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Title: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on March 01, 2016, 03:00:46 PM
Instead of video games, here you list the anime you are currently watching. For myself, I am doing 3 shows right now, 2 are currently still seeing new episodes, one is older and long completed:

Gintama
Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R
Ranma 1/2


Also, it'll snow, first topic I've made in a long time.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on March 01, 2016, 03:35:21 PM
Bringing back some old loves of mine and watching a whole bunch of UC Gundam; Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, The 08TH MS Team, and 0083: Stardust Memory.

I am also indulging my old high school love of Naruto, and suffice to say, I still very much enjoy the series after an 8 year hiatus from my last viewing.

Finally, the time has come for my annual viewing of The Wallflower (Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge), which I watch every March in something of a tradition.

Come May, I'll do my annual viewing of Azumanga Daioh!, which is hands down my favorite anime of all time.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on March 01, 2016, 04:36:07 PM
Azumangah Daioh is great viewing, without Osaka though, she's the glue that really holds the show together.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: BLOOD MONKEY on March 01, 2016, 04:56:03 PM
7 deadly sins

s'pretty good
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on March 01, 2016, 05:13:37 PM
Azumangah Daioh is great viewing, without Osaka though, she's the glue that really holds the show together.

It's essentially a Japanese-and-gender-swapped version of my high school days, so it holds a very special place in my heart.

Osaka is my mom's favorite character, so she'd heartily agree with you.
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Post by: X on March 01, 2016, 05:34:51 PM
I was checking out the Anime series 'Is this a Zombie?' Entertaining and funny to say the least. I feel sorry for Ayumu... he gets shafted so many times by those around him. Even literally at times too, lol.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Abnormal Freak on March 01, 2016, 08:21:50 PM
I got through the first half of Gurren Lagann before October Horrorthon began, now I just gotta pick up where I left off and see what THE FUTURE holds for these characters. Super good animation and style, pretty intriguing story and concepts.

There's other anime I stopped watching midway like Patlabor (original TV series) and Slayers that I gotta get back into. Trouble is, like video games, some of these I've been away from so long that there's a compulsion to start from the beginning, which sucks because I'm already finding myself with little time to really watch or play anything as it is, making watching several episodes over again really daunting. But I have a problem with forgetting important plot points and have trouble getting caught up again if I don't start fresh.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on March 01, 2016, 10:18:43 PM
I just bought a factory wrapped version of "Gundam Wing: The Complete Set".

Childhood memories, HO!
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on March 02, 2016, 01:20:09 AM
I just bought a factory wrapped version of "Gundam Wing: The Complete Set".

Childhood memories, HO!

Hell yeah! Whoooo!
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Dark Nemesis on March 02, 2016, 10:22:16 AM
I have seen Fate/Stay night and now moved to Fate/Zero.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: TatteredSeraph on March 02, 2016, 10:26:25 AM
Sailor Moon Crystal.  I figured watch that first, then go to the older but I've been informed superior original series.  So far, I'm loving it.  Chibi-Usa's just shown up.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: X on March 02, 2016, 05:55:10 PM
I've not seen Sailor Moon Crystal yet, but I'll check it out once it has all been finished. Same deal with the re-dubbing of the original series.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on March 04, 2016, 11:53:39 AM
I've not seen Sailor Moon Crystal yet, but I'll check it out once it has all been finished. Same deal with the re-dubbing of the original series.

Though I've heard another season is coming for Crystal, in 26 episodes they blew through the original and Death Moon sagas (original and R). Not one filler episode at all, I do miss having some filler though.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on March 04, 2016, 12:13:23 PM
Though I've heard another season is coming for Crystal, in 26 episodes they blew through the original and Death Moon sagas (original and R). Not one filler episode at all, I do miss having some filler though.

Hell, that's why filler episodes first started being done -- the pacing of a TV show is far different from the pacing of a manga.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on March 04, 2016, 10:02:15 PM
At the rate they are going, I'd give it about 65 episodes, maybe a little more if they go past where the anime ended, the fight with the manga series main villain, Chaos. The anime never even touched on the main bad guy, no mentions or anything.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: TatteredSeraph on March 05, 2016, 04:47:12 AM
Though I've heard another season is coming for Crystal, in 26 episodes they blew through the original and Death Moon sagas (original and R). Not one filler episode at all, I do miss having some filler though.

No spoilers, please.  I've never seen any form of Sailor Moon before, and am enjoying watching it with no idea of what's going on.  Once I've finished Crystal, I'm going on to the original series.  I agree however that a little more character building, showin actually how the Sailor Senshi become friends and grow closer would have been nice - one of my main issues with the series so far, along with some of the horrible cg textured characters at timed, including when the girls transform.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: KaZudra on March 06, 2016, 02:52:30 AM
Needless to say Dragon Ball Super
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: yamabigdog on March 06, 2016, 11:07:52 AM
I'm watching Samurai Champloo again recently.  I came across some really High Definition rips in 1080p.  If you have not seen it, or think it's a goofey name, just trust me on this recommendation.  It's not overtly sexual, or goofy.  It has a lot of strong themes, and lessons to learn.  It's unlike most Japanimes I've seen.

5 things you may not know about Samurai Champloo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_UNSoDZPAYQ&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on March 06, 2016, 11:52:05 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z5EKYcjOVM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z5EKYcjOVM) dooby dooby doo, I'll just leave this here as we've talked about the series here. It's the trailer.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on March 06, 2016, 03:08:39 PM
3 discs into my marathon of Gundam Wing. Highschool of the Dead is next.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: TatteredSeraph on March 06, 2016, 03:33:06 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z5EKYcjOVM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z5EKYcjOVM) dooby dooby doo, I'll just leave this here as we've talked about the series here. It's the trailer.

Oohhhh, thanks!  :D  Having binge-watched and finished season 2 of Crystal today, I am now rather excited about season 3.  I want to see more of Sailor Pluto, she's my favourite of the Sailor Senshi so far.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Neobelmont on March 06, 2016, 08:00:18 PM
I have not had much time being able to watch much japanese class is no slouch. But I was watching digimon tri I believe that is what it's called. It is All about Tai and the original group. Another I want to re watch is dragon quest Dai no Daibouken. The theme is pretty cool

and am I a bigger nerd for singing it out loud I love Oooo, yuusha yo!!!




Also I have some of the dvds for this



I sing both of these songs out loud.

 
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Post by: The Bizarre Trooper on March 07, 2016, 11:59:08 PM
I've watched the anime adaptations of my all time favorite manga series: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and i honestly can't wait for the Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable anime adaptation!

And i just love, LOVE all the JJBA's openings and their soundtracks each! And honestly JJBA is my favorite series and to the Castlevania series! =D

All i can say now is: SONO CHI NO SADAME JOJO!
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: zangetsu468 on March 08, 2016, 07:17:00 AM
Needless to say Dragon Ball Super

Same, I'm up to episode 7 and not overly impressed. Not that I minded the DB feel, I liked BOG but it's the animation thus far that has let it down.

I hear it gets better later on, but I really wished they'd left BOG as canon and just continued after that, even if they remade FnF again with the anime.

It may also be biased on my behalf because I don't love the Japanese DB voices.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on March 08, 2016, 11:53:28 PM
Just finished watching Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie again, and this being my sixth or seventh viewing of the film, bolstered by having seen the show through to the end and having read the original manga (I hadn't done either when I first encountered the movie), I can say the movie is FINALLY beginning to open its heart and reveal its secrets to me.

It's a lot like End of Evangelion, in that the film loves to screw with you and just be seemingly random for no reason (like that bit at the beginning of the last act when Utena suddenly turns into a car which Anthy then climbs into and drives away in, all with no explanation given and a side bonus that even Anthy is clearly weirded out and traumatized by what she just witnessed happen). It took all these repeat viewings over the years and context from the other versions of the story for me to realise what I think the intended symbolism was: representing how Utena's interactions with Anthy give her strength and enable her to escape her "prison of fate" and determine her own course in life for the first time. The tv show just had Anthy walk out the door on her own at the end to symbolise that, but I guess the movie felt that imagery was too subtle.

It doesn't help that there are no fewer than FIVE SEPARATE R.G.U CANONS(!): the original manga, the anime, the movie, the manga of the movie, and two light novels -- all of which are separate stories that are not linked with the others.

My advice to anyone watching this movie for the first time: watch the show first, read the original manga, and then make your own judgments upon watching the film -- the film's director and the manga's author have both stated that there's no right way to interpret the story and that all interpretations are correct.

But Revolutionary Girl Utena is not a thing to be missed for any reason; it's one of the greatest anime franchises ever made and the art style of the TV show and film ought to be displayed in museums.

For the love of God, WHY ARE YOU NOT WATCHING THIS YET?!

[/fanboy]

Make like an Assassin1 and get on with it!











1Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on March 14, 2016, 02:16:05 AM
Highschool of the Dead is next.

The OVA "Drifters of the Dead" is the best! hahaha.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: sadae on March 14, 2016, 01:09:29 PM
I'm finally watching Shimonetta. I admit recent anime in general disappoints me to no end, but this one seems pretty fun.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Belmontoya on March 14, 2016, 01:20:08 PM
I'm finally watching Shimonetta. I admit recent anime in general disappoints me to no end, but this one seems pretty fun.

Never heard of it. Looks fun like you said though! Is it worth checking out?
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Gunlord on March 14, 2016, 01:27:18 PM
I'm watching Muv-Luv: Schwarzesmarken. I loved the original VNs, but maybe I'm getting old...this anime takes place in an alternate universe where aliens are invading Germany when it was still divided during the 80s, and I just can't buy cute anime girls frolicking around while they're both being hunted by the Stasi *and* freaky aliens. ~_~
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on March 15, 2016, 03:23:09 AM
I'm finally watching Shimonetta. I admit recent anime in general disappoints me to no end, but this one seems pretty fun.

Shimonetta made me LOL! It's awesome.

I need to watch Digimon Tri's 2nd movie.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: sadae on March 15, 2016, 05:10:38 PM
Never heard of it. Looks fun like you said though! Is it worth checking out?

Absolutely worth it. I rarely watch any hentai-ish anime, but this one has a clever story and is just too funny to miss it.


Shimonetta made me LOL! It's awesome.

LOL yes. I'm loving it XD
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on March 16, 2016, 01:39:12 PM
Ahh Shimoneta, watched it months ago, should've been a longer anime because I like how far it skirted being dirty, but the curse words were censored, even in subs. I learned about it not from word of mouth, but seeing a little asian dude/chick dancing around like the main character, complete with the censor bar over his private area. He/she wore nothing underneath, and at times the private area would flash, but the little censor bar covered it up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp6eECUP8DM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp6eECUP8DM) this. Some say it's a guy, but it certainly has more of a female build to it. And no you never see any thing show, so it's work safe.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on March 19, 2016, 02:51:58 AM
I just finished Digimon Adventure Tri: Determination.
It still leaves me with more questions... sigh. I need the next movie.
Oh Hai~ Ken~♪!
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on March 24, 2016, 02:11:52 AM


Full episodes of this are very hard to find, subs seem to be impossible to find, rare anime too. Known as Magical Taruruto-kun, the OVA is also unsubbed, but not nearly as hard to find.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: TatteredSeraph on April 10, 2016, 05:27:47 AM
I'm currently watching Blue Exorcist, and Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 (as it comes out).  I tried watching Sword Art Online but gave up after about 4 episodes, and didn't even get through one episode of Blood Lad.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: KaZudra on April 10, 2016, 06:39:47 PM
https://soundcloud.com/cloud_23/11-kaze-wa-mirai-ni-fuku
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 10, 2016, 10:27:21 PM
Currently watching Wangan Midnight.
I'll soon watch Phoenix Wright once the entire season is finished. haha.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Gunlord on April 10, 2016, 10:38:24 PM
I'm watching a ton of Macross lately ;o
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Pemburu Vampir on April 11, 2016, 05:54:54 AM
Currently watching Dragon Ball Super, Seki Master of Killing Time and My Hero Academia.

Also R.I.P. Koji Wada.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on April 11, 2016, 09:59:58 AM
In Gunny-sempai's footsteps, I am watching Robotech: New Generation, and I'd forgotten a) how campy this was, and b) how much I freaking loved this above all other things Robotech.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on April 11, 2016, 03:31:20 PM
I'm watching a ton of Macross lately ;o

Macross: Do you remember love (English subs, Japanese voices)
Macross: Plus

Those were my joint back in the day :)
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 12, 2016, 01:25:13 AM
Also R.I.P. Koji Wada.

Yes. All Digimon fans are in mourning, he fought the battle with cancer well to be able to sing for Tri.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on April 13, 2016, 02:44:02 AM
Sailor Moon Crystal season 3, as it comes out, love it to bits!

Oh and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, aka season 3 of  Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, not as enjoyable as season 2 as it takes place 10 years later, and the very mature for her age 3rd grader is now grown up and the show through the first episode seems centered more on her teams two younger recruits.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: TatteredSeraph on April 13, 2016, 04:42:04 AM
I'm looking forward to the return of Sailor Pluto.  Of all the Sailor Senshi, Pluto's by far my favourite.  I like the transformations so much more this season, rather than that weird 2D/3D art for the seasons 1 and 2 transformations.

I finished watching Blue Exorcist last night.  So very good!  It reminded me in a number of ways of Owari no Seraph.  It has a similar tone to it I think.  Kuro the Cat Sidhe is adorable, especially in the short OVA, and te last several episodes had me on the edge of my seat and getting choked up as some things transpired.  I loved the brotherly love/frustration between Rin and Yukio.  I'm definitely going to watch it again.  My only fault were the iffy English subtitles on Netflix.

Edit: I'm now watching the Blue Exorcist movie, and certain scenes are makign me think that it could potentially make for a very interesting crossover with the Sorow arc games....  namely, 'Genya Arikado's mysterious Agency being connected to/affiliated with / being part of the True Cross Order from Blue Exorcist.  Ooops.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on April 13, 2016, 07:06:07 PM
The problem I've had with the transformations  is, everyone does so at once, a good 2+ minutes wasted watching them all transform that could be used for further character development.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: TatteredSeraph on April 14, 2016, 02:41:49 AM
The problem I've had with the transformations  is, everyone does so at once, a good 2+ minutes wasted watching them all transform that could be used for further character development.

That also really annoyed me as well  Showing this full transformations of all of them just takes too much time.  Maybe a partial transformation of each, or a split screen of multiple transformations at most would work better?
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 15, 2016, 02:38:37 AM
That also really annoyed me as well  Showing this full transformations of all of them just takes too much time.  Maybe a partial transformation of each, or a split screen of multiple transformations at most would work better?

Asset reuse is very much common for animes.
The split screen is best, imo.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Aceearly1993 on April 19, 2016, 10:41:59 AM
Currently rewatching Chobits with English dub. The world that human and very human-like computers living together kinda reminds me the world described in Mega Man ZX though the MMZX world is in a total war driven by some old shit piles and its purpose is to end the energy crisis and other troubles in a rather brutal way and much less daily life were shown in MMZX world


If some REALLY advanced computers like Chobits, with considerable destructive power, became stable models and mass produced by government, then it surely has the possibility to burn out some kind of wars as cruel as maverick reploids wars and cyber elf wars. Thanks goddess the designers of Chobits never let that happen; The model never get a chance to be mass produced in such a good and peaceful world... But who knows if the seed of war burns out  anyway?
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on April 19, 2016, 12:24:37 PM
Wish granted, episode 3 of Crystal only had 2 of the girls transform onscreen, the others did so offscreen.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: TatteredSeraph on April 19, 2016, 05:53:39 PM
Wish granted, episode 3 of Crystal only had 2 of the girls transform onscreen, the others did so offscreen.

