Anime - General Discussion Thread

For a while I was watching Naruto, but then after seeing how slow it was progressing was turned me off. The same for the manga as well. There just isn't enough character and focus on plot development.

FMA is great though, course I feel kinda guilty since I first really started watching it since Porno Graffitti did the original opening. I had read the first 2 volumes of the manga, and was expecting the anime to be not up to par. Fortunately, I was wrong completely. Some of the sequence of events're changed, but definitely for the better. Progression is at a perfect pace as well. None of this 3 episodes for one ninja battle crap.

GITS SAC 1 and 2. AHHH... what a gem. Shirow Masamune plot, along with a Yoko Kanno theme song. Of course you have to watch each episodes atleast twice to be able to follow, it sure is worth the time and effort. And ep 12 of GITS SAC2. wow.... wow.............

I love FF7 and FF8. Their ssssooooo awesome. :woot: :woot:

I havent seen GITS SAC 1 or 2 yet but I heard its good but slow. As for Naruto, yeah, it has ALOT of flashbacks which I hate (i usually fast-forward it ) but when it starts to focus on naruto's battle, now that's REALLY entertaining. hehehe

I never watched the anime but definetly has alot of flash backs but there the story makes sense, like Sasuke's past, why Sakura hates Ino,etc. The 23 book is taking quite a while...

yeh i love anime and da anime im currently watching are....indial d 4th stage, aishiteru ze baby, love love, wind a breath of heart, monkey turn, gatekeepers...lolz i guess thatz all for now

Littleangel91356 wrote:I never watched the anime but definetly has alot of flash backs but there the story makes sense, like Sasuke's past, why Sakura hates Ino,etc. The 23 book is taking quite a while...

yeh i agree, i love the show but too many flashbacks and the fight is slow, i was gonna compare this with dbz but nah nm.. ive also read from the other boards that during the naruto/sasuke showdown has no flashbacks, ive been dling like crazy off of streamload from 75-94, anyway i heard theres gonna be a 1hr. special.. cant wait for that :rolleyes:

MixxDreamer wrote:yeh i agree, i love the show but too many flashbacks and the fight is slow, i was gonna compare this with dbz but nah nm.. ive also read from the other boards that during the naruto/sasuke showdown has no flashbacks, ive been dling like crazy off of streamload from 75-94, anyway i heard theres gonna be a 1hr. special.. cant wait for that :rolleyes:

me too! im looking forward to the 1 hour special. i actuall uthought it was this week. :doh:

EVIL RYU wrote:I like Ninja scroll anime !because have some hentai :) lolz :naughty:

.... that's nice.... -_-"

Haven't seen a good anime series since Planetes ended. Kinda sad...

thetenken wrote:Haven't seen a good anime series since Planetes ended. Kinda sad...

Have you seen Kurau Phantom Memory? I got a couple episodes off of Usenet. The animation style seems quite similar to Planetes. The story seems decent too. Kenran Butoh Sai is also in the science fiction genre, and might appeal to you too.

There's a bunch of new samurai anime:
Shura no toki, Samurai 7, Samurai Champloo, Otogizoushi

I just saw a preview for "Beyond the Clouds" from the group Triad, and it looks promising.

i have FF 1-VIII

but haven't played them all

i think FFVIII is damn cool

I voted for 1-6..cuz I like I, II, III and V I believe..I also love VII..never played VIII..not a fan of X.

vibius wrote:

Have you seen Kurau Phantom Memory? I got a couple episodes off of Usenet. The animation style seems quite similar to Planetes. The story seems decent too. Kenran Butoh Sai is also in the science fiction genre, and might appeal to you too.

There's a bunch of new samurai anime:
Shura no toki, Samurai 7, Samurai Champloo, Otogizoushi

I just saw a preview for "Beyond the Clouds" from the group Triad, and it looks promising.

From what I've seen of Champloo, it's mostly style, no substance. It is quite innovative, though. Samurai 7...robots in 7 Samurai mode? No thanks...Kenran Butoh Sai is a take off of Gunparade March (same world, I think). It might be decent. Haven't heard of Otogizoushi nor the others. I'll have to check those out...

i'm a bit out-of-date on new animes. I'm not familiar with any that vibius mentioned. :sweat:

arnel98 wrote:i'm a bit out-of-date on new animes. I'm not familiar with any that vibius mentioned. :sweat:

There's always new ones coming out, is it possible to keep up? :)

Of the ones I mentioned, I like Kurau and Shura no Toki. I haven't seen too many episodes yet though.

Samurai 7 is ... odd, it's (very loosely) based on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai story, but it replaces all the good stuff with weird stuff like steam powered Samurai robots. Some lines are exactly like the movie, but then they leave out the best parts. I imagine people with good taste would take serious offense at this anime :)

The previews for "Beyond the Clouds" look nice. It's from the guy who did "Hoshi no Koe", so I have hopes it will be a good story.

My favorite was VI. 7 was ok, 8 i couldn't really stand. I liked the characters, but I hated actually playing. Strange magic system and you gotta wait a year for summon animations to finish x.x. I didn't play 9 or X-2, and I havent' finished X. So far I like X about as much as 7. And I really liked XI also. In fact, I liked it so much I had to delete it. Too addicting. :bonk:

thetenken wrote:FFXI = who needs a story when we can charge people ridiculous amounts of money to do ultra-repetitive actions ala Ultima Online?

Well, actually there is a story, but you need to get far into the game before you get to the real plot elements. But there's lots of stuff to do until you get there (maybe too much stuff to do). Anyway, Tarutaru are sickeningly cute. I mean, I know I should be disgusted at the cuteness overload, being a guy and all, but damn, those little people are just hella adorable. Argh! :bonk:

Well..I have been watching animes since I was small. It all started with dragon ball, ranma, city hunter and sailor moon. after that it just continued.
but latley there hasn't been any new show that I really like. My favourits are One Piece, Naruto, Cromartie, Azumanga and Scryed. of course I have watched many more but they weren't as good as the named ones :hehe:
but nowadays I prefere to read the manga instead of watching the anime..

2x2 = SHINOBUDEN :twisted:

vibius wrote:

There's always new ones coming out, is it possible to keep up? :)

hehehe.

I had hoshi no koe before but havent watched it yet. Anyway, watched Naruto special and the fight scenes are nice but i had to fast-forward often to get around those flashbacks...

I suggest you watch hoshi no koe, arnel, it's really good. and one of the best soundtracks for an anime :applaud: