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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Obviously Inuyasha and Kagome end up together. I mean that's what the whole series is about if they didn't I'd be annoyed.

    who would Sesshomaru end up with? I mean how far in the future is this series being set?

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    P10 wrote: »
    i'm watching escaflowne
    gonna post an amv, don't watch for spoilers
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r029Ao-BRgw

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Summary is out now from Viz; lead is Sesshomaru’s older twin daughter Towa who is separated from her sister Setsuna during a forest fire. As she searches for her, she instead discovers a tunnel that brings her to the modern day, where she is found by Kagome’s brother Sota and his family, who take her in and raise her as the tunnel has closed off.

    Ten years later the tunnel reopens and Towa returns to the past and finds Setsuna, who has forgotten her. Together they’re joined by their cousin Moroha (Kagome and Inuyasha’s daughter) and go on an adventure together.

    Also, from ANN, staff details
    Teruo Sato (Inuyasha episode director) is directing the anime at Sunrise, and Katsuyuki Sumisawa is in charge of the series scripts after doing the same for Inuyasha and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Takahashi herself is credited as the main character designer, with Yoshihito Hishinuma (Yakitate!! Japan, City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes) returning from Inuyasha to adapt her designs for animation. Kaoru Wada (3x3 Eyes, Battle Angel, The File of Young Kindaichi) is also back from Inuyasha to compose the music.


    Viz apparently already has a lock on streaming and home video for North America and Latin America

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Obviously Inuyasha and Kagome end up together. I mean that's what the whole series is about if they didn't I'd be annoyed.

    who would Sesshomaru end up with? I mean how far in the future is this series being set?
    Viz.com wrote:
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    In Feudal Japan, Half-Demon twins Towa and Setsuna are separated from each other during a forest fire. While desperately searching for her younger sister, Towa wanders into a mysterious tunnel that sends her into present-day Japan, where she is found and raised by Kagome Higurashi’s brother, Sota, and his family.

    Ten years later, the tunnel that connects the two eras has reopened, allowing Towa to be reunited with Setsuna, who is now a Demon Slayer working for Kohaku. But to Towa’s shock, Setsuna appears to have lost all memories of her older sister.

    Joined by Moroha, the daughter of Inuyasha and Kagome, the three young women travel between the two eras on an adventure to regain their missing past.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    I am amused that literally the only member of that family who got Dog Ears seems to be Inuyasha.

    Full Dog Demon brother? No Dog ears.
    Half Dog Demon nieces? No Dog ears.
    Quarter Dog Demon daughter? No Dog Ears.


    Bonus: Dubiously canonical depiction of Full Dog Demon father: NO DOG EARS

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 22
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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I guess you could consider these as amvs? amvs r srs bsns

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9UanTCFKKg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZu1hxAQQ0

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  • IsornIsorn Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I tend to watch 2 non-seasonal shows at the same time. 1 out of the 2 shows has been a KyoAni show for the last few shows I watched so I figure I might as well continue that. I have to pick something from the list below. Think I will watch A Silent Voice once I am done with Ergo Proxy but after that it becomes tricky to pick something. Any shows that I should give priority to? Otherwise I might just throw a random number generator at it and pick something that way.
    • A Silent Voice
    • Clannad
    • Hyouka
    • Violet Evergarden
    • Kyoukai no Kanata / Beyond the Boundary
    • Haruhi
    • K-On!
    • Lucky Star
    • Sound! Euphonium
    • Tamako Market
    • Kanon
    • Liz and the Blue Bird
    • Full Metal Panic
    • Air

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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Owenashi wrote: »
    Obviously Inuyasha and Kagome end up together. I mean that's what the whole series is about if they didn't I'd be annoyed.

    who would Sesshomaru end up with? I mean how far in the future is this series being set?
    Viz.com wrote:
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    In Feudal Japan, Half-Demon twins Towa and Setsuna are separated from each other during a forest fire. While desperately searching for her younger sister, Towa wanders into a mysterious tunnel that sends her into present-day Japan, where she is found and raised by Kagome Higurashi’s brother, Sota, and his family.

    Ten years later, the tunnel that connects the two eras has reopened, allowing Towa to be reunited with Setsuna, who is now a Demon Slayer working for Kohaku. But to Towa’s shock, Setsuna appears to have lost all memories of her older sister.

    Joined by Moroha, the daughter of Inuyasha and Kagome, the three young women travel between the two eras on an adventure to regain their missing past.

    So

    they're not saying

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Claymore isn't a perfect manga, but it's a very damn good iteration on the idea of "Berserk-style fantasy gothic action horror meets Tsutomu Nihei-style cybergothic biohorror, and we turned it into a battle manga without compromising that tone too badly"

    I just wanted to say that "cybergothic biohorror" is a hell of a phrase and if you coined it you have my thanks

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Isorn wrote: »
    I tend to watch 2 non-seasonal shows at the same time. 1 out of the 2 shows has been a KyoAni show for the last few shows I watched so I figure I might as well continue that. I have to pick something from the list below. Think I will watch A Silent Voice once I am done with Ergo Proxy but after that it becomes tricky to pick something. Any shows that I should give priority to? Otherwise I might just throw a random number generator at it and pick something that way.
    • Clannad
    • Haruhi
    My vote is for these two, but when watching Haruhi, make sure you watch it in broadcast order. Also the movie takes place after the series.