I'm really enjoying this new season so far.  While the enemies are following the pattern so far as a whole, I'm liking the are they friend or foe? aspect atm of Uraenus and Neptune.  I can't wait for Pluto's return.  The theme tunes for this season are now also growing on me.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Gunlord on April 20, 2016, 03:09:05 PM
Just finished the Macross II OVAs. They were OK, though not really as good as the 'proper' Macross installments, IMO.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: zangetsu468 on April 20, 2016, 04:02:22 PM
I've been wanting to watch Dragon Ball Super, but too hard to get episodes. Might have to just wait until the English duh comes out. I'm just over all the spoilers people are posting these days, especially on Instagram.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: KaZudra on April 21, 2016, 12:25:39 PM
Currently rewatching Chobits with English dub. The world that human and very human-like computers living together kinda reminds me the world described in Mega Man ZX though the MMZX world is in a total war driven by some old shit piles and its purpose is to end the energy crisis and other troubles in a rather brutal way and much less daily life were shown in MMZX world


If some REALLY advanced computers like Chobits, with considerable destructive power, became stable models and mass produced by government, then it surely has the possibility to burn out some kind of wars as cruel as maverick reploids wars and cyber elf wars. Thanks goddess the designers of Chobits never let that happen; The model never get a chance to be mass produced in such a good and peaceful world... But who knows if the seed of war burns out  anyway?

Chobits was great, even if it had the common CLAMP tropes, there was one particular episode that gives me heavy feels.

I've been wanting to watch Dragon Ball Super, but too hard to get episodes. Might have to just wait until the English duh comes out. I'm just over all the spoilers people are posting these days, especially on Instagram.
DBSuper is great story-wise, animation-wise it could be perfect if 1/3rd of it was just drawn out sequences (I understand this is to keep pace with the manga, but damn, I hope the US version can edit roughly 2 episodes into one). on the bright side, DBSuper brings a fresh approach to the series constantly throwing off fan theorists with bold curve-balls making it very hard to predict.

Asset reuse is very much common for animes.
The split screen is best, imo.
In a world where super sentai can shorten their henshin, Sailor moon sticks with it's guns (even though it's basically a FMA brotherhood approach)
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on April 21, 2016, 04:16:47 PM
I never really got into Chobits.  Cardcaptor Sakura was my CLAMP series of choice.  Cardcaptor Sakura is responsible for oh so very much.....  It was browsing a website called Bane Huntress (back before she knew the full details abotu Castlevania) which included piccies of white haired bishies, including Yue, on which I saw a saw pictures of the SotN manga introduction....  http://banehuntress.co.uk/Kojima_Ayami/Kojima_Ayami.html (http://banehuntress.co.uk/Kojima_Ayami/Kojima_Ayami.html)  The rest is history.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 22, 2016, 01:13:06 AM
Cardcaptor Sakura is so much fun to watch. I think I have 2 Sakura dolls but I don't know where I placed them.
I am not that fond of Chobits but I liked it's predecessor in the same world, Angelic Layer.
My fave CLAMP series (manga based) are X and RG Veda. Bishies galore~
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: zangetsu468 on April 22, 2016, 01:25:47 AM
X and RG Veda. Bishies galore~
I remember seeing the motion picture of X and the original RG Veda English dub in the 90's. RG seemed ok but those voices were like putting gasoline into a whisky sour.  :P

I've decided I'm going to start watching anime again this weekend.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 22, 2016, 02:22:52 AM
I remember seeing the motion picture of X and the original RG Veda English dub in the 90's. RG seemed ok but those voices were like putting gasoline into a whisky sour.  :P

The anime version of X is better than the movie. RG Veda's anime is different from the manga. (and I'm talking about the original Japanese version)
The best version of both is still the manga.

Should I start watching Initial D or not....?
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: zangetsu468 on April 22, 2016, 02:53:29 AM
The anime version of X is better than the movie. RG Veda's anime is different from the manga. (and I'm talking about the original Japanese version)
The best version of both is still the manga.

Should I start watching Initial D or not....?

I'm sure RG Veda was the original, this was old af even for a VHS tape.

Initial D season 1 and 2 are solid. I'm not even that into cars but I thought it was great.
There is s03 which is an anime movie I believe, but I heard the newer I/D s04 looked cool but was garbage.
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Post by: KaZudra on April 22, 2016, 03:47:34 AM
The anime version of X is better than the movie. RG Veda's anime is different from the manga. (and I'm talking about the original Japanese version)
The best version of both is still the manga.

Should I start watching Initial D or not....?

My only beef with X anime is the second half, nothing with the story but seeing Fuuma declare himself as the other Kamui almost every other episode (twice at times) got old.
But I loved all the twists and turns the anime story gave, humanizing all of the characters and really saddening when you see some go...
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Aceearly1993 on April 22, 2016, 08:00:08 AM
ummm, maybe I'll check other CLAMP series in the future after I find back if any interest in anime stuff...hope I can get pass the generation gap


The last series I watched during teen was Elemental Gelade and why I chose to follow at that time is because the opening song. Now I can't remember if any particular scene in the series but the general art style and character design of main heroine (the girl with long blue hair) looks ok for me. Remembered frequently used that particular picture of the girl as wallpapers of some old PCs. The main hero guy reminds me a young-whoever-Belmont through the costume and the rope in his hand, and I thought it should be like that but nope he rarely uses the rope during fights but the girl morphs as his weapon. Then I disappointed a lot but eventually found the series itself ok and a little more interesting than I thought


After about 7 or 8 years banish of soul, after lost all the battle souls for Mega Man and Castlevania It's time for me to find some long lost gem in anime world that previously dismissed by accident
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 24, 2016, 11:25:47 PM
Initial D season 1 and 2 are solid. I'm not even that into cars but I thought it was great.
There is s03 which is an anime movie I believe, but I heard the newer I/D s04 looked cool but was garbage.

Thanks for the info. I found out that they have made a New Initial D set of anime movies which are abridged versions of the series if I am not mistaken. I might watch that version eventually when it's all done.
Not anime related but I just downloaded on the raw scans of the Wangan Midnight manga and that will occupy my time for now. Japanese reading challenge on technical auto stuff. /dang
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: zangetsu468 on April 24, 2016, 11:56:23 PM
Thanks for the info. I found out that they have made a New Initial D set of anime movies which are abridged versions of the series if I am not mistaken. I might watch that version eventually when it's all done.
Not anime related but I just downloaded on the raw scans of the Wangan Midnight manga and that will occupy my time for now. Japanese reading challenge on technical auto stuff. /dang

Hmm up to you but I wouldn't recommend abridged versions for a show that goes into so much detail. It's a bit like Death Note with cars, I would definitely opt for series 1-2 og.

There was an abridged movie that glossed over the original first two seasons but it was incredibly vague and not recommended.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 26, 2016, 12:30:14 AM
Hmm up to you but I wouldn't recommend abridged versions for a show that goes into so much detail. It's a bit like Death Note with cars, I would definitely opt for series 1-2 og.

There was an abridged movie that glossed over the original first two seasons but it was incredibly vague and not recommended.

I see. If the abridged versions get me interested, I'll continue with the original series. It's the same thing that I did for Wangan when I started with the 2009 live action film, moved on to the anime and now reading the manga.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on May 07, 2016, 11:36:32 PM
Inukami....a nutty anime about a medium who has a inukami who is a dog in human form helping him fight evil spirits. There's more nuttiness and perversion than evil spirits though.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on May 08, 2016, 01:14:21 AM
I watched the newly dubbed version of Only Yersterday, yesterday.
Interesting flick, can't believe it was from 1991. I thought the voice actors did a good job too.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: theANdROId on May 11, 2016, 03:11:36 PM
I haven't watched much anime -- for no particular reason.  I recently saw a clip of Kiznaiver though that made it look really interesting to me.
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Post by: Bloodreign on May 12, 2016, 12:07:48 PM


I've seen some folks online have had issues with this ending. If anything it's just harmless cuteness.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on May 15, 2016, 03:16:42 PM
I've just finished watching the Iron Man: The Rise of Technovore movie.  It's nicely done, and the CG animation gels quite nicely.  It's animated by Madhouse.  The voices in the dub (as I oddly felt it would 'sound' more right in English) aren't shoddy either, although as I was watching it, Technovore's VA reminded me a heck of a lot of Isaac von Kamper from Trinity Blood.

  This has then led to a rewatching of the opening credits of Owari no Seraph, after finding out that Technovore's Japanese VA also is in OnS.... I think I need to rewatch it again....   Ooops.  I'm going to have X.U. firmly earwormed in my brain for a while now.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on May 16, 2016, 12:37:47 AM
Finished Inukami and it's movie, and have now randomly moved on to.....Cardcaptor Sakura. At first I was eh, but the first episode was really good (the getting used to being a magician and all, usually fades pretty quickly, every magical series seems to start like this, usually pretty funny bits). Hope the other 69 episodes deliver, watching the subs version as I'm not a fan of dubs.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on May 16, 2016, 02:59:16 PM
I wasn't keen on Cardcaptors to begin with - in my initial ignorance, I wrote it off a bit as being a bit like Pokemon, got to catch all the cards.  Skip forwards a year or so, and I happened to catch the end of season 2, at around an episode called 'The Final Judgement', as I was off school sick, and Cardcaptors was on the childrens' afetrnoon telly.  180 degree turnaround, and I became a massive fan, beginning the true start of my liking of anime.  15 or so years later, and I'm still a fan of the series. 
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on May 16, 2016, 09:45:17 PM
I've just finished watching the Iron Man: The Rise of Technovore movie.  It's nicely done, and the CG animation gels quite nicely.  It's animated by Madhouse.  The voices in the dub (as I oddly felt it would 'sound' more right in English) aren't shoddy either, although as I was watching it, Technovore's VA reminded me a heck of a lot of Isaac von Kamper from Trinity Blood.

OH! I watched that movie too in the English dub. The story is very philosophical in nature. I agree the animation is nice.

now randomly moved on to.....Cardcaptor Sakura. At first I was eh, but the first episode was really good (the getting used to being a magician and all, usually fades pretty quickly, every magical series seems to start like this, usually pretty funny bits). Hope the other 69 episodes deliver, watching the subs version as I'm not a fan of dubs.

I did not watch that series faithfully from start to finish, since I was watching it on the TV in the dubbed version and schoolwork was always in the way. I am not a fan of the magical girls shows so I was ok with missing episodes. But more or less I understood the basic plot and that was good enough for me.
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Post by: Aceearly1993 on May 16, 2016, 10:07:24 PM
Cost two days to finish watching through the Cardcaptors TV series. Not randomly moved to it

Planning to read through the manga side in my spare time but it will definitely cost more than a week to go



Personally I like the overall pattern of Chobits manga that amazed me like a chain of continuous waves of awesomeness. I can't help but to think over more the serious side of human-computer relationship than the story itself
I like the manga version ending because it gave the guy named Hideki a more "legit" final destination at the end
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on May 18, 2016, 05:12:40 PM
OH! I watched that movie too in the English dub. The story is very philosophical in nature. I agree the animation is nice.

I did not watch that series faithfully from start to finish, since I was watching it on the TV in the dubbed version and schoolwork was always in the way. I am not a fan of the magical girls shows so I was ok with missing episodes. But more or less I understood the basic plot and that was good enough for me.

I'm the complete opposite of you, other than an early start in life with Voltron, magical girl anime (Sailor Moon dubbed) was my first  anime experience in the 90's. I caught on to that genre and stuck with it.
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Post by: Belmontoya on May 18, 2016, 05:38:23 PM
The first real anime I ever saw was Ninja Scroll...

Boy oh boy did that rock my world. My jaw was on the floor.

There were other Japanese cartoons I had seen before that of course. But that was the first time I had ever seen an adult anime film. So I consider it my first.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on May 19, 2016, 02:58:32 AM
My first anime were those children's stories like The Secret Garden, Heidi, Princess Sarah, etc. I did not even know that these were anime then. I was also watching mechas like Daimos and Voltes V. But I was young and didn't care much about them, thus I was not watching regularly.
I started caring about anime when I was floored by Gundam Wing. Hahaha. Yeah, mechas were the first genre that I was serious about.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Gunlord on May 19, 2016, 03:40:17 AM
Lots of people got into anime thru Gundam Wing ;D
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on June 14, 2016, 12:48:18 AM
Still doing the Ranma 1/2 anime, almost finished, after I'll do another show from the same lady, Urusei Yatsura from 1981. Also Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 is almost done, and started two moe girl animes, Anne Happy (sounds like Unhappy, random humor) and Sansha Sanyou, the latter two currently running their initial seasons. 
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Post by: zangetsu468 on June 14, 2016, 04:22:43 AM
Lots of people got into anime thru Gundam Wing ;D

I must be the oddball because although I loved Macross I could never get into GW.
Maybe I'll try again one day.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on June 25, 2016, 11:00:25 AM
Finished Anne Happy (it ended this week) and Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2, so I started on her older show, Urusei Yatsura (from 1981). Urusei feels like a funny clusterfuck, 3 episodes in, the laughs are plenty.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on July 07, 2016, 03:25:18 AM
Ahhhhhh~ My inner otome fangirl is screaming.
Currently eagerly awaiting episode 2 of B-Project: Kodou*Ambitious. Ahahahahaha~♥♫
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Ratty on July 07, 2016, 01:57:28 PM
I must be the oddball because although I loved Macross I could never get into GW.
Maybe I'll try again one day.

I loved it when I was around 12 but when I tried to re-watch it later I couldn't get into it. The artwork is undeniably gorgeous though, and the Tallgeese 1 is still and will likely always be my favorite mecha.

As for what I've been watching lately-
I don't watch a lot of anime but out of curiosity and a desire to write a blogpost review I watched "Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls" and um.... yeeeeah. I don't think I could really talk about many specifics of the show outside the "adults only" thread XD. Definitely NSFW material. One of the funniest things I've seen in a long time though. I was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed it since harem comedies aren't typically my thing. The last one I saw before this was "Love Hina" and that only because a roommate re-watched it constantly (when he wasn't re-reading the manga) around 2008. And before that the last I'd seen was "Tenchi in Tokyo" the better part of 2 decades ago.

PS- Holy crap the Tenchi Muyo franchise is STILL ongoing?! That is one indecisive kid. I would have thought he'd have just picked best girl (Ryoko) and sailed into the sunset by now.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Abnormal Freak on July 08, 2016, 11:11:08 PM
Currently showing my girlfriend Macross Plus. She doesn't really know anime outside Ghibli and Vampire Hunter D, so I've really been craving my favorite anime and wanted to show it to her.

Only got through the first episode but I'm hoping she likes it by the end. Watching the Blu-ray set which only has the dub and no subs, and has the redubbed final episode. It's kind of a toss which is better because the Manga dub clearly has better voice acting, but the Bandai dub for that episode has all the original music and sound effects, which makes me kinda lean toward that one.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on July 09, 2016, 02:29:24 AM
Did all 96 episodes of Maison Ikkoku, it tugged a lot at the old heartstrings, felt really bad for Godai. I found myself cursing at my TV at Kyoko for being stubborn, and Godai for being chickenshit, but in the end it all worked out. The series wrapped up quite nicely, unlike Rumiko Takahashi's other works. Best ending I've ever seen in an anime, only 1 mystery never solved, what was Yotsuya's job anyway?

Still doing Urusei Yatsura (resumed anyway, another Rumiko work), and first episode of Kill la Kill down (I kind of hate it's artstyle, but it's not short on action so far).
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Abnormal Freak on July 09, 2016, 04:41:56 PM
I love the art and animation style of Kill la Kill because it's like a souped-up, almost parody version of what made mid '90s anime so damn awesome to look at. I guess it ain't for everyone.
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 11, 2016, 02:53:26 AM
Despite the artwork, I am still watching it (6 episodes in so far), the thing keeping me to it is the sheer ridiculousness of it. It's so absurd, I can dig it.

