Anime Discussion Thread XXIV: silly names is our business, and business is good.

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GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

homeless snail posted:

wheres the speech bubbles

This is bullshit

# ¿ Jul 5, 2020 01:29

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 10:09

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

For real though thank you whoever did the work on this

# ¿ Jul 5, 2020 01:32

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

I feel like I'd take anything grouchio says witha huge grain of salt because he probably got it from some normie youtuber

# ¿ Jul 9, 2020 22:47

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Captain Invictus posted:

people posting about their first experiences with anime reminded me of this chestnut from back in the day

Back in I wanna say 1999 or 2000, on a very basic craigslist-esque site called Bartertown where people traded MTG cards and warhammer figures, I traded a bunch of shittily-painted warhammer fantasy figures for a bunch of "random" anime VHS tapes and playstation 1 games. I got Alundra, Thousand Arms, Legend of Legaia, and a couple other games in the trade, as well as VHS tapes of Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2, an anime with busty cop ladies with a very 80s or 90s aesthetic that iirc started with a bunch of people storming the precinct and brutally mercing a bunch of people? I think that was the one, I may be conflating that with a different series though. And a tape of some old mech anime with women pilots and the biggest drat thighs on a mech suits I've ever seen. and lastly a bootleg VHS tape of some sailor moon hentai that just had "SAILOR MOON" scrawled on it that I gave to my sister because she was super into sailor moon and I thought she might want it. Mom was not happy with the guy sending porn to children, and also wasn't too thrilled by the lady cop one that had people getting brutally murdered on screen, so I had to go through her whenever I wanted to trade with people on Bartertown after that.

Oh and he also included the entirety of the Gargoyles cartoon in gloriously lovely 144p on over four dozen CDRs, which, like, okay sure why not

I hope you have enjoyed my story

The cop one sounds like angel cop

# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 14:32

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

I watched toonami and stuff but didn't really get started until I found a blogspot with terrible quality rmvbs that I could download on my 56k connection. This is how I watched flcl, the original Hellsing, Afro Samurai and GaoGaiGar, and probably a bunch of other series I don't remember.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 14:36

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Zerilan posted:

Had never heard of KOR until just now but those gifs look cute and I want to go read/watch it now.

The anime is quite good, it's a romcom that ends quite definitively and covers all the emotional fallout that entails on top of being funny and creative

# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 23:32

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Speaking of 80s I started watching Moeru! Onii-san which is quite fun so far. The whole series is on youtube subtitled by a legend of fansubbing who has been around since the days of VHS fansubbing and came out of retirement for who knows what reason

# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 23:35

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Tunicate posted:

shame about the ending, it was a fun series while it lasted

The ending was good

# ¿ Jul 16, 2020 14:27

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

dogsicle posted:

i don't plan to read the 10-chapter manga adaptation of brigadoon but it sure seems to have a better ending than the tv series

A lot of those sunrise manga were more supplemental than a replacemetn, at least the betterman manga was like that

# ¿ Jul 21, 2020 04:31

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

The Colonel posted:

what kinda clarification is noting that gonzo animated it, gonzo's got a lot of duds but they've also been involved with lots of solid stuff

They haven't made any more duds than any other animation company really. The Gonzo meme must die

# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 14:31

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

dogsicle posted:

they were referring to gonzo original IP, not adaptations

i'm not gonna sift through a bunch of shows i heard about once more than a decade ago and never again for a quality assessment, but yeah saying anything against their adaptations would be stupid

The original post in question didn't mention anything about original ip?

# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 15:04

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

dogsicle posted:

yeah, it was a follow-up

Ohhh I totally missed that, my bad

# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 15:11

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Original works make up only a fraction of gonzos output so that's moving the goalposts a bit isn't it

# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 15:15

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

I guess I just want people to tell me why an anime is bad without using the studio as shorthand.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 15:21

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Tales of Woe posted:

hyouge mono was their last anime, yeah. they were basically a 1 director studio and the director retired

Hell of a show to go out on

# ¿ Jul 29, 2020 00:24

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Space Flower posted:

in an interview years later, Tomino had this to said about brain powdered

Lol

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 14:22

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Ranzear posted:

Holy poo poo. From that picture and description I thought she had completely lost her legs or something. Don't scare me like that.

Same

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 16:03

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Endorph posted:

She completely lost the use of her legs, it seems like. She started a youtube channel where she vlogs a bit.

oh.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 16:04

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_yeFGGEvc

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 21:08

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Furnaceface posted:

Im watching They Live for the first time in like 15 years and its still good. Are there any anime with the same premise?

Megazone 23

# ¿ Aug 7, 2020 01:36

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Zeether posted:

I still need to watch part 2 and maybe the Robotech movie cut for shits and giggles

Part 2 is an exceptional film. Enjoy

# ¿ Aug 7, 2020 02:43

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L20FczIv-y8

# ¿ Aug 7, 2020 04:42

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

# ¿ Aug 7, 2020 04:42

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

NikkolasKing posted:

Very hyped. And we IY fans aren't as alone as you might think. It's just that most of the fandom is dormant until new content arrives.

