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UltimatelySubjective Since: Jun, 2011
#10476: Sep 16th 2011 at 2:17:14 AM

Mecha is another thing I find a strange extraneous thing to add repeatedly to multiple storylines of all different types.

But I won't deny it's also given us some awesome shows and giant robots are pretty cool (if not really my thing).

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#10477: Sep 16th 2011 at 2:37:33 AM

[up][up][up][up] *chin resting on left hand, blinking* Sure, whatever you say.

[up][up][up] Eh, what can I do.

edited 16th Sep '11 2:41:56 AM by dRoy

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Sporkaganza I'm glasses. Since: May, 2009
I'm glasses.
#10478: Sep 16th 2011 at 2:47:13 AM

@Smokie: Holy shit. That anon is a badass motherfucker! I think he might deserve a medal - especially since he's really articulated something I've always thought. People always say anime was better before, but really, the old stuff that sucked just drops off the face of the earth. That combined with Nostalgia Filter, and it's the same shit you get people saying about everything else, whether it's how music was better in the seventies, or television, or film, or whatever.

edited 16th Sep '11 2:47:19 AM by Sporkaganza

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#10479: Sep 16th 2011 at 2:48:44 AM

I personally believe that even with Sturgeon's Law applied, 10% from older animes>10% from recent ones.

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Excelion from The Fatherland Since: Sep, 2010
#10480: Sep 16th 2011 at 2:50:55 AM

Have you even seen "older" anime?

And by old I don't mean "Hurr, stuff from 2006 is old".

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Sporkaganza I'm glasses. Since: May, 2009
I'm glasses.
#10481: Sep 16th 2011 at 2:51:05 AM

It's called personal taste, Roy. I know you're using the Internet, so it's probably a lost cause already to try and educate you on this one, but there is such a thing. Just because someone likes a show you don't like doesn't mean that they're watching a shitty show because they're an idiot.

Please stop. Reevaluate what you're saying. Try and be a little more mature here. And failing that, stop complaining about it. I'm sick of hearing this shit from people on the Internet.

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djmaca Secret Character from Philippines Since: Apr, 2010
Secret Character
#10482: Sep 16th 2011 at 4:33:03 AM

[up]You should talk more to those in the Nanoha thread....tongue

[up][up] Old, by which you mean Voltes V old?

edited 16th Sep '11 4:54:10 AM by djmaca

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LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 from [DATA EXPUNGED] Since: Jun, 2011
奇跡の魔女
#10483: Sep 16th 2011 at 4:35:37 AM

Well... that was enlightening. I admit that I've only started watching anime frequently around one and a half years ago, so I really know jack shit about the industry.

Japan really does need to grow up.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#10484: Sep 16th 2011 at 4:52:51 AM

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I find you considering yourself so highly as someone who has capacity to preach on someone highly amusing. I know people have tastes, but when that tastes influence what kind of anime gets produced, I think I get to have some words to say.

As far as I know, the current market is catering to more exclusive (that’s the closest word I can substitute for otaku because honestly, I don’t like using that term) consumer demographics, because they have far more purchasing power, as in they are more willing to buy DVDs and other merchandises. When they demand shows that empathizes on rather shallow reaction and excludes themes that made the anime appealing to wider audiences, I have complaints.

This isn’t to say older works, I’m not even going THAT far, just around beginning of 2000s (yes, hahaha not it’s not that old), are better than the newer ones. Anime is expensive to make so it is only natural to make works that would appeal to whoever has the most purchasing power. However, unlike say, early 1990s, with better technology, making animes*

to make, and there’s more room for creativity, venturing, and pursuing of higher quality creation. That is, if this demand of moe doesn’t outspeak everything else.

I recently visited a local bookstore and checked the Light Novel section. There were over two dozens of series and you except few series*

, all of them had premises that largely involved harem plot and for the lack of better term, moeness. That’s the point when I started to think that this whole moe fever is getting out of control like, to borrow exaggeration and admittedly demonization, cancer that overtakes other cells in body.

