Board 8 > Anime & Manga Topic 207: Cute Users Posting Cute Things

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Do Monster. Long, but super good.
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time to dive into the world of sports anime
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Massive franchise is like Gundam and Macross

One Piece anime is a huge waste of time that you can use to watch both Gundam and Macross multiple times
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I have been interested in Monster before. Laziness in tracking it down was what held me back mostly.

KommunistKoala posted...

time to dive into the world of sports anime

Don't worry, I'll watch Circlet Princess, the much-anticipated new sports anime coming next season!

GranzonEx posted...

Massive franchise is like Gundam and Macross

I'm sure it would only take a simple google search to sort out, but stuff split into multiple shows usually triggers my laziness aversion too because I never know what to watch or in what order
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if you're ever in the mood to watch Gundam then @ me and I'll give you the rundown on the airing order and also the best sub versions of the older 80s-90s subs
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Roba starts watching actually popular anime, Chibi Maruko-chan and Doraemon.
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GranzonEx posted...

if you're ever in the mood to watch Gundam then @ me and I'll give you the rundown on the airing order and also the best sub versions of the older 80s-90s subs

Hang on, with UC I'm the kind of person who wouldn't rec full broadcast order.

Like, I'd put things like War of the Pocket/08th/Stardust Memory as things to check out before jumping to Zeta. Though I wouldn't rec Origin before 79.
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0080 and 0083 should be watched after the original 0079+Zeta

their value is in the fact that you know what happened imo

The Origin should be saved for last, and is really only for Char fanboys
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Mobilezoid posted...

I have been interested in Monster before. Laziness in tracking it down was what held me back mostly.

I can't recommend it enough man. It's fantastic.
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I'll need to @ someone if I ever decide to watch it because right now it's like you guys are talking in code!

I think something like Gundam is still a ways off for me though.
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ideally my recommendation for starting Gundam would be something like

Gundam Wing > Gundam 00 > UC in airing order > Gundam X > SEED/Destiny > Ironblood Orphans

I would avoid G Gundam because it's technically only Gundam in name (I'm sure a lot of people that have only watched G Gundam will tell me I'm wrong and that it's the best Gundam) and should be watched as something entirely separate
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Monster is a great show, but I do think the way its paced ends up being a double edged sword at times.

Also, the anime has been notoriously difficult to watch legally unless you own physical copies in the past. Not sure how it is now.
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and Ironblood Ophans should not be a jumping in point, because it's a show directed by someone that's not a Gundam fan and only did the show with the intent to "subvert" the traditional Gundam tropes while trying to ape "depressed Tomino"
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Popcorn_Fairy posted...

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just realized that the opening narrator sounds a lot like Brock from Pokemon...
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It is
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and he's Kaiba too

holy shit my childhood right there
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GranzonEx posted...

ideally my recommendation for starting Gundam would be something like

Gundam Wing

Looks like this is on Crunchyroll for easy watching, so if it's a good place to start I might check it out. No guarantee I'll move past it unless I like it and I'll probably watch it really slowly, so fair warning on that.

Aria S1 will no longer be the earliest anime I've seen! That's neat
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GranzonEx posted...

ideally my recommendation for starting Gundam would be something like

Gundam Wing > Gundam 00 > UC in airing order > Gundam X > SEED/Destiny > Ironblood Orphans

I would avoid G Gundam because it's technically only Gundam in name (I'm sure a lot of people that have only watched G Gundam will tell me I'm wrong and that it's the best Gundam) and should be watched as something entirely separate

I went

UC timeline order up to CCA/F91->Gundam Victory-> Gundam G ->Gundam Wing->Gundam X(the best one)->Turn A->Gundam Seed/Destiny->Age->Build Fighters->IBO

I would say G-Reco is the only non-SD Gundam show that should be skipped even if Tomino was involved.
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Bout to start Iroduku finale. Tissues are ready. Wish me luck.
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hey Roba Macross has idols

you should watch it
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Hey Roba watch [The Twelve Kingdoms]
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I am but one man and will soon have a great deal less free time, at least for the near future. I always appreciate recommendations and I do keep a list of them, though!
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Mobilezoid posted...

