DA's Forever wrote: So I've heard Tokyo Ravens brought a few times around. What'd anyone here think of it? Worth a watch?
It's not bad, watched it weekly but it wasn't something I'd say it's a "must see". It started very cool but eventually it died down a bit and then it picked up the pace again. I admit, near the end I already didn't care much for the plot and the new characters that popped up, the story was starting to get confusing and sometimes they would mention names that did X and I'd just go "Who the feth is guy X? What wht the feth are you talking about?" but that may have just been me.
In other happier news, this is just TOO fething PERFECT.
Hmmm, maybe I'll give a pass for now. Still got other things to watch... Asura Cryin', Black Bullet, a few other shows that their last episode is finally going free to watch.
I'll keep it on the back burner list for a rainy day!
The new series have started : D So much to check out in the next few days
My second season of Hamatora, new Sailor Moon, something about mechs and Mars, Akame ga KILL! and I guess Space Dandy. It's interesting to watch, but to be honest I'm not all that psyched for it
Mechs and Mars was a good first episode, though you don't see much of the Mechs yet. Kill was a pretty sweet first episode as well. Watched the first episode of the new Sailor Moon and didn't care for it at all really.
AduroT wrote: Mechs and Mars was a good first episode, though you don't see much of the Mechs yet. Kill was a pretty sweet first episode as well. Watched the first episode of the new Sailor Moon and didn't care for it at all really.
OMG Akame ga Kill had an amazing first episode! But from what my friends tell me the manga is superior. I'll probably try reading and watching it. I don't really have any expectations for the new SWO series, since I was never a fan of it to begin with. But the first episode made the series look decent, despite the silly name for the villain. It might be a lot cooler in Japanese and his name just translates over into a less cool sounding phrase.
AduroT wrote: Mechs and Mars was a good first episode, though you don't see much of the Mechs yet. Kill was a pretty sweet first episode as well. Watched the first episode of the new Sailor Moon and didn't care for it at all really.
OMG Akame ga Kill had an amazing first episode! But from what my friends tell me the manga is superior. I'll probably try reading and watching it. I don't really have any expectations for the new SWO series, since I was never a fan of it to begin with. But the first episode made the series look decent, despite the silly name for the villain. It might be a lot cooler in Japanese and his name just translates over into a less cool sounding phrase.
Wut? They call him deathgun in English, in the Japanese version.
Frankenberry wrote: Just got through most of Sword Art Online, I'm pretty impressed. Got about 8 episodes left to watch.
I'm sorry, but I laughed. But yeah I'm curious where the SAO2 will go. Death Gun is pretty straight forward. Using a sword in a gun themed game is... Odd. And a feminine avatar? He looked straight up female, period! I'm wondering what that's about.
AduroT wrote: Mechs and Mars was a good first episode, though you don't see much of the Mechs yet. Kill was a pretty sweet first episode as well. Watched the first episode of the new Sailor Moon and didn't care for it at all really.
OMG Akame ga Kill had an amazing first episode! But from what my friends tell me the manga is superior. I'll probably try reading and watching it. I don't really have any expectations for the new SWO series, since I was never a fan of it to begin with. But the first episode made the series look decent, despite the silly name for the villain. It might be a lot cooler in Japanese and his name just translates over into a less cool sounding phrase.
Wut? They call him deathgun in English, in the Japanese version.
Oh they actually say death gun? Still death gun might sound a lot cooler to a foreigner/ non English speaker. Like some people find Egyptian hieroglyphics or Japanese characters cool looking, when its just normal to them.
Dark Apostle 666 wrote: Not having watched "Fate: stay night", will I have trouble with watching "Fate : Zero?"
I'm usually ok at picking stuff up as I go, but if I'm gonna get confused, I'll watch Stay Night first
Fate: Zero actually is BEFORE Fate: Stay Night and I was told it is superior to "stay night". It pretty much ends where Stay Night starts.
I have only watched Fate: Zero and I love how pretty much every single character is fantastic: the typical cast of all high school teens? Nope, not here. I can only count one falling into that category and yet he's fantastic together with his servant, Rider.
Try not to crap your pants when you witness the magnificence that Rider and Archer are.
In short, WATCH IT. The plot, the characters, it's all damn good.
Except for the Spellcaster and master... feth those guys. feth those guys to hell.
Almost done watching Death Note for the first time. While I definitely have enjoyed it, I'm actually kind of glad it'll be ending soon.
Also, the girlfriend decided to start watching Attack on Titan...well, she watched the 13th episode on accident, which basically recaps what happened in the first 12
Anvildude wrote: What would "Death Gun" be in Japanese? Shinijuu. Shinigan. A less 'awkward' to be frightened of, yes?
No he already corrected me above, they actually say Death Gun in English. I was saying that could sound pretty cool to someone who doesn't speak English.
Like for instance, I nicknamed my Vaporeon Mizu in Pokemon. Literally just means water, but the Japanese word for water sounded cool to me, and means something that relates to my pokemon in some way. (Vaporeon is a water type)
Death gun would probably be cooler if they flipped it to the Japanese, probably.
So... recapped the earlier episodes? Needs appropriate meme...Accidentally watched one of those generally boring recap episodes out sequence? TIME SAVED: MORE SHOWS TO WATCH BEFORE YOU DIE NOW.
I missed the second and or third episodes of death note the first time I saw it, I had much (unrealistic) higher expectations of the protagonist for having missed those bits of blatant douchebaggery. But I had a thought today and now every time Ithink of ddeath note I giggle uncontrollably and can never take it seriously again. They say they call the dude Kira from the English killer dont they? Killer, Kirra... robot chicken skit you wan mirrawn darraw? So now that's stuck in my head. Just as well.
Yeah, from the perspective of an English speaker it always sounds corny to me when animes say stuff in actual English to try and sound cool. Doesn't help that the accent sounds clumsy to me. A new one I watched the other day (forget the name but it's a Warring States set one) has one character who was repeatedly doing that.
Nobunagun had some odd ones there- the names of all the e-gene users- heck, "E-Gene" itself, and Dogoo, and pretty much any and all of the names were English names, and it was just weird. Especially when there were decidedly American military personnel and characters talking in this flowing, fluent Japanese, and butchering the English pronunciations. I almost feel like they should have pulled a Destroy All Monsters and just had the Americans voiced by Americans, and the French be French, and the Brits be Brits and all that.
AduroT wrote:Yeah, from the perspective of an English speaker it always sounds corny to me when animes say stuff in actual English to try and sound cool. Doesn't help that the accent sounds clumsy to me. A new one I watched the other day (forget the name but it's a Warring States set one) has one character who was repeatedly doing that.
Grey Templar wrote:It does seem a little weird when a character randomly says "hamburger" in the middle of the show.
Yes. well, unfortunantely in many cases those are actual words of the Japanese language Anything that didn't exist originally in Japan (aka, brought either in the good ol' times by Portugal, Netherlands, etc. or after the war) was transformed into a japanese word using their sounds.
Which means, their word for Hamburguer is actually Hanbaagaa, or ハンバーガー
Well, they have an entire alphabet for foreign words that were turned into Japanese words.
AduroT wrote:Yeah, from the perspective of an English speaker it always sounds corny to me when animes say stuff in actual English to try and sound cool. Doesn't help that the accent sounds clumsy to me. A new one I watched the other day (forget the name but it's a Warring States set one) has one character who was repeatedly doing that.
Grey Templar wrote:It does seem a little weird when a character randomly says "hamburger" in the middle of the show.
Yes. well, unfortunantely in many cases those are actual words of the Japanese language Anything that didn't exist originally in Japan (aka, brought either in the good ol' times by Portugal, Netherlands, etc. or after the war) was transformed into a japanese word using their sounds.
Which means, their word for Hamburguer is actually Hanbaagaa, or ハンバーガー
Well, they have an entire alphabet for foreign words that were turned into Japanese words.
AFAIK they still use the Dutch word for beer, bier. Except, they pronounce it beeru. XD
AduroT wrote:Yeah, from the perspective of an English speaker it always sounds corny to me when animes say stuff in actual English to try and sound cool. Doesn't help that the accent sounds clumsy to me. A new one I watched the other day (forget the name but it's a Warring States set one) has one character who was repeatedly doing that.
