Eureka 7

So Yeah... I binged the end of the show and..... it was really good but confusing. I was actually really getting into the show in the late 30s when shit went down with Dewy and we got some really really good fights and conflict. But then Eureka and Renton and those shitty kids went to Earth and sat on that beach for like 3 episodes. If those kids weren't there, I felt I would have enjoyed that arc a bit more.

Anemonie finally not being a sporadic bitch and Dominic admitting he loves her came out of nowhere, but I'm okay with it since their relationship was kinda fucked up anyways. But The End turning white and good out of nowhere was kinda cool.

My problem with the ending of the show and just in general is that shit seems to come out of nowhere. Like the ending. Where Renton and Nirvash go to Eureka and save here, I thought Renton and Eureka were going to join together. Would make sense for the story right? Nope. Nirvash is like "Don't worry guys, I got this shit, we'll move to another universe." Just like that.

And it is terribly confusing at points. Without looking up a wiki, I was confused as to what essential stuff like the Summer of Love and the Limit of questions was as the show just half hazardly explained this crucial lore. And now I've been hearing there are multiple branching timelines from the endings? And AO has some time travel BS? Good grief.

You're better off just ignoring AO. It's dreadful.

A lot of people think the movie is too, but I have a love for AUs so I kinda like it (plus it was my first exposure to the franchise). It horribly twists a lot of the characters though in pretty unforgivable ways.

Any recommendations on anime I should watch next. I need another really good sci-fi mecha show I can sink my teeth into, but looking up stuff online, it doesn't seem like any of the other big hitters I'm interested in (Macross mainly) are available for streaming on netflix, hulu or chrunchyroll

Since you've finished Eureka 7, you should watch Eureka 7 AO. It's basically a sequel to the first show. You'll understand when you watch it.

I'm watching Gargantia right now, and I'm loving it so far.

Some good mecha anime that I can think of:

Aldnoah.Zero
Big O
Captain Earth
Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu
Getter Robo Armageddon
Star Driver
Shin Mazinger Z Impact aka Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact

Sorry if you seen these already

I've heard bad things about Aldnoah Zero. Particularly about the second season, but I've also heard things about the original show, but one thing about it being weirdly yaoi focused for some reason....

Should that stop me? OR does your recommendations override it?

So that's a no for Eureka 7 AO?

I seen the first three episodes of Aldnoah Zero and I liked them. It's from Gen Urobuchi, so it should be good.

I loved those two as a mirror of Eureka and Renton, yeah, everything about their realtionship is effed up, but it still managed to get a nice resolution.

I feel like the show does a good job of explaining it's concepts, but the ending can come a little bit out of left field, particualry the last few minutes.

Macross is a tough one, as due to the Harmony Gold issues it can't be licensed, Plus however has been released, and I think it's on Hulu, Plus also happens to be one of the high points of the franchise, so it'd be a good place to start.

Code Geass is one of the common suggestions, political intrigue with rather realsitic mechs (at least in S1) and some supernatural elements for a fun and unqie ride.
If the idea of a crew of Super Robot loving goofballs stuck in a down to earth Real Robot show sounds fun to you, check Nadesico, it's both a deconstruction and a love letter to the mecha genre as a whole.

There's no yaoi, that's a fan thing.

Do I need to see the original to understand Plus?

Nah, none of the characters appear, and the resolution to the original show as well as what exactly the Macross is expalined well enough.
It's more of a personal tale between two test pilot rivals, so the backstory of the franchise is largely irrelevant.

I enjoy Macross Frontier and 7, but that's just me. Macross 7 is the first Macross show that I seen (not counting Robotech).

7 is episodic as heck, but it's hard not to love it if you are into the premise.
Frontier however, I just love it, can't even be objective about it.

a good mecha series you could check out, if you haven't seen it, is Big-O.

Big-O is a great series. gotta love big romantic metal piston fist mechs.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/341...o-piston-o.gif

I like Big O, but I never like how it ended though.

Yeah, the ending was pure ****. It also doesn't help that Sunrise left it open for a third season in hopes that CN would order one instead of just completing the ****ing story like they were originally going to.

they wanted the American audience to enjoy it and they succeeded. they said they didn't care if the japanese audience didn't like it.

and I like the ending.

