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[ToonyMan]

I finished Tiger & Bunny.  Well...

Setting was nice, characters were good, music was in a style I really liked.  Actually got me excited and all that.  The first half was pretty entertaining, Episode 15 was my favorite in that it was written so well.

But the final arc was very very mediocre and a lot of the actually interesting plotlines are dropped in favor of...really bad melodrama?  The amount of bad writing decisions they made in the last few episodes were innumerable and hurt my mood severely.

Spoiler: Tiger & Bunny final thoughts (click to show/hide)

1.  Lunatic just does not matter.  He never gets addressed and manages to avoid ever confronting the protagonists for real.  We could have had some interesting shit going there.
2.  Maverick being the final antagonist was very lame.  His memory powers could have been used amazingly too.
3.  We get to experience Bunny's parents dying at least once an episode.  There was one episode where it was handled the best I think but I can't even fucking pick it out because they reshow it so many times.
4.  The "other Heroes" got the damn boot.  Sky High and Origami Cyclone in particular got interesting sideplots only to be ignored.  Blue Rose kind of turned into a written mess while Rock Bison, something Kid (I can't believe I can't even remember) *EDIT Dragon Kid!..maybe*, and Fire Emblem are even worse off.
5.  Episode 15 also gave the interesting idea of Android Heroes but in the final arc the robots were treated as completely wrong and unjust which I felt really clashed with their original morals.  Especially because Sky High felt romantic feelings for one of those Androids.  You know how amazing they could have written something with that?  It would have been fantastic!  But no, the writers were really lazy and made an very ordinary and uninteresting conclusion that manages to end with--
6.  A preview for a sequel thing?  Really?  I mean yeah I'll watch it but that's so cruel Sunrise.

Also a few very shaky plot points that bothered me:
1.  Bunny gaining his memories back was just like, magic.  That made me upset.
2.  Tiger "dying" in the second last episode was very cheap.  It was already being handled poorly and then they decided to do a faux MC death just to stab the viewer.  Not impressed.

Oh god I better stop before I hurt someone.

Man I'm a crabby bastard aren't I?

It's not bad...just don't take it seriously even if you want to.


EDIT:

Like, at certain parts of the game I was just clicking past the dialogue as fast as possible with my head held in my hand, it was just so painful to even read.

Hahahahahahahahahahahah
aha
hahahahahahah
ahahahahah

How many times do I feel like that?  Too many.

[IronyOwl]

dear god it just got sadder

oh hey, the movie is actually a movie and not a clip show like every single other anime movie ever

guess i get to watch that soon

I thought it was pretty bad, though.

[Reelya]

Macross Plus: Movie Version

they already did that for you. Google is your friend.

There are sort of no aliens in it... or space travel really...

Also the music includes some weird chorus that plays a lot in it.

I'm not sure which one you mean. That's sounds like a description of Macross Plus, which almost all takes place on a planetary surface and doesn't have any aliens, and has that weird song "voices" they keep playing.

EDIT: so you have - sci-fi, no aliens, few or no space scenes, fighter planes, fake virtual idol, weird ethereal music, feature film. Definitely Macross Plus.

EDIT2: Just watching Deadman Wonderland episode 8 and it has a Macross 7 reference (guitar warrior dude at the start "listen to my song" same wording and intonation as Nekki Barasa). lol @ references to weird animes.

[Neonivek]

Macross Plus huh?

Odd... but maybe. I'll watch it and see if it is the movie.

[ToonyMan]

I gave in and played like twenty more turns of Daiteikoku.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh god CORE.  So much CORE.  Their theme song is pretty great too.

Gamerica you foooools


Carol Kiring
Carol Kiilling
Killing Carol
Kill Carol


The drunk spelling is so hard to read.


I AM A WIZAAARD


Go go go war war!!


All the guys are moe apparently.


My status currently.

Gamerica's ambush with CORE at USJ really took me by surprise.  This is my first game so I have no idea where I'm ending up.  I know I have like six turns to get to Andromeda to find this dying person so I'm making that top priority.  All I need to do is capture Andromeda since I'm right next to it.

