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u/Novasylum · 4 pointsr/TrueAnime

Forgive me if this has ever been mentioned here before, but has anyone else played the party game Channel A? I had the pleasure of it just yesterday, and it’s just like Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity, but with anime titles. Basically, whoever’s “judging” selects two premise ideas (“bishounen” and “coming-of-age”, for example, or “political satire” and “super robots”), and then everyone else assembles the cards in their hand to create a compelling title. The twist is that you actually have to pitch a story synopsis for your anime on top of that, and as a result, it sometimes produces story ideas that I would actually love to see in real life. Here are some of my favorite ones from our sessions that I could remember (some of them are mine. Guess which ones!).

Demon Tomorrow: A cyberpunk dystopian detective thriller, wherein great advances in technology and development have been spurred by deals with demons and shinigami. In this world, your well-being and status are determined by what you are willing to sacrifice to the dark ones, be it your senses, your limbs, or even your life.

Tokyo Dolls Z: The world’s greatest composers are gathered in Tokyo when it is discovered that classical music is the only way to quell the threat of a zombie uprising.

Future Story Idols: For reasons initially unknown, the world can only be saved through the power of lesbian lovers. Prospective girls have their romantic futures prophesized in an attempt at compelling them to “pair up”, with dramatic results.

Dark Ocean: A band of samurai travel into the sunken depths of R’lyeh to put an end to Cthulhu and his starspawn once and for all, having their camaraderie and sense of honor tested by their own gradually declining sanity.

Ex-Magical Girls: Details the hilarious antics of a rehab program for delinquent magical girls who have lost their sense of justice and have chosen to abuse their powers.

Love Captain Keichii-chan: Average high-schooler Keichii stumbles upon a secret war of factions that determines the fate of the world through a males-only fighting tournament, and is recruited by one of the teams because they believe he possesses a special power. What they don’t realize is that the true power within Keichii is not battle prowess: it’s love. Yaoi ensues.

Eternal Kitty Complex: A harem anime in which the male protagonist lives in an apartment that mystically transforms any stray cats that walk in into smoking hot catgirls. The twist: at the end of the show, the boy leaves the apartment and becomes a cat himself!

Pixel Galaxy: A loner who spends all his free time at the arcade is enlisted in the military when it turns out that the alien invaders hellbent on destroying Tokyo are oddly reminiscent of classic arcade games. In one episode, he destroys legions of starfighters that are arranged in lines a la Space Invaders; in another, a holographic maze is projected onto the city through which he must navigate and avoid destruction from color-coded ghosts.

Custom Sky Diver: A high-stakes swashbuckling adventure…in the skies of a futuristic wonderland! Cloud colonies! Sky krakens! Pirates with peg legs that shoot laser beams! Fun for all the family!

Panic Ring: A coalition of gods send down a Hercules-esque messenger from the heavens to save the human race when it becomes apparent that the source of all true power in the galaxy – bananas – is not receiving its proper respect. It’s called “Panic Ring” because the gods are panicking and they’re in a circle.

Other, context-free highlights: Dynamite Bubblegum Twins, Lyrical Smile Elemental Magica, Rain Fist: Excellent Muscle, Neo Fruit Seed, Gun Sakura, Kitty Academy 120% Plus, Fullmetal Milky Boy, Sweet Monkey Witches, Giant Great Sword, Code Channel D, Fight of Fighting Fighters.

u/ClearandSweet · 5 pointsr/TrueAnime

I'm having trouble going outside my comfort zone.

Three episodes into Sukitte Ii Na Yo (Say I Love You) and I can't keep from rolling my eyes. I can see and acknowledge that it's doing what it set out to do effectively; I just don't care.

Felt the same way about My Little Monster and when I tried to read a romance novel (The Flame and the Flower). Beautiful badass guy with a hidden heart of gold takes an interest in a plain female viewer avatar. He comes on hard, but she learns to love him and helps him change into a better person.

I mean, I want to like it, but I can see the forest and can't focus on the trees.

Is it that I'm just not a teenage/early twenties female? I dunno...

The same thing happens when I try action series like Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online (though SWO was bad for many other reasons), same with Neon Geneis Evangelion, same with Honey and Clover. Every time I step outside and try something different, there's this voice in the back of my head saying "Hey, you could be rewatching Spice and Wolf! Or Nausicaa! Yeah let's watch Nausicaa then the Haruhi movie!"

