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So, this is a simple thread to see what you guys are watching when are not playing games, FREDing, stuying or working. xD
Right now im watching (at a very slow rate):
Dexter - 4° season Episode 5
BSG (re-watching) - 3° season, Episode 3
Babylon 5 (re-watching the first and seccond season) - 2° season, episode 7
Animes:
Ergo Proxy - 2° epsiode
Accel World 9° Episode
Sword Art Online - 3° Episode
Well, thats it.
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Supernatural. Goddammit Dean why are you so beautiful.
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Supernatural. Goddammit Dean why are you so beautiful.
"Supernatural is a extremely overrated phenomena." Dr.Manhatan
xD
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SAO, is it any good, I read the synopsis and it seemed like just another "you die in the game YOU DIE IRL!!!OMGFTW!!!" show.
on the other hand I have been very unsatisfied with anime this season, and last season I barely found anything good so I suppose it's not like I have anything better to watch.
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on the other hand I have been very unsatisfied with anime this season, and last season I barely found anything good so I suppose it's not like I have anything better to watch.
My sentiments exactly. This and past seasons have been quite disappointing, unless I've managed to miss the true gems.
SAO is decent, it's nothing stellar but it's not bad either. The series is about how people cope with their situation when they are suddenly told that there is no escape from this virtual world and if you die, you die for real. To free themselves, they have to beat the game. One person is enough to free everyone though.
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Try as much as I want, not convinced with SAO, but a friend finally got the Stein's Gate Blu-Ray, so I think i'll be a happy man with microwaves and bananas.
The fall season is a much better lot from the looks: http://randomc.net/2012/09/15/fall-2012-preview/
After playing Diaspora, killing toasters, and finishing my latest batch of deadlines, then it's going to be spam fest with the BSG miniseries, and going to see if I can fit the first season in as well.
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Do yourself a favor and end it on the Second Season, that ending is miles better than the "make it up as you go" third and fourth seasons.
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Do yourself a favor and end it on the Second Season, that ending is miles better than the "make it up as you go" third and fourth seasons.
Ron Moore, how I pity thee... poor sod also worked on the Next Generation. So the 3rd and 4th being "bleh" wasn't surprising.
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Wait what? Initial D fifth stage? Awesome! Code Breaker seems promising though, with having FMA: Brotherhood director too. That's two series worth following I guess.
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The only thing on there that looks promising to me is Shin Sekai Yori. Not that I really watch anything that's currently airing, but if it holds up, maybe I'll get to it in a few years.
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SAO, is it any good, I read the synopsis and it seemed like just another "you die in the game YOU DIE IRL!!!OMGFTW!!!" show.
on the other hand I have been very unsatisfied with anime this season, and last season I barely found anything good so I suppose it's not like I have anything better to watch.
SAO i'm ... iffy about. It's really predictable and cheesy at points and lol random drama, but it's still got a nice setting. Though lately its been focusing on a bit too much cyber-sex/flirting/DRAMA and not enough boss raiding. Uhm...I'll be generous and 7/10.
Fall Season will be watching:
- PYSCHO-PASS. Urobuchi Gen is a cool dude. Bad Ends and Suffering YES PLZ.
- Jormungand. moardakka
Maybes:
- Robotics;Notes. The source is probably awesome (i have faith in 5bp/nitroplus), but the adaptation can be hit (S;G) or miss (C;H)...so whoknows
- Little Busters. because they somehow managed to make all the characters look like creepy soulless zombies.
- Code Breaker. Read the manga for a bit then forgot about it and now its back. Maybe if it doesn't *go on forever*
- Seitokai no Ichizon(2). WHY DID THEY CHANGE 2 SEIYUU. D:
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I am so lost.... but in the spirit of the topic, lots n lots of combat history docu's, propaganda and training video's. note taking has wrecked my fingers already
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SAO, is it any good, I read the synopsis and it seemed like just another "you die in the game YOU DIE IRL!!!OMGFTW!!!" show.
on the other hand I have been very unsatisfied with anime this season, and last season I barely found anything good so I suppose it's not like I have anything better to watch.
SAO i'm ... iffy about. It's really predictable and cheesy at points and lol random drama, but it's still got a nice setting. Though lately its been focusing on a bit too much cyber-sex/flirting/DRAMA and not enough boss raiding. Uhm...I'll be generous and 7/10.
Fall Season will be watching:
- PYSCHO-PASS. Urobuchi Gen is a cool dude. Bad Ends and Suffering YES PLZ.
- Jormungand. moardakka
Maybes:
- Robotics;Notes. The source is probably awesome (i have faith in 5bp/nitroplus), but the adaptation can be hit (S;G) or miss (C;H)...so whoknows
- Little Busters. because they somehow managed to make all the characters look like creepy soulless zombies.
- Code Breaker. Read the manga for a bit then forgot about it and now its back. Maybe if it doesn't *go on forever*
- Seitokai no Ichizon(2). WHY DID THEY CHANGE 2 SEIYUU. D:
Jormungand is to me, the spiritual successor of Black Lagoon.
awesome anime.
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Do yourself a favor and end it on the Second Season, that ending is miles better than the "make it up as you go" third and fourth seasons.
Alternatively... if you can t stop it at the 2nd season.... for the love of god do stop it before watching the second half of the "final" season.
The half season "finale" was about as perfect as an ending for the show could have gotten imho.
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For Sword Art Online you should really just read the light novels (the anime, as said before, is a solid 7/10 when taken from the whole -- which includes future episodes). It flows better and makes a lot more sense. And don't skip the side stories; some of them have extremely important plot points.
Accel World (complete as of now, at least for this season) is pretty damn good. 8/10 at least, sometimes crossing into 9/10 territory. The protagonist is also a hell of an anti-Sue, which is always nice. I still don't know why Accel World is better than SAO, considering they're both anime adaptations of light novels written by the same person, but whatever.
Continuing the light novel trend, Fate/Zero (100% complete now) was pretty good as well. A solid 8/10, though a few moments are just 10/10 spectacular. Just don't try watching it if you've never seen and/or played Fate/Stay Night, since a lot of stuff won't make any sense. After all, the light novel was written as a Forgone Conclusion type of story, seeing as it's a prequel to the Fate/Stay Night visual novel. Edit: Watch the blu-ray version! It includes a lot of cut and censored content and runs something like two hours longer than the TV version.
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I'd be watching more Hyouka if it didn't end at episode 22.
Damnit I hope the original LN author of the Kotembu series will write more soon so that KyoAni can make more seasons for it.
As for Sweet Ass Online, it's not that bad. Many has said that the LN:s beat the animu hands down, but when I don't know better the animu has been entertaining enough.
Ginga e Kickoff is one series that doesn't get as much attentinon as it deserves. A football series that (at least for now) doesn't have any Super Mega Shoots, but instead has quite a lot of good and different characters with a nice pace.
Eureka Seven AO is one big clusterf***. I kind of liked the original Eureka 7 series but this one had left one big WTF so far and it's even almost over.
It does have some good characters that are fun enough to follow but as a whole... I dunno.
Oh yea and add one more to the list of persons waiting for more Jormungand.
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Oh hell yes, we're doing general anime threads again? Naisu~
Eureka Seven AO is one big clusterf***. I kind of liked the original Eureka 7 series but this one had left one big WTF so far and it's even almost over.
It does have some good characters that are fun enough to follow but as a whole... I dunno.
I've been watching E7AO too. Loved the original, but this one has been... rather disappointing, like it doesn't know what to really do with itself. Too bad.
Looking forward to Setokai S2 and maybe Psycho Pass. I haven't really been watching much anime lately because I've been watching tons and tons of HOUSE instead.
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Just finished with Gundam AGE yesterday. Very disappointing ending. The writing could really have been a lot better, and there was a general lack of a climactic duel.
Now, I think I'll catch up on Axis Powers Hetalia (I'm in the mood for some random silliness), and after that... I have no idea. There isn't really much on currently I'm too interested in. I might try out Full Metal Panic because I've heard it's pretty good. Or maybe Elfen Lied, which I keep wanting to watch but for some reason never seem to...
I've also pre-ordered Hellsing Ultimate vols 5 - 8, but those don't come out until November. The first two Madoka movies are premiering in select US theaters in about a month, so I might try to catch those as well.
I did just purchase Super Robot Wars Z, so maybe I'll play that in the meantime. I don't speak Japanese, but with a kanji dictionary at my side I think I can get the gist of it.
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Just finished with Gundam AGE yesterday. Very disappointing ending. The writing could really have been a lot better, and there was a general lack of a climactic duel.
Now, I think I'll catch up on Axis Powers Hetalia (I'm in the mood for some random silliness), and after that... I have no idea. There isn't really much on currently I'm too interested in. I might try out Full Metal Panic because I've heard it's pretty good. Or maybe Elfen Lied, which I keep wanting to watch but for some reason never seem to...
I've also pre-ordered Hellsing Ultimate vols 5 - 8, but those don't come out until November. The first two Madoka movies are premiering in select US theaters in about a month, so I might try to catch those as well.
I did just purchase Super Robot Wars Z, so maybe I'll play that in the meantime. I don't speak Japanese, but with a kanji dictionary at my side I think I can get the gist of it.
I think the harder part of the story is the ending. aways. :/
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Just finished with Gundam AGE yesterday. Very disappointing ending. The writing could really have been a lot better, and there was a general lack of a climactic duel.
Unfortunately ending in manga and anime sucks more often than not. Part of the problem is that manga tends to go on forever and then some, so anime has to draw up an ending somehow and usually they fail to some decree, sometimes spectacularly.
It is my pet peeve that manga and anime in general do not have proper endings. You could watch the first three episodes, or read first six chapters and then stop there and lose nothing. There are some exceptions, some of them are really good too. For example, Full Metal Alchemist manga as well as anime adaptation (Brotherhood, not the original) had great endings that brought closure.
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Anime's not really my thing, but I am currently going through FMA: Brotherhood, and freaking loving it. :3
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Currently watching Samurai 7. Verdict: meh, it works well enough.
And Blue Gender. Verdict: Giant monster bugs fighting people in power armor! Sounds awesome, but in practice is a bit more mediocre.
I'm just going through Hulu, watching anything that looks interesting. Recently finished Blue Drop (short, and kinda weird) and Spice and Wolf (actually very good, for a show about the art of trade and a wolf-girl).
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Just finished with Gundam AGE yesterday. Very disappointing ending. The writing could really have been a lot better, and there was a general lack of a climactic duel.
Unfortunately ending in manga and anime sucks more often than not. Part of the problem is that manga tends to go on forever and then some, so anime has to draw up an ending somehow and usually they fail to some decree, sometimes spectacularly.
It is my pet peeve that manga and anime in general do not have proper endings. You could watch the first three episodes, or read first six chapters and then stop there and lose nothing. There are some exceptions, some of them are really good too. For example, Full Metal Alchemist manga as well as anime adaptation (Brotherhood, not the original) had great endings that brought closure.
But AGE, like *every other Gundam series* AFAIK is anime-original, and they knew fully well how many episodes they have. THEY HAVE NO EXCUSE.
Especially since pretty much *every other Gundam series* managed to at least pull that off.
I'll just chalk that up to Sunrise going full derp mode and trainwrecking; not like they haven't done it before.
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Most people are chalking it up to Sunrise allowing a video game company (Level 5) to create the series.
And actually a few Gundam series have been cut short unexpectedly. The original and Gundam X both got trimmed down from 50 episodes (though in both cases the writers managed to pull off a decent ending anyway).
And Blue Gender. Verdict: Giant monster bugs fighting people in power armor! Sounds awesome, but in practice is a bit more mediocre.
And here's another fine example of an anime that had a craptastic ending despite being... well, like Scourge said, mediocre, but not bad up to that point.
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I've almost finished watching Deep Space 9 via Amazon Prime.
Was gonna watch TNG next, but BSG is now on Amazon Instant Video, so might rewatch that instead. :P
Trying to get Breaking Bad DVDs from the library, and finishing up Grey's Anatomy... IDK why I like it.
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I tried watching Deep Space 9 and Bashir completely ruined it for me at the start of the third episode.
"Hey everyone doing their jobs in Ops, I met that spy and he talked to me and it was all super-awesome!"
No way am I putting up with that.
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The last three episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist are on indefinite hiatus.
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I tried watching Deep Space 9 and Bashir completely ruined it for me at the start of the third episode.
"Hey everyone doing their jobs in Ops, I met that spy and he talked to me and it was all super-awesome!"
No way am I putting up with that.
Character development mother****er. Do you know of it? :p
Then again, DS9 takes a while to get truely interesting.
Currently watching Samurai 7. Verdict: meh, it works well enough.
Samurai 7 is an odd show. It never bothers to explain the deal with the giant flying mech samurais and all that. Yet for some reason all the wierdness of the setting keeps things kinda interesting. Its just really sloppy in a lot of things, poor consistency. Like for example, there is one scene where the samurai lose their weapons as they pretend to be taken prisoner. Yet as the giant floating ship thing starts crashing down, they suddenly escape the ship with all their weapons on them. There was no way for them to have searched and found the weapons as they barged from one fight scene into the escape scene. Stuff like that, its just poorly directed.
And Blue Gender. Verdict: Giant monster bugs fighting people in power armor! Sounds awesome, but in practice is a bit more mediocre.
This show just got downright wierd near the end. And the ending was a major "What the actual **** just happened?".
Though I liked how the 'final boss': Just promptly got shot in the head after he was finished delivering his 'I'm so evil, this is my master plan' speech.
Just finished with Gundam AGE yesterday. Very disappointing ending. The writing could really have been a lot better, and there was a general lack of a climactic duel.
I haven't watched the last 3 episodes yet, but even as a big gundam fan I can only say that Gundam Age was overal just bad. It felt like a major chore just to sit through it.
SAO i'm ... iffy about. It's really predictable and cheesy at points and lol random drama, but it's still got a nice setting. Though lately its been focusing on a bit too much cyber-sex/flirting/DRAMA and not enough boss raiding. Uhm...I'll be generous and 7/10.
I'll second this opinion. I do quite enjoy it though.
Two other shows I'm watching and really like are the second season of Kyoukai senjou no horizon (wierd of a show as it is, I enjoy the **** out of it) and Oda Nobuna no Yabou.
Still need to get around starting second season of Rinne no lagrange.
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I tried watching Deep Space 9 and Bashir completely ruined it for me at the start of the third episode.
Man, stay the course. Or just skip ahead to when they get the Defiant. DS9 is a really good show.
I am finally, finally, working my way through Bablyon 5 in an organized manner.
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I tried watching Deep Space 9 and Bashir completely ruined it for me at the start of the third episode.
Man, stay the course. Or just skip ahead to when they get the Defiant. DS9 is a really good show.
I am finally, finally, working my way through Bablyon 5 in an organized manner.
DS9 is my fav Star Trek spin-off.
really awesome.
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I tried watching Deep Space 9 and Bashir completely ruined it for me at the start of the third episode.
Man, stay the course. Or just skip ahead to when they get the Defiant. DS9 is a really good show.
I am finally, finally, working my way through Bablyon 5 in an organized manner.
DS9 is my fav Star Trek spin-off.
really awesome.
DS9 is my fav Babylon 5 rip-off.
It's pretty okay, though it could be more epic. Of course the prior existence of Q puts epic a bit harder to reach for them...
(go go gadget flamewar!)
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Oh you did not just go there, JMS already moved on, you should too.
Now activating Emergency OTP:
While not technically a Series, this guy's opinionated reviews are gold in my book: http://sfdebris.com/index.asp
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ds9 and b5 were both pretty good shows by the standards of 90s television, but they just can't hold up in the current golden age.
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I tried watching Deep Space 9 and Bashir completely ruined it for me at the start of the third episode.
Man, stay the course. Or just skip ahead to when they get the Defiant. DS9 is a really good show.
I am finally, finally, working my way through Bablyon 5 in an organized manner.
DS9 is my fav Star Trek spin-off.
really awesome.
DS9 is my fav Babylon 5 rip-off.
It's pretty okay, though it could be more epic. Of course the prior existence of Q puts epic a bit harder to reach for them...
(go go gadget flamewar!)
I hate Q, he was the kind od Deus Ex machina that ruins many stories. its like putting 80 Sathanas to explode a sun t finish a story...oh wait...
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How can you hate Q (http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=19898700)? She's cute. :(
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Of course the prior existence of Q puts epic a bit harder to reach for them...
Counterpoint: The Q and the Grey.
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:banghead:BAD NGTM, BAD! YOU DO NOT MENTION THE Q AND THE GREY!:hopping:
Oh god, the scriptcide of an entire species and Q's character.
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How can you hate Q (http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=19898700)? She's cute. :(
wtf is this? lol
i was talking about this Q - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwoEXlTph0
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I'm kind of glad that I dropped AGE after the first season. Actually, now that I try to remember I think it's the first time I actually dropped a series by my own decision.
Though, I heard that apparently the AGE was originaly a game which had events/choises that affected to the story creating multiple ending possibilities. And the animu just picks up one of them.
Not sure about how valid this information is.
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The last three episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist are on indefinite hiatus.
Um. What?
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Breaking Bad...........................
:pimp:
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ds9 and b5 were both pretty good shows by the standards of 90s television, but they just can't hold up in the current golden age.
What golden age? i guess HBO puts out some good stuff, but the crime dramas, reality tv, ect. seem pretty terrible to me. Everybody's struggling for money. Nothing compares to Babylon 5, yet, in terms of science fiction.
IMHO
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ds9 and b5 were both pretty good shows by the standards of 90s television, but they just can't hold up in the current golden age.
What golden age? i guess HBO puts out some good stuff, but the crime dramas, reality tv, ect, seem pretty terrible to me. Everybody's struggling for money. Nothing compares to Babylon 5, yet, in terms of science fiction.
IMHO
For those of us primarily interested in high-concept "genre" telly, we are currently in a position of having a lot of quality on display.
As for the thread topic, I am currently watching Dr Who, Castle, The Newsroom, Burn Notice, Person of Interest.
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Fair enough. I guess I just have weird taste. I freaking love Highlander though nobody else seems to.
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Aside from Supernatural mentioned in my first post (Goddammit season 7. It hurts), also watching Breaking Bad, re-watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, NCIS, and vaguely Necessary Roughness.
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I'm currently watching Dominion Tank Police, Samurai Champloo, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai and Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead.
Watched Baldr Force EXE until a certain "scene" in it, left me feeling thoroughly ill for a couple of days (no, the exploding heads didn't do it).
I was thinking about re-watching Cowboy Bebop but thought better of it due to the fact that after a couple of minutes of each episode I'll remember what will happen and lose interest. Does anyone know of an anime that has a similar style of lighthearted gun toting and martial arts?
And once I've finished the ones I'm watching now, I going to mix it up a little with Girls Bravo (saw a trailer years ago on a free Newtype DVD and thought it was hilarious), Excell Saga and Najica Blitz Tactics, Battle Vixens Full Metal Panic. :nervous:
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I'm kind of glad that I dropped AGE after the first season. Actually, now that I try to remember I think it's the first time I actually dropped a series by my own decision.
Though, I heard that apparently the AGE was originaly a game which had events/choises that affected to the story creating multiple ending possibilities. And the animu just picks up one of them.
Not sure about how valid this information is.
What is this AGE series you are talking about?
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If I recall correctly that's the "Gundam for children" show.
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ds9 and b5 were both pretty good shows by the standards of 90s television, but they just can't hold up in the current golden age.
What golden age? i guess HBO puts out some good stuff, but the crime dramas, reality tv, ect. seem pretty terrible to me. Everybody's struggling for money. Nothing compares to Babylon 5, yet, in terms of science fiction.
IMHO
B5 is practically unwatchable today for very basic reasons. While on the high level it's a landmark piece of television - at the macro level of writing, the big overarching plot, the season to season arcs it's unmatched - at the basic level of acting, set design, and even costuming it's excruciating. Trek by comparison is dull and plays it way too safe, barring a few episodes (mostly in DS9).
Since the last decade we've had an eruption of gorgeous, tightly written, challenging scripted television. The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, BSG, so many more. There have been failures and sputters but overall scripted TV is in a great place.
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I'm kind of glad that I dropped AGE after the first season. Actually, now that I try to remember I think it's the first time I actually dropped a series by my own decision.
Though, I heard that apparently the AGE was originaly a game which had events/choises that affected to the story creating multiple ending possibilities. And the animu just picks up one of them.
Not sure about how valid this information is.
What is this AGE series you are talking about?
Gundam AGE, the latest in a long line of Gundam shows.
And no, this one wasn't so much for kids anymore than any other Gundam is. I thought we'd dealt with that misconception months ago. Having a less realistic art style does not a kids show make.
Gortef: I've heard that rumor too, and given that the game was released prior to the show's end and had at least one plotline identical to how the show ended, and the show was written by the same guys who made the game... I'm inclined to believe this one.
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I'm kind of glad that I dropped AGE after the first season. Actually, now that I try to remember I think it's the first time I actually dropped a series by my own decision.
Though, I heard that apparently the AGE was originaly a game which had events/choises that affected to the story creating multiple ending possibilities. And the animu just picks up one of them.
Not sure about how valid this information is.
What is this AGE series you are talking about?
Gundam AGE, the latest in a long line of Gundam shows.
And no, this one wasn't so much for kids anymore than any other Gundam is. I thought we'd dealt with that misconception months ago. Having a less realistic art style does not a kids show make.
Gortef: I've heard that rumor too, and given that the game was released prior to the show's end and had at least one plotline identical to how the show ended, and the show was written by the same guys who made the game... I'm inclined to believe this one.
Ah!
i see.
tha only AGE i know is the strategy game xD
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B5 is practically unwatchable today for very basic reasons. While on the high level it's a landmark piece of television - at the macro level of writing, the big overarching plot, the season to season arcs it's unmatched - at the basic level of acting, set design, and even costuming it's excruciating. Trek by comparison is dull and plays it way too safe, barring a few episodes (mostly in DS9).
Since the last decade we've had an eruption of gorgeous, tightly written, challenging scripted television. The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, BSG, so many more. There have been failures and sputters but overall scripted TV is in a great place.
:wtf: You must be smoking some good stuff there. Particularly acting of Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas still is very enjoyable to watch. Rest of the cast wasn't that bad either. Many of them got better after the first season. As for costumes, I still don't view them bad by any measure. Sure, there were some that sucked but were seen only in one or very few episodes. Those that we saw very often were pretty good, such as Narn ones. And I don't know what you're complaining about the sets. Only The Gathering had horrible sets, thankfully it was vastly improved for actual series and gradually improved.
Also, BSG was good only up to end of second season. The rest of it was pretty much crap. Honestly, I don't know why are you even listing BSG among the others you mentioned. If you merit the show for its first two seasons only, certainly. But in that case the series lacks good ending and conclusion, dropping rating significantly and making it no better than any other cancelled series like Firefly. If we measure the series for full four seasons, it's pretty bad.
Because of what a failure BSG eventually was, I regret I even bought first two season DVD's. Ugh. Well, Stargate SG-1 ranks as my number 1 sci-fi series and B5 is good 2nd. Just like Firefly, BSG is nothing but a novelty, a promise of something that was supposed to be great.
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Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas were both amazing, but the rest of the cast never pushed much past 'good enough' and often collapsed into 'dreadful', in no small part because of the dialogue they were given.
Twin Peaks also fell apart after its first season but it's still an incredible piece of television if you just look at the good stuff. BSG and Twin Peaks both made enduring, powerful artistic statements during the time they were on top of their game - the rest can be set aside. Stargate SG-1 was a fun show but it's mostly just genre comfort food.
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Stargate SG-1 was a fun show but it's mostly just genre comfort food.
:wtf:
Pardon me for a minute. I need to check my blood pressure.
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B5 is practically unwatchable today for very basic reasons. While on the high level it's a landmark piece of television - at the macro level of writing, the big overarching plot, the season to season arcs it's unmatched - at the basic level of acting, set design, and even costuming it's excruciating. Trek by comparison is dull and plays it way too safe, barring a few episodes (mostly in DS9).
Since the last decade we've had an eruption of gorgeous, tightly written, challenging scripted television. The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, BSG, so many more. There have been failures and sputters but overall scripted TV is in a great place.
:wtf: You must be smoking some good stuff there. Particularly acting of Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas still is very enjoyable to watch. Rest of the cast wasn't that bad either. Many of them got better after the first season. As for costumes, I still don't view them bad by any measure. Sure, there were some that sucked but were seen only in one or very few episodes. Those that we saw very often were pretty good, such as Narn ones. And I don't know what you're complaining about the sets. Only The Gathering had horrible sets, thankfully it was vastly improved for actual series and gradually improved.
Also, BSG was good only up to end of second season. The rest of it was pretty much crap. Honestly, I don't know why are you even listing BSG among the others you mentioned. If you merit the show for its first two seasons only, certainly. But in that case the series lacks good ending and conclusion, dropping rating significantly and making it no better than any other cancelled series like Firefly. If we measure the series for full four seasons, it's pretty bad.
Because of what a failure BSG eventually was, I regret I even bought first two season DVD's. Ugh. Well, Stargate SG-1 ranks as my number 1 sci-fi series and B5 is good 2nd. Just like Firefly, BSG is nothing but a novelty, a promise of something that was supposed to be great.
B5 was a great show and have pretty interesting concepts behind it, and the universe can always be expanded, se for examples the expanded universe of star wars and KOTOR 2 who had better stories than the original movies.
Unhapily i have to agree whitch you about BSG, they screwed big time in the season 4 woth all that religious crap they putted in.
Firefly had a great story, too bad it wasn´t finalised the way it should be. :/
And Sopranos is a little bit old to be considered "current" for today´s tv no?
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General Battuta probably dislikes A Game of Thrones, too. :p
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GoT is okay, and contains some brilliance.
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How can you hate Q (http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=19898700)? She's cute. :(
wtf is this? lol
i was talking about this Q - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwoEXlTph0
I don't know anything involving 3D people.
I linked Q, from [C].
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At the moment, apart from Doctor Who and New tricks i don't watch any TV as i think at the moment TV is pretty well crap, I am so sick of reality TV shows i just don't get the interest in them.
So the DVDs and online programs i watch are
Top Gear Challenges
New Tricks
Doctor Who(classic era)
Stargate Atlantis, i will never know why they canceled it in favor of the crap show that was Universe. They should never have tried to have done a BSG show it was just utter crap. Atlantis was really good and had some truly fantastic characters and heartbreaking moments.
Transformers Prime which is actually really good.
I have just finished watching Gundam wing and Endless Waltz, i know a lot of people dislike it but i enjoyed it.
Paltarbor(spelling) 2, This took me by suprise and got me into anima, it has a brillant plot and is very well animated. It really is a good film.
Samurai Jack, just epic.
Deep space 9 for me really gets good from the series 2 final, when we first get to see the Dominion in action. After that the best star trek series. B5 is still really good better than a lot of the crud we get on TV today. I can only watch it up till season 4. I think it should of ended there as season 5 was pretty bad.
Are there any proper Scifi shows being made and i am not talking about things like twilight etc, that's not science fiction. The only one i can think of that is still being made is Doctor Who, even the SyFy channel(UK) hardly shows anything science fiction these days.
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Fringe, Person of Interest
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I was thinking about re-watching Cowboy Bebop but thought better of it due to the fact that after a couple of minutes of each episode I'll remember what will happen and lose interest. Does anyone know of an anime that has a similar style of lighthearted gun toting and martial arts?
Black Lagoon?
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At the moment, apart from Doctor Who and New tricks i don't watch any TV as i think at the moment TV is pretty well crap, I am so sick of reality TV shows i just don't get the interest in them.
So the DVDs and online programs i watch are
Top Gear Challenges
New Tricks
Doctor Who(classic era)
Stargate Atlantis, i will never know why they canceled it in favor of the crap show that was Universe. They should never have tried to have done a BSG show it was just utter crap. Atlantis was really good and had some truly fantastic characters and heartbreaking moments.
Transformers Prime which is actually really good.
I have just finished watching Gundam wing and Endless Waltz, i know a lot of people dislike it but i enjoyed it.
Paltarbor(spelling) 2, This took me by suprise and got me into anima, it has a brillant plot and is very well animated. It really is a good film.
Samurai Jack, just epic.
Deep space 9 for me really gets good from the series 2 final, when we first get to see the Dominion in action. After that the best star trek series. B5 is still really good better than a lot of the crud we get on TV today. I can only watch it up till season 4. I think it should of ended there as season 5 was pretty bad.
Are there any proper Scifi shows being made and i am not talking about things like twilight etc, that's not science fiction. The only one i can think of that is still being made is Doctor Who, even the SyFy channel(UK) hardly shows anything science fiction these days.
There will be ever an ending to Doctor Who? D:
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Doctor Who doesn't really have an ongoing story arc, so no, it doesn't have a particular place to end.
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Doctor Who doesn't really have an ongoing story arc, so no, it doesn't have a particular place to end.
so, whats the great appeal of the series? just a bunch of random adventures which random people and random aliens?
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no
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Doctor Who doesn't really have an ongoing story arc, so no, it doesn't have a particular place to end.
so, whats the great appeal of the series? just a bunch of random adventures which random people and random aliens?
For me, it's just watching the Doctor's wacky antics. The guy (whomever is playing him at the moment) is just fun to watch. And to see what utterly insane scheme he will pull off next.
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I heard it took the Doctor a while to actually screw something in with his sonic screwdriver. :p
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Doctor who does have some story arcs new series normally does have a story arc, but the classic series sometimes had a story arc covering a couple of stories. The latest series has dropped the complicated story arcs for individual small movie episodes.
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Doctor who does have some story arcs new series normally does have a story arc, but the classic series sometimes had a story arc covering a couple of stories. The latest series has dropped the complicated story arcs for individual small movie episodes.
So you saying....they ar edumbed down? like Mass Effect 3? (haters gonna hate)
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you are beginning to seem a little dumb
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So you saying....they ar edumbed down? like Mass Effect 3? (haters gonna hate)
No its nothing like mass effect 3. The original series had no story arcs per say, it was when the show came back in 2005 they introduced series story arcs, now for the current series they wanted to try something different and make each episode a mini blockbuster movie, which will lead up to the shows big 50th anniversary episode. Anyway a tv show doesnt have to have overlay complicated story arcs like BSG to be good. As others have pointed out what makes doctor who appealling is the characters and each story is something different, one do can be a comedy, next one is a gothic horror style and you also get emotinal stories.
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Doctor who does have some story arcs new series normally does have a story arc, but the classic series sometimes had a story arc covering a couple of stories. The latest series has dropped the complicated story arcs for individual small movie episodes.
So you saying....they ar edumbed down? like Mass Effect 3? (haters gonna hate)
I want to dust off my old pitch soaked stick, spark a match and then start swinging with fiery abandon....But alas! I do try so hard to not flame people here. So I will avoid this particular subject, and pretend that I didn't just use this particular segment of my post to just fill space and make me seem more interesting than I actually am.
I was thinking about re-watching Cowboy Bebop but thought better of it due to the fact that after a couple of minutes of each episode I'll remember what will happen and lose interest. Does anyone know of an anime that has a similar style of lighthearted gun toting and martial arts?
Black Lagoon?
I watched a little of it, and it doesn't really grab me the same way Bebop and Trigun did. It's just something about the style and feel of those series that I can't describe, yet want to see again.
Meh, I might just watch ChronoCrusade agai- No. No I won't. I'm not fond of crying at the end. Perhaps I'll watch Clannad inst- :blah:
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I want to dust off my old pitch soaked stick, spark a match and then start swinging with fiery abandon....But alas! I do try so hard to not flame people here. So I will avoid this particular subject, and pretend that I didn't just use this particular segment of my post to just fill space and make me seem more interesting than I actually am.
Wut?
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Bebop, Trigun
Outlaw Star
Thus completing the triumvirate of 1998 space westerns.
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Right, I really ought to finish GitS 2nd Gig one of these days but HOMEWORK. ****.
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I watched a little of it, and it doesn't really grab me the same way Bebop and Trigun did. It's just something about the style and feel of those series that I can't describe, yet want to see again.
Meh, I might just watch ChronoCrusade agai- No. No I won't. I'm not fond of crying at the end. Perhaps I'll watch Clannad inst- :blah:
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Go for the OVA directly, IIRC there was no need to watch the series to enjoy it.
So much blood... oh yes.
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I'm not watching it right now, but I'm considering watching Continuum.
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Series:
Angel
Game of Thrones (about to start on those)
Anime:
Star Wars - Clone Wars Season 5 (Well not really anime, more CGI animated, they got big eyes though)
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Anime:
Star Wars - Clone Wars Season 5 (Well not really anime, more CGI animated, they got big eyes though)
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Dear god, you actually do that to yourself?
I am currently watching Crest of the Stars on advice from #wod (well, Spoon, but same thing really since he rules with a very benevolent iron fist :P).
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Breaking news:
Vegas and Last Resort are really, really good.
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Vegas? Never heard of it. Wait... Dennis Quaid? Carrie-Anne Moss? Michael Chiklis? I have to see this. Don't know about Last Resort, but maybe I should give it a shot too.
I'm currently watching Alphas, Castle, Grimm, NCIS, Person of Interest, The Big Bang Theory.
Waiting for Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, Dexter, Game of Thrones, Spartacus, Suits, Supernatural, The Legend of Korra, The Walking Dead and True Blood to resume airing.
Seen all episodes of previously mentioned up to now.
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I am currently watching Crest of the Stars
Don't forget about Banner of the Stars. :P
To be honest, I can't imagine this thread without Legend of Galactic Heroes. Nobody watched it?
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Watching it at this moment with a group of friends, actually. We're at...I guess it's 70 of the 110 episodes in the main series now, and then I assume we'll move on to the prequel series. It's an amazing piece of work.
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Anime:
Star Wars - Clone Wars Season 5 (Well not really anime, more CGI animated, they got big eyes though)
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Don't worry, I don't agree with them utterly butchering the canon either. :P But something can still be fun to watch. It's like with those movie critics that say almost any movie is bad. Most movies are bad, but they're still fun to watch.
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I actually like the Clone Wars CGI, I find it's continuity much better than the Expanded Crappyverse that has been made by amateurs through the years (*COUGH*DARK EMPIRE*COUGH*)
Plus they killed the nightsisters,
yes please.
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To be honest, I can't imagine this thread without Legend of Galactic Heroes. Nobody watched it?
Seen the series but haven't seen the movies yet. Space Soap Opera at it's best.
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To be honest, I can't imagine this thread without Legend of Galactic Heroes. Nobody watched it?
Seen the series but haven't seen the movies yet. Space Soap Opera at it's best.
Been through the series at least twice. It is excellent, though I know that many people take issue with the ending.
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It's all about 'Space Precinct'. No other sci-fi show can top it, maybe except for 'Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century'. Art at it's finest. :P
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Im watching Stargate Sg1 now. \o/
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To be honest, I can't imagine this thread without Legend of Galactic Heroes. Nobody watched it?
I've watched it thanks to Central Anime. 110 episodes of awesome along with 2 ovas of more awesome plus 2 movies of awesome. :yes:
Yang should have ignored his orders and blown the Brunhilde to bits, now that would've been a twist to the show!
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Whatever that says, thanks muchly for spoiler-ing it. I was ready to bite someone's head off if they let any hints slip. :p
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Galactic Heroes? mmm... need to check out.
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It is an awesome ride until the final season when the war's over and all the insanely brilliant Imperial strategists are left with nothing to do but boring administrative tasks. Emperor Reinhart von Lohengramm who has to deal with administrating an interstellar empire is a much less awesome character than Grand Admiral Reinhart von Lohengramm who defeats his enemies with flair and panache.
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Caprica... any good?
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Caprica... any good?
It tells the story before BSG.
i think its quite good.
altough i only saw 3 episodes of it. xD
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Caprica... any good?
It's a slow burn of a show - it takes its time, gets to know the characters and their world(s), builds a coherent society with multiple competing factions, and only then starts to have the wheels come off and everything dissolve into wacky hijinks, just in time to be cancelled. It's not directly dependant on BSG, though an understanding of the BSG world will give the series a richer tone, and is well worth marathonning sometime when you've a (long) weekend free.
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Maybe I'll call in sick to work one day and watch it... :drevil:
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... one day ...
You might want to give yourself two - it's eighteen episodes (ninteen hours of tv, with the full pilot), which, even figuring 45 minutes on the hour once you strip commercial breaks, is a bit much for a one-day jag...
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It is an awesome ride until the final season when the war's over and all the insanely brilliant Imperial strategists are left with nothing to do but boring administrative tasks. Emperor Reinhart von Lohengramm who has to deal with administrating an interstellar empire is a much less awesome character than Grand Admiral Reinhart von Lohengramm who defeats his enemies with flair and panache.
Ha! Too true, even if he was equally gifted at administrating the Empire you could see the obvious weakness oh Reinhart, a major lack of patience. It was sad that he died but I thought it was fitting for the character, he never would've adjusted to peace.
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My other biggest issue is that all the brilliant guys die sucky deaths. Reinhard has his lungs incurably dissolve, Yang bleeds out hopelessly and alone from a shot to the femoral artery, and the former leader of Phezzan dies of an inoperable brain tumor. The only really badass death I can think of is the leader of the Rosenritter who dies knee-deep in enemy corpses.
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My other biggest issue is that all the brilliant guys die sucky deaths. Reinhard has his lungs incurably dissolve, Yang bleeds out hopelessly and alone from a shot to the femoral artery, and the former leader of Phezzan dies of an inoperable brain tumor. The only really badass death I can think of is the leader of the Rosenritter who dies knee-deep in enemy corpses.
And even he died because he wasnt paying attention, to me the best death was Admiral Bucock at Mar-Adetta (the asteroid battle), thats a heck of a way to go! Yang's death was ironic I thought, an assassination attempt by extremists on a major figure of his time, as a historian he should have seen that coming...
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So mcuh spoilers! :D
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And even he died because he wasnt paying attention, to me the best death was Admiral Bucock at Mar-Adetta (the asteroid battle), thats a heck of a way to go! Yang's death was ironic I thought, an assassination attempt by extremists on a major figure of his time, as a historian he should have seen that coming...
Damn, I completely forgot about his death until you reminded me of it. Yeah, that's got to be the best.
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Damn, I completely forgot about his death until you reminded me of it. Yeah, that's got to be the best.
There's also Farenheit's death, didnt see that one coming, Lutz I think was good one too. The series certainly wasnt afraid of killing off major characters.
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Definitely. I wasn't expecting Kircheis to get killed so early.
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But if he hadnt died, as Yang notes, he would've taken steps to coexist with the Alliance rather than allowing Reinhart to conquer it, he had to be removed for the plot's sake.
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Screw Reinhart's wishes, I want democracy. :P
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I just want to fit in.
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Hah, made you read!
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Screw Reinhart's wishes, I want democracy. :P
I know! I want it too, thats why I said Yang should have shot him when he had the chance. The Imperial Admirals and Oberstein turning on each other for power would've been awesome! Reuenthal emperor! :drevil:
I just want to fit in.
Did no one else watched this series? :lol:
Hah, made you read!
Fell for that...
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I keep trying to finish this series, but it's a hard watch. Boring Germans In Space. And yet not.
I broke out my Batman TAS DVDs again. For some reason, this series never manages to disappoint me, unlike my other childhood favorites.
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It's gotta be Mark Hamil. Best Joker. Best Joker laugh.
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That, plus Kevin Conroy, plus the great writing.
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Supernatural season 8 premier tonight. Yay.
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Just stumbled across a trailer and review for 'Last Exile'. Style reminds me a little of 'Metropolis' if only with the tech, and the action looks crisp and appropriately bloody. I'll think more about nabbing this for once I'm done with my current line up, in the morning.
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Just stumbled across a trailer and review for 'Last Exile'. Style reminds me a little of 'Metropolis' if only with the tech, and the action looks crisp and appropriately bloody. I'll think more about nabbing this for once I'm done with my current line up, in the morning.
Do so, at once. It is excellent. Probably won't have as much violence as you're expecting, but still excellent.
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Screw Reinhart's wishes, I want democracy. :P
Democracy corrupted to the bone? I'm in! :p
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Better a corrupt democracy than an good empire.
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Better a corrupt democracy than an good empire.
Would rather have a good empire. At least that way if things all turn to ****, you know who to shoot/stab/poison/teleport half their body three feet to the left.
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Crap...now all the spoilers are naked. :p
(Until you pull a force-refresh, that is.)
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Watched Diebuster again. Still not as good as the original Gunbuster, but I love all the callbacks to the original in this series.
"Fluctuating Gravity Well" is up there in terms of strangest monster names I've ever heard, though. Sounds better than "Space Monster", I guess.
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They just called them that because that was how they initially detected it. They didn't know it was a monster at first. IIRC.
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Yeah, I realize that.
Also, is it just me or were the Fluctuating Gravity Wells a lot scarier than the Space Monsters of Gunbuster? I don't remember any of them screaming (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbhYtvAMZWk), or being anywhere near that powerful.
Maybe it's just because mankind's technology has degraded so much that even one Monster is capable of devastating them... when in ages past they could fight off swarms of billions... really throws into relief the sheer power of degeneracy reactors.
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Yeah, I like to think it was done to make the first war seem that much more epic and to elevate Noriko and Onee-sama's accomplishments.
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A group of other CS grad students and I are watching Moyashimon Returns, Gurren Lagann, Darker Than Black, Natsume Yujin-cho, and Samurai Champloo.
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Just started "A Certain Magical Index", which I've heard a lot about.
So far it's interesting. But if I'm reading up on the series correctly, it's yet another one that doesn't get through the original source? :rolleyes:
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Trying to work through my fairly-substantial DVD backlog, and the current target is Mushi-shi. The first episode fits what I've heard about it, which is almost all good stuff. It reminds me a little bit of Kino's Journey.
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Just started "A Certain Magical Index", which I've heard a lot about.
So far it's interesting. But if I'm reading up on the series correctly, it's yet another one that doesn't get through the original source? :rolleyes:
There are currently 26 main novels, the two seasons cover 13 of them.
Also, Accelerator is a badass among badasses.
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Are they planning to adapt the full 26 novels, or just halt at season 2? Or is this not known?
Also, Accelerator is OP as all get-out. At least, from what I've heard. He still hasn't actually shown up as far as I've watched.
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Are they planning to adapt the full 26 novels, or just halt at season 2? Or is this not known?
Also, Accelerator is OP as all get-out. At least, from what I've heard. He still hasn't actually shown up as far as I've watched.
No idea regarding a 3rd season.
I kinda want to see a To Aru Badass no Accelerator spin off. His rants against his opponents are just epic in the novels.
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Just started "A Certain Magical Index", which I've heard a lot about.
So far it's interesting. But if I'm reading up on the series correctly, it's yet another one that doesn't get through the original source? :rolleyes:
There are currently 26 main novels, the two seasons cover 13 of them.
Also, Accelerator is a badass among badasses.
Light novels are meh in my opinion, but yes Accelerator is badass and follows in House's curmudgeon mentality :D
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Watching Seitokai Yakuindomo, nice enough anime. Does anyone have other suggestions of similar shows? Slice of life, comedy stuff.
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Recently started watching Gravity Falls. How did I not find this show before?
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Watching Seitokai Yakuindomo, nice enough anime. Does anyone have other suggestions of similar shows? Slice of life, comedy stuff.
Plenty of that, though none as uh...filled with just innuendo and not actually explicit scenes.
Well uh...I've never really done recommendations before but in said genre I can say I found these ones similar and really liked them:
Seitokai no Ichizon (second season of this is airing soon! /excite)
Yuru Yuri (second season just finished! /cry)
your mileage may vary, much less crude jokes, so possibly much less funny (or just funny in a different way).
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World of Tanks The Anime
(http://www.animenfo.com/image/anime_5105.jpg)
Girls und Panzer
First episode didn't have much tanks except for the teaser scenes with a bad frame rate before the OP. Just like in the first manga chapter.
There should be more when the series goes further, but I don't really know since I haven read any more than the first chapter.
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I'm still trying to figure out how people are watching that...
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Watching Seitokai Yakuindomo, nice enough anime. Does anyone have other suggestions of similar shows? Slice of life, comedy stuff.
Plenty of that, though none as uh...filled with just innuendo and not actually explicit scenes.
Well uh...I've never really done recommendations before but in said genre I can say I found these ones similar and really liked them:
Seitokai no Ichizon (second season of this is airing soon! /excite)
Yuru Yuri (second season just finished! /cry)
your mileage may vary, much less crude jokes, so possibly much less funny (or just funny in a different way).
Well, going with "Slice of Life/Comedy", I love Working!! (Just watching the second season of it with the girlfriend)
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I'm still trying to figure out how people are watching that...
Cute girls and Tanks... what else could be the reasons? A somewhat odd combination I agree, but I've heard worse.
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I'm still trying to figure out how people are watching that...
Cute girls and Tanks... what else could be the reasons? A somewhat odd combination I agree, but I've heard worse.
Like cute girls and heli-legs.
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Cute girls and Tanks... what else could be the reasons? A somewhat odd combination I agree, but I've heard worse.
How. Not why.
And I found out.
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I really don't get why people eat up all of those items-anthropomorphized-as-cute-girls series. Oddly enough, the only thing like that I ever had any interest in was Hetalia, which is primarily intended for female fans to write slashfic about. :D
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FreeSpace fighter musume when?? :p
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I really don't get why people eat up all of those items-anthropomorphized-as-cute-girls series. Oddly enough, the only thing like that I ever had any interest in was Hetalia, which is primarily intended for female fans to write slashfic about. :D
No, this time it's literally about cute girls driving a tank. (A Panzer IIIN to be exact.) And there's hints of some kind of tournament arc or other madness going on and yeah, what.
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Plenty of that, though none as uh...filled with just innuendo and not actually explicit scenes.
Well uh...I've never really done recommendations before but in said genre I can say I found these ones similar and really liked them:
Seitokai no Ichizon (second season of this is airing soon! /excite)
Yuru Yuri (second season just finished! /cry)
your mileage may vary, much less crude jokes, so possibly much less funny (or just funny in a different way).
Well, going with "Slice of Life/Comedy", I love Working!! (Just watching the second season of it with the girlfriend)
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Thanks, I'll check those out, do you know any more that are like School Rumble?
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So, there's going to be a new Sailor Moon.
**** it. I watched the old one.
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Like cute girls and heli-legs.
Actually that's not worse, it's better. Strike Witches was/is great. :D
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FreeSpace fighter musume when?? :p
Mean something like this?
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/hlp/Hercules_mk2_Musume.JPG)
(god it became crappy in all levels, even for a 10min scribble)
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Like cute girls and heli-legs.
Actually that's not worse, it's better. Strike Witches was/is great. :D
If you enjoy prepubescent female crotch shots, I suppose. :p
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Like cute girls and heli-legs.
Actually that's not worse, it's better. Strike Witches was/is great. :D
If you enjoy prepubescent female crotch shots, I suppose. :p
That's the thing that put me off it. Now I don't mind fanservice, but I couldn't even get past the first episode! For God's sake girls, PUT ON SOME DAMNED TROUSERS! (or shorts, if those heli-leg things don't allow them.)
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Mean something like this?
Hercules_mk2_Musume.JPG
Bahahahaha! Yeah, more or less. :p
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Like cute girls and heli-legs.
Actually that's not worse, it's better. Strike Witches was/is great. :D
If you enjoy prepubescent female crotch shots, I suppose. :p
That's what disappointed me about Strike Witches. Too much emphasis on fanservice and not enough on the character development (though what was there was pretty good). And the historical in-jokes were kind of fun.
Not sure if I'll watch the second season or not.
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Thanks, I'll check those out, do you know any more that are like School Rumble?
Try Azumanga Daioh if you haven't already. It's hilarious, though it focuses on the girls and doesn't really bother with mentioning many boys, and therefore doesn't go to romance much, it's excellent.
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Not sure if I'll watch the second season or not.
If you finished the first season, then I'd recommend you do watch the second one aswell.
Though if you're unsure about the fanservice then you could skip episode 7 I guess... It has a Neuroi Bug that likes to hide inside pants/panties. And of course it roams around the base.
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Mean something like this?
Hercules_mk2_Musume.JPG
Bahahahaha! Yeah, more or less. :p
If done Fumikane style, it would be rather awesome and cute.
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Yesterday I watched 3 episodes in a row of Shinsekai Yori after reading a few good reviews. Must say the story is kinda intriguing...
I wanna know what happens next, hope to see some kid loosing it and going on a killingspree or something.
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Why the (http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6050/6351719411_6aeae0f568_z.jpg) did I decide to torture myself at three in the morning with This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7NyOR_vPI&feature=related)?
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If you're watching (or playing) something made by Key, you have to kind of expect that.
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If you're watching (or playing) something made by Key, you have to kind of expect that.
I already watched the series a few months back, and for some reason felt like punishing myself with one of the saddest moments in the show. :banghead:
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Not that I've watched one, but just from reading about them, I don't think I could ever take any Key-derived series seriously. They seem to ply their trade in crazy scenarios specifically designed for emotional manipulation, as opposed to more organic character development. Like, think of me what you will, but I just chuckled at that video clip. :p
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Thanks, I'll check those out, do you know any more that are like School Rumble?
Try Azumanga Daioh if you haven't already. It's hilarious, though it focuses on the girls and doesn't really bother with mentioning many boys, and therefore doesn't go to romance much, it's excellent.
Yeah, I've watched Azumanga, I have the manga, its hilarious. Watched the first episode of Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, seems interesting.
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Not that I've watched one, but just from reading about them, I don't think I could ever take any Key-derived series seriously. They seem to ply their trade in crazy scenarios specifically designed for emotional manipulation, as opposed to more organic character development. Like, think of me what you will, but I just chuckled at that video clip. :p
If I'd just watched that clip on its own before watching the series, I'd most likely share your thoughts. But I watched it, and I found it genuinely sad (it actually caused a...few man-tears) at that point. Others? Not so much, save one or two other scenes.
And yeah, they do use emotional manipulation rather liberally in Angel Beats, as the world it's set in creates a depressing current from the start and they proceed to rub it in throughout. But damn, they are effective at making people feel sad.
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Started JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Verdict is awesome, and wary the mask.
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Finished Index season 1. Going to start Railgun now (I know a lot of it is filler, but dammit, it has Misaka in it!). Definitely buying Index's dub when it hits shelves in a couple of months (and, Funi, you'd better release a Railgun dub, too!).
I'll watch Index S2 later (more Accelerator!), and apparently they're coming out with a movie and a second Railgun season in Japan pretty soon. Things are looking good for the anime, I'd say.
I glanced briefly at the light novel versions of some of the scenes I'd seen. I think I'll read those when I have time. They do a much better job of explaining the background details (I didn't really see the implications of Aleister's shenanigans in the last couple of episodes, or the "Sisters" network, until I read the novel version).
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Omamori Himari
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I actually have a friend who's trying to find some anime for me to try (in particular finding some legal links because that's how I roll). His first recommendation was Ghost In The Shell, but unfortunately the YouTube channel it was on disallowed viewing from Australia (they did that to Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagaan as well, which sucks since I wanted to try that afterwards). I do know that I will try to watch them both sometime, as well as Azumanga Daioh. :)
I bought and watched the first series of the original Transformers, too. Yeah it's a kids cartoon but so what? :p
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Try www.animefreak.tv (http://www.animefreak.tv). As far as I can tell, it's legal and has a large range of anime.
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Try www.animefreak.tv (http://www.animefreak.tv). As far as I can tell, it's legal and has a large range of anime.
Animefreak works, just be prepared for it to be rather low quality and to be using whatever fansub group's subs came out first. Sometimes the subs are laughably bad. Then again, until fairly recently animefreak was where I got most of my anime.
Living in the boondocks and having to drive into town and park outside family members houses to grab their internet to watch anime on a laptop running off a power inverter is kinda not fun.
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Living in the boondocks and having to drive into town and park outside family members houses to grab their internet to watch anime on a laptop running off a power inverter is kinda not fun.
That's what I call dedication. :lol:
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Living in the boondocks and having to drive into town and park outside family members houses to grab their internet to watch anime on a laptop running off a power inverter is kinda not fun.
That's what I call dedication. :lol:
It was either that or try to scrape the .flvs off the site over 24.0 kbps dialup at home. I also used to sit on the third floor of my highschool in the back of the music room, someone across the street had unsecured wifi, and I would .flv scrape from there. For a bit, there was a coffee shop with WiFi in town, but that closed down. Used to grab a coffee and donut and download 2 episodes at a time over a half hour or so, go home and watch them over the next night or two.
Edit: After I hit university and had access to decent internet, things changed obviously. Just got thinking and realized that it's been just over 3 years since I hit university. Holy crap it really doesn't seem that long.
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As far as I can tell, it's legal and has a large range of anime.
Yeah that's not legal in the least. :p
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As far as I can tell, it's legal and has a large range of anime.
Nnnnnope.
The legal streaming sites that host anime that I know of are:
Official Youtube Channels, Crunchyroll, Funimation, and occasionally Hulu.
...and yes, I know that's not helpful since I don't think any of them stream outside the US. :blah:
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Crunchyroll does, depending on where you live, but I think certain series are more region-restricted than others.
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I'm not actually
adverse averse to buying DVDs of the anime I want to watch (thankfully, DVD players in Australia are required by law to play DVDs from any region), but my intention was to get a taste of some anime other than the stuff I watched as a kid (Pokémon, Transformers RID, etc) first to make sure that I'd actually enjoy it.
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Buying anime DVD's is grossly expensive, at least here. I would recommend Crunchyroll instead if you want to do it the legal way. Unfortunately Crunchyroll is bitten my region based licensing like DVD's are. So you pay as much as those in the US do, but get less to watch. Unless you're from US obviously.
I still subscribe to Crunchyroll and pay my due, even though in reality I watch most from animefreak.tv. They get their subs usually earlier than Crunchyroll and I don't mind worse video quallity.
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Buying anime DVD's is grossly expensive, at least here.
Not really "grossly," I'd say, but not exactly cheap earlier. Hell, at least we're not Japan.
*looks around room at overflowing DVDs, and then at sad bank account*
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Was recommended by one of my friends to watch Dirty Pair, after I told him that I like Dominion Tank Police. Someone care to shed some light on it for me, as a quick clip search on youtube leaves me thinking of Cowboy Bebop meets Vandread.
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Was recommended by one of my friends to watch Dirty Pair, after I told him that I like Dominion Tank Police. Someone care to shed some light on it for me, as a quick clip search on youtube leaves me thinking of Cowboy Bebop meets Vandread.
Dirty Pair is about the above-named Dirty Pair, Kei and Yuri. If you call our ambigously teenaged female protagonists that to their faces, they'll shoot you; they prefer being the "Lovely Angels". They work for Ye Olde Galatic Government as something akin to Mass Effect's Specters, only without the subtlety. Their job is to go places and shoot things.
They're very good at their jobs with a nearly 100% success rate. Unfortunately, they're also very good at collateral damage, and have a reputation for causing everything they touch to explode. ("It's not our fault!" is something of a catchphrase; some of the novels and the US comic treat them as a sort of Final Option prior to orbital bombardment.)
Your friend is probably correct.
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Sounds fun. Next task; find a place that I can buy the complete series for cheap.
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Except that original series is from 1985, next OVA is from 1987 and then another OVA from 1994. Last but not least, there is also a movie from 1987. You sure what you're looking for? :p
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Except that original series is from 1985, next OVA is from 1987 and then another OVA from 1994. Last but not least, there is also a movie from 1987. You sure what you're looking for? :p
No bloody idea. The guy just said "Oh you like Tank Police? Watch Dirty Pair." That almost directly led to this line of conversation.
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Finished watching Caprica. Pretty decent series IMO. Shame it was cancelled.
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I think I may wait for Funi to get the rest of the episodes up before I finish Railgun. So, on to Index Season 2.
*watches a few episodes*
HOLY ****, Accelerator! :eek2:
Talk about making an entrance. "Just because I'm weaker doesn't make you stronger" indeed!
And I have Hellsing Ultimate episodes 5 - 8 coming in this weekend. Good times. :)
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I have FUNi's re-release of Black Lagoon on pre-order. Somehow I've avoided seeing it up to this point, even though it's so far up my alley it's practically out the other side.
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Watching FLCL again because why not?
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So I watched an episode of Casshern Sins and I really regret the time spent now, as nothing happened at all and it was impossible to tell if the end of the episode was some kind of flashback or actually occurring in the same sequence as the rest of the episode, with the voiceover.
I mean seriously, narrative coherence usually isn't this hard people. Thanks for confirming I should never stay up.
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Also finished up the Zeta Gundam "New Translation" movies.
I think I prefer the series. It's not that I have anything in particular against happy endings, and the movies did some characterization better, but, overall I like the series better.
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So no one watches Psycho Pass around here?, I've watched the first 3 and it's one of the best around (if not the best) right now IMO.
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Sidenote: I am rewatching CSI Miami. I apologize in advance if I dust off any related memes.
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So no one watches Psycho Pass around here?, I've watched the first 3 and it's one of the best around (if not the best) right now IMO.
I've been looking at it, but just haven't gotten around to watching it yet. Although I might have to download it to take to my parents' this weekend.
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So I watched an episode of Casshern Sins and I really regret the time spent now, as nothing happened at all and it was impossible to tell if the end of the episode was some kind of flashback or actually occurring in the same sequence as the rest of the episode, with the voiceover.
I mean seriously, narrative coherence usually isn't this hard people. Thanks for confirming I should never stay up.
Casshern is good ****, though jumping into it at the second-to-last episode probably won't do you any favors. :p
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Casshern is good ****, though jumping into it at the second-to-last episode probably won't do you any favors. :p
If you recognized it from the description, I'm mildly impressed, but it was actually weeks or a month ago, so...
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I've been looking at it, but just haven't gotten around to watching it yet. Although I might have to download it to take to my parents' this weekend.
Just watched the 4th episode and damn, I want to see what happens next.
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So no one watches Psycho Pass around here?, I've watched the first 3 and it's one of the best around (if not the best) right now IMO.
Ooh, me! I think it's pretty cool so far, though there's not really anything heavy to comment on yet. Dominators are OP.
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Casshern is good ****, though jumping into it at the second-to-last episode probably won't do you any favors. :p
If you recognized it from the description, I'm mildly impressed, but it was actually weeks or a month ago, so...
Actually, given that time frame, I think I might know which episode you're talking about, and that one was a total trip even for people who'd watched the whole thing from the beginning. Most of it isn't really like that.
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So no one watches Psycho Pass around here?, I've watched the first 3 and it's one of the best around (if not the best) right now IMO.
I am. As I've said:
Production IG + SciFi + Police Drama + Urobuchi Gen = Win
So far it has held up to that. Expecting more heads to roll, more bodies to explode, and people to weep in utter despair at the unfairness to the world soon. Since this is 22 episodes, expecting it by episode 5ish.
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Man what is this crap? There's only 13 episodes of Angel Beats
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Man what is this crap? There's only 13 episodes of Angel Beats
Yep. And despite it being rushed as hell, it only needs 13 episodes.
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http://myanimelist.net/topanime.php
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Man what is this crap? There's only 13 episodes of Angel Beats
You really want to see Kanade suffering (http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/2111/angelbulliesepisodeguid.png) for more episodes?
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Just finished watching the second series of Transformers Prime, WOW what a series and finale, roll on series 3. I love the fact that the writes aren't scared to properly kill of main characters, esp how shows like this come under constant crit from parents complaining how volient these shows are. Also love the mucher darker tone of the series, which has made Megatron a mucher darker and powerful character, again which is helped by the fact he can actually kill people instead of always failing or retreating at the first sign of trouble(G1). I just hope they release all the seasons in the UK, as tranformer DVDs are an oddity in the UK. They for some reason only release "the best of off" the last complete series was G1, all the others Beast wars, animated etc have had only partial releases in the uk.
Also watched and a weird but interesting anima film Detenator Orgun, thats a weird one.
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You really want to see Kanade suffering (http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/2111/angelbulliesepisodeguid.png) for more episodes?
Maybe he likes that. Don't judge.
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Watched an anime called "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" Which SpaceBattles convinced me to watch.
It starts looking like a magical girl show... then it tears out you heart, stomps on it, puts it in a blender, and sets it on fire for good measure... and it's good enough that you just can't stop watching it...
Seriously, forget manly tears. This will have you sobbing in a corner...
EDIT: IT does have more than a fair share of awesomeness and explosions too though...
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This will have you sobbing in a corner...
I really didn't care about that series. There, I said it.
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This will have you sobbing in a corner...
I really didn't care about that series. There, I said it.
Really now? Then I ask you what you do care about.
Madoka was one of the few objectively good series from a writing standpoint to actually come out in recent times.
Maybe it just looks better in comparison because of all the absolute crap romcom/slice-of-life/moe****/borderline-porn that is more predictable than an atomic clock being passed off as actual shows and actually somehow becomes popular these days. I didn't end up sobbing in a corner but I did enjoy it a lot, it having an actual plot, characters, and character development instead of and endless pile of cliched (and possibly perverted and/or incestual) harem antics about a Yuuji Everylead in a high school setting.
Then again I'm like an Madoka Magica/Urobuchi Gen fanboy (if it wasn't immediately obvious from my uh sidebar thing), so my perception may be shaded ever so slightly. Though I feel I my standpoint is fairly robust, he's like one of the few people in the industry who still knows how to actually write a story that has a subtext, and not just something for the masses to mindlessly consume...
Actual writers seem to be a rare and dying breed in the anime industry these days. If you know of others do let me know!
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Watched an anime called "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" Which SpaceBattles convinced me to watch.
It starts looking like a magical girl show... then it tears out you heart, stomps on it, puts it in a blender, and sets it on fire for good measure... and it's good enough that you just can't stop watching it...
Seriously, forget manly tears. This will have you sobbing in a corner...
EDIT: IT does have more than a fair share of awesomeness and explosions too though...
I've seen Clannad.
Madoka has nothing on that.
Still, I must agree with Droid. Madoka is an excellent show. I've no idea when they're going to get around to releasing the movies here, but I'm definitely getting them!
EDIT:
Madoka was one of the few objectively good series from a writing standpoint to actually come out in recent times.
/me grabs popcorn
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I'm sorry, did you try to state objective quality in an art, which is inherently subjective?
More seriously though, when one attempts to draw sympathy from the audience via repeated trauma, one can also draw apathy as the viewer wonders why exactly they should care when all are clearly doomed to suffer because the author wills it. PMMM was that sort of experience for me.
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More seriously though, when one attempts to draw sympathy from the audience via repeated trauma, one can also draw apathy as the viewer wonders why exactly they should care when all are clearly doomed to suffer because the author wills it. PMMM was that sort of experience for me.
That was kind of how Elfen Lied went for me. There was just so much gore and violence that it got stale pretty quickly. I loved me some Madoka though.
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I'm sorry, did you try to state objective quality in an art, which is inherently subjective?
Tell that the entire ****ing education/academic system that insists on sticking a mark on arts subjects. Because that just about all it has taught me. More interested in making a point about something else than being "right" in this case. :P There is obviously "bad" writing which has no artistic merit whatsoever, cue randomly generated meaningless poems etc. I'm not led to believe that it is entirely subjective. Certainly some, or a lot, of it is...
EDIT: Let's NOT turn this into "Art" 2.0. I'm sorry I brought this up.
More seriously though, when one attempts to draw sympathy from the audience via repeated trauma, one can also draw apathy as the viewer wonders why exactly they should care when all are clearly doomed to suffer because the author wills it.
I can't help but think that people being doomed to suffer because some greater power wills it (consciously or not) is a fairly good representation of the real world. I don't see it as fishing for sympathy, but more of a reflection of the state of being, thus I feel any strong emotion for it at all but did feel a connection with the meaning behind it. Or you could just go "hurk the author likes making little girls cry and punching babies he's an asssss" and stop thinking/caring but for me that's missing the point. The fact I could come up with a case that there even is any meaning behind it at all (which doesn't sound like a complete joke) is better than can be said for most things airing the past few seasons.
...I might not be thinking or speaking all too articulately here because I'm kind of tabbing between writing my honors thesis proposal and writing about animus on a forum, and as such I am unable to quite formulate a complete thought. Which is probably bad news for both sides.
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Or you could just go "hurk the author likes making little girls cry and punching babies he's an asssss" and stop thinking/caring but for me that's missing the point. The fact I could come up with a case that there even is any meaning behind it at all (which doesn't sound like a complete joke) is better than can be said for most things airing the past few seasons.
I hardly think the author is an ass. In fact I sort of doubt anything where people suffer because the author is an ass is conceptually solid enough to survive television competition without being heavily modified. Evangelion is probably the closest anyone's come, being essentially the author hate****ing the audience, but I'm hard-pressed to name a live-action work that could be construed as people suffering because the author is being an ass.
Rather the author has instead subjected the characters to repeated trauma, and becoming jaded to trauma is a normal human response to being repeatedly exposed to it. It effects witnesses in addition to actual subjects (ER docs, EMTs), so that the audience possibly becoming jaded to repeated trauma as well shouldn't be a surprise.
Also your view of the world as higher powers causing people to suffer is obviously based on you and your experience, and as such will vary.
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Lina Inverse~! <3
I mean uh... Slayers
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... essentially the author hate****ing the audience, but I'm hard-pressed to name a live-action work that could be construed as people suffering because the author is being an ass....
Battlestar S4.5?
(I'm just sayin...)
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Almost through with Railgun, reading the Index light novels on the side now.
So, ordered Strike Witches season 2. Despite the overused fanservice, the show was fun enough to make me smile and I do like the character interaction, so why not?
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The 3rd season of MLP: FiM started with ridiculously heavy foreshadowing, but nice premiere nonetheless...
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got Laputa: Castle in the Sky in the DVD player atm
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Man... Angel Beats made me cry buckets of tears.
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I just got and watched Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere on Blu a couple of days ago...
I liked the... character development... :nervous:
Wont be the first time I've bought an anime just for the looks...
I do like it when my retailer over here in the UK can ship out titles weeks before the US release date! :lol:
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Wargaming.net's latest fanart post confirmed what we always suspected about Girls und Panzer.
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Bible Black is too scary for me. Not gonna watch any more of that.
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Isn't Bible Black one of Those kind of anime?
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Isn't Bible Black one of Those kind of anime?
It's hentai and it won't hurt you. At least physically.
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Yeah, I heard that it is one of the darker hentai series. Like really GrimDark.
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Isn't Bible Black one of Those kind of anime?
I wouldn't describe it as scary, personally, but...
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Yeah, I heard that it is one of the darker hentai series. Like really GrimDark.
The only worthy kind. Eros and Thanatos.
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Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
(http://i-7.vcimg.com/resize/068903d37e81aca8e23b00c0c9efad7c394212%28600x%29/thumb.jpg)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbvzfeCFrr1rhjp91o1_r3_500.png) (http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121011005411/magi/images/9/98/Magic_Turban_anime.png)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdef2934zy1r2wydno1_500.jpg)
Wine, women, and magic flying turbans. Oh, and genies.
Arabian Nights
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Starting Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing today. Got through 2 episodes so far, and despite a significant amount of confusingness, seems pretty good.
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Starting Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing today. Got through 2 episodes so far, and despite a significant amount of confusingness, seems pretty good.
Do they still have those awesome CHAINSAW SKY BATTLESHIPS?
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GuP's "somebody ****ed up on the production team" ep 5.5 arrived. It's...not bad, but it's mostly a clipshow recap.
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Do they still have those awesome CHAINSAW SKY BATTLESHIPS?
Ummm, the Kingdom flagship has a giant sword on its nose for ramming/slicing. That counts.
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Saw the last 3 episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist (original)
the ****in hell is this ****
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Finished Breaking Bad........
I AM the DANGER MUTHAF*CKAS!
:'(
Need to wait for the last set of episodes.
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GuP's "somebody ****ed up on the production team" ep 5.5 arrived. It's...not bad, but it's mostly a clipshow recap.
Speaking of GuP, Players at World of tanks are going nuts over it. Hears a vid of a guy driving a pimped out stug III from the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9keZaaAGBsE Had a good laugh at the end. I really am enjoying the show a lot more then I thought I would. So many funny lines. "Apologize to the Finnish!"
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If Abridged series count... I just found Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.
I'm not entirely sure why hearing Alucard shout "*****, I EAT PEOPLE!" is so damned funny, but it is. :lol:
Other than that, finishing up Strike Witches season 2. That fanservice episode was... :wtf:
But now that that's out of the way, the show's picking up steam again.
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Isn't the entirety of Strike Witches fanservice in one form or another? :wtf:
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Isn't the entirety of Strike Witches fanservice in one form or another? :wtf:
I doubt that I can even imagine an entire episode of a fanservice laden series, being purely dedicated to the fanservice.
The overuse of crotch-shots and panty flashes would actually make me want to punch a goat in the face. With a bullet.
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Isn't the entirety of Strike Witches fanservice in one form or another? :wtf:
If by fanservice you mean "leaves you with a vague feeling you should take a shower after some episodes" then by all means. Still, it has the common problem of moe efforts at fanservice, namely the urge to yell "I DO NOT FEEL LIKE ****ING SOMETHING" rather than going dawww.
Which is better than some Italian exploitation stuff I've watched which leaves you thinking the shower you just used requires a laser vaporization of the first five millimeters of every exposed surface before it'll be clean again, and a desperate urge to confess to someone that you've seen this movie and you are sorry.
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Isn't the entirety of Strike Witches fanservice in one form or another? :wtf:
If by fanservice you mean "leaves you with a vague feeling you should take a shower after some episodes" then by all means. Still, it has the common problem of moe efforts at fanservice, namely the urge to yell "I DO NOT FEEL LIKE ****ING SOMETHING" rather than going dawww.
Which is better than some Italian exploitation stuff I've watched which leaves you thinking the shower you just used requires a laser vaporization of the first five millimeters of every exposed surface before it'll be clean again, and a desperate urge to confess to someone that you've seen this movie and you are sorry.
Wow, seriously? Give us a brief synopsis of one so that we can understand a little better.
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Try this one on. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Ferox)
It's a lot more coherent and a lot less disgusting than the actual movie, but fairly accurate. I have no idea how it comes up with the meaning of the movie's denouement because that doesn't seem to equate to what I watched, but after women impaled through their breasts and bleeding out slowly that way done in loving detail over several minutes, a good ten minutes of those-guys-really-did-torture-and-kill-those-animals (no joke, all animal cruelty is real animal cruelty because '70s and '80s Italian film is classy like that), and all the best gore effects the early '80s can offer with physical props because **** you, we're aiming to make this movie completely ****ing unrateable in any country with a system for ratings!...yeah, I managed to get out of my chair, that was pretty good at that point.
We hit Women's Camp 119 (which has a lot less raw gore, but is from a psychological standpoint at least as depressing and painful) and Cannibal Ferox in the same night, and it's the reason why we now schedule a detox movie or TV episode for Bad Movie Night.
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I....Actually feel sick after just reading the wiki. And you actually sat through the thing? Did you not feel the need to regurgitate your most recent meal?
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Cast Iron stomach Bro...
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GuP's "somebody ****ed up on the production team" ep 5.5 arrived. It's...not bad, but it's mostly a clipshow recap.
It was quite a nice recap actually. But then episode 6 rocked.
Apparently the rumors go that because of the **** up the series won't have enough tv time slots for all the episodes and will have the last episode released as an OVA. But we'll see.
Other than that, finishing up Strike Witches season 2. That fanservice episode was... :wtf:
Poor little Neuroi bug. What a way to go after such an adventure.
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Finished Index season 1. Going to start Railgun now (I know a lot of it is filler, but dammit, it has Misaka in it!). Definitely buying Index's dub when it hits shelves in a couple of months (and, Funi, you'd better release a Railgun dub, too!).
Based on comments like this... I just finished Railgun, myself. On the subject of "filler", one of the things I really liked is how they actually tied all the little things together into the big climactic conflicts. And that is one of the best finales I've ever seen.
Index next!
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Well, I'd only heard that it had a lot of filler. After watching it myself, I disagree with it being "filler". It definitely has good plotlines and all of them were penned by the light novels' author anyway, so, not filler.
And yes, that finale was incredible. Remind me to never make someone nicknamed "The Railgun" angry.
Incidentally, Index's story starts a couple of in-universe months after Railgun ended, IIRC. Railgun's recently-announced season 2 will take place during the first few episodes of Index season 1.
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A Certain Magical Spoiler:
So if Academy City can clone a nigh-infinite number of Misakas, each one powerful enough to turn a wind turbine just by being near it... Why bother with the turbines? Just hook up a few sisters to generators for a few MWh per day and you have unlimited cheap energy! Plus jobs for almost 10000 clones.
Anyway, next up: Girls und Panzer (as episodes are subbed), and I'm not sure what else, maybe Shangri-La.
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A Certain Magical Spoiler:
So if Academy City can clone a nigh-infinite number of Misakas, each one powerful enough to turn a wind turbine just by being near it... Why bother with the turbines? Just hook up a few sisters to generators for a few MWh per day and you have unlimited cheap energy! Plus jobs for almost 10000 clones.
Aleister wants the Sisters for something else... something much greater in scope. It's kind of complicated; it involves AIM Fields and the Imaginary Number District. Exactly what he's up to hasn't been revealed yet as far as I know (I've been reading the novels, which go a bit more in-depth, but I'm still not sure what his ultimate goals are).
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A Certain Magical Spoiler:
So if Academy City can clone a nigh-infinite number of Misakas, each one powerful enough to turn a wind turbine just by being near it... Why bother with the turbines? Just hook up a few sisters to generators for a few MWh per day and you have unlimited cheap energy! Plus jobs for almost 10000 clones.
Aleister wants the Sisters for something else... something much greater in scope. It's kind of complicated; it involves AIM Fields and the Imaginary Number District. Exactly what he's up to hasn't been revealed yet as far as I know (I've been reading the novels, which go a bit more in-depth, but I'm still not sure what his ultimate goals are).
Aleister wants to spread the AIM field around the world, which is why he spread those clones across the organizations friendly to academy city, recreating what he's accomplishing in academy city on a worldwide scale. That is, he wants to artificially create heaven. As a side effect, every magician that did magic inside such a field would basically be commiting suicide.
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I knew that much. Don't know what his next step is after that.
Or is that his ultimate goal? The novels make this very unclear.
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GuP really does not want to show us the Tiger.
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Better keep the Tiger well hidden for suspense... and I think rumours are that it's the Tiger (P)
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Better keep the Tiger well hidden for suspense... and I think rumours are that it's the Tiger (P)
It's still a Tiger, even if it has that unsightly rear deck.
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Been watching the dub of Index, which just arrived.
Pretty good dub in most respects. Only slip so far is Kuroko referring to Misaka as "Sissy" (though, to be fair, "Oneesama" is a really tricky term to translate well). The dialogue flows really well and the voices are good fits, if different from the Japanese version.
My only complaint is with Accelerator. It's not that he's bad... no his dub voice is pretty good. But Austin Tindale just cannot do psychotic laughter like Okamoto can. Accelerator doesn't come off as nearly as unhinged as he did in the Japanese version. Which is a shame.
Haven't yet seen Last Order's English voice work. It will be... very interesting to see how they translated her bizarre speech patterns.
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My delivery of the full DVD sets of Ghost in the Shell and Gurren Lagann arrived on the weekend. I started GitS last night, and I'm very impressed with what I've seen so far. Granted, it's the first "serious" anime I've watched, so that might be part of the reason for that. :P
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I've concluded the writers of Girls und Panzer are just dicks to their protagonists. The team we saw fielded for Black Forest for the last championship would have been a fight worth watching, but they decided to ramp up the "you're screwed" factor by upgrading them from Tigers and Panzer IIIM to Panthers, Jagdpanzer IV/70s, a KT, a Tiger, a Ferdinand/Elefant, and just as a last "**** you" a JagdTiger.
Now the outcome of the Championship match is going to be merely silly. The 3M and Tiger team could have been evenish with Oorari's mix-and-match all-stars.
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Yea the sheer amount of both armor and firepower is ridiculous. But who cares if they can make it to be entertaining. Too bad that we need to wait for March before we get the final episodes.
Though I'm actually pleased that we got the 5,5 and will get 10,5 (apparently I guess...). Sure they are recaps but as long as there are at least some new audio or video material I'm happy.
I'd still like to have Anzu as my gunner in every tank of mine in WoT. Though Hana is fine too.
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I've been watching Pumpkin Scissors. It seems pretty cool, but now I think I've hit the filler, so idk.
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I've decided to be bummed the '90s are over because after watching a Bubblegum Crisis clip, I have a terrible urge to see Priss Asagiri perform "Marry the Night".
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Bah haaaaaaaaaaaa!
I recognised not a single reference. In my day it was all Akira, Venus Wars, Robotech and Guyver!
/me reclines in rocking chair and nods off under his blanket.
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Bah haaaaaaaaaaaa!
I recognised not a single reference. In my day it was all Akira, Venus Wars, Robotech and Guyver!
You really missed out, tbh. You would have liked 2033's Sylia, I think.
But this was really early '90s, the original BGC dates to 1987 if I remember correctly.
And of course I'm referring to the modern Lady Gaga "Marry the Night".
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again psycho pass = win, last episode was flawless.
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World of Girls Und Panzer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEDZvMQ6m2Y)
This amuses me slightly too much.
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just watched Summer Wars. I didn't really know what to expect, but I bloody enjoyed the hell out of it. It is now my official 'Feel good' movie.
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Still reading A Certain Magical Index, but have nearly gotten through all released Light Novels.
Then probably Gundam Seed HD Remaster. I've been wanting to rewatch it anyway, and this Remaster should be interesting.
Also been watching Genshiken on the side. Kind of amusing. Not as much as I'd been lead to believe.
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Archer.
Daanger zoone.
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Why the (http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6050/6351719411_6aeae0f568_z.jpg) did I decide to torture myself at three in the morning with This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7NyOR_vPI&feature=related)?
Dammit, I just rewatched this. All my sads ;-;
Hinata is a bro - The bromance between Otonashi and him is amazing :|
And, Robotics;Notes is getting interesting, as is Shinsekai Yori.
Poyopoyo is good for a short anime.
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My best friend and I have been watching Babylon 5 and Avatar: The Last Airbender together.
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Watching Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3obwVYdTg)
I never had the chance to watch this when it aired, found it accidentally a year ago. Watching it again because ST:I got me on a ST mood.
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Watching Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3obwVYdTg)
I never had the chance to watch this when it aired, found it accidentally a year ago. Watching it again because ST:I got me on a ST mood.
(http://global3.memecdn.com/EXCELLENT_o_97048.jpg)
As for me, I'm watching Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai. Lolz at the girl playing an eroge in a chapel side room!
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Watching Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3obwVYdTg)
Really like that one, though it's not the best series from my childhood it's definitely still watchable unlike most.
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Because my daughter likes the show, our family has gotten into Winx Club (http://winx.wikia.com/wiki/Winx_Club_Wiki). Basically, out local Nickelodeon affiliate was only showing season 4 episodes repeatedly, so I sought out further sources on the internet, through Shareaza and Bittorrent. In my subsequent research, I discovered that the show originates from Italy and is thus natively in Italian. The first 3 seasons were dubbed into English by a company called 4Kids, but the third season also saw Nickelodeon buy up the North American distribution rights, so they dubbed their own version with their own voices from that point on. 4Kids also dubbed their own version of season 4, which had different voices again, (from both Nick and 3Kids' own seasons 1 through 3). Season 5 is exclusively Nick as far as English language distribution rights are concerned, and there are 2 CGI movies, though the 2nd hasn't been released by Nick yet, and is slated to come out in April. Fortunately, there exists an English dub from the Italian DVD/BR release, which I downloaded. Season 5 is currently on its mid-season hiatus but is expected to resume this month... no specifics yet though.
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I just finished watching season 2 of The Strike Witches, and Season 2 of K-On.
And it's not anime, but I'm also going through the 14 disk set of Red vs Blue.
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Oh, that reminds me: need to grab Season 10.
I have been hearing a LOT about this show called Sword Art Online, and when something gets the fanbase this riled up it usually means it's at least worth looking at. May watch soon.
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Sweet Arse Online is worth a watch. The first half -of these 25 episodes released so far- had a bit more positive reception I think. Though the second half kept me entertained aswell so all and all it was ok IMHO.
I'd be surprised if they stopped here. They'll propably continue adapting more of the Light Novel story in more or less near future.
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I didn't watch much of SAO, but I agree with the opinion of my girlfriend who perservered through it all because she refuses to ever drop an anime - The first episode is full of promise and the rest of the series is just ****ing over that promise more and more. She hated it by the end.
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(http://static.metanorn.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Yamato2199_03-00021.jpg)
Anyone in here watching Space Battleship Yamato 2199? The first 10 episodes are available... around, and it's some good fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhJi-cxqj9o
there's the intro theme for you
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That picture needs a dayglow dolphin.
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Currently watching 'The Walking Dead' during the daily job commute. Season 2 so far.
