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ArmdLbrl

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Posted: 5/31/2007 12:18:06 PM EDT

[#1]

Originally Posted By s32:

Originally Posted By Tromatic:
For me, Anime leaves room for your imagination to fill in, or even run away. A "movie" jams all that crap at you, expecting you to eat it, no matter how bad.

Your imagination may vary.

I still think that some of the anime (GITS2, AKIRA, EVA) is kinda pretentious and convoluted. I try to stick to action and fantasy and sometimes a comedy. I'm watching something called "Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" right now.

Has anyone mentioned Lodoss War or Gundam 0083?

Are you liking Haruhi?

And as much as I like Gundam, 0083 is not my favorite. I own it, and I do love the dogfight sequences, but the badly written attempt at a love story was out of place.

Baka...Mina baka...

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Posted: 5/31/2007 12:22:36 PM EDT

[#2]

Originally Posted By CrocGator:
I can't believe there hasn't been any mention of GOLGO 13.

Wow! THAT is a throwback! Triangle handguards an scope on the handle!

Baka...Mina baka...

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ArmdLbrl Member Joined Jan 2001 Posts 17735 EE 0% (0) AZ, USA	Posted: 5/31/2007 12:25:49 PM EDT [#3] Another reason to watch anime is that you can still find HERO's in anime. Not just protagonists, real old fashoned heros.
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Posted: 5/31/2007 12:28:14 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By ArmdLbrl:
Are you liking Haruhi?

Sweet jesus, he'd better like it.

FWIW, I loved Haruhi. What can I say, I bought into the hype.

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Master_of_Orion Astrophysics Student Joined Jul 2003 Posts 3117 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 5/31/2007 1:27:47 PM EDT [#5] got to love it when the first episode has this
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Posted: 5/31/2007 1:31:23 PM EDT

[#6]

Originally Posted By Master_of_Orion:
got to love it when the first episode has this

i100.photobucket.com/albums/m6/FITorion/BBS/Melencholy.gif

I made that.

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Posted: 5/31/2007 7:25:44 PM EDT

[#7]

Second episode of the Hellsing OVA is better than the first; much less rushed. Also, Jan Valentine is still a whiny bitch, but Luke Valentine is actually much more badass than in the tv series or even the manga. Still goes out like a bitch though, which is as it should be. I'm a bit disappointed they revealed that the Third Reich is behind the Millenium organization's vampire experiments though.

The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."

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Posted: 6/2/2007 11:49:10 AM EDT

[Last Edit: TheCynic] [#8]

On way I've found to (potentially) get people into anime is AMV (anime music videos). It gives people a "trailer" of the show without having to force something to sit through a series.

Good ones for some series:

Azumanga Daioh

Beyond the Clouds

RahXephon

Evangelion

FLCL

Paranoia Agent

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

The quality sucks. You can download the better version from www.animemusicvideos.org

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Posted: 6/2/2007 2:19:34 PM EDT

[#9]

Originally Posted By TheCynic:
On way I've found to (potentially) get people into anime is AMV (anime music videos). It gives people a "trailer" of the show without having to force something to sit through a series.

Good ones for some series:

Azumanga Daioh

Beyond the Clouds

RahXephon

Evangelion

FLCL

Paranoia Agent

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

The quality sucks. You can download the better version from www.animemusicvideos.org

AMV Hell

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Posted: 6/2/2007 7:34:48 PM EDT

[#10]

I'm going to chop MoO's list and add in the ones I have not on his list.

