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EricJ2
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It's straining to be as "abstract" as an Oshii movie, and even worse, it's not even trying to be comedy--Any attempt at TV-friendly laughs end at around the ten or fifteen minute mark. 3 at least tried for a little bit of attempt at Dreamer eeriness, before going into more standard Yamazaki's fairytale sentimentality, but 4 is worth seeing once. And once you do, you'll know why I say "once". Still, I wouldn't call it a film "series" in the sense of Persona or DBZ. |
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Cerceaux
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I, for one, was very disappointed by the beach episode in Another because nobody got eaten by a shark.
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Bluenoser
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For last weeks poll my pick was one I didn't expect to win but I was hoping to see get a bit more love than she did, how could one not party with Ryoko?
As to the new poll, I added a film series from my earlier years as an anime fan because for sheer foolishness it still brings a smile to my face when I watch them, even though many aspects didn't work so well in the later movies, and that is the Project A-ko! series, which actually fits the description of film series...  .
As well I wanted to end this with my congratulations to the author for her marriage, as she noted in the beginning of her article. I've got my 12th anniversary coming up this month, so I wish you as much joy and love in yours as I have found in mine and still do. |
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Sailor Sedna
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Ah, the Sailor Moon dinosaur episode was on this list; probably from what I'm guessing, the hardest to find SM episode from the classic anime (was it released on the new DVD releases of R though, just wondering)?
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EnigmaticSky
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Congrats on getting married!
For Another (I won't use spoiler tags since it was given away in the column), I wasn't actually a fan of the beach episode, nor the series in general. The second I saw the boat I just thought "One of them is getting hit by it." Then they did, and I'm just sitting there going "what did I just ****ing say." That one in particular I didn't feel had quite the payoff of some others. I'd like the see more horror anime made, I have a feeling its popularity is due in large part to a lack of anime in the genre. I mean there's Higurashi... Another season of Higurashi.......... and then you really have to start stretching it to action series that just happen to have zombies or vampires or something. I mean that stuff can be horror, but seeing Alucard in Hellsing Ultimate killing a dude isn't the same sense of dread you get walking into the shadows in PT. I want more Silent Hill 2 and less Resident Evil 6. Also Gurren Laggan is always a correct answer. |
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ArthurFrDent
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What? no Mahoromatic on the beach with a giant crab monster? That's gotta be one of my all time favorites... that one testing of trust moved the story, but it was also quite funny... much more than most beach eps. are IMHO.
CRAB MONSTER. and yeah. late to the party. 
https://youtu.be/vy94ZSuQJnc?t=1m36s |
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Bloodgod
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I was really hoping to see Another on the list when I saw the title of this post. Was not disappointed.
I remember when first watching it and seeing we were getting a beach episode... I was like "seriously, a 'lets go to the beach' episode in this show??" They managed to keep the tension up the whole time and the episode actually had some important plot information too, toward the end. Sure, it was an excuse to put the girls in bathing suits as always, but it was an interesting episode and it did not break the immersion of a short horror series as I first feared it would. Glad to see NHK on there too. It's worth noting that our pathetic MC spoiler[manages to talk everyone else out of killing themselves before he decides to jump himself. Then he gets talked down, in a way, by Misaki.] Love both shows |
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CCTakato
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CCTakato
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Oh and who can forget the hilarity of the Azumanga Daioh beach episodes and Yukari-sensei's crazy driving?
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Touma
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In case anybody else is curious, episode 208 is not the beach episode of Bleach. From looking at the episode titles in the encyclopedia I suspect that it is episode 228, "Summer, Sea, Swimsuit Festival!!", and 208 was just a typo. Unfortunately the DVD set that I just got goes up to only episode 217, so I cannot confirm that right now. |
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