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Jonah Hill poster said:
Found this fun looking photo on 4chan’s /a/ board after news came out that Leiji Matsumoto passed away:

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It’s an actual old photo that probably dates back to the 80’s (or early 90’s) where these group of individuals cosplayed as the crew of the fictional members for Captain Harlock and the Galaxy Express 999

Someone then compared it to the animated original:

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Granted it is with a few members, but this is the one that I miss about seeing anime fans back in the 80’s and 90’s — they actually look like they care for the source and are looking like they really have fun hanging out with friends and the like with like minded interests, and not being based on gimmicks or trends that will be long forgotten by the end of the week, or if lucky, the end of the month.

You don’t really see that now these days with current day anime fans, and it says a lot about how much has changed in almost 30-40+ years.
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the medium was nich enough to filter people away from it so you had to be somewhat invested and dedicated to pursue it. unlike now when all you need is too download crunchyroll to watch most anime (remember when crunchyroll was an illegal pirating site before going legit?). i still pirate my stuff.
 
Finally got around to finishing Ideon and Be Invoked and I can safely say that it is both my favorite thing and my least favorite Tomino thing that I've saw so far (haven't got around to Zeta I wanted to watch this first). The TV show could really have been like 24 episodes instead of 39 and that's stretching it. There's a lot of parts that are just kind of meh and the plot doesn't pick up until like 70% through the TV series. Be Invoked makes all of the tedious and boring episodes way fucking worth it. The OST (which is made by the dude who does all the Dragon Quest music) is phenomenal and easily the best part of the TV series minus the last 30% of it. Cosmos ni Kimi to is and will be stuck in my head for a very long time.
 
I really liked Devil's Line, even though it was kind of stupid. The opening scene of the anime is pretty sick.

Sometimes I wonder if the anime Soul Taker was just a weird dream that I had. The ed is pretty nice, though.

I also like the music from Casshern Sins.
 
HexFag said:
Finally got around to finishing Ideon and Be Invoked and I can safely say that it is both my favorite thing and my least favorite Tomino thing that I've saw so far (haven't got around to Zeta I wanted to watch this first). The TV show could really have been like 24 episodes instead of 39 and that's stretching it. There's a lot of parts that are just kind of meh and the plot doesn't pick up until like 70% through the TV series. Be Invoked makes all of the tedious and boring episodes way fucking worth it. The OST (which is made by the dude who does all the Dragon Quest music) is phenomenal and easily the best part of the TV series minus the last 30% of it. Cosmos ni Kimi to is and will be stuck in my head for a very long time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mRsNrGqPl2g
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Pacing is a problem in all tomino series since they give too much time or too little. His movies are usually very little and his series are too much.

Gundam mostly doesnt need 50 episodes to tell its story. It is something that they kinda realized lately

I finished reading shaman king a & garden, it is the prequel focused on the hanagumi trio. Quite cool for shaman king fans
 
admiral said:
I really liked Devil's Line, even though it was kind of stupid. The opening scene of the anime is pretty sick.

Sometimes I wonder if the anime Soul Taker was just a weird dream that I had. The ed is pretty nice, though.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=s0RoG8y-9cc
I also like the music from Casshern Sins.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rmvw6pXlM_A
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I watched Soul Taker about a decade ago, it felt too rushed and I don't think anything was explained in a satisfying way. The opening was more interesting than the anime/10.
 
Tism the Return II said:
I watched Soul Taker about a decade ago, it felt too rushed and I don't think anything was explained in a satisfying way. The opening was more interesting than the anime/10.
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Soul Taker feels promising in the first third and then goes wildly off the rails with all that aliens and little sister business. It's from that crop of evangelion-inspired shows which all tried to reproduce the chaotic mindbending vibe of the latter half of eva, but fucked up because the writing just wasn't as strong.
 
I have to consistently remind myself that Nurse Witch Komugi is a spin-off of Soul Taker because it's some funny shit, and something tells me Soul Taker isn't like that at all.
 
Didn't JAM Project do the OP for Soul Taker? I think that's the only reason I've heard of it.
 
