Anime recommendations

[stray]

To further add:

What else is out there like this anyways? List some more adult/mature comedies, please. I'm a fan. I enjoyed GTO more than any old school action anime.

[Tale]

Now, forgive me if i haven't been paying attention, but why has no-one mentioned the damned flying red pig? It's only like, the best anime ever?

Yes. It's what I think of when someone says the word "anime".
http://imdb.com/title/tt0104652/

[lamaros]

Not exactly just animie. but I saw Mind Game (2004) today and enjoyed it.

[Koyasha]

Shakugan no Shana.  I've seen the first few episodes and so far I'm really enjoying it.  Very interesting/weird story that starts to explain itself over the first 3 episodes, about the Guze no Tomogara that consume human existences, and the Flame Hazes that combat them.  Definitely my favorite recent series.

[Hoax]

Yeah Shana was definately watchable, nothing special but I enjoyed it.

[schild]

I finally went through a ton of GTO episodes, Schild (sorry, it's been, like, a year or two since you suggested it!).

Great shit. You were right.

Yea, but I also think the live action is better than the cartoon. :P Takashi Sorimachi kicks the shit out of cartoon Onizuka.

[angry.bob]

To further add:

What else is out there like this anyways? List some more adult/mature comedies, please. I'm a fan. I enjoyed GTO more than any old school action anime.

Gokusen is pretty similar to GTO, but I liked it much, much better. I just thought it was an all around better show, though I've only seen a couple episodes of the live-action version.

also, regarding Ergo Proxy, a new group named Pino-no-Usagi just showed up with a fansub of episode 15. The video and sub quality is high, translation accuracy I couldn't say since I don't speak enough Japanese to more than exchange pleasantries with my grandparents once a year.

[Strazos]

Just wondering, but does anyone have a lead on anything that's sorta-kinda like Strawberry Panic, or the Maria-sama stuff?

Gonna go on a torrent binge when I finally get my own PC back up and running.

[Simond]

Just wondering, but does anyone have a lead on anything that's sorta-kinda like Strawberry Panic, or the Maria-sama stuff?

Revolutionary Girl Utena. Sort of.

No torrents though, but I'd imagine you'd be able to pick up DVDs on ebay relatively cheaply.

[Stormwaltz]

Revolutionary Girl Utena. Sort of.

I like to think of Utena as what Sailor Moon would have been like if it had been written by collegiate feminists with a penchant for Victorian literature.

[Strazos]

So does that mean it's bad?

[bhodi]

Zettai.. unmei... mokushiroku..

nah, it's not bad, it's just long and somewhat strange in parts.

[Yoru]

I was never overly fond of Utena. The pacing, plot and artstyle were very much not up my alley.

I remember it being huge in the yaoi circles though...

[Lantyssa]

I liked it personally, but Utena is one of those people tend to love or hate.  It does have a lot of bishies and came out at a time when there weren't to many other options for the yaoi crowd.

[Chenghiz]

Not exactly just animie. but I saw Mind Game (2004) today and enjoyed it.

I loved that movie but man is it out there.

[Yoru]

Pumpkin Scissors started last week. The first ep seems okay; it's obviously setting up to do character exposition/"party building" for the first few eps, then probably more world exposition, then a storyline.

It's basically about some military folks in a setting that's drawn from a mixture of WWI, WWII and Weimar-era Germany. The empire has been decimated by war, and there's disease, destruction and lawlessness rampant. Enter spunky military girl with overdramatic sense of justice, two random folks, and war veteran with Mysterious Past.

Could be good, could go downhill fast. Gonna keep following it for at least a few more weeks.

I also took a look at D. Grayman, which seems to be a pretty stereotypical supernatural/superpowered fighting anime, flavored heavily with religious references. The main character takes a lot from Edward Elric from FMA - right down to the superpowered transforming left arm replacement. The setting is cool (Steampunk), but the story seems to be pretty crappy. I'm probably going to dump this one.

