/a/ - Animu & Mango

Just finished suisei no gargantia and I simply loved it. I watched some of these shows a long time ago but I went through a rough patch in my life and forgot about it.

>picturique graphics

>interesting story

>all the main characters are likeable

>good ending

Honestly, 8/10.

So, I finished off Kachou Ouji: Hard Rock Save The Space, which was something different.

The premise of the series is that Oujii is the former lead guitarist for the band Black Heaven, but now lives his life as a regular wage-slave with no real goals or ambitions. That is, until the guy is visited by aliens who demands that he plays for them as the sound he makes with his guitar is the "power source" needed for their ultimate weapon. And, so begins Ouji's life of moonlighting as a battery, meanwhile proceeding to "unfuck his shit up" in regards to his regular. I actually found the direction to be quite unexpected (Because, when I initially read the plot, I expected something along the lines of Bill & Ted or Airheads), but I feels like the series starts heading in a slightly different direction about halfway through. That is, it was still enjoyable, but while the series started with the guy trying to rebuild his marriage and just realizing how much life he had missed, latter half sort of side-steps that with him rebuilding his band with the actual series conclusion feeling like nothing has really changed in the long run. As far as the animation, it's okay with the music performances looking like something out of a cheap music video. And the audio does set up the series to have a more comedic feel to it while the events are unfolding.

Overall, I would recommendKachou Ouji: Hard Rock Save The Space as a good series to watch if you a show that goes in a different direction, but it left me with a wanting to see a series of where a guy does proceed to go all the way in just fixing up his life.

>>950604

Hell yeah this shit is amazing.

Just got done watching Angels of Death. Honestly, it was pretty good. As far as psychological thrillers go, I'd give it a 9/10. Of course, if you have just begun the series you may be puzzled for some of the characters motivations early in the anime, but the motives for their actions will be explained in due time. I honestly am laughing right now because most people who reviewed this anime badly seem to say that they dropped the anime early on and even came up with (what about motives?) as critique when they didnt even finish watching it. The story is pretty bizarre and if you dont like edgy fiction this anime is not for you. Here's my overall take on it:

>artwork 8/10

>story 9/10

>characters 9/10

>soundtrack 7/10

>voice acting 8/10

>animations 7/10

So, overall an 8/10 experience. The only real gripe (well at least as far as genre labeling goes) I have with it is that it is not really a mystery anime in the classical sense, you dont piece together clues to find out what could possibly happen later on, you basically wait until characters themselves reveal information to each other or a character has a flashback from something that happened in their past. Which is understandable because both Isaac Foster and Rachel Gardner deliberately have guarded personalities.

just rewatching stuff

Just finished Kaiba and I really don't know what to feel about it.

The first half where the world was being set up and various concepts and places were explored was great. The first two episodes established the strangeness of the whole world while setting up the mystery and pieces on the board.The other five analyzed ideas in an interesting way or had very good emotional beats. I didn't really mind the un-detailed and blobby/choppy animation, even with the use of 3D objects due to the more out-there imagery pertaining everything.

It somewhat fell off once Warp was being returned to his original body, but the clusterfuck of things going on together and Popo's overall tragedy brought from taking and flubbing opportunities was entertaining. It was no longer handling ideas or worlds, which the artstyle worked well for but instead complex maneuvering of various faggots with their own plans.

My major issue was how the ending was handled,specifically whatever the fuck the other Warp was supposed to be and at the end the worm just being "JUST FEED IT GOOD MEMORIES BRO,MY PROBLEM IS FINISHED LETS GO" and whatever the fuck that other warp that popped out of nowhere was supposed to be.Or just what happened in the ending after all was said in general. Did memories flood over everyone, leading to an understanding or some shit?

It was good dare I say great overall and the pieces fell into place well,but the first half felt stronger than the second half. It also kind of bothered me how Vanilla and the rest of the planets were never mentioned again after returning to the first planet besides what Warp remembered and his relationship with Neira..The end left me on a kind of a sour note despite wrapping most things up reasonably well.

Girls und Panzer

Plot was fluff but at least went to the point instead of dragging it out.

Fictional sport of senshado was ridiculous.

