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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2640 on: Mar 28, 2019, 10:52:12 PM »
Hehe. I was just quoting The D's signature. I don't feel as strongly about anime now as I did then. I've just accepted that most of it is going to be crap, and even if it isn't complete crap, it will probably still look like crap because of the meat grinder nature of the industry.

And honestly, anime has probably been that way since before I ever got into it. The difference is back in the day, everything we had access to had already been curated for us, and these days we have immediate access to pretty much all of it as it's released.

When the primary medium that anime came across the ocean on was VHS, of course they filtered out the better ones. Now you can download any crap you want.

And the worst stuff seems to be the mass of generic fanservice and harem romance that comes across. Here's one where girls fight each other with their asses. Here's the upteenth one where the sister lusts after the brother because Japan's filled with horny incels like that.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2641 on: Mar 29, 2019, 09:15:01 PM »
The ass-bumping anime was in very poor taste, but it was a hoot...essentially it was a shonen-style fighting anime with boobs and butts instead of fists and feet. But the siscon crap is just gross.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2642 on: Apr 05, 2019, 05:12:35 AM »
Finally started watching Gintama and it is HILARIOUS.  Every episode has me cracking up at their jokes and parodies. Only thing I don't like much is that every 5 episodes or so there's one story that gives me feels (which is ok but I don't like catching feels).

All in all 10/10.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2643 on: Apr 09, 2019, 07:25:19 PM »
Tokyo Godfathers

This movie started off slow and kinda boring but picked up later in the movie. So it's a movie about three homeless people who find a baby in a dumpster and go on an adventure to find the mother. Two of the homeless people I was okay with but the third one, a tall skinny gay drag queen who apparently was bipolar or some shit I found annoying as hell. He was loud, obnoxious, and would go from crying to being enraged in about .25 seconds. Emotional af. I'm sure he was the comic relief of the movie but he just came off as annoying.

As the movie went on I stopped caring about the baby and wanted to see the homeless people resolve their demons. In a way two of them do. Except the runaway girl.

The Japanese have this trope where movies aren't resolved at the end. Like, it looks like the movie will be resolved but it ends without a solid conclusion. I'm pretty sure most of Japan couldn't conclude their way out of a escape room with an open door. A prime example was Your Name, where it implies that the two characters meet up in the end but it doesn't actually show that they do get back together. And it's kinda fucking annoying.

In Tokyo Godfathers, one of the homeless persons was a runaway teen girl who ran away from her strict stoic father. Spoilers, but at the very end of the movie they bump into each other and then Roll Credits. It doesn't show at all that they reconcile. See, I would have loved to see this strict father walk up to his daughter and then start sobbing and holding her, telling her he loves her and he's sorry, and she cries and says that she's sorry, and at that point I'm drowning in my own lake of tears. I mean, that would be some awesome writing.

But no, their meeting and reconciliation is implied because it rolls credits right when they see each other. Japan: We can't write a conclusion worth shit.

In any case it was an okay movie but Paprika and Paranoia Agent are better.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2644 on: Apr 22, 2019, 10:01:57 AM »
Still watching Gintama (just finished watching ep 152, I was crying from laughing too much) but yesterday I watched the final scene of Ashita no Joe (had it recced on youtube) and, holy shit, that ending. Mind you I hadnt even heard of that anime/manga till then but that scene was too much. Has anyone watched it? Im a sucker for the oldies (anime/manga....and men of course)

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2645 on: May 02, 2019, 12:27:31 AM »
Happy to find out that One Punch Man has a second season.

Not so happy that the series is now exclusive to Hulu and no other service. It's not on Netflix or Crunchyroll despite me having accounts on both those services. Welp... time to be a pirate again, yarr!!!
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2646 on: May 03, 2019, 03:37:31 AM »
If you have the opportunity to chell out the first episode of a show called Sarazanmai, do so. It's the first time in a long time that I've leaned back and thought to myself, "This is some Japanese-as-all-fuck anime-ass anime right here."

Like, it's severely fucked, y'all.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2647 on: May 10, 2019, 11:57:12 PM »
Happy to find out that One Punch Man has a second season.

