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The Chatterbox => Random Chat => Topic started by: MortifiedocAlot on January 20, 2008, 01:01:10 AM
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Figured I might as well make an anime recommendation thread, since I haven't watched much of anything related recently. So, I'll guess I'll start it off, I've been watching Eureka 7 and Death note on and off recently and they both seem pretty good, also (thanks to Eggman) I watch Beck, which was great. Also Berserk, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo etc, etc.
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Well, here's a list of anime I've watched, am watching, and my thoughts.
My favourite anime:
Name: Magic Knight Rayearth
Genre: Magical Girl/Adventure/Fantasy
Special Notes: Manga/Anime by CLAMP
Plot: 3 girls, from different schools are on class trips to Tokyo Tower when somehow the floor melts away, and they find themselves stranded in a strange, magical land. They soon learn that in order to make it back to their world, they must fulfill the wishes of Princess Emeraude, The pillar of the world, who's prayers preserve the world normally, but who is currently imprisoned by Lord Zagato.
My thoughts: While this is an older anime (Came out 1994, with OVAs in 1997), it's damn fun to watch. Sure, it's kinda cheesy in the whole Magic Girl aspect, but it's not like Sailor Moon, or Tokyo Mew Mew, it's a bit more adult, and these aren't girls who make stupid poses and shit. They fight. The anime is centered around the whole aspect that they need to do this to get home, not the magic girl aspect. The second season happens after they completely finish with the first plot, and is a bit more adult. It's really hard to explain why I like the anime without actually having someone watch it, and see after a couple episodes. In any case, I really enjoyed it, and if you're willing to give something a little childish and corny a chance, I say you should go ahead. The characters are lovable, cute, funny, and overall just plain fun. The second season adds a lot of romantic interests for the characters.
Name: Darker Than Black
Genre: Supernatural
Other notes: Opening is Howling by Abbingdon Boys School (commercial music, not the normal "made for the anime" stuff) Incidental music by Yoko Kanno (cowboy bebop, Escaflowne, GITS: Standalone Complex and others)
Plot: 10 years ago, a mysterious area of abnormal activity appeared in Tokyo, and was called Hells Gate. This place created what are known as Contractors. They are called this because they are given special powers, but every time they use them, they must pay a price, an obeisance of sorts, for the use of the power. These contractors are unknown to the public, but criminal organizations and government agencies around the world employ them as spies, among other things. The main Character is Hei, also known as Li Sheng Shun, and a contractor. He is a member of an organization known as The Syndicate. The show follows him through his placement in Tokyo, both during day-to-day happenings, as well as his various missions. Part of the reason that contractors are used by these Syndicates, is that they lack many human emotions, (well, that's the popular belief. They do in fact feel the emotions, but instead view things in very logical ways, able to ignore those emotions.) including the aversion of killing, which makes them all the more dangerous.
My Thoughts: A very dark anime. Looks amazing, since it's very new. I really love this show, because it's so different than a lot of things I've seen. It's not going to the point of being ridiculous, but rather keeps all the characters rather believable, considering the aspect of the Contractors, and all that. In any case, I would really recommend this, because it's plot, characters, overall feel, and pretty much everything about it fits, and feels creepy.
Name: Simoun
Genre: War/Drama/Science Fiction/Yuri
Other Notes: all voices are done by women. Even the male characters are voiced by women. It's there to show how they are all born as girls, and that even when they chose a sex, they are not quite the same as a natural male.
Plot: Simoun is set in a world where, oddly enough, everyone is born a girl. In this world, they chose a permanent gender at the age of 17. During the time that they are young girls, they have the chance to become part of an elite branch of the religion as priestesses, known as Sybilla. As a priestess, they are entitled to fly 2 seated flying vehicles known as Simoun which are powered by ancient engines that are, for all practical purposes, magic. Nobody knows how they work, but nonetheless, the Simoun fly. In fact, they fly much better than the mechanical contraptions created by the other countries that inhabit the planet. On top of flying better, they have some sort of ability to create patterns in the sky. This is the main offensive weapon of the Simoun. When a certain pattern is created by the trail left by the Simoun, different effects can be achieved, such as a shield, or a powerful explosion. The need for Sybillae is high, because the country is at war with the other 2 countries on the planet. Unfortunately, this leaves them in an awkward position, because the Sybillae are not supposed to be warriors, but priestess, who don't slaughter the enemy, but pray to the sky.
My Thoughts: I absolutely LOVED this show. It's certainly different, but different in a really good way. There is a LOT of drama in this show, but it's more or less covered in 2 main parts: the relationships of the members of Chor Tempest, once, the most revered Choir of Sybillae, which was recently devastated, and left with few remaining members, and is rebuilt with new recruits; and the political manipulation behind Chor Tempest. These girls are constantly torn between the peaceful ideas that their religion preaches they follow, and yet, they are used by the military as elite warriors, able to decimate enemy forces with relative ease. They are constantly being caught in the crossfire of the internal politics between the military and religious parts of their government. In any case, I really recommend this to anyone willing to look for something more out of the ordinary. It takes 3 or 4 episodes to start getting into it, but it's so emotionally charged, and so well executed that I fell in love with it after the first couple episodes. Honestly, this is one of the best dramatic anime I've ever seen (barring 5 Centimeters Per Second, which was absolutely beautiful). To be perfectly honest, I cried more than once watching this. Seriously.
Name: 5 Centimeters Per Second ~ a chain of short stories about their distance ~
Genre: Drama
Other Notes: Directed by Makoto Shinkai, the same guy behind Hoshi no Koe, among other less known things.
Plot: The basic plot is that of a love story, but that's where the originality kicks in. The movie is split into 3 sections, each, a short story about the characters, and all the problems that keep them apart. I'm not going to give much of the plot away, but if you want, you can search wikipedia.
My Thoughts: WOW. Just. WOW. The animation in this is absolutely STUNNING. The music fits perfectly, the plot is so sad, and so perfectly executed. Everything about this anime is absolutely amazing. I know I'm giving all of these anime high praise, but that's because I tend to avoid anime I know I'm not going to like as much as I like these. I just don't like watching something I know I'm going to be slightly disappointed with, so I only watch something if I know it'll be good, and wow. I can't get over how powerful this movie is. I honestly say that every member of spectere.net, weeaboo or not, should watch this. I also wanted to cry watching this, and would have had my GF not been watching it with me, lol. I can only admit this because it's online and all that stuff.
More to come later, but this post has taken forever to write up, so I'll edit/post more later.
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Freakin' Lucky Star.
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I loved Elfen Lied. That's about it. Seen a few other animes but they just weren't as good.
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also watch Excel Saga because that shit's crazy.
Fuggin truth.
Puni Puni Poemy is fun, too (made by the same people as Excel Saga).
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I'd like to take this opportunity to recommend great animes like Night Shift Nurses, Princess 69, and my all-time favorite, Bondage Game. Seriously this is some good shit I mean it guys honestly
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Fuggin truth.
Puni Puni Poemy is fun, too (made by the same people as Excel Saga).
YES. Puni Puni Poemi is AMAZING. I wish there were more episodes of it though....
I'd like to take this opportunity to recommend great animes like Night Shift Nurses, Princess 69, and my all-time favorite, Bondage Game. Seriously this is some good shit I mean it guys honestly
Sadly enough, I know every one of those titles...
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Night Shift Nurses is loltastic, for real. I laughed my ass off at the sheer rediculousity of it.
Uh, haven't watched any animu in a while, but I may as well list off some quality titles.
-Serial Experiments Lain
-Maze: The TV (apparently obscure as hell, but really funny)
-Mai HiME/Mai Otome
-Le Portrait de Petit Cosette (one disc, 3 episodes, absolutely phenomenal art/music/story, fucking get it)
-Marine A-Go-Go (hentai, but I couldn't stop laughing at the premise, it's a girl who becomes the target's dream girl and she collects semen with a turtle hiding inside her)
There's plenty more, but those are just the ones I thought of first. Strongly suggest Petit Cosette/Marine A-Go-Go, they're 3 episodes each, and relatively easy to find.
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I've watched Lain, and have to say that it is easily ranked in my top favourite anime of all time. Ever.
That show kicked SERIOUS ass.
Le Portrait de Petit Cosette, I just watched episode 1, and wow. That was intense.
Oh, and Kuroneko, you forgot Sex Friend...
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Sex Friend...
Also a good one. Man seriously I've watched more hentai then anyone should claim to haha. I've sat through Katsucon's saturday night marathons of it, as well. Amusing hentai that I can think of off the top of my head:
Marine A-Go-Go
Sex Friend
Body Transfer
Mezzo Forte
Parade Parade (shut up the premise is funny)
Sex Taxi
Night Shift Nurses
Viper GTS
La Blue Girl live action (guess it doesn't really count as hentai)
The Story of Little Monica (fantastic art)
Immorality (oh god the physical impossibilities, they are astounding)
Anyone You Can Do...I Can Do Better
Invasion of the Booby Snatchers
Sex Warrior Pudding (sup Eggman)
Black Gate (loli, be warned)
Eiken (OH GOD WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT)
I've seen quiiite a few more, but these are all fairly good, fairly funny titles.
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Invasion of the Booby Snatchers
Sounds like something right out of shin chan. Also shin chan is a good show, somewhat seems like the simpson's and south park thrown together in moon land.
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The Story of Little Monica
Damn right the animation for that one is good.
I've probably seen clips from nearly every one of those, but i don't know all the titles to the stuff I've seen. Oh, and another one is F3, Frantic Frustrated and Female, or whatever it's called.
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Nothing beats The Duchess of Busty Mounds. Maybe The Hills Have Size.
Required watching:
Welcome to the NHK
Planetes
Scryed
Samurai Champloo
Fighting Spirit/Hajime no Ippo
Haruhi
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How good is Planetes?
I've seen the firs episode or so on some anime internet TV ages ago, but I know next to nothing about the show.
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I might put Planetes on top of that list. The entire show is simultaneously really depressing and hilarious. It's easily one of the most realistic series to have ever existed.
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For hentai that I liked for reasons other than "teh lulz of it," I'd like to mention Kite. It didn't have the usual half-baked, half-assed stories that other hentai ovas do (not that it was a particularly awesome story or anything, but it was slightly surprising that it wasn't the same lame shit like P69 or Bondage Game).
I like Elfen Lied, but they should have waited to make it until the manga was actually complete. Elfen Lied's anime ending was kind of meh. I mean, "Lucy maybe kind of sort of dying but mysteriously coming back WHAT" vs "Kaede taking shit from a giant superchild monstar diclonius thing and melting to save Kyota (who mercy kills her at her own request lolz!)." Also, incest lulz (in the manga ending he has clearly had a child with his cousin).
Also, never heard of Sex Friend. Is it just as bad as the three I listed in my last post? :D
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Well, essentially it's about a boy and a girl who like eachother, and end up having sex at school in the nurse's room a lot. The nurse actually allows it. Then there's some girl who's always in the library who likes the guy, and there are a number of scenes involving both girls, as well as one with the library girl and the nurse.. I mean, the whole thing is more or less just "sex, sex, more sex, and a piece of plot here and there". Hell, it had less real plot than half the other hentai I've seen.
I can't believe you haven't heard of that one, lol.
It's a fun one to watch, but not for the "extreme lulz" aspect, but simply because the whole thing is so out there that i'd never happen, and it's just plain unrealistic. I mean, they have sex in a bathroom at a theater. They went on the premise of doing something together, instead of just fucking all the time...
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Is Death Note any good? I keep trying to catch episodes on adult swim but I always miss them. Also is Eureka 7, Berzerk, and NGE that good? I've seen parts of both (I liked Berzerk and Eureka 7 over NGE) but I've never finished them.
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All of those are good. I can't stand dubbed anime, and I think that Death Note's dubbing is actually pretty good (Quite a compliment coming from someone who kinda believes that anime should not be dubbed at all). I haven't seen much, but from what I've hard from my GF (Who's been obsessed with it since the manga was first scanlated), it's pretty good.
I haven't watched much of the TV NGE, but I have seen End of Evangelion, and loved it. Eurika 7 is pretty cool, from the couple episodes I've seen, and same with Berzerk.
I need to actually finish watching more anime...
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I only dislike dubs where it seems awkward that they're speaking English. Like, anime that takes place in Japan and revolves around some high school student(s). In Cowboy Bebop, the dub wasn't awkward.
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Death Note seems so horribly ridiculously dramatic, though. I watched three or four episodes of it on Adult Swim, and couldn't get past the fact that every three seconds Light would be like "HOLY FUX SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE TAKEN A SMALL ACTION I JUST MADE (BY SOME RIDICULOUS LEAP OF IMAGINATION) TO BE PROOF THAT I'M KILLIN' PEOPLE WITH A BOOK HOLY FUX HOLY FUX WHAT DO I DO" inside his head. It basically guaranteed nothing happens in each episode.
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Well, my beef with dubs is that they wreck so many character's voices. The way I see it, a voice lends to a character's personality. How the voice actor/seiyuu acts the emotions, along with the sound of their voice itself adds a dimension of personality to the character. I've heard quite a few terrible dubs before, and I think the biggest issue with dubbing at the moment is the actual actors they are using to voice the character. Many times, they chose people with inappropriate voices for the character, which make me cringe.
