Tokyo Ravens Episode 3 is shaping up to be an eminently solid adaption so far. The first arc gives it probably the best 3-episode test of any show this season.
Yowamushi Pedal 3: Still on the standard sports show track. Not exactly a bad thing.
Walkure Romanze 3: What would it take for people to have sensible armor in this show... Anyway, the jousting action was actually sorta nice.
Super Seisyun 6: Ehe.
White Album 3: Well at least we got that recruiting plot out of the way.
Yuusha ni Narenakatta blah blah Episode 3: Somehow a defective humidifier becomes a tentacled slime monster. Huuuh.
Gundam Build Fighters 3: Moar mecha mayhem.
(I should probably start a threads for a few of these)
edited 23rd Oct '13 8:04:41 AM by fillerdude
Ore no Nounai 3: This is something that Date A Live failed to be, selfawere deconstruction and subtle parody. This has everything that would make any other show terrible and play it somehow right even in case I would never say it's possible.
Guy who wrote it was genius.
edited 23rd Oct '13 3:38:37 PM by Tenzen12
"Subtle" parody? "Not enough" parody? It's about as subtle as four guys clobbing you to the ground. And I'm not sure I'd say it's a deconstruction either. The consequences they show from playing the tropes straight are just as much parodic as the tropes themselves. There's also plenty of just lampshading the tropes and then going on with using them just like every other show.
I'm not sure I'd compare it to Date A Live, either. Doesn't feel like they're aiming for the same thing. For instance, you can take some of the characters at least somewhat seriously in Date A Live, but here? Not a chance.
Got a moeblob who actually works, though, as she's not a character type you can use decently without parodying her. And Ouka is hilariously ditzy.
Check out my fanfiction!Well the thing is, there's basically one parody element (absolute choice), subverting Visual Novel choice. But it's only subverted in one way. That's what I mean. The same joke, merely repeated.
Everything else is standard harem comedy.
Well, it does make me suspect that someone decided that social rejects are the new moe.
edited 24th Oct '13 12:40:52 AM by UltimatelySubjective
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Nope characters and pretty much everything in Date A Live is be bearable ONLY as parody and deconstruction. Fact it wasn't thorough about it is what make it suck.
But yes, I might use word subtle wrongly, though looking on Ultimate Subjective and his fail of understang some points, maybe not.
edited 24th Oct '13 1:56:33 AM by Tenzen12
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I think most of the characters parody various archetypes, like Moeblob, Genki Girl, and Pretty Freeloader, as well as tropes relating to them. There's also the detail you spoilered above, exaggerated reactions to quite a lot of things (like assisted Pervert Revenge Mode; do we have that trope?), the yaoi jokes, and probably more stuff.
I also don't really see how the choices are subverted. They're still there. Trope still exist. Not A Subversion. On a semi-related note, there was one reasonable choice in the last episode.
Well, I disagree.
Also, Poe's Law.
edited 24th Oct '13 1:59:58 AM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!These characters are not parodies.
Most of them aren't designed to recall an archetype. They are that character type.
The comedy doesn't change the formula enough to be parody.
Except in the case of the choices because they're just like game options, except I've never seen choices this consistently terrible for the chooser.
OK, started a page for Yowamushi Pedal. Hopefully it will get the Wiki Magic Love soon. (it is a underrated series)
Samurai Flamenco is boring.
The only good character in there is the retired Sentai actor.
Gaist Crusher is certainly improving with episode 2, bring it on par with your average TV Tokyo kids' anime, but it still has to go a long way to perform better.
Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun is still the same, but the comedy is getting slightly amusing.
Aikatsu! 2nd Series needs new songs as soon as possible, but everything else is just as great as the first season.
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Wait, you find Samurai Flamenco boring, but you like the retired Sentai actor?
No, before that, you find Samurai Flamenco boring?
"And you must be Jonathan Joestar!" - Sue

It's from the guys who did, Princess Lover right? I expect this will go nowhere, no matter how much potential it has.