Also started Amaama to Inazuma (about to have it's second episode, it's adorable), have Gurran Lagann on the backburner, along with Ruronin Kenshin. So in total 5 animes I'm either keeping up with, or will soon be watching at once.

What gets me is, normally grown women do kids voices in anime, but Amaama to Inazuma's little girl is actually done by a 10 year old voice actress with 3 acting credits already to her name.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: zangetsu468 on July 12, 2016, 01:41:52 AM
@Ratty Tenchi Muyo is still going??!
I was always rooting for him to eventually bang Ryoko (no pun intended)

Some of the best music I've heard in anime has come from Tenchi Muyo, some of the tracks' feel from Darker than Black also remind me of Tenchi's.
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on July 12, 2016, 11:58:56 AM
I finally finished Gurren Lagann. I'd watched the first half sometime last September and hadn't touched it since, but a couple days ago I finished eleven episodes in one day. Super damn good and addicting. Hiroyuki Imaishi has become one of my favorite anime directors; I like how his shows are constantly moving, as opposed to long spans of characters just talking, and the animation is always far out there. I remember watching Dead Leaves a long time ago and being amazed by how expressive the drawings are; I'd say to some extent, there's probably an influence from American cartoons like old Looney Tunes and Ren & Stimpy, something the director plays up even more in Panty & Stocking with its strong similarity in drawing style to shows like Powerpuff Girls. No shortage of interesting story concepts either, even if story isn't exactly the primary focus in most of his shows, although Gurren Lagann is easily the most in-depth and character-driven.

Next I'll watch the GL movies. I don't dig series recap movies where the majority of the footage is taken from the series but whatever. Looking back, I guess I gotta hand it to the Escaflowne movie for at least supplying 100% new animation, even if it's still a condensed series recap.
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Post by: Ratty on July 12, 2016, 07:07:38 PM
@Ratty Tenchi Muyo is still going??!
I was always rooting for him to eventually bang Ryoko (no pun intended)

Some of the best music I've heard in anime has come from Tenchi Muyo, some of the tracks' feel from Darker than Black also remind me of Tenchi's.

Yeah, there's surprisingly little info considering Tenchi was a hit on Toonami way back when, you'd think it would have retained more of an Enlgish-speaking fanbase. From what I gather the creator of the original OVA has written canon novels, I don't know if he's ended the story in those or if the next OVA (which according to a uselessly-sourced wikipedia article, well useless if you don't read Japanese, is supposed to be the end of the franchise) will be based on those novels. That OVA is supposedly coming out next year.
The OVA released last year was apparently just a collection of like 50 non-canon 4 minute shorts promoting tourism to some area of Japan.

PS- No wait, apparently that came out the year before last http://tenchi.wikia.com/wiki/Ai_Tenchi_Muyo (http://tenchi.wikia.com/wiki/Ai_Tenchi_Muyo)

PPS- I outgrew it by the time the dreadful "Tenchi in Tokyo" was finished airing, but man I'd be lying if I said this didn't take me back.

Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on July 13, 2016, 09:59:52 PM
The Vision of Escaflowne and Azumanga Daioh! The Animation.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Gunlord on July 14, 2016, 02:28:47 AM
Awesome, I LOVED Escaflowne (the TV series, at least, I didn't like the movie as much). You're in for a treat :D
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 14, 2016, 05:00:07 AM
I finally finished Gurren Lagann. I'd watched the first half sometime last September and hadn't touched it since, but a couple days ago I finished eleven episodes in one day. Super damn good and addicting. Hiroyuki Imaishi has become one of my favorite anime directors; I like how his shows are constantly moving, as opposed to long spans of characters just talking, and the animation is always far out there. I remember watching Dead Leaves a long time ago and being amazed by how expressive the drawings are; I'd say to some extent, there's probably an influence from American cartoons like old Looney Tunes and Ren & Stimpy, something the director plays up even more in Panty & Stocking with its strong similarity in drawing style to shows like Powerpuff Girls. No shortage of interesting story concepts either, even if story isn't exactly the primary focus in most of his shows, although Gurren Lagann is easily the most in-depth and character-driven.

Next I'll watch the GL movies. I don't dig series recap movies where the majority of the footage is taken from the series but whatever. Looking back, I guess I gotta hand it to the Escaflowne movie for at least supplying 100% new animation, even if it's still a condensed series recap.

Gurren Lagann is on my to watch list, I have a page open ready to watch it when I finish Kill la Kill. Also have Ruronin Kenshi also ready to go when needed.
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Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on July 15, 2016, 01:32:16 PM
Awesome, I LOVED Escaflowne (the TV series, at least, I didn't like the movie as much). You're in for a treat :D

Oh, I know I am. I've loved it for a long time. I don't "love" the movie, but I enjoy the darker take on the story and appreciate the artistic merits it has on every rewatch.

The only anime I have taken up watching AT ALL in the last 8 years has been Kill La Kill, and I regret nothing. Other than that, everything I watch anime-wise is either stuff I enjoyed as a kid (Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Robotech, Gundam Wing) or stuff I enjoyed in High School (Gundams-Other-Than-Wing, Azumanga Daioh! The Animation, Escaflowne, Read or Die, Revolutionary Girl Utena, etc.).
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on July 18, 2016, 04:11:53 AM
Kill la Kill is done, made it through all 25 episodes, still didn't care for it's art, but loved everything else. Really felt nice hearing Nonon, her voice was done by the same lady who voices Angel in KoF (though she is a tad nasally in sound).
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 30, 2016, 02:46:58 AM
And lo and behold, a new arc of Cardcaptor Sakura has recently started, but so far it's in manga form. Here's hoping it too gets made into an anime. The story does pick up where the last left off, so it's not a reboot of any kind. The arc is known as the Clear Card arc.
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Post by: Claimh Solais on July 30, 2016, 05:21:14 AM
Just wondering if anyone here is a fan of K-Project? I've been watching the second season, K: Return of Kings, lately. The first season is my favorite anime of all time, and the movie (K: Missing Kings) was really good. But man, Return of Kings is pretty bad. It's starting to pick up, finally, but at the eighth episode, which is really bad in a 13-episode season.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on July 30, 2016, 07:36:16 AM
Berserk 2016, but it sucks badly. I have some time off and I think I'm going to do Steins gate next. 
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Aceearly1993 on August 22, 2016, 09:01:01 AM
Picked Clannad (Both first part and After story) and Kanon (Both Toei and Kyoto versions) on Youtube

Probably I'll pick visual novel game incarnations of Kanon if I have enough time/mood... I like the story for some personal reasons but I may haven't got a patient of God in order to go through the ultimate boredom of text flows...




It's a shame that One Kagayaku Kisetsu e /One To the Radiant Season can't even get a proper Anime incarnation even though there once had VERY much possibility to have one. Since the copyright of the game was f**ed up we can only get some not-so-good OVA stuff of it. What a shame.

The real problem is volume length; The volume of events in original game simply can't fit in OVA with few limited episodes, if choose Nagamori Mizuka route as the story base...It should be at least one f**ing  season in order to really shines in the media mix war... And then they told us at least three completely different stories based on the main theme in all currently available media sources, which is so unusual to the Game/Anime world.

What a shame. The event happened in between the years 1998-1999 and I think there would be some further explanations why they gave us a time setting like this, but a cruel 2-ton bag of "nope" dropped right on my head.
Poor Nagamori Mizuka   :'(    She and her legend should be more well-known than we can see now but the cruel fact says it can't be    :'(  Maybe she's too perfect then fate decided to make her legend not that well-known.........

And now I'm in total desperation about newcomers of anime stuff
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on August 23, 2016, 01:42:05 AM
I am currently watching (more of waiting for a new episode per week, until the end of summer):
>Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no sara (highly recommended for all the food porn and random gratuitous images, this is the second season though)
>B Project Kodou Ambitious (for otome, you have been warned)
>Show By Rock Shorts (funny short episodes, not a legit 2nd season, but watch the first season to understand everything)
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on September 16, 2016, 04:37:35 AM
Through 62 episodes of Ruronin Kenshin, and after a long Kyoto arc, I find out the remaining 32 episodes are filler, blah. :(

So I picked steam back up on Urusei Yatsura, 42 episodes in, when I should already being over the 100 episode mark, I've been slacking.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/432LSdOJDBg/hqdefault.jpg)
Lum!
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on September 28, 2016, 02:52:54 AM
Just finished Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV
I'm wishing there were more episodes but I just have to wait until the game to continue the story.
Dibs on the Regalia. hahahaha.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Aceearly1993 on October 06, 2016, 05:57:20 AM
Waiting for Rewrite 2nd season
For 1st season... There're something that I just can't describe it properly in English; And the actual content and length should be at least twice as what we got now in the 1st season; or possibly they dropped some content from original VN on purpose (I'm not a very serious fan of VN genre so it's not a big lost for me) and the stuff should be "Rewritten" for the 2nd season
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: The Puritan on October 06, 2016, 06:13:33 AM
Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu. Hard to watch without thinking of Dark Souls or Edge of Tomorrow.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on October 08, 2016, 11:03:03 PM
More music related anime for me this season with Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love Legend Star and Show by Rock #(Sharp).
Also finished the 3rd movie of Digimon Tri. The feels.....
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Post by: zangetsu468 on October 10, 2016, 12:49:45 AM
Dragon Ball Super, episode 61 just blew my balls off.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on October 10, 2016, 09:12:20 AM
Just when I thought that SB69 couldn't get any weirder.... then episode 2 of SB69# happened.  I loved the BVL song used in the opening scene of episode 1.  It's so far looking interesting for sure.

  I'm currently on a rewatch of Cardcaptor Sakura, and skipping through Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis.  It seems ok, but not enough so far to properly watch it. 

The series of Little Witch Academia has just been announced for next year, the trailer looks great.  It's not clear if it's rebooting from scratch, but it does show Akko's arrival at the school.  I can't wait.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on October 10, 2016, 03:44:48 PM
I miss the darker 90's anime like Hokuto no Ken, Sukeban Deka and Demon Century: Suikoden.
I've noticed that this generation's anime seems a lot lighter in general.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on October 11, 2016, 02:47:48 AM
Just when I thought that SB69 couldn't get any weirder.... then episode 2 of SB69# happened.  I loved the BVL song used in the opening scene of episode 1.  It's so far looking interesting for sure.

Yup. I agree. But it's still so cute! A planet of pink sheep!!!!!
What I'm really looking forward to is Arcareafact's performance.

I miss the darker 90's anime like Hokuto no Ken, Sukeban Deka and Demon Century: Suikoden.
I've noticed that this generation's anime seems a lot lighter in general.

Well, the 90s was the golden era for emo, right?
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Post by: zangetsu468 on October 11, 2016, 03:25:46 AM
@Shiroi
Well the late early to mid 90's was the era of Cyberpunk and all around darker Anime. I watched classics already mentioned but also others such as Street Fighter II (the original animated movie), Vampire Hunter D, Evangelion (which I considered somewhat lighthearted but mostly darker), Mad Bull, Crying Freeman (Yes shoutout to YOU mate 8)), Akira, Perfect Blue (didn't love it but it was dark), The guyver, GITS, Guy, and others. Although GITS is pretty Emo, I wouldn't chop it up to the entire generation.

PS: golden era for an Emo = "the dark age" :P
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Bloodreign on November 12, 2016, 03:17:56 PM
Finally finished Urusei Yatsura, 195 episodes (194 actually, episode 194 is a repeat of an earlier episode as it was #1 on their top 10 episodes list named in 194), 12 OVA's, and 6 movies. Now on to Paniponi Dash to see what it has to offer.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on November 13, 2016, 07:10:15 AM
DB Super... The last 2 episodes were THE SHIT!
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Post by: Eric Roman on November 13, 2016, 11:15:51 AM
I recently had a BALL with Arpeggio of Blue Steel.  If Konami asked J.J. Abrams to turn Otomedius into an anime, Arpeggio would be IT. 

Next up, Izetta the Last Witch which strikes me as something like "Kiki's Military Service".
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: TatteredSeraph on November 15, 2016, 01:37:04 PM
I'm currently rewatching Trinity Blood, along with Show By Rock!!# (SB69 season 2).  I really like the mix of good music, and random fun insanity in SB69, something I'm not normally one for, but something about it got me hooked.  That said, I am still mostly watching for ShingancrimsonZ rather than Plasmagica, the main band.  With Trinity Blood, I've been watching the dub as it's available, just to take the strain off my eyes a bit atm.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on November 16, 2016, 01:18:14 AM
I'm currently rewatching Trinity Blood, along with Show By Rock!!# (SB69 season 2).  I really like the mix of good music, and random fun insanity in SB69, something I'm not normally one for, but something about it got me hooked.  That said, I am still mostly watching for ShingancrimsonZ rather than Plasmagica, the main band.  With Trinity Blood, I've been watching the dub as it's available, just to take the strain off my eyes a bit atm.

Well at least you're watching it for the 2nd main band (Shingancrimsonz). I'm watching it for the minor shiny ones - Trichronika and Arcareafact, well, they both have a connection with SCZ...  They should make another season just focusing on the boy bands. ;D
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on November 16, 2016, 12:46:04 PM
Well at least you're watching it for the 2nd main band (Shingancrimsonz). I'm watching it for the minor shiny ones - Trichronika and Arcareafact, well, they both have a connection with SCZ...  They should make another season just focusing on the boy bands. ;D

Now that I could definitely see working, and would probably enjoy even more than the main series. 
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Post by: Gunlord on November 17, 2016, 05:18:59 PM
Just finished Cromartie High School recently. Good times 8)
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Post by: TheTextGuy on November 17, 2016, 10:35:57 PM
Just finished Cromartie High School recently. Good times 8)

and now I need to make a note to myself to finally start watching it
especially since it has Robo-Wakamoto and Freddie Mercury.
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: JR on November 18, 2016, 02:07:20 AM
Just started watching DragonBall Super. Didn't realize Funimation lets you stream them for free...is there a limit to how much you can watch? I'm only 2 episodes in.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on November 18, 2016, 03:14:06 AM
Just started watching DragonBall Super. Didn't realize Funimation lets you stream them for free...is there a limit to how much you can watch? I'm only 2 episodes in.

Not sure man, but there are live streams every week on yt
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Post by: Claimh Solais on November 18, 2016, 03:24:25 AM
Just started watching DragonBall Super. Didn't realize Funimation lets you stream them for free...is there a limit to how much you can watch? I'm only 2 episodes in.

Speaking of Super, I'm really happy Funimation finally nabbed the license to dub it. Sure, it probably won't be premiering in English for another whole year, but I've waited this long, so I'm all good. I'm mostly up-to-date with it, but I really don't like the Japanese voices, so I've been mostly watching with the sound off. Funi dub is the way to go for me every time.

Outside of that, I haven't really watched anything since Berserk ended, aside from Sengoku BASARA: End of Judgment.

Anyone got any recommendations? I'm usually more into the action-packed anime. Doesn't necessarily need to be Dragon Ball Z fast-paced or Sengoku BASARA over-the-top, just something filled with action in general. Preferably with a halfway decent plot and characters to back it up? lol
Title: Re: What anime are you currently watching....
Post by: zangetsu468 on November 19, 2016, 08:24:22 AM

Outside of that, I haven't really watched anything since Berserk ended, aside from Sengoku BASARA: End of Judgment.