Waiting for the 'Dick Figures Movie'..................Not sure when it's out as i haven't looked. If it's out by friday i'll be happy :yes:
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Hey guys. New Ghost In The Shell series confirmed for this year. (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-01-15/ghost-in-the-shell-arise-anime-to-launch-in-2013)
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omg
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I'd be much more excited if it was Kenji Kamiyama directing Stand-Alone Complex 3rd Gig. As it is, I'm at least somewhat interested.
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That was great news indeed. Let's see what they can come up with.
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I still have to obtain and watch 2nd GiG first. I have high hopes considering how much I enjoyed the first series.
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I just finished watching Shangri-La (http://www.hulu.com/shangri-la). My overall score: 5/10 - it was not bad, but could have been much better.
Setting: Quite interesting. Near future; global warming; huge, clean city in the sky; overgrown poison forests slowly taking over the few remaining surface settlements; a world economy literally based on carbon credits. Also the huge clean city is terribly sinister. Also there's some sort of weird god thing keeping it intact, or something. Also there's a prophecy. There's always a prophecy.
Story: Convoluted. Lots of stuff happens, much of it only slightly related to the main plot. Right now, I can't really remember what much happened in the first half of the series. It takes a while to start coming together, but when it does... it's still hard to make a coherent statement about. When the climax of the story is almost literally:
"a wizard did it"
then there's trouble. Ah, but such is the way these series go sometimes. It's interesting enough to move the characters along to the end, and the characters are what this is about.
Characters: Many and varied, some are fairly deep, and a good few are grating for no reason.
Karin, Kuniko, Kunihito, and Sayoko were characters I liked, with motivations, a decent bit of depth, strength, flaws, and character arcs.
Some other "main" characters were good enough, but not spectacular either way.
Many supporting characters got enough screen time of their own and mini-arcs, and generally were decent.
Some other supporting characters were just annoying (Akihibara guys), some were unpleasant (Hiruko communicates entirely by screams and seems to serve no real purpose), and some didn't really do much outstanding, though were pleasant enough.
And finally, some main characters were gratingly bad: Ryoko redefines "cartoonishly evil" and seems to be a pale, shallow imitation of Delphine from Last Exile; Momoko seems to have been specifically engineered to be as offensive and unlikeable as possible to as many different people as possible.
Overall, there's enough variety in things going on that there's bound to be something worthwhile. Unfortunately, that variety is bound to include some things that are less worthwhile to you. And if any one, large, component of the show bugs you, then it could easily spoil the whole thing.
Anyway. Next up: Continuing with Girls und Panzer, and will begin... Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (aieee, 52 episodes!?)
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I have mostly quit watching anime altogether. Bottom line is, they suck for various reasons. Hence I've been mostly reading manga. Only anime worth watching are those who follow original source faithfully and have decent enough budget to carry on to the end, without cutting corners. Of course there are some exceptions, but they seem to be really rare these days.
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how about the ones based on light novels?
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I have mostly quit watching anime altogether. Bottom line is, they suck for various reasons. Hence I've been mostly reading manga. Only anime worth watching are those who follow original source faithfully and have decent enough budget to carry on to the end, without cutting corners. Of course there are some exceptions, but they seem to be really rare these days.
You'll love Monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(manga)) then.
It's faithful (too much IMHO) to the source material since the director behind the anime was obsessed with following the manga, and so he did... frame by frame!
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Monster was one of the best series' I've watched. If I had funds for such things, it would be a series worth getting a hard copy of. Unfortunately getting the whole of the series seems not to be an option for english-speaking audiences (well, last time I checked). However, the dub (which is very good - I never bothered to find the subtitled version) is quite easy to look up, and you should most definitely do so.
My principal complaint with just starting the series would have been that it noticeably sounds like writing within a manga, rather than a more natural script. That element fades away fairly quickly, however.
...There are a few other more amusing things to note, if you care to do so. I recall a few scenes where the protagonist is reading a book (written in german) going from right to left. It's quite an amusing and forgivable oversight on part of the animators, but for all the detail placed into the series, it is quite ironic. But yeah, watch Monster. :p
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how about the ones based on light novels?
Makes no difference whether source materials are light novels or manga. Same problems tend to apply to both.
While I don't mean you have to animate original source frame by frame, but most anime tend to cut away material that should have been animated or add their own filler for no good reason. They also may change small details here and there for whatever reason. Anime often also runs out of source material to animate if they are adapting manga or light novel that is still ongoing. You've seen results of that in Naruto, Bleach and whatever. Another shounen example is Beelzebub where anime completely and utterly screwed up the last arc that was animated. Of course manga is still ongoing and way past that arc now.
While many adaptations are indeed good, I've been disappointed so many times with anime after reading the same story in manga. Manga usually is able to convey story, characters, settings and much more better than anime does. Where anime obviously wins, is that it is animated, in color and has sounds and music. Thus much easier for general western audience to follow than manga.
Bottom line is, animating source material is lot of hard work and because anime industry likes milking money just as much as any other industry, quality of anime on average is rather bad. Might just as well read the original source instead, which almost always is better anyway.
Anime is at its best when it's anime original and not adapted from another source or when the source is finished. But since anime is more often than not treated as promotional material to the original source in Japan, this rarely happens.
You'll love Monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(manga)) then.
It's faithful (too much IMHO) to the source material since the director behind the anime was obsessed with following the manga, and so he did... frame by frame!
Adaptation like that can be a little too extreme because director should also be responsible to produce animated adaptation that flows nicely in animated form. In any case, I did check out Monster when it originally aired, I didn't quite like it. It was long time ago, so maybe I should check it out again sometime.
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I did say there were exceptions every now and then, one of those exceptions happens to be a recent anime called Kotoura-san. Three episodes have aired so far and I would urge you to watch the first three at the very least. Unless they drop the ball, this series should be quite exceptional and worth watching.
Edit: Then again, I can only say this because manga has not been translated so far. But I've read comparisons between manga and anime, and manga seems quite a bit heavier and darker than anime. Which again proves my point that anime is watered down way too much. Oh well...
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Last Exile.
Psycho-pass.
Kotoura-san.
that is all.
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Just Psycho Pass, last episode was incredibly good.
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Tamako Market feels like good KyoAni entertainment so far.
But the tightest show right now must be Inferno Cop.
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A great movie is "Eve no Jikan" aka "The Time of Eve". An utterly brilliant movie, with a nice feel good ending :)
It deals with some pretty heavy, blade runner-esque stuff though
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It's friday again. Which means that it's time for butts and robots again.
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It's friday again. Which means that it's time for butts and robots again.
That could be anything.
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Finished Accel World and Sword Art Online.... and most of the translated SAO novels, probably start on the AW novels next.
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It's friday again. Which means that it's time for butts and robots again.
That could be anything.
Vividred Operation and Robotics;Notes
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Just finished watching 'Kore wa Zombie: Of the Dead', and then stumbled across this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5IFJqjXiQ&feature=endscreen&NR=1). It makes me simultaneously wish to watch 'Girls Und Panzer' and (momentarily) proud of being Russian...Which is strange, seeing as I'm English.... :confused:
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I was wondering what to watch next. Thanks to the random wallpapers, I now know.
(http://blueplanet.fsmods.net/E/pics/Screen%2018022013.png)
Also watched Rebuild of Evangelion over the weekend. It's more watchable than the series, but still utter crap.
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Also watched Rebuild of Evangelion over the weekend. It's more watchable than the series, but still utter crap.
:yes:
As for myself, I finished watching Beast Machines. I never had the chance to do so when it aired. David Kaye's voice is always awesome.
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Futurama! From start to finish! Don't ask me why!
Also finished watching Stargate Universe. Such a same it got cancelled after only two seasons. :blah:
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I just finished the last few of the 24 episodes of Sword Art Online, in a nice 2-hour marathon this morning. I really, really enjoyed it.
idk, maybe it's just when compared to Shangri-La, but it seemed to succeed wildly in every area. I felt emotionally connected to the characters, they seemed to be real people with thoughts and motivations and junk, the story made sense and was engaging, the art was excellent, and the animation was also great.
Everything that was absent, badly done, or clouded over in Shangri-La and Samurai 7 was here in spades.
Next up: Psycho Pass, or Kotoura-san.
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Go for psycho pass, I haven't seen kotura but I can bet anything it's way better and still be sure to brag about it.
SAO?, I though it was good until suddenly everyone stopped dying :P, then it turned into common rubbish.
As for Shangri-la, idk...think it was bad all the way for me. Their problems seemed so alien to me that I couldn't be arsed to care about them.
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While waiting for the second half of the Doctor Who season to start, I found this little video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kt3qZYUPi2Y
Pretty cool stuff.
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Just finished a DS9 marathon.
Was struck by the fact that the last six episodes of the series simply did not seem as well-made as the average ones from Season Six...
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While waiting for the second half of the Doctor Who season to start, I found this little video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kt3qZYUPi2Y
Pretty cool stuff.
What. In. The. Nine. Hells. Was. That. ?
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Senyuu is funny as all Hell.
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[quote
While waiting for the second half of the Doctor Who season to start, I found this little video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kt3qZYUPi2Y
Pretty cool stuff.
What. In. The. Nine. Hells. Was. That. ?
That was amazing, is what.
The style reminded me of this one: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=82229.0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBM2ZfncoU)
I wonder if they're related at all?
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Yep, the same guy did both. He seems to have removed the Doctor Who one from his own channel, for whatever reason. Probably copyright bull****.
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Hehe, the newest Girls und Panzer BR special has a Monty Python reference http://youtu.be/WCLlIwDDo2s
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Nice animation, even though I've never watched doc Who.
On a slightly related topic, every now and then I get to watch this "Inferno Cop" ONA thing, check it out for a high level anime product.
And with high level I mean being high-type of anime, some of the episodes are funny.
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Inferno Cop is the Anime of the Decade
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Deadwood
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Deadwood
C*cksuckah!
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^dude :blah:
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Deadwood
C*cksuckah!
Sweagen!
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
I watched Robotech years back, and now I want to see the original, unspoiled version.
I am pleasantly surprised at what they did with Minmei's actress in the dub. I don't think I've ever heard of the same actress voicing both the Japanese and English dubs before.
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Ahahaha, they're going to lure you in to watching 7.
I look forward to your suffering.
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Macross 7 is completely unwatchable. I think I quit on the third episode because it sucked so badly.
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Honestly I can't even stand Frontier. When the original came out, it was subversive, even hostile, towards its own genre. It told a story that was, in a lot of ways, meant to reach the post World War 2 Japanese audience; of the good fight but for the wrong reasons, of losing everything and having to rebuild with the help of your enemies.
Frontier also reflects Japanese mentality towards World War 2. That reflection isn't nearly as flattering to Japan. (Though it's less damning than when you try to find that narrative thread in Zero.) And as Macross has become the genre standard in the years since, aping it is de rigor; the creativity of the original doesn't exist.
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Ahahaha, they're going to lure you in to watching 7.
I look forward to your suffering.
Oh I doubt that. :)
I've seen stuff about Macross 7 and it just looks absurd and silly, even by Macross standards.
Macross Frontier is a "maybe".
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I'm actually really fond of Macross Plus, so check that out.
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Macross Plus is very good stuff with absolutely god-tier animation and music.
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Whats with all the hate toward M7? I liked it enough to buy at least one album... (ducks and puts Seventh Moon on)
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I recently finished Shangri-La. It's incredibly depressing to see something with so little in the way of narrative sense get such an AMAZING ANIMATION BUDGET.
I am currently enjoying the Hell out of:
Senyu(u?) - I highly recommend this series of shorts. It is possibly the funniest thing to ever come out of Japan.
Psycho-Pass
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha
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Yeah, Psycho Pass has gotten pretty awesome. Akane put on her protagonist pants finally. :p
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Girls Und Panzer is back. (http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=50ml9z&s=6)
ITS A MAUS! FSK FSK FSK!
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I finished Azumanga Daioh recently; certainly a change from GitS and TTGL, but Idefinitely enjoyed it.
From my friend's recommendation I've ordered a copy of Working!!, and will probably get the first season of Strike Witches very soon, as well.
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Going with a old one I didnt get the chance to watch before, Bakuretsu Hunters.
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Well, as fascinating as this anime talk is, Vikings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)) is pretty cool too.
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Justified
Season 4 Episode 11: Decoy
Constable Bob
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjA2NTY3MTg3MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTgzMjk4OA@@._V1._SX435_SY653_.jpg)
Don't **** With Him.
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CSI Miami is on netflix.
It helps me sleep.
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All of that orange and teal helps you sleep? 0.o
Well, whatever works, I guess. :P
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itq8pj-Fnd0
Gundam Unicorn Episode 6 is out now, if anyone's following it. The clip is from episode 1.
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Waiting for my copy to arrive at the moment.
Too bad it'll be a year before Episode 7.
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All of that orange and teal helps you sleep? 0.o
Well, whatever works, I guess. :P
No, all of that predictable plot and droning voiceover helps me sleep; it's actually hard to look at the screen from my bed.
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All of that orange and teal helps you sleep? 0.o
Well, whatever works, I guess. :P
No, all of that predictable plot and droning voiceover helps me sleep; it's actually hard to look at the screen from my bed.
I started watching Nikita, and it has the same effect on me.
Well, it started to after I got tired of yelling "Duh!" at my monitor.
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I neglected to mention that I'm working my way through seasons 3 and 4 of the original Transformers cartoon.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itq8pj-Fnd0
Gundam Unicorn Episode 6 is out now, if anyone's following it. The clip is from episode 1.
Ooooo Looks pretty. Is it any good?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itq8pj-Fnd0
Gundam Unicorn Episode 6 is out now, if anyone's following it. The clip is from episode 1.
Ooooo Looks pretty. Is it any good?
Yes, it is very good. If you like it, go watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam, 0083, Zeta Gundam, ZZ, and Char's Counterattack, then watch it again, and it will be even better.
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Just finished up ep. 22 of Psycho-Pass, I assume that's the finale?
That was a really, really good quality show. The art style threw me at first, but I got sucked in by the story pretty quick. Altogether, highly recommended.
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I assume you meant to put '23' there instead. :P
I'm thinking there's enough room for a sequel, but I'm hoping they don't go that route. It was all rather nicely tied up.
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I assume you meant to put '23' there instead. :P
No, 22, "Perfect World". Why? WHAT HAVE YOU HEARD?????
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Ah, looks like the link to 23 is a placeholder (which I will be watching closely).
Nothing to see here, move along. :nervous:
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They could go for a sequel, if they don't it's alright as well.
I would be lying if I said I don't want to know what will happen with kogami after this. My personal devil inside wants him to turn into the bad guy on the sequel trying to overthrow Sybil and fighting akane on the way.
Spoilers just in case.
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link to 23
WHAT WHERE
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I was a lazy ass over spring break and blew through several series.
After surprisingly liking Avatar: The Last Airbender, I watched all of Book 1 of Legend of Korra. It's no anime and I have no doubt many posters here would hate that kind of stuff and Nick. But then again I've watched My Little Pony, too. :P
Just finished watching House of Cards. I really enjoyed the style it took on.
I watched Gundam Unicorn too of course, but I guess I'm doomed to not like most Gundam protagonists. Really pretty though. :D
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After surprisingly liking Avatar: The Last Airbender, I watched all of Book 1 of Legend of Korra. It's no anime and I have no doubt many posters here would hate that kind of stuff and Nick.
Dude, what are you talking about? Avatar is amazing!
Myself, I'm waiting on Gundam Unicorn 6 and Nanoha Movie 2 to arrive. In the meantime... I'm honestly not sure what to watch. Kind of in the mood for giant robots, but Evangelion 3.33 is still practically forever away from a watchable English release, and the Star Driver movie is apparently just a compilation. Maybe I'll see about Martian Successor Nadesico. Or go totally retro and see Getter Robo.
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Watch The Wire
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Nanoha Movie 2
It's here.
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Watch The Wire
If I could I would.
After surprisingly liking Avatar: The Last Airbender, I watched all of Book 1 of Legend of Korra. It's no anime and I have no doubt many posters here would hate that kind of stuff and Nick.
Dude, what are you talking about? Avatar is amazing!
I avoided it for so long because I usually don't like contemporary Western cartoons, but I agree that it was pretty great.
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Nanoha Movie 2
It's here.
I meant here as in "physical copy of disc in my hands". Overseas shipping takes a bit of time.
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Justified
Season 4...
It already started? :(
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but Evangelion 3.33 is still practically forever away from a watchable English release
Blu-ray is hitting Japan some time in April, so there will be fansubs. I mean if you're already planning to buy it when it releases in the US...
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Yeah, but fansubs always take a month or two to come out... good ones, anyway.
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For Eva?
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Yeah, but fansubs always take a month or two to come out... good ones, anyway.
You live in some strange alternate universe I'm pretty sure, because even something like Girls Und Panzer gets a decent fansub within three or four days.
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Or maybe he just has high standards of quality, idk.
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Or Evangelion fans are really lazy.
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Or I'm just out of it and don't know what I'm talking about, apparently. :blah:
Well, I'm certainly all for it if high quality fansubs are quickly available. No complaints there.
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I don't really understand the hate M7 gets. The series was very entertaining and even had good music (Holy Lonely Night!!).
Then again it always goes to having a different taste I suppose. I do agree that it is rather silly, even by Macross standards.
But Girls und Panzer got it's 12th episode out... ... my cheeks hurt since I had this stupid grin on my face during the whole episode. Man it was great. :D
I really really REALLY hope they'll make more seasons to it.
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Team Four Star Dragonball Z Abridged Paordy, not sure if it counts :P
But if it doesn't: South Park. I don't watch much of well...anything.
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Team Four Star Dragonball Z Abridged Paordy, not sure if it counts :P
It counts. It always counts. For everything, it does count.
Also, if you like that, check out Hellsing Abridged. Because *****es love cannons. :D
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If it didn't count, then Mr. Popo would be upset.
And I don't think anybody wants that.
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Starting West Wing now! Another one of those TV shows that just traps me... Damn, there goes my free time. :P
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Vinick for President!
Watching Deadwood right now. Again. *swoon*
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Starting West Wing now! Another one of those TV shows that just traps me... Damn, there goes my free time. :P
Haec credo a deo pio, a deo iusto, a deo scito?
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Starting West Wing now! Another one of those TV shows that just traps me... Damn, there goes my free time. :P
Haec credo a deo pio, a deo iusto, a deo scito?
I'll just...take that crab puff.
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Finished watching Gosick. It's nice to see an anime with a romance (sub)plot that actually ends up somewhere.
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Starting West Wing now! Another one of those TV shows that just traps me... Damn, there goes my free time. :P
Haec credo a deo pio, a deo iusto, a deo scito?
Someone posted that in the House of Cards thread... which I also liked.
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Gundam UC 6 received and watched. Not a whole lot of action, but it answered a lot of my questions, which I appreciate. Now to wait a full ****ing year for UC 7. :(
In other news, checking out a series called "Another" on crunchy. Liking this so far. And I finally know who that eyepatch girl everyone was making fanart of is.
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Gundam UC 6 received and watched. Not a whole lot of action, but it answered a lot of my questions, which I appreciate. Now to wait a full ****ing year for UC 7. :(
In other news, checking out a series called "Another" on crunchy. Liking this so far. And I finally know who that eyepatch girl everyone was making fanart of is.
After 4 and 5, i guess i was silly not to expect a bit of a lull. 7 looks like it's gonna be an hour of giant robot battles and explosions, so I am looking forward to it.
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Not really watching any anime, but I've just started reading 'Red Eyes'. It's most refreshing, being able to read a manga that has a plot that expands wider than just the immediate life of the protagonist(s).
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Dayum.
http://youtu.be/pm5FjIxj_tk
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looks like spoon's got alot of work to do
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Dayum.
http://youtu.be/pm5FjIxj_tk
(http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/1283-omg-a-branch.jpg)
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Re-watching Yu Yu Hakusho for the first time since it aired on Toonami's late night block.
Pretty disappointed with myself and the series, so far.
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Dayum.
http://youtu.be/pm5FjIxj_tk
First trailer of the movie: http://youtu.be/fBLU4geKa7U
Again, dayum.
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wtf is that!, captain who?
looks quite good though :O
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Dayum.
http://youtu.be/pm5FjIxj_tk
First trailer of the movie: http://youtu.be/fBLU4geKa7U
Again, dayum.
Holy!!!
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Harbl/Yotsubas_dad_is_awesome.jpg)
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Just finished Angel Beats, and found it to be really, really good. Funny and sad in all the right places, and surprisingly, nothing that would make me worry about sharing it with friends .
Also been watching Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation.
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Quite a lot of mecha anime is on air during this spring. I've checked these three at least.
Majestic Prince - So far this seems to be balancing between Wacky&Fun and Trying to be Cool.
Valvrave The Liberator - Feels like Sunrise is trying to make this the next Code Geass.
Suisei no Gargantia - This one is the most interesting one from these three candidates IMHO. The setting feels good enough and Chamber is quite a cool mech.
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Was just thinking about acquiring the complete series of "DotHack" for my modest (read: almost nonexistent) anime library. Anyone have any opinion on it? Is it worth getting, will I need to read up on back story or get the games?
Will I ever find out if Goku's soul bomb will charge in time to beat Freeza in the next exciting episode of DRAGON BALL Z? Does it actually have a proper plot?
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It depends on which version of .hack you're talking about. Do you mean the original series .hack//SIGN, or Legend of the Twilight Bracelet, or Roots, or something else I'm not aware of that may have come after that?
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It depends on which version of .hack you're talking about. Do you mean the original series .hack//SIGN, or Legend of the Twilight Bracelet, or Roots, or something else I'm not aware of that may have come after that?
And here's where I want the help. I have no fracking idea, besides people telling me "Hurr Durr, get Dot Hack! It r0x0rz b0x0rz, lolololroflmao n00b"...
Well maybe not that bad, but it's how they come across to me when they constanty say the same bloody vague reply as to WHY i should get it and what "It" is! :mad:
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My personal recommendation is to simply avoid it entirely. If memory serves, everything following .hack//SIGN requires supplementary materials to understand. (Another series to avoid over this is the (Tower/Shield/Sword of) Druaga series)
Watch Sword Art Online instead. And Accel World.
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Watch Sword Art Online instead
I'd recommend reading it instead. The anime starts decently but then devolves to **** in the second half. Accel World is pretty good though.
Watching Suisei no Gargantia right now.
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Was just thinking about acquiring the complete series of "DotHack" for my modest (read: almost nonexistent) anime library. Anyone have any opinion on it? Is it worth getting, will I need to read up on back story or get the games? Will I ever find out if Goku's soul bomb will charge in time to beat Freeza in the next exciting episode of DRAGON BALL Z? Does it actually have a proper plot?
Ooookay, this is always a fun question to answer.
.hack takes place a few decades into the future (or at least it did when it was written). There is a globally-popular MMO called "The World" that all the characters play. On the surface, it's a story about these players and what they get up to online. But "The World" is deeper than that: there are parts of the game that do not seem to follow the normal rules, and characters who get up to some strange activities. What's clear is that the game is hiding something sinister. Very little of the series takes place "offline", pretty much everything of import happens while players are playing the game. Furthermore, each installment usually stars a brand-new cast, with older characters occasionally making cameos.
The series is centered around the games. Those are where the main plotlines lie, and where the series storytelling is at its best, IMO. The first set of games (.hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak, and .hack//Quarantine) form the core of the "classic" storyline and have good characters and story, but very repetitive gameplay. It's fun enough, but it can get old after a while. The second set (.hack//GU, Volumes 1-3) is much improved on almost every count, and personally I count it as the peak of the series as far as the story goes. All of these games are on the PS2, if you're interested.
The two anime, .hack//SIGN and .hack//ROOTS, are prequels to the first and second sets of games, respectively. SIGN is amazing (very light on action, mostly dialogue, but it's good dialogue, good character development, and Yuki Kajiura writing the music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWZP4MOD_o)). ROOTS is less so, but still decent.
But the point is that neither anime series fully resolves its plotline, as it leads directly into the games. (Well, SIGN sort of does, in that its main character gets closure, but the story continues without them.) There's a few anime movies that take place in the future of the series after the third game (which is not available in English), but they are more side stories than anything else.
The various novels and manga are either alternate (and non-canon) retellings or miscellaneous side stories. It's perfectly possible to enjoy the series without ever touching them: they just flesh out The World a bit more and show some alternate perspectives.
SO, my advice if you're looking to get into the series is to either get either set of games, which, as I said, contain the heart of the plot, or watch .hack//SIGN to get a taste of it, but know going in that it's going to leave questions unanswered, as it's a prequel. You can jump in at either set of games and enjoy what's going on, but the whole universe and plot only really comes together if you've read/watched/played everything.
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I totally got beat to the punch, but who cares, Imma post anyway. :p
It depends on which version of .hack you're talking about. Do you mean the original series .hack//SIGN, or Legend of the Twilight Bracelet, or Roots, or something else I'm not aware of that may have come after that?
And here's where I want the help. I have no fracking idea, besides people telling me "Hurr Durr, get Dot Hack! It r0x0rz b0x0rz, lolololroflmao n00b"...
Well maybe not that bad, but it's how they come across to me when they constanty say the same bloody vague reply as to WHY i should get it and what "It" is! :mad:
Well, I can at least help a bit, since I do have some experience with the franchise. .hack as a whole is very much a multimedia experience, with the anime/games/manga/novels all contributing, but SIGN works pretty well as a stand-alone product, since it's basically the beginning of that part of the story. It's actually the show that first piqued my interest in anime, since I had this reaction of, "Huh...it's a cartoon, but it's a bunch of people standing around talking about personal stuff, instead of doing wacky hijinks!" It has a pretty deliberate pacing, which I've seen some criticize as too slow, but I was fine with it myself. Plus, its soundtrack is gorgeous. SIGN acts as something of a lead-in to the original four-part PS2 game series: Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarantine. Each of those was bundled with one episode of a four-part OVA called Liminality, which dealt with events happening at the same time as the games in a real-world setting. Legend of the Twilight Bracelet was a follow-up series which focused mostly on different characters than SIGN and the games, but it wasn't all that great...aaaaand it has the rather dubious nickname of ".hack//Incest" for good reason. :lol:
After that, my knowledge trails off somewhat. I know that the anime series Roots represents something of a "reset" of the franchise, taking part in an MMO that's a sequel to the one used as a backdrop for SIGN and the other earlier materials. Just like SIGN did, it leads into its own set of video games, this time a three-parter called .hack//G.U. However, I can't really tell you myself whether it's any good or not.
Bottom line? I'd recommend giving SIGN a try, but beyond that, it's really up to you.
My personal recommendation is to simply avoid it entirely. If memory serves, everything following .hack//SIGN requires supplementary materials to understand. (Another series to avoid over this is the (Tower/Shield/Sword of) Druaga series)
As far as I'd heard, Tower of Druaga was fairly self-contained, since the only thing it was based on initially was a fairly-plotless NES title. But maybe I'm mistaken.
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My personal recommendation is to simply avoid it entirely. If memory serves, everything following .hack//SIGN requires supplementary materials to understand. (Another series to avoid over this is the (Tower/Shield/Sword of) Druaga series)
As far as I'd heard, Tower of Druaga was fairly self-contained, since the only thing it was based on initially was a fairly-plotless NES title. But maybe I'm mistaken.
While Tower itself is fairly well contained, it's unfinished if you don't continue with shield/sword/whatever. And those are the ones that bring in the stuff from other material.
I also found the ending to be completely unsatisfying, but that might just be me.
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Watch Sword Art Online instead
I'd recommend reading it instead. The anime starts decently but then devolves to **** in the second half.
I really wish they had tried to flesh out the relationships involving the side characters a little more, and let the first season end where he wakes up and wanders after her, rather than get into the whole second game thing. It felt kind of tacked on to the rest of it.
I'm also disappointed that the 'revive someone' item never came up after he got it.
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I've only watched the anime for Tower of Druaga and I never even knew a) it was an adaptation and b) that there is more.
I thought it was totally fine and complete, tbh.
SAO is a decent premise turned to **** from horribad writing, still, it's a decent watch if you try not to think about it. The side stories are better than the main story - the Asuna/Kirito relationship is like starwars prequels level... The series as a whole had so much potential if it actually just followed the progression through the game as a survival story instead of hopping right to the end with some wish-fulfillment romance and cheesy ending (don't get me started on ALO, where the writing is even worse, and totally pointless). Not the anime's fault though, the originals are totally the same and even has a full on pr0ns chapter like some bad gary-stu fanfiction. The author even admits it...
Accel World is a whole lot better in that regard, I guess.
On another note, I'm watching Suisei no Gargantia, Shingeki no Kyojin (aka. Attack on Titan; Eotenas), and Valvrave the Liberator this season.
Thoughts so far:
Gargantia: wtf, this is supposed to be urobutcher? where is the despair? where are the exploding bodies D:
Eotenas: oh I guess this is where all the exploding bodies went
Valvrave: this is hilariously bad, in the good way. space vampire with geass bloodcells piloting a gundam who's special attack is committing sepuku fighting space nazis for a chunk of miniature dyson sphere the anime.
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I have pretty much lost all faith in anime because they are almost all crap. Almost every season there are one or few watchable series, or if fortune so graces, even good series. Finding those seems to be an exercise in frustration though.
- Defiance. Doesn't seem to be good but jury's still out.
- Da Vinci's Demons. We'll see if Starz can pull another Spartacus with this series, but the concept is very different. Only seen one episode so far, so jury's still out.
- Elementary. Season's almost over but I am still not convinced this is worth watching. Guess that says about my available time more than quality of the series.
- Game of Thrones. Everybody loves this series except for me it seems. It's good entertainment but I haven't seen any episodes since latest season premiere.
- Grimm. Great show, I can recommend this one.
- NCIS. Used to be great show, but age is taking its toll.
- Person of Interest. It is hard to like the main character in this series, but other than that it's pretty decent.
- Revolution. Only seen one episode so far, but it does have some potential. Jury's still out on verdict.
- Supernatural. Used to be great show in the beginning, then hit by bad writing. This season has been its comeback and quality has been oddly close to what it used to be. Still, time's running out for this show and they should wrap it up soon.
- The Big Bang Theory. Again used to be good at the beginning but somehow the show became more mainstream since the first season. It still has some pretty good comedy every now and then, but I think they should wrap it up.
- Vegas. Great series, I can recommend this.
- Vikings. More based on legends than actual history. But still better than average series.
- Warehouse 13. I dropped this series after its ****ty season 2 finale but recently picked it up again. At times I don't know what I should think of writing in this series, but I guess it passes by being above average.
And series not currently airing.
- Breaking Bad. What more there is to say.
- Burn Notice. The series would have been better as more focused but it seems they have forcefully drawn the series out. Used to be great but now it's above average. We'll see how upcoming season works out.
- Strike Back. Good military action.
- Suits. There's just something in this series that's fun to watch.
- The Legend of Korra. First season was somewhat disappointing, especially its ending but I'll get what I can.
And last, what animes I am currently watching. The list is short for obvious reasons.
- Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. There's also manga but it seems that both are based on novels. So far decent.
- Hataraku Maou-sama!. There's manga too, but again both are based on novels. I quite enjoy watching this one.
- Suisei no Gargantia. It seems decent enough to keep watching, for now.
- Date a Live. Probably dropping this, after curious beginning it's going stupid very fast. Based on novels like manga adaptation, which was discontinued.
Will probably watch in the near future.
- Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S
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Thanks a bunch Dark Hunter & Mongoose, you've shed quite a bit of light on the situation. And I think I'll give the whole thing a miss. I'm a bit of a comletionist and hate having questions left unanswered, so I'd have to go the whole nine yards if I started watching it. And I just can't afford to do that (both in HDD space and money) for one story that once I'd reached the end, would have left me questioning just why I sank so much time and money/Disk space into it.
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Fair enough, .hack is freaking expensive if you want to get everything. :p
Though I am a fan of the series, I haven't been keeping up with it as of late, largely because a lot of the more recent stuff hasn't been getting an English release.
Still, I'd recommend checking out the series' music. If nothing else, .hack always has fantastic music.
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- Revolution. Only seen one episode so far, but it does have some potential. Jury's still out on verdict.
Unless it's gotten much, much better recently, it's terrible. It's got tons of potential, but for the first... 6-8 episodes that I watched, I saw all of that potential get shoveled into the toilet and set on fire.
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SAO is a decent premise turned to **** from horribad writing, still, it's a decent watch if you try not to think about it. The side stories are better than the main story - the Asuna/Kirito relationship is like starwars prequels level... The series as a whole had so much potential if it actually just followed the progression through the game as a survival story instead of hopping right to the end with some wish-fulfillment romance and cheesy ending (don't get me started on ALO, where the writing is even worse, and totally pointless). Not the anime's fault though, the originals are totally the same and even has a full on pr0ns chapter like some bad gary-stu fanfiction. The author even admits it...
The reason to read it is to get to the far better later material. But yeah, slogging through ALO is a pain.
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I have pretty much lost all faith in anime because they are almost all crap. Almost every season there are one or few watchable series, or if fortune so graces, even good series. Finding those seems to be an exercise in frustration though.
Do what I do and just don't watch currently-airing stuff. There are a few decades' worth of really good series and OVAs out there, and if you give the current seasons a few years, the worthwhile stuff tends to get filtered out and stand the test of time, so it'll be there when you decide to watch it.
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There are a few decades' worth of really good series and OVAs out there
I would venture to guess that I've seen all that there is worth to see. Ever since I visited this guy long time ago who I met in irc and copied his anime collections, watched them and then kept consuming anime like food, I've forgotten more anime than most people have seen in their lifetime.
And just now I realized how utterly sad that sounds when said out loud. **** me.
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Why aren't you hanging out in the WoD IRC with the rest of us anime geeks? ;)
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Because I never played WoD further than first few missions and because I've never had a need to have conversations with anime as subject.
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There are a few decades' worth of really good series and OVAs out there
I would venture to guess that I've seen all that there is worth to see. Ever since I visited this guy long time ago who I met in irc and copied his anime collections, watched them and then kept consuming anime like food, I've forgotten more anime than most people have seen in their lifetime.
And just now I realized how utterly sad that sounds when said out loud. **** me.
I've seen over 400 shows in all sorts of genres and I'm still discovering new stuff I've never heard of before.
You probably haven't seen as much as you think you have.
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I would venture to guess that I've seen all that there is worth to see.
Seriously though that's a ridiculous statement, you've seen every series of value for the past 50 years from a country whose language you don't even speak. You're not in a position to make such judgements and there's a lot of stuff from the early days that I doubt you'd even have been able to track down yet, assuming you were actually trying, which by your own admission you were not.
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To be honest, until we see Romeo and Juliet enacted with cyber samurai and 50 foot mecha, none of us have seen everything worth watching.
*Now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if there was something like that in existence....TO THE "GOOGLE"!
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Well, there was a Romeo and Juliet anime, though I don't think that one had cyber-samurai. Samurai 7, GONZO's crack at Kurosawa's legendary Seven Samurai, managed to have both cyber samurai and 50-foot mecha though. :D
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Well, there was a Romeo and Juliet anime,
Which was pretty decent.
though I don't think that one had cyber-samurai. Samurai 7, GONZO's crack at Kurosawa's legendary Seven Samurai, managed to have both cyber samurai and 50-foot mecha though. :D
This could have been so much better. It was filled with too much Gonzoooooo.
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To be honest, until we see Romeo and Juliet enacted with cyber samurai and 50 foot mecha
Yeah, that's 08th MS Team. Damn good show.
Also, I only saw one post here mentioning Attack on Titan, wtf? That show is THE **** right now.
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Well, there was a Romeo and Juliet anime, though I don't think that one had cyber-samurai. Samurai 7, GONZO's crack at Kurosawa's legendary Seven Samurai, managed to have both cyber samurai and 50-foot mecha though. :D
I actually remember reading a Romeo and Juliet (among some others of Shakepeare's plays) manga that leaned heavily towards sci-fi fantasy. Can't remember the title of the book though. I remember that Tybalt had a wicked cool set of armour and awesome hair.
And I just watched the 'There She Is' flash movies on Newgrounds for the Nth time. Damned good work, they are.
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Yeah, that's 08th MS Team. Damn good show.
08th is ****ing amazing with the mecha animation and fights but my god is it derpy on the Shiro's superiors bits.
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Seriously though that's a ridiculous statement, you've seen every series of value for the past 50 years from a country whose language you don't even speak. You're not in a position to make such judgements and there's a lot of stuff from the early days that I doubt you'd even have been able to track down yet, assuming you were actually trying, which by your own admission you were not.
Thank you for your sentiments. You however do not know me or what I have done in the past.
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A bit off topic, but I REALLY wish they'd start translating some of their more 'out-there' games. I've seen videos of some very interesting looking RPG / Tactics mechanics.
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Thank you for your sentiments. You however do not know me or what I have done in the past.
I'd think by now I know you pretty well; we've both been posting here for upwards of 5 years. This "you don't know me" **** is not going to fly, Fury, I've been able to watch you far too long.
Plus you actually said where you got most of your older anime from.
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What and how we do in the internet is hardly a representation of our private life, as you should very well know by now. I can fairly say that I don't know you and I am content at leaving it at that too. And what I said two posts earlier is how I started, which is not enough information to draw unnecessary conjectures from. Not only that, but the post was based on an opinion of what is worthwhile, not on a fact. Such a fact doesn't exist in the first place like there is no such a fact as to what books are worth reading.
Now, are we done yet? No? Too bad, I am.
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Can you guys take this to PMs if it continues? This thread has been far too helpful and civil for something this petty to ruin it for the rest of us after so long.
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Not only that, but the post was based on an opinion of what is worthwhile, not on a fact.
You mentioned books. Apparently, while I was busy being conceived, some guy named Chohei Kambayashi was writing a sci-fi novel in Japan called Yukikaze with the themes of alienation, disillusionment with the military, and the mechanization of combat. It was somewhat before its time (ideally it should have come of age with the MQ-1 Predator because of its particular subject matter) so most folks forgot it. I only learned about it in April of this year. I highly recommend it not only for the relevant themes but because it's actually pretty good with its aerial combat sequences. It was highly unlikely I'd ever know this work existed if someone hadn't written a review I happened to see and look at because it had a cool airplane on the cover.
The point is that there's stuff out there. You've proclaimed in your best tone of embittered veterancy that there is nothing left for you to care about. I've watched an awful ****ing lot of people play out the bittervet routine (EVE does that to people) for why they no longer care. It's rationalization. It's not actuality. It's never actuality. There remains somewhere amid the output of the monkeys banging on typewriters quality work that neither you nor I have ever heard of. There always will. The field is too vast for a blanket, sweeping generalization to ever be true. Too vast for any single person to ever survey. To attempt either is an act of remarkable conceit.
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You've proclaimed in your best tone of embittered veterancy that there is nothing left for you to care about.
Every recent Fury post ever? :p
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Watching "Deadwood" for the first time now, still uncertain if i'll like it. But i've just finished episode 2, so i'm at the very beginning. I'm also re-watching "Black Adder" for the third time or so, i love this show.
I'm not really into animes, but a friend of mine loves them. Last thing he recommended to me i actually watched was Black Lagoon, which was quite enjoyable.
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I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing). I certainly did enjoy it, and I've already ordered the second season.
Now I'm currently working my way through the first season of Wagnaria!!/Working!!, another recommendation by the same friend (since I thoroughly enjoyed Azumanga Daioh). Another thing that I've also ordered is Ghost In The Shell 2nd GIG.
Apparently, while I was busy being conceived, some guy named Chohei Kambayashi was writing a sci-fi novel in Japan called Yukikaze with the themes of alienation, disillusionment with the military, and the mechanization of combat. It was somewhat before its time (ideally it should have come of age with the MQ-1 Predator because of its particular subject matter) so most folks forgot it. I only learned about it in April of this year. I highly recommend it not only for the relevant themes but because it's actually pretty good with its aerial combat sequences. It was highly unlikely I'd ever know this work existed if someone hadn't written a review I happened to see and look at because it had a cool airplane on the cover.
Would that be the novel that the anime/OVAs of Yukikaze is based on? I've been considering getting the latter, but now that you've mentioned the novel, I might have to think about it. I actually was considering it for the same reason ("cool airplane on the cover"), though I have seen the Yukikaze aircraft before (not in context). The Wikipedia article for the anime states that the producers had assistance from the JASDF for the air-combat scenes, so I don't think I'd be missing out on well done air-combat scenes if I try that first.
Last thing he recommended to me i actually watched was Black Lagoon, which was quite enjoyable.
I've had that recommended to me as well.
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I'm not really into animes, but a friend of mine loves them. Last thing he recommended to me i actually watched was Black Lagoon, which was quite enjoyable.
It's anime, not animes.
I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing). I certainly did enjoy it, and I've already ordered the second season.
I thought the second season of Strike witches was kind of weak. But the movie was imho quite good, definitely would recommend that after season 2.
If you like Strike witches you would probably enjoy Girls und Panzer too, I recently watched that and ****ing loved it.
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And thanks to that lovely screenshot in celebration of freespace i'm watching first season of nanoha. i'm having mixed feelings about watching it.
the story is okay-ish, if delving into annoyingly childish sometimes, but i cannot help thinking "what the **** am i doing here at 23 years old watching something that was very obviously made for children..."
(not saying urk, anime aer for kids, far from it... just this particular one...)
also, i really need to statisfy my akira craving soon -.-
and as a sidenote, i found MS Gundam 00 to be quite a solid series for both seasons. Iffy sometimes, downright stupid at other times, but hey, i've watched worse XD
I have no idea why a lot of people talked **** about it tho. The series at least tried to give some decent justifications for the **** they pulled and honestly, the movie was the utterly weakest link in the series of the stuff i watched.
also, since someone mentioned Yukikaze, the anime is glorious. So yeah. Whoopwhoopwhoopwhoop
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Hey hey, there's nothing wrong with watching Nanoha. (http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif)
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And thanks to that lovely screenshot in celebration of freespace i'm watching first season of nanoha. i'm having mixed feelings about watching it.
the story is okay-ish, if delving into annoyingly childish sometimes, but i cannot help thinking "what the **** am i doing here at 23 years old watching something that was very obviously made for children..."
(not saying urk, anime aer for kids, far from it... just this particular one...)
The first season of nanoha is fairly basic mahou shoujo and only near the end do they turn it all up a notch. Then comes the second season, A's, and stuff gets really awesome.
So I'm not suprised by your initial impression by it.
and as a sidenote, i found MS Gundam 00 to be quite a solid series for both seasons. Iffy sometimes, downright stupid at other times, but hey, i've watched worse XD
I have no idea why a lot of people talked **** about it tho. The series at least tried to give some decent justifications for the **** they pulled and honestly, the movie was the utterly weakest link in the series of the stuff i watched.
Agreed on all of that. I personally really enjoyed 00 a lot.
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Yeah, Nanoha starts slow. Up until Fate's first appearance, it's pretty much only worth watching so you know how it started. After that however, it becomes awesome.
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Hey hey, there's nothing wrong with watching Nanoha. (http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif)
XD
And thanks to that lovely screenshot in celebration of freespace i'm watching first season of nanoha. i'm having mixed feelings about watching it.
the story is okay-ish, if delving into annoyingly childish sometimes, but i cannot help thinking "what the **** am i doing here at 23 years old watching something that was very obviously made for children..."
(not saying urk, anime aer for kids, far from it... just this particular one...)
The first season of nanoha is fairly basic mahou shoujo and only near the end do they turn it all up a notch. Then comes the second season, A's, and stuff gets really awesome.
So I'm not suprised by your initial impression by it.
Will hold on then. Already dl'ed A's so yeah.
[edit] at episode 11 of first season atm...
and as a sidenote, i found MS Gundam 00 to be quite a solid series for both seasons. Iffy sometimes, downright stupid at other times, but hey, i've watched worse XD
I have no idea why a lot of people talked **** about it tho. The series at least tried to give some decent justifications for the **** they pulled and honestly, the movie was the utterly weakest link in the series of the stuff i watched.
Agreed on all of that. I personally really enjoyed 00 a lot.
Finally someone :D
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I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing).
Suuuuure. :p
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I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing).
Suuuuure. :p
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/21492113.jpg)
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no-pants thing
(http://i.imgur.com/UYWDD.gif)
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Since Psycho Pass I haven't really found anything that catches my eye.
So far the most promising one for me is Shingeki no Kyojin, that last episode sure made me go: WTF man! and for once the studio/script guys sure know how to use a cliffhanger.
Another I'm watching is Ore imouto whatever, watched the first release so I'm following the story.
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Tried watching Girls Und Panzer but after the third randomly placed german word, I just had to turn it off.
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Tried watching Girls Und Panzer but after the third randomly placed german word, I just had to turn it off.
You are using the wrong subs, watch hiryuu instead of commie (or dmonhiro for the bd release, which uses hiryuu subs)
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Watching Valvrave, Majestic Prince, Gargantia and Hataraku, Maou-sama! this season. Lots of strong winners, and I haven't even gotten into eoten onslaught yet.
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I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing).
Suuuuure. :p
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/21492113.jpg)
I suppose I was asking for that. :lol: It's not worth the trouble to convince anyone otherwise... :P
I thought the second season of Strike witches was kind of weak. But the movie was imho quite good, definitely would recommend that after season 2.
If you like Strike witches you would probably enjoy Girls und Panzer too, I recently watched that and ****ing loved it.
I'll certainly consider both of these suggestions. Although, about this:
You are using the wrong subs, watch hiryuu instead of commie (or dmonhiro for the bd release, which uses hiryuu subs)
Would the DVD release (if there's one with a sub) have the "correct" sub?
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I suppose I was asking for that. :lol: It's not worth the trouble to convince anyone otherwise... :P
I know how you feel man, back in the day when I was watching Strike witches everyone responded the same way when I said that I wasn't in it for the whole panty flashing deal :p
Would the DVD release (if there's one with a sub) have the "correct" sub?
When it comes to fansubs right now there is only the TV version (commie troll subs and hiryuu) and the Blu ray release (up to volume 4 right now, released by dmonhiro using hiryuu subs). AFAIK there isn't a DVD release on the interwebs atm.
I haven't heard anything about it being licensed outside of japan by anyone yet so there probably won't be localized DVD versions any time soon either.
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plowed right through first 2 nanoha seasons, and i can honestly say i'm sorta meh about it. StrikerS seems to be a much more interesting premise. probably because of a bit of broadening of encounters or summat. dunno.
will type out a full assesment once i finish strikers.
overall, i could've gone far worse with anime than this at least :D
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(http://nanofate.us/sites/default/files/imagecache/node-gallery-display/f648eaa2be7a6d52b874fdeb2efc1aec.png)
:nervous:
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Yeah... i'm not getting where the whole "Nanoha, Destroyer of Worlds!" shtick comes from. In my subs at least, there has been a single mention of the whole "White Devil" thing and thats by Vita near the end of A's. I'm kinda hoping StrikerS delivers on that.
Also, my experience with the anime so far can be summed up as: "Came for the beams of doom, stayed for the characters and story."
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Haven't you seen how Nanoha has made every friends she has? She's pummeled them into
submission friendship!
By the end of StrikerS you should realize exactly how Nanoha handles every problem she has. :p
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Haven't you seen how Nanoha has made every friends she has? She's pummeled them into submission friendship!
here's the thing, it hasnt really happened through pummeling. fate didnt exactly get her ass handed to her by nanoha and neither did hayate or the wolkenritter... (gratuitous german woo)
the ones who got the long end of the divine/whatever buster, well, nobody went down from just one so far :p
By the end of StrikerS you should realize exactly how Nanoha handles every problem she has. :p
Alrite :)
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It's really more of a joke that fans have come up with regarding Nanoha's character.
The "Full Power! Absolute Destruction!" joke is a lot funnier in Japanese, since the two exclamations are homophones ("Zenryoku zenkai!")
Referring to her as "the White Devil" is a cross-joke with Gundam. The original Gundam was called "The White Devil" by its enemies, and Nanoha's outfit has the same color scheme.
Like I said, besides her habit of "befriending" former enemies, there isn't a lot in the series to suggest she's a blood-crazed warrior. Although more recent side materials seem to have rolled with this perception, showing Nanoha getting really into her battles (to the point where one manga showed a mock battle between her and Signum that had to be stopped because they both got a bit too serious about it).
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Not exactly a TV series, but I am currently watching: Shephard's mind. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNaJX6gOYMA) It shines the most once you get past the first 10 or so episodes.
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It's really more of a joke that fans have come up with regarding Nanoha's character.
The "Full Power! Absolute Destruction!" joke is a lot funnier in Japanese, since the two exclamations are homophones ("Zenryoku zenkai!")
Referring to her as "the White Devil" is a cross-joke with Gundam. The original Gundam was called "The White Devil" by its enemies, and Nanoha's outfit has the same color scheme.
Like I said, besides her habit of "befriending" former enemies, there isn't a lot in the series to suggest she's a blood-crazed warrior. Although more recent side materials seem to have rolled with this perception, showing Nanoha getting really into her battles (to the point where one manga showed a mock battle between her and Signum that had to be stopped because they both got a bit too serious about it).
that... explains a lot of it actually. thanks :)
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When it comes to fansubs right now there is only the TV version (commie troll subs and hiryuu) and the Blu ray release (up to volume 4 right now, released by dmonhiro using hiryuu subs). AFAIK there isn't a DVD release on the interwebs atm.
I haven't heard anything about it being licensed outside of japan by anyone yet so there probably won't be localized DVD versions any time soon either.
Ah that's a shame. I suppose it only was made last year so I wouldn't be surprised that it may be some time (if it ever does) before an English DVD is released; I've only just been getting into anime so I don't know the usual time for an English release to come out.
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Ah that's a shame. I suppose it only was made last year so I wouldn't be surprised that it may be some time (if it ever does) before an English DVD is released; I've only just been getting into anime so I don't know the usual time for an English release to come out.
It tends to vary but you usually shouldn't expect to see it within a year after the original air time (some times 2-3 years even, if at all)
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Started watching Bakemonogatari...
This is seriously one of the most WTF anime I've ever seen. :wtf:
It's pretty good so far, but it's just... strange. Studio SHAFT looks like they were having way too much fun with the artwork in this one.
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Tried watching Girls Und Panzer but after the third randomly placed german word, I just had to turn it off.
Umm... if the ones you have are Commies .mkv files then check your players subtitle settings.
The mkv wrap also includes a subtitle pack called "No Fun Allowed", which are normal subs.
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Tried watching Girls Und Panzer but after the third randomly placed german word, I just had to turn it off.
Umm... if the ones you have are Commies .mkv files then check your players subtitle settings.
The mkv wrap also includes a subtitle pack called "No Fun Allowed", which are normal subs.
Oh lawl
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Started watching Bakemonogatari...
This is seriously one of the most WTF anime I've ever seen. :wtf:
It's pretty good so far, but it's just... strange. Studio SHAFT looks like they were having way too much fun with the artwork in this one.
It's a good anime, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
It's probably strange because it touches urban legends and stuff we're not familiar with I guess, but I found it quite amusing trying to make sense out of the stories.
Then there's the Nisemono ones, I just couldn't find purpose on those chapters, or something didn't quite fit for me.
Nekomono was good, but short.
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I think it's more the art style, frankly. Like I said, Studio SHAFT is having too much fun with this.
Also, I just heard a Japanese actress flawlessly pronounce an English "r" and "l". Yep, this anime is weird.
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Then there's the Nisemono ones, I just couldn't find purpose on those chapters, or something didn't quite fit for me.
Nekomono was good, but short.
Nisemono lacked everything that made bakemono good. It was pure fetish fuel with only a very few highlights.
I think it's more the art style, frankly. Like I said, Studio SHAFT is having too much fun with this.
Also, I just heard a Japanese actress flawlessly pronounce an English "r" and "l". Yep, this anime is weird.
Amusingly enough, the Japanese are actually suprisingly good at doing the rrrolling R (the way the dutch do it)
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The superior trilled Rs are why I envy scots.
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I can't physically make that sound; my tongue's too attached or something. Guess it's a good thing I never took Spanish.
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Can you "fold" your tongue? (touch the back with the tip) If not, yeah, you wont get anywhere.
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are we talking about the rolling R as in ARRRRRRRRR, pirate style?
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Holy ****, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S just took a turn for the awesome.
J.C. Staff are awesome, awesome and cruel bastards.
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Holy ****, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S just took a turn for the awesome.
J.C. Staff are awesome, awesome and cruel bastards.
what? no what's that?
I like cruel stuff, most watch.
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Died a little at the end of the episode. :( Hate that we have to wait a week for the next one.
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Holy ****, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S just took a turn for the awesome.
J.C. Staff are awesome, awesome and cruel bastards.
Accelerator is here, cruel awesomeness ensues.
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120316131812/to-aru-majutsu-no-index/images/thumb/9/9f/Accelerator.png/800px-Accelerator.png)
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Aw, wth. I thought he turned good??? Wellp, guess I gotta watch that now.
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Scourge of Ages, the S is taking place before that happens and is really nothing more than an extended version of what we've already seen. It's all sorts of confusing and stupid to be honest because you already roughly know how things turn out.
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Oh, well that's ok. Still gonna watch it :)
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Scourge of Ages, the S is taking place before that happens and is really nothing more than an extended version of what we've already seen. It's all sorts of confusing and stupid to be honest because you already roughly know how things turn out.
Let me guess, you hated Fate/Zero?
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I actually dropped Fate/Zero after two episodes if I remember correctly, but I disliked it for different reasons entirely. At least Fate/Zero takes place ten years before Fate/Stay Night, not in middle of the main story like Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S does.
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This Attack on Titan anime is getting pretty dark. If i had to pick a word to describe it, it'd be "gruesome"
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The events depicted in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S happen before the main storyline of Toaru Majutsu no Index... the sisters arc in Majutsu started later, you can tell by the difference in clone number (9982 vs 10032). Or by the date in the books, August 15 when 9982 was butchered and August 20 when Touma first meets 10032.
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I'm not sure which is more troubling. A) You expect people to actually remember such trivial details from something seen ages ago. B) Expect people to research it up prior to or during watching.
Meh to both.
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This Attack on Titan anime is getting pretty dark. If i had to pick a word to describe it, it'd be "gruesome"
It's guuud.
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I'm not sure which is more troubling. A) You expect people to actually remember such trivial details from something seen ages ago. B) Expect people to research it up prior to or during watching.
Meh to both.
I expect you to recall that Touma stumbled into the sisters problem at the end, and that what we are seeing is the "beginning" of that problem. Misaka even tells Touma she tried to take Accelerator on and that it didn't work, which is what we'll be seeing in the next episode.
Basically, if you cannot recall that Misaka knew about the sisters when Touma found out and that what we are seeing is Misaka discovering them...
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This Attack on Titan anime is getting pretty dark. If i had to pick a word to describe it, it'd be "gruesome"
It's guuud.
I'm quite fond of the opening song
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This Attack on Titan anime is getting pretty dark. If i had to pick a word to describe it, it'd be "gruesome"
It's guuud.
I'm quite fond of the opening song
It's not my favorite, but anything beats the hell out of the Turn A Gundam intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpqwY7tsZS4
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This Attack on Titan anime is getting pretty dark. If i had to pick a word to describe it, it'd be "gruesome"
It's guuud.
I'm quite fond of the opening song
It's not my favorite, but anything beats the hell out of the Turn A Gundam intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpqwY7tsZS4
i would like my brain back now, please.
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You guys have seen nothing yet: http://youtu.be/uYkDP5xDoO8
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You guys have seen nothing yet: http://youtu.be/uYkDP5xDoO8
BREAKING YOUR FACE!!!!!! :lol:
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Thank you. I shall now return to the do a barrelroll dog video to erase this useless material with some other useless material that at least makes me laugh.
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Still sound better than anything by ALI Project. Dear lord.
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never forget the gentle awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvkqsNrnxGY
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Just finished Baccano. Damn that was awesome. Rarely I see an anime in which every single member of the cast is enjoyable to watch.
Granted it was a tad confusing at first but things cleared out a bit after a few episodes.
Anyways, I highly recommend it.
How should I explain it in a nutshell... The series follow a huge bunch of characters and how their existence intercept with eachother... more or less.
Most of the time things happen during 1930's but time skips back and forth quite a lot.
There are gangsters, thieves and assassins. And prettymuch every one of them is either hilarious or cool.
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+1 for Baccano. Quite a unique and entertaining show. :yes:
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never forget the gentle awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvkqsNrnxGY
Thank you for mitigating the damage to my ears and psyche that was caused by the other OPs.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7If2okGrJ8
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I've recently finished the first season of Strike Witches. It came up when I was discussing anime-related things with a friend, and I got intrigued by the concept (and not the no-pants thing).
"So it's good, huh? I'll give it a chance. And I hate pants anyways."
*watches opening battle*
"Now, isn't that a bit much?"
*watches Yoshika's introduction*
"Oh, so you meant NO pants, like anywhere."
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I finally managed to see Evangelion 3.33.
...
...what. Seriously, what?
Well, any non-Eva fans are going to have been left in the dark several miles back at this point if they've only been following the movies. For those of us familiar with the series mythology it's still rather confusing. They pulled some stuff in this movie I didn't think was even possible in Eva.
I think I have a decent grasp on what's going on, though I'm at a loss on several things... I suppose we just have to wait until Evangelion Final to clear anything up (though, this being Eva, I sort of doubt it will).
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I finally managed to see Evangelion 3.33.
...
...what. Seriously, what?
Well, any non-Eva fans are going to have been left in the dark several miles back at this point if they've only been following the movies. For those of us familiar with the series mythology it's still rather confusing. They pulled some stuff in this movie I didn't think was even possible in Eva.
I think I have a decent grasp on what's going on, though I'm at a loss on several things... I suppose we just have to wait until Evangelion Final to clear anything up (though, this being Eva, I sort of doubt it will).
It's all been a dream experienced by God-Shinji from EoE, just before he rejects instrumentality.
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Evangelion should die in a fire.
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I've been watching Fruits Basket lately. It's pretty good, albeit slow.
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Evangelion should die in a fire.
There are days I think this, but it's an amazing story for people to write deconstructive takes on.
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I finally managed to see Evangelion 3.33.
...
...what. Seriously, what?
Well, any non-Eva fans are going to have been left in the dark several miles back at this point if they've only been following the movies. For those of us familiar with the series mythology it's still rather confusing. They pulled some stuff in this movie I didn't think was even possible in Eva.
I think I have a decent grasp on what's going on, though I'm at a loss on several things... I suppose we just have to wait until Evangelion Final to clear anything up (though, this being Eva, I sort of doubt it will).
It's all been a dream experienced by God-Shinji from EoE, just before he rejects instrumentality.
:lol:
You know, I can't say that something like this hasn't crossed my mind, but I don't think that even Anno would take his fanbase-trolling that far.
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I finally managed to see Evangelion 3.33.
...
...what. Seriously, what?
Well, any non-Eva fans are going to have been left in the dark several miles back at this point if they've only been following the movies. For those of us familiar with the series mythology it's still rather confusing. They pulled some stuff in this movie I didn't think was even possible in Eva.
I think I have a decent grasp on what's going on, though I'm at a loss on several things... I suppose we just have to wait until Evangelion Final to clear anything up (though, this being Eva, I sort of doubt it will).
It's all been a dream experienced by God-Shinji from EoE, just before he rejects instrumentality.
:lol:
You know, I can't say that something like this hasn't crossed my mind, but I don't think that even Anno would take his fanbase-trolling that far.
It'd be no different from how the original series ended. Though I don't think things will stop at just death threats should he do this, dem japanese fanbases are RABID!
And the thing is, I don't think that it's too far from the truth. There are too many things that tie the world in with EoE, that it's only logical to assume that it's linked in some fairly significant way to the original series' timestream/universe/reality/mentalbreakdowninaboxset.
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Reading about massive Evangelion cluster****s of plot and comprehension is why I'll never watch it.
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Watch the last few episodes of Inferno Cop, instead. ;)
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i watched the thick of it a while back, imo a good show
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"So it's good, huh? I'll give it a chance. And I hate pants anyways."
*watches opening battle*
"Now, isn't that a bit much?"
*watches Yoshika's introduction*
"Oh, so you meant NO pants, like anywhere."
:lol: That's not too far off, actually. Except I read about the lack of pants from the description; my friend didn't even mention anything about no pants until I shared that with him - and then he said it wasn't ever talked about in the show. Well, not talked about, certainly... :p
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Reading about massive Evangelion cluster****s of plot and comprehension is why I'll never watch it.
Tell you what, though, the movie had fantastic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1WLqicYNxI) music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viOwD_9Swqk).
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Tetsugin 28-go. I watched first episode of the remake and it's not bad, just some anti-american stuff thrown in occasionally and a random pompadour.
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Man you need to go old-school and watch the original black-and-white. GI-GAN-TOOOOORRRRRR!
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Haven't looked for it but with a name like that it must be dubbed and I don't like dubs.
Where can you find black and white anime on the internets anyways?
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Yes, it was dubbed...but considering it was made in 1963, do you really think you'd miss much by seeing it that way? :p
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Reading about massive Evangelion cluster****s of plot and comprehension is why I'll never watch it.
Tell you what, though, the movie had fantastic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1WLqicYNxI) music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viOwD_9Swqk).
And its very own (http://www.shipschematics.net/yamato/images/title.jpg)
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:lol: That's not too far off, actually. Except I read about the lack of pants from the description; my friend didn't even mention anything about no pants until I shared that with him - and then he said it wasn't ever talked about in the show. Well, not talked about, certainly... :p
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Harbl/r8HIJ.jpg)
Actually...
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AHA! the hugely expected vengeance against the Titans! :D
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(http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/Harbl/r8HIJ.jpg)
Actually...
...okay, fine, once or twice maybe. But that's not the point I was making. :P
EDIT: I was going to just avoid technicalities, but since Dark Hunter brought it up: I've heard that the Japanese dub actually uses the word for "trousers" ("zubon") rather than the word for "panties" (whatever that is), so it might be a direct translation (to American-English "pants"). On my DVD, the English dub uses "panties", while the sub uses "pants" (and it's a different set of subs to Gortef's).
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She was referring to her underwear in that scene... a British person must have been subtitling that one.
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I....I'm actually feeling ashamed to even know of Strike Witches now.
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What is this, FireSpawn? I thought it would be right up your alley!
...joking aside, though, I do understand where you're coming from, if it's what I think it is. I mean, most of the main cast are young teenage girls...
Anyway, let's stop depressing the guy any further. I know I mentioned I was waiting for Wagnaria!! (originally Working!! in Japan), and I've watched my DVD set twice since then. I do like these slice-of-life shows since they're easy to watch at any time, and Wagnaria!! didn't disappoint me. Granted, Inami's punching of Takanashi sort of got a bit tiring after a while, though I don't dislike her character for it since, well, it's her father's fault, and seeing Takanashi give him a verbal beat-down (while cross-dressing!) was immensely satisfying. But it's mainly a very fun and quirky show, and hopefully it doesn't take NIS America long to get the second season out on DVD (if they haven't already).
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I'm watching Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood and I'm freaking loving it!! :D I'm at episode 25.
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Brotherhood is indeed great and one of the very few anime that have satisfying ending.
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As of now Gargantia is reminding me too much of Gundam seed which i'll admit is the only Robot anime i've watched seriously. :nervous:
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...Gundam seed which i'll admit is the only Robot anime i've watched seriously. :nervous:
I feel exceedingly sorry for you.
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...Gundam seed which i'll admit is the only Robot anime i've watched seriously. :nervous:
I feel exceedingly sorry for you.
I second this.
Check out 08th MS Team.
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Or, like, almost any other robot show. :p
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Well i stopped giving a **** midway through SD Gundam Force. That was nearly a decade ago when it was originally airing. It didn't take me long to figure a lot of scenes and designs ARE being recycled throughout the series. Slap on a GUNDAM sticker and there's sure to be cyclops robots.
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Well i stopped giving a **** midway through SD Gundam Force. That was nearly a decade ago when it was originally airing. It didn't take me long to figure a lot of scenes and designs ARE being recycled throughout the series. Slap on a GUNDAM sticker and there's sure to be cyclops robots.
You realize that the whole SD Gundam concept is a parody series that deliberately reuses designs, right?
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Same as not realizing Wikipedia existed as well as not having my own computer.
More precisely about Gargantia I'm talking about the themes that are emerging.
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How many anime series' can you identify by just their school uniforms? (http://sgcafe.com/2013/06/anime-series-identify-school-uniforms/)
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None, because I typically don't watch anime with school uniforms in it.
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None, because I typically don't watch anime with school uniforms in it.
Same, with the exceptions of Bleach and Robotics Notes, which i'm not sure are on there
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Recognized a few names on the answer sheets. Only ones I was interested in are Railgun/Index, only one I actually watched was CCS.
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Trying to decide what to watch next:
Fullmetal Panic!: I have heard a lot about this series and it sounds awesome but I have never gotten around to watching it.
Mai-HIME/Mai-Otome: Another one I've heard a lot about and sounds interesting but have never gotten around to watching.
Attack on Titan: Freaking EVERYONE seems to be talking about this. I'm curious as to why.
Also Fate/Stay Night just arrived in the mail (the VN, that is). Yeah, I'm diving into the Fate series. Let's see how that goes.
On the manga side, still attempting to find the final four volumes of Char's Deleted Affair, but it seems nobody on the face of the Earth has them translated. All my rage and frustration. :mad:
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I'm interested in hearing what your opinion ends up being of the Fate/Stay Night VN. I quite enjoyed it, and played through all of the routes completely.
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mrs and me started watching Gintama. the first "dual" episode promised something like excel saga. which i would be fine with. second episode went into "oh yes, honor, yes, samurai, honor, yes" and we both went **** that at the end of that one. will try watching more a few days later.
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Gintama is really a weird one. Most of the time it is off-the-rails kind of humor that may not be to everyone's taste. But every now and then there's a story arc that is truly awesome. I too dropped the series and have since forgotten where I left it. But if you stick with the series, I can guarantee you'll be getting at least some good laughs.
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had a burst of nostalgia, so I watched some Legend of the
Overfiend Four Kings
:nervous:
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Finally got to see some Black Lagoon (and it is awesome).
Also started watching this French flash series called Wakfu. It's surprisingly entertaining. French dub/English sub is a refreshing change.
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Recently I discovered a little gem called 'Space Battleship Yamato 2199.' It's a reimaging of the 70s-era series with better animation, better writing, and higher degrees of awesomeness in general.
I highly recommend it, regardless of whether you've seen the original or not.
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just caught up with attack on titan, also recently I finally watched Madoka (****ing epic and brutal as hell)
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Recently started and finished Vividred Operation. It reminded me a whole lot of Strike Witches, with the overpowerful Red-and-Black super baddies fought by a team of girls who spend a lot of time in their underwear.
And now, just a minute ago, I watched the first episode of Hetalia. It confused the heck out of me, probably because I had to keep pausing it to read the subtitles. It's weird.
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Hetalia's format does take some getting used to. Personally I wish they didn't repeat gags as often as they do. It gets old sometimes.
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(http://i.imgur.com/bmKHRS0.gif)
(http://i50.tinypic.com/50ml9z.gif)
Somehow, I never really get tired of watching the Maus wreck the Sodoko Collective's Char B1.
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Recently started and finished Vividred Operation. It reminded me a whole lot of Strike Witches, with the overpowerful Red-and-Black super baddies fought by a team of girls who spend a lot of time in their underwear.
That would probably be because they're directed by the same person, from what I've heard.
Also, what would that be from, NGTM-1R?
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Someone clearly needs to watch Girls Und Panzer.
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Also, what would that be from, NGTM-1R?
Girls Und Panzer, the best thing to come out of Japan last fall.
High school sports anime. Sport: Armored combat.
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MEANWHILE I am, for the nth time, rewatching The Armando Iannucci Shows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVaj_3IgYAk). I can't describe it, you just have to watch it.
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Someone clearly needs to watch Girls Und Panzer.
Well I'm sorry! :p It's actually on my list (because Spoon suggested it), but I've got some DVDs that I've yet to watch yet so I'll get through those first.
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ahh! attack on titan is guuuuud. I'm about to watch another episode now, so far it's been the best of this season for me.
edit: even the fill-up episodes are somewhat acceptable.
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Mushibugyo is great. Somewhat unique art style, cheerfully dumb and good hearted MC, retarded hair styles... and jiggly boobs.
Plus people wrecking huge bugs with swords and stuff. What's there not to like?
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Finished watching Last Exile last night. Started watching Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) today. The former might not be for everyone but I'd definitely recommend the latter.
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I just finished Neon Genesis Evangelion, what a fantastic anime. I'm watching the Evangelion movies now.
I'm also watching Fruits Basket and Pokemon, but am taking a break from those.
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I just finished Neon Genesis Evangelion, what a fantastic anime. I'm watching the Evangelion movies now.
Call the whitejackets, we have mentally ill among us.
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I just finished Neon Genesis Evangelion, what a fantastic anime. I'm watching the Evangelion movies now.
Troll/being trolled? Unable to tell.
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I've heard rumors, but I didn't think anyone actually existed that liked that (first) series.
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/me raises hand.
Apparently, nowadays its cool to hate on eva...
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[hipster]I hated Eva before it was cool to hate Eva.[/hipster]
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Oh I've always hated EVE since the cable connection thing, it's just my hate has grown deeper and more nuanced over the years.
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It's not so much that I hate it as I regret that it didn't live up to the potential I saw in it.
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Well this is discouraging.
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i loved it and i still love it and i really need to watch the 3rd and 4th rebuilds.
okay, yes, i know what i hated. the original japanese dub.
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I waffled between enjoyment and hate, and decided to settle on academic interest. The first Rebuild movie was definitely a visual treat, though.
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damn, another episode from Shingeki no Kyojin full of stills and speech, aside from a few (really nice) moving animations.
And yet.... I cannot feel anything but HYPE.
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Oh my freaking god, third trailer of Captain Harlock is out and I'm speechless.
http://youtu.be/59iIpApJScA
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re-watching FMA:B. god i love it.
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Oh my freaking god, third trailer of Captain Harlock is out and I'm speechless.
http://youtu.be/59iIpApJScA
I will sell both my nuts, both kidneys and half my liver to watch this (with subs) right now.
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I'm about six episodes into Fate / Stay Night. Can anyone who's watched it tell me if the protagonist stops acting like a complete tool anytime soon?
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I'm approaching the conclusion of the Fate route in the visual novel, which I believe is the story the anime adapts, and the answer is...
Yes and no.
He does get some character development and starts to see the errors in some of his thinking. However, his basic "let's save everyone!" ideology never goes away.
I know what you mean though. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to slap Shirou upside the head throughout this story.
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In the Fate scenario, Shirou maintains his Fate / Stay in the Kitchen persona. In the next two he is much more well rounded.
Basically, the story as a whole can be seen as Shirou's way to deal with his unrealistic ideals.
Following them without question - Fate
Making compromises - Unlimited Blade Works
Giving them up - Heaven's Feel
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Basically what Ghostavo said - the anime's Shirou (and the Fate scenario Shirou) more or less retains his unrealistic ideals, though he does develop somewhat. Unlimited Blade Works shows a bit more compromise and development on his part, and Heaven's Feel is basically the systematic destruction of the unrealistic aspects of his ideals.
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I'm about six episodes into Fate / Stay Night. Can anyone who's watched it tell me if the protagonist stops acting like a complete tool anytime soon?
He doesn't.
Nobody else stops acting like a tool either.
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Well, I just finished the Fate scenario, and it was... decent, but Saber isn't my favorite character. And yes, Shirou is still kind of a tool. He still did some pretty badass stuff in the end, there, though.
I will say that Shinji is one of the biggest douchebags I've ever seen. Seriously, it's rare that a fictional character has made me want to beat the **** out of them this much. Everything about him pisses me off. And Shirou going "Oh, that's just how Shinji is." was one of the biggest points at which I wanted to slap him. There is no excuse for him acting that way. None.
What did surprise me is how awesome Rin Tohsaka is. I'm not normally one who enjoys the tsundere archetype, but she's actually really entertaining.
I guess the next route to play is Unlimited Blade Works. More Archer, hooray!
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I will say that Shinji is one of the biggest douchebags I've ever seen. Seriously, it's rare that a fictional character has made me want to beat the **** out of them this much. Everything about him pisses me off. And Shirou going "Oh, that's just how Shinji is." was one of the biggest points at which I wanted to slap him. There is no excuse for him acting that way. None.
Shinji Matou is one of the few truly and utterly despicable people I've ever seen in fiction. Normally you have to be written by James Patterson to be that creepy.
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define "creepy"
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IIRC, you don't know the half of Shinji's... I'm trying to find a word here... Yet. I would rather not spoil Heaven's feel for him.
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IIRC, you don't know the half of Shinji's... I'm trying to find a word here... Yet. I would rather not spoil Heaven's feel for him.
I just read his wiki page, and it feels like there is more that has not been said. From what I have seen, I dislike. Greatly.
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IIRC, you don't know the half of Shinji's... I'm trying to find a word here... Yet. I would rather not spoil Heaven's feel for him.
I have heard that Shinji is somehow even worse in Heaven's Feel, yes.
And if that is so, please tell me he still dies in that route. I don't need to know how he dies, just that he's no longer around at the end...
(Roughly halfway through Unlimited Blade Works at the moment, so far I'm liking it a lot better than Fate.)
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define "creepy"
I strongly advise not highlighting this spoiler unless you are prepared to ascend to a higher level of "this is really seriously screwed up and ****ing wrong".
Raped his little sister.
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a loli?
:nervous:
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Well, yes, Shinji does experience a very
satisfying
death in Heaven's Feel.
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I've been making my way through Ghost in the Shell 2nd GiG. I'm understanding it a bit better than the first one, but there's still a lot to take in, and I'm still not sure I'm getting all of it. That doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it, however!
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That's why I like Ghost in the Shell. There's something new you notice even when you rewatch it.
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define "creepy"
I strongly advise not highlighting this spoiler unless you are prepared to ascend to a higher level of "this is really seriously screwed up and ****ing wrong".
Raped his little sister.
That is serously screwed up and ****ing wrong!
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define "creepy"
I strongly advise not highlighting this spoiler unless you are prepared to ascend to a higher level of "this is really seriously screwed up and ****ing wrong".
Raped his little sister.
That is serously screwed up and ****ing wrong!
Yes. Yes, it is.
Spoiler warning: there are quite a few makes-you-want-to-drink-bleach landmines like that in a fair number of anime series. EXAMPLES: Basilisk, Elfin Lied, Gantz, and School Days (DO NOT WATCH THIS. SERIOUSLY, I'M NOT KIDDING HERE). There are more, of course, but those are the first that spring to mind.
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Also, I've reached and watched Ep. 17 of Stay Night.
Can anyone give me any reason why I should continue to watch this after that display of sheer incompetence? (I'm seriously asking, is there anything I'd be missing?)
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*looks up Episode 17*
Ah, that didn't happen in the VN, so I'm not sure what "sheer incompetence" you're referring to.
Well, I can say that Saber's final fight is quite epic. Hell, even Shirou gets to be a legitimate badass in the end there, if the anime follows the conclusion of the Fate route faithfully.
Anyway, I just finished Unlimited Blade Works... so, so, so much better than Fate, it's not even funny. The word "GAR" was invented for Archer for a reason, indeed.
Time to tackle Heaven's Feel next.
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Star Trek TOS
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That's why I like Ghost in the Shell. There's something new you notice even when you rewatch it.
Same here; it took me about three watchings of the first season of Stand Alone Complex before I finally noticed half of what was going on. It really didn't help that I missed an entire disc the first time...
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I certainly will re-watch both seasons in the future, but that will have to wait until I've watched 2nd GiG the first time, and when I've watched my other outstanding stuff.
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*looks up Episode 17*
Ah, that didn't happen in the VN, so I'm not sure what "sheer incompetence" you're referring to.
Well, I can say that Saber's final fight is quite epic. Hell, even Shirou gets to be a legitimate badass in the end there, if the anime follows the conclusion of the Fate route faithfully.
Anyway, I just finished Unlimited Blade Works... so, so, so much better than Fate, it's not even funny. The word "GAR" was invented for Archer for a reason, indeed.
Time to tackle Heaven's Feel next.
You might want to check some of Heaven's Feel bad endings afterwards, in particular the one where Shirou refuses Rider's help facing Dark Saber
because not only is it awesome, but it's the only place in the novel where this music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vw99a0-4ak), which takes the whole thing to epic levels, plays. There are some people who like that bad ending better than the actual good endings.
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Just started watching Code Geass. I find it hilarious how stereotypically british the british mechs and gas masks look. Built-in mutton chops for everyone! They just need monacles and it'll be perfect. It's like a diffused version of G-Gundam's hilarious racism.
EDIT: Also, for people who are supposedly British, they are acting awfully Japanese.
It reminds me a lot of Gundam SEED, with the horribly drawn people and heavy handed ethics and morality lessons.
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Wait until they try to make a chess metaphor which doesn't work.
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EDIT: Also, for people who are supposedly British, they are acting awfully Japanese.
http://blip.tv/yugioh-the-abridged-series/episode-59-crowd-atlas-6605784
8:39
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EDIT: Also, for people who are supposedly British, they are acting awfully Japanese.
http://blip.tv/yugioh-the-abridged-series/episode-59-crowd-atlas-6605784
8:39
Three seconds into it and I want to scream; "NYLOCK, DRAGON OF ONLINE VIDEO CAMEOS!"
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I've heard rumors, but I didn't think anyone actually existed that liked that (first) series.
It could have been much better if not for the endings and all of the filler (every scene with Asuka).
define "creepy"
I strongly advise not highlighting this spoiler unless you are prepared to ascend to a higher level of "this is really seriously screwed up and ****ing wrong".
Raped his little sister.
I was under the impression he only
masturbated all over her comatose body, not raped her.
Though that isn't much better.
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define "creepy"
I strongly advise not highlighting this spoiler unless you are prepared to ascend to a higher level of "this is really seriously screwed up and ****ing wrong".
Raped his little sister.
I was under the impression he only
masturbated all over her comatose body, not raped her.
Though that isn't much better.
That would be Shinji from Evangelion to Asuka, not Shinji from Fate/Stay Night. There's a reason Sakura spectacularly snaps in Heaven's Feel and becomes the big (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9MFbCIArI) bad (https://www.google.pt/search?q=dark+sakura&tbm=isch)...
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I just watched Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border:1 Ghost Pain. Pretty good but lack of Yoko Kanno was sorely felt.
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define "creepy"
I strongly advise not highlighting this spoiler unless you are prepared to ascend to a higher level of "this is really seriously screwed up and ****ing wrong".
Raped his little sister.
I was under the impression he only
masturbated all over her comatose body, not raped her.
Though that isn't much better.
That would be Shinji from Evangelion to Asuka, not Shinji from Fate/Stay Night. There's a reason Sakura spectacularly snaps in Heaven's Feel and becomes the big (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9MFbCIArI) bad (https://www.google.pt/search?q=dark+sakura&tbm=isch)...
Oh, epic fail on my part. Shinji must be a popular name in Japan.
I just watched Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border:1 Ghost Pain. Pretty good but lack of Yoko Kanno was sorely felt.
I grew up with Stand Alone Complex and really look forward to seeing this. That's a shame, Yoko Kanno and Origa really did a great job with the SAC soundtrack.
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Still have not tracked down the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series yet (prices have been mid $200AUD for the ones on sale so far). But finally picked up Evangelion 1.11 You are (Not) Alone
Very enjoyable, I might be slightly biased because Rei has short blue hair.
Fruits Basket was also enjoyable for something light hearted that you didnt need to pay much attention do.
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Fruits Basket was also enjoyable for something light hearted that you didnt need to pay much attention do.
Light hearted? How far along are you?
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Fruits Basket was also enjoyable for something light hearted that you didnt need to pay much attention do.
Light hearted? How far along are you?
That sounds forboding....Which has confused me, considering that i just read a brief synopsis which said that it's essentially the Anti-Evangelion in terms of general good feels.
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You might want to read this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruits_Basket#Critical_reception).
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Nearly through Heaven's Feel in FSN. (Day 12/16, so a bit more to go)
I cannot believe I'm saying this, but there may be a person in this story who is worse than Shinji Matou. I still hate him, but... holy crap, ZOUKEN! :mad:
Awesome that Rider's finally getting a chance to shine though. And I'm liking Ilya's characterization in this route.
I also loved the fact that both Shirou and Tohsaka were complaining about Kirei going on and on in every scene he's in. That made me laugh a bit, because his long-winded exposition dumps do tend to wear on my patience.
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I am referencing to the Fruits Basket Anime, not the Manga.
I enjoyed it more in a light-hearted sense. It was easy to understand and enjoy. How far along?, finished it.
From my understanding, the Anime stays mostly faithful to the Manga, but with some decent changes, like the curse is not broken in the Anime version.
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At least he didn't try to say Puella Magi Madoka Magica was 'lighthearted'.
