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Strazos
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JoeTF
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You are fucking crazy. Gundam 00 is Gundam Wing Redux.
Gundam 00 ep1 was my intruduction to Gundam series and let's just say that it was very short introduction (wtb AK47-like that can even 6 year old can use without having his ribs ripped from off his chest and sent flying by recoil force, not to mention other retardness that followed shortly after). Since you seem to be very konwledgabe about entire franchise, maybe you could suggest me a Gundam that isn't shit? EDIT: I just noticed 00 is best Gundam series for years for Simond. That's the most effective do_not_watch recommendation in the entire world for me:P |
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Stormwaltz
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Since you seem to be very konwledgabe about entire franchise, maybe you could suggest me a Gundam that isn't shit? You didn't ask me, but I'd recommend 0080: War in the Pocket. In the closing months of the One Year War, a small Zeon commando unit infiltrates a neutral space colony. Their mission: destroy a prototype Gundam being secretly developed for Amuro Ray (the hero of the original series). Bernie Wiseman, one of the Zeon soldiers, befriends a ten year-old local boy named Al. Al, still naïve enough to play at war in the park, follows the group’s mission to its tragic, inevitable conclusion. It has all the classic Universal Century themes: good men on both sides killing each other while trying to loyally follow the orders of corrupt and venal superiors, moments of self-doubt, despair, and futile nobility, and the remorseless conviction that in the end, all war does is grind up the innocent and the truly honorable. What it doesn't have is the hours and hours of dicking around with convoluted politics, characters who appear only to die one ep later, and tedious exposition. |
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« Last Edit: November 30, 2007, 03:01:45 PM by Stormwaltz »
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Fabricated
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08th MS Team was awesome until the last handful of episodes with the cliche love-conquers-all bullshit and the most embarrassingly stupid mech design ever. I pretend the ending doesn't exist since it's about the cheesiest ending I've seen in a long time.
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Simond
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Since you seem to be very konwledgabe about entire franchise, maybe you could suggest me a Gundam that isn't shit? G Gundam. EDIT: I just noticed 00 is best Gundam series for years for Simond. That's the most effective do_not_watch recommendation in the entire world for me:P
It's not my fault you have no taste prefer Real Robots over Super Robots. And going back to Gundam 00 - at least Setsuna has got some reasons for being the way he is, unlike generic_angsty_teenage_mecha_pilot_47654968. |
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« Last Edit: December 03, 2007, 03:33:38 AM by Simond »
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Simond
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Incidentally, Gundam 00 episode 10 is making hints towards something about Tieria (the "girlish" meister). If it's heading the way it's looking like it might be heading, anyway.
(Obligatory "Escaflowne did it first!" comment)
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schild
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Moyashimon is a bundle of weird.
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Chenghiz
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Moyashimon is a bundle of weird.
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cmlancas
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I just happened to wake up and catch about 3/4 an episode of Eureka Seven. What the fuck is the point of this show? It's like a DBZ fight scene, but instead of charging up, they just ask questions all episode. Why am I here?! Nothing makes sense?! Fuck.  Sorry. I just wanted to bitch in a thread where people might half-care. |
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Chenghiz
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I just happened to wake up and catch about 3/4 an episode of Eureka Seven. What the fuck is the point of this show? It's like a DBZ fight scene, but instead of charging up, they just ask questions all episode. Why am I here?! Nothing makes sense?! Fuck. Sorry. I just wanted to bitch in a thread where people might half-care. I really enjoyed the show. It's your typical coming-of-age show with mecha and a mysterious girl only the mecha surf in the sky and it has groovy techno. It does get some flak for getting slow in the middle portion of the series though. |
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cmlancas
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I just figured if it is in the 1:00 slot on AS I could expect more. Usually I can catch Bebop, BigO, or Wolf's Rain or something like that. Just really threw me off.
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Jain Zar
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For whatever reason I have had Adult Swim on at night this week.
Shin Chan is fucking awesome. Yes its ugly as sin and the translation is horrible.
