[ElConvoy]

Thats indeed pretty intresting. I havent kept up with news so it went right passed me. But I gotta say I would have never guessed that it was someone else and not Gen writing those episodes.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

Thats indeed pretty intresting. I havent kept up with news so it went right passed me. But I gotta say I would have never guessed that it was someone else and not Gen writing those episodes.

I guess since they are still in a failry episodic portion of the show (new mech, Inaho thinks, beats it with logic), it's not as noticeable.

[ElConvoy]

Makes sense. Its all kept rather simplistic and in Urobutchis usual style so I guess its easy for a different writer to take over and it not really being as noticeable.

[Dr Kain]

So I watched Volume 5 of Dragonball Kai today and I have come to some saddening realization, I don't think I like Kai. Sure, it is great to have the fight scenes not drag out for 400 episodes, but at the same time, the show seems to have lost all of its character development. Now it seems like the show is nothing but action sequence after action sequence with little to no development, making it kind of boring. As I said, I hate it when a fight goes on for 10+ episodes, but inbetween those fights you would get backstory items like what Vegeta, Nappa, and Raditz were feeling while they were under Freeza's command, Gohan growing up after Piccolo left him during the year before Vegeta and Nappa would arrive, etc. Plus, the regular version did a good job of building up Freeza's return with his father whereas here, all of the suspense was gone. Not to mention the lack of using the original music when Trunks slices Freeza up really ruins that great moment from the original. Actually, this is the first time I am watching the Artificial Human and Cell stuff in Kai form, so it is interesting to watch without the filler, but like I said, I kind of miss some of the filler.

[guncannon109]

Re-watching Eureka Seven again... God, I love this show. I know I praise Madoka and FMA up the ass but Eureka Seven is (in my opinion) better than both of them put together. It's simply perfection through and through.

[losondro]

Watching Hyouka right now.

[Sentai]

Black Lagoon. I started watching for the violence, I stay for Revy.

[ElConvoy]

Started watching the Madoka movies and got done with the first one. The animation is pretty and the story is still incredibly good...duh.

Also Suzu and I started our great project of watching all seasons of Digimon. We got done with the first seven episodes of Digimon Adventure and its not off to a good start. That show really hasnt aged all that well and is in all honesty pretty terrible

[Dr Kain]

I finished the Cell saga to Dragonball Kai today. Overall, it was as good as can be, but my god the music pissed me off. I love the music to DBZ, but for this entire arc it feels like they put the same 6 track on random whether they fit a scene or not. I think there were only three instances in the whole 46 episode lot where I was blown away because they used a song or BGM I was not familiar with. It also sucks because the Freeza saga had some great songs that played after his transformations. Here, there was only one song and it was while Super Bulky Trunks was battling Perfect Cell. Very annoying. I'm not really sure what to think of Kai as a whole. Well, the original Kai, not the Buu stuff (that I heard is full of bs green tint, cropped, and terrible music). I loved that the battles didn't drag on for 20 episodes, but at the same time, I felt a lot of the character development was lost in the process even though it was filler. It would have just been better if they had done an entirely new adaptation of the manga that was accurate because part of that has to do with the editing, and the lack of. There were fights that still drag on for longer than necessary when those should have been cut down as well. I don't care if a fight was like 15 manga chapters, it should not take more than 2 episodes for a fight that long, and even then that is pushing it. Overall, I'm disappointed in the quality of Kai. I love what Toei was going for, and I love having an option on how I want to watch the show, but in the long run, I think I prefer the original version of Z instead.

Another DBZ movie lot:

Cooler's Revenge - This movie has a good idea with making up a brother to relieve the Goku Freeza battle in a movie. Unfortunately, Goku hardly even does anything and even though the movie has only a little bit of action it, the plot is paper thin. Nonetheless, it is a pretty decent movie and one of the better Z movies, so I give it a 6/10.

The Return of Cooler - Oh man, what was Toei thinking? I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that this movie makes absolutely no sense or the fact that they decided to just copy Freeza's return as a cyborg and repeat it with Cooler. Sure, I just said the fifth movie was a nice little way of doing a Freeza and Goku battle in the movies, but this is just laziness on all sides of the coin. This movie blows chunks as it is also boring and stupid to boot. The action isn't even that good either. I give it a 3/10.

Super Android 13 - This movie has some pretty good action scenes in it and compared to the last movie, it is not bad. There is very little plot in it, but the animation looks great and the fights are not boring. Although, Goku going god mode with the Genki Dama while fighting alternate Blanka does kind of ruin it the fight, but it is entertaining nonetheless. I give it a 6/10 stars.

[ElConvoy]

I finished Psycho-Pass today (yeah couldnt wait for the New Edit Version to finish) and I love that show. I dont know yet if I like it more than Madoka or not but its certainly up there with it as my favorite TV Shows.