Disk Wars 3.

A big charm of this show so far, in many ways even more than the movies, is how it feels like the creators of this genuinely adore Marvel Comics and their characters. There feels like there is so much love put into this, even if the animation is sub par.

Sadly Marvelous heroes was two weeks behind when they released this episode, and that was almost two weeks ago. So they are really far behind by this point, they may have even dropped it, and no one else seems really that into it, which is a shame.

Here you loke kun http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=412400&showfiles=1

The seconned season hard to find I had to direct download that show that has a limit of 10 ep every 24 hours

I never thought of combining the two names, how clever! Thank you.

It's ok it actual name is combination of both names.

Oh it is?

Yea when you google search it it has a wikia page a wikia podia page as futari wa pretty cure

Abenobashi episode 2. Prototype Yoko and Boota have shown up and its pretty weird seeing them in a show that happened 5 years before Gurren Lagann.

That's a shame. I was just starting to really like this show. It's fun seeing a united universe of Marvel that isn't tied up by rights holding

Wait wait stop the car back up what is this?

So I watched all of the Battle City Finals episodes over the last few days and while they are over all amazing, once again the anime needlessly drags them out. First off, there was no reason the Battle Royal episodes needed to be three episodes in length. The whole thing is like three chapters long so that is one episode per chapter. Nevertheless, they do a nice job of following the manga quite here so I have very little to complain about outside of its length.

The same goes for the Jounouchi vs Malik duel. Although, I really feel like the writers dumbing Mai's punishment for losing against Malik really takes away from how dire it is that Jounouchi wins. Now this duel could have been down in two episodes, but it is fine the way it is.

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the Yugi/Kaiba duel. The duel itself is the second best duel in the entire series, but for some reason the writers felt it was stretch these episodes out to six episodes. There simply no reason for it. We did not need this pointless Jounouchi subplot of him dreaming about being at the tournament from before Duelist Kingdom as it is unneeded exposition. It serves nothing to the plot of the arc and just distracts the viewer from the fated duel. They also seemed to kind of make Priest Seto during the flashback scene seem more of a dbag than the manga does, which kind of sucks since Priest Seto is one of my favorite characters in the series. That aside, this duel should have been four episodes at the most with all of the bland fluff taken out. I love how much these guys are able to out do one another on a constant basis. It really makes it feel like such an epic duel.

Of course, nothing is as annoying as the pointless Jounouchi/Kaiba duel. Hell, even Kaiba admits that this whole duel was a waste of time, which is exactly what it was. Even with it not being in the manga you know Kaiba is not going to lose to Jounouchi and there is hardly anything to get excited about. Not to mention it makes no sense having Malik take over Anzu's body to confront Yami Malik when they still have Yami Malik amazed that Malik's soul is still in Anzu during his duel against Yugi. None of this battle makes any sense, especially when they start the duel at the top of the tower and then are suddenly down on the ground in the rubble. Ooooooooooooooooookay.

Finally, I give the writers props for the Malik/Yugi duel as they did an excellent job on animating this one. It is the third best duel in the series and an epic one at that as we finally get to see the villain of the arc duel Yugi. The anime does a great job with it and even though the flashbacks are a little much, they don't feel like they are there to waste the running time. I also have to say that I kind of prefer the way the anime has Yugi summon all of his monsters as opposed to just using Black Magician and Black Magician Girl in the manga.

Unfortunately, the last two episodes are dragged in flashback hell as we have to see all of the highlights from the duels throughout the arc just to end the thing. I do like the farewell sequence though with Otogi and Mai in the anime. I am glad to see that they did not feel the need to actually show the duel between Yugi and Jounouchi as I feel it would take away from the mystery of how the battle actually transpired. Did Jounouchi win? How quickly did Yugi defeat him? The world will never know.

Overall, the anime does a great job translating the duels from comic to animation but does a poor job on the pacing of the episodes themselves. Instead of getting duels that flow nicely together, we get duels that are interrupted by needless pandering. I love watching the duels take place, but there is just too much other stuff going on in between them that makes them take longer to finish. It also does not help that the next episode, which is the true finale to Battle City in the anime is just a god damned clip show. UGH!!!!

Oh, is it just me, or does it seem like the animation took to a dip in quality during this arc?

