oh yeah Bleach goes on forever, there are over 300 episodes
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
you can stop watching Bleach after like the second season, they start going into that dragonball Z style dragging out the storyline
― and the suggest banned tweeted on (dayo), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Telephoneface: you want Mind Game (movie) and Kaiba (series). Trust me on this. Neither are licensed in any English-speaking country so far as I know, so you'll have to steal 'em, but they're pretty easy to find on the Pirate Bay.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
You want to watch Paprika.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, most satoshi kon probably fits your bill ( rip :( )
― and the suggest banned tweeted on (dayo), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe Night On The Galactic Railroad? talking cats go into space on a train. soundtrack by Haruomi Hosono!
― corpse pose (missingNO), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Srsly Bruneau; trust me on this. FLCL will make you an anime fan 4 lyfe.
― pax raggetta (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
listen to drugs
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
^otm, FLCL is the pinnacle of human media achievement, or at least it is my favorite media artifact out of all of them across all media
don't know quite what is happening in this thread but someone mentioned FLCL and I want to give it props
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Add another vote for FLCL; it's near-perfect.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Also to help make my case for Mind Game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ktmD1pgE4
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
the animation is not so good on this but the drawings are excellent/vintage feel --midori (1992?):http://lh4.ggpht.com/_JnYdydEJQ3g/TFaDsVaMEII/AAAAAAAAGCU/kgnOENkfU_o/snapshot20081016004817.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
That Mind Game one reminded me of this very very strange Japanese 1970s Jack and the Beanstalk we saw when I was a kid which scarred me for life.
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
This isnt the bit I remember but this bit is completely WTF (I cant find the bit I recall which was some old witch making paper cutout people come to life and sing?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfmMYa9jTdQ&feature=related
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
DLing Mind Game and others now. I may never escape this room.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i was working this morning and my housemate burst into my room with a copy of FLCL and said DUDE WE SHOULD GET HIGH AND WATCH THIS so we did, that was something
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
haha the problem with suggesting flcl and kon flicks and mind game (which is like top twenty of the last decade for me, live action or animated) is it gets people thinking they're all like that and not 900 episodes of teenage kung fu magicians with upskirts and severely limited animation. (other than the limited animation that might appeal though, so.)
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
it's been awhile since i've seen mind game but my recollection was that it actually was about a teenage kung fu magician.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Who fights crime.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/40255_460017055751_739675751_6367788_3629434_n.jpg
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
crime-fighting kung fu whale with magical panties iirc.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
problem with suggesting flcl and kon flicks and mind game ... is it gets people thinking they're all like that and not 900 episodes of teenage kung fu magicians with upskirts...
hella upskirts in flcl
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
i mean it's great, but...
yeah but its also insane.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
i mean it's a gainax production. they practically invented the anime upskirt. they're entitled.
see, i did not know that
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
gainax: merging high-art with zero gravity bouncing boobies since 1984
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
900 episodes of teenage kung fu magicians with upskirts
Which anime is this a description of?
Been watching mostly Dirty Pair, mostly cos the intro is so rad and I like the clumsy Star Trek w babes storyline. Saw some FLCL and really enjoyed it but I got distracted and forgot about it. Must pick it back up...
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
haha it could be a MILLION of them but for sake of ease we'll say, oh, i dunno, tenchi
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
if you want OLD batshit colorful moving-too-fast anime, you should check out the second urusei yatsura movie, beautiful dreamer. directed by oshii, the guy who made ghost in the shell, but NOTHING like the stuff he's done in the last twenty years. more like flcl/mind game. you might need a little familiarity with the characters to fully getbit, but going in blind might also just add to the craziness. really special movie. you'll probably have to torrent it, though.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
it's kinda like a three's company episode written by borges. with space aliens in bikinis.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah beautiful dreamer is rightfully regarded as the best UY movie
leiji matsumoto would prob be up ur alley too
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 30 June 2011 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
haha i found this old pic cankles posted to some thread today
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs164.snc1/6128_146522375751_739675751_3455842_6954930_n.jpg
and it made me realize that maintaining the fanboy illusion that anime was some kind of superior-to-american-animation super art form was a lot easier in the '80s and '90s before you could actually watch a lot of it.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 3 July 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/07/hatsune_miku_live.php
― buzza, Monday, 4 July 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/SbMcx.gif
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
and it made me realize that maintaining the fanboy illusion that anime was some kind of superior-to-american-animation super art form was a lot easier in the '80s and '90s before you could actually watch a lot of it.p
totally otm
― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 July 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_abkMP58OLUA/S7m4ObGlsrI/AAAAAAAATVY/uDEntLzd8HA/s1600/x2+Yuri+to+shoot.jpgI finished watching the entire TV run of Dirty Pair. I really think it kept up the quality through the whole run. Great animation, cool spaceships, interesting storylines, shameless fan service. That last point gets a little more blatant towards the end of the series, and they cheekily acknowledge at one of the post-credits previews, telling all Otaku to watch the next show, same time, same channel. I really like some of the mystery stories they have too.
