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Faithless
Wendy's Hole

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: World 1-1

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:39 pm

I dig Eden so far. I also dig the basketball mech anime. And that one where the porno women fight each other. _________________ my website

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Ben Reed

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: charge b, f + P

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:02 pm

'Ello chums, I apologize if this will sound like spamming, but I just wanted to drop in to pimp Colony Drop's brand new forums at http://colonydrop.com/forum to any of you folks who don't already read it. Because we aim to attract people who we know can write at or above the ninth-grade level without the pervasive use of 4chan memes and image macros, I figured this was a better spot to fish for members than most other venues. Anyone and everyone who has a legible English-language opinion on Japanese rape cartoons is welcome to come and share their insight into what's wrong with modern anime. Authentication is currently instantaneous, so get in early before the spambots do! _________________

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Takashi

Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:33 pm

Ben Reed wrote:

Because we aim to attract people who we know can write at or above the ninth-grade level without the pervasive use of 4chan memes and image macros

Actually, I hire Warren Ellis to write all my anime-related posts on SB, so I'm not really eligible. ^o^;
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v84j3gs2uc7ns4

Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:04 am

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Ebrey

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Los Angeles

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:40 am

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:01 am

Faithless wrote:

I dig Eden so far. I also dig the basketball mech anime. And that one where the porno women fight each other.

Porno women fighting?

Also... I've started watching Gotoku 2nd season and Zetsubou 2nd season. They are both terrible. Zetsubou retains its rather nice stylistic art form, but the substance is really completely lacking. Rather, it seems that there is no substance at all, just a collection of boring short stories that make no sense. Sort of like how I felt about Haruhi, though more of a "meh" than a "how can people watch this?"
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idle
QUAD DAMAGE!!!

Joined: 10 Jun 2007

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:43 am

Talbain wrote:

Zetsubou retains its rather nice stylistic art form, but the substance is really completely lacking. Rather, it seems that there is no substance at all, just a collection of boring short stories that make no sense.

I don't get it. SZS is a comedy/satire; there isn't supposed to be any sort of overarching storyline. Its brand of humor might not be for everyone, I suppose, but lamenting the fact that the show doesn't move towards any particular destination in terms of plot seems a rather nonsensical complaint to me.

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Martial Loh

Joined: 12 Jan 2007
Location: London, UK

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:22 am

Faithless wrote:

I dig Eden so far. I also dig the basketball mech anime. And that one where the porno women fight each other.

Hm.. I'm tempted to try out all 3 shows.. What are the actual names of the latter 2?

Also - paging anyone that knows where I might find Malaysian Speedy Video dubs of DBZ movies online or otherwise! I'm looking for the Revenge of Cooler, in particular. I have a vhs copy somewhere in my attic, but now lack the relevant vhs playing devices to attempt to capture the audio with.
muchos thanks in advance!

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Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:59 pm

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:35 pm

idle wrote:

Talbain wrote:

Perhaps I should just say that it's not really my cup of tea. I did mean to imply that I found it bad, mostly because the jokes fall flat on me. Maybe I'd get it if I were more into Japanese culture, but the references are obscure as hell. Though I suppose I can see some people liking that.
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Faithless
Wendy's Hole

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: World 1-1

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:04 pm

Hm.. I'm tempted to try out all 3 shows.. What are the actual names of the latter 2?

Basquatch is the awesome robot basketball anime. Queen's Blade is the much less awesome porno women fighting each other anime.

Higashi no Eden is the first, and almost as interesting as Basquatch.

My endorsement of Queen's Blade was not sincere.

