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Post by trollrogue on Apr 12, 2020 17:16:43 GMT -5
All of these and I'll add El Hazard and Record of Lodoss War as well. I've always wanted to try out Lodoss. Where's the best place to look for it? It was on Toonami Reactor back in 2001, but I gather Cartoon Network has long since lost the rights to air it in the US. Nobody picked up the rights to my knowledge, you can find Record of Lodoss Wars: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight in its entirety on youtube though. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbDIraERPAlImPqTWEilSo5uCRaJPEd98
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 13, 2020 3:28:49 GMT -5
I got 2 more animes for people to binge on that haven't been mentioned yet, and FYI these are both excellent CG anime (proving CG can be done correctly, unlike the Berserk anime): (music by Yoko Shimomura, who did the Street Fighter 2 soundtrack, and Kingdom Hearts soundtrack, and Final Fantasy XV soundtrack most notably) (unlike Hi-Score Girl, Vinland Saga isn't completed. In fact the first 24 episodes that have been released is only THE PROLOGUE so fair warning if you watch this series, you're gonna be stuck for the next decade watching new seasons after binging the first 2 cours) Speaking of School Rumble though, that's a good one if you're just looking for a dumb fun high school ensemble comedy. Season one is better than season two - you can tell they were running out of ideas a bit because there are a bunch of, "Now we're just randomly trying on this genre!" diversions like a couple of magical girl segments, a caveman one (being fair that's a between seasons OVA), and a really awful Mexico one - but the show's still pretty good throughout, funny and with a mostly really likable cast. Mostly being kind of a keyword because that's another reason season two is weaker, Tenma - the more or less outright main character though it's kind of a shared mantel - is very likable in season 1, but season 2 she spends a lot of it being pretty actively terrible. It kind of levels out by the end but she spends a lot of the season just being a buzzkill. idk I really enjoyed the Eri > Yakumo > Hige > Karasuma > Tenma love-pentagon particularly in the 2nd season of School Rumble. Lot of good Eri + Hige scenes in season 2, and a lot of good Yakumo + Hige scenes in season 2 but I will agree that Tenma is a weak link (aside from all of her pro wrestling story 1-shots with best-girl Kare-rin). Also, Stars Align was great but I hated 1) almost every parent in that series and 2) THAT SEASON ENDING (I heard the showrunners were expecting more episodes but at the last minute got cut off) Been meaning to watch Vinland Saga. It's a good manga as well Just currently been watching JoJo Diamond is Unbreakable season in English since I watched it Japanese when it came on
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 11:18:00 GMT -5
Has anyone mentioned Promised Neverland? Because that's a hell of a show and I've been meaning to give it another watch through. My experience with that show was I was watching it dubbed as it aired, then when I hit a particular point it wasn't available yet so I decided to watch subbed, and that basically further hooked me to where I went ahead and finished the season that night. Can't wait for the second one.
Also, I mentioned it earlier but kind of want to go into more detail - my power went out last night (and is still out as I write this) so to kill some time I got to watching Flip Flappers on my laptop. Still a hell of a show and would majorly recommend t - I think if there's anything to really complain about it's that the first half that's more episodic in its storytelling is better than the second half that's more narratively focused, but it's still just an excellent show on the whole, to the point I bought the collector's edition of it.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 13, 2020 11:21:18 GMT -5
Has anyone mentioned Promised Neverland? Because that's a hell of a show and I've been meaning to give it another watch through. My experience with that show was I was watching it dubbed as it aired, then when I hit a particular point it wasn't available yet so I decided to watch subbed, and that basically further hooked me to where I went ahead and finished the season that night. Can't wait for the second one. I think I did in the beginning but I put y'all on to that anyway since I have its own thread for it The great thing about this is, the manga is almost done so we will no doubt get a full story in the anime. If I had to guess, maybe 5 seasons worth Will most likely give the first season anime another watch before S2 in October
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 14, 2020 6:18:08 GMT -5
Don't know if I included Fire Force in here. I remember reading the Manga like two years ago and lost track of it and was surprised an anime was coming out. It was pretty good and made me want to get back into the Manga
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Post by hassanchop on Apr 23, 2020 16:39:23 GMT -5
I binge watched a lot of the Tenchi series and I forgot there was a 4th OVA and a 5th one coming up this May:
Speaking of Tenchi Muyo, I came across this recently
Since when was Ayeka like this? And why wasn’t this version of Ayeka not frequent in any of the series? It would’ve made her a bit interesting especially when it implies she training Sasami to be like this as well.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Apr 23, 2020 18:28:47 GMT -5
Saint Seiya. The Original Series.
