Author Topic: What Anime are you watching? (Read 367143 times)

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1950 on:** Oct 22, 2013, 08:28:22 PM »

I'm still pissed that Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero and Campione won't be getting continued/second seasons. Hopefully Devil Is a Part-Timer does, because that was funny as hell. Watch it if you haven't already.

IDE · « **Reply #1951 on:** Oct 23, 2013, 04:17:16 AM »

I was just looking at Aesthetica the dub...

Also there is a new Devil is a part timer rip off about the daughter of the demon lord who gets a job at an electronics store, but the electronics in this world run on magic. The main character is a guy who was training to become a hero but since the dark lord has been defeated there's no reason to be a hero (it seems) and he works in the store too.

IDE · « **Reply #1952 on:** Oct 23, 2013, 04:19:44 AM »

Yuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku wo Ketsui Shimashita

The story revolves around Raul, a boy who did not become a Hero, since the demon lord was already defeated just before his Hero exams. His dreams dashed, Raul spends his days working at a magic shop in the capital. One day, a part-time job seeker appears at the shop with an amazing résumé:

Name: Phino
Previous Occupation: Demon Lord Heir
Motive: Because my father was defeated

The work comedy revolves around this former Hero-in-training and the daughter of the demon lord.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1953 on:** Oct 23, 2013, 08:15:50 PM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 21, 2013, 09:26:20 AM

I think he's exaggerating, but I do believe that money is the ultimate reason it never took off. Specifically, it is a relatively unknown franchise that is not original to the film studio, so they weren't willing to go on it. In my view they could have redone the Cowboy Bebop animated feature for less than $100M easily. They were also probably looking at the lack of success of movies like Serenity, which is the closest thing to a Cowboy Bebop movie I can think of.

But if they want to do a CB im preeeetty sure most of it has to be done with computer graphics and they would have to be GOOD and that means a lot of $$$$$
Im also sure Keanu would have just asked for little or no pay at all (since hes known to do that) . So it might not have been half a billion but def more than 100m, and like you said it is not a super popular series so not many people would have been attracted to it (especially after the huge steam of shit that was the DB movie- or so Ive heard, I am never going to watch it on general principle)

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1954 on:** Oct 23, 2013, 09:06:37 PM »

I don't think a lot of CG would be necessary outside the space and flying scenes. To be honest that doesn't really occur that often in the show, so hopefully it wouldn't have in the movie, either. I wouldn't see it costing more than Serenity, which was $39M in 2005 ($46.7M adjusted for inflation)...so it's super doable, especially with the lead and primary pusher of the flick doing what he can to get it made. I really wish they'd take the gamble on it. It's not often that you get a known quantity such as Keanu Reeves who is passionate for the material and would be able and willing to to contribute far more than an acting credit to the sum of things.

IDE · « **Reply #1955 on:** Oct 25, 2013, 06:15:44 PM »

This part timer rip off show is growing on me, I don't usually go in for these boobs and buns bouncing shows (I see enough of this in real life), but this one is different somehow I think maybe the premise does it for me.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1956 on:** Oct 26, 2013, 05:24:47 AM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 23, 2013, 09:06:37 PM

I don't think a lot of CG would be necessary outside the space and flying scenes. To be honest that doesn't really occur that often in the show, so hopefully it wouldn't have in the movie, either. I wouldn't see it costing more than Serenity, which was $39M in 2005 ($46.7M adjusted for inflation)...so it's super doable, especially with the lead and primary pusher of the flick doing what he can to get it made. I really wish they'd take the gamble on it. It's not often that you get a known quantity such as Keanu Reeves who is passionate for the material and would be able and willing to to contribute far more than an acting credit to the sum of things.

