Strawberry Panic 1
Yurrriiiii! /seizure
Yeah, I'll check this series out when I get home. Two episodes in with season 2 of Marimite, impressions will be up later on.
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Yurrriiiii! /seizure
Yeah, I'll check this series out when I get home. Two episodes in with season 2 of Marimite, impressions will be up later on.
RurouniZel
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I watched two episodes of Code Geass a while back. Nothing really compelled me to watch more of it. :-/
Not a fan of mech shows?
Same.
Though at the time I wasn't as into anime as I am now and hadn't realized the glory that is Wakamoto so I might go back to it eventually.
This was, I think, the only time in my life I've been seriously pissed off at a work of fiction.
And I'm nearly 40, so it's not like I simply haven't been exposed to much.
But that episode...not so much the fact that happened, but the way it went down...
Especially that guy. No, not Rolo. I'm talking about that police officer or whoever he was, the one Suzaku ordered to take care of her. "Herp derp Knight of the Round gave me an order but I guess she'll be fine, no need to go after her." THAT mutherfucker. All of my rage. ALL OF IT. I'd wish him dead in the Freya incident but that would be too quick. He needs to suffer more.
I was a massive fan of the series up to that point and had the whole series Blu-rays on pre-order, both seasons. (The first season was originally DVD only, and the BDs came out later at the same time as R2.) Something around $1000 of Japanese BDs. But then that episode aired and my first thought was to rage-cancel the entire thing to express my frothing anger.
I went outside my apartment and walked around the parking lot for about thirty minutes to calm down. Never done anything like that before or since.
......Eh, I got over it.
So yeah, watch Code Geass, anyone who hasn't yet.
It contains many experiences of various sorts.
HOLY FUCK
Well, maybe episode 07 will make sense to you. But thats because its ALMOST normal.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I actually really like mech shows. Just note Code Geass. I like the original Macross and Macross Plus, Gundam Seed and some of Destiny, The Vision of Escaflowne, etc. etc.
Jex
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You're just seeing things man!
The custom knightmare frames are some of Sunrise's best mecha ever. You need to try again.
Jex
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Oedipal complexes exist in all forms of fiction for everyone.Blame psychoanalysts if you want!
I find that it's much more helpful to blame Sophocles. That ass.
Hey, man, mythology is just a reflection of the human psyche or something!
Jex
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Yeah, me too. Wait, what the heck am I saying?
Except
Ohgi was a worthless lump who should've died. He's just a few notches above Hathaway Noa.
Jex
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Hmm, after reading through this post I might actually agree with the idea that Rick's Bread isn't just bread.
I think it's definitely drugs.
The sacrifices people make for this thread...
Jex
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When you put all these characters together you realise how generic those designs are.
It might be a coincidence that a ghost, assault rifle, and a zombie all look that similar.
PdotMichael
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Jex
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Wait, I noticed Fantastic Children isn't in your list either. You need to drop everything else and watch that first.
This should apply to everyone in the thread who hasn't watched these titles.
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Regarding Birth and Yoshinori Kanada. The OVA is one of those weird things you stumble onto and it just stuck with me. You also mentioned Down Load and its LaserDisc release; I've only ever heard of the Down Load - Namiamidabutsu wa Ai no Uta LaserDisc, though I have seen it for sale on VHS (>$100). It's been on my "must watch" list for a while now. Especially after seeing some of a MAG documentary on him ( スペシャル「アニメの革命児 金田伊功」.
Regarding Birth and Yoshinori Kanada. The OVA is one of those weird things you stumble onto and it just stuck with me. You also mentioned Down Load and its LaserDisc release; I've only ever heard of the Down Load - Namiamidabutsu wa Ai no Uta LaserDisc, though I have seen it for sale on VHS (>$100). It's been on my "must watch" list for a while now. Especially after seeing some of a MAG documentary on him ( スペシャル「アニメの革命児 金田伊功」
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Jex
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Hey, aliens can have a glasses fetish too. Don't discriminate!
I found his moments enjoyable amongst all
the boohoo drama/Shirley angst shennanigans.
Quile Quile Quile - 05
Hey guys, there's this character called Quile.
Oh, and just in case you didn't read that the first time, her name is Quile
Man that character, what was her name again, oh yes, Quile
It's so fortunate that this character keeps reminding us every five seconds that she's called Quile.