Grey Templar wrote:It does seem a little weird when a character randomly says "hamburger" in the middle of the show.
Yes. well, unfortunantely in many cases those are actual words of the Japanese language Anything that didn't exist originally in Japan (aka, brought either in the good ol' times by Portugal, Netherlands, etc. or after the war) was transformed into a japanese word using their sounds.
Which means, their word for Hamburguer is actually Hanbaagaa, or ハンバーガー
Well, they have an entire alphabet for foreign words that were turned into Japanese words.
AFAIK they still use the Dutch word for beer, bier. Except, they pronounce it beeru. XD
Yep, bullseye. Beer is biiru in their language.
They also use "Ko-pu" for "drinking glass" that's the portuguese word Copo and "sarada" for salad that's the portuguese word "salada". They don't have Ls
I recently got around to watching the first ep. of Persona 4 The Golden Animation. It luckily has better funding so the animation is much better than the previous P4 Animation, and best of all Marie is voiced very well by Kana Hana so she's given justice when it comes to portrayal. Pacing is crazy fast though since it's effectively a new game plus adaptation of the game so I would only recommend it to people who've either already finished the game or have watched all of the first P4 Animation. Also it's nice seeing Yu being all swagalicious and Izanagi being lvl 99 OP against the shadows. Still more used to the English voices than the Jap ones though.
I know I'm extremely late to the party with this one, but, thanks to Toonami and a messed up sleep schedule, I now truly appreciate how awesome Black Lagoon is (and can buy the DVD's without worry.)
Blue Exorcist is growing on me too, but I might need to look into that a bit more.
Most of the way through Naruto season 3 and I've noticed the repetition at the beginning of episodes has been reduced a lot... though still an unreasonable amount of talking and back story during fights.
This weekend my wife introduced me to Ponyo, Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service. Actually, we got the dvds for our 2 year old (who LOVES them by the way). I love them
I got her to watch the Cowboy Bebop movie with me. She was impressed (and she HATES fighting).
I am looking for more like all of those above. I haven't seen much anime. I can tell you what I DON'T like, if you guys are willing to give me some ideas of what to watch?
-Dragonball Z
-Sailor Moon
-Full Metal Alchemist
-Trigun
When I was a kid, I remember some sort of anime that was very similar to Cowboy Bebop but I forgot the name. Star or something? There was a red space ship I think?
Brometheus wrote: This weekend my wife introduced me to Ponyo, Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service. Actually, we got the dvds for our 2 year old (who LOVES them by the way). I love them
I got her to watch the Cowboy Bebop movie with me. She was impressed (and she HATES fighting).
I am looking for more like all of those above. I haven't seen much anime. I can tell you what I DON'T like, if you guys are willing to give me some ideas of what to watch?
-Dragonball Z
-Sailor Moon
-Full Metal Alchemist
-Trigun
When I was a kid, I remember some sort of anime that was very similar to Cowboy Bebop but I forgot the name. Star or something? There was a red space ship I think?
Thanks
Outlaw Star
Also out of the new anime that has appeared, I'm really enjoying Aldnoah Zero. The mech design is kind of hit and miss, but I still think they're done pretty well.
Hmmmm Aldnoah Zero seems pretty cool, just looked at some Youtube stuff.
Watch 'Monster'. It's a pretty high quality anime. Sort of like a long show about trying to stop an evil genius murderer. It takes place in Germany during the 80's I think.
Oh wait it's not really like the animes you mentioned. It's still a really good anime. I liked it a lot though I feel like they should've made the anime half as long probably. I usually don't feel that way with animes.
Hmmmm Aldnoah Zero seems pretty cool, just looked at some Youtube stuff.
Oh whoops that wasn't a suggestion based on your likes and dislikes, just another topic on the current anime season. If you really liked studio Ghibli films you could just keep working your way through the rest of them for more stuff to watch. Other than that, suggestions on what you don't like only help in naming off similar series that you probably wouldn't like either.
@flamingkillamajig- you'll notice, the given list is what the questioner doesn't like. So if it's unlike those, they may like it.
Another anime that's very... cogitative, is Ghost in the Shell. There's 2 different series' of it, as well as a couple of movies, all high quality.
Of course, the other Miyazaki movies... Astro Boy was one of the originals, and runs the gamut from way too old to pretty good-
Truth be told, I'd try digging in old '80s and '90s anime if you're not a fan of the newer stuff. Look for the Sci Fi more than most- real-life stuff tends to be more violent, fantasy tends to be either Mahou Shoujo (magical girl) or otherwise over-sweet (though some can be good, it's just harder to find). But '80s and '90s sci fi anime (non-mecha, though you may enjoy some of those as well) is generally pretty deep and well themed.
Anvildude wrote: @flamingkillamajig- you'll notice, the given list is what the questioner doesn't like. So if it's unlike those, they may like it.
Another anime that's very... cogitative, is Ghost in the Shell. There's 2 different series' of it, as well as a couple of movies, all high quality.
Of course, the other Miyazaki movies... Astro Boy was one of the originals, and runs the gamut from way too old to pretty good-
Truth be told, I'd try digging in old '80s and '90s anime if you're not a fan of the newer stuff. Look for the Sci Fi more than most- real-life stuff tends to be more violent, fantasy tends to be either Mahou Shoujo (magical girl) or otherwise over-sweet (though some can be good, it's just harder to find). But '80s and '90s sci fi anime (non-mecha, though you may enjoy some of those as well) is generally pretty deep and well themed.
Unlike is to vague, it could be anything. Potato Salad is unlike Salior Moon.
I've almost Finished Love Live, While being a little heavy handed on the "everythings good so long as we try are hardest" other than that Ive enjoyed it quite a bit.
Oooh monster, so that kid that the guy nearly loses his job to save (instead of fixing some pianist's hands or something right?) ends up being a serial killer? I wondered if that was how it was going to go down, i kind of want to finish watching it now!
GrimDork wrote: Oooh monster, so that kid that the guy nearly loses his job to save (instead of fixing some pianist's hands or something right?) ends up being a serial killer? I wondered if that was how it was going to go down, i kind of want to finish watching it now!
You may want to spoiler that.
Also, enjoying Aldnoah zero so far, that other mecha series.. not so much.
Honestly? I'm surprised the tank held up as well as it did given how squishy and explosive people are after a couple of taps from that dude. I guess it didn't have any secret pressure or power points, or perhaps it did but they weren't on the exam back in shin something or another school so he didn't bother memorizing them
I challenge the laws of nature and reason by summoning the power of Time! Summer Season New Anime Blitzkrieg Write Up! Exist!
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Continuing:
The Irregular at Magic High School: Still interesting though they seem to be doubling down on their long running game on incest chicken. I just wish they'd hurry up and get past this high school sports tournament that's taken up so much time. It's highlighting some really cool in universe magic, but I was enjoying the more serious plot.
The Case Files of Young Kindaichi Returns: Smooth sailing with a fun cast and meaty murder mysteries... I just want more episodes faster.
New Shows:
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Crystal I've already gushed enough about this to get labeled the king of the fan girls.
Glasslip: Looking to be a cute little rom/com slice of life. Slightly disjointed for part of the first episode... but that's okay. The female lead's cute, and who I presume to be the male lead is.. interesting at best. The supernatural component is interesting so far, I'm not sure how they're going to use that though.
Samurai Jam - Bakumatsu Rock: Rocking. I like it and if you enjoy Japanese music you too will enjoy it. Ladies and gents/third parties who like gents, lots of eye candy for you here. Some hilarious parody elements too if you know what you're looking for.
Rail Wars!: Apparently Japan National Rail needs an anime. Even if it didn't, it's gotten one. With a title promising us action even if the first episode doesn't deliver too much in the way of beat downs. A panty shot and plenty of oppai though, so this anime clearly intends to deliver fanservice... on a rail... jokes aside. Episode 2 opens with some of that action with some hilarious action of the NRSAT (National Rail Special Assault Team) departing to go handle a bomb threat.
Momokyun Sword: Oh look! It's the legend of Momotaro with tits! Fanservice packed for even the most discerning of 2D breast enthusiasts and costumes to challenge the most skilled of cosplayers Momo herself is pretty freaking bad ass with sword skills to burn even from the start, so I'm hoping for sdome fantastic over the top action scenes... Momo's currently got what looks like a series of three magical girl transformations with the help of her animal friends all of which are apparently gonna give her a tail and a new physics defying outfit. I'm currently thinking I'll be dropping this midway through the season, but I'll give it a run especially because I like the original myth.