Anyone got any recommendations? I'm usually more into the action-packed anime. Doesn't necessarily need to be Dragon Ball Z fast-paced or Sengoku BASARA over-the-top, just something filled with action in general. Preferably with a halfway decent plot and characters to back it up? lol

Ever watched BLEACH?
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Post by: Claimh Solais on November 19, 2016, 08:50:41 PM
Ever watched BLEACH?

Long while back, but only the first two seasons. I'm re-reading the manga right now, though, and planned on going through the anime afterward.
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Post by: suomynona on November 26, 2016, 05:23:21 PM
I'm watching JoJo right now.

SO GOOD!
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Post by: Bloodreign on November 28, 2016, 12:21:06 PM
Did Pani Poni Dash in a few days, now doing Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, both by Shaft Studios. Both have an odd sense of humor, the latter a more darker sense of humor.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on November 29, 2016, 12:49:46 PM
I've returned to the original Sailor Moon.  I wasn't able to properly binge watch it as the first ten or so episodes were very poor quality, but it looks like it's improved this last episode. 

I#m currently looking forward to the now announced tv adaptation of Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card arc, which has a load of the original cast returning, which is awesome.
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Post by: Aceearly1993 on December 01, 2016, 03:37:59 PM
Finished Hokuto no Ken.

Kanon 2002 (Toei) , Ayu walks around with other girls' headshot in the sky, kinda reminds me how Kenshiro staring at the other guys' headshot that he had beaten in OP2 and I feel it strange Ayu is the major focus of the story like Kenshiro     lol
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Post by: Bloodreign on December 05, 2016, 11:07:08 AM
I've returned to the original Sailor Moon.  I wasn't able to properly binge watch it as the first ten or so episodes were very poor quality, but it looks like it's improved this last episode. 

I#m currently looking forward to the now announced tv adaptation of Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card arc, which has a load of the original cast returning, which is awesome.

2018 for the next chapter in the Cardcaptor Sakura saga, should hopefully be as good as the original series. And early next year, the next chapter in the Gintama anime makes it's way to TV over there, and likely to the internet as well with Crunchyroll.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on December 05, 2016, 11:41:48 AM
I really hope that the Clear Card arc adapation doesn't do what the Sailor Moon remake does and hop and skip through the plot and not give time for characer building.  Fingers crossed that they keep true to the original series and let it breathe.  I've just today finished the first season of the original Sailor Moon, and it's just leagues better than the first season of Crystal because it lets you see the characters become friends and get to know each other more.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on December 05, 2016, 05:41:49 PM
Dragon Ball Super, the filler is really odd. I miss the serious filler of DBZ days.
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Post by: Bloodreign on December 07, 2016, 03:47:27 AM
I really hope that the Clear Card arc adapation doesn't do what the Sailor Moon remake does and hop and skip through the plot and not give time for character building.  Fingers crossed that they keep true to the original series and let it breathe.  I've just today finished the first season of the original Sailor Moon, and it's just leagues better than the first season of Crystal because it lets you see the characters become friends and get to know each other more.

The difference between a 40 episode season of the original Sailor Moon versus the 13 episode season of Crystal is astonishing eh? Season 3 did go back to a more traditional feel of the original series, with more humor, and a look closer to the 90's anime for the characters look. But it's hard to build side characters in so few episodes whereas the original sometimes gave the other girls (and Mamoru) almost an entire episode to themselves to build their character.

Sakura will likely only get 12-13 episodes anyway, and if one has watxhed the original anime seasons, then one already knows the characters. However, new people to the series, well I'd instruct them to watch the old series before the new season so they'll know and be caught up with everything first.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on December 07, 2016, 04:02:45 AM
Agreed, re: Sailor Moon.  It really does suffer for it, in things like having the masked ball episode happen so early on, Tuxedo Mask moving in to kiss Sailor Moon makes him come across as a bit of a creep, especially as Usagi's more properly asleep rather than in a tipsy doze as she is in the original.  I'm very glad all in all that I've watched seasons 1-3 of Crystal first, then gone to watch the superior original series.  There are a few bits from Crystal that I like better, such as the animation, and I really liked the small touch of making Nephrite, Zoisite, Jadeite, and Kunzite originally Endymion's commanders (although the romance with the Sailor Senshi aspect wasn't needed).  I'm also very glad that Crystal left out the awful Doom Tree arc.  It had some interesting ideas, but was very poorly executed.
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Post by: Eric Roman on December 08, 2016, 03:24:58 PM
Doing another lap around Arpeggio of Blue Steel and having A BALL.  XD
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Post by: Jazz Paladin Productions on December 08, 2016, 03:26:59 PM
Dragonball Super...

Not that it's anything else other than the usual same-ol', same'ol...but it's a diversion, at least.

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Post by: Bloodreign on December 24, 2016, 08:35:00 PM
Agreed, re: Sailor Moon.  It really does suffer for it, in things like having the masked ball episode happen so early on, Tuxedo Mask moving in to kiss Sailor Moon makes him come across as a bit of a creep, especially as Usagi's more properly asleep rather than in a tipsy doze as she is in the original.  I'm very glad all in all that I've watched seasons 1-3 of Crystal first, then gone to watch the superior original series.  There are a few bits from Crystal that I like better, such as the animation, and I really liked the small touch of making Nephrite, Zoisite, Jadeite, and Kunzite originally Endymion's commanders (although the romance with the Sailor Senshi aspect wasn't needed).  I'm also very glad that Crystal left out the awful Doom Tree arc.  It had some interesting ideas, but was very poorly executed.
If memory serves me right, the Demon Tree arc was done to give the creator time to write the next arc in, she originally didn't get that far in the manga, so that part was put in to give her some time to create the next piece of the story.


As for myself, watching Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt......all I can say is wow, hate the artwork, though the adult humor is good.
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Post by: redrum on December 25, 2016, 02:57:10 PM
sailor mo fan art plz
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Post by: zangetsu468 on December 26, 2016, 09:06:48 PM
I power-watched Angel Beats! last week. My friend got it for me for Xmas and raved on about it. I do admit it had its moments, has some solid story-telling, one of the more beautiful opening themes and a couple of interesting plot devices.

As for the series as a whole it's not one of my favourites by far, but it did make me laugh a few times and the finale was an emotional tug at the heart-strings.
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Post by: Aceearly1993 on December 26, 2016, 11:06:15 PM
Agreed. It was such an amazing experience to watch through the series. Enjoyed lots of plot in it
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Post by: zangetsu468 on December 27, 2016, 12:48:42 AM
Agreed. It was such an amazing experience to watch through the series. Enjoyed lots of plot in it

It was good. the only things which bothered me was the OVA. Everything important to the plot's ending was already developed and explained by the end of the series, the OVA was more of a gag episode which offered nothing to the series itself. It would have been better if this had explained why/ how Angel had
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Post by: Eric Roman on December 27, 2016, 08:48:15 PM
Engaged by my jaunt through the eight-episode Black*Rock Shooter.  It's a nifty psychological action-drama with some nice 2D-looking-3D battles.  These take place in a parallel reality, reminding me a bit of Suckerpunch; as that awesome film's fantasy battles merely skirt the situations playing out, BRS' fights are more directly tied to its present reality. 

I heard something about Black*Rock Shooter being based on a shmup. 
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 28, 2016, 02:23:15 AM
some nice 2D-looking-3D titties.

My tired but hopeful eyes read it as such.
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Post by: Bloodreign on December 29, 2016, 03:03:49 AM
Hayate no Gotoku, another parody anime, this one with a few season of episodes to get through (first season is the longest at 52, other seasons average 13 episodes).


It even has Norio Wakamoto as it's narrator, instant win.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on December 29, 2016, 09:37:25 PM
Anything with Wakamoto is an instant win. No one can ham better than him. :)
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Post by: Eric Roman on December 30, 2016, 09:40:41 PM

My tired but hopeful eyes read it as such.
Hey, man, look no further than Expelled from Paradise (which happens to be genius) and Arpeggio of Blue Steel for those. :p

Norio Wakamoto's the Nate Dogg of voiceover: anything he's in (such as JPN SotN) is a WINNER.  Black*Rock Shooter was a pit stop on my way through Cowboy Bebop wherein he plays a significant role...and hangs out with A SLOGRABIRD!!!
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on January 30, 2017, 02:10:05 PM
I have no idea how the release of it a few weeks ago escaped my attention until today, but OMG the Little Witch Academia tv series is out!  It's wonderful.  It's a reboot away from the continuity of the two movies, but it's wonderful.  I'm in the middle of mini-binging the first four episodes that are out so far.  I love this series to bits, it's very remniscent of The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy in some ways, especially in the main protagonist the clumsy, not very knowledeable Akko, and her rivalry to brilliant and somewhat haughty Diana, who parallel Mildred and Ethel in WW.  It's got a dash of Harry Potter about it as well, and in the first film especially, there are references to D&D dungeon crawlers.  I'm seriously happy that it's earnt its own tv series, the two films are just so magical and charming.
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Post by: Aceearly1993 on January 31, 2017, 02:15:56 AM
Rewrite 2nd season is Kinda... Waaaaay beyond my imagination. I'm interested what kind of thing the Anime-only route would become. Heard there're huge amount of scenes being cut down/trimmed, wish them (anime designer) good luck.
Yet to watch Little Busters but my time table is gaming-first (Watched about 6 episodes, yet to check clips on YouTube)


I'll retire from front line of speed running/expert gaming and turn to "inner world" due to several questions, and real life problem (accident of sudden) if thing are getting the worse case.
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Post by: Eric Roman on January 31, 2017, 11:05:48 AM
Last week I finished The Perfect Anime for the first time: Cowboy Bebop. 

OMG the Little Witch Academia tv series is out!

WHAT YOU SAY.  KissAnime or Netflix?
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on January 31, 2017, 11:26:26 AM
I'm having to watch the series elsewhere, as in my country Netflix only has the two movies, but I've heard that Netflix is supposedly streaming the series in some places (I'm annoyed at them not streaming it here).  The first four episodes are glorious.  All I can say is Akko and training wheels. XD  I'm really glad that they've kept the same VAs as well. 
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Post by: zangetsu468 on January 31, 2017, 07:10:30 PM
Last week I finished The Perfect Anime for the first time: Cowboy Bebop. 

Bebop is awesome. It seems like it can go on forever,
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Post by: Bloodreign on January 31, 2017, 11:45:46 PM
Hayate no Gotoku, finished the first season with 52 episodes, but it strays from the manga after episode 19, the rest is all fun filler. Season 2, where I currently am, picks the story back up from the manga.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on February 01, 2017, 12:07:58 AM
About 2 weeks back I watched Evangelion 3.33 Q, that was my favourite one of the three yet.
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Post by: Eric Roman on February 01, 2017, 12:06:19 PM
Really.  It was a tremendous letdown when I first saw it, but as I came to better understand Anno's repertoire in the years since, I've warmed up to it.  The dub helped shed some light on the story, too, which is major since I'm all-subs all the time.

What did you enjoy about 3.33? 
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Post by: zangetsu468 on February 01, 2017, 02:16:48 PM
Really.  It was a tremendous letdown when I first saw it, but as I came to better understand Anno's repertoire in the years since, I've warmed up to it.  The dub helped shed some light on the story, too, which is major since I'm all-subs all the time.

What did you enjoy about 3.33?

Pretty much everything. I did watch the dub for Evangelion, as I always do. (Some day I will rematch the original series in Japanese with subs) I loved the whole setup of the plot/ how it's told, the way it was obscured slightly through 2/3's of the film, the symbolism of all of the piano scenes and dialogue between Shinji & Kaworu (the art direction/ style here was particularly nice), Shinji getting more character development, Asuka being back to her "old self" (she wasn't as 'Asuka'{fiery} in 2.22, the way it deviated so drastically from the first 2 films but is still Eva through and through; it explained a few things from the old series while raising new ideas/ situations such as
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on February 01, 2017, 02:41:50 PM
I've just got in from a special showing of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Dark Side of Dimensions.  Very cheesy, very much as predicted, but very fun.  We even got goodie bags that included special Obelisk the Tormentor cards.  I'm not a fan of the Duel Monsters aspect of the series at all, I mostly watched it for the original season 0, and the Millennium World arc at the very end of the original YGO gang stuff.  I liked the ancient Egyptian aspects to the story.  I was slightly sad that the showing was the English dub, as I much prefer the Japanese voices, but I liked that there wasn't the censoring that happened in the 4Kids dub of the series.  It's definitely the best of the movies, although it was a little on the unecessary side due to how the original run ended.
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Post by: Bloodreign on February 23, 2017, 12:12:33 PM
Finishing up Cromartie High once again, and just started Violinist of Hamelin. I've played the SFC game of it first, looks like there will be no comedy in the anime (you can throw Flute, the girl, around a bit in the game, and have her assume various forms to help you along).
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Post by: Gunlord on February 23, 2017, 05:11:14 PM
Oh, I love Cromartie! Bought the DVD set a while ago and really enjoyed it :D
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Post by: Aceearly1993 on February 24, 2017, 03:42:48 PM
Rewrite went to the dang "Earth saviour hunter" part. I goddamn loved that part. And it did give us more interesting stuff than the episodes before.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on March 17, 2017, 03:40:01 PM
I've just watched Nobelesse: Awakening on youtube.  It's seriously good, and deserves a full series.  Mind you, Rai, the main character, kind of reminds me of Kaname Kuran from Vampire Knight.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on March 17, 2017, 10:59:45 PM
Just finished Digimon Adventure Tri Movie #4 (episodes 14-17).
Another 5 or 6 months of waiting for the next one... arghhh..... the agony.
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Post by: suomynona on March 18, 2017, 01:50:13 AM
Finished Battle Tendency, watching Stardust Crusaders. I read the manga and viewed portion of it, but first time running through it.

Actually, I watched most of it and I am up to:
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on March 18, 2017, 06:07:01 AM
Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito - The Ancient Magus Bride's first two episodes are absolutely beautiful, and so sad.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on March 19, 2017, 08:04:14 PM
Not having made much time for anime, I've been following DB Super. I have to admit since thinking the first 10 episodes were pretty crappy, I've only watched since Goku and hit were fighting for the first time. The Black Goku Saga I thought was really good (although ended weirdly and
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I gave up on the new Berserk anime, but haven't looked at the manga in one year or more, hopefully there are more chapters out.
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Post by: TheTextGuy on March 19, 2017, 09:22:31 PM
Not having made much time for anime, I've been following DB Super.

I should prolly get on watching that.  Me and my brother liked DBZ when we were kids, and I'm kinda curious how that show's turning out.  Also my brother's watching it right now too, so there's that.