I'll never forget you big boobed amazonian female who keeps telling us her name is Quile.
...what was I watching again?
Hey guys, there's this character called Quile.
Oh, and just in case you didn't read that the first time, her name is Quile
Man that character, what was her name again, oh yes, Quile
It's so fortunate that this character keeps reminding us every five seconds that she's called Quile.
I'll never forget you big boobed amazonian female who keeps telling us her name is Quile.
...what was I watching again?
Jex
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Haven't you grown tired of mocking Kanna?
Jex
Member
We're totally going to slow down, any time now. Community has killed us.
Hahaha, someone is taking duckroll too seriously.
All hail -
Mirai Nikki 26
It was bad and I feel bad.
It was bad and I feel bad.
How does the third world go down a path where no new god is needed? Why couldn't Yukki as the winner stayed there and controlled it? Why can't he just go check on things or build some viewing portal to that world if he's a god? Bleh, so dumb. Series feels even more pointless when it ends on the note, "Hey, if none of this ever happened everything would be A+++ amazing." The Yuno suicide was obvious from the beginning. She was always ready to die, so why didn't she just do it like five episodes back and save us from all this time traveling bullshit?
This is but one of many times you'll ask yourself this.
Jex
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Just to step out of the guidelines of genre-recommendations for a moment, I feel that it's worth saying that Aoi Hana should be viewed by people because it's a great show, regardless of it's genre.
Jex
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It's always refreshing to see lambs being lead to the slaughter.
I think the best part of this whole 'recommend terrible anime' thing is - you tell the lambs they're going to be slaughtered, you show them the grinder, you let them seeconsequences of being slaughtered and yet they voluntarily walk into the meat grinder anyway.
Of course, it's great to see people actually watching great anime as well.
It even continues to haunt Gundam-GAF in the form of Quant.
Well, duckroll is a girl afterall.
Jex
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She represents the viewer. It's deep.
I am far more concerned with people who haven't seen the Ghibli/Miyazaki film catalogue. It doesn't take long to watch a single film, where as tackling a whole show is far more daunting.
Of course, Code Geass is also an essential masterpiece.
She can't because my pants were off.
Troll Ghost 2
This would have made for a much better first episode, what gives? Whoever does Yuuko's voice is really nailing the switches between hamfistedness and casual jokes the character is good for and that's a big plus in my book.
Edit: We talking about Geass in here now? That show and the memories I had of watching it with the net fan base week by week will never die. :lol
This would have made for a much better first episode, what gives? Whoever does Yuuko's voice is really nailing the switches between hamfistedness and casual jokes the character is good for and that's a big plus in my book.
Edit: We talking about Geass in here now? That show and the memories I had of watching it with the net fan base week by week will never die. :lol
Planning on watching that at some point. Maybe after Nodame Cantabile.
Jex
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The idea that you can artificially set out to create what was arrived at through sheer happenstance seems to be flawed. It's not like the creators of Code Geass set out to make something quite as ridiculous as the final product - it was arrived at through time, effort and stupidity. The 'next Code Geass' won't be something that you can see coming from a mile away - it will be something that starts out relatively normally and get turned on it's head later on.
Trojita
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truer words have never been spoken...
and yet...if it was in japan he would only gotten the 3 blu ray set
Hellsing321
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Virtual NTR! Fun for the whole family!
Ultimadrago
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Then you can make a family to have even more fun with a whole 'nother family!
Genius.
Strawberry Panic 01:
SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Please tell me that the ratio of yuri:boring shit improves in future episodes. Stuffy, excruciatingly-polite 1% private academies where girls greet each other with gokigenyou and sip tea in their dormitories are my least-favorite school environment, and my dislike was compounded by the episode being an absolutely crawling tour of every boring digital background in the building.
I can't believe that this is a 26-episode series, but I'll keep watching with the hope that things will improve.
SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Please tell me that the ratio of yuri:boring shit improves in future episodes. Stuffy, excruciatingly-polite 1% private academies where girls greet each other with gokigenyou and sip tea in their dormitories are my least-favorite school environment, and my dislike was compounded by the episode being an absolutely crawling tour of every boring digital background in the building.
I can't believe that this is a 26-episode series, but I'll keep watching with the hope that things will improve.
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