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New OT up.
New OT for the new year! I wonder: What wondrous conversation will befall this page in the months to come?
Only the most wonderful, I decree.
Worst first comment ever.
You’re just mad cuz you didn’t think of it first.
http://www.change.org/petitions/funimation-we-want-you-to-use-your-influence-to-help-create-season-3-of-spice-and-wolf
omg I can’t wait for funimation to make spice & wolf S3! They make all my favorite anime and have never let me down before!
Kind of an old petition, but the Funimation fanbase is seriously fucked in the head.
Every con I go to where there’s a Funimation panel, people constantly ask the Funi rep to “make more anime”. One part of me wants to be mad at Funi for exploiting people who are obviously mentally handicapped, but the other part of me just wants them to Darwin themselves into poverty with their stupidity.
I think it’s just your average person, really. People see a name on a box and their idiocy organises the iota of thought they can put into it into a retarded conclusion that’s only not shattered and ground into the dirt if you, well, don’t put more than an iota of thought into it and are retarded.
I also love when they ask anime distribution companies why they haven’t released things yet that don’t exist. “more Haruhi” is always a good one.
You’d think people who were big enough fans of this shit to pay hundreds of dollars to go to conventions would be knowledgeable enough about it to at least know which country produces it.
I lost faith in petition sites many years ago when:
Square ENIX did not give a damn about Chrono Break
Konami did not give a damn about Suikoden
I ran a contest on GameFAQs meant to determine the best anime of Fall. Here are the results:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=450095
What do you guys think?
That left side is a riot. I hope nobody was unironically voting for Gundam Build Fighters.
Gundam Build Fighters is actually hugely popular. Discussion topics regularly get 30-50 posts.
They even admit that it basically only appeals to Gundam fans.
I don’t see how it could appeal to anyone. It’s a toy commercial where the characters are more plastic than the merchandise. Every episode I watch I feel insulted by how little they think of their audience.
But people legitimately enjoy it? Well I guess if they’re that stupid, they deserve to. Goddamn.
Dark_Sage, can you please change your avatar. This pic is grotesque :(
Homophobe spotted.
… What’s homophobic about the request?
The implication that the female in my avatar is giving the v-sign for cunnilingus in the sense of “I will go down on you.” (but you could also see it as a request for some tongue loving). Anyway, going off the first interpretation, since you can’t really give cunnilingus to a dude, it could be interpreted as a yuri avatar or something (I didn’t read too deep into it when choosing the pic; I just thought she was cute).
Bigger pic: http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Tongue-chan.jpg
Not seeing why that would be more problematic than the banner which has two dudes going at it, but whateves.
No, it clearly is yuri because the colour scheme in her eyes are similar to the rainbow flag which is a symbol of the LGBT movement. Add that to the tongue love and it’s blatant lesbianism.
Hm, legit.
Yeah, sjoe, if your problem is with lesbianism then I’m not gonna change my avatar.
Oops, I saw this just now. Well I guess that’s that then, I have no more arguments. Just that I don’t find the pic kawaii. Your wish :|
http://k41.kn3.net/taringa/1/6/7/9/8/6/39/rasecnarg/764.gif?1993
PS: Can I tempt you with some kawaii Haruhi pics?
I like Haruhi, but rainbow-flavored cunnilingus sounds more interesting at the moment. Gomen.
Could you go a bit more into why you think it’s grotesque? I’m not keen on changing it, so you better have a good reason.
If it’s too personal to post here, you can email me. My gmail is darksagerk.
So bishie it’s unfair: http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Underwater-Mikakunin-de-Shinkoukei-01-720p-8A3E74AB.mkv_snapshot_07.53_2014.01.09_01.05.59.jpg
Oh, you’re watching it right now as well.
Yup. It was that or more Fantastic Children.
Easiest choice in the world.
And it looks like I’ve added another anime to my list. Has the genres I like too.
Don’t do it! It’s sooo boring. Blegh.
;__;
I dunno, it’s got the pacing of Monster. Let that inform whether you wanna spend time on it or not. I gotta finish since I told Soup I would, but I’d much rather get through Kampfer or something.
Nvm then.
>Pacing of monster.
So much for that.
‘zactly.
It depends on how much you like SoL, though. It’s a lot like Non Non Biyori and Gj-bu, so if you liked those, you’ll probably like this. It’s not really paced that much slower than those, although the episode does drag more than I’d like.
I liked Gj-bu, but I wasn’t fond of Non Non, so I’ll give it a chance sometime.
