@WaffleBoat The Simpsons is an anime if you think about it long enough. The Simpsons does air in Japan, and anime is just the Japanese word for cartoon. So the Simpsons IS an anime.
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It’s a joke about Japanese Simpsons clones.
In one of the episodes homer finds a cleaning detergent called mr sparkle with his face on it. It’s a really weird episode but it somehow turns into a joke about anime I don’t remember how it does but I remember it happening.
I fear no man
but that thing:
The carrot minigame from bowser's inside story
it scares me
I have now finished Engage Kiss and I do not recommend it. Much of the positives I listed before remain, but their context changes. Those brief flashes of really high quality animation were fine for earlier episodes or monsters of the week, and I could forgive brief action scenes when they were more about establishing a character than anything else. But as we moved into the climactic battles of the series, we were still seeing the same brief flashes and little else. If anything, it feels like less budget was spent on capturing the most important battles in the show.
Likewise, while the show does technically have an ending, so much of the show ultimately remains unresolved and unanswered. Not in a way that I would say is truly frustrating, but it is still irritating nonetheless. It is exactly because so much of the world building is so interesting, it becomes that much more annoying that so many cool ideas are introduced here and then they literally don’t do a single thing with them.
All three pre-Super Dragonball series, OG Naruto (somehow not finished Shippuden after all these years), Death Note, both Hunter X Hunter anime, Death Note, Megaman Star Force, both FMA, Azumanga Daioh, Haruhi, Lucky Star, Excel Saga, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, first four Digimon seasons, Pani Poni Dash, Watamote, Welcome to the NHK!, The World God Only Knows, Re:Zero, Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia, BNA, Space Patrol Luluco, Gurenn Lagann, Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, Soul Eater, Eureka 7, G Gundam, Madoka Magica, Cardcaptor Sakura and its sequel series, Steins;Gate/Zero, Robotics;Notes, Toradora, Free! season 1, Squid Girl season 1, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, Chuunibyou, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, Michiko and Hachin, Black Lagoon, Higurashi (both new and old), Wonder Egg Priority, Darwin's Game, Sarazanmai, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Promised Neverland (no I didn't finish season 2 obviously), MMO Junkie, Land of the Lustrous, Flip Flappers, Lycoris Recoil, Odd Taxi, Paranoia Agent, Serial Experiments Lain, No Guns Life
Edit: wait I forgot Shin Sekai Yori, Air, Angels Beats and Gargantia. There's also another one I can't for the life of me remember the title of. Oh and Erased, how'd I forget that. Dimension W, fair enough I forgot that one at least.
also some movies or whatever
ahem
none of this is including series with seasons I haven't watched yet but actually will or confirmed upcoming sequel seasons or anything like that. I'd guess that'd add 15-20 to this list, but I dunno.
Is it Wrong to try & Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon!? II
I Wanna Be the Strongest in the World!
Kandagawa Jet Girls
Keijo!!
Kiddy Grade
Kill la Kill
Knights of Sidonia
KuroMukuro
the Legend of Lemnear
Lupin the 3rd: a Woman Called Fujiko Mine
Lupin the 3rd Part 1
Lupin the 3rd Part 3
Macross
Mad Bull 34
Magic Users Club (OVA & TV series)
Maken Ki! (+ Kai)
Medabots
Neon Genesis Evangelion
New Cutey Honey
Now & Then, Here & There
Outlaw Star
Plastic Little
Ranma 1/2
Rurouni Kenshin
Samurai Bride
Samurai Champloo
Senran Kagura
Tekkaman Blade II
Tenchi in Tokyo
Tenchi Muyo GXP
Tenchi Muyo Ryo Ohki
Tenchi Universe
Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagaan
Triage X
Trigun
YashaHime
This list doesn't even cover films/movies/one off OVAs, anime series I've watched mostly or quite a bit of but never finished for whatever reason (One Piece of course as it's never ending, but also Yu Yu Hakusho & Gundam Wing fit here, as well as childhood favorites like Pokemon & Yu-Gi-Oh! that'll probably go on into perpetuity, lol), and then there are series I've probably just up & forgotten about (I know there are a couple of Mecha series I've seen on Netflix I can't remember the names of & I'm sure there are more that have fallen through the cracks).
Started watching a show called Estab Life. It uses that kinda stiff, 3D, CG animation I know a lot of anime fans hate. This seems to have created a bit of a divide, as it rates around 6 on MAL, but all three of the featured reviews actually recommend the show.
I actually think this is one of the better examples I’ve seen of this, like I say, it is still kinda stiff, but I remember watching some of the 3D CG anime’s on Netflix and they ran like Pokemon SV. I’ve never watched a show where it had a visibly chugging framerate before I tried those shows.
