Recommended Anime/Manga?

[BryanM]

/glances at Monster seriously
/74 episodes
/holy shit
/run away

[soprano1]

/glances at Monster seriously
/74 episodes
/holy shit
/run away

Try the manga, should be better.

[DaneSaga]

/glances at Monster seriously
/74 episodes
/holy shit
/run away

Try the manga, should be better.

Sound advice. While you’re at it, give Urasawa's Pluto & 21st Century Boys a whirl. Top Tier stuff.

[Ruldra]

Try the manga, should be better.

162 chapters. Not any better

I too feel reluctant to start series that span too long. Nowadays I no longer have the time and patience to endure mangas with 100+ chapters or animes with 20+ episodes. I really need to finish Yamato 2199 though, that one is worth the time spent.

[Lord Satori]

20+ episodes is long for you? I'd hate to see how you feel about One Piece and Detective Conan...

[Raytrace]

Try the manga, should be better.

162 chapters. Not any better

I too feel reluctant to start series that span too long. Nowadays I no longer have the time and patience to endure mangas with 100+ chapters or animes with 20+ episodes. I really need to finish Yamato 2199 though, that one is worth the time spent.

while over 50 is a bit of a push for me - I usually massively prefer 25/26 upwards, in fact that's what made me love anime - the massively long story arcs.

I'm about to rewatch LOTGH and I can't wait .

And yep Yamato 2199 is definitely worth the effort.

[Raytrace]

Knights Of Sidonia finished - very good throughout - and a second series confirmed .

I shall read as much of this guy's manga as I can .

[KAI]

Don't want to spoil you or anything, but the manga is getting more and more stupid

Rewatched Giant Robo The Animation (The Day the Earth Stood Still) with a friend last week and remembered the reason why it's one of my favorite series of all time, good characters, good pacing, good action, good story, good music, good animation, everything about this anime is excellent. Yasuhiro Imagawa is a fucking genius, I want more super robot series directed by him.

[drauch]

Big fan as well. Really a damn shame that Ninja Resurrection, his take on the Makai Tensho with ninjas didn't get finished. The two part OVA is worth watching, but it's the ultimate case of unfinished OVA blue balls, and due to the small amount of material filmed, it's kind of a mess. Still, it's super violent, which is kind of odd since I typically find his character design quite amiable. The Kinji Fukasaku film is definitely worth seeing as well, despite being seemingly unfinished all the same, although that could be the source material, which I've yet to read. Not much of a cliffhanger per se as in Ninja Resurrection, just slightly anti-climactic.

[Lord Satori]

Watching a series simply titled "Monster". It's really amazing so far and I definitely recommend it.

[BryanM]

no no don't compliment it argh

[Lord Satori]

Quit bitching about how long it is. Honestly how difficult is it to watch two (or more) episodes a day for about a month? I can't think of a single reason why an exciting anime having a lot of episodes would be a bad thing.

[Xyga]

Just read Ultra Heaven manga.
Crazy story about a world where hallucinogen drugs became legal and your everyday thing, our junkie hero is given some new stuff by a shady dealer and....
So trippy... want moar !

[Lord Satori]

I prefer it when the strange trippiness is actually happening. (or the character is seriously messed up in the head, that can sometimes be interesting, too)

[Formless God]

I can't think of a single reason why an exciting anime having a lot of episodes would be a bad thing.

The excitingness never lasts that long.

[Lord Satori]

Hunter x Hunter would beg to differ.

[d3vak]

Hunter x Hunter would beg to differ.

Oh GOD I second that...

[BryanM]

Could we maybe change this into a broader "comics and animation" kind of topic? I'm as weaboo as anyone (look at their pools!) but there's other art styles out there.

I'ma start with the comics I follow:


Invincible



Invincible is the best superhero comic there is. There's really no getting around that - every page adds something. The premise begins along the lines of Superman having a family, if Superman wasn't completely boring. It then branches way out from there. (Seriously, our messed up flaws are what makes people interesting. Think how awful Evangelion would have been if everyone was well-adjusted, Shinji's dad was a loving effective father, etc.)

One of the many things that makes it wonderful is the author's disdain for tripe. If a super strong guy punches a normal guy as hard as he can, that fist is going through him. It's oftentimes been accused of being gorier than his zombie book. An excerpt of the latest letters column illustrates:

"My thought has always been that having a reoccurring villain is complete bullshit. How many people has the Joker killed? He just keeps coming back? Spider-Man is fighting Doctor Octopus for the one-hundredth time and that's supposed to be compelling? ... It diminishes the threat if they're defeated over and over and over again. I'd rather build new villains."


