At 9/6/07 04:01 PM, Kuro wrote:

At 9/6/07 08:33 AM, TacticalShoe wrote: so I guess it could go either way.

Actually, it really couldn't.

Anime is defined as either: A cartoon (using the literal definition), or a Japanese cartoon (using the more common definition).

Pokemon is both of those.

Anime are cartoons, it's not as if it should be a separate group which is unable to rival other American shows, nor does it have to abide by a set of rules for it to be classified under its own label.

I suppose you're right. It's hard to categorize a cartoon, American or otherwise, as anything, so I guess I was wrong.

At 9/6/07 08:17 AM, Kuro wrote: I used to enjoy Pokemon when I was younger, but I stopped watching after they left Kanto and went onto... What was it? The orange islands or something?

Yup, I believe it was the Orange Islands.

Pokemon was actually a decent series for the first season or so, but dropped off drastically as it went on.

I think either that, or possibly Sailor Moon was the first anime I ever saw, but I never watched Sailor Moon as a regular activity, more like 'when it was on'.

I watched Sailor Moon religiously, and if it was still on TV, I'd likely start watching it again.

I'd go out and buy it from one of the local shops, but the clerk would look at me like I'm sone kind of deranged loony. Oh well, there's always online shopping....

Whew, been a while since I've shown up here!
Yeah, don't expect any frequency from me. Life at the university is making that impossible.

At 9/6/07 07:03 PM, psykolord wrote: Whew, been a while since I've shown up here!

That's for sure!

I missed you.

Yeah, don't expect any frequency from me. Life at the university is making that impossible.

Totally understandable, my friend.

For the record, Netflix is GOD ON A STICK IN A SANDWICH MADE OF EQUAL PARTS AWESOME AND WIN.

I've got Blood: the Last Vampire at the bottom of my movie queue.
Know what's above it?

The Hellsing series.
Hellsing Ultimate.
And End of Evangelion. (maybe I just wanna see Shinji GROW A FUCKING PAIR, I dunno)

Netflix owns hard.

At 9/6/07 11:25 PM, psykolord wrote: The Hellsing series.

Win.

Hellsing Ultimate.

Even more win.

And End of Evangelion. (maybe I just wanna see Shinji GROW A FUCKING PAIR, I dunno)

*Smashes own face in with a hammer*

At 9/6/07 11:28 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 9/6/07 11:25 PM, psykolord wrote: And End of Evangelion. (maybe I just wanna see Shinji GROW A FUCKING PAIR, I dunno)

*Smashes own face in with a hammer*

I just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.

At 9/7/07 01:20 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote:

At 9/6/07 11:28 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 9/6/07 11:25 PM, psykolord wrote: And End of Evangelion. (maybe I just wanna see Shinji GROW A FUCKING PAIR, I dunno)

*Smashes own face in with a hammer*

I just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.

I wish that I could turn back time, and make a better ending to an overrated anime. This flash sums up how I feel about the movie.

Eva had some good things going for it, mechs, some characters, setting, plot, etc...

Started sucking hard towards the end and then LOL GAINAX ENDING. I've never bothered to see the EoE, no plans anytime soon.

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Darker than BLACK along with Potemayo, TTGL, Zeta Gundam and soon to be future series are keeping me entertained. That along with /a/,/m/ & /v/... /w/ of course too. 4ch might have some mighty big faggots on it but the information and accessibility to new shows and what not are quite handy.

I'll try and do that picture thing of my room soon this week. Gonna be 21 on the 8th so I plan on staying home and getting drunk.

Possibly drunken Kisuke and his Gundams???

At 9/6/07 11:25 PM, psykolord wrote: For the record, Netflix is GOD ON A STICK IN A SANDWICH MADE OF EQUAL PARTS AWESOME AND WIN.

I've got Blood: the Last Vampire at the bottom of my movie queue.
Know what's above it?

The Hellsing series.
Hellsing Ultimate.
And End of Evangelion. (maybe I just wanna see Shinji GROW A FUCKING PAIR, I dunno)

Netflix owns hard.

I agree that Netflix is a very useful service, but it's not perfect; They apparently don't have the first disk of Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, Slayers Try, Orphen or the first volume (5-disc set) of GTO. My Saved list is at least 10% of my queue. The funny thing is, Blockbuster Total Access seems to have no problem supplying the very titles missing from Netflix's library (but they don't have full collections of series like Urusei Yatsura or Ranma 1/2).

At 9/7/07 01:20 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: I just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.

I love that song so very much.

