Said officials are currently shitting themselves because their competition has been compromised and they don't know by what. Basically anything goes now while they try to be "fair" to the team that got sabotaged.Originally Posted by lelouch
I don't know if highschool sports is as high profile as the others in Japan.
The Nine Schools Competition is basically a mini-Olympics right now.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
SAO is a masterpiece, period, in terms of emotion-grabbing high-quality visual entertainment.
Yeah..fuck this show.
You need to watch more than like...six series. You don't even have to have watch anything outside of 2011 to know how wrong you are.
I've seen close to 60... What do you recommend?
Ryll is right. You need to watch a bit more to be able to have a fair grasp of what is out there.
That said, I do not think SAO is bad, nor is this show. People just have a tendency to bash on things they do not like, and exaggerate as if it was the worst ever or something. SAO or this really is not, and my words at least have some weight having seen 1300+ anime titles, including the horrible ones.
Peace.
1300+? I didn't know there were more than 100 good titles that existed. Do you watch literally everything that came out in the past decade? I don't watch stuff like Fruits Basket or that "slice of life" shit... I also don't watch "anime comedies", because I don't find japanese humor to be funny..
Mind PMing me your favorite 30 that are similar to Gundam Seed / SAO / AoT / Code Geass / Death Note / Shin Sekai Yori?
2 decades, but not much yaoi/shounen ai, or kid oriented shows (whatever-mon, authentic magical girl shows). I have to admit I have been missing more in the past few years since I started reading VNs in Japanese. VNs are (absolutely worthy) time sinks.
Click my sig. Just skip through the ones not in your genre preference. The ones up to Very Good should be at least worth trying.
Peace.
Episode 15 - HS
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If the Third School won the match, even if barely, I would reevaluate this show (well, not really, but in spirit). In any case this episode felt a bit better with the dangerous opponent looming on the horizon. I guess Tatsuya will still beat them just by being Tatsuya, and to be honest Suzaku won't ever make the most exciting opponent (since it's impossible to take him seriously, especially after the over the top blatant I'm invincible and can beat the opposing team all alone scene). Forgetting the inconsequential action, the sole meaningful scene of the episode must have been Miyuki calling somebody else a brocon. Looks like this show can laugh at itself, after all.
Saturday truly is the best day of the anime week: First SAO, then Mahouka. Nothing can go wrong with these two shows airing back to back!
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ep 15 was refreshing, the matches so far were decent enough, sure thing, they steamrolled them, but it felt like they were playing paintball / a PvP game... it was cool to watch. The one thing I liked in particular was when they opened the monolith from 1 level above where it was actually located and the guy defending it barged in trying to defend it.
The 2 girls being happy about them winning was cute too.
I feel like they rushed the battles. They could have easily dragged each one out for maybe half an episode to an episode, instilling the same gravitas we felt in the chuunin exams. They'll probably save it for the final match, but there's no reason they couldn't have made the earlier matches more exciting given the potential. This combat challenge is certainly more exciting than speed shooting or pillars break.
HS - Episode 16, Episode 17
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Miyuki's episode rocked. Her happy face and ignorance with the whole dodgy thing really gives you a sense of danger that isn't there when Tatsuya's on the line instead. Tatsuya getting angry's just icing on the cake (and even if he's just as competent angry or not), it gives a sense of gravity towards the whole issue.
Tatsuya's got his auto-heal, but until the episode finished I thought Miyuki could have been sniped out of the air. As for his feelings for Miyuki being the only 'natural' thing left, right now it could be interpreted as either Tatsuya referring to himself having undergone psychological conditioning or physical modification.
The incest really invites some wonderful interactions that are rarely seen in anime. You have the more lovey-dovey ones in Shoujo, but for for a close bond without the bickering that comes with the usual hothead and/or tsundere girl (Erika/Leon) this is quite the treat.
No Head Dragon has some pretty stupid betting going on though. They're the bank. Just do what banks usually do and put low rates on the obvious winners. Instead they must have thought they'd earn some extra cash by increasing the rates on First High then actively interfering with the results. If you're not smart enough to do that and get away with it, then it sucks to be you.
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If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
No, I don't think they were stupid at all. If all the bets (in the case they were worried about) had to be placed before the games began, then based on history the default ratios must have been against betting for First School. This means that if a shady mafia unit placed all of its money on something else, those ratios would return high profits should First School lose. Let's not forget No Head Dragon would have likely succeeded without anybody having any proof whatsoever if Tatsuya hadn't been there. It's kind of difficult to prepare for an anonymous super hyper mega ultra genius among your opponents.
Queue @Ryll to denounce Tatsuya as just lucky, not a genius at all.
I overall enjoyed this episode, especially the brief scene where the modified human guy tries to make his first assassination and gets owned. I really have a problem with all the incest shit though. Who writes this, and WHY? I just don't understand the point. It's not cool or fun to watch, it's gross and weird.
It's very cool and fun to watch. It's awesome and it works.
The point is that you get a never-ending harem, but at the same time you get the full-blown clingy relationship. Neither terminates because the harem can't beat the sister, while the sister is invalid. You get the never-ending best of both worlds.
And really, if you get along with your sister then isn't she like the best childhood friend you could ever have? Characters get all flustered about sharing a roof with the other sex, so anime logic is that if they live like this they'd totally fuck.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
In the beginning I was hoping they were just close due to past events, then I hoped the incest wouldn't progress any further, but now I don't care anymore. I actually find funny the scenes where they get all mushy with each other, and one of their friends cracks a joke about it.
Besides, Tatsuya is broken as a human. Maybe not as broken as the Generator assassin, but not too far away, and I got the feeling he was made that way on purpose, likely by the family itself. Although there's also the possibility he was dying and it was the only way to save him (if that's the case, then it was to save Miyuki, no doubt). It seems like he can only feel anything for Miyuki, so I find it kind of sympathetic she's trying to grant him all kinds of feelings. It would be better if she wasn't so willing and eager to commit incest, but would be doing it nonetheless for Tatsuya's sake, to keep him a bit more human. In fact that would have been a novel element in fiction for me, I think.
The beginning of this show made it sound like Tatsuya went to war in her stead or something like that. That's how I interpreted it anyway.. as if somehow his fighting allowed her to live (and he ended up sacrificing much of himself in the process).
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I don't think nine words could sum up my thoughts so easily.
Ep -16+ is why. Kept up with it for scenes like that, wasn't disappointed - liked it. Tatsuya wasn't the only one that got to shine during these fights, I enjoyed watching that.
HS - Episode 18
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lol @ Juumonji saying "Saegusa, she'll do".
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
It was a pretty accurate judgement, wasn't it? But of course he could have named any girl not already in a relationship, since they are all falling for Tatsuya...
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