i recently finished full metal and samurai champloo and i would like to watch some more animes
i've been thinking of starting darker than black mostly since it's on netflix
suggests pls
[spoiler=Code Geass]
Quote from: KonohaShinobi on July 15, 2008, 06:54:30 AM
Yes, you all knew this thread was coming eventually, I just needed to finish the first part of the series (The second season, Code Geass: Lelouch Rebellion R2, I have only seen 3 episodes of.)
So let's get down to why you should be watching Code Geass, since this is not a review of the series I will avoid huge spoilers so you can watch the series and enjoy it as much as I have. If you are/have seen it, there is a bonus section near the end for my own opinons on the characters.
The Story
As told at the beginning of almost each episode:
"On August 10, 2010, a.t.b. (the Imperial calendar), the Holy Empire of Britannia overpowered Japanese forces and conquered the country with their new robotic weapons, the Knightmare Frames, in less than a month. In the aftermath of Britannia's invasion, Japan lost its freedom, its rights, and even its name, becoming Area 11 of the Britannian Empire. The Japanese people, renamed as "Elevens", are forced to survive in poor neighborhoods, while Britannians live in first-class settlements. Rebel elements persist, however, as pockets of Japanese organizations struggle against the Empire for the independence of Japan."
The story is every bit as intriguing as it seems. It follows the underdog of the war the Japanese people and specifically a young Brittanian boy who was the former prince until he was abandoned by the emperor, Lelouch Lemperague (He even adopted a false last name, Lamperague). Also, if you dislike Mecha, you should not shy away from this series. The emphasis on robots is not as grand as it may seem, the true heart of this series lies in the characters, which leads us into our next section.
The Characters
The main characters are Lelouch (Former Prince of Brittania who was abandoned by the royal family when his mother was assassinated and his sister became blinded and crippled by the incident that same night. Lelouch then adopted a fake name and was moved into a house far from the main city of Tokyo.
CC, pronounced as C 2 (see-two), she is a mysterious woman who meets Lelouch during her kidnapping where she gave Lelouch the power of Geass (Literally meaning, Power of the kings) She claims to not have any special relationship with lelouch beside the fact that they are intwined in a binding contract.
Shirley, she loves Lelouch and even calls him by his nickname, "Lulu". She is a member of his school's student counsel and is very shy. She rarely approaches lelouch because of her crush on him.
There are also various other key players, but by telling you about them I would have to spoil a couple of secrets, so I will refuse to do so.
Number of Episodes: 25 in the first season, currently 14, by the time I have posted this thread, in the second season.
Why should you be watching Code Geass: It's amazing, I have seen many many anime and alot of them fail to compare to Code Geass' level of complexity and greatness. You will instantly be hooked and fall in love with Lulu as I have.
Bonus Section
For those that have seen the series, here are my favorite characters:
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I love how Lelouch is so contradictory to himself. How he tries to prevent diseasters like Shinjuku from happening and yet he starts his own version of Shinjuku on a much larger scale during the Nippon creation ceremony.
My favorite characters (besides Lelouch, who can't love him <3) are CC (obviously, lol. She is just so mysterious and interesting. And she claims not to be Lelouch's liaison yet she also has some sort of special feelings reserved for Lelouch, she will go as far as to kill herself to prevent Lelouch from harm, although she has to, she also wants to.) Shirley (I just love her character, how she loves Lelouch, yet is better torwad his true identity as zero) and Kallen (Such a great character design, kudos to CLAMP, and her reaction to Zero being Lelouch revealed that she has some feeling torward Lelouch that has yet to be revealed whether it is love, attraction, or total animosity that Lelouch had never told her he was zero.)[/glow]
I hope to see many more Code Geass fans around here as it gets lonely without anyone to discuss it with.
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Speed Racer
[spoiler]Black Lagoon[/spoiler]
pokemon
hamtaro
k-on
Sword art online
And bleach
Yeah i said it
Feel free to ignore the above two posts.
If you liked Samurai Champloo, then you have to watch Cowboy Bebop. It's obligatory.
Ignore the above post, you should start watching Gundam. Any of them.
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:18:21 PM
Ignore the above post, you should start watching Gundam. Any of them.
0079 is the preferred starting point unless you're a fag who "can't watch old anime"
Quote from: May on December 14, 2012, 12:50:38 PM
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:18:21 PM
Ignore the above post, you should start watching Gundam. Any of them.
0079 is the preferred starting point unless you're a fag who "can't watch old anime"
oh my god the other day my friend told me that SEED Destiny was implicitly superior to Wing because Destiny was newer
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:57:05 PM
Quote from: May on December 14, 2012, 12:50:38 PM
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:18:21 PM
Ignore the above post, you should start watching Gundam. Any of them.
0079 is the preferred starting point unless you're a fag who "can't watch old anime"
oh my god the other day my friend told me that SEED Destiny was implicitly superior to Wing because Destiny was newer
your friend may be the only person i've ever known to even think that SEED Destiny is any good at all
although comparing two totally different AUs is kinda weird anyway
Quote from: May on December 14, 2012, 12:59:27 PM
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:57:05 PM
Quote from: May on December 14, 2012, 12:50:38 PM
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:18:21 PM
Ignore the above post, you should start watching Gundam. Any of them.
