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Anvildude wrote:

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Well, not every time. I know that when I first saw Ouran High Host Club, I was as clueless as everyone in the show- heck, I was clueless even past the main dude figuring it out! Not past the first episode, though...

I was legitimately confused at first when people were referring to her as a guy. I first I thought it was just part of the cross dressing tradition and thus people refered to her as male as part of it, but then found that no, they actually thought she was a dude. Charles made a much more convincing guy than she does.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

KalashnikovMarine wrote:Tokyo Ravens just gets better and better

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and more and more people keep confusing Harutora and Natsume. Kyouko at least has the excuse of apparently not remembering what the boy she made the promise with looks like (and they were children any way) but come the feth on. Even if we hadn't seen Natsume in girl's clothing first it's pretty fething obvious she's female. *facepalm*

that aside here's Kon being cute again.

Spoiler:

Don't forget, everyone is freakin' oblivious when a girl is pretending to be a boy except for the audience. Nontheless, it's one of the most interesting love triangles I have ever seen in an anime: Kyouko most likely made the promise to Harutora because of that mini-flashback, Harutora loved Natsume's familiar that was nothing but a kind of "remote controlled puppet", hence, he loves Natsume, he's just as dense as the guy in IS and Natsume loves Harutora I can't wait to see the moment when Kyouko finds out Nastume-kun is a Natstume-chan

Anyone else know of other anime songs with 'ominous Latin chanting'?

Well Mr. KalashnikovMarine, you are absolutely right about Golden Time it's 2:40am here and I have to wake up soon enough, but I couldn't stop watching the available episodes

Lovely, lovely story, with a very likeable MC and there's a lot of hilarious moments: the offering of the sacrifices to the onis was one of the best so far

And it's not only the ending, the opening makes me smile every, damn, time.

Now I have Kill la Kill AND Golden Time to cheer up my thursdays!

 AduroT wrote:
I was legitimately confused at first when people were referring to her as a guy. I first I thought it was just part of the cross dressing tradition and thus people refered to her as male as part of it, but then found that no, they actually thought she was a dude. Charles made a much more convincing guy than she does.

See, I knew Charl was female immediately (and it wasn't just because of the whole "Only girls can pilot ISs!" thing either). It's the hips. has a much straighter, thinner style to their figures, and so there aren't those secondary/tertiary characteristics to judge by.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Well Mr. KalashnikovMarine, you are absolutely right about Golden Time it's 2:40am here and I have to wake up soon enough, but I couldn't stop watching the available episodes

Lovely, lovely story, with a very likeable MC and there's a lot of hilarious moments: the offering of the sacrifices to the onis was one of the best so far

And it's not only the ending, the opening makes me smile every, damn, time.

Woot! Very nice!

Something is bugging me about the Slayers mythos - magic is clearly very powerful in this setting, and not everyone has it, so what's stopping the mages from just taking over everything? I mean, they can just Dragon Slave all resistance.

I mean, friggen hell, Rezzo nuked a city!

Also, if Rezzo is blind, how come he behaves as though he can see? This show confuses me :/

I tried watching Naruto. I just can't get into it though - I just don't like the style or the Characters.
Also tried watching One Piece, but didn't make it past the title screen - I need something darker, Hellsing style, or hell, even Bleach-level darkness...

Still need to try IS though, so maybe that will work...

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I tried watching Naruto. I just can't get into it though - I just don't like the style or the Characters.
Also tried watching One Piece, but didn't make it past the title screen - I need something darker, Hellsing style, or hell, even Bleach-level darkness...

Still need to try IS though, so maybe that will work...

Hmm... Don't know if these would work but if you're looking for a darker anime I think I might know a few:

- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
- Elfen Lied
- Another (though I heard this one was pretty bland)
- (from what I heard) Deadman Wonderland
- Berzerk

Hope these help!

Cheers, I'll see about following those up - I've heard of Berzerk, but not the others.

Oh, By the way - Hellsing Abridged 4 was absolutely godly - So, so good!

Always. The Hellsing Abridged series is pure gold.

SkavenLord wrote:

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I tried watching Naruto. I just can't get into it though - I just don't like the style or the Characters.
Also tried watching One Piece, but didn't make it past the title screen - I need something darker, Hellsing style, or hell, even Bleach-level darkness...

