At 2/18/10 04:41 PM, Wesleyiam wrote:

At 2/18/10 04:32 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: Problems? They're like half their body mass past their center of gravity, those girls wouldn't be able to stand up.

Especially the one on the far left. Srsly, that's not ecchi, that's a body defect.

Kinda like fetish porn, amirite?

alot of ecchi talk goin on here :P oh, and how do i join this group? (lol i'm a noob :P)

At 2/20/10 12:32 AM, giveupyourwaffles wrote: alot of ecchi talk goin on here :P oh, and how do i join this group? (lol i'm a noob :P)

Run to the nearest tree (minimum height: 10 metres) wearing skinny jeans, a black vest and a red beret. If you don't have access to these things, find a creative substitute.

Climb to the top and shout "William Pitt, the Elder was a pretty cool dude" at the top of your lungs.

Climb back down (be careful - it's harder getting down a tree than it is getting up, and we don't want you to get hurt), run around the tree three times, take the long route back to your house. Buy an orange flavoured fizzy drink on the way back (you've earned it).

Get back on your computer, report that you have done these things and you will have become a member of the club.

At 2/20/10 12:56 AM, Aigis wrote:

At 2/20/10 12:32 AM, giveupyourwaffles wrote: alot of ecchi talk goin on here :P oh, and how do i join this group? (lol i'm a noob :P)

Run to the nearest tree (minimum height: 10 metres) wearing skinny jeans, a black vest and a red beret. If you don't have access to these things, find a creative substitute.

Climb to the top and shout "William Pitt, the Elder was a pretty cool dude" at the top of your lungs.

Climb back down (be careful - it's harder getting down a tree than it is getting up, and we don't want you to get hurt), run around the tree three times, take the long route back to your house. Buy an orange flavoured fizzy drink on the way back (you've earned it).

Get back on your computer, report that you have done these things and you will have become a member of the club.

HEY! That's not what I did to get in!

giveupyourwallfes, just list your top 10 favorite anime and a character you want to use as an avatar (it has to be the same gender as you).
I'd ask you to read the rules, but the link Kisuke gave me is dead.

At 2/20/10 01:01 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: giveupyourwallfes, just list your top 10 favorite anime and a character you want to use as an avatar (it has to be the same gender as you).

If we're being serious here (how boring), you don't actually have to do anything to get into the club. Because it's a thread. And people just post in it.

Nobody does the ten anime thing (though I remember it being five anime), and the choosing of a character avatar is way way way out of date.

And the rules were changed about the character avatar thing anyway (before people stopped choosing them). You can use an opposite gender character, if you so desire to choose one. Because who the fuck cares. Nobody can stop you. There's not even a list any more.

Just say "I am in this club now". People like a confident person. If you want to throw in a description of your tastes so that people can get to know you, then that's just swell.

There are no specific rules to the club any more. Just the rules of Newgrounds, and common sense. Mark spoilers clearly, don't make one word posts etc. etc.

It's not complicated.

At 2/17/10 11:05 PM, Wesleyiam wrote: I've had the displeasure of seeing the first episode of chu-bra, and a couple episodes of omamori himari, and ladies vs butlers is way more ecchi then that. You see uncovered titties at least 3 times an episode. The first episode consisted of the main running around campus running into women and tripping into them with his hands on their tits, and a very showing camera angle. Most ecchi anime I've seen in a long time.

Now that I've had an opportunity to watch the first two episodes of Ladies vs. Butlers, I'm actually kind of surprised at how good of a story line it has. I thought it would be nothing but just a panty shot, flash fest, but I am genuinely interested in the characters now, especially that one girl who always seems to mess up in the worst ways possible (Shikikagami?).

Also, on the lines of Chu-Bra, it's actually not as bad as it appears to be if you think of it as more of an educational anime for the age group it's portraying, rather than for old crusty men who get their kicks from lolis. I think the concept of an undercover underwear tester who is skilled at determining what kind of bra or panty fits right for a girl is a great one.