Gaaah shut up voice and let me enjoy Say I Love You! Maybe it's time for a break? I don't really watch more than an episode a day, really.

u/temp9123 · 1 pointr/TrueAnime

If you're interested in playing, definitely check out iReal Pro. It comes with the progressions for over 1,300 jazz standards and will play synthesized backing tracks that you can transpose to any key or adjust the tempo.

You can also make your own - for example, improvising a sloppy solo on "Auld Lang Syne" in F takes nearly zero brain power to do - but since I couldn't find a similar jazz standard, I ended up putting together my own based on The Public Domain Christmas Jazz Fakebook I found on /r/jazz a long time ago.

Also, while you're at it, start burning your scales (most major and minor modes across all keys, blues, bebop, pentatonic) into muscle memory. One good Youtube channel for jazz piano is Walk That Bass. I also have Mark Levine's The Jazz Theory Book, which comes well recommended but is rather heavy on the theory. For somebody getting started it's better to get a feel for jazz and the method to its madness by transcribing individual pieces and solos. Always use a metronome. Don't get too dependent on the pedal; avoid if possible.

I'm not the most experienced pianist, but playing jazz is by far the most heavy in mechanics and theory music I've ever approached, but it's very rewarding and extremely cathartic once you get into the groove of things. Churning out lines and licks one after another is wonderfully fun and pleasant to listen to once it starts getting even somewhat close to habit - well, except to any unfortunate neighbors who are stuck hearing the same progressions day after day.

u/Revriley1 · 2 pointsr/TrueAnime

Sorry to copy and paste a recent comment of mine, but I've been replying on this topic pretty often recently:

> /u/RB73

> Hi, /r/Baccano! mod here. The reason you can't find any legal streams of it is because there aren't any; Funimation and Hulu's distribution license expired on February 08, 2016. (That's also why you can no longer purchase the season from Google Play. Used to go for $1.99/ep).

> However, this doesn't mean you're necessarily out of legal ways to watch it. If either of you have Netflix (*and live in the USA), you can still rent the DVDs using Netflix's rental service! Or you can always try looking for the DVDs at your local libraries.

> (And honestly, the great thing about the DVDs is that you'll be able to listen to the English dub commentary for episodes 04, 07, 09, and 15 - which you wouldn't be able to through streaming).

> Also: I know that the USA DVDs/BDs are way more expensive and hard to find now post-license expiry, but the UK editions by Anime Ltd (like this BD) are actually still relatively affordable if you were thinking you might like to own Baccano!. (You'll need a player that can play region B/2 discs, though).

> (As for dub vs sub recommendations, I say watch Baccano! in both languages because rewatching Baccano! is always the best of ideas. Rewatching it in all three languages (Japanese, English, French), rewatching it after you've read all the novels currently out and then rewatching it again...oughta be a national pastime.)

u/Shigofumi · 9 pointsr/TrueAnime

> I've heard that they're a partnership with a bunch of Japanese media entities - what does that mean in terms of where the money is going to (how much to studios, etc.)?

7 companies (4 anime studios, 3 ad firms). An attempt to cut out the middle man. I assume they function like Crunchyroll. Profits are cut up as a base payment to each one; then by who has the largest market share; then more percentages given to the companies whose videos are watched the most like a 1st place, 2nd place, etc kind of thing for the studios.

When they launched they had booths at every major anime con and they had that raffle give-away thing too with those hard-to-get $$$ figurines and what not (I got 2 gunplas from it)

They're keeping up with the pace very well. Getting apps out for new platforms. Streaming worldwide, no region restrictions (ex. Crunchyroll in the UK has shit selection compared to Crunchyroll in the US) except if the anime is already owned in that region from before, more exclusive features such as showing interviews of cast members subbed or bands that sing for anime, and best of all---IT'S FREE. Thanks to the pro ad firms, they're able to strategically get ads in there that work thus offsetting the costs. They have a spectacular store as well for figurines that ship easily world wide that are difficult for foreigners to buy otherwise. I hear they sell well as they are frequently updated with new merchandise.

Besides advertising on their own site, I've seen them buy ad space on other sites in various languages to plug their site. Spanish, German, Italian, etc. They really did their research to get their name out that people of all countries are welcome and that they have things provided in their languages which is a rarity for simulcasting sites. That's a lot more visitors coming in just for that.

u/Vellon221 · 2 pointsr/TrueAnime

JJBA

I finally got to Egypt in JJBA arc 3. I'm six or seven episodes into the second season of arc three now. I'm enjoying it vastly more than the first season, which I really had to slog through. I really missed the masterful cuts to the ED that the first two arcs employed. Plot-wise I miss the shounen 'training' trope that was a big part of the second arc. Overall I found the stands to be kind of boring, and the 'enemy of the week' style was very grating, even if the opponents were quite interesting.