    And straight up skip the Clannad movie; they tried to condense the series into a couple of hours, which meant that you get all the down notes with none of the happier stuff to balance it out.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Sorce wrote: »
    Isorn wrote: »
    I tend to watch 2 non-seasonal shows at the same time. 1 out of the 2 shows has been a KyoAni show for the last few shows I watched so I figure I might as well continue that. I have to pick something from the list below. Think I will watch A Silent Voice once I am done with Ergo Proxy but after that it becomes tricky to pick something. Any shows that I should give priority to? Otherwise I might just throw a random number generator at it and pick something that way.
    • Clannad
    • Haruhi
    My vote is for these two, but when watching Haruhi, make sure you watch it in broadcast order. Also the movie takes place after the series.

    And straight up skip the Clannad movie; they tried to condense the series into a couple of hours, which meant that you get all the down notes with none of the happier stuff to balance it out.

    If you watch Haruhi, in season 2, when you get to an episode named "Endless Eight"
    Do a little Googling about it.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Owenashi wrote: »
    Obviously Inuyasha and Kagome end up together. I mean that's what the whole series is about if they didn't I'd be annoyed.

    who would Sesshomaru end up with? I mean how far in the future is this series being set?
    Viz.com wrote:
    CcXhxlw.jpg

    In Feudal Japan, Half-Demon twins Towa and Setsuna are separated from each other during a forest fire. While desperately searching for her younger sister, Towa wanders into a mysterious tunnel that sends her into present-day Japan, where she is found and raised by Kagome Higurashi’s brother, Sota, and his family.

    Ten years later, the tunnel that connects the two eras has reopened, allowing Towa to be reunited with Setsuna, who is now a Demon Slayer working for Kohaku. But to Towa’s shock, Setsuna appears to have lost all memories of her older sister.

    Joined by Moroha, the daughter of Inuyasha and Kagome, the three young women travel between the two eras on an adventure to regain their missing past.

    So

    they're not saying

    Well, there is one possibility who Sesshomaru could be with but it's probably something better not thought about.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I absolutely loved K-On and Sound! Euphonium but idk if they’re for everyone.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    I watched the entirety of the first episode of Ergo Proxy and I think I understood about half of it?

    It’s the half where there’s a detective girl and her robot friend trying to learn about a virus that breaks Asimov’s rules or whatever

    The monster stuff, the random talking statues, and most of the rest of it seemed really out of place

    But I suppose I will press on and see if I get answers

    josh come back and read this after you watch the show, or if you stop
    But I suppose I will press on and see if I get answers

    hahahahahahahahahaha oh no

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  • GridlinkGridlink Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I've enjoyed the majority of KyoAni's show but I think Hyouka would be one of my favorites. Lucky Star, Tamako Market, Nichijou, and K-on! are all good to great cute girls doing cute things shows.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 24
    Hyouka is absolutely brilliant and everyone needs to watch it.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I've never watched any of Black Clover but wow this opening kicks ass.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUQ1Px3zPA

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    K-On! is great if you are in the need of weapons-grade happy and cute. Clannad will wreck your entire emotional house if you watch both series. Kyouka no Kanata is pretty cool and funny. From what I've seen you really can't go wrong with anything on that list.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Moth 13 wrote: »
    I've never watched any of Black Clover but wow this opening kicks ass.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUQ1Px3zPA

    Black Clover consistently has pretty good OPs.

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  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Big Green Energy

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Claymore isn't a perfect manga, but it's a very damn good iteration on the idea of "Berserk-style fantasy gothic action horror meets Tsutomu Nihei-style cybergothic biohorror, and we turned it into a battle manga without compromising that tone too badly"

    I just wanted to say that "cybergothic biohorror" is a hell of a phrase and if you coined it you have my thanks

    Anime is chock full of post-cyberpunk* spins on horror, usually including a degree ef either cyborg body horror or biological body horror, and a lot of series will go one route or the other

    Both god damn, do some series lean into both

    *(tl;dr - any science fiction/fantasy that stems from, or blends in, tropes and aesthetic from OG cyberpunk, but moves on past the original subgenre's limitations)

