[Jam]

Basara =/= Sengoku Basara

Basara is some kind of girly roman period tragic romance set to a very slow and boring revolution.
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[Talbain]

Oh. Well guess I'll skip that then. Doesn't sound too interesting, in any event.
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[Jam]

Which is why it would be funny if someone watched it by mistake.




My sense of humor is terrible and obtuse ;__;
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[Takashi]

[Gironika]

[edit]
I should add WHY i posted this here, I suppose ... well, I love the high-five-part and the setting of the ending. Can't exactly put my finger on it what makes me do so, but it's just awesome.
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[chevluh]

Woooh, silhouettes! As far as these go I like Basquash's ending.

[Gin]

So anyone else checked out Axis Powers Hetalia

I watched some because the girl likes it but the apparent omission of Fascism and Nazism and Japanese Imperialism so far makes me uneasy, on the other hand, I am heavily biased to just give it a chance despite my spattering of knowledge about the atrocities being commited by these countries at that time



Really Germany is just so moe in this show

[Takashi]

The problem with Hetalia is that people will tend to confuse politics with history.
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[Martial Loh]

After much trawling of the webs & timewasting at work, i'm going to try and watch Casshern Sins, that Otomo "Freedom" noodle advert series & some weird motorbike show called Rideback. I shall leave robot basketball till next year.

What was the concensus on Soul Eater, i understand its finished now?

Oh -and i found something called Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor..looks crazy enough to watch!

[Mikey]

Having just finished Rideback I can assure you that while it's pretty okay, you can probably skip it and save yourself a few hours of your precious time. Casshern Sins is great but it is repetitive and somewhat of downer.

[Predator Goose]

[Gouki]

[idle]

[Talbain]

I dunno, I still find One Piece pretty entertaining, even if it is completely ridiculous. Then again, I'm not sure why I like watching it, just that it's the kind of show that's good at throwing curveballs. You know he's going to win, but how is pretty cool. Though I guess not so much for Bleach/Naruto, since they kind of give you everything from the outset, whereas One Piece can kind of expand as much as it wants and take on new (and weirder) characters as it progresses.

I watched Sky Crawlers. Good movie, but Christ the pacing is awful.

Similarly, the pacing in Kara no Kyoukai is equally awful. I haven't finished watching it yet, but somehow these OVAs really don't seem like they should last an hour each. There's just so much talking and it gets to a point where it really, REALLY feels like rote recitation.

Watching Avatar again. Loving it.
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[Talbain]

Define mecha anime in general? Because the Gundam and "canon" stuff (Macross, etc.) is really, really awful. Every now and then it will have a redemptive moment, but mostly it tends to be about one of two things (though you could say it's really just like most other types of anime) 1) the girl - yes we all know this one, some girl is in some situation and lover-boy must rescue her or 2) ultra power to destroy Earth, humanity, etc. That's really about all you get from the genre unfortunately, usually you get both.
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[Takashi]

Except it doesn't. Otherwise people wouldn't be disapointed. In fact it was already proven here that they jammed a terrorist plot because student revolt wasn't mecha-y enough. You want to say that the heroine is not your regular heroine and dislikes fighting, but her last episode behaviour is by the books - she's aparently some sort of soul-of-the-machine-newtype able to destroy hundreds of souless robotic machines with her bare metallic meta-fists, powered by unsung feelings of her dead mother.

In fact, if your redeeming feature for the show is "it wasn't written exactly like a Gundam series", then I would suggest you watch less Gundam.

Also, Tailbain, that's a very generic way to put it, since I'm sure that is the plot for every non-girly anime movie ever.

Except Moyashimon. What the hell? Everytime I think of anime storytelling, I'm amazed at the amount of balls it took to write Moyashimon. I mean, it's a educative anime about yeast and bacteria, that suddenly declines into college drama with alot of drinking and ends up with your childhood best friend deciding he wants to be a gothic lolita working in a convenience store instead of going to college.
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[Martial Loh]

hm i'll give Rideback a look this weekend... I do like mech stuff, but mainly from a ZOMG ROBOTS ARE COOL point of view, rather than for story.

I sort of liked Macross Plus & Zero. Loved King Gainer, though the opening sequence probably had a lot to do with that (as well as Akiman's involvement). The child in me loved Gurren Lagann and stuff like Goddanar - but I do semi agree with Talbain's blanket summary of mech-shows!

[chevluh]

Meanwhile Basquash continues to be happily crazy, with a foot fetishist Nike designer from the moon and ultimate giant robot sports techniques. Mecha and sports anime have always been like close shounen brothers and here they mesh very well together. I still think the fanservice is excessive but I'm willing to let it slide as long as the matches are that good.

Mazinger Z's still kinda disappointing, it just feels like they're going through the standard list of Mazinger things to show. So I don't like it as much as Jeeg after all. What I do like is the oldschool over the top narrator, he makes the whole rocket punch scene ("black, firm and strong! Its majestic fist smashed through everything!") in episode 3 memorable.

[Talbain]

I'll agree that Moyashimon was crazy as fuck. However, I still think that most anime probably fits the generic precept pretty well. Even Moyashimon has a lot of that "lover boy gets the girl" type stuff (though you're right that it descends into it).
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[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[BotageL]

But that's the thing - sure, Rin never actually joins the terrorists, but for a show that is ostensibly about her dealing with her own emotional baggage, it sure fucking loves to engage as many of the stock characters and plotlines as it can anyway. That Rin doesn't become the actual focus of events only serves to make them more irrelevant. A big ol' portion of the story is still spent following the Dashing Terrorist Leader on his quest for vengeance for some betrayal or another related to a battle from the last war, and we still get to enjoy all sorts of terribly predictable and tedious interactions between Rin and the various forces of power. The plot does its damnedest to draw her in, and even though she refuses to get involved, the audience still has to sit through the sequence where Rin's brother and his hooligan friends get the shit kicked out of them by the robot cops to make examples to the public, etc.

