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I watch anime, because I genuinely like it. I like the art style, the dreamy atmosphere, emotional expressiveness, craziness, stupid inside jokes, the sense of honor and obligation as the main motivation, the fandom and franchise around anime, I even like the conventionality and repetitiveness (although I prefer those animes, which break the rules and go beyond the convention). I watch seinen, shoujo and shounen animes, but I dislike harems (even reverse harems have to be good to catch my attention), lolis (it’s a plague, I know; surprisingly, despite having so many infantile characters anime often fails at portraying what being a child really feels like, instead giving out fake innocence in the form of adults speaking in awful childish voice; if an anime series has a character, which ends each of her sentences with “kyu” or “pyon” I literary puke while watching it), not a big fan of vampires or sport anime. I am really fond of good sci-fi, dystopian, historical or slice of life. I watch anime actively and in compulsive manner for about 8 years, but I take even as long as one year breaks from time to time and then go back to my schedule. My objective is to watch every good series ever released, good by my standards that is. It’s going well :)
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Yap, the shuffle game is still up, but for obvious reason, it takes me a while to complete first edition, as the last entry is a series with multiple sequels. Besides it, I still got plenty of titles to finish...
Happy new year and all the best for you, too!
It's been a while since last we had a convo. How are you doing ?
Merry Christmas to you =)
How are you ? How is that anime you currently watch ?
I'm in the way to complete your MRRA entry (I know, I'm slow when it comes to finish an entire edition). So far, I think I kept good memories of "Jungle wa Itsumo". It's far from a masterpiece right, but it sense a little something I can't tell which conveys a cheerful feel. Also, It has sometime a so childish, so colorful style, it becomes creepy in an odd way. Settings are what I remember the most fondly about the title. Characters aren't groundbreaking, on the other hand, Guu put aside of course. JWI was crafted for her, clearly.
I perfectly understand your position about Japanime in general, it goes without saying. That's why I mainly watch old-school. On the other hand, I really wanna give new-school a chance, despite overall decay. Titles like "Bartender" is an encouragement to follow my quest for fine novelties.
It's been a while. Now that I'm able to connect to internet at home, we'll hopefully be able to discuss some more about all or nothing. How are you ?
Since you're a big boy I won't wish you lots of good anime this year ;) Instead, may all of your plans and dreams for this year come true!
Thank you ^^
As to DMC, yes, when I pulled the repetitiveness card I meant humor. I understand that some sort of repetitiveness is a part of most animes, but when it comes to short series my expectations are actually higher, not lower. I found it almost annoying that the same joke was a foundation for several clones throughout the series.
I see. In fact, the kind of humor wears out quickly, according to you. It's an affair of enjoyability. As I said, I ain't got the feeling.
Once I got over the kind of humor (indeed, student-like, plentiful of immature hijinks throughout) its implementations never cease to please me. For such a limited comedic theme, as an indie band rising in metal scene, I think Studio 4°C did fine.
Afterward, I haven't read Wakasugi's manga, I sincerly dunno which aspects could have been ever more perfected.
It's again the same thing that we talked about earlier – what makes a comedy such a standout that it deserves higher notes?
I give you that, when it comes to comedy, I can be pretty subjective. My point is that DMC, as a vulgar comedy, is memorable. It's something I'm somehow gonna keep in mind and get back to years later...
I cannot list many successful animes that had chosen to make laugh with that kind of harsh style.
Wise, polished, "sugar daddy" comedy tend to bore me to tears. It's hard not to fail when comedy's main genre. DMC has fine matter to poke fun at, and doesn't make it mindlessly with cheap banal. It's imaginative enough.
That's explaining my rate, along with formal execution.
DMC has one really strong advantage though. Whenever I hear that anime is all about Sailor Moon or Naruto I always recommend DMC and it usually does it job well. If someone has a soft spot for any form of cartoon entertainment he or she will most probably understand DMC without a need to comprehend the often crappy depths of anime conventions and cheers to that!