I've binge watched the first 3 1/2 seasons already.
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Post by prettynami on Apr 23, 2020 20:52:56 GMT -5
Speaking of Tenchi Muyo, I came across this recently Since when was Ayeka like this? And why wasn’t this version of Ayeka not frequent in any of the series? It would’ve made her a bit interesting especially when it implies she training Sasami to be like this as well.
I have this on laser disc. The books and various other materials imply that its some sort of family tradition (or maybe even Juraian tradition). You see hints of it here and there.
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Post by hassanchop on Apr 24, 2020 5:16:44 GMT -5
Speaking of Tenchi Muyo, I came across this recently Since when was Ayeka like this? And why wasn’t this version of Ayeka not frequent in any of the series? It would’ve made her a bit interesting especially when it implies she training Sasami to be like this as well. I have this on laser disc. The books and various other materials imply that its some sort of family tradition (or maybe even Juraian tradition). You see hints of it here and there.
I wish they could've adapted them into a TV series or OVAs, as some of them never got translated or released outside of Japan. Especially the manga based on the third movie Tenchi Forever, which in that one Sasami plays a major and more active role. There were even some material that never got released that explained more stuff. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Tenchi marries all of them eventually. Tenchi went with the "I'm not choosing a single girl since I like having all the girls around me as family" strategy. One of the reasons for Tenchi not choosing a single girl is that if he did, chances are the others wouldn't stay, drastically altering the series dynamic. There were even light novels to GXP that confirms this and while talking with Seina he implied did get intimate with them. tenchi.fandom.com/wiki/Tenchi_Masaki#Other_InformationThe closest we get to a reference is from the TV series War On Geminar episode 7 when Tenchi's half brother mentions that he has several sisters-in-laws, implying Tenchi has multiple wives. There has been an art floating around implying that Ryoko has a daughter with Tenchi:
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Post by prettynami on Apr 24, 2020 19:51:01 GMT -5
Ehh... I think most of the new Tenchi stuff ruins the character dynamics anyways. Most of the fun original characters become tertiary characters in favour of ever increasingly bland ones. Hell, most of the characters seem to serve as little more than flavor for the explaining aspects of the universe that exists in it's creator's head and have very little (or quickly lose their) personality. That and most of the comedy is dead... And there is no drama because Tenchi himself (or any of the Tenchi Light main characters in the spin-offs) are so OP the destruction of the fabric of the universe couldn't threaten them - the interpersonal drama doesn't work much anymore either cause they all have a cult like love of him at this point, the dude just exists and everyone worships him.
The books are even more convoluted and directionless. The GXP books are okay (and the first half of the anime for that matter is pretty good), cause they have some interesting tid bits in them... But they all have a theme of relatively minor character is actually the most important X in the universe and is somehow related to the Masaki family, everyone in his town is a secret alien, etc. etc. It's so repetitive that any new character with any kind of importance/power you feel you can just predict it down the road. They appear to explain a part of the universe, their character encompasses that, and then they fall in love with Tenchi/Seina/Etc then are reduced to nothing more than a blithering love fawn. I guess it sorta falls in line with the Chosins' sculpting of the universe that everything converges on the singularity of amazingness that is Tenchi but... I personally think it should have ended at OAV2 with more questions than answers and the comedy parts of it were still going strong.
And don't even get me started on the cheap animation that relies on an increasing number of static shots of heads sitting around and talking. I guess Kajishima still does a lot of the key animating for these things (although that eyebrows seen through the hair thing in that trailer isn't something I remember in his work) so that might explain that cause the dude only has so much time... Oh, and his character designs are increasingly angular and weirdly shaped in the face/hair. I miss the original character designs, but things change I suppose.
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Post by Raskovnik on Apr 24, 2020 21:35:20 GMT -5
Not the anime version, but I have the Shonen Jump app and I've finally started working my way through One Piece. 900+ chapters to go.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 25, 2020 12:34:43 GMT -5
Funny enough, i've caught myself watching Inuyasha lately
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Post by prettynami on Apr 25, 2020 22:12:17 GMT -5
Funny enough, i've caught myself watching Inuyasha lately Oh man, if there is an anime that needs a condensed version it is that. I actually like it, but like the 500th time the stinkin jewel gets stolen/broken up you just want to pull out your hair.
Sango and Miroku are the most entertaining characters. And Kilala is so cute.
I just finished binge watching Overlord... So off to find another animu on cruncyrolls!
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Post by hassanchop on Apr 27, 2020 13:11:35 GMT -5
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