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I need more money. Why? Well, I haven't bought any manga since I got back from Baltimore, and I haven't gotten much anime (Macross Plus box, Burst Angel Vol. 2, Gunsmith Cats) since then either. 
I need to get Blame! 2, Hyper Police 3 & 4, and the rest of Tokyo Babylon and Ray, and a bunch of others. Most importantly XXXholic ^___^
but the last quote of ROD hurt me a lot, it was way to close to the Evangelion quote of "God's in his heaven. All's right with the world."
but the last quote of ROD hurt me a lot, it was way to close to the Evangelion quote of "God's in his heaven. All's right with the world."
I have Blame! 1, it's ****ed up. They might as well have printed it white on black to save ink! Tokyo Babylon didn't appeal to me much, too many bishonen. I guess the only CLAMP I like so far is Chobits.eva01 said:
Counterfit said:
I have the Blame! short anime as well, it is so good i loved the manga.
I don't know i love CLAMP for some reason i don't particularly care for bishonen but i love CLAMP. They are my one exception to the rule.
Chobits is awesome "Panties" ^______^
Yeah, I have had to wean myself a bit lately, but, I like Trigun, at least the early eps, bought it and then it came on CN grrrr....
FMA is a little too depressing/frustrating for me. I really dug Bebop, Mononoke, Kenshin, Chobits. Love hina was kinda funny. Azumanga is ADHD, and funny for it. Totoro - I love the scene ar the bus stop, it's understated but funny. I really have seen too many... And I am a sub snob. I can only take a few dub versions, most just hurt.
Edit: I saw Chris Gore's review of the New Bebop set on AOTS; his verdict was that there was nothing new except 5.1, so if you already have it, might want to save your money.
FMA is a little too depressing/frustrating for me. I really dug Bebop, Mononoke, Kenshin, Chobits. Love hina was kinda funny. Azumanga is ADHD, and funny for it. Totoro - I love the scene ar the bus stop, it's understated but funny. I really have seen too many... And I am a sub snob. I can only take a few dub versions, most just hurt.
Edit: I saw Chris Gore's review of the New Bebop set on AOTS; his verdict was that there was nothing new except 5.1, so if you already have it, might want to save your money.
If youd don't have the MAcross Plus movie, I suggest you buy it. It's the same as the OAV's, but it's not dubbed (subbed), and it has different scenes and actually gives a little more perspective to the whole thing. It also has a different fight scene between Guld and the Ghost Fighter. Pretty damn sweet.
Yus, the new REMIX DVD's of Bebop are 5.1 and the video has been cleaned too, it also has more special features, I think.
X the TV series by Clamp is amazing. You can buy it now in two seperate box sets, DVD's 1-4 and 5-8. Sweet deal.
Last Exile is excellent. I also recommend Wolf's Rain, FLCL, Samurai Champloo, Escaflowne, and Serial Experiments Lain.
Tokyo Babylon is hella old. I have the original VHS of it. lmao.
Yus, the new REMIX DVD's of Bebop are 5.1 and the video has been cleaned too, it also has more special features, I think.
X the TV series by Clamp is amazing. You can buy it now in two seperate box sets, DVD's 1-4 and 5-8. Sweet deal.
Last Exile is excellent. I also recommend Wolf's Rain, FLCL, Samurai Champloo, Escaflowne, and Serial Experiments Lain.
Tokyo Babylon is hella old. I have the original VHS of it. lmao.
Onizuka said:
I'll have to get the new boxset for Bebop then. 5.1 would be quite awesome, plus dad is getting a new tele for the family room so the cleaned up video is just a justification
I love Love Hina, Wolf's Rain was good, FLCL, Escaflowne was a little odd at times....seems to shadow Eva in a lot of ways to me.
For a relative anime noob, what are some good starting series to look at? I have heard good things about Chobits but have never seen it.
efoto said:I'll have to get the new boxset for Bebop then. 5.1 would be quite awesome, plus dad is getting a new tele for the family room so the cleaned up video is just a justification
I love Love Hina, Wolf's Rain was good, FLCL, Escaflowne was a little odd at times....seems to shadow Eva in a lot of ways to me.
For a relative anime noob, what are some good starting series to look at? I have heard good things about Chobits but have never seen it.
It depends on what you're into. Chobits...Eh. Not so great. Neon Genesis is a classic but IS over-rated, IMO.
Series: Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex and 2nd Gig.
Serial Experiments Lain
Hellsing
Great Teacher Onizuka
X the TV series
Azu Manga Daioh
ROD the tv series
Earth Girl Arjuna
Saikano
Last Exile
There's a lot of good ones out there. I tend to stay away from the cutesie crap like Chobits, Fruits Basket, and digi-carat. I also stay way from Witch Hunter Robin (BOOOOOOOOORING) BubbleGum Crisis 2040 (boring as well), Dragon Ball (anything DB because it flat out sucks in every way and I wish the creators and anyone who works on it and likes it all die horrible deaths) among other things.
But again, whatever you're into most.
There's some good movies out there too:
Akira (classic)
Ninja Scroll (over-rated by wannabe Otaku, but still a must-see)
Perfect Blue (uncut)
Escaflowne (movie)
Ghost In The Shell and GITS 2 just for the animation
I could go on and on...
