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Erg posted:I watched Magic Kaito recently and now I want more anime that features heists, any good recs? Lupin III. "But should I watch the old stuff or the new seasons?" Yes.
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quote:the ostensibly wondrous but quietly despairing tone of Dirty Pair what
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DisDisDis posted:what There's a lot of cool whizbang futuristic neat stuff and there's also a lot of continuation of old tired conflicts and soft cyberpunk themes and sometimes planets get wiped out because someone dropped a bottle from a spaceship
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Nov 9, 2018 15:13
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Adlai Stevenson posted:Uchouten Kazoku/The Eccentric Family. It's on Crunchyroll. Aha! Thanks so much!! Now I've got a strange new anime to enjoy.  There's something really oddly familiar about the character designs and art style. Kind of reminds me of Zetsubou Sensei or something.
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Nov 9, 2018 15:20
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I'm watching Fate/Stay Night which is absolutely awful with terrible art, but is there a version with a higher, let's called it production value? Leave aside "the right order" hell discussion, are there any that are good just for the quality of it? I'm guessing Apocrypha might be the most fun in that regard?
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Nov 9, 2018 16:12
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Assuming you mean you are watching the 2006 Deen show, there is an adaption that came out a few years ago that covers a different story/route, called "Unlimited Blade Works". It's by a different studio and has a much higher budget and is overall a better product than the 2006 one. It has its own flaws but if I had pick one to watch of the two I'd definitely pick UBW instead. The same studio also released a prequel called Fate/Zero which is of a similar level of quality. That said in terms of raw quality, the recent Heaven's Feel movie is probably the apex of the franchise. You'll probably be completely lost as to what's going on but it should look and sound pretty rad. Apocrypha had I guess some pretty radical animation choices/directions, though the actual story is terrible and boring (apparently, I never saw it).
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ufarn posted:I'm watching Fate/Stay Night which is absolutely awful with terrible art, but is there a version with a higher, let's called it production value? Fate/Zero has more positives than negatives. For my money those negatives are largely the way the show, as a prequel, has to tie in to the ensuing franchise. Most of the stuff it comes up with on its own is fun. It also doesn't require much if any series knowledge to follow along.
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Nov 9, 2018 16:31
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The ufotable series are really good from an animation perspective. You'll probably understand everything if you go Fate/Zero -> UBW -> HF but that also leaves some things unresolved. To get the whole story you probably still need to read the Fate route of the game.
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Nov 9, 2018 16:59
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It's the 2015 version (ufotable) I'm watching atm on Netflix. I'm pretty much watching season 2 because I'm so mad at how little action there's been.
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Nov 9, 2018 17:10
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i don't think fate/stay night is what you're looking for if literally all you want is flashy action scenes and you don't actually care about following the writing at all
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FSN is an often slow story that deals with a lot of character drama, with a penchant for big action set pieces mostly in the middle and endgame segments. Just sort of the way it goes and that might not be your bag by the sounds of it. The reason I assumed you meant the old 2006 show is because for the faults I would attribute to the UBW adaption, "terrible art" is not one of them. Maybe a bit unimaginative with the usual prevalence of CG that uftoable likes in their works, but it functions pretty well enough.
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i don't really like how heavily reliant on flashy cg and post processing effects every ufotables anime i've seen is, but, that's a different complaint from just "Bad Art" and "Bad Production Value"
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They also explicitly called it Faye/Stay Night, which is the old show, and not the Ufotable one.
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Nov 9, 2018 17:30
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anyway idk you'll find A Greater Quantity of flashy fighting in apocrypha and fate/zero but personally i'm, not really sure why you'd watch fate stuff for pure action to begin with because fate is much more about character drama stuff than the action itself
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Nov 9, 2018 17:36
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DrSunshine posted:Aha! Thanks so much!! Now I've got a strange new anime to enjoy. Koji Kumeta did the original character designs before they were adapted for animation. the jp bluray release for s2 even has an illustration by him on the box.
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ufarn posted:It's the 2015 version (ufotable) I'm watching atm on Netflix. I'm pretty much watching season 2 because I'm so mad at how little action there's been.
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ufarn posted:It's the 2015 version (ufotable) I'm watching atm on Netflix. I'm pretty much watching season 2 because I'm so mad at how little action there's been. the whole thing about Fate is that it takes a long time getting to the fireworks factory, but then the fireworks factory is loving amazing when it actually gets there. if that's not your bag, the franchise just legit isn't for you. e: also being a Fate fan primarily for the fights is totally fair, the character drama is nice but for me it is icing on the "mythological figures beating each other into paste" cake
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Nov 9, 2018 20:03
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i mean the fireworks factory of fate is built, on the assumption that you care about anything that's happening by that point like it just. doesn't have any impact if you don't care about anyone. the drama and tension is built on, the writing
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Adlai Stevenson posted:There's a lot of cool whizbang futuristic neat stuff and there's also a lot of continuation of old tired conflicts and soft cyberpunk themes and sometimes planets get wiped out because someone dropped a bottle from a spaceship That time Kei and Yuri blew up an entire planet, killing hundreds or thousands of people, and were like 'uhhhhh woops, hope the boss doesn't cut our vacation time I wanna bang some hot boys' I laughed really hard
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Nov 9, 2018 20:15
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Mikl posted:Lupin III. I second this recommendation, on the basis that the hundreds and hundreds of episodes of Lupin the 3rd consist almost entirely of heists. Required viewing. The anime is of a different character from the manga due to the influence of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, however, so be ready for that if you go looking for the source material.
