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Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 05:16:21 pm
Good, bad, or soul crushing- Anime has a lot to offer. I'm interested in seeing what the ballp.it thinks of the animoos.

I just watched the first season of Sword Art Online for an article, and boy howdy, that show is a thing. For the first half, it lies stranded in a field of storytelling incompetency for a majority, occasionally venturing out into the realm of good. But man, that second half is rough. It gets rapey, fetishistic, and no characters make any goddamn sense.

SHAMELESS SELF-PLUG: If anyone is interested, I review horrible animes and get angry. Here's one. (http://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/articles/reluctant-anime-reviews-astarottes-toy)
(Just PM me if this plug is not cool, I'll remove it. Just thought it falls into our collective wheelhouse.)
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 05:35:36 pm
SAO is shit.  Watch Ping Pong: The Animation, New Sailor Moon and JoJo instead.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 05:39:24 pm
JoJo Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:35:36 pm

DIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And yeah, I had polarized reviews going into SAO, so I figured it would be a interesting choice to dissect.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 05:46:06 pm
JoJo Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:35:36 pm

DIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And yeah, I had polarized reviews going into SAO, so I figured it would be a interesting choice to dissect.
FattyBoBatty, July 07, 2014, 05:39:24 pm

All you need to dissect it is "I could feel my hot sperm gushing deep into Asuna as she trembled in yet another climax. Two years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna. Every time my penis twitched, fireworks would go off in my head."

Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 05:49:37 pm
All you need to dissect it is "I could feel my hot sperm gushing deep into Asuna as she trembled in yet another climax. Two years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna. Every time my penis twitched, fireworks would go off in my head."
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:46:06 pm
I'm smart enough to NOT ask for context.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 05:52:45 pm
All you need to dissect it is "I could feel my hot sperm gushing deep into Asuna as she trembled in yet another climax. Two years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna. Every time my penis twitched, fireworks would go off in my head."
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:46:06 pm
I'm smart enough to NOT ask for context.
FattyBoBatty, July 07, 2014, 05:49:37 pm

That's the SAO light novel.  The thing the anime is based on lmao
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 05:58:39 pm
I'm genuinely glad they didn't stick to the books then.
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 07, 2014, 06:31:50 pm
All you need to dissect it is "I could feel my hot sperm gushing deep into Asuna as she trembled in yet another climax. Two years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna. Every time my penis twitched, fireworks would go off in my head."
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:46:06 pm
I'm smart enough to NOT ask for context.
FattyBoBatty, July 07, 2014, 05:49:37 pm

That's the SAO light novel.  The thing the anime is based on lmao
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:52:45 pm

ahahaha beautiful

also please tell me which anime is the best to watch for hipsterdom points, tia
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 06:34:48 pm
All you need to dissect it is "I could feel my hot sperm gushing deep into Asuna as she trembled in yet another climax. Two years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna. Every time my penis twitched, fireworks would go off in my head."
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:46:06 pm
I'm smart enough to NOT ask for context.
FattyBoBatty, July 07, 2014, 05:49:37 pm

That's the SAO light novel.  The thing the anime is based on lmao
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:52:45 pm

ahahaha beautiful

also please tell me which anime is the best to watch for hipsterdom points, tia
kal-elk, July 07, 2014, 06:31:50 pm

k-on!
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: chai tea latte on July 07, 2014, 06:39:40 pm
fucking sweet, i've been meaning to watch k-on!.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 06:45:20 pm
fucking sweet, i've been meaning to watch k-on!.
kal-elk, July 07, 2014, 06:39:40 pm

i recommended it bc i saw a ritsu poster in an anamanaguchi video once lol
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 07, 2014, 06:46:32 pm
i recommended it bc i saw a ritsu poster in an anamanaguchi video once lol
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 06:45:20 pm
i still don't know what voice to read synthy's posts in so it's been on my mind for a while. it seems cute (?)

VV thank
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 06:47:29 pm
i recommended it bc i saw a ritsu poster in an anamanaguchi video once lol
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 06:45:20 pm
i still don't know what voice to read synthy's posts in so it's been on my mind for a while. it seems cute (?)
kal-elk, July 07, 2014, 06:46:32 pm

Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 07, 2014, 07:03:28 pm
k-on to my knowledge is one of the better "cute girls doing shit" series and has some genuinely good stuff about their friendships in it. unfortunately it's also kind of considered one of the starting points of the horrible trend of "cute girls doing shit" shows that get super creepy and fetishistic. Azumanga Daioh and Lucky Star are also "cute girls doing shit" shows with genuinely good points and genuinely funny stuff in them that unfortunately helped spawn the genre.

If you're going for hipster cred, I'd recommend Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and Paranoia Agent. All of them are excellent in terms of animation and writing, although the original series of GITS suffers from "main female character wears sexy clothing for no point but audience titillation all the time", which can easily be blamed on the the fact that it's based on a manga by Masamune Shirow, who is an excellent comic artist but can only draw and write 2-3 kinds of women at max. Bebop kind of falls into this category too but it actually fits in with Faye's character that she dresses the way she does.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 07:06:33 pm
k-on to my knowledge is one of the better "cute girls doing shit" series and has some genuinely good stuff about their friendships in it. unfortunately it's also kind of considered one of the starting points of the horrible trend of "cute girls doing shit" shows that get super creepy and fetishistic. Azumanga Daioh and Lucky Star are also "cute girls doing shit" shows with genuinely good points and genuinely funny stuff in them that unfortunately helped spawn the genre.

If you're going for hipster cred, I'd recommend Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and Paranoia Agent. All of them are excellent in terms of animation and writing, although the original series of GITS suffers from "main female character wears sexy clothing for no point but audience titillation all the time", which can easily be blamed on the the fact that it's based on a manga by Masamune Shirow, who is an excellent comic artist but can only draw and write 2-3 kinds of women at max. Bebop kind of falls into this category too but it actually fits in with Faye's character that she dresses the way she does.
Tiny Prancer, July 07, 2014, 07:03:28 pm

haha that's all basic shit

that's as hipster as liking nickelback
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 07:10:03 pm
I disagree, hipsters fucking love GITS and Cowboy Bebop. They also really like Akira.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 07:11:46 pm
whatever, watch cutie honey for real cred
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 07:13:09 pm
Is that cred you want, though?
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 07:15:41 pm
Is that cred you want, though?
FattyBoBatty, July 07, 2014, 07:13:09 pm

Uh, Cutie Honey is a classic and beloved in Japan.  It's one of the most important shows ever made.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 07:29:18 pm
also, watch girls und panzer it's the best
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: chai tea latte on July 07, 2014, 07:40:55 pm
yeah even the people i know who literally never watch manga have seen cowboy bebop, it's like absurdly famous

what's girls und panzer about?

e: will watch cutie honey
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 07:43:12 pm
yeah even the people i know who literally never watch manga have seen cowboy bebop, it's like absurdly famous

what's girls und panzer about?

e: will watch cutie honey
kal-elk, July 07, 2014, 07:40:55 pm

it's about little girls driving wwii era tanks

it also has the best character in anime, katyusha

she's a russian commander that refers to herself in the third person and tries to brutally own all opponents

edit: she's also the chick in my av
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: chai tea latte on July 07, 2014, 07:45:55 pm
okay sweet, fuck cutie honey (which has a lot of different remakes? clearly popular and influential, enjoyed reading the wiki article)

literally watching ep. 1 of girls und panzer now
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Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 07:52:21 pm
okay sweet, fuck cutie honey (which has a lot of different remakes? clearly popular and influential, enjoyed reading the wiki article)

literally watching ep. 1 of girls und panzer now
kal-elk, July 07, 2014, 07:45:55 pm

cutie honey is by the mazinger z creator, go nagai the animation is fantastic

i fucking love gup
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 07, 2014, 07:55:42 pm
i literally don't know what any of those things are


VV cool!
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Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 07:58:52 pm
i literally don't know what any of those things are
kal-elk, July 07, 2014, 07:55:42 pm

Mazinger Z is the first robot show where the pilot of the robot sits inside the robot.  It's the direct antecedent to stuff like Gundam and Eva.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 07, 2014, 08:00:53 pm
smoking crow I question a whole lot about your tastes if you're recommending a "moe girls with weaponry" show.

also, I have had experience as a full-fledged weeaboo and you're gonna question me about my knowledge of anime fandom? Hipster cred and otaku cred are two very different things.
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Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 08:02:19 pm
smoking crow I question a whole lot about your tastes if you're recommending a "moe girls with weaponry" show.
Tiny Prancer, July 07, 2014, 08:00:53 pm

Girls und Panzer is fantastic, I'm sorry that you can't get over your moephobia
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Post by: FartRomancer.exe on July 07, 2014, 08:05:43 pm
Girls und Panzer is fantastic
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 08:02:19 pm

Its true.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 08:07:07 pm
it's about little girls driving wwii era tanks
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 07:43:12 pm

...why? What world could possibly justify lolis in tanks? Other than just "the creator liked tanks and moeblobs."
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Post by: Mister Smalls on July 07, 2014, 08:13:07 pm
This entire topic:
(http://gunshowcomic.com/ac/part0/20090120.png)
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Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 08:15:46 pm
This entire topic:
(http://gunshowcomic.com/ac/part0/20090120.png)
Mister Smalls, July 07, 2014, 08:13:07 pm

i will fuckin kill u m8
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 08:17:08 pm
This entire topic:
(http://gunshowcomic.com/ac/part0/20090120.png)
Mister Smalls, July 07, 2014, 08:13:07 pm

That's what makes it beautiful.
Title: If we're really quiet, maybe they won't notice that we're talking about ANIME
Post by: FartRomancer.exe on July 07, 2014, 08:17:20 pm
This entire topic:
(http://gunshowcomic.com/ac/part0/20090120.png)
Mister Smalls, July 07, 2014, 08:13:07 pm

I'm the snack table guy.
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 07, 2014, 09:15:31 pm
Not technically anime, but I'm really happy that Kentaro Miura finally started writing and drawing Berserk again.
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 07, 2014, 10:18:45 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Wy7bGI4.gif)

this show is kind of weird and I clearly don't fully understand Japan's cultural relationship with Germany, but it's super-cute and I'm enjoying it so far.
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Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 11:07:19 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Wy7bGI4.gif)

this show is kind of weird and I clearly don't fully understand Japan's cultural relationship with Germany, but it's super-cute and I'm enjoying it so far.
kal-elk, July 07, 2014, 10:18:45 pm

What's there to get?  Tanks own, and cute things own

Like, if you're a war nut, it doesn't matter how crazy the Nazis were.  My dad used to gush about Rommel and Patton's battles in the desert when I was a kid and there was nothing wrong with that
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 07, 2014, 11:13:01 pm
What's there to get?  Tanks own, and cute things own

Like, if you're a war nut, it doesn't matter how crazy the Nazis were.  My dad used to gush about Rommel and Patton's battles in the desert when I was a kid and there was nothing wrong with that
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 11:07:19 pm

mm, okay

mostly i'm not sure how serious the backstory is, and why tankery even exists. you're right though it's super cute and i'm really liking it!!!
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Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 11:15:30 pm
What's there to get?  Tanks own, and cute things own

Like, if you're a war nut, it doesn't matter how crazy the Nazis were.  My dad used to gush about Rommel and Patton's battles in the desert when I was a kid and there was nothing wrong with that
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 11:07:19 pm

mm, okay

mostly i'm not sure how serious the backstory is, and why tankery even exists. you're right though it's super cute and i'm really liking it!!!
kal-elk, July 07, 2014, 11:13:01 pm

there is a backstory and they tell you about it in the dvd extras of the series dvd

oh, and in case you're wondering the reason why only little girls can drive tanks is because tankery is a woman's sport

last thing, episode eight has a scene cut out of it so when you get there make sure you watch this
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Post by: Sherlockian on July 07, 2014, 11:26:17 pm
I'm going to go on record as really enjoying the first episode of "Samurai Jam- Bakumatsu ROCK" because it's truly ridiculous and awful and hilarious. The Shinsengumi reimagined as an idol group, and the guys who worked to topple the Tokugawa Shogunate as rockers out to overtake them as the TOP IDOLS. Including hilarious transformation sequences and a lot of shirtless scenes and it's basically just totally OTT.

I like shit TV, I'll admit.

As for "animes that are important in the scheme of anime", try some HunterxHunter. The current anime series is really good and well paced and a lot of fun, but the manga and original version of the anime were out at the same time as Sailor Moon. It's one of the series that form the basis for later shounen shows, like Naruto and Bleach.
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Post by: crow on July 07, 2014, 11:32:09 pm
I'm going to go on record as really enjoying the first episode of "Samurai Jam- Bakumatsu ROCK" because it's truly ridiculous and awful and hilarious. The Shinsengumi reimagined as an idol group, and the guys who worked to topple the Tokugawa Shogunate as rockers out to overtake them as the TOP IDOLS. Including hilarious transformation sequences and a lot of shirtless scenes and it's basically just totally OTT.

I like shit TV, I'll admit.

As for "animes that are important in the scheme of anime", try some HunterxHunter. The current anime series is really good and well paced and a lot of fun, but the manga and original version of the anime were out at the same time as Sailor Moon. It's one of the series that form the basis for later shounen shows, like Naruto and Bleach.
sherlockian, July 07, 2014, 11:26:17 pm

HunterxHunter is by the Yu Yu Hakusho guy and it isn't as good as YYH.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 08, 2014, 01:43:31 am
fun fact he and the sailor moon lady are married

For a recent series, an anime adaption of a manga I really like just started, called Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. Basically, girl likes guy, girl tries to confess to guy, guy is so dense that he takes her confession as her saying she's a fan of the popular shojo manga that no one in school knows he draws (no one believed him when he told them), girl gets roped into helping him make his manga. It's fucking hilarious both in terms of how incredibly clueless the guy is about romance despite WRITING AND DRAWING A ROMANCE MANGA (two people riding on a one-seater bike is illegal, so he tries to evoke the same romantic elements by putting his characters on a tandem bike), and the jokes it makes about comics-making in general (no, you cannot have all your characters stand on boxes just because you drew them too tall)

also whoever is heading the anime is doing a great job because they're really pushing the slapstick elements of it

(https://31.media.tumblr.com/8684b537538475673c101a74aa0d3fc1/tumblr_n8dlrifk7w1s4qvrdo1_500.gif)
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Post by: Sion on July 08, 2014, 02:33:32 am
I'm a little late to the party but hopefully I can still weeb out.

Top animus for myself are Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill.
I also liked Gatchaman CROWDS, which is one nobody here's probably heard about. Here's the "review" that convinced me to watch it.
 
It's like an action anime that constantly (or rather, usually) resolves problems without fighting. It's a weird take, but they manage to make it work. I'd recommend it.
There's also Cromartie High School, a comedy which features anime Freddy Mercury. It really does.

I've tried to watch really popular ones like Evangelion and Attack on Titan, but they seem to rely on gore/shock value. I've talked to a few people about Attack on Titan and we can all agree that the series got a little stupid when (the forum doesn't support spoiler text so this next part is in white, close enough) it was revealed that some humans can turn into Titans.

Oh, and for bad anime, I'd recommend No Game No Life. The summary should explain itself: "Sora and Shiro are unemployed and never leave their house, but on the net, they're known as "Blank", an invincible team of gamers. One day, these siblings are visited by a boy named Tet, who calls himself god. Tet summons them to a world where all war is banned, and everything is decided by games." They're a brother/sister duo, and the sister's definitely lolita. It's also got some direct videogame references, like Civilization for example.
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Post by: A Meat on July 08, 2014, 04:53:46 am
I want everybody ever to watch Jojo so there's a chance they'll do the next parts too, because as hyped part 3 is, parts 4-6 are fucking incredible. (I'm halfway through part 7 and I'm not sure they can air it abroad if they make an anime out of it, it's that more crazy than parts 1-3)

Everyone watch Aku no Hana and quietly suffer, and then read the rest of the story in the manga and suffer some more, it has the best opening and ending themes in an anime.  (and then read the manga the author is currently making, Boku wa Mari no naka)

Just listen to this version of the ending theme
 

Everyone should probably watch Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo if you want some no strings attached Japanese comedy that may occasionally make sense.

If we're also mentioning things that might not actually be good, then watch Mirai Nikki, it's occasionally incredibly dumb, but what else can you expect from an anime about an eighth grader and his stalker competing in a deathmatch to become god. The first episode has my favorite single frame in all of anime, because that single frame produced some great baffling fan art.

(http://i.imgur.com/dI2SzY6.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/TvEhvws.png)
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 08, 2014, 05:32:51 am
If horror is more of your thing, the short OVA series Corpse Party: Tortured Souls is pretty damn horrifying. It was adapted from an indie game, and is only 4 episodes, so the pacing and storytelling can be a bit wonky at times. It's about a group of high school students that perform a "friendship" spell that will ensure they remain in contact forever, but something goes wrong and they end up trapped in the ghostly remains of Heavenly Host Elementary. Something inside the school lures people in, and the ghosts that stalk it's halls murder them in grotesquely brutal ways. When they die, their soul is trapped there, doomed to feel the same agony they felt at the moment of death for all eternity. They way it blends Japanese horror eeriness and tension with horrific violence is effective, and it was ridiculously creepy and disturbing for me.

Here's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76vJ4awYjmo) a trailer. (NSFW or the faint of heart due to crazy graphic violence)

Seriously, if a piece of media contains THIS dialogue and is still scary, its gotta be pretty fucking creepy.
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Time+to+butter+up+my+pooper.+small+This+is+truly+horrifying+small+small+Spookiest_7ef055_5031480.png)
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 08, 2014, 05:55:35 am
corpse party is kind of ????? because from what I've heard there's some genuinely good stuff in there and it's a pretty good horror game, but then there's an entire sidequest involving the characters risking life and limb so one character's underage sister can get to the bathroom safely that ends with her pissing herself and hiding her wet panties in shame, which leads to another sidequest where another character risks life and limb to retrieve said panties for his own creepy masturbatory purposes.

don't read the manga. The manga is fetish porn garbage.
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 08, 2014, 06:01:43 am
Yeah, the weird fetish crap does kind of get in the way for a lot of things, but I think it does a good job in spite of that. It's mostly weird short pops that are usually preceded or followed by something horrible, so normal folk focus on that, while fetish freaks hang back and get their jollies. Not perfect by any means, but the story and characters got me past it.
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Post by: cyclopeantrash on July 11, 2014, 09:05:25 pm
aaaaaaahahahahahahaha

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Post by: Mister Smalls on July 11, 2014, 10:57:58 pm
Yeah, the weird fetish crap does kind of get in the way for a lot of things, but I think it does a good job in spite of that. It's mostly weird short pops that are usually preceded or followed by something horrible, so normal folk focus on that, while fetish freaks hang back and get their jollies. Not perfect by any means, but the story and characters got me past it.
FattyBoBatty, July 08, 2014, 06:01:43 am
(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m131/HomestarRightwing/mort_zps9ca1d30b.png)
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 11, 2014, 11:13:36 pm
Point taken, but I stand by my opinion here. The game and anime are good in spite of all the weird pervert junk.

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Post by: Sovereign on July 13, 2014, 01:02:09 pm
I don't know how many of you have seen the Corpse Party semi-sequel Book of Shadows, but that game not only outdoes Blood Covered in the gore department, it's also mostly based off of bad endings from the original game. The idea is that you get to see events play out somewhat differently, but worse. At the very end you get a snippet of where the next game is going, but only if your save game meets certain criteria.

If you thought the underage sister needing to find a bathroom thing was bad, Book of Shadows is all kinds of worse. It's truly amazing what these series can get away with.

Anyhow, what is everyone looking forward to as far as new releases go? I know SAO II just started airing and I'm watching that, I'm glad the show is finally moving away from the fan service-y fluff and is trying to build a thrilling plot. I'm curious to see how the Psycho Pass movies turn out, too.
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Post by: A Meat on July 13, 2014, 01:28:18 pm
Jojo is just about at the part where part 3 gets and stays good for most of the rest of part 3, so look forward for half a year (or more) of good jojo episodes.

Regarding new things, the only thing I'm watching is Monthly Girl Nozaki (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun). Give the first episode a watch, it's a comedy, find out the rest yourselves.

Maybe I'll catch up on Space Dandy which is also continuing for another season.
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Post by: Sovereign on July 13, 2014, 01:38:53 pm
Regarding new things, the only thing I'm watching is Monthly Girl Nozaki (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun). Give the first episode a watch, it's a comedy, find out the rest yourselves.
A Meat, July 13, 2014, 01:28:18 pm

Intriguing, I'll have to look into that!
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Post by: KingKalamari on July 13, 2014, 02:39:04 pm
Space Dandy is back for a second season and it is looking awesome thus far. The season premier, which can be accurately described as "Crisis on Infinite Dandy's" is probably one of the best episodes of the series thus far. To wit: (Linked for spoilers...Not that that really matters for such a ridiculously silly series) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-RiwAP2rqM)

Also just noticed they came out with an english dub of Kill La Kill and Toradora! (The second I wouldn't really call "good" but I enjoyed it a few years ago when the subs were being released so watching the dub is a nice nostalgia trip)

Also look at this bullcrap regarding that new sailor moon series:

(http://i.imgur.com/x9dx9bl.png)

What'd you do to all my goofy-ass faces, people making Sailor Moon?
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Post by: Sovereign on July 13, 2014, 03:02:15 pm
What'd you do to all my goofy-ass faces, people making Sailor Moon?
KingKalamari, July 13, 2014, 02:39:04 pm
Is this what people want in "modern" anime? Zero facial expression? Maybe they blew all of their budget on advertising, or maybe they thought that newer viewers would respond to this style better?
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 13, 2014, 03:48:51 pm
Word on the street is that because there's so much focus put on "THIS VERSION IS JUST LIKE THE MANGA" with the new sailor moon, the animators are under pain of death to keep her on-model at all times, so she looks like her manga counterpart at all times. Of course, part of the deal is a lot of western sailor moon fans aren't as familiar with the manga as the anime, and the manga gets PRETTY DIFFERENT a lot. So the new series is at a disadvantage in general because since it's keeping itself more strictly to the manga, people are going to complain that it's not exactly like the old anime.

(I've also heard Usagi is less of a clumsy ditz in the manga, so it's not surprising they'd push her less comically than in the original anime)

Regarding new things, the only thing I'm watching is Monthly Girl Nozaki (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun). Give the first episode a watch, it's a comedy, find out the rest yourselves.
A Meat, July 13, 2014, 01:28:18 pm

Intriguing, I'll have to look into that!
Sovereign, July 13, 2014, 01:38:53 pm

I am seriously hype you guys are checking out Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun because it is HILARIOUS, and as someone who goes to school for comics I will tell you the jokes about making comics are totally spot-on as well. I'd definitely recommend checking out the manga as well because there's a lot of funny stuff that the anime isn't going to get to any time soon (and personally I think the gags are paced better)
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Post by: A Meat on July 13, 2014, 03:59:54 pm
Regarding new things, the only thing I'm watching is Monthly Girl Nozaki (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun). Give the first episode a watch, it's a comedy, find out the rest yourselves.
A Meat, July 13, 2014, 01:28:18 pm

Intriguing, I'll have to look into that!
Sovereign, July 13, 2014, 01:38:53 pm

I am seriously hype you guys are checking out Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun because it is HILARIOUS, and as someone who goes to school for comics I will tell you the jokes about making comics are totally spot-on as well. I'd definitely recommend checking out the manga as well because there's a lot of funny stuff that the anime isn't going to get to any time soon (and personally I think the gags are paced better)
Tiny Prancer, July 13, 2014, 03:48:51 pm
I've read quite a bit of the manga, and I'm waiting until all the supporting cast gets introduced, because they're all so good. I personally don't really like the 4koma format, so I'm enjoying the anime more so far, since they got most of the timing well in the first episode.

edit: oh hey the 2nd episode is up
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Post by: Sovereign on July 13, 2014, 04:09:50 pm
edit: oh hey the 2nd episode is up
A Meat, July 13, 2014, 03:59:54 pm

I saw that, I plan on watching the two after I finish today's fplus episode.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 13, 2014, 06:29:05 pm
I just watched it and please take my word for it that it is super funny (and it looks like they're going a bit faster with introducing characters since Mikoshiba and Seo both got introduced in this ep, and Kashima and Hori are going to show up in the next one.)

I'm hoping they make episodes out of the two incidents where the boys get together to play dating sims and the time they all get lost in the train station because those are probably some of my favorite stories so far in the series.
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Post by: Sovereign on July 13, 2014, 09:26:25 pm
Oh man, it's been a long time since an anime made me chuckle. I should keep an eye on this series. Plus this kind of anime is perfect for the summer, I feel.
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Post by: Sion on July 14, 2014, 01:32:53 pm
Also just noticed they came out with an english dub of Kill La Kill
KingKalamari, July 13, 2014, 02:39:04 pm

I personally think the dub is kinda bad (compared to the Gurren Lagann dub, at least) and it sounds remarkably like that "Bully la Bully" parody video. Everyone seems to have a different opinion about who sounds good and who doesn't, but everyone seems to agree that Mako, Senketsu, and Satsuki are kinda iffy.
Gamagori is glorious, though.

