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Currently watching Full Metal Alchemist after many recommendations. Not too bad. I thought it was a high school thing but it's not and the stories get pretty gruesome at times.
Here is what I finished watching:
Attack on Titan - pretty good
Freezing - obligatory panty shots and naked breasts. But the idea was somewhat intriguing.
Magi: Labyrinth of Magic - fun and different
Psycho-Pass - very nice ideas (think minority report), especially the earlier episodes
Deadland Wonderland - Interesting. Wish it had more episodes
Knights of Sidonia - very good
Gonna watch Cowboy Bebop after Full Metal. I _think_ I saw Bebop but for the life of me I cannot remember any episodes so maybe I didn't watch it (and possibly confusing it with Trigun).
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hotseatgames wrote: I feel confident that there will never be an anime series better than Cowboy Bebop.
Agreed. There's so many things to recommend about it, such as the quality of the hand drawn animation, the characters, the fight scenes, etc. However I think that the music is the greatest part of the experience and the series would be worth watching solely for the soundtrack.
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I haven't even thought of watching Full Metal Alchemist, it looked pretty teenage but if Zev gives it the high sign...Psycho-Pass looked pretty good, was thinking about putting it on the list somewhere down the line.
I'm actually watching the Yamato 2199 series now, I had just seen like the first five before. I am just completely blown away by it. It is EXACTLY what any fan of Yamato/Star Blazers would want out of a modern reboot. And then some. There is so much detail that I am just totally in love with. It is very, very much a NAVAL show, which is cool as hell because the lingo, tactics, technical detail and so forth is all naval junk. The Yamato actually fires artillery shells in this one too. The only thing that's a little off is that even the larger ships move like fighters.
But OMG, the mechanical design...the ships are GORGEOUS. Totally paying homage to the classic Matsumoto design styles. The Cosmo Fighters are up there with X-Wings and Vipers.
And I gotta say, when they first show the Yamato buried under its "camoflague and the first couple of bars of the theme played...misty eyed.
Also really love how they've handled the Gamilas/Gamalons...obviously Third Reich-influenced, but they are portrayed as actual people with differing motives, goals, agendas and degrees of morality and honor.
Great, great show. You can pick up a grey market DVD set on eBay for like $20.
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For years, I heard great things from friends about Cowboy Bebop. I finally got around to watching it last year, and I was disappointed. The music was great, but the plots were sometimes thin, and I couldn't relate to any of the characters. Overall, I think that Cowboy Bebop was a triumph of style over substance, and the substance was thin. Oddly enough, my favorite episode focused on my least favorite character, the frantically annoying Radical Edward. For one episode, her random antics made sense, and I liked that.
Aside from the great music, the only thing that I really appreciated about Cowboy Bebop was that it was the obvious inspiration for Firefly.
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To me, it enters the same uncanny-sublime space that Princess Mononoke does with the Forest Spirit scenes and also the handling of extra-human/natural forces that are parasitic but also symbiotic. It's definitely worth checking out.
www.iterationsofcid.net/2009/06/on-sublime.html
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Michael Barnes wrote: WOW. Thanks for that recommendation, Frohike. I just watched the first episode, that was absolutely lovely. It's kind of a cross between Kwaidan, traditional fairy folklore, and Hellblazer. I think I might be buying that DVD set too.
Yeah I will have to check it out as well.
Found the site Crunchyroll (well I knew about it I just never visited it) and I might have to subscribe. Not sure yet. It has stuff Netflix does not.
also, gotta give a shout out to Sword Art Online - the first half of the series. Very cool concept and I thought well done. Basically, all these players are trapped in a virtual MMO and if you die within this world you die in real life (set in the future, you have these special virtual headgear - that were rigged to kill you when you die in-game). Object: get to the top level and defeat the main boss. It is wonderful to see how societies form within the MMO as they see no way out but to survive until someone clears the last level.
And getting back to Crunchyroll, I just saw they have Sword Art Online 2 and I saw the first episode and I would love to see more.
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By the way, it looks like there's a second season of Mushi-Shi that slipped under my radar:
anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=10384
It doesn't look like it's available through US distribution yet. I'll probably just watch the fansubs via bakabt or wherever until I can buy it.
Edit: I would also recommend checking out Monster, though it's a long series (74 eps) so it requires some time investment. I'm not sure how readily available it is through legit channels any more.
anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=1539
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Then mushishi and sword art online 2.
In a perfect world.
But I'll get through what I can.
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