[rk47]

Not sure if it's mentioned b4, but i highly recommend 'Welcome to NHK!'

[schild]

Not sure if it's mentioned b4, but i highly recommend 'Welcome to NHK!'

Looks interesting. Unfortunately some bunch of assholes only subbed it in .mkv. Le sigh.

[Strazos]

What difference does it make? Looking for those ginormous H264 encodes?

[schild]

Neg, was too lazy to look up what an MKV file was. Also, I hate when things aren't in a batch.

[rk47]

 :-D hmm u want the manga then?
i got it off a BT site. it's got 5 vols translated...but I kinda dislike the direction it's taking but could be great for anime previews (smaller size too)
Note: lotsa 'adult' material inside not as tame as the anime version.

try do a search at tokyotosho.com


or if u want to play .mkv i think u can just download this http://www.cccp-project.net/
i can play it with Windows Media Player

[Lantyssa]

They relayed the horror of playing that game quite well.

[Strazos]

VLC - It should be the last video player you ever need.

I love it because I don't even have to care what format the video is in, because VLC plays it, without fail (so far).

[Hoax]

Checked out two titles that groups finished subbing while I was AFI.

Ouran Host Club:  Well it was ok, mostly because I hadn't watched anything in a few months.  Basically this misfit poor girl at a super rich school goes into debt to a bunch of bishonen who run a "host club" to work off the debt she dresses like a guy and becomes a host.  For the most part funny stuff ensues.  I'd say d/l the first 4 eps and you will quickly be able to tell if the humour works or not.  Even after 26 eps though the show hasn't tied anything up for the most part, but the ride was fun and I am not too ashamed to admit I enjoyed it.

I also took a look at Zero no Tsukaima, which is crap.  Crap harem with unattractive character designs, very little fanservice and not much funny at all.  Did I mention the lame attempts at action scenes are lame too?  Show does nothing right, other then being only 13 eps so I picked it up without doing a trial run, deleted promptly.


*PS*  Anyone checked out any eps of Coyote Ragtime Show or Demonbane?  I'm thinking of checking those out next.

[Strazos]

I picked up Host Club as well, but I haven't watched it yet. Currently slogging through Aishiteru ze Baby...Basic premise is that a high school guy who is popular with the ladies gets saddled with basically raising his 6-year old cousin after her mother up and leaves. He's not happy about this at first, but comes to love the little girl like...well, a daughter.

I feel kinda odd watching it, but I feel like I've watched too much of the series to turn back at this point.

Over the last few weeks I went on something of a torrenting rampage; catassed through all of Azumanga Daioh (Awesome++), all 3 Full Metal Panic series (Probably one of my favorite shows ever now), Karin (it was alright, had its moments), both Girls' Bravo seasons (mostly crap, though was actually watchable when a plot was involved)...

Black Lagoon was Very Cool. Sort of felt like Cowboy Bebop, with more attitude.

Maria-sama ga Miteru....eh, I liked it. Had some nice spots in it. Same as Strawberry Panic, though the latter series I thought got somewhat worse as it went on.

Went back and picked up School Rumble season 1 + OVAs to go with season 2. I liked both very much, though I almost have to say that Season one was better.

Still trying to download GTO...fucking 10gb+.

Higurashi ended, and I thought it was pretty cool. Ending finally made sense...kinda.

Oh, and the Tales of Phantasia series...I picked it up only because I have the game...but I want to finish the game first...but that involves picking my DS back up....but it needs to be charged...


Oh, as an aside...how about the haircut scene from Full Metal Panic: Second Raid, episode 6. That may very well be my favorite scene from an anime...or any kind of movie or show for that matter.

Now I just wish there was more FMP anime....but alas.

PS: Add anime to the dictionary please.