/a/'s (un?)official YouTube channel posted a comment saying "RIP" or something along the lines of that, so I suppose they didn't enjoy it.

Unrelated, and I don't mean to plug people, but I definitely recommend checking out  Chip and Ironicus' Anime Theater (http://chipandironicus.com/videos/anime/). Mad Bull 34 is by far my favorite and the rest are golden too.
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Post by: Sovereign on July 14, 2014, 01:38:45 pm



Done as side content for the No More Heroes 2 LP
I was only vaguely aware of their No More Heroes 2 LP involving allusions to and talk about a bunch of anime. How exactly did that work? Did they just get inspired by the Let's Play to make these? Either way, that's pretty cool!
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Post by: KingKalamari on July 14, 2014, 05:42:50 pm
Also just noticed they came out with an english dub of Kill La Kill
KingKalamari, July 13, 2014, 02:39:04 pm

I personally think the dub is kinda bad (compared to the Gurren Lagann dub, at least) and it sounds remarkably like that "Bully la Bully" parody video. Everyone seems to have a different opinion about who sounds good and who doesn't, but everyone seems to agree that Mako, Senketsu, and Satsuki are kinda iffy.
Gamgagori is glorious, though.Sion, July 14, 2014, 01:32:53 pm

I didn't actually end up watching the original Japanese version aside from clips off of Youtube so I think that

From what I've watched thus far I think it's a pretty decent dub though I can definitely agree with Senketsu's voice being way off (Seriously, it sounds like they just got somebody from accounting to do the voice). I generally liked Mako's voice actress though I'll agree that she couldn't really keep the same breakneck speaking pace the Japanese voice did.

Gamagoori and Ryuko's voices are definitely the highlights.

/a/'s (un?)official YouTube channel posted a comment saying "RIP" or something along the lines of that, so I suppose they didn't enjoy it.

Unrelated, and I don't mean to plug people, but I definitely recommend checking out  Chip and Ironicus' Anime Theater (http://chipandironicus.com/videos/anime/). Mad Bull 34 is by far my favorite and the rest are golden too.
Sion, July 14, 2014, 01:32:53 pm

Seconded, thirded, fourthed and fifthed. Anyone who hasn't watched this yet needs to do so right now! If anyone needs a jumping in point go for Mad Bull 34, The Monster of Frankenstein and Garzy's wing. You can thank me later.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 15, 2014, 09:57:43 am
Tomb of Dracula is one of my personal favorites because I actually watched that in storyboarding class because my teacher thought it was fucking hilarious and worth watching on a work day.

Also, out of all the things they watched, Dog Days probably made me the maddest because I looked it up and realized that as bullshit moe dating sim adaption as that series looks, it's not based on a dating sim. We have officially come full-circle from dating sims being adapted into anime, we now have anime made to be adapted into dating sims.
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Post by: A Meat on July 15, 2014, 10:40:13 am
I keep mentioning Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but is anybody except me here even watching/reading it?

Jojo is the best and I'd make a thread just for Jojo, but I need to know if other people are actually up to date on it or if it would be just me desperately trying to convince people to read or watch Jojo.
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 15, 2014, 11:34:13 am
I just recently learned there is a decent translation of Part 4 online now, so I'm going to continue reading as soon as I can. As far as the anime, it's one of those things where I don't want to wait week to week, so I'm going to wait until they finish Part 3, then marathon it.
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Post by: A Meat on July 15, 2014, 12:03:23 pm
A different team also started part 5 and have done 24 out of 154 chapters so far.

I'll have to reread part 5 when they finish that, probably after I bother rereading part 4 because I originally read through the shitty Duwang translation and I remember like only half of what happened. Either that, or wait a year until the anime gets to part 4, if it ever does.

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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 15, 2014, 12:12:29 pm
Seeing as how well Jojo is doing both in Japan and the West, it's likely we'll see Part 4. Which I'm totally happy with, since Part 4 is where things reach a critical mass of stupid fabulousness.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 15, 2014, 12:15:31 pm
I have actually seen and read very little of jojo but I fucking adore the series. I started watching the anime very recently and am looking forward to getting done with part one to go onto the increasing madness of every other part of the series.
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Post by: CormansInferno on July 15, 2014, 04:36:44 pm
I have two anime movies with a similar name to recommend. Both are the product of Japanese aniamtion professionals working on passion projects in their basements for years that were a giant middle fingers to the anime industry. Shojo Tsubaki's Midori (1999) is an adaptation of Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, the legendary ultra-gross art comic by Suehiro Maruo. A little girl who's basically a metaphor for postwar Japan runs into a circus of deformed sociopaths and falls in love with a magical dwarf/metaphor for Western capitalism who can turn people into hallucinatory monsters. When Tsubaki tried to take the lone 35 mm print to Europe for a film festival, it was confiscated by Japanese Customs and disturbed the authorities so much they burned the print. Here's a somewhat NSFW trailer (http://vimeo.com/76781198).

The other is Keita Kurosaka's Midiori-ko (2010). Kurosaka spent nearly a decade animating this in watercolors, and it looks less like traditional Japanese anime and more like Bill Plympton (though with an even more surreal and dreamlike plot than one of Plympton's films). Here's a sample:

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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 15, 2014, 06:30:39 pm
My school library actually had a copy of Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, and as such I am unwilling to watch the trailer because the comic was fucked-up enough, imagining it animated is fucking terrifying.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on July 21, 2014, 12:04:20 pm
episode 3 of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun just came out and I honestly can't believe how much funnier it gets with every episode. Also judging the next episode preview they showed, NEXT EP IS THE DATING SIM EPISODE I AM HYPE FOR THIS
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Post by: A Meat on July 21, 2014, 12:34:07 pm
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is really good and episode 3 was really good. Next episode will probably be the best.
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Post by: FartRomancer.exe on August 03, 2014, 08:51:00 pm
Sabagebu is good.

 (http://i.imgur.com/MKGzcqX.gif)
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Post by: A Meat on August 04, 2014, 03:05:38 am
Related to anime I guess:

Megadeth Guitarist Supervises "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" English Instruction Book (http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/07/31-1/megadeth-guitarist-supervises-jojos-bizarre-adventure-english-intruction-book) isn't a headline I thought I'd ever read.
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Post by: RedMinjo on August 20, 2014, 03:33:18 am

Anime, is good.

Nichijou is the greatest
Kill la Kill is pretty dang good
Squid Girl is really good
Nisekoi has been pretty good, hope they renew it for a new season
Chunibyo was good, even the second season

I watched an episode of Girls und Panzer and I think it might be cool.  New Sailor Moon is going pretty well.
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Post by: montrith on August 20, 2014, 01:17:41 pm
I recently got my friend into Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. We now spend every Sunday night staying up late, waiting for the new episode. Now if I could only get her to read the manga.

Other than that, nothing in the new lineup has really grabbed my attention. Been getting back into some older series I've skipped earlier.

Is Nisekoi really as haremish as it looks to be? I read the original oneshot and liked it, but when I started to read the actual manga I got fed up with the added harem elements pretty quickly. That's just really not my cup of tea.
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Post by: RedMinjo on August 20, 2014, 01:34:45 pm
Nisekoi isn't as bad about it as Tenchi Muyo was, I feel.  Still very much a thing though, and of course it has to have "haha the main dude is accidentally in the ladies hot spring what wacky shenanigans are going to happen" as an episode.
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Post by: A Meat on August 28, 2014, 01:22:08 am
Since this is temporarily a Gekkan Shojo Nozaki-kun thread, I feel like everyone should enjoy this

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Post by: crow on September 24, 2014, 07:52:14 pm
Everyone on this forum should watch Watamote or "No Matter How I Look At It, It's Not My Fault!" in English.  It's about a girl in high school who is a creepy weirdo with social anxiety.  She can't speak to anyone without vomiting, she does nothing but play dating sims but she tries to be popular.  It's supposed to be a comedy, but some people think that it is too dark to be one.  I like it; it reminds me of my own youth as a mentally ill child
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Post by: A Meat on September 25, 2014, 02:36:58 am
Watamote is something I tried out but eventually ended up disliking, I feel like the premise would work if she wasn't so incredibly cripplingly mentally ill, I just felt so bad for her. Nobody seems to ever have an idea that mentally ill people can get help in anime, do psychologists not exist in Japan?

If you want to watch an anime about a mentally ill anime girl, I recommend Aku no Hana. The anime doesn't cover the whole story, so you will want to continue reading the manga afterwards though.
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Post by: Bobalay on September 25, 2014, 03:18:36 am
Serious discussion about mental illness is still a pretty big taboo for a variety of reasons. Generally, the beliefs are that nothing can be done to help, and that it's a result of personal weakness rather than biological factors or having fucked up shit happen to you. There's little exposure overall to counselors and therapists as people who can help; compare that to American TV where there are a fair amount of movie or TV characters who visit therapists. It's one of those situations where the elephant's been in the room for so long that it's started shitting everywhere, which makes people even less likely to bring it up, because then you have to acknowledge that there's shit all over the carpet, or in this case, that people are hurling themselves in front of trains on a daily basis. It's difficult to get into any more in-depth of an answer than that because much of it is bogged down in "NIPPONESE SHAME AND HONOR SAMURAI WABI-SABI"
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Post by: montrith on September 25, 2014, 10:46:14 am
Anyone else hoping for second season for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun? Barring that, an anime adaptation of Oresama Teacher would be nice too.
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Post by: A Meat on September 25, 2014, 11:08:03 am
Anyone else hoping for second season for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun? Barring that, an anime adaptation of Oresama Teacher would be nice too.
montrith, September 25, 2014, 10:46:14 am

I heard the first season sold really well comparatively, and there's probably enough content in the manga for another season, easy.

Anything worth watching this season? Nothing catches my eye really.
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Post by: I, EmmaGhost on September 25, 2014, 08:25:47 pm
I'll check out the first couple episodes of this "I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying," just because I'm a sucker for mismatched couples, anime based on 4-panel comics, and Romance. I'll probably also watch Shirobako and see how that is.

Other than that, Psycho-Pass 2 and World Trigger are airing this season, but at the top of my priority is Ronja the Robber's Daughter. I'm one of those weirdos that actually liked Tales From Earthsea, and Goro really made his mark with From Up On Poppy Hill.
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Post by: montrith on September 25, 2014, 11:53:18 pm
They're making Ronja into anime? I used to love that book, and everything else by Astrid Lindgren.
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Post by: Odd on September 26, 2014, 01:08:36 am
Watamote is something I tried out but eventually ended up disliking, I feel like the premise would work if she wasn't so incredibly cripplingly mentally ill, I just felt so bad for her. Nobody seems to ever have an idea that mentally ill people can get help in anime, do psychologists not exist in Japan?

If you want to watch an anime about a mentally ill anime girl, I recommend Aku no Hana. The anime doesn't cover the whole story, so you will want to continue reading the manga afterwards though.
A Meat, September 25, 2014, 02:36:58 am
The girl in Watamotte is not mentally ill, she is just an asshole. She doesn't have the skills to approach strangers because she is a shy opinionated jerk with ulterior motives but that she is an asshole is even more evident now that she has reconnected with her old middle school friends:
Like the final panel of this page:
http://bato.to/read/_/269986/its-not-my-fault-that-im-not-popular_ch65_by_world-three/5

And Aku no Hana's plot resolution fucking sucks.
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Post by: A Meat on September 26, 2014, 02:15:50 am
Watamote is something I tried out but eventually ended up disliking, I feel like the premise would work if she wasn't so incredibly cripplingly mentally ill, I just felt so bad for her. Nobody seems to ever have an idea that mentally ill people can get help in anime, do psychologists not exist in Japan?

If you want to watch an anime about a mentally ill anime girl, I recommend Aku no Hana. The anime doesn't cover the whole story, so you will want to continue reading the manga afterwards though.
A Meat, September 25, 2014, 02:36:58 am
The girl in Watamotte is not mentally ill, she is just an asshole. She doesn't have the skills to approach strangers because she is a shy opinionated jerk with ulterior motives but that she is an asshole is even more evident now that she has reconnected with her old middle school friends:
Like the final panel of this page:
http://bato.to/read/_/269986/its-not-my-fault-that-im-not-popular_ch65_by_world-three/5

And Aku no Hana's plot resolution fucking sucks.
Odd, September 26, 2014, 01:08:36 am

I didn't get far enough in Watamote to really say something concrete about how her character develops, but she starts out with crippling social anxiety which I see as mental illness, or a symptom of. I mean, she's also an asshole, but not just.

Aku no Hana's second half's whole message is basically that things from the past might never get resolved and that life goes on, but the ending did kind of fall flat. I still think that the best ending to it would be "and then I went to therapy and started dealing with my issues and past, and I'm happier now that I can leave some of the things behind me", but apparently that can't happen because of Japan. The anime has literally nothing to do with the second half of the plot so it's kind of irrelevant to this thread.

If you were talking about the anime's plot resolution, then yeah, it's probably because they had a bunch of footage for a 2nd season, but there was no way in hell they'd get one so they did a dumb thing, but at that point you should go and read the manga.
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Post by: crow on September 26, 2014, 05:59:38 am
Watamote is something I tried out but eventually ended up disliking, I feel like the premise would work if she wasn't so incredibly cripplingly mentally ill, I just felt so bad for her. Nobody seems to ever have an idea that mentally ill people can get help in anime, do psychologists not exist in Japan?

If you want to watch an anime about a mentally ill anime girl, I recommend Aku no Hana. The anime doesn't cover the whole story, so you will want to continue reading the manga afterwards though.
A Meat, September 25, 2014, 02:36:58 am
The girl in Watamotte is not mentally ill, she is just an asshole. She doesn't have the skills to approach strangers because she is a shy opinionated jerk with ulterior motives but that she is an asshole is even more evident now that she has reconnected with her old middle school friends:
Like the final panel of this page:
http://bato.to/read/_/269986/its-not-my-fault-that-im-not-popular_ch65_by_world-three/5

And Aku no Hana's plot resolution fucking sucks.
Odd, September 26, 2014, 01:08:36 am

Newsflash: mental illness gives you some assholeish tendencies
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Post by: cyclopeantrash on September 26, 2014, 06:42:01 am
Can we talk about the magnificence that is Paranoia Agent's opening song?


Susumu Hirasawa is the best.

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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on September 26, 2014, 03:50:15 pm
Seconded.
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Post by: Sion on September 27, 2014, 11:31:26 am
Anyone seen the KLK OVA?


Here's a dropbox link to the whole thing.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fwzugmai22jgmhg/%5BRyuketsu%5D%20Kill%20la%20Kill%20-%2025%20%5B6BAF8A1A%5D.mkv?dl=0

Just download it and run it in VLC. A few subtitles have typos, but that's because it was a "day-one release" sort of thing, I assume.
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Post by: A Meat on October 09, 2014, 06:51:57 am
The first episode of Parasyte (or Kiseijuu in Japanese) aired and it was really good. I really didn't like the opening theme but that could just be me.

(http://i.imgur.com/UvyBJ0R.gif)

I think it's supposedly a horror thing, but I don't know to what extent, but there's a bunch of blood and gore.
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Post by: Turtle on October 10, 2014, 06:38:29 pm
I keep mentioning Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but is anybody except me here even watching/reading it?

Jojo is the best and I'd make a thread just for Jojo, but I need to know if other people are actually up to date on it or if it would be just me desperately trying to convince people to read or watch Jojo.
A Meat, July 15, 2014, 10:40:13 am
JoJo is great. I watch it with a group of friends as an excuse for everyone to get together. I would like to be up to date, but hdr is dragging his ass.

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun was fantastic.

Girls und Panzer was relatively enjoyable and certainly fun to watch with others and talk shit about, but by no means should anyone consider it "Good". (Katyusha is still great)
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Post by: crow on October 18, 2014, 12:03:55 am
Girls und Panzer was relatively enjoyable and certainly fun to watch with others and talk shit about, but by no means should anyone consider it "Good". (Katyusha is still great)
Turtle, October 10, 2014, 06:38:29 pm

Please do not troll the fine posters of ballp.it.
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Post by: crow on November 15, 2014, 03:33:10 pm
http://naniso.re/420/
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Post by: chai tea latte on November 15, 2014, 08:51:50 pm
http://naniso.re/420/
Smoking Crow, November 15, 2014, 03:33:10 pm

really appreciating that this loops rn
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Post by: A Meat on November 16, 2014, 03:01:40 am
http://naniso.re/420/
Smoking Crow, November 15, 2014, 03:33:10 pm

help, i expected this to be the nichismoke thing. i do like that there is a selection of songs.

VV i'm aware of the site, and i know one of the other things there is the nichismoke thing, i just didn't expect this one since i hadn't seen it before.
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Post by: crow on November 16, 2014, 09:32:30 am
http://naniso.re
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Post by: RedMinjo on November 16, 2014, 12:44:19 pm
http://naniso.re/420/
Smoking Crow, November 15, 2014, 03:33:10 pm

http://420.moe  is the better link
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Post by: crow on November 16, 2014, 03:00:16 pm
http://naniso.re/420/
Smoking Crow, November 15, 2014, 03:33:10 pm

http://420.moe  is the better link
RedMinjo, November 16, 2014, 12:44:19 pm

yeah but i don't know the guy that owns that link
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Post by: A Meat on November 16, 2014, 03:49:02 pm
I just realized that it might have been a completely different site that just had the nichismoke thing I've seen, since there seem to be multiple pages that are just that video on a loop.

I feel like watching a really terrible anime, anybody got a good recommendation for a "so bad it's good" anime? Preferably not too long.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on November 16, 2014, 04:10:15 pm
http://naniso.re/420/
Smoking Crow, November 15, 2014, 03:33:10 pm
I recently watched about five episodes of puella magi madoka magica while blazed off my ass. If only I had known this existed back then.
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Post by: crow on November 16, 2014, 04:35:02 pm
I just realized that it might have been a completely different site that just had the nichismoke thing I've seen, since there seem to be multiple pages that are just that video on a loop.

I feel like watching a really terrible anime, anybody got a good recommendation for a "so bad it's good" anime? Preferably not too long.
A Meat, November 16, 2014, 03:49:02 pm

Standard bearer for this is Garzey's Wing, but make sure you watch the dub.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on November 16, 2014, 07:12:43 pm
harmageddon is a movie so bad it would take me an hour to explain how bad it is. It's STUNNINGLY bad, and shockingly it was apparently a HUGE deal in Japan when it came out. Literally the best thing I can say about it is that it helped lay groundwork for Akira to be produced. there's not much difference in terrible between the dub and sub but the dub adds in one single line that's so amazing that I'd recommend watching it just for that.

Angel cop is a pretty infamously bad one as well, and similar to Garzey's wing, you ABSOLUTELY need to watch the dub. It's one of those dubs from the magical time where people decided that to show that it was for ADULTS that everyone needed to CONSTANTLY swear. It also features the amazing line "If that's justice, then I'm a banana!"
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Post by: crow on November 16, 2014, 08:50:05 pm
Please Watch Cyber City Oedo 808 with the dub so you can see this line

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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on November 27, 2014, 09:49:30 pm
Damn, Samurai Champloo is as cool as ten year old me remembers it being.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on December 11, 2014, 09:07:34 am
So I ended up marathoning Popee The Performer, and it's.... well, it's a show alright. It's a CGI kid's show with 4-minute episodes that has a kind of sadistic slapstick humor that's somewhere between looney tunes and itchy and scratchy, and a large part of its appeal is just how batshit insane it gets. There's an episode where Popee rips his own eyelids off and it's nowhere NEAR the weirdest or most horrific thing that happens in the episode.

Here's an early episode, which isn't anywhere near as surreal this show gets (and doesn't contain Papi, who's basically terror incarnate (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cCga_eRCsEA/Tld2tN2r9uI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/S2Z35Zw1Cu4/s1600/popee7.png)), the gag at the end is a pretty good taste of how bizarre things will get in this show.

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Post by: montrith on December 11, 2014, 11:51:27 am
I just realized that it might have been a completely different site that just had the nichismoke thing I've seen, since there seem to be multiple pages that are just that video on a loop.

I feel like watching a really terrible anime, anybody got a good recommendation for a "so bad it's good" anime? Preferably not too long.
A Meat, November 16, 2014, 03:49:02 pm

Depending on your tastes, Nerima Daikon Brothers is either awesome or hilariously bad.
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Post by: RedMinjo on December 11, 2014, 03:03:32 pm
I have been watching Toradora!.  It is good, for being another high school romcom anime.  The OP and ED songs are also rad, an important part of a good anime.

(https://38.media.tumblr.com/a6c717070fa65a15d3a748996c45e4ce/tumblr_ms9rk2zp9t1rhm734o1_500.gif)
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Post by: positive stress on January 08, 2015, 10:24:16 am
If you're into anime that's more on the goofy and weird side I recommend watching Nichijou it's pretty much perfect imo. Daily Lives of High School Boys is good too from what I've seen. I liked Angel Beats! and Chuunibyou a lot too, and the original Dragon Ball is awesome. These are my Anime Opinions

A Meat, if you're looking for something that's so bad it's good you should check out Acchi Kocchi, it's like the epitome of all slice of life moe shit anime and it's beautiful

Sounds like I need to watch Jojo
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Post by: RedMinjo on January 08, 2015, 01:14:36 pm
Now watching Hajime no Ippo, it is a hype boxing anime.
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Post by: positive stress on January 08, 2015, 11:29:51 pm
Okay I'm five episodes into Jojo and I'm loving this, took a couple episodes to get going but holy shit this is great
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on January 09, 2015, 01:36:32 am
You aren't even at the good stuff yet.
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Post by: A Meat on January 09, 2015, 02:08:04 am
(http://i.imgur.com/NuU0HpL.jpg)
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Post by: positive stress on January 09, 2015, 06:25:06 am
You aren't even at the good stuff yet.
FattyBoBatty, January 09, 2015, 01:36:32 am

How can that be true when "how many breads have you eaten in your life" was said? Surely it must all be downhill from here?

Edit: Just watched episode 1 of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and it was so good, bless this thread for bringing new anime into my life
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Post by: RedMinjo on January 10, 2015, 08:44:42 pm
It is amazing how much I hated Dio even just after the first episode.  They did a really good job, with JoJo.
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Post by: positive stress on January 10, 2015, 09:10:59 pm
I barely made it through the first episode, I felt so bad for JoJo. Too much empathy for the animes. I almost stopped watching because I was afraid it was just going to be Boy Gets Constantly Shit On By Everyone For His Entire Life. Glad I kept going though because I'm very much enjoying Unreasonably Large Handsome Man Does Unreasonably Manly Things (also I don't know if it's just because his name is Speedwagon or if he's the best but I love Speedwagon)

ALSO Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is so good. I think this might be close to edging out Nichijou as my favorite anime. Everyone should watch this, it's the best
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Post by: montrith on January 11, 2015, 04:50:56 am
Watched Denki-gai no Honya-san and Gugure! Kokkuri-san this season. Both are based on 4-koma and pretty funny, but I feel Kokkuri-san got a by far better anime adaptation. Recommend checking both those out if you're in the mood for something light and funny without too much plot.
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Post by: positive stress on January 19, 2015, 10:20:20 pm
I watched the first two episodes of Koufuku Graffiti and it was weird as hell, probably not going to watch any more. It's about a girl who likes to cook and there are lots of bizarrely sexualized scenes of the characters eating, zooming in on their mouths, everyone making creepy noises and blushing for some reason... I don't like straight-up fanservice but somehow this was so much more cringey. Maybe the fact that the girls are 13 years old? That might have something to do with it

I don't know what Japan is like but apparently it's a lot less weird there than it is in the US to try to turn people on with your animated depictions of middle schoolers
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Post by: Tarekthefreak on January 20, 2015, 01:50:48 pm
People kept trying to get me to watch attack on Titan. The opening track is garbled noise and every character dialogue consists of only yelling. It gave me a headache. So I watched Yu Yu hakusho again instead.
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Post by: crow on January 20, 2015, 07:38:01 pm
People kept trying to get me to watch attack on Titan. The opening track is garbled noise and every character dialogue consists of only yelling. It gave me a headache. So I watched Yu Yu hakusho again instead.
Tarekthefreak, January 20, 2015, 01:50:48 pm

The anime's animation is really garbage, the manga is ok and reminiscent of Naruto circa '02
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Post by: Sherlockian on January 22, 2015, 05:17:18 pm
In other news, Ikuhara-- the guy who did Revolutionary Girl Utena-- has a new series airing!