As a show, it is weird as all hell and has quite a rich world to which you get almost zero exposition for, so you kinda have to just go with all the weirdest moments or be left behind. For me though, I’ve honestly found it very addictive as I click onto each episode wondering where on Earth it’ll take me this time, and I can be mostly safe that whatever happens, I should probably have a couple of cool action scenes throw in there for good measure. Plus, beneath all the weirdness, there is actually some surprisingly mature writing, in it’s own way, the show tries to tackle some genuinely really heavy themes. It doesn’t have perhaps as much to say on those things as you may want, but it makes it clear that a lot of the randomness is not just for the sake of it, that somewhere in all this there is a method to the madness.
Started watching a show called Estab Life. It uses that kinda stiff, 3D, CG animation I know a lot of anime fans hate. This seems to have created a bit of a divide, as it rates around 6 on MAL, but all three of the featured reviews actually recommend the show.
I actually think this is one of the better examples I’ve seen of this, like I say, it is still kinda stiff, but I remember watching some of the 3D CG anime’s on Netflix and they ran like Pokemon SV. I’ve never watched a show where it had a visibly chugging framerate before I tried those shows.
As a show, it is weird as all hell and has quite a rich world to which you get almost zero exposition for, so you kinda have to just go with all the weirdest moments or be left behind. For me though, I’ve honestly found it very addictive as I click onto each episode wondering where on Earth it’ll take me this time, and I can be mostly safe that whatever happens, I should probably have a couple of cool action scenes throw in there for good measure. Plus, beneath all the weirdness, there is actually some surprisingly mature writing, in it’s own way, the show tries to tackle some genuinely really heavy themes. It doesn’t have perhaps as much to say on those things as you may want, but it makes it clear that a lot of the randomness is not just for the sake of it, that somewhere in all this there is a method to the madness.
I have finished this now (it was only 12 episodes) - it manages to culminate in quite a grand way, but much like with Engage Kiss, it is also a bit of a non-ending that leaves many of the larger questions unanswered. I will say I feel more satisfied with this overall than Engage Kiss and would be much more likely to recommend this one.
I just have to say, the new Uzaki episode wanted to kill us. Her dad was RIGHT in the place she and Sakurai works at. Where's Uzaki? At home with a hangover probably. I need her dad to realize Hana is the girl Sakurai always talks about. This show is making me die.
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Man, for as hype as it is seeing some of the Chainsaw Man set pieces animated, for me, some of the best moments are seeing the quiet moments brought to life, instead. So many panels in the manga you might end up skimming right over, but when you can actually see the expressions flash on characters faces, when the show can hold on these moments for just a few seconds. You can tell a lot through animation, without even any dialogue or anything else, in a way you can’t do in a static medium like a manga. I feel like I already have a better appreciation and connection to these characters, than I did reading the manga from start to finish.
Yesterday I finished Tao Tao and I think it is a great series for kids. The characters are cute and pleasant and the atnosphere is warm and gentle. Many stories are about embracing yourself for who you are and the best place is home.
I've been watching the Evangelion films (not including the old ones, I watched them last year) over the past couple of months, cause I only get so much time in which I could watch them. So far, I've watched the first 2, and I have the 3rd on DVD. I've been enjoying them a fair bit, and then realised that I've never seen the 4th one on DVD. I was wondering if anyone here knows if it is actually available on such formats, or if you have to watch them on some streaming service or another? Cause that would suck.
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Controversial opinion maybe: I've not been as into the 2nd part of Spy X Family. At the same time that they've been relying on shorter stories with less time to be much of anything (even in a comedy show this can make a notable difference), its been doing things that generally kinda bug me. I don't know where or why the "look at this woman being bad at cooking" anime cliche came from, but anything that even starts to get close to the line of gender stereotyping tends to annoy the **** out of me, and a lot of the episodes have that same type of lame and obvious comedy where the joke is just the most plainly obvious one. Oh, this girl is so bad at cooking it causes physical trauma, oh this nerd guy is bad with the ladies, oh this one child has a stupid crush on Twilight (the other crush on Twilight is ok). Pretty underwhelming compared to the rest of the series so far.
Just watched the tennis episode, which is leagues better than most of the past few have been at least.
@Scooby-Doo, Thrice Upon a Time is getting a BD/DVD combo pack release in Japan in March 2023. GKids (the same distributor who released the OG series on BD) will be publishing it in the US, though they haven't set a date AFAIK. Don't know about other countries.
Currently it streams exclusively on Amazon Prime.
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