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gambrinus
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 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:49 am |
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Why is this thread dead, anyway? Is anime really just so boring lately that no one's watching it? It sure does seem like there's a lack of good shows lately.
Anyway, I did just finish watching the second Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle OVA. Yeah, uh...that shit's just starting to get a little wacky. But the big reveal seemed to actually make sense, and now I'm wondering what they're going to do with it. Do they have another TV season planned of this, or are they going to finish it off with the OVAs? |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:32 am |
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| Well, I was hoping that someone would be able to point out some awesome series that flew under the radar, but it looks like no such luck. Looks like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei got a second season, but the first show seemed to lose steam quickly after the first few eps, so I don't know if I care. I think I'm just going to go back and watch something old that I never got around to. Right now I'm actually thinking Card Captor Sakura, since I generally like CLAMP shows. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:53 am |
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| Gironika wrote: |
| I did probably enjoy the eva parody in zoku sayonara zetsubou sensei ep 04 way too much though I can't be the only one watching this, who else is keeping up with that? |
I've been watching the show, but I think it's pretty hit or miss. I will say the new series has been better than the first, just because the "3 chapters per show" format works so much better. The jokes were getting worn pretty thin during the first season. The show would also probably be better with less fanservice.
I want to like this show, due to its unique art style and the fact that when it's funny, it's very funny, but it's really never come together for me. I also suspect that I'm missing a lot of the jokes, which I guess is a bit inevitable when Americans watch this kind of show. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:56 am |
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Hmm, new Fist of the North Star series, and also new Nodame Cantabile. I may be the only person in the universe excited about that combination. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:38 am |
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| idle wrote: |
| Jubei-chan is a little moé before moé became all the rage, but witty and charming. just don't watch the second season, whatever you do. it was made a couple years later anyway so it's easier to pretend it doesn't exist |
Oh, I don't know, the second season was good in its own way. The humor wasn't there but the action was good. It's worth checking out if you thought the action sequences in the first series were good but too short.
If you want more of the humor, then you need to watch Kodomo no Omocha. Always was one of my favorite series back in the day. Can't say if it's held up, though, since it's been a long time. I often find that shows I found hilarious the first time through bore me to tears when I rewatch them later. (see: Excel Saga) |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:53 am |
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Recommendations, huh. Well, not gonna stick to recent stuff, but...
I love Nodame Cantabile, which is a sappy love story set in the world of classical music. The animation is a little lazy at times but the series leaves you feeling good. There's a new series that just started to air continuing the story.
Hikaru no Go is a pretty great show if you can get into a show about a board game. It's basically played as a sports anime. Good characters that evolve over the course of the series. Pretty fun show, and one of the few of that length that I can say I've watched twice.
World's Greatest Disciple Kenichi was really fun. A bit of a twist on your standard fighting show with a lot more character development. The first half is a bit better, since it gets a bit more like a typical fighting show later, but still good.
And speaking of typical fighting shows, Fist of the North Star is great if you like campy, over the top violence with a healthy mixture of manly tears. Check out the 80s tv series, don't bother with the recent movies.
Is it too cliched to mention Azumanga Daioh? Genuinely sweet slice of life show. I've never been more genuinely sad when a series ended.
Key the Metal Idol. Way underrated in my opinion. A mindfuck style mystery most of the way, although it does mostly make sense if you go back and rewatch it later.
OK, that was almost all pretty old, but hey, it's not like it gets worse over time. (although your tolerance for crappy animation might) |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:06 am |
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| Ebrey wrote: |
| Well it's Mamoru Oshii's best movie. I guess it depends whether you can stand Oshii? The Patlabor OVAs, TV show, and first movie are great as well. |
I think you could make a pretty good argument for Beautiful Dreamer being Oshii's best movie, but then, I kinda have a soft spot for UY. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:23 pm |
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| Gin wrote: |
Guys did you know the Live-Action Nodame Cantabile is good?
I was surprised. At first I was laughing at it, then with it, and now I'm fucking hooked on it. |
Yeah, it's pretty great. I'm a little torn on whether the live version or the anime is better. The music is definitely better in the live action version, but I'm a little bothered by things like Chiaki punching Nodame in the face (even if they try to make it cartoony, it just bothers me in live action).
If you like it, watch em both, I guess. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:18 am |
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| Takashi wrote: |
| It's an okay show, but nothing much happens. Each season is like a large preparation for a final two episodes. The manga is much better. |
I haven't read the manga, but I did find the second season of the anime much better than the first. Quite a bit more happened and it seemed to get to the point more.
From what I've heard, the manga of Tsubasa and xxxHolic start to intertwine to the point where you need to be reading both to make sense of either after awhile. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:17 pm |
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| antitype wrote: |
| michiko to hatchin's opening is pretty sweet. i'm surprised that more people here aren't talking about this one. you all liked cowboy bebop, yes? |
The animation is sweet, but so far (8 or so eps in) nothing has happened in the plot to make me care, and the characters just aren't interesting enough to suck me in, either.
I'm kind of slowly watching it, but every time I finish an episode I wonder why I bothered. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:45 pm |
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| antitype wrote: |
this site is probably as full of terrible anime fan shit as you would expect any anime forum/social network to be, but at the very least the list feature itself is quite handy. anyone else use this?
http://myanimelist.net/animelist/antitype |
I haven't used that one but I did use something similar over at animenewsnetwork. Useful for keeping track of what you've seen for those days when you go, "wait, what was the name of that one show with the puma twins?" or something. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:58 pm |
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| Gin wrote: |
| Tank Police. What kind of person forgets tank police |
That was more of a hypothetical than an actual question, although it probably has been close to 15 years since I watched it. In fact I don't actually remember anything about it other than the Puma Twins...I don't even remember how exactly tanks were involved in it.
