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| Ocean Waves |
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6 | 5.83% |
| Tokyo Godfathers |
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23 | 22.33% |
| My Sister Momoka |
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4 | 3.88% |
| Garden of Words |
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6 | 5.83% |
| Short Peace |
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2 | 1.94% |
| Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem |
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17 | 16.50% |
| Patema Imverted |
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6 | 5.83% |
| Yoyo and Nene |
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3 | 2.91% |
| the Little Witch Sisters |
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3 | 2.91% |
| The Tale of the Princess Kaguya |
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10 | 9.71% |
| Sailor Moon R |
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11 | 10.68% |
| Dragon Ball Super: Battle of the Gods |
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12 | 11.65% |
| Total: | 45 votes | ||
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cool, gonna watch the first 4 episodes this weekend. only context i have is a vague half memory of a friend telling me this was cool 15 years ago
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Feb 1, 2023 17:18
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watched the first 4 episodes on the bike today. loving it so far, minus the creepy background laughter that starts and ends the ed.
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Feb 7, 2023 03:46
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TenementFunster posted:love the enemy agents disguised as anti-war revolutionary peaceniks in ep2. i forgot how quickly they introduce the supporting cast! the crew owns even though i've only seen them for 2 episodes. i think the twins are my favorites so far; they're the only ones 100% down with tylor's stupid poo poo + they wear goofy space suits. although the fist of the north star guys and pretty boy rookie pilot beating the poo poo out of each other 5 minutes after their introduction is also pretty cool. and the communications officer appears to be voiced by misato. maybe this is tougher than i thought.
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Feb 7, 2023 03:56
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yeah that was the exact moment i went, 'maybe these twins are based and not just single episode props for a funny situation'. TenementFunster posted:Kotono Mitsuishi rules. she's in hybrid usagi-misato performance in this and has such a nice range that i forgot she voices both (and haro in Gundam SEED lol). unfortunately i watched sailor moon with my sister on toonami when i was like 8, so i only have the filthy dub experiences.
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Feb 7, 2023 06:01
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the extended blue danube scene in episode 6 is so good lol
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Feb 14, 2023 03:27
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Sleng Teng posted:Working hard for those who demand the finest in image and sound! bless you, hard working animation and sound teams. 
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Feb 15, 2023 01:43
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watched a few more episodes today, still great. comedy highlight has got to be the episode 9 montage of the crew trying to stay calm while they put all their hope in tylor doing something. especially the goons pulling flower petals. for not funny bits, i really liked harumi's little arc in episodes 8 and 9, especially the scenes where we see her reactions to tylor spending time with the old retired admiral/whatever his rank was because i forgot already. we've seen a decent amount of tylor being at peace with himself and how that can positively affect the people around him that are stuck in forever war, but seeing his completely selfless act of kindness for an old man he barely knows hits a bit different. also tylor casually dropping in to ask about her cool spy mission stuff is adorable.
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Feb 15, 2023 02:01
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triple post: i went back and watched harumi's knife assassination attempt on tylor a few times because the animation looked so good
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Feb 15, 2023 02:03
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Endorph posted:the animation is best described as picking its spots, theres a lot of moments where its pretty stiff but it really comes alive at times and it rules i was already content with the pretty backgrounds and goofy facial expressions because i've watched way too much modern seasonal anime lately, but if they to keep doing more stuff like that assassination scene i'm all for it Tales of Woe posted:the main thing i remember about tylor production wise is that the art direction is really vivid and good and stood out compared to other early 90s tv stuff i've seen. maybe i just had a particularly good bd rip though 100% agree and i'm just watching whatever crunchyroll dug out of their dumpster.
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Feb 16, 2023 04:44
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it's too late for you, captain shia has. you've entered the 'i'm going to kill myself -> tylor is the greatest' pipeline that every other character with more than 2 minutes of screen time eventually goes through.
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Feb 21, 2023 04:00
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i enjoyed the one-off ghost ship/twins being badass pilots/almost killing yourself playing virtua whack-a-mole episodes, but i'm definitely way more excited to see tylor interact with the raalgon empire.
