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I think it's okay to ask here. Does Case Closed reach some sort of resolution to its main premise in a timely manner? I like it so far but I'm hoping the plot eventually advances. The fact that there are 8 million episodes and counting scares me, and I'm afraid it's just a series of mostly independent cases.
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Ugh, thanks. ATM I'd prefer something with a slightly more imminent finality.
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Jul 4, 2017 18:17
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I was just thinking that.
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Jul 4, 2017 18:19
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Will check it out, but I was looking for something light hearted. Also feeling nostalgic for 90s cell shading (non digital).
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Jul 4, 2017 18:27
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Yeah that might be okay. Saw an episode or two years ago but wasn't in the mood at the time.
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Jul 4, 2017 18:35
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Any good post-apoc?
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Nov 23, 2017 19:21
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StandardVC10 posted:Currently airing Girls' Last Tour is excellent, if you're not already watching it. I'll be honest, the artstyle is off putting to me, but if it's otherwise solid I'll give it a go. fezball posted:For something grittier, Wolf's Rain might work (it's not really that great in terms of story, but does a pretty good job with the bleakness of the setting), and I've heard good things about Desert Punk (but haven't seen it). I saw some episodes of Desert Punk ages ago. It had too many rear end shots for my taste (the protagonist was a perv), and was nothing special otherwise. Also suffered from a Gonzo-ending iirc. I was eventually going to see Wolf's Rain anyway because of the Kanno soundtrack, but I hadn't read anything else about it. Didn't realize it was post apocalyptic. The other stuff I've seen or not really interested.
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Nov 23, 2017 20:23
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GorfZaplen posted:Try A Wind Named Amnesia, Grey: Digital Target, and Casshern Sins I am very much up for some late 80s/early 90s animation.
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Nov 23, 2017 20:35
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Nipponophile posted:Turn A Gundam is a different take on post-apocalyptic, and also has a Kanno soundtrack. It's great. (There's no other Gundam series that's similar, is there? Or just considered as good as turn A?)
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Nov 23, 2017 20:39
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Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust? Ninja Scroll? Some boobies in that one, iirc. Madox-01 is nothing special, but has nice mechanical detail. I binged on a bunch of 80/90s ovas two years ago--there's a tonne just on YouTube--unfortunately I'm bad at remembering names and titles.
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Nov 24, 2017 01:56
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GorfZaplen posted:Battle Royale Highschool, Angel Cop and Ultimate Teacher would all be good as well. Stretching the definition of "good" by suggesting Angel Cop. Plus it has a fair amount of nudity.
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Nov 24, 2017 02:26
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Anybody remember an anime film taking place on a desert planet, with giant sandborne battlecruisers? There's some kind of weird conspiracy that involves people involuntarily(?) spying on military personnel---I think aliens were involved. The finale has robosuits, flying saucers and some sort of time ticking bomb, iirc. That was an example of a dumb* but fun and watchable 90s anime movie. I wanted to say it was Venus Wars but that's not it. -- *May have been very dumb, don't quite remember.
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Nov 24, 2017 02:38
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silentsnack posted:Taking a wild guess near the top of the list here... That's it!
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Nov 24, 2017 03:00
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GorfZaplen posted:A Wind Named Amnesia Maybe short of excellent, but this was very good.
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Nov 24, 2017 14:25
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StandardVC10 posted:Currently airing Girls' Last Tour is excellent, if you're not already watching it. The Colonel posted:girls' last tour is an anime about the two girls driving around a massive desolate city and thinking about why they continue to go on living in a world where there's virtually nobody left while meeting people who have their own obsessions that they cling to to give themselves reasons to live, to give you some idea I'm glad I---somewhat capriciously---decided to ask for recommendations, I would've missed this otherwise. I've discovered a bunch of great stuff!
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Nov 24, 2017 20:00
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The Colonel posted:king gainer isn't quite as slow and melancholy but it's a similar thing of tomino making a weirdly upbeat post-apoc mecha anime
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Nov 27, 2017 02:23
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I read Narutaru during a dark period. That was exploitative misery.
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Nov 28, 2017 02:28
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Ghost in the Shell Arise doesn't live up to other incarnations of the ip, but it's not bad per se. Very excited for whatever the new Kamiyama GITS project is. (quick cheat rec: Ping Pong is a delightful tale about growing up w/o being too somber about it. I'd recommend it to anyone.)
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Nov 28, 2017 04:47
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The Shortest Path posted:After watching that I was more depressed by the fact that I watched something so bad than I was by the depressing poo poo in the show. It's the show that like no other made me realize that despite pretenses of maturity and poignancy (with music to back it up!), anime is often sophomoric melodrama. It was like the 4th or 5th anime series I saw. (it did get me a few times, though)
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Nov 28, 2017 07:31
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I also haven't seen Madoka for what I feel are similar reasons. I'll watch it someday.
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Nov 28, 2017 07:39
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Rinkles posted:Any good post-apoc? Coppelion worth a watch? Another show not mentioned is The Third: The Girl With the Blue Eye. It seems like pretty standard, wholesome light-novel stuff, with a not-so-great localization (maybe the source material isn't fantastic). But it's got a cool tank. I love tanks in deserts*. I actually find the characters endearing despite their cliches, and despite the oh-so-unnecessary corny narration. I'm enjoying it so far.  *I'm all ears for any other anime featuring armored vehicles in desert environments
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Nov 28, 2017 09:53
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The Colonel posted:i've never seen coppelion referred to as anything but hilariously mediocre The backgrounds look detailed.
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Nov 28, 2017 10:00
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Kokoro Wish posted:Venus Wars
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Nov 28, 2017 11:10
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I bounced off Psycho-pass hard (e: dammit too much hard bouncing on this page). But I've never seen anyone else dislike it. Maybe I was in the wrong mood. I have definitely enjoyed movies I initially hated after approaching them again with a different disposition.
