Maybe I should go watch Yugioh GX again the Japanese dub. Its the Yugioh series I am the most fond of and grew up with.And it was the sexond to last Yugioh series where it'd go the modern Rider route and try to put selling merchsndise at the forefront. "HEY GUYS LOOK AT MY 5TH FORM OF UTOPIA FIGHTING NUMBER 107!!!" That's cool for you Yuma. But I think I should probably get some more action series or more anime series in generslly under my belt first.

Coupling the fact that over the space of the last four months, I've finished like ten toku series, caught up on others, dropped countless others and I'm on a massive mech hype, I decided to take a break from toku so I still have stuff left to watch and concentrate on anime again, something I kinda fell out of love with as I grew older, I decided that I'm gonna be rewatching Tekkaman Blade now the Figmas are out and I'm gonna be having my first viewing of G-Gundam.

So Tekka 01. The animation hasn't aged all that well... which is a shame because for the most part the action was great and at least when they are standing still, the designs are really awesome. But it's like as soon as they actually had to move every detail from the art design was taken out.

The plot hasn't faired much better with time either, so much of Tekka has been done to death since this show aired, so it's hard to appreciate the plot, even if it came so much earlier.

Also D-Boy is the worst name for a protagonist ever.

I recently watched Mawaru Penguindrum.

All of the central characters were great, the plot was interesting, although a bit confusing at points. The individual episodes were usually pretty great, although I felt it did get a few slow episodes around the middle. I also thought it did a really good job bringing everything together for the ending, it's just an overall spectacular series.

I sadly don't think I got extremely popular, I rarely even see people talking about it. I guess this might come from the fact it aired around the time as multiple extremely popular series, such as Steins;Gate and Madoka Magica, although as much as I enjoyed those two, I thought Penguindrum was a much better show than both of them. It is definitely one of my favorite anime series.

The figma released did the same to me, I'm six episodes into Tekkaman Blade. Having watched the broadcast dub growing up, I was surprised that Maggie was actually male. And D-boy....yeah....

Subsequently, I also started to watch Ronin Warriors, because that's the only version of Samurai Troopers I own. It's showing it's age as well, but that henshin sequence is downright beautiful. Just finishes episode three while getting ready for work, the team just got dispersed.

I'd never even heard of Mawaru Penguindrum until now, so I checked out the MAL page and man it sounds awesome, gonna have to check this out.

Even minus the connotations the explanation for D-Boy is as shit as it's hilarious.

'You know, Dangerous Boy!'

Whaaaaaat? I will say the glorious engrish was fantastic Dangarus Booooy.

While it doesn't have the commercial popularity of Madoka or Steins;Gate, it definitely has the critical response of them. I've never once seen a bad word about it said and deservedly so, that show is an anime masterpiece.

Tekkaman Blade... Technoman... How do I feel about these series'... let me think.. Oh, I remember!


PEGUS, POWER ON! TEEEEEEEECHNO POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I love all the glorious male nudity and copious ass shots, it's rare for this to be men and not women. D-Boy is about right.

Glorious male nudity is always welcome :lol You should try and find Tekkaman Blade 2. It's excellent.

Also, has anyone else seen and loved and worshipped Patlabor 1 and 2 as I have? 2 is a little weaker, but Patlabor 1 is a masterwork of Japanese Anime Cinema.

Agreed, patlabor 1 stands shoulders above the series. Shining example of the real mecha genre.

It had the depth of storytelling, the beautiful animation style. And you believed, for those fleeting one hour and forty five minutes, that those Labors could exist in a real world. They moved with a real weight to them. Now, I love Gundams. I love how wild and crazy the designs can get. But I love a real Mech anime. Maybe that's why I loved 8th MS Team so much. Gundam, but they were real'er Gundams.

Agreed, these were machines first and foremost, and were treated as such by the production staff. And the storytelling and animation, the pacing was appropriate and I just got swept up into the story. Even to this day.

Dangit, I know what I'm watching tonight.

Wish I could :lol I lost the VHS I had in High School.

G-Gundam 2. Visually this show is stunning given its age, both in how well animated it is but also in the vision of the future it depicts in its world, it is all wrapped up in some great sound design and music.

Maxter was really cool, I love how it wasn't in your face about it, but made it very American nontheless, for a show this ridiculous I'm impressed it hasn't divulged in insulting parody but that might come later, the US are usually easy targets though. Also you gotta love the Shining Gundam smashing out of the statue of liberty with Kasshu's ridiculous finger click and GUNDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM

The action in this show is fantastic as well, I know it isn't for everyone but I much prefer these 'Super Robo' style shows than the kind of mech shows that treat the mechs as very delicate, very complicated pieces of tech. I'm a big kid honestly. It's just a shame Maxter went down so quickly, the Gundam Fights aren't always gonna be tacked on at the end of the episodes are they?

Also absolutely nothing about the Gundam fight makes sense, if they just wanted DBZ with Gundam then that would be fine, I don't understand why they keep pretending to have a plot then put no effort into it.

You have to remember, it's still Gundam. Considering all the changes G Gundam did compared to every other Gundam series beyond SD (To the point that G is considered the black sheep of the Gundam franchise), they needed some kind of needlessly large plot (Not necessarily complex, just large), less they risk Gundam fans rioting in the streets :p

There is a plot. As crazy as that sounds.