Oh, and there's this new anime coming next season that has piqued my interest.

At 2/20/10 01:40 AM, firemaker60 wrote: Also, on the lines of Chu-Bra, it's actually not as bad as it appears to be if you think of it as more of an educational anime for the age group it's portraying, rather than for old crusty men who get their kicks from lolis.

Unfortunately, the latter is the age group that the author was intending the thing for.

And, uh. I think your justification is the stupidest thing I have ever read.

Son, I am dissapoint.

Holy fuck, let's talk about something not creepy for a second, ok? How's Durarrara or whatever that's called gotten along, any good??

At 2/20/10 01:01 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote:

At 2/20/10 12:56 AM, Aigis wrote: Run to the nearest tree (minimum height: 10 metres) wearing skinny jeans, a black vest and a red beret. If you don't have access to these things, find a creative substitute.

Climb to the top and shout "William Pitt, the Elder was a pretty cool dude" at the top of your lungs.

Climb back down (be careful - it's harder getting down a tree than it is getting up, and we don't want you to get hurt), run around the tree three times, take the long route back to your house. Buy an orange flavoured fizzy drink on the way back (you've earned it).

Get back on your computer, report that you have done these things and you will have become a member of the club.

HEY! That's not what I did to get in!

Nope, too late, that is now the motherfucking official way to join, with one change since I don't trust any of you. It must be videotaped, posted on youtube, and linked to. This is retroactive to all members, so I want to see those videos people! (and weeeabos)

At 2/20/10 01:40 AM, firemaker60 wrote: Oh, and there's this new anime coming next season that has piqued my interest.

I see girls in a box. If this picture is relevant to the anime, you MUST inform me of the name.

Run to the nearest tree (minimum height: 10 metres) wearing skinny jeans, a black vest and a red beret. If you don't have access to these things, find a creative substitute.

Climb to the top and shout "William Pitt, the Elder was a pretty cool dude" at the top of your lungs.

Climb back down (be careful - it's harder getting down a tree than it is getting up, and we don't want you to get hurt), run around the tree three times, take the long route back to your house. Buy an orange flavoured fizzy drink on the way back (you've earned it).

Get back on your computer, report that you have done these things and you will have become a member of the club.

i came this I I close to actually doing that :P it sounds fun though, so I might do it anyways. I'll be sure to tape it and put it up on youtube XD

At 2/20/10 12:56 AM, Aigis wrote: Run to the nearest tree wearing skinny jeans, a black vest and a red beret.

Climb to the top and shout "William Pitt, the Elder was a pretty cool dude" at the top of your lungs.

Climb back down, run around the tree three times, take the long route back to your house.

I had all the requirements before entering this club.

At 2/20/10 06:43 PM, IngeniousCheese wrote: I had all the requirements before entering this club.

But did you video tape it?

At 2/20/10 04:31 AM, GenericName54 wrote:

At 2/20/10 01:40 AM, firemaker60 wrote: Oh, and there's this new anime coming next season that has piqued my interest.

I see girls in a box. If this picture is relevant to the anime, you MUST inform me of the name.

Yes, it is very relevant. The anime in question is "Mayoi Neko Overrun!". The description on the site I'm using says: The story revolves around Takumi Tsuzuki, a boy who lives with his older "sister" Otome, although the two have no blood ties between them. Otome manages a run-down confectionery store called Stray Cats. One day, Otome picks up a mysterious beautiful girl off the streets.

Basically, it's going to be filled to the brim with loli nekos.

loli loli pop that body.

At 2/20/10 01:01 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: I'd ask you to read the rules, but the link Kisuke gave me is dead.

You might have not saved the whole thing, still works for me.

http://www.freewebs.com/nganimeclubmembe rs/rules.htm

Like a few said, the old ways are dead and gone. The old rules and member listing is just a nice memory from days long gone.

Might not be who I once was but I'm still keeping up with this new re-re-re-re-re-re hash of Inuyasha. FOR MY FUCKING FANBOYISH DESIRES COMMAND ME SO.

fuck...

