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
Lul WHAT!!!! From what I've seen in the first three I can't imagine how the hell they are gonna wrap it up in three episodes unless they pull a bs Inuyasha style ending.
 
This is Sunrise, you actually expect the story to be wrapped up well? Broad generalizations aside, Planetes actually did have a good, well done plot. The same can't really be said about most of their other stuff.
 
Apparently this is what happens when I have disposable income and access to the internet...
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A few years ago, I decided to just stop buying stuff since I didn't feel it was worth it. All I know is this month I broke that and am feeling pretty stupid.

I have luckily not watched any anime for an entire season, so maybe this will stop bothering me once they stop releasing old stuff.
 
I've only ever bought two DVDs, no blu-rays ('cause I can't play them), but I've got 50~ anime scale/action figures so I can relate to you on that. Though the big difference is that I don't have disposable income, quite the contrary as a matter of fact.

Depends on which season you skipped, but Steins;Gate and maybe Nichijou and Tiger & Bunny seem like the only shows that would be good enough to own or buy merch of.
 
I have never regretted figurine purchases, as I only buy the ones that I feel really fit the character. On the contrary, I have regretted not buying things figures when they got released, though I got really lucky and found one of them a few years later for ridiculously cheap. There's still a little bit of time before that gorgeous GSC hanekawa tsubasa releases, but it's so hard to part with a 120+ dollars on one figure (who am I kidding...I'll probably end up getting it).

DVD's on the other hand...how often do you actually watch these? I've watched my eva set maybe once. I've watched Air countless times, but I really don't know if that was worth 120 dollars (I'll still buy it if a US blu-ray release happens though). There are barely any shows these days though that I would care to rewatch.

On the other hand, official disks are the best way to share the stuff. I'll take a guy a lot more seriously about a show if he's paid that much money for the disk and wants to share it with me.
 
I pre-ordered GSC Hanekawa haha. As long as her box isn't big, she's hopefully going to ship together with figma Madoka whenever she's ready.

That's very true. One of the DVD's I have is Summer Wars (which I originally bought because my laptop would lag too much on the action scenes) and I tend to share it a lot. Besides it being really good, it's also easy for non-anime fans to watch and enjoy. So yeah, DVD/BD's are good for sharing and/or if you're a collector and just want to support the anime industry.
 
microgamer said:
I pre-ordered GSC Hanekawa haha. As long as her box isn't big, she's hopefully going to ship together with figma Madoka whenever she's ready.
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Yeah, I just bit the bullet and ordered. Would have saved around 10 dollars if I pre-ordered when it was announced from amiami, but I guess 10 dollars was worth the months of anxiety on whether I would actually be able to afford it.

The size does worry me a bit though, as it's a little under a foot tall and long. Hopefully I'll dodge customs. Otherwise, I would have saved by just getting from a US retailer.
 
Hey everybody, I hope I am not opening Pandoras box but can I ask what everyone seriously thinks of Evangelion? I mean I can't figure this show out. Not in the normal "omg this show is sooooo deep and complex" sense though. I mean I think it is pretty obvious the show is about existential loneliness sprinkled with some Freudiansm, meaningless Judeo-Christian symbolism, and giant robots. What I don't get is how in the world did the show get popular? I mean it sorta got interpreted into where everything creepy warped into a fetish thing and even judging the show merely as a simple shonen monter of the week type show it fails pretty horribly. Still in a way I can't say I particularly dislike the show. The ending movie I honestly enjoyed because it seemed to actually be discussing a philosophical concept, albiet in an inept fashion. Anyway what is everyone elses take?

One other thing, recently I watched some of Dragonball Evolution and I have to say comparing it to the average western superhero movie it was actually comparatively good. I'm starting to suspect that the real reason so many people hate it is because it is a zoom in of so many weterners wish-fulfillment fantasies relating to the show and showing them how ridiculous they are (sort of like how people hate the Adam West Batman). Sure I think that having Goku played by a white guy was pretty stupid considering he was based on the Chinese literary figure Sun Wukong but everyone was bitching that he wasn't Japanese which doesn't make much more logical sense than him being white. The stupidest critisism of the movie was that it was too 'kiddy' which is moronic because it was based on a kids series and they even darkened it up comparatively to the source material by upping the stakes in a similar manner to Z. Anyway why can people not just accept that they like a kids show? Just my random rant, anyway.
 
