I gotta get Netflix! I also need time to watch movies, too. LOL>

Hey, uhh Steve?

So I finally got around to watching End of Evangelion and uhh...did Shinji just...

did he...y'know?

@danny Elfen Lied is alright, but it gets a lot of undue praise. I think it appeals more to people unfamiliar with anime, since it wraps up a lot of stereotypical anime things into a neat and stylish package, but its execution is all over the place.

Its OP is one of the greats, though.

@vestenet Lol it's funny you say that because the person I know who was raving about it is definitely "unfamiliar with anime."

Again, I might finish it someday, but there are definitely other series I feel more compelled to watch.

honey and clover seems pretty good, but the soundtrack is fucking fantastic.

fair enough

The first episode of Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita was pretty decent up until the last minute, when it became incredible.

The most appetizing/unappetizing opening of all time:

Haven't watched anime series since highschool. Project A-Ko, The Dirty Pair and the like. Getting VHS overdubs in my hands back then were few and far between. Some of the lesbian storyline stuff was gold. I wonder if I have any of it in a box somewhere, rip it and throw it on youtube.

I know I've got Bubblegum Crisis on DVD somewhere, still in it's packaging. Sold my Battle Angel Laserdisc last year (come'on Cameron, get on it already!). I remember Demon City Shinjuku and Golgo 13 being good ones too.

But before you judge me, that was the late 80's early 90's in Atlantic Canada, so there wasn't a whole lot to go around. I dunno what the current stuff is like now. Well, that is to say I've seen Steamboy and something I saw a couple years ago at TIFF about pilots for experimental aircraft... can't remember the name now. But other than sexier CG artwork, the stories weren't much better and of course they were far less violent to appeal to a broader audience. Actually they both kind of bored me to tears.

clannad seems pretty aight

It seems like jap vns would be a bitch to get running. I'd be into playing it too, keep me updated.

It's been a while since I've installed one, but I think AppLocale takes care of most of the installation problems.

I bypass all of that by having my laptop's region set to "Japan," because I'm that much of a weeaboo.

wow, you can really tell this was adapted from a VN

Oh and Tsuritama is Google's first result for "gay fish anime."

i'll give it a shot

Spider anime.

(I think it's GJ-bu. Just started airing.)

New Ghost in the Shell series coming later this year, yeahhhhhh: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-01-15/ghost-in-the-shell-arise-anime-to-launch-in-2013

At least this gives me an excuse to watch Stand Alone Complex front-to-back.

I only vaguely remember watching a couple of episodes on Adult Swim back in the day, so it's going to be mostly new to me anyway. I've been hungry for something cyberpunk too.

I used to be all about Stand Alone Complex.

So Fruits basket. Have any of you watched it?

The wife's watching it. I keep catching a bit. And the random scenes I see are pretty funny. I was just wondering about everyone's opinions here.

i never really watched DBZ as a kid. all my friends did though.

I've said it before, I was a Sailor Moon kid.

Uggggh, I've had this OP stuck in my head for a month now. It's got no business being there.

@CanyonJoe approve

Oh shit nostalgiagasm

I also remember playing a surprisingly decent Hamtaro vidya on the GBA. It was this cute little adventure game.

Yeah, this one.

i'm not that friend. not that friend at all.

maybe someone can help me here. I got the first GitS movie. And it works fine in Media Player Classic except for that the subtitles are garbled bullshit. Just weird symbols. Anyone know what's up?

so i just watched the first GitS movie, and it was predictably amazing.

@vestenet holy shit

@vestenet Ohhhhhhhhhhh boy.

Man, I had heard a lot about how relatable Welcome to the NHK! was, but geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.

Angel's Egg

I'd put it up there with Adolescence of Utena and End of Evangelion as tied for my favorite anime film. The problem with those two, however, is that you really need familiarity with their respective series to get the most out of them (although to be honest, stumbling across Adolescence of Utena on TV with no prior context was part of what pulled me into the anime abyss).

Angel's Egg is standalone, so everything you need is within those 71 minutes.

Pretty much. Take it with you.

I like that its "Response" on Wikipedia is "Angel's Egg did not do well with audiences or critics on its release.^{[citation needed]}"

Have you seen any of Satoshi Kon's films, because faster pacing and more colors is pretty much their modus operandi. I'd start with either Millennium Actress (my favorite) or Paprika (most people's favorite).

This trailer is awful, but:


This one's a little better:

probably wont like it because its girly n stuff

I want to watch those anime films and these as well.

That's what everyone says.

Y'know, thinking on it, I retract my statement about Adolescence of Utena not being standalone. The thing is, it did come out after the series finished, but it's not a sequel or continuation of the show. Rather, it's a re-imagining/retelling of the story, but with a slightly different plot, slightly different setting, and slightly different characters. Imagine you finish a really good serial, and later you have a fever dream which condenses that material into about 90 minutes, and there you have Adolescence of Utena. The film can be read as its own work, but after you watch the show you can also read it in terms of SKU, which gets really involved due to all of the fun distortions the film revels in.

If you're familiar with the show, you can more easily grasp some things the film does, but the film's also pretentious and surreal enough that you can draw your own conclusions or just be taken in by its style. Like all good things, you need to experience it more than once to learn the most about yourself anyway.


Also, to give you an idea of how many times I've watched it, I understood all of the dialogue in that clip, but I am not the least bit fluent in Japanese.

Wes Anderson on Evangelion:

"This is a Japanese cartoon that is very difficult to describe and might not sound that great if I tried anyway. It is 24 episodes, and we watched them all in less than a week because you start to want to believe it's real. This could spawn something like Scientology."

Oh my God, this would cost well over $300 back when it was initially released. I should totally bid on this, right? The DVDs don't have any extras so it's not like I'm missing out on anything.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Neon-Genesis-Evangelion-VHS-1-10-Japanese-Dialogue-English-Sub-Anime-/271150350716?pt=VHS&hash=item3f21d2017c

Haha, if you have a VHS player, go for it.

I really like what the strings do in this song. It's my favorite OP single from this season (which, granted, isn't saying much when I'm only watching 3 shows).

Trailer for Ghost in the Shell: Arise. And yep, that's some Cornelius.

i have done nothing in the past week except watch evangelion please send help

well yeah thanks I'm so much less confused now

Finally using my awesome Serial Experiments Lain boxset to watch the series again. It burns so slowly and sweetly.

And I think I mentioned this before, but Funimation put all of the subbed episodes on YouTube for maximum watching potential. You don't even have to like anime to like Lain--kinda similar to Cowboy Bebop with its low levels of anime bullshit, although Lain has a much more sidewinding narrative.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL29CFFB0C178E4903