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[Jinmen]

Is crunchyroll worth it? I use kissanime but I'm sick of it infecting me with malware even with a popup blocker. I should also add that I'm a filthy weeabo who hates dubs and always need to have the option to watch subs or else I turn into a pillar salt. I don't know why a site would predominantly offer dubs but I have to ask.

 

[MI 814]

Is Serial Experiments Lain meant to be putting me to sleep?

Because seriously this shit is boring and makes little sense. Doesn't help the plot isn't engaging enough.

 

[dreamworks face]

Is crunchyroll worth it? I use kissanime but I'm sick of it infecting me with malware even with a popup blocker. I should also add that I'm a filthy weeabo who hates dubs and always need to have the option to watch subs or else I turn into a pillar salt. I don't know why a site would predominantly offer dubs but I have to ask.

Crunchyroll is primarily subs and I don't think has anything that's dub only. I've been subscribed for years and never thought of cancelling, I watch more on crunchyroll than on hulu or netflix at this point.

 

[Jinmen]

I feel sorta bad because I re-watched the original Evangelion, the movie and then the rebuild series. Turns out I really like Evangelion a lot. I really wish I could find more mellow dramatic/dark mecha anime. I've finished:

-Space Runaway Ideon TV series
-Ideon : Be Invoked
-Mobile Suit Gundam '79
-Mobile suit Zeta Gundam
-All the UC ova's (Stardust memory, MS Team, War in the Pocket..can't remember what else)
-ZZ Gundam
-Rahxephon
-Shin Getter Apocalypse
-Unicorn Gundam OVA
-Iron Blooded Orphans
-King of Braves Gaogaigar + the OVAs
-Gurren Lagann
-Vision of Escaflowne + the movie
Shows I haven't finished:
Victory Gundam: still haven't finished this for some reason
Zambot: I tried..I tried..I love old shit but I don't think I can stomach the animation.

Out of all this I think War in the Pocket is the biggest tear jerker. Christ.

Any recommendations? My friend who's into mecha keeps recommending Gundam 00 but it looks bland to me. is Eureka Seven any good? What about Code Geass? If you know of any weird obscure stuff from the 80s please tell me!


-Please do not recommend any Gundam Seed to me, I won't watch it.

 

[MI 814]

I feel sorta bad because I re-watched the original Evangelion, the movie and then the rebuild series. Turns out I really like Evangelion a lot. I really wish I could find more mellow dramatic/dark mecha anime. I've finished:

-Space Runaway Ideon TV series
-Ideon : Be Invoked
-Mobile Suit Gundam '79
-Mobile suit Zeta Gundam
-All the UC ova's (Stardust memory, MS Team, War in the Pocket..can't remember what else)
-ZZ Gundam
-Rahxephon
-Shin Getter Apocalypse
-Unicorn Gundam OVA
-Iron Blooded Orphans
-King of Braves Gaogaigar + the OVAs
-Gurren Lagann
-Vision of Escaflowne + the movie
Shows I haven't finished:
Victory Gundam: still haven't finished this for some reason
Zambot: I tried..I tried..I love old shit but I don't think I can stomach the animation.

Out of all this I think War in the Pocket is the biggest tear jerker. Christ.

Any recommendations? My friend who's into mecha keeps recommending Gundam 00 but it looks bland to me. is Eureka Seven any good? What about Code Geass? If you know of any weird obscure stuff from the 80s please tell me!


-Please do not recommend any Gundam Seed to me, I won't watch it.

You may like MD Geist, it's an OVA and it's sorta so bad it's good.

 

[Bob Page]

I feel sorta bad because I re-watched the original Evangelion, the movie and then the rebuild series. Turns out I really like Evangelion a lot.

Yeah. I consider it to be an inverse of Doom 2016 in how it is presented: Story and character development having more prominence than the action. We don't get many animes like that nowadays.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Any recommendations? My friend who's into mecha keeps recommending Gundam 00 but it looks bland to me. is Eureka Seven any good? What about Code Geass? If you know of any weird obscure stuff from the 80s please tell me!

