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87509 No. 87509
Chuunibyou S2 is the most worthless, otaku-pandering piece of plot-deprived dreck. I'm enjoying it thoroughly.
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>> No. 87514
This is really great.

http://www.batoto.net/read/_/224913/kuro_by_boon-scanlation
>> No. 87521
Right stuf is currently having a sale of at least 33% off on all Dark Horse titles, with another 10% off on top if you're a Got Anime member for about a total of ~40% off. I just splurged and bought the Berserk manga series in its entirety and some other stuff.
>> No. 87530
>>87521
>I just splurged and bought the Berserk manga series in its entirety and some other stuff.

A decent move if you're prepared for the withdrawal.

I owned dead tree of the first four volumes, before I donated all my comics to the local library.
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>>87514
A sample.
>> No. 87548
I'd forgotten how amazing the Welcome to the NHK's soundtrack is. I've probably spent more time listening to its music than I did watching the show.

>>87514
>>87547
You've caught my attention. I've read what's there, wish there was more.
>> No. 87566
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>Zvesda 9
Man I was not sure about this show, but I believed in Meteor, and boy is he delivering.
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>>87566

>Zvesda 9

It combined two of my favorite things; cute girls and shit getting real.

Best part was Grandma and Grandpa's fight
>> No. 87576
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87576
https://twitter.com/komo_tan/status/442455173806714881

Darker Than Black S3 or S0?
>> No. 87578
>>87576

It better be a third season after the way they ended the second season. Jesus that was the most non-ending ending I've ever seen.
>> No. 87590
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The adorkable readings are off the charts, captain!
Now to see it all come tumbling down in two chapters.
>> No. 87601
So if someone wants a surreal and kinda funny anime, check out Detroit Metal City. It's about a young guy from the country who loves pop (especially French) music but is the vocalist, writer, and guitarist for the top Metal band in Japan... which is the only music he can seem to write well, and he hates it.

The clash of cultures is fun.
>> No. 87602
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87602
>Nobunagun 10
>República de Costa Rica
>Upala
I always get pumped/act like a giggling girl every time I see any mention of my country. Extra points for accuracy.
>> No. 87607
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>> No. 87608
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Oh you foolish girl you don't even realize

YOU'RE A GENRE DEFYING PARODY SERIES!
>> No. 87609
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87609
I think think ridiculously oblivious to context, unstoppable gayboi is the best thing in Seven Deadly Sins.
>> No. 87611
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>>87607
Can you pick the main character of an anime out from a crowd?
>> No. 87644
>>87611
What scares me is that those designs remind me of some hentai animes.
>> No. 87701
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-15/uziga-adult-manga-mai-chan-daily-life-gets-live-action-film
What in the actual fuck?
>> No. 87702
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>>87701
>live action
>guro
NOPE
NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE
>> No. 87703
The tech of Last Exile confuses me: They can build giant spaceships that can be controlled by genetics, but broadcasting voice is beyond them? Even if the Exiles were built generations ago and their tech forgotten, with everything else they have I'm surprised that they still rely on signals and flares.
>> No. 87704
>Zvezda 10

;_;
>> No. 87705
>>87703

The engines that power all airships are provided by and run/maintained by the Guild, who are the only ones with advanced technology left. The Guild also sets the rules of war, and violations thereof will result in engine forfeiture - as in, the engine just takes off and leaves the rest of the ship behind, to plummet to earth...unless the Guild just don't care, anyway.

Remember that episode after they declare war on the guild, when they have to simultaneously attack and take over all the engines or else they'll be withdrawn. The Silvana owes its independence to the fact that its engine is run by a defector from the Guild.

The guild actually can communicate via video link (and I believe can do so from engine to engine) but it doesn't suit them to provide that capability to the nations below.
>> No. 87706
>>87703

Whoops, I just realized I slightly misread your post. Basically, the technology exists in the world, but it's in the care of the Guild, who are at best neglectful custodians, and at worst capricious tyrants (and even they've lost much of it). The people of Anatoray and Disith get what the Guild wants them to have, and no more.

