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Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:18 am
by Ryu
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source: thecartdriver.com
(note: dates are incorrect due to the current crises in Japan)

Calling 'em I as I see 'em:

Mos def

Toriko

Deadman wonderland

TWGOK 2

Fireball charming

Could be interesting! (3 eps)

Tiger and bunny 2

C: the money of soul and possibility control (aka animeconomics)

Steins gate

Moshidora

Exorcist

Hahahaha

health and physical education for 30 year olds

No just no

Lotte's toy

Whoa that's nine animes I'm thinking of watching, good thing a lot of shows are ending soon. Also I hope someone subs tailenders soon, I must find out what that T-rex's deal is!

Edit: jesus imgur sucks now

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:03 am
by Ryu
Tiger and Bunny 1: Hell yes this is looking good. Love the animation style, and while the suits would look better animated the cg isn't that obtrusive.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:44 pm
by Ryu
Fireball charming 1:

Image

They're back!

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:59 pm
by Ryu
Gintama season something ep 1: This is the first episode of this series I have ever seen and I could not stop laughing. Oh my god what an opening.

Hansaku Iroha 1: Ah, here's the nice weekly drama to fill Wandering Son's gap. Very pretty, although it seems a little "familiar" from the starting episode.

Nichijou 1: Probably shoulda watched this before Gintama but it was pretty flat to me. Only thing of interest was the robot exploding but they fumbled that joke.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:29 am
by Ryu
It would appear that Madam Ōgame is slowly melting


Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:14 am
by Ryu
Toriko OVA/ep 1 (from a ways back but whatever): If this is anything to go by then this show will be delicious. I hope the whiny chef dude doesn't show up too much though, he was appallingly grating.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:18 pm
by Ryu
Tiger and Bunny 2: Best single dad anime since....
Spoiler:
The cyclical nature of the episode was pretty nice, and the end had me going "aaawwwww." Man I hope that kid comes back, because that was a neat power. Too bad you don't get points for inspiring people!

If his daughter isn't a fan by the end I'll be disappointed

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:30 am
by Ryu
Gintama ep 203: Man I am going to have to play some catch up come vacation! Totally surprised by this show. I also watched ep 25 on a recommendation, and wow that was like some passive-aggressive singularity or something. Good stuff.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:10 am
by Ryu
Iroha 2: That girl's got moxie. I got serious deja vu from that "believe in yourself" spiel too, the direction seemed really familiar.
Spoiler:
Woah that ending Image. I'm definitely jumping to a conclusion [so I'm probably wrong] but it really seems like they're setting up that dude as a paedophile. If so I hope she kicks the guy's ass.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:34 pm
by Ryu
Sengoku

Basara

<----- someone please fix this Otome 2: anyone wanna be my Second? I'm like six minutes in and it's so god damn awful. I'm pretty sure that Hideyoshino is a Mary-Sue along with being a pretty awful character, Nobunaga and her aide need more screen time (and better designs) and the only thing I can honestly say I like about this show is the dog.

fake edit: 16 minutes 58 seconds and I'm done.

Edit: Hahahahaha I just found out why: it's another pachinko game, so no one will put any effort into it.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:32 pm
by Nagato
Ohana is 16, which is legal in most of Japan and where I live, so that guy's off the mark if he's a pedophile. He was probably just pissed she found his slashfic.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:46 pm
by Ryu
You may want to spoiler that(?)
Spoiler:
Huh. I had completely forgotten! She definitely looks a lot younger. Still, you can't say the guy isn't acting really creepy writing slash fiction about getting with a sixteen year old girl! Definitely getting a bad vibe from that ending.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:10 am
by Ryu
TWGOK season 2 1: Op isn't as good as the first, but the content is looking pretty good imo.Also best recap ever.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:10 pm
by Nagato
Ryu wrote:You may want to spoiler that(?)
Spoiler:
Huh. I had completely forgotten! She definitely looks a lot younger. Still, you can't say the guy isn't acting really creepy writing slash fiction about getting with a sixteen year old girl! Definitely getting a bad vibe from that ending.
Actually, his slashfic was about Ohana and Nako. Here's a translation of the visible portion. Personally, I think he got the seme and uke reversed.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:18 am
by Ryu
Status: still creepy as ****

Toriko 2: It's the same as the OVA except the OVA is way better. I'm disappointed that this doesn't have a higher budget but I'll be around for the next episode to see if things improve.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:10 am
by Nagato
You mean you've never written slashfics about people you know?

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:03 am
by Ryu
Only after the third date.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:28 am
by Ryu
Fireball Charming ep 2: Woah there, I don't know if I can handle this show's breakneck speed! Loving the new hair.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:09 am
by Ryu
Really long name Noitamina show that gg is doing 1: I thought this was alright, the interactions between the leads could definitely use some work (please don't let there be another Nessa, PLEASE), but overall I quite liked it even though the Op has massive spoilers in it. Gonna give it three eps.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:02 am
by Ryu
C (animeconomics) 1: This might be one of the most ridiculous things I've seen all season, holy ****!

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:27 am
by Ryu
*Bamf* It's Enma! *cricklecrackle* ep 1&2: I'm not really sold on this, I think they prolong the jokes for way too long, it's awfully hit and miss for a comedy show, and I'm not entirely impressed with the VAs. I'll give it one more because it was at least enjoyable to watch to some degree. Could end up being this seasons P&S, could end up being a train wreck who knows!

Edit: at the very least teaches us the importance of proper chest support NWS

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:10 am
by Ryu
Derpa Onna 1: HEAD TILT! HEAD TILLLLLLLT!

This reminds me of that movie about a mental patient who says he's an alien sharing a body with someone and I think played by Kevin Spacey except came across as less of a sperg than mattress girl. Other than that it's p much SHAFT's gonna SHAFT. I'll give this 3 episodes to see where it goes but god damn they need to break up those long exchanges, it was awful in bakemonogatari and it's awful here.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:33 pm
by Ryu
Deadman Wonderland 1: Why are they censoring this. Still I think this first episode shows signs of a promising adaptation. Definitely got the warden down, she is bad ass.

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:03 pm
by Ryu
Tiger and Bunny 3: Still owns and ninja photobombing will never grow old. Although I don't know why they don't animate the fire guy in 2D when they did that with Tiger in his old costume.

edit:
Spoiler:
Barnaby is the batman

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 12:12 pm
by Ryu
Hansaku Iroh-WTF 3: Uh what

WHAT

What happen!?

Bzzzt

<Rebooting>
</run Kneejerkbot.exe>
<Loading...>

What was even going on in this episode? Was the entire cast suddenly replaced with Bodysnatchers? Is the writer (of the series) an alien? A robot? A robalien?

And what was up with the music? It was almost Fractale-esque.

And fanservice? In this show?

Why

why

why

why

Lesson learned:
Spoiler:
What does:

Kidnapping
Assault
Sexual Assault
Fraud
Grand Theft Auto
Being creepy

get you?

A JOB IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:57 pm
by Nagato
I WANT TO SPARKLE

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:32 pm
by Ryu
Such talent!

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:28 am
by Ryu

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:57 am
by Ryu
Gintama 204: We catch up on some seasonal humour and learn the true meaning of

boogers

chocolate. Also this is one of the few series I don't skip the OP or ED, so, uh make more OP/EDs like that, animes~

Re: Spring season 2011: MANTASTIC

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:47 am
by Ryu
Blue exorcist 1: I liked this first episode, in spite of it being shounen origin story #101. I think the character interactions were believable and it's an interesting spin on demons. Also: a religious father figure that isn't evil for once?????