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>>25851
Yeah. I watched the third episode. I expected to drop it quietly, but unfortunately I put one brain cell towards thinking what I just saw, so now I'm fucking furious.
Let me describe the situation. Two characters that will obv be rivals, and two rival organisations that the characters will obviously join.
The "tailors" sew in talents from geniuses (aguu = distilled versions of the geniuses themselves) into children of bourgeois families, so that these children also show genius talents. They are highly traditionalist and authoritarian in structure.
The "saviors" fight to release the aguu and to topple the tailors. They value "love" and "sympathy" - for the aguu for example. And they think they're fighting a mostly losing battle against the tailors.
Ai is a talentless normal girl, who repeats several times that she's definitely not jealous of her friend Machi, yet she is more than ready to believe some nobodies she randomly met on the street who know way too much about her - just because she saw one tear in the eye of an aguu. At that point she backstabs her best friend, at the same time making a tearful lecture about how the morals of the situation compel her. What's more, she leaves her "best friend" to die, because "it's too risky", and shows practically no ill will towards her killers. She values some sense of morality and a warped envy about hierarchy more than her connection with her lifelong friend.
Machi is a bourgeois girl with three aguu dolls, who loves her friend Ai so much that she's willing to give up two thirds of what has made her successful in life just so that Ai becomes as successful as her. Having made that decision, she is ready to play against the system and to pay whatever price is needed in order for Ai to be happy. She values love and human connection - sympathy - more than systems of hierarchy and traditions.

So, which girl joins which organization?

Of course Ai joins the saviors. We can't possibly have a dirty bourgeois be the protagonist. No matter how fitting it would be. The Party would never allow it.

tl;dr: Aguu is chinkshit.

>>25851
>Aguu
>hype opening, great animation and directoring, decent OST and VAs
I don't think we watched the same show, because when I watched the first episode of Aguu all of these things were bad, the animation especially. The only things I found at all interesting were the rather horrific concept of the Aguu and the puppeteer imagery.

>>25857
I watched it on the phone, exactly after several episodes of High Score Girl, so I may have been "slightly" biased. The puppeteer imagery was part of the animation, so you can't say it was that bad. Either way, the concept of the aguu was completely ruined in favor of generic fantasy superpowers and class warfare, even before the introduction arc was over. I shouldn't be pissed off at a chinkshit, yet I never expected this level of fucking up their sole good idea.

>>25858
>The puppeteer imagery was part of the animation, so you can't say it was that bad.
Sure I can, just because it was an interesting concept doesn't mean it was animated well. Why would you ever believe otherwise?

Caught up with Subaru for some reason. Best Girl Clive needs more lines. He's severely underutilised. Tho the rest are mostly utilised in a bad way, so maybe it's good.

I really really want to get drunk with the author of Jashin-chan. This is a first for me. Also Pecola is a miracle of the universe.

Shorter's incredible idiocy and incompetency really ruined these last few episodes.

Chio-chan is super interesting.

>>25870
What does it mean to want to get drunk with the -author- of a show?

>>25887
To find the author of the source material for the show, and to get drunk together.

God damn, I should have started this series earlier. A reverse harem with Sugita, Sakurai and Okamoto, with a great action-oriented assertive HanaKana in the lead. I can't get more aroused than this. I mean, I'm not gay, but Sugita…

So, the first summer anime is now complete. At some point throughout the last episode I started humming "ai to yuu na no chuuseishin". I think that's good enough of a description, overall.

>>25430
I decided to catch up with it, after I realized that I probably won't find it erotic even on the BDs. The fanservice is just too cookie-cutter and boring to excite me. Cookie-cutter is a good description overall, but it doesn't do anything offensively stupid, so it's a nice pasttime. Especially if you are shameless enough to watch it in the public transport, for example.
But there's something else. This show demonstrates that the Old Man Henderson style of creating characters is truly the best way to write an episodic harem protag. I suppose the series progresses into something more of a battle shonen, but the harem part at least is really well served by having Old Man Henderson as the protag.

