Anime Thread. [Prob not 56k safe]

**SaviorSelf** · 2010-02-14 00:41

Originally Posted by Kaylia

Gurren lagann is good, and you should watch it. The girl is yoko, but that's not important.

Souleater was...it's like most shonen I guess (bleach naruto..etc). The animation was really good though, but the ending was average.

There we go lol

So if I liked Naruto/Bleach, I'd probably like Souleater? Need to find some good quality torrents/sites to watch these on...

**Kaylia** · 2010-02-14 00:48

Just watch Gurren lagann first. I don't want to overhype it, but it's everything good about shonen combined in 29 episodes or something.

And yes, you would probably enjoy Souleater if you like naruto and bleach...however, you would probably enjoy every animes that were posted if you enjoy Naruto and Bleach.

Maybe you need fighting and action in your anime, but Death Note is great if you never gave it a shot.

**SaviorSelf** · 2010-02-14 00:50

Originally Posted by Kaylia

Just watch Gurren lagann first. I don't want to overhype it, but it's everything good about shonen combined in 29 episodes or something.

And yes, you would probably enjoy Souleater if you like naruto and bleach...however, you would probably enjoy every animes that were posted if you enjoy Naruto and Bleach.

Maybe you need fighting and action in your anime, but Death Note is great if you never gave it a shot.

Woops, left that out but yes I loved Death Note. I can watch that over and over and still enjoy it lol

**Kaylia** · 2010-02-14 01:01

You might want to give Code Geass a shot then. It's death note with more color and mecha . Second season is a train wreck, but in overall, it was good

Gundam 00 and Macross Frontier were also liked on this board in overall. They are popular franchise, but both series were good.

And one that isn't often mentioned but I liked a lot is Baccano. The story is original for an anime, and it was interesting.

**Souj** · 2010-02-14 01:08

you know.. someone should probably just make a separate thread for anime/manga suggestions. Just 1 big list of whats "good".
about every 3 pages it seems this discussion is brought up.
Someone with more patience than me. Ive thought about starting one for awhile now, but always give up compiling a list before I barely even start lol

**Isiolia** · 2010-02-14 02:55

Originally Posted by Kaylia

Gurren lagann is good, and you should watch it. The girl is yoko, but that's not important.

Souleater was...it's like most shonen I guess (bleach naruto..etc). The animation was really good though, but the ending was average.

Well, part of the reason for that was that the Soul Eater anime was like the first FMA anime. It sticks to the manga to a point, but then diverges and ends, whereas the manga is ongoing.

...which is not to say that I disagree with your assessment of the anime, just sayin'.

Some torrent sources:

Citadel of the Raven has a bunch of DVD rips - ones I've gotten are mkv w/ multiple audio tracks n' all, if applicable.

Baka Updates and Animesuki are a couple of new-release fansub torrent sites, offhand. Once you find a title/subbing group to follow, you may just want to hit up their site directly.

Thoranime is a site dedicated to HD anime torrents, so a lot of blu-ray rips and the like...but that also means they don't always have the full series available.

Streaming... well, Hulu does have an anime section, though a good chunk of it is dubbed. There's also Crunchyroll, which has an assortment of new and old titles in subtitled form.

Some offhand suggestions...

If you liked Death Note, then maybe give Monster a shot. The first 15 episodes are on Hulu, not sure of a torrent for the rest offhand. Failing that, you can always read the manga.

http://www.animenfo.com/image/anime_1346.jpg

Dr. Tenma is a gifted surgeon who one day defies an order to prioritize the life of a politician over that of a young boy. Because of this, the politician dies, the backlash of which throws Dr. Tenma's life off-track...until those opposed to him start dying. While this puts suspicion on him, Tenma knows that the real culprit is the boy he saved. He's forced to go on the run to hunt down the "monster" he let live.

Welcome to the NHK

DVD rips are on CotR

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...r/11070tw3.jpg

Main character is Sato, who is a hikikomori (basically, a shut-in) who believes that an organization called the NHK is conspiring against him to cause his social anxiety. One day a girl comes to him and makes a bet that she can cure him of his hikikomori ways. What follows is a mix of comedy and drama as Sato slowly is helped, and in turn helps those around him with their own problems.

