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Post by Tea Rex on Jul 7, 2014 0:15:36 GMT -5
Decided to make this an anime summer.
Started Knights of Sidonia, Mushi Shi's second series, Kids on the Slope and Sailor Moon Chrystal this weekend.
Sidonia's animation throws me, and the ol' distopian future premise hasn't moved into new and interesting territory yet, but I'm on board because it's delightfully odd.
Mushi shi remains beautiful and melancholy. Absolutely not disappointed by the first episode.
Kids on the Slope's first ep made me laugh a whole bunch - someone on the writing staff remembers being a teenager filled with angst! And I am digging how the show treats music. I'm on board.
Sailor Moon Chrystal gives me the childhood feels. Love the animation so far, and the decision to streamline the story. Still on board for a magical girl show where the main heroine starts out a scared, silly girl and grows into her role as a savior.
Terror of Resonance is on my to-watch list, if they air it on Crunchyroll. Any other suggestions are welcome!
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jul 7, 2014 5:33:37 GMT -5
sarapen Yeah, a bit. ' A lot ' of fanservice would imply at least one complete fanservice episode and some fanservice in pretty much every episode, like Highschool of the Dead. Sidonia's fanservice is ridiculous, hokey, does it no credit, and happens around three or four times in a twelve episode series. I don't know a better word here. Tea Rex Terror of Resonance will be streaming on Funimation. I found Kids on the Slope a bit lopsided - it's clearly trying to adapt more manga than it has space for - but it's probably Watanabe's most underrated series. On Crunchyroll I recommend Erin, a charming fantasy series I really should discuss more here. King Charles’s Butterfly Having watched a lot of anime I don't think it's given me many that interesting insights into Evangelion. I know for example that the voice actress who plays Asuka's mother in the Japanese dub is the same who played Jung-Freud (a redheaded mecha pilot in Gunbuster, Hideaki Anno's first series) and that Shinji's difficult relationship with his father comes from a long line of inventor fathers who either build their children or build giant robots for them to fight with. Anyway that was an excellent piece.
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Post by ComradePig on Jul 7, 2014 11:37:13 GMT -5
sarapen Right but what I mean is stuff like 'war is bad' is a huge thematic part of, say, a lot of Gundam anime. There is an ambivalence about violence (with characters emotionally and psychologically scarred from their experiences and dying left, right and centre) that one finds in a lot of Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino's work. Add this to the apocalyptic planet-falls wiping out entire cities off the map and the whole thing had a kind of Gundam headspace. I agree about the wartime and postwar influences though. I did get a unintentional chuckle out of Aldnoah's just slightly on the nose final scene, in which two adorable moppets wish upon a 'shooting star' for eternal world peace and friendship. I appreciate the tendency in general, but there was something a bit comical about the tonal whiplash from going to 'Let's pray for world peace Onee-sama!" literally seconds after the anime equivalent of this:
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jul 7, 2014 11:54:26 GMT -5
ComradePig Yeah, Urobochi gets a certain kick out of starting with cute anime cliches and then twisting the knife like that. I wasn't sure if I was laughing with him or laughing at him with that final scene, but either way, I'm sticking around for more.
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Post by ComradePig on Jul 7, 2014 12:14:33 GMT -5
Yeah, I'll be sticking around as well, clumsy final scene aside (now pictured) it has some solid elements lined up. Story wise it does feel rather redundant right now of UC Gundam in some ways, but obviously there's no shortage of shows working within similar base story-lines and the mecha designs seem well-done, so there's certainly potential. In regard to much more effective, if indeed not exactly subtle either, anti-war anime storylines I'll recommend Sora No Woto to all having completed it over the weekend as I've indicated elsewhere (pictured below and available for free on Crunchyroll, with the title all as one word I believe). It sort of flew under the radar both here and in Japan from what I understand, and a lot of people dismissed it initially as K-ON in the army based off of the character designs, and while that's not completely off-base it's a really well-done series on whole with a nicely self-contained plot and satisfying individual arcs for all of its characters, strong background lore and a very warm and thoughtfully crafted world. An overall lovely show. From this latest season I'm also watching well, Rail Wars. So far, its first episode has hit just about every mark on the Otaku cliche checklist, with the core plot involving busty, gun-wielding girls in form-fitting uniforms delivering vaguely authoritarian justice to ne'er doers and fighting terrorists who want to commit the heinous crime of...privatizing Japan's alternate-history nationalized railway system! I didn't dislike the first episode as much as I might have anticipated and it at least has some good railway trivia if you're inclined towards that sort of thing (like say, me), but it definitely never met a trope or cringey-fan service opportunity it didn't like and I certainly wouldn't be one to vouch for its objective quality.
