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Marissa Moira said:
Bigger question is Yuki Nagato worth watching directly after?

Fans seem rather split on that series.
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I enjoyed it, but I'm a sucker for sweet, slow-paced shows. If you're the "HURRY UP AND FUCK" type, you're in for a rough ride.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Ooh, also saw you got King of Thorn. That took me ages to get the manga of.
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I picked up the blu-ray years ago when Funi had some weird packaging for their blu-ray/dvd combos. I need to watch it and find the manga.
Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
Sorry if I'm a little behind schedule here, but episode 3 of Majo no Tabitabi hit me like a brick. It went from unsettling to just plain sad.
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I really enjoyed the first episode. It had that feeling of melancholy, but looking forward to watching the rest of the episodes now.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Isn't Oda like perpetually horny for his wife, who's a cosplayer, and he's hoping she'll dress up in all the different skimpy outfits he designs for Nami?
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Sometimes when artists draw women with tiny waists and balloon tits people are like "Wow, has this artist ever SEEN a woman before???" and that makes the oda thing all the more funny cause he obviously has and just draws them like that cause it's his style. (I mean I always found that 'critique' embarrassing to begin with regardless of whether an artist is married or a turbo virgin but you get the idea)
 
I've decided to give One Piece another chance two weeks ago, I think. It's actually cooler than I expected it to be, but now I'm wondering if I should continue it because doesn't it have like fucking 600 episodes or something like that?
 
mr_frankie said:
I've decided to give One Piece another chance two weeks ago, I think. It's actually cooler than I expected it to be, but now I'm wondering if I should continue it because doesn't it have like fucking 600 episodes or something like that?
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I assume you're paid every time you watch the entirety of a TV series?
 
Dick Justice said:
everybody's telling me what, but not why
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If I were to go into a bit more detail about each of my picks:
-Devilman: My favorite part about the series is the relationship between Akira and Ryo, seeing how it develops as the story changes over from a motw fights against various demons to an anti-war commentary as it shows humanities decay. The series was always quite dark but the final volume or so cranks it up, the series doesn't have a happy ending but one that does stick with you. I think it's a short enough read that you could finish it in an afternoon, though I don't know which version you have as I know some newer ones just haphazardly stitched in Shin Devilman and it ruins the flow of the original series. If you see a sudden shift in artstyle I would honestly just skip until it switches back, most of shin is weird time travel shit (Like going back to see Hitler).

-Vagabond: Follows Musashi Miyamoto as he grows as a person and develops his sword style. It starts out largely focusing on the fights as he proves his strength but later it begins to switch more into discussion about what strength actually is as Musashi starts to go up against people far stronger than his raw talent can beat. I'll say that if you're someone that read Vinland Saga and hated Farmland arc you'll probably also dislike Vagabond as it has a very similar arc full of introspection for Musashi on what does he really want. There's also technically no ending besides an illustration the author drew a while after the series went on hiatus, but it's still worth reading for the beautiful art (Slam Dunk author) and its captivating story (I personally really like Musashi's character growth but I also really liked Thorfinn's growth from Edgy boy).

-Holyland: Series focuses on MC Yu as he gets into street fighting but the larger focuses is on themes like Depression, finding your place in society, and the outcome of violence. I enjoyed the fights but my main enjoyment of the series was reading the authors commentary and discussions, it felt like the author himself had a lot of experience with the things that happened. Fights also tend to be more on the realistic side, nothing like what you might get in something like Baki, but discussions things like Knife fights or how scary Judo is in a street fight setting. Holyland is probably one of my favorite manga of all time and I'll give it a re-read every so often, the art is something you get used to though I can see first time readers not enjoying it. Your pile also had his other works like suicide island and Taiga which I would check out if you end up liking Holyland, both are pretty decent though not as good as Holyland.

-Nobunaga's Chef: Chef with head trauma finds himself back in time and ends up becoming a chef for Nobunaga, he doesn't remember much about himself but his knowledge of western cuisine remains. I'm a big fan of both historical and cooking manga so it was really no surprise I ended up liking it, it delivers well on both fronts. I guess if neither of those things interest you then you can probably just skip the series, that's pretty much what it has going for it.

