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When it focused on the two main characters, Annoying and Boring, I did not like it and I loathed the three little kids. When the supporting characters or the world were more prominent, I found it OK.

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So I finally got around to watching Attack on Titan…been on my list to watch forever. I pretty much agree with unbongwah; great show except for Eren, who is alternately an ass, a wuss, and an idiot. I was very happy when they “killed” him early on, but it was too much to hope that it would last. Outside of his character, pretty much everything is great, including the action scenes. All the zipping around on lines and hacking away with swords is a lot of fun, and going all Titan-form is an interesting, sorta bio-mecha twist on standard anime fare. Wikipedia says there’s a second season coming in 2016, and I’ll certainly be looking for it.

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I haven’t caught up with Arise yet (still need to watch the last 2 OVAs) but a new animated movie has been announced coming in 2015 from Production IG. I believe it is a follow-up to the OVAs but a little hard to tell at the moment (I think Toho is doing the animation so I’m assuming so).

— Alan

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I recently watched Mardock Scramble. If disturbing and weird crime in a near-future cyber-enhanced world is your thing, it’s probably right up your alley. But woo boy, does it ever push the “disturbing” bit pretty far. Be warned…sex, violence, nudity, underage participants throughout.

I found it via some basic “hey I liked Ghost in the Shell” searches, and it certainly had some similarities, what with the various types of cyborgs running around, and chase-the-criminal plot points. Also there’s a nice long section in a casino with basically no action and a lot of tense conversations that veer into philosophical musings, fits right into the GITS mold.

I knew it was edgier than GITS from what I’d read, but as I’d avoided spoilers I didn’t realize quite how much. Not something for the kids, that’s for damn sure. Which made the use of a teenage girl and a cute little glowing mouse as protaganist and primary supporting character a bit jarring. Reminded me of Elfen Lied in that…oh, look at the cute characters, aren’t they just adorable little purveyors of Rambo-esque slaughter?

It’s pretty short, just three one-hour episodes, and I think that’s a good thing. Too much more and it would be overload on all that disturbing stuff.

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I’m watching the original Saint Seiya anime and seriously wondering WHAT THE FUCK happened to japanese animation in the last (many) years.

The original series is amazingly well drawn and it also has a great direction. But especially look at this:

1986 (and I can’t stop taking screenshots because of how amazing it is every episode):

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2005:

Twenty years and everything’s gone to shit.

But the real problem is that ALL modern animation took a turn for utterly ugly colors and lines. It’s across the board.

It’s not even “art”, it’s the technique used that now it shit. Must be computers.

I mean, compare this modern shit:

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To this:

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Finally got around to watching Fate Zero, been on my list for a while. I enjoyed it, although I thought the ending was kinda weak. No big final battle between Saber and Archer, after all the build-up and convoluted maneuvering they did to get it down to those 2? Meh. No real resolution to the whole “if we don’t settle this then the children will have to deal with it in 60 years” either, though that was no surprise - always leave room for a sequel! Was a fun ride though, despite all that.

I also watched RWBY off a Netflix recommendation. It’s a web series with a bunch of short episodes, but Netflix has it all (thus far) in two volumes. It’s got an odd animation style built off 3D computer animation, which looks really good during the battle sequences but has its issues elsewhere. I really liked the characters and storytelling, though, and look forward to seeing more. Supposedly there’s a third volume coming based off something the creator said at PAX last year, but no confirmed dates that I could find.

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Such is the fate of a prequel.

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Hah, you know, I’d put it on my list without noting that it was related to Fate/Stay Night and totally spaced on its prequel status. I guess I’d better watch that now and see if that changes my mind about the ending.

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Gonna recommend you skip the original series and just watch Unlimited Blade Works (currently half aired, part 2/2 starts in April), since it’s by the same studio as F/Z (so they’ve written it to be more of a direct sequel than the 2006 series), is generally of higher quality and adapts a better part of the game anyway.

At the very least, make sure you never touch the movie, no matter what you do.

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I also just found out about RWBY recently and I really loved it. You can tell the animation improved during the second season. The creator died and I think Rooster Teeth will continue the show, but who knows when that will occur.

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This thread made me watch No game no life again, thanks for it!, I enjoyed watching it as much (maybe more) than the first time.

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I tried to watch it and lasted about 30 seconds. Holy shit can I not handle looking at that.

Maybe I’ll skip ahead to the 2nd season and see if I can handle it, but I suspect I wont. Something about that style makes me irrationally angry.

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I am watching “Parasite” and I really like it. Every episode move the story around vigorously, and it goes to places, the writing is not scared to make things happen, love, violence, changes. So in that way is satisfying. The first episodes it looks like is a anime with only a good idea, but after the first 2 or 3, the idea is the lest important thing, and is more important what the anime does with it, and the character.

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Death Parade is the good one this season. Parasyte has some decents ups and downs in quality.

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Xbox One had Lagrange Season 1 for free. I hadn’t watched any anime in a while, so I started watching the first episode. Ugh. Sooooooooo cliche. I had to stop watching 5 minutes in. But that’s not really fair to the series. I’ll probably give it another try later. At least an episode or two.

Anyone here seen it? The description kind of reminded of Evangelion.

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I never bothered with Lagrange, but a friend of mine who did said that the second season was extraordinarily disappointing, so if you’re having that much trouble with the first season you may just want to bow out.

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TurinTur is very correct. Dead Parade is good shit.

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I’ve been digging Parasyte since it was recommended here, so I’ll try Dead Parade too. Thanks guys.

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Same. Almost done with Parasyte so Dead Parade will be next.

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I just started Hitsugi no Chaika, which is another Fantasy/Sci-Fi adventure with almost-no fan service. Seems OK so far, but too early for me to recommend or not.