Also, saw Sky Crawlers last night. Liked it. Gonna review it for Play.
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Loki Laufeyson
fps fragmaster

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Beneath the Mushroom Kingdom

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:40 pm

Martial Loh wrote:

Faithless wrote:

I dig Eden so far. I also dig the basketball mech anime. And that one where the porno women fight each other.

there are some shorts clips on youtube, but other than that, i have no idea. i guess no-one uploads them because they assume no-one would ever want them. i have one of the movies featurig cooler on vcd, but i can't remember which one. it's the one where goku and vegeta get put in a tentacle machine that drains their power.
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Gironika

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Dragon Range

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:43 pm

idle wrote:

One episode (think it was the latter half of second season) deals with the complaint that the series caters to an audience that got used to the series/who likes this kind of show/jokes and forfeits new viewers due to that, a pretty clever and tongue-in-cheek way of dealing with that ... and to top it off, the last OVA even goes to the lengths to have an episode that deals with what you said.

There are ofen/sometimes some references I don't get (mainly too-japan-bound ones like finances or rather obscure movie-stars, Takuya Kimura aside) but that doesn't stop you from enjoying the series - at least it didn't for me. The episodes are still over-the-top enough to be entertaining even if you, say, only get half of the references, I'd say.

in other news, Ristorante Paradiso ... well, it didn't click with me, maybe it'll will with someone else. It's just that I've seen a dorama doing something along the same lines way better than this series (maybe they share the same inspiration, like a book/manga? ...) so I'll be skipping this.
Curious what Eden and Basquash will be like.
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psiga
saudade

Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:46 am

Shangri-la can go fuck itself. :\ _________________

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Takashi

Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:38 pm

At work, bored, before I go to work on my master's degree. Hit it, Warren: - Ashura's Crying is a giant robo show of hilarious mindfuck plot dimensions on a threesome package of ghost-girl, meganekko, and temple priestess. And the mob. It's pretty bad otherwise. Actually, I'm not even sure it is a giant robo show, because the first two episodes cut off whenever the gigantic apparatus appears. - Phantom is... allright. Reminds me of Noir somewehat. There's alot of exposure in the two episodes, so no idea where the show is going. I can guess, what with two somewhat similar looking main male and female characters, having the same mysterious condition and memories conviniently erased, living all alone in the middle of the desert. EDIT: - Natsu no Arashi is a funny one. I downloaded this and thought it was some sort of late 90's anime I got by mistake. It sure looks like one. Turns out it's about Back-to-the-Future inspired time travel hijinks, except DeLoreans are replaced by 16-year old girls. It's boring, but your mileage might vary. _________________ low-end.net \| Whimsy (soon) \| Serfdom 2.0

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:43 pm

Eden of the East actually reminds me a lot of Ergo Proxy. Though I think it's more of what Ergo Proxy would be like if it were set in a modern day setting. But I could be wrong, I've only seen one episode. In fact I'm kind of hoping I'm wrong, since I find the characters generally more likable than the characters in Ergo Proxy. _________________

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Persona-sama
artistically unofficial

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: cosmic eternity

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:40 pm

Has anyone watched the Valkyria Chronicles anime? I want to hear opinions about it since I enjoyed the game but felt the story was way too anime for its own good and I can only wonder what having a season format with low budget animation to replace the nice 3d will change it. _________________

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:54 pm

Persona-sama wrote:

Has anyone watched the Valkyria Chronicles anime? I want to hear opinions about it since I enjoyed the game but felt the story was way too anime for its own good and I can only wonder what having a season format with low budget animation to replace the nice 3d will change it.

I enjoyed the first episode, but maybe that's because is anime-y. It sort of feels like it should be. Guess we'll see how it works out.
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:27 am

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Gironika

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Dragon Range

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:28 pm

I can't imagine a cooler Gundam Matchup than Musha Gundam vs. Milliardo Peacecraft TOLL, is it better than that or not? [edit] Natsu no Arashi is -surprisingly- not as stupid as it might sound at first. Albeit missing the chance to do more than being a bit too trivial despite having a good idea behind the concept (that, to be honest, kind of copies the girl who lept through time), here's hoping that it might get its act together to be something worth watching. _________________

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internisus
shafer sephiroth

Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:10 pm

Hello! I haven't watched any new anime since Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ended like two years and twenty pages ago. I recently regained my ability to use bittorrent; would anyone care to summarize the worthwhile series that I may have missed?

