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Final Fantasy IX
Steins;Gate 0
Bravely Default
Shadow of the Colossus
Kirby Air Ride
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NFUN posted...

Do a ton per day to at least space it out a bit

Yeah this is what I was thinking also. Like 25 per day or something.
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Hey I've been doing my best here but Chris has been MiA for some as-of-yet undisclosed reason.
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I didn't remember Ilya having much content anyways until later on in the route.

But yeah it was really good.
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Fafnir the only consistently funny character in the show imo.
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It might be nostalgia speaking but I actually rather like DK Isle.

Also am a pretty big fan of Still in the Dark, but I can see how it's not everyone's cup of tea. Honestly though it's not a style I generally like either--that one just works for me for whatever reason.
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I don't remember Crunchy doing it, but Funimation has uploaded entire shows to Youtube on quite a few occasions.
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Been wanting to watch Nodame Cantabile for a long time but it's not available anywhere for streaming :(

It was on Amazon for a bit but it got lost when Anime Strike stopped existing.
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1. Toradora!
2. Railgun
3. Utena
4. Flying Witch
5. Azumanga Daioh
6. Little Busters!
7. Sakurasou
8. Amanchu!
9. Aoi Hana
10. Golden Time
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J.C Staff has a ton of good but not great shows and then also randomly made my favorite anime of all time.

Overall I'd say they're somewhat good I guess.
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Yeah Calling is great to. Probably my #2 at least from among the ones I've re-listened to tonight. (I played it like 6-7 years ago and don't actually remember any of the music from when I played it)
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Not sure where to post this but whatever. Long story short--for reasons that will remain undisclosed, some discussion in the AotY topic earlier today led to me rediscovering this kickass song from The World Ends With You.



Not sure why I didn't remember this when I first played through the game, but whatever. This whole soundtrack is a lot better than I remembered honestly.
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This topic is relevant to my interests because he still owes me a match in the Pokemon Random Battle League >.>
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Dragon Maid was on track to be on my list for a while, but those last two episodes were really good and managed to save it enough to not appear on that list at least.
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Man, Citrus is kind of bothering me.

At a conceptual level this is a really good romance story, but they just can't let an episode end without the weekly dose of sexual assault can they?

I mean I'm still going to keep watching it because I can just sort of mentally filter out those scenes, but that's still only partially effective.
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Most Disappointing
+5 Masamune-kun's Revenge
+3 Land of the Lustrous
+1 March Comes in Like a Lion Season 2

It's important to mention this is "most disappointing" and not necessarily worst shows. That means that instead of going to shows that are just straight-up bad, I'm more likely to select shows that have high potential but then don't follow through with it for one reason or another. In that light and given previous comments I've made on Land of the Lustrous, it probably makes sense why I selected that one. March Comes in Like a Lion maybe shouldn't be on here, but I really didn't like the first couple episodes especially compared to how much I liked the first half of season 1. The Masamune choice is probably straightforward and I'd prefer not to risk recovering any repressed memories by talking about it.

Oh and I also realized I never listed my votes for best drama/action.

Best Drama/Action
+5 Re:Creators
+3 My Hero Academia Season 2
+1 The Ancient Magus' Bride
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If you have Amazon Prime you can watch it!

If not though then yeah you're pretty much out of luck as far as streaming goes.
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pyresword posted...

Mac Arrowny posted...

Aqua

Mac Arrowny posted...

sympathetic character

Wait what.

She's just going along doing her job trying to help out and suddenly Kazuma ruins her life (and his own) because he's a huge jerk. How can she not be sympathetic?

I don't think the fact that Kazuma is a jerk (which is true) has anything to do with whether or not I view Aqua as sympathetic.

I basically don't think anyone in Konosuba is sympathetic, and I'd even argue that itself is what most the humor in the show is based off of.
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I feel you'd enjoy Dragon Maid honestly.

I can't wholeheartedly recommend it because as I said in the AotY topic I had some issues with it, but I think you would like it more than I did.
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I honestly think it's mostly me, Roba, and maybe Mac that like it a lot, though I could be wrong.
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Anyways my votes

+5 Girls' Last Tour
+3 Gamers!
+1 Tsurezure Children

I already said a lot about it in the anime topic, but GLT is on my list of top anime of all time and is the easy +5 here. The other 2 are pretty fun romcoms I guess. Enjoyed them a lot but don't have a lot to say about them.

I wish I actually found the jokes in Dragon Maid funny, because I did really like the character development side of things.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

Aqua

Mac Arrowny posted...

sympathetic character

Wait what.
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Girls' Last Tour got robbed.
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Yeah b8anime really likes it.