HexFag said:
Finally got around to finishing Ideon and Be Invoked and I can safely say that it is both my favorite thing and my least favorite Tomino thing that I've saw so far (haven't got around to Zeta I wanted to watch this first). The TV show could really have been like 24 episodes instead of 39 and that's stretching it. There's a lot of parts that are just kind of meh and the plot doesn't pick up until like 70% through the TV series. Be Invoked makes all of the tedious and boring episodes way fucking worth it. The OST (which is made by the dude who does all the Dragon Quest music) is phenomenal and easily the best part of the TV series minus the last 30% of it. Cosmos ni Kimi to is and will be stuck in my head for a very long time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mRsNrGqPl2g
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I think it gets pretty good about halfway through the TV show or so when it really starts getting you wondering about the mysteries behind everything. But it does suck the pacing is like that since it makes it hard to show to people not so into old-school mecha shit (Be Invoked is IMO a classic anyone with decent taste would appreciate). I wish the first Ideon movie was on the level of the original Gundam trilogy in terms of presenting the plot and setting and being a good bridge to Be Invoked. Or hell, that it got a movie trilogy of that high quality with Be Invoked as Part 3.
Registration said:
Pacing is a problem in all tomino series since they give too much time or too little. His movies are usually very little and his series are too much.

Gundam mostly doesnt need 50 episodes to tell its story. It is something that they kinda realized lately

I finished reading shaman king a & garden, it is the prequel focused on the hanagumi trio. Quite cool for shaman king fans
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Zeta and Turn A are well worth their run time. If anything, some Tomino shows are too short--King Gainer is great but would've been fucking perfect with more episodes and G-Reco would've actually lived up to its potential.
 
God of Nothing said:
Escapism is bad.
i'm going to watch more anime, play vidya, and write fantasy
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Yeah, actually I had a shower thought earlier, and I thought about posting this in the Western Animation thread but its got a bit more context here, but its also a case of a show for kids arguably being more mature than the show for adults (a subject that came up in the Western Animation topic).

In the 1980s there was a TV special called Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies. It is basically Paranoia Agent but with a more balanced message--whereas Paranoia Agent is basically that grandpa you had who thinks its bad that people like to unwind after a hard day at work and that people should never ever be allowed to have fun because apparently the slightest hint of having a good time will cause moral decay, Puff/Living Lies is that chill uncle who thinks its okay to have fun so long as you don't get fantasy and reality confused... and as long as you don't start lying maliciously.

(The third special, Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody, could also be a counterpoint to Paranoia Agent--that one is about a kid who is a talented creator, but because of social pressure convinces himself that its actually his imaginary friend who came up with everything, and so he loses his creativity when said friend "runs away.")

In fact, not to start a Western vs Anime war..... but this is one thing I tend to prefer about western animation, at least when it comes to the 1980s and early 1990s--anime writers seem to always take these really extreme perspectives, while westerners used to have a bit more balance in their view. Not so much now that western animation has become pozzed though.
 
Dig this crazy manga
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Ikemen Joshi to Josou Danshi - MangaDex

While cross-dressing, I was hit on by a handsome guy, except he wasn't actually a handsome guy!
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While cross-dressing, I was hit on by a handsome guy, except he wasn't actually a handsome guy!
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How would the activists spin this?
 
skykiii said:
Yeah, actually I had a shower thought earlier, and I thought about posting this in the Western Animation thread but its got a bit more context here, but its also a case of a show for kids arguably being more mature than the show for adults (a subject that came up in the Western Animation topic).

In the 1980s there was a TV special called Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies. It is basically Paranoia Agent but with a more balanced message--whereas Paranoia Agent is basically that grandpa you had who thinks its bad that people like to unwind after a hard day at work and that people should never ever be allowed to have fun because apparently the slightest hint of having a good time will cause moral decay, Puff/Living Lies is that chill uncle who thinks its okay to have fun so long as you don't get fantasy and reality confused... and as long as you don't start lying maliciously.

(The third special, Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody, could also be a counterpoint to Paranoia Agent--that one is about a kid who is a talented creator, but because of social pressure convinces himself that its actually his imaginary friend who came up with everything, and so he loses his creativity when said friend "runs away.")

In fact, not to start a Western vs Anime war..... but this is one thing I tend to prefer about western animation, at least when it comes to the 1980s and early 1990s--anime writers seem to always take these really extreme perspectives, while westerners used to have a bit more balance in their view. Not so much now that western animation has become pozzed though.
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I really like the extremism. It's a representation of their society's way of thinking. All or nothing.
 
Involuntary Celebrity said:
well i'd die if it was a hunger strike
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I mean okay, this tells me the showering is because Made in Abyss makes you feel dirty.... but like I said I barely know anything. I've just seen the OP (friend showed it to me) and I thought the character designs were cute.

What, is this one of those anime that looks innocent but is actually super pedophilic or something?
 
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