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What is anime?
Anime is animated entertainment produced primarily for the Japanese market. Don't give me some pedantic bull about anime being a transliteration of the French for animation thus we can discuss the new Spider-Man cartoon in this thread. Stick to Japanese stuff, even if technically it's all animated in Korea.
Is this the manga thread?
Yes, manga (Japanese comics) are also a main topic for the thread.
What else can we talk about?
Closely related subjects such as: novels, visual novels, art books, figurines and other knick-knacks, games, and live-action adaptations of anime or manga. There's a thread for "
foreign films," so discuss the new Takashi Miike movie over there, unless it's adapted from an anime or something.
One Piece was so popular, it got a spin-off thread. All OP discussion should be directed there. Yo ho ho.
What is not ok to discuss?
Piracy, links to download sites (legal sites excepted, of course), drama, old worn-out bullshit from the last 100 threads, hentai (porn).
This is not the "LOLJAPAN" thread, don't come in here to dump every news article you come across detailing some perverse new form of craziness to come out of Japan. Every country is fucked up, Japan is just fucked in a very special way.
Old memes/bullshit: These topics have been done to death, they do not need to be discussed any further:
1) School Days
2) Western comics vs Manga
3) Whether or not Evangelion (original TV series) sucks. The new films, being new, are fair game.
Don't get offended when someone doesn't like your favorite show, or when someone does like a terrible show. Don't gang up on someone who has an unpopular opinion. That's the kind of crap that gets threads shut down.
Hi, I'm ElJeffe! You might know me from such mod actions as cleaning up gold-farming spam and jailing the fuck out of people. Today I'm here to talk to you about your new anime thread.
This is to be your new home for the next 100 or so pages. Here, you may discuss anime and things related to anime and whatever the fuck else people who are into anime do. Of course, hentai is beyond the scope of this thread, and anyway, what the fuck is wrong with the people who dig that shit, I mean seriously?
What you will not engage in here is retarded drama and bitching and whining. If you want retarded drama, go watch Desperate Housewives or Wife-Swap or something. This is to be a happy thread full of happy commentary. If I have to lock it for the same stupidity that raped the last incarnation, the anime thread will not be coming back.
Also, Clawshrimpy? Yeah, stay out of here. You've lost your anime thread privileges.
This should be your face while reading the anime thread:
If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.
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Legal streaming anime:
Alright, I went through several streaming sites and came up with this list. These are shows, movies, and OVAs you can watch in their entirety, for free, right now.
AnimeNewsNetwork.com:
Angelic Layer (dub)
Aquarion (dub & sub)
Baldr Force EXE (sub)
Bastof Syndrome (dub)
Best Student Council (dub)
Captain Harlock (sub)
Chance Pop Sessions (dub)
Code Geass R1 (dub & sub)
Cosmos Warrior Zero (dub)
Dear Boys/Hoop Days (sub)
Death Note (sub)
Fairy Musketeers/Otogi-Jushi (sub)
Fullmetal Panic 2nd Raid (dub)
Galaxy Express 999 (sub)
Galaxy Railways (dub)
Ghost Hunt (sub)
Girl's High (sub)
Glass Fleet (dub)
Glass Mask (sub)
Gun Frontier (dub)
Gundam 00 (dub)
Ikki Tousen (dub)
Jyu-Oh-Sei (dub & sub)
Kiddy Grade (dub)
Kite Liberator (movie, sub & dub)
Kurokami (dub)
Moonphase (sub)
Mr. Stain (dub)
Mushishi (dub)
My Beautiful Girl Mari (movie, dub)
Mysterious Cities Of Gold (dub)
Naruto (sub)
Natsu No Arashi (sub)
Natsume Yujincho (sub)
Neo Angelique Abyss + S2 (s)
Nurse Witch Komugi (dub)
Origin: Spirits Of The Past (movie, dub)
Ouran High School Host Club (dub)
Parasite Dolls (movie, sub)
Peach Girl (dub)
Ramen Fighter Miki (sub)
Ristorante Paradiso (sub)
Robotech Shadow Chronicles (movie, dub)
Saiyuki (dub)
School Rumble + 2nd Semester (dub)
Shikabane Hime (sub)
Shuffle (dub & sub)
Shugo Chara (sub)
Sin (movie, dub)
Skip Beat (sub)
Strain (sub)
Suzuka (dub)
Slayers + Slayers Next (dub)
Web Ghosts PiPoPa (sub)
xxxHolic (dub)
Joost:
Fist Of The North Star
Pretty Cure
Slam Dunk
Hulu:
Astroboy 2003
Gun Frontier
Speed Racer
Virus
Funimation:
Blassreiter (sub)
Burst Angel (dub)
Gad Guard (sub)
Gunslinger Girl 2 (sub)
Negima!? Spring & Summer (sub & dub)
Sasami (dub)
Save Me Lollipo (sub)
Tower of Druaga: Aegis Of Uruk (sub)
These are a few shows that are being kept up or still being released for streaming. There might be one in particular you guys like.
AnimeNewsNetwork.com:
Bleach (91/?, sub)
Eureka Seven (25/50, sub & dub) (New episode every day)
Kannagi (6/13, sub)
Kaasan Mom's Life (16/26, sub)
Honey And Clover (12/26, sub)
Naruto Shippuden (118/?, sub)
Saki (17/26, sub)
Funimation:
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (current, sub)
Phantom (16/26, sub)
There's more of those, I'm sure, but it's hard to say with anything that's not being aired in Japan right now. These lists will only be accurate for so long, since some episodes are released and other get taken down after a while. But it at least gives you a good idea of what's available.
I haven't tackled Crunchyroll yet, since that will be a lot of work.
