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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:35 pm
Since Taiyz has been using these as "anime you're currently watching" threads I figured I might as well put this here, as it fits better than putting it in pos/neg/fick or something.
So I watched .hack//Legend of the Twilight all the way through for the first time - I had watched it partway through many years ago but was either too busy or not interested enough in anime at the time to finish. (My anime watching took a sharp dive during college for various reasons.) By the time I was interested in watching it again a couple years ago, discs were out of print, but the show recently got re-released by FUNimation.
It was pretty fun, though the ending was somewhat abrupt and not really explained as to what exactly happened. I honestly don't think anyone who isn't a .hack// fan would like it much.
While I enjoy dubs, I decided to watch it subtitled this time through. Maybe I'll watch the dub some other time. I'm kinda glad I didn't for now, because as soon as I recognized Shugo's Japanese voice, I couldn't stop thinking of a completely different character every time he opened his mouth.
I also just realized the two characters' names are extremely similar too! O_o
After looking up the seiyuu (Junko Minagawa) and looking at her wikipedia page, she apparently voiced Yun recently in Akatsuki no Yona as well.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:56 pm
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 1:16 am
Kiniro continues to be great.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 2:44 am
Gayaya has transcended the way of the tsundere.
Man this episooooooode, so many images I want to spam like delinquent Aya and Alice, Yoko trying to act cute, and Alice and Aya in general. Dat haircut LOL
Also this:
Clearly black hair Aya. XD
"Smoking" Alice was hella adorable xD
Aya and Alice definitely stole the episode this week with their delinquent attempts at looking more grown up. Started the episode off just right bringing a big goofy grin to my face that stayed throughout like every week. "See you next time!"
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:01 am
Falcom wrote:
I really want to get into Love Live because it seems that people dig it more than Idolmaster, but seriously f*** NISA and their utterly ridiculous stock limitations. EVERYTHING Love Live is out of stock and if they do restock anything there's no guarantee that it'll include all the goodies from the original release. They already did a limited second run of Love Live (I didn't know they were doing "limited runs" for this series) and there's apparently a third printing in July but I betcha it'll be missing stuff. This is a lot like how I stumbled onto the SAO scene and I just barely managed to get the Weiss Schwarz cards (and wouldn't you know it, NISA had one for Love Live, it's like I'm when it comes to cards. I manged to miss out on both this and the exclusive quo card that AmiAmi had for the Gutto-Kuru Ikaruga figure, even though I had her pre-ordered before they launched the exclusive.)
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:25 am
There's always Amazon sonny. Though yeah, NISA is jank as hell with their store. But yeah if you do manage to get into the series then finally I can talk to someone about it aside DylDawg. It is above all, the superior idol anime, and all other series of the genre are for casual scum. I just pray you don't go hardcore on SIF. I hope to find the blu-Ray for S1 at Anime North, though that's wishful thinking. I recently got into it last Nov so I wasn't able to secure an order :c Also Taiyz, you got Weiss cards??? Do you play?
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 2:07 pm
I've tried getting into Love Live...but I just can't, the art style is a bit much for me : / I do enjoy the Llamas though, that's honestly the best part for me <3 (everyone keeps comparing it to IM@S too and I do actually love IM@S to death T_T)
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:18 pm
They're both Good.
Hibiki and Maki best idleness
And Shiv, they're Alpacas.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:26 pm
DylDawg wrote:
And Shiv, they're Alpacas.
Preach.
DylDawg wrote:
Maki best idleness.
That's not how you spell Umi.
Also 1000th post yay
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:57 pm
Hibiki is my second fav <3 (Takane is my most fav)
And I really really keep trying to give Love Live a chance, I don't mind the music but the art style, I'm hoping it grows on me someday.
Goddam Alpacas, they're always out to ruin my life
EDIT: 1000 posts Our emotis honestly scare me, nostalgic, but the arms...
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:11 pm
Takane is amazing. She's so far the only idol (based from the anime) that doesn't go into too much drama and is cool-io.
I honestly didn't want to go into LL cause it will be a debate between which i like best between it or imas. But to my surprise it's an entertaining idol anime that doesn't have much drama compared to im@s and is just a great and fun ride. And the faces the LL cast makes are hilarious. First episode and im already laughing on how dumb Honoka looks when clapping.
Also Falzy, what happened to Kotori hah? I know you lole Kotori. Dont deny it.
Darn you man. Idolm@ster is good too. I can take it seriously when i want it. And i prefer the im@s songs.... even though its typical Go Shiina for Chihaya's music lol
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:45 pm
The problem I have is more the fact that Idolmaster has a constantly-growing cast due to social gaming but they don't appear much outside of the social games. When you've got a series based around singing and dancing, you generally want to see these characters sing and dance, no matter how totes adorbs they might be.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:49 pm
In terms of anime-game, the arcs are pretty much the same, though Ami nor Mami had nothing near any kind of real interesting story until All For You. Takane is pretty much always a cool cat. Miki pretty much always is very dramatic.
