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Offline Dragon

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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
Yeah, Nanoha starts slow. Up until Fate's first appearance, it's pretty much only worth watching so you know how it started. After that however, it becomes awesome.

 

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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
Hey hey, there's nothing wrong with watching Nanoha.
XD

And thanks to that lovely screenshot in celebration of freespace i'm watching first season of nanoha. i'm having mixed feelings about watching it.

the story is okay-ish, if delving into annoyingly childish sometimes, but i cannot help thinking "what the **** am i doing here at 23 years old watching something that was very obviously made for children..."

(not saying urk, anime aer for kids, far from it... just this particular one...)
The first season of nanoha is fairly basic mahou shoujo and only near the end do they turn it all up a notch. Then comes the second season, A's, and stuff gets really awesome.
So I'm not suprised by your initial impression by it.
Will hold on then. Already dl'ed A's so yeah.
[edit] at episode 11  of first season atm...
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and as a sidenote, i found MS Gundam 00 to be quite a solid series for both seasons. Iffy sometimes, downright stupid at other times, but hey, i've watched worse XD

I have no idea why a lot of people talked **** about it tho. The series at least tried to give some decent justifications for the **** they pulled and honestly, the movie was the utterly weakest link in the series of the stuff i watched.
Agreed on all of that. I personally really enjoyed 00 a lot.
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing).
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I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing).
Suuuuure. :p

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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
Since Psycho Pass I haven't really found anything that catches my eye.

So far the most promising one for me is Shingeki no Kyojin, that last episode sure made me go: WTF man! and for once the studio/script guys sure know how to use a cliffhanger.
Another I'm watching is Ore imouto whatever, watched the first release so I'm following the story.
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
Tried watching Girls Und Panzer but after the third randomly placed german word, I just had to turn it off.
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
Tried watching Girls Und Panzer but after the third randomly placed german word, I just had to turn it off.
You are using the wrong subs, watch hiryuu instead of commie (or dmonhiro for the bd release, which uses hiryuu subs)
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
Watching Valvrave, Majestic Prince, Gargantia and Hataraku, Maou-sama! this season. Lots of strong winners, and I haven't even gotten into eoten onslaught yet.

 

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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing).
Suuuuure. :p



I suppose I was asking for that. :lol: It's not worth the trouble to convince anyone otherwise... :P

I thought the second season of Strike witches was kind of weak. But the movie was imho quite good, definitely would recommend that after season 2.
If you like Strike witches you would probably enjoy Girls und Panzer too, I recently watched that and ****ing loved it.

I'll certainly consider both of these suggestions. Although, about this:

You are using the wrong subs, watch hiryuu instead of commie (or dmonhiro for the bd release, which uses hiryuu subs)
Would the DVD release (if there's one with a sub) have the "correct" sub?

 

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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
I suppose I was asking for that. :lol: It's not worth the trouble to convince anyone otherwise... :P
I know how you feel man, back in the day when I was watching Strike witches everyone responded the same way when I said that I wasn't in it for the whole panty flashing deal :p

Would the DVD release (if there's one with a sub) have the "correct" sub?
When it comes to fansubs right now there is only the TV version (commie troll subs and hiryuu) and the Blu ray release (up to volume 4 right now, released by dmonhiro using hiryuu subs). AFAIK there isn't a DVD release on the interwebs atm.
I haven't heard anything about it being licensed outside of japan by anyone yet so there probably won't be localized DVD versions any time soon either.
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
plowed right through first 2 nanoha seasons, and i can honestly say i'm sorta meh about it. StrikerS seems to be a much more interesting premise. probably because of a bit of broadening of encounters or summat. dunno.


will type out a full assesment once i finish strikers.

overall, i could've gone far worse with anime than this at least :D
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Yeah... i'm not getting where the whole "Nanoha, Destroyer of Worlds!" shtick comes from. In my subs at least, there has been a single mention of the whole "White Devil" thing and thats by Vita near the end of A's. I'm kinda hoping StrikerS delivers on that.

Also, my experience with the anime so far can be summed up as: "Came for the beams of doom, stayed for the characters and story."
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
Haven't you seen how Nanoha has made every friends she has? She's pummeled them into submission friendship!

By the end of StrikerS you should realize exactly how Nanoha handles every problem she has. :p
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Haven't you seen how Nanoha has made every friends she has? She's pummeled them into submission friendship!
here's the thing, it hasnt really happened through pummeling. fate didnt exactly get her ass handed to her by nanoha and neither did hayate or the wolkenritter... (gratuitous german woo)

the ones who got the long end of the divine/whatever buster, well, nobody went down from just one so far :p
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By the end of StrikerS you should realize exactly how Nanoha handles every problem she has. :p
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
It's really more of a joke that fans have come up with regarding Nanoha's character.

The "Full Power! Absolute Destruction!" joke is a lot funnier in Japanese, since the two exclamations are homophones ("Zenryoku zenkai!")

Referring to her as "the White Devil" is a cross-joke with Gundam. The original Gundam was called "The White Devil" by its enemies, and Nanoha's outfit has the same color scheme.

Like I said, besides her habit of "befriending" former enemies, there isn't a lot in the series to suggest she's a blood-crazed warrior. Although more recent side materials seem to have rolled with this perception, showing Nanoha getting really into her battles (to the point where one manga showed a mock battle between her and Signum that had to be stopped because they both got a bit too serious about it).
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
 Not exactly a TV series, but I am currently watching: Shephard's mind. It shines the most once you get past the first 10 or so episodes.

 

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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
It's really more of a joke that fans have come up with regarding Nanoha's character.

The "Full Power! Absolute Destruction!" joke is a lot funnier in Japanese, since the two exclamations are homophones ("Zenryoku zenkai!")

Referring to her as "the White Devil" is a cross-joke with Gundam. The original Gundam was called "The White Devil" by its enemies, and Nanoha's outfit has the same color scheme.

Like I said, besides her habit of "befriending" former enemies, there isn't a lot in the series to suggest she's a blood-crazed warrior. Although more recent side materials seem to have rolled with this perception, showing Nanoha getting really into her battles (to the point where one manga showed a mock battle between her and Signum that had to be stopped because they both got a bit too serious about it).
that... explains a lot of it actually. thanks :)
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Re: What animes/series are you watching right now?
When it comes to fansubs right now there is only the TV version (commie troll subs and hiryuu) and the Blu ray release (up to volume 4 right now, released by dmonhiro using hiryuu subs). AFAIK there isn't a DVD release on the interwebs atm.
I haven't heard anything about it being licensed outside of japan by anyone yet so there probably won't be localized DVD versions any time soon either.
Ah that's a shame. I suppose it only was made last year so I wouldn't be surprised that it may be some time (if it ever does) before an English DVD is released; I've only just been getting into anime so I don't know the usual time for an English release to come out.