It's... about lesbian bears. The title is literally "Yuri Bear Storm"-- Yurikuma Arashi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurikuma_Arashi), and the bears (in the form of moe girls) have scenes of licking honey off of a lily flower in place of lesbian sex scenes. It's either a metaphorical discussion about the ways lesbianism are portrayed in Japanese media, or trolling Utena fans and I can't tell which.
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Post by: advancedclass on January 26, 2015, 02:04:55 pm
I think the decade or so of inactivity really did a number on Ikuhara. I still haven't gotten around to watching Mawaru Penguindrum although the DVDs are sitting on my shelf. The feelings of people whose opinions I respect seem to be that he's gone too far in the crazy/trolling direction and everything I've seen about Yurikuma Arashi makes me think he's either lost it or in the current state of shameless pandering to otaku shut-ins the industry exists in he doesn't feel the need to couch anything he's doing in subtly or weird symbolism.

I'd be interested to hear reports but he really seems to have fallen off the radar of people who were digging his '90s work.
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Post by: crow on January 26, 2015, 02:31:08 pm
I think the decade or so of inactivity really did a number on Ikuhara. I still haven't gotten around to watching Mawaru Penguindrum although the DVDs are sitting on my shelf. The feelings of people whose opinions I respect seem to be that he's gone too far in the crazy/trolling direction and everything I've seen about Yurikuma Arashi makes me think he's either lost it or in the current state of shameless pandering to otaku shut-ins the industry exists in he doesn't feel the need to couch anything he's doing in subtly or weird symbolism.

I'd be interested to hear reports but he really seems to have fallen off the radar of people who were digging his '90s work.
advancedclass, January 26, 2015, 02:04:55 pm

Never watched it, but everyone I know that has really likes it and thinks it is super deep
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Post by: crow on February 01, 2015, 05:23:14 pm
hello, i went to a con and got this

(http://i.imgur.com/mxvoiaZ.jpg)

I was originally gonna get an 8 in. Miho but i couldn't afford all three plus Miporin
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Post by: chai tea latte on February 01, 2015, 06:25:53 pm
those are super cute!

also oh man stardust crusaders is so much better than the first two acts of jojo and they were pretty good to begin with
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Post by: advancedclass on February 02, 2015, 02:33:42 pm
also oh man stardust crusaders is so much better than the first two acts of jojo and they were pretty good to begin with
chai tea latte, February 01, 2015, 06:25:53 pm

I think everyone agrees that Stardust Crusaders is where JoJo becomes TRUE JOJO. Every minute of the anime has been pure delight and I really hope it's doing well enough that they'll animate the next act which is probably my favourite (this is a lie, they are all tied for favourite).
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Post by: positive stress on February 07, 2015, 05:11:32 pm
Finally back to watching JoJo, just started Battle Tendency and I'm already loving this more than Phantom Blood, looks like this show just gets better and better over time

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9RwByLCUAAuHFZ.png)

That POSE!!
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Post by: crow on February 24, 2015, 08:30:34 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/PLauxED.jpg)
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Post by: Sovereign on February 25, 2015, 02:20:41 am
I watched Lucky Star years ago and I remember nothing about it. That leads me to believe I didn't really like it, but I was sure that I watched all of it. I remember something about a Chocolate Cornet though. I'm still not sure how I feel about slice of life animes in general because I really enjoyed Azumanga Daioh at one point, yet I rarely actively seek out that genre.
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Post by: crow on February 25, 2015, 02:26:39 am
I watched Lucky Star years ago and I remember nothing about it. That leads me to believe I didn't really like it, but I was sure that I watched all of it. I remember something about a Chocolate Cornet though. I'm still not sure how I feel about slice of life animes in general because I really enjoyed Azumanga Daioh at one point, yet I rarely actively seek out that genre.
Sovereign, February 25, 2015, 02:20:41 am

You don't remember lolicon dad or their WoW guild?
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Post by: Sovereign on February 25, 2015, 04:54:13 am
You don't remember lolicon dad or their WoW guild?
Smoking Crow, February 25, 2015, 02:26:39 am
...Maybe I could give the show another watch.
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Post by: A Meat on February 25, 2015, 05:58:34 am
(http://i.imgur.com/PLauxED.jpg)
Smoking Crow, February 24, 2015, 08:30:34 pm

it's no nichijou, or even a nozaki-kun
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Post by: Sovereign on February 25, 2015, 12:56:13 pm
Do you ever feel like the constant influx of new anime can get overwhelming or even off putting? I have some shows on my to-watch list right now, and maybe I'm just not into anime as much as I used to be, but I find it more difficult to sit through 26 or so episodes of a show that I may or may not even like just so I can move on to the next one. I'm not really sure what to do about it besides find a nice short-ish show that I really like, binge watch it and add it to the collection.

I guess my point is that the more anime I find out about, the less likely one of them will become 'that' show that really sticks with me.
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Post by: crow on February 25, 2015, 03:47:38 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/PLauxED.jpg)
Smoking Crow, February 24, 2015, 08:30:34 pm

it's no nichijou, or even a nozaki-kun
A Meat, February 25, 2015, 05:58:34 am
Nichijou is overrated imo, especially in the west

It and jojo have become the new "all anime is shit, except for the two I like" shows
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Post by: Bobalay on February 25, 2015, 04:14:20 pm
and Lucky Star isn't overrated?
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Post by: crow on February 25, 2015, 04:20:57 pm
and Lucky Star isn't overrated?
Bobalay, February 25, 2015, 04:14:20 pm

Compared to KyoAni's other shows, yes

Lucky Star isn't as well loved as Haruhi or K-ON and the general consensus I've found is that people liked it for ~2 years after it debuted and now no one gives a shit
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Post by: chai tea latte on February 25, 2015, 04:53:42 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/PLauxED.jpg)
Smoking Crow, February 24, 2015, 08:30:34 pm

it's no nichijou, or even a nozaki-kun
A Meat, February 25, 2015, 05:58:34 am
Nichijou is overrated imo, especially in the west

It and jojo have become the new "all anime is shit, except for the two I like" shows
Smoking Crow, February 25, 2015, 03:47:38 pm

these people also love sailor moon.
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Post by: crow on February 25, 2015, 04:58:59 pm
Do you ever feel like the constant influx of new anime can get overwhelming or even off putting? I have some shows on my to-watch list right now, and maybe I'm just not into anime as much as I used to be, but I find it more difficult to sit through 26 or so episodes of a show that I may or may not even like just so I can move on to the next one. I'm not really sure what to do about it besides find a nice short-ish show that I really like, binge watch it and add it to the collection.

I guess my point is that the more anime I find out about, the less likely one of them will become 'that' show that really sticks with me.
Sovereign, February 25, 2015, 12:56:13 pm

I think the way to fix this is to watch everything when it's translated.  The Japanese don't have this problem because they just watch all the shows when they come out at 4 AM on whatever shitty cable network is running them
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Post by: A Meat on February 26, 2015, 02:11:47 am
I legit liked both nichijou and lucky star though, as well as jojo. Am I the anime hipster?
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Post by: chai tea latte on February 26, 2015, 02:30:38 am
Being a hipster is okay.
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Post by: crow on February 26, 2015, 06:36:51 am
I legit liked both nichijou and lucky star though, as well as jojo. Am I the anime hipster?
A Meat, February 26, 2015, 02:11:47 am

You haven't mentioned Creamy Mami or Dirty Pair yet so no
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Post by: Sovereign on February 26, 2015, 08:16:47 am
I think the way to fix this is to watch everything when it's translated.  The Japanese don't have this problem because they just watch all the shows when they come out at 4 AM on whatever shitty cable network is running them
Smoking Crow, February 25, 2015, 04:58:59 pm
Yeah, I think you make a good point. Just shotgun the entire series, or season, or manga, or whatever. I've found that I enjoy anime the most when I'm binge watching it and I at least have 3/4 of the show already translated for me. I'll try that out!
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Post by: LINDA on February 26, 2015, 08:57:59 am
the only kyoani anime that matters

(https://31.media.tumblr.com/b0d70f0db16c31b427b384a61dfa61bb/tumblr_inline_mqplcw1A251qz4rgp.jpg)
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Post by: crow on March 02, 2015, 04:42:58 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/5dFbz3A.jpg)
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Post by: A Meat on March 03, 2015, 04:30:17 am
(http://i.imgur.com/5dFbz3A.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2015, 04:42:58 pm

There are easier ways to kill yourself. That being said, I don't think being a ghost in Gensokyo is a very good gig.
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Post by: crow on March 03, 2015, 09:07:05 am
(http://i.imgur.com/5dFbz3A.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2015, 04:42:58 pm

There are easier ways to kill yourself. That being said, I don't think being a ghost in Gensokyo is a very good gig.
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 04:30:17 am

(https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0123/51/1407637783222.jpg)
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Post by: A Meat on March 03, 2015, 11:40:06 am
(http://i.imgur.com/5dFbz3A.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2015, 04:42:58 pm

There are easier ways to kill yourself. That being said, I don't think being a ghost in Gensokyo is a very good gig.
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 04:30:17 am

(https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0123/51/1407637783222.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 09:07:05 am

What's the point of going to Gensokyo anyways? It's basically living in a small village in late 19th century Japan, with the added threat of supernatural beings preying on you, and you won't get to fuck any of your demon waifus anyways.

On the other hand, Touhou ghosts are adorable:
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUbhZsRq7myQY-Uk4SDx3B_lo69HTz0oiUrc15UAtXEMhdIz-brw)
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Post by: crow on March 03, 2015, 01:08:27 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/5dFbz3A.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2015, 04:42:58 pm

There are easier ways to kill yourself. That being said, I don't think being a ghost in Gensokyo is a very good gig.
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 04:30:17 am

(https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0123/51/1407637783222.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 09:07:05 am

What's the point of going to Gensokyo anyways? It's basically living in a small village in late 19th century Japan, with the added threat of supernatural beings preying on you, and you won't get to fuck any of your demon waifus anyways.

On the other hand, Touhou ghosts are adorable:
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUbhZsRq7myQY-Uk4SDx3B_lo69HTz0oiUrc15UAtXEMhdIz-brw)
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 11:40:06 am

Ew you don't fuck Touhou waifus

They are pure and chaste maidens
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Post by: A Meat on March 03, 2015, 01:17:07 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/5dFbz3A.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2015, 04:42:58 pm

There are easier ways to kill yourself. That being said, I don't think being a ghost in Gensokyo is a very good gig.
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 04:30:17 am

(https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0123/51/1407637783222.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 09:07:05 am

What's the point of going to Gensokyo anyways? It's basically living in a small village in late 19th century Japan, with the added threat of supernatural beings preying on you, and you won't get to fuck any of your demon waifus anyways.

On the other hand, Touhou ghosts are adorable:
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUbhZsRq7myQY-Uk4SDx3B_lo69HTz0oiUrc15UAtXEMhdIz-brw)
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 11:40:06 am

Ew you don't fuck Touhou waifus

They are pure and chaste maidens
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 01:08:27 pm
stop slut shaming, you can be a maiden and be sexually liberated.

also, if you looked at doujinshi, you'd clearly see that all those poorly drawn big titted animes want the d all the time, why else would they be constantly drawn that way by fans?
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Post by: crow on March 03, 2015, 01:26:23 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/5dFbz3A.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2015, 04:42:58 pm

There are easier ways to kill yourself. That being said, I don't think being a ghost in Gensokyo is a very good gig.
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 04:30:17 am

(https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0123/51/1407637783222.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 09:07:05 am

What's the point of going to Gensokyo anyways? It's basically living in a small village in late 19th century Japan, with the added threat of supernatural beings preying on you, and you won't get to fuck any of your demon waifus anyways.

On the other hand, Touhou ghosts are adorable:
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUbhZsRq7myQY-Uk4SDx3B_lo69HTz0oiUrc15UAtXEMhdIz-brw)
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 11:40:06 am

Ew you don't fuck Touhou waifus

They are pure and chaste maidens
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 01:08:27 pm
stop slut shaming, you can be a maiden and be sexually liberated.

also, if you looked at doujinshi, you'd clearly see that all those poorly drawn big titted animes want the d all the time, why else would they be constantly drawn that way by fans?
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 01:17:07 pm

Only 16% of Touhou doujins are adult works (http://2chan.us/wordpress/2010/04/11/translation-toranoana-2009-doujin-stats/)

edit: got my attribution wrong
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Post by: Cat Planet on March 03, 2015, 01:30:09 pm
37% on Strike Witches? So all the other fans of this show are there for the art?
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Post by: crow on March 03, 2015, 01:30:34 pm
37% on Strike Witches? So all the other fans of this show are there for the art?
Cat Planet, March 03, 2015, 01:30:09 pm

military otaku
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Post by: A Meat on March 03, 2015, 01:36:41 pm
Only 16% of Touhou doujins are adult works (http://2chan.us/wordpress/2010/04/11/translation-toranoana-2009-doujin-stats/)

edit: got my attribution wrong
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 01:26:23 pm

The 16% of adult only works is still more than all the vocaloid stuff put together. I've seen that list before and I want to see a recent one with Kancolle included. Wanna learn about nerds fucking battleships, and about nerds making non-pornographic fanfiction about scantily clad underaged battleships.

Also that 89% adult works on Dragon Quest always amazes me. Is it all people wanting to fuck the two(three for the DS?) wives from Dragon Quest V?
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Post by: crow on March 03, 2015, 01:41:43 pm
Only 16% of Touhou doujins are adult works (http://2chan.us/wordpress/2010/04/11/translation-toranoana-2009-doujin-stats/)

edit: got my attribution wrong
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 01:26:23 pm

The 16% of adult only works is still more than all the vocaloid stuff put together. I've seen that list before and I want to see a recent one with Kancolle included. Wanna learn about nerds fucking battleships, and about nerds making non-pornographic fanfiction about scantily clad underaged battleships.

Also that 89% adult works on Dragon Quest always amazes me. Is it all people wanting to fuck the two(three for the DS?) wives from Dragon Quest V?
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 01:36:41 pm

Touhou has more doujin output than Vocaloid so the larger number number doesn't matter, it's the percentage.  I know that Kancolle recently surpassed Touhou for most doujins per year, I'm not sure if there's any statistics on the porn percentage.

Usually people are attracted to DQ4 characters, afaik

The one that surprises me is Marimite which is a show about literal Catholic schoolgirls
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Post by: A Meat on March 03, 2015, 01:48:36 pm
Only 16% of Touhou doujins are adult works (http://2chan.us/wordpress/2010/04/11/translation-toranoana-2009-doujin-stats/)

edit: got my attribution wrong
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 01:26:23 pm

The 16% of adult only works is still more than all the vocaloid stuff put together. I've seen that list before and I want to see a recent one with Kancolle included. Wanna learn about nerds fucking battleships, and about nerds making non-pornographic fanfiction about scantily clad underaged battleships.

Also that 89% adult works on Dragon Quest always amazes me. Is it all people wanting to fuck the two(three for the DS?) wives from Dragon Quest V?
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 01:36:41 pm

Touhou has more doujin output than Vocaloid so the larger number number doesn't matter, it's the percentage.  I know that Kancolle recently surpassed Touhou for most doujins per year, I'm not sure if there's any statistics on the porn percentage.

Usually people are attracted to DQ4 characters, afaik
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 01:41:43 pm

What the fuck are we even arguing about, I think we both can agree that too many people want to fuck their Touhou waifus regardless of percentage, and that some others are deluded and think that they can have a weird platonic/admiring relationship with a loosely defined fictional character. The statistics I'd want to see is regarding how many Touhou fans have actually played the games.

I hadn't thought of DQ4, I kind of hope there are some Torneko or Ragnar doujinshi, and I hope that that if translated, all the doujinshi keep all the pervasive written accents all the characters have (at least in the DS version).
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Post by: crow on March 03, 2015, 01:53:01 pm
What the fuck are we even arguing about, I think we both can agree that too many people want to fuck their Touhou waifus regardless of percentage, and that some others are deluded and think that they can have a weird platonic/admiring relationship with a loosely defined fictional character. The statistics I'd want to see is regarding how many Touhou fans have actually played the games.

I hadn't thought of DQ4, I kind of hope there are some Torneko or Ragnar doujinshi, and I hope that that if translated, all the doujinshi keep all the pervasive written accents all the characters have (at least in the DS version).
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 01:48:36 pm

If there's one thing we've learned from this podcast it's that every fandom has a subsection that wants to fuck it, even car aficionados.  It comes with modern society

I've never looked for it, but there's probably Torneko yaoi out there

Edit: I read a chapter by Dr. Christine Yano in the fantastic book Pikachu's Global Adventure  about the sociological ramifications of anti-Pokemon media, and she theorizes that people, especially adolescents, who want to fuck animes and other non-existent things are uncomfortable about sexuality and are trying to figure out how it works.  I agree with this
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Post by: Cat Planet on March 03, 2015, 01:57:22 pm
It is I, the pride of Deutschland, the nameship of the Bismarck super dreadnoughts. Germanic designs are just beautiful and dignified, no? It's alright, you can praise me more. I shall be operating far and wide throughout this ocean. You can expect much from me!
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Post by: A Meat on March 03, 2015, 02:28:05 pm
What the fuck are we even arguing about, I think we both can agree that too many people want to fuck their Touhou waifus regardless of percentage, and that some others are deluded and think that they can have a weird platonic/admiring relationship with a loosely defined fictional character. The statistics I'd want to see is regarding how many Touhou fans have actually played the games.

I hadn't thought of DQ4, I kind of hope there are some Torneko or Ragnar doujinshi, and I hope that that if translated, all the doujinshi keep all the pervasive written accents all the characters have (at least in the DS version).
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 01:48:36 pm

Edit: I read a chapter by Dr. Christine Yano in the fantastic book Pikachu's Global Adventure  about the sociological ramifications of anti-Pokemon media, and she theorizes that people, especially adolescents, who want to fuck animes and other non-existent things are uncomfortable about sexuality and are trying to figure out how it works.  I agree with this
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 01:53:01 pm

That thing about people who want to fuck animes sounds about right to me from my experience both with real life huge nerds and the internet, since the only dude I knew who was really actually into anime porn and the like was a kid I knew in 9th grade, and had all sorts of other creepy things about him. He tried inviting me to his place once to watch some anime porn with him, but I thankfully refused. I literally have to idea how I managed to not end up fucked up because of all the anime I watched as a teen and all my wasted time on 4chan.
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Post by: advancedclass on March 03, 2015, 03:12:49 pm
Jesus Christ, I'm sick for a couple weeks and I come back to this thread to find entirely too many posts about I don't even fucking know what, and not enough posing.

Do you ever feel like the constant influx of new anime can get overwhelming or even off putting? I have some shows on my to-watch list right now, and maybe I'm just not into anime as much as I used to be, but I find it more difficult to sit through 26 or so episodes of a show that I may or may not even like just so I can move on to the next one. I'm not really sure what to do about it besides find a nice short-ish show that I really like, binge watch it and add it to the collection.

I guess my point is that the more anime I find out about, the less likely one of them will become 'that' show that really sticks with me.
Sovereign, February 25, 2015, 12:56:13 pm

How old are you Sovereign? Because you're never too young to learn that you don't have to watch/read 'em all. Watch a couple episodes and if it doesn't grab you, just delete them from your queue or whatever, unless you have a reliable source that gets your taste telling you to stick it out. I remember feeling this kind of burn out maybe when I was 18 and more things were getting translated, officially and unofficially, and the sudden jump in availability from, like, two or three titles to numbers in the double digits sort of made you feel like you had to take advantage of the "bounty" but that just lead to:
In conclusion: don't let a cheevos mindset control how you approach your hobbies. That sort of thing is what leads to people continuing to read Piers Anthony novels.
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Post by: Bobalay on March 03, 2015, 04:33:37 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/5dFbz3A.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2015, 04:42:58 pm

There are easier ways to kill yourself. That being said, I don't think being a ghost in Gensokyo is a very good gig.
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 04:30:17 am

(https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0123/51/1407637783222.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 09:07:05 am

What's the point of going to Gensokyo anyways? It's basically living in a small village in late 19th century Japan, with the added threat of supernatural beings preying on you, and you won't get to fuck any of your demon waifus anyways.

On the other hand, Touhou ghosts are adorable:
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUbhZsRq7myQY-Uk4SDx3B_lo69HTz0oiUrc15UAtXEMhdIz-brw)
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 11:40:06 am

Ew you don't fuck Touhou waifus

They are pure and chaste maidens
Smoking Crow, March 03, 2015, 01:08:27 pm
stop slut shaming, you can be a maiden and be sexually liberated.

also, if you looked at doujinshi, you'd clearly see that all those poorly drawn big titted animes want the d all the time, why else would they be constantly drawn that way by fans?
A Meat, March 03, 2015, 01:17:07 pm

Not very fun fact, historically miko were viewed as helpful but weird shamans working outside of the traditional caste system and many of them did work as prostitutes.
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Post by: crow on March 03, 2015, 04:44:55 pm
sort of, miko's only prostitued themselves after temples started going bankrupt in the sengoku period.  They had to become prostitutes to make a livelihood and quit once Shinto temples came back into existence.  Modern mikos treat it like a high school job and quit once they get into college/married whichever comes first
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Post by: Sovereign on March 10, 2015, 09:59:22 am
Is anyone watching Parasyte: The Maxim? I discovered it a couple of months ago when it was only up to maybe episode 12 or something like that. The initial bizarreness drew me in for a while, but then around episode 5 or 6 I saw some real potential storywise. I feel like it has its dips in pacing and I would have liked either more focus on the main character the entire time or more development on secondary characters the whole time, but I'm still interested to see how it ends. I'm pretty sure that the show is nearing its finale and that it'll have 25 or 26 episodes, so now's a good time to start watching if you're interested at all. Definitely not the best thing I've ever watched but it's sort of refreshing in a way. Plus, when the action scenes do show up, they're pretty intense.

As a side note, if you want your daily dose of Japan just watch the trailers to the first (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HG6qtKBW7Y) and second (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5-rmFrS3RQ) Parasyte movies. I don't understand why Japan insists on making everything live action but it looks totally fucking goofy with the way that parasites are animated in the show.
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Post by: advancedclass on March 13, 2015, 10:47:02 pm
Parasyte is fucking awesome. I haven't caught up since the hiatus but I'm looking forward to marathoning the shit out of it once it's all out. I think the anime meant they were republishing the English translation of the original manga or maybe redoing it since it was (gloriously) '90s and back when they were flipping everything.

I'd honestly love if someone brought the films over to North America because they look ridiculous and awesome.

My favourite part of Parasyte is possibly the next episode previews, though, which always contain the most mundane sounding shit. It's like listening to bumpers on BBC4 for the Archers but with the knowledge that even if it's talking about a haircut, the actual content will involve aliens eating people and heaps of blood.
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Post by: crow on March 13, 2015, 11:20:15 pm
Now that Parasyte has an anime, I wish that the Junji Ito stand-alones or the Souichi series would get an anime.  That won't ever happen because he's so niche and his art is unappealing on purpose.  I know that Gyo got an OVA but I want a full fledged 14 episode series on TV
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Post by: advancedclass on March 13, 2015, 11:36:16 pm
Uzumaki needs an animated series so that I can sneak into friends' houses while they're out and leave horrifying spiral doom animes looping on their TV to make them feel closer to death.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on March 14, 2015, 12:23:57 am
I think the anime meant they were republishing the English translation of the original manga or maybe redoing it since it was (gloriously) '90sadvancedclass, March 13, 2015, 10:47:02 pm

And how!