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At least he didn't try to say Puella Magi Madoka Magica was 'lighthearted'.
What are you talking about? Of course it was! Whenever i need a good chuckle, I just whack an episode on and let the good times roll. There's nothing as entertaining as seeing people fall into a pit of endless dispair. :mad2:
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Erm, I mean...Umm...Kittens? :warp:
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At least he didn't try to say Puella Magi Madoka Magica was 'lighthearted'.
That ending really bugs me.
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define "creepy"
I strongly advise not highlighting this spoiler unless you are prepared to ascend to a higher level of "this is really seriously screwed up and ****ing wrong".
Raped his little sister.
****. :banghead:
EDIT: What I meant to do was tell you how you've convinced me not to read the spoilers. But clicking the quote revealed it to me anyway. :nono:
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Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
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At least he didn't try to say Puella Magi Madoka Magica was 'lighthearted'.
That ending really bugs me.
Now at least they don't fight in vain.
Also, third movie's coming.
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I have finished Fate Stay Night.
Went back and snagged the alternate endings to UBW and Heaven's Feel as well. May go after the Tiger Dojos just for fun too.
Pretty amazing piece of work, all things considered. In terms of routes, I'd say: Unlimited Blade Works > Heaven's Feel > Fate.
I liked Heaven's Feel despite it being very depressing in some places, but the final exposition on just what the Holy Grail War was and how it was started was interesting. I also think it had the most emotional/dramatic and enjoyable climax out of all of them, but Unlimited Blade Works is still my favorite route overall.
If I had any complaints (possible spoilers, so...)
it's that the sex scenes were... laughably written. Maybe it's just the English translation, but I could not take those seriously. That and Shinji being an absolute douche out of all douchebags ever (even Zouken got some token humanizing moments... granted, they were VERY few, but it's more than Shinji got!). The Fate route was kind of underwhelming as well, between Saber's rather bland personality and Shirou being stupid.
I think I might watch Fate/Zero now. Is there any word on how good Fate/Hollow Ataraxia is? I've heard it's in the process of being translated.
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I'm done with Evangelion now, at least until 3.0 is released in the US anyway. I did just receive the first volume of the manga from Amazon, though I haven't started reading it yet.
Next up, the Appleseed movies.
I have finished Fate Stay Night.
That's on my bucket list of anime to watch. What did you think of it?
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I didn't watch the anime, I played the Visual Novel.
My thoughts can be found in the post right above your own.
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well i'm rewatching farscape (i will not let the 'series' part of this thread's title go in vain!)
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I didn't watch the anime, I played the Visual Novel.
My thoughts can be found in the post right above your own.
Ah, thanks, stupid question. I'll be sure to check it out eventually.
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Next up, the Appleseed movies.
I did not like the first one, and didn't follow up with the sequel(s). It was pretty obvious and boring, IIRC.
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Dark Hunter, try the Tsukihime novel next.
Also, Nasu's sex
sea food metaphors are infamous. But no one reads the novels for those scenes. :p
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I was thinking about looking up this manga that I read a little bit off, a couple of years ago back at school. The problem is that I can't remember the name of the blasted thing. Can anyone give me a hand? It was about a girl with stigmata who is protected by a boy with a red Hand Cannon (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HandCannon) from some form of bad guy/organization or another.
Since remembering it, I've been going mad trying to find the blasted thing.
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I was thinking about looking up this manga that I read a little bit off, a couple of years ago back at school. The problem is that I can't remember the name of the blasted thing. Can anyone give me a hand? It was about a girl with stigmata who is protected by a boy with a red Hand Cannon (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HandCannon) from some form of bad guy/organization or another.
That really doesn't narrow it down, much. :P
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Oh my freaking god, third trailer of Captain Harlock is out and I'm speechless.
http://youtu.be/59iIpApJScA
(http://www.nyan.cat/cats/pirate.gif)
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So Fate/Zero is pretty much made of complete win so far.
I mean how often does one see
an insane knight commandeer a ****ing F15 and throw a bunch of shrapnel in Gilgamesh's face?
I was laughing way too hard at that. Goldie always needs to be taken down a peg. :lol:
The Fourth Grail War was apparently filled with quite a bit more spectacle than the Fifth...
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The Killer Angels..
ahem I mean Gettysburg.
20th Maine just tore ass down Little Round Top for the epic win.
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Next up, the Appleseed movies.
I did not like the first one, and didn't follow up with the sequel(s). It was pretty obvious and boring, IIRC.
I thought it was alright, but the story was pretty forgettable and I didn't like the visual style. I had low expectations though, it seemed like they tried to make the story a lot more dark and complex than it actually was. The action sequences were great.
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Started playing Tsukihime.
Didn't realize it was that much older than Fate/Stay Night. The interface and graphics are far more simplistic. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just surprising.
What is a bad thing is this silly glitch that causes ellipses to be displayed as |. And the Japanese are really fond of ellipses in their writing. Haven't found any way to fix it yet, and Google has, in a rare occurrence, completely failed to find anything of help. It doesn't make the game unplayable, but it is annoying. :doubt:
EDIT: Reddit succeeds where Google fails. Solution found and implemented. Ellipses working properly. :)
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Okay, re-cap episodes can get eaten by a giant and then die in a fire. [/Kyojin grumble-grumble]
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yeah, recap not cool.
next episode is probably not gonna have any titan action also, kyojin is entering a cooling phase. Not a nice thing to do after all that hype they've been pushing.
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It's annoying but the animators needed some breathing room. I don't mind putting up with it, if it keeps the show from crashing and burning later.
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I see Tsukihime is one of those fun things with nigh-unpronounceable names in it.
"Nrvnqsr"? Apparently it's meant to be pronounced "Neron Cesar", but they wanted to be all deep with the Hebrew symbolism (the letters add up to 666 in the Hebrew alphabet) so they spelled it that way.
Took me a while to figure out "Arcueid" as well. Is that an actual name in some language?
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Monogatari is back, first episode was ok I guess.
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Monogatari is back, first episode was ok I guess.
The head tilt quota comes first, all else is second.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1311401276/little-witch-academia-2?ref=live
Trigger put Little Witch Academia 2 on Kickstarter, and it achieved the funding goal quite fast :)
I pledged $20.
The first episode can still be seen on Triggers official YouTube channel until the end of this month. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBlqxEIJ_Cg
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Ah, I stumbled upon Little Witch Academia about a month or so ago, and thought about putting it up here. I'd recommend watching the link, I really liked it.
EDIT: What? They're going to take it away?!
Go, Youtube Downloader!
EDIT2: Yes, they are! Many thanks for that piece of information!
I will be looking forward to it's sequel, if, that is, they upload it to the site. I see they were going to make it anyway, but this was for a 15 minute extension. $10,000 per minute.
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Too many edits for another one.
I haven't seen many kickstarters, but this is the first one I've seen where the top pledges have all been taken up. All three $10,000 slots and all 10 $2,000 slots. I'm not counting the 50 $1,000 slots, I mean the top tier where there's only like 1-10 available for a high price. I like Little Witch Academia a lot, but people seem to have truly fallen in love with it, back when I found it on Youtube, I kept going back from time to time just to read the comments.
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Little Witch Academia was a fun show to watch: it had a simple premise and execution with clean designs and little ambiguity.
Already sent 30 dollars to the sequel, because short of other sources, Japanese Publishers remain a suspicious lot locked in their byzantine style of politics when it comes to making and funding shows.
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Just watched LWA. I found its style rather enchanting, and the overall experience nothing short of Magical. I was struck spellbound by it!
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I'll stop the crappy puns now.
But yeah. The animation style reminds me of...."something" from a long time ago, but I don't know what. I cant wait for the sequel.
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Oh my freaking god, third trailer of Captain Harlock is out and I'm speechless.
http://youtu.be/59iIpApJScA
(http://www.nyan.cat/cats/pirate.gif)
considering i seriously doubt it will be properly released in the west, fansubs will most likely be the only way to watch it, so yeah.
yarr. and stuff.
on a more serious note, the effects are making me bloody squeee.
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Wow, that looks like a video game trailer.
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Hey guys, can anyone help me find out which anime is the one in this gif?
http://media.tumblr.com/b27dbaa9f2819d6fd5a50036dcabf566/tumblr_inline_mpu73iWRUt1rbw4b5.gif
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I'm going to go with "a bad one".
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Hey guys, can anyone help me find out which anime is the one in this gif?
http://media.tumblr.com/b27dbaa9f2819d6fd5a50036dcabf566/tumblr_inline_mpu73iWRUt1rbw4b5.gif
Free! (http://myanimelist.net/anime/18507/Free!)
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I'm going to go with "a bad one".
While being completely unhelpful, I have to agree.
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Free! (http://myanimelist.net/anime/18507/Free!)
Thank you.
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Thank you.
You're quite welcome.
If you're planning on checking it out, prepare yourself for triceps.
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Thank you.
You're quite welcome.
If you're planning on checking it out, prepare yourself for triceps.
Dr Frank N Furter approves Free!
(http://www.mtbshorts.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/frankenfurter.jpg)
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I've seen it mentioned in quite a few places, is it a huge ball of crap as I expect it to be?, someone watched it?
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I finished GitS 2nd GiG a few nights ago, and while I said I understood it a bit better than the first one, I still think I'm going to re-watch them both again to see if I understand more. Of course, I still think it's a pretty awesome show.
And since it was short, I completed the Black Rock Shooter anime (from last year) as well. Certainly one of the odder things I've watched, and also a bit sad too, but I definitely liked it. It does manage to pack a lot into its eight episdoes. Since I haven't watched that much anime, though, I'm not going to go around recommending it to everyone. :P
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Watching Legend of Korra.
omg why did I not do this sooner
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I've been watching Kara no Kyoukai...
For a Nasuverse entry, it's pretty dark. Still have one more movie to get through... and then apparently ufotable's releasing an epilogue of some kind soon.
I've also been playing the "sequel" to Tsukihime, called "Kagetsu Tohya".
So far, my impression is "WTF IS GOING ON!?"
I am so confused.... :blah:
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I've seen it mentioned in quite a few places, is it a huge ball of crap as I expect it to be?, someone watched it?
I've checked the two eps that have aired. Visuals vise it's top notch, Kyoani knows their stuff. Hyouka is a prime example of that actually. One of my absolute favourites.
On the other hand it's about guys who love to swim (with some extra fruityness), so I dunno. Granted it's only been two eps so far, but all I can tell is that it's been (most likely) unintentionally hilarious.
Luckily there's Gou and Sensei to keep the female quota somewhat represented, so all is not entirely lost. Hopefully they will appear more in the future.
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Thanks, guess I'll give it a try if I get bored with Kyojin or Gatari.
Korra is good, at the end of the series I felt it somewhat rushed, but it's top notch work.
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I've been watching Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Next, It makes me wonder sometimes........
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Its turned out to be an expensive day today as I just got a email saying that Patlabour TV, Horizon series 2 and the FMA:B movie Blu Rays have just been shipped out. Thats practically 100 quid in one go.
My Credit card will not be happy with me in the morning...
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I've always wanted to watch the Patlabour tv series after I watched the two movies on VHS waaaaaay back when, but had neither the money or was even able to find the bastard.
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I kind of want to see Patlabor, but I've sadly placed a higher priority on stuff that's basically impossible to locate, like Dougram and VOTOMS.
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Yet another trailer of Captain Harlock, just how many of them they're gonna make? Anyway, it's awesome.
http://youtu.be/FAch4diQRgY
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I finished GitS 2nd GiG a few nights ago, and while I said I understood it a bit better than the first one, I still think I'm going to re-watch them both again to see if I understand more. Of course, I still think it's a pretty awesome show.
And since it was short, I completed the Black Rock Shooter anime (from last year) as well. Certainly one of the odder things I've watched, and also a bit sad too, but I definitely liked it. It does manage to pack a lot into its eight episdoes. Since I haven't watched that much anime, though, I'm not going to go around recommending it to everyone. :P
2nd Gig made a lot more sense to me as well, though I'm still torn on which one I like more. It's been a while, I need to rewatch the series again too. Glad you enjoyed them!
Watching the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica with my cousin. This is my second time watching it, he watched most of the first season without me this time though. Guess he couldn't wait to find out what happened next; I don't mind.
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I have just ordered a new jacket, and no, I should not be posting about it the WHIYL thread, because it's related to what I'm watching. So, the jacket I just ordered:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/ngtm1r/1257016362941_zpsf1a0deec.jpg)
SIEG ZEON, FEDDIES, IT'S TIME TO WORK OUR WAY THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL CENTURY.
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Watching the third part of the magnificent quadrology known as Half-Life: Full Life Consequences.
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Just finished the first MS IGLOO.
If anyone ever asks you if you want to be part of the 603rd Technical Evaluation Unit, hit them in the face and dive out the window. Seriously, it's you or them, you're justified.
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An4ximandros, posting videos like that should result in a ban. Awful stuff.
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Watching the third part of the magnificent quadrology known as Half-Life: Full Life Consequences.
Third part? I thought there was only one! Awesome! *puts on normal people clothes*
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I have just ordered a new jacket, and no, I should not be posting about it the WHIYL thread, because it's related to what I'm watching. So, the jacket I just ordered:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/ngtm1r/1257016362941_zpsf1a0deec.jpg)
SIEG ZEON, FEDDIES, IT'S TIME TO WORK OUR WAY THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL CENTURY.
Sieg Zeon! Also, the animation in IGLOO was too bad for me to continue watching.
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I have just ordered a new jacket, and no, I should not be posting about it the WHIYL thread, because it's related to what I'm watching. So, the jacket I just ordered:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/ngtm1r/1257016362941_zpsf1a0deec.jpg)
SIEG ZEON, FEDDIES, IT'S TIME TO WORK OUR WAY THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL CENTURY.
Sieg Zeon! Also, the animation in IGLOO was too bad for me to continue watching.
Heheh nice. Take your sorrow and turn it into anger!
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I have just ordered a new jacket, and no, I should not be posting about it the WHIYL thread, because it's related to what I'm watching. So, the jacket I just ordered:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/ngtm1r/1257016362941_zpsf1a0deec.jpg)
SIEG ZEON, FEDDIES, IT'S TIME TO WORK OUR WAY THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL CENTURY.
I feel a nerdgasm coming on
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War In The Pocket now.
Because Bernard Wiseman took down the Alex with a one-armed Zaku II. If only he'd had a Gelgoog, this whole mess would have been hilariously averted. And he could probably even get the girl.
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Ogod, I've been watching Watamote. It is at once hilarious and excruciating. :lol::(
Also, the OP is metal as hell. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAIAXFQ0T74)
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War In The Pocket now.
Because Bernard Wiseman took down the Alex with a one-armed Zaku II. If only he'd had a Gelgoog, this whole mess would have been hilariously averted. And he could probably even get the girl.
MS-14Jg is best Gelgoog. In general War in the Pocket had a lot of cool designs.
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Attack on titan.
Female titans boobies :yes:
Colossal titans buttocks :no:
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Yeah, that female titan is way too armored on the wrong spots :p
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(http://i.imgur.com/H9Wvivu.jpg)
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Maybe the female titan would be more suspenseful if they didn't give it
Annie's
face (sans skin), right down to the exact shape/color of eyes and facial expression patterns.
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Yeah, I felt that was kind of too obvious (I suppose it could be a subversion trope, but come on).
Which is a shame, I was really wanting them to go in a completely different direction.
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up to ep 8 of titan.
Eren... egads.
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Damn that last episode was awesome.
And they seem to have fixed those horrible issues with the quality of the animations.
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Good news for Bandai fans:
It seems Sentai Filmworks and Funimation just announced a number of franchises "rescued" from Bandai's closure and due for rerelease:
Sentai:
Argentosoma
Betterman
Infinite Ryvius
Kurokami: The Animation
s-CRY-ed
Sacred Seven
The Big O
The Girl Who Leapt Through Space
Z-MIND
Zegapain
Funimation:
Code Geass
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled (technically a new license, as it hasn't been released)
Witch Hunter Robin
Tales of the Abyss
Angle Links
Banner of the Stars (full series, including prequel)
Mai-HIME/Mai-Otome (full franchise)
Outlaw Star
Escaflowne + Movie
Cowboy Bebop
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Damn that last episode was awesome.
And they seem to have fixed those horrible issues with the quality of the animations.
they know how to dangle you off of a ****ing cliff, thats for sure.
i'm half tempted to read the manga, since the suspense is killing me.
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Happy they managed to save Cowboy Bebop, classic anime right there.
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The final chapter of Soul Eater felt like a kick in the balls from someone wearing spiked golf shoes.
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The final chapter of Soul Eater felt like a kick in the balls from someone wearing spiked golf shoes.
manga or anime? the anime ending was botched up in so many ways... its like they ran out of a chance to make season 2 and decided to cut their losses. (it might have to do with overtaking the manga tho, i dont know for sure)
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Manga. It's like Ōkubo just couldn't be bothered with it any more and threw out a bull**** ending for the sake of forcing it to a close. And with how he's been regarding chapter releases these last two years, I was expecting it to just go unfinished.
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i'm half tempted to read the manga, since the suspense is killing me.
I'd say stay with the anime, for what I've read from other ppl that read the manga the anime is doing quite well and let's face it here, what makes this story so attracting is the fact that you spend a hole week with a thumb up your ass waiting for the next portion of the story to surface. Along with some other extras of course :)
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i'm half tempted to read the manga, since the suspense is killing me.
I'd say stay with the anime, for what I've read from other ppl that read the manga the anime is doing quite well and let's face it here, what makes this story so attracting is the fact that you spend a hole week with a thumb up your ass waiting for the next portion of the story to surface. Along with some other extras of course :)
i regret reading tvtropes at this point for the record and do not give in to temptation, it will ruin stuff a smidge.
besides, i have to do something on my morning commute to work :p
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For all you crazy AoT fans... Attack on Titan: THE GAME (http://fenglee.com/game/aog/)
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So, this is like those Spider-man games + Shadow of the Colossus? Es pretty cewl.
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Watching Mai-HIME.
Not bad at all. I'm about halfway through at this point and the story is beginning to get interesting. Love triangles are predictable as all hell, but they are at least watchable. Glad Funi rescued this franchise, because I may want this one.
Also decided to pick up Macross 7 for the lulz.
I'm actually surprised at the quality here. The animation is a major step up from Superdimension Fortress, the characters are likeable... and holy crap, the music is actually pretty good!
There haven't been much in the way of actual mecha battles yet, but Basara makes me laugh. He takes a total "shounen hero" approach to his music, which is rather entertaining (both his character and his music).
I am finding Exedol a little bit strange though. Why's he still macronized when it seems the rest of the Zentraedi have shrunk down?
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I have now finished all the One Year War media I could actually locate.
We will not be dealing with A CHAR because the Titans are boring people whose souls are still weighted down by gravity. STRAIGHT TO AXIS/NEO-ZEON.
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I have now finished all the One Year War media I could actually locate.
We will not be dealing with A CHAR because the Titans are boring people whose souls are still weighted down by gravity. STRAIGHT TO AXIS/NEO-ZEON.
What about 0083 TOP GUNDAM!
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I have now finished all the One Year War media I could actually locate.
We will not be dealing with A CHAR because the Titans are boring people whose souls are still weighted down by gravity. STRAIGHT TO AXIS/NEO-ZEON.
What about 0083 TOP GUNDAM!
SEXY INTRO MUSIC TIME!!! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsw0bP7A3Ko)
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What about 0083 TOP GUNDAM!
Damn, you're right. Back to the scouring of the internets!
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Okay, finally got around to finishing Strike Witches 2 after having it sit around on my shelf for a couple of months.
Overall I did enjoy it, as I did with the first season, and there were a couple of episodes I really liked (such as episode 5 which focused on Lucchini). I'm not sure whether I do consider it inferior to the first season, like Spoon, but there was definitely one thing I thought was worse: episode 7.
The "ridiculous fanservice" one... gah, I didn't really like that one at all. It definitely wasn't as good as the seventh episode in the first season, which I found at least somewhat funny and tolerable. Other than that, though, I don't have any real problems with the season as a whole.
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Breaking bad soon...... :3
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I fell across This (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlsYeCqA-Vc5_XARqSiUMwU2RQ9cYc2Jd) in my travels across the land of "Youtube". Now I need to watch Osana Reimu.
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Finished Mai-Hime... that was a lot more intense than I was expecting. I wish it could have flowed a bit better from episode to episode though; several time I thought I'd accidentally skipped one. Also, it felt like a lot of background information was missing. Not helped by fansubs being fansubs, so you never know if they're really accurate in all their nuances.
Meanwhile Macross 7 continues to be hilariously awesome, and plot has started happening. I will say that while the love triangle was predictable, I do like how it's written. I can't quite put my finger on why, exactly, but so far it strikes me as better written than most love geometry plots.
And another episode of RWBY out tomorrow. Looks like we might get some action sequences again.
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And another episode of RWBY out tomorrow. Looks like we might get some action sequences again.
A friend recommended this to me last week and I just got around to watching the first episode about 20 minutes ago. It looks promising.
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Macross 7 done.
I actually liked this one. It got kind of super robot-y, but Macross has never been the most serious series anyway.
The story and action weren't quite as good as the original, but the music and the animation were both far superior. Sorry, Minmay, but Fire Bomber has you soundly beat.
I know I said the story wasn't as good, but the characters were very enjoyable. And for once, what romance there was was believably written with a minimum of forced drama.
And seeing Max Jenius kicking more ass than the entire rest of the fleet's elite pilots combined is always fun.
Read that they got an actual band to play the main characters, and featured that band's music as the show's soundtrack. It worked! This is the kind of music I enjoy (though Mylene's singing voice always seemed too weak when she was doing a solo song... she's much better as back-up).
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Macross 7 done.
I actually liked this one. It got kind of super robot-y, but Macross has never been the most serious series anyway.
The story and action weren't quite as good as the original, but the music and the animation were both far superior. Sorry, Minmay, but Fire Bomber has you soundly beat.
I know I said the story wasn't as good, but the characters were very enjoyable. And for once, what romance there was was believably written with a minimum of forced drama.
And seeing Max Jenius kicking more ass than the entire rest of the fleet's elite pilots combined is always fun.
Read that they got an actual band to play the main characters, and featured that band's music as the show's soundtrack. It worked! This is the kind of music I enjoy (though Mylene's singing voice always seemed too weak when she was doing a solo song... she's much better as back-up).
HERESY
In fact that's probably EXTRA HERETICAL. Just liking Fire Bomber is enough to get you beat up by some people I know.
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Well, I'm not going to argue that their music has good lyrics (actually, the lyrics were usually pretty cheesy and silly... but that's rock for you) or is anything particularly groundbreaking.
I just liked the sound of it.
In any case, I would have thought the extra-heretical opinion would be that Minmay is in any way a good singer. :p
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I just finished the first season of Valvrave the Liberator. It's really hard to recommend. It's high-school kids piloting giant space-mecha, like that hasn't been done a million times before.
But the gimmick is that becoming a pilot bestows a sort of ill-defined curse, including such symptoms as: unkillability, immortality (yes those are different things, shut up), being able to possess another's body with only a bite to exposed skin, and for the protagonist at least, a periodic, uncontrollable rage initiated by the OS of his mecha, leading him to do various things ranging from body-swapping to rape.
The first episode was kind of cute in a sad way, seeing how badly it wanted to be Gundam. It paralleled the first episode of MSG nearly theme-for-theme. I think it's worth watching the first episode at least for that.
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leading him to do various things ranging from body-swapping to rape.
It's like EoE, but without the subtlety.
...christ is that even possible
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:blah:
Whelp, I am thoroughly displeased with Shingeki no Kyojin, now.
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:blah:
Whelp, I am thoroughly displeased with Shingeki no Kyojin, now.
yay for drawing out filler.
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I don't know what this is from, but I want it!
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who the **** puts potatoes in a curry
i eat curry when i want to forget about potatoes
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That video is a little unsettling. It would be nice if the food prepared itself like that for you though.
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Firespawn, I found it:
http://astronerdboy.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/magical-witch-punie-chan-dvd-review.html
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That review...
I'm kinda tempted to look up for this now.
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Seeing as how celery can feel pain, I'm a little concerned about how close this actually is to reality.
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I doubt a potato would peel itself to death willingly, yet hilarity ensues.
And what about celery? there's a study or something like that saying it actually feels pain or something?
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Firespawn, I found it:
http://astronerdboy.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/magical-witch-punie-chan-dvd-review.html
(http://www.troll.me/images/joseph-ducreux/you-are-a-gentleman-and-a-scholar.jpg)
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I doubt a potato would peel itself to death willingly, yet hilarity ensues.
Well, the review says...
This starts with the main character Punie, who seemingly is a cheerful airhead magic girl type until threatened in any way, at which point her other dark personality comes out along with an assortment of wrestling submission moves with much more devastating effect. So fearsome is "Punie-sama" that even vegetables commit suicide to make sure the club she's helping has a winning curry.
I guess they'd rather meet death than face her...
He he, hi there Firespawn. Thanks. :)
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And what about celery? there's a study or something like that saying it actually feels pain or something?
Well, it screams when threatened.
I choose to believe it can feel pain based on that.
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So Macross Frontier completely blows the rest of the series out of the water.
The original still gets massive points for classic story, but Frontier's production values are through the roof. The battle sequences are just spectacular, by far the best in the franchise (excepting maybe Macross Zero's dogfights, which are just as good). The music, for the most part, is very good too. I don't much like Sheryl's voice or her stage routines (could she be any sluttier?) but her songs themselves aren't that bad. Ranka's singing voice is superior by far. Also, HOLY **** THEY BROUGHT BACK "DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE?"!
Now, Sheryl the character I don't have as big a problem with. She was well-developed and actually kind of likeable, which is rare for her character type. In fact, most of the characters were quite well-done. Even Alto's supreme indecisiveness during the Macross-required love triangle I can live with, since being indecisive is kind of a huge part of his character overall.
If I had complaints, it has to do with some of the writing decisions. High school episodes? A Zentraedi woman that turns into a loli when micronized for no reason? Seriously, writing team? It's tolerable because neither receives very much focus really, and even when it does the writing is still at least decent, but I would have preferred those elements have been dropped entirely.
Well, I do believe that's it for Macross. I didn't really dislike any part of it, though Macross 7 was definitely the weakest entry. The original, Zero, and Frontier are the highlights.
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Have you not watched Macross Plus? Because I'll wager that you'd have a new winner for animation quality.
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I have watched Macross Plus.
It's also very good, but it didn't really blow me away as much as Zero and Frontier did, at least for the action sequences. That was a while ago, though, so my memories might be fuzzy. I think I might rewatch it, since the story was also kind of confusing.
Also, did Sharon Apple ever actually sing anything? All I remember from her concerts were disturbing holograms and low background music with almost inaudible noises that might have been lyrics.
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So Macross Frontier completely blows the rest of the series out of the water.
Shame about the racist undertones.
I think I've been down this road before, but Macross, like Space Battleship Yamato, was a sort of coming to terms with Japan's past: the good fight, for the wrong reasons, everything lost, and rebuilding with the help of former enemies while other former enemies continue to be a threat.
The course of the series, perversely, evolves with the mindset of those working on it. Zero was the one that came from the ugliest place, with the peaceful islanders being fought over by the imperialists and communists, but Frontier's depiction of its enemies says a lot of bad things about Japanese views on the subject as well.
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So Macross Frontier completely blows the rest of the series out of the water.
Shame about the racist undertones.
I think I've been down this road before, but Macross, like Space Battleship Yamato, was a sort of coming to terms with Japan's past: the good fight, for the wrong reasons, everything lost, and rebuilding with the help of former enemies while other former enemies continue to be a threat.
The course of the series, perversely, evolves with the mindset of those working on it. Zero was the one that came from the ugliest place, with the peaceful islanders being fought over by the imperialists and communists, but Frontier's depiction of its enemies says a lot of bad things about Japanese views on the subject as well.
You just blew my mind.
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Frontier is the only Macross I've seen in its entirety, and I thought it ****ing owned. :yes:
One of the better final battles I've ever seen. Also, J-pop composed by Yoko Kanno, yesplz.
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My cousin and I started watching Dragon Ball Z Kai this morning.
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That review...
I'm kinda tempted to look up for this now.
I decided to, and am not disappointed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYl7TajAbfE
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Ken Akamatsu is making a spin-off of the Negima! series, starring Evangeline and some kid who appears to be Negi's grandson.
I know I'll just get hurt, but I don't think I can stay away...
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More Evangeline?
Works for me! :)
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Ken Akamatsu is making a spin-off of the Negima! series, starring Evangeline and some kid who appears to be Negi's grandson.
I know I'll just get hurt, but I don't think I can stay away...
Negima manga went from interesting to DBZ ****fest that almost had cool ending but ****ed that up too. I'll probably check this spin-off out but not keeping my hopes up.
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it seems interesting enough link (http://mangafox.me/manga/uq_holder/c001/1.html)
(and i know **** all about the negima story. after love hina and ah my goddess, i cant stand harem anime's)
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Kame, hame, ..... Huh?:drevil:
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aaaaanddd Shingeki no Kyojin just made a comeback!
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I'm still pissed over how long that took.
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Every Saturday, regular as clockwork.....
Annoyed at drawn out storylines though...
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For those who watch anime whether you be hardcore fans or just watch maybe one to three shows every now and then. What is your thought on the anime called Soul Eater. I recently finished watching the whole show on Netflix and I must say I was rather impressed with the show. Seemed rather interesting with a few comical moments but I'd like to hear the opinions of those who have watched it or have perhaps heard of it.
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Worst pile of crap I ever watched
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We already have a topic for this. As such, I'm merging the two of them.
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We already have a topic for this. As such, I'm merging the two of them.
Ah alright
Worst pile of crap I ever watched
Well then...
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For those who watch anime whether you be hardcore fans or just watch maybe one to three shows every now and then. What is your thought on the anime called Soul Eater. I recently finished watching the whole show on Netflix and I must say I was rather impressed with the show. Seemed rather interesting with a few comical moments but I'd like to hear the opinions of those who have watched it or have perhaps heard of it.
its goooooood, interesting story, but the ending seems kinda rushed. almost like "we're gonna have a second season no probs" *enter episode 18-19, the production team gets notified that nope, no s2*
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A friend showed it to me once. It has some great moments (Death the Kid is a consistent source of hilariousness), but I couldn't stick with it.
I don't watch very much anime though so eh.
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I liked it.
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I liked it early on. Then it turned to crap a little past the half-way mark.
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OH HEY, WE'RE RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED [/Shingeki rage]
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A friend showed it to me once. It has some great moments (Death the Kid is a consistent source of hilariousness), but I couldn't stick with it.
I don't watch very much anime though so eh.
"Just look Patty! Your stance is off again you two aren't in align!" *growls*
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I think my friend only wanted me to watch the show to see Death the Kid, since whenever I'm building something in Minecraft or Terraria I go totally ape-**** over symmetry. :p
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I'm about halfway through it, and it's been generally entertaining for me thus far. I feel bad laughing at Kid so much, but I have some degree of non-crippling OCD, so I figure it's justified. :D
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Then you have Crona who just happens to pluck at those heart strings of yours.
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Your time would be better spent reading Soul Eater manga than watching the hilariously bad anime.
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(http://24.media.tumblr.com/375cd6d162d9cd36e2b3263d1ff2fd72/tumblr_mm2w3sSOiS1rwr7sgo1_1280.jpg)
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So much win
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Psh. Dubs. :rolleyes:
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(http://24.media.tumblr.com/375cd6d162d9cd36e2b3263d1ff2fd72/tumblr_mm2w3sSOiS1rwr7sgo1_1280.jpg)
EXCALIBUUUUUR! EXCAAAAALIBUUUUUR!
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"From United Kingdom, I'm looking for heaven! EXCALIBUUUUUR!"
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Okay, rewatched Macross Plus, and I retract my earlier statement that the dogfights weren't as good as Frontier and Zero.
I think it's just that the latter two had a lot more dogfights, so they stuck in my mind a bit.
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Captain Harlock is out at long last. In theaters not near you :p
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Never heard of it in my life, but that teaser got me!
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Never heard of it in my life, but that teaser got me!
I've been hyping Harlock in this very topic occasionally.
And I can't wait to get my grubby hands on english subs for this.
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Subbed English vids are on yt, I thought i'd show the raw teaser first.
ENG Sub'd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQyLScGwKwE
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I was obviously meaning the full movie. :p
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So Bayonetta is getting an anime.
http://youtu.be/LxrIoffNzX8
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Breaking Bad.
Jesus Christ, Breaking Bad.
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finished watching Fate stay night today.
god what an awfully depressing way to end an anime...
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The Fate ending is one of the worse ones.
The Unlimited Blade Works endings and the Heaven's Feel True End are significantly happier, but the anime didn't go with those.
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Rewatching all of the Ghost in the Shell.
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This Fallout: New Vegas fan film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCrM1_7wnDU For a fan work, it's pretty good.
If this one proves popular they might make another, thus being technically a movie series.
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Despite prior statements, I decided to watch Ghost in the Shell: Arise part 1 in the dubbed version. It's as solidly Sci-Fi as before, but I have to say that
seeing the major be the victim of a crime is slightly disconcerting.
One thing I miss though is the Yoko Kanno soundtrack. There's no awesome title track here, which is making me the sads. Visuals are stunning though.
EDIT:
Also, Legend of Korra Book 2. Damn that show is soooo gooooood.
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What? Korra book 2 is out already?
damn I missed it completely, gotta check it out.
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Yes, Book 2 has begun.
Though the first avatar has yet to be introduced... along with Korra's character development.
Because **** Tenzin, it's not like he has been correct every goddamn time!
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what first avatar? Aang is alive? That cannot be.
On a side note:
SnK does it again. Haters gotta hate and all you want, but I cannot fell anything but exitment about this series.
This anime is one of the few I've seen implementing correct hyping manouvers, to the point I'm left wanting to get the next episode NOW. That alone is to be commended, despite all other flaws of the series. As of late, producers (or products that crossed my line of sight) seem to have been extremely lacking on this area.
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My problem with SnK is that they threw a ****ing pointless two-month-long car chase scene in the middle of my damned story, and now everything is happening at the speed of snail.
Oh, and they can't get over how awesome their awesome reveal was, which was in no way obvious to anyone at all within the first ten seconds of seeing the new form titan.
It's not nearly as bad as that eternal summer bull**** in Melancholy, but it's still pretty bad form.
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Finished watching Fairy Tail Season 1 on Netflix...
...The show is so screwed up yet so emotionally sad at the same time (in some cases).
Where does one find the english dub of Season 2?
Oh and I watch Legend of Korra from time to time if my sister is watching it. Reminds me of World War 1 for some reason. The battleships and planes surely must give you the hint. Overall it's a good show.
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Dub? :wtf: At least have the common sense of watching them in original audio with english subs. But may I suggest reading the manga instead?
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Dub? :wtf: At least have the common sense of watching them in original audio with english subs. But may I suggest reading the manga instead?
Go on then I'll bite. I've never understood this Language I can't understand > Language I can understand thing. Would you care to explain please? I'd much rather have people talking in a language I can understand than one I can't.
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Go on then I'll bite. I've never understood this Language I can't understand > Language I can understand thing. Would you care to explain please? I'd much rather have people talking in a language I can understand than one I can't.
In my opinion, English dubs tend to be fairly poor voice acting, and for some reason don't really feel right. Some shows do pretty good at it though (Romeo x Juliet, Last Exile, Gunslinger Girl), but I usually prefer to watch with subs, especially if the series is actually set in Japan.
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Go on then I'll bite. I've never understood this Language I can't understand > Language I can understand thing. Would you care to explain please? I'd much rather have people talking in a language I can understand than one I can't.
In my opinion, English dubs tend to be fairly poor voice acting, and for some reason don't really feel right. Some shows do pretty good at it though (Romeo x Juliet, Last Exile, Gunslinger Girl), but I usually prefer to watch with subs, especially if the series is actually set in Japan.
How do you do with reading the subs? The issues I have with subs are that there will be times when you miss them and have to go back, and I'm a fast reader with a good grasp of the English language and still they'll flash by too fast a few times during something or occasionally something is said you can't comprehend right away. Neither of these are problems with dubs, with dubs I'll never not take in what is being said, and when something is hard to understand at first, I can let my brain work on it while continuing to watch the show, but I can't do that and read subs at the same time. And of course the fact your eyes are locked to the bottom of the screen all the time, unless no one is talking. And finally, because of these issues I simply can't relax when watching something subbed because I have to be focused on reading the subs quickly and managing to take in what's going on on the screen as well..
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I'll add that dubs tend to actually change the meaning of what characters say from time to time. This is esp. true with regard to idiomatic phrases.
And that's not counting the censorship that went/goes on or the copyright and trademark bull****.
The only dub I've ever preferred over a sub was for Blue Gender, which I can't recommend to anyone anyway.
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Dub? :wtf: At least have the common sense of watching them in original audio with english subs. But may I suggest reading the manga instead?
and you care on how I watch my anime why? The reason why I'm even asking is because it's only Season 1 on Netflix and I could use suggestions on where to find the other seasons (which mind you I have the option to watch the sub version instead if I want to but I choose not to.)
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I'll add that dubs tend to actually change the meaning of what characters say from time to time. This is esp. true with regard to idiomatic phrases.
And that's not counting the censorship that went/goes on or the copyright and trademark bull****.
The only dub I've ever preferred over a sub was for Blue Gender, which I can't recommend to anyone anyway.
Wouldn't it be the same for the same product in subs though? Both are Japanese translated to English.
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I'll add that dubs tend to actually change the meaning of what characters say from time to time. This is esp. true with regard to idiomatic phrases.
And that's not counting the censorship that went/goes on or the copyright and trademark bull****.
The only dub I've ever preferred over a sub was for Blue Gender, which I can't recommend to anyone anyway.
Wouldn't it be the same for the same product in subs though? Both are Japanese translated to English.
It depends on where you get them. :nervous:
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Wouldn't it be the same for the same product in subs though? Both are Japanese translated to English.
I think they're usually different teams, or the voice actors/directors will make last-minute changes or something.
The issues I have with subs are that there will be times when you miss them and have to go back, and I'm a fast reader with a good grasp of the English language and still they'll flash by too fast a few times during something or occasionally something is said you can't comprehend right away.
The only time I've had trouble with that is watching Hetalia. But I am a native English speaker, so it's literally first-nature for me to read.
And of course the fact your eyes are locked to the bottom of the screen all the time, unless no one is talking. And finally, because of these issues I simply can't relax when watching something subbed because I have to be focused on reading the subs quickly and managing to take in what's going on on the screen as well.
This is a good point. Though I've managed to adapt to watching both. I thank my lazy eye.
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Alright, thanks Scourge of Ages. :)
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I'll add that dubs tend to actually change the meaning of what characters say from time to time. This is esp. true with regard to idiomatic phrases.
And that's not counting the censorship that went/goes on or the copyright and trademark bull****.
The only dub I've ever preferred over a sub was for Blue Gender, which I can't recommend to anyone anyway.
Wouldn't it be the same for the same product in subs though? Both are Japanese translated to English.
Dub translations care more about matching lip flaps than providing accurate translations; even when you get a really competent team, the subtitled translation is different from the dubbed translation (thinking Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex here, an outstanding dub).
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Breaking Bad is on in an hour. Last week's episode is on now.
I can't handle these feels.
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I'll add that dubs tend to actually change the meaning of what characters say from time to time. This is esp. true with regard to idiomatic phrases.
And that's not counting the censorship that went/goes on or the copyright and trademark bull****.
This hasn't been true as a rule for something like 15 years. The anti-dub factions really need to update their talking points. :p
Srsly though, so long as you understand what's going on, who gives a **** what language it's in?
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the bigger issue is in terms of quality of acting, conveying emotion is surprisingly language transparent, so I might not be able to understand what a character is saying but I can tell how they are feeling. dubs very rarely pull this off well.
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I beg to differ; most of the major English dubbing studios have been doing solid work as a whole for a long while now. And while I agree that you can tell what emotion is being conveyed in another language, there are certain other aspects to acting that you can't pick up so easily, like inflection, intonation, and pacing. I'm not saying that I don't watch some anime in Japanese, but it's always with the realization that there are elements that I'm inevitably missing without speaking the language myself.
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and that's where good translation notes come in.
and I will admit the average quality of dubs has improved.
you don't actually think either one of us is going to change our opinion here do you?
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It's nice to see that people can talk about this here in a civilised fashion. I've seen this come up so many times elsewhere, and it devolves into some of the most venomous dialogue. People reacting like you insulted their mother or something. And it always in my experience comes from the subs over dubs crowd. I've even seen it for Dynasty Warriors games. Does anyone have any insight into why they react like that?
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Does anyone have any insight into why they react like that?
The extremist Sub>Dub group are essentially purists and react violently to anything that defiles the purity of the work.
I lean towards that side myself, tbh, though I won't berate people for choosing dubs. (I'll just make a mental note that you're an uncultured barbarian :P ... okay, I jest, I jest)
Then again, this is mostly because how I am now, it's no "language I don't understand" vs. "language I understand" anymore, its "language I understand less" (with subtitles and notes) vs, "language I understand more" with no fallbacks (putting the subs up here, which don't match what's being said, is even more confusing). In such cases I find it vastly easier to understand the former over the latter. I routinely miss things in verbal conversation in tongues I grew up speaking (this is bad, I know - I go 'pardon?' a lot), so I find being able to refer to text in those cases is very helpful. Additionally, I get to be immersed in more or less 'the intended experience', with voice talent that I'm familiar with, so it's a no brainer why I go for subs. On the plus side, listening then reading subs (hopefully accurate) is also a good way to grasp colloquial usage of terms, vocabulary etc. if you have good subs, but this is assuming you actually have the slightest interest in actually learning said language.
That, and I can't stand to wait for years for things to be dubbed. How am I supposed to follow and discuss this season's shows with my buddies that way?
But enough about me; I can totally understand why some people, such as those with much better auditory comprehension skill, like dubs more though.
On another note, next season looks promising.
http://randomc.net/2013/09/18/fall-2013-preview/
Following From Start (Probably):
Kyoukai no Kanata
Kill la Kill
Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio ~Ars Nova~
Kakumeiki Valvrave 2nd Season
Maybes:
Unbreakable Machine-doll
Log Horizon
IS-2 (no, not the soviet WW2 tank)
What about you guys?
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Breaking Bad might just become the best thing ever put on TV if it keeps this up and nails the ending.
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Right?
AMC is playing the entire series from episode one until the finale starting at 8 pm EST on Wednesday and running until the last episode premiers at 9 pm EST on Sunday. It's four solid days of literally nothing but Breaking Bad, for great justice.
Tonight's episode was excellent, but I still say that Ozymandias (last week's episode) was probably the best episode of any TV show yet aired.
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I don't know that I'll ever get around to watching the show, because honestly live-action TV series never manage to hold my attention very well, but just the bits I've seen from my brothers watching it were enough for me to see why it gets that much acclaim. Hopefully the ending will do it justice.
you don't actually think either one of us is going to change our opinion here do you?
Nah, but I at least like to try correcting misconceptions so that we're all arguing based on pure opinion. :p
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I am just so happy they finally got the Emmy for Best Drama Series. Holy **** do they deserve it.
Also still recovering from the meeting between Todd and Andrea. Jeez. :(
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in a whim i decided to download star trek the animated series, which ive heard about but never actually seen. its actually pretty good.
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I've been watching Attack on Titan...
And while I'm enjoying it, I just found out that the manga is ongoing.
That means there's next to no chance the anime is actually going to finish the storyline! Damn it! :sigh:
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Already seen femme forms bum. So already peaked.
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Disappointed that that's it for the foreseeable future.
The only response I have to the last episode is.... 0.0
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Rewatching Darker Than Black with friends that haven't seen it before. Having almost as much fun watching their reactions as rewatching the (excellent) series.
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Oh, hey, new Index volume is out!
...
So the world ended. What now?
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Okay, Legend of Korra seems to be hitting its stride now. Let's see how they continue it.
Person of Interest started its third Season. Opener was pretty good at reestablishing the themes and giving us more Root, which is always a good thing. Also, sidenote, I want Amy Acker and Sarah Shahi in everything.
Agents of SHIELD started. The pilot was very uneven; the only reason it didn't fail completely is Clark Gregg, here's hoping that the actual episodes fix a few of the pilot's failures.
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i watched it intermittently for about ten minutes and the dialogue was just too smarmy
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Oh damn, I forgot Legend of Korra's second season started this month.
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. A no-brainer when the ads for it promise martial arts... and boobs!
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I'm about a quarter of the way through Fairy Tail, and I'm not sure if I want to continue.
Do they ever stop treating torture and attempted murder like some sort of childish prank? Everything else aside, that **** is really pissing me off.
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Goodbye Walter White.
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I'm tempted to put spoiler tags on that for you.
Better: Goodbye Breaking Bad.
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Still digesting it, but.... A solid ending.
It felt like it was missing something, though.
Definitely one of the best television series ever made.
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I'm about a quarter of the way through Fairy Tail, and I'm not sure if I want to continue.
Do they ever stop treating torture and attempted murder like some sort of childish prank? Everything else aside, that **** is really pissing me off.
Nope. It's always "Well shucks! Aint you a stinker? Nevermind, I'm sure you'll come around and are actually a good guy deep down, despite all the downright grimdark you seem to be radiating like stink from a hobo."
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AND removed from list.
Thank you for warning me.
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AND removed from list.
Thank you for warning me.
Fair enough. I personally go Fifty Shades of Rage when I read some of the ludicrous moments where a bad guy who just needs to be put in the ground, is just let go after an ass-whooping that leaves the members of Fairy Tail just as beat up.
But I still read it for the breasts fight scenes and bad humor....And obligation. I've been reading the bloody thing since I was in school. If I don't follow it through to the end, it'll bug me for an age.
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I could have still respected it if it had followed the code of Batman.
But... they. just. let. them. walk. away. No cops or anything involved in the matter, despite the fact that they seem to get charged and arrested with some frequency.
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Next KyoAni series Kyokai no Kanata (http://myanimelist.net/anime/18153/Kyoukai_no_Kanata) seems entertaining, though only the first ep has aired.
But at least visually it's good.
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Started watching Kill la Kill, because it's being made by basically the entire staff of Gurren-Lagann. And man it lives up to the billing. It's basically what happens when you take all of the slice-of-life moeblob bull**** out there and punch it in the throat.
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Kill la Kill
basically the entire staff of Gurren-Lagann
I'm sold.
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A Certain Scientific Railgun S.
Wherein the "Sisters" story line overlaps with A Certain Magical Index, but told from Misaka's point of view. She gets kind of messed up a few times.
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ergo proxy... so beautifully dark...
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Ergo Proxy is pretty badass in its way. More about the journey than the destination though I'd say.
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Ergo Proxy is pretty badass in its way. More about the journey than the destination though I'd say.
nailed it in one pretty much.
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Yeah, Kill la kill definiteny bound to be the best of this season anime-wise.
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Kill la Kill
Damn that series is going to places.
Log Horizon seems really promising aswell. The characters are likable, seems like humour will be always present and especially because of DATABASE! (http://youtu.be/pNspJFv4kVY)
The setting is rather familiar. Lot's of players get stuck inside an MMO. SAO anyone? But if some rumours are right it won't be as grimdark as SAO.
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won't be as grimdark as SAO
SAO wasn't grimdark, was crap.
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First season of SAO was good, the second one not so much. As for Kill La Kill, I can't get over how ridiculous that kamui suit looks on the main character compared to everything else seen so far.
Also, there's new season of Hajime no Ippo to watch.
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First season of SAO was good
You know I saw so many people saying this, but it's really been pretty damn awful so far. I shudder to think about what the "bad" second half will be like.
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The second episode of Log Horizon was much better than the first.
I'm waiting for a few more episodes before I 'get my hopes up' as the 'kids might say' as the old people might say.
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I gave that new submarine show three minutes before realizing it was terrible and could never be good.
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Golden Time looks like it could be interesting.
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First season of SAO was good
You know I saw so many people saying this, but it's really been pretty damn awful so far. I shudder to think about what the "bad" second half will be like.
SAO is one of those series that people love or hate, or love to hate.
I liked it quite a bit, but feel like they could have entirely dropped the 'second part' without harming the series in the slightest.
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First season of SAO was good
You know I saw so many people saying this, but it's really been pretty damn awful so far. I shudder to think about what the "bad" second half will be like.
First season is bull**** from the 3rd or 4th episode upwards, series goes to hell once they start introducing new players to kill them stupidly few minutes after or making you swallow a lovers quarrel.
So... stop watching, for the love of god, stop now you can.
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Nah, I'm a masochist. I enjoy seeing just how awful things can get. :D
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Am trying to order the last complete set of the Patlabor TV series, but amazon is saying that it can't ship to my address.
****.
My.
LIFE! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad2: :( :banghead:
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Ship it to a yank contact and redirect?
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Ship it to a yank contact and redirect?
There's an idea.
Anyone willing to receive a parcel for me and post it to foggy ol' london? I'll pay you with smiley faces and wit.
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Old Boy.
... oh boy. If you want The Game mixed with Count of Monte Cristo with a helping of "Holy ****!" then I highly recommend. Not for the faint of heart but man o man what a film.
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The second episode of Log Horizon was much better than the first.
I'm waiting for a few more episodes before I 'get my hopes up' as the 'kids might say' as the old people might say.
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I gave that new submarine show three minutes before realizing it was terrible and could never be good.
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Golden Time looks like it could be interesting.
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First season of SAO was good
You know I saw so many people saying this, but it's really been pretty damn awful so far. I shudder to think about what the "bad" second half will be like.
SAO is one of those series that people love or hate, or love to hate.
I liked it quite a bit, but feel like they could have entirely dropped the 'second part' without harming the series in the slightest.
SAO is one of those things that really should be read in its original (light novel) form, where it's actually pretty good. The adaptation strips much of the stuff that makes it interesting to read.
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So The Walking Dead season premiere was weak. :/
I can't say I was expecting much from the series, which is why I'm surprised at how underwhelmed I am.
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Old boy (original 03' Korean) is pure win. Spike Lee 13'...... Pah!!
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Ship it to a yank contact and redirect?
There's an idea.
Anyone willing to receive a parcel for me and post it to foggy ol' london? I'll pay you with smiley faces and wit.
I pretty much get all of my US stuff via United Publications (http://www.up1.co.uk). I have found them to be a very nice bunch to deal with and practically had no issues with their service since I started using them since 2002. I have also ordered stuff from the US based site Right Stuf (http://www.rightstuf.com) on occasion when they have sales on and there is enough to buy to make the international shipping worthwhile. I can't recommend these two enough. UP can be lightning fast when it comes to ordering in-stock items and RS can have some super sales.
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SAO is one of those things that really should be read in its original (light novel) form, where it's actually pretty good. The adaptation strips much of the stuff that makes it interesting to read.
I've seen the original author's take on an erotic encounter between the two lead characters, and, well...let's just say I've seen 12-year-olds that can write better. I'm not exactly in any rush to look at what the novels are like. :p
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SAO is one of those things that really should be read in its original (light novel) form, where it's actually pretty good. The adaptation strips much of the stuff that makes it interesting to read.
I've seen the original author's take on an erotic encounter between the two lead characters, and, well...let's just say I've seen 12-year-olds that can write better. I'm not exactly in any rush to look at what the novels are like. :p
You could make the same argument about nasu's sex scenes and it wouldn't change the quality of fate/stay night.
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I don't know anything about that either way, but when many of SAO's issues are so endemic and rooted in the basic series premise, they're still on the original author.
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Actually, SAO's series premise is absolutely fine, IMO. In fact, the setting/premise are just about the only redeeming qualities.
It's just the way the author goes about it - the novels themselves start with, and are focused more on the AsunaxKirito MarySuexGaryStu (the author has admitted this in an interview) romance (that you really don't care about) more than the level-clearing/rpg dynamics/life-death game/whatnot (what you actually want to read) that the premise suggests. The anime shows events chronologically, while in the novels, the content of the first few episodes with the random-girl-of-the-week are revealed in various flashback sequences.
The second part (ALO) just compounds on everything that was bad in the first part, completely discarding the guise of the "interesting" premise/setting and plunging straight into the dumb. Though I do hear that the later parts - GGO etc. - (which the anime doesn't get to) get better (?).
I will say that I did enjoy the series.
Well, laughing at it was fairly enjoyable.
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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (I'm not sure that "verdurous" is a word, but whatever...)
Beautifully animated, quite a number of humorous moments, some decent battle sequences, and a surprisingly look at the nature of humanity. Female lead was pretty flat though, but this is counterbalanced by Chamber totally stealing any scene he's in.
Also... THAT DANCE SCENE! :eek2:
Apparently a sequel has been greenlit as well. Still a ways off, though.
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Though I do hear that the later parts - GGO etc. - (which the anime doesn't get to) get better (?).
The later parts are specifically why anyone should ever read the novels. Some of the side stories are also quite good, as they focus on meatier topics and conflicts.
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Actually, SAO's series premise is absolutely fine, IMO. In fact, the setting/premise are just about the only redeeming qualities.
Probably a bad word choice on my part, by "premise," I meant the specifics behind how this magical Nerve Gear helmet was supposed to operate, and how this apparent super-genius game designer managed to get people trapped in the game in the first place. Even if we jump right past the point where one wonders why a high-powered microwave emitter would be in a VR helmet in the first place, and why it was able to pass any sort of consumer electronics inspections, it's never a good thing when I can think of four or five plausible ways of neutralizing it without killing the wearer just off the top of my head. And yet we're led to believe that, somehow, more than two years go by without someone on the outside figuring it out. I'm all about suspension of disbelief, but said suspension tends to get, well, suspended when faced with such a pants-on-head stupid setup.
The way I see it, .hack//SIGN executed a similar premise far better a decade ago, and had a better soundtrack to boot.
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Never seen .hack series, is it worth it?
The hole mmo drama is kinda interesting to me now that I got myself to try some f2p mmo's.
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That would depend on what you want in a show.
.hack//Sign focuses heavily on the characters: there is next to no action, it's pretty much all dialogue.
That isn't to say it's not good, because the characters are in general quite well-written. It's just that some people go in expecting an action-filled game adventure and that's not what .hack//Sign is.
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Never seen .hack series, is it worth it?
The hole mmo drama is kinda interesting to me now that I got myself to try some f2p mmo's.
That depends, do you want the whole story?
If so, be prepared to sink a lot of time into materials outside of the anime.
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Nah, I just sit and expect to enjoy some decent story spattered with heavy action. It's not like that from what you are telling me so it's a no go.
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is a good anime, despite the constant phallic imagery being rubbed in your face like you was the first one to pass out at a frat party and finding the pictures on instagram the next da(or whatever american college guys do to each other when they pass out from too much
piss water Beer).
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is a good anime, despite the constant phallic imagery being rubbed in your face like you was the first one to pass out at a frat party and finding the pictures on instagram the next da(or whatever american college guys do to each other when they pass out from too much piss water Beer).
its not that bad. but the english dub was utter fail sadly.
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I think most of the dub came across very well...unfortunately, the American actor for Kamina, Kyle Hebert, wasn't able to come anywhere close to the raw enthusiasm of his Japanese counterpart, so that definitely made things suffer. Steve Blum was absolutely delicious as Leeron, though, if you catch my drift. ;7
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I've only seen sub, so I can't comment.
Also, Evangelion Abridged 4.0: This is (not) the End has an epic "WHO DO YOU THINK WE ARE!?" moment.
Seriously.
It made me shout "Giga Drill Breeeeeakaaaaah!"
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You can abridge something before it comes out, now?
This blows my mind.
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Supernatural, at the moment. Season premier was last week. Definitely one of those series that has gotten more and more self-referential as the plot goes on. Not sure if that's a good thing.
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Gargantia ... sequel ...
WHAT
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Gargantia ... sequel ...
WHAT
Yep. (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-10/gargantia-on-the-verduous-planet-gets-sequel-green-lit)
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HA! we all get a second chance to see the MC running through a red district being persued by transsexuals while fetching some salad condiment.
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Excellent. Gargantia had a lot of classic sci-fi vibes to it and some Heart of Darkness for good measure. I feel like it tried to be too many things at once and didn't reach the full potential it might have with more focus, BUT it was still a pretty damn good show. I'm pleased. :yes:
Except, what will be the point with no Chamber? :(
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Speaking of TTGL, I've been rewatching the series.
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You can abridge something before it comes out, now?
This blows my mind.
Visage and BEHOLD!!!
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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
Apparently a sequel has been greenlit as well. Still a ways off, though.
it's a good thing that Gargantia gets a sequel. I really liked the series. I do wonder though what are they gonna put into it.
I wouldn't mind a some sort of a Slice of Life approach to be honest, especially since the bonus manga shorties that came with the boxes are quite glorious as far as I've seen ;7
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Anyone have thoughts on log horizon?
Problem is I'm not a good judge of anything, but a lot of comments online are saying it's different from SAO and probably better.
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So far, it's definitely different from SAO. It's too soon to tell if it will be any good or not, though.
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Anyone have thoughts on log horizon?
Problem is I'm not a good judge of anything, but a lot of comments online are saying it's different from SAO and probably better.
I did some pages back. But so far I like it. It feels it will have more humour than SAO, and more fun is always a good thing in my book.
Though as many has said it's a bit too early to say.
Some people who claim to have read the Light Novels:s say that there are quite a lot of bad things happening in the world of Elder Tale, like excessive PK:ing, rape and sex slavery and so on. But it shall to be seen if the anime will cover those issues at all. Also there are a crapload of characters and side stories.
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Latest Episode of Agents of SHIELD was actually pretty good. So I won't be dropping that show just yet.
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It's probably just me, and of course I haven't seen the anime, but I couldn't help but think All that just to watch two girls change clothes?
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Unfortunately that is pretty much standard fare in magical girl kind of anime.
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Though kill la kill is not your regular magical girl kind of anime.
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Outbreak Company, simply because its subverting the usual "otaku in fantasy land" plots.
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this
All of my yes.
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We could expect the maid cafe, onsen, field trip and planet wide destruction coming soon.
and best airhead friend being forced to fight her
/me gets a nosebleed at the thought
Gah!
Anyone have thoughts on log horizon?
Problem is I'm not a good judge of anything, but a lot of comments online are saying it's different from SAO and probably better.
I did some pages back. But so far I like it. It feels it will have more humour than SAO, and more fun is always a good thing in my book.
Though as many has said it's a bit too early to say.
Some people who claim to have read the Light Novels:s say that there are quite a lot of bad things happening in the world of Elder Tale, like excessive PK:ing, rape and sex slavery and so on. But it shall to be seen if the anime will cover those issues at all. Also there are a crapload of characters and side stories.
I suddenly thought of dekker for all the wrong reasons.
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I decided to try K-On!, and I do like what I've seen so far. Unfortunately where I got my DVD from only had them in 4 episode volumes (as far as I could see), so I'll probably pick up the rest of them in the next few days.
Also I was going through Gurren Lagann again, but I sort of stopped a couple of weeks ago and haven't picked it up again yet. :nervous: Maybe I'll do that after K-On!...
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A friend convinced me to start Dangan Ronpa. I do not regret this decision.
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Just started this show up, so luckily I got the joke. (http://www.wimp.com/shingekipingu/)
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I've seen that video before. It's lovely :P
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I really do not understand the humor in that meme. At all.
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Finally got myself to watch Rocket Girls. :) Love it. All KSP fans really should check it out. It has so many Kerbal moments. One of them, in fact, right at the start of the first episode. It's pretty good with science, too.
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So far this has been a pretty disappointing season.
The only one I'm sticking with is Log Horizon, for now. It kind of needs to get off its ass and start doing something.
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At least Log Horizon is a bajillion times better than Sword Art Online.
I get into many spats with SAO-tards, but I actually like Log Horizon even if it's a little slow.
Been watching Infinite Stratos S2 to fill my idiot show quota... god its stupid! (And yes, I keep on watching!)
Kill la Kill is an interesting one... and crazy. It's like a twisted action-cross between Breaking Bad and Gurren Lagann.
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At least Log Horizon is a bajillion times better than Sword Art Online.
I get into many spats with SAO-tards, [...]
Gee. I wonder why.
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Log horizon seems to get lot of points from everyone just because it's always compared to SAO, but I've been following it and it's effectively an utterly generic-MEH piece of anime.
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Log horizon seems to get lot of points from everyone just because it's always compared to SAO, but I've been following it and it's effectively an utterly generic-MEH piece of anime.
That describes about 95% of series made over the past several years, unfortunately.
But fortunately Kill la Kill is not one of those, and kicks extreme amounts of ass instead.
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But it was Angels! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKM-XSYKrFo) Oh man, this is too rich.
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But it was Angels! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKM-XSYKrFo) Oh man, this is too rich.
It's an Angeru! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-SYkQkTO-k)
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Whelp, there went the little bit of slack I was giving Log Horizon. Seven episodes in and nothing has happened.
This has not been a good season for television in general.
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Yeah, last episode was totally boring. This season is crap, the only thing worth watching is kill la kill and gatari.
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So, Legend of Korra Book 2 ended (or will end, depending on whether you watch the ending on TV or via web), and it was glorious. Not The Last Airbender glorious, the pacing of this season was very much all over the place, but it finally had an ending with consequences that felt earned
Despite some unexplained and unnecessary Deus Ex Machina right at the end, does this show seriously have no other way of dealing with its endgames?
Then there's the Karl Urban and Michael Ealy shoot stuff hour, AKA Almost Human, which started this weekend. I can't really call that one amazing, although it certainly started stronger than Agents of SHIELD. If you're a sucker for early 80s Cyberpunk future that actively seeks out to utilize as many visual references from Blade Runner, Robocop, Dark Angel and such as humanly possible, give it a watch.
Also, Karl Urban shoots stuff.
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Book 2 started and ended as a disappointment. In addition to what The E already said, my biggest issue with Book 2 is how all the characters in Book 2 turned out so unlikable.
Korra was totally like anakin over halfway through the Book 2. Asami and Bolin were idiots. Granted, it is Bolin's character being an idiot but honestly, in Book 2 he also a douche. As if those two detectives didn't bring enough idiocy to the police force, Lin Beifong had to reinforce that even further. It's like everyone's stupidity factor was turned up to eleven to suit Book 2's story, which wasn't all that good either. Mako was the only likable character in Book 2. The only one who wasn't total idiot, douche or incompetent. Not even villains were likable, except for Varrick.
Book 2 left poor taste in my mouth and to be honest, I'd rather have not seen this at all. In comparison, Book 1 was a lot better, but Korra has yet to live up to its expectations of Last Airbender.
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Skingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). Just finished it, it was great!
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Also, Karl Urban shoots stuff.
Well that sure as hell made 'Dredd' worth watching. I'll give it a shot. (heh. 'Shot'. See what I did there?)
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Robot is not the law...
I'm the law.
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agreed.
altough i really really hate ongoing animes -.-
****in cliffhangers...
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Eureka Seven
Took it a while to get going, but now that it has, it's turning about to be fairly interesting. Still don't know why there's a "Seven" in the title though.
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Eureka Seven is awesome. As for the number...how many colors are there in a rainbow? :p
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All of them. :blah:
/willing disregard for humor
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Plot building... tension rising... revelations happening... and then....
Eh, forget the fate of the world! Let's all go play soccer!
what :wtf:
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Clearly you did not take the lesson of Master Norbu to heart. :p
(honestly though I think BONES just wanted a soccer episode because why the hell not)
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And it's finished.
Still a little unclear as to what exactly happened there at the end, but it was pretty good.
I know of Eureka Seven AO, but from what I've read about that series, it seems like a gigantic can of "NOPE!" I think I'll skip that one and pretend it doesn't exist.
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My uncle and I have been watching Ghosthunt on Netflix. It's surprisingly good.
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Sword Art Online second season confirmed.
Having read the novel this will be based on...
...watching the fandom reaction to this story is going to be hilarious. ;7
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LIES.
World end was supposed to be on 2012, cannot have twice.
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LIES.
World end was supposed to be on 2012, cannot have twice.
Did Steve give you the memo (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=86172.msg1721417#msg1721417)?
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Well, been keeping up on my shows, watched the 3rd Madoka movie (it was a troll-tastic tour de farce aimed at ridiculing fans), and Kill la Kill is still one of the best shows this season, from the same drunken bastards who Brought You: Panty and Stocking, Gurren Lagann, and Inferno Cop, and the quite sane Little Witch Academia. **** Yeah! Trigger!
Also starting Space Dandy.
Most western animation has been blase with the exception of Axe Cop, which I actually put in the same league as Trigger's insanity fest, and it's based off the ramblings and jauntings of a five year old.
With the exception of the Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, and a few others (I will admit to revisiting Bones and Castle in an unhealthy cycle XD), my year has been filled with more anime than I recall.
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AoT Opening Remix #5361956 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLImJOIl2D8) It has to count, right?
Also, in before "I thought this was gonna be about BP" posts. :d
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Space Dandy. Space. Mother****ing. Dandy.
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Is it already out?
Saw the preview and it was quite interesting, gonna look out for it.
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The world premiere just aired on Toonami last night, so I'd imagine it's available wherever one might choose to look.
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Space Dandy. Space. Mother****ing. Dandy.
Yes!
Also Noragami felt good aswell.
Nobunaga the Fool. Eh, honestly I'm not sure what to think of this. First episode was a big WTF (and not in a good way as it was with Dandy), but at least there were some cool mecha.
The first ep of Chuu2 S2 airs today, I'm looking forward to that. But all in all it looks like an ok winter, especially since Log Horizon and Gundam Build Fighters continue.
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Not anime, but I've been watching Star Trek TOS and In Treatment.
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Finally watching Attack on Titan.
It's pretty good.
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Finally watching Attack on Titan.
It's pretty good.
Better late than never, I suppose. I hope you enjoy it!
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Yeah, talking about AoT......
Not sure if he's in the anime yet, but **** that Beast Titan. Seriously. **** him with all three of Slattern's tail.
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Here's my lsit of anime:
http://myanimelist.net/animelist/TrashMan
I'm really slow to pick op on some. Still havn't finished Gintama (at episode 220 now), and am thinking of watching Zhipang a japanese AEGIS destroyer that goes back in WW2 time) and Jormangund. About gun dealers and mercenaries...like Black Lagoon, but less over-the-top
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I heard some decent stuff about Zipang, though I don't think the anime covered the entire manga story, so it leaves off at some point.
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I found Jormangund to be fairly disappointing; it starts out pretty strong, though.
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Watching Lifeforce.... Fapfap.
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Started watching Attack on Titan after reading about it on this thread. Happens to be a series I have been reading for quite a while already. Love it. Haven't watched anime for a long time, like 4 years, there's a huge backlog to go through.
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Zhipang a japanese AEGIS destroyer that goes back in WW2 time)
Sort of like a reverse The Final Countdown (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/)?
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Zhipang a japanese AEGIS destroyer that goes back in WW2 time)
Sort of like a reverse The Final Countdown (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/)?
Yes. Except the US carrier returned home before impacting history in any significant way. In this anime there is no going back home, and the destroyer is going to have to pick a side...
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Marathoned Arpeggio of Blue Steel yesterday. Did not disappoint (although, having read the Manga, it's a weird adaptation that has all the hallmarks of the adapting studio running with their own thing instead of trying to stay close to the published story)
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Saw Attack on Titan over a few days. Now I'm busy waiting for the second season.
Yes, you should totally watch this show.
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Zhipang a japanese AEGIS destroyer that goes back in WW2 time)
Sort of like a reverse The Final Countdown (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/)?
The Philadelphia experiment also.
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Watching Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter on Netflix, and it's a really good crime show. I'm still watching Star Trek TOS as well.
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just watched Escaflowne: The Movie. Wasn't great, but I want to see the series so that I can get the full experience...Is what I'd like to say, as long as Hitomi doesnt have the same borked face proportions as in the film.
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The movie is inferior in almost every way to the original series...honestly the main things going for it are the cinematic budget and more Yoko Kanno soundtrack goodness. The character designs in the series have something of a distinctive look (pointy noses!), but I think they're fairly reasonable.
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VoE is one of my favorite animes. Definately watch the series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK38WzlNvfk
Also, while I think Saint Seiya Omega is crappy, it does have this one greatepisode:
http://www.animehere.com/saint-seiya-omega-episode-76.html
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VoE is one of my favorite animes. Definately watch the series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK38WzlNvfk
Mech Fighting 101: When facing down multiple stealth bastards, grow some facial hair, wield a giant sword, roar a lot and the Rule of Cool shall guide your hand to save the protagonists.
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Gundam Build Fighters proved yet again with this weeks episode that it's great.
I just hope that Sunrise won't f*** it up. It's been a while since the last time I watched a truly fun Gundam series.
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VoE is one of my favorite animes. Definately watch the series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK38WzlNvfk
Mech Fighting 101: When facing down multiple stealth bastards, grow some facial hair, wield a giant sword, roar a lot and the Rule of Cool shall guide your hand to save the protagonists.
It does help if you happen to be 7 foot tall, muscled and the greatest swordsman on the planet.
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Log Horizon is still pretty good. One of the very few anime I can be bothered to follow in very long time.
The downside is that I feel like I am watching a snail cross a road. It's exciting to see how the snail is doing with all the cars and whatnot. But it's still crossing the road so sloooowly.
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Yea the pacing in LH might be a tad slow but it is quite faithful to the novels (apart from some things that the animation studio has decided to leave out, either because there was not enough time or it would have been inappropriate to show at that time of the day), so it's a good thing.
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I dropped that anime after two or three episodes...
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Then you, sir, made a grave mistake.
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I will admit the epidoes between the satsuki/ryuko fight and the end of the naturals election arch felt like filler. but the show has been on a progressive climb of awesome for the last few episodes and a lot of stuff I felt was poorly done early on was given conext such that in retrospect it all fit together well.
if you dont want to invest much in it I'd say try watching from the later half of episode 11 that's when the shows actual plot starts.
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Honestly I'm mostly in it for the GAR. And Mako. My God, Mako.
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Honestly I'm mostly in it for the GAR. And Mako. My God, Mako.
i need to pick this show back up. finished just when the dress freak who got her head pierced in the above shoved up. anyone know which ep was that offhand?
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anyone know which ep was that offhand?
Indecently...
episode 11
...is also when Ragyo "Anime mother of the year" Kiryuin shows up
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Yeah the show is amazing, and despite some old cliches here and there and some filler episodes it's been undoubtedly the best out there this season regarding anime stuff.
The only other thing that is worth mentioning is Noragami, which is not good, just mere adequate.
Personally I like this one better:
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Blumenkranz is possibly the best most fitting bad guy theme I've ever heard, it's cold and oppressive and disconnected from empathy and just a perfect fit for Ragyo. too bad I cannot seem to find the original OST version of the song anywhere online ATM. I can and have just listened to it over and over again all day.
oh wait, here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/thebigbangingtheory/kill-la-kill-ost-track-4
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Oh yeah, that theme is just perfect for her.
And anime mother of the year? Try century. I saw someone doing a compare-and-contrast of her with Gendo Ikari, and after a few points it lapsed into "OKAY THIS IS NO CONTEST RAGYO MUST DIE."
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I actually hope she wins just so the edginess of this show grinds itself so sharp it cuts itself apart.
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well judging by Imaishi's previous works that's not impossible.
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I am (disturbingly) disappointed no one has cut/pasted the heads of Rag Queen & Daughter onto a gif of this scene: http://youtu.be/seRyZeLamAE?t=5m3s
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Well I finally finished Wolf's Rain. I'm a bit drained now.
In other news, I heard that Psycho Pass will be getting a second series; I can't wait!
Next on the queue: Guilty Crown
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Psycho pass will have a sequel?
Cool news, hope they can come up with a good plot twist.
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Blumenkranz is possibly the best most fitting bad guy theme I've ever heard, it's cold and oppressive and disconnected from empathy and just a perfect fit for Ragyo. too bad I cannot seem to find the original OST version of the song anywhere online ATM. I can and have just listened to it over and over again all day.
oh wait, here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/thebigbangingtheory/kill-la-kill-ost-track-4
Correct pronunciation version (meaning a German fandub. But it's a good fandub):
The lyrics are actually pretty sad while at the same time being so powerful.
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WAY STATUS: FOUND
GET HYPE
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I'm more hyped for the next GBF episode, but indeed Kill la Kill goes places all the time and that ride seems to be unstoppable.
Also trench coats are classy.
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I'm more hyped for the next GBF episode, but indeed Kill la Kill goes places all the time and that ride seems to be unstoppable.
Also trench coats are classy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz0OQK2if1g
[FLAMENCO INTENSIFIES]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz0OQK2if1g
[FLAMENCO INTENSIFIES]
Indeed, indeed it does :yes:
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Gundam's 35th Anniversary (http://www.gundam35th.net/) is here.
First, new trailer for Gundam Unicorn Episode 7, which releases this May.
Second, Gundam: The Origin official trailer. Apparently it will not be a full series but a set of 4 OVA's. The first is set to release in 2015 and centers around the rise of the Zabi family and Char's childhood.
Third, new Tomino series, "Gundam Reconguista in G" (aka G-Reko) official announcement and trailer. Yes, it is now part of the Gundam franchise. Not a whole lot known about it yet, except that it takes place in the far future of the UC timeline.
Finally, apparently the next big Gundam thing out there is "Real G: Next Project", which will be unveiled at the 40th anniversary five years from now.
Gundam fans have been exploding from hype.
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I wonder how many goofy-ass names we can add to the list after those.
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Origin might be interesting, it is Char we're talking about, and the G-Reco looks good... though it was said that Tomino was seemingly happy looking during the showcase, not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.
But to be completely honest, I just wanted more GBF.
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My monday mornings are going to have a lot less childish joy now that Build Fighters is over :-(
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I finished the first 12 episodes of Mawaru Pengiundrum last week, finally. It's... not entirely my cup of tea, but it was all right, so I'll consider getting the second half of the season.
Also on my list is the second season of K-On! and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I've spent quite a bit of money recently, though, so I may wait a bit before I get those and look at Girls und Panzer on Crunchyroll for the time being.
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My monday mornings are going to have a lot less childish joy now that Build Fighters is over :-(
Likewise. I'm really sad to see it end (even though the end was glorious and happy... -Yay Aila-).
Then again... Sunrise Tweeted something about NOT having had ANY discussions or meetings regarding a continuity of GBF, under a hashtag #april_fools.... sooo, go figure. (Second season... Please!)
Nevertheless that was bloody evil of them.
Oh and 4chan /m/ Tweeted a mosaic collague of Gunplas in a Victory Pose to the Sunrise staff, included with thanks.
I didn't have any Gunplas yet (my Miss Sazabi is still on her way), so I quickly drew an SD Aila...
Girls und Panzer
Can't wait to see the Anzio OVA and the Movie. More Garupan is always a good thing.
According to the small interviews of the GuP staff the Movie will have new tanks too.
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I just got through with watching Dragon Ball (yep, that show from the 80s) two days ago. Now watching DBZ
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I just got through with watching Dragon Ball (yep, that show from the 80s) two days ago. Now watching DBZ
I would highly recommend not watching Z. I would highly recommend watching Kai.
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Z was fine up until the point they left Earth (and even, to an extent, beyond that). By the time they got back it was ridiculous.
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If you do watch Kai, just make sure to hunt down the driver's test episode from the original. Apparently it's pretty much the single-greatest filler episode of any show ever.
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And be sure to watch DBZ Abridged. They're getting into the meat of the Android Saga
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Game of Thrones...All I need to say. Though I'm not enjoying it as much as I was, since my best friend gave spoilers about the....
Red Wedding.[spoiler/}
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Log Horizon is more interesting than I thought it would be. And apparently it will be getting a second season at some point.
Also discovered the Ghost Stories ADV dub. Holy crap, it is hilarious! Seriously, watch it, it is awesome.
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Also discovered the Ghost Stories ADV dub. Holy crap, it is hilarious! Seriously, watch it, it is awesome.
Indeed. The original show is basically just a Japanese version of Scooby-doo, aimed at the same target audience, but ADV did magical things with it.
I've been in a long-running discussion group with a bunch of friends, and our new series is Shinsekai Yori (From the New World). Just two episodes in, and it's already setting up a very unsettling environment. Should be interesting.
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So I happened to be looking at refs for Kongo class battleships, and realized Arpeggio of Blue Steel was a thing. Came for the warships and stayed for the lustful heavy cruiser and statuesque yet angsty battlecruiser. Kind of silly at times and I'm not a fan of CGI Anime but it was entertaining enough for me to finish.
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Looks like they just started airing the next season of DB Kai, so I'll be watching that.
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Log Horizon is more interesting than I thought it would be. And apparently it will be getting a second season at some point.
The second season should premiere on this fall. I can't wait, especially since I've read the LN translations I can't wait to see it getting animated.
I'd also like to see the West Wind Brigade side story manga animated, but concidering the timeslot and channel the anime is airing WWB could be too much to handle.
From the series that just began airing, quick impressions in a nutshell for some of them:
- Captain Earth: Corny name, but awesome mecha combination sequence with technology jargon. Also includes rainbow discs, a brown girl in a water bubble and moon boobs.
- Seikoku no Dragonar: Everybody has a pet dragon in this fantasy world, except the MC, who gets a tsundere loli. Apparently it will be a harem series in the end, but the dragons are cool. Boobs are also involved.
- Kenzen Robo Daimidaler: The MC fights against a Penguin Empire with robot, and get's power from groping boobs. It's just an ecchi series, but it's going places... seriously, even their web page is something like this http://penguin-empire.com/ Oh and the penguins have frontal tails. R18 (or at least R16) I think.
The theme for this spring seems to be boobs... seriously.
Oh there is one that doesn't have that theme.
- One week friends: The MC wants to be friends with this girl in his class, but the problem is that the said girl always forgets all the things (except about her family) she experienced during the week on mondays. Still the guy decides to be friends with her every week. Seems like a fluffy healing series, but it can turn into suffering easily. I hope not, since healing is good and the art is cute as hell.
- Hitsugi no Chaika: A loli with a huge magical sniper rifle -and carries a coffin with her-, joins up with an ex soldier to search a meaning for life. 1st ep should air today, I'm actually rather eagerly awaiting for this. Could be good.
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- One week friends: The MC wants to be friends with this girl in his class, but the problem is that the said girl always forgets all the things (except about her family) she experienced during the week on mondays. Still the guy decides to be friends with her every week. Seems like a fluffy healing series, but it can turn into suffering easily. I hope not, since healing is good and the art is cute as hell.
Fifty First Dates: The Anime?
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- One week friends: The MC wants to be friends with this girl in his class, but the problem is that the said girl always forgets all the things (except about her family) she experienced during the week on mondays. Still the guy decides to be friends with her every week. Seems like a fluffy healing series, but it can turn into suffering easily. I hope not, since healing is good and the art is cute as hell.
If that girl forgets everything unless it involves her family, then she should be home schooled. :)
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I'm actually looking for an anime to watch, anyone have any recommendations?
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I'm actually looking for an anime to watch, anyone have any recommendations?
Depends what your tastes are. For a very general audience, I would probably recommend Robotics: Notes. It's got a lot of various themes and moods, I thought it was very good, the art and animation are nice, and it has almost nothing that most people would find objectionable.
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Fifty First Dates: The Anime?
That's pretty much what people are calling it.
If that girl forgets everything unless it involves her family, then she should be home schooled. :)
I think it was a bit more specific, like "She forgets all the stuff about her friends and what she did with them". She's actually good with school for example since she avoids getting friends and have all the time in the world for studying.
I'm actually looking for an anime to watch, anyone have any recommendations?
As Scourge said it really depends on what you actually like to watch in general. SciFi, Fantasy, Comedy, Drama... pr0n... all of them together? Does it have to be a new series, or is and older quality not an issue?
Otherwise we'd propably just recommend what we liked, and that does not always correlate on your tastes.
But just for the heck of it:
- Girls und Panzer: Cute girls and tanks (no extreme lewdness involved in this actually. There was even a rumour that the AD had instructed the team NOT to include even panty shots). Superb and fun series btw. 12 episodes plus specials. OVA will come soon and a movie in summer.
- Log Horizon: "People get stuck in a virtual MMORPG" -setting, but that's not even entirely the case... but it's kind of hard to describe without giving too much spoilers. Lot's of MMORPG stuff going on (since the author has actually played them and likes RPGs). Lot's of politics and scheming going on too, so some might think it's a tad too slow as a series.
- Hyouka: Hotaro Oreki -who has a life policy of saving energy as much as possible- meets Chitanda Eru, an overly curious girl with energy to spare. Chitandas curiosity drags Oreki into solving several more or less interesting "mysteries" while he himself is unable to decide how to deal with her. Now this is one visually stunning series. Even though the "mysteries" are one of the main point of the series the real selling point is the interaction and growth of the characters themselves. Plus Chitanda is friggin adorable....
There's a few.
