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WHY YOU LITTLE!!! Actually, I can sort of understand that attitude. Even though I love Evangelion and it is a very influential and great anime, yeah, I have to admit that it is pretentious and overrated. In fact, if I had to make a list of really ovverated anime, I’d include it and alo Cowboy Bebop and Elfen Lied, both for not living up to their potential and hype.
 
Really there haven’t even been that many animes so far that I’ve finished, or watched every episode up to now, so being that it’s my least favorite of all those that I’ve seen so far (even though it’s true :p) isn’t saying much.

What really gets me like you said is all the unwarranted pretense surrounding it. I don’t care that a lot of people really like it but they can get pretty nasty about those who disagree. Also all the kneejerk reactions you get from some diehard fanboys like “it’s just too deep for you!” and claiming that it’s such an objectively beautiful masterpiece but can’t explain why other than their own personal bias.
 
Really there haven’t even been that many animes so far that I’ve finished, or watched every episode up to now, so being that it’s my least favorite of all those that I’ve seen so far (even though it’s true :p) isn’t saying much.

What really gets me like you said is all the unwarranted pretense surrounding it. I don’t care that a lot of people really like it but they can get pretty nasty about those who disagree. Also all the kneejerk reactions you get from some diehard fanboys like “it’s just too deep for you!” and claiming that it’s such an objectively beautiful masterpiece but can’t explain why other than their own personal bias.
Yeah, I hate it when people pretend they are more intelligent just because they like a certain intelligent anime and disregard all others as being ‘for kids’. I suggested that people see FMA Brotherhood on a video about Naoki Urasawa’s Monster and someone said that while it is good, it’s just shonen, implying that because something belongs to a certain genre it is inferior. It’s like saying that Disney movies are bad and undeserving of Oscars because they are for kids when in fact, Disney films are most of the time well written and well liked and regarded as great by both children and adults. As if FMA Brotherhood wasn’t deep or well written or epic, and I’m someone who loves Monster and anything Urasawa.

Hardcore old school 90’s anime fans also really bug me, ones who refuse to watch any new anime and make the excuse that they’ll always be inferior to the old ones, implying that great anime like Baccano, FMAB, Hayate, Death Note, Clannad, Sword of the Stranger and Madoka Magica are all bad which of course doesn’t make any sense. Granted there ar eplenty of old school anime that are very great like Rurouni Kenshin but Kenshin inspired other anime to follow it’s lead and messages. Someone also told me that most new anime today are all about pointless fanservice and overdone harem comedy and while I do agree somewhat with him, recent years have relased a lot of critically acclaimed stuff like Steins Gate and Fate Zero and of coruse Madoka Magica.
 
**Hardcore old school 90’s anime fans also really bug me, **ones who refuse to watch any new anime and make the excuse that they’ll always be inferior to the old ones, implying that great anime like Baccano, FMAB, Hayate, Death Note, Clannad, Sword of the Stranger and Madoka Magica are all bad which of course doesn’t make any sense. Granted there ar eplenty of old school anime that are very great like Rurouni Kenshin but Kenshin inspired other anime to follow it’s lead and messages. Someone also told me that most new anime today are all about pointless fanservice and overdone harem comedy and while I do agree somewhat with him, recent years have relased a lot of critically acclaimed stuff like Steins Gate and Fate Zero and of coruse Madoka Magica.
(~_~メ) Hehehe…funny that you say that :o .You know with me and the list of anime I wanna watch that I’ve made 4 myself most of it is from the 90’s and there’s plenty of stuff just from the* 90’s alone* that I can gleefully lounge around in.One reason for me being into 90’s anime is b/c it’s kinda like it’s only now that I’m older & have a better understanding of sub-text and such that I can truly enjoy loads of 90’s anime much better then only the kids stuff like DBZ,Pokemon & Digimon like when I was little.

Also I’ve got like a nostalgic congeniality for the graininess and bright solid colors of old anime (similar to my liking of early to mid 90’s American comics despite the crud that decade gets) more then the bright, colorful, glossy,warm look nowadays days.Trust me I like that as well aesthetic as well as it’s a nicely modernized look but at the same time I found **so far **that there are few shows that harbor the new look that I like.But (to take a tip from exoflare) with me this isn’t saying much b/c I’ve never really watched that much anime.

