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i watched Tetsujin 28-gou (2004), the number 1 anime with a cast that consists at least 60% of war criminals. the main character is shotaro, the origin of the term shotacon, who is a bougie lil wimp who has a special car that he can drive. more importantly, he also has a father that developed tetsujin, the giant robot. together with tetsujin he gets into various adventures, and despite its 'kiddy' artstyle (i like it) people tend to die horribly in them! the part that i loved the most about this show, are the op and the ed. those are wonderful. hold my hand tetsujin! https://files.catbox.moe/mf6mhg.webm other than that, there's some great characters in it like miss secretary, whose name i forgot and is not listed on myanimelist for mysterious reasons. i rather enjoyed seeing what crazy professors every episode would come up with as well, and seeing the various exploits of the black kkk. there were also parts i liked less. the show has a real penchant for constantly recapping things that have happened and also often over explains stuff which gets a little bit tiring. in some ways the plot was a bit childish as well, but mostly i liked it. some of the episodes in the middle were also rather silly with how much they are disconnected from the rest of the show and there's a fair amount of animation errors. the show also gets a bit dodgy politically with all the war criming, but i don't care about that gave it a 7
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Davincie posted:i watched Tetsujin 28-gou (2004), the number 1 anime with a cast that consists at least 60% of war criminals. Gundam would like to officially declare those "rookie numbers".
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I've kept on chooglin' sorta 1. Witchblade (Eela) 2. 3. 4. My Bride is a Mermaid (Davincie) 5. Casshern Sins (Gorf) 6. Mononoke (Endorph) 7. 8. Denno Coil (Sinky) 9. Mahoujin Guruguru (Anohito) 10. Silver Spoon: I watched the first season of this, it was alright. I started to get pretty into it towards the end and will probably watch the second season at some point. Really shouldn't have named that pig. Horse girl should have been crazier. etc. I'm halfway through Denno Coil and I'm sorta mixed on it. Some of the episodes are really good and some are sorta meh to me and I have trouble paying attention. I'll stick with it though.
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May 10, 2019 18:39
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Ibblebibble posted:Time to challenge myself. In order of personal importance: AssClass finished. Took me ages, but I really liked the ride. Also nice to have a definitive end to a series for once. I also took the time to watch Turning Girls for my Trigger spree. Next, probably finish off Ninja Slayer, then work on Rakugo.
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May 18, 2019 12:59
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watched afro samurai, as recced by erg found it kinda dull tbh. the story was very simple and hard to care about and a lot of the voice acting was so wooden it makes me wonder how anyone can stand dubs. samuel jackson put in good effort of course, even if ninja ninja was pretty annoying, but there was some awful acting from the rest of the cast afro also spends most of the series fighting various monsters, which feels like a bit of a waste. can't really do the gorey samurai tribute if you are fighting a robot. its also a bit uglier than i expected. gonzo doesn't really have the best reputation, but i'd expect better from an ova 5
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May 25, 2019 01:43
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littleorv posted:I've kept on chooglin' sorta I was thinking who tf is this weirdass av that I gave a toxx too. Love and behold it's little orv
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GorfZaplen posted:I was thinking who tf is this weirdass av that I gave a toxx too. Love and behold it's little orv 
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May 25, 2019 23:55
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Ibblebibble posted:Time to challenge myself. In order of personal importance: Ninja Slayer finished, and what a loving wild ride that second half was. That was an incredibly stupid-in-a-good-way finale. Time to work on Rakugo.
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Ibblebibble posted:Ninja Slayer finished, and what a loving wild ride that second half was. That was an incredibly stupid-in-a-good-way finale.
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Wark's Toxx, Part 04, or the Sequel to the Chaika funtimes prequel: Free! Iwatobi Swim Club / Free! Eternal Summer / Free! Dive to the Future Immediate thoughts after realizing I chose to watch this after Chaika: "Ugh. I shoulda listened to Bees! Well, let's check out the sexy af boys swimming show and see what I can vaguely remember from like 6 years ago, then". Immediate thoughts after getting to know these beautiful chucklefucks a bit better: "gently caress. No, don't get invested. Don't get invested. Don't--!"  God.  Dammit.  KyoAni!  I vaguely remembered before watching the show that there was some drama/friction, but what I wasn't prepared for was that the show proceeded to kick me in the feelings' groin repeatedly and without warning. I actually felt like dropping the show because, summed to a real life stuff that happened to me during the time I started watching it, it made the show really painful to watch at points. Ultimately, I liked the show, even if season 2 and season 3 pulled the same tricks on me/some of the same beats and I fell for it hook, line and sinker. I sure coulda used more of these three beautiful siblings, because goddamn, look at them: how could you not love these three beautiful, boisterous muscle-heads?  
