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Post by Emily on Mar 26, 2005 12:51:19 GMT
right, when i got back for easter, i had three newtype dvds to watch with the first episode of several new series. I will tell you of them here...
Maburaho -ridiculous harem show. Its was approximately three minutes in before we see a whole room full of girls in their underwear. Supposedly so that their "magic levels" can be assesed by the doctor (who looks just like the doctor from vandread, is this what doctors look like in japan?). If anyone can explain to me why they need to be in their underwear for this, when all he does seemingly, is look at their faces through a piece of green glass, I would be very interested. Then enter our main character, the typical whimpering loser guy. suddenly a girl shows up claiming to be his wife. Then two other (well endowed) girls also decide they want to bear his children for some mysterious reason. Then they fight over said loser, with magic.
Divergence eve. -has the makings of your semi-good, lets-fight-the-mysterious-enemy-in-space-with-robots anime, with one fatal flaw. Breasts. really ginormous TRIANGULAR boobs, on every single one of the copious female characters. Its just beyond ridiculous, and you spend the whole show thinking 'my god, look at those things'. I think it was obviously designed by a man who's spent too much of his life drawing robots and spaceships, and has never seen a real breast. Really, they're not even comical, just absurd.
Cromartie high school -I think this will be great, and someone should download it. Its set in a high school for deliquent boys, and has Exel-esque levels of absurdity in it. For example, amongst the students there are randomly, a gorilla, a robot that looks like a tin can, and... freddie mercury. Its was really funny, no ridiculous breasts flopping about.
I've still got three left to watch, so expect my comments on those two. I will leave my overview, to keep you guessing
Gravion Zwei= more ridicoulous breasts and fan service.
Aura battler Dunbine = very old anime being re released. Escaflowne-like mecha and faeries, n' stuff.
E's otherwise= psychic bishi's, can't argue with that.
Trailers.
Gantz looks cool, sort of like an anime version of 'cube'.
Madlax IS noir, again.
If anyone buys hello kitty animation theatre i will kill them.
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Post by Ally on Mar 26, 2005 21:28:31 GMT
Anything with Freddie in has got to be fantastic.
And...triangular boobs? Maybe the creator's a Madonna fan?
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Post by stokerino on Mar 27, 2005 10:05:07 GMT
I'd looked for Cromartie high school after it was reccomended to me by some guy on the internet, but couldn't find anywhere obvious where it was available...where did you get your bit from? (or rather, where did the people you got your bit from get it from?)
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Post by Emily on Mar 28, 2005 11:14:00 GMT
these are my new newtype dvds... as i said. Not like you not to pay attention.
And so ic continue.
Gravion Zwei. Not actually aNY good, but bad in a comedy way. more ginormous breasts, and random maids and crossdressing. And get this, not 1 but THREE montages, with songs! really crappy songs! it was so funny, and me and lucy had no clue what was actually going on.
And yes this is the anime that Galaxy angel parodies, with the combining robot that explodes, and the song. Watch this anime, if only to laugh.
Aura battler dunbine. Sucks in the way that only crappy old anime can. but it has faeries, real little smart talking faeries!
E's otherwise. Yes it was psychic bishies, utterly incomprehensible in places, and yet painfully obvious in others, so apart from looking pretty, is rather rubbish.
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Post by stokerino on Mar 28, 2005 13:12:13 GMT
So I skipped over the first sentence straight to the anime subtitles. Sue me.
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Post by Emily on Apr 2, 2005 11:52:24 GMT
you are now on a par of lowness with stuart. I expect better from you tim. ;D
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Post by stokerino on Apr 2, 2005 12:23:36 GMT
Something's just occured to me: does the main whimpering loser guy in Maburaho by any chance have some manner of a pony tail...? Just testing the conventions here.
