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zeo1fan
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Your assessment of Toriko seems fair. I don't care anything for the other two.
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050795
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I think there is a bit more substance to Sound of the Sky then you are implying, but I do agree with your criticisms of the show and the placement of it.
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Hardgear
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I've been watching Toriko streaming and am caught up, and can safely say that at least until just past the 100 episode mark there are no more dragged out fight scenes like the Tommyrod fight. All the fights since then go a lot faster. Unless you count the casino game against Livebearer as a fight anyway.
Though I am concerned that Funimation doesn't have the 5th set listed yet... Also, I noticed that I am a lot more tolerant of said long dragged out fights when watching a show at one episode a week. I had the same experience with Toriko as I did with DBZ: Marathoning the DVDs after watching the show on TV/streaming, I was a lot more irritated by how dragged out the fights were. Whereas when I was watching both of those shows on TV (especially at one episode a week) I barely noticed... |
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Stark700
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I'm not a big fan of either K-On! or Sounds of the Sky. However, I can honestly say that collection is pretty neat especially those FMA manga. Oh and those One Piece figures are neat too :3
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CrownKlown
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I have to love the positioning of PMM followed by Qwaser of Stigma. Talk about extremes. Also nice to see the Scott Pilgrim and Adventure Time stuff.
Im curious when do they plan to release Hunter X Hunter 2011 given that they are releasing the likes of Toriko, I think even Sket Dan is a better Sj title than Toriko. Its gotta too much of a bobobobo feeling to it for me to like it. |
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Mikeski
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At first, I took it as sitcom humor, in the same vein as the old "I had some bad shellfish last night" forcing a character to hightail it to the commode every few minutes. Bathroom humor may be low-rent, but it works. The conclusion of the episode, though, had me saying "Really? That's where we were going?" spoiler[I don't think that's a popular enough thing to attribute it to either sex, and I'm utterly confused as to what it was doing in the middle of an otherwise-iyashikei series.] spoiler[Pun oh-so-totally intended.] |
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EnigmaticSky
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Lot of meh this week huh? I will watch the K-On! film just for the sake of completion. I can deal with one and a half more hours of watching paint dry. At least it may be nice at this point in time since I have been drowning in AP tests/college orientation/job applications/getting wisdom teeth pulled/etc, so maybe it would be nice to watch something mind numbingly fluffy.
No real interest in the other two titles this week.
No kidding.  I don't know why Qwaser is even on his shelves at all. I had my Madoka sets displayed on their own little section in my collection until it started getting too full, but it shares a spot with Stein's;Gate and Hellsing Ultimate. I like to arrange my stuff so it looks more like a display piece rather than just a shelf of blurays. I like to think that Madoka's in pleasant company.
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Yttrbio
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I thought Sound of the Sky was unique in its "apocalypse that doesn't suck" portrayal, but they just didn't do much with the setting.
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nechronius
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Sound of the Sky felt like such wasted potential. They definitely squandered their moments hinting at a deeply contemplative series. I think the first real hint of this, that they might possibly want to make something more substantial, was episode 7 with Filicia's backstory.
And then they squandered that momentum with episode 8. Truly facepalm worthy. <--- |
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RestLessone
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I'd assume it was hitting the omorashi fanbase, depending on how it is presented. Granted, I have absolutely no idea how popular that particular subculture is. I just know there's a word (and Wikipedia article) for it. |
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Wakazhi
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K-ON and its style of anime is definitely polarizing. I think if you're a K-On fan, the movie is a must-buy, otherwise I'd never recommend it to someone who isn't a fan of the franchise.
I liked Soranowoto's atmosphere and music a lot, and that's why I liked the series overall despite a few flaws and the anti-climactic ending. I thought the bonus episode where they got drunk was much more cringing/annoying than the bathroom episode. Was that episode really supposed to be a turn-on to guys? Thanks for putting that unwanted perspective in my head now...ugh, lol. |
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nechronius
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I rather like K-On despite its "nothing much happens" approach to story telling. It's also the same reason why I like Sound of the Sky, although I think I finally got a bit tired of it with Tamako Market. I liked Soranowoto well enough, honestly, because it had just enough of the good elements. Enough to buy the box set even if it was only DVD. It's just that it just feels like they really wasted dramatic potential with this one, much more so than with K-On because the expectation wasn't as high given the story's backdrop of declining humanity. (Yes, I own all of K-On too... Guilty pleasure.) Much of the mood music was also quite contemplative and I still count Hikari no Senritsu as my favorite song by Kalafina, a hopeful song tinged with sorrow. The latter half of episode 13 also had much of the instrumental music that really hinted at some greater tragic drama. Yes, definitely liked the music overall. Yea, there's lots to like about the series, but I think its attempt to toe the line between being a cutesy moeblob and a much more dramatic effort hampered its chance of being truly great. I'm not suggesting that they should have done something like killing off a key character or two, but done right within the framework of that show... Maybe the producers thought that tragedy would have been too much. Damnit. Facepalm. Lots of squandered potential that could still have made room for a pee or panty joke or two. |
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omoikane
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Sora no woto is easily one of the most contemplative anime I've seen on this side of Hoshi o ou kodomo. But a whole lot of it is implied and in good traditional eastern storytelling style, so you really have to think about it and get some context to understand how it ends and what it means thematically. Actually I thought the ending was the best part, too, because it applies kind of retroactively.
It's also a pretty good fictional take on the nature of trauma on society, so in that way it's a reflection of a certain thread of Japanese cultural attitude towards disasters and the hopelessness of tomorrow. |
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jymmy
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I've only seen the K-On! movie (Sound of the Sky is on my backlist and experience has taught me that simultaneous adaptations of long-running battle manga are too tedious for me to bother with), and I largely agree with Bamboo. I'd place the series a bit lower, I guess; rather than "another hour and a half of K-On!" it felt to me like "the worthwhile hour and a half of K-On!". It was the only place in the franchise I felt really held its weight without being undermined by or by being the mediocre source material. I watched the movie fully expecting to hate it but was actually charmed by how genuinely charming I found it.
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Mikeski
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...which was what my next mostly-spoilered paragraph was saying. I get that it exists; I don't know why it's in the middle of an otherwise-normal anime. Even if it was a fetish of someone on the production staff, why wasn't it shot down as "this really doesn't belong in a show like this"? It's like throwing a Higurashi-style murder in the middle of K-On. (And then going right back to the usual kind of "slice" of life.) |
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