[Kiryu]

Episode 3 of Buddy Complex.


Eeeeeeeh? It sure is a thing.

I don't hate it but so far it doesn't really do anything to wow me either. It seems like a generic Sunrise mecha anime that's trying way to hard.

The whole time travel aspect is interesting…so I'll keep up with it and see what the pay off for that is gonna be but I'm not expecting a whole lot.

[algo448]

Since I'm mostly caught up on all the anime episodes I've missed these past few weeks, I decided to start with some of the new shows this season.

The first episode of D-Frag was kinda slow at first but the second half was a riot, especially once they started to talk about elemental attacks and the like.
So I'm sure I'll enjoy the show.

Z/X Ignition is based on card game, yet it's not a card game anime, and I wanted a card game anime, anyways the story is weird to say the least, it takes palce after monsters from another dimension started to invade the world and caused compelte destruction all over the world... except for the fact that everything is actuallly ok and basically rendered that introduction pointless.
I doubt I'll watch any more.

Still gotta check Nobunaga the fool, Noragami and maybe Pupa.

[Galvantula]

Finished Tekkaman Blade II.

In closing it's a good series and it's held up rather well given its age. It does need a new English dub.

[WhiteRanger]

Ok I am watch kigurumikku v3 and if that not a big hint it full refferance v3 rider in the in style if music and the way the main heroine calls out V3 as well

[ZeoRangerV]

Aw man, this week's Samurai Flamenco was awesome. The loving tributes to tokusatsu really shine through. Plus there was yet another twist

[Kamen Rider Lucha]

After 5 episodes, I had to drop Heartcatch PreCure.

If, like everyone claims, this is far and away the best the PreCure franchise has to offer, the show is not for me. Sure, it was beautifully animated and well designed, but damn, this shit is way too precious...

It's not because I don't like the genre. Sailor Moon is one of my favorite things in existence. This show takes the SM format, rips out the lovable characters and complex bad guys, throws in some wretched product placement, and screams its content into the audience's face at the most ear-piercing audio frequency humans have yet devised. Seriously, listening to this show was like listening to a car alarm go off in my living room for 22 minutes straight. DARPA should watch this show as research for their audio-based crowd-dispersing weapons.

I know it's weird for a Kamen Rider and Sentai obsessive to complain about obvious toy advertisement in a show -- but it is unbelievably awful here.

But the worst part? Every victim-of-the week is allowed to have one emotion: depression. From the episodes I watched, they're all sad-ass crybabies, and the result in a total of zero-out-of-5 sympathetic victims. I wanted to slap them all and tell them to stop being so self-obsessed.

Sorry if I'm harsh, but this show was just not for me on almost every level.

[Random]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

I know it's weird for a Kamen Rider and Sentai obsessive to complain about obvious toy advertisement in a show -- but it is unbelievably awful here.

I won't comment on the rest of your thoughts, since if you don't like something, that's your opinion, but I really can't understand this. Other than their personal weapons and transformation devices (which are typical of basically any show), what product placement was there? Compared to Kamen Rider and Sentai and how much they shove ranger keys, lock seeds, magic rings, batteries or whatever else in your face, Precure is really tame in comparison, especially as they don't even make toys of absolutely everything in the show, nor do they spend excess amount of time posing in front of the camera with them.

It's a shame you're giving it up so soon though, it really does have some of the best character development and I found them to be so much more relatable than the typical clumsy/lazy/likes to eat archtypes you see in things like Sailor Moon.

[Shin Henshin]

Yeeeaaah, I dunno what toy product placement you saw, but I don't really remember any in HeartCatch. Any new items they introduced, which yes got toys, were done in ways that made sense and were handled as an in-show item first, toy advertisement last.

I agree on how relatable the characters can be. What characteristics that could be used as standard tropes are instead treated more like obstacles that they or others try to overcome or come to terms with.

[Electric Turahk]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

Aw man, this week's Samurai Flamenco was awesome. The loving tributes to tokusatsu really shine through. Plus there was yet another twist

Yes, yes, yes. I'm loving it still.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

Aw man, this week's Samurai Flamenco was awesome. The loving tributes to tokusatsu really shine through. Plus there was yet another twist

That was incredibly badass, very much like a team-up movie.