In the meanwhile, for me, it's all about the mechs.  Most of my anime watches recently involved mechs, which includes Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2.  Watched the newest one, and all I can say is that I'm eagerly excited to see the next episode.  In fact, I quite like Iron Blooded Orphans in general, both seasons.   I'm prolly gonna watch some other Gundam series as well as other mecha animes and other animes that pique my interest.
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Post by: Bloodreign on April 12, 2017, 01:10:42 AM
Yuru Yuri, 3rd season, speeding through that series faster than a bowl of chitlins (Richard Pryor taught me that line in his stand up comedy).
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Post by: Ratty on April 12, 2017, 05:14:24 PM
Been watching a bit of G Gundam and wow, un(I'm assuming)intentional hilarity. Each Gundam represents a country and mostly in the corniest stereotypical way possible. The Neo France Gundam has a cape and Napoleon hat. Neo USA's Gundam has american football-style shoulder pads that turn into boxing gloves. Neo Russia's Gundam wears an ushanka. And Neo Mexico's Gundam has a sombrero and it's called the Tequila Gundam.
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Post by: Aceearly1993 on April 13, 2017, 07:53:32 AM
Rewrite finale. HOLY WOW.
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Post by: Bloodreign on April 13, 2017, 03:26:26 PM
Hidamari Sketch, something about me with Slice of Life animes, and this one so far is quite plain. But sometimes, plain is good.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on April 14, 2017, 08:20:34 AM
I've watched 7 episode of BlazBlue Alter Memory.
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Post by: TheFallenAlchemist on April 29, 2017, 01:06:40 AM
Guyver: The Bio Booster Armor. Just finished 3x3 Eyes and before that, Devilman Lady. Also watched Guyver: Out Of Control OVA.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on April 29, 2017, 06:22:35 PM
Welp, maybe it's time to watch DB Super, I kind of stopped watching it around a month ago. Gaming has taken a front seat, while Anime's locked in the boot.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on April 30, 2017, 03:05:29 PM
I've just finished watching the Waking the Dragons arc of Yu-Gi-Oh, the only arc I'd previously avoided past the first episode or two.  I was very pleasantly surprised, as like with the other seasons, the original Japanese arc is leagues above the dub in all respects.  It went to some very dark places, and asked interesting questions about the nature of the darkness in one's heart.  Having the antagonist Dartz voiced by a former Takarazuka Revue star was pretty cool as well.  It's also the only arc aside for the Memory World/Ceremonial Duel arc where I haven't skipped any of the duels.
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Post by: TheTextGuy on May 02, 2017, 12:19:08 PM
Rewatched Mazinkaiser, and it was enjoyable.  Story is simplistic, but the art style and animation were pretty great.  Prolly am going to go watch some of the older Gundams since I enjoyed IBO and yeah.
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Post by: Bloodreign on May 10, 2017, 01:33:48 AM
Watching Sabagebu, a survival game type anime, only they use BB guns, and it's a school club (the narrator, who was Lum's father in Urusei Yatsura, says all the shoot outs are in the girls minds, so they don't die or get hurt from being shot). After the annoying Himouto! Umaru-chan anime, which got a little better after a bit (and has a second season coming this year), this one's far more entertaining, and a lot more action packed.
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Post by: Bloodreign on May 16, 2017, 06:30:14 AM
Finished the last one so fast, and speeding through another one, Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! or I'm not popular because of you guys. Funny, but quite uncomfortable anime about a socially awkward shut in girl. She doesn't help herself as she seems to want to be popular but has shit luck. Recommended viewing if you like cringe inducing anime, you really do feel for the main character, she has it rough.
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Post by: Dracula9 on May 16, 2017, 07:40:01 AM
Friend of mine got me hooked on KonoSuba.

The fucking meta.
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Post by: DraculaCronqvist on May 16, 2017, 10:23:05 AM
Currently rewatching all anime before tackling a new one. Right now, it's Nichijou. Good, good shit~
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Post by: Bloodreign on May 16, 2017, 08:06:34 PM
Currently rewatching all anime before tackling a new one. Right now, it's Nichijou. Good, good shit~

Watched that about a year or two ago, wanted it to go longer than 81 or 82 episodes.
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Post by: suomynona on May 17, 2017, 01:26:09 AM
Watching Initial D now. Can't snap out of Eurobeat...
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on May 17, 2017, 01:43:07 AM
Watching Initial D now. Can't snap out of Eurobeat...

Everyone who watches Initial D will get stuck on eurobeat.
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Post by: suomynona on May 17, 2017, 03:29:04 AM
Everyone who watches Initial D will get stuck on eurobeat.

I can't stop but to imagine delivering Tofu in a Trueno listening to Eurobeat, driving Japanese mountain's hairpins at 100kmh.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on May 17, 2017, 05:28:00 AM
I can't stop but to imagine delivering Tofu in a Trueno listening to Eurobeat, driving Japanese mountain's hairpins at 100kmh.

#inertiadrift
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Post by: DraculaCronqvist on May 17, 2017, 09:29:14 AM
Watched that about a year or two ago, wanted it to go longer than 81 or 82 episodes.

It's so sad that a second season will never happen. It was really funny.
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Post by: Bloodreign on May 24, 2017, 12:23:25 PM
It's so sad that a second season will never happen. It was really funny.

I believe seasons average 12 episodes, so it ran for a few. As for what I'm watching now, Maria Holic. This one will be a weird one, though not as strange as I'm Not Popular Because of You Guys, can't remember the Japanese name it's listed under though.
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Post by: Bloodreign on June 02, 2017, 03:36:27 AM
Negima!? Magister Negi Magi currently, 2 episodes in, not as bad as someone told me it was. Basically a Shaft Studios reboot of a series 1 year prior, but with the Shaft spin on it, though for a comedy, it has a lot of more darker moments that are not comedy, but it's usually broken by something silly happening.


After this I might watch the original, though the original isn't comedy.
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Post by: Super Waffle on June 05, 2017, 12:36:38 PM
Does Robot Jox count as an animu
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Post by: zangetsu468 on June 05, 2017, 05:22:31 PM
DB Super.. Really interesting that
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Yeah... #themotherfuckersdontknowhowtoact

I'm unsure if I like this arc, they're introducing more Saiyans who seem to be popping their SSJ cherries like M&M's.. What's strange is that they're taking ideas directly from material which hardcore fans have always maintained as non-canon (
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Post by: BLOOD MONKEY on June 05, 2017, 09:46:15 PM
Just finished OPM.

Needless to say, I loved it.
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Post by: Jazz Paladin Productions on June 07, 2017, 08:39:02 AM
DB Super.. Really interesting that
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Yeah... #themotherfuckersdontknowhowtoact

I'm unsure if I like this arc, they're introducing more Saiyans who seem to be popping their SSJ cherries like M&M's.. What's strange is that they're taking ideas directly from material which hardcore fans have always maintained as non-canon (
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Um yeah, about non-canon stuff--I've generally found that most people really don't know or care to know the difference for this series.

It's generally all a big rehash IMHO. Which makes me wonder why it is that I am still watching the series sometimes...It's probably more for the good animation and fight scenes when they exhibit themselves, the story is as usual predictable and non-climatic since you always know who is going to end up on top...

They've had a few chances in Super and the new movies to shake up the stale old formula, and missed those opportunities since they were in a sense starting from scratch. For example, a lot of people really think Vegeta should have been the hero in the last flick...instead, it's more of the same ol'...
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Post by: zangetsu468 on June 08, 2017, 04:16:45 AM
Um yeah, about non-canon stuff--I've generally found that most people really don't know or care to know the difference for this series.

It's generally all a big rehash IMHO. Which makes me wonder why it is that I am still watching the series sometimes...It's probably more for the good animation and fight scenes when they exhibit themselves, the story is as usual predictable and non-climatic since you always know who is going to end up on top...

They've had a few chances in Super and the new movies to shake up the stale old formula, and missed those opportunities since they were in a sense starting from scratch. For example, a lot of people really think Vegeta should have been the hero in the last flick...instead, it's more of the same ol'...

I actually really liked the Zamasu arc. Now I get the feeling that everything is out the window and they're just writing alove letter to all variety of fans with this Broly copied universe. It kind of pisses me off that they can't just come up with something more original.
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Post by: TheTextGuy on June 08, 2017, 07:20:59 AM
Finished watching Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.  Well, it's batshit insane, and I love it.  How I haven't seen it until now (especially since I've known about this for a long while and seen its spiritual sequel Kill La Kill) is beyond me.  Well, speaking of Gainax animes I haven't watched yet despite knowing about them forever, gonna have to watch Evangelion now (oh that and Panty and Stocking too).
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Post by: Jazz Paladin Productions on June 08, 2017, 08:36:53 AM
I actually really liked the Zamasu arc. Now I get the feeling that everything is out the window and they're just writing alove letter to all variety of fans with this Broly copied universe. It kind of pisses me off that they can't just come up with something more original.

Not bad, no. Just predictable. There were some nice nods to the past  with trying to seal him away, but these sudden , inexplicable leaps in power that make everyone (Trunks, Picollo, Roshi, etc...) able to to stand at levels that are equal to SS Gods is ridiculous...As is the "everyone-makes-a-miraculous-leap-in-ability-just-one-day-from-the-tournament-of-power". BS.  At least have everyone train in the room of spirit of time or something like Vegeta and blow their way out every time. Yes, it's old, but at least it makes logical sense...

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Post by: zangetsu468 on June 08, 2017, 09:10:12 AM
Not bad, no. Just predictable. There were some nice nods to the past  with trying to seal him away, but these sudden , inexplicable leaps in power that make everyone (Trunks, Picollo, Roshi, etc...) able to to stand at levels that are equal to SS Gods is ridiculous...As is the "everyone-makes-a-miraculous-leap-in-ability-just-one-day-from-the-tournament-of-power". BS.  At least have everyone train in the room of spirit of time or something like Vegeta and blow their way out every time. Yes, it's old, but at least it makes logical sense...

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After Vegito SSJB power levels went out the window, they could be explained up to the point where Goku's Kamehameha punctured Fusion Zamasu's final chi blast (Vegeta and Trunks' combined Galick Gun should've been stronger but didn't have the same affect). The point where Kaioken SSJB Goku broke Fusion Zamasu's halo made sense, but Vegito couldn't stand up to a fully powered up version of him. This was bs to me, Vegito should be stronger than Kaioken SSJBGoku. Presuming Half Purple Zamasu got a massive power boost could explain why Vegito Blue was evenly matched with him, however, the fact a "worn down" Zamasu got clipped point blank by Trunks' blade (even with him being passed full power, converting spirit bomb energy into God Ki) still left room for doubt.

This new arc just seems to me that SSJB is being purposely powered down to shoehorn old characters in, which annoys me because it is what "Resurrection F" did so well in order to avoid. I think this can be explained by SSJB being able to be surpressed lower than a normal SSJ, but fighters who don't use God Ki should be losing and not able to sense Goku or Vegeta's movements. This element of God Ki seems to have been retconned to allow the story to progress. This is shown by Goku having to use SSJB Kaioken to one shot New Mystic Gohan.
Maybe the manga is different but it has been badly explained I the anime.
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Post by: Jazz Paladin Productions on June 10, 2017, 11:09:05 AM

This new arc just seems to me that SSJB is being purposely powered down to shoehorn old characters in, which annoys me because it is what "Resurrection F" did so well in order to avoid. I think this can be explained by SSJB being able to be surpressed lower than a normal SSJ, but fighters who don't use God Ki should be losing and not able to sense Goku or Vegeta's movements. This element of God Ki seems to have been retconned to allow the story to progress. This is shown by Goku having to use SSJB Kaioken to one shot New Mystic Gohan.
Maybe the manga is different but it has been badly explained I the anime.

Yeah, that watering down is indeed annoying. In Typical DBZ TV fashion, it's dragging out too long getting to the actual tournament of power...we really didn't need an exposition going into each character's preparations for the tourney, just show up already...

As is, I think it will STILL drag on for a few more episodes to get into the real fight, even though there's supposedly "just" one more hour left before starts...sigh...

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Post by: Bloodreign on June 14, 2017, 01:36:09 PM
Negima!? Magister Negi Magi currently, 2 episodes in, not as bad as someone told me it was. Basically a Shaft Studios reboot of a series 1 year prior, but with the Shaft spin on it, though for a comedy, it has a lot of more darker moments that are not comedy, but it's usually broken by something silly happening.


After this I might watch the original, though the original isn't comedy.

I stand corrected, the original series is comedy, but less on the slapstick than the reboot. More than halfway through it, seems quite different than the reboot. Closer to it's manga material than the reboot too.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on June 19, 2017, 05:06:55 AM
The penultimate episode of Little Witch Academia was lovely.  It's a beautifully clever and I think underappreciated series.  I wonder if it will get another series?  I hope so.

I' currently contemplating a rewatch of Gundam Wing.  I used to watch it as a teen on the Cartoon Network, mostly for the dynamics between the main people in OZ, especially Zechs.  I think I'd appreciate the general world politics a lot more now I'm older.
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Post by: Bloodreign on June 27, 2017, 02:52:27 AM
Back in time to one from 1995, before CGI, and when things were still cel drawings, Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach. Very much reminded of Sailor Moon with this one, same kind of genre, same goofy humor, maybe less clumsy heroine. Looks to follow the same formula too, main character transforms (with a wedding dress too), her 2 friends don't just yet Looked ahead, there are 4, though that's 1 less than Sailor Moon, and no outer senshi.


Randomly picked anime FTW. Last one was Asu no Yoichi, which was supposed to be a romance and harem anime, delivered really on neither. But I'm a sucker for Sailor Moon type shows.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on June 27, 2017, 10:33:50 PM
Wedding Peach! I remembered watching that when I was a kid. Hahaha. Forgot much about the story though.
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Post by: BLOOD MONKEY on June 28, 2017, 10:18:29 AM
BIG O BIG O BIG O

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Post by: Gunlord on June 29, 2017, 07:47:25 PM
Just finished up the second season of the Berserk TV series. Such bad animation...;_;
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Post by: zangetsu468 on July 01, 2017, 03:33:37 AM
Just finished up the second season of the Berserk TV series. Such bad animation...;_;

I know, it's insane  ???
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Post by: Gunlord on July 05, 2017, 04:08:49 AM
Caught an ep of the new mecha anime, Knights and Magic. It's...OK. The premise is that a Japanese programmer who really really loves giant robots is hit by a car and dies, only to be reincarnated as a young nobleman in a fantasy world, Ernesti. In this fantasy world, though, there are lots of giant monsters called Demon Beasts, and the medieval fantasy kingdoms must fight those monsters by piloting magically powered giant robots called Knight Silhouettes. Needless to say, our protagonist is so happy to be in a world with mecha that he doesn't care at all about having died, and promptly displays a peerless skill at both magic and mecha-piloting as well.

This is just the first episode, and...I guess it's okay. I'll start with the bad first. The comparisons with other fantasy-mecha shows, Aura Battler Dunbine and Vision of Escaflowne, are natural, and I don't think Knights and Mecha fares so well. Dunbine and Escaflowne had the same premise: Guy/girl from our world falls into fantasy realm where knights pilot giant robots. However, those two shows had some advantages. Dunbine's music was better (not just the theme song, but the BGM too), and the character writing seems to be superior. I mean, the protag doesn't even blink when he finds out he's been reincarnated and fits right in immediately with no culture shock whatsoever. In Dunbine, on the other hand, there's a lot of plot revolving around the hero's desire to return to Earth. Escaflowne didn't have quite as strong a plot (IMO) This wouldn't be so bad if Ernesti had been given some reason he'd have wanted to leave his old life behind (aside from a love of giant mecha), but there's no indication of any of that. Maybe we'll see in later episodes, though. And one more criticism: Back on Earth, our protag dies in a very ridiculous way. He gets hit by a car...but the scene is animated in such a way that our guy just stands there without moving a muscle as the vehicle bears down on him. He didn't look scared, in fact, he didn't even try to move out of the way, like the whole "Deer in headlights" thing! XD

With all that said, though, I stand by my assessment of the show as okay--on the higher bounds of okay, at least so far. I've wanted a fantasy mecha show for some time, because I loved Aura Battler Dunbine, and Knights and Magic looks like it'll scratch that itch, even if it can't beat Dunbine (or Escaflowne). The animation is solid. Not nearly as good as Escaflowne's, but definitely on the good side of average. Nowhere near as bad as, say, Berserk! XD The mecha design also isn't as good as Escaflowne's nor as distinctive as Dunbine's, but it gets the job done. The characters aren't exceptional, but they're likable enough; Ernesti seems like a pretty cool hero. He's very feminine in appearance, but thankfully doesn't have a complex about it, which earns him points in my book. Another famous mecha protagonist, Kamille from Zeta Gundam, had a girly name and physique and was really pissed off about it, so I'm glad Ernesti is more laid back.