Please send this to all the Hollywood execs in charge. Lets start a movement
Maybe CB is just too beautiful to be touched. Damn, I rather it stay as it is before fucking Will Smith decides his uggo daughter can play Faye or some shit.
Can you imagine if they ever try to make Evangelion

Rama · « **Reply #1957 on:** Oct 27, 2013, 08:41:26 PM »

With a script that kept it in mind you could bring in CB on a pretty low budget. You would really only need one really good space sequence. Probably an act 2 wrap up. The rest could be done on a few sets (like the BeBop it's self) and location shooting meant to stand in for places like Mars or Casinos in space. I mean in you can use a Brewery for the Engine room of the Enterprise, then why the hell not.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1958 on:** Oct 28, 2013, 06:49:42 AM »

Quote from: Rama on Oct 27, 2013, 08:41:26 PM

With a script that kept it in mind you could bring in CB on a pretty low budget. You would really only need one really good space sequence. Probably an act 2 wrap up. The rest could be done on a few sets (like the BeBop it's self) and location shooting meant to stand in for places like Mars or Casinos in space. I mean in you can use a Brewery for the Engine room of the Enterprise, then why the hell not.

Bu-but if its pretty low budget it would definitely show! It would look corny as hell too. You cannot do CB and have only one scene in space. Most of the best fighting scenes happen in space when they are in their spaceships and stuff

Rama · « **Reply #1959 on:** Oct 28, 2013, 07:44:49 PM »

Well I mean one big action scene in space. There would a shit ton of establishing shots, but those won't eat up your budget as much as fast paced space action. I mean you could spread out the budget for a lot of shorter space sequences, but I think it would be better to have one large amazing scene that people would talk about then little ones that become common place. There would be lots of the Bebop taking off and landing and traveling through space gates, but there would be only one sequence with say the Swordfish and whatever Faye's ship is called dog fighting with bad guys. And besides once you do one time type of action you don't want to do it again in the same movie. The viewers will just see it as something they have already seen.

And by low budget I'm talking maybe 40-60 mill. That really isn't low budget, but for a movie like this it would be pretty low. I mean you can make a professional looking Hollywood movie for 5 Mil...but it's going to look like Clerks 2, and not Avengers.

If I was writing a CB movie the big last action scene would be a Spike vs. type scene. Much like we saw in say ""Pierrot le Fou" or the end of ""The Real Folk Blues". Jet, Faye, and Ed would have to find themselves someplace else tied up with maybe and underling or something. But all of these would be done in a more closed setting...I mean if anything the Jet/Faye/Ed stuff would be the more pretty to look out, because I wouldn't want to detract from the conflict of Spike.

I mean at the end of the day despite how pretty it is, BeBop is more Noir then it is Sci-Fi. It has more in common with say The Maltese Falcon then it does SW.

IDE · « **Reply #1960 on:** Oct 29, 2013, 02:19:02 AM »

Strike the Blood

Tokyo Ravens

B E C K · « **Reply #1961 on:** Oct 30, 2013, 01:26:20 PM »

I'm watching Nodame Cantabile on Crackle. I like it, it's cute. Too bad they don't have the second season available though but it wraps up nicely so no major complaints on that score.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1962 on:** Oct 31, 2013, 03:53:48 AM »

Quote from: Rama on Oct 28, 2013, 07:44:49 PM

Well I mean one big action scene in space. There would a shit ton of establishing shots, but those won't eat up your budget as much as fast paced space action. I mean you could spread out the budget for a lot of shorter space sequences, but I think it would be better to have one large amazing scene that people would talk about then little ones that become common place. There would be lots of the Bebop taking off and landing and traveling through space gates, but there would be only one sequence with say the Swordfish and whatever Faye's ship is called dog fighting with bad guys. And besides once you do one time type of action you don't want to do it again in the same movie. The viewers will just see it as something they have already seen.

And by low budget I'm talking maybe 40-60 mill. That really isn't low budget, but for a movie like this it would be pretty low. I mean you can make a professional looking Hollywood movie for 5 Mil...but it's going to look like Clerks 2, and not Avengers.

CB should not look like Clerks 2
Anyways youre sort of right. Sort of

B E C K · « **Reply #1963 on:** Nov 04, 2013, 01:03:29 PM »

Merla and I have been rewatching Twelve Kingdoms. Kinda annoyed that all of this time the story hasn't been continued. Some of it's been written for years, they could've at least made an OVA.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1964 on:** Nov 04, 2013, 07:01:29 PM »

I've always intended to watch that, but I have a massive beef with purposefully unfinished anime ever since Kare Kano.

