The Newest Anime Thread
 

Fact - Witch Hunter Robin and Escaflowne are the awesome. I dare anyone to contradict me.

I mean, one has a robot mech that turns into a robot dragon with great music, and the other has superpowers with a plot and cool music.

Your title, when used in conjunction with Vision of Escaflowne, confuses me.

Regardless, both quality shows. Never saw as much of WHR as I should have, but VoE is one of my favourites. High quality; Yoko Kanno is a brilliant composer.

I meant "The Newest Anime Thread On NPF" but got lazy typing in the title.

Yes, well it's clear now, but I went in expecting discussion on Clannad ~After Story~, Gundam 00 S2, and Toradora. That was not what I received.

Fraud :p

Escaflowne is pretty awesome. Haven't watched that Robin thingy though.

Since this is the new anime thread I might as well post what I'm watching this season, taken from my anime list, which is linked to in my signature:

• Candy*Boy - Two words: Yuri incest (fuck you guys I'm not linking to yuri incest).
• Casshern Sins - Starring our favourite guy from Tatsunoko VS Capcom, Sins is a reimagining of the classic Neo-Human Casshern. In this version, however, he has become an amnesiac assassin who cannot resist his instincts of killing everything that threatens him. Full of angst and fluid-yet-classy animation, it is easily my favourite show of the season.
• Dennou Coil - Actually from last year, Dennou Coil tells the story of a group of girls acting as cyber-detectives. Mantra for this task are their glasses, which let them link themselves to the cyberspace and interact with the happenings in it. The animation is downright gorgeous.
• Michiko to Hatchin - From the studio that brought you Samurai Champloo and Ergo Proxy, and with tunes provided by anime legend Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) comes a very entertaining concept: Foxy convict escapes from a Brazilian prison to rescue a ten year old girl from the grasps of a cruel despot Catholic priest. Police then chases the duo across the land as they get into wacky adventures.
• Nijuu Mensou no Musume - I MEAN, SERIOUSLY, WTF?!! WHY HASN'T THIS SHIT BEEN FINISHED SUBBING YET!?! THIS CAME OUT IN THE SPRING GODDAMMIT.
• Nodame Cantabile: Chapitre Paris - Thank God; they're continuing to animate the manga. More classical music anime spliced with romantic comedy hijinx, yes! Plus, the ending song is beautiful.
• Shikabane Hime: Aka - Another GAINAX adaptation that hopefully won't suck. A "corpse princess" has to get out and kill 108 other "corpses" or some shit. All I know is that the promotional images contained a schoolgirl with a machine gun and that rocks my socks off. FUNimation's youtube channel is subbing it, by the way.
• Tales of the Abyss - SHITTY VIDEO GAME PLOT MAKES FOR A SHITTY ANIME PLOT. I'm watching it for the lulz, I swear.
• Toradora! - Toradora! is fun and cute and heartwarming and you wouldn't like it anyway but FUCK YEAH TORADORA!. It's a story about a guy who looks like a yakuza yet acts very tenderly and a small girl who scares even the professors of the school. They both fall in love with the best friend of the other, so it is in their best interests to work together as they try to woo their crushes. Did I mention I wuv romantic comedies?

EDIT: Eltargrim likes Toradora!. Eltargrim has an awesome taste confirmed.

On Shikabane Hime: It's on Hulu as well.

Better quality, though with a couple of ads interspersed, though they're not numerous and pretty short.

http://www.hulu.com/shikabane-hime

At the moment, can't provide links to anime (Deployed ISP blocks these sites for me :( ), but here's some anime I've seen recently that I'm loving.

Noir - Music is great, and the animation can be down right nice. Story is kinda deep too. Much watch.

Lucky Star - Overall, a somewhat goofy anime. Based around a group of high school girls going through their daily lives and stuff. Doesn't seem to follow much of a storyline, but it's funny sometimes (And I love the opening theme =^_^= , oh and of course the end, 'Lucky Channel')

When I can actually think, I'll probably post a few more. :P

I started watching Higurashi recently. Looks interesting, but I hope it doesn't go Paranoia Agent on my ass.

I've heard it's super gory, but thus far they only talk about gore. Blugh. Also, I've heard I need to have played the games to understand what's going on...? Anybody can confirm/deny?

Higurashi is confusing for a while, but it starts to explain some stuff by the end of the first season, and make a little actual sense in the second season. It is pretty gory, not guts, but stabbity stabbity stabbity gory.