Outside of b8 it doesn't seem especially popular, but it also seems like it's one of those shows where a lot of the people that do like it end up liking it a lot.
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Tag.

I am under the age of 26 take that.
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Good winners. Ended up going with My Hero Academia, but those two were pretty much neck-and-neck for my first place vote. Both had really strong casts. The thing about My Hero Academia's cast though is that it's pretty huge, and even despite that there's a only a very small number of misses. And all of those characters have really fun and quirky (get it?) personalities, and their interactions with each other are great also.

Ancient Magus' Bride was my +1 for the record, though it was a distant 3rd place.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Apparently Because.moe is not as good a site as I thought, because according to them nobody is streaming it, lol.

I don't actually see any episodes on the Funi website. As far as I can tell it's listed there as a show you can buy, but they aren't actually streaming it.

On mobile though (and also therefore not logged in), so that might be the problem.
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Yeah here were my votes

+5 Tomoyo Kurosawa (Phos - Land of the Lustrous)
+3 Hitomi Nabatame (Akane Kosaka - Saekano Season 2)
+1 Shiori Izawa (Nanachi - Made in Abyss)

Regardless of anything else I have to say about LotL I do think the VA for Phos did an excellent job with what had to be a pretty wide range of styles. I'm not surprised at all that nobody else voted for this random Saekano side character that appears for like 1 episode, but man I'll be damned if the VA didn't knock one out of the park whenever her character was on-screen. Nanachi just sounds adorable and I'm kind of sad she didn't win anything, though with the way this category worked out I'm not too surprised there either.
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Altair....huh. Didn't expect that. I didn't end up picking anybody from Re:Creators, but even the ones I was considering from that show weren't Altair. (If anyone it probably would have been Meteora?)
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I am really interested in seeing like a full list of what was voted for in best vocal performance, for the record. I was kind of lost in that category.
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tazzyboyishere posted...

I think you and I had the same issues with season one.

I think this is true, but I will say two things:

--I like season 2, but I think it's good for different reasons than the good parts of season 1 were. So I'm not sure how reliably the statement I quoted could be used to infer what your opinion on season 2 would be.

--Even though I'm enjoying season 2 right now, there was a significant stretch of episodes at the start of the season for which I was not enjoying it, and was even enjoying it less than the worse parts of season 1. I was actually really close to dropping the show myself.
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My votes

Best Couple
+5 Chito and Yuuri (Girls' Last Tour)
+3 Rei Kiriyama and Hinata Kawamoto (March Comes in Like a Lion Season 2)
+1 Chise Hatori and Elias Ainsworth (The Ancient Magus' Bride)

In stories based on two people going on a journey, the quality of the story really depends on the strength of the relationship between those people, and I thought Girls' Last tour nailed that. They have different philosophies, but you can still tell they really care for and depend on each other. Also I like their pseudo-philosophical discussions a lot.

I'm kind of upset but not surprised to see Rei/Hina absent from the list. They got some absurdly good development in the most recent season though, which has probably played the largest role in saving the show from disaster at the present time. Elias/Chise pretty good also.

Araragi/Senjougahara and Kobayashi/Tohru both completely solid picks also, but there was some strong competition in this category.
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After the Rain is a nice show. I really like the two leads.

And yeah I don't think there's many anime out there that are going to match the style/creativity in a Yuasa work no matter who is producing what. (Though I do agree based on what I've heard Netflix had a major role in this specific anime being made)
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Man that was a weird post before I remembered you were talking about doing an Escape Room challenge
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Also I'm just going to stop talking about Land of the Lustrous now unless people directly ask me something about it or respond to me. I can tell I'm going to be making comments like this a lot unless I stop myself, and I don't think anyone wants to see me constantly complaining about how I think it could have been better or whatever.
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[Land of the Lustrous] she deliberately destroys her arms for strength.

I will mention that this is not how I interpret this scene. And if they actually had taken this route and sold me on it, I would have liked it noticeably more. But I mean:

1. The only reason she's in that situation in the the first place is because she's hearing voices from the ice. I know those voices are supposed to reflect her own thoughts or whatever, but to me that's not as significant a statement as the writers would like to believe. I'm not interested in what hidden desires are whispering in the corner of a character's mind--I'm interested in what decisions are made by a complex being as a result of weighing many different such desires. The way this particular event played out to me felt like it was pushing Phos in one direction in a way that felt inorganic.

2. When she gets up to the hole in the ice, she even decides not to do it, but then she slips and it happens anyway.
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My votes on OP/ED were mostly based on song for the record.

