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What show are you referring to, for those of us who don't know every anime character on sight?
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Dec 30, 2015 01:58
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What's the consensus on BBK/BRNK? I've been watching it and enjoying it so far. I like how the Oubu(sp?) looks, it sorta reminds me of Syd Mead's designs for the Turn A Gundam and Turn X, especially in the head.
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Feb 15, 2016 20:23
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It's pretty legit. Very super robot, though. It's basically "what if Giant Robo was five teens" but it turns out Giant Robo is the Turn X.
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Feb 16, 2016 03:39
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BBK/BRNK is quickly becoming the show I look forward to the most every week. That being said, if I never saw another girl who worships her elder brother in a "no it's totally not sexual" way again I think it'd be too soon.
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Mar 1, 2016 01:43
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Like that's ever stopped anyone before. At least they're not the brother and sister kid prodigies from GunxSword.
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Mar 1, 2016 01:54
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It was mostly because the first time they summoned Oubu, all the kids were on the outside of the suit, GR style. but yeah, that comparison's sort of fallen apart. I don't know any more about the show than anyone else, I just think it's pretty great.
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Mar 1, 2016 16:17
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Has anyone seen Fafnir? Is it any good? I know it's got those ultra divisive Seed/sCRYed character designs but I figured if it's got two sequel series it might be worth at least a look.
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May 21, 2016 14:42
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Nobody mentioned it so I guess I should: BBK/BRNK is back for season 2 and it's pretty good already. Well, except for one character.
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Oct 13, 2016 17:33
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I might be alone in feeling this way but I pushed through both Gun and Diebuster recently and found them both kinda lacking. I feel weird feeling that way knowing how influential Gunbuster was on the whole mecha genre, but I had a lot of problems reconciling the ways the characters acted with the things they were actually doing, and the whole plot of space monsters attacking the Earth for the reasons they did only keeps together if you held your breath. I know that Diebuster lost me when they started making black holes into planets in the Solar System; that's just dumb. Tying the endings together was pretty darn cool, though.
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Oct 25, 2016 19:54
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Schwarzwald posted:So I guess this is a thing. Those all look like roughly the same robot. Why is everyone so drat red?
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Apr 5, 2017 15:37
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I was pleasantly surprised how good Kuromukuro turned out to be. I hope it gets a follow up.
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Apr 7, 2017 16:29
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I just finished Majestic Prince last night and I really enjoyed it, but I could seriously do without the whole "guess the genitals" plot for Ange. I'm glad it didn't last long, but I'd really hope that by 2110 the students of an elite military school could have some goddamn decorum. I'm just sort of making my way through Crunchyroll's "mecha" category right now. I feel like they haven't updated the genre listings in years, though; there's like thirty shows in it and I know for a fact that like half their Gundam series aren't on the list.
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May 25, 2017 01:33
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25 was, but the movie wasn't. Is there anywhere I can stream it legally?
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May 25, 2017 01:49
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dogsicle posted:If you want to find something your best bet is to just go to the page that shows all of their current catalog in an alphabetical list. This is both true and the dirt worst. I mostly watch stuff on Android TV and if you add a show to your queue it has to reload the entire alphabetical list. Weirdly, if you just back out, it's fine and you can pick up scrolling where you left off. I was going to watch Linebarrels of Iron next but I did an episode of that and I don't think I'll be going back unless someone can convince me it gets way better. I think I'm gonna watch Gasaraki next, because being moderately confused really beats hating everything that's going on.
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May 26, 2017 02:42
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Pureauthor posted:I think to fully enjoy Dai-Guard you have to accept that past a point it's really becomes a show more about dealing with the red tape surrounding the proper use of a privately owned giant robot than it is about using a giant robot to kill monsters. That sounds loving radical, to be honest. Does it stream anywhere?
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May 26, 2017 17:32
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Dai-Guard. It's really good. Way lighter tone, but it has a very "what if NERV had to actually deal with bureaucracy" kinda vibe to it.
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Jun 15, 2017 13:42
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IBO is cool and good and it's nice to see a Gundam show not be explicitly about beam spam or the same "psychics awaken and change everything through space love" plot. It's not for everybody but folks should give it the ol' three episode try before dismissing it. The English dub changes some of the name pronunciation pretty dramatically but is otherwise fine. Knight's & Dragons, however, is a big dumb trainwreck of a show. The framing device used is super flimsy and the show might be better without it and it spends waaaaaaaaay too much time showing us how much better a mecha otaku would be than guys who've spent their whole lives building mecha. If it were just a show about a mecha arms race in a fantasy setting, I think it would be better. Ernie and the siblings are also mostly unlikeable characters. I'mma keep watching it though because it doesn't look like there's a lot of mecha anime happening this season at all, and it's not aggressively bad the way Argevollen was.
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Aug 15, 2017 01:29
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So are there any mecha series on streaming services this season besides Gundam spin-offs and Knight's & Magic?