Code Geass R2-D2, obviously. Bunny girl Kallen ftw

Also of note is the fact I want to find some of the writers of GITS: SAC 2nd Gig and shoot them in the face several times because of all the philosophical nonsense people keep spouting. Could it make sense, at least?

oh man opinion facts are hilarious
 

CHALLENGE


Escaflowne has a pretty damn lame ending. I'll just go home now gg bye! OLOLOL

Witch Hunter Robin is really, really boring aside from about 3 episodes. That's a lot to watch to enjoy a series. There are much better things to be watched.

That said, it has some amazing music and a great opening, even if it was stolen from Madonna.

Oh man, someone else who recognizes how great this show is. You and I are BFF, even if you don't want to be.

I like D. Gray Man. Love the manga, but haven't been able to get myself to watch very many episodes. I just see how many there are and it depresses me.

Watching. And, for the record, twin yuri incest. Fraternal twins, but meh :p

Oh, so that's what it is. Going to watch now.

Watched. Loved.

Sounds interesting. Will put on to-do list.

HOLY FUCK I'M PISSED ABOUT THAT! THERE'S ONLY TWO BLOODY EPISODES LEFT TOO!

It never really appealed to me. I'll try it on your recommendation, but no promises.

Done. Watching this now.

We watch for lulz, gg subs for lulz; it's a good balance.

I like how they're not falling for each other, and I hope it remains this way. I'm fine with a triangle with Ami as the common point between them (AKA Ryuuji + Minorin vs Ryuuji + Ami and the same with Taiga and what's-his-name), but to have them go for each other would bore me. :shifty:

Cheers. Also: My anime list is also in my sig. You have officially watched more than twice as much anime as I have.

Been looking for anime to watch... So, is Ikki Tousen or however that's spelled basically DBZ with boobs? Will probably watch me some Gunbuster, and maybe Macross...

A friend on another forum has been telling me to watch Kodomo no Jikan. I haven't heard much about it, but what I have heard makes me worry about this friend.

Really wanna watch episode 13 of Zombie Loan if I can find it...

From what I've heard about the manga, it's more a tragic story than anything. I wouldn't worry about it :)

EDIT: Also: Clannad ~After Story~'s OP has the prettiest song and the saddest animation I've seen in quite a while. Come on, single, get released!~

I guess I might look into it.

So, I just finished episode 13 of Zombie Loan, and feel much the same as I did on the last episode of Code Geass, except I like Zombie Loan more than Code Geass, so waiting for the second season is going to bug me more.

Don't watch Ikki Tousen.

Do watch Gunbuster (and Diebuster, the sequel).

If you're gonna watch Macross stay the fuck away from Frontier. The original series may be a bit outdated for your tastes, but you should give a chance to Do You Remember Love? at least. Be sure to not miss Macross Plus (by the guy behind Cowboy Bebop) and Macross 7, however.

Philosophy is nothing. I'd be happy if I could make heads or tails of the actual plot.



Thanks, NonCon. Will keep watching.

You don't like classical music?

I guess it is pretty girly in some respects, but the soundtrack is gorgeous and it's a setting not commonly tackled in any medium.

Paris is the sequel, so make sure to watch the first series before it.

Anyway, Nodame Paris 05 update: CHIAKI IS A JERK I HOPE HE DIES IN A FIRE

Can anyone tell me anything about Le Chevalier de'Eon or whatever?

d'Eon's basically all about d'Eon who's a Chevalier in pre revolution France and who's a member of the Secret Police and charged with the task of taking on the shadows, monsters, springing up before they can ruin the peace. He had a sister who also fought against the monsters but died under mysterious circumstances, as you find out the moment after the OP ends, and d'Eon's first basic goal is to find out what happened. He does the standard story meet and greet and forms a party to find the truth and such.

It's actually pretty good, at least I enjoyed it. Has political intrigue as well as the killing and the animation is pretty decent.

From what I heard it was more about the male lead being a jerk than anything else. Let's hope the music makes up for it.

Will do.

In other news, Gundam 00 is apparently one of the best Gundams. Ever. My experience is limited to SEED, so I'll have to go do some digging.

Oooh! Just thought of another fun anime =D
Rizelmine =D

At some points, NSFW, but it's a hilarious romance story that doesn't take itself too seriously. I command thee to watch :P


Oh, and synk. Quoted in sig ^_^

you are going to drop everything and immediately watch the original, Zeta, 0080, and Turn A.