You’re confused Ash. We were talking about Fantastic Children after Solaristics said he might add it to his list.
Fantastic Children is psychological/drama.
Also, as D_S said, it’s not a SoL. Unless I’m missing something?
Ohhh. You posted that picture from Mikakukin and Solaristics said, “Oh, you’re watching it as well?” I thought you were talking about Mikakukin. Sorry about that.
>Oh, you’re watching it right now as well. = Mikakunin
>Yup. It was that or more Fantastic Children.
>And it looks like I’ve added another anime to my list. Has the genres I like too. = Fantastic Children
Oh god, the ED. It’s like someone put my testicles in a juicer. HNGH.
Saw that as well :D.
http://imageshack.us/a/img194/1917/mml7.jpg
Ohohoho.
Flawless.
I tried watching Hoozuki no Reitetsu today. I only lasted 10 minutes.
That shit gave me a migraine. It’s the Meganebu of this season.
http://myanimelist.net/anime/19315/Pupa/reviews
So much negativity.
It became shitty after airing it for just 4 minutes… I mean, WTF Japan? Can’t we get more psychological anime series?
More fanservice. http://i.imgur.com/YcSUF14.gif
But this time with an Idol show.
Tan pantsu? That’s a cheat if I ever saw one!
On top of just being mean.
They’re called Nude, D_S. Step it up :3c
I’m just going to leave this here
http://imgur.com/OlqlnFI
What’s that from, Rozen Maiden? I didn’t think anybody still read that.
It hurts because it’s true ;_;
Is fnord no longer banned?
Well, I hate banning people in general, so no. I do believe I let him back on after a day.
I have a question for D_S. I’ve been trying to learn Japanese for a while now, mainly by watching English subtitled anime and googling sentence structures. Since that’s how I learnt English (watching Friends with Spanish subtitles), I think I can do it, but right now I’m stuck.
I’ve been trying to watch RAW anime (for example, Chu2Koi), and I understand many conversations perfectly, but more often that not I get completely lost.
My question is: Is there an anime show you know about with low-level Japanese? One for kids if possible so I can learn some vocabulary as well xD
If you are serious, then I suggest you buy some books (like Genki or Japanese for Busy People). If you prefer the internet, I think Tae Kim is good.
Well I did learn a English by watching English-language TV series, and even though I know it’s far from perfect, I can watch Doctor Who, Sherlock and How I met your Mother without subtitles.
So I’m certainly serious about learning Japanese by watching anime.
Anyway, thank you for your honest reply, I didn’t know about Tae Kim’s site, and it seems to be good.
Another useful resource is Human Japanese: http://www.amazon.com/Brak-Software-Human-Japanese/dp/0615179088/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390103054&sr=8-1&keywords=human+japanese
You could also learn how to read hiragana and katakana and play a game that’s in all Japanese. I’ve found that that can help with some comprehension issues.
Tae Kim’s guide is the Bible of Japanese Learners (but I had already learned grammar previously from some grammar books of a Japanese library so I didn’t read Tae Kim’s guide; I only looked up some stuff from it).
Anyway, I think it’s a good way to learn it by watching anime. I’m learning Japanese that way too. I pick an anime that I like and DL the CCs for it from kitsunekko, then I learn each line from episode one (or at least the ones that aren’t too hard/don’t have more than three unknown words), then open the .ass and delete lines that I already fully comprehended before I even started looking words up (also deleting lines that are too hard) and run subs2srs through it then import the resulted files to anki. Then it’ll be like the audio plays in anki where for example a loli says “betobeto” and the answer is “it is sticky”.
Anyway, this is just the way I do it. Take from it what you want.
Thanks! I also didn’t know about kitsunekko (it seems I don’t know much), and your elaborate way of learning seems awesome, I’ll give it a try when I can read Hiragana + Katakana.
No problem. You may want to try reading some manga too, considering that not many kanji are used in manga for children, and the kanji used are written in hiragana as well in a lot of manga, even in shounen/shoujo manga.
I don’t think you can learn Japanese the way you learned English (by watching stuff), at least not to that extent.
I understand your intentions – that certainly is a good idea – but Japanese is (probably) not similar enough to the languages you know by now for you to get a good understanding of the mechanics behind it. English and Spanish (probably) have much, much more in common than they have with Japanese…
Not that I know any Spanish or Japanese though!
Learn japanese is easy if you speak spanish. ;)
Japanese isn’t that complicated, structurally speaking.
In fact, if it weren’t for the writing it’d be one of the simplest to learn languages out there.