Argevollen: Woo! Mech combat. Gimme. No fan service to be seen here, it looks like this anime's taking a far more realistic bent to it's warfare. Including it's mecha, which for the most part look more like the attempted realism of Battletech then the more fanciful general anime style of say the Gundam franchise or Neon Genesis Evangelion. Pretty good so far
Akame ga Kill!: Well that started off on the right note. Doesn't even get to the main title before slicing and dicing a critter the size of a two story building. THEN it gets more awesome. Apprantently this is what happens when you let an anime studio loose on the Assassin's Creed games for a little too long, because the whole creedo right at the start about taking out the corrupt smacks of Assassin's from that franchise's mission. Easily one of the strongest looking anime this season. I'm in.
Invaders of the Rokyjyouma!?: Looks like another case of boy meets ghost... meets witch/magical girl, meets earth shrine priestess... or something? Meets princess magical girl of some type that's armed up with a high tech magic weapon Nanoha style... all of whom need either his 6 tatame mat apartment or him for some reason. The absolutely metal young land lady forces all powers into the Corona Convention to preserve her property and basically leaves them all to sort it out. I was highly amused and will definently keep watching. Fanservice Warning: Gale Force 7
Locodol: Nananko and Yukari are drafted as Idols for their small town. Cute girls doing cute things. Easy enough to consider dropping at some point, but worth giving it a few episodes I think... especially with Nanako's surprisingly charming enthusiasm.
Blue Spring Ride: Interesting interactions between characters so far... seems both the leads have changed and not for the better in some cases. Futaba in particular has ended up with "friends" at the start of the series that don't seem the best... iffy for me, because I like slice of life but there's only so much shoujo style romance anime I can take but I'll give it a few more episodes.
HaNaYaMaTa: Hel's heels I think this season is actually trying to kill me with cute. Fantastic visual style that reminds me of No Game No Life, very appealing to the eye and a fantastic color palette. Good laughs, kinda interesting plot. Excited to see where this goes.
After two episodes out, this is already a front runner for one of my top rated anime this summer.
Bladedance of the Elementalers: Darn. I was kinda disappointed by the male lead. I thought this anime was gonna focus on the ladies kicking ass which is always a nice change of pace, but it's looking like another fantasy battle/duel harem set up. With tastes of Familiar of Zero and... Demon King Daimao maybe?
Magimoji Rurumo: I'm gonna give it another ep or two, but at this point I'm just not enthused. Rurumo's cute and the central mechanic of the tickets is interesting... but everything they've built around it is kinda objectionable at best.
Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club!: Oh look! It's C3 2: The Revenge! Sorta. Looks like we're looking at a far stronger comedy focus then C3's adorable slice of life. They also aren't taking quite the time to distinguish between airsoft toys and actual firearms like C3 did. More fanservice too.
"The Mental Weakness of Young People These Days is Troubling"
Aldnoah Zero: WHERE IS JOHN CARTER!? Seriously you have a Princess of Mars who seems to hate wearing things that don't bear her midriff and you DON'T name the terran hero John Carter? Bring it on Barsoom!
Any way in short, Mars was colonized. The new Martian Colonists said "feth Terra" and rebeled taking all sorts of fun tech back. A pretty serious war came out, which brings us to our current point, where a Princess of Mars is coming to Earth as a goodwill ambassador. More anime mech action here. Looks pretty good so far except for the whole militarized high schools thing which always makes me face palm.
So far this is THE Mecha anime of the summer and frankly the mecha anime I've been waiting for for YEARS. I'm very excited and kinda want to get through the set up so we can get to the MEAT! I'm incredibly disappointed this is only a 12 ep season.
Persona4 The Golden Animation: The Persona series is absolutely legendary and I'm excited to have an access point to a series I've been meaning to explore for awhile. Warning. gak is trippy bro.
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Now this is more my kind of RomCom anime.Girl likes boy. Boy happens to be a Shoujo manga artist and mistakes girl for a fan when she asks him out and gives her an autograph. Hijinks follow.
Shin Strange + Season 2 of Strange +. It's 30 seconds. You have the time to kill.
Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA: The Fate series is another justifiably famous and large anime series I've never touched. So far this spin off seems like a cute "srs bsnz" magical girl series. We'll see what happens. I'm pretty sure this series is already complete and even has a second season so I'm not sure why CR is treating it as a simulcast as opposed to just releasing it.
I can't see why you liked Argevellon so much. the writing was so bad and the main character just plain annoying. Did he learn anything in training? How do you even walk bro? What do you mean you envision moving the bloody robot! So far, it's just been painful to watch and all the illogical stuff around the robot bugs the hell out of me.
The setting is good though. they can keep the setting.
I think I agree with you on your other reviews though.
maybe Bladedance was more stupid than i expected. Highschool DxD has better girls than the worrying mental disordered population of that highschool.
Ya I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by Aldnoah Zero.
An I really didn't see this whole sports tournament thing coming. I was much more interested in the main plot, without it the show has really fallen out of favor with me. The magic jargon doesn't make any sense to me, and I hate the main character. Actually, idk if there are any redeeming characters for the show. I'll try my best to finish the series
Totally 100% got what he deserved, no rest in heaven or hell seems appropriate for someone who tried to do what he did. Not to mention all of the blatant douchebaggery!
Totally 100% got what he deserved, no rest in heaven or hell seems appropriate for someone who tried to do what he did. Not to mention all of the blatant douchebaggery!
Spoiler:
And you know, I still had some feels about him dying, despite the fact he was a huuuuuge douche canoe
GrimDork wrote: Huh, sounds somewhat interesting. Detective stuff is somewhat on my book radar so i'll have to bookmark that.
I'm only four chapters in, but I've definitely enjoyed it. The girlfriend has already finished it, and she loved it. The ending is apparently quite surprising, but there's clues and hints at every crime scene; so if you pay enough attention, you might be able to connect the dots (according to her).
My mom has always said the same thing, apparently i did not inherit the connecting the dots gene. I usually just watch events unfold, make guesses if it seems appropriate, and enjoy the twist when it hits.
Frankenberry wrote: Just watched Knights of Sidonia, the Netflix special? It was fething AWESOME.
Like rub my face with bacon while listening to whale music awesome.
I also just finished watching the whole first season and I agree it was pretty damn good. It felt very much like the first Macross series, but with enough new touches and mystery to make it feel unique and interesting.
Anyone who has netflix and likes anime should be watching this already.
Frankenberry wrote: Just watched Knights of Sidonia, the Netflix special? It was fething AWESOME.
Like rub my face with bacon while listening to whale music awesome.
I also just finished watching the whole first season and I agree it was pretty damn good. It felt very much like the first Macross series, but with enough new touches and mystery to make it feel unique and interesting.
Anyone who has netflix and likes anime should be watching this already.
I've watched the first four episodes, and it's definitely been interesting. The only issue is with the animation. It's just...bad sometimes. Everything else makes up for it, though. Can't wait to watch more.
Frankenberry wrote: Just watched Knights of Sidonia, the Netflix special? It was fething AWESOME.
Like rub my face with bacon while listening to whale music awesome.
I also just finished watching the whole first season and I agree it was pretty damn good. It felt very much like the first Macross series, but with enough new touches and mystery to make it feel unique and interesting.
Anyone who has netflix and likes anime should be watching this already.
I've watched the first four episodes, and it's definitely been interesting. The only issue is with the animation. It's just...bad sometimes. Everything else makes up for it, though. Can't wait to watch more.
I think the animation got better as they did more episodes. Near the end, either I was completely used to it or everything seemed much better. The fight scenes in particular were glorious, both mechs and humans vs humans (You'll see what I mean).
Sidonia's alright. I didn't dislike it but I don't think it's as good as others. As said the animation isn't very good. I also dislike how so many of the characters look so much alike I had a hard time telling his harem apart quite often. The fights are meh, with just guys flying thru space shooting at each other and not much interaction or choreography. Story is good, though it feels like it wants to be Attack on Titan but with a less original premise and less interesting characters. For all the picking it apart though, it Was entertaining and I did watch all of it.
