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I'd take a Scooby Doo gang vs. Phantom Thief B spinoff of the Trails series tbh.
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Almost playoffs hype.
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Trails in the Sky >>> Trails of Cold Steel.

And I mean Trails of Cold Steel is still a top 15-20 game for me, but still.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

I read the manga, sorry~

This.

One out of literally two manga I have ever read. (The other being Orange)
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Hanasaku Iroha is such a weird show for me. Like looking at it from the outside I can see there's a good anime there, but at a more personal level I find the protagonist so absurdly unlikable that just nothing about the show actually works for me. One of my weird anime opinions I guess.
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I don't think Super Paper Mario is as good as the first two, but it's still a great game in it's own right imo.
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xp1337 posted...

Glitz Pit

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You could replace ten million with zero dollars and I would take the zero dollars over the alternative.
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To be fair I'm pretty sure that if there were some kind of "Best Year in Anime" popularity contest, 2011 and 2006 would probably be the front-runners.
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By the way what type of show is Re:Creators? From the synopsis and how I remember people talking about it, I had the impression that it was something like Mirai Nikki, but now I'm seeing it's got the same director as Fate/Zero and the first Kara no Kyoukai movie? Not sure what to make of this.

In case anyone is wondering, no I do not consider Mirai Nikki and Fate/Zero to be similar shows in any significant way even though both focus on a battle royale story.

Edit: Maybe a more accurate way to say that is that I think any similarities that do exist between the shows are mostly surface-level comparisons.
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I believe there's an archive out there, isn't there?

I don't remember the URL so I couldn't confirm 100%, but I feel like I remember seeing one that was collecting b8 topics within the last year or so.
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Huh. I guess Konosuba 2 is higher than the first season on MAL at least.

I will say it's a pretty common thing for me with comedies where I like the setup episodes while they're still introducing all the characters, but then I think the show grows stale pretty quickly after that. So that's probably what's going on here.
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Did people generally like Konosuba 2? I thought it was noticeably weaker than season 1 myself. (which I also didn't like as much as everyone else but I digress)
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Also I figure I should explicitly mention I am trying to binge shows before the year ends, so if anyone wants to try and sell me on their favorite show then there's a realistic chance it actually gets me to watch it. Unfortunately since that's coming up pretty quickly I'll only realistically have time for 3-4 more shows, but that's just how it is.

Made in Abyss is already pretty much locked in to one of those slots, but for the others I'm open to most things that aren't sequels.
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I like Girls' Last Tour.

I don't expect anyone else to vote for it, but I will be at least! If I vote at all that is, which is still an open question.
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Also I have been led to believe Clock Up/Down are nearly essential for Nightmare difficulty runs.

I never used them either though, as someone who played on Normal.
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I hated using Kloe because Water Arts sucked. I always ended up using Kevin instead even though he didn't have all 7 of his orbment slots linked. Also his S-Craft had some pretty good utility, and he is one of the few characters with access to CP regen through his normal crafts.
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Well I got around to starting season 2 of Saekano. Honestly I'm a bit surprised I enjoyed that as much as I did especially with there being a 2 year gap or whatever between when I watched season 1 and season 2. So far it seems like the show hasn't lost its touch during that transition though, so that's a good thing.
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Might be stretching the definition of average a bit, but Jak 2 and Super Mario Sunshine.
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Kloe the 6th best.

Still a top tier video game character though.
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Tag.

Estelle the best.
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My top ten is probably this:

1. Toradora!
2. From the New World
3. Madoka Magica
4. Steins;Gate
5. Clannad
6. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
7. FLCL
8. A Silent Voice
9. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
10. Mawaru Penguindrum

HM's to Guilty Crown (yes, really), Monogatari, and FMA:Brotherhood
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This season looks bad. New stuff I'm interested in:

Violet Evergarden*
citrus
Koi wa Ameagari no You ni
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens**

*Don't think I'll be able to watch this unfortunately. Wasn't the official release like delayed or something?
**This one's a big maybe. On the one hand in reminds me of Durarara, but on the other hand that probably means it's a shitty Durarara.
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GranzonEx posted...

really thought Ace would be winning here

Little Busters taking advantage of real baseball anime SFF.
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Voted Little Busters in the poll
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Crunchy will announce it themselves ahead of time but by that I mean like maybe a week ahead of time typically.
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Yeah one thing about F/SN is that because of the way the VN is structured, a lot of characters (such as Rider) only end up getting significant screen time in 1 out of the 3 routes.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Trails in the Sky has an anime, eh? Any good? Haven't played the games.

I haven't watched it, but I mean they are taking a story that is 100 hours of game time minimum and trying to present it in the equivalent of 4 normal length TV episodes. There's pretty much no way it ends well.
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Got caught up on Girls' Last Tour. Good chance I make a more detailed post once it actually finishes, but pretty much this show is my shit. I won't say every episode is a winner, but some (most) of these are pretty freaking great.
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Probably actually.

It's something that's maybe not as obvious to us because I think today his main influence is on anime movies and not as much on TV anime. But I'd definitely say something of his should be up there. He's probably had a reasonable amount of influence even on TV anime at least within the fantasy genre also.