The Book of Bantorra

Available for streaming on Crunchyroll, or from a couple fansub groups.

http://hardcoreblader.files.wordpres...armedlibra.jpg

When people die, their souls become stone tablets known as books. Bantorra Library, via its Armed Librarians, is tasked with collecting and preserving these books. At odds with it is the Church of Drowning in God's Grace, whose leaders erase the personalities of the masses in order to make their own books greater. As things progress, the relationship between the two is not as black and white as it seems.

Claymore

Fansubbed, available on DVD and Blu-Ray as well. The manga is ongoing.

http://www.stat.osu.edu/~lei/images/claymore1.jpg

Yoma are monsters that feed on humans. When a town is afflicted with their presence, they can hire help from the Organization in form of a "claymore" - human/Yoma hybrids with the ability to detect them, and the strength to fight. Claire, new among their ranks, starts to realize that a lot has been hidden from her regarding the organization, yoma, and what happens when a claymore succumbs to the demon within...

Anyway, prolly a lot out there that you'd like XD

**Kaylia** · 2010-02-14 02:59

Monster is great. I watched the anime, but I think the manga would be better thought. Some episodes were really slow in the middle of the series.

Welcome to the NHK was all sort of nice, but it has a bigger impact if you watched more anime before and are used to the cliché.

**Max™** · 2010-02-14 04:10

Gurren Lagann is better if you keep the Fibonacci spiral in mind when you watch it.

http://www.toddholoubek.com/classes/...accispiral.jpg

**Man0warr** · 2010-02-14 04:24

Hard to make a suggestion thread, anime is pretty subjective.

There are some shows I think everyone should watch though:

Black Lagoon - 2 seasons
Full Metal Panic! - 3 seasons
Gurren Lagann
Code Geass - 2 seasons
Spice and Wolf - 2 seasons
Cross Game
Clannad and Clannad After Story
Darker than Black
Kure-nai
Natsume Yuujinchou - 2 Seasons
ToraDora!
Seto no Hanayome
Fate Stay/Night
Basilisk
Seirei no Moribito
Ouran High School Host Club

That's a good mix of the best of every genre

**Max™** · 2010-02-14 04:25

Samurai 7 is fantastic... fan-fucking-tastic, incidentally.

**Kaylia** · 2010-02-14 04:32

I thought it was terrible, and I generally enjoy everything I watch. It's not funny, character were boring at best, nothing ever make sense (their economy make no sense, their technology make no sense, power level make no sense). The only redeeming quality was the occasional night fight, but I wasnt even able to enjoy them since I was busy bitching about everything else.

It could have been good, but it wasn't.

[edit]

And while we are at it, might as well might my own list
http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Kay...&status=7&tag=

- TTGL
- FMA
- Evangelion
- Death Note
- Last Exile
- Dennou Coil
- Baccano
- Darker than Black
- Code Geass
- Eden of the East
- Trinity blood
- Welcome to the NHK
- Macross Frontier
- Gundam 00
- Black Lagoon
- Spice and wolf

**Ker** · 2010-02-14 04:32

Originally Posted by Max™

Gurren Lagann is better if you keep the Fibonacci spiral in mind when you watch it.

http://www.toddholoubek.com/classes/...accispiral.jpg

Spiral Effect

This flashed in my head you said that lol.

**Gulkeeva** · 2010-02-14 04:43

Originally Posted by Ker

Spiral Effect

This flashed in my head you said that lol.

Nice.. tengen toppa guren lagann, mass effect 2 and Two Steps from hell music O_o

**Elcura** · 2010-02-14 04:59

Soul Eater is good, but the anime differs from the manga after a while, but until that point I would rather watch the anime than read the manga (anime art is so much better than manga art).

It's a shounen, so you know what to expect. But at least it's interesting enough.

K-On never tries to be more than it is, it never pretends and it does what it was made to do well. I wouldn't say coming from a 4-coma affected K-On, since Azumanga did that and was really good as well.

**Cjskater** · 2010-02-14 05:13

Ginormous list: (only using completed series/seasons/movies/ovas)

Spoiler: show

Took me quite awhile to make that. Tried to categorize and then halfway through the action list realized that this would be tough as fuck. Some stuff may not be accurate... be it I haven't seen it in awhile or it's just way too hard to categorize so I stuck it in what I felt was the most prevalent.

