March 22nd, 2014
Log Horizon Over
Anime Relations: Log Horizon
So, it's finally over. It was a fun ride, I'm really looking forward to season 2, they made some big promises, let's hope they will be able to ad some more quality to it and get over the whole harem shit.
Airing this Fall, yay.
Airing this Fall, yay.
Posted by Shylp | Mar 22, 2014 7:14 AM | 1 comments
February 28th, 2014
Finally another Masterpiece?
Anime Relations: Baccano!, Baccano! Specials
When you find yourself watching an Anime with your mouth slitely opened showing a fascinated soft smile on your face and an almost ecstatic shining in your eyes, that's when you remember why you even spend time watching Anime ... As the ending theme mistifys you you suddenly notice tears in your eyes.
Baccano so far ascending towards one of my all time favorites: Progress 3/13
Edit: Progress: completed 13/13
It tripped at Ep.7, then recovered and still is a frkn master piece, love it.
Baccano so far ascending towards one of my all time favorites: Progress 3/13
Edit: Progress: completed 13/13
It tripped at Ep.7, then recovered and still is a frkn master piece, love it.
Posted by Shylp | Feb 28, 2014 2:40 PM | 3 comments
February 23rd, 2014
Spoiler! Berserk, why do (50%+) people consider this Manga a master piece?
Anime Relations: Kenpuu Denki Berserk, Berserk: Ougon Jidai-hen I - Haou no Tamago, Berserk: Ougon Jidai-hen II - Doldrey Kouryaku, Berserk: Ougon Jidai-hen III - Kourin
It is some time ago that I read this Manga and I don't feel comfortable trying to give too many arguements as to why I think that Berserk is in my opinion only a 6-10 depending on which arc you look at, but I just can't get this question out of my mind, so let me try it anyway.
The first arc was pretty bad if you ask me, but that is not even what concerns me most. I pretty much loved the coming of age arc's around Guts. It's reasonable these arcs are rated 10.
Then there is the arc about Griffith turning god hand ... what the hell, of course it had to go there, of course we needed something to get Guts raging, but still, what the hell? ... When Griffith turned god hand and raped casca it probably was the biggest dissappointment I could imagine at the time ... not because I have a problem with Casca being raped, or simply Griffith being the one that does it, but because the Manga so far made the biggest promises of consitency and strongly idealistic characters and it just doesn't fit into any of the ideals that Griffith stands for to rape Casca.
To me it felt, like the only reason the authors put so much emotional "deepnes" into that act was to make the "rage" they needed Guts to feel believable. <---- I will ignore any commets from people that do not understand what I mean by this, but I will explain it: Bullshit. That is my reason. How could one of the greatest quality Mangas out there (to that point) bullshit? For those that don't want to read Harry Franfurts definition of that term (link), in short bullshit is something that is said, without actually caring about whether it's true or not, but for the effect of saying it. Got my point? I'm not saying that I'm neccessairily right, but assuming that I am you understand why I would be disappointed, right? In that case feel free to make a comment.
Why do I think it's bullshit? Well, that's probably the hardest point to answer, but yeah the most important one. I'm not very good with words and logic, but I'll try to explain as good as I can. The ideals, that Griffith showed so far that I have in my mind right now are:
"A real friend to me needs to go over his friends and everybody else's dead bodies if that is what it takes to accomplish their own dream." I think he said something along these lines, right?
If he said that, and he actually is idealistic (which he can be, even evil or good, god hand or not), then Guts leaving him behind, to hunt his own dream was exactly what Guts had to do, so that Griffith could still see him as a friend, if he would have given up his dream, to become just another follower of Griffith, then their friendship would have ended, right?
Meaning, to be exact, my dissappointment for this Manga was not orignially triggered by the rape, but way earlier, when Griffith broke down and fucked that pricess girl. To me it seems that everything starting from this point was just to move everything into the place the author decided it should be, but not because that is really how it is, just because: Editor: "So when is Guts finally going to turn Berserk? The way it's going right now people start to think this might turn out a lovely merry cuddle story with a little bit to much bro love. Turn it Berserk now or you are done." Author: "Nooo, I can't do that, I would betray all my fans! Ah, whatever, gotta make ends meet."
Of course I could have just been reading this Manga wrong, and actually it really is not a breaking of it's own rules, but completly in agreement with what the characters have been defined to be. Let's assume that. What would it mean? That's a very important question, because assuming that I did not make another big mistake in my arguements so far, everybody else must have read it the right way and still liked it.