AD Police
Ah My Goddess Season 1 + movie
Akira
Angelic Layer
Appleseed
Area 88
Azumanga Daioh
Blood The Last Vampire
Chrono Crusade
Chobits
Cowboy Bebop
Elfen Lied
Eureka Seven
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy Unlimited
FLCL
Full Metal Panic!, FMP Fumoffu, FMP 2nd Raid
Fullmetal Alchemist (Season 1)
Ghost in the Shell 1+2 +SAC 1 +2
Grave of the Fireflies
Great Teacher Onizuka
Gun Slinger Girl
Hack - Legend of the Twilight
Hack_Sign
Haibane Renmei
His and Her Circumstances
Howl's Moving Castle
Inuyasha (Season 1, but I got bored with it)
Junkers Come Here
Kiki's Delivery Service
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Last Exile
Love Hina + specials
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Mahoromatic
Midori Days
Metropolis
Millennium Actress
My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbours the Yamadas
Naucissa of the Valley of the Wind
Neon Genesis Evangelion + End of Evangelion movie
Noir
Ninja Scroll movie
Onegai Sensei (Please Teacher) + Please Twins
Only Yesterday
Paranoia Agent
Patlabor movies 1 - 3
Perfect Blue
Pom Poko
Porco Rosso
Princess Mononoke
Rahxephon + movie
Ranma 1/2 (seasons 1-3)
Read or Die + R.O.D the TV series
Sakura Wars movie
Samurai 7
Scrapped Princess
Serial Experiments Lain
She the Ultimate Weapon
Someday's Dreamer
Spirited Away
Steamboy
Steel Angel Kurumi seasons 1 + 2
The Cat Returns
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
The Twelve Kingdoms
Tokyo Godfathers
Vampire Hunter D
Video Girl Ai
Voices of a Distant Star
Whisper of the Heart
Witch Hunter Robin
Wolfs Rain
You're Under Arrest movie
Yukikaze

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Posted: 6/2/2007 8:07:36 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By TheCynic:
On way I've found to (potentially) get people into anime is AMV (anime music videos). It gives people a "trailer" of the show without having to force something to sit through a series.

Good ones for some series:

Azumanga Daioh

Beyond the Clouds

RahXephon

Evangelion

FLCL

Paranoia Agent

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

The quality sucks. You can download the better version from www.animemusicvideos.org

Here is another Eva AMV.
Music by The Evolution Control Committee

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Posted: 6/2/2007 8:15:32 PM EDT

[Last Edit: TheCynic] [#12]

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:
Here is another Eva AVM.
Music by The Evolution Control Committee

"Rocked by rape" somehow seems fitting when talking about Eva.

"Tons of cocaine..."

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Posted: 6/2/2007 8:20:08 PM EDT

[#13]

Originally Posted By TheCynic:

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:
Here is another Eva AVM.
Music by The Evolution Control Committee

"Rocked by rape" somehow seems fitting when talking about Eva.

"Tons of cocaine..."

Everyone seems to love the "Tons of cocaine" part

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Posted: 6/2/2007 9:27:50 PM EDT

[#14]

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:

Originally Posted By TheCynic:

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:
Here is another Eva AVM.
Music by The Evolution Control Committee

"Rocked by rape" somehow seems fitting when talking about Eva.

"Tons of cocaine..."

Everyone seems to love the "Tons of cocaine" part

I strongly suspect you mean LSD not cocaine, or have you not watched Evangelion?

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Posted: 6/2/2007 10:13:08 PM EDT

[#16]

Originally Posted By learath:

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:

Originally Posted By TheCynic:

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:
Here is another Eva AVM.
Music by The Evolution Control Committee

"Rocked by rape" somehow seems fitting when talking about Eva.

"Tons of cocaine..."

Everyone seems to love the "Tons of cocaine" part

I strongly suspect you mean LSD not cocaine, or have you not watched Evangelion?

We were talking about a scene from that AMV.

However, if you want to get specific, the drug of choice when talking about Eva are anti-depressants. To wit, about episode 14 when Hideaki Anno stopped taking his.

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Posted: 6/3/2007 4:34:49 PM EDT

[#17]

Originally Posted By Enigma102083:

Originally Posted By TheCynic:
On way I've found to (potentially) get people into anime is AMV (anime music videos). It gives people a "trailer" of the show without having to force something to sit through a series.

