Amph All-Encompassing Anime/Manga Thread

I've seen everything.
My favorite fight probably remains Spec vs Hanayama.

Mada yaru kai ?

 

In one of my once in a great while catch catch up efforts... watching Death Note for the first time. Think I’m 10 episodes in, pretty good so far.

 

Seems like a lot of watching when you can get the gist of it in 13 seconds:

 

Death note is a masterpiece.

Netflix these days is glorious.
Has anyone watched Devilman Crybaby?

Oh.My.God !

 

No, but I'm permanently haunted by the original comics.

Edit: Also my really spicy but uninformed take is that the director went so far as to state outright that he was trying to out-edgy Go Nagai but by all accounts he didn't out-edgy Violence Jack SO WHY EVEN BOTHER?!

 

I watched Death Note a long time ago back in high school. I still enjoy the opening every once in a while



My favorite anime (and opening) is still Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex

 

Did a re-read of the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga a few weeks ago, and as much as I like the film, the manga utterly leaves it in the dusk. Honestly think it might be Miyazaki's best work.

 

I have the Box Set of the manga that I bought off of Amazon several years ago. It's understandable as to why the film was a very abridged version of the manga's story; to the point where many primary characters weren't even included. The manga more like a LOTR epic than the released film has you realize.

 

Amongst other concerns, that'll kill VRV, which sucks.

 

Watching Evangelion.
It's just crazy how good this is.
I am amazed.

The anime that Netflix is offering this last year are a long sequence of life changing masterpieces.

Death note, Baki, Devilman crybaby, now this.....
Wooow!

 

So you’re saying it’s worthy of your grace.

Edit: Wait, I think I’ve made this exact joke on the boards before. Aha! https://boards.theforce.net/threads...vangelion-fan-thread-now-in-netflix.15273909/

 

I clicked on the link and I got the movie immediately spoilered by a huge JTS post.................

 

D’oh! Such was not my intent.

Also for reasons which will become obvious upon viewing you’re not as spoiled as you think.

 

Right now I am at episode 6.
Ayanami is my favorite character so far.

I love how they showed the personal drama of these little kids. Too often in sci-fi those who fight are all brave and cheerful. Here they are broken inside.

 

While they do handle the very specific tribulations of the characters well, it’s actually a somewhat common point of interest in mecha shows, probably because of the outsized influence of this guy named Yoshiyuki Tomino (Gundam, Space Runaway Ideon) who really thought it was silly that kid protagonists exposed to absurd danger in, e.g., Giant Robo or Tetsujin 28 were always so ****ing chipper*. He also pioneered the idea that a good show could still sell a lot of merchandise, which Eva also borrows.

*This is not to be confused with the idea that someone with personality issues could get in a robot, which is basically the whole... conceit? nihilistic joke?... behind Getter Robo, and thus has basically been there from the jump.

Edit: This is all a very verbose way of saying “If you like Eva there is a wealth of other stuff you might also like.”

 

Initial reports were wrong, it cost $1.175 billion.

Since Sony also owns Funimation, they now own basically all distribution of anime that isn't exclusively licensed to Netflix.

 

I have finished the Evangelion series. I still need to watch the movie, and I guess it will be necessary in order to know how the story ends. I have to say that the last two episodes of the series were rather strange. I probably missed the point.

Then I'm basically watching everything Netflix offers in terms of anime.

Kakegurui is a little gem. I love how the faces of the characters deform when they are at the peak of their gambling euphoria.

Now I'm watching Toradora! . Apparently it was designed for middle and high school kids, but frankly I'm enjoying it anyway. Its probably because despite I'm secretly still a kid myself after all.

 

End of Evangelion is...an experience.

 

I went for Attack on Titan .
There are really brilliant writers out there. Just take the story. Such a simple, almost naive idea, and yet they managed to make it work convincingly, and to keep you going ahead episode after episode.

I liken it to Evangelion in terms of the emotional struggle of the heroes. I think it was done very well here as well. I probably still prefer Evangelion due to the unbeatable quality of the fantastic universe, but I'm really impressed by this anime so far.

In general, it's just crazy how many masterpieces I could find just on Netflix. And every one is so unique both aesthetically and in terms of story.

Death note
Deviman crybaby
Evangelion
Kakegurui
Toradora!
Baki
Kengan Ashura
Attack on Titan


up to two years ago I used to think that Dragonball and Pokemon were the best the anime world could offer lol.

(Jojo is the only one of which I'm not a fan, among those that are considered a must).

 

Is this a good manga? I’m searching for my next fantasy manga series .

 

I still believe that the top of the horror remains one specific scene of Devilman Crybaby, which still gives me nightmares after months, but yeah, AoT is quite devastating as well.