But it did give you what you expected from the title "Bishoujo-tachi to Sensha"

Should have ended at Der Film though.

Just finished chios school road and let me tell you, I have never been so entertained by such a simple concept before. Most of the time (as the name implies), she is just walking with a couple friends to and from school. But, she'll often do really risky stuff like climbing an entire building with her bear hands (without using ladders or equivelants). The fights between best friends in denial (Chio and Manana) were really fun to watch as well. Such a shame that it ended in one short season as I think it deserved at least 12 more episodes, which is a pretty rare praise from me considering that most anime past 2005 went to complete garbage

Just finished Darwins Game and I thought it was pretty good, MC starts out as a stereotypical "I don't want to kill anyone" type guy but by the end he turns out to be pretty badass.

The plot is a pretty basic death game/battle royal plot but that doesn't mean it isn't good. The action scenes are well done and satisfying to watch and overall the characters are very likeable. overall 7.5/10

That being said we might end up with a Btoom! repeat and never get a second season, but I doubt it as the anime is apparently very popular in China.

Posmotrel finished Eizokuen kinoklub.

Sorry for my english, I'm wanted to write on my ruboard named Tuchka but it dead and now its corpreps is exploding by cancer bubbles, throwing small fetches kuski of flesh away.

The anime is strange, lowemotially, however good.

Soundtrack is very good, malaca.

Somnitelny idea of only drawing multiki, the don't want to get real adventures almost. Ok.

I watched Urahara, I don't really know why.

Pretty boring, I just wanted to see if SOMETHING happened or if they'd do anything with the visuals.

It was like looking at the leftovers of a cheap piñata. A few tiny plastic dolls, candy that is edible but nobody likes, and some half-assed confetti.

Also I really didn't like the character's outfits. Ironic, since fashion is "SUCH" an "IMPORTANT" part of their lives.

That was some good shit and that's coming from someone that has never liked any 3D anime, the ending was rather underwhelming though.

>>953582

I absolutely loved Kaiba but i do agree that the first half is better, it's quite the underrated gem honestly.

So, I just finished off Super Dimension Century Orguss, and, overall, it's a pretty lame series.

The premise is that, in the far future, an interdimensional bomb is detonated by a terrorist group at the site of the literal elevator to space and screws up Earth by making it a patchwork of different eras and realities that's constantly changing. Why they do this no one knows because, after failing to defuse the bomb, Kei, the series' protagonist, is transported to 20 years in the future, where the planet is at war between the three factions that have risen to power: The Chilam (Humans), the Emaan (A race of space gypsies), and the Muu (A race of robots). And, they all want to get their hands on Kei because he's the Tokuiten (The singularity) who can fix the planet before they all die from global warming. Leave any and all expectations for some intriguing war drama at the door because this series is a soap opera through and through. Kei, himself, is the definition of what Patlabor was making a gag about when was talking about delinquent anime mech pilots, with the story progressing in a reverse manner to how Nadesico went. In the first third of the series, you have the relationship drama where Kei is wooing some guy's fiance, only for the guy to NEVER man up about it and ends up dying like a bitch, to where everyone is sad for a moment and then moves on. The middle third really shoves in the concept of there being some internal conflicts to where several of the factions are infighting because they all want to use Kei for their own purposes, but then it all falls apart in the third act with that being pushed on the sidelines to where Kei is sleeping with the ex-fiance all the while he has to deal with the fact that now he has a 20 year-old daughter who grew up while he was stuck in limbo. Also, you remember that comment I made about how I was furious with Genesis of Aquarion for the fact that all the characters were basically emotional and never told to get a grip? Yeah, Orguss takes that concept and ramps it up to 11 because it's more that Kei is downright irresponsible with his action at times. And everyone just accepts it because “He's the singularity, we have to let him do what he wants”. However, to break-away from talking about how bullshit the protagonist is, and how he walks all over everyone, let's talk about the other characters. You have Kei's old friend who is also a Tokuiten who appeared a decade prior and gets tired of Kei's shit, you have the robot loli who fawns of Kei and gets tired of his shit, there's Kei's 20 year-old daughter who gets tired of his shit, you have the the talking dinosaur who's a side attraction, you have the old fart who's the stereotype of a gypsy, you have the leader of the ship who's running away from responsibilities, you have the twins that exist, you have a old military robot that's lazy, you have a scientist that doesn't become important until later, you have the single mother taking care of her twin infants, and I think I got everyone worth noting.