I know I’ve said this b4 but the increasing trend of the past 5 years for using teen characters and high school becoming a common setting has been personally bothersome for me esp.since I finished high school.

Look I know that,that works effectively b/c being a high schooler is a time of big change and it goes well with the story & character development you could pull off but dang it man why so few shows revolving around adult characters lately?.They can change too.Sure it’s not as expected or easier but that’s still a good soil to grow a story in!.I hope this doesn’t ever get to as cliche as using revenge as the entire motivator of an action movie esp.with (I’ve heard) the increasingly low lucrativeness of the industry.

Also about the amounts of anime I watch.Since anime is as diverse in scope as live action movies like live action movies I’m just selective.Like panning for gold I gotta shift thru all that’s available,see what’s left and look at them individually closely.With subbed series I gotta take the time to read and digest what’s going on instead of hearing the direct audio of a dub.Just to say,for the most part I don’t even watch live action movies all that much!.So I’m going straight to what is most familar to me (90’s series whose names I’ve heard floating around) qicker then the 2000’s stuff.There’s still some good stuff in their but I gotta take more time to contently gold pan.

Although now that I think about/since this has been brought up there’s a LOAD of anime movies & game cutscenes that I enjoyably and more efficiently spend time mowing thru on my remaining break.But hey would I be made fun of a/o be considered of any less of an anime fan for being into older stuff ? (🙂 ; ).

Right now:I’m watching Madoka Magica b/c a dozen episode series is still do-able to finish before school then the Slayers and Kenshin episode I got lined up after.
 
(~_~メ) Hehehe…funny that you say that :o .You know with me and the list of anime I wanna watch that I’ve made 4 myself most of it is from the 90’s and there’s plenty of stuff just from the* 90’s alone* that I can gleefully lounge around in.One reason for me being into 90’s anime is b/c it’s kinda like it’s only now that I’m older & have a better understanding of sub-text and such that I can truly enjoy loads of 90’s anime much better then only the kids stuff like DBZ,Pokemon & Digimon like when I was little.
GET OUT OF THIS FORUM 90’S SCUM!!!

Just kidding sidetrack:) but there is a diffirence between your nostalgia and obsession and selectiveness to the exclusion of all other anime. It’s judging anime rashly. I agree a lot of anime today are centered around high school slice of life antics but there are a lot fo good ones that have elemtents of it like Clannad, Hayate no Gotoku, Fruits Baket, Kanon, FullMetal Panic! and Haruhi Suzumiya. It all depends on the quality of each show.

Also Lost Wanderer, I dropped Swordart online. I found it too boring and uncompelling honestly. If you like it I respect your opinion but the fact that it’s setting was an online game just seemed so artificial to me. Besides, I have a ton of anime that are on hold liek Bakuman and Wolf’s Rain. Currently though, I want to watch an anime that is fun, slice of life and romantic. I’m actually thinking of watching Tokyo Mew Mew. Did anyone here see it and if so, is it good?
 
Thats too bad LW but I saw the second episode and it looks good so far although I’m not getting engaged in it as I wanted to.

Today, I saw the first two episodes of Gurren Lagann. How were they? GREAT. They honestly make me very hyped up for the series as it looks like its going to be one of the greatest things I will ever see. Has anone ehre seen Gurren Lagan?
Gurren Lagann is probably one of my favorite anime. It’s not the most cerebral thing you’ll ever watch, although towards the end things get a bit more serious. Nonetheless, it is definitely a fun adventure. However, I am curious as to where you watched the first two episodes because the series is no longer on Hulu, Netflix, or Manga Entertainment’s YouTube channel. I would actually like to rewatch it at some point, but I cannot find a legitimate site that has it.
 