(http://www.narbonic.com/parasyte_c4.jpg)
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Post by: crow on March 15, 2015, 11:12:09 am
Girls und Panzer movie trailer

Looks Iike there's one new team, plus St. Gloriana got some crusaders to supplement their mathildas
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Post by: crow on March 17, 2015, 01:47:45 am
Gintama on filler

(http://i.imgur.com/ePir0iN.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/rd9dRSf.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/uFXWZBI.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/5eL50Yb.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/yRa41mO.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/N1LmJri.gif)
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Post by: Sovereign on March 17, 2015, 08:03:48 am
Girls und Panzer movie trailer

Looks Iike there's one new team, plus St. Gloriana got some crusaders to supplement their mathildas
Smoking Crow, March 15, 2015, 11:12:09 am
Alright, all I really took from that is that there are cute animu girls and tank races. Anything else I should know before I dive head first into this?
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Post by: crow on March 17, 2015, 01:51:34 pm
Girls und Panzer movie trailer

Looks Iike there's one new team, plus St. Gloriana got some crusaders to supplement their mathildas
Smoking Crow, March 15, 2015, 11:12:09 am
Alright, all I really took from that is that there are cute animu girls and tank races. Anything else I should know before I dive head first into this?
Sovereign, March 17, 2015, 08:03:48 am

There is no fan service and the tanks are the stars of the show

Also, the two best girls are Katyusha and Saori
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Post by: chai tea latte on March 17, 2015, 02:52:45 pm
it's cute and fun
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Post by: crow on March 25, 2015, 01:48:05 am
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/030c71b866cf79f02b34ca2fc5870ef9/tumblr_ndhtowoqYZ1rxkjn9o1_400.jpg)
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Post by: Sovereign on March 25, 2015, 08:35:16 pm
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/030c71b866cf79f02b34ca2fc5870ef9/tumblr_ndhtowoqYZ1rxkjn9o1_400.jpg)
Smoking Crow, March 25, 2015, 01:48:05 am

They've clearly never watched Full Metal Alchemist.
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Post by: chai tea latte on March 28, 2015, 04:04:23 pm
I'm caught up on the currently-airing episodes of JJBA! Do I start reading the manga now or after this season finishes airing? i already know what dio's stand is
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Post by: crow on March 28, 2015, 05:02:40 pm
I'm caught up on the currently-airing episodes of JJBA! Do I start reading the manga now or after this season finishes airing? i already know what dio's stand is
chai tea latte, March 28, 2015, 04:04:23 pm

The manga is 8 trillion times better than the show so you should read it right now at this second
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on March 29, 2015, 06:54:57 pm
I'm watching Dragon Ball Z for the first time. (The experience is of course enriched by a moderate amount of intoxicants.) I'm having kind of a blast, it's so endearingly goofy.
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Post by: crow on March 29, 2015, 11:12:47 pm
I'm watching Dragon Ball Z for the first time. (The experience is of course enriched by a moderate amount of intoxicants.) I'm having kind of a blast, it's so endearingly goofy.
Cuddlesquid with a caramel center, March 29, 2015, 06:54:57 pm

Kai or the original
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Post by: chai tea latte on March 29, 2015, 11:32:22 pm
I'm caught up on the currently-airing episodes of JJBA! Do I start reading the manga now or after this season finishes airing? i already know what dio's stand is
chai tea latte, March 28, 2015, 04:04:23 pm

The manga is 8 trillion times better than the show so you should read it right now at this second
Smoking Crow, March 28, 2015, 05:02:40 pm
i've been watching the show with someone and don't have a ton of time right now to spend reading (esp. comics) but once i do which arc should i start? is it worth reading the stuff i've already seen or should i begin around where the show is?
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Post by: Bobalay on March 30, 2015, 12:57:54 am
I'm caught up on the currently-airing episodes of JJBA! Do I start reading the manga now or after this season finishes airing? i already know what dio's stand is
chai tea latte, March 28, 2015, 04:04:23 pm

The manga is 8 trillion times better than the show so you should read it right now at this second
Smoking Crow, March 28, 2015, 05:02:40 pm
i've been watching the show with someone and don't have a ton of time right now to spend reading (esp. comics) but once i do which arc should i start? is it worth reading the stuff i've already seen or should i begin around where the show is?
chai tea latte, March 29, 2015, 11:32:22 pm

All of it. Back to page one, volume one. Once you JJBA, you don't go halfway.
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on March 30, 2015, 01:01:54 am
I'm watching Dragon Ball Z for the first time. (The experience is of course enriched by a moderate amount of intoxicants.) I'm having kind of a blast, it's so endearingly goofy.
Cuddlesquid with a caramel center, March 29, 2015, 06:54:57 pm

Kai or the original
Smoking Crow, March 29, 2015, 11:12:47 pm
Hulu has the original so I've been watching it dubbed.
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on March 30, 2015, 01:21:24 am
It better be the original, if only for the episode where Goku and Piccolo learn to drive.
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Post by: crow on April 01, 2015, 12:21:40 am
(http://i.imgur.com/ovAdXuq.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/8OKWeU9.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/kl38Vtw.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/P9sjq1v.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/CoZNoTd.jpg)
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Post by: positive stress on April 01, 2015, 12:42:27 am
Oh my god what is this from
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Post by: crow on April 01, 2015, 12:57:20 am
Oh my god what is this from
fruithag, April 01, 2015, 12:42:27 am

Kamen Rider Drive
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Post by: positive stress on April 01, 2015, 03:26:57 am
Damn I should've known from the super cheesy monster costume. I haven't watched Kamen Rider since OOO, I tried to get into it but I had no idea which series to watch and from what I've heard it sounds like OOO was not the best
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Post by: crow on April 06, 2015, 08:39:32 pm
I was listening to Fuwa Fuwa Time again and I forgot that it has a breakdown
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Post by: crow on April 08, 2015, 04:48:52 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCAZ6b8WIAIwA6X.jpg)
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Post by: crow on April 21, 2015, 02:28:39 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/YKzvUNf.jpg)
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Post by: RedMinjo on April 29, 2015, 09:03:33 pm
naruto's kid's name is boruto
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Post by: crow on May 30, 2015, 08:18:51 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/5bo7KSr.jpg)
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Post by: positive stress on May 31, 2015, 03:06:36 am
naruto's kid's name is boruto
RedMinjo, April 29, 2015, 09:03:33 pm

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Post by: positive stress on May 31, 2015, 09:29:39 pm
After a long break from anime I am finally back into this bullshit, and damn it I am going to get my money's worth from this crunchyroll subscription that I haven't used in months. Here's what I've learned:
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Post by: chai tea latte on May 31, 2015, 09:52:54 pm
After a long break from anime I am finally back into this bullshit, and damn it I am going to get my money's worth from this crunchyroll subscription that I haven't used in months. Here's what I've learned:
  • Battle Tendency was fantastic, and Stardust Crusaders is looking great so far
  • I don't understand Gintama
  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? is okay but fanservice is grossing me out as always
  • Nisekoi has the most ludicrous premise of anything I've ever seen
  • Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is still the best
fruithag, May 31, 2015, 09:29:39 pm

i'm really hyped for where stardust crusaders is right now, it starts to pick up pace a bunch

e: I really liked Kill la Kill and Cowboy Bebop, am I going to like Revolutionary Girl Utena?
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Post by: Runic on June 01, 2015, 12:30:24 am
NEEEEEEERDS!!!
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Post by: crow on June 01, 2015, 02:19:35 am
After a long break from anime I am finally back into this bullshit, and damn it I am going to get my money's worth from this crunchyroll subscription that I haven't used in months. Here's what I've learned:
  • Battle Tendency was fantastic, and Stardust Crusaders is looking great so far
  • I don't understand Gintama
  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? is okay but fanservice is grossing me out as always
  • Nisekoi has the most ludicrous premise of anything I've ever seen
  • Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is still the best
fruithag, May 31, 2015, 09:29:39 pm

i'm really hyped for where stardust crusaders is right now, it starts to pick up pace a bunch

e: I really liked Kill la Kill and Cowboy Bebop, am I going to like Revolutionary Girl Utena?
chai tea latte, May 31, 2015, 09:52:54 pm

Utena isn't like either of them, it's like Evangelion but with girls.  It has a lot of Jungian theory and lots of lesbian overtones.  Utena is closer to a Japanese art film than to those two
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Post by: crow on June 01, 2015, 02:21:07 am
There's nothing to get about Gintama, it's the most dependable show in the game.  It's consistently one of the best shows out there and every part of it is funny and cool
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Post by: chai tea latte on June 01, 2015, 09:54:18 am
After a long break from anime I am finally back into this bullshit, and damn it I am going to get my money's worth from this crunchyroll subscription that I haven't used in months. Here's what I've learned:
  • Battle Tendency was fantastic, and Stardust Crusaders is looking great so far
  • I don't understand Gintama
  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? is okay but fanservice is grossing me out as always
  • Nisekoi has the most ludicrous premise of anything I've ever seen
  • Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is still the best
fruithag, May 31, 2015, 09:29:39 pm

i'm really hyped for where stardust crusaders is right now, it starts to pick up pace a bunch

e: I really liked Kill la Kill and Cowboy Bebop, am I going to like Revolutionary Girl Utena?
chai tea latte, May 31, 2015, 09:52:54 pm

Utena isn't like either of them, it's like Evangelion but with girls.  It has a lot of Jungian theory and lots of lesbian overtones.  Utena is closer to a Japanese art film than to those two
Smoking Crow, June 01, 2015, 02:19:35 am

sounds perfect, thanks! I also liked Evangelion.
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Post by: positive stress on June 01, 2015, 11:34:57 am
NEEEEEEERDS!!!
Runic, June 01, 2015, 12:30:24 am

Shit, we weren't quiet enough! They noticed we're talking about anime! Abandon thread!
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Post by: RedMinjo on June 01, 2015, 04:28:26 pm
Amagi Brilliant Park is like if Roller Coaster Tycoon had an anime plot. 
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Post by: crow on June 06, 2015, 10:31:53 pm
NEW TRAILER


GIRLS UND PANZER DER FILM!!!!!!  At least 3 new teams confirmed, one of which is France

Translation:
Narrator: Two years after the TV series' moving finale, your battle begins now!
Text: Two years after the moving finale
Text: That was guided by fate
Text: A story of recapturing
Text: Verlaine's "Chanson d'automne"
Voice: "Les sanglots longs / Des violons / De l'automne"
Text: Encrypted communications
Text: Operation commences
Text: The biggest tank battle ever!!
Voice: Flowers can bloom anywhere
Text: Senshadō
Text: Nishi-zumi-ryū
Text: Successor
Text: Collapse
Voice: Fate is fickle
Text: A new enemy
Text: An ally?
Text: The fateful battle
Narrator & Voice: Girls und Panzer der Film
Narrator & Voice: Take back…
Text: Advance tickets & MovieTicket cards with illustrated clear file folders now on sale at participating theaters! 13 kinds for 1,500 yen [about US$12] each
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Post by: Sherlockian on June 08, 2015, 11:23:13 am
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma combines the two worst impulses in anime-- ridiculously over the top "battles" involving things that aren't fighting (in this case, Iron Chef-style competitions at a weirdly competitive chef school), and really weird cheesecake fanservice (people eat amazing food, and then get a fantasy shot where their clothes are ripped off to show how deliciously orgasmic it is).

It's awful. I like awful television.
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Post by: positive stress on June 09, 2015, 12:12:34 pm
Finished season 1 of Stardust Crusaders and I have to say I'm kind of disappointed with it. Not that I didn't like it but I was expecting a lot more after how great Battle Tendency was. Granted it's only the first season but there's barely any focus on Jotaro himself, from what little I've seen of him he seems like a pretty boring character. It feels like at least half the episodes are completely focused on Polnareff which is weird. Plus the "one villain per episode" structure is a little repetitive and means none of their enemies are really developed as characters like Wamuu and Kars were. Hopefully season 2 is better because everyone says Stardust Crusaders is where JoJo gets really good and it feels pretty weak to me.
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Post by: chai tea latte on June 09, 2015, 12:40:30 pm
Finished season 1 of Stardust Crusaders and I have to say I'm kind of disappointed with it. Not that I didn't like it but I was expecting a lot more after how great Battle Tendency was. Granted it's only the first season but there's barely any focus on Jotaro himself, from what little I've seen of him he seems like a pretty boring character. It feels like at least half the episodes are completely focused on Polnareff which is weird. Plus the "one villain per episode" structure is a little repetitive and means none of their enemies are really developed as characters like Wamuu and Kars were. Hopefully season 2 is better because everyone says Stardust Crusaders is where JoJo gets really good and it feels pretty weak to me.
fruithag, June 09, 2015, 12:12:34 pm

season two is wayyyy better and will resolve your issues
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Post by: crow on June 14, 2015, 08:24:48 pm
A list of everything Guts has ever killed

http://skullknight.net/roster/
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on June 15, 2015, 03:26:59 am
Speaking of which, my dad got into Berserk in a big way this weekend when I introduced it to him. It's kind of funny watching a 50 year old man read manga.
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Post by: positive stress on June 29, 2015, 04:26:12 pm
Finished Stardust Crusaders, season 2 was definitely better than season 1. I still thought it focused on Polnareff too much, I always felt like he was the least interesting character in the group and I wish they'd given some more time to the rest of the characters. Jotaro was just hanging out in the background half the time but damn those last two episodes were great. I kind of wanted more from it but oh well it was still really good. The bar was just set really high from the last part. Anyway when the hell is the next JoJo getting adapted, what am I supposed to do with my life now that the anime is gone?

eta: oops I didn't realize the Stardust Crusaders anime just ended last week, I didn't even know that it was still ongoing as I was watching it. Well then I guess I'll just be patient
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 03, 2015, 03:55:10 pm
is Madoka as good as people tell me it is or are they are overhyping it, tia

really liking Utena so far!
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Post by: A Meat on July 03, 2015, 04:40:09 pm
I really liked it, but I watched it while I was still a teenager when it came out, and also I seem to oddly gravitate towards anime about young teens getting into strange/horrible situations that force them to grow up or change one way or another. so I might be a bad judge of what's good in that genre.

The soundtrack is actually surprisingly good, for a change as well.

Give the first few episodes a chance and see if you like the direction it takes.

Hope you don't mind everyone having oddly shaped pentagon heads.
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 03, 2015, 05:33:18 pm
Yeah, i'm gonna watch a few episodes before i form any real opinions. I like coming-of-age stuff so that's exciting to me but it prob. depends on whether or not there's, like, tortured friendship and growth (i think i ought to be fine)
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Post by: crow on July 03, 2015, 07:10:17 pm
is Madoka as good as people tell me it is or are they are overhyping it, tia

really liking Utena so far!
chai tea latte, July 03, 2015, 03:55:10 pm

It's better if you don't know what it is going into it.  Do you like Urobuchi's other works?  Your enjoyment of Madoka is directly tied up with that
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 03, 2015, 07:31:18 pm
is Madoka as good as people tell me it is or are they are overhyping it, tia

really liking Utena so far!
chai tea latte, July 03, 2015, 03:55:10 pm

It's better if you don't know what it is going into it.  Do you like Urobuchi's other works?  Your enjoyment of Madoka is directly tied up with that
Smoking Crow, July 03, 2015, 07:10:17 pm
I liked Psycho-Pass! i know that madoka is a magical girl anime and roughly the shape of the twist but everyone's been very kind in that regard

e: also i am on the second episode
e2: fourth episode, enjoying this so far! speaking of fours diamond is unbreakable, woah :swoon:
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Post by: crow on July 03, 2015, 07:52:50 pm
is Madoka as good as people tell me it is or are they are overhyping it, tia

really liking Utena so far!
chai tea latte, July 03, 2015, 03:55:10 pm

It's better if you don't know what it is going into it.  Do you like Urobuchi's other works?  Your enjoyment of Madoka is directly tied up with that
Smoking Crow, July 03, 2015, 07:10:17 pm
I liked Psycho-Pass! i know that madoka is a magical girl anime and roughly the shape of the twist but everyone's been very kind in that regard

e: also i am on the second episode
chai tea latte, July 03, 2015, 07:31:18 pm

I think you'll probably like it.  The people who really like it are the ones who thought it was going to be a vanilla magical girl show
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Post by: Geremy Tibbles on July 03, 2015, 08:25:34 pm
Was anyone else disappointed with the DIO fight at the end of Stardust Crusaders Season 2?

I'd honestly suggest watching the OVA fight, because it's flow is considerably better.  That and I love the OVA version of DIO way more.
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Post by: positive stress on July 03, 2015, 08:42:51 pm
I haven't seen the OVA so I can't compare but that fight was by far my favorite part of Stardust Crusaders
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Post by: Turtle on July 03, 2015, 09:31:29 pm
Hope you don't mind everyone having oddly shaped pentagon heads.
A Meat, July 03, 2015, 04:40:09 pm
Don't you talk shit about wide.
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Post by: cyclopeantrash on July 03, 2015, 09:51:23 pm
Okay, so I went and bought some weeb figures while I was on vacation, and I am at a loss because I have no fucking clue how to pose toys. Is there a secret discipline to this that I am missing? Or is my imagination just dead?
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on July 04, 2015, 11:23:51 am
is Madoka as good as people tell me it is or are they are overhyping it, tia

really liking Utena so far!
chai tea latte, July 03, 2015, 03:55:10 pm
Madoka's pretty good, as long as you go in not knowing all the twists, and don't mind the fact that it gets a little evangelion-esque near the end
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Post by: positive stress on July 06, 2015, 03:32:55 pm

A compilation of all the best moments from Stardust Crusaders
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Post by: A Meat on July 06, 2015, 04:11:48 pm
Usually not someone to recommend something before I've watched all of it, but I'm super enjoying Dennou Coil so far. I'm like halfway through, and it's making me want to play Megaman Battle Network again real bad.

I guess I just have a soft spot for preteens solving crimes in cyperspace.
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Post by: Turtle on July 06, 2015, 07:58:12 pm
If you're halfway through Dennou Coil and super enjoying it, make sure to check in once you're finished with it. I watched it a few years ago with a friend and something I respect about Dennou Coil is that it doesn't just spin its wheels - it goes places.
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Post by: A Meat on July 16, 2015, 06:17:56 pm
I really really enjoyed Dennou Coil. Once the actual story kicked in the scope got much narrower, but the last episode was really moving and all the subtle thematic touches got wrapped up super nicely, perhaps a bit too neatly for my liking, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would, especially since it seemed to me like a weird mix of Megaman Battle Network/Star Force, Persona and SMT: Soul Hackers at first.

Go watch Dennou Coil everybody, it's a good bildungsroman inside of a fun and interesting wrapper. And I kind of liked the message of being able to connect with others only after you connect with yourself and your emotions that is increasingly hammered in throughout the show.

Didn't quite get why Tamako was just Hitomi/Nemissa from Soul Hackers design-wise though.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on July 20, 2015, 08:56:40 pm
welp, three episodes deep into JoJo right now.
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Post by: crow on July 21, 2015, 04:31:22 pm
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Post by: positive stress on July 24, 2015, 04:39:07 pm
I've been watching more One Piece lately and I think the bad taste the 4Kids dub left in my mouth as a kid is finally gone and I can see what's great about it. It's a big wild adventure with action and friendship and mouth swords!! I'm really starting to love it now. I think the thing that made me realize how much the 4Kids version gave me the wrong impression of it was the opening. The 4Kids opening for anyone who has never seen it was a shitty rap that I guess was trying to make the show look cooler to the hip early 2000s Toonami viewers? It's garbage. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSe8D2wfGKI) I saw that shit and basically expected Dragon Ball Z with pirates, and was very let down. Compared to the original opening which is a lot more representative of the actual tone of the series. It's fucking great. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mgdyZQ_wzA)

There are hundreds and hundreds of episodes of this and I've gotten through 36 so I've got a hell of a task ahead of me but I'm loving it. Thank god for Crunchyroll (which I just found out has an HD version of One Piece which is grouped separately from the rest of the episodes and here I've been watching it in 480p like a fucking chump lmao). The story of Nami's past made me cry a little which is kind of a shame because I would've loved to be able to end my life saying I never cried at an anime but whatever
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Post by: A Meat on July 24, 2015, 04:56:36 pm
I've been watching more One Piece lately and I think the bad taste the 4Kids dub left in my mouth as a kid is finally gone and I can see what's great about it. It's a big wild adventure with action and friendship and mouth swords!! I'm really starting to love it now. I think the thing that made me realize how much the 4Kids version gave me the wrong impression of it was the opening. The 4Kids opening for anyone who has never seen it was a shitty rap that I guess was trying to make the show look cooler to the hip early 2000s Toonami viewers? It's garbage. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSe8D2wfGKI) I saw that shit and basically expected Dragon Ball Z with pirates, and was very let down. Compared to the original opening which is a lot more representative of the actual tone of the series. It's fucking great. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mgdyZQ_wzA)

There are hundreds and hundreds of episodes of this and I've gotten through 36 so I've got a hell of a task ahead of me but I'm loving it. Thank god for Crunchyroll (which I just found out has an HD version of One Piece which is grouped separately from the rest of the episodes and here I've been watching it in 480p like a fucking chump lmao). The story of Nami's past made me cry a little which is kind of a shame because I would've loved to be able to end my life saying I never cried at an anime but whatever
fruithag, July 24, 2015, 04:39:07 pm

Welcome to the pirate shenanigans club, I hope you're ready experience a huge adventure with pretty rad characters and if you're at any point sick of the anime, just switch over to the manga, it has significantly less padding and goes down quicker.

And remember that you're nowhere yet, I hope you're ready to tear up again about stupid anime bullshit again fairly soon.

By the way, consider that the quality of anime is kind of inconsistent and some parts have a bunch of filler much later on. But that might be around a hundred a fifty episodes down the line if I remember correctly. Also skip all the goddamn movies basically.

Report back once in a while and talk about your feelings about One Piece, I kind of love hearing about people experiencing something like One Piece or Jojo for the first time, I will never get enough of people experiencing part 7 of Jojo for the first time, and some One Piece arcs are incredible as well.
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Post by: crow on July 24, 2015, 06:25:28 pm
The animation of the One Piece anime is bad.  Plus, the characters look like shit in color
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Post by: NutshellGulag on July 24, 2015, 07:34:44 pm
I was going to post this in the "what are you listening to right now" thread, but I think it belongs here more.

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Post by: positive stress on July 24, 2015, 09:13:08 pm
The animation of the One Piece anime is bad.  Plus, the characters look like shit in color
Smoking Crow, July 24, 2015, 06:25:28 pm

You think so? Zoro's hair color looks a little weird but that's the only thing I've noticed. Granted I've never read the manga so I don't know how it would look otherwise. I like the animation a lot personally
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Post by: crow on July 24, 2015, 11:26:13 pm
The animation of the One Piece anime is bad.  Plus, the characters look like shit in color
Smoking Crow, July 24, 2015, 06:25:28 pm

You think so? Zoro's hair color looks a little weird but that's the only thing I've noticed. Granted I've never read the manga so I don't know how it would look otherwise. I like the animation a lot personally
fruithag, July 24, 2015, 09:13:08 pm

The colors are garish and ugly, One Piece should be black and white

oen-peice.tumblr.com/
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Post by: crow on July 31, 2015, 11:26:26 pm
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Post by: NutshellGulag on August 01, 2015, 04:55:04 pm
I'm old. Have some old.

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Post by: FartRomancer.exe on August 09, 2015, 10:49:08 pm
I've been watching the new season of Non Non Biyori and Himouto. I'm thinking of watching the JItsu Wa Watashi Wa anime because I like the manga, but I hear it doesn't hold up. Which is a shame because the manga is pretty great.
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Post by: CormansInferno on August 11, 2015, 02:05:40 am
I've been watching the new season of Non Non Biyori and Himouto. I'm thinking of watching the JItsu Wa Watashi Wa anime because I like the manga, but I hear it doesn't hold up. Which is a shame because the manga is pretty great.
FartRomancer.exe, August 09, 2015, 10:49:08 pm

The Jitsu Wa anime is really disappointing. You'd think a goofy but reliably fun high-concept romcom wouldn't be that hard to adapt, but it fails mostly because it seems to have been made for $5 and a ham sandwich (and apparently not a good ham sandwich either). The presales of the first Blu-Ray in Japan were a record-farting 12 copies.
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Post by: Baldr on August 15, 2015, 12:07:19 am
I just finished season one of Psycho-Pass and it was great.  Apparently there's a second season, but I read a few reports of people who thought it was bad.  Should I continue or stop now?

I'm asking because I really wish someone had told me to stop watching Sword Art Online when the first arc ended at episode twelve, before it got all creepy-gross.
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Post by: crow on August 15, 2015, 12:14:18 am
You shouldn't have watched SAO at all, it's horrendous
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Post by: Positronic on August 15, 2015, 08:44:43 am
I stopped about five episodes through Psycho-Pass 2, so I wouldn't recommend it. It was mostly filler to tide the fans over before the movie came out, and Urobuchi was more involved with the movie. The opening theme is pretty awesome, though!
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Post by: positive stress on August 16, 2015, 08:08:41 pm
God help me I can't stop watching Nisekoi. Why do I like this bullshit garbage. This is like Toradora but worse. Except Toradora sucked and this doesn't. No, it does. This sucks. But I love it. What have I become? I'm disgusting, kill me. I'm choking on all of these flowers and sparkles and dokidokis. I can't breathe. Help me.
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Post by: RedMinjo on August 17, 2015, 06:58:56 am
God help me I can't stop watching Nisekoi. Why do I like this bullshit garbage. This is like Toradora but worse. Except Toradora sucked and this doesn't. No, it does. This sucks. But I love it. What have I become? I'm disgusting, kill me. I'm choking on all of these flowers and sparkles and dokidokis. I can't breathe. Help me.
fruithag, August 16, 2015, 08:08:41 pm

Toradora was fine.  Also, Nisekoi good.
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Post by: positive stress on August 17, 2015, 11:38:52 am
I liked the first half of Toradora but the second half was pretty meh imo
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Post by: positive stress on August 17, 2015, 10:29:48 pm
I started writing a post about Nisekoi but it was just getting longer and longer, and the last thing this forum needs is a massive wall of text about a harem anime. So instead I put it on tumblr (http://nerdcraps.tumblr.com/post/126964689431/im-sorry), because what's one more drop in the massive-wall-of-text-about-a-harem-anime bucket that is tumblr.com? Read at your own peril. Spoilers: I gave a 9/10 to this bullshit

(https://littlecloudcuriosity.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/nisekoi-episode-9-10.jpg)

eta: I just finished season 2 and it's now hitting me that this is one of my favorite series ever, please send help
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Post by: crow on September 02, 2015, 07:09:05 pm
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Post by: positive stress on September 02, 2015, 09:18:14 pm
ANIME IS...

