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 (eleven 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
watching Highschool of the Dead has reminded me why I only ever sporadically go on anime kicks; there is a LOT of panty-flashing and ridiculous breast humor in this, the apex of which is probably the scene where one of the male characters is shooting a rifle at approaching zombies while a busty female character is smacking them around with a wooden sword, nimbly doing the splits over one bullet and managing to shimmy her breasts out of the path of another bullet one at a time, in slow motion
(this is after the scene where all of the female characters get into a bath together and start squeezing the shit out of each others' breasts while asking "why are we all bathing together, anyway?")
(you may wonder, "what does this have to do with zombies attacking high school students" to which I respond "EXACTLY")
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeh there is a gif of that bullet time breastflop which seems to crop up on the web when i least expect/want it. (think i lasted about 10 mins of the first episode of HOTD)have you seen Gantz DJP? judging by your tastes you might enjoy it, lots of scenes to make you go 0.o
― zappi, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I've only stuck with it so far because I wanted to prove to myself I could watch a zombie thing without having nightmares; the first episode is far and away the scariest, probably because it has the least amount of panty-flashing
have not seen Gantz but based on the Wikipedia synopsis I REALLY REALLY WANT TO
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol of course this is on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtlMjRqfQs
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
Good positioning of the "play" button!
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
OMG ROFL
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
saw an ep of deadman wonderland on adult swim recently and really dug it, djp!
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
Sgt. Frog guys. It's amazing.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Deadman Wonderland is totally my kind of shit, just the right mix of violence and wtf
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
also kinda battle royale-esque
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
Recently watched Paranoia Agent and FLCL and loved them to bits. Currently watching Outlaw Star and Azumanga Daioh.
Outlaw Star is like a campier, more adolescent version of Cowboy Bebop - set in a similar universe, with an expanding family of characters flying from planet to planet - only with more magic, ninja robots, space battles, and other Saturday morning cartoon stuff. A bit stilted and cliched at times, but a lot of fun to watch.
Azumanga Daioh is a slice-of-life comedy based around six schoolgirls (quiet type, sporty type, hyperactive girl and her "straight-man" best friend, child prodigy, airhead spacer). I honestly haven't laughed so much at a TV show in quite some time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6IZHEIQwA
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
<3 Osaka & Nyamo-sensei
― zappi, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, cute/moe anime is mostly garbage but Azumanga Daioh is on a whole other level
― Chris S, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
― zappi, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
mind game was awesome
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 20 September 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
absolutely adored Humanity Has Declined (Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita), which just finished. on the surface it seems like some ubertwee fairytale, but this is undercut with unsettling black humour & social satire. try the first episode, by the end you'll be thinking "what the fuck did i just watch". its also one of a bunch of Japanese speculative fiction that i've come across recently that could be described as having a "cheerful dystopia" setting, which i can't get enough of.
― zappi, Thursday, 20 September 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
anime of the moment
;leopard-raws tokyo ravens 18 raw mx 1280 720 aac mp4deadfish noragami 06 720p aac mp4iss kamen rider gaim 07 hd mp4 liveactionhorriblesubs hunter x hunter 116 108p mkvpeeps sekai seifuku bouryaku no zvezda - - 05 e283021f mp4titan-anime buddy complex 06 8bit 1280 720 5b327ca3 mp4warnet log horizon 19 mengehar bbayangan mereka
― maralin mansion (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Thursday, 13 February 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
START /Every Little tHink TX 1440 1080 ts
― maralin mansion (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Thursday, 13 February 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
space dandy
― Mordy , Thursday, 13 February 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
??
― maralin mansion (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Thursday, 13 February 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
very funny imho
― Mordy , Thursday, 13 February 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
that is a show?
― maralin mansion (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Thursday, 13 February 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
yes
― Mordy , Thursday, 13 February 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
Space Dandy has been really inconsistent, some bits are funny and other bits are painfully unfunny and drag on forever. Some really nice animation bits tho.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 13 February 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
think i've written about him before, Hiroyasu Ishida has a new short film out and it's just as good as his previous work. influenced by Miyazaki and Tezuka but has his own style, only in his 20s but already being seen as a star of the future.Paulette's Chair http://youtu.be/l03lLXvUx7khis previous student worksFumiko's Confession http://youtu.be/0QqT1P4VO30Rain Town http://youtu.be/RLAfM1RXwRstrailer for short film 'Hinata no Aoshigure' that was in cinemas last year but yet to surface on DVD http://youtu.be/SUfWjDfYGtM
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 22 March 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Oh cool, I'll have to keep an eye on him!
It's Korean, so technically not part of the "anime" industry if you want to be super anal about it, but has anyone seen the American DVD of Aachi & Ssipak? I've been waiting for a legit release for years, but it looks like the Stateside distributor fucked it up in ways that I thought people had stopped doing in the early 2000's- it's recut, the translated script was rewritten and dubbed into English by the guys responsible for some shitty-looking Flash cartoon called "Dick Figures," and the soundtrack was replaced with third-stringers from the Mad Decent roster (seriously, nobody's even credited by name outside of producer/engineer Kevin Seaton, it's just "Mad Decent"). The original version of the film still isn't available legally.
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Saturday, 22 March 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/urusei/images/1/1d/Little_demon.jpg
I've been watching Urusei Yatsura and so far my favorite episode is the 2nd part of ep 6, "Hey, Hey It's a Little Demon". Like most episodes it is about things getting progressively worse until they hit a disastrous climax. In this case a demon (whether deriving from Western or Eastern religion is debated in one part) has appeared through a mirror and hangs around long enough to make life a literal hell for the family. There is an amazing jump cut near the end where a priest opens a gate to the 4th dimension and the demon cackles while multiplying into infinite trails, the soundtrack full of abstract reverberating feedback. Suddenly it cuts to an establishing shot outside the house complete with cheery sitcom music. It's a perfect moment that captures the weird humor of the series.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 05:37 (eight years ago) link
'your name' was good lol
― 龜, Sunday, 9 April 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
Heard Bin Laden was a fan.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2017 14:23 (six 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