Still need to try IS though, so maybe that will work...

Hmm... Don't know if these would work but if you're looking for a darker anime I think I might know a few:

- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
- Elfen Lied
- Another (though I heard this one was pretty bland)
- (from what I heard) Deadman Wonderland
- Berzerk

Hope these help!

Just saw higurashi no naku koro ni, highly recomend it if you want dark. Besides those, Shiki and Mirai Nikki. Ergo Proxy has it's mysterious and dark side as well.

Shiki was a cool series. Appropriate levels of creepy to make your skin crawl a little bot not to really freak you out or be down about it.

So it's sort of a horror anime yet sort of not?

SkavenLord wrote:
So it's sort of a horror anime yet sort of not?

Its horror but it runs more off dramatic tension than mystery or gore.

Found this on tumblr and thought you guys would enjoy:

A real-life, single-barreled, Mami’s flintlock musket that shoots .45 caliber lead pellet rounds using gunpowder. Crafted by a master gunsmith.

103cm in length
Effective firing range is approx 255m

Concept design can be found here

Hot. Do want.

Not sure if One Piece ever gets really "Dark", but it definitely grows a beard or two about a dozen arcs in (it's rather, long.)

I've found that it's actually a fantastically character driven work, with a setting that's reliable enough in its silliness that the Anything goes style of combat and adventure doesn't feel out of place when viewed alongside themes of genocide, racism and class warfare. (no, really, One Piece has all that stuff. It's mad.)


IS is anything BUT Horror. Or at least the first season is. I haven't started watching the second yet.

Anvildude wrote:


IS is anything BUT Horror. Or at least the first season is. I haven't started watching the second yet.

Sheldon Cooper might find IS to be Horror

Anvildude wrote:
Not sure if One Piece ever gets really "Dark", but it definitely grows a beard or two about a dozen arcs in (it's rather, long.)

I've found that it's actually a fantastically character driven work, with a setting that's reliable enough in its silliness that the Anything goes style of combat and adventure doesn't feel out of place when viewed alongside themes of genocide, racism and class warfare. (no, really, One Piece has all that stuff. It's mad.)

Yes, I too like to watch my weekly dose of One Piece. It really pulls off the whole "grand adventure" theme by actually being a grand adventure.

Anvildude wrote:
IS is anything BUT Horror. Or at least the first season is. I haven't started watching the second yet.

Yep, IS is definitely not horror, but it does have some good action and mecha designs for a fan service anime.

One Piece is a happy go lucky kid who wants to be King of the Pirates, living a dark dark world, and who despite his nature is forced to get serious every now and then.

Sounds to me like he'd fit just right in the Old World

Finished IS S1 yesterday and wow, that final boss was glorious. It looked beautiful AND kicked major ass!

Laura remains my favorite. Not only is she the most direct, her mech is a freakin' Broadside: It's beautiful to see it shoot.

Next gym day, off to IS S2!

Oh, and concerning Berserk, the anime doesn't touch the really dark part of the story. The anime is the "prologue" arc, where it's explained how Guts evolved and turned into the Black Swordsman. It's not even a tiny bit dark compared to everything else, it's the "soft". This is a tiny bit of the wiki's resume that shows what I mean:

From a conventional medieval European background, the story shifts to fantasy and horror,

It only goes full dark after a certain event.

Read the manga, literally the first scene of the manga



There's crappy worlds, then there's the world of Berserk. It's as if the entire Chaos of the 40k universe was clumped together in a single planet. The Warhammer Fantasy Chaos isn't a strong enough comparison of how much a Crapsack World it is.

This is just pure gold, I have to share it

 Admiral Valerian wrote:
This is just pure gold, I have to share it

Have an exalt for the laugh.

Been watching Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova,

A bit cliche, but surprisingly well executed. Have not read the manga so I'm watching the anime on it's own merits first.

The Anime has already broken from the manga quite a bit. Several supporting characters have been cut and the outcome of episode 6 (to my disappointment) skips over most of Haruna's current character arc, but I suppose that'll save time (AoT could have used some of that).

A wild Team Four Star appeared

It used Attack on Titan!




It's super effective!