Recommended Anime/Manga?

[Raytrace]

@obiwanshinobi: Belladonna no Kanashimi looks... Well just about perfect. Thanks for the reccomendation!

@raytrace: Yes, the vessel in Space Battleship Yamato is a reference to the historical ship of the same name. There's even a lengthy flashback to 1945 in episode 2 just to hammer this home.

Up to episode six of SBY. While it has lots of edge of seat hung ho action, there also seems to be an explicit anti war message throughout. At the very least, conflict is far from glamorised, but instead is a sad necessity. There's still ker-azy characters and situations though. Not sure why travelling at warp speed makes all of Yuki's clothes come off, but I've never been in space myself.

cool yeah I hate to be pernicity (Im on episode 6 tonight myself) but I would like to think it actually IS Yamato modified - do you reckon it is?

yeah the warp was hilarious - passing over all the monkeys and longneck/Brontosaurs/Aleosaurs or wotever teh f theyre called nowadays

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well it didn't help that you put on Iczer-1 the second they walked in the door! :p

That's a dream dinner-and-a-movie dating scenario. In real life, that's grounds for not getting any and busting my balls about it. WHAT. THE. HELL Girls really, really don't like these hobbies. Hahahah.

You know, I just might take drauch's offer when it comes to the manga

[Raytrace]

well it didn't help that you put on Iczer-1 the second they walked in the door! :p

That's a dream dinner-and-a-movie dating scenario. In real life, that's grounds for not getting any and busting my balls about it. WHAT. THE. HELL Girls really, really don't like these hobbies. Hahahah.

You know, I just might take drauch's offer when it comes to the manga

any cool LD's you wanna throw out? :p

[Raytrace]

on episode 9 of Space Battleship Yamato - it is fully deserved of it's legendary status

love how you hardly ever see the Captain's eyes except for when he ultra intensely shouts 'UTEY!!!!!'

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well it didn't help that you put on Iczer-1 the second they walked in the door! :p

That's a dream dinner-and-a-movie dating scenario. In real life, that's grounds for not getting any and busting my balls about it. WHAT. THE. HELL Girls really, really don't like these hobbies. Hahahah.

You know, I just might take drauch's offer when it comes to the manga

any cool LD's you wanna throw out? :p

Nah, man, just a buncha NTSC VHS. As you guys suggested, I boxed those up and placed them at the local Goodwill/thrift store. I've already boxed up the anime on DVD and it came to a total of 5 1/2 boxes. On the shelves, this looked like a really small collection, but it took me all night to box these things up and store them. For the moment, I think I will cease collecting and see how it turns out. Once the girl is outta the picture, then I will open one box at a time and be able to enjoy some cartoons. This is the same fucking thing that happened when I stopped gaming and collecting in the 90s, except I kinda regret not having some of that stuff around since I trashed it

[drauch]

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I guess "being securedly employed and having above-average steady income, going to grad school, being close to family, people generally having a good opinion of me, being overall responsible; no past divorces/kids, no debt, no criminal record, no substance addictions," and all that baloney isn't as a huge a deal as "enjoys watching cartoons and playing video games" - that shit is like kryptonite for my game here in SoCal. FML

[drauch]

I think that's just the case for the vast majority of males in the U.S. Now, if we watched sports or collected fishing lures and baseball cards we'd be in the clear. I guess we're forgetting animation is "for kids."

[BIL]

Show her Bible Black. Tell her it's a documentary.

[drauch]

Now we're talkin'! That'll convert any non-believer . Might even give her some wild ideas...

[KAI]

Just don't show her BL stuff.

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I think that's just the case for the vast majority of males in the U.S. Now, if we watched sports or collected fishing lures and baseball cards we'd be in the clear. I guess we're forgetting animation is "for kids."

Hahaha. Actually, her stereotype of anime is out-and-out pornography and, maybe, Sci-Fi nerd stuff, which is pretty much all the totally awersome junk I am into and that we've been writing about in this thred. The only retort I could make was that she was vanilla (using her current favourite word that she picked up from that piece of shit novel, 50 Shades Of Grey). Anime and comics have some good and imaginative erotic stuff, and, before the advent of photography, everything was hand-drawn (I showed her a copy of the Kama Sutra). What's funny is that I think I have the Nagai Go anime DVD of Kama Sutra!

But, I kid you not, she made a crack about how she was "more of a guy" than I was because I don't give a damn about sports: I don't bet on American football, follow a basketball team, and know diddly about baseball stats. This is one of the reasons why I always make it a point to go to her place instead of mine (that and the fact that girls' beds are way more comfortable and spacious), but this one really insisted on going back to mine.