Nothing made any sense.
Not the game "mechanics", not the fact that they were as high level as they'd get with what looked like at most a month of play time, and surely not the random as fuck special attacks whenever they faced a problem, without any proper explanation.
At least Overlord tries to keep some consistency with a supposed game world.

But they decided to leave the best for the end as they finally started properly introducing this character but wait, that makes 12 episodes, go read the novel.

>>25918
>Nothing made any sense.
It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit.

Literally. That was the whole explanation of every single nonsensical aspect. Shit mechanics? It's in order to develop the magical potential of the players, not to make sense. Random as fuck attacks? It's their magic, magic is random as fuck. And so on. The title is really fucking consistent in refusing to tie the magic up in a logical system.

Speaking of consistency, Subaru really had no consistency in plot, atmosphere, characters, animation, and even soundtrack. I can't remember an OST with more stark differences. It was like they made two different soundtracks for two different series, then decided to use them together. They should have just decided on one or the other. The series as a whole didn't know exactly what it wanted to be, so the result was also all over the place.

But for all of its flaws, it was still amusing enough. 5/10.

Technically I don't mind the plot of the ending, but damn, did it feel rushed. I don't even think it was an animation problem, but the direction of the last two episodes just completely fell apart. I think they could have done better within the same time frame, though an extra episode to space it out might have done the job better. Just so many close ups and movements that properly connect and made sense. That was way worse than jumping from last stand scene to last stand scene. That still could have worked if done properly.
The message at the end was kind of cheeky, don't think they mention it in the first episode. I expected for the main two to be the only important survives at the end. The story set up so much, though not that fully to be honest. I am not even sure if the manga will continue with a second part as it ended together with the story of Tsushima. Will it have a continuation in the main land, who knows. Might be nice to see some bigger scale fights, but then again it is just a matter of a good places typhoon and we all know that.

>>25953
They forgot to follow up on Sasu at the end, I noticed. That aside I was expecting there to be one more episode at least, so yeah, it sure was rushed. The animation was always awful, which didn't help this episode trying to focus on action, and the fight between Jinza and the warlord was just idiotic all around.
I guess Kaho is now a mongol rape slave for the rest of her life. Isn't it sad?

Truly a worthy successor of Korone.

By the way, it's funny how this anime actually comments on the whole "you don't send chariots against a phalanx" thing in the fifth episode. I guess the people who adapt this are really not into it.

>>25973
I can't finish the last episode of this series. It won't finish the way it needs to finish. MC's waifu won't be a good waifu. Every good waifu whose husbando has gone to do some isekai fighting should immediately start stockpiling firearms and bullets, so that she can eventually follow him, get the harem in line, and then start gunning down barbarians on the front lines. But this one probably doesn't even have a whole room full of ammunition. She just doesn't deserve an isekai protag for husbando.

>>25979
Imagine the gall to say that while not wearing tactical uniform and holding several semiautomatics and two cases full of ammunition. Shit waifu.

>>25980
Am I supposed to be moved or something? I don't see the obligatory sniper rifle. At least some survival equipment, if nothing else?

>>25981
If he doesn't at least propose, I'm dropping this series, 3 minutes and 21 seconds before its end.

>>25982
>Ore no okusan ni natte kudasai
Fucking Japan, is this phrase something people actually use?

>>25983
FUCK YOU JAPAN, FUCK YOU AND YOUR "TSUKI GA KIREI DA NE". This is the most awful of all awful oyakusoku.

>>25984
See? Shit waifu. If she was in tactical gear, this anime would be an instant 8/10 or even 9/10. Now it's between 5/10 and 6/10 for the mindless fun it was. However, the continuation of the story should be better, even with such a shit wife on the throne.

Good rant.

>>25987
It couldn't be helped.

How can she get the equipment in Japan?

>>25989
A true waifu cares not for such pesky things like laws and regulations.

