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Anyone else ever watch this show, S-Cry-Ed? It's from 2001 and its all available on YouTube. Small clip there because it's funny.
 
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It's really nice to see that Hiromu Arakawa did some art of the 2003 anime homunculi. For some reason I always got the impression she wasn't a big fan of that adaptation.
 
IIRC, Arakawa actually loved the changes they made to the homunculi and other characters in the 2003 anime. As a whole, I prefer Brotherhood, but I think the homunculi were presented way better in the 2003 anime. With the exception of Greed, I loved how they them much more tragic and sympathetic. I also liked the changes to the homunculi themselves: Bradley getting a bigger position while changing Wrath and Sloth altogether
 
Took me a year to get all of the volumes, but I finished up reading With the Light: Raising An Autistic Child. Even with the final chapters unfinished since the author died while drawing it, it still hits home. It nails what it's like to raise someone with autism, while acknowledging other disabilities at the same time. It feels really genuine instead of feeling fake. I'm glad I found out about this series last year.
 
I knew Dragonball Super was coming, but Monster Masume snuck on on me. There's been no word of another season of Love Stage as far as I'm aware and Lucky Girl only lasted one season. I dropped Sailor Moon Crystal and Kotora-san early on and I may or may not return to Yuki Yuna at some point.

Besides the above, I haven't watched much anime this year.
 
Honestly, I wasn't stoked on this season other than Dragon Ball Super, but there are a few that are pretty good

  1. Ushio and Tora really snuck up on me. It's next in the line of old mangas that never got a truly great adaptation(first being Jojo and then Parasyte). Unlike Parsyte, the style isn't modernized, so that may turn some people off, but I think it's great.
  2. Himouto! Umaru-chan is my comedy of the season. Has a pretty good opening theme, and it cracks me up.
  3. School-Live!
    Really interesting. I really want to see what they do with zombie apocolypse/ stuck in a dream idea, and it has a catchy theme to boot. Definitely the one I'm putting a lot of hope into.
  4. Monster Musume is a guilty pleasure.
  5. Gintama is Gintama.
 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
New Gundam
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Wow, this looks gorgeous! Gundam is one of those franchises I like getting a taste of every now and then, but I never got to actually watch one of its many incarnations till the end. I might give this one a try.

Two or so years ago I though I'd never find a shonen anime that would legit interest me again, only to be blown away by Hunter X Hunter, Hajime No Ippo and Attack on Titan. A week or so ago I've decided to go and try to find some interesting looking shojo shows as well (sure, I was mesmerised by Puella Magica Madoka, but I don't know if it counts as shojo). After a quick search on kissanime.com, the three shows to catch my attention were Jyu Oh Sei, Akatsuki no Jonna and Ore Monogatari. Both Jyu Oh Sei and Akatsuki no Jonna have a very interesting premises that promise lots of action, drama and heartache (Jyu Oh Sei is said to be particularly depressing), and I intend to finish them in the near future, but the one I've watched the most of so far was Ore Monogarati, which might not paint a very flattering picture of my taste in anime. But I can't help it, it's so funny and adorbs!

As someone who was worshipping Dragon Ball as a teen, watching Dragon Ball Super was a no brainer. It probably won't be Anime of the year, but so far it's pretty fun. After hearing a lot of positives and being intrigued by its Black Lagoon-esque setting, I gave a shot to Gangsta as well. The plot so far feels a bit cliché so far, but Nico, the deaf swordsman protagonist, is so damn charismatic that he seems to be able to carry the whole show on his shoulders even if the plot won't improve. Sure, his character type nothing new (mean badass shell hides a heart of gold), but there's something about his design, mannerism and voice acting that really captivates me. I also love what they've done with his speech: usually in media deaf voices a re (somewhat stereotypically) used for comedic relief or at best as ways of endearment, but this guy actually becomes even more intimidating once he starts speaking. I find this rather impressive.
 