Onizuka said:
Have already seen:
Serial Experiments Lain (I think I missed one or two eps.)
Hellsing (same as Lain, one or two missing I think)
Akira
Ninja Scroll
Perfect Blue (I think I saw all of this one, might have fallen asleep....often watch anime drunk with roommate
)Escaflowne
GITS (original movie, not the standalone)
I'll take your words on the others and go rent something tonight to give it a try. Thanks.
anything by Satoshi Kon (perfect blue) is wicked good.
I have been watching all of Azumanga Daioh today
i need to buy the rest of paranoia agent (kon) and samurai champloo (watanabe)
I have been watching all of Azumanga Daioh today
i need to buy the rest of paranoia agent (kon) and samurai champloo (watanabe)
I started watching Naruto last night. It's surprisingly good!
Found this tonight. He says he doesn't like J-pop, anime, or manga, but it's still cool.
Also, I hang around the Megatokyo forums a bit, and apparently, one of the mods there is in the industry, and I was linked to the blog of someone who went to Comic Market 68 (huge-as-**** con in Tokyo). The blogger met with the mod (Yagami) and got to meet Range Murata and Yoshitoshi ABe.
So let's see, that's... 4 degrees of separation between myself and two very famous members of the anime industry?
Found this tonight. He says he doesn't like J-pop, anime, or manga, but it's still cool.
Also, I hang around the Megatokyo forums a bit, and apparently, one of the mods there is in the industry, and I was linked to the blog of someone who went to Comic Market 68 (huge-as-**** con in Tokyo). The blogger met with the mod (Yagami) and got to meet Range Murata and Yoshitoshi ABe.
So let's see, that's... 4 degrees of separation between myself and two very famous members of the anime industry?
i just can't wait till i finally get my website back up and running ^_^
now i need to watch 154 of Naruto today, Tsunade, Shikamaru, and Sakura are the best characters in the show by far.
now i need to watch 154 of Naruto today, Tsunade, Shikamaru, and Sakura are the best characters in the show by far.
i am hoping that with my next paycheck it will be back up and running and kicking ass
well i started to get back into bleach as well
i did watch the first ten episodes of that when it first came out, now to get going with the 43 more episodes
well i started to get back into bleach as well
i did watch the first ten episodes of that when it first came out, now to get going with the 43 more episodes
eva01 said:i am hoping that with my next paycheck it will be back up and running and kicking ass
well i started to get back into bleach as well
i did watch the first ten episodes of that when it first came out, now to get going with the 43 more episodes
How many eps of Bleach are there???
Bleach is my current favorite anime series right now. Naruto is in such a crappy set of fillers arcs right now I don't even watch them. Get back to the manga dangit!eva01 said:
I don't understand all the FMA haters. I loved that series. It's boring a times yes, but I found the whole plot intriguing. My wife, who hates anime, even loved it.
Anyways, I have a question for you guys. I can't watch anything that's from Dattebayo (mainly Bleach and Naruto) on my iMac. I think its because I don't have a proper Xvid codec, can anyone help me? I can watch them if they are encoded by Anime-One and Lunar, but they are just too slow in releasing new episodes. I want it now now now!
I'm using Quicktime 7 of course.
PharmD said:Bleach is my current favorite anime series right now. Naruto is in such a crappy set of fillers arcs right now I don't even watch them. Get back to the manga dangit!
I don't understand all the FMA haters. I loved that series. It's boring a times yes, but I found the whole plot intriguing. My wife, who hates anime, even loved it.
Anyways, I have a question for you guys. I can't watch anything that's from Dattebayo (mainly Bleach and Naruto) on my iMac. I think its because I don't have a proper Xvid codec, can anyone help me? I can watch them if they are encoded by Anime-One and Lunar, but they are just too slow in releasing new episodes. I want it now now now!
yes dattebayo seems to crash Quicktime 7 hard. I use VLC to play them. And yes Naruto should get back to the manga, i am buying all the manga as they are released in america.
eva01 said:
I'll check it out. Thanks! My main reason for wanting to do so with quicktime is to see if it's viable to watch on the new iPod through the conversion available in quicktime pro. I'm converting an old lunar bleach to see how subtitles look as I type this.
PharmD said:
dattebayo does something weird with their subs i have no idea why, but it changed around episode 70 or 80 i believe, can't really remember but i remember just suddenly i couldn't play them in QT, i have always liked Lunar as my favorite subbers, they do a great job with bleach and also i believe they were one of the groups that did Dears and Tsukuyomi
Just realized that Full Metal Panic! Second Raid has been out for a while now i am downloading all of that too. Chidori is so awesome
now i am downloading all of that too. Chidori is so awesomeeva01 said:
I used ANBU until Naruto was licensed earlier this year then switched to Anime-One until they started getting really far behind, then to Dattebayo. It works on my PC so I haven't missed any episodes yet but I prefer to watch it on my crisp iMac LCD.
PharmD said:I used ANBU until Naruto was licensed earlier this year then switched to Anime-One until they started getting really far behind, then to Dattebayo. It works on my PC so I haven't missed any episodes yet but I prefer to watch it on my crisp iMac LCD.
I have them all on my powermac and watch them on my 2005FPW, it is beautiful in fullscreen ^_~