The Japanese Japanese Anime and Japanese Manga Thread

Started reading Uzumaki after a few people recommended it to me. Quite enjoying it, although it is rather weird.

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Lagamorph** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 1:42 pm

So I want to get the Gurren Lagann movies on Blu-ray after just watching the series on Netflix, but it looks like, in the UK at least, they never got an individual release? I can only find them as part of the Ultimate Edition blu-ray set, and I'm not paying £93 for 2 films and a series that I just watched.

Do they just want people to pirate them? :fp:

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Rightey** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:26 pm

For anyone who cares (probably no one) the Gou-Dere Bishoujo Nagihara Sora manga is available from Amazon, the Canadian version is only $6.99 for the download, and volume 2 will be out on Feb 24th!

But does anyone know how to find what chapters are covered in vol 1? The yarr version is up to chapter 14.5 :shifty:

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Qikz** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:21 pm

Wow！このスレalmost diedネ.
エベリワン should Kancolleを見て！
金剛達の出番ネWatch it！

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Rightey** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:31 am

just finished watching ME!ME!ME!, now that was awesome, it was just a 5 minute short but very well done. Great animation and music, supposedly it's all about Otaku culture, but I don't really think I understood it all too well.

Is it supposed to represent how...

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Ironhide** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:02 pm

Is the 3 part GitS prequel worth watching?

Also, same question for Attack on Titan.

Postwho knows by **Mr.Jeff** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 12:14 am

If you want more good Ghost in the Shell? No.
Attack on Titan.... I've not seen it but your mileage depends on how much you can get into the franchise. For some people it's "so edgy! it's like Game of Thrones edgy!" for other people it's a terribly paced adaptation which was horrendously rushed and is of no value.

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Qikz** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 3:09 pm

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gotta fix your avatar/sig man!

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **MrKirov** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:45 am

I thought GITS Arise was fantastic personally, only watched the first two episodes though. Making my way through Steins Gate on Netflix currently- it's very good but very confusing 6-7 episodes in. I keep waiting for a massive plot twist to occur- im sure it will- but I'm enjoying it immensely.

Who's watching the confirmed greatest anime, Jojo then?

PostRe: who knows by **Lagamorph** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:10 pm

Mr.Jeff wrote:If you want more good Ghost in the Shell? No.
Attack on Titan.... I've not seen it but your mileage depends on how much you can get into the franchise. For some people it's "so edgy! it's like Game of Thrones edgy!" for other people it's a terribly paced adaptation which was horrendously rushed and is of no value.

I recently watched Attack on Titan and had fairly mixed feelings on it.

Things to love,
The in-episode music, but not the intro or ending songs. The in-episode music was absolutely fantastic, especially during the action sequences. I found myself re-watching some scenes not just for what was happening but for the music since it just made everything feel even more huge and grand, somewhat impressive for an episode about fighting giants.

Some of the characters. I do like some of the characters, Mikasa and Levi in particular would two favourites, along with Sasha and Zoe (though telling them apart visually could be tricky sometimes if it weren't for Zoe's goggles). I can't really think of any characters I particularly hated as such, though I did find Armin to be too whiny for my tastes, at least until just some switch goes off and he suddenly seems to be perfectly fine with everything.

The ODM. I gotta say, I LOVE the Omni Directional Movement gear. It's a great way of getting normal people to be able to pull off manoeuvres like they do when fighting Titans without giving them actual superpowers (though of course being anime there are still huge exaggerations in physical ability). If I could use one of these to get to work, I totally would.

Things I really didn't like,
The pacing. Or more specifically, the incredible reliance on flashbacks for exposition. Seriously, the second half of the seemed like every episode had at least one flashback. It just felt like the writer had suddenly thought of some exposition or character development that would have been great 10-15 episodes ago, so decided to shoehorn it in now to pad things out a bit. Cutting away from what's going on right now, particularly action scenes, just to have a flashback to people sitting/standing around talking seriously killed the momentum for me. Even worse was when we were getting flashbacks to events that happened barely 1 or 2 episodes ago. Once or twice wouldn't have been so bad but it was happening way too much for my liking. And in all this flashback/exposition work, there was no time to take a peek back at when the Titans first appeared? That's pretty much the only historical event I wanted to see.
The reliance on flashbacks was pretty much the biggest issue I had with the series.

The intro/ending music. Completely didn't click with me, especially the second intro. I didn't hate them exactly, but once was enough and after that it was skip time.

The reveal of the female titan. Just didn't really make any sense to me. [is]The reveal of Annie as the female titan just seemed to come completely out of nowhere. There'd never been any hints that it was her besides the vague resemblance, and the complete lack of explanation as to how or why really grated with me.[/is] Maybe it gets explained later on in the manga, or in season 2 of the anime, but until then this is going to be a sticking point with me. The Scouts seemed to make some pretty big leaps of logic to figure out it was her as well.

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Robbie** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:38 am

okay

sao is terrible, kys if you watch it

steins;gate, bebop, space dandy, chaos;heaD, sailor moon and ghost in the shell are amazing

YaoiHasLanded wrote:Who's watching the confirmed greatest anime, Jojo then?

Me.

I hope they animate the rest of the parts too. My favourite manga and the only current anime I can stand to watch.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. :wub:

Jam-Master Jay wrote:
YaoiHasLanded wrote:Who's watching the confirmed greatest anime, Jojo then?

Me.

I hope they animate the rest of the parts too. My favourite manga and the only current anime I can stand to watch.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

We'd be waiting until 2030 or something for Steel Ball Run haha

Dat chapter of One Piece. Dat Zoro! :datass:

A One-Punch Man anime has finally been announced. :mrgreen:

Anime of the year confirmed

YESSSSS great news!

Also, Zoro in these last two chapters of One Piece. :datass:

Beast.

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Rightey** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:19 pm

So looks like AnimeTake is down... Anyone know what the hell happened?

PostRe: The Anime and Manga Thread by **Qikz** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:48 pm

Started watching Bakuman today because of my step brother. Pretty good so far. :shifty:

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