So much hype right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsCSKgDRXeY

I watched Grave of the Fireflies for the first time last night, and it was quite an interesting experience.

While I won't deny the film is bleak as hell, from the way people talk about it I was expecting the whole tragic element to lie on the fact it was set during wartime. However its just as much about human error, the cost of stubborness and the main character bringing a lot of it on himself as it is them being stuck in a difficult time period.

Oreimo and Devil Survivor.

Just finished Shakugan no Shana Second. My god I love this show! It's definitely going in my top 5 favorite anime of all time. My list basically goes like this:

5. Shakugan no Shana
4. Solty Rei
3. FMA (didn't really care for Brotherhood)
2. Madoka Magica
1. Eureka Seven

I'm watching my favorite anime of all time on Nick, Digimon. I feel like a little kid again watching it.

I pretty much share the same mentality concerning this movie as Spoony does.
"It's the best movie that I never want to see again."

Though, it was interesting to learn about it through Sage's analysis.

Well, I know what I'm looking forward to watching. I'll make a diary of it... a future diary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvC9cRAyJX8

Just started Shakugan no Shana Final and all I can say is... damn.

To: Klonoahedgehog
Let me know when you finish season 2, because there is an ova series called Shakugan no Shana S that takes place in between the two seasons and has an ending that sets the mood perfectly for final.

Um... I think Nyaruko-San broke me...

Same here.

No seriously, I've seen weird anime before but... I think I now know why this never got dubbed. Also, never say that something is "the weirdest thing you've ever seen." because something will always come around to top it. Nyaruko-san is currently topping it...

So okay, let me get this straight. She's an anime and toku fan girl from space and she's also a cop... that right?

Seems that way. I also don't think it'll get dubbed because of the Kamen Rider references.

Yeah that was my second guess. On that note Nyaruko just said "Let's start with the climax!" and rider kicked a monster... It was glorious Space CQC!

Link me to this anime.

Okay...
http://www.gogoanime.com/haiyoru-nyaruko-san-episode-1

be sure to have something to clean up the remains of your brain ready.

Oh hey, I just past Sentai in number of posts on this thread!... I'm not sure if I should be happy or ashamed.

Finished Macross today. Such a great show, but my god the animation is dated and I never realized how cheap they were at times. I mean, it seemed like they just didn't bother to animated every frame at times, making the movements look choppy and whatnot. The story is still so good though, I love how they developed the relationship between Misa and Hikaru throughout the entire thing instead of it just becoming an over night romance. My only complaint is how quickly Max and Milia's marriage was done though. I mean, he sits down to tell Hikaru they are getting married, Hikaru tells them to talk to Gloval, and then they are at their wedding. They should have spaced that out more as it just felt rushed and there could have been built up. I mean, why were Exedol and Britai watching it anyway? HOW were they watching it? Of course, you also had oddities like Kamjin being told the men were mutinying 12 minutes before they mutinied. Ooooooooooooooooookay.

Nevertheless, I love how the show was done as a whole, especially that the story did not just end when the Earth was blown up, we got what was essentially a 9 episode epilogue, which is a rarity.

With that said, I'll probably watch DYRL on Friday, but other than that, I don't admit anything else related to Macross exists because they are all extremely subpar at best. Others, such as Frontier and Zero, are down right terrible.

just finished "Mysterious Girlfriend X". it was...... something, but it was a good "something".

:eyebrow
How exactly are the rest of them terrible?

This. I LOVED Frontier.

Zero is just down right boring and I don't even know how it has anything to do with Macross outside of Roy showing up in a few scenes and you see the Macross being fixed. There was nothing Macross about it and it felt pointless because it does nothing to enhance the original show. If you are going to do a prequel, you need to make it so it feels like it belongs there and has a purpose.

7 is just the same episode over and over again.

Plus takes way too long to do anything and does not have any pay off in the end. I will say that the movie version is vastly superior to the OVA version.

II feels like it should have been a 13 episode series condensed into 2 hours.

I stopped watching Frontier after 5 episodes. It was the worst thing I have ever seen with the name Macross on it.

The other problem is all of these series just don't fit with the original show. The Macross was destroyed at the end, and yet, sometimes it is still sitting there as if nothing happened. Exedol looks nothing like he did in the series in Macross 7.

Then you're only basing it on the fact that it doesn't have much to tie it to SDF Macross. It has plenty of prequel material on the protoculture and stuff that comes up in 7 and Frontier.

7 is...slow, I'm not going to deny that. I wasn't a huge fan of it either but at least its different.

