Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

that made my day

I'm thinking about doing that from now on wth anime movies. Recomend a movie (this goes to everyone),and I'll post my reactions to the movie as I see it. Let's see how it works

Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target

I'll see if it's on netflix or where I can find it

I urge you all to watch Redline. It's 100 minutes of pure "HOLY. F-ING. HELL." from start to finish. Where other racing films will break up the action with slower scenes to flesh out the story, this film says no. This film says, this race isn't exciting enough yet; so launch the entire army and every bullet at its disposal towards it. This film says, why isn't there an Akira-style eldritch abomination blowing all to hell yet? And rectifies that by putting one in, and calls it Funky Boy. This film says, is 600km/h fast enough? Like hell it is. Not nearly enough zeroes.

It spent five years in development from studio Mad House, and sports a fantastic (and amazingly animated) western graphic art style. It makes F-Zero look like summer camp for preschoolers (and now I'm hoping like hell the next entry in Nintendo's series takes a look and uses the same art style). Trailer below; it's not even what you'd call the highlights. The whole freaking movie is like this and doesn't let up for a moment.

_{Also I watched The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya which is entirely excellent in every way and fans should make sure they see it immediately, but Redline just completely blew my mind.}

Mmmm clannad was good. Time to watch Air now I guess

I will now watch Redline!

You did watch all of Clannad, including After Story, correct? Absolutely required viewing!

Thank you. And Kanon 2006, Air, and Clannad all have the same Studio, Director, Character Designer and I think even composition in common. Ironically I was misinformed when I mentioned that they were from the same creator. The Visual Novels all have the same developers, but in Angel Beat's case the visual novel came after the show. Other than that, they have nothing else in common, really, other than being really good dramedies. I'm glad you liked them anyways, I've been enjoying them myself as well.

I finished watching Code Geass a few days ago...and I'm not happy with the end results. While not explaining the origins of one of the characters that sets almost all of the events in motion, the anime also twists its own story to come up with a plot device that flips the world of the anime on its head. And not only that, but the anime comes up with another plot device so that there can be a final confrontation between the big bad and the goody two-shoes of the series...a confrontation that the anime never resolves and leaves hanging in the air. So yeah, I didn't like Code Geass.

Lately I've just been watching a lot of One Piece. I'm following both the current episodes and watching it in order. I just hit episode 400 today, so only 124 until I've gone full circle. So worth it...

@V8: I warned someone against Code Geass a while back in this same thread. Sorry you wasted your time like that...

I'm still certain Code Geass is only popular because of how hilariously bad it looks.

however, Bleach is also popular so there doesn't need to be a real reason for something to be popular

Of course I did, I always do! Even watched the episode where he's with tomoyo xD

The Kyou episode was also tons of AWESOME-sauce!

Finished watching Lucky Star yesterday. It started to drag a bit towards the end but the OVA was good.

I just started watching Gurren Lagann today and it's EXCELLENT so far! I'm surprised that neither Cartoon Network or SyFy Channel have picked it up. I'm also surprised that there isn't more Gurren Lagann manga and merchandise in some of the Otaku and Geek stores that I've been in. If it hadn't been for people constantly posting Gurren Lagann fan art on Tumblr and Deviant Art I wouldn't have been convinced to watch the anime but I'm definitely glad I decided to check it out.

It DID air on SyFy Channel...

First off: Gurren Lagann was picked up by the Sci-fi channel. Twice. The second time the entire anime block rested on the success of it. Luckily it still did well enough to continue for a few more months.

Second of all: TTGL is actually a pretty popular series here in the west (and for good reason, too, it's actually a pretty incredible show from start to finish). In fact it's one of the few Giant Robot series that's still popular in the west, along with Evangelion and Code Geass. All you have to do is go online and you'll find tons of merchandise for it.

@Mickeymac, thanks for filling me in on the blanks man!

I'm definitely liking Gurren Lagann and FLCL along with the anime Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere. But what happened to the anime block on SyFy channel? Did it go off the air? I mean I haven't seen it.