I have quite a force at this point.  I don't think CORE can do too much damage.  My other big enemy are Aeris but I've been punching a whole through their defenses.  Go Anti-Lasers and Anti-Aircraft.

This is fun.


...I also watched nine episodes of Lucky Star very recently.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Lucky Channel segments at the end of each episode are great.  Well maybe not amazing but they get a laugh out of me usually.  Episode 2's is still my favorite.  They're pretty meta.


Budget?  I know the gag Haruhi series did the exact same thing.  Sudden bursts of actual acceptable quality.

At the very least it's usually fluid.


I thought this was neat.  It's a magazine advertising Fate/stay night Realta Nua.  There are a lot of references and advertisements in this.


I couldn't help notice here two characters in the background feel vaguely familiar.

Everything is moe blobs in thiiiiiis.


Also a totally bizarre thing is going on here.

In Subahibi two of the main cast are sisters...and their names are Kagami and Tsukasa as well.  And even more bizarre is that Kagami is also a pig tailed hot-head and Tsukasa is also a short haired mellow dope.

I just can't believe the writers for Subahibi would so obviously copy something like Lucky Star.

1.  There's nothing to it, there's...nothing to it.
2.  Some of the music is really good.
3.  The art is cheap as fuck, go gag talent.  KyoAni sometimes give it respectable shots...seldom.
4.  You will be embarrassed watching this.


Angel Densetsu is the best.  I couldn't imagine how they could keep such a short gimmick going but I'm on volume 8 now and it has gotten big!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Volume 1 is mainly just 'Kitano is scary looking' jokes but they start to phase out of that gradually.

Also oh god looking at this old art is hard.  He gets a lot better.  It still feels very doujin though like Onani Master Kurosawa.


Oh Takehisa you adorable blonde punk.



D:


This was the first page that had me rolling on the ground.  I think Chapter 14?  The park chapter was truly the first best one for me.


Just the entire thing.

Kuroda and his two goons are also pretty great.


KUROSAWA I mean Kitano!  Hell yeah!  SHOVE

There's also Ryoko and Shiratari and Ogisu and the Student President and stuff too.

It looks like volume 8 might focus on Ryoko's friend more?  That would be neat since she's been around forever

This is probably just going to be a repeat of what Taz shared but whatever!


Also the Dangan Ronpa LP has started Chapter 5 now...it will be the best chapter yet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My prediction?  NAEGI CULPRIT

...I...I have classes tomorrow.

[Techhead]

I tried watching Lucky Star and I couldn't finish the first episode. They just kept talking about food.

In other news, I'm really enjoying Eureka 7. I'm up to episode 32 already, but I don't feel like writing about it when I could instead be watching more of it.

[Phantom of The Library]

Finished Eva.

...



Brilliant.  Terrifying.  Deppressing.  A little messed up at times, but brilliant.


My face throughout the first episode and a half:


My face almost constantly after that:


I must say I enjoyed watching it, if I need a bit of mental rehabilitation.  The character development was great, the battles were awesome (if a tad sickening at times), there was only one character who I felt like punching in the face *CouAsukagh*, and I actually managed to keep track of the plot for the most part, although I was as confused as heck until the ending as to just what everyone was planning.

So then I watched FLCL to cheer myself up.

Big mistake.

My head is now in the mental equivalent of a pretzel.

♫Riiide on shooooting staaaar!♫




So now back to the list, for when I have the time again:

-Code Geass (This thing is ALL OVER TVTropes and I hear it reffered to often, so it's probably pretty good)

-Lucky Star (This thing is freaking everywhere!)

-Cowboy Bebop (Had no clue what it was at all until I came across it on TVtropes.  The heavy integration of the music interests me.)

-Totoro (Have absolutely no clue what it is, but I hear the phrase "What do you mean you haven't seen Totoro?!" bandied about a bit, so I figured it must be pretty good.  At the very least I'm going to watch it to understand what that giant raccoon/owl thing is.)

-Anything Miyazaki, I have only seen Kiki's delivery service at this point in time, so I gotta see the rest of 'em sometime, especially Howl's Moving Castle, I have a friend who bugs me to watch it almost as much as I bug her to watch TTGL 


Suggestions on which to watch next or stuff to put on the list?

