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tasuke
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 13 Jan 2019, 17:06 |
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a study in contrasts. i just finished, back to back, first, "Tamako Market" on Blu-Ray, a modern, Kyoto Animation series, which means, above average in animation quality by today's standards.
i chased that down with "Jewel BEM Hunter Lime" on DVD, a long forgotten, seemingly-cancelled-after-three-episodes mid-90's series based on a PC-98/SONY PS1/SEGA SATURN game series.
even with it's old, grungy, imperfect looks, Lime had more verve, life and sheer charisma in it's characters in three odd-ball episodes than Tamako came even close to managing in it's entire 12 episodes worth of bright, sparkly HD i wanna be K-ON! too! "perfection"
in sum, Lime made me feel like i was fifteen again, discovering strange, awesome Anime for the first time at my local Video Rental store, whist Tamako made me feel like... i just ate a bowl of FROOT LOOPS.
J.B.H. Lime may hardly be one of the great OVA classics, but it sure did a handy job of acquitting itself by way of illustrating absolutely everything that is quite fatally wrong with today's utterly disposable, nonentity of an Anime industry.
finally, while i hate to blame it all on the modern Moe stylistic motif, since i actually tend to LIKE Moe, -at least older, foundation Moe- the smoking gun here does indeed seem firmly within the defendant's grasp, and it ain't giving me much of anything to work with...
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 13 Jan 2019, 19:38 |
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takeshi666 wrote: The Zeta movies aren't canon. Interesting. Even with as popular as it was it’s still a b*****d What If...? trilogy of films I guess.
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xtempo
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 15 Jan 2019, 23:20 |
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tasuke wrote: a study in contrasts. i just finished, back to back, first, "Tamako Market" on Blu-Ray, a modern, Kyoto Animation series, which means, above average in animation quality by today's standards.
i chased that down with "Jewel BEM Hunter Lime" on DVD, a long forgotten, seemingly-cancelled-after-three-episodes mid-90's series based on a PC-98/SONY PS1/SEGA SATURN game series.
even with it's old, grungy, imperfect looks, Lime had more verve, life and sheer charisma in it's characters in three odd-ball episodes than Tamako came even close to managing in it's entire 12 episodes worth of bright, sparkly HD i wanna be K-ON! too! "perfection"
in sum, Lime made me feel like i was fifteen again, discovering strange, awesome Anime for the first time at my local Video Rental store, whist Tamako made me feel like... i just ate a bowl of FROOT LOOPS.
J.B.H. Lime may hardly be one of the great OVA classics, but it sure did a handy job of acquitting itself by way of illustrating absolutely everything that is quite fatally wrong with today's utterly disposable, nonentity of an Anime industry.
finally, while i hate to blame it all on the modern Moe stylistic motif, since i actually tend to LIKE Moe, -at least older, foundation Moe- the smoking gun here does indeed seem firmly within the defendant's grasp, and it ain't giving me much of anything to work with... I hate when good shows of the old days only end too soon like Sol Bianca and Debutante Detective Corps. I am sure there are others. I do like Sol Bianca Legacy but damn me I would like to have both realizations completed and released. I will have track to Jewel one of these days. It sounds like something I would enjoy.
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 21:13 |
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OK just watched: Love City [TLL 2035]Ai City or Love City. And now watching Bobi ni kubittake (1985) [SF058-0078]This has a feel that reminds me of what someone like forper is missing from the early days of Japanese anime and nostalgia. Very hard to find and I somehow lucked out getting this 2 years ago on YJ cheap. Well that was odd, the link on the page to post on the forum didn't work due to the odd dash above the I in Bobi which should really be Bobby as the cover title is Bobby's not Bobî
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xtempo
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 30 Jan 2019, 20:00 |
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tasuke wrote: "Battle Doll Angelic Layer" is the very last i have in that stack to go through.
it supposedly ties in to Chobits, another superlative CLAMP work.
it doesn't seem all that great, so far, -five eps. in or so- but hopefully it will eventually build up to something more significant than the "POKE'MON-battle-an-episode" formula it has been stuck on from the start... I enjoyed it at the time but it's not really a necessity even as a CLAMP work. Chobits is better.
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takeshi666
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 31 Jan 2019, 17:04 |
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gypsy wrote: Part 2 is infamous? Well it's widely considered to be not very good, unless that's changed in recent years.
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gypsy
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 31 Jan 2019, 17:14 |
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takeshi666 wrote: gypsy wrote: Part 2 is infamous? Well it's widely considered to be not very good, unless that's changed in recent years. I just don't really go to anime centric forums enough to know majority held opinions. I just saw the scores for it on IMDB, ANN and MAL. All of which were in the 7-8 range so I figured I would ask about that.
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forper
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 31 Jan 2019, 20:26 |
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takeshi666 wrote: Recently started re-watching Hokuto no Ken 2, the infamous followup to the original series. I always find it amusing that the english title is "Fist of the North Star" when the main character's martial art is clearly based on the big dipper constellation, but then this sequel series introduces an art based on Polaris, the actual North Star. Hokuto means northern something doesn't it? Ken is just "way of" or something?
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takeshi666
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Post subject: Re: what anime's have you guys been watching recently Posted: 31 Jan 2019, 20:49 |
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forper wrote: takeshi666 wrote: Recently started re-watching Hokuto no Ken 2, the infamous followup to the original series. I always find it amusing that the english title is "Fist of the North Star" when the main character's martial art is clearly based on the big dipper constellation, but then this sequel series introduces an art based on Polaris, the actual North Star. Hokuto means northern something doesn't it? Ken is just "way of" or something? "Hokuto" is part of the Japanese name for the Big Dipper. The title to Hokuto no Ken basically just omits the "seven stars" half of the full name. My point is that Hokuto Shinken relates heavily to the constellation, but in English, "north star" refers specifically to Polaris. (This would be a lot easier if google translate didn't refuse to give me a written transliteration of the name for some reason)
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