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I think it was a bit more specific, like "She forgets all the stuff about her friends and what she did with them". She's actually good with school for example since she avoids getting friends and have all the time in the world for studying.
Yeah, I googled it. It's just friends, she remembers everything else. And she's aware of it, the memory loss every week with friends.
In that case, you'd have to bring a videocamera along after making friends with her and film yourself doing stuff with her. Then when she forgets, just show her the footage. "Hey, we're friends." :)
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I would agree with log horizon and girls and panzer, but hyouka I find to be one of the most boring things I've ever watched... I'm really draggin myself through each episode. The 'mysteries' are as dumb and uninteresting as they get and I personally find Chitanda friggin annoying. The animation is amazing though, just... so wasted on this show.
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I'm actually looking for an anime to watch, anyone have any recommendations?
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
It's a very pretty space adventure.
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Space Battleship Yamato 2199
It's a very pretty space adventure.
+1
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I think it was a bit more specific, like "She forgets all the stuff about her friends and what she did with them". She's actually good with school for example since she avoids getting friends and have all the time in the world for studying.
Yeah, I googled it. It's just friends, she remembers everything else. And she's aware of it, the memory loss every week with friends.
That's an oddly specific memory disorder.
I mean, is there some sort of supernatural curse at work, or something?
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but hyouka I find to be one of the most boring things I've ever watched... I'm really draggin myself through each episode. The 'mysteries' are as dumb and uninteresting as they get and I personally find Chitanda friggin annoying. The animation is amazing though, just... so wasted on this show.
Pleb :p
Naah, I do understand if some find it boring. Especially if the characters do not click then there's nothing to go for.
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I think it was a bit more specific, like "She forgets all the stuff about her friends and what she did with them". She's actually good with school for example since she avoids getting friends and have all the time in the world for studying.
Yeah, I googled it. It's just friends, she remembers everything else. And she's aware of it, the memory loss every week with friends.
That's an oddly specific memory disorder.
I mean, is there some sort of supernatural curse at work, or something?
It said it was because of a car accident.
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Pleb :p
Naah, I do understand if some find it boring. Especially if the characters do not click then there's nothing to go for.
I feel if the show was just about Oreki being lazy 24/7, the show would be around 68.3% better :p
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I'm also going to have to recommend both Girls und Panzer and Log Horizon. Girls und Panzer is pretty self-descriptive and amazingly smut-free, and Log Horizon can be self-aware at times, most notably when the ominous glasses nudging starts getting lampshaded.
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Log Crapizon is a load of crap, as the title suggest. This is just a very personal opinion of course.
I'm currently watching mushishi season 1, cause aparently is was one of the best the animes a few years back and it's getting a season 2 right now. So... yeah. It's quite good btw.
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Yeah, Mushishi is a masterpiece.
Also y'all need better suggestions. Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Wolf's Rain, Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, Serial Experiments Lain, I could keep going for a long time. :p
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That's more my cup of tea.
Also Akira, MD GEIST, spriggan, cyber city oedo, guyver and fist of the north star, ninja scroll.
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Yeah, Mushishi is a masterpiece.
Also y'all need better suggestions. Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Wolf's Rain, Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, Serial Experiments Lain, I could keep going for a long time. :p
Cowboy bebop is a decent show but it really isn't all that good. 99% of the time when it gets recommended as a 'omgbbqmustwatch' its done by americans who saw it on tv back in the day (dubbed ofcourse) and it was 'their first anime'. True story :p
Trigun falls sort of in the same category, it really isn't anything special imho. (Not sayin that its bad or anything either)
Wolf's rain I dropped out of boredom after 7-8 episodes. Horrible emo show
GitS is pretty good tho.
Also why aren't Outlaw star and Black lagoon in this list of yours? huh? whats your excuse?
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That's more my cup of tea.
Also Akira, MD GEIST, spriggan, cyber city oedo, guyver and fist of the north star, ninja scroll.
Dekker likes his classics O:
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I feel if the show was just about Oreki being lazy 24/7, the show would be around 68.3% better :p
That's one pretty accurate estimate :D
Well, if we're going for the classics, then: SDF Macross (and it's follow ups), Gundams.... HAH, actually I think I could even recommend The Legend of Galactic Heroes, but that's some serious space opera.
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Yeah, Mushishi is a masterpiece.
Also y'all need better suggestions. Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Wolf's Rain, Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, Serial Experiments Lain, I could keep going for a long time. :p
Cowboy bebop is a decent show but it really isn't all that good. 99% of the time when it gets recommended as a 'omgbbqmustwatch' its done by americans who saw it on tv back in the day (dubbed ofcourse) and it was 'their first anime'. True story :p
You're wrong. Most people who like it like it because it tends to stay away from typical anime tropes, which are 95% awful.
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Venus wars is cheese.
Transformers 80's movie is the best anime ever made.
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I feel if the show was just about Oreki being lazy 24/7, the show would be around 68.3% better :p
That's one pretty accurate estimate :D
Well, if we're going for the classics, then: SDF Macross (and it's follow ups), Gundams.... HAH, actually I think I could even recommend The Legend of Galactic Heroes, but that's some serious space opera.
I always hesitate to recommend Legend of the Galactic Heroes, because despite the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed it and re-watch it pretty regularly, its a serious investment in time, and moves too slowly for a lot of people.
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Kill La Kill makes my brain feel like it's oozing out of my eye socket....And I cant tell if it's a bad thing or not.
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You're wrong. Most people who like it like it because it tends to stay away from typical anime tropes, which are 95% awful.
Just a friendly reminder: This is so very not the topic for discussing what you do not like about Anime. Also, let's not get into the annoying habit of making absolute statements like that about things as subjective as this, okay?
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I feel if the show was just about Oreki being lazy 24/7, the show would be around 68.3% better :p
That's one pretty accurate estimate :D
Well, if we're going for the classics, then: SDF Macross (and it's follow ups), Gundams.... HAH, actually I think I could even recommend The Legend of Galactic Heroes, but that's some serious space opera.
I always hesitate to recommend Legend of the Galactic Heroes, because despite the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed it and re-watch it pretty regularly, its a serious investment in time, and moves too slowly for a lot of people.
Yes I've seen the first season of it, and it's light on action and moves at a glacial pace. But I still enjoyed it.
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Black lagoon is good as well, really enjoyed it when I saw it.
I so miss a series like Slam Dunk, I'd love to see something like that done again.
On topic about series, I was thinking about starting to watch Game of Thrones cause apparently I'm a dork for not watching it.
So yeah, I think I'll be using some of my free time to watch it, along with Nisekoi and Mushishi. There seems to be nothing else that interesting apart from that.
Oh and fredding from time to time as well :D
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Transformers 80's movie is the best anime ever made.
I honestly thought that the cartoon Transformers movie wasn't that good when I watched it last year. :nervous:
Except for Optimus Prime's death scene. That was pretty well done. :(
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Kill La Kill makes my brain feel like it's oozing out of my eye socket....And I cant tell if it's a bad thing or not.
A very good thing.
Yeah, Mushishi is a masterpiece.
Also y'all need better suggestions. Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Wolf's Rain, Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, Serial Experiments Lain, I could keep going for a long time. :p
Cowboy bebop is a decent show but it really isn't all that good. 99% of the time when it gets recommended as a 'omgbbqmustwatch' its done by americans who saw it on tv back in the day (dubbed ofcourse) and it was 'their first anime'. True story :p
Trigun falls sort of in the same category, it really isn't anything special imho. (Not sayin that its bad or anything either)
Wolf's rain I dropped out of boredom after 7-8 episodes. Horrible emo show
GitS is pretty good tho.
Also why aren't Outlaw star and Black lagoon in this list of yours? huh? whats your excuse?
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I'm only watching Black Lagoon for the first time right now (soooo many bleeps on Toonami, fun times), and while I did enjoy Outlaw Star well enough when finally seeing it a couple of years ago, it didn't quite resonate with me the same way. But the reason that so many people fell in love with Bebop is that, from a directorial and genre standpoint, it really is that good. Shinichiro Watanabe is an absolute master of bringing a flat-out cinematic feeling to a scene, with an actual sense of "camera" placement and motion, and that to me is one of the main factors that makes Bebop such a joy to watch.
And srsly man, unless you're currently in the year 2003 and/or no older than 14, "emo" should not be in your vocabulary. :p
Mostly though, when I see whole lists full of the otaku-pandering stuff that's dominated the late night scene in Japan over the past several years, I just start to get all twitchy. Anime's capable of so much more than that as a genre: we need more Masaaki Yuasa, and less moeblob.
(But man, if we want to talk about bad shows...MD Geist should be considered a war crime.)
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Transformers 80's movie is the best anime ever made.
I honestly thought that the cartoon Transformers movie wasn't that good when I watched it last year. :nervous:
Friend of mine made me watch it some time ago. I have never been big into the Transformers franchise, so I have not seen any of the series that preceded the movie.
I found it to be cliched and, well, kind of ridiculous. A couple of good moments but for the most part not really all that interesting.
Nostalgia goggles are apparently heavily rose-tinted.
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CRASHING THROUGH THE SKY COMES A FEARFUL CRY
COBRA! COBRA!
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I've not heard that for well over twoddecades and it's already making me smile knowing that starscream was moonlighting.
Rose tinted ftw.
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I'm only watching Black Lagoon for the first time right now (soooo many bleeps on Toonami, fun times), and while I did enjoy Outlaw Star well enough when finally seeing it a couple of years ago, it didn't quite resonate with me the same way. But the reason that so many people fell in love with Bebop is that, from a directorial and genre standpoint, it really is that good. Shinichiro Watanabe is an absolute master of bringing a flat-out cinematic feeling to a scene, with an actual sense of "camera" placement and motion, and that to me is one of the main factors that makes Bebop such a joy to watch.
And srsly man, unless you're currently in the year 2003 and/or no older than 14, "emo" should not be in your vocabulary. :p
Mostly though, when I see whole lists full of the otaku-pandering stuff that's dominated the late night scene in Japan over the past several years, I just start to get all twitchy. Anime's capable of so much more than that as a genre: we need more Masaaki Yuasa, and less moeblob.
(But man, if we want to talk about bad shows...MD Geist should be considered a war crime.)
Why would you subject yourself to censorship willingly? Doesn't exactly sound like you're watching black lagoon the way its meant to be watched.
My personal gripe about bebop is that you can pretty much watch the episodes in any order and not a lot would change. I'm personally more of a fan of shows that tell an ungoing story rather than being episodic in nature. Bebop doesn't really have much of an overarching storyline going. It does do a lot of things really well, but it never caught me by the balls like some other shows have.
If you enjoyed Trigun, you'd probably like GunXsword too btw. (If you havent seen it already)
Call it "emo" or "edgy". You gotta agree with me that wolf's rain is not trying to set a very happy and not depressing atmosphere :p (The fact that I got the show recommended to me by a friend who was heavily in a gothic phase probably didn't help)
Oh and it's not exactly like moe is a recent thing. Its hardly like older anime were all masterpieces and devoid of fanservice. And there have been a plentiful amount of good recent shows that I could go on about. Anime is still plenty diverse to this day imho. Just don't stare yourself blind on the things you don't like.
Transformers 80's movie is the best anime ever made.
I honestly thought that the cartoon Transformers movie wasn't that good when I watched it last year. :nervous:
Friend of mine made me watch it some time ago. I have never been big into the Transformers franchise, so I have not seen any of the series that preceded the movie.
I found it to be cliched and, well, kind of ridiculous. A couple of good moments but for the most part not really all that interesting.
Nostalgia goggles are apparently heavily rose-tinted.
I have the heaviest rose-tinted nostalgia goggles for Transformers G1. But even that cannot make me deny that it really IS kinda bad in a lot of ways. (Holy **** animation errors all over) I still love it, but I cannot disagree with the above statements.I feel if the show was just about Oreki being lazy 24/7, the show would be around 68.3% better :p
That's one pretty accurate estimate :D
Well, if we're going for the classics, then: SDF Macross (and it's follow ups), Gundams.... HAH, actually I think I could even recommend The Legend of Galactic Heroes, but that's some serious space opera.
I always hesitate to recommend Legend of the Galactic Heroes, because despite the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed it and re-watch it pretty regularly, its a serious investment in time, and moves too slowly for a lot of people.
I'm kind of in the same boat there. LoGH is one of my all time favorite shows but I get that it's not for everyone. So its not always the show I would recommend first.
You're wrong. Most people who like it like it because its the first anime thing they saw on television
fixed that for you. and bebop really isn't the 'trope breaker' that you think it is.
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I'm only watching Black Lagoon for the first time right now (soooo many bleeps on Toonami, fun times)
Wait. Toonami is airing Black Lagoon?
Did they cut out entire episodes? (I mean, there are a few that make the Requiem For a Dream look like freaking Care Bears)
Are they going to air Elfen Leid, next?
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Why would you subject yourself to censorship willingly? Doesn't exactly sound like you're watching black lagoon the way its meant to be watched.
I could watch my Blu-rays, but the only censorship going on in the broadcast are just bleeped-out F-bombs, so I'm not missing anything. Quite honestly I often find bleeps more amusing than the word they're replacing.
My personal gripe about bebop is that you can pretty much watch the episodes in any order and not a lot would change. I'm personally more of a fan of shows that tell an ungoing story rather than being episodic in nature. Bebop doesn't really have much of an overarching storyline going. It does do a lot of things really well, but it never caught me by the balls like some other shows have.
Yes, Bebop is episodic, but it seems kind of silly to criticize it for being exactly what it's designed to be: it's almost like griping that Schindler's List was shot in black-and-white. (You're not the only person I've seen say this, so I'm not just singling you out personally or anything.) Bebop's core focus was always on its characters, and the rag-tag family that they form: even though most of its episodes are one-off stories, almost all of them contribute to that theme in some way. Spike's past and how he's forced to deal with it are the core of that development, but not the sole extent of it. But hey, if it didn't really click for you, I can't magically make that happen.
If you enjoyed Trigun, you'd probably like GunXsword too btw. (If you havent seen it already)
I've heard it's pretty bad, and it seems to be trying really hard to be shows from several years before it. On the other hand, Goro Taniguchi apparently directed it, so it presumably has unintentional comedy if nothing else.
Call it "emo" or "edgy". You gotta agree with me that wolf's rain is not trying to set a very happy and not depressing atmosphere :p (The fact that I got the show recommended to me by a friend who was heavily in a gothic phase probably didn't help)
Well of course it's not happy, but again, it's not meant to be. :p Just because it's more somber in tone doesn't mean it can't be good; many of the all-time classics across all types of literature are what we'd call tragedies. Wolf's Rain pulls off some really interesting blending of Western and Eastern spiritual elements, and it's both aesthetically and aurally gorgeous. It's one of the few shows in any medium that can manage to choke me up just with a few bars of music.
Oh and it's not exactly like moe is a recent thing. Its hardly like older anime were all masterpieces and devoid of fanservice. And there have been a plentiful amount of good recent shows that I could go on about. Anime is still plenty diverse to this day imho. Just don't stare yourself blind on the things you don't like.
There are certainly past shows and elements of shows that could be labeled "moe" today, but that specific term and what it implies has only been widespread in the fandom for the past 7 or 8 years. And of course there were plenty of terrible older shows, and those that were just meant to be cheesecake, but there's a certain specific aesthetic targeting the hardcore Japanese otaku market that drives late-night anime, one that's fairly easy to point out, and it's a fairly-new phenomenon. I'm not saying that there haven't been good series created over that time, but when you just look at the seasonal preview graphics, there are some pretty glaring trends that stick out. Personally I feel like the Japanese industry is painting itself into a corner, trying to target a shrinking demographic with paint-by-numbers fandom checklists as opposed to just basic good storytelling and character-writing. A number of well-respected Japanese industry personalities have said as much, Hayao Miyazaki himself most recently.
I'm kind of in the same boat there. LoGH is one of my all time favorite shows but I get that it's not for everyone. So its not always the show I would recommend first.
It'd be pretty heavy as a starter series, but man, anyone who has even a passing interest in high-concept sci-fi absolutely owes it to themselves to give it a watch. There really hasn't been anything else like it, and I don't think there ever will be.
Wait. Toonami is airing Black Lagoon?
Did they cut out entire episodes? (I mean, there are a few that make the Requiem For a Dream look like freaking Care Bears)
Are they going to air Elfen Leid, next?
Yes, no, and I hope not, because it apparently sucks. :p Toonami's been part of [adult swim] for over a year now, and [as] hasn't significantly edited anime for a good decade at this point.
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Yes, Bebop is episodic, but it seems kind of silly to criticize it for being exactly what it's designed to be: it's almost like griping that Schindler's List was shot in black-and-white. (You're not the only person I've seen say this, so I'm not just singling you out personally or anything.) Bebop's core focus was always on its characters, and the rag-tag family that they form: even though most of its episodes are one-off stories, almost all of them contribute to that theme in some way. Spike's past and how he's forced to deal with it are the core of that development, but not the sole extent of it. But hey, if it didn't really click for you, I can't magically make that happen.
Its valid criticism in the same way that you criticize moe and ecchi shows for being designed exactly that what they are designed to be.
In the end it all comes down to taste, preference and opinions.
If you enjoyed Trigun, you'd probably like GunXsword too btw. (If you havent seen it already)
I've heard it's pretty bad, and it seems to be trying really hard to be shows from several years before it. On the other hand, Goro Taniguchi apparently directed it, so it presumably has unintentional comedy if nothing else.
Well in my opinion you heard wrong. But hey, opinions.
Well of course it's not happy, but again, it's not meant to be. :p Just because it's more somber in tone doesn't mean it can't be good; many of the all-time classics across all types of literature are what we'd call tragedies. Wolf's Rain pulls off some really interesting blending of Western and Eastern spiritual elements, and it's both aesthetically and aurally gorgeous. It's one of the few shows in any medium that can manage to choke me up just with a few bars of music.
I found it aesthetically really plain and boring looking personally and I really couldn't get into the atmosphere or the characters. But since I only saw a limited amount of episodes before I dropped it I can't really make a judgement call whenever I find it a good or bad show, just that it didnt really tickle my fancy and that I didn't get any enjoyment out of it.
There are certainly past shows and elements of shows that could be labeled "moe" today, but that specific term and what it implies has only been widespread in the fandom for the past 7 or 8 years. And of course there were plenty of terrible older shows, and those that were just meant to be cheesecake, but there's a certain specific aesthetic targeting the hardcore Japanese otaku market that drives late-night anime, one that's fairly easy to point out, and it's a fairly-new phenomenon. I'm not saying that there haven't been good series created over that time, but when you just look at the seasonal preview graphics, there are some pretty glaring trends that stick out. Personally I feel like the Japanese industry is painting itself into a corner, trying to target a shrinking demographic with paint-by-numbers fandom checklists as opposed to just basic good storytelling and character-writing. A number of well-respected Japanese industry personalities have said as much, Hayao Miyazaki himself most recently.
Miyazaki is an old geezer who has retired like 5 times already. I take his ramblings with a grain of salt :p
But yeah there is an ungoing trend of the anime industry overspecializing themselves toward the otaku market. And they can keep doing that because japanese otaku's keep on being willing to buy #13 in a dozen harem anime obscenely overprized BD's and DVD's. This is actually pretty well known by most anime watchers by now I think.
But you know what? I don't even care, because I have thrown away my elitist mantle a long time ago and can enjoy even the dumbest of shows. That includes shows that involves having the main character power up his mech with ero particles by molesting women. What can I say? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It'd be pretty heavy as a starter series, but man, anyone who has even a passing interest in high-concept sci-fi absolutely owes it to themselves to give it a watch. There really hasn't been anything else like it, and I don't think there ever will be.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-02-12/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes-novels-get-anime
There will be something like it :p
Yes, no, and I hope not, because it apparently sucks. :p
I'm so totally not a fan of writing shows off based on other people's opinions without having seen anything of it myself to form a proper opinion of it.
(ya know, the thing that you are doing right there)
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Its valid criticism in the same way that you criticize moe and ecchi shows for being designed exactly that what they are designed to be.
In the end it all comes down to taste, preference and opinions.
Fair enough, but I think there's something of a difference in that episodic storytelling is a model that's as old as storytelling itself, and even if it's personally not your taste, it's a simple affair to come up with examples that have something worthwhile or compelling to say. Whereas shows about cute girls sitting around eating cake, or a story about a milquetoast guy who has ten hot chicks falling over him for no discernible reason...kinda more difficult to think of examples. (School Days, maybe? :trollface:)
Miyazaki is an old geezer who has retired like 5 times already. I take his ramblings with a grain of salt :p
But yeah there is an ungoing trend of the anime industry overspecializing themselves toward the otaku market. And they can keep doing that because japanese otaku's keep on being willing to buy #13 in a dozen harem anime obscenely overprized BD's and DVD's. This is actually pretty well known by most anime watchers by now I think.
You're exactly right, but therein lies the problem: the more you try to target that insular audience with almost focus-group-created shows you know they'll snap up, the more you limit your ability to tell a breadth of good stories. They'll still get made, but they'll just be fewer in number and harder to pick out. I don't think we'll ever see a repeat the sheer creative explosion of the huge OVA boom of the early 90s, or the glut of high-quality stuff from the later 90s to early 00s; the market's just too different. It's also not much of a sound long-term strategy either: Japan's burgeoning demographics crisis is no secret, so the age group the industry is going for will just continue to shrink over time. At some point that well's going to start to dry up, and then what?
It's not even a problem limited to anime, either: I know at least one really prominent Japanese games developer (can't remember who) has repeatedly spoken out about the state of his domestic industry, and how Japan's output is increasingly niche (outside of big universal tentpole stuff like Nintendo IPs) and less relevant. Back in the 80s and 90s, Japan owned gaming, but unfortunately they're a far cry from it now, and I think we're all poorer for not seeing that continued variety.
But you know what? I don't even care, because I have thrown away my elitist mantle a long time ago and can enjoy even the dumbest of shows. That includes shows that involves having the main character power up his mech with ero particles by molesting women. What can I say? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, some of us haven't thrown in the towel on good taste just yet. :p I mean I like some dumb stuff too, but only as popcorn entertainment; I need meaty stuff that I can chew on. I'm not a film buff at all, and I barely read anymore, but animation (so for all intents and purposes anime) is the one entertainment medium where I try and view things with more of a critical eye. I've seen the amazing stories that anime can tell, and the wonderful visuals it can use to tell them, and when you've seen the best of what the medium is capable of it's hard to be satisfied watching something sub-par.
It'd be pretty heavy as a starter series, but man, anyone who has even a passing interest in high-concept sci-fi absolutely owes it to themselves to give it a watch. There really hasn't been anything else like it, and I don't think there ever will be.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-02-12/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes-novels-get-anime
There will be something like it :p
Dammit, I'd almost managed to put that out of my mind. :p Suffice it to say that whatever form this takes, I think it's going to be unnecessary at the very least. I mean, the original OVA project was a very talented director and his team working for over a decade to bring the entire series of novels to life...what could a new adaptation possibly add to that. And I can almost guarantee that they're going to replace all of those beautiful cel-animated space battles with *gag* CGI.
Yes, no, and I hope not, because it apparently sucks. :p
I'm so totally not a fan of writing shows off based on other people's opinions without having seen anything of it myself to form a proper opinion of it.
(ya know, the thing that you are doing right there)
You might have a point if I was just reading random people on the Internets going "hurrdurr that show sux." But the opinions I'm talking about are from friends with whom I've been discussing anime for...oh man, it's been almost a decade now. I'm freakin' old. But anyway, I know their tastes well, and they know mine, and I trust them enough to put a good deal of stock in their opinions on what they've seen. Plus with this particular show, I've read enough to know the general premise and how it's pulled off, and it just doesn't seem like something I'd be on board with. Really pretty opening sequence, though.
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Fair enough, but I think there's something of a difference in that episodic storytelling is a model that's as old as storytelling itself, and even if it's personally not your taste, it's a simple affair to come up with examples that have something worthwhile or compelling to say. Whereas shows about cute girls sitting around eating cake, or a story about a milquetoast guy who has ten hot chicks falling over him for no discernible reason...kinda more difficult to think of examples. (School Days, maybe? :trollface:)
There is nothing inherently bad about episodic storytelling but I feel its the inferior option when its used for shows with a more serious setting/tone/story. It's perfectly fine for comedies or slice of life shows though.
Also K-on is a good (slice of life) show, it may seem oh so incredibly silly to you to watch girls drinking tea and eating cake but that's the beauty of anime, it has so many different genres for different strokes of people. (also as a sidenote before that gets brought up again, k-on was popular with a large female audience as well, not just creepy otakus) Not every show needs to have something 'worthwhile' or 'compelling' to say.
For example I have a friend who really enjoys watching anime shows that have 'nothing going on', the typical slice of life shows. If you were to force him to watch the Berserk movies he would be very much 'not amused'. That's just not his thing.
You're exactly right, but therein lies the problem: the more you try to target that insular audience with almost focus-group-created shows you know they'll snap up, the more you limit your ability to tell a breadth of good stories. They'll still get made, but they'll just be fewer in number and harder to pick out. I don't think we'll ever see a repeat the sheer creative explosion of the huge OVA boom of the early 90s, or the glut of high-quality stuff from the later 90s to early 00s; the market's just too different. It's also not much of a sound long-term strategy either: Japan's burgeoning demographics crisis is no secret, so the age group the industry is going for will just continue to shrink over time. At some point that well's going to start to dry up, and then what?
The japanese are seemingly pretty bad at adapting their business models to changing times.
If they had a none retarded distribution model and business model they could get a lot more money out of the anime watching world outside of japan too. (Just produce more shows like shingeki no kyojin and they'd be golden)
It's not even a problem limited to anime, either: I know at least one really prominent Japanese games developer (can't remember who) has repeatedly spoken out about the state of his domestic industry, and how Japan's output is increasingly niche (outside of big universal tentpole stuff like Nintendo IPs) and less relevant. Back in the 80s and 90s, Japan owned gaming, but unfortunately they're a far cry from it now, and I think we're all poorer for not seeing that continued variety.
I think I read that too.
It's a bloody shame really.
Square-enix is a great example of the japanese game industry gone ****...
Dammit, I'd almost managed to put that out of my mind. :p Suffice it to say that whatever form this takes, I think it's going to be unnecessary at the very least. I mean, the original OVA project was a very talented director and his team working for over a decade to bring the entire series of novels to life...what could a new adaptation possibly add to that. And I can almost guarantee that they're going to replace all of those beautiful cel-animated space battles with *gag* CGI.
To be completely fair, honest and objective. Most LoGH space battles were still shots of a fleet formation with the occasional ship exploding. It was not really pushing handdrawn space ship animation to the limits... If decent looking CGI can make the space battle scenes be more dynamic I would have no objections to that. For example Space battleship yamato 2199 had pretty passable cgi for its ships.
You might have a point if I was just reading random people on the Internets going "hurrdurr that show sux." But the opinions I'm talking about are from friends with whom I've been discussing anime for...oh man, it's been almost a decade now. I'm freakin' old. But anyway, I know their tastes well, and they know mine, and I trust them enough to put a good deal of stock in their opinions on what they've seen. Plus with this particular show, I've read enough to know the general premise and how it's pulled off, and it just doesn't seem like something I'd be on board with. Really pretty opening sequence, though.
fair enough, I can't argue against that.
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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei seems pretty interesting. For once the protagonist is not a wimp, weakling, idiot or a nuisance. We don't get enough decent protagonists.
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Hey did any of you happen to catch Kick Heart on Toonami when it was on? I played Devil Chicken (the wrestler) and also the Parrot. :D
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Awesome! I chipped in on the Kickstarter, and the results were definitely worth it. :D So you were in the professional dub that actually aired on Toonami? That's really sweet.
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Max, I'm still trying to identify you on the Star Trek reboot :/
Also Anynewsonrobotoechmod? :nervous:
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Hey...
I actually co-produced the English dub (the pro and the backer dub) for Kick-Heart, and yeah I'm in the pro dub that was on TV. :) Glad you were a backer, Mongoose. There's footage of me in the studio doing Devil Chicken I believe... I'm a silhouette against the screen with headphones.
I got to work with Richard Epcar from Ghost in the Shell -- he's also in my film.
Dekker -- I got cut out! I was in the part where they were in engineering (actual location: Budweiser brewery off the 405.) When I went and saw it I couldn't find me. Ah the vagaries of being an extra.
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Awww maaaaaan!! Next time, you'll get there.
(you know I was loa--jk47 on squadwa previously right?)
Currently watching spriggan again.
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Dekker you got me thinking about the old days... Squadwar!
I never was more than a mediocre pilot but I practiced hard! There were these crazy aces... do you remember them? We had one in the RN... Sleeper. It was like magic how he got so many kills... I was just trying to break even in those days. I still wonder how he did it.
Man I was really goofy back in the day. Bosch Beer, the Giant Chicken POF... then I created the Really Mean Guys squadron to make fun of some of the "evil" sounding squads. We had RMG-Puppykicker, RMG-Babykiller... we actually got on the SW map because of a no-show for a challenge... a nice puke green dot that stayed there for weeks.
But this is an anime thread... watch Kill Me Baby you won't be disappointed.
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I'm watching almost all the animes that gets released. (And btw, if you watched series DUBBED, shame on you)
Every new season I watch at least 1-3 episodes of all the newly released series. They are VERY few I'm prejudice against and just decide I wont watch.
I think judging a book by it's cover is wrong. I have a way where I think it's acceptable to judge a book by it's cover and decide not to see any of it.
And that is when you see the cover of the series, and you go absolutely NO. No hesitation. Just NO immediately. The cover picture gave you enough information to 100% know you will not like or you don't want to watch it.
But if any other series, you don't really know what to think, or you think you might like it or it might be boring, and time I would not be 100% sure, I would watch 1-3 episodes to give it a chance.
In my experience, I've found lots of new series to love.
So for example, the winter season I watched and/or still watching (trying to finish)
And a short short review on them.
Buddy Complex - Mecha, pilots merge to evolve their mecha units to more powerful units. Some romance. 7/10
Onee-chan ga Kita! - 4min shorts of Comedy. About a kid who gets a new weird sister. OK 5/10
Nourin - Farm High School. Girl Idol quits and enters the school. And starts living in the same dorm as one of her megafans. Romance Comedy. 7/10. Comedy is random and naughty and for me very enjoyable.
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga shi'tai! Ren Second season of an epic Romance Comedy. About a girl and her friend stuck in her playful fantasies in High School. While a guy is trying to hide his past. 8/10
D-Frag! - Delinquent guy gets forced into a fake game creator club. Pure Comedy. 7/10
Hamatora - Students gone through weird training to get super natural abilities. And are kinda doing detective work to pay the bills and then it gets complicated and intresting. Interesting concept. Not very well executed though so far. 7/10
ImoCho - Fanservice series. Brother gets a new sister (not blood ofc) She gets possesed by a spirit and the spirit wants to her to fall in love with her new brother because that's the last thing she wanted to do before she pasted away. (weird I kno) If they don't do this she dies. Romance Comedy Drama. 6.5/10
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha - Girl meets a temple goddess and gets her power to transform to any person. Romance Comedy. Stuff gets complicated and story evolves well. Well executed and nicely produced. 7/10
Magical Warfare - Normal High School students meets some weird magicians. When they got hit by magic, they themselves awoken their magical powers. They then leave the normal world to enter the Magical dimension of the world for different reasons. And enters a magical school. Also this magical world has been in war for a long time. 7/10. Intresting enough. Magic Action. Some comedy, some romance.
Nisekoi - Amazing Romance Comedy. Story is kinda complicated. New girl enters school. A guy gets in a fight with her for different reasons and they start to dislike each other. Only after they get to know they have to marry each other because of their Yakuza and Noble families backgrounds. While the guy is actual in love with a different girl and he has some necklace that is bound to another that this girl also have. Romance Comedy. 8/10. I think this is one is pretty well done.
Nobunaga the Fool - Weird of weirdness. You go from Samurais to Mecha to todays time. You get Leonardo da Vinci and Joanne d Arc in the series. This series is to complicated and weird for me to explain. But it only gets 5/10. I also dropped it. It's rushed. You dont really understand the purpose of anything. But to some this might be cool if you know a lot about history and wants some complicated weird ****.
Nobunagun - 8/10 EPICness of weirdness. First episode is BOUND to leave you with the biggest WTF face. Later on ofc everything gets understandable and develops well. This is supernatural action comedy series, with some bits of romance here and there. Girl dreams about samurais and then goes to school. She also have a huge interest in military vehicles, so much that she drools. One a school trip to taiwan, out of know where aliens appears and start attacking and killing people and people from her school. Some weird super human guys comes and battles the aliens. She awakens her own supernatural powers from a ball that one of the guys dropped. It's weird and EPIC.
Noragami - A girl saves a guy from being hit on the road. Only to realize that she actually died and with his help she survived but she can now enter the spirit world. And this guy happen to be a god. And those gods battle evil stray spirits of some sort. Very interesting story with comedy. Falls off sometimes because the story is more interesting then the comedy but they show more comedy. 7/10
Pupa - Horror shorts. Because of the extreme horror its really interesting. 7/10
Sekai Seifuku - A normal guy meets a small young girl who has great philosophic ideas on the rights and wrongs of the world. And she want to take over the world to fix it. She recruits this guy as well, and gets pulled into her madness.
Very intresting and well done. 8/10
SoniAni - Super Sonico finally gets her own anime. Follow the anime idol that has existed for a long time, in her own first anime. Fan service really. Big boobs... 6/10
Seitokai Yakuindomo - A guy joins a girls school that just turned coed. Girls everywhere and he is tortured by it. Mostly Comedy. It's greatly developed and keeps its interests so it gets 7/10
Tonari no Seki-kun - Amazingly funny shorts about a guy who keeps doing weird funny **** during class and his classmate next to him, a girl goes crazy about it. VERY FUNNY. 8/10
Wake Up, Girls! - Another Idol Group trying to get to fame series. Bunch of girls are in an agency, where they try to become an idol group of girls. Funny, interesting and doesn't fall off. 7/10
Wizard Barristers - A world where magical people has been intertwined with society and is more of a normal thing. A girl enters a agency of Wizard Lawyers and helps solve weird cases of magical happenings. Magic is frowned upon and and magic towards individuals are highly illegal. Sometimes any magic use is illegal. Very interesting. 8/10
Sakura Trick - Lesbian Fanservice series, aka Yuri. Romance series about some lesbians. First they were friends but slowly getting into the lesbian parts. I find it enjoyable. 6/10
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei - Romance Comedy. Very well done. A girl with a nice rack, nice child bearing hips, that likes cleaning and cooking, is forced to marry some weird dull guy from a noble family. She does not object and takes it rather positively. This weird dull guy has is funny dull moments and his little sister comes along which is a loli character that is very smart but still a kid. Lots of Comedy, wonderful innocent romance moments. 8/10
Witch Craft Works - 7/10. A normal guy gets dragged in some magic troubling fights in his school. Tho only the magicians can see the magic, and of course this guy to when he gets dragged in.
Animation very well done and story is OK. 6/10. It doesn't really get boring.
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(And btw, if you watched series DUBBED, shame on you)
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I think judging a book by it's cover is wrong.
The self-contradiction here is hilarious.
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(And btw, if you watched series DUBBED, shame on you)
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I think judging a book by it's cover is wrong.
The self-contradiction here is hilarious.
or the beautiful idiocy of the rest of the post...
i tend to start hating dubs if i've watched the original first, due to "THAT VOICE DOES NOT BELONG TO THAT CHARACTER AAAARGH!" factor :p
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Yesterday I finished Mushishi season 1 + ova. Amazing piece of work, I loved every single episode of it and that's not something that happens often.
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I'm watching almost all the animes that gets released. (And btw, if you watched series DUBBED, shame on you)
Well I guess I should quit voice acting since no one wants to listen to it in English anyway... ;)
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I'm watching almost all the animes that gets released. (And btw, if you watched series DUBBED, shame on you)
Well I guess I should quit voice acting since no one wants to listen to it in English anyway... ;)
Keep at it! The dubs will be as good eventually, just takes practice.
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Ergo Proxy was a brilliantly dubbed piece in english. the original dub was not too bad, but the english dub was something else.
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By and large, English dubs have been serviceable-to-great for more than a decade now. (Though there's been a bit of a slip in quality recently, at least if you're looking at Sentai's output.) There are always going to be a few stinkers, but those are usually easily picked out through reviews and such. It's really just a matter of personal preference at this point: for me, given the choice, I'd rather be able to focus my full attention on the screen instead of have to keep flicking my eyes down to subtitles. Other people don't mind that, and that's fine too.
And I've gotta say, I will never for the life of me understand how people can at least try to watch every single anime series released in a given season. It's the exact same concept as saying, "I'm going to watch every single major network series that premieres this fall!" It's not even a matter of judging books by their covers: there are more than enough summaries and season preview guides and such out there that it's incredibly easy to take a look at a show's premise and say, "Yeah, that's really not for me." Honestly I almost never watch shows as they air in Japan myself; I'd rather wait at least until they're finished, and maybe even a few years down the road, to see what winds up standing the test of time and really seems worth watching.
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Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka: THE cute and comfy diabeetus series of the season I think. Bunch of cute girls making cute coffee in a cute coffee shop. Surprisingly though, trigger discipline of varying degree is also included. I'm gonna use this series to lift my spirits every week.
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I just had a diabetic aneurysm.
Can has bloodmechs plox?
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Im watching now:
Gundam (thanks to Spoon, i started)
Legend of the Galactic Heros (A heavy serious one, nice so far... but long, 110 episodes, im at 13 myself)
Fairy Tail 2014 (waited so long for this!)
Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn! (also started...)
or the heck, here's the list i've being maintaining:
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[------------[Completed]----------]
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->Air Gear
->Fairy Tail
->Sword Art Online
->Chrome Shelled Regios
->[K] Project
->Hagure Yuusha No Estetica
->Shingeki No Kyojin
->Walkure Romance
->Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
->Kiss x Sis
->Log Horizon
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[------------[Watching]-----------]
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->Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova
->Mobile Suit Gundam
->Fairy Tail (2014)
->Legend of the Galactic Heroes
->Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn!
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[------------[On hold]------------]
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->Black Star Shooter
->Raven Master
->High School DxD
->Code Breaker
->Bleach
->One Piece
->Naruto
->Soul Eater
->Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai
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I started on:
Space Dandy
Black Lagoon
Darker than Black
Space Dandy is weird as ****! I will probably keep watching it.
@TheHound Congrats on falling into the giant hole known as Gundam. How are you approaching it? My personal recommendation is:
Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy
08th MS Team OVA
0080 War in the Pocket OVA
0083 Top Gundam OVA
Zeta Gundam
ZZ Gundam
Char's Counterattack
Unicorn
F91
But that's just because I am a Universal Century nerd, and that's chronological Universal Century order.
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I started with Gundam 00, and im after 3 episodes with it
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Gundam 00 is far from the worst of Gundam, and it's pretty much the only thing ever that has a Kurdish protagonist.
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Gundam 00 is far from the worst of Gundam, and it's pretty much the only thing ever that has a Kurdish protagonist.
SOON TO CHANGE
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I just had a diabetic aneurysm.
Can has bloodmechs plox?
Lemme guess, you watched the first episode of Gochuumon?
Space Dandy
Give yourself to Dandy. Embrace Dandy. Become (almost) Dandy (because it's impossible to become THE Dandy)!
Gundam 00 is far from the worst of Gundam,
I beg to differ, AGE is worst. The only Gundam series I've dropped. But opinions are like... you know...
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Gundam 00 is far from the worst of Gundam,
I beg to differ, AGE is worst. The only Gundam series I've dropped. But opinions are like... you know...
After rewatching SEED (i was bored), then watching all of AGE, AGE is actually not awful. SEED is by far the worst. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I liked AGE better than I liked Victory Gundam.
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Gundam 00 is far from the worst of Gundam, and it's pretty much the only thing ever that has a Kurdish protagonist.
00 is (unfortunately) the only Gundam I've seen as of now, but I'll agree that it was pretty fun, albeit chock-full of those classic goofy Gundam names. (Hallelujah Haptism? Lockon Stratos?) I've heard people say that it's basically an updated version of Gundam Wing, though I don't know how well that comparison holds up. Pretty much every hardcore Gundam fan I've run into holds up SEED Destiny as the absolute pit of the entire franchise. I need to delve into some UC goodness at some point.
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I've just defeated (or have been defeated by) Kill la Kill.
Also, Ragyo....One of the most ****ed up characters I've seen in a loooooooooong time. Still, ***** has one hell of a theme song.
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People keep saying that about Ragyo. I even heard someone saying she takes the award for "Most Sexually Depraved" anime character.
I had to laugh at that.
I've seen a little miniseries called "Mnemosyne", and believe me, Ragyo's got absolutely nothing on Apos.
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And here I was, mildly put off by Sugu's sisterly/cousinly urges in Sword Art Online.
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Oh God, SAO. Don't get me started.
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After rewatching SEED (i was bored), then watching all of AGE, AGE is actually not awful. SEED is by far the worst. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I liked AGE better than I liked Victory Gundam.
That here is where our opinions differ. I liked SEED, and didn't even consider 00 to be a complete disaster.
Oh God, SAO. Don't get me started.
Hey another season is coming so get ready again.
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Oh God, SAO. Don't get me started.
Hey another season is coming so get ready again.
Huh. I thought it was pretty well wrapped up.
... Prequel, maybe?
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Gundam 00 is far from the worst of Gundam, and it's pretty much the only thing ever that has a Kurdish protagonist.
00 is (unfortunately) the only Gundam I've seen as of now, but I'll agree that it was pretty fun, albeit chock-full of those classic goofy Gundam names. (Hallelujah Haptism? Lockon Stratos?) I've heard people say that it's basically an updated version of Gundam Wing, though I don't know how well that comparison holds up. Pretty much every hardcore Gundam fan I've run into holds up SEED Destiny as the absolute pit of the entire franchise. I need to delve into some UC goodness at some point.
I've seen both, though I haven't seen Wing in it's entirety. They certainly share similarities. They're also the only ones I've seen. I saw Wing just because I was curious and wanted to see what Gundam was like and it was the first one I found on Youtube that was fully uploaded. The copyright hammer fell however while I was working my way through, but I had been enjoying it.
00 I checked out because I liked its music, as Spoon had used some of it for Wings of Dawn.
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Oh God, SAO. Don't get me started.
Hey another season is coming so get ready again.
Huh. I thought it was pretty well wrapped up.
... Prequel, maybe?
Sequel.
Although not one focused on Asuna, but on a new character and a new MMO.
I'm actually looking forward to it, both for the fanbase rage at what Kirito pulls off this time around and because I found the story in the novels to be interesting, surprisingly.
It's a big step up over the second arc, anyway.
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I'm watching almost all the animes that gets released. (And btw, if you watched series DUBBED, shame on you)
Well I guess I should quit voice acting since no one wants to listen to it in English anyway... ;)
Keep at it! The dubs will be as good eventually, just takes practice.
They are as good! Have you seen Sgt. Frog dubbed? Twice as funny as the sub. Hellsing has all actual European accents for the characters. Ghost in the Shell is great.
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Oh God, SAO. Don't get me started.
Hey another season is coming so get ready again.
I know. And with my boundless luck it'll probably wind up on Toonami too. Lord give me strength.
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Courtesy of Spoon, I'm currently on a Gundam spree. Current agenda: 08th MS team, then 0080, then Zeta, then ZZ.
Regarding SEED, it starts out kinda start but really gets going after the twenty episodes or so. And SEED Destiny... the opening was kinda neat. Besides that, beware of indecisive plot, recycled animations and unlikable protagonists.
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Courtesy of Spoon, I'm currently on a Gundam spree. Current agenda: 08th MS team, then 0080, then Zeta, then ZZ.
It's spreading! 08th MS Team is so good. You should add on Turn A Gundam to the end of that though, if you haven't seen it yet. It's definitely one of the strongest gundam series.
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Need some
0083 Top Gun..dam
I mean heck its got the best grunt suits period.
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If it also started that whole "ridiculously oversized shield/wing/pauldron" fad than it has a lot of making up to do. :P
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Fear is Freedom!
Subjugation is Liberation!
Contradiction is Truth!
Seriously the most bizarrely entertaining piece of art I've seen in a while. Mad stylish throughout.
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Fear is Freedom!
Subjugation is Liberation!
Contradiction is Truth!
Seriously the most bizarrely entertaining piece of art I've seen in a while. Mad stylish throughout.
Ja, ich bin viel stärker,
als ich je gedacht hab
Fliege höher!
Laufe viel schneller!!
Love that show, and that song.
Except Nui. She's a troll.
Need some
0083 Top Gun..dam
I mean heck its got the best grunt suits period.
Most of its grunt suits are OYW models. Except for maybe the GM Cannon II, Xamel, and Dom Tropen.
I'd say Char's Counterattack has the better grunt suits.
Jegans, Geara Dogas, Re-GZ's... awesome. :cool:
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Finally got around to watching Girls und Panzer, and I'm already enjoying it immensely three episodes in. It also reminded me that I was going to install and try World of Tanks, too. :P
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Finally got around to watching Girls und Panzer, and I'm already enjoying it immensely three episodes in. It also reminded me that I was going to install and try World of Tanks, too. :P
Well try to enjoy the first 4 or 5 tiers of it as much as you can and then realize how frustrating it can get.
Turning off the chat and installing the Official GuP voice mod (Miho and Yukari are out) plus the fan made GuP music mods does help though... at least it helped me to continue -driving those tanks is fun anyway.
*cough* Anyways, I'm glad that you are enoying GuP. It only get's better too. :)
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Well try to enjoy the first 4 or 5 tiers of it as much as you can and then realize how frustrating it can get.
Well that depends whether I can get that far in the first place. :P
Turning off the chat and installing the Official GuP voice mod (Miho and Yukari are out) plus the fan made GuP music mods does help though... at least it helped me to continue -driving those tanks is fun anyway.
I'll bear this in mind, but I'll probably want to get a few hours under my belt before I start messing with mods.
...back on topic, though, my order for Puella Magi Madoka Magica has been dispatched. And yes I know a little bit about what happens in that series - that's part of the reason I wanted to watch it in the first place.
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Gundam Unicorn is now over.
It took them a year and one episode longer than they thought it would, but it's over.
Apparently there were some changes to the ending from the original novel, but from what I've read those changes are mostly for the better (Neo Zeong wasn't in the novel).
What I don't like is that it doesn't really give any information on what happened to Banana and the rest after the fact. I get that the ending message is supposed to be "It's an unknown future, but we have hope!"... except that kind of doesn't work considering that Gundam F91, Crossbone Gundam, and Victory Gundam all take place in UC's future so we DO know the future.
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I interrupt this program to tell you of a non-Anime show I've been enjoying immensely these past few weeks. It's called "Penny Dreadful", and seems to be the best version of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen yet put to Film.
It stars Eva Green as a witch (in the victorian "I am possessed by the devil" mold), Timothy Dalton as the classic british big game hunter/africa explorer, Josh Hartnett as an american expat making money off of his shooting skills, and several others besides (they even cast David Warner as Van Helsing! Squee!); All trying to find out what happened to Mina Harker.
Oh, and Frankenstein and Dorian Gray are in this, too. Frankenstein's Monster also appears, and is utterly amazing.
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What I don't like is that it doesn't really give any information on what happened to Banana and the rest after the fact. I get that the ending message is supposed to be "It's an unknown future, but we have hope!"... except that kind of doesn't work considering that Gundam F91, Crossbone Gundam, and Victory Gundam all take place in UC's future so we DO know the future.
Just goes to show, even magical teenagers and giant psychoactive robots can't change the world. Gotta love Gundam for keeping its feet on the ground.
Anyone checked out this Knights of Sidonia anime? I am going to give it a few episodes, since it looks relevant to my interests.
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No tentacles. No watching.
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If Dekker wants tentacles then Dekker picks up Dragonair Academy -if haven't done so already.
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knights of sidonia is ok, if you can diggest that awfull CG. The story setting is interesting in it's own right and pretty much why I continue to watch it so far, everything else is regular/acceptable.
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I actually don't like mechs. I've watched a few mecha series, and even liked a few of them, especially the "harder" ones like Gasaraki and Gundam(though I still can't take humanoid weapons seriously, even the grappler arms in Outlaw Star just rubbed me the wrong way).
Blasphemy, I know.
Also, has anyone noticed how many anime are named "[MC's name] no [MC's occupation]" this season? Maybe it's a universal thing and I just didn't notice before.
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knights of sidonia is ok, if you can diggest that awfull CG. The story setting is interesting in it's own right and pretty much why I continue to watch it so far, everything else is regular/acceptable.
I've not even seen rekensudojii the whole way through.
Spriggan guyver and Venus wars is my bag.
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I actually don't like mechs. I've watched a few mecha series, and even liked a few of them, especially the "harder" ones like Gasaraki and Gundam(though I still can't take humanoid weapons seriously, even the grappler arms in Outlaw Star just rubbed me the wrong way).
Blasphemy, I know.
This must be what it feels like to be the Taliban and hear someone say they're an atheist.
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I actually don't like mechs. I've watched a few mecha series, and even liked a few of them, especially the "harder" ones like Gasaraki and Gundam(though I still can't take humanoid weapons seriously, even the grappler arms in Outlaw Star just rubbed me the wrong way).
Blasphemy, I know.
maybe you should take it in the other direction, have you watched Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
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AHHHH TTGL! awesome, awesome. I fully recommend it as well.
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maybe you should take it in the other direction, have you watched Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
Who hasn't? It was fun, but I didn't really like the characters, especially Kamina. He's supposed to be so over the top he comes back around to being cool, but that just didn't click with me. I guess I just don't like vehicular combat where willpower and lung capacity(for screaming) matter more than actual piloting skill.
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I've never seen it.
I focused my spare time on EOD skills and not falling into any naked ladies to keep my permanent full time lady happy.
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Well it might not be a good idea for you to watch it now, Dekker, seeing as one of the main characters is a very pretty lady who wears hardly anything - and they don't stop showing her off. :P
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You mean I shouldn't get caught watching it...... ;7
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Well it might not be a good idea for you to watch it now, Dekker, seeing as one of the main characters is a very pretty lady who wears hardly anything - and they don't stop showing her off. :P
and she's 14 or thereabouts supposedly :p
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:nonono:
Bad animated mediums.
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and she's 14 or thereabouts supposedly :p
Well, to be fair, supplementary materials state that the people living underground probably don't know how long an Earth year is, and Littner wasn't always above ground, so Yoko's (and by extension, everyone who isn't Nia) proper age isn't set in stone. :P
Also, what have I been watching? Well, I finished watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica last week. Unfortunately I knew a bit of the plot before hand and I wish I didn't, but still, I think it was very well done (and of course full of sad moments!) and I'm glad I watched it. Next up... well, when I went to get Girls und Panzer on DVD after watching it (another awesome series, by the way), they had a DVD with the full set of OVAs on it. So that's up next for me.
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Anime...
(Almost) one-shot MLA Total Eclipse with available time.
Entertained me enough; the lull in middle of the series was a bit... too long for me though. And maybe the animation budget was spent too much in some ways and too little in others? Some of the 2D frames gave off a certain "overworked animators rushing to meet the deadline" feeling to me, though I didn't care for it too much at the time while rushing through it...
The only problem for me, the MLA universe as a whole is just so crapsack. but then this is fiction, there's countless other stories and works of art out there that's definitely waaaaaaay more crapsack anyway... Like maybe EVE or even WH40K (just to name a few quick examples ad-hoc since sleep is calling) or whatever something else that likely I'll never have heard of...
Oh wait. I just remembered. FreeSpace is just as crapsack, the cog-in-the-machine portrayal just makes it less obvious. Damn! :banghead:
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Just finished that arc of Black Lagoon. Y'know, the one with the twins.
I'm just...gonna go take 50 showers now.
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Just finished that arc of Black Lagoon. Y'know, the one with the twins.
I'm just...gonna go take 50 showers now.
I think all I remember of that is the scene (don't remember it correctly) where the bar gets shot up by a BAR...
Oh hey, coincidental word play.
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anyone know of any good legal anime streaming services with English language options?
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Define "legal". There's a huge grey zone when it comes to unlicensed shows, where it's not really illegal but it's still piracy. I guess Crunchyroll and Funimation are good sites for free legal streaming if you happen to live in North America. Otherwise you're boned.
Also, if by "in English" you meant dubbed then you're **** out of luck. Since dubbing isn't exactly free you're probably going to have to buy the DVD/Bluray to watch anime dubbed.
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Some licensors post shows, or at least a sampling of episodes, in English on their official YouTube channels, as well as Hulu. FUNimation has a premium subscription service that I think gives access to most of their dubbed catalog. As far as I'm aware, Crunchyroll hosts exclusively-subtitled content.
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hmmmm certainly worth looking into
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I personally use KissAnime, which sometimes has dubs (but predominantly subs). I've been watching GitS in dub there.
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Well he did specify "legal." :p
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Well he did specify "legal." :p
its them breaking it for hosting, not yours for watching technically :p
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Regardless, said sites remain illegal. I won't cast any judgements on people using them, because I can hardly deny having visited them myself, but let's keep the details of such off HLP, shall we?
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I guess Crunchyroll and Funimation are good sites for free legal streaming if you happen to live in North America. Otherwise you're boned.
You can watch at least some stuff on Crunchyroll if you're not in North America, I believe. I'm in Australia and I was able to watch Girls und Panzer fine.
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Unless a show is popular enough to get simulcast, there's really no truly legal way to watch currently airing shows. Fansubs are your only option and those are in a legal grey zone. Though most people worry about morality rather than legality, as you're most likely not going to get arrested for consuming pirated content.
its them breaking it for hosting, not yours for watching technically :p
Most illegal streaming sites make you agree to acknowledge that what you're doing is illegal in their ToS (you know, that huge wall of text that you never read yet still agreed to follow). If they just put the content out there without telling people it's pirated then you'd be right.
Some licensors post shows, or at least a sampling of episodes, in English on their official YouTube channels, as well as Hulu.
It's worth noting that said Youtube channels are region locked most of the time too, but it's always worth trying as some series are unlocked. As Moongose said though, it's only a demo consisting of 3-5 episodes, not a way to watch the whole show.
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Crunchyroll has surpisingly lot of content even for non-US visitors. Some licensing agreements are not renewed and this leads to removal of the series from Crunchyroll. But still, it's one of the very few legal ways to watch subbed/dubbed anime outside US.
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Crunchyroll has surpisingly lot of content even for non-US visitors. Some licensing agreements are not renewed and this leads to removal of the series from Crunchyroll. But still, it's one of the very few legal ways to watch subbed/dubbed anime outside US.
Interesting. I think this is the first time I've heard of it. Definitely bookmarking this to check out sometime. :)
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Unless a show is popular enough to get simulcast, there's really no truly legal way to watch currently airing shows. Fansubs are your only option and those are in a legal grey zone. Though most people worry about morality rather than legality, as you're most likely not going to get arrested for consuming pirated content.
Actually, with the growth of Crunchyroll and distributors' own streaming options, the vast majority of series airing in a given season wind up being legally streamed these days. Granted, that's with the caveat of possible region-locking, so your mileage may vary depending on where you live (or at least what your IP address says, wink wink nudge nudge).
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Well, using proxies to fake your IP is illegal and against Crunchyroll's ToS. So you can watch it on Crunchyroll in 480p by using a proxy, or just watch it anywhere else in full HD. It's illegal anyway, so you might as well get the best quality.
And compare http://www.crunchyroll.com/lineup to http://anichart.net/summer
Crunchyroll simulcasts 22 series out of the 141 airing this season.
Don't get me wrong, 22 series per season is a lot compared to a few years ago and you'll most likely end up watching <20 series per season anyway, especially if you have a backlog.
That said I wouldn't really agree that 22/141 is a vast majority.
EDIT: Yeah, counting is difficult. It's actually only 45 shows.
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Even with Crunchyroll, Comcast makes my viewing experience miserable. A part of my Crunchyroll routine is resetting the router or temporarily switching IPs between my old (and broken router) and current router so I can get something that actually moves on screen instead of waiting for a little set of circles in a circle waiting for **** to load.
What I've been watching: Gundam, lots of it from the UC timeline, and Gundam Unicorn. Also following JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Hunter x Hunter, and finished Mushishi.
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Crunchyroll simulcasts 22 series out of the 141 airing this season.
Don't get me wrong, 22 series per season is a lot compared to a few years ago and you'll most likely end up watching <20 series per season anyway, especially if you have a backlog.
That said I wouldn't really agree that 22/141 is a vast majority.
...where are you getting 141 there? I'm seeing 36 newly-premiering shows, along with 9 continuing from the previous season. So if the number is 22 out of 36 just on Crunchyroll, and not counting other streamers like FUNi, I'd say that's pretty good. Honestly it's a moot point for me personally, because I can count on one hand the total number of shows I've ever watched while currently airing in Japan.
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...where are you getting 141 there?
I think I counted the shows, then confused that number for lines, multiplied it by 4 and then deducted 3 as the last line has only 1 show in it.
Anyyyway, 22 on Crunchyroll includes leftovers and super long running shounen which aren't even mentioned on anichart.
Still, 22/45 isn't a vast majority, but at least it is a majority.
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Still, 22/45 isn't a vast majority, but at least it is a majority.
Er... no. 22/45 is just shy of a majority. 23/45 would be a majority.
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And again, I over-edit my post and end up with stupid crap. Yeah, I replaced 36 with 45 after writing most of the comment. My bad.
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Trainz! (https://mangatron.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/yande-re-290642-rail_wars.jpg)
Oh yea Space Dandy S2 starts on this Sunday. I've been waiting for it. The first 13 eps were superb.
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Trainz! (https://mangatron.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/yande-re-290642-rail_wars.jpg)
Yeah I heard about that one; hopefully it becomes available in Australia in some fashion soon!
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Let's keep the fingers crossed. So far it seems like a good fun series. Nothing extraordinary of course, just simple fun.
And Trains.
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Space Dandy was a hell of a ride, pretty funny stuff.
Trains is not gonna be any good, unless you are somekind of trains freak or something. And even then it's still gonna be hard for you to find it amusing.
I'd recommend to take a look at Barakamon, there are other things that look promising like Akagame kill and maybe Gekkan shoujo.
SAO II is there as well, watched it but kirito keeps being as ****ing annoying as it was before, I'll keep watching just because ppl keep telling me it's the "best arc ever" and "they cannot possibly screw this one up" though I personally doubt the second one.
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As in SAO season two, or another series I'm not aware of? If it's the former, cut your losses. It's not worth it.
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It is a second season, so yeah. Even the "good part" of the first series was pretty dire, and that second arc...my God.
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Yeah it's that SAO, not sure which arc is this. not talking about the one with the fairies though. It's something new about a gun mmo.
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Space Dandy was a hell of a ride, pretty funny stuff.
That was indeed quite a start for a season. Damn I laughed.
Barakamon,
Oh yea I did check that one out. Perfect comfy series to watch on a sunday evening.
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I'm actually a little surprised at the starting line up this cycle. I was expecting to outright despise most (*cough* Aldnoah.Zero / Akama Ga Kill! *cough*) of the new series based on their descriptions, but they invariably opened in ways that were pretty awesome in terms of tone and spectacle.
As for SAO II, the first episode was pretty slow and clunky. Though if the ending sequence is anything to go by, the action sequences should be fairly impressive when they get around to them. I just hope they lean away from the nonsense that was the second part of the first series. <crosses fingers>
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Knights of sidonia.
It's feels attack on titan crossed with bits of evangelion and gundam.
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And add a harem to it cause why not?
Also, I've been enjoying the heck out of Haikyuu, I recommend it to ppl that like those sports/competition-like animes.
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Kirito got about 30 seconds of screentime in the 2nd episode of SAO2, not sure if this is indicative of things to come but maybe the writers finally realised that his character is stupid and doesn't work.
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Kirito got about 30 seconds of screentime in the 2nd episode of SAO2, not sure if this is indicative of things to come but maybe the writers finally realised that his character is stupid and doesn't work.
He just needs time off-screen to grind.
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wat? isn't him one of the main characters on this iteration of SAO as well?
I think you might not want to hold that hope a little to close to your heart.
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Nah, it's fine, he's a loli in GGO so he won't be as bad. You can take the most badly written cliche character, turn them into a loli and suddenly everything's fine.
It's a great tip for writers of anime or animesque media, If you can't write worth crap just spam lolis.
And I don't think Kirito needs to grind since his stats from SAO and ALO carry over, he has a well rounded build with very high STR and AGI(I think high AGI was one of the reqs for his dual-weilding).
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Nah, it's fine, he's a loli in GGO so he won't be as bad. You can take the most badly written cliche character, turn them into a loli and suddenly everything's fine.
It's a great tip for writers of anime or animesque media, If you can't write worth crap just spam lolis.
And I don't think Kirito needs to grind since his stats from SAO and ALO carry over, he has a well rounded build with very high STR and AGI(I think high AGI was one of the reqs for his dual-weilding).
If course they carry over. God forbid he actually have to work at being ridiculously overpowered. The best part of the entire series was when the game actually mattered, rather than being a convenient way to recycle the character with a new look.
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I think they'll have 1 episode where he's about mediocre to show him getting used to GGO and "struggling" against the pros who basically do it full-time and after that it's back to OPland to show little girls his OPness.
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That series really is the Twilight of anime. It's extremely popular while simultaneously extremely terrible, for most of the same reasons as Twilight is.
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Meh, just avoid it and keep watching the good stuff. EG Psycho pass is getting a remake, the first episode was good despite all the extra and unnecessary additional "feel moments".
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Twilight doesn't even have good action scenes and it's not terrible in a funny way. It's just terrible. Sao seems to keep coming up with original ways to suck more and more and it's just like watching a bus crash, you simply can't look away.
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So, there's a new Appleseed movie, called Appleseed Alpha. Despite the blatantly (and inexplicably) sexualized redesign of Deunan, this is a pretty good story in the Appleseed universe; This time, it shows Deunan and Briareos working as mercenaries before they get to Olympus. It got good action and passable writing, and the CG (apart from a few animation issues) is absolutely stunning.
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Deunan is the woman right? She was sexy beforehand. How can they up that???
Edit- ok I see it now.
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Sao seems to keep coming up with original ways to suck more and more and it's just like watching a bus crash, you simply can't look away.
Having read the novels, I'm just enjoying the fan rage coming out of this. Hilariously great popcorn munching material.
*munch munch*
Anyway, I'm looking into some older mecha series. Debating on Vision of Escaflowne or possibly Bokurano. Alternatively, I just obtained a copy of the Deus Machina Demonbane VN, so I could do that as well.
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I don't think I've ever seen such a massive soundtrack/video dissonance.
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Got several recommendations from a friend to watch some anime. A couple of them I've seen opinions in this thread, but most of them are unknown to me. I throw them to the masses for their opinions on:
Tokyo Ghoul
Akuma no Riddle
Blue Exorcist
Working
Noragawa
Durarara!!
I eagerly await responses.
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Blue Exorcist is, well, pretty by-the-book shounen. It's entertaining enough if that's really your thing, but I was a bit disappointed after the first two episodes, which had suggested a darker tone. Durarara!! is a quirky and unique sort of show, with a few really awesome characters. I can't say I enjoyed it as much as Baccano!, which was based on novels by the same original author, but it was certainly entertaining.
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Seven episodes in to Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Madoka irritates me.
This naturally is rather unfortunate, considering she is one of the main characters.
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I thought Madoka's character was okay. Everyone else in the show are kind of downers, so her niceness was a bit of fresh air in the story.
The biggest complaint I had with the show was that the ending was a little too deus ex machina for my tastes. The ending was sort of built into the premis of the story, so it wasn't as bad as some stories.
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Got several recommendations from a friend to watch some anime. A couple of them I've seen opinions in this thread, but most of them are unknown to me. I throw them to the masses for their opinions on:
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Working
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I do think that WORKING!!/WAGNARIA!! is a very nice slice of life, but your opinion of it might depend on how much you like/dislike Inami.
Seven episodes in to Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Madoka irritates me.
This naturally is rather unfortunate, considering she is one of the main characters.
If it's because she hasn't done anything despite the series being named after her, then I can understand that. However you'll understand why she's like that later on. Obviously I can't say more without spoiling the rest of the series, though!
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Got several recommendations from a friend to watch some anime. A couple of them I've seen opinions in this thread, but most of them are unknown to me. I throw them to the masses for their opinions on:
Tokyo Ghoul
Akuma no Riddle
Blue Exorcist
Working
Noragawa
Durarara!!
I eagerly await responses.
Tokyo Ghoul was alright, but dark fantasy horroresque anime are a bit rare, so you should watch it if you like that genre. The voice acting is a bit off, to be expected with the low-ish production values.
Akuma no Riddle is an action yuri show. If you like yuri you'll probably like it. If you think yuri is killing anime then you should steer clear of it.
Blue Exorcist is a pretty standard shounen, though the plus side is that it has a good enough ending after 26 episodes. It leaves things open but it's by no means a cliffhanger. If you just want to watch some mindless shounen action but don't want to commit to a 200+ episode show this is one of your options(although Busou Renkin does the same thing, but better in every way).
Working!! is a slice of life show using a pretty moe artstyle. It's pretty decent as a comedy show though it has no real plot. If you want a more serious take on the slice of life genre, try BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad.
I'm going to assume you mean "Noragami" here as there's no anime I know of named "Noragawa". Noragami is probably the best show in the Winter 2014 season and saying too much might spoil it. You should give it a watch if you want something a bit more deep yet still enjoyable.
Durararara!!! follows the same format as Baccanno!!! but it's set in modern day Tokyo. Most consider it inferior to it's predecessor, though it's still pretty good.
The problem with Madoka Magica is that it's a really good deconstruction of the magical girl genre. If you understand the genre then you can appreciate all the tropes they've subverted. If you never really watched magical girl shows(watching Sailor Moon as a kid doesn't count) then you probably won't enjoy it as much.
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Yes, I meant Noragami. Hard to read scribbles sometimes. :p
I've already seen Baccanno!!! so Durarara!! is definitely on the list.
The others are various levels of "if I find the spare time". Despite loving Dragonball and Naruto in my youth, traditional shounen mostly just annoys me anymore.
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Good Luck Girl! was... interesting. Similar to Excel saga in sheer levels of insanity and i've had a good number of "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" moments. Or more like FLCL even. But a lot more coherent.
Also, the dub was glorious. The voice actors are really really glorious.
The bad? Well, the story was kinda... irritating. Or left on a sorta downer/sorta feeling unfinished. Probably just the anime's fault. Gonna give the manga read if i can find it anywhere.
Still, only 13 episodes and hilarious 85% of the time.
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3rd Episode of SAO2 is out, and Kirito gets like 1-2 mins of screentime again. No action scenes too, not sure if they're actually trying to have a plot or their animation budget ran out. I mean, SAO sold like hotcakes, they should have enough money for animation. Well, Kirito is in GGO now and I guess they'll stop pretending to have an actual story and just blast out action scenes and fanservice from episode 4 onward.
For a few episodes I thought they were actually going to have a good MC who's an actual character and maybe explore the dissonance between people and their online personae, but NOOOPE, she just wants to be "saved".
Looks like good old Blandy McPowerFantasy is going to have to expand his harem again.
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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei is probably the best anime currently airing. You know I am right.
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Anyway, I'm looking into some older mecha series. Debating on Vision of Escaflowne or possibly Bokurano. Alternatively, I just obtained a copy of the Deus Machina Demonbane VN, so I could do that as well.
When Evangelion everything ever feels too happy or optimistic, you can always watch Bokurano.
The only thing I ever watched even remotely close was Narutaru, which unsurprisingly was written by the same author.
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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei is probably the best anime currently airing. You know I am right.
Please tell me you're being sarcastic, it's kinda hard to tell over the net.
I mean come on, it's a bland MC cruising through every challenge without much thought. It's wish fulfilment for lazy otakus with little to none artistic merit. I guess it's enjoyable in a guilty pleasure kind of way but that's all it is.
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Just watched the first seven episodes of Akame ga Kill, and was quite surprised by how swiftly it swings from generic shonen adventure to a case of....
(http://i.imgur.com/UzjjDAf.jpg)
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Black Lagoon, via Toonami. To my complete surprise, not only did it show the entire minute and a half opening (thank God), it also took the laziest censoring I've ever seen. In one instance, they literally only bleeped the first syllable of "****ing", and haven't cut the violence at all.
Good job, Toonami.
EDIT: and then I hit the end of the episode, which featured eight bleeps in one sentence, and 14 more in the minute that followed.
Good job, Black Lagoon.
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Starting on SWO. I know I'm behind the curve, but I've been hearing good things about the first series and I'm going to give it a whirl.
Edit- Thanks to this series, I don't think I'll ever be able to listen to a certain Christmas carol without having a chronic attack of The Feels. :(
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Just watched Knights of Sidonia. The whole season, in one night.
Everything I liked in Macross and Evangelion in a single animé. some vibes of Space : Above and Beyond too, and Attack on Titan (even if it came after).
Some anime tropes are nicely subverted like the harem turning into a graveyard pretty fast (maybe turning it into the infamous "Women in Refrigerators" trope).
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Watched half of first season of the irresponsible captain Taylor. A classic I was told. Yeah it's fun.
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Recently finished Nichijou
Greatest time I've ever spent watching an anime
So awesome
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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei is probably the best anime currently airing. You know I am right.
Please tell me you're being sarcastic, it's kinda hard to tell over the net.
I mean come on, it's a bland MC cruising through every challenge without much thought. It's wish fulfilment for lazy otakus with little to none artistic merit. I guess it's enjoyable in a guilty pleasure kind of way but that's all it is.
Well, yes and no.
No in a way that I'm dead bored of anime and manga where protagonist starts off being some random weakling who gets strong by some plot device or "hard work". Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei like a lot of other anime titles is suffering from the usual animezation of manga or novels, a lot of details are left out. I wish anime studios would stop butchering their titles by cutting character and story development scenes. But then again, that goes for almost all titles adapter from manga or novel.
The protagonist in Mahouka is someone who had innate aptitude for certain skills highly useful in using and countering magic and (genetically?) modified by their family corporation. The protagonist is also employed by the military and has received significant military training. When you take into account that magicians in Mahouka universe were/are used as human weapons, it is no wonder the protagonist has been able to steamroll pretty much any opposition so far. In addition, the anime so far has not even shown anything but school games, which to someone like the protagonist is truly child's play. Only in last two episodes things have become little more serious and away from school games, but the protagonist has yet to get serious. Character and story development is diminished by those scenes that were not animated and would have explained and shown a lot of stuff.
Yes in a way that there are slightly better titles airing (or was since the season is pretty much over).
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Hetalia is awesome.
Also, just saw the anime adaptation of Kanon. After playing through the book-game, I can say that it's a worthy anime, but no anime can do justice to such a neurotic masterpiece of a story.
Attack on Titan seems to be the flavour of the month around here.
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I'm playing Naruto Shippuuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution, which is kind of like watching an anime during the main story parts.
Also some of the combination ultimate jutsu give me the fanfic giggles.
EDIT: And of course on the show, **** is hitting the fan at unprecedented velocity.
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I'm really no fan of the show, but those games are absolutely gorgeous.
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I watched an LP of the Revolutions Mecha Naruto story from youtube, and I was pleasantly surprised. They had given it some thought actually and it had nice references to the beginnings of Naruto. :yes:
The Mecha Naruto special episode that aired two weeks ago on the otherhand was one big (but god damn hilarious) joke :lol:
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I watched an LP of the Revolutions Mecha Naruto story from youtube, and I was pleasantly surprised. They had given it some thought actually and it had nice references to the beginnings of Naruto. :yes:
The Mecha Naruto special episode that aired two weeks ago on the otherhand was one big (but god damn hilarious) joke :lol:
Make sure you check out the awakening in-game where MechaNaruto becomes MechaKyuubi. I'm pretty sure that counts as another Gurren Lagann reference.
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Started up Psycho-Pass, since I discovered it's on Netflix. Pretty good, so far.
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http://www.crunchyroll.com/tonari-no-seki-kun-the-master-of-killing-time/episode-2-king-648665
I don't know how this managed to be so awesome, but it is
A kid slacks off in class. That's the premise of this anime
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Patlabor 2. The movie.
Kawai
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Psycho pass is pretty decent, but it's filled with the worst kind of modern pseudo-philosophy. It's kinda distracting when the show is using philosophy for characterisation instead of actually deconstructing the points made. At least it was pretty entertaining to watch, as long as you don't think too hard(but you still have to think a bit, this isn't a cheap thrills action series).
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Psycho pass is pretty decent, but it's filled with the worst kind of modern pseudo-philosophy. It's kinda distracting when the show is using philosophy for characterisation instead of actually deconstruction the points made. At least it was pretty entertaining to watch, as long as you don't think too hard(but you still have to think a bit, this isn't a cheap thrills action series).
After watching the first eight or so episodes, I'm not convinced that "the worst kind of modern psuedo-philosophy" isn't entirely the point. It's a utopia for those able to keep themselves dissociated from anything "wrong", and a paranoid, merciless dystopia for anyone with non-normative thoughts or urges - modified somewhat by their adjustment, but still present. This is evident from the first episode, and the utter reliance on Sybil in all matters of justice just reeks of a society that is very much not intended to be a positive role model.
That the protagonists all, by their very existence, toe the line between normative and non-normative (or are just skilled enough at their jobs to be worth keeping) is another jab. These are the people we are supposed to care about, to form attachments to, and they are designated criminals enslaved by this society into doing its dirty work.
Psycho-Pass deconstructs those concepts pretty brutally.
EDIT: I also thought it was pretty interesting that we have four anti-heroes to root for. It may just be coincidence, but after that discussion over the so-called "Dark Tetrad" as it relates to internet posting habits, I can't help but wonder if the characters are supposed to represent those personality traits.
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Space Dandy remains the greatest thing ever. Love the booty.
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I steamrolled my way through Code Geass S1 & S2.
Need some rest.
Will probably pick up Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood as my next steamroll victim. (wondering if I'll be ending up as the victim though)
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FMA:B is a great choise.
Oh man I can't wait for the fall season. Gundam Build Fighters Try, Log Horizon 2, more Chaika... and so on.
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Gundam Reconquista in G starts tomorrow! I am wondering what to call it so it doesnt sound dumb.
Gundam R
G-Reko
Gunreka 7
Legend of the Gunlactic Heroes
And of course I am in for Build Fighters. I just did decals and panel lines on my MG Nu Gundam, and I have a MG ReZEL to build next!
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Patlabor 2. The movie.
Kawai
All hail Alphonse the 2nd!
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http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/13/6969371/entire-gundam-franchise-coming-to-america-first-time
Big gundam news, hasn't had a US distributor for a while.
G no Reconguista is pretty good so far, they certainly are moving it along at a good pace.
Build Fighters Try is full of the usual Build Fighters BS, but it looks like it'll be fun.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes keeps playing with my heart.
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LoGH is goddamn amazing.
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... Pokemon
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Tokyo Ghoul.
I get that this kid is experiencing an existential crisis of frankly unimaginable proportions, but the constant sobbing is really starting to irritate me. Hopefully that gets better. The rest of it is pretty good.
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Tokyo Ghoul.
I get that this kid is experiencing an existential crisis of frankly unimaginable proportions, but the constant sobbing is really starting to irritate me. Hopefully that gets better. The rest of it is pretty good.
Sounds like he needs a certain green-haired individual to slap him across the face until he stops whining.
On-topic, finished Legend of the Galactic Heroes, am most of the way through Fist of the North Star.
Sword Art Online season 2 part 2 was fun because they all had fun playing a game and nobody got raped.
Gundam G no Reconguista continues to move really fast. Main Character finally got taken down a peg and may be a bit less happy-go-lucky in the next couple episodes. Weird brain damaged girl is still weird.
Gundam Build Fighters continues to lay on the robot fanservice and also other kinds.
And of course Naruto is in the middle of a totally out of hand power escalation battle, so that's fun.
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What did you think of LOGH?
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It was fantastic, and will forever change the way I play Total War games. I actually quite enjoyed the 'lame' episodes where Julian was going from one place to another and got all the backstory on what happened to humans in their period of space expansion.
Watching the Rosenritter going on their axe rampages never got old, of course.
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Completely-impractical SPACE AXES are the greatest things ever.
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Gundam G no Reconguista continues to move really fast. Main Character finally got taken down a peg and may be a bit less happy-go-lucky in the next couple episodes. Weird brain damaged girl is still weird.
Gundam Build Fighters continues to lay on the robot fanservice and also other kinds.
And of course Naruto is in the middle of a totally out of hand power escalation battle, so that's fun.
G-Reco feels a true Tomino ride. Things happen, more things happen, people act retarded, people get killed just like that... and more people act retarded. But it's kind of entertaining when you have gotten used to it.
GFB-T where the true fun is at. Wednesday is one of the best days of the week. :yes
Well Naruto manga just got its final chapters (so far... let's see what the future holds if the spin offs get popularity). So watching the anime has gotten a slight nostalgia boost, even if it's not THAT far behind. But the upcoming movie is what I'm really waiting for. Damn.
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Thanks to netflix and laziness, I started avatar today. Will probably get to watch three episodes before the pressures of my Afghanistan rescue dog wanting to go for a walk AKA "listen to me asking to go out, or I'll place my teeth on your foot and increase the pressure til you stand up" convince me to leave the house.
Also full metal alchemist? Brotherhood?
Is that the normal one? Never watched that either...
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Apparently, Brotherhood follows the manga almost to the letter, whereas the original goes and does its own thing after a while. But ive not seen it, so dont quote me on that
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Apparently, Brotherhood follows the manga almost to the letter, whereas the original goes and does its own thing after a while. But ive not seen it, so dont quote me on that
Yup, that's pretty much it, although it is worth noting that Brotherhood goes really fast over the parts that have already been covered by the first anime. That being said, both are pretty good, so if you've got the time, I recommend watching both.
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That being said, both are pretty good, so if you've got the time, I recommend watching both.
One more sign to this recommendation,
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Finished through Fairy Tail's most recent set of english dubs
Sting's english voice actor, I feel is a pretty good choice...not a big fan of Rogue's however.
Michael from Rooster Teeth seems to fit the role rather well imo, but we'll see how well he does in the Grand Magic Games Arc when that rolls around.
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Has anyone been following Cross Ange? I just saw episode 9 and WOW. There are some scum need culling in there.
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I must say that I can't remember the last time I've waited a movie to come out as much as I am waiting for The Last Naruto movie.
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Build Fighters season 2 had its first good episode today! Hooray!
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I want moar knights of Cydonia :/
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Same here !
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I look forward to Gundam: The Origin.
Need to catch up on Fate/Stay Night UBW.
And I bit the bullet and purchased the Senran Kagura anime. I still don't exactly "like" the series, but I do have to admit I like the brawling action and blatant stupidity and honesty in fanservice. It's one of the few genres that knows and glorifies its subject matter. Ninja's and boobs. Copious ass kicking, exactly everything that the Ye Olde Guard gaming media abhors 'cause they don't have a single tolerant bone in their bodies xP.
Prudes have the knickers in a bind? By media that makes them want to run into their Victorian caves even further!
Now, to see if I can tolerate the dubbing. While my distaste with dubbing stems from a childhood actually watching satellite TV Taiwanese and Japanese media (my preference is for media in its native tongue or subtitles), Funimation is sorta infamous with its hit/miss approach. The one thing I hate is really bad dubbing that has no effort, my favorite example of terrible dubbing done right is Maizenkaiser SKL.
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Almost done Attack on Titan. Eren remains one of the singularly worst shounen protagonists I've ever seen. And with the exception of two or three characters, the entire population of humanity has come down with a terminal case of stupid. It's a miracle they've survived the previous century.
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Ooooh I forgot entirely about that.
Scientist lady ftw.
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I look forward to Gundam: The Origin.
Need to catch up on Fate/Stay Night UBW.
And I bit the bullet and purchased the Senran Kagura anime. I still don't exactly "like" the series, but I do have to admit I like the brawling action and blatant stupidity and honesty in fanservice. It's one of the few genres that knows and glorifies its subject matter. Ninja's and boobs. Copious ass kicking, exactly everything that the Ye Olde Guard gaming media abhors 'cause they don't have a single tolerant bone in their bodies xP.
I got the 3ds game for the same reasons.
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Finished the Clone Wars' (CGI) Lost Episodes. You know what? Whatever becomes if the new trilogy by JJ, good or bad, I do not care.
The cycle I wanted to see in Star Wars was mended by this series; I need no more.
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Currently watching Battlestar Galactica. After playing Diaspora, it rekindled my fandom of it :p
I'm also rewatching Gurren Lagann, because who doesn't like a good, ridiculous mecha anime?
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Picked up VOTOMS
Seems like Fist of the North Star in Space. They even had space ruffians attacking space villagers.
