Fall 09 preview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5gmJaAXFAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DVG-_6zIYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhqUk28OwHshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ej7ZlS2oQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DsQT2tYSdk
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.
There's a One Piece thread. And because of that you can't talk about One Piece in this thread.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=94323
Summer Preview (from Zandracon)
Aruduc's Summer Preview See Through Review
Spring Preview (from King Riptor)
And Lastly Some Recomendations
*juice for jesus wrote:
Giant Robots: Gunbuster
Romantic comedy: Nodame Cantabile
Slice of life/school life: Sketchbook Full Colors
Martial arts: Hajime no Ippo, Bamboo Blade
Romance drama: ef - a tale of memories
"Hard" sci-fi: Planetes
Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery: Tower of Druaga
*Chen wrote:
Action / Comedy: Great Teacher Onizuka
Slice of life / Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
Romance: Honey & Clover
Slice of life / Supernatural: Natsume Yuujinchou
Action / Supernatural: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
*Slicer wrote:
Slice of Life: Honey & Clover
Comedy: Detroit Metal City
Comedy/Parody/Crazy Alternative History: Gintama
Long-running shounen fighting: Yu Yu Hakusho
Sports: Hajime no Ippo/Fighting Spirit
Mecha: 08th MS Team
*redx wrote:
Mystery/Action/Comedy: Baccano!
mystery/science fiction : Denno Coil
Real Robot: Nadesco
Magic Girl: Nanoha A's
Drama/Mystery/Psycological: Monster
Slice of Life: Ichigo Mashimaro
*Horus wrote:
What category is Skip Beat! I was thinking something of the KawaiiiSoCute~~Funnyy ~~~*!!!!=3 Category
*Behemoth wrote:
Giant robots: Gundam 08th MS Team
Comedy: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Historical fiction/action: Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Comedy/sci-fi/historical fiction?: Oh! Edo Rocket
Horror/mystery: Mononoke
*Bad Kitty wrote:
Fantasy: Twelve Kingdoms/Juuni Kokki
Supernatural: Mushishi
Fighting: Airmaster
Slice-of-life: Honey & Clover
Magical Girl: Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Epic Space Opera: Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Romance (manga): Mars
Post-apocalyptic slice-of-life (manga): Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Cafe Alpha)
*Ergandar wrote:
Action: Black Lagoon
Romance: Ouran High School Host Club
(manga): Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
*Dizzen wrote:
Comedy: Potemayo
Romantic comedy: Ouran High School Host Club
Slice of life/school life: Sketchbook Full Colors
Economics drama: Spice and Wolf
*Olivaw wrote:
Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
Action: Black Lagoon
Robot: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
BEST EVER: Baccano!
OLDER THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE WATCHED YET BUT SHOULD
Samurai Champloo.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Big O.
G Gundam.
*Falx wrote:
Bounen no Xam'd: Lost Memories (Mecha/Sci-fi/Fantasy)
Kara no Kyoukai: Garden of Sinners (Action/Horror/Drama)
Kannagi (Rom-com/Drama)
Michiko to Hatchin (Action/Drama)
Minami-ke 1st and 3rd seasons, skip the 2nd one (Comedy/Slice-of-life)
Rideback (Mecha/Action)
Sketchbook ~full Color'S~ (Slice-of-life/...erm... it's good, just watch it)
To Aru Majutsu no Index (Action/Comedy)
Toradora (Rom-com/Drama)
*PikaPuff wrote:
Little Girls in an inapropriate setting (war): Strike Witches
Little Girls kissing a more little boy (also magical action): Negima
Little Girls being adorable little girls + 1 fucking bitch (slice of life): Straberry Marshmellow
Must watch for fans of Harem Anime (Drama): School Days
Magical Gril Drama (Not Anime): Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
I love fapping to h-games that I skip the story, but the story was pretty good and I want to know what happened: Clannad+Clannad After Story, Kannon, or Air
*OtakuD00D wrote:
Giant Robots with charm, space bugs, a perfect ending and great animation: Gunbuster
Giant Robots with music and love triangles and missile spam: Macross
FABULOUS with giant robots: Code Geass
Giant Robots with PIERCE THE HEAVENS: Gurren Lagann
I AM GUNDAM: Gundam 00.
Slice of life (The only entry I'll ever put on), charming cast of characters: Azumanga Daioh
Sheer hilarity and randomness: Pani Poni Dash!
*ProfMoriarty wrote:
Code Geass <--- I don't know how to categorize this. Mechs doesn't do it justice, but neither does drama.
Mech: GaoGaiGar
Comedy: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
You Will Cry Like a Little Girl: Air
*CyborgZeta wrote:
Mech/Romance - Eureka Seven
Comedy - Full Metal Panic Fumoffu
Action - Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo
Super Robot - GaoGaiGar
Mystery/Horror - Ghost Hunt
Additional - Overman King Gainer
*Chrono Helix wrote:
I would like to add Akagi and Kaiji to the list of recommendations.