The other aspect is the translation itself. When you dub something, either it turns out like an oldschool kung fu movie, or you have to really rework some dialog to fit properly. Unfortunately, I hate when they change the dialog. I want my anime to be as close to the original as possible, because there are many jokes, idiosyncrasies of the language, and phrases that are hard to translate that usually get garbled and destroyed when they dub things. Hell, on the subject of translations, I hate most official subtitles as well. I don't have that great of a vocabulary in japanese yet, but there are times where I can pick out awkward or bad translations in official subs that most of the time are not present in fansubbed anime. Most fansubs are much more true to the original meaning of the japanese dialog, because they understand it better, they actually care about the translation, and they don't have the corporate crap forcing them to decide if something is too long for someone to read, and such. Most people who watch fansubs regularly can probably read much more subtitle text than someone not used to fansubbed anime, so the fansubbers can make more direct, if longer, translations of dialog without inconveniencing the person watching the anime.
Ultimately, I could care less whether anime gets an official translation, because fan made translations are usually better anyway. Not to mention the fact that people who do something illegal and then aren't willing to own up to that fact bug me. I hate the whole "we'll stop distributing when it gets licensed". Especially if the licensed version sucks ass compared to theirs. And the "support the anime" argument they use is pointless to me too, because all I'm supporting with those DVDs is the company who licensed it, not the company who actually made it (maybe some tiny part goes to them, but not enough to matter, much like buying a CD off amazon barely makes the artist anything).
In a nutshell: I hate licensed anime. Fuck off corporate America, stop fucking up the stuff I like.
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Required watching:
Welcome to the NHK
Planetes
Scryed
Samurai Champloo
Fighting Spirit/Hajime no Ippo
Haruhi
Out of all of this, I've only seen Samurai Champloo. Also I'd like to add Ghost in the Shell (loved the first season, and the secound was great, even tho the show can be fucking HARD to follow at times, and the movies are pretty good) FL CL, Beck, and of course cowboy bebop.
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I need stuff to expand my ahneemay folder. All I have right now is Cowboy Bebop and Excel Saga, both of which I've finished.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLCL Awesome shit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noiseman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_4%C2%B0C Anything by these guys, pretty much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Hina is always fun to watch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad_of_a_Shinigami AKA "Shinigami's Ballad: Momo, The Girl God of Death"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darker_Than_Black (or anything associated with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Kanno)
I'm too tired to URLize this shit. Anyway, those are all good. FLCL, Noiseman, and anything by Studio 4c are all weird, but really good. (It's good to get away from the normal anime sometimes.)
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I loved Elfen Lied. That's about it. Seen a few other animes but they just weren't as good.
I just watched the first 2 episodes, and I can see the Nana's everyday life reference (well, other way around really) so I like it.
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Not sure what Nana's everyday life is. It's not related to Mai-Chan's Everyday Life is it? :/
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http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php
It is amazing.
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Warning, it's amazingly depressing when you read the whole thing.
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lulz duble poast. Well I'm over half way threw Elfen Leid, and is Kouto's cousin hitting on him and making out with him?
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I remember reading Saikano. I'm pretty sure there's an anime of it, and I'm betting it's equally if not more depressing than the manga.
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hay
if you have a non japanese name, and you're trying to write it in japanese, do you use katakana or hiragana
seems like it would make more sense if it were katakana, because katakana is used for a lot of cognates
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It's katakana. Hiragana is just for Japanese words IIRC.
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Yes, katakana is used only for loan words and such. Hiragana is used when they need to write particles and conjugations and all the grammatical aspects of japanese, since they don't use kanji for that stuff.
Blair would be written as ブレイア (bu-re-i-a), I believe. Either that, or ブレヤ (bu-re-ya), but I really doubt they'd use that. Of course, you can mix in the odd word in english letters when necessary in japanese. It's pretty common to see the odd phrase or word in english if it's a proper noun, or has some significance that would be lost in translation (some things just don't translate well.)
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Oh, okay neko. I was drawing this thing today (I'll scan it in when I finish maybe) and a weeaboo friend of mine suggested I weeaboo it up and put the character's name in kana on the side. He then persisted that it should be hiragana. Lolz. (katakana is easier to draw anyway D:<)
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lol
School Days.
My roommate watched that a month or two back, and was literally traumatized for about a week. I lol'd so hard.
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Wait, what happens in said show?
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It has the most O_______O ending ever, apparently.
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Just finish Elfen Lied. I must say that was a :) :'( ending, I really liked. The only thing I didn't like was how many louse ties it left, never found the queen, never found the true motivation of that company owner, never found out if that teacher got a shower, never found out if Lucy/Nyu came back (kind of obvious, but I'm dense and need closure).
ALSO REQUEST that this gets moved over to media, I have no idea what I was thinking putting this in random.
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louse ties
I didn't know lice wore ties...
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I didn't know lice wore ties...
Oh wow, spell checking.
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Lol, yeah, I just thought that deserved to be pointed out :P
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Just finish Elfen Lied. I must say that was a :) :'( ending, I really liked. The only thing I didn't like was how many louse ties it left, never found the queen, never found the true motivation of that company owner, never found out if that teacher got a shower, never found out if Lucy/Nyu came back (kind of obvious, but I'm dense and need closure).
ALSO REQUEST that this gets moved over to media, I have no idea what I was thinking putting this in random.
That's why the anime ending is epic fail compared to the second half of the manga. :>
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I don't find any reason to move it. It's a discussion thread, not "hey, look at this video". Media is technically more for posting actual media, not talking about it.
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That's why the anime ending is epic fail compared to the second half of the manga. :>
Going to have to download that then.
I don't find any reason to move it. It's a discussion thread, not "hey, look at this video". Media is technically more for posting actual media, not talking about it.
Point, but I know it's going to get pushed down here and I'm bored enough t watch everything in here.
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Lol, well, whenever I get back into watching anime, and find some stuff to add, I'll be adding it. I'm willing to revive the thread if it drops a page or two int he mean time.
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Going to have to download that then.
Point, but I know it's going to get pushed down here and I'm bored enough t watch everything in here.
Pfft, whenever the people get off of their asses and finish translating it. Last time I checked they were up through volume 8, out of like, 12.
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Pfft, whenever the people get off of their asses and finish translating it. Last time I checked they were up through volume 8, out of like, 12.
;_; but I want it noaw. Also I started Welcome to NHK and I can relate to it, sort of.
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Haha, that was the kawaiiest thing ever desu ^_^;;
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Well, it's a great troll, and awesome mic spam.
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lol i remember when I was a koreaweeaboo
this was like 3 years ago
oh the memories. such bad horrible nerdy memories.
I absolutely despise you guys btw
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I didn't think it was possible to be weeaboo unless you're white.
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this is why i said koreaweeaboo
cuz if it was a koreaboo then you'd be into korea
i think.
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That means I'm on the cusp of being a koreaboo :/
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I'm pretty sure playing starcraft means you're automatically in that category :U
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i'm sure eating steaks means you're white then
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Lol, well, not just that. I'm slowly learning korean (not very much right now). I really like the language, actually. I've been listening to korean hip-hop for a while now, too.
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i'm sure eating steaks means you're white then
I thought it was "PIG AMERICAN, DO YOU WANT CHEESEBURGER?"
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I thought it was "PIG AMERICAN, DO YOU WANT CHEESEBURGER?"
are you stupid
it's
pig amellican do you wan cheeju bugguh
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So I've decided that I don't like Death Note, mainly because of the lack of realistic characters. Actually, that's pretty much the only reason. I like anime/manga that has realistic characters in unrealistic situations, which eliminates most of it.
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I hate when people decide that some character has to have all sorts of weird characteristics and such. I think that L is the most retarded character I've heard of in a long time, honestly.
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I think that L is the most retarded character I've heard of in a long time, honestly.
He is really. I liked the beginning of the series were little was known about him other than being awkward and lol smarts, but later on he has top of the line high tech government facility and he knows Kung foo.
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I mostly don't like death note because of the "OH MY GOD HOLY CRAP WHAT IF SOMEONE FIGURES OUT WHO I AM OH SWEET JESUS OH GOD OH MAN WHAT'LL HAPPEN OH MY JESUS OH GOD" moments Light has every two seconds inside his head, which makes less happen in an episode than your average episode of DBZ.
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Not as bad as all of the "EXACTLY AS PLANNED" moments.
On a related note, I just freed up 6 GB of space on my hard drive.
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The problem is watching Death Note in the first place. It's much better in manga form as you can just read through those ZOMG DRAMATIC MOMENTS in like 10 seconds instead of watching Light laugh with sinister music for 10 minutes.
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*shrug* Gay? Meh, I've watched things equally gay. For me anime tends to be a bit of a guilty pleasure, because I can't stand most (read: about 99%) of shounen anime. I enjoy stuff like Whisper of the Heart infinitely more than most action based anime...
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Well, I can't stand watching stuff like DBZ and crap, where the whole thing is just about action, and trying to be badass and stuff. I watch stuff that's story driven. Sure, it can have action (Shakugan no Shana, and Darker Than Black both have quite a bit of action throughout them, and I enjoyed both (thought I have yet to completely finish either of them :/)) but that should never be the main point. If you look at the list of anime I posted in the first page, you'll see Magic Knight Rayearth (Magic Girl anime by Clamp), Simoun (very drama/plot driven, voiced entirely by girls), and 5 Centimeters Per Second ~ a chain of short stories about their distance ~ (drama, a story about a guy and girl who fall in love, but can't be with eachother due to distance), I'm watching Ef and Shinigami no Ballad, I've watched part of the Utena series. So yeah. I watch a lot of girly crap, just because I actually enjoy stuff with a plot, and most anime geared towards guys focuses too much on "ZOMG MECHA EXPLOSION MINDFUCK!!!11!1!!@#$##!@"
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Shounen shows are by far the most generic series you could watch. I absolutely cannot enjoy them simply because every situation feels completely forced.
Just because something is based on action, that does not mean it doesn't have a plot. I mean, dear god, look at Berserk.
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Good point. But I was talking about the 99% that focuses on action and ignores plot.
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Okay then, finished with Welcome to NHK. I must say I liked it, the ending was kind of a bummer, but still a great show.
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FUCKING BUMP, but yeah, how is Darker then black?
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Great. I haven't finished it, but everything I have seen is great. (I'm up at episode 20ish)
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Doublepost for bump.
So, I just finished the last episode of Samural Champloo. Damn, why didn't I watch that show before? I thoroughly enjoyed it, and would definitely recommend it to anyone here.
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Doublepost for bump.
Lies! Poasthoar! :)
Jay kay, Eye luv yew!
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So, I just finished the last episode of Samural Champloo. Damn, why didn't I watch that show before?
Because you're Canadian? Yeah, it's a rather good show, should be considering it was made by the same guy who did Cowboy Bebop.
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And features music by Nujabes. Fuck I love his music.
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Considering Watching Next:
Haruhi Suzumiya
<weeaboo>
as anti weeaboo as i currently am, i am weeaboo for that show, watch it.
and while i am shamefully at it, get ahold of the dubbed version of cromartie high school, if you enjoy laughing your ass off that is.
</weeaboo>
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Starting Samurai shampoo this week since I <3 bebop
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it was made by the same guy who did Cowboy Bebop.
Holy shit.
*starts LEGITIMATELY OBTAINING Samurai Champloo*
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Holy shit.
*starts LEGITIMATELY OBTAINING Samurai Champloo*
Yup. Money is pretty much the only reason I haven't seen all of Samurai Champloo. I liked what I saw so much that I actually want to pay for it.
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Considering Watching Next:
Elfin Lied
Do it, as Timjing (I think...) said, it's a damn good show. I was thinking about re-watching it.
Starting Samurai shampoo this week since I <3 bebop
Holy shit.
*starts LEGITIMATELY OBTAINING Samurai Champloo*
You didn't know this? Damn, also yes, it is also a great show. Has a similar slight sci fi/fantasy feel to it like bebop did.
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don't know about you, but having seen the end of elfen lied, i found it to be rather retarded.
the main character is a pussy, as most male lead animu characters are. and don't even get me started on ah my goddess, shit like that is part of the reason i don't watch animu anymore.
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Gah, don't hate. I really enjoyed Ah My Goddess (though I only really watched the OVAs, and movie.)
What makes me not want to watch anime is crap like Naruto. Fuck I hate that show.
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how can you even stomach ah my goddess (im surprised i didn't get sick when i watched it), the main character is the biggest sissy i have ever seen in a visual form of entertainment. i raged, hard. i want those hours back, and im not going to get them back.
and on naturo, when they are fightan, s'allright. when its anything to do with "story", id rather watch QVC or the home shopping network.
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I'm the opposite, I'd rather have some sort of PLOT than ZOMG FIGHT.
See, the way I see anime, it's like taking a book, and making it into a show that is animated. If that book consists of crap like "He swung the sword hard. And it sliced off X enemy's hand. Blood went all over." It becomes crap like Naruto (only Naruo is much gayer, because the characters are incredibly lame, and annoying as fuck). The plot in naruto is all lame angsty crap.
When I want to watch fighting, I'll watch something decent, like boxing, or ultimate fighter, or something (maybe some of that insane wrestling my friend watches, that involves stuff like barbed wire, and thumb tacks.)
Now, when I watch anime, I'll watch something that actually has a plot that doesn't make me sick.
