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Lemon Curdistan posted:Anime Watch List: 80s OVA Edition Go watch Starship Troopers. Kildars Animu he didn't watch but was told was good list: 1) One Piece 2) Detroit Metal City 3) Kaiji 4) Corpse Party:Tortured Souls 5) Legendary Gambler Tesuya
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KildarX posted:Go watch Starship Troopers. Detroit Metal City, maaaaan War in the Pocket was a trip. I'm completely unfamiliar with Gundam 0083 or anything else related to it, so I wasn't sure what to expect, save that it would be something very very 80's. WitP delivered on that front, alright. The story didn't grab me right away, but Alfred was just so, so into military poo poo and idolizing soldiers and mobile suits and poo poo that I knew the poo poo was gonna hit the fan sometime soon, so when It finally did, I was hooked. It leans a little hard on tragic coincidence at the end, but those last couple scenes really got to me. I think it's that last little bulletpoint of dark irony that closes the OVA that really pushed it over the edge for me. Haha, don't worry Al, there'll just be another war sometime soon! 1. Infinite Ryvius 2. Shirobako 3. Non Non Biyori 4. Beck 5. From the New World
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Oct 2, 2015 18:50
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Cross Ange episode 21. Taken completely by itself, Momoka's dath was totally badass. Stabbing someone through the chest with a sword while magically controlling a car so it rams into them from behind at the same time, throwing both herself and him off a cliff. That was great. But in the context, it's loving terrible. They have established over and over again that Embryo can't be killed. Every loving character has killed him ten goddamn times now, and then he's just instantly standing ten feet away, fine. They have shown this over and over again. So for a major character to sacrfice herself to kill him is the dumbest goddamn thing, because everybody knows that killing Embryo is pointless! It just make her look suicidal, because she knows that her sacrifice is meaningless.
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Oct 3, 2015 04:47
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Wait, it'll get dumber in a minute.
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Oct 3, 2015 05:02
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Pootybutt posted:1. Infinite Ryvius Infinite Ryvius I keep on thinking I should give sporting anime a sporting chance, so
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Oct 3, 2015 13:46
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"I love strong women. The world will be created by intelligent women" It's Joss Whedon. The bad guy in Cross Ange is Joss Whedon.
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Oct 3, 2015 13:52
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Also, I love that the episode preview was like, yeah it's bullshit that Tusk and Momoka are alive, but whatever
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Oct 3, 2015 13:59
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Rotoru posted:Infinite Ryvius Definitely Chihayafuru.
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Oct 3, 2015 14:43
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unpronounceable posted:
Watch that; it's really, really good. Shirobako 6 episode trip report: It's great, my only complaint (and it's a minor one) is that all the girls in the show are kind of generically pretty rather than running the whole gamut of physical appearances like the guys do. Definitely going to be finishing the series. My updated list:
2) Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun 4) Non Non Biyori 5) Birdy the Mighty: Decode
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Oct 3, 2015 16:03
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Cross Ange epsiode 23. It's a small thing, but I really liked that wen Momoka and the human officer from Arzenal met up again, they both were relieved to see that the other was alright. For a long time they were the only humans on Arzenal, and especially with the officer's racism, it'd make sens that a friendship of sorts would form between them offscreen. It was just a neat little bit of character development for the sake of character development, and that's my favorite thing in robot shows Also, this isn't me cherry picking a particularly bad frame here, this is just what characters in Cross Ange look like when they're more than five feet away from the camera 
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Oct 3, 2015 18:02
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I finished Cross Ange. I liked it. Aside from a few dud episodes it was pretty entertaining, the bad guy was impressively loathsome, and Ange was a great main character. They set up beforehand that Tusk wanted to open a little cafe and live there with her, and she was like, that sounds nice, but at the end, when Momoka says, what now Ange? she's like, "I'm gonna found a new nation of tough bitches, and you're all my subjects" "but what about the other world we all came from?" "I don't care, gently caress them" smash cut to Ange's spoiled little sister shooting looters in the devastated ruins of her kingdom. That was great. Also, nice censoring job there, guys 
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Oct 3, 2015 19:17
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quote:Detroit Metal City The show is really really funny the premise is really cool, the jokes are really awesome, but I really don't like the art style or the animation. I actually don't know if I'll continue watching this, might return to it later on maybe.... I give this one a 7/10. Alright what's next? 1) One Piece 3) Kaiji 4) Corpse Party:Tortured Souls 5) Legendary Gambler Tesuy a kitten posted:
Go get you some Space Dandy.