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Almost done Attack on Titan. Eren remains one of the singularly worst shounen protagonists I've ever seen. And with the exception of two or three characters, the entire population of humanity has come down with a terminal case of stupid. It's a miracle they've survived the previous century.
New series or still season 1? Gotta google if season 2 is already up there in the airwaves haven't thought about that series for a while now...
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Nah, season 2 is still a ways off. That's what happens when you have a monthly updating manga and give it an anime adaptation so early.
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Someone pointed me towards Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (http://www.crunchyroll.com/monthly-girls-nozaki-kun).
I cannot breathe. Send help.
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http://a.pomf.se/fvoopo.webm This.
That is all.
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Started watching Black Mirror. Soooo goooooood.
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How do you watch it?
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http://a.pomf.se/fvoopo.webm This.
That is all.
that is some disturbingly interesting framerate/animation rate variations in there, with parts being butter (30fps) smooth and rest the usual snappy-ish anime fare...
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How do you watch it?
Friend of mine imported the UK DVDs.
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hm so I got hold of the first series of Dark Mirror myself. The first one was shocking and hilarious. Watching the second episode, and I'm amazed at it. It's the perfect representation of commoditization of the human soul that I've ever seen. Perfect since I've watched Varoufakis making this exact point about the one pitfall of capitalism in his Confessions of an erratic Marxist. It's so painfully pessimistic. But true. And in a perfectly sized DVD for just ten euros! Buy now and you'll get free shipping!
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Just got done with Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars.
A bit slow-moving, but very, very good. Quite a different take on a sci-fi space opera, and it for once accurately depicts a couple of protagonists who are just part of a larger machine and are not the driving force of the plot. Action sequences are amazing when they happen, and the space combat is surprisingly well thought-out in how it's executed, but that's only a small part of the series: a lot of it is characters talking with each other, yet it isn't boring, somehow.
It's also weird to have the protagonists be on the side of the Empire for once, rather than the weaker Alliances and Republics, and yet the conflict is still very much a grey-vs-grey conflict.
My only complaint is that the translation is a bit off. Here's the deal: most of the names and terms are derived from a constructed language (which the original author went to some rather impressive lengths to make), which were then translated into Japanese for the audience. The English translators then went ahead and just translated straight from the Japanese, completely ignoring the original, which leads to some inaccurate name spellings and contradictory terms here and there (one of the main characters is referred to as a "Prince" for a few episodes when he's actually a Count). So that's kind of annoying.
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http://a.pomf.se/fvoopo.webm This.
That is all.
Good choise. Sekai had the right reaction to that.
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They went and put Reconguista Ep1 on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJZXfjjNOGk
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Too bad they're 21 episodes behind the actual airing.
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I was in the mood for something stupid so I watched Madan no ou to Vanadis. It did not disappoint, it was indeed rather stupid and fanservice-y. I did find it somewhat refreshing that the main character used a bow rather than a sword, so we didn't get any of that "long stupid talk between hero and villian while they clash swords", instead we get an arrow in the forehead while they're still speaking.
The animation reflects on the low budget, with mediocre CGI for the redshirts. The scenes explaining tactics and formations look nice though, like an animated board game. The generic villains have generic villain voices, the generic hero has a generic hero voice, and the girls have generic girly voices. Though it's kinda funny how the black bow of death sounds like a caring mother.
The Harem was rather well balanced, with some mid-high tier waifu material except for the trash-tier maid girl who was just annoying. It's also refreshing that the main characters don't make a big fuss about killing people to death. It's a war fought by soldiers, getting killed is part of their job description.
The cultures have obvious inspirations, although the geography doesn't make much sense. Brune is rather Mediterranean, but we have snowy mountains to the east and a desert to the southwest right next to the sea? Shouldn't the northeast-southwest trade winds make that whole region more humid? Guess anything is fair when you have fire breathing dragons and magic.
If you're in the mood for stupidity, boobs, and standard anime fanservice it's pretty decent.
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I only want Major Katsuragi fanservice.
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When I first saw that, I thought you had said "Major Kusanagi fanservice". :p
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I know the name.
Is that ghost in the shelly?
Did she get pro-demoted?
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Yes, Major Motoko Kusanagi is from Ghost in the Shell.
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I don't think my firmware is compatible. Where as Misato and I could get wasted together were I not getting married a year minus three days from now.... Unless firestorm can arrange for her to become real and etc etc.
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If I had the ability to bring out objects from games and anime, that I'd waste my time doing something that would get your arse dumped? Nope, the first thing I'd do is get a Gundam and take the world by beam saber and fire.
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I'll be over here in space, conquering the Free Planets Alliance in my fleet of 100,000 spaceships. I'll be the guy on the bridge, wearing a cape and listening to classical music.
I'll have a nice hangar of Gundams to pick from. An RX-0 Phenex, since i'll need something shiny and golden once I'm the emperor of space. Maybe a Qubeley next to it, just for all of its stately lines, and a Victory 2 down the line from that, for joyrides.
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I'll be over here in space, conquering the Free Planets Alliance in my fleet of 100,000 spaceships. I'll be the guy on the bridge, wearing a cape and listening to classical music.
Yus.
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I'll be over here in space, conquering the Free Planets Alliance in my fleet of 100,000 spaceships. I'll be the guy on the bridge, wearing a cape and listening to classical music.
I'll have a nice hangar of Gundams to pick from. An RX-0 Phenex, since i'll need something shiny and golden once I'm the emperor of space. Maybe a Qubeley next to it, just for all of its stately lines, and a Victory 2 down the line from that, for joyrides.
I wanted to say something like that, but felt that I'd come across to nerdy. You just reminded me that I don't have to worry about that here.
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You're worried about being nerdy on the Internet? Dude, you're on the Internet.
I just finished a mecha series called Majestic Prince. It was actually better than I was expecting... kinda cliched storywise, but holy crap those were some amazing mecha battle sequences. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9TbUGPHGvM&t=1m12s) (Embedding the video isn't working for some reason... :blah:)
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it farted blue and pulled out a las-chainsword...
i want one
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Hi there, I'm here to recommend you to watch Shigatsu kimi wa no uso, if you like romanesque stuff with a somewhat deep plot twist it might suit you.
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I just blew through "No Game No Life" and was quite entertained. Also recently finished the last of Season 2 of SAO, and enjoyed it.
Recently found a show called "Planetes" which is hard sci-fi about space debris collectors. First episodes so far are pretty good!
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the last of Season 2 of SAO, and enjoyed it.
...how?
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...how?
What's not to love about a little AIDS girl dying around friends? (Sarcasm, btw)
It had emotion, and many parts were fun, and Asuna is an interesting character, and things. I know SAO is extremely polarizing, and I'm not going to argue that it's amazing, just that I enjoyed it.
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...I think we're talking about different parts.
Season 2 of SAO is the second half of what is called the first season on Netflix.
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No, Season 2 is the part that starts with GGO.
Netflix has it right. People just call the Fairy Dance arc season two because it's so different, but it's still part of Season 1.
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Whatever.
The poing is that Fairy Dance was bad.
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No, Season 2 is the part that starts with GGO.
Netflix has it right. People just call the Fairy Dance arc season two because it's so different, but it's still part of Season 1.
Ah, seems we were misunderstanding. This right here is key to my statement, because I do agree that
The point is that Fairy Dance was bad.
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Even the "good part" of season 1, Aincrad, was drek at best, and Fairy Dance was an utter cesspool of suck. And now season 2 is starting on Toonami in less than a week, and masochist that I am, I'll be watching it. **** me.
But yeah, Planetes is an incredibly good show. Probably the hardest take on near-future space life that I've ever seen.
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I'll be over here in space, conquering the Free Planets Alliance in my fleet of 100,000 spaceships. I'll be the guy on the bridge, wearing a cape and listening to classical music.
For some reason a read this in the style of Bye Bye Greasy.
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I've posted it already in the FotG forum, but as it fits here, too:
I simply love every second of it :)
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epic.
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God that was awesome. I miss 80s early 90s anime style, it just had a certain style and texture that computer driven work just doesn't replicate.
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It's weird how Aldnoah Zero was all dark and serious and Reconguista was all bright and colorful, but Reconguista's body count was waaay higher
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soooo.... Tokyo Ghoul... S2 ending sucked hard...
Enough to make me go "not gonna bother waiting for 3rd season".
Bleh.
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It's weird how Aldnoah Zero was all dark and serious and Reconguista was all bright and colorful, but Reconguista's body count was waaay higher
One had Mr. Kill 'em All directing it. It was inevitable, I think.
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It's weird how Aldnoah Zero was all dark and serious and Reconguista was all bright and colorful, but Reconguista's body count was waaay higher
During the ending of Aldnoah Zero season 2 finale I could only think of one possible line that would fit the occasion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp-5Hoo2pnI), and it was never said. :blah:
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such obvious imperial propaganda!
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The Build Fighters finale was goddamn retarded. They ramped up the retardation in direct correlation with the ramp up of explosive destructiveness. On the Gurren Lagann scale, they're at Tengen Toppa Retarded.
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It was fun, though, unlike the thoughtless cliche-fest that was the National Tournament.
Also, animated Xi Gundam. More plz.
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Durara 2, Shiraboko, Yurikuma, to name a few.
Much stabby and Moe to be had this season.
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Picked up korra cause I had nothing to watch yesterday, it's been a hell of a ride so far.
I think only Nisekoi gets me exited for this new season, the other things I'll have to check them out to know.
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I binge-watched Cross Ange over the past 3 days. Somewhat consistently entertaining, if blatantly terrible in terms of production values at times.
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Ange master ruler of the multiverse!
Nuff' said.
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I just watched it myself.
While the writing was... highly questionable at times and excessive amounts of fanservice were off-putting, I still enjoyed it for the most part, once it got out of the initial "Look how dark and edgy we're being!" phase of the plot.
The mecha designs were flat-out gorgeous, the fight sequences were generally excellent, and the music was, in a word, beautiful. Especially those two songs. "Towagatari", I think they're called when sung together.
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such obvious imperial propaganda!
Fantastic!
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I just watched it myself.
While the writing was... highly questionable at times and excessive amounts of fanservice were off-putting, I still enjoyed it for the most part, once it got out of the initial "Look how dark and edgy we're being!" phase of the plot.
The mecha designs were flat-out gorgeous, the fight sequences were generally excellent, and the music was, in a word, beautiful. Especially those two songs. "Towagatari", I think they're called when sung together.
Sounds pretty much in line with how much it looks like SEED
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I've got LOTGH on my netbook now and wish to watch it all in a binge session. I just need to convince my fiancé that I am doing something constructive while she's out all week at work.
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Tell her you're watching a dissertation on differing political ideologies.
:P
It's not entirely untrue.
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She may notice you acting more gentlemanly, you could always let her know that LoGH is why.
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my fiancée that I am doing something constructive while she's out all week at work.
Assuming the word fiancé comes from french, then the feminine form should take an extra 'e'.
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Bird that I'm marrying then. :P
She may notice you acting more gentlemanly, you could always let her know that LoGH is why.
I am very gentleman, much chivalry.
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Watching Shoukugeki no Soma.
Food porn, food gasms, food orgies.
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Watching Shoukugeki no Soma.
Food porn, food gasms, food orgies.
So Toriko, then?
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Soma is fun enough to entertain, besides the mc is kinda lovable. Not your regular dumbass to which stuff just "happens".
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I saw a screencap of someone playing around with LOGH ship models in FS2, but I'd cum buckets for a full-fledged mod. Small maneuverable fighters, masses of capital ships, railguns, let's do it people!
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The Build Fighters finale was goddamn retarded. They ramped up the retardation in direct correlation with the ramp up of explosive destructiveness. On the Gurren Lagann scale, they're at Tengen Toppa Retarded.
But ya gotta admit it was fun as heck. I had some great laughs.
I think I'll join in the DanMachi train, Euphonium looks gorgeous and it's always fun to watch more Nanoha.
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(http://i.imgur.com/zBqdeWH.png)
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Re watched Venus wars today and a few GUYVER episodes. Gonna continue my LOTGH binge tomorrow, about fifteen or so episodes in of a hundred and eleven'ish.
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I'm rewatching the whole Monogatari series now that I found a set of subtitles for it.
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Season 1 episode 20 of stargate on Netflix.
Admiral Bosch is being a naughty senator and trying to cut some sgc budget.
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Admiral Bosch is being a naughty senator and trying to cut some sgc budget.
ETAK funds gotta come from somewhere
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He's on an OCP wage. He can afford it.
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I was about to say that as long as he stays away from Mars, we should be alright.
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/me wishes he had three hands.
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Something that may interest; recently found a YouTube page run by Manga Entertainment (https://www.youtube.com/user/MANGAentertainment). Mostly jokey videos by the looks of it (some of which didn't work) but does also have up the entire series of a late 90s mecha Anime called 'Gasaraki' (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4U0FQ15BX8CvRBHWGyPfF76RtOJXpZdQ) which I had heard once enjoyed some fame in it's time. Is an old one and a bit dark in places but I enjoyed it a lot (shameless mecha fan-boy :o), so if serious-storyline anime is your thing you might find it worth a watch.
(Finding it gave me a chuckle as as I called down to see the first episode when I was around 13/14 and then never saw it again and completely forgot the name of it. Had been looking all over for it ever since; at last! :lol:).
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Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma
Blood Blockade Battlefront
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KAMILLE'S A MAN'S NAME AND I'M A MAN.
And thus begins the reign of terror of Kamille Bidan, who punched a military officer over an offhand comment about his name and stole a prototype giant robot to terrorize people. But for the grace of god, he would have been the show's villain and then we'd be stuck with having (Lieutenant Quattro, he is A) CHAR for a hero.
Instead we've got this seething mass of rage in the shape of a person.
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KAMILLE'S A MAN'S NAME AND I'M A MAN.
And thus begins the reign of terror of Kamille Bidan, who punched a military officer over an offhand comment about his name and stole a prototype giant robot to terrorize people. But for the grace of god, he would have been the show's villain and then we'd be stuck with having (Lieutenant Quattro, he is A) CHAR for a hero.
Instead we've got this seething mass of rage in the shape of a person.
<3 Kamille
Also, have watched 9 episodes of Knights of Sidonia Season 2.
Creepy and weird, but definitely entertaining. Also, one chick builds gunpla of their mechs :3, and production values are a bit better.
Also, Char is a great hero. Nobody else is capable of saving humanity from itself, by killing it.
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Also, have watched 9 episodes of Knights of Sidonia Season 2.
Creepy and weird, but definitely entertaining. Also, one chick builds gunpla of their mechs :3, and production values are a bit better.
thanks, wasnt aware S2 was out.
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Hmm, so I just realized I still have a Funimation subscription I grabbed to watch a couple new shows and catch a couple dubs.
If' I'm gonna be paying for that, I should actually watch something else.
Also, have watched 9 episodes of Knights of Sidonia Season 2.
That's out now?
What?
Where?
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It better be on Netflix...
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I seem to remember when I watched Knights of Siddonia last, they had it tagged as a Netflix Original (even if that's only partially true; I am pretty sure it's only such where the US market is concerned)
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Picked up a Canadian cop show called Flashpoint while I'm sick at home. Different from most; while it's about an ESU-type unit (hostage negotiation, SWAT, and bomb squad rolled into one) it's not really about the gunplay or the glamor. The first episode actually has about a half-episode denouement while one of the team snipers comes to terms with a shot he had to take. It also has a Law & Order Criminal Intent-type way of building to the incident the team is called in for; the crime doesn't just happen, you see it develop. You get to know people, both sides of the equation.
The other thing that I noticed about it at once is that Amy Jo Johnson is the team's only female member. For those of you who don't get what that means: Ranger Pink from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
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I just finished Bokurano.
The robot battles were pretty awesome. They actually seemed to move like giants that had an enormous amount of inertia behind them (usually) and the sheer scale of the battles was something else.
But I think I need something cheerier for my next series. It's what I get for watching something some fans call "darker than Evangelion" (it's not, for the record... but still plenty bleak).
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Finished sidonia season 2.
They're resourceful little so and so's. All that progress on the Gardes when not much changed for so long before. ..
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Finished sidonia season 2.
They're resourceful little so and so's. All that progress on the Gardes when not much changed for so long before. ..
The intersection of unethical science and rapid prototyping
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No one's watching Prison School? Damn, I cracked in tears a few times already.
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I've been reading the manga, it's funny indeed. :)
Other anime you might be interested in is Overlord and Gangsta.
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I can second Overlord, if only because of how much money they spent on all the awesome facial expressions.
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I already dropped overlord, SAO left me sorely wounded so that genre is the one I find reluctant to even pick up.
Filling up the rest of the spare time with some Working!!! and good old Gurren Laggan action. Never fails to deliver.
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Yeah, we're in the final stretch of Legend of the Galactic Heroes (doing the re-watch with the girlfriend)
Space consequences will never be the same, man.
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Man I need to rewatch that. And after the bombshell of an announcement that it's been licensed for the US, I'll have all the more reason to.
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Just reached the second half of GaoGaiGar and have finished Gundam 0080. I also have started watching Transformers:Beast Wars.
Now onto Gundam ZZ... which really doesn't look that great to be honest compared to Zeta.
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Just reached the second half of GaoGaiGar and have finished Gundam 0080. I also have started watching Transformers:Beast Wars.
Now onto Gundam ZZ... which really doesn't look that great to be honest compared to Zeta.
ZZ gets better once Judeau's ****head friends get straightened out.
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Now onto Gundam ZZ... which really doesn't look that great to be honest compared to Zeta.
You take that back. Right now.
Anime ja nai!~ Anime ja nai!~
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Hontou no koto sa!~
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Finished sidonia season 2.
They're resourceful little so and so's. All that progress on the Gardes when not much changed for so long before. ..
i found it actually kinda annoying how it ended -.-
much fishing for season 3, much expectations...
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Now onto Gundam ZZ... which really doesn't look that great to be honest compared to Zeta.
You take that back. Right now.
Anime ja nai!~ Anime ja nai!~
:) Nope. Also I hate that song btw.
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:) Nope. Also I hate that song btw.
Heresy! Blasphemy!
Zeta's not very good, though, and that stems entirely from its terrible characters. You have Char pretending to be human, Kamille is a vaguely humanoid bundle of rage who ended up on the right side by pure chance after he stole a giant robot to terrorize people with, Reccoa setting back feminism by decades all on her own, Katz being a complete moron, and we're left Bright, Apolly, and Emma Sheen as people who are actually worthy of some respect. And Emma's a walking talking demonstration of Tomino's misogyny, explicitly rejecting femininity to become the only respectable female pilot in the series and then going out like a goddamn moron.
Amuro's lost his self-confidence and declares a truce with Char mainly because he thinks he's not mentally able to fight him (note how quickly Amuro leaves the series once he starts to regain his confidence), Hayato's pretty much the only guy on the planet Earth with his head screwed on straight, Beltorchika is a rare female who knows what she wants and sets out to get it so Tomino was compelled to make her completely unlikeable, and for some reason the series wasn't about Kai Shiden, Secret Agent which was a terrible mistake.
On the other side you have Scirocco the Supernatural Pickup Artist, Yazan who despite his reputation really doesn't do anything of note until the second-to-last episode save manage to be a completely contemptible excuse for a human being and a teamkilling prick, Bask Om who is so incredibly and obviously damaged that it's inexcusable he has an actual military command, Four who's a complete doormat for the Titans without any evidence what they're offering her is even possible and destroys Hong Kong because of it, and Jerrid who's actually okay until he rapidly starts sliding down the slippery slope after Kamille kills his girl and his mentor. Oh and Reccoa's still over here setting back feminism. Again.
Pretty much the only show with a more unlikeable cast in the Gundam sequence is Stardust Memory, and the only one that manages to be more painfully sexist is AGE.
ZZ has genuinely the best villains in the franchise with Haman Kharn and Glemy Toto, a selection of competent female pilots on both sides who aren't **** on in some way by the director, and everything that looks silly in the beginning...really isn't by the end. Mashmyre thinks he's in a fantasy romance; see where he ends up.
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I will have to watch the two back to back to get an honest grasp of my opinion on the two shows. Since it has been a few years since I watched Zeta.
And... I do not really think Haman is a very good villain, either. I have read CDA btw.
I will admit, the cast of Zeta did annoy me at first but they kind of grew on me. They actually seem like a family by the end. I also like the MS designs in Zeta much more than all of the MS in ZZ.
But my favourite series so far seems to be either 0080, Victory or Unicorn. My favourite manga seems to be currently Gundam Crossbone:Steel 7 or Were Federation Hooligans.
... MSG:S7 made me feel man. I am also waiting for them to finish fan translating Ghost.
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Overlord, Monster Musume, Non Non Biyori. Gatchaman Crowds Insight.
Those are the new titles I added to my playlist on this season.
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I will be watching the Live-Action Gundam movie tonight or tomorrow: G-Savior.
I have been told that on the one hand, it's a B-movie at best, but on the other, it has a few incredible ideas, and have seen repeated praise for its final battle. (Beamsaber duel on a colony mirror surface. I have to admit, that sounds pretty cool.)
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Anyways, I watched G-Saviour and never commented on it. I should do that. G-Saviour was a 20th anniversary Gundam movie. Live-action, made in Canada. I can hear you screaming "NOOOOO" already. Hush, children, while I tell you about it via a fixed-up breakdown of my thoughts as I posted elsewhere.
The opening pan of the movie shows us...a colony cluster, in visual range, with individual colonies ACTUALLY ROTATING. And you know, I've waited my entire Gundam fan existence for this shot. It was ****ing worth it, late '90s CGI or not.
But then we get what I swear is a lost opening to a SeaQuest DSV episode, and honestly that's a crossover I could get behind. Nathan Bridger and Bright Noah teamup. Plasma torpdoes, 50% charge, let's bust some Z'Goks.
Apparently I shouldn't say that, as what I presume to be our main character is piloting what seems to be a cross between a Z'Gok and a JIM suit. Honestly it doesn't look bad, and I kind of like it. (Seriously though this whole underwater sequence I'm waiting for like the edge of the SeaQuest to poke in or a WHSKR to sneak through the background of a shot. This is so SeaQuest-like it hurts.) After our obligatory opening action scene the movie continues briskly through introducing who I presume will be our villain and also...
...****ing really? Those Starship Troopers armors? Those have been in everything. They were on Power Rangers for chrissakes. Also come on man, you're on Earth, don't tell me you don't know about the Antarctic Treaty and how it deals with surrender.
We get a flashback/nightmare to when our protagonist piloted mobile suits in combat presumably, but it doesn't last. Now they're on land, and a scene with his girlfriend, and a party, and then an interview, and then somebody kills a prison guard and blames it on our lead and then our people go down the chute from the morgue and land in a pile of bodyparts and medical waste and this scene should be way the hell bloodier and they should probably freak out a little more. Yes, he's a vet, but he's a mobile suit vet. That's a little cleaner than being line infantry, y'know?
Incidentally, this has more black people in it than probably the entirety of the rest of the Gundam franchise.
More people show up, resistance types I guess, also interns for the doctor. The uniforms of the faction in charge of Earth are a weird kind of half-Zeon half-Feddie thing, they've got the Zeon little "bib" part outlined in gold braid, but not actually separate, and the Federation's red collars, but they're navy blue or black overall because Nazi Germany I guess.
And now we get a mobile suit on the move again. Two of them. They're moving fairly slow, but it's not a bad scene if they're at a walk. It also demonstrates, contrary to the usual claims about this movie, that the suits involved are actually more advanced than Mobile Suit Victory Gundam-era ones. These suits may not have panoramic cockpits or Wings of Light or crap, but they ARE capable of atmospheric flight under thruster power alone AND can survive reentry without complex mode-changing systems. The former is something only a few UC suits, mainly modified Goufs, ever achieved. Even the Victory had to cheat with its Minovsky systems. The latter is something only expensive transformation system-equipped ones managed, but here the average mook suit can.
As for the suits themselves, they look surprisingly like a GINN from Gundam SEED, and as for the scene of them in motion I'm heavily reminded of the FMVs for MechWarrior 4 as well.
The shuttle design for the shuttle our characters hijack, on the other hand, looks awful and moves too slowly.
The colony shot of Side Four's New Manhattan makes up for it, and now we get...
IT'S A GUNDAM. They called it the G-C or something, though. And now our villains are putting on the Reich extra super special hard. Our protagonist got drummed out of the army for saving one of his buddies when their suit malfunctioned. Honestly the whole thing sounds pretty stupid, it was apparently an open-space rescue during an exercise, there was no logical reason to order him not to save the guy. It was apparently done out of sheer dickishness.
And now they call it G-Saviour. Okay movie, titular suit's first flight. Impress me.
...The cockpit impresses me as actually looking way more like I'd expect a cockpit to look than any other Gundam cockpit. He's got a beam rifle, plus a gun on the other arm. Beamsaber too, not sure where it's stored.
Side Eight, Gaea, interior of an Island Three, bloody gorgeous. The colony's been hacked, though, and it's the girlfriend's fault, so the colony's anti-debris defense systems are responding to a baddie destroyer as a valid target. Frankly that we've never seen a colony with these before doesn't bother me since it makes sense they'd have 'em. The destroyer is hit, but it doesn't look too bad on the surface. The bad guys are happy about it now since they've just got an excuse to send in the mobile suits.
Main character discovers girlfriend is pulling a Katejina and getting the whole colony killed just so she and him can go home and live happily ever after. Well, it was Gundam, I suppose it had to have SOME moment where a woman acts crazy and irrational.
Wait, is that Starbuck powering up a mobile suit? Holy crap, this movie's heavy on the crossovers. Okay, Gaea just launched mobile suits. They look...pretty GM-like, honestly. They don't look bad. And scratch several. They don't die like GMs though. They're completely ineffectual at first; outdated, not professional pilots; or at least not professional combat pilots. It's not as curbstompy as Gundam Unicorn could be, because despite their failure to score kills not too many of them are actually dying and a lot of them are still their dogfighting when the G-Savior deploys. Most of them that die, maybe all, seem to be the result of the primary villain's direct action. I should also note that very few people just take a hit and explode in this movie; it takes repeated hits to stop even mook suits a lot of the time.
And now we get the primary villain's suit. We're running a little Alpha Azieru, a little Jagd Doga, and a little Sazabi. It's not a bad look, really.
The G-Saviour finds your mass-production models crunchy, and good with ketchup. A couple of GINNs (not really but they look it) invade the colony and interpret their orders to "secure the settlement" as "shoot up random ****", while Betrayal Girlfriend continues to Betray.
I refrained from calling that a beam shield, it seemed ephemeral, but apparently it was. The bad guy definitely has one. So now we get down to it, and for one of the few times in Gundam history, we have a reason why the good guy accepts a beamsaber duel: bad guy cut his gun in half when he went for a "block with the shield, shoot him" technique.
And our climatic duel will, in fact, take place on a colony mirror. And the big bad's historical reference is incredibly stupid. (Caesar? Selective starvation? What?) One of the GM-alikes actually gets a kill here, in the background. Guess they're learning fast Bad guy has...shoulder vulcans? They seem very widely spaced, like they're on the shoulder tips. Okay that's new. Bad guy suit doesn't die, just gets cut up; multiple hostiles turn up only for friendly reinforcements to arrive as well.
The general big bad takes a Gaean ship because he's dumb, and doesn't tell anyone BECAUSE HE'S REALLY DUMB. We get a nice fight inside the colony with the G-Saviour having converted for atmospheric flight briefly, but it's over way too soon.
Big Bad does Big No, gets killed by own side BECAUSE HE IS ULTRA DUMB.
Trite wrapup.
So, that was G-Saviour. What's my opinion on it?
Within the confines of the budget, they made a good movie. The complaints I've usually heard about its mobile suit action are bluntly garbage; no, the suits aren't animated slowly, we simply see them move slowly in a few noncombat scenes early in the movie. When it comes to the actual combat later on, they move relatively quickly yet with enough weight to preserve the idea they're giant robots.
The movie has a surprisingly quick pace that serves it well by giving the audience no time to dwell on its faults. It lacks focus on the mobile suit aspects, which is to its detriment; they're some of the best parts of the movie. The actors' performances are not perfect but they are far better than might be expected from the movie's reputation, with only the Big Bad (played by veteran character actor Kenneth Welsh) turning in a genuinely poor performance. At least part of that is simply because he's very badly explained, switching from seemingly-reasonable to Jamitov-is-my-role-model about midway through the movie for no adequately explained reason and to little purpose. It didn't add much. We could have just had the colonel be evil on his own.
The effects were genuinely pretty good for a 2000 movie, and the mobile suit design is genuinely excellent; a good, solid gut-check towards mobile suits looking like giant war machines over the tendency to visually busy and durability-questionable designs more recent series have tended to drop at times. (Or all the time.) The battle scenes are actually much better realized mobile suit combat than many of the animated series were probably capable of, with a real sense of motion and plenty of maneuvering. Nobody stands still and gets shot; they take hits because they didn't evade, but at the same time they're not just sitting still and getting blasted either like in most of the anime series. They're moving around and firing and engaging targets, and one of this movie's crowning triumphs is the fact that most of the people who take hits and die do so for an immediately obvious reason besides "they're a complete moron and not moving"; they were staring into the sunglare and didn't see it coming, they were chasing another target and got bushwhacked by someone outside that fight, or they were just way too outclassed on every level.
So is this a good movie? Not really. It's got a lot of little flaws that collectively weight it down. I've only mentioned a few, but there are others: the main character comes off as a bit of an impulsive asshole, though more likable than most. The villain is decidedly one-note and spouts cliches at odd moments; the big bad is just bland and has issues I already noted. The lighting team decided they needed to add some effects to certain scenes they never should have. The movie is arguably too fast-paced, edited down, and could have benefited greatly from another thirty minutes both to get to know the characters and to more fully integrate the mobile suits. The mobile suit concept is badly integrated into the movie and has relatively little screentime. This is undoubtedly because CGI was expensive as balls, but still, this movie originally was fully backed by Sunrise Studios and god knows they probably could have afforded more.
Is it a good Gundam movie? My answer to that, to my surprise, is yes, this is a good Gundam movie. The mecha design is good, the main characters are likable enough and manage to avoid all the usual Gundam protagonist tropes that tend to infuriate people, the details it adds to the universe are coherent to what exists and seem positive additions. Despite the paucity of mecha combat, what we do get is of a high caliber; the only other stuff with fights this good are some of the combats from 0080 and 0083. I understand why people would wish to exile it from the canon; plotwise and tonally it has only Zeta for company, and a lot of the expected Gundam tropes are either not present or played very differently. But change is not necessarily a bad thing, and in the end, I don't think this movie deserves the exile from canon it's been subjected to. I'm not sure where it would fit, but it's far from the abomination in the eyes of man and God it's often made out to be.
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In other Gundam-related news: Tomino talks about Reconguista In G, reveals himself to be something of a ****. (https://nekketsunikki.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/tomino-said-g-reco-takes-place-around-500-years-after-turn-a/)
“Gundam shows made by other people are crap, including Origin.”
“Sometimes I force myself to watch them, but I can only last 5 minutes.”
And my personal favorite, regarding Murrue from SEED (I've got big problems with SEED, less with Destiny, but still, this is...yeah):
“There’s no way a beautiful woman with a big chest would be a battleship captain”.
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Sounds about right for Tomino.
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I wasn't aware of this.
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i've been watching Part 3 of JoJo's bizarre adventures, with amazing lines such as "OH MY GOHD" and "HORY ****". Couldn't find a full English dub but thankfully the Japanese voice acting is sufficiently hammy.
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if you enjoy engrish in your anime, have you seen Panty and Stocking?
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I watched all of it in English a year or two ago.
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you missed out on that then.
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I have only seen parts 1 and 2 of Jojo's. I should get onto watching part 3 as well as finished the rest of GaoGaiGar.
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Not series or Anime, but if you are a fan of Event Horizon you might get a kick out of Infini on Netflix. I was going to add some more if you like "" but it basically gives the plot away.
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I just looked at the Trailer for that. Actually looks pretty good. Too bad I don't have Netflix.
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Welp, looks like the Fall season is right around the corner.
Looking forward to Gochiusa, OPM, Utawarerumono, Gundam Orphans and Noragami.
Oh and of course GuP Movie.
Though the Young Black Jack could be interesting too.
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Owarimonogatari is coming, and I'm waiting for it anxiously.
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I'm more anxiously waiting for them to pull their heads out of their asses and make Kizumonogatari already!
Seriously, though. It's like having a giant building missing one of its key foundations.
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I'm more anxiously waiting for them to pull their heads out of their asses and make Kizumonogatari already!
Seriously, though. It's like having a giant building missing one of its key foundations.
If they are not teasing us again...
http://www.kizumonogatari-movie.com/
(https://i.imgur.com/4wH4uSy.jpg)
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Yeah, I saw that.
Still not holding my breath though. Could just be them trolling everyone.
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I am partially responsible for the /r/mecha let's watch of VOTOMS, so I watched some VOTOMS.
Sucks when the perfect soldier woman gets damsel'd.
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One Punch Man.
Behold one punchy awesomeness!
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Just watched Rokka. Got the villain straight off the bat. Yay for me.
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Had an eyegasm watching owarimonogatari just now.
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Newest Gundam is out. Haven't had a chance to watch yet, but I'm hearing things that it's a more 0080/08th MS Team feel to the combat. Apparently land mines and artillery played a role.
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Newest Gundam is out. Haven't had a chance to watch yet, but I'm hearing things that it's a more 0080/08th MS Team feel to the combat. Apparently land mines and artillery played a role.
Yeah this is gonna be a grim one.
They killed like 3 kids already.
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Someone needs to give Tomino a hug and a plate of cookies.
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Tomino isn't involved in this one.
He's only directed two Gundam shows in the past 15 years.
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Just watched Rokka. Got the villain straight off the bat. Yay for me.
yeah, I thought it was pretty obvious too.
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I didn't really like the look of it before but I guess I'll give it a watch. Wouldn't hurt.
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Iron Blood Orphans Episode 2!
Robots are smashed!
A man shows reluctance when confronted with the idea of murdering lots of children!
A space princess gets dissed!
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Someone needs to give Tomino a hug and a plate of cookies.
Somebody needs to give Tomino a swift kick in the crotch far more, the man's last outing with Gundam was terrible and he's kind of a dick based on his comments at conventions.
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Someone needs to give Tomino a hug and a plate of cookies.
Somebody needs to give Tomino a swift kick in the crotch far more, the man's last outing with Gundam was terrible and he's kind of a dick based on his comments at conventions.
Reconguista was great, just a bit rushed.
This new one just got pretty hardcore.
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My friend has started watched Iron Blooded Iron Orphans and finds it pretty good so far. He didnt even really like Gundam before this series premiered so I guess that means something about how good it is right?
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I watched 3 episodes and it's not bad. At least I can tell you it's nothing like reconguista, which I couldn't even watch past the second episode, so.... yeah. Give it a try.
I'd also recommend One Punch Man. edit: And Haikyuu! S2 :D
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JoJo Part 4 adaptation confirmed for 2016. Hyyyyyyyype.
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JoJo Part 4 adaptation confirmed for 2016. Hyyyyyyyype.
Muhahahahahahaha!
EVERYTHING IS A STAND!
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Gundam Thunderbolt, a manga series, has been confirmed for animated adaption in 2016/2017.
Back to the UC for a full series, for the first time since Victory Gundam.
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Gundam Thunderbolt, a manga series, has been confirmed for animated adaption in 2016/2017.
Back to the UC for a full series, for the first time since Victory Gundam.
I am a bit iffy on some of their designs. I'd say "you can only strap so much **** on a robot" but they're in space so really they can attach as much **** as they like to their robots. I just hope the plot fits well. I like my UC to be internally consistent, and hang out at proper tech levels at certain times.
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I don't really remember if all that music from Thunderbolt was either Jazz or Rock. Music doesnt translate well through both language and because its a manga... well its pretty obvious.
I honestly enjoyed most of Thunderbolt. I particularly remember the water skiing Zaku's fondly.
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Wow, that was a fun Iron Blood Orphans episode.
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I just finished Planetes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes#Anime). It's really good, you guys. If a drama about space debris collectors sounds even remotely interesting, look it up. It's good. Way better than it sounds, actually, now that I think about it.
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Yus, that.
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Ahhh, I completely forgot that shows name. I was going to watch that at some point.
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Well, I watched Kill la Kill, which was awesome. All you have to do is get past the absurd fanservice, and the series is silly, funny, action-packed, and overall fantastic. It's been recommended here before, but I'm throwing in mine with the rest. But the fanservice is indeed absurd, you might have trouble watching it with anybody around if you get embarrassed at all about such things...
And after that, I just finished Yuki Yuna is a Hero (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru). It starts off fairly predictably, but goes in an unexpected direction and ultimately spends less than half of the series in "magical girl mode". It may surprise you! It surprised me, and I'm not ashamed to admit that manly tears were shed.
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A lot of series do fan service in such a way you feel like you're watching awkward pubescent wet dreams, Kill la Kill wears sexuality with such utter brazenness and so few ****s given it just elevates itself past even being an issue.
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It's typical Gainax/Trigger behavior: if you're going to do something, go so completely over-the-top with it that the only thing onlookers can feel is stunned amazement that you just did that.
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One Punch Man.
I had to go back a whole page to find this? what is this thread even for?
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Just finished Hataraku Maou-Sama!
It seems that the creators wanted to make a more action packed series but got a comedy one. Instead of despairing about it, they decided to make every action moment they got the stuff of legends, logic be damned. Seriously, listen to this piece (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozQCfqUvE6A). You could dub this over a trip to the bathroom and it would still be epic.
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That latest Iron Blooded Orphan's episode was really good.
I like how the series has a very low amount of melodramatic's during battle's. But I just wonder how they will fit the whole story into the allotted series length. It feels like it's still in the opening stages of the plot even thought it's 11 episodes in, which is worrying.
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Just finished Patlabor's TV series.
Really wish I'd seen it before.
Rewatching Bubblegum Crisis 2033. Still pissed I won't ever get Priss performing Edge of Glory.
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Dimension W:
A new dimension called W has been found, and that provides infinite energy and problems. Rohbutt and good action. MC is cool too, 'nuff said.
Musaigen no Phantom World:
Mass virus has changed every human brain so that people can see odd ghosts (phantoms). Since some of them are not that nice kids with special powers (because of that virus) fight (every now and then) against them.
Visuals are nice and girls are cute.
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Gundam IBO and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.
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I'm not sure someone here mentioned The Expanse. A brilliant new series by SyFy that combines elements of space opera, political thriller and detective story. Best elements of Firefly and Game of Thrones in one series. An interesting lore and great story intrigued me so much that I started watching season one at 10pm... and finished at 10 am next morning :). A mandatory position for any Freespace and other sci-fi fan.
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Arrrrrr.
Black Sails season 3. Brilliant show. Makes me want to replay the AC IV
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I'm not sure someone here mentioned The Expanse. A brilliant new series by SyFy that combines elements of space opera, political thriller and detective story. Best elements of Firefly and Game of Thrones in one series. An interesting lore and great story intrigued me so much that I started watching season one at 10pm... and finished at 10 am next morning :). A mandatory position for any Freespace and other sci-fi fan.
I read Leviathan Wakes (the first book in the Expanse series) and immediately looked to see if there was a movie being made. I saw back then that it was in production as a series! I have not watched it yet. Is the entire first (only?) season streaming somewhere? I'm looking forward to binging.
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Just watched the trailer.
It's got thingybob from breaking bad on it.
Win.
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I am also very interested to hear how The Expanse Show turns out
The books are not of consistent quality ... it feels like to osciliating in a way, though I can't point my finger at the precise intervalls (its not exactly per book) ... and that might translate really bad into TV...
Gundam IBO and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.
I recently watched Full Metal Alchemist and Brotherhood appeared on Netflix at the same time, but from the descriptions I cannot yet see a difference... Is there a point to watching it right away or should I save it for a rainy day when I feel like rewatching the original?
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The original Fullmetal Alchemist has a number of filler episodes after episode 3, and eventually catches up to and outstrips the manga, which was still being written at the time. Instead of going the route of many other anime series, rather than waiting and producing more filler they just made up their own ending. It was significantly different.
Brotherhood follows the manga significantly more closely, is more recent, has higher production values, and has almost exactly zero filler episodes. Brotherhood is some good **** yo.
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Yes, Brotherhood is freaking fantastic. Probably my favorite anime of all time. And, actually, I never finished watching the original. I should do that.
I was fairly excited for the Expanse, but found myself giving up on it a few episodes in. Flat characters and I didn't find the side-stories very interesting. It's got fantastic visuals though. And grunge. I'll probably give it another try.
One Punch Man.
I had to go back a whole page to find this? what is this thread even for?
**** YEAH THAT'S WHAT THIS THREAD SHOULD BE FOR. I'm watching one episode a week with my club and we're on the final episode this week. HOLY ****, BOROS. NO SPOILERS YOU TWATS.
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Thank you ... I found the ending rather ... odd and a bit ill-fitting, so if there is a superior version out there I will see if I can watch it....
Finished Netflix's "The Last Kingdom" just now ... I only watched it because I wrote a paper on Wessex under the rule of Alfred the Great a year back (which is one of the most ridiculus academia stories I know - basically I got one of my best grades on a paper disproving my own initial thesis which I formulated based on a wrong interpreation of a line in source material :D )
It is fair but the historical nitpicks drove me crazy at some point (the word "english" for example does not appear in the source material at the time) and there is something really wrong either with their props or their camera work (making the props look inconsistently)
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Well I finished Full Metal Alchemist a while ago. I found it really enjoyable. Subbed or Dubbed the dialogue, acting never felt contrived or unnatural and the battles were very interesting and awesome. I almost every character I met. Should I watch the Brotherhood movie? Still It's probably if not my new favourite anime now it's in my top 10-20's.
I've also been watching RWBY.... which well I certainty don't hate it... but I certainly don't like it. The fight scenes after Monty left for the big animated epic fight arena in the sky are really kinda boring and remind me of how the fights in DBZ went. Fight a little bit, pause, talk, talksomemore and/or repeat. I don't feel very invested in the character's, and it says something when a show's named rwby but the person with the most focus and development is neither ruby, weiss, blake or yang. Hell the main lead doesn't even get any that I remember.
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Anybody else watching Erased?
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Very much so. Excellent show.
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Holy ****, gundam was intense this week. Is anyone else watching this ****?!
(http://i.imgur.com/HCDv3Fg.jpg)
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No. I've given up on IBO. It's a character tragedy destroyed by a lack of reason to care about the characters and a story without a world. By now it feels like the sides are just there. It isn't like Mars was being ultra-oppressed. I mean, slums, underage prostitutes, you can find those in the goddamn US. (Just visit a Deep South state.) It's not entirely clear what's being fought for by Ghallerjohornsistthingy either, at this point, as they've apparently lost power here on Earth somewhat too.
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Anime isn't just for weebs
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Well, NGTM-1R may be failing to raise his flag, but yeah, I've been keeping up with IBO. Building to a climax in which it seems like anything can happen... and everyone is dead sure there's going to be a Season 2, because I doubt they can wrap up the story in one or two episodes.
My anime club has been watching Humanity Has Declined... but I just can't get into it. It's obviously a gag series, but the humor just falls flat to me. Even the protagonist's sarcasm just isn't really all that funny.
Anime isn't just for weebs
You're in an anime thread, dude. Talk about preaching to the choir...
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Honestly I don't know if its just horrible subs translation. But I've kinda lost track of the character movitavations of Tekkadan, Gjallarhorn etc. It's just all kind of a blur right now.
I get that Tekkadan is basically going to get wiped out if they pussy out at the last minute and they have no choice but to go through with it. But whats in it for them afterwards? Arent they just going to get hunted down by Gjallarhorn, how are they going to make their lives better if the solar police wants them dead? I'm honestly just so confused.
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Honestly I don't know if its just horrible subs translation. But I've kinda lost track of the character movitavations of Tekkadan, Gjallarhorn etc. It's just all kind of a blur right now.
I get that Tekkadan is basically going to get wiped out if they pussy out at the last minute and they have no choice but to go through with it. But whats in it for them afterwards? Arent they just going to get hunted down by Gjallarhorn, how are they going to make their lives better if the solar police wants them dead? I'm honestly just so confused.
I think they're pushing forward to create a situation where enough political powers owe them that they won't be instantly crushed the moment they stop moving.
McGillis is trying to reshape Gjallarhorn into something he thinks is more worthy, but I have a feeling that destroying all the honorable knight types is only going to leave scumbags like McGillis running things.
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For a while now I've actually been finding myself cheering on Gaelio, because his goals make the most sense, all he wants to do is make Gjallarhorn a better-organisation. A rich naive pretty boy he may be, but I keep finding myself cheering him on rather than the clearly psychotic and getting worse by the minute Mikazuki during the battles.
Honestly Orga is playing with a razor with Mika, he's clearly losing it (or atleast the impression I got). He knows it. But obviously he's too much of a resource to lose.
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McGillis is trying to reshape Gjallarhorn into something he thinks is more worthy, but I have a feeling that destroying all the honorable knight types is only going to leave scumbags like McGillis running things.
Personally I don't think he cares for Gjallarhorn at all and is deliberately trying to scuttle it, possibly with a side order of restart the Cataclysm.
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Here's how I read the character intentions:
Tekkadan: Want to make a name for themselves as a mercenary group. Their current job is bodyguarding Kudelia and Makanai and getting them to the capital of Arbrau. They feel that they can't back out of this job because no one would take them seriously if they did, and they'd have to abandon the bulk of their Mobile Suit forces to do so. Further, while they are allied with Teiwaz currently, their friendship with that organization is dependent on results. If they cease to be useful and become a liability, Teiwaz will drop them. As for making an enemy of Gjallarhorn, well, that kind of happened right at the beginning, but Gjallarhorn's influence beyond Earth itself is tenuous at best, so Tekkadan can, if necessary, stay out of their way and make a comfortable living in Jupiter and Mars.
Kudelia: Wants to generally improve the lives of the impoverished of Mars (and now the lower class of the Earth Sphere as well). Current goal is to make a speech at Arbrau, one of the Earth-based powers that has shown some support for her cause.
Gjallarhorn: Wants to maintain the status quo, with themselves on top of the world. Tekkadan's been making a fool of them for a while, so they want the group gone. But they have to careful of political backlash since Tekkadan has a few friends in high places and are heroes of the people.
McGillis: Claims to want to reform Gjallarhorn. His true agenda may be something different, as he's doing things behind the back of his supposed allies. Full scope of his plans remains a mystery.
Gaelio: Seems to genuinely want to reform Gjallarhorn, but is being left in the dark regarding McGillis's full plans.
Ein: Wants to KILL ALL THE TEKKADAN!
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Wanted some mindless mech fun. Can't find an English dub for planzet though.
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Currently watching Marvel's Daredevil Season 2 (right now at episode 10 of 13) ... and believe it is as good as they say (so far, opinion may change depending how this wraps up)
Most what was wrong with the first season they fixed (paceing is better, more time with the interesting characters, a bit more subtlety in the tie-ins and hooks department etc etc) and if you thought it wouldn't work without THE run-away performance of the previous season, don't worry.
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I only just discovered this 1988 take on the original novel.
Old school.
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Starship Troopers Anime
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
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I know.
It's weirdly unlike the book so far and I'm 70 minutes in.
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Starship Troopers Anime
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
And he hasn't even seen Roughnecks yet.
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:wtf: he hasn't?
You must correct this.
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:wtf: he hasn't?
You must correct this.
Huh, I guess I haven't. And will.
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I found TotalBiscuit's LP of Terraria featuring Jesse Cox. It's like one long glorious Abbot & Costello routine, only Costello is operating on the functional level of a 5-year-old.
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:wtf: he hasn't?
You must correct this.
This does indeed need correcting. Probably my favourite CGI only cartoon.
Also is anyone here a fan of Alan Reznick? I've been bingeing This House Has People In It.
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This season...everything turned out bad on the anime front except for the good ol' Haikyuu. Even DRRR was unimpressive.
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Osomatsu, the most insane show of the season!
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So how many episodes of IBO did they have scheduled or is Gundam IBO Ep 25 going to be the end of Season 1/the Series depending on if it gets resumed.
Also... Imma miss those character's that didn't make it.
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Surprisingly got into that 88 starship troopers. Now I can't find any more episodes :C
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So how many episodes of IBO did they have scheduled or is Gundam IBO Ep 25 going to be the end of Season 1/the Series depending on if it gets resumed.
Also... Imma miss those character's that didn't make it.
Confirmed for a second season in the fall of this year.
Enough orphans lived! Yay!
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Scarlett Johansson has been cast as The Major for some Ghost In The Shell project, according to some entertainment sites.
I have very mixed feelings about this.
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I'm not a fan of the casting. I like Scarlett Johansson, but I find it hard to believe there wasn't a single more appropriate actor to cast.
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I'm not a fan of the casting. I like Scarlett Johansson, but I find it hard to believe there wasn't a single more appropriate actor to cast.
I think she can do the role well enough that I'll enjoy it. And I'm pretty sure I know why she was cast over some of the others. (The Major was very tall for a Japanese woman.)
But I still think I would have preferred, say, Rinko Kikuchi instead.
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Scarlett Johansson is 5' 3".
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Well, I'm officially giving Log Horizon my seal of approval.
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Well, I'm officially giving Log Horizon my seal of approval.
The first or second season...?
I watched "Erased" the other day. 'Twas awright. Could've done with a bit more exploration on the Deus Ex Machina plot device, and the mystery wasn't very mysterious when I guessed who the killer was on their first appearance, but it was awright.
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I'm halfway through the second season now. It's a bit slower paced than I'm used to, but nonetheless enjoyable to watch.
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Well, I'm officially giving Log Horizon my seal of approval.
The first or second season...?
Yes. :cool:
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Dragonball super is ****balls horrific. It almost makes me miss GT. That's how ****ty it is.
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Well, I'm officially giving Log Horizon my seal of approval.
Word :yes:
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Yes. :cool:
Oh you sweet summer child...
(https://paragraphplague.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/lh12.png)
Meanwhile, I watched through KonoSuba (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!), which was as amusing as it was explodey and predictable, and picked up Re: Zero (kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu) which seems to have something of a similar premise, but also rather different as far as everything else goes. Should be nice as a series to watch as it's coming out.
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So far the best of this season seems to be re zero and boku no hero.
Will give snk 2: Zapoc version a few more eps as well.
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So far the best of this season seems to be re zero and boku no hero.
Read that as Boku no Pico for a moment there. Was very :wtf: (for the love of Vasuda don't Google that if you don't know already)
Just finished up watching Le Chevalier d'Eon with a group of friends. Very early-modern-Europe-by-way-of-dark-magic-and-zombies. It managed to induce multiple deep Wiki binges on all sorts of fun historical tidbits (and here I thought politics today were messy). Also working my way through Princess Tutu, which is the manliest girliest thing ever and don't let nobody tell you different.
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After suggestions here, I'm halfway through Knights of Sidonia S1. Pretty brutal so far, but interesting.
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So news finally arrived to this wretched corner of the planet that Marvel and Netflix had actually produced one more series other than Daredevil, named Jessica Jones. I was instantaniously curious about this choice when I realised it was about two characters I had gone through in the civil war comic run which I found grounded and interesting at the time.
So I binge watched it recently. Marvel made it again, it's a really good show. Not as good as Daredevil, especially the fighting (subpar), but the story, the characters, the arcs, and the overal themes were really well crafted.
And then yesterday I watched two episodes of THE FLASH. Now that's what I call "Culture Shock". I couldn't stop laughing manically at it.
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Late on this one, I know, but I just finished Serial Experiments Lain.
My only comment is: what the what? :wtf:
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Finally ended Daredevil's season 2. Some neat cross-overs between DD and JJ (Jessica Jones), which are subtle and never clash with the overall series, more like a statement that the series are within the same universe, which is the exact same as the MCU, after the NY "incident" (The Avengers, 2012). That is very good in itself, because it enlarges and gives wider context to each show, it enriches the stories themselves.
Season 2 of Daredevil is as good as the first, if not better. It lacks the "big ass villain" arc that both DD season 1 and JJ season 1 had (I don't think that The Hand qualifies), but it totally compensates that with the introduction of the Punisher and Elektra, whose entrance into the scene makes Matt's life go out of his control. More characters, never clear if one's a villain or a "good-doer" (and no one fits that bill better than the Punisher, who you're always in doubt if he's in self-control calculating things or a loose-canon mad man), each intersecting one's paths in very organic, natural ways. All plot points make sense, and are always the culmination of each character's agendas, rather than being shoe-horned. You never know what happens next, and the series is astounding in delivering what is "obvious" in hindsight, but quite a surprise when you're watching it (there was a brief exception when the wheels turning were too obvious, I think in episode 12, but otherwise, flawless).
Cinematically impressive, the fights are truly amazing and always a pleasure to watch (can't say the same about Jessica Jones, for technical and artistic reasons), the tone fits with DD really well (the "detective noire"), and they hit everything in the right key. Matt's catholicism, Page's struggle with her own moral questions, Foggie's ascent to a professional, mature lawyer, Elektra's dance between pure psychopathy and love / goodness, Stick's obsession with the "war", Fisk's becoming Kingpin, the birth of the Punisher, etc., etc.
I can't recommend the series enough. All other "superhero" shows that have ever been on screen just look childish and idiotic after Daredevil now. I tried watching The Flash but couldn't get past the obvious "this isn't for you adults" slap in the face. Daredevil is perhaps the first true really good adult superhero series, and I couldn't love it any more for that.
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Cinematically impressive, the fights are truly amazing and always a pleasure to watch (can't say the same about Jessica Jones, for technical and artistic reasons), the tone fits with DD really well (the "detective noire"), and they hit everything in the right key. Matt's catholicism, Page's struggle with her own moral questions, Foggie's ascent to a professional, mature lawyer, Elektra's dance between pure psychopathy and love / goodness, Stick's obsession with the "war", Fisk's becoming Kingpin, the birth of the Punisher, etc., etc.
Yeah, the fight scenes in DD are immeasurably better than what they did on JJ. I don't really blame them for it; the kind of stunt team it takes to pull those off does not come cheap (and Netflix seems to be really big on doing a lot with comparatively tiny budgets), and JJ, while being a fighter, is not a character that is defined by punching people.
That said, I do wish they put a bit more effort into the wirework for the next Jessica Jones season. One thing that took me out of the show's fight scenes was that the wire work was so bloody obvious; I know it's hard to sell someone like Krysten Ritter as being superhumanly strong, but it's also not impossible. I've been watching a lot of pro wrestling recently, and if you look at people like Sasha Banks or Bailey (seriously, do it, women's wrestling is the real deal right now), you have women who sell physical strength really well without being super muscly.
And can we talk some more just how good Bernthal was as Punisher? It's the best version of the "Remorseless Avenger" stereotype I've seen in years.
(That said: I still rate Jessica Jones a bit higher in terms of story. Daredevil S2 was a great ensemble work, but JJ delivered what I felt was a more compelling overall storyline.)
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Oh Bernthal nailed it 11/10. Absolutely. Superfan here too. So many amazing acting scenes throughout the season by him, I could really believe in his Punisher.
Regarding JJ's fight scenes, I think the problem has to do with the kind of fighting she does. She is supposed to have superhuman force (and jumps and etc.). Matt's skills are supposedly all human, all natural, just really damned good at it. That works with good stunts and without wires. But when Jessica throws a punch, it's supposed to throw her opponents flying, therefore it's harder to film (everyone has to be wired, the hits have to feel superhuman, etc.), and thus they usually cut the film at the punches and kicks to then put those people flying in the next cut. Which feels shoddy and unnatural. I see Supergirl also suffering from this problem. They correctly decided to tone down all fights (and jumping feats) in her show, but the technical difficulties leak to the screen.
Daredevil has these amazing long cuts where he just dances ballet around his foes in an unnerving realistic manner. That hallway fight right at the second episode is probably up there in the ranks of the best ever fighting sequence I've seen in my life. Number one reason? It felt real (the fact that it was shot after midnight, after dozens of failed attempts, and everyone was actually tired and thus, they had to breathe and collect themselves before continuing just added to the realistic effect). But it worked because Daredevil only has human fighting abilities. Had he been forced to do superhuman things of his own, I do think they would suffer the same problems as JJ.
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A friend of mine advised me to watch Code Geass.
I'm unimpressed. A mediocre attempt to copycat Death's Note without any of its charm. Everything is sudden, unintelligent, told not shown, and the 1st series doesn't even end in a satisfying manner (like Death Note 1st season did). I'm struggling with the decision to continue watching it.
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it sounds like it's clearly terrible and you've been misled by the notoriously divergent sense of terrible that anime fans possess
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Code Geass's only redeeming attribute is its giant mech battles, something you can get in much more satisfying (and sensical) fashion by watch Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team.
Go watch 08th MS Team if you haven't already. It's good. And the OP is maddeningly catch in a good way.
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War In The Pocket, not 08th MS. Better in every way.
Not that 08th MS is bad, necessarily, it's just that when you stop and think about everything Shiro Amada is a bit of a ****.
Also I gotta be honest, I don't think that Death Note's particularly good either. I've watched enough Criminal Minds to know that the only reason Kira wasn't apprehended in days was the difficulty the cops had coping with his method of killing and the power of author fiat. He wasn't particularly criminally sophisticated, he had little restraint and a huge ego. He would not have been hard to bait into contacting the police and from there it's all downhill.
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I think the first season was fine, except for some arcs. The second went downhill. I do agree that the major thing going for Kira was the novelty of his methods, but his eagerness and naiveté was pushed down by L right at the get go when he was able to pinpoint Kira to Tokyo. I think many episodes were really cool and clever. Some machinations he pulled off were smart and surprising. Also, the art style was good, something I cannot say about Code Geass.
Code Geass's only redeeming attribute is its giant mech battles, something you can get in much more satisfying (and sensical) fashion by watch Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team.
Yeah, I wasn't terribly moved by the mech battles in Geass. They felt like a blend of typical mechs with some Attack on Titan hooks. The chess theme wasn't even properly developed. Even one episode of Cowboy Bebop did it far better.
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War In The Pocket, not 08th MS. Better in every way.
Not that 08th MS is bad, necessarily, it's just that when you stop and think about everything Shiro Amada is a bit of a ****.
I will take a bit of a **** over a whiny 10 year old any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Plus the fights in 08th are more numerous and have the benefit of more modern animation.
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I will take a bit of a **** over a whiny 10 year old any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Plus the fights in 08th are more numerous and have the benefit of more modern animation.
The whole point of the kid is that he's out of touch with the reality of things until the end, where it all becomes brutally clear and he has a major breakdown because god knows he should.
Shiro by contrast basically walks off a war he knows more than any other Gundam protagonist is a moral necessity. He saw Zeon kill billions of people with his own eyes, in an incredibly painful and degrading way; he is an eye-witness to the greatest crime in human history. (Even the colony drop could at least be defended as a military action intended to achieve a military objective; the gassing of the majority of the colonies not so much.) He knows they have to be stopped. It's not that he has the mother of all PTSD from it. It's not that he can't handle things when his black-and-white view of reality is deconstructed because we actually see him work through it and keep fighting. He just walks away because Aina's hot. Such is the depth of his reasoning.
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I'm not arguing that Shiro is a better protagonist, I'm saying I'd rather watch 08th MS Team if I want to be entertained than War in the Pocket. The kid gets on my nerves. Whether it's better writing or not is irrelevant: I like 08th MS Team better, and will recommend it as a better vehicle with which to watch giant robot fights.
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A friend of mine advised me to watch Code Geass.
I'm unimpressed. A mediocre attempt to copycat Death's Note without any of its charm. Everything is sudden, unintelligent, told not shown, and the 1st series doesn't even end in a satisfying manner (like Death Note 1st season did). I'm struggling with the decision to continue watching it.
Personally, "charm" is the last thing I'd use to describe Death Note. Plenty of unintentional (or perhaps intentional on the anime team's part) hamming-it-up drama and L funtimes and "shut up Matsuda" moments, but not so much charm. Light is one of the most insufferable little ****s I've ever stumbled across in anime, and any potential for moral complexity gets chucked out the window within the first episode when he goes full-Stalin. Most of the so-called complexity of it is Light and L talking circles around each other ("No, now it is I who am over here!") Plus the show makes one of the most bafflingly-awful creative missteps I've ever seen in fiction: Sure, let's kill off your most compelling character halfway through, and replace him with two cardboard cutouts that no one gives a **** about!
Beyond the I'LL TAKE A POTATO CHIP...AND EAT IT!, I guess what I did enjoy the most is Ryuk doing pretty much everything for lulz. Just didn't do it for me.
In contrast, I found Code Geass to be substantially more fun, with the significant caveat that you absolutely have to turn off your brain for significant stretches because lol, animu. The second season in particular wound up turning into this gloriously awesome trainwreck that you had to watch to see what the hell it would pull off next. Even so, I found Lelouch to be a far more compelling protagonist than Light could ever hope to be: he actually maintained humanity behind his megalomania and had a legitimate moral purpose behind what he did, even if his methods were often reprehensible. Plus it had table-humping and robots making giant pizza...what's not to love?
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I will freely admit War in the Pocket has some choice dank Suits, the MS-14Jg and RGM-79SP being personal favorites
But at the end of the day...
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The best thing to come out of Code Geass:
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I have to confess that the second season is much better than the first. If you skip all the irrelevant "school" bits, it's actually an interesting show. And unlike in the first season, there are actually "ideas" in it. Most of them are retrieved from obvious sources, but still.
Thanks for your pushback. Without it, I would probably not watch the second season.
Regardless, I have skipped the generous suggestions to watch gundam and instead resorted to follow some people's advice and see Mr Robot. 3 episodes in and I'm really impressed. It's very good! And the one thing that impressed me the most was how code was dealt with. They were actually able to film code correctly and with tension! I had never seen that before, so that's a congratulations.
OTOH, Tyrell Wellick seems like an over the top, unfinished, unpolished character. And that first dialogue between him and the protag is cringe.
So, so far, if we just ignore this character, everything is really impressive. I totally recommend it.
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Just started The Walking Dead. I really like it.
Question for everybody: do you think the decision to kill a zombie would be difficult for most people? I don't think it would (even if the zombie were a loved one, or if zombies weren't part of popular culture). The experience would be traumatic, but I think most people would make the decision and go through with it.
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Without zombies in popular culture, you wouldn't know that there's no cure, or that it's not simply madness making your mom act weird and bitey. So for each zombie, you'd need to convince yourself that there truly was no cure, and that your loved one was truly already gone forever, even though it looks and sounds and moves like a real human.
So yeah, it'd be hard, unless you knew for a fact that it was the only solution.
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even though it looks and sounds and moves like a real human.
OK, it depends on the type of zombie. On The Walking Dead, zombies look and behave like rotting, mindless corpses, sometimes with body parts missing or guts spilling out. Certain characters can't bring themselves to kill zombies, and I find it hard to swallow.
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Even if it wasn't a zombie. Anyone comes at me full tilt. I'm putting them down.
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Zombies, at least Romero-style ones, are inherently frightening because they trigger a response in our brain that says "this is not a human; it is pretending to be one"; the response of a prey species perceiving a disguised predator, still wired into us though we haven't used it a long time. It is extremely unlikely a human being would have any difficulty killing one because their biology is literally screaming "THREAT" at them.
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Law & Order: The Best Of Ed Green.
*suspect flees, stops for no obvious reason, looks back*
"GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE, STUPID!"
*camera goes to short focus, shows a barbed wire fence*
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Short focus being narrow depth of field?
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Just watched both seasons of Tokyo Ghoul and just watched the latest episode of Macross Delta. I'm really starting to notice the size inconsistency in the new show. I really dislike the Macross Quater style ships but for some reason making the new one's ARMD's and how they portray it be allot larger for some reason alleviates this.
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I've regressed enough to watch anime again at this point. Berserk. It's so ****ing good.
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Started watching Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash last night. I've never seen a basic goblin given so much character.
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"You may believe, that you have to DIE, before the judgement comes. But I say the FIRE, is not around corner. THE FIRE, IS NOT AWAITING. THE FIRE IS NOT A'WALTZING. THE FIRE, has already come. As we mortals drink, gamble, and fornicate through this world, DEATH TO HELL'S BELLS THUNDERING TOLL, THE CLOCK OF DAMNATION'S ALREADY STRUCK MIDNIGHT! We're cooked, DONE! Stick a fork in the ASS OF THE HUMAN RACE AND TURN US OVER ON SATAN'S SPIT! Because we all, are not GOING to hell, as surely as we stand in Las Vegas, Nevada, I say, we are in hell...now."
Original CSI, Season 8, Episode 3. "Go to Hell." My second favorite moment of the series, where they open on a Baptist preacher. (That must be a tough job in Vegas.)
The first was way back in Season 1, and much quieter. Just Grissom getting on the rollercoaster as a method cleansing after a bad case.
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Haven't been updating the thread, but still M Delta. Sticking with it out of... i dunno, hope I guess.
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I posted some info there. Just in case, If you didn't notice it.
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I posted some info there. Just in case, If you didn't notice it.
Yep I saw, just didn't have anything I wanted to add. Other than "why the hell would you prop up your culture's equivalent to Satan inside your castle" but I suppose the USS Pueblo is also a thing.
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:bump:
Okay. The new TV season has started, and one of the new shows is really promising.
It's called "Westworld", and is based on the 1973 film of the same name. The original film was an entertaining, but not too deep affair; Ultimately, it was based on a scenario where the animatronics in a theme park glitch out and start to kill the guests. It featured Yul Brenner as the iconic gunslinger, a robot designed to engage park guests in gun duels and lose to them, who over the course of this movie becomes a Terminator-like figure.
The TV series is a very different animal. Produced by the same team as Person of Interest, it is on a very good track to become one of the best SF shows on the telly right now. Unlike the film, the park visitors do not really play a role in this show; the real drama is centered around Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores (the oldest AI running), Jeffrey Wright's Bernard (Westworld's chief programmer), Anthony Hopkins' Ford (Westworld's creative director), and Ed Harris' Man In Black (The scariest mother****er in the show, later more on him).
(Story spoilers in this section)
The pilot episode does spend a lot of its 60 minute runtime (this is an HBO show, so no 42-minutes-is-an-hour bull**** here) setting up the rules of the park. AI NPCs (called Hosts) are programmed to be unable to hurt a fly (there's a great visual early on where Dolores is waiting in one of the Host maintenance areas for a diagnostic, and a fly crawls across her eyes without provoking a reaction), and each have a bunch of storylines attached to them that they can play back on demand (Like the town sheriff, who waits at the train station to recruit people for a bandit hunt in the hills; All he needs to complete the picture is a floating exclamation mark above his head). As usual, everything seems fine at first; the admin team is currently in the middle of a patch rollout that would improve the lifelikeness of the Hosts (over the objections of the head writer, who thinks that a bit of artificiality and uncanny valley is actually a good thing) when problems start to appear. Some of the hosts start glitching out; Dolores' 'father' (played enormously well by Louis Herthum, a guy you can't remember but almost certainly have seen in other TV shows before) finds a photograph of one of the guests in a modern city and is unable to process it, the sheriff has an unscheduled epileptic attack, a robbery scene in which two host bandits have a falling out that ends in one of them dead ends with the wrong one dead, that sort of thing. A decision is made to recall the patched hosts and revert them to earlier builds, which leads to the admin team having to run a massive bandit attack on the town which easily rates as one of the best action scenes in recent memory.
In the midst of all this, Ed Harris' Man In Black makes an appearance. He first shows up in a scene featuring such a great reversal of audience expectations that I won't spoil it even here. He is presented as a sort of primordial evil, and it is here that the show really grabbed my attention. You see, back in 1973, we didn't have the vocabulary to describe his role in this, as there is no equivalent to it in a theme park setting. However, there is one in modern MMOs: He's the sort of guy who has played the game since the first public betas, who has done all the storylines and quests dozens of times, and has become a sort of super beta tester looking for the holes and glitches in the game on the assumption that one of them might lead him to a new storyline.
Oh, I should probably talk a bit about production values too. They're great. Westworld itself looks like you expect a Hollywood western town to look to a T and is sharply contrasted with the glass and gloss of the admin areas, all Apple-chic and modern, the soundtrack is being handled by Ramin Djawadi and his usual greatness (There's a theme here where some scenes are scored using modern music as played by the spaghetti western orchestra; a version of Black Hole Sun played on an automatic piano starts this, and it culminates in a massive shootout scored to a westernified version of Paint It Black). Acting is also uniformly good; There's a scene between Anthony Hopkins and Louis Herthum that is absolutely riveting to watch, and Evan Rachel Wood does a really impressive job in making Dolores (who is designed to be the generic good girl of westerns) one of the most interesting characters in the piece.
So yeah. TL;DR: Westworld is very good. Go watch it, and hope that it continues Johnathan Nolan's run as the guy doing the best TV SF.
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Produced by the same team as Person of Interest
okay I just started paying attention
/me reads the whole post
Okay, putting Westworld on my "to watch" list...
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Yeah, I saw a trailer for it a while back and was very interested but I didn't realise it was already on.
Added.
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One Punch Man was quite alright.
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One Punch Man was quite alright.
(https://i.imgur.com/7nPIzZg.jpg)
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I finished Macross Delta. Is it me or did they rush the ending? Loads of open plot points and characters with lacking development. I'm going to start watching S2 of IBO once a few more episodes are out, that and I keep forgetting to watch the rest of VOTOM's and GaoGaiGar. I need to nail those.
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One Punch Man was quite alright.
Saitama is pretty much my spirit animal. Like, if someone dumped a ridiculously-overpowered skillset into my lap and set me loose, I would have the exact same level of aggressive ennui that he exhibits. It's magical.
(Also The E's glowing review makes me wish I could manage to get invested in live-action TV series, because that actually sounds pretty damn cool.)
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I finished Macross Delta. Is it me or did they rush the ending? Loads of open plot points and characters with lacking development.
Yep. It felt unusually limp compared to its predecessors, even 7. It felt like they were too afraid to take real risks in its story and paradoxically took on the biggest risk of all; being a boring action show.
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I have heard that there was some sort of conflict between the show's producers and Kawamori that lead to Delta going in a different direction than originally intended, though I don't know the details.
I agree though, the ending was terrible. And not terrible as in "I don't like what happened in the ending", terrible as in "Did you actually resolve anything?"
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Beyond the Boundary
It's probably for girls but whatever I enjoyed it. Characters are likable, good humor, well animated and I didn't see some of the plot points coming.
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Been watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes, loving it so far. Most scifi shows don't really put this much thought into fleet formations and movements.
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Been watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes, loving it so far. Most scifi shows don't really put this much thought into fleet formations and movements.
Dat use of classical music...
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Been watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes, loving it so far. Most scifi shows don't really put this much thought into fleet formations and movements.
I'm a huge Gundam nerd, and Legend of the Galactic Heroes is my favorite anime of all time.
Also, looks like Naruto's final attack made use of Newtype abilities. It's like how Kamille defeated Scirocco, or how Banagher lifted the Nahel Argama and Garancieres into orbit.
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Watching After War Gundam X. It's okay. That is all.
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Keijo!!!!!!!!
For the plot obviously.
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Oh and
Mob Psycho 100
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Watching After War Gundam X. It's okay. That is all.
Captain Sideburns is an awesome dude.
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Just finished One Punch Man. Dat finale, unf.
Been watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes, loving it so far. Most scifi shows don't really put this much thought into fleet formations and movements.
When you put together the sheer scope and the ridiculous level of quality, I would genuinely rank Legend of the Galactic Heroes as the most ambitious animated project of all time. By some minor miracle both the anime and its original source novels have been licensed in the US. I already have my grubby little paws on the first three novels, and the anime is a day-one purchase, because I never thought I'd see the day.
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Watching After War Gundam X. It's okay. That is all.
Captain Sideburns is an awesome dude.
I was giggling when the MC was threatening the Vultures with his Mobile Suit's 'secret weapon' and how Jamil was freaking out. Even tho the MC was bluffing.
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Keijo!!!!!!!!
For the plot obviously.
The anime has skipped THIRTY-FIVE chapters setting up character motivations and other cool stuff.
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I started ZZ. I like my serious Gundam but I like my slapstick comedy. Also I'm almost to the end of the Shangra-la arc. Allot of this feels like it could've been skipped.
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Haikyuu, season 03.
GO.
WATCH.
IT.
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I started ZZ. I like my serious Gundam but I like my slapstick comedy. Also I'm almost to the end of the Shangra-la arc. Allot of this feels like it could've been skipped.
ZZ is definitely a show you have to like for the characters rather than the story. Personally I like it for the villains; Haman Kharn is the only villain in UC Gundam who seems to have actually thought her plan through and many of her supporting cast are great in their own way. I'm not in love with Judau but on the good guy side I actually like most of the girls.
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Haman Karn is trying to run Zeon and all she has is a bunch of crazy asteroid belt people and some insane brainwashed cyber-newtypes.
Mashymre is one, and Gotton is his handler. Chara is another.
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Just finished One Punch Man. Dat finale, unf.
Been watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes, loving it so far. Most scifi shows don't really put this much thought into fleet formations and movements.
When you put together the sheer scope and the ridiculous level of quality, I would genuinely rank Legend of the Galactic Heroes as the most ambitious animated project of all time. By some minor miracle both the anime and its original source novels have been licensed in the US. I already have my grubby little paws on the first three novels, and the anime is a day-one purchase, because I never thought I'd see the day.
I have to thank you guys for referencing this. I had no idea this existed. It's really good.
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Mashymre is one, and Gotton is his handler. Chara is another.
Mashmyre is great. He thinks he's in a romance and you get to see him wake up to the fact he's in a war story. It's glorious ugliness.
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I have to thank you guys for referencing this. I had no idea this existed. It's really good.
Few things please me more than getting more people to watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes
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Just finished the only movie that one should watch on a date such as this. Verily.
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Just finished the only movie that one should watch on a date such as this. Verily.
I'm going to assume it's V for Vendetta?
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Voila!
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Meanwhile I finally got to watch Star Trek Beyond.
What. The. ****.
Why. Why are people saying this was a "great movie"? Were expectations that low?
It was a hugely boring movie. My brain was constantly asking me to shut it off, the whole premise of the story is ridiculous, simplistic, over the top, uninteresting and annoying, and then it collapses into the oh so even more annoyingly ridiculous and simplistic revenge story as a twist. Thank you scottie, you really ruined Star Trek for me by writing this piece of **** that somehow, apparently, incredibly, fans loved.
I don't understand. Is this what Star Trek is really about? Boring set pieces collpasing to worse twists? With no added culture? No added thought? No inkling of interest in what it means to "boldly go..." etc? Even the template that all Star Trek movies have been trying to copy (and failing), that is TWOK, had thought, philosophy and interesting questions that posed. A movie that is more widely known for being an action-y revenge themed adventure.
Lemme guess the plot of the sequel Even Beyonder... wait, lemme not. I don't want to torture my brain cells even further.
By this time, even movies like Interstellar are incredibly more Star Trekkian than what this franchise has become. And that's saying a lot since that movie, well...
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Just finished the first season and the book :D Why haven't I found it sooner?
This intro is so simplistic but it's one of the most beautiful and inspiring I've ever seen. The time lapse showing the colonies expanding... touching :)
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God I just started rewatching the 10th and 11th Doctor. Goddamn, I just realized how....****ing pretentious and drawn out some it of it is. How many cheap tricks they implemented they got you to love characters quicker. The ****ing way they resolved the Time War that made a certain really good 9th doctor story pointless, it made all the **** he went through pointless. Beginning Tennant is kinda good tho.
Thank god Moffat's leaving. But I'm kinda skeptical of the new guy.
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Meanwhile I finally got to watch Star Trek Beyond.
What. The. ****.
Hey.
The Original Series is on Netflix. You've forgotten what it was like. Go watch some Where No Man Has Gone Before and Whom Gods Destroy and Journey to Babel and tell me how this is such bad Star Trek. In truth this is actually one of the better Original Series episodes ever filmed, doing all the things Original Series would have done if it had the budget to do them rather than being restricted to torn-shirt Kirk fistfights.
You want it to be a TNG movie. That's Kirk on the bridge, and that's not what this is.
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Meanwhile I finally got to watch Star Trek Beyond.
What. The. ****.
Why. Why are people saying this was a "great movie"? Were expectations that low?
As you can see, they were.
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And let's be real here, none of the TNG movies were actually good, the closest one is probably First Contact which was merely mediocre
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And let's be real here, none of the TNG movies were actually good, the closest one is probably First Contact which was merely mediocre
I was just thinking that First Contact was TNG's Wrath of Khan.
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Meanwhile I finally got to watch Star Trek Beyond.
What. The. ****.
Hey.
The Original Series is on Netflix. You've forgotten what it was like. Go watch some Where No Man Has Gone Before and Whom Gods Destroy and Journey to Babel and tell me how this is such bad Star Trek. In truth this is actually one of the better Original Series episodes ever filmed, doing all the things Original Series would have done if it had the budget to do them rather than being restricted to torn-shirt Kirk fistfights.
You want it to be a TNG movie. That's Kirk on the bridge, and that's not what this is.
Those episodes were done in the sixties and all of them actually had.... ideas. Fair enough, they were not the best of ideas, but nevertheless!
All of the first four TOS movies (plus perhaps the sixth) are far better than this "Mission Impossible" - like movie. Are they better "blockbusters"? No. They are filled with flaws and are not as well produced. But they are not brainless! Even TWOK *has* sci fi ideas in it that blend perfectly with the main themes of the movie.
What does Beyond have? Everything in it is half-assed. So we got a (SPOILERS) forgotten crew that was abandoned because no one knew where they were, but somehow that gets them to unanimously become revengeful (the only emotion that nu Star Trek villains can have, apparently) for no good reason? Then they get access to incredible tech, because plot? And they become some kind of ugly vampires? And no one takes some time reflecting upon this? No, it's just for the plot to move as there's this huge new technological threat that has no moral tension in it whatsoever? And then at the end we learn that in fact, the villain was just sharing his "tough love" to the federation so that it would not grow too liberal and "friendly"? What was it then? Why no one in his crew rebelled from this nonsense (just like Nero's crew, btw)?
There are no moral questions in the movie at all. No interesting ideas. Only "good guy turned spiteful and somehow got uber weapons and he's gotta be stopped" story.
Bo.****ing.Ring. If this is the new Star Trek direction count me out. I have no patience for this waste of time. If I want brainless "good set pieces" pew pew pew I'll just play Call of Duty thank you very ****ing much.
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Well since they've announced a new Code Geass season (apparently with the USD beating everyone up they need more cash) I've decided to finally watch Code Geass and check out why the memes are so...memey.
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New trek was utter non interesting.
The set piece effects were on to look at but felt hollow.
This film is a blonde slut wearing a low cut dress or flashing it's minge to hide the lack of substance.
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A new Code Geass season? Wtf can they possibly do after that ending?
I mean, season one was forgetful, season two was ok-ish. End it there, ffs.
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And let's be real here, none of the TNG movies were actually good, the closest one is probably First Contact which was merely mediocre
Hey, I would go so far as to say that one particular one was rather decent.
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A new Code Geass season? Wtf can they possibly do after that ending?
I mean, season one was forgetful, season two was ok-ish. End it there, ffs.
R2 was a gloriously entertaining absolute trainwreck of plotting, so personally I can't wait to see how they try to top it.
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Well since they've announced a new Code Geass season (apparently with the USD beating everyone up they need more cash) I've decided to finally watch Code Geass and check out why the memes are so...memey.
I would like it better if i wasn't so racist against whatever species of humanoid is portrayed in Gundam SEED and Code Geass.
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You have issues with CLAMP-noodle-people?
(CLAMP didn't work on SEED though, so I'm not sure where that came from. The art styles are totally different.)
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And let's be real here, none of the TNG movies were actually good, the closest one is probably First Contact which was merely mediocre
Hey, I would go so far as to say that one particular one was rather decent.
First Contact is not a decent movie, thanks to elements that clash with the TNG show that end up being worse in the movie, like the Borg and Picard's characterization (which more than clashes, as it's almost entirely different!), as well as a few other things. However, when viewed in a vacuum, these massive issues are alleviated some and it becomes a perfectly serviceable standard sci-fi action flick.
e: I'm not even a big TNG fan. I think it's a fairly average show with a detrimental episodic formula propped up by a few really standout great episodes and nostalgia, and I still think First Contact is a pretty poor TNG movie.
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Just finished the first season and the book :D Why haven't I found it sooner?
This intro is so simplistic but it's one of the most beautiful and inspiring I've ever seen. The time lapse showing the colonies expanding... touching :)
This post got me trying the TV series out. It feels like babylon 5 somehow. Ceres station I mean.
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Been watching DB:Super. It's getting better. Zamasu was kinda one note, started interesting but got super old.
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(CLAMP didn't work on SEED though, so I'm not sure where that came from. The art styles are totally different.)
Whatever the art style, they're portraying the same lanky, spiky species of humanoid with huge widely spaced eyes.
