At 1/20/08 09:37 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 1/20/08 09:34 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Well what's the point of ruling this club if I can't train more people to be like me? Have I failed? No. I never fail.

We'll just have to get tougher on the younglings.

They must learn our ways.

Younglings? If you're not a youngling, then I am fucking ancient.

At 1/20/08 10:30 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Younglings? If you're not a youngling, then I am fucking ancient.

YOU'RE OBSOLETE, OLD MAN!

I AM THE FUTURE!

At 1/20/08 10:30 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Younglings? If you're not a youngling, then I am fucking ancient.

My body is young, but my mind is very old.

You're coming on strong and I like the way...

At 1/20/08 11:24 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 1/20/08 10:30 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Younglings? If you're not a youngling, then I am fucking ancient.

YOU'RE OBSOLETE, OLD MAN!

I AM THE FUTURE!

This is why people should stop having children. Children are the future, but they're out to replace us.

So, I've decided to check out Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex again. I didn't like what I saw a couple years ago, but taste changes and I think I ought to like it especially since I love the original movie. I also plan on checking out Innocence and Solid State Society.

At 1/21/08 02:26 AM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: This is why people should stop having children. Children are the future, but they're out to replace us.

Stephen colbert reference?

At 1/21/08 01:05 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: So, I've decided to check out Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex again. I didn't like what I saw a couple years ago, but taste changes and I think I ought to like it especially since I love the original movie.

Funny, I absolutely despise the original movie and that almost put me off S.A.C.

Then I got the boxset for Christmas back in '06 and fell in love with it.

At 1/21/08 01:05 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: So, I've decided to check out Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex again. I didn't like what I saw a couple years ago, but taste changes and I think I ought to like it especially since I love the original movie.

I got that out one time, but didn't end up watching it.

It doesn't interest me that much, though I did like the original movie.

I also plan on checking out Innocence and Solid State Society.

Innocence had some good visuals, but its plot was confusing as fuck.

At 1/21/08 05:39 PM, Kuro wrote: Innocence had some good visuals, but its plot was confusing as fuck.

That summarizes all of Mamoru Oshii's works.

The guy just loves to fuck with our heads.

At 1/21/08 06:22 PM, Gendo wrote: That summarizes all of Mamoru Oshii's works.

The guy just loves to fuck with our heads.

Yeah, but at least with the first Ghost In The Shell I had some idea of what was going on.

In Innocence, it just seemed like a collection of nonsensical scenes designed specifically to look pretty.

At 1/21/08 02:26 AM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote:

This is why people should stop having children. Children are the future, but they're out to replace us.

Dear god! Its all before me now! I can see so very clearly now! We.... must.... kill... the CHILDREN! At least thats what my radio keeps telling me...

At 1/21/08 06:55 PM, Kuro wrote: In Innocence, it just seemed like a collection of nonsensical scenes designed specifically to look pretty.

I'm sure it all ties together somehow in the end.

All Oshii films do.

Regardless of how horribly nonsensical they start out, everything becomes clear by the ending.

At 1/21/08 07:28 PM, Gendo wrote: I'm sure it all ties together somehow in the end.

All Oshii films do.

Regardless of how horribly nonsensical they start out, everything becomes clear by the ending.

Nope, I just walked out of the movie theatre with a headache.

I mean, what's up with that part where they just repeat 5 minutes of the film over and over?

At 1/21/08 07:51 PM, Kuro wrote: I mean, what's up with that part where they just repeat 5 minutes of the film over and over?

One of Oshii's big gimmicks is incessant repetition.

Beautiful Dreamer is loaded with it, nigh-indentical (or sometimes completely identical) scenes repeat until you have every word of dialogue and every bit of background detail memorized.

That said, Oshii has the excuse of the whole "infinite time loop" plot twist in that case.

Heya, folks. Been a while.

Well....... let's see. I've just finished the complete series of Desert Punk and I must say that I was a little disappointed. The show went in some directions I wasn't in favor of but when you think about it, I suppose that everything worked out as it should. Anime has a funny way of doing that. I feel somewhat restless about it because I don't think that the series is over but I have no way of knowing it.

Anyways, I think now I'm gonna move on to the rest of DBZ season one and the begin DBZ season 2.