*Kelor wrote:
Best sport series: Hajime no Ippo
Slice of Life: Honey & Clover
Comedy: Detroit Metal City
Giant Robots: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The odd one out pick? Let's Bible.
Sex starved Croatian fisherboy punches the female reincarnation of Jesus Christ unconscious so he can lose his virginity, ends up fighting the banjo wielding son of Lucifer, Santo.
*Frosteey wrote:
For lack of anyone else recommending it-The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Way better than Air-Kanon: Kyon in the snow (Less chin version)
Shipping delight without a proper ending-School Rumble
Board games with pretty good music-Hikaru no Go
Polearms!-Moribito
Kuwabara playing basketball-Slam Dunk
*DragonPup wrote:
Fantasy: Moribito
Supernatural: Death Note
Slice-of-life: Azumanga Daioh(The manga, too)
Romance(with mecha...): Eureka 7
Post-apocalyptic: Tokyo Magnitude 8
Medieval/Renaissance: Spice and Wolf
Mecha(Real)/War story: Flag
Mecha(Comedy): Martian Sucessor Nadesico
Action: Black Lagoon
In it's own catagory altogether: Baccano!
Thetheroo's Reactions to School Days
Ok I'm lazy but here's Henroid's School Days Reactions
First, about 20 posts through out of "I don't see what the big deal is."
Okay done with School Days!
"MyAnimeList," a weeaboo site for weeaboos to comprae the size of their weeaboo penis. The smaller the better.
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Fall 09 preview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5gmJaAXFAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DVG-_6zIYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhqUk28OwHshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ej7ZlS2oQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DsQT2tYSdk
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.
There's a One Piece thread. And because of that you can't talk about One Piece in this thread.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=94323
Summer Preview (from Zandracon)
Aruduc's Summer Preview See Through Review
Spring Preview (from King Riptor)
And Lastly Some Recomendations
*juice for jesus wrote:
Giant Robots: Gunbuster
Romantic comedy: Nodame Cantabile
Slice of life/school life: Sketchbook Full Colors
Martial arts: Hajime no Ippo, Bamboo Blade
Romance drama: ef - a tale of memories
"Hard" sci-fi: Planetes
Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery: Tower of Druaga
*Chen wrote:
Action / Comedy: Great Teacher Onizuka
Slice of life / Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
Romance: Honey & Clover
Slice of life / Supernatural: Natsume Yuujinchou
Action / Supernatural: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
*Slicer wrote:
Slice of Life: Honey & Clover
Comedy: Detroit Metal City
Comedy/Parody/Crazy Alternative History: Gintama
Long-running shounen fighting: Yu Yu Hakusho
Sports: Hajime no Ippo/Fighting Spirit
Mecha: 08th MS Team
*redx wrote:
Mystery/Action/Comedy: Baccano!
mystery/science fiction : Denno Coil
Real Robot: Nadesco
Magic Girl: Nanoha A's
Drama/Mystery/Psycological: Monster
Slice of Life: Ichigo Mashimaro
*Horus wrote:
What category is Skip Beat! I was thinking something of the KawaiiiSoCute~~Funnyy ~~~*!!!!=3 Category
*Behemoth wrote:
Giant robots: Gundam 08th MS Team
Comedy: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Historical fiction/action: Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Comedy/sci-fi/historical fiction?: Oh! Edo Rocket
Horror/mystery: Mononoke
*Bad Kitty wrote:
Fantasy: Twelve Kingdoms/Juuni Kokki
Supernatural: Mushishi
Fighting: Airmaster
Slice-of-life: Honey & Clover
Magical Girl: Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Epic Space Opera: Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Romance (manga): Mars
Post-apocalyptic slice-of-life (manga): Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Cafe Alpha)
*Ergandar wrote:
Action: Black Lagoon
Romance: Ouran High School Host Club
(manga): Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
*Dizzen wrote:
Comedy: Potemayo
Romantic comedy: Ouran High School Host Club
Slice of life/school life: Sketchbook Full Colors
Economics drama: Spice and Wolf
*Olivaw wrote:
Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
Action: Black Lagoon
Robot: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
BEST EVER: Baccano!
OLDER THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE WATCHED YET BUT SHOULD
Samurai Champloo.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Big O.
G Gundam.