I couldn't not make it through One Punch Man. The whole show is just waiting to see when he is gonna hit a guy. It gets real boring, real fast.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2648 on: May 14, 2019, 03:03:00 PM »
Aw, how far did you get? Even though I liked OPM I don't think I'll bother with next season. Unless it becomes super convenient to watch. Because I don't wanna bother with Hulu or piracy and honestly I'm not sure what the second season has to offer me. I've followed most of the manga redraw or whatever it's called and I was meh on most if it.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2649 on: May 14, 2019, 06:04:30 PM »
I think the most damning thing about OPM S2 is that I haven't seen anyone talking about it. Whereas that first batch was an internet cultural phenomenon like Kill la Kill or Attack on Titan.

Actually, Attack on Titan is a great comparison. Nobody gave a fuck about that show after the first season.

Admittedly, Mob Psycho II was pretty good.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2650 on: May 14, 2019, 07:20:35 PM »
I'm at a standstill as I've been rebuilding my media server ever since last Thursday. Good news is it looks like it'll all be recovered. Then I can start watching stuff again, but I'd been saving up most of everything this season, as I'm not excited about any of it. I read much of the One Punch Man manga that is covered by season 2, and I wasn't impressed. The story just doesn't move at a reasonable pace or accomplish anything when it does.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2651 on: May 14, 2019, 10:48:12 PM »
Aw, how far did you get?

Episode 8.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2652 on: May 17, 2019, 12:43:01 AM »
Yeah, the thing with the Sea King began to wear me out, too. I could see someone ditching the show during that.

Regarding OPM 2, I saw a lot of people talking about how rushed and shitty it looked. I kinda want to see Garou, but it's just that I really don't care to see anything else. And Squirrel's right: the second season doesn't appear like it'll even go anywhere.

Ha ha, Attack on Titan. I loved the first season but then the rest... yeah. Apt comparison. Same damn problem. Who cares where it goes? S1 was a rush to watch but has little rewatch value and the subsequent stuff doesn't really build from that in a meaningful way. More lore. More dead people. More ugly titan things. Whatever.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2653 on: May 17, 2019, 10:25:27 AM »
I finally watched Gurren Lagann awhile back. It was ok....I mean nothing great. Kinda felt bad of Yoko. Every guys she has a thing for dies before they can really even start to a have a relationship. But it got kinda silly when there was a guy in a cockpit of a robot, that was in the cockpit of a robot, that was then in the cockpit of another robot. I mean, ok. I guess.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2654 on: May 17, 2019, 04:33:37 PM »
I could never really get into that. I tried but it didn't stick with me.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2655 on: May 17, 2019, 10:11:45 PM »
But it got kinda silly when there was a guy in a cockpit of a robot, that was in the cockpit of a robot, that was then in the cockpit of another robot. I mean, ok. I guess.
That was kind of the point. It was a loving rib at the super robots genre and is not to ever be taken entirely seriously. You should have hung around for the ultimate showdown at the end, where everyone combined into the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, which was so super-massive it was fighting the corresponding Anti-Spiral monolith by slinging whole galaxies at it while being televised for the Earth audience. It was utterly ridiculous while managing to be freaking awesome.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2656 on: May 17, 2019, 11:07:46 PM »
Oh I watched the whole thing. And I was like....yeah, ok. This went off the deep end.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2657 on: May 18, 2019, 12:08:33 PM »
But that was the whole point. It's Gainax: they asked themselves, how insanely and ridiculously extreme can we go? I believe they successfully answered the question.

In any case, anime library developments: I have successfully recovered about 80-85% of my previous library, and while that's much better than I originally thought, it's quite a drag. Most of the losses were the more recent stuff, but there was some older material lost in the crash, much of which may be difficult to re-locate. That gives me an excuse to actually buy a lot of stuff I'd downloaded while it was airing that I'd like to preserve and support (Kaguyu-sama, Iroduku, AssClass, the Slime show, SSSS.Gridman).

