Finished Gankutsuou today. That turned out to be disappointing. After getting over the "Oh those visuals and artwork is pretty cool" It gets daunting and bogged down more so by GONZO's infamously bad CGI.

Plot was a mess and the climax had too many plotholes.

Guess I'll remedy the disappointment by watching something actually good.

At 4/3/11 01:24 PM, Mendou wrote: Finished Gankutsuou today. That turned out to be disappointing. After getting over the "Oh those visuals and artwork is pretty cool" It gets daunting and bogged down more so by GONZO's infamously bad CGI.

Plot was a mess and the climax had too many plotholes.

Guess I'll remedy the disappointment by watching something actually good.

Thanks for letting me know I should avoid it. I've been back and forth on watching it for a while now, but i'll keep it on hold.

If anyone here hasn't seen the hen zemi ovas I strongly suggest you do. Really hilarious stuff, but it contains a lot of sexual humor so if that isn't your thing this probably isn't for you.

The steins gate raw was just released. Can't wait to see how that show turned out.

At 4/3/11 02:17 AM, Edward wrote: just watched the first episode of Tiger & Bunny, and it was so worth the five months of waiting. No disappointment whatsoever and shows promise.

Yeah, ANN's getting pretty hot in the pants about it on the previews page, but I can't watch on viz or hulu cos I'm not stateside which is irksome.

At 4/3/11 01:43 PM, Wesleyiam wrote:

Thanks for letting me know I should avoid it. I've been back and forth on watching it for a while now, but i'll keep it on hold.

It's by no means a bad show, I don't regret picking it up. But I was just disappointed because it's been hyped up the ass for years, and it didn't deserve most of it.

Guess I'll try to hop on this bandwagon and check out Tiger & Bunny

At 4/3/11 01:53 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 4/3/11 02:17 AM, Edward wrote: just watched the first episode of Tiger & Bunny, and it was so worth the five months of waiting. No disappointment whatsoever and shows promise.

Yeah, ANN's getting pretty hot in the pants about it on the previews page, but I can't watch on viz or hulu cos I'm not stateside which is irksome.

But Leo surely you know of others ways of watching it. I have it right now waiting to be watched but I must do schoolwork first.

Wow, that was kind of boring.

Episode one of Nichijou was great, and I'm definitely gonna watch the new eps as come out.

Nothing but lighthearted fun at its core (but it has potential to be a more serious show if Kyoani wants it to), and cool characters. The animation looks great, too.

Interesting stuff that they've got set up here - I can't wait for next week's episode.

At 4/3/11 01:43 PM, Wesleyiam wrote: Thanks for letting me know I should avoid it. I've been back and forth on watching it for a while now, but i'll keep it on hold.

I'm going to disagree with Mendou, here, and recommend it. I thought it was quite compelling throughout. Aside from a rather dumb climax.

And I'm speaking as a person that did not like the art style at all.

At 4/3/11 03:48 PM, towelie101 wrote: Episode one of Nichijou was great, and I'm definitely gonna watch the new eps as come out.

Nothing but lighthearted fun at its core (but it has potential to be a more serious show if Kyoani wants it to), and cool characters. The animation looks great, too.

Interesting stuff that they've got set up here - I can't wait for next week's episode.

My favourite part was:

>Guy acting high and mighty
>Shoot him in the head

At 4/3/11 05:07 PM, SomaGuye wrote: My favourite part was:

>Guy acting high and mighty
>Shoot him in the head

Why the did the girl do that anyway?

There's nothing wrong with riding a goat to school.

At 4/3/11 05:48 PM, towelie101 wrote:

At 4/3/11 05:07 PM, SomaGuye wrote: My favourite part was:

>Guy acting high and mighty
>Shoot him in the head

Why the did the girl do that anyway?

There's nothing wrong with riding a goat to school.

Because that silly farmer boy likes to pretend he's rich.

Also, moe.

At 4/3/11 06:05 PM, SomaGuye wrote: Because that silly farmer boy likes to pretend he's rich.

Yarr, at least he survived - fuck, the bullet didn't even affect him.

Also, moe.

so kawaii ^__^

At 4/3/11 06:23 PM, towelie101 wrote:

At 4/3/11 06:05 PM, SomaGuye wrote: Because that silly farmer boy likes to pretend he's rich.

Yarr, at least he survived - fuck, the bullet didn't even affect him.

Also, moe.

so kawaii ^__^

I need a widescreen monitor :(

At 4/3/11 03:34 PM, SomaGuye wrote: But Leo surely you know of others ways of watching it. I have it right now waiting to be watched but I must do schoolwork first.

well sure nyaatorrents has gg, who as far as i can gather from their webpage aren't subbing tiger + bunny, and yousmell, who i've never heard of and from one blog i found are apparently crap

At 4/3/11 09:03 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: well sure nyaatorrents has gg, who as far as i can gather from their webpage aren't subbing tiger + bunny, and yousmell, who i've never heard of and from one blog i found are apparently crap

Commie have one up now in case you didn't know.

At 4/4/11 02:03 PM, SomaGuye wrote:

At 4/3/11 09:03 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: well sure nyaatorrents has gg, who as far as i can gather from their webpage aren't subbing tiger + bunny, and yousmell, who i've never heard of and from one blog i found are apparently crap

Commie have one up now in case you didn't know.

yeah, found out about them through another forum, will check out later

thanks anyway brah

Hanasuka Iroha could make me either very sad, very happy or very angry depending on how it develops it's themes. It looks like it will be one of the better anime this season though.