*Falx wrote:
Bounen no Xam'd: Lost Memories (Mecha/Sci-fi/Fantasy)
Kara no Kyoukai: Garden of Sinners (Action/Horror/Drama)
Kannagi (Rom-com/Drama)
Michiko to Hatchin (Action/Drama)
Minami-ke 1st and 3rd seasons, skip the 2nd one (Comedy/Slice-of-life)
Rideback (Mecha/Action)
Sketchbook ~full Color'S~ (Slice-of-life/...erm... it's good, just watch it)
To Aru Majutsu no Index (Action/Comedy)
Toradora (Rom-com/Drama)
*PikaPuff wrote:
Little Girls in an inapropriate setting (war): Strike Witches
Little Girls kissing a more little boy (also magical action): Negima
Little Girls being adorable little girls + 1 fucking bitch (slice of life): Straberry Marshmellow
Must watch for fans of Harem Anime (Drama): School Days
Magical Gril Drama (Not Anime): Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
I love fapping to h-games that I skip the story, but the story was pretty good and I want to know what happened: Clannad+Clannad After Story, Kannon, or Air
*OtakuD00D wrote:
Giant Robots with charm, space bugs, a perfect ending and great animation: Gunbuster
Giant Robots with music and love triangles and missile spam: Macross
FABULOUS with giant robots: Code Geass
Giant Robots with PIERCE THE HEAVENS: Gurren Lagann
I AM GUNDAM: Gundam 00.
Slice of life (The only entry I'll ever put on), charming cast of characters: Azumanga Daioh
Sheer hilarity and randomness: Pani Poni Dash!
*ProfMoriarty wrote:
Code Geass <--- I don't know how to categorize this. Mechs doesn't do it justice, but neither does drama.
Mech: GaoGaiGar
Comedy: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
You Will Cry Like a Little Girl: Air
*CyborgZeta wrote:
Mech/Romance - Eureka Seven
Comedy - Full Metal Panic Fumoffu
Action - Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo
Super Robot - GaoGaiGar
Mystery/Horror - Ghost Hunt
Additional - Overman King Gainer
*Chrono Helix wrote:
I would like to add Akagi and Kaiji to the list of recommendations.
*Kelor wrote:
Best sport series: Hajime no Ippo
Slice of Life: Honey & Clover
Comedy: Detroit Metal City
Giant Robots: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The odd one out pick? Let's Bible.
Sex starved Croatian fisherboy punches the female reincarnation of Jesus Christ unconscious so he can lose his virginity, ends up fighting the banjo wielding son of Lucifer, Santo.
*Frosteey wrote:
For lack of anyone else recommending it-The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Way better than Air-Kanon: Kyon in the snow (Less chin version)
Shipping delight without a proper ending-School Rumble
Board games with pretty good music-Hikaru no Go
Polearms!-Moribito
Kuwabara playing basketball-Slam Dunk
*DragonPup wrote:
Fantasy: Moribito
Supernatural: Death Note
Slice-of-life: Azumanga Daioh(The manga, too)
Romance(with mecha...): Eureka 7
Post-apocalyptic: Tokyo Magnitude 8
Medieval/Renaissance: Spice and Wolf
Mecha(Real)/War story: Flag
Mecha(Comedy): Martian Sucessor Nadesico
Action: Black Lagoon
In it's own catagory altogether: Baccano!
Thetheroo's Reactions to School Days
Ok I'm lazy but here's Henroid's School Days Reactions
First, about 20 posts through out of "I don't see what the big deal is."
Okay done with School Days!
"MyAnimeList," a weeaboo site for weeaboos to comprae the size of their weeaboo penis. The smaller the better.
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Posts
Anyways... +1 vote for including Thetheroo's reactions in spoilers under one of the School Days recommendations.
STEAM
I just ordered G Gundam and Eureka 7 box sets. I feel myself becoming addicted.
Basically, when it comes to piloting mechs the more grittier (dare I say "western") a game or anime is, the more I enjoy it. That being said, what would be a good anime that follows that kind of theme? Like, as little happy-good-times or classic-anime-bullshit as possible. No kids piloting mechs either because that's dumb.
Let's negotiate your watching of... The Big O!
Diebuster is really fantastic though
Oh dude, I keep forgetting to finish that series (or specifically, not watch an episode, pass up a couple, then watch again). But it's in the right idea of what I want to see. Anything else though?
The odd, quirky changes that keep being made make no sense to me.
Also, having both Ed and their teacher fighting Greed simultaneously is a bit of overkill.
Urgh, so it's not following the manga still?
Votoms
Patlabor
08th MS Team Gundam
What's Votoms and Patlabor?
Votoms is a super-gritty real robot series from the 80s. Would almost definitely be up your alley. Patlabor is about a Japan where mecha(called Labors there) are used for construction purposes, but eventually some criminals start stealing them for their own use. So the police create specialized Patrol Labor squads, known as Patlabors. It's also quite good.
No. There's nothing to it so far except exposition, fanservice, and nonsense direction. At least at this point in Index, someone had been stabbed in the gut and someone else had fought some kind of magical church ifrit.
Votoms is an old show, which I haven't seen. It was a favorite of our former resident mecha enthusiast. I have seen the newer Votoms: Pailsen Files, and while I got bored of it, it fits your criteria. It's like an 80's action movie with mechs. Just tough guys killin mans with their giant robots.
