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Giant Bomb #8 | It's a Hit!
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I do find it weird when people have a massive general dislike for anime, unless you just don't like anything animated ever.
Hot Coldman
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We do need a good anime thread on the site, to be fair. AnimeGAF is sort of into the whole "black hole of despair and moe" thing.
depends when you visit
Zabant
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Yes waiter, I'll take a side of self-loathing to go with my anime please.
Every time I visit the Two Best Friends thread on the forum, all they talk about is anime. So that can maybe be a backup anime thread if you like that Youtube channel (they've more or less based everything they do on Giant Bomb, so there's that).
Hot Coldman
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I don't visit that frequently, but that's generally what I see! Not that it's a bad thread, not at all.
I don't see Dan as "another Jeff" at all, and I've been a Dan fan for a long time, since I found out about the Replay series on Game Informer.
Dan is super positive, full of energy, and excited about video games pretty much all the time (unless you talk about stuff he doesn't understand, like soccer or whatever), Jeff often seems pretty negative. Did you hear how excited Dan was to bring up Tail of the Sun in that Long Night quick look, when Jeff couldn't be any less interested in that weird game?
If anything, Dan seems like some sort of weird amalgam of Jeff and Vinny, and I'm not sure how that's a bad thing.
yup
exactly
plus, if we're all being honest here, i think we all know the best hire to diversify the crew is hip hop gamer
think about it
Oh yeah, I can totally see it. The rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle would make a really good cutesy talking animal sidekick. The pulley could be what gives Guybrush his magical pirate powers.
I watched the first half of Death Note some time ago. Pretty excellent show. I've also watched some anime-ass anime in my time, but stopped since I could barely keep up with "real" TV shows. It's definitely something you have to dedicate yourself to.
(also, at the end of the day, Det. Conan is still the GOAT)
(also, at the end of the day, Det. Conan is still the GOAT)
But Guybrush's only power is the ability to hold his breath for 10 minutes.
Well, yeah, that's what made the rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle choose him as the newest member of the cute magical pirate squad. He's going to need that ability when they set out on their magical adventures in outer space. Duh.
GB was Free! before Free! even existed, son!
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Giantbomb was a swimming show with a lot of homoerotic subtext?
Take out the swimming part and they're exactly the same with the same fanbase.
JANK IMMINENT!
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I can't say that I've seen a lot of giantbomb slashfiction or gay fanart, but I guess I can see your point.
I can't say that I've seen a lot of giantbomb slashfiction or gay fanart, but I guess I can see your point.
I hope you never will!
It looks like you talk to robots using a headset in order to solve mysteries.
Keyser Soze
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Randomly asked Google what Giant Bomb is...
I specifically like the dating service part
I specifically like the dating service part
It's because of the massive distance between how humans actually speak, act, think, and feel compared to how it's portrayed in anime shows. Plenty of other animated entertainment don't seem to have this problem.
Don't want to turn this into a massive anime debate, people are free to like what they like, I just don't understand how people enjoy something so unrelatable. Whenever I hear one of those 5 minute protracted monologues where a character talks to themselves about how he/she must overcome and get stronger, I can't help but feel it's either because the show is so simply written they can't portray it through regular means like plot and subtext, or the writers think their audience is too emotionally/intellectually inept to pick up on it in any other way.
There's also the whole cultural influence that I would go scorched earth on if I had the power, but that's stereotyping slightly.
With so many other amazing mediums out there, I just look at anime and think why? It seems to have no redeeming value other than being designed as an extended time occupier for children with hours to fill every day.
Broder Salsa
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Only just watched that UFC quick look... That was quite something lol
Oh come on. Sitcoms have ridiculous unrealistic conversations all the goddamn time. Any scene in any medium that doesn't have someone going "Uh", "Um" or pausing mid sentence to repeat their own words is straight out of fantasy.
If you think all anime is just shonen haato friendship-is-the-power bullshit you've already slashed your own damn tendons instead of opening your eyes. It's like judging the entire medium of movies because you only watch Dreamworks pictures.
If you think all anime is just shonen haato friendship-is-the-power bullshit you've already slashed your own damn tendons instead of opening your eyes. It's like judging the entire medium of movies because you only watch Dreamworks pictures.
You should watch some good ones. Check out the films by Satoshi Kon. His stuff is like watching a live-action movie. Beautiful music and animation and cool characters. The character designs in his movies tend to look more realistic as well.
Generalizing anime is like generalizing comics. They're not all about superheroes. There are ones out there that will match your taste.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Well, I don't want it to turn into a huge anime debate either, but my statement was more that anime is such a general term covering so many different topics, covering a pretty wide range of styles that it's useless to stereotype it into a singular nebulous term.
NumberThree
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Don't kid yourselves; 5 Centimeters Per Second, Berserk and Naruto are all pretty much the same.
Amazing.
Indeed. "Anime" isn't a genre, it's an animation style that can be used on every genre of storytelling. JoJo and Cowboy Bebop are both anime, even if they couldn't be any more different in tone and style. People who dismiss anime as one big thing mainly think of it as Dragon Ball Z and "pervy" stuff, and doing that is the same as dismissing hip hop because you don't like Lil' Wayne or video games because you've heard that all you do in those is killing hookers. It's ignorant.
And this is coming from someone who's not that into anime, but that's mainly because I don't have the time (all this Giant Bomb content isn't gonna watch itself!).
Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion might as well have been the same series
We posting on a video game focused forum about dudes who talk over and about said video games for hours each week. I'm fairly certain everyone here has enough free time to watch chinese cartoons
I cried tears of joy when I watched that movie.
Yeah? And Oni Chichi is a hentai.
You may not want to start an argument, but some people might not abide by such staggering ignorance.
Keyser Soze
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chickdigger802
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Dan should watch anime. it really isn't that different from wrestling.
infinityBCRT
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So I was thinking, man Dan should do an Endurance Run of Shaolin Monks after he professed his love of it recently. But I just found out he already did one when he was at game informer with Andrew Reiner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehk1baknq58
Jason also pops in and talks a little bit (at least in this first episode).
Jason also pops in and talks a little bit (at least in this first episode).
Jimmyfenix
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You all know my stance on anime.
TharpDaddy
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It's a shame Jeff and Dan didn't get into another mission, i think they would have been able to play as Franky who Dan loved. I'm happy they actually enjoyed the game and absurdity somewhat, as a One Piece fan i should love the game.
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