no.

moe tropes/archtypes in an interesting setting

it's about cute girls doing cute things in a cold war setting

It's about 5 girls who play in a band for their light music club in highschool. Their band is called After School Teatime, and it's very moe.

Yes, it's brilliant. Great animation, likable characters, AMAZING setting, mood and OST.

It's OK. The ending will utterly rape your suspension of disbelief however.

Post Traumatic Stress Disordah

Great setting
Great background art
Great soundtrack
Good animation
Mediocre characters
Shitty attempt at a story near the end
Typical Japanese wishy washy hippy shit ending

I've seen a lot of people curious about SnW as of late.

My take is it's an interesting setting but it suffers from mood whiplash.

Watch Haibane Renmei instead, it wipes the floor with SnW in terms of everything.

Slice of life in a post-apocalyptic setting. Cute girls doing cute military peace-time tasks with occasional flashbacks about the horrors of war.

I'd say it's mediocre to good. If you include the two OVA episodes, it's a decent waste of time. Last episode (13) will make you wish for more.

girls shooting guns.

>>49400116
It's basically /k/-ON!

>>49400254
No doubt Haibane Renmai is better, but that doesn't mean we have to stop watching all "lesser" anime altogether. In fact, if we did, we'd have only like 10 shows to watch anymore.

So I'm the only who appreciated the ending for being positive, showing the good in everyone (or thing, that being a major theme of the show), and for not falling into the horrid grimdark / bittersweet ending everything else does?

>>49400245
It suffers from AIJOU YUUJOU whiplash.

>>49400291
This. Enjoyed it well enough. It is one of those shows that you watch and let the atmosphere wash over you.

Don't expect Saving Private Ryan.

>>49400373
That was basically the entire point of the show. I agree that EVERYONE DIES would have not been a fitting end, but I was still a bit disappointed that this didn't happen.

Also, one entire episode is about the main girl pissing her pants.

>>49400373
The ending just felt a little bit cheesy to me, though I don't have any specific recommendations for making it better. Unlike everyone else, I have no issues with leaving the mystery of what happened in the past open-ended and unsolved like that. History fades into myth, and I think that is part of the charm of the setting.

I will say that I enjoyed episode 13 more than episode 12. I wasn't particularly moved by the TV finale, but Rio's dream was absolutely fantastic and poignant and definitely left me wanting more.

It has moe-moe Mengele.

>>49400556
And that was right after the episode about one of the girls having flashbacks about her entire former squad dying.

>>49400445
Really? You're disappointed because the show didn't pull an ending like that yet you know it wouldn't fit the shows themes? You would have prefered it had it abandoned it's themes and just wasted the fact it was one of the few works these days that attempted to give a positive message, theme and mood?

>>49400556
True enough. To defend it a bit: there were many speculah bits in this episode. It wasn't completely without purpose with respect to the story.

One of the best anime ever

>>49400373

But it still had two armies of trained soldiers stopping to listen to music, as well as a diplomatic situation being resolved hugely quickly, by a girl who ,by her own admission, is not on good terms with her family and has little interests IN diplomacy or politics. The fact that that girl is then allowed to rejoin her regiment, despite being the second most powerful and high profile person on the continent due to her upcoming marriage is just stupid icing on the retard cake.

Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuña played in local bands from the age of ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved to Puerto Rico. In 1974 Acuña moved to Las Vegas, working with artists such as Elvis Presley and Diana Ross, and the following year he joined the jazz-fusion group Weather Report, appearing on the albums Black Market and Heavy Weather. Acuña left Weather Report in 1978, and became a session musician in California, recording and playing live with (amongst many others) Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, Jim Walker (musician), Chick Corea, Whitney Houston, Plácido Domingo, Phil Keaggy, Sergeant Petter, Sam Phillips, former Weather Report bandmates Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Beck, Roberta Flack, U2, and Al Jarreau. He can be found on recordings by musicians as culturally diverse as Javier Malosetti, Lee Ritenour, Peter Gabriel, Johnny Clegg, Robbie Robertson, Jackson Browne and Flavio Sala.
In the 1980s Acuna also recorded and toured with the Christian jazz band Koinonia, which featured session musicians Abraham Laboriel, Justo Almario, Hadley Hockensmith, Harlan Rogers, and Bill Maxwell. He played on Willy DeVille's Crow Jane Alley album and 1987 together with the TCB Band of Elvis Presley in the Roy Orbison TV-Special "A Black and White Night". He played percussion on Blondie's number one "The Tide Is High".
He has also worked as an educator at University of California, Los Angeles and Berklee College of Music.

