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Jesse B77

Jesse B77

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@TechEngineer
Well, if your gonna start buying anime here's a few tips so you can get it cheaper. These obviously dont work with new series that are still being released, but great if the series in question was released a few years ago.
Online store bargain bins are great. If you play it right you can pick up a full series (and sometimes the artbox) for anywhere between $15 - $30 USD, which is about what you would pay for just one DVD at its initial release...
Even if you cant get a full series like that, you'll find that retailers will mark down their stock when one of the collection is no longer stocked. When that happens, you can but the missing on from other sources, and it still ends up being cheaper.
Its a common joke that you can be an anime collector and have money left over for everything else. Well, this is how to do that..

09-Jan-2011 00:30:05

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I really don't read most of the manga for the winter season anime coming out, by they seem alright to me.
"Mahou Shoujo.." might be the only one I drop due to the fact it was very confusing towards the end and at the beginning. Sorry to say that the wild mix of the background really confused me and I am not into little magical girls scene anymore.
"Infinite Stratos" What was wrong with it? I want to read this review people are talking about now. I admit, it had a typical school story theme at the beginning which might be the only downside at first. The mechs are interesting at least...seeing what happens, it might turn into a good anime.
"Yumekui Merry" Has an interesting idea. It is pretty straightforward so far. 'Dreams' is the concept here. Again, another anime which people can only criticize after they watch more.
Haven't got to "Freezing"... so can't say...
"GOSICK" The title looks like it shouldn't be one word, first of all. Second, it isn't my most favorite, but it does look to get better.
"Cardfight!! Vanguard" Who else would like to agree this is an updated "Yu-gi-oh!"?
Bleh...I should stop watching such a variety of things in my free time >_< .
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What is this review though?
Speaking of Code Geass, when is that new title coming out?

09-Jan-2011 00:48:47

Jesse B77

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Personally, i think "GOSICK" might be meant to be a play on the word Gothic or something. Other than that, i cant make heads or tails of the title either.
As for Code Geass, has anything new on that front actually been confirmed or just rumored. I can tell you that if it has been confirmed then there is currently no release date available.

I think the reason people are hating on infinite stratos is because its not very original. Im DLing it at the moments so i havent seen it yet, but there are posts on other sites labeling it as the "least original anime ever".
Heres the reviews we're talking about:

Rating: quiet I am trying to nap here
Review:
The Infinite Stratos are a line of powerful mechanized suits that can only be piloted by women. They aren't used for military purposes, only for sport.
Orimura is the world's first male IS pilot (say whaaaaaaaaaat?!) It's his first day at academy, where all of his classmates are female and one of them is his old childhood friend Houki and it turns out they're sharing a dorm room, and he walks in on her coming out of the shower WHOA! And oh all the girls in the all-girl robot school are totally in to him and follow him around, and his hard-as-nails professor at Girl Robot School is also his sister, a famous IS pilot who punches him in the head while zany music plays when he makes simple mistakes and at the end he gets into a duel with the bitchy British princess “oh ho ho ho ho” pilot girl who thinks she's better than him and then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ZzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz *snort* zzzzzzzzzzzz
Here just watch this instead: [video of a cat playing with a box embedded here]

09-Jan-2011 02:25:01 - Last edited on 09-Jan-2011 02:41:46 by Jesse B77

Jesse B77

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Rating: 1
Review: Ichika Orimura is the only qualifying male pilot in the Infinite Stratos Academy, a school for young cadets in-training to be mech soldiers in a conflict…that hasn't occurred yet. Japan seems pretty peaceful actually, but no sense twiddling your thumbs while you wait for the war, I guess. Orimura's not sure why he's able to pilot a mech only women should have the ability to handle, but neither is anyone else, so he's long since stopped wondering about it. When he and his female compatriots aren't engaged in mock combat (and they aren't for nearly the entire episode,) there are waaaaacky mixed-gender hijinx to amuse them in between boring historical lectures over the mechanics of their combat suits.
Somewhere before the halfway point in this episode, I found myself presented with a vision. The rows upon rows of languishing high-school mech pilots slumped over their classroom desks that compose most of the scenes in the episode faded and shifted to a different setting in my brain: rows upon rows of animators and colorists slumped over their workdesks, moaning “I don't wanna do this anymooooore.”
I swear I was sober. I've been in that position often enough to recognize its reflections on the screen.
Not only is Infinite Stratos dull and cheap-looking, it doesn't even summon the energy of the more audacious fanservice-driven titles. Being offended or pandered to is still better than being bored. Nothing about this premiere gives us any reason to invest one braincell, much less the two it takes to understand it. There's no real conflict hinted at, the characters aren't endearing on even a base level, the visuals are painfully plastic, none of the humor works or even flails wildly in an effort to get a laugh, it just hangs there like a big sopping towel of shrug. That is the worst verdict one can receive. Skip this.

