Lately, I’ve noticed several posts and lots of talk (especially with the whole SOPA/PIRA shit going on) that make it seem as if anime is going to die forever shortly. For me, it honestly feels like a dark foreboding that foretells some kind of disaster. Is anime really going to die on me?
Here’s a few links that I felt were….less than appealing (not as posts, but the news they carried).
It’s mainly the first three that give me a sense of “oh shit wtf the world is about to end” feeling. First of all, 2DT is gone. Not going, but gone. Since I’ve started Eye Sedso, he’s been a force of the blogosphere. It’s just….it feels like the captain of a team, who’s been the captain for 50 years, has retired, and now the team is completely different. It looks different and it feels different. Still, good luck to him and everything, he’ll be missed (it’s not like he died or anything). But with his leaving the scape of the internet anime community has certainly changed. It was almost like when Theo left the Red Sox, but worse (says the die hard Red Sox fan….yeah).
The first two are worse. Dire, in fact. Direct Download sites are jumping ship like shit from an asshole. The only time….the ONLY time I download an anime video is through direct download sites like Filesonic (RIP). I’m too afraid to get caught with a torrent again (it’d be a third strike for me). Direct download isn’t neccesarily safer at all (I’d think especially now), but it’s different, so I think it is somehow, and use this as an excuse to utilize direct download, which I do from time to time. It comes in handy actually.
All I’ve got left now is streaming. Sure, Crunchyroll is pretty much a Godsend for me. Yeah I pay for it, but it’s not much, and the quality is crystal clear without ads. I love it. But they only play a select few anime from each season, and so there’s some that I have to watch streaming on other sites, site that not only may soon be disbanded (gulp) but have worse quality and dreaded ads, which always seem to appear at the worse times. Not only that, but now anime once streamed on megavideo have gone the way of the dodo. I could be fucked. Just to be safe, I’m currently downloading all of the Shakugan no Shana III episodes (I’m only up to 8, thank God filepost hasn’t left….yet). I refuse to watch shit quality Shakugan no Shana III. If I could, I’d just buy the whole season now (but that won’t arrive for 249432 years).
I feel like it’s only a matter of time before streaming sites are beaten down, and that will ruin me. I’ll be forced to all but quit anime.
And the manga! Shit! What if that goes too! I’m freaking out here guys. FREAKING OUT.
We need simulcast of all anime ever. And legal streaming of all anime ever from the past too. FUCK.
CONGRATULATIONS FUCKHEADS! YOU POSTED SOMEONE ELSE’S POST THAT BASHES THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR SITE FOR POSTING OTHER PEOPLE’S POSTS. I DON’T EVEN HAVE A FUCKING ANALOGY FOR THAT IT’S SO RETARDED!
I BET YOU POST THIS TOO YOU FUCKS. PREPARE FOR AN ONSLAUGHT OF HATE MAIL AND SPAM SENT DIRECTLY TO YOUR PERSONAL ACCOUNTS. I’M HIRING A HACKER.
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Anyone out there know how to hack like Lisbeth Salander? I won’t pay you, but send this dick some viruses or get me his bank account so I can steal his money.
Go fuck yourself. I don’t know what your deal is, but you keep posting my posts that I posted and wrote. Do you ask permission to post these things? No. You’re a dick, that’s why. I hope your site explodes and you computer melts all over your hands and you can never type again. Write your own posts you FUCK.
Go fuck yourself again. You are giving no credit to me, the author of a lot of posts you put up.
Well, I finally am starting to finish a multitude of shows, and the most recent one is BhTgS. I just like how the acronym looks….BhTgS….cool.
Going into this season, I saw Boku wa Tomodachi as a show that most people would ignore, thinking that it was some sort of harem bullshit cliche thing. As someone who reads the manga, I knew mainly what to expect, and that this was not a typical harem. In fact, I would be hard pressed to consider this a harem, since most of the “love interests” for our main character, Kodaka, are more or less jokes of love interests, and none of them seem to be seriously in love with him or anything like that. For example:
Yozora: Signs of love are evident, but I feel more or less like she just wants him to be her friend again, like he used to be.
Sena: She’s a pedophile for Kodaka’s sister. But clearly she does want his cock.
Rika: She’s a slut. That being said, she seems to more or less like gays.
Maria: She’s a fucking child.
Kobata: Also a child, not to mention Kodaka’s sister.
Yukimura: Here’s a pairing that Rika would like….not gonna ever happen.
Now that I’ve said what I wanted to say there, let me say this:
This was a very good adaptation.
I had my doubts that this would turn into some super fanservice bullshit, and even though there were a couple of heavy fanservice scenes, I felt like it was mainly just good entertainment as a whole, and stood true to the manga (which I subsequently stopped reading once the anime started).