Good ones for some series:

Azumanga Daioh

Beyond the Clouds

RahXephon

Evangelion

FLCL

Paranoia Agent

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

The quality sucks. You can download the better version from www.animemusicvideos.org

AMV Hell

AMV Hell 3 is the best of the series. AMV Hell 2 had some good ones, but overall wasn't as funny. AMV Hell 0 is just... disturbing. Disturbing as only the Japanese can be.

The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."

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Posted: 6/3/2007 4:40:59 PM EDT

[Last Edit: Walkure] [#18]

Originally Posted By s32:

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:

Originally Posted By GarethB:

Full Metal Panic. Sousuke Sagara is a member of a secret mercinary group called Mithril that fights international crime syndicates. He's been assigned the duty of bodyguard to highschool girl Kaname Chidori who has an unusual talent of intuitively understanding highly advanced technology and is a target for kidnapping by said crime syndicates. Sousuke grew up in a country in civil war and was recruited as a child soldier. As such he's never had a normal teenage life and his everyday social skills are somewhat lacking. He tends to use extreme measures in everyday situations. A drama/comedy with mecha.

You forgot to mention that he draws down on everything.

Sgt. Sagara is a straight up tacticool operator. In FMP fumoffu he tries to solve all the high school problems with guns and military equipment. He detonates explosives in Chidori's locker, Draws down on about have the characters in the show, and shoots a ton of people with rubber bullets.

He's a role model.

He is the epitome of a true ARFcommer.

And hence why he's my avatar.
(Had to replace that pesky Glock with a 1911, of course, though)

I believe EVERONE here on ARF would appreciate at least some of FMP, and definitely most (if not all) of Foumoffu. The Steyr TMP/SPP "ad" in the first ep of Foumoffu is just classic!

ETA - Oh fuck yes. I just found it on YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jOS2e2y-I

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HighGround Joined Mar 2006 Posts 80 EE 100% (10) OH, USA	Posted: 6/3/2007 4:42:56 PM EDT [#19] Whatever happened to good ol' GI Joe? Anime is just plain stupid,

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Posted: 6/3/2007 4:55:44 PM EDT

[#20]

Originally Posted By HighGround:
Whatever happened to good ol' GI Joe?

Anime is just plain stupid,

what? can't wrap your brain around some good ol' complex character interaction?

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Posted: 6/3/2007 4:57:48 PM EDT

[#21]

Originally Posted By Walkure:

Originally Posted By s32:

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:

Originally Posted By GarethB:

Full Metal Panic. Sousuke Sagara is a member of a secret mercinary group called Mithril that fights international crime syndicates. He's been assigned the duty of bodyguard to highschool girl Kaname Chidori who has an unusual talent of intuitively understanding highly advanced technology and is a target for kidnapping by said crime syndicates. Sousuke grew up in a country in civil war and was recruited as a child soldier. As such he's never had a normal teenage life and his everyday social skills are somewhat lacking. He tends to use extreme measures in everyday situations. A drama/comedy with mecha.

You forgot to mention that he draws down on everything.

Sgt. Sagara is a straight up tacticool operator. In FMP fumoffu he tries to solve all the high school problems with guns and military equipment. He detonates explosives in Chidori's locker, Draws down on about have the characters in the show, and shoots a ton of people with rubber bullets.

He's a role model.

He is the epitome of a true ARFcommer.

And hence why he's my avatar.
(Had to replace that pesky Glock with a 1911, of course, though)

I believe EVERONE here on ARF would appreciate at least some of FMP, and definitely most (if not all) of Foumoffu. The Steyr TMP/SPP "ad" in the first ep of Foumoffu is just classic!

ETA - Oh fuck yes. I just found it on YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jOS2e2y-I

Or the scene in that same ep where he some how pulls out this massive pile of weapons that he was CCWing

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Posted: 6/3/2007 5:04:02 PM EDT

[#22]

Originally Posted By TheCynic:

Originally Posted By ArmdLbrl:
Are you liking Haruhi?