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    whole ramble on how most anime that people tag as "cyberpunk" is more post-cyberpunk

    as a literary genre, by around 1989 the original Western cyberpunk authors had run out of things to build with that particular LEGO kit, and all moved on from cyberpunk to do other science fiction work less confined by the tropes they'd just finished playing with, and in terms of innovation the core cyberpunk genre was a couple years dead by the time Snow Crash played a parodic fiddle 'pon its grave (albeit ripe to be exhumed for Hollywood and video games to dissect and examine for years to come, but let's face it, I imagine even Cyberpunk 2077 in 2020 will say very little that hadn't already been said in Omni magazine 35 years ago)

    and even most late '80s-early '90s anime that does play with cyberpunk examines very different themes and aspects of humanity that the Western genre did, while also tweaking the aesthetic and adding new features extremely rapidly - both Ghost in the Shell and Akira are prime examples of this evolutionary radiation. did some of this anime limit itself to stuff seen exclusively in literature? kind of, but even Cyber City Oedo 808 abandons all pretense of genre purism by the third episode

    long and short of it is, OG cyberpunk was a dinosaur, agile for its time but doomed to be outpaced, and it evolved into birds

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Isorn wrote: »
    I tend to watch 2 non-seasonal shows at the same time. 1 out of the 2 shows has been a KyoAni show for the last few shows I watched so I figure I might as well continue that. I have to pick something from the list below. Think I will watch A Silent Voice once I am done with Ergo Proxy but after that it becomes tricky to pick something. Any shows that I should give priority to? Otherwise I might just throw a random number generator at it and pick something that way.
    • A Silent Voice
    • Clannad
    • Hyouka
    • Violet Evergarden
    • Kyoukai no Kanata / Beyond the Boundary
    • Haruhi
    • K-On!
    • Lucky Star
    • Sound! Euphonium
    • Tamako Market
    • Kanon
    • Liz and the Blue Bird
    • Full Metal Panic
    • Air

    Hyouka and Beyond the Boundary are the 2 underappreciated standouts on this list.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Full Metal Panic is very good, but the most recent season ended in a cliffhanger. Wait and see, they might actually animate the ending to the entire story. If they do that, definitely watch all of it (so that would be the original, then Fomuffu, then The Second Raid, then Invisible Victory, then whatever the sequel ends up being).

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    is fumoffu actually canon lol

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    From what I understand, the original is a mixture of more serious light novels and sillier short stories.

    The first series used a mixture of both. Then they decided to just put all the silliness into Fumoffu and the serious stuff into Second Raid. Not sure what they did with Invisible Victory as I haven't seen it yet.

    Fumoffu does introduce important characters and such though.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Invisible Victory is as far from comedy hijinks as it is possible to get. The tone isn't miserable, but the villains are the worst and most dangerous they have ever been (which is a large improvement on season 1's Gauron, who was a try hard joke).

    Fumoffu's canon status is unimportant, it's one of the funniest anime comedies I've ever seen. No one interested in the series should skip it.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Full Metal Panic is when I learned what the word 'tsundere' meant. Yeah, I'd already seen Eva before, but the word didn't come up until I saw FMP. So for the longest time, whenever I encountered the word, I just went "Oh yeah, tsundere = Chidori."

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Full Metal Panic is a gritty military mecha story with some slapstick harem comedy thrown into the mix. When Kyoani took over they wanted to reintroduce the series without just remaking season 1 so they made Fumoffu which leaned into the goofy harem comedy elements but taught you everything you needed to know for when The Second Raid picks up the story again.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    they also accidentally made a MUCH, MUCH better show than the serious seasons if you ask me but the serious ones are fine I guess

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I only watched Fumoffu and I have no desire to watch the rest of the series because I don't want to see bad things happening to the characters

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Moth 13 wrote: »
    I've never watched any of Black Clover but wow this opening kicks ass.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUQ1Px3zPA

    Black Clover consistently has pretty good OPs.

    Even their weird chibi spinoff thing had a good OP, despite it being mostly made up of existing animation (also, the song is sung by the Japanese VAs for the two main characters)
    https://youtu.be/vem4dMT6GXM

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Peas wrote: »
    I only watched Fumoffu and I have no desire to watch the rest of the series because I don't want to see bad things happening to the characters

    this is wise, the straight drama parts are just brutal

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I always wanted more from K-on.

    Like it's well made, and its jokes work, it succeeds at what it was trying to do

    But the characters are all just such goddamn moe-blobs, they act more like 7th graders than high school kids. They have fun with music but they're just too moe to have real passion for it.

    I mean the show is upfront about what it is, it's kind of a "dead dove do not eat" scenario. But still!

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Kana wrote: »
    I always wanted more from K-on.

    Like it's well made, and its jokes work, it succeeds at what it was trying to do

    But the characters are all just such goddamn moe-blobs, they act more like 7th graders than high school kids. They have fun with music but they're just too moe to have real passion for it.

    I mean the show is upfront about what it is, it's kind of a "dead dove do not eat" scenario. But still!

    Might I persuade you to join the dark side watch idol anime.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    K-on's characters aren't super deep or anything, but I think they work for what the show is trying to do.

    The music isn't the point, not really, it's more about evoking a highly potent feeling of nostalgia for a specific period in life (high school days where you just kinda hung out with friends and didn't have to worry about much else).

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    All anime is good but I find it really hard to stomach the art style of K-on characters to watch the show
    Their moe blob cheeks drives me insane for some illogical reason

    Also there is something about their eyes which triggers the primeval fear deep inside me


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    The face of death itself

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