Now, as for my favorite character, I had a tough choice between Yozora and no one else. It wasn’t until the last episode when I realized that Rika is actually the best character (with Stella being a close second and Yozora dropping off completely). The reason why surprised me.
I recently talked about the greatness of Marina Inoue, who was the seiyuu for Yozora. But Rika has the best seiyuu in the show in Misato Fukuen, who I do not know, though she’s voiced several prominent roles. As Rika, she’s always screaming and full of emotion. It’s superbly entertaining to watch, but whenever Rika got airtime, I became captivated by her perverted screaming, puns, and other shit like that. AWESOME.
Especially loved by me was the small, underlying continuous story of Yozora and Kodaka’s past. It wasn’t overpowering at all, in fact it was almost invisible, but it was just apparent enough where you always got excited when they started talking about it. And Yozora’s big hair change at the end? AWESOME. I immediately want more. All in all, it was a very solid anime. Nothing too memorable, but very solid.
Bill wishes he had no friends so he could be elligible to join Yozora's club.
Extra Shit
Yeahhhh Extra Shit.
So I’ve been posting at an insane rate lately, and I’ve been DEVOURING anime and manga. I’M BACK!
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School just started and I don’t think I’m going to have time to breathe this semester. Could be a hiatus coming up or I might just fail out instead. God damn Education courses….they’re all full of busywork that takes forever. I KNOW ALL THIS SHIT ALREADY FUCK YOU EDUCATION PROGRAM YOU’RE USELESS.
I could teach the fucking program myself.
GAH.
Will be watching much anime this weekend. GO GIANTS!
First off, let me point out that I was forced to watch this show in the shittiest quality ever. Of COURSE I finally found it in mint quality only when I had 2 episodes left…..PISSED.
Note: If you enjoy Yuri, action, mecha, crying, laughing, or experiencing awesome anime, then WATCH THIS SHOW. If you don’t like those things, FUCKING WATCH THIS SHOW ANYWAY….dick.
This is a show that I had labeled in blue in my list for over 3 years (I think). Just like every single show I had labeled in blue, I had completely forgotten about it. But my blue labels are my backlog, which is immense, and it took me some yuri binging to rediscover why I had vowed to watch this show in the first place: It looked fucking awesome.
And it still looks fucking awesome.
After one episode-
Wait, stop. I’ll tell you this, this started off as a first impressions post, but then I made the mistake of watching the entire anime in one sitting. so after the picture, I kind of go off on the whole awesome show….okay back to this…
-I’ve got to see awesome fighting, a solid background setup, and plentiful yuri (well, enough for a first episode). But what I really liked was the realism of the characters.
THIS IS AS FUCKING REALISTIC AS IT GETS.
Alone, I must admit that I would normally not like any of the characters. Miya is too “perfect” and seems to have no flaws. Himeko is too shy/nice. But together, they’re just….perfect. I’d say that this anime would fail completely if they were any different (well, it certainly wouldn’t hurt to have them be a tad more badass).
Anyway, I was having a great time watching it through the first many episodes. I rooted for Chikane to bag the girl (obviously) and for Souma to you know….accept it, because frankly, he was a pretty good guy, and a male character that wasn’t a pushover and was fucking PIMPING ALL OVER HIME’S ASIAN ASS. When it looked like Chikane was about to lose out, I felt sad, but hopeful that…..what the fuck?
What’s going on here?
Remember when I said that Chikane could use a tad of badass? Well it turns out, she suddenly goes psycho, joins the bad guys, and rapes the shit out of Himeko. Can’t say I saw that one coming. And you know what the weird part is? After the betrayal/rape, Himeko actually starts wanting to see Chikane. This would never happen in real life…..wait a second, I feel like I’ve said this before…
Shit, can’t find a link I KNOW I wrote this about another show though…
Anyway, it’s true that Chikane goes totally batshit insane. She comes back and acts all nice to Himeko, and then she tells her, “Oh by the way, I’m going to kill you tomorrow no big deal.” What the fuck Chikane? I liked you but you just fucked with Himeko’s mind in a way that a possible lesbian prospect’s mind should not be fucked with.
But that sets up for the most awesome ending fucking ever.
Also, Chikane is my favorite character in this show. Can’t tell you why though.
If you wonder why I haven’t been posting much, it’s because I’ve been too far immersed in watching anime, which is a welcome change. Particularly, I’ve been smashing my way through Skip Beat!
Skip Beat is a title I have heard of many times, and I tried to read the manga time and time again, but shoujo manga art pisses me off so much that I’ve dropped it every time.
But fuck me if the anime wasn’t awesome as hell.
When you build a show where revenge is the driving plotline, then I’m going to like it, even if it’s some shitty shoujo. Particularly, I don’t mind shoujo anime nearly as much as I mind manga. Anime tend to have less frilly shit and stupid background art than manga versions of the same shoujo. This was true for Skip Beat, but the men in the anime still seemed to have completely unnaturally long limbs, which kind of pissed me off. However, it still had good art, and a lot of changes in facial expressions and artistic style.
