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[TheClonesLegacy]

When in doubt.

Post Sayaka being awesomely adorable.

[Mr.House]

So my brain's a little too snoozy to write anything even vaguely in-depth but I finally finished KlK last night. Such an incredibly satisfying experience. :') Looking forward to that OVA whenever it's supposed to come out! It's definitely a series that will get a re-watch at some point and as expected, the soundtrack is going to be a staple of my listening time. :3

 

Now, because I don't currently have any GIFs saved, dear rescue squad, please feel free to gush visually for me!

Here you go!

Spoiler

[CrazyRah]

So my brain's a little too snoozy to write anything even vaguely in-depth but I finally finished KlK last night. Such an incredibly satisfying experience. :') Looking forward to that OVA whenever it's supposed to come out! It's definitely a series that will get a re-watch at some point and as expected, the soundtrack is going to be a staple of my listening time. :3

 

Now, because I don't currently have any GIFs saved, dear rescue squad, please feel free to gush visually for me!

 

Spoiler

 

Rescue Squad has arrived!

[Milan92]

So my brain's a little too snoozy to write anything even vaguely in-depth but I finally finished KlK last night. Such an incredibly satisfying experience. :') Looking forward to that OVA whenever it's supposed to come out! It's definitely a series that will get a re-watch at some point and as expected, the soundtrack is going to be a staple of my listening time. :3

 

Now, because I don't currently have any GIFs saved, dear rescue squad, please feel free to gush visually for me!

 

Mako will save you

 

[Puzzlewell]

Best Rescue Squad ever. :')

[Isichar]

When in doubt.

Post Sayaka being awesomely adorable.

 

Thank you for that. That's exactly what I like waking up and starting my day to lol

 

Not a bad policy to have tbh

[Isichar]

THAT FREAKING CAKE SONG!!!!

 

ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH XD

 

http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Cake_Song

 

So it does have a meaning ?!?

[Puzzlewell]

My go to PMMM gif is both super swoony and spoilery all at the same time. X3

[Isichar]

I meant only that I love it too much and could not contain my squee xD

 

I've yet to find it all on youtube though :-( I mean the scene itself, not just a cover

 

Oh I hear you, I was just looking at it the other day myself and figured I'd post it for the hell of it.

 

Well... you can bet I'm going to be going back and watching that scene in TRS at least 3-4 times today.

 

Oh Sayaka... why are you so awesome?

 

 

@Ani

 

You could always put it in a spoilers tab, although I suspect I already know which one you are talking about

[TheClonesLegacy]

I meant only that I love it too much and could not contain my squee xD

 

I've yet to find it all on youtube though :-( I mean the scene itself, not just a cover

Behold, for your Eye and Ear holes!

[Isichar]

Glorious

 

And yet so adowable

[Isichar]

This PMMM art book I got is freaking amazing

 

I have spent hours just going through it and I still have so much more in it to see. It has a ton of artwork collages of the labyrinths I've never seen before. There's one of the Elsa Maria fight that I just adore to no end. 

 

It pretty much has everything in the show in this beast.

 

Too bad I can't understand any of the notes on the storyboards and sketches.

[Gravisanimi]

Yesssssssssssssssss

Also important(to other people)

[Puzzlewell]

Delayed reaction but ESO is kind of stealing my attention today. X3 You're correct Isi, you know exactly which one I mean. :3 *mumble mumble* I wish we could still have GIF avatars... Editing this in a moment with some gloriousness (but yes, TRS spoilers). No one will be surprised.

 

ETA:

Spoiler

 

Swoon. Nope, it's not a reaction GIF at all but...

[Isichar]

Understandable reaction, I was pretty shocked as it happened too XD

 

They should have put Queen's Don't Stop Me Now playing in the background just to troll the fans a bit although the current track on that part is amazing in its own right.

[Puzzlewell]

XD! Oh god. Isi, that... ♪Having a good time, having a good time!♪

 

I suppose it only goes to show what having the actual occurrence spoiled for me months before seeing it can do. Cause I was all stupid and 'Ahhhh. Perfect. *_*' That's not to say that originally I didn't freak out but I've already mumbled about that before.

[Clover Rider]

I've watched Hunter x Hunter. I wouldn't say it deconstructs shounen, per say (it subverts the initial art style of an optimistic, care-free setting far more), but there are a number of things that help Hunter x Hunter work that don't apply in other shounen. Two in particular, really.

