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Daily Lives of High School Boys was great. I'm not sure whether it or Nichijou is better, but they're both excellent and if you like one you'll also like the other, so it's kind of a moot point.Erg posted:Deadman Wonderland because I liked the manga version. Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi is the tale of two lovable idiots from Osaka going on a wonderful adventure. I also feel like I'm the only person who's seen it sometimes for some reason. 1. Serial Experiments Lain 2. Fate/Zero 3. And The Town Still Moves 4. Golgo 13 5. Great Teacher Onizuka
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AnoHito posted:1. Serial Experiments Lain Please watch Serial Experiments Lain. My updated list: 1. Gatchaman CROWDS 2. Haibane Renmei 3. Mushishi 4. Shokugeki no Soma 5. Spice and Wolf 6. Love Live! School Idol Project
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Deadman Wonderland 5 episode report: I'm not very good at reviews/reports, so please forgive me. As a casual anime watcher, I obviously haven't read the manga, nor have I seen any other series by that studio, so my view will be coming from a general TV viewer perspective. So far it's decent, IMO. It's not blowing me away, nor is it boring me to tears. The concept of blood mysticism or weapons of blood feels a bit done to me (though I can't recall off-hand where I've seen it before, I just know I have), but there seems to be enough depth to the story that the prominent shonen cliches (such as Ganta constantly screaming "I'll never forgive you!" and the fact that, like so many other Japanese protagonists, his strength lies in his ability to always get back up after taking a beating) can be forgiven. I'm certainly intrigued by Shiro's appearance. How does she know Ganta? Why doesn't Ganta seem to remember her from before his time in Deadman Wonderland? What's You really up to? And will the Chief Warden end up helping Ganta exonerate himself/expose the corruption surrounding their entire facility? She seems a bit of a wild card, and I couldn't help but like her immediately. Yeah, I think I'll continue through to the end, and if it gets better I may even check out the manga as well. Thanks, Erg.
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I watched the first couple episodes of RahXephon last night. It seems ok, but it invokes a weird nostalgia in me. I'm watching the dub on Hulu. It just seems emblematic of everything anime seemed to me when I was in middle school. Like vaguely mysterious, with lots of symbolic imagery. It's hard to explain. As for the actual show, I've heard of RahXephon as kind of an Eva clone, and I can see it in some of the broad strokes of the characters. I do like its kind of dreaminess so far, though. One complaint is how ham-fisted and obvious that SOMETHING IS NOT NORMAL ABOUT REIKA.
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Mentat Radnor posted:My updated list: Please watch Haibane Renmei. It pains me not to tell you to watch Mushishi or Gatchaman Crowds, though, since they're so good. My list: 1. The Big O 2. Saint Tail 3. Terra e 4. Gurren Lagan 5. World Conquest Zvezda Plot Van Dine fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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Van Dine posted:Please watch Haibane Renmei. It pains me not to tell you to watch Mushishi or Gatchaman Crowds, though, since they're so good. Believe in me who believes in your watching Gurren Lagann! Castle in the Sky was amazing, can't believe I missed out on a Miyazaki classic for so long. 1. Moribito 2. Dennou Coil 3. Kino's Journey 4. Gatchaman Crowds 5. Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
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Lemon Curdistan posted:I've literally never heard of any of these and they all look terrible, but Fortune Arterial has the coolest looking uniforms and the dumbest name, so I'm going to tell you to watch that. Enjoy your terrible porn VN anime, I guess. Trip report on Fortune Arterial Hey it's a vampire series! Main girl and her bro are vamps, even though they never really do anything vampire like in the first few episodes, other than bro being a little threatening. Oh and apparently vamps in this series totally don't have many of the vamp weaknesses, so walking around in the sun is just fine. Main girl is apparently the type of vampire that doesn't ever wanna drink human blood. This will probably creep more in with the plot later on. It's not terrible but it is extremely boring. Some interesting characters here and there, but man they really make it feel like you're watching a VN adaptation. It is an extremely good looking anime though, I'll give it that. I probably won't continue this one unless I truly run out of things to watch. It took me way too long to even slog through the first five. pezzie fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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Van Dine posted:Please watch Haibane Renmei. I watched the first two episodes and this seems really promising so far. I love the art style and the setting. It's giving me the same feeling as Kino's Journey, in the sense that while nothing is inherently wrong, it's still unsettling. I kind of hope that it doesn't do what Kino's Journey did and leave me both numb and horrified after the last two episodes, but then again that's what made it so powerful. Thanks for the pick, I'll certainly be watching the rest of it over the next couple days.
