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[Mussels]

"Hits" is an understatement, it makes me feel like we (humans) are such a waste of space here.

Im gonna need to watch a bunch of "silly, stupid, fart joking, harem" anime to regain my composure after this one.

One thing I think about after stuff like this is how easily our feelings can be manipulated by others..Kind of makes me afraid sometimes wondering whats going on in the minds of the people that create this stuff (movies/books)

never, ever, under any circumstances, try to understand what a japanese man is thinking.

last time i tried to read a japanese mans mind, i got a mix of tentacle incest rape and giant robots in girls underwear.

(i woke up not long after that, but i'm still afraid of japanese men)

 

[eidairaman1]

never, ever, under any circumstances, try to understand what a japanese man is thinking.

last time i tried to read a japanese mans mind, i got a mix of tentacle incest rape and giant robots in girls underwear.

(i woke up not long after that, but i'm still afraid of japanese men)

were you watching some Hentai before you woke from that?

 

[Wile E]

never, ever, under any circumstances, try to understand what a japanese man is thinking.

last time i tried to read a japanese mans mind, i got a mix of tentacle pedo-incest rape and giant robots in girls underwear.

(i woke up not long after that, but i'm still afraid of japanese men)

Fixed. You missed a small detail.

 

[Mussels]

were you watching some Hentai before you woke from that?

i think it was during my (then) housemates 24/7 pokemon viewing spree.

Fixed. You missed a small detail.

my mind isnt THAT messed up, to show me that

 

[MKmods]

never, ever, under any circumstances, try to understand what a japanese man is thinking.

last time i tried to read a japanese mans mind, i got a mix of tentacle incest rape and giant robots in girls underwear.

(i woke up not long after that, but i'm still afraid of japanese men)

LOL, I remember being in a business meeting in Toyko 1986, I looked around the table at all the nervous guys puffing away on cigs and I realized I was in another world...

I tried for 10 years to figure my wife (was Japanese/Amer) as well and that was a FTL.

(However that said besides anime Japanese women are Japans best export)

 

[eidairaman1]

i think it was during my (then) housemates 24/7 pokemon viewing spree.



my mind isnt THAT messed up, to show me that

LOL!

 

[Ammugonevil]

I was shitting upside down 'reading??' some manga and was supprised by the after affects, being light headed does actually do somthing,

 

[Yukikaze]

I've lurking for the past few pages, but I'll chime in on behalf of Now and Then, Here and There. I've read about it last night here, then streamed the first four episodes and it is absolutely amazing. It is also one of the darkest Anime I've seen in a long while, but it is just great.

 

[djisas]

"Hits" is an understatement, it makes me feel like we (humans) are such a waste of space here.

Im gonna need to watch a bunch of "silly, stupid, fart joking, harem" anime to regain my composure after this one.

One thing I think about after stuff like this is how easily our feelings can be manipulated by others..Kind of makes me afraid sometimes wondering whats going on in the minds of the people that create this stuff (movies/books)

I had a feeling you would feel like that...
If you need some "silly, stupid, fart joking, harem", then you can try some quality ones that i know, Seto No Hanayome, Maria+Holic, chobits, azumanga daioh, just to mention a few, not all are harem actually, but very good all of them...

Or if you havent had enough drama, i have recommended before not sure if you caught them, Ef tales of memories and melodies as well true tears and maybe you could try white album too...

I've lurking for the past few pages, but I'll chime in on behalf of Now and Then, Here and There. I've read about it last night here, then streamed the first four episodes and it is absolutely amazing. It is also one of the darkest Anime I've seen in a long while, but it is just great.

Maybe you could check some of the above too, they are not really dark but they are great dramas...

 

[Ahhzz]

I was shitting upside down 'reading??' some manga and was supprised by the after affects, being light headed does actually do somthing,

I'm thinking there'd be more than just after affects from shitting upside down.,..but that's just me, maybe....

 

[Castiel]

Castiel, I'll add ya when I get home

The only thing that I can think of with a sword and two guns.. Devil May Cry.. I haven't watched the anime, but it fit's it to a "T" besides the fact of what they called him.. But then again I haven't seen the anime so I don't know if I'm right or wrong..