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gambrinus

Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Location: Boulder, CO

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:00 am

internisus wrote:

Hello! I haven't watched any new anime since Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ended like two years and twenty pages ago. I recently regained my ability to use bittorrent; would anyone care to summarize the worthwhile series that I may have missed?

Nah they pretty much all have sucked.

(Seriously, I can't remember a goddamn thing since TTGL that was worth half a damn, but I may be having selective memory here.)

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glossolalia

Joined: 04 Mar 2008

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:13 am

kaiba.

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boogalooper

Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Location: boogin around

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:02 am

so is that a resounding "no" on Rideback then? I got pretty drunk a few nights ago and made it about 6 minutes into the first episode before passing out, but my hazy memories of the show give me a feeling of, uh, Haibane Renmei, maybe? I can't put my finger on it, but I did like the tones of the opening. I know that its about motorcycle mechs later on, but I wouldn't mind a more muted approach to it. I was going to give it a watch, but maybe not. _________________

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DonMarco
graphics fucker

Joined: 06 Dec 2006

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:11 am

Watching Shikabane Hime on Hulu ITT Tolldaddy, before you judge me. Hulu's also got Exosquad! That's got to count for something, right? _________________ Still alive.

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:02 am

gambrinus wrote:

internisus wrote:

Nah they pretty much all have sucked.

(Seriously, I can't remember a goddamn thing since TTGL that was worth half a damn, but I may be having selective memory here.)

Nope, you're pretty much dead on. There's lots of stuff to waste your time if you're bored though.

Oh yeah, watch Kaiba. Kaiba's awesome. Eve No Jikan (though it's not finished yet) is a bit more experimental and light.
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idle
QUAD DAMAGE!!!

Joined: 10 Jun 2007

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:31 am

Eve no Jikan and Kara no Kyoukai (goddammit I will keep recommending this show until somebody besides me watches it) are the only series I've seen in recent memory that I wouldn't have any problems recommending to people. I also enjoyed Maria Holic, but it's not really for everyone. Actually since you haven't seen anything lately try a couple episodes of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei since you missed that. See how it hits you. I can't remember what else I've seen in the past couple years. Either my memory sucks or modern anime does. Probably both. :(

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:16 am

I will watch Kara no Kyoukai eventually, but jesus christ it could not start out any more stereotypically. Why is it that all the women in Type-Moon series are either psychos or helpless children (or both)? _________________

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idle
QUAD DAMAGE!!!

Joined: 10 Jun 2007

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:55 am

Well KnK is based on one of their earliest works so you can pretty much expect it to follow the trends the other series maintained rather than break from them. Also Shiki is the best Type Moon psycho woman. Touko and Azaka don't really follow the psycho/child model, either. The first episode isn't really the best example of the rest of the series as it entirely revolves around Shiki and the following episodes feature much more of the cast / dialogue / story. Really I just want to see some discussion of the show, somewhere. I feel lonely whenever I latch onto something only to discover nobody else cares about it. :( Last edited by idle on Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:58 am; edited 1 time in total

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:58 am

I'll talk about it once I've watched it. I can't really forget that stupid strawberry ice cream thing at the beginning, hard as I try. _________________

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Gin
banned

Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:37 pm

If anybody is in withdrawal from silly fight anime after soul eater, I'd like to share that Sengoku BASARA is a ridiculous show about the sengoku era in which a man who uses two long spears has a rivalry with a man who holds 3 swords in each hand I think it's based on a videogame

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chevluh

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Switzerland

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:00 pm

Yeah, a capcom one IIRC. 4chan seems to think it's as super robot as you can get without actually featuring super robots. That being said One Piece is still ahead sword-wise, occasionally featuring a nine sword strike. Speaking of insane, Shin Mazinger Z, after a confusing first episode that's indeed just a medley of the whole series, becmes actually watchable in its secnd episode, and quite promising too! I think it'll easily be on a Shin Jeeg level, maybe even giant robo (same director) but may possibly be destined for greater things. Basquash keeps being very good at episode 2 too.

