2018-03-30, 22:26 | Link #361 |
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Hic et ubique
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This season's going to be quite hard to top: if anything, an OVA series or movie following Megumi's story would be most welcome, as some folks have suggested.
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2018-04-01, 00:05 | Link #366 |
is this so?
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Gradius Home World
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I was wondering if the producers of this show expected this anime to be so well received? Or maybe this is just one of those 12 -13 episode anime that is unexpectedly praised a lot, like Girls und Panzer and Madoka Magica.
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2018-04-01, 15:28 | Link #370 |
Born to ship
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Texas
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These days it seems like it'd be more accurate to call the genre "CGDX" since not everything in the genre can be defined as "cute things". Motorbikes aren't cute. Mountain climbing is, frankly, not really "cute". Travelling by ship to a barren wasteland of ice is not cute, even if it has penguins. While a whole lot of the things being done are not "cute", it's still popular. Some fail and wind up being literally nothing but "cute girls doing XXX", where you'd have no draw without the cute girls, and the girls' characters are largely centered on making them cute. Others are like this, where it's just icing on a wonderful cake, and the girls have a lot to them besides generic cuteness and a simple passion for life. But no matter how much more there is to it, that won't change the fact that it is a part of that genre. But what's that matter? Most shows and stories are multiple-genre after all. The adventure is a big part of the draw, as is the cuteness. All facets should be embraced.
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2018-04-01, 22:04 | Link #371 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Cute Girls Doing Cute Things -- Lucky Star, K-On, Flying Witch, Yuru Camp Cute Girls Doing Difficult Things-- Girls und Panzer, High School Fleet, A Place Further Than The Universe, |
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Another reminder I should watch GuP, but can't find the motivation to do so even during a 4 day holiday. Also, can you really call camping cute? Besides whenever Rin struggles with the wind, that is. |
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2018-04-02, 06:46 | Link #374 |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: 3 times the passion of normal flamenco
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Image gallery from an actual Antarctic Expedition member in Syowa Station comparing the actual station to what's in the show. He apparently watched the show over there, which is kinda awesome.
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2018-04-04, 07:59 | Link #375 | |
is this so?
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Gradius Home World
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Yeah, I guess you're right. It's a raging storm out there. Also my favorite episode rewatched many times over. ^^
The severe nausea from seasickness, I wonder if they exprienced it again on the trip home? Quote:
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2018-04-05, 21:22 | Link #376 |
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: By that dark and bloody river called Ohio.
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This series was absolutely incredibly good. Coming of age & adventure. It pulls you in and keeps you fastened onto the screen every episode. Directing, acting, animation, music, pacing, characterization, absolutely everything was top notch.
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2018-04-10, 19:00 | Link #377 |
is this so?
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Gradius Home World
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Forgot to say these about the final episode.. so the 1 message in the Outbox of her mother's laptop is the group picture?
Getting your cd signed by your favorite idol is a great experience (I experienced it in real life too ^^), glad the guy had the courage to approach her. And lastly, good thing they saw the aurora on the last night there. What's written at the end.. "let's go on a journey again someday". I hope they make a few special episodes for this anime.
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2018-05-07, 21:02 | Link #379 |
Math Ninja
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ventura County CA
Age: 59
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I'm back!
As I said a few weeks ago, I embraced my inner Kimari and signed up to help with this habitat restoration project on San Nicolas Island off the Southern California coast. It was five days of really hard work - we planted 1800 native plants and laid a drip irrigation system for them. But it was also five days of amazing sights, including huge elephant seals and little island foxes. As we were taking our last five-minute visit to the beach, and I was watching an elephant seal pop up out of the water and check us out, I started formulating what I would post here, and this is what I came up with: Get out. Seriously, get out. Embrace your own inner Kimari, find someplace wild and go there. You won't regret it. You don't have to go to Antarctica or to an island. Find your own place, that appeals to you. Environmental rehab groups are always putting trips together that need volunteers, local groups are organizing hikes and camp-outs, and there's plenty of other stuff around. Find something somewhere, and take yourself on a journey. You'll be glad you did. |
2018-08-06, 21:10 | Link #380 |
Math Ninja
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ventura County CA
Age: 59
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A Place Further Than the Universe Event Heads to Saitama in August
This Sunday, August 12, "A Place Further Than the Universe: A Festival More Fun than Antarctica" is heading to the Saitamashi Bunka Center in Minami Ward, Saitama City, Saitami Prefecture. Maybe someone will post pics. |
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