Sweet jesus, he'd better like it.

FWIW, I loved Haruhi. What can I say, I bought into the hype.

It makes me laugh

Master_of_Orion Astrophysics Student Joined Jul 2003 Posts 3126 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 6/3/2007 5:06:49 PM EDT [#23] don't much care for FMP... Except Fumofu... love it. I'm not a big mech anime fan... The only exceptions are Patlabor and Nadesico. Both are comedies and Nadesico makes fun of Mech animes...
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Posted: 6/3/2007 5:37:06 PM EDT

[#24]

Originally Posted By Master_of_Orion:
don't much care for FMP...

Except Fumofu... love it.

I'm not a big mech anime fan... The only exceptions are Patlabor and Nadesico. Both are comedies and Nadesico makes fun of Mech animes...

How can you not like FMP? Its got robots and ccw in high schools.

Sousuke Sagara should be ARFCOM's anime mascot

He's a socially awkward loner with a ton of guns.
Sousuke Sagara

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Posted: 6/3/2007 7:30:14 PM EDT

[Last Edit: TheCynic] [#25]

Heads up, anime fans and DVD collectors.
DeepDiscountDVD is having a scary good sale. They already have the lowest prices around, but for the next two weeks they have an additional 20% off (promo code: SUPERSALE).

This is what I just picked up:

Venture Brothers Season 2 Box Set
Ghost in the Shell: SAC Box Set
His and Her Circumstances Box Set
Boogiepop Phantom Box Set
Invader Zim Box Set
Perfect Blue
Millennium Actress
Genshiken Box Set
Vision of Escaflowne Box Set

for $172 and free shipping.

That is a hell of a deal.

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cmd1522 Joined Nov 2006 Posts 1276 EE 100% (1) KS, USA	Posted: 6/3/2007 7:39:17 PM EDT [#26] When is GITS 3 solid state soceity going to be released in the states?

ALLANJ Joined May 2003 Posts 1819 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 6/3/2007 8:07:03 PM EDT [#27] Macross, Macross Plus, Macross Zero, and Mospeada.

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[#28]

Macross, Macross Plus, Macross Zero, and Mospeada.

some of my favorites

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Posted: 6/3/2007 8:10:07 PM EDT

[#29]

Originally Posted By cmd1522:
When is GITS 3 solid state soceity going to be released in the states?

7-3-07

All your guns are belong to rust!!!!

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Posted: 6/4/2007 1:24:11 AM EDT

[#31]

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Originally Posted By TheCynic:
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Originally Posted By learath:
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Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:
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Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:
Here is another Eva AVM.
Music by The Evolution Control Committee

how

"Tons of cocaine..." he

I strongly suspect you mean LSD not cocaine, or have you not watched Evangelion?

We were talking about a scene from that AMV.

However, if you want to get specific, the drug of choice when talking about Eva are anti-depressants. To wit, about episode 14 when Hideaki Anno stopped taking his. has
It would explain much, I suppose. But I cannot speak to the providence of the rumor. The inside of the man's head would appear to be a very, very, very strange place, though.

zombie-hunter Joined Sep 2006 Posts 409 EE 100% (1) OH, USA	Posted: 6/4/2007 1:30:26 AM EDT [#32] check out www.otakucenter.com u can stream whole shows... also chk out a show called claymore

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Posted: 6/4/2007 1:34:08 AM EDT

[Last Edit: kcobean] [#33]

Originally Posted By ImpulseTaco:
Which ones?

For Me:
Full Metal Panic II
Trigun
FLCL
Fruits Basket
Chobits
Ceres

Don't know if it's been said already, but....2 posts on ar15.com, and this is one of them? I'm going to guess you're not old enough to own a gun yet?

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Posted: 6/4/2007 3:37:08 PM EDT

[#34]

Originally Posted By s32:
Has anyone here ever been to Otakon? Is it worth checking out?

You live there, you'd might as well go.

