I started watching The Sacred Blacksmith on Netflix. It's mediocre at best, but mindless fun.
Finished up Corpse Princess on Netflix instant watch last night. Thought it was pretty good, decent action scenes, interesting storyline, horror elements in a coming of age story. Silly behavior over anything sexual was annoying, but par for the course I suppose. Ending left things feeling unresolved, too, which may mean someone had planned a third season.
The source material (manga) is still going as far as i know, so they were kind of forced to go with the open ended ending.Originally Posted by ineffablebob
Just finished up Kaze No Stigma on netflix. Not deep, but a good overall world and for a show I was watching just to unwind, it did it for me. It wasn't a harem show, though it was about the relationship between two young adults. Recomment, but not strongly.
I liked Kaze No Stigma myself, but this is one of those cases where it is an incomplete adaptation and from what I remember, the author died... so it will never be "completed"...
I really would have liked to learn more about the backstory too.
I watched Berserk - Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler the other night. It was alright, don't know why I was expecting more when there is absolutely no way to compress the series. It was short, only an hour and sixteen minutes with credits and it crammed in 9 episodes of the original anime. Susumu Hirasawa's music was sorely missed and the the title theme he did just didn't cut it. The movie begins with a pointless battle and later glosses over a Band of the Hawk battle that would have actually been worthwhile. Despite them showing a glimpse of Gambino and Donovan, you'd have no idea about the past of Guts. Minister Foss seems to be gone.
The animation is good, but if you haven't seen Berserk before you should definitely watch the original anime or read the manga first.
Thanks for the corpse princess recommendation. I'm enjoying it. Just dark enough and looks to be a deep enough story.
Just read the manga. The anime dials things back quite a bit and only covers the early part of the manga storyline.
I tried to watch Rosario+Vampire but had to give it up after 2.5 episodes. I've watched harem-type anime before that was decent, but this isn't one of them. Way overboard on everything from panty shots to boob massages. Too bad since the concept of a human among monsters seemed interesting.
Started on Chrome Shelled Regios instead, which seems pretty decent after 3 episodes. Lots going on, not all of which I understand yet, but there's 21 episodes left for them to explain it all.
While i thought Chrome Shelled Regios was pretty good, it was brought down by the fact that a lot of things NEVER end up making any sense and overall it doesn't really give a satisfying ending. As far as i know it did not adapt all of the source content, which was not done at the time (assuming it is now?) so a lot of REALLY weird plot points that are brought up mid to late series never end up making any sense at all.
Still found it enjoyable though.
Rosario+vampire is a stock standard harem anime. They do tend to be defined by going "way overboard on everything from panty shots to boob massages."
Finished up Chrome Shelled Regios, and I agree that the ending is kind of weak. At least, if it's the ending...it feels more like the midpoint of a story. There's no second season in the works, but if they do make one someday, it might take care of that. The series overall reminded me quite a bit of Code Geass, which also took two full seasons to resolve the story.
Spoiler: Chrome SHelled Regios spoilers
The series just needed another season to explain all of the strange shit going on. They even opened up new plot points near the end of the season that were never really went in to much.
Still, i wouldn't recommend against watching it. Enjoyable and i've seen worse endings sadly.
Okay, reading the whole High School of the Dead manga in one go is not recommended. The ensuing dreams are... disturbing at best. Admittedly, I like the manga better than I liked the anime series. I couldn't stand the characters after half an episode, but found them reasonably interesting in the manga.
Good choice. If you didn't like the first 3 episodes, you won't like the series since, well, it's basically just the same episode repeated for 2 seasons. Near the end they start to wander into interesting territory before snapping back into the tried and true formula. If I wasn't a completist, I would have given up on it fairly early.
Hmm, there are sequels to Eureka Seven, Last Exile AND Moyashimon now?
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I watch Angel Beats. That was weird but I like it.
