Winter 2015 Anime Season

Ah, I rather disagree. Actually, I don't have any real problems with pacing at all, mostly because I'm not particularly sure where the show will go next.

Considering that Yatterman is for the most part episodic, I don't see how the pacing can be slow.

Lots of silent moments of the characters not doing much, slow dialogue that isn't particularly brilliant, and so on. Everything is too slow, takes too long to happen, with too many pauses. When things do happen, they're stretched out with repetitiveness. The characters are also rather one-note: they don't seem to have much personality beyond their roles.

On an unrelated topic, the whole premise of two adults serving a child on a deadly mission is a bit hard to wrap one's head around.

J-J-J-JAM IT IN!

edited 15th Feb '15 3:25:39 PM by TheHandle

...You lost me.

I only watched the first two episodes. Does the pace pick up after that?

Considering that I didn't felt the pacing slow in the first 2 episodes anyway, I just don't know what you were talking about from the first place.

I have to agree that Yoru no Yatterman is pretty slow. Not much happens in any given episode after the first two, and it's fairly repetetive

Cross Ange Episode 19. Hoo boy. There's just no way Embryo can be a living being.

He has to be some kind of super-computer with the overriding command "protect the mana society at all costs" because everything he does in this episode just screams "AI is a crapshoot" like LANDREW from Star Trek, The Original Series except far more advanced. "Landrew" was incapable of making illusions like what Embryo does, but it did everything else, up to and including mind controlling the populace to protect itself.

I honestly think that the main villain in Milky Holmes TD will be Kyubey. The anime is basically a magical girl series. And the WT Fspace where the elements show up look like a witches labyrinth.

I wonder if the whole plot is basically a trial run for whatever Kyubey has planned in Madoka Magica 3?

Absolute Duo continues to impress. Julie really got a chance to shine in episode 7. That stinger ending.... Bwahahaha! Julie is REALLY talented at guilt tripping Tor to do things that Japanese boys WANT to do with a girl, but are just too embarrassed to ask. And she looks so perfectly innocent doing it.

After suffering through five episodes, I have to conclude that ISUCA is the worst show I'm watching this season. It's worse than Cross Ange and World Break!

That's bit harsh.

While I would say that it is a very weak show I think that is mostly to do with it being a terrible adaption of the original manga rather than it being actually bad. Also I am very much enjoying Cross Ange and World Break (even if the latter could do with a better budget).

edited 21st Feb '15 6:57:58 AM by SebastianGray

Have we mentioned that GARO: The Animation is fucking awesome in the past couple of days? Because GARO: The Animation is fucking awesome, and you should watch it.

Hey, I also enjoy Ange (you just can't make up some of the stuff they pull) and World Break (despite the MC being even more of a wish-fulfillment fantasy in a niche that thrives on wish fulfillment). But ISUCA, no. The show is terrible and does the source material injustice.

Let's just pat Garo on the back for being awesome. /highfive

here, here.

I pretty much knew it was going to be awesome when I knew Yasuko Kobayashi was on board.

She just needs to start doing Precure like what, she's done for Senai and Kamen rider at some point.

Awesome fights plus Her character writing? Cool.

What's with all the terrible adaptations lately? Have the writers and directors gotten lazy or something? =.=

It's that we have a bunch of adaptions of generic series at once. These things rarely sell well, so the studio is making it's money from being paid upfront. Meaning that they have no incentive to make it particularly good. Also I think the staff is probably wishing they were working on something more interesting

I'd say that it's also a consequence of the vast majority of adaptions being a marketing vehicle for the original material, rather than a stand-alone work.

It's an apples-and-oranges comparison, but the fact that a wildly successful anime may sell 10k copies while a successful LN will sell two orders of magnitude more than that makes it not hard to see why there's not a whole lot of investment in the typical adaption.

edited 21st Feb '15 8:41:50 PM by HighVelocityPointyThings

10k is "selling well", not "wildly successful"

Cross Ange Episode 20, and we can officially remove "Ambiguous" from Embryo's "Evil Overlord" title. He all but admits that all his "Pet the dog" moments to date were purely for the sake of "recruiting" (ie brainwashing) all the Ragnamail pilots he has into "Undying Loyalty" for him. Also, in the very first few minutes of the episode, he calls humanity "evil" BECAUSE HE'S BORED that they're too easy to control and too dependent on him! (Despite the fact that he specifically designed magi and the mana system that way.)

Also, remember how SUICIDAL Jill's strategy was in episode 19? Although Jill's not aware of it, this was intentional. She's STILL suffering from Embryo's mind control.

Embryo needs to die, horribly. There is just no other way to stop him at this point. Especially considering what he plans to do with Aura.

Embryo is barely Saturday Morning Cartoon villain caliber at this point.

Makes me real scared of what Saturday cartoons you watch.

As I recall, no cartoons intended for children involved sexual assault, or using mind control to make women feel like their clothes were on fire just so they would strip and humiliate themselves.

Especially since the woman in question objects to his "I'll make humanity 'good' by KILLING EVERYBODY!" plan.