The difference between the Island arc episodes (well, those that weren't the Red Noah episodes) and the Africa arc is that with the latter I was wishing the episodes would just end (please please please)... :D eps. 35-39 : Well, those last few episodes were straight up proto-Eva. Episode 35 almost e...

Yeah, but I can see G-Savior just as easily written out. Everything I've seen dealing with the "UC Next 100" project doesn't mention it while the other late UC works are. I can see it, with some modifications, being put back in. In the case of Gaia Gear those modifications would need to b...

Nadia eps. 30-34 : Episodes 30 and 31 were pretty decent and added something to the real plot, but someone should have warned me that the worst of the Island arc was yet to come, because I was not really prepared for the clusterfuck that were episodes 32 and 33 :cringe: . Let's see: - Stereotypical...

Really? I'd say 23 makes sense (though personally it's not as bad as the rest of the horror that's the Island Arc), but 22 is first-half-of-NGE-tier, as far as I'm concerned. It's a brilliant television episode. Whoops. I meant including those episodes. With the island arc it's like they had a very...

The real problem is not that Gundam has some inconsistencies in its lore, the problem is that fans, especially western, are way too anal about wanting to have everything fit into one singular timeline, even works like Origin or Thunderbolt, which from the very start have been explicitly stated by t...

Nadia eps. 15 to 29 : Good plot until (and including) episode 22/23. Here and there you can spot stuff that would show up later on in Eva again. The big underwater statue that serves as the entrance to Atlantis was creepy, especially having to navigate through its rib cage - it also has shades of t...

The tale of the Princess Kaguya : A beautiful, prettily animated rendition of a very old folk tale, with a few aesops (money cannot buy happiness, enjoy your time on earth, ...). There are a few things in it that make little to no sense without some basic knowledge of Japanese culture (so the peopl...

I recommend taking a look back 80's and early 90's as the first anime which came out before things like Evangelion was Ghost In the Shell, Akira, Legend of the over friend, Wicked City and Demon City all these were not aimed at kids they were aimed at the 18 and 15 audiences some are brutal bloody ...

Gundam 00 (first season) : Starts up painfully slow, with too much exposition via the narrator and too little exposition via actually animated sequences. The first 10 or so episodes' battles are awful (or the series creators were really intent on showing how all of earth military were woefully inep...

Fate Zero: Well, that was depressing. But not the most depressing and darkest anime I've watched (that still goes to Vampire Princess Miyu, which manages to outdo this one in bleakness with less gore to boot). I found some characters annoying, but grew to appreciate some of them (Waver Velvet &...

Repost,but had to... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/648390386921897984/766327717644861460/T2DIi.png I I lived in Japan, I would so totally buy that. *thinks there are too few toilet seats and garbage cans that look like the are a big mouth waiting to engulf something that comes near* :D

It's a shame almost everyone seems to agree that 2202 is inferior to 2199. I adored the original, and on a recent re watch I liked it even more, so hearing this concerns me a bit. Doesn't help that a lot of staff changed. I'm still determined to buy the blu ray and watch it that way once I can, I j...

Space Battleship Yamato 2202 : Quite nice, but suffers from a single major problem: The plot and its pacing. The series is, in a certain sense, much more Japanese than 2199, as the concept of Yamato (the meaning of the word) is made central to the plot, in a rather ham-fisted way that feels like th...

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Rebellion : Well, I now understand where all of the fanart painting Homura as being creepily obsessed with Madoka comes from. :bigeyes: There are the regular yanderes in anime, that simply murder/bludgeon/otherwise violently take out the competition, and there is this : ba...

Puella Magi Madoka Magica movie #2 : Again, not much new stuff compared to the second half of the TV series. It adds some new scenes and an epilogue/preview to connect it better to Rebellion (movie #3). Canaan: The Les Yay is strong in this one (no outright nudity or too blatant fanservice). Also, ...

Were the socks found at the same shops?

His DIN 910 is routinely supplied with door knobs to adjust for different door thicknesses. I've also got a couple of his DIN 905. The following are all possible in specialist applications: 877, 879, 881, 882 (although usually the section between the double countersinking is filled up), 884, 885, 8...

Just when things were finally starting to look up: https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/burton-c-bell-officially-quits-fear-factory-i-cannot-align-myself-with-someone-whom-i-do-not-trust-nor-respect/ You'd think he would have had that insight when he was suing his bandmates... :facepalm: :uhh: :???:

Recently watched: Puella Magi Madoka Magica . I had somehow expected this to be psychologically darker and more gory (more akin to what Narutaru is to the mons genre), but it's still a fairly upbeat story with pretty visuals despite being a deconstruction of the magical girl genre. I'm not really a ...

Moments that make me pause: Getting myself perma-banned on another forum for pointing out that you can add trolls to your ignore list without missing anything important, to which apparently a mod took exception and decided I could also be missed (no warning whatsoever) :???: I guess it wasn't very s...