In order to make Rideback a good show, you'd have to excise the revolutionaries-fighting-the-government plotline entirely. The series goes through all the motions of the typical mecha show except the part where the protagonist joins the militia and plays an influential role in the outcome of the conflict. Sorry, one spark of "creativity" is simply not enough to save this dog of a show.
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[Takashi]

Well, I'll concede that his interpretation isn't wrong, and a pretty good way to view the series in a whole. Just that the government failure was brought by a leak and a well-placed bullet, not die-hard reporting.

You should see Gundam Seed already. Because they sorta replace Newtypes with a personal-drama variant that I rather enjoy.

In other news, Sengoku Basara was just beaten to a blooody pulp by Souten Kouro (that incidentaly, it's MADHOUSE). It's about Cao Cao, that is normally the bad guy of Romance of Three Kingdoms lore:

In the first episode he pops someone's head off so hard it bounces off a wall. By the age of 14.
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[BotageL]

[Takashi]

[psiga]

Pardon me for putting this here; Zulupad doesn't accept unicode, but I want to record this somewhere so it'll exist even after the auction ends and is purged from their database.

Authors try to cancer, before the debut of her doujinshi Naitou Yasuhiro. 『僕等の頭上に彼の場所』という漫画が収録されています。 The location of his head, and I have been out of comics. 飛行からくりで空のくじらに会いに行こうとする青年と浪人生の女の子の話です。 It's a masterless samurai and young girls live and go to see the whale in the sky flying in from the warden. 非常に良い作品です。 The movie is very good.
エロはありません。 Pornographic.

本棚にしまっておいたので状態は良好です。 State had become so good on the bookshelf. でも、どうしても経年により劣化するため、古い本ほど色あせなどの劣化があります。 However, degradation due to aging insist, there are old stories about aging and fading. 古い品でも破れていたり折れていたりひどく汚れていたりというようなことはありません。 Or things like that are badly stained or torn or broken in the old products. 常識的に考えて普通の状態だと考えてください。 Please consider it normal to think about common sense. 万一品物に問題があった場合は、誠実に対応しますので、その点はどうかご安心ください。 If you have problems with the event item, we will respond in good faith, please be assured that you are wrong.

相互評価無しも可能です。 No assessment can be mutual. 当方への評価をされた方にのみ自動的に評価を返しています。 Review and automatically returns the only way for our review.

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[Takashi]

The sad thing is, I've seen so many pages web-translated, that those sentences make actual sense for me now.

For some reason, web translators have a thing with ガン. In the early days, Gundam would be mistranslated as Cancer-dam (japanese-origin translators like Excite now pick this up correctly). Here it picks Tri-gun and decide it's Try-cancer.
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[Talbain]

I've gotta get me some lunar bust lovin'.

Also, Requiem of the Phantom kind of reminds me of Noir and to a lesser extent, Gunslinger Girls.
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[Takashi]

You might want to consider Asura Cryin, that is a Christian-based mecha series:



Seriously, every faction can be mapped to one side of the Christian debacle, with the Catholics being the nagging dudes breathing on your shoulder and ruling the school. It also has ghosts. And sexy witches. Except it's not a witch and yes a woman that is able to extrude machine guns and rockets from her body. She obviously runs the Science Club.

EDIT: I hope the Lutheran faction is led by a idol girl.
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[Talbain]

I really didn't find Asura Cryin all that great. It's action-y sure, but the show mostly seems like lulz fanservice.
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[Takashi]

Yes, pretty much. I didn't said it was great, I said it was a mecha show about Christian-based beliefs. I had another picture to add to the article because lol tsundere ghost maido:

But I got bored.
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[BotageL]

Man up and keep watching, they'll explain what's going on when they damn well feel like it. Episode 1 was just Imagawa informing everyone that shit is going to go down like Giant Robo, so stay tuned.

[Talbain]

Ah. Thank you for informing me. Don't keep up much with anime directors these days. Barely have time to even watch the shows.

I'm enjoying Saki. I probably shouldn't though. It's pretty horrible and definitely just fanservice but I guess I can't help myself.
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[YourImaginaryFriend]

I don't know if it's the subs on funanimations website but if it isn't requiem for a phantom was so terrible that by the time I got to the op I couldn't watch anymore.

Dug the first episode of that Eden series though.
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[Gin]

Watch "Uninhabited Planet Survive" guys

it's refreshing

[chevluh]

Man up and keep watching, they'll explain what's going on when they damn well feel like it. Episode 1 was just Imagawa informing everyone that shit is going to go down like Giant Robo, so stay tuned.

[Gironika]

[idle]

new episode of eve no jikan is finally available, bros

next episode is about a cat :3

[Talbain]

Eden of the East is getting better and better. I honestly didn't really enjoy the first and second episodes, but they are essentially required to get a perspective on everything that occurs in episodes three and four. It's a strange show in that by the end of every episode there's just more questions than answers, reminds me a lot of Heroes or Lost (though a lot less pretentious - or at least the main character is).
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