Revenge revenge revenge. I love it. I love everything about it. To me, there’s nothing better than throwing your victory in the face of someone who previously talked smack to you. It’s great to do and it’s great to watch. Why else do you think Kill Bill is my favorite movie? It’s the ultimate revenge tale as far as I’m concerned. Of course, there’s many, many other awesome revenge stories, but for now I’m going to focus on Skip Beat!
Skip Beat is…well it starts off heavily based on revenge, Kyoko, one of the most awesome female characters ever, decides to get revenge after learning her boyfriend (who is famous) pretty much just used her as a maid for her entire life. She decides the best way to do this is to become a bigger star than him.
The best part about Skip Beat is quite clearly Kyoko. She’s incredibly spiteful, and if you ever get her mad, she won’t bend over and start crying, she’ll kick your ass emotionally, physically, or in a multitude of ways. She’ll make you eat your words by stuffing them so far back down your throat that they’ll come out your ass. Tell her she’s not good at something and she’ll suddenly become better than anyone else on the planet.
Revenge.
The show is littered with small bits of revenge that are asides to the main revenge theme, and this makes me happy. There’s still comedy and all that shit mixed in, but to me, revenge was the main focus.
Back to Kyoko.
Marina Inoue plays a lot of bad ass roles. Besides Kyoko, she’s also Rei from HOTD, Matsurika from Maria Holic (not really bad ass, but still awesome), Yozora from Boku go Tomodachi (cruel and awesome), and of course Chiri from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Kyoko, however, is in my opinion, her best role. There were multiple times when I watched Skip Beat and thought, “Shit, she’s kicking ass voicing Kyoko.” That’s kind of all I have to say there. Marina Inoue is immediately boosted to my top 5 seiyuu list.
There was, however, one flaw with the anime series. It ended. It ended before and end.
No. That’s not it.
It ended right before the climax of a particular arc. They could have made one more episode, and it would have rounded the anime off nicely.
But no.
They elected to fuck it all up by ending with the typical main character monologue as she rides her bike and reminisces about how she’s changed. That’s like if you’re watching a New York Giants game, and the score is close, and it’s the 4th quarter, and Eli Manning is driving for what could be a game winning score. He goes back to pass, and just as he’s pulling back to throw someone changes the channel. What the fuck are you serious Skip Beat producers???
Bullshit.
Cop out.
I’m dropping this show to a 5 because of that.
Bill got his ass kicked by all the God damn shoujo sparkles.
Today I wandered on to Crunchyroll as I sometimes do, and saw that the Winter 2011/2012 anime lineup was finally put up. Curious to see what anime would be availible on Crunchyroll, I glimpsed the list and saw to my delight that Zero no Tsukaima’s final season was streaming, and….what’s this? FIRST EPISODE!? FUCK HELL YES!!!!
Yes. Yes I do.
Guys, here’s the deal. I love this show so much that I just can’t help it. Even with the stupid beginning filled with the same old flat boobs vs large boobs, I still love it. It’s stupid, mindless, and undeserving of being called good in anyway, but I love it so much, I just can’t help it.
And here’s the zinger, don’t you too wish that you could watch a show and still love it no matter how fucking retarded it is? You do, don’t you, I mean, why wouldn’t you? Well too bad you can’t love ZnT, aka the best show ever (not really, but one of my favorites).
Here's a question...Why are they all sleeping together?
Siesta sure got Sassy from the first season. She used to be such a nice girl too…..actually, to be honest, last season is a bit hazy. I know that King guy kidnapped Tabitha and did some shit to her mom and shit…idk I guess I remember most of it.
Regardless, ZnT is back, and I am happy. However…
To be real with you all, this episode did a good job repeating literally the same exact format that every other generic episode of Zero no Tsukaima follows, and if I don’t see some continuous plot and awesome fighting I’m gonna really start to get peeved. I still love the show, and desperately look forward to the next episode, but seriously…
Wtf now Tifa has a crush on Saito? You know, all the girls I’ve talked to have said that they don’t think Asian guys are hot, so I fail to be able to see how Saito could be getting so much pussy.
This series needs to move it along, because right now it looks a bit too similar to Lotte’s Toy, and that show fucking sucked (that last part could technically be a pun).
I recently got called out for mentioning Gintama and Nichijou, which I consider the best anime of 2011, in the same sentence. Here, look:
According to this post, I should never mention Gintama and Nichijou in the same sentence again. So what did I do?
Wrote a post comparing them. Because I’m an asshole.