I would know if it was Devil May Cry. Like I remember the first episode he would fight and stuff like that, and then the rest of the episodes he was a normal guy but just didn't remember his past and he hung around in run down city.

 

[Cold Storm]

I would know if it was Devil May Cry. Like I remember the first episode he would fight and stuff like that, and then the rest of the episodes he was a normal guy but just didn't remember his past and he hung around in run down city.

Yeah, i know.. but that was teh first one that came to me.. lol... Second one is this.. Samurai Gun... I know it came out the same time of GunXsword, so I don't know anything about it. Plus doesn't help to look when Work blocks all sites on Samurai Gun..

Hope that helps.. I do remember it having a "future" style on the guy wearing a strange armor via Japan blah blah blah.. lol

 

[MKmods]

I had a feeling you would feel like that...
If you need some "silly, stupid, fart joking, harem", then you can try some quality ones that i know, Seto No Hanayome, Maria+Holic, chobits, azumanga daioh, just to mention a few, not all are harem actually, but very good all of them...

Or if you havent had enough drama, i have recommended before not sure if you caught them, Ef tales of memories and melodies as well true tears and maybe you could try white album too...

Maybe you could check some of the above too, they are not really dark but they are great dramas...

I actually bought Chobits and have seen it several times, I also have seen Ef tales of memories (was very nice) but not the melodies one yet. (thanks)

What I did see last night turned out to be REALLY funny to me and served its purpose.

"Photon: The Idiot Adventures"

DEFINITELY not for the kiddies, and you should be in a goofy mood (or high) to make use of its full potential but it was fun to watch. I wish it was more than 6 parts.

 

[djisas]

I actually bought Chobits and have seen it several times, I also have seen Ef tales of memories (was very nice) but not the melodies one yet. (thanks)

What I did see last night turned out to be REALLY funny to me and served its purpose.

"Photon: The Idiot Adventures"

DEFINITELY not for the kiddies, and you should be in a goofy mood (or high) to make use of its full potential but it was fun to watch. I wish it was more than 6 parts.

Melodies takes place after the events at memories, but its quite a different story, although most of the cast remains the same, the story focus on different characters, i think there are 2 stories to be told, one is probably a tragedy and the other is a love story with its share of drama...

Dont forget True tears, i loved the story, its development, its characters and i thought the conclusion to be the best possible, although tough decisions had to be taken by the characters, of all the characters, only 2 could get a happy ending...
But i dont think its another tragedy or something really sad, its just that each character has its circumstances...

Defenitly not for kiddies means its definitely for me!!
I bet im gunna enjoy the ride...

 

[MKmods]

LOL, while watching Photon I was reminded by "Heavy Metal".. a cartoon I saw quite a few years ago. It was amazing to me to watch (I have seen it several times since and continue to enjoy it) When it was released I was a teenager and they had other "adult" cartoons also like Fritz the Cat (nowhere as good as heavy metal).
They wernt exactly porn, but seemed a bit more that the Rated R they were given.

About the WTF moment ColdStorm mentioned earlier I got one.. I started to watch "Tenjou Tenge" and their first 5 min would DEFINATELY clasify as a WTF! moment.
I actually stopped after 5 min and thats when I found Photon.

I may watch it some other time when the mood strikes...

 

[Wile E]

LOL, while watching Photon I was reminded by "Heavy Metal".. a cartoon I saw quite a few years ago. It was amazing to me to watch (I have seen it several times since and continue to enjoy it) When it was released I was a teenager and they had other "adult" cartoons also like Fritz the Cat (nowhere as good as heavy metal).
They wernt exactly porn, but seemed a bit more that the Rated R they were given.

About the WTF moment ColdStorm mentioned earlier I got one.. I started to watch "Tenjou Tenge" and their first 5 min would DEFINATELY clasify as a WTF! moment.
I actually stopped after 5 min and thats when I found Photon.

I may watch it some other time when the mood strikes...

DON'T WATCH IT!!!!! Great anime, WORST ending possible. In fact, it just isn't an ending at all. Very disappointing, as the anime was pretty good until that point. It was definitely a ending.

 

[MKmods]

Thx Wile E..

Has anyone seen Bakemonogatari? I just saw it yesterday and liked it too.

 

[Mussels]

just finished watching FLCL, girl who leapt through time and mononoke hime with a gurl.


she liked it. go figure.

