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Ibram Gaunt posted:Golden Boy. So, how do you like my swimming? 
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Relambrien posted:The setting is not unique at all--it's just a city in modern Japan (though unless I'm misremembering, not too modern as it lacks computers and cell phones). The pervading surrealism is actually one of two things the writer/company he writes for is known for. The other thing they're known for is the kind of drama you saw in Angel Beats. I really like comedies where the main character is just being a jerk for no reason.
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Jun 16, 2013 00:28
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So I recently finished the Patlabor TV series and the only Patlabor thing I have left to watch is the 2nd OVA series. I'll get to that eventually, but in the meantime I'm wondering if there's anything else quite like it. I mean in the sense that it has a great, diverse cast of characters and has no trouble shifting gears from comedy to serious drama and then going back to comedy all while making it feel completely organic. Something that usually fails more often than not, in my experience. It doesn't have to have giant robots or anything like that. Another example of this sort of thing would be Gintama, which has a gigantic, rather Springfield-esque cast of characters that are used well no matter the tone an episode is going for. I've seen some City Hunter and it's not exactly what I'm looking for; it's fun to watch every now and then but there are few reoccurring characters and it gets rather repetitive. And I've seen plenty of Lupin III stuff too which I guess *sorta* fits but not exactly; I love the Lupin cast but due to the nature of the series they're mostly static characters. Due to the nature of the sort of show I'm looking for they tend to not have overarching plots and run for well over the typical 13/26 episodes, but hey if there's an exception to that I'd be down for it too. Srice fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jun 16, 2013 |
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Jun 16, 2013 02:50
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A lot of the flavor of Patlabor comes from Headgear member and co-founder Masami Yuuki. You can trace pretty much all the humor of the franchise from him and his style of manga. He did the original Patlabor manga of which two volumes were released and scanlations go up to volume four... of 22. Yuuki's work is mostly untranslated but two have a good amount in English Birdy the Mighty and Kyuukyoku Choujin R. Birdy the Mighty is about an intergalactic police officer who accidentally "kills" an earth boy. To save his life she shares her body with his mind until the aliens can fix his body. It's funny, there's a lot of action and the story is pretty good. But like I said no one is tripping over themselves to translate it. Birdy has gone through a couple different manga incarnations because of magazine problems. The original Birdy is translated, Birdy II the longest running version is only about half translated and the newer Birdy Evolution from 2008 isn't at all. There was an OVA directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri in the 90s which is drat good with some slick action and a TV show Birdy the Mighty Decode a couple years ago which was also great. Decode was more of a modern retelling instead of a adaptation though. Still good. Kyuukyoku Choujin R is about a robot. A robot named R that wants to go to school; hijinks ensue. That's it. It's a simple gag manga but the jokes and characters are funny. Only about two volumes have been translated. There was an OVA but there's no subs. There's also Assemble Insert. Which has none of the manga translated but there was an OVA that made it over to the states. It's okay.
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Jun 16, 2013 03:39
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I completely forgot that Birdy the Mighty was made by one of the creators of Patlabor. I like the 90s OVA but I've only seen a few episodes of the recent tv series. Sounds like I should go and fix that. Thanks! Shame that most of Yuuki's manga is only partially translated at best, but I'll have to check out those other titles too. e: VVVVV Yeah I gotta get to watching that too, I've seen a little bit of it but I hear Oshii had a lot more freedom to do whatever he wanted in the later episodes. I've just been lazy about getting to that point! Srice fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Jun 16, 2013 |
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Jun 16, 2013 04:53
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If you can take Rumiko Takahashi's stuff you could try the Urusei Yatsura TV series, a lot of the same people who worked on the Patlabor anime previously worked on that. It's about a billion episodes long though.
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Jun 16, 2013 05:14
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I just got to episode 26 of Legend of Galactic Heroes and I don't know if I can handle more of this. There had better be a good ending for Reinhard in this, but somehow I'm getting some serious villain vibes.
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Jun 18, 2013 19:58
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Sarcophallus posted:I just got to episode 26 of Legend of Galactic Heroes and I don't know if I can handle more of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtUa9nqj0Iw (Disclaimer: I only watched a season and a half of LoGH before getting bored and do not actually know the answer to your question.)
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Jun 19, 2013 00:46
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtUa9nqj0Iw
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Jun 19, 2013 01:42
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ViggyNash posted:Can someone recommend me a random thing? I'm not sure what I want to watch right now since I've watched most of the shows I've been interested in. The Twelve Kingdoms, a really good coming of age "normal person transported to fantasy world" story that did character development better than anything else I've ever watched. Caveat: a pretty drat slow start, but you realize why it was necessary later.
