The Anime Society Thread 6

In fact, after posting, I looked him up and it seems he passed away in January at the age of 81. (...)

(...) Yeah, definitely. The most notable that comes to mind would have to be Space Battleship Yamato's opening:



But a personal favourite would be the second opening from the anime Touch (aired in the early to mid 80s):

After rereading AJ's preview thread i've decided to give Haifuri a go. Purely on the basis that it 'could' turn to be as good as Girls und Panzer. However i've said that before and have been disappointed.

It's certainly proving to be one of the more unpredictable series of the season for me - even if I hadn't interpreted the 'protecting the sea' part of the synopsis incorrectly, I'd have expected more moe comedy and less drama.

I just noticed that the A-P Anime Awards voting has started... a while back. If you have an account and want to vote for your favourite characters/series of last year, you have until tomorrow to do so!

After a week of talking to myself, I got bored and brought back the Anime Caption Thread.

I'm sure there are some people watching this thread...

Quietly watching... silently judging... I get e-mail notifications for this thread and I can't be bothered to turn them off.
So hi, I'm here.

Halfway through watching the Endless Eight storyline of Haruhi Suzumiya, and I just finished reading the entirety of Mayo Chiki that a friend semi-ironically bought me for Christmas, just in case anyone was interested.

How are you finding Endless Eight so far? I remember it getting a lot of hate (and it must have been painful spread out over 2 months when the series was ongoing), but I watched them all in one sitting and quite enjoyed it. Almost like an animated 'spot the difference'.

I can understand why people hated it, especially if it was on a week by week basis when the gap between episodes is too big to remember the details. But I'm liking it so far. It is good to see the subtle differences and make guesses as to the solution. It's like Groundhog Day but as a mystery thriller. The coherent, continuous storyline is way better than the 2-choice system people have when tackling Season 1.

And it's a great way in saving time and money on recording lines.

From what I understand, they actually re-recorded all the voices and reanimated most of it each time.

Well I don't know about re-recording the lines, but the characters wear different outfits every single episode to prevent people from claiming that they reused footage. They even address the fact that things are never exactly the same every cycle in the show for that exact reason.