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don't know about you, but having seen the end of elfen lied, i found it to be rather retarded.
How so? He Goes against the cops constantly trying to help out Lucy, he slaps Nana when she attacks Lucy, hell he even says "I will not forgive you" to Lucy at the end. If anything his cousin who constantly trying to fuck him is the weak one, she cries constantly for little to no reason.
Also yes, anmeh can have a decent plot that revolves around action, take samurai champloo for example.
Also also IT'S JUST LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF ONE OF MY JAPANIES ANEMAIS?!?
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actually the last episodes were decently done and i didn't mind them too much until the last scene with the clock and the gate and it's like WOW WAY TO COMPLETELY DESTROY THE WHOLE POINT OF THE PREVIOUS TEN MINUTES IN THE EPISODE, FAGGOTS
and after i saw that scene it left the lukewarm aftertaste of balls in my mouth
Yeah, really. You think they will ever finish it? That ending was basically like "tying up loose ends, these people die, LOL LOOK MORE LOOSE ENDS, HEY LOOK AT THIS THING, end".
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Also yes, anmeh can have a decent plot that revolves around action, take samurai champloo for example.
I was going to use that as an example of an anime with fighting and a not angsty/mentally retarded plot.
Shakugan no Shana has fighting, and a decent plot. Sola seems to have fighting, and a pretty cool plot. Simoun had boatloads of fighting, and an amazing plot (if you can stomach all the voices being done by girls, even for guys).
All of those shows are primarily plot driven, but feature fighting as a main part of the show.
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So for my PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE samuari champloo, I have episodes 1-26. is that all there is?
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That's the case for most animu, so I'll have to say yes.
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Yep. 26 episodes is 1 full season. Most anime (except for those insanely long running ones, like DBZ, Naruto, Sailor Moon, etc.) are 1 season. Some are even less. Rec is something like 10 10 minute episodes, and there are others (I can't think of any right now).
Sometimes you get ones that are only 13 episodes.
Oh, and there are OVAs, which run anywhere between 1 and 5 or 6 (I haven't heard of/watched anything with more than 5, and that was the Ah! My Goddess OVAs).
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i was considering getting a (get ready for adjectives) japanese rising sun flag belt buckle. maybe since ive been such a fucking with the adicts lately i'll just get one from them. But regardless, that design is so fucking cool.
i'll share a little more weeaboo in here.
(http://www.nissansilvia.com/wp/wp-content/japanese_flag1.gif)
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I've always thought that design was really well made. It's simple, recognizable, and pleasant to look at.
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hurray empire of japan
w2g
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So I just watched episode 12 of Darker then Black. What the FUCK just happened? *SPOILER*That was so much at one time it hurt, did that scientist die? Was that his sister who protected him? If so, is she dead? Just tell me if this gets answered.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(2009_film)#Live_action_film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(2009_film)#Live_action_film)
"...it is reported that [Leonardo] DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be playing the lead roles of Kaneda and Tetsuo, respectively."
please fucking shoot me
now
edit: but hey i guess it's going to try to cover the entire manga instead of a shortened second half of the manga (like the anime movie)
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Oh wow, well, that might be interesting. Also what is this trend of making old animes into live action films.
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to me it seems like it's more of a trend of manga adaptations to live action film (the new Akira adaptation is of the original manga; dunno about the DB adaptation, could be manga or anime, but sounds like it's going to raep the DB story so it doesn't matter much anyway; are there any other adaptations that are being made?) -- it looks like there may be an american adaptation of Battle Royale one of these days, although I dunno if it's based on the book or the manga; the main difference being that the manga had a different instructor, and had MUCH more character development.
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Well, the japanese have been turning anime into live action for a while (Sailor Moon, Prince of Tennis and Death Note all have japanese live action versions, among many others). It's becoming a bit of a trend here, now that more oriental movies are being accepted in western culture, and anime is becoming more and more popular.
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Oh wow, well, that might be interesting. Also what is this trend of making old animes into live action films.
it's awesome. imagine if they did old games over again with current gen capabilities changing everything but leaving the exact same story, etc. IIRC there's a project out there that does that with Goldeneye 64, and you can play it on your computer also with online multiplayer.
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They are, but it's mostly the MOD community. Take black mesa source, for instance.
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FUCKING BUMP because there is a new show on adult swim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_of_the_Sacred_Spirit
Also, I've almost finished Berserk. I wish I had earlier, it's getting rather interesting.
Also also we need another thread like this, for engrish shows.
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So someone in my hall has a 1 TB external full of anime, and I went through and picked out the following that I haven't seen:
Kanon
Galaxy Angel
Gatekeeper
Gunslinger Girl
Planetes
Puni Puni Poemy (seen Excel Saga)
Welcome to the NHK
Berserk
Chobits (read the manga)
Elfen Lied
Full Metal Panic
High School Girls
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Lucky Star
Pita Ten (read some of the manga)
Trigun (seen the first few episodes)
Vandread
Opinions?
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Puni Puni Poemy nearly killed me with the rofls.
Trigun is <3.
Elfen Lied...heehee
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Chobits is more cutesie then anything else.
I love FMP, FMP:Fumoffu, and FMP: The Second Raid.
You might like Ah! My Goddess...I prefer the manga myself...(movie was really good). Another one the check out (sorry I am not going with the ones on the list) is Love Hina (perferiblely the manga).
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I've seen/read Love Hina, though there was a visually annoying encoding error in most of the video files. I thought it was alright.
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Ah! My Goddess is a definite recommend for me, albeit I prefer to movie and OVA over the series.
I'll second and third Puni Puni Poemi, that show is possibly one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Honestly, I suggest you watch all of them, at one point or another.
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So I just watched the first 5 minutes of the first episode of Lucky Star, then I paused it, ripped the audio for the theme song, and made a simfile of it because it was so catchy I couldn't wait until the episode finished.
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Okay, just finished berserk. I must say I wasn't expecting demon rape. Still, pretty damn good.
Also annon, finish the rest of Trigun and Elfen Lied. Trigun starts out corny, but it gets better and Elfen Lied is awesome, along with Berserk.
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So I just watched the first 5 minutes of the first episode of Lucky Star, then I paused it, ripped the audio for the theme song, and made a simfile of it because it was so catchy I couldn't wait until the episode finished.
:D
It's called Motteke! Sailor Fuku, and it's the catchiest god damn thing on the face of the Earth
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Agreed!
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I do believe this file is going to be my contribution to the s.net megapack.
As for Lucky Star, I'm enjoying it. It reminds me of Azumanga Daioh (of course), but I like it better.
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Yeah, It's a great show, although I feel stupider every time I watch an episode.
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I've been meaning to watch Da Capo, lol.
I also need to watch Kanon and finish To Heart.
Also, if you remember, I am obsessed with Magic Knight Rayearth.
I think I might have you beat for gayness.
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I just finished Lucky Star, now I'm starting on Welcome to the NHK!, and I'll probably watch through Planetes next.
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I just finished Lucky Star, now I'm starting on Welcome to the NHK!, and I'll probably watch through Planetes next.
Welcome to the NHK! really will give you a new respect for shut ins. At least it did for me...
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I like it so far. I like the psychological-type anime, and I enjoyed SE: Lain a lot, too.
Also, I'll try to go through Kanon, but it's been a while since I've been able to stomach shojo.
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Also, anyone who likes Lucky Star may also enjoy Popotan, lol.
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Well, I just finished Welcome to the NHK!. It was good. Now I'm rewatching SE: Lain, and it's weirder than I remember.
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Yeah, Lain is seriously weird. However, it's als on my list of MUST SEE anime.
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I showed a bit of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei to Spectere when he was over last night. Highly recommend it to anyone who likes morbid humour and a bit of absurdism. :D
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I've been thinking of watching that one, my GF has watched some and loves it.
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So I tried watching High School Girls/Girls' High/whatever, but I just couldn't. I know it's shallow to say this, but the animation style just doesn't fit with the premise.
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I showed a bit of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei to Spectere when he was over last night. Highly recommend it to anyone who likes morbid humour and a bit of absurdism. :D
I wanna seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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goggle: GODDAMNIT I'M STILL WATCHING THE RUCKY STAH INTRO
Aldrasio: .com/Weeaboo
Aldrasio: dude, rakki staa has the mostt catchy intro ever
goggle: HOLY FUCK, I JUST SHAT MY FUCKING ORGANS IN FUCKING RAGE
goggle: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
goggle: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
goggle: FFFFF
goggle: F
goggle: F
goggle: F
goggle: F
goggle: OH GOD I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW
goggle: IF YOU WERE HERE I WOULD FUCKING TEAR YOUR HEAD OFF
goggle: YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW
goggle: OH GOD
goggle: RAGE
goggle: I'M IN PHYSICAL PAIN
goggle: HHHHNNNNNGGGGHHH
goggle: ARGH
goggle: GOD
goggle: FUCK
Aldrasio: like, I watched the first 5 minutes of the first episode, then paused it and ripped the intro and made 2 stepfiles out of it, one for pad and one for keyboard
goggle: OH GOD
Aldrasio: you realize they're making fun of weeaboos
goggle: IT'S LIKE THERE'S A PARTY IN MY HEAD AND EVERYONE IS IN BLACK-OUT DRUNK RAGE MODE
Aldrasio: and doing a damn good job of it
goggle: I DO NOT EVEN CARE
goggle: I AM SO PISSED
goggle: OH GOD
goggle: I'M GETTING TROLLED INTO NEXT WEEK
Aldrasio: calm down, omar-chan
goggle: D:<
goggle: OH GOD RAGE
goggle: I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING
goggle: I AM ACTUALLY SAYING FFFFFFFFFFFF
goggle: fuck
goggle: goddamn
goggle: their voices are like pain
goggle: in audio form
goggle: I FUCKING HATE JAPAN SO MUCH
goggle: GODDAMNIT
goggle: FUCK JAPAN
goggle: FUCK
goggle: FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
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goggle: I'M GETTING TROLLED INTO NEXT WEEK
Haha, greatest quote ever.
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Yeah, so one guy on my hall went to Nan Desu Kan this weekend and got me a figurine from Fate / stay night, so now I'm checking that out.
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Yeah, I've been rather interested with that as well. There's a LOT of following in the doujin stuff for Fate / Stay Night.
Usually the few titles that pup out to me in any comiket torrent are stuff for Fate / stay Night, Mint Jam, and a couple other doujin music groups, like MOSAIC.WAV.
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Nan Desu Kan is cool. I went to it in Denver in 2004 for a decent chunk of a day. Got a NGE t-shirt and two Mobile Suit Gundam figures.
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Getting Saikano via IRC right now. I've read the manga and I thought it was good, albeit depressing.
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I've been watching Dennou Coil (AKA: Denno Coil, and Coil A Circle of Children). Pretty good so far. Anyone who enjoyed the technology aspect of Lain would probably enjoy this, though it has a very different atmosphere.
Also watching Zero no Tsukaima - Princess no Rondo, and Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei.
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two annie-mays I plan to download and watch soon... anybody seen them before? Suggestions?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_Hunters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_Hunters)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokurano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokurano)
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Well, I VERY quickly scanned Sorcerer Hunters on wiki, and saw Megumi Hayashibara credited in the song. That's usually a good sign.
The only thing that bothers me is the whole "let's name characters after food" crap. It's been done. Numerous times. Please. Stop. :/
Bokurano certainly looks interesting. I may have to check it out myself.
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Update: I just finished watching Dennou Coil. I can't even put into words how much I enjoyed it. The first part of the show is a little episodic, and overall simplistic, but the later part of the series is amazing.
I don't want to give anything away, but they introduce a lot of different messages. Things about finding your path in life, how people are connected, and many other things, and they way they present them is amazing. The writing, the plot itself, everything in that show is amazing. I would suggest that anyone who says they watch anime should watch it. Anyone at all.
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I want to check out Genshiken, but I have no way to get it.
I tend to like the "slice of life" type of anime/manga like Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh.
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Sounds good bobbias, I should check it out. I was also think of watching Cromartie High School, is this awesome y/n?
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Sounds good bobbias, I should check it out. I was also think of watching Cromartie High School, is this awesome y/n?
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I just watched the first 4 episodes of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. It's pretty good.
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I like Slice of Life anime, as well as action/romance ones like Zero no Tsukaima/Sola and such.
Part of Dennou Coil is that it combines serious issues with a somewhat lighthearted anime overall. The ending is very serious, but most of the series is pretty light hearted.
And yeah, some of the themes it explores are (spoilered in case you think it might wreck some of it)
-Letting go of the past
-Growing up
-Finding your own path in life
-People are connected, however thin that connection may be
-Dealing with loss and pain
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So I just finished Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. It was pretty good.
I'm starting Elfen Lied now.
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My anime/video game club just watched a bit of Elfen Lied the other day.
It was a lot like the dreams I kept having last summer. Haha.
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My anime/video game club just watched a bit of Elfen Lied the other day.
It was a lot like the dreams I kept having last summer. Haha.
The violence in that series much gorier the Evengelion.
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The violence in that series much gorier the Evengelion.
Indeed. Guess why I didn't sleep too much last summer. :P
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I'm also 10 episodes into School Days. Makoto's so far had sex with 3 different girls, 2 of which he had sex with multiple times, none of which were his actual girlfriend.
