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Part 2 is my favorite part, just straight up adventure with a great lead. Part 1 is better if you don't take it seriously, it's all really campy.
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wielder posted:I thought that sequence was fairly impressive. Yamato 2199's cast really does tend to get better as time goes on and all the key players actually start interacting with each other. The remake does a wonderful job of combining good overall execution with improved cast dynamics and increased political stakes too. It's a shame that there was no full legal release of the series in the U.S. though. I am hoping that changes with the upcoming sequel. They're making a sequel to it? My night just got better. Will it feature the USS Arizona?
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the arizona won't appear for a while, if it ever does. they did have an arizona class in the first scene of 2199 though iirc(and they got wrecked). they have however, shown the andromeda as seen next to the yamato here
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sameoldsong posted:Not sure if this is exactly the right thread for this, but I just finished and really enjoyed Darker Than Black season 1 and was curious what people think about whether the OVAs and/or season 2 are worth watching. I know season 2 has a bad reputation, but sometimes these things get overstated (I enjoyed Code Geass R2, for example). I enjoyed DTB's second season, personally. It's different from the first, but I remember finding it compelling.
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dtb s2 is basically like one of dtb s1's miniarcs expanded into a full season, but with far too much extraneous space and piss poor conclusion but thats a symptom of s1 as well also jojo pt2 loving owns
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Turtlicious posted:Is only JoJo s1 dubbed? There was a test run of part 3 shown off shortly after it started, but as of right now I think so.
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I just finished Jojo Part 4 and I liked it for the most part. Really I'm just looking for something with good energetic likeable characters in an action/adventure setting. Stuff I've liked a lot so far: Jojo - Primarily part 2 (I liked all of it, but 2 was the best). I did like how innovative some of the stands were in 3/4 and curmudgeonly, racist grandpa joseph rules, but it doesn't get much better than a wisecracking jerkass fighting god. Jojo can be pretty bleak and violent but overall it's zany enough that the overall tone is light, which is what I'm looking for. Black Lagoon: It's basically just a dumb action movie. I wish the main character went through more growth over the series, but he started as a shinji type character so what can you do. TTGL - Hot blooded robot punching at its finest, though I could have done without the fanservice FLCL - Liked it, but it was a bit too "random" for me. I guess I don't "get" it. or I'm thinking too hard about it. Kill La Kill - More for the supporting cast than anything else. I don't really care about seeing boobs and butts. The Zeni guy and Gamagoori ruled. Panty and Stocking - I don't even know if this even really counts as anime, but it owned, the soundtrack was incredible, and there was actually very little fanservice despite the entire show being about sex and indulgence. Dirty Pair Project Eden: Like half the animated shots in this are just generic computer/machine/science bullshit and I love it. Explosions, no plot, cool scientist bad guy, insanely good 80s music. A+ Haven't you Heard? I'm Sakamoto - I actually watched all of this. I normally don't like high school settings or gag anime, but this did everything just right. Mobile Fighter G Gundam: I don't want a bunch of whiny 14 year old kids and nonsensical plot/religious imagery getting in the way of my silly robot punching. Tonkatsu DJ - No explanation needed That's a lot of  to say I just want something weird but energetic like Food Wars! without the fanservice and less highschooly. I want a character who is already cool and his or her character arc is to become cooler, not to turn from a wimp to a badass.
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Cory in the Blouse posted:I just finished Jojo Part 4 and I liked it for the most part. Really I'm just looking for something with good energetic likeable characters in an action/adventure setting. I recommend trying out Baccano, Hellsing Ultimate, Cowboy Bebop, and One Piece
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HUNTER X HUNTER. It gets pretty dark but it's got great adventure feels. And if you want Food Wars! but better try Yakitate!! Japan
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i'd recommend re:cutie honey with the caveat that it's an ova, three episodes long with each being 40 minutes and it's more fanservicey than panty & stocking or kill la kill, but at the same time the fanservice is actually a lot more inoffensive than kill la kill, though it slows down a bit in the third episode and parts of the second. it's made by mostly the same staff as both shows and it's a very high-energy action show about an adult magical girl who's pretty competent at what she does from the start, who ends up fighting alongside a loud mouth loose canon cop lady who shoots at things with giant guns
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OK thanks I'll check those out. Re: Cutie Honey actually sounds pretty good. Honestly any Bechdel test passing leading lady action anime would be good, I feel like I'm kinda dude saturated after watching jojo. I probably should have given more examples of things people usually recommend but I didn't like. A good example of that would be Attack on Titan. Great setting, cool monsters, way too much inner monologue that came off as lazy writing instead of actually having characters talk to each other or do cool stuff.
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i think literally every anime with women except (?) jojo passes that test
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Cory in the Blouse posted:I just finished Jojo Part 4 and I liked it for the most part. Really I'm just looking for something with good energetic likeable characters in an action/adventure setting. You should check out Patlabor.
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Droyer posted:You should check out Patlabor. Yeah seconding this.