Big-O reminded me of a cross between Batman/Bruce Wayne and Gundam.

The ending is garbage though. It is just another reset button ending that has been done a million times before. Plus it didn't make any sense other than, "OH, we have done this before, but Roger died, so he wasn't able to stop Angel from fully resetting the world" crap. It would have been so much better had it turned out that they were indeed a world on TV.

Anyway, I always saw the series as more like Batman meets Dark City rather than Gundam.

Yeah, but considering the fact that Big O came out when those kinds of endings were still a new thing, I can give it a pass on that.

Also thanks for spoiling it after I recommended it. :/

So I got my weekly anime towatch. The disappearance of nagato Yuki episode 11 subbed and episode 3 English dub. I also got fairh tail my teen romantic comedy snafu food wars and is it wrong to pick up girls in the dungeon nanoha vivid and arc-v to watch today.

WataMote is fucking insane. :lol

Nichijou man this anime funny the art reminds me of azumanga daioh ME mm it's funny comedy also I mist 25 min length comedy anime they all seem to be 3-10 min long now

Not quite accurate a third season was always planned but lack of interest by Bandai and CN killed it hence the ending we got.

Shirobako episodes.

If I'm not mistaken, Big O is one of those animes that did better in the West then it did in Japan much like what happen with Voltron, Sonic X and Dragon Ball GT?

Quite new? Evangelion ended well before Big O. As did Wolf's Rain and RahXephon.

I don't see why they would plan a third season when CN had to go out of their way to even get the rest of the series made. Hell, I don't even understand why it only had 13 episodes to begin with because it came out well before Japan started to break up their series like they do now (and god do I hate what they do now, just make the whole ****ing show and be done with it in one go!!).

big O came out BEFORE Wolf's Rain AND Rahxephon...

also, paying to air a series dubbed is probably a lot less expensive than paying to have the series MADE.

Uh, not every series does that you know.

nor does every series get to have the budget to do that.

No kidding. People don't seem to realise the shoestring budgets some series are on. Most of the money is made from DVD/BD sales.

Oh god Rahxephon. The first anime that I rented from Netflix and it was horrible. One of the worst animes that I've ever seen in my opinion.

Uh... they had no problem doing it before.

Noir, RahXephon, Cowboy Bebop, Madlax, Fullmetal Alchemist, all Gundam series until 00, Ecaflowne, Macross, Macross 7, Speed Grapher, Golion, Dairugger XV, GaoGaiGar, Mythical Detective Loki, Trinity Blood, Gankutsuou, and many many other series for decades had no issues with doing the full 26/52 episode run with no problem. Why is it suddenly an issue? Did their balls fall off? Hell, computers have made it easier to be lazy with the animation, so it's not like they have to actually animate anything with skill these days to warrant this method.

it got more expensive to make them.
like, you're gonna say no.
but yes, it did get more expensive to make anime.
you think that just because it's not hand drawn it's cheaper to make?
no. you gotta have a large team to make it right.
larger teams mean more mouths to feed which means more money they have to be paid.
and yes, you have to animate with skill!

why else would anime have so many fixes and shit from TV to Blu-Ray?
did you not see the differences in the BlazBlue anime?
how lazy some stuff was?
how lazy some stuff is now?
you still need to put effort into animation!
like, what about it being digitally animated makes it easier? you still gotta draw the phrames! it's not like there's a fucking animate the thing button!

Because shit got more expensive,because anime's popularity has declined and because the global economy went into the shitter in 2008.

Ok just finished the first two madoka movies. First off I was just planning to watch the third due to me watching the 12 episode anime while back but I thought why not watch all three film. First two I be given my thought as it as a hole movie not two parts. I can say I feel like madoka was ment to be an anime movie from the start and not anime first. The story flowed to me really well pasing was great story came threw. I'm so happy I pre order double pack blu ray by manga entertainment for the first two film due to animatsu hot the third film distribution right in UK.

^Yellow knows what he's talking about.

How could the cost of a show be any more expensive today than it was 10 years ago?

I'm sorry, but I call shenanigans on that. Series need to either be 13 or 26 episodes and air the entire series in one go without a break and without leaving it off for another season. God, I hate that Japan has taken the worst aspects of American TV into their culture.