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Furious Lobster posted:Believe in me who believes in your watching Gurren Lagann! Gatchaman Crowds my favorite out of all the things I've seen on that list I say go with that. I am heading out on vacation this week and need something new to watch. I have decided it shall be either fantasy, or sports. 1. Chaika 2. Yona of the Dawn 3. Ashita no Joe 4. Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro 5. Moshidora, the full title of which is: What if the Manager of a High School Baseball Team Read Drucker's Management?
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Srice posted:
watch chaika i need something cool and fun and stupid to watch and there's a lot of things i haven't watched 1. code geass 2. death note 3. hellsing (tv series) 4. afro samurai 5. scrapped princess
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ninjewtsu posted:watch chaika Afro Samurai is not a huge time investment and would be very worth it. 1. .hack//sign 2. Baccano 3. Durarara 4. Gatchaman Crowds 5. Higurashi no naku koro ni
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KillerQueen posted:Afro Samurai is not a huge time investment and would be very worth it. since there's only 5 episodes, episode 1 afro samurai trip report: this is pretty loving awesome. not a ton to say about it, it's basically just nonstop awesome fight scenes, which is pretty much exactly what i want tbh. the style is cool, though in a few cases it gets really hard to comprehend what's going on (the first fight is a pretty big offender of this, awesome revolver shots not withstanding)
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 Serial Experiments Lain Episodes 1-2 Episode 1 Not a good start. I’ve been kind of dreading watching this because of how much I remember hating these first couple of episodes, and it seems time has not led me to learn to enjoy them. The fact that it’s in love with panning up to the sky and cranking up the brightness is just annoying and used gratuitously. And I still hate the fact that the show can’t seem to have more than two lines of coherent dialogue (if you call that thing Lain does when she speaks 'coherent dialogue’) before changing to another random scene. Episode 2 Halfway through the second episode is kind of where I got stonewalled the last time I tried watching this show, and I can kind of see how. It seems to be more or less dropping any threads that might be interesting in favor of weird stunted dialogue. Lain’s awkward-rear end stare is also starting to annoy me. However, the entire reason I put this show on my list was to force myself to stick it out for a reasonable period of time and see if I was stubbornly missing out on a great show, so here’s to hoping I start liking it more and can berate myself for my foolish ignorance in writing this later. At the very least, Episode 3 should be interesting with how the second episode ended.
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Afro Samurai Episode 2 Trip Report way less action scenes this episode. as a result, i enjoyed this way less. the sex scene was, uh, very gratuitous? it culminating in afro having apparently hosed that girl so hard that it made her fall in love with him and defect was stupid to watch. her getting stabbed to death immediately after was amusing, but not enough to make up for how stupid (in a bad way) the whole thing was. also rather confused on the empty 7 clan. are their grunts robots or cyborgs? the one afro caught in the ceiling just had a roboneck and didn't bleed when he died, but then the ones he stabbed later bled. but they bled purple? that might've been a result of the lighting.
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Afro Samurai falls into this weird gap where it's more ridiculous than it should have been but not quite as ridiculous as it needed to be. The second episode is easily the weakest, but the show as a whole is typically at its best when it's not trying to make sense...which it unfortunately tries to do quite a few times. You'll get a few decent fights out of it though, and at least one or two intriguing character moments.
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i mean the stuff with kid afro wasn't as kickass as the fights were but i didn't think it was bad or anything. i just kinda spent the whole time wishing that fighting was happening instead, not lamenting at how bad it was (kid afro cutting up bandits was pretty sweet). it wasn't really until i realized that the sex scene was going to be longer than 10 seconds that i started going "uh i'd rather not watch this" the dub for this show is kind of awesome, afro ninja would probably be way more annoying if not for the dub
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star of next episode note: the best character in this show is the old dude with the headphones that the show keeps cutting to just so you know that he's there and he's jamming to some sick tunes
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Episode 3 report bit mixed on this episode. on the one hand, the fights were actually kind of disappointing in general. the old dudes had a fair amount of build up, but each of them got totally chumped in seconds. the leader old dude died offscreen! kinda bullshit to be honest! the two big assassins were built up and then not even really showed as being killed either. i guess i'm supposed to assume that they died in the 5 second fade to black when afro terminator killed the mob? there's no reason for them to come back now that the old dudes are dead and it's weird that they weren't mentioned... at the same time, afro terminator was pretty drat awesome! the mid air fight was pretty sweet, and since the old dudes got slaughtered so fast afro terminator made up about half the fight time in the episode, so it's not like i can say i didn't enjoy it. i dunno. so far this series seems like "totally kickass first episode, every other episode is a different flavor of mild disappointment in comparison." i'm hoping it picks back up for the either penultimate/ultimate episode.
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AnoHito posted:
not to discourage you (altho you seem to be doing a good enough job of that already) but if nothing clicks with you after the first two episodes five episodes probably wont make you want to finish it. its got a masterful control of tone and mood but if youre looking for anything to resolve itself on any narrative level you wont enjoy it. imo it works best as an anime counterpart to videodrome except with the internet as its metaphor instead of cable television...
