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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think the consensus seems to be 'the one off baseball episode' as I was about to add Brand New Animal, Bleach, Jojo Part 3 and DB Super to the list.

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  • IronKnuckleIronKnuckle This is also my fault Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Just pick any episode at random of Paranoia Agent and you will perfectly replicate the experience of watching that series and having absolutely no idea what anything is or why it is.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    wonder if I could fit all of the original FLCL on a VHS

    by the way what is a VHS?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    nope, FLCL was a miniseries

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Probably a lot of good MushiShi choices. I'd go with One Eyed Fish.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oghulk wrote: »
    I have never watched FLCL but the way it's been talked about since I was in middle school I would've thought it went a lot longer than it did

    6 episodes
    Oghulk wrote: »
    I have a hard time with the question cause there's a lot of really fantastic fights/spectacles that could be viewed free of context/lore

    Also I absolutely hate the main character of Attack on Titan. Can people stop putting out stories based around a male character that's incredibly annoying/grating/stupid but has "special powers"? Harry Potter is another great example of that I think

    I got some news about eren and aot in general!

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    go sharks

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    I think for Tenchi Universe I'd choose "No Need for a Carnival!"
    "No Need for a Carnival!"
    When the Masaki shrine holds its annual fair, Tenchi takes an excited Sasami to see all the stalls and games that an Earth style carnival has to offer. Meanwhile, the other girls decide to really get into the spirit of things by running their own stalls

    Features the whole cast, isn't dependent on any greater narrative, and is mega-wholesome.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oghulk wrote: »
    nope, FLCL was a miniseries

    Should...should I watch it?

    Gurren Lagann is another where I would've thought it went longer given the prevalence of its characters in media

    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...
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    And of course it's all wrapped up with awesome robots fighting set to one of the best Anime soundtracks ever.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    rhylith wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I think the consensus seems to be 'the one off baseball episode' as I was about to add Brand New Animal, Bleach, Jojo Part 3 and DB Super to the list.

    Dorohedoro has a baseball too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlEyJfQ1m3I

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oghulk wrote: »
    nope, FLCL was a miniseries

    Should...should I watch it?

    Gurren Lagann is another where I would've thought it went longer given the prevalence of its characters in media

    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.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Anime thread, here's something to consider & discuss, what are some great stand-alone (or can be viewed relatively free of mass context/lore) episodes of shows?

    Like, if you were filling out your own VHS tape of anime, with each show getting one single episode, what gets in there?

    I'm thinking of this as last night during AniMenagerie some folks commented that the bougie episode of Kill la Kill is considered by many to be the best episode of the series.

    That's a toughie because episodes you would consider a good fit to this category (because you know and are fond of the characters) would not necessarily play well to someone coming in cold. For example, the Evangelion episode where Shinji and Asuka have to practice dancing together Silver Linings Playbook style (and also otherwise living in harmony) is a treasure. But is that the case if you don't know what the Angels are, who these kids are, what the stakes are, etc? I don't know about that.

    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.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I think for Tenchi Universe I'd choose "No Need for a Carnival!"
    "No Need for a Carnival!"
    When the Masaki shrine holds its annual fair, Tenchi takes an excited Sasami to see all the stalls and games that an Earth style carnival has to offer. Meanwhile, the other girls decide to really get into the spirit of things by running their own stalls

    Features the whole cast, isn't dependent on any greater narrative, and is mega-wholesome.

    I might go with the Robo Washuu episode, or maybe the swimsuit contest.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I think for Tenchi Universe I'd choose "No Need for a Carnival!"
    "No Need for a Carnival!"
    When the Masaki shrine holds its annual fair, Tenchi takes an excited Sasami to see all the stalls and games that an Earth style carnival has to offer. Meanwhile, the other girls decide to really get into the spirit of things by running their own stalls

    Features the whole cast, isn't dependent on any greater narrative, and is mega-wholesome.

    I might go with the Robo Washuu episode, or maybe the swimsuit contest.

    "No Need for Swimsuits!" was my runner-up, yeah.

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  • Shenl742Shenl742 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I rewatched FLCL for the first time in many years and...I'm not sure I ever want to watch it again, honestly.

    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.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Nanoha A's #2 (first encounter with Belkan Knights)

    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.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    wonder if I could fit all of the original FLCL on a VHS

    by the way what is a VHS?

    I have a bootleg of it and yes, it's all on one VHS

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    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

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Aren't they in A's first episode? Although yeah there's some great fights in Nanoha, but it's hard to recommend as a whole.

    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.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Anime thread, here's something to consider & discuss, what are some great stand-alone (or can be viewed relatively free of mass context/lore) episodes of shows?

    Like, if you were filling out your own VHS tape of anime, with each show getting one single episode, what gets in there?

    I'm thinking of this as last night during AniMenagerie some folks commented that the bougie episode of Kill la Kill is considered by many to be the best episode of the series.

    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.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Rage of Bahamut ep 1 is a good call, that is an excellent first episode

    High point of the entire show, really, which is kinda a shame.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ph blake wrote: »
    Rage of Bahamut ep 1 is a good call, that is an excellent first episode

    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.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's some good Stand Alone episodes in SAC, yeah. It was a really well done first season.

    Shame about literally everything after that!

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    ph blake wrote: »
    Rage of Bahamut ep 1 is a good call, that is an excellent first episode

    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.

    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.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Anime thread, here's something to consider & discuss, what are some great stand-alone (or can be viewed relatively free of mass context/lore) episodes of shows?

    Like, if you were filling out your own VHS tape of anime, with each show getting one single episode, what gets in there?

    I'm thinking of this as last night during AniMenagerie some folks commented that the bougie episode of Kill la Kill is considered by many to be the best episode of the series.
    The third episode of the 2003 Kino's Journey anime is one of my favorite pieces of media and can totally be watched and enjoyed without any context other than knowing that the series is an anthology that (normally) features a character named Kino who has a talking motorcycle called Hermes. I have seen the episode alternatively titled "Eating to live"/"I want to survive".

    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.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    There's some good Stand Alone episodes in SAC, yeah. It was a really well done first season.

    Shame about literally everything after that!

    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

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shenl742 wrote: »
    I rewatched FLCL for the first time in many years and...I'm not sure I ever want to watch it again, honestly.

    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.

    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.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Adults in FLCL:

    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

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Nanoha A's #2 (first encounter with Belkan Knights)

    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.

    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

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  • Shenl742Shenl742 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kana wrote: »
    Shenl742 wrote: »
    I rewatched FLCL for the first time in many years and...I'm not sure I ever want to watch it again, honestly.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    There's some good Stand Alone episodes in SAC, yeah. It was a really well done first season.

    Shame about literally everything after that!

    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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h3Zx4bV0RE

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Trigun ep 6.
    -If you know you know.

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Melancholy of Haruhi's Endless Eight.

    Counts as one episode.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shenl742 wrote: »
    Kana wrote: »
    Shenl742 wrote: »
    I rewatched FLCL for the first time in many years and...I'm not sure I ever want to watch it again, honestly.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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