I actually prefer the drama in shows and everyone having mini-arcs, I was kind of bored with the shenanigans at times, but after more of the arcs get done and I got a feel for everyone I really enjoy things like Puchimas which is just their over-the-top personalities. (I really want to play All For You as well because of the character arcs), but from the description it does feel like two distinct things, Love Live just seems to be just an all around chill good time. (SO moe though, so much moe, its the moe I can't get over, its going to kill my liver). I'm probably going to sit down and seriously watch a couple episodes at some point, my friends are really into the mobile game.
Go Shiina going strong in Arcadia, love it though <3
@Taiyz: I enjoy the enormous cast and what they bring but I've never taken them as main idols, I honestly only pay attention to the 765 idols (and Jupiter and Eri's trio), because mobile eww is how I normally go, but I must admit, I'm really happy with some of the DLC editions we've gotten thanks to all those mobile idols. I LOVE Reiko(sp?) so much, and her song, and I can see what you mean about making great things and not really using them. I've actually been hoping they'll start a 3rd vision someday soon and add to the main cast, I like their group dynamic so I wouldn't want it to be overwhelming like Million Live or Cinderella Girls, but a few more to add to group interactions and expand trio/quintuplet options
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:27 pm
JESUS CHRIST
NISA just announced an English dub for Love Live. They're doing one final printing without a Weiss Schwarz card (CALLED IT) which is the July reprint I had read about, then doing a dub. So if you buy it now, you're getting shafted twice. This is the kind of nonsense I'm talking about, but at least I got rewarded for waiting.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:56 pm
@Taiyz you are like 3 weeks late man
Cast list was confirmed and everything AGES AGOOOOOO
In all srsness still likely gonna get it
DylDawg wrote:
Also Falzy, what happened to Kotori hah? I know you lole Kotori. Dont deny it.
Kotori is cool, I just grew onto Umi... a lot. Umi is the best μ's girl . Her voice stands out to me, and love her strict yet sweet personality. She is serious, hard-working and responsible but at the same time she can still do her occasional moe thing and damn is she cute. Umi is love. So is Eli. And Maki. Basically I'm a cheating whore who hops on different girls.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:00 pm
I should also note that the dubbed version is supposedly going to be released as a standard addition, so I'm still screwed out of the extras but I really see no reason to double-dip for a CD, artbook and a card.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:06 pm
Sell me your spare copy for a decent price?
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Tue Apr 28, 2015 3:03 am
That's a tempting offer actually, but considering that they had a premium edition for Tora Dora's dub, I have a feeling they'll come up with something.
I also don't want to order the premium edition if I'm not gonna get the Weiss Schwarz card, on principle.
Edit: My inability to resist collectible trinkets prevailed. '=/ I also found a nifty little independent store that serves anime collectors so I got the complete set for Love Live for only twenty dollars more than what NISA sold it for, and quite frankly the shipping is probably cheaper. Easily saved 30-50 bucks compared to eBay sellers.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Wed May 06, 2015 4:47 pm
Digimon Tri release date Nov. 21
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon May 11, 2015 5:57 pm
The teachers took a trip down memory lane in this week's Kiniro. Hanako is also now a part of the cast. She was in the episode quite a bit.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Mon May 11, 2015 7:50 pm
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Wed May 13, 2015 12:40 am
So this is a warning that this thread could possibly turn into a Love Live hijack thread.
And now is the time to ask the important question, let me ask you Tales forum, who is your Love Laifu?
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Wed May 13, 2015 4:32 pm
I greatly, highly, musically, and honkingly, approve of this hijack. Just do it already.
Love Laifu is defs Maki. Too cute
But Nozomi and Eli are great too.
Those are my faves, but all 9 of Muse are entertaining and funny. I would say that the funny moments and comedy of Love Live are better than im@s, and I remember more of LL's songs (compared to the anime, since I have no clue about the games).
Though, I will admit, Honoka >>>>>>> Haruka as the "leader". Honks actually made me laugh a lot.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Wed May 13, 2015 6:23 pm
Taiyz wrote:
And now is the time to ask the important question, let me ask you Tales forum, who is your Love Laifu?
Is this even a question?
or insert obligatory UMI-DAH.png
We all know Umi is the only best girl. Anyone that thinks otherwise can enjoy their peasant taste along with their peasant taste buds. I said the same thing about Kotori last month but shhhh
Umi>Maki>Eri=Kotori=Nico>All else
Though the Soldier Game trio is my fave:
aka:
And spamfest:
This shit is so canon.
Still, Umi best.
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Subject: Re: Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread) Thu May 14, 2015 2:51 pm