So Futari and HeartCatch are downloading SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWLY but thankfully Happiness Charge finished nice and swiftly. So episode one.

You guys weren't kidding when you described this show to me, it really is basically a generic shounen action show only with a lick of girl paint. The animation, and fight choreography, is really nice, which kinda puts to shame all the other current anime I'm watching that don't look nearly as good.

The "girliness" is so forced and overdone, I can only assume this was penned by the same kind of forty year old men, that probably have Precure cuddle pillows. Was it that hard to actually get some female writers or at least to spend some time around real preteen girls to get an idea of what they like? I mean if I can tell it's horribly artificial it must be way worse for girls.

Overall the episode only really just began as it ended. Kinda like with Faiz, action just sorta bookended the episode with a huge fat bit in the middle of people just faffing about. And I know action isn't necessarily the most important part, but just like with Faiz the action is the most story driven part and the smallest part of the episode. I'll give it a few episodes so I can get a better handle on the feel of the show but I will admit this episode didn't do much for me.

Yeah... I'd hold out for Futari or Heart Catch if I were you. :lol

In what sense? Happiness Charge isn't that good in your opinion or what? What do you mean?

I just feel that Heart Catch and Futari are just a lot more genuine than Hapiness Charge... It's not that it's bad, just the other two are better put together in my opinion. :o

HeartCatch handles that better.

Any good places to direct download anime? Like a sort of KRDL for anime shows? This HeartCatch torrent is slow as balls.

Which Torrent are you using? Try DoReMi's it was fast for me.

BSS-Commie one. It was the one with the most amount of seeds on Nyaa. But then after the whole faff with Futari it looks like everyone calls each series something different so I might have missed a faster torrent. I'll google the group name rather than the show name and see if I get better results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical...ade_Abenobashi

Gainax series from 2002. The two characters I'm referring to don't act like Yoko and Boota, but you only have to take one look at them to see that Gurren Lagann heavily took inspiration from their designs.

Yea you might get a kamen rider feel with futari wa

Most Precure debut episodes will be that way.

Man, Psycho-Pass has been an incredible ride so far. I just finished episode 16 and that ending..

And then episode 17 took my mind, twisted it, crushed it, and grinded it. Wow.

The anime Shiki only has one flaw: it portrays the humans as evil and the vampires as mostly innocent.

Otherwise, it's a series about humans gruesomely torturing and killing unholy monsters as said unholy monsters beg for mercy that they don't deserve solely for being unholy monsters.

And if you think I'm insane like Winston, let me point this out: if the torturous deaths dealt to the vampires were done to humans, I'd call it horrifying and tasteless.

I fucking hate when monsters are made sympathetic.

Looks like Kill La Kill is in fact getting a dub and will be premiering at Anime Expo in Los Angeles.

Cool! I've never seen kill La Kill, but I'm always interested in hearing what dubs sound like. I'll probably go check it out when I'm there.

Downside is, is that the ticket to go see the preview is separate.

Oh...well...at least my friends are taking me to the Hentai panel...yay?

It's the small victories that count? I think?

Heart Catch 01. Spray on henshin, hey? Sure is 60s Batman in here.

God these characters are annoying, the forced girliness of Charge was awful in its own right but it didn't leave me grating my teeth like this did. The animation and art style is nice, but it isn't as polished as Charge is either. Meh.

That gives new an idea. Note to self: invent Kamen rider suit in a can.

That is literally how they transform in this show.

Ok by the sound of thing I'm going to end up liking the 2 only team pretty cures the. I will the five sentai like teams

Aaaaah Gravion…I've wanted to watch this series for awhile now.

It's a Super Robot anime where the main robot shares aesthetics to Sunrise's Brave series and it's piloted by two guys and a maid crew.

Only down side is…the DVDs are going for an exorbitant amount. I'd like to watch this but the only group that has it subtitled thought it was a good idea to put the god damned kareoke subs at the BOTTOM of the screen…RIGHT next to where the actual subs are which makes things unnesiciarily hard to read when an insert song comes up…argh.

Did I mention that JAM project did most of the music for the show?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GColBRIfw3g

And thus brings an end to my non-filler Yu-Gi-Oh! viewing. Yes, I decided to set DOMA and Kaiba Grand Prix aside so I could watch the Memories arc since I had just finished the manga last week and wanted to compare them with a fresh mind. In fact, this is the first time I have rewatched the memories arc since reading the manga version and my god, to say it was accurate is like comparing Pepsi to Mountain Dew. It just doesn't work.

