Anime' - Whatcha Watchin? (Is it good?)

Thrawn · 2011-09-11T11:08:27.000Z

Holyfuckshitballs, episode 24 of Tiger & Bunny. The waiting gets more and more painful and damn it all, I expected something less than that. Glad to be wrong.

HRose:

Well, for a slight change try the series of six movies, Break Blade.

Or, for a real change, Star Driver.

It’s faaaaaabulously camp. And good looking with stilettos.

Angie_Gallant · 2011-09-11T11:30:57.000Z

They are showing the finale to Tiger and Bunny in 35 theaters across Japan at the same time as it airs on TV.

Quitch · 2011-09-11T11:49:13.000Z

I think the quality of episode 24 will, for me, depend on what happens in 25. It was a little too drawn out for me to have the same love it’s getting here though. There was something like two minutes of real content in that episode and a lot of very predictable, by-the-numbers, power of friendship.

Meanwhile I found Steins;Gate doesn’t come out until Tuesday and I’ve been raging all weekend. I need my fix now! NOW!

Angie_Gallant · 2011-09-11T13:51:37.000Z

This is the other major theme of episode 24 fanart on pixiv. Overall, the Japanese fanbase is way more upbeat about episode 24 than the American fanbase.

Thrawn · 2011-09-11T15:17:30.000Z

Angie Gallant:

This is the other major theme of episode 24 fanart on pixiv. Overall, the Japanese fanbase is way more upbeat about episode 24 than the American fanbase.

I love that, absolutely love it.

Tiger & Bunny

And no way Tiger can die. That would be too depressing and completely out of character for the show.

Morberis · 2011-09-11T15:21:52.000Z

Murbella:

There was a special as well.

In any event, I would guess that Morberis did not include anime he did not find potentially interesting as implied by the last paragraph in his post.

Yeah stuff I haven’t found interesting or haven’t gotten to yet. I’ve been pretty good at checking out everything mentioned here. For instance pure harem anime, or far out fan service stuff I don’t bother with. You may argue about how far too far is but I know my boundaries and Highschool of the Dead definitely liked to cross them.

If anyone has stuff they want on the list tell me and I’ll add it. I’ll also add any notations, like good series/movie for people new to anime.

Demon_G_Sides · 2011-09-11T16:35:21.000Z

Misguided:

I can’t believe the last EP of FMA: Brotherhood is airing tonight.

I marathoned this series (Over like a week, so not really a marathon, but still pretty significant amounts of episodes at once per day), and I was so much happier with the series as compared to the original TV series.

It was super fun.

Angie_Gallant · 2011-09-11T16:46:28.000Z

Morberis:

Yeah stuff I haven’t found interesting or haven’t gotten to yet. I’ve been pretty good at checking out everything mentioned here. For instance pure harem anime, or far out fan service stuff I don’t bother with. You may argue about how far too far is but I know my boundaries and Highschool of the Dead definitely liked to cross them.

If anyone has stuff they want on the list tell me and I’ll add it. I’ll also add any notations, like good series/movie for people new to anime.

I’d add Kaiji (very relevant to gamers) and Akagi. Also, 12 Countries (may be easier to find under Juuni Kokki) and Seirei no Moribito for fantasy series. And Gankutsuou is probably the best adaptation of the Count of Monte Cristo even if they did put Paris on the moon, make the Count a blue space vampire and add mech fights. Cromartie High School remains the best comedy anime to ever. Princess Tutu does magical girl deconstruction with ballet fighting and fairy tales and is a really beautiful experience. And Natsume Yuujinchou would appeal to anyone who liked Mushishi.

Thrawn · 2011-09-11T19:38:02.000Z

Morberis:

Yeah stuff I haven’t found interesting or haven’t gotten to yet. I’ve been pretty good at checking out everything mentioned here. For instance pure harem anime, or far out fan service stuff I don’t bother with. You may argue about how far too far is but I know my boundaries and Highschool of the Dead definitely liked to cross them.

If anyone has stuff they want on the list tell me and I’ll add it. I’ll also add any notations, like good series/movie for people new to anime.

I was about to ask for Cromartie but I was beaten to it. So instead, Arakawa Under the Bridge, like Cromartie but with less delinquents. Also second acid trip visuals Gankutsuou with it’s awesome name.

Toradora! for being a magnificent Rom/Com, Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen for being so awesome that you don’t even need to read or watch the original. Brilliant OVA. And Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu for being a comedy that dropped it’s plot a few episodes in for the same great comedy as before.

Murbella · 2011-09-11T20:59:03.000Z

How about removing summer wars from the list?

