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Tenryu
United States565 Posts
Escaflowne Which is still one of my all-time favorites. Some other really good ones that will hopefully give u a good impression of whats out there: Princess Mononoke Spirited Away Code Geass Paprika Hajime no Ippo Berserk Death Note Cowboy Bebop Now and Then, Here and There Grave of the Fireflies Great Teacher Onizuka | ||
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Southlight
United States11768 Posts
On July 02 2010 11:04 Archon_Wing wrote: Haha, it's gotta be one of the few anime I felt like I was being forced to watch it under a false hope it'd be worth it in the end. It wasn't. :D Are you guys talking about .hack//sign? 'Cause I thought that one was pretty decent. | ||
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Tenryu
United States565 Posts
 It was like watching Rurouni Kenshin. The TV series would've been so much better if it stopped at the story arc that ended around episode 50 something(been a long time so i dont remember too well). Sadly i felt the same way as Bleach. I loved it all the way up to the end of the Soul Society Arc. Would've gave it a 9 maybe even a 10. Then the series continued with fillers and whatknot. I immediately dropped it in complete dissappointment and never picked it up again. | ||
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Conquest101
United States1395 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + As soon as I saw Chiharu at the beginning of the latest chapter, I was like +1 Harem. For some reason I just didn't expect it =p | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
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Southlight
United States11768 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + I can some fujoshi going bonkers over this _-_ Also it looks like Morishima Haruka's the first arc of Amagami, lol her route was HILARIOUS. Legend of the Legendary Hero looks pretty decent. I had mixed feelings about the novels, but we'll see if it's just better animated (fantasy tends to be). | ||
Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
On July 02 2010 07:42 SwEEt[TearS] wrote: so I was checking so earlier posts in this thread and got interested in .hack but looking it up on watchanimeon I saw that there's like a ton of em: .hack//sign .hack//roots .hack//liminality .hack//G.U. Trilogy .hack//Legend of the Twilight in what order are you supposed to watch em? also a list of what I'ma watch/read next: + Show Spoiler [Anime] + Baccano Ichiban Ushiro no Daimou B Gata H Kei Kare Kano Youjou-Han Shiwa Takei Summer Wars Arakawa under the Bridge Bakemonogatari Serial Experiments Lain + Show Spoiler [Manga] + Cross Over Koibana! Koiseyo Hanabi Yakitate!! FLCL Kandachime Umisho Sankarea Strobe Edge Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Lost+Brain Mayoi Neko Overrun! Yotsubato! any other suggestions or advice as to what I should watch/read first? I have way too much time on my hands =/ my job is zzz sign, LoT, Liminality, Roots, never watched G.U. LoT was a piece of trash though. Roots was semi-trash. sign and liminality are good. In other news: I hate how all the summer shows premier during AX. My feet hurt too. Tons of fun though. Megumi tomorrow yayyyyy!!! (May'n is really annoying in person. And has too many retarded fans. Ugh.) I have a lot more to rant on, but I gotta get to other things now... Oh, and for all you K-On lovers, Bandai announced that they're picking up K-On!, and the people who worked on Higashi no Eden are coming up with another original work. | ||
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Spazer
Canada8035 Posts
On July 02 2010 12:53 Conquest101 wrote: So.... Hayate no Gotoku. + Show Spoiler + As soon as I saw Chiharu at the beginning of the latest chapter, I was like +1 Harem. For some reason I just didn't expect it =p Oh man, I can't believe I forgot all about Hayate after my 272 chapter marathon a couple months ago. RSS feed now set - crisis averted. I've missed reading this. + Show Spoiler + The material was a bit more... provocative than I expected. Well, you can't say the mangaka doesn't know his audience.  ![[image loading]](http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/3060/chiharulol.jpg) I can't get over how cute Chiharu is. Also, Aika is still missing? I wonder if that means she got into the castle. I watched the first episode of Amagami SS. Not bad (Better than Kaichou has been recently, anyway <.< ). I hope this stays decent. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9947/utwamagamiss01xvid480pu.jpg) I always wondered where that "sex hair" meme came from. Now I know. | ||
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bearbuddy
3442 Posts
On July 02 2010 17:57 Spazer wrote: I watched the first episode of Amagami SS. Not bad (Better than Kaichou has been recently, anyway <.< ). I hope this stays decent. + Show Spoiler + I always wondered where that "sex hair" meme came from. Now I know. Dat hair! Well, I'm probably only going to watch Kaoru's route. I actually quite like this format of dividing up the arcs instead of integrating the whole into a giant harem (by which we'll be granted a spineless protagonist and an incoherent story). Though.. he is already in the negative just from the first episode. I'm hoping that the tone will be different for each section as well, so I don't have to watch typical anime tropes resulting from the other girls' archtypes. I wish the last episode of the House of Five Leaves would get subbed sooner. Just caught up on 11(internet was down a whole week, rawr), and I'm a bit anxious to see what's next. | ||
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SwEEt[TearS]
Canada1575 Posts
Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi: + Show Spoiler + not half bad for now, don't really know what to expect from this one. Considering the trend in making endings the way you don't expect them to go I don't think Ookami's gonna end up with the guy but who knows, it might be one of those heart melters. Amagami SS: + Show Spoiler + yeah this feels like it's gonna be another spineless guy becomes super harem pimp kinda thing, is it based on an eroge just like School Days? 'cause it kinda feels the same. Good thing that it's gonna be split in arcs cause I doubt I'll be able to watch everything. Obvious Imouto sequence or background rage inc. @Mystlord thanks for .hack, so I guess //sign then //Liminality? | ||
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shape
United States119 Posts
 + Show Spoiler +A really good one to start on.. I guess it depends on your taste but for me, the anime that got me into anime is prolly Escaflowne | ||
