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Started by digi-kun October 2nd, 2010 10:42 AM
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Probably a good idea to pick up Totori anyway, it's already sold out on Amazon and you don't want to end up paying $100+ for a copy of the LE on ebay like happened with Hyperdimension Neptunia (which is an awful game and I recommend to no one, hah.) I'd get Totori except I'm broke @[email protected]

Well, here's your Wii list XD

Arc Rise Fantasia
Baroque
Castle of Shikigami III
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Fragile Dreams
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
No More Heroes
Rune Factory Frontier/Tides of Destiny
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love
Samurai Warriors 3
Shiren the Wanderer
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Trauma Center: Second Opinion/New Blood
Trauma Team
Ultimate Shooting Collection
Xenoblade Chronicles (totally worth importing and hacking your Wii for)
I thought Totori was video game, but it's anime? She's cute <3

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Next PreCure has been announced, Smile Precure.

Also Kugimiya has been added to the Kill Me Baby cast. I expected her to be in it from the off and was excited to not see her in it....oh well. :/

Mirai Nikki 8. Haha I'd always considered the Akise Aru x Yuki relationship to be like Kawuru and Shinji but they've even got the same voice actor in Akira Ishida, awesome.

parallelzero

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A little late, but TWGOK 163:

Spoiler:
It's refreshing to see Keima showing some regret for what he's been doing all this time. I've always felt that he didn't understand that the "real" have feelings, and now that he's "conquered" a girl who won't forget what he did, he can see that there are consequences.

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Chairman Kaga

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I thought Totori was video game, but it's anime? She's cute <3
Well, it's both...sort of. A video game with really nice anime character designs. Look up Kishida Mel on your image aggregator of choice to see more, and watch Hanasaku Iroha if you like what you see!

Next PreCure has been announced, Smile Precure.
From the one pic floating around the internet, it looks like they're reverting to the more juvenile-looking pre-Fresh character styles. Blurgh. Also all cures revealed at the beginning? Where will I be without the torment of speculating who's going to be the next Cure?*

*
Spoiler:
I guessed that Shirabe Ako was Cure Muse almost from her first appearance in the show. I have excellent mahou shoujo intuition.

Netto Azure

Kiel

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Ah TWGOK, I am just waiting for dat big Devil-Angel fight.

Mirai Nikki...



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*
Spoiler:
I guessed that Shirabe Ako was Cure Muse almost from her first appearance in the show. I have excellent mahou shoujo intuition.
I did too although I didn't predict the reasons until
Spoiler:
she jumped in front of the attack to protect her dad.


Cure loli Muse is cool.

Ryoutarou

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Well, it's both...sort of. A video game with really nice anime character designs. Look up Kishida Mel on your image aggregator of choice to see more, and watch Hanasaku Iroha if you like what you see!



From the one pic floating around the internet, it looks like they're reverting to the more juvenile-looking pre-Fresh character styles. Blurgh. Also all cures revealed at the beginning? Where will I be without the torment of speculating who's going to be the next Cure?*

*
Spoiler:
I guessed that Shirabe Ako was Cure Muse almost from her first appearance in the show. I have excellent mahou shoujo intuition.
There are probably going to be new Cures showing up later on in the season, it's not like PreCure 5 where the title pretty much locked them into having five Cures. XD

Not a big fan of the character art floating around, it reminds me too much of Fresh and I wasn't a fan of that season. Heartcatch and Suite have been the best as far as I'm concerned and something about this new season doesn't quite make my expectations go through the roof.

Chairman Kaga

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I did too although I didn't predict the reasons until
Spoiler:
she jumped in front of the attack to protect her dad.


Cure loli Muse is cool.
Yeah, I didn't predict the reason either, though I'm sure there's some super-sleuth out there that noticed
Spoiler:
Otokichi and Mephisto had the same moustache and Otokichi and Ako had the same glasses so they all had to be related.


Muse is an awesome Cure. I just wish she retained her glasses after the transformation, hah.


There are probably going to be new Cures showing up later on in the season, it's not like PreCure 5 where the title pretty much locked them into having five Cures. XD

Not a big fan of the character art floating around, it reminds me too much of Fresh and I wasn't a fan of that season. Heartcatch and Suite have been the best as far as I'm concerned and something about this new season doesn't quite make my expectations go through the roof.
So I see you watch the other half of the Kamen Rider/Precure hour XD I just find it unusual that all five cures would be spoiled at once before the show even airs as it hasn't been that way since I started watching Precure. There's always some leaked pic from a catalog of upcoming products that spoils who the next Cure is, but it's never more than a month or two before the Cure is actually revealed in the show. I just love speculating XD

I'm waiting until all of Fresh has been subbed before beginning it, though I've seen buckets of fanart for the series so I'm familiar with all of the characters. The Smile Precure characters actually look more like the Yes! Precure crew to me if only because they have bigger eyes and the shorter, less adolescent body type than Fresh/Suite characters did. Either way, I'm not feeling it either.

Spoiler:
As long as there's good fanart, I won't complain XD

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My 250Gb HDD which is half full already isn't gonna like Smile PreCure even if I do... I might have to go back to the old method of "download, watch, and delete" like I had to on my old comp...

A Cure with glasses in her Cure form would be awesome. Just saying.

