I suggest you fight through it, it’s worth IMO… It really surprised me how everything fits together in the end… even when the end itself disappointed many fans I heard.
I don’t know geekofalltrades, it sounds like you’ve already gotten well past the part where [color=’#151515’]Mayuri dies…the first time I mean, and that’s really where it picked up for me, from there on I couldn’t stop watching. So if you’ve reached that point and it’s still going slow for you…maybe it’s not something you’re really interested in. Don’t force yourself to watch it if you really don’t want to, I mean I tried that with Black Lagoon before and I just made myself miserable before I finally stopped.
“The cosplay fans were out in force at the A-Kon Anime conference in Dallas on Friday May 31, 2013 at the Hilton Anatole Dallas.”
Might enjoy this too.
https://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/joys-jaunts-show-off-your-nerdiest-knowledge-including-game-of-thrones-with-geeks-who-drink-at-local-pubs.html/
I finished Emi’s story. Got the good ending. Moderate feels ensued.
Is it weird I find the sex scenes intrusive? Like I’m just thinking “dude this story is really good, writing is top notch, drama up to the max” then all of the sudden the game’s like “here have a boner”. Doesn’t feel right. Is that normal for these types of games and I just didn’t know that?
Honestly, Emi’s story is pretty realistic, even with the naughty bits. Highlight for spoilers! The way their first sex scene just kinda… happened, was surprisingly good for the fiction. I’m not usually for sex scenes in anything because they’re always shoehorned as fuck, but it seemed like it actually fit in most of every path of Katawa Shojo. Hisao and Emi’s brief experiment with anal sex was particularly funny, albeit in a highly uncomfortable way.
Just watched Kara no Kyoukai movie 5.
Initially super confusing, but holy shit they did some really clever writing and editing to make it super awesome.
i was at my friends house last night and suddenly new one piece comes out of fucking nowhere. i dint know they resumed it
I guess it just surprised me cause I’m used to how in anime you’re lucky if you get a confession and a kiss by the end, especially if they’re high schoolers. But I guess this is technically a different media, and it was never intended to be shown on tv.
Hey, I love that anime. Type-moon stuff is always awesome in my standard.
Everyone tried Shingeki No Kyojin(Attack on Titan)?
I’m trying out the Clannad VN. Right away the art style is so kawaii uguu~~ that it’s making me physically ill.
Quite entertaining, but MC is shounen piece of shit and his blonde gay wimp friend is also annoying.
Other characters are pretty entertaining tho.
Try the manga, it is actually better
So it’s been a while. I too tried out Katawa Shoujo, with much trepidation, as it was dubbed by the friend who recommended it to me “Cripple Fuckers”. I was actually very impressed with the writing. Ended up taking Emi’s path. The sex scenes were SUPPPERRR uncomfortable in my opinion, as with Emi’s (I just ran through the scenes without reading). They really should have made a better attempt to be less vulgar and a tad bit classy, or at least as classy as a vn about fucking a girl with no legs can get. I never tried for any of the other girls after I finished Emi’s story because it just seemed like to much work to pick through and avoid repetition.
Watched Toradora!, it was bearable, but not really something I’d recommend. It burned my heart with cliche and bland, though later in the series the character relations developed fairly nicely and I liked that it didn’t try to shoehorn in a “wooo look everybody’s happy” ending. The very resolution was a little weird though, they had a pretty good sensible ending and then it felt like they just shoehorned an unreasonable twist in to make the situation even less perfect for the characters. Also, while all the characters get developed rather nicely, Kitamura’s personality struck me as odd and was never sufficiently dealt with.
I quit watching Gintama (mentioned starting it a couple pages ago). It was alright, but with all long series it very very quickly started feeling formulaic and stagnant. That’s one of the reasons I like anime series: they’re often short and try to tell a contained story, you’ll find few western shows that don’t have milking the cow for 10+ seasons designed and woven deeply into the story in a way that makes it just not worth watching. So an anime that runs as long as Gintama usually doesn’t hold up for me.
Psycho Pass was fairly good as some have mentioned. It told a very dystopian story with an interesting conclusion. My main issue is the main character was horrifically underwhelming, as with many of the other characters.
Magica Madoka was pretty good. To the people tentative to watch it, my friend (the same guy who told me about Cripple Fuckers) had to practically drag me through the first 3 or so episodes until a twist emerged and I didn’t feel like a 12 year old sissy boy watching a Sailor Moon knockoff. I think the setting and name are relatively ironic and there to set a contrast with the dark tone of the series.
By the way, here’s my anime list for anyone who is interested.
https://myanimelist.net/animelist/garthbartin
Glad I’m not alone in feeling that way at least. It gets even more uncomfortable when you realize [color=’#151515’]for the first couple times she was doing it so she could forget about her dead dad. Yeeeeaah.
I wonder how many people have gone into Cripple Fuckers without knowing about the whole cripple fucking premise. Probably not many, but the reactions from the few who did must be absolute pure gold.
Also, forgot to mention, I tried CHU2 (Autismoe). It’s a growing up story about a girl who’s stuck in her imaginative world and it makes her awkward in society. Characters weren’t great in my opinion and the ending didn’t impress me, still worth watching I guess. The animation is spectacular, oddly so for a slice of life setting anime.
What a coincidence. I’m watching the anime right now.
Maybe I should get the VN afterwards.
Is that Chuunibyou show any good garth? Saw you were watching it and wondering what Kyoto has been up to lately.
Also what is a good anime that’s not about high-schoolers? I’ve got an itch to watch another anime but the high school setting is really grating on me now. It’s probably cause I’m getting older, I think, but in any case, something along the lines of Trigun or Cowboy Bebop. I still need to watch the latter but I was hoping for something that wasn’t very depressing, which I heard Cowboy Bebop was. That’s probably a tall order for anime though lol. If it isn’t a light-hearted comedy it’s a soul-crushing tragedy, seems like. Just something with action and/or drama and at least a relatively positive ending would be nice.
Fate/Zero
Not exactly light hearted and the ending’s pretty much bittersweet.
But if you want something mature, dark, serious, but still has some humor, then Fate/Zero is everything you need.
In my opinion CHu2 isn’t that great, there’s a lot of drama and emotions, but they don’t hit me hard because all the drama is little kids growing up stuff, the kinda things that kids still get upset about, but I can’t really sympathize because in the end that stuff holds no weight. Some actual drama with the love interest that goes beyond silly little kid stuff at least. My biggest issue with it is the main character is relatively bland, as are a lot of the other characters. Perhaps if you’re drawn to a growing up themed anime that’s at least decently done, and has glorious animation, go for it. (in fact I shoudl drop it from an 8 on myanimelist)
I was gonna recommend Steins;Gate but I’m pretty sure you referred to trying it out earlier in the thread. I’m watching Welcome to the NHK right now, it follows a reforming hikikomori. The love interest in that series is 10/10 waifu kawaii desu (in a more serious and mature way than my description implied), but as I’m getting closer to the end of the series the love relationship feels pathetically underdeveloped and I’ve got this sinking feeling that this’ll be one of those spectacular animes that got cut short and never got a decent ending. It’s not about highshool so you might like it, though it’s not actiony. It has some very emotional points and gets very serious at times but it still manages a relatively light tone and message.
If no one’s already mentioned it, I recently rewatched Baccano! which is a very good anime. It’s short, and set in 1930s America IIRC. It’s got a touch of supernatural that isn’t overbearing and a lot of action. The story is very very jumbled at first and it’s hard to follow all the characters, but as the story progresses it slowly comes together. I’d recommend that one as well.