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My friend and I have very little experience with Gundam (both of us watched some of Wing when we were children and I watched 0080 War in the Pocket a couple of weeks ago) and I've also been looking for anime movies to watch together to kill time. Would it be appropriate to watch the compilation movies for the original series? Do they hold up as individual movies, or are they just a convenient abridgement of the show? Also, are there any good Gundam manga for neophytes? Feel free to post about good anime films in general.
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That sucks. Anyone know if a way to read Kamuiden? I've only ever found a few chapters scattered across manga scan sites.
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Oct 27, 2021 19:39
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I just binged through season 1 of Golden Kamuy with my anime buddy and was kind of disappointed. We were both really into it for the first few episodes, but towards the end we both felt that a lot of the more serious, grounded tone had been exchanged for standard goofy antics (ESPECIALLY the last two episodes, the hotel and racetrack ones). Do the second and third seasons maintain the same tone as the end of season 1, or do they course correct and get a little more serious again? How does the manga compare?
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Nov 7, 2021 07:29
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:If you're not enjoying the overwhelming homoerotic humor in Golden Kamuy then I don't know what to say. The only homoerotic humor I remember was stuff with Henmi and that was fine. Unless you count Ushiyama wanting to gently caress some sort of cannibal doctor trans(?) woman being "homoerotic," in which case that was kind of annoying? I just miss the tone of Sugimoto and Asirpa stalking things in the woods, camping, and learning about each other's cultures. When I think of the last few episodes, it's mainly a mishmash of Shiraichi being annoying and things like Asirpa hitting people with a stick or referring to miso paste as poop even though she's eaten it and enjoyed it several times. The humor feels like something you'd find in a typical shounen series, if that makes sense. Orb Crabmelt has issued a correction as of 19:57 on Nov 7, 2021 |
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Nov 7, 2021 19:45
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Chainsaw Man is great and remains the only shounen series I've read that I've really enjoyed, but like a lot of series I kind of felt the last arc was really convoluted and contrived.
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TenementFunster posted:i still don’t understand why alpha needed a gun I never finished the series, but maybe it was just to highlight that she didn't need one?
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Feb 18, 2022 02:47
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HootTheOwl posted:What series is this? Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou / Yokohama Shopping Log, a manga with fourteen volumes and two OVAs. An official localization was just announced (after the series concluded ~15 years ago). quote:Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (Japanese: ヨコハマ買い出し紀行)[a] is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Ashinano. It was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine from June 1994 to February 2006, with a concluding postscript episode in July 2006, and collected in 14 tankōbon volumes. Parts of the story were adapted as two original video animation (OVA) anime series of two episodes each, where the latter one is titled Quiet Country Cafe. Fan translations have been available for quite a while. The first official (omnibus) volume will be available in August. Orb Crabmelt has issued a correction as of 02:09 on Feb 19, 2022 |
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Feb 19, 2022 02:00
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Others have posted some tracks from the OVAs, this one is my favorite (though not available on YouTube, I think): https://soundcloud.com/cafe-alpha/fuwa-fura
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Feb 19, 2022 02:20
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I read some of the manga and watched half of the anime after someone posted favorably about it here and it seems like the author (regardless of his political orientation) just wanted to write a war story because he's primarily a huge history dork. I couldn't really give it a big recommendation, but I did think the manga seemed better in general. Also, Tanya's duck face in the anime looks stupid. I think the manga does a better job of making characters look alienating without the cliche twisted psycho grins. There's also fun little notes about warfare between chapters.
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Feb 22, 2022 19:17
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Kazuo Umezu draws some cool lookin' panels (and if I ever go to Japan, I'm gonna try to find that deluxe edition of God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand) but holy gently caress are his plots nonsensical and contrived. Although I'll always remember the baseball player mummy in Drifting Classroom with a certain fondness.
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Mar 9, 2022 23:42
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What is "doggo + brick" is what I wanna know
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Mar 13, 2022 13:53
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As a Three Kingdoms enjoyer, I was a big fan of the one lady from Princess Jellyfish who constantly shrieked about Dong Zhuo and restoring the Han Dynasty.
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Apr 8, 2022 01:05
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This little girl has a more nuanced understanding and critique of the invasion of Ukraine than any person I know in real life, and she's not even speaking her first language.
