Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

Not gonna lie, that was the first Gintama episode I ever saw, and it was the best introduction I could've asked for. XD

Is there anyway to watch Kochikame? The anime series needs to be back period!

Legally?

@ShadowFox254 even illegally, its hard to find them all.

Honestly, I feel that just watching tv shows or anime legally is just ridiculous. The fact that these shows don't air in the west and that majority of them aren't available in the west not to mention that Viz media doesn't release every Manga to the west, its only fair that just watching anime illegally is the best method for many outside of Japan or US for that matter. Crunchy Roll couldn't get KochiKame series at all both Manga and Anime so if there is no other option, you have no other choice other than going to Japan and getting it from there.

The same thing applies to video games but I don't want to go off-topic here.

@Artwark - I just want to know if you're against it or not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqcD1vMRT-E

So, what are the manga that you guys just don't like?

For me:

• Kingdom Hearts - I'm a big fan of the game series, but the manga is pretty bad. After Wonderland (which is the third world visited in the manga), they don't feature anymore of the boss fights, resulting in a manga with pretty much no action in it after that point. The boss fights after that point either happen "off screen", or are written out altogether. The latter baffingly enough, applies to the final confrontation with Ansem (He just spews his spiel about darkness being the true nature of all hearts before opening KH, without any sort of fight with Sora's group). Beyond that, they actually even omitted a few worlds from the story. This still isn't as bad as the next two on this list, though.
• Aiki - As you may know, with my like for series like HSDK, Grenadier, Wadatsumi, and Change 123, it's no surprise that I enjoy action/adventure stories with a bit of fanservice, but I just couldn't get into this one. The MC is an insufferable a******, and I just couldn't root for the guy. He has a rude, thugish personality, and he's never once humbled. Despite his true power supposedly being sealed, he acts like any fight is nothing more than a nuisance, defeats any opponent with ease, and returns to treat everyone like crap and casually sleep around. I know a lot of people complain about meek, weak guys that somehow attract all the ladies in manga/anime, but I think this is much, much worse. I just wanted to see him get the crap beat out of him just once. Never finished it.
• Tenjo Tenge - I started reading this for the same reasons that I started reading the last one, and it was possibly even worse. The things they started doing for "fanservice" started to get really, really creepy (though maybe turning it around as something uncomfortable was the point), and the story quickly became mired in loads of technobabble that I didn't understand. Add in some racial stereotyping, and here's another series that I didn't finish.

I don't think I've ever actually enjoyed an action manga. Looking at static images and woosh lines just doesn't do it for me.

I prefer Anime over Manga for two reasons and that's animation and color. Even if the anime is black and white, the animation can give the idea of what is happening in certain scenes. This is why just reading Metroid or One Piece on Manga didn't give me the slightest idea of what is going on in general.

Ok going off topic here, why is it that Anime girls are sooo cute and beautiful compared to the real women I see most of the time. Man! I keep getting constant crushes just by looking at them! XD

Two things
1) Who is still rooting for the Attack on Titan 3DS game to come out in Europe?
2) Who else has seen the last episode of Tokyo Ghoul? It totally blew me away...

@RR529 - I remember Aiki. I read it because I was looking for a very ecchi manga, and it was still awful...

Tenjo Tenge's fight scenes are fun to watch animated, though. But you're better off just looking those scenes up on youtube and forgetting about the "plot"...

EDIT: Okay, Plastic Memories looks pretty damn cool. That makes 8 shows I'm looking forward to in the coming weeks. Assuming I still care about Punchline...

No. Before Crunchyroll, people were pirating Anime on-mass. Now people are still pirating Anime on-mass, but at least there's a site where the few non-Japanese people who actually want to support the industry can do so without having to spend thousands of dollars on DVDs.

That's like saying "Netflix is hurting TV-producing companies" when the reality is that it's giving them much more money than they would get otherwise.

Agreed. Even at the absolute worst case scenario, Crunchyroll has not been negative.

I think if you want to see positive, it would depend heavily on if you can prove if Attack on Titan's success over here has any relevance to Crunchyroll having it.

I felt the same way until I read Murata's One-Punch Man. The guy's insane. Dedicated workaholic, but definitely insane.
The manga's practically already an anime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8XWzGbhW_8

Haruhi and Gintama returning to TV makes this the best spring for anime EVER!

Combined with the 7 or 8 other shows I want to see, I'm inclined to agree with that sentiment...

I've barely even looked up what's coming out this season beyond Fate and Gintama. Is there a must-see I've overlooked?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disappearance_of_Nagato_Yuki...

....oh ok. I assumed I couldn't have missed the news for Season 3.

I mean, that sounds cool, but god dammit, don't get me excited about anime's equivalent to Half Life 3. :/

There's a lot I'm excited for, but most of those haven't shown enough for me to call any of them a "Must-Watch" without actualy watching them yet. Which is the best I could ask for, personally. Lots of possible surprises without the expectations being held too high for the possible disappointment to be painful. Good conditions for me to try some stuff out.

No, distribution models like Crunchroll are the future. It's not perfect yet and may never be because the audience is much smaller than say the content than Netflix* hosts, but digital licensing for streamed content is where the industry is and should be headed. If anything, it's companies like Funi that are holding the industry back.

The biggest problem now is that actually buying anime is still a terrible process. The physical media is still too expensive and the selection sucks. The digital media has no storefront, at least not that I'm aware of. You can buy a movie on PSN or iTunes or whatever for 10 bucks. Put that movie on a flash drive or your phone or whatever and take it wherever you want. Can't do that with anime. Only option is to pirate.

*Crunchyroll has Netflix beat on one thing though - watching episodes within an hour of their airing.

So, is this the season where the Kyokai no Rinne anime is supposed to air?

I usually don't keep up with the newest releases, but I may have to make an exception in this case.