In terms of the action...again, pretty good! Probably the best part of the show, IMO. There's some decent mecha action with the Knight Silhouettes versus the giant monsters (big bugs, giant ape-type things, and so on), but I actually like the swordplay better. Ernesti and his friends can fly around with their magic and wield these nifty little gun-sword things, and that was pretty cool. So all in all, I'm not blown away, but I am satisfied. And for those of you who want an age-rating: I think this show looks to be appropriate for teens. There's not much blood (the monsters kill a horse early on and you see some blood, but that's it) and no fanservice/sexual content. So yeah, this seems like a pretty standard, inoffensive show if you've got a younger friend who likes mecha. I think I'll keep watching this :D
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 24, 2017, 11:31:52 PM
25 episodes of Toradora!, decent anime, though the ending made me want to pound my head on the wall.
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Post by: JR on July 25, 2017, 03:14:45 AM
Watching Shimoneta...I liked the overall concept of it from the start, but I kind of got a "why am I watching this?" feeling from it at first (okay, I'm watching it because I'm a pervert. There.). But it's seemed to really pick up after the first few episodes.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on July 25, 2017, 03:17:48 AM
You watch shimoneta for the LOLs and not think about the plot too much.
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 31, 2017, 12:24:38 AM
Watching Shimoneta...I liked the overall concept of it from the start, but I kind of got a "why am I watching this?" feeling from it at first (okay, I'm watching it because I'm a pervert. There.). But it's seemed to really pick up after the first few episodes.
You watch, no think, anime funny hehehe (I enjoyed it a couple years back).


Finished up Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, it was alright, now watching Little Witch Academia, looks good so far, though the animation's a little different from average.


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Post by: zangetsu468 on July 31, 2017, 04:59:34 AM
Drag'in balls Uber... I wish they'd get to actual fights faster. Dbz dragged with filler, but at least the story arcs were more serious. Super feels too jokey. (Aside from the Zamasu arc).
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Post by: suomynona on July 31, 2017, 08:53:27 AM
Yeh, I just watched the Castlevania anime.

I kinda feel for Dracula. Come on, that's how any ordinary men would react. You don't need to be evil or a devil itself to be that angry about your wife's innocent death. Then I would suggest that Trevor and Sypha, abut especially Alucard, they have a mind of a real, existing saint to even forgive those filthy, brainless scumbag peasants. Seriously, anyone except Trevor, the speakers and Dracula's family is an bunch of retards that deserves more pain then what they have got.

Yeah. Those peasants deserve it. At the end, they should be worshipping Trevor's hunting party, not their fake 'god', that apparently hates how his own world runs.

Really like the new approach to Trevor. he's so badass. I also liked how the show demonised the rotten church. I seriously don't understand why that Sypha works for the church, when the church killed her family and went for her life in the original series. Again, how on hell that church is a good side when they started the entire thing for their cause.
But, the best thing I got was Sypha. Her character was made in 1989. We had to wait for 28 years for another correct 'badass magician' representation of her character and most importantly, her clothing. You know, not tights, not miniskirts, the big blue robe with typical ranger hood.

In one sentence, instead of a 'Saturday morning anime that FucKonami gave us idk 12ish years ago, they gave me a Friday night Anime.
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Post by: KaZudra on July 31, 2017, 09:21:59 AM
Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
Good stuff, It's also fun to say one of the best animes I've watched was about lesbian dragons.
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Post by: Aceearly1993 on August 05, 2017, 03:31:32 PM
Puella Magi Madoka Magica and following stuff. Kinda freak out as the story goes on, but the finale gave a "big hole" to my mind
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Post by: Bloodreign on August 07, 2017, 12:37:31 PM
School Rumble, so far, first season, many laughs have been had.  ;D
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Post by: redrum on August 11, 2017, 08:38:17 PM
i'm watching Bloodreign watch anime from outside his window disguised in camo.
so far, first season, many laughs have been had. :rollseyes:
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Post by: Bloodreign on August 20, 2017, 12:43:44 AM
Watching Keroro Gunsou, a 388 episode anime, have done 2 episodes so far. School Rumble was OK, it dragged near the end, but the ending felt very unsatisfying.


Redrum, I knew I sensed you nearby, get off my lawn!  ;D 
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Post by: Eric Roman on August 21, 2017, 08:52:11 PM
Close to wrapping up some unfinished business from 2003; at the tenth episode of Serial Experiments Lain, a show more relevant now than ever...?  '.'
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Post by: TheTextGuy on August 22, 2017, 09:30:22 AM
More mechs for me, with Kotetsushin Jeeg, Gundam Thunderbolt and Mazinkaiser SKL.
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Post by: Gunlord on August 29, 2017, 06:12:40 PM
Speaking of mechs, I'm watching Knight's and Magic, it's pretty fun :D
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Post by: The Puritan on September 03, 2017, 08:31:37 PM
Vatican Miracle Examiner.

One investigates miracles with the power of faith, the other with the power of... kung-fu.

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Post by: zangetsu468 on September 04, 2017, 03:39:29 AM
Close to wrapping up some unfinished business from 2003; at the tenth episode of Serial Experiments Lain, a show more relevant now than ever...?  '.'

Why now more than ever. Are you referring to "reset"?
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Post by: Ralph on September 05, 2017, 10:24:33 PM
Recently finished White Album 2.

Currently alternating between Mawaru Penguindrum and Death Parade.

I need to stop being lazy and catch up on Dragon Ball Super already.
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Post by: Bloodreign on September 10, 2017, 02:37:38 AM
Took a weeks break from watching anime, OK 2 weeks. 8 episodes into Sgt Frog, and the damned thing is dull as plain bread. And I still have 380 episodes to go.  :-\
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Post by: theANdROId on September 10, 2017, 11:33:29 AM
I finally got to sit down and watch Castlevania, although I'm not sure if it's technically an Anime or not.  Either way, it was absolutely amazing!

Now I'm watching Death Note, which I'm also really enjoying so far!
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on September 10, 2017, 07:18:56 PM
Took a weeks break from watching anime, OK 2 weeks. 8 episodes into Sgt Frog, and the damned thing is dull as plain bread. And I still have 380 episodes to go.  :-\

I quit watching Sgt Frog after episode 10. I will admire your dedication if you finish it.
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Post by: JR on September 11, 2017, 01:59:29 AM
Decided to give One Punch Man a try while I wait for Dragonball Super episodes to pile up. I prefer to binge-watch all Dragonball stuff.

Kind of want to go back and watch Detroit Metal City again. Damn that was great.
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Post by: Bloodreign on September 11, 2017, 04:54:34 PM
I quit watching Sgt Frog after episode 10. I will admire your dedication if you finish it.

Trust me, I don't plan on going any further. It has it's funny moments, but nothing like the stuff I watched before it.
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Post by: Eric Roman on September 16, 2017, 10:50:03 AM
Back at Samurai Champloo, rolling through the English version this time.
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Post by: Bloodreign on September 16, 2017, 12:09:38 PM
Stopped the Sgt Frog at 8 episodes, jumped into Gugure! Kokkuri-san. Far more funnier, and evenly paced comedy anime.  Only 12 episodes, but loads more humor than Sgt Frog.


And finished Gugure in 2 days, so much better, so good, that I finished it quickly (I'd love to see another season of this with the slightly dark humor in it).
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Post by: zangetsu468 on September 22, 2017, 05:35:29 AM
I really hope DB Super goes somewhere with this tournament, 3 hours have been ticking down for the last 2 months.

I might go back and watch some 90's stuff.
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Post by: Bloodreign on October 02, 2017, 10:58:09 PM
Mitsudomoe, yes it has dumb crude adult humor, but to hear 6th graders use it, and it's not South Park, but instead Japan, fabulous. No offense to South Park of course, but that's humor I'm used to, except the moe anime is pretty much pee, and panty jokes.
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Post by: Mooning Freddy on October 05, 2017, 12:56:26 AM
Tried to watch Full Metal Alchemist... Didn't really get into it. Would probably give it another chance later. Switched to watching Attack on Titan season 2. I'm in love again.  8)
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Post by: TheMeadTree on October 08, 2017, 11:55:06 AM
Haibane Renmei turned me off from anime, and I mean that in a good way. Everything else seems so 'safe' by comparison, so calculated... There's truly no other anime quite like it. Nothing else tore at my soul in such a compelling way. I'm currently watching it for a 3rd time and still picking up on details that I missed previously. It's slow, it's subtle, and it's very powerful. I can't recommend it enough - it's an absolute gem.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on October 10, 2017, 02:59:04 AM
Holy fuck re: the last ep's of DB Super..... :o
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Post by: Bloodreign on October 11, 2017, 05:46:42 AM
To LOVE-Ru, one episode in, reminds me of Urusei Yatsura, just not as long, and the guy isn't a womanizer like Ataru was. Also first 2 episodes of the new season of Gintama. It's pretty much covering arcs before the last 2 serious arcs, but this one returns to the humorous side of Gintama, so not as much violence and bloodshed. 2018 is targeted as the airing of the final arc of Gintama, which is not done in the manga just yet. I'm gonna miss this show when it's over, I've done over 300 episodes of it, and other than the 2 serious arcs (and I mean a complete 180 of the humor laden arcs, tons of bloodshed, violence, and deaths), the laughs never stop coming.
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Post by: Eric Roman on October 11, 2017, 11:32:16 AM
After a false start several weeks back I'm moving through Re:Zero at a steady clip.  It's fun times and I'm finally beginning to understand those "Stereo Maids" that keep crossing my path in cons and cyberspace. 
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Post by: Ralph on October 11, 2017, 11:46:03 PM
After a false start several weeks back I'm moving through Re:Zero at a steady clip.  It's fun times and I'm finally beginning to understand those "Stereo Maids" that keep crossing my path in cons and cyberspace.

I literally just finished Re:Zero a few days ago. I thought it was an amazing show.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on October 15, 2017, 02:58:20 AM
The 5th movie of Digimon Tri
Finally, more plot. But more questions arise as well.
Oh boy.... must wait again until summer next year. Why do they take so long to make? /sigh
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Post by: Mooning Freddy on October 19, 2017, 01:23:22 PM
Watching Hellsing Ultimate. I love how the Catholic church in the story is more concerned with church politics than a vampire onslaught...  :P

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Post by: Gunlord on October 20, 2017, 03:38:04 AM
I'm currently anime'ing:

Kekkai Sensen/Blood Blockade Battlefront

Net-Juu No Susume/Recovery of an MMO Junkie

Inuyashiki

I'm happy with all of them, tho Inuyashiki is definitely looking to be my fave.
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Post by: Bloodreign on October 23, 2017, 11:41:29 PM
The more I watch To LOVE Ru, the more I think it should've just been called Tits and Ass, because every episode, there's lots of it. I've seen some harem/ecchi anime, but this is probably the most nudity I've seen in one series, to the point you come to expect it. Must've been some horny ass guy/guys producing this one. It developed a story in the second season, first season started with story, went random, then characters jump in from out of the blue (guess they expect me to read the manga, nah I won't), and BOOM a story develops that has no real conclusion in season 2. There is a 3rd season, but I doubt it carries over.
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Post by: Mooning Freddy on October 24, 2017, 10:12:16 AM
More random thoughts while watching Hellsing Ultimate:

Amusing how Integra keeps being referred to as "Sir" Integra; is this some sort of a Japanese misunderstanding of how English honorary titles work or a joke at Integra's masculine personality? Because last time I checked, if she's a woman, she should be Lady Integra.

Also, funny how almost everybody in this anime wears glasses. Alucard, Integra, Anderson, Walter, the Major, Luke Valentine... It appears that the creators really like how glass shines in a dim light. Otherwise, everybody's vision in that world is awful.
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Post by: BloodyShadowoftheDarkness on October 25, 2017, 07:50:03 PM
Also, funny how almost everybody in this anime wears glasses. Alucard, Integra, Anderson, Walter, the Major, Luke Valentine... It appears that the creators really like how glass shines in a dim light. Otherwise, everybody's vision in that world is awful.

If I remember correctly, I think the creator actually mentioned liking characters with glasses.
(My memory is faulty on this one, so take it with a grain of salt as it may not be accurate).
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Post by: gallandryal on October 29, 2017, 04:29:56 PM
I'm watching Seven deadly sins. I was expecting it to be a worse Naruto (and that's bad) but surprisingly i found it entertaining

More random thoughts while watching Hellsing Ultimate:

Amusing how Integra keeps being referred to as "Sir" Integra; is this some sort of a Japanese misunderstanding of how English honorary titles work or a joke at Integra's masculine personality? Because last time I checked, if she's a woman, she should be Lady Integra.


I think it's a  allegory or "joke" about Integra's androgynous traits. I used to think she were a man first time a saw her.
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Post by: JR on November 13, 2017, 02:42:39 AM
Decided to give Attack on Titan a go. Almost dropped it, just because it seemed to stretch out a bit too much, but it started to pick up once they went to the forest.
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Post by: Eric Roman on January 24, 2018, 11:23:09 AM
I am absolutely in love with DARLING in the FRANXX; at first I was loving the DIEBUSTER vibe of that whole world and then shit got real and then gahd yes.  Only two episodes on Crunchyroll, though.  ;_;  Anime of The Year So Far. 
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Post by: Bloodreign on January 24, 2018, 09:55:30 PM
New seasons of Gintama (YES!) and Cardcaptor Sakura (YES!), along with a slightly older anime called Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou (something about magic school, harems, and a Demon King), Rushed through Bobobo-bobobo, funny anime, but drags quite a bit (glad they didn't do the second manga, with the same bad guy starting things all over again, probably dragging on too).
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Post by: JR on April 27, 2018, 03:52:21 AM
Watching Food Wars. Something I wouldn't have given much attention if the girl I'm seeing didn't recommend it. It's pretty entertaining. Really looking forward to seeing where it goes.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on April 27, 2018, 07:13:56 AM
I recently watched the three original Pokemon movies. Mewtwo brought back memories.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 28, 2018, 12:52:17 AM
Darling in the FranXX
Wahahahahahahhaha! Fan service! I'm loving it.

Finished Digimon Adventure Tri. Hmmm... sequel is in the works. Damn! How long would I need to wait, again?!?

Food Wars season 3! :) Hooray food porn!
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Post by: JR on June 09, 2018, 11:51:34 PM
Just found out recently that Hulu has Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. It's about time one of my streaming services had this...I've been wanting to watch it for so long. I'm in the Jotaro arc right now. The whole thing with Stands seems less interesting than Hamon, but maybe it'll pick up? Hopefully...
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Post by: Bloodreign on June 25, 2018, 10:21:41 PM
Did D4 Princess. 25 episodes, 7 minutes a pop. Good show, and they managed to cram quite a bit in those minutes. Of course it's another comedy anime that at the end goes dead serious, those are hit and miss with me. I never tend to do mech anime's (like Sakura Wars), or serious anime too much, or in succession (sometimes they tend to drag). Comedy is a different story, but stuff like High School DXD I turned away from after 6 episodes, I like boobs and all (not the cartoon kind though), but it seemed the focus was on that, and demons, seemingly equally. Only the 3rd anime I started, said to hell with, and found something more interesting to watch. Doing Maruko Chan episodes on Youtube right now (subbed up to episodes 58, episode 56 is oddly missing as the person may not have found that episodes to sub yet).

