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 Soladrin wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I'm looking at a bunch of shows being shown by Funimation. Gangsta looks decent but something tells me it'll be depressing as ****. Then there was another show by several different people called chaos dragon that sounded pretty awesome.

So far Gangsta hasn't been all that depressing. Then again, I don't mind depressing shows.

Did Gangsta have any depressing moment so far? I must have been distracted by how unbelivable badass all the characters are and the massive quantity of carnage. There's even a Balalaika!

Um... I haven't watched episode 5 yet, but it may only be considered depressing when they inform you that twilights don't live long, which I think they mentioned in episode 4.

Chaos Dragon is merely Ok. It seems to progress really quickly and wants you to be more invested in some of the characters than they've given you the time to actually be. I barely know what's going on half the time.


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The only thing Gate was missing was the bandits' reaction to the music. I was expecting a scene where they kind of stop and look around confused and someone asks what that noise is. I mean they were even riding in with the sun at their backs and didn't use that to show a grand entrance.

 AduroT wrote:
Chaos Dragon is merely Ok. It seems to progress really quickly and wants you to be more invested in some of the characters than they've given you the time to actually be. I barely know what's going on half the time.


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The only thing Gate was missing was the bandits' reaction to the music. I was expecting a scene where they kind of stop and look around confused and someone asks what that noise is. I mean they were even riding in with the sun at their backs and didn't use that to show a grand entrance.

They kind of did, actually.
They should have made the music louder, but you could barely hear it, and the bandits were looking up at the sky, trying to find its source.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I'm looking at a bunch of shows being shown by Funimation. Gangsta looks decent but something tells me it'll be depressing as ****. Then there was another show by several different people called chaos dragon that sounded pretty awesome.

So far Gangsta hasn't been all that depressing. Then again, I don't mind depressing shows.

Did Gangsta have any depressing moment so far? I must have been distracted by how unbelivable badass all the characters are and the massive quantity of carnage. There's even a Balalaika!

Well, there was that one woman Nicholas was in the room with, who was clearly dying. But yeah, it hasn't really had any so far, but it's getting set up for some major feels.

I'm just trying to make a point though. How many anythings with gangsters or the mafia or corruption ends happily?

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I'm just trying to make a point though. How many anythings with gangsters or the mafia or corruption ends happily?

True. I just don't think there are that many feels because we are already expecting them to die horribly.

Fun fact: Went to Internation Manga Museum in Kyoto today. They have several walls of manga and one of them had mangas that have been animated. So there were several volumes of Non Non Biyori next to... Prison School. With little girls picking them up to check it out. In the anime 3 eps in and we have jokes with S&M, Golden Showers and prison shower sodomy. Oh Japan, never change

Anna is starting to creep me the feth out.

Also, I finally catch up on Gangsta while I was at GenCon, and as I finish the episode, episode 6 is released! Whoo!

Anyone else watching God Eater? It doesn't really seem all that special or original a concept, but I'm finding I really like it, probably in good part because of the animation quality and character/creature designs. Also don't think I noticed it before, but the mood music in this last episode seemed like it was louder than most shows and was pretty good.

I suggest the Clannad and Angel Beats fans check out Charlotte if they're not already. It's the same writer, and I'm pretty sure we're in for a major shift in the story after the most episode.

So far, Gundam ZZ has been....a shift in tone, certainly. I kind of realised what I was in for when the initial villain could best be described as Zap Branigan by way of Revolutionary Girl Utena, and I can see why it's considered a black sheep of the franchise given how people would have been expecting more Zeta. But once I'd adjusted my expectations, I did start legitimately enjoying the show--there's quite a few characters I really like, none who I find terminally annoying, and the battles remain well done.

I'm currently on ep 20, and from what I've heard it becomes more serious around the halfway mark (when Char's Counterattack began production, and the series started leading into it), so that'll be interesting to see.

