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[Anime Thread] S2: Haruhi Strikes Back
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I heard anything involving little kids, and I've gotten to the bit after Loguetown.
I'm pretty sure now I've only seen up to 75 or so in the native tongue and only about 100 in the dub, though anything after Loguetown in the dub I only sparingly watched as who the hell wouldn't be out doing something better on Saturday nights?
A lot of the random things which happen in Loguetown is filler.
Everything after Loguetown before the Grand Line is filler.
A bunch of stuff after Alabasta, the G8 arc, some stuff after Davy Back (and about half of Davy Back itself), individual episodes that recap the history of the characters at one point, the stuff after Eneis Lobby, and pretty much every episode around New Year's are all filler.
G8 is the only worthwhile one :v
Yes. This.
Anyone who hasn't even given the first episode a shot needs to fix that right away. It might not be your thing and that is cool I suppose but you won't find out until you watch!
Not to be demanding or anything but do you happen to have general episode numbers just in case I decide to skip it? I'm probably not going to, but I might pick up a DS game or start reading forums just in case shit gets boring.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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I've never played the games, but I will tell you that the show reaches critical levels of badassery constantly. I showed clips of the first episode to friends who hate anime and they were flabbergasted by the sheer awesomeness.
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Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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Indeed it does!
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Here is a list of the filler arcs.
Badass, indeed.
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It just doesn't
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The animation. The novel idea of having robots play basketball. The animation. The animation.
More characters with amazing racks?
Oh, yea, I guess sometimes these giant robots play basketball in the streets, and the moon plays MTV music videos.
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And police robots who chase around the ones playing basketball shooting handcuffs from their wrists.
It is excellent.
Well post-Loguetown only has the 4Kids dub so far anyway(until like episode 140 or something), and I hear it's awful. The Funi uncut, redone dub is only at 52 so far.
I'm on epsiode 40-something right now. I really like this dub.
But man, I WISH the sets were $25 here. In Canada they're 45-50. Anime is incredible expensive everywhere, including online. And ordering from American sites is no help cause you get hit with shipping and conversion costs that bring the price up anyay.
It would really stink to have to shell out another fifty for thirteen episodes of that stuff.
And I can understand not skipping the filler. I'm kind of a completionist anyway so I'd like to have the full series. I'm buying the newer Naruto volumes and it's basically six straight sets of filler.
I think they lost a hell of a lot of people watching it when they brought those fillers out. What was it, a solid year and a half or so?
I'm only a few arcs into it, and I do think it's kinda nice to see the other genin squads get screen time. But I can see it getting old.
I can see them losing viewers, definately. The worst part is, they did this so they wouldn't have to heap Shippuden up with a bunch of filler, than did it anyway.
It's too bad, cause I really like the Naruto anime when it's not stuck in filler hell.
Quick search on TT shows that Subsmith did a speed sub of it. All the other groups seem to release episodes at least a week after the airdate.
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This will likely filter out most of what I've seen.
Genre doesn't matter, the subjective feeling of awesome, neat, well crafted, etc, matters
Baccano!
Off of the very top of my head: Bamboo Blade, Black Lagoon; though the second is a bit over 2 years old.
Very different, but both well done.
edit: why do these all start with B?
You had to pick the only exception to most didn't you.
@Elldren Thanks I'll check them out.
I'll throw a couple at you.
Detroit Metal City: Country boy moves into the city to start a Swedish pop music band but is dragooned into playing lead singer of new death metal band. There's only a dozen episodes that are ten minutes long each, but every one is solid gold.
Library War: The Japanese government passes an act which allows censorship of media deemed harmful to the government or society. Local governments oppose it and create an opposing organization to protect various media from being confiscated. A revision is passed where libraries are allowed to store contraband titles and things settle down somewhat, outside of occasional raids. Then they start using guns. Fun series and again, only a dozen episodes.
Darker than Black:A series about an Chinese espionage team set up in Japan to investigate a research lab. 10 years previous to the show commencing there was an anomaly in South America, the night sky has been replaced with an entirely new set of fake stars, each is linked to a certain person. These people are called contractors, who have special powers (can freeze water, levitate or conduct electricity, phase through objects) but after using them are required to pay a renumeration (must smoke a cigarette, lay a set of stones in a precise way, drink a child's blood) and are totally rational and amoral. They feel no guilt and they don't interact very well with other people.
Edit: I skipped Baccano because I knew everyone would mention it and you've probably seen it. If not, the dub was fantastic. Check it out.
This. I just finished watching it the other night. It's actually really good, despite the goofy sounding title and premise. There's a really good balance between military encounters and character driven romance and comedy. If you've seen Gunparade March, it's kind of like that mix. Less a show about gun fighting, but rather a character driven story where the characters sometimes defend works of art with guns.
I know I'd be out with a gun in hand if someone decided that everyone had to burn their copies of Dumbo or Aladdin.
Spice and Wolf is really good as well, if anthropomorphic wolf gods and 17th century monetary policy are your thing.
Xam'd: Lost Memories is fantastic. Good animation and music. It's kinda mechaish in it's plot. Kinda confusing without explaining a whole lot till the end, but the characters are good.
Toradora and Minami-ke were both quite good as well.