I love Escaflowne but thats also because it was the first anime i saw and ive always been more of a fantasy guy so giant suits of armor powered by dragon hearts!?! Oh my!!!
But yeah certainly has plenty of faults…
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I just like half of Eureka 7. The first part was awesome and i loved the surfing mechas, the action sequences and the music. Then they decided to sacrifice (in a way) Eureka to spotlight the stupid brat that is Renton. Because women on the fridge.
I also watched Eureka AO i think is called, and it was bad.
Honestly, i just want surfing mechas.
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Yeah that’s likely correct. That sequence where they take the Gekkostate into space lives in my head forever though.
Never seen AO and don’t think I will.
I love eureka 7 dearly but I also watched it at the perfect age of 14. I need to rewatch it in adulthood and see how my opinions change. Either way I’ll still be bumpin that soundtrack. Storywriter is an all timer.
I also watched all of AO as a teen and remember not even liking it then.
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On travel right now and I’ve been rewatching Haikyū!! It’s not surprising to me that it’s eminently rewatchable. It doesn’t maybe hit as hard as first viewing, but it’s pretty ideal levels of storytelling! For me at least.
Also, Dead Dead Demons etc etc continues to surprise me which is pretty hard to do! It’s just fantastic with the exception of episode 0! Still can’t believe they made the choice to drop that FIRST.
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aaaah, I really enjoyed the manga but I popped into episode zero of the show and it just did not hit at all – it just exorcised the show from my mind, but hearing this makes me curious to try from episode one
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I showed my GF Yakuza: Like a Dragon and she told me it reminded her of the anime Akiba Maid War, so we watched some of that. It’s a Yakuza drama that plays out over maid cafes in an extremely violent and totally straight-faced way.
For something a little more lighthearted we put on a couple episodes of Mayonaka Punch (The Cancelled Girl and the Sleepy Vampire)… and it’s definitely very watchable. I feel like I don’t have much of a critical eye to watch the more high concept, trope-heavy animes but it was alright. I feel like a lot of these shows run out of ideas by episode 4 so even a relatively new, short anime like this ends up feeling like it has filler. I’m also surprised that Japan has the concept of “cancel culture” though I guess it’s not all that surprising.
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holy moly this looks great. after Wit finish the one piece remake, they should spend the next twenty years remaking detective conan and email me episodes directly.
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Just finished reading Pluto last week and have seen two episodes of the show. I admittedly have hardly watched any anime released after 2010, but: the first episode has some of the most beautiful and conspicuously fluid character animation I’ve seen in a TV anime. Unfortunately it comes hand in hand with the flat CG backgrounds and lighting effects I expect from newer shows (part of why I don’t usually watch them). Episode 2 starts out OK but later on the characters are having dinner and everything suddenly looks pretty bad—facial expressions, backgrounds, the food itself, motion, the way characters interact (the music in this scene also bizarrely awful); considering how important these kinds of scenes are in Urasawa’s work I would have hoped for better than what is essentially the manga panels, but worse. The first episode imagines a lot of motion that the manga necessarily couldn’t be particular about—hoping episode 3 can get back on track with that.
I hope Masao Maruyama is happy with it—he wrote one of the afterwords published in the Viz Pluto volumes, has apparently been thinking of adapting this series since it was published, and started Studio M2 solely for the purpose of making it (among other bucket list projects).
Speaking of multi-year productions adapting acclaimed/beloved series, the Uzumaki show just got a release date (September 28th)
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Been thinking of watching that one.
2005 i was also 14 and didn’t engage nor had the knowledge that anime were broadcast in seasons (of the year) and that were shows smaller than long-runs battle shounen. It was the year i started Naruto/One Piece/ Bleach. One year prior, i watched Saint Seiya because i only watched it as a young child. I also watched YuYu Hakusho that year
By the end of 2005 i watched Elfen Lied, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ah! Megami-sama, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Chobits… And i kinda never stopped watching anime ever since. But Eureka 7 always been on the corner of my mind ever since. Maybe it’s time i’d give it a try.
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it has some world class cool music and designs.
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I would honestly recommend Eureka 7, even if i don’t like it that much, because the mecha designs, the music and the animation is really cool.
If you have any kind of 2006 nostalgia for a very specific show i would recommend watching “Alya sometimes hides her feelings in russian” episode 4 ending for some very specific nostalgia hit.
Alya is starting to become my favorite rom-com this season, I was so so, but now i see it as a throwback to that early 2000’s harem/romcoms that is really aware of that and has also a self-insert romcom otaku.
Not recommended before because 100% or the premise is misunderstantings by using a different language.
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I read that one and by this point the anime is ahead of the scans. i like it
I continue to be completely in love with Shōshimin! I was happy back when it seemed like it might be an inconsequential, quiet anime about light high school mystery solving and sweets consumption, especially given how lovingly the whole thing is made, but I’ve found I’m even more into it now that it’s starting to seem like it will be about a Holmes-style deducer who an’t leave things alone and an increasing Moriarty-esque meticulous planner, and the lengths to which she will go to pull strings to get him to dig into whatever she’s been up to. From week to week it has legitimately surprised me by where the story goes-- all within the confines of the story, at least. I’ve also decided I’ll be fine with however it played out, but I’m secretly hoping that Osanai is as scary as the implication has been to date!
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Having a relatively bleak moment right now, trying to find FLCL, which was always on Hulu, it is gone now, so I went to Max where they only have seasons 4 and 5, which perfect, those are exactly what I wanted. Then I go to Crunchyroll, and Crunchyroll has seasons 2 and 3. This blows!
Anyway checking out Panty and Stocking
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nyaa.si is great for situations like this.
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Yeah it may well be torrent time, just sucks for watching stuff on my TV.
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Folks Dandadan is in theaters currently and it rules.
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I can concur. I bought tickets on a whim last week and just got in from seeing it. Super fun. So stoked for the full series.