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Fall 2010 Anime Thread: Reboots, Retreads, and Rediscovery
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Chainsaw lad was pretty ridiculous. And awesome. "I'll saw your limbs off so I can pack you up in a bag and fly to Australia!" Oh lord. And then you had CC in her wtfisthisshit costume, hat and all.Branduil said:
I guess it comes down to whether you were able to just ride the wave and enjoy the ridiculousness.
Normally when someone gets "killed" in a show and later comes back, you assume the writers changed their mind and took advantage of the fact that they "killed" the character offscreen. But they brought him back in the next episode. It wasn't that they changed their mind, they deliberately wrote a "death" scene knowing they would bring the character back immediately, even though it was totally ridiculous.Dresden said:
Branduil said:
I'll admit that I haven't re-watched it since the end of the series so I can't really tell you with an up to date state of mind what I think of R1 anymore, but I do remember thinking at one point that it was pretty decent for a bit with potential, barring some moments here and there. Now when R2 began with
a goddamned retread of everything that started R1 and the introduction of a character with Goldo's TIME FREEZE!11! that was working the hell out of the main crew,
Emperor Missile anyone?
Also fanservice. Funnily enough, as I'm remembering everything in a stream of consciousness manner here, I remember that it was Code Geass that was the first anime that ever had too much fanservice at times for myself, and I'm mostly indifferent to it.
I remember the hype before second season started airing. A lot of people expected something... well, a bit grimmer. More epic. Global. Some people thought it'd feature Lelouch going on to slowly conquer the world, ending with a climatic showdown with his father near the end.
What a ride. :lol
We got high school hijinks with Rolo and amnesia instead. Then came Kallen in all her terrible fanservice anti-glory and China and Orange-kun and Lulu's slutty mother. Torpedo-Charles, nukes that don't actually kill people, and Ougi being a douche. Pink Lancelots, Suzaku worfing it, then the Zero Requiem.
What a ride. :lol
Dresden said:
OH GOD THIS WAS THE BEST. :lol :lol :lol
For both the worst and best reasons, that
Flejia
Nunnally being in Lulu's older bro's (Schnizel?) care
But reading this post, I remember that I was expecting some hugely dramatic shit. Didn't help that the fandom circulated all those rumors or quips from the writers about how "shit would get really real in R2. C.C. storyline revealed, history of the code, Charles' showdown, world gets into it, etc" It read like the Smash Bros. Dojo of anime and talking with folks in the fandom waiting for more only made the hype stronger. At the very least though, the mech designs were pretty fucking ace in R2. I still love the final Guren and lancelot, and BREAK DANCING BATTLIN' MECHA, MY GOD. :lol
Code Geass was wild.
Crash Station
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I will never forget Orange pulling a Gurren Lagann with him hopping out of his mech near the end. That was so awesome.
Crash Station
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Euphinator was awesome. It was one of the few times that showed Ledouche wasn't some god incapable of massive fuck ups. The perma geass was an awesome plot device.
My favorite part was the ending. ^^
Geneijin said:
Too bad Rolo killed one of the girls off, two of the remaining 3 disassociated with Lulu until the end when one of them rubbed two braincells together and realized that Lelouch, master of plans and crazy over the top shit had *gasp* planned a crazy and over the top finale and the other just kinda fell out of spotlight, and the immortal last one with the nice ass is eternally getting herself pulled around on a carriage after his "death".
Crash Station
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Branduil said:
How so? It's been a while so I barely remember the scene outside the obvious.
Crash Station
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Eh, I'll give you the former. The latter is pretty important though and was foreshadowed with Mao.
AzureJericho said:
Euphy seemed like the most likely love interest from Lulu honestly. Then Shirley but it wasn't as strong personally.
zoku88 said:
Code Geass was a shipper's harem dream of who would be with whom. Legendary discussion happened over you know where. I can't believe the speed conversations could move in a forum. :lol
Dresden said:
Was there even such a relationship? I've always read about people saying they were, but I never felt there were any romantic vibes between the two in both seasons.
jman2050 said:
Well, not going to side with the dub being "fantastic", but big support for how f'n BROKE the decision to have Hartman play Jiji was. No offense intended at all toward Hartman, because I had a lot of respect for the guy, but that was one of the worst choices in a serious dub I've ever seen (heard?).
Some of the Ghibli dubs are very watchable, but I'd never, ever watch Kiki dubbed.
Jex
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That is frankly a large problem with the dub.jman2050 said:
And the changed ending, like in Spirited Away.
So Post 2004-Sunrise that it's Post 2004-Sunrise?Geneijin said:
Not to mention that a lot of the entertainment people got from watching the show revolved around interaction with other denizens of the internet also watching the show. An experience hard to repeat by ones self.
Unless you have Code Geass party or something.
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Jexhius said:
They've unchanged the ending for the dub in more recent releases of Kiki.
InfiniteNine
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I actually watched it a bit after R2 finished airing and they started airing it in the US. I also didn't talk to people online about anime much so your conditions are fabrications sir!Jexhius said:
I also don't remember Kiki's ending or much about it at all. It has been quite a while and I'm pretty sure I was half asleep since I was still in school after hours.
Crash Station
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I actually didn't even participate on forums until after I finished R2. Loved it without needing any internet people to talk about it with.
InfiniteNine
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The keyword is entertainment people!
Yeah 00 S2 was a trainwreck, but a boring trainwreck, mostly because it constantly teased you with annoying cliff-hangers. Still i'm mostly referring to the epic debates that went down in the official thread itself http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=196618. And of course the episode with the 'TRANS-AM TRANS-AM TRANS-AM" was hilarious.Jexhius said:
Would any sane person want to? I remember one forum was like a live chat room with hundreds interacting simultaneously. Those were inhuman times sir. Keeping up with the multiple, ongoing chatter was a feat in itself.Jexhius said:
Reliving the glory years would be hard to replicate (as of yet).
flintstryker
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Code Geass is fucking awesome, one of the most purely entertaining anime i have ever seen.
Infinite Justice
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Honestly i missed the Code Geass discussions on here but IIRC my account still wasn't cleared yet so i wouldn't have got to say anything anyway.
Same with 00.
The only somewhat interesting thing from 00 S2 was the birth of
, everything else was wtf (Saji, Louise, Billy, Samurai and the list goes on).
Same with 00.
The only somewhat interesting thing from 00 S2 was the birth of
Jesus F Seiei
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I wonder which studio is working on the Steins;Gate anime. I thought more details where supposed to be revealed about a month ago?
Infinite Justice
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It always seemed like homage to Gundam Wing to me and those characters kinda confirmed it.
InfiniteNine
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Well I can definitely see them pulling off Huke's art style it just needs more texture filters!Dresden said:
Crash Station
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All right, next up on the backlog is Kemonozume. Gonna start it tomorrow. Still unsure about whether to continue with Haibane Renmei or not but I'm definitely not in the mood right now.
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