I couldn't find a not shitty hardsubbed tvrip of kaiji so I decided I am skipping it. Gotten through the first four episodes of Spice and Wolf and it is okay so far. The story is pretty original and the characters are very likeable. Animation isn't bad; it isn't anything special though. The ED is very cute; I like it. Overall not anything amazing but it seems like it will definitely be worth while watching.

Wow, despite my efforts to try this a little more subjectively. Clannad is indeed boring, forced 'drama' and 'comedy'. Like it's average as average comes. Holy shit.

AS better pick up real fast. Or else all it will prove is that I was right all along. And that people who watch this and enjoy it really are naive and generally unexposed to credible material and execution. Or perhaps disillusioned into believing that it's quality, most likely all the above.

At 9/22/11 02:40 PM, Mendou wrote: Wow, despite my efforts to try this a little more subjectively. Clannad is indeed boring, forced 'drama' and 'comedy'. Like it's average as average comes. Holy shit.

AS better pick up real fast. Or else all it will prove is that I was right all along. And that people who watch this and enjoy it really are naive and generally unexposed to credible material and execution. Or perhaps disillusioned into believing that it's quality, most likely all the above.

I had a pretty similar opinion on the show until I watched AS. I actually originally dropped Clannad but then a few weeks later I got bored as hell and decided to watch it. After a while you start getting attached to the characters and the story line does improve in AS. Even if you hate the show I still think the scenery alone makes it watchable. Visually it is one of the better shows I have seen. I am not going to spout nonsense about how it's the best show ever, but I definitely wouldn't call it average either. Maybe it is average among reputable shows that have been marked as good by viewers, but when compared to just random shows from all time, and currently airing shows I wouldn't say it is average.

At 9/22/11 01:30 AM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote:

At 9/22/11 12:45 AM, towelie101 wrote: All of those designs and concepts are ripped straight off of Love Hina. Someone might sue your

Looks like someone is jelly they don't get to be included in our harem.

If I was any more jelly i'd be on toast

What do you guys think of Golgo 13? I am thinking about starting it but I don't want to waste my time like I did with Eden of the East.

At 9/22/11 09:12 PM, KermitTheMuppet wrote: The final verdict is:

SCROTUM

It's not like I was going to use it anyway, sir. ;_;

It's an honor to be under the leadership of a benevolent man such as yourself. Have some DAT ASS for your kindness.

What do you folks use to rip your anime? There are a lot of shows with no good rips available online so I want to backup what I have physical copys of. I am playing around with megui atm which is a frontend for the command line application x264. I chose pretty high quality settings and set the encoder to very slow so it should be interesting how the quality turns out.

At 9/23/11 04:36 AM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote: What do you folks use to rip your anime?

Meh, I barely care for the quality of a show, except for films, unless it's really abysmal (which is rarely the case). It doesn't really take away from my enjoyment of an anime.

At 9/23/11 09:34 AM, towelie101 wrote:

At 9/23/11 04:36 AM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote: What do you folks use to rip your anime?

Meh, I barely care for the quality of a show, except for films, unless it's really abysmal (which is rarely the case). It doesn't really take away from my enjoyment of an anime.

Yea I am just doing it mainly because I have free time to kill and I was having a discussion with some people about encoding things not long ago. I found a output I like but the file sizes are rather large. bitrate is 1500kb, encoder set to slow, 2px crop off the sides, flac lossless audio, 16 quality h264. It creates a file that looks and sounds exactly like the DVD but it is like 300+ mb per episode. I'm thinking about switching from flc to aac or mp3 to reduce the file some. It seems like most quality dvdrips online are only ~250mb per episode so I must be doing something wrong.

At 9/22/11 07:33 PM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote: but when compared to just random shows from all time, and currently airing shows I wouldn't say it is average.

A little higher then normal production values and quality doesn't really help the overall quality in the long run. Especially if the set up and development is already quite mediocre, which is what I found Clannad S1 to be, overall.

I'm on AS now and apparently it takes 10 episodes to get into the actual story. Okay.

I was going to watch elfen lied on the playstation store....but $2 per episode seems kinda steep....any other way i could watch the episodes? I don't want to pirate T_T
Feels risky.....

At 9/24/11 01:24 PM, sweet21 wrote: I was going to watch elfen lied on the playstation store....but $2 per episode seems kinda steep....any other way i could watch the episodes? I don't want to pirate T_T
Feels risky.....

Or you could just not watch a terrible series.

At 9/24/11 01:37 PM, SomaGuye wrote:

At 9/24/11 01:24 PM, sweet21 wrote: I was going to watch elfen lied on the playstation store....but $2 per episode seems kinda steep....any other way i could watch the episodes? I don't want to pirate T_T
Feels risky.....

Netflix

Or you could just not watch a terrible series.

That's an awfully amusing thing to say, coming from you.

At 9/24/11 01:53 PM, Mendou wrote: That's an awfully amusing thing to say, coming from you.

I do try.

At 9/24/11 01:24 PM, sweet21 wrote: I was going to watch elfen lied on the playstation store....but $2 per episode seems kinda steep....any other way i could watch the episodes? I don't want to pirate T_T
Feels risky.....

lol streaming.

At 9/24/11 02:57 PM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote: lol streaming.

tuturuu~

Nichijou is over ;_;

At 9/24/11 02:57 PM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote:

At 9/24/11 01:24 PM, sweet21 wrote: I was going to watch elfen lied on the playstation store....but $2 per episode seems kinda steep....any other way i could watch the episodes? I don't want to pirate T_T
Feels risky.....

lol streaming.