I also lost a goodly portion of my movie and TV show library, but while the TV shows are generally disposable (I doubt I'll ever rewatch the first few seasons of Agents of SHIELD and the Arrowverse shows) I did lose all of Young Justice, Castlevania S2, Venture Brothers S6, and Doom Patrol. But my movie database got hammered. Everything I've ripped or downloaded since the first of the year is toast, all my Tolkien movies are gone (though no great loss for the Hobbit flicks), and my Sean Connery James Bond collection will have to be re-ripped. The good news is most can be re-ripped and re-encoded using my current HandBrake standards (which are far superior to what they were just a year ago). The bad news is most of my blurays have been distributed within the family and will take time to recover.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2658 on: May 18, 2019, 06:10:06 PM »
Well I guess they succeed. I just felt like it had a good start and ruined it at the end.

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« Reply #2659 on: May 18, 2019, 07:03:12 PM »
I can't remember the exact lineage, but I think the people who went on to form Trigger were still working at Gainax during Gurren Lagann? And that seems to be their modus operandi: develop a fantastic premise, then fall out of the tree hitting every branch on the way down. It happened with Kill la Kill, too. I'm told Darling in the Franxx is the same, although admittedly I've only watched the first episode.

I think it's mostly that they struggle with back-to-back production cycles. The first batch is mostly great, the second batch is mostly crap.

Luckily Panty & Stocking never got a followup, they would have found a way to bungle it no doubt.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2660 on: May 18, 2019, 07:39:15 PM »
Gainax has always had problems finishing: look at Evangelion as a prime example. But I felt Lagann did precisely what they wanted it to do. It's take it or leave it, but I had fun though the last half certainly had problems with too much meandering. Darling in the Franxx had a good first half, but the mid-season story reveal fell flat, and they never could dig out of the hole.
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« Reply #2661 on: May 18, 2019, 09:11:03 PM »
Can also confirm on Darling. It was getting good and it went balls to the wall effin' crazy. I just feel like that studio makes whatever the eff they want and could really benefit by having someone around who let's them play with their vision but actually reins them in when it starts going off the rails.

I went ahead and checked out OPM 2 and it was good background fodder while I dicked around on my phone. Garou is not likeable at all and he's a dick so you're not interested in any redemption arc. Too much of the show divides its focus to him and you're stuck hanging around this unlikeable twat. Hikaru Midorikawa can't salvage him. The plot lacks concise direction. There's no feeling of wonder, suspense or silliness like I had from S1. I don't give a shit about the dojo crap. It should've just focused on the monsters. I like a bunch of the characters in this show. King, Metal Bat, Fubuki, Sonic, Genos, Saitama... But five eps in and none of them save this. The execution is just bad. Kinda an extreme opinion but first impression was not great.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2662 on: May 19, 2019, 02:08:46 AM »
It sounds like whereas OPM was always meant to be a HARD satire of battle anime, this followup is just your run-of-the-mill, dime-a-dozen battle anime.

I was digging into Trigger's back catalog, have you guys ever watched When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace or Kiznaiver? I know Space Patrol Luluco is pretty good.

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« Reply #2663 on: May 19, 2019, 07:38:41 PM »
No, I can't say I have. And yes, the feeling of enjoying a satire is just absent. There's more than enough choices for playing this shit straight. Nobody asked for this from OPM.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2664 on: May 28, 2019, 09:37:29 AM »
Has anyone here watched Inu x Boku SS? I LOVE Sugita Tomokazu's voice and saw the panel on that show with him in it, and it looked interesting BUT the main heroine looks like she's 9 while the main guy looks in his twenties. I know why japanese do that but I can't understand why is that a thing.

Still watching Gintama, now on ep 272 (they have up to 367 eps so far... now that the manga is ending-supposedly inb4trolled again- next month, I think they are going to release more episodes sometime this or next year).

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2665 on: May 29, 2019, 07:53:00 AM »
I tried Inu x Boku SS and couldn't stick with it. I don't remember much about it other than I found the girl obnoxious. There were other things too that made me drop it but it's been a while and I can't recall.