So what I should have been reading is that Griffith was full of shit to begin with? He is just talking, being a desperate late teenager that got a little bit too much skill? He is gonna throw all his airbubble ideals againts the wall whenever he feel's like it and takes the easiest way to get to his dream only believing in hate and lust (reffering to his break down and fucking the princess) more than in accomplishing his dream? But if he is asked to prioritise love rather than his dream he says, "wait, what? lol, no! wouldn't you feel betrayed if I suddenly gave up on my dream? I'm doing this for you! slaughtering all of you that is. What? You are saying I already betrayed my ideals long ago? I must have misunderstood you, there is too much blood shooting out of your belly. This is for the bigger purpose, the bigger prupose, you hear?"
Or you might even be saying that in reality everything that happend from the point of Guts leaving Griffith was just a coincidence? Father, drunk, got fired today and shot his wife and kids? aka griffith fucking princess loli
Sorry, I'm not saying that that is an unrealistic character or anything, but I just thought this manga was more than that. I thought this Manga was something more, something where two people completly do everything to protect their ideals without just talking shit or giving in to the little urges here and there ... Something that has a truly amazing antagonist, who I actually could admire ...
Well. So, I hope somebody is able to understand what I'm saying and make a reasonable comment, please don't give in to the urge of simply definding your lovely favorite manga without getting my point first, though if you ask a question about a missunderstanding or so I will consider clearing that up.
you've read the whole thing. right!!? please don't turn this into a personal conlflict. I'm aware of not being the smatest person in the universe, but this is not about me being too stupid or hating or anything.
There is one other point that is consider a disspointment, but I already mentioned the core problem above. This point is something less complex. In my opinion the arcs following the rape all sucked (were "fine" or diverging towards "fine" the further the plot proceeded until chapter 333). The Manga is drifting more and more main stream. What is with these frickin shounen characters? And that oh so awesome mega power berserk armor, and all the epic item shit? wtf? (Yeah, I like to put questionmarks and say fuck and shit a lot) Seriously, all I ever needed was Guts fricking huge crappy sword-thingy ... if Berserk is gonna try to be a shounen now, then the reason for the long hiatus probably is that they know they could as well give up, for one piece already is a 10 times better shounen than this will ever be. (being slightly sarcastic here, ... maybe)
So that's it from me, man, I really gotta stop giving in to these urges of spending like 90 minutes on wrting shit ... wait I'm not done yet, damn it.
Of course there is a reason why I kept reading the Manga, that was to see if they manage to "make up for it", but they didn't, so far. I read a thread where people tried to explain just what exactly is going on with Griffith and saying stuff like "He raped Casca because he needs the child ... maybe." or "he did it because he was fucked up at Guts for betrying him and wanted to get back at him" If you understood what I wrote above then you should already understand that these arguements change nothing to little about my point of view.
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1072339#KRe1yi7Qkdevfsfx.99
The first arc was pretty bad if you ask me, but that is not even what concerns me most. I pretty much loved the coming of age arc's around Guts. It's reasonable these arcs are rated 10.
Then there is the arc about Griffith turning god hand ... what the hell, of course it had to go there, of course we needed something to get Guts raging, but still, what the hell? ... When Griffith turned god hand and raped casca it probably was the biggest dissappointment I could imagine at the time ... not because I have a problem with Casca being raped, or simply Griffith being the one that does it, but because the Manga so far made the biggest promises of consitency and strongly idealistic characters and it just doesn't fit into any of the ideals that Griffith stands for to rape Casca.
To me it felt, like the only reason the authors put so much emotional "deepnes" into that act was to make the "rage" they needed Guts to feel believable. <---- I will ignore any commets from people that do not understand what I mean by this, but I will explain it: Bullshit. That is my reason. How could one of the greatest quality Mangas out there (to that point) bullshit? For those that don't want to read Harry Franfurts definition of that term (link), in short bullshit is something that is said, without actually caring about whether it's true or not, but for the effect of saying it. Got my point? I'm not saying that I'm neccessairily right, but assuming that I am you understand why I would be disappointed, right? In that case feel free to make a comment.
Why do I think it's bullshit? Well, that's probably the hardest point to answer, but yeah the most important one. I'm not very good with words and logic, but I'll try to explain as good as I can. The ideals, that Griffith showed so far that I have in my mind right now are:
"A real friend to me needs to go over his friends and everybody else's dead bodies if that is what it takes to accomplish their own dream." I think he said something along these lines, right?