You can do it with streaming and have camera on you computer to record it.
<http://www.animeavenue.net/>

At 9/26/11 12:45 AM, Lugen wrote: You can do it with streaming and have camera on you computer to record it.
<http://www.animeavenue.net/>

Please god let this not be a troll. I cant stop laughing. Newgrounds never ceases to keep me entertained. Have the first 70 episodes of logh down; I have a strong urge to join the military, and take over the world now.

At 9/26/11 01:48 AM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote: Please god let this not be a troll. I cant stop laughing. Newgrounds never ceases to keep me entertained. Have the first 70 episodes of logh down; I have a strong urge to join the military, and take over the world now.

Well that picture left me rock solid.
Anyway, seems as an appropriate time as ever to say IT'S LOLICON TIME!

At 9/25/11 04:14 PM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote: Nichijou is over ;_;

Don't worry i am sure that you will find another moe pedoshit randumb REOCCURING GAG XD anime to get your dick hard over for the fall season

If you need me I'll be busy being unimpressed with the scanlation of the manga I'm currently reading

This week's penguindrum, what the fuuuuuuuuuck. Turns out kouma's understood from the start what the fuck is going on, at least if his mary + her lambs analogy thing is anything to go by. Also the return of that gray wednesday song, although without the lyrics.

Also I just finished Hajime no Ippo, I strongly recommend it to all of you. Great fun, and the fight animation was absolutely stunning, especially nearer the end of the series. Kept me gripped, and while some things were foregone conclusions ("Oh well, of course ippo's going to win this match, he's an underdog and this is a shonen anime") but there was enough drama and upsets that it hooked me. One thing I must say is that I didn't really go for the lighter comedy moments, I found them rather unfunny and forced, but I suppose without them it would have just been too aggro and too much fighting not enough downtime.

Either way a great series, and certainly opened me up to the idea of watching anime about things I don't normally care about.
8.5/10 or something whatever

Finally I just started Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Looking forward to it. Give me something to watch on the train to work for the next couple of months at least.

At 9/30/11 09:24 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

One thing I must say is that I didn't really go for the lighter comedy moments, I found them rather unfunny and forced, but I suppose without them it would have just been too aggro and too much fighting not enough downtime.

It's really not that bad compared to your average anime comedy. At least they were well placed and not annoying when they did show up.

Either way a great series, and certainly opened me up to the idea of watching anime about things I don't normally care about.
8.5/10 or something whatever

See? Sports anime is good anime. I don't care for baseball or basketball; but Touch and Slam Dunk helped get over that and appreciate what made both so great in the first place.

Finally I just started Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Looking forward to it. Give me something to watch on the train to work for the next couple of months at least.

good

Full Metal panic season 1 was pretty average, why was this so popular a few years ago? Anime fans are retards. Hopefully Fumoffu is a lot funnier, and Second Raid more engaging.

During this I re-watched Gunbuster to see if it was as good as I remembered. And it was - hell it was even better this time around. I really can't recommend this one highly enough. Noriko's development is astonishing - more so what she did and became in only 6 episodes. Something that 26-50 episode series couldn't even do. The technical details were astonishing, I had a blast with the details and the facial expressions, surprisingly they were actually expressive! What a concept! And top off all that, the icing on this bittersweet cake was the ending, quite possibly the best one I've seen in an anime aside from Maison Ikkoku or LOGH's. If you don't cry or at least get a little choked up. You have no heart, and you have no eye for quality.

Without this series, Evangelion never would have come to fruition. Everything from Noriko's personality and Jung Freud's hotheaded pride were the founding concepts for characters like Shinji Ikari and Asuka Langley.

Greatness, nothing short of that.

Man, speaking of which, I should probably watch Aim for the Ace since that was also the loose founder for Gunbuster and it's themes. Thankfully the movie is subbed, the tv series' subs have been slow for years now. I can't take the wait.

At 9/30/11 02:14 PM, KermitTheMuppet wrote:

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE THE DEATHNOTE?

Perhaps there is a Death Note in all of us

At 9/30/11 01:28 PM, Mendou wrote: Gunbuster

Pretty short series so I will check it out tomorrow, when I have these last 20 episodes of LoGH finished.

At 9/30/11 01:28 PM, Mendou wrote: Full Metal panic season 1 was pretty average, why was this so popular a few years ago? Anime fans are retards. Hopefully Fumoffu is a lot funnier, and Second Raid more engaging.

Agreed so much on the first season. I re-watched a month or two ago and it's really disappointing, especially when compared to Fumoffu/TSR.

At 9/30/11 02:18 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 9/30/11 02:14 PM, KermitTheMuppet wrote:

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE THE DEATHNOTE?

Perhaps there is a Death Note in all of us

At 9/30/11 02:34 PM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote:

At 9/30/11 01:28 PM, Mendou wrote: Gunbuster

Pretty short series so I will check it out tomorrow, when I have these last 20 episodes of LoGH finished.

you plan on watching >8 hours of anime before the end of tomorrow?

wow your life is fun

Apparently the Hunter X Hunter manga is back in circulation or at least a few new chapters have come out.

It's been so long I am confused as hell but I am very glad to see it back even if for only a short burst.

At 9/30/11 07:31 PM, KermitTheMuppet wrote:

At 9/30/11 07:17 PM, Gobblemeister wrote:

At 9/30/11 02:18 PM, Mendou wrote:

At 9/30/11 02:14 PM, KermitTheMuppet wrote:

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE THE DEATHNOTE?

Perhaps there is a Death Note in all of us

HIGURASHI IS WORLD PEICE

Are you sure?