At the same time, the forced ironic contrast of the lyrics and melody made the movie feel more pretentious and stupid. Even more so because you can tell they were aiming for complete seriousness.

At 9/7/07 02:41 AM, Kisuke wrote: Eva had some good things going for it, mechs, some characters, setting, plot, etc...

....but then it all went horribly wrong.

Started sucking hard towards the end and then LOL GAINAX ENDING. I've never bothered to see the EoE, no plans anytime soon.

Good, since EoE is a travesty, worse than the last chunk of the TV series.

At 9/7/07 07:10 AM, Gendo wrote:

At 9/7/07 01:20 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: I just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.

I love that song so very much.

At the same time, the forced ironic contrast of the lyrics and melody made the movie feel more pretentious and stupid. Even more so because you can tell they were aiming for complete seriousness.

That song is actually in the movie? Goddammit. Also, ZA WARUDO. WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

Since we're on the topic of horrid anime (Though EVA was decent before the fanboys ruined it, and had a terrible ending. The Manga is still great).

MINOR SPOILERS IF YOU WATCH HORRID ANIME!
I just watched 2 more episodes of Elfen Shit. prior to that, I've only seen one. Now, This series is painfully predictable, and basically rips off other anime because the bastard who created it has seen too much anime, and read too much manga. Remember what the great Osamu Tezuka said "If you want to write a new manga, don't bother reading another manga." Ofcourse, since the person who created Elfen Shit worked at Bandai, he wouldn't have known this. It's such a predictible shitfest, that when you asume Lucy is going to kill a dog, she doesn't. I THOUGHT SHE WAS A PSYCHOTIC KILLER BITCH, BUT SHE DOESN'T KILL A DOG? The creator of Ichi The Killer must be so pissed right now. It's also painfully boring. The characters are so unimaginative, it's impossible to stay awake sometimes. Jesus, the japanese cast is fucking boring in this. Ugh, they end with a rape joke in episode two, and start off the next episode with that same rape joke. Also, they introduce Nana, who is like Lucy, and has a father-daughter like relationship with the Commander (I forget his name), and will do anything he says (Evagelion rip off), and guess were they keep here in their base (Another EVA rip)? Room number 77. Ai Yazawa should fucking sue, because it's an obvious rip off of her series NANA. Also, Yuka, has a thing for Kouta. Fun fact, she's his cousin. I GUESS THEY AMERICANIZED IT TO BEGIN WITH. Fucking incest, How many doujinshis was this fat fuck former bandai employee reading? God. Kouta is an annoying main character on par with Shinji (EVA), and Raki (Claymore). In short, Lynn Okamoto should've been shot along time ago for making this travesty.
Spoilers of shitty anime end here.

Y'know, I hear it's common to love your cousin in Japan.

Also, as for Eva, it's another thing about characters....if you don't like character development, or pretty odd art, then you won't like it. I'm into psychology, I loved seeing what could happen to people...though I didn't really enjoy the last two episodes until after I saw EoE. EoE served it justice, last two TV episodes were just sad for an original ending....but not bad for something that happened afterwards.

At 9/7/07 07:10 AM, Gendo wrote:
Good, since EoE is a travesty, worse than the last chunk of the TV series.

It should have just ended like episode 26 with everybody telling him congratulations or some shit, but there should have been an explanation on what the fuck was going on in between those episodes. You don't start an animation project to run out of money later on. YOU FUCKING FINISH IT. I fear that the same thing will somehow happen to Gurren-Lagann, but I doubt it.

At 9/7/07 02:49 PM, supyohos123 wrote:

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I'd like you to walk up to some random bum and say "You don't start your life to run out of money later on, YOU FUCKING FINISH IT!". It's not like they have control over losing money all of the time...sure, if they plan to spend more than they have then it's a bad thing, but jeesh I'm sure they had their budget in line for a while until something unexpected happened.

Gurren-Lagann...

What is that show? It seems to be a new thing that's fairly popular among internet users. Good, bad, ugly?

At 9/7/07 09:49 PM, TacticalShoe wrote: Gurren-Lagann...

What is that show? It seems to be a new thing that's fairly popular among internet users. Good, bad, ugly?

I think the correct words to describe Gurren-Lagann is FUCKING AWESOME!

At 9/7/07 08:42 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: That song is actually in the movie? Goddammit.

Yep, it plays in the second act of the film.
In short, Lynn Okamoto should've been shot along time ago for making this travesty.
Yup, he's a horrid cunt.

At 9/7/07 10:08 PM, Mendou wrote: It's the newest Anime series from Gainax(the anime studio that came up with Nadia: the secret of blue water and EVA)

I'd hope to God everyone is this club knows of Gainax already, since they are one of the most mainstream and well-know studios in Japan.

