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The Summer 2014 Anime Preview Guide

sunflower wrote:

Did anyone watch the JoJo dub on CR? It's really good! Most of the voices are spot on. I usually don't watch dubs (since I see the subs first) but this is excellent. Does anyone know who did it?

I agree, the dub for episode 1 was pretty damn good. Don't know who the VAs are. As I said in the discussion thread, though, it is going to be weird not hearing Joseph Joestar's seiyuu yelling, "OH NOOOOO!!!"

Thatguy3331 wrote:

As someone born from New Orleans and recently went back to visit, I must say that the only accurate image they had of it, was when the flames engulfed the streets and blew the cars away.

As someone who was ALSO born and raised in New Orleans, my reaction is... WHAT!? An anime featured NEW ORLEANS!? Must go and find...

Rivailoli wrote:

Oh please, the whole point of drawing their girls ridiculously cute is to appeal to people. Fanservice is not new to KyoAni. FMP and Haruhi both had fanservice, K-On!, Tamako and Chu-2 pander in a different sort of way. They were never 'better', they just pandered to a different demographic.

Those aren't really anywhere close to being the same. You can't really equate simply having a cute design, which is pretty much universal in most media because nobody wants to watch ugly people, with thrusting your hyper detailed crotch into the camera and posing with your shorts half pulled down. I agree that Free! is very different from KyoAni's usual style. I can see why it's so jarring to some people. There's no way you can put stuff like K-On, Tamako, and Chuuni in the same boat. Free is definitely KyoAni's most pandering show by a mile.

Aldnoah.Zero is the first series, probably since Crest of the Stars, to try its hand at the sci-fi war epic and get it so beautifully, exhilaratingly right.

when so much of the feminist argument in recent days is "women are BETTER than men"...just like the racist arguments where they wanted "Equality" but then a lot of the vocal people actually wanted to be placed higher, not equal.

EDIT:
Ah, I see, you found the abstract of my MA thesis! I didn't write the abstract, which explains the spelling error.

Things that I found genuinely original in Aldnoah: New Orleans, why New orleans I have no idea, the main character didn't get into a mech battle in the first episode, that one really surprised me (how long till he find himself in one of the weird special mech they showed at the end? I'm betting 3 more episode, gonna say that the terrain that was on the alien ship will help him get it).

Pretty much everything else scream gundam rip off. There's a princess, cause obviously zeon would have a princess, and she's trying to bring peace between the two nation, obviously (wasn't that just in gundam unicorn?).

Next we'll found out that the princess isn't really dead, that some shadow group composed of both martian and earthling carried out the bombing attack and that the old alien race is gonna come back so that both earth and mars must resolve there difference to face the common enemy. You know, I wonder if someone made a bingo card of cliche for mech show, probably should look for one.

I will admit there's pretty good production value behind it, because studio apparently would rather throw large amount of money at remaking the same show every few year rather than throwing small amount of money at something original.

Rivailoli wrote:

Oh please, the whole point of drawing their girls ridiculously cute is to appeal to people. Fanservice is not new to KyoAni. FMP and Haruhi both had fanservice, K-On!, Tamako and Chu-2 pander in a different sort of way. They were never 'better', they just pandered to a different demographic.

Those aren't really anywhere close to being the same. You can't really equate simply having a cute design, which is pretty much universal in most media because nobody wants to watch ugly people, with thrusting your hyper detailed crotch into the camera and posing with your shorts half pulled down. I agree that Free! is very different from KyoAni's usual style. I can see why it's so jarring to some people. There's no way you can put stuff like K-On, Tamako, and Chuuni in the same boat. Free is definitely KyoAni's most pandering show by a mile.

Please. KyoAni pretty much created cute girls doing cute things genre in with Lucky Star, and everyone else followed their lead. And then they cemented it with K-On. These shows are pretty much the definition of modern version of moe waifu and what it means to pander to otaku.

They know what exactly they are doing and unlike many they know how to do it well. It's not surprising that Free! is nothing more than just another series that is a great hit for the targeted demographics.

What does surprise me is that even a year later we still hear whines from the guys that "Free is ruining anime!! How dare you to objectify men while we objectify women!!111! *prayers to haruhi and madoka etc*". That was pathetic even when the first season was just announced and all the fanboys felt hurt in their behind that their favorite studio "betrayed" them.

I really don't care what you think is worse, because in the end, pandering is pandering.

Carl's review of Shounen Hollywood is epic, and I couldn't agree more.

What a painful show to watch, and I usually love even the worst mindless reverse harem and otome stuff. But this was so bad that I felt terrible for CARTOON CHARACTERS for completely humiliating themselves by being in this show. Yes, I cannot watch this because I cringed for the cartoon boys. Unbelievable.