Lol I liked the first series of attack on Titan, never watched the rest. Series loves its gore though.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
the subs are an issue for them - just a little too much work.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
My understanding is that E1 of Gunbuster is a parody of, like, sports anime? but sadly the context is lost on me :(
it kinda starts out as like a light parody of mecha/school anime but then turns into something incredible about halfway through. 6 episodes so it's an easy watch
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
they are now super into 'Food Wars'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 June 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
haikyuu to attack on titan to food wars is quite the downward slide
― ciderpress, Thursday, 25 June 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
lol
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 June 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
help me help them, they have no taste and no filter
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 June 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
i need to finish watching food wars. love the orgasmic depictions of flavor
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 25 June 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
yeah that's their favourite part :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 June 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
Mob Psycho 100 is the best recent shonen action series imo, but really i have no clue what teens might like, i only watch boring adult anime
― ciderpress, Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
have we talked about DoroHeDoro yet? if not, we really need to
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
my kids aren't teens yet - frankly i find attack on titan too gruesome for them but they claim it doesn't bother them
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
if Polar Bear's Cafe has a dub, see if they like that? they might find it really boring tho
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
xp dorohedoro is cool but obv doesn't belong in the middle of a discussion about anime for kids lol
― ciderpress, Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
Will watch Ghost in the Shell someday, as a treat.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
Little Witch Academia is tame enough for kids but still entertaining as an adult
― clouds, Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
hah sorry I didn't know we were talking about kids anime but still.. incredible mind melting stuff
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
the manga art is really good and detailed in ways that can't be replicated in tv animation but they still did a great job with the setting/backgrounds and overall execution
― ciderpress, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
that's re: dorohedoro i mean
― ciderpress, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
I liked it but couldn’t figure out if the objectification of its women characters was so grotesque as to constitute a comment on the theme or really just unfortunate.
― Mordy, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
that’s how i feel about food wars
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 June 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
but everything else about it i find amazingly bonkers. my kids now both want to actually create dishes in real life that my wife and i are to judge. i really hope they don’t want us to cosplay.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 June 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
thats really sweet :)
― flopson, Monday, 29 June 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
the last episode of gunbuster is a work of art
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Sunday, June 21, 2020 7:37 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's only like 6 eps, right? I really should rewatch it. Or maybe just watch Diebuster. My understanding is that E1 of Gunbuster is a parody of, like, sports anime? but sadly the context is lost on me :(
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, June 21, 2020 10:46 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
i’m rewatching gunbuster right now bc of this exchange! i’ve owned the dvds for at least a decade but somehow had only watched them once? i had forgotten almost everything about this incredible show, including all the proto-evangelion echoes (profound dedication to pseudoscientific babble, screwed up father figure who almost never takes off his sunglasses, arrogant german redhead who’s preternaturally good at piloting robots)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
the alien spaceship design is dazzling, just these overgrown organic horrors floating through space. feels really influenced by anno’s time working with miyazaki (which, incidentally, the main character has a nausicaa poster in her room)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
maybe i should finally watch all of nadia after this
gunbuster overall feels like a picture of anno before he realized how depressed he was, or a version of eva that’s not so psychedelically fucked up and is instead pared down to pure emotion
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Brad I am LIVING for your Gunbuster rewatch. Plz lmk if you watch Diebuster and if it’s any good.