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Oct 4, 2015 01:24
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Thanks boom. just got done with mazinger ep 2 (first appears to be the last episode or something  ). I really love kouji's motivation in the first episode "i love my cool scientist grandpa cause he can tune a bike and he makes cool robots"
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Oct 4, 2015 02:52
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The first episode is just a bunch of scenes from throughout the series mashed together, its kind of weird.
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Oct 4, 2015 02:56
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boom boom boom posted:I finished Cross Ange. I liked it. Aside from a few dud episodes it was pretty entertaining, the bad guy was impressively loathsome, and Ange was a great main character. They set up beforehand that Tusk wanted to open a little cafe and live there with her, and she was like, that sounds nice, but at the end, when Momoka says, what now Ange? she's like, "I'm gonna found a new nation of tough bitches, and you're all my subjects" "but what about the other world we all came from?" "I don't care, gently caress them" smash cut to Ange's spoiled little sister shooting looters in the devastated ruins of her kingdom. That was great. Just gonna skip over the repeated mind-raping and attempted suicide episodes, huh?  boom boom boom posted:I need to watch Armitage some day, it's the only anime I know of where the dub features both Bryan Cranston and Kiefer Sutherland It's actually the worse dub of the two that exist, watch the other one. The Sutherland dub condenses five OVA episodes into 90 minutes and suffers badly for it. Watch the good OVA dub, then go watch the condensed movie.
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Oct 4, 2015 02:58
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Just gonna skip over the repeated mind-raping and attempted suicide episodes, huh? I kinda took that stuff as read
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Oct 4, 2015 03:04
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unpronounceable posted:Definitely Chihayafuru. Spice and Wolf. Take ECON 101. 1. Dragonball Super 2. Himouto Umaru-chan 3. The Disappearance of Yuki-chan Nagato 4. Kill la Kill (This has been 'next up' since it came out. Each season I see stuff I want to watch more...) 6. Shimoneta
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Oct 4, 2015 03:18
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Senerio posted:Spice and Wolf. Take ECON 101.  Code Geass Agito of Exile Love Live Bakemonogatari Orguss 2 The Five Star Stories boom boom boom fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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Oct 4, 2015 03:20
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Senerio posted:Spice and Wolf. Take ECON 101. I'll watch Spice and Wolf next, but right not, I'm contractually obligated to watch Usagi Drop. Speaking of which, I watched the first episode, and it was really heart warming. The family situation where everyone except Daikichi was ignoring Rin hit close to home. My first cousin once removed was largely overlooked as a kid, except my my grandmother, who married into the family. Seeing that same dynamic here felt uncomfortably familiar, but Rin warming up to Daikichi was really adorable. I definitely think I'm going to enjoy this.
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Oct 4, 2015 03:54
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Oh drat, I wasn't paying attention. Senerio! You told the wrong person waht to watch! You need to tell KildarX what to watch!KildarX posted:The show is really really funny the premise is really cool, the jokes are really awesome, but I really don't like the art style or the animation. I actually don't know if I'll continue watching this, might return to it later on maybe.... I give this one a 7/10.
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Oct 4, 2015 03:57
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unpronounceable posted:I'll watch Spice and Wolf next, but right not, I'm contractually obligated to watch Usagi Drop. Oh poo poo I didn't see that sorry. I had that post up for like hours while I was debating what to add on. Kildar, you get One Piece. I rolled a d4 and it came up 1.