>>49400627
That was a left over from my first impressions. Remember, we knew nothing about this show. We didn't know what direction it would go, and there was still the possibility that this show could have been darker than what we thought.

It's beautiful and has an interesting setting... but it's pretty damned boring. And I'm usually into moeshit.

>>49400556
Yes, and? It was a funny episode that also showed Kanata's dedication.

As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 127 people, 62 households, and 38 families residing in the village. The population density was 497.5 people per square mile (188.6/km²). There were 69 housing units at an average density of 270.3 per square mile (102.5/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 100.00% White.
There were 62 households out of which 22.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.8% were married couples living together, 3.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.1% were non-families. 33.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.05 and the average family size was 2.54.
In the village the population was spread out with 18.1% under the age of 18, 3.1% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 27.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.6 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $31,667, and the median income for a family was $36,250. Males had a median income of $29,375 versus $21,750 for females. The per capita income for the village was $16,712. There were no families and 0.8% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 3.7% of those over 64.

This anime man, this anime SAVED /a/. It was really awesome back then.

>>49400705
>> And I'm usually into moeshit.
Stop using that word.

>>49400680
.... I don't think I could have said it any better than that.

Sir James Murray of Kilbaberton, (d.1634), was a Scottish master wright and architect. He served as the King's Master of Works under James VI, and Charles I. He was one of the first men in Scotland to be called an architect.[1]
His father James Murray (d.1615) was a master wright and was appointed Overseer of the King's Works in Scotland in 1601. The younger James was appointed Overseer in 1605, when his father resigned the post, and two years later was appointed principal Master of Works in Scotland, succeeding David Cunninghame of Robertland.[2]
Murray was granted land near Juniper Green, outside Edinburgh, in 1612. Between 1622 and 1623 he designed and built Baberton House as his home here.[2] The innovative symmetrical u-plan house still stands, although it was extended in the 18th century, and now serves as offices. Murrays initials, together with those of his wife, Katherine Weir, appear on the house.[3]
Murray drew up plans for Parliament House in Edinburgh in 1633, and the building was constructed to his design over the following years.[2] As Master of Works he was also in charge of works at Linlithgow Palace, the reconstruction of Holyrood Palace prior to the coronation of Charles I, and additions to the Great Hall at Edinburgh Castle.
On 28 September 1608, Murray chased Finlay Taylor, a baillie of the Canongate, with a drawn sword in the Abbey Close near Holyroodhouse.[4] In 1633, at the coronation of Charles I, Murray was knighted. He died in December of the following year.

>>49400673
>But it still had two armies of trained soldiers stopping to listen to music,
You forget the part about an ancient, vastly technically superior mecha suddenly getting between the two armies. They didn't actually stop the two armies either. They were stopped by the fucking princess, who, if not for that mecha thing, would have been too late to stop the battle.

> as well as a diplomatic situation being resolved hugely quickly,
Oh what shame, not enough explosions for you?

>>49400723
Live threads mang, pure love!

I hurt my /b/ today.
To see if the cancer is still there.
I trolled the newfags hard
The threat is still so real.
The copypasta tears them apart.
The old familiar rage.
Try to post original content,
but they wont see anything.
What has /b/ become, my sweetest friend.
Every meme we know, comes back as cancer in the end.
And you could have it all, moots advertising empire on /b/.
Newfags will let us down,
Snacks will make us hurt.
I wear this crown of memes
apon my oldfag chair.
Full of shit memes
ERROR FLOOD DETECTED.

My favourite anime, OP. Watch it.

>>49400673
Optimism is not bad. If you want a work to not be optimistic and positive in it's message, you are looking at the wrong show.

Ok /a/ so here is the situation

I have been keeping and saving any and all spiders I find running around my house. I keep them alive in little tuba wear containers and drop in crickets or whatever random feeder bugs I find at the local petsmart. Anyway,

I recently have erected a spider battle arena out of cardboard and sugar cubes. I have about 22 spiders in surplus and plan to make them do one on one combat in a tournament of epic proportions. The loser is devoured by the winner and the winner becomes stronger. He then lives on to do battle against the next opponent. Whichever spider is left standing after the other 21 have died will go on to the final round. There is a prey mantis I bought at the vivarium named Charley. The final spider gladiator will do battle with Charley the mantis. If the spider actually manages to beat Charley he will be declared the king of spider land and flushed down the toilet afterwards.