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The Expanse was boring as ****. Incredibly irrelevant that it is a sci fi show. It could perfectly had been written as a detective noir, apart from a few shuttle scenes that were quite good.
I've also watched Re:Zero. Very entertaining. I recommend it. The ending is a bit subpar, and I bet it has to do with some lack of decision whether if there would be a second season or not til the production ending.
I've tried to watch Gantz. I really tried. Horrible. Despicable. Awful. Couldn't go beyond episode 2.
Watched first episode of Trigun. Immediate thought: "this is like pre-BeBop right?". Too silly, but still fun enough. I'll probably check out further episodes.
Also seen first episode of Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Thoughts: very well produced, very straightforward, but I kinda am "meh" about it. There wasn't really anything that would grab my attention or interest.
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Watched first episode of Trigun. Immediate thought: "this is like pre-BeBop right?". Too silly, but still fun enough. I'll probably check out further episodes.
Trigun actually came out the same year as Cowboy Bebop, as did Outlaw Star. Needless to say it was a pretty ****ing awesome year for western-esque sci-fi.
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I've also watched Re:Zero. Very entertaining. I recommend it. The ending is a bit subpar, and I bet it has to do with some lack of decision whether if there would be a second season or not til the production ending.
It's because they wanted to tie down Season 1 without ending it in a massive cliffhanger.
Having been spoiled about it already, I can tell you that in my opinion it was the right decision (I considered adding the specific reason in spoiler tags but I know people sometimes automatically select spoiler text so I dare not).
Now I'm just hoping there will be a Season 2 within next five years or so...
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Yes, exactly. And the subpar-ishness of it is most probably due to undecisions until the last minute, for they should have written themselves out of the setups they created from the very first episode.
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I didn't notice anything unsatisfying about the ending to Re:Zero. It seemed like the arc wrapped up nicely. Sure, there're a lot of threads left, but I presumed those were for the future.
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Yes, exactly. And the subpar-ishness of it is most probably due to undecisions until the last minute, for they should have written themselves out of the setups they created from the very first episode.
I don't think it's that, rather the source material doesn't really allow this because pretty much the very next thing that comes up in Emilia and Subaru's talk is
<MEGA SPOILER DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU READ THIS>
Who's Rem?
</MEGA SPOILER DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU READ THIS>
So, yeah, it's a natural point for a season ending, but in the source material the story continues rather relentlessly and that's why they had to cut it at that point - regardless of it being "unsatisfying" at this point.
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I didn't notice anything unsatisfying about the ending to Re:Zero. It seemed like the arc wrapped up nicely. Sure, there're a lot of threads left, but I presumed those were for the future.
I'm not mentioning some few "threads" missing the punchline, I'm talking about the biggest setup in the whole anime (the very setup of it, ffs) being completely left out and ignored and exchanged for a love story.
So, yeah, it's a natural point for a season ending, but in the source material the story continues rather relentlessly and that's why they had to cut it at that point - regardless of it being "unsatisfying" at this point.
We're disagreeing merely on form. Even if what you're writing is meant to be unfinished, you should be able to close the threads you setup'ed in a satisfying manner. And if there are threads missing, you should at least make mention that these things are still unanswered. Rather, it seems to end in a way that signals that "Hey, this is the really great ending you waited for", without any mention of those setups and questions. It's cruel, from a writing standpoint. You can't just lay around BIG DEAL questions on the air and then pretend it doesn't matter, forever.
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This looks bizarre as hell but I think I will need to give it a shot.
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This looks bizarre as hell but I think I will need to give it a shot.
GOD. MY. OH.
I am intrigued as well.
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Blue's Clues, because my 9 month old daughter adores it. LOL
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I am in search of a series, which actually has a plot which goes somewhere and is somewhat interesting.
I've seen mr. Robot, which seemed to be about a hacker group fighting the huge corrupt corporation and world order in general, but turned out to be about being high & going crazy & characters getting killed.
I've also seen Westworld, which was just shallow.
The search continues.
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I am in search of a series, which actually has a plot which goes somewhere and is somewhat interesting.
If you aren't averse to anime, watch Psycho Pass
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I enjoyed WestWorld immensely. I must fight my own shallowness...
Been watching something called "Sword Art Online" due to a recommendation. First thought, this is for kids. Fragmented writing, loose threads, lazy writing here and there. But something was interesting, which I would like to share or discuss. Romance is usually treated casually or ironically or comedically in western animation or shows. It's crazy rare to find something like "true love" even in movies nowadays. But in this kids' show, they go full True Love. They depict a thing about growing old together, they depict a sense of "family".
I've noticed something similar in other animes. And I like it. It seems to me that the western world has abandoned true romance. We've become too cynical to allow it? Even Bond movies don't have sex anymore... IDK, I just found it surprising and remarkable, especially in contrast to what we have here in the west.
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This looks bizarre as hell but I think I will need to give it a shot.
GOD. MY. OH.
I am intrigued as well.
Saw the first two episodes and its definitely has some potential.
The second Ep reincarnation reveal certainly ups the bizarreness ante. Depending on how well things unfold this could be a gem.
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Why has no one mentioned Little Witch Academia? The series is airing.
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I just finished Part 4 of Jojo. For a Shonen anime, the villain in this surprisingly interesting. Even if he comes in later on in the story. Or has no complex machinations. I just find him to be a breath of fresh air. I liked it even if it wasn't as over the top crazy action and adventure hjinx as Part 3. Don't know where I'd put it on a list of the Parts I liked the most.
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Shojo anime are things like Sailor Moon or Cardcaptor Sakura. Jojo is pretty much the complete opposite of that.
Why has no one mentioned Little Witch Academia? The series is airing.
Did I miss something? The first movie aired ~4 years ago. The 2nd movie finished airing over a year ago.
Did they make a 3rd movie of Little Witch Academia?
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Shojo anime are things like Sailor Moon or Cardcaptor Sakura. Jojo is pretty much the complete opposite of that.
:nervous: Y-You... uh appear to be mistaken. I said nothing of the sort. :nervous:
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Why has no one mentioned Little Witch Academia? The series is airing.
Did I miss something? The first movie aired ~4 years ago. The 2nd movie finished airing over a year ago.
Did they make a 3rd movie of Little Witch Academia?
There's a TV series airing! Second ep just aired recently.
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what he said. it's looking good so far.
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Indeed LWA looks really good.
Also, Nyanko Days is most likely the most diabeetus inflicting series of this winter.
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LWA is great and you don't need to have seen the OVAs to enjoy it. If you liked Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, or any other Trigger show, it's well worth a watch already.
Maid Dragon is another great, sweet as **** comedy show that had some Dark Souls and Mario Kart references in the last episode.
On the more dramatic side, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo is a wonderful show about people and storytelling.
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Gundam used treaty-banned weapons to mount a direct attack on my feels
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I've been waiting to watch season 2 until it finishes airing because the feels were too much last season.
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Caught the premiere of The Expanse season 2. It's ****in' sweet.
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Premiere of Legion is ****ing, insanely, amazing.
It's just impossible for the rest of the season to live up to it.
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Finally able to watch Durarara x2, I have good feelings about this.
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Premiere of Legion is ****ing, insanely, amazing.
It's just impossible for the rest of the season to live up to it.
It's really hard to tell where insanity ends and superpowers start.
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Just started watching School-Live! (Gakkou Gurashi!). I can't remember where I saw it recommended - it could have been here - but I went in blind. The first episode was a little hard to get through, but there was quite the payoff at the end.
I'd recommend anybody watch all the way through the first episode at least.
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What's it all about?
Anyway, I've watched 1st and 2nd episodes of Erased, about a guy who usually gets suddenly timetravelled without notice when something terrible had just happened, and he has to figure it out in the few minutes he has to prevent it.
Then something bad happens and he gets time travelled like 18 years to the past and is suddenly a ten year old in school. He has to figure out why he was sent back and to prevent whatever happens, while dealing with that period's own shenanigans.
I got through two episodes, which means it's better than Re:Life, that I didn't manage to go through even the first one.
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Erased gets a bit messy by the end, but the human side of it is absolutely fantastic, and occasionally brutal.
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What's it all about?
About 23 minutes per episode. ayyyyyyy
School-Live! is about four girls and their teacher who live at their high school. They're in the "school living" club and it's a fun thing to do and there may be a reason why revealed at the end of the first episode I can't say any more.
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I started Voltron: Legendary Defenders. Dunno how I feel about it. It really hasn't grabbed me. I kinda have to force myself to watch it.
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I'm also watching The Saga of Tanya The Evil as new episodes are released. Picture it like Strike Witches with more pants and horrors of magic war. Also evil.
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I recommend Erased, Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi, the show I mentioned earlier. It starts slowly, in fact it goes slowly throughout the show, but it's a really sweet story. The premise is time travel, but it's in fact about friendship, family and loneliness (or lack thereof). Watch it, best anime I've seen in a while.
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Also the best anime mom ever!
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I started Voltron: Legendary Defenders. Dunno how I feel about it. It really hasn't grabbed me. I kinda have to force myself to watch it.
oh man
I knew I loved that show right at approximately the line, "I'm nodding. Is everyone else nodding?"
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Also the best anime mom ever!
Damn right!
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ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka
Bureaucracy?
Conspiracy?
Travel?
Baked Goods?
I didn't know I needed the above four items in a single anime but apparently I did. Plus the style is cool AF.
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I really am starting to love Tanya The Evil, it's like a typical anime, but told from the perspective of the antagonist. Imagine if Dragonball Z have been focused on Vegeta and hist adventures enslaving and mass slaughtering entire planets for his own personal gain. In the last episode (trying not to spoil things but maybe don't read if your paranoid) there was a guy who's last name was Sue who had a daughter named Mary, who now has a reason to dedicate her life to opposing Tanya's evil. :lol:
It's especially fun watching this right after having seen Izetta, another anime set in a magical World War 1, with a super goodygood protagonist.
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Haven't seen the latest Tanya episode, but I believe you. I was skeptical of that show, but when the real antagonist shows up at the second episode, I became interested.
Legion is still going amazing.
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This Saturday 11 PM EST:
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Holy ****, Killy talks!
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NOT ANIME!
/co/ peasants please GTFO this is sovereign /a/ clay
it was pretty ****ing good though, good to see Jack's back and they are looking to wrap up a loose end from my (not quite) youth
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omg
omg
omg
Also, I am watching Legion and it's great.
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Yeah. Legion is pretty awesome. Needs more of the rock throwing guy from the first episode though.
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NOT ANIME!
/co/ peasants please GTFO this is sovereign /a/ clay
it was pretty ****ing good though, good to see Jack's back and they are looking to wrap up a loose end from my (not quite) youth
:nervous:
Um this thread hasn't been anime specific since page one?
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The latest episode of Samurai Jack was pretty nuts. The art was beautiful and it even had an GBU/Ecstasy of Gold homage.
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It was excellent.
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At some point during it I was sitting there thinking, "What on earth did we do to deserve something this amazing?"
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Because humanity made Genndy exist.
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Nyanko Days! :3
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So I took a leap of faith on Friday and decided to watch my first anime. I've seen a lot of content online from various shows (definitely here at HLP too) and was rather put-off by the animation style and the over-sexualization of the women in the shows (at least, of the clips I had seen). And as such, I always steered clear of Animes.
But as a Yamato captain in world of warships, that theme song just sounded so good and seeing some clips online certainly did look intriguing.
So I started Space Battleship Yamato 2199...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Yamato_2199.jpg)
...And I cried at the ending. In part because of the
death of the captain and the rebirth of Yuki
and because I had been avoiding such a great show (and I'm sure there are others) for so long.
So I won't be able to start another for quite some time (put off an entire Diff. Eqn. Problem set :) ) as I have work to do. However, I will ask you all (some of whom I am hoping have seen a good crop of these shows), what would be another great anime to watch? It doesn't have to be space/military, just highly regarded.
I guess I also have no excuse for not playing Wings of Dawn anymore either :P
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Psycho-Pass
Black Lagoon
Ghost in the Shell (all of it)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
One Punch Man
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team
This is basically my favorites list.
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Space Battleship Yamato 2199 is definitely a top quality anime, you started at a really good spot.
Unfortunately that makes it tough to recommend anime that matches its visual and story quality, most of the time i can only do better in one category.
Story: Legend of the Galactic Heroes. This is an amazing story about space fleet admirals and their conflict as the Free Planets Alliance and the Galactic Empire reach the conclusion of their 150-year space war. The anime follows characters on all sides of the conflict, but mostly within the military. Its length is the only obstacle, at 110 episodes, but it needs each one. It's a bit niche and the animation is dated, but pretty much everyone that watches it considers it the greatest anime of all time.
Looks: I might get back to you on that one. I was gonna say Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, but SBY 2199 looks really good.
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Last Exile
Planetes
Log Horizon
That's the short list that dodges the high school and girl-centric shows. I'm not saying those don't have a lot of good shows, but you gotta work up to them.
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I wanted to like Log Horizon a lot, but then it ended up being "Not Sword Art Online: the anime". :(
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I wanted to like Log Horizon a lot, but then it ended up being "Not Sword Art Online: the anime". :(
That's actually a pretty high selling point in my book. SAO was...painful, to put it charitably.
But anyways, Techno, any one of us could probably give you a short list of a few dozen legitimately-awesome series (I'll still vouch for Cowboy Bebop being the best-constructed gateway drug one could ever ask for), but it mostly depends on what you're already interested in. I think one of the things newbies don't often realize is that, despite certain almost-universal sensibilities, anime is a medium instead of a particular genre, and in turn I think fans often fail to consider than when trying to push things on newcomers that they may have absolutely no interest in. It'll help if you give a few examples of the sorts of movies or TV series that you enjoy, since odds are decent that there's a good anime series out there that fits a similar niche. Not that I'm trying to discourage exploring beyond your comfort zones, though, since there are any number of ridiculously-good series out there beyond one's preferred genre. (For instance, I never thought I"d wind up adoring a show titled "Princess Tutu." :D)
That said, I second Turambar: Legend of the Galactic Heroes is an absolute must, at least at some point. It's a very long commitment (110 episodes, plus 52 episodes of prequel content to watch later, plus a few movies that get slotted in at various points), but it is easily the most ambitious animated work ever constructed, and it more than lives up to the billing.
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But Wait!
There's more in the pipe:
Besides those listed, some others to check out:
Cowboy Bebop
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Pretty much anything Hayao Miyazaki
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Also, watch the Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy, and Zeta Gundam.
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Movie Triogy yes, most newbies might find Zeta... to be very... Bland? Austere?
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Depressing as all hell? :p
(I haven't seen it yet myself, but Kill 'em All Tomino earned his name for a reason.)
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Crest/Banner of the Stars might be interesting if you like space setting animes.
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I wanted to like Log Horizon a lot, but then it ended up being "Not Sword Art Online: the anime". :(
That's actually a pretty high selling point in my book. SAO was...painful, to put it charitably.
SAO is considerably less painful if you just stop watching and pretend it doesn't exist after the first arc. Then it becomes a slightly above average shounen power fantasy, instead of... what we got. I guess if you really like that concept and want to watch something that isn't hate-watch levels of bad, go ahead, but it was thoroughly uninteresting to me after the first six episodes.
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Crest/Banner of the Stars might be interesting if you like space setting animes.
I watched these when i was seeing if I had missed anything else that was as good as LoGH. They are not my favorites, but maybe that's just because i found the relationship between the kid and the princess annoying. LoGH builds a huge world, and then takes us along as it changes. Crest of the Stars builds a huge world, and then lets us focus in on trivial details.
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I wanted to like Log Horizon a lot, but then it ended up being "Not Sword Art Online: the anime". :(
That's actually a pretty high selling point in my book. SAO was...painful, to put it charitably.
SAO is considerably less painful if you just stop watching and pretend it doesn't exist after the first arc. Then it becomes a slightly above average shounen power fantasy, instead of... what we got. I guess if you really like that concept and want to watch something that isn't hate-watch levels of bad, go ahead, but it was thoroughly uninteresting to me after the first six episodes.
Honestly, even the first arc was pretty dire. From the beginning it reeks of Gary Stu otaku wish-fulfillment, and the overall premise shows that the original author (Reki Kawahara) didn't have a clue as to how massively-multiplayer games or personal technology actually work. ("Sure, let's have a product capable of emitting fatal doses of microwaves right next to the user's skull somehow make it to market, and then let's have nobody be able to come up with the half-dozen trivial ways to disable them over the course of two years, because reasons!"). I generally have a pretty healthy ability to suspend disbelief, but when you set your story in our own near future and then don't even bother to consider the ramifications of what you're proposing, you'll lose me very quickly.
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"Slightly above average shounen power fantasy" isn't setting the bar very high. :P The fights are fun to watch and the concept is original enough that I'm willing to give it a pass on "this would never actually work" grounds. It is flashy and pretty, and therefore slightly above average.
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Eh, well to each their own then. For my money .hack//SIGN did the "person trapped in a game" concept far better almost 15 years earlier, and like 90% of that was people standing around talking. :p
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Hey All
Just wanted to say thanks for all the recommendations. Not sure yet which one I'm going to pick up, but it sounds like there is plenty of good content out there to watch.
I think I'll have to spend my free time playing Wings of Dawn first :)
TechnoD11
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Caught up with Tanya of the Evil, overall a very satisfying first season.
Hopefully season two gets green lit for Tanya of the Afrika Korps ?
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I was a little surprised they rolled out something as advanced as Panzer IIIs and V-1s for the final offensive, especially when they used more era appropriate Bayern for the battlewagons.
So Being X is grooming a new opponent for our slightly unhinged heroine?
Mary Sioux...
The trope memes are real!
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Ditto, Starslayer. But mind=blown on the trope memes thing, I didn't even notice.
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I think this just made me permanently lose my **** :P
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Me too and I've never even seen that show. :lol:
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Zeta Gundam is a pretty good show. They're uploading it on the official gundam youtube.
It's really an excellent sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam.
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Latest expanse.
#belterwords
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Latest expanse.
#belterwords
Sabez coyo!
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Latest expanse.
#belterwords
I wish I could watch Season 2 :(
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Caught up with Tanya of the Evil, overall a very satisfying first season.
They kept hyping up some kind of challenger, only to end up an utter disappointment, with no lessons learned, no arc to the main character, nothing whatsoever. Then they end up with another challenger as a cliffhanger.
I liked episode two. It showed potential in the long run. I'm utterly annoyed by now. Same goes for Attack on Titan season 2.
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Same goes for Attack on Titan season 2.
Really? Because I've been enjoying what I've seen of it so far much better than the first season. Probably because Eren's barely in it: the less he shows up, the better.
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The plot is doing to the titans what it should never do, humanize them. Give them real human faces. Really disliked that. Titans are a mesh of Kaiju and Zombies. And they are slowly being turned into tools of several sorts.
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Well, to be fair, they kinda need to evolve as a threat. If they remain just giant zombies, the threat they pose would diminish drastically as soon as the heroes lvl up or tech up.
(Note : Haven't paid too much attention to season 2, I only watched up to episode 4 or 5.)
If we go with the standard threat evolution paths in this context, you've got :
- Shonen inflation syndrome : ever more powerful titan-shifters, leading to the usual power level escalation bull****, which I'm tired of seeing.
- Switch the main threat to humans, in which case the titans become irrelevant.
- Go full Shivan and bring out the Sathanas fleet Colossal titan army (still carries the risk of heroic power inflation).
So, I'd be OK with a "tool-ification" of the titans, as it would help keep them relevant to the plot without necessarily needing to go all "moer powar", and make them more tactically useful (if by "being turned into tools of several sorts." you mean "they are tools for the titan-shifters", otherwise this whole post is irrelevant :nervous:).
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Finished Kemono Friends and started rewatching GaoGaiGar and Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta.
The thing that I kinda realize more I watch it, is that Gundam Zeta is really lacking style visually. Lots of details though. Most of the style comes from the music. That and the character interacts are at the same time more stilted and adult at the same time. I should get around to jotting down some changes I'd make to it and ZZ.
imo, I wish the Titan threat became a bit more insidious, ala that episode where the guy sees that Titan. You know the one I mean.
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Well, to be fair, they kinda need to evolve as a threat. If they remain just giant zombies, the threat they pose would diminish drastically as soon as the heroes lvl up or tech up.
(Note : Haven't paid too much attention to season 2, I only watched up to episode 4 or 5.)
Imagine what Mass Effect 3 did to the Reapers.
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anime with more than one season was a mistake
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Didn't play Mass Effect 3, so I can't draw any parallels to that ^^. But I see your point.
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When did AoT s2 release?
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New season started airing a couple of months ago. It hasn't finished yet.
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Netflix has failed me. Is it the case for knights of sidonia as well?
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AoT has finished its season. 6/10. Not solid. Many surprises, very little in the way of actual story.
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AoT has finished its season. 6/10. Not solid. Many surprises, very little in the way of actual story.
On the massive plus side, in the last episode I watched, the show hung a lampshade on Eren being ****ing terrible at everything he does. At least it's self-aware that its main protagonist sucks!
(Plus I feel like if you're watching Titan for coherent plot developments, you're doing it wrong.)
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AoT has finished its season. 6/10. Not solid. Many surprises, very little in the way of actual story.
On the massive plus side, in the last episode I watched, the show hung a lampshade on Eren being ****ing terrible at everything he does. At least it's self-aware that its main protagonist sucks!
(Plus I feel like if you're watching Titan for coherent plot developments, you're doing it wrong.)
The last episode I watched also had me in stitches for it's BAH GAWD, IT'S THE COLOSSAL TITAN FROM THE TOP ROPE moment
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I'm sorry if I feel like there's a massive waste of writing potential in an incredible setting like that, and feeling that all the time while I'm watching the show, which seems to always focus on the wrong things.
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It's done already ? How many episodes are in there ?
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12? 13? Check it in its wiki page.
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12 according to Wikipedia. I'm surprised, I figured it'd be in the mid-twenties, like the first season.
That means they must barely have had time to resolve the second sortie behind the Wall. The story can't have had time to progress at all beyond the action stuff.
I thought they'd stop at least neck-deep into (manga spoilers)
the Revolution and move Historia's arc forward. Then you could have the third season dedicated to the second attempt to get to the basement, the consequences of it, and stop right before the time skip.
Oh well, that means I've only got 6 episodes left to watch, maybe I'll pick it if I've got an afternoon to kill.
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So I've been watching a number of animus since I last bothered to post, and I HAVE OPINIONS.
1: "My Hero Academia" continues to be highly entertaining in it's second season. It's really great!
2: On nearly universal recommendation, I watched "Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid", which lived up to expectations fantastically! And it's one of the rare anime that's not based in or even adjacent to high school!
(https://media.giphy.com/media/l1BgRCIdihXvcd5tK/giphy.gif)
3: I also watched "Kemono Friends" which was really light, and cute, and fluffy. And stealth-educational. Warning: if you hate CG anime, you may need to skip this one.
4: Watched one of the nominees for Longest Anime Title Ever. It is called: "WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?"
I'm conflicted on this one. The universe it built is fascinating. The characters introduced have interesting histories. The events in the anime are interesting. Buuuut when all three of those things hit each other, nothing really interesting actually happens. I'd say it's worth a watch though.
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5: Re-watched season 1 of "Attack on Titan", and went straight into season 2 without expectations. I was pleasantly surprised, actually. I thought it was nuts! I said "Wait, what?" and backed up in multiple spots so I could be sure that I heard correctly. And all together, I found the art and animation to be just beautiful, especially in the last episode with all the scouts doing scout stuff. And I second Mongoose's opinion that less Eren is better, mostly because there was a lot more Sasha and Sasha is best scout.
6: There's an Attack on Titan spin off, called "Attack on Titan: Middle School". It's a comedy where all the characters (even titans) are students or staff in a middle school. It's weird, even more so if you've just finished season 2 of AoT proper. But entertaining, so far.
7: Saw the first episode of "Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor". I don't think the title translation quite succeeded, but that's the least of the problems here. It's a comedy! There were no jokes :(
Ok, there were one or two, but they just weren't funny enough to justify the "hilarious" faces that the characters kept making. I got halfway through the first episode, and took a break for a few days, then came back to give it a fair one-full-episode test. I can safely say that you can skip this one.
8: And finally, another comedy which actually reminds me of the previous entry a little: "Aho Girl". This show is bananas
(https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohrycUFcxlMkq2jcY/giphy.gif)
No! "Bananas" is an idiom in English, meaning "crazy". Anyway, it's fast paced, there's a lot of physical comedy, and silly faces, but it actually works. Reminds me a little of Nichijou - which you should absolutely see if you haven't yet. There's only two half-episodes out so far, but I'll be sticking with this one, I think.
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Just finished Revolutionary Girl Utena a few weeks ago. Then watched the film Adolescence of Utena. BRB, trying to find my brain.
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Castlevania.
Solidly enjoyed.
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Sorta soft-dropped Re:creators. It just got kinda boring and they keep stalling the plot.
That's ok though, this season is so good. Symphogear AXZ, Isekai Shokudou, Princess Principal, Knight's and Magic (knights and magic is bad but it's mecha CGI candy). What else? New Game!!, Sakura Quest (still running, probably one of the better cooldown animes).
Also the Gamers! OP has a Parody of PLAYERUNKNOWN'S Battlegrounds for 3 seconds in it, if you're into fanservice moments. Teen romcom otherwise so maybe not that high up the chain.
Also also Made in Abyss is supposed to be pretty good, and the 10 minutes I watched of it were very pretty.
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Still watching Sakura Quest and Boku no Hero.
This season:
Made in Abyss
Isekai Shokudou <- if you had a rough day I highly recommend an episode or two of this show
New Game+ (missed opportunity with s2's name)
Princess Principal
Kakegurui
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New Game+ (missed opportunity with s2's name)
Seriously!
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Finished GATE. Meh. 5/10.
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First 4 minutes of the very first episode of Kill la Kill is something that utterly anihilates the meaning of "over the top". I'm seriously doubting I'll manage to even finisht the episode.
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First 4 minutes of the very first episode of Kill la Kill is something that utterly anihilates the meaning of "over the top". I'm seriously doubting I'll manage to even finisht the episode.
Have you watched Gurren Lagann? It's a similar type of show. I love Kill la Kill but it's a weird show but it has a lot of creativity and toying with expectations behind it. If that style of show isn't your thing I get it but I certainly think it deserves most of its popularity.
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Finished GATE. Meh. 5/10.
I never managed to watch too much but the impression I got was that they really needed to be clever about making the fantasy world competitive with modern military power. Instead they made all the enemies completely idiotic and the show never rose above just a Oorah gun porn curb stomp.
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Finished GATE. Meh. 5/10.
I never managed to watch too much but the impression I got was that they really needed to be clever about making the fantasy world competitive with modern military power. Instead they made all the enemies completely idiotic and the show never rose above just a Oorah gun porn curb stomp.
That def. would have made GATE better than it was. But I kinda liked the realism of it just being a total romp -- the real problem was that if there wasn't going to be any military anxiety, the characters needed to be freaking amazing and talking about big ideas, and the evil Americans needed to play a bigger role, etc. etc. But yeah, there was just not enough of anything in that... damn shame too. It was promising
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I finally finished Death Parade, and I'm not sure how to feel right now.
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No question a medieval era army by itself is never going to stand up to any post industrial military force, but if the creators had eventually leveraged magic or other fantasy elements to some create some kind of asymmetric parity it would have done a lot to keep things interesting. As it was the baddies stopped being any kind of threat after the first episode, their continual tactical ineptness in the face of overwhelming firepower coupled with the main antagonist being comically evil and stupid drained any tension out of the proceedings. Instead of doing anything interesting with the concept, the show devolved into a repetitive JASDF **** Yeah! circle jerk with some clunky Harem elements.
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First 4 minutes of the very first episode of Kill la Kill is something that utterly anihilates the meaning of "over the top". I'm seriously doubting I'll manage to even finisht the episode.
Have you watched Gurren Lagann? It's a similar type of show. I love Kill la Kill but it's a weird show but it has a lot of creativity and toying with expectations behind it. If that style of show isn't your thing I get it but I certainly think it deserves most of its popularity.
My problem with it was that there's nothing in there that works like some sensible foundation where you can place nonsense on top. One Punch works ridiculously well because it establishes both the common sense ground and the nonsensical premise at the same time, where those two can contrast and give meaning to the comedy. If everything is nonsense and over the top, then it's just silliness on top of silliness and it's boring as ****, it's meaningless.
I have to be fair though, I really only watched the first four minutes before the protag reaches that ... uhhh ... "school". I couldn't take it anymore.
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First 4 minutes of the very first episode of Kill la Kill is something that utterly anihilates the meaning of "over the top". I'm seriously doubting I'll manage to even finisht the episode.
There is a problem with Kill la Kill as subtle thoughfull points which are contrasted by ott action and fanservice-heavy visulas rely on an intricate wordplay in Japanse - as such it is not quite the most accessible show unless you are there for the over the topness of it all...
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The "Goku suit"? Come on.
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The "Goku suit"? Come on.
Faithfully it should translate to uniform not suit - that the first episode opens with a bored class being lectured about fascism is not cooincidence :)
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Kill la Kill is indeed over the top (overall more so than Gurren Lagann) and its themes stay buried for the first 1/3 of the show pretty consistently in favor of lulling you into thinking it's going to be another high school battle show.
The "Goku suit"? Come on.
Faithfully it should translate to uniform not suit - that the first episode opens with a bored class being lectured about fascism is not cooincidence :)
If you're watching the official subtitles for it, they're pretty garbage. Most fansubbers translated it to "Ultima Uniform" and generally did a better job with wordplay.
That opening 4ish minutes is a lot of what you'll be in for. The main and supporting cast pretty much all go through some kind of arc and aren't just over the top silly but it takes a bit to get there.
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Mako Mankanshoku is objectively the best character in anything ever.
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One of my favorite moments is later in the show with her. Also her head is SO ROUND.
The Ryuko spotlight where she can barely stand
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I'm Commander Shepard and Mankanshoku Back Alley Doctor is my favorite Back Alley Doctor on the Citadel
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Mako Mankanshoku is objectively the best character in anything ever.
Difficult to argue with that.
KILL la KILL's pretty cool, and a bit more subtle than you'd think, but the setup does take a while. What's funny it that the fanservice is so central, in your face & over the top that it actually feel a lot less intrusive than the occasional boob & panty shots found in regular series.
In other news, I finally finished watching (well, sorta skimming) Attack on Titan season 2. I have to say, it's kind of disappointing that they stopped where they did. The season's mostly setup with ultimately very little payoff. The plot barely moved since the end of the first season. Also, I'm wondering if some of Armin's screen-time got shafted in favor of Mikasa again.
Re-less Eren is better: I remember someone saying a long time ago that one of the reasons the manga was easier to get through was that you didn't have to listen to Eren's voice, you only had to read his ramblings (or you could skip his speech bubbles entirely). I gotta say I agree with this sentiment, the moment he opens his mouth, it's just painful...
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I wouldn't mind Eren's bombastic ramblings nearly so much if he ever did anything at all to back them up. When you stop and think, you can count his wins on one hand, while he's a seasoned veteran at getting his ass kicked by just about everyone. Like, don't talk if you can't back it up. The show even lampshades it once or twice. And while I found season 2 entertaining overall, I'll agree that it was unfortunate that it only had 12 episodes, since it wound up being something of a bridge arc between much greater events.
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AOT season 2 Eren is saved by the dub voice actor, who manages to sound thoroughly psychotic while gargling razor blades, and also somehow not sound synthesized or fake.
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at least he's not a Mary Sue
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Neon Genesis is like watching a depressed emo pseudophilosopher slowly arguing for and against commiting suicide.
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Neon Genesis is like watching a depressed emo pseudophilosopher slowly arguing for and against commiting suicide.
It's based on Hideaki Anno's experience with therapy when he was having/had a mental breakdown, so...
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Yeah that totally maps with the show, but I would venture a guess and claim the writer was still very much on a downward spiral when he wrote this ****.
100% depressed stuff. Not "depressing", depressed. Heck, even Cowboy Bebop can be more depressing than this stuff. The characters are all pretty much ****ing pathetic from the get go and they don't improve one bit. If there's any real "arc" to the story is some sort of (Hitchhiker's) Marvin's idea of one (“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”).
Very interesting ideas in it and I enjoyed the Angels' designs. The last two episodes were unwatchable despite not being terribly written (the storyboards are probably to blame here, lacking completely in quality - and I've noticed the repeat animations, etc., it feels rushed a 1000%). No real closure to the bigger plot, but it doesn't even seem to matter, given how the focus is landed on Shinji's pathetic emotional self-motivational epiphany. Which I guess it's the point of the series? IDK, I feel I can't really care about it other than a little bit of rage against its angst and emo self pity trip.
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The last two episodes were unwatchable despite not being terribly written (the storyboards are probably to blame here, lacking completely in quality - and I've noticed the repeat animations, etc., it feels rushed a 1000%). No real closure to the bigger plot, but it doesn't even seem to matter, given how the focus is landed on Shinji's pathetic emotional self-motivational epiphany. Which I guess it's the point of the series? IDK, I feel I can't really care about it other than a little bit of rage against its angst and emo self pity trip.
First off, congratulations (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFQVZ2h0V8) on sitting through the original Gainax Ending :).
Last time I watch NGE, I just skipped the final two episodes and jumped straight into End of Evangelion ;).
The last two episodes are notoriously trippy, in part due to the fact that they were done with next to 0 budget, hence why it's like 85% stock shots & sketches.
Overall, it's a kind of a weird show, not up to everybody's taste, and can be quite difficult to sit through. As someone that's battled depression quite a bit, it really resonates with me, I loved the way it *****-slapped a number of action Shonen cliches, and I appreciate the way they manage to dance around their limited animation budget for most of the series.
It remains one of my all-time favorite anime even today, and I think it more than deserve its landmark status, but I'm certainly not gonna rise up in arms to defend it if someone doesn't like it.
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I tried watching NGE (and Rebuild of Evangelion) several times, and always ended up watching Gurren Lagann instead.
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I've yet to watch End of Evangelion, but I spoiled myself to the very tumbling down ending of it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFWXpYJKaI).
I haven't even heard of "Rebuild", I tried to keep my research of the things I'm about to see at barebones minimum so I don't spoil myself about anything with the exception above.... which wasn't really on purpose. It was the sheer beautiful weirdness of that video that brought me to check out the series in the first place.
e: I think this guy explains the end of evangelion pretty well tho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9RUOEOoNQ)
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I've yet to see all of the NGE series. I've been planning on it. However I have seen the Rebuild movies at the suggestion of my friend.
Rebuild 2 and 3 did not impress me one bit. I thought Rebuild 2 suddenly became an action movie with weird pacing and tone backlash and R3 was just really boring.
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This was a hidden audio track at the end of the US DVD release of the series. I think Spike Spencer sums things up pretty well.
I tried watching NGE (and Rebuild of Evangelion) several times, and always ended up watching Gurren Lagann instead.
I feel like Gurren served as Gainax's apology for Evangelion. Put the main character through a bunch of crap, but have him become the anti-Shinji and rise up in a blazing tower of manly awesomeness.
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I enjoy a bit of dorkly.
(I deem that this works on this thread more than the YouTube thread due to length)
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This was a hidden audio track at the end of the US DVD release of the series. I think Spike Spencer sums things up pretty well.
I tried watching NGE (and Rebuild of Evangelion) several times, and always ended up watching Gurren Lagann instead.
I feel like Gurren served as Gainax's apology for Evangelion. Put the main character through a bunch of crap, but have him become the anti-Shinji and rise up in a blazing tower of manly awesomeness.
I wouldn't call Gurren Lagann Gainax's apology. I'm a fan of Eva, last 2 episodes and all. While it's clear their schedule went to hell and they were in some legal hot water, the ending is as much the show veering off in a new direction as it is a reminder that the real world has a huge impact on fictional ones. Eva is not close to the original plan. Combine that with having to redo an episode at the 11th hour because of an attack and the end of the show was doomed but it's an interesting doomed. I'm loath to compare it to ME3, but at least the show had gotten weirder and focused on psychological stuff long before the last 2 episodes.
As for Gurren Lagann, it's a completely different tone with one of the most over the top directors at its helm (just look at how Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia ended). GL is a much more traditional show than Eva, Kamina not withstanding, and it's certainly more consistent. It does deal in some philosophy but never to the obscene ends as Eva and with it's first episode, like much of that staff's other work, the end of the show is put in place often in the first episode (though GL is still the best example of this).
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I'll watch Gurren.
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Gurren is probably Hiroyuki Imaishi's most accessible work (Yoh Yoshinari is the one responsible for Little Witch) and it's a hell of a time.
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Shame the start of Part 2 is really boring. I've heard that kills off allot of watchers.
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Gurren is such a kids show. I'm having trouble maintaining any level of interest. The animation and art are good, and so is the spirit. But jesus f christ.
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I finished off FMP TSR the other day. I had left it hanging like, 4 episodes before the end of the season back when it was first airing. Since SRW V came out and I played it, I figured I might as well catch up just to see where on earth the Arbalest animations came from. Man, the battle scenes were so good, it's a darn shame Kyoani won't touch mecha work nowadays (apparently the director found mecha shows really tough, iirc).
Also there is a weird focus on panty snapping, wonder if it was a fetish at the time.
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Gurren is such a kids show. I'm having trouble maintaining any level of interest. The animation and art are good, and so is the spirit. But jesus f christ.
You clearly don't have enough hot-blooded manly fighting spirit.
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Yeaaahh sure that muust be it. Right.
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spiral energy is just a knockoff Getter ray anyway
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Maybe Luis should watch the movie adaptation, might suit his attention span better.
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oooh shots fired, i'm in trouble now against the attention span police.
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What? I just mean that 2 movies is easier to watch than 20 something episodes.
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I finally finished Tamako Market. I don't think it was one of KyoAni's absolute best shows but it was still entertaining and I'd love to see more originals from them at some point. Time to get off the three year break and finish VOTOMS and then watch LotGH.
Also Sakura Quest having one more episode is making me sad.
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Pretty much halfway through the Kantai Collection anime.
And I'm still not sure whether it's an action, slice of life or war anime.
poi/10
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KanColl is really an advertisement. A friend and I watched one episode and stopped because of the animation quality.
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do you guys ever watch anything that's actually good?
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do you guys ever watch anything that's actually good?
Cowboy bebop isn't actually good.
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I just watch that one for ships and set pieces.
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Cowboy bebop isn't actually good.
Factually wrong statement says what.
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See Hades? This is how you low effort **** post.
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do you guys ever watch anything that's actually good?
Cowboy bebop isn't actually good.
still one of your best posts
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I recently discovered and subsequently marathoned Robotics;Notes... I haven't the foggiest idea what drove me to buy it but I'm glad I did. The two main protagonists have an annoyance causing level that is non-zero, but I feel that is more than compensated by the supporting characters.
Also the fact that the Blu-rays over here in Zone B land can currently be had for quite cheap and MangleUK MangaUK didn't screw up on this one... Actually I'm not surprised, seeing that they used Funimation's masters. I've long since decided that if I know before hand if a title has had Madman's hands on it, then I won't touch it. You can usually tell if Manga used someone else for their master rather than Madman, by the presence of a half decent song/signs subtitle track.
Oh,
Cowboy Beebop is indeed an excellent show, but of its contemporaries of the time I prefer Outlaw Star (recently got a Blu-Ray release that is awesome) and The Big O (I feel that Bandai's original DVD release is the superior version)
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I always liked this bit of self-awareness.
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Oh man that scene is legendary.
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good news guys, somebody's remaking cowboy bebop in a format spoon will like
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:lol:
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Looks like that ****ing new Legend of the Galactic Heroes trailer.
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Looks like that ****ing new Legend of the Galactic Heroes trailer.
waitwatwatthe****whaaaaaa
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...you haven't heard about that? They announced a new adaptation a couple of years ago, and an initial trailer came out a few weeks ago. It was...not promising (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-09-20/new-legend-of-the-galactic-heroes-anime-reveals-cast-staff-promo-video-dates-titles/.121619).
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good news guys, somebody's remaking cowboy bebop in a format spoon will like
Looks like an improvement to me, can't wait for the whole show to be redone in quality cgi like that. Maybe bebop will be good at last.
Looks like that ****ing new Legend of the Galactic Heroes trailer.
I have... mixed feelings.
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Speaking of old stuff I'm finally in the business of finishing Armored Trooper VOTOMS
You wouldn't get the second to last sequence on TV after that Pokemon boondoggle. Ah the 80s.
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VOTOMS is pretty fun. I remember liking it at the start because it felt like Space Mad Max, with some Rambo.
It's also where Bandai came up with most Gundam sounds.
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I'm about 2/3 done and the 3rd arc has been my favorite so far since Fyanna actually has screen time and does things. Plus the PTSD angle was surprisingly well done for the times.
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New LOTGH. I too have mixes feelings.
Votoms guy, looks like he capped his pants.
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My Hero Academia season 2 is over. Now my Saturdays will be sad :(
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Well, the season's mostly over, time for some reviews:
In Another World With My Smartphone:
Almost an interesting premise, but in the end (and middle, and beginning too, really) it was just a boring harem comedy. The main guy is basically a demi-god, master of all magic, and every fight he's in is just boring. His biggest problem in the series is choosing which of the four attractive, extremely competent girls - who are madly in love with him - to marry. Spoiler alert: All of them, why not.
Final decision: boring
Aho-Girl:
Short episodes, manic comedy, and some interesting character. Had some funny bits, but not over-the-top enough to really sell it. Still entertaining, would recommend. Lots of yelling and screaming though, so if you're annoyed by high-pitched Japanese girls' voices, maybe steer clear.
New Game!! (The second series of New Game! (note the single exclamation point)):
Cute, and funny, and emotional. Very, very good. And it's about girls who are not in high school! They're working at a game development studio! Anyway. It's good! Watch it!
My Hero Academia:
Adventure! Drama! Character development! Superheroes with silly powers that are actually pretty cool once you think about them! Ninja murders! Creepy dudes with bad skin! Scary creepy girls! And etc.
Gamers!:
A bunch of high school kids who really love games, become friends and/or fall in love. It's fun, and cute, and you feel bad for the main guy 'cause he's clueless. And there's a lot of really good game references, that shows it's written by people who actually play games. The series isn't over yet, but episode 12 was almost like watching a Jimquisition about over-priced DLC and microtransactions, except with anime girls instead of Jim Sterling.
Show's good.
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For seasonal stuff
Sakura Quest finished and was an excellent spiritual successor to Shirobako (though an entirely different subject matter). If you don't like workplace shows I wouldn't recommend it but it's a great looking show with a lot of heart put into it.
Boku no Hero Academia was a solid season 2 though its finale was a bit eh compared to season 1. Great animation and writing on top of having actually well directed action. Plus fewer recaps! (It's amazing what a schedule can do)
Made in Abyss. I enjoyed it a ton and have my fingers crossed for a season 2. If you like backgrounds watch this show. If you like creature animation watch this show. The world is top notch and the character writing is good and helps carry some of the more uneven parts of the show. Also a double length finale was a great season ending.
Princess Principal. I thoroughly enjoyed it and hey it's an original! The characters are well done if a little standard with their backstories but I'll take well executed over a lot of things these days. The finale is a bit strange and I wish it had another episode or had pulled an hour long slot like Made in Abyss but the ride was good and the art/animation alone is worth checking out. If you like retro-future-punk I highly recommend it.
New Game+ was better than season 1 and as someone who does game development it does a pretty decent job of capturing pieces of that world even if it's an overly positive and cute show (not that I'm complaining about having a show made up of exclusively cute girls who actually have personalities and motivation).
Isekai Shokudou isn't anything particularly special but if you want something comfy definitely watch it. It's a bit uneven towards the end but most of the characters are likable and I'm a sucker for food related anything.
I'm still waiting on Hiryuu to finish Kakegurui so I've only watched up to episode 9 but the show is utter trash. Highly entertaining and pretty trash but still trash. I wouldn't say anyone outside of Saotome is even a real character and I would really have appreciated self insert guy to have gotten killed in the first episode or just not exist.
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I'm kind of watching Stranger Things now.
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I'm three episodes in to Watamote: No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys Fault I'm Not Popular
It's creepy, and hilarious, and depressing, and awkward, and full of references. And it hits really close to home. Have a couple gifs:
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Carry on.
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Watch Welcome to the NHK next if you want the ultimate cringey self-loathing experience!
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No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys Fault I'm Not Popular
sounds like the name of a Culture ship
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Watamote is the best manga evar, period, no exceptions.
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I got curious because of Hellsing Ultimate abridged (which I came to know while stumbling around TVtropes) and watched its serious counterpart.
Uhm, fairly interesting in a pulpy sort of way but the humorous moments are so japanese they come off as profoundly unfunny to me with few exceptions.
Though really, sometimes it was difficult to keep the abridged series out of my mind when watching, I kept expecting Seras telling the scythe nazi "**** you, that's how".
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Stranger Things season 2
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Working through Crest/Banner of the Stars with some friends. Solid space opera with some great character writing for the leads. The strategic side of space battles isn't all that dissimilar to FS: a network of gates enabling access to an alternate dimension that allows for rapid transit between star systems. The episode I'm watching right now commented on how even a "back-line" occupied territory can be subject to attack without much warning, which made me smile given how many campaigns around here have played around with that concept.
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Initial D:
Subbed:
1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th and Final Stage Sub (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVG7zusJ1t8&list=PLLGCaGI3DpCCbKiw9sNV7FgvB_lxPutRw)
Here's (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72E3FF58D7289C0E) a list with the extra stages (between 2nd and 3rd stage). There's also English Dubbed versions of all of the above if you prefer (I prefer original voice actors usually).
Soundtracks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1uMijxWYs8&list=PLLGCaGI3DpCCAv4asdQioXSl7udPcMnuf) for awesome Torpedobeat overlays or driving or Freespacing or whatever. This is actually what got me into the show, I saw a couple of World of Warships Torpedobeats overlays that were pretty sweet, and looked up the tracks used, which then piqued my interest:
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Know your mecha sizes:
(yes we all know where this ends)
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So Gurren Lagann is insane then, or that's being silly?
Either way, kind of expected it to end with a "your mom" joke.
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Well, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan does seem to use smaller galaxies as shurikens, but I'll admit that by this point I wasn't trying to figure out its size. I do seem to remember it being merely big-galaxy-sized itself rather than big-cluster-sized.
But yeah, that series is both insane and silly.
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It has allot of Mecha inside bigger version of said mecha, inside another larger version of said mecha. etc. etc.
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So Gurren Lagann is insane then, or that's being silly?
Either way, kind of expected it to end with a "your mom" joke.
Pretty sure Neon Genesis Evangelion could have worked perfectly with a "your mom" joke.
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Why is this not exclusively a Made in Abyss thread now?
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chapter 44 when? :(
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What. wait. waht. hold on.
*grumbles at crunchyroll*
All right, found it. It's on the list.
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Someone misspelled Girls' Last Tour (Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou for us ****ing weebs out there).
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world war one was cute as hell and a great framework for kids animation saturday morning cartoon
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Working through Made in Abyss right now myself. It's really good, even if everyone looks disturbingly like Precious Moments figurines.
Also Crest/Banner of the Stars is absolutely required watching if you've ever so much as thought about space battles. The overall strategic landscape is so FS it hurts.
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oh, the Precious Moments art style is just to throw off your guard for when the encounter some tentacle eyed hell beast that sucks their blood out through their sweat glands, or one of the really ****ed up monsters like some of their fellow delvers.
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I wasn't much of a fan of crest of the stars / banner of the stars.
It didn't do anything that Legend of the Galactic Heroes didn't do, and it was all couched in the fiction of Mr meek kid and the girl who is way too awesome for him.
It didn't help that the 2nd part was them getting stuck on some **** planet, not doing any fun space stuff at all.
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Just saw Xam'd. Still somewhat perturbed after they started throwing babies into a river for their King.
Time for Concrete Revolutio!
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Well, I've started a bunch a series & anime this year that I didn't finish, and a few that I did finish, plus the usual series that I continued, so let's do a headcount :
TV Series :
The Expanse - season 2 : As good as ever, I don't think a SF series got me this excited right from the get go since Firefly & BSG. It's got tight action, engaging political intrigue, interesting character, great special effects and firmly stands on the hard side of science fiction, breaking the long-held assumption that hard SF would be boring on screen.
I very warmly recommend it, even if you are not a SF fan.
Dark Matter - halfway through season 2 : Kinda felt like a low-brow SF series at first, some off-brand Firefly with caricatures as characters. I you give it a chance, it grows on you, the characters become less cardboard and there's some interesting ideas here and there. I stopped watching it because I got somewhat distracted by real life stuff earlier this year, so I'd need to refresh my memory on what's going on before continuing.
In the end, it's quite enjoyable, I'd recommend it to people looking for a softer SF series.
Rick & Morty - season 3 : That series is a blast, reveling in self-awareness, poking fun at anything and everything while doing bat**** crazy stuff that nobody else would dare put on screen. Basically, it's kind of Community's cynical younger brother, with a healthy dose of black comedy.
Highly recommended, though one should be aware that it can get gory and/or unexpectedly dark.
Star Wars Rebels - season 4 (still running) : Pretty good series overall, it's got a few clunky moments, but some really awesome episode, especially during the season finales. It feels held back by being a family show in several places, but it still does pretty well under the circumstances, and contains a whole bunch of nods to the old expanded universe.
Recommended, even if you don't have much interest in Star Wars, it's still enjoyable on its own merits.
Game of Thrones - season 7 : Not really much to say here, although I will mention having some fun with my coworker figuring out how fast ravens & dragons would need to go in order for the timeline of one specific episode to make sense (roughly a minimum of mach 0.5). Offscreen teleportation has sure been handy this season.
The Last Ship - a quarter into season 2 : Good gods this is such an american series. I really like the premise & setting, but the execution is really meh. The action bits are really enjoyable, but it's way too black & white for its premise. The characters are especially disappointing, being quite bland and easy to figure out, although I do like the absence of inter-personal conflict among the crew - even as the whole world is burning around them, they do their best to remain professional. The villains are very much cardboard and caricatural, sometimes offensively so.
If you can get past the America-****-yeah attitude and don't mind the weak characters, it's an enjoyable naval action series, otherwise I'd pass.
Star Trek Discovery - three quarters into the season : This is probably the biggest surprise I've had this year. I expected this series to be unwatchable cheap standard pulp science fiction garbage - basically Star Trek at its worst, but it turned out to be pretty interesting, and I'm still not sure what to make of it. Its science is questionable of course, but hey it's Star Trek, what can you expect. Character-wise it's a bit all over the place, some are very standard, others are bit more complicated - the lead's all right, the captain is a bit standard although atypical in a Star Trek setting, the second in command is excellent, the engineer guy is fun. The series also broke the long standing Star Trek gay embargo, so that was unexpected. The effects and sets are absolutely gorgeous for a TV series, with a fair number of action scenes. The series has got its fair share of clunky moments and the Discovery's "specialness" is a bit on the WTF side, but it compensates with some original ideas or original takes on old ideas, so I tend to tolerate its flaws.
Highly recommended, although if you are familiar with the old Trek series & films, forget about them, this is trying to be its own thing.
Anime :
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - halfway though : Pretty enjoyable fluffy slice of life thing that for once focuses on adults rather than teenagers. It's actually really unsually down to earth in its portrayal of Kobayashi's every day life - japanese media tends to go over the top no matter what it portrays, and it's got some interesting, mature under-themes on same-sex relationships that you don't find often in japanese media. The maid stuff, I could probably do without, but hey it's Japan. It stopped watching it after I canceled my Crunchyroll account.
Between Kobayashi's daily life with her Dragon Maid (& dragon friends) spicing things up, it's a solid series I found quite relaxing, so I'm recommending it.
Haiyore! Nyarko-san - a third though season 1 : A Lovecraft harem(ish) series ! That is probably one of the weirder series I've watched this year, so I'm not sure what to make of it. I get the feeling that it's poking fun at the harem genre, but I'm not familiar enough with it to get it - the only other harem series that I've followed is Daily life with Monster Girls, which it fairly atypical itself. I also feel like there's not enough insanity given its lovecraftian theme, so after a little while I just stopped watching.
Attack on Titan - season 2 : I didn't expect it to be so short, although that could mean we'll get a new season each year now - the manga's got enough material right now to go up to season 5 or 6, and by the time they get there, the manga will either be over or have produced 3-4 more seasons' worth of content. It continues to be very faithful, but it's doing something really funny to make the series more tame & less gory : I uses blood (and clever framing) to cover up how gruesome some of the injuries are. They probably already did it back in season 1, but back then I hadn't re-read the corresponding chapters to compare the two. For example, compare season 2 episode 6 (or episode 31) when **** gets real 19 minutes in with chapter 42 - 27 pages in : we can't see Reiner's flesh and bones from the cut hand because it's just out of frame and blood gushes out, the anime also obscures how deeply Mikasa's blade embeds itself into his arm and a moment later into Berthold's neck.
There's a couple of other places where they do that, and it's kinda funny once you notice it :P
Overall, the season left me with the feeling that not a whole lot had happened, but in retrospect that's probably because I already knew the big reveals, they happened years ago and there's so much stuff that's happened since then, and I can't wait for them to get to the juicy bits that happen later on.
So in short, if you were disappointed by this season, stay tuned for the next ones, things aren't as simple as you think they are.
Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova - two thirds through : I gotta say I'm not too impressed with this adaptation, although part of it is due to it being so damn short, leading to a number of simplifications & stuff being cut out, and again attempting to make the series more viewer friendly in some ways. It certainly manages to capture the epic feel of some of the battles, but overall they seem to have dialed down the action (possibly due to budget constraints), dialed up the fanservice and missed out on some of the comedy bits. As a stand alone, it does alright as an fanservicey action series, but as an adaptation I can't help but feel a tad disappointed. I'm gonna delve a bit into my grievances regarding the adaptation, so feel free to skip to the TLDR bit ;)
- First, simplification leading to missed out comedy bits : while they expand on some of the gags (Haruna's change in personality when she is not wearing her badass long coat), there's a few bits that don't make it in, for instance the chibi duplicates of Iona & Takao's mental models didn't make it in so gags related to them are cut out, Iona herself has been turned into a standard emotionless girl, so we miss out on her dry sense of humour plus her hanging out with the crew. The genius girl's character arc is also massively simplified, the professor only makes it in long enough to provide exposition as to why this girl is supposedly important, so we miss out on the girl's adorable outsmarting of her guardians & a couple of other bits while she sneaks out.
- Second simplification leading to missed out action (& some more comedy bits) : the man-made submarine has (quite understandibly) been cut out, so action bits related to it have either been cut or transfered to I-401 herself, and some fun bits related to its crew are naturally out. The complexities of the japanese government are also out so we loose out on a couple of things here & there, but the biggest impact is related to the attack on genius girl's mansion, where's there's basically two taskforces being sent there, one to take out the girl, the other to rescue her. The professor isn't locked up in bed to spew exposition, but actually a parental figure to genius girl (actually her designer "dad"), and dies while killing one of the remaining snipers from the kill-the-girl task force, which leads to one of my favorite moments in the manga : Haruna flipping her **** over the newfound rage she feels at having watched genius girl's father (whom she is friends with by now) being killed in front of her eyes, and preparing to unleash a massive offshore bombardment over this. The battle of Iwo Jima is also quite different since it involves an hostile japanese task force instead of the Fleet of Fog (and some sort of Waaagh!).
TLDR; It's alright as an action series with fanservice, if a bit heavy on dry exposition, although I'm not sure how it compares to the other ship-girl series adaptation Kantai Collection (couldn't get more than a few episodes into that series).
OK, writing all that **** took way longer than I expected.
Question, I've seen Made in Abyss pop up quite a few times over the past few month and I'm considering having a look at it, but I have no idea what type of series this is ?
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Recently watched through "Schwarzesmarken".
It has everything I should like! It's got pretty girls piloting big mechs shootin' the heck out of creepy terror monsters!
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BUT... it never really grabbed me.
Oh yeah, it's also set in Cold-War East Germany, and the Stasi are a huge part of the story. Soooo, you also get purging and torture and sacrificing family members to stay un-purged yourself.
Overall, it was interesting, and had some pretty good action scenes, but difficult to watch.
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Question, I've seen Made in Abyss pop up quite a few times over the past few month and I'm considering having a look at it, but I have no idea what type of series this is ?
It's uhhhh... I can't really figure out what genre I'd put it in. But it's sort of a Dark Fantasy Adventure staring Children. Basically, it's very cutesy and funny, until it isn't. It's a pretty good Coming of Age story. It's pretty enjoyable.
Also it's got allot Gore, Death and Body Horror for having such a cute artstyle. So uhh be warned. Not everyone I know could stomach some of it.
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Question, I've seen Made in Abyss pop up quite a few times over the past few month and I'm considering having a look at it, but I have no idea what type of series this is ?
It's uhhhh... I can't really figure out what genre I'd put it in. But it's sort of a Dark Fantasy Adventure staring Children. Basically, it's very cutesy and funny, until it isn't. It's a pretty good Coming of Age story. It's pretty enjoyable.
Also it's got allot Gore, Death and Body Horror for having such a cute artstyle. So uhh be warned. Not everyone I know could stomach some of it.
Sounds interesting enough :)
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Yui is from Total Eclipse so this confused me for a second
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Recently watched through "Schwarzesmarken".
It has everything I should like! It's got pretty girls piloting big mechs shootin' the heck out of creepy terror monsters!
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BUT... it never really grabbed me.
Oh yeah, it's also set in Cold-War East Germany, and the Stasi are a huge part of the story. Soooo, you also get purging and torture and sacrificing family members to stay un-purged yourself.
Overall, it was interesting, and had some pretty good action scenes, but difficult to watch.
I enjoyed Schwarzmarken enough. It was competent which is more than I can say for Total Eclipse.
Made in Abyss was pretty good though it getting more adaptation is up in the air.
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Yui is from Total Eclipse so this confused me for a second
Well that explains why I didn't recognize that scene in particular. I blame giphy.
Is Total Eclipse in the same universe?
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I'd watch this stuff all day if I could. .
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Made in Abyss was pretty good though it getting more adaptation is up in the air.
I thought Best Dad's adventures in alternative single parenthood was confirmed? :confused:
Even that they were hiring a dedicated animator exclusively for Bondrewd.
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Yui is from Total Eclipse so this confused me for a second
Well that explains why I didn't recognize that scene in particular. I blame giphy.
Is Total Eclipse in the same universe?
Yes it is. If you want to get in from the top, Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative are both on Steam nowadays, though I daresay some of the charm that endeared people back in 2010 or so might not be there any more (no more knockoff Livin La Vida Loca, no bad voice overs).
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Alright, I've just powered through the Made in Abyss anime over the past week, it's excellent, undoubtedly one of the best anime series I've ever seen (which is starting to be quite a bit). From art direction, characters, plot or world building, that series is on top of its game, probably ending up in my top 5 favorite anime series (we'll see once the "good-series" high wears off). I just hope they'll put out another season in the not too distant future, 'cause I want more ! Seriously though, I don't know how fast the source material gets published, or if there are even plans for a second season, but if I have to wait like 5 years like Attack on Titan, I'm gonna be annoyed.
Very strongly recommended.
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The source material has completed one more story arc which provides probably 6 episodes worth of material (which by the way would be some of the most ****ing jaw dropping and gut wrenching material you could possibly imagine (like **** has not even begun to get real yet)), but not enough for a season 2, maybe an OVA though. The artist has a brisk pace of one new chapter every 1 to 6 months (it's technically monthly, but the schedule is "when it's done", putting it in the same league as Berserk), it's looking like we are close to a new release (interestingly when ever he works he live streams on pixiv apparently), maybe by the end of the week, but at the current rate of production it'll probably be another year or two to finish off the current arc and for enough material for 12 more episodes. but it takes a year or so for productions like this to get off the ground anyway, so I wouldn't get too upset about it. My gut says two years, or one year if they do a two hour OVA (which I could totally see) On the pluss side the Manga is getting an official release in North America right about now, so you can start buying that if you would like.
In other news, just watched the Netflix funded Devilman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii08flZCMYY). holy ****! what a beautiful disaster! It's just a hyperviolent and hypersexualized super splatery orgy of a tribute to (the) older anime. Pretty good adaption if you can appreciate/don't mind uttering phrases to yourself like "oh now we're in a club... oh, tits... oh, drugs... oh, that's a lot of blood" or "did... he just... literally rape that demon to death?" has nice art direction and the soundtrack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4w4zlbMLQQ) is ****ing retro wave as **** (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCE3e1-jNHw). Kinda brought back some of those old Evangelion feels. If you're in the mood for a "What the **** did I just watch?" ****ed up anime that is borderline porn but making callbacks to shonen tropes I give it a recommendation. Note this is the definition of NOT a normie friendly anime.
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Thanks for the info !
On the plus side the Manga is getting an official release in North America right about now, so you can start buying that if you would like.
Import costs would be a bit much, I'll be on the lookout for a European release.
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omg devilman crybaby is totally bonkers
e: just saw bob recommending it, jesus f christ lol, it's trippy!
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note: it was a qualified recommendation.
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I've been playing nothing but Steins;Gate for the past couple weeks and am part way through Chapter 7. I like the VN more than the show for a few reasons related to how damn long the thing is (31 hours and I still have 2.X chapters to go), especially the character stuff and how much better Okabe is as a character when you're stuck in his head. I still think it's one of the better time travelish stories out there. That said the anime is excellent if you don't like VNs or don't want to spend 50+ hours with it.
So far the show I'd most recommend that's started this season (and I have yet to watch Violet Evergarden) is Yuru Camp. It's a really nice slice of life/healing show if you need something charming and cozy in your life.
Sora Yori's been good so far as well (plus MadHouse original!).
Ramen Daisuke Kazumi-san has a decent gimmick for what's a standard yuri-bait slice of life show.
I'm hopeful about Trigger's collab Darling in the Franxx (will post about it after it airs)
Oh yeah and some Junji Ito short stories got adapted and it's first episode was great.
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If anyone was waiting for MiA manga updates, chapter 44 is out and widely available in the usual places, not a lot happens but a lot of things are being set up and some weird **** from earlier gets explained, some progress on the Reg "who/what the **** am I" plot line seems eminent and we meet one of the leaders of the current location, he's a total bro. A lot of things I cannot wait to see animated. It's a very cozy/cute chapter, with a little bit of action mixed in to (imo) humorous effect. Also, gratuitous food porn. Oh, and probabilistic languages.
FYI, chapter 26 is roughly where the anime lets off.
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Loved Devilman Crybaby, 8/10. Ends less brilliantly than the first and second sections, but still very very interesting.
Also really enjoyed the first season of psycho pass. Really recommend it, at least 7/10.
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Currently watching: "Konosuba! God's Blessing on This Wonderful World."
It's beautifully animated, cute, funny, has interesting characters, some good action. Good music, best OP, etc etc.
Warning: mild to moderate and occasionally severe Gainaxing.
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The gainaxing is a feint. The best girl is the one who isn't flaunting her assets. Unless inordinate destruction is considered a sexual quality.
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I’ve been binge watching Steven Universe and it’s wonderful.
First cartoon with such a young target I see in which stuff that would be subtext in more “adult” shows is basically the text.
There is also some interesting lore there, it reminds me of Gargoyles somewhat.
I just wish the airing schedule wasn’t so erratic, it might be months before the new episodes air even though the fifth season is still running.
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I’ve been binge watching Steven Universe and it’s wonderful.
First cartoon with such a young target I see in which stuff that would be subtext in more “adult” shows is basically the text.
There is also some interesting lore there, it reminds me of Gargoyles somewhat.
I just wish the airing schedule wasn’t so erratic, it might be months before the new episodes air even though the fifth season is still running.
I disagree. The writing is especially poor, especially in a certain episode, with major themes about consent, which portrays its message rather backwards to how the writers intended it. But to each their own.
Also blame Cartoon Network for the scheduling, iirc they only release two new episodes per month now.
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I’ve been binge watching Steven Universe and it’s wonderful.
First cartoon with such a young target I see in which stuff that would be subtext in more “adult” shows is basically the text.
There is also some interesting lore there, it reminds me of Gargoyles somewhat.
I just wish the airing schedule wasn’t so erratic, it might be months before the new episodes air even though the fifth season is still running.
I disagree. The writing is especially poor, especially in a certain episode, with major themes about consent, which portrays its message rather backwards to how the writers intended it. But to each their own.
Also blame Cartoon Network for the scheduling, iirc they only release two new episodes per month now.
Which one exactly?
The one with the desert island?
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I've only ever seen two episodes if the original first vanilla gunman series.
Don't judge me I just had other commitments in my earlier life and all spare time was on free space and boobs.
However...........
I just tripped over my jaw after seeing this on youtube, and i want to know why would these guys ever build anything else?
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I've only ever seen two episodes if the original first vanilla gunman series.
Don't judge me I just had other commitments in my earlier life and all spare time was on free space and boobs.
However...........
I just tripped over my jaw after seeing this on youtube, and i want to know why would these guys ever build anything else?
*SNIP*
Looks like ****e.
Redicolous super-mecha that somehow have the power-output and firepower of an entire army, while being basically invulnerable. Makes you wonder how there can even be any war if one side posseses tech that is THAT far ahead?
The best anime ever is LOGH. Prove me wrong. You can't.
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Watched first few episodes of No Game No Life. Jesus Christ my eyes hurt from so much teen fan service cobbling them over what would probably be an interesting idea. So far, 5/10. I guess the idea keeps me going with it, but it's almost a masochistic exercise. I feel old.
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Watched first few episodes of No Game No Life. Jesus Christ my eyes hurt from so much teen fan service cobbling them over what would probably be an interesting idea. So far, 5/10. I guess the idea keeps me going with it, but it's almost a masochistic exercise. I feel old.
That's because most anime IS targeted at younger audiences. Lots of shonens*** and moes***.
You have to sift trough a lot of garbage to find the good stuff...though I guess same could be said for any entertinment media.
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I've only ever seen two episodes if the original first vanilla gunman series.
Don't judge me I just had other commitments in my earlier life and all spare time was on free space and boobs.
However...........
I just tripped over my jaw after seeing this on youtube, and i want to know why would these guys ever build anything else?
*SNIP*
Looks like ****e.
Redicolous super-mecha that somehow have the power-output and firepower of an entire army, while being basically invulnerable. Makes you wonder how there can even be any war if one side posseses tech that is THAT far ahead?
The best anime ever is LOGH. Prove me wrong. You can't.
I really like LOGH I just haven't finished it. #reallifecommitments
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yurucamp is so comfy omg
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Yuru Camp and A Place Further than the Universe are both excellent so far for slice of life(ish) shows.
I've been enjoying Violet Evergarden quite a lot and fingers crossed that KyoAni can actually do well with the characters since that's what the show is.
Magus Bride and Garo Vanishing Line are still going strong for their second cours. Garo has some really good character designs even for one-offs.
Darling in the Franxx is looking like the biggest disappointment of the season since it's a mashup of Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, and Kill la Kill but without any of the character energy of any of the shows outside of the two main girls.
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If you have not watched Ping Pong, do so. I don't care if you don't like sports shows or don't give a **** about ping-pong or whatever. This is Masaaki Yuasa's world, and we're all just living in it.
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With regard to the discussion of DESTROY GUNDAM, that's all from Gundam SEED Destiny, which is widely regarded as one of the most **** Gundam shows. Of course the Destroy Gundam is a cheap knock-off of the Psyco Gundam (from Zeta Gundam, of which SEED Destiny is a cheap knock-off), which was notoriously difficult to control and wasn't ever mass produced because of that.
As for why they had other mechs than the destroy gundam, it's just that destroy gundam was developed more recently, so they still had an organized force of gundam-sized huge mechs. The villains in this part are a combination of super-racists and the military industrial complex. they are more concerned with being evil than any kind of real efficiency.
I am also in agreement with Legend of the Galactic Heroes being the pinnacle of anime. I eagerly await the day something approaches its greatness.
@Luis i can safely say that Legend of the Galactic Heroes has essentially no teen fanservice, unless you like cute space fleet commanding young men.
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What about the earth guys clerk or the space Germany princess? :)
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If you have not watched Ping Pong, do so. I don't care if you don't like sports shows or don't give a **** about ping-pong or whatever. This is Masaaki Yuasa's world, and we're all just living in it.
Seconded.
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The lack of praise for Monster in this thread is disturbing.
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I make no apologies, this thread has rekindled my interest.
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Don't watch that though, it's full of horrible spoilers
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I know. I actually trolled myself with it.
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Monster
Overrated, 26 episodes of content in a 75 episode anime.
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There was a pretty cool Monster Box Set down at the local Harvey Norman. I thought about picking it up, had really nice artwork and a fancy smancey box.
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Overlizard \o/
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Stein's Gate is the most boring **** I've ever suffered in my life, waiting for the "genius" anime that is just about to occur, and yet it flies past my head. It must.
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Monster
Overrated, 26 episodes of content in a 75 episode anime.
You know not of what you speak.
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Stein's Gate is the most boring **** I've ever suffered in my life, waiting for the "genius" anime that is just about to occur, and yet it flies past my head. It must.
I ****ing love Steins;Gate but it's definitely not for everyone. It's 50% slice of life and if you don't like the characters then what it does in its second half isn't worth it. I like all the characters and it does the time travel stuff actually decently.
The VN does some really interesting stuff with the idea of replaying a game and its true ending but it's a 30-50 hour game.
If you're interested in the time travel and like the characters, stick with it. Otherwise it's probably not worth the time. (Shame cause I adore it).
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Kinda very flipped out over the milkshake ducking of the net-juu no susume director.
I'm just hoping that I don't see any other similar news for other IP I follow.
IN other words, there's an anime about the JASDF breeding very moe dragons or something coming soon.
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So since it's one of the nostalgic thing about my childhood (I even had a model of the Arcadia IIRC) I decided to watch Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
Is it me or these old anime tend to feel a bit choppy? I had a similar feeling rewatching some random green jacket Lupin III episodes, the scenes don't always seem to flow from one to another as they should.
Take note that I'm watching the uncut versions (some of the scenes are in japanese with subtitles because of it because the RAI always shaved a minute or so per episode before dubbing for some reason) not some edited versions.
The weird thing is that I had completely forgotten the Italian intro which is weird because it was even a radio hit at the time, but then again I also noticed I didn't remember a lot about the series itself but probably the Italia 7's choice of jumbling the episodes with the ones of a later reboot (I distinctly remember the Arcadia changing back and forth between its original look and the reboot look with the skull and bones on the front) might have contributed.
Also I was no more than seven years old when they stopped transmitting it so perhaps my memories being rather sketchy is to be expected.
Until now the show is charmingly operatic with the more obnoxious anime tropes and humour being much more subdued than more contemporary stuff or absent.
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You know not of what you speak.
I speak of the 74 episode adaption of The Fugitive with the role of officer Gerard played by a guy with a typewriter for a hand and the one armed man played by a roof walking Antichrist who was raised as a Stasi child solder ..er i mean just born evil and burned down his upper class mansion home ...wait no he was he result of a eugenics experiment er, you know what, never mind.
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Oh, god, only now I realized a certain character in the most recent episodes of Steven Universe is basically a Captain Harlock parody, my unconscious seems to have been playing tricks on me. :nervous:
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This is my favorite Captain Harlock knock-off
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This is my favorite Captain Harlock knock-off
I didn't expect it to be referenced not just in one but two American shows, I usually don't expect 70s anime to be subjected to pop cultural osmosis in the US since they got late to the party.
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Megas was basically one big loving homage to giant robot tropes. Sadly short-lived.
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I didn't expect it to be referenced not just in one but two American shows, I usually don't expect 70s anime to be subjected to pop cultural osmosis in the US since they got late to the party.
Of the small minority of people who watched 70s anime and enjoined it, how much more likely than the general population were those people to end up working in the animation industry? If they were not like that to begin with, once on that track how likely were they to be exposed to and enjoy it? Who makes a lot of american animation? (hint: a lot of weebs)
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I didn't expect it to be referenced not just in one but two American shows, I usually don't expect 70s anime to be subjected to pop cultural osmosis in the US since they got late to the party.
Of the small minority of people who watched 70s anime and enjoined it, how much more likely than the general population were those people to end up working in the animation industry? If they were not like that to begin with, once on that track how likely were they to be exposed to and enjoy it? Who makes a lot of american animation? (hint: a lot of weebs)
Yes, but I noticed that american weebs (note: here you are more likely to see Lupin III t-shirts than Batman's while going for a walk so the concept of "weeb" is not as applicable here since a lot of this stuff is basically mainstream) are concentrated on rather recent stuff (no earlier than late 80s), so it's always surprising seeing something like the Lupin III cameo in Ducktales (whose source material is coincidentally VASTLY more popular here than in the US).
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RAISE YOUR FLAAAAAG
Iron Blooded Orphans I like.
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So, I finished Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and I can say that even if I liked a lot of it I have found it weirdly inconsistent (a warrior alien guy looks like a humanoid alien, a few episodes later his son and wife look completely human for example) and the way the pirate queen exits the scene in the flashback manages to be worse than Padme dying of heartbreak in Star Wars, you still have a daughter to take care of between bouts of space pirating GODDAMIT.
Though considering that according to TVtropes Mayu wasn't a thing in the original manga it might have been because nobody thought that perhaps keeping it as in the manga was a bad idea?
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RAISE YOUR FLAAAAAG
Iron Blooded Orphans I like.
I knew it was going to be special when some kids got sniped in the first episode.
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When they're not afraid to kill children, then they aren't afraid to take risks with their plot. ;) ;)
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Hunter x Hunter is good anime. It's like Dragonball done right. And it even has a SAO done right arc. It has heart and soul. I'm liking it.
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Togashi can spin a damn good shounen. Now if he could only sit down and keep writing...
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So I tried the first reboot of Captain Harlock (since as I mentioned I remember watching some of it mixed up with the original series when I was a child) starting with the movie Arcadia of My Youth and I wasn't able to finish it.
The scenes seem weirdly disconnected at times (the weird genetic memory thing comes out of nowhere), the dialogues have much more "anime-ness" (I don't know if the fault lays with the Italian dub however) and often come off as stilted.
And note that I liked a lot of the ideas and the new art style (apart from Tochiro, who I guess is supposed to be very short and with less than average looks, there doesn't seem to be the weird crew of dwarves of the first series at least for the hour and twenty minutes of movie I managed to watch), but the way the thing is put toghether was difficult to digest for me.
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Hunter x Hunter is good anime. It's like Dragonball done right. And it even has a SAO done right arc. It has heart and soul. I'm liking it.
I tried to watch as it aired on Toonami, but it infodumps like a mother****er which absolutely wrecks the pacing of it.
It's done well, I just couldn't get into it.
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Yeah it does that a bit, but I don't mind because the dumps in themselves are not dumb. And if I'm being bored to death, I just skip ahead. I haven't done that much of that though.
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Just passing through HardLight again, im surprised my topic is still relatively active, damn.
Anyway, some updates on my anime watching:
Im watching Overlord Season 2, Citrus and the new Cardcaptor Sakura´s anime (its quite good btw).
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So I recently suffered through watching the first episode of Pop Team Epic. Even WORSE it played TWICE. Why does this exist and where does the person who told me about it live?
What is there to watch that's actually good?
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So I recently suffered through watching the first episode of Pop Team Epic. Even WORSE it played TWICE. Why does this exist and where does the person who told me about it live?
The second time is with different voice actors. :P
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As a further attempt to counter my Steven Universe withdrawal and out of curiosity since it was often mentioned as being similar to the Ducktales reboot I've been watching Gravity Falls.
At first I wasn't particularly impressed, it was apparently mostly focused on rapidfire (and sometimes a bit mean-spirited) gags until at least the first half of season one, then it gets exponentially better and season 2 is just awesome.
I guess the thing was an intentional slowburner like the first season of Star Wars Rebels but with the additional turn-off of being a bit too focused on over-the-top comedy for an adventure show (while the first episodes of Rebels while not super duper classics were still very enjoyable even if the horizontal plot required you to squint to see it), and after seeing the rest of the series I can say you can't even skip them since a lot of stuff in those first episodes pays off later in the series.
There is some inspiration from Twin Peaks, both for the kooky country town in the northwest of the US and for the sadistic interdimensional eldritch abominations hell-bent on doing nightmarish stuff to our reality only in a more conventional adventure cartoon frame.
PS: whoever says that Webby in the new Ducktales is a Mabel ripoff probably didn't see at least one of the two series, they are completely different characters.
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Finished Iron Blooded Orphans., took me a while due to actual real life son and wife. Firstly, I saw the Orga arc end coming a mile off and the rest of it felt a bit cobbled. The whole atra mika blondie triangle is just weiiiiiiird.
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I didn't see the Orga arc coming. Also yes, the love triangle is... strange. Really straaannnggeee.
I also kinda liked it more when the Mobile Suits loadouts were much more ramshackle in Season 1. Like how the Barbatos would use enemy equipment.
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I wanted astaroth origin to show up.
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Watched the 2004' Appleseed movie yesterday.
A few weeks ago, we watched the 1988 one... that was a very boring movie with a 0815 terrorist story and without any serious questions. But this 2004 was actually a quite good action sci-fi movie :).
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So, carrying on with my modern cartoon spree in the last couple of weeks I have been watching Star vs The Forces of Evil
It’s kind of funny that of the three modern cartoon series I have watched recently the one that feels more “Disney” is from Cartoon Network (Star and Gravity Falls are both from Disney).
Star has a bit of a dreamworks/shrek vibe early on with all that comically invincible princess prone to ridiculous collateral damage paired with and OCD kid that would like to pass as a “bad boy” and fails utterly at it, but half-way through the first season (it seems to be a pattern with these cartoons) it starts to gradually become more serious and more straight fantasy with a third season (still running) that basically drops all the “fish out of water” stuff entirely for the protagonist and relegates it to the sidekick.
It’s also interesting that instead of killing off the initial joke villain (like in Star Wars Rebels) they somewhat make him into a sort of tragic figure.
There is also a very “does this remind you of anything” thing going on with the lore of the fantasy world in question, in one episode in particular the paralles are really obvious.
And yes, I started following it also because the opening theme is a goddamn earworm and couldn’t get it out of my head since I dared click on that youtube link of TVtropes.
PS: I also discovered that for some reason Star has second billing in the Italian title of the show, while I usually expect random censorship or toning down of stuf in basically any cartoon here this downplaying of the female lead is something I don’t remember ever happening here, especially considering that there isn’t really the same “Disney is for girls” attitude of the US and UK here.
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Yesterday we have watched Appleseed: Ex Machina.
Actually, i liked the Cell-Shading/CGI combination of Appleseed much more, than this pure CGI-event, even this movie has a more consistent style.
But apart from that, this movie fell short to its predecessor. I do not like Ex Machina's soundtrack as i liked Appleseed's. Also the story in this one was much weaker... hell it was more or less about Zombies.
"Captain Proton vs. The RoboZombies" could not even worse than this ;)
Actually, we were not even sure, if this movie is really a follow-up to the first one, because the german wikipedia page writes about a 26-episode long Appleseed anime that was released in 2006 and so before this movie... but i never find anything about that. But now i am sure, that they mean Applessed Genesis, because that planned with 26 episodes... even i do not have a clue, why they talk about 2006, because this one was announced only after Ex Machina... and was cancelled in the end. It is rare to find such long existing errors on wikipedia today.
The next one should be Appleseed XIII then, a real anime series... i think we will try to watch it in the next couple of weeks.
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With this season almost over, if anyone's still curious about shows here's my recommendations:
Yuru Camp (really nice, comfy slice of life. Fun art style, good direction, smexy backgrounds)
Violet Evergarden (probably the highest quality animation of the season, good if not totally new story lines, lots of feels)
Sora yori mo Tooi Basho/Antarctica show (slice of life-ish with some fun character designs, nice animation, some surprisingly good character writing)
Magus Bride (fantasy romance with some nice art and animation)
Garo Vanishing Line (urban fantasy with VR stuff, metal AF, dumps tons into character designs even when the characters are only there for one episode)
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I know what I will be watching.
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It's incredible that with that much of CGI firepower and 21st century technique, they are utterly unable to produce anything worthwhile to watch. That is awful to look at. I'd rather watch the original in a rotten VHS tape instead.
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Based on the trailer, I have no objection to the aesthetics of the remake.
There are, of course, several other reasons why I would eventually end up choosing the original over the remake (including writing, voice acting, etc), but I reserve my judgement until I actually see the first few episodes.
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I know what I will be watching.
this is relevant to my interests
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Mark my words, it's a failure, a DOA. I can't understand how the hell you find that aesthetically pleasing, but I guess things like taste aren't totally debatable...
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Mark my words, it's a failure, a DOA. I can't understand how the hell you find that aesthetically pleasing, but I guess things like taste aren't totally debatable...
