Recommended Anime/Manga?

[Raytrace]

I don't know if it was I.G. that worked on it, but it was featured in a Michael Jackson music vid in the mid-90s. The man was crazy. He had good taste in anime, though

haha I never noticed that before...

[xbl0x180]

Nobody did. Only loser, couch potatoes like me could tell at the time the music vid premiered

[Op Intensify]

MJ also had a massive collection of arcade games that was auctioned off shortly before his death.

[Raytrace]

watching Mad Bull 34 - not exactly a restrained show o_O

really liking it though

[BIL]

Heh, I stopped after two eps. Fun show but I'd had enough. I'd probably have stuck around if it was subbed - the writing is what it is, but the "noo yawkah" VAs were seriously reminding me of Heathcliff with constant sexual assaults, nudity and bloody gore.

Might finish it but I get tired of blatantly rapey shows. Might as well watch Bible Black so I can crack up in earnest if every other scene is quasi-hentai.

"That won't fit in my buuuutt!" <-- LOL

Blue Gender has been pretty cool. I like the "realistic" violence, ie, humans are very fragile things around massive aliens and heavy machinery. xbl0x is right that the designs are pretty bland, but the dangerous atmosphere has kept me interested so far.

[KAI]

Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Lot of thinking and gore. Better than 1000 Phoenix wright games together.

[Raytrace]

finally gotten round to watching Ninja Scrolls, liking it so far, though I don't know why but a lot of the facial art is reminding me of LOTGH the main guy's face looks really like Reinhardo's sometimes.

and now that brilliant Reuntal voice too - great stuff

[cj iwakura]

Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Lot of thinking and gore. Better than 1000 Phoenix wright games together.

No. No. God no.

The anime is garbage.
Play the VN.

[KAI]

I know I know, but this is the Recommended Anime/Manga thread.

Btw, Rose Guns Days looks awesome, i can't wait to play the translated version.

[Raytrace]

ok without a doubt Ninja Scroll deserves all the praise it gets, amazing - pretty freaky too in some parts...

[DragonInstall]

ok without a doubt Ninja Scroll deserves all the praise it gets, amazing - pretty freaky too in some parts...

Loved that anime.

Believe it or not... that was my first exposure to anime, and I was 10 years old in 1995. I didn't even understand what sex was at that time, but I sure as hell loved the action.

It's a shame that anime like this are non existent. I stopped giving a shit about anime years ago because it seems like the demograph has shifted too much from my taste.

Ninja Scroll, Kenshin Ova, and Berserk are still my top 3.

[Raytrace]

Loved that anime.

Believe it or not... that was my first exposure to anime, and I was 10 years old in 1995. I didn't even understand what sex was at that time, but I sure as hell loved the action.

It's a shame that anime like this are non existent. I stopped giving a shit about anime years ago because it seems like the demograph has shifted too much from my taste.

Ninja Scroll, Kenshin Ova, and Berserk are still my top 3.

haha that's a pretty intense introduction

yeh Rourouni Kenshin OVAs were amazing, I can't get into the TV series as much, I have yet to watch Berserk but I am VERY sure I will like it

[BIL]

Glad you liked Ninja Scroll, figured you would. I revisit it every few years and seem to enjoy it more each time. It's a driving, bloody, fantastical "boss rush" on one hand, but the various players are all perfectly defined, the atmosphere is pitilessly dark, and the integration of a small-scale vendetta with a major national crisis is seamless, ensuring neither scenario wears thin. Even the potentially disastrous romantic subplot is developed well and leaves a credible impression. Good stuff all-around.

It has some *serious* explosions too. Something about dynamite in a feudal Japan (or old west) setting just rocks. Demolishing a building must've really meant something back then, heh.

[xbl0x180]

Hey, Ray, have you seen Honneamise This is one of the best films ever made and, quite possibly, the best animated film ever made. I try not to hype stuff up, but it is how I honestly see it after having seen a few thousand films and hundreds of animated works



It's funny, it's sad, it's exciting, and it's inspirational.

[drauch]

Honneasmise isn't one of my favorite films by any means, but yeah, it's impossible not to say it certainly is one of the best animated films of all time. Soooo frickin' smooth and so much dedication!

[Raytrace]

Heh, I stopped after two eps. Fun show but I'd had enough. I'd probably have stuck around if it was subbed - the writing is what it is, but the "noo yawkah" VAs were seriously reminding me of Heathcliff with constant sexual assaults, nudity and bloody gore.

Might finish it but I get tired of blatantly rapey shows. Might as well watch Bible Black so I can crack up in earnest if every other scene is quasi-hentai.

"That won't fit in my buuuutt!" <-- LOL

Blue Gender has been pretty cool. I like the "realistic" violence, ie, humans are very fragile things around massive aliens and heavy machinery. xbl0x is right that the designs are pretty bland, but the dangerous atmosphere has kept me interested so far.

yeah I know what you mean about the dub, however though I think I'm starting to feel that if an anime is blatantly set in America/Europe/NotJapan, it feels a lot more natural to watch the dub, even a terrible one...

Yeh without a doubt I shall be checking Blue Gender, I loved VOTOMS...

