March 8th, 2008

rone rivendale · Post by **rone rivendale** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:21 pm

You know it's a good thing I started posting in this forum recently, otherwise we'd end up with alot of missing days.

Had the day off today so I spent most of my time on my 360 playing Dead or Alive 4. Also dl'd an X-Box Live Arcade game called 3D Ultra Golf or something like that. It's pretty good.

QotD: How do you feel about anime? Do you see it as viable entertainment or just the japanese version of saturday morning cartoons?

Personally I love anime. I have a small collection which i hope to expand someday. My favs are Trigun, Naruto, Outlaw Star, Sailor Moon (make fun I don't care), and Tenchi Universe (the best of the 3 Tenchi anime). People have call anime "Cartoons" are ignorant. You would NOT sit a 7 yr old kid in front of something like Blood+ or Love Hina. Most anime are meant for teenagers and older with very deep and sometimes adult storylines and characters. Look forward to seeing you guys' opinions on this. List your favs too if you like it.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:57 pm

Does Speed Racer count? That's all I got.

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:09 pm

The best anime I've seen recently have been the films Paprika and Tekkon Kinkreet. Check those out, Rone.

Miyazaki is great too, of course.

--Em

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:06 pm

QOTD: Akira, duh. Gokiburi (Twilight of the Cockroaches) ain't quite anime, being that it's sorta like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, only with animated cockroaches and stop-motion talking turds instead of Roger & Co., but I wanted to give it a shout-out anyway.

Rone Rivendale wrote:People have call anime "Cartoons" are ignorant.

You'll pardon me if I laugh at that sentence, yes?

Rone Rivendale wrote:You would NOT sit a 7 yr old kid in front of something like Blood+ or Love Hina.

Why the fuck not? You're watching it

Should I be posting in the fdrink thread instead? Heh.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:28 pm

Anime is cartoons. But that isn't to say that all cartoons are for kids.

Most anime is just as shitty as how most American cartoons are. Back in the 90s, a bunch of American kids got infatuated with the good stuff, and then all the budget-minded American TV producers got wind of it and started importing anime as a result. Of course, what they started to import was the cheap kid-oriented bullshit like Yu-Gi-Oh and whatever.

Being Japanese doesn't make a cartoon automatically awesome, and being American doesn't make it automatically terrible.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:03 pm

I particularly like Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Spirited Away... others too, but I don't recall what right now. I would like to see Trigun, I've heard good things.
Question 2: Japanese audio with English subtitles (subbed), or dubbed English audio? I much prefer subbed.
-bill

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:06 pm

Does hentai count?

Tentacle rape 4TW

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:51 pm

i like pokemon

blue · Post by **blue** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:53 pm

Märk wrote:Tentacle rape 4TW

hubba!

we've also gone through all of the Miyazaki films, Bebop, Champloo, the usual. I really liked "Read or Die." I just dl'ed the Bleach movie.. no idea if it'll be any good or not.

Billy's Little Trip · Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:30 pm

I haven't watched too many Japanese toons, but my buddy is always emailing me those hentai ones. I've come to the conclusion that they are really annoying when they have an orgasm.

Family Guy FTMFW.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:37 pm

The first season of Family Guy was pretty good. The current episodes are... well, they're better than current episodes of The Simpsons, but that's about all that's going for them.

Billy's Little Trip · Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:20 am

I just really like stupid predictable humor.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:22 am

Cowboy Bebop, seconded (thirded? Yeah, I got misty at the last ep. Such a sap, eh?)

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:50 am

My god damned TV broke. Well, I'm not sure if you'd call it broken: everything still works, except all the darks have been replaced with blindingly white static. It's not broken enough to keep me from playing Smash Bros Brawl all day tomorrow.

Rone Rivendale wrote:Do you see it as viable entertainment or just the japanese version of saturday morning cartoons?

Are you suggesting those two are mutually exclusive?

I think most of the good stuff has already been mentioned. Ghost in the Shell the movie (not the slow-as-molasses tv show), Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind (old but damn good). As far as tv shows go, I find a lot of anime either starts good and turns to crap or starts silly and then turns to pure gold by the end. Trigun, Evangelion and Death Note all fit one of those two descriptions (although, honestly, Trigun is much superior to the other two on a whole). I hear good things about Beck, but haven't watched any.

Paprika, eh? Must check that out.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:17 am

Anime seems unrealistic to me. Honestly - how do their mouths open that wide?

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:38 am

Reïst wrote:Anime seems unrealistic to me. Honestly - how do their mouths open that wide?

LOL no kidding; There's no way a girl could fit that many tentacles in her orifices.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:54 am

Paprika has been sitting on my "films to watch" pile for months. I've been hearing so much about it lately that I should probably finally watch it.

Billy's Little Trip · Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:11 pm

Reïst wrote:Anime seems unrealistic to me. Honestly - how do their mouths open that wide?

Hey, how exactly is a rainbow made? How exactly does the sun set? How exactly does the posi-trac rear end on a Plymouth work? It just does.

But yeah, I like the more realistic toons where a baby can talk, but only the dog can hear him, and the dog can talk, but only the baby and his owner can hear him and he has a human girlfriend that can hear him too.

.....has anyone given any thought to the fact that Brian and Gillian have sex?
I can never look at Drew Barrymore anymore without picturing her doin' it doggy style. hubba

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:13 pm

Um, everyone can understand both Brian and Stewie. In the case of Stewie they just assume he's babbling.

Billy's Little Trip · Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:19 pm

fluffy wrote:Um, everyone can understand both Brian and Stewie. In the case of Stewie they just assume he's babbling.

by the way, Gillian can understand Stewie.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:51 am

I always liked Kimba the White Lion

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