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Krookodile said:
@LordDarkrai Paprika's pretty good, watch it. Satoshi Kon's one of my favorite anime people (RIP) and I think it's a thousand times better than Inception, which honestly bore me to tears.

@John Titor Which spoiler? Death Note's great too, although I've only read the manga. Just haven't felt like watching the anime yet, I've got Precure and Yu-Gi-Oh and shit to watch because I'm a giant manchild.
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The really big spoiler.
Ladies night
 
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Kamen Rider Black RX said:
Once, I made a comment on a mecha youtube video. Some guys were discussing what the strongest mecha is and I entered into it by saying Getter Emperor. Thing is, I compared Getter Emperor to the spiral nemesis, which makes sense because TTGL was inspired by Getter.

Then the fanboy came and started going on about how TTGL is the strongest evah and how Emperor is shit. I spent a couple of days arguing with this guy in the comments section, with a 500 character limit. Dude actually said I never watched Gurren Lagann as I was listing the limitations of the machine and the canon-strength of Emperor. Hell, at one time he said something to the effect of "gods aren't real, so Getter isn't real. TTGL wins."

Anyway, guy gets smacked down so much he quits and someone sets up a reply that told people to follow the chain and see an epic Gurren Lagann debate. I have never felt more like a geek.
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This guy sounds like a real no-life or just an idiot.
 
Monthly Girl's Nozaki-kun is pretty funny, and only 12 episodes, so far.
My girlfriend and I agreed most of the characters have the 'tism.

Krookodile said:
Paprika's pretty good, watch it. [...]I've got Precure and Yu-Gi-Oh and shit to watch because I'm a giant manchild.
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I take it you've seen Perfect Blue, then? It's not just good, but -as any good movie sperg would tell you- it inspired Darren Aronofsky. I really need to see it again, I haven't seen it since I had a VHS -and was too young to really appreciate it.

And don't sweat it. Precure is hilarious, mepo.

(Jesus, so much editing failure on my part, sorry)
 
Morbid Boredom said:
I take it you've seen Perfect Blue, then? It's not just good, but -as any good movie sperg would tell you- it inspired Darren Aronofsky. I really need to see it again, I haven't seen it since I had a VHS -and was too young to really appreciate it.

And don't sweat it. Precure is hilarious, mepo.

(Jesus, so much editing failure on my part, sorry)
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Yeah, I've seen the Satoshi Kon classics.

It is! I'd honestly rather watch a bunch of samey magical girl crap made for literal children than the otakubait pantsu imouto shit that the anime fandom seems to cream themselves over nowadays. I just can't get into "cute girls doing cute mindless things", constant jiggling titties and panty shots, and harem rom-coms.

(You're posting in an anime thread, that's failure enough.)
 
I've been watching anime ever since I was little and first introduced to DBZ on Toonami way back in the day. Recently I've been watching the "A Certain Magical Index/Scientific Railgun" series. The show seems kind of dumb/otaku/weeaboo-ish but it entertains me and for some reason I can't stop watching it. Also, what's up with so many modern series like Kill la Kill and the aformentioned Magical Index/Scientific Railgun having their characters' eyebrows visible through their hair, as if their hair is transparent? That's been bothering me lately.
 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
Getter/TTGL stuff
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I've seen a guy say Demonbane is objectively the strongest robot. That being said, I've already learned to not talk to 99% of TTGL fans, mostly through experience. Cartoons are serious fucking business, man.

I loved the hell out of Getter Robo, though.
 
Whatisgoingon said:
I've been watching anime ever since I was little and first introduced to DBZ on Toonami way back in the day. Recently I've been watching the "A Certain Magical Index/Scientific Railgun" series. The show seems kind of dumb/otaku/weeaboo-ish but it entertains me and for some reason I can't stop watching it. Also, what's up with so many modern series like Kill la Kill and the aformentioned Magical Index/Scientific Railgun having their characters' eyebrows visible through their hair, as if their hair is transparent? That's been bothering me lately.
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A reason I've heard stated for that is that the eyebrows need to always be visible because they're important in communicating expressions in the rather simplistic art that's used in most anime. That made sense to me. I dunno if it's actually true though.
 