 

[MKmods]

Tsukihime: Lunar Legend Amazing story, couldnt stop watching till I saw the last episode.

Whats amazing to me is I have now seen over a hundred of these anime series, when I started I fell in love with Uta, Kurau, Morbito, Elfin Lied and Ai Yori Aoshi and figured it would be downhill from there. What I have found is a seemingly endless supply of equally great stuff to watch

to all those that wrote/produced these works of art.

 

[kid41212003]

It's a good anime, but received many bad critics from die hard fan of the original Tsukihime visual novel games, which have alot more details.

Many (or All) of them ignore the fact, that there is an anime called "Tsukihime", because it was badly made, and not derseve to be called "Tsukihime" anime.

I got attacked few time for saying, there is an anime Tsukihime in some "certain" anime forum... They are like a religious cult there....

 

[djisas]

Thx Wile E..

Has anyone seen Bakemonogatari? I just saw it yesterday and liked it too.

It is the best sumer anime, its awesome!! There will be more 3 ep soon...

just finished watching FLCL, girl who leapt through time and mononoke hime with a gurl.

she liked it. go figure.

Check nausicaa, Laputa: castle in the sky, spirited away (this one actually won an Oscar), Howl's Moving Castle (also nominated for an oscar but did not won), Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, all of this from the same creator, one with golden hands, Hayao Miyasaki, founder of studios Ghibli and responsible for the best movies ever created in japan and every years there is a new masterpiece created with his golden hands, responsible for the music in all Ghibly movies is Joe Hisaishi, a Japanese genius composer; last but not least, Grave of the fireflies, a true tragedy by all means, prior to the foundation of the studion ghiblies and produced not by Miyasaki but Isao Takahata and latter associated to the studio...

Also worth mentioning is Brave story, although its not related with Ghibli, its as close you can get in quality...

It's a good anime, but received many bad critics from die hard fan of the original Tsukihime visual novel games, which have alot more details.

Many (or All) of them ignore the fact, that there is an anime called "Tsukihime", because it was badly made, and not derseve to be called "Tsukihime" anime.

I got attacked few time for saying, there is an anime Tsukihime in some "certain" anime forum... They are like a religious cult there....

That is for those who played the novels, those who didnt play loved the anime...

Edit: More movies for the masses!!

only movies worth a masterpiece rating...

steamboy has awesome visuals and everything else...
Miyori no mori, its all about the nature and its dwellers, gods and deities and a girl at its center, beautiful to say the least...
The sky Crawelers, is all about it's astonishing animation and sound efects, what it may lack in story and character development, more than makes for it with exciting air battles onboard revolutionary airplanes...
Final Fantasy advent children, a cgi anime with visual never seen before, fans of the game will love it and everyone else, some great battles take place...
Paprika and awesome movie like all other above, but this one will have u scratch your head more often, this is as weird as anime can be; im sure many of you will love it, while i cant be sure if someone might hate it if fails to understand all of it...

Other than Makoto shinkai's movies, thats pretty much all the best movies there are, all are available with blue ray rips, or if you want you can buy the dvds or the BD's...

Lets us not forget Evangelion 1.11, for fans of eva or not, there isnt better, except for eva 2.0 that will come latter...

On a side note fans of bleach, the 3rd movie is being subbed, over this weekend there might be a DB version and someone else's version, from someone that promises a 720p encode with great quality...

I will get to makoto latter on or look for yourselves in the meanwhile...

 

[MKmods]

I loved how Bakemonogatari was a bunch of short stories connected together (sometimes I get bored when too many episodes are of 1 fight or event)

I will be seriously looking forward to the new episodes.

I also got up to 239 on Bleach (I really liked 239)

 

[Wile E]

It is the best sumer anime, its awesome!! There will be more 3 ep soon...



Check nausicaa, Laputa: castle in the sky, spirited away (this one actually won an Oscar), Howl's Moving Castle (also nominated for an oscar but did not won), Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, all of this from the same creator, one with golden hands, Hayao Miyasaki, founder of studios Ghibli and responsible for the best movies ever created in japan and every years there is a new masterpiece created with his golden hands, responsible for the music in all Ghibly movies is Joe Hisaishi, a Japanese genius composer; last but not least, Grave of the fireflies, a true tragedy by all means, prior to the foundation of the studion ghiblies and produced not by Miyasaki but Isao Takahata and latter associated to the studio...

