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Post by morsealworth on Apr 28, 2015 21:29:02 GMT
Today's rant: Hestia from Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomery Machigatteiru Darou ka? is known as unpopular goddess.
WTF? Hestia had more altars dedicated to her, than Athena, Zeus, Poseidon and Apollo combined. They had only temples and shrines, while Hestia was a deity every single household altar was dedicated to, and as every celebration involved sacrifices of food and wine to gods, Hestia always was the first to receive a sacrifice from a household altar (since she is a familial goddess, after all).
So no matter, how you look at it, Hestia should have the biggest Familia in the world of that visual light novel, since she's the goddess of the whole concept.
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Post by greay on May 1, 2015 2:27:11 GMT
lol, I tried out the first couple episodes of this & thought the exact same thing.
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Post by morsealworth on May 1, 2015 17:10:53 GMT
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Post by morsealworth on May 6, 2015 10:36:25 GMT
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Post by greay on May 6, 2015 10:54:29 GMT
Any good? The premise ("Modern magic is accomplished with the aid of computers by writing special programs for them") has definitely got me interested, but I can't tell from that if it's an interesting show or just a novel premise for fanservice.
(I'm on the fence w/Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon – the story's interesting enough so far and the characters are likable, but soooo much upskirt and boob jiggle it just skeeves me out)
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Post by morsealworth on May 6, 2015 11:19:09 GMT
Any good? The premise ("Modern magic is accomplished with the aid of computers by writing special programs for them") has definitely got me interested, but I can't tell from that if it's an interesting show or just a novel premise for fanservice. (I'm on the fence w/ Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon – the story's interesting enough so far and the characters are likable, but soooo much upskirt and boob jiggle it just skeeves me out) To be honest, none of LN are really good. Those are mostly self-gratificating graphomania products. Then again, as entertainment they are more than tolerable, and Japan's entertainment industry abandoned attempts at pretentious art long ago and became just that - entertainment. Now to be more specific. I enjoyed watching the anime adaptation. It was a nice, fun comedy, though somewhat condensed as if it needed more time to get more material from LN. A problem all one-season LN adaptations suffer from. |
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Post by morsealworth on May 10, 2015 17:51:16 GMT
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Post by greay on May 11, 2015 11:24:31 GMT
Any good? The premise ("Modern magic is accomplished with the aid of computers by writing special programs for them") has definitely got me interested, but I can't tell from that if it's an interesting show or just a novel premise for fanservice. (I'm on the fence w/ Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon – the story's interesting enough so far and the characters are likable, but soooo much upskirt and boob jiggle it just skeeves me out) To be honest, none of LN are really good. Those are mostly self-gratificating graphomania products. Then again, as entertainment they are more than tolerable, and Japan's entertainment industry abandoned attempts at pretentious art long ago and became just that - entertainment. Now to be more specific. I enjoyed watching the anime adaptation. It was a nice, fun comedy, though somewhat condensed as if it needed more time to get more material from LN. A problem all one-season LN adaptations suffer from. I don't really know anything about the source of most of these anime, so the distinction between ones based on light novels versus manga is completely lost on me. I guess my question is: is the fanservice so egregious it detracts from the enjoyment? I got the impression that it's pretty over-the-top in Modern Magic... Raunch is one thing – I'm watching Food Wars now, and am absolutely in love with it – but in that show, it serves the art (and it's equal-opportunity, which is nice). The stuff in Is It Wrong... (albeit tame in comparison) doesn't really serve any purpose and is just obnoxious. |
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Post by morsealworth on Jun 6, 2015 19:33:46 GMT
It's such a pity I can't find original Japanese episodes of マッハＧｏＧｏＧｏ. It was an awesome series.
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Post by morsealworth on Jun 17, 2015 14:56:22 GMT
DanMachi 10. The devout follower of Hermes the Trickster, god of luck, opportunity, venture, swindling, robbing, trade and money doesn't want to get in trouble.
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Post by morsealworth on Jun 18, 2015 15:42:14 GMT
I like Plastic Memories. It's Planetarian in reverse, It's Kowarekake no Orgel elaborated. But man, the main drama of the series (resolved in ep. 10) is a carbon copy of Yume route from Da Capo II. And in fact, the original route had much better implementation.
Don't believe me? See for yourself. Spoil yourself the end, the culmination. Of course, I personally would recommend the game itself.
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Post by morsealworth on Jul 12, 2015 22:36:28 GMT
Guys, do you know what "chuunibyou" is? If I were to translate the term, it would mean "Middle School Second Year Syndrome". It basically means trying to look cool and "different" by imagining oneself as a secret agent, as someone with special powers, etc. Just like a middle schooler with lots of fantasy infkluences and a teen identity crisis.
Why did I suddenly remember that? Because I've got something awesome for you:
Now that's corporate spirit. I also want to note that even looking like that they're trying to take over the world('s market) by legitimate means - through bold innovation. So all those cool oldschool costumes are just to keep the corporate spirit of thinking like teens to stay bold and making crazy yet cool things.
I want to work in a company like that.
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Post by morsealworth on Jul 29, 2015 14:29:36 GMT
MonMusu 04. The best girl finally appears and goes "splat" right away.
Also interesting (for me) note: While end screens for other episodes have shown subspecies of different monster girls, this time al the subtypes are the same species formed entirely by environment. So if one slime was to travel to the areal of another type, the type of slime would change as well in several hours depending on the level of contamination.
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Post by morsealworth on Jul 31, 2015 14:10:30 GMT
I wonder if anyone else watches Shomoseka? It's a very bold satire about bigotry being the dominant force in politics and the main driver of the censorship and cutting human rights. Last time we saw satire that bold in Bouryaku no Zdezda, which was disguised in absurd comedy the same as Shimoseka now. I particularly loved the episode about smoking in that one.
Speaking of satire, did anyone of you watch Boukyaku no Senritsu? I believe it's a masterpiece, connecting aforementioned commentary on total corruption of Japanese government (seriously, it even surpasses Russian corruption and we lose billions of U.S. dollars equivalent to those crooks without even thinking of how much lives we lose because of them) with psychedelic performance.
Fukushima, you suddenly remember? They hid fractures in concrete with painted duct tape and bribed the inspection several months prior to the quake and tsunami. Even at Chernobyl people weren't that careless.
Now back to Shimoseka. I think I want to connect another song to the story there, as it's much more serious than it's shown.
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Post by morsealworth on Oct 16, 2015 21:04:38 GMT
I finally have found the manga of my dreams. |
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Post by morsealworth on Oct 29, 2015 21:12:03 GMT
I can't properly express just how much I love Hakua from Shomin Sample, so I just say something different. She's the first character I've ever seen who expresses happiness the same as I do: through sighing.
I also just can't help but enjoy every moment her head maid is on screen. Oh boy, they are just perfect together.
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Post by morsealworth on Dec 10, 2015 11:39:00 GMT
Today's rant is about Oshino Ougi. She's Lawful Evil... In reverse. Remember, how normally alignment works? Good-Evil axis, the suffix, designates motivation of the character, while Lawful-Chaotic axis, the prefix, defines the means the character is willing to use to achieve them. Welp, Ougi is just the opposite - her motivation is Justice, she is supreme critic, and her motivation is "making things how they should be". So her motivation isn't Good nor Evil - it's Lawful. And the ways she uses to achieve those? Her jaded view on the world, her pitch-black mind shows her that the optimal way to solve the problems she is needed to solve is to be the (necessary) evil, since the problems she doesn't need to be evil for are already solved by Mararagi, who is Lawful Good (not in reverse) in regards to anything except loli (in case of which he turns into Chaotic Neutral). |
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