Yooooooo no Gunbuster? Travesty. Outside of that, I don't got any more 80s recommendations (except Patlabor), but I still got a few to throw your way:

- Magic Knight Rayearth is magical girl warrior meets mecha, though it's more prominent in the second half. If you can't stand CLAMP, skip it, though you're gonna miss out on a rocking OP tbh.

- Scrapped Princess is mecha, I promise you it is in spite of the first half of the series, but it is a fantasy series first and foremost.

- Vandread is a Gonzo series from the turn of the century (so lol CGI cringe), but it has an interesting premise about how the separation of the human race has led to men and women becoming alien to each other.

You may like MD Geist, it's an OVA and it's sorta so bad it's good.

I actually tricked/talked my brother into buying the DVD at a thrift store on the promise of it being entertaining due to its legendary status . We watched it that night (was my second time seeing it, had been years), and his complexion blanched as it went on. By the second OVA, he had no life in his eyes. He still hates me for it.

 

[Done]

I don't know why but I'm currently addicted to Case Closed aka Detective Conan. Whenever I tell myself "just one more episode and then I'm done for today" it always translates into ten more. I will admit it's fun to guess who the episode's culprit is. Or as our hero Shinichi aka Conan himself would say:

"What is best in life? To expose the criminals, see them arrested before you and hear the lamentations of their sob stories!"

It's my current addiction along with One Piece, the series somehow manages to be both relaxing and thrilling at the same time.

I am currently on the Vermouth arc, and there's so much engrish that I am cringing my way to an aneurysm lol. Still a recommended watch tho.

I mean, you ain't wrong.

I was on a big Detective Conan kick in the early 50s and around the 200/300 episode mark. I kinda fallen off from it, but I check out new openings from time to time or check out Kaitou Kid episodes.

The Bourbon and Rum arcs are a massive return to form imo, lots of forward momentum on the main plot and a very engaging battle between multiple detective-type characters. Gosho has gotten really good at integrating the long and short-term mysteries too compared to the Vermouth arc.

Too bad he's taking a lot of hiatuses since his surgery.

I need to make a decision on when to start Detective Conan, especially since I successfully caught up to One Piece in the amount of time I did. I'd be that one dumb-ass who'll start it from the very beginning, of course, though I feel like I'd finish the 1,000+ episodes of Doraemon faster than Conan, I dunno. (Are all of the 1979 Doraemon episodes even available, now that I think about it?)

Pro-tip: Only watch the canon episodes, should cut out at least 300 episodes (They're currently on ~928 iirc).

Here's a full list: https://www.detectiveconanworld.com//wiki/Anime , just skip the episodes tagged "TV Original".

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Is Serial Experiments Lain meant to be putting me to sleep?

Because seriously this shit is boring and makes little sense. Doesn't help the plot isn't engaging enough.

Serial Experiments Lain is a very strange show, I really liked it, since I got sucked into the weird atmosphere right away, but I agree, it's very cryptic and the plot is deliberately crazy.

Fun Fact: The guy who made the show wanted to make this in a way that people from Japan and people outside Japan would watch it, come to different conclusions and then, when discussing their impressions online, would argue about it. Dude wanted the japanese fans to realize how different they are from the outside world for some stupid xenophobic reason.
It backfired tremendeously. The conclusions that he thought only japanese fans could make were actually too cryptic for them, however people in the US picked up on that. The same thing vice versa, people from Japan picked up the ideas that were meant for westerners.
Ultimately, he helped create an international dialogue about this show rather than driving a wedge between the fans.

 

[RepQuest]

is Eureka Seven any good? What about Code Geass?

