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Review Shouwa Ahozoushi Akanuke Ichiban

It's a superpower romcom, but mostly comedy. Characters do not change, romance barely develops, and the episodes generally follow the same formula even if the premise changes. It's love triangle comedy broken up with a few dokidoki moments.

The comedy is loud and mostly slapstick, along with verbal misunderstandings and constant gags (like UY). Most of these can be pretty funny, but binging is not recommended as the form of the jokes is repetitive.

The characters are charismatic and the premise is unique enough to make it work. The MC acts on the trope of country hick, although he is more broadly a dumb pervert trope character. The voice actor who plays him puts 100% into the exaggerated emotion, silliness, and heroic aspects of the role. Similarly, the other voice actors are all well in tune with their characters.

One downside is that some episodes lack a driving plot. Each episode usually involves a central problem and the resolution being a climax near the end of the episode. When this premise is lacking the entire episode can move like a slug. For example, the stories centered around the Jariten character are fine, until they repeat and it's the same plot of him following the girl he likes or messing something up involving his planet.

When the premise is decent enough, the episodes are fine to great. The non narrative aspects of the show are generally top tier. The direction and storyboarding is well done, with shots flowing into each other with seamless transitions that introduce the subject of the following shot into the scene usually with music being employed to signal or ease one scene into the next. However, even good direction isn't enough to carry a boring or unoriginal plot, which is why I mention these aspects after mentioning plot.

Other minor downsides include there being sometimes excessive sound effects when the animation/cutting should be doing the talking and there sometimes being too many jokes that aren't tied into the plot. I get slapstick comedy involves abrupt jokes, but when there are so many that aren't ever acknowledged by the character or plot, they begin to feel like unnecessary pauses that make the narrative less engrossing. Generally these aren't always the case which is why these are minor nitpicks.

Other aspects that are done well include the art, animation, and music. Light and bright colors, with a lot of detailPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Review Video Girl Ai

High quality all around, except that it's hard to find online in high quality. Romcom OVA of 6 episodes, at about 30 minutes each, including OP/ED.

Animation was extremely polished, majority of what is happening onscreen appears fluid with the exception of the mouths. Art was also top notch with lots of detailed shading (on characters and setting pieces) paired with complementing lighting choices, such as bright sun flare effects and the general presence of bright, but soft overhead sources of light, creating glossiness and illuminating the soft colors, while also creating deep shadows.
Expressions are fairly emotive, but not overdone as is usually the case in comedy anime. There are comedy faces, but it's kept to the art style; they lean towards realism more than wackiness. Highly detailed outfits paired with already mentioned aspects made the characters fit well into the backgrounds, a rare example of characters not looking out of place in front of artistic backgrounds. The faded, laid back color scheme is relaxing and anachronistic, making this a good late night anime. The colors, setting, and art also add to the bittersweetness of the romance. This is a romcom more focused on the rom, although the comedy is fairly funny. There's a lot of oppai and good ecchi scenes too, yet it's a genuinely heart tugging show and the ecchi never detracts from the overarching romance.

The style is oddly denpa. There's lots of imagery reminiscent of denpa such as tv static, telephone lines, strange heavenly techno imagery, uncanny shots of distant places, EM waves effects. Ai in the tv is very reminiscent of that one shot from Lain, and I feel there are many other shots that Lain could have been inspired by. It often feels similar to the atmosphere of Beautiful Dreamer and Lum the Forever.

The music is great. It's more like VN osts than the usual 80s stuff, but with some unique tones like in related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlBhuD04lT8

In all really well done and a real classic.

10/10

Review Lily Cat OVA (1987)

Homage to horror classics The Thing and Alien. Set in the future, the crew of space cruiser Saldes is sent out to explore a new planet. The crew wakes up from a 20 year hyper sleep having arrived at their destination and to the notification that two crew members are disguised criminals. Unbeknownst to them, their ship found and captured a floating alien life form during the journey.

Minor spoilers: Despite the direct influences, the story isn't a direct copy. It follows the framework of the classics, but to the effect of subverting plot anticipation. It's clear from the get go what route the story is taking, but this upfront presentation of narrative also sets the audience up for twists and the unexpected find of depth in the writing.

