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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #90 on: March 03, 2012, 06:04:48 am »
Watching Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. It's quite good, and appeals to the soppy romantic in me.

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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #91 on: March 03, 2012, 09:45:18 pm »
Watching Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. It's quite good, and appeals to the soppy romantic in me.
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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #92 on: March 03, 2012, 10:16:32 pm »
Honorable Mentions: Yuyu Hakusho, Elfen Lied (that's one fucked up anime), Pokemon (early), Yugioh (early), Akira

You know, I honestly feel Pokemon's anime has improved quite a bit over the years. It has much better characterization these days, and is a heck of a lot better about sticking to the rules of the video games. No Pokemon knows more than 4 attacks (for instance, Pikachu recently forgot Volt Tackle when it learned to use the new 5th-generation move Electro Ball--it hasn't used Volt Tackle once since learning the new move, but has continued to use Thunderbolt, Quick Attack, and Iron Tail), and Pikachu hasn't electrocuted a Ground-type in ages. Plus, they no longer just shove badges at Ash randomly whenever he loses a battle. Instead, he typically trains for a while to learn some new tactic, which will actually carry on throughout the series well after the gym battle he initially developed it for. That kind of character progress just didn't exist in the series before the 3rd generation arcs, and has gotten better as time goes on.

Every time I hear people complain that the Pokemon anime sucks now, I usually point out the fact that 1, they're looking at the early seasons through the nostalgia filter and 2, objectively, it was never all that good to begin with. It was always meant to promote the games and merchandise and was never meant to be particularly memorable.
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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #93 on: March 08, 2012, 03:06:39 am »
Hmm... Good anime that I've watched...

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Code Geass R1 and R2
Death Note
Spice and Wolf
The Daughter of Twenty Faces (This is an awesome anime and deserves more recognition)
Ouran High School Host Club
Soul Eater
Hetalia: Axis Powers (well, I'm kind of obligated, I used to RP as America on Facebook)
High School Of The Dead (kind of)
Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler
Elfen Lied (I was forced to watch it)
The World God Only Knows (I can't stand the recent English dub though - maybe that's just me being used to the sub though)
Yu-Gi-Oh + GX and 5Ds (although I feel like I'm looking back at the original and GX through nostalgia-vision)
Dragonball + Dragonball Z (Hell no to GT)
FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (I preferred it over the original FMA anime)
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (because sheer awesomeness, that's why)
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (and its follow-up series')
Pokemon
Digimon (the Original and then most of the follow-ups and spin-offs)
Bleach (note to self: Do not power through 250 episodes of an anime - it's not fun)
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Durarara!! (I just wish more volumes of the manga were out in English)
Ao no Exorcist (although some of the imagery was kinda disturbing)
To Aru Majutsu No Index (-looks at my profile pic- ...Betcha didn't see that coming)
To Aru Kagaku No Railgun (I kind of enjoyed this a little more than Index, on the whole)
Bakuman (although, in my opinion, the manga is definitely better)
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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #94 on: March 10, 2012, 07:13:40 pm »
Finished Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai while playing what I call the Ano Hana drinking game. That is, take a sip every time someone says "Menma". Not only was I crying by the end, I was drunk as all hell.

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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #95 on: March 11, 2012, 01:08:49 am »
I just finished watching Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, the anime is pretty good, although short. The manga has been going on for ages but the anime only lasts 50 episodes. This is not necessarily a bad thing as it does mean that:

a) No stupid fillers. (Filler episodes generally seem to be of inferior quality, which has always seemed odd to me.)

b) Proper ending. The anime lasts as long as the first important plot in the manga and it ends in the only spot where it can end without being a horrible cliffhanger.