I'm gonna bank those up for awhile, i like to watch shows in the largest chunks as possible. That's a nice function of this thread, helps me remember shows i've left off for awhile.
Its so difficult hearing everyone talk about the new awesome shows... Must resist! I hate having to wait for new episodes. Must resist until the seasons over
So I'm loving Aldnoah Zero, great mech designs, a bad ass MC with an enjoyable and very realistic supporting cast all wrapped up in a delicious OST. This last episode was freaking awesome tool. I hope they keep this current concept of a squad of "regular" troops taking out a squad of super mechs. Also this whole crazy character development thing.
Rail Wars continues to impress as well, providing all sorts of decent action and character development all while not managing to over do it on the fan service.
KalashnikovMarine wrote: So I'm loving Aldnoah Zero, great mech designs, a bad ass MC with an enjoyable and very realistic supporting cast all wrapped up in a delicious OST. This last episode was freaking awesome tool. I hope they keep this current concept of a squad of "regular" troops taking out a squad of super mechs. Also this whole crazy character development thing.
Rail Wars continues to impress as well, providing all sorts of decent action and character development all while not managing to over do it on the fan service.
I'm still iffy on the mech art style, but besides that I really like it to. The squad tactics were definitely cool, but it's really important to become attached or at least familiar with a good number of characters. Its only on episode 3 right now so its still early, but from we have already been introduced to several different characters. As long as they all get some screen time it should be good
KalashnikovMarine wrote: So I'm loving Aldnoah Zero, great mech designs, a bad ass MC with an enjoyable and very realistic supporting cast all wrapped up in a delicious OST. This last episode was freaking awesome tool. I hope they keep this current concept of a squad of "regular" troops taking out a squad of super mechs. Also this whole crazy character development thing.
Rail Wars continues to impress as well, providing all sorts of decent action and character development all while not managing to over do it on the fan service.
I'm still iffy on the mech art style, but besides that I really like it to. The squad tactics were definitely cool, but it's really important to become attached or at least familiar with a good number of characters. Its only on episode 3 right now so its still early, but from we have already been introduced to several different characters. As long as they all get some screen time it should be good
Yeah, really enjoying it too so far, way better then Argevollen.
Also, we are three episodes into SAO2 and I'm already getting annoyed, the new main character has one of the worst premises and is just boring as feth. Meanwhile, the guys I actually wanted to watch this anime for has spent the last 3 episodes eating cake and doing feth all. I'm already losing interest.
Tyranid Horde wrote: I'm with you on losing interest in SAO2, it really needs to pick up in the next episode because there's a lot better I could be watching.
I watched Death Note over last week, and although I knew what'd happen in the end, it was excellent. Although...
Spoiler:
When L was killed, it took all the good out of the anime, Near just didn't match up to L despite getting the job done in catching Light.
I even bought my first ever manga at the weekend in the form of Death Note, which is pretty dang cool.
Yep, after the first Arc Deathnote becomes boring and stale IMO.
From what my girlfriend was telling me, Death Note was end after the first story arc, but was continued due to popularity*. The second arc was alright, but I'll agree that it was a little stale by the end of the series.
*Similar to Supernatural after Season 5, if you watch that show.
You guys have such high standards. Going into SAO expecting nothing really allows me to watch it and enjoy it. Heck. if it beats Argevollon. it's good enough to watch. That failed the 3 episode trial with EVERY SINGLE episode being a pain to watch that I'm just gona drop it. It s a pity. The background seemed much better than the characters and it really let the show down.
Ledabot wrote: You guys have such high standards. Going into SAO expecting nothing really allows me to watch it and enjoy it. Heck. if it beats Argevollon. it's good enough to watch. That failed the 3 episode trial with EVERY SINGLE episode being a pain to watch that I'm just gona drop it. It s a pity. The background seemed much better than the characters and it really let the show down.
No, I have limited time and don't tend to waste it on things I don't enjoy. I prefer high standards over wasting time.
I still think you guys are all insane, disliking SAO. I haven't watched any of the second season, but if it's anything like the first, I think I'll enjoy it.
Anvildude wrote: I still think you guys are all insane, disliking SAO. I haven't watched any of the second season, but if it's anything like the first, I think I'll enjoy it.
I'm actually enjoying this third season a lot. I like the girl, she has a genuine trauma, the setting is being fleshed out each episode (seriously, it costs money every time they log?! Madness!) and I can't wait to see more "PEW PEW" action because that second episode...
Spoiler:
I fething love miniguns!
But the second season... how can I explain it .. maybe a pic will help ...
I don't think anyone can say that Elf land online was good. It was pretty dam bad really. rape, check. fake incest, check. OP main character, check. Season 3 seems to have learned a bit but since all we have had is character introduction, I think it could be much worse than what we have had so far.
WallofMeat wrote: Love for Sword Art Online - episode 3 - I can literally not fold all these feels.
Wut? What feels? The silly "let's treat this trauma with something that clearly isn't working so the main character can have some arbitrary goal that in no way can impact the actual trauma"?
WallofMeat wrote: Love for Sword Art Online - episode 3 - I can literally not fold all these feels.
Wut? What feels? The silly "let's treat this trauma with something that clearly isn't working so the main character can have some arbitrary goal that in no way can impact the actual trauma"?
Wow. SAO must be really bad for you to kick it in the face all the time. Please stop.
WallofMeat wrote: Love for Sword Art Online - episode 3 - I can literally not fold all these feels.
Wut? What feels? The silly "let's treat this trauma with something that clearly isn't working so the main character can have some arbitrary goal that in no way can impact the actual trauma"?
Wow. SAO must be really bad for you to kick it in the face all the time. Please stop.
Ya I tried to give Season 3 a chance, but I'm already dropping it. So you guys and my friends at home who enjoy watching it don't have to worry about me complaining about it : p
Also the new Gundam series comes out today DDDD
Seemed a lot like one piece, but with 'wizards'! Instead of 'pirates'! Enjoyed it well enough, sometimes I want something somewhat serious, sometimes its a good day to watch fairy tail (or similar).
Well, this is a bit off-topic, but I figured I should share this here since, I dunno, I suspect everyone knows how much of a fething fanboy I am for Lady Satsuki . Anyway, this was the first combat squad I completed with a paint scheme I based on her. At first , it was a bit different (you can see the test model in the gallery) but I didn't enjoy the end result too much, so I had to repaint them all over again. (Fun fact: It was an absolute PAIN to free-hand the chapter symbol... curved surfaces, ugh, I hate you)
Spoiler:
For now I have other pics in the gallery, I'll have to update a P&M blog later on. (In other pics you can see they are a bit darker than what they appear in the group photos)
Kill la Kill (Ryuko is best Kiryuin daughter btw fight me)
Katanagatari
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Inferno Cop
Little Witch Academia
Shingeki no Kyojin (Watched the anime and picked up the manga where it left off)
Kyoukai no Kanata
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Rewatched it)
Rebuild of Evangelion
Cencoroll
Kigeki/Comedy
Mardock Scramble
Akira
Princess Mononoke
Am currently watching Ergo Proxy and Aim for the Top, Gunbuster (80's all up in this bitch).
I think that's about it concerning anime series or films I've watched recently (As in, this year), but I may have forgotten something.
TheDraconicLord wrote: Well, this is a bit off-topic, but I figured I should share this here since, I dunno, I suspect everyone knows how much of a fething fanboy I am for Lady Satsuki . Anyway, this was the first combat squad I completed with a paint scheme I based on her. At first , it was a bit different (you can see the test model in the gallery) but I didn't enjoy the end result too much, so I had to repaint them all over again. (Fun fact: It was an absolute PAIN to free-hand the chapter symbol... curved surfaces, ugh, I hate you)
Spoiler:
For now I have other pics in the gallery, I'll have to update a P&M blog later on. (In other pics you can see they are a bit darker than what they appear in the group photos)
Does the Force Commander have 3 stars? All I see are one star cannon fodder.