OK, I've marked your words. I can't understand how the hell you would declare a series DOA simply by its aesthetics, but I guess our priorities in what we want out of our weaboo entertainment are not aligned. *Shrug*
Violet Evergarden (probably the highest quality animation of the season, good if not totally new story lines, lots of feels)
Seconded. It's been a while since I enjoyed an anime this much.
Magus Bride (fantasy romance with some nice art and animation)
This anime confuses me. I like it, for the themes it brings forward; I completely despise it for the reactions I see among its audience.
For those who have no idea what it is about: it involves an Eldrich Abomination / Fairy buying an underage Japanese girl from an underworld slave auction and grooming her to be its apprentice in witchcraft and eventually its bride. Yes, it is eventually shown that she is a fey herself and that the Magus' interest in her was largely because of that (early on, the Magus seems to lack any actual understanding of sexuality, thinking of her more as a 'pet'), but the squick factor remains.
The girl is completely and utterly damaged, from her previous experiences with the supernatural and from the abusive family she was living with before. She was outright suicidal before selling herself off. And I appreciate the themes of belonging, and bewilderment, and discovery that the anime discusses. And I very much appreciate the fact that the relationship between her and the Magus is not presented as something outright healthy and shojo-sparkly, but as something complicated, confusing, abusive (to some extent) and multi-faceted, with the not-quite-human factor of the beings involved giving an interesting spin to the whole affair. There is a distinct dark undertone of Stockholm Syndrome throughout, as the characters grow closer and become interdependent, and I think these topics are handled in a respectful fashion, never exactly being presented as 'OK' or 'healthy'.
What utterly triggers me are the comments in e.g. Crunchyroll along the lines of 'eeeeeee, aren't they cute' or 'isn't this romantic' or 'OMG I ship them so hard' or 'oh, isn't the scene where he tears her clothes off and washes her against her will funny?'
NO. It isn't. The fact that the scene is rendered in chibi style does not make it funny, nor does it mean that it's supposed to be read as such.
Think of what you just saw, people. Still an underage girl, bought and sold.
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Anyone who saw what happened to Berserk knows the **** I'm talking about. Unless you actually think that remake is something enjoyable *shudders*
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I'll grant you Berserk. That abomination was the uncanny valley made manifest.
That said, Berserk lives and dies on its aesthetics. LOTGH lives and dies on its plot and characters.
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At least from a visual standpoint I'm fully in Luis's camp. Those character designs are atrocious (who the hell makes Schenkopf a goddamn bishie), and the CGI looks cheap. At the end of the day the whole thing feels completely unnecessary. The original OVA series was one of the most ambitious achievements in animation history...what could a new adaptation possibly bring to the table?
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I wasn't going to watch the new Galactic Heroes because the ships look awful, i have no faith that modern anime can stick with a story as complex and slow-paced as LOGH, and they downgraded everyone's chin.
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Magus Bride (fantasy romance with some nice art and animation)
This anime confuses me. I like it, for the themes it brings forward; I completely despise it for the reactions I see among its audience.
For those who have no idea what it is about: it involves an Eldrich Abomination / Fairy buying an underage Japanese girl from an underworld slave auction and grooming her to be its apprentice in witchcraft and eventually its bride. Yes, it is eventually shown that she is a fey herself and that the Magus' interest in her was largely because of that (early on, the Magus seems to lack any actual understanding of sexuality, thinking of her more as a 'pet'), but the squick factor remains.
The girl is completely and utterly damaged, from her previous experiences with the supernatural and from the abusive family she was living with before. She was outright suicidal before selling herself off. And I appreciate the themes of belonging, and bewilderment, and discovery that the anime discusses. And I very much appreciate the fact that the relationship between her and the Magus is not presented as something outright healthy and shojo-sparkly, but as something complicated, confusing, abusive (to some extent) and multi-faceted, with the not-quite-human factor of the beings involved giving an interesting spin to the whole affair. There is a distinct dark undertone of Stockholm Syndrome throughout, as the characters grow closer and become interdependent, and I think these topics are handled in a respectful fashion, never exactly being presented as 'OK' or 'healthy'.
What utterly triggers me are the comments in e.g. Crunchyroll along the lines of 'eeeeeee, aren't they cute' or 'isn't this romantic' or 'OMG I ship them so hard' or 'oh, isn't the scene where he tears her clothes off and washes her against her will funny?'
NO. It isn't. The fact that the scene is rendered in chibi style does not make it funny, nor does it mean that it's supposed to be read as such.
Think of what you just saw, people. Still an underage girl, bought and sold.
One of my lab mates calls Magus Bride "Problematic Skull Husband" and I think it's a pretty apt description, especially with the way the show's wrapping up (haven't watched the finale). I think the show does a better job with its subject material than the comments would suggest but yeah, it's definitely a show with some problematic elements. I think Chise's (MC) character is strong enough for me to be okay with the more problematic stuff but your mileage may vary.
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One of my lab mates calls Magus Bride "Problematic Skull Husband" and I think it's a pretty apt description, especially with the way the show's wrapping up (haven't watched the finale). I think the show does a better job with its subject material than the comments would suggest but yeah, it's definitely a show with some problematic elements. I think Chise's (MC) character is strong enough for me to be okay with the more problematic stuff but your mileage may vary.
It's not the show itself that triggers me. Like I said, I love how it explores the themes that it has chosen to explore, and the setting and animation are glorious (not as good as Violet Evergarden (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eY5f2TQiZlY/Wo7dKOyPdgI/AAAAAAAAk_8/6NjUwsQNEH8IrGBQfcLzPmCKtHUXxYLUQCLcBGAs/s1600/Violet-evergarden-ep-7-gif%2B%25283%2529.gif), imo, but still a highpoint for this year). It's the reaction of the audience that makes me lose faith in bloody humanity. It's the Beauty and the Beast syndrome in full force.
If the audience were appreciative of how the relationship develops, of how the MC learns, grows and steadily re-discovers herself, leaving her suicidal past behind her and finding the strength to draw lines in this strange relationship she has found herself in? If they discussed how the utter man-(fey)child of Elias learns to see Chise as something more than a magic battery or a pet, and learns to respect her as an actual equal in the relationship? Then sure, I'd cheer along.
But all I see is (EDIT: OK, that was an exaggeration) an audience that selects the most cringeworthy, unhealthy points of the relationship, the very points that stress the unbalanced nature of it, and glorifies them as 'cute' and 'romantic' and I want to scream. I am not comparing this anime to Twilight, but I am bloody well getting Twilight flashbacks from some of its fans and it upsets me.
Possibly more than it should, but that's me.
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It's not the show itself that triggers me. Like I said, I love how it explores the themes that it has chosen to explore, and the setting and animation are glorious (not as good as Violet Evergarden (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eY5f2TQiZlY/Wo7dKOyPdgI/AAAAAAAAk_8/6NjUwsQNEH8IrGBQfcLzPmCKtHUXxYLUQCLcBGAs/s1600/Violet-evergarden-ep-7-gif%2B%25283%2529.gif), imo, but still a highpoint for this year). It's the reaction of the audience that makes me lose faith in bloody humanity. It's the Beauty and the Beast syndrome in full force.
If the audience were appreciative of how the relationship develops, of how the MC learns, grows and steadily re-discovers herself, leaving her suicidal past behind her and finding the strength to draw lines in this strange relationship she has found herself in? If they discussed how the utter man-(fey)child of Elias learns to see Chise as something more than a magic battery or a pet, and learns to respect her as an actual equal in the relationship? Then sure, I'd cheer along.
But all I see is (EDIT: OK, that was an exaggeration) an audience that selects the most cringeworthy, unhealthy points of the relationship, the very points that stress the unbalanced nature of it, and glorifies them as 'cute' and 'romantic' and I want to scream. I am not comparing this anime to Twilight, but I am bloody well getting Twilight flashbacks from some of its fans and it upsets me.
Possibly more than it should, but that's me.
Yeah I get that. I pretty much avoid anime discussion outside of this thread and people I know in person so I haven't seen pretty much any of what you're talking about though knowing fan culture, it's the least surprising thing I've heard in a while.
I watched the finale last night and I still like the way Chise and Elias's relationship changes but I felt the overall ending fell a little flat compared to some of the side story conclusions.
And yeah, it isn't as impressive as Violet Evergarden's animation (few things are at this point) though as I compared it to Garo (same airing cycle) and even Sora yori, made me realize how much more those shows put into their pure dialogue scenes than Magus Bride usually did.
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The Expanse. Season 3. Let's go.
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Lost in space season 1. I'm indifferent to it five minutes in.
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With the fourth season already confirmed it's no surprise that the third season of Star vs The Forces of Evil concludes in a cliffhanger.
Also props for the authors to finally have Star's relative inexperience finally get in the way during a combat situation (basically she's insanely powerful from the start, but this time she's against another powerful magic user that's much older which made a difference even if it was a close call).
I wonder however how will it go regarding the legitimacy of the Butterflly dinasty considering what happened during the whole second half of the season, especially with the queen still MIA.
Also finally Disney remembered they have an entire season of their excellent Ducktales reboot sitting on a shelf somewhere.
The episode about golf with the kelpies was hilarious and the other episode is a nice homage to the people who know Scrooge McDuck more from the old Ducktales than from the comics.
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I finished LOGH, man was that a very "adult" way to end a series. Hopefully now the Galaxy was be at peace.
Now I'm probably going to start watching Twin Peaks, It's gonna be interesting I guess. I've heard of Eraserhead, so I'm expecting a sort of similar style of strangeness.
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I finished LOGH, man was that a very "adult" way to end a series. Hopefully now the Galaxy was be at peace.
"You too, Felix?"
Quite a ride eh? There isn't anything else quite like it.
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I finished LOGH, man was that a very "adult" way to end a series. Hopefully now the Galaxy was be at peace.
Now I'm probably going to start watching Twin Peaks, It's gonna be interesting I guess. I've heard of Eraserhead, so I'm expecting a sort of similar style of strangeness.
Do you mean the third season or you haven't watched the series at all yet?
If it's the second case: Twin Peaks is a lot more lowkey than Eraserhead at the start (it's mostly a slight oddness of the people of TW with occasional supernatural weirdness) then the weirdness ramps up with the second season finale, the movie Fire Walk with Me and the third series though it doesn't quite reach the pure symbolism of Eraserhead.
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I finished LOGH, man was that a very "adult" way to end a series. Hopefully now the Galaxy was be at peace.
Now I'm probably going to start watching Twin Peaks, It's gonna be interesting I guess. I've heard of Eraserhead, so I'm expecting a sort of similar style of strangeness.
Do you mean the third season or you haven't watched the series at all yet?
If it's the second case: Twin Peaks is a lot more lowkey than Eraserhead at the start (it's mostly a slight oddness of the people of TW with occasional supernatural weirdness) then the weirdness ramps up with the second season finale, the movie Fire Walk with Me and the third series though it doesn't quite reach the pure symbolism of Eraserhead.
The Kaiser has died from Illness. May Odin take mercy on him.
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I finished LOGH, man was that a very "adult" way to end a series. Hopefully now the Galaxy was be at peace.
Now I'm probably going to start watching Twin Peaks, It's gonna be interesting I guess. I've heard of Eraserhead, so I'm expecting a sort of similar style of strangeness.
Do you mean the third season or you haven't watched the series at all yet?
If it's the second case: Twin Peaks is a lot more lowkey than Eraserhead at the start (it's mostly a slight oddness of the people of TW with occasional supernatural weirdness) then the weirdness ramps up with the second season finale, the movie Fire Walk with Me and the third series though it doesn't quite reach the pure symbolism of Eraserhead.
The Kaiser has died from Illness. May Odin take mercy on him.
???
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I've seen the entire series. Minus OVA or movies.
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I've seen the entire series. Minus OVA or movies.
Fire Walk with Me is kinda necessary to understand certain events of the third season.
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I've seen the entire series. Minus OVA or movies.
Fire Walk with Me is kinda necessary to understand certain events of the third season.
I think he is talking about Legend of the Galactic Heroes while you talk about Twin Peaks, Bullock
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I've seen the entire series. Minus OVA or movies.
Fire Walk with Me is kinda necessary to understand certain events of the third season.
I think he is talking about Legend of the Galactic Heroes while you talk about Twin Peaks, Bullock
I should have probably noticed when he talked about OVAs.
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I've seen the entire series. Minus OVA or movies.
Fire Walk with Me is kinda necessary to understand certain events of the third season.
I think he is talking about Legend of the Galactic Heroes while you talk about Twin Peaks, Bullock
I should have probably noticed when he talked about OVAs.
And the galaxy being at peace. Of course, Yang Wen-Li would say "there has been no such thing as a permanent peace, but there have been eras with decades of peace"
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Oh. Sorry. Sorry. I'm at episode 2. However I have only been listening to it while I'm playing through Dark Souls 2 to give me some background noise. Not exactly the best way to experience it.
Since I've experienced most of Deadly Premonition, and somebody has spoiled me on twists later on. I don't think the mystery has me as hooked as I think I should be.
Also Cooper is the best goofball. I want to rub his face. If i get a dog, I'm either going to call him Washington or Cooper.
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Oh. Sorry. Sorry. I'm at episode 2. However I have only been listening to it while I'm playing through Dark Souls 2 to give me some background noise. Not exactly the best way to experience it.
Since I've experienced most of Deadly Premonition, and somebody has spoiled me on twists later on. I don't think the mystery has me as hooked as I think I should be.
Also Cooper is the best goofball. I want to rub his face. If i get a dog, I'm either going to call him Washington or Cooper.
Yeah, even the first two seasons have some very visual moments so it's not exactly a "background noise" series.
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I'll try and watch it when I get a quite rare moment of silence where I can hear my own thoughts. I'm not exactly excited for Season 2 since I've heard it loses allot of the shows mystery and charm.
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Steins Gate 0!
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30484/Steins_Gate_0
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That's on Netflix here in the UK. I watched one episode but it just seemed a bit up its own ar$e in a sherlock kind of way :/
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On a sort of similar note I binged devilman crybaby and thought the original was better.
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Looking for a recommendation. I'd like to watch a good mecha anime, preferably without the robots flying all over the place, I like 'em stompy and lumbering.
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Here's three.
GaoGaiGar is kinda childish. But gets increasingly silly and dark as it goes along. Per the directors style. But it has really big stompy robits.
Also the design of the Mechs might be familiar to you, if you have any knowledge of Hasbro toys.
Gunbuster. It's basically a classic at this point. Is set mostly in space, with lots of hard scifi. The robot in it is huge. But the pace is slow.
The Big O. Is kinda like a weird mix of Batman and Phoenix Wright but with a big stompy robot defending a city from other big robots. So it's partially a mystery show, and partially a crime fighting show with big robots.
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Looking for a recommendation. I'd like to watch a good mecha anime, preferably without the robots flying all over the place, I like 'em stompy and lumbering.
I know for a fact it's been mentioned here before, but if you missed it somehow: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
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Awesome, thanks for the reply. I've not seen gunbuster and I love gainax so I'll give that a shot first. Probably end up watching all three!
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Can't get more stompy and lumbering than Dai-Guard...
A super robot... running on real robot physics... built by the lowest bidder.
Hey, at least it has the honour of having the best rocket punch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhegyYeZEU) of any mech ever.
Giant Robo (The animation) is fairly stompy.
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The original Pacific Rim is straight-up live-action mecha, and it's about as big and stompy as things get. :D
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Steven Universe dropped quite a nuke, in hindsight it’s been foreshadowed and I suspected something was up with Pearl compulsively shutting her own mouth with her hands a couple of times when she was apparently trying to explain something to Steven, just not that kind of something. :eek2:
And of course after this another hiatus, the promo said “summer” which may mean anything from the end of June to September to know what the fallout of the metaphorical nuke in question will look like.
And I thought live action TV was bad in that regard. :rolleyes:
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It's a shame they already leaked the plot of the Season Finale. Thanks to CN's incompetence.
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I am making good on my word to see the new LOTGH.
It's....average. Not offensively so, but perhaps disappointingly so.
Schoenkopf being a litteral pretty head pisses me off though. Where's my bear-like craggy-face berserker?
Also, Buwford needs a few more pounds, methinks.
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Schoenkopf being a litteral pretty head pisses me off though. Where's my bear-like craggy-face berserker?
Whaaaaaaaat!?
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It's a shame they already leaked the plot of the Season Finale. Thanks to CN's incompetence.
Fortunately I had read of the leaks on TVtropes while first binging the show so I make sure not to follow CN twitter and I am careful in never clicking on Steven Universe opinion videos on youtube (besides they seem to wallow in negativity, at least the ones I get in my recommendations), the people posting clips before I am able to get the episodes are bad enough, at least they didn't give away the twist this time.
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See, I want to like Steven Universe. I liked it when I first saw it. But now I only really watch or read about the important story episodes.
I generally skip any episode that has Lars or Lapis as a large role now too.
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See, I want to like Steven Universe. I liked it when I first saw it. But now I only really watch or read about the important story episodes.
I generally skip any episode that has Lars or Lapis as a large role now too.
I never quite understood skipping episodes of a TV series, usually when things get on my nerves I stop watching altogether (like it happened with Fringe and Smallville at the time).
Besides, Lars got better since he got the responsibility of the Off Colors and the latest Lapis episode is basically part one of the Big Reveal.
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Schoenkopf being a litteral pretty head pisses me off though. Where's my bear-like craggy-face berserker?
Whaaaaaaaat!?
Inorite.
I had been warned, but I had to experience this heresy for myself.
On another topic, the anime trend of 'combine awkwardly cute girl(s) with military hardware' continues with "How to Transform your Dragon" (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/HisoneAndMasotan).
I have no idea how to feel about this. On the one hand, the premise is utterly ridiculous. On the other hand, it has made me laugh. And it is....surprisingly deep.
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We'll see how they do the axe murdering next episode. I'll withhold my judgement until that time.
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@Turambar: if your comment about axe murdering was about LotGH, I am mortified to report that there was no axe murdering. Only Schoenkopf holding a gun to the fortress commander's head.
I am flabberghasted. Literally the most memorable thing about the Rosen-Ritter (their utter magnificent bastardery, brutality in melee and innovative tactics) is missing, replaced by their commander and three others somehow bluffing their way into the command centre of an impregnable fortress and threatening to shoot the commander.
Not to mention that the most out-of-battle character development the new Schoenkopf gets is inappropriately hitting on Greehill and being mysteriously cryptic about the possibility of betraying Wen-Li. God ****ing dammit, they've turned him into a bishonen Ermolai (https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=93394.0).
I am disappoint.
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So, I picked up Steven Universe a week or two ago. I initially just wanted something nice to watch while eating, but I've actually powered through most of it by now, and I think it's pretty good. The ten minutes format means that there's little padding, while spending enough time on plot, action, heart and comedy without leaving the viewer overwhelmed. Even the "life lesson" type episodes found in every children show work well since they tend to get straight to the point. Very nicely done, it gets my seal of approval.
Also, could we sticky that thread ?
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Better call Saul. ..
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I have been recovering Adventure Time.
The "deranged D&D session" description I have been reading for the feel of the series is rather apt for the first two/three seasons then it starts to actually do stuff with its characters and world often leading to some interesting stuff.
It helps that the more interesting secondary character start to get more focus than the main protagonists, at the moment I am at more or less half of season 7 and the first half focusing on Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen was one of the best parts of the series, IMHO.
So, I picked up Steven Universe a week or two ago. I initially just wanted something nice to watch while eating, but I've actually powered through most of it by now, and I think it's pretty good. The ten minutes format means that there's little padding, while spending enough time on plot, action, heart and comedy without leaving the viewer overwhelmed. Even the "life lesson" type episodes found in every children show work well since they tend to get straight to the point. Very nicely done, it gets my seal of approval.
Also, could we sticky that thread ?
I guess you haven't caught up with the latest season yet?
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I've just started watching season 5 this week, but didn't get very far (I got sidetracked by DotA 2's TI8). I should have finished catching up by the end of the month.
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Awesome, thanks for the reply. I've not seen gunbuster and I love gainax so I'll give that a shot first. Probably end up watching all three!
Dude, DUDE.
Armored Trooper VOTOMS and its OVAs are the hardest and the dirtiest of the real robot genre.
Do you like big battles with clearly defined rules (ammo consumption, armor piercing, tactical consideration)?
An entertaining ensemble without teenage whining?
John Rambo in the mecha genre?
Practically ZERO stock footage?
Then start with the TV show, you can thank me later.
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I've just started watching season 5 this week, but didn't get very far (I got sidetracked by DotA 2's TI8). I should have finished catching up by the end of the month.
Just to be clear: until you catch up do not look anything up on the internet about the series, even unrelated stuff about the first episodes of the series might have someone spoiling stuff in the comments.
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Yeah, I ain't crazy, I'm always very careful to avoid spoilers when navigating the Internet ;)
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Go Team Venture! Season 7.
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The ending of Adventure Time was fortunately one of the good episodes, a bit rushed but still a good finale.
I find the series as a whole terribly uneven with some really good parts and some that aren’t really in my taste but I can see how it influenced later animated series, last time I saw a piece of television history of this caliber end in “real time” was with the Buffy finale.
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Rewatching DS9. Again. Also I saw the finale of Adventure Time, and later on I'm going to see the new Venture Brothers.
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Finally got to see Avatar and Korra.
Good ****.
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I love the 1920's Shanghaish setting for Korra especially.
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Finished Steven Universe season 5, was pretty cool.
Watched the first episode of The Mist series, wasn't impressed, probably not gonna pick up the series.
I watched the first two episodes of Tokyo Ghoul, I'm not really sure what to make of it. The plot and characters seem pretty standard, I get a fairly strong feeling of déjà-vu from the series, despite never having seen it before. given the fairly limited amount of spare time I have, I feel like I would be better off trying another anime from my "To Watch" list.
Anybody has an opinion on that series ? Is it worth sticking around ?
I've had a look at Attack on Titan's season 3, but I don't really feel compelled to go through it. It wasn't the most exciting story arc in the manga, and I still remember everything well enough that I don't need a refresher. They seem to have skipped a few bits here and there, so maybe they're trying to power through it to get to the next juicy part earlier.
The next couple of seasons are gonna be pretty cool though :P.
I also started watching Altered Carbon, a cyberpunk-ish type series, it's looks pretty good for now, I'm curious to see where they're going with the concept.
Lastly, I picked up Disenchantment, Matt Groening's latest animated series. I kinda like it so far, Groening hasn't lost his mojo, and it fills my 20-ish minutes western show time slots nicely.
Speaking of 20-ish minutes time slots, any anime worth watching came out this year ?
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I watched the first two episodes of Tokyo Ghoul, I'm not really sure what to make of it. The plot and characters seem pretty standard, I get a fairly strong feeling of déjà-vu from the series, despite never having seen it before. given the fairly limited amount of spare time I have, I feel like I would be better off trying another anime from my "To Watch" list.
Anybody has an opinion on that series ? Is it worth sticking around ?
I can't remember if I even watched 3 episodes of it but it didn't grab me. I don't think there's anything especially wrong with the show (from what I watched anyways) but it's fairly middling as a horror show, if that's what you're looking for. A significantly better horror/vampire show is Shiki, just be ready for the most anime hair you've ever seen.
Speaking of 20-ish minutes time slots, any anime worth watching came out this year ?
Came out this year? Hmm...
From winter I'd recommend Violet Evergarden (even on the animation alone), A Place Further than the Universe (Sora Yori) as a really nice slice of life-ish show, and Yuru Camp (slice of life about cute girls who go camping). Though partially from last year I'd recommend Garo: Vanishing Line if you want action and urban/techno fantasy.
From spring I'd recommend Wotakoi for romance, Hisone and Masotan (dragon airplane show), Hinamatsuri for comedy. (I'm waiting to watch Steins;Gate 0 until I finish the VN)
From summer I'd recommend Banana Fish for gangsters/character drama, Revue Starlight for spectacle, being incredibly gay, and because I'm a theater nerd, sirius the jaeger for action and vampires (again if you're iffy about Tokyo Ghoul but want something like it, I prefer this but YMMV)
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Finished Steven Universe season 5, was pretty cool.
And of course it ended in a massive cliffhanger after a major shakeup, if rumors they are shooting for nine seasons is true it was quite a bold choice.
Lastly, I picked up Disenchantment, Matt Groening's latest animated series. I kinda like it so far, Groening hasn't lost his mojo, and it fills my 20-ish minutes western show time slots nicely.
Personally I've found it a bit bland in places.
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Tokyo Ghoul
To be honest, it was on my watchlist because the name popped up multiple times over the years and it was available on Netflix, so I figured I might as well give it a shot at some point.
Speaking of 20-ish minutes time slots, any anime worth watching came out this year ?
Came out this year? Hmm...
From winter I'd recommend Violet Evergarden (even on the animation alone), A Place Further than the Universe (Sora Yori) as a really nice slice of life-ish show, and Yuru Camp (slice of life about cute girls who go camping). Though partially from last year I'd recommend Garo: Vanishing Line if you want action and urban/techno fantasy.
From spring I'd recommend Wotakoi for romance, Hisone and Masotan (dragon airplane show), Hinamatsuri for comedy. (I'm waiting to watch Steins;Gate 0 until I finish the VN)
From summer I'd recommend Banana Fish for gangsters/character drama, Revue Starlight for spectacle, being incredibly gay, and because I'm a theater nerd, sirius the jaeger for action and vampires (again if you're iffy about Tokyo Ghoul but want something like it, I prefer this but YMMV)
Thanks for the recommendations :yes: I'll try checking those out and see how it goes :)
Lastly, I picked up Disenchantment, Matt Groening's latest animated series. I kinda like it so far, Groening hasn't lost his mojo, and it fills my 20-ish minutes western show time slots nicely.
Personally I've found it a bit bland in places.
Well, it's a Matt Groening show, so that's not too surprising ^^.
For me, it works quite well : baring a few exception, I tend to be doing some other task (eg. eat lunch, do MMO dailies, farm, etc.) while watching this kind of english-speaking short show (or youtube video or whatever), so my attention is rarely 100% on either, so it can afford being bland from time to time. I wasn't exactly hyped going into it, so it actually did better than expected.
Incidentally, this is one of the considerations I had when I picked up Steven Universe in the first place : it had roughly the perfect length for breakfast or lunch. Then it became too attention grabbing for any of that and I ended up just binge watching the whole thing :D
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Altered carbon is Bladerunner violently raped by Game of Thrones while Ghost in the Shell weeps hiding behind a throw cushion.......with its tits out.
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Got a free month of Netflix, so now I'm watching BoJack Horseman. It's great so far, being a very close runner-up to the Venture Bros for my all time favorite cartoon series.
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I didn't really like it.
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Altered carbon is Bladerunner violently raped by Game of Thrones while Ghost in the Shell weeps hiding behind a throw cushion.......with its tits out.
That good huh?
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No... that's not good.... at all.
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Rewatched the entire first season of SAO yesterday while it was running on TV. I'm not that a huge fan of SAO in general, but yesterday it was exactly what I needed. Made me feel so much better.
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Samurai Attack Ostrich?
Yeah I'm waiting for the scarlet Johanssen live action remake.
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Er no, Sword Art Online.
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Finished Revue Starlight and Sirius the Jaeger this week (Starlight might be my anime of the year).
I'm still figuring out what to pick up this season but I'm doing a rewatch of Shiki for the third or fourth time in honor of October (and it being one of my top 5 shows of all time) and man does it hold up, even if there are some weird quick fan service shots every so often.
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If Goblin Slayer is anywhere near as good as the novels or even the manga (which itself is an awesome adaptation of the novels), you might want to pick it.
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I don't really watch newly-airing shows much at all (except for Jojo, Part V hyyyype), but Revue Starlight sounds really intriguing in that it's in a very similar vein to Utena.
Speaking of, working on Yurikuma Arashi. It's peak Ikuhara and I love it.
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Gundam Unicorn is on Netflix
If you've gotten this far in life without watching Gundam Unicorn, this would be a great time to do something about that!
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I don't really watch newly-airing shows much at all (except for Jojo, Part V hyyyype), but Revue Starlight sounds really intriguing in that it's in a very similar vein to Utena.
Speaking of, working on Yurikuma Arashi. It's peak Ikuhara and I love it.
I'll tell you something else about Revue Starlight, some of its core staff was also on Yuri Kuma. I still need to watch Utena but from people who've seen both, the Utena connection is really surface level.
Also, hell yeah JoJo's hyyyyyyype. Fingers crossed we get fansubs that restore the references. (Also might just wait to binge it because Part 3 week to week was one of the most painful experiences of my media consuming life)
Gundam Unicorn is on Netflix
If you've gotten this far in life without watching Gundam Unicorn, this would be a great time to do something about that!
UNICORN. I'm still partial to War in the Pocket and 08th MS Team to it (for the grounding) but Unicorn is a tour de force.
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Nah I can't stand bingeing things. That slow burn over an entire week is one of the best parts of watching a great show
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Gundam Unicorn is on Netflix
If you've gotten this far in life without watching Gundam Unicorn, this would be a great time to do something about that!
On the other hand, don't do this, because the version on Netflix is the "six episode OVA expanded into 26 for a TV season" and my god it shows.
Go find the OVA instead.
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I thought the one on netflix was the 7 episode OVA, and not the unnecessarily cut up 26 episode season.
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It is the shorter one. I watched it all the weekend it released in the UK.
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Nah I can't stand bingeing things. That slow burn over an entire week is one of the best parts of watching a great show
Depends on the show and on your mood. Sometimes watching several episodes in a row is awesome as you get a better grip on the plot, and sometimes it might be an overdose. Personally I think it's better because when at some point near the end earlier events are referenced, you haven't forgotten about them (though over a week is still within range).
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Nah I can't stand bingeing things. That slow burn over an entire week is one of the best parts of watching a great show
Depends on the show and on your mood. Sometimes watching several episodes in a row is awesome as you get a better grip on the plot, and sometimes it might be an overdose. Personally I think it's better because when at some point near the end earlier events are referenced, you haven't forgotten about them (though over a week is still within range).
For stuff that's really dense or plot heavy, like JoJo's or Steins;Gate, I like being able to watch it at my own pace. For slice of life stuff, the weekly cycle is really nice and is probably how something like Sakura Quest was intended to be experienced.
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It is the shorter one. I watched it all the weekend it released in the UK.
Can confirm it's the OVA version, at least for Malaysia (I doubt they'd release things on separate licenses, especially since I believe the series version is on the youtube channel).
While we're on Netflix, apparently they have released the Korean film version of Jin-Roh. Titled Illang: The Wolf Brigade, the effects look, well, okay I guess. And the sewer scene is there. I haven't sat down to watch the whole thing yet, but maybe sometime soon.
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Been watching through a curated list of anime this past year; recommendations coming from here at HLP and from subreddits for the series that I liked. So far, I have in total seen (in order):
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (OVA + Movies)
Arpeggio of Blue Steel
Kancolle
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Hunter X Hunter
I found Arpeggio and Kancolle to be wholly mediocre and mostly just tried them out of my interest in naval history. FMA:B and HXH were excellent. I even started reading the HXH manga that Togashi has been updating to stick with the new arc.
However, I would consider none of these to be my favorite, as that distinction goes to the collection of Ghibli films that I just finished watching over the last 2 weeks. I'd heard of the minds of Miyazaki and Takahata before but never gave them any attention. That was a mistake. Those were some outstanding movies, from Nausicaa to Kaguya.
Going to be taking a bit of a break for a week or so to focus on my research, but the next on the list is Death Note. I've heard good things, so we'll see.
As for non-anime related entertainment, Downton Abbey has recently caught my attention. Didn't think I'd ever care for the lives of English nobles or that they'd be entertaining but this has been an excellent series. Just finished season 2 and will be starting season 3 shortly.
That is all :D
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Anyone here watch FairyTail?
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TechnoD11: What did you think of Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and Legend of the Galactic Heroes? They are some of my all-time favorites.
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TechnoD11: What did you think of Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and Legend of the Galactic Heroes? They are some of my all-time favorites.
Yamato was the first anime I ever watched and still one of the best. Very entertaining and the animation was excellent (I mean, comon...that wave motion gun ;) ).
LoGH had a lot more plot/backstory/character development. The animation was older in LoGH but it suited the show well, in a less-flashy way than Yamato.
Both get 2 thumbs up from me, each for their own reasons.
Question for you though - you started Yamato 2202 yet, and if so, is it any good? I've been holding off until its finished so I can watch it over a couple of weeks.
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Anyone here watch FairyTail?
I did watch a 2 dozen episodes of it while it was running parallel to the soccer world cup. While I'm not a fan of this type of show in general, I think Fairy Tail is quite OK, but the story is just too predictable and I didn't feel like sitting in front of the TV just for this after the world cup ended; also when I missed some episodes in between I didn't had the feeling that I missed something. In the end I read up the story and comments on TV Tropes, which summed up my POV on this - too many episodes for a story I don't really care about.
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Finished Megalo Box. I'm not crying. You're crying. (I need a T-Shirt of this show).
Watched the Youtube upload of Bandit Flower. Thunderbolt is catching up to the manga, but also reinforces my opinion of it having good ideas, but poor implementation. Pretty though.
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Question for you though - you started Yamato 2202 yet, and if so, is it any good? I've been holding off until its finished so I can watch it over a couple of weeks.
Started 2202 this weekend we're about four episodes in. The first episode was great but the following three felt a little awkward getting in motion, there are a lot of moving parts in play that I think needed a little more room to breathe. That said just as in 2199 the animation is solid, the music is great and the ships look fantastic. I think now that the both the show is underway it will probably settle down and some of the previews I've seen for the Battle of Saturn indicate it's going to be completely nuts.
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Question for you though - you started Yamato 2202 yet, and if so, is it any good? I've been holding off until its finished so I can watch it over a couple of weeks.
I am up to date on 2202.
I can tell why they thought they had a chance at adapting Legend of the Galactic heroes after some of the fleet movements on the show. I don't 100% agree, but I understand.
I think the intros are a little low-effort, but I also don't care much about anime intros so that's not a make or break for me, since i hate most anime intros and that would leave me not watching a lot of anime. I just really loved the 2199 intros.
It's still pretty solid Yamato so far. It's just the original had such a clear start and finish it's hard to pick it back up and keep going.
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sg sg1 and Atlantis for the first time
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You're in for a LONG trip bud. All good though. #memoriesofsamanthacarter
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I found Arpeggio and Kancolle to be wholly mediocre and mostly just tried them out of my interest in naval history.
While I only have a passing interest in naval history myself, wholly mediocre is a pretty much how I would describe both anime adaptations, though Kancolle still qualified as "most japanese show I've seen" for quite a while. Arpeggio is especially disappointing, as I have some fondness for the source material - though it's not without flaws, I don't think it deserved being stripped of the qualities it does have to create a bland generic 12-ish episode anime. I already ranted about this elsewhere in this thread IIRC.
the next on the list is Death Note. I've heard good things, so we'll see.
Death Note's alright, though I'm curious as to how well it stood the test of time.
sg sg1 and Atlantis for the first time
I've probably got a bit of nostalgia filter, but I think both series hold up rather well, although IIRC, Atlantis takes about two seasons to find its mojo.
Anyone here watch FairyTail?
Watched it a bit when I saw it was on Netflix, after dropping the manga some 6 years ago. I feel like it's very much focus targeted at a young audience, which I think was one of the reasons I dropped the manga in the first place. Still, it was pretty funny to see Happy being blue, something I was always forgetting since colored pages were pretty rare.
Moving on, I'm still steadily shifting away from 40+ minutes series. I don't think I ever finished the second or third episode of Altered Carbon, so I still don't know what it's worth. The I started up DC's Legends of Tomorrow, dropped it after about ten minutes after I realized it was probably tied into several other DC shows, and I didn't feel like picking up characters halfway into their stories. Maybe my attention span just suck.
That being said, I also dropped Disenchanted, after being reminded why I dropped the Simpsons & Futurama, while picking up 3-4 other 20 minutes series, with a noticeable shift towards more family-friendly western works following my positive experience with Steven Universe :
- Knights of Sidonia : A space-mecha about a generation ship & lovecraftian-ish aliens (+ fanservice since this is anime and that's the law). I thought the first season was really good, then the second kinda dropped the aliens in favor of a harem-style plot (in addition to the fanservice already present), which I already get enough of from elsewhere so I put the series on ice for the time being.
Still, I kinda liked it, despite being somewhat predictable it's got some good ideas & decent animation - would recommend though one should be aware that seasons 1 & 2 have some noticeable difference in the kind of story they want to tell.
- Dragon Prince : A fairly standard friendly fantasy tale, short (12 episodes for the first season) but quite enjoyable, with a good balance between drama, action & humor. The animation is rather janky at times (I blame bad CGI), but the drawing itself is rather clean - would recommend.
Funny story : I watched both it & Sidonia at around the same time, found both rather predictable with some questionable CG animation, but enjoyed both nonetheless :)
- Miraculous Ladybug : Probably the oddest choice I made over the past couple month, it's a full CGI Franco-Japano-Korean magical-girl-ish show set in Paris. The poster caught my eye ever since I arrived on Netflix early this year, though I'd always been wary of it being to kid-oriented for my tastes (which it admittedly it kind of is). I decided to give it a shot after finishing Dragon Prince & putting Sidonia on hold, and to watch it in French, which kind of freaked me out a bit since I've been staying the hell away from French dubs & translations as much as I could for the past 8 years or so.
Well, it's definitely an odd show, very anime-inspired while being very western at the same time. Plot-wise it's fairly unremarkable and formulaic, however the characters themselves are pretty fun overall, the comedy works, the action is solid, the animation is gorgeous - though Paris is entirely too empty) and it makes copious use of stock shots for the transformation sequences & special abilities.
Overall, a pretty fun ride - would recommend (too bad season 2 isn't available for on Netflix for some reason).
- Wakfu : That one's been a looong time coming, it was recommended to me by some of my high-school-era friends back when it first came out, but I never got around to giving it a shot (I was too busy playing Freespace & DotA back then). It's a wacky fantasy tale with elements inspired from classic RPG games - as was popular in France at the time. Turns out it's a surpringly solid show : It's gorgeous, it's funny (though I don't know how much gets lost in translation), the character stuff works so far, the action works, it's got some non-intrusive nods to RPGs (computer or otherwise).
Very good so far - strongly recommended.
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- Wakfu : That one's been a looong time coming, it was recommended to me by some of my high-school-era friends back when it first came out, but I never got around to giving it a shot (I was too busy playing Freespace & DotA back then). It's a wacky fantasy tale with elements inspired from classic RPG games - as was popular in France at the time. Turns out it's a surpringly solid show : It's gorgeous, it's funny (though I don't know how much gets lost in translation), the character stuff works so far, the action works, it's got some non-intrusive nods to RPGs (computer or otherwise).
Very good so far - strongly recommended.
The first two season are overall good (the ending of the first season is excellent IMO) ... though the season 2 villan never quite recaptures the excellence that was achieved with Nox* ("Once I have finished, nothing I have done will have mattered" is still one of the best line to telegraph that the villian of the piece might be the most sympathetic figure involved), although the inital arc of season 2 is really awesome as well...
The 3 full feature lengh outings are ... mediocre at best, as they ditch the esmeble nature of the show to go broke on the action for most of it; completely sidelining 3 of original cast (out of 5), made worse that there seem to be some bull**** gender politcs at play...
The recently released season 3 is not a return to form, but it once it all out there - they finally get back to finding stuff to tell that is relevant with all characters (even if the Eva remains sidelined, but at least being pregnant is less bull**** that what happened before), Ruel's story arc is particular manages to bridge contrasting parts of his personality and role to the others, all the while we finally get see Amaya matured beyond the issues that defined her character originally.
* Nox by himself is also a masterclass is design; not just does story square the megalomically villian with a sympathetic tragedic weight but his overall design is well crafted, from him mostly teleporting to move around and his jancky clockwork inspired movement when he is fighting. And again, the resolution of his story at the end of season 1 is one object lessons for how to resolve an overpowering villian in story.
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- Knights of Sidonia : A space-mecha about a generation ship & lovecraftian-ish aliens (+ fanservice since this is anime and that's the law). I thought the first season was really good, then the second kinda dropped the aliens in favor of a harem-style plot (in addition to the fanservice already present), which I already get enough of from elsewhere so I put the series on ice for the time being.
Still, I kinda liked it, despite being somewhat predictable it's got some good ideas & decent animation - would recommend though one should be aware that seasons 1 & 2 have some noticeable difference in the kind of story they want to tell.
To my estimation, Season 1 and 2 of Knights of Sidonia are actually quite different stories which both concluded in their series - the impression of that is slightly broken by how the second season ends, although it kinda fits there too.
The first Season is very much about Nagate arriving in Sidonia's society, with the expectation of himself and others that he might prove to be the equal to his heroic grandfather, and having to fail foward until he reaches the point when he his. The second Season is very much about the reaction to that kind of heroic figure having arrived, with the shift of objective from survival to total war being at the forefront - we see the de-throned prodigee rival make what is essentially a pact with the devil by another name, we see Nagate being lifted on higher pedestal (hence the harem sub-plot being kinda fitting), leadership shifts and by the end everyone is buying into the idea of victory.
There is also a well plotted path how this is going to continue since there is an obvious trigger how to compromise Nagate as a heroic paragon before pulling the curtain on all the shadyness with the other plot trigger that was left in plain view at the end of season 2.
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- Knights of Sidonia : A space-mecha about a generation ship & lovecraftian-ish aliens (+ fanservice since this is anime and that's the law). I thought the first season was really good, then the second kinda dropped the aliens in favor of a harem-style plot (in addition to the fanservice already present), which I already get enough of from elsewhere so I put the series on ice for the time being.
Still, I kinda liked it, despite being somewhat predictable it's got some good ideas & decent animation - would recommend though one should be aware that seasons 1 & 2 have some noticeable difference in the kind of story they want to tell.
I really liked the first season of Knights of Sidonia. The Gauna were a credible and lethal foe, one that seemed very much like a force of nature. The action sequences were good fun and the physics side of things was also quite satisfying. The plot was interesting enough to keep me engaged, enough to overlook the bland characters and somewhat wooden dialogue.
Then season 2 came around. Good god what happened? It felt like the whole season was just filler until the very last battle at the end. That penis monster thing was just cringey. I think I remember it doing the "anime rosy cheeks" thing at one point, like it was attracted to the main character whats-his-name, which came off as borderline bestial. The harem crap did not help matters at all, especially considering how stiff and unengaging the characters were. A lot of animes have problems with boring protagonists, but this one was especially bad. His entire character is "I occasionally eat".
Knights of Sidonia stands out to me as something that had so much potential and managed to somehow pull mediocrity from the jaws of greatness. The transhuman elements, such as genderless people and photosynthesis, was something that should have been explored so much further. Instead we got entire episodes devoted to some of the most awkward, cringey, pointless and badly written romantic subplots I've ever seen, all of which revolved around a protagonist with all the character of a blank wall.
On a more positive note, I've seen the first couple episodes of Castlevania which was really good fun. It's excessively violent and gruesome, which I shamelessly enjoy. Haven't seen enough yet to properly judge, but I like the main character so far and I'm hoping for more demon action to come.
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a protagonist with all the character of a blank wall.
Blank Walls are good for other characters to project on ... but then blank walls don't have guilt issues....
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That penis monster thing was just cringey. I think I remember it doing the "anime rosy cheeks" thing at one point, like it was attracted to the main character whats-his-name, which came off as borderline bestial.
I don't know about you but I filed that under the developing explaination regarding the Gauna and their "interest" in humanity ... since Season 1 the show has shown that there is more going on that just "space monsters" with the Gauna:
- The first real Gauna encountered takes an human-like shape.
- The Crimson Hawk Moth-type Gauna become more human-looking with each encounter, discarding the orignal Garde-like form, but retain the "pilot-clone-adpendage".
- The first Gauna to have reached Earth were said to be vaguely human-shaped.
- The last non-squid, non-Hawk Moth Gauna we see is also vaguely human-looking.
- The detached "pilot-clone-adpendage" seems to undergo cognitive development including seeming accessing memories from the human original. We never got to see the end of the development.
As such Tsugmori's "attachment" to Nagate might actually be a result of her parentage - which would be an interesting contrast to the running plot-point regarding the leadership of Sidonia sitting on a mountain of secrets and revised history; as in the Gauna having some kind of collective, quasi-genetic memory which allows them to share information but not withhold it from another, while the human method of communicating information, even vital stuff, from one generation to the next is inherently compromised by the elder generation's intentions (which became esspecially interesting when the immortal leadership on Sidonia changed via coup).
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I've been going hard on Symphogear as of late and goddamn if saving the world repeatedly through the power of lesbians holding hands isn't compelling. It's also got a lot of good music (as one would expect from its premise) and I've been impressed by the animation in the first 3 seasons (hey it's amazing what happens when you give your staff some goddamn time to work on things. It also has some pretty good anime hair (not Shiki or Utena levels but still over the top and stylish).
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Is Gate any good? Synopsis reads a bit like that epic Hell war story that did the Internet rounds about 12 years back.
The one where modern and forces take the war to Satan after a helll gate opens and all dead veterans from now back to way back when break free and help out.
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Is Gate any good? Synopsis reads a bit like that epic Hell war story that did the Internet rounds about 12 years back.
The one where modern and forces take the war to Satan after a helll gate opens and all dead veterans from now back to way back when break free and help out.
"JSDF, **** yeah!
Comin' again to save the mother****in' day, yeah!" (minus the self awareness)
The first couple episodes showed some promise but then it just languishes in a little puddle of shallowness. A rough synopsis is Roman/Medieval Legions getting repeatedly curb stomped by modern combined arms, emphasis on repeatedly because the villains are ****ing comically inept and never take any steps to adapt to what they are facing. Given the fantasy setting the writer(s) could have created some actual tension by leveraging magic or other supernatural crap to create asymmetric parity between the forces but nope. It maybe worth looking up a couple of the early battles on You Tube for a little army porn but overall gets to be about as dynamic as a BJJ Blackbelt submitting a toddler.
Plus the MC needs to be a spec ops otaku harem magnet because anime.
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Is Gate any good? Synopsis reads a bit like that epic Hell war story that did the Internet rounds about 12 years back.
The one where modern and forces take the war to Satan after a helll gate opens and all dead veterans from now back to way back when break free and help out.
In a word; No.
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I've been going hard on Symphogear as of late and goddamn if saving the world repeatedly through the power of lesbians holding hands isn't compelling. It's also got a lot of good music (as one would expect from its premise) and I've been impressed by the animation in the first 3 seasons (hey it's amazing what happens when you give your staff some goddamn time to work on things. It also has some pretty good anime hair (not Shiki or Utena levels but still over the top and stylish).
Eyy, Symphogear is my jam, baby! S3 doesn't quite hold up as well as the first two but S4 steps it back up. It's a shame, Symphogear gets so little attention, escpecially in the west basically no one has ever even heard of it. You should check out the live shows too if you like the songs.
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Is Gate any good? Synopsis reads a bit like that epic Hell war story that did the Internet rounds about 12 years back.
The one where modern and forces take the war to Satan after a helll gate opens and all dead veterans from now back to way back when break free and help out.
In a word; No.
Such an interesting concept, so many possibilities, and such waste.
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Eyy, Symphogear is my jam, baby! S3 doesn't quite hold up as well as the first two but S4 steps it back up. It's a shame, Symphogear gets so little attention, escpecially in the west basically no one has ever even heard of it. You should check out the live shows too if you like the songs.
Yeah S3 is more of a plateau so far (though Chris and Tsubasa coming back halfway through was ****ing hype). Maybe I just follow too many weebs on twitter because a bunch of them like the show. Thanks for the rec on the live stuff too!
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Wasn't Star Wars Resistance supposed to be the worst thing ever?
Because it's actually quite nice and I love the setting, it's sorta like Deep Space Nine but seen from a clueless naive version of Garak rather than from the station commander PoV.
Also new Doctor Who, but the new titles and stories are a deliberate throwback in many regards, even more than some things Moffat did. Episode 3 felt like an old Hartnell episode, it had shades of The Time Meddler.
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Eyy, Symphogear is my jam, baby! S3 doesn't quite hold up as well as the first two but S4 steps it back up. It's a shame, Symphogear gets so little attention, escpecially in the west basically no one has ever even heard of it. You should check out the live shows too if you like the songs.
Yeah S3 is more of a plateau so far (though Chris and Tsubasa coming back halfway through was ****ing hype). Maybe I just follow too many weebs on twitter because a bunch of them like the show. Thanks for the rec on the live stuff too!
I really liked the first two seasons of Symphogear but season 3 (GX) was kind of terrible imo. The show was starting to feel like it was trying too hard to adherd to its own established formula. Every character needed to have their own little drama arc, even dredging up issues that had seemingly already had their closure in previous seasons. It felt incredibly forced and it really dragged the show down hard for me. I actually completely missed there was a fourth season, but I'm kind of wary of watching it.
Is S4 more of the same or is it actually good?
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Knights of Sidonia stands out to me as something that had so much potential and managed to somehow pull mediocrity from the jaws of greatness. The transhuman elements, such as genderless people and photosynthesis, was something that should have been explored so much further. Instead we got entire episodes devoted to some of the most awkward, cringey, pointless and badly written romantic subplots I've ever seen, all of which revolved around a protagonist with all the character of a blank wall.
If nothing else, Sidonia is a good representation of the source material.
If you want to see a good film based on Tsutomo Nihei's stuff, check out Blame! on Netflix.
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Yawn. Wake me when somebody adapts Biomega.
I finished Season 2 of Castlevania. It's been an interesting season, although I'm sort of conflicted about it. Whereas Castlevania S1 was basically just kinda Castlevania 3. This season focuses less on Trevor and this really surprised. The cast of Curse of Darkness. And Dracula and Camilla I guess.
It's interesting how they integrated the Curse of Darkness plot into the story. And I'm interested to see where that goes. Although, I feel like Season 2 didn't really do a good job at making Alucard an interesting character since he barely got any in his appearance at the end of S1. Although his interactions with Trevor are... mostly gold.
Dracula got some really nice characterization, since you focus on his side of the conflict more than the Heroes like the first Season.
So far the new characters like Isaac (based on a CoD character) who is probably my favorite character so far. Who fights with a frickin Flaggelants whip! They really got down his twisted backstory and ethos really that sells a guy who just wants "Peace and Quiet". His friendship with Hector was also endearing. In a "D'awww" sort of way. Well when they are trying to exterminate Humanity I guess...
I want to see how Season 3 turns out. I wonder if they're going to start doing generation skipping to do stuff like Simon or Soma. But I think Season 3 is probably going to be more Curse of Darkness content.
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I didn't enjoy blame. Something about it was just a non-starter. It just felt bland and cliché.
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Just finished Durarara!! (2010)... It popped into my recommended quene on Netflix a year ago and back then I only watched a couple of episodes.
Originally I didn't keep watching because it uses a quasi-anthology format for much of its narrative, and as that approach goes, if you are just casually watching you might just not find the way information is presented all that satisfying (in this case for example, the first episode goes through a rapid succession of character introductions most of which are just too fast to be substantive; however as the series progresses most of the characters introduced get to either be the narrator or POV, so you get all details then).
While I wouldn't super recommend it for casual viewing, I took some lessons from it that will hopefully improve my writing.
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Managed to binge through castlvania season 2 on Netflix.
Dracula is absolutely nails..... unless you show him some teddy bears.
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Managed to binge through castlvania season 2 on Netflix.
Same here... There is a point where I was seriously finding myself hoping the series would slow down and let all cool monster designs sink in more, but that might have stopped the narrative dead. The characters are well written, the animation is good, and the plot is well crafted.
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It's a very bingeable show. The VA was really good and most of the characters were really well defined. I particularly liked Isaac, really hope we see more of him in season 3.
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I'd argue that Season 2 is better than 1. But for a show about the Belmonts war with Dracula. It kinda glosses over Trevor, and I feel the character interactions between the Heroes becomes very bipolar at times. Going from "We're all buddies." to "We hate each other." at the drop of a hat.
And these fight scenes though. Trevor does a new thing with his Whip every battle.
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Alucard thinks Trevor is an immature drunkard (and more importantly thinks Sypha can do better), Trevor thinks Alucard is a stuck-up child with daddy issues. Flipping between amusement and annoyance based on the most recent barb in conversation isn't exactly far fetched. :P
I think it might help to remember the time-frame of season 2. Even with all the scheming, it takes place over the course of maybe three days.
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I'd quite like to see a prequel showing the fall of the belmonts.
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Alucard thinks Trevor is an immature drunkard (and more importantly thinks Sypha can do better), Trevor thinks Alucard is a stuck-up child with daddy issues. Flipping between amusement and annoyance based on the most recent barb in conversation isn't exactly far fetched. :P
I think it might help to remember the time-frame of season 2. Even with all the scheming, it takes place over the course of maybe three days.
That.
Have you ever been in that situation where you know something you have been doing creatively is not working but you can't think of a solution to the problem, and then you go out to see a movie/play/show/concert/watch a show and suddenly the key falls into your lap, in the form of a visual/audio cue/flourish you never concieved but it is basically cliche to someone else? (complex, possibly unrelatable situation, I know)
Happened to me when I started watching Bakemonogatari (2009) yesterday.
Now I am missing a lot of the sylistic cues and cultural reference points, and have to deduce a lot of the visual vocabulary of the anime on the fly due to lack of familiarity with what the original author and the showrunners have a clear and easy handle on.
But the show is basically a (single couple commited relationship) romance anime that uses the tropes to handle supernatural and psychological horror in japanse cinema to frame the steps and complications of the relationship as hauntings/curses/interactions with spirits.
At times it feels like an assault on the senses, esspecially when it tries to explain frequent wordplay, but I kinda found it working once I decided to stick it out and I am about half-way through now.
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Just finshed watching She-Ra and The Princesses of Power if anything to finally see what the fuss was about.
It's fun and does do something with the premise that the protagonist is a former bad guy, there are a few threads left dangling for the next season but doesn't really end in a cliffhanger.
The operation is basically the same as the Ninja Turtles cartoon of the 00s, take the premise but make it as a real show instead of almost purely a toy commercial and sincerely the jump is even wider since the filmation stuff was perceivably worse than Fred Wolf's cartoon even then quality-wise.
There are a few issues with a couple of episodes in the first half after the two part first episode, there is one that feels like it's missing a scen or two for some reason for example but it picks it back up rather quickly after that.
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I remember loving those bewbs as a youngster.
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I remember loving those bewbs as a youngster.
I paradoxically don't remember that much. I had my share of Masters of The Universe toys and watched the cartoons (I'm talking eraly 90s but being in Italy they both arrived a bit late but it was mostly re-runs by that time anyway) but shortly after the X-men and Batman cartoons started and let's not talk about Gargoyles.
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let's not talk about Gargoyles.
No lets...
Elisa Maza kicked ass and was fricken hawt.
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gargoyles/images/7/78/Elisa.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150617050114)
Their integration of characters and stories like Macbeth and Midsummer Night's Dream was fantastic
and this ****ing guy:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/f5/4d/0cf54d4dac3f20a4c60431e7e9034a1f.jpg)
Holy crap this series was great, Goddammit Disney you can make sets by paper macheing hundred dollar bills together at this point, why the hell can't I get a HD box set in Blu?
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Gargoyles and Batman TAS are the kind of cartoons that got better when I re-watched them as an adult.
Also, let's not forget Demona.
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Batman TAS was great and I really like the old Spiderman series, but can't find anywhere to watch it (legally that is). I remember one episode of Batman where he fought that monster guy that absorbs people (sorry Batman fans) and it really scared me as a kid.
The Godzilla series was another awesome one. It was like Pacific Rim before that was even a thing, only instead of the giant robots you had Godzilla and one little robot that died every episode.
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Torn between batman TAS dvd or blu-ray. Both available on hmv website here in UK.
Either...dvd
https://store.hmv.com/film-tv/dvd/batman-the-animated-series-series-1-4-(hmv-excl
or
Blu-ray
https://store.hmv.com/film-tv/blu-ray/batman-the-complete-animated-series
Halp.
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Blu-ray, easy. That's cel animation. It'll look goddamn fantastic in HD. I've owned the four DVD sets for years, but I'm double-dipping for sure.
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Torn between batman TAS dvd or blu-ray. Both available on hmv website here in UK.
Ohh! Thanks for the heads up! I had started collecting BM:TAS on DVD years ago when it was on offer cheap and I only managed to snag the first two seasons. It seems the last few years had been good for Blu-ray remasters. Sometime early next year there's supposed to be a blu release of the first 8 series of Red Dwarf. Upscaled, sure but I dare say that it's possible to make a better job of it in production then what my player or TV can muster... that and the PQ appears to have the creator's approval.
Actually, I checked the review of the BM:TAS blu on amazon. Some idiot gave it one star because it wasn't in widescreen. It reminds me of the early widescreen era... "I paid for a widescreen. I want ALL the screen used. I don't care if they look fat... oh and don't forget to put my surround sound on hall mode. Gotta have ALL my speakers working ALL the time."
If only the TV manufactures would remove the colour adjustment from their TVs... Oh, and 'dynamic' mode too!
rant over.
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Alright, just finished watching Death Note not 1 hour ago, thanks in no small part to having plowed through a good portion of the series over Thanksgiving break. I watched the subbed version on Netflix (so far, in my limited exposure to anime, I've found I prefer subbed to dubbed).
Overall: Quality show, would recommend.
Now for spoiler territory:
The ending is bothering me. The show had a consistent level of quality throughout (with the exception of some points involving Mello where the plot got to be a little muddled). However, the ending just doesn't sit right with me. Even if Light was progressively starting to lose it, I feel as though he would have thought Near would suspect a fake notebook. Like, he could have told Mikami to never touch the death note after hiding it, or to inspect it for authenticity before using it. And given how intuitive Light is supposed to be, I don't think these, or any similar methods, would have been out of reach for Light. I get that they wanted to complete the foreshadowed "Misfortune comes to those who use the note"...but I feel there might have been a better way to do it.
Other than this minor (major? might need to let the thoughts stew for a while to decide) gripe, it was very entertaining show. No idea yet what I'll be watching next.
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I wasn't prepared for the rather large amount of civilian casualties that happen in Generation Kill. Or rather, the honesty in portraying that aspect of the war. Definitely worth a watch.
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A bit of Goblin Slayer because I had nothing else to watch.
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Not a series but it seriously needs a plug:
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If you have any interest in Symphonic Post-Apocalyptic Reindeer-Grinding Christ-Abusing Extreme War Pagan Fennoscandian Metal then do yourself a favor and just give it a watch.
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Is it similar to.....?
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rro_My0IAmU/movieposter.jpg)
I've had it on dvd since release, love that soundtrack too ;)
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I think the best analog would be a Metal version of Spinal Tap or a prequel of Metalocalypse before while they were still making their bones. We found it because it was in the "If you liked Deathgasm..." queue but its grounded in being a very funny comedy about being a metal band rather than a metal derived grindhouse horror comedy.
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Decided that studying for final exams is for losers so I finished Cowboy Bebop and the associated movie (watched the movie right before watching 'brain scratch', as directed by the wonderful people on the cowboy bebop subreddit).
Now I get why everyone says to watch it.
10/10
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and spoon loses another soul to bebop. ahahah
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Bebop is 'just OK'
It's no Gundam or Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
It's more like Eureka Seven in that it's all about style and any overarching plot is a distant consideration.
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Alright alright, just to emphasize - my experience with anime is limited compared to many here, and my appreciation of Bebop comes from that limited perspective. If that makes me wrong or my rating incorrect, then so be it. Perhaps after I have seen more anime I can give an updated review.
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I do love bebops style. The plot is simpler than trigun though ;)
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I am absolutely 100% not saying you are wrong at all. Bebob does have a neat style.
But yes, there is some really great anime you should check out. There's also a whole lot more anime that isn't good. Just be picky.
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I'm on your side bud. But we've gotta try the crap so we know the good ain't bad.
Like women ;) try all the women!!
#dekkermaybexmasdrunk
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Yeah, I just get annoyed when something is cool, but then fails to go anywhere or do anything.
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Bebop is 'just OK'
It's no Gundam or Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
It's more like Eureka Seven in that it's all about style and any overarching plot is a distant consideration.
A few thoughts, and I don't mean any of them in the "you must like what I like" sense, but still:
--It seems...misguided to criticize an episodic series for being, y'know, episodic. Bebop's story is its characters, these broken people desperately trying to hide from pasts that keep finding them regardless, and how chance brings them together to form a sort of family they don't even recognize until after it's gone. I've seen people seriously float the argument "well there's only 5 episodes about Spike v. Vicious so there's like no real story," and it's like, man, that's missing the point by so much it's in the next county over. Pretty much every episode, no matter how stand-alone or goofy, develops some other aspect of the crew's personalities. And if that sort of storytelling isn't your bag I fully understand, but to act like it doesn't do what it does very well is selling the series woefully short.
--I would never argue against LOGH, but from the experiences I've had with Gundam as a total entity (which admittedly is not as much as I'd like just yet), I would not say that most of its incarnations have tight storytelling as a particular strength. Tomino's writing style in particular is...well, let's just say "interesting," and some of the AUs get pretty damn messy. That's not to say that many of its series aren't very good, but most of them seem to share a certain "Gundam-ness" in their storytelling that you occasionally have to grin and bear.
--Um, Eureka Seven definitely placed major focus on its over-arching plot. It was mostly in the background early on, but it came more to the forefront as the first half of the series progressed, and pretty much the entire second half revolved around it.
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--Um, Eureka Seven definitely placed major focus on its over-arching plot. It was mostly in the background early on, but it came more to the forefront as the first half of the series progressed, and pretty much the entire second half revolved around it.
If by last half, you mean last 10 episodes. They took longer to get to the point than any 50 episode anime I'd ever seen.
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No, I mean by episodes 27-28 at the very latest. Major events are already in motion at that point, and indeed have been in the background for some time.
And as important a role as the plot played in the series, at its heart it's very much a love story. One that's definitely a slow burn, but goddamn did it pay off. All of my feels.
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I am watching for the first time Gundam 00, or the origin of Wings of Dawn's soundtrack, whichever you want to call it. ;)
I finished all of VOTOMS along with the first few OVAs, Red Shoulders, Mellowlink and Big Battle. That series is the king of real mecha. They should call the whole Front Mission strategy series VOTOMS: the college years.
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I finished Voltron - Netflix edition.
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Watched Neon Genesis Evangelion over the past two weeks, just finished End of Evangelion
Remarks:
1. What the ****
2. Again,...what the ****
3. Why did I not watch this before playing JAD
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The new Carmen Sandiego show is nice, interesting how now VILE is mostly screwing out various countries around the world either by robbing their cultural artifacts or by actively sabotaging them for a quick buck (one episode is
centered on VILE trying to poison the entire supply of rice in Indonesia to be able to sell them a surrogate at inflated price via a shell company, another on instigating the destruction of Ayers Rock by sabotaging a launch from not-spaceX so they can later buy the company for cheap
) and Carmen being a former member disgusted by their methods trying to stop them. It's less formulaic and more stylized than the original show (rather obviously) but it still maintains the geography infodumps of the old cartoon without them feeling too out of place.
Boy, the season finale of Steven Universe was WILD.
I don't know if it's another series faux-nale intended to avoid not having an ending in case of cancellation, but if they intended it like this from the start (which is likely since they stated Reunited was made with that in mind and season 6 was confirmed while working on that) I can say that the Crewniverse are a bunch of loons, and I mean that in the good way.
They basically solved most of the plot points and changed a huge chunk of the status quo regarding gem stuff in one fell swoop, where they'll go from here is very difficult to say, there is at least another season and a movie in the works and statements on part of Rebecca Sugar that they are aiming for something like 7 to 9 seasons.
I'm about half-way through the second season of Punisher and while still grim the show was unexpectedly funny in places, also the bad guys seem made to piss off the alt-right (which is explicitly mentioned at a certain point).
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Just managed to watch the Steven Universe finale (well season 5 finale anyway). My initial thoughts on it :
[What Det. Bullock said]
Not sure what to add (though let's try to keep things spoiler-ish free), I'm glad that there's more seasons & movie(s) confirmed, 'cause that means we'll get get to explore what the new status quo is. I for one would be curious to be if there are gems that decided to stay on earth besides the Crystal Gems themselves. I'd also be curious to see a Rose Quartz at some point, to see how they compare to CG-Rose Quartz.
Moving on to anime, I watched though about 20+ episodes of Seven deadly sins. Not particularly impressed overall, but as an action Shonen, it's seviceable. The animation & action are alright, the fanservice level is average, plot-wise it's not exactly enthralling, but it's got a diverse enough cast to balance that.
Bottom line is : it's OK. It's not great, but it's not bad.
I watched a couple other anime series, but I didn't get past the pilot forthose so far, so I'll hold off commenting on these for now.
On to live action stuff. Saw the first few seconds of the trailer for Salvation, got interested in the premise, watched the actual pilot, realised that A), the core cast was basically 3 very standard pretty white boy elites & a white girl elite, and B) it's actually the Standard Killer Asteroid plot that I've already seen in Deep Impact, Armaggedon, SG1, Sliders, and probably a bunch of other works that I can't recall right now, then promptly noped the **** out.
On the plus side, I powered though what Mythbuster was available on Netflix and it was awesome. Also crazy, it's intriguing how many "confirmed" or "plausible" are among the "busted" myths.
I also watched the pilot for DC's Titans series earlier this week. It's absolutely hilarious in how it tries to shove the edgy-dark-gory in your face, I did not expect that :). Not sure how it's gonna fair plot & character-wise, but it looks fairly good and I got a lot of good laughs out of it - I do plan on watching more of it.
Last year I also got my hands on The Orville, and the series absolutely does not work for me. I wouldn't go so far as to call it garbage, there's clearly some love being put into it but for me : A) I don't find most of the jokes funny, B) the characters are fairly standard cardboard cutouts, C) the plots seem to be either old recycled SF (especially Star Trek) scripts with no attempts at making them fresh, or so badly handled and mangled that whatever message they were trying to say is flung out into space & never heard from again, and D) while it has a respectable budget overall, action-wise it is woefully underwhelming.
TLDR: It's not funny, not interesting & not pretty. Would not keep watching.
Aside from all that, I've received recommendations for Dirk Gently, Money Heist, The Good Place & 3 Below - Tales of Arcadia. I'm also intrigued about the Carmen Sandiego series, and what the new ST:Discovery season will bring.
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Alright, finished 2 more animes (after finishing NGE...had to take a breather after that mind****):
Space Battleship Yamato 2202 - Just caught up through ep 22, from ep 1 over the course of the past week. Episodes 1 and 2 were excellent, then things kinda lost focus for 3 through 6ish, then picked up steam and just got better all the way to 22. Eagerly awaiting the last episodes. Animation, as expected, was excellent. VA was good, except for
Kodai screaming Yuki when she jumped off the ship in I think episode 11 which was really cringe.
Also:
The battles were f*cking awesome. First the battle at the 11th planet was great, then the refugee transfer which also served to give character agency via some hints of Zorder's motive. Telezart was well done, but Saturn and Mars were just straight 10/10.
And secondly...
My Hero Academia - Second best shonen I have seen (ranked after HxH). Liked it a lot, fanservice was tolerably moderate. The characters carry the show (I found them to be likable - especially All Might!). Season 4 coming in October, hoping for more:
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Just finished Gurren Lagann. Quite the antithesis to Evangelion! Very over-the-top, I mean...
Robots inside robots inside robots hurdling galaxies at each other. Also the big bang is now a lazer.
Very enjoyable.
Next on the docket is Yu Yu Hakusho. Huge fan of Togashi's other work Hunter X Hunter so I suspect I will also enjoy this.
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Just finished Gurren Lagann.
If you liked Gurren Lagann, check out Planet With. The two have been very favorably compared.
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Next on the docket is Yu Yu Hakusho. Huge fan of Togashi's other work Hunter X Hunter so I suspect I will also enjoy this.
omg that's exactly what i'm going to watch next ;).
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Gurren Lagann fans should also check out Kill la Kill. It's more of Imaishi and his crew doing their usually bat**** crazy thing.
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watching star trek.... the animated series!
better than I thought, quite actually. But mostly more worthy to basically "listen" to it almost like audiobooks.
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The first episode with the billion year old ship was quite fun lol.
I've watched the first half dozen or so Full Metal alchemist episodes.
So far so Trigun.
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Got to see Alita last weekend. It's a lot of fun, and easily the most "anime" feeling live-action adaptation I've come across. Definitely give it a shot if it's still in theaters near you.
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ST: The animated series is fascinating. There's a lot in there that you can tell has been rehatched and repackaged into other stories. From One of our planets is missing you can clearly guess where TMP came from. From Beyond the Farthest Star and The Magicks of Megas Tu Star Trek V was born, although the latter is far more prominently the obvious source for TNG's Encounter at Farpoint. The Survivor on the other hand, may have well provided DS9 with the idea for the concept of Changelings by a very similar species (Vandorians).
More to follow.
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The Star Trek franchise is well known for recycling its own scripts.
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- Knights of Sidonia : A space-mecha about a generation ship & lovecraftian-ish aliens (+ fanservice since this is anime and that's the law). I thought the first season was really good, then the second kinda dropped the aliens in favor of a harem-style plot (in addition to the fanservice already present), which I already get enough of from elsewhere so I put the series on ice for the time being.
Still, I kinda liked it, despite being somewhat predictable it's got some good ideas & decent animation - would recommend though one should be aware that seasons 1 & 2 have some noticeable difference in the kind of story they want to tell.
- Dragon Prince : A fairly standard friendly fantasy tale, short (12 episodes for the first season) but quite enjoyable, with a good balance between drama, action & humor. The animation is rather janky at times (I blame bad CGI), but the drawing itself is rather clean - would recommend.
Funny story : I watched both it & Sidonia at around the same time, found both rather predictable with some questionable CG animation, but enjoyed both nonetheless :)
- Miraculous Ladybug : Probably the oddest choice I made over the past couple month, it's a full CGI Franco-Japano-Korean magical-girl-ish show set in Paris. The poster caught my eye ever since I arrived on Netflix early this year, though I'd always been wary of it being to kid-oriented for my tastes (which it admittedly it kind of is). I decided to give it a shot after finishing Dragon Prince & putting Sidonia on hold, and to watch it in French, which kind of freaked me out a bit since I've been staying the hell away from French dubs & translations as much as I could for the past 8 years or so.
Well, it's definitely an odd show, very anime-inspired while being very western at the same time. Plot-wise it's fairly unremarkable and formulaic, however the characters themselves are pretty fun overall, the comedy works, the action is solid, the animation is gorgeous - though Paris is entirely too empty) and it makes copious use of stock shots for the transformation sequences & special abilities.
Overall, a pretty fun ride - would recommend (too bad season 2 isn't available for on Netflix for some reason).
- Wakfu : That one's been a looong time coming, it was recommended to me by some of my high-school-era friends back when it first came out, but I never got around to giving it a shot (I was too busy playing Freespace & DotA back then). It's a wacky fantasy tale with elements inspired from classic RPG games - as was popular in France at the time. Turns out it's a surpringly solid show : It's gorgeous, it's funny (though I don't know how much gets lost in translation), the character stuff works so far, the action works, it's got some non-intrusive nods to RPGs (computer or otherwise).
Very good so far - strongly recommended.
Funny story: I watched and liked all of these on my own, before coming back here to see if anyone watched Wakfu (https://www.netflix.com/title/80003196) (link is Netflix).
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AU2Ln65I_a8/hqdefault.jpg)
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I watched a few episodes of Wakfu, and it is VERY pretty. But something about the writing bounced me off of it, I can't explain what though.
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I watched a few episodes of Wakfu, and it is VERY pretty. But something about the writing bounced me off of it, I can't explain what though.
Yeah, same, I took a break after a few episodes and finished some other series. But then I came back and by the end of Season 1 I was all good. I'd say try to finish Season 1 and if you haven't gotten over that... whatever it is in the writing, you probably won't.
I do find that the baddies (which you learn more about as the stories progress) aren't as 2-D as they might seem at first and actually have reasoning behind their madness.
OH, and I forgot. There's back story and extras to be had on Steam, if you finish Wakfu and don't mind paying more, there's like 5 extras for about $4 a piece. 2 are in a different art style than the main series, but from the reviews, all of them stay true to the characters. I've enjoyed the 2 I've watched so far (taking a break to re-watch the main seasons again).
If you can side-line that oddball feeling you get at first, I do think you'll enjoy the character development and be able to forgive any shortcomings the show has. YMMV, of course.
EDIT: for those that enjoyed it (or like the intro regardless of the rest):
French original with English translation subs, unfortunately has background movie sound, but not too bad (extended, sounds different enough to give a listen IMHO)
French version without the slight background distraction and no subs, best for audio quality if you don't care about or already know the meaning:
French version Nightcore, actually sounds rather nice:
English (short, only 1 min, audio quality suffers, if anyone knows where to get an extended version or even a better encoding of this version, let me know):
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So I ended up putting off watching Yu Yu Hakusho, electing to wait until I was under a little less pressure this summer.
So instead I watched Konosuba.
My review:
Lalatina
stupid fun/10
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One Punch Man is back on again so I've been watching that. Although I have acquired a habit of pausing immediately after the theme tune so I can play the much better series 1 theme. Really not a fan of the new tune.
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Season 2 intro is bloody awful as a whole. That top B class bird, Blizzard something or other is super hawt though.
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Yeah. It lacks a lot compared to the S1 intro. The show itself has been pretty good so far though.
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I haven't watched season 2 yet but I'm severely concerned by JC Staff taking things over from Shingo Natsume and his madcap crew of freelance animators. Season 1 was an absolute visual orgy. Its finale was the single-best piece of television animation I've ever seen.
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Ingress: the Animation (https://www.netflix.com/title/80992853) on Netflix.
Plot: The story follows special police investigator Makoto, who has the power to read the memories of objects he touches. While investigating a laboratory explosion that was researching an unknown substance called "Exotic Matter" (XM), he touches the ring of a woman who was the sole survivor of the explosion and sees a horrifying vision that embroils him in a massive conspiracy.
Based on the mobile augmented reality game Ingress by Niantic, Inc:
Ingress Prime (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ingress-prime/id576505181) on the Apple App Store.
Ingress Prime (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticproject.ingress&hl=en_US) on the Google Play Store.
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I watched the opening shot on day of release and it feels largely OTT once you've played the game. I played resistance for a fair few years as the local spots lined up nicely with rest points on my running route.
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I watched the opening shot on day of release and it feels largely OTT once you've played the game. I played resistance for a fair few years as the local spots lined up nicely with rest points on my running route.
Well, to be successful as a movie adaptation, it would have to be over the top a bit. Not sure if Dark XM
and the Collaborators is in the actual game now, or if it was brought in just to give the Resistance and Enlightenment an actual global threat to justify the movie.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Ingress
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Game of Thrones season 8,
or,
How to destroy 7.5 seasons of goodwill and character development in 2-3 episodes.
The writing on the show hasn't been very good since they ran out of book material, but when one arc or thread suffered, there were a few others that were still good to keep things feeling satisfying. Now they have one arc, and all of the problems the show's had are coming home to roost. I expected the finale to be flawed. I didn't expect it to be this awful.
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Saw captain marvellous recently.
I'd like her and black widow to be the bread in a dekker sandwich.
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Doom Patrol is good.
The only thing is that I still have to read Grant Morrison's run, so I can't tell how much of his stuff is in there and how much it's just normal Doom Patrol weirdness.
Star vs The Forces of Evil
Kind of impressive to see Star getting more and more focused as the series went on, quite a difference from the flighty teenager with no attention span of the start of the series, quite a contrast with Eclipsa's womanchild tendencies and general absent-mindedness.
She-Ra and The Princesses of Power
The second season part one obviously concludes in a cliffhanger. I like that Catra is so used to be under the petty Shadow Weaver that she completely misreads the more pragmatic Hordak at basically every turn. Also the throwback episode was incredibly funny.
Finally Ducktales is getting a regular schedule, what is it with cartoons and weird schedules?
I dug around for some Transformers (Yes, I'm in a bit of a nostalgia bender) stuff and went to Transfomers Animated and Cyberverse, I didn't have the courage to go and dig up Generation 1 and Beast Wars (which was known as "Biocombat Transformers" over here and had a completely different intro), the former because my experiences with 80s western cartoons I liked is that they very much don't hold up most of the time the latter because boy that early CGI animation is stupidly ugly.
I liked that in Animated the main cast was a bunch of underdogs, from Optimus Prime being someone that had been reassigned to antarctica to the others being either ordinary workers or failures of some kind that have to somehow deal with more militarized enemies, a pity the finale is a bit rushed. Cyberverse seems fine enough and I like all the backstory bits including Optimus Prime originally being a file clerk and Megatron originally being someone who wanted to make Cybertron Great Again. I'm not sure about starting Transformers Prime since: 1- I don't like the Bay-esque look; 2- It's apparently in continuity with two of the videogames that aren't available for purchase in steam anymore and that bugs me to no ened even if they aren't strictly necessary.
I also discovered several strange things, like that a weird transfomer I had when I was little wasn't a knockoff like I believed but a character from a series I never saw called "Brainstorm" and that apparently I was spared a childhood trauma by never having seen the movie (of which I was only vaguely aware of, I barely connected that the recurring catchy 80s nerd rock song also known as The Touch was from that one).
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You've never seen it?
"Bah weep grana weep ninny bon!" Will make no sense then?
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You've never seen it?
"Bah weep grana weep ninny bon!" Will make no sense then?
The universal greeting thing, right?
I saw the Hbomberguy video so I know of it now but if you asked me a few weeks ago the answer would have been a resounding no. Do keep in mind that I saw original g1 half in reruns when I was in kindergarten/early elementary school and half with the G2 re-release, I live in a small island without a cinema and I'm not even sure if the movie made it to TV here before the late 90s when TFs were already old news.
I also saw one of the headmasters/godmasters anime (the one with the human kids with the bracelets), but only now thanks to youtube and TVtropes I'm starting to make sense of that and a lot of other things including completely different names for several Transformers (I had Ratchet but here he was called something like "Doc" IIRC). I also remember having a comic book in which "Commander" (here in Italy they started calling him Optimus Prime only with Michael Bay I think) was dead and Grimlock (here called "Tyran" or something like that) was the leader (I got surprised by his Transformers Animated incarnation because I only remember that particular comic book incarnation who was much more articulated, if still an arrogant idiot, and never actually remembered any G1 episodes with him in it so I completely ignored most incarnations used caveman speak) but that was much later and it was basically a bunch of old returned unsold comics glue-bound in a big book in a surprise bag or something like that (there were even Justice League International stories since it was the same publisher, not Marvel, that had the TF publisher here apparently).
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I saw Detective Pikachu a couple days ago, and loved it. It's a good video game movie, and if you are interested at all, it's worth it.
(Maybe not great from a story perspective, but it's a good movie anyway.)
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I started Transformers Prime (only the first part of the 5 episode pilot).
The robots look fine, in the end they don’t look too busy like the Bay movie equivalents like I feared even if there is some vague resemblance. Human characters look a bit cheap though, the one human you see in Cyberverse fit much better.
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While everyone was worrying about GoT Star vs The Forces of Evil has ended too. I get the feeling that Daron Nefcy might have a very dark sense of humor considering the background gags going on with the catastrophic final consequences of the events (well, her original vision for Pony Head included bloody entrails according to TVtropes so it wouldn't be surprising in the least), yet at the same time it's a sort of happy ending.
It's quite remarkable how in the end Toffee, the main villain of the first two seasons, ended up being sort of right, or at least the more mature Star of the last seasons ended up largely agreeing with him in that the prejudiced mewmans as long as they had magic could never really be trusted to cohexist with monsters peacefully. I wonder how much of this was planned and how much was the authors getting tired of cramming as many silly fish-out-of-water gags as they could in each episode and gradually retooling the show into a weird high fantasy show with some pretty heavy stakes if still with quite a bit of humor.
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Just finished watching the last few subbed episodes of Space Battleship Yamato 2202
I think I mentioned this earlier, but the middle of the series was a little weak, right around when
The Yamato had to transfer the survivors from the 11th planet to the Garmillas ships.
However, the second half and especially the conclusion were excellent. No major complaints.
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Watching Sarazanmai week-to-week, which is pretty much peak Ikuhara. In other words, it's fantastic.
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Well, I've soaked on quite a few series since I last posted here.
Star Trek: Discovery : I've gotten halfway through the second season, and I think it's alright, Pike works as the new captain, and I'm mildly curious as to what the story behind the
religious-overtoned Red Angels. Although I still don't really care about the Spock-family dynamics & stuff.
The Good Place : One of the best surprises I've had this year, I like pretty everything in this series, be it their unique take on the Afterlife, the characters, the humour or the plot, I've plowed through all of it within a month.
Would strongly recommend.
Brooklin 99 : Another good find, I'm about halfway through the series & while it can get repetitive at times, it tends to be funny enough to keep it going. And Terry Crews is having way too much fun on this series.