12 YEAR OLD GIRLS

PANTY SHOTS

BEACH EPISODES

STRAIGHT FROM JAPAN, TOTAL BULLSHIT, NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
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Post by: crow on September 03, 2015, 01:19:58 pm
ANIME IS...

12 YEAR OLD GIRLS

PANTY SHOTS

BEACH EPISODES

STRAIGHT FROM JAPAN, TOTAL BULLSHIT, NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
fruithag, September 02, 2015, 09:18:14 pm

(https://unpickled.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/supportive-normie.png?w=900)
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Post by: positive stress on September 04, 2015, 07:14:47 pm
Here's some rapid fire anime thoughts

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Post by: Turtle on September 05, 2015, 08:18:36 pm
I'm only three episodes into Uchuu Kyodai but I can already tell it's only a matter of time before this show makes me cry
fruithag, September 04, 2015, 07:14:47 pm
Friend of mine watched it when it was airing and was really enjoying it up to the point where the show had 99 episodes and did not necessitate 99 episodes.
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Post by: cyclopeantrash on September 05, 2015, 10:18:29 pm
Here's some rapid fire anime thoughts
  • I love Yuru Yuri way too much (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVjyCacsTL0)
fruithag, September 04, 2015, 07:14:47 pm

Impossible.
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Post by: Nosam0819 on September 14, 2015, 09:10:28 pm
Just recently watched afro samurai, and terror in resonance. good ass shows.
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Post by: Eonwe on September 14, 2015, 09:37:00 pm
In the last couple months I've watched about 120 episodes of Gintama. The main character is basically the prototypical nerd down to being a jobless diabetic loser who is really into swords. Also it has a lot of parodies of anime, so that owns.
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Post by: Sion on September 19, 2015, 10:11:08 am
Smoking Crow, July 31, 2015, 11:26:26 pm

Oh shit, I love me some Gatchaman. Rui is the best.
I've been getting into JoJo a lot recently, I'm on Part 7.
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Post by: positive stress on October 23, 2015, 09:34:07 pm

When animated tattoos are a thing I'm getting Kyoko turning into a duck on my bicep
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Post by: RedMinjo on December 12, 2015, 03:50:34 am
Jitsu wa Watashi wa or Actually I Am is a romcom manga that actually moves forward, and I love it for that.  The anime for it was pretty nice too, though it didn't quite make it to a part that I would consider moving forward, or even introducing all the characters.

Other than that I've mostly been watching Lupin the Third, and man is that show really fun.  Capers everywhere.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on December 28, 2015, 10:17:59 am
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Post by: chai tea latte on December 28, 2015, 03:01:45 pm

AgentCoop, December 28, 2015, 10:17:59 am
GET HYPED
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Post by: A Meat on December 28, 2015, 03:15:02 pm

AgentCoop, December 28, 2015, 10:17:59 am
GET HYPED
chai tea latte, December 28, 2015, 03:01:45 pm
If  the whole season is like the teaser, then I'll be really glad. I'm loving the musical direction and colors so far.
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Post by: Nifty Nif on December 29, 2015, 09:29:39 am
I finally watched Madoka Magica: Rebellion.  I'm still crying.  I think the tears started as soon as I saw the quintet and they just never stopped.
We had to watch Redline as a palate cleanser afterwards.  The opening scene is so intense and overwhelming that I was still crying.  I can't explain this.
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Post by: Kaleidoscope on January 06, 2016, 02:36:58 pm
I finished watching the anime Kaiba. It doesn't have a dub but I didn't mind reading the subtitles. The anime is really trippy but I enjoyed it. It's beautiful and surreal.
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Post by: Nifty Nif on January 08, 2016, 12:07:00 pm
I might have to learn Japanese before I re-watch Tatami Galaxy.  It moves so quickly that you can't read the subtitles and watch the gorgeous animation at the same time (I don't believe there's a dub).  It's beautiful, trippy, and heartbreaking.  Very highly recommended.

Tangentially, I'm going to my first anime convention of the year next weekend and I am SO EXCITED.
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Post by: A Meat on January 08, 2016, 01:38:25 pm
I made my ten year old sister watch Little Witch Academia.

She liked it because it's good. If you haven't watched it yet, you really should.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on January 10, 2016, 03:07:16 pm
Cross-posting to super infinity

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Post by: positive stress on January 11, 2016, 08:58:44 pm
Me last year:

I don't understand Gintamafruithag, May 31, 2015, 09:29:39 pm

Me now:

Oh, Gintama is actually the greatest thing ever
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Post by: Laocius on January 25, 2016, 11:22:15 pm
I haven't really been much of an anime-watcher since I was in high school, but one of my friends finally convinced me to start watching One Punch Man recently. I think it might be the first anime I've ever laughed at for the reasons that it wanted me to. It's free on Hulu, and I would recommend taking advantage of that.
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Post by: positive stress on January 26, 2016, 10:33:58 pm
My plan-to-watch on MyAnimeList has been getting longer and longer so I just picked a series at random, Love Lab, and started watching it. I'm surprised this only has a 7.5/10 on MAL, I'm on the second to last episode and I'd probably give it at least a 9. It's about the student council at an all-girls school who are secretly studying how to get boyfriends. It's funny as hell, smooth animation, great characters, highly recommended. It's weirdly hard to find good videos of it on Youtube, here's the best one I can find

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Post by: Knitting Machine on January 30, 2016, 12:37:20 am
I found a source to get all of the Detective Conan/Case Closed movies and episodes so I'm pretty much set for life.

I love this stupid show so much.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on January 31, 2016, 02:16:32 pm
I've been on a pretty big gundam rewatch kick after I saw the first episode of Thunderbolt, and this franchise has a lot to offer, let me tell you. I've been watching the original series (rad), 8th MS Team (rad), and Unicorn (rad). As someone who's previous exposure to gundam has pretty much only been Gundam Wing (rad? It's been about ten years since I saw it), I am enjoying this a lot.
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Post by: DaltonSezHi on February 01, 2016, 10:18:31 pm
Why does no one anywhere ever talk about Kokoro Connect? Anyone else here seen it?
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Post by: positive stress on February 13, 2016, 03:12:38 pm
Terrible news: Nichijou has joined One Piece and YuruYuri on the list of anime that has made me cry
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Post by: Knitting Machine on February 16, 2016, 09:26:23 pm
Update: After watching fifteen Detective Conan movies I can no longer tell what is real anymore.
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on February 16, 2016, 11:37:34 pm
Update: After watching fifteen Detective Conan movies I can no longer tell what is real anymore.
Knitting Machine, February 16, 2016, 09:26:23 pm

One truth prevails.
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Post by: positive stress on February 17, 2016, 01:41:15 am
Why does no one anywhere ever talk about Kokoro Connect? Anyone else here seen it?
DaltonSezHi, February 01, 2016, 10:18:31 pm

I started watching it the other night and now I'm ten episodes in. This is some good teen angst shit, it's like everything I wanted Oregairu to be and more. Still have a few episodes to go but this is feeling like at least an 8.5 if not a 9
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on February 17, 2016, 08:26:50 pm
I see nobody's mentioned S E K K O B O Y S in this thread, so it's time I fixed that.


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Post by: speedbath on February 20, 2016, 12:31:43 am
Has anyone seen Evengelion 3:33 You Can (Not) Redo?

WTF? Pretty much abandoned the original story line and went off the rails.
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on February 20, 2016, 01:45:30 am
Has anyone seen Evengelion 3:33 You Can (Not) Redo?

WTF? Pretty much abandoned the original story line and went off the rails.
speedbath, February 20, 2016, 12:31:43 am

I mean, that should have been expected from Anno.
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Post by: speedbath on February 20, 2016, 02:26:16 am
Has anyone seen Evengelion 3:33 You Can (Not) Redo?

WTF? Pretty much abandoned the original story line and went off the rails.
speedbath, February 20, 2016, 12:31:43 am

I mean, that should have been expected from Anno.
FattyBoBatty, February 20, 2016, 01:45:30 am

I feel like it's somehow my fault now.
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Post by: Turtle on February 20, 2016, 07:43:10 am
Why does no one anywhere ever talk about Kokoro Connect? Anyone else here seen it?
DaltonSezHi, February 01, 2016, 10:18:31 pm
Partially because there was a major production scandal around it and a lot of people boycotted it. It ruined the studio's sales for a little while until they started churning out Prisma Ilya.

In summary, they ran a promotion where you could audition to voice an original character in the show. They selected on an aspiring voice actor that wasn't very good, recorded his performance, then had an event where they brought him on stage before a large audience and a few members of the staff where they then showed his performance and made fun of him. People were not happy about this "prank", ratings plummeted, the original production schedule got completely fucked (the last arc of the series wasn't released until the blu-rays came out) and sales for the studio took a major hit for a number of seasons.
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Post by: positive stress on February 27, 2016, 12:32:59 am
Yuyushiki is stupid as hell but it feels like such a calculated stupidity, like it's got stupidity down to a perfect science. It's such a weird show, I don't think there's anything particularly amazing about it but I can't stop watching. It's not my favorite series but I think it's definitely worth watching, even if I can't explain why I think so. There's something of value here, I just know it.

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Post by: Gyro on February 27, 2016, 01:22:45 am
I'm now watching Samurai Champloo and this the most relaxing and pleasant vibe I have ever gotten from something full of sword murders.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on March 09, 2016, 11:08:33 am
Is the Zeta Gundam theme song the best pre-bebop opening ever? My vote says yes
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Post by: cyclopeantrash on March 10, 2016, 08:34:41 pm
Holy hell Gate is awful.
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Post by: positive stress on March 13, 2016, 02:31:59 pm
The Diamond Is Unbreakable anime starts airing on April 1st! GET HYPE

I'm going to hold a JoJo pose for the next 18 days. Sorry, work
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on March 13, 2016, 02:36:03 pm
^I'm finally getting around to watching Stardust Crusaders now. I waited forever since I didn't want to put up with the TV censoring, then I sort of forgot to check if the blu-rays were out. But so far, the beginning episodes are worse than the first two arcs but the episode with Forever and his boat totally redeems it.
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Post by: Truthless on March 13, 2016, 03:15:06 pm
My favorite Animoo is Legend of the Galactic Heroes.  The general outline: Prussian SPACE monarchy versus SPACE democracy.  Young admiral Reinhard von Lohengram and brilliant but lazy strategist Yang Wenli battle to see whose ideology will stand the test of time.  Main show lasts 110 episodes full of political philosophy, occasional battles, and too many awesome characters to remember.  Their names will helpfully appear if they haven't ever been on screen for three consecutive episodes, spent some time off-camera, or just when the producers felt like putting it there.  Even minor character who never show up again have a name, but you REALLY need to keep an eye on anyone whose middle name shows up.  One reason to watch this show is the music design, which was micro-managed to line up perfectly with the action.  This wasn't sound-engineered, it was choreographed.

Aside from the main show, there are two movies (one which does not exist in the same continuity, another which was released prior to and explains the events leading up to episode 1 of the show), two ~30-episode side-series, and a musical.

Originally, the episodes were funded by fans of the novels, who would get a VHS with an episode on it each time they had the money to produce them.  The show enjoyed enough popularity in Japan that it was released on Blu-Ray when the format was not yet standard, and so such re-releases for older series unusual.  The books are finally coming out in English (first one came out last Tuesday), and while the show has been licensed in France for years, only now is it being brought to the United States.  Fortunately, for those of us who do not understand moonspeak or French, there's a great fansub project which was finally completed in 2011 after over half a decade's hard labor.

There's a reboot in the works, set to come out in Q1 or 2 of 2017.  No news aside from a small site (http://gineiden-anime.com)launched about a year and a half ago, but we're all holding our breath, hoping it's at least half as good as the original.

If you're ready to lay your heart down upon the sea of the stars:

It's hard to get clips without spoiling things, but then again the narrator does that very well without my help.
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Post by: positive stress on March 13, 2016, 08:07:21 pm
^I'm finally getting around to watching Stardust Crusaders now. I waited forever since I didn't want to put up with the TV censoring, then I sort of forgot to check if the blu-rays were out. But so far, the beginning episodes are worse than the first two arcs but the episode with Forever and his boat totally redeems it.
Spooks, March 13, 2016, 02:36:03 pm

I didn't love Stardust Crusaders initially because the bar was set SO high but looking back on it there are some really great moments. The last couple episodes are fucking amazing
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on March 13, 2016, 10:52:08 pm
Stardust starts off rough because Araki was figuring out how to work with stands and experimenting with the battle-a-week format, but gets way better as it goes. Diamond is Unbreakable is great from the get-go since there's no experimental phase, and since there's no grand adventure they can do more stuff like the Italian Restaurant, gaming the lottery, gambling with an alien, meet a famous writer and play rock paper scissors
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Post by: memorylikeasieve on March 19, 2016, 06:16:14 pm
Has anyone seen Evengelion 3:33 You Can (Not) Redo?

WTF? Pretty much abandoned the original story line and went off the rails.
speedbath, February 20, 2016, 12:31:43 am

I mean, that should have been expected from Anno.
FattyBoBatty, February 20, 2016, 01:45:30 am

I feel like it's somehow my fault now.
speedbath, February 20, 2016, 02:26:16 am

Insert obligatory joke about Shinji and self-blame here.

Personally, I tried rewatching the original and I vastly prefer the rebuild, but that could be because I hate Asuka with the passion of a million burning suns and the rebuild has so much less of her.  Mercifully so.  True, the plot's going wild, and it leaves me wondering just what they're going to /do/ with the Human Instrumentality Project, but I still prefer it.
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Post by: A Meat on March 20, 2016, 07:26:16 am
There might be good anime this coming season!

Besides JoJo which is going to own, theres going to be a Sakamoto-san anime adaptation and a Phoenix Wright anime, both of which I hope are as good as the original material. And some new slice-of-life comedy stuff for people who like that I guess.

I should probably finish the Egypt arc of JoJo part 3, since at some point I got sick of waiting for it to come out week to week and then promptly forgot about watching the rest of it
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Post by: positive stress on April 01, 2016, 10:10:47 pm
Diamond Is Unbreakable!!! This looks like it's going to be so good. Especially can't wait for next week to see the OP if it's as good as the first four. The colors are even more of an eyesore than usual for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure but that's good. Literally the only thing I don't like about it so far is the weird way their noses are drawn. I'm sure I'll get used to that though, like I got used to looking at these grotesque hulking men drawn in all the colors of the rainbow.
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Post by: A Meat on April 02, 2016, 02:06:40 am
Hype for JoJo part 4 is real! I love the colors and I hope the OP and ED are as good as the previous ones.
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Post by: positive stress on April 09, 2016, 09:18:52 pm
I've been really impressed with the Ace Attorney anime so far! I wasn't expecting much but it looks like they did a great job adapting it. The VAs fit the characters really well (I'm especially a fan of the VA for Maya Fey), the pacing is arguably better than the game's, and everything is right where it should be. They even translated "miso ramen" as "hamburgers" in the subtitles. Nice job guys.

This was a pretty great choice to adapt into an anime, it's all the fun of playing the games minus the horrible backtracking that makes the games kind of miserable to play sometimes! I hope they adapt the rest of the series, I fucking love Ace Attorney.

(Also Diamond Is Unbreakable is グレート)
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on April 10, 2016, 08:23:18 am
My favorite Animoo is Legend of the Galactic Heroes.  The general outline: Prussian SPACE monarchy versus SPACE democracy.  Young admiral Reinhard von Lohengram and brilliant but lazy strategist Yang Wenli battle to see whose ideology will stand the test of time.  Main show lasts 110 episodes full of political philosophy, occasional battles, and too many awesome characters to remember.  Their names will helpfully appear if they haven't ever been on screen for three consecutive episodes, spent some time off-camera, or just when the producers felt like putting it there.  Even minor character who never show up again have a name, but you REALLY need to keep an eye on anyone whose middle name shows up.  One reason to watch this show is the music design, which was micro-managed to line up perfectly with the action.  This wasn't sound-engineered, it was choreographed.

Aside from the main show, there are two movies (one which does not exist in the same continuity, another which was released prior to and explains the events leading up to episode 1 of the show), two ~30-episode side-series, and a musical.

Originally, the episodes were funded by fans of the novels, who would get a VHS with an episode on it each time they had the money to produce them.  The show enjoyed enough popularity in Japan that it was released on Blu-Ray when the format was not yet standard, and so such re-releases for older series unusual.  The books are finally coming out in English (first one came out last Tuesday), and while the show has been licensed in France for years, only now is it being brought to the United States.  Fortunately, for those of us who do not understand moonspeak or French, there's a great fansub project which was finally completed in 2011 after over half a decade's hard labor.

There's a reboot in the works, set to come out in Q1 or 2 of 2017.  No news aside from a small site (http://gineiden-anime.com)launched about a year and a half ago, but we're all holding our breath, hoping it's at least half as good as the original.

If you're ready to lay your heart down upon the sea of the stars:

It's hard to get clips without spoiling things, but then again the narrator does that very well without my help.
Truthless, March 13, 2016, 03:15:06 pm
This has been next on my plate for a while now, but I'm trying to finish Armored Trooper VOTOMS before I dive in.


Also, I buy too many gundam models
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Post by: A Meat on April 10, 2016, 09:57:54 am
I should probably finish LoGH, I think I'm somewhere around episode 90 or so, but I don't really remember, but it's a huge recommend.

JJBA part 4 anime is incredible so far. The OP is pretty good and the ED is pretty good as well, having some small nods to people who know what's going to happen.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on April 19, 2016, 07:21:56 pm
Maybe you've felt a stirring in the air. Maybe it's a taste slowly making its way into your mouth, halfway between the crispest of malt liquors and the finest of spring waters. Maybe it's a brighter longer sunset gracing the horizon. Maybe you've seen an old friend after years of time spent apart, and instantly rembered why you were friends in the first place. Maybe the rainwater has poured with gusto upon your crop, or your skin, if you're the type of person who enjoys walking in a rainstorm. Maybe your candles are burning brighter, longer, or warmer. Maybe you've finally moved past candles onto a more efficient form of lighting and warmth. Maybe your pet seems happier every morning when you wake up to check on them. Maybe they've just stopped defecating inside the house. Maybe your sports team of choice has been on a winning streak. Maybe you've recently rediscovered how comfortable just listening to old episodes of Car Talk can be.

But why?

Why?

why?


I HAVE YOUR ANSWER

Also, episode two of JoJo was nice and fresh
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Post by: A Meat on April 23, 2016, 07:47:47 am
Episode 4 of JJBA part 4 is incredibly important, it has one of the best stands in Jojo it's the egg
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on April 23, 2016, 05:45:44 pm
Episode 4 of JJBA part 4 is incredibly important, it has one of the best stands in Jojo it's the egg
A Meat, April 23, 2016, 07:47:47 am

S-H-I-T we ain't seen nothing until we get to Act 3 biiiiiiitch
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Post by: positive stress on April 23, 2016, 08:53:54 pm
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Post by: Turtle on April 23, 2016, 09:41:14 pm
  • I'm rewatching Love Lab and I don't get why nobody loves this show like I do
fruithag, April 23, 2016, 08:53:54 pm
The stated goal of the cast of Love Lab is for the girls to find boyfriends. That is, for a large part of the audience of such shows, fucking unacceptable.
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on April 26, 2016, 01:57:12 pm
I'm all caught up with JoJo, yes!

I watched an episode of the new Sailor Moon, since I've been watching some of the old episodes on and off. Blegh. I feel like I could write a 2000 word review of the art style and why it totally sucks compared to the old anime. Someone point me to cartoonbrew, I'm ready to start earnin' the fat stacks with my opinions on cartoon pretty soldier girls.
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Post by: A Meat on April 26, 2016, 02:43:52 pm
I'm all caught up with JoJo, yes!

I watched an episode of the new Sailor Moon, since I've been watching some of the old episodes on and off. Blegh. I feel like I could write a 2000 word review of the art style and why it totally sucks compared to the old anime. Someone point me to cartoonbrew, I'm ready to start earnin' the fat stacks with my opinions on cartoon pretty soldier girls.
Spooks, April 26, 2016, 01:57:12 pm
I think you mean
(http://i.imgur.com/y4YsmDhl.jpg)
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Post by: positive stress on April 26, 2016, 03:11:49 pm
I'm all caught up with JoJo, yes!

I watched an episode of the new Sailor Moon, since I've been watching some of the old episodes on and off. Blegh. I feel like I could write a 2000 word review of the art style and why it totally sucks compared to the old anime. Someone point me to cartoonbrew, I'm ready to start earnin' the fat stacks with my opinions on cartoon pretty soldier girls.
Spooks, April 26, 2016, 01:57:12 pm
I think you mean
(http://i.imgur.com/y4YsmDhl.jpg)
A Meat, April 26, 2016, 02:43:52 pm

(Joseph Joestar voice) oh my gah
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Post by: positive stress on April 27, 2016, 05:57:23 pm
Anyone who's into slice-of-life/comedy type stuff should check out Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge, I'm liking it a lot so far. It's only on the third episode right now, get it while it's hot!
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on April 27, 2016, 09:42:57 pm
Starting Legend Of Galactic Hero's, digging how much it puts the opera in space opera
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Post by: A Meat on April 28, 2016, 01:33:21 am
Starting Legend Of Galactic Hero's, digging how much it puts the opera in space opera
AgentCoop, April 27, 2016, 09:42:57 pm
Whoever scored the series did a pretty good job with picking classical music to fit certain scenes
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Post by: CormansInferno on May 12, 2016, 09:35:50 pm
Early aughts anime trash rejoice!

FLCL
Created in 2000, FLCL told the tale of Naota, a 12-year-old boy who met a woman that would forever change his life…whether he liked it or not. Sixteen years later, Adult Swim and legendary animation studio Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell) are creating two new six-episode seasons to continue the tale, which will premiere in Adult Swim’s Toonami block. In the new season of FLCL, many years have passed since Naota and Haruhara Haruko shared their adventure together. Meanwhile, the war between the two entities known as Medical Mechanica and Fraternity rages across the galaxy. Enter Hidomi, a young teenaged girl who believes there is nothing amazing to expect from her average life, until one day a new teacher named Haruko arrives at her school. Soon enough, Medical Mechanica is attacking her town and Hidomi discovers a secret within her that could save everyone, a secret that only Haruko can unlock. Back for the new season is FLCL series creator Kazuya Tsurumaki, serving as supervisor with director Hideto Iwai (Last Dinner).

