[DonMarco]

Just watched the series finale to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends...

Another chapter in my childhood has ended.

:(
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[spinach]

how old are you donmarco

[DonMarco]

20-something.

Anyone else watching Sit Down, Shut Up? It's packed with a lot of jokes AND in-jokes, and I think it has a real chance to eventually find a place on Fox, especially with King of the Hill going away and the tremendous likelyhood of an animated show about Cleveland failing to "find an audience".

LOL again with the Pluto.
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[spinach]

btw i'm not coming down on you for watching cartoons -- especially not foster's, foster's was great

it's just weird to hear a statement about a chapter of one's childhood coming to a close in response to the cancellation of a show that ran for five years on a message board primarily populated by adults whose childhoods were already pretty much over by the time said show premiered

if that makes sense

i miss ed edd 'n' eddy

[spinach]

a word on foster's: after i'd dropped out of art school, gone homeless, let my father talk me into coming back home to san diego, and spent three soul-crushing months looking for work, i saw foster's for the first time, and it really made me feel better

[psiga]

Time of Eve is back from hiatus. I missed it. <3
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[km]

Hey, new Eva 2.0 trailer! (thanks Faithless)
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For adolescents; half-formed personalities roaming (in packs) in search of identity.

[Gironika]

Natsu no Arashi ... I don't know, this thing seems to miss an idea behind what is happening yet manages to have an "aha!"-moment every now and then.

The show plays a bit with time-travelling and the consequences though it kind of goes in whatever direction it wants at any point, so you get some unconnected stills, scenes and people showing up that might? will? make some sense later on.

Interesting but also confusing so far. Probably didn't help that I accidentally watched the fourth episode before the third one, but I'll go and find out now. Is anyone else watching this?
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[Gironika]

[Talbain]

[Takashi]

[km]

[Talbain]

This is like the Final Fantasy series. It's far past its heyday and whether or not it's an insult doesn't change the fact that it's far past its prime.

Also, why exactly should we praise them for managing to "not insult" the series? That's like praising a professional athlete for managing to make it to the finish line.
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[Takashi]

Talbain does not appreciate the ingenuity of adding nipples to Rei Ayanami.
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[Faithless]

Guys, have you been following Queen's Blade? It's like finding anime at your local video store, circa 1994. On VHS. Where there are panties on the box cover.

It's all fighting and tits. It's the anime's anime.
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[stotelheim]

How often do people piss themselves in that Japanese animated comic book I only watch Japanese animated comic books where people are incontinent to avoid supporting the pissnormative agenda
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[chevluh]

Finished Toradora! That was pretty good, though I didn't exactly expect the mood shift near the middle.

Started Casshern Sins, too. That one's good but quite depressing.

[Talbain]

[chevluh]

Done with Casshern Sins. It was beautiful but sad T_T

[Martial Loh]

I'm slowly working through Casshern Sins.. I love the filter they've got on the visuals, gives it an almost dream like quality.
I also like the way most people yell "Ca-sheeerrrn!!". All sorts of awesome!

[Loki Laufeyson]

started getting into turn a gundam again, it's surprising how much farce is in this show. first there was loran/laura, now there's dianna and kihel swapping identities! i assume before the end of the series, there'll be someone running around a hotel with a dead body under their arm trying not to let their wife see it.

it's still a really entertaining show, though.
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[psiga]

[Talbain]

I would almost be inclined to say that Eden is about growth. Just haven't seen enough of it yet to necessarily come to that conclusion, even if the title is a huge clue.
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[Gin]

Hey does anybody else here watch the mazinger opening over and over when they're feelin down

Seriously I could do this all damn day

[Neverwhere]

I decided to pick up some ANIME (yeah!) again after an almost one year hiatus (I blame Geass R2).
I heard a few things about Eden of the East and decided to check it out.

And it is really good. It's got the traditional polish of high grade Studio IG productions without their usual flaws (wordswordswordsSCIENCEmorewords, lifeless characters, ...) It's been a while since I haven't felt such good vibes from an ongoing anime. Can't wait to see more of this.
But maybe I'm being overly positive though! (I don't think so)
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[Teflon]

I watched Soul Eater.

26 bad episodes IN A ROW couldn't keep it from being my favorite show made in the 21st century. These FIGHTS! I haven't fist-pumped a TV this hard since the last time my side won a world cup soccer match.

It's kind of heartbreaking how the manga is still going and actually has a somewhat coherent storyline. I like reading it and all but it's got nothing on the way the show looks in motion.

[Talbain]

Yeah there are certain things that are always better in motion, fights are one of those things. Something about reading a book or going through a manga that just doesn't satisfy in the same way that Liam Neeson smashing some guy's face against the wall does. There's no way to really describe adrenaline well I guess, it's one of those things that has to be felt and shows are the closest you can really get to it without actually doing it.

But uh, Soul Eater was lame. Were it just a mash-up of fights in 13 episodes, I think it would have been as awesome as Sengoku Basara. The last fight was just fucking epic (in Sengoku Basara). I'd describe it, but spoilers and being difficult to describe prevents me from doing so. Watch it, enjoy it.
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[psiga]

Heh. I jumped into a random episode of Soul Eater on YouTube. Um, apparently I picked the last episode by mistake. Which is OK, I guess, because if that was going to be my reward for watching from the start, I woulda been miffed.

But that's OK; if I do end up watching it at some point, I'll be going in knowing to appreciate the journey rather than the destination. I remember the fights in episode 1 being amazing; it's good to know that they never let up.

Edit: Since the ending of the show is such unmitigated crap anyway, I won't feel bad about spoiling it when I say this: I love how it boils down to the same old retardedly naive Japanese belief that all you need — literally all you need — is COURAGE. With it you can effortlessly defeat even the greatest enemy. As a culture, they have never let go of this stupid, stupid misconception.

Or at least their pop culture hasn't. And I guess every media-producing nation has its own equivalent. Which does not make this any less pathetic; I'm just saying.
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[Gironika]

finished birdy the mighty 2 last week and man, I don't know why people complained about the quality of the animation ... it made the battles more epic in a "what is going on, man?" way. Not just your standard-fare battles either but really awesome, over-the-top-battles as well.

A bit too lenient (re: ending) but oh well. Wondering if that's it for Birdy.
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[Talbain]

[Predator Goose]

I didn't understand either why the courage of everyone else fighting the guy was apparently useless.
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[Talbain]

[chevluh]

So the leaks were accurate, the eighth episode of the Haruhi rerun really is the first episode of Haruhi season 2. Crazy! Of course since they're using the chronological order this time it means we'll have to wait about a month until the next one.

[spinach]

hey talbain you ever pick up a green lanter comic

those guys are all about willpower alone

[Talbain]

[chevluh]

IIRC there's actually a gurren lagann cameo in one of the green lantern comics.

[psiga]

[spinach]

[spinach]

[BotageL]

Hey Americans! Viz is starting an online English-language version of the Japanese manga magazine IKKI, which has run cool stuff like Sexy Voice and Robo. Apparently the plan is for some of the series to get runs online, and if they're popular enough, actual print releases afterward. They've got the first chapter of one series, Children of the Sea, up now, and they're gonna put more of that one up each week until August when the site launches for real. Print is dead.

Foreigners, well, you should be used to arbitrary region restrictions on online content by now. Hope you got a proxy!

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