Actually, I find English more similar to Japanese than to Spanish, because many structures are similar between the former two.
Besides in Spanish you have to learn n conjugations for each verb, where n = (pronouns)*(tenses).
The tough part of learning Japanese by watching anime is the different dialects and various nonsense words that are often tossed into anime.
I’m pretty sure there are groups that subtitle anime in Spanish, too. Your English is good, but it might be easier if you look for one of those.
There are tons of animes with low-level Japanese. Just find out what they’re marketing at little kids. Doraemon or something would probably work.
Thanks, I’ll google it.
Does this usually happen when you play 720p fullscreen? I don’t mind the lines but it’s always worried me that I might not have something set up correctly.
http://i.imgur.com/ZKXlRO5.jpg
(The line is most noticeable on the v in “have”.)
Not for me.
I remember one time, I was using Bilinear luma upscaling on MadVR and I had that occurring. Fixed when I updated MadVR, since it was a bug.
What’s your setup?
Thanks for the reply. It turns out I was using Haali renderer, and when I changed it to MadVR the problem went away.
Oh man. Many days of comments that I have not really read or replied to.
Uhh… I’ll get on this later tonight. Animu for now.
I only found out about this site about a few days ago, and you know I have to say it’s been real eye-opening.
We’re about a month into Winter 2014. What’s in your top 5?
1. Tonari no Seki-kun
2. Sekai Seifuku (World Conquest)
3. Noragami
4. Nobunagun
5. Wake Up, Girls!
1. Sekai Seifuku (World Conquest)
2. Sekai Seifuku (World Conquest)
3. Sekai Seifuku (World Conquest)
4. Sekai Seifuku (World Conquest)
5. Sekai Seifuku (World Conquest)
Ofc.
It’s pretty old, but if you watched it, what did you think about Seirei no Moribito?
I’m pretty impressed with it. Dubbed, course.
Hmm… I liked it well enough. Have the DVDs but never watched more than a few random episodes when it was on Adult Swim.
>I think it’s Dark_Sage’s ultimate goal in life to argue with and piss off every fansubber in existence.
Like this is a bad thing.
http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1wx3bq/where_would_you_draw_the_line_between_being_an/cf65q2r
^Best answer that could ever have been given.
If fansubbing is certain people’s life then how did they get the skills for their jobs? Did fansubbing become their life only after they gained all the skills necessary for their jobs? (I’m talking about those with a job btw.)
I only started subbing when I had a job that didn’t require me to do a lot, and enough free time to dedicate to useless hobbies, so I’m in the latter category. (Unsure if fansubbing is my life though. I enjoy breathing and occasionally doing other things.)
I need to get myself away from Twitch, holy fuck. This Pokemon shit is not healthy. :x
Oh god, RNG plays Pokemon. This music is not gonna do good for that pledge of sobriety I made after Friday’s Doritos-and-Wild-Turkey massacre.
Stay strong, D_S! The moment you give in is the moment the anime reviews end. ;o;
Maybe it’s just my autism but groups seem to miss an awful lot of keyframes this season.
Lazy groups are lazy.
Oh wise Darku Seiju, how do I get good at 2hu?
All right, dropped some poll options. Not saying I won’t review that shit, but they were sub-10% so I figured they wouldn’t be necessary to track.
Dick’s review where?
Oh, good point. Lemme get on that.
Well, KlK turned out to be shit, though I can’t blame Trigger for playing it safe. Here’s to hoping LWA2 delivers the awesome.
Inferno Cop sequel or spin-off is all they need to do for me to whore myself out more than I’ve ever whore’d before to their studio.
But yeah, hopefully.
where are the posts D_S
Two in progress.
They better be reviews!
Or else…
I sense them not being reviews.
1/2 are, yes.
Madness.
Try to use negative image effect on the next chart, D_S
*1/2 is
Half of the posts are reviews. One of the two posts is a review. Unnecessary correction. :)
‘Half the post’ is singular, but ‘half the posts’ is generally plural. But is that true even if there are only two posts, meaning half of two posts is just one post, i.e. singular in number?
Chemistry tests coming up and haven’t attended the lessons since… October? welp,I’m screwed i guess, anything to help me procrastinate?
More anime?
tried, doesn’t work very well, apparently, carbon and polymer chemistry basics are pretty damn hard to learn in two days. its not hard, but its so damn much to learn Q_Q
Well, if you’re set on failing and going no where in life, go play some shitty VNs. You can dump a lot of time into them and get nothing worthwhile out of it, so it’s perfect for your situation.