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Feb 21, 2023 04:05
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the ost also rules, if i didn't say that yet. especially the jazzy horn stuff or the pieces that sound like they're played with casio keyboard tone 142 - military choir oohs
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Feb 22, 2023 17:20
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Sleng Teng posted:Raalgon empire really is a great series of episodes. Feels like it becomes a different show for a bit but that is not to its detriment and imo they are of the best episodes in the show yet. Also another place where they really put the detail into the animation (e.g. Azalyn tiptoeing around) watched the episode where azalyn gets a midnight snack last night and you're right it absolutely owns. i dunno if it's really a different show though; it's pretty much the same plot as the retired admiral episode (tylor ignores the shadow of death looming over him to spend time with someone who is silently suffering while his crew tries to find him), just blown up to a bigger scale.
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Feb 22, 2023 17:32
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yeah that's fair. the atmosphere and framing everything around azalyn and dom's perspectives make this arc a lot more than a 'tylor is nice' story.
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Feb 22, 2023 18:16
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Sleng Teng posted:I meant to write "almost" in that post, but I'd say it's more than a difference of scale, more like how it's being presented imo. regardless probably my favorite stretch of eps after watching some more, the melodrama and pseudo-instrumentality stuff does go pretty hard for a while. it's a nice touch how the show gets progressively more serious/introspective as tylor gets more isolated and incapacitated, and as soon as he's conscious again we get a 'tylor accidentally deletes the crews only porno' episode
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Feb 23, 2023 22:37
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tylor is so tranquil for most of his screen time, i'm glad the animators go all out whenever azalyn is around
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Feb 23, 2023 22:39
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Sleng Teng posted:The back half of episode 23 kicks rear end! holy poo poo it's so good. 
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Feb 26, 2023 02:54
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finished up the show today, the last 4 episodes are incredible and are easily the highlight of the show to me. episode 23 was such a perfect resolution to the battle that i wasn't sure what the last 3 episodes would cover, but i guess the show wasn't really about resolving a big space empire conflict in the first place. i'm so happy we got an entire 3 episode denouement where everyone finds their peace and purpose. extreme props to the hard working image team; the last two episodes where everything is cloaked in darkness and shadows look spectacular, especially the scene with yuriko and tylor on the soyakaze. the crew invitation gags are the funniest portion of the entire show. i can't believe how good the last episode is.
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Feb 26, 2023 22:06
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image dump plus some thoughts: the scene where tylor gets metaphorical blood on his hands when he realizes the old admiral died while he was off doing stupid military poo poo is incredible. heck the whole episode is  i wish everything was retroactively set in future night time city or pitch black soyokaze, it's so beautiful.   i lied when i said the crew invitation gags are the funniest part of the show. it's this (dom and azalyn are honorary crew members so it still counts)  
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Feb 26, 2023 22:21
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Endorph posted:tylor's a really good show. its sort of half-remembered as just kind of funny but its genuinely good space adventure stuff too. it's got a very kind heart for a show where 75% of the run time is a dude staring blankly into space while people around him go insane.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:47
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i'll probably watch the ovas sometime this week. is the 2017 show worth watching at all? it has incredibly bad numbers on mal and anilist, but it also looks like it would only take an hour to get through it.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:48
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Julias posted:The 2017 show has a 3.88 average rating on MAL. Even your average dogshit isekai gets above a 5, usually above a 6, so that should say a lot... yeah i've never seen something that low. figured i'd ask in case there's a gang of people who absolutely hate 5 minute shorts or something
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Feb 27, 2023 05:49
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i wasn't planning on watching it but maybe i'll give it a shot still since it's only 13 episodes
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Mar 22, 2023 23:13
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did i torrent something weird or are there actually cool crt scanlines over everything?