I want to just throw in my two cents about the censorship issue that is past and gone. I'd have commented on it sooner but I have two jobs now so free time is pretty much gone. Should be sleeping.

A pardon Wonko.

About all of that... Even if Viz, TokyoPop & ADV do still edit their stuff, to some of the fans true to their series they want to support them. As we all know give and recieve, etc...

Three that I do buy from are Dark Horse, Del Rey & Digital Manga Press. With DH and Del I find that they don't edit much if anything at all. They put those nice celophane packages with the 18+ stickers on them. Viz and TP do as well but I'm not too interested in what they carry from their past titles and like HibKaz said so that's stated.

DMP for the Vampire Hunter D series that is being released & Del Rey for Mushishi & Basilisk.

DH puts out the glorious Berserk(even though i keep up with Miuras releases of the series)which is my favorite and I give my support too. I want to see him finish this series and every cent counts. If I and every other fan did not buy his work and just got it for free he probably would've ended Berserk years back. We also wouldn't be getting an OVA of the series either.

Besides, compare DH's Berserk releases with the raw manga and you'll see no changes. Not to mention that these companies have qualified language translators where-as fan translators are usually english speakers with japanese or what have you as their second and are bound to mess up. I've come across many a translations that are far off from the actual company translations and leave you wondering what else is wrong. Granted you still understand the gist of it, only boiling down to the closest relation as to what is being said. Love to go into this and the odd backwards speak of the east but you all should know by now.

Like how Japan doesn't have street names, they are just the empty places where blocks are not. District and by order of the year each house was built in the oldest being number one and so on down the line.

What I'm getting at is that even if you don't agree with the censorship and the translations, think of the people who make the series you are interested in. If it's out on the market of your country at least buy ONE copy just so the creators can get some profit. If everyone just got releases for free the makers would just stop. Now wouldn't that just be the pits?

I like to give my support and I love the feeling of manga and anime in my hands at best.

Think about the video game crisis that is currently going on. Pirating is rampant among video games at the moment. The last one that was hit really hard was the game Demigod. When it was released it's servers had around 120,000 players trying to connect to the games servers for online play. Do you know how many out of those 120,000 players actually bought the game legit?

A mere 18,000. Any idea of what kind of crushing weight that would be to behold? If I was on the developing team I would have cried.

Who made this possible? Well, GameStop for breaking the street date and people ripping the game for pirates everywhere.

Same thing will probably happen with Heavy Rain seeing how Blockbuster put the game out for rent before the street date.

{Sure you can group this with music pirating but the real money comes from the concerts and anime/manga artists can't really do that. $15 for a CD where the artist might get $1 from it, pretty shitty Universal.)

So many game studios, games in development and game developers have had to either close their doors, merge or be canceled due to piracy. So many good games that should have seen light, will never do so. Studios that had promising futures now gone. It sucks, really sucks.

The same thing could happen to the anime industry and hell, probably is starting and we might not be aware of it.(at least i'm not anyways)

So do buy something of said series even if you would just burn it at the stake.

Now I know a lot of what I said is pretty much null and void; the ramblings of bag of cashews. Not trying to hate or gripe but it seemed like I failed.

Fuck two cents have a whole dollar.

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Just watched Halo Legends and it was awesome. I don't know if that's the Halo fan in me or for the animation and the story telling. I will say that Toei sucked a dick on this one. Their animation was fucking horrible. As in 'haha!' horrible. Still good to watch theirs but I think they were trying to throw and comedic spin on it. The style, spartan 1337, the voice work.

Best one by far was from Casio. The 3D work was fucking amazing(the image doesn't even give it justice), some of the best I have ever seen. I.G. let me down on this since they've always put forth good work. Bonez did a great job, right under Casio Entertainment. Overall, check it out if you are a fan of the Halo franchise, you won't be disappointed.

At 2/21/10 05:46 AM, Kisuke wrote: I've come across many a translations that are far off from the actual company translations and leave you wondering what else is wrong.