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Jun 19, 2013 08:25
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Looking for some decent death/near death game series to read/watch I already read Kaiji, Zero, Liar Game, and Kami-sama no Iutoori and since I'm caught up with all of those I really need something to scratch that itch.
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Jun 19, 2013 23:48
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Gamble Fish is like that except pretty trashy. It's definitely a guilty pleasure, so you might not like it, but you could always try.
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Jun 19, 2013 23:52
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Finally finished watching Robotic;Notes and boy was it worth it. A show where most episodes left me smiling at the end. Thanks to those who recommended it to me after having seen Steins;Gate. Is there anything similar out there in tone to RB? Something with fun characters and plotlines that just mesh well together. It doesn't have to get super serious or plot-twisty but if it does that's fine! Also are those that produced RB and SG working on anything else wonderful?
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Jun 20, 2013 20:44
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There's a Steins;Gate movie hitting Japanese theaters soon, the trailers have me pretty excited to see it. For your request: I think Otome Youkai Zakuro has a great cast and the whole bunch of them bounce of each other really well. And for great characters and interaction you really can't go wrong with Chihayafuru and Kids on the Slope. Neither of those are scifi, if that matters though.
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Jun 20, 2013 21:09
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The Steins;Gate sequel will inevitably get an anime adaptation as well.
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Jun 20, 2013 21:11
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Ibram Gaunt posted:The Steins;Gate sequel will inevitably get an anime adaptation as well. Is it really a sequel? The way it was described was more like a series of different stories that follow various characters from the original. It doesn't seem like it's going to have some overarching plot (though it could), so it would be a very different show than the original.
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Jun 20, 2013 21:25
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Last Emperor posted:Something with fun characters and plotlines that just mesh well together. It doesn't have to get super serious or plot-twisty but if it does that's fine!
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Jun 20, 2013 21:28
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I'll probably check out Chihayafuru first since I keep seeing it's name coming up positively. Would be the first show I've watched that doesn't have any crazy magic or Sci-Fi going on so it should be an interesting introduction! Whilst I knew about the other SG movie I didn't know about the sequel series. Really looking forward to that in which case  Thanks once again everyone!
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Jun 20, 2013 21:49
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It isn't a sequel to the series, it's a sequel to the VN. It is almost guaranteed to be adapted given the success of the original's adaptation, but that won't be for a long time.
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Jun 20, 2013 21:56
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Ah okay, I'm not a huge manga reader and haven't been involved in any VNs but that makes sense. Hopefully the wait will be worth it then.
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Jun 20, 2013 22:00
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In all honesty I wouldn't be surprised if they release the anime alongside the VN, I mean they did it with R;N.
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Jun 20, 2013 22:02
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That's an appealing possibility. I wondered why R;N didn't have a PC port yet despite the show already being out and I guess that's why.
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Jun 20, 2013 22:12
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a kitten posted:There's a Steins;Gate movie hitting Japanese theaters soon, the trailers have me pretty excited to see it. I think the Steins;Gate movie already hit theatres last April. Hope we get an official translation soon!
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Jun 21, 2013 03:47
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I'm told a sub can be expected in October-ish, so it'll be a while.
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Jun 21, 2013 03:55
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Did the people involved with Darker than Black have to sell their souls to Pizza Hut to get this anime made, because it's really distracting how much product placement there is here.
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Jun 21, 2013 04:26
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Thunderfinger posted:Did the people involved with Darker than Black have to sell their souls to Pizza Hut to get this anime made, because it's really distracting how much product placement there is here. I take it you aren't a code geass fan
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Jun 21, 2013 04:26
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I thought the pizza hut placement in Code Geass was kinda hilarious. They also didn't do it enough times to get annoying so I was fine with it.
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Jun 21, 2013 04:34
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Thunderfinger posted:Did the people involved with Darker than Black have to sell their souls to Pizza Hut to get this anime made, because it's really distracting how much product placement there is here. This would probably explain DtB's second season  .Also why did no-one tell me there was a CGI Appleseed 13-episode series? Is it any good?
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Jun 21, 2013 04:37
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Also why did no-one tell me there was a CGI Appleseed 13-episode series? Is it any good? Each episode was farmed out in whole to a different studio so there's no consistency in the art or animation. Briareos and Deunan have none of the chemistry they have in the manga. Mostly because Deunan is busy acting like a petulant child and Briareos basically being a board for Deunan to bounce off of. Most of the action is messy Landmate dogfights because animating the Lademates maneuvering on the ground would have taken some effort.
