Ifrit
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Post by Ifrit on Aug 29, 2019 4:04:50 GMT
I liked K-On! Not much diff than my mom liking Akon
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Aug 29, 2019 11:13:27 GMT
That was cringy. And at the same time quite caricatural.
Made a list of the last 3 years suposedly 'best anime' that seems to dip into my interests, will start to look into them today. I am presently watching a couple series on Netflix... that I can't seem to bother to finish: 7 Seeds and Hero Mask. Kill la Kill (sigh) and Gunslinger Girl I won't finish. It took an effort to finish Children of the Whales. Cyborg 009 was okay. I really liked Sword Art Online, reminded me of .Hack.
That I can remember from last years... Violet Evergarden: good, One Punch Man: good, Devilman Crybaby: good, Ajin: good Madoka (at the urge of a friend): okay. Blame! movie: good.
Incidentally, we got Crunchyroll at the demand of one of our sons. And got my filthy hands on Attack on Titan 3 this week, that's a treat.
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 29, 2019 12:54:28 GMT
That was cringy. And at the same time quite caricatural. That was deliberate. All the highbrow talk of fine art etc made me do it. Curious what's on your list. Of what you mentioned, I can only say I started Kill la Kill at the insistence of a coworker, and only finished it because of the whole train wreck thing. I enjoyed Gunslinger Girl in its time, but it could have had a better adaptation, and we don't talk about Il Teatrino, but why won't you finish it? (I admit, I ditched Il Teatrino three episodes in because it was awful to look at, but the first season I felt was pretty good)
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Aug 29, 2019 14:39:49 GMT
Kill la Kill is just not my thing and had to push myself just to watch the first 5 eps, while I could be watching other series or movies on my watch list. And as for Gunslinger Girl... Well I just don't like that much the genre I guess. I find it a weaker Noir series, and Noir wasn't that much my cup of tea either. Crime/detective/mystery genre is ok for me as a movies, but I get tired of series.
At my age, series mostly aimed at teenagers and young adults are better be damned good and not fall into too many tropes if you want to catch my interest. I am sorry, but 90 pounds 12-14 years old girls can't just go in and beat up grown ups in hand-to-hand, credibility takes a dive there and you just lost me, especially for a series or movie that takes itself seriously. And yet, Kick-Ass is on my A-list movies, call it a contradiction.
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 29, 2019 16:51:14 GMT
I had a feeling that was the case.
One counter, though: The girls in Gunslinger Girl are not normal 12-14 year old girls. Many are more machine than person, and have parts that weigh quite a lot for their size and also compensate for this. That is, they may have, effectively, heavy robot limbs that give them super strength. Not all of them, and not exactly this, but suffice to say they've all been enhanced, in one way or another, such that the things they do are not as unlikely as they might seem otherwise, in context.
I've also seen some really small people take down much bigger people as though the latter had tripped and fallen five feet away.
Unfortunately for the GSG girls, the enhancements come at huge expense and their life expectancies are just a few years. That's pretty much what let me stop after the first season. No sense watching them all slowly die off. At least my favorite went out on her own terms...
Kill la Kill was just silly. It took itself seriously in the weirdest ways but then almost parodied itself at other points.
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Post by kristian on Aug 29, 2019 18:34:37 GMT
I wish someone would continue with a better anime adaptation of Gunslinger Girl. Il Teatrino was okay but the art style was way too different. I remember years ago waiting for a season 3 but I ended up finishing the entire manga instead. They introduce these "Generation 2" girls who are like older teens instead of the younger girls of the previous generation. I don't remember the exact details and differences other than age group, though.
Claymore and Akame Ga Kill are other anime I wish had better adaptations, or what some like to call the FMA: Brotherhood treatment because the anime cut off parts of the manga and ended much differently. I finished reading Akame Ga Kill but there's a spin-off sequel called Hinowa Ga Yuku which I've only read the first couple chapters. Claymore I haven't finished reading yet because updates were slow back then.
