First episode=Watched.

So far it's basically glorified, somewhat pretentious hentai, but it's not as bad as you guys say it is.

It's a bit dull, and the violence seems unnecessary, but it's hardly the anti-christ of television (based on first impressions).

And I don't understand what you guys mean by the violence getting old in the first episode though.

There's basically no violence after the first 5 minutes.

At 8/24/07 02:45 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 8/24/07 07:06 AM, MrTrivia wrote:

Air TV, which seems to be an anime based on a popular "Visual Novel", is a pretty good series. I've only seen the first episode, but I love it already.
I'm also enjoying Maburaho, but that's probably because I have a thing for harem series.
Elfen Lied seems to be exactly as you guys warned - I only watched the first half of episode 1 before the gratuitous violence turned me off. I mean, there's only so many times you can view guys being dismembered by an invisible force before it becomes passé.

I heard of Air TV but never got me interested. Also you might as well stop watching Elfen Lied right there Trivia because it just gets worse from there(but then again thats obvious when you said all that violence turned you off)

Come to think of it, I remember winning a copy of Elfen Lied on DVD at an anime convention, and I quickly traded it in (unopened) for Ghost in the Shell at my regular video games store, Video Games & Music Exchange.

At 8/25/07 04:49 AM, MrTrivia wrote:

At 8/24/07 02:45 PM, Mendou wrote: I heard of Air TV but never got me interested. Also you might as well stop watching Elfen Lied right there Trivia because it just gets worse from there(but then again thats obvious when you said all that violence turned you off)

Come to think of it, I remember winning a copy of Elfen Lied on DVD at an anime convention, and I quickly traded it in (unopened) for Ghost in the Shell at my regular video games store, Video Games & Music Exchange.

I won a DVD box set of Elfen Lied at a BBQ hosted on base by the Marine Corps Community Services to celebrate my battalion coming back from Iraq.

I actually watched it though. And while it was certainly not a great series, I did enjoy it.

At 8/25/07 04:49 AM, MrTrivia wrote: Come to think of it, I remember winning a copy of Elfen Lied on DVD at an anime convention

Hmph.

The only think I've ever won at a convention (it was a comic book/tcg/anime/video game convention (Basically anything nerdy)) was a Superman action figure (the design was from The Dark Knight Returns).

It promptly broke after my brother threw it into a wall (Superman apparently can't fly).

Then again, I got about as much use out of that as I would a DVD of Elfen Lied, I guess.

At 8/24/07 07:14 AM, Kuro wrote: Because I'm somewhat confused as to wherein the sarcasm lies, and if it was in fact humourous (or degrading towards some other person) enough to be necessary.

Lulz.

At 8/24/07 12:00 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 8/24/07 06:36 AM, Kisuke wrote: Fujioka is delicious flat chest.

Yes, very yes.

Fun fact: My current Winampa skin prominently features Haruhi and Tamaki.

DO WANT. SHARE PLEASE KIND SIR.

At 8/24/07 06:56 PM, Kuro wrote: Somehow I think I just might be able to handle violence and underage nudity in an anime.

The violence in anything I can handle but I can't stand nudity at a young age or underage b& at all.

Excuse me while I read my Rozen Maiden doujinshi to get rid of the images.

So guys, which is your favourite anime series and favourite anime movie?

At 8/25/07 02:36 PM, Kisuke wrote: DO WANT. SHARE PLEASE KIND SIR.

I'll try and dig up the site I found it on later.

Finished the first six episodes of Black Jack (the Clinical Chart OVAs), and I must say episode six was a mindfuck of epic proportions. I'm very much looking forward to finishing the series, though, since despite a few hiccups here and there, not a single episode stands out as "bad" or even "below average".

I also got off my ass and popped in one of my unwatched discs, volume one of Black Lagoon. The series pretty much oozes amazingly cool from every metaphorical pore of its existence. The opening and ending sequences are sparse, dark and stylish. The episodes themselves manage to blend action, crime drama and humor very, very well. Think Cowboy Bebop, except with pirates instead of bounty hunters, the Orient instead of space, cinematic ambient instead of jazz (CB's Yoko Kanno score is obviously far superior, though) and a Hell of a lot more violence and vulgarity.

For some bizarre reason I decided to acquire the Lucky Star game for the DS, "Shin Lucky Star Moe Drill ~Tabitachi~" ("New Lucky Star Moe (Sprouting?) Drill ~Going on a Journey" or something).

