Obligitory Animes Thread

[iKotomi]

I have never regretted figurine purchases, as I only buy the ones that I feel really fit the character. On the contrary, I have regretted not buying things figures when they got released, though I got really lucky and found one of them a few years later for ridiculously cheap. There's still a little bit of time before that gorgeous GSC hanekawa tsubasa releases, but it's so hard to part with a 120+ dollars on one figure (who am I kidding...I'll probably end up getting it).

DVD's on the other hand...how often do you actually watch these? I've watched my eva set maybe once. I've watched Air countless times, but I really don't know if that was worth 120 dollars (I'll still buy it if a US blu-ray release happens though). There are barely any shows these days though that I would care to rewatch.

On the other hand, official disks are the best way to share the stuff. I'll take a guy a lot more seriously about a show if he's paid that much money for the disk and wants to share it with me.

 

[microgamer]

I pre-ordered GSC Hanekawa haha. As long as her box isn't big, she's hopefully going to ship together with figma Madoka whenever she's ready.

That's very true. One of the DVD's I have is Summer Wars (which I originally bought because my laptop would lag too much on the action scenes) and I tend to share it a lot. Besides it being really good, it's also easy for non-anime fans to watch and enjoy. So yeah, DVD/BD's are good for sharing and/or if you're a collector and just want to support the anime industry.

 

[iKotomi]

I pre-ordered GSC Hanekawa haha. As long as her box isn't big, she's hopefully going to ship together with figma Madoka whenever she's ready.

Yeah, I just bit the bullet and ordered. Would have saved around 10 dollars if I pre-ordered when it was announced from amiami, but I guess 10 dollars was worth the months of anxiety on whether I would actually be able to afford it.

The size does worry me a bit though, as it's a little under a foot tall and long. Hopefully I'll dodge customs. Otherwise, I would have saved by just getting from a US retailer.

 

[Tanegashima]

Hey everybody, I hope I am not opening Pandoras box but can I ask what everyone seriously thinks of Evangelion? I mean I can't figure this show out. Not in the normal "omg this show is sooooo deep and complex" sense though. I mean I think it is pretty obvious the show is about existential loneliness sprinkled with some Freudiansm, meaningless Judeo-Christian symbolism, and giant robots. What I don't get is how in the world did the show get popular? I mean it sorta got interpreted into where everything creepy warped into a fetish thing and even judging the show merely as a simple shonen monter of the week type show it fails pretty horribly. Still in a way I can't say I particularly dislike the show. The ending movie I honestly enjoyed because it seemed to actually be discussing a philosophical concept, albiet in an inept fashion. Anyway what is everyone elses take?

One other thing, recently I watched some of Dragonball Evolution and I have to say comparing it to the average western superhero movie it was actually comparatively good. I'm starting to suspect that the real reason so many people hate it is because it is a zoom in of so many weterners wish-fulfillment fantasies relating to the show and showing them how ridiculous they are (sort of like how people hate the Adam West Batman). Sure I think that having Goku played by a white guy was pretty stupid considering he was based on the Chinese literary figure Sun Wukong but everyone was bitching that he wasn't Japanese which doesn't make much more logical sense than him being white. The stupidest critisism of the movie was that it was too 'kiddy' which is moronic because it was based on a kids series and they even darkened it up comparatively to the source material by upping the stakes in a similar manner to Z. Anyway why can people not just accept that they like a kids show? Just my random rant, anyway.

 

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It got popular because everyone watched it when they were 15.