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POSValkir

Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:40 am

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I don't remember why Natsume ended up so low, although looking at its synopsis, I just don't think its something my wife would really be into...although I don't think she'd necessarily dislike it.

During this whole ranking thing I got curious about all the anime tv series I've watched, how I'd rank them, and what I think it says about me...so, in case you all are bored and want to review something, here:

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And what I think it says about me

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:43 am

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what is a wife friendly anime

For my wife: Avoids non-romantic sexual situations, not hyper-violent, and "slam dunks" a genre (notably: Horror, Romance, or Comedy). Oddly, she really enjoyed One Punch Man. I thought she might find it watchable, but she actually loved it. I figured it was a slam dunk for comedy, but only if you watched a bunch of anime.

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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 3:04 am

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Ok, finished more:

11eyes: It was ok. The show had a lot of unrealized potential. It tried to go horror, but stopped short of making a true horror setting, it tried to do a "battle" type show, but failed to truly explore the abilities of the fighters. It tried to do relationship drama, but ended shallowly.

Don't read if you don't want to know ending stuff

Needless: It seemed like it was trying to do genuine science, which was nice, but then threw in that dumb bit about not using the full potential of the brain. The animation style was interesting and the character interactions were nice. The world building wasn't quite enough to make me care. Its a show where you can just kinda turn off your brain and enjoy some over-powered characters and basic comedy, but there are better things to watch.

Witchblade: It was ok. Episodes 14 and 15 were the best and the show actually developed something to make you care about watching it at that point. Before those episodes it was just really slow and unremarkable. It also felt like a way too obvious comparison on prostitution. Like, clearly the Witchblade was a stand-in for being a single mother and trying to survive and justify being a prostitute to help give your child a good life. None-the-less, the characters actually become meaningful and the mother/daughter relationship is touching in the second half of the series.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 11:16 am

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Ok, just finished:
A Certain Magical Index: It kinda Subverts typical tropes. I placed it low on the "wife may enjoy" list because some site categorized it as harem but it wasn't too bad and only had two or three moments of fan service. In regards to the harem aspect...the female characters have lives which don't focus entirely on the man, which made it very forgivable. All in all it was entertaining, but the story felt a bit disconnected, especially the last one which focused on a character no one knew or cared about, barely gave us time to develop feelings for, and then closed out the series on the characters "redemption". I put it below Guilty Crown and above 11Eyes on my list of faves, which puts it currently at 54 out of 72.

A Certain Scientific Railgun (and Side Series): Wow, it's shows like this that really impress me. They completely shored up all the weaknesses of Index and managed to create a show focused on female characters in which each female character feels real, the relationships are healthy, and men aren't the focus. This is on my "shows for my daughter to watch" list. I really enjoyed it and recommend it so much more highly than Index...although there are a few parts which are confusing if you haven't watched Index...which is a shame. Great characters, real depth to several different real world concepts, and storylines which flow well and have great overall meaning. I put it below Rurouni Kenshin and above Bleach on my list of faves, which puts it currently at 24 out of 72.

Claymore: Pretty Solid. An excellent show to watch character development. The pacing seemed a bit off, as well as the episode order, and the ending left way too many loose ends. All in all though, it had some great moments and an intriguing story which keeps you hooked. The battles were fun and tense, and the abilities were interesting, if not fully explored. I put it below Fate/Zero and above Gatchaman Crowds on my list of faves, which puts it currently at 21 out of 72.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 7:25 pm

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yeah kuroko feels like a very real character
and the scientist whose gimmick is "I undress"

Mob Psycho's last episode might have launched it into a potential "favorite anime of all time territory", as long as it doesn't screw up massively, it should at least land in top 5 somewhere. Maybe the sleep deprivation got to me and made it more impactful than it should have been.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:34 am

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Two gimmick-y characters in a show is exceptionally low for an anime. Kuroko's predatory behavior was the worst of it, but yeah...I've met women like her, so it's still a real character. Nothing is 100% perfect, but when it comes to shows with positive examples of female friendships, this is about as good as it gets (out of the Anime/TV Shows I've seen). Everything else tends to have the "we want to be friends, but what if we both want the same man!" **** in it, or they are super catty/backstabby to each other until one of them goes too far and they realize how terrible they were being, and the women almost always have the same personalities except the "new girl" who is tom-boyish and has to learn how to be a girl to be accepted.

I figure I'll watch Mob Psycho with the wife pretty soon here. She really enjoyed One Punch Man, so I figure we can watch it together.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:03 am

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Do you exclusively watch **** light novel harem adaptations? I realize you have been on an ecchi garbage binge lately, but there's like an entire, massive genre almost devoid of male characters. Sansha Sanyo, K-on, Love Live, Idol Masters, Hidamari Sketch, probably tons to name if it appealed to me. I don't think shows that focus on romance or drama typically do a bad job either: Toradora, Golden Time, Kokoro Connect, probably Ano Hana. Shows that don't focus on it like Hyouka, Jinrui or Tatami Galaxy. There's even some harem anime to choose from, notably the Monogatari series, despite all its fanservice.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:53 am

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Right now I'm pushing through "garbage", I've explained that several times...but typically I focus on anime with some sort of fighting or fantasy theme. I've never cared to try romance, slice-of-life, artsy, or sports anime because I don't watch that stuff in non-Anime form. Most of the reason I'm watching all this stuff is to expand a bit and see what I do and do not like and specifically why I do or do not like it.

