At 4/25/08 02:08 PM, Corky-D wrote: I'm stuck between Tales of Earthsea, Paprika, Paranoia Agent and Gilgamesh.
Paranoia Agent seems to be the shortest of them.

Shorter than the movies?

Paranoia Agent and Paprika are both excellent (I have an inherent love for everything Kon).

I've heard some bad things about Tales from Earthsea, and a couple of decent reviews from people I know about it.

I don't know too much about Gilgamesh, but it doesn't look great.

The difference between the manga and anime of Makai Senki Disgaea is just shit.

What's the point when it's just the same jokes as are in the game?

At 4/25/08 09:37 AM, JohnnyWang wrote: Uh, I just joined like two, three pages ago, no I really don't, :P

You should have been able to spot the elitism of some of the members since then.

At 4/25/08 02:36 PM, Gendo wrote: Despite my vehement dislike of the first movie

Damn you....

At 4/25/08 05:16 PM, Kuro wrote: Paranoia Agent and Paprika are both excellent

This is the truth.

(I have an inherent love for everything Kon).

I plan on seeing Tokyo Godfathers sometime relatively soon.

At 4/25/08 06:53 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Damn you....

It was insanely boring and it's painfully overrated.

Second one was better due to pure visual bliss and avant-garde storytelling.

At 4/25/08 06:58 PM, Gendo wrote: It was insanely boring

I enjoyed it.

and it's painfully overrated.

I hate it when people use that word.

Second one was better due to pure visual bliss and avant-garde storytelling.

I still haven't seen it. It's on my super long Netflix queue along with the series.

At 4/25/08 07:01 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: I hate it when people use that word.

It's the truth here.

Every fucking mainstream critic puts it on the best anime lists (usually in the top five).

I still haven't seen it. It's on my super long Netflix queue along with the series.

It's well-worth seeing, got some real buzz at Cannes a few years ago.

At 4/25/08 07:27 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 4/25/08 07:01 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: I hate it when people use that word.

It's the truth here.

pshh. says you.

Every fucking mainstream critic puts it on the best anime lists (usually in the top five).

I think it deserves most of its praise. Maybe not a top 5 list, though.

Speaking of mainstream critics and misjudging anime, I saw on Rotten Tomatoes (which I usually find helpful) that Perfect Blue had a rather low "tomatometer" rating. I demand justice.

At 4/25/08 06:58 PM, Gendo wrote: It was insanely boring and it's painfully overrated.

I enjoyed it. It's probably over rated, but who cares?

Why should I care if somebody likes something more than I do?

Second one was better due to pure visual bliss and avant-garde storytelling.

The visual bliss was really the only thing the second one had going for it.

It was so ridiculously hard to follow.

At 4/25/08 07:55 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Speaking of mainstream critics and misjudging anime, I saw on Rotten Tomatoes (which I usually find helpful) that Perfect Blue had a rather low "tomatometer" rating. I demand justice.

Rotten Tomatoes isn't a good site for judging how good a movie will be.

It has both good reviewers, and terrible reviewers counting into the final score of a movie.

I thought Perfect Blue was great.

At 4/25/08 05:16 PM, Kuro wrote:

At 4/25/08 02:08 PM, Corky-D wrote: I'm stuck between Tales of Earthsea, Paranoia Agent and Gilgamesh.
Paranoia Agent seems to be the shortest of them.

Shorter than the movies?

Hm, I'll retract that comment of mine and restate that it would appear to be longer than the movies due to its runtime of 316 minutes.

Paranoia Agent and Paprika are both excellent

Haven't seen Paranoia Agent yet but I agree with Paprika.
I just watched it.
Intense and fittingly animated.

(I have an inherent love for everything Kon).

I have yet to see Tokyo Godfathers.

I've heard some bad things about Tales from Earthsea, and a couple of decent reviews from people I know about it.

Sounds like a love/hate it anime.
At least I'll read more up about it.

I don't know too much about Gilgamesh, but it doesn't look great.

The Box set told me a different story, but I don't judge by the shell.

The difference between the manga and anime of Makai Senki Disgaea is just shit.

What's the point when it's just the same jokes as are in the game?

Yeah, the jokes are the same, but I meant the endings.
The manga portrayed the good ending while the anime showed the bad ending of the game.

At 4/25/08 08:24 PM, Corky-D wrote: Haven't seen Paranoia Agent yet but I agree with Paprika.
I just watched it.
Intense and fittingly animated.

It's a visual feast.

I have yet to see Tokyo Godfathers.

Tokyo Godfathers was a good film, but was the most down-to-Earth of all of Kon's works.

It's a film about the Japanese class struggles, so it's interesting.

Sounds like a love/hate it anime.
At least I'll read more up about it.

It seems more of like/hate it movie.

Yeah, the jokes are the same, but I meant the endings.
The manga portrayed the good ending while the anime showed the bad ending of the game.

I saw both of the endings. You know... By playing the game.

It's lucky that I didn't have any ally kills throughout the game on my first playthrough, so I didn't have to replay the game to get those endings.

I did the bad endings for Etna and Flonne by playing through half the game again, though. Didn't bother doing all the ridiculous training required to get the endings you get by killing that alternate overlord.

Good game. The anime was pretty bad.

