>>36929
Hey I also started it yesterday. What a coincidence...

>>36941
I was going to ask a bunch of questions, but I'll just make one request. Please share your thoughts when you finish.

>>36942
heh that might take a while. I got to episode 15 yesterday, but I'm pretty irregular with how much I watch daily so it'll probably take me a month or so given that it's over 70 episodes.
I heard a lot about it and it just seemed like the sort of thing I'd like and it really does seem to be like that for now, I like it.
Joe is an all too familiar character, as you say.

>>36943
I don't mind. It's the same for myself. I'm around the same point.

>>36942
I know I said it'd probably take me around a month, but here I am, a week later, having finished all of it. I don't think I've ever enjoyed a show more than this, it was just amazing.
I'm not that good at longposting and I might spoil some things for you if you haven't finished it, so I won't really say anything else. I'm glad I watched it.

>>36959
I should be done in a day or two.

It was pretty incredible. I wasn't sure at first with how slow things went at the start, but boy am I glad I stuck with it. Some things I appreciated was that Joe faced some very major set backs and that other characters also saw development.
Normally, I'd expect conflicts a protagonist comes across either be solved in an episode or two, or be the main drive for the plot. That isn't the case for Joe. From being unable to punch anyone in the head to killing practically any future in Japanese boxing. These two managed to be huge issues, but as things are in life, the story still progressed and Joe just did what he could in the meantime.
I like that other characters (mostly Nishi) got some good development. Really, Nishi went a huge way all himself. I'd expect a character like him to get an arc where he gets serious about boxing, becoming Mammoth Nishi and then his character just being Joe's sparring partner until he's forgotten.

There's a lot more that could be said, but anyone who hasn't seen it should do themself a favor and give it a try.

>>36966
I've been thinking about rewatching it since it finally got a better quality release. I enjoyed it a lot before.

>>36929
Joe beating up an entire group of Yakuza bare-handed is kinda stretching my suspicion of disbelief.

>>36974
Joe kicks ass. Some punk Yakuza can't stand up to his punch or clever tricks.

>>36974
>>36975
A few episodes later, he's easily overpowered by a couple prisoners. Is it just me, or is Joe's strength kinda inconsistent? It's like he started out too strong, so the writers nerfed him by a lot.

edit:
I guess he was just caught by surprise.

Post edited on 14th Jan 2023, 8:21pm

>>36976
Joe's just really strong. I would imagine the idea is that up to this point he does what he wants until he gets in trouble, and then tries to fight his way out, and has since being a little kid. Naturally he's going to be a lot stronger than someone that rarely has to fight, much less fight against a group like Joe probably regularly did.

I'm going to start Macross tomorrow. I've been meaning to watch it for a long time, but I haven't been bothered enough to find the right torrent.

>>36982
Are you starting with the original, or with Zero for chronological order?

>>36983
why would you ever do that?

>>36976
I'm on ep 30 and it's been fun. I think Joe has some kind of personality disorder.

>>36983
Original

Didn't expect Xabungle to have anti American undertones since it's so lighthearted. Thought it was just a Gundam western on a desert planet. It's supposedly set on the desert planet Zora where "civilians" live in the harsh wasteland, while the "Innocent" elite live in protected domed cities that are illegal to attack.

Turns out it's actually set in a post apocalypic version of Earth where the Americans, the "Innocent", nuked everything and set up a new system where they have military bases everywhere (the domes) from which they control the "civilians", i.e the Japanese.

The nuke, the B-29 and the Earth world map showed inside the bridge of the new captured Iron Gear all hint to this. Other than that it's a fun show, pretty much a remix of the original Gundam with the White Base arc in a western setting.

I'm re-watching season 1 of Chaika.
I watched most of it when it was airing, but I fell off around episode 8 or 9, I don't recall.

It's fun! Chaika is cute.

>>37011
Just finished Season 1, but it turns out I had in fact seen all of it before and it was just memory-holed. I guess it is a fairly mediocre series that aired 9 years ago.
I still like it, though. For all of its mediocrity and complete lack of attempt at worldbuilding and aesthetic, it's a fun show with some cool things like gun magic.

So I was just struck by random nostalgia into Steins;Gate, because Okarin's laughter was legendary. I think it's the reason I quit anime. You watch Steins;Gate, and they you're kind of told that now it's time to waste the rest of your anime life watching harems, isekais and shoujos. Heck no. Best animes ever have been filmed a decade ago and earlier, after that maybe one or two worthwhile made their ways into being. That's it. That's how anime died for me.

>>38224
Have you even heard of visual novels

>>38224

>>38226
That way I can just play some action oriented games instead.
>>38227
Insightful. Does it mean anime has been turned into a golden cow?

>>38228
Your reply to me makes no sense. Do you read VNs or not?

>>38229
He's an ESL with a casual, normalfag perspective. Don't bother.

>>38229
No I don't read VNs. Read one ages ago, was OK I guess. Do they offer such an interesting plot that I would prefer them over a book? In anime you have animation and voice action and they played important role in Steins;Gate.

