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Kari Kamiya said:
It's been two months since I last watched the OVA, but the theme song's still stuck in my head. Why did it have to be so cute.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-i_ewYNfk-kI might enjoy the TV show better, I doubt it skips around like the OVA clearly did.
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I think the second half of the OVA is pretty much its own thing independent of anything from the manga, and, also, I think the OVA was prematurely cancelled since the opening features demon girl Marller (Mara in the Dark Horse version) who never actually shows up.

It wouldn't be until 1998 when we'd see Marller appear in Adventures of the Mini-Goddess, the adaptation of the 4-koma spinoff featuring tiny versions Urd and Skuld (and occasionally Belldandy) plus Gan-chan the hapless pratfall victim in nearly every short episode.
 
Gay_Frog said:
Do you want to know or you will suffer when the time is right?
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Don't tell him, we don't want a repeat of that whole Kannagi thing.

But seriously, Bell is the about the only anime character I've ever legitimately felt bad for. All she wants to be is the perfect waifu and she can't even have that.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
My first problem with it that it is too cruel and gory to be enjoyable, it's like the writer is an overly edgy 15 year old that he feels the need to focus on gore and just be an asshole towards the main heroine.
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
draw the line in killing a little girl in a convoluted manner because "fuck you we need to show how cruel we are to the main character".
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How gory are we talking about ? On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being 80's ova tier.
 
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Meant to post this last Friday, but April 2nd marked 15 years after The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya appeared on television screens for the first time. For me, the first time I heard about this anime was when I saw the manga version of this in a local library that I frequented to over a few years ago (knowingly not realizing that this was based on a light novel of the same name).

I like to joke that somehow this show came calling to me when I was just trying to find some manga that I’ve never read before, and it brought back memories of when I read Yotsuba&! for the first time, not knowing what I was getting myself into.

This anime to me is much more that just typical sci-fi, school of life comedy/drama. You never would have guessed that Kyoto Animation created this, since most fans of that now unfortunately burnt down studio moved on to K-On! and Clannad, which to be fair are both series that I also enjoy as well.

Even as a grown adult, I tried doing the outro dance moves to this while no one was watching:


And unsurprisingly, I failed *sigh*

But nonetheless, this was a great anime, and the movie version was very well done in my opinion. I’m looking forward to see what the new light novel chapters will look like when it comes out.

Did you know that Haruhi and her great smug anime face helped solve a very hard math problem a few years back? It was also with the help of 4chan with their /sci/ board.

www.iflscience.com

Here's How A Decades-Old Mathematical Mystery Was Solved By 4chan

You may not have heard of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but, among anime fans at least, it’s a pretty big deal. Originally a series of light novels, i
www.iflscience.com www.iflscience.com

Pretty great read.
 
albert chan said:
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Meant to post this last Friday, but April 2nd marked 15 years after The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya appeared on television screens for the first time. For me, the first time I heard about this anime was when I saw the manga version of this in a local library that I frequented to over a few years ago (knowingly not realizing that this was based on a light novel of the same name).

I like to joke that somehow this show came calling to me when I was just trying to find some manga that I’ve never read before, and it brought back memories of when I read Yotsuba&! for the first time, not knowing what I was getting myself into.

This anime to me is much more that just typical sci-fi, school of life comedy/drama. You never would have guessed that Kyoto Animation created this, since most fans of that now unfortunately burnt down studio moved on to K-On! and Clannad, which to be fair are both series that I also enjoy as well.

Even as a grown adult, I tried doing the outro dance moves to this while no one was watching:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=A9yyX1bb3lw
And unsurprisingly, I failed *sigh*

But nonetheless, this was a great anime, and the movie version was very well done in my opinion. I’m looking forward to see what the new light novel chapters will look like when it comes out.

Did you know that Haruhi and her great smug anime face helped solve a very hard math problem a few years back? It was also with the help of 4chan with their /sci/ board.

www.iflscience.com

Here's How A Decades-Old Mathematical Mystery Was Solved By 4chan

You may not have heard of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but, among anime fans at least, it’s a pretty big deal. Originally a series of light novels, i
www.iflscience.com www.iflscience.com

Pretty great read.
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I'm still hoping and praying that one day a season 3 will be announced and I will be able to finally put one of my biggest anime wishes to bed.

I know there's less than a 1% chance of it happening but the fact that the last LN sold surprisingly well is what gives me a small glimmer of hope.
 
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Screw Danlon said:
The one from the 80’s or the one from like 4 or 5 years ago?
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I gotta imagine 4-5 years ago, it is pretty high quality animation.

I am uhh...sailing the seas to see it so I am not entirely sure which version of anything I watch..I just download it all and put it on in the back round while I play videh games cause I have no life.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
I gotta imagine 4-5 years ago, it is pretty high quality animation.

I am uhh...sailing the seas to see it so I am not entirely sure which version of anything I watch..I just download it all and put it on in the back round while I play videh games cause I have no life.
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Well, the one from the 80’s is only 6 episodes.
 
Bit late to the studio discussion but I am surprised no one has mentioned Madhouse since while there have been a few shows in the past 1-2 years I've enjoyed they have been on a decline ever since Maruyama left (was forced out) and founded MAPPA.
Hell I think it's been well over a year since they made something new, I know they have some new champion series adaptation in the works I'm vaguely familiar with because of a crossover with jitsu wa years ago, but that's not till fall iirc.
 
I just finished watching Banana Fish. While I have not read the manga, the show was great. The government experiments, literary references, mafia corruption and revenge themes were intriguing. But I don't understand the yaoi fandom for this show. Anything sexual that the show has is portrayed in an ugly and shocking manner. I honestly don't know why people drool over Ash and Eiji. Ash is an emotional and mental wreck, while Eiji comes across as a whiny little bitch at times that involuntarily causes trouble for him. He seems like a puppy that is happy to have received some attention. Then again, he did end up being a close friend to Ash without wanting anything in return.

The series constantly makes a point of how everyone loves Ash and finds him as some sort of beautifully tragic miscreant. The series also loves to show him getting sexually abused as well. While it isn't that explicit, it's not something for fujoshi to be drooling over. Even at the end of the series, Eiji's relationship with Ash can be seen as a platonic friendship without being sexual. Then again, I have not read the manga and I may be wrong. The ending was something out of some late 70s crime film, but felt right for this story.

MAPPA worked on this anime, but they have an animated studio ID that has motorcycles riding off into the distance. Wit Studio uses the same ID. Are they somehow related?
 
More AWS-8Q Than You said:
Don't tell him, we don't want a repeat of that whole Kannagi thing.
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Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens is in my top 5 of "one season wonders that I wish would get a second season adapting more of the manga". Given that the entire series really only covered the first three volumes out of twelve, you could get up to three more cour out of the rest of the manga.

WataMote is, of course, at number one on that list but Kannagi could easily be my number two choice.
 
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