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Post by Donk on Oct 1, 2018 2:43:07 GMT
Noticed this thread hasn't been made yet.
What is everybody's favourite anime? What are people watching? Any good recommendations?
Mine so far is the Gundam series. Universal Century, not the shitty alternate universes that should never have been conceived. What a waste of resources that could have been used to expand UC.
Though I must admit I am trying to watch Gundam ZZ and it's quite painful to get through. I will prevail!
For manga I'm collecting MSG Thunderbolt. I watched the anime last year and fell in love. I also have the first two MSG The Origin collected in hardback (not to be confused with MS The Origin OVA series).
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Post by Kaiser Arian on Oct 1, 2018 20:51:36 GMT
My top 9 made in 2015. Fast-efficient posting! Barely seen 10 episodes of Gintama since 2017... too busy with current global affairs!
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Post by Donk on Oct 2, 2018 10:48:44 GMT
My top 9 made in 2015. Fast-efficient posting! Barely seen 10 episodes of Gintama since 2017... too busy with current global affairs! I'm not seeing any Gundam there... >
Thumbs up for Legend of the Galactic Heroes though. I'm currently reading the English translated books.
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Post by Kaiser Arian on Mar 14, 2019 8:19:24 GMT
Gintama time!
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Post by Kaiser Arian on Aug 27, 2019 5:19:11 GMT
Two One Piece openings (with characters, journey and artstyle to consider)
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Post by Iakus on Aug 29, 2019 23:40:16 GMT
I have discovered the old Robotech series is available on Amazon.
I never actually watched it as a kid, though I read the books.
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Post by Onishiro on Aug 30, 2019 6:15:16 GMT
So, has anyone else seen Kimetsu No Yaiba/Demon Slayer? I'd say its this year's best new anime and the story is interesting with plenty of laughs mixed into a pretty grim story. I'm looking forward to its next season. The animation is quite stunning at times. EDIT: Also forgot to mention I finished Jojo: Golden Experience. I love the main characters for the most part aside from Narancia, whom I found annoying, and the style is too pimp to not like. I really need to watch the older series but I found myself liking Bucciatetti as much as Giorno. That guy had one hell of a story arch, especially in the end. My biggest gripes with the show is its strict adherence to a formula that got predictable and exhausting by the train arch: villain attacks, 2-3 member incapacitated or not available, they go back and forth with asspull tricks until finally, the villain does one last asspull and then loses. I did find myself skipping through some of it but decided to finish the last arch uninterrupted. {https://i.imgur.com/AXqOMrX.png} I was a bit disappointed that the Boss wasn't anyone notable to JoJo or Dio and just some random guy with a powerful stand. All in all, the use of Jodeci's music at the end of the first half was surprising and funny, and of course, one of the best things to come from it was the torture dance. That had me laughing.
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Post by Iakus on Sept 13, 2019 19:32:27 GMT
Wait in The Macross Saga, Minmei was only fifteen at the start of the series?
Rick just turned into a real creeper in my mind.
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Post by Iakus on Oct 31, 2019 23:00:27 GMT
Finished The Macross Saga.
On to the Masters.
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Post by Iakus on Nov 1, 2019 17:07:16 GMT
Okay, I did some reading...
It sounds like Robotech doesn't actually have an ending?
The Sentinels never actually got animated, the comic ended prematurely, and the last book in the novel series isn't considered canon?
Plus this "Shadow Chronicles" film ends on a cliffhanger, setting up a FOURTH Robotech War and the SDF-3's fate is still up in the air?
Man, is this a rabbit hole I really want to go down?
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Post by Iakus on Nov 30, 2019 16:43:21 GMT
Finished The Masters. Didn't like it nearly as much as The Macross Saga. Dana wasn't very likable and the characters aren't nearly as memorable.
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Post by Onishiro on Dec 4, 2019 2:04:36 GMT
Picked up Jojo Part 3: Stardust Crusaders. I'm liking older Joseph and Jotaro's interactions are very entertaining. What I disliked is that Jotaro just seems flawless and just powers through everything. Haven't quite gotten to the second season yet but so far Golden Wind is still my favorite.
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Post by Iakus on Feb 23, 2020 22:13:13 GMT
I'm giving Attack on Titan a try, watched the two part first episode.
Pretty grim story concept. Like.. The Walking Dead, but the walkers are all giants...