>>38229
No I don't read VNs. Read one ages ago, was OK I guess. Do they offer such an interesting plot that I would prefer them over a book? In anime you have animation and voice action and they played important role in Steins;Gate. In every good anime, really.

>>38231
>Incorrect password.
I guess I should just hang

>>38234
No I didn't play the VN. I heard it's good, but clicking around to see routes... They say 100% completion is around 50 hours that's a lot. Maybe I'll play it sometime later though.

>>38225
i feel like typing like this should be grounds for an automatic ban. kind of like the "no 3d" rule.

>>38236
It's not like he's greentexting; it's fine.

>>38237
>>38238
oh no, i wasn't referring to the greentexting, i meant the guy he was quoting. stuff like "animes", i mean.

>>38238
Technically, there are NVLs and ADVs

>>38224
Are you saying nothing can top Steins;Gate and watching anything else would be a step down?
Even if like you say nothing else worth watching was made in the last 20 years, I doubt you've seen everything made 21+ years ago, right?

>>38235
I really do not wish to disrespect you, but the way you type makes it sound to me like you don't read shit period. Like you probably hang out on /v/ or something. I think we have enough people in the world that are illiterate.

>>38238
Books leave the imagination job to me. A VN is not even point & click, it's just click. It's not very interesting (for me) to watch a slideshow of pictures with text. Not without exceptions, of course, but I need to be really impressed by plot description to play a VN, so far nothing like that has happened.

>>38246
I think reading a vn would also leave a lot up to your imagination as well, they just fill in some of the gaps for key characters and scenes.

>>38248
I actually learned English for the sole purpose of reading books, so you're correct here.
>you could appreciate
Yes I could appreciate it just need to be in the mood and the last few years (especially since lockdown) were quite depressing for me.

Also no need to passively attack me here of all places, it just doesn't make sense. If you don't want me posting around you just say that directly.

I am rewatching K-on! since i have not seen the movie yet.

half funny anime about immigrants or whatever. i wish the humor was a bit better, dunno if i will get myself to finish it.

I'm not ready to post any comprehensive review and may never be, actually, but yet. A few days ago I remembered Shana and thought I didn't finish it. The thought grew on me for some reason, even though I didn't remember anything at all about Shana, and I decided to watch it. It's like watching it from zero. I was sometimes very amazed that I remember moments and characters seemingly erased from memory. Also many things I didn't even remember were from Shana. This reminds me, I used to spend unholy amount of time binge watching everything that fell in my hands. How many titles did I forget? How many things did I actually watch? I've never kept a list. Sends creeps up my spine.

Anyway, Shakugan no Shana feels so cozy and warm. I miss that old atmosphere so much. Probably I'm just being childish, grasping at why I can never return, but Shana is the kind of anime that I got to watch first in my life probably, it shaped my tastes a lot. Those memories, erased, left a very deep imprinting. Modern stuff doesn't touch as deep. It seems to glance off surface.

Dunno if any of you can relate, but I thought I'd share. It feels so pleasant to immerse in nostalgia for a while, to remember how it felt back in the beginning.

Subarashi.

Gomenasai

Post edited on 21st Oct 2024, 4:52pm

>>38496
Yeah, your memories of a show are intrinsically linked with your emotions and experience of the time, similar to songs.

>>38496
I watched Shana back in middle school, somewhere around 10 years ago. It was right after I finished Familiar of Zero. Back then I'd watch pretty much anything since my tastes hadn't formed.

Remember feeling mixed about the final season because the protagonist, who I recall being kind of useless, out of nowhere becomes a badass and the main antagonist, which was odd. At least that's how I remember it. Maybe the ending didn't satisfy me either.

I think the best part of Shana was the prequel part of the OVA, which had a darker tone and played the premise straight, rather than being not-so-subtle wish-fulfillment like the main series.

In any case, it's definitely a product of its time and I can see why it would be nostalgic.

>>38497
True enough. Maybe the phenomenon of older people relentlessly claiming how things were better in the past is rooted in how we become duller with age, so experiences received when we were young are deep and colorful and we cling to them badly, because we are unable to be affected by newer stuff anymore. Holy shit I'm not old at all why does it have to be like that already

>>38498
>not-so-subtle wish-fulfillment
Why'd you care? Basically nearly every anime has that. Psychopass first season is one of the very few where ending is actually solemn/feels darkish. Lelouch probably also, but I watched it eons ago. Vast majory of others still end up being daijobu with a more or less happy ending. It isn't something I care about. Do you find it important?

>>38514
I'm not into the whole "brown-haired average guy starts living with a beautiful girl(or multiple)" thing. It breaks my immersion when I feel like the writer is pandering too much, to the point of it being a crutch. I know this is highly subjective though.

>>38515
I understand your point, but Shana is much less of a pandering than many, many of what I've seen. And it actually doesn't feel out line with reality. It's not like mc just randomly becomes over powered by harnessing powah of feelings/friendship. He's just lucky + uses help of a God. I totally get you, but it didn't irk me with Shana. For some reason.

>>38516
It's been a long time since I've seen it, so my perception is probably skewed. I just remember liking the prequel part of the OVA, where Shana is on her own, doing her job like normal, more than the main series.

>>38525
My man you've posted a superb Shana...