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or just watch Part 1 and The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, where the original tone is...sorta there.
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Lupin part 5 is a really great time.
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The Colonel posted:i mean the fireworks factory of fate is built, on the assumption that you care about anything that's happening by that point i mean you're not wrong and that's why the whole package works, but... being able to enjoy a fight scene on its own merits isn't, like, some supernatural ability or something  like i don't think DBZ is necessarily a bad comparison. DBZ works as a whole because the drama builds up the fights which advance the drama and so on and so forth. but... like... Beerus and SSJ3 Goku throwing down from Battle of Gods is still a loving awesome scene even without the context, because it's just a really loving cool fight scene in and of itself. similarly, the batshit insane dogfight between Gil and Berserker in Fate/zero is still completely goddamn awesome even if you have barely any idea what is happening simply because oh my god armor guy is riding a loving F16 like it's a bucking bronco, even if context does make it better.
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there's definitely a reason that you have youtube/twitter clips of just fight scenes or fight scene compilations. they're usually good highlights whether you have context or not, yeah
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in my experience tons of fate fans somehow manage to enjoy it while actively despising much of the main cast and upwards of 2/3rds of the story e: that said outside of me being petty I think there's a difference between a shounen fight thing where laid-back character eps are enough of a rare novelty for people to make a big deal of it (the car ep in DBZ, early Super), and the sort of VN where there's hours and hours of talking between fights Motto fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Nov 10, 2018 |
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imo fate/zero sucks partly because so many of its fights say nothing about the characters involved, while f/sn is cool because of how it uses the fights to further character development or make points about the characters of course the ubw anime completely cocks that up and just makes the archer vs shirou and gil vs shirou fights into cg dickwaggle contests, so
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I liked the fights in UBW better than F/sn but that could be because I found Saber dull so I didn’t care about her poo poo.
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Looking for some good character drama (but not melodrama) anime series after binging through Bloom Into You. Was thinking either Tsuki ga Kirei or Sound! Euphonium after I finish off Tsurezure Children, which one should I watch first?
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For those who had not had the opportunity to watch it, Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars is going to be re-released by Funimation on December 4th. It's a really good plot driven space opera with blue-haired space elves. Space battles take second fiddle to Jinto and Lafiel's interaction though, so if you're expecting lots of gratuitous space explosions, you'll most likely be disappointed. Also its soundtrack is loving amazing. I still get goosebumps when I hear the intro. jwang fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Nov 11, 2018 |
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Nov 11, 2018 05:49
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Ibblebibble posted:Looking for some good character drama (but not melodrama) anime series after binging through Bloom Into You. Was thinking either Tsuki ga Kirei or Sound! Euphonium after I finish off Tsurezure Children, which one should I watch first? As someone who hasn't watched any of those three beyond half an episode, I'm going to drunkenly recommend Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu. It's all an intense character study about one man's life, from childhood through old age, and all the trials and travails thereof. The second OP is amazing. I'm just sitting here thinking about it and going "ahhhh, yeah. nice"
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Ibblebibble posted:Was thinking either Tsuki ga Kirei or Sound! Euphonium after I finish off Tsurezure Children, which one should I watch first? They're both good but they're very different beasts. Tsuki ga Kirei is shorter and focused pretty specifically on its central romance, whereas Euphonium goes to great pains to illustrate this entire social ecosystem that is the Kitauji High concert band, with different characters moving in and out of the spotlight. If you're into the craft of animation, like as an end in itself, Eupho will 100% blow you away though.
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I started with Tsuki, if only because it was shorter  Enjoying it 2 episodes in at least. Having seen gifs of Euphonium and wanting to prep for Liz and the Blue Bird once it becomes available to me, Euphonium is definitely up next.Rakugo is already in my to-watch list, I'll fit it in somewhere in my KyoAni/PA Works spree.
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Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu is definitely a treat-it's one of my favorite anime from the past few years.
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For something a little bit older don't forget about Kids on the Slope
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Sorry I keep reviving this dying thread. I need a good cry. That one episode of Re:Zero really got me and I want more of it. Bring on the sadness (tears of joy are also acceptable).
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Furnaceface posted:Sorry I keep reviving this dying thread. Ayakashi Samurai Horror stories, the final arc with the Medicine seller from Mononoke. I cried so, so hard. Such good story-telling. e: Bake Neko, eps 9-11. The series is an anthology so don't watch the rest of it. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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Dec 11, 2018 00:49
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Furnaceface posted:Sorry I keep reviving this dying thread. One word: Orange.
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Furnaceface posted:Sorry I keep reviving this dying thread. I dare you to watch it without getting misty-eyed. Yui Ishikawa (Mikasa Ackerman, 2B) also voices her, which is a nice cherry on top.
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Furnaceface posted:Sorry I keep reviving this dying thread. Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Ep 8 of Zombieland Saga this season. Natsume's book of friends has some good eps too.
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Furnaceface posted:Sorry I keep reviving this dying thread. Series: Orange AnoHana Haibane Renmei Movies: Your Name Maquia (this might but have had a home release yet. Oops) a kitten fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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