anime - entertaining or immiture?

Ranma 1/2 for sheer silly fun. "Why didn't you say anything?" "I can't say anything, I'm a panda!"

also, search anime theme songs! and their lyrics on the net!

DG: Akira = grate visuals (10+ yrs. later), nice vague cosmic plot; Ghost in the Shell = grate visuals, nice vague cosmic plot (something anime seems to specialize in, eh? ;]); Perfect Blue = never seen.

the theme song and animation for cowboy bebop are just wonderful. the rest of the show is missable, but i love the theme.

"Oh please sir! Don't double-dong me!"

Ack.

I should have known something would go wrong with the relationship when I discovered my ex had the *box set* (which retailed for over $150 Amurrican if I remember) of La Blue Girl (particularly heinous/ridiculous hentai porno toon) in her collection. .

My sisters are big into Anime though, and you know, it's really not bad at all. That Gundum Wing show makes absolutely 100% no sense though, and Sailor Moon is the worst thing I've ever seen. The rest of it seems alright. I don't watch too closely, I just wanted to tell you all that I have a friend who thinks Richey Manic looks like the guy off Voltron.

GR: Are robots symbolic of something?
MO: Technology

as for anime porn, gotta go with _twin dolls_. it's just so sad and tries so hard to be perverted. and the thing with the giant penii - i think the whole country is worried about what it's packing downstairs; or maybe it just goes back to that religious sect that worships the penis.

Sky Crawlers (new film from Mr Mamoru "Ghost in the Shell" Oshii) is suicidally boring.

http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/article/969/969903/the-sky-crawlers-20090406105555946-000.jpg

i still stand by Sailor Moon

was this his next film after "ghost in the shell"? because this one is supposedly "OSHII'S BEST (since) GHOST IN THE SHELL"

naruto is awesome btw

I will admit to having watched more than a hundred episodes of Bleach in recent memory

oh man i haven't watched bleached. would i regret starting?

why did i past tense that?

I smell a sequel

You should definitely watch start watching Bleach if you have, say, a phd dissertation you need to finish within the next month, or a grant proposal to write, or a significant other you've really been meaning to spend more time with lately

Word to the wise, though: the first big story arc is also the best - the quality drops really quickly afterwards. No real need to watch anymore after past episode...60 I think?

I watched loads of Bleach fansubs at the insistence of a roommate and remember it going rapidly to shit once it's moved to the underworld-medieval-Japan-bureaucracy setting. I stopped watching fairly soon after, though, so I don't know if it picked up.

I imagine a lot of anime has been rendered obsolete by introduction of cheap CG, so where are these live action movies that would have been anime?

Bleach is a MAJOR obsession of mine! Things seem to have gotten interesting again now that they're back training for the massive confrontation with Aizen and they've pulled 5 of the Court officers into the human world to look after things while the main characters train.

Philip - lots of cheap CG 'live anime' - Cutie Honey, Tetsujin 28-go, Devilman & the over-egged likes of Casshern - but the space for 2D will always be mandatory - see NY Times pillow guys but not just them.

Anyway, decided to check what Kamen Rider was up to these days (a live action tradition so tech. off-topic but...)...
This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uklWa7Hsl4

Oops. That, but also this for cheap CG meltdown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH47sQ0GKso

the spelling error in this thread title says it all, really.

i hav a gunsmiths cats t-shirt

says it all, really

Recommend me some psychedelic awesome vintage anime movies to watch. Maybe with wizards and supernatural kids or something. Less giant robots more non-stop insane flashing things and outer space and talking animals and mystical shit. Ok, some giant robots are fine...

You specifically looking for movies and not series? Because Bleach has become my go-to series.

Series are fine! OK I'll check out Bleach, whats it like?

Adam, have you ever seen FLCL?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_%28manga%29

Here's a primer; the story largely follows the experiences of a Japanese high school student with the ability to see ghosts and how that ability leads him to discover the Soul Society, a group of spiritual reapers who are responsible for guiding lost souls into the afterlife. Things rapidly get much more complicated than this, though.

FLCL is another good one, and Paranoia Agent is amazing for a good long run of the 16 episode series (I was massively let down by the end but that may be because I am a jaded motherfucker).

I really want bright colors, weird cosmic cutaways, psychedelic sequences, batshit narratives that move real fast and almost don't make sense. Also, i have no problem with English dubs.

Thanks for those suggestions!!!

I will cast another vote for FLCL.

Is that just 6 eps?

Nice. Yeah i looked up a torrent of Bleach and it was like 40gig. Gonna start w something smaller.

oh yeah Bleach goes on forever, there are over 300 episodes

you can stop watching Bleach after like the second season, they start going into that dragonball Z style dragging out the storyline

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.

You want to watch Paprika.

yeah, most satoshi kon probably fits your bill ( rip :( )

http://i.imgur.com/SbMcx.gif

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

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_abkMP58OLUA/S7m4ObGlsrI/AAAAAAAATVY/uDEntLzd8HA/s1600/x2+Yuri+to+shoot.jpg
I 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!

Plus, I can't get enough of space babes.

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

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).

hmm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcxfkQGs7Y&noredirect=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4h8m74pyC8&noredirect=1

Sgt. Frog is AWESOME

Rented Redline from Netflix, I've heard good things. We shall see.

Any opinions on Deadman Wonderland or Casshern Sins?

Beautiful Dreamer was in my comedy films ballot

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.

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.

Ok that synopsis reminded me that I need to check out Excel Saga soon.

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.

Yup, definitely recommend Redlined. Absolutely insane, but the visuals and energy are top-notch. They even kind of almost sell the love story.

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")

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

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

lol of course this is on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtlMjRqfQs

Good positioning of the "play" button!

OMG ROFL

saw an ep of deadman wonderland on adult swim recently and really dug it, djp!

Sgt. Frog guys. It's amazing.

Yeah Deadman Wonderland is totally my kind of shit, just the right mix of violence and wtf

also kinda battle royale-esque

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

<3 Osaka & Nyamo-sensei

yeah, cute/moe anime is mostly garbage but Azumanga Daioh is on a whole other level

yeah, cute/moe anime is mostly garbage but Azumanga Daioh is on a whole other level

mind game was awesome

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.

anime of the moment

;leopard-raws tokyo ravens 18 raw mx 1280 720 aac mp4
deadfish noragami 06 720p aac mp4
iss kamen rider gaim 07 hd mp4 liveaction
horriblesubs hunter x hunter 116 108p mkv
peeps sekai seifuku bouryaku no zvezda - - 05 e283021f mp4
titan-anime buddy complex 06 8bit 1280 720 5b327ca3 mp4
warnet log horizon 19 mengehar bbayangan mereka

START /Every Little tHink TX 1440 1080 ts

space dandy

??

very funny imho

that is a show?

yes

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.

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/l03lLXvUx7k
his previous student works
Fumiko's Confession http://youtu.be/0QqT1P4VO30
Rain Town http://youtu.be/RLAfM1RXwRs
trailer for short film 'Hinata no Aoshigure' that was in cinemas last year but yet to surface on DVD http://youtu.be/SUfWjDfYGtM

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.

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.

'your name' was good lol

Heard Bin Laden was a fan.

the creepy ones that throw shitfits when VA's get married/have sex
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[–]moparcon 95 points 2 years ago
...those exist?
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[–]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).
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[–]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.

judging by his entertainment interests i'd say there's at least a 60% chance bin laden was a redditor

...using reddit gold from the CIA

watching legend of the galactic heroes and wowzers!

really awful and tragic story:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/dead-suspected-arson-attack-kyoto-animation-japan