The Walking Dead



Everyone and their dog reads The Walking Dad. The hobo tv series is not faithful at all; that isn't a Princess Bride type port. Those folks will never know what it feels like to get to shout out "tainted meat".

This book is about people who sit around and drink coffee and talk about the feelings that zombies have.


Alex + Ada

Robots! It's kind of like Time of Eve, but not as good. Not as creepy, crazy-preachy libertarian, misogynistic as His Robot Girlfriend. I'm still on board with it.


Saga

Kind of has a Star Wars/Flash Gordon space fantasy thing going on. It's sometimes quite likable.


Tech Jacket

Tech Jacket's starting back up today after quite a hiatus. It's a simple fun story of a boy with a super powered tech suit grafted to his chest and his wacky awkward sexual incompatibility with his alien girlfriend. Also: Lots and lots of hospital visits.


Fables

I've been off the Fables train for a long, long time now. Sometime after issue 100. To be blunt, the author just kind of lost the threads of what he was doing and all my carecats died. Example: One character got killed off by a "He walked into the closet and was never seen from again" trope. The kind where the closet leads to a Narnia (Oz, in this case) wonderland where he has lots of adventures that don't matter because NONE OF THE CHARACTERS THERE ARE PART OF THE ESTABLISHED NARRATIVE.

But, that was a lot of years of having a carecat. You can blame this book for the five million fairy tale TV shows that are out now. Comics always catch onto the fads before everyone else does.

[endoKarb]

Easily the best series I watched in a long time.

"Blood tastes like iron"

[Raytrace]

Could we maybe change this into a broader "comics and animation" kind of topic?

stfu gaijin :p

(emm j/k (obv))

[gbaplayer]

Has anybody read Seven Deadly Sins? I ordered volume 1 today. Sounds promising.

[Xyga]

Has anybody read Seven Deadly Sins? I ordered volume 1 today. Sounds promising.

Yeah I like it, it's your average shounen with pretty much only big fights, but done right.
You can actually 'read' the action unlike many other shounen where the art is too messy to even get who's punching who.
Nice action/plot twists and a good pace, it's almost never boring even though the main plot is kind of meh.

[Ruldra]

Easily the best series I watched in a long time.

"Blood tastes like iron"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcSuAhbtIFg

Looks interesting, will check it out.

[Lord Satori]

Over half way through Monster. It's an extremely excellent anime so far. The antagonist is such an interesting character that at one point you wonder if he is such a bad guy after all. (though that moment passes)

Also, season 2 of Space Dandy! Such a hilarious episode packed with references.

[KAI]

Just Finished watching Miyazaki's Kaze Tachinu/The Wind Rises. It's an odd yet beautiful movie. The ending song brought tears to my eyes.

Also watched one of the most overhyped anime of this season, Urobutchi's Aldnoah Zero. Pretentious shit, that's all I have to say, this guy doesn't know how to write Sci-Fi.

GITS Arise 3 came out this weekend (I have yet to see it), and there's only 2 days left for the premiere of the new series directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, Zankyou no Terror.

Looks interesting, will check it out.

Please do it, Ping Pong is brilliant.

[Formless God]

Just Finished watching Miyazaki's Kaze Tachinu/The Wind Rises. It's an odd yet beautiful movie. The ending song brought tears to my eyes.

My jaw went straight to the floor when the lady slides the door open in the wedding scene. Gorgeous shot.

P.S. Just watched that Aldnoah.Zero. Not sure if "pretentious" is the right word to use because it isn't some 2deep4u shit, just really typical spess war stuff.
The frame count was terrible for a first episode though. Is there even anything with good animation quality this season?

[BryanM]

Huh, that Fumoffu-derived meme of wearing a horse mask has culminated with a guy shaking Obama's hand while wearing one. It feels like one of those full circle things. Where the etymology of a thing has finished its full course.

[Lord Satori]

Are you sure you meant to post that in this thread?

[DaneSaga]

Are you sure you meant to post that in this thread?

it's relevant to something a few pages back.

[Lord Satori]

Oh. It would've been better to quote the relevant post if that's the case.

Anyway, I just finished watching Monster. It's an amazing anime overall and is an amazing must watch. It really shows how monsters are not born, they are created.