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May 9, 2022 03:28
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I remember seeing that Commodore Perry episode with the double subtitles when I first watched it over a decade ago, but I didn't see it when I started watching again this year. Maybe I need a different fansub? It rules that when they finally released an official translation of the first season of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei in English, they felt compelled to include a 300 page booklet explaining the jokes. I'm trying to make it to the end of the entire series and some segments are just baffling. Still looks cool as poo poo, pretend I posted some of the OPs with correct English subtitles since as far as I can tell they all get removed except for a few and all that's left is stuff in Spanish or incorrect English translations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx6ILOXQOhQ Orb Crabmelt has issued a correction as of 12:52 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Aug 31, 2022 12:48
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Are any of his works translated yet? Last I asked, the answer was "no."
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Oct 1, 2022 02:50
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It's been about a decade since I watched it so I could be wrong, but I don't remember any nudity in LOGH. And the gore was mostly from that one clip that's less than a minute long (still a good scene)
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Dec 31, 2022 07:23
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Is it just me, or is the new Junji Itou series on Netflix disappointing to anyone else? I watched the first two episodes with a friend. A second friend walked in right when episode two ended, asked how it was, and I immediately said "it kinda sucks." I can't imagine it gets any better. And I like Junji Itou, too.
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Feb 4, 2023 07:19
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FilthyImp posted:Ito really benefits from having a good long look at all the loving weird he puts on the page. Sleepy dude gets irises that look like some kind of hosed up plant maw, for instance. That's what I was thinking. I remember reading The Ice Cream Bus / Van / Truck / Man one (I forget what Netflix labeled it) and being absolutely disgusted by all the art, but was very disappointed with the final shot in the anime. Maybe it was from having read it before, but I felt no sense of anticipation, dread, or anxiety while watching. I remember reading the story and really feeling for the single dad who's trying to balance indulging his kid and raising him right. Watching the anime was like having someone tell me what happened in the manga. Maybe I'll have to revisit the manga, see if this is all in my head, but I suspect you're spot on.
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That's Denji's kid from Part 2, I think. Haven't read it yet. In any case, don't look it up unless you want spoilers for the remainder of Chainsaw Man.
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Feb 15, 2023 18:11
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net work error posted:TYFYS
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Cranappleberry posted:arakawa under the bridge, a deconstruction of capitalist elitism with practicable anarchy shown through the silly antics of peculiar characters that live by a river. Studio: Shaft. I liked it. Wish there was more of it. I think they ran out of material to adapt during the second season. The manga seems good, but has a lot less energy, lacking voices and music and whatnot.
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Apr 16, 2023 18:50
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Entertainment agency president-involved child abandonment
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Doc Hawkins posted:you don't mean Under Ninja, do you? I think he's talking about Kamui Den
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KirbyKhan posted:Hello Anime thread I bring news So, I'm assuming this is a film and not a series? Is that right? It says something about "national theater release decision" in Spring 2024. If you answer my question, you can watch this YouTube video of the author's episode of Naoki Urasawa's manga documentary TV series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oBAndgCPJ0
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I'm p sure Gamera is beloved by children efb
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wolfs posted:So this current season of animes is wrapping up. Did anyone finish anything? I think Oooku was technically this Summer. It was pretty good—my friend group actually watched it all over one weekend. I was worried it would just be the exact same history but with genderswapped major figures, but it ended up being far more interesting than that. I'm guessing no one talks about it anymore since Netflix just threw up all the episodes at once. I wish there were more serious historical anime series. I've tried watching some Taiga dramas but usually fall off a couple episodes in. Not enough pretty colors, I guess. I guess I'll probably be watching all of Masterful Cat at some point just because it's something pleasant enough to look at while eating breakfast?
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PSA: check your local theaters* because Spirited Away will be playing on some nights starting Halloween weekend. The original Ghost in the Shell will be showing in early November and Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers in December. Miyazaki's last / latest film is also coming to the States in early December. This website was the best I found for listing upcoming anime premieres and rereleases if anyone else likes watching anime on big screens. *might be exclusive to Cinemark, idk
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Hideshi Hino has a unique art style. It looks like if an extremely talented grade schooler was asked to draw the most disgusting and horrifying poo poo they could think of. Give Panorama of Hell a shot if you haven't read it. I respect Kazuo Umezu and a lot of his art is great, but the actual plots are very weak. I think my favorite of his was Kami no Hidarite, Akuma no Migite. Not as long as Drifting Classroom and I'm pretty sure it's episodic so if you're not feeling a story, you might not lose much by just skipping it. I'll try to think about other horror recs. Horror poo poo (Junji Itou in particular) was how I got started reading manga. As an aside (and I will try to be brief because I find myself not shutting the gently caress up about it in the Games horror thread), if you like Junji Itou and are looking for a turn-based horror roguelike with retro graphics (and are tolerant of some jank), check out World of Horror. 
