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At 4/3/09 04:22 PM, Toshirou wrote: Try here.

Thanks a ton!

I'm currently watching the original Japanese version of Gurren Lagann and the show get's more and more ridiculouse each episode! It's pretty good though.

My friend's REALLY into Non American-Mainstream anime, because it's untainted.

It's sad that it's getting harder to watch great mainstream anime. At least I can read manga (that becomes anime) and enjoy that. I'd especially like to see "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya".

Australia has a very... limited selection of anime on for advertised television. There's only a bit, and it's all terrible.

I haven't enjoyed any anime at all of recent, but if anyone has a suggestion/youtube link, PM me :)

What about Fist Of the North Star?

death note rules all your faces

At 4/3/09 02:08 AM, JJgamer93 wrote: I don't believe that anyone has mentioned FLCL! AKA Fooly Cooly! AKA Furi Kuri!

Only lasted 6 episodes, but damn was it a sick-ass anime, and I don't like most of the new anime's out right now.

Paranoia Agent was also pretty wicked, with Lil Slugger n' all, killing people. Only lasted 13 episodes. Damn, all of the best Anime's have the shortest lifespan!

I came when I read this. FCCL was and is the best anime to me. It had believable characters, great intros and outros, and a compelling story for such a short story. Paranoia Agent was ok, it was just kinda dragged out, if you know what I mean.

At 4/5/09 08:30 AM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote

I came when I read this. FCCL was and is the best anime to me. It had believable characters, great intros and outros, and a compelling story for such a short story. Paranoia Agent was ok, it was just kinda dragged out, if you know what I mean.

Also Trigun. I like the idea of a conflicted character like Vash the Stampede.

For good anime reivews, click the link in my sig.

At 4/2/09 07:58 PM, AnasaziTribal wrote: NO!!!! Da onley good animme is Naruito, it has nijmnjas!!!!!!! is so kool wen they jump frum tress and stuf!

Please do us a solid and jump from a high place.

At 4/3/09 07:09 PM, JJgamer93 wrote: (once more) GOD DAMN FOOLY COOLY!!

Does nobody but me love this show?

That show is amazing. Too bad it only lasted for 6 episodes :'(

At 4/5/09 08:28 AM, gizmo12345 wrote: death note rules all your faces

Too bad Adult Swim lost the rights to it :C I liked that show.

At 4/2/09 07:43 PM, ApotheosisLost wrote: See, that's how much I know about anime.

This leads me to question your credibility for making a thread about anime...

i'm not really into anime, but the original Pokemon series is really cool.
but i prefer the manga. my favorite manga must be Love Hina

At 4/4/09 12:16 AM, Chymeraxe wrote:

At 4/3/09 02:09 AM, CrazyDelmar wrote: Trigun FTW.

Hell yes, lol. Seconded.

FUCK YEAH! thirded.

lolwut?

I like cowboy bebop, the original dragon ball (not z) and trigun.

At 1/17/10 07:12 AM, Gobblemeister wrote: That's right DRAGON BALL Z

It's the greatest anime ever. It set so many standards in storytelling and character development. It was the anime you all should've watched before all that Yugi-Oh and Naruto came out.

Dragon Ball Z set absolutely no standards in storytelling.

People like Osamu Tezuka were making far deeper manga long before Dragon Ball Z was even conceived of (see: Buddha).

And that's not even considering the fact that the original Dragon Ball is much better

It set the bar for epic in all things and created a protagonist who is universally recognized as stronger than Superman.

It's really not difficult to create a protagonist that is recognised as 'stronger than Superman'.

I could write a story right now that created a protagonist stronger than superman.

Once upon a time, there was a man. This man was totally strong. His muscles were, like, the size of bowling balls or some shit like this. Anyway, this guy had the power to lift entire galaxies, because he was so strong.

One day, this guy (his name was Totally Strong Guy) rocket zapped up to space. He then decided to test his strength so he lifted not one, but two galaxies above his head. And he did this like a million times.