At 4/25/08 08:06 PM, Kuro wrote: I thought Perfect Blue was great.

As did I, which is why I demand justice.

Finally got Nana 9 today. I plan on reading it soon. Also, getting meh a 360 elite soon.

when is the new Naruto volume coming out? (obviously i like naruto based on my name and sig)

this is my sig: (i need it resized i know.)

At 4/26/08 01:06 AM, uchiha666 wrote: when is the new Naruto volume coming out? (obviously i like naruto based on my name and sig)

It took me about 30 seconds on Google to find out that it's coming out on May 6 in the US (this being the 29th volume).

I suggest you learn how to do it yourself.

By the way, there's a Naruto club for you to ask these sorts of questions in. We don't like your kind here.

Haha, Elitism.

Yeah, it's fun, but it's just that I'm not in the place to be an elitist about these things. I can be an elitist about music, because I own a tentacle high stack of CD's and have several gigabytes of music on my computer, and have listened to a wide variety of genres and bands and read on the history, and therefore know shit.

Anime? I've seen a few series on the TV (none of them 100%), some movies and a handfull of series I picked on random recomendations, and though I know (and understand) terms like Shonen, Shoujo, Seinen, Tsundere, Yandere, Moe etc. I'm far from an animeexpert.jpg

Pic related.

I got volumes 3 and 4 of Last Exile from Netflix today. I only watched one episode from volume 2, so I guess I'll be having a marathon.

At 4/26/08 11:09 AM, JohnnyWang wrote: I own a tentacle high stack of CD's

I have over 200 CDs, now, and I'm still quickly collecting. I spend a large amount of my time collecting albums. I really really need a new CD binder.

Just finished Black Lagoon, and I have to say, the last arc sucked. It was way too long and it had an ending you could see coming a mile away. The only thing is did right was showing that Hotel Moscow doesn't fuck around. I think that the arc MAY be setting up a time where Lagoon company and Hotel Moscow are gonna have to bust heads.

Well, I just finished Hokuto No Ken 2. It wasn't as great as the origninal, less fillers though. The ending was still epic, and it tied up all the loose ends. A very good series, and has many cool characters. Watch it if you get the chance.

At 4/26/08 09:29 PM, uhnoesanoob wrote: Just finished Black Lagoon, and I have to say, the last arc sucked.

I disagree. The last arc was pretty cool, but certainly not the best.

I just finished watching Cowboy Bebop (unless there are more than the 20 odd episodes which always happens to me) I did eat my own words as it was very good. I came in on the 5th episode on that chapel fight thing and it was good so I continued, the order got even more screwed up and I watched a few of them and the last ones then went back and filled in the gaps. Thank God for channels constantly repeating the same programs.

At 4/27/08 06:58 AM, Ragnarokia wrote: I just finished watching Cowboy Bebop (unless there are more than the 20 odd episodes which always happens to me) I did eat my own words as it was very good.

There were 26 episodes.

And it's not just 'very good'.

It's a bloody masterpiece.

At 4/27/08 07:11 AM, Kuro wrote: There were 26 episodes.

And it's not just 'very good'.

It's a bloody masterpiece.

54,5% downloaded... faster get!

At 4/27/08 02:29 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 4/27/08 07:11 AM, Kuro wrote: There were 26 episodes.

Yay did see them all, I thought it was the end but you know how with shows when it is at a clear end they make another series. Good to see they don't do it and keep it good here.

And it's not just 'very good'.
It's a bloody masterpiece.

Sorry master.

................................You haven't seen it yet?

I can now say I have :3

At 4/27/08 02:29 PM, Mendou wrote:
................................You haven't seen it yet?

I've seen the movie...

But no...

Punish me, I deserve it.

At 4/27/08 02:37 PM, JohnnyWang wrote:

At 4/27/08 02:29 PM, Mendou wrote:
................................You haven't seen it yet?

I've seen the movie...

Movie?
Oh great typical.

At 4/27/08 07:11 AM, Kuro wrote: It's a bloody masterpiece.

Bing-bong-bing.

Bebop is the one series I've seen where I can wholeheartedly say it has no major flaws whatsoever, and what minor flaws it does have are not worth complaining about.

At 4/27/08 02:37 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: Punish me, I deserve it.

Ohoho...

At 4/27/08 04:42 PM, Kuro wrote:

At 4/27/08 02:37 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: Punish me, I deserve it.

Ohoho...

Oh you and your silly guro pics!
Anyways, wouldn't it be cool if there was an anime about WW2? That has the potential to either be awesome or incredibly funny.....

At 4/27/08 08:32 PM, uhnoesanoob wrote: Oh you and your silly guro pics!

Methinks someone doesn't understand what guro is.

Anyways, wouldn't it be cool if there was an anime about WW2? That has the potential to either be awesome or incredibly funny.....

You mean like... Grave of the Fireflies?

Porco Rosso was also set in WWII, in Italy.

At 4/27/08 08:46 PM, Kuro wrote:

At 4/27/08 08:32 PM, uhnoesanoob wrote: Oh you and your silly guro pics!

Methinks someone doesn't understand what guro is.

Go show 'em Lad.

At 4/27/08 09:14 PM, Ragnarokia wrote: Go show 'em Lad.

I really don't care about guro anymore.

I don't get why people have pigeonholed me as that guy.