anime - entertaining or immiture?

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 :( )

maybe Night On The Galactic Railroad? talking cats go into space on a train. soundtrack by Haruomi Hosono!

Srsly Bruneau; trust me on this. FLCL will make you an anime fan 4 lyfe.

listen to drugs

^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

Add another vote for FLCL; it's near-perfect.

Also to help make my case for Mind Game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ktmD1pgE4

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

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.

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

DLing Mind Game and others now. I may never escape this room.

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

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