When I was very, very little, I was a sick little kid. I got an infection that led to inflammation of my epiglottis, and it almost killed me. The docs said that my immune system was so heavily compromised from my brush with death that I needed to stay with my grandma for a bit. Because of how worn out this made me, I wound up with a fucking weird circadian rythm, but grandma used to leave the living room open so I could watch Sesame Street or cartoons or something. Because it was so early, most channels were showing test-patterns or something equally dumb. Sometimes I'd tune in Home Shopping Channel and watch them sell random crap no sane human being would ever want. And then, one day, I found a new channel, and my life was changed forever. It was one show I had never seen before, and it ran between 5 and 6 AM, usually showing 2 episodes a night.

What I encountered was the 1983 showing of Fist of the North Star. Whilst a very violent show, and it had a lot that went over my head, I was absolutely spellbound by it when I first saw it. It was straightforward enough that I understood a bit even at the tender age of six or so. The obvious good guy of the show wasn't like the good guys I had seen in other cartoons. He was someone who, though he was very, very strong, had suffered a lot of personal losses. He didn't rescue the girl - the girl died, and it affected him. He lost people he cared about. He saw good people die and he wasn't always able to stop it. He was a hero who didn't always win, though he did his best.

This fucking mesmerized me.

He also fought enemies who were really evil, and not the sort of cartoony schtick I was so familiar with, where they did some foolery that got thwarted and we had status quo again at the end of the episode. If they were really bad guys, he flat-out killed them, not just beat them up and then let them show up in other episodes.

Sometimes he gave some weaker villains a chance, and sometimes, they actually bettered themselves, but the bulk of them were stupid, thought they pulled one over on our protagonist, and promptly got punched until their heads exploded. The characters seemed more real, the stakes bigger, than any other show I had ever watched growing up. For the entire month I was at Grandma's, I watched Fist of the North Star every morning. It was something I wouldn't encounter anything else like until I saw the Dragon Warrior anime air up in NY, which got taken off the air when parents complained.

Suffice to say this show became an instant favorite of mine when I returned to it years later.
 
Not much of an anime fan but the English dub of Ghost Stories may as well be my favorite anime.
A more serious one I do enjoy aside from Cowboy Bebop was Berserk, mainly the three films made over the Golden Age arc.
 
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Hey, anybody here into classic, pre-Evangelion anime? I've been getting into it over the past few years. I discovered some real underappreciated gems of animation, like Ringing Bell:


And on the other side, The Brave Frog:

 
I was going to mention stuff like Fist of the North Star and Lupin III but I don't think anything can top the emotional experience of the Brave Frog
 
Sailor Moon Crystal is officially over, at least for now. They more or less confirmed that a season 2 is eventually going to come.

God, what a train wreck. I pushed myself through 26 episodes of shit hoping something would change. Lost count of how many chances I kept giving the show.
 
R.A.E.L. said:
Sailor Moon Crystal is officially over, at least for now. They more or less confirmed that a season 2 is eventually going to come.

God, what a train wreck. I pushed myself through 26 episodes of shit hoping something would change. Lost count of how many chances I kept giving the show.
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Makes me feel glad that I never watched it then.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
I'm surprised we're getting another one so soon, especially after both Grico and Build Fighters Try.
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It's not really surprising as Sunrise is made up of multiple studios and this has probably been in planning for awhile. G-Reco itself was planned out over a long time, I've heard that AGE was made to keep some of the 00 staff around for it.

Try was just shat out to cash in on Build Fighter's popularity and had a lack of planning. It's like they learned nothing from Destiny.
 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
It's not really surprising as Sunrise is made up of multiple studios and this has probably been in planning for awhile.
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I wouldn't be all that surprised if it were the case.

Also, I think Build Fighters should have been a one-off series and nothing more. Unless they really wanted to continue the story and not just push sales of more toys (though admittedly, that's the franchise in a nutshell).
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
I'm surprised we're getting another one so soon, especially after both Grico and Build Fighters Try.
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the thing that scares me about that gundam is the screenwriter is the infamous mari okada, she has the reputation of fucking things heavily with :drama:
 
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