Anime/Manga Thread

#41

I’ve never been really into manga myself either, though I have to credit my interest in anime with the first and only manga I ever read the entirety of, which was Ranma 1/2.

EDIT: So I finally finished Steins;Gate. I think I can sum up the experience in one picture:

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Seriously. I wanted to cry so many times. So amazingly powerful and well written. But [color=’#151515’]I was very glad (and impressed) that the ending managed to be satisfying, make sense, and be happy at the same time. It definitely did a hell of job to try and kick Trigun off the top of my favorites, and I’m pretty sure it succeeded.

#42

Yeah man because socialism is totally about banning things that increase the quality of life for citizens and not, say, providing things for taxpayers.

You uh, you do realize that your police, fire, and postal services are all socialized, right?

Anyway, not the politics thread, re-railing…

Has anyone seen/read D-gray man? I’ve seen a couple of episodes, and the concept intrigued me.

#43

I know that feel. The exact feel with it kicking Trigun off the top of my favorites.

#44

Who was your first favorite manga hero?

#45

I read the first two volumes of Bakuman, if you’re into slice-of-life sorta stuff, I recommend it.

#46

Shinji Ikari. But then I rapidly changed that to Spike Spiegel.

#47

By the way, because of all this…

…I decided to try it out, by playing directly the visual novel.

I hate you, guys.
I got addicted for the whole last week.

And I sincerely cried.

Truly fascinating, and awesome in the end.

#48

Are there any decent giant mecha animes on netflix?

#49

Not on Netflix but there is a currently airing anime from the people who made Steins;Gate (allow me to repeat myself fucking Steins;Gate so good) called Robotics;Notes that while having giant robots isn’t what one would call a Giant Robot anime. The Big O is a good giant mecha anime but idk if its on netflix.

#50

Has anyone watched the Mass Effect anime yet? I saw some clips of it on youtube and was not really thrilled about it, but I would like to watch an anime that had the same…vision, I suppose you might say, that Mass Effect (or Star Wars) had. Like thriving, galaxy-wide civilizations, lots of alien species, technology that’s not very “hard” on the sci-fi scale, and a generally optimistic tone. The few anime I’ve seen that deal with space travel were all so bleak and depressing, dealing with stuff like annihilation by alien monsters, the strange, sad effects of relativistic time travel, and the like. There also seems to be missing the sense of interconnected-ness that Mass Effect has, mostly I guess because space travel is fast and easy and there’s near instant galactic telecommunications as well.

So I guess my real questions are: is the Mass Effect anime any good, and if not, are there any good anime that are similar?

#51

So Madoka Magica: The Beginning Story came to my town last night.

Masterpiece.

#52

I don’t know about that on the basis of despite how much I think I would enjoy Madoka Magica I refuse to watch it as watching an anime about “Magical Girls” is a step to far for me to go.

On an unrelated note Psycho-Pass now has my unending recommendation to anyone who likes action/drama anime.

#53

Bah, don’t let genre define what you watch. Especially when the thing in question turns said genre completely on it’s head. :stuck_out_tongue:
Sailor Moon it’s not. [COLOR=‘Black’]People die horribly.

#54

Some friends made me watch Sword Art Online. I’m about 12 episodes in, will this show get better? The first couple of episodes were great at setting things up, then things get a bit messy afterwards (there’s 2 episodes that turned the show to CSI:Warcraft).

I can handle all the time skips, no one would want to see that guy level grinding for 10 episodes anyway. But then every other episodes feels like a filler, not to mention the romance feels like it’s written by a 13 year old, and I haven’t even started on the douche l33t hax apparent “lone wolf badass” protagonist.

tl;dr Is SAO worth watching?

#55

Yes, at the second game. There are less filler

#56

Alright, I’ll give it another chance
This show better not fuck it up

#57

I know, my friend tempted me greatly describing the anime. But no, just no I cannot do it.

On an unrelated note I found SAO to be very structurally weird. It plays out with a normal structure for awhile and then all of the sudden just goes fuck rising action climax. Oh wait no that’s not the climax rising action again. Climax again nope just fucking with ya there’s more and another climax.

#58

So, Darker Than Black is really badass.

#59

Steins;gate seems really interesting, should I watch the anime or play the Visual Novel?

#60

Have never played the VN but I’ve seen the anime so I recommend the anime.

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