Tanegashima said:
One other thing, recently I watched some of Dragonball Evolution and I have to say comparing it to the average western superhero movie it was actually comparatively good. I'm starting to suspect that the real reason so many people hate it is because it is a zoom in of so many weterners wish-fulfillment fantasies relating to the show and showing them how ridiculous they are (sort of like how people hate the Adam West Batman). Sure I think that having Goku played by a white guy was pretty stupid considering he was based on the Chinese literary figure Sun Wukong but everyone was bitching that he wasn't Japanese which doesn't make much more logical sense than him being white. The stupidest critisism of the movie was that it was too 'kiddy' which is moronic because it was based on a kids series and they even darkened it up comparatively to the source material by upping the stakes in a similar manner to Z. Anyway why can people not just accept that they like a kids show? Just my random rant, anyway.
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My complaint was that it didn't follow the manga or the anime, it added something that was never apart of the manga and made some unnecessary changes. Goku wasn't a high school kid who was picked on, he was an alien who lived in the mountains until Bulma picked his punk ass up. The whole thing was just a piss poor excuse of a movie that tried to make money off the Dragon ball name. That's why people hate the movie not because Goku was white or because he wasn't Japanese ( both arguments are stupid considering he's a fucking alien). About the whole it being a kiddy show, you do realize that most kids show don't have peoples arms being ripped off or having energy blasts shot through their bodies, right?

Oh I'm not a DBZ fanboy either as I realize that it was a shitty show now that I try and re-watch it.
 
Tanegashima said:
Hey everybody, I hope I am not opening Pandoras box but can I ask what everyone seriously thinks of Evangelion? I mean I can't figure this show out. Not in the normal "omg this show is sooooo deep and complex" sense though. I mean I think it is pretty obvious the show is about existential loneliness sprinkled with some Freudiansm, meaningless Judeo-Christian symbolism, and giant robots. What I don't get is how in the world did the show get popular? I mean it sorta got interpreted into where everything creepy warped into a fetish thing and even judging the show merely as a simple shonen monter of the week type show it fails pretty horribly. Still in a way I can't say I particularly dislike the show. The ending movie I honestly enjoyed because it seemed to actually be discussing a philosophical concept, albiet in an inept fashion. Anyway what is everyone elses take?
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At the time it came out, nothing like it had ever been done before(That I can think of). It took the super robot formula, and completely turned it on its head in a way that most people found very surprising. It also helped that the show tried as hard as possible to throw as much meaningless symbolism around as it could.

It remains popular mainly because it was so huge back in the late 90s, and also because people seem to think it's some kind of incredibly deep anime.
 
Tanegashima said:
meaningless Judeo-Christian symbolism, and giant robots. .
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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)
 
And the second season of Big-O. I loved the first season but the secons season was like one big giant helping of constant WTF?!? It was kinda like they were taking after the matrix dialog or something.
 
I have been watching an SOL called Nichijou. I haven't LMAOd or ROFLd at an anime ever since I finished Hyakko a while ago, until Nichijou came along.

I'm not quite finished, but I am loving every moment. Highly recommended.
 
K0rN_b4LL said:
And the second season of Big-O. I loved the first season but the secons season was like one big giant helping of constant WTF?!? It was kinda like they were taking after the matrix dialog or something.
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It was supposed to get a third season to clear up the questions. That season didn't happen.
 
The_Landslide said:
It was supposed to get a third season to clear up the questions. That season didn't happen.
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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
 
When I started watching Nichijou I was expecting it to be like Lucky Star (KyoAni SoL), so at first I thought it was just random nonsense all the time. I don't know when I started enjoying it, but it really is a great show. Everyone in the cast is great and they're quirky in a way that doesn't get old. Surprisingly, there's a lot of references to older episodes, so it even has developments in the midst of "wtf is going on? lol so random". Finally, KyoAni production/animation is as solid as ever, and the show has less moe-blob than the other shows they've done in recent years.
 
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