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Post by Tea Rex on Jul 7, 2014 16:50:49 GMT -5
I watched episode 1 of Erin. I'm hesitant, Douay-Rheims-Challoner. Is it as treacly adorable throughout? I mean, I can take a lot of sap (I watch My Little Pony, for chrissakes), but this was almost diabetes-inducing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 17:32:42 GMT -5
I watched episode 1 of Erin. I'm hesitant, Douay-Rheims-Challoner. Is it as treacly adorable throughout? I mean, I can take a lot of sap (I watch My Little Pony, for chrissakes), but this was almost diabetes-inducing.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jul 7, 2014 18:21:18 GMT -5
Tea Rex It gets a bit darker as the main character matures. If it doesn't hook you in the first four or five episodes may not be for you, though. Want something on the complete other end and very, very anti-treacle, though, go watch Kaiji.
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Post by sarapen on Jul 7, 2014 20:51:44 GMT -5
I watched episode 1 of Erin. I'm hesitant, Douay-Rheims-Challoner. Is it as treacly adorable throughout? I mean, I can take a lot of sap (I watch My Little Pony, for chrissakes), but this was almost diabetes-inducing. I've been watching it off and on for most of a year now. It explores a lot of more adult stuff later on, though perhaps calling it "adult" is a bit of a mislabel considering that being a child doesn't shield one from tragedy and loss, as demonstrated by this anime. Still, early on the show is rather episodic and I mostly stuck with it because I liked Moribito so much, which was the creator's previous work. I'm on episode 14 now and I'm just hoping I can finally reach the part where the protagonist is grown up. Hopefully the sugary sweet Pollyanna optimism will be tempered a bit by then.
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Post by sarapen on Jul 7, 2014 22:02:27 GMT -5
sarapen Yeah, a bit. ' A lot ' of fanservice would imply at least one complete fanservice episode and some fanservice in pretty much every episode, like Highschool of the Dead. Sidonia's fanservice is ridiculous, hokey, does it no credit, and happens around three or four times in a twelve episode series. I don't know a better word here. An injudicious amount of fanservice? Or an immodest amount - double entendre! Anyway, I just finished the whole season of Knights of Sidonia. The Death Star run was fairly exciting, and I was tickled pink when the hero fired his giant robot's arm like Mazinger-Z. Lots of callbacks to the 70s and 80s in this show. And as I mentioned, the character stuff is cliched in a manner separate from the gazongas, or rather, it's cliched in a manner often linked to titty anime but not necessarily so. The male-female relationships aren't even juvenile, they're prepubescent. Why did grown-ass military officers start blushing at being in close quarters? Why do putative adults keep their feelings to themselves then act betrayed when their crush spends time with a romantic rival? Why is this eternally a thing in this kind of series? It's not like Japanese sci-fi is always like this. Right now I'm reading a classic Japanese novel from the 70s, 10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights, and somehow the characters in it resemble actual human beings. I suppose the aging population and the shrinking number of consumers means that the anime-manga-video game media complex is increasingly regurgitating the same safe cliches for the hardcore fans who kept their fannish consumption even through an incredibly long recession. And as for Aldnoah Zero, the tagline for the show is "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall". The self-serious connotations of using such a phrase - the Latin original is most widely misattributed as being quoted in the legal decision that found slavery insupportable in England - clashes so much with the subject matter that I immediately started laughing my ass off. Sweet crap, this looks like an awesome show to watch while drunk. This anime thinks it's profound! Aldnoah Zero, your hubris is inspiring. Also, what's up with the computer system being called "ASIMOV"? Is that a reference to a story of his?
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jul 8, 2014 4:15:03 GMT -5
sarapen Most of the characters - including all involved in a romantic triangle - are teenagers. As far as the anime/manga-ish-ness of it, Sidonia is an anime based on a manga so that comes with the territory. I don't think all Japanese sci-fi is like this (take Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika, say, which is darker and weirder than Kon's film) but anime adaptations gravitate towards not just manga, but light novels, which are a form of fiction heavily influenced by and catered to fans of anime and manga. As far as Aldnoah Zero goes yeah that's pretty much par for the course for Urobochi. I practically kept a counter of all the literary references he peppered Paycho-pass with (it even digressed into having a character discuss Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, a little genre savvy for a cyberpunk series.)
