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Finding the laptop in Universe was a gooder, yeah.
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DR3 anime yeah brainwashing is the dumbest shit ever. Hated that so much. Future was mostly just boring though. Really didn't care about the cast.
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I don't have doubles for any category.

also didn't do best moment bad category imo
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Slow Start looks pretty great! I didn't vote for it though, sorry.
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Here are mine.

Fell out of love with the Tokyo Ghoul one? Alas. Also I would've voted for the TF one if it were eligible.
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visual-wise, I thought Devilman, Franxx, Hanebado, and Violet Evergarden all looked pretty nice
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Yeah, definitely sucked for OPs and EDs.

Wonder how wide the variety will be in side character? I had Maeda, Satou's aunt from Happy Sugar Life, and the MC's mom from High Score Girl. I think Maeda might be the only one with a lot of picks.

Didn't submit anything for studio or fight. Didn't watch many fighting series and studios didn't seem to have any standouts this year (other than maybe A1, which also produced some trash).
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It's a pretty cool show!
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I feel like I'd be looking forward to KH3 if I didn't need to play all the spinoffs to play it...
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I just think Japan's obsession with girls being pure is dumb.

Not surprised someone who likes idol shows would disagree!

currently hoping we get an arc with Kunimi's girlfriend. she's awesome
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DQXI part 3 sux

part 2 was great tho
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since Koga kinda sucks.

I dun get that at all!

Nothing about her character is really interesting. Seen her type plenty of times before, unfortunately. Was hopeful when they mentioned the rumors about her being a super slut, but alas, they had to stay with her being generic and boring.
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Never played UDG and wasn't confused at all by that episode.

been watching Bunny Girl

first arc was pretty cool. Mai and Sakuta are good MCs. second arc was mostly carried by them being great, since Koga kinda sucks. felt like it should've been 2 eps instead of 3. at least the end was good.

also annoyed that they tl'd 'buta yarou' as 'rascal.' Rascal feels way too mild. "Son of a bitch" or something would fit much better.
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Shit, I'm gonna have to finish this...
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swordz only cares about the slice of life aspect of Fate.

That's why he's completely up to date on Emiya Family.

Did....did anybody watch Emiya Family?

I have it all downloaded
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why the hell is Ys 8 PC still so bad
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How far are you in HxH, xp?

Let's see, favorite games of the year... There's Smash, but I don't like picking Smash, since each Smash is basically equal to me. Dead Cells was my favorite overall I think. Celeste was really good, Octopath was better than I hoped it'd be (but it's not a game I'd recommend to either of you). Those are probably the three I liked the most, though I didn't play a whole ton of games this year. Not too much was released that appealed to me, unfortunately. There's stuff like the Yakuza games, but I still have to start that series at some point and figure out why people call it the best ongoing JRPG series. DQ11 was pretty great up to the end of part 2, but then part 3 kinda ruined it. Ah well.
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It's not an original song, but Eva 2.0 is the first time I heard Tsubasa wo Kudasai, and I loved it. Have heard one or two other versions, but that one's still my favorite.
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SSSS Gridman beated. Fairly disappointed in this. I really loved the first few episodes. Akane made for a great villain, and the stuff with people dying and the world being remade without them was super compelling. However, that stops being a thing after a few episodes, sadly. It becomes a bit more typical of a series after that. It still does some interesting things here and there, but not quite on the same level. Akane herself becomes less interesting too, IMO, but I guess that's the price of character development. The ending was cool at least.

Unfortunately, when that became worse, the series didn't have much left. The other characters weren't so great (Rikka was occasionally fun, but didn't get enough focus, and Yuta was totally boring until episode 11. Should've had that change in episode 3 or 4, IMO), aside from some of the fun side characters. I like Calibur a lot at first, but he got less weird later too. Whatever magic Trigger had to make the fights in the first half of Franxx look good was missing here too, since almost all the fights were totally boring. Wakamoto Kaiju in ep 11 was the only one that was good at all. I guess the last thing I'll mention is that the series had a good feel to it. The sense of style, the little ideas, the dialogue from minor characters, etc. - that was all quite good. I loved Alexis's VA too - the way he said everything made him feel like more than just some evil dude. Would be nice to have a Trigger show with everything all there.
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There's only one left now <_<.
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Nah, Marth has practically zero character. One of the worst parts of FE1. Lucina was a lot more interesting in that sense. Better design too.
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They should remove Pit from the game IMO. Dark Pit is way better.
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I don't think anyone avoided playing DQ11 even though the composer is an incredibly racist asshole.
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Dead Cells I think. Wasn't super blown away by anything this year.
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Finished Skullfaced Bookseller Honda-san. The first couple episodes were pretty great, but unfortunately, it got kinda bad after that. The parts where it was focusing on interesting customers were pretty much always good, but the other parts were basically not good/funny at all. And I say this as someone who's actually worked at a book store! Wish it just focused on the customer segments.
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For a while we thought certain characters would just get the same percentage in every match. CATS was one of those, IIRC? It was a big argument against him in the Villains contest. Some people thought he couldn't get over 20%.
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Oops could've suggested not to watch 8 but oh well. Hope you at least liked the pretty snow.