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Jun 21, 2013 06:42
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ViggyNash posted:I thought the pizza hut placement in Code Geass was kinda hilarious. They also didn't do it enough times to get annoying so I was fine with it. Every time pizza hut was on scream I said "pizza huuuut" and had a good time of it. Guyver posted:No. I bought the first CG one thinking it was the OVA because I didn't know there WAS a CG one and when it turned out it wasn't just a janky cover I threw it in the goddamn trash. I don't think i watched more than 5 minutes of it. Japanese CG is poo poo garbage unless it comes out of their video game industry, for some reason.
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Jun 21, 2013 07:16
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DamnGlitch posted:Japanese CG is poo poo garbage unless it comes out of their video game industry, for some reason.
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Jun 21, 2013 07:42
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A lot of anime studios that try CG projects seem to think their CG is worlds better than it actually is. When Tiger & Bunny was airing I remember that one of the creators was asked why the superheroes had CG suits and I if I'm remembering this correctly (which to be honest, I hope I'm not), he actually compared what they were doing to Pixar. The guy seemed to think that Pixar's movies are popular just because they're CG. And while on the subject of CG anime the recent Cyborg 009 movie was the best effort I've seen in awhile. The CG was good by anime standards and definitely watchable. But sadly it's not quite the same level as the average western CG movie; it seems like anime studios can never figure out what framerate CG should be at so movement could sometimes be really janky. Srice fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Jun 21, 2013 |
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Jun 21, 2013 07:47
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I think some of the best anime CG can be found in the Rebuild movies and in the various GitS shows/movies, except for the original and the original 2.0. IG is definitely one of the best at combining CG and animation, and Hideaki Anno has enough money to throw into those movies that he could eat the bills for breakfast and not give a gently caress, so a lot of the money probably went into quality CG.
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Jun 21, 2013 14:07
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ViggyNash posted:I think some of the best anime CG can be found in the Rebuild movies and in the various GitS shows/movies, except for the original and the original 2.0. IG is definitely one of the best at combining CG and animation, and Hideaki Anno has enough money to throw into those movies that he could eat the bills for breakfast and not give a gently caress, so a lot of the money probably went into quality CG. Regardless of how well done the CG was in the Rebuild movies, I still believe traditional 2D would have looked worlds better in the same scenes. CG always looks incredibly out of place in whatever universe it's being portrayed. Not simply the detail of what's being animated, but other things like how things move, how the framerate is set, and how the physics of objects work in 3D always differs from how they work in 2D. CG never captures the right scale of what's supposed to be going on, and I've never encountered a scene where I went "yep, I'm glad they used CG for that".
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Jun 21, 2013 15:35
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Yea, framerate differntials between the animation and the CG are usually pretty noticeable, but the Rebuild movies definitely put effort into trying to get the CG animation to fit with the animation. I actually really like it when quality CG is added to a show, but that may be because I was once obsessed with video games instead of anime. I guess the necessity of CG is more of a personal opinion.\
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Jun 21, 2013 15:48
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There are some good cg moment in Rebuild, but 2.22 is particularly egregious when it comes to several really REALLY bad shots. Particularly some of the crowd shots in Tokyo 3 look more like faceless cg zombies than the faceless cg zombies in highschool of the dead. They are shambling, oddly gaited, and awful awful awful looking. Gainax et all have done some really interesting and innovative things over the years to reduce time spent on animation, but cg is hardly novel or interesting. Incidentally, tiger and bunny cg isn't particularly good (its good for tv anime cg, but that's light praise), but somehow mixed in with the fun character designs it sorta becomes a stylistic thing.
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Jun 21, 2013 17:35
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DamnGlitch posted:There are some good cg moment in Rebuild, but 2.22 is particularly egregious when it comes to several really REALLY bad shots. Particularly some of the crowd shots in Tokyo 3 look more like faceless cg zombies than the faceless cg zombies in highschool of the dead. They are shambling, oddly gaited, and awful awful awful looking. That's an awfully nice way of putting it! And to rerail: has anyone seen Ghost Hunt? How is it?
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House Louse posted:And to rerail: has anyone seen Ghost Hunt? How is it?
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Paracelsus posted:I saw it a long time ago, and my recollection is that it was fine, if nothing especially fantastic. Agreed. Though I think the last arc is actually pretty good.
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I'm just curious, but what shows have had really good OPs and EDs? I'm watching Durarara!! right now and I absolutely love both the OP and ED. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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