Yeah, it's very unwinding. That's part of why it conquered my approval. I needed something that outbound frontier of good taste very bad.
I wish you all the best for new year to come
To advocate in its favor, every anime has its own formula, you know.
Why fixin' something that isn't broken ?
Which aspects lacked diversity, in your sense ? Humor ? Settings ?
I ain't got the feeling because anime is already quite abridged. Maybe I'd rejoin your opinion if format lasted 26 minutes per episodes, including obligatory filler scenes. That's definitely not the case here.
Actually, I can go on about how DMC is more spiritual than it appears in screen, but I'm too lazy for now. Sorry miss...
I understand how you cannot be into animes all the time. I'm like that too. If I was as regular as, say, my friend konnakude, I'd count at least 80 completed titles by the time we talk. Sometimes, when I come back from my job, I wanna do nothing but scouring web, reading articles of various kind or searching for some rare movies. When it's not the case, I watch one of these bad movies I keep stored in my bookcase.
Yah, I finished konnakude's entry in MRRA :)
I went on a bit about it with him and Jeigan. Regarding DMC, you may explain my rate by my perception of production value. It was a title controlled throughout, with choice of an unusually short pace, montage, art-style and such. I see you rated it 7 yourself, I understand your choice. After all, it's not the kind of anime to please everyone. It stays a niche anime. That's a part of its awesomeness according to me, as it remains strongly consistent with its particular setting, even if it keeps it to be a masterpiece because of restricted accessibility.
Moreover, Its student kind of humor may repel one. Also, I think story is a tad to centered around Krauser/Negishi while it features many secondary sources of amusement not exploited at full potential. The drama of short-lived shows.
Well, hadn't I enjoyed that much DMC (I marathon'd it, a rare thing occurring) it'd get a 8 from my view, or a 7 if its flaws revealed to be too much obvious.
It's been a while. What are you up to ?
Despite our difference, we get along well, so why not being effectively friends ?
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What are you planning to do with Code Geass? Watch the entire series (you poor thing) or just the recaps?
You jest ? A nicety allows me to consider recaps as the Balance of a franchise, not as a sequel or a prequel. How convenient, don't you think ? ;D
Of course, was it HNL R2, I would have to watch it all without cheating.
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Yeah results of the very first MRRA weren't exciting, all in all. Maybe in part because among my friends, few have as many odd curiosities to watch as konnakude. With his list, I'm always sure to fall upon something unknown to my bullshit sense :s
The combination you're talking about might come up someday. Probability is still low, as most of you, MRRA members, are searching for well-proven classics or sleeper hits, and not shady stuff. Hopefully, fortune will be by my side next time for this mind-blowing experience...
BTW, I sent you a friend invite, did you notice it ?
Hmmm Hare Nochi Guu - could be worse. I don't think the plot is that much important in this series - it's just one of those "let's make the main character life miserable" types of shows.
I know what I deal with. Slapstick comedy is pretty much the bread of Japanese humor in animation. What is interesting in this show is to guess how far it will dive into insanity.
It's a good laugh, but after a while it gets pretty boring.
That's pretty much the kind of defect inherent to this kind of serie. At the beginning, you're like "wow, it's kinda exotic and wacky". After a while you get a certain tolerance line, as you're getting used to show's distinctive style. It doesn't represent a surprise anymore, so this effect of novelty which decided you to complete it in the first place fade away. Here goes start of boredom. It's not easy to manage to keep watchers attention up to the end, but I guess HNG more or less correctly accomplished it.
Still, it's hard to find any other anime to compare with this one, so it deserves higher notes, but not necessarily a re-watching.
I don't know if I'm going to rate it 6 or 7, in retrospect of years.
Too bad you can't rate in decimal numbers with MAL. Sometimes, I have hard time to decide whether I give it a lower or higher notation. A 6.5 represents a good compromise.
About re-watch value you're right. It's low. However, it stills exists. Mostly when you don't remember much but keep nonetheless a good impression. I wouldn't mind to give HNG a re-run.