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[JoshuaFH]

After some downright painful brain racking, I've remembered quite a few things which I've watched that I will add to my list file. I'm embarrassed to think that I honestly forgot about some of these:

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Betterman

Pokemon Season 1
the first movie
the second movie

Samurai Champloo

Ouran Highschool Host Club

Starship Troopers

Robotech: Shadow Chronicles

Resident Evil: Degeneration

Bokurano

Monster

Interstella 555

How to Raise a Kappa

Axis Powers Hetalia

His and Her Circumstances

and to notable entries, I added Rurouni Kenshin, DBZ, and Digimon. All of which I adored as a child.

Theres one more that's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't remember the name of it. It was a movie about a boy that was half-tree or something, and he had super strength, and he had to fight a guy in a walking volcano to get his girlfriend back.

[Acanthus117]

I don't know why...

But I decided to start watching Love Hina.

Jesus H. Christ, Keitaro must be some sort of fuckin' superman if he can take all that damage.

He might be a wimp, but he can sure take a hit. Or two. Or several hundred.

[ein]

So me and my brothers just marathon'd Desert Punk. Anybody else seen it?

I saw the first few episodes on Starz once. It was pretty good. Humor was a little juvenile but I'd watch the rest. Not a bad dub either.

It starts off pretty bad and the ending felt like a cop-out, but the middle episodes are good.

[FuzzyZergling]

I also just saw the first season of Afro Samurai.
Oh Ninja Ninja, you're so wacky...

[Neonivek]

Keitaro must be some sort of fuckin' superman if he can take all that damage

Honestly while I like some of the dialog in Love Hina... A lot of the abuse goes WAAAAAAAAAY too far and becomes... well... abuse

It is one of the few comedies that can elicit my sympathy barrier (or rather the point where I feel too sorry for the characters to find the rest entertaining)

[Acanthus117]

It's slapstick.

I try not to take it seriously; if I did, I'd probably not like it anymorre.

Heaven knows I need to watch something not depressing.

[Neonivek]

It's slapstick.

I try not to take it seriously; if I did, I'd probably not like it anymorre.

I have an overactive sense of sympathy but Love Hina does go a bit beyond that and becomes just active abuse.

Especially since some characters just lose IQ JUST to beat him up. Meaning it seems like they actively just like to beat him up.

Though the worst comedy I've seen where I just found it horrible was I believe a MadTV sketch involving Richard Simmons and a blind woman (It is almost sad enough to make me cry... yet it is supposed to be funny)

So suffice it to say I have this internal limit where something leaves slapstick and enters "My god what are they doing?" and it happens once in a while. No comedy can recover after it reaches that point though. It is like the black hole of comedy.

[fqllve]

So suffice it to say I have this internal limit where something leaves slapstick and enters "My god what are they doing?" and it happens once in a while. No comedy can recover after it reaches that point though. It is like the black hole of comedy.

It's not just you, Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan did the same for me. I imagine Ah! Megami-sama probably would too if I was willing to go anywhere near another magical girlfriend anime.

[Acanthus117]

Isn't that the one where this angel chick beats the fuck out of this kid because he's going to do something really bad (don't know what it is) in the future?

[Realmfighter]

Isn't that the one where this angel chick beats the fuck out of this kid because he's going to do something really bad (don't know what it is) in the future?

I think he creates something that rolls back time and turns every female into a Loli.

[Acanthus117]

...

The fuck?

Anyways, would anyone recommend any military-style animes that are serious?

Fantasy or Sci-fi, whatever, as long as it's serious and of decent quality.

[fqllve]

I don't think I can come up with a military anime that isn't mecha. For the Japanese any army without a giant robot isn't a real army at all.

Flag is good, it's something like 50/50 Wartime photojournalism and real robots.

Full Metal Panic! Is mostly serious, but it starts out comedic. The side series Fumoffu? is strictly comedy shorts, but the second series The Second Raid excised all jokes.

Ghost in the Shell has military vibe, but it's mostly a cyberpunk existential thriller kinda thing.

Uhm, I've heard of one show, Zipang, that's supposed to be a time travel alternate history study of WWII Japan, but I dunno much about it.

[Vector]

So suffice it to say I have this internal limit where something leaves slapstick and enters "My god what are they doing?" and it happens once in a while. No comedy can recover after it reaches that point though. It is like the black hole of comedy.

It's not just you, Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan did the same for me. I imagine Ah! Megami-sama probably would too if I was willing to go anywhere near another magical girlfriend anime.

Actually, that one is nowhere near as bad.  It has a lot of cute moments, and there really isn't much friend-propagated violence in it.

Hate to say it, but I actually enjoy it quite a bit >_> <_<


I read Love Hina, though, and... oh, it was hard to read.  Especially the girls holding their breasts up in front of the mirror while saying "It looks like they grew a little bit <3"  The characterization was just... so flat...



Military anime with no mecha!  Pumpkin Scissors (not that great, but military) and Jin-Roh (fucking amazing).

[fqllve]

Military anime with no mecha!  Pumpkin Scissors (not that great, but military) and Jin-Roh (fucking amazing).

Jin-Roh is indeed fucking amazing and I suck for not listing it.

And oops, I forgot Patlabor, another real robot show. It's less military and more SWAT with robots, but it's still good.

I read Love Hina, though, and... oh, it was hard to read.  Especially the girls holding their breasts up in front of the mirror while saying "It looks like they grew a little bit <3"  The characterization was just... so flat...

Harem anime (sigh). I guess when you have eight different girls who are all love interests you just run out of ideas for personality traits pretty quick.

Or it never mattered in the first place because they're all there for eye candy.

[Acanthus117]

Jin-Roh. Sounds cool, I'll check it out.

Also, SWAT robots?!

AWESOME.