Gurren Lagann is probably one of my favorite anime. It’s not the most cerebral thing you’ll ever watch, although towards the end things get a bit more serious. Nonetheless, it is definitely a fun adventure. However, I am curious as to where you watched the first two episodes because the series is no longer on Hulu, Netflix, or Manga Entertainment’s YouTube channel. I would actually like to rewatch it at some point, but I cannot find a legitimate site that has it.
I watched it on justdubs:o. I don’t know how morally reprehensible it is because the site does have adverts and what not. Sorry if I scandalized anyone ehre but I myself always watch fandubs and what not but at the same time, I do buy the DVD’s the companies release just to support them. Besides, without those sites, 98% of the stuff funimation hosts isn’t accessible to me because I’m outside of the US.
 
Say guys, I found this anime AMV and I love it but while I do recognize some series like Ah! My Godess, Ayashi no Ceres, Inuyasha, Lodoss, Fruits Basket, Cardcaptor Sakura, Sailor Moon, Kenshin (but of course!) and even Perfect Blue but I do’n’recognize a lot of series. What anime do the clips at 0:52, 1:18, 1:22. 1:31, 1:28 and 1:56? Please tell me because I’m really curious!
 
Say guys, I found this anime AMV and I love it but while I do recognize some series like Ah! My Godess, Ayashi no Ceres, Inuyasha, Lodoss, Fruits Basket, Cardcaptor Sakura, Sailor Moon, Kenshin (but of course!) and even Perfect Blue but I do’n’recognize a lot of series. What anime do the clips at 0:52, 1:18, 1:22. 1:31, 1:28 and 1:56? Please tell me because I’m really curious!
Oops, I should have known. Search you tube for a video called Where’s My Samurai. It ahs a picture of Belldandy form Ah! My Goddess on it. Thats the video I was referring to here.
 
As I like this thread I’d really I’ve been worried that I’m losing my street/forum cred by having come here more often lately ;).Just kidding :p.Really though I’d like to at least make one posting not on this forum before school starts again next Monday for me.

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Hmmm…didn’t someone here (Mr.Slyvester?) mention in an old posting about not being interested in seeing deconstruction of Tom and Jerry?.Well I found one.Funny that,when that was mentioned b/c that made think about how years ago in the early 90’s when DC was using the character* Animal man *to go off into some wild (pun intended) eventually Vertigo level there was a storyline called the Coyote gospel that vividly deconstructed the Looney tunes type of cartoon violence of characters getting hurt by painful things like boulders and gunshots.That story-line was done by someone who almost has as much of mixed reputation in Western comics as Alan Moore:Grant Morrison.

You know I like deconstructions when there well done and don’t just do the stuff that ppl would foresee of having fantastical stuff happen IRL.I mean while I do know that the constant use of deconstructions has bad outcomes and dark stuff which might make you a bit cynical a/o uneasy the next time you see an idealistic or generic run of the mill anime from the genre they still interest me.(Hey 😉 why hasn’t it even occured to anyone that deconstructions don’t have to be that way? .Oh is that a mistake is that whatreconstructions *are for?).

Not really b/c of that the negative consequences that happen “in and of themselves” but b/c it interesting to see someone’s conception (when well executed) of what would happen if stuff from genres like the mon genre (Digimon tamers),magic girl genre (finished episode 5 of Madoka magica as I’m typing this) and mecha (Eva…arguably -_-) would happen IRL.It’s very intriguing to me.But you know there’s been one genre that for some reason hasn’t been put under the knife for some reason.Maybe ppl will be made uneasy after seeing it after and lucrativeness of the genre would drop like a rock ; .I’m refferring to shonen particulary and it’s sub-genre

fighting shonen🙂
Dragonball on the other hand,** while classic has been parodied and laughed at a lot and a lot of it’s stropes like people waking up from the dead (People die when they are killed…) and constant powerups are becoming overdone, cliche and are deemed anti-climactic** while Kenshin learnt new techniques but was still limited by his strength. Theres a diffirence between skill and supernatural power. In Fullmetal Alchemist, the most of a powerup the heroes gain is for Alphonse to learn using Alchemy witohut the use of drawing circles. Other than that, the Elric Brothers still use their skill to win fights.
I’m quoting this again b/c this might come in handy > ; )

If DBZ was used as the template then it would send a message and everyone would know what genre is getting operated on.WHY in the world is there*** yet ***to be a deconstruction of the fighting shonen genre?.Sigh if I could oh the things I would do it:rolleyes:youtube.com/watch?v=fRamB30E9mU.