Also worth mentioning is Brave story, although its not related with Ghibli, its as close you can get in quality...



That is for those who played the novels, those who didnt play loved the anime...

Edit: More movies for the masses!!

only movies worth a masterpiece rating...

steamboy has awesome visuals and everything else...
Miyori no mori, its all about the nature and its dwellers, gods and deities and a girl at its center, beautiful to say the least...
The sky Crawelers, is all about it's astonishing animation and sound efects, what it may lack in story and character development, more than makes for it with exciting air battles onboard revolutionary airplanes...
Final Fantasy advent children, a cgi anime with visual never seen before, fans of the game will love it and everyone else, some great battles take place...
Paprika and awesome movie like all other above, but this one will have u scratch your head more often, this is as weird as anime can be; im sure many of you will love it, while i cant be sure if someone might hate it if fails to understand all of it...

Other than Makoto shinkai's movies, thats pretty much all the best movies there are, all are available with blue ray rips, or if you want you can buy the dvds or the BD's...

Lets us not forget Evangelion 1.11, for fans of eva or not, there isnt better, except for eva 2.0 that will come latter...

On a side note fans of bleach, the 3rd movie is being subbed, over this weekend there might be a DB version and someone else's version, from someone that promises a 720p encode with great quality...

I will get to makoto latter on or look for yourselves in the meanwhile...

I was disappointed in Sky Crawlers. It was only OK, not a masterpiece. It's too complicated of a story to cram into a 2 hour movie. It was all just too rushed. That is a story that definitely needed to be a 26 ep anime at least. When you get old like Mark and I, good visuals does not make a good movie. A good story does. Good visuals are just a bonus to a good story when it happens, like Appleseed, for instance.

 

[MKmods]

Dont forget to add to that "all" of us have different tastes as well...

For example I saw the Top 10 list and on it was "Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei" I tried to watch (got through 5 ep) but even though it made me laugh (quite a bit) it seemed like it was made by the makers of Monty Python on LSD. (Way too goofy)

I saw "Aoi Hana" also on the list and for a girl girl romance it was very tastefully done

I saw Sky Crawlers too (yea Redbox) but it wasent good enough to see again. I have seen "Whisper of the Heart" and while its a bit slow (my family wasent impressed) I bought it and have seen it 4 times.

Ghibli FTW!

Thanks djisas, il be looking forward to Bleach's 3rd movie

 

[djisas]

I was disappointed in Sky Crawlers. It was only OK, not a masterpiece. It's too complicated of a story to cram into a 2 hour movie. It was all just too rushed. That is a story that definitely needed to be a 26 ep anime at least. When you get old like Mark and I, good visuals does not make a good movie. A good story does. Good visuals are just a bonus to a good story when it happens, like Appleseed, for instance.

How old would that be??
Im no kid by all means...

I dont think it was to much story, although it could easily make a full series, the movies ends in the same manner it started, what we saw in the movie, was the short story of that particular young man from the day he arrives to the day he falls, we get to know whats going on in the world, the different relations between people, what exactly they are and why they fight like that, everything is explained in detail and anything else they add to the movie would turn in a looping, unless they would either continue with his story, instead of falling where everyone else did before, he would move on and his story continues, or we would have another endless eight like in haruhi...

I advise you to read a good review http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/sky-crawlers/bluray

Just need to read the last 2 paragraphs before the notes those contain no spoilers for anyone interested in the movie...

Lemme add the Ghost in the Shell movies, the first movie although dated already still has impressive visuals and music and a good story, Innocence is a visual feast on a level never see to that date and music by Kenji kawai is even more awesome than ever, some might think it has boring moments and indeed it has but you can stay back during those scenes and enjoy the visual feast with an equally great audio accompaniment, the action scenes more than make for the boring ones...
And then theres Ghost in the Shell 2.0 a remake of the original in blue ray, although it was great i think the original was still better...

I also saw Aoi hana, it was a very soft story to watch...
Whisper of the Heart, now thats a ghibli that i didnt watch yet, well cant watch everything or i would turn to a Hikikomori NEET, im already an otaku...