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Nov 28, 2017 17:34
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silentsnack posted:Best tank anime is Those Who Hunt Elves, but I guess there's also Ozma? Thanks these look good and I haven't heard of them. Didn't realize there was a faithful Starship Troopers anime adaptation.
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Nov 28, 2017 17:39
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Eela6 posted:I would like to know more. It's on YouTube.
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Nov 28, 2017 17:52
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The Shortest Path posted:I love me some trashy anime, I watch a lot of it, but Elfen Lied is not the good kind of trashy. It's the "get sad drunk and ponder why you bother anymore" kind of trashy. Had a memorable, sad intro song, though. (immediately started playing in my head soon as it was mentioned, a decade or so after I saw it)
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Nov 28, 2017 18:20
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a kitten posted:Elfen Lied isn't trashy, it's lovely. Not both?
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Nov 28, 2017 18:22
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khy posted:I'm in the mood for something really lovely : A sci-fi/mecha harem show that focuses more on comedy than the mecha fights. The Irresponsible Captain Tylor? (unless you meant scifi "and" Mecha, not "or")
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Nov 28, 2017 22:42
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silentsnack posted:Those Who Hunt Elves Only in anime.
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Nov 29, 2017 04:30
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silentsnack posted:Best tank anime is Those Who Hunt Elves Despite the silly premise, dorky humor, dated references, and never being interested in this sort of show before, I enjoyed this quite a bit. Didn't expect to grow attached to the characters.
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Dec 1, 2017 04:48
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Random grab-bag, any of these cool/good/not even worth touching?
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Dec 3, 2017 05:39
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Everything Burrito posted:I remember Blue Sub 6 being kind of cool but I dunno how well it's aged. This was bad. The first fifteen minutes were promising. Colorful, cool, well realized post apoc setting, with the best Gonzo animation I can recall but it falls apart after the first action scene (the 3d work is dated, but it's not awful or distracting). The show is just boring and confusing. Despite only being 4 episodes long it's full of uninteresting scenes, with the characters vacuously mumbling about mostly nothing. What little plot there is is hard to follow because the conflict isn't really explained. Squandered potential, but I didn't really like anything about this outside the visuals (and those are a bit uneven too). E: kinda curious about the tie in game, cause it'd be a cool world to explore (though I'd prefer it without the weird humanoid animal faction). Rinkles fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Dec 3, 2017 |
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Dec 3, 2017 09:54
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dogsicle posted:Ryvius is a show i have really conflicted feelings on, but most of my experience watching it was enjoyable and i think it's interesting as a flawed show. so i'd definitely recommend it, maybe moreso if you go in knowing it's not a masterpiece, it's not just Lord of the Flies in space (there are mech/ship fights and gov't conspiracy), and the soundtrack is great as music but implemented atrociously in the show itself. This mirrors my feelings. The final episode was bizarrely happy and forgiving considering all the dark things that transpired. Like the Angelic Days scenario from Neon Genesis Evangelion but without the instrumentality (I was half expecting the show to reveal it was all Neya's dying hallucination). It felt almost loony. Regarding the music, a few of the orchestral motifs sounded like rearrangements of stuff in Banner of the Stars (I checked, same composer). The hiphop-ish stuff was pretty cool, but like you say, poorly used. I did like it overall. Especially how it captured youthful (or human) conflict. The stupid and trivial reasons the cast got into disagreements, and how those escalate through stubbornness and the inability to voice feelings. They overdo it sometimes (Yuki Aiba especially), but when it's not relying on tragic backstories for pathos, it's generally pretty good psychological drama. And the Lord of Flies moments are great. Also, I wish Neya got fleshed out more.
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Dec 9, 2017 07:33
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Open Source Idiom posted:
Ninja Scroll is a straightforward action movie with great animation, that anyone okay with some gore and sexual situations should enjoy. I've only seen the Ruroni Kenshin OVAs, and don't remember much beyond thinking they were quite good. Watch for tormented souls going through more pain to do the righteous thing. Noir was dull and slow, but I enjoyed it in its own way. It's one of the few anime I didn't consume in big chunks (i.e., only an episode every few days). A marathon would just be exhausting. It's more about the mood than action or plot (which is sparse). To this day I have some of the music on my iPhone (like the show itself, it's not exceptional but it sticks with you). I am probably one of a few people that preferred the first Hellsing anime to the OVA (production values notwithstanding), but only for a few of the episodes. It falls apart somewhere around the midpoint, iirc. The budget problems become clear very early.
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Dec 10, 2017 00:07
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Paperhouse posted:Ping Pong is great visually, but compared to stuff like Kaiba and Tatami Galaxy it just isn't that interesting plotwise imo I liked that it tackled issues of growing up in a serious way without an overly bleak atmosphere.
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Dec 10, 2017 00:15
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The Shortest Path posted:Noir is, imo, the worst of Kajiura's soundtracks, and that says a lot about her music. Any standout shows, with an Maybe it's time for another Bee Train romp. e:Bee Train hasn't produced a show in over 5 years? Rinkles fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Dec 10, 2017 01:29
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What was that infamous line from an Stay Night fansub? Something about love?
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Jan 3, 2018 23:39
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:"People die when they are killed?" Right. (I think the love quote I was thinking of involved coprophilia, probably from something even more dreadful) Rinkles fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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DamnGlitch posted:Fate/Zero is a light novel prequel to fsn. Fsn is an eroge with a few pornographic scenes that take up a fraction of a percent of the actual read time, and have been excised from / replaced in just about every subsequent release and all adaptations. Sex is still central to the relationship of master and servant, though right?
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