Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

@RR529
I actually love InuYasha, I haven't watched it in forever though, I need to finish it. The main gripe I have with it is that it just gets so repetitive sometimes.

I once borrowed the first volume of Inuyasha from my library, and it wasn't too bad. My friend was a massive fan and convinced me to stay up until 1am (this was back when Adult Swim was a thing here, I think 2005 or something) and I remember thinking that it wasn't really worth staying up that late :/

Yeah, it was on around 12 a.m. here at the time. Still one of the most pooular anime to be shown on Adult Swim, I believe (heck, outside of Cowboy Bebop, I can't think of any other anime they've held onto for so long, and even then, it hasn't been taken off the schedule as often, but that's probably because Bebop's a shorter series). Even now, they have an hour of it at the end of Toonami, from 4 a.m. - 5 a.m.

According to some comments I read on the AS message boards, they actually got a newer copy of the series when they premiered it on Toonami (based on some redubbed dialog).

@KKSlider, I never said you had to like it, and I never said there weren't much better stuff out there. I simply said I like it, and nothing more (and I'll even admit it's mostly for nostalgia's sake).

I got the animes, both dubbed. There's no way I wouldn't do that with dubs as good as those. Heck, I usually hear that Beck is better in English than in Japanese, which is pretty remarkable since all the music had to be dubbed too.

I'm maybe the only one that does this but in the summer times I usually re-watch animes that I haven't seen in over a year, I have three in my mind I'm going to watch, watched all of one and I'm at the second one.

What are you watching?

Is it just me, or is Firefly very similar to Bebop/Trigun?

As of right now I'm watching Elfen lied once again, the last time I watched it which was probably was two years ago, pretty dark but I enjoyed it.

@Caniswolfred
Awwww, don't worry pal, my favorite anime's a mecha.....
....one no one here likes....sits in corner

A few people on the interwebs have a pet theory that Joss Whedon's a closet anime fan Kinda like how Kayne West is a (not at all) closeted anime fan

Cowboy Bebop has way more going for it than just the space outlaw angle though, and Firefly is good in its own ways too. I feel that Firefly is more focused on its own characters, while Bebop is all about the worlds in the future and the culture of each. That's what I got from watching them anyway. I haven't seen Trigun, but I'd assume that it has a character of its own too.

Trigun is great! Watch it!

what i got from Cowboy Bebop is that it wants to be the greatest anime ever by not being anime

I'd probably respect this more if wasn't for the commercial break moments having text congratulating itself for being revolutionary. No one should do that ever.

Bebop seriously boasts about itself while you're watching it?

Bwahahaha, iirc it had "The work which shall transcend genres will be called Cowboy Bebop" or something in one of the ad breaks. I didn't see it trying to be the greatest anime ever, but it did self-boast a great deal.

EDIT: Maybe the reason why I wasn't ticked off by it was because it popped up in an episode after I'd made the conclusion that it does do quite a bit of genre bending. In hindsight though, I agree with KKslider, nobody should do that ever

Geeze. You know, I'm starting the think I'm just gonna be watching Bleach and One Piece as constants, with only 1-2 other short shows being watched at the same time. FMA B is on hold because...it can wait. I'm gonna wrap up Fruits Basket and Lucky Star, finish Gargantia, and keep following Attack on Titan. Since it won't be too long before three of those shows are out of the way, I guess I'll start from there with 1-2 new one(s).

I hate attack on titan being a monthly manga. iT was awesome when I had 40 chapters to get caught up on, but now it seems like its dragging purposely.

Though as others have said, I do feel that Inuyasha was too repetitive. I mean, I like repetitive shows to a degree - I watch super Robot and Magical girl shows from time to time, and it's rare that it gets more repetitive than those, yet I still couldn't stick with Inuyasha. So...props to you for being able to stick with and enjoy it for what it is.

Summer animes are gonna be rolling out soon. Free! Is up first. Anyone watching it?

Tomorrow I'm watching Danganronpa The Animation.

I've heard people talking about it, but it looks like it suffers from the same thing that Kids on the Slope suffered from (everyone assuming that it's a BL series) except far worse. So far everything I've seen is swarming with fangirls talking about the attractive main characters, so I'll probably hold off unless it turns out that the series has a great dramatic plot or something