I'm currently tackling Aquarion Evol. I watched the previous Aquarion and was not blown away by it, though it was very pretty. This one is even prettier, and I'm starting to see the tie-ins to the original series manifest. But it makes me remember just how non-memorable I found the original to be. The sequel seems to fare better so far, but the characters are still hard to like. It's a series about destined lovers being split apart for 12,000 years and being brought back together, only to relive the cycle. This looks like a second cycle, but with caveats thrown in. I'll have more to say as I wrap it up.

B E C K · « **Reply #1965 on:** Nov 13, 2013, 12:09:53 PM »

Regarding Twelve Kingdoms, it's still pretty good though. It doesn't end on a cliffhanger or anything, there's just some unanswered questions. There's four basic story arcs in the anime and the narrative within each of the arcs does have a beginning, middle, and end. You kinda wish it continued and resolved some things as well as told you more about the world since there are kingdoms we never get to visit.

B E C K · « **Reply #1966 on:** Jan 29, 2014, 11:19:55 PM »

Finished and am in the process of re-watching Big Windup, a baseball anime. It's available dubbed on Crackle. I really, really like it. I wish there was more of it. I'd watch 200 episodes of this shit. And I'm actually learning stuff from this show. Go fig.

B E C K · « **Reply #1967 on:** Jan 29, 2014, 11:20:29 PM »

Oh, and also rewatching Toradora. I wish that show had an English dub.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1968 on:** Jan 30, 2014, 12:28:41 PM »

Strike the Blood is awesome so far.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1969 on:** Jan 30, 2014, 09:46:59 PM »

Still dying to see Wind Rises. Why do they have to put Joseph Gordon Lewitt as the main guy's voice? Why is there a need to dub it to begin with? WHY

B E C K · « **Reply #1970 on:** Jan 30, 2014, 11:27:47 PM »

Quote from: Faye Valentine on Jan 30, 2014, 09:46:59 PM

Still dying to see Wind Rises. Why do they have to put Joseph Gordon Lewitt as the main guy's voice? Why is there a need to dub it to begin with? WHY

EWWWWWWW. *confirms it on Wikipedia* EWWWWWW. I actually have nothing against the guy but nooooooo. Christ, pick voices instead of from the celebrity black book for once. I swear, they do this shit and only one or two actors deliver while the rest phone that shit in.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1971 on:** Jan 31, 2014, 08:24:03 PM »

Word.
Funny thing is that Miyazaki chose Hideaki Anno (the guy who created and directed/s Evangelion) because hes not like a "celebrity"

The main song (in the trailer too) Hikoki gumo give me feels.

"Miyazaki was inspired to make the film after reading this quote from Horikoshi: "All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful."
:goosebumps:

B E C K · « **Reply #1972 on:** Feb 13, 2014, 10:37:02 PM »

I didn't realize my Bluray player has a Crunchy Roll channel and it has a shit-ton of stuff on it. So I marathoned a good portion of Sword Art Online. It started off really, really good and then devolved into boring shit at break-neck speed. And the elf-shit or whatever. Yuck. Bleh. Very disappointed in it overall. It really had great potential there but it was like it remembered it had to be tripe by-the-numbers animu and threw a bunch of tired cliches and characters into the story. Also, it needed more Klein.

I also started Bodacious Space Pirates, which I'm sure has to get better but that first episode lost me. I plan to try again later. Maybe. But I was just, 'MEH, what is this?' I was bored.

I also started Free. Haruko or whatever his name is gets on my effin' nerves. The other guys I can deal with. Even that bitchy purple-haired one. But the main character is asping it up over here big-time. Even worse than freakin' Cumberbatch-Sherlock. He's like the lead dude from Nodame Cantabile but someone sucked out his personality and gave him muscles. I hate it when a show's gotta go make the "hero" an insufferable twat. The dude in Free has two bubbly, nice friends who don't appear to get anything from their relationship with him other than he's a "beautiful" swimmer. I've only seen 2 eps. No idea if he improves but I'm not getting my hopes up.

EDIT: His name was Haruka. Close enuf.

B E C K · « **Reply #1973 on:** Feb 13, 2014, 10:43:53 PM »

Oh, and I saw this thing with a cat. Chi's Sweet Home. Each ep is very short and they have to play the freakin' theme song every single time, which gets old fast. Chi's super-cute, but that damn show tugs on my feels way too much. And I only saw four episodes.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1974 on:** Feb 15, 2014, 11:56:55 AM »

Space Pirates gets much better once they get over the whole "doing this for school" crap. After the first three or four it begins to move forward and develop into something good.