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And to update this:
163 episodes left. Maybe this time I'll actually listen to Bees' advice and watch BBB next?
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Jun 30, 2019 16:30
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BBB is very good. So is Rakugo.
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Namtab posted:So the VN resolution went badly because I kinda bounce off Visual Novels nowadays. Heres where im at This year i have watched: Kara no kyoukai, K-on!!, Castle town dandelion, Isekai Quartet, Hitoribocchi, Kaguya-sama, Spec ops asuka. (Thats 7, of which 4 have aired this year, 1 is a short) I havent touched fate stay night, of which i have 80% of UBW and all of HF to do. A little slower than i planned, i need to identify some shows to finish in july, because ideally i should have finished about 10 more things now
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I finished Real Drive, an anime by Masamune Shirow of GiTS, Black Magic M-66 and Appleseed fame. You know who he is. The strength of this show is just in showing the characters live their lives in a fairly believable future world where everyone is connected to the internet all the time, with the majority of the population being connected through a VR space. It also has a tropical island setting which is unique for cyberpunk. My favorite episodes were the one where people sell their dreams to a company for processing power but it turns them into creepy digital ghosts, the one where our protagonist tries to find the ending of a book for a book report for a book that wasn't digitized, and one that explores the ethics of how to treat people with a disability in a future where you can conceivably fix any disability. well those are the standouts but all the middle episodes where it just explores life in the future are good. This is the majority of the show. Te episodes where it tries to have a plot about nanomachines and the "biorhythm of the earth" I just couldn't pay attention to because it was a conflict not rooted in any send of reality. The show looks consistently amazing. It's a very pretty show with nice backgrounds, character designs and animation. I also like that the characters have realistic body types, so there are chubby girls and burly but not buff men and stuff like that. One of the main characters is a disabled elderly man although the plot fixes this which was disappointing. It would be hard for me to suggest this show because honestly the first arc and the last arc are really boring. If you want a well executed and original cyberpunk show go for it I suppose. BUt I came away feeling rather meh about the whole thing.
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i recommend it but i don't recommend finishing a slow before someone and then procrastinating a write-up about it so long that they end up finishing it and their write-up first
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ALl I've got left is at least a season of these shows: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Sound! Euphonium Land of the Lustrous I'm kind of burning out on anime and honestly have no real interest in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. So we'll see if I get to it anytime soon. I actually want to watch Sound! Euphonium and Land of the Lustrous so those will probably go smoother. But for now I want to finish up my non-toxx shows of Bryger and Hakugei.
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Jul 1, 2019 03:49
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szs is fun but it's pretty repetitive and the only episode from the later seasons i really remember is the one where they play around with a bunch of different animation styles
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Jul 1, 2019 04:06
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I'd really only recommend the first season of SZS
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Jul 1, 2019 13:36
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We mostly don't want you to be left in despair.
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I feel like Kumeta Kouji usually gets a really good premise, but then runs it into the ground a bit. I remember having similar issues with Katte ni Kaizou, and I'm sure Joshiraku eventually drags on too.
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Once all the characters are introduced the manga hits a holding pattern of an issue being raised and someone taking it to an extreme which repeats for about 200 chapters then the last 10 build an ending
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So, still got End of Evangelion to watch, but as of today, I have seen Neon Genesis Evangelion, and thus have technically finished my duties for this thread. After decades, there probably isn't much for me to say that hasn't been said, but one thing that interested me in the last act is how intrusive the negative elements were, for lack of a better phrase. (And yeah, I know the meta reasoning, but I'm setting that aside for a moment.) From the beginning, Eva had dark elements and the implication, even the promise, of things going wrong. Gendo falls between Tem Ray and Franklin Biden on the father of the year scale, evil conspiracies were behind everything, you get the drift. But the last few episodes portray the angels as less the physical enemies they started as, and more violations. Not just of the characters, although that's obvious enough, but of the narrative. The rules of the stories and the visuals are casually tossed aside as all of the cast's weaknesses go from notable to crippling. Asuka is ripped open, Rei dies, and Shinji opens up to someone faster than ever before just before having to kill the guy with his bare hands. The previews turn from the usual vague suggestions to outright explanations over rough storyboards before abandoning connection to the actual episodes in favor of showing earlier abandoned plans. And then you get the Instrumentality. I mean, this isn't something entirely new to me. I've seen Lain. But (again, for reasons that are obvious with the context) this feels like an especially direct case. The center cannot hold. Interesting show. I can see why it took so long for Anno to feel up to going back to it.
