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At 8/15/08 04:07 AM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: TONIGHT I introduce my roommate to Akira.

I'm not sure about Akira.

It's amazing visually, of course, but it's the narrative which I'm not sure about.

I'm just not sure that it really makes sense, after all they cut out from the manga.

At 8/15/08 05:00 AM, Kuro wrote: I'm just not sure that it really makes sense, after all they cut out from the manga.

I never read the manga. That is why.

Well just finished Speed Grapher and it was throughly disappointing. Great for the first couple episodes, but it just goes downhill afterwards.

Also got through the second disc of GetBackers; still cliche, still horrendous dubbing.

Many beers and one Akira movie later, my roomate looked at me and said "You are one weird motherfucker."

Can't win them all.

At 8/15/08 05:50 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Many beers and one Akira movie later, my roomate looked at me and said "You are one weird motherfucker."

Can't win them all.

LOL

I preferred the Manga, since the buildup wasn't so huge and the conclusion wasn't as lame/ambiguous.

Also, a more general question:

Does the Bookndocks, count as anime since McGruder uses the same style as anime? Especially the fight scenes, those are amazing.

At 8/15/08 05:50 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Many beers and one Akira movie later, my roomate looked at me and said "You are one weird motherfucker."

Can't win them all.

I watched Akira a few weeks ago, i laughed when the guy lost control of his powers and i noticed what South Park was referencing in one of their episodes.
I also started watching berserk yesterday, it´s good.

At 8/15/08 06:33 PM, DeIirium wrote:

At 8/15/08 05:50 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Many beers and one Akira movie later, my roomate looked at me and said "You are one weird motherfucker."

Can't win them all.

I watched Akira a few weeks ago, i laughed when the guy lost control of his powers and i noticed what South Park was referencing in one of their episodes.

HOLY SHIT

I never recognized that/made the connection.

WOW

Those guys can make fun of anything and everything (which they do)

At 8/15/08 06:38 PM, Fremen wrote:

At 8/15/08 06:33 PM, DeIirium wrote: I watched Akira a few weeks ago, i laughed when the guy lost control of his powers and i noticed what South Park was referencing in one of their episodes.

HOLY SHIT

I never recognized that/made the connection.

WOW

Those guys can make fun of anything and everything (which they do)

Is the naruto club raiding us, or are the idiots just on parade today?

At 8/15/08 06:41 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote:

At 8/15/08 06:38 PM, Fremen wrote:

At 8/15/08 06:33 PM, DeIirium wrote: I watched Akira a few weeks ago, i laughed when the guy lost control of his powers and i noticed what South Park was referencing in one of their episodes.

HOLY SHIT

I never recognized that/made the connection.

WOW

Those guys can make fun of anything and everything (which they do)

Is the naruto club raiding us, or are the idiots just on parade today?

Both?

IT"S CLOCK DAY!!!!!!!!!

Yeah....so...no one has anything to say on the Boondocks?

At 8/15/08 06:52 PM, Fremen wrote: Both?

Other clubs should know better than to raid mine.

IT"S CLOCK DAY!!!!!!!!!

THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANIME! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah....so...no one has anything to say on the Boondocks?

Using the japanese style does not qualify it as anime.

At 8/15/08 06:54 PM, Wonko-the-Sane wrote: Using the japanese style does not qualify it as anime.

Well, parts of the second season were done by Madhouse, so you could consider it partially anime.

Still, a funny series.

At 8/15/08 07:13 PM, Kuro wrote: Still, a funny series.

Oh, I fucking love it, but it's not anime

At 8/15/08 07:25 PM, Mendou wrote: It's not anime if wasn't made by the japanese. I don't know why people constantly think the boondocks is a japanese animation series.

Good joob, you missed the entire conversation already on that. Also, people are stupid.

At 8/15/08 07:57 PM, Mendou wrote: I tend to do wonderful joobs with that.

Damn my drunken spelling. I should quit drinking at 8 in the morning. From now on, it's no earlier than 8:30.

At 8/15/08 07:25 PM, Mendou wrote: It's not anime if wasn't made by the japanese. I don't know why people constantly think the boondocks is a japanese animation series.

It's done by MadHouse. That's why. It's not Japanese anime.

At 8/15/08 10:17 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote:

At 8/15/08 07:25 PM, Mendou wrote: It's not anime if wasn't made by the japanese. I don't know why people constantly think the boondocks is a japanese animation series.

It's done by MadHouse. That's why. It's not Japanese anime.

Yup, one could say the art is INSPIRED by anime, or it's art is anime-style, but if it ain't made in Japan, it ain't anime.