But its supposed to be. Just so much effed up wrongness in every episode!
Totally different from the comics which are mildly amusing (and haven't been around for a couple years now. Wikipedia KNOWS THINGS..) but not this level of awesome.
Blood Plus looks pretty good too, but I missed the first half and its kind of pointless to watch the rest. Apparently the original movie its based off of is on Scifi Monday night, so I will DVR it to at least get a nice intro to it all.
Its Wiki page makes me want to use it in my World of Darkness game if I ever start running it again though. Very cool basic plot and concept. Although what I have caught of it does have one VERY fucked up bit taking place in the mid point of the show.
I don't think I would use that.
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cmlancas
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I think I've seen that part. And yes, it is pretty jacked up. I rather like Blood+ though. Things like Paranoia Agent and Wolf's Rain didn't get enough airtime for my personal tastes. Things like GitS:2G aren't as good as the other series(es?) AS owns.
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f13 Street Cred of the week:
I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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Simond
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Moyashimon is a bundle of weird.
Kiviak is a gastronomical Christmas treat from Greenland which, for some reason, hasn't been adopted by many other nations. It's made from the raw flesh of an auk which has been buried under a stone in sealskin for several months until it's achieved an advanced stage of decomposition. Apparently, it smells like old blue cheese and tastes very pungent.  |
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schild
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Heh, you should see the fermented shark meat that Bourdain ate in Iceland. Shin Chan is fucking awesome. Yes its ugly as sin and the translation is horrible. CRAYON SHIN CHAN? IT'S LOCALIZED? WHUT? |
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Hoax
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Yeah e7's not bad, its coming of age (yuck) but the magical girl isn't too bad the mechs are fun the techno is a little different and it does have some great storytelling moments. There are some great feel-good parts if you get into the characters. But if your too old/cynic/cool to do that, don't bother watching a minute of it. There are good visuals but its not eye-candy, it has a huge cast and there is lots of talking. For a show that clocks in at 50eps let alone a 50ep mecha series, damn solid. They don't reuse a ton (I dont want to say any) of animation and if it weren't for the ending I would probably have it on my to-buy list.
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.
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Jain Zar
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Shin Chan is fucking awesome. Yes its ugly as sin and the translation is horrible. CRAYON SHIN CHAN? IT'S LOCALIZED? WHUT? Yes. This is the second time Adult Swim has shown episodes. And the comics have been available for years in a more correct (but not quite as funny) translation. |
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Simond
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Macross F preview episode/episode 1 =  (with a side order of  ) |
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Simond
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Winter 2008 previews from Random Curiosity (anime blogger with decent tastes except his strange Code Geass fixation). Nothing there that really leaps out at me, to be honest. Gunslinger Girl part 2 & the Persona anime, maybe?
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Chenghiz
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Macross F preview episode/episode 1 = (with a side order of ) Yeah but.. girly man. Why? WHY? |
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Stormwaltz
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Macross F preview episode/episode 1 = (with a side order of ) Hm, didn't know this was available... VOTOMS Pailsen Files, too. And someone's done a couple episodes of Victory Gundam. My conscience is clear because thus far, I've purchased legit R1 DVDs of every series I've previewed. Those that get licensed anyway. Girly man, Chenghiz? Haven't seen it yet, but pehaps in the tradition of Max Jenius? Tangent: Max was my hero as a kid. Quiet, sensitive, and nerdy, but the best pilot AND he married the hottest woman in all the Macross series. Total wish-fulfillment. |
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LC
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Winter 2008 previews from Random Curiosity (anime blogger with decent tastes except his strange Code Geass fixation). Nothing there that really leaps out at me, to be honest. Gunslinger Girl part 2 & the Persona anime, maybe? I was disappointed with the winter lineup until I saw the list for spring. Now I have something to look forward to. |
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Simond
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Macross F preview episode/episode 1 = (with a side order of ) Yeah but.. girly man. Why? WHY? Funniest bit about that was his friends calling him a girlyman, and the love interest doing the same thing. |
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JoeTF
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Winter 2008 previews from Random Curiosity (anime blogger with decent tastes except his strange Code Geass fixation). Nothing there that really leaps out at me, to be honest. Gunslinger Girl part 2 & the Persona anime, maybe? I was disappointed with the winter lineup until I saw the list for spring. Now I have something to look forward to. True dat. I feel so aliented here. Is there a mecha show that survives collision with basic logic? |
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Simond
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No, because Giant Robots are inherently illogical.