Too bad Trigger/Imaishi aren't involved too.
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Post by: Turtle on May 14, 2016, 11:47:12 am
Resurrecting a 15 year old story notable for its brevity and originality and tripling the length sounds like the worst idea possible.
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Post by: positive stress on May 28, 2016, 12:59:54 am
The new JoJo episode was so great holy shit Koichi is such a badass. And to think Duwang said I wouldn't even have to remember his name
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Post by: A Meat on May 28, 2016, 01:04:17 pm
The new JoJo episode was so great holy shit Koichi is such a badass. And to think Duwang said I wouldn't even have to remember his name
fruithag, May 28, 2016, 12:59:54 am
I wish Yukako was an actual character and not a monster of the week. Shame there are so few female characters in this part of Jojo, but I guess Part 4 is about the strong bonds of friendship and camaraderie between teenage boys after all.  Guess we'll just have to wait until the part 6 anime comes out.
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on May 28, 2016, 01:37:59 pm
The new JoJo episode was so great holy shit Koichi is such a badass. And to think Duwang said I wouldn't even have to remember his name
fruithag, May 28, 2016, 12:59:54 am
I wish Yukako was an actual character and not a monster of the week. Shame there are so few female characters in this part of Jojo, but I guess Part 4 is about the strong bonds of friendship and camaraderie between teenage boys after all.  Guess we'll just have to wait until the part 6 anime comes out.
A Meat, May 28, 2016, 01:04:17 pm

Well then you're in luck! She will most definitely be back. In fact, that's one of the things that I love about Part IV: many of the villains aren't really 'villains' in the traditional sense, they're ordinary people with (comically exaggerated) flaws, that are exacerbated when they're given power, and this gives a lot of opportunities for interesting redemptions.
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Post by: A Meat on May 28, 2016, 01:41:28 pm
The new JoJo episode was so great holy shit Koichi is such a badass. And to think Duwang said I wouldn't even have to remember his name
fruithag, May 28, 2016, 12:59:54 am
I wish Yukako was an actual character and not a monster of the week. Shame there are so few female characters in this part of Jojo, but I guess Part 4 is about the strong bonds of friendship and camaraderie between teenage boys after all.  Guess we'll just have to wait until the part 6 anime comes out.
A Meat, May 28, 2016, 01:04:17 pm

Well then you're in luck! She will most definitely be back. In fact, that's one of the things that I love about Part IV: many of the villains aren't really 'villains' in the traditional sense, they're ordinary people with (comically exaggerated) flaws, that are exacerbated when they're given power, and this gives a lot of opportunities for interesting redemptions.
LancashireMcGee, May 28, 2016, 01:37:59 pm
I've read part 4, it's just that Yukako doesn't really do much later besides the one episode that will happen
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on June 04, 2016, 01:28:38 am
I've read part 4, it's just that Yukako doesn't really do much later besides the one episode that will happen
A Meat, May 28, 2016, 01:41:28 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/JTOzAen.jpg)

You know, I think I've come to agree with you.
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Post by: CormansInferno on June 07, 2016, 01:33:58 am
I've stopped following pretty much everything but whatever Trigger's doing at the moment. Kiznaiver didn't really grab me but Space Patrol Luluco is probably the closest thing to a Channel 101 show anime has ever produced.
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on June 10, 2016, 05:22:36 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/dWGGa6r.gif)
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Post by: CormansInferno on June 15, 2016, 11:44:06 pm
I've stopped following pretty much everything but whatever Trigger's doing at the moment. Kiznaiver didn't really grab me but Space Patrol Luluco is probably the closest thing to a Channel 101 show anime has ever produced.
CormansInferno, June 07, 2016, 01:33:58 am

Hadn't watched last week's episode yet HOLY SHIT INFERNO COP. Way better reveal than any Marvel movie cameo.
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Post by: positive stress on June 19, 2016, 01:43:27 am
Hanasaku Iroha is a show that I've literally never heard anyone talk about and I really don't know why. I came across it just looking at highly-rated SOL series on MyAnimeList and while my quest for a fun bullshit anime about nothing was a massive failure, I love this show a lot. If you're looking for an emotional, angsty coming-of-age drama, I don't think there's anything I could recommend as highly as this one. I'm thirteen episodes in and I have yet to finish an episode without getting at least a little choked up if not super duper choked up. No crying yet but I can feel it coming. Don't judge me you're in this thread too, we're all accomplices in this crime against good taste
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on June 29, 2016, 11:34:45 am
Armored Trooper VOTOMS is a pretty great show.
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 08, 2016, 09:04:28 pm
That Berserk show is not great. The CGI is fucking atrocious. And I don't mind CG in anime usually. But wow.

Also, Casca is wonder-bread white now, apparently.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cm4xH5mXgAINS3z?format=jpg&name=large)


For those of you who don't know how ridiculous this is...

(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/berserk/images/d/d1/Casca_Post-Eclipse_Manga.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080610112913)

(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/berserk/images/a/ac/Casca_1.png/revision/latest?cb=20130622234318)
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on July 08, 2016, 09:06:53 pm
That Berserk show is not great. The CGI is fucking atrocious. And I don't mind CG in anime usually. But wow.

Also, Casca is wonder-bread white now, apparently.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cm4xH5mXgAINS3z?format=jpg&name=large)


For those of you who don't know how ridiculous this is...

(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/berserk/images/d/d1/Casca_Post-Eclipse_Manga.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080610112913)

(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/berserk/images/a/ac/Casca_1.png/revision/latest?cb=20130622234318)
FattyBoBatty, July 08, 2016, 09:04:28 pm
Yeah, it's a real shame, berserk deserves better. That CG legitimately looks like cutscene for some unreleased bersek ps2 game
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Post by: cyclopeantrash on July 11, 2016, 04:30:08 pm
For those interested in the bizarro world of Dorohedoro. There was a licensed soundtrack (https://mhzmusic2.bandcamp.com/album/dorohedoro-original-soundtrack) recently released. It's got Shackleton and Igorrr on it's list of producers if that says anything.
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Post by: positive stress on July 16, 2016, 01:18:09 am
This is the four main VAs of Yuru Yuri performing the season 1 OP live with Marty Friedman from Megadeth
 (https://streamable.com/294i)
I don't know
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Post by: positive stress on July 26, 2016, 10:36:11 pm
(https://gyazo.com/3db4b6a3d801f792c679d85b348e86db.png)

(https://gyazo.com/be52f6505dd0362c1607fc05eb90f1c5.png)
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Post by: Kaleidoscope on July 26, 2016, 11:28:09 pm
So I got a question: should I give Neon Genesis Evangelion a chance?
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Post by: positive stress on July 26, 2016, 11:41:23 pm
Anyone who's into slice-of-life/comedy type stuff should check out Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge, I'm liking it a lot so far. It's only on the third episode right now, get it while it's hot!
fruithag, April 27, 2016, 05:57:23 pm

Wow I can't believe I completely neglected to follow up on this so here we go

TANAKA-KUN IS THE GOD DAMN BEST and I highly urge everyone to watch it. If you're into slow-paced SOL comedy, you will love this show. You might not love the first episode but I promise even if you don't you will love the rest (I did love the first episode but I've heard people say it's a weak start? idk) It's a really chill, funny show and I fell in love with the entire cast. Watching this show was literally the thing I looked forward to most every week while it was airing, hopefully it gets a second season

Also the ED is catchy as hell

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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on July 27, 2016, 05:43:48 am
So I got a question: should I give Neon Genesis Evangelion a chance?
Kaleidoscope, July 26, 2016, 11:28:09 pm
I would recommend it, I dig it a lot.
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Post by: Nifty Nif on July 27, 2016, 10:00:53 pm
So I got a question: should I give Neon Genesis Evangelion a chance?
Kaleidoscope, July 26, 2016, 11:28:09 pm

YES. Maybe just watch the rebuild movies? There will be four in total. The first 3 are out already and the 4th will be out soon. Or you can suffer through the original series, The End of Evangelion, other supplementary material, and then watch the rebuild. In my opinion, the rebuild is a better realization of the original concept, but others may disagree.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on July 27, 2016, 10:07:48 pm
As much as I really like the rebuilds I feel like the third really went off the rails and a 26 episode series/hour an twenty minute long movie isn't a ton of a commitment, so I would recommend watching the series first, but I have a ton of bias because I really like the original episodes of NGE
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Post by: Turtle on July 28, 2016, 03:35:59 pm
So I got a question: should I give Neon Genesis Evangelion a chance?
Kaleidoscope, July 26, 2016, 11:28:09 pm
Or you can suffer through the original series
Nifty Nif, July 27, 2016, 10:00:53 pm
That's the entire point, why would you want anything else out of it? The original series is the product of a depressed man during one of the worst times of his life, trying to make do with limited resources. The product is flawed but wholly unique.

The rebuilds are made by a man with limitless time and money. Gendo advertises shaving cream. The difference shows.
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Post by: positive stress on July 28, 2016, 10:59:49 pm
So I've always heard everyone talk about K-On! and how much they love it but I had never seen it since it's not on Crunchyroll, but thanks to the Very Good anime stream search engine because.moe (http://because.moe/) I am finally watching it aaaaaand I don't get it. Like, it's fine. It's not bad. It just seems like any average SOL series that people might mildly enjoy and then forget. I don't see why this is something all of my friends have watched. I don't see why a friend of mine got one of these characters tattooed on his leg.

This feels to me like if all of my friends and everyone on the internet hyped the shit out of Kiniro Mosaic like "dude you HAVE to watch Kiniro Mosaic it's the SHIT" yeah nobody has to watch Kiniro Mosaic. I've seen every episode of Kiniro Mosaic and I forgot it existed until just now when I looked at my anime list and searched for the lowest rated series I've completed
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 29, 2016, 12:03:58 am
On the subject of Evangelion, I would watch the series first. That way, you can fully comprehend how the rebuilds are a masterclass in fucking with a shitty fanbase.
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Post by: Nifty Nif on July 29, 2016, 05:45:18 pm
So I got a question: should I give Neon Genesis Evangelion a chance?
Kaleidoscope, July 26, 2016, 11:28:09 pm
Or you can suffer through the original series
Nifty Nif, July 27, 2016, 10:00:53 pm
That's the entire point, why would you want anything else out of it? The original series is the product of a depressed man during one of the worst times of his life, trying to make do with limited resources. The product is flawed but wholly unique.

The rebuilds are made by a man with limitless time and money. Gendo advertises shaving cream. The difference shows.
Turtle, July 28, 2016, 03:35:59 pm

I'm not going to bother debating this, my original opinion stands. As stated, others may disagree.
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Post by: Turtle on July 29, 2016, 08:26:42 pm
So I got a question: should I give Neon Genesis Evangelion a chance?
Kaleidoscope, July 26, 2016, 11:28:09 pm
Or you can suffer through the original series
Nifty Nif, July 27, 2016, 10:00:53 pm
That's the entire point, why would you want anything else out of it? The original series is the product of a depressed man during one of the worst times of his life, trying to make do with limited resources. The product is flawed but wholly unique.

The rebuilds are made by a man with limitless time and money. Gendo advertises shaving cream. The difference shows.
Turtle, July 28, 2016, 03:35:59 pm

I'm not going to bother debating this, my original opinion stands. As stated, others may disagree.
Nifty Nif, July 29, 2016, 05:45:18 pm
You state that others may disagree, then one person does and you find it necessary to post this passive aggressive "I'm not going to bother" bullshit. If you actually think others are entitled to their opinions, you shouldn't feel the need to defend yours.
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Post by: positive stress on July 29, 2016, 08:40:46 pm
pls stop fighting about anime yr tearing this forum apart

I've never seen Cowboy Bebop or Gurren Lagann or FLCL, shit on me
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 29, 2016, 08:48:59 pm
Bebop is cool, fun, and short - check it out
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on July 29, 2016, 08:51:02 pm
pls stop fighting about anime yr tearing this forum apart

I've never seen Cowboy Bebop or Gurren Lagann or FLCL, shit on me
fruithag, July 29, 2016, 08:40:46 pm
I would recommend all three bebop especially
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Post by: Kaleidoscope on July 29, 2016, 10:35:55 pm
pls stop fighting about anime yr tearing this forum apart

I've never seen Cowboy Bebop or Gurren Lagann or FLCL, shit on me
fruithag, July 29, 2016, 08:40:46 pm

You get the hell outta this thread!

....

Nah, I'm kidding. I haven't seen Gurren Lagann yet. I'll probably watch it soon. I like FLCL but I think people give it too much credit
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on July 30, 2016, 12:02:13 am
Redline is still a fantastic movie, mostly because the main character drives a car called the "Trans Am 20000"
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Post by: positive stress on August 06, 2016, 06:15:29 pm
If you're an anime scumbag and you aren't watching the OP monster cockysis videos of Mother's Basement, what the hell is wrong with you (spoiler warnings on every video he's ever made, probably)

How Nichijou gets you ready to laugh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2JRMfqvQj0)

How strong is One Punch Man? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syXo_JeSzuE)

Unravelling JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox5wWOgYTzs) (and part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55MMEXVnPBo))

There's a bunch more but these are my favorites. I never would have realized just how much thought and detail is put into some OPs, I don't know how the hell he notices some of this stuff.

Also I've never seen Sword Art Online but my god I love watching him rip it to shreds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlVId8QvjPg). Holy shit this guy hates Sword Art Online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ9NlThB3SY)
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Post by: Kaleidoscope on August 06, 2016, 11:01:37 pm
So I finished up the first season of Fairy Tail and I love it. I need more
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Post by: Argyle Funk on August 08, 2016, 05:11:38 am
If you're an anime scumbag and you aren't watching the OP monster cockysis videos of Mother's Basement, what the hell is wrong with you (spoiler warnings on every video he's ever made, probably)

How Nichijou gets you ready to laugh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2JRMfqvQj0)

How strong is One Punch Man? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syXo_JeSzuE)

Unravelling JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox5wWOgYTzs) (and part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55MMEXVnPBo))

There's a bunch more but these are my favorites. I never would have realized just how much thought and detail is put into some OPs, I don't know how the hell he notices some of this stuff.

Also I've never seen Sword Art Online but my god I love watching him rip it to shreds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlVId8QvjPg). Holy shit this guy hates Sword Art Online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ9NlThB3SY)
fruithag, August 06, 2016, 06:15:29 pm

Those Jojo videos of his have always been favorites of mine, it's bananas how many details they fit into those things. I wonder if the new DiU OP would be a good candidate for monster cockysis?
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Post by: positive stress on August 09, 2016, 12:00:25 am
Anyone who hasn't checked out Mob Psycho 100 yet should really get on that. It's an adaptation of another webcomic by One, the guy who did One-Punch Man. I wasn't so sure about it after the first episode (it's very well animated but it has a weird, wonky art style that put me off initially) but oh my god it just gets better and better. Episode 5 aired today and it was phenomenal. I don't think I've ever seen a series go from 0 to 100 so fast. Wow.

It's kind of a comedy/action/coming-of-age story about a kid named Mob who has crazy strong psychic powers (I'll just leave it at that, no spoilers). It's bizarre and funny and, as of episode 5, surprisingly emotional? Looking really, really good so far. More importantly, the OP is fantastic

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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on August 16, 2016, 09:40:05 pm
Prob too early into Legend Of Galactic Heros to judge, but this Oberstien guy is giving me serious douche chills
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Post by: positive stress on August 24, 2016, 07:33:00 pm
Apparently the sequel? prequel? to Danganronpa 2 is an anime called Danganronpa 3 (not to be confused but actually yes probably to be confused with the upcoming actual game sequel, New Danganronpa V3) and it's airing in the form of two simultaneously-running story arcs, Despair and Future, which air on different days each week and each one contains spoilers for the other and also you have to play the generally not very well-liked spinoff game Ultra Despair Girls to know what's going on. I can't believe I bought and played an entire video game just so I could watch an anime but I did (at least it was pretty okay imo). When did anime start being so difficult jesus
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Post by: jorty on August 25, 2016, 09:05:29 am
I'm not really knowledge with anime so I thought I'd come here for help.

Is there any like. Nice and cute anime that's v feel good you'd recommend to someone sorta new-ish to this stuff?
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Post by: A Meat on August 25, 2016, 09:06:40 am
I'm not really knowledge with anime so I thought I'd come here for help.

Is there any like. Nice and cute anime that's v feel good you'd recommend to someone sorta new-ish to this stuff?
jorty, August 25, 2016, 09:05:29 am
Gekkan Shoujou Nozaki-kun is fun
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Post by: Jack Sensation on August 25, 2016, 09:29:55 am
Seconding Nozaki, it's Good.

Do you guys have any recommendations for something to watch late at night while drunk with other people? Right now we're staying up until 2am to watch JoJos and we really need something to tide us over in the two hours from midnight until that - we finished One Punch Man and hated Mob Psycho, if we can riff on it bad anime is fine too since we got through the Persona 4 one.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on August 25, 2016, 09:39:54 am
Seconding Nozaki, it's Good.

Do you guys have any recommendations for something to watch late at night while drunk with other people? Right now we're staying up until 2am to watch JoJos and we really need something to tide us over in the two hours from midnight until that - we finished One Punch Man and hated Mob Psycho, if we can riff on it bad anime is fine too since we got through the Persona 4 one.
Jack Sensation, August 25, 2016, 09:29:55 am
G Gundam. You definitely want G Gundam. When I'm on break I'll elaborate/give you some reccomendations Jorty
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Post by: Carbon on August 25, 2016, 10:03:21 am
I'm coming to the end of Rurouni Kenshin. It has gradually become exhausting to watch. Just stop after the duel that kicks off season 2.
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Post by: chai tea latte on August 25, 2016, 10:33:31 am
I'm not really knowledge with anime so I thought I'd come here for help.

Is there any like. Nice and cute anime that's v feel good you'd recommend to someone sorta new-ish to this stuff?
jorty, August 25, 2016, 09:05:29 am
check out Girls und Panzer, which is cute, fun, and doesn't have fanservice. Also, watch Cowboy Bebop, which is a very good anime for people who aren't anime nerds.

Jack Sensation - it's not an anime but what you and yours need in your lives is Nathan For You, which is sublime and even better wasted. Start with s01e04.
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Post by: Argyle Funk on August 25, 2016, 10:35:16 am
Seconding Nozaki, it's Good.

Do you guys have any recommendations for something to watch late at night while drunk with other people? Right now we're staying up until 2am to watch JoJos and we really need something to tide us over in the two hours from midnight until that - we finished One Punch Man and hated Mob Psycho, if we can riff on it bad anime is fine too since we got through the Persona 4 one.
Jack Sensation, August 25, 2016, 09:29:55 am
G Gundam. You definitely want G Gundam. When I'm on break I'll elaborate/give you some reccomendations Jorty
AgentCoop, August 25, 2016, 09:39:54 am
I'm gonna second the hell out of G Gundam

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Post by: A Meat on August 25, 2016, 10:36:59 am
is G Gundam the one with the Windmill gundam? I gotta see that one

Also watch Nichijou, it's the best sketch comedy anime there is
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Post by: Argyle Funk on August 25, 2016, 10:48:34 am
is G Gundam the one with the Windmill gundam? I gotta see that oneA Meat, August 25, 2016, 10:36:59 am

You know it is
(http://i.imgur.com/xMcntGd.jpg)

And yes, you (and everyone else) should watch it. It's all on YouTube!
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on August 25, 2016, 11:12:42 am
Seconding Bebop for Jorty, and also check out Gurren Lagan/Kill La Kill, Azumanga Diaoh (full disclosure it's been a couple years since I've seen this and it could be bad/gross, but I remember it being P cute) and bonus "sorta anime" rec: Started watch the Netflix Voltron show with a friend and it's very fun/enjoyable.

On the subject of G Gundam all I have to say is that it's a masterpiece, make sure to watch the Dub if you watch it, and remember to fly the sky
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Post by: A Meat on August 25, 2016, 11:31:58 am
Kill la Kill is advanced anime and it's a fascinating mess but I think I liked it overall? Not for anime neophytes
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Post by: positive stress on August 25, 2016, 12:24:53 pm
I'm not really knowledge with anime so I thought I'd come here for help.

Is there any like. Nice and cute anime that's v feel good you'd recommend to someone sorta new-ish to this stuff?
jorty, August 25, 2016, 09:05:29 am

I would recommend all of those 100%. Two shows I would tentatively recommend but definitely not for everyone: Yuru Yuri is funny and has some really nice moments but the first season has a lot of jokes about one character fantasizing about two of her friends and it's like... yeah this joke is funny but the nature of the joke requires there to be two 14 year old girls on my screen doing questionable things. It never crosses the line imo but my god does it toe that line aggressively. After the first season they tone it way down on that stuff. It's a great show but I wouldn't introduce it to my parents

Also tentatively recommended is Yuyushiki which is one of my favorite shows but the art style of the characters is kind of not great to look at until you get used to it and also it has a pretty weird sense of humor so idk
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on August 25, 2016, 12:29:09 pm
If you are just looking for really basic, fun, bite-sized anime, I would recommend the Tonari No Seki-Kun shorts.
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Post by: chai tea latte on August 25, 2016, 09:55:48 pm
Kill la Kill is Anime 201, not Anime 101. It's incredible and really good but you will not appreciate it fully without seeing less competent shows first.
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Post by: MythosSanta on August 26, 2016, 12:12:44 am
Anyone have any suggestion for a series you can marathon over the course of one night? Me and my friends at college do an anime/board game night once a week and It's coming up on the time when we choose our watchlist for the semester.
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Post by: positive stress on August 26, 2016, 12:21:51 am
Anyone have any suggestion for a series you can marathon over the course of one night? Me and my friends at college do an anime/board game night once a week and It's coming up on the time when we choose our watchlist for the semester.
MythosSanta, August 26, 2016, 12:12:44 am

Any particular type of series or just anything that's short enough to watch in one night? Pretty much anything these days that isn't a long-running series like One Piece or Naruto is going to be the same length of 12-14 episodes so around four hours
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Post by: jorty on August 26, 2016, 01:06:09 am
Seconding Bebop for Jorty, and also check out Gurren Lagan/Kill La Kill, Azumanga Diaoh (full disclosure it's been a couple years since I've seen this and it could be bad/gross, but I remember it being P cute) and bonus "sorta anime" rec: Started watch the Netflix Voltron show with a friend and it's very fun/enjoyable.

On the subject of G Gundam all I have to say is that it's a masterpiece, make sure to watch the Dub if you watch it, and remember to fly the sky
AgentCoop, August 25, 2016, 11:12:42 am

I'm gonna second you on the G Gundam recommendation. I remember watching a couple episodes with two really good friends and it was a lot of fun! :D
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on August 26, 2016, 06:30:36 am
Anyone have any suggestion for a series you can marathon over the course of one night? Me and my friends at college do an anime/board game night once a week and It's coming up on the time when we choose our watchlist for the semester.
MythosSanta, August 26, 2016, 12:12:44 am
In the continued theme of Coop reccomending Gundam stuff, 08th MS Team is pretty short, and the kind of thing that would be good to have on in the background while playing your board game of choice
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Post by: MythosSanta on August 30, 2016, 12:19:54 am
Results of Saturday's anime night. We watched Jojo to catch my friend up, then decided fuck it and started watching Beyblades....

My friend group is now collectively binging Beyblades.

This will all end in tears.
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Post by: positive stress on August 30, 2016, 12:53:07 am
WHICH BEYBLADES THO BECAUSE METAL FUSION IS SOME OF THE MOST FUN I'VE EVER HAD WATCHING HORRIBLE GARBAGE

It's like Girlchan in Paradise if it wasn't a joke
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Post by: MythosSanta on September 02, 2016, 10:33:55 pm
Right now we've been starting out with the original series but we're slowly working our way through the whole cannon. We usually watch a small series, and then break for a beyblades episode or karaoke every 3 or 4 episodes. For example we're watching Bungou Stray Dogs tonight. It's a fun show w/ friends. Didn't blow me away or anything but it's well animated and the characters are nice and quirky. The music is damn good too.
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Post by: positive stress on September 09, 2016, 09:24:32 pm
SO THE NEW EPISODE OF JOJO WAS AMAZING

This whole serial killer arc has been incredible but this episode in particular was so wild. One of the best episodes of any anime I've seen tbh. Everyone on this show is such a badass.

"That's a nice watch. I'm going to break it so you can't read the time anymore. Your face, I mean."
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on September 09, 2016, 10:10:01 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/XSygv3t.jpg)
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Post by: Jack Sensation on September 10, 2016, 05:53:33 am
when jotaro hit the ground I laughed for a minute straight
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on September 10, 2016, 07:29:37 pm
Update: After watching fifteen Detective Conan movies I can no longer tell what is real anymore.
Knitting Machine, February 16, 2016, 09:26:23 pm
This is a relatable statement right now, very much so.
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Post by: positive stress on September 10, 2016, 07:44:50 pm
(https://gyazo.com/ac29d40f7942db6c32e395e1aba851bb.png)

If you had told me when this series started that this kid was the most badass character in all of anime I wouldn't have believed you but you'd be right
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on September 10, 2016, 09:16:05 pm
(https://gyazo.com/ac29d40f7942db6c32e395e1aba851bb.png)

If you had told me when this series started that this kid was the most badass character in all of anime I wouldn't have believed you but you'd be right
fruithag, September 10, 2016, 07:44:50 pm

Would you say that you

(http://i.imgur.com/dXQ8iTk.jpg)

?

EDIT: Just gonna slip this one in right here:

(http://i.imgur.com/h9ITyeE.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/2tbfet6.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/juTSdJe.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/mD4hRKX.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/gSwQXEL.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/5kX3zEv.png)
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Post by: positive stress on September 20, 2016, 07:19:01 pm
Oh my god the last couple episodes of Mob Psycho 100 have been unbelievably good. It's not often a show makes me laugh out loud and also cry in a single episode. This show is just getting better and better. REIGEN IS GOD
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on September 26, 2016, 12:42:40 am
You know, somebody recommended Yu Yu Hakusho to me about six years ago, and I didn't actually sit down and watch it until recently. It's good, and its main character is also pretty good. Rather than being a generic shonen protagonist, who wants to 'get stronger' and 'protect his friends' and 'be the best fighter', his character is defined by his pathological relationships with other people, particularly his alcoholic mother, his childhood best friend, and his schoolyard fighting rival. A big part of the story is him learning to reevaluate the relationships he has with other people, since he's really never learned what a healthy or affectionate relationship looks like. He's a punk, and the process of him learning that other people care about him is a joy to watch.

Plus, the cast of Street Fighter makes a cameo!