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Mar 27, 2023 02:02
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that rules
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Mar 27, 2023 04:13
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i watched the first 4 episodes of kino's journey tonight. first time viewer (i've also never seen lain or anything else by the director but i can tell already that i'll be fixing this mistake sooner rather than later) although i was aware of the kino + talking motorcycle go visit weird places premise beforehand from anime nerd cultural osmosis. i figured it would be kind of like anime invisible cities, and i'm very happy to report that so far it is literally anime invisible cities. biggest surprise for me is how ominous and brutal the atmosphere is. kino is certainly contemplative and prone to introspection -- and it looks like we're going to get some sweeter/playful cities like the cat ear folks -- but every time it feels like things are settling down it jump cuts to quick draw practice or creepy ambient music starts playing. the director probably had other aesthetic goals in mind when he added the artificial scanlines, but this random 480p torrent looks much better than i thought it would in 2023 and that weird design choice has a lot to do with it. that and the extreme color palettes a lot of the cities have been working with. the cannibal slave truck episode in particular is a great example; pretty much every scene is either pitch black or super blown out white light sources and i honestly don't know if it would function as well with a higher resolution. so far the show rules. hopefully i can pound out the rest of the show over the next 2 days to live the authentic traveler experience
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Mar 28, 2023 07:39
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props to kino for having the same half open mouth camera stare that captain tylor did. birds of a feather
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Mar 28, 2023 07:42
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Namtab posted:Thats a face that says someone's going to get got :smugkino:
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Mar 29, 2023 00:59
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whoa there's a tournament arc
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Mar 29, 2023 04:39
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Endorph posted:it owns because its such a change of pace i love all of the conventional anime fighters
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Mar 29, 2023 04:49
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the previous episode owned too. i love a good punchline and hermes malapropism at the end of the democracy city is amazing.
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Mar 29, 2023 04:56
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Endorph posted:there's a bunch of episodes with great punchlines, the tournament arc has a good one too. 'Sorry, I don't hang out with angsty guys with dogs.' lol. i guess it was actually a revenge narrative the whole time because, as hermes points out, none of the fighters hit on kino when they met up for the first time.
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Mar 29, 2023 06:16
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i like how much the middle section of the show shifts narrative styles between episodes. really helps it capture all sorts of wonderful and horrifying aspects of our human journey. also definitely excited to see how things evolve and wrap up over the last third; i can't really imagine there being some final climax, but i guess we'll probably get some perspective or closure on kino's dream/purpose/reason for travelling as that's been a rather persistent theme for the last few episodes.
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Mar 29, 2023 06:31
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there's an earlier episode where a big heron style bird flies into some water with cool reflection visuals (and also a bunch of other birds are around the rest of the episode), and i almost made a joke about kino turning into patlabor 2. i'm glad i didn't back then because the land of peace episode is a much better analog. pretty sure you could overlay like any 5 random minutes of visuals from this episode over the just war/unjust peace conversation from patlabor 2 and the context wouldn't change a bit for either.
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Mar 30, 2023 06:03
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needed to take a break before the final episode because these last two were horrifyingly beautiful
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Mar 30, 2023 06:05
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the final episode is amazing and a perfect resolution to the show. real happy i decided to watch this with 5 days left because it will probably end up very high on my Favorite Anime List. guess i'll keep not voting for the monthly anime because everyone else has been knocking it out of the park for the last two months. i think the aspect of the show i loved the most is that it managed to craft a compelling character arc for kino through 12 standalone episodes. it's fascinating to experience each episode gradually build on the same motifs of dreams, journeys, and the function of stories to show how kino goes from someone uncomfortable sharing a tale with an old man on his lunch break, to someone who understands their ultimate purpose as a traveler is to carry the stories of the people and cities they encounter. i kind of want to revisit the book country episode armed with some thematic clarity from the last few episodes because i imagine it would probably read a lot differently than my first viewing (also i forgot to screenshot the part where the head librarian says critics are crazy people who ruin other peoples lives so i can post it the next time someone talks about anime youtubers in the chat thread). i don't know if i'm going to watch the 2017 edition any time soon, but i am interested if it takes the same approach or if it tries to tell a slightly different story.
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Mar 31, 2023 02:13
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