I don't think I can even comprehend the very existence of a show with more exposition than Index. It hurts just thinking about it.
Oh, it is plotwise. There's just little changes here and there which are almost always for the worse. For example:
Ed/Al have their heart to heart with their teacher. She goes to talk to someone about hypnosis or something to make Al remember his time in the gate. Ed remembers he didn't do his annual report, decides to go to South HQ to do it since it's just two train stations away. Thus, Al is left alone, gets the note, gets kidnapped, etc - while Ed's away and Izumi's busy.
While in South HQ, the Fuhrer ends up there on inspection of the military bases, Armstrong along as a bodyguard. He's curious what Ed's doing in the South, he mentions that they were visiting their former teacher. Bradley gives Ed a free pass on the annual report due to their previous work, Ed thanks him and heads back immediately. Bradley and Armstrong tail Ed, with the intent of attempting to recruit Izumi since Ed/Al are so talented, so their teacher must be too.
Meanwhile, Izumi wonders where Al got off to, the same "someone saw him go into this bar, etc, etc" happens, she busts in by herself, kicking ass as she goes, and she ends up breaking her hand against Greed. Al tells her to stop, that Greed might know something about how to get the bodies back, and to go back and get Ed. So she leaves, gets back to the shop right as Ed arrives. She mentions the Homonculus thing to Ed while Bradley is within hearing distance. So Ed goes to get his brother, the fights happen the same way, etc, etc.
So plotwise, there's not really anything different. But why Bradley was there changes, both in terms of being in the city and in how he knew Greed was there. Bradley's questioning whether Ed struck a deal with Green gets a different light, since he overheard the bit when Izumi was explaining to Al. And by trying to shift around the "whys" and still include all the exchanges, some of the stuff gets really....off. Like...why the hell did Izumi bust in during the Greed fight in the first place? It served literally zero purpose. That sort of junk
So no, it's following the manga for the important stuff. It just seems like they're being different for the sake of being different in some small ways needlessly, and almost always for the worse.
The main character actually is (supposedly) a teenager (he's 18), but looking at how he acts and looks there's no way I would've known that without someone telling me.
Fantasy: Moribito
Supernatural: Death Note
Slice-of-life: Azumanga Daioh(The manga, too)
Romance(with mecha...): Eureka 7
Post-apocalyptic: Tokyo Magnitude 8
Medieval/Renaissance: Spice and Wolf
Mecha(Real)/War story: Flag
Mecha(Comedy): Martian Sucessor Nadesico
Action: Black Lagoon
In it's own catagory altogether: Baccano!
Currently painting: Slowly [flickr]
Currently painting: Slowly [flickr]
I appreciated the show's choice to spend nearly the entire first episode slice of lifing the main character who's name I forget. It gives you a much better feeling to who she is rather than go for the easy route of 5 minutes of "Man, being a teenager sucks" followed by the quake.
Currently painting: Slowly [flickr]
Once they hit the jungle that's where things take off.
I stopped watch the first episode at the point where he's like, HEEEY COME ON LEMME CHECK YOUR WOOOUNNND when out in space with the enemy. If there's anymore of that kind of dialog on a somewhat persistent basis let me know now so I can not watch it.
Yeah I knew that was coming the moment he said
That in itself doesn't bother me, it's a matter of how they handle it. I'm gonna take DotS' word on it and finish the series though.
I never got to episode 12 due to someone saying I should skip it. I'm wondering if I should go ahead and watch it.
They did a fairly good job on those terms and the series holds itself up well outside of that. The whole checking the enemy's wounds is more his personality than anything else. He's just naive at the start of the series.
Thetheroo's Reactions to School Days
Interest
Agreement
Doubt 2
Ep 1: Lull, leads into Distrust
Ep 2: Safety
Ep 3: Security
The Cat. The Bag.
Ep 4: Peering into the Darkness
Gazing, the mind wanders
Ep 5-10: The Darkness Looks Back
Falling over the edge
Ep 5-10 (Complete): Descent. The mind tries to comprehend oblivion but only sees black, and the hands only feel the cold darkness of the abyss
Ep 11 (Start): His mouth opens
Ep 11 (End): He does not scream, but still something is heard
Episode 12 and beyond
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*Beathes in* *Breathes out*
Is it over?
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People walk by a man in tattered clothing slumped against an alley wall.
He holds a sign.
He babbles gibberish.
Across the street, a gentleman looks at the theater marquee. "School Days. I believe I shall enter and give myself a viewing whatnot." From behind the Tatted man jumps him and screams.
"Sekaimotokojerkassdumbvomitmyearwhatswrongnothingswrongcantbewrongohitswrongkotonohagoogoogaga"
There's more to be seen and heard,
but I'll end this story here.