Obligitory Animes Thread

[AM64]

I finally got my box set for Fate/Stay Night! Now if I could only find Shakugan no Shana...

 

[ooberallen]

Kanon DVD 6 is finally coming out 4 months late :/ atleast rightstuf still has the older dvds and box still available. Also Busou Renkin DVD boxed set 2 is coming out soon as well. I thought it was pretty good for a Jump series.

 

[AM64]

Buso Renkin was good, but it was also a blatantly obvious Bleach knock-off. Don't get me wrong, I like Bleach so I have no problems with a Bleach knock-off, but a little creativity couldn't hurt, either.

 

[Syrpiektre]

I guess I'll throw out the anime I've really liked...

-RahXephon (music/mythology based plot + great mecha battles + even better characterization + amazing Studio Bones animation = win)

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I liked Bleach as a manga a lot initially (bet you couldn't guess that from my avatar, hmmm?). It really was reminiscent of Yu Yu Hakusho (a series which I loved growing up) and it played around with shonen stereotypes and was just a fun series with some badass battles and monster designs. Then it got epic in the SS arc... Now? Not so much. Too many characters and a story I just can't get into right now. =/

I'd second you ALL THE WAY with Bleach.

You know, after thinking about it, I think RahXephon is kind of what NGE was supposed to be. I always find it hilarious that NGE became a good show because they ran out of money...

I blame the surge of mediocre anime on the fact that japan's economy isn't shit at the moment. alot of great anime was released between 1990-2001 whilst the country was in a nasty recession. recession means the ppl have less money, so they'll spend it wiser and on fewer things. So quality over quantity is on the peoples minds. So only good anime was making money, so it pressured the company's to output quality.

same applies for video games.

So very very agreed. At that time too I guess some people were much more in-tune with the times and the problems were a little more real. There was a Japanese movie I watched a few years ago (live action), where it was about a couple separated, and because of the economy the wife couldn't handle keeping the kids. She leaves them behind, and so it's up to the eldest son (14) to keep the family together. Really riveting stuff, but nowadays all you hear about Japanese cinema is horror crap. If anyone knows the movie I'm talking about, getting the title would really really help.

Thinking about it, Busou Renkin's twins had a similar experience. Go figure.

 

[TagYouRPregnant]

My top 10 are

1.) Dragonball[Z]
2.) Sailor Moon
3.) Death Note
4.) Cowboy Bebop
5.) Tenchi Muyo
6.) Love Hina
7.) Lucky Star
8.) Midori No Hime
9.) Hellsing
10.) Gungrave

Lately I've been to busy gaming to be able to watch anything else.