Ramen Fighter Miki
http://www.crunchyroll.com/ramen-fighter-miki
saw all 12 episodes and enjoyed them all. miki is a waitress/poster/delivery girl at the ramen shop. she has crazy fights and rivalries while making deliveries.
check out the opening credits: there's destroyed cities, miki riding a delivery box like a hoverjet, and using it to shoot an energy beam to blow up a building. this has nothing to do with the series, which is set in a ramen shop in a small market district.
There are anime fans, and then there is this girl.
Creepy.
I watched some Nyarko-san (Haiyore! Nyaruko-san) on crunchyroll. Not much story or plot, but still pretty funny. The people who did this series read a fair amount of Lovecraft, and they also played Call of Cthulhu -- characters are always losing Sanity points....
The image above: aggghhhh!!
So I didn't post in this thread in a while. Being honest, the summer season was pretty bad.
If people want to watch something good from this year, they should watch Tsuritama.
After that, they have
Fate Zero
Sakimichi no Apollon
Moyashimon Returns
Natsuyuki Rendezvous started very good as a josei, but it fell into the last three episodes.
Hunter x Hunter is also a good choice, the only shonen I like, and the new adaptation is being very faithful to the original story and being well executed.
This season the star seems to be "From the New World" / Shinsekai Yori, it had a very good start.
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is a competent if kind of normal shojo.
2 minutes episodes.
In honor of it being Halloween, I re-watched Elfen Lied. The screwed-up-kids-killing-people-with-their-minds thing is about as close to horror as I like. I'd forgotten how short it is, just 13 episodes, but that seems like about the right length. I'm not a big fan of the "oh this girl I just met happens to be someone I knew years ago and forgot" plot mechanic, but at least there's a semi-plausible reason for the memory loss. Not one of my all-time favorites, but it's worth a spot on the DVD shelf (or the virtual equivalent).
I just burned through 11 episodes of Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse over 2 nights. Some of you may know its origins as a derivative story from what was originally a galget visual novel. But this is instead a mecha show, and one with very Serious Business. I am surprised at the tension it is able to achieve in episode 10 and 11. Try to ignore the skin-tight plug suits while watching...at least there are male pilots stuck with those suits too.
Total Eclipse is actually twice removed from the original visual novel, being a side story of the spinoff. It doesn't quite get everything right, but it's at least entertaining and the payoff of watching it is considerably higher if you're familiar with the source material. Total Eclipse has been a cakewalk in terms of seriousness to the original Muv Luv Alternative. Considering it can take upwards of 50-60 hours to play through the core three games (of which Total Eclipse is not one), not all that many people will have the background necessary to really appreciate what TE is trying to do.
It stands reasonably well on its own, thankfully. There's just more to it than meets the eye.
I'd love to see Sakmichi no Apollon, but it's not the sort of thing that would ever get dubbed. I'm a huge Yoko Kanno fan, we imported the OST from Japan earlier this year.
It's on Crunchyroll: http://www.crunchyroll.com/kids-on-the-slope
But not dubbed, of course. And not available to non-NA people.
Oh wow. I thought you guys said they only would have a few episodes for a oven series. I must have misunderstood. Apparently they have an iPad app *goes off to check*
Anybody use the crunchyroll iPad app with an Apple TV? How well does it work? I had been thinking aout getting a new receiver with buil-in AirPlay, but this has me rethinking that and getting an AppleTV instead (and maybe a non airplay receiver...there'd be no reason to pay extra for it).
Actually, I'm going to move the PS3 next to that TV anyway, and that an do it too apparently...
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From the New World had a pair of bad episodes (5-6), I hope the series recover.
I had no problem watching it here in the UK, so it's certainly available to some non-NA people.
The show needed more jazz and less melodrama in the final third.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpqYN9qKBxM
So originally I thought this was just a re-imagining of the intro sequence, which I had seen a few weeks ago. Then it keeps going and going... and so now I have no idea what I'm watching. You wouldn't just re-do random clips from the show without context, so what the hell is this? Are they "modernizing" the entire first series?
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