[The E]

Either contribute something constructive or GTFO this thread, Battuta.

[mxlm]

I dunno, I consider his trolling very valuable.

[Fury]

Possibly slightly off-topic, but I'd like to let you know that there is a site called Crunchyroll that lets you to stream many series legally. Most episodes are available very soon after they've aired in Japan if you pick up paid subscription, otherwise you need to wait a few more days and streams will have ads.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/

It's a good way to support the anime industry instead of P2P'ing or illegal streaming. The more support the site gets, the more series it can pick up.

[Bobboau]

has been crunchyroll member for quite a while now, even though they often do not have what I want to watch.
I also get a ton of stuff off the official funimation site/youtube channel.
I also torrent and stream a lot, however if a commercial supported official alternative exists, I will go for that first, it usually has far superior quality than the illegal subs anyway.

[watsisname]

Fury:  I don't believe that's off-topic at all.  Thanks for the link.  

On a different note, just to interject my own opinions:
I tried getting into LOGH but felt that, in spite of being well animated, having great music and battles and fleet mechanics and such, I just couldn't feel any emotional attachment to it.  It felt rather... dry, for lack of a better word.  Maybe it's just the huge number of characters that get thrown around so quickly, without much else going on other than people discussing strategies and then executing them and seeing what happens.

Do you think it's worth my trying to continue?  I'm only three episodes in, so maybe I just need to give it more time.

[Gortef]

Do you think it's worth my trying to continue?  I'm only three episodes in, so maybe I just need to give it more time.

Yes. Three episodes is nothing in LogH. The whole thing is a big friggin Space Opera where every episode matters one way or another. If afther 10 eps it still doesn't feel your thing then it could be so.


- I skimmed through the thread, and didn't see Patlabor (or I was blind). I remember it being somewhat nice.

- *cough*Strike Witches*cough* Not that sci-fi oriented (more like alternative past), but it does have leg mounted flying thingies. And panties

- Oh yea, Sky Girls with exoskeletons.

- Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure. This one was hilarious.

[Flaser]

has been crunchyroll member for quite a while now, even though they often do not have what I want to watch.
I also get a ton of stuff off the official funimation site/youtube channel.
I also torrent and stream a lot, however if a commercial supported official alternative exists, I will go. for that first, it usually has far superior quality than the illegal subs anyway.

I applaud your efforts, but unfortunately lately even the quality of official subs has been on a decline. The Suzumiya Haruhi subs say "moe" FFS! Granted most of the fansubs are even worse.
I could say more, but what's wrong with subbing has already been said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYlqLlbix0
...and the problem with official subs is they emulate a lot of these things, as they're popular.

[Bobboau]

that's what their target audience wants :shrug:

and by quality I am refering to technical quality, higher resolution, less encoding errors.

[noodle]

I applaud your efforts, but unfortunately lately even the quality of official subs has been on a decline. The Suzumiya Haruhi subs say "moe" FFS! Granted most of the fansubs are even worse.
I could say more, but what's wrong with subbing has already been said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYlqLlbix0
...and the problem with official subs is they emulate a lot of these things, as they're popular.

...if you're referring to what I think you're referring to, the subs say moe because...that's what the character said. As for that documentary, I am very familiar with Otaking (he posts on /m/ frequently) and frankly he's an idiot. He simply picked the worst examples he could find of internet fansubs (though he denies doing it) and picked the very best examples of 90's fansubs. There's plenty of honorific laden crap from the VHS era, very few of them are up to the standard of, say, the Macross 7 subs. He's also a horrific 80's fanboy, virtually incapable of accepting anything that doesn't have at least 4 layers of shading.

- I skimmed through the thread, and didn't see Patlabor (or I was blind). I remember it being somewhat nice.

It's more than nice, Patlabor is brilliant.

And the OVA's and series are finally getting HD releases:

BAD LINK!

And the first two movies:

BAD LINK!