The game was in Japanese, as you can imagine, which would be hard enough if the game wasn't some sort of quiz-type test game.

I managed to get the general gist of what was going on in the cut scene segments due to my basic knowledge of informal Japanese, which involved some silly stories like a character saying something along the lines of "I want a job here" and expanding on that for a little while before inevitably resulting in some sort of quiz-battle between the characters.

There were about 4 different types of quizzes (that I saw, though there may be more), which were as follows:

1. A very straight forward maths game in which you had to type out numbers on a calculator (I was good at this one).
2. Some sort of game in which the game asks you something in Japanese, or gives you a sentence in Japanese and you have to select one of the Japanese sentences from the multi-choice options (I was bad at this one).
3. A game where you were given a fragment of (what I assume was) an anime/manga/videogame quote in English, and you had to complete it using the multi-choice options (I did well in this one, despite half of the English not making sense as questions).
4. Some bizarre game that I never quite got, that seemed to involve the game giving you a sentence in Japanese, and you had to choose whether it was tsundere, or tsunero, or deretsun, or whatever the silly Japanese Otaku slang words it threw at you were (I managed to get by in this because for some reason the majority of the answers were 'tsundere', 'tsun' or 'dere').

Through doing all this you can unlock things like costumes for the characters (like a maid outfit or something) in typical Japanime fashoion.

I got bored of the game reasonably quickly, since there's only so much homework-with-an-anime-twist I can take before I fall asleep.

At 8/25/07 08:00 PM, Kuro wrote: For some bizarre reason I decided to acquire the Lucky Star game for the DS, "Shin Lucky Star Moe Drill ~Tabitachi~" ("New Lucky Star Moe (Sprouting?) Drill ~Going on a Journey" or something).

Well, let's hear what Soun Tendo thinks of this acquire. . .

Ok, this has been bothering me for a few days now, and I just can't remember what it was ><.

Ok, a while back a friend told me he will be showing me the goriest scene that he has ever seen in Anime (It was definitely not THAT gory, as it could have been outmatched by quite a few Eva scenes...and neither of us had seen Elfen Lied) so of course I agreed. It came to this very old looking village, with a military unit attacking it....innocent people were dying, until this girl wearing nothing but a big shirt came out of a house and started killing off the military....and then the villagers as well.

She was supposed to be possessed or something, and she had red eyes (heh, I guess that's a given). I remember she was using a sword, or maybe it was no weapons at all....but she killed everyone. My memories of this are kinda off, so I probably have a few details wrong, but I've really been trying to remember what the hell it was called.

At 8/25/07 08:56 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote:

At 8/25/07 08:00 PM, Kuro wrote: For some bizarre reason I decided to acquire the Lucky Star game for the DS, "Shin Lucky Star Moe Drill ~Tabitachi~" ("New Lucky Star Moe (Sprouting?) Drill ~Going on a Journey" or something).

Well, let's hear what Soun Tendo thinks of this acquire. . .

Haha, moderately amusing.

But seriously, given the description, it sounded like an utter waste of money.

At 8/25/07 09:47 PM, Gendo wrote: But seriously, given the description, it sounded like an utter waste of money.

Yes, sure, waste of money.

By the way, is it just me, or does the first scene of Elfen Lied remind anyone else of Akira?

At 8/25/07 09:56 PM, Kuro wrote: By the way, is it just me, or does the first scene of Elfen Lied remind anyone else of Akira?

I too noticed that similarity.

Which reminds me, I should finish the Akira manga soon...

At 8/25/07 08:56 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: Well, let's hear what Soun Tendo thinks of this acquire. . .

Oh ho ho!

What clever picture spamming!

At 8/25/07 10:32 PM, Kuro wrote:

At 8/25/07 08:56 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: Well, let's hear what Soun Tendo thinks of this acquire. . .

Oh ho ho!

What clever picture spamming!

riiiiiiiiiight uhh about that by clever what do you mean

At 8/25/07 10:45 PM, MetalOverlord11 wrote: riiiiiiiiiight uhh about that by clever what do you mean

*Face-fucking-palm*

Please learn to detect obvious sarcasm and actually contribute something to this club other than confusing and obvlivious-sounding responses.