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Post by Onishiro on Mar 4, 2020 0:23:34 GMT
I'm giving Attack on Titan a try, watched the two part first episode. Pretty grim story concept. Like.. The Walking Dead, but the walkers are all giants... If there's one anime I'd say "stick with it, the payoffs are worth it" about, it's this one. Season 3's second half is a WTFbomb and there's buildup that makes it all make sense. Also a ton of exposition in between so it's not all action all the time, which balances the show out. I really need to start Gintama. It's been a while since I've seen a genuinely funny shonen series. Otherwise, I'm waiting on OPM season 3, Demon Slayer season 2, and AoT season 4.
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Post by Iakus on Mar 11, 2020 15:31:39 GMT
About halfway through the first season of Attack on Titan. I'm enjoying it, though I admit I have to turn my brain off with some details like Where does all the mass come from when Eren turns into a titan? [/quote] The combat certainly looks cool, but I can't help but think the tactics are hideously inefficient. No wonder they take such hideous losses when everyone thinks they're Spiderman-Deadpool hybrids! But I'm sure I'm overthinking it. The characters are certainly...effusive...in expressing their emotions. Very few stoic characters. Especially Armin and Eren. I'mn ot really clear if this is supposed to be future-Earth or a fictional world? A theory: It can't be a coincidence that Eren emerges from his titan form in the same spot as the titan "weak spot". Are these things really just fleshy mecha gone haywire?
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Post by Iakus on Mar 19, 2020 21:25:14 GMT
Finished the first season. Unfortunately, Netflix only had the first season, and PrimeVideo requires paying for subsequent seasons.
Ah well, back to Babylon 5 I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 22:42:13 GMT
Finished the first season. Unfortunately, Netflix only had the first season, and PrimeVideo requires paying for subsequent seasons. Ah well, back to Babylon 5 I guess. Crunchyroll has it for free on their app. It has commercials which sometimes cuts dialog a bit but otherwise free is good. You've got to see the next 2 seasons, it's one of the best stories.
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Post by Iakus on Mar 21, 2020 17:19:41 GMT
Well, I started the 2nd season. WIth English dubbing rather than subtitles. Very different experience. And the first episode had at LEASAT two WTF moments for me {https://i.imgur.com/AXqOMrX.png}Titans being in the walls. And the revelation that not only does the Beast Titan look remarkably different form the others, but it can speak as well. Even Eren and Annie couldn't do that in titan form IN other news:
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Post by Onishiro on Mar 24, 2020 3:01:36 GMT
Well, I started the 2nd season. WIth English dubbing rather than subtitles. Very different experience. And the first episode had at LEASAT two WTF moments for me {https://i.imgur.com/AXqOMrX.png}Titans being in the walls. And the revelation that not only does the Beast Titan look remarkably different form the others, but it can speak as well. Even Eren and Annie couldn't do that in titan form IN other news: Your questions about season 1 will be answered soon. At least some of them.
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Post by Iakus on Mar 25, 2020 22:28:08 GMT
Okay, coming up on the halfway pint of season 2, and I'm trying to wrap my mind around what is known about titans: {https://i.imgur.com/AXqOMrX.png}Most seem to be mindless devourers of human flesh. Basically rally big zombies. A few are "abnormals" which behave oddly, but are still basically mindless.
Eren, it was assumed, got his ability to assume a titan form by some experiment performed by his father.
But Annie, and now Reiner, Berthold, and Ymir have this ability too. So this process is clearly not unique.
And when a bunch of titans appeared on the inside of Wall Rose (with no sign of a breach), we also learned that Conny's entire hometown vanished. No blood, no bodies, just a bunch of smashed buildings, plus a titan that reminded Conny of his mother.
So, the hints here are that the titans are actually the townsfolk. So, somehow they became titans accidentally? Spontaneously? But they appear to be mindless, not intelligent like Eren, the Female Titan, etc.
So there seem to be at least two types of titans: Intelligent and unintelligent. And even the intelligent ones seem to have factions, since Bertholt/Reiner and Ymir seem to have different goals and priorities. And the normal, dumb titans seem just as happy to eat them as ordinary humans. There might be a third type, the ones inside Wall Rose, that might be from Conny's village, that can move about at night. But they seem no different from standard dumb titans otherwise.
And all titans, smart or dumb, seem to have the same weak spot of the nape of the neck. Where the human is for the smart ones.
So, perhaps ALL titans started out human? And something can trigger a transformation, something that must be rare, or this would be a more common event within the walls, but mundane enough that an entire village can go titan at once accidentally? But unless some extra steps are taken, they go all Giant Cannibal? And there are at least two societies that know this and take steps to make sure it doesn't happen.
Hmm, and how does the Beast Titan fit into this? Bertholt and Reiner are in awe of him. And Historia/Krista, who Ymir is intensely protective of (Historia also looks enough like Armin that they could be siblings.Coincidence or artistic fluke?)
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