BAD LINK!

Bookmark that site btw, it'll be your new best friend if you have any interest in anime.

anime is cartoons

only good anime is pokemans 

I don't post much around here, so I'm not familiar with all the people here. Does he troll like this often?

No linking to Piracy, moron

[General Battuta]

 

I actually sort of liked Yukikaze, which is one of the relatively few GHEY JAPANESE CARTOONS I've seen. And I recommend SAC without actually having seen much of it because the aesthetic is awesome and everybody else likes it.

[noodle]

I actually sort of liked Yukikaze, which is one of the relatively few GHEY JAPANESE CARTOONS I've seen. And I recommend SAC without actually having seen much of it because the aesthetic is awesome and everybody else likes it.

Book is better, first one was translated just last year.

[Flaser]

that's what their target audience wants :shrug:

and by quality I am refering to technical quality, higher resolution, less encoding errors.

...the later claim doesn't hold any water, as fansubs have been on par with official subs in visual quality for quite a while. You just need to get the right release like THORA or gg. (...and FFS get the h264 release!) Nowadays you can get perfect HD rips only a couple of days after the release in Japan.

Crunchyroll just commercialized their stuff, but what they do (...and how they do) is no different from some of the good fansub groups out there. (Speedsubs can be terrible, but you get what you demand. A good translation can take a day or two).

@noodle: Yes and No. Otaking's argument is really skewed, however what he says still has a *point*. I for one prefer *translations* instead literal *commentary* and I find it bad when the group doesn't put in any effort and relies on the viewers familiarity with the medium to do hackneyed shortcuts like using phrases utterly alien to the English language. Sometimes sticking to the source is good, but most of the time this is just a sign of laziness.

[noodle]

I get that, I hate weeaboo fansubs too. I find even just keeping the honorifics annoying as hell. But I've watched a lot of stuff fansubbed, and on the whole it's nowhere near as bad as he makes it out to be. Also I've found that the quality of the subs often reflects the quality of the show itself. If it's a show actually worth watching one of the better teams will pick it up, often multiple teams will get it so you can pick which one to follow. Many of the worst subs are for shows you probably wouldn't want to watch anyway.

[Dark Hunter]

anime is cartoons

only good anime is pokemans 

I don't post much around here, so I'm not familiar with all the people here. Does he troll like this often?

Nah, not usually. If you'll notice, he was the first to offer a suggestion of anime, and a good one at that.

[Colonol Dekker]

MD Geist.
 
 
My ultimate favourite

[Mongoose]

MD Geist.

haaaaa

[JGZinv]

Eureka 7 after episode 22.
Full Metal Panic
Crest / Banner of the Stars
Blue Submarine No. 6

Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure
I'm pretty much the community leader for that series, don't ask how much I've spent
both time and money wise into it. Also help the Crest/Banner communities. ^_^

Zoids? Not the best thing in the universe... but it's robots.
Voltron - not anime.
IGPX - not anime, but not horrific either.
Armitage movies - cyborgs
Outlaw Star - space ship combat, AIs, etc...
Cyborg 009
FLCL
Gad Guard
Heat Guy J
Kiddy Grade (not the sequel Kiddy Girl AND)
Last Exile

Non Robots:
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the Shell: SAC
Oh/Ah My Goddess
Love Hina
K-ON
The Galaxy Railways
.Hack/Sign
Howl's Moving Castle
Castle in the Sky
Intial D
Wangen Midnight
Serial Experiments Lain
Boogiepop Phantom
Paranoia Agent
Read or Die (ROD - watch the OVA first)
Rurouni Kenshin
Trigun

Should keep you busy for a while... 

[noodle]

Oh/Ah My Goddess
Love Hina
K-ON

What am I reading?

[Bobboau]

yeah, I think I just threw up a little too.

[Mongoose]

Voltron - not anime.
IGPX - not anime, but not horrific either.

Um...both of those are anime series.