Amph All-Encompassing Anime/Manga Thread

I'm not normally a big anime watcher, but in the last few weeks I've watched all of Samurai Champloo, which I learned to love after I came to terms with it being a cartoon with stories that regularly involved prostitutes and brothels, and Baccano!, which is so complicated and features so many characters, most of which are insane in some way or other, that it shouldn't work... but it does.

I would recommend both of these anime.

 

For those who have never seen it, Devil May Cry is a lot of fun, also.

 

I've only seen stuff by Myazaki.

 

Have you watched Cowboy Bebop?

 

Yes, and I enjoyed it, though I don't remember what happened in the last few episodes... I need to rewatch the series, I guess.

 

Didn't they say a long time ago that they'd continue Cowboy Bebop? Maybe I'm thinking of Outlaw Star, I'm not sure.

 

One word: "Bang."

 

My favorite anime:

Kantai Collection
Akiba's Trip
Prison School
NaNa
Evangelion
Space Battleship Yamato

 

I'm more into anime films than series, but as far as series are concerned, I really liked Gunslinger Girl. A more recent series that I had just come across and liked is Girls Und Panzer; but I'm not sure if there's gonna be another season unfortunately.

 

My favorite is an oldie - Galaxy Express 999. One of the UHF channels near New York City showed it in the late 70s/early 80s. First episodes had no subtitles so I was a bit confused but loved the show. (Still do since I found the episodes online). The station gave away posters of the train taking off with Maetel's image against a starry background and the title (in Japanese and English) at the bottom. I still have mine hanging on the wall. I wasn't too crazy about the English language film later made, however.

 

Five years later, I would like to go whole hog on this with "Gurren Lagann is bad, actually."

You know what's not bad? Pop Team Epic.

 

I've been told Ichigo is a bad person

 

I just finished watching Sword of the Stranger for the first time. What a fantastic little gem of a movie. It piqued my interest when I learned it was directed by Masahiro Andô, who was a key animator on the Cowboy Bebop movie, and I had been looking for a copy for a while. It seems that it only recently got released in the UK, despite having been initially released in 2007.

As expected, the animation was superb (outside of some questionable CGI at points), and everything culminates in an emotional and memorable climax.

Spoiler

There's something about how the music swells as No-Name breaks his vow and unsheathes his sword to rescue Kotaro that brought a tear to the eye.

I'm definitely glad I've gotten around to watching it.

 

*Resurrects Thread*
Anybody else watching Goblin Slayer or Black Clover?

 

Such a tragedy. I had just seen "Liz and the Blue Bird" on video last month, and would swear by "A Silent Voice"

 

Is there anyone who's watching Baki on Netflix ?

At the beginning I was skeptical, since I didn't think I'd care particularly about a violent show where they just fight all the time, but I decided to give it a try and so far I am really enjoying it. I just think it's beautifully made.

 

I read exactly three chapters of Grappler Baki when it was being serialized in the US in the short-lived but weirdly influential on my tastes Raijin Comics, and they all involved a guy whose fighting style involved literally severing his opponents nerves, and then later I found out that was considered comparatively mild. The thought of watching that in motion is terrifying, for some reason it bugs me a lot more to have that anatomically explicit idea of dismantling an opponent than generic Hokuto head explosions.

 

@Ramza
Yeah, it's extremely violent, but the violence is so over the top and cartoon-ish that for some reason it didn't bother me.

 

I'm usually fine with it, is the odd thing. Something about the visual depiction of pulling a nerve cord out of an arm, slicing it, and then Baki's arm just going limb really ****ing got to me. I guess it's a testament to Itagaki's artwork?

 

I believe it is.
I see the whole work as a sort of celebration of the human body, including the destruction of it. He created this weird world full of ubermensch characters who keep tearing each other into pieces and laughing about it.
Since the pilot episode, the villains of the first season have one single purpose, that strangely is not to win, but to "taste defeat".

 

Really rolling through SAO S3 these last few days. I really liked S1 but S2 Gun Gale thing destroyed my like of this show and I then had to get through the 2nd half of the season it has taken me a hell of a long time to do that on Netflix and S3 has been on my Dvr for over a year waiting. In 2 days I’ve blown through almost 15 eps... loving Underworld arc!