Also doing Detatoko Princess (an OVA), have been on a string of 90's anime that I can find, would do more 80's stuff too, but that is extremely hard to find. Have all episodes of Magical Taruruto-kun, but sadly, no one's ever subbed them, so all the ones I have are in raw format.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on June 26, 2018, 03:13:20 AM
Butlers: Chitose Momotose Monogatari

Squeeeee~~~~♪ I'm currently at Episode 6. :) I love the mystery aspect and I love the drawing style!
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Post by: Bloodreign on June 28, 2018, 06:09:49 AM
Devil Hunter Yohko OVA's, because why not.  ;D
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on July 01, 2018, 02:35:46 AM
Mahou Shoujo Ore
OMG! The laughs are insane!
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 01, 2018, 03:05:03 AM
Went to an 80's classic, Dirty Pair. The Battle Mania game series of 2 games on the Genesis/Mega Drive were likely inspired by this series.
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Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on July 02, 2018, 01:04:06 AM
It's summertime, and that means I'm back to watching Azumanga Daioh! The Animation. It's tradition, and I have watched it every summer since it came to the USA. It hasn't aged a damn day.
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 02, 2018, 09:00:11 AM
It's summertime, and that means I'm back to watching Azumanga Daioh! The Animation. It's tradition, and I have watched it every summer since it came to the USA. It hasn't aged a damn day.

Osaka makes that anime, without her it's not nearly as funny. She plays off everyone so well. Azumanga eventually lead me to Nichijou, and since then I've found nothing on the level of humor these 2 have, sure there was Bobobobobo, but it had a different kind of humor to it.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on July 03, 2018, 03:07:26 AM
Not that I've made or had time, but I watched the first episode of Super Dragon Ball Heroes.
I might stick with it as the episode lengths are only bite-sized.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on July 05, 2018, 08:26:01 PM
Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100 Nin no Ouji-sama

Ahhhh... another guilty pleasure for me. But at least the heroine is not as dumb as the other otome animes that I watch.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on July 06, 2018, 02:03:05 AM
I'm really hankering for Evangelion 4.0, that wait will tide me over for a while.
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Post by: TatteredSeraph on July 06, 2018, 03:54:31 PM
I need to return to Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card arc.  It started off too slice of life and not enough magical girl for my liking, sadly. :(  I've been revisiting a bit of Yu-Gi-Oh lately for the Egyptian stuff.  Sadly I've not had much time for watching new to me series.  I've been listening to Takarazuka musicals instead a lot while working, such as Berubara and Elisabeth.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on August 15, 2018, 01:54:47 AM
Hataraku Saibou (Cells at Work)
It's fun edutainment. I wished studying about blood cells would be this fun.
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Post by: X on August 15, 2018, 09:56:16 AM
I sat down and watched The Day of sigma anime short for the MMX legacy collection. While it was okay the whole scene with an ailing Dr. Cain made absolutely no sense whatsoever. We first see Dr. Cain in X2 and once more in X3 and he is not suffering from deteriorating health nor was he plugged up to a life support machine. But he was otherwise in the day of sigma which talks place before the first MMX game. I don't know what the hell Capcom was thinking by doing that.
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Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on August 15, 2018, 06:05:09 PM
I just watched the entire first season of Rosario+Vampire last night.

Pls send halp *gets suffocated between Kurumu's boobs*

#HeDiedAGoodDeath
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Post by: zangetsu468 on September 07, 2018, 02:04:04 AM
I started Super Dragon Ball Heroes but stopped watching before Vegito, lately I've moved house (for the final time) and had some life altering events occur, albeit most of them good ones. I read the last chapter of Berserk (357) and that's got my interest until DBZ Broly and Eva 4.0, which is now apparently in 2020.
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Post by: Bloodreign on September 08, 2018, 10:34:00 PM
Did one season of Hozuki's Coolheadedness, got bored, found out there's a 3 part OVA, and two more seasons.


Fuck that, onto something else. It's not bad, but a bit drab.
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Post by: TheouAegis on November 02, 2018, 11:23:37 PM
Last "new" anime I watched was Aggretsuko. I'm just not into anime like I used to be. I get bored of the silence in my "man cave" (I use quotes because I have a shelf full of Hello!Kitty plushes and stuff behind me), so I'll occasionally put some of the VHS tapes I copied off back in high school and college into the VCR while I work on my computer. I recently watched Slayers, Withering Continent, and the Ninja Gaiden movie. Well, I let them play in the background more than anything; I wasn't paying too much attention to them, except Slayers because that was one of the first 4 anime I ever rented and I fell in love with it instantly. Probably going to pop in Vampire Princess Miyu tonight. That was another of the first 4. That also included Urotsukidouji (another of my faves, probably for the same reason). I can't remember what the fourth one I rented was... I'm sure if I looked through my tapes, I might recall it, but I doubt it. That was 23 years ago...
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on November 03, 2018, 01:03:40 AM
I get bored of the silence in my "man cave" (I use quotes because I have a shelf full of Hello!Kitty plushes and stuff behind me),

Photo of the plushies please!
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Post by: TheouAegis on November 03, 2018, 04:53:20 PM
Photo of the plushies please!

(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi281.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk240%2FTheou%2FIMG_20181103_163708433.jpg&hash=0b8c9d50e1e2dfff9489b171e45fe00f) (http://s281.photobucket.com/user/Theou/media/IMG_20181103_163708433.jpg.html)
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on November 05, 2018, 12:35:43 AM
You've collected all TY Hello Kitties! That's an achievement.
I see 2 Fushigi Yuugi wall scrolls. Waffle would approve.

I spy a my little pony!
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Post by: TheouAegis on November 05, 2018, 03:11:31 AM
I would have ALL Ty Hello!Kitties, but I restrained myself. Some I just felt weren't even worth it. Most of the ones here were sold at a grocery store near me. They don't carry them anymore, but every holiday season I look for them (to no avail).

The Kitty backpack (by the tv) and rug (down in front), coin bank, and ornament were gifts from my old roommates. The chia pet, cards, mugs, pez dispensers, and totoro were gifts from my fiance.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on November 06, 2018, 01:42:39 AM
I agree with the TY stuff. Some are just not worth it. I could not imagine why on earth did they put unicorn horns on all other creatures aside from horses (unicorns). I'm always visiting toy stores for new TY toys that would catch my eye.

I'm sure you'll love the Sanrio stores in Japan. This is my favorite https://www.sanrio.co.jp/shop/sh1703100/ (https://www.sanrio.co.jp/shop/sh1703100/)
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Post by: zangetsu468 on November 06, 2018, 02:38:17 AM
I'm considering watching this Castlevania animated series people seem to rave about.
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Post by: Super Waffle on November 06, 2018, 03:19:37 PM
Hey it's Fushigi Yuugi.
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Post by: TheouAegis on November 07, 2018, 02:29:02 AM
Off-camera (well behind it) is Magic Knight Rayearth scroll, Evangelion scroll, and my manga shelf. In my closet is a go board and some Magic cards. On my desk are books by Heinlein (I haven't read most of them, I went on a shopping spree after reading a couple of his books lol), Tolkien, Doug Adams, Lovecraft, and Crichton, along with some of my old college books that I kept around, and my anime DVDs (small collection). And a picture of Winona Ryder that my fiance bought me.... It was sweet, but very weird.

Currently I'm watching ("watching") Saber Marionette J again. Watched the end of Photon last night and I'm sad that I didn't enjoy it as much as I used to.
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Post by: Aceearly1993 on November 07, 2018, 04:18:07 AM
Castlevania Season 2 is awesome without doubt.

Happy Sugar Life ruined my motivation of caring about new anime series. Then I was dealing with the X Challenge crap in Mega Man X Legacy Collection and such. The Day of Sigma OVA in HD clarity is a nice touch BTW.

I sat down and watched The Day of sigma anime short for the MMX legacy collection. While it was okay the whole scene with an ailing Dr. Cain made absolutely no sense whatsoever. We first see Dr. Cain in X2 and once more in X3 and he is not suffering from deteriorating health nor was he plugged up to a life support machine. But he was otherwise in the day of sigma which talks place before the first MMX game. I don't know what the hell Capcom was thinking by doing that.

What I don't get is why they didn't just include the whole Maverick Hunter X, this looks like they half assed the job of presenting a commercial product like this. This is unforgiving in any time.


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Post by: Bloodreign on November 07, 2018, 10:18:06 PM
Papuwa's second season, because the first season has no subs for it at all, and isn't easy to find.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on November 08, 2018, 01:47:13 AM
Off-camera (well behind it) is Magic Knight Rayearth scroll, Evangelion scroll, and my manga shelf. In my closet is a go board and some Magic cards. On my desk are books by Heinlein (I haven't read most of them, I went on a shopping spree after reading a couple of his books lol), Tolkien, Doug Adams, Lovecraft, and Crichton, along with some of my old college books that I kept around, and my anime DVDs (small collection). And a picture of Winona Ryder that my fiance bought me.... It was sweet, but very weird.


Cool! I love Rayearth! the only things I have for that show are some mangas and an artbook.
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Post by: TheouAegis on November 08, 2018, 01:45:27 PM
Cool! I love Rayearth! the only things I have for that show are some mangas and an artbook.

I have the manga (both sets...I hope there's only two chapters lol), that one wall scroll, the Sega Saturn game, and somewhere I have a ROM of the SNES game. I like CLAMP's manga for the most part, but if I had the anime for something already, even if it was a fansub, I tended to not buy the manga, so no Angelic Layer manga, for example. Now I have an urge to watch Angelic Layer again...
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on November 08, 2018, 11:04:00 PM
I only have the 2nd Rayearth manga set which was 3 books each. I did not bother to buy the first set.

Angelic Layer is cool too! Did they ever make figurines for that show?
Well, I love Clamp's works (especially their early days). I think the complete manga set that I have was X (but it was never completed) and Wish. I love Wish. It's such a sweet story.
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Post by: TheouAegis on November 09, 2018, 02:14:35 AM
Some people have made figurines, but I don't know if they're official or just fanart; I didn't look into it, just did a quick Google search. They did have a Gameboy Advance game which was essentially Megaman.EXE+Dance Dance Revolution. It was pretty simple but cute and novel.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on November 10, 2018, 01:23:43 AM
Some people have made figurines, but I don't know if they're official or just fanart; I didn't look into it, just did a quick Google search. They did have a Gameboy Advance game which was essentially Megaman.EXE+Dance Dance Revolution. It was pretty simple but cute and novel.

I searched myfigurecollection and Kotobikiya did a Hikaru figure. There are some fan made ones as well. Sadly no Wizard. haha.
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Post by: Super Waffle on December 07, 2018, 02:28:59 PM
I just spent four hours making this



I'm not a nerd tho.
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Post by: zangetsu468 on December 07, 2018, 05:37:42 PM
I'm abstaining from anime until DBS: Broly, the same way the Belmonts abstained from the VK until 1999.  8)
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Post by: Succubus on December 08, 2018, 07:20:33 AM
I'm catching up on Shonen Ashibe, after building up a backlog of like 40 episodes (but at around 9 minutes each, that's not so bad). It's real cute.
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Post by: Bloodreign on December 10, 2018, 01:58:12 AM
Sexy Commando, a bunch of short 7 minute episodes. Shitty artwork quality, but the gags are what make it.
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Post by: Lashen on March 26, 2019, 01:03:46 AM
Rewatching Outlaw Star, a favorite.

Actually on my favorite episode right now: the one with the evil psychic cactus.
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on March 26, 2019, 05:38:29 AM
Funkin' lowlife nerds, watching anime.

I'm currently rewatching Escaflowne via Anime Ltd.'s tasty Blu-rays.
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Post by: Succubus on March 26, 2019, 06:13:40 AM
Escaflowne is the best.
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Post by: Bloodreign on April 01, 2019, 07:48:50 PM
Space Pirate Mito.....just because.
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Post by: TheouAegis on April 05, 2019, 02:50:55 AM
Watching Robotech (Macross). For the first time in my life. And my god, I'm loving nearly every episode of it, even the cheesy ones. I'm surprised I'm actually enjoying it so much.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 08, 2019, 03:41:49 AM
Just finished B Project: Zecchou Emotion.
Also been to their special collaboration cafe last march.  ;D
https://cafe.animate.co.jp/event/bpro-anime1902/foods/
The spare ribs plate is awesome!
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Post by: JR on June 04, 2019, 08:54:59 PM
Watched Baki on Netflix. Season 1 is ridiculous but enjoyable, then season 2 gets even more ridiculous to the point that I don't even care anymore. It's just a mess.

I would be watching the new episode of One Punch Man if I didn't have to wait until the 11th for it. Dammit.
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Post by: Gunlord on June 10, 2019, 06:56:39 PM
I'm watching OPM S2 as well. I wonder what the delay was all about...
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Post by: Bloodreign on June 11, 2019, 02:47:34 AM
I'm watching OPM S2 as well. I wonder what the delay was all about...

Some big tennis tournament was going on, so Japan television decided to cover it instead of airing the OPM episode. Maybe the French Open or something.


For what I am watching, Spirit Hero Wataru, a 1980's mech comedy anime, and the subtitles are absolutely terrible.
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 29, 2019, 02:57:42 AM
Tokimeki Tonight, from 1982, which I stumbled upon. About a vampire guy marrying a werewolf woman, and their kids seem normal, well sort of.
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Post by: Bloodreign on November 21, 2019, 12:18:58 AM
Did Haunted Junction, felt like a shorter version of Ghost Sweeper Mikami, though not quite as good, still had some good humor to it though.


Now doing the original Japanese Samurai Pizza Cats, and my goodness, what a difference from the dubbed version. I thought it was also only 12 episodes, nope 54. There is a dubbed version, but it ends at 51, 3 episodes short.
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Post by: X on November 21, 2019, 09:24:52 AM
With all the old anime out there I'd like to see them re-dubbed to today's standards; Proper English dialogue to the original Japanese scripts, no edited/deleted scenes, and complete episode lists. The original Transformers had five seasons compared to what we got which was three. Talk about cheated out :P
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Post by: Bloodreign on November 24, 2019, 03:19:15 AM
Well, Sailor Moon has had all 5 seasons redubbed, something far more accurate than the original, and the original never got to season 5.

Fan subs can sometimes be absolute garbage, ala Mitsume ga Tooru, which had some of the worst English subs I've ever laid eyes on, though it was English subbed by Russians. Same with Spirit Hero Wataru, the movies are subbed fine, the anime, oy vey. You'll want to tear hair out by how bad it too is subbed.
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Post by: X on November 24, 2019, 10:25:04 AM
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Well, Sailor Moon has had all 5 seasons redubbed, something far more accurate than the original, and the original never got to season 5.

Yeah this is a change in pace. I've gotten my hands on all three movies and I'm just waiting till they have the entire series in a collector's box set.
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Post by: Super Waffle on January 26, 2020, 02:37:56 PM
Why is Cautious Hero so good and will I ever be able to get over my obsession with writing fanfics about it?
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on January 27, 2020, 03:05:21 AM
Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!!

Cute~♥
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Post by: Bloodreign on January 27, 2020, 12:24:02 PM
Have Sakigake!! Otokojuku queued up, but haven't started it just yet due to finally playing an English subbed Ganbare Goemon 3 for Super Famicom.
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Post by: Super Waffle on February 18, 2020, 02:08:17 PM
Happy Birthday Junko Iwao!

(click to show/hide)
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Post by: The Puritan on February 18, 2020, 04:19:54 PM
Kengan Ashura. The danger of death by testosterone is very real.
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on February 18, 2020, 08:05:12 PM
Rewatched Hellsing Ultimate. Rewatched the first half of Panty & Stocking while finally finishing off the other half, and gonna do the same with Space Dandy next.

Anime is for losers.
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Post by: Bloodreign on March 02, 2020, 12:22:37 AM
Cowboy Bebop, subbed version, because I never caught all the dubbed version, and Faye Valentine will be a familiar voice (Ranma female version, Lina Inverse, and Himiko Shinobibe from Mashin Hero Wataru).