To sum, there’s nothing wrong with moe in itself, but the problem with current anime trend is that it leaves no room for other kinds of series.

edited 16th Sep '11 5:30:45 AM by dRoy

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KSPAM PARTY PARTY PARTY I WANNA HAVE A PARTY from PARTY ROCK Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
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#10485: Sep 16th 2011 at 6:26:29 AM

I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial
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#10486: Sep 16th 2011 at 6:27:33 AM

[up] Oh look, it's that macro again.

Which anime studio do you think would be good for animating this upcoming video game?

edited 16th Sep '11 7:04:14 AM by Demongodofchaos2

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Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#10487: Sep 16th 2011 at 7:05:54 AM

I would say a Collab of Studio Pierrot (For fight scenes) and Madhouse (For animation quality and fluidness) would do it pretty damn well. thoughts?

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#10488: Sep 16th 2011 at 7:08:01 AM

Oooooh, looks awesome!

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Spirit Pretty flower from America Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
Pretty flower
#10489: Sep 16th 2011 at 8:29:41 AM

Congrats Demongod. Your constant pimping of Asura's Wrath has somehow prevented Hype Backlash and raised my interest in the game from "Not at all" to "Maybe when the price drops."

Keep it up and it might go all the way to "When the price drops."

edited 16th Sep '11 8:29:58 AM by Spirit

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PikaHikariKT Since: Jan, 2001
#10490: Sep 16th 2011 at 9:07:22 AM

http://twitter.com/#!/aicnanime/status/114724479594278912

Nothing can describe the rage I'm feeling right now, as it apparently sold over 10,000 copies.

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#10492: Sep 16th 2011 at 10:16:17 AM

Copy-paste for people who can't access Twitter?

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Belian In honor of my 50lb pup from 42 Since: Jan, 2001
In honor of my 50lb pup
#10493: Sep 16th 2011 at 10:27:37 AM

Master Of Martial Hearts ( http://bit.ly/azXQi3 ) getting "Classic" label re-release 12.6.11 ... just in time for the holidays

Considering that the link is to an article that recommends that...

Choosy anime fans, who choose to watch brain damaged, half stripped women eat pet food should choose Masters of Martial Hearts. Everyone else, watch Air Master, streaming where fine anime are streamed.

...this does not sound like a particularly good thing. Not that you should base your reaction on a single opinion.

edited 16th Sep '11 10:28:15 AM by Belian

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Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#10495: Sep 16th 2011 at 11:13:02 AM

>Start Bake...etc episode 1

>not 5 seconds in, Panty Flash

Sigh....

I dont know whats wrong with me but fanservice is like an instant "no thanks" for me.

Couldn't watch it anyway, laptop can't handle super high def. Maybe I'll try it on my home computer. But that kinda just killed my desire to watch it now.

edited 16th Sep '11 11:13:10 AM by Thorn14

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#10496: Sep 16th 2011 at 11:18:26 AM

The panty flash is actual plot relevant (in a way) and nothing particularly like it happens again. You're more likely to see gratuitous violence than panties.

edited 16th Sep '11 11:18:58 AM by Arha

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#10497: Sep 16th 2011 at 11:20:26 AM

Well it still made a bad impression on me.

And it almost happened while my dad as looking sad

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#10498: Sep 16th 2011 at 11:23:48 AM

Shrug. Petty and inaccurate reason to drop one of the best anime I've seen, but I can't exactly stop you.

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#10499: Sep 16th 2011 at 11:24:56 AM

[up][up] That sounds utterly pathetic, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to bash you or anything. I'm just saying.

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LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 from [DATA EXPUNGED] Since: Jun, 2011
奇跡の魔女
#10500: Sep 16th 2011 at 11:26:09 AM

Bakemonogatari's a really good watch to pass up just because of a single panty shot that also happens to be somewhat plot-related (although it's not explained until Kizumonogatari, IIRC)

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