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**Admiral Valerian**

Grey Templar wrote:
Finally started watching Code Geass.

It feels like a rip-off of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Has anyone here watched Sakura Taisen?

**hotsauceman1**

Soladrin wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Wait till you get to the disaster of a second season.

Wut? Theres only 2 episodes out and IMO the second episode was very good.

it goes full pants on head later on, with the spartacus ripoff, the ultimate evil plan and the ending

**jreilly89**

Just picked up Hellsing the series, and am quite excited to watch it.

Also, I'm sure this is old news, but they're trying to fund a Ninja Scroll 2, and I'm freakin' stoked.

**Rainbow Dash**

jreilly89 wrote:
Just picked up Hellsing the series, and am quite excited to watch it.

Also, I'm sure this is old news, but they're trying to fund a Ninja Scroll 2, and I'm freakin' stoked.

Ninja Scroll!!!!
YES!!! YEESSS!!!!

**johnscott10**

Anybody else watching Tokyo Ghoul Root A and feel like "something" is missing.

Spoiler:

It sounds like it might be something the Manga could possibly answer but I'd rather not read the manga as It would probably spoil a few things too.

**Stormwall**

So back to people talking to me in the last thread.

Yeah, I agree. FMA is meh compared to FMA brotherhood, which is what the writer intended.

**flamingkillamajig**

Rainbow Dash wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So, apparently there's a corpse party anime.
Is it worth watching? Am I correct in thinking that it's like Higurashi?

I love Higurashi, funniest is I watched it after Rozen Maiden, and the two share a lot of the same voice actors (the dub, I seldom watch subs, except with Fist of the North Star...because no one can "atatatata" like it's original VA)

I know this is terrible but have you ever noticed the blonde haired little girl (satako) is always getting her *ss kicked. Seriously she gets her *ss kicked so much she even starts getting hallucinations of her *ss getting kicked. I almost think it's an accidental humorous and yet terrible part of the show.

Of all the girls in the show i'm more into the twins the most. At first i liked the girly one (shion) that worked in the maid cafe till she ended up being totally batsh*t crazy. The main one we see though is mion and a hot tomboy girl that is fun to be around is always nice. Perfect girlfriend material. Make your f***ing move keichi.

**Grey Templar**

Man, Code Geass just pushes all the right buttons.

Mecha, epic battles and fight scenes, political scheming, super powers, and classic school tropes all in one.

**Knight**

I could live without the super powers. Hard sci-fi with political intrigue hits just the right strings with me.

**CthuluIsSpy**

I like Mion too. She's pretty cool.

What does -chama mean?
It pops up in higurashi; they refer to Rika as Rika-Chama, but I can't find out what that actually means.

**flamingkillamajig**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I like Mion too. She's pretty cool.

What does -chama mean?
It pops up in higurashi; they refer to Rika as Rika-Chama, but I can't find out what that actually means.

Are you sure they weren't saying 'Sama'? Perhaps it has something to do with her being possessed by a god to an extent.

@jreilly89: Which Hellsing are we talking about? They have the original and then 'ultimate'.

**CthuluIsSpy**

Subtitles said Chama, and it certainly sounded like it.

**jreilly89**

I just saw a trailer for Deadman Wonderland. Holy crap, I need to watch this show, especially since it's on Netflix!

Also on my list to watch is Redline.

**sierra 1247**

Aldnoah is sure getting interesting, Slaine Troyard you little sod. I'm actually starting to like you again.

**Soladrin**

sierra 1247 wrote:
Aldnoah is sure getting interesting, Slaine Troyard you little sod. I'm actually starting to like you again.

Yeah, same here. That last episode was great.

Getting annoyed with Inaho though. So, the reason he's so great now is his mechanical eye. Why the hell could they not put the same targeting software into the actual Mechs? This makes no sense.

**FacelessMage**

Redline is surprisingly cool.

Great music and visuals.

**TheDraconicLord**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Subtitles said Chama, and it certainly sounded like it.

-tan
A small child's slurred mispronunciation of -chan. If it is used by an adult at all, unless speaking to an infant or toddler, the person is most likely either being sarcastic, ironic, or a poser Kawaiiko. A non-anime example of this is a certain fast food fried chicken chain's mascot in Japanese advertising, an adorable little girl, "Bisuke-tan," who carries an enormous biscuit on top of her head; her name can probably best be translated as "Widdle Biscuit." This is also how the name for the OS-tans, the Super-Deformed mascots representing operating systems and software programs, was derived — and by extension, any young female anthropomorphization.

-tama,,-chama
Similarly, these are baby-talk versions of -sama, with the exception of "obocchama" which is used to address the son of someone who is of higher social standing, roughly equivalent to "young master."