That has begun to change now that the gang has arrived in Egypt. Their opponents are ramping up in both Bizzareness and power. The encounters are more engaging and played out. Overall I'm enjoying the Egypt arc more than the first half, but definitely prefer the first two seasons.

Other weeb stuff

And... that's it. I picked up some LNs/Japanese Sci-fi this week and I've mostly been reading. Just finished reading Kizumonogatari and I'm insanely hyped for the movies now. Read the first volume of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which I was ecstatic to see is being translated into english, and am now starting on Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights. Having read basically all of the notable golden/silver era science fiction, discovering Japanese science fiction has been a real treat.

u/Vintagecoats · 7 pointsr/TrueAnime

The episode title this week is “Original Sin, Past and Future.” With that in mind:

  • Junichi Sato: Director and Co-Original Creator
  • Mari Okada: Series Composition, Script, and Co-Original Creator
  • Shoji Kawamori: Mechanical Design (among others) and Executive Director of Satelight Inc.

    In the event you ever have the opportunity to ask any of them a question at a convention, consider inquiring over M3.

    I will not begrudge you, of course, should you choose to ask about Sailor Moon, Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, or Macross. Or anything else from their creative backgrounds. But there is a story here, somewhere. Something, I feel, went very, very wrong. On every possible level it could have failed, from their website, to botched animation, and the heavily delayed the home video release. Episodes of this series are still not available for purchase, as of this writing, and this is a 24 episode show which started in the Spring 2014 season. The first blu-rays come out November 5th. To their credit, I suppose, it will be as a box containing 12 of 24 episodes rather than a more drawn out series of singles, and the base price of ¥27,000 is available sliced down to ¥19,643 as a Amazon preorder.

    It is still junk, mind you. But Satelight’s best option may be to treat this as some sort of a tax write off, if they can swing it. At minimum, they are performing a fair amount of corporate gymnastics for the few folks who would ever consider possibly buying this series. I would be interested in what the blu-ray comparisons look like, but this would mean someone needs to buy the show and sufficiently capture screens. That is an exhausting prospect on multiple levels.

    I have not even started talking about the finale episode yet.

    I have mentioned before various feelings relating to if this series was an older spec script pulling surface level ideas from various Popular Things such as Evangelion and such. Or perhaps a computer yoinking popular TVTropes webpages and slapping them together as a approved by a business class group project spreadsheet program. I have watched every episode of M3, and so no, it is not like I was expecting the ending to wow me or suddenly change gears. I just want the closure, really. How was it going to choose to end it all.

    We begin with Susan trying to tell Tsugumi none of this, the rapid expansion of the Lightless Realm, the changed form of the Corpse, and Minashi’s going completely off the mental deep end, is her fault. I will maybe award the third, as Minashi has turned into our antagonist for seemingly no other reason than we are just out of other options if Tsugumi can not be the villain. And if designated hero Akashi defeats him it would break down some vectors of the love polyhedron and leave the two islander girls. Everything else though, well, Tsugumi is responsible for the necrometal deaths of an untold number of people over a decade long span of time. Sure, she had her inner rage due to thinking her childhood crush was taken from her, when the time they were all little kids and ran away were really just scared out of their minds by the horrors of the Lightless Realm. But, I mean, she has been fueled by this seemingly broken crush and in turn has fueled an engine of death and destruction which has rendered a nice multi-mile area of Japan inhospitable for years, in addition to further deaths via investigative efforts within it. Given everything the series has done with framing her position, and even into all but this episode times having given big “Everyone should die for their sins against me!” lines, I do not exactly feel particularly sorry for her despite the series now trying to say I should be.

    Minashi continues as best he can the trend of pushing for assault imagery, as his arms turn to tentacles and provides “You want this” style lines to Akashi regarding resonance with him as the appendages latch on to his arms. He can not quite pull it off the same as Heito did in his heyday though, or even the psychic projection of Heito last episode.

    Then the projection of Sasame finally shows up, resonates with Akashi, and Minashi is sad. So sad, that the Corpse melts down and collapses as it turns to goo like it was channeling Judge Doom at his worst nightmare moment in Who Framed Roger Rabbit because, and I am quoting, “too much torment.” It has just built up so much sadness over the years, and the Corpse can not handle this one last straw. Our characters speak of how they could ever possibly connect, as Minashi only wanted to infect everyone with necrometal so the world could understand each other. Reaching out with their hands and hearts, as that too is like linking and making connections to each other, is provided as the answer and to act the message of this program.