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Southlight
United States11768 Posts
On July 02 2010 22:56 SwEEt[TearS] wrote: yeah just caught up with Amagami SS and Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi: + Show Spoiler + not half bad for now, don't really know what to expect from this one. Considering the trend in making endings the way you don't expect them to go I don't think Ookami's gonna end up with the guy but who knows, it might be one of those heart melters. Amagami SS: + Show Spoiler + yeah this feels like it's gonna be another spineless guy becomes super harem pimp kinda thing, is it based on an eroge just like School Days? 'cause it kinda feels the same. Good thing that it's gonna be split in arcs cause I doubt I'll be able to watch everything. Obvious Imouto sequence or background rage inc. @Mystlord thanks for .hack, so I guess //sign then //Liminality? Ookami-san (novels) gets pretty decent reviews but I couldn't stand it because it seemed pretty generic. I've been known to be wrong, but LNs that get good reviews tend to be like each other. Amagami is a PS2 dating sim, and IIRC there was no harem choice. Miya was a hidden route. Main character is relatively gutless because he got dumped in a pretty bad way (the start of the story) and hasn't really gotten over it - the "secret" route that you unlock actually explains why it happened but I'm going to assume they won't air that. Haruka's route was just batshit hilarious because they're both (main character and her) insane. IMO it was a fun, short read, I could see why a lot of people enjoyed the game - I usually steer FAAAAAAAAAAAAAR away from dating sims (even Persona, which I feel is just a glorified dating sim) but Amagami was amusing (though lackluster compared to full-fledged VNs). .hack//sign was nice, and if you consider it was one of the earlier (first?) MMORPG vs real world stories you'll appreciate it more (as opposed to nowadays where using MMORPGs in a story setting is overdone). | ||
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SwEEt[TearS]
Canada1575 Posts
On July 02 2010 23:46 Southlight wrote: Ookami-san (novels) gets pretty decent reviews but I couldn't stand it because it seemed pretty generic. I've been known to be wrong, but LNs that get good reviews tend to be like each other. Amagami is a PS2 dating sim, and IIRC there was no harem choice. Miya was a hidden route. Main character is relatively gutless because he got dumped in a pretty bad way (the start of the story) and hasn't really gotten over it - the "secret" route that you unlock actually explains why it happened but I'm going to assume they won't air that. Haruka's route was just batshit hilarious because they're both (main character and her) insane. IMO it was a fun, short read, I could see why a lot of people enjoyed the game - I usually steer FAAAAAAAAAAAAAR away from dating sims (even Persona, which I feel is just a glorified dating sim) but Amagami was amusing (though lackluster compared to full-fledged VNs). .hack//sign was nice, and if you consider it was one of the earlier (first?) MMORPG vs real world stories you'll appreciate it more (as opposed to nowadays where using MMORPGs in a story setting is overdone). the way you describe Amagami reminds me of Kimi Kiss lol. PS2 dating sim? o_o didn't even know those existed haha. I think both series are gonna feel a bit generic (Ookami moreso than Amagami) because well, let's be honest it's becoming extremely hard to reinvent the genres. lol @ Miya secret route, so obvious haha. The cataclysm of the story doesn't make much sense though, why weep over a no-show date 2 years ago? that takes a serious lack of balls... yeah I think a while ago (when I was 12-13) I had bought one or two .hack books but it was back when I was manga hunting in Montreal (long story short if you want english mangas in Quebec you pretty much have to go to Mtl or order them from the net) and I guess I got lost in the story or some shit. I tried rumbling through all the old series I have but I guess I just lost em or something. | ||
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Southlight
United States11768 Posts
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SwEEt[TearS]
Canada1575 Posts
On July 03 2010 00:07 Southlight wrote: Same company, Amagami was their second (and larger) sim. Was it two years? I thought it was one (~9 months), which would be a lot more reasonable. Being what it is Amagami's obviously gonna be generic to a significant degree, but it was still fun (both the game itself, and the manga) so, we'll see. I wouldn't recommend it to people, and I'd reckon it's nowhere near close to being for everyone, but certainly if you've played the game and enjoyed it it'll be a fun watch (for the routes that don't suck, anyways). Miya was one of the hidden routes, as was the teacher, but neither were the unlockable heroine, who ties the backstory (being left in the cold) into the present. oh wow now that you mention it Shinonome Taro wrote/drew both Amagami Precious Diary and KimiKiss o_O and I was thinking the art was pretty similar haha.. | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
Yeah, I think .hack//sign was one of the first stories that uses the concept of MMOs. The first few of that series was pretty good (not to mention awesome music, no bias yup), but the quality just feels like it declined steadily. | ||
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Southlight
United States11768 Posts
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SwEEt[TearS]
Canada1575 Posts
On July 03 2010 01:04 Ecael wrote: I'd think at the point of seeing the art most people would've known that the two were from the same company. I'm no veteran It did strike me as oddly similar (especially the blushing) but I needed some kind of confirmation to positively say it | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
On July 03 2010 01:06 Southlight wrote: Funny enough, my friend was like LETZ PLAY AMAGAMI because Satou Rina voiced Kaoru and he was on a Satou Rina binge due to Misaka Mikoto. Might be because I started on the light novels, never particularly got into following Misaka's seiyuu. I did think she did a good job with Misaka though. Now a new vol of Index please, finally getting to see more Misaka in action. Do you have a Japanese ps2 or just a modded one? | ||
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Southlight
United States11768 Posts
But yeah, now with pretty much all the anime I was "looking forward to" this season already aired I feel kinda empty. | ||
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