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Aug 20, 2017 23:11
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Darth Walrus posted:What I watched of ID-0 was pretty fun, if you can get past the full CG. I'll look into that one, thanks. Netflix's browsing interface is a slog so I must have missed it.
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Aug 22, 2017 14:59
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What's the best way to get familiar with Mazinger? I feel like it's something I should see but I feel like there's an imposingly large number of adaptations of it.
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Feb 11, 2018 23:50
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Is Shin the one up on Crunchyroll? I remember watching about two thirds of the first episode and being absolutely lost.
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Feb 12, 2018 00:33
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Schwarzwald posted:The first episode is basically a 30 minute long trailer that forecasts events that don't end up happening. Skip it. I sorta believe that from what I saw. Thanks, everybody, I'll give it another shot.
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Feb 12, 2018 00:48
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I think that's further into Argevollen than I got. I got really excited for the chunky mech designs and then the main suit looks like a rejected Kamen Rider spinoff design. Nobody has any charisma either, and I really wasn't given much of a reason to care about the conflict either.
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Mar 6, 2018 00:59
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Relin posted:is l-gaim any good? i want it to be good I've been really enjoying it. It's pretty mild Tomino, I think I'm like 22 episodes in and the only person who bought it died pretty much at the start of the whole thing. The entire first arc is the hero trying to return a guy's ATM card, if that's any indication. You can also see a lot of proto-Zeta in the mecha designs, which is cool as hell, and the first opening song is honestly one of my favorites.
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Mar 11, 2018 16:32
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Schwarzwald posted:There's actually an English version of the OP and it's actually rad as hell. What's better is that MIQ did both versions and apparently is fluently bilingual. She also did the themes for Dunbine, but that doesn't have a vocoder going HEAVY METAL in it. Edit: I watched all of ID-0 in two nights based on how much I'd enjoyed BBK/BRNK and that sure is a mecha anime. It's not bad in any outstanding way but it was kinda generic. The designs and the mecha control system were pretty neat but it still feels like the CG for the characters and the CG for the mecha were done by two different teams that shot for two different framerates when they were rendering. Also one of the most drastic differences in quality between the OP and ED tracks as well. OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzfVwKcDduA ED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LthTqwR4U9o Like what the gently caress are those vocals, seriously? The Muffinlord fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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Mar 11, 2018 22:02
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I'm gonna recommend Kuromukuro as well, and if you like that, maybe check out Bubuki/Buranki as well. There's not much thematically linking them but I really enjoyed both shows. The second intro to BBK/BRNK is also really good, IMO.
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Mar 21, 2018 00:02
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I like when the robots fold their arms and stand there like cool dudes
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Oct 25, 2018 14:56
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GunXsword is pretty good. L-Gaim is also good: https://twitter.com/muffinlordSA/status/965070501067542528?s=19
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Feb 5, 2019 00:40
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Gen:Lock has been a consistently entertaining show so far. I wish the Holons had more visually distinct designs but I'll take what I can get, especially considering the production of that last episode. That time-lapse shot looked like it took some effort to produce, and did anyone else notice the deer when the Holons were coming out of the base? That deer had to be a line item.
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Feb 25, 2019 17:06
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So my four year old is way into reviews of robot toys, and it's forcing me to confront some really hard questions about what it means to be a parent. Specifically, why does every combining mecha need to have a drill tank? Can anyone tell me what started this obsession with a vehicle that, as far as I can tell, doesn't exist? I know there are huge tunnel drilling machines and such that would fit the bill but I've never in my life seen an actual tank with a huge screw drill on the front.
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Nov 10, 2019 21:03
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I'm kinda stuck on what show to pursue next. I spent way too long on Votoms (most of a year, I wasn't really into it) and then burned through Martian Successor Nadesico in a few weeks. Of what's on VRV, I'm waffling between Sakura Wars and Godannar. Am I going to get totally turned off on Sakura Wars if the theater troupe concept doesn't do it for me out of the gate? Is there anything to Godannar besides being uncomfortably hornt? Edit: or is there something else i should try? Before this it was Patlabor, which was a lot of fun. I think I'd like more in that vein, if it's out there.
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Dec 24, 2019 00:04
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I've seen Big O and Diebuster, but Giant Gorg has been on my list forever. Maybe it's time. Thanks for the recs, y'all.
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Dec 24, 2019 18:32
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I mean in Gundam 0083 they all act like children...
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Dec 25, 2020 23:01
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Regarding Back Arrow, what's the over/under on the Granedger being able to transform? I swear it looks like it has fists coming out the back.
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Feb 21, 2021 15:38
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It's not bad but it definitely would have benefitted from a few more episodes. They hinged a lot on that second season that's certainly not happened yet.
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Mar 18, 2021 01:18
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wielder posted:This episode of Back Arrow is finally cashing several checks (mecha-related and otherwise) that folks may have feared were going to bounce, so I'm happy. It sure did! It's still dumb as hell but it keeps being fun to watch. Just turn your brain off for the ride and you'll have fun, I think.
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