    Cue finale montage, Lightless Realm all gone now, IX in trouble for its actions, research on how to restore those affected by necrometal contamination, and so on. And there is so little feeling to any of it; IX has clearly supposed to be akin to running our NERV equivalent throughout the show, but so nameless and perspectiveless has been the handling of the leadership officials we still just do not know anything about them. I can not say “Well, they thought they had a good reason for what they did” or even “Good riddance.” They are just some dudes who ran an organization we barely learned much about.
    Then we have our character section, which is understandable as a note to end on.

    Mammu reading to the impaired Emiru her short fiction relating to her fictional character based on herself of Mahsa, that is a nice conceptual moment. We barely got to see them do much together over the course of the series, and the show sabotaged their best moment a few episodes ago, so I can not say it has much weight or resonance. But, it is inoffensive and tries to somehow tie Mammu’s story writing back into the fold. Material relating to why some of said writing was alarmingly accurate to present events early on in the series before it just flat out forgot about that plot point has never been touched on. I guess Tsugumi must have also read the fiction journal at some point ten years ago, and Mammu has been using the exact same book ever since? That is about all I can think of.

    Akashi and Tsugumi: “If i untangle the clump of resentful hearts, are there warm feelings among them?” I suppose those are words which form a grammatically correct sentence.

    Heito is giddy and happy because he has his old snuggly wuggly teddy bear now. Keep in mind, this is a character who has committed multiple sexual assaults, physical by his own hands and body and mental via LIM unit psychic connections, across the course of the series to no retribution at all. Characters have feared him for this. In other areas, he hurled knives and such at his teammates early on, tried to kill them multiple times for his own amusement, and brutalized officers even in his introductory scene for kicks. But, he has a teddy bear now, and is reminded of the delight of a child.

    The Corpse is now some kind of baby Digimon thing, as it waves us off in the light of a new day.

    Honest, I feel bad for everyone involved in this production. Nothing went right at any point for them, be it beyond their control or within their own power.

    Okada’s screenplay is a swamp which seems akin to something one charts out when writing an entire plot in one go without ever going back around for sufficient finer editing or seeing if earlier events line up with later ones as intended. Sato’s direction is one of incredible disinterest in elevating the material, if not outright boredom. This series has an episode where two character psychically converse in a blobby grayscale CGI mess of a world for half an episode, and all we do is snap back and forth between their faces as they mind talk. And Okada and Sato are the original creators! Kawamori did some of the mechanical designs, some of which are at least passable in a boxy robot sort of way, but his greater role as an Executive Director of the company means quite a lot as well. M3 even has multiple upcoming video games which were in development and are still on track for launch.

    So why is everyone so, well, tired and uninterested?

    If it was a passion project with industry friends and M3 flubbed up the execution, that would at least be understandable. Highly successful creative people still crank out duds sometimes. But, if they believed in what they were doing, one would at least be able to suss some of that passion out somewhere over the course of twenty four episodes, right? Even if it did flop? I have been able to do that in all manner of other overall crummy films or shows over the years, where one can at least tell the team is trying and has their heart set on indulging something.

    M3 has left me with the television series equivalent of watching a flatline on a heart monitor. For almost ten hours.

    I am writing this on October 1st, a day most folks agree we can collectively bust out all manner of Halloween decorations with, among other things, the undead and re-manufactured monsters. But, I do not think M3 was ever alive to begin with.
u/Seifuu · 2 pointsr/TrueAnime

> Days of Future Past was not based around 80's comics

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> Ofcourse I am? Why would I even compare a paperback comic book to Animated series?

Because you said "comics" and then talked about print media (manga) and then you talked about comics getting turned into movies as commensurate to manga getting turned into anime when they're two completely different industries.


We're talking about different things here. I was talking about comics, the Ninth Art, sequential art. The intermarriage of visuals and negative space.


You're talking about mainstream superhero stories, which is pop culture subdivision of larger trade. That's like saying the movie industry is doing well because novelized versions of Romantic Comedies have been on the bestseller list. Comics is more than Batman and Spiderman, it's also Maus and Little Nemo and the like.


