I ended up watching the first episode of High School of the Dead today. I've seen a lot of people talk about it online, so I was pretty curious to watch it. Surprisingly, it's actually a pretty decent show. I know zombies have been extremely overused recently, but the show is really entertaining if you ignore the fact that there have been way too many zombie movies and games released in the last few years.

The only real problem with the show is its overuse of fanservice. I'm sure a lot of people like it, but to me it feels like they're trying way too hard to make the show edgy. There's only been one episode released so far, so it's hard to say if it's a good series or not. I'll definatly check out the other episodes as they come out to see whether or not the show is actually good.

shadow, try and find the highschool of dead manga, a sweet read/ and by the way the fanservice stay's about the same through out the show, in other words as much fanservice rosario + vampire/

omg just heard about Inuyasha The Final Act so great

At 7/10/10 02:06 AM, brian321 wrote: omg just heard about Inuyasha The Final Act so great

Seriously? They're gonna end the Simpsons of anime? Seriously, how many episodes does Inuyasha have? It's ridiculous. Even if it was good, I wouldn't be able to watch it all in my wildest dreams.

At 7/10/10 02:19 AM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote:

At 7/10/10 02:06 AM, brian321 wrote: omg just heard about Inuyasha The Final Act so great

Seriously? They're gonna end the Simpsons of anime? Seriously, how many episodes does Inuyasha have? It's ridiculous. Even if it was good, I wouldn't be able to watch it all in my wildest dreams.

the mangas already done but i haven't finished it yet only on chp 379 and its a really great anime and manga

At 7/10/10 11:18 AM, Mendou wrote:

At 7/10/10 02:19 AM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote:

Seriously? They're gonna end the Simpsons of anime?

I wouldn't really call it that. Their are much longer series out there than Inuyasha.

Also, calling it "the Simpsons of anime" implies that the show was ever good, so it's not really a fair title for it.

anyone here seen the anime series of Devil My Cry?

At 7/10/10 03:29 PM, LaForge wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:26 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: anyone here seen the anime series of Devil My Cry?

I saw the first episode, laughed, and never pursued it. I have a question for you that might make me try it again though: Is Virgil in it?

Virgil is so fucking badass. Like, on par with Zaraki Kenpachi or Alucard.

vergil was awesome shit he was badass in DMC3 speacial edition when you could play him

At 7/10/10 03:41 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 7/10/10 02:48 PM, LaForge wrote:

I will mourn this loss by sayingit's about damned time.

InuYasha will finally fuck Kagome

Are you some kind of fucking pervert?

well it is true in Inuyasha: the Final Act you wouldn't believe how many kids Sango and Miroku have.

At 7/10/10 03:59 PM, Mendou wrote: Man, bunch of sexual deviants in this thread.

Your mothers would be ashamed.

oh well.

At 7/10/10 04:44 PM, LaForge wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:41 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 7/10/10 02:48 PM, LaForge wrote:

I will mourn this loss by sayingit's about damned time.

InuYasha will finally fuck Kagome

Are you some kind of fucking pervert?

Your sensibilities are way too sensitive, Mendou. Grow a pair.

LOL now that was uncalled for.

At 7/10/10 03:29 PM, LaForge wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:26 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: anyone here seen the anime series of Devil My Cry?

I saw the first episode, laughed, and never pursued it. I have a question for you that might make me try it again though: Is Virgil in it?

Virgil is so fucking badass. Like, on par with Zaraki Kenpachi or Alucard.

It's Vergil, and no, he's not in it, and neither is any other villain from the games.

I started watching Rainbow today, and it's really good. One of the best animes that i have seen. Everybody here should watch it.

At 7/10/10 05:16 PM, DeIirium wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:29 PM, LaForge wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:26 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: anyone here seen the anime series of Devil My Cry?

I saw the first episode, laughed, and never pursued it. I have a question for you that might make me try it again though: Is Virgil in it?

Virgil is so fucking badass. Like, on par with Zaraki Kenpachi or Alucard.

It's Vergil,

its true translaed version form italy is Virgil.

and no, he's not in it, and neither is any other villain from the games.

Special edition DMC3 you play as him with his own style and what not but there is no story plot for him though.

At 7/10/10 05:23 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 7/10/10 05:16 PM, DeIirium wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:29 PM, LaForge wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:26 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

its true translaed version form italy is Virgil.

But his name is Vergil. I don't know if they thought it sounded cooler, or if they just screwed it up, kind of like how Belial is called Berial in DMC4.

and no, he's not in it, and neither is any other villain from the games.

Special edition DMC3 you play as him with his own style and what not but there is no story plot for him though.

Relevant? But i enjoyed playing as him in DMC3.

