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[Leafsnail]

Heck yeah, hard mode with no continues.  Rosa + Battler are the best (Rosa shoots everything and Battler activates his ultimate move for healing and mad damage as often as possible).  After a depressing ending I got some pretty great Engrish too:

Spoiler: The French is probably just as bad (click to show/hide)

Then what followed was possibly the worst boss battle I've ever had.  In addition to this guy having all the developer's favourite combos programmed into him and a great moveset he gets everyone elses ability constantly active on him.  In other words, that means he stuns on most strong attacks, constantly heals (and I think that's on top of his natural healing ability), gets a free SP move, can attack tag at pretty much any time, constantly regenerates SP, reduces the SP you gain, auto-blocks, has 20% damage boost, breaks your block faster, hits more damage on counters, stops you from tagging out when he hits you, hits more damage through your blocks and ARGH IT KEEPS GOING

Spoiler: They don't fit on the screen of course (click to show/hide)

Of course none of these really mattered since he beat me down in about 30 seconds.  The saving grace being you unlock him regardless of whether you beat him or not, phew.

[ToonyMan]

Yeah I read the entire 7th volume of Battle Royale in one sitting.  That was really cool.

Spoiler: spoilers! (click to show/hide)

I MUST USE DUCT TAPE TO HOLD MY ENTRAILS IN

It gives you mad hipster points against anyone reading Hunger Games though.

I've already been reaping this in spades (I read the novel about 7 years ago).

The original BR novel I'm guessing.  Have you checked the manga out?  Although yeah it's kind of really gorey...I don't really have enough interest to read the novel, not right now anyway.

[Lord Shonus]

Working through Zeta GUndam (The last episode I've seen was the attack on Earth), and I'm extremely confused about something.

Kamille and Emma stole all three Gundam Mk. II. After Kamille became a regular pilot, he's the only pilot to fly one. Not only that, but the enemies he fights act much the same way. (It's always "It's the Mk. II" never "a Mk. II." and there's never any concern about where the other two might be.) None were destroyed that I saw, and even if one were cannabalized for parts, Earth forces wouldn't know that. AM I missing something?

[Valid_Dark]

What's the best ghibli film?

[Patchouli]

Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke for me.

[Valid_Dark]

Mononoke is low on my list, spirited away is good though

[alway]

I found Grave of the Fireflies to be the most powerful myself, though I would advise being in a rather contemplative mood before watching it. It's very dark. For something more along the lines of lighthearted entertainment, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is a good one. Though Ghibli films are like potato chips; once you have one, you pretty much have to eat the whole bag.

[FuzzyZergling]

What's the best ghibli film?

Princess Mononoke is amazing, and my personal favorite would be Howl's Moving Castle.
Spirited Away is great as well, you really can't go wrong with Ghibli.

[JoshuaFH]

What's the best ghibli film?

Gonna have to jump in here and say Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, or Porco Rosso. EDIT: And how could I forget Lupin the III: The Castle of Cagliostro? SO AMAZING!

They have done more than movies though. If you want to see an amazing series, check out Future Boy Conan. It easily occupies the 1# spot on my favorite anime list.

[Valid_Dark]

I've seen most of their movies.

I strongly feel my neighbor totoro is highly overrated, nothing really happens in that movie and I found it boring.

Pom poko made me think of super mario world 3 in a whole new light,  you know the part where mario has the raccoon cap and can fly, then can glide using that sheet?  Raccoons in pom poko glide the same way, but it's a sheet made out of their *cough* raccoon pouches, if you know what I mean hint: only male raccoons have them

I really liked Nausicaa, don't have much else to say about it though.

Loved porco Rosso, epic ending.

Howl's moving castle is.....good.

Secret world of arrietty was better than I thought it would be.

Grave of the Fireflies is most possibly the saddest thing I've ever seen, kept waiting for something good to happen, but it's just one bad turn after another.  and it's based on a true story.  Poor kid.
(edit:  but in real life the kid didn't die at the end, but instead went on to write a book about how guilty he felt for not being able to  save his sister, and that book eventually was adapted into this movie)

The cat returns was kind of stupid imho, but still good.

hmmmm....what else,..

oh yeah, PONYO !  cute movie, first ghibli film to be published in the USA by Disney, from now on most if not all ghibli films will come out in theaters in the U.S. (a year or so after they came out in japan though)

i know I'm forgetting a few,

kiki's delivery service was meh

tales from the earthsea, or whatever it was called was also meh

I'm trying to remember the rest without looking them up, but don't think I can

[JoshuaFH]

Also check out On Your Mark, a Ghibli music video.

They also did a ton of Japanese commercials for prepackaged TV dinners. You'd think it wouldn't be noteworthy, but those commercials are so good.

[Tellemurius]

And a video game NI no Kuni, suppose to be getting a english version this year.

[Neonivek]

I strongly feel my neighbor totoro is highly overrated, nothing really happens in that movie and I found it boring

It is what I'd call a culture peice.

So yeah your allowed to find it boring. I am allowed to find jokes I don't understand not funny.

[shadenight123]

sheesh.
i lost myself to the visual novels.
*is reading/doing katawa shoujo*

so...since it seems i lost my battle of wills to never touch a visual novel in life, and since it seems i do like them...anything on the same tone a "newb" of the genre would like?

[Leafsnail]

Tsukihime Well the DS ones (Ace Attorney, 999, Ghost Trick) are pretty accessible.  Then for the PC you have the When They Cry series (Higurashi can be kindof slow and fillery at times though, I'd be tempted to skip into Umineko especially since it has a massive free demo EDIT: And also it has an infinitely better soundtrack somehow) and a whole bunch of Nasu works (Fate/Stay Night is probably the easiest one to start on.  I haven't worked up the courage to play Tsukihime yet).  And uh... I think that's the extent of my knowledge so far.  Someone who's delved more into dating sims rather than dating sim parodies would be able to help you in that area.