Nothing wrong with some super robot action,especially when the rule of cool comes into effect. The plot will come a little later, right now the show is selling you on the changed format, and the meet and greets of your major players. G Gundam was a lot of fun, and Master Asia is a total bamf.

Been watching the World God Only Knows in preperation for the third season. Someone tell DaiRiderRX that I discovered a better pink haired idol then Luka... KANON! :D

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If you gave her a gun she could be called gun-kanon. :lol

Are you shipping DaiRiderRX, or youself? :lol

So Macross...

Some Zentradi have defected, and things are getting really interesting.

Neither, I was simply making a bad pun. :lol

So I watched the first episode of Penguindrum, it brought back a LOT of bad memories which are still pretty raw, so as such I couldn't work out if the 2deep4u approach and general melodramatic tone made the show easier to watch or more insulting. That, coupled with the weird incestuous overtones had me about ready to turn off the show. But I gotta admit, I'm a sucker for a mystery, especially when it's centred around super cute penguins. So I'll give it a few more eps.

That's a good idea. I normally issue any new show the three episode test and if it fails to impress, I shut it off.

As for me. I just finished episode 7 of the World God Only Knows... Man I I love Kanon's arc. It's spectacular! My one nitpick with the show is only with the dub, and that's the fact that they didn't re-dub the songs sung by the characters into English so it's a bit distracting when English speaking characters suddenly start singing in Japanese. But that's how far I have to stretch just to nitpick. Still a great dub of a great show, and Kanon's arc is probably the best of the whole series. Why didn't they just end the series with this one? Now I have to sit through... Shiori. :( Here's hoping for the best.

Edit: Oh, there's a filler episode before Shiori's arc. :lol

I would ordinarily but I spent the majority of the episode wanting to punch it in the face before the cute penguins showed up.

True, but you never know, it might surprise you... or not.

Like I say cute penguins will deffo make me wanna give it a chance.

Personally, Shiori's arc was my favorite of the first season. Been holding out on the third season though, I heard they squished around a 100+ chapters of the manga into a recap that was only a few minutes at the beginning of the first episode. Since I haven't watched it yet, if that isn't the case, that'd be great to know.

I did read some of the manga a while back, been meaning to get back to that.

I really liked Kanon's arc though...

Giving Bakemonogatari another go since last time I got to about 3 episodes and then just forgot about it.

So glad I downloaded bluray rips, because this show is just one massive artgasm.

started to watch Afro Samurai please tell me how funimation was able to pay Samule L Jackson to Voice Afro

Samuel L Jackson voiced Rummy in the Boondocks, too.

Ok how did they get him to do voice work cause I'm still surprised he worked on this show

Also any one new about this m.collider.com/collider/#!/entry/samuel-l-jackson-joins-david-ellis-kite-adaptation,51ef88cdda27f5d9d0fda948

Well crap...the surface of earth has been reduced to rubble...I was REALLY hoping that Macross wouldn't go there. At least (I think) it recovers.

That guy will do anything with a paycheck attached as long as he has some free time. Probably didn't have to pay him a ton since it likely only took a couple of days to run through the lines. Big actors like voice work because for most of them it's quick to do and fills in some down time between projects.

Tekka 02, man this show is epic. Just a shame that the animation is so dated, so it's never quite as epic as it might seem. Still the action is hella thrilling and there are really great quiet moments as well, like the trip through the Orbital Ring which is now just a graveyard.

Sadly, I'm really not feeling the show outside of the visuals/action. The story is so far uninspiring, and so the character moments fall flat, plus I hate the archetype Nolan fits into and the fact he never deviates from that stock character makes him unbearable at times.

I believe Samuel L Jackson has a check list every ever media an actor can show up in. This counts as his anime role. It's right below being in a Marvel comic. All that's left is a cartoon with his name in the title and being the next Kamen Rider :p


After refreshing my memory, Samuel L. Jackson helped get the anime made. He got ahold of the test trailer and found US companies people to make it by being the face of the project. Of course he was going to be in it (he's also the ninja dude). It also aired in the US on Spike TV first. The first Japanese airing was even shown in English with Japanese subtitles.

G-Gundam 03.

Man the depiction of Neo China is so ridiculous and I'm not sure if I'm meant to be offended but it's also really awesome. Plus the Dragon Gundam is probably the coolest Gundam yet (I remember nothing from the first Gundam and although Maxter had a cool fighting style it was still kinda bland). It's just a shame the kid is so annoying.

I'm not sure I like this shows pace, the way Domon is just there, I mean I know we can assume he's just travelling from location to location but I start every episode wondering if I skipped an episode by accident.

Tekkaman Blade 03 was pretty boring, to be fair. I know that Military dude isn't supposed to be liked, but watching him be a massive immature baby throwing tantrums for fifteen minutes was fucking ANNOYING. Also, I'm getting kinda bored of seeing D-Boy fighting waves of insects, please come back Dagger. Still, VOLTEKKA!!!

I think that is how most of it plays. Pretty much every Gundam design in the series is a stereotype in some way. It sort of makes sense that the various nation's want their Gundam to stand out and represent their culture. You will see more as the series goes. The only problem is that the Neo Japan Gundam just looks like a normal Gundam with the white/red/blue color sceme. It does have the standard head but the design doesn't scream Japan in the way Dragon Gundam does China for example.

Yeah you woulda thought with how this series has played out Neo Japan would have a Gundam like Shinken-Oh. That would have probably been more interesting as well, the Shining Gundam isn't bad, it's actually cool but the Shining Finger stuff is really naff.