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 9, 2014 0:47:15 GMT -5
Um, so I don't watch a lot of anime, but I just got done watching Yuasa's Ping Pong, and I figured I'd make a post about it or whatever, if that's OK. Anyway, I really enjoyed it. This was my first experience with Yuasa, and his animation was consistently fascinating. This includes the ping pong play itself, which, from what I can tell as a horrible ping pong player who nevertheless has a rudimentary understanding of good technique, was pretty realistic (barring of course Yuasa's frequent stylized visually creative representations of play). The story itself had more substance to it than I was expecting from a sports series that utilizes plenty of sports story tropes. I'm sure that part of what I liked is that it's not a wholly uncritical look at obsession in sports, something which most sports films are unable to do. But yeah, I guess I don't have as many focused non-spoilery thoughts about the series as a whole as I thought I had, but I liked this a lot. I'll probably be watching something else by Yuasa in the near-ish future (probably Tatami Galaxy), because that guy is pretty awesome. So, um, yeah.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 7:07:04 GMT -5
(Pictured: Reinhard with blonde hair on the right, Yang on the left) Be warned, plot spoilers, though this is pretty much a prologue to the OVA series, so it shouldn't impact the story. Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars details the beginning of the epic story of Reinhard Von Musel and Yang Wen-Li as they fight against each other in the war between the Galactic Empire(Reinhard) and Free Planets Alliance(Yang). A war that has lasted an astonishing 150 year. And not only do they have to worry about each other, but piles of bureaucratic bullshit. This movie specifically focuses on the 4th battle of Tiamat. Where the Free Planets Alliance wants to strike down a Galactic Empire fortress. The head honcho of the military for the Galactic Empire wants to sacrifice Reinhards and his fleet in this battle, simply because the Head Honcho is a dick. While Yang pretty much has to bail out his own side from being fools, while also trying to make up for two instances earlier on where if he had spoke up could have saved lives. In the end due to plans by Reinhard and Yang the battle pretty much ends in a stalemate. Reinhard and Yang also learn of one another, being impressed by what each pulled off during the battle. Setting the table for their rivalry to come. Reinhard and Yang are vastly different sides of the same coin. Both are tactical geniuses that are looked down upon by their superiors out of pettiness. Reinhard because he is unproven and the fact everyone thinks he only got the position of Fleet Commander because the Kaiser has eyes for his older sister. Yang is disliked because he is a celebrity among the military for being a war hero years before. Yang however is not a fleet commander, he is just a bridge officer, basically stuck in middle management because he is resented by higher ups. The differences come in their motivations for fighting this war. Reinhard wants to ascend to the top, he wants to win this war because he knows he is the person that can lead the Galactic Empire to victory. Yang is more reluctant to take action, only doing so because he feels guilt over lives lost in a skirmish that was prelude to the main battle, and the fact he has a plan that can end the battle and heavy losses his side was taking, because no one else is competent enough to do so. A great introduction. The plot is handled as straight as could be. It is meant to be taken seriously and it makes sure the viewer does so. This is an epic and it will be treated as such. It looks grand, feels grand, and in only 60 minutes had me feeling like there really has been a war going on for the past 150 years. Part of that has to do with the way the movie just drops the viewers in. There is some exposition about Reinhard(and later Yang) but there is no real introduction to the conflict of the Galactic Empire and Free Planets Alliance. It is about as lived in as a story can get, and I love that. I also love the fact that it doesn't hold the viewers hand. You just have to keep up as it is going. Hell, I don't even know all the characters names and I was paying attention the whole time. Now, part of this aspect may be because it was made more for people who have already read the novels the story is based on, but I certainly don't mind. I give this outing an A
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- Character beat for Reinhard: He treats his entire fleet as a family, these are his men, and he knows the name of every single crew member on every single ship. He may forget names of other commanders outside of his fleet, but when it comes to HIS fleet, he will know the names of even the lowest ranking members. - Character beat for Yang: Since the guy is a popular war hero he gets lots of fan mail. While this is annoying in his quarters, as he has a huge pile amongst his desk, he can't bring himself to throw them away. Due to the war paper is more scarce and these people took the time and effort out to write him and letter and send it to him. This does mean something to him. - Animation is top notch. While not all the of the characters faces work(Yang in particular has weird looking eyes throughout) the rest looks great. The design of the ships looks unique and sleek. The battles look absolutely fantastic. - The movie is heavily scored with classical music. During battle that is all that can be heard(besides dialogue). There are no noises for the explosions, no sound effects for the ships moving around. Just an unrelenting barrage of classical music. I love it, gives the movie something to stand out. I hope this aspect doesn't change when it gets to the OVA series. Next up: Overture to a New War, basically the first two episodes of the series re-done and expanded upon as a full cinematic movie(This time at 90 minutes!!!)