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Oct 28, 2023 17:53
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A lot of Hino's work suffers from being officially translated and typeset back in the late eighties / early nineties, but if you can lean into how over the top everything is and aren't bothered by all the repulsive imagery, I think you'll get a big Halloween flavored kick out of it.  edit: Drifting Classroom was so ridiculous, lmao. Minor spoilers:  Don't even get me started on Umezu's Fourteen. Orb Crabmelt has issued a correction as of 18:29 on Oct 28, 2023 |
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Oct 28, 2023 18:06
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Doc Hawkins posted:Witches, by Daisuke Igurashi, is beautiful and short, and a sufficient Mood Match for the season Thanks for the reminder to read this. I just started and it's already fascinating
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Oct 28, 2023 18:53
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Heartbreaking when the series you follow is being officially released one-third of a chapter every two weeks on some app while the scanlations read like a robot having an aneurysm.
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Pitch posted:Watched an anime. I saw that tonight too. The subtitles really marred it. At least twice, the subs cut out a split second after appearing. Also, they used the Briticism "yobbo" at one point?? Really strange to see crap subtitles in a real life moovy thea-ter.
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Nov 9, 2023 05:41
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If you want decent fantasy manga, definitely check out Dungeon Meshi. I slept on it for a while because I thought it would just be food porn isekai, but it's very entertaining. The food stuff is just kind of a hook (and it's also not isekai). Heterogenia Linguistico is similarly interesting. It's about a fantasy world linguistics undergrad filling in for his injured professor who travels to a faraway country (continent?) of monsters in order to learn their languages and cultures. Humanity has waged war with them in the past, but pretty much all of the monsters are peaceful by default. I'm not sure if I'm remembering or understanding it correctly, but it seems like the monster people don't have any real written history or storytelling traditions, so they just kinda live in little anarcho communes to survive. There is some skeevy-seeming stuff in the first couple chapters with wolf people sniffing each other to communicate and stuff, but I swear there's no freaky sex poo poo. If you wanted an isekai specifically, Ascendance of a Bookworm is decent. The protagonist does exploit her knowledge to make money, but it's not nearly enough money to survive, more just a way for her to make contact with the mercantile caste and actually start learning about how the world works. She's not just reinventing soy sauce and sake and effortlessly building a harem.
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Nov 9, 2023 18:10
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Tokyo Godfathers will be getting a limited rerelease in theaters in the second week of December: https://www.fandango.com/axcn-tokyo-godfathers-20th-anniversary-satoshi-kon-fest-2023-232927/movie-overview
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Nov 15, 2023 23:51
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Is the Sakamoto anime worth watching? My friend group is really enjoying Migi & Dali, but Sakamoto's first ep didn't really catch my attention.
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feeling very blessed to live in a universe where gay girls can exist also, PSA time Anime films showing this month, courtesy of yattatachi.com: The Boy and the Heron / How Do You Live?, premiering December 8. The latest film from Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7EDFdA10pg  and for a few nights only beginning December 11, Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers. During the Christmas season, three homeless people find a baby in the trash. A great comedy-drama if you've not seen it!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEUrK6Xbo4 (Not anime, but that site also reminded me that the new Godzilla film is out now. It's set in post-war Japan and is supposed to be great in the same way that the first Godzilla and Shin Godzilla were.
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genericnick posted:There was a creepy twins show? Was that one good? Migi & Dali is pretty funny, my surprise favorite this season I think. I think it's a complete adaptation (could be wrong) which is always nice.
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Heads up: Satoshi Kon's Paprika will have a very limited run in theaters next week in 4K. I'm talkin' one or two nights (one dub, one sub) depending on the theater.
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1stGear posted:*windmill slams Buy Tickets before checking where the theater actually is* oh gently caress me, I'm gonna have to drive like 15 miles on Friday evening to get to this. Over thirty miles for me 
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I’m kind of jealous your first viewing of paprika was in a theater. My first viewing was watching it dubbed without captions with my friends even though we normally watch everything with subs. I didn't really know what was happening or what anyone's name was besides Paprika because even when I watch English-language media, I need captions or I don't catch 90% of what people are saying. Glad I could see it in the theater, too, in order to expunge this sin against sakuga from my soul.
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