My biggest problem with Phos is that all of the development that had been teased since the beginning of the series doesn't actually happen until what is basically a teaser for season 2 in the final episode. And then meanwhile we get all this other stuff which was...fine I guess? I would probably like it more if I was ever able to successfully shake the idea that it might be reliant on this (LotL) gimmicky memory loss mechanic.
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Yeah male characters from this year were awful. I think it's telling that my 5th favorite character from Re:Creators, a single series, managed to be my 2nd favorite new male character across all 2017 anime. Also I count no less than 8 female characters who are better than everyone on my males list, and that's only counting the ones that are so obviously better that I don't even have to think about it.

Best Male Character:
+5 Elias Ainsworth (The Ancient Magus' Bride)
+3 Takashi Matsubara (Re:Creators)
+1 Tasuku Uehara (Gamers!)

Elias is the only one here I might call a standout, though even in his case he's the weaker half of the main duo. I do rather like Matsubara in Re:Creators and how he develops into a sort of father figure for his creation, but again he's certainly not the highlight of the show. And then there's the random Gamers character that was pretty funny because who else am I supposed to pick.

Best Female Character
+5 Mamika Kirameki (Re:Creators)
+3 Nanachi (Made in Abyss)
+1 Magane Chikujouin (Re:Creators)

There's a lot of snubs here but this is who I ended up going with. Characters who steadfastly hold to "naive" idealism/optimism are usually among my favorite characters and Mamika is a great example of this. Really loved her conversations with Alice, and also the confrontation between Mamika and Altair is one of the highlights of the show imo. Also on a different note Magane is a really entertaining mischief maker is which can be a really vital role in these battle royale type settings. Nanachi is great in everything she does.
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I almost picked Girls' Last Tour in Best Story actually. It does the story absurdly well imo, but in the end it's just not really the main focus, and at the same time these other shows I voted for had really good stories imo.
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My votes

Best Story
+5 Made in Abyss
+3 Land of the Lustrous
+1 Re:Creators

I didn't like Made in Abyss quite as much as most did, but I do think story is its strongest point, especially in the latter half. Once it became clear the story was going to be about the Abyss itself and the people trying to get to the bottom (as opposed to the society at the top of the Abyss) I think it became really interesting. Also the stuff with Nanachi is really good. Land of the Lustrous I had some issues with--most notably the fact that it's noticeably unfinished--but the story we got was really intriguing. Re:Creators I already talked about a lot in the anime topic but yeah it was good.

Best OP/ED
+5 Kirameku Hamabe (Land of the Lustrous ED)
+3 Ugoku, Ugoku (Girls' Last Tour OP)
+1 Deep in Abyss (Made in Abyss OP)

Yeah. Only one I really felt like was top tier was Kirameku Hamabe, which I love everything about. Ugoku, Ugoku was solid but not amazing, and Deep in Abyss was pretty much a filler pick. Overall a very weak year for OP's/ED's at least from the stuff I saw anyway.
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Potbelly sucks. Subway isn't great but it's the easy choice here.
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Oh wait actually does Mamika vs. Altair from Re:Creators count? That might have actually been my #1 though it's close
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I didn't vote in best battle but Deku/Todoroki would have been my +5 if I did
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My votes

+5 Ancient Magus Bride
+3 Made in Abyss
+1 Girls' Last Tour

Don't really have a lot to say here. Ancient Magus Bride looks gorgeous, and while I don't have much to say about the other to from a beauty standpoint, they excel in having immersive and intriguing set designs.

LotL looks relatively good also and is probably #4, but I liked these other 3 more.
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Yeah 8 is where I stopped the first time and book 10 the second time.

I actually rather liked book 9 though.
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I tried to read this series two times but God the middle stretch is boring. Is it worth trying to push through?
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For the record when I recommended it I would have actually bet on Jeff Zero liking it more than Leon.

I wouldn't still make that bet after seeing how much you liked it, Leon, but I also think it's something Jeff Zero would like based on comments he's made about some other stuff. (As for you, I thought you would like it, but I felt there was somewhat of a chance of it landing in the "good but not great" category.)
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@DoomTheGyarados will you be available to have our match tomorrow?
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I actually thought there were parts that went to far also, but they were parts you'd already passed interestingly. I wasn't a huge fan of the stuff towards the end of door 6, but nothing indoor 7 really bothered me from that perspective.

I also hope you stick with it though because the finale is pretty great, and I don't think it will continue to exhibit the problems which you have with the part you're on now.
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