You could play Titanfall with me. Origin ID: darksagerk.
Not to brag, but with my level progression and skill in relation to it, I’ve been called the Benjamin Button of Titanfall.
Get BF4.
Have they fixed it yet?
Is it still broken? I didn’t notice anything when I played a month ago, but I haven’y touched it since. Waiting for that new patch to come.
I dunno. I don’t keep track of it.
For those in need of entertainment…
According to an ugly yellow box on hatsuyuki’s homepage, one of hatsuyuki’s encoders are asking for 1200 in donations to upgrade his pc (for fansubbing)
Thoughts?
He can ask for whatever he wants, It’s up for the people to not be retarded enough to donate for this shit.
His estimation is off by a significant margin, unless he lives somewhere obscure like Greenland. He could get a perfectly usable computer that would suit his need for around 600 to 700 dollars, since new peripherals aren’t necessary. I am interested in seeing how many people actually decide to donate to this.
The value isn’t the important point, IMO.
Fansubbing should be a hobby and he shouldn’t be depending on his viewerbase to do this.
I kind of get why Fansubbers ask for donations, to help them keep their servers up and their work available, but this is on another level.
Some drama at Hatsuyuki’s site. Check it out.
Basically, Naruto kicked an emotional kid out of the group while this kid had full access to all of his passwords. Not a smart move.
They deleted it by now, luckily google still had the cached version, because that drama was delicious ^^
I read it while it was still up, and all I have to say is that I don’t know what that guy does at Hatsuyuki, but I sure as hell hope it doesn’t involve touching the script in any way. That was some atrocious English.
Cover this, D_S.
I was following it a bit, but it was pretty mehdiocre like most Hatsu drama. I’m waiting for some Nyaautist to livestream their suicide or something. That’ll be worth some coverage.
hahaha, my thoughts precisely
Then again, it’s Hatsuyuki. Judging by some of the “English” lines I’ve read in their scripts, the author of that post might very well be their editor.
I mean, my English is far from perfect, and even I was offended by some of the things they’ve pulled … *urgh* :D
Luckily, all he does is suggest that people work on things and get mad at anyone he appoints a co-admin. >.>
I like how they’re saying “he is just a 19 year old kid” while they’re being just as “childish”. 10/10 fansubbers are the true example of grown up men playing with toys
I fansub for the drama. Fuck the anime. >.>
where are the posts D_S
you said there would be posts
Yes, but he didn’t say when there would be posts.
Got pulled into work. They’re still in progress, I guess.
So how long until the “dropped this season”/”next season preview” posts cause I assume those will be the next two we see.
http://livechart.me/spring
12 days till Spring 2014 starts. I hope Dark_Sage starts working on the preview soon.
They’re always a great read.
12? Oh god, what the hell have I been doing?
Dark_Sage, please. Work eating away? (has been for me at least)
Yes. It leaves me with nights where I’m like “Hey, I could knock out an article right now in 2-3 hours, or I could jerk off for three hours to my reflection in the computer screen.” When I do opt for the former choice, posts tend to get to the point where they can be finished in another hour or so, but finishing them would mean I’ll go into work so sleep-deprived that I’ll pass out on my desk, which obviously ain’t too great for job security. So they tend to just linger till I have enough time to get to them, at which point my inspiration’s already lost.
Starting… now.
Oh my god why is there so much fucking anime this spring holy shit
ganbare
is ds kill?
no new post in two weeks = blog officially considered dead by every legal authority
Hold your horses, guys. I got some time scratched out for Crymore tonight.
Hmm, I bet it’s not a review :D
Time for C-Crymore—no, it can’t be.
Two Nos and a third of a Mio. If I don’t manage to get something done, assume I’m dead.
R.I.P
2 AM and I still haven’t finished. Fucking hell. Well, have a rough draft to tide you over till tomorrow, I guess. Unless I decide to grab FFX/X-2 HD for the Vita. In which case, Crymore is dead.
http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Sample.jpg
;_;
RIP.
Ugh, Vita. Join me on the PS3 side of “life”.
Wizard Barristers episode 11 was the most poorly animated episode of anime i’ve ever seen. It’s got to be seen to be believed.
It was even worse than the animation in Symphogear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzGUN84B0eg
You’re right. That bit of Symphogear doesn’t even come close.