EDIT: I just finished School days. God damn that was a fucked up ending.
EDIT2: Still haven't seen all of GitS:SAC, so I'm watching that all now.
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EDIT2: Still haven't seen all of GitS:SAC, so I'm watching that all now.
That's the second season right? I never understood why adult swim stopped showing either of them.
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That's the second season right? I never understood why adult swim stopped showing either of them.
It's the TV series. SAC 2nd gig is the second season. Ghost in the Shell was a movie.
I never understood why they stopped airing it either, it's a damn good show.
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FUCEN BAMP.
I'm re-watching Trigun, I really forgot how awesome this series is (and how depressing it gets near the end, also Wolfwood's death was horrible, jesus christ). Also I don't understand the hype for cromartie high school, I just didn't find it funny most of the time. Also for some reason Adult swim has Shin Chan, Fooly Cooly, Ghost in a shell STC, Cowboy Bebop, and Big O. I fucking hope they stick with this for at least a while.
and on another note, Jo Jo's bizarre adventure looks dumb, but in a good way, should I bother with it?
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I just finished Shakugan no Shana. It was good, definitely worth watching. Now I need to get the second season.
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I just finished Shakugan no Shana. It was good, definitely worth watching. Now I need to get the second season.
Agreed. I really enjoyed it. However, I haven't seen the second season either, but hopefully it didn't go downhill like the second season of Zero No Tsukaima did (they are made by basically the same people, but there were some staff changes on the ZnT writers and director for the second season).
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My first and last post in this thread:
(http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6369/vlcsnap200502ur9.jpg)
Back to talking about shitty jap stuff
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gtfo narutofag
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gtfo narutofag
they call themselves narutards...
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No, they call themselves Asian. Also I was wondering how Planetes, Tekkaman Blade, and Sky girls are.
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I started watching Code Geass. It's really good.
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No, they call themselves Asian. Also I was wondering how Planetes, Tekkaman Blade, and Sky girls are.
I can't say anything for the other two, but I did see the first 2 or 3 episodes of Planetes on some winamp video stream a while back and I've been meaning on watching it. It seemed pretty interesting.
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No, they call themselves Asian. Also I was wondering how Planetes, Tekkaman Blade, and Sky girls are.
Sky Girls is an abomination. Don't touch it.
Planetes is one of the most earnest and beautiful series that has ever been released. The ending is unbelievably heart-warming and the rest of it is a mix of comedy and drama that's pretty much all realistic. Wonderful show.
Tekkaman Blade rocks and, despite being older, was actually way ahead of its time and is pretty good. Much burning machismo, old-school man-screaming and surprisingly high quality animation for a show that old. Highly recommended.
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Lol, yeah, from what I saw about Sky Girls, I was gonna stay away from it. Far away.
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Machismo you say? Well I'll probably check out Planetes first, thanks for the info.
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So I only have the first season of Code Geass, which gets increasingly fucked up towards the end and then the last episode ends with the definition of a cliffhanger: Two guys are aiming guns at each other, ready to fire. The screen goes black. A shot is heard. The credits roll. Now I have to get that second season because this series is so good.
EDIT: I'm almost finished with Fate Stay Night, but I really had to try and make it through. The animation is good and the fight scenes are well-choreographed, but the characterization is so weak I could barely get into it. It also doesn't make sense that there aren't more reports of destruction or weird noises coupled with huge beams or any of the other stuff that comes from them fighting (Compared to Shakugan no Shana, where they set up a Fuzetsu to fight where everything freezes and they can easily repair the inevitable damage afterward).
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EDIT: I'm almost finished with Fate Stay Night, but I really had to try and make it through. The animation is good and the fight scenes are well-choreographed, but the characterization is so weak I could barely get into it. It also doesn't make sense that there aren't more reports of destruction or weird noises coupled with huge beams or any of the other stuff that comes from them fighting (Compared to Shakugan no Shana, where they set up a Fuzetsu to fight where everything freezes and they can easily repair the inevitable damage afterward).
I always thought that was an awesome idea.
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So, I just finished Fate/Stay Night myself, and have to say I absolutely loved it. Compared to nearly all the anime I watch, it was refreshing to see a more adult anime. Sure, some of the characterization is a little weak, but I found that the rest of the show more than made up for that.
Too few anime show blood and injuries like Fate/Stay Night does, well, few of the ones I watch anyway. I guess I'm partly to blame for choosing shows geared towards a younger audience, but I usually choose my anime based on the story synopsis. I find that the anime geared towards adults tends to go out of it's way to be really adult, and the anime geared to younger generations tries to keep it to that age group, so you see very few shows that combine aspects of both.
As for the lack of reports of destruction and such, I think that since the government was covering up most of the other effects, it would be safe to assume that they were also covering up the rest of it. Mind you, gigantic energy beams and explosions are a bit difficult to cover up, but given the way that the rest of it is dealt with, I'm pretty sure that the government would come up with something, however weak their explanation might have been.
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I'd like to watch a series with plenty of violence, maybe a little bit of creepyness thrown in, along with a great storyline. ADVISE PLZ KTHX
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Elfen Lied pretty much covers all of that (I liked the story at least). Outside of that, I guess the second ghost in a shell season, but it isn't that bloody violent.
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I started watching Black Lagoon. It's pretty good.
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I started watching Golden Boy, but I'm having trouble finding episodes with english sub.
Someone reminded me their was a Big O movie made, I NEED to see it now.
Also I want to check out Outlaw star and Read or Die.
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So Black Lagoon is awesomely awesome. I'm 11 episodes in and I love it.
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Man it's been so long since I really watched an anime series. I think the last one I was really into was Death Note, which I only watched until it was licensed. I did buy five of the DVDs, but haven't even watched those yet either. Since then, on occasion, I've downloaded some episodes of a series here and there, but never really stuck with anything. Not because I didn't like them or anything, I guess I was just lazy about getting more episodes or something =\.
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I just started watching Haibane Renmei. This is one of the few series I've started while having absolutely no prior knowledge of it. I've only seen the first episode so far, and it seems pretty interesting.
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Finished Haibane Renmei. It was good, but I was disappointed with the way it ended. I also watched the first episodes of Tales of the Abyss, Toaru Majutsu no Index, Chobits, and Beck because I wanted to check them out. I'm starting the rest of Beck now, then I'll watch the rest of Toaru Majitsu no Index.
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Hey, is Tower of Druaga any good?
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I'm starting the rest of Beck now,
Good. The show comes off as a teen drama, but it's well written. Just try to ignore the meh music when they start playing.
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Hey, is Tower of Druaga any good?
I just read a blog post that praised it (well, the first season). And apparently the blogger is a bit of a jackass when it comes to reviews, so likely anything he points out as being good is likely worth watching, or at least checking out.
I've been watching K-On, Saki, Shangri-La and Maria+Holic lately. K-On, Saki and Shangri-La are all ongoing though, and that pisses me off, lol. I hate waiting to be able to watch it. I like being able to watch 2 or 3 episodes whenever I want and chose my own pace for going through the series, which is why I usually don't watch ongoing anime.
Still, they all look pretty good so far.
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I really want to re watch the whole two seasons of GitS. I'm starting to understand a LOT more of what''s going in in the original season by re watching the later episodes, and I was never that in love with the second season (OH HAY YOU HAVE GRAY HAIR YOU'RE INTERESTING WANNA START A REBELLION?) but I'm sure I'd like it more if I watched it episode by episode.
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GitS:SAC is alright. Animation is fantastic, but not a lot goes on in each episode and it feels a bit drown out. I've only seen the first season and a few episodes of the second, though.
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So, I've started watching a bunch of different anime, but the most recent addition to my watching habits is Fist of the North Star. Normally, I'd try to stay as far away from something like crunchyroll as possible, but considering they have all 150+ episodes of Fist of the North Star available for free streaming right now, it's hard not to.
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Fist of the North Star
aaaAAATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA
WAATAAA.
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I started watching K-on! after reading about it on wikipedia. It's ongoing, so the only torrents you'll find are either individual episodes or up to episode 8. It's pretty good, enough to keep me interested.
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Yeah, I've been following it too, as well as Saki and Shangri-la and Kurokami.
K-on is pretty hilarious.
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Yes, I also demand recommendations.
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I've never watched Toradora, but from the little bit I know, I think you guys would likely enjoy K-on. This season has been rather lackluster for me... About the only anime I find myself watching form this season are Kurokami, K-on, Saki, and Shangri-la.
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So I've been watching alot lately. Most stuff I liked, some I didn't. My "collection" if you can even call it that (in alphabetical order):
Basilisk, Cowboy Bebop, Desert Punk, Elfen Lied, Ergo Proxy, Gankutsuou (The Count of Monte Cristo), Gungrave, Hellsing, Mai Hime, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Samurai 7, Samurai Champloo, Serial Experiments Lain, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Vision of Escaflowne, Trigun and Xam'd
Holy shit thats alot.
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(http://i41.tinypic.com/2upwf8p.png)
Epic trap.
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I'mma have to vote Grimmer's death as the saddest moment in any anime, ever. :'( :'( :'(
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I fucking love Ghost in the shell . I'm REALLY starting to understand the second season, and it's almost shocking how confusing the show is. Really, I remember hearing someone say it was a bunch of nonsensical bullshit, but once you understand the little lingo-terms they use (Stand alone complex is a big one) everything seems to fall into place nicely. That and I'm just realizing now how the first season is a LOT like the second, just warped all around.
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So a friend of mine (who's somewhat of a weeaboo stoner) showed me the first two episodes of GTO. Fairly crazy show, surprised I haven't heard more about it. I suppose I'll have to watch the rest of it.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-debut-halo-legends/53157?type=flv
So yeah, Halo now has an anime. Discusssssssss.
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Haha, GTO is awesome. A bit old, but it's a classic.
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I remember reading pretty far into the manga, but never got into the anime.
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Also, I've been watching Code Geass. Fuck that show is crazy. Too bad the opening and ending music sucks. Typical of any Sunrise anime :/
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Geass is maybe one of the few Sunrise shows I dislike the OP/ED for.
Everyone should watch Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and Canaan.
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Haha, Yeap, the OPs and EDs sucked. Well, I kinda liked the one by Jinn.
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Everyone should watch Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and Canaan.
I watched the first episode of 8.0 a couple of weeks ago, and it was good. I need to get the latest ones.
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I've never heard of either of those, lol. Guess there's a couple more worth checking out. Too bad I find it a pain in the ass to try to follow anime as it comes out most of the time. There are so many crappy shows that it's usually not worth trying. Mind you, with the number of shows airing dropping a bit, it is easier to find out which ones are worth following.
Hmm, just checked out the info on Magnitude 8.0. Sounds interesting, and I'm interested in hearing the opening. I enjoy Abingdon Boys School openings. Both of them sounds interesting, so I'll probably check them out.
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So...no one cares that Halo is getting an anime? Am I the only one who just finds it as a bad move?
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I heard about that. My opinion is, "it can't be any worse than the upcoming World of Warcraft movie." I'd really have to wait and see what the anime is like though, before judging it too harshly. I'll just say, I've never been much of a Halo fan :U
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"it can't be any worse than the upcoming World of Warcraft movie."
WHAT. Are you srs? Also I'm not really a fan of Halo, but this is just going to rape the lore to death.
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WHAT. Are you srs? Also I'm not really a fan of Halo, but this is just going to rape the lore to death.
My opinion is that it could be good (good story stay close to halo lore), good if you don't know anything about halo (good story, but complete off of lore) or it could be absolutely horrible. I have a feeling the it is going to be one of the last 2.
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The "lore" for Halo is on the level with high school sci-fi writing comp stuff so I don't think anyone has to worry about anything.
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I started watching Eden of the East after I read that the guys who made TM8.0 made it. I've only seen 2 episodes, but I think it's pretty good. I like how they actually got American actors for the parts that take place in America.
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http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/07/26/iron-man-wolverine-anime-trailers-impress/
oh lawd :q
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The "lore" for Halo is on the level with high school sci-fi writing comp stuff so I don't think anyone has to worry about anything.
heh, from what I've heard the novels are well done but the in game stuff is just "I'M A HERO IMMA SAVIN' HUMANITY I'M SUCH A BADASS".
Also I've been looking for a good show to watch, and now I'm kind of overwhelmed with options. I suppose I'll finish GTO and then go back to Golden Boy then I'll try to check out Eden of the East.
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Okay, every episode of GTO seems to be a a bit meh. I'm hoping it picks up again.
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WOLVERINE AND IRON MAN ANIMES (http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/07/26/iron-man-wolverine-anime-trailers-impress/)
just in case anybody missed it. Surely this warrants some sort of discussion =U
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Well, from the previews, and just from the fact of who those 2 guys are, I'm betting that news of that is going to unleash a gigantic shitstorm.
I'm rather interested in seeing where those will go though.
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apparently, people were pretty mixed about the Wolverine one, but it seemed like a lot of people liked the Iron Man one. I felt they were both pretty cool looking. And yeah, I hope this goes somewhere good.
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apparently, people were pretty mixed about the Wolverine one, but it seemed like a lot of people liked the Iron Man one. I felt they were both pretty cool looking. And yeah, I hope this goes somewhere good.
Iron Man should translate well, hell he is basically Astro Boy if you think about it. As for Wolverine, yeah that's a different story.