Yeah, I don't consider it anime either. (LOL, I never said my view on it, so some of the less intelligent here just assumed that I thought it was anime)

My cousin does, and I yell at her every time she says that.

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Is there a reason that Jump didn't come out?

At 8/15/08 11:59 PM, Mendou wrote:
If you knew the answer to your own question then why post it?

To get confirmation?

At 8/16/08 03:26 AM, Mendou wrote: Although most anime based games aren't great, I'm hoping that coming Afro Samurai one will be decent.(This conversation just reminded me of this for no real reason)

Interestingly enough, I just watched Afro Samurai, and was about to post about it.

It was alright. Entertaining enough, but it suffered because of its high level of violence.

The ridiculous streams of blood made it really unrealistic, and thus the deaths never really felt like they had much weight to them.

Also, Afro Samurai was pretty much a horrible person with no admirable purpose, so I found it extremely hard to root for him. Or anyone, really.

About anime based games, I hear some of the Naruto games are pretty good.

At 8/16/08 03:40 AM, Kuro wrote: About anime based games, I hear some of the Naruto games are pretty good.

I played Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, surprisingly it was alright. I'd buy it if it was 19 bucks.

At 8/16/08 03:26 AM, Mendou wrote:

At 8/16/08 02:55 AM, JohnnyWang wrote:

To get confirmation?

Just seems a little obvious it isn't, he was just inspired by animes like Samurai Champloo.(Which is also why Jin made a 6 second cameo appearance in one of the episodes during the first season)

Where was the cameo????

Do you guys like the Devil May Cry anime? I thought it was good, even though there aren´t too many characters from the game.

About Anime based games,Ghost in the shell was good.

At 8/16/08 03:30 PM, DeIirium wrote: About Anime based games,Ghost in the shell was good.

A bunch of the Dragonball Z games are pretty decent too.

The YuYuHakusho game was too complicated to play in one sitting (since I didn't own it), but it seemed to pretty much be the same as the DBZ games.

At 8/16/08 02:45 PM, Mendou wrote: I'd be a little bitter myself if I had such a shitty childhood like he did. He just doesn't want to open up to anyone because his life of being "Number 2" won't really allow it.

He didn't seem to have that bad a childhood.

His father was killed, sure, but then he was taken in by some pretty nice people.

He didn't have to become the number 2.

He was just blindly pursuing the less than admirable goal of revenge, and never redeems himself.

At 8/16/08 05:26 PM, Kuro wrote: He was just blindly pursuing the less than admirable goal of revenge, and never redeems himself.

Welcome to the plot of 99.9% of samurai flicks. Not to mention "less than admirable" is a poor choice of words since the poor bastard saw his father get fucking decapitated as a child, I think that's decent motive for revenge.

Plus, expecting a well-written plot from something called "Afro Samurai" is sort of beyond foolish.

At 8/16/08 06:38 PM, Gendo wrote: Welcome to the plot of 99.9% of samurai flicks. Not to mention "less than admirable" is a poor choice of words since the poor bastard saw his father get fucking decapitated as a child, I think that's decent motive for revenge.

It's not that the motive is less than admirable.

It's the revenge itself.

The fact that he's killing all these people just to get revenge is horrible.

At 8/16/08 06:38 PM, Gendo wrote:

At 8/16/08 05:26 PM, Kuro wrote: He was just blindly pursuing the less than admirable goal of revenge, and never redeems himself.

Welcome to the plot of 99.9% of samurai flicks. Not to mention "less than admirable" is a poor choice of words since the poor bastard saw his father get fucking decapitated as a child, I think that's decent motive for revenge.

Plus, expecting a well-written plot from something called "Afro Samurai" is sort of beyond foolish.

Well, I would agree and say that Afro Samurai was decent at best, but the fact that it has Samuel L. Jackson as the two main characters made it awesome. Actually, the whole ninja-ninja bit was cool, cause he was like an opposite or something.

At 8/16/08 07:23 PM, Mendou wrote: I don't think anyones gonna miss all those bandits he's killed.

They're still people.

I'm starting to get sick of ultra violence, the more I see it.

It's like A Clockwork Orange.

At 8/16/08 08:11 PM, Kuro wrote:

At 8/16/08 07:23 PM, Mendou wrote: I don't think anyones gonna miss all those bandits he's killed.

They're still people.

I'm starting to get sick of ultra violence, the more I see it.

It's like A Clockwork Orange.

Aw, whats wrong a little heroic sociopathic anime?

Party like ya got whitman fever!