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Oct 4, 2015 04:11
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unpronounceable posted:I'll watch Spice and Wolf next, but right not, I'm contractually obligated to watch Usagi Drop. Just a heads up, there's always a bit more to each episode after the end credits; so don't stop watching them too early.
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Oct 4, 2015 05:57
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KildarX posted:Go get you some Space Dandy. Turns out i've seen a lot more Space Dandy than i remembered. After figuring out that i was on episode 9 "Plants Are Living Things, Too, Baby" i gave it a watch. Pretty straightforward plot-wise, but definitely visually interesting. I loved the varied designs of the plants, plant people, and architecture (more flora?). It wouldn't have surprised me at all to learn that Masaaki Yuasa was the director...but nope although it appears that he did do an upcoming one. Since i've seen so many and still got distracted from finishing it while it was airing i'm gonna go ahead and watch 5 more episodes and see how i feel about it then. It's a super fun show and i love how it looks.
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Senerio posted:Oh poo poo I didn't see that sorry. I had that post up for like hours while I was debating what to add on. So I remember watching One Piece and hating it back when it aired on Cartoon Network, this is not the same One Piece. It's actually pretty good, it has comedy and punch guy action and so far the characters I've met are pretty fun. The animation and sound is well done and the gags are pretty great although the premise is kinda similar to every other teenager adventure anime out there. Over all a 7/10 I believe I will keep watching it, how many episodes are there?...... 700 jesus.
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Oct 5, 2015 04:20
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KildarX posted:So I remember watching One Piece and hating it back when it aired on Cartoon Network, this is not the same One Piece. It's actually pretty good, and has some pretty good gags in it, the animation is pretty great, and it has a lot of punch guy action in it I give this a 7/10. I believe I will keep watching it, how many episodes are there?...... 700 jesus. it gets bad about 450 episodes in, switch to the manga at that point
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Oct 5, 2015 04:21
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for the love of god read shounen stuff like that instead of watching the billion episode adaptions, else you're going to be watching really bad filler, episodes that stretch pages of comics into minutes of animation, or both.
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Oct 5, 2015 04:24
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Early OP has its problems but it's a perfectly fine replacement for the manga up to the end of Water 7, at which point it turns into the hell of one chapter = one episode stretching things out.
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Oct 5, 2015 05:12
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I went ahaead and watched some Ai Tenchi Muyo since it's on Youtube and goddamn, it's just poo poo. striking that off my list
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Oct 5, 2015 15:34
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boom boom boom posted:I went ahaead and watched some Ai Tenchi Muyo since it's on Youtube and goddamn, it's just poo poo. striking that off my list What were you expecting, exactly?
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Oct 5, 2015 15:44
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GorfZaplen posted:What were you expecting, exactly? Some classic Tenchi comedy with the characters I like. Plus the character designs were really good, so I thought there'd be some talent involved in the production
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Oct 5, 2015 15:45
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Nope, just a nothing series paid for to advertise a nowhere town.
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Oct 5, 2015 15:48
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I'm two episodes into Starship Troopers and it's good so far. It's by far the most faithful adaptation and the design for the MI's powered armour is really cool. The animation quality is also really good, as expected for a late 80s Sunrise show.
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Oct 5, 2015 23:25
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OH god, Mew's trip home (Space Dandy 10) is bumming me out! e: oh no! His old crush
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Oct 6, 2015 03:42
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Space Dandy is a very silly show.
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unpronounceable posted:Definitely Chihayafuru. Poetry is hardcore. I really didn't like the first few episodes. I think I would have preferred it if the first episode either started with the flashback or the flashback were spread across the series as the events became relevant. Even some introspective commentary or something to make it seem more flashbacky would have done wonders. As it is Chihayafuru failed the three episode test for me by hinting at so much during the first half of the first episode and then ignoring everything for the next two and a half. Then episode four and five made me realise that I was being offended by an anime dropping plots for a few episodes because everything else was so good it actually sticks out instead of just being a thing that anime does. It feels so much like the early parts of Your Lie In April too, which does not hurt at all. This is definitely something I'll be watching the rest of. boom boom boom posted:Code Geass Agito of Exile Does Love Live have anything to do with the porn industry, because with a name like that... That means I need a list too right? Interesting sounding stuff from page one to the rescue!