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jul 9, 2014 7:46:52 GMT -5
Roy Batty's Pet Dove If anything I appreciated your insights on Ping Pong, especially sports related. As I think we discussed before, sports anime has always been a hard sell in the West - there is a devoted online fandom, but they don't buy home video releases anywhere near as reliably as other genres. And even the fans I do know have often been more about the anime than the sport (I've gotten into many discussions about how Yuasa's style evolved in Ping Pong and none, besides with you, about the realism of the depiction of the sport.) @taxman The exclusive use of classical music (including a theme written specifically for the Galactic Empire and four classical-style opening songs) remain constant throughout Legend of the Galactic Heroes with the exception of the vaguely lounge singer music used for the ending songs. Glad you enjoyed the movie. The LOGH movies were made in the mid-nineties, by which point the project had quite a decent budget - early episodes of season one suffer a bit in animation terms because this show was funded largely through sales of VHS tapes that kept the production going for over a decade (so yeah this was significantly fuelled by fans of the novels.) Even if it wasn't an amazing series - and it's my favourite anime, period, so I say it is - it has kind of a remarkable production history.
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Post by sarapen on Jul 9, 2014 10:43:07 GMT -5
Um, so I don't watch a lot of anime, but I just got done watching Yuasa's Ping Pong, and I figured I'd make a post about it or whatever, if that's OK. Anyway, I really enjoyed it. This was my first experience with Yuasa, and his animation was consistently fascinating. This includes the ping pong play itself, which, from what I can tell as a horrible ping pong player who nevertheless has a rudimentary understanding of good technique, was pretty realistic (barring of course Yuasa's frequent stylized visually creative representations of play). The story itself had more substance to it than I was expecting from a sports series that utilizes plenty of sports story tropes. I'm sure that part of what I liked is that it's not a wholly uncritical look at obsession in sports, something which most sports films are unable to do. But yeah, I guess I don't have as many focused non-spoilery thoughts about the series as a whole as I thought I had, but I liked this a lot. I'll probably be watching something else by Yuasa in the near-ish future (probably Tatami Galaxy), because that guy is pretty awesome. So, um, yeah. No, it's not okay. Remove the interloper! . . . Still here? Anyway, I haven't seen Ping Pong so I can't comment on it, but I did rather like Tatami Galaxy. I think I watched the whole thing in just three days. It's about a university student unhappy that his social life isn't like Keri Russel's in Felicity, and his various attempts to solve that problem. I rather liked it, it unexpectedly gets rather sci-fi.
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Post by ComradePig on Jul 9, 2014 16:00:15 GMT -5
Given the frequency with which all of these adaptation attempts fizzle out and end up in development hell I wouldn't bet a significant sum this rumored one actually makes it to fruition, but if it did, well it'd be something alright.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jul 9, 2014 16:12:49 GMT -5
ComradePig People have been futzing around saying there's a Death Note live action for yonks and yonks. Zac Efron was allegedly in the running to play Light Yagami at one point (controversial statement: Not bad casting at the time.) My current preferred pipe dream live action anime is of course the HBO adaptation of Monster by Guillermo del Toro, which is totally a real thing and planned to be super faithful to the manga - and since Monster already is the closest thing anime has to a prestige HBO TV series (it has more in common with True Detective than Sword Art Online) it's a very well selected bit of material. I'm also interested because should it get adapted and become a hit, we may live in a world where Naoki Urasawa is as household a name as George R.R. Martin. How weird would that be?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 19:34:50 GMT -5
Roy Batty's Pet Dove If anything I appreciated your insights on Ping Pong, especially sports related. As I think we discussed before, sports anime has always been a hard sell in the West - there is a devoted online fandom, but they don't buy home video releases anywhere near as reliably as other genres. And even the fans I do know have often been more about the anime than the sport (I've gotten into many discussions about how Yuasa's style evolved in Ping Pong and none, besides with you, about the realism of the depiction of the sport.) @taxman The exclusive use of classical music (including a theme written specifically for the Galactic Empire and four classical-style opening songs) remain constant throughout Legend of the Galactic Heroes with the exception of the vaguely lounge singer music used for the ending songs. Glad you enjoyed the movie. The LOGH movies were made in the mid-nineties, by which point the project had quite a decent budget - early episodes of season one suffer a bit in animation terms because this show was funded largely through sales of VHS tapes that kept the production going for over a decade (so yeah this was significantly fuelled by fans of the novels.) Even if it wasn't an amazing series - and it's my favourite anime, period, so I say it is - it has kind of a remarkable production history. From what I can gleam off wiki and what not, Sea of Stars was produced before the OVA series, so the animation should be about the same which is cool, I didn't have any major problems with it, just a minor one about the faces. Though you could just be referencing overture since that did come out later.