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Post by stokerino on Apr 3, 2005 17:59:42 GMT
Just to throw in something of my own - I've recently got round to watching Kimi Ga Nomozu Eien at last. It's a 14 part series that at first glance looks to be Yet Another High School Romance. In actuality, it isn't. Or rather it isn't after the first one and a half episodes. When the primary female protagonist Haruka (who it has to be said, bears a disturbing physical resemblance to one Sakura Kinomoto) gets run over in a bloody car accident at the end of the second episode, something's just not right. It immediately skips forwards to three years later, so there goes the high school part out the window right away. What follows is a story about the relationships of these young adults that is largely centred around guilt, with "healthy" (....) doses of abandonment and self-depreciation thrown in. And when I say guilt is everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE. It is not a fun series - aside from the short chibi comedy sketches which take the place of the episode previews - you'll probably spend most of your viewing time feeling decidedly uncomfortable, but I'd say it was definitely worth a watch. Nothing like a measure of depressing realism in your anime. And because Emily will want to know: the breasts are often oversized, but never triangular. As with most series there's a fair bit of fan service at the very start but that quickly cuts out (along with the shift away from the underage high schoolers, worryingly enough). A couple of brief sex scenes here and there (that are necessary to the story), but thankfully they are just a few seconds and aren't in any way obscene. ...Acceptable?
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Post by Emily on Apr 10, 2005 12:53:05 GMT
i want to stress that im not interested in breasts as such, its just that they offend me if they have no basis in reality... do you know... he easily could have a ponytail... i cant quite remember and its at home now, with my region one player
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Post by stokerino on Apr 23, 2005 5:04:59 GMT
Two series I've just watched the first episodes of, and my consequent thoughts... First off, Kujibiki Unbalance. I was technically watching the first episode of the OVA, not the previous TV series, but I figured it wouldn't matter. I only looked into it because one of the reviews on Anime-Source said it was very funny. Which it isn't. It very, very much isn't. It tries, but it doesn't succeed. The only thing that I really got out of this series was discovering it to be the source of a hat. Which hat? THIS hat: (and if you complain again about not being able to see the picture, you just suck) Hats aside, the episode showed me nothing to inspire me toward the rest of the series at all - and not in the "nothing interesting is happening yet" way, but the way in which you can see what's *meant* to be interesting, making it all the more depressing that it isn't. You see the start of a crappy romance storyline between the main boy and the girl in the hat. You see their poor attempts at slapstick/quirky humour. You see the over-the-top argumentative girl who's supposed to be some form of comic relief. You see the little hints towards fan service. None of it is good, none of it. I have no real desire to see any more of this, so I shall just quietly close a lid on it here and now. Conclusion: Not worth your time.Secondly, we have Speed Grapher. I've watched the first episode twice now, and I'm still not sure whether I like it or not. Perhaps in complete contrast to the prior schoolgirl-so-called-comedy-romp, this is a very serious, very adult affair indeed. I don't mean porn when I say that, though sex does crop up more than once - and they're not shy about it either. That said, it is most clearly not intended for titilation because it's like everything else in this series. Dark. Gritty. Unpleasant. You know this is going to be just a drop in the ocean too. There's a fair touch of cyberpunk about this series, but not in the normal way you get cyberpunk. You don't get all the motorbikes, street gangs, and semi-futuristic gadgets, but you're convinced they're around there somewhere. It's the city of Tokyo maybe a decade or so in the future, where the rich/poor gap is immense. Everything's corrupt and so on. I'm sure you have a kind of idea. The main character is this photographer who, in this episode, is asked to find out about this guy who's supposedly the head of a secret underground cult (of the Freemasons variety). Elsewhere a mysterious suited guy with rubberlike qualities (seems like something out of comics...) kills people. I don't know what the main focus of this series is yet (apart from the photographer obviously), and I'm not sure when I'll find out. As I said before, this series is Not Pleasant. I think the first time I cringed was when this mother was having her little girl show her dancing to a professional dancer guy as a sort of tryout. The bastard says "You're too stiff! You need to be more flexible!", grabs her...and bends her forearm where it really shouldn't go, promptly breaking it. That was the *first* time I cringed. So I don't know what to think of this series yet. I'll have a look at episode 2 as well (which is as far as has currently been released), to try and work it out. Oh, and the opening theme is 'Girls on Film' by Duran Duran. There's an eyebrow-raiser. Conclusion: Fuck knows. You can watch it for yourself if you like, but it wont be fun and games.---------------------- EDIT: Having now watched episode 2, I'm much more leaning towards liking this series. Actually at the end of this episode we end up at exactly the same point as we did at the end of episode 1, except that we spent the time with the girl Kagura rather than the guy Saiga. It's still unpleasant, but for some reason more acceptabley so. I'm going to keep checking out this series. I think it could end up getting very good. And I still can't get over the fact that the opening theme is Duran Duran. That's so weird that it somehow makes it cool. "See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight..."Revised Conclusion: Looks like it could be very good, but only if you like that sort of thing...