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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Stormwaltz
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I've started watching Blue Drop. I'm fascinated, though I don't understand it. It's two wildly different shows smashed together. On one hand, there's a gently-paced, atmosphere-heavy tale of a orphan girl going to a new school. There's a lot of rain, flowers, and white sea birds flying around. And then it turns out one of her classmates is the commander of an alien battleship that lurks on the seabed nearby. Swhat? Beautiful opening titles, though. It nails the feel of the show. |
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"Isn't that just like an elf? Brings a spell to a gun fight."
"Sci-Fi writers don't invent the future, they market it."
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Strazos
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Man...I don't even know what to watch anymore. Also, no time.  Lastly, not too excited about the Persona 3 anime. I would have preferred an animated series based on the game itself. |
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LC
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Is there a mecha show that survives collision with basic logic?
Dai-Guard maybe? |
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Stormwaltz
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That link asks me to DL a perl file. Dai-Guard is solid 3-star show. On my personal scale, that means not spectacular, but not in any way offensive. Like Sunrise’s Zone of the Enders, this show is a humble pleasure. Studio Xebec’s production crew has a fine appreciation of just how ridiculous the entire giant robot genre of the 70s and 80s was. And judging by Dai-Guard and Martian Successor Nadesico’s “show within a show” Gekigangar III, they clearly adore its insanities and inanities.
Imagine a retired giant monster-fighting 70's super-robot bought by a security corporation as a promotional tool and tourist attraction. Now imagine the monsters return, forcing the company to rely on the showpiece robot pilots of Public Relations Division 2 to defend Japan. Commentary on corporate culture rarely becomes more wry than when Dai-Guard shows the board of directors frantically processing insurance forms as the city goes up in flames, trying to weasel out of damage liability before they let their giant robot engage the monster.
Dai-Guard is almost entirely devoid of “high concept” – excepting the giant robots and monsters, of course. There is no great overarching plot, pseudo-philosophical BS, nor even an attempt to rationalize the monsters. No, it’s just a backdrop for characters to learn about themselves and each other, and – weirdly enough – find fulfillment in their work. Even the traditional romance arcs are cranked way down, with only hints of relationships beginning at the end of the series.
By way of example, to my mind the outstanding bits show the relationship between Akagi, the prototypical justice-minded hothead robot pilot, and Shirota, the dispassionate military advisor. Initially at loggerheads, each learns to respect the qualities of the other. Watching this odd couple learn to understand each other, and then become more like one another, is delightful.
And really, who can dislike a show whose tagline is, “Even a salaryman can defend the peace?” |
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LC
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That link asks me to DL a perl file.
Link works for me. Check your browser settings. |
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Stormwaltz
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Link works for me. Check your browser settings.
Huh. Working for me too this morning. |
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Chenghiz
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Okay a few things. First I wish I had watched Haruhi when everyone told me to. Shavnir made me watch it and it's basically awesome after the first few episodes. Second, I've been watching Bokurano and it's pretty amazing considering how it seems to have slipped under the radar. Third watching Macross (the first one) is like having the 80s poured into your eyes... beautiful I like how fully realised the future is. There is also a great deal of comedy in watching the large number of dead people and wanton destruction passed over by the main characters. Supercarrier blows up? Darn. Giant robot plows through four buildings and almost crushes a child? Phew, good thing the pilot's okay!
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Arrrgh
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What is Maruhi? Did you typo Haruhi?
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Chenghiz
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Yeah I guess from 4 feet away it looked like an H to me.
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Simond
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Incidentally, the second annual SaiGar tournament is under way at the moment. |
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