But in all honesty, Taka brings up a point, and certainly a person as wise as Taka (Gintama increases brain mass) should be taken seriously. Gintama indeed does kick a whole lot of ass. But to be honest, Nichijou kicks a whole lot of ass too. They both kick ass in comedy. Who else in the anime blogosphere has the gall to pit two comedic juggernauts up against each other, or ANYTHING for that matter up against Gintama.
ME. And that’s the beauty of an ISSS… I can do what I want because
I
Just
Don’t
Give
A
Fuck….(3:22 for relevance)
So then, let the battle commence….but first, I really have to shit.
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Okay now that that’s done, I’m going to start with the anime I consider to be the challenger.
Nichijou
I was hesitant to start Nichijou. It looked like it might be your typical boring 4-koma (though, I’ve actually ended up liking a good amount of 4-koma based anime…not K-On though).
It wasn’t until I heard about fingers popping off of people and turning into rockets that I decided this anime was too wacky to ignore.
After 2 episodes I wasn’t that impressed, but after that, the show got progressivly better. Either I was becoming more in tune with the type of comedy, or the show was actually becoming better.
I like to think the latter.
Every single episode was better than the already awesome and hilarious episode preceding it. There were times where I had to pause the video because I was laughing too hard to hear what was going on. THAT is hard for an anime to do to me. Time to explode with a list of awesome:
Besides the fact that the art and animation was incredibly awesome (best of the year and arguably my favorite ever), the characters were a question mark for me.
I deliberated for about a good hour when trying to decide what character I liked the most. I switched back and forth. Sakamoto was a fucking awesome cat who could talk. Yuuko was a crazed slacker who was retarded in the best way. Mai was one of those characters with a listless expression, but who also was arguably the most insane character in the show. Koujirou the…hmm….refined noble-like rich kid who was a farmer and rode a goat. He was interesting. Hakase, the most interesting and hilarious mad scientist seen (asides to Okabe from Steins;Gate). Heck, even the principal was bad ass enough to wrestle a deer (can’t remember if there was a reason why though).
But in the end, the best character had to be Misato Tachibana.
Misato is a tsundere to the 5 millionth level….sort of. It’s incredibly obvious to everyone in the anime that she likes Koujirou, but she refuses to display these feelings. Instead, she routinely pulls large weapons, from machine guns to rocket launchers to I think even a tank, from nowhere, and blasts the shit out of Koujirou for no real reason.
This is funny.
This is awesome.
This anime, is wacky, zany, completely ridiculous and retarded and also fucking amazing in every way. The comedy probably isn’t for everyone though. How could you NOT love this!?
NOTE: They took the original video of this scene down, so I replaced it with a shorter, but better quality version here.
That’s all and good. Clearly a 5^^ show. But Gintama is no slouch.
Gintama
I just built up Nichijou to seem like (at least in my opinion) the greatest comedic anime in all of anime history. It almost seems too good to beat.
Now I’m about to show you how infinitely insignificant it is to Gintama in every single way.
Nichijou is a hilarious and enjoyable watch. It is fun. It has a lot of pointlessness to it, but it’s all funny. However, even though it is INSANELY unique in it’s brand of comedy (what other show has a good 15 minutes devoted solely for the purpose of explaining a character’s hair accessories?), it’s still a bit one dimensional.
Gintama blends everything that is good and creates something unimaginably awesome. It breaks the 4th wall. It melds clever comedy with crude poop jokes. It parodies popular culture and anime, shows and music. It covers every possible brand of comedy you can think of, and it’s been going for more than 200 episodes why?
Because it keeps everything new and funny. It never gets boring, it never gets dull, and it’s an anime that you want to just sit and watch forever without stopping to pee or eat or drink or pee. (peeing is one of the leading causes of anime interruptions).
And you know what? You can even take all of the comedy out, and you’re STILL left with a very good anime. Gintama, while being mainly episodic, also has a bit of a continuous plot (and archs and all that shit), so it’s not just good as a comedy, it’s good as a drama. Neither does it ever seem too overwhelmingly comedic or too overwhelmingly dramatic. As I said before, it’s a perfect blend.
As I said, I had a tough time choosing a favorite character for Nichijou, but the characters in Gintama are just as crazy and unique, and what’s more is that they all have a great deal more depth than the characters in Nichijou. I’m not even going to bother reminding you about the awesomeness of Gintoki, or Kagura or Shinpachi or his nutty sister or ANYONE in the Shinsengumi. But Ayame has to be my favorite.
She’s a stalker who is blind without her glasses and enjoys S&M. I do not enjoy S&M, but I love stalkers and glasses and assassins, and Ayame. So she’s probably going to win hands down. But the cast is inscrutably outstanding.
Nichijou has great comedy. Gintama has literally EVERYTHING. Nothing is not covered, there is no where it won’t go, and it covers almost every single thing that you could find or want in an anime. And what’s more, it executes it PERFECTLY.
What did you just say!?