At 7/10/10 05:35 PM, DeIirium wrote:

At 7/10/10 05:23 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 7/10/10 05:16 PM, DeIirium wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:29 PM, LaForge wrote:

At 7/10/10 03:26 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

its true translaed version form italy is Virgil.

But his name is Vergil. I don't know if they thought it sounded cooler, or if they just screwed it up, kind of like how Belial is called Berial in DMC4.

they wanted to americanize it thought people would learn by know thats how video games and anime works when it comes to america.

At 7/10/10 06:13 PM, LaForge wrote: I have one question about DMC3: Special Edition and then I'll drop the subject.

In the original, you had to fight against Virgil on two occasions. In when playing as Virgil in SE, do you still fight Virgil? Is it like a mirror-match?

yeah I think so or you fight dante I cant remember its been a year since I played.

At 7/10/10 06:13 PM, LaForge wrote: I have one question about DMC3: Special Edition and then I'll drop the subject.

In the original, you had to fight against Virgil on two occasions. In when playing as Virgil in SE, do you still fight Virgil? Is it like a mirror-match?

Yes, you fight Vergil, and not Dante.

Finished off Soul Eater, in record time.

I need to stop finding ways to procrastinate from work.

It was pretty good. It dropped in quality a bit in the last 10 or 15 episodes when the pacing went a bit haywire, but I'm still reasonably satisfied.

I do have a large problem with the final episodes. I'm not going to spoil anything in this paragraph, but suffice it to say they try to cram too many ideas into a short space of time which leaves all of them under developed.

As an example:

SPOILER:

In the final episode where we find out that Maka can also change into a weapon. Then the bad guy says "Oh, you can change into a weapon? That's cool, but that can't beat me either." Then she stops being a weapon and no more mention is made of this ability. It feels like that's something that should have been developed.

ALSO SPOILER:

Also the Black Star warrior path/demon path thing, which came out of nowhere and ended out of nowhere.

END SPOILERS

They also try to cram in a bunch of stuff that I didn't care about, which often enough took up too much time.

SPOILER:

The RPG-esque magic item hunt felt a little forced. And then it didn't really end up amounting to anything.

END SPOILER

My opinions of the series went basically in this order:

"Sub-par anime series"
"Good anime series"
"Great anime series"
"Good anime series"
"Pretty good anime series"

I read that somewhere around the 35th episode the anime departed from the manga, which might explain the drop in quality. Of course I'm not going to pursue the manga because I can't stand reading action scenes in black and white.

I'd like them to make another season of it some time. There were a lot of questions left unanswered, plots left unresolved, and a lot of room for development in all of the characters.

i got ponyo for my birthday, and watched it with my dad last night.

still so damn cute.

At 7/11/10 05:50 PM, JadeTheAssassin wrote: i got ponyo for my birthday, and watched it with my dad last night.

still so damn cute.

yah it's fucking awesome but i'd never watch it with my dad bro

At 7/11/10 05:50 PM, JadeTheAssassin wrote: i got ponyo for my birthday, and watched it with my dad last night.

still so damn cute.

It's a nice change of pace from the ultra violence, boob jiggles and zen facist refrences. Of course, anything directed by Miyazaki will be awesome, and have a good message along with it.

At 7/11/10 11:37 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 7/11/10 10:59 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: I heard Elfen Lyed is possibly the scariest anime ever,

It's probably the most frighting and haunting show that I have ever seen, one that I will never forget.

Mainly because it horrifies me how many people actually think it's a 'deep' series.

I think the other side of the scale is just as bad. Okay it's not the masterpiece that some people claim it is, but it's not the steaming pile of shit a lot of other people make it out to be.

At 7/12/10 12:21 AM, Mendou wrote:

At 7/11/10 11:45 PM, SomaGuye wrote:

but it's not the steaming pile of shit a lot of other people make it out to be.

Nah, it's just a steaming pile of shit.

I should have been watching something better at the time, like Votoms, which I'm doing right now.

Ugh, could we not bring up that fucking awful abomination of anime that is Elfen Lied after I saw this.

Votoms is something I should watch, also League of Galactic Heroes.

At 7/12/10 06:41 AM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote:

At 7/12/10 12:21 AM, Mendou wrote:

At 7/11/10 11:45 PM, SomaGuye wrote:

Ugh, could we not bring up that fucking awful abomination of anime that is Elfen Lied after I saw this.

Damn that was stupid. Another reason to dislike that website. Lucy has no personality at all. It was obvious that he didn't know what he was talking about. Tetsuo definitely isn't somebody that i would call a badass character, but he's developed much better than Lucy, and his powers are much more immense. So i wonder what he was thinking when he put Tetsuo at 8 and then somebody like Lucy at 1.

At 7/11/10 11:37 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 7/11/10 10:59 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: I heard Elfen Lyed is possibly the scariest anime ever,

It's probably the most frighting and haunting show that I have ever seen, one that I will never forget.