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Post by flowsthead on Jul 9, 2014 19:35:30 GMT -5
I know a lot of people really hated this, but I honestly think a Keanu Reeves starring Cowboy Bebop could have been good. Spike doesn't emote all that much, and whatever his faults may be, Keanu is fucking cool.
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Post by ganews on Jul 9, 2014 19:50:51 GMT -5
I know a lot of people really hated this, but I honestly think a Keanu Reeves starring Cowboy Bebop could have been good. Spike doesn't emote all that much, and whatever his faults may be, Keanu is fucking cool. Downvoted. And don't lazily stroll up to me with no Mickey-Rourke-as-Jet, either.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jul 9, 2014 19:57:12 GMT -5
@taxman No you're right I misremembered and was thinking of Overture (and probably Golden Wings, but let's leave that aside.) Nonetheless animation improved as the show evolved, but yeah if you like it now you should be fine. flowsthead I really feel that movie would have lived or died on its director. Keanu wound up starring in my favourite Philip K Dick film, but that love has more to do with Linklater than Reeves. This said I do think Spike calls for an actor who can internalise better - in his whole film noir archetype running from his past. (Terry Crews as Jet.)
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Post by ComradePig on Jul 9, 2014 20:20:54 GMT -5
@taxman No you're right I misremembered and was thinking of Overture (and probably Golden Wings, but let's leave that aside.) Nonetheless animation improved as the show evolved, but yeah if you like it now you should be fine. flowsthead I really feel that movie would have lived or died on its director. Keanu wound up starring in my favourite Philip K Dick film, but that love has more to do with Linklater than Dick. This said I do think Spike calls for an actor who can internalise better - in his whole film noir archetype running from his past. (Terry Crews as Jet.) Tiny Terry loves his pickles Bonsai trees.
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Post by thebigmeh on Jul 9, 2014 21:11:53 GMT -5
Has anyone here watched Black Butler? I've been working my way through the first season on Netflix, and while I like the whole Victorian era vibe of the show and the intrigue of who is really in league with who and what their true motives are... I'm mixed on whether or not it's going anywhere interesting or just getting goofy. (The tonal shifts just seem so jarring at times.) Should I stick it out and finish the back half of the first season and then continue on to season 2?
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Post by Tea Rex on Jul 9, 2014 22:06:19 GMT -5
Has anyone here watched Black Butler? I've been working my way through the first season on Netflix, and while I like the whole Victorian era vibe of the show and the intrigue of who is really in league with who and what their true motives are... I'm mixed on whether or not it's going anywhere interesting or just getting goofy. (The tonal shifts just seem so jarring at times.) Should I stick it out and finish the back half of the first season and then continue on to season 2? I watched two seasons. It was goofy.
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Post by Lemminkainen on Jul 9, 2014 22:08:36 GMT -5
@taxman No you're right I misremembered and was thinking of Overture (and probably Golden Wings, but let's leave that aside.) Nonetheless animation improved as the show evolved, but yeah if you like it now you should be fine. flowsthead I really feel that movie would have lived or died on its director. Keanu wound up starring in my favourite Philip K Dick film, but that love has more to do with Linklater than Dick. This said I do think Spike calls for an actor who can internalise better - in his whole film noir archetype running from his past. (Terry Crews as Jet.) Honestly, 10 years ago I would've just cast Beau Billingslea as Jet.