Well, there is a general problem that scanlators have a tendency to translate things literally, and professional translators try to make things sound good in English while keeping the basic meaning. This usually means changing sentences quite a bit (considering the differences in language).

Like how Japan doesn't have street names, they are just the empty places where blocks are not. District and by order of the year each house was built in the oldest being number one and so on down the line.

That's probably not something that translators tend to have much of a problem with. However, that's quite interesting. I didn't know that about Japan.

It really explains why, when I was learning how to give directions in Japanese, we only ever learned "go straight, then go left at the next corner etc." without anything more specific.

What I'm getting at is that even if you don't agree with the censorship and the translations, think of the people who make the series you are interested in. If it's out on the market of your country at least buy ONE copy just so the creators can get some profit. If everyone just got releases for free the makers would just stop. Now wouldn't that just be the pits?

I really don't think that a Western audience not buying a manga series is going to dissuade manga writers from writing manga. Really not their primary fanbase.

I like to give my support and I love the feeling of manga and anime in my hands at best.

Who doesn't?

I've read some scanlated manga (only ones that could never possibly be released here, like Tokyo Akazukin) and it's really not as fun. You don't get that satisfaction of flipping through the pages and getting to the end.

Same thing will probably happen with Heavy Rain seeing how Blockbuster put the game out for rent before the street date.

Is there a huge problem with piracy on the Playstation 3? It seems like that would be a rather niche audience, considering you actually have to mess with the software and/or hardware before you can do it (I don't actually know the methods, I'm just guessing).

The same thing could happen to the anime industry and hell, probably is starting and we might not be aware of it.(at least i'm not anyways)

A huge part of the anime industry's income is from anime being aired in television, in their original run. Piracy isn't really going to stop that. Sure there's DVD sales and everything, but the industry is not going to collapse because a few Westerners decided to download some things rather than buy them. Television is still going very strong.

The industry that it harms is the foreign distribution and translation industry, but those aren't going to kill the anime industry as a whole.

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I've been reading a bit of Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (legally taken out from the library). It's good. I love Tezuka's art style.

But it has some really bizarre, jarring tonal changes. It can be all depressing with a kid's parents being slaughtered on one page, and then on the next you'll have a hilarious little caricature of Osamu Tezuka cameo-ing as a doctor treating a patient. It's crazy. Reminds me of The Host in that respect.

It's also very long (11 years worth, to be specific).

this looks like a good place to "hang" as these kids say these days.

At 2/20/10 06:53 PM, GenericName54 wrote: But did you video tape it?

I can´t video tape things I didn´t made, it was just a joke.

At 2/21/10 05:46 AM, Kisuke wrote:

About all of that... Even if Viz, TokyoPop & ADV do still edit their stuff, to some of the fans true to their series they want to support them. As we all know give and recieve, etc...

ADV is out of business now, JSYK.

Three that I do buy from are Dark Horse, Del Rey & Digital Manga Press. With DH and Del I find that they don't edit much if anything at all. They put those nice celophane packages with the 18+ stickers on them. Viz and TP do as well but I'm not too interested in what they carry from their past titles and like HibKaz said so that's stated.

Ever heard of Shadow Star Narutaru? Dark Horse mutilated it.

At 2/21/10 05:46 AM, Kisuke wrote: Like a few said, the old ways are dead and gone. The old rules and member listing is just a nice memory from days long gone.

It worked when the club was small, but we both know that it grew too big and was too much of a hassle.

Might not be who I once was but I'm still keeping up with this new re-re-re-re-re-re hash of Inuyasha. FOR MY FUCKING FANBOYISH DESIRES COMMAND ME SO.

Should I ask someone religious to pray for you?

I want to just throw in my two cents about the censorship issue that is past and gone. I'd have commented on it sooner but I have two jobs now so free time is pretty much gone. Should be sleeping.

Done with college? What was your major anyway?

A pardon Wonko.

A well thought out debate I have no problem with, a 4chan style flame war I object to.