My own ranking would probably be like 7 >= 5 >= 3 > 10 > 4 > 2 > 7 > 1 > 9 > 8? The top 3 are all pretty amazing. For a while I cried every time I listened to Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete Iku. It's my favorite ending song from the movies, but there are a lot of good ones. http://puu.sh/CmEHW/33b39ea583.png were all the KnK songs I liked enough to DL.

One thing that's weird: books 1-4 are all similar lengths, and books 5-7 are all similar lengths too. Movie 6 was cut down pretty heavily (maybe the book's not that popular?).

KnK definitely a contender for my favorite anime. I've ranked it as #1 at various times. I consider 1-7 to basically be one series with 8-10 as bonus content, since that's how it was released, essentially.
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Eva was my #1 anime for years!

Until I watched my third anime after I started watching anime for real <_<

EoE and 2.0 would both be in a top 10 for anime movies I think.
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37. Neon Genesis Evangelion
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In a lot of ways, you could consider NGE to be my first real anime. It was the first one I watched that wasnt broadcast on TV, and probably the first one that aired late-night in Japan? My cousin had the DVDs, and was a big fan of the show, so I borrowed them from him, and I quite enjoyed it. The DVDs had both dub and sub on them, so I got to try them both, and realized that Japanese voices are always superior to English voices. Despite its darkness, the anime felt pretty inspirational, too. I feel like it kinda made me for determined to persevere in general. I didnt actually start watching much anime until several years later, with Haruhi, but who knows if I wouldve gotten there without watching Eva first.

As for the show itself, its pretty much all good. Shinjis an annoying protagonist at times, but intentionally show, and he sometimes gets good development. I wish this aspect was more consistent, actually - sometimes it feels like Shinji or another character will get development within an episode, and then thatll be ignored later on. The show kinda feels like its stuck between having a serial plot and being episodic. Mostly thats not a detriment, since the overall plot is quite neat, and the episodes can be awesome. The dancing episode was the best one. I enjoy it a whole ton. The rest of the characters are cool, though I do somewhat dislike Gendo as a villain. Hes portrayed as super intelligent most of the time, but he does a lot of dumb things. Misato is great as a side character, Rei is super interesting as one of the first girls of her type, and Asukas generally awesome. The show gets pretty great once she arrives. Unfortunately, it falls apart at the end, once Gainax ran out of time and money, but thankfully we got End of Eva to fix that, which is great. Has awesome animation, fantastic music, excellent fights, and works as an excellent conclusion to the series. Kom, Susser Tod might be my favorite insert song?

Lastly, to comment a bit on the movies: The first is basically just a high quality remake of the first few episodes of the series, and its quite good. The second goes its own way, still following the series to some extent, but has Asuka doing all sorts of awesome stuff, and its amazing. One of my favorite anime movies period. The third is its own thing completely, and while it has some compelling sequences, it makes some strange choices, and has a frustrating ending (I was okay with it, but it still rubbed me the wrong way a bit). More unfortunately, it was really boring. I feel like theres a 45 minute sequence in the middle (of this 96 minute movie) where basically nothing happens. Kaworu was never my favorite character in the original series, but he was alright, and he didnt do that much. Here, hes just terrible, because he does absolutely nothing and takes up a ton of screentime. It was a really frustrating movie after that greatness of 2.0. When it does have action scenes its good, and Asukas scenes are good, but there arent enough of those. Also Mari always seems like such a cool character, but after three movies shes still done basically nothing. Blah.
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Beated two more series.

Uzamaid stayed good throughout, but the first couple episodes were the best ones I think. The animation definitely got much worse (it was never bad, but there was only one other extraordinary episode), and the jokes weren't quite as funny either. I enjoyed both of the new main characters, so they did keep being creative at least. Midorin had plenty of great jokes, like with the dog in the last episode. And the main cast was always great. Misha was a fun, intelligent protagonist, and Tsubame was all sorts of unique greatness. Might have to check out the manga sometime.

Also finished Ms. vampire who lives in my neighborhood.. This was thoroughly mediocre. It nailed the basics, having a likable main cast and a fun premise, but the writing was utterly blah. The jokes it makes are almost always the most obvious ones possible, and they're rarely funny. A lot of the cast interactions are pretty bland too. The last girl added to the main cast, Ellie, was especially lame. Her one interesting gimmick is that she wants to suck everyone's blood, but she never actually does it, despite it being fairly harmless in this world, so she's just boring. Wish this had been better.
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why is saiki eligible when he's exactly the same in s2 as s1

this makes no sense
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you can sort your servants by acquired date if you're curious
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Other than Koala and I, alas. He spent 450 SQ for Merlin and didn't get any gold servants. I spent a bit less than that and got quite a few gold servants, but no Merlin, and my only 5* was a dupe Ozy (who's cool, don't get me wrong. Probably the non-limited 5* I'd be happiest to get a dupe of. But still a dupe).
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But did you understand what the themes were? What is it trying to present?
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Watched Liz and the Blue Bird. I, uh, didn't really get it? It was pretty slow, and not that entertaining, and I didn't understand the themes it was trying to push. Lacked a lot of the entertainment value the series had. I didn't even really get the ending. It'd be nice if Kyoani could make an actual lesbian romance for once rather than weird teasey stuff...
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Probably okay if you don't.
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hope voltch doesn't mess up your Hanako nom, LtM...
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You can just post them. I'd like to see them.
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What male characters are people nominating? I can only think of a couple good ones. 5'll be tough...
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Incidentally, as far as I can tell, there was no S2 announcement? I'm not sure what LtM was talking about there. The staff implied we'll get something, which could be an OVA/S2/Movie, or it could be something else entirely.
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100% emotionally manipulative heartstring pulling

I basically always like this and am confused when people call it a negative for something.