Source: TV Tropes - Useful Notes: Japanese Honorifics

Soladrin wrote:

Getting annoyed with Inaho though. So, the reason he's so great now is his mechanical eye. Why the hell could they not put the same targeting software into the actual Mechs? This makes no sense.

Of course they don't. That way, Inaho would stop being a Mary Sue. We totally don't want Inaho to stop being a Mary Sue, right?

**darkcloud92**

Soladrin wrote:
sierra 1247 wrote:
Aldnoah is sure getting interesting, Slaine Troyard you little sod. I'm actually starting to like you again.

Yeah, same here. That last episode was great.

Getting annoyed with Inaho though. So, the reason he's so great now is his mechanical eye. Why the hell could they not put the same targeting software into the actual Mechs? This makes no sense.

Spoiler:

**Anvildude**

Hey guys, I wanna show a buddy of mine that super-crazy anime video that was posted a while back in the other thread- the one with the weird Evangelion-type stuff, about the otaku falling into his television or whatever? Anyone got a handy link?

**Soladrin**

Anvildude wrote:
Hey guys, I wanna show a buddy of mine that super-crazy anime video that was posted a while back in the other thread- the one with the weird Evangelion-type stuff, about the otaku falling into his television or whatever? Anyone got a handy link?

http://animatorexpo.com/mememe/

VERY NSFW EVERYONE.

**Void__Dragon**

I fapped to that video as a huge middle finger to Hideaki Anno.

feth you for telling me that what I do is wrong.

**TheDraconicLord**

Void__Dragon wrote:
I fapped to that video as a huge middle finger to Hideaki Anno.

feth you for telling me that what I do is wrong.

*bro-fist* That's the spirit

Edit: Gods, episode 3 of "Death Parade" was such a "FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORED" moment. <3

**Soladrin**

Durarara 2 Writing is goooood. God I'm so happy they didn't feth this up.

Anyone else watching it? :3

**AduroT**

Soladrin wrote:
sierra 1247 wrote:
Aldnoah is sure getting interesting, Slaine Troyard you little sod. I'm actually starting to like you again.

Yeah, same here. That last episode was great.

Getting annoyed with Inaho though. So, the reason he's so great now is his mechanical eye. Why the hell could they not put the same targeting software into the actual Mechs? This makes no sense.

I get the impression it's not just the eye but a hybrid of the eye's software plus his own brain. He referenced in the chess game that it's part of both, and he even seemed to be talking to the eye and having it respond later on. Also they did say it was an early prototype. Also I do like the guy because even while he seems robotic and emotionless on the surface you can tell there's stuff going on under it and he just doesn't express it much or the same way, which is a nice change of pace from the typical protag that over emotes everything.

**darkcloud92**

Did anyone else take a look at the chess game when it was on screen? When he put her in check both times it didn't appear to be the case. Although it was hard to determine which piece was her king

**Knight**

Heartbreaking third episode of Death Parade. Agreed?

**TheDraconicLord**

Soladrin wrote:Durarara 2 Writing is goooood. God I'm so happy they didn't feth this up.

Anyone else watching it? :3

Maybe it's because they don't have to introduce many of the characters, but IMHO this season is kicking the ass of Season 1. It's being so much better <3

Knight wrote:Heartbreaking third episode of Death Parade. Agreed?

To me this episode was a huge moment of happiness as I was feeling warm, fuzzy and happy inside by the end of it. I was afraid it was going to take a turn for the worse after the revelation but I'm so damn happy it didn't.

Spoiler:

**Soladrin**

TheDraconicLord wrote:
Soladrin wrote:Durarara 2 Writing is goooood. God I'm so happy they didn't feth this up.

Anyone else watching it? :3

Maybe it's because they don't have to introduce many of the characters, but IMHO this season is kicking the ass of Season 1. It's being so much better <3

Knight wrote:Heartbreaking third episode of Death Parade. Agreed?

To me this episode was a huge moment of happiness as I was feeling warm, fuzzy and happy inside by the end of it. I was afraid it was going to take a turn for the worse after the revelation but I'm so damn happy it didn't.

Spoiler:

And the bartender did that awesome "Will 5 minutes be enough?" joke

It probably is that. The first season spent a LONG time establishing the world and all the major players in it. Even so, it's all just so well written, the dialogue is great! And everyone is still secretly a badass. xD

**gasdg**

I actually dropped rest during the night while i recognized what was you go about because.

**Soladrin**

gasdg wrote:
I actually dropped rest during the night while i recognized what was you go about because.

I.... what?