As an adaptation, the memories arc in anime form is terrible. The Diadhanks are some of the dumbest things ever (and I have no idea why they felt they needed to have them), but the inclusion of Kaiba is even worse. Kaiba's story was pretty much over when he destroyed the Duel Tower on Alcatraz Island, so there was no need for him to be here, especially since he wanted nothing to do with the past. Secondly, I really do not like the changes they made such as turning Bobasa into pointless filler. He somewhat had a purpose in the manga even if it was confusing. Here, he was around to waste time since he has no connection to being Hasan at all.

I also do not care for how the Dark RPG suddenly effects the real world and the new stuff they added in before Zorc is actually resurrected. It just dragged the stuff out needlessly. Now one think I did like done better in the anime was Atem having the gods have a nice fight with Zorc. That was pretty cool and made sense. Of course, the design of Zorc just looks down right ridiculous in anime form. IN the manga, you never really saw him all that well whereas in the anime, he is just an overly excited demon and it really makes him look dumb.

The inclusion of the Ring Wraiths make no sense either, nor does having Yami Bakura taking over Thief Bakura. They also seemed to turn Akhenaden into lacky with the way Thief Bakura just comes back and takes the spotlight away from him.

Now another thing that does make a little more sense is having the duel between Seto and Atem before the big battle with Zorc just from a time frame manner. Granted, it just feels more epic being the final battle of the arc, which is why Takahashi probably did it that way.

And then we come to the Ceremonial duel. I still think Kaiba was unneeded here, but at least he is there the entire time instead of just standing out in the desert out the blue when everyone emerges from the tomb at the end. The duel itself is incredible to watch, but like the duels of Battle City, it could have been an episode shorter. They took the last seven chapters of the manga and made them into five episodes, which is way too many. At least the duel feels as epic as it should even if drawn out.

Once again though, there is one thing I like better that the anime does, and that is the epilogue during the end credits. It makes the ending feel a little less rushed than it did in the manga, but I still would have rather had like maybe a One Year Later epilogue or something.

The only part of memory arc that feels off to me is the duel between Jounouchi and Bakura that seems to just stop and then is only mentioned again later when Bakura says they were interrupted.

Outside of that, it is my favorite arc even though I'm quite sure Takahashi could have developed Mana and Kisara a little bit more. Nevertheless, I am actually quite glad it is a short arc since Battle City was such a huge one.

As for the anime version, I really just do not understand why they felt the need to change so much compared to the manga either. Sure, Duelist Kingdom and Battle City were altered, but not to the extent of Memory World.

Oh, and the animation got really sloppy, but it seemed to be heading that way at the tail end of Battle City and continued throughout DOMA. I remember scenes when Yugi's head was almost as wide as his shoulders.

I would really love for them to one day go back and "Brotherhood/Ultimate" this series again with a straight up adaptation from the manga. They could easily start it off with two stories per episode for the earlier stuff (or one full episode for multipart stories) and then start going into full 20 minute stories once they reach Death T and Monster World. THere would be no need for multi-part duels either, as most of them outside of like the big ones could be done in a single episode, so the series could easily be done in probably around 100 episodes give or take a few.

With that said, I have to say, overall, I did not enjoy the series as much as I used to and I really think it has to do with both the animation and reading the manga now. In fact, this was my first time rewatching the entire series after reading the entire manga as the last time I rewatched the whole series, Shonen Jump was publishing the pre-Duelist Kingdom stuff. As a whole, I give the anime a 6/10 when I compare it to the manga and an 8/10 if I ignore it. Of course, now that I have read the manga in full and in order it is going to be hard to do that, sadly.

Powerpuff Girls Z. What's the consensus?

A solid "meh."

Eh, i liked it but it's not something i'll go back to anytime soon.

Maybe?

Ok...Erika I could understand being annoying, but how is Tsubomi annoying?

The 'unnaturally shy and reserved in every situation' trope in Japanese writing is one I always found immensely cheap, and forced. "Well if we literally start them from the bottom, doing ANYTHING no matter how menial will look like character growth."

Eh...I saw her more like Ryoutaro from Den-O. She grows more than he does as a character, I feel.