If anime is for losers, I've been losing a lot catching up on years of not really having access to anime then. The last 5-7 years, one series after another, old and new.  ;D
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Post by: Bloodreign on March 20, 2020, 03:08:08 AM
Cowboy Bebop wrapped up, damned great anime, a true classic.

Now on to a silly one, Goldfish Warning.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 12, 2020, 01:44:27 AM
Shokugeki no Soma Fifth Plate! Yes! I'm sure after this the entire manga series is done.

Shocking breakout of the season for me is: Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta... (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!)
Wahahahahaha! Super funny!
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Post by: X on April 12, 2020, 11:09:21 AM
I've been giving the anime adaption of the Manga Grand Blue a try. Sadly it doesn't contain all that is in the manga (for some ridiculous reason the anime adaptions like to shorten things a bit just for time slots or whatever) but it is still funny to watch  ;D
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Post by: VladOfWallachia on April 13, 2020, 06:55:01 AM
Shokugeki no Soma Fifth Plate!

I’m a big fan of this anime, I’ve seen the whole thing. I haven’t finished the manga though.

Recently finished season 1 of My Hero Academia. Also been getting lots of recommendations for Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, might start watching that soon.
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Post by: X on April 13, 2020, 10:52:22 AM
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Also been getting lots of recommendations for Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, might start watching that soon.

I've been reading this one. It's a bit odd in places but for some unknown reason I can't put it down.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 14, 2020, 02:01:41 AM
I’m a big fan of this anime, I’ve seen the whole thing. I haven’t finished the manga though.

As far as I know, the anime is faithful to the manga. The conclusion (last arc) of the manga will be the current ongoing season.
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Post by: Bloodreign on April 24, 2020, 02:12:14 AM
Stop Stop Hibari kun, a rarity from 1983, rarity because the whole thing is subbed online (stuff from that era is not easy to find complete). It involves a boy whose mother died, and one of her former lovers, a yakuza head, takes him in. He falls in love at first sight with Hibari......except Hibari is a trap, the only son of 4 children of the mafia head. This one looks to have plenty of hijinx in it.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 24, 2020, 03:08:16 AM
I binge watched Darwin's Game. I loved it. I liked how smooth the animation was. I can't wait for the second season.

Copy pasted the premise from wiki: 17-year old Kaname Sudō accepts an online invitation by a friend to play an app game called Darwin's Game, unbeknownst to him that it involves a fight between life and death. Those who play the game are given a Sigil, an ability that varies from player to player. Trapped in this game of relentless murder and conquest, Kaname determines to clear the game, and seek out and kill the Game Master.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on May 04, 2020, 02:04:00 AM
Finally watched Kimi no na wa/ Your Name after postponing it for years. LOL
It's really good. Reminds me of Ghibli movies.
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Post by: Bloodreign on May 11, 2020, 06:57:09 PM
Another one from 1983, one of the early magical girl anime's, Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel. 52 episodes long, hopefully a more satisfying ending than Hibari Kun, which also had an abrupt ending in it's manga form.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on June 02, 2020, 02:34:20 AM
Marathon watching My Hero Academia. Shouto ♥♪
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on January 15, 2021, 11:45:07 PM
No one has been updating this... boo
So for this season I'm watching:
1. Toutotsuni Egypt Shin (Oh Suddenly Egyptian Gods!) LOL These are just shorts and it is free to watch on youtube but in Japanese.
2. Show by Rock Stars (4th season of show by rock, still cute as ever)
3. Cells at Work!! (second season of cells at work, YAY!)
4. Cells at Work: Code Black (this is Cells at work but for an older audience dealing with adult health problems)
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Post by: JR on January 17, 2021, 01:03:47 AM
My wife and I finished Assassination Classroom just recently.  The end made both of us cry.  :-[  Really liked that one.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on February 03, 2021, 10:44:18 PM
Update, I'm trying to finish Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer). Hehehe
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 01, 2021, 12:47:23 AM
My hero academia season 5
YAY!!!!!
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Post by: Highwind Dragoon on May 11, 2021, 08:45:08 AM
Watching Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 1.

Also Watching the Record of Lodoss War 13 episode OVA (1990 version) mini-series.
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Post by: Bloodreign on May 11, 2021, 01:26:02 PM
Still doing whatever episodes of Dr Slump that are up and English subbed. Also doing Joshiraku, while it has it's funny bits, I kind of find it a bit on the dull side.
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on May 14, 2021, 02:15:23 PM
Kyatto Ninden Teyandee. Loved watching Samurai Pizza Cats as a kid so I wanted to see its origins. Kinda frustrating when you can tell the subtitlers didn't translate the puns. I know it's kinda tough to do, but if Welcome to Lodoss Island can do it, so can this.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on July 16, 2021, 02:50:19 AM
Jujutsu Kaisen

I now know why people like this anime.  :D
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Post by: Bloodreign on July 18, 2021, 03:28:41 AM
Now doing RAW episodes of the original Dr Slump, because only 97 episodes have fan subs, and 2 of them look to be some subs from poor quality VHS tapes. Almost at 200 episodes out of 243 of them. Then there's the OVA's, and the newer series still to go.
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Post by: Bloodreign on August 22, 2021, 03:51:05 AM
Finished the original Dr Slump, now into the newer series from 1997..... and is it me, or did Toriyama get incredibly fucking lazy with his artstyle after Dragon Ball? The original series, everyone had a unique look to them, with this series, all the characters pretty much adopted the Dragon Ball look to them (as also seen with the Dragon Quest series to this day, and Chrono Trigger, as well as the Go Go Ackman games and the OVA for GGA). Seems as though Toriyama settled into a style where everything looked the same as DB/DBZ. Yet you had artists like Rumiko Takahashi (of Urusei Yatsura/Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku fame) who never really let her artstyle be the same from series to series that she did, she kept it fresh every single time.
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Post by: X on August 22, 2021, 11:07:18 AM
I purchased Cowboy Bebop the complete series and plan to watch it sometime.
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Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on September 05, 2021, 05:12:29 PM
I've started rewatching Revolutionary Girl Utena and boy howdy the tonal whiplash as it progresses puts my neck in a brace every damn time.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on September 19, 2021, 01:08:40 AM
Finished My life as a villainess season 2. OMG! Yay! They are going to make a 3rd season!

In the middle of watching The World Ends with You the animation. I liked the pacing of the game more (maybe because I'm the one moving the game forward).
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Post by: X on September 20, 2021, 10:16:01 PM
I'm currently watching uchi no maid ga uzasugiru! A former JDAF pilot turned maid who's a bit of a Lolicon. I'm only into two episodes so far but it's enjoyable.
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Post by: Highwind Dragoon on September 28, 2021, 07:11:13 PM
Fairy Tail season 1 binging starts as soon as I finish the second Lodoss war OVA.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on October 25, 2021, 12:53:13 AM
Currently watching the TV version of the Mugen Train arc of Demon Slayer. I can't wait for season 2 in December.
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Post by: Bloodreign on October 25, 2021, 09:45:18 PM
Very slowly doing the reboot of Dr Slump from the late 90's, but the interest in it is waning. The original series was better by miles.
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Post by: Inccubus on January 02, 2022, 07:26:28 AM
I just finished watching "Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside".
Anyone notice that the hero's quest is basically Final Fantasy?
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on February 02, 2022, 02:24:39 PM
Finally got around to watching the Patlabor Blu-rays I bought years back; I'd previously only seen the original OVA series and the first movie (plus a handful of TV episodes).

I started with the TV series since it's the biggest commitment, is its own timeline, and it may now be my favorite iteration of Patlabor. It's just so carefree and fun, and there's a wide variety of stories that I like. Nobody really ever gets badly hurt, the colors are all bright and cheery, and it does the comedy more successfully than the original OVA.

Then I followed it with the New Files OVA since it's a continuation. It was nice seeing the first four episodes dedicated to finishing the Griffon storyline, but many of the other episodes felt like rejected scripts for the TV show and didn't feature much Labor action. Not unusual for the series—being a mecha anime that's not really all that much about robots—but I was still a little let down. But, it's part of the TV timeline so I had to finish it.

I went back to the OVA series after that, probably the third time I've seen it. Still fun, still uneven, but a nice introduction to the characters. Then it was on to the movies, and I really, really like that first one because it feels like a continuation of the OVA but more in-depth and a bit more serious, but it still holds true to what I feel Patlabor is and should be: a heartwarming, fairly lighthearted comedy with some intense segments where things never get too far out of hand. It's basically the last thing labeled "Patlabor" that feels this way, lol.

So now it's on to the movie sequels which I'd never seen. Patlabor 2 works as a sort of maturing for the series, both in tone and character development, reflected by a line Izumi speaks where she doesn't want to forever be known as the girl who loves robots. The characters are growing up, situations are getting more tense, there are actual death tolls (I was shocked), and Mamoru Oshii has to sneak in his typical political jargon and philosophical wankery, but it was good overall. The music, scenery, and ambience are absolutely beautiful in this movie. Not sure I'm fully on board with the redesigned characters, but it fits the overall theme of maturity that the story has, moving from cutesy Akemi Takada designs to more "grown up" and borderline ugly mutations on those, lol. Good movie overall, I'm sure I'll like it more on repeat viewings.

OH SHIT, THEN WE COME TO PATLABOR 3, OR WXIII: PATLABOR THE MOVIE 3 TO BE PRECISE, AND IT IS BASICALLY PATLABOR IN NAME ONLY lol. I don't really know why this ever was made into a Patlabor movie because the involvement of Special Vehicle Section 2 feels very shoehorned in, and it goes balls-deep with the violence and bloodshed, so it's tonally way different than anything that came before. It barely resembles Patlabor at all, but I liked it overall, though it's definitely the weakest installment I've watched. The accompanying Minipato episodes are cute.

Yeah, I finally feel caught up. I know there's manga but I don't know if it's ever been published in the US, and there's a live-action TV series I wouldn't mind seeing if it's streaming somewhere or made available on Blu-ray. I wouldn't mind seeing Oshii come back to it one more time with other original creators, though it'd probably end up being GITS2 levels of self-indulgence and not the fun Patlabor that I love.
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Post by: X on February 03, 2022, 09:00:40 AM
Abnormal Freak@

I remember seeing bits and pieces of Patlabor back in the day. Patlabor 2 on the other hand I saw the whole thing. You're right about the film. What caught me the most was the ambiance delivered by the musical score. It fit the scenes perfectly and to this day it's still stuck in my head. I liked it so much that I searched online for years till I was able to find and download the soundtrack. I'm good at the waiting game. The tune; At Parting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSRdQXF_M8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSRdQXF_M8) is one of those I won't forget. If I'm not mistaken the musical score for the original anime of Ghost in the Shell was also done by the same composer.
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on February 03, 2022, 10:21:11 PM
Yeah, Kenji Kawai. One thing about pairing him with Oshii is they have these long atmospheric scenes of cityscapes with beautifully relaxing music. Patlabor 1 has a great scene of two detectives investigating various shacks rented out by the antagonist.
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Post by: Bloodreign on February 05, 2022, 01:47:50 AM
Jungle no Ouja Taa-chan and Miracle Girls currently.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on June 21, 2022, 12:24:23 AM
Currently, Spy X Family. It's funny!!
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on June 25, 2022, 09:47:09 PM
So, something insane happened: Discotek Media released Violence Jack: Evil Town on Blu-ray in beautiful, filmic quality and completely uncut. As in, no more mosaics. Never thought I'd see the day.

Still an excellent piece of exploitation filth. The other two OVAs are kinda so-so but man, Ichiro Itano's Evil Town is supreme.
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Post by: Atcero on June 26, 2022, 01:38:02 PM
Kaguya and Spy x Family, easily some of the best animes (and mangas) currently going on right now.
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Post by: Hiryu on October 22, 2022, 08:23:17 PM
It's that time of the year for classic Vampire Hunter D (1985). CGI be damned.
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Post by: Bloodreign on October 26, 2022, 02:43:12 AM
Gegege no Kitarou, as much of the 1968 series subbed as I can find (22 of 65 episodes), the only 3 subbed episodes of the 1971 version, now onto the 1985 version, which has over 100 episodes.
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on October 29, 2022, 06:19:22 AM
Watched the new Bastard on Netflix. Really liked it up until the last 5 episodes or so, as it just got tedious, and they introduced some wonky CGI animation, and I say fuck that shit completely. Looking forward to season 2, though. Surprised the twittards haven't discovered it yet, because hoo boy does this have a lot of questionable content, and I'm here for it.
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Post by: X on October 29, 2022, 10:50:24 AM
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Surprised the twittards haven't discovered it yet

From what I heard Elon Musk bought Twitter and is cleaning out the 'twittards' so-to-speak. That's probably why.
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 11, 2022, 11:20:41 AM
I'm finally nearing the end of DBZ, currently on the Majin Boo saga and Goku just turned SS3 for the first time. I started watching DB/Z when I was pretty little, before Toonami picked it up, and basically stopped watching when the show got canceled during the original dub's Freeza saga; then picked it up years later starting with the DB "Saga" DVDs and the DBZ Dragon Box DVDs, which I've slowly chipped away at over the past 10+ years. These two shows are much better subtitled because the original music and voice performances are so much better and more dramatic. There's even been a couple pop songs in DBZ during intense moments. Just loving feeling like a kid again watching this series to completion, and then I can jump into Super finally.
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Post by: Gunlord on December 11, 2022, 03:30:30 PM
re-watching the Patlabor TV series. It's so good, so much wholesome fun :D
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Post by: Abnormal Freak on September 20, 2023, 08:05:55 AM
The Patlabor TV series is the best iteration, I think. The original OVA and movies are great too, but I like how nobody really gets killed or seriously injured (that I recall) and it's pretty lighthearted while being simultaneously high-stakes. Just a great series.

Finished season two of Bastard, loved it. Can't wait for a third and so on. Looks like they'll be adapting the complete manga storyline, if this continues to be successful. Maybe the licensor of the OVA will let someone like Discotek remaster it. I saw parts of it years ago but don't remember much.
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Post by: JR on September 22, 2023, 10:25:05 PM
Watched the new Bastard on Netflix. Really liked it up until the last 5 episodes or so, as it just got tedious, and they introduced some wonky CGI animation, and I say fuck that shit completely. Looking forward to season 2, though. Surprised the twittards haven't discovered it yet, because hoo boy does this have a lot of questionable content, and I'm here for it.

I tried to watch it for a while, and the first episodes seemed interesting, but it got a bit too formulaic over time.

Just watched all of DBZ Abridged again recently. My brother-in-law died a year ago, and I remember him introducing me to it, so I think that's what brought me back to it. The Cell Saga is hilarious. I also like how, despite being a parody, they made a few of the dramatic scenes carry even more weight. Gohan going SSJ2 in particular. I just wished they would've done the Buu Saga and completed the entire series. I guess I could still watch their dubs of the movies, but, ugh, it's hard to get into the movies.
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Post by: nokundhi on October 02, 2023, 09:43:00 PM
Coming from the movies I disliked the Patlabor series at first, but it's grown on me and become my favorite iteration as well. It also made me a little more critical of the movies, especially how they handled the characters, and the way they had less and less to do with SV2 as they went on.
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Post by: Eric Roman on December 23, 2023, 02:03:38 PM
Mahou Shoujo Destroyers.  Love the concept, the treatment, and what it’s trying to say, but the animation budget swings wildly as to botch my regard for it as my Anime of 2023. :/ 

Good soundtrack, too.
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Post by: redrum on December 24, 2023, 10:40:12 PM
the ultraman from 1979

where he had weird sidekick kaijus for some reason
(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ultra/images/8/88/Pigu_HD_021.png)