Intros used to run as trailers for shows before distributors got creative enough to start editing episodes together for promos. A bad intro can be off-putting for any anime. Speaking of intros, what's with the "characters stand valiantly into the sunset / sunrise" in half-of-all adventure anime intros???
It is far less generic than looking sad or jumping at the same time!
I felt like inserting a montage of running clips but I don't want it to seem like I'm pissing on anyone's favourite anime. Yeah, intros with running, flying, sometimes character is walking down a street with power poles and looking for to the left of right. The sunset / sunrise intro repetition I've seen mainly in 90's-early 2000's anime. Since my wife has me watching the myriad of episodes of Inuyasha (on 130); I've counted 1 sunset outro and two sunrise intros. It's usually just a still frame. It's literally in over 50 anime series / OVAs from the 90's.Just cliched imagery they like to use. One I always notice is many intros like to have characters randomly running...somewhere. Don't know what you want to have a character do, or maybe you have a group and don't know what to do? Just have them running aimlessly in a direction.
You mean like when chibi characters do that jump / hand clap thing and the frames are forward-reversed?
Tbf most OP's are generic af.Just cliched imagery they like to use. One I always notice is many intros like to have characters randomly running...somewhere. Don't know what you want to have a character do, or maybe you have a group and don't know what to do? Just have them running aimlessly in a direction.
I think JoJo nails it with its foreshadowing in their OPs but fun stuff like the first OP is fine as well as long as it isn't too generic like MHA's. (or if the song is great)
I call it the Japanese Gravity Falls.
But if the characters can't look sad or stoic then Fist would have to redo it's second intro =P
True but generic in conception is fine as long as it's visually cool or looks nice in execution. Like Wingman's intro is a buncha cliches from two different genres mashed together but it hooks me regardless.
Japan has to have their chibis =P
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I'll look into that. I'm trying to migrate to web hosted manga from Kindle. Thanks for naming another site. I wanted to forward to you via PM but I think it's locked. I'm out for the night. No sleep this week so far. Peace ✌
Valonquar
You won't regret it! They're the some of the best of their time!
x2, some of my favorites!
Awesome list! Which Fist of the North Star did you like the most (OVA, TV, movie)?
Whoa man! You watch all these in a month or just this year! Some epic titles in there. Didn't care too much for the Dog Warriors (Hakkenden) but then again...I never completed it.
You have many from my "I'm an idiot and regretfully sold or lost this DVD / VHS" list on here: Ah! My Goddess (appears to be the OVA) which is the rare one I sold to my game exchange, NeoTokyo...sold that...the price inflated big-time, Fushigi Yugi...sold it because I wasn't into romantic anime at the time. I love all of those titles I sold, though. My game store would give me credit to buy movies, anime, games, or consoles for anything similar. NeoTokyo I bought in a two-pack with something else under ADV in 2009 for only $20. Now, it's used price looks something like this...
Memories needs a good blu-ray release from Discotek but let's hope they don't pull their standard-def crap. I bought EatMan / Eatman 98' on blu-ray a couple years ago from Discotek and they opaquely write "standard definition blu-ray" on the top slipcase border. I'd also petition the following also get blu-ray releases from Discotek: Neo-freakin'-Tokyo (ADV liquidated everything in 2009...it's time newer publishers grab those titles), GunBuster, Gall-Force (just release em' all in one set), Brother, Dear Brother (as mentioned above), and the Abashiri Family (although, I doubt that will ever happen).
Looking good that intro for Occult Academy (I hope I got that right). A lot of work and trippy visuals the whole ride through. They only caught like half-a-second "what's up?" extras intro take at 1:03. I need to stop by communities more often.
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Space Runaway
Yeah, I don't mind the sd on bd releases if there's no existing hd transfer but sometimes they do that even when there is.
Also there was a successor show to Liquid Television called Cartoon Sushi. I recall one of the shorts they cut up part of the 2nd Genocyber ova to make some weird comedy about farts.
For Memories they've already shown the packaging material and it appears to be a proper hd release:
~Retro Anime Sub-topic of the week~
Here's the big question for all of you: What classic / retro anime gets more hype than it's worth?
Remember: This is a relatively calm and down-to-Earth thread. However, this can also be a contraversial question as your answer for hyped or overrated anime maybe be someone's favorite anime. Tell us which ones were hyped more than they deserved to be -- in your opinion. At the same time, try not to write anything too insulting about those titles as some of them are the reason people are still viewing this thread.
E.G. -- Anime Fan #1: Ninja Scroll sucks and is an overrated piece of crap!
Anime Fan #2: How can you say that? It's a masterful work of art and it's the reason I started watching anime?
I've seen that happen in older anime threads from the 2000's that are likely in GAFs archives. I guess the words I'm looking for when you write your list or one or more hyped anime -- try to use "constructive criticism."