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Watched about 30 episodes of Gundam turn A. Getting pretty into it. Tis good
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:OK!!! I'm pretty satisfied with how my anime life is going, so I'm just gonna keep on truckin'. I'm keeping pace douj-wise (no Sarah, sadly, but otherwise I'm on schedule + doing a few other releases), and I'm maybe halfway (?) through Atelier Escha & Logy. Hopefully I can fit in BotW before school starts up again... Yes_Cantaloupe posted:I'll add a non-scanlation resolution: I will watch Vifam. This, I still need to start. It'll happen.
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My schedule is not holding up the way it used to last year (full-time employment yay), so I'm unfortunately going to have to drop March Comes in Like A Lion and NagiAsu from my toxx. I definitely don't have time for 6 cours worth of anime for the rest of the year considering my current pace. I'll definitely finish Rakugo and might as well polish off Inou Battle, at least.
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I finished Houseki no Kuni. Really pretty anime, funny too. Some of the best visuals I've seen this year. Pacing is whack though and it just sort of ends. My favorite part was the Antarc stuff. I'll probably have more to say about it after giving it a think.
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Aug 18, 2019 05:37
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Unfortunately the anime only scratched the surface. The story really starts to get wild where it left off.
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Strange Quark posted:I'm just picking the first thing that people suggest to me that I haven't seen, and hell, I'm taking all the 50 ep shows because I ain't no coward. Update: I've seen 20 eps of Turn A Gundam and am still not really feeling it, so I guess I'm a coward and swapping it out for IBO.
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im not 1ccing ketsui this year its been good fellas (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Strange Quark posted:Update: I've seen 20 eps of Turn A Gundam and am still not really feeling it, so I guess I'm a coward and swapping it out for IBO. I'm interested in seeing what you think there. IBO and Turn A are pretty far apart despite both being Gundam shows. I think they're both very good at what they tried to do, with Turn A being more meditative and pastoral, while IBO's more about emotionally damaged mercenary child soldiers. (Admittedly, the range of hosed up is pretty wide, from Takaki's "I'm paying my sister's way through school!" to Mikazuki's... being Mikazuki.), but what they try to do is different enough that the same people won't necessarily like both.
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Droyer posted:Next year I'll finish watching all the Brave shows, and the GGG sequel novel as far as it's translated. Toxx complete! 400 and change episodes of anime and one novel in about 16 months woo! Proof in the general mecha thread if anyone needs it.
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Bees has asked if they can change their toxx to watching an equivalent amount of gundam instead of monogatari. I have no authority over the toxxes, and heck i cannot enforce them, so naturally i have approved this change. Good lucj in the final third of the year
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Namtab posted:Bees has asked if they can change their toxx to watching an equivalent amount of gundam instead of monogatari.
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Remember that the mindless consumption of japanese media is the only thing between you and possibly being destroyed by moderation, and we all regret our hasty bets that seemed so achievable back in january, oh god im going to have to buy lowtax another vertebrae, oh man.
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Mine has been surprisingly easy, though it has come at the expense of watching currently airing stuff... Also, due to a loophole in my toxx, I can just knock out a cour of a short anime in like an hour and be good for the week.
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AnoHito posted:Mine has been surprisingly easy, though it has come at the expense of watching currently airing stuff... Technically true, although very much the cowards option
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I still haven't watched YOI but that tiny scrap of movie news has kinda got me in the mood for it. I want to finish the last 6 eps of Run with the Wind before I start it though.
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toxx progress: ・doujs: I sadly wasn't able to find a good Sarah douj, but the terms of my toxx allowed me to skip it, if I found good doujs of at least two of the other three harder-to-find-good-doujs-of idols, oh whom only Umimi escaped me. So: on-track, with only two in december still to go, which I don't anticipate issues with, and I've been doing plenty of other releases besides. ・video games: I'm most of the way (I think) through Atelier Escha & Logy, but I haven't gotten back to BotW. Behind on this for sure... ・anime: Vifam! I'm about a third of the way through it, making good progress, and enjoying it a lot. So: should be fine, but there might have to be a lot of zelda-playing during winter break.
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i finished the second to last anime on my toxx list, mawaru penguindrum. i was looking forward to watching it, but ended up not really enjoying it. don't really have much of interest to say, gave it a 6
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I finished Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Solid comedy, the jokes tended to drag on a bit though. Good looking show. I can see how it'd be easy to watch a bunch of episodes of this but I don't know if I have it in me to watch the rest just yet.
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