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As I like this thread I’d really I’ve been worried that I’m losing my street/forum cred by having come here more often lately ;).Just kidding :p.Really though I’d like to at least make one posting not on this forum before school starts again next Monday for me.
Actually, there are
 
Recently, I’ve taken to raiding the local FYE’s anime section. Since they sell used DVDs and the inventory turnover rate for new stuff isn’t high, there’s plenty of older shows there (they still have Geneon stuff). Most of the anime I’ve bought from them lately, though, is used. I managed to find the first disc of the original Oh My Goddess OVA used (I already own the second), and I also stumbled upon an anime called Brigadoon (also used), which is…interesting.

Also, I bought the DVD collection of Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team, one of my favorite stories from the Gundam series. I got it new for about $35. This apparently a steal, since I haven’t seen it online for less than $100. Yay me! Yay low inventory turnover!

And I bought Steins;Gate part 2 from Best Buy a couple weeks back. Saving it for a bit.

At the moment, though, I’m trying to watch Penguindrum, which I also ordered.

So yeah, a lot of anime acquisition going on for me. How have y’all been?
 
As I said before, woman change their gender IMMEDIATELY after reading Berserk. I actually know someone who got pregnant just from hearing forces and her son grew up to be a master swordsman who is currently travelling Japan in order to avenge the death of his pet canary. It will make you grow hair on your chest and give you the ability to kill people with the power of oure awesomeness. Not even Gurren Lagann holds a candle to the badassery that is Guts. I sound like a fanboy here but, yeah, you’re right, I am a Guts fanboy.
No dude, don’t go there.

I have too much respect and love for the female gender to put that kind of image in my head.
 
Recently, I’ve taken to raiding the local FYE’s anime section. Since they sell used DVDs and the inventory turnover rate for new stuff isn’t high, there’s plenty of older shows there (they still have Geneon stuff). Most of the anime I’ve bought from them lately, though, is used. I managed to find the first disc of the original Oh My Goddess OVA used (I already own the second), and I also stumbled upon an anime called Brigadoon (also used), which is…interesting.

Also, I bought the DVD collection of Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team, one of my favorite stories from the Gundam series. I got it new for about $35. This apparently a steal, since I haven’t seen it online for less than $100. Yay me! Yay low inventory turnover!

And I bought Steins;Gate part 2 from Best Buy a couple weeks back. Saving it for a bit.

At the moment, though, I’m trying to watch Penguindrum, which I also ordered.

So yeah, a lot of anime acquisition going on for me. How have y’all been?
Not very good with anime and manga. Currently watching Bakuman which is OK. Ever since I’ve read Berserk, I haven’t been the same. It really is one of the greatest and most inspiring things I have ever read. And there I was planning not to read it because it was too depressing. I’m still reading Kenichi and Hayate and God and Mary know how tiring it is waiting for a new chapter every week.
 
Tsunderes? How about derederes? 🙂
True story. When he was still dating girls, my dad used to work as a waiter and he does have some funny stories of his antics. One of them is that he used to be a bit of a flirt and to attract girls, he would act as a tsundere. So when a girl came to the restaurant he at first would act cooly as if he wanted to get it over with (but not mean spirited coldly) but would act much sweeter when he got their orders and stuff. Thing is, he told me it worked!

In all honesty I have a soft spot for all types women. This however is hilarious:

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True story. When he was still dating girls, my dad used to work as a waiter and he does have some funny stories of his antics. One of them is that he used to be a bit of a flirt and to attract girls, he would act as a tsundere. So when a girl came to the restaurant he at first would act cooly as if he wanted to get it over with (but not mean spirited coldly) but would act much sweeter when he got their orders and stuff. Thing is, he told me it worked!

In all honesty I have a soft spot for all types women. This however is hilarious:

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I know how that feels seeing as I’m attracted to a tsundere. It’s weird because I’m a deredere. :o
 
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