Superhero movies doing well is not the same as comic books doing well. Superheroes are getting more accepted in popular culture. Comics != Superheroes. I know in popular culture they're used interchangeably, but that's a false perception.

u/postblitz · 2 pointsr/TrueAnime

...Level 5 problems...
Maybe you need a group of lesser powered esper friends to hang out?

> I don't know where to begin and what to do.

Here's a start and some more. Google for communities of people you're interested in within your area or IRC. Attend meet-ups and work on contacts. Get a part-time job if possible.

ps: 6th level 5 esper was revealed in NT11

u/Wiles_ · 2 pointsr/TrueAnime

> Captain Star

I have never seen anyone else bring this show up before. It was my favorite as a kid and I still think it's pretty entertaining now. Have you read the original comic strip it was based on? It's very more bizarre than the show.

u/demeteloaf · 2 pointsr/TrueAnime

Uhh, Fate/Extra already has an English release.

The general consensus is it's not that great though, but Fate/Extra CCC is supposed to be amazing, so it's one of those "read it for the sequel" type things (the Muv-Luv Extra to CCC's Alternative if you will). CCC's the one not likely to get a translation anytime soon though.

u/tojikomori · 2 pointsr/TrueAnime

Sorry for the late response. It's been a busy weekend, and I've been mulling my wording because my point here is a slightly pedantic one. ;)

> But why be mad about the censorship at all if it didn't damage the film? By admitting that the censorship was impactful, you admit it took out something that greatly added to the film.

Censorship carries its own baggage, and our reaction to it usually has more to do with principle than this or that particular instance. Regardless of what was removed, censorship still damages the integrity of the product as a representation of the original work and grates our ideals about freedom of speech, leaving us feeling patronized and cheated by an inauthentic experience. Once we become aware a publication was censored, we very often revise our opinion of it even without having seen the uncensored version.

The BBFC cut was also used for Manga's 2000 release of Ninja Scroll (MANG7611). I found an old thread in which fans were reacting to that discovery. This comment summarizes the mood nicely:

> Man am i disappointed, not because i am some perv who wants to watch animated sex scenes but that i spents one and a half times as much money for a DVD version which should be the best only to find its cut.

Amazon merges reviews for multiple editions of a film's release, so reviews of both cut and uncut editions are mixed together here, but those from ~2000/2001 are often sharply divided between those who mentioned the censorship – "★★☆☆☆ Its Cut !!!!!!!" – and those who didn't – "★★★★★ It stands as an all time classic along with Akira and Legend of the Overfiend."

For the most part these are off-the-cuff fan reactions, not level three consumer critiques, but they support my hypothesis that negative reactions to the censored version were about the authenticity of the product's representation of the film rather than the quality of the film without those scenes.

u/psiphre · 1 pointr/TrueAnime

a few years ago (goddamn time flies) i exchanged watches with a friend of mine. if he'd watch tittygill, i'd watch a show of his choice - and he chose yu yu hakusho. you might think this was kind of a raw deal, as YYH is more than 4x as long, but as a disciple of the spiral, i am willing to go to great lengths to spread the gospel.

well since then i haven't ever been able to work up the gumption to crack it open - 112 episodes is a daunting amount of show... until recently i decided that my gym sabbatical was over and i needed something new to watch, and what better than a high energy 90's shonen battler?

so now i'm staring down the barrel of episode 8, having jogged through TWO episodes back to back yesterday. let me say: i highly, highly recommend this method of exercise for all my fellow flabby weeb fucks: download vlc for your phone, copy that shit into vlc, buy a pair of these, and get on a goddamn eliptical machine. work your fat ass off AND catch up on your PTW list at the same time.

u/frsp · 0 pointsr/TrueAnime

What you fail to understand is that you're not reading a GOP propaganda rag. I imagine the authors and readers of this website would have no problem with his boycotting the Academy Awards over the war, because anti-war conservatism is the tradition of American conservativism, all of the neoconservatives in the war party are inspired by ex-Trotskyists like Irving Kristol and Christopher Hitchens.

Criticizing environmentalists for being anti-human is not a stretch, considering they openly promote not having children. You are taking the quote about draft-dodgers out of context, he's talking about the politicians who pretend to be anti-war and then go to war once elected.

You're also failing to understanding that while conservatism was formulated in the west and influenced by classical western thought, it is hardly an exclusively western ideology because it is isn't an ideology, it's basically principles and attitudes. Miyazaki displays principles and attitudes that are described as conservatives by thinkers following from Edmund Burke. Of course it's non-ideological, it's supposed to be. The neoconservatism of the GOP has nothing to do with traditional conservative thought.