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Cory in the Blouse posted:OK thanks I'll check those out. Re: Cutie Honey actually sounds pretty good. Honestly any Bechdel test passing leading lady action anime would be good, I feel like I'm kinda dude saturated after watching jojo. You liked Black Lagoon, right? Watch Jormungand.
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I finally watched Mawaru Penguindrum on a couple of old recommendations in this thread and good lord is that a hard turn into misery at the halfway mark  . Can we get a suicide check on the writers or something, maybe some arrange some time with a therapist? Because goddrat does every single innocent little question raised in the first cour have the most horrifyingly bleak answer possible without fail  .I'm also fairly certain the only way I'll ever get Rock Over Japan out of my head is with a power drill.
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In my bi-monthly attempt at going through the entirety of Hulu's anime library, (based on just looking at the show's cover image and like a minute of show before I ADD-ishly change to something else) I find two shows that are pretty addictive. They also suffer from the same flaw, too much anime perv poo poo, but managed to claw their past it due other factors. Kill La Kill Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?* The first by its humor, awareness, and overall hyperbolic sendup of the high school experience, taken to its most extreme logical conclusion. The second by being sweet, and its theme, plot, and characterization hinging explicitly on character development. EDIT: *I think I might have a soft spot for intelligently written dungeon and dragons anime, based on this and Grimgar. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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? The Colonel posted:watch gurren lagann, it's pretty much the same thing as kill la kill made by the same people except its story has more of a point and it doesn't get awful in the second half Well that's disappointing. I might give it a shot, but I really, really didn't like it when I first tried it. It was so....cliche.
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The broad strokes of GL aren't particularly surprising, but its execution is nearly flawless. It looks great, it sounds great, and it always makes me want to scream like Nobuyuki Hiyama so as to let out any excess manly spirit, no matter how many times I watch it.
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:The broad strokes of GL aren't particularly surprising, but its execution is nearly flawless. It looks great, it sounds great, and it always makes me want to scream like Nobuyuki Hiyama so as to let out any excess manly spirit, no matter how many times I watch it. That's the thing, it's a really good execution of a really worn topic. If you like campy power-of-friendship MY WILL IS THE MOST WILLFULL action fighting then you'll love it. But if it doesn't hook you from the start there's no reason to keep going.
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You can also enjoy it as a competent super robot show, or just as someone who likes fun things
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Yeah I guess if you're just looking for a show with big robots that fight it's pretty good at that too. The robots get pretty drat big.
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If he doesn't cut out before the butt slap, someone post the timeline
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I didn't really get into Gurren Lagann until the removal of a certain element from the story about 8 episodes in. Also the back half is loving awesome.
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Captain Invictus posted:If he doesn't cut out before the butt slap, someone post the timeline 13:30 - far shot of satsuki hanging in the cage 13:34 - shot of satsuki’s feet, ragged and hanging, Ragyo laughing. Panning up to Satsuki’s face until 13:43, without pausing to stare at her boobs like so many other animes 13:43 - close-up of Satsuki’s face (look of rage at 13:53) 13:54 - Looking at Ragyo talking to Satsuki 13:58 - medium-far shot of Satsuki, her body is darkened rather than well-lit. Ragyo gloating 14:11 - beginning of bad touch scene. The lighting of Ragyo is bright, the lighting on Satsuki is dark, guiding the eye to Ragyo, not Satsuki. 14:21 - Four second butt shot 14:25 - Close-up of a look of rage on Satsuki’s face 14:29 - Close-up of Ragyo’s face. Gloating. 14:36 - shot panning downwards from above Satuki’s face to her face. Seven seconds. No cleavage. 14:43 to 15:39 - Backstory. 15:40 - Far panning shot of cage. 15:56 - Butt slap. 15:57 - Shot of Ragyo and Satsuki’s face. This time, the lighting is on Satsuki. 16:03 - Closeup of Satsuki’s face into a close-up of Ragyo’s face. Still enraged / still gloating 16:09 - Shot of Satsuki’s legs from halfway down her thighs and panning downwards. 16:17 - Backwards shot of a bad touch sweeping down from Satsuki’s chest down to her behind. 16:28 - From Satsuki’s face into Ragyo’s face. 16:36 - Butt slap. 16:37 - Far shot of cage. Dark. More butt slaps and Ragyo emphasizing how much she wants Satsuki to hate her. 16:40 - Close up of faces. Butt slaps continue. 16:44 - Satsuki’s face, still mad. Still slapping. Maniacal laughter from Ragyo. 16:51 - End of the scene. Let's recap - lots of exposition no lingering on boobs lighting that deliberately de-emphasized Satsuki's body lots of focus on the faces fostering Satsuki's anger made a part of the conversation deliberately If you think they spent a bunch of time on Satsuki's body you were paying attention to the wrong loving thing and you're using disgust to justify voyeurism. The scene wasn't fanservice. God drat.
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An ADTRW classic
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