I remember catching them when I was a kid, so this episode of NNB had some nice nostalgia to it, too

watching Watamote while waiting for Overlord.
Its ok I guess. Decent opening, and some funny bits.

I feel bad for the girl in watamote. I want to give her a hug and if she was older maybe date her. She can be crazy and not just in an endearing way though.

Will my feels survive the experience?

 Grey Templar wrote:
Will my feels survive the experience?

Eh, it might. Its not really tragic, just pathetic.

 Alfndrate wrote:
Anna is starting to creep me the feth out.

Also, I finally catch up on Gangsta while I was at GenCon, and as I finish the episode, episode 6 is released! Whoo!

Really? I thought she was very mild in this latest episode. Not really that many crazy stunts like she did before. I did laugh way too much with the "Someone help me! She's gonna rape me!"

Also, those credits? Where they teach you to make the sex toy? Priceless. All this with the most famous porn pool in all of Japan: http://kotaku.com/the-most-infamous-swimming-pool-in-japanese-pornography-1520473085 (you can click, it's SFW. it only teaches you about "That Pool", as it's known).

The fact that rape doesn't enter her mind is what is creeping me out. Like couple that with her actions over the past few episodes and someone needs to tell the cops/her mother. What concerns me most is that the PMs are supposed to monitor everything, voice, motions, etc... So why is she seemingly immune to this? Because her mother is pushing for the law, so she has less strict monitoring? If the PMs don't seem to catch the act of intercourse about to occur, then why is Otome bothering to draw with her mouth?

Also, "That Pool" is blown up during the opening sequence.

 Alfndrate wrote:
The fact that rape doesn't enter her mind is what is creeping me out. Like couple that with her actions over the past few episodes and someone needs to tell the cops/her mother. What concerns me most is that the PMs are supposed to monitor everything, voice, motions, etc... So why is she seemingly immune to this? Because her mother is pushing for the law, so she has less strict monitoring? If the PMs don't seem to catch the act of intercourse about to occur, then why is Otome bothering to draw with her mouth?

Also, "That Pool" is blown up during the opening sequence.

Maybe it's because she doesn't know? From what we've seen, those things detect it when they do such a thing on purpose, like the drawing. The emotions? I don't think it monitors that or I don't think it's ever explained. The motions... well, we know it at least doesn't record masturbation motions, Kaju was worried about the new law because they could monitor even that (the episode with a ton of statistics popping up). The words, yes, but Anna never once said a "bad" word. Hell, she even invented her own word for her "liquid love" (this is what I found weird since it's, well, one of the slangs for it )

Yeah, it does, it pains me everytime but not as much as the Akihabara destruction the cops are doing D: . That's just HERETICAL.

Stupid boring future with no dirty jokes...

Also, finished Trigun this morning, it was good but had too many parts that could have been cut. It could have been a fantastic 13 episode series instead of a pretty solid 26 episode series

Yeah. Trigun felt like it could be a cooler series to me if they cut out about half of the out of nowhere silly humor.

Just a bit more seriousness injected with some light stuff would have made it shine for me.

 FacelessMage wrote:
Yeah. Trigun felt like it could be a cooler series to me if they cut out about half of the out of nowhere silly humor.

Just a bit more seriousness injected with some light stuff would have made it shine for me.

This^^^^^^^


Also I am super behind on my current anime. I need to catch up on Arslan, Rokka, and Gakkougurashi! I'm gonna drop God-Eater though. The art style is ugly and monsters they are fighting are super lame and there doesn't seem to be anything special about the story

Oh Japan, you just don't give a flying feth How I missed Akihabara and it's treasures

 Alfndrate wrote:
Stupid boring future with no dirty jokes...

