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Magikarp3

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Golden Time 5-9: I think I figured out what this show's main flaw is - there's way too much plot. There's so much story and backstory happening that it's impossible to cram it all in, which is why they end up having half-episode long flashbacks and characters which don't appear for huge lengths of time. There are still some good moments, but the rest is pretty mediocre.

Samurai Flamenco 1-6: I have a lot of trust in Noitamina (I'm pretty sure half of my favourites were on that block lol) but this show has been patchy so far. I like the idea of a hero whose only superpowers are determination and an unbreakable sense of justice. Mari has been annoying though, with all the sympathy pains and whatnot, but she's still pretty funny when she's with the rest of her group.

Samurai Flamenco 7: What. Just. What.

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GuSolarFlare

@Jollykarp just you wait for episode 8 it will do a complete turn of the events

but episode 9 makes clear this won't last long

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Ushio & Tora. Watching the OVA, then reading the manga which I haven't done yet. Damn, what I'll give to have my hair grow that fast like Ushio.
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Rocko52

I finally had time (and the effort) to start catching up in Kill la Kill. From yesterday to today, I've watched episodes 4-7, I missed a lot of great stuff! This show is awesome!

Also, about One Piece spoilers, I try to keep away...but when I go to One Piece Wiki I just can't contain myself from reading article after article...like I said, I know the general outline of the sagas (not that specific, but I know about) I know character backstories (Robin, Franky, Brook, Moria, and a few more...maybe) I know tons of different DFs, and Haki, I know about a ton of character deaths (even all the way up to Punk Hazard....) it's really quite annoying.

Also, last night for the heck of it, I watched the first episode of the original Lupin III anime. (Early 70's) It had really good animation, considering. The opening is pretty dull, but it is stuck in my head:

It was rather fun too, involving the thief outwitting an evil organization trying to kill him in a car race. Minus some sexuality, a few small swears, and slightly more heavy violence, it actually reminded me a lot of old American toons. I feel like I might want to check out Miyazaki's Lupin III Castle of Cagliostro soon. Although, it sounds as if the characters were changed quite a bit from the manga to the anime in order to make it more kid-friendly.

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RR529

Read the three newest chapters of Bleach and am all caught up!

Hashvalt broke through Captain Kyoryaku's (spelt that wrong, hippie captain) barrier, and started to fight him, but was called back to HQ by Juha Bach so he could execute B-29 & Gang Du, as punishment for losing to Soi Fon & Toshiro, respectively.

Meanwhile, Mask De Masculine (Stern Ritter "S") crushed Ikakku, Shuuhei, and another vice-captain (can't remember his name) effortlessly.

They are saved from death however, from two captains that intervened (two of the Vizoreds that were given their positions back after Aizen's defeat). Despite giving De Masculine some injuries however, they too were defeated.

Suddenly Renji & Rukia blast onto the scene, having completed their training with the Zero Division! As De Masculine is about to finish off the two incapacitated captains, Renji intervines! Who will win?

Things are finally getting exciting again.

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Rocko52 wrote:

I finally had time (and the effort) to start catching up in Kill la Kill. From yesterday to today, I've watched episodes 4-7, I missed a lot of great stuff! This show is awesome!

Yeah it's pretty awesome. I can't help but laugh whenever the teacher gets any screen time, he is so creepy in a good way! New episodes on Friday!

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GuSolarFlare

well Samurai Flamenco episode 10 was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

and really bloody too, felt like a last episode even though it's still 12 episodes away from the end

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Wheeler

The OP of Ushio & Tora has to be one of my favorite OP ever. I never get tired of hearing it.

I just wish the anime lasted longer.

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Magikarp3

So the unthinkable has happened, I'm up to date with two anime in one season! And I now remember why I don't tend to do that! Getting cliffhangered at the same time each week sucks, so I figure now's a good time to wait a month or two before continuing. Samurai Flamenco has finished what seems to be an arc, and frankly I couldn't care less about the Golden Time characters right now.