Looks like this is on Crunchyroll for easy watching, so if it's a good place to start I might check it out. No guarantee I'll move past it unless I like it and I'll probably watch it really slowly, so fair warning on that.

Aria S1 will no longer be the earliest anime I've seen! That's neat

a fine place to start!

and you're probably not going to watch all of Gundam (as voltch said there's stuff that you should skip and stuff that's hard to get a hold of), or even do it in one year because you'll only tire yourself out
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voltch posted...

I went

UC timeline order up to CCA/F91->Gundam Victory-> Gundam G ->Gundam Wing->Gundam X(the best one)->Turn A->Gundam Seed/Destiny->Age->Build Fighters->IBO

I would say G-Reco is the only non-SD Gundam show that should be skipped even if Tomino was involved.

that's a tall order imo, because it places too much emphasis on experiencing UC first (specifically Tomino's UC) which either breeds a UC elitist or turns a newbie off from Gundam entirely, not to mention finding a place to watch Tomino UC is hard

modern mecha is either influenced from Evangelion or 2000s Gundam so it would be easier for someone to jump into something like Wing (which started the modern Gundam bishounen leads) and if he likes mindless fun he could go back in time

I would also avoid AGE and G Reco. I only sat through those because I'm a huge fan of Gundam but those two are probably studio killing shows if not for the Gundam name
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Moderate Iroduku spoilers

The ending was pretty satisfying, and I'm rarely happy with endings. Wasn't too sappy but also didn't make me not care at all. I think they got it just right. The show as a whole was fairly enjoyable, but just a tad lacking with some of the side characters and the pacing. Visuals were pretty great though, and I did quite like Hitomi as the protagonist which is kinda rare with her archetype. I don't know if I'd necessarily recommend it, but it's worth a watch for anyone considering it, although I doubt it'll be particularly remembered by many.
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Iroduku spoilers

I just really wanted Hitomi to meet back up with everyone in the future (maybe not Yuito, that would be awkward. I imagine that grave in the ending montage was probably his). Still, I enjoyed how it went too.
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Mobilezoid posted...

Iroduku spoilers

I just really wanted Hitomi to meet back up with everyone in the future (maybe not Yuito, that would be awkward. I imagine that grave in the ending montage was probably his). Still, I enjoyed how it went too.

That's what I thought with the grave, but I don't know what they would've done with meeting them regardless. There was already a climax earlier and it might've been hard to incorporate another. I really liked the picture book and I thought that tied things up nicely, although I was kinda expecting some future meetings. Her interaction with granny Kohaku was kinda sweet, though.
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So, I was looking through Netflix and saw summit called Baki, pretty sure there were lots of muscles. Is this any good?
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It's rad as fuck. Reading the manga right now because of it. Has my number 1 fight of the year in it, too.

Technically it's the first arc of the second Baki series, but I lost nothing watching it first. Still feel that way half way through the first series' volumes.
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Weird they start at the second season. But whatever. I'll give it a go.
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Netflix saving anime.
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This was a delaycast so they get no credit.
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Eh, I barely watch things as they air, so delaycasts don't bother me much.
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I will say it may have the worst OP of the year.
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I dig the opening.
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It's a PowerPoint slidshow.
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The opening animation could have been made using Kid Pix and I'd still like it more than Kimi no Sei.

I really hate that song ok.
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I like Kimi no Sei for the most part, it's just those first few seconds.
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OK....this convo lead me to the 2nd OP for the 2018 that Netflix hasn't reached yet and...somehow...

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....yeah.
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Sheep007 posted...

Mobilezoid posted...

Iroduku spoilers

I just really wanted Hitomi to meet back up with everyone in the future (maybe not Yuito, that would be awkward. I imagine that grave in the ending montage was probably his). Still, I enjoyed how it went too.

