[NGTM-1R]

Spoiler:

you just spoiled episode 8 for everyone who has not seen the show.

This is like the sled in Citizen Kane. You can't not know it by now.

[Thaeris]

Quite right. I'm sorry if that ruined your day. Sarcasm aside, I'll be a bit more tactful next time.

In truth, spoilers usually never bother me too much. If you want to watch it, watch it regardless and get the greater value/worth from the production. Certainly plot elements are crucial in that sense, but the whole is usually not so fixated on that single point that it is ruined if revealed.

-Thaeris

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Spoiler:

you just spoiled episode 8 for everyone who has not seen the show.

Spoiler:

No, YOU did. Most of us who watched it or read up on it know he died, but those who haven't watched it do not know when he died.

[Thaeris]

And eventually everyone else died. This is a characteristic feature of biological life forms...

 

-Thaeris

[Fury]

Tone it down people and use spoiler tags. I've added spoiler tags to several messages in last page.

[Bobboau]

I figured mine was vague enough that if the original spoiler was tagged it would be innocuous.

[BloodEagle]

Spoiler:

you just spoiled episode 8 for everyone who has not seen the show.

This is like the sled in Citizen Kane. You can't not know it by now.

You know, I've never seen that movie. .... .... I should really add it to my NetFlix list.

[Liberator]

Here's the big damn list of things I've seen:

009-1 (12 eps)
blah blah blah
Mobile Suit Gundam - Char's Counterattack
Mobile Suit Gundam - The Movie Trilogy
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 (6 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 OVA (13 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam 8th MS Team (12 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam Evolve
Mobile Suit Gundam F91
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (50 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED OVA
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Stargazer (3 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (49 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz Movie
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz OVA (3 eps)
Mobile Suit igLoo (3 eps)
Mobile Suit igLoo Apocalypse (3 eps)
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (51 eps)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation 1 - Heirs to The Stars
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation 2 - Lovers
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation 3 - Love is The Pulse of The Stars
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (50 eps)
blah blah blah

You missed 00, quite possibly the greatest ever, since they seemed to homage everything that came before and do something new(ish).

[redsniper]

Eureka Seven

Haibane Renmei

I love you.

08th MS Team

This x 1000.



There's not much that I've seen that hasn't been mentioned here already.

Gun x Sword is a solid mech show. There are some goofy designs and some episodes where it falters, but it's still a good watch. Good but not great.

Darker Than Black is a sort of a cross between X-men and... something else. A strange unexplained event leaves two large tracts of land (one in South America, one in Japan) really topsy-turvy, so they're walled off. The night sky takes on a new appearance, with the old stars and moon replaced by false stars. And super-powered people called contractors start appearing. They're called contractors because every time they use their powers they're compelled to perform some random task, from writing bad poetry, to drinking beer to, to eating dandelions. Good super-powered conspiracy show.

[Gortef]

Hmm, I'll add some sports series to this soup.

Hungry Heart Wild Striker:
The main guy Kanou Kyosuke is a highschool tough guy who has quit playing soccer, but because of some circumstanses he is boing forced to coach a girls highschool soccer team.
After a while he does remember how much he likes to play soccer and joins in the male team and that's how the story begins. So basicly it's about highschool soccer and games after games, but why I liked this quite a lot was that the characters were fun and the matches not that long (like in Captain Zubasa where making one goal took 3 episodes... good series that too though, and a classic). Also there are not that many super moves in this one. The only downside is that the ending is a bit too rushed.

Prince of Tennis:
Hah, the best way to describe this would be "Dragonball Z on a tennis court". Seriously, in the beginning the shots the players make are... even somewhat reasonable (ok he's got long arms so that's why he can make such curves etc.), but after a while the shots are plain ridiculous. But that's the fun of it.

Eyeshield 21:
This series is about American Football. A freshman Sena is a mousy weak fella who is often being bullied and made to run some errands (like carrying backbags etc.), and that's why he has some extraordinary legs and can run really really fast. Sena decides to join in an American Football club as a manager (a manager doesn't have to play in such dangerous games, but he can still be in a club) but the captain of the team Hiruma (one of the most awesome charactes ever) has other plans for him. Hiruma has seen Sena run and forces him to join as their running back. Sena is reluctant, but Hiruma is... well quite persuaisive. Also to keep Senas identity as a secret Hiruma makes him to wear a helmet that has an eyeshield, a player number 21 and that's how a Daimon Devil Bats hero running back codenamed Eyeshield 21 is born. Great series, all the matches are intense and lots and lots of marvelous characters. There are "supermoves" in this one. Only thing is that the manga is much better than the anime. Also the manga has been finished. Definetly gets three thumbs up from me

Major:
A series about baseball. Honda Goro is a small kid whose father is a pro baseball player. Goro has lost his mother when he was really small, so he now lives with his father. Lot's of things happen in the beginning of the first season, so I don't wanna spoil anything on this one. But all those things make this series what it is. Goro loves baseball, and is quite a good pitcher. Like the official description says, "A dramatic baseball series". No fireball or other that kind of supermoves on this one. But the effects make the pitches really intense. This is an ongoing series, and get's two thumbs up and a smiley

[TrashMan]

Maybe its' me but I never liked sport animes. They are always so forced.

