Manga/Anime You Read/Watch

[quote=Jebus McAzn]the KLK finale was beautiful and nobody can convince me otherwise[/quote]

[quote=xIchi]Forgot to watch it, will do it after reading the Oregairu novel update :D Not sure if there is sarcasm in your words tho...[/quote]

[quote=Vaan99][quote=xIchi] Forgot to watch it, will do it after reading the Oregairu novel update :D Not sure if there is sarcasm in your words tho... [/quote] It isn't sarcasm, you should definitely go watch it.[/quote]

[quote=Bioalchemist]yes you should watch it. not sure i would call it beautiful...well...depends lol you will figure out why. i am glad they didn't drag it out though.[/quote]

[quote=xIchi]Well, for once I actually liked how it ended, prolly because there was no romance as in most shounen and they choose the 'friends with everyone'-end... Ofc. it is just romance teasing zzzz. Back to KLK: Well, happy ending, how else and rlly awesome :3 Trigger knows how to make endings epic tho xD just like in TTGL[/quote]

[quote=Satella]In retrospect, Trigger really needed to make Kill la Kill either 1-cour or not undertake it with so little funding; while they did a phenomenal job with creating an awesome show without the financial freedom of the likes of KyoAni, I feel that the show was overall held back from perfection by a shortage of funding (remember the original NGE's ending episodes?), as well as a distinct inhomogeneous pacing and inadequate character development arcs that don't match the resolution. I'll be damned, though, if anyone says it wasn't an awesome show. The female leads are GODLIKE, never seen characterization done this well in an action-oriented anime. Usually you get fanservicey useless bullshit sub-human beings like Yoko "I did nothing" Littner (yes I hate her, deal with it) with female leads. Not with Kill la Kill. 9/10, watch it before you lose your way. In unrelated news, I want that [url=http://www.amazon.com/Animation-Kill-Japan-LTD-ANZX-9281/dp/B00FXIBJVS]BD set[/url] so badly but alas, I have no money to throw around. Could be very worth buying if the BD fixed up the "no budget" moments in the original show, since off-model animation does happen quite a bit. [spoiler=(spoilers) Meanwhile at /a/][img]http://i.imgur.com/1sou0bk.jpg[/img][/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=xIchi]That chart, is so awesome :D. I didn't gather any information about the funding, but I guess they made good use of the style and I have to agree to you, tho I never ever really watched NGE (oh snap). And the yoko thing, oh yes, too true D:[/quote]

[quote=Satella][quote=xIchi]I didn't gather any information about the funding, but I guess they made good use of the style and I have to agree to you, tho I never ever really watched NGE (oh snap).[/quote] If you carefully looked you'll notice that the actual amount of animation is really low most of the time. Oftentimes you get painted still frames taking up a lot of the airtime, but because it's executed well the lack of animation doesn't really hinder the viewing experience. [spoiler=(Spoiler) They also ran out of money during]the final fight with Ragyo, where we got partially-colored frames instead of finished animation during part of the climax. I like how trigger didn't even attempt to hide this, it could even be passed off as a stylistic choice. (like many other unique quirks that also save a lot of animation budget, such as treating Nui as a cardboard cutout instead of animating her in the majority of her appearances)[/spoiler] Also E4 was an obvious "No Budget Episode". Must've spent it all on the action scenes in episode 3. Not that I mind, of course; it was very entertaining. It's great when a studio embraces the medium of animation and uses it to pull of ridiculousness that isn't otherwise possible, instead of trying to make it realistic; that's true anime in my eyes. If you don't use the freedom of drawn art to its fullest, you might as well just make a live action show.[/quote]

[quote=Latest Legend]Watching Steins;Gate. Amazing series overall so far, but it feels a bit like Lord Of The Rings. That elf is a guy, that dwarf is a girl and eagles solve everything. Though plot holes are lurking behind every corner.[spoiler]Like the moments between Kurisu and Okabe being removed every time yet their relationship doesn't seem to reset. And someone needs to tell me how a black hole can compress data. And how a world line can be completely different from the previous while the situation in the lab is completely the same. And how a complete image of the current memory can be attained using a headset that isn't put around the head the same way every time too. He took Feyris' phone with him through the world switch, but he couldn't take the world line indicator with him.[/spoiler] EDIT: Question:[spoiler]If a world line moves, does that mean that the other world line doesn't "exist" anymore? I mean, if someone prevents something from happening in world line #x, are there observers/inhabitants of world line #y who do experience that thing to happen? Or is there only one entity of every person and does changing world lines equal to something like hopping on to the next train?[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Latest Legend] Watching Steins;Gate. Amazing series overall so far, but it feels a bit like Lord Of The Rings. That elf is a guy, that dwarf is a girl and eagles solve everything. Though plot holes are lurking behind every corner.[spoiler]Like the moments between Kurisu and Okabe being removed every time yet their relationship doesn't seem to reset. And someone needs to tell me how a black hole can compress data. And how a complete image of the current memory can be attained using a headset that isn't put around the head the same way every time too.[/spoiler][/quote] Yeah, you're absolutely right. The blunder with the relatioship not resetting being kind of a big deal, but I can see past the other blunders and suspend my disbelief. I can however not for the ending and the ending of the turn-back arc. The ending almost ruined the series for me. [spoiler=Watch the entire thing before reading this:] In the ending he goes back a second time to a time he has already been at. Meaning that if they follow their own set of rules there should have been 3 Okabes there. 1 being the original "inhabitant" of that time, 1 being from the first time-jump and one (the one we follow) being from the second time-jump. The whole resolution to the girl/guy problem was pathetically weak. They would not even have met if she was a guy, nor would she in any way be able to have memories of that, yet they explain it away with some bullshit.[/spoiler] [quote]And how a world line can be completely different from the previous while the situation in the lab is completely the same.[/quote] This can probably be explained, but in a way that would be less likely and more convoluted than if it was not that way. A way of explaining it would be selective traveling, as in they only went to branching lines that did not differ in regard. But that would be a pretty important thing to gloss over.. [quote]If a world line moves, does that mean that the other world line doesn't "exist" anymore? I mean, if someone prevents something from happening in world line #x, are there observers/inhabitants of world line #y who do experience that thing to happen? Or is there only one entity of every person and does changing world lines equal to something like hopping on to the next train?[/quote] It's not the world-lines moving, it's Okabe moving from one to another. All the world-lines exist at the same time, but they have no contact other than where they branch.[/quote]