-Summit of the Gods: As I haven't read this one myself I'm mainly basing it off of what I've heard about it and the author's other works that I've read. Basic premise is a photographer finds a camera that apparently belonged to the missing George Mallory, a climber that went missing on Mount Everest, photographer then goes on a climbing adventure with his friend based around this. The author, Jiro Taniguchi, is fairly famous (at least in france where most of his works have been released, was even knighted) and the works of his that I've checked out have been very enjoyable down-to-earth works. There's something really appealing about his artwork.

-Gundam the Origin: Already kind of went over this one but if you aren't adverse to mecha it's a pretty interesting story of war between two fairly fleshed out factions. It also focuses quite a bit of time detailing char's past and what exactly is driving his actions during the war, something that was somewhat skimmed over in the actual series. I'm pretty biased towards this work given my love of Universal century gundam but I'd say Origin is a pretty good story by itself.


I don't know if any of that helps a bit, it's been a while since I read any of these works so I'd have trouble giving a detailed plot description.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Bigger question is Yuki Nagato worth watching directly after?

Fans seem rather split on that series.
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I don't get the hate for it, I was totally okay with it. Yeah, it's slower 'cause it's a slice-of-life, but it gave Yuki actual character to break her out of her Rei clone status, and I thought she was cute. It helps that FUNimation actually got the original voice-actors back, so it's not as painful as people make it out to be.

mr_frankie said:
I've decided to give One Piece another chance two weeks ago, I think. It's actually cooler than I expected it to be, but now I'm wondering if I should continue it because doesn't it have like fucking 600 episodes or something like that?
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You already think it's cool, so just keep going. You might as well stick with the manga for the time being, though, unless you have the patience of a saint and can put up with Toei's cheap, slow ass because of the soundtrack and voice-acting being top-notch otherwise.
 
Here's a question what anime series DVD releases are superior to their blu-ray versions?

There's also a ton of series that currently lack a Blu-Ray release or are stuck in legal hell(i.e. Cromartie)
 
Ok, i need some info to apply in this world:
For years i search of a depressing shonen like Hokuto no Ken, i know some names but i need more if is posssible.
Can you help me, lads?
 
I Love Beef said:
Sure. Describe it.
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My search involved two main things: action with extreme violence and depressing stuff.
I know Hokuto no Ken is one of them, and i love it; the manga involved uncensored finishers and near every main character besides Kenshiro dies.
I'm looking for something like that, a great story mixed with strong feelings.
Any suggestions about something near of the explained will be useful.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Here's a question what anime series DVD releases are superior to their blu-ray versions?

There's also a ton of series that currently lack a Blu-Ray release or are stuck in legal hell(i.e. Cromartie)
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I bought the Gits: SAC DVD collection after reading how messed up the blu-ray release was from reviews. I'd say any older series that had a memorable dub that gets a later blu ray release that doesn't include it would count, something I worry is going to happen with the upcoming eva release.
 
Atatata said:
Honestly, a lot of the list is solid, at least from what I can recognize, so just read whatever cover looks interesting. There is some trashy shock schlock on the list (Dead Tube, Cage of Eden) but its easy to tell from the cover and summary.
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Dead Tube is so fucking edgy that it's actually entertaining though.
 
Moguro Fukuzou said:
I bought the Gits: SAC DVD collection after reading how messed up the blu-ray release was from reviews.
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It's FUNimation who released the Blu-rays, right? Figures. Still need to hunt down SAC season two, think it's harder to come by than the first season.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
It's FUNimation who released the Blu-rays, right? Figures. Still need to hunt down SAC season two, think it's harder to come by than the first season.
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Looking it up it was apparently Anchor Bay and Manga USA that released it.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Here's a question what anime series DVD releases are superior to their blu-ray versions?

There's also a ton of series that currently lack a Blu-Ray release or are stuck in legal hell(i.e. Cromartie)
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I don't have any of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya on Blu-Ray other than the movie but the Special Edition version of the original series on DVD included one of my all-time favourite extras, a "bonus" DVD in each volume with the episodes in the original scrambled broadcast order. If you didn't care about the dub (since the broadcast order disks were sub-only) and didn't mind having to switch disks often, I think it was actually possible to skip buying one or two volumes and still get all of the episodes.
 
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