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apparently, people were pretty mixed about the Wolverine one, but it seemed like a lot of people liked the Iron Man one. I felt they were both pretty cool looking. And yeah, I hope this goes somewhere good.
Oddly, I think wolverine looks pretty awesome. Though I didn't watch the trailer or anything, I just mean character design wise.
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See, Wolverine does actually make sense for a Japanese-styled type of thing because a great part of his past takes place in Japan. Problem is, most action anime these days don't actually animate action scenes and instead do the ol' single swing of blades, show light trail/flashy effect, guy falls apart so it'll likely feel too tame for what Wolverine does.
Iron Man will probably be just fine though. Robot man with lots of missiles/lasers is right up Japan's alley.
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Well, they made wolverine very samurai like (probably playing on the japanese affinity for blades). But it does look a bit tame. Less action than I'd expect, considering that wolverine is well known making his own solutions to problem, which usually include breaking something.
But yeah, Iron Man looks awesome. I just hope they don't exclusively focus on him in his suit. There's a lot of room for bringing the human element into it, instead of just being all action.
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Iron man looks cool and will probably do well.
However, the wolverine one has me a little on edge. The long hair and lack of facial hair are what really get me.
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I figured lots of people would have trouble with the design. I actually really like it.
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So I was watching Boku no pico, and I no longer fear death.
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A) Why?
B) Try the 3rd one in the series. Hot shota 3 way! If you can't tell, I'm not endorsing this whatsoever. Also, any possible mental scarring, suicidal tendencies, or any other mental or physical anguish you may receive is entirely your fault.
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Well there was a guy who owned a livestream channel, and he took a bet to see how long it would take to get his stream booted for showing inappropriate material and so far the channel had been up for something like 5 months. So, I enter and see that people are seeing how long they can watch it, and I decide to see what all the hubub was about. the worst part was the female voices.
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Okay, ignore all of that, is Black Lagoon worth watching?
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Okay, ignore all of that, is Black Lagoon worth watching?
Very much. BL is one of my favorite series.
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I just finished watching (the first season of) Suzumiya Haruhi. It was pretty good. :>
But what's up with them doing the virtually the same episode eight times recently, or so I heard? That sounds like a huuuuuuuuge dick move.
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They're trolling IRL.
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Just watch the first, second, and ninth episodes of the second season so far. The rest don't matter.
Related:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/kadokawa.jpg)
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http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/08/12/anime-studio-recruits-slaves-by-blood-type/
what the fu
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Fucking people and their damned superstitions.
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I started watching Toradora. I'm not usually one for this type of anime, but I'm enjoying it a lot (although I HATE the OP and ED).
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[Redacted]
I've been wondering if I should watch that one or not. I do tend to like stuff like that (I did watch K-on, and I am watching Saki), but only to a certain degree. I'm kinda picky and not at the same time about what I watch. I have weird tastes in anime, lol.
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What are you TALKING ABOUT?! The first とらドラ OP is great! The first ED is ok as is the second OP, and the second ED isn't that great.
Cool thing I was told the other day: "Taiga" is the transliteration of "tiger"; in Moonspeak, tiger is tora. In kana, "Ryuuji" contains the kanji for dragon 「竜」; the shortened transliteration of dragon is "dora".
Right now I'm watching はいぱ・ぽりす. It's about furries who are policemen.
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Sorry, I have to retract my earlier statement. Apparently the video I watched was fucking terrible quality, and many of the issues you hear form low bitrate audio encoding affected it, making it sound like shit.
I'm beginning to like it, actually.
Also, Taiga is an actual name, as well as the transliteration for Tiger.
Dora is used in mahjong, among other things.
But yeah, sorry for saying it was garbage, it certainly sounded like garbage on that particular video though :/
Also, I'm a lazy bastard and hate using the window IME, so I rarely use any moonspeak in my posts in non-romaji form.
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I usually only use moonspeak when searching for videos or music.
And I know that a lot of people like TD's theme music, I'm just not one of them.
Also, comparing TD to K-ON is like comparing Cowboy Bebop to Galaxy Angel.
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Fucking Japs.
Fix'd.
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I just watched the first episode of Toradora, since my torrent for Code Geass R2 is apparently full of broken videos (they play, then then the video freezes somewhere, and sometimes the audio is also broken for a portion of the episode).
Also, comparing TD to K-ON is like comparing Cowboy Bebop to Galaxy Angel.
I was more referring to the fact that they were both comedic anime that took place in school.... It's not like I was trying to compare K-On and GITS or something...
I'm so used to hearing Rie Kugimiya calling someone a stupid dog and yelling 煩い it's actually almost comforting to hear it again, lol. Makes it feel that much more familiar (Pun NOT intended :/).
Also, it seems that Taiga's last name 逢坂 means meeting hill, or something similar. And her first name's kanji (大河) mean large river.
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my torrent for Code Geass R2 is apparently full of broken videos (they play, then then the video freezes somewhere, and sometimes the audio is also broken for a portion of the episode).
Are they MKVs? My Suzumiya Haruhi torrent had a problem like this, where it would find a "broken" part of an episode and loop back to an earlier part in VLC. They ran fine in MPlayer, though.
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No looping, though they are MKVs. Sometimes there would be working audio and no video. I tried Media Player Classic Home Cinema, as well as VLC and neither worked. They both broke at the same place. Since that happened, I deleted the torrent. (Though it's only in th erecycle bin, for the moment). I guess I should try something else, just to see. I'm downloading the Mplayer for Mingw32 right now, just to see if that works, since it's quite a bit different than my other media players. (I've got MPCHC, Zoom Player, VLC and WMP)
Fake Edit: Just tried it in Mplayer. It still fails to render a bunch of frames. I just caught the errors as I closed the window (not used to working with programs that have a console screen running like that, lol).
So yeah, the files are quite broken.
Edit: Watching Toradora. Damn that show is addictive. I've seen quite a few of Kugimiya Rie's newer shows, lol. (I'm more used to referring to her in japanese order, lol).
Edit2: Retested the broken files. Realized they aren't MKV. They're AVI, and the error was that the Header was missing.
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I was more referring to the fact that they were both comedic anime that took place in school.... It's not like I was trying to compare K-On and GITS or something...
And I was referring more about how they take place in similar settings, but one is pretty much pure comedy while the other has drama and such.
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And I was referring more about how they take place in similar settings, but one is pretty much pure comedy while the other has drama and such.
I understood what you meant, and yes, after watching both, I agree. They are both school-centric slice of life anime with a lot of comedy, but Toradora has drama (inherent in the fact that is is a romantic anime that doesn't blow chunks).
also, after listening to the second opening a couple times, I'm definitely beginning to like it. it's not quite as good as the first opening, but it still has a pretty catchy sound. Though I'm still not a huge fan of either ending. they're good, but not any more than that.
Annon, thanks for mentioning Toradora. I just finished watching it, and really enjoyed it. I don't know why, but I really enjoy romantic anime, lol. Well, some of them anyway. It's been a long time since I've seen something I enjoyed this much. I think the last time I saw an anime that made me feel like this, it was when i watched Simoun.
Since I mentioned it, if anyone else likes anime with a very in depth story and a lot of drama, Simoun is a great show.
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I just finished it too. It's probably the first solidly romantic anime I've seen that I really enjoyed. It's definitely in my list of favorites now.
It's funny, though, because no one recommended it to me. This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wDKPfjp9JI) showed up on my "Recommended for You" list on Youtube and I thought, "Hmm, that anime looks interesting, I might want to check it out."
EDIT: So I just got Simoun. I'll check it out in a bit.
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Alright, I hope you can handle the fact that the entire cast is voiced by girls, (including guys). I made a rather large write up about it on the first page of this thread, IIRC. It's very heavily dramatic, and has a lot of philosophical messages. But I can definitely see how some people wouldn't like it, as it is a pretty different anime.
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So I just got to the twin children episode on Black Lagoon and I must say, shit just got real. Funny how I hate a decent amount of the cast but I still love the show. Also GTO was starting to get boring and a bit too crazy, but I've been really enjoying the last few episodes, currently on 39.
Also yeah, my friend now wants a recommendation for anime. So far he loved the Ghost in the Shell seasons and he seemed to like Black Lagoon and he's looking for anything with decent action I'm assuming. I told him to check Elfen Lied but I'm not too sure how much he'd like that.
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Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Full Metal Alchemist come to mind. Read or Die OVA/TV and Trigun are good too, and Mai Hime/Otome both have good action, if a bit melodramatic at times.
If he's into cyberpunk stuff, Dennou Coil and Serial Experiments Lain are both good.
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Be warned, ROD the TV starts off a bit uninteresting.
I've never understood why people like FMA... there's something about it that just pushes me away. But yeah, it's likely a pretty good chose for action. Another good suggestion I haven't seen yet is Darker than Black.
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Mai Hime has one of the worst casts in all of anime. I HATE every single character in that entire show.
Have him start watching Canaan.
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What can anyone tell me about Aria?
Also, I'm starting to like both of Toradora's OPs/EDs. Funny how overall quality of an anime makes the music seem better.
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Lol, I've gotten to the point where I want to remix silky heart. I'm in the process of trying to use the karaoke version to cancel out the music so I can steal the vocals. Unfortunately, I don't have adobe audition on this computer yet, and that program is FAR superior to goldwave for technical stuff.
What can anyone tell me about Aria?
I haven't watched very much, but I've seen a couple episodes, and liked it. It seems to be a slice of life that's very episodic. It might change later on, but the first few episodes don't have any real main plot, as far as I could tell. Seems funny, and lighthearted, so I may yet watch more than the first 2 or 3 episodes. If you want a good site to look up info on an anime (who voiced a character, what the op/ed is, how good the show is, or the plot info) I would suggest using Animenewsnetwork.com. There are a few sites out there like it, but I think ANN has the best info, and the quality voting system doesn't seem to be too far off (though of course the popular stuff like naruto will always be rated highly).
It reminds me a lot of Piano, which I really enjoyed. Speaking of which, I was amazed when I found out that my local rogers actually has the Piano boxed set. I was surprised when I found out that Ayako Kawasumi did the opening theme herself, too. She is pretty talented.
Also, watching Minami-ke right now. It's pretty funny.
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Well, I just finished Black Lagoon, and I must say that was a bummer of an ending.
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I watched the first 2 episodes of Kamen no Maid Guy. That show's crazy.
Also started watching Bokurano. Fucked up shit happens.
EDIT: Damn, I'm in the middle of a lot of different series right now. Simoun, Eden of the East, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Dennou Coil, Kamen no Maid Guy, Bokurano, Toaru Majutsu no Index, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai, and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I really should try to finish them out individually.
ANOTHER EDIT: Bokurano finished. I thought it was pretty good. Had some cool giant robot fighting scenes and more depth than most series like that, but I don't think you're really missing anything if you don't watch it.
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Decided to watch Texhnolyze. Seems pretty wicked. And the characters were designed by the same guy who created lain and haibane renmei.
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So I enjoyed Elfen Lied, what else is similar or recommended by those who enjoyed that
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Just finished GTO. Was an alright show, had some slumps but overall was a fairly entertaining show.
Not sure what to go onto now, might go through the first season of GitS since I didn't get all of it.
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What are you looking for in a series similar to Elfen Lied? Berserk! has the High Violence Factor that Elfen Lied did, but it focuses more on friendship and big guys cutting each other in half with swords. Hellsing is also apparently High Violence -- but honestly, I haven't really seen that many shows around much closer to Elfen Lied. Maybe I've just been living in a cave for three years. :X
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I don't watch all that much anime, but from what I've seen, you can't really compare Elfen Lied to anything else. but yes, Hellsing also has a lot of violence.
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Hellsing and Berserk are the best ever. I even think they're better than Elfen Lied.
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I think I shall watch hellsing.
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Elfen Lied would have been much greater if it had stayed true to the manga. :-U
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and not finish about half way through the story?
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Ultimate Weeaboo: Being president of your school's anime/video game club.
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Huh. After watching anime with no subtitles for 30 minutes, I forgot they were speaking Japanese.
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Ultimate Weeaboo: Being president of your school's anime/video game club.
I planned on trying to do that this year if I have enough time (the way things are looking: no).
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Yeah, it'll be pretty interesting to see how I manage this, considering this is by far THE busiest semester I've ever had. I've got a seventh class starting on Monday. haha.
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I don't think I can watch Canaan, because it's fucking confusing. Like I understood the first episode fine then the second one came along and I had no fucking clue what was happening. I'll try and stick with it for a few more episodes. Also Dennu Coil seems interesting.
Oh yeah, and how's Gungrave :3
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Somebody else is running anime club, but I have 1) the room we'll do it in, 2) the computer we'll use to watch it, and 3) probably most of the anime we'll watch
Also, I just finished downloading Fushigi Yuugi. :3
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I've been meaning to watch that one.
Right now I'm in the middle of Texhnolyze (fucking awesome) and Welcome to the NHK, re-watching Simoun (quite possibly the only yuri show that has a proper explanation for why it is yuri), testing a bunch of others, like Minami-ke, Today in class 5-2, downloading and possibly re-watching Hitohira (yet another school/slice of life/comedy show... still damn funny, and fun).