The art style has impressive lighting, but it's a fairly standard 80s OVA art style catered towards realism. It isn't poorly made, but it's not outstanding either. Characters are detailed with shadows, hair glossiness, realistic facial/body structures, face feature lines, lips, etc., yet none of this really pops out. I would owe this to the use of thin lines over the stylistic thicker lines that most anime go with. Without thick lines and few hatch lines, the faces lack the depth or style to be memorable. This choice seems to have been made to appear more western, but honestly a more distinctive style could have looked better at the cost of some realism. The monster is also fairly lacking in style. Its tendrils were well done, but the main biomass was pretty boring. The choice of coloring it completely black was a copout as it obscured. detail of the monster's gore/tumours. The lack of gore was also disappointing.
Despite these faults there is a saving grace in the interiors. The detail here is at its peak. Most of the backgrounds are fully 3D and pop out with multiple layers of shading, coloring, and line work. As the background rarely appears flat and distant, it's often present and imposing.

Music shows promise at the start, then they make the choice of going full campy. Monster scenes were accompanied with 80s hard rock like it was Scooby Doo or something. Not the best choice, but there were some good uses of music near the beginning. Sound effects were well done though. Footsteps and echoes were used well to create tension and the monster sounds were creative. The monster sounds were clearly inspired by The Thing, using some kind of hissing sound, rePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Review Yawara (1986)

Yawara is a TV series about a young girl, Yawara, who has, all her life, been trained to be a judo champion by her 5 time national judo champion grandfather and master. Despite her training and natural talent for judo she wants to live a normal life distant from judo.

By technical aspects this anime is impressive. The quality of the animation stays consistent for over 100 episodes and the style is fairly detailed. Flaws are mainly present in writing and plot.

Spoilers:
The main flaw of the show is the contrived bias and unrealistic sway towards Yawara accepting judo. Like Yawara's grandpa, the plot is excessively one sided towards Yawara becoming involved with judo. There is little exploration or leg room given to Yawara's desire and the show insists that judo is right for her. None of the supporting cast supports Yawara's wish to live a normal life. This is to say, all the supporting characters are either directly or indirectly involved in convincing her to do judo. There are characters, like the grandpa and newspaper journalist, who excessively believe Yawara has to do judo, and do everything to convince her so; characters who have some sort of emotional deficit which can only be healed by Yawara doing judo, like Fujiko; and characters who are there to show that Yawara can do judo and live somewhat normally, like Jody and Belkins. Even the one character Yawara sees as her connection and outlet to a normal life secretly wants her to do judo. The lack of thought given to Yawara's personal desire makes her struggle for individuality nonexistent and the show a repetition of plots where Yawara is unfairly coerced into being involved in judo. It's hardly fair, or good writing, that she's surrounded by people who either excessively push for her to do judo or are somehow dependent on her doing judo. She's also portrayed as selfish when she puts her own desires over the hopes and needs of the rest of the cast who all coincidentally agree she should do judo or are in a position where her doing judo would benefit them. The writing basically insists that Yawara needs to do judo and even portrays her wish to live by her needs as superficial and silly. The full title of the show is "Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl", yet most of what "fashionable" refers to are scenes such as Yawara thinking about going shopping while she's being forced to participate in judo. I continue to use words like coercion or forced because Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3715
>>3715
is that crummy upscaling or denoising?

>>3658
Guess it depends on your resources. Most people could not afford high quality VCRs and generally rented VHS or bought them second hand. That is why so many of us had problems with tapes getting eaten or worn. If you could afford a decent set up then those issues were probably less common for you.

Retro zoomers are gay. They are the gaming equivalent of the Taliban. VHS is fucking trash. CRTs have some minor benefits. Like older games being designed for them. I woud not use them to watch anime.

VHS rips not the original VHS tapes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEzmbw_Y-Tw

>>3684

Once you start having to name all the programs you had to use on a simple vhs rip to make it "watchable" for yourself with all these "corrections" you lost the point and may as well go watch the bluray or whatever.

>>3685
Sometimes… VHS is all we have. We have better ways to rip media, and it's domesday based.

>>3381
Bebop Laserdisc looks the same as the original released DVD just slightly less sharp so it's the usual but Bebop changes aren't really visual anyways even if Blu Ray is darker.
https://youtu.be/vK3G07zN6NA

>>3387
It is, the only HD direct scan SM has is the movies which are sadly only in 16:9 (played in theaters that way but it was animated and shown on Tav 4:3 so it's better) and fan upload of Sailor Stars op.
https://youtu.be/322WvZ3e2zs

You can literally see white specs fly up during the scene.