D_S, I don’t know if you’ve dropped Wizard Barristers, but you absolutely need to see episode 11. It’s the most noticeably unfinished episode of anime I think I’ve ever seen. Scenes with no artwork showing what’s happening, scenes where the animation wasn’t quite finished and scenes where there’s a repeated still shot that doesn’t correspond to what’s supposed to be happening. It gets so bad that you have to use the sound effects to even understand what’s happening because there’s simply nothing moving or even in frame. In short, it’s a fucking trainwreck.
My time… ;_;
RIP in pieces.
Your time is worth this. At first I wondered if I’d somehow downloaded a corrupt file it was so bad.
ded blog
RIP in peace.
It’s over.
Well, we had a good run.
How about a review of a bad scanlation? It’s been a while since you’ve done one of those.
There are good scanlations?
B-But where will I go to mock fansubbers now?
;_;
nyaa.
Please.
RIP. It was fun.
Dead_Sage is just moving on to his new site, Die More, dedicated to reviewing obituaries.
and here i am don’t know other fansub review other than this…
Oh, well there’s Not Red Reviews… which hasn’t been updated since January, or 8thSin… which hasn’t had a review post since last October.
Or you can compare the available subs and decide for yourself at Fansub.co… which only has six shows available from this season, or Subbusu… which has none of this season’s shows.
Basically fansub reviews are cursed.
Not Red Reviews only did a couple reviews in January. The last time they actually did a season’s worth of reviews was Spring 2013.
So much complaining going on here. He had only two shows left to review and the new season starts soon. I highly doubt there’s anyone waiting around for reviews so they know which version of fucking Buddy Complex to watch. If they are, it’s simple; don’t watch the anime-koi version.
I know right? Who would expect a blog to have a new article after 2 weeks? People are so demanding. And nice random number you pulled out of fucking nowhere, but there is certainly more than two shows he didn’t review this season.
>two shows left to review
Pls, he dropped all the rest. A week ago he polled to see what his priorities should be, he picked the top two and dropped the rest
Shows that wont get reviews:
Nourin
ImoCho
…
So, FFX is as okay as I remember it being…
Chrono Cross is so much better.
Many games are better than FFX
This is true.
Chrono Break is better.
Wizard Barristers episode 11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhmBnaEcbfA
The animation is terrible throughout the entire episode btw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
So, are we just waiting and hoping for next seasons sub reviews(read: any article at all) or is everyone just silently grieving the loss of this site?
The site’s not dead.
Can we expect reviews? Or maybe a next season preview?
Next season preview: everything will be bad.
False. Well, maybe. I haven’t even checked what’s coming up yet. Jesus, tonight’s gonna be a rollercoaster of potential emotion.
I should get out one last Winter 2014 review. Season preview is definitely in the works.
i love White_Sage.
I’d love it if you picked a username and stuck with it, since all your posts keep getting flagged by the system as spam.
sorry ;_;
just checked if you still care about your site ;_;
pls dont get mad
I do, but I also care about putting figs on the table. Work’s been slightly demanding this month.
plastic>your own fan(s)
It’s good that you understand.
I do wonder which have taken more money tho
this site or figurines
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This site is cheap to run. Like $30-$40 a month. My figfagging has easily overrun the site bill, even with just my last order.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/DriedFigs1.JPG
Figs on a table???
dat ragyuu banner
why_boner.gif ;_;
So Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei has already released some preview/explanation shorts as “yoku wakaru mahouka” and I’m pretty okay with every voice but Miyuki’s (main female character).
Dark_Sage, are you planning on reviewing those subs? They have typesetting and a lot of the technical terms so they might be a good indicator of which group people would like for the show.
Nope. Focusing on the season preview for now.
So about that Hyobu…
I assume the next Hyobu is coming out when either Dark_Sage officially becomes Japanese or at the conclusion of the Ani-blog tourney, whichever comes last.
My strategy for completing the Aniblog Tourney is to wait until every blogger gives up. I’m playing the long game here.
Also, when will Nyaa bring back the chatbox?
cheese
http://i.4cdn.org/a/src/1396585008918.jpg
Oh boy, here we go.
That is literally what she says.
http://static.4chan.org/image/4chan-leech.png
T
hat’s all I see here.
What do you expect? It’s a thread from two days ago, of course it’s long gone now.
http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1396/58/1396585008918.jpg
It was a line from Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou that said “Open parentheses, lol, close parentheses.”
http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1396/58/1396585008918.jpg
I think Crunchyroll made a few somewhat major translation errors with their episode 1 Mahouka release. It’s very readable, but hopefully the CR edit groups actually use TLC this time…
DS, please include your 3D graph charts, I miss them completely.