And then he flew back to Earth and killed Goku and Superman because he was so strong that he was much stronger than those two.

The end.

It has everything from a kickass protagonist to sexually ambiguous villains. Everything DBZ accomplished all other shounen have merely mimiced.

Great. It set the standard for shit clones. That's brilliant.

I always judge a show by how many terrible shows it influenced.

You all fail hard for promoting your pretentious shit anime and forgetting the masterpiece, the Mona Lisa of anime.

The Mona Lisa of anime? What the fuck?

That statement is wrong in several ways:

First of all, you're assuming that the Mona Lisa is the greatest piece of art, which is ridiculous considering how subjective art is.

And, more importantly, you're giving the series way too much praise.

This is a series that dragged out its episodes so long, it didn't seem out of place where a battle that took an in-universe five minutes, actually took up somewhere around five episodes.

This is a series that cut corners so much that by the end of it, every battle was either fought using laser beams, or by having the characters 'move so fast you can't see them' (and also, move so fast that the animators don't have to animate them).

This is a series that is just generally lazy, drawn out, and generally unimpressive.

The prequel series is better. The original manga is better. There are dozens upon dozens of shows that are better.

And you seem to think that the series had some sort of revolutionary storytelling, which it certainly didn't. It seems like an insult to the medium to think that a series like Dragon Ball Z could be the pinnacle of its success.

I mean, don't get me wrong; I watched the show as a child. But even then I recognised how ridiculously conspicuous all its problems got as the series went on.

I prefer my anime to be short and sweet. Little time for them to go off the rails in terms of quality like Dragon Ball Z did (alongside many other longer series).

At 1/17/10 08:08 AM, Aigis wrote: The Mona Lisa of anime? What the fuck?

That statement is wrong in several ways:

First of all, you're assuming that the Mona Lisa is the greatest piece of art, which is ridiculous considering how subjective art is.

Lol, because anime isn't subjective at all, right?

At 4/3/09 07:12 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: Prolly half the Anime Club, I haven't seen it, so can't say. Looks/sounds pretty cool, though. Currently, I'm watching Baccano! and Akagi.

FUCK YEAH AKAGI

Also, watched episode 1 of baccano yesterday. It was pretty decent, but I didn't like the old guy, young girl narration.

At 1/17/10 10:02 AM, Wesleyiam wrote: Lol, because anime isn't subjective at all, right?

Listen.

If someone takes their subjective opinion, and presents it as objective fact, then in response I will do the same. It keeps arguments interesting.

Nobody gets excited by an argument that constantly stops to say "but, you know, if that's your opinion you're not wrong I guess..."

At 1/17/10 10:22 AM, Aigis wrote: Nobody gets excited by an argument that constantly stops to say "but, you know, if that's your opinion you're not wrong I guess..."

Lol, very, very true, but I just brought the subjective thing up because you did.

At 1/17/10 07:12 AM, Gobblemeister wrote: That's right DRAGON BALL Z

That's a load of ass sauce. Each season starts with Goku training or fighting in some tournament, suddenly some 'colorful' villain, more powerful than the last deciding that he wants to fight Goku just because. The fight scenes consisted of ten episodes of episode long stare downs, fight scenes where all they would do is either rem into each other in the sky or shoot magical beams of pure cocaine at each other and It then ends with Goku doing some new move he conveniently learned which kills the villain and himself. And then his friends go bring him back to life with the Dragonballs and it goes back to the beginning.

At 4/3/09 03:30 AM, Garthredbunlove wrote: Well, why not?

Care to tell me what is that manga? I'm curious.

At 4/3/10 10:16 PM, orangebomb wrote:

At 4/3/09 03:30 AM, Garthredbunlove wrote: Well, why not?

Care to tell me what is that manga? I'm curious.

Actully, Don't answer that, I already knew what it was.