TheDraconicLord wrote: Well, this is a bit off-topic, but I figured I should share this here since, I dunno, I suspect everyone knows how much of a fething fanboy I am for Lady Satsuki . Anyway, this was the first combat squad I completed with a paint scheme I based on her. At first , it was a bit different (you can see the test model in the gallery) but I didn't enjoy the end result too much, so I had to repaint them all over again. (Fun fact: It was an absolute PAIN to free-hand the chapter symbol... curved surfaces, ugh, I hate you)
Spoiler:
For now I have other pics in the gallery, I'll have to update a P&M blog later on. (In other pics you can see they are a bit darker than what they appear in the group photos)
Does the Force Commander have 3 stars? All I see are one star cannon fodder.
How did you guess the number of stars I wanted to give the really important characters? My, you must have some psychic abilities
KalashnikovMarine wrote: You need a converted Satsuki model to lead them. Maybe something from RH?
I don't want to mess the "male only" fluff of the Chapter. I kinda like how it works so the max I could do would be a Chapter Master with long black hair and a katana...
Buuuut, did I mention that they are a rare exception that venerates the God-Emperor as a true deity? After meeting a certain Saint Satsuki they became quite convinced of his deity status and ability to deliver holy powers to his servants... they get along quite well with the SoB too, specially the saint's holy order (yeah, well, at least that's part of the fluff, it will take me a long time to complete any of it, but I'd enjoy having a Satsuki"count as" Celestine)
Just finally started watching Asura's Cryin' Damn good so far. Also I get the feeling the Opening is going to get stuck in my head for a good long while
Been using http://animeshow.tv lately myself. The site I used to to use (http://pinoyanime.tv) just got way too annoying/intrusive with the ads on their site.
DA's Forever wrote: Just finally started watching Asura's Cryin' Damn good so far. Also I get the feeling the Opening is going to get stuck in my head for a good long while
Just wait till you get to Kirafuwa Generation. It's a treat at some point in the series.
DA's Forever wrote: Just finally started watching Asura's Cryin' Damn good so far. Also I get the feeling the Opening is going to get stuck in my head for a good long while
Just wait till you get to Kirafuwa Generation. It's a treat at some point in the series.
Almost finished the whole first Seasons last night... Just couldn't stop watching!
Also the only thing worse than having an Opening stuck in your head is when Youtube's content ID filter apparently went ham and every single video I can find of it has a copyright strike.
Also the only thing worse than having an Opening stuck in your head is when Youtube's content ID filter apparently went ham and every single video I can find of it has a copyright strike.
Indeed. I've found tumblr surprisingly helpful in that regard, as people will soundcloud (or something similar) stuff there.
DA's Forever wrote: Just finally started watching Asura's Cryin' Damn good so far. Also I get the feeling the Opening is going to get stuck in my head for a good long while
Just wait till you get to Kirafuwa Generation. It's a treat at some point in the series.
Almost finished the whole first Seasons last night... Just couldn't stop watching!
Also the only thing worse than having an Opening stuck in your head is when Youtube's content ID filter apparently went ham and every single video I can find of it has a copyright strike.
EDIT: Got through to the first episode of the second season! You weren't kidding about them ramping up!
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Also I was very sad to see Aine go. She didnt play a big role but I liked her. Also she was my Favorite of the Machina designs, not that id want another person to be jamed in one of those damn things but I hope it makes another appearance.
Soladrin wrote: Welp, Aldnoah.Zero has taken first place for this season, beating out SAO2 handily.
Now, back to watching Diamond no Ace.
I miss the other team already
Raichi's evil look and laugh when he hitted was the coolest thing so far for me. He reminded me of Eyeshield 21's Hiruma but, you know, without the automatic weapons
Soladrin wrote: Welp, Aldnoah.Zero has taken first place for this season, beating out SAO2 handily.
Now, back to watching Diamond no Ace.
I miss the other team already
Raichi's evil look and laugh when he hitted was the coolest thing so far for me. He reminded me of Eyeshield 21's Hiruma but, you know, without the automatic weapons
Haha yeah. Raichi will be missed.
By the way, when is next season of Kuroko no Baske starting?
EDIT: Got through to the first episode of the second season! You weren't kidding about them ramping up!
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Also I was very sad to see Aine go. She didnt play a big role but I liked her. Also she was my Favorite of the Machina designs, not that id want another person to be jamed in one of those damn things but I hope it makes another appearance.
Hold on to your butt, cause that anime gets insane.
Honestly, I think Haikyuu!! remains my favorite anime this season.
It just gives so many damn feels, laughs and moments that make you wanna go "FRAK YEAH! SUCK IT, BITCHES!" ... and I'm not even a fan of the sport
TheDraconicLord wrote: Honestly, I think Haikyuu!! remains my favorite anime this season.
It just gives so many damn feels, laughs and moments that make you wanna go "FRAK YEAH! SUCK IT, BITCHES!" ... and I'm not even a fan of the sport
Haha, I have to catch up a couple weeks, probably gonna do that this week. That said, I have so far preferred Diamond no Ace when it comes to sports anime.
Asura Cryin' Finished! That was a damn good ride! A couple twists there in the second half I wasnt expecting and a couple I did see. A good mix and overall a great show! Its now one of the two animes I'd Like to have actual physical copies of. (The other being Angel Beats)
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I also loved the shows take on the power they we granted not being "free" The Machina's wearing down the Burial Dolls and even the price the Demons in the setting paid for their power. Was a good take on it in my opinion
Ya I've been really impressed with Aldnoah Zero so far, I don't think I can pick a favorite series though. I do however have a favorite opening theme this season from Re Hamotora
Finished Fate Stay Night, meh. Wasn't a fan of the main character and the anime as a whole felt sort of silly compared to Fate Zero (which was fething awesome.).
Starting Walkure Romanze. Its a bit heavy on the fan service but an alright story so far. Going to give it a fair go and watch a few more episodes later tonight
baxter123 wrote: teen titans the 2003 version. A bit childish i know but still really good
It was okay when it was being serious. But the "funny" bitz where incredibly stupid. And very annoying
Yeah but it was a well-written and well developed tv series. I personally think it is one of my favourite cartoons and even the funny bits aren't too bad especially against some of the other cartoons out there. I personally just like the development of the characters.
Ah feth. Well if you have family who watches CNN and knows you enjoy anime, A. encourage them to switch to a better news source like the BBC and B. potentially prepare for an awkward conversation.
In Admiral Ackbar news, some awesome new eps so far this week. I also stumbled on the 4 minute short Himegoto and uh... I think it's hilarious and I wonder what that says about me as a person.
Ah feth. Well if you have family who watches CNN and knows you enjoy anime, A. encourage them to switch to a better news source like the BBC and B. potentially prepare for an awkward conversation.
In Admiral Ackbar news, some awesome new eps so far this week. I also stumbled on the 4 minute short Himegoto and uh... I think it's hilarious and I wonder what that says about me as a person.
I love how he tries to sound dramatic and super-serious. It's cute.
Ah feth. Well if you have family who watches CNN and knows you enjoy anime, A. encourage them to switch to a better news source like the BBC and B. potentially prepare for an awkward conversation.
In Admiral Ackbar news, some awesome new eps so far this week. I also stumbled on the 4 minute short Himegoto and uh... I think it's hilarious and I wonder what that says about me as a person.
Oh, look at all the shops I'll be visiting in one week and something. And all the EVIL SPAWN OF SATAN stuff I'll be buying.
(Am I on a watch list, yet? )
Remember the good old days when videogames were accused of being EVIL?!
Oh, and yes, Himegoto so far as been the definition of "My Penis is Confused". I have seen some good looking anime traps over the years (Steins;Gate's one is ridiculous) but Himegoto just goes the extra mile to make one consider those important life questions
Ah feth. Well if you have family who watches CNN and knows you enjoy anime, A. encourage them to switch to a better news source like the BBC and B. potentially prepare for an awkward conversation.
In Admiral Ackbar news, some awesome new eps so far this week. I also stumbled on the 4 minute short Himegoto and uh... I think it's hilarious and I wonder what that says about me as a person.
Oh, look at all the shops I'll be visiting in one week and something. And all the EVIL SPAWN OF SATAN stuff I'll be buying.
(Am I on a watch list, yet? )
Remember the good old days when videogames were accused of being EVIL?!
