Forum - View topicThe Anime You Should Have Watched in Spring 2013
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R. Kasahara
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Andromeda Stories is a legit masterpiece and a personal favorite, despite the incest. That's the only one I can think of. Also, agreed. |
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Dark Mac
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The mutated babies thing isn't really the best argument against incest, since they can just, you know, not have kids. Unless you want to say all people with bad genes shouldn't be in relationships.
It's too bad Valvrave didn't get any mention in this article. Now there was a wild anime. |
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MiniMarps
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One spring 2013 anime I've always felt is criminally underrated is Yuyushiki. It's one of those shows that's waaay better in execution than what a quick summary of it might lead you to expect. ("Cute girls Google weird things.")
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Arale Kurashiki
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That's what I came here to say. If you think the thing that's bad about incest is the gene thing, that's basically a justification for incest (there are, of course, many relationships between people who can't have kids. So incest is a-ok then?). When I see people say that I can only assume they don't know what's actually harmful about incest and have never thought about it. |
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oilers2007
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Indeed. Kinda reads like some weird eugenics thing and uh.. hm. Well anyway, moving on. I'm fine with incest anime and it's a popular theme so complaining about it is kinda useless. Onimai was another recent incest anime everyone loved so it's not like it was some old trend that died off. Still pretty popular and always will be, I imagine. Calling Flowers of Evil's anime a overlooked gem while damning Oreimo is certainly a take though. One of the most beloved and successful anime being compared one of the most ridiculed and mocked adaptions ever. That rotoscoping animation was a laughing stock for a reason. I feel bad for manga fans who were excited when the anime adaption was announced. The manga is kinda interesting and would recommend that though. Who could forget the infamous "Nakamura, unf unf" though.. shame about that whole affair. IIRC Gargantia wasn't underrated though. It was pretty successful and popular at the time. But there was behind the scene production issues that kind of screwed it over from a second season from what I remember. |
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Megiddo
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Railgun S would probably be my pick for the top show of Spring 2013, though Yuyushiki and Aiura were both very enjoyable as well. I also laughed quite a bit at Azazel-san's second season (though neither TV anime could live up to the greatness of the OVAs which preceded them).
My pick for what not to watch would be Red Data Girl which original series came from the usually sure-handed PA Works, but boy did they screw up with RDG. It's a series that is bafflingly obtuse and not sure what it wants to be and ends up being not much of anything at all. Then again, it was better than Glasslip which would come out a year later, but still, my trust in PA Works was shaken by RDG until it was redeemed completely by 2013 Fall's Nagi no Asukara which I assume took up all the actually good talent. |
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AQuin1904
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All of RDG's problems can be blamed squarely on the decision to adapt (iirc) five novels out of a six-novel series into a single cours of anime. Only the most padded of LNs (like the first book of Overlord, where the part before the protagonist goes outside is longer than any single book of Slayers) can stand up to that kind of treatment, and RDG isn't even an LN. |
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TarsTarkas
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Yes, physical media for the win!. As they said in the Aliens movie, "It's The Only Way To Be Sure." |
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Emerje
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I still enjoy Oreimo (Ruri threw in the towel way too soon!), even still buying the merch, but I equate the series to a road trip to an anime convention, but on the return trip everyone is exhausted and somebody drives the car straight through your bed room wall.
Yeah, I was enjoying Railgun S a lot as well, it was last Railgun series to actually feel like it was being given some room to breathe and not rushing through the story at such a breakneck pace it was hard to understand what the hell was going on. I remember getting a little invested Valvrave (as well as Gargantia)... but I honestly couldn't tell you much about it. Lots of giant robots, dictators and super powered villains in military uniforms or something... I think there was a girl, too...? I also remember enjoying The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat. It was different and fun and not as perverted as the title suggests. Emerje |
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Florete
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The mutant babies incest rant is so over the top I can't tell if it's serious or not. I hope it's not, because that's not the reason incest is (usually) problematic.
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Brack
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It's also horrible use of rotoscope. |
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DerekL1963
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Being better than Glasslip is... not a very difficult bar to hurdle. |
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meiam
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Yeah I think that's the one. |
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Piglet the Grate
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That was well done (if you can accept falling in love on a first semi-date), and is a far cry from approving of incest. |
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ThatGuyWhoLikesThings
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I don't care that OreImo went the incest route, fiction can and should have the freedom to explore these taboo topics if it wants whether comedically or dramatically (whether it does so successfully is another matter entirely), but did it have to be so mean-spirited and weirdly soapbox-y about it? Kyousuke screwing up every other relationship he had just to bone his sister was what *actually* made it bad. Anyway I have Complicated Feelings on incest but just know that the mutant babies argument is cartoonish
Anyway Railgun S was the best show of that season. Shoutout to Devil Survivor 2 The Animation by taking a game that already took clear aesthetic influence from Eva and just deciding to copy it to the letter. Part-Timer was very cute, shame it didn't have a follow-up. OH F***, IS THAT INAZUMA ELEVEN GO: GALAXY??!! Last edited by ThatGuyWhoLikesThings on Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:33 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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