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2452115522416 Mar 18, 2018 3:51 PM
Hello, nice affinity we got there lol xD
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varev Jun 8, 2016 2:48 AM
Dude, check out my new layout. It looks so sick in my opinion.
Love the update
theillusionary Jun 6, 2016 7:55 AM
Hey, since you've seen Kanon, if you've at all enjoyed it, you should probably watch the 2006 version.
theillusionary Jun 5, 2016 7:15 AM
Hey, as a fellow fan of martial arts, what's up? You watch any UFC or anything?

And, sorry about being a big hater of SAO. :P
keragamming Jun 4, 2016 3:06 PM
The same, but those users are disturbing my peace.
keragamming Jun 4, 2016 2:47 PM
Those users are bringing on the heat on you. Lol
keragamming Jun 4, 2016 2:33 PM
What's up?
QABJAB Jun 4, 2016 12:51 PM
Negative 55.4% compatibility is insane.
mojoboy31 Mar 19, 2016 2:05 PM
I've seen a few episodes of Vampire Knight, kinda slow, but definitely has a more serious vibe to it. Will look up the others. Thanks for the recommendations!
mojoboy31 Mar 19, 2016 1:32 AM
Hey, thanks for the message, really appreciate it. The site won't let me send messages for another few days; guess it's protocol for new users. Anyway, I like animes with good action and or mystery, good character development, usually more serious in tone. I especially like ones with both good male and female leads. My examples would be Eden of the East, Kaze No Stigma, Sword Art Online, Gargantia, Darker than Black's first season was excellent (even though it didn't have a female lead until about halfway through when Misaki finally started getting screen time). As for genres, I like the futuristic ones, I like modern ones, I like fantasy ones, I like supernatural. I like pretty much everything.
Maz Mar 7, 2016 7:54 AM
I really wanted to like Grimgar, because of its premise. The main cast being a bunch of newbies who struggle to kill anything really interested me, because it felt like a far more realistic depiction of what would happen if you grabbed a bunch of teenagers and told them to fight for their lives. It just got squandered by the poor focus and dialogue.

I've been meaning to watch .Hack for ages. I can't say why but I just never bothered getting around to seeing it. It's one of the oldest entries on my plan-to-watch list lol. I might get around to it some time soon, but my currently watching list is already swamped. I'm at nearly 50 entries, with many of them being long running, like One Piece (700+ episodes) HxH (148 episodes), World Trigger (70 episodes and counting), Dragon Ball Super (30s and counting) not to mention all the other anime I'm watching.
I'll see it some day lol.
Maz Mar 7, 2016 7:21 AM
There are a few. I'll preface this by saying, though, that it's starting to get a little better now. The last 3 episodes are drastic improvements on the first half.

First, it's that a lot of the dialogue feels like it was written by a horny 12 year old. From episodes 1-3, there is approximately 25-20minutes worth of time spent on the characters talking about whether the girls are fat or not, talking about their boobs, deciding whether they should go and peek on the girls in the bath, and how the females should cover themselves up because the guy's get too horny if they see any flesh. There was also a 5minute insert song where they just played a slideshow of random still pictures and nothing happened.
The time estimation is not exaggerated; they literally spend 50% of of each of the first 3 episodes on absolutely nothing.
It also felt out of context. At the end of the first episode, they explain how they struggle to kill even the weakest creature. This means that they have no money; they can't afford to eat and they can't afford to sleep anywhere. This means that they're at risk of starving to death every single day. Given those circumstances, you'd think the characters would act in a more mature manner so they could try and deal with the problems they were facing. Instead, they had full blown arguments about trivial stuff. I mean, they were literally insulting each other over the boob sizes. It made no sense at all in the context.

You've probably heard at the very least that Grimgar is slow paced. I'm usually fond of slow pacing, if you couldn't already tell from what we've discussed so far, but Grimgar handles it in a terrible fashion. Some of the episodes are slow, but some of the episodes - such as the first few - are neither slow nor fast paced because nothing happens in them at all. When there are 5-10 minutes conversations talking about girls bathing...Yeah. 0 development and plot progression is had.

This then leads to problems in later episodes. The plot progression itself is slow, but because they've wasted so much time on juvenile stuff they then cram important events in. For instance, one of the episodes has a quick-fire list of all the abilities that the characters have learned. Rather than letting us see them training and learning (they're rookie who know nothing) they just have an episode where they say A has learned X, B has learned Y, C has learned Z... and so on and so forth. It felt so rushed and forced; I ended up forgetting who had learned what because they just simply listed it in the most boring manner possible.
Furthermore, they spend a lot of time killing goblins. In fact even by episode 9, they're still killing goblins. I have no problem with that by itself, but they glossed over a lot of the important facets yet again. After repeatedly going to the same area that they hunt Goblins in, they eventually made a map of most of it. This was quite a big accomplishment, because it meant that they were progressing quite a lot and were becoming more proficient in killing Goblins. But how did they show this? We got a ~60second narrator telling us they got better at killing Goblins and had made a map.

It felt so underwhelming. They spent literally a single minute narrating this monumentous accomplishment but spend half an episode talking about the girls and their boobs. The focus is on all the wrong things.

