June 03, 2012

More frame grabs

I find that I want to find more frame grabs before doing another update.

So the next candidate was To Love-ru. Or so I thought. Having gone through two episodes of it, not a chance. First off, all I have are DVD rips, and the quality is lousy. Second, the art isn't very good. And the story setup is already destroying brain cells. Not a chance.

The general criteria here is: fan service; lots of images of girls without any guys in the frame; Few or no lolis; 720p or 1080p (the result just looks better if the original is bigger); the girls are smiling.

Weapons are a plus. Bikinis are a big plus. Nudity is a nice thing in other circumstances, but of course I can't use it here.

I've been keeping a list of shows I think might be usable, and I've already run through and looted, or rejected, a hell of a lot of titles. Here are the ones on the list I haven't done yet:

IdolM@ster
Crescent Love
Mayoi Neko Overrun
Ninja Nonsense (480p)
Grenadier (480p)
Nyan-Koi
R-15
Yumeria (480p)
Horizon in the middle of nowhere
Otome Youkai Zakuro
Occult Academy
the World only God Knows
Sorano Otoshimono
Akikan
Inukami
11 Eyes
Sora Kake Girl
Moetan
Umisho
Kemeko
G-On Riders (480p)
Magipoka (480p)

Some of those (e.g. Magipoka) have been on that list for so long that they've gotten dusty and gray, and I probably won't use them. Some of those I suspect will get rejected once I look at them.

Akikan, for instance, is a fantastically stupid show. Me, the addict of fan service harem shows? I never watched it. But it does feature cute girls with nice figures, at least based on the teaser art. Can I struggle through two or three eps without suffering brain damage?

I think that's the next one to try.

UPDATE: Forget it; the art style is terrible. Folks, girls are drawn with curves, not straight lines!

UPDATE: To Love-Ru was useless, too. Man, that art is ugly.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 07:40 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment
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1 Occult Academy is not a good candidate. Virtually no fanservice that I recall, no onsen, no beach episodes.

Posted by: Doyen at June 04, 2012 12:48 AM (nV9J4)

2 Oh, I dunno.  Occult Academy's heroine had one of the nicer looking behinds I can remember.  Not much fanservice, and she was really bossy, but she did have a nice behind.

BTW, take a word of advice from the translator of the show, and cross 11eyes off your list.  It's about as dark and gloomy as you can get, and there's barely any fanservice to be found.  Lots of blood, gore, angst, and all the things you hate.

Posted by: tellu541 at June 04, 2012 01:29 AM (IuWVQ)

3 Much as I like the show, I'd probably cross The World Only God Knows off your list for perhaps being a little too chaste for top rotation material.

As far as iM@S and SoraKakeGirl go, episodes 5 and 13 respectively would probably give you the most mileage even if the rest of the show don't prove to your taste.

Posted by: DiGiKerot at June 04, 2012 04:06 AM (w2pnv)

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Ninja Nonsense is pretty much a vehicle for Wakamoto-san to get his perv level over 9000, and the art style is pretty simple.  Not sure it has much potential.

Yumeria looks like the sort of show I'd see in the top rotation here, but actually watching it may damage brain cells.

Occult Academy: Mikaze (the waitress) is cute, and she's more in line with what I see in the top rotation than the protagonist is (she's proud of her chest), but she doesn't go past low-cut necklines until some spoilery stuff near the end of the show.  Maya (protagonist) does have a Psycho-shout-out shower scene in the 2nd episode.

Sora no Otoshimono: see Yumeria, but be doubly careful of those brain cells.  (And something like 2/3 of the show is done with chibi artwork.)

(The others I haven't seen, or just agree with what's already been said.)

Posted by: Mikeski at June 04, 2012 07:14 AM (1bPWv)

5

I used Ninja Nonsense before. I own the show and have watched the whole thing. It's on the list, but I probably won't use it. That's one of the ones that have been on the list so long they've gotten dusty.

Yumeria was in the top rotation, too. Problem with that one is too many lolis.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 04, 2012 07:31 AM (+rSRq)

6 Getting senile in my old age... those two are on your reviews page, too.

Posted by: Mikeski at June 04, 2012 08:12 AM (1bPWv)

7 G-on Riders is going to be panty shots and glasses.  That's pretty much the extent of the entire series. 

Posted by: sqa at June 04, 2012 05:16 PM (tmPk0)

8 Yeah, I watched about 3 episodes of it a couple years back.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 04, 2012 05:34 PM (+rSRq)

9 As a sad note, I was helping the group that subbed it originally, haha.

It was okay as a comedy.  At least of the stuff that season.

Posted by: sqa at June 04, 2012 05:37 PM (tmPk0)

10 Sqa, those features will not come as news to Our Host, although I'd add "broad parody" to your list; pretty much every scene spoofs something. FYI, the official manga adaptation adds lesbian foreplay, light bondage, tentacles, and frequent nudity, with the entire female cast nude for the final battle (lolis included).

-j

Posted by: J Greely at June 04, 2012 05:44 PM (fpXGN)

11 Suddenly I see a lot more new images, but not from any new series: Hoshizora, for example.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 04, 2012 06:17 PM (5OBKC)

12 I suspect IdolM@ster has some potential. At least if this image from Sankaku is representative. Image safe, but site NSFW, as always.

Posted by: David at June 04, 2012 06:34 PM (Kn54v)

13 Pete, I haven't done an update yet.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 04, 2012 06:53 PM (+rSRq)

14 Oddly enough, it does feel like I'm seeing a lot of pictures that weren't coming up before, even though I know they've been in the rotation since the last update. For instance, I'd never seen Carnival Phantasm 9, Aika Zero 2, or Koihime Musou 10 until today.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at June 04, 2012 10:55 PM (2XtN5)

15 What J and Pete said. I noticed it over the weekend.  

Posted by: ubu at June 05, 2012 02:39 PM (r3aaK)

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It's not impossible. The last time I revamped the selection code, I tried to make it so that over the course of a year it would be able to deliver every single one of the images, even if it couldn't do so over the course of a day.

The primary "random" number is the number of milliseconds since midnight. What I don't know is what the granularity of that is. It almost certainly isn't updated every single millisecond; it's possible the granularity is 16.6 milliseconds, or maybe 33.3 milliseconds.

I do a bunch of math on that to eventually make a selection. But I also included an offset based on the calendar. Basically, after calculating an image number, I add another number which is the month number multiplied by 30 plus the day-in-the-month.

The sum of that plus the previous choice number is taken modulo the number of images, and that's how I make my choice.

So if the former calculation is grainy and can't actually pick every single one of the (currently 994) images, at least I can offset it gradually over the course of the year.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 05, 2012 03:12 PM (+rSRq)

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