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GATSU
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You actually sat through Violence Jack? I just saw one of the Youtube clips, and it was too much for me.
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Via_01
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It's good to see someone that knows how to appreciate Space Brothers. I'm watching it on an irregular basis: every few months, I watch a few episodes, but it works well for me, because of the slow pacing and the large amount of episodes. It's a nice story, and definitely worth a shot.
And you gave a good description of NouCome there. It is, indeed, dumb, pretty bad actually, but it'll definitely make you laugh with how dumb some situations can be. |
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_Cyphon_
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Well, another anime to add to my list of long anime titles.
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iatheia
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Completely forgot about Space Brothers... I was watching it back in a day, but dropped it at around 20 episode mark because I couldn't keep up with it from week to week and it was getting a bit long to wait for it to finish before marathoning it. But I guess now would be as good of a time as any. Plus, I have a friend who I am trying to get to watch anime, and she is so far interested in Tiger & Bunny, but I kept trying to think of what to watch next together. A lack of a dub could be a problem for her, but it is about space, so I think I could keep her entertained...
But I would disagree about the fact that it is being released at a good time. There were already 5 releases that I wanted that came out this month. I can't really spare money for the 6th. |
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ANN_Bamboo
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Thanks, but that's from Paul, who's listed before and after the review. 
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maximilianjenus
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loved the noucome review, those shows are genrally nto apreciated for what they are and are normally either put on a pedestal by some random weirdo or just bashed all the way to heaven.
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Hameyadea
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I found Ore no Nōnai Sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love Come o Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru to be funnier than it probably should. Nakata Jōji narrating the show certainly helped with all the surreal humor; as well as Toyonaga Toshiyuki's performance as the main character, Amakusa Kanada (the squeakiness of he voice can be a bit distracting at times, but I thought that, overall, it fitted quite well for his indecisiveness - especially given his constant situation). Also, as stated in the Review section, the VN gimmick doesn't wear out due to the low number of episodes (10 TV, 1 OVA).
Having stated that, the show's weak points are the practically factory-manufactured character, or more correctly: character types. You have the (painfully-obvious) tsundere, the ditzy hottie, the Imōto, the loli she-is-actually-older-than-MC-kun teacher (it actually made me go  ) and the Beautiful-Student-Body-President one. Additionally, also some of it is circumvented due to the show's promise - the Absolute Choice - it has some unnaturally-occurring fanservice and lewd moments (stop me if you've heard that one before: "No! Don't move! My panties will fall" *sigh*)
All-in-all, if you didn't have much of a trouble watching shows like To Love-Ru, Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maō or Kissxsis, and found them to be entertaining, then you'll find pretty much more of the same here. If you only find the VN-like gimmick to be interesting and nothing else, I recommend that you won't watch this. Go watch Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai instead; cleaver humor, good references to VN (and video games in general) and better execution of the character archetypes. |
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Tenchi
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Shouldn't that be "thematic successors"? |
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Touma
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I agree with everything that Paul said about Maid Sama, but I still rate it much higher than he did.
That is mostly because I do not care about Usui except as a foil for Misaki, so his lack of development does not bother me. And I do think that it merits a second viewing. I have watched it as least five times. Three times, or more, subtitled before the dub was made and I have watched the Blu-ray dub twice, so far. Despite that difference of opinion I thought that this was a good review and I enjoyed reading it. |
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ANN_Bamboo
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I have a very high tolerance for anime nonsense. You forget who you're talking to. |
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ANN_Bamboo
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Heh, yeah. In my mind, the sentence was organized such that "predecessor" referred to .Hack//SIGN, but it got jumbled on the way out of my brain. |
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whiskeyii
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God I love Space Brothers. I watched the whole thing on Crunchyrolll and snapped up the BD when it went on sale. I've been in a pretty stressful place recently, but Space Brothers always makes me feel more hopeful about the future, even on my worst days. And as someone who lived in both spoiler[Texas and Florida], I have a lot of fun seeing the depictions of the spoiler[space centers] there.
 The research in this series is really top-notch!
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meiam
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I really liked space brother until it got too melo dramatic spoiler[(the stuck on the moon arc and then the aunt character getting the rare disease that-just-so-happen to be the exact one that killed another character's dad while he was researching a cure that could only be synthesized in space)]. At first (roughly episode 1-40) it was great, kinda romanticized version of what you'd expect astronaut test would be like. Muto himself is a great character, he feel much more real and human than 99% of anime lead. But then it kinda feel like they run out of idea once they finish the selection exam part and it's just not as interesting, I didn't stop watching it in disgust, I just started falling behind and just stopped watching it without really noticing.
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Raneth
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Another huge fan of Space Brothers here. I have to grab a copy!
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enurtsol
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Heh we used to watch these things for breakfast! 
(And Urotsukidoji to fall asleep.) |
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