Obligitory Animes Thread

Which anime eras are you into?

  • Old School

    Votes: 29 17.7%

  • New School

    Votes: 13 7.9%

  • Both

    Votes: 107 65.2%

  • Anime? What's that?

    Votes: 15 9.1%
  • Total voters
    164
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Tiamat said:
I've only seen the first episode of Evangelion so I can't say anything about the show really. I just wanted to mention that some other giant robot stuff has meaningless Judeo-Christian symbolism too like Xenogears and Xenosaga. (but Xenogears is actually good)
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Tiamat you shouldn't even get me started on Xenosaga. I have a friend who was really big on the first and third game (didn't like the second but I forget which mecanic pissed him off) and so I know quite a bit of the story. I haven't played Xenogears but I have heard a lot of good things about it. Xenosaga I just thought was too movie-like where over half of the time you could forget it is even a game so there is no way I could get into it. But from what I hear essentially every important character represented a Biblical character and the final boss of the third game is Nietzsche. The story was so substanceless it is no wonder they had to cut the games down from a series of 7 to only a trilogy because no one in their right mind would wait that long. Oh yeah and the final boss is named Zarathustra......did I mention there were parallels to Nietzsche?

On a tangent, that reminds me I also know the story to .Hack due to friends telling me. I always thought the shows were moronic in that the characters continue to play a game that puts them into freaking comas. I mean they don't even ever try to sue the games company?
Anyway I may try to watch the Voltage Fighter: Gowcaizer anime online sometime just to see if anyone says "NOTHING WINS THE JUSTICE!"
 
Tiamat said:
well seeing how the second season didn't answer anything at all I don't see why a 3rd season would. the story was trying hard to seem deep even though it had zero substance. season 1 was much better
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Just saying what I've read. I agree though the show didn't exactly help itself get another season.
 
If The Big O had retained the quality of its first season throughout the second season, and actually finished, I'm certain it would be my favorite anime of all time. Man, 7 years later, and I'm still upset about the second season and subsequent loss of funding.
 
Animefreak6969 said:
Hell ya i marathon anime all night, hell I still am now, and the mail rolls in and i don't expect anyhting but nothing and BOOM 2 boxes of VHS tapes lol, FLame of Recca, Legend of Galactic Heroes, Kodomo, Akazukin, Berserk and Please Save My Earth which is amazing. SWEET SHIT AND THANKS HAJIME
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Heh. Just saw this now. No problem. Cost some cash to send, so I expect a beer next time we meet. Enjoy!
 
I watch fansubs and then leave Hulu and other legitimate streaming sites on while I'm off doing something else so the production/licensing companies still get ad revenue and I still get shows fast and in 720p for free.
 
I watch both old & new Anime. but manly old.
  1. Inuyasha
  2. Inuyasha:The Final Act
  3. DBZ
  4. DBZ GT
  5. DBZ Kai
  6. Naruto
  7. Naruto:Shippudden
  8. Black Cat
  9. Bleach
  10. Dgimon
  11. Yu-Gi-Oh
  12. Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds
  13. Ikki Tousen
  14. Gundam Seed
  15. Gundam Seed Destiney
  16. Pokemon (All seasons)
Thats all the anime i watch

IZZY:)
 
Ghengis_John said:
I've been considering it. How is it?
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I like it, I don't have a membership but it is pretty nice. They have both Subbed and Dubbed versions of the same anime so that's pretty nice. They have commercials but its usually like a minute of commercials per episode so its not that bad. I've been watching Gintama on it and having it subbed and with explanations of jokes is always a plus. Also its a legal way too watch anime with really nice quality.
 
Crunchyroll is a fine service if you are willing to pay that much for just anime.

I personally refuse to support them. They are notorious among people in the translation circle as a group of jerks who made a lot of money selling other people's translations. Even when they went "legit" they maintained an incredibly fake public image of a bunch of immature little kids (presumably like you) who are really addicted to anime (presumably like you).

Of course they have a business model that's working, but I would never go to a brick and mortar store with ownership like that, and I feel no reason to make an exception on the internet.
 
iKotomi said:
Even when they went "legit" they maintained an incredibly fake public image of a bunch of immature little kids (presumably like you) who are really addicted to anime (presumably like you).
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Are you calling juece an immature littke kid who is addicted to anime?
 
Juece said:
Are you calling juece an immature littke kid who is addicted to anime?
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I have no idea. But that's how they treat every person that uses their service. And it makes sense.

They started up as a group of guys that streamed anime that other fansub groups had already offered for free through bittorrent and IRC. Their core sales target is a bunch of kids that need instant gratification and are too ignorant or indifferent to know the community that put the effort into bringing them translations.
 
iKotomi said:
I have no idea. But that's how they treat every person that uses their service. And it makes sense.

They started up as a group of guys that streamed anime that other fansub groups had already offered for free through bittorrent and IRC. Their core sales target is a bunch of kids that need instant gratification and are too ignorant or indifferent to know the community that put the effort into bringing them translations.
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I didn't know anything about the whole back story for crunchyroll thing nor do I really give a shit. I only use the site for one anime and I get to watch it legally for free. You're making it seem that anyone who uses the site is an ignorant child for not going out of their way to look into the history of the site.
 
iKotomi said:
They started up as a group of guys that streamed anime that other fansub groups had already offered for free through bittorrent and IRC. Their core sales target is a bunch of kids that need instant gratification and are too ignorant or indifferent to know the community that put the effort into bringing them translations.
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Iko, I respect your intelligence, I want you to know that up front, however this sounds like some immaturity and sour grapes. You're dwelling pretty bitterly on the past aren't you? They're not going to the community anymore, they're licensing properties the same way sites like Hulu are. (Exactly the same way if you check out which episodes of bleach they both have available.) The only difference I can see is they're doing it better. I mean to compare them directly to Hulu, no commercials with a membership, high resolution available and the episodes pop up hours after airing in japan as opposed to days after airing in japan. Whatever sins they might have committed in the past they seem to have their shit together now.
 
I've never said anything bad about the service they run.

I just feel that nothing has changed about the ownership except for the fact that they got some venture capital from some entrepreneurs who saw that they were making money. Perhaps it's irrational, but I try not to support businesses that are run by people who treat people with such disrespect. You've probably never had to deal with this, but translation is hard work. The final product is pretty much something that you have created yourself. And then to see it scaled down to youtube size quality, stuck next to a bunch of ads, and not even edited to have the "If you paid for this you are getting ripped off" screen taken out is beyond infuriating. And when you ask them to take it down, and they arrogantly refuse because you can't do anything about it, you can't help but assume they're a bunch of immature assholes trying to leech off of someone else's effort.

Maybe it is bitterness. How many people really stood up against this kind of behavior? Times have changed since the days of VHS and IRC, and there's a large disconnect between the people that put the effort in bringing stuff the community and the people that just click the download button.

So yeah, it's personal, but I'm pretty sure I made that clear from the beginning. We support evil companies like Phillip Morris that go legit all the time. Luckily I don't demand anime enough that I can live without their product.
 
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