Anime Thigh Thread II

[Schirmy]

May God have mercy on my soul.

[Tennis]

Anyone trying out FF XV.

I'm so scarred from she who will not be named from the previous installment so I'll probably wait till it goes on sale.

[Zatheyll]

Anyone trying out FF XV.

I'm so scarred from she who will not be named from the previous installment so I'll probably wait till it goes on sale.

My roommate got it a couple days ago, so I've been watching him play it kinda. Looks fun, I'll play it after him most likely.

[Pejo]

So just finished E8 of Hibike, the Agata Festival. Ok, you guys win - solid show, and they all are cute AF. All of their relationships are fantastic, and I will hopefully be on S2 in a couple days. Not sure who best girl is, but loving Little Midori, Hazuki!

[Suicidal Panda]

I tried out the demo / wathed a few of the betas and I'm not super wow'd, though I'm not a big FF fan when you look at my cleared games: FFX + X-2

[Neichus]

I've come to actually rather like Gigguk as a general reviewer, even if I don't actually agree with him on many series. That said, I feel like he did an excellent job of elucidating what went right/wrong with Kabaneri. I apologize if this has been linked before, but I just stumbled on it and thought it was a very good summary.



He did remind me: I really did like the engineer woman. Not in the way he talks about, but simply because you never see them ever animate a female like that and it made total sense that she would have that kind of musculature.

I actually ended up on that video from this one, which I thought was again pretty entertaining. The part at 2:21 really struck me as simultaneously funny and accurate.

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Also @goriq, I went and finished LAIN and no response? /sadface

[Schirmy]

@Neichus It's quite difficult to comprehend your perplexing and convoluted posts while drinking, to be honest. I'm glad you enjoyed it more this time around, though. I found myself loving it after finishing and still after some discussion with Goriq in voice chat. There are surely differences in perception with regards to the philosophical premise the anime presents. Lain is also a qt.

[BloodyAngel12]

[Millhi]

A big reason why DBS is now streamed free now.

but the license isn't

Uh, I really don't think that's true. The biggest market is still in Japan and streaming there is barely worth mentioning.

BD/DVD still aren't everything, though. For Manga/LN adaptations, a lot of the times the boost in sales for the source material is more important than selling BDs.

If you want to pay for the whole Anime Industry report: http://aja.gr.jp/date/2016/09
Anime is up to 112% from previous year by selling streaming licenses to China alone. do the math to include Europe and US. Selling streaming rights is one of the defacto biggest moneymakers right now if you want to believe it or not.

Yeah, but BD/DVD sales are important for the studio. I'm more interested in how well the studio that made it did, though a boost on source material or merchandise can greenlight a second season with poor anime sales. I believe that's how Shokugeki got a second season.

They also showcase popularity for late night anime fairly well. Not perfectly, but a good indicator.

Only if they are on the production committee so like almost no studio besides the special cornflakes in the industry, Actas is a nice example for that. GuP made 2.4 Billion JPY and they haven't seen a penny of that because they weren't on the production committee. If they aren't on the prodcom then they just get a x set amount of money and have to animate with that and if you go over budget like they did with guP then its your own fault.
Ufotable, KyoAni, P.A.Works are special cases as they also sell their own merchandise related to shows. (and KyoAni has always been on the prodcom except for their very first show they animated) so they get extra money for selling that.

[Artorius]

This week's Hibike was the best episode so far. Absolutely gorgeous.

[Zatheyll]

This week's Hibike was the best episode so far. Absolutely gorgeous.

Fuck I wanna watch it so badly.

[Pejo]

Ok, I expected to start S2 of Hibike this weekend...just started it this morning. Flew threw S1 last night. Damn cute girls doing cute things.

[Jester Joe]

Recently the only thing I finished is Assassination Classroom (the manga though, not the anime, working through that).

It's odd though, usually when I finish an anime or manga I really liked, I'll walk away still pretty inclined to praise it, but then a week or two after I'll re-evaluate it and then start to realize, while maybe I still liked it, it wasn't as great as I originally thought. Prime example being Kiznaiver, and even Re: Zero to a degree (Still love Re:Zero, but I started to see more flaws in it on a re-watch).

Assassination Classroom though I feel like I keep realizing how good it was overall actually. Like, what I dismissed as just bad gags at the start were actually pretty vital to show how ridiculous Koro Sensei is in terms of what he can accomplish. I'm actually kind of disappointed it took me this long to get around to Assassination Classroom, and that I almost dismissed it.

PS- Sorry to interrupt the Hibike praising.

[Zatheyll]

PS- Sorry to interrupt the Hibike praising.

How dare you. This is a Hibike only chat thread.

[Jester Joe]

How dare you. This is a Hibike only chat thread.

