Anime recommendations

[Simond]

New avatar due to the awesomeness of ep11 of Gurren-Lagann. 
Nanoha StrikerS: Looks like they heard me. :D

Slightly off-beat recommendation of the season: Lovely Complex. If you liked KareKano and others of that ilk, you'll want to give this one a watch.

[Yoru]

I'm only up to ep6 of TTGL. I need to watch more of it. The quality has been maintained, although the flashback ep was irritating. Stupid budget-savers. They better blow all the money they saved by running flashbacks on an awesome battle sequence.

[Simond]

Just keep watching. 

[Yoru]

Just keep watching. 

I dunno. Just watched ep 8. I fear shark-jumping due to .

[Hoax]

Halfway through Ghost Hunt, next up is Code Geass, been awhile since I've watched anything doing some catching up.  Have put down everything mentioned since pg12 on my "check out first four eps" list. 

I watched the first two eps of TTGL, they had me at Yoko + giant robots.  I'm easy like that.

[Stormwaltz]

The last thing we finished was Magic Knights Rayearth season two. Which, much like the first season, was obviously made for six years olds until the angsty final episodes. I think they wrote the script for each episode, realized it only came up to about five minutes air time, and had each of the three girls repeat every line, slowly, one at a time.

Hikaru: "Shut..?"

Umi: "The fuck..?"

Fuu: "Up..?"

We're now through 4/6 discs of Planetes, which may be the best SF anime I've ever seen. It's incredibly rich. There's a lot of science in it, and it's all hard. There's side ruminations on the social effects of space development - third world countries trying to get a hand in the pie as they fall farther and farther behind. But in the end the stories all hinge on the characters - how space motivates and changes them. Whether that's the cynical garbage hauler who dreams of a better life, but doesn't believe he can achieve it, or the pack of oddballs who play at being ninjas in the 1/6th G of the moon.

More thoughts when we're done. I'm too emotionally wrapped up in it now. Hell, my wife even loves Planetes. And SF normally bores her to tears.

[Sairon]

PlanetES is superb, I recall loving it when I was in high school.

[JoeTF]

PlanetES shows us how SF should be done. I mean, who would have though show about space garbage collectors would be so damn awesome?
Pity there are only 4 volumes of manga.

Darker than Black win an award for best execution in last decade - I cannot recall a single show with comparable music, backgrounds and animation quality. Also, try watching more than one episiode. It is awesome.

[Yoru]

I'm retracting my recommendation for TTGL after ep 8. Instead of going beyond the impossible and kicking reason to the curb, it looks like it's turning into a generic Monster Of The Week love-triangle mecha anime with a Sad Young Boy protagonist.

I should not need to reinvoke the Three Episode Test halfway through a series, but...

[Simond]

Stick with it. 

[Yoru]

Stick with it. 

I watched 11 this morning. I'm reinvoking the Three Episode Test. They have episodes 12, 13 and 14 to return to being tremendously badass. 

Also, I loathe the new character.

[schild]

The only anime this season that I made it past 3 episodes on was Lucky Star. Whoever is writing that show is fantastic. And the comedic timing is brilliant.

[Hoax]

I prefer a 4 ep test, as many shows are only finishing their cast introduction and starting the story in ep3.

[Yoru]

The only anime this season that I made it past 3 episodes on was Lucky Star. Whoever is writing that show is fantastic. And the comedic timing is brilliant.

Dude, Lucky Star didn't even pass the Three Minute Test, let alone the Three Episode Test.

[schild]

The only anime this season that I made it past 3 episodes on was Lucky Star. Whoever is writing that show is fantastic. And the comedic timing is brilliant.

Dude, Lucky Star didn't even pass the Three Minute Test, let alone the Three Episode Test.

That's ok. You're wrong. But it's ok. Lucky Star is this years Higurashi (in terms of going from sleeper to HUGE FUCKING FANBASE, int he matter of a few episodes).

[Strazos]

Are you sure it's not the new Haruhi?

But yeah, Lucky Star is fucking awesome.

[Yoru]

I'm sorry, dude, but "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! YOURS IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!" followed by a flashy action sequence is way more entertaining for me than a 7-minute discussion on the proper way to eat a dessert.

[schild]

I'm sorry, dude, but "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! YOURS IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!" followed by a flashy action sequence is way more entertaining for me than a 7-minute discussion on the proper way to eat a dessert.

It's not my fault you've only seen the first conversation of the first episode of Lucky Star.

Edit: In 5 years, everyone will remember Konata. She's probably one of the best characters ever conceived for an anime/manga.

[Simond]

Stick with it. 

I watched 11 this morning. I'm reinvoking the Three Episode Test. They have episodes 12, 13 and 14 to return to being tremendously badass. 

Also, I loathe the new character.

Your words confuse Nia:

[Fabricated]

I'm sorry, dude, but "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! YOURS IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!" followed by a flashy action sequence is way more entertaining for me than a 7-minute discussion on the proper way to eat a dessert.