E7 is one of my all-time favorites, but it's a love it or hate it thing and it's still divisive after all these years. The time spent on developing its main cast is a double-edged sword: It gets into their personalities and conflicts in-depth, but there are many scenes that left a lot of its audience wondering, "Is anything going to happen?". As I'm sure you will find out whenever the show is brought up, do not watch anything beyond the original show. There's a reason that Bones is so maligned for sequels to its originals.

Code Geass has a shitload of problems with its writing, but it's some of the most fun I've had watching a show.

 

[Akumaten]

Please do not recommend any Gundam Seed to me, I won't watch it.

At best I can recommend Gundam Seed Stargazer. It has none of Kira bullshit.

 

[GeePee]

due to the Broly movie,people have started a #MeToo against voice-actor Vic Mignogna: https://twitter.com/hanleia/status/1085478817764827136

for years I have heard these stories against him.Don't know about the whole thing with underage fan girls,but I'm not sure about the homophobia thing,considering he has worked with assumed gay voice-actors like Greg Ayres and J.Michael Tatum(with the later having defended him against the homophobia accusations)for a long time.
Anyway,they should have tried this before the movie was dubbed,not a day before it came in North American theaters,when it was too late to take some effect.
And let's not forget Funimation have cut ties with Scott Freeman when he was convicted for child pornography and replaced him from all the ongoing characters he was voicing(like Highscool DxD and Hetalia),so Vic could seriously lose his long standing Broly role from future games(and now appearances in the anime) if they managed to proof those accusations.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

due to the Broly movie,people have started a #MeToo against voice-actor Vic Mignogna: https://twitter.com/hanleia/status/1085478817764827136

for years I have heard these stories against him.Don't know about the whole thing with underage fan girls,but I'm not sure about the homophobia thing,considering he has worked with assumed gay voice-actors like Greg Ayres and J.Michael Tatum(with the later having defended him against the homophobia accusations)for a long time.
Anyway,they should have tried this before the movie was dubbed,not a day before it came in North American theaters,when it was too late to take some effect.
And let's not forget Funimation have cut ties with Scott Freeman when he was convicted for child pornography and replaced him from all the ongoing characters he was voicing(like Highscool DxD and Hetalia),so Vic could seriously lose his long standing Broly role from future games(and now appearances in the anime) if they managed to proof those accusations.

Wasn't he already supposed to be an asshole, or was I thinking of something else?

EDIT: Nevermind. The post reminded me that I've heard these stories about him being an asshole already.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I've heard stories from both ends of the aisle of him being an asshole and him being good to his fans. He's passionate about being Christian and has talked about it in panels, but it can get on people's nerves. He's a good voice actor, but at the same time has a limited range. There's a lot of conflicting reports about Vic that goes back so many years that I doubt anything's going to happen without hard evidence. Most people scream he's homophobic because he politely turned down a girl's pornographic picture of Ed and Roy for him to sign, while at the same time pointing fingers at him being a Christian for why he hates the gays.

The person running the Twitter account link doesn't have firsthand experience of him being creepy, they only heard it secondhand. They apparently have staffing experience where they were told to not piss him off even though they all hated him, but they're not giving examples of him being insufferable (if they did, it's on their old, dead account). In the comments, they're just screaming homophobia when people are pointing out him respectfully disagreeing with the gay lifestyle but still remaining a good sport to gays in person is not homophobic. For fuck's sake, there's a video of him calling out a pair of fundies protesting outside of a convention, though they'll probably claim it's just a publicity stunt.

There's other people telling stories of him telling inappropriate jokes, but the one that stuck out to me:

--aren't some of the stories I've heard about his fangirls is that they are that crazy, though? It's a weird, crude joke, but it's kind of an inside joke at the same time.

So I don't know how true the accusations are, but at this point I don't care until there's evidence that shows him being a creep/homophobic asshole. Maybe he is the JewWario of the industry, but there needs to be proof of that. He clearly has a good work ethnic, otherwise his co-workers would've come out about it by now to back these voices up.

