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Feb 7, 2012 12:40 PM
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Today I watched Nodame Cantabile episodes 10 & 11.
WOW.
VERY EXCELLENT. VERY EXCELLENT INDEED. ^_^

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Feb 18, 2012 12:07 PM
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ALSO: I changed the club picture to
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Welcome to Oxford Hentai Vision
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CAPTION CONTEST! ^_^ CAPTION CONTEST! ^_^ CAPTION CONTEST!

My entry:
"Aaargh! They're bombarding us with hentai pop-ups! I knew I should have got AdBlock for my glasses..."
Feb 21, 2012 5:49 AM
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I just watched eps 9-11 of Ayakashi.
It was really good, and I can see why the medicine was destined to get his own series because he's a good character. BUT... the show was really horrible and sad :-( . Is Monononoke going to be as sad as Ayakashi? :-( I haven't started it yet.
Feb 21, 2012 5:05 PM
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it's so sad it blew up the projector bulb in the first episode :-0
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Feb 22, 2012 8:51 AM
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Yeah, behold the awesomeness of Mononoke! xD Clearly the projector bulb couldn't take it.

No, the rest of the arcs are not as sad, apart from the very last one.

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Funnily enough, I found out from the clerk of works today that the bulb didn't blow - rather, it inexplicably broke and shattered. Not that this could have anything to do with the Medicine Seller saying "I will cut it" just before...
"and let us go mad... for prying into God's secrets. What competence have we here?"
Feb 22, 2012 10:41 AM
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P.S. - the bulb has now been replaced, so we're all good for Friday's meeting!
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Feb 23, 2012 11:29 AM

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Ah, nice~

LOL, it actually broke and shattered? I mean, I know the series is amazing & all, but...wow xD

Feb 27, 2012 9:17 AM
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I just watched the first two episodes of Monononononoke. It was really good, though not as good as the ayakashi arc, I thought. But I was cowardly relieved to see that it wasn't as sad as the ayakashi arc :P
I'm going to watch each arc of Mononononoke in a single session I think, where possible. You guys watching it in animesoc, do you think it loses some tension when there's a week between episodes?
Feb 27, 2012 3:26 PM
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Not for me personally. It's one of those series that draws me in really quickly, which is odd because I usually feel a bit disconnected when watching series with whacky art style like Mononoke. In fact at the moment, I don't think any of the other series I'm watching to be as immersive and atmospheric as Mononoke, though it could be cos I've seen many of the other shows already.
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CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES

I just found the Evangelion spoof on Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged. Good times ^_^
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I'm trying to do a comparison of the series this year. So far I found on people's lists these scores:
Cowboy Dennou Madoka Mnnke Nodame NHK
Alun 10 9 9 7 8 10
Adam 9 7 9 9 9 6
Kajia 9 9 8 9 9 9
MikeP 8 9 10 6 8 9
Lali-An 8 7 8 8 7 7
Fiorenz 9 6 5 7 7 7
Koloktr 8 7 5 7 6 6
Selina 8 10 8
(and you might have to use your imagination a bit to make that table look right)

(Selina, I couldn't find scores for some series. Have a rating in mind?)
(Kajia, I read that you never use the '10' on the rating options, so this year was basically pure perfection for you? :D )

ANYONE I'VE MISSED OUT? I don't know who's behind some of the usernames...
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This was an awesome year for me - 3 series from my favourites list, and the worst is an 8 lol!
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Jun 18, 2012 7:11 AM
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ACTUALLY

I'm trying to do the same thing as on this thread http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=197026&show=40. (see my post - bottom of page 3)

EVERYONE POST TO RANK THE SERIES FROM BEST TO WORST
So my opinion is:
Cowboy bebop > Welcome to the NHK > Magical Madoka Magical Magical > Dennou Coil > Nodame Cantabile > Mononoke

Though tbh trying to say which of Madoka, NHK and Dennou coil are better is tough because they're all very strong in different ways.
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Finally updated all my scores.

My ranking would be:

Mononoke >> Bebop > NHK=DC=Nodame > Madoka

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Madoka > Dennou Coil > Nodame > Welcome to the NHK > Cowboy Bebop > Mononoke
Jun 18, 2012 9:19 AM
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lol this is essentially the same as the Power Rankings, except with the least points being better rather than the first.

Nodame > Bebop > NHK >> Mononoke > DC >> Madoka

The first 3 are all in the same tier. Nodame gets top position simply because I found I got far more out of re-watching it than any other show, picking up details I'd missed previously and making new connections. Bebop and NHK is really close, the former being better made but the latter being more weirdly wonderful at times. Mononoke wins over DC for being more consistent. Even though DC hogged a lot more points in the Power Levels poll, it's it only got *really* good in the second half, and the ending left me very confused. Madoka was very good, but not quite in the same league as the others due to this year's lineup being too good :D
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Nodame > Bebop > Madoka ~ Mononoke >> DC >> NHK
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The power rankings is rating individual episodes, I'm after opinions on the series as wholes. We only have power ratings for the last few episodes.
We could do another analysis, where people give power points to entire series, if you can think of an analysis to do with those numbers...
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I was just making an observation on the similarity of ranking system to that used by the actual anime power rankings ( http://kevo.dasaku.net/?page_id=2417 ), I'm not talking about the power levels thing that we do which uses a different scoring system.
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[note: I am very shocked and upset at just how WRONG some of you guys are with your ratings!]

THE RESULTS for the first 5 people. (But late entries are welcome!)



So, out of me, Adam, Kajia, Mike and Selina, our consensus is:
Cowboy Bebop > Nodame Cantabile > Welcome to the NHK! > Magical Magical Madoka Girl > Dennou Coil > Mononoke

I note that we were not unanimous on ANY comparison!
(I note that the consensus is the same as my rankings except it places Nodame much higher. Everyone else's rankings were *very* different from the consensus, proving once and for all that I have the best taste.)

Actually also note that my method of extracting a 'consensus' is in hindsight, very dodgy (e.g. Bebop > Nodame is reflected in the totals on the bottom and right, but there were actually more votes for Nodame > Bebop). Hmm. Not sure of a better way though.
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oh I thought you were just adding up the ranks people are giving to series. On closer inspection your scoring system is nothing like that at all lol.
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Jun 21, 2012 2:42 AM
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How about this as a better analysis?
It's an acyclic directed graph to show which shows we think were better than others.
e.g. Nodame is considered better than Bebop because there were 3 votes for that and only two for Bebop better than Nodame.



The main paradox in the graph is that we actually voted that Dennou Coil was roughly equal to Nodame, EVEN THOUGH Dennou Coil was definitely worse than Mononoke, Madoka and Bebop, which were in turn worse than Nodame.
There's a similar paradox in the NHK-Mononoke-Dennou triangle too.

So ignoring the 'equal to' lines we can get a rough idea that the consensus is Nodame > Bebop > NHK > Madoka = Mononoke > Dennou Coil.
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This must be more accurate than the other method, as it's almost exactly like my rankings, except with Madoka a couple of places higher up! QED
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