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I haven't been able to watch Shirobako because I had stuff unexpectedly come up on Sunday. I will definitely watch this weekend.
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Senerio posted:I haven't been able to watch Shirobako because I had stuff unexpectedly come up on Sunday. I will definitely watch this weekend. I hope you've blocked out your weekend because it's going to make you want to watch all of it in one go. 
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Gurren Lagann episodes 1 & 2 I can see now why some people have said that Gurren Lagann's animation style has some similarities to Kill la Kill's. They both seem fluid and a bit twinkly and ka-bamm. It's a good style. The voice acting is good too. Simon's an okay character so far, pretty quiet and meek, but presumably he's going to get a ton of character development over time. I like that a big part of the interaction between him and Kamina is Kamina encouraging him. Kamina is indeed very cool and manly and has great sunglasses, but what osmosis had not lead me to pick up on prior to watching was that he's also an annoying idiot type. But I like him and the end of ep 2 was quite touching. Yoko is my favourite character so far because she made a cool entrance and gets to shoot things with big guns, and she seems like a nice person. The fanservice of her would be more irritating if it wasn't that lots of the male cast is running around without shirts anyway. Going by these two eps the series is fairly fun and entertaining with a big reliance on action. Not bad at all. I'm not totally hooked on it yet but I expect for eps 3-5 to deliver.
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Macross Plus ep 1: it's really cool so far. It looks great, with dynamic action scenes and cool robots that really show off the best of traditional 2d animation. The director really knows how to create tension. The box-Miku went from weird to creepy as gently caress with a simple sounds drop, a bunch of camera flashes, and good perspective and framing. Windmills cutting the tension of the hill scene was nifty, too. The characters are archetypal, but fun. Menacing rival guy is the most interesting so far. I'm definitely watching this whole thing tonight, so stay tuned!
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Macros Plus is one of my favourite shows ever. If it seems well directed that's because it's by Shinichiro Watanabe who would go on to direct Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, amongst other things.
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Sakurazuka posted:Macros Plus is one of my favourite shows ever. If it seems well directed that's because it's by Shinichiro Watanabe who would go on to direct Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, amongst other things. Oh poo poo! Watanabe does explain it. Episode 2: still real good! I loved the concert, the test flight montage, and the plane fight at the end. The slower parts were, well, slower, but still good, though more time is spent than I think necessary in such a short show showing that Myung is not in fact over her past. My favorite bit was when Mr. Hotshot was flying his hand. Rival zentraedi guy is still my favorite to watch. Despite the first episode having two of the three essential ingredients of Macross (+jet fighters transforming into robots, +missile trails, -singing at/for aliens), it wasn't until this episode that the show felt like a Macross show. It might be as simple as it name-dropping zentraedi and singing the pilot love song, but I think I give the credit as much to the wicked cool concert and the weird AI stuff. Onwards! e: nuts, I dawdled too much and am now tired. New plan: finish tomorrow! Yes_Cantaloupe fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Afro Samurai is so good.KillerQueen posted:Afro Samurai is not a huge time investment and would be very worth it. This is hard because I have really great things to say about most of your list, but I will have you watch Higurashi because five episodes is exactly enough to have you wanting to know what the gently caress is going on. My list - 1. Cowboy Bebop 2. Ghost in the Shell SAC 3. Kill la Kill 4. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 5. FLCL
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Five episodes into Symphogear. This is an enjoyably trashy show, of the sort of typically don't watch much of these days. The plot seems to be a patchwork of cliches, but I guess it accepts that? The plot at least moves at a decent pace, and it *is* fun. And the characters are engaging and also lesbians. The visual design is sometimes very good. I'm not sure if I have much more to say about it. Knowing how these shows tend to go, I can probably predict what will happen in the remainder. Oh well, I'll probably finish season 1 at least. Fangz fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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OK so I watched the first episode of Flag oh jeez Flag has a non-traditional presentation. It's not found footage, or a fake documentary. It's done in a combination of still photographs(drawings of course, actually but they're photographs within the show), film from various sources, the menu of a digital camera, the view through a camera lens, the view through a movie camera lens, the view of a webcam, and a laptop screen, all overlaid with a voiceover. So you've got things that are actual artifacts in this world, photographs and film and stuff, and that's mixed in with stuff like people's views through cameras. The webcam view was the weirdest part, because the webcam wasn't actually on, there was no reason for it to be on, the woman was just watching footage on her laptop, she wasn't communicating with anyone. She did take a couple personal notes, but she took those by typing them out. It flipped back and forth between the footage she was watching, and the webcam's view of her face, but for dramatic purposes as her reaction got more intense the view of her got cropped and Dutch angled, and I don't understand the rules of it at all. It's not like this is a bunch of existing footage that's been edited together, it's not like the webcam was sentient and focusing in on her. That's the only part of the episode that had those, I dunno, directorial(?) choices. There's another thing, when it's the view of someone through a camera lens, the animation is just gorgeous. Characters move incredibly fluidly and with a ton of character, it's like an old traditionally drawn Disney movie. It's just the view through a camera lens that's like that, the in-universe footage is totally regular anime looking. I get that it's a thing they're going for, being able to see truth or reality or beauty or whatever through the camera lens, but it just makes the rest of the episode harder to enjoy. Like, maybe I'm just being weird and autistic about this, but I don't understand the rules of what I'm watching, and it's really unpleasant for me. If it weren't for the rules of this thread there's no way I'd watch another episode.