(http://i.imgur.com/sxjxZj5h.jpg)
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Post by: Mango Tango on October 05, 2016, 01:09:12 am
SAO is shit.  Watch Ping Pong: The Animation, New Sailor Moon and JoJo instead.
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:35:36 pm

I'm happy to see I'm not the only JoJo fan around here!
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Post by: chai tea latte on October 05, 2016, 02:19:48 am
SAO is shit.  Watch Ping Pong: The Animation, New Sailor Moon and JoJo instead.
Smoking Crow, July 07, 2014, 05:35:36 pm

I'm happy to see I'm not the only JoJo fan around here!
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We're all JoJo fans around these parts.Mango Tango, October 05, 2016, 01:09:12 am
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on November 11, 2016, 08:26:06 pm
LOGH UPDATE

(http://i.imgur.com/GFVZhXL.jpg)

Everyone watch this show
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Post by: A Meat on November 12, 2016, 03:35:26 am
LOGH UPDATE

(http://i.imgur.com/GFVZhXL.jpg)

Everyone watch this show
AgentScoop (LikeAScoopOfStuffingFromATurkey, Thanksgiving), November 11, 2016, 08:26:06 pm
I should finish watching this at some point
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Post by: positive stress on December 03, 2016, 01:39:55 am
Today's new JoJo episode (Bites the Dust, part 2) was god damn incredible. Diamond Is Unbreakable has been great since the start but ever since Yoshikage Kira came into it it's just gotten better and better with every episode and it's now managed to surpass the unsurpassable Battle Tendency as my favorite JoJo arc. Also the variation they did on the OP for this episode is amazing (SPOILERS) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWATDaqFgl8)
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on December 12, 2016, 09:24:16 pm
Man, I just remembered that Me!Me!Me! existed, and how poignant it was, and then remembered that the Internet at large didn't get the point, effectively doing the opposite of the moral of the video. Because Tiddies.
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Post by: cashmir sweaters on December 19, 2016, 12:16:50 am
I haven't read the whole thread so I don't know if Planetes has been mentioned. It been awhile since I was into anime but the last one I really liked was Planetes. In the near future Commercial Space is big business, but with all that space traffic comes space debris, which can endanger lives. So Planetes is about a team of space garbage collectors ("Debries Section") whose job it is to clean things up before a lose screw destroys a shuttle. Meanwhile there's a terrorist group running around trying to get the rich nations of Earth to forget space so they can focus on helping poor nations (by blowing shit up) and the first crewed mission to Jupiter is also in the works. Im a bit of a space nut and the accuracy is dead on. Planetes is this great blend of Japanese corporate life and space geek stuff and I love it.

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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 05, 2017, 10:00:48 pm
Holy fucking shit Yuri On Ice is good.

Edit to elaborate:
* figure skating
* great characters
* it's basically a story about a gay guy figuring out and accepting himself and finding love and how all those things make him and the people around him happy
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on January 05, 2017, 10:03:23 pm
Holy fucking shit Yuri On Ice is good.
Goose l'orange, January 05, 2017, 10:00:48 pm
Welcome aboard the hype train, you'll find it well stocked in ice-boyfriends
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 05, 2017, 10:08:48 pm
Holy fucking shit Yuri On Ice is good.
Goose l'orange, January 05, 2017, 10:00:48 pm
Welcome aboard the hype train, you'll find it well stocked in ice-boyfriends
AgentCoop, January 05, 2017, 10:03:23 pm
Yuri On Ice: Viktor Nikiforov is real and he tried to suck my dick
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Post by: Ms Dragoness on March 03, 2017, 03:42:18 pm
So I decided to pick up a show called Kuzu no Honkai (Scum's Wish) because I've only been watching Kobayashi-san and Gabriel DropOut and felt that a dramatic romance anime might be a good break in good ol' softhearted comedic cuteness and I've never had an anime anger me so and I can't stop watching.

Heed my warning: do not watch this show!!


These people are horrible and it will make you mad. Just a warning.
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Post by: Patterns on March 16, 2017, 07:55:34 pm
Hi I'm very new to anime and I've just started watching Your Lie in April

This is sad
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Post by: CormansInferno on March 22, 2017, 02:24:13 am
Kemono Friends has gone from being a CGI trashfire to one of the most legit FEELS anime of the season. KABAN, NOOOOOOO!
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Post by: duz on March 23, 2017, 01:07:49 pm
LOGH UPDATE

(http://i.imgur.com/GFVZhXL.jpg)

Everyone watch this show
AgentCoop, November 11, 2016, 08:26:06 pm

The books are finally being officially released in English and they're just as amazing.  Worth every penny.
I'm due for a rewatch again, maybe I'll watch them as I complete each book.


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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on March 23, 2017, 01:36:15 pm
LOGH UPDATE

(http://i.imgur.com/GFVZhXL.jpg)

Everyone watch this show
AgentCoop, November 11, 2016, 08:26:06 pm

The books are finally being officially released in English and they're just as amazing.  Worth every penny.
I'm do for a rewatch again, maybe I'll watch them as I complete each book.
duz, March 23, 2017, 01:07:49 pm
I got the first volume not too long ago, they're super great
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on April 06, 2017, 01:36:07 am
So, there's a Godzilla anime coming later this year (http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/31/15142314/godzilla-netflix-concept-art-toho), and I fuckin' love me some Godzilla, so I was really excited to hear this! The dude who's directing it has done a bunch of Detective Conan movies (which probably isn't super representative what Godzilla will be like), and also the Netflix original series 'Knights of Sidonia', so I decided to give that a shot.

The premise of this Godzilla anime is apparently that, in the future, Godzilla (and presumably other monsters) has fucked up the world so bad that humanity evacuates in big ark ships and leaves for a distant star system. The system is less habitable than they'd hoped, so a group makes the decision to return to earth and duke it out with the monsters to try and win back the planet, but because of time dilation 20,000 years have passed when they get back.

The premise of Knights of Sidonia is that, in the future, giant aliens have fucked up the world so bad that humanity evacuates in big ark ships and leaves for a bunch of different star systems (though the Sidonia hasn't had contact with any of the others for hundreds of years, so as far as they know they're the only ones left). The aliens are basically everywhere, so they're constantly duking it out with the aliens to try and keep what's left of humanity alive.

So yeah, I think this might not be a terrible guide for what I should expect from the Godzilla anime.

(https://i.imgur.com/3jtXtJt.jpg)

Spoiler alert: I'm now a lot less excited for the Godzilla anime.

Knights of Sidonia starts off okay! It reminds me a lot of the first season of Battlestar Galactica, where the ship is constantly being attacked by the aliens, they have a very limited amount of the material that can actually kill the aliens permanently, and under all this tension, people's petty conflicts start putting lives at risk. Then the show slowly and insidiously transforms into a harem anime.

And, I'm just going to say this now, the art style makes it really hard (for me at least) to tell people apart.

(https://i.imgur.com/SBe6WvSm.jpg)  (https://i.imgur.com/NH0prPmm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/TI3OnvT.png)  (https://i.imgur.com/xObha40.jpg)

These are all different major characters.

Anyways, the series has a lot of... very dumb decisions on the part of its characters. The aliens (which look like very angry scoops of strawberry ice cream) attack by grabbing the heroes' robot suits with their tentacles. Then another character will heroically rush in to cut the tentacles with a big knife, thereby getting grabbed by the tentacles and heroically sacrificing themselves (instead of using the big laser beam that their dang robot suits have). This happens multiple times. Additionally, the Sidonia is a spaceship, and consequently it sometimes experiences significant acceleration, so you would think that it would be constructed with stability in mind, making sure everything can be locked down fairly easily. Instead, the interior of the ship is built like the Kowloon Walled City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City), and when the ship has to make emergency maneuvers, people are fucking falling out of windows, furniture is flying everywhere, buildings and bridges are falling down.  It's a very bad design.

(https://i.imgur.com/umZF1J4l.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/bEDmlENm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/pW8ChRhl.jpg)

Then the show starts slowly introducing... weird things. The show takes place a thousand years in the future, and roughly a hundred years ago there was a massive food shortage, so people have been genetically modified to photosynthesize. This is an excuse to have characters need to be naked on a regular basis, which leads to wacky, hilarious, and original hijinks in which the protagonist goes to visit a lady, sees her naked, and gets punched through a wall. Then they mention that the flight suits have a weird organic catheter, which is a little worm that slides its way up your urethra. This is all just an excuse for a scene where all the female pilots are putting on their flight suits and looking uncomfortable.

So, anyways, the protagonist's love interest gets eaten by an alien, then she later (kinda) comes back as a weird human-alien hybrid experiment. Most of her body is a big armored monster thing, but she communicates through a tentacle that, uh...

(https://i.imgur.com/gHPiylWl.jpg)

...looks like a penis.

Then the protagonist, two girls, and the tentacle monster all get an apartment together, and hey we have successfully morphed into a harem anime.

(https://i.imgur.com/LeiIdiBl.jpg)

There's ostensibly a plot about a mad scientist trying to become god or something, but that never really matters much (maybe season 3? who knows).

Talking about the mad scientist reminds me that I haven't really talked about the characters much. Here's the quick rundown:

Protagonist:

Girls (including the tentacle monster):

Beyond that, there are a lot of little things in the show that are either clearly borrowed from other better anime, or very abruptly dropped. There's a shadowy council on the ship of folks who have modified themselves to be immortal, and are very clearly modeled after the Seele council from Evangelion, except whereas Seele continually hinted at secrets being kept from the characters, and was clearly orchestrating something big, the immortal council accomplishes nothing and then gets murdered. There's a special material that's the only thing that can permanently destroy the aliens, and they only have enough for 38 spears tipped with the stuff, except fairly early on in the series they figure out a way to mass-produce it and they're shooting it out of cannons and making all kinds of shit out of it. Characters bring up a bunch of times that maybe the aliens are simply misunderstood, and maybe they only seem to be attacking us because we can't understand each other, and I think this is presented in such a way that the viewer is supposed to agree, but it never goes anywhere, and it seems like the aliens are mindless monsters.

So yeah, it's bad generic anime. Now, it's very possible that all of these issues are from the original manga, so I can't completely count out the director, but yeah, I'm much less hopeful about the Godzilla thing.

Just so I don't end on a down note, let me mention one thing I do like about Knights of Sidonia: there's a character who is  a bear with a robot arm.

(https://i.imgur.com/vjFfP9I.jpg)

She is a chef. She has a regular human voice, and it is never explained why she is a bear.
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Post by: Guts Going Nutz on May 02, 2017, 09:18:42 pm
(https://media.giphy.com/media/IlM06wMAywRmU/giphy.gif)

kill me
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on May 02, 2017, 09:36:44 pm
(https://media.giphy.com/media/IlM06wMAywRmU/giphy.gif)

kill me
Guts Going Nutz, May 02, 2017, 09:18:42 pm
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/952/333/1d1.jpg)
Watching cgi berserk like
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Post by: Runic on May 02, 2017, 10:13:38 pm
I have reached the second half of Gurren Lagan and holy shit when did this show become super fucking depressing what the fuck.
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on May 02, 2017, 10:42:22 pm
I have reached the second half of Gurren Lagan and holy shit when did this show become super fucking depressing what the fuck.
Runic, May 02, 2017, 10:13:38 pm

You are in the valley before one of the greatest peaks.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on August 01, 2017, 08:13:31 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGBiFyaV0AAMy1W?format=jpg)
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Post by: beelzeboob on August 02, 2017, 07:39:11 am
Watching Princess Tutu again with my very not into anything but Kung fu movies boyfriend is an experience. Seeing him go from endeared tolerance of my series choice to being really invested in an anime ballerina duck is honestly so funny to me.
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Post by: crow on August 22, 2017, 11:22:34 pm
Kakegurui is the show of the season, too bad netflix is fucking up its streaming rights
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Post by: Breakfast on August 23, 2017, 12:44:52 am
Hey everyone? I really, really, really like My Hero Academia. I watched all the episodes of the anime in about 5 days, then got caught up with the manga in about a week. Good anime, good superhero story, 10/10 would recommend.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on August 23, 2017, 09:35:13 am
Hey everyone? I really, really, really like My Hero Academia. I watched all the episodes of the anime in about 5 days, then got caught up with the manga in about a week. Good anime, good superhero story, 10/10 would recommend.
Breakfast, August 23, 2017, 12:44:52 am
It's very very very good. PLUSSSSS ULTRAAAA
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Post by: Runic on August 23, 2017, 12:02:45 pm
I enjoyed the story of Superboy Who is Constantly Crying very much as well!
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Post by: Breakfast on August 24, 2017, 12:59:55 am
Hey everyone? I really, really, really like My Hero Academia. I watched all the episodes of the anime in about 5 days, then got caught up with the manga in about a week. Good anime, good superhero story, 10/10 would recommend.
Breakfast, August 23, 2017, 12:44:52 am
It's very very very good. PLUSSSSS ULTRAAAA
AgentCoop, August 23, 2017, 09:35:13 am
I just heard what Deku's voice sounds like in the dub and i don't think i can watch this show anymore
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Post by: NutshellGulag on August 24, 2017, 05:03:23 pm
I'm old; all I want is to be able to watch every single episode of Urusei Yatsura. This is apparently too much to ask. ;_;
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on September 13, 2017, 09:20:56 am
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/349736068330946560/357529157476810752/unknown.png)
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/349736068330946560/357529260522602498/unknown.png)

It's a good show.
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Post by: chai tea latte on September 30, 2017, 11:24:01 pm
The number of hot takes on Neo Yokio that I think fundamentally misunderstand the show is astonishing. I thought it was a well-done show with a pointed critique; casting Tavi Gevinson as Helena, the reveal of what's inside the Louis Vuitton bag at the end, and little details like the underwater brownstones, still occupied, in The Sea Below 14th Street. It was made on a limited budget, and Jude Law couldn't have been cheap, so the people who are upset about the animation quality are I think a little spoilt for choice. In my opinion the animation was fine, but that's at least a point of contention for the animation nerds I guess.

What I don't think is a point of contention is whether Neo Yokio is "just ironic parody of the upper class", "a sendup of mid-2000s anime tropes", or "so good it's bad". It's actually good. Bemoaning that Jaden Smith voices Kaz Kaan, or that Tavi Gevinson voices Helena (for some reason, I see a lot more of the former than the latter! is it possible that the people who recognized Tavi Gevinson's name were more likely to come to the conclusions I did about the show?) instead of a professional voice actor also misses the point, imo. It's not an accident that Kaz values satirical 'high art' like For The Love Of God more than the work of Sailor Pellegrino, who turns out to literally be a demon. He doesn't meet anyone from his outside his social bubble (except Sadie, who he hates) until the last episode. The West Side Gentlemen are shown to be shallow, personal brand mavens obsessed with fashion and social standing (just like Kaz, Lexy and Gottlieb!) and I guess until episode six you don't really have a context to the world they live in.

I am very excited and hopeful that there will be more Neo Yokio to come. It's just been surprising to me that almost every time someone gives an example of why the show didn't work, it's always one of the elements that I think was its strongest success.

Just me?
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Post by: znarf on October 01, 2017, 03:00:35 am
Hey everyone? I really, really, really like My Hero Academia. I watched all the episodes of the anime in about 5 days, then got caught up with the manga in about a week. Good anime, good superhero story, 10/10 would recommend.
Breakfast, August 23, 2017, 12:44:52 am
It's very very very good. PLUSSSSS ULTRAAAA
AgentCoop, August 23, 2017, 09:35:13 am
I just heard what Deku's voice sounds like in the dub and i don't think i can watch this show anymore
Breakfast, August 24, 2017, 12:59:55 am

Don't do that.  I've got nothing against dubbing, but investing time in a character in one language and then switching will do you no favors.  Case in point:  I like Ryu's modern english voice, but cannot stand listening to English adult Gohan form anything DBZ.  They are the same voice actor but one sounds correct and the other doesn't.
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Post by: Guts Going Nutz on October 05, 2017, 06:36:48 pm
The number of hot takes on Neo Yokio that I think fundamentally misunderstand the show is astonishing. I thought it was a well-done show with a pointed critique; casting Tavi Gevinson as Helena, the reveal of what's inside the Louis Vuitton bag at the end, and little details like the underwater brownstones, still occupied, in The Sea Below 14th Street. It was made on a limited budget, and Jude Law couldn't have been cheap, so the people who are upset about the animation quality are I think a little spoilt for choice. In my opinion the animation was fine, but that's at least a point of contention for the animation nerds I guess.

What I don't think is a point of contention is whether Neo Yokio is "just ironic parody of the upper class", "a sendup of mid-2000s anime tropes", or "so good it's bad". It's actually good. Bemoaning that Jaden Smith voices Kaz Kaan, or that Tavi Gevinson voices Helena (for some reason, I see a lot more of the former than the latter! is it possible that the people who recognized Tavi Gevinson's name were more likely to come to the conclusions I did about the show?) instead of a professional voice actor also misses the point, imo. It's not an accident that Kaz values satirical 'high art' like For The Love Of God more than the work of Sailor Pellegrino, who turns out to literally be a demon. He doesn't meet anyone from his outside his social bubble (except Sadie, who he hates) until the last episode. The West Side Gentlemen are shown to be shallow, personal brand mavens obsessed with fashion and social standing (just like Kaz, Lexy and Gottlieb!) and I guess until episode six you don't really have a context to the world they live in.

I am very excited and hopeful that there will be more Neo Yokio to come. It's just been surprising to me that almost every time someone gives an example of why the show didn't work, it's always one of the elements that I think was its strongest success.

Just me?
chai tea latte, September 30, 2017, 11:24:01 pm

I don't know how anyone can see that Toblerone shit and still wonder if the makers were self-aware.
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Post by: Runic on January 07, 2018, 10:31:25 pm
I am now watching Bacanno!

What the shit am I watching?
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Post by: GirlKisser420 on January 07, 2018, 11:25:21 pm
Pop Team Epic is great
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Post by: I Liked That Joke on January 08, 2018, 12:18:59 am
Hello! For whatever reason I don't like very much modern anime. Older cyberpunky shows/ movies, I like a whole bunch (Akira, Cowboy Bebop, that weird Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone show that was super different from the manga), but now I don't know where to go next. Any suggestions?
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Post by: Baldr on January 10, 2018, 12:14:36 am
Based on the three shows you mentioned, I'm pretty sure you're looking for Psycho Pass.  It has:

1) A weird dystopian future (Akira / Ghost in the Shell).
2) Philosophy 101 intermissions (Ghost in the Shell).
3) Infrequent but beautifully made action sequences (Cowboy Bebop).
4) Police procedural elements (Ghost in the Shell).
5) Government shenanigans ( Akira / Ghost in the Shell).
6) Incredibly competent fighters who somehow keep losing their guns, and then they punch each other a lot (Cowboy Bebop).

You want season one and then the movie.  People here said season two was horrible, so I never watched it.  I felt that the series was too gratuitous with violence at first and almost stopped watching it, but in retrospect those parts were required for the story they were telling.
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Post by: Turtle on January 11, 2018, 05:12:40 pm
The only thing I'd mention with Psycho Pass is that it's definitely modern anime, being from 2012. I don't know about I Liked That Joke, but some people point to 80s/90s cyberpunk anime for the themes and some just for the visual style, and while Psycho Pass definitely has visual style, it's a completely different one.
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Post by: Mix on January 12, 2018, 06:55:56 pm
If you like old school cyberpunk-ish stuff, you may really dig Kurau: Phantom Memory (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4kydj). It's an anime from 2004 that's basically about a woman who, when she was 12, got caught up in a lab accident that caused her to end up possessed by alien entities from another dimension. She initially uses the resulting powers to take on merc work, but after one of the entities accidentally breaks free and creates itself a body, she finds herself on the run from people trying to capture the both of them for experimentation. Also, the moon is completely colonized, because why not. It's by Bones and has the same director as Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Alien 9, and it even has an 'okay' dub.

If you don't mind an anime that doesn't care about how absurd it is, Speed Grapher (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1cDWFhr8U) may also be your bag. It's kind of all over the place but I found it entertaining the whole way through because it absolutely has no chill. The main character gains the power to blow things up with his camera and he constantly is on the run from various assassins whose fetish quite literally determine their super powers. Do I really need to say more?
Also, the opening is a fucking Duran Duran song.

Lastly, I feel required to mention Lain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4myLCfN-Y), though you probably already know about it considering how (in)famous it is in how pretentious its fans are lol

I've also heard good things about stuff like Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze, etc; but I haven't actually watched those myself yet so I don't wanna recommend something blind.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on January 13, 2018, 12:27:07 am
If you like old school cyberpunk-ish stuff, you may really dig Kurau: Phantom Memory (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4kydj). It's an anime from 2004 that's basically about a woman who, when she was 12, got caught up in a lab accident that caused her to end up possessed by alien entities from another dimension. She initially uses the resulting powers to take on merc work, but after one of the entities accidentally breaks free and creates itself a body, she finds herself on the run from people trying to capture the both of them for experimentation. Also, the moon is completely colonized, because why not. It's by Bones and has the same director as Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Alien 9, and it even has an 'okay' dub.

If you don't mind an anime that doesn't care about how absurd it is, Speed Grapher (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1cDWFhr8U) may also be your bag. It's kind of all over the place but I found it entertaining the whole way through because it absolutely has no chill. The main character gains the power to blow things up with his camera and he constantly is on the run from various assassins whose fetish quite literally determine their super powers. Do I really need to say more?
Also, the opening is a fucking Duran Duran song.

Lastly, I feel required to mention Lain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4myLCfN-Y), though you probably already know about it considering how (in)famous it is in how pretentious its fans are lol

I've also heard good things about stuff like Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze, etc; but I haven't actually watched those myself yet so I don't wanna recommend something blind.
Mix, January 12, 2018, 06:55:56 pm
Ergo Proxy was pretty good as I remember it, but it's been a bit
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Post by: Turtle on January 13, 2018, 01:08:11 am
I've also heard good things about stuff like Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze, etc; but I haven't actually watched those myself yet so I don't wanna recommend something blind.
Mix, January 12, 2018, 06:55:56 pm
I wrote up most of a post about Texhnolyze before just throwing it away. Some people absolutely love it. I got through 13 of the 24? episodes before it managed to go anywhere and I honestly just gave up on it. It's this position of "Everyone else likes it so maybe you will, I thought it was garbage."
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Post by: A Meat on January 13, 2018, 10:45:29 am
Probably not what you think you're looking for, but Dennou Coil is a neat anime about 12 year olds in the near future where VR is common in peoples' lives and is integrated with all sorts of mundane things. But the municipal VR system starts malfunctioning and kids explore it and find weird glitches and things that interfere with VR projections of things around them.

Also, Pop Team Epic is good, this is the comedy for the post-modern mind
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Post by: ikaribattousai on January 19, 2018, 12:13:55 am
If you're looking for something older, you might like Bubblegum Crisis from the late '80s and early '90s. They were one of those anime series I saw because they had a few of the VHS tapes in my local Blockbuster video. Since that was the only way to see anime back then, I watched the shit out of them. I couldn't tell you for sure if they were actually good, or if I just have fond, nostalgic memories of them. They tend to be overlooked these days, so maybe they weren't so great. I also recall they remade it into a TV series called Tokyo 2040 that I didn't like, so make sure you're checking out the eight episode OVA series.
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Post by: Runic on January 21, 2018, 10:58:09 pm
Space Dandy S1E9

Did Dandy just commit genocide? I think Dandy just committed genocide. I'm not sure that the show understands this.
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Post by: sambair on January 22, 2018, 08:45:43 am
Space Dandy will always have a place in my heart, because it's the only show I've seen where the characters attempt to solve a problem by asking Yahoo! Answers.
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Post by: Sherman Tank on February 09, 2018, 05:50:34 pm
Is it wrong that I watched a bunch of episodes of Fairy Tail because I heard there was a character who wanted the heroes to BLOW UP THE MOON?
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Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on February 09, 2018, 07:14:37 pm
Hey nerds I'm popping in long enough to post this masterpiece from Berserk since Trav referenced it today:

NSFW content. Click to show.
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Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on February 12, 2018, 06:25:33 pm
https://twitter.com/DeoTasDevil/status/962892183065022469
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Post by: Ambious on April 28, 2018, 03:51:13 pm
I've been watching Aggretsuko on Netflix.
It's fucking great.
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Post by: Wrought on May 09, 2018, 05:42:05 pm
I've been watching Aggretsuko on Netflix.
It's fucking great.
Ambious, April 28, 2018, 03:51:13 pm
I just binged the whole thing today myself! I remember thinking the premise was gimmicky when I first heard of it, but it's actually got an impressive level of depth in terms of characterization, and the writing is actually pretty great.
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Post by: Runic on June 21, 2018, 08:51:53 am
JOJO SEASON FIVE GET HYPE! (http://jojo-animation.com/)

https://twitter.com/anime_jojo/status/1009694497570078720
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Post by: Seth "Slimy" Rollins on August 22, 2018, 09:43:28 am
what if all might genuinely has no idea that america is an entity. like he just thinks that he's making up words. he sceams "delaware smash" and uppercuts some dipshit into the stratosphere and a tourist asks him if he's been to the usa and he just has no idea what the fuck it is
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Post by: duz on January 22, 2019, 10:17:25 pm
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (https://www.crunchyroll.com/that-time-i-got-reincarnated-as-a-slime) is just really wholesome and fun.  A salaryman at a general contractor gets stabbed to death and ends up getting reincarnated as a slime in a generic d&d world where he starts absorbing things and defeating his enemies thru kindness.
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Post by: NutshellGulag on January 25, 2019, 07:17:26 pm
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (https://www.crunchyroll.com/that-time-i-got-reincarnated-as-a-slime) is just really wholesome and fun.  A salaryman at a general contractor gets stabbed to death and ends up getting reincarnated as a slime in a generic d&d world where he starts absorbing things and defeating his enemies thru kindness.
duz, January 22, 2019, 10:17:25 pm

So, I watched this out of curiosity, and it's so adorable!
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Post by: ikaribattousai on April 10, 2019, 08:28:46 pm
A trailer for the next Makoto Shinkai movie was brought to my attention today, and it looks beautiful if nothing else. Looks like he's working with Radwimps on music again, too! I loved Your Name so I'm pretty hype for this.

