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Post by madhair60 on Apr 9, 2012 21:24:57 GMT
 I love anime. I went way overboard with my last anime thread. This one's gonna be different. It's gonna be short and to the point explaining why you should watch what I watch. Feel free to make recommendations, or just chat about anime you like. I'll try to keep it up to date with what to look out for season by season. |
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 9, 2012 21:37:27 GMT
Let's get started. Just started is Lupin III - Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna, the first television incarnation of Japan's premiere master thief in over 25 years. Staggeringly beautiful to look at, this is 23 minutes of adventure anime perfection, and bodes well for the rest of the series. It looks and feels more like the comics than any previous effort, the soundtrack and voice acting is pitch-perfect and achingly cool. Arguably the series that propelled all others to bigger and better things, Lupin III is back on TV sweeping the competition along in its wake. Feast your eyes:      |
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Post by Blizz on Apr 9, 2012 22:33:57 GMT
I'm thinking of giving Bodacious Space Pirates a try.
Anybody seen it?
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Apr 9, 2012 22:45:49 GMT
Lupin III is a pre-Studio Ghibli Miyazaki film, right?  |
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Post by Blizz on Apr 9, 2012 22:51:43 GMT
Lupin III is a pre-Studio Ghibli Miyazaki film, right? Castle of Cagliostro. Yes, that was one of several Lupin movies. |
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 10, 2012 20:57:20 GMT
Lupin wasn't created by Miyazaki, but he did do an adaptation of it.
Blizz - Moretsu Pirates I haven't actually watched, here's what a friend says who has checked it out:
"It was very clearly based on a set of novels. So as Sci-Fi goes, it was a lot harder than you normally get with anime. Outside things like Planets and whatnot. Stuff that's out to prove a point basically. Which, given that this isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea, it was a damn ballsy move to even air this in the current economic slump in Japan. Case in point. Nothing action related happens for over five to six episodes at the start of the series. The balls of steel the execs must have had to okay this can only be gargantuan.
Okay. Basically, Moretsu Pirates is about a young girl who is told that she's now the new captain of a crew of privateers in a futuristic setting. There is an entire classroom of highschool girls as well. It's REALLY obviously lifted from the original novels. Which if that is your thing, then great. But if you hate plot. Then no, it's not for you."
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Post by Robert Frazer on Apr 10, 2012 21:38:40 GMT
Speaking of Lupin III movies, it's interesting to see how different Castle of Cagliostro is to most of the oeuvre. Miyazaki's effort is relatively grounded, but most of Lupin's other adventures are much more off-the-wall, if not outright bizarre - just compare The Secret of Mamo where Lupin fires a giant brain into the sun. Amongst other things.
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 10, 2012 21:44:03 GMT
This season's just-started moe-anthropomorphised firearms comedy Upotte! is [censored]ing trash, exactly what I hoped it'd be and more.    ...  Best reaction face ever. |
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Post by Robert Frazer on Apr 11, 2012 0:08:45 GMT
Really, instead of big boobs L85 should have a fat ass - with its bullpup design the SA80 has more junk in the trunk.
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 11, 2012 16:49:05 GMT
I'm glad you're back, Robert, just so that post could happen.