It's strongly hinted that Prester is an artificial planet, and that the Guild were originally those charged with maintaining the systems that controlled the planet itself; the weather controller, etc. Thus, they held on to much of the old technology even as it was forgotten by the people living below. They used their technology to establish control over the peasants who lived below them, and rule them. However, in so doing, they became corrupt and began neglecting their duties to keep the planet running smoothly - resulting in Disith being plunged into an everlasting winter, causing them to invade Anatoray looking for refuge. Eventually, Anatoray would be consumed with heat.

(It's also hinted that Delphine may have gone all Night of the Long Knives on House Hamilton, Alvis' family, in order to establish her family's dominance over the Guild. Given how batshit fucking nuts the Elaclaires are, this may have been the cause of the Guild losing the plot in terms of keeping shit running)

>> No. 87707
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87707
http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/821/821216/
>> No. 87709
>>87707
And yet still no Baccano 2.
>> No. 87717
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>>87707
>> No. 87721
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87721
Hmm. This may causes some problems later on.
>> No. 87722
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oh, shit, cool.
>> No. 87723
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>>87707
So Durararararara sequel? Is there enough material in the LNs for a full season?
>> No. 87727
Just got back from seeing The Wind Rises. It's easily the best thing Miyazaki, or Ghibli in general really, has done since Spirited Away. My only two complaints are that the bits with Jiro's wife, while necessary for the character Miyazaki builds for him, fall flat compared to the the rest of the film and that Miyazaki's style gets a bit too silly to fit with the film at times (mostly in terms of facial expressions and a few minor character designs), but it's a minor thing.

Admitting that I know next to nothing about Horikoshi the historical figure, I find the one in the film somewhat interesting, but I don't really think the movie's about the man himself so much as it is about Miyazaki's eternal fetish for flying itself and his interest in creators within their element. The latter I think is particularly significant in a couple points, namely in the way Jiro is shown working and in how the political element of the whole thing comes together. Some of the most painstakingly detailed moments in the film are scenes in which little is going on but a few guys gathered around a set of prints sketching and doing measurements.

Whenever the political element is brought up, rather than getting much into it (although unsurprisingly for the very historically liberal Miyazaki the disdain for fascism and war shines through), the characters dismiss it entirely. They are largely apolitical: the war and all else is a sideshow to them, all the film's notable engineers dismiss it, preferring to focus on the planes themselves. What's done with them once they are designed and produced is irrelevant to Jiro and co. Miyazaki himself, at least if I'm reading the conversation between Jiro and Caproni in one of the dream sequences correctly, seems to be of the opinion that these engineers have no relation to the war itself anyway, they are artists, it's the military who corrupts their artwork.

It's an interesting film, and a good deal more thought provoking than the stuff Miyazaki himself usually does. If the movie were shittier, I'd almost think this was Takahata's work, since while he inevitably fucks it up by technical means or by being a terrible person, he's usually the one who has historically aimed for the harder material while Miyazaki stayed in the considerably less controversial realms of "hey women are people too, wake the fuck up" and "pollution is bad."
>> No. 87745
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>>87707
>>87723
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1hhxpe
]Baccanofags getting BLOWN OUTTA THE FUCKING WATER! Spice & Wolf fanatics whimper in corner. News at 11.
>> No. 87749
>>87745
FOOL! It have only given us hope for our own neglected series! We live on!!
>> No. 87751
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http://www.animemaru.com/durarara-season-2-announcement-deepens-tension-between-west-and-russia/
>> No. 87754
http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Mazinger-Otome/Vol-001-Ch-001--Laughter--Vol--Z?id=190593
This is the dumbest shit and I love it!
>> No. 87763
http://youseiaoi.tumblr.com/post/80120305478/fullmetaldokis-i-like-how-in-fma-03-al-punching
I'm beginning to understand why my friend prefers the original FMA over Brotehrhood. That, and probably the fact he considers Father to be a boring final boss.
>> No. 87776
>>87763

It's exactly like that, with EVERY SINGLE DRAMATIC MOMENT.

I don't really like Brotherhood until it gets to episode 15ish. That's when you get to the point where the first anime split off from the manga. After that point, I can't say I like the first FMA more because it's gone into it's own completely different story; there isn't anything to compare it to.

It's exactly like the new HunterxHunter. I'm enjoying the SHIT out of the Chimera Ant arc, but that's because the first anime never got that far, and the novelty of seeing that part of the manga animated is superseding the fact that the style/tone/music of the first anime was mostly superior to the new one.