Not Really, it had it's moments, but it's really nothing more than a slightly more psychological version of Gantz. And it's called Elfen Lied, BTW.

Mainly because it horrifies me how many people actually think it's a 'deep' series.

It was supposed to be about the violent side of humanity, especially Lucy started to kill all those guards and shit, but after that it just sprialed downhill into borderline angst and all around disdain for people in general.

If you want horror and massive carnage with a decent story, might I suggest Violence Jack instead.

At 7/5/10 09:38 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 7/5/10 09:36 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: If we were near eachother now in life, I'd kill you like in mortal kombat and rip yourhead off...

I AM OFFENDED

amused

I AM OFFENDED AS WELL! E-thuggin' does not belong in such a family oriented site (lol), there are children here! Oh wait, it's the child that's e-thuggin' in the first place. You should be ashamed of yourself, MEESTIRRR! :I

Also, Ragna the Bloodedge used INFERUNO DEBAIDAAAA (Inferno Divider) to mock your MS Paint skills.

At 7/12/10 07:26 AM, DeIirium wrote: Damn that was stupid. Another reason to dislike that website.

TGWTG is cool, but its Anime stuff is really BAD. The few reviers mostly just praise stuff they like, not critisize the shit that deserves a good trashing (I've been working on an idea for a negative Anime review show, I just need to watch more shitty stuff for that).

Distressed Watcher is an idiot. He's also The Amazing Atheist, youtube personality and general embarassment to the atheist coommunity.

At 7/12/10 01:35 PM, JohnnyWang wrote:

At 7/12/10 07:26 AM, DeIirium wrote: Damn that was stupid. Another reason to dislike that website.

TGWTG is cool, but its Anime stuff is really BAD. The few reviers mostly just praise stuff they like, not critisize the shit that deserves a good trashing (I've been working on an idea for a negative Anime review show, I just need to watch more shitty stuff for that).

Distressed Watcher is an idiot. He's also The Amazing Atheist, youtube personality and general embarassment to the atheist coommunity.

They have too many mediocre video contributors. Almost all of them are very boring and generic videogame or movie reviewers with a stale sense of comedy. The only guys that i like are the Cinema snob and the Nostalgia critic, altough i don't like the Bum reviews series which is just the same joke over and over again or his Old vs new videos.
Linkara managed to come up with a few amusing videos, but now he's trying to incorporate some bullshit "storyline" into his show.

At 7/12/10 02:35 PM, DeIirium wrote: They have too many mediocre video contributors. Almost all of them are very boring and generic videogame or movie reviewers with a stale sense of comedy. The only guys that i like are the Cinema snob and the Nostalgia critic, altough i don't like the Bum reviews series which is just the same joke over and over again or his Old vs new videos.

Agreed, the Blisteered thumbs part is too big and usually redundant, but hey, it's supposed to cater to different tastes, and give performers the admins think worthy, a chance in the limelight.

Linkara managed to come up with a few amusing videos, but now he's trying to incorporate some bullshit "storyline" into his show.

I think the storyline in AT4W is pretty silly, but it's a fun condiment. And his reviews ARE pretty great.

And yeah, Cinema Snob (you are now reading this post in his voice) is awesome. Film Brain has potential, if he worked on his delivery a bit. NChick could be better if she made her scripts more cohorent. Spoony is a genre on his own, and it's kinda hit-and-miss, mostly because many of his videos end up so long half of it is completely irrelevant. Toddintheshadows (see his youtube channel, btw), however, is hilarious. I hope to see more of his stuff.

But on the Anime side of things. Ugh. MarzGurl, aka miss If-you're-not-made-of-money-GTFO-from-my -fandom. Masako LARGE HAM X. Y The Ruler of Time... bland. The section really needs a good caustic critic, someone who will know shit when they see it, and say it loud. Most of the fandom still lives with the insecurity that if you bash one show, you bash all anime ever.

fuck Inuyasha

At 7/11/10 11:30 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote:

At 7/11/10 11:05 PM, korg53 wrote: Captain Harlock CG Movie... for 2012

ewwww, who cares about that boring shit...

looks like a star wars metal gear rip off lol.

So, you know jack shit about anime, huh?

At 7/12/10 11:18 AM, orangebomb wrote: If you want horror and massive carnage with a decent story, might I suggest Violence Jack instead.

lol decent story. You're funny. But yeah, Violence Jack is good cheap fun.

At 7/12/10 02:40 PM, LaForge wrote: Captain Harlock

Never seen the anime, but I've heard good very good things about it. I'll gladly pay 20 bucks to see it in theaters.

I might check the show out again. I used to have that ring of the Niebelung series of episodes on DVD when I was like 15 or so, but I didn't dig it then.