I will admit to having watched more than a hundred episodes of Bleach in recent memory
― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh man i haven't watched bleached. would i regret starting?
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
why did i past tense that?
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
I smell a sequel
― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Friday, 24 July 2009 15:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
You should definitely watch start watching Bleach if you have, say, a phd dissertation you need to finish within the next month, or a grant proposal to write, or a significant other you've really been meaning to spend more time with lately
― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Friday, 24 July 2009 15:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Word to the wise, though: the first big story arc is also the best - the quality drops really quickly afterwards. No real need to watch anymore after past episode...60 I think?
I watched loads of Bleach fansubs at the insistence of a roommate and remember it going rapidly to shit once it's moved to the underworld-medieval-Japan-bureaucracy setting. I stopped watching fairly soon after, though, so I don't know if it picked up.
― Telephone thing, Friday, 24 July 2009 18:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I imagine a lot of anime has been rendered obsolete by introduction of cheap CG, so where are these live action movies that would have been anime?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 July 2009 18:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Bleach is a MAJOR obsession of mine! Things seem to have gotten interesting again now that they're back training for the massive confrontation with Aizen and they've pulled 5 of the Court officers into the human world to look after things while the main characters train.
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Friday, 24 July 2009 18:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Philip - lots of cheap CG 'live anime' - Cutie Honey, Tetsujin 28-go, Devilman & the over-egged likes of Casshern - but the space for 2D will always be mandatory - see NY Times pillow guys but not just them.
Anyway, decided to check what Kamen Rider was up to these days (a live action tradition so tech. off-topic but...)...This:
― xcixxorx, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oops. That, but also this for cheap CG meltdown:
― xcixxorx, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
the spelling error in this thread title says it all, really.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
i hav a gunsmiths cats t-shirt
― o comely wite kidz f8 has it in for u (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 19:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
says it all, really
Recommend me some psychedelic awesome vintage anime movies to watch. Maybe with wizards and supernatural kids or something. Less giant robots more non-stop insane flashing things and outer space and talking animals and mystical shit. Ok, some giant robots are fine...
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
You specifically looking for movies and not series? Because Bleach has become my go-to series.
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Series are fine! OK I'll check out Bleach, whats it like?
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Adam, have you ever seen FLCL?
― pax raggetta (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_%28manga%29
Here's a primer; the story largely follows the experiences of a Japanese high school student with the ability to see ghosts and how that ability leads him to discover the Soul Society, a group of spiritual reapers who are responsible for guiding lost souls into the afterlife. Things rapidly get much more complicated than this, though.
FLCL is another good one, and Paranoia Agent is amazing for a good long run of the 16 episode series (I was massively let down by the end but that may be because I am a jaded motherfucker).
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really want bright colors, weird cosmic cutaways, psychedelic sequences, batshit narratives that move real fast and almost don't make sense. Also, i have no problem with English dubs.
Thanks for those suggestions!!!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will cast another vote for FLCL.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is that just 6 eps?
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nice. Yeah i looked up a torrent of Bleach and it was like 40gig. Gonna start w something smaller.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh yeah Bleach goes on forever, there are over 300 episodes
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
you can stop watching Bleach after like the second season, they start going into that dragonball Z style dragging out the storyline
― and the suggest banned tweeted on (dayo), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 23:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Telephoneface: you want Mind Game (movie) and Kaiba (series). Trust me on this. Neither are licensed in any English-speaking country so far as I know, so you'll have to steal 'em, but they're pretty easy to find on the Pirate Bay.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
You want to watch Paprika.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, most satoshi kon probably fits your bill ( rip :( )
― and the suggest banned tweeted on (dayo), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe Night On The Galactic Railroad? talking cats go into space on a train. soundtrack by Haruomi Hosono!
― corpse pose (missingNO), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Srsly Bruneau; trust me on this. FLCL will make you an anime fan 4 lyfe.
― pax raggetta (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
listen to drugs
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
^otm, FLCL is the pinnacle of human media achievement, or at least it is my favorite media artifact out of all of them across all media
don't know quite what is happening in this thread but someone mentioned FLCL and I want to give it props
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Add another vote for FLCL; it's near-perfect.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also to help make my case for Mind Game:
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
the animation is not so good on this but the drawings are excellent/vintage feel --midori (1992?):http://lh4.ggpht.com/_JnYdydEJQ3g/TFaDsVaMEII/AAAAAAAAGCU/kgnOENkfU_o/snapshot20081016004817.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
That Mind Game one reminded me of this very very strange Japanese 1970s Jack and the Beanstalk we saw when I was a kid which scarred me for life.
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
This isnt the bit I remember but this bit is completely WTF (I cant find the bit I recall which was some old witch making paper cutout people come to life and sing?)
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
DLing Mind Game and others now. I may never escape this room.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was working this morning and my housemate burst into my room with a copy of FLCL and said DUDE WE SHOULD GET HIGH AND WATCH THIS so we did, that was something
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha the problem with suggesting flcl and kon flicks and mind game (which is like top twenty of the last decade for me, live action or animated) is it gets people thinking they're all like that and not 900 episodes of teenage kung fu magicians with upskirts and severely limited animation. (other than the limited animation that might appeal though, so.)
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's been awhile since i've seen mind game but my recollection was that it actually was about a teenage kung fu magician.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Who fights crime.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
crime-fighting kung fu whale with magical panties iirc.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
problem with suggesting flcl and kon flicks and mind game ... is it gets people thinking they're all like that and not 900 episodes of teenage kung fu magicians with upskirts...
hella upskirts in flcl
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean it's great, but...
yeah but its also insane.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean it's a gainax production. they practically invented the anime upskirt. they're entitled.
see, i did not know that
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
gainax: merging high-art with zero gravity bouncing boobies since 1984
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
for April Fools Adult Swim turned into Toonami for the night.seems to have been a popular choice, at least on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/adultswim/status/187004036824834049
― zappi, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 09:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's been a while but I found the theme of loss via relativistic effects of near-light-speed travel in Gunbuster really honestly quite moving. Also, giant mecha robots and space babes (only one gratuitous scene of space babes in communal shower iirc).