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 12, 2012 18:56:48 GMT
 Detective Opera Milky Holmes features Sherlock (Holmes) Shellingford, Nero (Wolfe) Yuzurizaki, Hercule "Elly" Barton (Poirot) and Cordelia (Gray) Glauca as useless loli detectives stripped of their magical powers in the first episode and consigned to mooch about while their arch-nemesis plots in vain to get them reinstated so she can have (so she imagines) challenging opponents.  This is exactly the sort of thing that confuses and repels normal, sane people and it is, needless to say, very funny, way more clever than it first appears, and quite charming as the series progresses. The first episode faffs about establishing the convoluted world setting, but once that is out of the way, the show is a fast-forward sugar rush train wreck of anime abandon that doesn't care what boring people think of it.  This is Hercule Poirot. Seriously. |
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Post by ShayMay on Apr 12, 2012 18:58:31 GMT
I'll make a more analytical post when I've finished the series (I get through anime at a very slow rate due to bull[censored] logic on my part), but Toradora! has really struck a chord with me, so consider that a recommendation. This is Hercule Poirot. Seriously. He's recommended the series to me a few times and I've not really been interested, but that picture is incredible and I'm watching it just for that.  |
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Post by Robert Frazer on Apr 17, 2012 13:23:36 GMT
I'm having a good time watching Upotte! - and I don't mean that in an ironic so-bad-it's-good way, either - it is actually, genuinely enjoyable; light-hearted without being lightweight and silly without being stupid. Frankly, I cannot wait for the action arcs to start up.  [censored] will get [censored]ing real. |
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Post by Devo DrakeFox on Apr 17, 2012 15:22:46 GMT
Lately I find myself missing Martian Successor Nadesico. That was a great series, plenty of giant robot action and sci-fi/romantic comedy. I used to have the whole series but sold it to my brother years ago. I wonder if he'd be willing to sell it back...
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 17, 2012 19:27:33 GMT
Meanwhile, in Haiyore! Nyaruko-san  |
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Apr 18, 2012 12:23:09 GMT
Meanwhile, in Haiyore! Nyaruko-san *struggles to stop his inner Lovecraft fanboy from screaming in indignant rage* If I didn't know better, I'd swear blind that this thread so far has been a case study of ways the Japanese are trying to troll me, what with the whole "famous detectives re-imagined as sickeningly cutesy girls" thing earlier and now this. Of course, not seeing them in context, I'm not gonna say whether I consider such things to be clever subversions or hideous [censored]isations (or some freakish mixture of the two) as I just don't know. |
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Post by ShayMay on Apr 18, 2012 13:06:23 GMT
I must admit I began to get indignant when Stu first brought up Milky Holmes to me, but then I realised that I was probably taking myself far too seriously and stopped.
I don't think either are supposed to be a subversion or a commentary. They're not intended to replace or adapt Lovecraft or Holmes.
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Apr 18, 2012 13:13:23 GMT
I must admit I began to get indignant when Stu first brought up Milky Holmes to me, but then I realised that I was probably taking myself far too seriously and stopped. I don't think either are supposed to be a subversion or a commentary. They're not intended to replace or adapt Lovecraft or Holmes. Yeah, maybe. Besides, others have probably done worse with those properties; I'm sure the evidence is out there on the net somewhere (and I would greatly appreciate it if no-one brought it to my attention). |
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 18, 2012 18:19:21 GMT
They're not intended to replace or adapt Lovecraft or Holmes. No, but they should, as they are better. Milky Holmes is much funnier than Sherlock Holmes, and Lovecraft was just a mad racist. Nyaruko-san is his only legacy of worth. Please tell me what other things you like so I can post anime of them!   u mad? |
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Post by Tanner / Ogilvie on Apr 22, 2012 23:01:01 GMT
 I always enjoyed Onmyou Taisenki, which has yet to be dubbed into English oddly enough. Basically, take Digimon and mix it with magic and spirituality rather than science and technology. That'd be a rough way to put it. Main protagonist is a 13 year old boy and his Shikigami, Kogenta the White Tiger. (Or Byakko no Kogenta if you prefer) I would always look forward to getting home from school so I could watch it. All 52 episodes, baby! Quite a few neat twists along the way, as well. Naturally, what got me to give it a try was that Kogenta's fairly popular in furry circles. So yes, I gave it a try for the furry protagonist. Sue me.  === By the people who wrote the Digimon Movie, there was good ole' Summer Wars. Once more, got into it because of the furry protagonist. Oddly enough, it feels like the Digimon Movie re-visited - much of the plot centers around a virtual reality that has come under threat from a super virus. Since the governments of the world have been idiotic to put all their records - including launch codes - into this virtual world, it's only natural everything implodes as the virus begins to hack communications around the world. Naturally this left me feeling very nostalgic since I remember the Digimon movie very fondly. I quite enjoyed the movie itself though, and it has made me a Kazma fanboy. For anyone who likes Summer Wars, those who made it are also making a new movie called "The Wolf Children: Rain and Snow" : Coincidentally, more furries. Go figure. I was a little freaked out at the preview at first, but I guess you get used to your husband being a werewolf. Granted I can't help but get Twilight vibes but I blame Stephenie Meyer slandering what it means to be a werewolf and a vampire alike. |
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Post by ShayMay on Apr 22, 2012 23:07:55 GMT
First half of the Digimon movie remains absolutely spectacular. Amazing fun, great, visually interesting action sequences, memorable designs and a great villain. It's not the best movie of all time or anything like that, but it just strikes a note and proceeds to take you on a fun ride. I'm not hard to please, folks.