What happened with Anime no Chikara?, any news?

Cute girls fixing tanks and playing Amazing Grace. They save some old lady, make friends with Harry Potters owl, one girl spends an entire episode wondering if she's going to pee her pants, the commander has PTSD, and they deal in the bootleg moonshine just for fun.

At the end you realize that one of the girls is important, and she plays some sweet ass blues trumpet Amazing Grace and stops World War....5...or is it 6. I dunno they never specify outside we fucked shit up so hard that they had to go back to WWII era guns and blow glass by hand, but still have giant walking tanks.

>>49400893

I think it crashed and burned.

Depends, did you like the VC PS3 game or anime?
Then sure.

It was really nice. I thought the ending was good.

>>49400893
Their anime was shit and it bombed.
Simple as that.

Reposting a former comment of mine, as it seems relevant:
Comte de Buffon was a French scholar who during his lifetime wrote 36 volumes in his grand work; Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. In this encyclopaedia of the natural world de Buffon carefully describes all known animals and plants. Including the sloth.
What separates de Buffon's Natural History from modern science books, however, is the clear emotion that emanates from his text. And let me put it like this, de Buffon was not fond of the sloth.
Enjoy!
Whereas nature appears to us live, vibrant, and enthusiastic in producing monkeys; so is she slow, constrained and restricted in sloths. And we must speak more of wretchedness than laziness – more of default, deprivation, and defect in their constitution: no incisor or canine teeth, small and covered eyes, a thick and heavy jaw, flattened hair that looks like dry grass … legs too short, badly turned, and badly terminated … no separately movable digits, but two or three excessively long nails. … Slowness, stupidity, neglect of its own body, and even habitual sadness, result from this bizarre and neglected conformation. No weapons for attack or defense; no means of security; no resource for safety in escape; confined, not to a country, but to a tiny mote of earth – the tree under which it was born; a prisoner in the middle of great space … everything about them announces their misery; they are imperfect productions made by nature, which, scarcely having the ability to exist at all, can only persist for a while, and shall then be effaced from the list of beings … These sloths are the lowest term of existence in the order of animals with flesh and blood; one more defect would have made their existence impossible.

Well, 40% - If you get the message, you will understand that the end of Sora no Woto is NOT positive.(watch OVA 2) The war will continue and everything will come to an end. It's pretty depressing to be honest.

>>49400864
this is more /b/ related... but I don't mind

>>49400917
this. they were all awful.

efore the election the Conservative and Labour parties both had 16 seats, while the Liberal Democrats who formed the administration had 15 seats, with one seat, formerly Liberal Democrat, being vacant.[3] 17 seats were being contested in the election, with 2 seats up in Millbrook after Liberal Democrat Virginia Moore resigned from the council.[3]
In total 69 candidates were standing[3] and as well as candidates from the national political parties, a couple of candidates stood for local parties called Southampton First and Southampton Save Our Services.[4] They campaigned on local issues, with Southampton Save Our Services running on a platform calling for improved conditions for public sector workers in Southampton.[4] Candidates also included a 20 year old Conservative, Vince Capozzoli in Portswood, after the age for councillors was reduced from 21 to 18.[5]
National politicians including Conservative leader David Cameron and Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain visited Southampton to campaign for their parties.[6][7]
The council used an electronic system to check postal votes, but had to check them by hand after the system failed to read up to 40% of them.[8][9

>>49400937
Life is depressing if you look at the reality.

>>49400864
Tape it, and post link.

http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/32427856

Best SNW thread

>>49400673
> two armies of trained soldiers stopping to listen to music
It's happened in real life.

> as well as a diplomatic situation being resolved hugely quickly, by a girl who ,by her own admission, is not on good terms with her family and has little interests IN diplomacy or politics
Everybody just wanted to get the thing fucking over with (except the crazy warmongering guy), and all Rio did was deliver the treaty. She herself had nothing to do with it besides resigning herself to marrying the Roman emperor.

> that girl is then allowed to rejoin her regiment, despite being the second most powerful and high profile person on the continent due to her upcoming marriage
Said regiment has at its disposal one of the most powerful mobile weapons platforms in existence in that time period, and is located in a relatively well-protected fortress. Not to mention allowing her to return was a decision made by the Roman emperor himself, so any objections from political officials were probably overruled.