T3h Animes: stuff I've watched

[RobinStarwing]

So much win in this thread! Time to join the party.

I've seen movies and show aplenty so I think I will stick to some of my favorites working from the oldies on up.

Robot Carnival: A good collection of anime shorts regarding robotics and AI. It's old and you can smell the Heavy Metal vibe and influence but it does a good job on it's own and some of the stories are very well told.

Project A-ko: A rather nice collection of satire anime. It's worth the laughs of just how much they poke at.

Dirty Pair Flash: Sunrise did this version of the Dirty Pair story. A blast to watch.

Dominion Tank Police: Police in Tanks. Enough said.

Outlaw Star: A Sunrise produced Space Western...definitely a classic in the same vein was Cowboy Bepop but for different reasons.

Slayers: 5 series, 3 movies, an OVA collection, and light novels that started it all. The anime, OVAs, and movies are more D&D satire than the novels.

Girls und Panzer: The sleeper hit of the 2012/2013 Anime season. a 12 episode short that makes schoolgirls in tanks awesome. NO PANTY SHOTS! But at least two public bath scenes and the OVAs is where you find the fan service. Reading the manga now myself.

Lyrical Nanoha: "So I heard you like Gundams in your Magical Girls..." Hard to believe she went from this to this to...well one of the most badass Magical Girls in the history of the genre after a decade of being around.

EDIT: It should come as no surprise to anyone if I mention this but Seven Arcs used to do Hentai, Eroge, and Visual Novels before doing the Nanoha series.

[Kim]

Other than Lesbian Bear Storm I've been watching Kantai Collection / Kancolle and it's been fun. It's super gay and the interactions are cute and there's a lot of wackiness. There's been some sadness too tho. It's junk food, but it's pretty decent junk food and between the lesbians and the humor it keeps me entertained

[Tev]

Originally Posted by Kim

Other than Lesbian Bear Storm

We tried watching that here, and maybe it's just that we have a crappy sub on Youtube or are just not part of the target demographic enough to get it, but my wife and I are really somewhat lost after watching the first three episodes.

Like, we want to like this show because the animation style is adorable and the subject matter is somewhat groundbreaking in terms of your average anime fare, but we are so lost. Are over half of these girls actually bears in disguise? Because there were originally two of them, but then more just started popping up from within the school's current population and the two bears we were following seemed sorta surprised as well? We're still not 100% clear on this "Invisible Storm" guy. Does he just call up random yuri couples and tell them to prove their love by getting eaten by bears?

Oh, and the whole yuri trial thing at the end of each episode? It seems like a very basic pattern of "prosecution bear-guy is pissy, defense bear-guy says something along the lines of 'bears will be bears,' and then the judge bear-guy works the word shabadoo into his speech and then lets the bear-girls do....something(?) to the girl they were targeting?" They don't always seem to die so the bears aren't eating them, except then we see some bears totally burying bodies in the woods....

Yeah, we're lost.

[Kim]

Spoilers for Tev below

Ikuhara anime are heavily metaphorical. The Invisible Storm represents exclusion. Excluding others for being different. In the case of Sumika she was targeted by the invisible storm because of her love for Kureha. It was other students cutting the flowers in the lily garden.

The Wall of Seperation between bears and humans I'm not super clear on, nor am I super clear on what the bears represent, except that the characters who are bears are the ones who are sexual. Ikuhara said in an interview because he wanted sex and death to be connected in his story, which is an idea that I think shows up in psychology as well?

The yuri trials are a test of love. Kureha THOUGHT it was a test of her love for Sumika, but Kureha isn't the one on trial. Rather it seems a test of if her love and the love of Ginko and Lulu, in the abstract, is love or simply sexual avarice or simply friendship? This is speculation on my part tho. As the show goes on, we'll get more info and it'll be easier to tell what the metaphors mean.

It's also worth noting that after Sumika disappeared, Kureha's aim was always off. there are a few ways of interpreting this. That Kureha can't really take fire for revenge, or that the loss of Sumika, and someone to give her love by extension, left her directionlessness or without purpose? We assumed at first that Ginko and Lulu wanted to just consume Kureha, but they seem interested in her beyond the way they consume other students, and that I'm not sure it was Ginko and Lulu that attack her in the first ep.

BUT when Kureha is in danger, the yuri trial happens. Ginko and Lulu drink her nectar, which I assumed was just a metaphor for cunnilingus but might actually represent them being someone for Kureha to give her love to. They don't finish the first two times, but they do the third time, giving Kureha the aim she needs to protect herself.

So yeah, a lot of it's unclear and there's a lot of guessing and speculation, but that's a lot of the fun of Ikuhara shows.

[Bum Bill Bee]

I think the most recent anime stuff I've watched was Jormungand, several months ago.

Plus I was more recently reliving my childhood with Ronin Warriors. So many damn cool armors, very highly recomended to re-watch. I also just got into reading some Knights of the Zodiac manga which have been rather...meh.

Oh yeah, and I got some Captain Harlock VHS from Goodwill, and it was pretty bleh, with some huge universe threat coming up right out of nowhere, and it was the entireity of that particular Harlock series.

[synkr0nized]

oh man
Ronin Warriors


One of my friends and I used to watch that and Ranma all the time. We still quote some of those lines.

I agree, the armor was definitely cool.

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My "Stuff I've watched" lately has been re-visits of things I've already seen.

I recently queued up Last Exile for a re-watch, showed a good friend Haruhi (just the first season), and burned through Lain. I am not sure the rebuild of Eva counts as "new", despite the story and character changes, but I have been following that as it's slowly been released.

I guess the only "new" thing I've watched recently aside from those re-watches was KLK. It had me in the beginning, but I kind of got bored with it as it went on; goofy humor was good, but [as I've posted here before] I couldn't shake that I'd like it more if it wasn't so low-budget.

Wow, I have not watched a new series in a while, if that's true. Hmm.
I do have to follow through with Kim and Snake's recommendation for the bear storm.

[greed]

Just watched the Devil is a Part Timer again, pretty funny. More importantly bought Lupin the 3rd: The Woman Named Fujiko Mine, looking forward to cracking into that.

[Arhra]

Right now I'm working my way through the Giant Robo OVA. All these neat characters and they're dropping like flies! My heart!

I love how much some of the hair styles remind me of Astro Boy.

Before that, uh, I don't think I've really watched anything much since Knights of Sidonia? CGI was a bit stiff at first but they really upped their game as the season progressed. Looking forward to Season 2!

Oh right, I caught the bonus episode of Kill la Kill too. The graduation! Naturally it explained a hair cut and involved numerous things they didn't have the opportunity to use against the villain. The school's shape was significant after all! Hah!

[tacticslion]

There's a bonus episode of KLK? Huh - I didn't see that. *goes to check it out.*

Edit: oh, it's not on Crunchy Roll. Right. Weird. Uh... YouTube?

Edit 2: uh, no. Hm. Blip?

Edit 3: no. Somewhere random, though. Neat end.

[Arhra]

Originally Posted by tacticslion

There's a bonus episode of KLK? Huh - I didn't see that. *goes to check it out.*

Edit: oh, it's not on Crunchy Roll. Right. Weird. Uh... YouTube?

Edit 2: uh, no. Hm. Blip?

Episode 25 is a bonus included with the DVD/Bluray release.