Rio said:
A reason I've heard stated for that is that the eyebrows need to always be visible because they're important in communicating expressions in the rather simplistic art that's used in most anime. That made sense to me. I dunno if it's actually true though.
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That makes perfect sense... but that's also pretty damning. "No, we're not dumb, we just have horrible production values!"
 
Morbid Boredom said:
That makes perfect sense... but that's also pretty damning. "No, we're not dumb, we just have horrible production values!"
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I'd say it's less horrible production values and more finding whatever works to get around constraints in animation budget and stuff. Same goes for any cartoon. A regular weekly-airing show is not going to look like the lion king or spirited away. They simply don't have the budget for it. Weekly airing cartoons tend to just have simpler designs.
 
Morbid Boredom said:
That makes perfect sense... but that's also pretty damning. "No, we're not dumb, we just have horrible production values!"
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I always think of too many dopey cartoons where the eyebrows appear to be floating above the skull. Someone apparently liked it so the rest followed suit.

Rio said:
I'd say it's less horrible production values and more finding whatever works to get around constraints in animation budget and stuff. Same goes for any cartoon. A regular weekly-airing show is not going to look like the lion king or spirited away. They simply don't have the budget for it. Weekly airing cartoons tend to just have simpler designs.
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The budgets for a TV series tend to be far cheaper than that of an OVA or movie. They definately wouldn't scrimp too far on a movie
 
Gundam Wing has become better now that I've entered the double digits. Trieze is still the best character though.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
I always thought Duo and Quatre had the most characerization of the main five.
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Thus far (13 episodes), I've internalized the main 5 as such.
Heero = Psychotic Asshole (laughing while killing doesn't help)
Duo = Likable Asshole
Trowa = Bland Asshole
Quatre = Not an Asshole
Wufei = The King of All Assholes.

Also watching Reconquista in G. Setting feels like Final Fantasy X to me as it's becoming more and more comprehensible.
 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
Thus far (13 episodes), I've internalized the main 5 as such.
Heero = Psychotic Asshole (laughing while killing doesn't help)
Duo = Likable Asshole
Trowa = Bland Asshole
Quatre = Not an Asshole
Wufei = The King of All Assholes.

Also watching Reconquista in G. Setting feels like Final Fantasy X to me as it's becoming more and more comprehensible.
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Well I've happened to see the whole series, and while I don't disagree (Wing's probably my least favorite series in many aspects, including characters and animation). My point still stands, three of the characters barely get any storylines while the other two get fairly developed ones.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Well I've happened to see the whole series, and while I don't disagree (Wing's probably my least favorite series in many aspects, including characters and animation). My point still stands, three of the characters barely get any storylines while the other two get fairly developed ones.
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OZ has gotten the most focus thus far, followed by Releena. Is it any wonder I like Zechs and Treize more than any of the Gundam pilots at this point? And even amongst the pilots, I only like Duo and Quatre.
 
Trilby said:
I always think of too many dopey cartoons where the eyebrows appear to be floating above the skull. Someone apparently liked it so the rest followed suit.
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To be on topic - I'm currently watching Ping Pong, fucking finally. I can't believe it took me this long to pick it up again. It's exactly what I'd expect from Yuasa, though I don't know anything about the source material. I'm still only at 3/11, so I can't say much besides that it seems to be focusing more on character development over the actual sport, what there currently is is really good, and also dat style.
 
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Thanks.

To be on topic - I'm currently watching Ping Pong, fucking finally. I can't believe it took me this long to pick it up again. It's exactly what I'd expect from Yuasa, though I don't know anything about the source material. I'm still only at 3/11, so I can't say much besides that it seems to be focusing more on character development over the actual sport, what there currently is is really good, and also dat style.
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Apparently Ping Pong started life as a manga almost 20 years ago, and a live-action movie was put out in '02. It's interesting how these properties could live past their time this way.
 
Trilby said:
Apparently Ping Pong started life as a manga almost 20 years ago, and a live-action movie was put out in '02. It's interesting how these properties could live past their time this way.
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I'm fairly certain Ping Pong is award winning. That critical acclaim may have something to do with it.
 
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