At 1/21/08 08:53 PM, TacticalShoe wrote: Well....... let's see. I've just finished the complete series of Desert Punk and I must say that I was a little disappointed. The show went in some directions I wasn't in favor of but when you think about it, I suppose that everything worked out as it should.

I'm not thrilled about the sudden twist to more dramatic territory.

I preferred the over-the-top lulz.

Anime has a funny way of doing that. I feel somewhat restless about it because I don't think that the series is over but I have no way of knowing it.

It actually makes sense you'd feel like this with Desert Punk, as it is based on an unfinished manga.

I figured as much. Thing is though, I wouldn't have it any other way.

That anime was really interesting to me because of the main character. Desert Punk was a terrible person, a complete asshole. And yet, he had so many admirable qualities and little quirks that made him someone that you had to love. And in the end, I felt really distressed over the choices he made. I suppose that it ended in a way that I can only compare to this.

Sure, your house caught on fire, but at least you had insurance.

If that makes any sense.

Hey guys, just thought I'd check in and see how things are going. I'm half way through Strawberry Panic, and just finished watching Code Geass, and Am hoping for a 2nd season for both series. Why don't you guys tell me what anime series you've finished all together and whether or not you recommend them. I'll check back when I'm done watching Strawberry Panic.

At 1/21/08 11:17 PM, SUPA-SAMOAN000 wrote: Hey guys, just thought I'd check in and see how things are going. I'm half way through Strawberry Panic, and just finished watching Code Geass, and Am hoping for a 2nd season for both series. Why don't you guys tell me what anime series you've finished all together and whether or not you recommend them. I'll check back when I'm done watching Strawberry Panic.

YOU NEED TO WATCH EVERYTHING ON MY LIST

Even the stuff I gave shitty scores.

At 1/21/08 11:39 PM, Gendo wrote: YOU NEED TO WATCH EVERYTHING ON MY LIST

Even the stuff I gave shitty scores.

Right, I'm off to watch Elfin Lied.

I'm sure it will be good, because Gendo said to watch it.

I would like to join your anime club.

At 1/22/08 05:49 AM, brian321 wrote: I would like to join your anime club.

Argue to me in exactly 65 syllables why the final episode is a microcosm of the entire human existence.

At 1/22/08 05:59 AM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote:

At 1/22/08 05:49 AM, brian321 wrote: I would like to join your anime club.

Argue to me in exactly 65 syllables why the final episode is a microcosm of the entire human existence.

Apologies, sometimes I think faster than I type. I meant to say the final episode of Death Note.

At 1/22/08 05:59 AM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Argue to me in exactly 65 syllables why the final episode (of Death Note) is a microcosm of the entire human existence.

Blah blah blah blah liek omg blah blah blah blah best anime ever blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah it's so deep blah blah blah blah so stylish blah blah blah blah blah blah L is so cute blah blah blah blah yaoi fanfiction blah blah blah blah blah blah hot hentai.

So am I in?

At 1/22/08 06:13 AM, Kuro wrote: So am I in?

In? Holy shit, I think I should make you the new God-King here. I bow before thee my Holy Liege.

Finally got around to watching Lupin the 3rd again, decided to finally watch the original series before finishing off the remaining season or so of Shin Lupin III (which G4 was kind enough to air nearly 80 episodes of, including a few raw Japanese ones for the episodes that did not get dubbed).

The second episode of the original series easily ranks as the best stand-alone episode of any television program of the seventies.

At 1/22/08 06:00 AM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote:

Apologies, sometimes I think faster than I type. I meant to say the final episode of Death Note.

I really don't like that show.

The main character just makes me want to kill someone who looks like him in real life.

At 1/22/08 02:21 PM, Gendo wrote: The second episode of the original series easily ranks as the best stand-alone episode of any television program of the seventies.

Oh really, now?

I beg to differ.

At 1/22/08 06:01 PM, Mendou wrote: No, Lupin is still better then even Happy days.

But Fonzie!

He jumps a shark!

ON WATER SKIS!

At 1/22/08 06:15 PM, Kuro wrote: But Fonzie!

He jumps a shark!

ON WATER SKIS!

But Pycal slaps Fujiko in the face!

Really hard!

And then strips her and tortures her when she tries to seduce him!

At 1/22/08 06:42 PM, Gendo wrote: But Pycal slaps Fujiko in the face!

Really hard!

And then strips her and tortures her when she tries to seduce him!

Awesome though that may be, it just cannot compete.