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by the way what is a VHS?
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I got some news about eren and aot in general!
Features the whole cast, isn't dependent on any greater narrative, and is mega-wholesome.
FLCL is great, and you should watch it.
It's a great coming of age story, lots of great character and TONS of references both to general anime culture to... well...
And of course it's all wrapped up with awesome robots fighting set to one of the best Anime soundtracks ever.
FLCL is absolutely worth a watch. Heck it's worth two, cuz you're absolutely not gonna catch everything going on with the characters the first time around.
My favorite Eva monster episode is when Ramiel shows up. Like up to that point they fought weird giant monsters, but they were still basically normal kaiju-esque baddies. Then this big floating blue 4-dimensional torus shows up and that's all out the window for good, we have no idea wtf these things that keep attacking are.
It's a fantastic episode but it doesn't really work as a standalone where none of that weirdness really pays off.
I might go with the Robo Washuu episode, or maybe the swimsuit contest.
"No Need for Swimsuits!" was my runner-up, yeah.
The crazy randomnes now felt super irritating to me and also..
This is a show where an adult woman is constantly inappropriately touching or making sexual advances towards a young boy, and wow does it just feel super uncomfortable to watch now.
Jubei-chan 2 #7 (cliffside fight)
Yozakura Quartet Tsuki ni Naku #3 (Werewolf vs police)
Futakoi Alternative #7 (origin story, beautiful melodrama)
Garo: The Animation #18 (cast gets their groove back/Leon vs Alfonso)
Rage of Bahamut #1 (just a great opening/intro episode)
Tokyo Majin #1 (another great opening episode)
GA Art Design Class #04 (club/educational comedy done perfectly)
Don't @ me.
I have a bootleg of it and yes, it's all on one VHS
I've watched the dub so many times I specifically got this one subbed so I can experience it that way and it's pretty good, but still prefer the dub even if some jokes are lost
Symphogear GX is a top first episode and solo episode, I might have to ask @Zonugal to show up for 15 minutes just to experience it.
I always liked Episode 11 of Ghost in the Shell SAC 2nd Gig - Kusanagi's Labyrinth, which explored the Major and Kuze's past.
That episode taught me how to fold paper cranes.
High point of the entire show, really, which is kinda a shame.
And then the second season becomes a Nazi romance.
Like, the first season got steadily worse and more nonsensical as it went on, but there were still things to like.
And then... Nazi romance.
What the fuck.
Shame about literally everything after that!
Gonna be honest, I literally don't remember if I finished watching the first season or not.
Like after episode 7 or so it's all just a giant blur of ?????
We'll always have the "Amira gets drunk and goes dancing" scene though, at least it gave us that.
The episode is essentially a short story and it is really, really good. I know the series used to be available on Youtube but I genuinely don't who has the rights to international broadcast now. And mind that I am talking about the adaptation from 2003, not the more recent adaptation from 2017. Both adapt a bunch of anthology stories, with some different and some overlap. But to be frank, the 2017 adaptation is both not as good and I don't think adapts this particular story anyway.
huh? there was some excellent stuff in 2nd gig, both in the standalone episodes and the overarching stuff
and they finally gave the major pants
Haruka is absolutely a bad person tho. All the adults in Naota's life are (except the teacher I guess, who's just useless).
It's a big part of why he doesn't want to grow up, because all his role model adults are bad abusive people.
Naota's dad: Really uncomfortable perving on Ninamori, a grade schooler, publicized the mayor's affair apparently just for the luls
Naota's grandpa: won't allow a homeless teenager into his house even though she used to be his elder son's girlfriend, even as she's literally begging them for leftover bread for food.
Naota's older brother: Left for America and didn't tell his girlfriend in Japan that he's got a new girlfriend in America
Sunglasses Guy: wildly overcompensated toxic masculinity douche who keeps creeping on his female coworker
Haruka: Strongly implied to have had a relationship with sunglasses guy when he was a kid and she wasn't, which is where his whole overcompensating effort comes from, manipulates the shit out of Naota just for her own mission.
Ninamori's Dad: Cheated on his wife with his secretary, only started the divorce once it got publicized, kept custody of their daughter, and is now trying to get his daughter to form a new relationship with the secretary before the divorce has even gone through, all while grade schooler Ninamori is torn up because she thinks it's her fault they're divorcing.
Ninamori's secretary: Is totally fine with all of that
the first encounter with the Belkan Knights owns because it demonstrates that the librarian kid is secretly completely overpowered because without a weapon buddy at all he can make unbreakable barriers
Honestly, I don't really care what kind of character Haruko is, or what means to an end her molesting of Naota serves to the shows themes.
I just think it's really gross, it made me legitimately uncomfortable, and it severely effected my opinion of something I really, really used to like.
-If you know you know.
Counts as one episode.
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One of the lines in the anime is that Haruko is a "manifestation of the feelings in your adolescent heart." I think the entire series is a commentary on growing up, and part of growing up is dealing with sexual ideas literally dominating your mind. So from that angle, you have a character like Haruko who is part wish fulfillment for Naota (whom has been used as a plaything by his older brother's ex girlfriend) and partly a lesson on how adults will use you to get what they really want (in Haruko's case, she's after essentially power because she's obsessed with a space god). The imagery of her literally pulling phallic objects out of his mind is pretty much dead commentary on what's going on in most teenage boys minds at any given moment.
So feel free to feel uncomfortable, I feel like that was maybe the point. I don't like most media with sexual assault in it, but if it has a story justification for being there and isn't just to make things more dramatic for the sake of it, it's "fine". Imo the show does a really, really good job of capturing the feeling of being a confused young teenager, who simultaneously wants to be seen as mature but is very obviously disdainful of most adults.