The issues you had with Overlord - not explaining how they got where they are - you'll also have with Grimgar. There's actually next to no exposition about the world at all. You'd think with such a slow pace that they would spend time exploring the place and giving us details, but they don't have that either. The characters barely even realise that they are in a different world. They made a few comments about it at the start but it hasn't been mentioned now in ages.

It's gotten better in the last few episodes, but up until about episode 6 there was next to no character development either. I had no reason at all to care about any of the characters or give a shit about any of the problems they faced because they had no personalities to them.

If I were to sum Grimgar up, it's like they took all the worst parts of SAO, Overlord and LH whilst retaining none of the good parts. The pacing is slow but contains many timeskips (there's a 2 week time skip halfway into the first episode) and despite the pace there's next to no exposition or character growth. The action is sparse, but the time is then spent on juvenile crap. It's just a whole lot of nothing.

I'll be fair though - most of the juvenile stuff has stopped now. It's a lot more bearable than at the start, and my current score of 3/10 is because of just how awful it was for the first half. Depending how the last quarter of this season plays out I might rate it higher.
If you find yourself enjoying the first few episodes somehow, you'll probably love Grimgar. Otherwise... If you can somehow struggle through them, it does pick up, slightly.
Maz Mar 7, 2016 6:36 AM
I'll assume it ends up being quite an important plot point. I can only assume though since I haven't read the novels. I'm waiting for them all to be published in English so I can get my hands on some physical copies. Don't like reading translations online lol.

It is fairly convenient, but it's just another thing which I assume will be cleared up at a later date. From what I can see, though, almost every single NPC has gained their own personality. It's almost akin to a parallel world that has many similarities to the expired MMO; the AI characters have had their personalities altered by the coding, but all the other characters have their own.

Well, I think the world is pretty large. Plus, given Ainz's appearance and strength, other people might have stayed out of his way for fear that he would annihilate them. It's just another thing that hasn't really been addressed. I think Overlord would have benefitted massively if it was 2cour, rather than just one. All of the issues you bring up could have been expanded upon and solved if there were an extra 12 episodes.

The slow pacing was nice, IMO, but it was almost like they didn't realise it was only going to be a single cour; thus a lot of the important information got left out.
Yeah, I'm thinking it's some kind of parallel world or something along those lines.

Heh, Grimgar takes the #1 spot for the most disappointing anime this season for me. I've got a lot of issues with it; the sole redeeming thing I can say is that the background art is beautiful. Otherwise yeah, I've really not been impressed with it at all.
Maz Mar 7, 2016 6:04 AM
Heh, I guess I can kinda see where you're coming from. I have a lot of praise for Overlord though.

As far as the explanations of the world go and why he's stuck there - I don't mind that. Depending how far into Overlord you are, you'll have noticed it's really slow paced. I'm fine with it currently being unexplained because everything else has been progressing along. I was so engrossed in the other developments that the exposition about the world wasn't needed.
Each episode Ainz is reminding himself he still doesn't know why he's where he is, and I was able to feel highly immersed because I was learning along with the main character. It was the same for Log Horizon - the explanation for the why that they're stuck in the world was addressed in the second season, not the first.

Then there's the main character, Ainz. I know it's a superficial reason but I enjoyed the fact that he was just regular adult, a blue collar worker. Maybe it's because I'm in my 20s myself now, but having an older and maturer main character rather than another angsty teen was a breath of fresh air for me.
Ainz was also as OP in Overlord as Kirito was in SAO - but Ainz had multiple explanations for it. The first being that he had the stats in the game that he had outside of it. He's as strong as he is because he was already a high levelled player before the event happens.
That does seem convenient, but then it leads onto the second point - Ainz never thinks of himself as OP. He's intelligent and calculating, going into every single fight with an underdog mindset. He's aware that there are differences in the game now that he's been sucked inside of it, and thus adjusts his strategy accordingly.
Where OP main characters are concerned, if they take the story seriously they I will enjoy it only if they make up for it in some other way. In this case, because of the crafty manner in which Ainz approached all his fights, it felt more satisfying to see him win, even when it happened by a large margin. In Kirito's case it never really seemed like that; the world of Aincrad only allowed for swords so that's all he could use.

So yeah, it was just really refreshing to see a maturer character step back and analyse each situation rather than just charging straight in. It was a nice little dynamic which, for me, changed it from being boringly OP to interestingly clever.

Where the AI characters are concerned - it seems like they were modded characters before the game shut down. All of their code was written by the members of Ainz's guild, so when the game expired the personalities that they had were then given real shape. The AI started acting upon those personalities.
This is best seen in Albedo - Ainz changed her code just before the game expired to make her love him.
I did feel it was one of the weaker aspects of Overlord; it seemed out of place compared to the rest of the content. For instance, there was a boob-talk in the second episode or so which got me rolling my eyes.

No other trapped characters have been introduced yet, but they've been hinted at and foreshadowed many times, especially during the last episode. That's actually Ainz's goal by the end of the first season - trying to find other characters so that he might be able to figure out just why it was that he was trapped inside the game.
It’s time to ditch the text file.
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