If he said that, and he actually is idealistic (which he can be, even evil or good, god hand or not), then Guts leaving him behind, to hunt his own dream was exactly what Guts had to do, so that Griffith could still see him as a friend, if he would have given up his dream, to become just another follower of Griffith, then their friendship would have ended, right?
Meaning, to be exact, my dissappointment for this Manga was not orignially triggered by the rape, but way earlier, when Griffith broke down and fucked that pricess girl. To me it seems that everything starting from this point was just to move everything into the place the author decided it should be, but not because that is really how it is, just because: Editor: "So when is Guts finally going to turn Berserk? The way it's going right now people start to think this might turn out a lovely merry cuddle story with a little bit to much bro love. Turn it Berserk now or you are done." Author: "Nooo, I can't do that, I would betray all my fans! Ah, whatever, gotta make ends meet."
Of course I could have just been reading this Manga wrong, and actually it really is not a breaking of it's own rules, but completly in agreement with what the characters have been defined to be. Let's assume that. What would it mean? That's a very important question, because assuming that I did not make another big mistake in my arguements so far, everybody else must have read it the right way and still liked it.
So what I should have been reading is that Griffith was full of shit to begin with? He is just talking, being a desperate late teenager that got a little bit too much skill? He is gonna throw all his airbubble ideals againts the wall whenever he feel's like it and takes the easiest way to get to his dream only believing in hate and lust (reffering to his break down and fucking the princess) more than in accomplishing his dream? But if he is asked to prioritise love rather than his dream he says, "wait, what? lol, no! wouldn't you feel betrayed if I suddenly gave up on my dream? I'm doing this for you! slaughtering all of you that is. What? You are saying I already betrayed my ideals long ago? I must have misunderstood you, there is too much blood shooting out of your belly. This is for the bigger purpose, the bigger prupose, you hear?"
Or you might even be saying that in reality everything that happend from the point of Guts leaving Griffith was just a coincidence? Father, drunk, got fired today and shot his wife and kids? aka griffith fucking princess loli
Sorry, I'm not saying that that is an unrealistic character or anything, but I just thought this manga was more than that. I thought this Manga was something more, something where two people completly do everything to protect their ideals without just talking shit or giving in to the little urges here and there ... Something that has a truly amazing antagonist, who I actually could admire ...
Well. So, I hope somebody is able to understand what I'm saying and make a reasonable comment, please don't give in to the urge of simply definding your lovely favorite manga without getting my point first, though if you ask a question about a missunderstanding or so I will consider clearing that up.
you've read the whole thing. right!!? please don't turn this into a personal conlflict. I'm aware of not being the smatest person in the universe, but this is not about me being too stupid or hating or anything.
There is one other point that is consider a disspointment, but I already mentioned the core problem above. This point is something less complex. In my opinion the arcs following the rape all sucked (were "fine" or diverging towards "fine" the further the plot proceeded until chapter 333). The Manga is drifting more and more main stream. What is with these frickin shounen characters? And that oh so awesome mega power berserk armor, and all the epic item shit? wtf? (Yeah, I like to put questionmarks and say fuck and shit a lot) Seriously, all I ever needed was Guts fricking huge crappy sword-thingy ... if Berserk is gonna try to be a shounen now, then the reason for the long hiatus probably is that they know they could as well give up, for one piece already is a 10 times better shounen than this will ever be. (being slightly sarcastic here, ... maybe)
So that's it from me, man, I really gotta stop giving in to these urges of spending like 90 minutes on wrting shit ... wait I'm not done yet, damn it.
Of course there is a reason why I kept reading the Manga, that was to see if they manage to "make up for it", but they didn't, so far. I read a thread where people tried to explain just what exactly is going on with Griffith and saying stuff like "He raped Casca because he needs the child ... maybe." or "he did it because he was fucked up at Guts for betrying him and wanted to get back at him" If you understood what I wrote above then you should already understand that these arguements change nothing to little about my point of view.
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1072339#KRe1yi7Qkdevfsfx.99
Posted by Shylp | Feb 23, 2014 10:04 PM | 0 comments
February 9th, 2014
MALgraph experience
Anime Relations: Arata naru Sekai: World's/Start/Load/End
http://mal.oko.im/Shylp/recs,anime
Wow, I'm so diappointed. I heard how people would go on like: I had this recommendation and I didn't really want to watch it, but then I did it and I loved it.
I did not. It sucked. Arata naru Sekai: Mirai-hen completely sucks. Why the hell would that be recommended to me? I feel like I abused 30 minutes of my life.
I wish I knew why this happened to me ... Anybody out there who knows what the recommendations are based on?
