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Post by ResidentTsundere on Nov 18, 2018 21:20:57 GMT -5
Cromartie High is back?!?  |
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Post by lurker on Nov 26, 2018 23:34:47 GMT -5
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Post by edmonddantes on Dec 10, 2018 8:19:21 GMT -5
So, question I'm sure has neeeeever been asked before and won't generate controversy?
Who is the most adorable anime loli?
JUST TO BE CLEAR: When I say "adorable" or "cute," I mean the same way as a puppy or kitty--I've never understood why people associate those things with sexyness. If its not a "daww I wanna pet it" character, don't even bother.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Dec 12, 2018 23:58:38 GMT -5
So, question I'm sure has neeeeever been asked before and won't generate controversy? Who is the most adorable anime loli? JUST TO BE CLEAR: When I say "adorable" or "cute," I mean the same way as a puppy or kitty--I've never understood why people associate those things with sexyness. If its not a "daww I wanna pet it" character, don't even bother. The root of the term loli is Lolita, which is explicitly sexual.
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Post by edmonddantes on Dec 13, 2018 1:25:58 GMT -5
Yeah but in this context it simply means "little girl," (I've seen it used that way even for characters who aren't even remotely sexualized), so I'm simply asking who is the cutest little girl in anime.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Dec 13, 2018 4:53:33 GMT -5
I know, I'm just explaining why it's got that association. The whole loli = cute girl thing is pretty recent. So recent that it's still weird for me.
Also, the answer is Platelets. The answer is always Platelets. |
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Post by Snake on Dec 13, 2018 21:02:53 GMT -5
I didn't know people were using loli as a stand alone term for a young girl. In modern language, I've only seen it used in context with loli-con (lolita complex), or gosu-loli (shorthand for gothic lolita) after the fashion-style or fashion magazine.
If we're just talking adorable anime girl, I like Smiling Teresa/Teresa of the Faint Smile, from Claymore. So maybe she's mature, and really old, and half-yoma/half-monster, but I find her persona adorable. She's just viciously, ruthlessly, and effortlessly powerful, but she has such an admirable, gentle bond with Clare. If we're talking appearance, again, not really anime, but the real-life counterpart to Nao Kanzaki in Liar Game, portrayed by Erika Toda.
If it has to be strictly anime, maybe Jabami Yumeko in Kakegurui. What's not to like about someone so impossibly smart and calculating, with that twisted, obsessed look in their eye?
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Post by edmonddantes on Dec 17, 2018 7:06:28 GMT -5
Doesn't have to be strictly anime, in fact what got me on this train was watching an AGDQ run of the Super Famicom game Magical Pop'n, which stars the cutest damn thing ever in all her squishy squeaky glory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iR9DoCoE6Y(Skip to about 12 minutes in because this vid is front-loaded with stuff unrelated to the game) |
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Post by silentstorm on Jan 11, 2019 16:55:40 GMT -5
I was looking at some Shounen manga to read and found this old 1979 manga that...as far as i can tell had power levels, tournament arcs and a protagonist who gets beaten up and rises by the force of his spirit years before Dragon Ball and Saint Seiya even became a thing, like, i saw the publication date for volume 10 of that manga which already featured a villain with the power level of 10 Million and Dragon Ball's manga hadn't even started yet.
I don't know, i guess i always just thought that Dragon Ball was the Shounen series that really started the whole term of power levels and tournament arcs in anime and manga, i mean, besides martial arts series that typically had tournaments.
...Oh yeah, the series is called Kinnikuman and it features a masked superhero abandoned by his family finding out he is actually a prince from another planet that was accidentally left out on Earth, and he goes from Earth's weakest and most pathetic superhero to the strongest after finding an old teacher(though unlike Roshi, Kamehame isn't a pervert...and yes, the master's name is Kamehame) who teaches him the ancient mystic martial art called...wrestling...yeah.
And yes, it did have power levels, and the whole thing with "hero gets beat up until everyone thinks they're dead but they get stronger by being hot-blooded" which i don't know if Kinnikuman is the first series to have that, anyways, here is a clip of the anime version of him beating Warsman by doing such a thing, with Warsman being a KGB robot that was created to be their strongest weapon and the basis for a future army that will conquer America and the rest of the world, with Warsman being sent to a fighting tournament to show it's power to the world: Man, Warsman, he gets such a cool introduction, as the cold but brutal fighting machine from Russia and he gets beat up by a guy being stubborn and at the end his power level was only 1 million.
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Post by edmonddantes on Jan 12, 2019 21:46:49 GMT -5
I watched Kinnikuman recently. Weird how the first chapter of the manga wasn't adapted until like episode 3 of the anime (the chapter involved a monster coming to attack Tokyo and Kinnikuman is the only superhero available, but then the monster decides to stay home because "I don't want to fight a loser like Kinnikuman") The anime takes about twelve eps to get to the good part--where it becomes wrestling focused--which makes getting there kind of a slog unfortunately. ... Speaking of old anime, I was on Amazon recently and discovered that Sentai Filmworks has released blu-rays of both Zillion and Aura Battler Dunbine! Like, seriously, when did the anime realm get awesome again? I thought for sure Sentai's future was gonna be all crappy schoolgirl junk from now on and that only Discotek would touch 80s/90s anime ever again. Zillion wasn't even put on DVD in North America, its only VHS was the Streamline Pictures dub (and I dunno if those covered the whole series), and supposedly Aura Battler Dunbine's DVD release by ADV was one of their worst sellers (I remember the final two volumes being rare and expensive, worse even than the third volume of Dairugger XV). .... Speaking of Dairugger XV, I seriously hope someone else picks that up. It's seriously better than its Voltron counterpart (and between it and GoLion, Dairugger is easily the superior) and the third volume is ridiculously rare--I got mine by luck and I wish I could share it somehow. |
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Post by silentstorm on Jan 13, 2019 5:24:33 GMT -5
Yeah, Kinnikuman takes a while until it actually gets to be about wrestling, also weird is that it seems to have quite a few filler and many characters appear more than in the manga, like Iwao is seemingly everywhere.