Another anime I ended up liking was Ga-Rei: Zero. I remember seeing it on Netflix many years ago and thought it looked interesting. I didn't realize it was a prequel to the manga simply known as Ga-Rei. Of course, I had to continue and finish reading the manga afterwards. Similar situation happened to me with Fate: Zero. I saw Saber in a suit, thought she looked cool, and just looked up her show.
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Aug 29, 2019 19:11:42 GMT
It'd be interesting to see Claymore get the Brotherhood treatment. The anime wasn't actually bad, but anyone could tell that the ending was something the anime writers pulled out of their ass since the manga was still ongoing. Of course, these days, to air it in basically any time slot, they'd probably have to black out like three quarters of the screen for about half the episode (unless they managed to get on ATX or something), which would really alienate fans, because then they'd have to buy the blu-rays to see it uncensored and with the cost of blu-rays, only the most diehard fans would, so everyone loses.
On the topic of series that deserve a better adaptation, I'd kill to see a full and proper adaptation of Negima, instead of the godawful treatment the series got. Sadly, though, that seems to be the fate of anything Akamatsu writes; Love Hina got a kinda crappy adaptation that created its own characters, Negima got an adaptation that was only faithful to the first twenty chapters or so and then went completely off the rails to end things by killing off its heroine, which was then patched up with a bunch of disconnected OVAs, and UQ Holder, well UQ Holder basically just got semprini all over because of how hard they wanted to push its sequel to Negima status, meaning they cut out about 90 (monthly!) chapters of material to squeeze it all into 12 episodes.
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Post by kristian on Aug 29, 2019 19:55:19 GMT
I remember comparing Shingeki no Kyojin with Claymore because the tone and plot somewhat similar. One similarity that stood out to me was that in both series, the story takes part on a small island that has relevance to some conflict or war happening on a bigger mainland. The Claymores and the Yoma are like human experiments who share the same origins, and similarly the titans are actually humans who have the same ancestry. We don't find out about this much later and the reveal is what changes everything. From what I remember, though, the setting in Claymore hasn't moved to the mainland.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Aug 29, 2019 20:33:39 GMT
Claymore and Akame Ga Kill are other anime I wish had better adaptations, or what some like to call the FMA: Brotherhood treatment because the anime cut off parts of the manga and ended much differently. I finished reading Akame Ga Kill but there's a spin-off sequel called Hinowa Ga Yuku which I've only read the first couple chapters. Claymore I haven't finished reading yet because updates were slow back then. Another anime I ended up liking was Ga-Rei: Zero. I remember seeing it on Netflix many years ago and thought it looked interesting. I didn't realize it was a prequel to the manga simply known as Ga-Rei. Of course, I had to continue and finish reading the manga afterwards. Similar situation happened to me with Fate: Zero. I saw Saber in a suit, thought she looked cool, and just looked up her show. I really liked Ga-Rei: Zero. Not the anime of the year or anything, but definitely enjoyable. Well, as enjoyable as a tragedy can be, anyway.
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Post by kristian on Aug 29, 2019 20:40:50 GMT
The ending of the first episode for Ga-Rei: Zero is what got me hooked. I had to keep watching after that surprise scene.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Aug 29, 2019 21:03:17 GMT
The ending of the first episode for Ga-Rei: Zero is what got me hooked. I had to keep watching after that surprise scene. Oh man, that was some intense stuff. I liked how they introduced that squad, making you think they were the main cast, and then brutally killed them all off without warning at the end.
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Aug 29, 2019 22:51:28 GMT
The ending of the first episode for Ga-Rei: Zero is what got me hooked. I had to keep watching after that surprise scene. Oh man, that was some intense stuff. I liked how they introduced that squad, making you think they were the main cast, and then brutally killed them all off without warning at the end. Ohwell, haven't watched that show, but no I will, see what it is, despite the spoilers...
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Post by kristian on Aug 29, 2019 23:58:40 GMT
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 30, 2019 1:05:00 GMT
I keep forgetting about Ga Rei. Doesn't help that it aired over ten years ago. There's another one, I can never remember which, that I often mix it up with. That also doesn't help.