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 July 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
“Gunbustaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 July 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
diebuster is good in a 'solid sequel that lives in the shadow of the original' sort of way iirc
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 July 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
at first i was like "diebuster isn't directed by anno? no thanks" but it's kazuya tsurumaki of flcl so i'll prob watch it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 3 July 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
did anyone watch those flcl sequels, are they any good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 3 July 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
i haven't bc no one seemed to like them. they're not even made by ex-gainax folks for the most part afaik so its a sequel in name only
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 July 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
I was going to post various articles on various threads but screw it, just skim the first few pages of this blog for anything that catches your interest. Includes some podcast discussion of Gunbuster and Diebuster.https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/
I've been reading Jonathan Clements' articles since last summer when I discovered his entries on china and japan on the Science Fiction Encyclopedia but he's a general historian of Japan, China, Finland; he writes 2000AD novels; he writes lots about anime, he translates and does voice acting; probably does a bunch of other things I've forgotten. I tore my hair out at some of the copyright/translation and secondhand market practices of japan and there's lot of good stuff to scroll through. Old Finnish films.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 July 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
Y’all I’m trying to watch JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and its... not great. I know everyone says the first few arcs are meh and Stardust Crusaders is where it’s at, but the specific things I dislike about this (the colors, the way its animated so something’s always moving or trembling, the nonstop mindless action) make me think the rest of it isn’t going to be THAT much better. What should I do?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
I had the same problem so I quit
― Mordy, Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
it's not good imo
― ciderpress, Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
Read the manga (Araki draws waaaaaaaaaay better than any of the anime visuals) or play the 2d fighting game.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 July 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
the flcl sequels were bad and had no reason to exist
as far as jojo goes, stardust crusaders is still pretty mediocre for the most part, it's mostly just villain of the week stuff without anything more interesting happening. my rec is just try diamond is unbreakable if you are desperate to see how good jojo can be, it's certainly the best of the parts that have been adapted so far, but if you hate the weird colours that never changes. you don't really need to have watched the previous parts to understand anything, there's a few characters who reappear (one who's a main character) but that's it. starting with stardust crusaders the action certainly gets less mindless and more about creative & ridiculous applications of weird goofy superpowers but again this gets more interesting as it goes along & diamond is unbreakable is a lot better in that regard and has more fun characters and a goofy slice-of-life vibe to it.
― ufo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
like the first three parts bored me to death but i loved diamond is unbreakable, and stone ocean and steel ball run (parts 6 and 7, not yet adapted) are fantastic too
― ufo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
I missed the discussion of food wars. I’d read the manga (or at least the bits I could find to read for free) so I kind of knew what to expect but the objectification really is too much. The jiggly squelchy noises really are too much. I guess you could say, given the orgasmic delight effects men and women and the odd naked male arse, that it’s equal opportunity objectification, but know this is aimed at teenage boys and it’s just too sexist.
Which is a shame because the setup and the food bits are good and I like that soma can whip up decisions dishes from whatever is laying around.
I’ve been watching Oishinbo on Hulu japan which is also about food although less about cooking than celebrating japanese food culture (which the authors thought was under threat when the series started in the 80s). There’s also a father and son dynamic, they often battle over who can provide the best dish.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Sunday, 5 July 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
omg Oishinbo sounds so charming and up my alley, I need to track this down
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 6 July 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
I just started Patlabor, less out of desire and more as a homework assignment cuz I wanna familiarize myself w mecha anime tropes. It’s not bad but, as one would predict, fairly straightforward.I think I’m gonna start either Texhnolyze, Baccano!, or Tatami Galaxy as well so I have something weirder to watch
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 6 July 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
I’m sad that like... now that I’ve finished Evangelion, Paranoia Agent, Serial Experiments Lain, FLCL, Utena, Madoka Magica... like what is even left in that realm??
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 6 July 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
I wanna familiarize myself w mecha anime tropes
have you watched mobile suit gundam? that's where it all begins plus it has the greatest theme song of all timeits sequel series zeta is even better
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 6 July 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
like what is even left in that realm??
apparently ergo proxy is supposed to be but i got bored half way through
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 6 July 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
Xp no bcz I tend to avoid stuff that’s longer than like 25-30 episodes, I like my anime to have a narrative arc and not just kinda meander forever
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 6 July 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
whats the commonality supposed to be in that list? just classic anime?
― ciderpress, Monday, 6 July 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
while i wouldn't say that they don't meander, the first 3 series (+ movie) of MSG together form a pretty well defined story arc. maybe try the "war in the pocket" ova to see if you catch the bug
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 6 July 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
have you watched mobile suit gundam? that's where it all begins
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, July 6, 2020 11:00 PM
Does Mazinger Z not introduce any tropes apart from the big robot itself?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 July 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link