Take pictures of the freaks.

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Posted: 6/4/2007 3:57:21 PM EDT

[#35]

Originally Posted By WarNerve:
Q: WHO WATCHES ANIME?

A: CHILDREN

"My child could draw better than Picaso's stupid paintings"

If you don't understand art, then it must be "childish" and "stupid"

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Posted: 6/4/2007 4:38:17 PM EDT

[#36]

Originally Posted By gordon_freeman:

Originally Posted By WarNerve:
Q: WHO WATCHES ANIME?

A: CHILDREN

"My child could draw better than Picaso's stupid paintings"

If you don't understand art, then it must be "childish" and "stupid"

+1, the very fact he said that means he's never seen any in his life.

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Posted: 6/4/2007 4:58:37 PM EDT

[#37]

Originally Posted By TheCynic:

Originally Posted By s32:
Has anyone here ever been to Otakon? Is it worth checking out?

You live there, you'd might as well go.

Take pictures of the freaks.

Recon mission on the cosplayers.

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[#39]

Originally Posted By olds442tyguy:
So does anyone know what animes SciFi channel is going to start playing?

I've watched most of my anime from Cartoon Network, Netflix, and file sharing.
SciFi doesn't usually show a lot of anime.

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Posted: 6/4/2007 5:18:41 PM EDT

[#40]

Originally Posted By olds442tyguy:
So does anyone know what animes SciFi channel is going to start playing?

Unknown but it's about time. They used to play anime movies every Saturday. About 10 years ago IIRC.

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Posted: 6/4/2007 5:20:21 PM EDT

[#41]

Originally Posted By s32:

Originally Posted By olds442tyguy:
So does anyone know what animes SciFi channel is going to start playing?

I've watched most of my anime from Cartoon Network, Netflix, and file sharing.
SciFi doesn't usually show a lot of anime.

They're showing ads now saying they're going to have an official anime night starting Mondays next week at 8PM/9PM central time. Based on the ads, it looks like they're not going to be very censored either. I'm not a huge anime fan, but I didn't recognize any of the stuff they showed.

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Posted: 6/4/2007 5:26:01 PM EDT

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Official SciFi statement.

~~I hope when they say they're going to play Ghost in the Shell they mean the movies.~~ The series is great, but I've already seen them enough to make my head spin. EDIT: Solid State Society apparently is a Ghost in the Shell movie.

They'll also be playing:
-Solid State Society (Ghost in the Shell movie, more than likely high quality.)
-Ninja Scroll (looks pretty good on paper.)
-Blood: The Last Vampire (The series is okay, hopefully the movie is too.)
-Read or Die (Looks mediocre.)
-Blackjack (Looks boring, but might have potential.)
-Tokko (Looks really good.)
-Noein (Looks kind of weak.)
-Streetfighter 2-V (The game was great, anime looks dumb.)

Haven't heard of alot of them, some sound kind of lame.

ETA: I also added a first thought rating to the animes based on my search of details and plot ideas.

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Ani-Monday SciFi

SCI FI today announced Ani-Monday, a weekly anime programming block, Monday nights from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. (ET/PT) beginning June 11. Ani-Monday will feature a collection of movies, series and shorts from Starz Media's successful anime distribution arm, Manga, and marks SCI FI's first foray into original late-night programming.

SCI FI's Ani-Monday will feature the exclusive premiere of the anime phenomenon Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society. In addition, Ani-Monday will feature such films as Ninja Scroll, Blood, The Last Vampire, Read or Die and Blackjack. The anime block will also be home to the premieres of such new genre series as Tokko, Noein and such classic series as Street Fighter II–V.

EDIT: Whoops! You beat me to it.

legonas Ubergeek AK fan Joined Mar 2002 Posts 2748 EE 100% (15) SC, USA	Posted: 6/4/2007 5:40:05 PM EDT [Last Edit: legonas] [#44] nobody is going to watch it unless its subed. damn i hate dubs. they all suck.
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DragoMuseveni

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Posted: 6/4/2007 5:42:13 PM EDT

[Last Edit: DragoMuseveni] [#45]

Originally Posted By s32:

Originally Posted By Master_of_Orion:
don't much care for FMP...

