Anime recommendations

[Rendakor]

Thanks Storm. Eden of the East I had read a preview of and forgotten; gonna check that one out. I'll give Cross Game a look too, although sports anime generally aren't my thing.

Basquash just looked silly. Mecha playing basketball? Really?

[Bzalthek]

I got 25 ish first episodes for spring lined up.  I'm finishing off some fall and winter series that finished recently before I go through them.  If I see any potential sleepers I'll mention em.

[Simond]

Also consider Guin Saga and Sengoku Basara, for your weekly dose of 

[Rendakor]

Thanks Simond, getting Guin Saga now.

Is Sengoku Basara the warring-states era show?

[schild]

I'm hoping it's an anime version of the game. Otherwise, that's an unfortunate name.

[Simond]

Yes, to both posts.

[Rendakor]

Yes, to both posts.
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...huh?

[rk47]

lol,. horses w/ exhaust pipes.

[Simond]

Yes, to both posts.
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...huh?

It may not be 100% historically accurate.

[stray]

Watching FMA as well. It's cool. I never watched the original much besides in the background on Adult Swim, so I'll refrain from talking about the story. It's probably old news. Kind of strange to see a remake of something that was already pretty new though. How about Bebop in HD? Hell even a widescreen version would be nice. :\

[Yoru]

I picked up the first three eps of the FMA remake. Despite my skepticism, it's a good remake, although the third ep has me concerned about how interesting the retread episodes are going to be. It was almost lifted shot-for-shot from the first one, albeit with slightly better production values.

[Lantyssa]

Unfortunately it's probably going to be like that a lot until they reach the point where the first one couldn't use the manga anymore.

[Ard]

The real question is: what is going to happen when the inevitably catch back up to the manga again, seeing as how it's still being published?  The way they resolved it the first time was decent, but I really don't want to see that happen again.

[stray]

Macross Frontier -- Ooh, pretty!

[Teleku]

Ok, seriously, wtf was the point of remaking FMA?  It's not like the other one was that old.  Was there really that big of a demand for this?

[stray]

From what I can tell, the anime started while the manga was relatively new.. and while the author was cool with the differences, it wasn't her ideal. This is probably the main reason? Even though as mentioned above, the manga is still going on, there's a lot more material available now.

Being a bonafide hot property, instead of the sleeper it was originally, they're throwing more money at it too.

Anyhow, I guess I can count myself fortunate for not having watched the original.

[Bismallah]

Yeah, watched the original FMA too here as well. I wish they would do an HD remake of Last Exile... I have an HD copy of Ergo Proxy it's pretty sweet. With 51 episodes it's tough to get folks to sit down and watch all of FMA. People make it to around the mid 20-30s and then just fall off. I will probably watch the Brotherhood stuff just because I really liked the original.

Otakon is only a few months away and it's funny, for the first time I am going without really hunting for anything special. I am like meh, maybe I am just getting older and none of the new stuff is that appealing. Maybe Basquash, Shangri La, Sengoku Basara, but then again who knows.

[Bzalthek]

It's been a pretty dry year.  Here's hoping the next one picks up the pace.

[rk47]

too many tits and ass anime imo, it's quite disturbing to find them poking around 'just for the heck of it' or being 'it's the point of the show'.

[Bzalthek]

It's one thing to have a show with fanservice.  When the show IS fanservice, well, why not just go hentai?

[rk47]

It's one thing to have a show with fanservice.  When the show IS fanservice, well, why not just go hentai?

my neighbour, an avid figurine collector said it's probably because of the anime figurine market.
male figurine count: 0
female figurine : too many to count.

conclusion:
I always wondered why they even bother to depict the Three Kingdom period with modern day schoolgirls with huge tits and EZ-tear clothes. Then i realized if they stuck with the original male casts, less money are made from male viewers who collect the figurines. So it all boils down to marketing to the audience. If you don't have mechas, you better damn well have tits and ass for plastic figurines.

[stray]

Tits and ass are funny, when umm.. when there's funny. When there's a creepy character involved. Bo knows Football, Japanese know Lechery. This is kind of a lost art in comedy? I mean, all of the old-timey dudes, like the Stooges and Marx did it. And it's still funny.

It's just dawning on me though about all of the other side shit associated with anime, i.e. otaku culture.. and how it affects a lot of anime themes in turn. Now that I know of "fan service" I see it almost everywhere.

