Well just look at Rico and Maria and Billy. What plot relevance did they really have after their introduction arcs? Poor Rico's subplot with being the son of the Kaiser was killed with absolutely no resolution, we never learned what happened to Billy's Orphanage and Maria was just total dead...

Well I hope no one minds me making a counterpart to my anime thread of a similar vain. I thought of the topic because there are some dubs for video games. In fact, one of the best dubs I've ever heard is for a video game. Xenosaga Episode 1 and III have a fantastic cast who put a lot of effort i...

I watched all of Zoids Chaotic Century/Guardian Force so I too can tolerate a poor dub. (although there were one or two glitterings tars in that dungpile) The only dub that has ever offended me was Angel Sanctuary. Crispin Freeman as Rosiel should have been perfect but he sucked just like ev...

Well I am a dub-only kinda guy more or less by necessity on account of my eyesight. Even still, I think English dubs can be very good and just as entertaining as the original. I was just wondering what dubs people here think are the best in all of anime? Obvious choices would include Fullmetal Alche...

What, no classic GTAIII fans here? Depressing... (and yes I know there are people who even played the GTA games before that but they sucked) I remember being in middle school and a friend of mine let me borrow his copy. I played it for days and days and days and I absolutely did not want to ...

Thanks so much for your amazingly detailed post, Caliburn! It's everything I needed to know. I dunno if I'd consider myself "scholarly"... I'm just a guy who likes to dive into new things with high expectations that I'll love them and start immersing myself in all aspects o...

Three Words: Legacy of Kain Possibly best storytelling ever in video games? Yes. Easily the best voice-acting ever in video games? YES. Music it's not so well known for but it has its amazing pieces. Nupraptor's Theme Ariel's Lament And switching gears to Metal Gear....s, this song has a...

MGS2 was a very Meta game. It's all about attacking the player and the video game industry as a whole.

I've heard EVA is a very meta series as well, being larrgely influenced by the director's depression and his ideas of Otaku culture. That's just what I've heard anyway.

Sloth is not just laziness. That's a modern, shallow interpretation of the sin. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14057c.htm I thik the overcome by sadness to the point of not trying is a perfect way to describe Anime Sloth. Her memories of being the Elric's mother leaves he feeling jaded. She could d...

Did any seen in Brotherhood effect me as viscerally as Bradley stabbing Marta while she was hiding in Al? No. Why? Because she was an actually established character in the original so you gave a crap when she died Also Bradley being evil had not been spoiled in the first episode. Having this kind, g...

A tragically forgotten OST is that of Fushigi Yuugi: Inoru Youni Anata o Aishiteru Houkou For The One I Love (Ballad Ver.) Winner Inuyasha has already been mentioned but no one said my favorite song from it - "Dearest" by Ayumi Hamasaki. Such a beautiful song. The original FMA was a master...

INuyasha. To hear people talk about it today on the internet, the anime and manga killed their family or something. Yes it was a very flawed series, and it was way too riggin' long, but I have a soft spot for melodramatic love stories. It also has a pretty amazing soundtrack, a lovely English du...

Xenogears is a game you have to love in spite of its many, many flaws. Can your love for Fei and Elly's characters outweigh the fact most of the cast is forgotten and useless? Can your love for the larger storyline outweigh the terrible dungeons? Can your love for the music make you deal with Di...

I used to be a huge RE nerd. Posted on like four different RE boards and read all the files and debated about it a lot. THese days...I don't care. I think it was about the time Damnation came out that I just ffinally accepted I had moved on from the series. At this point, I only really still car...

A bit of trivia - Xenogears started off as Final Fantasy VII, which is probably why VII's hero is so completely different from every other FF protagonist. And as good as he was, Cloud and his journey fo self-discovery is kind of just a pale imitation of Fei. Xenogears and EVA are falsely compare...

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings & the Lost Ocean. One of THE most underrated games and scores ever. You know a game is gold when a song as amazing as this is the normal battle theme.

Motoi Sakuraba should be as well known as Uematsu and MItsuda.

Uh...hey everyone. I just decided to get into EVA for my 25th birthday. Bought the Platinum volume sets in a nifty art box based on recommendations from this very site! I am a huge anime nerd so of course I know of NGE. I'm hoping to fall in love with it like so many others have. There is also n...

So I was glancing at the wiki page about the various OSTs of the original anime and I was hoping someone who owns these CDs could help me. Does the S² Works 7-CD set contain all the tracks from the 3 EVA OSTs? Or should I actually go ahead and buy those individual albums plus the End of Evangelion O...