As always have fun! I nominate for this week:
Here are mine:
1. Yu Yu Hakusho
Impression: It's a great anime overall and has an original story that will appeal to anime fans of any generation. Yet, I never really kept up with it after the first season. I saw it getting super mainstream in the States right around the time Toonami picked it up in 2002. Someone close to me was obsessed with YYH, Naruto, and Inuyasha during that time. I'd ask that friend, "Hey, wanna watch some anime?" Their reply, "The only good anime is Yu Yu Hakusho." This person had never heard of YYH prior to the Toonami hype it ended up getting in the U.S.
Anyway, to me the stories start to get a little repetitive and I always felt the writers let Yusuke cheat his way through winning every battle. It wouldn't have hurt him to loose one time. He just magically seems to beat every enemy without applying much effort and I felt the show was losing context by that point. I loved how they wrote the first 20-episodes and the interactive Yusuke had with his classmates and the fights with his teachers. The voice-acting in the English dub is another part I feel gets hyped a lot. I've already mentioned multiple times that Chris Sabat voiced Kuwabara to sound like a middle-aged chain smoker and don't get that. Then there are lines of dialogue where I just wonder what the hell they were doing with the localization. Like this for example:
I get they're trying to add more comedy into the script but it always sounded a bit awkward to me and would result in me switching to the Japanese audio.
2. Dragon Ball Z
I'm not sure if I need to elaborate on this one. Everyone here (like it or not), knows that this is like in the #1 spot on anyone's hype list. I started watching DBZ after completing the 5-seasons of Dragon Ball which I enjoyed up until season 4 (season 5 wasn't my favorite for original Dragon Ball). Then in like 2000, my younger sister (the one who introduced me to anime) and I were watching Toonami promos and saw Dragon Ball Z. The fight scenes and exaggerated power seemed a far cry from Dragon Ball. We're both artists and ended up making a parody comic of DBZ called, "Action-Packed Whoowah!!!" It just seemed like when someone is about to go super saiyan and rocks go anti-gravity that someone let's out a "whoowah" yell or growl. I ended up giving it more of a chance when Funimation released the DVDs around 2003-ish. I still just couldn't get into it. I tend to like anime spin-offs only if they keep the context of their predecessors. It just didn't have the comedy, fan-service, and adventure the way Dragon Ball did and I found adding a mountain of characters would become easily forgettable.
3. Neon Genesis Evangelion
I can't speak highly enough about the earlier works of Hideaki Anno. He brought mecha and adventure anime back to life with Nadia and GunBuster. I expected a lot when I first saw the ADV trailers for Neon Genesis Evangelion some 21-years ago. DVDs were expensive...so I decided to test-drive NGE by buying 2 VHS instead of the full series. All I can say is that it just didn't click with me and by episode 10, I dropped the series. Since that time, I hear a lot of talk and hype go into it and I've lived to see it's numerous sequels. I never could get back into it and even bought the Platinum collection to give it a second try. It just doesn't move me. Great artwork and animation. Great opening theme. But it just seemed a little boring to me...no offense.
So let's see most overhyped anime . .mhm
Number 1: Vision of Escaflowne!!
I remember when it released it was hyped in the german anime community like crazy, the mechs, the animation and especially the music.
My friend and me watched it in one go, a few years later and oh god it was so booooooring and horrible, the story was kinda stupid and these noses?? Music was pretty forgettable too.
At the moment I can't remember any else.
gela94
My wife had the same experience with VoE. She actually told me a few months ago, "It was one of the most boring anime I've ever watched." I remember promos coming on for VoE in the late-90's but I never watched it. I hear many reference it but I'm sticking to what I've heard. The trailer seemed boring enough to cause concern and make me not want to risk watching it fully or partially.
Space Runaway
I remember a lot of promotion going into it but something about it caused me to never really put much attention to it. With 90's anime, I usually get a reference to watch for something aesthetically different in story. Maybe I'll give it a shot someday but it's not currently on my "to watch" list.
Yes. as it wasn't on my list. I always leaned more toward Macross than Mobile Suit Gundam anyway. What made the series Gundam Wing off-putting for me was watching it in the middle of a nerd sweat-fest back in 2006. There were like 4 of these guys watching it in an apartment (I was just stopping by to borrow a guitar that was in the house) and I sat down to watch it. I don't know if it was the episode or the B.O. smell in the room but that moment serves as my first and last impression of Gundam Wing. I think I recall one of the guys actually standing up during one of the scenes where unknown woman mechs up and say, "Yeah, hot robo-girl." Or something like that.
I figure everyone's been in a sweat-pit like that. These were LARP guys during that time. Gundam Wing and WoW were similar experiences. They had a big WoW party with like 10 PCs and large monitors running in a different apartment a few years after the Gundam stench event. Same thing except there were the 6 guys from before and an addition 4 who were just sitting around watching. Fortunately, they had the windows open that night and I had other plans.