Thanks for the head's up on Sword Art. I have that series downloaded but haven't begun to watch it. It's looks like a very pretty but fairly shallow show.

Free just looked way too gay for me.

Thankfully the subgroup who does the fansub of Strike the Blood should be coming up with the newest episode later today. This arc has been underwhelming, but it's at the halfway point. Stuff should start slamming home pretty quickly. I've been keeping up with Kill La Kill releases, but I haven't actually watched them since the third or fourth episode. Have no idea if it's even worth keeping up with, but I guess I'll find out soon enough.

B E C K · « **Reply #1975 on:** Feb 15, 2014, 10:25:39 PM »

I like the look of studio Trigger's material. Kinda from a design/animation perspective. Not really moved nor laughing at loud nor am I really involved in the plot of Kill La Kill. It's weird for the sake of being weird but doesn't pull that off as well as Panty & Stocking imo. And I can't get over those outfits. So you have, like, living clothing? And its powerful living clothing that gives you powets and shit? So WHY wouldn't you be completely clothed then? It just nags at me. I've seen maybe six or seven episodes here and there. I do actually plan to watch the rest sometime.

I swear, I came across a couple of boards that are completely in love with Sword Art Online almost as much if not more than Attack on Titan but it's no where near AOT. Great concept. I loved the initial idea. The first ep was wonderful. But meh. The second episode is mostly predictable. You think something is gonna come of the ending to that episode because that was interesting but nope. Our guy earns a rep and that's it. He has an adventure here, has an adventure there. He's kinda dull. And pretty soon he starts to dig this chick that manages to bore me even more than he does. The bad guys are cardboard. Which is a shame. Because proper villains could've carried this show better.

I finished what I could of Free. (About three eps here and there weren't available to me.) It's as gay as possible without being overtly gay. And the plot of moody, bitchy dude just wanting to swim with his old friends again is pretty damn weak. But he can't admit he wants to... or something. And the freestyle swimming guy inspires him... or something. But he can't admit it or something. Like, go swim with them, man. What's with the 12 episodes of drama just to get there? Lots of pretty mens though. Will watch Season 2. Hopefully there'll be more fun and less feels going on there.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1976 on:** Feb 16, 2014, 08:36:50 PM »

I realize it's been a while, but I don't remember that kind of melodramatic crap from high school. I just remember wishing I was somewhere else.

B E C K · « **Reply #1977 on:** Feb 18, 2014, 08:50:33 AM »

Free would've been better if they actually went for legitimate drama actually. One of the main guys moves away from the others when they're kids and a bunch of fisherman die (including one of the character's fathers) but it's like the show's determined not to be a bummer so it doesn't play any of this up at all. The logic here is Dude2 said he was going to give up swimming because Dude1 beat him in a race when they were kids but Dude1 was actually inspired by Dude2 to swim and when Dude2 quit Dude1 quit but that was a lie because Dude2 was more inspired than ever but Dude1 never knew this so Dude1 never took up swimming again but Dude1 likes to swim so damn much he soaks in the bathtub all the time but Dude2 just wants to swim with him again. HUH? LOL The show's best when it doesn't focus on fuckery like this. I'm just gonna assume there is huge cultural context here that I'm missing. I still liked Free overall but that crap really made me scratch my head.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1978 on:** Feb 23, 2014, 09:34:58 PM »

Was going to start watching Space Dandy but I don't like the opening.

B E C K · « **Reply #1979 on:** Feb 25, 2014, 12:04:43 AM »

Watched some eps of some anime "Say I Love You." Not certain of the opinion I'm supposed to form on this. This awkward chick has no friends, kicks a popular dude and he's all in love with her. He follows her around to the point where he knows some of her habits and then "saves" her from a stalker (but, like, what were you, dude? you were kinda doing the same shit) by basically forcing a kiss on her. The rest of the show has its moments and the guy's not a mean fellow or anything but my creep-o-meter went on and never shut itself off. And then in the second ep, she's stalkin' him. I mean, I get they're hormonal teens and it's not a terrible show... but yeah... Something about it rubs me the wrong way.