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psiga
saudade

Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:47 am

idle wrote:

Eve no Jikan

Caveat! Caveat! I love EnJ, but they only put out new episodes once every couple months. It's been four months since episode 3. If you could possibly just make note to watch it like a year or so from now, you'll be able to bypass the pain of waiting, waiting, waiting.

If anyone wants a taste of what the production studio is capable of, though, then definitely pursue Pale Cocoon:

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Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:37 am

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Takashi

Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:13 am

I kinda love it, the Colony Drop Nobz don't, I defer to their opinion. I am less a fan of anime than I am a fan of Mecha Anime, and when there's a mecha anime like Rideback that tries to be different from every other Mecha Anime, I respect it, but people who do not already have a saturation of Mecha Anime may not see the same things that I am.

I think the show would have made more sense if it had 26 episodes. As it stends, it felt cut short and events cascaded in a not-so-smooth form. Theme wise it was pretty interesting, never the less.
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BotageL
pretty anime princess

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: *fidget*

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:31 pm

The Rideback TV series basically throws out everything vaguely interesting about the first volume of the comic (the only one translated into English to date, as far as I know) and replaces it with tedious, by-the-numbers characters and situations. The comic features loud and vigorous and active student protests/riots from the very beginning, an aspect almost entirely removed from the TV series. An early example: the first volume of the comic ends with the protagonist rushing off on her robot when she hears that one of her friends is in the middle of a protest march that the occupying forces intend to stop by force. The TV version, having excised the student riots angle, instead has the protagonist's friend unfortunately positioned at the scene of a terrorist bombing and occupation, and the protagonist rushes off on her robot. From that point on, if you can't figure out exactly what's going to happen every single time the show uses foreshadowing, you are a luckier man than I, for you haven't wasted your youth on videogames and cartoons filled with amazingly hackneyed writing. You probably talk to women, and aren't reading a thread on the SelectButton.net Forums. Oh, and the ending is, frankly, idiotic, but then, expecting an ending that isn't from Japanese Animation requires a strong and willful disregard for reality. Re: Kara no Kyoukai. Not actually good by any measure. Perhaps enjoyable for camp value if you are me and have a sick fascination with failed novelist and porn-game writer Kinoko Nasu, master wordsmith. _________________ http://www.mdgeist.com/

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:37 am

Sengoku Basara is the manliest anime currently being aired. _________________

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Jam

Joined: 27 Sep 2007

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:45 am

Talbain wrote:

Sengoku Basara is the manliest anime currently being aired.

I hope someone is watching Basara by mistake.
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:42 am

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startbutton

Joined: 03 Nov 2008

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:56 am

idle wrote:

Eve no Jikan and Kara no Kyoukai (goddammit I will keep recommending this show until somebody besides me watches it) are the only series I've seen in recent memory that I wouldn't have any problems recommending to people. I also enjoyed Maria Holic, but it's not really for everyone. Actually since you haven't seen anything lately try a couple episodes of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei since you missed that. See how it hits you.

I love Kara no Kyoukai and especially Chapter 5 of it. The longest chapter so far. Honestly, though, I doubt everyone who watched it would appreciate the way I did.. I have recommended to some people and they did watch it, but none of them came back to me to say anything about it. All I got for my asking "so, did you watch it?" was "yeah". Period. -_-

I just satrted watching Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei two days ago and I'm loving it so much. This is precious. The show is filled with so many gags, parodies and jokes. I love its somewhat warped humour and the word-play in the names too. I recommend this to anyone who likes comedy shows.

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Talbain

Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:29 pm

Jam wrote:

Talbain wrote:

Sengoku Basara is the manliest anime currently being aired.

I hope someone is watching Basara by mistake.

Oh it's a terrible anime, but watching men orgasm with fighting spirit over and over again is pretty entertaining from a standpoint of amusement. It's sort of like any Bruce Campbell movie ever.
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