Until then, I started up Hanasaku Iroha. I thought it would be a relaxing anime, but it's actually a little harsh at times. The animation is gorgeous though, the characters are nice and it has insert songs!! And the end theme cuts into the final scene of the episode!! Those little things really influence how much I enjoy a series for some reason, so it's nice that this one checks all the boxes.

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Rocko52

Anyone here seen the trailer for that new Godzilla move? It's pretty impressive.

On a different note, I think it'd be cool for One Piece to visit an Old West styled island, I mean Oda did write a Western Manga One-shot in the 90's, when he wrote, WANTED!, so it'd be really neat for a New World Island to be like that.

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CanisWolfred

Jollykarp wrote:

Until then, I started up Hanasaku Iroha. I thought it would be a relaxing anime, but it's actually a little harsh at times. The animation is gorgeous though, the characters are nice and it has insert songs!! And the end theme cuts into the final scene of the episode!! Those little things really influence how much I enjoy a series for some reason, so it's nice that this one checks all the boxes.

Yeah, I'd say Iroha is more of a drama than anything else. It certainly feels...more story/lesson oriented than, say, K-On or whatever. At least from what I can recall.

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Magikarp3

Rocko52 wrote:

Anyone here seen the trailer for that new Godzilla move? It's pretty impressive.

It looks cool! I haven't watched too much of the originals, but this film would probably interest me even if I didn't watch any.

Off topic but it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine when Asian stories are adapted by Hollywood and everyone gets replaced by Caucasian actors. I know it's not as bad for Godzilla and makes more sense in the context of this film than, say, Dragonball Evolution or something, but still it just irks me a little bit. Although perhaps it's not the wisest to discuss that here.

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Just started my first anime (Attack on Titan)! I think I'm in love with this medium now

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DarkNinja9

hey guys been a while since i posted here D= curious if anyone seen any good anime lately? cuz yeah i ran out and the 2013 summer/fall are still airing so i need something while i wait on those but cant seem to find anything =[ help? oh yeah last good anime i saw was Kokoro Connect high school related but none of the pevy stuff more of the sci-fi thing like switching bodies and hearing others ppls thoughts things least i found it interesting

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CanisWolfred

DarkNinja9 wrote:

hey guys been a while since i posted here D= curious if anyone seen any good anime lately? cuz yeah i ran out and the 2013 summer/fall are still airing so i need something while i wait on those but cant seem to find anything =[ help? oh yeah last good anime i saw was Kokoro Connect high school related but none of the pevy stuff more of the sci-fi thing like switching bodies and hearing others ppls thoughts things least i found it interesting

I saw tons of good anime. I doubt you'd like any of them, but maybe if I throw stuff at you, something will stick?

One Piece
Hunter X Hunter
Yu Yu Hakusho
Fairy Tail
Toriko
Magi
Bleach
Flame of Recca
Reborn
Naruto Shippuden
Gintama
Dragon Ball
Space Brothers
Saint Seiya Omega
The Unlimited
Armored Trooper Votoms
After War Gundam X
Gundam Unicorn
Broken Blade
Majestic Prince
Giant Robo: The Animation
GoaGaiGar
The Brave of Gold: Goldran
Super Robot Wars: The Inspectors
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
The Legend of the Galactic Heroes
AnoHana
Berserk
Sgt. Frog
Summer Wars
Sword of the Stranger
Kuroko Basketball
Slam Dunk
Senyu
Gargantia
The Devil is a Part-Timer
Wooser
Cuticle Detective Inaba
Squid Girl

That's all I can think of right now...but I'm sure I saw more than that this year.

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Actually, this is a fun mental exercise. Ones that I saw that I didn't like:

Valvrave
K-On
Henneko
Nyarko-San W
Original Life
Coppelion
J-Decker
X the Movie
Apacolypse Zero
Gowkaiser

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SUPER ANIME UPDATE 2; THE QUICKENING