Second half's not dreadful, just... dull. It's a lot more drab in colour scheme and writing, the monster and the conclusion are really by-the-numbers and I still cannot make heads nor tails of that bit where Davis has an emotional moment five seconds.
Edit: Also it's the movie that sparked my undying love for One Week and All Star. Again, not hard to please.
Edit 2: Also, the English dub is, startlingly, really good. Snappy, and with actual emotion behind it. Again, it's not going to set the world on fire, but it doesn't make me cringe which is a welcome change from most anime.
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Post by Tanner / Ogilvie on Apr 22, 2012 23:11:34 GMT
First half of the Digimon movie remains absolutely spectacular. Amazing fun, great, visually interesting action sequences, memorable designs and a great villain, this is the movie I point out when I insist that I'm really not that hard to please. Second half's not dreadful, just... pretty misguided. It's a lot more drab in colour scheme and writing, the monster and the conclusion are really by-the-numbers and I still cannot make heads nor tails of that bit where Davis has an emotional moment five seconds. Oddly enough, I agree. I never really cared for the second half. It just felt... odd. Then again I never really understood what was going on in the first half either since I never really watched any seasons besides 3 and 4. Then again, they were separate movies in Japan, so that explains a lot. Summer Wars does seem like a semi-realistic retelling of the Digimon Movie's first half, what with the computer virus and the virus apparently deciding to try and blow up humanity for the lulz. ...I'm assuming that was its motive. It decides to drop satellites on every nuclear reactor on Earth, I assume just for fun since unlike SkyNet or some such it doesn't have a competent reason for destroying humanity. |
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Post by Pitt on Apr 23, 2012 9:30:22 GMT
First half of the Digimon movie remains absolutely spectacular. Amazing fun, great, visually interesting action sequences, memorable designs and a great villain. It's not the best movie of all time or anything like that, but it just strikes a note and proceeds to take you on a fun ride. I'm not hard to please, folks. Second half's not dreadful, just... dull. It's a lot more drab in colour scheme and writing, the monster and the conclusion are really by-the-numbers and I still cannot make heads nor tails of that bit where Davis has an emotional moment five seconds. I think the one that was released on DVD here was edited together from two different movies, though I could be wrong about that. |
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Apr 23, 2012 17:56:31 GMT
I think the one that was released on DVD here was edited together from two different movies, though I could be wrong about that. Kinda like that old Sonic movie, you mean? I remember hearing about that. Oh, and I've just noticed the other Lovecraft reference in the first post, though it makes an odd kind of sense that one of Nyarlathotep's forms might be a Japanese schoolgirl. By all accounts he... she... it's pretty damn sneaky like that. |
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Post by The KKM on Apr 23, 2012 18:07:31 GMT
It's three different films actually, Digimon Adventure (that started the Anime Franchise and the use of Bolero-- hold on, you guys've only seen the English dubs? Bah) is the one with baby Tai and a giant Greymon, Our War Games/Children's War Game is the second film with a Digimon being created from random bugs and whose motivation is simply to cause [censored]- I particularly love that he never says anything, unlike in the dubbed version, except for a crazy giggle.
The third one is the one about the Golden Digimentals and whatnot, and it's actually the biggest of the three; the reason it feels so disjointed in the dub is because they cut more than half of it to make it fit.
Mind you, the Fox edit is pretty good- manages to grab three different films, tie them together with the making Diaboromon be Willis' Digimon, and is overall well dubbed.
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