Three that I do buy from are Dark Horse, Del Rey & Digital Manga Press.

Ah, if only I had the money to buy things. All my money goes to various insurance payments, gas, and cigarettes. Oh, and also college.

Fuck two cents have a whole dollar.

And you're always welcome to share it. Stop in whenever you get the chance.

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Just watched Halo Legends and it was awesome.

I'm confused by that, is it like the Animatrix, only Halo?

Finally unbanned.

At 2/20/10 03:08 AM, JohnnyWang wrote: How's Durarrara or whatever that's called gotten along, any good??

It's great, definitely my favorite anime of the winter season. Dance in the vampire bund is picking up too, but that only has like 5 episodes left. I'm hoping durarara stays for a good 26 episodes.

At 2/21/10 05:34 PM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: Ever heard of Shadow Star Narutaru?

Nope.

Haven't really watched much lately. Saw the first half of golgo 13, and it's great so far. I'm finally regaining my hope in gintama, because the last aired episode had me laughing most of the episode. I've still been trying to catch up on detective conan episodes. Shit's hard. I'm on episode 180ish and the broadcast is on 565.

Anyways, HERE is the spring 2010 lineup. I'll be watching yojo han shinwa taikei, because it's from the maker of kemonozume, arakawa under the bridge, because it looks so ridiculous, heroman, angel beats, because the trailer got me pretty pumped for it, ichiban ushiro no dai maou, k-on season 2, because i'm a faggot, and I also might check out shinsengumi kitan. Might check out ikkitousen in the next couple of days to see if it's worth catching up for the sequel that's coming out.

Small picture below.

At 2/22/10 01:37 PM, Mendou wrote: Senko no Night Raid

Yeah, that one really looks promising.

Working! might turn out to be okay

Eh. Doesn't look like it's up my alley.

In any case, this season looks like it's going to be a lot better than the winter season, which is a huge improvement.

At 2/22/10 12:26 PM, Wesleyiam wrote:

Anyways, HERE is the spring 2010 lineup.

Here's what I've got my eye on off that list:
the Black Rock Shooter OVA (star character doesn't work here, fuck you Wade)
K-ON! season 2
Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri
Tales of Symphonia: Tethe'alla Chapter

Pretty slim pickings, but add in what I'm already watching and I can tell I'm gonna be pretty busy.

At 2/22/10 01:37 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 2/22/10 12:26 PM, Wesleyiam wrote:

Anyways, HERE is the spring 2010 lineup.

I can pick out at least 5 animes on there that I'd be interested in checking out.

Yojo-Han Shinwa Taikei
Heroman
Arakawa Under the Bridge
Rainbow
House of Five leaves
Senko no Night Raid
Working! might turn out to be okay
Giant Killing also seems promising.

Looks like this could be a good season.

Clearly you missed the entire 5th row. All of those look like they will have a strong, compelling, and satisfying plot line.

But yeah, Arakawa does look like it'll be interesting.

I am so disappointed right now. I saw some hot chick at my college with a hidden leaf headband on. I have been sober for a month from that shit (Naruto not anime) and now I am caught up in it again. The worst anime ever is so addictive. I have seen every subbed episode released of both naruto and naruto shippuden. Hopefully I can run in to her tomorrow so we can discuss narutos amazingness.

Did you get with the chick? As otherwise that seems pointless. haha

At 2/22/10 04:44 PM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote:

At 2/22/10 12:26 PM, Wesleyiam wrote:

Anyways, HERE is the spring 2010 lineup.

Here's what I've got my eye on off that list:
the Black Rock Shooter OVA (star character doesn't work here, fuck you Wade)

That does look interesting if only because I started getting into the evil horrors of vocaloids and that Supercell is fucking awesome.

K-ON! season 2

This however, doesn't. K-ON never interested me and don't get the hype.

Oh and Gundam Unicorn. Fuck yeah.

At 2/23/10 01:21 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: Oh and Gundam Unicorn. Fuck yeah.

Yesssss, this. I saw the first episode today, and it was great.

Get it?