Any new 16mm or 35mm fan scans?

>>3587
Fuck you.

>>3541
you should also invite
>kissu
>hikari3
>bantculture
>smugloli
>39chan

I'd love to play chess for wap, but only if there aren't noob-filteringly short time controls

Moved to >>>/wap/3021.

Maple Town Monogatari

>>581
>>584

There were some VHS era fansubs that went up to about ep. 13 online, though I'm not sure if they're archived anywhere.

Still waiting for someone to pick up 70s Babel II again.

>>605
>>605
not subbed?

>>3498
Incomplete

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>>536
I loved Touch and H2. I enjoyed Cross Game and Mix, but don't feel that they lived up to the legacy. Probably an unpopular opinion.

OP 4 of Touch always hits me RIGHT where it hurts. "Hitoribocchi no duet"... what a name, what an image. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zLHt0Yo6TZc

>>536
Even more than Rumiko I find his works samey, the first one you read or watch will be the best

>>537
I like Rough the most

>>3341
This is kind of how I feel. I read a collection of oneshots of his that Viz (? I think) released back in the day and it was fine, but the best one was the mystery of the cute psychic girl at the ski lodge and even a series of one shots was getting repetitive by the end.

Still, what he does do, he does well.

Have any of you seen Miracle Girls? It's show about two twins who can communicate telepathically and and teleport. It's more shojo that magical girl, but I remember liking it alot. I saw it some years ago and remember laughing on the second episode when a plane gets hijacked by terrorists as part of a joke, thinking how they couldn't make a plot like that today.

Have any of you seen Miracle Girls? It's show about two twins who can communicate telepathically and and teleport. It's more shojo that magical girl, but I remember liking it alot. I saw it some years ago and started laughing on the second episode when a plane gets hijacked by terrorists as part of a joke, thinking how they couldn't make a plot like that today.

uh…
i love CREAMY MAMI THE MAGICAL ANGEL!

I wasn't that sure about Creamy Mami at the start but some of the episodes were crazy and surreal, which I liked. I was going to jump into Persia but it's sub status isn't as clear and Creamy Mami kind of burned me out. I'm currently watching Nanoha Strikers.

I liked Nurse Angel Ririka a lot too and it's a shame it was apparently cut short. I'm interested in if the manga has any additional content (like the Tokimeki Tonight manga vs the anime) but based on the length, probably not.

The manga of Hime-chan no Ribbon is one of my favorite magical girl things. The anime is good too but doesn't have a good conclusion imo.

just came here to say that i was legitimately depressed when i reached the end of CCS

>>3373
nope not that either, again 'the teacher was squirrel-ish 'being a new teacher and all; Like this show & manga though, fun time

>>3373
holy crackers this show is amazing

>>3353
GTO artstyle and the "maggots that eat people and turn them into zombies" sounds like Tokko, which was broadcast on Syfy. But I don't think it has any characters or scenes like you describe in a high school, even if that scenario with the teachers sounds like something Fujisawa would write.

>>3401
It's fine honestly, nothing actually remarkable about it beyond the premise. I can barely remember it honestly, only a few jokes here and there.

>>3409
oh when I said "GTO" art style, I was mainly referring to it not having the typical "anime"; like I said, the folk looked pretty normal.

it why I also said "Golden Boy" as an example; sorry if I confused ya with my odd wordings

>>747
Char's Counterattack (1988) by Yoshiyuki Tomino is the culmination of the original Gundam saga which began with 0079, marking the final conflict of the fourteen-year rivalry between the characters Amuro Ray and Char Aznable.

>>761
What's really interesting to me is that the Red Spectacles is sort of filmed like an anime in live action. Movement is deliberately limited, the backgrounds are flat, camera tricks are anime-style... It's pretty neat.

some of these are boring though.

>>739
Shoujo Tsubaki (1992) by Hiroshi Harada, bad online discourse aside, it's a unique film that's rare in anime and is tapping into Japanese underground and wears its influences on its sleeves like Shūji Terayama films, Japanese theater, 1900's art, etc. It's ashamed the movie (and manga) are reduce to just shock content when it's much more than that while it meant to be shocking to the viewer in a exploitation way, it's still has themes and direction that make it above just an exploitation film.

>>760
And old opinion I came across was that for the second movie it’s an amazing animated spectacle but a terrible lupin movie, haven’t seen it yet myself but have watched mystery of mamo