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Rightey wrote:I've decided to give this a go after avoiding it for so long as it just always seemed like the archetypal angsty 14 year old doesn't like his dad anime.

Tafdolphin wrote:EDIT: I'm really enjoying it so far. I have a very limited tolerance for anime 'ticks' (the constant repetition of characters' names as a "shocked" response, "Uh?!" and "Ah?" filling a similar role, the massive objectification of female bodies) but this feels different. There's a gooseberry fool load of issues (I mean there's a strawberry floating inflation episode ffs) but the story is a really interesting look at depression and self-worth that's making most of it worth it. It's also strawberry floating gorgeous, which helps.

Ironhide wrote:

Rightey wrote:I've decided to give this a go after avoiding it for so long as it just always seemed like the archetypal angsty 14 year old doesn't like his dad anime.

I've never seen it either, mainly for the same reason.

Ironhide wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:EDIT: I'm really enjoying it so far. I have a very limited tolerance for anime 'ticks' (the constant repetition of characters' names as a "shocked" response, "Uh?!" and "Ah?" filling a similar role, the massive objectification of female bodies) but this feels different. There's a gooseberry fool load of issues (I mean there's a strawberry floating inflation episode ffs) but the story is a really interesting look at depression and self-worth that's making most of it worth it. It's also strawberry floating gorgeous, which helps.

For christs sake never watch Kill la Kill then.

Karl_ wrote:Eva is a very good show. It's not perfect (what is?) but it's anything but generic.

Rightey wrote:

Karl_ wrote:Eva is a very good show. It's not perfect (what is?) but it's anything but generic.

I didn't say generic, I said archetypal. Like I'm sure it was very original back in the day, but I would assume a lot of other shows have taken different bits and pieces from it so it's probably lost some of that impact. That being said I feel I won't suffer too much from that as I generally avoid the giant robot animes, with a few exceptions like FLCL, Gurren Laggan, and Attack on Titan.

I just finished watching the second episode, so far the pacing seems alright, not really much else to comment on yet.

Ironhide wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:EDIT: I'm really enjoying it so far. I have a very limited tolerance for anime 'ticks' (the constant repetition of characters' names as a "shocked" response, "Uh?!" and "Ah?" filling a similar role, the massive objectification of female bodies) but this feels different. There's a gooseberry fool load of issues (I mean there's a strawberry floating inflation episode ffs) but the story is a really interesting look at depression and self-worth that's making most of it worth it. It's also strawberry floating gorgeous, which helps.

For christs sake never watch Kill la Kill then.

Karl_ wrote:Eva is a very good show. It's not perfect (what is?) but it's anything but generic.

Lagamorph wrote:Found myself re-watching Yu-Gi-Oh (The main series, not the spin offs) lately. Had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.

Duelist Kingdom is a bit bobbins, but by Battle City when it starts better following the rules of the game the duels get really good.

The newest movie was also really enjoyable, best of the three.

Lagamorph wrote:Found myself re-watching Yu-Gi-Oh (The main series, not the spin offs) lately. Had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.

Duelist Kingdom is a bit bobbins, but by Battle City when it starts better following the rules of the game the duels get really good.

The newest movie was also really enjoyable, best of the three.

Nun wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Found myself re-watching Yu-Gi-Oh (The main series, not the spin offs) lately. Had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.

Duelist Kingdom is a bit bobbins, but by Battle City when it starts better following the rules of the game the duels get really good.

The newest movie was also really enjoyable, best of the three.

What's wrong with the spin offs?

VlaSoul wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:EDIT: I'm really enjoying it so far. I have a very limited tolerance for anime 'ticks' (the constant repetition of characters' names as a "shocked" response, "Uh?!" and "Ah?" filling a similar role, the massive objectification of female bodies) but this feels different. There's a gooseberry fool load of issues (I mean there's a strawberry floating inflation episode ffs) but the story is a really interesting look at depression and self-worth that's making most of it worth it. It's also strawberry floating gorgeous, which helps.

For christs sake never watch Kill la Kill then.

i dont wanna be that guy
but imma be that guy
if thats all you got from kill la kill you probably didn't pay enough attention lol

Ironhide wrote:

VlaSoul wrote:i dont wanna be that guy
but imma be that guy
if thats all you got from kill la kill you probably didn't pay enough attention lol

No, I definitely got more than the cheap titilation from KlK, in fact all the boob and bum bits were clearly taking the piss out of typical anime tropes. (there's a bit where one of the male characters is perving at Ryuko and a massive caption saying HENTAI appears on the screen, after which I think she punches him).

The main thing I didn't really 'get' while watching it was all the puns and play on words during Mako's frequent 'hallelujah' monologues as I can't speak or read Japanese and most of them aren't subtitled due to their visual nature.

VlaSoul wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

VlaSoul wrote:i dont wanna be that guy
but imma be that guy
if thats all you got from kill la kill you probably didn't pay enough attention lol

No, I definitely got more than the cheap titilation from KlK, in fact all the boob and bum bits were clearly taking the piss out of typical anime tropes. (there's a bit where one of the male characters is perving at Ryuko and a massive caption saying HENTAI appears on the screen, after which I think she punches him).

The main thing I didn't really 'get' while watching it was all the puns and play on words during Mako's frequent 'hallelujah' monologues as I can't speak or read Japanese and most of them aren't subtitled due to their visual nature.

yeah fairs
the wordplay and puns are by far the worst thing about anime for me cuz it's impossible to understand if you aren't japanese

Chocolate-Milk wrote:Are we not addressing Avatar

Lagamorph wrote:And then if dubbing companies localise those into english language versions that make sense, people complain about how they're destroying the original script because they're idiots who can't understand the difference between translation and localisation.