Comments on: Magi, Little Busters, Zetsuen no Tempest, Jojo

By: omo

omo — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:32:49 +0000

I kind of agree, Magi would’ve been super interesting if it was like a series of stories and we’re watching it in meta.

Anyway, I guess I have to come up with a list of Male names, because XCOM doesn’t do the gender thing with customization AFAIK.

By: vendredi

vendredi — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:53:19 +0000

Never thought I’d see the day when X-COM was turned into a big triple-A title… if you do the seiyuu playthrough, do update us on their progress.

I have to agree with your points, starting off a viewing session with Chuunibyou really sort of throws a damper on everything else you try to watch afterward.

Psycho Pass likewise struck me as a poor man’s Ghost in the Shell, but I feel there’s enough to make the theme different – GiTS was always more about pushing the boundaries of humanity. There’s no outright cybernetics in Psycho Pass just yet, and it’s far more about the whole profiling/privacy intrusion aspect of technology.

Magi is a fun romp, but I’m slightly disappointed that it doesn’t actually attempt to tackle the whole crazy “story-within-a-story-within-a-story” tricks of the actual folktales, which I feel could work really superbly in an animated format (take Satoshi Kon’s movies, for example). In that sense I feel it’s not truly an animated 1001 Nights in the fullest sense.

By: omo

omo — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:21:52 +0000

I thought it was fine. But I guess time will tell.

By: omo

omo — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:19:58 +0000

What made Psycho-pass boring is its live-action-y face shots, heavy scene pans, color and mood themes and other directional choices in which works fine in a short feature or feature film or even the 1-hr format. Doing 22-minute anime episodes like this is tiresome and puts me to sleep.

The comment about mystery is good, because I thought about it and I probably should’ve clarified it. Ghost in the Shell, for example, is also focused on some kind of plot/mystery/crime/conspiracy as its main plot that drives the story forward. But thematically it is SF/cyberpunk in a way where the context of this futuristic development is the background that all this other human elements play on top of. In Psycho-Pass, so far it’s trying very hard to make that same background play in the foreground. Granted this is just the pilot episode, but it’s making that cardinal sin of making a big deal of something everyone has to live with all the time.

Plus, it’s not exactly an interesting topic for the average otaku. I mean, are we suppose to be fascinated with the whole “omg big bro” thing or “omg that gun is transforming wicked”? If it’s the latter, they sure didn’t really address that. And if it’s the former, it’s being done a little too heavy-handedly.

By: DarkFireBlade25

DarkFireBlade25 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:56:55 +0000

@omo

I’m not quite sure why you think Psycho-Pass is going to be the most boring show this season as I believe that the crime/mystery genre fits rather well with the Orwellian backdrop of the show. Are you saying that it is just a showcase of what a giant budget can do (as I think K is)? I’m asking this because I think the crime/mystery genre is a staple part of the anime genre pool as any other like mecha and whatnot. It kind of seems like the nature of the high investment may have affected your opinion because of the chuunibyou topic that was emphasized in your mind.