I'm thinking of checking out Xam'd, Kurenai, Chaos; Head, Kurozuka, Koi Kaze, Kaiba, Le Portrait de Petite Cossette, Otogi Zoshi, Noir, Planetes, and god knows what else.... (list here more to remind myself, than anything)
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Xam'd should be number one priority, followed by Planetes. Then probably Kurozuka I guess.
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Xam'd is very good. Start with it.
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Thanks for the input, With a list like that, it'd take me a while to weed out the ones I'm not willing to finish/too lazy to finish from the ones that are worth it.
From what little bit I've seen in AMVs and such it does look awesome, and Planetes has more or less been on my list since I saw it air on some streaming video thing from winamp, years ago. I just always have something else to watch, and forget.
Man, I wish I knew if my college even had an anime club. Somehow, I doubt it.
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Xam'd sounds somewhat interesting, suppose I'll check it out too. Also Dennou Coil is probablyt the closest thing I'll ever come to watching a "little girl anime".
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Xam'd sounds somewhat interesting, suppose I'll check it out too. Also Dennou Coil is probablyt the closest thing I'll ever come to watching a "little girl anime".
Lol, I really enjoyed Dennou Coil. Sure, it was a bit juvenile, but sometimes we just need something that isn't overly intense the whole time. I thought that being what it was (the ending gets pretty interesting), I was actually more impressed by it being targeted to a younger audience.
I wish american kids had shows that bordered on the mindfuck genre like that, lol. Sure, it's not crazy enough to really be a mindfuck, but it does get pretty intense later on.
That being said, I guess the majority of shows I enjoy aren't far off from "little girl anime"..... Mind you, Shugo Chara and stuff like that makes me utterly sick to know that the majority of western people think of that or Beyblade when the term anime cames up, rather than something like Simoun, or Darker than Black, or say, Elfen Lied.
Huh. After watching anime with no subtitles for 30 minutes, I forgot they were speaking Japanese.
I envy that ability. After watching the K-on special (basically recaps their live appearances, and plays the "music videos" for their music and pretty much wastes 25 minutes) I was only able to understand most of it because I'd already watched the same thing not long ago. (My japanese vocabulary is appallingly small right now).
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I envy that ability. After watching the K-on special (basically recaps their live appearances, and plays the "music videos" for their music and pretty much wastes 25 minutes) I was only able to understand most of it because I'd already watched the same thing not long ago. (My japanese vocabulary is appallingly small right now).
I was watching K-on as well. I figured I'd get along alright since the show is pretty simple. I don't know much vocabulary, but I'm picking up the grammar.
I also tried watching Code Geass without the subs, but that didn't work out too well.
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Haha, Code Geass would definitely not be a beginners, with some of the terminology they use. K-on shouldn't be that hard, but even so, I really have a VERY limited vocabulary. I was able to understand probably about 60% of the actual dialog (at best) by ear, and the rest was just from having seen all those scenes again (as it was the recap special that just showed them playing live, and the little bit of talking around them).
I probably should watch more raws, because I find that I really don't pay too much attention to what they're really saying a lot of the time in the subbed episodes. I pick out the odd word and look it up in JWPce (No need to switch things around with the IME, built in dictionary, etc. etc.), but I really don't pay nearly as much attention as I would watching RAWs.
The biggest things I need to work on right now, before I get much better at japanese are particles, and verb endings. (http://www.as.ua.edu/nihongo/verb_table_roomaji.htm is a DAMN useful page)
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I wanted to download けいおん！ blu-ray rips, but man, they big (probably ~8.5 GB for the whole season), and I have about 5 GB of disk space free.
I try turning the subtitles off on some animus, and can sometimes understand stuff, as long as the conversation is nice and simple. I find it much easier to comprehend 日本語 when I'm playing a video game, except it's pretty annoying when I have to look up a 感じ by hand (I only play console games, because I'm hardcore).
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except it's pretty annoying when I have to look up a 感じ by hand
Fairly certain you mean 漢字.
EDIT: So I finished Kamen no Maid Guy. That series is completely crazy. I love it. Now I'm finishing up Eden of the East.
EDIT2: lol, there was a Star Trek preview in the middle of one of my Eden of the East episodes.
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I've reached the end of my first full week as Queen of the Weeaboo, which concluded with our club's first official meeting of the term.
As of our first day, we have 25 members. Considering most clubs are lucky to have around ten by midterm, I'm fairly excited.
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I just watched the first episode of Fushigi Yuugi, and just, wow
20:16:06 <@Lachesis> Miaka gets cornered by a group of thugs in ancient china, intimidates them with her vaccination scars, says "Tsuki ni kawatte oshioki yo!" and starts attacking them with wrestling moves she saw on TV
I don't know why I didn't like this show when I first saw it.
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Finished Eden of the East. It was pretty damn good. At the end of the last episode's credits, it said that a movie was confirmed for late November, so I'll be looking into that.
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There will actually be two movies to help fully explain everything and actually, you know, finish the show.
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That's good, because they left a lot of loose ends.
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I wanted to download けいおん！ blu-ray rips, but man, they big (probably ~8.5 GB for the whole season), and I have about 5 GB of disk space free.
I try turning the subtitles off on some animus, and can sometimes understand stuff, as long as the conversation is nice and simple. I find it much easier to comprehend 日本語 when I'm playing a video game, except it's pretty annoying when I have to look up a 感じ by hand (I only play console games, because I'm hardcore).
Man, Even the 日本人 call it K-On! The name is a pun. Also, maybe I'll download those, just because 1TB is a lot of space, and I plan on dedicating VERY much of that to anime.
And yes, 感じ means feeling, You meant 漢字. There's a reason I like JWPce. I can use the dictionary to make sure that I'm using the right 漢字 for what I want to say, without needing to do any extra (like finding a 日本語ー英語 online dictionary, or looking it up in a paper one). All I do is type the 仮名 into JWPce, highlight them, hit ctrl+d and look for the right entry. It only becomes a problem when you search for certain things, specifically English words. Like trying to look up Death, or Die. With no names, Die comes up with 148 results.
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Wait, what's the pun?
Also, I did mean to type 漢字, but Windows IME made it 感じ and I didn't read it over.
Right now, I'm downloading Pani Poni Dash, Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan, and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (original, A's, and StrikerS). I want to get Grandia and Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG for the Saturn in the near future, too.
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Well, the pun is that the name is in fact K-On! (with those specific letters), but it is pronounced the same as 軽音楽, alluding to the fact that they are all members of the 軽音楽部. The name isn't けいおん or 軽音楽.
It's just minor wordplay, but the point is that the name alludes to something else, despite not actually meaning anything by itself.
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I just read The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Now I understand why everyone wants to see it animated.
EDIT: Just watched the first season of Genshiken and the OVA, and now I'm about halfway through the second season. This show's awesome.
EDIT2: Finished the second season. Overall, Genshiken is pretty damn awesome. I definitely recommend it.
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Second Anime Club meeting today. We watched an episode of Fushigi Yuugi, Bokurano, and Monster, and the promo for Mai HiME. I planned on showing a few episodes of Axis Powers Hetalia but they froze VLC on my laptop, and one of Outlaw Star, but I forgot my external DVD drive. Everybody kept talking loudly during the shows and they were making fun of Bokurano, a show I happen to really like. It's full of unpleasable shits. If they act like this next week, I'm quitting 4 life. I spent five minutes after I got everybody to leave systematically going around the school and tearing every anime club flyer I saw off of the walls. >:[
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My uni's anime club is like that. I went last thursday and determined that I don't fit in with normal weeaboos.
That said, last weekend was Nan Desu Kan, Colorado's largest anime convention. I went with a group of 7 other people, only one of which I knew pretty well. I had a lot of fun with them, and I'm going again next year.
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Second Anime Club meeting today. We watched an episode of Fushigi Yuugi, Bokurano, and Monster, and the promo for Mai HiME. I planned on showing a few episodes of Axis Powers Hetalia but they froze VLC on my laptop, and one of Outlaw Star, but I forgot my external DVD drive. Everybody kept talking loudly during the shows and they were making fun of Bokurano, a show I happen to really like. It's full of unpleasable shits. If they act like this next week, I'm quitting 4 life. I spent five minutes after I got everybody to leave systematically going around the school and tearing every anime club flyer I saw off of the walls. >:[
Wow, that is fucking horrible.
I've joined the "Georgian Geek Squad" and a number of the people I met when I joined seem to watch anime, and have at least somewhat similar interests, so maybe I'll be able to watch anime with people who care about stuff other than bleach and naruto.
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So I'm rather enjoying Serial Experiments Lain, but I'm hoping it explains itself a little bit better in the latter episodes (it's doing a good job now, but there's still a lot of unanswered questions) so I'll probably finish that before going back to Dennou Coil or Canaan.
Also up at my friends college we had a really weeaboo discussion on one of the slower nights and I basically told all my friends to watch Ghost in the Shell and Black Lagoon. They seemed to only really be into the more mainstream stuff.
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Lain only gets weirder and more confusing. I've watched it 3 times and I still don't really understand it. Also, it seems like every time I watch it, it's always even weirder than I remember it.
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Haha, so true. The fact that it seemed to be going nowhere fast, and yet was becoming more and more enigmatic at the same time (usually pretty fucking hard to manage) just pulled me in and made me want to watch more in hopes that there would be some point of revelation later on.... Then I learned there wasn't one, and I left the series more confused than I was after the first episode (which by itself is pretty fucking weird).
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Mai Hime was one of the first anime series I watched all the way through. At the time, I enjoyed it. I tried watching it again yesterday, and I couldn't even make it through the first episode because of how unlikeable the characters were (Eggman from a few pages back, you were right). I shouldn't trust my taste in anime from 3 years ago. I decided I should try rewatching some other series I enjoyed at the time, which right now only include Ouran High School Host Club, Rozen Maiden, Mai Otome, Witch Hunter Robin, and Azumanga Daioh. I'm not going to bother with Mai Otome because I doubt the characters will be any better than in Mai Hime.
Wall of text later, I'm rewatching Ouran High School Host Club. I didn't expect to like it since lately I've tried several different shoujo series and didn't really like any of them (which is pretty flawed logic, since shoujo is more a demographic than a genre), but Ouran is pretty damn good.
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Lain only gets weirder and more confusing. I've watched it 3 times and I still don't really understand it. Also, it seems like every time I watch it, it's always even weirder than I remember it.
Really? Meh, that's never fun. Maybe I'll go back to Canaan but that was even more confusing and just plain hard to understand (random taxi drivers just jumping off of buildings for the fuck of it).
Oh yeah, and I've heard rumors of Black Lagoon and Berserk getting new seasons, can anyone confirm anything?
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Dunno about Berserk, but I saw on Wikipedia that Black Lagoon is getting an OVA in 2010.
Started watching Canaan. It's pretty damn awesome.
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Started watching Death Note, it's pretty damn awesome
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Damn right it is. :P
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I've never understood why people liked that show. The quirks in the characters are so ridiculous it's downright stupid.
I'll admit I like some of the ideas in it, but there's so much crap in there.
I've watched the first episode, and part of one of the much later ones, and I can't say I enjoyed it much in either episode. :/
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Funny how most people I know like the show to start with, then one it gets into it they lose interest.
Also I fucking love the opening theme of Serial Experiments Lain.
I'm almost done with the show, but it gives me a really depressed feeling so I'm kind of slow watching it.
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Yeah B
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Okay, Lain down. Somewhat of a happy ending I suppose, not a bad show either.
Suppose I'll have to give Canaan a bigger chance.
Oh wait, I completely forgot about Hellsing.
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Alright then, so far Hellsing is fairly corny and rather cliche but watchable somehow. Also someone reminded me of Blue Gender, and I have to watch a few episodes of that now.
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I started watching Planetes a few days ago.
Why is this series so obscure? It's probably the best series I've ever seen. Ever. It's incredible.
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Suppose I'll move onto that one next, I've had my fill of action anime for now.
Also how long is the girl that leapt through time and 5cm a second?
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I started watching Planetes a few days ago.
Why is this series so obscure? It's probably the best series I've ever seen. Ever. It's incredible.
No idea, though I've been hearing great things the whole time about it whenever I mention it to someone who has seen it.
Suppose I'll move onto that one next, I've had my fill of action anime for now.
Also how long is the girl that leapt through time and 5cm a second?
Animenewsnetwork.com says
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Running time: 98 minutes
5 Centimeters Per Second
Running time: 62 minutes
I really enjoyed 5 Centimeters Per Second. I haven't seen The Girl Who Leapt Through Time yet though. My girlfriend has been really trying to get me to see it though, lol.
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I can't find Planetes...
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Check your PMs.
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I started watching Planetes a few days ago.
Why is this series so obscure? It's probably the best series I've ever seen. Ever. It's incredible.
You see? The ending is seriously the most heartwarming thing ever.
Honestly, it's probably because the show really isn't very flashy at all, nor does it have a standard plot of any kind.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is REALLY good too. I watched that with some friends as soon as it had fansubs for it. Amazing movie.
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Mort, make sure you see the OVAs of Hellsing. Hella better than the series.
Also I kinda stopped watchin' anime after Xam'd. I just can't get into it like I used to be.
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Doesn't it just cover the same story, but shorter and with better animation?
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The Hellsing OVA "Hellsing Ultimate" is an actual adaptation of the manga, unlike the anime series, which had its own stuff going. It's much truer to the material and is much better.
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Finished Planetes. Now I definitely have a new favorite series.
