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Piglet the Grate
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You are assuming it is actually finished. 
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BigOnAnime
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After just watching Date A Live V's second episode (accompanied by its opening theme that episode 1 didn't have (full official upload here)), I'm now even more frustrated and saddened nobody is caught up on the series, thus it has no coverage in the preview guide. The wait for episode 3 is going to be painful. The lack of respect these kinds of series can get, despite this one pulling some stuff a certain anime from 13 years ago did that got critical acclaim.
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Alan45
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@Blood-
As I recall, there was a significant down turn in the anime industry in the mid to late 2000's. This made the people behind the production committees rather risk adverse. In addition to the flood of cookie cutter shows, it likely had an effect on the length of the shows that were green lit. |
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Shay Guy
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I notice The Grimm Variations is being written by Michiko Yokote, who among many other things was the head writer for Princess Tutu, so she's no stranger to putting new twists on folklore. (I didn't have much to say in the discussion thread back when you did the episode reviews for Tutu in 2020, but I think that might've been the single best thing to come out of this site's Classic Streaming experiment.)
Fair enough; I had a suspicion there was something I was forgetting. I think I might've been in another discussion about it at some point. |
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Blood-
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Enjoyed the Grimm Variation version of Cinderella. Not the kind of show I would binge but look forward to savouring the episodes in leisurely fashion.
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Gina Szanboti
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Oops, guess I'm not done after all.
This iteration of Sword Boys On Time seems like a mix of the Hanamaru sol series and the more action-oriented Katsugeki version. I'm okay with that! I don't follow the game at all, but I'm impressed by the fandom's support for the restoration of the rl swords, and I kinda have a soft spot for it for getting me to buy my first (and only, actually) figures because of the exquisite costuming (still pining for Thunderbolt figures  ), so I'm definitely on board, even if I can't remember anyone's name except Mikazuki Munechika's.
Nani? If they're all different how do they blend together? I've always admired the fact that with such an ungodly number of characters to design, they managed to avoid same-face/different hair syndrome like so many massively-multi-bishonen-franchises suffer from. I liked Grimm's Fragmments of Horror well enough, and I'll watch the rest, though I'd rather the episodes were shorter. What I really didn't like was the jazzy soundtrack. I guess it was supposed to evoke the Taishou era of the Japanese Cinderella setting, but it just didn't work for me at all. Also, I wasn't sure who to sympathize with in this, except maybe the stepmother, who already had her hands full with her awful children without having to deal with a murderous psychopath to boot. Now I think I'm done. 
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NeverConvex
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Seems like the guide's pretty close to a close, so thought I'd post some summary graphs again, as in my previous, Fall 2023 post:
Median Scores bar plots: 
Original size: https://imgur.com/gPQVDVa.png All Scores by Show, Points Only (strip plots): 
Original size: https://imgur.com/HzjE61U.png All Scores by Show, Boxes (strip+box plots): 
Original size: https://imgur.com/AEgdKh1.png Reviewer Scores (swarm plots): 
Original size: https://imgur.com/74cxGPD.png Also, initial attempt at a Which Company Is Streaming Which Shows table: 
Original size: https://i.imgur.com/ahuGIxj.png (side note: missed Winter 2024, but will edit this post with an imgur album with images for it later) Last edited by NeverConvex on Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:37 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dkrattrap
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InfiniteNothingness
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What do you mean by this exactly? Not fussy about spoilers, and have actually been progressively more interested in this since some months back. |
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BigOnAnime
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At the end of DAL season 4spoiler[you learn more about Kurumi Tokisaki, and basically she's a lot like Homura Akemi from Madoka Magica, who tried to save her best friend Madoka Kaname from dying by going through so many timeloops to prevent Madoka from becoming a magical girl. Kurumi's goal is to go back decades in time to kill the First Spirit, the one that is responsible for creating Spirits. When Kurumi first became a Spirit to be "an ally of justice", it resulted in her unknowingly killing her best friend Sawa. What the First Spirit, Mio Takamiya (Phantom) did is she tricked Kurumi. What Kurumi thought were monsters she was killing were actually innocent people. To go back into time, she needs Shido Itsuka's powers from when he sealed Spirits, which would require consuming him. He later ends up being killed by DEM, and she goes through 204 timeloops in order to save him as she ended up falling in love with him.] When I first began watching this series as it first aired 11 years ago, I never thought it would go in this direction and I'd be able to compare it to spoiler[Puella Magi Madoka Magica] in a few ways, but there you go. I felt S1 was good at the time, S2 was a bit of a step down, but season 3 was a turning point, with like spoiler[Origami Tobiichi going back in time to prevent the death of her parents which she blamed on a Spirit, the reason she hates Spirits so much to begin with (which ended up being herself as she became one when going back in time)], and then once season 4 happened and it ended on a cliffhanger... Basically, as the series progressed, I got so much more invested in the plot (the actual plot) despite it resorting to spoiler[time travel tropes.] |
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gumbaloom
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Kaiju No 8 Ep 2...OP first airing...WTF?
How much money did they throw at that ? Eye candy times |
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Eilavel
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I suppose part of my perception of shorter adaptations may be I had less awareness of original material, partly just youthful ignorance but also partly because it was much, much less likely than today that such material would ever appear in english; why pay close attention, then, to source material I'd never see?
Still, again, probably the anime industry may not be the main reason anyway. While there have always been very long running manga and the like, narou light novels that meet any commercial success all seem to run to incredible lengths. Once thats something thats getting adapted, more incomplete adaptations are probably inevitable. If they tried to adapt the full 20 volumes of every medieval JRPG themed anime, the whole industry would be occupied for quite some time. I've not seem the source material but Kaiju No. 8 was a pleasant surprise. Just staring adults and some mild worldbuilding is enough to give a bit of interest to your standard well made Shounen adaptation. |
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InfiniteNothingness
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Well huh, my guesses were spoiler[Steins;Gate and PMMM, so it's good to know I was sorta 50-50]. Honestly, that really does sound pretty interesting with the other... scattered details I've picked up on DAL's story from osmosis and some wiki perusing. Thanks for the elaboration, I appreciate it! Even more certain in giving this a full shot when I get the chance, then. |
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Blanchimont
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Having read the manga for so long, I'm having a really hard time getting used to the character designs in The New Gate. Even though it should be closer to the light novel illustrations, it still feels quite a dissonance...
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Hiroki not Takuya
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