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Round 1 Part 2: Battle Girl High School episode 1 Vs Centaur No Nayami episode 1 With Battle Girl High School, I found very little to hook into. It's so generic it pretty much disappears into the anime landscape fairly easily (and rightly so). There's a lot of action in the first act, but it ends up being pointless, with no real set up or anything, and the decision for like the entire class to be involved in the first battle. So there's like 30 little girls in super hero/mech costumes fighting some generic monster things. None of it is particularly striking animation-wise or idea-wise. The comedy/slice-of-life school scenes I thought were boring. It's anime. So it's pretty hyper and colorful and there are monsters in it. So it's not a total loss. But I hope Centaur is good so I don't have to watch the second episode of this. Centaur no Nayami: more school. Instead of all super hero/mech girls, this one has all fantasy race type characters (centaurs and demons and angels and stuff) of mixed gender. Comedy ensues when the characters put on a school play. I find that I sort of like this idea better, and I like the potential in the relationship between what appear to be the two main characters. But the episode is really badly paced, and often suffers from the same problems that Battle Girl High School does. while I think Centaur is a bit more memorable, Battle Girl High at least has a couple of action sequences in it (not great ones, but still). I think I will give it to Centaur just based on - the only element in either of these two shows that interested me even a little was the relationship between the centaur and the demon characters. So Centaur advances to next round.

round 1: 18if episode 1 vs Ballroom e Youkoso (Welcome To the Ballroom) episode 1 18if was nice. Fantasy anime (light in tone but heavy on the fantasy) with a lot of comedy, drama and emotion threaded in. It has that quality that it feels familiar in context, yet is capable of a surprise or two. Visually very rich, with a lot of fantastical dreamlike elements. Ballroom had the seed elements of a decent coming of age comedy/drama. I felt that the "Ballroom" part was almost a throwaway in the sense that I expected more music and also for the dancing elements to be more visually interesting. For a show about Ballroom, I felt what animated dance sequences there were didn't seem to much care about it. There was no real capturing of what it was in the movement. It felt more just like a thing that was in the script that they then had to draw, and then animate. I didn't feel like anybody on the visual or directorial end really got that deeply into it. What animated dance sequences are there are barely passable, and the character movement in general seems a little clunky for a show about Ballroom. Also I found my mind wandering more than once during it. So, personally, while I felt there was a lot of potential in Ballroom (much of it not realized), I was much more entertained by 18if. so this round goes to 18if.

a new batch of anime gives me yet another chance to catch up with all the new anime. so trying this for the new board. I will watch two new shows head to head. Then I will pick one to advance. The advancing show, I will watch the next episode head to head with another show that also advanced. until only one remains! The winning one.

NXT seems to be madly developing talent and hanging onto the status quo as far as top of the card goes for the most part. Looking at the current roster, I think there are plenty of people who could step up. But from a creative perspective, they just haven't really primed any storylines for moving anybody up. Drew MacIntyre would make a good champion. But there's no real storyline propelling him with the same velocity of previous NXT champs. Roode may be there awhile. As may Asuka and the Authors Of Pain. The main roster definitely doesn't need any more complications. So mobility seems a bit capped lately. They may be positioning Sanity to take over for AOP. And I can't say that the tag division couldn't use some more firepower on the main roster. So that seems like a possibility. They also seem to like Killian Dane quite a bit. And there's always Eric Young in their back pocket. Aleister Black is pretty cool. I think he has the presence to pull off a championship run. Askuka seems way overdue for a main roster spot. But the Women's Division is pretty jammed. But damn it'd be amazing to see Asuka beat the crap out of Alexa Bliss. Seems like they were trying to position Ember Moon before her injury. She's back now. They seem much more tentative now on that front though. They've got Ember Moon, Ruby Riot and Nikki Cross all sort of jockying for the title. Seems like none of them quite jump out enough for a title run. Of the three, Ember Moon seemed the no-brainer. But Nikki Cross is the one who's pulled off the most incredible matches. I think Cross/Asuka would be the way to go. Cross would make a wild champion. And if AOP ends up in the main roster, with Sanity taking the tag belts, that sort of sets it up for a faction-title reign, which might be interesting for a bit. With Cross as Women's Champion, Sanity as tag champs, and maybe Eric Young as champion even. Then the next wave could be the sort of disintegration of Sanity with other people taking the belts and eventually Sanity moving up to the main roster as a vengeful unit, or as singles players after the disintegration.

I honestly think I looked forward to Talking Smack more than Raw lately.

that's not very good.

Heidecker was our only no-show. we had somebody else got stuck in the hurricane and didn't have internet, but they still replied to some posts. I think it was James Urbaniak. but might be mixing him up with somebody else.

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i think he means "larping".

masturbating into a sock while weeping torrentially?

this was the generic sn for admin. on the proboard, I was also "admin" for same reason.

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