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12-28-2008, 11:14 PM
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Personally, I'd recommend Casshern Sins for Odjn. Serious, interesting, and without any WACKY characters or Japanese concepts.
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12-29-2008, 12:10 AM
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lol i dont even know
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Okay, yeah, I guess Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann gets way too wacky at times.
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12-29-2008, 12:25 AM
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Honestly Oddles he's not too far off with the TTGL. Give the first like, three episodes a try and see if it doesn't do anything for you.
Past that what you're looking for is probably something like Afro Samurai, which is sort of like a Western-produced summary of all the shit an average American late-teenager would be looking to find in a Japanese cartoon series. Also Black Lagoon, although it helps if you wait to watch that until you have a soul-crushing office job so you can fully appreciate watching a guy with a similarly soul-crushing office job ditching that shit to go get shot at by pirates and mobsters in a South Asian villain's paradise. Quote:
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12-29-2008, 12:51 AM
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I always pronounced is "Shamploo"
But now I realize it sounds like shampoo. I want some shampoo in a samurai outfit now. |
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12-29-2008, 01:30 PM
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Would you deign to supply me food?
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You might like Fullmetal Alchemist.
Eureka Seven, however, you should definitely watch, as it's pretty much exactly what you described. No super-deformed comedy, and it also does acknowledge the idiocy of people who do something stupid. One of the many reasons I liked the show was because characters have actually questioned, more or less: "Shit, Holland, do you really have to be a fucking asshole?" My memory might be a bit fuzzy on this as a whole, but you really should check it out. |
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12-29-2008, 02:10 PM
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I recommend Eureka Seven if you can deal with the fuzzie wuzzies as well as the prickly wicklies. Otherwise, go with Gurren Lagann. There's really no reason not to watch it, given the criteria you've listed, beyond "it's popular and therefore must suck."
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12-29-2008, 03:16 PM
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lol i dont even know
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12-29-2008, 04:23 PM
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I...
I think I"m going to cry.
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12-29-2008, 05:58 PM
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I'd recommend Eureka 7 if you like 40 episodes of everyone doing nothing, then 10 or so good episodes at the end.
Although being biased towards it I'd like to recommend FMA, but it does have its moments of Japanese wacky humor, so I suppose that's not what you'd really like. I guess what you might like is either Ghost in the Shell or Paranoia Agent. Both definitely meet your criteria. (of the two I prefer Paranoia Agent.) |
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12-29-2008, 06:02 PM
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Eureka Seven may have a lot of filler, but it's damn good filler which actually serves the purpose of developing the characters. The plot is more or less incidental when compared to the character developments that take place.
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