At 9/7/07 10:33 PM, supyohos123 wrote: I think the correct words to describe Gurren-Lagann is FUCKING AWESOME!

What this guy said.

It's not well liked because of the T&A? I just clicked through some photos of it and I saw plenty.

At 9/7/07 11:03 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 9/7/07 08:42 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: In short, Lynn Okamoto should've been shot along time ago for making this travesty.

Yup, he's a horrid cunt.

Very. Plagerising mother fucker. Also, got my 20th Manga, Ouran High School Host Club volume 2. I unfortunately couldn't find Ranma volume 1 once again. Anyway, it was pretty lame at chapter today, since there were these two fuck-ugly bitches there who were into emo shit manga, and couldn't pronounce manga. One even thought that the manga selection wasn't in english. Dumb cunt, I felt ready to kill. I was actually going to buy Fushigi Yugi : Genbu Kaiden volume two; but I just used one of the computers to find Ouran Host Club. . . which was in the teen section, and I saw all the fucking horrid over-rated manga. So when I saw Ouran volume two, I took it and left. In retrospect, I guess I should've checked for JoJo's in the process, but no matter. People in my town are idiotic.

claymore is awesome

At 9/8/07 01:26 AM, Mendou wrote:

At 9/8/07 01:22 AM, blindnil wrote: claymore is awesome

That's great to hear, would you like to join or did you just come here to enlighten us?

jerk

MORE ELFEN FAGGOTRY SPOILSHITS
Well, I managed to get through the whole Elfen Lied series. Really total shit, as anticipated. I did give a brief chuckle at some moments; and had to remind myself what the fuck I was watching. Most notably the naked crucification part. All the series was was tit jokes, random gore scenes, and flashbacks. Painfully boring series, that was rather predictable, seeing how any genius could figure out that #35 was the Chief's daughter. Also, just for kicks, they had to die together, and blow up. fucking bastardizing the who gore in the series. Really, it's on par with Final fantasy Unlimited in terms of how fucking boring it is, and worse than fucking naruto in terms of stupidty. Ofcourse, it is a total EVA rip off without giant alien mech clone robots. Now, you're all wondering if I found it this bad to begin with, why watch 14 episodes of a terrible series. Simple, experience in watching a terrible anime, and developing an actual opinion for myself, instead of piggybacking on what Gendo says. He was pretty much fucking right on this one. Worst anime ever. Or atleast, one of the worst. Also, A reason to kill a former Bandai employee. In any case, I've seen alot better gore based anime, and those didn't make me want to rip out my eyeballs. Since they were epic. So, if you're thinking of watching it, do do it any time. EVER.
END SHITTY ANIME SPOILERS.

dudey club guys... like it, anime......like it also....

I was wondering: am I the only one currently watching School Days?

At 9/7/07 09:49 PM, TacticalShoe wrote: Gurren-Lagann...

What is that show? It seems to be a new thing that's fairly popular among internet users. Good, bad, ugly?

It's very good IMO. These last few episodes are great, tonight starts 40%[episode 23]which means the current budget they have left for episodes 23 - 27 is 40%. Oh my god it better be awesome and no LOL GAINAX ENDING IT WAS ALL IN THE MIND OF A SMALL ACOUSTIC BOY LOOKING INTO A SNOW GLOBE.

Epic is most of it, aside from episode 4.

At 9/8/07 02:05 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 9/8/07 01:22 PM, Dark-Phire wrote: I was wondering: am I the only one currently watching School Days?

Probably, i don't think anyone else has mentioned it.

I will when SLOW SUBS ARE SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW picks up some more. I have to finish Zeta, Death Note, well all in my above post and then can watch School Days.

finally an anime club so guys who here reads a midnight opera

Watching Ouran High School Host Club, better then I expected. Big thanks to everyone who recommended the anime in this club.

Hmm Ouran High School Host Club.. Maybe i should give it a try..

p/s: I've seen the first 2 episodes of Elfen Lied and i thought it was pretty decent.. Why the hate? Is it because of the nudity or the gore? FYI, i didn't read the spoiler given above

At 9/8/07 07:19 PM, Vysual wrote: Hmm Ouran High School Host Club.. Maybe i should give it a try..

p/s: I've seen the first 2 episodes of Elfen Lied and i thought it was pretty decent.. Why the hate? Is it because of the nudity or the gore? FYI, i didn't read the spoiler given above

It was the entire fucking story that was the problem.