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
@Mizu, StrikerS has nowhere to go, Geneon had the others and nobody wants to get the rest. Busou Renkin is mediocre, not bad but not good.

Highschool of the Dead is fantastic, D.A.W. has great art in general not just for hawtness. The show is a must watch in my eyes, it doesn't have to be serious to be a good zombie outbreak show.
 
Jargen88 said:
However, I might make an exception for the anime Angel Beats. I have seen mixed reviews of either its was disappointing or really good (choosing his final relationship maybe?) The art looks really good and the story doesn't sound shabby.
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Angel Beats is the only exceptionally good anime since Bakemonogatari, which was the only exceptionally good anime since god knows when.
 
Animefreak6969 said:
Highschool of the Dead is fantastic, D.A.W. has great art in general not just for hawtness. The show is a must watch in my eyes, it doesn't have to be serious to be a good zombie outbreak show.
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Of course it shouldn't have to take itself serious to be a good zombie outbreak show. The problem is that it DOES take itself seriously or at least way too seriously than it should. HOTD would be A LOT better if it took the approach Shaun of the Dead did aka dark humor, but it doesn't. They actually try to make you sympathize with the characters when you really have no reason to. Then they cut to more fanservice making it even harder to take the show as serious as it wants you to.
 
gotta agree with shinobi on this one (highschool of the dead talk)... i'll say the first episode was really good. very good infact... but steadily went down hill... this past episode really irritated me. it's not fun at all to watch...

to add on to this, i'm gettin tired of zombie flicks/shows in general... after watching the trailer for the walking dead... i'm trying to see what's actually different with this show then in others?

but back to HSotD, I just don't care about any of the characters or their plight. i'm rooting for the zombies to kill them, so the show can finally be over... I think i'm done with it..
 
HOTD, you could say I'm only watching it for the animation. Not just the fanservice, but the smoothness in general...you know, actually animated. I think the episode that introduced the new loli character had a decent plot, but that's kinda besides my point. I wouldn't dismiss HOTD as shit, but pretty animation and a pretty cool soundtrack are the only draws this series has.

As for other series, Angel Beats! is recommendable (it's not too heavy on the romance, and the romance parts that are included feel like they're rushed and forced, but the show is quite entertaining) then maybe Kimi ni Todoke (pretty recent Shoujo romance anime that's just way too cute, also great animation/art direction), and Arakawa Under The Bridge (more comedy than slice-of-life/romance, but it's a good watch, SHAFT humor).
 
Well no it's not taking itself very seriously, it's taking the situation seriously, because it's serious, but the show itself is in it's own limbo. The limbo leading to an exceedingly good show on it's own as well. The fanservice is more of a focus than the zombies are and that's the whole way it's been presented. Hell the creator himself does nothing but talk about how he would want a zombie outbreak to go and this is it lol, hot teachers with big tits bouncing while trying to escape and save students, short skirts flowing violently in the battle of zombies. Reading this guys reasons just makes the show all that much better. Not too mention it's high quality, good action, crazy ass bullet time etc... it's over the top awesome.

There's been PLENTY good anime all over. Angel Beats being one of the best, as is MOST to ALL Key shows. But yes Arakawa is great, Cross Game is great, K-on is good, One Piece is STILL fantastic and Fairy Tail is taking out all the other shounen shows with it's own greatness.
 
Animefreak6969 said:
Fairy Tail is taking out all the other shounen shows with it's own greatness.
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Unless the anime is drastically different from the manga, I don't see how this is possible. Fairy Tail started off decent and then just continued to get worse. It's gotten to the point where I actually stopped reading it because of how dumb this current arc is. Then again, all the current shonen sans One Piece is just as bad if not worse.
 
Bleach is the worst, after so many freaking fillers, we finally get back to the action...and that dumb ass chick ruins the whole series for me right there and then. Any time Ichigo and friends aren't in an episode I actually enjoy myself. Someone from that group needs to die quick, that dumb chick if possible please.

I think what makes a good shonen for me these days, is a lack of romance...because this is where shit fails miserably for many writers IMO.
 
KingAce said:
Bleach is the worst, after so many freaking fillers, we finally get back to the action...and that dumb ass chick ruins the whole series for me right there and then. Any time Ichigo and friends aren't in an episode I actually enjoy myself. Someone from that group needs to die quick, that dumb chick if possible please.

I think what makes a good shonen for me these days, is a lack of romance...because this is where shit fails miserably for many writers IMO.
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Every time I think Bleach can't get any worse, it does. It started off so good too. I honestly hope this ongoing arc has a reset ending, so that none of it ever happened.
 
LostProvidence said:
Because they can only get better! =D
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Or so you keep telling yourself, lol. Kubo is a troll and he uses Bleach as his way to troll anime tards.

Animefreak6969 said:
The fanservice is more of a focus than the zombies are and that's the whole way it's been presented.
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And that's why I don't see the point of this series. Why use fanservice as your main draw when your lead artist draws actual porn? This negates the need to look at your series for that value at all. You can just go and look at the lead artist's porn if you really want to see big anime tits and ass. Honestly, if it wasn't for the art styling mimicking that of a hentai artist, my argument wouldn't even exist, lol.
 
Oh, I wasn't referring to myself; I was just giving rationalization for it. Though, with video games, I'll play and laugh while playing SSF4, but curse it in the same breath, so I guess I'm not exempt. Somewhat unrelated, but I stopped watching Bleach after they left Soul Society the first time.
 
Yeah, lol. It's called guilty pleasure. You take some kind of pleasure out of something that's terrible (ie playing Super Jab IV, Continuum Shit, reading Bleach, Naruto, etc).

Props to actually stop reading Bleach though, lol. Soul Society was the last decent story arc. It all went downhill from there. I still read mainly because it's free (I don't pay for that shit) and it's terrible writing provides me with laughs to joke about later.
 
I've probably said this many times before, but the main reason I still keep up with Bleach is that I invested all this time in it that I might as well see it through. I don't watch the anime (as if Bleach needed filler), and reading the manga is just like 5 minutes a week so it's not a total waste of time.

The thing I'm wondering about is why anime discussion always ends up bashing (shonen) shit? Can't we talk about something we think is good instead of going on for like 5 posts for how we don't like something?
 
microgamer said:
The thing I'm wondering about is why anime discussion always ends up bashing (shonen) shit? Can't we talk about something we think is good instead of going on for like 5 posts for how we don't like something?
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Mostly because anime discussion always turns to shounen shit in the first place.
 
Because making fun of shonen shit anime is so easy it's fun. Besides, I love being negative sometimes...or most of the time. But being positive isn't bad.

I can talk about Paranoia Agent instead and be happy, lol.
 
ShinobiBrown said:
Why use fanservice as your main draw when your lead artist draws actual porn? This negates the need to look at your series for that value at all. You can just go and look at the lead artist's porn if you really want to see big anime tits and ass. Honestly, if it wasn't for the art styling mimicking that of a hentai artist, my argument wouldn't even exist, lol.
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Working on a non-hentai series allows hentai artists to reach a broader audience than they would if they stuck to only making hentai. Naturally most artists who start out with hentai and want more mainstream exposure are going to work on ecchi (what you call fanservice) series because it is most similar to what they are used to doing.

Omamori Himari would be another example.
 
If it's not funny, they're is nothing more useless or distracting than fanservice/ecchi. See I like shonen because its action, fuck the story just give me whatever excuse to see some cool fight scenes. When anime tries to be serious, it better be all serious random ecchi shit should take a back seat. At that point I feel like the writers think I am stupid or something...don't distract me from the story man. If I want porn I have access.
 
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