I'm watching Fruits Basket a.k.a. this season's safe option. It's decent.
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« Reply #2666 on: Jun 03, 2019, 10:34:13 PM »
That was kind of the point. It was a loving rib at the super robots genre and is not to ever be taken entirely seriously.
As silly as Gurren is for most of the show one of the things I loved about it is that there was actually a semi-serious part of the series. The underlying plot of the show is about Simon coming of age and becoming a man. He goes from literally running away from his problems by burrowing underground to growing a massive pair and facing everything head on. It was like Anno was saying "Sorry for making Shinji such a pussy, here's a character that starts out like Shinji but grows the fuck up."

Gainax has always had problems finishing: look at Evangelion as a prime example.
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Oh yea, Squirrel, you might be interested in this. So, it turns out the Code Geass IP is coming back to life again. I saw Gurren Lagann: Lelouch of the Ressurection in theaters, which is actually the 4th new movie. They came out with 3 movies which were basically retelling the TV series. There's apparently a 10 year plan for the franchise although they haven't said what's coming next.
https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/05/05-1/code-geass-creators-unveil-10-year-plan-for-series

So, my spoilerish review of the Code Geass movie.
It was... okay. Didn't exactly feel worth the $12 I spent to see it. The movie was missing something. I would say that one of the things that made Code Geass entertaining, besides the Sunrise-style giant robot action, was all the plot twists and shocking events and of course Lelouch spending half the series laughing like a literal madman. The movie had none of this, really. If anything, the entire movie felt like it had two purposes, really: Explain how Lelouch comes back to life, and be fanservice for the fans, and it did both. Fanservice especially, as just about every character from the original series shows up, even for a split second, and at the end both Lancelot Albion and Flying Guren show up.

Speaking of fanservice, I was shocked and confused to see Shirley alive. It seems that in the movie remakes that she never dies like she did in the series. And this bugs the hell out of me, because her death was a major thing in the series, a serious emotional scene. And to just, gloss over that and have her alive and well is kinda annoying.

Another thing that bothered me was the Geass of the main villain. It's been pretty established that Geass powers seem to be telepathic or psychic in nature, as every single one of them affects the brain in some way. Lelouch allows him to control minds, Mao's allows him to read minds, Rolo's allows him to cause people to freeze up for a short period, and Charles' causes memories to be erased or replaced. However, the villain in this movie has a geass that allows her to travel 6 hours back in time. Which has nothing to do with the brain. So yea.

The movie I saw was dubbed and the first time I've seen the dub. I'd say that Lelouch is better in Japanese, he has quite the deep voice. But in the dub it's Johnny Yong Bosch, and he voices Lelouch with a much softer voice. Doesn't have the same bite and egotistical commanding voice that the Japanese voice has.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2667 on: Jun 05, 2019, 09:30:43 AM »
I'm not a big fan of the series. The first season was all I've ever seen, though I've obtained the 3 movies for catch-up. I'd heard they had redone some of the key plot points in the movies which seem to be the new canon for the show.
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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2668 on: Jun 05, 2019, 10:36:34 AM »
I never tried Code Geass. As shallow as this sounds, I really dislike the art style. Especially on Lelouch. It somehow puts me off even more than the Escaflowne noses (but I still gave that show a chance, ha ha). And when I read a synopsis, the plot didn't sound like anything I'd be remotely interested in.

As far as stuff I'm watching now, I'm finally getting around to finishing Flying Witch. I started this show when it came out in 2016, but it was too quiet and calm of a show for me to really enjoy it in the noisy shit-fest I used to live in. I think I saw the first two or three eps when it came out:

I'm glad it doesn't seem to be getting into stupid drama.  Probably one of the most slice of life shows I've ever seen even though it's about a witch. The sliciest of slice of lifes. It's truly as if we're just tagging along in these characters lives. That being said, sometimes it comes off as too sleepy and bland. When the Harbinger of Spring comes or they go see the flying whale, it brings a nice sense of wonderment. And the show excels at that type of thing. When we don't get stuff like that and instead spend an episode building to the "suspense" of watching a cat wander around and discover some rando-kids' time capsule, then it's just meh. And the character of Inukai... I don't think we needed this chick. Every time I see her, it's like time's being wasted when we could learn more about somebody more interesting.

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Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Reply #2669 on: Jun 05, 2019, 05:38:25 PM »
I absolutely loved Flying Witch.
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.