(That said, I liked Father as the final boss a lot better than Dante. He was at least threatening; Dante was weaksauce; Eckhart was just... yeah. However, I'm 50/50 split on which versions of the homunculi I liked better. Lust was definitely better in the first anime, while Envy was definitely better in Brotherhood. Gluttony is a toss-up, and Greed was pretty much the same, though I preferred him getting killed by Edward instead of Bradley. Brotherhood's Bradley, of course, is superior, but that version of Sloth was a non-character — can't hold a candle to FREAKING TRISHA ELRIC. Finally, I don't know whether to prefer first anime Wrath or Brotherhood's Pride. Interesting how they're both the only homunculi redeemed in the end of their respective series; you could call it innocence of childhood if Pride wasn't literally centuries old, and Wrath should have been a GOD considering he spent like ten years hanging out with Truth...)
>> No. 87797
Yankee-kun to Megane-chan's ending sure was disappointing and maybe depressing if the last bit is all in his head so he can cope with it.
>> No. 87798
>>87776
Yeah, I hated mood killings in Brotherhood. Too many action-packed fights had someone mention a term like "short" and Ed would go chibi and start ranting. Or just >>87763. I still like it, and it had the stronger ending of the two, but I prefer FMA over Brotherhood (though I agree with Mesias's friend about Father; everything else was tits, though.)
>> No. 87801
One series has Olivia.

The other series does not have Olivia.

This is not a real contest people.
>> No. 87805
BABYMETAL - ギミチョコ!…youtube thumb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IzR_ClTE8Y

J-pop/Trash Mash?
>> No. 87808
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HNNNNNRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH MY HEART AUUUUUGHHHHH
>> No. 87809
...

Battle Angel Alita last order has ended. I am crying bitch tears from that storytelling.
>> No. 87811
>>87809
Isn't it April that it finishes?
>> No. 87812
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87812
Speaking of April.

Berserk to Resume in Young Animal #08 (11/04/14)

that'll be 1 year, 3 months and 14 days since the series went on hiatus on Dec. 28, 2012.

67 weeks.
>> No. 87814
>>87811

129 was the last chapter for last order. Also. After reading the last few chapters, I suggest going back and rereading the last 2 chapters of the original Battle Angel Alita.


My mind has been blown.
>> No. 87815
>>87814
Well i guess they are calling the last part something else then because her mars battle is coming.
>> No. 87816
The mars battle is going to be an entire new "saga" from the looks of it. It has a different name and will be a differnt series. Like LO was new.
>> No. 87817
>>87816
Oh, fucking sweet.
>> No. 87818
>>87812

Holy shit, has it really been that long? Hopefully it stays off hiatus for more than a few months this time.
>> No. 87820
>>87814

My best guess is that the whole of Last Order was how he originally wanted to end Battle Angel Alita before he suddenly took ill and shortened it.
>> No. 87823
>>87820
Last Order run semi-parallel with the original run, so yes. I'd say you are right.
>> No. 87827
zveda what are you doing! This shit is getting real to fast. TO FAST I SAY!
>> No. 87829
Zvesda is like the third series of late to go full NANOMACHINES SON, and that's a positive fucking trend if I do say so myself.
>> No. 87847
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Oh man, that doesn't look good.
>> No. 87849
>>87847

You are correct. It most definitely is not good.
>> No. 87856
>>87847
http://youtu.be/lR2GFrLdAkc
It's bad yep.
>> No. 87866
>>87856
Ohh, unfittingly fitting music for Berserk?

Don't mind if I do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFovzHe5wKw
>> No. 87867
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;_;
>> No. 87892
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THIS IS SO AWESOME
>> No. 87894
>>87892
Are they still on the boat to Namek?
>> No. 87895
>>87892

It's going to get more awesome. Trust me.
>> No. 87898
>>87894

Yep. Man, it's fucking weird to think about how long they've been en route to Elfheim, isn't it? Puck suggests going to Elfheim in chapter 181, which was volumized in bolume 22 in December 2001. Meaning, with the delay between serial publication and collection in the volume, they've been going to Elfheim since before 9/11
>> No. 87953
what

WHAT

WHAT DID YOU JUST DO GRIFFITH?

