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I finished Samurai Jam.
Its about a group of rockers trying to play their forbidden music while the state plays boyband Heavens songs. It's watchable but I wouldn't recommend it. I also think it might be based on a game.
gamingeek said:Also started The Eccentric Family
In modern-day Kyoto, humans live in the city, while Tanuki roam the earth and Tengu, the sky. The story surrounds a family of Japanese tanuki, the Shimogamo family. These tanuki have the ability to transform into anything they wish. They can change into normal members of human society or any animate/inanimate object. The third son, Yasaburo, enjoys a bustling daily life. He often visits Akadama-sensei, a tengu. Through him, Yasaburo is acquainted with Benten (Satomi Suzuki), a woman whom Akadama taught to fly like a tengu. As the story unfolds, the members of the Shimogamo family are still dealing with the foggy past that surrounds their father's untimely death prior to the series start. What more is that Benten is a member of a social group called "the Friday Fellows" who enjoy a meal of tanuki hot pot at the end of the year. So they must balance between living carelessly, maintaining relationships among other tanuki families, and not getting put into a hot pot by the Friday Fellows.
Seems decent but harder to get into. Sort of like a Pom Poko series but not as good. It did have a totally awesome scene where two giant lucky cat statues faced off with a giant tiger. Hope it picks up because the concept and subject matter are promising.
Finished this.
Each individual episode isn't satisfying on its own but as part of the one story its telling it's a good anime. Most Ghibli like anime I have see so far, not only because of the Pom Poko tanuki parellels. The last 4 episodes makes up for some of the early uneventful stuff.
Made it two episodes into Haikyuu!
A sport anime about volleyball by production I.G
And its really good, funny and well done.
I finished Haikyuu! part one which is 13 episodes, I think this is one whole season of 26 as there is no ending here, like when I finished ep13 of the Future Diary.
And it was awesome. I can't quite believe how well they capture the spirit of a good sports movie/story. Everything is so perfectly realised and every episode had me wanting to watch the next.
Berserk: Past, Present, and Future
Blue Exorcist Manga Gets New TV Anime Series
Finished the first 13 episodes of Chaika The Coffin Princess, animated by BONES.
5 years ago, the 300-year-long war between the alliance of six nations and the Gaz Empire came to an end when Emperor Arthur Gaz, the Immortal Emperor of the Gaz Empire, was finally killed by eight warriors known as the Eight Heroes. After the war, the Empire's lands were divided by the alliance, who later formed the Council of Six Nations to bring peace and order to the land. In the present, Toru Acura is a former Saboteur who lives with his sister Akari. Toru is unable to settle in this peaceful era as there is no demand for his Saboteur skills, and he sees no meaning in his life. While out foraging in the forest, Toru encounters Chaika Trabant, a white-haired girl with a white headband who claims to be a Wizard and saves her from a man-eating unicorn. Taking note of their skills as Saboteurs, Chaika hires Toru and Akari for an important task; she is trying to gather the scattered remains of Arthur Gaz, which is why she travels with a coffin.
And I liked it a lot. It's nothing brilliant, but I was consistently entertained and never bored. The best bit was.... damn it I can't spoil it but it was hilarious.
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This is for SteelAttack
Live-Action Yowamushi Pedal Series Reveals More Cast Members in Costume
Some of those are a gross miscast. Tadokoro isn't even big or burly. Makishima is way off as well. Shingo looks like a dork when he's all business in the series. Midousuji is kind of alright I guess.
I watched the first episode of Berserk. I dunno what to think of it.
SteelAttack said:I watched the first episode of Berserk. I dunno what to think of it.
This is the 90s one right? Really old animation style, very cheap, sometimes they even pan the camera around a still drawing. But overall it does a better job that the 3 newer movies. Those movies cover everything in the series in a short hand if you like and they look more modern with 3D character models. But overall the series is better. This is show you have make it to end to get it.
It starts fairly innocuously as more of a traditional knights tale, then becomes kinda twisted near the end.
SteelAttack said:No, it's the new one, the one airing on Crunchyroll.
Then you should not be watching that series until you've either seen the older series or watched all 3 of the newer movies. The new series on Crunchy is set well after the events in the Golden Age.
I started and gave up on Sasami-San @ Ganbari
It's confusing and annoying and just weird for the sake of being weird. It doesn't help that the series doesn't explain that the main characters are all Gods capable of altering reality. Instead you just have weird stuff happening for no apparent reason. And it desperately needs an English dub because of the amount of dialogue and exposition in it, you literally have to pause to read the subs carefully.
By the end of episode 3, I was done.
gamingeek said:Then you should not be watching that series until you've either seen the older series or watched all 3 of the newer movies. The new series on Crunchy is set well after the events in the Golden Age.
Yeah I stopped. Will look for the first series, or maybe the manga.
I haven't watched Anime in ages. I should watch my Kill La Kill Blurays again.