Oh, and yes, Himegoto so far as been the definition of "My Penis is Confused". I have seen some good looking anime traps over the years (Steins;Gate's one is ridiculous) but Himegoto just goes the extra mile to make one consider those important life questions
Well at least there not after Dungeon and Dragons anymore Thanks to Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code not even the church is after us anymore! Could you imagine if Warhammer 40k was more popular? I know the news hasn't been kind to it in the past
Ah feth. Well if you have family who watches CNN and knows you enjoy anime, A. encourage them to switch to a better news source like the BBC and B. potentially prepare for an awkward conversation.
In Admiral Ackbar news, some awesome new eps so far this week. I also stumbled on the 4 minute short Himegoto and uh... I think it's hilarious and I wonder what that says about me as a person.
Well played CNN.
Luckily everyone who knows I watch it either already watches Anime too or respects it. So we'll all be able to collectively give CNN the finger
GrimDork wrote: We don't like the bad anime porn! But we can do nothing because they make too much money!
Hey, hey, hey, hey! Easy there! Don't you dare enter the "hate hentai bandwagon" too GD A guy isn't proihibited to have some tastes that are impossible in real life, ya know. I don't see many Monster Girls around
Hehe, and yes, their bitter tears of frustration are delicious. It's nice to feed upon them
GrimDork wrote: Oh, i was just paraphrasing the video. I do not generally speak in the 'royal we'.
Hehe, yeah, I understood, just messing with ya, hence the other thing I wrote. I really find these OT reactions hilarious and sad. There's so much horrible stuff out there concerning real kids, they attack fictional characters made by regular joes who probably never did anything that bad in their entire life.
And like cloud said, the D&D thing ... man was that hilarious. I don't remember who posted here on a topic somewhere, but I saw this panphlet that had a small comic explaining the horrors and dangers of D&D and it included witchcraft, suicides and satan worship. It looked like something out of the dark ages.
Oh man, those tracts by that Chick guy... were... superduperwrongandawful... yet also hilarious.
I haven't run a group in a long time, but Mazes and Monsters was always required watching for all of my players, so they knew the dangers of playing D&D. You know, if you're Tom Hanks in a movie, and also borderline crazy already.
Ah feth. Well if you have family who watches CNN and knows you enjoy anime, A. encourage them to switch to a better news source like the BBC and B. potentially prepare for an awkward conversation.
In Admiral Ackbar news, some awesome new eps so far this week. I also stumbled on the 4 minute short Himegoto and uh... I think it's hilarious and I wonder what that says about me as a person.
Because I have nothing better to do I'm going to comment on this video in real-time.
"INNOCENT. YOUNG. GIRLS." I lol'd, there is no reason to be so serious.
Oh hey man it's a good thing you obscured the covers and titles of every manga in the store, otherwise we might have been able to see the titles being discussed and maybe ascertain whether what you're claiming is bs or not.
Oh fething Ken Akamatsu, stop this.
Well that was disappointing, I was hoping to comment on so much more but there was so little content I had nothing to work with.
I feel like just dismissing any anti-lolicon stance is silly though. Negima for example clearly sexualizes teenage girls to titillate the reader, though to be fair most of said teenage girls are physically mature and all are above the age of consent in Japan. More troubling is the lackadaisical (I may or may not be using this word right) way it addresses some of these teenage girls more or less sexually assaulting Negi, a ten year old boy. The reason there isn't as much backlash against this as one might think is because the perpetrators are female, and the victim male (If you've read it, recall the moment where Makie lifts Negi's towel to look at his penis, do you think a 16 year old boy would get away with doing the equivalent to a 10 year old girl?). Or at least, that was my assumption.
Then I discovered Kodomo no Jikan. Well, not discovered it, technically. I'd heard of it before. Being something of a contrarian shitbird I was going to debate against people slamming it as "pedoshit" and to do so was going to do some research. I was under the assumption it was like Lolita (Good book btw), an edgy tale exploring sexual awakening in adolescents and using children in sexual scenarios to make the viewer uncomfortable. Then I found the final few chapters on google images and, I swear to God, at first I thought I accidentally stumbled on a hentai doujin. It was that bad. Spoiler alert he has sex with the girl (She's 12), this is portrayed as romantic, the final panel is them clasping hands, and I nearly spit my drink over my keyboard because holy gak this is mainstream and aired on public television.
I don't agree with the lazy and biased way they tackled the subject in the video (I mean, it is CNN), but I would have actually liked to see an in-depth exploration of "lolicon" in anime and how it affects people, because I do think in some cases it really is a problem. Whereas CNN implies that any work that features children having sex (Be it consensual or not, I mean really, there's a difference between featuring child sexuality and outright sexualizing it for the titillation of the viewer) should be banned. Which is dumb.
I find the whole thing ridiculous, lolis or not. One of my favorite "franchises" alone, Touhou, has 2 characters I really like that make this "real life rating system" bogus.
This is Remilia Scarlet:
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She has the body of a 14 year old. She's 500 years old. I wonder how CNN would classify her.
This is Suwako Moriya:
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She's a physical goddess that can look whatever she wants. She uses a child like body because she feels like it and doesn't scare the crap out of everyone who see her. To make things REAL awkward, she's the only Touhou character that's confirmed that has a descendant, Sanae, her Shrine Maiden:
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I bet CNN would blow a fuse or something if they knew her.
I have read and browsed many hentai doujins with both of them and many more but I didn't become a raving monster hungry for small children flesh... *sigh* Tho that's what I'd be called by moral crusaders.
There's a wealth of difference between a work having lolis in it and a work that actively exploits lolis for the sexual gratification of its fanbase (Kodomo no Jikan is on the most extreme end of this spectrum I can recall from a non-hentai work).
Also, the "really super fething old" ploy is a bit stale. I've been told Touhou doesn't sexualize its characters (I know little of the work itself), but making a character with the body of a small, pre-pubescent girl and then arbitrarily making her really fething old doesn't suddenly make lusting after her physically not pedophilia. Now, admittedly, this train of thought is pretty controversial for two reasons: One, the attraction could be one founded purely on personality or emotions, an attraction of the character for her compelling personality or emotional complexity. And even the physical attraction angle is a bit muddied because, well, some guys just have a preference for more petite girls and I am not discerning enough to say with 100% certainty the definite differences between merely an older child (Like 12ish) and a woman who happens to be small and petite. So I guess while my thoughts on this subject started off fairly cut and dry, thinking about it there is a bit of a grey area to consider.
I'd agree that the argument that reading loli-centric work or doujins leads to child molestation is largely unfounded. That's not what most rational people are worried about I think. The problem arises when a work (Like, sigh, Kodomo no Jikan) is mainstream and influential, and begins portraying pedophilia in a positive light. Which I don't think Touhou does, right?
I'd agree that the argument that reading loli-centric work or doujins leads to child molestation is largely unfounded. That's not what most rational people are worried about I think. The problem arises when a work (Like, sigh, Kodomo no Jikan) is mainstream and influential, and begins portraying pedophilia in a positive light. Which I don't think Touhou does, right?
Sorry if this was a bit rambling.
Eh, we are discussing stuff, rambling is good
I had no idea about the existance of Kodomo no Jikan but IMO, I don't see how it can be influential. I mean, maybe I'm being a bit naïve, but I'd like to think people know what's right and wrong and don't use a manga, of all things, to justify themselves. That's just:
About the second question, yeah, there's none of that, only an enormous amount of cute characters kicking each other's ass with awesome, awesome music It's the fans who go to great lenghts to create their "ships". The amount of Touhou porn is staggering.
Finished Walkure Romanze. 7/10 Not too bad. Enjoyed it most of the time, was quite good when it tore itself away from the fan service long enough to focus on the jousting...
Just finished Elfen Lied. I have never cried or sobbed at any movie or series, but here I came onto the verge of tears. One of the best series I have ever seen and it pulls no punches to the audience.
9/10
Started if "If Her Flag Breaks". Very very much enjoying it so far. Very up beat and fun, while at a very good pace mixing in the darker half to the story.
KalashnikovMarine wrote: I was impressed and annoyed with If Her Flag Breaks. Pretty good over all.
I just couldn't handle the first episode. The animation was terrible imo for a first episode which normally goes all out.
The manga got good reviews too on a pod cast I listen too. Should I consider giving it another go?
Id say so from what Ive been through so far. The animation style however doesnt change very much as far as Ive gone so that may be a bit of a hurdle for you if you found yourself not liking it that much,
Yeah the animation was a bit off putting for me. Then again, I said the same thing about Nobunaga Concerto and I'm very much enjoying that.
Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?'s episode this week annoyed me greatly. For one it's a fairly entertaining anime, and they cut to a beach episode early as hell in the season. I expect that out of dross like Momo Kyun Sword which is 99% fanservice 1% plot/fighting/"comedy" but not out of stuff that seems to actually have an idea of what it's doing... and then the fethers had to go and mess with my ship!
Started watching Wata Mote (Yes I only watch series that are finished never ones that are running stfu) with my boyfriend who isn't really my boyfriend yesterday. gak's weird, lol.
The girlfriend and I were told to watch Blue Exorcist. Holy poop, we're both really enjoying it. Started it Friday night, and we're already on episode 16
mega_bassist wrote: The girlfriend and I were told to watch Blue Exorcist. Holy poop, we're both really enjoying it. Started it Friday night, and we're already on episode 16
mega_bassist wrote: The girlfriend and I were told to watch Blue Exorcist. Holy poop, we're both really enjoying it. Started it Friday night, and we're already on episode 16
Now, follow it up with blue gender.
Okay....that actually sounds kinda neat. I've never heard of that one before
Miko Mido (美童巫女): Miko is the heroine of all La Blue Girl OVAs and a kunoichi. She is the last descendant of the female Miroku ninja clan, which has been feuding with the Suzuka clan for many generations. She is often very annoyed at being a sex ninja and having to use her body as a weapon against opponents. Miko can use many unusual sexual techniques, such as hardening her pubic hair into needles and firing them at an opponent, or the 'Nyoninboh' technique which allows her to swell her clitoris to the size of a man's penis and drive female rivals crazy with it. If strands of her hair are torn out, she can use them as acupuncture needles to stimulate her opponent's erotic pleasure points. Her most powerful attack is the 'Aoi Tatsumaki' (Blue Whirlwind), in which her hair turns into a giant blue tornado that invariably rips away all of her clothing (but generally at this point most of her clothing has already been ripped away anyway). Miko is the daughter of Seikima, the King of the Shikima, and of Maria, the Queen, who is human and a former Miroku woman. As such, Miko is a demon-half-breed and has the blue colored blood of the Shikima, hence the title 'La Blue Girl'.
Miko Mido (美童巫女): Miko is the heroine of all La Blue Girl OVAs and a kunoichi. She is the last descendant of the female Miroku ninja clan, which has been feuding with the Suzuka clan for many generations. She is often very annoyed at being a sex ninja and having to use her body as a weapon against opponents. Miko can use many unusual sexual techniques, such as hardening her pubic hair into needles and firing them at an opponent, or the 'Nyoninboh' technique which allows her to swell her clitoris to the size of a man's penis and drive female rivals crazy with it. If strands of her hair are torn out, she can use them as acupuncture needles to stimulate her opponent's erotic pleasure points. Her most powerful attack is the 'Aoi Tatsumaki' (Blue Whirlwind), in which her hair turns into a giant blue tornado that invariably rips away all of her clothing (but generally at this point most of her clothing has already been ripped away anyway). Miko is the daughter of Seikima, the King of the Shikima, and of Maria, the Queen, who is human and a former Miroku woman. As such, Miko is a demon-half-breed and has the blue colored blood of the Shikima, hence the title 'La Blue Girl'.
Oh my...
Yep. There's also a rockman with a 3 foot penis involved.
Ladies and gentleman, as I am going to Japan for a good while on vacations (sorry, don't want to "brag" but I am damn happy about it xD) I started collecting animes to watch on the MANY hours I'll be on a train / plane.
I have found a jewel that's Nichijou. This is hilarious and so much WTF. Please, allow me to present you a bit of what happens in ep1.
TheDraconicLord wrote: Ladies and gentleman, as I am going to Japan for a good while on vacations (sorry, don't want to "brag" but I am damn happy about it xD) I started collecting animes to watch on the MANY hours I'll be on a train / plane.
I have found a jewel that's Nichijou. This is hilarious and so much WTF. Please, allow me to present you a bit of what happens in ep1.
Haha that's awesome, I mean piloting the giant robot is surely stressful but... what kid that age WOULDN'T want to pilot some giant robot. Until, you know, the fighting for life and nearly dying and stuff.
GrimDork wrote: Haha that's awesome, I mean piloting the giant robot is surely stressful but... what kid that age WOULDN'T want to pilot some giant robot. Until, you know, the fighting for life and nearly dying and stuff.
Bokurano: Ours seems like something worth mentioning as an unpleasant one.
Anyways, about to watch Baccano! but I'm really curious if anybody possibly remembers Cyborg 009? It was my first anime and fond memories are a plenty from it.
GrimDork wrote: Haha that's awesome, I mean piloting the giant robot is surely stressful but... what kid that age WOULDN'T want to pilot some giant robot. Until, you know, the fighting for life and nearly dying and stuff.
Bokurano: Ours seems like something worth mentioning as an unpleasant one.
Anyways, about to watch Baccano! but I'm really curious if anybody possibly remembers Cyborg 009? It was my first anime and fond memories are a plenty from it.
I know I do.
Cyborg 003 was one of my older animu crushes, and 005 (I think? The one who was a walking arsenal) was a badass.
Finished "If Her Flag Breaks". Man, very good 8/10. I personally liked the art style and the ending payoff was quite good. It takes one hell of a sharp turn to get there, but it gets there and is enjoyable.
So my weird anime of the day is "Those Who Hunt Elves" and...you just need to look it up. In short three humans have been transported to a fantasy world along with a Type 74 MBT and have to find the 5 pieces of a spell that will send them home... these 5 pieces are basically tattooed onto 5 random (probably female) elves.
Now weird anime of the day out of the way, some music to start your hump day off right!
KalashnikovMarine wrote: So my weird anime of the day is "Those Who Hunt Elves" and...you just need to look it up. In short three humans have been transported to a fantasy world along with a Type 74 MBT and have to find the 5 pieces of a spell that will send them home... these 5 pieces are basically tattooed onto 5 random (probably female) elves.
Ah yes, that was a fun one. Some of the episodes are on youtube, for the curious.
I preferred the first season over the second. There was also a manga, but they never fully translated it.
My theory is he's Valhallen, the Viking God of Rock and Roll.
The official music video and full length song for Moon Pride is up
Looks like it isn't going to be commercially available in the U.S. though.
I'm really enjoying Bladedance of the Elementelar even if it's the most cliche anime this season, if not a direct expy of Familiar of Zero, but I liked Familiar of Zero, and Bladedance might be cliche but it's well executed enough to keep my attention. It also has a serious earworm for an ending song... not sure what's up with that.
Decided to finally start No Game, No Life tonight. Good so far.. Took me a second to get used to the art but that's ironed out now. Plus a great Opening Song that's probably going to get stuck in my head now.
I'm going to a convention next week, and was planning on checking out the anime merch section, because screw people and their judging judgmentalness. Anywho, could someone with some experience offer some advice to help me make sure the merch is on the up and up (ie, not bootleg or subpar Chinese knockoff.)
In on topic news, I gave Knights of Sidonia a look and... huh. Distopyian harem slice of life? kooky.
Depends on what you're looking for, t-shirts and the like it doesn't matter too much one way or another, DVDs... the best thing to do is keep a phone handy and be searching releases and ensuring DVDs are carrying the various marks you'd expect. Funimation licensed stuff will be branded as such, etc.
Usually at big cons you don't have to worry about it too much. They vet their vendors to some extent and many big companies are actually present to one extent or another.
Most cons do a good job of keeping the shady gits away. The bigger the con, the tighter the scrutiny. If you go to a small, 3,000 person convention held in a hotel, you might run into some scammers, but at Supermegafantasticanimecon IV you will only be dealing with licensed vendors, since a large con needs a large venue, and that means a proper convention center (which means state taxes, licensing, oversight, etc). When Otakon went to the B-more convention center in '99, their dealers' room (and everywhere else, too) was shaken up by the new restrictions placed on people by virtue of being on city-owned land. By 2000, the vendors who dealt in "grey-market" anime goods had all but vanished from the Otakon dealers' room.
I'm hoping to get away with just buying Corvus Belli's Operation: Icestorm... but I haven't gone to GenCon before so my mind and bank account will likely be blown.