At least MALgraph adjusted nicely after giving that show an extremely low score, maybe there still is hope^^
Wow, I'm so diappointed. I heard how people would go on like: I had this recommendation and I didn't really want to watch it, but then I did it and I loved it.
I did not. It sucked. Arata naru Sekai: Mirai-hen completely sucks. Why the hell would that be recommended to me? I feel like I abused 30 minutes of my life.
I wish I knew why this happened to me ... Anybody out there who knows what the recommendations are based on?
At least MALgraph adjusted nicely after giving that show an extremely low score, maybe there still is hope^^
Posted by Shylp | Feb 9, 2014 11:10 PM | 0 comments
February 8th, 2014
What do you think of this recommendation?
Anime Relations: Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi, Nodame Cantabile
This is my first recommendation, also english is not my mother tounge, please forgive me for possible shortcomings.
I am sure that everybody agrees with me that one of the most important elements of "Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi" is the protagonists dubbing voice, if you do not agree yet then you will find out as soon as you watch "Nodame Cantabile". Tomokazu Seki does a great job in entertaning the audience and defining the special flavour that makes both "SSDK" and "Nodame Cantabile" a pleasure to watch.
Also in both anime the protagonist engages in a discipleship under a master with a rather sophisticated personality. The responsiveness of both disciple and master are very similar in both anime. Story wise the desciple master relationship is very different though.
The female role that the romance in both anime focuses around is played by a somewhat naive kind of girl(, though Nodame certainly has more depth and Miu more cuteness and ecchi appeal), beeing another key to the taste and comedy everybody loves in "SSDK".
I can see why there is not many others that made these comparisions before, but if it is the Characters you loved in "SSDK", the sweet touch of a romance and the focus on an art rather than fighting and action then I believe you will like Nodame Cantabile a lot, give it a try.
I believe that recomending an Anime is neither about finding superficial similarities nor is it about finding Animes that are basically the same, but rather it is about finding Animes that feel the same way. It's even better if you then are able to enjoy both Anime for what they are rather than enjoying one Anime for being the same as another Anime.
If you are looking at the recommendations not because you wan't to watch an Anime that is like the other, but rather because you want to find an Anime that you will like as much as the other, give Nodame a try.
(Your Age might or might not play a crucial role in this, I liked Kenichi better when I was younger and now I like Nodame better, but that's just if you look to identify with the protagonists.)
Tipps, opinions, criticism?
I am sure that everybody agrees with me that one of the most important elements of "Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi" is the protagonists dubbing voice, if you do not agree yet then you will find out as soon as you watch "Nodame Cantabile". Tomokazu Seki does a great job in entertaning the audience and defining the special flavour that makes both "SSDK" and "Nodame Cantabile" a pleasure to watch.
Also in both anime the protagonist engages in a discipleship under a master with a rather sophisticated personality. The responsiveness of both disciple and master are very similar in both anime. Story wise the desciple master relationship is very different though.
The female role that the romance in both anime focuses around is played by a somewhat naive kind of girl(, though Nodame certainly has more depth and Miu more cuteness and ecchi appeal), beeing another key to the taste and comedy everybody loves in "SSDK".
I can see why there is not many others that made these comparisions before, but if it is the Characters you loved in "SSDK", the sweet touch of a romance and the focus on an art rather than fighting and action then I believe you will like Nodame Cantabile a lot, give it a try.
I believe that recomending an Anime is neither about finding superficial similarities nor is it about finding Animes that are basically the same, but rather it is about finding Animes that feel the same way. It's even better if you then are able to enjoy both Anime for what they are rather than enjoying one Anime for being the same as another Anime.
If you are looking at the recommendations not because you wan't to watch an Anime that is like the other, but rather because you want to find an Anime that you will like as much as the other, give Nodame a try.
(Your Age might or might not play a crucial role in this, I liked Kenichi better when I was younger and now I like Nodame better, but that's just if you look to identify with the protagonists.)
Tipps, opinions, criticism?
Posted by Shylp | Feb 8, 2014 9:14 PM | 0 comments
February 7th, 2014
Conan Subs
Anime Relations: Meitantei Conan
Hey, I'm having a lot of trouble finding a site offering online streams or torrents of the new "Meitantei Conan" episodes. German or english sub would be best. I believe posting external links is prohibited, so please send me a pm. Or tell me if even that is prohibited. (Looking for ep. 727 and 728)
Alright found Ger Sub on my own.
Alright found Ger Sub on my own.
Posted by Shylp | Feb 7, 2014 12:36 PM | 1 comments