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Neonivek

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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #7860 on: June 19, 2011, 01:28:36 am »

I meant Axis as a whole. Though Hetalia features TONS of massacres, mass deaths, and genocides

It just doesn't refer to them as such.
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« Reply #7861 on: June 19, 2011, 11:03:44 pm »

I never quite got that when, whenever there's a war, it always takes place on the same bizarre island, with the same odd series of events that take place each time, only with slight alterations each time.

In fact, I don't get the metaphor at all. That's just me though.

In other news, I watched Howl's Moving Castle, and Porco Rosso, two more Hayao Miyazaki works added to my list.

Spoiler: Howl's Moving Castle (click to show/hide)

Porco Rosso, wow this is one badass movie. I don't want to spoil anything as I truly enjoyed this one, but at the end I found myself wanting alot more.
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« Reply #7862 on: June 19, 2011, 11:21:10 pm »

Oh, also, I started watching a show called Skip Beat, about a woman who was being used by her boyfriend to provide for his living expenses, and generally mooched off of her as he become a famous singing idol. Upon attaining fame and fortune though, he callously dumps her, and tells her that the only way she'd even be able to get close enough to get revenge would be to get into showbiz.

So, in a bout a mania-induced competence, she dies her hair, forgets her old life and humble personality, and streaks to stardom in her throes of insanity.

It's a rather comedy-filled, dialogue and introspection driven tale that focuses on the profession of acting, in short. I'm up to ep 13 at the moment, and I'm enjoying it. Man though, every female character, and there's quite a lot of them, that is introduced, is a TOTAL bitch.
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« Reply #7863 on: June 19, 2011, 11:44:01 pm »

The manga is still on-going if you like it enough.

Also, want to catch up on the One Piece manga since I've got many other things to do.  I'm on chapter 593.
Spoiler: never forget (click to show/hide)
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« Reply #7864 on: June 20, 2011, 01:12:10 am »

I never quite got that when, whenever there's a war, it always takes place on the same bizarre island, with the same odd series of events that take place each time, only with slight alterations each time.

In fact, I don't get the metaphor at all. That's just me though.

In other news, I watched Howl's Moving Castle, and Porco Rosso, two more Hayao Miyazaki works added to my list.

Spoiler: Howl's Moving Castle (click to show/hide)

Porco Rosso, wow this is one badass movie. I don't want to spoil anything as I truly enjoyed this one, but at the end I found myself wanting alot more.

If you like Ghibli movies, you might be interested to know that blurays for Karigurashi no Arrietty just got released a few days ago and there are already some good encodes with official subs floating about. I've got it downloaded and plan to watch it tonight.
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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #7865 on: June 20, 2011, 04:57:06 am »

I wish there'd be a BluRay pack for all of Satoshi Kon's movies. Or at the very least, a BR release for Millennium Actress.
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« Reply #7866 on: June 20, 2011, 08:58:20 am »

Oh, I should mention something to you Josh.  In 20th Century Boys a bunch of mecha show names including Giant Robo were thrown around in conversation.  They even had a picture of Detective Conan in an earlier chapter.  I thought I should mention this because having other series in-universe as fiction is always fun.  Speaking of 20th Century Boys, I'm on chapter 113 for that one.  It keeps getting better and better!
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« Reply #7867 on: June 20, 2011, 09:06:50 am »

I really should check out 20th Century Boys, with how often it's talked up.
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« Reply #7868 on: June 20, 2011, 11:02:45 am »

I really should check out 20th Century Boys, with how often it's talked up.
It's Naoki Urasawa's work after Monster.  If Madhouse made an anime of it too it'd probably hit triple digits in episode length seeing as it's even longer than Monster by a quite a bit.
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« Reply #7869 on: June 20, 2011, 11:51:41 am »

Howl's Moving Castle is my favorite Miyazaki movie.
Love it so much.
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« Reply #7870 on: June 20, 2011, 11:57:49 am »

I just finished the watching Claymore.  I didn't like it.

I swear half the anime was the characters very slowly telling you exactly what is happening, even if its already obvious.  The whole anime felt like it was designed for people with zero short term memory.

Add bad dialog, unsatisfactory ending and some very whiny/dumb characters to the mix and this was one of the most painful shows I've seen in a while.
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« Reply #7871 on: June 20, 2011, 12:09:39 pm »

I suppose it's worth mentioning today is the Watanagashi Festival.  Wear some bug spray Tomitake.
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« Reply #7872 on: June 20, 2011, 05:04:46 pm »

I'm watching Code Geass, gonna finish episode 5 later.

My thoughts is that this is really fucking cool and why the hell isn't C.C. dead and I bet 'Euphie' (or however you spell it) is a princess because she seems like it and Knightmares are really fucking impractical (Just sink a HEAT into one of its legs, and BAM! One big useless pile of metal) but awesome and bluh i'll just watch some more.

Gonna start Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni today as well, and Yotsuba&.
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« Reply #7873 on: June 20, 2011, 05:14:16 pm »

I'm watching Code Geass, gonna finish episode 5 later.

My thoughts is that this is really fucking cool and why the hell isn't C.C. dead and I bet 'Euphie' (or however you spell it) is a princess because she seems like it and Knightmares are really fucking impractical (Just sink a HEAT into one of its legs, and BAM! One big useless pile of metal) but awesome and bluh i'll just watch some more.

I enjoyed that one.  If you like it, you'd probably like Death Note.  It gives a lot of the same vibes, but with a bit more interesting(in my opinion) story.
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« Reply #7874 on: June 20, 2011, 05:36:52 pm »

Gonna start Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni today
Best day to start.
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