Recommended Anime/Manga?

[Edmond Dantes]

Hmmm... any other Sentai-style anime I should check out?

I haven't seen it, but if you meen that sentai mecha 'look' - GaoGaiGar has a bit of that goin on IMO.

Oh definitely. The sentai Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger even has a mecha named GaoKing who is a straight-up homage of GaoGaiGar.

[Raytrace]

cool stuffs

getting towards the end of Hokuto No Ken TV finally - amazing stuff - that Yuuza guy is definitely a big influence on JJBA (as the whole series is really) - with all his 'tut, tut!' hand gestures eheh.

[DaneSaga]

cool stuffs

getting towards the end of Hokuto No Ken TV finally - amazing stuff - that Yuuza guy is definitely a big influence on JJBA (as the whole series is really) - with all his 'tut, tut!' hand gestures eheh.

Juuza was so cool, arguably the most enigmatic character in the entire HnK universe.
His very last fight with Raoh remains my favourite of the series, my spine tingles just thinking about it.
It was a real shame Juuza was introduced so late, as I really dug his nonchalant, free spirited disposition. And you would have to be quite the guy for somebody as fearsome as Raoh to describe you as “terrifying” I would imagine.



Reminds me I need to go download Juuza Gaiden and those other HnK origin stories Buronson penned from Hokuto no Gun one of these days.

[DaneSaga]

anyone know what happened to drauch? I haven't seen a post of his in weeks.
All the recent talk of City Hunter, Dirty Pair, and Hokuto no Ken. Normally he'd be all over this sorta shit.

[Raytrace]

anyone know what happened to drauch? I haven't seen a post of his in weeks.
All the recent talk of City Hunter, Dirty Pair, and Hokuto no Ken. Normally he'd be all over this sorta shit.

that is a very good point - I shall check if he has been on the Old School Anime club on mal.net

[Raytrace]

doesn't seem to have posted there in a while either - maybe he's on the holidays or something

[Raytrace]

still reading Knights Of Sidonia manga and have gotten past the anime now, unlike someone on here (can't remember who), I am proper enjoying the stuff after the anime, esp. chimera stuff etc.

[CIT]

Just got my hands on these brilliant volumes*:



I saw the anime ages ago, but having recently read the amazing Goku: Midnight Eye (which is infinitely better than the anime) I had to get the manga.

Any other Buichi Terasawa fans here?


*lame image recycling for Vol. 2 notwithstanding

[Lord Satori]

Final episode of Space Dandy was on tonight. Really interesting twists. Some I liked, some kinda disappointed me, but overall it was a pretty cool close to the series.

[DaneSaga]

spotted the Dirty Pair again (well their hair at least) in ep 39 Season 01 of City Hunter:

[KAI]

still reading Knights Of Sidonia manga and have gotten past the anime now, unlike someone on here (can't remember who), I am proper enjoying the stuff after the anime, esp. chimera stuff etc.

Don't want to spoil you or anything but, BRACE FOR IMPACT!

Finished reading Narutaru and Continued Wandering Emanon.
The first was full of WTF!/FIGHTER JETS/RAPE/GORE/END OF EVA, but I liked it.
The second was charming as the previous volumes. Memories of Emanon and Wandering Emanon are a must read if you like good manga.
Loli Emanon is best loli.

Yuri Kuma Arashi's site has been updated again
I want to watch this so bad!

[Raytrace]

Final episode of Space Dandy was on tonight. Really interesting twists. Some I liked, some kinda disappointed me, but overall it was a pretty cool close to the series.

It was by far the most mecha filled of the series too - full scale Ideon/Guncannon action, also the red tower thing's top was definitely modelled on the Zeon homeland in 0079.

[Raytrace]

Don't want to spoil you or anything but, BRACE FOR IMPACT!

I've read up to chapter 65 - I don't really know what the impact is eheh - is it the kinda OTT pervo/harem stuff escalating every chapter?

[Xyga]

Reading Magi - The labyrinth of magi.
Well, it's a shounen... with some big chunks of politics and ideology talk.

[Raytrace]

I finally finished the 109 episodes of Hokuto No Ken I loved it all the way through (well except maybe the very final compilation episode) -

What of the massive amount of gaidens, movies and stuff should I watch now? Or should I read the manga now? Or should I just go straight to Hokuto No Ken 2 series?

[DaneSaga]

I finally finished the 109 episodes of Hokuto No Ken I loved it all the way through (well except maybe the very final compilation episode) -

What of the massive amount of gaidens, movies and stuff should I watch now? Or should I read the manga now? Or should I just go straight to Hokuto No Ken 2 series?

I went straight onto HnK 2 after completing the first series as it was the most logical progression. If you go the manga route from here, once you reach volume 24, you’re going to see stuff that wasn’t animated. So it might be better to watch the 2nd series then read the original manga in its entirety. Or do the exact opposite, whatever.
Now could also be a good time to watch the movie (1986) if you yet haven’t. It’s basically just a condensed version of the first story arch involving Shin with some select changes, higher quality animation and actual animated blood.

There was quite the gap between works from the late 80s to the early 2000s, with only Fist of the North Star the Novel: The Cursed City (which would form as the basis for the New Fist of the North Star OVA later on) seeing a release in this lull period.
My advice would to be get all the original 80s HnK stuff out of the way before you move on to the various OVAs, Movies, and Gaidens.

