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Kari Kamiya said:
Dude didn't fight hard enough to keep Angel Beats! two-cour, and Charlotte was fucking shit that also needed to be 26 episodes. I still haven't seen The Day I Became a God, but I do not doubt he's better off just writing for visual novels and not anime. But it also revealed him as a hack, so fuck him.

(And I love CLANNAD btw.)
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was a big fan of Lttle Busters (not the anime but the VN)
 
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was a big fan of Lttle Busters (not the anime but the VN)
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I need to play the visual novel. I did not like the anime and I don't know if that was just due to J.C. Staff, the director, or what. Same with Rewrite, what a fucking boring anime that was, yet I hear the visual novel is godtier. Was there just something that much better about KyoAni or what?

Then again, I prefer Dezaki's AIR movie over KyoAni's TV anime, so...
 
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Then again, I prefer Dezaki's AIR movie over KyoAni's TV anime, so...
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I always find it crazy that Osamu fucking Dezaki decided to direct the AIR movie. My knowledge on Key stuff is very limited (I bought CLANNAD like 6 months ago its probably the next long VN I'll read) but I always associated him with stuff like Golgo 13 and Ashita no Joe.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I need to play the visual novel. I did not like the anime and I don't know if that was just due to J.C. Staff, the director, or what. Same with Rewrite, what a fucking boring anime that was, yet I hear the visual novel is godtier. Was there just something that much better about KyoAni or what?

Then again, I prefer Dezaki's AIR movie over KyoAni's TV anime, so...
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I recommend Rewrite, it is that good. There is a long common route and then each girl gets her own route written by a different author, leading to very different tones and perspectives but without breaking the narrative. The final true routes are a blast and brings a lot of setup together.

A problem with Key adaptions is that a lot of times the Visual Novel structure is intended to tell the story, which doesn't translate at all to an anime where you either ruin the twist or just make a long ass route and then say "yeah that also happens".

Little Busters might have been the worst case of it: Everything is a loop within a shared dreams of everyone who was on the bus. All intended to give the main characters enough mental strength to survive the crash and the aftermath. Which is why Rin's stats keep increasing between loops and other things. I did like that the Key anime last year had a moment they all get on a bus and get PTSD though.
 
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That I don't remember any goddamn bus in the anime says a lot about its execution that I wasn't willing to remember something as important as that.
 
JJK is getting good in the worst way possible
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Get fucked, Yuji. Fuji is Sukuna's boyfriend now on top of the boygirl he already has.
 
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Been reading the Pokemon Adventures manga on a Storytime on /a/ for the first time since i was like 12, surprisingly good

Regigigas best boy
 
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Been reading the Pokemon Adventures manga on a Storytime on /a/ for the first time since i was like 12, surprisingly good

Regigigas best boy
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Reminds me there should be a Pokémon anime spinoff that's actually good, but I never tried to look into it out of cringe.
 
I genuinely can’t remember the last time I actually went out and bought a manga volume, but I thought I should get this before it sold out again. I got 1, 2 and 4 for Christmas a couple of years back but I’m still waiting on 3.
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Why did people hate Sabage-bu!, again? Because girls with guns but they don't do it right? Or it's too pro-gun? Huh?
 
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Sabagebu!

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I don’t think I’ve been genuinely this entertained, nor have laughed, at an anime like this involving survival games in a long time. This is nothing like Gunsmith Cats, but this so far is one of the best examples of hilarity and insanity done right.
Platy did nothing wrong.


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This anime was a blast, I think it came with another airsoft anime that took itself retardedly seriously. I'm kinda missing having trends for anime seasons.
 
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I haven't watched anime in a long time, but I gave Sonny Boy a watch after reading some stuff about it online. I'm so glad I did. It's now one of my favorite animes of all time.

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It's definitely not for everyone. It's confusing, ridiculous, nonsensical and abrupt. Everything about it seems to designed to be as disorientating as possible. Scenes don't follow in chronological order, characters and entire plot threads come and go at random, there are constant leaps in logic and time, it's full of weird tangents and a lot of it is ultimately left unexplained. But all of that feels very deliberate. It's meant to be a disjointed dreamlike experience, and you can still follow it along if you pay enough attention. There are definite motifs, metaphors and themes going on here.

But most importantly: It has heart. I ended up liking the characters and sympathizing with them in a way I rarely ever did with anime characters. The relationships between them felt so genuine and naturalistic.

And the ending is a goddamn punch in the stomach. In a good way(..?)

  • I am by no means smart enough to really give this show a proper interpretation, but if I had to guess what the main message is, I'd say it's the importance of moving on, even when it's hard.
  • Outside the main message, the show contains a series of short vignettes: The Monkey League, the Tower of Babel, the dog's story, the kids who froze up, the twins, the Indian guy's stories. Maybe others I'm forgetting. Each has its own ambiguous message, but most also seem to reinforce the main theme of learning (and having the courage) to move on.
  • The focus of the show slowly shifts and narrows. From an entire group of 30-something students who mostly stick together in the first couple of episodes, they slowly split, first into cliques, and then into their own groups with their own (off-screen) adventures. We're left with a core handful, who only cross paths with their old classmates on rare occasions. The fact many once-central characters just quietly disappear from the show is reflective of how in real life people just drift apart from one other with no definitive conclusion.
    • It also gives the viewer an underlying sense of dread. Knowing how characters tend to just disappear into their own adventures, whenever you see the core group not being all together, you're left worried whether the split will end up being permanent.
  • The show leaving so many questions unanswered seems intentional. It's meant to show none of those things really matter. What matters is the journey the MC (and the cat girl) went through. I think they even had a couple of lines to that effect, saying that something is just "pure coincidence" or that "it's just what God wants". Again, reflective of how real life sometimes seems very arbitrary.
  • The final episode is incredibly bittersweet, with emphasis on the "bitter", but it gives both final protagonists a glimmer of hope. They've both been (slightly) changed by the entire experience, and have been given a push in the right direction. The fact the show doesn't tie everything together in a neat little bow is okay. The show says multiple times that no one can really change the world, so the world remains mostly unchanged. But they still are two very lonely people who've learned to move forward, and made a friend in the process. It's a message of hope.
    • The fact they've returned to reality and are moving forward with their lives stands in contrast to all the other kids who elected to stay behind in their magical fantasy world (literally called "stasis"). Whether that's ultimately a good thing is left somewhat ambiguous, but I think the answer definitely leans towards "yes".
    • The Indian kid's speech about what it's like staying alive in the fantasy world for too long is important. It's alluded to that the kids who stay there finally just become inanimate objects.
  • The manic pixie girl got her "good ending", which isn't very great, but it's definitely better than being dead. The reality the MC ended up in is probably the light she was seeing the first half of the show.
    • The fact the MC didn't end up hooking up with her is fine. He's still a young highschooler. He's got his whole life in front of him. He'll find someone else. There's even a girl who looks at him in that last episode. It doesn't focus on her at all, because that's not the point. He'll get to it in time.
  • Wounded birds seem to be a recurring motif. The fact the MC finally tries to help the last bird, and that it's a newborn chick, is poignant. The fact he didn't actually take in the bird is disappointing, but the fact he at least decided to check on it shows he did change a little bit.
I have so much more to say about it. It's the sort of show that demands careful analysis from pretentious film school graduates. I might even rewatch it at some point.

It's the rarest of rare shows: An incredibly intelligent anime with brilliant writing and so much artistic merit. Something that's meant to engage the viewers rather than simply entertain or sedate them. An unexpected masterpiece.
I can definitely see how some people might hate it, but if you enjoy the smell of your own farts like I do, give it a try.
 
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