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boom boom boom posted:"I love strong women. The world will be created by intelligent women" The bad guy in Cross Ange is pretty much the writers making GBS threads on otaku. His deal with Ange personally is her being his seasonal waifu, even. It's kinda funny, with the kind of show Cross Ange is. Reds fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Oct 6, 2015 07:36
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Well episode 4 of Boogiepop Phantom was certainly a thing  . A nerdy teenage shut-in gets given an aromatic drug to give him confidence. And it turns into reality blurring between his obsession with the digital waifu on his PC and a new girl working as a waitress for the restaurant he cooks at. It's a fascinatingly unwholesome watch the whole way through, especially because half the time they distort his voice just for the extra layer of creepy  .
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Rotoru posted:
Since I didn't give a recommendation last time, i didn't get one for my list, but that's okay because I've been watching them all anyway. Well the first episode of them. My Love Story - So it's weird because this is obviously highly recommended by a lot of people but I wasn't quite feeling this one yet. Maybe it's because it's trying to do shojo from the male POV, or just that the characters aren't very developed yet. I'm gonna keep watching more though. Death Parade - What I like about Death Parade is that it almost feels like a procedural, where a mystery is slowly unraveled right until the end. I dunno if the amnesiac device is going to be used in every episode to the same effect, but I'm super interested in this. Parasyte - A little on the fence with this because I dig sort of the odd body horror and the conflict between the protagonist and his new hand friend, but I also heard that it starts to lose its grip in the second half, so I'm tentatively on board for now. Rideback - I think I'm more into this than I thought I would be, since mecha is not usually my thing, but I would like to see just what sort of show this ultimately is, because the first episode did not give a whole lot away, just essentially a chase sequence. Shirobako - As an animator, it's interesting to see a dramatized but realistic portrayal of the industry from another sector, although I never had to deal with the sorts of crazy struggles that a Japanese studio has, having deadlines that I think would kill american animators dead into the ground buried dead murdered. Then I saw that chart of the salaried positions on Shirobako and that felt even worse. Snow White with the Red Hair - Hey whoa, a princess story with some agency, I dig it. She is vaguely saved at the end of the first episode but only because she didn't know about Zen's immunity. Otherwise I thought it was refreshing. On board for this train. Yona of the Dawn - This is sort of the other side of the princess story railroad tracks. It does seem like Yona is going to take charge of her life later on, but in the first episode it's just a flashback and she is just sort of at the mercy of the storytellers and also depicted as a little too stereotypical of a shojo protag. Tentatively on board. Terror in Resonance - Hmmmmm... I think I can get into this if it's equal parts detective and equal parts terrorist. I'm not sure yet. There's not enough to go on so far. Barakamon - CUTE AS gently caress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you wanna say "watch 5 episodes of that!" to any of the ones I mentioned above, go for it. I'm also gonna try out Bodacious Space Pirates, GunXSword, Rolling Girls, Another, and Mushishi. I already know Mushishi is pretty dope from how everyone hypes it up.
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I watched the first two episodes of Love Live, and it's suprrisingly good. I wasn't really expecting much from an anime that's just one wing of a massive waifu marketing machine, but it was really solidly made. Lots of good energy, the episodes have a good, fast pace, the characters are characterful, except that one chick who's the dean's daughter, she's pretty bland. Nowhere near enough Rin though. Like, that's a serious goddamn problem, how little Rin this show has
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i watched episode 2 of Arakawa. i think all of the homeless people that live under the bridge with this guy are aliens? except for maybe the man with an uzi who is a nun that runs runs the homeless mass??? the show is really weird in a goofy way, it's extremely up my alley. it was really good when they drew the dude's tie as a boner when he saw the alien lady taking a barrel bath. i'm definitely gonna keep watching.
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