Nah the Juan Piece one is extremely genero. (we were talking about tropey OPs) The Monogatari OP was purposely done this way for the 80s aesthetic so it sorta gets a pass though. JoJo's was obvious the best OP ofc.
~Retro Anime Sub-topic of the week~
Here's the big question for all of you: What classic / retro anime gets more hype than it's worth?
Remember: This is a relatively calm and down-to-Earth thread. However, this can also be a contraversial question as your answer for hyped or overrated anime maybe be someone's favorite anime. Tell us which ones were hyped more than they deserved to be -- in your opinion. At the same time, try not to write anything too insulting about those titles as some of them are the reason people are still viewing this thread.
E.G. -- Anime Fan #1: Ninja Scroll sucks and is an overrated piece of crap!
Anime Fan #2: How can you say that? It's a masterful work of art and it's the reason I started watching anime?
I've seen that happen in older anime threads from the 2000's that are likely in GAFs archives. I guess the words I'm looking for when you write your list or one or more hyped anime -- try to use "constructive criticism."
As always have fun! I nominate for this week:
Here are mine:
1. Yu Yu Hakusho
Impression: It's a great anime overall and has an original story that will appeal to anime fans of any generation. Yet, I never really kept up with it after the first season. I saw it getting super mainstream in the States right around the time Toonami picked it up in 2002. Someone close to me was obsessed with YYH, Naruto, and Inuyasha during that time. I'd ask that friend, "Hey, wanna watch some anime?" Their reply, "The only good anime is Yu Yu Hakusho." This person had never heard of YYH prior to the Toonami hype it ended up getting in the U.S.
Anyway, to me the stories start to get a little repetitive and I always felt the writers let Yusuke cheat his way through winning every battle. It wouldn't have hurt him to loose one time. He just magically seems to beat every enemy without applying much effort and I felt the show was losing context by that point. I loved how they wrote the first 20-episodes and the interactive Yusuke had with his classmates and the fights with his teachers. The voice-acting in the English dub is another part I feel gets hyped a lot. I've already mentioned multiple times that Chris Sabat voiced Kuwabara to sound like a middle-aged chain smoker and don't get that. Then there are lines of dialogue where I just wonder what the hell they were doing with the localization. Like this for example:
I get they're trying to add more comedy into the script but it always sounded a bit awkward to me and would result in me switching to the Japanese audio.
2. Dragon Ball Z
I'm not sure if I need to elaborate on this one. Everyone here (like it or not), knows that this is like in the #1 spot on anyone's hype list. I started watching DBZ after completing the 5-seasons of Dragon Ball which I enjoyed up until season 4 (season 5 wasn't my favorite for original Dragon Ball). Then in like 2000, my younger sister (the one who introduced me to anime) and I were watching Toonami promos and saw Dragon Ball Z. The fight scenes and exaggerated power seemed a far cry from Dragon Ball. We're both artists and ended up making a parody comic of DBZ called, "Action-Packed Whoowah!!!" It just seemed like when someone is about to go super saiyan and rocks go anti-gravity that someone let's out a "whoowah" yell or growl. I ended up giving it more of a chance when Funimation released the DVDs around 2003-ish. I still just couldn't get into it. I tend to like anime spin-offs only if they keep the context of their predecessors. It just didn't have the comedy, fan-service, and adventure the way Dragon Ball did and I found adding a mountain of characters would become easily forgettable.
3. Neon Genesis Evangelion
I can't speak highly enough about the earlier works of Hideaki Anno. He brought mecha and adventure anime back to life with Nadia and GunBuster. I expected a lot when I first saw the ADV trailers for Neon Genesis Evangelion some 21-years ago. DVDs were expensive...so I decided to test-drive NGE by buying 2 VHS instead of the full series. All I can say is that it just didn't click with me and by episode 10, I dropped the series. Since that time, I hear a lot of talk and hype go into it and I've lived to see it's numerous sequels. I never could get back into it and even bought the Platinum collection to give it a second try. It just doesn't move me. Great artwork and animation. Great opening theme. But it just seemed a little boring to me...no offense.
Happosai
even though NGE is one of my faves, I totally get why you're not into it. It is definitely not a series for everyone.
I've been told that most who watched the original HxH didn't like it as much as the remake. Dragon Ball Z...guh. It's over the top hyped in Mexico, so far to the part where there are people who watch simply because it's still trending. Did the One Piece manga artist ever complete the story or is he still creating?
I like the older style of anime way more than the digital modern style of anime now. Plus, a lot of my favorite anime are considered retro now by today's standards. Gunbuster, Gunsmith Cats, Slayers, Bubblegum Crisis (both versions), Battle Angel Alita, Burn Up, Outlaw Star, ROD The Tv and the OVA, Birdy The Mighty OVA (Not Decode) and many more I can't think of right now. A lot of it has to due to how fun and unique the characters are back compared to now. Especially the female characters:
Yuri?