As far as the animation, it's all over the place. It's decent most of the time, late episodes to have better animation in some parts, but there's nothing really interesting about it. The audio is okay, OST has the same five tracks, and don't know what else to say about that.

Overall, Super Dimension Century Orguss isn't really that good of a series and I can't see myself recommending it for any reason. It's not good, it's not bad, it's not even average, it's just...lame.

Just finished LOGH after putting it off for years, man what a ride. I also have a lot to write about it.

It didn't start off too well, with a blunt and slow and text dump at the first episode, but after a few episodes it started to get the ball rolling If I were to pinpoint where it came to it's own and transcended from slow, it would be the the point where Reinhard got his crew and the cast expanded on both sides. With a larger cast, the variety of things happening expanding and a wider variety of personalities and clashes came into play.

The war of succession soon after it was interesting in that it introduced more varied fights, while also allowing both sides to stomp and show off without having to balance each other. Kircheis death felt genuinely avoidable adding to the tragedy of the whole thing, it also added a lot of questions on how effective Yang's methods are despite his tactical effectiveness. How his modus-operandi gets in the way of achieving what he wants long-term by his unwillingness to deal with internal threats. Leaving him unable to truly get to his goals.

FPA vs Lohengram Empire should be considered one of the peaks of the series in regards to scale and not making the numbers or the situation arbitrary. The conversations also got more interesting around here, with Yang and Empire characters expressing their views providing interesting contemplations on characters, recent/old events and philosophies. Best bits were the definitive Reinhard vs Yang fight, the Fortress vs Fortress fight for being frantic as fuck, and character drama was top notch on every front all around.

Post-War Yang fleet shenanigans were comfy, and some of the best of the best strategies showed, with the corridor being used outside of just being a place to use Thor's hammer. If I had a complaint is that despite low numbers of the Yang Fleet being a point, losses or damage is never mentioned as significant until one of the major characters is hit. I understand that under the right environmental circumstances, numbers won't do much, but victories felt too clean for Yang's fleet for what was them being boxed in. Animation was great and many got their chance to shine great.Yang deserved better

Ruenthal's Rebellion and the fuckery preceding it was amazing, it made quite a bit of sense for Ruenthal's character(while making it both reasonable for him to do and it boxed him in) and the drama shifted towards the Empire's cast as it should have.I legit sobbed at the end and a truly great sendoff to one of the best characters of the series.Ruenthal did nothing wrong..Something else I noticed was how the series got more into abstract imagagery/visual metaphors than before.

Everything afterwards was fine and it did the required cleanup, they also bumped up the animation for both ship and hand to hand combat which I appreciated,but not the series' strong suit.It got schlocky at a few short points, but it was still great. Terraism was the weakest part tbh and they lost any real menace with Rubinsky being bedridden, that's arguably the point but kind of a weird note to end the series on. Not politics,corruption or ideals, but terrorists. I still enjoyed it and it was nice the Julian got some payback for the dumb shit they pulled.

Overall, I found the series incredible and I'm unsure if something like it will ever happen again. Things were reasonably being set up and characterization was on point, things made sense and character interaction was very well done. I never felt a dip or the writer having himself pushed into a corner and half-assing his way through it, awkward turn arounds in personality or retcons,dialogue/translated dialogue also managed to keep up well too .The classical music was intoxicating and major props to the guy who picked the tracks as well as managing to make some of his own tracks fit in well among them, shit managed to get me to look up some pieces to listen for myself.

Animation was good overall, bit choppy at the first season and throughout all of them moving the face always looked weird. It still managed to look rather impressive when it needed to, especially during the last fight and the fights between Reihnard and Yang.

Time to move on to the Gaiden episodes.