Seriously, the shit I gotta put up with to get a girl in the sack... ISITEVENWORTHIT

[Raytrace]

Imma cheer you up with some Bubblegum Crisis animGIFs I just made -

http://www.mediafire.com/?87mrgwz88obadae

[KAI]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGP2jcVZIlM

Fuck Madoka, Fuck magical girls.

Nothing decent in the future. Maybe this:
Penguinbear
Maybe.

[xbl0x180]

Schweet

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGP2jcVZIlM

Fuck Madoka, Fuck magical girls.

Magical Girl anime used to be good with stuff such as Minky Momo and Sailor Moon. The last good series was Fancy Lala. This new stuff has so much CG and generic chara designs that it looks really stale and fake, as well as unimaginative and not very creative. Just goes to show, better animation technology and techniques does not equate to "good" in the minds and hands of mediocre artists. SHAFT and Gonzo... I cannot even tell the difference, that's how average they are

[KAI]

Shaft is one of the few animation companies who doesn't use CGs in excess.

Gonzo=CG,CG,CG
Shaft=Experimental animation

That's the difference.

[Raytrace]

just finished Yamato 15 - still loving it

[drauch]

Finished Devil Lady, the late 90s adaptation of Go Nagai's Devilman Lady manga. I've only read the original Devilman manga, so I'm not sure how close it follows Devilman Lady. Character designs and music are quite good, although at this point you can really tell that animation in general is starting to suffer in Japan. So little detail to the monsters and the main character's demon form, although some of the monsters still maintain a creepy, menacing look. Overall a pretty bleak, melancholy experience that I could recommend, much in the vein of the original Devilman. Plus Nagai always creates attractive females, so there's that too, yeah.

[Hagane]

Chapter 85 of Vinland Saga is a nice change of pace. Seems like Thorfinn decided to stop being a hippie for a bit. Not like Harvest Moon Saga was bad, but it's nice to see some fighting again.

[Raytrace]

finished Vol2 of Gunsmith Cats manga - brilliant

[Raytrace]

episode 19 of Yamato (the Gamilus relay one) - just amazing - the utter vastness of space as he sat on it, accentuated by those pure analogue delayed sounds...

[Raytrace]

I have sneaked a peeky at Yamato 2199 and while I realise this could be considered blasphemy, emm it doesn't look too bad, but then again that's because it looks like an exact recreation, scene by scene...

[Op Intensify]

Shaft=Experimental animation

Euphemism for "we don't have a budget, so here's some silhouettes and photos/scans of random crap."

Most of Gonzo's CG is ugly, but you can tell they put some actual effort into it. I can sometimes appreciate it the same way I do the laughable CG helicopters in Golgo 13: The Professional (which was from 1983, by the way!)

[KAI]

we don't have a budget, so here's some silhouettes and photos/scans of random crap.

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we don't have a budget, so here's some silhouettes and photos/scans of random crap.

Man, that crap looks ugly and stupid. I've seen indie animation and this just strikes me as a waste of money and resources. By the way, the Dark Horse translation of GunSmith Cats is censored. I wouldn't bother with it or I'd just get a fan translation or raw manga

[Raytrace]

we don't have a budget, so here's some silhouettes and photos/scans of random crap.

Man, that crap looks ugly and stupid. I've seen indie animation and this just strikes me as a waste of money and resources. By the way, the Dark Horse translation of GunSmith Cats is censored. I wouldn't bother with it or I'd just get a fan translation or raw manga

well tbh words wise I cudn't work out what they may be censoring - HOWEVER - I did notice the emm well sex type scene which was just basically a blur of dark shading o_O

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we don't have a budget, so here's some silhouettes and photos/scans of random crap.

Man, that crap looks ugly and stupid. I've seen indie animation and this just strikes me as a waste of money and resources. By the way, the Dark Horse translation of GunSmith Cats is censored. I wouldn't bother with it or I'd just get a fan translation or raw manga

well tbh words wise I cudn't work out what they may be censoring - HOWEVER - I did notice the emm well sex type scene which was just basically a blur of dark shading o_O

Yeah, they either take out entire panels or smudge all over them, or mistranslate things on purpose. I'll stick to the original uncensored versions. Dark Horse can go f--- itself with their censorship

[Raytrace]

Yeah, they either take out entire panels or smudge all over them, or mistranslate things on purpose. I'll stick to the original uncensored versions. Dark Horse can go f--- itself with their censorship

so what you're saying to me is that that Italian psycho lady is even more perverted and psycho in the original? o_O

[KAI]

Minnie may's masturbation was censored, that scene was epic.