I’m used to short anime movies having very poor plots with little character development due to time constraints, but summer wars is a new low. If you really want to watch something with proxy battles and the nerd getting the popular girl, watch heroman instead.

In any event, there are simply too many anime to list without some sort of filter. I’d suggest anyone looking for anime to go to a site like aniDB, entering some filters for what you’re in the mood for (in the case of the ill-fated summer wars; romance, sci-fi, proxy battles) and then ordering by rating.

If you make an account, you can even tell it you’ve watched an anime and then check an option on your search to not show anime you’ve already seen. Quite useful.

Although it does make me happy to see shikabane hime on the list. I thought it was very underrated, even if it was basically an incomplete manga adaption with a disappointing ending (sadly not an uncommon event in anime).

Some of my random favorites (not mentioned):

Armored Trooper Votoms
Banner of the stars (the whole series)
Busou Renkin
Canaan
Chrno Crusade
Eureka Seven
Fate stay/night
Full Metal Panic
Ga-Rei Zero
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
Melody of Oblivion
Pandora Hearts
Kara no Kyoukai (the series)
Katanagatari
RahXephon
Read or Die
Scryed
Shakugan no Shana
Speed Grapher
Tetsuwan Birdy Decode
Towards the Terra
Utawarerumono
Zero no Tsukaima

Angie_Gallant · 2011-09-11T21:46:33.000Z

Oh, you know what needs to go on that list? Legend of Galactic Heroes. Someday I will even finish watching it.

Anders_Hallin · 2011-09-12T01:25:56.000Z

Angie Gallant:

Also, 12 Countries (may be easier to find under Juuni Kokki)

Twelve Kingdoms is the preferred translation for most Western releases.

Thrawn · 2011-09-12T04:10:47.000Z

Angie Gallant:

Oh, you know what needs to go on that list? Legend of Galactic Heroes. Someday I will even finish watching it.

It’s an OVA longer than 50% of series out there. Heard it was epic and I really need to get to that one.

And have to second Busou Renkin; found it fun, entertaining and had more man cheeks than I needed to see in a show. Twice on the fun.

7 Samurai, a mecha samurai version of The Seven Samurai and The Place Promised in Our Early Days for it’s gorgeous visuals and beautiful music.

peterb · 2011-09-12T05:37:53.000Z

I am going to add a single anime to the list, since I don’t think it has been discussed here before. It’s quite old, but is as good as anything made today.

It has a stupid name, but the show is very, very smart.

LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES.

Otagan · 2011-09-12T05:45:02.000Z

LoGH is absolutely fantastic, but is a huge time commitment. I still have 50 episodes of side stories to watch someday. While I have a few minor gripes with certain aspects of the series, they are more just personal hangups I have with a few things and shouldn’t keep any of you from at least giving the show a try.

peterb · 2011-09-12T06:54:55.000Z

Yeah, no doubt. There are something like 135 episodes in the “main line”. It does have the virtue that the action starts right away, so you can watch 2 of them and know right away whether or not it’s your thing.

I didn’t like most of the “side story” OVAs.

The specific things I like about it are: (1) not afraid to kill off cast members and (2) has an actual ending, instead of “We just ran out of money, so uh, bye”

Otagan · 2011-09-12T07:26:04.000Z

peterb:

not afraid to kill off cast members

Easily my favorite part of the series. It actually has the audacity to kill off any character at any time, without regard to their plot importance. That alone almost makes the whole thing worth watching.

Thrawn · 2011-09-12T20:24:30.000Z

How much funding did they get for that OVA? And how could you keep track of all the characters?

I’ll finish Katanagatari one of these days, just like I’ll start Seed: Destiny and be disappointed.

Or so I’ve heard.

Lynxara · 2011-09-12T20:33:18.000Z

IIRC, LoGH was funded via subscription. Basically, fans of the novel series would agree to pay an annual fee to have new episodes from a given series sent to them through the mail. The LoGH novels were hugely popular, so there was no shortage of fans willing to pay for an animated adaptation.

Murbella · 2011-09-12T20:35:04.000Z

Please don’t talk about Katanagatari and seed destiny in the same sentence.

Katanagatari was quite good and stylized in a way that was actually nice looking. I also liked the ending.

Seed Destiny was a HUGE troll of fans of the previous series in a degree not seen since the end of school rumble. The series completely changes the personality of basically all of the main characters in ways that do not make any sense (retcon?), changes the main character and generally pisses me off in every way possible. I liked Seed and i’ve watched A LOT of the gundams, but i dropped Seed Destiny with no hope of return.