Also, finished Trigun this morning, it was good but had too many parts that could have been cut. It could have been a fantastic 13 episode series instead of a pretty solid 26 episode series

Since my computer messed up again so all i'll say is watch 'gungrave'. It's from the makers of 'trigun' and if you can get passed the weirdness of the first episode with mecha/monster stuff it turns into a solid mafia story from the 2nd episode till the middle. The ending of the show is also excellent. Many people i knew years ago said the first half of the show is the best anime they've seen. Basically the first half aside from the first episode is a flashback to the origin story of the main cast from years ago. It's a sad and depressing story but very good and full of action.

I'll check it out.

Also Himouto Umaru-chan continues to be the one show that I absolutely look forward to every week. Favorite show of the season so far.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Oh Japan, you just don't give a flying feth How I missed Akihabara and it's treasures

Spoiler:

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS anime confirmed

I TOLD you I was gonna take a picture! Pity I didn't take more, but I was in hell back there and I was already in too much pain to even try



And yeah, that was high up in the air. That's a whooooooooole lot of love to Hug

You would need more pillows in that thing than I have in my house (unless you count throw pillows...). Amusing!

I like that Overlord show but I think i've got to quit until it's done.. can't watch things one at a time anymore it drives me nuts.

While not exactly anime related I just completed building one of these. It had taken 12 and a half hours over about 2 weeks(Just a stock pic from google I've added):



On that note though, I do want to learn more about Gundam and watch the anime though. So any idea where to start?

Still watching Overlord and its getting interesting. It jsut hope it just do a Chaika and wrap up everything in 1 episode.

Naruto Shippuuden is satrting to really me off. I don't care about how Naruto taught Konohamaru the Rasengan over 2 episodes of filler. I just want to see him kick ass. Thankfully it is now back to ass kicking time to I am happy again.

So if you're looking at the Gundam series, you really have two ways to look at the shows.
1) Universal Century shows are stories about how gakky wartime life is, and how it can separate people and turn normal people into either heroes or monsters. These shows start with Mobile Suit Gundam (0079), and move from that through Zeta, ZZ, Unicorn, etc... These take place in the same Earth Federation / Zeon conflict. Often times they have characters from previous series, or at least make mention of them.

2) "Alternative Universe" shows. These are more or less shows that feature gundams, rather than being about the Earth/Zeon conflict. These are series like G Gundam (World Martial Arts tournament featuring Giant Robots), Gundam Build Fighters (which is a gundam show about people fighting the plastic kits like the one you assembled). etc... So these feature their own characters, and suit designs (though because Build Fighters is about the models, you'll see color scheme variants from pretty much every series).

The Universal Century shows are more or less a long arcing storyline that seems to have finished with Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (though there is a live action TV series that takes place 70 years after Victory Gundam). There are plenty of good series in the UC timeline, my favorite being the 12 episode OVA series 08th MS Team, though you can technically skip episode 12, as the story really concludes with 11.

The Alternate Universe shows are self contained, with the exception of Turn A Gundam, which I'll get to in a bit. You can pretty much pick any AU show and watch it without needing any other Gundam knowledge. Based on a question posed about 25 pages ago, Dakka seems to be in favor of G Gunda, which is a good series if you just want robots fighting robots. Gundam Wing is a pretty famous series featuring angtsy mid-90s teenagers. Gundam SEED focuses a lot on the relation of Earth dwelling humans and genetically modified space colonists (UC shows refer to them as normals and newtypes, SEED uses naturals and coordinators). Build Fighters and Build Fighters Try are about fighting with the model kits.

Turn A Gundam kind of gets its own category in all of this. It takes place in "Correct Century" which is a time in humanity's life where a giant apocalypse occurred and humanity was split between those that remained on earth and those that went to the moon. It's an attempt to bring all of the other previous series (so anything in UC as well as G, Wing, and Gundam X) into the same timeline. It's basically industrial revolution America with giant robots. It's currently my favorite non-UC series, with 08th MS team being my favorite UC series.

So my suggestions on where to start:
Universal Century: Mobile Suit Gundam
Alternate Universe: G Gundam