 

[BubbleButt]

Fight choreography in Broly was very good. Thankfully most of the weebs kept their autism in the lobby/concession area and did not bring it into the theater.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I've heard stories from both ends of the aisle of him being an asshole and him being good to his fans. He's passionate about being Christian and has talked about it in panels, but it can get on people's nerves. He's a good voice actor, but at the same time has a limited range. There's a lot of conflicting reports about Vic that goes back so many years that I doubt anything's going to happen without hard evidence. Most people scream he's homophobic because he politely turned down a girl's pornographic picture of Ed and Roy for him to sign, while at the same time pointing fingers at him being a Christian for why he hates the gays.

The person running the Twitter account link doesn't have firsthand experience of him being creepy, they only heard it secondhand. They apparently have staffing experience where they were told to not piss him off even though they all hated him, but they're not giving examples of him being insufferable (if they did, it's on their old, dead account). In the comments, they're just screaming homophobia when people are pointing out him respectfully disagreeing with the gay lifestyle but still remaining a good sport to gays in person is not homophobic. For fuck's sake, there's a video of him calling out a pair of fundies protesting outside of a convention, though they'll probably claim it's just a publicity stunt.

There's other people telling stories of him telling inappropriate jokes, but the one that stuck out to me:
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--aren't some of the stories I've heard about his fangirls is that they are that crazy, though? It's a weird, crude joke, but it's kind of an inside joke at the same time.

So I don't know how true the accusations are, but at this point I don't care until there's evidence that shows him being a creep/homophobic asshole. Maybe he is the JewWario of the industry, but there needs to be proof of that. He clearly has a good work ethnic, otherwise his co-workers would've come out about it by now to back these voices up.

According to that post his fellow voice actors would have loved to bitch about him publicly, but wanted to keep working in the industry.

This stuff has been going back for years, and there's so many people who can attest to it, so I can't help but think that where there's smoke, there's fire, if you know what I mean.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

According to that post his fellow voice actors would have loved to bitch about him publicly, but wanted to keep working in the industry.

Which I think is interesting because my understanding of the the voice-acting industry is it's not like how it is in Hollywood and it is more unstable as a career. You have your cliques and regulars who are always finding work, but I don't ever hear of any voice actor getting filthy rich off of it. So I'm just scratching my head at how it is talking smack about Vic would cost them their jobs. Is he really that much of a golden goose or what? He's not like Chris Sabat who practically is the face... voice of Funimation.

Something's probably up, sure, but the current state of the #MeToo allegations does nothing to get any kind of "OMG NO WAI" reaction out of me. Then again, it's always happening to people I never heard about or am not a fan of anyway; I enjoy Vic's performances, but I'm not a squealing fangirl. Until Funimation does something about it and/or the voice actors actually start telling stories publicly (if only to save their butts and wash their hands of him), I'm not going to care. If it's indeed that serious and if he really is a pain in the ass at Funimation, it would've been taken care of years ago.

 

[Ali della Fenice]

Is crunchyroll worth it? I use kissanime but I'm sick of it infecting me with malware even with a popup blocker. I should also add that I'm a filthy weeabo who hates dubs and always need to have the option to watch subs or else I turn into a pillar salt. I don't know why a site would predominantly offer dubs but I have to ask.

Try gogoanime and see if it gives you malware. It didnt in my case.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Is crunchyroll worth it? I use kissanime but I'm sick of it infecting me with malware even with a popup blocker. I should also add that I'm a filthy weeabo who hates dubs and always need to have the option to watch subs or else I turn into a pillar salt. I don't know why a site would predominantly offer dubs but I have to ask.

Since you don't seem to have a problem with piracy, I recommend Anime twist which is ad-free on all pages except one (Boku no Pico) as it relies on funding and is 100 % dub free. For pre-mid 00s series, Animerush is a good site to use (it's not ad-free, but you should be good to go as long as you have a decent adblocker).

 

[DeadwastePrime]

I recommend Anime twist which is ad-free on all pages except one (Boku no Pico)

im gonna need an explanation for this