I can't decide a screenshot of which heroine to post, so I am not posting any.
The manga is over now and the anime will not finish the story, but it will have 3 more OVA episodes next year. I don't know what to say or how to feel about this anime/story in general. There are certainly some obvious negatives that can be pointed out and that have annoyed me plenty, but even so I found the anime overall very satisfying. Is it the girls? Is it the games? it is hard to tell. I am still confused if this is the manga that 4chan /a/ was super interested in years ago. I remember the characters playing games in a room, but maybe that was just a chapter from a home visit being posted?
If someone else wants to watch something else about the 90s and video games, I would recommend No Con Kid, a jdrama. It has its own negatives, though. Watched it years ago with no subs, but last time I checked it did have subs, so anyone can watch it.

So, the special of Jashin-chan was kind of boring, even for the radio show it practically was. If you really want to watch it, you can skip to 15:11.

>>26013
>kind of boring
That's exactly how I felt about the first episode. Didn't bother watching more after that. Was it just dumb slapstick violence all the way through?

>>26014
It was a slice of life with dumb slapstick violence. I can't say it gets better, though of course one likes it more at the end than at the start. That's how all slice of life shows work.

I feel like they skipped quite the bunch of stuff in the last episode of Yuuna-san. It was a nice anime, overall. Nothing special, but certainly it was helped by the MC.

>Aru imi, hansoku da wa.

So the special last week was so that they can waste their remaining budget on this episode. I approve of the efforts, the money were well-spent. Definitely the best episode in the series, by far. As a side-note, the subs were fucking awful this time.

>>26035
The subs were already awful in episode 1 so I'm not sure when they stopped being awful.

>>26036
No, you are wrong, the subs were merely not good. They got most of the meaning through, even if they were too liberal. This episode however it was way worse: the subs were often flat out wrong. I feel like it's an entirely different translator.

>>26037
>They got most of the meaning through, even if they were too liberal.
That was only half the problem, episode 1's subs were both liberal and at the same time poorly edited and written so they were awkward to read and came across as an ESL job. So that was quite an impressive feat, as they managed to combine the worst of both translation worlds into one.

And so Sirius ended. It wasn't talked about much but this was my favourite show for most of the season, but these last few episodes were rather weak, largely due to the way the ark was handled. What does it actually do? Never explained. How does Yuliy plan to use its power to help him achieve his goals? Never explained. Why did the Sirius hold onto it for 5000 years without doing anything with it instead of just dropping it in the ocean somewhere so it'll never be found by anyone that intends to use it for evil? No explanation other than "muh pride of the Sirius".
At least the relationship between Yuliy and Mikhail was still touching, and the soundtrack was great. There were a lot of good soundtracks this season.
Rip vampire lolis, you were too cute for this show.

>>26048
Not the worst. The worst part of both translation styles is mistakes that butcher the nuance or even change the meaning completely. There were at least half a dozen such in the last episode.

>>26049
>two vampire lolis are offed
Then I'm glad I forgot to start this series and saved myself the angst. I'm sensitive to this type of shit: I'm still mad that Vesperia doesn't have the redheaded twins in the game itself, after all these years.

Can someone tell me why this keeps on happening season after season?

>>26066
Why the fuck does the Autumn 2018 thread have "fall" in the filename, while the Fall 2018 thread has "autumn" in the filename?

>>26067
I can't stop laughing.

>>26066
A 4chan thread survived for 8 days? What was the board down?

Wait a fucking second. Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru is by the same author as Fune wo Amu (story only in both). The artist of Fune wo Amu was the artist and author of Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu.

>>26070
That's samachan.

I just realized I was posting in the wrong seasonal thread.

This is going to stay as one of my favourite moments in romance anime. Simple, yet effective. It was quite the good series, overall. Didn't waste its time, while keeping a mostly episodic format and lighthearted tone. Not anything special, but a polished experience.

So this is what an IQ of 200 looks like.

>>26248
Could have posted in the autumn thread, but yes. You are correct.
Episode 16 was probably easily the best. There were so many funny faces and quirky situations. The anime should have been more like this.