Except Fumofu... love it.

I'm not a big mech anime fan... The only exceptions are Patlabor and Nadesico. Both are comedies and Nadesico makes fun of Mech animes...

How can you not like FMP? Its got robots and ccw in high schools.

Sousuke Sagara should be ARFCOM's anime mascot

He's a socially awkward loner with a ton of guns.
Sousuke Sagara

+ eleventy billion.

You forget to mention that he sees terrorists/enemies everywhere and draws down on everything.

A great scene is when he's at an arcade playing one a shooter game with the fake gun.
He runs out of ammo so he draws his glock 26(yes he's a glock man) and shoots the screen.

I'm sure someone here have done the same.

DragoMuseveni

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Posted: 6/4/2007 5:44:53 PM EDT

[#46]

Originally Posted By b1ff:

Originally Posted By TheCynic:

Originally Posted By learath:

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:

Originally Posted By TheCynic:

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:
Here is another Eva AVM.
Music by The Evolution Control Committee

"Rocked by rape" somehow seems fitting when talking about Eva.

"Tons of cocaine..."

Everyone seems to love the "Tons of cocaine" part

I strongly suspect you mean LSD not cocaine, or have you not watched Evangelion?

We were talking about a scene from that AMV.

However, if you want to get specific, the drug of choice when talking about Eva are anti-depressants. To wit, about episode 14 when Hideaki Anno stopped taking his.

Rumor has it that Hideaki Anno wrote the original script in 1993 while incarcerated in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt. According to this rumor, this was a result of the deaths of his wife and son in an automobile accident just prior.

It would explain much, I suppose. But I cannot speak to the providence of the rumor. The inside of the man's head would appear to be a very, very, very strange place, though.

From what I heard Anno worked on several Animes that failed very badly. So he was really fucked in the head then. He planed to kill him self if Eva failed.

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Posted: 6/4/2007 5:48:57 PM EDT

[#47]

Originally Posted By legonas:
nobody is going to watch it unless its subed.

damn i hate dubs. they all suck.

So says a Bleach fan.

Just kidding. I prefer dubbed anime, but it's not going to make or break a good show for me.

TheCynic

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Posted: 6/4/2007 6:43:27 PM EDT

[Last Edit: TheCynic] [#48]

Originally Posted By olds442tyguy:
They'll also be playing:
-Solid State Society (Ghost in the Shell movie, more than likely high quality.) Awesome
-Ninja Scroll (looks pretty good on paper.) Ugh. Sucks and edited, I'm sure.
-Blood: The Last Vampire (The series is okay, hopefully the movie is too.) Dreck
-Read or Die (Looks mediocre.) Awesome.
-Blackjack (Looks boring, but might have potential.) Awesome.
-Tokko (Looks really good.) Wha?
-Noein (Looks kind of weak.) Wha?
-Streetfighter 2-V (The game was great, anime looks dumb.) Retarded

Verdict: 50-50 on choices. Probably had to do with licensing fees.

eta: OK, other than GITS:SSS, all the other titles are Manga USA distros. I'm sure that SciFi got some sweetheart deal to show a couple of new titles (Noein and Tokko) along with good titles (ROD, Blackjack).

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TheCynic

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Posted: 6/4/2007 6:51:25 PM EDT

[#49]

Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni:
From what I heard Anno worked on several Animes that failed very badly. So he was really fucked in the head then. He planed to kill him self if Eva failed.

Like Eva or not, the man has had his hand in some legendary titles:

- Nausicaa
- Wings of Honneamise
- Gunbuster
- Eva
- Kare Kano
- Daicon
- Macross

Too bad GAINAX has been turning out pure shit ever since FLCL.

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