The anime pretty much cut all the tragedy and worthwhile ideas out in favor of more prancing naked children. If you want to deal with Kodomo no Jikan, read it, don't watch it. Well, unless you'd prefer naked prancing children. Actually, you should probably just stay away from it entirely.

dance time
 

What's Kodomo no Omocha?

I wanted to say "loli series about loli stuff" but then I remembered the girl doesn't end up with her manager or whatever the hell that old man was.

I read the manga, so maybe the anime did end up completely creepy.

Because it was only partially creepy before, right?

I think I'll just make it a rule to avoid anime with Kodomo in the name. Kurenai had a loli character, and that show wasn't creepy at all.

Excel vs. Sana FIGHT
 

Hey, I hear this thing called the Intarwebtubes lets you search for all kinds of information!


Briefly, it's a show about a spastic child star and her potentially senile mother, a famous author, and her manager and a boy in her class who's a pain to her but they probably secretly like each other omgiggles and giant mallets and squirrels living in hair and car accidents and childish crushes and go find Kevin Caldwell's Caffeine Encopium.

I'd much rather hear it from the people here than go search for it, especially since I generally respect the opinions of most here more than the vast sea of the intarwebs.

Staying right away, then!

As to the Gundam series; I'm looking for as much UC stuff as I can, and I'll be getting Turn A asap, but I can't find the original original. PM me if you can help with this :sweatdrop

Community Service Announcement: More people should be watching Michiko e Hatchin. Episode three was basically a lost episode of Cowboy Bebop.

Just letting you guys know.

I will rain down with giant mallets.
 

You didn't ask for a review, just what it was. :P

Also, I've already told you to watch it. By posting, you clearly are not watching it! Avoid catastrophic war and go do it for king and country and lulz.

Watched some more Higurashi. What the fuck is going on. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON. After watching two arcs, I'm very... nervous. That's the only way I can describe it.

It starts to make sense. Kinda. Never did finish the second season. Went without it for a while and couldn't remember what episode I was on. Overall, I enjoyed it, and it really, really makes me want to play the games, but it could probably have been better, though I did dig the end of the first season.

Are there any english releases or patches of the Higurashi games?

I have been watching snippets of Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro.

Think Detective Conan with an actual plot and instead of a little kid you have a sadistic demon who enslaves a girl and a gangster. Another way to put it would be if Alucard from Hellsing actually solved mysteries instead of just shooting people. There ar major differences in the Manga source material and the anime, and I highly recommend both.

EDIT: Neuro is in your opening, making it creepy.

Do I need to watch any Casshern before Casshern Sins for it to make sense. I watched a little, and didn't know what was going on. I don't know if I was supposed to not know, or if I was supposed to know and just didn't.

It's normal to not know what the hell is going on.

If you really need to know anything from the first series: Casshern beats up robots. The end.

So I watched the Death Note Rewrite director's cut thing today.

I think they managed to make the ending worse. That's some feat.

^^^Spoilers please; share them.

Sins is a reboot. You don't need to know shit about it.

Also, Friender transforms into cool crap like submarines, jets, and drillers. Sadly, this is not carried over in Sins. :(

Death Note Rewrite spoilers:
Some implicitly short period after Light beats L, Ryuk kills him. Out of boredom or something, I guess. Does include some fun scenes of Light getting all up on L's grave and shouting at him, and also more explicit death scenes for his Yotsuba kills (suicides yay).

Everything else is mostly the same, except instead of wiping and massaging each other, L gets ridiculously close to Light as they watch Misa's Kira tapes in a private movie theater.

Casshern really is the closest we'll probably get to a GOOD Megaman anime.

There's more Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei?! Why did nobody tell me about this?! D=

The show got pretty popular in a scant two years, I should say. I'm so sad this will never get an official translation.

Also, obligatory RUMBA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BURE comment.

I am totally digging the new Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Haruhi and Lucky Star references for the win. And the new intro, with Rumba as the song, kicks so much ass.

Soul Eater is surprisingly good. It's really well animated and the character relationships are endearing.

I was put off by how predictable it was in the beginning. I mean, hey, if the next soul you eat isn't a witch or you fail this mission, you have to start all over. Hmmm, I wonder what will happen by the end of this episode?

Art style is wicked cool though.