 

The first is that the protagonists are almost always weaker than their opponents throughout the arc, even to its conclusions. Hunter x Hunter doesn't rely on Heroic Second Winds or rising above the enemy's power level to shrug off their attack in order to claim victory. Instead, victory comes in marginal forms with superior planning, exploiting rules and conditions, and a heck of a lot of compromise. Hunter x Hunter is a story of usually limited victories against much stronger opponents, even as Gon and Killua get stronger themselves.

 

The second is that Hunter x Hunter is primarily a psychological thriller. The shounen elements (such as the Nen superpowers) are the setting and context for what is basic in-depth psychological warfare and mind-screwery of hunting and counter-hunting. Even the straight-up fight sequences (Hisoka at Heavens Arena, the Mad Bomber fight, the Chimera Ant raid) are loaded with mental gambits of bluff, intuition, and deception on a variety of levels. Where a shounen like KLK, Gurren Lagann, One Piece, or Bleach will rely on overwhelming over-the-top power duels and consider a 'mastermind' to be an Aizen-like 'this is all according to my calculations,' HxH can make even a Dodge Ball game a matter of life and death with actual strategy and trickery against a much stronger opponent.

 

 

 

 

'Good' shounen depend on what you want out of them. Basic hot-blooded passion and over-the-top powers are totally The Thing of the genre, so hating anime that have them is kind of missing a point. It'd be like hating a romantic comedy for being a romantic comedy, rather than a romantic drama. But it definitely isn't for everyone, nor should someone be dismissed as a curmudgeon for not enjoying shounen.

 

Heck, I don't particularly care for shounen. Too often they go off the rails of what I found interesting, like Naruto: early on, the idea was that trickery and strategy was far more important than raw-power jutsus. Pretty much everyone was a one-trick pony, except elites who managed to gain another trick or two like summoning or an artificial enhancement, but even they could be tricked and affected by much less powerful. Post-time skip, though, the shounen exponential power levels and umpteen different versions of combat regeneration/immortality made everything a relative slugfest of power.

 

Ninja messiah figures with godlike powers is a lot less interesting than a story about a setting that uses child soldiers as cannon fodder and is institutionally dedicated to a perpetual and quite frankly horrific permanent war footing of small military dictatorships committed to war for their own survival and prosperity.

Yeah agree with the HxH stuff.

 

 

And yeah I agree with the shonen stuff too mostly. Like I think people forget a lot of the time it's a demographic not a genre. Since you have Shonen romantic comedy/dramas, gag stories, horror stories with the fantasy battle ones, as well as any mix of those genres. Still the fantasy battle ones are the most popular.

 

But yeah I agree and say I don't care for shonen manga that much, or at least newer ones.

 

 

Naruto I liked not for the fights, tho I will say it did have better fights before the time skip. Lee vs Gaara and Shikamaru vs Temari were the best ones I think.

 

What I liked about it was the fact it was a story of an underdog who wanted to be his own ninja. So I like the themes of hard working and the characters too. It started to go off the rails before the time skip for me, but it just got worse and worse.

 

The themes I like about the story all gone.

 

Ninja Jesus God of Peace is the whole point of it now, that suuuuuucks. And since it is nothing but dumb fights now I have judge those fights and they suck too. Magic eyeballs that can do anything are duuuuuuuumb.

 

 

The shonen I view as the best that running right now is a pretty small and simple list but I think everyone can see why I like these.

 

One Piece

Attack on Titan

Shokugeki no Soma

Toriko

Assassination Classroom

The Seven Deadly Sins

 

I am a big fan of interesting story themes and just nice simple themes like dreaming big. I like good characters that get real character development. And I like a good adventure story when I see one. And good humor too. If there are fights, I hope they are good and used for character development/screen time.

 

The only reason I don't put HxH on that list is because it is not back in WSJ yet the work effort of Togashi is awful. For me I have to take that into account and even tho I love the story, themes and characters I feel it is worse than Fairy Tail, just from a fan point of view tho.

 

 

 

 

Also Digimon is awesome.

[Isichar]

Digimon is awesome. Good group dynamic in that anime.

[Clover Rider]

Yup.

 

Adventure 02 sucked tho.

[Isichar]

It had it's moments but it certainly lacked the charm the first one had. The original digi-destined was where it was at.

[Clover Rider]

It would have been better if the Dark Sea plot was not dropped.

 

And that epilogue is still the worse ending to anything ever.

 

But yeah Adventure was great. Tamers and Frontier were great too.