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I finished Broken Saints. Not anime but "an animated comic epic" - basically, an animated comic book. Interesting idea, but the series ends up drowning in its own excess, cliches, and pretentiousness*. Too bad too, because there's some great moments. Raimy is a very good character, and the VA's are excellent on the whole. The writing ranges from very good from shutter-inducing bad, but the series' main problem is that it just doesn't cover any new ground. It's certainly an epic, and it feels like it, but in the end it just comes off as another apocalyptic RPG-esque fair that employs so many reused ideas that it's hard to get real excited about it.
It might be worth a rental for those who like dark, moody, wordy, apocalyptic type stuff, but I wasn't too thrilled.
*Most know how much I detest that word, but in this case it applies. BS is so preachy near the end, but it's so shallow in its philosophy that I'd put it a notch below a lot of video games on that level. Hell, Deus Ex did this kind of thing much, much better.
It might be worth a rental for those who like dark, moody, wordy, apocalyptic type stuff, but I wasn't too thrilled.
*Most know how much I detest that word, but in this case it applies. BS is so preachy near the end, but it's so shallow in its philosophy that I'd put it a notch below a lot of video games on that level. Hell, Deus Ex did this kind of thing much, much better.
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I have Broken Saints too. Great artwork, lousy story.
Just started watching Mokke. Basically a slice of life anime but with the twist of certain people can see the spirit world. Pretty good if you are interested in Japanese mythology.
Just started watching Mokke. Basically a slice of life anime but with the twist of certain people can see the spirit world. Pretty good if you are interested in Japanese mythology.
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the_seventh_child wrote:Just started Ayashi No Ceres. Seems weird. Which means nice.
Too bad the writing has the maturity of a 13 year old girl, especially the idiotic ending.
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-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
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BrikHaus wrote:the_seventh_child wrote:Just started Ayashi No Ceres. Seems weird. Which means nice.
Too bad the writing has the maturity of a 13 year old girl, especially the idiotic ending.
Thanks for ruining me a potentially not-shitty ending. I'm half way through and it's meh already. :cry:
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Finished my re-watching of Eva with EoE a few days ago. Haven't really been watching that much anime since, but I've got my Afro Samurai set waiting. I watched the first episode of Gunbuster 2 yesterday and I'm going to continue with that - it was awesome!
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf mutes.
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CitizenGeek wrote:I watched the first episode of Gunbuster 2 yesterday and I'm going to continue with that - it was awesome!
Good. Now we can add more people to the cult of Nono and Groovin' Magic worship.
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-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
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Themaninblack wrote:Afro Samurai...I really wish I could hate this rip-off of Samurai Chammpo but I just can't
Speaking of Afro Samurai, I watched the first episode last night and I really loved it! I think it shows how the West (big name voice actors, big budgets) and Japan (experienced animation, manga source material) could work well on anime. Afro Samurai is like nothing I've ever seen before (is it really that similar to Samurai Champloo?).
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If anything, it seems similar to Samurai Jack, not Champloo, though they're probably closer in terms of animation style. 8)
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Shiro wrote:I was also recently turned on to a new anime, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. The animation is really interesting, and it's downright hilarious. Episodes 1-9 out of 12 have been subbed so far...
I liked the three episodes I saw of it.
If you want great comedy animu, watch Cromartie, Seto no Hanayome and Golden Boy.
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Tokpile Quohog wrote:Watching da Boondocks African-American brother. Probably the greatest thing to ever show up on adult swim.
If by greatest you mean: the most tired and cliche race "jokes" ever, then yes, it's the greatest.
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-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
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BrikHaus wrote:If by greatest you mean: the most tired and cliche race "jokes" ever, then yes, it's the greatest.
Yea, this show's got awesome jokes, stereotypes, racial profiling, and kickass fight scenes and Samuel L. Jackson. 8) What other show can say that?
Most of the stuff on Adult Swim is pretty much trash except for ATHF, Futurama and maybe Robot Chicken (most of the time).
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Boondocks really doesn't count as anime, even at a stretch. Having Korean animation workers is not the key ingredient.
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