Episode 10 of Shinkgeki no Kyojin kinda reminded me why I eventually gave up on anime, it was basically one scene told over twenty two minutes, twenty two extremely well constructed and directed minutes, but I guess it's easy to make a show stylish when you're only working on a single sequence.

And sure having lots of different perspectives on the scene is great, but when the plot is in the same place as it was at the start of the episode we have a problem. I have that problem with a lot of anime, which crawls along so cripplingly slowly. I eventually gave up on Bleach, my favourite anime since I was like 13, during the War arc in Fake Karakura town because they were literally stretching out single chapters into episodes. I basically have to wait a month between each episode to let several episodes collect, because you may get one story development every five to six episodes.

But THEN what happens is I make myself wait for so long so I have a few episodes to sink my teeth into, I basically lose all my emotional investment in the series.

Maybe I should watch Eureka Seven...

Also, what episode of Star Driver are you on?

Get back to Star Driver, darn it! :p

Two... Sorry... I've just been... ZOMBIES AND BOOBIES!

Fine. I'll just have DRILLS AND BOOBIES, instead of Blue Drop. :p

I'll get back to Star Driver after High School of the Dead. Promise.

It's ok. I'm not actually upset.

Okay... Neither am I! :D

Oh, High School of the Dead.
That might have been the exact anime that made me realize that I was no longer an otaku anymore.

Interesting... well, I like it. :D

That's great for you.
I just couldn't take it. I love over the top stuff just as much as the next guy, but unlike everyone else, there is a certain extent I can take before it's just too much, which is what kept me from ever getting into TTGL.

Same here, but I figured I would give the show a second chance.

Ah, yeah Gurran Laggan does go to a little overboard. Hell, by the end of the series they are LITERALLY fighting with entire galaxies!

I still need to.
Doesn't help that Yoko appeals to me as much as a flaming pile of manure.

Yeah, I know. Learning that actually made me want to watch it less, because, in all honesty, that sounds completely stupid.

Wow, you just summed up the whole series in four words... CONGRATULATIONS! :D

Well, at least it means I can justify not watching it.

You don't have to justify not watching anything... Like Game of Thrones for instance. I've never seen it, probably never will.

Yeah.
Guess there'll be no "Brief Essay on why Gurren Lagann sucks" thread from me :p

That would probably be for the best. After all, there are no fan boys like Gurren Laggan fan boys. :lol

You should, the first part of the series isn't too bad.

Same here, but I want to have an opinion on it. I could direct you to a review of it. She said the same thing you said, but she did say that it's dumb, because of it's by far the most ludicrous thing that she's seen that wants you to take it seriously, as the series does have its serious, and dark moments, She also said (and I'm paraphrasing here): "Deus Ex Machina? You're swimming in it! and physics? Screw your physics!"

You're talking about Jesu Otaku right?

Eeyup! :D

Just checking... she got me to watch HIgh School of the Dead. :lol

The problem is that I like narrative with a structure. I want my stories to take themselves seriously. If they want to have fun, that's fine, but you can't go from dark and serious to "LOL I JUST CHUCKED 3 TRILLION STARS AT YOU!!!!" without a sense of mood whiplash and diminishing any sense of scale (Both in the literal and a story telling sense).

The ongoing problem is that every statement concerning Gurren Lagann is "It's so dumb, it's so ludicrous, it's so outlandish that it's AWESOME!"

She got me to watch Star Driver. :lol

The thing is that, it pretty much a celebration the Super Robot genre, and it abuses every trope and cliché from that genre. It does have some structure. It seems to be a coming of age story, if those interest you.

I'm not one to let a show get away with being cliche ridden just for the sake of being a homage.
It's why I loathe parody anime. Often times it's "Deconstructions" reaches Family Guy levels, which is to play it annoyingly and completely straight, then, at the end, point out how cliche it was to begin with.

Gurren Lagann doesn't really do that Family Guy thing. I haven't seen a lot of Super Robot anime, so maybe that's why I'm ok with it so far, because I haven't seen a lot of those tropes. (The only Super Robot shows I've seen are GaoGaiGar, and Star Driver). The only trope it seems to have used so far is the whole thing of "The specs of the machine don't matter, as long as you have courage!"

I don't know, I would say give it a chance. At least up until Kamina dies (episode 8). I intend to see it all the way through. I don't love it, but it's not a bad show either.

TTGL is one of my all time favourite animes. It's beautifully animated and directed, absolutely kickass, full of great characters, memorable moments and doesn't pull any punches.

For any fan of shounen anime, TTGL is basically the perfect package as it delivers all the thrills with slightly more complex characters, a generally more mature and darker tone and a bit of romance as well.

I hate how TTGL is tarred as this stupid mech anime parody watered down by years of otaku memes when the show actually has a lot to say and a lot to give beyond that but the thing is cast off by shallow people claiming the show itself is shallow.

I don't know where you're coming from.
From a quite literal point, I've never met another with a negative opinion on the series, but, much like my attempt at watching the critically acclaimed Akira, the animation looked good, but the story had no substance.

I may be the shallow one for not giving it enough of a chance, but I just didn't enjoy what I was watching.

Oh that wasn't aimed directly at you, I only briefly skimmed over the conversation above and as TTGL has become a cool to hate series over the years I shared my feelings on it. TTGL is one of the few animes I discovered when I was a bit older 16 - 17, that I adored.

Akira, or Gurren Lagann?

Ah.
TTGL came out right as I was starting to realize exactly what I liked and what I wanted in terms of a show, the point where I just didn't watch every little anime just because it was an anime, if you know what I mean.
I just felt dulled by it.

And GaoGaiGar did the drills a decade before them (This isn't a serious point, before you get angry. :p)

Both.
However, I'm willing to forgive Akira because it had to compress 6 volumes of a manga into a 2 hour movie.
TTGL just wasn't my thing.

Oh, I get you 100% I'm exactly the same way.

but GaoGaiGar doesn't have as many drills :p

Come on man, if I can give it a second chance, surely you can.

Yeah. That was a nice time. Freed me from, like, 15 boring Shonen anime that, from what I could tell, I was only watching because they were anime.

It's not how many drills you have, but how you use them.
"But didn't GaoGaiGar rarely ever use the drills in a fight?"
Shut up.

Yeah...I could.

I made the mistake of trying to watch Highschool of the Dead as one of the first anime shows that I actually followed. Horrible mistake. And it seems that it screwed me up to the point of watching nothing but doki-doki fuwa-fuwa moeblob animu.

so far on episode 7 of Desert Punk. the anime is.... uh..... interesting.

I see. It does bother me when people watch anime for the sake of anime.

For example. The most recent anime I've watched and why:

AKB0048: Recommended to me by a friend.
Tiger & Bunny: Hearing good things about it; I decided to check it out, as it sounded interesting to me.
GaoGaiGar: Same thing as Tiger & Bunny
Macross Frontier, and just Macross in general: Crasis' ramblings on the Preorder 66 Podcast.
Persona 4: The Animation: I like the game.


:lol

so I just started Attack on Titan...one intense show...

Macross episode 11:

Wow! The animation just went downhill in this episode. That aside it was very good. It was interesting to see the Zentradi interact, and trying to make sense of human culture. (Which, of course, eventually they do.)

Just finished Highschool of the Dead... Yeah, I don't care what other people say, this series is AWESOME!

And now, back to Star Driver!

Yay!