Currently/just finished watching/reading anime/manga thread.

[Samus Aran]

watched the k-on specials

the real special, the live house one, was quite good and might as well have just been another episode of the show

the ura-on specials were.........all right i guess

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Is there a Beatles anime???

[don't let's]

Got caught up on reading Koi Neko
http://5.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/3226/04-033.0/compressed/tkoineko_04_130.jpg

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That is literally me.

[Nyerp]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc4V_dE0xLU[/youtube]

[Samus Aran]

lol that part was pretty great

[KonohaShinobi]

Is there a Beatles anime???

mawaru penguindrum has a character named ringo
although its more of a play on words since ringo means apple in japanese aaaand...

[Nyerp]

mawaru penguindrum has a character named ringo
although its more of a play on words since ringo means apple in japanese aaaand...

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DOUBLE BEATLES REFERENCE? APPLE RECORDS?

[bluaki]

I just finished Durarara
It at first seemed less interesting, but it picked up around the second half and turned out great

[Nyerp]

i just watched this:

http://myanimelist.net/anime/6675/Redline

it was pretty fucking great

extremely good animation throughout the whole thing, and it was all just high-energy as hell

apparently it was incredibly hyped, and i think it lived up to that and more

[Samus Aran]

i put it on my "plan to watch"

anyway, almost done with fmp! second raid

[don't let's]

I just finished Durarara
It at first seemed less interesting, but it picked up around the second half and turned out great

Did you use the AnCo² subs?

i just watched this:

http://myanimelist.net/anime/6675/Redline

it was pretty fucking great

extremely good animation throughout the whole thing, and it was all just high-energy as hell

apparently it was incredibly hyped, and i think it lived up to that and more

I just found out about this a couple days ago. I'm glad it sounds good.

[Samus Aran]

Just finished Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid.

It was fucking great. I really enjoyed the first season a lot back when I watched it like two years ago, but honestly, I like this more. TSR moves somewhat away from the many comedic moments that the first season featured.

After all, the original FMP was like 60% action/political intrigue/drama, 35% comedy, and just 5% romance.

TSR, on the other hand, is more like 80% action/political intrigue/drama, 10% romance, and 10% comedy. And that comedy element is largely the same as it was before...Sousuke being a military nutjob that is totally incompatible with high school life, and Chidori always there to react violently. But the romance is handled infinitely better, with one particularly intimate scene in mind. And the action? Blows the first season's out of the water completely.

This is partially helped by the fact that the animation quality is absolutely top-notch. Everything got a major update. Huge kudos to KyoAni for treating this franchise with care, as it wasn't theirs to begin with.

My only major complaint, I guess, is that while 13 is a good number of episodes for MOST animes, this show in particular feels a little rushed sometimes, especially the combat in that last episode. I was expecting some awesome showdown between Sousuke and the primary antagonist whose name escapes me, but it was just over so quick. I think 16 episodes or something would've been better. Oh well.

I guess one other little issue is that said main primary antagonist is simply not as interesting as Gauron from the first season. I mean, it's cool that he's unpredictable and a complete head case (episode 2 in particular has some real "black comedy" moments due to this), not to mention he's sadistic as fuck, but overall...eh.

There are a couple loose ends. I hope this means that there will be yet even more FMP! to come. But they're not such huge loose ends that it matters a whole lot if there never is more. If there is, I hope it'll be as good as this.

[bluaki]

I actually liked FMP:TSR a bit less than the first season.
My main complaint about it is that, near the end, Sousuke temporarily turns into an annoying, useless, unmotivated, and Shinji-like character

Did you use the AnCo² subs?

Yes
Except for the episode 25/special. I didn't see any AnCo^2 for it, so I got Mazui.