Super was just mentioned and DB is kind of the rare exception of a franchise that maintained popularity even when it got nothing new for a long time. I remember Attack on Titan was the hot new series everyone talked about in 2014 and then...nothing. It just faded away. Death Note was similar with everyone raving about it then trickling off right up until the Netflix adaptation came out which revived the fandom for a while and same for the manga oneshot.

I've been thinking about a series my GF got me into called Kyo Kara Maoh. That was another big anime that came and went. I'll always remember seeing Yuri (the MC of KKM) being listed as one of the favorite male characters in a Gundam Ace poll from 2005 or 2008 or something like that. Blew my mind. But nobody remembers KKM in 2020. Can't even watch it on Funi's website anymore.

Point is, Inuyasha was huge and beloved but everyone just wandered off because they figured it was over and done with. But now with a new series everyone is like "holy poo poo, I remember that show! I remember the early 2000s and being in high school! I can share it with my own children now."

Here's hoping it is good. Nothing wrong with feeding nostalgia if it's good. And I certainly do want more Inuyasha than I want more Naruto. Inuyasha went on too long as well but it had not so thoroughly poo poo the bed by the ending like Naruto did so I still have a lot of good will towards it.

All the kyo kara maoh fans ranked up into hardcore problematic decensored smut bl

# ¿ Aug 7, 2020 14:56

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

I think Groovin Magic is just okay. The animation in the op is just show highlights which is a little boring to me. That said I actually remember it which puts it far above gunbuster's op

# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 15:15

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

I cried harder at Diebuster so it's better, in my opinion.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 15:16

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Haruhi lost prominence because it's a bad show and zoomers have better taste than millenials do.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2020 15:59

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Arist posted:

I don't actually understand why people say the part 4 anime is bad

The part with the three fights glimg on at once was excruciating when it aired, and honestly a lot of the direction was just okay so I felt bored more than I did in any other part. Part 4 has a lot of good concepts but it failed to portray them in an engaging way for me.

Also I think Araki is better at enemy of the week style suspense and horror than the so-called slice of life town crap people seem to love so much

# ¿ Aug 16, 2020 14:15

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

I haven't and probably won't until the part 6 anime finishes but I'll keep that in mind. I probably shouldn't let my dislike of the anime color my view of the work itself

# ¿ Aug 16, 2020 14:24

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

punk rebel ecks posted:

I wasn't really familiar with the whole idol thing but people are saying what the show portrayed was toned down? What the gently caress?

But yeah it seems that Retsuko always is within a grasp of her dreams but then the show gives the message "nope, 9 to 5 job is still superior."

Is that really any different than any other sitcom? If she quits her job there's no more show

# ¿ Aug 28, 2020 16:19

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

If you want marxist anime learn japanese and translate Sasuke (1968) for me

# ¿ Aug 28, 2020 16:21

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

I like these idols that cover zeuhl bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBI1EL6G5vY

# ¿ Aug 28, 2020 20:52

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Acerbatus posted:

Was Akame Ga Kill actually any good? I think I liked it when I was 14.

Nope.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2020 18:38

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

El Burbo posted:

💯 💯

# ¿ Aug 31, 2020 01:55

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

AlternateNu posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIZL5qeEKj0

I think the original of this with the shin mazinger op is a lot funnier

# ¿ Sep 1, 2020 20:27

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

sinky posted:

For some reason this 90s British girl band official shown-on-mtv music video was literally the Ghost in the Shell movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76i4E5MTkI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz7qj3MteS0

# ¿ Sep 1, 2020 20:44

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

TenementFunster posted:

it's technically not a ghibli movie, but miyazaki directed it. it's the best lupin movie and it isn't even close. it gets some flak from lupin purists because it makes Lupin into a noble hero instead of an antihero thief, but it's objectively so loving good you shouldn't mind that it feels more like a ghibli movie than a Lupin movie.

also I just looked it up and according to wikipedia, Spirited Away was the first film to gross $200 million worldwide before opening in North America, the film to finally overtake Titanic at the Japanese box office, the top-grossing film in the history of Japanese cinema, the second anime to win the Japan Academy Film Prize for Picture of the Year after Princess Mononoke, and the only anime to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score. The notion that it isn't absolutely fantastic and a enormous critical/commercial success that defines the genre is a viewpoint held exclusively by internet-poisoned weebs on anime forums who can recite all the members of hololive from memory.

The past decade of cinema is proof enough that box office receipts aren't an indicator of quality

# ¿ Sep 3, 2020 19:34

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Also I forget which bad poster TenementFunster is but their name makes an itch in my brain somewhere

# ¿ Sep 3, 2020 19:38

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

TenementFunster posted:

you heard me. the very notion that spirited away isnt' one of the best examples of the medium ever created is a 2004-era "REEEE NORMIES!" cope.

yeah, that's probably one of the top 5 bad and stupid reasons i've been probated by a mod who went out of their way to misunderstand a post

did you go out of your way to not read all the examples of critical acclaim in that post?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away#Accolades

None of those matter either

# ¿ Sep 4, 2020 01:23

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 10:09

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

I rewatched Godzilla vs Mothra battle.for earth recently and I wish Battra would come back and destroy humanity for.our sins against gaia

# ¿ Sep 5, 2020 01:01

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