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

[TooB]

'Cept i also kinda wanna watch part 1 again, and see those awesome Dio moments

[ncba93ivyase]

watching magic knight rayearth because NOTHING ELSE TO WATCH

the language they use is to basic that i can understand most of it, so that's pretty nice lol

[Samus Aran]

finished the original 1982 Macross series

this aired two years after the end of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, and was probably the biggest part of the sudden rush of mecha and space warfare animes that aired at the time. but unlike Gundam, which was political and generally unhappy, Macross is simplistic and in a way kinda silly. instead of the series being about technology and political interests like Gundam, Macross is about humanity defying the odds and fighting off the aliens because of the fact that it possesses things like love and music. it's also got a lot of romantic entanglements going on, especially in the second arc after the war is already over.

the premise alone is enough to make me not like it as much as Gundam, but it's still a very solid show, i think. nothing particularly wrong with injecting a space warfare show with some love, i guess. but the whole franchise really does have this whole "music saves the day and wins hearts" theme going on and it is kind of ridiculous.

one of the biggest things this show has going for it is that it doesn't particularly adhere to most of the tropes for mecha anime. the characters are strangely well-written for the time, the main character is by no means the best pilot of the crew, he never goes through any particular amuro/shinji/simon "i don't want to fight anymore" phase, the mechs themselves are not the technological focus of the show so much as the titular battleship is (imagine if Gundam was called White Base instead and the Gundam itself was just another mech, nothing special), and more.

however, female lead Lynn Minmay is...one of those girls that's hard to watch. the ficklest of girls. you have to feel really bad for our lead guy Hikaru because she just jerks the guy around the whole series until the very end. usually not on purpose, but she's an extremely insensitive love interest to be sure.

animation is top-tier for the time during battle scenes, standard in typical scenes, and oddly terrible during Lynn Minmay concert scenes. overall it's pretty average save for some specific memorable action scenes with some really neat animation "camera" tricks (it even takes a nod from Star Wars with some ship-passing scenes to show the sheer size of some of the spacecraft).

second arc is unfortunately fairly dull most of the time but the last episode is really good. main arc starts out ehh, then gets good, has an obligatory summary episode, then a completely shitty unnecessary pseudo-summary episode, then suddenly gets really good until the end of the arc. overall we're talking like 7.8, very solid, near "great" for the first arc...but the second arc, which is thankfully shorter than the first, really brings the score down to a simple solid 7 tbh.

good series, would suggest to anyone interested in "classic" mech anime but don't expect some Zeta Gundam greatness or smth

[Samus Aran]

speaking of space operas and the like, i was surprised to see that bluaki has seen the film adaptation of galaxy express 999

i really want to watch that series sometime. i'm currently a tiny bit into captain harlock which is set in the same universe (which is huge, there are tons of series in it)

[ncba93ivyase]

kaz i'm impressed that you wrote a huge writeup like that and ended it with "smth"

i might watch macross sometime because i've always wanted to watch more mecha but gundam never seemed to appeal to me

gundam is too much like the star trek when i'm looking for something closer to the star wars 4-6

also, the pokemon anime seems to borrow quite a bit from rayearth.

[TooB]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/05/02/persona-4-golden-anime-announced.aspx

Cool. I was hoping they would include marie

[PLEASEHELP1991]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/05/02/persona-4-golden-anime-announced.aspx

Cool. I was hoping they would include marie

i think it would have worked better as an ova or a movie than an entire series with significant overlap with the previous series

[TooB]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/05/02/persona-4-golden-anime-announced.aspx

Cool. I was hoping they would include marie

i think it would have worked better as an ova or a movie than an entire series with significant overlap with the previous series

im rather curious how many eps it is. Are they gonna essentially redo the whole series? Or do a short 5-8 episode series just focusing on yu and marie?

[PLEASEHELP1991]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/05/02/persona-4-golden-anime-announced.aspx

Cool. I was hoping they would include marie

i think it would have worked better as an ova or a movie than an entire series with significant overlap with the previous series

im rather curious how many eps it is. Are they gonna essentially redo the whole series? Or do a short 5-8 episode series just focusing on yu and marie?

i think it's a reboot because the japanese subtitles mention the plot of vanilla persona 4

[Snowy]

I could do without another P4 anime lol

[TooB]

I could do without another P4 anime lol

well, its as simple as not watching it. Problem solved

[ncba93ivyase]

I could do without another P4 anime lol

well, its as simple as not watching it. Problem solved

the budget and talent is being wasted on it when it would be better applied towards something else

[Samus Aran]

started michiko to hatchin yesterday

it's pretty great so far

[ncba93ivyase]

started michiko to hatchin yesterday

it's pretty great so far

the first half or so is great but then it suddenly drops off

i think they blew their budget on the first few episodes and didn't know how to end the series

[Samus Aran]

man now i really can't wait for part 4 of jojo to eventually get animated because it's so much better than 3