Anywayz, watched Gurren Toppa Lagren and it's fun. Kinda loses the funny rather fast tough. Rather mediocre actually (IMHO).

Also watched Lucky Star. It really is Seinfield on crack. Methinks Azumanga Daioh is better.

[Flaser]

Here's the big damn list of things I've seen:

009-1 (12 eps)
blah blah blah
Mobile Suit Gundam - Char's Counterattack
Mobile Suit Gundam - The Movie Trilogy
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 (6 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 OVA (13 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam 8th MS Team (12 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam Evolve
Mobile Suit Gundam F91
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (50 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED OVA
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Stargazer (3 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (49 eps)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz Movie
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz OVA (3 eps)
Mobile Suit igLoo (3 eps)
Mobile Suit igLoo Apocalypse (3 eps)
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (51 eps)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation 1 - Heirs to The Stars
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation 2 - Lovers
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation 3 - Love is The Pulse of The Stars
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (50 eps)
blah blah blah

You missed 00, quite possibly the greatest ever, since they seemed to homage everything that came before and do something new(ish).

I've seen that, I just never bothered to archive the fansubs as beside the "cool CG assisted GRAPPHHIKS" there was nothing that really went with that show. Characterisation? Bland to cliche. Story? "Skullnumbingly" didactic and predtictable.

I've also seen Gundam SEED Destiny which was an ambomination, and am watching Igloo 2.

[Colonol Dekker]

Someone mentioned that they didn't like the Ghost in the Shell movie earlier on. I'd just like to praise it for an above average plot and intelligent progression. Too many anime films (FILMS not long standing series) treat their audience to substandard stereotypes for fear of alienation. Ghost in the shell was the first Manga I saw since Akira that made me smile because it didn't spoon-feed me drivel dressed with explosions and boobage. . . Not that I don't enjoy simple pleasures, I just like plot once in a while too.

[Thaeris]

The only anime film I've seen to date was the one made for Fullmetal Alchemist. It was ok... but far inferior to the series itself. I feel that the general story would have been presented far better through an actual series, which would not have had to rush through details. Which is another argument against the series-based anime movie in general...

-Thaeris

[TrashMan]

It's always hard to make a movie out of a series. Especially if the series is awesome. How can you compress 26 episodes of awesomeness (roughly) into just an hour and a half?

[Flaser]

It's always hard to make a movie out of a series. Especially if the series is awesome. How can you compress 26 episodes of awesomeness (roughly) into just an hour and a half?

You don't.
Instead you either tell a different story, or really abbreviate the whole story (mercilessly cutting out a lot of stuff) and use your greater budget to bring out the ambiance that really characterized the show.

[Colonol Dekker]

Like explosions and boobage?

[Liberator]

On 00, I've found the plot to far less confusing than say SEED Destiny or X even.  The characters are well written and coherent throughout the series, with no references .  Some of the Mech designs are questionable, but of the Gundams themselves, only Arios looks like a cobbled together something or other. 

Compare to SEED where the last few episodes of both series serve to illustrate how completely overpowered vs. everything both the Freedom and the Justice are.  The 00 is technologically more powerful, mostly centers around using it's vast power generation and reserves to extend the classic weapon to near Goku like power levels, which is a little unbelievable, but they make you believe it's at least possible.  The only thing I didn't quite comprehend was the "Quantizing" where 00 broke down into GN particles and vanished.

[Blue Lion]

Ok stupid question time. Who hears him say Rosebud? There was really no one there to hear it, so how did anyone know what to look for?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's always hard to make a movie out of a series. Especially if the series is awesome. How can you compress 26 episodes of awesomeness (roughly) into just an hour and a half?

You don't.
Instead you either tell a different story, or really abbreviate the whole story (mercilessly cutting out a lot of stuff) and use your greater budget to bring out the ambiance that really characterized the show.

You mean like the Cardcaptor Sakura one? I believe that took place after the ending of the actual anime series.