Also in terms of broader cultural impact his movies are still some of the only ones to to gain significant traction outside of Japan, of course.
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Strife2 posted...

What's influential about Haruhi? Outside of doing the idiocy of Endless Eight, nothing stood out. School based anime, weirdo/hyper main character, straight-laced male character, slice of life dumbassery; typical anime stuff.

That can't have been the first.

I mean these things did exist but I believe they were much more prominent after Haruhi than they were before.

That statement is based mostly on feeling though I admit, so if someone actually makes like a list of school anime in a similar vein as Haruhi, then that might prove me wrong.
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I've been pretty down on the show this season, but the past 3 or so episodes of March Comes in Like a Lion have actually been relatively good. Still not up to the highs of season 1, but I'm at least enjoying the show again.
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I mean SAO got a movie a year after it ended and a season 2 another year after that. Plus those were evidently successful enough that now five years after the fact we've gotten another movie with an announced season 3 on the way.

Some online anime communities like to trash SAO, but looking at the big picture it's still quite popular I think.
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Since it hasn't been mentioned yet I'll also throw out Cowboy Bebop. It's not my #1 choice, but it would definitely at least make it onto my list of most influential anime.

Edit: and also Ghost in the Shell
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I feel like K-On or maybe Haruhi is the answer as far as impact on anime goes. Or at least I think it's that instead if you want to go the route I think you guys are envisioning with Love Live. Could probably also make an argument here for shows in different genres with similar status, such as Dragonball or SAO.

For impact on culture as a whole I find it extremely hard to argue anything other than Pokemon.
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In total fairness I actually think Fate > HxH overall. I was just talking about that one specific aspect of the show there. HxH still pretty great of course, but I don't consider it the masterpiece of the battle shounen genre that many others do.

(Not that I think that about Fate either, but it still manages to edge out HxH)
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The thing about the "matchup" argument is that if the details of why the matchups matter aren't sufficiently justified, or they feel unnatural, then it's effectively the same thing as the power levels being arbitrary in the first place.

Some franchises, like Hunter x Hunter, do a pretty good job with this, but Fate I don't think is always in the same category.
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Group A has its shit together at least.

Though I think we also finished a week late, but still
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I certainly haven't done extensive research, but I always thought the Fate/Zero servants were stronger than the Fate/Stay Night ones as a whole.

Then again maybe I shouldn't comment at all here. I've always believed a problem with the Fate series is that the power levels have no consistency and that any character can become selectively overpowered as the plot demands it.
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Oh wait I always forget. How do we handle 2-cour shows that had their second cour air at the start of 2017 as far as eligibility goes?

Because I might actually pick March Comes in Like a Lion for a real category if season 1 counts >.>
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I also have March Comes in Like a Lion on top of at least one category.

>.>
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# of shows I watched this year: 9

Guess I'd better start prioritizing anime watching the rest of this month.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

I think I'd love the show if I didn't dislike Yuuri

This is definitely a fair complaint, but it hasn't actually interfered with my enjoyment much as of now (finished episode 2 at this point).
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NFUN posted...

Trails in the Sky

Also came to say this
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Oh man. Just watched episode 1 of Girls' Last Tour. Is anyone else watching this show? Can't remember anyone here talking about it, but maybe I just wasn't paying attention. In any case that was really good. I had reasonably good expectations for this show already but that pretty much blew those out of the water.

I guess an obvious comparison would be to say this show is something like Sound in the Sky, but at the same time I feel like this is different in a way I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe I'll get a better idea as I get further in.
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LeonhartFour posted...

fine then I didn't want to read that post anyway

I can confirm you didn't even if you don't realize it. It was a pretty dumb post.

(Yes I was the one who made it; I'm not like insulting someone else here.)
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Well more what I meant is I consider it one of the stronger movies whereas I think others consider it one of the weaker ones.

I almost definitely like it less than most fans on an absolute scale. My favorite movie was 5 and I only gave that one an 8/10 the first time through, and I imagine there are plenty of people that give all of the movies an 8 or higher. (This time I have given movie 1 an 8/10 and then the next 3 a 7/10, for the record)
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Watched Kara no Kyoukai 4.

I don't think this one is that popular, but I actually rather liked it both the first time through and this time. Then again I will say I like the plot/character aspects of this show a lot more than the action elements, so maybe it's no surprise I like this episode comparatively more than most people.

Anyways episode 5 hype, though that likely won't happen until tomorrow or the weekend.
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I never saw it myself but I've always heard that the ecchi tag on Sankarea is pretty misleading.

ie. I expect it's not indicative of what other ecchi shows are like.
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I think talking about this in generalities is not a good idea. Like in all likelihood whatever event or events you have in mind that sparked this actually are bad, but then trying to generalize this to "the left" as a whole is just not valid, considering "the left" consists of millions of people with different backgrounds and philosophies. Like sure, there are terrible people within the left, but that doesn't mean every or even a significant portion of left-leaning individuals are bad people.

Also I am a pretty active member of my local Smash community and have literally not seen any of this, though I admit the Ohio Smash 4 community is pretty chill as far as Smash communities go. (Other than seemingly inevitable PR drama every 3 or 6 months or whatever it is, but I digress.)
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