I like Plus, but I won't deny a lot of that is down to spectacle. It's a much more grungy type of sci-fi than the rest of the Macross series.

II isn't canon and deservedly so. That IS awful.

Maybe you should give it more of a chance then, because Frontier is essentially the best parts of its predecessors merged into one show.

Yes they do. Sometimes loosely, but they definitely connect.

No it doesn't, it gets heavily damaged and crashes into a lake. Which is where it is in Macross Plus.

The DYRL Zentradi designs retconned the series ones.

Look, I was bored to death and I don't recall anything about Protoculture in Zero. I recall them talking about a bird race, which was what they thought the Valkyries were, but that was about it. It was fantasy instead of Sci-Fi, which is what Macross is. Of course, it also didn't help that the episodes came out far far apart from one another, so that also killed my enthusiasm for the show.

I do agree that 7 is different, and I did like that. I did not completely hate 7, but there was no need for it to be 52 episodes with additional OVA episodes (although, the one with Jenius' other siblings was funny). Basara was cool, but he sang the same song for like 20 episodes straight.

As for Frontier, maybe I'll give it another shot if it ever comes to the US, but I just have no desire to go out of my way to watch it. I just found the characters to be annoying, especially the girl who was worse than Minmay annoying.

EDIT: Watching DYRL today and I don't really like that movie now that I've rewatched it. The animation is pretty awesome, but I hated the new designs of the Zentraedi and I hate how the movie just shows something and you really wouldn't know what the purpose of that scene was if it weren't for the series (such as Max and Milia meeting for the first time). I also don't like how they separated the Zentraedi and Maltrandi into difference races, and then for some reason had the Zens join with the Macross to battle them only to have Bodolza decide to attack the Macross at the same time as them when Britai and his crew just suddenly decide to help the Macross, uh... it's way too complicated. Honestly, the animation is the only reason to watch the movie, especially since the Valkyrie's look so bad ass. Of course, it doesn't help that Max and Milia are my two favorite characters from Macross and they have little to no screen time at all, and what little they do, makes little sense.

I've started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, keeping in pace with Doug Walker. It's really hard to not rush ahead, since the series is so good.

i dont clas that as an anime due to it more of a western carton with the style of anime

So I finally got around to watching Hyouka. KININARIMASU/10

It's an awesome series.

From a technical standpoint, isn't any cartoon that airs in Japan an anime? While Avatar may not have aired in Japan, being made in Japan isn't a prerequisite to being an anime.

It is by western standards.

That show is dangerously addictive.

watching "Horizon in the middle of nowhere." not a bad show. it's..... interesting. i watch it for the "plot".

The original meaning of anime is that it's just a Japanese shorthand for all animation. It's like how we shorten tokusatsu to toku a lot, it's easier to say and spell. In English, it's a borrowed word with a different meaning that's not clearly defined. Usually referring to a "Japanese" animation style, but there's no real defining line anyone agrees on. That said, most do agree shows like Avatar and Teen Titans are not animes.

But the difference is that we don't treat "Toku" and "Tokusatsu" as 2 entirely different classifications.

I'm generally playing devil's advocate because I classify "Anime" and "Western Animation" as different (And so I can parade around saying I hate anime :p), but the lack of a proper definition rather irks me, because oversized eyes and stupid hair is universal, not limited to Asian animation :p

So in short everything is Anime because it's short for Animation.

In JAPAN "anime" is used as the same thing. EVERWHERE ELSE "anime" has a different meaning. I just said that. That's where the problem defining it comes from.

But, you like GaoGaiGar, and Digimon Savers.

Tamers.

And there are a few examples of Anime that I like. But I honestly don't think you'd need more than 2 hands to count them all.

Aahh...Pataytoe, Poetato.

and you can just say you hate most anime.

Well that depends. What do you consider Oban Star Racers to be? I mean, it was made by a French studio run by a Japanese man, and the Japanese and English languages were recorded all at the same time.

I don't know...that seems like a special case.

Anyway, Gurren Lagann episodes 4 and 5:

They were pretty good. The "Black Siblings" showed up, and I must say...Kinon is freaking cute. It was interesting to see someone almost as crazy and loud as Kamina. Episode 5...it was interesting to see that there's a group of people who worship Gunmen, and we got another Team Gurren member; Rossiu.

EDIT: Episode 6...

I AM KAMINA...KING OF THE ROCK!

Yeah, it was just filler more or less.

Did you watch the clip show version or the uncut version? Because the latter is the hilariously good kind of filler.