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Huh, the Hellsing OVA actually mentions Nazis.
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Just watched the first episode of Bakemonogatari. It was really, really weird and now I want to watch more of it. It had one scene where I felt like I was being attacked rather than the character in focus, which is the kind of atmosphere I love.
Though the version I have doesn't have a lot of the rapid text that flashes translated, which bothers me because I feel like I'm missing a lot of the story.
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Though the version I have doesn't have a lot of the rapid text that flashes translated, which bothers me because I feel like I'm missing a lot of the story.
In that case, you might want to find a different sub group's version, and see which one you prefer.
This site (http://www.ji-hi.net/bakemonogatari/index.html) compares the fansubs for tons of different shows. The link is to their Bakemonogatari page.
Personally, I think that either gg or Koharubi are the best of the ones shown there. They seem to be the most direct translation, and don't mess things up by adding their own flavor to stuff (which generally indicates that they are better in general, than the other 2).
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I have gg's and they do a good job of getting the speech right. Plus, theirs is the only complete version in the XDCC index I use. I think I'll just wait until there's a torrent up somewhere.
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http://www.animesuki.com/group.php/485.html
That site is amazingly useful for tracking torrent releases, especially when you aren't sure where the website for the group is (or if they even have one). I'm still a total noob when it comes to XDCC and such, so I prefer torrents.
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Okay, I've watched what's been released of the Hellsing OVA, and I must say it was decently better then the Hellsing anime. Really does portray Alucard as more of an anti-hero.
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This is why I love fansubs.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/yoshinoya.png)
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Ok, so I'm about halfway through Simoun. It's pretty damn good, and I love the soundtrack. I didn't have much trouble getting around the "everyone is voiced by a woman" aspect, but the "everyone is gay" aspect took some getting used to.
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Well, all things considered, it IS a yuri show... But unlike every other one, they at least have an excuse for it in their backstory.
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Simoun just keeps getting better. I had some trouble at the beginning, since it introduced nearly all of the main characters and setting at once, but once I got familiar with all of it, it got so much better. I'm guessing it'll be better the second time through.
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Yeah, it does definitely get better as the show progresses.
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Finished Simoun. I liked it. I'm not really sure what to make of the ending, though.
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...I can't get these MKV files to load...
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So I watched First Squad, and somebody said it's supposed to be turned into a full anime series, but I haven't seen any sources to back that up. It was an entertaining movie, anyway.
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...I can't get these MKV files to load...
A) what program?
B) Is this the first time using MKVs?
C) Have you installed [urlhttp://www.cccp-project.net/]CCCP[/url]?
WMP doesn't play MKVs, though most other video programs will. If you haven't installed the CCCP, do so, and try again, because it has all the resources for playing MKVs, among other file types. If you have, and are using some other program other than WMP, try them in VLC if you haven't already, since VLC comes pre-configured to play many files, including MKVs.
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I was using DivX, which supposedly said it could read MVK files.
and it still can't with CCCP installed, but I'll have to mess with it.
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Use Media Player Classic Homecinema or whatever it is. It's tiny and excellent.
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The latest VLC (or at least the one I have right now) can play MKVs a lot better than some of the previous versions. Really, unless you're using mplayer from the command line, you don't have an excuse not to use VLC =U
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I use command-line mplayer when I watch stuff on my Eee, but only because it's less resource-intensive than VLC.
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Use Media Player Classic Homecinema or whatever it is. It's tiny and excellent.
Yeah, I tried that exactly after I posted that post.
Suppose I should just get rid of Divx completely.
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Watching Paranoia Agent. I love surreal horror when it's actually scary.
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I had no fucking idea what was going on when I watched that show, I'm assuming it has more to do with the victims states of mind rather then anything more solid.
Also Planetes seem fairly awesome, but the whole helplessly floating through space while debris whizzes past you kind of freaks me out.
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Use Media Player Classic Homecinema or whatever it is. It's tiny and excellent.
Agreed. That program is awesome. I use that for most videos, but for some reason it doesn't like to read alternate audio tracks in the MKVs I've got, so I use Zoom Player, which is a bit more resource intensive and a bit slower to respond (and lags when opening MKVs), but it works, and I can tell it to use japanese with subs, which MPC apparently can't (even though I remember being able to do it in that a while ago).
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Wow, episode 5 of Planetes was nuts.
Also yeah, so far so good with this show.
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Just went to Anime Planet and put together a list of series, movies, and OVAs I've watched to the end. The total came to 54. Granted, it counts individual seasons separately (for example, Black Lagoon is counted twice and Genshiken is counted 3 times), but still, I had no idea I was that much of a weeaboo.
EDIT: Bakemonogatari is pretty awesome. I'm not usually into series with such a surreal atmosphere all the time, but this series somehow hooked me from the start. I'm only on episode 7 right now, because it's really hard to watch more than 1 or 2 episodes at once.
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the only good anime i've ever seen is NGE
and maybe elfen lied, that one was pretty quality. except the manga went fucking nowhere after lucy decided to SPOILERS
dbz was real quality too...
but i just wanna say that white people that follow animes religiously really really bugs me. idk what's about it but hearing them say anything japanese when they don't look cultured enough/wear shirts from buckle just realy bugs me.
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I really enjoy anime, but I absolutely HATE the image it gets, thanks to all the retards who watch it. And yes, I'm trying to learn Japanese, but part of that is because I like the language itself. I'm also trying to learn Korean and Russian (very very slowly) as well.
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the only good anime i've ever seen is NGE
and maybe elfen lied, that one was pretty quality. except the manga went fucking nowhere after lucy decided to SPOILERS
You might like Black Lagoon, I fucking loved it but it seems like a love it or hate it type of thing.
Also yeah, I generally try and keep my anime watching habits on the DL due to the negative stigma of the whole thing. At least video games are semi normal, considering I put at least 4 hours a day on them.
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I just rather like how despite the fact that I'm the president of my school's anime and video game club, I watch very few anime series, and I can't be arsed to drop money on new video games anymore. haha.
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Meh, I like anime. I know what its image is here, but I really don't care. I still like it.
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Meh, I like anime. I know what its image is here, but I really don't care. I still like it.
Same here really.
Also just finished Planetes episode 19, and Hachimaki is a dick.
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Started watching Last Exile. I got a dual audio version because I heard the English dub was really good, and it is. I'm 2 episodes in and I really like the setting.
Also, I gave one of my non-weeaboo friends the first season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. He really enjoyed it. I think I'll give him Welcome to the NHK next.
EDIT2: I watched all of Blue Submarine No. 6, then I watched Voices from a Distant Star. Both were much, much better than I expected. I haven't watched many OVAs, and I really didn't expect to get the impact I did get from such short works.
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I've been meaning to watch Hoshi no Koe :/ I keep putting it off.
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Planetes done, it was rather good. It overall kind of had a fairly episodic feel to hit (they kept periodicity saving something from something) but it was still a good show that had a surprising amount of its cast die.
Fairly good cast too, but something about it just feels off.
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Yeah B
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Well, to be honest, they each have their own sound and style.
Twilight has Duvet on it, and has a mix of rock and acoustic sounds. It's a bit less mellow than Get There. Get There has a more polished style, with more acoustic elements, but a harder sound, at the same time. It's hard to explain, and both albums are good.
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Then I must get both.
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So I'm in the middle of Last Exile, Paranoia Agent, and Lovely Complex right now. Once I finish all of them, I'm going to start on Monster, because it's 74 episodes and I don't think I could watch a series that long if I was watching anything else.
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Just finished the Tower of Druaga. It easily ranks highly amongst my favorite anime ever. If you haven't watched it yet, then I suggest you do. :)
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So I'm in the middle of Last Exile, Paranoia Agent, and Lovely Complex right now. Once I finish all of them, I'm going to start on Monster, because it's 74 episodes and I don't think I could watch a series that long if I was watching anything else.
Monster is the greatest anime series of all-time. There is no arguing. It is so completely different everything else and so amazingly intense. It's also a shot for shot recreation of the manga, which is also amazing to see. The only other one of those I can really think of is Hajime no Ippo, which is the other best anime/manga series of all-time.
Berserk is the part three of the trifecta.
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Monster and Berserk are up there in my favorites, too, along with Slayers, Outlaw Star, and Tower of Druaga (which I just said). Monster, Slayers, and Druaga tie for my favorite series ever :S
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lol, slayers. I watched the first arc (the first 10 episodes of slayers) and really enjoyed it. Not sure why I ever stopped.
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Monster is the greatest anime series of all-time. There is no arguing. It is so completely different everything else and so amazingly intense. It's also a shot for shot recreation of the manga, which is also amazing to see. The only other one of those I can really think of is Hajime no Ippo, which is the other best anime/manga series of all-time.
Berserk is the part three of the trifecta.
I'll check out Monster then. Also what about Jojo's?
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Arc 3 of Jojo is really the only one worth paying attention to. The other ones are really weird. Or in the case of Stone Ocean, the characters are hideously ugly.
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So, I just watched Darker than Black, season 2. I was hoping for it to be a bit more like the first season, but I really liked the ending. Sure, it wasn't dark (though it had it's moments), but I really liked the ending. I can't say it was entirely unpredictable (though I didn't guess a bunch of it, it wouldn't be that hard if you payed attention to certain details), but I felt that that was exactly where it had to go.
Considering that they brought in a character like Suou, and relied on emotions more than the original, and had many more light hearted moments and other crap (like using the word loli), it turned out rather well.
Overall, I really enjoyed it, I just kinda wish it had been a bit darker (no pun intended :/) than it was.
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I just watched Perfect Blue.
First impression: The animation looks pretty cheap.
Last impression: What the FUCK.
So yeah, it was really good and now there's no goddamn way I'm going to sleep anytime soon.
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So Monster definitely looks interesting. Any thoughts?
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So I tried to watch To Aru Majutsu no Index. It has great animation and a fantastic soundtrack, and the story was really interesting... until the main character irrevocably lost his memory in the 6th episode. I watched until the 18th episode just hoping that I'd get to see more of the awesome that started the series out, but it never returned. This was very disappointing to me.
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So Monster definitely looks interesting. Any thoughts?
It's the best show ever made. Or manga. Either one.
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So I ordered the novel of Welcome to the N.H.K.! because the anime is one of my all-time favorites and I hear the book is amazing as well.
EDIT: Ok, so I was watching the first episode of the new season of Hidamari Sketch. I paused at this frame:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/easteregg.jpg)
I don't know if the top numbers are significant, but the bottom ones are pi, and I googled the ones in the middle. Turns out the ones in the middle are the ISBN-10 code for the first Hidamari Sketch manga. I need to look up other random numbers in SHAFT's shows.
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Started watching Nodame Cantabile. I get the feeling I'm going to like this series a lot.
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Dennou Coil is really weird, but super awesome. Like, it has that ageless quality to it like Studio Ghibli stuff does, where the characters are awesome and really easy to empathize with even if they're children. It also won some Sci-fi award last year.
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Started watching Nodame Cantabile. I get the feeling I'm going to like this series a lot.
I was right.
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Monster is a surprisingly badly drawn show. I'm enjoying it, but damn. Maybe Planetes and Hellsing have spoiled me.
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What the fuck man.
It looks fine. It's just not your average art style. There's more detail in that show than most others and it doesn't use any CG so things are actually animated.
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Just watched Pale Cocoon. Another really good short film. The animation is absolutely beautiful.
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It looks fine. It's just not your average art style. There's more detail in that show than most others and it doesn't use any CG so things are actually animated.
Huh? There was literally a scene were Nina (?) held up her hands and they were way WAY out of proportion. That and there's other goofy things that tend to go on like that.
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I just realized the opening song here was in English.
Well I really need to re-watch and marathon the first GitS series. I just watched an episode I've never seen before. Also I want to watch through G-Gundam because that show is so corny it's awesome.
but yeah, Monster is really dragging on. I just can't get hooked on it like I do with other shows.
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bumpan, but I finished Ghost in the shell SAC. Much better then I remembered it being, at a lot less confusing then I initially thought it would be.
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so im subscribed to this australian news thinger, y'know so i can get my global news on youtube, and i found something related to this thread.
even though it is on youtube, i would call it nsfw.
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I'd second that. Also fairly interesting video, definitely creepy tho.
Also is Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei recommendable?
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Also is Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei recommendable?
Hell yes. It's absolutely fucked up, lol. But you really need to get one that also translates all the stuff on the blackboard, and signs and such. You'd be missing out on like, half the show. There are always tons of jokes and references to other shows and such on them.
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I'd second that. Also fairly interesting video, definitely creepy tho.
Also is Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei recommendable?
YES! Yes yes yes! Watch it! And listen to Bobbias!
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hmm...
http://www.goodsmile.info/product/en/390/Nendoroid+Haruhi+Suzumiya.html
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Oh the bump.
So I just watched Alien Nine. I really liked it. It's undoubtedly the weirdest anime I've ever seen. In only 4 episodes it manages to be every possible kind of weird. It starts out really cute, which is really why I put off watching it for so long, but it gets very disturbing very fast.
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I just added Fist of the North Star and Gunbuster to my list. It's not getting smaller :<
I've been watching through Noir, though. That's a pretty good show, I don't know why I put it off for so long.
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You are already dead.
