Small Town Values Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 On 19/10/2017 at 9:47 AM, Calvert28 said: Ninja Scroll was my gate way to Hentai. My first anime I think was Voltron. And still is one of my favorites. Another I loved was Dark Side Blues. I completely forgot about Voltron. Another of the hybrids. (I preferred Vehicle Force over Lion Force) Wicked City & Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Demon Womb... Hentai, or just adult anime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Small Town Values Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 I'm currently trying to track down the complete "Doomed Megalopolis" OVA. It's on YT, but missing the first part, so I don't want to watch it incomplete. (It doesn't have the best rating on MyAnimeList, but I'm still curious) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Also, I've figured out the direction I might go with my reentry into anime. I kinda need a bandwagon, or perhaps, a better way of describing it - a journey to go on. I think I've found it... (Chinese Anime) I'll start here... And then move on to these... I figure, Chinese anime isn't that old, so technically the Chinese are still in the process of developing their own unique animation voice. I'm pretty sure they are still at the stage where they produce their animation with the aid of Japanese studios. Sooner, or later I'm sure they'll break away, & go it alone. I'd like like to be there when the Red Dragon finds her voice... So, I'm gonna specialise in Chinese Anime. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 On 10/19/2017 at 5:37 PM, Marc MacGyver said: I completely forgot about Voltron. Another of the hybrids. (I preferred Vehicle Force over Lion Force) Hide contents Wicked City & Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Demon Womb... Hentai, or just adult anime? I haven't seen the latter...didn't think Wicked City was Hentai...just adult anime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Well, I finished Elfen Lied, it was pretty damn good IMO. A solid 9/10. I really wasn't a fan of the character animations (those huge eyes for the 2000's always make me feel a little uncomfortable), I really hated the denser-than-a-black-hole protagonist (he had a very good reason for it so I can look past it). That said it was still a really good story with a satisfying conclusion. Although it had some cliches and I was able to see some of the twists coming it still managed to keep me on the edge of my seat until the last act.It had me from the start with that fantastic opening escape scene. Plenty of blood and heads rolling and they really didn't let up with the punches further along the anime. I feel like if my 13-year-old self saw this it would have been the greatest show on the planet because of all that edge, but it lacked the depth to be a true 10/10. That said still absolutely thrilling and a great watch. I think that the show would have benefited from being 26 episodes instead of 13 but they did well with what they had. Next up I'm watching Now and then, Here and There. Supposed to be pretty heavy although I have no idea what it's about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersuavesky Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 I watched Elfen Lied when I was younger.... Legit made me sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Small Town Values Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 9 hours ago, Forge said: I haven't seen the latter...didn't think Wicked City was Hentai...just adult anime. I tend to agree. There's certainly an erotic component to WC, but it doesn't cross the line & become what I'd consider hentai. Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend / Urotsukidōji 2: Legend of the Demon Womb... Sit right on the borderline. Similar to a film like Emmanuelle (1974). You wouldn't be wrong classifying it as any of the following... (Adult anime/Adult fan service/Horror- Erotica/ Soft Hentai) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Small Town Values Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) The journey is under way... *** ** * Big fish and Begonia (China / 2016) Thoughts: It's hard to imagine anyone who enjoyed Ghibli's Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke not deriving any pleasure from the experience of Big fish & Begonia. The Chinese film possesses much of the charm, emotive storytelling & visual opulence that can found in the Studio Ghibli masterworks. A few online critiques cited the film's - fast pacing, high volume of events, & the number of characters introduced as a drawback. Personally, I see it as an acceptable trade-off, more action at the expense of certain characters development. While I acknowledge that Big fish & Begonia contained enough conceptual material to be delivered successfully over two/three films, or presented as a twenty plus episode animated series. It sometimes however can be difficult to secure the exact parameters the creators desire. Often they are forced to make do with what's on offer. Big fish & Begonia is an assault on the senses, packed full of adventure, & emotional ups & downs. I highly recommend watching this film if given the chance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keeping an eye out, & an ear close to the ground for... The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven / The Monkey King: Deep Sea Currently in search of... Master Jiang and the Six Kingdoms Edited October 25, 2017 by Marc MacGyver 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 So I recently finished a couple shows and read my first manga Great Teacher Onizuka. I'll start with GTO since it was my favorite of the bunch. So GTO is about a 22-year-old delinquent and former gang member who manages to land a job at a top private high school in Tokyo after suplexing the vice-principal. He aims to become the best teacher there ever but hits a road bump when he is assigned to deal with a class of kids with animosity that could terrify the devil. It's a great story but what really stands out is its characters and their developments. Onizuka is one of the best characters I've ever had the pleasure of watching or reading, second only to the man Spike (Cowboy Bebop and my profile picture) himself. Dudes a complete badass but comes up with the most ingenious ways to reach his students I've ever seen. Maybe because I find the students and their views of teaching relatable (despite what my name might make you think, I've been kicked out schools before and had PLENTY of issues with teachers.) so it was a breath of fresh air to see a teacher figure go to extreme lengths to actually understand the students and help them solve their issues through very non-conventional means. It was always an entertaining ride filled with humor and drama. My only issue was the fact that near the middle of the series some of the arcs got a little repetitive, although that didn't stop it from being entertaining to read. I was sad to see that the manga ended after 25 volumes but luckily there is a whole anime for me to watch that also seems to be highly regarded. I'll probably watch that sometime in the next couple months. But the manga was an easy 10/10 for me and a great first manga to start reading. It's difficult to find good scans to read on the internet but with enough digging, I managed to find some high-quality ones for all the chapters. Alternatively, it's pretty cheap on Amazon to purchase each volume. I'd highly recommend this series to just about anyone. I also binged the notorious School Days in a couple days. It was absolutely horrendous. Not it a way that the production value or actual product was bad (mostly), it was just so easy to hate it because of the characters. I thought I'd seen every time of villain in media, madmen that are hellbent on destroying the world, a shadowy figure with a deep personal grudge against the MC, the good kid who goes bad trying to make the world a better place. But the MC of School Days is on a whole different level. He's the biggest piece of **** I've ever seen across any medium and this is coming from someone who watches very dark shows where the villain routinely commits atrocities that can be difficult to watch. Somehow although he never goes killing people or trying to blow up the world, he's still just so much worse than anybody else than any Light Yagami's, Ramsey Bolton's, or Hannibal Lecter's. From the offset, he's just your average boring main character but as the show continues he truely devolves into a monster. Even the female characters that you start off liking quickly become objects of hate. They are all just as terrible as people as the MC. As for the plot, I don't really want to give too much away as I was genuinely shocked by the plot developments after presenting itself as an average love triangle Slice-of-Life anime. Just know that it handles some pretty controversial topics not seen in other animes. I feel like the topic matter is one reason a lot of people score it low on MyAnimeList, maybe it hits a little too close to home and can be uncomfortable to watch with the heavy-handed approach to writing. Speaking of writing, it's pretty terrible and almost altogether disintegrated near the end of the show (SPOILERS: seriously what the hell is up with the MC just sleeping with every girl in this show? There might be one girl that has lines and he doesn't ****. The scene where the group of girls that were all making fun of him and his friends a few episodes before suddenly deciding to have a foursome with him because they heard he had sex with a bunch of other girls has to be the absolute worst and most moronic writing I've ever seen. I guess the writers said **** it lets have him have sex with everybody, that'll bring in more views.) so don't go into the show expecting the second coming of Evangelion. That being said it does make a decent point of how badly (SPOILERS: cheating) can affect and ruin somebody's life. I will say that I really enjoyed the ending. It was absolutely memorable and explosive and made the whole show worth watching. I was completely stunned with the climax of the show and I couldn't be more satisfied with how it ended. That being said I give this show a 6/10 using MyAnimeList's scoring system giving it a "fine" rating. This isn't a show for everybody but it's so great because it's so completely and utterly hateable. Pretty much the Patriots and the Cowboys banged and had an anime child that they immediately gave to Seahawk fans to raise. You just gotta love hating everything about it and it's well deserving of its notoriety. This didn't really fit anywhere above but I also wanted to mention that the fan-service in this show is pretty awfully done and really annoying. It was constantly being shoved down your throat and in some weird ways, I hated it. I also watch Serial Experiments Lain that I quite liked. I'll save that for another post because I'm tired of typing for now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Anyone watching anything currently airing? I'm watching The Ancient Magnus's Bride right now. It's about 5 episodes into a 24 episode run. It's about this girl that gets sold into becoming an apprentice/wife of an ancient mage. It's a beautiful, slow-moving show that is drips with atmosphere, it gives a great sense of really being in a magical world. I really appreciate how they just throw you into a superbly crafted world without any info-dumps, instead, you learn a lot about the world just through seeing. I could tell the directing was going to be top notch within 30 seconds of watching, it just had that kind of feel to it. The art and sound are also really gorgeous as well, I love the OP and ED and the art can occasionally stun me with how pretty it is. I can tell right now that this is going to be the best anime to come out this season so if any of you are interested, it's worth checking out. It's on CrunchyRoll to stream for free legally. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Has anyone here seen Drifters? Seems like something I'd be into. I keep seeing it when shopping. Ultra violent, medieval fantasy setting...sounds like my cup of tea. Just mindless entertainment type anime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 (edited) So I read all of the available Berserk manga in about two days. That's 38 volumes, 342 chapters, and around 7500 pages. In two days (had the day off yesterday, lol), It was that good. Easily up there along with the likes of some of the best stories ever told such as A Song of Ice and Fire, House of Leaves, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's an epic about a swordsman/ mercenary named Guts and his travel and adventures through a horrifically dark fantasy world. And when I say dark I mean DARK .Nothing else I've ever read or watched has even come close to the darkness in this manga. It has some of the most explicit violence, gore, rape, and pretty much anything else you can think of I've ever seen. They seriously don't hold back or censor anything so if you're interested in Berserk, be prepared to wade through rivers of blood, guts, and darkness. Even the main character was born as an emaciated baby, crawling out of the hanging corpse of his mother. That's the sort of thing you're going to be dealing with constantly. And don't even get me started on the Eclipse, that was one of the most horrifying things I've ever read. This series is not for the faint of heart. That being said if you can brave it (or like me and enjoy the dark themes) you'll be rewarded with some of the best storytelling you're going to find anywhere. It truly is an epic that follows Guts throughout his life and adventures, his loves, losses, victories, defeats, friends, and most of all Griffith. After reading the first volume I was intrigued but I didn't think I was going to like Guts as the main character, he seemed like an ******* with no regard for other humans. And he kinda is, but once you get a few volumes in you start to see how justified he is in his worldview. It's pretty interesting to see how someone loses their humanity like Guts did and even more interesting to see him struggle to earn it back, all while protecting friends, trying to keep his sanity, and attempting to take revenge for the things done to him. The series does start off a little cliched, with the lone wolf anti-hero and generic monster villain. But once you get to the "Golden Age" arc, you will see why I consider this one fo the best stories of all time. It's just so impactful, dramatic, and intense. The side character are all fantastic as well, they often have their own chapters to flesh them out as characters and provide a little bit of a different pace to the story. It can get a little tiring with the constant carnage and blood and guts, so those side character chapters were always welcome. They are all pretty easy to love since they are so well written and they all provide something extra to the story. The art is also very interesting. The first volume came out in 1990 (the series still isn't over. I'd guess there is going to be around 10 or so more volumes) so in the almost thirty years since it was published, the art style changed and was refined for the better. Some of the art in the later novels is breathtaking. With double page art that is meticulously crafted. I now understand why the author and artist end up always taking long hiatuses from the series