**Max™** · 2010-02-14 05:25

Originally Posted by Kaylia

I thought it was terrible, and I generally enjoy everything I watch. It's not funny, character were boring at best, nothing ever make sense (their economy make no sense, their technology make no sense, power level make no sense). The only redeeming quality was the occasional night fight, but I wasnt even able to enjoy them since I was busy bitching about everything else.

Samurai 7? Wasn't supposed to be funny, characters are basically ripped off from other stories, the technology is a leftover from earlier wars in an oddly steam-cyberpunk alternative-history-future blend, the power levels aren't that out there. Basically the trained samurai guys can turn a sword into a vibro-blade, and the swords themselves generate EM fields that can deflect battleship scale cannons. The untrained guys get themselves big giant robot sized bodies to battle with.

Maybe it's cause I watched it all within a couple of days, but it made plenty of sense I thought?

Awesome at the spiral AMV btw.

*disappointed in himself for not mentioning Eureka 7*

**Kaylia** · 2010-02-14 05:26

I know it wasnt suposed to be funny, but if the character and plot arent good, at least being funny could be its redeeming quality.

[edit]
First of all, mecha are pathetically weak in that anime. I mean, the ewoks made AT-ST look strong compared to this. The rice farmer destroyed a fucking space ship with a giant log (a log that was somehow 500 times biggers than any tree around). Or there is that scene where the soldier kick the main character ass, go in his flying thing, and get one shoted. Hell, the anime start with 2 samurai destroying a fleet of space ship....why is there fucking mecha and space ship in the first place if samurai are so goddamned overpowered? Train fucking samurai next time for a better money investment.

Secondly, the rice pillage in giant mecha make no sense,. They use the rice to produce fuel for their giant mecha, but every fucking person with a sword is stronger than a mecha. Why spend so much energy on stealing rice when you could use these mecha to harvest 10 times more rice than 20 villagers.

Lastly, everyone's motive is so vague. You never know what they try to accomplish, and by the end of the series, they all dies before accomplishing anything worthwhile.

**Max™** · 2010-02-14 05:32

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai

>.>

Fuck that Akira Kurosawa guy, mirite?

Originally Posted by Kaylia

First of all, mecha are pathetically weak in that anime. I mean, the ewoks made AT-ST look strong compared to this.

The mecha are cyborgs, they're only weak compared to the ultrabadassery of the main characters, and those who aren't intimidated too badly to try to actually mount an assault.

The ones you see were just above grunt troops basically.

The rice farmer destroyed a fucking space ship with a giant log (a log that was somehow 500 times biggers than any tree around).

It was a battleship that was limping along after the war, most of the old tech is at best semi-functional, and the tree was a bit silly but about redwood scale really... plus it was fired from a huge fucking ballista that was cranked by a village full of people using mechanical advantage... so, eh...

Or there is that scene where the soldier kick the main character ass, go in his flying thing, and get one shoted.

The little tinpot things were literally grunt solders, up against elite forces (the samurai), and their swords (which presumably have their own unsaid technical advances over basic swords) which can literally cut through steel.

Hell, the anime start with 2 samurai destroying a fleet of space ship....why is there fucking mecha and space ship in the first place if samurai are so goddamned overpowered? Train fucking samurai next time for a better money investment.

Not spaceships, flying battleships, and the samurai were a dying breed at that time.

Secondly, the rice pillage in giant mecha make no sense,. They use the rice to produce fuel for their giant mecha, but every fucking person with a sword is stronger than a mecha. Why spend so much energy on stealing rice when you could use these mecha to harvest 10 times more rice than 20 villagers.

They were getting tithes from the villages because that's what the bandits were doing in Kurosawa's story, just modified to have some high-tech goodies cause it's anime and you can do that silliness.

**Kaylia** · 2010-02-14 05:46

edited my last post.

That movie probably made more sense than the anime. Thief stealing food make sense. Thief stealing food to make fuel for their ultra weak mecha that are destroyed by a samurai in training make none.

Take the mecha out of this anime, and you get an okay story...right now, it's just ridiculous.

**Max™** · 2010-02-14 05:56

It wasn't just fuel for the mechanized samurai, which were powerful enough to decimate your typical village singlehandedly, incidentally.

If the mecha-samurai were tanks, the main characters were A-10 warthogs, basically.

The guy in training got his ass whooped hard mostly and would have died if Kambei hadn't saved him repeatedly.

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