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Post by Ally on Apr 23, 2005 19:07:25 GMT
And I still can't get over the fact that the opening theme is Duran Duran. That's so weird that it somehow makes it cool. That is incredibly strange. But then, all anime theme songs have to be totally random, really.
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Post by Mindy on Apr 24, 2005 18:04:25 GMT
Dark porn!! Sounds like an interesting mixture of black humour and sex - fun! ;D
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Post by Emily on Apr 25, 2005 12:07:23 GMT
I love mindy's comments on anime... it's the non-anime-fan-yet-really-weird perspective.
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Post by Ally on Apr 25, 2005 17:22:43 GMT
Heh...it's an outsider review! Like outsider art...
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Post by stokerino on May 9, 2005 10:17:22 GMT
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu! is the spin-off taking place somewhere in the middle of the original Full Metal Panic! series.
It is comedic genius. It can make the suspected outbreak of a bacteriological weapon funny (yes, that happens).
Apparently when my computer burns discs and then fails to read them back it is just it being stupid. Other computers seem to read them perfectly well, so burning for the sake of sharing can resume at least. At least, till my 30-odd remaining discs run out, of course.
And I have discovered the meaning behind the word 'fumoffu'. At least it DOES have an origin...albeit not a very good one.
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Post by Sami on May 9, 2005 11:18:13 GMT
I'm sorry...I can't stop staring at your avatar Tim...its so hypnotic...
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Post by stokerino on May 9, 2005 11:40:49 GMT
Osaka does that to people.
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Post by Ally on May 9, 2005 12:39:21 GMT
Tell us the meaning of the word, then.
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Post by stokerino on May 9, 2005 12:54:10 GMT
It's the word spoken by this thing: Which viewers of the original FMP may recognise as the rather ugly-looking mascot character named 'Bonta-kun' (Kaname has a toy of one, much like Naru has a toy of 'Liddo-kun' in Love Hina. Kaname isn't Naru V2.0 for nothing you know...). Needless to say, at one point in the series Sousuke absconds with an outfit of one from a theme park, and promptly turns it into a military death suit. Like so: Apparently it's bullet proof and such...anyway, the creature talks in the way that many such mascots do. That is, meaningless repitition: "Fumo! Fumofumo fumoffu! Fumo fumoffu fu!" And for some reason Sousuke sets his suit up to talk like this too (when he tries to deactivite the setting, the suit's onboard computer crashes). Leading to Kaname being forced to translate: Sousuke: "Fumo! Fumo fumo fumo..." Kaname: "All of you are useless pieces of shit alone. But after you receive training from me, and if you listen to my command, you will be able to accomplish any given mission. Keep that in mind and train..." Recruits: Grrrrrr.... Kaname: "Ah! Uh, I'm not the one who's saying it! It's Bonta-kun! Bonta-kun!" So...yeah. That's where it comes from.
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Post by Emily on May 9, 2005 13:32:40 GMT
tim thats a ridiculously huge picture, ridiculous to the point of annoyingness because its too large to even load. and its messign up the page
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