[JoshuaFH]

I'm currently reading the manga of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but the scanlation for the fourth arc is godawful, completely terrible, I can't tell if this is being translated by a Japanese person with only a tangential grasp of English, or an English translator that stupidly insists on translating literally and he himself is questionably brain damaged.

It really bothers me, but I continue reading because I think the manga is really badass. I'm starting to think that the bad translation gives everything a weird charm though, since this mode of translating makes everyone speak in very simple terms and in a very straightforward manner, like every character really is just the dumb meathead stereotype.

I need to only read in short bursts though, because exposing myself to this is damaging my natural comprehension of the English language, and after reading a lot I need to put conscious effort into not continuing to think in the simple, straightforward, grammatically broken style that's present in the manga. It's like how I was after I read My Immortal in a single sitting, or after spending three months on the GameFAQ forums and then signing up here for the first time. My literacy needs time to recover.

[Flying Dice]

Code Geass was well worth it. Hell, I can vouch for everything you listed (except for Lucky Star, as I've yet to watch it).


Honestly, I'd watch CG twice, once subbed and once dubbed, because both sets of VAs had some truly outstanding hams.

[Darvi]

I'm currently reading the manga of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but the scanlation for the fourth arc is godawful, completely terrible, I can't tell if this is being translated by a Japanese person with only a tangential grasp of English, or an English translator that stupidly insists on translating literally and he himself is questionably brain damaged.

My favourite theory concerning this kind of translations is that they're made by somebody in India who's been handed English/Chinese and Japanese/Chinese dictionaries.

[ToonyMan]

I'm currently reading the manga of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but the scanlation for the fourth arc is godawful, completely terrible, I can't tell if this is being translated by a Japanese person with only a tangential grasp of English, or an English translator that stupidly insists on translating literally and he himself is questionably brain damaged.

You should see how fun playing a game with a translator is.  Not even Atlas or OCN can save you!!

Spoiler: relevant (click to show/hide)

I'm still trying to figure out why 24 minutes of nothing happening has any value whatsoever.  It is making me look forward to the next Subahibi partial patch though.  Because that shit was bonkers.

I'm also still severely depressed that every VN isn't about mecha, space aliens, and multidimensional sliders.  Let's add some denpa for safe measures.

I need to start part 2 of Jojo at some point.  Also finish a bunch of series I have...sometime Never7

[FuzzyZergling]

I'm currently reading the manga of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but the scanlation for the fourth arc is godawful, completely terrible, I can't tell if this is being translated by a Japanese person with only a tangential grasp of English, or an English translator that stupidly insists on translating literally and he himself is questionably brain damaged.

Yeah, I just kind of gave up on it after the translations started to degrade, so you're a better man than I.

Toony, you've convinced me to read Angel Densetsu as well! I'm on volume eleven, chapter 55 in specific.
I have to say, I'm liking a lot (not that I really ever comment on things I don't like...). I'd say it's pretty solidly above-above-average, right around the level of something like Gantz or Liar Game.

[Kadzar]

I posted this in the Happy Thread, but I suppose it might be more relevant here:

I just got done watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Although it's a bit weak in the beginning when everything is pretty much identical to the original anime (mostly because of the way certain plot points and secrets are revealed, the pace of FMA feels more satisfying than early FMA:B). After seeing everything that was done in the first series done a bit shorter and a bit worse (though not actually bad, for the most part) the series starts doing it's own thing (which I hear is actually more like the original manga's thing), and it gets better, then awesome, then freaking epic.

Although the first anime had better pacing and a pretty good story, I think I might like Brotherhood a bit better, because it has great characters not seen in the previous anime (or not fleshed out as much, in some cases) and a great story. I'd still personally recommend watching Fullmetal Alchemist before watching Brotherhood,though, since the beginning of the later ruins great twist revelations of the former.

[Reelya]

Thanks for that, i have FMA here in my pile (once i finish every shorter series i have ), here and was wondering whether to watch it or skip over it for FMA:B, i guess i'll watch both.

[Kadzar]

No problem. Also, another thing to keep in mind: don't assume that the same basic principles about how the world works are the same. At a certain point, spoilers from one series don't apply at all to the other.