Really? When a piece of media does it in a way that feels cheap, you've never come across that before?

There is a movie that is the BIGGEST OFFENDER of this I have ever seen, it was absurd.

Yes, it's possible for fiction to screw this up. But I don't see it as a bad thing in itself.
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Robazoid posted...

100% emotionally manipulative heartstring pulling

I basically always like this and am confused when people call it a negative for something.
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Yes, I understand why some of them don't. Lily is the main one it was problematic for, and several others would probably have still-living families as well.

I was hoping there'd be some sort of supernatural twist at the end, like they're all in heaven/purgatory and this is a chance to work out their regrets or something, since that would explain why they can't go back, but alas, 'twas not to be.
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Yeah. But again, most of that stuff was in the first two episodes. The later parts embrace being an idol anime to a far greater extent.
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Ah yes, the classic tiny LtM post in response to a long post. Excellent.
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Zombieland Saga completed. Man, what was up with that argument in the last topic with people trying to say this wasn't an idol show? There were plenty of arcs straight out of idol shows, and there was as much focus on the singing as a lot of those shows have. I guess some people are just desperate to trick people into watching something they like? I feel like it's better to be honest rather than lying to people when it comes to that sort of thing. Anyway, let's go into a few of the show's elements:

Music: it was bad. The first couple episodes did some fun stuff my having metal and rap songs, so it felt like it might be doing something different, but all the rest of the songs were generic idol stuff. Bad generic idol stuff, at that. Even Love Live had better music than this. And none of them play instruments, wtf.

Animation: the highlight of the show! Almost everything looked pretty good. There were a lot of neat visual gags, and a high amount of movement in general. The CGI performances were terrible though (please don't tell me they were supposed to be parodying other idol shows. There were zero parody elements to the CGI in the last few episodes), and I wish they'd stayed without human makeup more often.

Story/Characters: this is where the series really fails. Most of the cast is fairly uninteresting. Sakura's a generic idol show protagonist (though she was fun in ep 11 at least), Junko and Ai are generic filler idol group members, Tae was actually solid, Saki was fun most of the time, Yugiri could've been good if she actually got any focus, Lily was good in her episode but boring the rest of the show, and Tatsumi was a repulsive piece of garbage who ruined every scene he was in. The zombie elements were pretty heavily underused in general, as were the diverse origins of the cast members. There could've been all sorts of fun stuff with them coming from different eras, but that was mostly just used for the occasional gag. Even the zombie elements were way underused. How come none of them go back to their families? Why do all of them accept becoming idols, especially after they get makeup that lets them pass as human? Why don't more people notice that they've come back from the dead, especially famous people like Ai? At the very least, Lily had no reason not to go back to living with her family, as far we were shown. Everything was oddly predictable too. You'd think a show with such a crazy premise would actually have plot twists, but no, everything basically goes right as you'd expect in a normal idol show. Junko's episode was one of the worst for this. Would've been a lot more interesting if she'd actually left the group.

Comedy: The show could be funny sometimes, but a lot of the jokes fell flat, and having too many serious parts kinda spoiled some of them. The show probably would've been better if it had tried to be more of a pure comedy.

Overall, bad show. Didn't even have the courtesy to wrap things up in one season. Gave it a 3/10 on MAL.
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Did anyone watch Dragon Pilot? I thought it looked really cool but I don't know if I'll be able to watch both that and Violet Evergarden before the deadline.

Roba watched and liked it.
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Finished reading the Kamisama Kiss/Kamisama Hajimemashita manga. For the most part, I quite enjoyed it. For the stuff the anime covered, it's basically the same. I'm not sure I'd say I like either version better. Most of the content the anime doesn't cover is good stuff too, up until the last few volumes. Unfortunately, those are all one long arc (I prefer the shorter arcs in this series) and they focus on the 'main villain' of the series, who I do not enjoy very much at all. I would've much preferred for him to have far less screentime. I also would've liked more stuff with Nanami just going around being a god. Those were my favorite parts, and we didn't get to see much of it, unfortunately. The ending itself went in a direction I didn't like, but it was extremely well executed, so I didn't really have a problem with that. Also they basically undid the lame choices with the last couple pages, so that was cool at least?
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Innocent might not be localized. Didn't look into that too much. Interesting that it's in French, though I guess unsurprising?
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10 episodes into Zombieland Saga

this is an idol-ass idol show

Feels even more idol focused than Macross does.
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