Fall 2008 Thread - Rie Kugimiya Overload

If you hate Nagisa so much, you should really just avoid watching Clannad After Story. Cuz, you know, seriously.

Akane-iro no Somaru Saka: Totally harem/h-game-esque, but entertaining nonetheless. Also hot damn @ the cast list.

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<Taco> I will watch it for the cast and hate myself for 30 minutes every week

Kannagi: Nearly fully choreographed dancan' OP spells a prelude to awesome. Looks to be pretty awesome, though hopefully a sub with decent video quality pops up sometime.

Rosario x Vampire Capu2: Looks to be better than the first season already, if only because THAT DAMN BAT isn't infesting every single scene. Hopefully the plot actually goes somewhere this time. Also the ED is totally awesome with disco dancing, but it's like Gonzo ran out of money to animate the entire thing so they filled up the gaps with random CG.

Hyakko: Another series about ~4 girls in high school, another guaranteed viewing.

Toradora: Teh Rie being tsundere. Still, if the manga is any indication, it should be amusing to watch.

Casshern Sins: Went in not knowing anything about the series except that it was oldschool, came out pretty interested. Very smooth animation in this one with plenty of robo-fights to keep you entertained. The environment is very bleak, yet there's still something oddly beautiful about it. Looks to have a rockin' soundtrack.

Not going to be watching Clannad After Story until the WS subs come out a few weeks from now, but there should be plenty of stuff to keep me entertained until then.

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Originally Posted by Tails

Didn't people just get finished with another season of JC and TEH RIE both doing the same thing for the third time in a row with ZnT3? How are you not tired of that yet. I really want to like ToraDora, but she needs to stop pigeonholing herself. It's not like she can't do other character roles.

It's true that she's rather typecast as a voice actress, and if the comparison were only between Louise and Taiga then I probably wouldn't be so interested in the series. Thankfully, however, the plot, setting and supporting cast of both series are different and that difference is enough to keep me interested. The main female lead is a focus of these series, yeah, but it's not like she alone keeps the show afloat.

Besides, while Louise is kind of tsundere overload, I think Taiga's a lot more reined in and that makes it more bearable. She speaks with a lower pitch and just isn't so tsun-tsun all the time.

I guess the only real defense I have is that that kind of character portrayal doesn't bother me. I can always watch Gintama if I want to see her play another role anyway.

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Ga-Rei-Zero got subbed recently by some group I've never heard of recently, and despite their usage of some really dumb notes (defining "ETA" and "Led Zeppelin") they seem to be pretty good.

Anyway, case in point is this: You all need to watch Ga-Rei-Zero for spinning fire dinosaurs, cute girls fighting with motorcycle-fu, and pure "what the fuck."

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Ga-Rei-Zero:

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Seems there was really too much effort put into designing those Divison 4 members for them to be discarded after just one episode. There's a possibility that this is just a bad end and that following episodes will tell the story from an earlier point in time... but yeah.

Either way, sword girl is probably gonna be a major character. They should still bring Natsuki back though.

Caught Toaru Majutsu no Index last night and it looks pretty darn good. My first impression was "this is Zettai Karen Children infused with magic for an older audience." This series looks like it has a lot of potential, especially if it can keep the quality of the animation up. J.C. Staff's been on fire lately.

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Someone somewhere is going to have a fit over this.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Toradora's OP sounds a little bland to me, but it's possible that it'll grow on me by the end of the season. I do like the animation, though, as it feels they actually spend some effort on it (as compared to the loss of an ED).

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