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Anime you should think about watching:
The first two here are new anime just airing now. Gosick has two episodes out and Hourou Musuko has one right now.
Gosick - This is an interesting one. It takes place in a Victorian setting in some made up country in europe. The main character is a Japanese exchange student and has been nicknames the Black Reaper because of his black hair and dark eyes. One day he meets a girl in the botanical garden above the library who looks like a doll (ZOMG GOTH/VICTORIANLOLI!&!!). The show is based around the fact that she is insanely smart and generally solves mysteries very quickly and easily. Overall the show has great animation, and it's a nice take on a genre I'm usually a bit skeptical of (I generally dont like "mystery" shows that play up that things are so amazingly mysterious). The characters seem to have fairly well fleshed out ideals and histories. Definitely one I'd suggest following.
Hourou Musuko AKA Wandering Son - This show is not for everyone. Shuicihi Nitori is the main character, at first glance a shy and quiet boy, but there's a deeper reason for that. Shuichi is not happy being a boy, and he has a habit of wearing girls' clothes. He is also friends with his classmate Yoshino Takatsuki, a tomboyish girl who wants to wear a boy's uniform. This show examines the issues of gender identity in a very frank fashion; it doesn't play things up, there's no slapstick, or jokes at the show's expense. It's a serious take on trans-gendered children in middle school, and the problems they face. The animation is beautiful, and looks like it was entirely animated with watercolors. I've only see on episode, but I am definitely going to finish this one.
These are anime that have second seasons coming out now, which I haven't started yet because I just began watching the first one:
Mitsudomoe - How bad can elementary school children be? These 3 sisters will show you. This show is vulgar, violent, and sometimes downright deranged. It's Satoshi Yabe's first day teaching, and he's assigned class 6-3, home of the Marui Triplets, Futaba, Mitsuba, and Hitoha. They waste no time in torturing and harassing him, doing everything from smacking him in the face with a porn magazine, trying to hit him in the balls (under the pretense that if he is injured there the nurse, which he likes, would have to examine him there and that would somehow kick start their relationship).t's full of in jokes later on as well, seeing as the first episode of the second season is an episode of the show-within-a-show which makes fun of Zentai shows. It's twisted, hilarious, and sometimes just downright insane, and I definitely recommend it.
I'll add more later.
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Tengen toppa gurren lagann = awesome, much more uplifting version of neon genesis evangelion
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Tengen toppa gurren lagann = awesome, much more uplifting version of neon genesis evangelion
My friend jeff likes it... He also likes shit like bleach. This makes me REALLY not want to watch it, not to mention everything aside from Row Row Fight The Powah I've heard about it sounds like I'd hate it :/ I dont want to hate it without having seen it, but everything I've seen and heard just points towards it being something I'd hate :S
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Seconded. I haven't tried to watch it, but it looks like a rather shallow show.
Also after getting my friend into GitS, he's tried getting me into Bleach and Full metal Alchemist. Also he got all butthurt when someone said that most anime was shit, which I agreed with, then he went all mad and asked me what exact shows were shit, and I just said most
I just figured that I've been watching anime for years longer then him and basically got him into it that I should have a say about it over him, but I guess not.
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I agree most anime is shit. It's really sad that there are only about 3 anime that look legitimately good this season that aren't just second seasons of something else.
Gosick, Fractale, and Wandering Son are the 3 I'm referring to here. Everything else either looks like crap (except madoka magika, but it's a magical girl anime, and unless it really turns the genre on it's head, the awesome animation won't save it)
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shit
Dude, as a guy that thinks that most anime is shit, Gurren Lagann is amazing. Subs only, dubs ruin the anime SINGLEHANDEDLY. It seriously gets better as the series continues, and it's only 26 episodes long. Characters foil each other very well, and the creators did a great job making sure that you feel for each character. I'm only on the 9th episode and it's simply great.
It's made by Gainax who created NGE. If you've seen NGE (and liked how perfectly the characters interacted with each other), I HIGHLY recommend watching Gurren Lagann.
Also, Bleach is a motherfucking terrible anime. I stopped the instant I saw a filler episode. Fuck that shit.
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Also, Bleach is a motherfucking terrible anime. I stopped the instant I saw a filler episode. Fuck that shit.
wait
are you telling me
that there are non-filler episodes of Bleach?
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Subs only, dubs ruin the anime SINGLEHANDEDLY.
Well no shit on that one. I've only seen ONE anime that was good dubbed, and that was Desert Punk, because the english dialog is what the japanese dialog should have been.
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Well no shit on that one. I've only seen ONE anime that was good dubbed, and that was Desert Punk, because the english dialog is what the japanese dialog should have been.
So I take it you haven't seen Trigun, Bebop, or Black Lagoon? Black Lagoon seems to make the most sense in English, considering they're supposed to be speaking English the entire show.
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So I take it you haven't seen Trigun, Bebop, or Black Lagoon? Black Lagoon seems to make the most sense in English, considering they're supposed to be speaking English the entire show.
Haven't seen Trigun or Black lagoon, but I have seen bebop, and while the voices are certainly better than the average dub, I prefer the sub somewhat.
Let's put it this way, with the tiny number of shows that may benefit from being dubbed compared to the rest which are made even worse, I wouldn't care if the foreign DVD market for anime collapsed entirely. I'd still be able to get subbed anime online, and frankly, I'd rather import the japanese release, because then there's a chance some of my money would actually support the companies that made it, rather than some retarded company that basically destroys most anime they release...
So it's kinda hard to argue that dubs are better to me.
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If I have an official DVD of a series (Gonzo box Set of Desert Punk, Bandai set of Cowboy Bebop, Geneon set of Ergo Proxy, etc.) I prefer watching the subs, because usually the producer is able to go over translations and get more of what the translation is supposed to be, across. If I'm watching a animated film (Howl's Moving Castle, Akira, GitS) I like dubs because I feel there is usually so much more going on in the movie that I don't think that I have time to watch subs, and I usually always miss something because I'm still reading something.
If I download a series, I usually try to find one that gives me both. If I don't like one, I have the other. And there is usually a good set for both in one anime (Gungrave sticks out for me; when I downloaded it I had a version that had both excellent subs and dubs).
So usually for me its just a matter of what I'm watching.
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Ahh, reading speed can definitely affect things. I am a rather fast reader, so I'm never bothered by having to read the subs.
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Well its not that I read slow, its just that I don't want to have to keep switching back and forth between watching and reading. I'm just worried I will miss something if I have to keep going back and forth
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A valid point, it doesn't bother me, but I can see how that can be really irritating. Also, I don't generally include Ghibli films in this discussion because unlike most anime, thanks to the Disney partnership they get real actors to do the voice work, and real actors tend to be much better at voice acting than the people who do most dubs for anime.
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Haven't seen Trigun or Black lagoon, but I have seen bebop, and while the voices are certainly better than the average dub, I prefer the sub somewhat.
That's basically how I am with Cowboy Bebop. The English dub is one of the best dubs I've seen, even now. It's one of the few shows I can watch in English or Japanese, and enjoy them equally, but for different reasons. :3
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Anyone still on this site?
I'm wondering if I should watch Darker then Black season 2, baccano, or that one show that I really can't member the name of (had a young girl with some odd sensory power as the main protagonist).
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Darker than Black season 2 is a different beast than S1, unfortunately. The writing isn't nearly as good, and it eels pretty thrown together. It does have its moments though, it feels like it goes to more extremes both in the lighthearted area and in the darker stuff.
Don't know about Baccano or whatever the other one your talking about is.
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Ah, bummer, might look into it. There's honestly a LOT more western shows I'm interested in, but it seems hard to find sites that even stream them. Also
Haven't seen Trigun or Black lagoon, but I have seen bebop, and while the voices are certainly better than the average dub, I prefer the sub somewhat.
You haven't seen Trigun? What the hell man, go watch that. Show is fan damn tastic, one of my personal favorites. The protagonist can be annoying but it's great. Also a HUGE fan of Black Lagoon, it does really go hard for shock value but it also deals well with moral issues and has some surprisingly great character development. Plus, it has awesome actions scenes, basically the only thing I've seen balance violence and plot so well. I've been dying for a finished second season.
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Ahh, yeah I saw part of episode 1 of Trigun... I didn't think I could handle Vash... I may look into it again.
I've recently finished watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica... Awesome show. If you can handle the bits of the Magical Girl genre that did manage to make it in. Completely turns the genre on it's head though, and has beautiful artwork, great music, and a very interesting story.
Watching Steins;Gate right now, and that show is awesome too. The min character is weird, but not too annoyingly so, and it has a really cool execution of their premise, and some amusing characters.
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Still need to finish Steins;Gate :/ And Hourou Musuko, and I just started watching Chaos;Head. Seems pretty interesting so far.
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Still need to watch Trigun and Black Lagoon nigga. Really, I loved those shows (both have some great character development, Black Lagoon also has a lot of action and shock value).
Also didn't someone here recommend Eden of the East? I remember a bunch of people talking about some great conspiracy show, but I don't exactly remember the name.
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Think that was me. I watched the anime while it was airing, but I still haven't gotten around to watching the movies, so I haven't exactly finished it yet. It's pretty good, though. Basically Bourne Identity in Japan.
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Still need to watch Trigun and Black Lagoon nigga. Really, I loved those shows (both have some great character development, Black Lagoon also has a lot of action and shock value).
Lol, yeah, I'm so bad at keeping everything up. I also want to watch all of Legend of the Galactic Heroes (like that'll ever happen D:)
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Finished the Black Lagoon OVA and was semi disappointed with it. There was no real moral questioning or all that much character interaction really. I mean, it delved into the story of the town and Revy more which was nice but it wasn't up to snuff with the show.
I also saw Red Line, which was pretty goddamn awesome. Like, the story line was completely bullshit, but the animation and the action were top fucking notch. It was like transformers in principle, but way better. it's definitely a movie you need to see in HD to fully enjoy.
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I've been watching a fair bit of anime lately. Finished watching AnoHana, Hourou Musuko, Haibane Renmei, and Steins;Gate. I'm a sucker for drama, and every one of those had a huge amount of drama in them. Even Steins;Gate was more drama than anything else. If you like dramatic anime, I'd highly suggest every one of these.
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai - AnoHana for short, is a show about how the death of a childhood friend can change people... with a bit of a twist. The dead girl herself shows up one day as a ghost that only one of the friends can see. At times the show is lighthearted, especially in the first few episodes, but even then there is a darker undertone at times. It's fairly slow moving, and it doesn't feel like much is happening, but the character interactions are what really drive the show, and in that department AnoHana does not disappoint. The art is very nice, the music fits the moods perfectly, and the characters are interesting and likable. The ending literally had me in tears. Basically the last 2 episodes had me in tears. I don't think I have to say more.
Hourou Musuko - This show is not for everyone. I will say that right now. The show is a story about two children just entering middle school. A boy who wants to be a girl, and a girl who wants to be a boy. It covers the issue quite delicately, showing how hard something like that is to deal with, and emphasizing it by placing the characters at a time in their life when they are dealing with puberty as well. The art is beautiful. It looks almost identical to the manga, with light pastel tones everywhere. One thing that sets this anime apart from all the others is that unlike most traditional anime, the main characters do not have any artistic elements highlighting them as such. There is also a lack of introduction to the detailed history of events that happened before the anime, makes the first episode or two somewhat confusing for watchers. However, if you want drama, this show has tons of it. The main criticism that people had was actually that the characters reacted too maturely to their situations, but I'd consider that a minor gripe, all things considered.
Haibane Renmei - Now this show has some interesting production. Many of the people who worked on this also worked on Serial Experiments Lain (another excellent show I'd recommend anyone watch). The character design and general look of the art (bright pastel tones, but sometimes quite dark as well) are very similar, and both shows have a somewhat dark edge to a plot that at first glance doesn't seem nearly as dark. But thing differ from there. Lain is a very mind-bending show, but Haibane Renmei is fairly straightforward by comparison. It doesn't skimp on the aspect of dealing with deep seated personal issues though. The show proves fairly quickly that there's a lot more going on that you don't immediately see. In the end the show delivers some powerful messages, and deals with some issues many anime would have strayed from. The show once again seems to have a bit of a slow pace in the beginning, but the progression of events follows the progression of Rakka as she begins to find a place for herself in this new world.
Steins;Gate - Now this is a bit of a weird anime. Watching the first episode I was intrigued, a lot happened, and not much was explained... After the first 2 or 3 episodes things began to make more sense... And then things just got weird. This show has more twists than I'd have ever expected. Of course, it is a Nitro+ production, so I shouldn't have been that surprised. The characterization is superb, and the characters all have subtle nuances and really seem to be dynamic. The art is beautiful, and the character deign is quite interesting, despite not straying too far from the anime norm. This show has had me on the edge of my seat just wondering how things were going to work out more times than I can count (or at least, more than I want to). The plot twists are very well executed and aren't token plot twists. The entire point of the plot involves time travel, and we all know what sort of insane stuff you can do with that while still staying within the universe. The drama here is more subtle at first, but the ending is extremely intense. The ending was one of the best ones I've seen so far, and considering the anime I've listed above, that's impressive in and of itself. Oh, and the opening theme is fucking awesome.
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Thanks for all of that actually, I love detailed "reviews".
Also has anyone seen this? Looks pretty cool, and I still want to see the girl who lept through time and that other running movie.