I dropped at episode ten because no relationships were being developed. It seemed to follow the normal shounen path of introducing a shitload of characters and never focusing on anyone for more than an episode. Does it get better after it?

Hurm? I thought the expanded Yotsuba deaths and L's funeral thing were just some extra scenes. I wasn't aware of a "rewrite."

I've been considering watching it for a while now, seeing as so many people cosplay it. I'm rather lazy though and probably won't get around to it for a while.

Casshern Sins is pretty good and making sense now, though I'm still on the fence about whether I like it that much. I like it enough to keep watching, though not necessarily enough to go tell people they should watch it. That said, the animation is very pretty.

Okay - I'm a fan of Digimon. I think that TK is awesome, Patamon is adorable and that the newer seasons blow. Or it could be that I was younger when I watched the original seasons, and I'm just hanging on nostalgia.

But... Bio-Digivolve? ...What?!?! It's getting to be like Power Rangers. Sorry - POWER EXTREME WILD TIME DRAGON FORCE RANGERS.

I just sat down with a friend and watched a few of the English dubs. They're... they're really bad.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/050418.jpg

Seil has no taste. The Third Season of Digimon was my favorite out of all of them. Having a Cosmic Horror as a final boss whose source of power comes from screwing with the mind an emotionally broken girl? Awesome.

On another note, To Aru Majutsu no Index is ok. Episodes 3 and 4 were a bit boring, but that's mostly because it's an introduction set of episodes. Basically, it's a guy who can negate special powers with his right hand - which is great considering that pretty much every major character shown has some form of power.

Unfortunately, it also cancels out all of his luck - so he tends to have very bad days very often. It's probably why he ends up getting into so many fights, actually.

As of the latest episode, he managed to get amnesia except not really until you find out he really does have amnesia and was just pretending he didn't so that other people wouldn't be sad, and now has to act like he remembers everything for the rest of the series...probably.

I believe that's literally what it's called. Plus, they did change some things. Most noticeably, L doesn't introduce himself to Light in college. After the second Kira incident, he just calls him to some ridiculously hidden theater to watch the tapes.

I guess it could just imply that all went according to the original anime story and Ryuk only killed Light after he was fully owned and shot up, since it's not made clear when exactly Light dies, but that's even worse. We already know from day 1 that Ryuk will kill Light; showing it happen "eventually" without explaining what happens to Light's vision for the world is massively disappointing.

We knew this like, ten seasons ago. Get with the program.

Puns are fun.

Mmmmmmm, it does start integrating the cast more as things go on, but on the whole it's probably safe to say that if you didn't like it after ten episodes you probably wouldn't enjoy it too much more after that.

I think I'll give it another chance, solely for the reason that I did love the character design for Maka. However, I won't hesitate to say fuck it if I have to stand another episode of Excalibur bullshit.

In other news....



THE ANIMATION

WHY IS IT SO GORGEOUS?!*



*Translation: First Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Gekijoban: Gurren Hen clip is online!!!!

It... It's so beautiful... Words... Can't describe...

...RT, you of all people must know that I fucking love you. When is the scheduled release for the movie?

^^^Last September.

My only problem with Soul Eater is it's closing in on the manga and no new series has been announced(the current season runs to 51 episodes I think and is going one chapter an episode, there are currently 54 chapters and it's only mid arc of not the final arc now). Which means that we'll probably not see the incredible Arachnophobia arc(or any ones after it) animated for a long time, or Bones will do their normal thing and run screaming into left field with their own ending,FMA style and we'll never see all the great stuff in the later arcs.
I swear if Medusa starts leading a army of interdimensional nazis around I'm gonna be a little pissed (only a little cause the manga will still be running).

Plimit.

Re: Reggles; I guarantee that there is never again anything nearly as bad as the Excalibur episode. Also, there is never again anything nearly as bad as the two introductory episodes for Captain Jackass and MC Spazzy Spazzpants (Note to anyone who decides to try this show: Just skip the second and third episodes altogether. You are missing nothing that you could conceivably give a fuck about and a whole lot of just annoying, belabored bullshit).

Re: Greed; 1. I can't imagine why you spoiler-tagged something that God willing will never actually happen - unless you're just protecting the innocent from the raw awfulness of that idea in which case okay, I can dig it. 2. That would suck, but I mean, isn't the current series only on episode 30 or so? So it ain't like they don't have time to do that.