Captcha's gotten easier too.

watched stella jogakuin because of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_6LvKWy5vo

in retrospect i don't think it would be as fun if i hadn't played spec ops the line. still it was quite entertaining. i even shed a tear near the end but i was high as balls so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Finished lesbian bear storm. Cute bears but it was all just dumb gay metaphors.

Opening was hot though.

i didn't get it, but i'm now in need of a cute tomboy doing sign language

>>955047

Finished the first batch of Gaidens.

The Silver-White Valley was rather too dramatic for my tastes,but the animation for each episode is top notch and ,outside of being ludicrously bombastic with the fist fighting ambush segments were worth watching.

The detective adventures of Kircheis and Reinhard were fine.Nothing special and things made sense, but besides providing more Kircheis and Reinhard while fleshing out the world and the reasons they do things as well as providing decent mysteries and sad stories. Can't complain about getting more Kircheis,inoffensive as he is without Reinhard, he needed that screentime and it's nice seeing him again after finishing the series.

Kreuznach was a neat setting

A Hundred Billion Stars, a Hundred Billion Lights was closer to the series, even while mostly on the ground and Reinhard not being allowed to do shit being a point. Containing all the moral/strategic/political complexity and occasional unpleasentness that was common in the series.Whiny Reinhard is genuinely funny.

Meele combat was looked and the Risenrotter were great as always. I actually felt bad for Grimmelshausen, old man knows he only gets by on being on the good graces of everyone, shame he never had an honest dialogue with Kircheis or Reignhard. Would have been interesting with what Reinhard said two side stories ago.

Ovlesser was also surprisingly fun here, he was a dick, but he knew what Lüneburg was doing and refused to play ball while having a strong presence.

I also really liked what they did with Lüneburg, the whole situation with him Schönkopf and Reinhard was entertaining and pitiful towards the end.

>>955064

I liked them too due to being well put together and the sheer amount of shit happening, but if you put that stuff on front it's hard to truly care,especially if the first few episodes were underwhelming until both Yang and Reinhard rose to power and shit hit it's stride.

An episode that stuck out to me was the one involving the Empire's scorched earth tactics,more specifically the one where a guy was put in charge for terraforming and making the planet capable of producing food for itself.Then the army that "liberated" the colony got their supply line fucked and just decided to turn on their promise,stole the people's food and left them to starve.

There was something realistically chilling how not just the values,but even their own efforts of helping a colony got quikcly got fucked by the reality that "crusaders of liberty" are just another army pushed to the front by glory-seeking superiors and need supplies as any other army.

>>955113

>Containing all the moral/strategic/political complexity and occasional unpleasentness

It contained all the moral/strategic/political complexity and occasional unpleasentness the series was known for

>Meele combat was looked

Meele combat looked good

Since no one finished anything else, might as well mention that I now finished the second Gaiden series.

This series was made in another era and it shows,the animation,despite looking cleaner feels lower like it's of lower quality.Movement looks cheaper and characters don't seem to be in as detailed backgrounds as the previous Gaiden or the main series.The Lip flapping doesn't seem as good either.

Yang's arc was fun and genuinely comfy, with a neat way of reaching the conclusion.The way the rest of the cast was introduced and the old man in the camp were genuinely entertaining to watch and interact.Despite some cheap tricks and animation not being quite good,writing held up and it was fun.

Reinhard's arcs however varied in quality and simply didn't feel as good, the Mutineer was genuinely good with character drama and some of the tricks were genuinely well thought out.

The Duellist just felt poor overall, the Assassin wasn't characterised well and despite Lutz' appearance being fun to see,I felt the series got uncharacteristically Japanese at one point with Reinhard doing a two handed blade grab.Kircheis and Reinhard were fun, but the things happening weren't as grand or as interesting as other drama happening.

The Retriever just felt bad,it was heavier on technobabble and the loli felt too involved and calm for a series that wrote children somewhat realistically.The animation was the worst here,where there wasn't any movement on the ships outside the Valkyries.

The Third Battle of Tiamat was a two episode epilogue of Reinhard and Kircheis decimating an Alliance fleet easily while dealing with incompetents, it felt like a somewhat small note to end the series besides just wrapping up things with another battle. It didn't do much besides bringing up Ashbey and showing Bewcock gain.