Nowhere near as good as The Good Place, but I'd say still worth checking out.
3 Below - Tales of Arcadia + Trollhunters - Tales of Arcadia: 3 Below especially was a lot of fun, though Trollhunters had some really nice moments. Both series take place in the same town, execpt Trollhunters is a fantasy epic adventure while 3 Below is a science-fiction fish-out-of-water adventure. They're funny, they're pretty, they've got some nice characters, nice fight scenes, although it felt pretty weak plot-wise.
Worth checking out.
Nightflyers : A science fiction story about people traveling to the edge of the Solar System to make first contact with an alien species. It's apparently based on something written by G.R.R.Martin, and the I thought that the first season was overall pretty good, so SyFy decided to cancel it... (apparently it received rather mixed ratings from the general public).
If not for the cancellation, I would have recommended it. It's not Blindsight for sure, but it had some intriguing mysteries.
Anime-wise, I don't recall watching anything that really stood out. Well I haven't really watched much of anything to be honest, aside from one absurd comedy series Saikik, which was OK but didn't have much staying power with me.
I had planned on catching up on Attack on Titan once they cleared the rebellion arc and gotten to the *glorious* second expedition to Eren-district, but since I wasn't sure whether they had gotten to that point, I've been post-poning it.
EDIT - According to Wikipedia, they've gotten there this month, with the final episode airing in a few days, so I guess I've got some catching up to do :)
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watching fullmetal alchemist because they told me so.
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The lesson therein is don't bring loved ones back.
OPM season 2 is sloooooooow.
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It's out?! Excuse me while I choke on my excitement.
Also, the original Gundam is ****ing awesome!
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don't.... don't get excited about opm 2. just ... don't.
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don't.... don't get excited about opm 2. just ... don't.
Lots of "pacing" but some good fights.
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Also, the original Gundam is ****ing awesome!
First watch? Highly recommend going straight into Zeta Gundam right after.
I used to go chronological, but Zeta really is the sequel to Gundam.
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First watch yes, I'm loving Char already, the guy is just one cool cat. I'm amazed I haven't given it a watch before now.
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Yep, they keep cloning the guy for a reason. None of the clones are quite as good, though.
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Just finished watching the last few subbed episodes of Space Battleship Yamato 2202
I think I mentioned this earlier, but the middle of the series was a little weak, right around when
The Yamato had to transfer the survivors from the 11th planet to the Garmillas ships.
However, the second half and especially the conclusion were excellent. No major complaints.
Where you watch that?
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I've finished Transformers Prime.
Boy, you can tell that the third (and last) season was derailed by Hasbro to sell a new toyline.
I'm a bit mixed about this one, I liked Animated better.
If anything its attempts to ape the movies make it a little less charming and having three tagalong kids instead of one is not necessarily a good move especially since at least one of them seems to completely lack any sense of self-preservation. I get it: kids are stupid but goddamn they usually are not THAT stupid.
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So, my OCD tendencies have kept me watching Transformers Robots in Disguise and after one season it doesn't get better then I look at the credits and I see the name of Adam Beechen, the same guy that killed off Nyssa Al Ghul in the most unceremoniously way possible and made Cassandra Cain evil while writing the One Year Later Robin story arc.
Cannot say I'm surprised.
Dear god this series is really mediocre, it's not even a matter of target audience because Animated and Cyberverse are also aimed at a younger target audience than Prime and are leaps and bounds better than this. I also discovered that the Cyberverse crew has a lot of people from the 2003 TMNT reboot which is not surprising either though in a positive way.
In theory it's supposed to be a sequel to Prime, but the series does almost nothing with the premise of a renewd cybertron which is only glimpsed on the pilot episode, instead it's monster of the week all the way. Also characters way too often do stupid stuff just because they need to have a plot of some kind, for example in the first episodes of the second season they have frigging Optimus Prime being too proud to admit he needs to rest so the away team he's with can get into trouble saving his bacon, which is incredibly jarring considering that in the prequel series Optimus was humble to a fault.
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Am waiting for one punchbag s2e9 to drop on that one website that you can watch them on.
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Me too. The ending of ep8 was awesome. But I think it only airs next week, no episode this week.
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Unfortunately no episode this week by the looks of it. I'm also waiting with bated breath.
Suiryu's realisation that he needed heroes after all, was great. And Saitama's appearance gave me a "You're so ****ed now" moment that I desperately need to see resolved. But I still think my favourite moment of the season was when while hunting for a wig so that he can enter the martial arts tournament and learn how to beat Garou, Saitama stumbles across and defeats him without knowing it. I absolutely love that they didn't keep teasing us about whether Garou might actually be a challenge and just flat out showed us that he's no challenge at all.
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Jesus Christ, OPM has fallen from a 9.5/10 anime to a 2.5/10 anime. I had never witnessed such a drop.
For all of you guys who are actually curious about the actual story, just read the manga, which at least has really goddamn good art, unlike the animated version. I couldn't facepalm any harder when they don't even bother to explain how Saitama just vanished in episode 8 from the stadium when the monsters arrive. It's so godawful it becomes somewhat interesting per se just for the cringe factor.
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EDIT: That earlier answer was needlessly harsh
To be honest, I really don't understand what the hell you're complaining about. The show makes it pretty clear why Saitama isn't there when the monsters turn up.
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huh you're right, I confused myself over that.
I hereby raise its score to 3/10, probably on par with Super then.
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Just gave the new dub of Evangelion on Netflix a spin. Only watched episode one so far.
Firstly, its the HD version. There have been a few small alterations here and there (or my memory is starting to fade). No edits, rather touch ups of existing material in places... Unit 01's eyes blinking out then back again and a slight upward scroll during the section where the coolant is drained out.
There's been some tinkering with the music as well, again most noticeable during the launch sequence. Originally the music only started when Misato calls out to start launch sequence, now the music starts as soon as they begin the entry plug insertion like in Eva 1.11. It's also a bit quieter now which is a shame as Eva 01's theme is one of my favourites... sigh.
The new dub? Just in episode one? Hearing new voices saying new words when I'm so used to hearing the old ones... It's both odd and a little refreshing. There seem to be little of the old embellishments that ADV added to their dub. If you've watched the old dub as much as I have then you'll instantly pick out the differences. It could be that they are trying to be a little more faithful, but I don't know how to speak Japanese, so what do I know? (/me shrugs)
Going by the cast shown after the next ep preview, there seems to be mainly experienced VA's here, with only one or two showing up with Eva being their only work (according to the ANN encyclopedia). As well known as the original dub is, I won't fault anybody who subconsciously adds some of the old performances to their own.... Especially Casey Mongillo's Shinji. Like I said, it's only the first episode but I'm not disliking Ray Chase as Gendo.
Oh, and one last thing... By the looks of things, Netflix didn't want to pay the royalties... So no more 'Fly me to the Moon'... Eh...
Edit: At epidsode 3 now... Seems like Mr Mongillo knows how to scream good. He's not doing a bad job so far of the part. Also, Jonny Young (Mr Vash the Stampede) Bosch takes the role of Toji Suzuhara.
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Just gave the new dub of Evangelion on Netflix a spin. Only watched episode one so far.
Firstly, its the HD version. There have been a few small alterations here and there (or my memory is starting to fade). No edits, rather touch ups of existing material in places... Unit 01's eyes blinking out then back again and a slight upward scroll during the section where the coolant is drained out.
There's been some tinkering with the music as well, again most noticeable during the launch sequence. Originally the music only started when Misato calls out to start launch sequence, now the music starts as soon as they begin the entry plug insertion like in Eva 1.11. It's also a bit quieter now which is a shame as Eva 01's theme is one of my favourites... sigh.
The new dub? Just in episode one? Hearing new voices saying new words when I'm so used to hearing the old ones... It's both odd and a little refreshing. There seem to be little of the old embellishments that ADV added to their dub. If you've watched the old dub as much as I have then you'll instantly pick out the differences. It could be that they are trying to be a little more faithful, but I don't know how to speak Japanese, so what do I know? (/me shrugs)
Going by the cast shown after the next ep preview, there seems to be mainly experienced VA's here, with only one or two showing up with Eva being their only work (according to the ANN encyclopedia). As well known as the original dub is, I won't fault anybody who subconsciously adds some of the old performances to their own.... Especially Casey Mongillo's Shinji. Like I said, it's only the first episode but I'm not disliking Ray Chase as Gendo.
Oh, and one last thing... By the looks of things, Netflix didn't want to pay the royalties... So no more 'Fly me to the Moon'... Eh...
They also redid the Italian dub and people are throwing a fit on Italian sci-fi Facebook groups so even I got wind of it even if I don't watch anime now (and even at the time MTV Italy wasn't available where I lived because small island), apparently the translator worked on Ghibli movies redubs and apparently is notorious to make everyone talk in a VERY old-fashioned or clunky way for the sake of a supposedly more faithful translation and while is always been thoroughly mocked for it he somehow managed to still work and apparently he got worse over the years.
Considering some choice quotes posted on social media it's more than understandable.
And the weird thing is that the dialogues on the Italian subtitles apparently are much more acceptable.
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I've heard that Netflix's subtitles pretty much massacred some pivotal lines between Shinji and Kaworu. Honestly I don't give a **** about streaming, I just want a freaking Blu-ray release already.
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Even if you got a Blu-ray set at an affordable cost over seas, knowing modern Gainax they'd have their own set of imperfections. But here's hoping.
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huh you're right, I confused myself over that.
I hereby raise its score to 3/10, probably on par with Super then.
I still don't see what your problem with this season is. I'm absolutely loving the show. And episode 9 made me laugh so hard at one point that I had to stop the video for a minute until I was back in control.
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I've heard that Netflix's subtitles pretty much massacred some pivotal lines between Shinji and Kaworu. Honestly I don't give a **** about streaming, I just want a freaking Blu-ray release already.
Keep in mind that the Italian dub straight up doesn't make sense most of the time, many are watching it in japanese with either Italian or English subs.
Imagine if the english dub was made with the Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe trope in full force with heavy doses of Delusions of Eloquence, that's what the Netflix Italian dub sounds like.
So you don't know how lucky you are.
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huh you're right, I confused myself over that.
I hereby raise its score to 3/10, probably on par with Super then.
I still don't see what your problem with this season is. I'm absolutely loving the show. And episode 9 made me laugh so hard at one point that I had to stop the video for a minute until I was back in control.
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The thing about the Sub/Dub is that they've changed the translations to a more meaning closer to the original work. But I do think it lost some of the charm of the original.
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I finally finished Transformers: Robots in Disguise and my first impressions have been confirmed, I basically finished it only because it's not completely unwatchable but it's far from being good. The series is supposed to be a sequel to Transformers Prime but it does almost nothing with it and what little it does feels half-baked. Basically it's all uninteresting monster of the week stuff then one or two episodes when stuff happens then back to status quo. And even when they go into fanservice territory bringing back characters from Prime we get all the main ones minus Arcee for some reason, also they completely ignore Megatron's decision of disbanding the Decepticons at the end of Prime so we get hundreds of 'Cons around without really an explanation. And said Decepticons all have animal forms for some reason, was it because of some form of fantastic racism? Who knows? The series does nothing with it! They are just the bad guys who take turns at being the bad guy. The main arc of the Autobot government being corrupt? Some lip service here and there until the last two-three episodes.
Also supposedly Bumblebee was really friends with Raf (teary-eyed goodbye and so on) so why didn't he try to contact him, at least in one episode just to say hello? After all the band he became fan of while he was on Earth the first time is still performing so it's not that much of a time skip from Prime, right? NOPE.
But hey, the story editor of this thing is the one who killed off Nyssa Al Ghul whithin a few panels in the Robin series so he could make Batgirl Cassandra Cain the new leader of the League of Assassins so I guess it's just a coincidence. [Yes, I know I probably mentioned it before and I sound like a broken record but GODDAMIT, what were the editors thinking!?]
Amphibia is off to a good start at least. Is it me or Disney TV animators all have quite a dark sense of humor?
Good Omens has been a fun romp with Sheen and Tennant acting the **** out of every scene.
OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes is basically a fighting game or martial arts movie on acid, the owner of the shop is visibly a riff on Mayor Haggar from Final Fight for example. I don't like the art style and animation very much but I'll probably get used to it.
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huh you're right, I confused myself over that.
I hereby raise its score to 3/10, probably on par with Super then.
I still don't see what your problem with this season is. I'm absolutely loving the show. And episode 9 made me laugh so hard at one point that I had to stop the video for a minute until I was back in control.
Appalling directing style, non-existent choreography, terrible framing, derivative and meaningless soundtrack, awful animation, all points that were just superb in the first season are now just horrible shenanigans.
I think the main reason why you don't see things the way I am seeing is that you're still interested and curious about the stories themselves, while I have been reading the manga ever since season 1 and so I already know what is happening and about to happen next. Without "looking forward to see what happens next", all I'm left with is execution. And boy, is the execution terrible. It looks like a fanfic of the original show.
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OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes
There is an episode about level grinding in JRPGs (or uses it as a metaphor, both work) and another where Cupid is Rated M for Manly to a comical level. I'm quite liking it thus far.
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Also Captain Planet returns! There is even the PSA at the end with everyone drawn in the old art style!
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Darling in the Franxx
I don't know it looked cool :lol:
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Binging my way through FMA:Brotherhood and its.... nearly over. Olivier Armstrong reminds me of a Corporal I knew once. She was gorgeous!
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I've caught up with all the released episodes of OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes.
It's very much in the vein of early Adventure Time in many respects (deranged animation, heavy doses of slapstick, kiddy kid idiot hero protagonist and fondness for bizzarro episodes) but applied to a parody of Dragon Ball style anime, superheroes and beat 'em up/fighting games with heavy doses of meta references and humor. Another difference from AT is that it has a coherent story arc and narrative from the start and probably due to being directed at a younger target audience it doesn't do the spoof aesop thing early AT was very fond of doing. In that regard if anything it's a less tacked-on version of an 80s cartoon, and I think part of the overt nature of the aesops is due to nostalgia for that kind of shows and it usually works with at least one exception.
I don't like the art style too much, it's fine but very rough around the edges with a sometimes excessive use of off models for expressionistic purposes so if you didn't like that in Steven Universe beware because there is much more of that here.
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I recently reconnected with one of "my experts on anime" and got some recommendations from her of what's avalible on Netflix (German region) and been binging her recommendations when I am not writing:
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)
Recommendation line: "It's a deconstructionist take on a genre you are not familiar with. But you will at least enjoy the art style."
Well, she was right and wrong. I did enjoy the aestehtics but I am not sure if it is really a deconstruction as advertised - but then again that may just be my ignorance talking. I liked it but it is very "sad melodrama".
A Certain Magical Index (2008)
Recommendation line: "Required reading for what you actually should watch."
Spot on - the writing it contrived and keeps jumping; probably because it is cherry picking from a more extensive source material.
A Cetrain Scientific Railgun (2009)
Recommendation line: "It's action might be right up your alley."
She was spot on with that one. Also, I think compared to the previous series it is much improved in terms of essemble and character development. Liked it a lot.
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Finished the third season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
So, the "Mara went crazy" thing was more complex than what was initially said, who woulda thunk, eh?
A couple of characters seem to disappear at a certain point but other than that the series keeps getting better and this time the open ending is not a mid-season cliffhanger.
Amphibia is nice but at the moment it seems the classic Disney show first season with mostly setup for things to come, I still have to finish the first season though.
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Rewatching StarGate Atlantis, wherein Trip Tucker boldly goes where no man has gone before.
(https://i.imgur.com/Z5EmNL6.jpg)
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Never got into that one as...... (takes time to get behind hard cover and check ballistic plates are seated correctly in chest rig, adjust chin strap and eye protection)
I've not fi ished SG1 yet :nervous:
I have got though a few "Venture Bros" and I have to say..... I do very much like Helpr and want my very own Helpr robot.
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Toonami started showing a (slightly time-edited) run of Gen:Lock, a series by Rooster Teeth, and after one episode it...kind of kicks ass. The character models and animation are pretty stiff, but the actual action sequences are masterfully shot, and it's a glorious mishmash of Battletech meets Top Gun meets Super Sentai Gundam meets hard sci-fi meets who knows what else. The voice cast is pretty absurd for what it is too, with Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Fanning, Maisie Williams, and a David Tennant who was absolutely chewing the scenery for the short time he was on-screen. Can't wait to see more of this.
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Finished the third season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
So, the "Mara went crazy" thing was more complex than what was initially said, who woulda thunk, eh?
A couple of characters seem to disappear at a certain point but other than that the series keeps getting better and this time the open ending is not a mid-season cliffhanger.
Amphibia is nice but at the moment it seems the classic Disney show first season with mostly setup for things to come, I still have to finish the first season though.
Agreed.
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Meanwhile I've finished Amphibia's first season.
Well, that escalated quickly.
The reunion with Anne's lost human friend was quite dramatic and Anne reduced to a crying mess while the Plantars try to console her after the final confrontation is a startingly sincere and powerful image
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Just finished Record of the Grancrest War. I found it enjoyable. Medieval battles with mages etc and something called "The Chaos". Political and Strategic intrigue, betrayal, conspiracy, etc. Also kind of major
the Chaos an evil magical force was meant to prevent technology from being developed to stave off the "ultimate energy" from being discovered ... again. Cause the first time didn't go so well once weapons were made from it. Assuming that means nuclear. You don't find this out until the end.
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Finally getting around to one of the all-time great shounen series, Yu Yu Hakusho. Botan is best girl.
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I have watched Infinity Train.
I've read it was originally going to be an animated movie and got turned into an animated miniseries and it's quite evident.
That said the ten episodes of this self-contained first season are weird and haunting, they also continue this trend of not beating around the bush with emotional stuff of recent cartoons. It reminded me a lot of The Endless Story original book regarding a child dealing with change (here it's a divorce, in the book it was the death of the protagonist's mother).
I don't know exactly how I feel about a second season, the protagonist story ends here it seems so I guess there will be another lost soul getting on the titular Infinity Train I guess.
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Go Team Venture!!
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The Steven Universe TV movie shows that the crewniverse didn't think they hammered it enough that Steven is a Disney princess it seems.
The new status quo is interesting and I wonder if the new villain is a one-off character or will return later.
That sixth season can't come soon enough.
Transformers Cyberverse season 2 starts with a bang in the middle of a battle on the Moon between Autobots and Decepticons and with Megatron mercilessly beating Starscream, finishing him off with the plasma cannon and dumping the corpse on the Moon.
There is also a funny gag about the earthlings finally noticing the transformers running around and of course posting videos on social media.
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So now even OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes comes to an end and why the hell these shows have such melancholic endings?
It might have something to do with the fact that they are often made by people of around my age probably.
Particularly surprising because this shows leans a lot more into old-timey cartoon goofiness and has a younger target audience than late Adventure Time (which was already a weird mix of melancholy and nonsense from at least the third season) or Steven Universe (which was like that basically from the start).
It is a bit of a rushed conclusion (a particular revelation gets a massive lampshade hanging a few episodes before the ending for not being as drawn out as it was supposed to) because of course CN had to close it before the creators were done with it, but at least it seems to have an ending.
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tried to look at cyberverse. the aesthetic is fine. first dialogue between bumblebee and that female airplane:
she - What are you doing here on Earth?
him - What are you doing here?
she - The same thing you're doing.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/XsUtdIeJ0MWMo/giphy.gif)
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tried to look at cyberverse. the aesthetic is fine. first dialogue between bumblebee and that female airplane:
she - What are you doing here on Earth?
him - What are you doing here?
she - The same thing you're doing.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/XsUtdIeJ0MWMo/giphy.gif)
It gets better when Bee recovers his first memories but they do milk every comedy possibility out of Bumblebee's amnesia and broken voicebox in the first season.
Keep also in mind that even if it's not dull and monotonous like Robots in Disguise 2015 the target audience is still the same so even if there is drama, action and lore dumps there is plenty of intentional silliness.
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Now I’m watching Boruto, there’s no time for the rest, and I’ve looked at anime sites and haven’t found one that comes out with a lot of anime, now you can see only old animes or even better read manga or ranobe. :blah: (https://cs16planet.ru/)
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A few updates:
Downton Abbey - Finished this series in anticipation of the upcoming movie. Some of the best produced TV I've ever watched. Concept sounded boring but I somehow enjoyed nearly every episode. Would highly recommend at least trying.
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu No Yaiba - Caught up on this (only two episodes left to air). Animation is Outstanding, easily some of the best looking anime I've seen. It's got some of the common shounen tropes, as to be expected, but enough unique content to keep it interesting. Spoiler:
I didn't like Zenitsu at first, and from the reviews I have read I am not alone in that opinion. However his character develops more as the series progresses, and he better serves a role of friend/comic relief now to Tanjiro
Kaguya - Love is War - Wanted something lighthearted to watch in between, and this fit the bill perfectly. I laughed, several times, so it served its purpose.
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I was watching Carmen Sandiego season 2.
Normally I only comment after finishing binging but I had to let it out:
What the HELL is wrong with American and British shows setting _anything_ in Italy!?
I could forgive V.I.L.E. accountants using the occasional Italian word in the wrong context or slightly mispronounced as I can at least pretend she might just be some fashion nut who's using Italian words to sound "refined".
But HOLY HELL, how can you manage to pronounce the word "Medici" with the accent on the wrong syllable every single time even when spoken by someone who's supposedly Italian!?
Also that same Italian guy forgets to decline the few Italian words he says, which is something no native Italian would even be capable of doing (this of course after forgetting the fact that the actor is doing the standard Mario accent).
Also the fictional fashion firm "Dolce Rita" (which is actually a plausible pun/reference) for some reason is spelled "Dolcé Rita" which is just nonsensical.
And to cap it off the characters for some reason seem to think "gelato" and "ice cream" are two different things, when "gelato" is just "ice cream" in Italian!
Is there some weird American thing that is not ice cream and is for some reason called "gelato" or do they just misuse the term to indicate something that is undoubtedly called a completely different name in Italian? My bet is either on "granita", basically flawored artificial snow (the classic flavours are either lemon or coffee, usually eaten with a brioche with the coffee flavour usually topped with whipped cream), or "sorbetto", a sort of archaic form of ice cream that's still used as a dessert.
At least there are no dialogues in "Italian" that manage to be completely incomprehensible to a native speaker like me like in the 90s series but it still managed to sour what would normally be a rather fun episode.
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You, uh, might want to keep in mind what age group is generally targeted by the Carmen Sandiego franchise. I sincerely doubt that linguistic accuracy is near the top of their priority list.
And no, at least in the US, "gelato" is not synonymous with ice cream. At least according to Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelato) and the sources linked therein, it's much denser and has much less fat content than our standard ice cream.
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You, uh, might want to keep in mind what age group is generally targeted by the Carmen Sandiego franchise. I sincerely doubt that linguistic accuracy is near the top of their priority list.
And no, at least in the US, "gelato" is not synonymous with ice cream. At least according to Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelato) and the sources linked therein, it's much denser and has much less fat content than our standard ice cream.
It's the difference between artisanal and commercial ice cream, we all call it "gelato" here.
Also Carmen Sandiego last I checked was supposed to be edutaiment, it's not even a target thing, all American and British shows regardless of target audience do stuff like this and you can check stuff like the accent and spelling in online dictionaries like I do all the time and yet even an edutaiment show does the same identical mistakes.
Hearing "Medici" consistently pronounced with the accent on the wrong syllable (it's from the same root as "medic" for crying out loud! I can't even fathom why they pronounced it like that!) was nerve-wracking.
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I mean the short answer is that we have very small bilingual populations so no one's going to notice if things are wrong.
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I mean the short answer is that we have very small bilingual populations so no one's going to notice if things are wrong.
That doesn't exactly make it less grating, especially the "Medici" thing, someone just told me that it's likely they thought the same rules for spanish pronunciation applied to italian.
*sigh*
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Finished some anime recently so figured I'd update:
Konosuba Movie - This was wonderful. It's like a movie-length episode of Kazuma antics and Megumin doing explosion things.
Also Kazuma dies
Sword Art Online (1, 2, Ordinal Scale, 3, 3 Part 2 - in Progress) - I'd heard too much about this series so I figured what the hell, why not. Well turns out there were a lot of reasons to why not. Aincrad arc in season 1 was...alright I guess. Klein needed screen time. Timejumps were all over the place. ALFhelm online arc was literally incest and tentacles. Season 2 really disappointed me. There's a lot that could have been done with a post-apocalyptic setting they had, not to mention the new characters. Instead we got excessive ass shots of the new female lead and a plot that had to be explained in several lengthy narrator sessions. Hell I didn't even finish this season. Ordinal scale was solid movie, most notably for the animation, A-1 really brought their A game to this one. Season 3 though...Alicization is actually half decent, certainly better than anything up to this point. Eugeo and Alice are pretty well written and the character traits are backed up with supporting evidence of how they developed over time. Never thought I'd say this, but I'm looking forward to the upcoming part 2 episodes.
Kill La Kill - Halfway done with this one. Loving it so far. Absolute crazy shenanigans!
To put on clothing, one must first get naked!
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Just finished binging Schlock Mercenary webcomic from the beginning (June of 2000). Here's The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, which is a book referenced throughout the strip:
1. Pillage, then burn.
2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
4. Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.
5. Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.
6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
7. If the food is good enough, the grunts will stop complaining about the incoming fire.
8. Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.
9. Never turn your back on an enemy.
10. Sometimes the only way out is through. . . through the hull.
11. Everything is air-droppable at least once.
12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.
13. Do unto others.
14. "Mad Science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?"
15. Only you can prevent friendly fire.
16. Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.
17. The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster.
18. If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.
19. The world is richer when you turn enemies into friends, but that's not the same as you being richer.
20. If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win.
21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
22. If you can see the whites of their eyes, somebody's done something wrong.
23. The company mess and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart
24. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun.
25. If the damage you do is covered by a manufacturers warranty, you didn't do enough damage.
Amended: If a manufacturer's warranty covers the damage you did, you didn't do enough damage.
26. "Fire and Forget" is fine, provided you never actually forget.
27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.
28. If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you.
29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
30. A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
31. Only cheaters prosper.
32. Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water.
33. If you're leaving tracks, you're being followed.
34. If you’re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.
35. That which does not kill you has made a tactical error.
Amended: That which does not kill me has made a tactical error.
36. When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'
Amended: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload."
38. Just because it's easy for you doesn't mean it can't be hard on your clients.
Amended: What's easy for you can still be hard on your clients.
39. There is a difference between spare parts and extra [parts].
40. Not all good news is enemy action.
41. “Do you have a backup?” means “I can’t fix this.”
42. "They'll never expect this" means "I want to try something stupid."
43. If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.
44. If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool.
45. The size of the combat bonus is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.
46. Don’t try to save money by conserving ammunition.
47. Don't expect the enemy to cooperate in the creation of your dream engagement.
48. If it ain't broke, it hasn't been issued to the infantry.
49. Every client is one missed payment away from becoming a target and every target is one bribe away from becoming a client.
50. If it only works in exactly the way the manufacturer intended, it is defective.
51. Let them see you sharpen the sword before you fall on it.
52. The army you've got is never the army you want.
53. The intel you've got is never the intel you want.
54. The best way to win a one-on-one fight is to be the third to arrive.
Amended: It's only too many troops if you can't pay them.
55. It's only too many weapons if they're pointing in the wrong direction.
56. Infantry exists to paint targets for people with real guns.
57. Artillery exists to launch large chunks of budget at an enemy it cannot actually see.
58. The pen is mightiest when it writes orders for more swords.
59. "Two wrongs is probably not going to be enough."
60. Any weapon's rate of fire is inversely proportional to the number of available targets.
61. Don't bring big grenades into small rooms.
62. Anything labeled "This end toward enemy" is dangerous at both ends.
63. The brass knows how to do it by knowing who can do it.
64. An ounce of sniper is worth a pound of suppressing fire.
65. After the toss, be the one with the pin, not the one with the grenade.
66. Necessity is the mother of deception.
67. If you can't carry cash, carry a weapon.
68. Negotiating from a position of strength does not mean you shouldn’t also negotiate from a position near the exits.
69. Sometimes rank is a function of firepower.
70. Failure is not an option - it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.
Here (https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-06-12)'s the first strip (they also have an option to subscribe to an RSS feed of, say, 7 strips a day (https://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/for-the-faint-of-heart-archive-binge/) until you catch up if you prefer not to binge):
(https://www.schlockmercenary.com/strip/1/0/schlock20000612.jpg?v=1443894882526) (https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-06-12)
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Heh they took the promotion lines of the comic strip from WoD~ :D
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Jessica Jones season 3: it feels a lot like the first season should have been in a way. The problem with starting with Killgrave is that the stakes progressively lowered instead of escalating. Why in the hell they didn't give Trish a costume more in line with that in the comics I'll never know, they even made a makeover scene with a cheap cosplay to crap on it. Hell, with the way her superhero career is basically a cry for attention, a silly costume and even giving herself a name would be perfectly in-character (she was the one that proposed the costume to Jessica in the first season).
Other than that it was nice seeing Jessica finally hitting some sort of messy balance in her life.
She-Ra and The Princesses of Power season 4: well, that's a way to up the stakes. Catra gets more and more messed up to the point that not even Scorpia tolerates it anymore, a rift develops between Glimmer and Adora and in the end everything goes down the drain. And we finally know why the other She-Ra did what she did. Waiting to see how they'll fix up the mess in season 5.
Also Mermista being even more of a dork than Bow will never cease to be funny.
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I believe I previously posted about Wakfu, here's a review of why Nox is one of the best villains (JELlegendz):
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So, I watched quite a few things in the later two-thirds of 2019 :
Attack on Titan, season 3 : Hell yeah ! I had been waiting for that one for a long while and it didn't disappoint, as it was one of my favorite parts (especially the second half) of the manga for a number of reasons.
S3 spoilers below:
- I like the fact that every time the Survey Corps ventured beyond the walls, its losses have been ranging from heavy to catastrophic. I mean, at the end of that arc, there's like 9 people left out of the entire expeditionary force, and probably not many more members back home.
- IIRC, that's also the part of the story where the addressed the tech stagnation issue. Waaaay back after watching season 1 and long before I started reading the manga, I noted that the story only worked with the limited yet somewhat advanced tech level of this society. Things like hot-air balloons would have made the Survey Corps' mission much easier, and fighting the titans would be far easier with a handful of advances in weaponry, like more accurate cannons, or high explosives (I didn't think of rockets back then).
- Following up on that, seeing the titans being beaten up with humans rather than Titan!Eren was pretty cool.
- Armin was always the bravest of them all (too bad they didn't have the balls to make it stick). Plus, it was awesome to see Mikasa seemingly ready to go up against Levi over his life. I always thought that while much was made of her relationship with Eren, she would love Armin nearly as much (being childhood friends and survivors of the initial attack & all that) - she just doesn't get as many opportunities to show it since Armin doesn't get in harms way as often as Eren does.
- The stuff in the basement.
- Poor Reiner, s1 & 2 -> helps burst the wall open, gets Eren nearly captured twice and is generally very difficult to deal with thanks to his thick armor (though Titan!Eren does manage to get the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat once). s3 -> manages to get blown up twice and gets nearly killed/captured, saved mostly by plot armor.
Which ties into: *Post-season 3 spoilers*
- s'4' Reiner : gets blown up (again), and generally get thrashed in some way every time a fight happens.
I really like how season 3 foreshadowed (among other things) the logical conclusion of technology not actually stagnating: Titans are mostly obsolete already, and will likely be irrelevant in the next war anyway, meaning that the mission of the Marleyian warriors was ... mostly pointless really.
I'm really eager to see how they're gonna do the Reiner-Eren confrontation, as this type of moment has always been highlights of the anime.
Chernobyl : Not much to add to what I already said in the relevant thread, aside that this is one of 2019's highlight.
7 Seeds : A nice long-after-the-end anime, where groups of people try to start over humanity from scratch on an Earth that has moved on from humanity. It's got a nice balance between optimism and cynicism. I really like how most people try to cooperate despite having a heap of reasons to distrust one another. Plus it fits in withe bazillion survival video games that popped up in the past decade :).
I hope they continue the story (I think it's adapted from a light novel?), as the season ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. Would recommend.
Rick & Morty, season 4 : It's pretty cool so far.
Travelers : A nice riff on the "set right what went wrong" theme, mixed in with body-snatching, I found it rather enjoyable. It explores its themes and morality quite thoroughly, and has some fun with that.
It has its ups & downs, but I would still recommend it overall.
Another Life : A science fiction story about people traveling to the edge of the Solar System(that was Nightflyers) another Solar System to make first contact with an alien species after some alien structures appear on earth, with Katee Sackhoff in the lead role. It is absolute garbage, poor Starbuck is the only element of quality in it (visuals are OK though).
Now, I'm no stranger to first contact stories, Nightflyers earlier this year tackled a similar journey, I watched 2016's Arrival a few months earlier, I watched Cube and Contact ages ago, I read Blindsight a few times, plus some more minor works here & there. This is possibly the ****tiest variation I have seen on it. They've managed the rather impressive job of making the awe-inspiring, inherently perilous journey through the unknown of space, where the heroes have to survive with their wit and resourcefulness just so they can decipher an unknowable enigma, look like ... I don't know, some teen slasher movie maybe? You know the one, where people get killed or screwed over more due to their own stupidity rather than any external danger. I don't know, maybe it's just me but I expect that when we make contact with intelligent alien life, we'll send an Elite crack team of experts, trained to face the perils of their journey, rather than a bunch of unstable frat-boys and sisterhood-girls that either flip the moment they hit some minor snag or behave like ****ing space tourists.
I managed to sit through 3 and a half episodes, but it was just too awful. Would most definitely *not* recommend.
His Dark Materials : An adaptation of Philip Pullman's series of novels. This is not the first time it got adapted, but I purposefully stayed away from 2007's Golden Compass film, as back then I suspected that A) it was probably just Harry-Potter-sploitation and B) there was no way in hell they could put the more controversial aspects of the books in a family movie - meaning I was quite intrigued by this. Times have changed since the mid-2000s, book now finally get adapted in series instead of being compressed into films, and our standards for quality television has arguably never been higher, so seeing a new adaptation, that included some quality actors (some of which are apparently quite familiar with the books), such as Dafne Keen (X-23 from Logan) in the lead role.
Note: I am currently half-way through. I have mixed feelings about it, I love the esthetics, I like how they've adapted the story while staying pretty darn close to the books, but I think I expected more, something feels off in the performance across the board and I have a few nitpicks here & there, and I don't whether it's an actual failing of the series, or just me having unusually high standards.
Has any one else given it a shot ?
The Expanse season 4 is as beautiful and engaging as ever, and leaves you wanting more. The world feels as vibrant as ever, despite the switch over to amazon.
Last, but not least is Dark Crystal : Age of Resistance : Wow, I did not expect to like this as much as I did. This is a prequel to the 1982 all-puppet film Dark Crystal, and I'll say that with the batch of 80s-ploitation films & series we've seen over the past decade, all of which have been rather hit or miss, I was rather skeptical going in. I mean with all the excellent CG & more we've had in recent years, how the hell would old school puppets hold up ? The last time I saw puppets was on Farscape from the previous decade (would highly recommend, btw). And the series would be focused on stiff-faced gelflings ?
Well, it turns out I was wrong on pretty much everything. The puppets, the set, everything looks absolutely gorgeous, the story's good, the characters are good, the only things that look off are a handful of blatant all-CG shots, and a couple of shots where some puppets couldn't be animated. And they really went the extra mile, after watching a few behind the scenes things, it turns out there's way less CG in there than I thought.
Even if you don't care about the story & all, I think the craftsmanship alone make it worth a watch.
This is one of 2019's highlight, would highly recommend.
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watching future diary, and i can't still decide whether to recommend it or not. I have seen several animes, but I fall short at the understanding(tm) of its general tropes, which I can sense there are a multiplicity displayed in it, at least in analytical terms. However, I can say it has both bored me and surprised me. It's equally intelligent and often times dumb as bricks. Some times it paves the way to interesting ideas behind the concepts of the show, but quickly goes off topic, or forgets about the ideas and moves on, betrays some characters' traits, or is just plain silly.
However, it still haunts me enough to keep watching it. It may have to do with the main relationship, which is hard and unealthy, but true to heart. Having gone through some... personal circumstances, I can say the writers may well know what they're writing about. That whole thing rings true, and personal.
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Watched an anime called "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" Which SpaceBattles convinced me to watch.
It starts looking like a magical girl show... then it tears out you heart, stomps on it, puts it in a blender, and sets it on fire for good measure... and it's good enough that you just can't stop watching it...
Seriously, forget manly tears. This will have you sobbing in a corner...
EDIT: IT does have more than a fair share of awesomeness and explosions too though...
I've seen Clannad.
Madoka has nothing on that.
Still, I must agree with Droid. Madoka is an excellent show. I've no idea when they're going to get around to releasing the movies here, but I'm definitely getting them!
EDIT:
Madoka was one of the few objectively good series from a writing standpoint to actually come out in recent times.
/me grabs popcorn
Watching Clannad on Netflix now. Have watched Madoka before, sound accurate. Therefore beginning to suspect the melancholy music from Clannad is my harbinger of doom. And here I was hoping they chose the music just to be mellow. :sigh: :(
EDIT: ok, ending(s) were just fine. Phew.
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A Silent Voice / The Shape of Voice (seems to be the internal title) is a really good anime movie, covers some important stuff re: bullying, suicide, second chances, friendship etc.
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Your lie in April is a good one. Abuse, isolation, loss, friends supporting through it etc. Melancholy, but in a beautiful way. Bonus, lots of Classic music played with emotion. Even if you don't like Classical, though, I don't think it will get in the way (don't let it keep you from the series, at the very least).
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Guess I'll drop an update too!
The Expanse Season 4
Not much to say here. If you are a fan of the first 3 seasons, you'll be a fan of the fourth. The amount of science they get right on this show (and in a way that isn't unbelievable or forced for entertainment) is truly remarkable.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (Seasons 1 and 2)
This is really good. It's a good plot with characters that have genuine motives and act on them in a way that makes sense in the context of the world. The aesthetic is a little older (and 'edgy', i guess is the best way to describe it) There is a fair amount of fanservice though, just a heads up (Though, Kallen kicking ass in the Guren while in a bunny suit was actually really awesome
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
I wanted something easy to watch while I eat my breakfast. This suited that need perfectly. Funny when it needed to be with a very simple message at the end.
Weathering With You
Not technically a series but whatever. Saw this one in theaters (which you should do if you can!). This is a better movie than Your Name. Less time skips, more focused, IMO funnier, and absolutely stunningly animated (seriously, the art is incredible). It's also super wholesome :)
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Seconded - The video doesn't mention it even without the prequel-short (which is the one in the less-anime looking style) the story-telling how they set up Nox is a master-class that needs to be seen (e.g. how his jerky movements represent his disconnect from basic humanity).
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (Seasons 1 and 2)
This is really good. It's a good plot with characters that have genuine motives and act on them in a way that makes sense in the context of the world. The aesthetic is a little older
It's also an older series, late 2000s early 2010s - I remember because I watched a few years ago, when someone pointed out to me that it serves as inspiration for some elements in first Trails of Cold Steel (e.g. the reveal of Comrade C's identiy in the Epilogue is visual quote from Season 1 finale of this show).
You are well advised to prepare yourself for some heartbreak however, as the show pulls no punches on the horrible prospect that being in the immidiate orbit of an anti-hero. (Even though I understand the rationale behind and the place in the narrative of the conclusion of Shirley's arc, I will never not be sad about.)
Your lie in April is a good one. Abuse, isolation, loss, friends supporting through it etc. Melancholy, but in a beautiful way. Bonus, lots of Classic music played with emotion. Even if you don't like Classical, though, I don't think it will get in the way (don't let it keep you from the series, at the very least).
Seconded
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These (2018)
Spoon once mentioned that original series served as inspiration to him, so I was bound to have a look. At least I know now, where the design of the Skirmisher comes from :P
The show juggles a lot and sadly doesn't end conclusively (Wikipedia tells me that it was continued in 2019 but that wasn't translated yet appearently). Because it juggles so much (two teams of commanders on the opposite side of a war; as well as setting up history and politics) it sometimes feels like it is moving a bit too fast and doesn't give elements time to settle in. Regardless it worth a watch.
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on Galactic Heroes, the pacing steps on itself a little bit in the new one. The original has very deliberate pacing that makes it easy to follow. That's not to say they are completely different, many of the conversations in the show are identical between the two versions. It's a shame too, they are only gaining about one episode of lead with the compression they've done (comparing amount of episodes in original vs remake to the events that are occurring).
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Just finished binging Schlock Mercenary webcomic from the beginning (June of 2000).
I've been meaning to read those! I just have never gotten around to it yet...
I like the author, Howard Taylor, on the podast Writing Excuses that he does with Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, and a bunch of others.
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Nice try bot. Reported.
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Now you have the URL in your post too :p
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Now you have the URL in your post too :p
True, but it's not clickable. You'd have to manually copy+paste it to go there (FWIW, I was curious and put it into Google Translate and it's a Russian site offering CounterStrike 1.6 downloads for free).
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Owl House
OK, what is it with Disney shows reveling in playing "death world" settings for laughs?
Not that I'm complaining but it's kind of weird that non Disney shows often feel more Disney than Disney itself when it comes to TV animation.
Probably it's because they don't feel like proving something, perhaps?
This series of Doctor Who seems to remember to be a bit more larger-than-life which makes the occasional bad episode much more bearable, they still don't allow Jodie Whittaker to be quite as over the top as the other Doctors before her which I think sort of misses the point of the character.
Transformers Cyberverse
Season 3 feels like it starts with the season 2 finale and then after 5 episodes goes into season 3 proper.
It's that mixture of cheesy and silly of the original cartoon only with real stakes and actually good. It's interesting what they are doing with the Quintessons.
Funnily enough even though Hasbro had it renamed as Transformers Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures the episodes themselves still show the same Transformers Cyberverse title card, even funnier considering Bumblebee doesn't seem to appear that much in these episodes.
I also watched Transformers Combiner Wars.
It's bad, like really, really bad.
The only saving grace is a sort of retired, sort of redeemed Megatron but the rest from the writing to the animation is just awful. Even the voice-acting is dull an monotone for the most part, with only Megatron and Optimus being well acted. I heard bad things about this but _damn_, it's not even so bad it's good like the old cartoon might be if you are into that kind of thing.
Speaking of Transformers, apparently there is the version for adults that can't admit to like kids' stuff coming out in June on Netflix:
Joking aside, this might actually be sort of decent?
What really concerns me is that there are some people from Combiner Wars working on it apparently.
The designs follow the War for Cybertron Siege and Earthrise toys very closely apart from the texturing on some characters like Megatron being silver-ish instead of matte grey (and there are apparently versions that match more closely the show coming out according to leaks). On one hand it is kind of impressive (I still remember when the toys were basically bricks that no one would be able to follow closely with any kind of animated model) on another is kind of weird seeing what is basically the Hound I have on the shelf behind me moving by itself.
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Ducktales
So, third season starts and they already screwed up with the episode order apparently because Disney wanted to introduce the main story arc early, sigh.
Harley Quinn
Poor Gordon.
Steven Universe Future
And so it ends, I like that Steven's underlying issues weren't solved right away by the cooldown hug and that they made it clear it only calmed his meltdown so yes finally Steven Universe is seeing a therapist!
Of course I did the mistake afterwards of glancing at some videos that popped up on my Youtube recommendations, I sincerely wonder if some people are really that thick to get the exact opposite of the point the series is making with the subtlety of a sledgehammer or they just do it on purpose.
I also saw the rest of the Transformers Prime Wars Trilogy and there is not much of an improvement, at least Windblade's idiotic psycho "strong indipendent woman" tendencies have been dialed it down. The voice acting is still mostly bad (even frigging Mark Hamill manages to give a bad performance) and the animation is still very cheap-looking (say what you want about Cyberverse but that show looks much better in motion than this drivel). Megatron steals the show and of course they kill him in favour of bringing Optimus Prime back from the dead out of nowhere because nostalgia (really, that was such an epIX move which made it even worse).
I watched some of the first season of Transformers G1 and the single episodes are less grating than the pilot miniseries but still the animation quality is really abysmal, at least it's not as stiff as some other cartoons of the time but boy the off models and continuity errors need to be seen to be believed.
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Finished watching She-Ra and The Princesses of Power's fifth and final season.
No Korra-style or worse yet Disney-style cowardice here thankfully and the finale is suitably spectacular wrapping everything nicely.
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I recently finished the first Season of Mars. It was intersting mix of Scifi Story and documantery (or better: a little bit of advertisment for SpaceX), it was interesting, though not so much new for me. The actual Story vas pretty good and seemed very plausable, though it was a little bit too much Drama involved.
Story is about a first manned Mission to Mars that is also tasked with bulding the first Colony and search for life on Mars in the year 2033. It skips than from time to time back to the present and shows how far we are and what still needs to be resolved to make this mission a reality.
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I watched three episodes of parasite on Netflix during downtime at work today..
Its just plain awful 😂
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Time to post some anime updates: mostly from the last 2 or so months. Like many others, I found myself with an excess of time at home and didn't have a whole lot to do (except for the ~3 week finals sprint that always happens at the end of a school semester). Anyways, here's what I've been up to:
Log Horizon - Season 1 - Not much to say here. I watched SAO and was disappointed, like many others, with the (lack of) quality of the writing and character development, as well as the slapdash worldbuilding. Log Horizon is much more intriguing and doesn't try to hamfist in an explanation as to how the 'video game isekai' occurred. Also, its focus on personal freedoms and purpose is a nice, and heartily realistic take on the genre.
My Next Life as A Villainess - Started this as a lighthearted show to watch once a day over breakfast. It's nothing special, but does its job of providing me with some decent comic relief (among some sparse emotional moments). It's got a bit more creativity than the usual 'lowest common denominator' isekai, so it gets some credit there.
Tower of God - Currently 7 episodes in, and I am getting some strong Hunter x Hunter vibes from this (in a good way). Bam is an...interesting 'protagonist'. No spoilers here so I'll keep it vague - the writer(s), at least to me, are setting up for some major character interactions in the future, and I only hope they can deliver. If they don't, then this series will have built up a lot of well-deserved/earned hype for no payout.
Domestic Girlfriend - I still can't believe i watched this. I think I just hoped it would get better as the end neared, but no. This is just bad. :banghead:
Brand New Animal - 6 Episodes in, which is what is available so far. Animation is stellar, as is expected from Trigger. Def not as over the top as the usual trigger production, but still has that trigger feel. Michuru is fun, but I must admit that the story feels a little lacking in creativity. I don't know - will re-evaluate on completion.
Kaguya-Love is War S2 - Also 6 episodes in, and it continues to be great! Best part so far has been the additional development of side characters like Ishigami and Hayasaka. This series is a must-watch.
Food Wars - All Seasons - First and second seasons were amazingly fun and very ecchi! Season 3 was good, season 4 was alright, season 5 only has two episodes so far but looks to be kinda bad - the antagonist seems very shoehorned in and overturns many of the fundamentals established by the series. Might drop season 5 if quality continues to drop throughout.
That's all for now!
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I finally watched Neon Genesis Evangelion. And I have opinions.
Possible spoilers, but nothing specific. Also the anime is like 25 years old, so... you've been warned.
1: A lot fewer giant robot fights, and a lot more hardcore... psychological torture and philosophy than I expected.
2: I found every main character, with the possible exception of Rei, to be massively unpleasant and unlikable. But I guess that makes them more realistic characters?
3: Speaking of, these are probably the most accurate depictions of 14-year-olds I've seen in media. In lots of anime, kids tend to be just smaller, sillier adults. Not here though, here the kids are rash, dumb, annoying, selfish jerks, barely able to grasp that their actions affect the world around them; just like I was at 14!
4: I think I get roughly what the philosophy of the show is. I don't know how specifically it relates to the actual story though. Some episodes seemed kind of random and confusing. "Is this a dream? Whose dream? Hallucination? Somewhere else where a person's brain just goes 'whatever man, I'm going on a tangent with this chick's brain'?" What are those last two episodes supposed to be depicting, literally?
5: Why everything? Why the Angels? Why Seele? Why NERV? Why The Council? Why 14-year-olds exclusively?
6: What is everything from point 5?
6b: So is the whole thing a metaphor? Is it not actually a story about giant robots* stabbing each other and philosophical overtones and metaphor? Is it all metaphor and the giant robots* don't even exist?
7: I haven't seen End of Evangelion yet, maybe that'll help?
8: Watched on Netflix for the first time ever, so didn't get the Fly Me To The Moon ending. I don't feel like I missed it. Also, this may be sacrilege, but I feel like Cruel Angel's Thesis is just ok, and doesn't deserve "legendary OP" status.
9: It's kind of weird watching this after I've seen Darling In The Franxx. I was aware going in that there were... a number of similarities, but dang. At least as far as big robot battles goes, I feel like Franxx does a better job. Also I prefer having answers to my questions, even if the answers are "Because of 11th hour space aliens".
*Technically not robots, I know. But can't resist the "Get in the robot, Shinji!" meme
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My only opinion is that Evangelion has the more attractive major than Gits. :nervous:
I don't think the depiction of 14 year olds is of typical 14 year olds though. The ones in the show are as you described, but when I was 14 we all tended to function a bit more.... "normally" :nervous: but I guess this gives the shows primary characters some variety as far as anime requirements dictate.
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I don't think the depiction of 14 year olds is of typical 14 year olds though.
Maybe it's more like the uncertainty and directionless rage that many feel is pasted on double-thick on the outside of the characters. Like, they act how we felt. idk.
In other news, I've now watched End of Evangelion.
I think it helped explain some things? In other ways made things more confusing?
At least it had a good big robot fight.
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I find Evangelion almost infinitely more satisfying as an exploration of the mind of an extremely creative and talented person suffering from deep clinical depression, than as a narrative in its own right.
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Agreed. I really disliked the film when I first saw it, particularly the empty theatre scene, as it seemed like a very pretentious and deliberate "**** you" to the audience. I came to appreciate it more and the series overall as I got a bit older and started to understand some of what it was trying to convey.
Evangelion was always billed as a deconstruction of the mecha genre, but it's kind of not really, it's something else entirely. I recently watched Gundam 1978 for the first time and I was surprised by how adult it was, with themes of war, PTSD, ethics etc (though admittedly glossed over and not fully explored). Evangelion is more sort of psychological torture porn with robots thrown in. There's bits of it I love and bits of it that are just frustrating, but of course it does that deliberately.
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Saw DEVS from Alex Garland. Extremely pretentious and quite good anyway.
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I'm not watching any tv series right now but the most recent one I've watched was Léo, a french canadian tv series that was broadcasted last winter.
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So there's a new season or Re:Zero starting. So I'm rewatching the first season of Re:Zero.
It's really good, you guys. I'd forgotten how good it was. The animation and art is great, the writing and characters are excellent, and the story is still very very good.
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Yeah I enjoyed it, it was camp and fun.
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Dragon's Dogma Netflix Anime announced soon for September
Take your bets in how corporate and not fun it's going to be
https://twitter.com/DragonsDogma/status/1283191069501530119
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skimmin through She-Ra, catching up to see what all the fuss was about, it's the gayest thing ever, funny, sweet and gay as ****. Also, hella gay throughout. Hilarious, having a good time.
"I can't believe I'm stuck in the closet with you", oh dear, this closet is made with glass innit?
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Original? It was kind of made for girls of the time. Hence the rainbow winged flying horse 🌈😂
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Original? It was kind of made for girls of the time. Hence the rainbow winged flying horse 🌈😂
I mean, the original was also pretty damn gay.... (Both He-Man and She-Ra were, actually; the production staff of both was putting in some pretty unsubtle lesbian/gay tones in there)
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It had the same vibes as conan but with less blood and guts. Yeah it was camp but not flamboyant 😂
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It had the same vibes as conan but with less blood and guts. Yeah it was camp but not flamboyant 😂
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/002/691/sings.jpg)
It was damn flamboyant, you just didn't notice it because you were just a kid. I also skimmed a few old She-Ra episodes on youtube, and that stuff is amazingly gay, I just had never noticed it before. It's all awesome though. I like the new style, very expressive and colorful, mixing some steven universe with moebius and even avatar.
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I'm in the episode where Bow shows Glimmer and Adora his dads. I spilled my coffee.
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/486/549/454.png)
the dad in the left is conspicuously similar to how Bow was originally drawn in the 80s. Cute stuff.
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I'm in the episode where Bow shows Glimmer and Adora his dads. I spilled my coffee.
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/486/549/454.png)
the dad in the left is conspicuously similar to how Bow was originally drawn in the 80s. Cute stuff.
Wait to get to the episode where they do the full homage.
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A few things I watched in the last few months:
Harley Quinn
I liked that they didn't demonize Kite Man to get Ivy and Harly to be together.
It's also both awesome and funny that Gordon becomes an unhinged super badass when he's off the bottle, I hope we get more of this series.
Transformers War for Cybetron Trilogy: Siege
It's not super bad like the Prime Wars Trilogy fortunately, it's actully pretty decent but it's made mainly for Transformers nerds and I wonder if I would have understood everything had I watched it before I started my Transformers spree a couple of years ago.
Still, it's irritating that a prominent character in the series like Ratchet is a US exclusive while the other minivan Ironhide is widely available but has barely one line.
Owl House
At first I thought it could be potentially queerbaiting given it's still Disney (who thought live action Le Fou was groundbreaking representation) but nope, they are just treating it like the classic high school crush including plenty of awkwardness-based comedy which manages to be both endearing and hilarious at the same time.
Of course they could still no-homo it into oblivion this being Disney.
Amphibia
The main plot finally moves along after a mostly episodic road trip, let's see where it goes.
Star Trek Lower Decks
Uhm, seems nice enough. Fortunately it doesn't seem to go into edginess for its own sake. Now let's just hope the usual Kurtzman way of writing sci-fi doesn't manifest itself.
Mariner seems almost a deconstruction of nuKirk, she's gifted but also completely undisciplined to the point she was rapidly relegated to be an ensign, though she did seem to have legitimately risen through the ranks at a certain point, let's see how it goes.
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I just finished watching Hibike! Euphonium (aka Sound! Euphonium). It's moe as heck, you guys. If you want a nice high-school drama based on people (mostly) being supportive of each other, you may enjoy this one. Also, some phenomenal music, as you would hope from a show about an orchestra band club.
(This is an edit, btw, there's only one point in the show where they play an entire piece start to finish.)
Also I'm right in the thick of the new season of RE: Zero, which is of course, excellent.
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Armor hunter morrowlink is good fun. Uncomplicated by things like character development or deep plot, it's full of man on foot vs Mechs.
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Just watched Shinsekai Yori. It's pretty short (25 episodes) but it's a real damn rollercoaster. Very intriguing, quite brutal and serious and creates a lot of questions and many aren't answered. I loved it but my brain feels totally scronched after this.
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Fantastic series. Also I like the insinuation that 25 episodes is "pretty short" when most original anime works make it to all of 12 these days. :p
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well i finally caught up to Seven Deadly Sins on netflix, so now im planning to watch 'Usaki-chan wanna hang out' because i read the manga and thought that I may as well watch it too
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Lower Decks is pretty cool. I would suggest they way more than outdid The Orville at what they pretended they were about at the start but never delivered: a comedic show about a subpar ship doing unimportant things filled with a silly crew that barely do their jobs, but never letting go of that star trek heart.
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Just ordered Avatar The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra combo BluRay from Amazon on the recommendation of a friend. It should get here in a few days.
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About to watch daybreak episode one of nuBSG. Only took me 17 years to watch it past razor.
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About to watch daybreak episode one of nuBSG. Only took me 17 years to watch it past razor.
Ah, nuBSG. I enjoyed it while I watched it when it was on TV. The ending, however... (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GainaxEnding)
And my BluRay of Avatar The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra complete series just arrived. Now I have to decide if I'm gonna watch that now or finish Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Man, I really want to savor the last season of GoT...
...and I'll kill anyone who gives me GoT spoilers.
Which reminds me: Dekker, don't follow that link to TvTropes and open the Live Action TV folder, or it will ruin the ending for BSG for you.
*runs*
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Ah, nuBSG. I enjoyed it while I watched it when it was on TV. The ending, however... (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GainaxEnding)
And my BluRay of Avatar The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra complete series just arrived. Now I have to decide if I'm gonna watch that now or finish Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Man, I really want to savor the last season of GoT...
...and I'll kill anyone who gives me GoT spoilers.
The Throne lost the Game :P
(never watched GoT)
I rewatched Neon Genesis Evangelion again. Still vastly prefer it over the newer Rebuild series.
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Ha, Neon Genesis Evangelion, the friggin' Trope Namer (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropeNamers) of the Gainax Ending (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GainaxEnding).
Well done, sir. I salute you. :D
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About to watch daybreak episode one of nuBSG. Only took me 17 years to watch it past razor.
Ah, nuBSG. I enjoyed it while I watched it when it was on TV. The ending, however... (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GainaxEnding)
And my BluRay of Avatar The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra complete series just arrived. Now I have to decide if I'm gonna watch that now or finish Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Man, I really want to savor the last season of GoT...
...and I'll kill anyone who gives me GoT spoilers.
Which reminds me: Dekker, don't follow that link to TvTropes and open the Live Action TV folder, or it will ruin the ending for BSG for you.
*runs*
Never went beyond its first season but watch GoT first then the cartoons and marvel at them being probably better written than a lot of stuff for "grownups".
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GoT cartoons???
I wonder if they're prone to amplification of womens assets?
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NuBSG is great on its first two seasons. I don't care about what happens next.
In other news, I finally watched The Boys. Holy ****, it's the best punch on Snyders stomach i could think of. It's basically The League of Justice written by a Marxist. It's ****ing great! I love it! Dark as he'll, be warned, but Carl Urban is just amazing.
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It is great, but it took me three episodes to wrangle his accent 😂
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Just ordered Avatar The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra combo BluRay from Amazon on the recommendation of a friend. It should get here in a few days.
If you enjoy them, watch The Dragon Prince too.
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Daybreak episode 2....
I feel a kindred to Tigh buying his war buddy shots in a skin bar, but I feel closer to Adama throwing up in his lap in an alley behind a bin 😂😂
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holy **** the boys season 2 is just super, pun intended etc
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It is. Homelander has a slightly different take on the "stood on roof at night" pose than batman....
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he can do anything...
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I finished watching Beast Wars (PC)
I can see why people are nostalgic for it, there is some decent character development and in general for a toy oriented show it's much better than it has any right to be. The ending was a bit rushed and it's pretty clear Dinobot II was a request from the Hasbro execs.
Doom Patrol manages to be both hilarious and harrowing, I only wish they didn't end every season in a cliffhanger.
Netflix Carmen Sandiego season 3 is evidently a half season.
The episode set in Venice was almost bearable but then at the end they had a cop shout Fermare! which is so catastrophically incorrect I won't say anything anymore because it would be a rant about the use of Imperative in Italian.
Dear writers, if you write your foreign dialogue with google translate or just give no context to whoever does your translations just write all dialogues in english since it's evidently the only language you know.
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I'm currently rewatching Toradora! which is SO GOOD you guys. It's cute, and full of feelings, and funny, and has really good character writing and dialogue. It's really good.
The episode set in Venice was almost bearable but then at the end they had a cop shout Fermare! which is so catastrophically incorrect I won't say anything anymore because it would be a rant about the use of Imperative in Italian.
Dear writers, if you write your foreign dialogue with google translate or just give no context to whoever does your translations just write all dialogues in english since it's evidently the only language you know.
I had to ask at least two fluent Spanish speakers what the equivalent of "HELP!" is in Spanish, in the context of "HELP there's an angry monster over here, somebody please kill it!" I'm pretty sure the word is "Auxilio!" but I'm still not 100% sure on that...
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Auxilio seems a little to well behaved and formal for such a situation, but I don't really speak spanish that well, we kinda foster a hyper-nationalistic dismissal of our imperial neighbour, including its culture and language, so idk. ¡Ayuda! seems more in line?
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Discovery: mass effect edition looks to be the only thing keeping my interest until the boys comes back.
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Auxilio seems a little to well behaved and formal for such a situation, but I don't really speak spanish that well, we kinda foster a hyper-nationalistic dismissal of our imperial neighbour, including its culture and language, so idk. ¡Ayuda! seems more in line?
I don't know much of anything spanish but considering the languages are similar ¡Ayuda! does indeed sound more natural.
I'm currently rewatching Toradora! which is SO GOOD you guys. It's cute, and full of feelings, and funny, and has really good character writing and dialogue. It's really good.
The episode set in Venice was almost bearable but then at the end they had a cop shout Fermare! which is so catastrophically incorrect I won't say anything anymore because it would be a rant about the use of Imperative in Italian.
Dear writers, if you write your foreign dialogue with google translate or just give no context to whoever does your translations just write all dialogues in english since it's evidently the only language you know.
I had to ask at least two fluent Spanish speakers what the equivalent of "HELP!" is in Spanish, in the context of "HELP there's an angry monster over here, somebody please kill it!" I'm pretty sure the word is "Auxilio!" but I'm still not 100% sure on that...
I don't know much Spanish but "Ausilio" in Italian is not the kind of word you'd shout when calling for help.
In Italian would be more or less "Aiuto! C'è un mostro infuriato, per favore qualcuno lo uccida!"
The example from Carmen Sandiego was something much more straightforward, it's likely they put the word "stop" into google translate and it came out "fermare" which is the basic infinite of the verb. It can be used as imperative but only in the context of a terse order to a group of people you have authority on like a Captain to a crew, for example "turn to starboard!" can be translated "virare a dritta!" in alternative to the normal imperative "virate a dritta!"
The imperative singular for "fermare" is "fermati!" with accent on the first sillable (otherwise it's a plural participle) but in that context a cop would most likely shout "fermo!" which can be intended as a shortened version of the longer sentence "stai fermo lì!" (more or less "stop right there" literally "stay still there"), an alternative would be the slightly less terse "fermo lì!" and there is also a possibility of the use of foreign loan words like "altolà!" or "alt!" (from the German "halten") or, ironically enough, "stop".
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Ooh, Italian lesson!
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In the end I couldn't resist and did the rant anyway, at least it's more or less coherent and less sweary than what I was tempted to write initially. :nervous:
Avatar The Last Airbender
Yes, I completely missed out on this back in the day. I hadn't even heard of the thing until the movie came out and people started complaining about it.
You can tell it had much more money poured into it than most of today's cartoons and that had it come out today the usual suspects would probably complain about it because of Sokka having his MRA tendencies beat out of him every other episode.
And I think I might have already watched half the first season over lunch and dinner.
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Solar opposites..... I'm watching that as its just Rick and morty with a different skin.
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Solar opposites..... I'm watching that as its just Rick and morty with a different skin.
Is it as good as Rick and Morty? Because I saw one ad for it and then nothing else ever, no memes or anything.
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I finished Avatar The Last Airbender and I can clearly see it's been very influential. The aspects that haven't aged well are mostly due to it being very much a TV product (like, can we please clearly know if a character died? You can tell the showrunners were frustrated with it because they themselves joke about it in the show itself and some parts are not as emotionally raw as what you can see in something more recent like She-Ra) but the rest works really well.
There is more money put in the animation than in most current shows though there are a few conspicous animation errors towards the end (Nickelodeon cutting funds?) and the fight scenes look gorgeous as a result even if being TV animation from the mid-2000s it's still finalized in SD.
Kipo and The Age of Wonderbeasts
Jack Kirby's Kamandi but with a dash of Fallout (the "burrows" are basically Fallout's vaults).
It manages to be both dramatic and surreally funny, one moment there are mutated bees that talk in dubstep the other you get a tragic and often rather dark backstory (no, I don't necessarily mean "dark for a kids show" some of these backstories wouldn't feel out of place in Fallout if perhaps are not the most extreme examples of what you can find there).
I wish there was a bit more but the order from Netflix was for thirty episodes and the showrunners wisely decided to conclude the story within that limit.
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Solar opposites.....
I have no excuse 😂😂
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Touhou Memories of Phantasm.
Not really an official anime but it might as well be, the voice acting is pretty damn good (aside from that one awful episode with Utsuho vs Cirno) and the art is incredible.
Favorite episode is the Imperishable Night one, for obvious reasons.
(https://static.zerochan.net/Touhou.full.1299121.jpg)
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The Legend of Korra
You can clearly tell that this wasn't planned at all after the first season and sometimes is seems to be pandering to fandom objections.
The second half of the series in particular (and perhaps even part of season 2) seems intent of overcompensating any perception of Korra being overpowered which is frankly weird considering that Aang was even more so in the original.
The aversion to say characters that are clearly shown dying are dead is even worse than in Avatar, even by kids cartoons standards it's a bit too much in this.
And the Korrasami thing is subtle to the point that even after years or reading articles and watching youtube essays about queer coding you can't really tell it's there unless you are a dedicated shipper that looks for ship teasing in things, it doesn't help that in the last season they share much less screen time together than in the third which at least had some bonding scenes here and there.
I did expect much worse as series quality overall, it's fine overall but the lack of direction is felt a bit too much.
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The Legend of Korra
You can clearly tell that this wasn't planned at all
[...]
the lack of direction is felt a bit too much.
But doesn't it fit with the idea of teenage leads and a world that doesn't really need an Avatar at times?
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The aversion to say characters that are clearly shown dying are dead is even worse than in Avatar, even by kids cartoons standards it's a bit too much in this.
Yeah, this has left me scratching my head a few times, the death are even more blatant than back in avatar, but nope, saying the words "dead", "killed", etc. ist verbotten.
And the Korrasami thing is subtle [...]
That's a fairly common sentiment, although I've always been surprised at how widespread it is. Back in the day, I knew even less about LGBT & queer stuff than I do now, I'd always stayed away from the shipping mentality, and I yet I picked up on it pretty much straight away. Heck I even found it a bit heavy handed due to how blatant it was in the final season.
In any case, yeah Nick saying "you've got 1 season, and only one !", then going "cool, what do you have planned for the next 3 seasons ?" harmed the series quite a bit. With that being said, I re-watched bits of it far more than I ever did A:TLA, and I get the impression that it's emboldened a whole new generation of cartoons to be more daring.
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The aversion to say characters that are clearly shown dying are dead is even worse than in Avatar, even by kids cartoons standards it's a bit too much in this.
Yeah, this has left me scratching my head a few times, the death are even more blatant than back in avatar, but nope, saying the words "dead", "killed", etc. ist verbotten.
And the Korrasami thing is subtle [...]
That's a fairly common sentiment, although I've always been surprised at how widespread it is. Back in the day, I knew even less about LGBT & queer stuff than I do now, I'd always stayed away from the shipping mentality, and I yet I picked up on it pretty much straight away. Heck I even found it a bit heavy handed due to how blatant it was in the final season.
In any case, yeah Nick saying "you've got 1 season, and only one !", then going "cool, what do you have planned for the next 3 seasons ?" harmed the series quite a bit. With that being said, I re-watched bits of it far more than I ever did A:TLA, and I get the impression that it's emboldened a whole new generation of cartoons to be more daring.
I got the vibes mostly from season 3, in season 4 they sort of forget to make them interact for a bit too long.
The Legend of Korra
You can clearly tell that this wasn't planned at all
[...]
the lack of direction is felt a bit too much.
But doesn't it fit with the idea of teenage leads and a world that doesn't really need an Avatar at times?
You can still have that and a more coherent narrative that doesn't feel the need to constantly depower the protagonist for the sake of drama. I still don't get why in the finale she couldn't just enter the Avatar state and junk the megamech. It's pretty clear they couldn't plan narrative beats as carefully so they had to stick to some cheap narrative solutions.
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I just finished watching ATLA a few days ago and am almost done with TLOK Season 1 (I’m just about to watch “Endgame” as I’m writing this) but because of spoilers I read at TvTropes, I know about the Kosira ship. From what I understand, each season/Book having its own arc was a deliberate decision by the show’s creators to highlight how the world needs the Avatar to deal with its many issues and problems, as opposed to ATLA’s single Big Bad. More commentary on TLOK from me will have to wait until I finish watching the rest of Books 2 through 4.
EDIT: Just finished watching “Endgame“ and reading TvTropes’ recap of the episode. Apparently, Book 1 was originally intended to be a single season “miniseries” before Nickelodeon approved the later seasons. (If this fact was mentioned in an earlier post, I missed it. Derp.) Frankly, the scene of Amon+Tarrlok+electric glove+speedboat fuel tank was a Wham Shot for me. I officially have NO idea how Nickelodeon let the writers get away with that on a kid’s show. Still a Tear Jerker/Alas, Poor Villain moment, though.
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I just finished watching ATLA a few days ago and am almost done with TLOK Season 1 (I’m just about to watch “Endgame” as I’m writing this) but because of spoilers I read at TvTropes, I know about the Kosira ship. From what I understand, each season/Book having its own arc was a deliberate decision by the show’s creators to highlight how the world needs the Avatar to deal with its many issues and problems, as opposed to ATLA’s single Big Bad. More commentary on TLOK from me will have to wait until I finish watching the rest of Books 2 through 4.
Note that the only season that doesn't really have a conclusive ending is season 3.
I wouldn't be surprised that had they've been sure from the start the series would be picked up for subsequent seasons they wouldn't have made a certain choice with Korra at the end of season 1.
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Watched BNA (Brand New Animal). I'm a bit behind on this one, but I really enjoyed it. 12 episodes, fun, and - like everything Studio Trigger does - real nice to look at.
Then I decided to start K-On! because it was either that or Japan Sinks 2020 and I decided to go with the low-stress option. Then I finished the first season and was like "that was fun".
So now I'm watching Japan Sinks 2020. And let me tell you, as somebody who lives in a fault zone: If you're the sort of person to worry about earthquakes, maybe give this one a pass. Otherwise, it's so far a very good disaster series.
Also also, Attack on Titan Final Season just started, so that's cool.
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I decided to rewatch childhood favourite Nadia: The Mystery of Blue Water, it has still some cases of anime-ness in places (probably also due to being the uncensored version made for the DVDs rather than the edited version which went on air when I was a kid) but it’s sort of better than I remembered. Bonus points for having remembered Captain Nemo is not supposed to be white. Of course according to what I’ve read I am still a way off from the worst filler episodes.
The Mandalorian turned into a fanservice singularity in the last episode, I couldn’t believe they were going there when a certain ship appeared but the more it went on the more it was apparent they did.
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Ghost Stories - the butter wouldn't melt Japanese anime for children that was corrupted and turned into an rated 18 by the English dub. On Amazon prime and it is bloody hilarious :lol:
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The Ghost Stories dub is a goddamn treasure.
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Boy the filler episodes are really dire, it doesn't even look like the same show as the first twenty or so episodes. It's to the point I'd have guessed something wasup even if I didn't knew already they were outsourced and heavily rewritten by the animation studio they were outsourced to.
You get glimpses here and there of character development but it's mostly weird looney tunes hijinks (literally, even the lighter pre-filler episodes avoided going full Wile E. Coyote) and everyone's personality being cranked up to eleven.
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Watched the first episode of Avatar Korra last night in bed while my wife slept.
Shane it didn't show the formation of the Republic..... Unless it happens in flashbacks later on...
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I've finished Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
Good grief the end of the fillers couldn't come soon enough, if it wasn't for having a cookie cutter anime Robinsonade plus the three African filler episodes wedged in about two-thirds of the way it would actually be far better than I remembered from my childhood memories.
Of course it's still a lot better just not as dramatically as it could.
I wonder how the alleged 6 hour miniseries Anno apparently recobbled for the japanese market would fare.
Watched the first episode of Avatar Korra last night in bed while my wife slept.
Shane it didn't show the formation of the Republic..... Unless it happens in flashbacks later on...
You get a few glimpses of the early republic but nothing more.
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Hilda is more british than I thought it would be.
It's basically a chill version of Gravity Falls without the rapid fire Simpson-style humor that kind of annoyed me in that one.
And it's also basically a Tolkien-style fantasy world that was allowed to go beyond the middle ages, while there are cars and the clothing is modern there are also giants, trolls, house spirits and other such creatures around without the classic "masquerade" going on.
Since it's from the same author as Nadia I finally decided to arrive late to the party and got the old Italian dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion (yeah, I heard too many bad stories about the Netflix one, even the corrected version has apparently a few weird choices and apparently lacks Fly Me to The Moon) and watched the first two episodes.
I thought the parodies I saw and read over the years were exaggerating but by god Gendo doesn't really make a mystery of being at best indifferent to his son already the first time he speaks to him in the show. The guy is basically a version of Shadow Weaver that doesn't even bother to appear to care every once in a while.
I had already read something about what the EVA are years ago but that glimpse under the helmet was something.
I'll probably watch the rest once I finish with season 2 of Hilda.
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You know a romance anime is good when at least once per episode you're overcome with the urge to shout, "AH! you NERDS!"
Anyway, I'm watching Tsukigakirei. It's about middle-schoolers, so I suppose some amount of nerdiness is expected.
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About 2/3 of the way through Beast Player Erin. It's a decade-old fantasy series based on novels by the same author as Moribito, and like the latter it's fantastic, with the same attention to detail and world-building. It's ostensibly a children's series, but like most truly good children's literature it can be equally enjoyed by all ages, and it takes a more mature look at loss and grief than most "adult" series do. Truly a hidden gem.
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Season 5 of The Expanse. I have been waiting for this **** for five ****ing years god damn it this show is so good.
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Season 5 of The Expanse. I have been waiting for this **** for five ****ing years god damn it this show is so good.
I've been told it's the worst, especially in character development
https://twitter.com/realMikeMartin/status/1344196108218601474
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Season 5 of The Expanse. I have been waiting for this **** for five ****ing years god damn it this show is so good.
I've been told it's the worst, especially in character development
https://twitter.com/realMikeMartin/status/1344196108218601474
Stop listening to people with bad opinions on Twitter.
I mean, we're on Season 5 of a show that has featured a bunch of pretty well-developed storylines both on a personal and geopolitical level and your very smart boi over there stopped watching in season 2 because he apparently missed half of those plots....
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Hilda
Oh, goddamit, to which elder god do I need to give a blood sacrifice for the third season?
Joking aside, that was one hell of a cliffhanger.
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Finished TLOK book 1:air
Seemed OK, but felt harried to finish. Also, she managed to Rey Skywalker her avatar state by being a bit sad 😂
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Yeah, that's what you get when the network goes "You've got one and *only* one season for this show, so you better wrap everything up !", so they "max-level'd" Korra, gave her a boyfriend and tied up every plot threads as best they could.
I will admit that it's actually quite amusing to see them kinda struggling to give Korra credible challenges in the following 3 seasons' fights.
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I watched some of the new season of Cosmos today, It's really good so far, loving it.
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Finished Neon Genesis Evangelion
After episode 24 I was dreading what would follow (and having that episode spoiled years ago didn't help, if anything made it worse because I already knew how it was going to end).
That it was just a reflection on what had happend in the rest of the series with few hints to what happened in the "real world" was a relief.
I guess all the really traumatic parts are in End of Evangelion, right?
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That it was just a reflection on what had happend in the rest of the series with few hints to what happened in the "real world" was a relief.
I guess all the really traumatic parts are in End of Evangelion, right?
Giving any definitive answers about anything in Eva is difficult enough. But I would say that End of Evangelion does definitely help.
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Finished book two of Avatar 2 electric boogaloo. On book 3 now and the antagonists are more interesting than the last lot.
Also I've got a weird schoolboy crush on kya which repulses me as she's olllllld.
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Watched End of Evangelion.
Less brutal in the psychological sense than I expected, it's basically just a hour and a half resolution of all the stuff that had been teased on the last episodes of the TV series.
Gendo's death among all the tragedy was quite satisfying, the main reason why he wanted the end of the world turning to ashes and leaving him with the knowledge he utterly traumatized his only son for nothing.
I'll get to watch the Rebuild movies too since apparently they are a time loop sequel rather than a true remake (and I have a few guesses as to how that happens now that I've seen EoE).
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I just finished Blood Blockade Battlefront (Kekkai Sensen) Season 2
It's uh, not an easy series to explain. Okay so New York fell into another world, or more accurately, another world fell into New York City. And now there's weird mosnters and non-human people and vampires and minor deities and just a ton of weird stuff everywhere. And largely, the story is about a normal guy with super powerful eyes and his friends fighting nightmare monsters.
It's visually gorgeous in design, animation, and everything. And the soundtrack is great: the ED for season 1 is legendary. And the ED for season 2 is also great.
(This is the music video for the full song, the anime has significantly fewer basketball dance-offs)
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So, since in an Italian sci-fi Facebook group when I wrote that I had watched Evangelion and liked it a bunch of very vocal people told me Mobile Suit Gundam was tons better about traumas and child soldiers and such so I started watching it.
Methinks they didn’t quite get what Evangelion was about because while of course they have some anime robot tropes in common Gundam is much more of a classic young adult military science fiction, a damn good one especially for the time but still quite a different type of work.
Like, Amuro is literally a super nerd with super nerd powers that understands how the super prototype bigass robot works after glancing at the manual. I suspect that if they made it today and gender-inverted it all of the internet would have cried “Mary Sue” so loudly it would have probably interfered with the sonar senses of dolphins in the ocean and for sure his first outing in the Gundam is a far cry from that of Shinji in the EVA.
Still, it is by and large very good, it’s a war story about a few inexperienced officers and a bunch of civilians stuck behind enemy lines that have a chance only because they happen to have a bunch of powerful prototype equipment including the Gundam of the title and yes, that inexperience will bite them in the ass as the series progresses.
Also it helps a lot that it is from a time before every anime felt obligated to have buckets of hornyness and wackyness and even for the time is more down to earth than something like Space Pirate Captain Harlock that still had most of the Arcadia crew being basically caricatures for comic relief.
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Like, Amuro is literally a super nerd with super nerd powers that understands how the super prototype bigass robot works after glancing at the manual. I suspect that if they made it today and gender-inverted it all of the internet would have cried “Mary Sue” so loudly it would have probably interfered with the sonar senses of dolphins in the ocean and for sure his first outing in the Gundam is a far cry from that of Shinji in the EVA.
Minus the gender inversion, this was literally Kira Yamato, so you're on the money there. Amuro at least got a great set of characters to play against, and 10 years to develop.
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I've been watching Zeta Gundam and I have the impression that being a dick must be a requirement to be a child prodigy Gundam pilot, the series is still nice enough military sci-fi even if it ramps up the presence of
force sensitives newtypes compared to Mobile Suit Gundam.
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rewatching Macross Frontier to review some technology worldbuilding, and man if Sheryl isn't The Most Powerful I'll eat my hat.
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Sky crawlers and, Princess and the pilot have entered my scope of knowledge.... Just need to know which one to look at between wandavision/snowpiercer.
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Zeta Gundam goes way too overboard with the
force sensitives newtypes in its last stretch, I almost expected Camille to shout "for the honor of Greyskull" or have some of the disenbodied voices say "use the Force, Camille!" which is a very odd contrast with the rest of the anime which is otherwise military sci-fi.
I wouldn't have minded if they kept it more lowkey like in Mobile Suit Gundam but here newtypes can apparently generate force fields impervious to conventional weapons.
I'll probably just watch Char's Counterattack and leave it there.
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rewatching Macross Frontier to review some technology worldbuilding, and man if Sheryl isn't The Most Powerful I'll eat my hat.
Frontier is the strongest Macross in years, maybe ever.
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I've finished Space Battleship Yamato 2199 mostly because the original version Italian dub has kept the US adaptation and I hate the adaptations that try to "westernize" names on principle. Of the original I had vague memories of seeing an episode once, probably a rerun on one of those local TV networks that could be seen only intermittently from my island.
I liked it but really they should have let the women crewmembers have uniforms instead of painted-on bodysuits, it's almost like they had to have a fanservice quota even for episodes that were too serious for the usual anime gags.
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Just finished with Gundam AGE yesterday. Very disappointing ending. The writing could really have been a lot better, and there was a general lack of a climactic duel.
Now, I think I'll catch up on Axis Powers Hetalia (I'm in the mood for some random silliness), and after that... I have no idea. There isn't really much on currently I'm too interested in. I might try out Full Metal Panic because I've heard it's pretty good. Or maybe Elfen Lied, which I keep wanting to watch but for some reason never seem to...
I've also pre-ordered Hellsing Ultimate vols 5 - 8, but those don't come out until November. The first two Madoka movies are premiering in select US theaters in about a month, so I might try to catch those as well.
I did just purchase Super Robot Wars Z, so maybe I'll play that in the meantime. I don't speak Japanese, but with a kanji dictionary at my side I think I can get the gist of it.
Now that Gundam Unicorn tho, that's the good stuff.
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I may be a bit late to the party, but I finally watched A Place Further than the Universe. It's easily one of the best-looking anime series I've ever seen, and the story and everything else was also great; I may have teared up a little at a point or three...
Also, new seasons of That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime and My Hero Academia continue to be very entertaining.