[Hoax]

Yeah I forgot to ever say anything about Black Lagoon it was quite fun and there is a second season already in the works.  I'm sure I mentioned FMP several times.  I own the first series and Fummofu on dvd but dont talk about 2nd Raid too much, they haven't dubbed it yet and I refuse to watch the subs.  Because the Japanese VA for Capt. Tessa is hella annoying and I love her character in the dub version...

I didn't realize they finished subbing Higurashi, about to d/l that asap.

[angry.bob]

Pumpkin Scissors started last week. The first ep seems okay; it's obviously setting up to do character exposition/"party building" for the first few eps, then probably more world exposition, then a storyline.

Pumpkin Scissors is going to go south pretty fast. I watched the first episode and it set off all sorts of Crap alarms in my head, especially the interchangeable, generic perky military girl and the brooding, split personality ex-military guy with the "wisp-light" that makes him able to take out a tank in hand to hand combat. There will be some visually interesting stuff going on, but the story will be a perverse, bad combination of FMA and Armor Hunter Mellowlink (Not a bad series if you can find it).

The one good show this season so far seems to be Chevalier D'eon. Set in France immediately prior to the French Revolution, it's a supernatural/swordplay series. It's even got a fencing female lead (sort of). Looks like it could be fairly epic, or as is possible with all anime, turn to shit

[Strazos]

I've downloaded a few episodes of Chevalier, but I haven't watched those yet either.

I'm backlogged again.

Because the Japanese VA for Capt. Tessa is hella annoying and I love her character in the dub version...

Well, the FMP I have is Dual Audio, and I watched it with English Dubs, but Fumoffu and TSR I watched in Japanese with subs. I just went back and compared all the VA stuff, and while it seems all the other voices are fairly similar in English and Japanese, the differences in the voice work of Tessa are pretty extreme. That being said, I think I actually perfer her Japanese voice over her English voice; I just think it fits better somehow...though I would like to eventually see all of it in English, just for comparison's sake, especially the Tessa OVA.  :-D

[Simond]

Now I just wish there was more FMP anime....but alas.

More FMP after KyoAni finish with Kanon.

And then, after that, they might just get around to a second series of Haruhi. Maybe.

[Strazos]

Anyone know why FMP was swapped from Gonzo to Kyoto after season 1? I didn't think FMP looked bad at all...

[Stormwaltz]

Currently slogging through Aishiteru ze Baby...Basic premise is that a high school guy who is popular with the ladies gets saddled with basically raising his 6-year old cousin after her mother up and leaves. He's not happy about this at first, but comes to love the little girl like...well, a daughter.

I've been reading the manga (out from Viz). That kid is adorable.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Am I the only person that gets her anime from Adult Swim on Saturday nights? 

I'm in the process of buying the FMA DVDs and am watching Trinty Blood, Bleach and Eureka 7.  That's all.  I must be some kind of anime poseur or something. 

[Strazos]

That's where I started, back when they were pretty heavy into Trigun and Cowboy Bebop.

I kinda liked what I saw of Trinity Blood, but I cannot get into any of those other series. I abhor FMA as well; Alfred Alric is one of the most annoying characters I have ever seen...or maybe it's just his voice.

[Hoax]

e7 rocks, Trinity Blood is f'ing terrible if you ask me.  I used to watch my anime on [AS] but I'm way too drunk most saturdays to pull it off.  I've heard nothing but good things about Bleach but never seen it myself, care to share your thoughts Rhyssa?

@Strazos:  I thought FMA started amazingly well but does run out of gas around ep30+ or so, if the dub annoys you check out the sub version, its been awhile since I watched so I dont remember the difference between the VA's.  One day when you aren't backlogged it might be worth ordering the dvd's on netflix or something.

[Strazos]

I've heard a lot of hype over Bleach as well, but it seemed pretty average from what I saw of it - high school kids who fight ghosts.

@Hoax: When I stop being backlogged of shit, if I haven't picked up Anything else, I might try to pick up FMP Dual Audio DVD sets...I'd really like to hear how the dubs for Fumoffu and TSR went. I feel obligated to eventually get those at some point.