I'm sure it's just like, subpar compared to Naruto anyway.

[Zatheyll]

I'm sure it's just like, subpar compared to Naruto anyway.

reeeeeeeeeeee

[Jester Joe]

reeeeeeeeeeee

I was gonna go with SAO but I feel like that was milked/beat to death already the other day.

[Zatheyll]

New sales today.

Spoiler: 

2016 11/21 – 11/27 Anime DVD List
Anime Rank\All Rank\Last Rank\Week Sales\Total Sales\#Wks\Title
1 6 2,158 2,158 1 Bungou Stray Dogs v6
2 9 1,911 1,911 1 Youkai Watch v6
3 10 1,866 1,866 1 Tsukiuta. The Animation v3
4 11 1,798 1,798 1 Soreike! Anpanman Omocha no Hoshi no Nanda to Runda
5 12 1,771 1,771 1 WWW.Working!! v1 LE
6 19 1,385 1,385 1 Mob Psycho 100 v3
7 24 1,163 1,163 1 Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken Diamond wa Kudakenai v6
9 27 1,072 1,072 1 Strike The Blood II OVA v1
10 29 1,033 1,033 1 Servamp v3
11 31 22 968 76,944 124 Tonari no Totoro (2014 re-release)
12 33 15 933 10,231 4 Crayon Shin-chan: Bakusui! Yumemi World Dai Totsugeki
13 34 919 919 1 High School Fleet v6
14 35 865 865 1 Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu v6
15 36 848 848 1 Macross Delta v5
17 46 31 718 13,520 5 Meitantei Conan: Junkoku no Nightmare RE
18 47 701 701 1 Masou Gakuen HxH v3
19 581 581 1 Bananya
20 567 567 1 Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no Sara DVD Box
22 477 477 1 New Game! v3
24 372 372 1 Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama v2
25 352 352 1 Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season v6
26 339 339 1 Flying Witch v6
28 300 300 1 Qualidea Code v3
29 294 294 1 WWW.Working!! v1 RE


2016 11/21 – 11/27 Anime BD List
Anime Rank\All Rank\Last Rank\Week Sales\Total Sales\#Wks\Title
2 3 23,249 23,249 1 Love Live! Sunshine!! v3
3 4 7,154 7,154 1 Strike The Blood II OVA v1
4 5 6,635 6,635 1 Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu v6
5 6 5,779 5,779 1 Macross Delta v5
6 7 5,735 5,735 1 High School Fleet v6
7 8 5,289 5,289 1 Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken Diamond wa Kudakenai v6
8 10 4,114 4,114 1 New Game! v3
9 16 3,286 3,286 1 WWW.Working!! v1 LE
10 17 3,195 3,195 1 Kidou Butouden G Gundam BD Box v2
11 18 3,180 3,180 1 Tsukiuta. The Animation v3
12 22 2,844 2,844 1 Flying Witch v6
13 23 2,711 2,711 1 Dangan Ronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen v3
14 24 2,688 2,688 1 Shirobako BD Box v1
15 25 2,660 2,660 1 Mob Psycho 100 v3
18 27 2,250 2,250 1 Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei! v3
19 29 2,244 2,244 1 Masou Gakuen HxH v3
20 2,077 2,077 1 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanova ViVid: Vivio LE

Unranked:
The Biz leaks for this week, on BD:
*1921 Kin-iro Mosaic BD Box
*1767 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanova ViVid: Einhart LE
*1591 Zegapain ADP
*1037 Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanova ViVid: RE
**867 FLCL BD Box
**715 Keijo!!!!!!!! v1
**674 Fruits Basket BD Box
**612 Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (re-release)
**320 WWW.Working v1 RE

It's cool to see Working still doing well. 5.6k BD/DVD total for volume 1.

Keijo being 715 is laughable.

Surprising seeing Sunshine drop so much. It's still selling great, but nothing like the original.

[Neichus]

I read your post, don't worry...but I'm still a bit disappointed that your general stance on it hardly changed, from what I could tell.

I guess I just didn't do a good job of expressing my thoughts then: My first and foremost complaint against it was that it was obscure and confusing. The secondary concern was my disagreement with some of its content. In the rewatch I found it to be clear and perfectly understandable and my philosophical differences with it felt less...pressing. Taken together my enjoyment and view of the show experienced a significant improvement.

I haven't visited MAL to update the score. I will be probably bumping it up, the question is how much. It's at a 6 right now, the question is between a 7 or 8. It's still my "least favorite" compared to Texhnolyze and Haibane Renmei, but it's no longer a distant third.

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@Neichus It's quite difficult to comprehend your perplexing and convoluted posts while drinking, to be honest.

^It appears perhaps that they are difficult to understand regardless of sobriety level.

[Zoma]

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