Most of the other stuff that I've liked already seems to be here so I'll just add that DON'T WATCH THE ORIGINAL HELLSING ANIME! The new OVA's seem to be of better quality but the old one was mostly just horrible. Especially the ending...
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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #96 on: March 13, 2012, 05:36:53 pm »
Finally got around to watching FLCL.  I liked it.
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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #97 on: March 15, 2012, 08:20:31 pm »
Spring 2012 Anime Chart

Based on this chart and the other descriptions I've seen, I'm most interested in Fate/Zero Season 2, Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, Acchi Kocchi and Uchuu Kyodai.

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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #98 on: March 15, 2012, 09:18:04 pm »
I don't know what's worse, the fact that there's only one thing on that list that interests me or the fact that there is a third season of Queen's Blade.
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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #99 on: March 16, 2012, 11:57:48 pm »
I don't know what's worse, the fact that there's only one thing on that list that interests me or the fact that there is a third season of Queen's Blade.
Who even watches that crap?  I don't know a single person who likes it.

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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #100 on: March 17, 2012, 03:15:56 am »
Well, some people have to like it, otherwise there would not be a third season and there would not be a goddamn Queen's Blade MMORPG in development. Seriously, the popularity of that franchise and the current prevalence of moe shows that there is something severely wrong and sexist with the Japanese anime fanbase.
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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #101 on: March 17, 2012, 10:17:59 pm »
I don't know what's worse, the fact that there's only one thing on that list that interests me or the fact that there is a third season of Queen's Blade.
Who even watches that crap?  I don't know a single person who likes it.

I've heard that it's a pretty decent action show just with near hentai levels of fanservice.  Much like Strike Witches and Highschool of the Dead are awesome action shows with a titanic about of fanservice.

I haven't seen Queen's Blade myself, so I can't say for sure.

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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #102 on: March 18, 2012, 12:54:59 am »
So, I just picked up the first volume of this series, and it is one of the funniest things I have read in a while.

Or, to put it in the words of the best way to positively review something:

Oh my god, this is the greatest comic I've ever read in my life! So there's this guy, okay? And he's an ordinary high school boy. But he's also... a zombie! Except he doesn't drool or eat brains, so he must be a good guy zombie. And then a girl falls on him from the sky! She has a magic chainsaw that she kills demons with! Except the zombie guy accidentally steals her powers--and her clothes! It must be nice to have clothes someone wants to steal, even accidentally... So then he kills the demon and the magic girl starts living with him at home! Also living with him are the necromancer who resurrmarected him, who doesn't talk--I didn't talk once, too! Boy, that was a weird week--and also a vampire ninja! The vampire ninja wants favours from the necromancer, but not in that way. And then they all hang out together! And everything is weird and funny! And sometimes the zombie has to be the magic girl, even though he's still a guy! So, in conclusion, CHANGE! YA GOT ANY CHANGE??
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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #103 on: March 18, 2012, 02:24:31 am »

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Re: Good/bad anime thread
« Reply #104 on: March 18, 2012, 02:39:25 am »
So, I just picked up the first volume of this series, and it is one of the funniest things I have read in a while.

Or, to put it in the words of the best way to positively review something:

Oh my god, this is the greatest comic I've ever read in my life! So there's this guy, okay? And he's an ordinary high school boy. But he's also... a zombie! Except he doesn't drool or eat brains, so he must be a good guy zombie. And then a girl falls on him from the sky! She has a magic chainsaw that she kills demons with! Except the zombie guy accidentally steals her powers--and her clothes! It must be nice to have clothes someone wants to steal, even accidentally... So then he kills the demon and the magic girl starts living with him at home! Also living with him are the necromancer who resurrmarected him, who doesn't talk--I didn't talk once, too! Boy, that was a weird week--and also a vampire ninja! The vampire ninja wants favours from the necromancer, but not in that way. And then they all hang out together! And everything is weird and funny! And sometimes the zombie has to be the magic girl, even though he's still a guy! So, in conclusion, CHANGE! YA GOT ANY CHANGE??

Oh god, Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka?, I loved this show to death when i watched it fansubbed, really wished it was longer; and it seems my wish is about to be granted, because there's a second season on the way in april and I couldn't be happier.