0079 is the preferred starting point unless you're a fag who "can't watch old anime"
oh my god the other day my friend told me that SEED Destiny was implicitly superior to Wing because Destiny was newer
your friend may be the only person i've ever known to even think that SEED Destiny is any good at all
although comparing two totally different AUs is kinda weird anyway
my friend is really weird.
not like snowy weird, but close.
Bible Black
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:57:05 PM
Quote from: May on December 14, 2012, 12:50:38 PM
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:18:21 PM
Ignore the above post, you should start watching Gundam. Any of them.
0079 is the preferred starting point unless you're a fag who "can't watch old anime"
oh my god the other day my friend told me that SEED Destiny was implicitly superior to Wing because Destiny was newer
I know who you're talking about
can we kill him
Quote from: Snowy on December 14, 2012, 01:20:56 PM
Bible Black
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:57:05 PM
Quote from: May on December 14, 2012, 12:50:38 PM
Quote from: Dopants on December 14, 2012, 12:18:21 PM
Ignore the above post, you should start watching Gundam. Any of them.
0079 is the preferred starting point unless you're a fag who "can't watch old anime"
oh my god the other day my friend told me that SEED Destiny was implicitly superior to Wing because Destiny was newer
I know who you're talking about
can we kill him
yes please thank you
Quote from: Far Beyond Repair on December 14, 2012, 10:42:11 AM
[spoiler]Black Lagoon[/spoiler]
Quote from: May on December 14, 2012, 12:08:46 PM
If you liked Samurai Champloo, then you have to watch Cowboy Bebop. It's obligatory.
only actual recommendations so far, just so you know
I think Gurren Lagann would be good to start on.
Gundam Wing obv.
i disregarded all of these and watched full metal alchemist brotherhood
lol fma is just so cool
and avatar (both series) but those hardly count
maybe i'll look at some of those suggestions tho
flcl flcl flcl
Quote from: H/RO on December 02, 2013, 11:39:36 PM
flcl flcl flcl
oh yeah of course
watched that in high school buy
So you are still anime noob one year later?
welcome to the nhk
boku no pico
Quote from: Will Gregory on January 03, 2014, 11:26:50 AM
boku no pico
heh heheh heh hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehheheehehheheheheheheh he'll never vknwo what hit im!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dont watch an anime calle d boku xDD
Quote from: Far Beyond Repair on December 25, 2013, 03:18:55 PM
So you are still anime noob one year later?
Among boyagers yeah
Let's see I've gone through
FMA
Fma brotherhood
Avatar and korra
Samurai champloo
Cowboy bebop
Akira
Paprika
Tekkonkinkreet
Probably some that I'm missing
i hope you liked bebop and champloo a lot because they are extremely good
Yeah they are both amazing. I liked FMA a lot Too but the characters can be super annoying
one of the things that's kind of worse about brotherhood is that, indeed, it has some pretty dumb characters that feel sort of tacked on lol
like the little chinese girl
in the end i like both fmas roughly the same. i like brotherhood's story more and its overall presentation i guess. i kinda had more fun with it too, it was very blood pumping and addictive at times. but then the first one was often more serious in a good way and had some character changes for the better (like tucker being an antagonist who changed himself into a chimera, that was awesome), but unfortunately it has a shit ending lol
fma is middle school weeabitch garbage
Watch School Days.
school days whoaaoa not what i expect XXDDDDDD she kill them wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Quote from: Nyerp on January 20, 2014, 08:32:41 PM
school days whoaaoa not what i expect XXDDDDDD she kill them wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
[spoiler]I legitimately enjoyed it and that's why I recommended it.[/spoiler]
screw school days
anime is so controversial doodhuh;
Quote from: Pancake Persona on January 20, 2014, 08:25:04 PM
fma is middle school weeabitch garbage
i think it's legitimately pretty much the best of your typical "shounen" type shows and actually quite good
I like attack on Titan strongbad
U should watch it
he is watching it
yeah
it's pretty good
i want to say that it is a little too dramatic but then again they're being fucked by fucking titans so maybe the drama is understandable
yeah
'awesome we're kicking Titan ass!!!'
like 5 seconds later
'FUCK WE'RE FUCKED'
I couldn't find a good stopping point last night when I watched it, Im on like episode 12ish
yeah i watched like 6 episodes yesterday when i should have been working on my presentation
i'm realizing that i don't really care about the characters- i just want to see the titans. they're so cool and i am stoked to get more explanations about them
but seriously strongbib watch kaiji fuck; man just fuck; ing start fuck; ing watching it holy fuck; man it's fuck; ing great fuck;
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yeah kaiji is amazing watch it
watch kill me baby
Quote from: Pancake Persona on January 22, 2014, 03:12:19 PM
but seriously strongbib watch kaiji fuck; man just fuck; ing start fuck; ing watching it holy fuck; man it's fuck; ing great fuck;
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Ok
Quote from: Nonon Jakuzure on January 22, 2014, 05:24:27 PM
yeah kaiji is amazing watch it
how is season 2 compared to season 1 i never got around to watching it
season 2 is only just slightly worse, mostly for some very minor issues. and none of the games involved in season 2 are quite as cool as the two card games from the first season. but it's still generally just as fantastic.
Quote from: Totla on February 02, 2014, 01:09:30 PM
how is season 2 compared to season 1 i never got around to watching it
i feel like it lacks a lot of the excitement of season 1 and has some pacing issues
also season 2's ending is somehow more frustrating than season 1's
yeah its ending is pretty lackluster i have to say
i still liked it almost just as much as season 1 though