Forum - View topicShelf Life - Space Invaders [2015-06-01]
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Via_01
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The Devil Survivor 2 anime is certainly one of the better videogame adaptations. The fact that it can stand on its own itself is already enough proof.
If you liked the ensemble cast, however, then I'd really recommend playing the game. Watching a 12 episodes show with them is one thing, but spending 50 hours getting to know them (and even being offered the possibility of saving them!) is another. My only gripe with the show is Yamato: somehow they managed to make him even more of a dick than in the game. That's really something. |
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getchman
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minor goof, Ranma is from Viz, not funimation
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kazume
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Io's perfect duck mode... awww yiss
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Usagi-kun
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Amazing poster collection, Digital Scratch. They all look great!
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Snakebit1995
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Wanna be the strongest...is a thing
I watched it last week and was like...okay. It's defiantly a fanservice show and it doesn't shy away from that. It knows what it is. the actual Plot is okay,it 's predictable but not without a few cool point. But yeah, Fanservice is the shows strength (If you call that a strength?), not the actual wrestling. I mean for the first like 4 episodes the only move anyone ever does is a Boston crab. I'm still not sure how i felt about that show...kinda whatever I guess. really liked Nobunagun though, cool premise and executed well. the colors are kinda dark and I didn't like how the screen would go red and black for no reason when the aliens showed. I also thought the story needed more background info not just get glazed over in like half an episode. Especially a fan of the dub, Jason Librecht knocked it out of the park as Jack |
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belvadeer
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Agreed. I have yet to play any of the Devil Survivor games, but this is one of the best anime adaptations of a video game I've seen in years. It does make me want to play them now. And considering we were just on Mike Toole's topic of crappy adaptations of games yesterday, this is definitely a breath of fresh air. I know for some fans, it might not be a 100% accurate adaptation, since it does its own little things here and there with the cast and plot, but it's certainly closer to source material than most game-to-anime adaptations I've seen. On the subject of Space Brothers, I'm rather surprised this show doesn't have a dub yet. Last edited by belvadeer on Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:04 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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DmonHiro
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Devil Survivor 2 was one of the worst shows in that season. Everyone just pulled random Personas and fusions right out of their ass with absolutely no foreshadowing. The ending was just a set of ass pulls.
As for the action in this show, it's pathetic. Summon --> use energy attack --> reset. P4 at least had some colorful choreography fr the battles. PS: belvadeer, how can you say it's one of the best adaptations of a video game if you haven't played the video game? Last edited by DmonHiro on Mon Jun 01, 2015 12:25 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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relyat08
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Loving all of the wallscrolls/posters! I have a thing for covering every bare inch of wall space with awesome art. My room used to be like that before I had to move. No space for those guys anymore.
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belvadeer
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I've watched playthroughs on YouTube and I've researched the DS games' lore. What does it matter to you anyway? |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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Gah, sorry. Carry over from a previous title! Thank you! |
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meiam
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While nobunagun is fun, its definetly not worth 70$, 40$ is somewhat reasonable, but still kind of a stretch. Especially since the show sorta rush the finish, it's almost a cliff-hanger ending. Fun show, just nothing spectacular.
How did they do devil survivor 2 main character? He's a silent protagonist in the game which means he has no personality (which kinda killed the game for me, hate how it feel like I'm controlling a mute brain dead person). Aside from that I remember the game being decent, but nothing particularly noticeable. That part of space of space brothers is where the show peaked for me. You have a semi consistent cast that you can know better and the action is just believable enough that you can enjoy it. The attention to details and small touch really shine and Muta is definitely more likable than I initially though. |
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rizuchan
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Question for other people with an anime room/apartment: where do you find mini posters like those featured in the column today? I would really like to decorate my new place with some but I haven't been able to find them for sale. I just have the ones that came with my Madoka/Oreimo LEs and I'm not terribly crazy about them.
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belvadeer
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He speaks regular lines like everyone else. |
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Animegomaniac
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Hey, I was just thinking when Nobunagun was set to be released, little did I know it was tomorrow. Fun series, love the main character.
Others on the list: I couldn't even watch Wanna be the Strongest past episode 4 as it was less about wrestling and more about taking a beating and wanting more... probably a term for it. Please Teacher's structure always amused me as it was a light trifle until Kei's history was explored. Then it got all dark and depressing but interesting. Certainly would have been a better show without the sci-fi trappings because those aliens only got in the way of the better plot. 5 cm per second, the worst tease of an excuse for a movie I ever had the misfortune to see. It was pretty and that's about it. By the way, Garden of Words was probably the second worse. I thought the Place Promised in Our Early Days was good though. Taking the time to tell a story to any kind of ending helped. Garden of Words had just the one story to fail, the most I got from it was that someone had a foot fetish and it's not me, but 5 cm's had three and each one was a greater failure. And that ending! To call it "anticlimactic" would assume the movie was trying to go anywhere. "But that's the point the genius Shinkai was trying to convey! Failing to connect even when connected through Fate because this is real life and not a story!" No, what he was trying to convey was how easily he could steal an hour from your life by making boredom pretty. Got to get this bad taste out of my mouth. Right, got to order Nobunagun. They may have spent an entire episode sending their B team through a Thing ripoff but it was a pretty ripoff that kept my attention. |
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ThatGuyWhoLikesThings
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Count me as one of the people who really did not like the Devil Survivor 2 anime. I've played the game however, so I'm guilty of bias.
It did do a couple things well (one of which was the characterization of Hibiki), and it did have a lot of flash and bombast in the battles, but almost every character is a shell of their game counterparts. Except for Yamato who's turned into an even bigger asshole, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. It's not like it matters though, since almost all of them are killed off for cheap shock value. Of course, after the 6th death, it stops being "shock value". I also absolutely hated the tone. It tries to be all grimderp and serious, whereas the game, despite the subject matter, was light-hearted, self-aware, and could frequently be pretty goofy. The final episode was the worst. Never mind the complete asspull that is demon fusion, a mechanic that was introduced fairly early in the game, but in the anime comes completely out of nowhere. Never mind the fight between Lucifer and Satan, the two representatives of Law and Chaos respectively in the game, which is delivered with the subtlety of a bag of bricks to the face. Never mind the complete removal of Polaris as a final obstacle. But no, the inclusion of the Golden Ending is what ticks me off the most. It was achieved in the game through preventing the deaths of and building up your relationships with everyone. In the anime, spoiler[everyone dies except for Hibiki, so the ending feels completely forced and unearned.] |
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