FUCK YOU GRIFFITH
>> No. 87967
Hate me all you want, but this is technically from Japan, and is technically news:
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/03/29/daughter-of-osamu-tezuka-god-of-manga-discovers-his-stash-of-hand-drawn-sexy-mouse-artwork/
>> No. 87969
http://nicoviewer.net/sm17227329

The entire first episode of Yuru Yuri converted into MIDI
>> No. 87978
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>dat last episode of Sakura Trick

Haruka and Yuu's discussion of "love" and how it applies to them summed up the series nicely.
>> No. 87979
>>87969
B-but why?
>> No. 87984
>>87953
That's it. That's the overarching plot.
>> No. 87989
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>that feel at the end of a season

What're their names, /jam/?

Golden Wake Nagi la Zvezda Spoon for me.
>> No. 88004
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Oh shit, that explains a lot.
>> No. 88014
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Nisekoi BDs are already sold out in Japan. This shit is going to be running for the next 10+ years. It would be crazy to kill such a cash cow. Anyone want to bet on the number of keys we'll have in that time?
>> No. 88017
>>88014
I remember reading an /a/ thread saying it sales so far were disappointing. Was that just pre-order numbers?
>> No. 88018
>>88017
>Was that just pre-order numbers?
It usually is, yeah.
>> No. 88023
>Loups=Garrous

wait...what...
>> No. 88024
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Internet April Fools is great.
>> No. 88025
>>88024
Now that is just mean
>> No. 88026
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嘘物語 PV (Usomonogatari)youtube thumb

GODDAMNIT SHAFT! This best not be an April Fool's. I neeed more gatari.
>> No. 88028
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Meanwhile, on the Adult Swim forums...
http://boards.adultswim.com/t5/Sword-Art-Online/bd-p/SAO
>> No. 88037
DWA OPyoutube thumb
>> No. 88040
>>88037
This new show has me oddly entranced
>> No. 88041
>>88040
Doesn't it. I was kinda whu, okay. And then I saw the girl with Wasp and that was just adorable. And with Loki as the main villain and Spider-man being Spidey possibly. I'll give it a go. Better than Ultimate Spider-man.
>> No. 88045
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lol
>> No. 88047
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>>88040
Featuring everyone's favorite immortal agent.
>> No. 88049
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>>88045
>> No. 88050
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>> No. 88052
>>88047
>>88050
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_0Pdb97Mjc

Ep 1 untranslated
>> No. 88054
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http://kotaku.com/sakura-trick-is-my-favorite-anime-of-the-winter-season-1555155750

While I wouldn't call it teh best of the winter season (Seitokai Yakuindomo takes it for me), it was definitely one of the best.
>> No. 88056
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This one's getting pretty compelling, I like it.
>> No. 88057
>>88049
I love same VA references.

>>88047
Oh, son of Coul.
>> No. 88058
>>88052
Think any group will sub it?
>> No. 88062
>>88054

Wasn't this also by the same guy who said that he quit Cowboy Bebop after 6 episodes because it was "the most boring shit"?
>> No. 88063
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Claymore 149's ending was...just...whoa. It's a fight I wasn't expecting, but now I wouldn't have it any other way. If there was someone in the series you'd want to mess with less than Priscilla, it's her. Especially when she wasn't fucking around and holding back.
>> No. 88066
>>88063

I genuinely don't understand how anyone can maintain interest in Claymore. It was always pretty boring but at this point...they've been standing in the same field having the same fight for how long now? Jesus Christ.
>> No. 88093
So, TWGOK is very clearly ending in the next handful of chapters, if that. In an incredibly convoluted way and apparently on somewhat of a bittersweet note. I'm sure it would have had more emotional impact if it hadn't come completely out of left-field and didn't make me wonder if I had understood completely.
>> No. 88096
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88096
Which one of them is more /a/ incarnate?
>> No. 88099
Ressha Sentai ToQger vs. Kamen…youtube thumb
Well this was a fun rump.
Also was that the DAMN YOU DECADE guy with the monkey?
Because thats awesome.
>> No. 88106
Soredemo Sekai Wa Utsukushii/The World is Still Beautiful is sweet as all hell so far. I had low expectations but it's so goddamn cute. I hope it stays this good.
>> No. 88109
>>88096
Dandy is too universal. Will vote for the other one.
>> No. 88115
>>88109
That wasn't the question.
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