[Hoax]

It's one thing to have a show with fanservice.  When the show IS fanservice, well, why not just go hentai?

my neighbour, an avid figurine collector said it's probably because of the anime figurine market.
male figurine count: 0
female figurine : too many to count.

conclusion:
I always wondered why they even bother to depict the Three Kingdom period with modern day schoolgirls with huge tits and EZ-tear clothes. Then i realized if they stuck with the original male casts, less money are made from male viewers who collect the figurines. So it all boils down to marketing to the audience. If you don't have mechas, you better damn well have tits and ass for plastic figurines.

Man Ikkitousen was terrible, you could have watched some eps with one hand and had an ok time though, the lesbo green haired chick was banging.   

[Dion]

I have only seen like two or three anime in my entire life so I don't really have any good references...

Anyway, I'd recommend Ergo Proxy - It's set in the future, after a Nuclear war pretty much destroyed earth. Now, most people live in gigantic Domes. It is not a lot of action, it's more psychological and suspense but it's beautifully animated and I really enjoyed it. Also, epic mindfuck several times.

Afro Samurai is also nice, if you are looking for Samuel Jackson and swords that is.

Dead Space: Downfall is basically a Sci-Fi movie in the Dead Space universe. Ruins the game for you to some degree but is pretty cool.

Oh, and Ghost in the Shell or something--dunno what it's called--have some decent action and pretty cool music.

[Dion]

Also, what's up with Fansubs? Where can I find them and what do the anime producers think of them?

[schild]

Also, what's up with Fansubs? Where can I find them and what do the anime producers think of them?

Are these serious questions?

[Stormwaltz]

So I watched a bit of Lyrical Nanoha.

I've never before seen a magical girl show expressly made for 40 year-old men.

Holy fucking creepy.

[Dion]

Also, what's up with Fansubs? Where can I find them and what do the anime producers think of them?

Are these serious questions?

Yes, I've got no clue when it comes to anime. Judge all you want.

[Stormwaltz]

Yes, I've got no clue when it comes to anime. Judge all you want.

Fansubs are easy to find. Just Google for fansub, torrent, [name of anime].

Anime producers -- and North American anime licensors--  hate them, because they steal profits. When you can download a show for free, why buy it?

Anime consumers love them, because they don't have to wait years years for things to become available in English, which is the logic behind the surge in licensed anime streams from places like Crunchroll and Funimation.

Fuckwads love them because hay i dun hav 2 pay 4 amine.

[Dion]

Cheers, I only found the shitties sites when I googled it earlier, thats why I'm asking.

You have any sites you usually visit or do you buy everything you want to see?

[Simond]

So I watched a bit of Lyrical Nanoha.

I've never before seen a magical girl show expressly made for 40 year-old men.

Holy fucking creepy.

Nanoha is good once it gets past "generic magical girl show with creepy transformation sequences" and turns into a SRWs/mecha tribute...with magical girls replacing the mecha.

Now Pretty Cure, OTOH, is just flat out disturbing.

[Stormwaltz]

You have any sites you usually visit or do you buy everything you want to see?

Usually I look for series that seem unlikely to ever release in NA (Blue Drop, Aishiteruze Baby). Those are usually done by only one or two circles.

I downloaded Flag, Nana, and Code Gaess back in the day, but dumped them when the licenses were announced. I don't remember who did those.

I didn't want to wait for Macross Frontier - the Macross rights are so tangled, we may never see more of it over here. I liked the Shinsen Subs version more than the Lunar Anime one - Shinsen's script seemed to be better, though Lunar released much in high resolution. Unfortunately Shinsen appears to have quit after episode 14. Here are the two groups' versions of the first lines in the OP.

Shinsen: "Whom are you going to kiss? True love circles around the stars. I wonder, would you walk with a weak crybaby like me again?"
Lunar: "Who are ya gonna kiss? My pure heart is gonna race around the stars! With wimps and crybabies in tow, I think I'm gonna go again."

[Arrrgh]

If you want to avoid downloading licensed anime try www.animesuki.com. They remove shows that get licensed.

The only new one I'm enjoying  this season so far is Asura Crying....warring good vs evil religious factions, giant magical mecha type suits of armor, and  fire mage demonic schoolgirls. If you enjoy such things.

[stray]

I've bought a few anime series and movies I really like and want to turn other people on to, but to hell with that for the most part. I do not need to buy the majority of things out there - things that I'll only watch once. If that. Sometimes I'm just sampling.

I'd pay a premium (like HBO prices) for a quality anime tv channel or something like that - hell, I'd love that - but there isn't anything of the sort. All I get is one cool episode or two of some dubbed anime, and then endless repeats of stupid fucking shit like Tom Goes to the Mayor and Squid Billies.

[Strazos]

At least in NJ, FiOS customers get a Funimation channel I believe. I know my buddy has some sort of anime channel.