Of course, if Smile already starts out with 5 Cures, and more show up randomly/persuaded from the forces of evil/released from being brainwashed, just how many Cures are there gonna be this season? It'll be like an All-Stars DX Movie, lol

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Chairman Kaga

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I'm at the point where I only archive things that I think I'll watch again. As much as I like Precure, it doesn't generally fall under this category :p (Heartcatch for sure, though.)

You know, an interesting twist would be Cures being converted to the side of evil instead of the other way around for once. That would be a pretty great fakeout on Toei's part and would give the opportunity for new Cures to still be introduced in the season, though I have a feeling that they're just going to play the show ultra-orthodox next season. Suite hasn't done quite as well as Heartcatch, yeah? I guess they're done with their experiment of quietly adding otaku appeal to the show and going back to the lucrative market of little girls who love plastic crap, heh.

Ryoutarou

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Haha, that would sort of be like the approach Ronin Warriors took. It would be a pretty cool way to have a larger number of Cures in there and still have the main characters down to a manageable size. Though I suppose at the rate it might also make the title of Cure pretty inconsequential.

As far as Suite goes compared to other shows, it's not doing bad, but for PreCure standards, it's not doing great. (PreCure is probably the only franchise along with Sentai, Gundam, and Kamen Rider that could do poorly for their own franchise, but still be considered great for other shows) It'll probably be slightly above Splash Star as far as ratings go, so second least viewed show. Financially, here's the breakdown:



Basically, HeartCatch was an all time high for the franchise when financials are considered, even outdoing Max Heart. (ratings-wise, it's middle of the road for the franchise) Suite is the poorest performing series since at least PreCure 5 Go Go, again, bad for this franchise is still really good in general.

Chairman Kaga

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Jorge: Expert Precure Analyst. I'm impressed.

So, do we know of any specific reasons why Suite is underperforming? It's a step down from Heartcatch in pretty much every respect, but I've never sensed anything glaringly wrong or sub-par about it.

Spoiler:
This is all because they chose Siren to be the third cure instead of Waon.

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This is only tangentially related to the current line of discussion, but I still thought it was interesting enough to post here:

Toaru Majutsu no Index Producer: 26-Episode Anime Costs 300 Million Yen - Interest - Anime News Network
Producer Nobuhiro Nakayama (Toaru Majutsu no Index, Hatsukoi Limited, Modern Magic Made Simple) noted during a lecture on Sunday at Tokyo University that a two-cours (six-month or 26-episode) anime series costs 300 million yen (about US$3.85 million) to create.

Nakayama then added that if an anime is successful, "it is everyone's achievement; however, if it fails, it is the producer's responsibility, so bear that in mind."

Kazuma Miki (Toaru Majutsu no Index, Oreimo), the assistant editor-in-chief for ASCII Media Works' light novel imprint Dengeki Bunko, ran the lecture, which was about Dengeki Bunko and the relationship between entertainment novels and mixed media.

Miki mentioned during the lecture that because there are a lot of media competing for the audience's time, the most successful approach to get the audience's attention is to present the concept of the work clearly.

Light novel author Reki Kawahara (Accel World, Sword Art Online) also spoke at the lecture, mentioning that because he has a a difficult time ending his stories, he makes sure to consider the sequential order of his plot from beginning to end.

Source: Nico Nico News
Of course, most of that money goes to the sponsors, while the studio is forced to work with a mere pittance in comparison.

jpp8

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Toaru is late night anime anyway. They barely make any money from adverts. They get most of their money from the Blurays which are asdf expensive (7000 yen for 1-3 eps). Index S1 sold well making a fair profit while Railgun and Index II were huge successes shared by everyone. Meanwhile, Mayoi Neko Overrun, another Nakayama produced anime, sold under 3000 per volume which was not enough to break even and was thus a failure and Nakayama's responsibility.

In any case, my point is... What's your point?

digi-kun

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I tend not to recommend Aria off the bat unless they're looking for it. Yes, it's horribly relaxing and feel-good, but most people aren't good at sitting to watch it because it's a lot slower than most slice-of-life shows.

Chairman Kaga

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Also, lol @ the Precure pokeball. See the bottom of the poster? Enough cute mascots to last 50 more seasons of Precure. Calling it now, there's totally going to be a monster battling theme, which will probably be extremely lucrative.

Ryoutarou

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Also, lol @ the Precure pokeball. See the bottom of the poster? Enough cute mascots to last 50 more seasons of Precure. Calling it now, there's totally going to be a monster battling theme, which will probably be extremely lucrative.
The theme this year is "form bonds between differences," sooo sort of like Suite, but I guess more confined to the fluffies this time. (their pokeball is also a make up box)

Annnnd cast

Cure Happy - Pink - Yuuki Aoi
Cure Sunny - Red - Ueda Kana
Cure Peace - Yellow - Nogawa Sakura
Cure March - Green - Shimizu Kaori
Cure Beauty - Blue - Yukino Satsuki
Candy Lin - Mascot thing - Inoue Marina


The start date for Smile also means Suit is 49 episodes.

Chairman Kaga

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I am disappoint that that's not actually a Pokeball. Oh well, character design is great, a big reason why I watch Precure is the animation anyway (though it's been so much worse in Suite than Heartcatch) so I'll be there.

GET HYPE!