and only manage to put out about a volume a year. Sometimes the art would just get seriously detailed, I'd just have to stop and start at the grotesqueries on the pages. So yeah, Berserk is one of the best things I've ever read. If you liked something like The Witcher 3 or A song of Ice and Fire but those weren't quite dark enough for you then I can recommend this series. If seeing people get cut in half makes you squeamish, then skip this one. Edited November 8, 2017 by Geek 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 23 hours ago, Forge said: Has anyone here seen Drifters? Seems like something I'd be into. I keep seeing it when shopping. Ultra violent, medieval fantasy setting...sounds like my cup of tea. Just mindless entertainment type anime. I haven't watched drifters but if you're into medieval fantasy setting I could recommend Overlord or Re: Zero. Drifter just looking at the tags seems to draw from a more historical samurai setting although the two I mentioned above are of the isekai genre. Pretty much like SAO with a modern protagonist summoned into an RPG-like world. Unlike SAO, these two are actually pretty good series without the boring self-insert protagonist. I was a little bored at first watching Overlord, I thought it was going to be another generic SAO clone, with boring tropes and cliches for the first episode or two. I was confused why it had over an 8 on MAL, not something to be taken lightly. Then it really started to get into the meat of the story and it was awesome. The main character is a total badass and unlike other similar anime's not a good guy looking to help save the world. It's an interesting spin with some excellent results. Re:Zero is an even better anime with a self-aware shut-in protagonist being transported to a fantasy world. It's a bit of a deconstruction of the genre as instead of becoming a total badass hero the protagonist has to deal with issues which made him a socially inept shut-in in the first place. It also has what I consider the best and most intense 10 minutes of anime television I've ever seen. That being said it is weighed down by some other dumb tropes (looking at you harem) but it's still a 9/10 for me. Also, a word of warning, although it might not seem this way at first, these are both fairly dark, violent, animes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 Just now, Geek said: I haven't watched drifters but if you're into medieval fantasy setting I could recommend Overlord or Re: Zero. Drifter just looking at the tags seems to draw from a more historical samurai setting although the two I mentioned above are of the isekai genre. Pretty much like SAO with a modern protagonist summoned into an RPG-like world. Unlike SAO, these two are actually pretty good series without the boring self-insert protagonist. I was a little bored at first watching Overlord, I thought it was going to be another generic SAO clone, with boring tropes and cliches for the first episode or two. I was confused why it had over an 8 on MAL, not something to be taken lightly. Then it really started to get into the meat of the story and it was awesome. The main character is a total badass and unlike other similar anime's not a good guy looking to help save the world. It's an interesting spin with some excellent results. Re:Zero is an even better anime with a self-aware shut-in protagonist being transported to a fantasy world. It's a bit of a deconstruction of the genre as instead of becoming a total badass hero the protagonist has to deal with issues which made him a socially inept shut-in in the first place. It also has what I consider the best and most intense 10 minutes of anime television I've ever seen. That being said it is weighed down by some other dumb tropes (looking at you harem) but it's still a 9/10 for me. Also, a word of warning, although it might not seem this way at first, these are both fairly dark, violent, animes. That right there is my jam lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 4 hours ago, Forge said: That right there is my jam lol. If that's the case I'm sure you'd enjoy those two mentioned above. I'm same way, I loooovvveee some dark anime. Live action movie and TV just never goes as hard as anime does in those categories. Anyways, If that's your style I'm sure you'd probably like most of the shows I posted in my top ten on page 3, with the exceptions of Konosuba and Kill la Kill. Those are great too, just a little lighter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 On 10/8/2017 at 8:03 PM, RavensTillIDie said: I always wanted to get into the Fate series, but I never knew which was the "right" order to watch them in. Any advice in that regard? So I answered this about a month ago but this graphic probably gives a better explanation of what I was trying to say FWIW the first Heaven's Feel movie just premiered earlier this month in NA, and the next one's coming out in 2018. So it might be worth it to wait till they all come out as the anime 2.0 watch order is going to be the most superior by far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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