09-Jan-2011 02:43:00

Jesse B77

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Rating: 2.5 (of 5)
Review: 15-year-old Ichika Orimura has a singular and uncomfortable distinction: he is the only male who can pilot the IS (short for Infinite Stratos) mecha-like suit system, a system that, due to certain treaty restrictions, is currently only used for sport. Naturally, that makes him the only male student in the otherwise-all-girl boarding school exclusively for those training to be IS pilots. Worse, his childhood friend Houki is in the same class but seems to be ignoring him, and worse still, his big sister, a renowned IS champion pilot, is his homeroom teacher. Things get even more complicated when he discovers that he's rooming with that same Houki and gets on the wrong side of a British ace, but most of the girls have already started to regard him as a curiosity.
An anime season just wouldn't be an anime season these days without some kind of harem show, and this one seems intended to be an action/romance with a bit of comedy thrown in. The gimmick to create the harem structure is, of course, a big contrivance, but at least this time the series has an excuse which sounds somewhat credible. Many of the expected complications are present, too, including the full-of-herself student, the now-**** childhood friend, misunderstandings about living arrangements, and so forth. Toss in hints of amnesia and we practically have a paint-by-numbers set-up. The mecha elements only appear in a flash-forward at the beginning to some kind of climactic battle, so we'll have to wait ‘till next episode to see more actual action.
So yeah, everything is quite generic here, but there is at least a hint of a promising feel to it, and that vibe mostly comes from Ichika (who seems like he may actually have a backbone) and the first episode's refusal to resolutely exploit fan service options or use the expected hyper-exaggerated reactions. The series also looks very good, with plenty of sharp background art, and sounds pretty good, too.

09-Jan-2011 02:43:34

Jesse B77

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Other series have shown that training-school scenarios can succeed, so perhaps this one can also show us some meat instead of just sauce.
In a clever ploy to lure unsuspecting viewers, Infinite Stratos invokes the entertainment-industry form of the Pareto principle and spends 80% of the animation budget on 20% of the pilot episode. Yes, as you may have guessed, the show begins with several minutes of seriously intense, mind-blowing, mid-air mecha combat.
Followed by twenty minutes of seriously intense, mind-blowingly bad high school harem hijinks.
This is the story of one Ichika Orimura, who apparently is the luckiest teenage boy on earth because he is the only male to ever qualify for the IS (Infinite Stratos) mobile suit pilot-training program. (Don't even ask why the IS system only works with females; proper science is obviously not a priority for this series.) This also makes things incredibly awkward when he realizes that his next three years of schooling will be spent entirely in the company of lovely young women! Further adding to the embarrassment is his older sister taking on the role of homeroom teacher—gee, what a surprise—and his childhood friend turning out to be his roommate. This parade of clichés continues with the introduction of another one of Ichika's classmates—an English-born beauty whose traits include long blonde hair (to denote how foreign she is, clearly) and a horrifically annoying stuck-up attitude. If they were trying to kick off an anime series with the most unlikable characters ever, this one would be quite the contender with its underachieving sad-sack hero and a cast of heroines who exist only to batter his self-esteem.
room. The credits sequences are similarly uninspired, with Minami Kuribayashi, queen

09-Jan-2011 02:44:26

Jesse B77

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Unimaginative character designs and sloppy animation also mark this series as a candidate for the scrap heap—watch the extremely awkward camera pan right after the eyecatch, where Ichika and friend appear to levitate in their dorm room. The credits sequences are similarly uninspired, with Minami Kuribayashi, queen of mediocre action anime theme songs, giving us yet another techno-laced pump-it-up number that sounds like everything else she's ever done.
And to think, this was adapted from a light novel? This is barely good enough to qualify for a shovelware dating sim.

Rating: 2 ½
Review: So it's the future, you see. There's these powerful robotic suits, you see. And only girls can wear them, you see. Except for one guy, you see. And he wants to go to a school for robotic-suit pilots, you see. Yes, we see. We see a cheap attempt to justify yet another story about a lone schmuck surrounded by an infinite bounty of female flesh. The guy is Ichika Orimura, and as you'd expect at a school essentially reserved for the fairer ***, he stands out like a sore thumb. Not only is he the only guy, and thus the center of undue amorous attention, but he's also the only person in his class who hasn't read the robotic-suit (called Infinite Stratos, or IS for short) manual and is the kid brother of famous IS pilot and school instructor Chifuyu. Within days he's gotten the student body's hormones a-roiling, ****** off his roommate (and childhood friend) Houki, and gotten roped into a duel with a spoiled English princess. So much for blending in.
The surprise here is that it isn't Infinite Stratos's transparent premise that sinks it. Rather it's the thinly-veiled world-building info-dumps and reams of unnatural explanatory dialogue. For all its promises of juicy school drama (or comedy), the episode feels dry, and more than a bit clunky. That doesn't bode well for the future quality of the script. As for the potentially prurient premise, it's actually pretty decently handled. Whil

09-Jan-2011 02:45:16

Jesse B77

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The surprise here is that it isn't Infinite Stratos's transparent premise that sinks it. Rather it's the thinly-veiled world-building info-dumps and reams of unnatural explanatory dialogue. For all its promises of juicy school drama (or comedy), the episode feels dry, and more than a bit clunky. That doesn't bode well for the future quality of the script. As for the potentially prurient premise, it's actually pretty decently handled. While the girls are definitely interested in Ichika, they don't throw themselves on him, preferring to gawk and stalk. Fan-service is surprisingly light—limited to a bit of cleavage here and an "eek! I just got out of the shower!" moment there—and, so far at least, the moe stereotypes aren't oozing out of the woodwork. That Ichika has a personality and a spine certainly helps, as does his obvious displeasure with being the center of feminine attention. As such things go you could do worse, and certainly uglier; 8-Bit's animation is quite nice.

So from the 4 reviewers, it got a 6 + what i suppose we can assume thats a 0 from Zack out of 20

09-Jan-2011 02:45:29 - Last edited on 09-Jan-2011 02:47:20 by Jesse B77

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