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Post by: Salubrious Rex on April 16, 2019, 03:47:33 am
I finally got around to watching Neon Genesis Evangelion (a bit late to that party I guess) but I really enjoyed it up to and including the startling appearance of David Lynch but I still haven't got around to watching any of the films.
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on April 30, 2019, 07:59:32 am
Ok I need help, Funimation is being not fun.

I'm trying to find a way to watch episodes 4-5 of Ghost in the Shell: Arise. It seems the first three eps were on Netflix which is where I watched them. Then I saw that Amazon had ten eps, but that's just the first three cut down into smaller episodes I think? The DVD/BluRays are all confusingly labeled and don't even necessarily work in my region. Are there more episodes than there is listed on the wikipedia page?

Also is Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie like a movie version of stand alone complex or a remake or what?
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Post by: duz on May 04, 2019, 08:59:24 pm
 Ghost in the Shell: Arise is four 60 minute episodes.
 Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture is those four episodes split into eight 25 minute episodes plus two new 25 minute episodes.  Also episode 4 of Arise was moved to the beginning and is episodes 1 and 2 of Arise: Alternative.
 Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie is a movie sequel to the Arise series.
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on May 06, 2019, 09:45:48 am
Ghost in the Shell: Arise is four 60 minute episodes.
 Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture is those four episodes split into eight 25 minute episodes plus two new 25 minute episodes.  Also episode 4 of Arise was moved to the beginning and is episodes 1 and 2 of Arise: Alternative.
 Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie is a movie sequel to the Arise series.
duz, May 04, 2019, 08:59:24 pm

That clarifies some things. I do think I figured out why there are only some episodes on DVD and on Netflix. I think Funimation is keeping parts of that series exclusive to their streaming subscription service. As best I can tell that's the one place to get all the Ghost in the Shell in one place at least.
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Post by: KingKalamari on May 29, 2019, 07:07:46 pm
So apparently Nichijou is getting an actual English dub. I legit never thought that was going to happen...


The promo clips they've put up thus far look like it's going to be pretty solid.
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on June 23, 2019, 05:52:03 pm
Space Dandy is oozing with style and a Douglas Adams-ish sense of humor. Too bad its horribly sexist. I think I'll have to start watching JoJo to get the kind of "Dandy" I was hoping for.
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Post by: sambair on June 25, 2019, 07:38:24 pm
Space Dandy is oozing with style and a Douglas Adams-ish sense of humor. Too bad its horribly sexist. I think I'll have to start watching JoJo to get the kind of "Dandy" I was hoping for.
Dr. Buttplug, June 23, 2019, 05:52:03 pm

I liked Space Dandy for its good parts, but yeah, I wouldn't blame anyone for being put off by a lot of its content. It's still the only TV show I've watched where the protagonists attempt to resolve a sci-fi problem by going on Yahoo Answers (and not even a parody, they specifically say Yahoo Answers).
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Post by: Mique on July 18, 2019, 09:29:15 am
The Kyoto Animation headquarters was attacked and set on fire yesterday in an act of terrorism. Last I checked, they said 23 were dead including many industry veterans and the director of many of my favorite shows.

KyoAni was one of the few studios known to pay their employees a decent wage, and their animation has always been top notch. Even when their shows weren't my cup of tea, I always respected their work and attention to detail.

I truly think they were some of the most talented animators in the business, and the whole industry is worse off because of this.

Seriously, these people are some of the only ones who have been able to make me both laugh and cry, and this attack feels very personal to me. Why the fuck does shit like this happen?
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Post by: KingKalamari on July 31, 2019, 12:34:51 pm
I've been binge-watching the Nichijou dub I mentioned a few months ago and I can confirm it is pretty rad. I'm impressed with how natural the main voice actor's make their conversations sound. I'd say my only criticism thus far is that while the actress who plays Yuuko does a very good job on the character's over-the-top reactions she sometimes takes that a bit too far and makes some of the punchlines hard to discern. Otherwise an excellent dub!




I just wish I could find clips on Youtube of the Invincible Alien bit.
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on July 04, 2020, 01:25:18 pm
Okay, this is the order in which things went: I saw a news article about Gunpla (Gundam Plastic model kits) being sold out in hobby stores, because people were looking for good time-consuming quarantine activities. I thought that sounded like fun, and it turns out Barnes & Noble carries Gunpla, and the local one was doing curbside pickup.

NSFW content. Click to show.

Since I had a great time building this little purple robot, I figured I should probably take a look into the series that gave rise to it. If a show sells enough model kits that they make *a whole show about the model kits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam_Build_Divers)*, there's probably something there.

After some hemming and hawing about where to start in a 40 year series with 18 TV shows, and dozens more OVAs/movies, I decided to start at the very beginning, with the original Mobile Suit Gundam, from 1979.

(https://i.imgur.com/AONuuYA.jpg)

(Strictly speaking I watched the compilation movies rather than the TV series, which I understand removes some of the sillier/more toyetic aspects of the show. Plus, the show got terrible ratings on its first run, and most Japanese people probably experienced it for the first time seeing the movies anyways, so I feel it's an authentic way of watching it).

ANYWAYS, Gundam is really good!

In the future, a significant fraction of humanity lives in big cylindrical space colonies, and one of these colonies has declared itself the 'Principality of Zeon', and started a war of independence from the Earth Federation. One year into the war, about half of humanity is dead.

There are a lot of little world-building details that add to an uncompromisingly bleak vision of war: most of the military officers are either 16 and under, or 35 and older. Pretty much everybody in the middle is dead already.

There aren't really any cartoony cackling villains, everybody on both sides of the war has distinct and unique motivations for why they're doing what they're doing. The protagonist Amuro Ray isn't particularly heroic, he just happens to be supernaturally good at piloting giant robots.

Here are some fucked up things that happen to Amuro Ray:


Amuro returns to Earth to find his mother living in Zeon-occupied territory. In order to avoid being caught by Zeon soldiers, Amuro shoots a man in cold blood right in front of his mom, who proceeds to disown him.



Amuro's father is MIA after the initial attack on his home colony. When Amuro finally does find his father, he has brain damage from oxygen deprivation after floating in space in his suit for too long. He hands Amuro a bunch of wires and junk all crammed into a box and tells him it's a super-charge module for the Gundam, and that it'll surely win the war for them.


The show is heavy, but it's a good kind of heavy.

Now, lastly, the most important reason you should watch Mobile Suit Gundam is so you can appreciate the English-language FMV game that came out in 1996, a full three years before any Gundam show was released in the US.


It's like seeing Turkish Star Wars, or that Saturday Morning Watchmen parody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w). Just by watching it you get that it's bad, but to get just how bad it is you have to see the good version of it first.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on August 19, 2020, 09:01:05 pm
Okay, this is the order in which things went: I saw a news article about Gunpla (Gundam Plastic model kits) being sold out in hobby stores, because people were looking for good time-consuming quarantine activities. I thought that sounded like fun, and it turns out Barnes & Noble carries Gunpla, and the local one was doing curbside pickup.

...

After some hemming and hawing about where to start in a 40 year series with 18 TV shows, and dozens more OVAs/movies, I decided to start at the very beginning, with the original Mobile Suit Gundam, from 1979.
ZOMBOZO Evil clown, July 04, 2020, 01:25:18 pm

This is a good post. I have hemmed my last haw and I'm gonna watch some mother fucking Mobile Suit Gundam tonight myself.
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Post by: Cleretic on August 22, 2020, 07:40:43 am
The original Gundam's three compilation movies are up on the official Gundam Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/GundamInfo/videos), and are a really solid, interesting watch. There's this weird, uncanny feeling to its animation that I kinda dig; it's a cheap, late 70s anime and it looks like it, so you're immediately transported to that era of animation both in the US and Japan, until people just start fucking dying on-screen and sometimes en masse. It's a weird vibe that I think helps the original Gundam drive its point a lot more than all the many, many, many other pieces of media about Teens Fighting Evil, including the other Gundam shows. It looks like a kid's show, and all these young characters thrust into war actually look like children, so even the really cool parts of the show feel distinctly kinda wrong, like it just shouldn't be happening.


Meanwhile, another iconic show about Teens Fighting Evil that you can watch for free: I've discovered that Yu-Gi-Oh (most of which you can watch on the official website) is the perfect show for watching in the background while doing something else, because not much happens in any given episode, but everyone is very excited about it. So you can zone in and out at your leisure and not feel like you missed much, because the level of dramatic tension is so constant and the rate of Things Happening is so slow that you never feel like you miss anything you'd need to rewind for. Turn to the screen whenever someone starts yelling a noun, and you're probably good.
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Post by: Cleretic on September 01, 2020, 04:11:02 am
Meanwhile, another iconic show about Teens Fighting Evil that you can watch for free: I've discovered that Yu-Gi-Oh (most of which you can watch on the official website) is the perfect show for watching in the background while doing something else, because not much happens in any given episode, but everyone is very excited about it. So you can zone in and out at your leisure and not feel like you missed much, because the level of dramatic tension is so constant and the rate of Things Happening is so slow that you never feel like you miss anything you'd need to rewind for. Turn to the screen whenever someone starts yelling a noun, and you're probably good.
Cleretic, August 22, 2020, 07:40:43 am
Even without knowing which arcs in the original series were filler while they waited for the manga, you can tell them apart immediately because they're the arcs that give female characters something to do besides 'lose'.

Also, the people writing the filler arcs were way better at writing actual duels, it's absolutely what carries the show in those arcs. You can see actual strategies that would work, and tension from things that aren't just absurd super-cards.
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Post by: Diploskull on October 07, 2020, 11:39:47 pm
There's a ridiculous rap battle anime coming out now. If that sounds interesting at all you should watch Hypnosis Mic.
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Post by: Shell Game on October 08, 2020, 05:38:25 am
Hey wait a minute...

These people are talking about anime in here!!!!
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on October 08, 2020, 11:25:08 am
Hey wait a minute...

These people are talking about anime in here!!!!
Shell Game, October 08, 2020, 05:38:25 am

Oh no they're here guys! Grab your Narutos and cheese it!
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Post by: Cleretic on November 07, 2020, 10:04:49 pm
Yu-GI-Oh GX spends the first half of its first season constructing a really pointless 'dueling school' premise to do nothing but pointless enemy-of-the-week stuff, and then a season and a half digging itself out of that hole and trying to recapture what made the original series work. Fortunately it has two more seasons after that, with which it goes COMPLETELY bonkers in the best possible way. The final season is also the only time that 4kids straight-up gave up on, so you have to watch the final season in Japanese, during which you will completely understand why 4kids didn't try with that one.

Weirdly consistent trends in GX include 'doing Professor Snape better than Harry Potter did', 'doing Harry Potter better than Harry Potter did', 'giving Joey's deck more respect than the original series did', and 'every time a character gets a big-story-deal upgrade to their deck, the resulting deck is worse than their last one'. Seriously, Neos is a dumptruck of a plan for Jaden, Cyberdark Dragon doesn't help Zane at all in-show and would actually be even worse out of it, all the Society of Light decks suck, and the big dramatic season three reveal that a side character sold his soul for Exodia just gives him a worthless Exodia engine that doesn't work for his deck.

But now I've moved on to 5D's, A.K.A. the 'Card Games On Motorcycles' series. And the motorcycles are a FEINT, because it turns out the series is actually Cowboy Bebop with card games and class warfare.
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Post by: Hoffgod on January 20, 2021, 08:03:14 pm
There's a couple of good shows this season, but none of that matters because of EX-ARM. Holy shit, EX-ARM. That show is a glorious trainwreck of the highest grade. It's a 3D CGI sci-fi action anime made by people with huge ambitions and zero competence. The first trailer for it ended by stating it was "Declaring war against all of the SF series around the world!!" Which is especially hilarious given the contents of the trailer. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jCPQe9g-TE)

The show looks even worse. The characters have no real expressions, they never blink unless its purposeful, and they talk by flapping their mouths open on a single point like a CGI version of Canadians from South Park (https://twitter.com/shesawhana/status/1351349917520982017). And then there are bizarre moments where you have CGI characters sharing scenes with traditionally 2D animated characters (https://i0.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ex-Arm-07.jpg). Without the amazing visuals, it would be a fairly stupid cyberpunk police procedural show. But the terrible presentation puts it over the top. Just look at this scene transition (https://twitter.com/AnimatedEmpress/status/1350935782891126784?s=20), or this action sequence (https://twitter.com/AnimatedEmpress/status/1350956850234142727?s=20).

What makes it extra baffling is that this isn't some small time operation. This was bankrolled by Crunchyroll and is an adaptation of a 14 volume manga series, and for some reason they put a director in charge who had only ever done live action work and hired a studio whose biggest work was a Unity dance demo that they didn't even do the dance animation for (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-11-09/why-does-the-crunchyroll-original-series-ex-arm-look-so-awful/.166117).

Anyways, EX-ARM is wonderful and you should all watch it.
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Post by: KingKalamari on March 08, 2021, 09:39:54 pm
So, I've been watching through that Jojo anime everyone's always talking about and, while I've been enjoying it thus far, I has some questions. First and foremost: How is this series? How does it exist?

Everything about this series, from broad concepts to individual details, sounds like it's a parody of shonen fighting animes if you try to explain it to someone else; and yet the series takes everything deathly seriously. Even from the first season, which I know is not indicative of what the rest of the series becomes, the narrative seems to run on this bizarre dream logic where every fight or obstacle the heroes face is presented like a puzzle to be solved, but the solutions are completely incongruous with reality?

I'm midway through the third season, and just recently finished the episode where Kakyoin and Polnareff are fighting J. Geils and The Hanged Man and the duo make a big deal about how "How can we fight an opponent that only exists in a mirror?" and the show clearly establishes that attacking the mirror The Hanged Man is in with their Stands only breaks the mirror while leaving their opponent unharmed. So I'm thinking I've picked up on what the show is setting up: The puzzle they'll have to solve to defeat him is that they have to use their own reflections to fight The Hanged Man, that's very clearly the solution the show is setting up...

Imagine my surprise when the solution turns out to be "Realize The Hanged Man is actually a mote of light that jumps from one mirror to another and once they realize that they can just attack it while it's jumping between mirrors at the speed of light?!

The fact that these solutions are always presented as being simple and common sense just makes me feel like this show was created in a strange alternate universe with different laws of reality?
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Post by: A Meat on March 09, 2021, 01:27:09 am
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, it's in the name. Also it gets a bit better regarding dream logic in part 4. Not that it stops being weird, but it's weird in a more entertaining way that's not as baffling
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Post by: sambair on March 09, 2021, 02:57:53 am
None of these are big spoilers, but I'll spoil anything that I think could be one.

Part 8 is an alternate reality part 4, where the Jojo is Josuke and good alternate universe Kira who's maybe also this world's Jotaro fused together into one guy with four balls and one dick (this is the mystery hook at the end of the first chapter) and his sidekick is genderswapped Koichi. It's been running for like 10 years and just now getting to the fight with the main villain and I have no fucking idea what is going on half the time.

My guess for part 9 is that Josuke's four balls is hinting that we'll get twin Jojos next time. Some people on Reddit have speculated that at some point Giorno is going to show up because he had a stand strong enough to survive whatever the fuck happened at the end of part 6.


And if I can get anyone to become Jojo manga readers, part 7 is an alternate reality/reboot of part one, except Jonathan is Johnny Joestar, a paraplegic jockey, and instead of becoming a vampire partway through, Dio becomes a dinosaur. Johnny has to stop the president from getting Jesus' mummified corpse.
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Post by: sambair on March 12, 2021, 07:11:08 am
Just learned about the "Naruto Kai" fanedit that cuts out all the filler, so it's only a series of  70-ish 60-90 minute episodes instead of 700+ episodes. This is some grade A getting stoned on your day off entertainment. Only have like 30 hours of this to go until I get to where I gave up on Naruto Shippuden, because holy hell is it long.
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Post by: Great Joe on March 12, 2021, 07:22:49 am
Just learned about the "Naruto Kai" fanedit that cuts out all the filler, so it's only a series of  70-ish 60-90 minute episodes instead of 700+ episodes. This is some grade A getting stoned on your day off entertainment. Only have like 30 hours of this to go until I get to where I gave up on Naruto Shippuden, because holy hell is it long.
sambair, March 12, 2021, 07:11:08 am
What, you don't want 40 hours of CGI trees?
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on March 24, 2021, 07:17:34 pm
I started watching Planetes last night and so far it is extremely my shit. My favourite kind of sci-fi is the stuff that reduces something like the grand majesty of space and space travel down to mundane workaday bullshit and Planetes has that in spades, being about space garbage collectors who are mostly pathetic schlubs.

It's funny and charming, the characters are all pretty good, it looks nice and the way that all the space scenes are done is so good. I'm only 4 episodes in but I'm really digging it so far, but unless it throws some kind of curveball at me that completely turns me off I feel like this is going to be one I come back to often.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on March 30, 2021, 02:33:53 am
I finished Planetes last night. It's very good.

I really was not ready for the plot to start happening more than half way into the series, so when it did and the show starts getting really heavy every little thing felt like a punch in the heart. Every episode up to that point did such an excellent job at making me love these characters, so every hardship or good thing that happened to them really got to me. The last few episodes I was constantly on the verge of weeping and was having bursts of hyperventilation regularly.

I don't want to sound dumb and pretentious or like I'm talking this show up too much but I feel like it had a pretty big impact on me. I'm not sure if it's because I'm so used to seeing especially grim and cynical media about things on a grand scale that seeing something that feels personal and sincere and optimistic caught me off guard, or because I'm at a point in my life where the themes and personalities of the characters especially resonated with me, or just both at once. Either way, Planetes struck a huge chord in me and I feel had an impact on me that no piece of media has had in a long while, especially on such a scale, and it's kind of special to me now.

Tl;dr Anime about space garbage people makes me cry and changed my outlook on a lot of things, unless I get over it in the next few days at least. It's real good though.
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Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on March 30, 2021, 03:54:17 am
Heaven's Design Team is surprisingly funny. The premise is that God has outsourced the creation of animals to a company staffed by Roman deities and he's always giving them frustratingly vague and weird notes about what sort of creatures he wants. It then falls to the designers to come up with an animal that satisfies whatever silly requirements "The Client" wants while still being biologically viable.

It combines actual zoological facts with wacky jokes about office culture and what it's like to work with a strange client, which doesn't sound like it'd mesh and yet it totally does. So for example, things like polyps being inspired by Voltron, or hallucigenia being based on a kid's scribbles. It's a good time.

Just uh... mute the theme song. It's This-Is-What-All-Anime-Sounds-Like-To-Your-Grandpa level bad.
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Post by: lazzer grardaion? on May 06, 2021, 05:57:45 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/expkN2jh.jpg)

It's been a long fucking quarantine.

Anyways, I wanted to talk about Reideen for a sec.  For a little context, it is a very loose reimagining of the super robot show 'Brave Reideen' from 1975, which was Yoshiyuki Tomino (the Gundam Guy)'s first anime directing job.

The remake, from 2007, is about highschool boy Junki Saiga, whose archaeologist father disappeared mysteriously. The discovery of his father's remains leads Junki to a mystical bracelet, and soon enough he finds himself piloting a giant golden robot and fighting aliens.

From this description, it does sound very generic, but watch the intro:

You don't see a lot of giant robot, right? You mostly see this girl, Akira Midorino, who doesn't really show up until a few episodes in. Her house got destroyed in a monster attack, she changes school districts, and a romance unfolds between her and Junki.

I was sufficiently confused by the intro that when I first started the show, I did double-check the DVD case.


So, Reideen is a mystical robot, and there are temples and things that house components of it, and it turns out Midorino is the last component of Reideen, she is its consciousness. The girl is Reideen. They were telling us the whole time!

Also I like that the twist means it's basically a slice of life romance where the girl is also a giant robot.


It's a show in which all the characters are likeable, the plot moves along briskly, there's one episode where they completely change genre.

Also at the end Reideen uses a sword the length of the moon to kill a monster the size of the moon, and that's always fun.

In short, I do definitely recommend for quarantine viewing.

I did also look into the other reboot of Reideen, from 1996, and Let Me Tell You, it is the most "1996 anime"-anime ever, and it's all on youtube.


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Post by: Salubrious Rex on August 30, 2021, 09:43:46 am
I watched the second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for the first time after only recently learning that there was a second season. It was okay, I enjoyed it but it really has nothing on the first season. Its visuals are a bit better and the score is great but everything else really doesn't live up to it.

Almost every episode fed into the main plot somehow, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing but it did make it a bit difficult to follow, especially when I didn't find it that compelling to begin with. I think where it is hurt the most is that rather than having episodes that explore problems arising out of sci-fi concepts in the world it focuses way more on world building and history of the setting which is kind of dull and means there are regular massive exposition dumps about stuff that  it's really hard to care about.

There were a handful of episodes that stood out in quality, including one which was basically just a 20 minute remake of the film Taxi Driver and it was decent overall but i probably won't watch it again next time I feel like a rewatch of SAC.
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Post by: A Meat on January 17, 2022, 01:10:27 am
Watched season 1 of the Priconne anime, it's a bunch of fun
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on May 16, 2022, 12:42:56 pm
Finished the Berserk (1997) series and even knowing it was unfinished and more dire than the manga I still felt crushed. Bit of a slow burn, but showing a bit of the Black Swordsman arc in the first episode was a genius choice that pulled me through some of the more boring early eps. The fact the Black Swordsman and other later arcs haven't been animated is a real shame. I guess I'll have to read that bit of the manga at some point. The English dub is all up for free on Youtube for those who are interested.
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Post by: A Meat on July 09, 2022, 02:45:36 am
Ascendance of a Bookworm and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime are both very good, and basically the only isekais I've watched that are redeemable.

Ascendance of a Bookworm is about a young woman who dies by book avalanche being reincarnated into the body of a young girl in a world where books are very scarce, she makes it her goal in her new life to make books widespread in this medieval fantasy world even if it completely upends the entire social order.

Reincarnated as a Slime is just the story of a middle aged guy who gets stabbed to death and is reincarnated as a slime in a cliche MMO-style fantasy world, so he obviously does what any reasonable person would do and it's to befriend a dragon and create a communist monster utopia where all races are equal using his slime powers.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on September 29, 2022, 10:25:30 pm
Saw a clip from serial experiments lain on twitter and decided I'd check it out and watch an episode ir two before bed, ended up watching half of the series in one go. I don't have much of an idea what's going on but I love it and my face hurt from grinning with my eyes glued open at this tense arthouse bullshit for 2 hours straight.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on September 30, 2022, 07:46:00 am
Saw a clip from serial experiments lain on twitter and decided I'd check it out and watch an episode ir two before bed, ended up watching half of the series in one go. I don't have much of an idea what's going on but I love it and my face hurt from grinning with my eyes glued open at this tense arthouse bullshit for 2 hours straight.
Salubrious Rex, September 29, 2022, 10:25:30 pm

serial experiments lain was great holy shit
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Post by: chai tea latte on September 30, 2022, 03:05:37 pm
Saw a clip from serial experiments lain on twitter and decided I'd check it out and watch an episode ir two before bed, ended up watching half of the series in one go. I don't have much of an idea what's going on but I love it and my face hurt from grinning with my eyes glued open at this tense arthouse bullshit for 2 hours straight.
Salubrious Rex, September 29, 2022, 10:25:30 pm
that's right
serial experiments lain was great holy shit
Salubrious Rex, September 30, 2022, 07:46:00 am