to Comiket AND not lining up forever?
Do not compute.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by pucman on Dec 20, 2008, 6:46pm

Dec 19, 2008, 2:56pm, shuchung wrote:

Dec 19, 2008, 4:41am, pucman wrote:

Does anyone know about how many copies they'd have? I'm going to winter comiket, but I don't feel like lining up forever...

Going to Comiket AND not lining up forever?
Do not compute.

To be fair, I'll be staying in Osaka during those nights, so by the time I even got there, I would be screwed in line.

Also, I still haven't opened my comiket catalog yet, been busy. I'll probably flip through it on the train later.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Dec 21, 2008, 11:17pm

Dec 20, 2008, 6:46pm, pucman wrote:

Do share your experience when you're back! Maybe I'll visit there one day...

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by theduke on Dec 23, 2008, 11:38pm

Well the second episode of Goku Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei was awesome. Highly recommend the series to anyone.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Dec 29, 2008, 3:18pm

Dec 19, 2008, 4:41am, pucman wrote:

Dec 9, 2008, 6:09pm, liuxuande wrote:

YES!!!!!!

And that seiyuu list looks downright incredible. I think I'm dreaming, someone pinch me.

(loltouhouhijack)

This calls for a celebration:

[image]

Does anyone know about how many copies they'd have? I'm going to winter comiket, but I don't feel like lining up forever...

Lol.... I think I know you

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by mistcore on Jan 9, 2009, 8:18am

Anime Maker Seeks Arrest of Hyakko Critics.

And yes, Article 21 of the Japanese Constitution does grant individuals the right to freedom of speech.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by theduke on Jan 9, 2009, 11:42am

Silly rabbit. An opinion can't be slander.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Jan 12, 2009, 2:20pm

Managed to get 2 episodes of Idol Defense Forces Hummingbird off someone on Animesuki. This anime is extremely hard to find. Now for the other 2 episodes...

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Jan 13, 2009, 11:31am

Jan 12, 2009, 2:20pm, lixuelai wrote:

Managed to get 2 episodes of Idol Defense Forces Hummingbird off someone on Animesuki. This anime is extremely hard to find. Now for the other 2 episodes...

Eh I tried to look it up but couldn't find anything either. It is released in Taiwan though. Around 20 USD for the DVD box set and 6 USD for the VCD box set? I might have caught a glimpse of it back when it was aired in Taiwan, but I can barely remember anything. What a niche title haha.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Jan 13, 2009, 11:40am

Ah wtf posted in the wrong thread. Definitely not Fall 2008 -.-".

Here is the review of the anime: http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=146

btw where are you finding this? I checked Ebay and there is only LD on sale.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Jan 13, 2009, 12:06pm

Jan 13, 2009, 11:40am, lixuelai wrote:

btw where are you finding this? I checked Ebay and there is only LD on sale.

Oh I should add that I was talking about the ones released in Taiwan. From the licensor's website here and here. Actually the DVD box set only costs NT$218=USD$7? on the official site.

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by lixuelai on Jan 13, 2009, 7:29pm

Know anywhere to buy it? If not what is the most popular way of file sharing in Taiwan? Traditional subtitles but I guess I can live with that. Better than watching RAWs.

And I loled at this: "經典美少女偶像動畫！"

If this doesnt work out I guess I go download PerfectDark lol. Dunno if Share or Winny is still alive or not.

p.s. How did you look up the Taiwanese licensor?

Re: Fall 2008 Season
Post by shuchung on Jan 13, 2009, 9:24pm

I just saw it on YESASIA for $12. Looks like the same thing to me except they overcharge you by about 70%...I'm actually pretty out of loop with Taiwan's file sharing methods. I would go to China for that, which usually means eMule or bt.greedland. If I'm desperate enough I'd probably whip out my PD/Winny as well. Or maybe make a few international calls?

As for Taiwan licensor, I know a lot of HK/TW forums out there do keep track of what's been released, but I don't know if there is a news site dedicating to this. ANN has been steadily updating their encyclopedia with Chinese and Korean licensing information. Like this page: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=7253

A staff in charge of their encyclopedia is from Taiwan. I've exchanged a few posts with the guy, but that's about it...

In the meantime you can always check out the licensor's site for that. The big three are:
http://www.e-muse.com.tw/
http://www.prowaremedia.com.tw/
http://www.e-kids.com.tw/
...

Happy hunting!