[Raytrace]

Glad you liked Ninja Scroll, figured you would. I revisit it every few years and seem to enjoy it more each time. It's a driving, bloody, fantastical "boss rush" on one hand, but the various players are all perfectly defined, the atmosphere is pitilessly dark, and the integration of a small-scale vendetta with a major national crisis is seamless, ensuring neither scenario wears thin. Even the potentially disastrous romantic subplot is developed well and leaves a credible impression. Good stuff all-around.

It has some *serious* explosions too. Something about dynamite in a feudal Japan (or old west) setting just rocks. Demolishing a building must've really meant something back then, heh.

yeh the atmosphere is definitely unforgiving, the only people that eventually come through as possibly having a soul are the 2 main protagonists, I love the way aswell loads of freaky stuff happens and they never explain it - I mean the old man is obv some otherworldly thing himself, what with his rubbery arms and being able to turn into a branch of a tree! Also the weird sh1t with using wires to communicate held in the mouth, I dunno why for some reason that disturbed me hahaha

[Raytrace]

Hey, Ray, have you seen Honneamise This is one of the best films ever made and, quite possibly, the best animated film ever made. I try not to hype stuff up, but it is how I honestly see it after having seen a few thousand films and hundreds of animated works



It's funny, it's sad, it's exciting, and it's inspirational.

HI yeah I have I love it, I made some of those tiledGIFs of it:

http://r4ytrace.tumblr.com/tagged/royalspaceforce

The art was brilliant, I also liked how it was a slightly parallel world, but still very close to ours.

[Raytrace]

Honneasmise isn't one of my favorite films by any means, but yeah, it's impossible not to say it certainly is one of the best animated films of all time. Soooo frickin' smooth and so much dedication!

yeah another thing is the faces are quite natural looking in shape too - Ryuichi Sakomoto soundtrack too - I loved The Last Emperor when I was a kid....

[KAI]

The drunk space pirate and Rintaro are together again.

[Raytrace]

I'm on second episode of FLAG - I do proper like it though it's style while I respect it, can be a bit intense to follow sometimes, but I do really like it, after a while you don't even notice the focus area SLR squares in the middle, and whil I know a lot of people hate shaky cam, I think it really adds to this, plus the OTT grain is perefect for me as it kills the CG sheen...

Haha my 3 year old son did something pretty cool last week - he was in a big shopping mall type place and one of those revolving sushi bar things with a conveyor belt restaurant was there and he pointed to it and said 'Mammy look it's Gundam food!' :p - I don't know how he knew it was Japanese as I'm pretty sure I've never seen it being eaten in Gundam itself, maybe it was the Japanese letters or something....

[Op Intensify]

Honneamise does have a highly questionable attempted-rape scene that the script shrugs off like it was nothing, but the rest of the film is more than enough for me to overlook it.

I own the now out-of-print Blu-ray. It was $40 when I got it, it's probably rocketed up (ha!) since.

[Raytrace]

Honneamise does have a highly questionable attempted-rape scene that the script shrugs off like it was nothing, but the rest of the film is more than enough for me to overlook it.

I own the now out-of-print Blu-ray. It was $40 when I got it, it's probably rocketed up (ha!) since.

yeah that scene is definitely pretty jarring and comes from out of nowhere

[xbl0x180]

At first, I thought that scene was unsettling and disturbing, but over the years I think it adds to the story - the flawed nature of the "hero," who at that point probably began to believe the propaganda about him. There's also the relationship dynamic between Shiro and Riqquni, which started on a slight pretense of wanting to listen to her message... and then culminated to that scene. She was sort of naive and childish in her manner of being, with an abusive past that was hinted at. Whereas Shiro saw her as a woman he was becoming more and more attracted to; in his mind, he probably misjudged her friendliness for something more and convinced himself to act upon those signs he perceived coming from her.

Think about it: He's supposedly this hotshot would-be astronaut, television celebrity, but deep down we also see glimpses of him being out of touch, at times simple-minded, and at other times lonely. He's still young, single, and has no ties/responsibility to take care of a family or a woman. He's then spending the night at the place of a girl he's been fancying for a while... and he really got carried away.

[Op Intensify]

I would agree with that defense. I wish they had given the scene some actual impact on the story, though.

I've seen people try to wave it away with "but he didn't go all the way!!", though, which is bullshit, Shiro obviously was going to. And his goofy reaction to being clobbered at the end is really out of place.

Wasn't the scene removed in an earlier Western release, maybe just in Europe?

[xbl0x180]

I wouldn't call it a "defense" inasmuch as trying to explain a scene that may seem out of nowhere and jarring.

I would like to think Riquinni forgave Shiro because of her naive and trusting nature [and probably because of her religious beliefs]. However, it is not spelled out in the movie and it just seems as if they both look the other way. Still, the impact is there as he doesn't spend time with them anymore and focuses more on the launch. At the end, she looks up, as if she was wondering about him...

[Lordstar]

reading Bakuman right now! its the only thing which is keeping me sane

[Op Intensify]

I wouldn't call it a "defense" inasmuch as trying to explain a scene that may seem out of nowhere and jarring.

Defense of its inclusion in the film, not of Shiro's actions.

[Raytrace]

Does anyone know anything of this:



o_O

[KAI]

Yes, don't do it. Just watch Kurosawa's film instead.