That's what I thought with the grave, but I don't know what they would've done with meeting them regardless. There was already a climax earlier and it might've been hard to incorporate another. I really liked the picture book and I thought that tied things up nicely, although I was kinda expecting some future meetings. Her interaction with granny Kohaku was kinda sweet, though.

Okay but why in the fuck didn't we get to see a picture of the other animals during the book narration. That's the thing I'm most annoyed about with the final.

I also read the graveyard as her mother's, not Yuta's but.
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Iroduku

I suppose it could be anyone's grave, that's probably why they didn't show it. I like the idea of her mother still being out there somewhere, and the sadness of Yuito having died before they could meet again.
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Finished Bloom Into You. Absolutely fantastic show. I've been a fan of yuri for a while now, but this completely blows away any other yuri series I've watched, and most standard romance anime on top of that.

My one hope for this series is that nobody passes it up just because it's a yuri show. Well...if you dislike yuri on principle, then avoiding the show is probably a good idea. But, I say that because I think it avoids a lot of the issues that have been in other yuri series I've watched. It portrays a romantic relationship that is both tangible (ie. not undertones) and believable, while avoiding the soap opera melodrama and the fanservice-y elements you might find in a show like Citrus, for example. It is just a down-to-earth romantic drama about the interactions of believably flawed characters as they try to find fulfillment. The writing is consistently strong enough to make that type of story fun and engaging, and the music and directing in the series are top notch.

Not that I haven't said this before, but I really loved this show.

To say something about the ending point: Of course this is a reasonable but not ideal place to end the series, and I really hope the anime gets a season 2 someday. I wasn't really bothered by the lack of a real ending though, especially when the journey is as good as it is. I will say though that I've known for a while from reading Reddit threads that the show was never going to go through enough of the manga to even reach the cultural festival. So, I've been approaching this anime as part of a whole rather than as a self-contained story for the most part. People with different expectations may end up disappointed though
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So, I'm just starting episode 7 of Baki. Just wanted to chime in about the last ep.

Holy fucking shit that fight between Spec and Hanayama. That was a fucking wild ride. One minute Spec is winning, next second Hanayama. Next thing Spec turns it around and it looks like Hanayama is done. Shit, nevermind, Hanayama just kicked the shit out of Spec. But wait, Spec just turned into a walking armory. Oh no, but Hanayama's got this. Well shit, Spec just got him in an unbreakable hold. Oh no, Hanayama just blew his arm up. What the fuck that was so fucking amazing. Holy shit.
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Popcorn_Fairy posted...

So, I'm just starting episode 7 of Baki. Just wanted to chime in about the last ep.

Holy fucking shit that fight between Spec and Hanayama. That was a fucking wild ride. One minute Spec is winning, next second Hanayama. Next thing Spec turns it around and it looks like Hanayama is done. Shit, nevermind, Hanayama just kicked the shit out of Spec. But wait, Spec just turned into a walking armory. Oh no, but Hanayama's got this. Well shit, Spec just got him in an unbreakable hold. Oh no, Hanayama just blew his arm up. What the fuck that was so fucking amazing. Holy shit.

Yeah it's fucking awesome. Easy #1 pick for fight of the year for a reason. I just finished a bunch of Hanayama stuff in the first Baki manga a few minutes ago and the dude is cool as hell in general.
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Rascal movie is out in the summer.
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I got another question then.

Is Ultra Despair Girls necessary?
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No.

I don't actually dislike that game like some, but it's anything but necessary.
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pyresword posted...

To say something about the ending point: Of course this is a reasonable but not ideal place to end the series, and I really hope the anime gets a season 2 someday. I wasn't really bothered by the lack of a real ending though, especially when the journey is as good as it is. I will say though that I've known for a while from reading Reddit threads that the show was never going to go through enough of the manga to even reach the cultural festival. So, I've been approaching this anime as part of a whole rather than as a self-contained story for the most part. People with different expectations may end up disappointed though

Without going into specifics, I do think it ended on a good spot.
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Looks like NekoPara is getting an anime. That series seems to be taking off