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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#401: Oct 22nd 2013 at 11:15:14 AM

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

SiennaCiShan Since: May, 2013
#402: Oct 22nd 2013 at 7:12:51 PM

Alter Memory, episode 3: Continues to fail to improve.

Not only is this show filled with trite writing, it commits the capital sin that any anime adaptation of a fighting game can do: making the fight scenes boring.

Sugita, you did not dispelled the jinx, you only made it stronger.

Dressed to Kill.
HighVelocityPointyThings Since: May, 2012
#403: Oct 22nd 2013 at 7:43:32 PM

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.

fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#404: Oct 23rd 2013 at 8:04:25 AM

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

UltimatelySubjective Since: Jun, 2011
#405: Oct 23rd 2013 at 8:32:16 AM

[up] This more or less a given, but can I assume that the tentacle slime monster... Attacks the girls, or otherwise ends up in a compromising position with them?

I mean it is tentacle and slime. Probably too making it key to twice the fanservice.

edited 23rd Oct '13 8:33:32 AM by UltimatelySubjective

fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#406: Oct 23rd 2013 at 8:39:56 AM

[up] That does happen but it's not as bad as I expected. Like, they promptly managed to evacuate the noncombatants (who for the record are named female characters), and the one girl who loses her clothes doesn't spend twenty seconds squirming and moaning.

edited 23rd Oct '13 8:40:26 AM by fillerdude

Tenzen12 Red Lagoon Since: Jul, 2011
Red Lagoon
#407: Oct 23rd 2013 at 3:37:40 PM

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

UltimatelySubjective Since: Jun, 2011
#408: Oct 23rd 2013 at 6:38:18 PM

Genius is too high a level of praise.

I'm not finding it enough of a parody.

The conspicuously placed objects were amusing somehow though.

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#409: Oct 24th 2013 at 12:03:28 AM

"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.

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UltimatelySubjective Since: Jun, 2011
#410: Oct 24th 2013 at 12:35:32 AM

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

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#411: Oct 24th 2013 at 12:41:16 AM

That's seriously all parody you see in it?

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Tenzen12 Red Lagoon Since: Jul, 2011
Red Lagoon
#413: Oct 24th 2013 at 1:54:09 AM

[up][up][up][up]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

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#414: Oct 24th 2013 at 1:57:24 AM

[up][up]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.

[up]Well, I disagree.

Also, Poe's Law.

edited 24th Oct '13 1:59:58 AM by AnotherDuck

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UltimatelySubjective Since: Jun, 2011
#415: Oct 24th 2013 at 2:54:26 AM

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.

Tenzen12 Red Lagoon Since: Jul, 2011
Red Lagoon
#416: Oct 24th 2013 at 2:56:51 AM

Well, we disagree with each other. I guess there is no way around that this time.

edited 24th Oct '13 3:18:13 AM by Tenzen12

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#417: Oct 24th 2013 at 4:10:02 PM

So, at this point we're past the impression stage and most everything has a thread. Time to unpin it?

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#418: Oct 24th 2013 at 4:20:06 PM

Might as well.

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kiukiuclk from 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693 Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: My TiMER is ticking
#419: Oct 24th 2013 at 5:25:10 PM

We've been using it for general discussion as needed also. Don't these usually just stay till the next season happens?

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#420: Oct 24th 2013 at 5:55:07 PM

No? This is the first one to get pinned at all

Abzeronow Since: Jun, 2012
#421: Nov 1st 2013 at 9:44:59 AM

OK, started a page for Yowamushi Pedal. Hopefully it will get the Wiki Magic Love soon. (it is a underrated series)

SiennaCiShan Since: May, 2013
#422: Nov 1st 2013 at 10:01:52 AM

Samurai Flamenco is boring.

The only good character in there is the retired Sentai actor.

Dressed to Kill.
murazrai Since: Jan, 2010
#423: Nov 1st 2013 at 3:57:43 PM

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.

danna45 Owner of Dead End from Wagnaria Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Owner of Dead End
#424: Nov 3rd 2013 at 5:03:27 AM

[up][up]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
SiennaCiShan Since: May, 2013
#425: Nov 3rd 2013 at 5:46:09 AM

Yes. It's a very dull, lifeless show, Sentai retired actor aside.

It's kick-ass without the agressiveness, or bet yet, it's kick-ass made by committee

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