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People that can't get into Guilty Crown
Really? I bet you love Death Note and Code Geass right? If you can’t get into Guilty Crown how in the hell did you get into the other two anime’s. You so funny! Guilty Crown is by far the best anime of 2011 and so far 2012, someone that says Naruto is better, I will laugh at you and never call you…
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>MFW that’s my voice
I wonder if other people use audio from my videos to make silly things like these.
(Source: tachimukaisbutt, via thegoodcommissar)
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Winter 2012 Anime Status
Watching
Ano Natsu de Matteru: The first episode was interesting enough, but I’m expecting Ano Hana-levels of melodrama eventually.
Another: Completely unsubtle in its horror, but I’m liking it so far.
Bodacious Space Pirates: I’m not quite as gaga about it as some, but this looks like it’ll be a big hit.
Brave 10: I really liked the music in this episode, it reminded me (as it did others) of Samurai Champloo, though it has nowhere near as much style as Champloo did.
Daily Lives of High School Boys: Nichibros! I was very impressed by this, definitely the best new show of the season.
Nisemonogatari: Sigh. Utterly unimpressed so far, but to echo Scamp’s most hated phrase, it’ll get better, I’m sure.
Thermae Romae: I’m still not entirely sure if this is comedy gold or completely unfunny, but this has a certain charm to it, a certain joie de vivre, that most anime don’t have.
Dropped
Highschool DxD: I maintain that DxD’s first two episodes are better than Nise’s first two episodes, but this doesn’t have a hope in hell of improving on them.
Kill Me Baby: Uninspiring, unprofessional and unfunny. Bleh. I had some hope for KMB, but I feel betrayed. Good ED though.
The Knight in the Area: Would consider returning to this if it ends up half-decent, but the first episode was just kinda bland. I was only going to be watching for the football anyway, so why not just watch Giant Killing instead?
Poyopoyo: Terrible, not even worth the five minutes it takes to watch.
Recorder and Randsell: See above, though it wasn’t quite that bad.
Senki Zesshou Symphogear: Lost interest, obvious Macross Frontier parallel etc.
Didn’t Watch
Aquarion Evol: Half of everyone who worked on Frontier worked on this. Insta-pass.
Dog x Me SS: Don’t care for it.
Paedophile no Iu Koto wo Kikinasai: I don’t want to be on some kind of register.
Sequels (Natsume, Milky Holmes etc.): Didn’t watch the originals.
Summary
Including all continuing shows, this season I’m watching:
Ano Natsu de Matteru | Another | Bodacious Space Pirates | Brave 10 | Chihayafuru
Daily Lives of High School Boys | Future Diary | Guilty Crown | Nisemonogatari
Persona 4 The Animation | Phi Brain: Puzzle of God | Thermae Romae
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Worst Moments of Anime 2011
#1: Macross Frontier
The aniblogger community on the whole seems like it wouldn’t stop short of getting down on their knees and orally servicing anyone and everyone involved in the production of Macross Frontier. I know Frontier didn’t air in 2011, but it was in 2011 that I watched it. The extent to which I hate Frontier can barely be expressed in words. The plot was full of shitty melodrama - more so than that melodramatic classic of our time, Ano Hana - and a love triangle in which I had no interest. The action sequences looked pretty at first glance, but beyond twisting vapour trails from missiles (note to everyone: missiles do not fly like that - Guilty Crown suffers from the same affliction) they had not a hint of substance. The idol parts of the story were laughable, and the whole weaponised J-Pop thing? It’s fucking stupid. The traditional animation ranged from bad to average, and the CGI felt clunky and out of place. The songs themselves were okay, except for the one song that Frontier repeats the most, the Vajra love song ‘Aimo’. I’m pretty sure there was one episode where it was sung four times, which would be bad enough even if the song was good. I was taken in by a half-decent first episode, and I was a fool. You are all fools for liking this shambles of a show.
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Worst Moments of Anime 2011
#2: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira
This is one of the worst anime I have ever seen. This is a grave insult to everything that made the main Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series great. Sure, the last OVA series, Rei, was hardly brilliant, but Kira is on a whole new level. Loli cleaning windows with her butt? Check. Girl eating fruit and cream off of the naked body of her twin sister? Check. Nurse wearing a bunny outfit with a flute nestled in her cleavage? Check. Characters going mad with paranoia? Nope. Evil cults carrying out human experiments? None here. Murder mysteries? NOT A SINGLE ONE.
Fuck this show.
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Worst Moments of Anime 2011
#3: Guilty Crown
We thought noitaminA couldn’t get worse than Fractale. We were wrong. At least Fractale was kinda good for two-thirds of its run - Guilty Crown has been pretty terrible since day one. Well okay, it had two good episodes, and the scene where Shu storms GHQ in the latest episode was pretty cool, but other than that it has ranged from dull to offensively bad. The characters are so bland and inconsequential that outside of the main three characters I can’t name any of them, as they’ve had no impact on me. Guilty Crown may have provided the inspiration for the name of this blog, but its coming was the second nail into noitaminA’s coffin.
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Worst Moments of Anime 2011
#4: Fractale
Oh Fractale, how your ending sucked… It’s awfully predictable of this to feature, I admit, but the way that this series imploded in on itself was quite spectacular. Fractale was more than okay until the finale few episodes, but after Clain and Friends mowed down some grannies with their machine guns that was all forgotten. Science fictions tropes were thrown out of the screen with no coherent reason for them to be there. It was almost as if they drew the storyboards of all these cool scenes before actually thinking up the story, so the plot that they did come up with only serves to transport Clain between locales. The first death throes of noitaminA.
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Worst Moments of Anime 2011
#5: Kamisama Dolls
It started so brightly, but eventually Kamisama Dolls was an ugly mess that had no idea what it wanted to do or where it wanted to go. The pacing was atrocious, with numerous episodes devoted to nearly nothing, and it lacked focus so badly that it made me want to slap the creator in the face and tell him to stop changing who the Big Bad of the series is every two episodes. And the sequel baiting, my god, it was utterly shameless. “Hey guys, maybe we should leave the series completely unfinished so that we can get a second season in the future!” the head monkey exclaimed, looking up from his typewriter. “Ook ook ook!” the others replied in chorus, before turning back to the script and writing the words “Kyouhei walks in on the girls undressing”.
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Panty and Stocking would have made my 12 Days of Christmas list if I’d finished it in time. It’s crude, loud and completely unsubtle, and I fucking love it. The Powerpuff Girls-inspired artwork looks crisp and dynamic, the soundtrack is /amazing/ and the ending is so fucking Gainax that it makes other Gainax endings look ordinary in comparison.
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I HAVE A TUMBLR NOW
IT’S SO EXCITING DE GESO~
Credit for the name goes to Fosh.