It's not my fault you've only seen the first conversation of the first episode of Lucky Star.

Edit: In 5 years, everyone will remember Konata. She's probably one of the best characters ever conceived for an anime/manga.

We get it, you liked Tampopo. That movie's like 23 years old now.

As for Lucky Star, I refuse to watch it. I watched like 4 episodes of Haruhi, it fucking sucked, I'm not being burned again like I was with Excel Saga/Azumanga/what-the-fuck-ever-shitty-comedy-series-for-Japanophiles-is-hot-this-week.

[schild]

You were burned with Azumanga Daioh? Are you sure you weren't watching Ghost in the Shell?

[Sairon]

Just watched the 11 available Claymore episodes in one sitting, seems like this is going to become a real gem. It's a pretty gory and dark fantasy anime, giving me some of the same vibes that berserk gives. It seems pretty meh at the beginning, but after watching the 11 episodes available it seems like it's going to become on of the best anime series ever.

[schild]

It seems pretty meh at the beginning

disqualifies it from

going to become on of the best anime series ever.

[Sairon]

There has been slow starters in the past. Or are you applying "if the MMO is not good within the first couple of minutes of play the rest of it is piss as well" to animes as well? 

[Hoax]

You were burned with Azumanga Daioh? Are you sure you weren't watching Ghost in the Shell?

I dont know what he's talking about when it comes to Haruhi because I thought it was awesome and the funny was very accessible to any audience eastern or western.  But fuck AzuD, it sucked.  In fact I believe it was a similar vintage of suck as School Rumble.  A bunch of language pun/jokes that aren't funny if you have to read two sentences of editor notes to get the joke and some stupid sd humour that sucked nuts.  I'll admit I couldn't make it through 3 complete episodes, I think I skipped the 2nd half of ep2 and then fell asleep during ep3.  Literally.

[Fabricated]

You were burned with Azumanga Daioh? Are you sure you weren't watching Ghost in the Shell?

I wasn't expected to laugh at Ghost in the Shell.

[Nonentity]

Is it so wrong that I liked Azumanga Daioh and Ghost in the Shell (show, not movies)?

Everyone I've shown Az D has loved it, whether they are anime fans or not.

[schild]

Everyone I've shown Az D has loved it, whether they are anime fans or not.

Yup.

[Nonentity]

Everyone I've shown Az D has loved it, whether they are anime fans or not.

Yup.

And I will say this - regardless of how hard a man you consider yourself to be, if you do not have to repress the insane urge to jump around giggling and squealing when you see Chiyo waddling around in a penguin costume, YOU ARE A ROBOT AND NOT A REAL PERSON.

[Strazos]

Eh, I like Az D, Haruhi, Lucky Star, School Rumble (it doesn't really take That much effort to "get" the jokes)....

/shrug

[Teleku]

Everyone I've shown Az D has loved it, whether they are anime fans or not.

Yup.

And I will say this - regardless of how hard a man you consider yourself to be, if you do not have to repress the insane urge to jump around giggling and squealing when you see Chiyo waddling around in a penguin costume, YOU ARE A ROBOT AND NOT A REAL PERSON.

Or maybe it just means your not a pedophile?  Seriously though, I agree with them.  The show sucked balls.  One of my roommates really liked it and tried to get all the rest of us and everybody else he knew to watch it.  Every single person he showed it to hated it.  It kind of became  a running joke over the years actually.  Its standard unoriginal japancrap.  (note, not attacking anybody for liking it, I just think it was bad bad bad).

[Strazos]

I don't think I ever got up, jumped around, and giggled and screamed....

But Chiyo as a penguin is damn funny and cute. Especially when she can't eat food. Or gets pushed over.

[Stormwaltz]

What we found consistently amusing about Azumanga was not the cultural references, but the character humor. Sakaki befuddled by her reputation as "the cool girl" among humans and "delicious" among cats. Yukari's driving. The creepy male teacher. Resentment of Chiyo. Tomo being a fucking spaz (particularly the incident where the threw away the keys, and when they found them again, everyone tackled her to keep her from doing it again).

[JoeTF]

Just watched the 11 available Claymore episodes in one sitting, seems like this is going to become a real gem. It's a pretty gory and dark fantasy anime, giving me some of the same vibes that berserk gives. It seems pretty meh at the beginning, but after watching the 11 episodes available it seems like it's going to become on of the best anime series ever.

Claymore is only good if you have't read the Witcher before.
Because if you did, you realize claymore is just a very, very, *very* bad ripoff. I mean, color-changing eyes and white hairs mutated-during-childhood monster hunters- that's a fucking lawsuit material!   

[Sairon]

First of all, I don't read manga, I'm to shallow for that. And yea, it's not very original, it's just another power up excuse. What's good about claymore though is the gory and harsher setting. They don't try to romanticize and try to teach me morals. It's entertaining in pretty much the same way as berserk. The story takes twists and turns.