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Post by flowsthead on Jul 10, 2014 6:15:41 GMT -5
flowsthead I really feel that movie would have lived or died on its director. Keanu wound up starring in my favourite Philip K Dick film, but that love has more to do with Linklater than Dick. This said I do think Spike calls for an actor who can internalise better - in his whole film noir archetype running from his past. (Terry Crews as Jet.) Well, yeah, but any Keanu Reeves film lives or dies on its director. I don't think he's a bad actor, but he's certainly an actor that depends on direction to get him do something good, and Linklater is amazing. I was more saying that having Keanu as Spike isn't automatically a bad decision. Terry as Jet is fantastic. Jet's a pretty warm figure, although Brooklyn Nine Nine Terry might not have the patience to be Jet. The late Michael Clarke Duncan would have been great too.
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Post by thebigmeh on Jul 10, 2014 10:33:16 GMT -5
Has anyone here watched Black Butler? I've been working my way through the first season on Netflix, and while I like the whole Victorian era vibe of the show and the intrigue of who is really in league with who and what their true motives are... I'm mixed on whether or not it's going anywhere interesting or just getting goofy. (The tonal shifts just seem so jarring at times.) Should I stick it out and finish the back half of the first season and then continue on to season 2? I watched two seasons. It was goofy. Thanks Tea - I think I look for something else.
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Post by ComradePig on Jul 10, 2014 11:51:08 GMT -5
I watched two seasons. It was goofy. Thanks Tea - I think I look for something else. I'm not sure what all you've watched but nevertheless, despite its small selection, there are a bunch of solid choices on Netflix I'd recommend if you haven't seen them already, namely: Welcome to the NHK - Drama-comedy about an anxious and conspiracy theory prone shut-in/hikkimori who struggles to reintegrate into the outside world with the help of a mysterious stranger. Funny, sometimes relateable, but bleak in moments as well. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Shounen action-adventure epic in a roughly WW2 era fantasy world. Generally regarded as a recent classic of the genre. Weaker first couple of episodes but takes off from there and never lets up. Trigun -Western themed action-adventure show, very solid light entertainment. Samurai Champloo - Samurai show from the creator of Cowboy Bebop with a purposefully anachronistic hip-hop aesthetic, quite enjoyable. There's also some other shows on there that are generally well-regarded but that I haven't personally watched (Kill La Kill, Fate/Zero, Madoka, Eden of the East and some others). Outside of the action genre there's also Princess Jellyfish and Spice and Wolf (though oddly, only season 2, which I watched first for this reason).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 14:32:41 GMT -5
They are still missing the last 12 episodes of FMA brotherhood! Stupid Netflix.
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Post by Tea Rex on Jul 10, 2014 15:10:33 GMT -5
Thanks Tea - I think I look for something else. I'm not sure what all you've watched but nevertheless, despite its small selection, there are a bunch of solid choices on Netflix I'd recommend if you haven't seen them already, namely: Welcome to the NHK - Drama-comedy about an anxious and conspiracy theory prone shut-in/hikkimori who struggles to reintegrate into the outside world with the help of a mysterious stranger. Funny, sometimes relateable, but bleak in moments as well. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Shounen action-adventure epic in a roughly WW2 era fantasy world. Generally regarded as a recent classic of the genre. Weaker first couple of episodes but takes off from there. Trigun -Western themed action-adventure show, solid light entertainment. Samurai Champloo - Samurai show from the creator of Cowboy Bebop with a purposefully anachronistic hip-hop aesthetic, quite enjoyable. There's also some other shows on there that are generally well-regarded but that I haven't personally watched (Kill La Kill, Fate/Zero, Madoka, Eden of the East and some others). Outside of the action genre there's also Princess Jellyfish and Spice and Wolf (though oddly, only season 2, which I watched first for this reason). I can attest that Eden of the East is wicked and worth your time, as well as both FMA's, Madoka, Welcome to the NHK and Samurai Champloo. Princess Tutu is also really cute. Baccano is hilarious. Too bad Moribito isn't still streaming, because that show was beautiful AND soulful. Douay-Rheims-Challoner, I decided to continue watching Erin, because I shouldn't be such a cynical bitch. Still loving the shit out of Kids on the Slope. Between that and Mushi shi, I have two "quiet the mind" shows. Knights of Sedonia is getting increasingly cool/insane. Total popcorn show.
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