― God arrives for the apocalypse, having been traveling at the speed of (ledge), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 10:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
hmm...
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sgt. Frog is AWESOME
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Rented Redline from Netflix, I've heard good things. We shall see.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
Any opinions on Deadman Wonderland or Casshern Sins?
― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
Beautiful Dreamer was in my comedy films ballot
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
Still working my way through Sgt. Frog, on maybe ep 7 or 8 by now. It's gotten less interesting tbh, but the first 4 eps are really trippy and really fun. Some of the characters have incredibly annoying voices and every so often you will have an ep that just sounds like a bunch of screeching, whining kids yelling at each other really fast. The narrator is still probably my favorite part of the show, tho Keroro and the red frog are pretty much always super rad. And the mom is good for fan service.
Has anyone seen the whole series? I like how surreal meta and fast and WTF the first bunch of eps are, but it seems to be settling down into something that, while still wacky and strange, is a little more standard episodic anime.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
Ok so ive been watching a few more. Some of them are really pervy, but there's nothing explicitly sexual in it. It's really pretty awesome. There was an episode where they have to fight cavity monsters and shrink down and make Incredible Voyage jokes. Then the frog who has the cavity uses a tiny robot avatar to go inside of his own mouth. Lots of Gundam references, post-post-modern silly dialog, futuristic dominatrixes, and alien space frogs freaking out and acting like Rambo follow.
There seems to be tons of bizarre alien villains, i think they fight a new one each week, though they take plenty of time to be completely and charmingly absurd about the whole situation. Like the narrator popping in to say "He has worse aim than Dick Cheney!" or resolving all plot holes by joking about it. Three of the characters are a boy with an after school Occult Club, a Manga-writer M.I.L.F., and a Gundam model-obsessed frog, so it's 100% pandering to Otaku culture. But it's in an extremely fun way!
It seems like Netflix is the very best bet, and three seasons are streaming now. Lots of the localization changes they made to names and stuff have been fixed. Like apparently the girl cat used to be called "Mr. Furbottom" in America, and now it's "Mrs.". Quality is super nice too, and this is a show that likes to bloom the screen constantly so it looks really nice in HD.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 00:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Ok that synopsis reminded me that I need to check out Excel Saga soon.
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 04:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sgt. Frog is pretty up-to-date with it's references. The episodes I saw made fun of the top 1% and needless corn inflation subsidies.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2012 01:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yup, definitely recommend Redlined. Absolutely insane, but the visuals and energy are top-notch. They even kind of almost sell the love story.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
watching Highschool of the Dead has reminded me why I only ever sporadically go on anime kicks; there is a LOT of panty-flashing and ridiculous breast humor in this, the apex of which is probably the scene where one of the male characters is shooting a rifle at approaching zombies while a busty female character is smacking them around with a wooden sword, nimbly doing the splits over one bullet and managing to shimmy her breasts out of the path of another bullet one at a time, in slow motion
(this is after the scene where all of the female characters get into a bath together and start squeezing the shit out of each others' breasts while asking "why are we all bathing together, anyway?")
(you may wonder, "what does this have to do with zombies attacking high school students" to which I respond "EXACTLY")
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeh there is a gif of that bullet time breastflop which seems to crop up on the web when i least expect/want it. (think i lasted about 10 mins of the first episode of HOTD)have you seen Gantz DJP? judging by your tastes you might enjoy it, lots of scenes to make you go 0.o
― zappi, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
tbh I've only stuck with it so far because I wanted to prove to myself I could watch a zombie thing without having nightmares; the first episode is far and away the scariest, probably because it has the least amount of panty-flashing
have not seen Gantz but based on the Wikipedia synopsis I REALLY REALLY WANT TO
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
lol of course this is on Youtube:
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
Good positioning of the "play" button!
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
OMG ROFL
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
saw an ep of deadman wonderland on adult swim recently and really dug it, djp!
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sgt. Frog guys. It's amazing.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah Deadman Wonderland is totally my kind of shit, just the right mix of violence and wtf
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
also kinda battle royale-esque
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
Recently watched Paranoia Agent and FLCL and loved them to bits. Currently watching Outlaw Star and Azumanga Daioh.
Outlaw Star is like a campier, more adolescent version of Cowboy Bebop - set in a similar universe, with an expanding family of characters flying from planet to planet - only with more magic, ninja robots, space battles, and other Saturday morning cartoon stuff. A bit stilted and cliched at times, but a lot of fun to watch.
Azumanga Daioh is a slice-of-life comedy based around six schoolgirls (quiet type, sporty type, hyperactive girl and her "straight-man" best friend, child prodigy, airhead spacer). I honestly haven't laughed so much at a TV show in quite some time.
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
<3 Osaka & Nyamo-sensei
― zappi, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah, cute/moe anime is mostly garbage but Azumanga Daioh is on a whole other level
― Chris S, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
― zappi, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
mind game was awesome
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 20 September 2012 12:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
absolutely adored Humanity Has Declined (Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita), which just finished. on the surface it seems like some ubertwee fairytale, but this is undercut with unsettling black humour & social satire. try the first episode, by the end you'll be thinking "what the fuck did i just watch". its also one of a bunch of Japanese speculative fiction that i've come across recently that could be described as having a "cheerful dystopia" setting, which i can't get enough of.
― zappi, Thursday, 20 September 2012 12:33 (7 months ago) Permalink