Though the anime doesn't cover everything, since in 2011 the series started again and continues after it left off and...i don't know if it's still a prequel to Ultimate Muscle or if i should just consider the post-2011 chapters their own universe since there are events that happen that seem to make the sequel's events harder to happen or to not get mentioned in it.
Whatever, the anime is still missing a lot of content, which is a shame as the post-2011 chapters are really good, plus, Suguru is a lot more likeable, sure it may be his character development kicking in(though he is still a coward) but hey, it's something at least.
Just don't expect to see quite a few fights in the anime because it ended in the 80's as the series is still on-going after 2011 and thus you miss moments of Suguru being awesome and making miraculous comebacks against powerful fighters after being beaten down: And yes there is a pirate Choujin that doesn't get to appear in the anime, let's just say he isn't a Justice Choujin, but he also isn't a Devil Choujin nor a Perfect Choujin, also the first guy to take the Burning Inner Strength and actually beat it without getting a scratch...before Suguru got beat up a bit more, almost died and decided he still had more to throw at pirates. |
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Post by edmonddantes on Jan 13, 2019 5:30:52 GMT -5
So wait... the Kinnikuman manga never stopped... but they somehow did a sequel manga (Ultimate Muscle) anyway? Even though the original was still going?
EDIT Sorry, re-read your post. So Kinnikuman went on hiatus, then they made a sequel, but then went back to the original timeline and continued from there?
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Post by silentstorm on Jan 13, 2019 6:19:16 GMT -5
So wait... the Kinnikuman manga never stopped... but they somehow did a sequel manga (Ultimate Muscle) anyway? Even though the original was still going? EDIT Sorry, re-read your post. So Kinnikuman went on hiatus, then they made a sequel, but then went back to the original timeline and continued from there? Pretty much, they made a sequel about Suguru's son and the next generation having new wrestling matches of justice and from what i can tell, the new generation and villains weren't as well liked, particularly Terry The Kid and Kinniku Mantaro, who tend to disparage their fathers, Kevin Mask(Robin Mask's kid) seems to be the only one that was actually popular.
It doesn't help that since Suguru gives up being a wrestler in the sequel to become a full time father, Mantaro never sees him train and thinks of him as only a weakling fool and accuses him and the old generation of just having fixed matches where he paid people like Robin Mask and Warsman to let Kinnikuman win...this somehow did not make him popular with fans.
And thus, after Mantaro's story ended, the author just, for some reason, went back to Kinnikuman itself in 2011 and hasn't stopped yet with various events that make it contradict the sequel making me think it's either an AU or he is outright ignoring the sequel's existence, like Robin Mask dying at the time where the villains destroy forever the thing that let Choujin warriors ressurect(the reason why fighters just came back from time to time after death) before he even had Kevin Mask, or the way that Suguru in the sequel explains that Warsman isn't a Justice Choujin and was always too brutal to be one and never truly felt part of the gang...where the post-2011 chapters have him clearly be a Justice Choujin who isn't as brutal as he was and even using friendship power and the Burning Inner Strength himself thanks to his Justice Choujin ideology and friendship with everyone else.
At this point i just think that the post-2011 and the sequel are different universes entirely.
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Post by edmonddantes on Jan 20, 2019 2:18:13 GMT -5
So question...
To anyone familiar with Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, if someone were new to it, what would you recommend?
A) Fansubs of the original 1970s Yamato?
B) the Star Blazers english dub?
C) The compilation movie of the 1970s anime?
D) just skip right to the recent remake?
Just right now I'm wondering which would be the most fun way to experience it. I've seen the first six or so eps of the original Yamato fansubbed, and while I like what I saw so far there are issues... namely the 1970s anime need (much like western cartoons) to shoehorn in annoying comedy relief characters, made worse by that one such character's whole joke is that he likes to sexually harass women. I'm guessing the dub and the remake lessen/do away with him but if they make changes that significantly harm the experience elsewhere then it could be a double-edged sword.
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Jan 20, 2019 3:23:22 GMT -5
It's funny you mention Dragonball, because Kinikuman basically started off as a comedy parody much like Dragonball, albeit centred around superheroes instead of Journey to the West like Dragonball.
The 1st chapter even has a bunch of American heroes shown, like a version of Spider-Man and Superman, as well as Ultraman. I think it was basically meant to be an Ultraman parody overall, as it showed him eating garlic and growing large to fight a monster, while later on it obviously became a wrestling/battle manga.
It was sorta known in the mid noughties as Ultimate Muscle(Kinikuman New Generation) was airing on Cartoon Network, and an Ultimate Muscle game came out for Gamecube (In the US anyway, sadly I don't think it was released here in Australia).
Once it finished it's run tho, it seemed to fade away sadly, and the series pretty much went back to japan only (I know Viz released some Ultimate Muscle chapters, but I never saw any in any Aussie comic shops)
Kinikumans toys did come out in the 80s, but as the manga was never left japan, all the characters were renamed and the line itself was called M.U.S.C.L.E (it was revived recently and has he-man and aliens and stuff like that).
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