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I don't know if you could really call it "Anime", but a friend of mine loaned me the first series of RWBY. I think I'm going to end up watching this all at once. It's pretty dang amazing. Apparently a lot of people complain it's way too cliche to a "high school drama" (whatever that is). I don't really watch any anime at all so the cliches are all new to me, which helps a lot.
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I liked RWBY just fine, it was cute. Reminded me of flash animated fight scenes from waaaaay back in the day taken to the extreme. And well actually I guess the fights in that ff7 movie were a lot like that, ridiculously efficient actions flowing into eachother etc. Fun to watch anyway.
Finished Fate/Zero. Yeah that was kind of boring at the end. Whole series seemed to have no point(seems like a theme honestly) and while some of the fights were pretty cool, there was a lot of icky show guts to get through to get to them. Maybe I'm 'missing the point' somewhere along the line, but meh oh well, it wasn't terribly long and it wasn't all bad.
Also watched GitS Arise 1-3, eagerly awaiting the 4th installment to arrive on the netflix.. though then I'll just be sad when I'm out again.
Gotta find something else to watch on Netflix, having trouble digging up anything that looks palatable that I haven't watched though... mostly vampire this highschool that, more than one occurrence of both together... bleh.
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I planned to take a short break from NHK to watch a show that looked interesting (toradora). I have now nearly finished it. This is my first just strait up romance anime I have watched, and it's pretty damn good. Although I do spend a lot of time yelling at the characters.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I also just started reading silver spoon, and apparently there in an anime adaptation, so might check it out. It's the same author/artist who wrote FMA, and I absolutely love her style.
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hotsauceman1 wrote: Ehh, my problem with it is that it really isn't anime.
It's what someone who has never seen anime thinks that is what anime is like.
So, I guess everyone here missed the main point of RWBY. The creator was a MASSIVE anime fan and made it as a parodoy series stuffed with all the tropes, which they nailed. That said, the animation quality at the start turned me off so much I didn't bother watching most of it until a couple of months back.
As for Monty (the creator), he was the creator, main animator, 3d modeler, voice actor, writer and more for that series.
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hotsauceman1 wrote: Ehh, my problem with it is that it really isn't anime.
It's what someone who has never seen anime thinks that is what anime is like.
So, I guess everyone here missed the main point of RWBY. The creator was a MASSIVE anime fan and made it as a parodoy series stuffed with all the tropes, which they nailed. That said, the animation quality at the start turned me off so much I didn't bother watching most of it until a couple of months back.
As for Monty (the creator), he was the creator, main animator, 3d modeler, voice actor, writer and more for that series.
Yeah, most definitely. RWBY wasn't so much what someone who's never seen Anime's idea of anime is, but rather, a Western Anime fan's take on Anime, told in a medium that's rarely seen in the industry. You can kind of tell there were some growing pains in adjusting to 3D vs 2D, especially in the execution of some of the standard Anime techniques, but it was really growing into its own as a series. It's terrible that Monty died before getting to finish it.
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The new Ghost in the Shell movie is coming out in summer too which thankfully has a different art style and general direction than Arise which I barely got through.
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Yeah I rather liked Arise's artwork. My issue was the change to the Major's design from a tall athletic woman to a fairly small and slender one. At the same time though, Arise felt like a reboot that was in part telling the story of how the Major became the Major, so I was willing to go along with it.
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LordofHats wrote: Yeah I rather liked Arise's artwork. My issue was the change to the Major's design from a tall athletic woman to a fairly small and slender one. At the same time though, Arise felt like a reboot that was in part telling the story of how the Major became the Major, so I was willing to go along with it.
Same here i honestly though it was a prequel to the rest of the series.
Motoko's wasn't too bad, but all the other Section 9 characters looked terrible compared to Stand Alone Complex/Sac 2nd gig.
Apparently the new movie deals with Motoko's development and origins before the original Ghost in the Shell movie yet after Arise hence the younger adult look and less younger teenager.
Co'tor Shas wrote: I planned to take a short break from NHK to watch a show that looked interesting (toradora). I have now nearly finished it. This is my first just strait up romance anime I have watched, and it's pretty damn good. Although I do spend a lot of time yelling at the characters.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I also just started reading silver spoon, and apparently there in an anime adaptation, so might check it out. It's the same author/artist who wrote FMA, and I absolutely love her style.
I'm glad you enjoyed Toradora, it's one of my personal favorites, and the only romcom to make my buy list. Silver Spoon is also excellent. You will spend some time yelling at the characters.
In other news The Testament of Sister New Devil seems to be an experiment to see what the studio can get away with on TV, it's just about hentai and half the episodes are covered in censors. Which is a pity because the characters, while relatively boiler plate, manage to still be endearing, and the plot's interesting when the... ahem... plot... isn't getting in the way.
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