2001

Watching doramas now.

One thing I noticed is that episode that last one hour/one and half an hour are divided into two or three parts, and every part has its own narrative thread and conclusion. So if someone starts watching halfway through he still can follow what goes on (this works on TV). Then all the threads in the whole episode are interconnected together to reward whoever followed for beginning to end. It’s a rather clever design :)

I watched the first episode of “Nobuta wo Produce”. It’s awesome. Just a typical school drama like every other anime you saw, with one new girl in the school getting bullied and the smart, beautiful and charismatic guy coming to rescue her. But in spite of a trite plot and humor that just won’t work for a western audience (pathetic), this is absolutely fantastic. It has a great direction, great soundtrack and it’s actually filled with good, natural acting. There’s still a lot of typical acting excess style of the japanese shows, but at the end the characters grow on you and feel authentic. The story is a pleasure to follow and they are able to tell with it something that isn’t so shallow as the concept would suggest. The typical idol protagonist just works here, especially when he’s together with his crazy friend.

I’m actually quite impressed by this show. It shows emotion in a good way and it’s amazingly produced. Great cast all around too.

2002

I am pretty sure these shows are like ten years old and were considered “retro” even at time of release.

And i am pretty sure that there hasnt been a better sci-fi animation ever since.

Just watch crest/banner of the stars.

Crest of the stars is absolutely amazing show, as are its sequels, but i have to say i’ve rarely seen a worse job done with spaceship battles. When armies fight in that show - i have no idea what is it i’m looking at, everything just kind of flies around randomly, rainbow-colored flashes, lasers, you can MAYBE discern which side’s ship just got in the frame, and even that with great difficulty. Horrible, just horrible.

Best spaceship combat in the anime is without any doubt Starship Operators. Although there arent impressively sprawling huge fleets - Starship Operators present what is actually a plausible abstraction. Something that may very well be how space war will be waged in reality.

2003

I found crest of the star’s unique take on spaceship combat interesting personally…

2004

Unique - without a doubt, but i, for one, like to be able to understand whats going on, as well as enjoy its uniqueness.

2005

Until someone actually translates all of To Terra, I’m not comfortable saying that. Everything I saw of that show looked goddamn amazing, but the sci-fi anime community turned their nose up at it because it was based on a fujoshi manga.

2006

the sci-fi anime community turned their nose up at it because it was based on a fujoshi manga.

I tried to watch it, i really did, but…it didnt grab me. At all. It wasnt a hard enough sci-fi.
Buuuuuut, i guess if G-P are subbing it - it must have some merits…probably. I’ll probably check it when i wont have anything else to watch, which is doubtful, as my waiting list is already quite huge.

2007

Er, I watched all of Toward the Terra (the TV series adapted from To Terra), completely translated (and translated well at that). Is that what you’re thinking of? It’s an excellent series in many ways, one of my favorites in fact, and yes you can find a batch torrent of the whole series in various popular torrent spots.

2008

Well… yes, it’s based on fujoshi manga. It’s a sci-fi story for women. So its storytelling priorities are quite different from what one might expect from the male-oriented approach to traditional sci-fi.

2009

Huh are you talking about the series with the Mu (physics) and soldier blue or am i thinking of something else?

In the event you are, it has been translated for a long time and it was an amazing show (in my opinion).

Wasn’t a hard enough sci-fi? It was a pretty unforgiving show that would get you attached to a character and then BAM he/she is dead and in this show, they don’t come back. when they’re dead, they’re dead. It also had a good ending that wasn’t what i expected in the least. It didn’t have a lot of super technology though if that is what you mean. At least half of the fighting was done by physic energy instead of technology.

2010

Really? I raged because the show got totally ignored when it came out, it’s nice to hear that someone’s picked it up after the fact. I believe Sunrise did the animation and in a rare modern moment of them giving a damn about quality.

2011

I won’t say what happens because QT3 doesn’t have spoiler tags, but Tokyo Magnitude 8 Episode 10. Damn.

2012

Wasn’t a hard enough sci-fi? It was a pretty unforgiving show that would get you attached to a character and then BAM he/she is dead and in this show, they don’t come back. when they’re dead, they’re dead. It also had a good ending that wasn’t what i expected in the least. It didn’t have a lot of super technology though if that is what you mean.

Hard_sci-fi

In the event you are, it has been translated for a long time and it was an amazing show (in my opinion).

There is actually no consistent, one-group, translation yet. I suggest waiting for G_P to finish. One of the best groups out there.

2013

It has been a while since i watched it, but I remember the fan subs being pretty good (although i don’t speak Japanese, it was easily understandable and made sense). Yeah, it was by two different groups, but what works works. G_P is good though.

I guess anything with people flying through the atmosphere/space and blowing up space ships using physic energy probably isn’t very “Hard Sci-fi” under that definition then.

2014

Is this the same show:

Or are you talking about something different?

2015

Yeah that looks like it is it. There is a movie by the same name, but that is 6 discs so i assume it is the bigger series and the graphics are from the series.

Surprised to see it actually got picked up in NA (even though it is a really good series).

2016

So is Twelve Kingdoms kid (5 years old) safe?

2017

I haven’t seen the show but IIRC it’s based on a YA novel for girls. Violence and adult content shouldn’t be concerns. There may be mild sexuality or gay characters running around, given the genre.

2018

I watched the first 10 episodes or so and loved it. But I have to say there are a lot of names and concepts thrown around and I don’t think a 5 year-old would be able to follow.

2019

This. Bones is pulling no punches in their latest masterpiece.

2020

How could the kid in you not thoroughly adore this?