My favorite episode has to be #17 "Come Out, Come Out, Assassin!", which has Kei and Yuri in disguises (respectively as a nun and a stewardess!) trying to find a murderous hacker aboard a space shuttle before it's sucked into a black hole. It also has a kid playing a keytar melodica, DTMF tone phreaking, and a really cool 2001-style spacewalk.
I'll watch the movies next but I just found Mind Games and Beautiful Dreamer so I'm finally going to see them afterwards!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
Plus, I can't get enough of space babes.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
for April Fools Adult Swim turned into Toonami for the night.seems to have been a popular choice, at least on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/adultswim/status/187004036824834049
― zappi, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
It's been a while but I found the theme of loss via relativistic effects of near-light-speed travel in Gunbuster really honestly quite moving. Also, giant mecha robots and space babes (only one gratuitous scene of space babes in communal shower iirc).
― God arrives for the apocalypse, having been traveling at the speed of (ledge), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
hmm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcxfkQGs7Y&noredirect=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4h8m74pyC8&noredirect=1
― original bgm, Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Sgt. Frog is AWESOME
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
Rented Redline from Netflix, I've heard good things. We shall see.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Any opinions on Deadman Wonderland or Casshern Sins?
― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
Beautiful Dreamer was in my comedy films ballot
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk5De2CElh4
Still working my way through Sgt. Frog, on maybe ep 7 or 8 by now. It's gotten less interesting tbh, but the first 4 eps are really trippy and really fun. Some of the characters have incredibly annoying voices and every so often you will have an ep that just sounds like a bunch of screeching, whining kids yelling at each other really fast. The narrator is still probably my favorite part of the show, tho Keroro and the red frog are pretty much always super rad. And the mom is good for fan service.
Has anyone seen the whole series? I like how surreal meta and fast and WTF the first bunch of eps are, but it seems to be settling down into something that, while still wacky and strange, is a little more standard episodic anime.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
Ok so ive been watching a few more. Some of them are really pervy, but there's nothing explicitly sexual in it. It's really pretty awesome. There was an episode where they have to fight cavity monsters and shrink down and make Incredible Voyage jokes. Then the frog who has the cavity uses a tiny robot avatar to go inside of his own mouth. Lots of Gundam references, post-post-modern silly dialog, futuristic dominatrixes, and alien space frogs freaking out and acting like Rambo follow.
There seems to be tons of bizarre alien villains, i think they fight a new one each week, though they take plenty of time to be completely and charmingly absurd about the whole situation. Like the narrator popping in to say "He has worse aim than Dick Cheney!" or resolving all plot holes by joking about it. Three of the characters are a boy with an after school Occult Club, a Manga-writer M.I.L.F., and a Gundam model-obsessed frog, so it's 100% pandering to Otaku culture. But it's in an extremely fun way!
It seems like Netflix is the very best bet, and three seasons are streaming now. Lots of the localization changes they made to names and stuff have been fixed. Like apparently the girl cat used to be called "Mr. Furbottom" in America, and now it's "Mrs.". Quality is super nice too, and this is a show that likes to bloom the screen constantly so it looks really nice in HD.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Ok that synopsis reminded me that I need to check out Excel Saga soon.
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Sgt. Frog is pretty up-to-date with it's references. The episodes I saw made fun of the top 1% and needless corn inflation subsidies.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yup, definitely recommend Redlined. Absolutely insane, but the visuals and energy are top-notch. They even kind of almost sell the love story.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
the creepy ones that throw shitfits when VA's get married/have sexpermalinkembed[–]moparcon 95 points 2 years ago ...those exist?permalinkembedparent[–]PotatoMurderer 75 points 2 years ago Yup, just found out about that when I watched Bakuman. Apparently there's a thing called Seiyuu Otaku in Japan, and they have ridiculous devotion to their favorite VAs and they get really crazy whenever it's about their favorite VA's purity and lovelife. If I remember correctly, it gets to a point where it can ruin the VA's voice acting career (especially if they're super popular).permalinkembedparent[–]AxezCore 74 points 2 years ago That's not exclusive to VA's, but the whole Idol industry. It's usually in the Idol's contracts that they're forbidden from having relationships because the ruins their "pure" image.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 November 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
judging by his entertainment interests i'd say there's at least a 60% chance bin laden was a redditor
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 November 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
...using reddit gold from the CIA
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 6 November 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
watching legend of the galactic heroes and wowzers!
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
really awful and tragic story:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/dead-suspected-arson-attack-kyoto-animation-japan
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Thursday, 18 July 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link