Daily Anime Thoughts

[Seyren]

Originally Posted by captaincrunch

It's not really action oriented (although there is a lot of it) - it's more or less about what happens to kids when they are forced into a situation like that, and the morality therein.

Might not be your cup of tea. 2nd season is more action oriented if I remember correctly.

Is it really a second season though? If i understand correctly it's a different way of telling the same story, am i correct?

[Aranneas]

Nope. It's a second season, continuing where the first leaves off.

[valondar]

The second season has a greater involvement from the original mangaka than the first anime series, and was produced by a different animation studio (with noticably big changes in animation and character designs).

It does however treat the events of the first season as having 'happened' and while it contradicts one aspect of that show's end it does it as a clear retcon 'oh you thought X happened but really Y happened' rather than pretending the first series didn't handle it at all. What I mean is

Angelica dies in the first series, but in the second she got better. Now she died in her sleep by like closing her eyes so it's POSSIBLE to insist she didn't really die at the end of the first season, it just blunts the narrative force of that ending.

But frankly IMHO the second season and OVA are complete wastes of time, and I adore the Madhouse anime.

Originally Posted by Seyren

DAT: Wow, Henrietta from Gunslinger Girl is a ruthless killer, an assassin through and through, but on the other hand her interactions with Giuse made me think of Usagi Drop. Some part of her is comparable to Rin, which makes her really sweet and likeable. I love how they're playing with those two sides of Henrietta.

You know, that's true even to the level of both relationships having ... er... issues, manga-wise.

Originally Posted by Aranneas

so I checked it out and based on the first three episodes shinsekai is probably stronger in theory, but the fourth is even and the fifth was quite weak. it's kind of a tossup which one will end up the better show, but it's highly unlikely Tonari will be getting much worse (because it's simply not that kind of show) so the onus is on Shinsekai to keep up the quality.

While I really couldn't make it through the first episode of Tonari. Maybe I'll try again later in the season (not very likely - last time I ignored my misgivings and stuck with a show solely based on its reputation, it was the woefully overrated Toradora), but not anytime soon.

[Verified]

Originally Posted by valondar

While I really couldn't make it through the first episode of Tonari. Maybe I'll try again later in the season (not very likely - last time I ignored my misgivings and stuck with a show solely based on its reputation, it was the woefully overrated Toradora), but not anytime soon.

You break mah heart bruh! Toradora! and Tonari you reject You just not a love story fan?

[valondar]

Originally Posted by Verified

You just not a love story fan?

Hey I did say I loved Kare Kano. Ghibli in particular has done some great anime romances (Ocean Waves is probably my favourite but let's hear it for Whispers of the Heart and Only Yesterday why not). Kuragehime was one of last year's best comedies, if not the best. And while I did skewer Sakamichi no Apollon a bit upthread, that was basically a good anime I enjoyed watching. Past that... ah... Skip Beat was fine? Does that count as romance?

It's not a favourite genre and you could fairly say I'm not well disposed towards it - as I am, obviously, well disposed towards mindfuck anime - but I don't simply hate its guts as I do with harems.

Tonari wasn't bad as much as it was frontloaded with character designs and tones I just do not care for, and I was not in the mood to consciously make an effort to look past that to find something to cling to and try to like that. So Toradora instantly came to mind as a show that was praised to the high heavens, which I tried to like, but also honestly was simply not very good. Sure, maybe on reflection Tonari has Skip Beat levels of 'this is okay to watch and I like it' or even Kuragehime 'man this is fun'. But that's for another time.

[LinkSword]

^ I honestly think Tonari is way better than Toradora in every level. As you say you probably won't be willing to watch the whole show once it's over, so I'd rather recommend to watch at least three episodes while it's ongoing, whenever it happens you're in the mood. I'm sure you'll find it considerably more endearing than most other rom-coms you've watched, even if you're far from being a fan of the genre. If you're not convinced with it after three episodes and being in a receptive/open-minded mood, then sure, I'd say give it a pass.

[Peroxide]

DAT:
I don't know how I forgot this, but... Mawaru no Penguindrum has one of the coolest OPs, like ever.

[renorxukuth]

DAT: The Cat Returns is probably my favorite of the Studio Ghibli movies.

[AhnYS]

I know tons of people that dropped Tonari after one episode but as everyone else mentioned you should at least watch 3 episodes before dropping it.
I HATE shoujo anime and there is not one shoujo anime I have not watched then dropped.
Obviously I would expect to do the same with Tonari but after watching 3 episodes the show really grew on me and now I look forward to when the new episodes come out every week ^_^

[Waka]

DAT: Why is engrish so amusing?