At 8/25/07 09:47 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 8/25/07 08:56 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote:

At 8/25/07 08:00 PM, Kuro wrote: For some bizarre reason I decided to acquire the Lucky Star game for the DS, "Shin Lucky Star Moe Drill ~Tabitachi~" ("New Lucky Star Moe (Sprouting?) Drill ~Going on a Journey" or something).

Well, let's hear what Soun Tendo thinks of this acquire. . .

Haha, moderately amusing.

The game is called Ranma 1/2: Treasure of the Red Cat Gang for the SNES. Though it's a Japan only game ; )

At 8/25/07 10:54 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: The game is called Ranma 1/2: Treasure of the Red Cat Gang for the SNES. Though it's a Japan only game ; )

Good to know.

I'll give it a look, y'know, whenever...

At 8/25/07 09:13 PM, KingPanther13 wrote: It came to this very old looking village, with a military unit attacking it....innocent people were dying, until this girl wearing nothing but a big shirt came out of a house and started killing off the military....and then the villagers as well.

She was supposed to be possessed or something, and she had red eyes (heh, I guess that's a given). I remember she was using a sword, or maybe it was no weapons at all....but she killed everyone.

I really think you're talking about the movie Blood. Those memories come to bite her in the ass later.

At 8/25/07 10:54 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: The game is called Ranma 1/2: Treasure of the Red Cat Gang for the SNES. Though it's a Japan only game ; )

The only Ranma 1/2 game I want to play is that one which was Americanised, and turned Ranma into a blonde guy named Steven or something.

I'm sure it would be good for a couple of chuckles.

At 8/26/07 12:01 AM, supyohos123 wrote:

I really think you're talking about the movie Blood. Those memories come to bite her in the ass later.

Ah, I think that's what he called it too. Thanks man, that was really starting to bug me.

At 8/26/07 12:13 AM, Kuro wrote: The only Ranma 1/2 game I want to play is that one which was Americanised, and turned Ranma into a blonde guy named Steven or something.

I believe that was called Street Combat or something similar.

I'm sure it would be good for a couple of chuckles.

Trust me, it is, especially when you compare screencaps from the original and the Americanised version.

At 8/26/07 12:47 AM, xom-b wrote: brains

Lame gimmick account is reeeeeeeeeeeally lame.

Some actual wit would be nice.

At 8/26/07 12:41 AM, Gendo wrote: I believe that was called Street Combat or something similar.

I don't get why they did that.

Surely Ranma 1/2: Neighbourhood Combat would earn them as much money, or more with less work.

Trust me, it is, especially when you compare screencaps from the original and the Americanised version.

The whole idea sounds like too much work for the few laughs it might get.

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The cosplay parts of this game seem to be completely unnecessary.

From what I could gather, the characters came on and suddenly said something about going to a cosplay contest (as Fate/Stay Night characters), and had a brief discussion about tsundere, then left.

Though I'm quite impressed with the length of this game.

At 8/26/07 01:01 AM, Kuro wrote: Surely Ranma 1/2: Neighbourhood Combat would earn them as much money, or more with less work.

Yeah, but American game developers and distributors in the NES era were huge fans of mismanagement.

The whole idea sounds like too much work for the few laughs it might get.

I recall there being a site that had made comparison screenies. It was very amusing to see how drastic the changes where.

Though I'm quite impressed with the length of this game.

But does the length really matter with the lack of a real goal or entertainment value?

I'd rather have three to four hours of fun (the original Metal Gear Solid) than several days worth of boredom.

can i joinmeowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

At 8/26/07 01:18 AM, Gendo wrote: I'd rather have three to four hours of fun (the original Metal Gear Solid) than several days worth of boredom.

I can relate to that the first Metal Gear was amazing for its time and is still amazing.
Now for something anime related:
I bout Hellsing Volume 1 from my friend for about $10 since all he had was the DVDs left witch is a bummer.

At 8/26/07 01:24 AM, glameow989 wrote: can i joinmeowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I recall you posting here before.

I'll make the wild assumption that you actually intend on joining as opposed to mindlessly spamming...

1. Five favorite anime and a sentence or two about each.
2. What anime do you dislike?
3. What got you into anime?

At 8/26/07 01:24 AM, glameow989 wrote: can i joinmeowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

yeah you need to answer those question or you will not join so forget it

At 8/26/07 01:28 AM, MetalOverlord11 wrote: yeah you need to answer those question or you will not join so forget it

WHAT A FASCINATING OBSERVATION, SONNY!

Christ, you're getting on my nerves...