I disagree with what you said on facebook about it though, i think ohana's character is pretty good. A precocious young girl, who tries to apply her noble and fair ethics to a world that it transpires just doesn't work like that, full of introspection and disappointment and epic slaps.

I enjoyed the first ep, and am looking forward to the rest of the series.

I just finished FMA Brotherhood. I'm simply blown away, here. For a long time I dismissed this as piss poor because of the awful and quickly paced first 12 or so episodes. But it picked up as soon as the new material showed up, this really does blow the original anime out of the water. I loved how there was a bigger emphasis on the development of several cast members instead of just the Elric Brothers and maybe Mustang. Even the most trivial of characters(I'm talking to you, Yoki) had some say and importance to the show.

This is a shonen series done right. No fillers, no dragging, just straight up action/drama intrigue. And I'm glad I got over my problems with the first half and continued, otherwise I would have missed out on an amazing series. My only complaints is that the first anime still had a bit more an emotional punch with Ed and Al's quest to get their bodies back. And the events concerning the Ishbalan Rebellion wasn't covered as much. But those are forgivable.

At 4/4/11 05:04 PM, SomaGuye wrote: It looks like it will be one of the better anime this season though.

My money is on Kaiji 2 being the best one.

At 4/4/11 06:38 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: I disagree with what you said on facebook about it though, i think ohana's character is pretty good.

I like Ohana's character. I was saying that most of the rest of the cast did a good job of making me hate them.

At 4/4/11 06:41 PM, SomaGuye wrote: I like Ohana's character. I was saying that most of the rest of the cast did a good job of making me hate them.

oh fair enough yeah, I agree to an extent. Like for example Long-and-dark-haired seems like a dick but it's easy to see why she hates ohana, I mean, Ohana shows up from no-where, already knows the landlady (well, doesn't actually but has a connection), digs up her garlic which is probably one of her few hobbies since she works there fulltime, and most importantly acts in such a naive and simple minded manner, and what right does she have to be so cheery and happy and so on and so forth? From the ending looks like she'll grow into one of the key characters of the series though, so I'm interested to see where she goes from here.

Anyway that's enough dissecting done for a first episode I think, time to see what Tiger + Bunny's all aboot.

At 4/4/11 06:39 PM, Mendou wrote: I just finished FMA Brotherhood. I'm simply blown away

Also, a friend's been trying to get me to watch bro'hood for a while now, but I haven't seen the original FMA. I'm vaguely aware of brotherhood (at least, that it's a retelling of FMA that's more true to the original manga... or something along those lines).

Is it worth me watching brotherhood without seeing fma? or should I watch FMA first then brotherhood... I'd rather just watch one of them, or rather, I don't want to go through FMA just so that i can watch brotherhood with a bit more understnading

At 4/4/11 08:02 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Is it worth me watching brotherhood without seeing fma? or should I watch FMA first then brotherhood... I'd rather just watch one of them, or rather, I don't want to go through FMA just so that i can watch brotherhood with a bit more understnading

You don't need to watch both of them. They both start off basically the same (with some minor differences), keep basically the exact same events for a while, and then they go off in different directions. One doesn't really supplement the other.

Brotherhood is better from what I've seen, based mostly on the high production values. I haven't seen much of the manga-specific plot. The humour in it is a little bit more annoying, though.

At 4/3/11 06:23 PM, towelie101 wrote:

At 4/3/11 06:05 PM, SomaGuye wrote: Because that silly farmer boy likes to pretend he's rich.

Yarr, at least he survived - fuck, the bullet didn't even affect him.

Also, moe.

so kawaii ^__^

just what on earth

Watched the first episode of Steins;Gate, and it was impressive. The quality of the encode I got was bad, but it was still watchable.

Definitely picked up.

At 4/3/11 02:17 AM, Edward wrote: Just finished watching Real Drive, Golgo 13, and Mononoke.

I've been planning on watching all of these. just got to get RD on my hard drive.

Texhnolyze

the ultimate downer ending. still awesome, though, as is the soundtrack.

At 4/3/11 05:47 AM, Aigis wrote: I just watched Sword of the Stranger. On BLU RAY.

I don't watch so many anime in HD so it's still kinda novel to me.

Does hi def really make a difference with animation?

But the action scenes and amazing animation made up for that. Especially the extended one at the end of the film.

I pretty much agree. not that interesting, but very well animated and full of good action.

At 4/4/11 11:24 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Does hi def really make a difference with animation?

Yes, it does.

Everything looks a lot crisper. As, uh, as you'd expect.

aww hell yeah mang I got me some home made onigiri with fried chicken for lunch tomorrow damn thats some tasty rice you guys jelly.

>mfw the vendor persuaded Kaiji to cave in and waste ALL of his money/perica on beer/food

zawa, zawa, zawa, zawa, zawa

Don't do it Kaiji, noooooo~!! His plan wasn't that bad, but, yeah, it was flawed.

The food supplied in the cafeteria/canteen must be pretty terrible to make him do that.

reading the manga btw

Just saw Evangelion 2.0. I'd say most of the hype is well deserved for once. Really, this is how a remake should be done, liking where Anno is taking the story now.