Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

I'm gonna be honest here: I don't like Cowboy Bebop. It's too seriously cheesy for its own good, the characters can be downright flat at times, if your main character isn't invested, neither am I (unlike FireFly and Trigun, where Mal and Vash are very dynamic and interesting), and the ending suffers from wha I've dubbed the "Evangelion Disease": when everything goes wrong and you have nothing to blame but the character'a own bottomless stupidity (seriously Eva: weapons of mass destruction, and someone decides "hey, let's give them to emotionally troubled teens!")

Why is it that it seems most original anime is mecha?

@Nobodys_Angel
You've seen Evangelion?

@Rocko52 Enough to know that I hate it.

Aww more hate.
When did you watch and how much?

Eh, people can like what they want to.
Frankly, I quite like Eva and Cowboy Bebop. Whether you like it or not, the former changed the anime landscape, and Bebop is often accredited as a genre unto itself (a statement that I feel is justified). They're both must watches.

Although, I am very surprised that someone could dislike Cowboy Bebop. You've seen all of it, right? I thought Spike and the rest of the cast was quite invested in what was going on, and there was a lot to the story that made the characters much deeper, be it thier pasts or the existentialist take the makers used as the means to let the characters address their respective pasts. Then there's the little things; you know, Spike saying Faye sang off key, the eating of the cigarette, the way that the music always fits the scene, the list goes on. For a show that is very much style-over-substance, I found it to have better substance than 90% of what's out there.
Also, it is the gateway anime.

I watched the first episode twice now, lol. I love it. Good animation, but too much fan service. (Not really a problem if one likes it, like I do).

Still looking for tragic anime that can make me cry. Zero so far. Late thanks to those who gave me recommendations.
Madoka Magica was really good, I regret putting it off. I'm watching AnoHana right now, seems good and I like the art. Clannad, I found the first 6 episodes boring and I didn't like the art but I might try it again.

So, is anyone going to be watching Dog & Scissors? Imagine-Nation covered it Tuesday night, and it looks like it could be interesting.

Pretty much, it's a comedy series, where a teenage bookworm is shot during a robbery at his favorite café, and seemingly dies. However, he wakes up inside the body of a Miniature Dachshund, and is adopted by a crazy novelist who will do anything for story ideas. As it turns out, she also happens to be his favorite author, and is the only human who can understand him. They decide to track down the robber that shot him, find out why he's now a dog, and look for a way to return him to normal.

This is now the current lead for which anime I'll watch during the season.

Also to those who like Rozen maiden (Dolls that are alive and fight each other) there is a 3rd season out now with episodes coming each week, they already released two episodes.

One thing I don't like about Fairy Tail is how the opening to the show is always changed to reflect the current plot and has spoilers in it. I try to just skip it every time, but you still catch some things sometimes.

has anyone ever seen ToraDora or Chuunibyou?

oh and who knows what this is from...
"watashi no kokoro... UNLOCK!"
heh...(◡‿◡✿)

God I hate when people use Romaji. I even watched Shugo Chara and I had to look that up. It just makes people seem so elitist when they know there's a million and one chance that anyone will actually understand what they're even saying. Especially when there's an acceptable english translated term ("My Own Heart...Unlock!", IIRC).

I think I know 2 examples off the top of my head when not using the english translation felt better to me (barring obvious 4kids examples of whatever).
1. Higurashi. Don't even care about the full name but "When They Cry" sounds so boring to me.
2. The catchphrases in Conan. Of course it is. Especially a very simple one where Conan sometimes introduces himself as "Edogawa Conan, tantei-san." Tantei-san means detective (same number of syllables) but they don't translate it exactly despite the fact that it would be perfectly fine. Weird choice and the dub voice actress is so weak anyway by comparison that the dialogue while thinking uses the older teenage version of the character's voice instead (which to be fair is a clever decision). But mostly this is about me being a hypocritical fanboy for the japanese version of this series, I will not even deny.

But I am really sick of not knowing people are talking about Black Butler because they use confusing japanese title etc.

I used to read Black Butler back when it was only available Fantranslated, so I first knew it as "Kuroshitsuji", yet I still prefer to call it "Black Butler" since "Kuroshitsuji" is pretty much impossible for me to spell or pronounce (I had to look it up, and even then, it took me a million tries to get it right in this post alone). But yeah, I only do it for Higurashi and Ano Natsu de Matteru, if only because the latter is on Crunchyroll in Romaji, so I want people to know that they can watch "Waiting in the Summer" there instead of just on Hulu or Funimation. And ya know, Waiting in the Summer is starting to grow on me.

BTW, does anybody have any anime they wish were more popular? I know I got a pretty detailed list, though it's not quite finished, so I'll post it later.

I prefer to call Mongolian Chop Squad by its original name, "BECK". It's not due so much to any weird angst about adhering to the original Japanese title, I'm usually just too lazy to type out (or say) two whole extra words. Yeah.

I just wrote it in romaji bc I always remember her saying it, not in english, but in japanese.
I wasn't going to write it in japanese bc most can't read it
so calm down

The only one that springs to mind for me is Steins;Gate, and that's only because it can never be popular enough in my books. Objectively speaking, it's pretty freaking popular.
Yeah, I need to see some less well-known shows.

Actually, now that I think about it, Ghost Stories doesn't usually get any mention from the anime fans I know. Maybe that's because so many people watch subs, though, and the only reason Ghost Stories is worth mentioning is because of its English dub.

Yeah, Ghost Stories' one of those things that I only see mentioned by fans of more obscure anime who also tend to watch stuff dubbed...which means I've only seen it mentioned twice? Thrice? I haven't watched more than a few clips, personally, but it looks like the dub of it was pretty good at least.

I'm calm now that I've vented. You have no idea how often I see that on anime sites. Hell, even One Piece Fansubs refuse to translate half the terms. It drives me crazy, yet if I'd be mobbed if I vented anywhere else but here.

I dunno, as most of the anime I watch are pretty popular on the internet forums, and that's all that matters! Hahaha no...

I'm honestly more interested in seeing the return of some real mainstream success in America in general for some anime and hoping for the continued success of some of the more beloved anime of the past decade (Welcome to the NHK! especially). But I'd love to see One Piece become legit really popular here (it's gotten close at points I suppose...) and I'd do almost anything to see Detective Conan get another chance on tv.

There is this manga called Ai-Ren that's criminally underrated though. Beautiful manga. But because of the author's other works among other reasons, I'm not surprised it isn't popular.

Well Free! sounds legitmately disappointing. One less thing to watch.