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Finished Symphogear! Quite a ride.The Shortest Path posted:Afro Samurai is so good. Go for FLCL, I think. New list... 1. Giant Robo 2. Wandering Son 3. Tatami Galaxy 4. Serei no Moribito 5. Michiko & Hatchin Fangz fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Sep 5, 2015 |
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I've been sitting on my thoughts about NieA_7 for a while, so it's time to post. Reading about the show gave me the expectation of a sorta in-depth exploration of themes like discrimination, which was unfortunately absent in the first five episodes. The show does make up for that slow start with a growing cast of likable and humorous characters, a very 90's anime sense of humor (the faces are great), and an impressive balance between comedy and harsh realities present in the life of a poor student in a poor neighborhood. The groundedness of the setting is really fun, eschewing most of the weirdness you might expect with aliens as a plot point. The aliens shown so far are almost entirely humanoid (barring antennae) and most seem to have wholly embraced some Earth culture and used it to inform their presentation (China, India, Hawaii, etc), which definitely should tie into whatever discrimination themes pop up later. I don't quite get the "why" of the relationship between NieA and Mayuko yet, but that's a story that likely comes up later, and I'm looking forward to it.
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Fangz posted:New list... I must spread the word, the good word of Giant Robo. Just have to note, it's a 3 episode requirement instead of 5. Updated list: 1. The Girl Who Leapt Through Space 3. K 5. Hellsing Ultimate 6. Noein 7. Shiki
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I'm gonna try to get back to Gatchaman this weekend. The show just hasn't grabbed me enough to where watching it is a priority in my mind.
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Guys, Macross Plus is really good. Episode 3: The same things that were good in the first two episodes, are still good. They really nailed the character interactions this episode, which is good, because that was most of it. I have difficulty hosting good ends for most of our friends. I'm rooting for the blond science lady. I think some gifs of this were posted in the gif thread, but that thing is hell to wade through. If someone could point me to them, that'd be great, because I'm certain I want to make more but don't want to duplicate effort. Finishing this tonight!
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:Guys, Macross Plus is really good. Looked over the gif thread but couldn't find any obvious ones. If there are any, then it'll be some incidental ones that make sense with context.
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maybeflan posted:Looked over the gif thread but couldn't find any obvious ones. If there are any, then it'll be some incidental ones that make sense with context. Bah. Thanks for looking, friend. I'll have to make them all, then. Episode 4 wasn't as good as the previous ones, but it was still quite good. It still looked great and was well-shot (though budget-saving shots stood out to me more this ep), but the writing didn't hold up its end of the bargain as well. I did really like Isamu and Guld's hurling of accusations that made it very plain that they were just somewhat estranged friends. We had a dramatic shirt-tearing, in-flight hacking, and a hypnosis-inducing future rave that lasted just about the whole episode, so yeah, it was good. I liked how each of our friends had their own facet of the AI vs. humanity struggle, but I didn't care for how little that theme interacted with their personal stories. The future/AI/Macross stuff could have been excised, and we would have been left with a perfectly serviceable anime Top Gun. There's nothing wrong with that, but I'd have preferred the sci-fi parts to take a more central role somehow. I'd also have liked a minute or two of epilogue, though I suppose it's not really necessary. I seem down on this episode, but a lot of that is because the good things from previous episodes still apply and I don't have anything new or interesting to say about them. Overall, Yes_Cantaloupe posted:Guys, Macross Plus is really good.
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dogsicle posted:I must spread the word, the good word of Giant Robo. Just have to note, it's a 3 episode requirement instead of 5. Someone pick a thing from my expanded list! Several of these I've seen an episode or two of (and the one the entirety of), but it's been long enough that I'd start from the beginning. 
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Paranoia Agent is incredibly tense, cynical, and hilarious.
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Phobophilia posted:Paranoia Agent is incredibly tense, cynical, and hilarious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
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