[MX7]

Nowhere near finished Fist of the Northstar 1, but 2 has THE BEST THEMETUNE EVER MADE

[Raytrace]

Nowhere near finished Fist of the Northstar 1, but 2 has THE BEST THEMETUNE EVER MADE

I did flick ahead to it and as someone who is 100% pro 1990's I do appreaciate it, it is however still below 'You Wa Shock!' in my eyes (ears) ;p.

[Xyga]

So the Claymore manga ended today...

From Teresa's death to the fight for revenge against the big baddie bitch who killed her: 10 years of fillers.

And the fight's totally unimpressive, done in about three chapters.

This is even worse, actually way worse, than Gunnm or Berserk.

[CIT]

I only read Claymore up to where the Anime ends (book 10 or 11, I think). I heard the series kind of nosedives from then on. Too bad, cuz the Anime was excellent.

[Ji-L87]

Work today was pretty much just chaos (whole week actually) but at least this waited for me when I got home:



Those Patlabor screenshots a page back made me want to get the show on BD.
Quite expensive releases however, seems to to not have been released in PAL country so importing is pretty much my only ticket.
Will probably get the remaining ones here and there when I can afford.

Also interested in how the video quality will be on the GitS disc. When it was announced earlier this year there was some interesting comparisons between the JP Blu-ray and some HD TV-version and the latter looked better. Asked Manga UK but they never replied to my mail

[KAI]

G no Reconguista is fucking amazing! Love the ending song.

iI'm watching Haré+Guu right. Can't believe how stupidly funny this is.

[DaneSaga]

Those Patlabor screenshots a page back made me want to get the show on BD.
Quite expensive releases however, seems to to not have been released in PAL country so importing is pretty much my only ticket.
Will probably get the remaining ones here and there when I can afford.

Nice pick-ups.

I do believe Madman in Australia have released Patlabor on Blu-ray. So there does seem to be one PAL release at least, though I guess it would still be an import for yorself.
I’ve had the Patlabor discs for a while now, and it is great having the Television series and Early Days OVA in HD. It’s unfortunate though that the New Files OVA have not received the same treatment outside Japan. Fingers crossed it gets a release in the future so I can have a complete Patlabor collection on BD.

Also interested in how the video quality will be on the GitS disc. When it was announced earlier this year there was some interesting comparisons between the JP Blu-ray and some HD TV-version and the latter looked better. Asked Manga UK but they never replied to my mail

The UK/ US Blu-ray of GitS is from the same HD Telecine as the Japanese release, thus identical image wise. This means they feature the exact same black crush, windowboxing, and general softness seen in the JP Blu. Which is unfortunate, as this transfer is now nearing 10 years of age.

The HD TV version does indeed look better in still shots, though in motion it is another story. Due to the general low bit-rates of HD TV broadcasts, once moving, the image quality degrades significantly with macro blocking and artifacts everywhere. If this version was to be transferred onto Blu-ray however, this would be less of a problem as you would have far more leeway when compressing the data.

[Ji-L87]

Oh, okay. You seem to be a very knowledgeable fellow

By the way, what is everyone's opinion on Kimagure Orange Road?
I started reading the manga (still in the early chapters) and watched the pilot episode and first episode of the TV series and I'm just not sure what I think.
I know it's one of those at the time important works and I am curious about it, but after digging a bit on the surface on this franchise, it seems like I'm not going to get
very far if I keep feeling sorry for Hikaru?

[Raytrace]

G no Reconguista is fucking amazing! Love the ending song.

it fvcking is - though I dunno wot's going on - I don't know if it's some dodgy extra sharpening upscaling or something, but the linework on the hand drawn stuff just looks a bit weird to me, maybe it's a thing though, cos Eureka Seven pretty similar.

I love the music too

[Raytrace]

read the Hokuto No Ken pilot manga, I really did like it - I'd love if there was a gaiden OVA or something ion that setting, then again I suppose
Fist Of The Blue Sky sort of is.

[Raytrace]

does anyone know if Tetsu No Don Quixote has ever been scanlated (or actually published in english) - I couldn't find anything

http://myanimelist.net/manga/45349/Tetsu_no_Don_Quixote

[Pretas]

Any impressions on Terra Formars? Slick art style, but it looks like an obvious attempt at riding Attack on Titan's coattails.

[Raytrace]

Any impressions on Terra Formars? Slick art style, but it looks like an obvious attempt at riding Attack on Titan's coattails.

Don't really think its Aot ish myself - but it did seem a bit messy storywise, although I did enjoy the fight at the start - if anything it seemed very Starship Troopers to me.

I don't think I'm going to continue watching it.

[BIL]

Watched the first episode of the anime, thought it was okay enough (ridiculously censored violence though... I originally thought it was trying to convey the POV of a character who'd lost the majority of their vision, until I saw all the complaints).

Switched to the manga and am enjoying volume 1 a lot more. I gather the OVA covers this volume, with the series starting further in? At any rate, seeing it unfold firsthand makes for a much stronger introduction. There's a parallel to Titan in the extra-species existential threat scenario and the human protagonists' relation to it, as well as the extreme gore and punishing bodycount. But in practice it feels more genuinely about superpowered action, not SnK's horror/disaster with elements of such.



Seems cool, might casually follow it for a few volumes.