  • Beyond The Boundary (Episode 9): I'm heavily considering dropping this series. While I like the action scenes, the confusing & rushed plot, overuse of tropes, and sexual fetish-defined male characters are especially hampering my viewing experience. And considering that I've read the synopsis for the next episode (and found it to be completely stupid), I can't think of many reasons to continue this series.You had a good first episode, Beyond The Boundary, but it looks like that was where the quality ended.
  • Kyousougiga (Episode 8): If Kyousougiga spent about an episode's length explaining whatever the 'Shrine' is and explaining what happened in episode 6 and 7, I would be absolutely fine with this series and consider it to be really good. As it stands, I feel that this Shrine organization and episode 6 + 7 leave too many questions. I'll admit that my cultural illiteracy may be a part in why I don't understand those two things, but I still don't agree with how they're presented in the show.
  • Outbreak Company (Episode 8): Huh, the show director must have been reading my comments. While this episode does bring up a serious issue for comedic purposes, it also at least comments on that issue in a serious way. Also... [minor spoiler below]

I absolutely love how the background music from the video game provides the background music in the conclusion of the issue. It was a great glimpse of superb direction in a series I expected to have none.

So yeah, I'm happy about episode 8. I'm hoping the series will continue this small change.

  • Samurai Flamenco (Episode 9): After the somewhat generic episode 8 that hinted that more was going on in the background. this episode delivers. While it's not subtle in any way, I love the commentary about Samurai Flamenco's current position. Great to see that the directors/writers of the series aren't just turning this into a generic show after the extremely well done first half-dozen episodes.
  • Log Horizon (Episode 10): Man, Shiroe is a crafty devil, and I like it. Moving on, I'm actually super-impressed with this series as to how it manages to balance serious drama with humor. It's definitely done it better than any other anime I've seen and it gives the series great medium that makes everyone happy. Also, the humor is pretty great too, making it all the better.
  • Kill la Kill (Episode 11): OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN!!! IT'S GETTING SUPER-GOOD AND I'M PUMPED!!!

And I recently watched some more stuff from the past;

  • Bakemonogatari (Episode 5): I'll admit, I'm starting to like this show. However, the extremely pointless and questionable sexualization is really preventing me from saying that it's more than just simply "Good".
  • RWBY (Completed): Yeah, I know, this isn't an "Anime" but just let me BS about it. I dropped this web series after episode 7 simply because the interesting parts (the fight scenes) were almost nowhere to be found amongst the other nonsense that I never cared about. And unfortunately for me, there was literally a huge fight scene the next episode. So yeah, that helped me get back into the series. I marathoned the rest of the show immediately after episode 8 and this is my opinion of RWBY on a whole;

"...Eh, it was kind-of Okay...ish...."

RWBY is in that weird place where it sits between being a fan work and a professional product, so I'm not entirely sure on how to judge it. However, if I were to judge it as a traditional anime series with shortened episode lengths, I would say that I'm overall disappointed. While the fight scenes are nice, there's too much other cliche high school-esque drama that I simply can't care about. While the series does have attempts to inject setting-related issues into the story, they're either boring or don't have any pay-off as of yet. So yeah, comparing RWBY to other anime makes RWBY look like the lesser product. But at the end of the day, I feel somewhat bad for slagging off Monty Oum's personal project. It seems pretty clear that Monty Oum wanted to do this and it would be pretty difficult to say that he was forced into it. (The man works for Rooster Teeth, that website ain't going down anytime soon.) So yeah, from a professional viewpoint RWBY is underwhelming, but at the same time I can't really by hyper-critical the show because it's a passion project.

  • Rideback (Episode 3): So someone put arms onto motorbikes and called them ridebacks. They're apparently popular in the year 2020 and there are competitions revolving around these machines. A ballerina who broke her ankle and can't...um, 'Ballerina' anymore becomes immensely interested in these ridebacks and shows off amazing skills while riding one. You know what I'm stuck on?

RIDEBACKS ARE MOTORBIKES THAT HAVE ARMS!!!

Seriously, who did that? Why did they think it was a good idea? Why did it catch on? How it is better than just a motorbike that can transform into a "Wheels-As-Feet" configuration? How are the arms controlled? Why do ridebacks need an auto-balancing system if they're based on motorbikes? And again, why did someone put arms onto a motorbike? There are so many questions!

Otherwise, I'm enjoying the series. The animation is gorgeous (it's animated by Madhouse), the characters are likeable if they are archetypes, and there is some nice political issues brewing in the background.

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