TheDraconicLord wrote: Ladies and gentleman, as I am going to Japan for a good while on vacations (sorry, don't want to "brag" but I am damn happy about it xD) I started collecting animes to watch on the MANY hours I'll be on a train / plane.
I have found a jewel that's Nichijou. This is hilarious and so much WTF. Please, allow me to present you a bit of what happens in ep1.
Not deer wrestling? That's what we need here. Deer wrestling.
Slarg232 wrote: So after Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill I feel it's time to actually watch something that stimulates thought.
Can anyone recommend me something? I've seen Ganketsuou, and was looking at Stein's Gate, but fear with Time Travel it's just bleh.
I'd recommend Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. It's only an animated movie, not a series, but it was certainly down-tuned and pretty artsy-fartsy.
Evangelion is a fairly standard suggestion for that kind of thing.
If manga is acceptable I'd recommend Berserk, maybe also Vinland Saga.
Let's see...
Katanagatari is a very good 12 episode series that does have plenty of action but also deep thinky things (Look I've gone through a really bad night of insomnia so I can't articulate my thoughts better than this right now)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a great show (Idk how much of a deconstruction it is of the magical girl genre though, not being familiar with the genre) similar in tone and presentation to Eva.
To name just a few that come to mind. Idk how much any of these shows would appeal to you but I would say they are less stupid fun than Kill la Kill or Gurren Lagann (Not that there's anything wrong with stupid fun, KlK is one of my favorite shows).
Invaders of the Rokujouma have repaired the damage they've done to my ship in good order, and upped the anty! Go protagonist go! Get the cute ghost girl! Full steam ahead!
Meanwhile I finally caught up to the current season on Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya, I haven't had this much fun with a magical girl series in a while. It's great top to bottom, and season 1 has received a well deserved 9/10 from me. Sadly 2nd seasons tend to fall down for me for some reason with a few exceptions, so we'll see how Illya and company do... hopefully going to be completely caught up by the end of the day.
Edit: Sadly not. Season 2 has let me down. I'm just not feeling the Kuro Illya plot. And the over sexualized 10 year olds thing is squicking me out.
There's a surprising amount of artsy serious anime out there, and more and more of it is getting translations. When you think about it though, even some popular stuff like say Ghost In The Shell, it's not like it's shying away from hard questions right? Hell GITS fething tackles whether or not there's such a thing as a SOUL.
KalashnikovMarine wrote: There's a surprising amount of artsy serious anime out there, and more and more of it is getting translations. When you think about it though, even some popular stuff like say Ghost In The Shell, it's not like it's shying away from hard questions right? Hell GITS fething tackles whether or not there's such a thing as a SOUL.
Definitely a really good anime if your looking for thought provoking topics. Psycho Pass is another good one, also Cyber Punk futuristic. I know Cashern Sins has to be to, but I have no idea what it's about, even after watching it lol
The international film festival is on in New Zealand atm and I went to see Patama Inverted. Quite an interesting movie with perspective as quite an important theme.
Slarg232 wrote: So after Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill I feel it's time to actually watch something that stimulates thought.
Can anyone recommend me something? I've seen Ganketsuou, and was looking at Stein's Gate, but fear with Time Travel it's just bleh.
I am certain everyone else gave good ideas. Watch them AFTER. Steins;Gate is a masterpice of an anime. Hell, its the reason I'm again back to anime. I watched the whole thing in 2 nights, I think, I couldn't stop.
And the "time-travel" is a good time travel. Well thought time travel. A rarity.
(hey cool, the airport in Frankfurt activated the Netherlands flag instead of Germany )
Totally forgot to recommend Gunbuster. If you can withstand the sheer force of 80's (Because it is a pretty damn old anime) I'd recommend it.
Also, I've thought about watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes, then I realized that it was over a hundred episodes and no one's life is long enough to sit down and muscle through all of it.
The Miyazaki movies on there are a good choice (Particularly Princess Mononoke, <3 Mononoke), but that should more or less go without saying at this point.
I'm currently watching through Ergo Proxy, and it's good, but Jesus everything is so dark and grimy I often can't tell what's going on (I'm not being figurative, it's so dark and grimy I literally can't tell what's happening onscreen sometimes).
Slarg232 wrote: So after Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill I feel it's time to actually watch something that stimulates thought.
Can anyone recommend me something? I've seen Ganketsuou, and was looking at Stein's Gate, but fear with Time Travel it's just bleh.
I am certain everyone else gave good ideas. Watch them AFTER. Steins;Gate is a masterpice of an anime. Hell, its the reason I'm again back to anime. I watched the whole thing in 2 nights, I think, I couldn't stop.
And the "time-travel" is a good time travel. Well thought time travel. A rarity.
(hey cool, the airport in Frankfurt activated the Netherlands flag instead of Germany )
Hey, that means are you are really close to me. Go borrow a car and hop over the border.
Also, yeah, Steins:Gate is superbly legit. One of the best anime I've ever seen, also made me come back, I finished it in 1 day, with the movie, when I had work the next day. Work with 1 hour of sleep, and so worth it.
Hmm, a buddy mentioned lending me this Steins Gate thing... sounds like I'll have to give it a watch.
List above brings back some memories, have only seen a few of those shows but I liked them. I'll recommend Ghost Hunt, it's short (too short) and kind of neat. Makes me wish Bleach had focused more on the horror aspect and hadn't gone 'over 9000' as quick as it did.
Already started Asura Crying, am enjoying it pretty well. Nothing has gotten too deep (Ep. 7) but it's definitely setting itself up to be due to the various passing comments made here and there.
Since I already started AC, I'll have to slot in Steins Gate after I get done with FLCL. Trying to mish mash a Serious > Fun > Serious > Fun type of pattern.
Be warned, if you're expecting Log Horizon to be anything like SAO, you'll be disappointed. It's much more of a 'standard' Anime plot- mysterious circumstances, one guy who happens to be a 'master strategist' who gathers together a rag-tag group of heroes sort of thing.
Anvildude wrote: Be warned, if you're expecting Log Horizon to be anything like SAO, you'll be disappointed. It's much more of a 'standard' Anime plot- mysterious circumstances, one guy who happens to be a 'master strategist' who gathers together a rag-tag group of heroes sort of thing.
Haha sounds fun though xD anyone seen No Game No Life? Now that has one of the stupidest but still somehow cool plots I know xD
Anvildude wrote: Be warned, if you're expecting Log Horizon to be anything like SAO, you'll be disappointed. It's much more of a 'standard' Anime plot- mysterious circumstances, one guy who happens to be a 'master strategist' who gathers together a rag-tag group of heroes sort of thing.
Wait, what?
Log Horizon is much more of a political thing then action focussed. I never saw it as a "standard" anime plot. :\
Anvildude wrote: Be warned, if you're expecting Log Horizon to be anything like SAO, you'll be disappointed. It's much more of a 'standard' Anime plot- mysterious circumstances, one guy who happens to be a 'master strategist' who gathers together a rag-tag group of heroes sort of thing.
Wait, what?
Log Horizon is much more of a political thing then action focused. I never saw it as a "standard" anime plot. :\
Ya there is very little action, and it's always raced over quickly. 90% of the show is the character's pushing up their glasses and plot build up through talking. Definitely not standard plot, and very detailed about the various aspects of living in a video game. Sword Art Online is the much more of a standard plot line. It's basically a super bland harem, you don't even get to know most of the characters very well
I'm getting good at the actual rhythm bit, and since the game is a combination "card" collector, team management, rhythm game the unlocks are fun, especially since earlier today I started really unlocking characters from the show, including my favorite character Maki.
I kinda wish the story the game is running you through was a bit more substantial, they did go to all the trouble of having the anime's voice actresses do the cut scenes after all... but I'm having way too much fun for a simple smart phone game.
You may now judge me.
I have NEVER felt like a bigger nerd/anime fan then I do right now.
One of my favorite songs from the show right there. Love Live! Really surprised me with how much I liked it. Now I want a smartphone to play this game....
. And yes, it was fething awesome.
Anything that didn't exist originally in Japan (aka, brought either in the good ol' times by Portugal, Netherlands, etc. or after the war) was transformed into a japanese word using their sounds.
Just couldn't stop watching!