I think I remember watching the whole thing and appreciating it. Maybe not enjoying it, but appreciating what it was. Not my usual kind of show, but back in '08 I was watching pretty much everything. I still say '08-'09 was probably the best period of anime in recent years. There's been one or two good series each year since, but I feel like those years hit a peak that we haven't really been back to yet.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Aug 30, 2019 2:11:50 GMT
Oh man, that was some intense stuff. I liked how they introduced that squad, making you think they were the main cast, and then brutally killed them all off without warning at the end. Ohwell, haven't watched that show, but no I will, see what it is, despite the spoilers... My bad... It's not a *huge* spoiler though, all that happens in the first episode.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Aug 30, 2019 2:14:37 GMT
Huh. I'm usually pretty leery about live action adaptions of anime, but if it's done as a TV show, and by a Marvel director... Might be worth a look.
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Aug 30, 2019 3:55:21 GMT
Ohwell, haven't watched that show, but no I will, see what it is, despite the spoilers... My bad... It's not a *huge* spoiler though, all that happens in the first episode. Its alright, wasn't really angry
Binged Megalobox on Crunchyroll today (well, 3 episodes left, going back at it before bedtime), quite like it.
Edit: Just finished the 13th and last eps, awesome series, if you ever were a fan of Rocky I recommend it.
o7
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Post by Adrian Jordan on Sept 2, 2019 3:40:53 GMT
Reread that list I was making of shows that I liked. Don't remember a lot of them, and some just aren't worth listing, but here are some that really stood out. As you can see, a lot of these are from a while ago, as I spaced off listing them after a while. In no order whatsoever, mixing up new and old, but with an asterisk next to ones I like at least as much as NGE: *Konosuba Hataraku Maou-sama Nagi no Asuraka HENNEKO Blood Lad Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Goblin Slayer Demon Slayer Dr. Stone *Saga of Tanya the Evil *Re: Zero *Isekai Quartet *Erased Bungo Stray Dogs The Rising of the Shield Hero Non Non Biyori Midori no Hibi Outbreak Company *Toradora Denki-Gai Sabagebu *No Game, No Life *Watamote Engaged to the Unidentified Log Horizion Usagi Drop *Ore Monogatari *Gangsta *Overlord Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa *One-Punch Man Plastic Memories *Drifters *Mob Psycho 100 *GATE Aho Girl *Hinamatsuri That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime *Golden Kamuy My Hero Academia Asobi Asobase *March Comes in Like a Lion *The Ancient Magus Bride Shuumatsu no Izetta (Izetta: The Last Witch)
Again, incomplete list, but just this one was getting long.
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Ifrit
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Post by Ifrit on Sept 2, 2019 4:16:27 GMT
Reread that list I was making of shows that I liked. Don't remember a lot of them, and some just aren't worth listing, but here are some that really stood out. As you can see, a lot of these are from a while ago, as I spaced off listing them after a while. In no order whatsoever, mixing up new and old, but with an asterisk next to ones I like at least as much as NGE: *Konasuba Hataraku Maou-sama Nagi no Asuraka HENNEKO Blood Lad Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Goblin Slayer Demon Slayer Dr. Stone *Saga of Tanya the Evil *Re: Zero *Isekai Quartet *Erased Bungo Stray Dogs The Rising of the Shield Hero Non Non Biyori Midori no Hibi Outbreak Company *Toradora Denki-Gai Sabagebu *No Game, No Life *Watamote Engaged to the Unidentified Log Horizion Usagi Drop *Ore Monogatari *Gangsta *Overlord Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa *One-Punch Man Plastic Memories *Drifters *Mob Psycho 100 *GATE Aho Girl *Hinamatsuri That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime *Golden Kamuy My Hero Academia Asobi Asobase *March Comes in Like a Lion *The Ancient Magus Bride Again, incomplete list, but just this one was getting long. Because your taste is like my own, I declare it as amazing All must heed my word of perish
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Post by Adrian Jordan on Sept 2, 2019 6:00:07 GMT
Hahaha, thanks amigo. I only listed series, but a movie I saw was also very good. It's called A Silent Voice. Kind of resonated with my in a similar way as March Comes in Like a Lion season 2, which I consider one of the best seasons of any show I've ever seen.
Effing Demon Slayer is murdering me with these cliffhangers.
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