Also, I just have never really been in a world where anime was a thing...I was exposed to it like any other American (Cartoon Network) and, not being someone who used the net extensively my only other exposure came from the only small shop in my area where I just grabbed random anime because I was painfully shy in real life. Thus, haven't really explored much outside the massive hits and most well known things in the USA.

I have Ping Pong the Animation, K-on, The Tatami Galaxy, and Food Wars on the list, all of which are shows I would typically not give a chance (Ping Pong because watching sports is boring, Galaxy because the animation style looks like its trying too hard, K-on because school age music band...really?, and Food Wars because seriously, these shows suck in real life so why would it make an interesting vehicle for whatever comedy or drama they're trying to express), but they have really good reviews so they are more likely to be shows my wife enjoys as well (except for Tatami...cause man do you have to read fast, I watched half an episode and put it off until later because I didn't feel like focusing that hard). Hell, I've avoided Evangelion for decades because my default mode is "Giant Robot Anime is lame". So this is all an experiment to dig past those blanket judgments...or at least explain why they exist.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:21 pm

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Cowboy Bebop is the closest I'll get to slice of life.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 4:17 am

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I know that's what you're doing right now, but you can't have seen exclusively those types of shows. Did you enter anime thinking you should start with shows that target teenage boys? If you search for introductory titles or highly rated shows, you might get the big three in terms of shonen, but typically not very many harem/ecchi shows.
If only I had watched shows you mentioned earlier in the thread, I could have made a comparison with railgun. Because sure, it's kind of weird that all of the girls in log horizon expresses love towards someone, but I'd imagine The Perfect Insider would have done a good job in terms of characters, despite not having watched more than episode 1.

also, slice of life and love polygons are the best genres after harem romcoms. You're missing out.
Sports as experienced in real life is often a quite different compared to anime. It would be hard for me to imagine live-action providing the same build-up and execution of certain scenes.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:52 pm

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I'm developing an appreciation for slice of life...but I still prefer it to have some fantasy-esque vehicle attached to it. Durarara is pretty much slice of life, but it exists in a world definitively unique from our own. I guess I just always assumed slice of life anime would be like daytime soap operas in the States...and assumed love polygons would mirror any other romcom on the planet.

As for entering the world of Anime...no, I entered watching DBZ, YuYu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star, Full Metal Alchemist, and Trigun...shows with a bunch of action and fighting and thought that was all anime was. Then I mostly just searched for other DBZ/YuYu Hakusho type shows and found Naruto, Bleach, Fairy Tail, etc. This most recent kick went off because I got a crunchyroll account on a whim since I didn't have TV and it was temporarily free. Then I just started watching some random shows I thought would be interesting (SAO, JoJo, Attack on Titan), which led me to google searches for new shows, then I was just surprised at how much anime was on the shared drive in AFG and went a bit nuts.

As for how I ended up with so many ecchi...basically, I'm a sad dirty old man

. I got a few from the shared drive, then found the rest while googling what those shows were about. I specifically downloaded Prison School because I saw a picture of the main disciplinarian character and was led to Seikon no Qwaser the same way. I didn't really end up with too much ecchi this way, most of the shows were already lingering on the shared drive. As for the Harem anime...all of those were either in a top ten list on youtube or on the shared drive. I guess people just like that genre...I am getting annoyed with the whole "middle school love" thing though and can't wait to get to more serious stuff.

Also, maybe sadly, I'm really hoping that one day I find an Ecchi anime which is actually enjoyable despite the obvious flags. Similar to how Game of Thrones uses nudity or sex I guess.

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Post subject: Re: Anime

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 3:15 pm

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There is nothing about Durarara that makes me believe it to be a different world from our own, though I generally assume every earth-like setting that would appear no different to the average person to be set in our world.

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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 4:23 pm

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POSValkir wrote:

Also, maybe sadly, I'm really hoping that one day I find an Ecchi anime which is actually enjoyable despite the obvious flags. Similar to how Game of Thrones uses nudity or sex I guess.

Bakemonogatari.

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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:15 am

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Instead of looking for a good show with ecchi content, why don't you just watch a good show and then google "ecchi content"?

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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 1:00 pm

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Anyone know what these are from? The first one I'm just curious about for the absurdity of a boob jiggling solid breast plate. The second I'm curious about because I don't understand the context and I want to know what the heck is going on.

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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:22 pm

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Second is Episode 8 of Handa-kun.

Edit: First is from The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:39 pm

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By chance do you know the context of the second gif?

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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:51 pm

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"Instead of bringing in Handa's followers, isn't it easier to chase Handa out?"

The other school's equivalent of the Handa Force is discussing how to deal with Handa.

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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:47 pm

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As a quick aside: anyone else catch episode one and episode two of Pokemon Generations?

I want more tactical S.W.A.T. applications of pokemon now.....

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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:25 pm

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AzureShade wrote:

As a quick aside: anyone else catch episode one and episode two of Pokemon Generations?

I want more tactical S.W.A.T. applications of pokemon now.....

I was unimpressed! I was like super unimpressed, especially with the second ep. Is something wrong with me? I thought it was going to be good like Pokemon Origins

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