Edit: A lot of these are hosted multiple places. I just happened to do ANN first. I also tried not to include anime you have to pay for, either a membership or per episode.
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This is what we've been discussing for the last several threads:
Spring '09:
Sengoku Basara: over-the-top samurai action
K-On!: girls who allegedly form a band, though you wouldn't know it most of the time
Shin Mazinger: giant robot action, from the director of G Gundam and Giant Robo
Cross Game: baseball-centric slice of life
Saki: girls play over-the-top mahjong
Eden of the East: amnesia, terrorism, conspiracies, cell phones (I'm not really sure what happened, to be honest)
Full Metal Alchemist: remake of FMA, following the manga storyline this time, mostly
Summer '09:
Spice and Wolf 2: sequel to the best show about medieval economics, ever
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: two children try to survive the aftermath of a massive earthquake
Canaan: modern-day action from the people who brought you Fate/stay and Tsukihime, features an awesome taxi driver
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni: basically an Agatha Christie novel, anime-ized
Taishou Yakyuu Musume: girls play baseball in the pre-WWII era
Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei: continuation of the popular comedy series about mentally disturbed people
Bakemonogatari: boy meets girls with supernatural problems, helps them
Sora no Manimani: adventures of the astronomy club, features pretty night sky animation
GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class: girls in an art class
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: the sequel/re-airing of the popular show about a girl who may be god, featuring the mind-boggling ENDLESS EIGHT
Older stuff we like:
A helpful blog has gathered a bunch of trailers and links.
A different, Chen-approved blog without the stupid commentary.
Trailer compilation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLfjt4oLgkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDvLiJk2t0
DARKER THAN BLACK 2
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Armed Librarians
Winter Sonata
Kimi ni Todoke
Nyan Koi!
The Sacred Blacksmith
Kobato
Sora no Otoshimono/Heaven's Lost Property
Miracle Train
Kämpfer
Sasameki Koto
Fairy Tail
Letter Bee
11 Eyes
Seitokai no Ichizon
TO
Kuchu Buranko/Trapeze
Aoi Bungaku/Blue Literature
Jungle Emperor
Battle Spirits
Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu
Yumeiro Pâtissière
Kaidan Restaurant
Shugo Chara Party!
Tamagotchi
Asura Cryin’ 2
Queen’s Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugumono
Natsu no Arashi! 2
Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu ~Purezza ♪
InuYasha: The Final Act
KIDDY GiRL -AND
White Album Final
Macross Frontier ~Itsuwari no Utahime~
Both the anime and manga are better than Negima!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MltGHO-lE
Youtube videos, though...
hi5!
Seriously guys, a ROT3K anime has probably the most chances of sucking yet it's in my "Maybe follow" list. Something's horribly wrong and I know it's not my tastes.
Darker than Black should be good and there were a few others which look promising.
Not much in the way of action though, slice of life (and lesbians again) seem to be the theme of the season.
Also the latest chapter of Cross Game was great. And ANBU are up to date now to boot!
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Evangelion is my favorite anime. I cannot, in good faith, argue that it is the greatest anime ever. But, it is the most thought provoking and emotionally satisfying anime, ever.
And, I mean, come on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymP-FHkuTvg
And the best part is that it probably doesn't even exist.
Oh, hey, Tokyo Magnitude has ended apparently. How was it? The kid did make it and lived happily ever after, right? RIGHT?
Mari was caught up with what happened to her daughter and mother and didn't realise what was going on until Mirai leaves a note saying she is heading home with her brother. The it all comes out at the end
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I am pretty optimistic about finding more shows to watch next season than the current season (I'm basically only keeping up with Spice & Wolf sporadically), though I'm mostly at a loss for what. Nothing really jumps out at me and it seems most of the stuff I look up have relatively new directors so who knows.
Though a funny thing to note is that show about trains being personified as pretty boys has the same director as the first seasons of Honey & Clover and Nodame. That might just get me to give the first episode a shot, if only out of morbid curiosity.
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I bloo bloo'd at the end, I'm not ashamed to admit it. It's a masterfully made movie, but I really don't want to watch it again. Or rather, I don't want to experience that movie again.
Ken'ichi does good work though, so I'll keep an open mind on his series.
Given you enjoyed H&C and Nodame was there any reason that you didn't get into Cross Game? It hits a lot of the notes those two series did albeit the slice of life side of it is much more prominent. It's consistency is superb though.
I really enjoyed what I watched of Cross Game, but waiting for episodes kinda killed it for me. That tends to happen to me every now and then, it's more my fault than the show's though.
Sometime when I'm in the mood for it I'll either catch up with the anime or read the manga.
How about something a little more recent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5UEAwxY3co
Essentially a School Days like song in theme.
Bakemonogatari 11: No animation cuts up the wazoo this time. Thank goodness. A pretty interesting episode. Nadeko is so cute.
I think I'll watch Fairy Tail as well. Is that going to be long-running, or just a couple seasons?
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Did you like Azumanga at all? Imagine somebody spilled a bit of Beck into it, and you've pretty much got a handle on it. I liked it, for what that's worth.
I can't actually argue with this, and I enjoyed K-on a lot.
Of course, I rather liked Manabi Straight. I even tolerated Lucky Star more than most people.
Hmm that's quite a lot...
Has anyone posted the big list of new anime for the season anywhere? I'm trying to see what looks interesting.
Manabi Straight was nothing like K-On. Manabi Straight was good, for one thing.
Nothing has been confirmed about Fairy Tail's length yet, so it could go either way. I'm inclined to believe that it will last a season or two and then either have a non-ending or spontaneously pull out an ending out of nowhere, but that's just idle speculation on my part, nothing more.