Maybe I should rewatch it? |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:10 pm |
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God. I really don't remember much about this show other than the fact that it was pretty terrible. I know I watched it during a period when, for some reason, there was nothing new that was good on, and I was suffering withdrawal and sought out a bunch of random series that I knew nothing about. Other series that I watched and hated during this time period include Green Green, Ninin ga Shinobuden, and Battle Programmer Shirase. (BPS did at least contain a fairly hilarious shout out to fansubbers) |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:42 am |
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| Also, the Akira movie is pretty shit, so ... |
This will be interesting. I haven't watched it either. Half the people I hear from say it's 10/10, and the other half say it's an overrated nonsensical clusterfuck homage to the end of the 84 book manga series.
I mean, this is anime, so it could be both at once, I guess. |
Well, first off, the animation in Akira is fucking incredible, even today. Hard to believe how well it stands up. A lot of people like it just for that. Probably the biggest complaint you could lodge against it style-wise is that Otomo's character designs are just plain ugly (and make it hard to tell certain characters apart).
The plot? Well, it starts off well enough with high school delinquents and motorcycles and such, and then about halfway through the movie it stops making any sense whatsoever and everyone just goes crazy and starts trying to kill each other and yelling each others' names. Whether you like that sort of thing or not is really a matter of taste. It is something that any anime fan should probably watch at least once.
Of course, if you go and read the manga (which is excellent, incidentally), then the movie makes a lot more sense, although the plot is not identical. There are a lot of little nods to characters and events from the manga. They also pretty much completely cut some of the best characters from the manga out of the movie due to time considerations. (Chiyoko!)
Again, it's something I feel like people should probably just see and make up their own minds on. I think it's gotten a bit of a bad reputation recently just as backlash to how popular it used to be. But I'll admit that I didn't really like it all that much until I went and read the manga. And I could see how that sort of thing might piss off people who feel like they should've made the movie more self-contained. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:37 am |
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I just watched Macross: Do You Remember Love? It was pretty good, if dated. I've never watched the original series before, so it was all pretty new to me. I actually felt bad for Minmay - I didn't expect that.
Outside of Macross Plus, is any other Macross good? I've watched Macross II a long time ago and ISTR it being pretty crappy. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:36 am |
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I was under the impression that while the individual events of DYRL were different from the series and they are not the canon version, the gist of them was basically the same. Is the series different enough from DYRL to make it worth watching? |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:11 am |
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| So between watching Macross recently, plowing through Kimagure Orange Road, and my continued Hokuto no Ken addiction, I've decided I'm in love with 80s anime. So, I've decided it's finally time to watch the rest of Urusei Yatsura. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:47 am |
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| Ebrey wrote: |
| I don't think anime is out of ideas, so much as that it's no longer popular outside of a small circle who only want a couple kind of stories. Anime is more niche and fetishised than it used to be. |
Well, to a degree, there's been a lot of this for a long time. I think a number of factors have made smaller, more niche series more viable - but the easiest way to make a niche show viable is to make the girls appealing to your fans. These days it feels like the first thing that's done when a new anime is being created is figure out which moe archetypes they want to cram in, and then maybe build a plot around it. The result is a lot of bland and samey anime that seem to cater purely to the most hardcore of otaku.
I'm watching Urusei Yatsura again, and I have to say, it's refreshing how innocent the exploitation feels, if that makes any sense. (And yet, UY is ultimately one of the biggest precursors to this trend if you trace it back far enough.) |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:18 pm |
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| Takashi wrote: |
| Michiko is Cowboy Bebop without spaceships, action or likable characters. It's pretty much sums up to a girl doing very stupid things occasionaly, and people looking into nowhere and contemplating how shitty their lives are. |
Does it get better? I watched maybe 6 episodes and quit out of sheer boredom. Great art, decent characters, but just didn't seem to be going anywhere.
Edit: I didn't really read that very closely, did I?
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:07 pm |
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| Talbain wrote: |
| Just finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. Gotta say I rather enjoyed it. I wasn't really expecting to, but it's a rather wonderful childish romp. I like the sort of raw feel to it. Some might see that as simplistic, but I think that those people probably give up too easily on it. There's quite an interesting world established in this series and I think it's one of the few new American cartoons that I could really call "great." |
Some of the humor fell a little flat for me, but overall this was a pretty great show. I can see how some people might not have gotten into it right away, since the first half of the first season or so was probably the weakest. I like how it does an anime-style story in a completely non-anime way. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:00 am |
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| 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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gambrinus
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:21 am |
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| I'm in the mood for watching fighting anime. Preferably terrible fighting anime. I downloaded Flame of Recca because I remember watching an episode of it years ago at my college anime club, and thinking it was terrible and generic. Right now that's exactly what I want! Anyone have any suggestions? I think I've seen most of the standards... |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:59 am |
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Ah, Kurokami looks like exactly what I was in the mood for. I think I'll try that out.
Incidentally, if anybody wants to recommend actual *good* fighting anime, that would be interesting as well. For some reason the only one I can think of off the top of my head is World's Greatest Disciple Kenichi...and I know I've watched a million of these shows, too. I guess it is kinda a genre that attracts crap. |
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gambrinus
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:17 pm |
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| Mikey wrote: |
| Anybody watch this show C: The Money of Soul and Possibility? I'm not sure what to think yet. |
Just watched the first episode, and have no idea what to think either. It at least looks unique enough that I'll give it a chance. All the weird money talk gave me a bit of a Speed Grapher vibe. (A show that I'd consider more 'interesting' than 'good') |
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