anime - entertaining or immiture?

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

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.)

it's been awhile since i've seen mind game but my recollection was that it actually was about a teenage kung fu magician.

Who fights crime.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/40255_460017055751_739675751_6367788_3629434_n.jpg

crime-fighting kung fu whale with magical panties iirc.

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

i mean it's great, but...

yeah but its also insane.

i mean it's a gainax production. they practically invented the anime upskirt. they're entitled.

see, i did not know that

gainax: merging high-art with zero gravity bouncing boobies since 1984

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...

haha it could be a MILLION of them but for sake of ease we'll say, oh, i dunno, tenchi

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.

it's kinda like a three's company episode written by borges. with space aliens in bikinis.

yeah beautiful dreamer is rightfully regarded as the best UY movie

leiji matsumoto would prob be up ur alley too

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.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/07/hatsune_miku_live.php

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