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Post by Woody Alien on Jul 27, 2019 17:47:50 GMT -5
Today I saw the episodes of Space Dandy that I missed the first time I watched it years ago, including the finale.
Kinda disappointed that such an original and inventive -if uneven- series has been forgotten so quickly. Too much hype around the creators, perhaps?
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Post by GamerL on Jul 29, 2019 2:44:27 GMT -5
Today I saw the episodes of Space Dandy that I missed the first time I watched it years ago, including the finale. Kinda disappointed that such an original and inventive -if uneven- series has been forgotten so quickly. Too much hype around the creators, perhaps? I myself have still yet to watch it and keep forgetting about it to be honest. I think the problem was that it was initially hyped as being from the director of Cowboy Bebop, but he turned out to only be the producer, right? Either way the Bebop connection stuck and it probably hurt the series as there's no way it could live up to the hype of being another Cowboy Bebop (nor was it even trying to be) |
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Post by Woody Alien on Jul 29, 2019 5:07:05 GMT -5
I myself have still yet to watch it and keep forgetting about it to be honest. I think the problem was that it was initially hyped as being from the director of Cowboy Bebop, but he turned out to only be the producer, right? Either way the Bebop connection stuck and it probably hurt the series as there's no way it could live up to the hype of being another Cowboy Bebop (nor was it even trying to be) It actually was directed by Shinichiro Watanabe himself! I guess that's the problem in doing something extremely popular, that people just want and expect you to do just more of the same. As you say it never tried to be another Cowboy Bebop, and the few nods to it (woolongs as the space currency, the appearance of the infamous fridge with an alien lifeform in it) are just a couple of the tons of references to Japanese and American media scattered throughout.
To be honest I don't know if I can recommend it to you, because it's very uneven not just in tone but also in style, since several episodes have different art directors so they also look very different among the others. I can say that I preferred the second "season" since it had more continuity, the comedy was funnier and the serious/philosophical episodes were more poignant. First season was more halfway between an anime and a Western cartoon, and while there's nothing wrong with that, some episodes were useless or just plain sucked. Others were hilarious though, such as 4 (funniest zombie apocalypse ever) or 7 (Wacky Races-style competition).
However if you like the artistic part too, I wholly recommend it: the animation, mecha and monster design are all top notch, and the funk/electronica soundtrack is excellent.
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Post by GamerL on Jul 29, 2019 20:25:40 GMT -5
I myself have still yet to watch it and keep forgetting about it to be honest. I think the problem was that it was initially hyped as being from the director of Cowboy Bebop, but he turned out to only be the producer, right? Either way the Bebop connection stuck and it probably hurt the series as there's no way it could live up to the hype of being another Cowboy Bebop (nor was it even trying to be) It actually was directed by Shinichiro Watanabe himself! I guess that's the problem in doing something extremely popular, that people just want and expect you to do just more of the same. As you say it never tried to be another Cowboy Bebop, and the few nods to it (woolongs as the space currency, the appearance of the infamous fridge with an alien lifeform in it) are just a couple of the tons of references to Japanese and American media scattered throughout.
To be honest I don't know if I can recommend it to you, because it's very uneven not just in tone but also in style, since several episodes have different art directors so they also look very different among the others. I can say that I preferred the second "season" since it had more continuity, the comedy was funnier and the serious/philosophical episodes were more poignant. First season was more halfway between an anime and a Western cartoon, and while there's nothing wrong with that, some episodes were useless or just plain sucked. Others were hilarious though, such as 4 (funniest zombie apocalypse ever) or 7 (Wacky Races-style competition).
However if you like the artistic part too, I wholly recommend it: the animation, mecha and monster design are all top notch, and the funk/electronica soundtrack is excellent.
I definitely need to finally give it a watch one day. |
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Post by lurker on Aug 3, 2019 8:42:59 GMT -5
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Post by silentstorm on Aug 4, 2019 16:11:34 GMT -5
Please tell me someone here is reading Shuumatsu No Valkyrie! It's what many people here want, few to no fanservice and moe designs, lot of gore and badassery, adult warriors with cool designs fighting each other and did i say it's awesome? It's basically about the strongest Gods(it's a setting where all patheons are real) being challenged by the Valkyries of Norse mythology to see if they are so great by fighting the very strongest humans in history, handpicked by the Valkyries themselves. So far, we've had only three matches though: Thor VS Lu Bu which was awesome and yes, Thor did fight with the Mjolnir which is a gigantic fuck off hammer. Zeus VS Adam, yes, that Adam from the Bible, he is even mostly naked with only a leaf covering him up because if you're going to fight Zeus, you may as well look unique, also, the father of humanity is given the option of picking whatever weapon he wants to fight Zeus and he decides to get a single knuckle duster made of divine metal to punch Zeus's face. Poseidon VS Sasaki Kojiro, yes, the guy that lost against Miyamoto Musashi gets picked up as the samurai representative, and in this series, there's a reason for it seeing as it goes with the whole story that Musashi had to cheat to win against him and he's actually:  Also, i know that according to history, he didn't use two swords and it points that out, Sasaki just happened to have trained in all kinds of sword styles and used a style that no one, much less Poseidon, would be expecting him to use to catch everyone unaware. |
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Post by lurker on Aug 6, 2019 18:15:26 GMT -5
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Post by JoeQ on Aug 7, 2019 4:02:03 GMT -5
Please tell me someone here is reading Shuumatsu No Valkyrie! I started reading this on your recommendation and yeah, it's pretty great! My kind of stupid fun, reminds me a lot of Kengan Ashura. Musashi didn't cheat though (unless you consider dualwielding cheating?). The manga shows they respected each other and went all out and had a blast, even though Kojiro lost and died. |
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Post by silentstorm on Aug 10, 2019 21:19:39 GMT -5
I was talking more about the story it's usually told about their match, which the series even comments on, they do tend to change a few things to make characters more awesome.
Anyways, found a morbid comedy manga, The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal, and it's about a mermaid of a kingdom filled with regular fish who can talk and it's all straight out of a Disney movie, until one of her friends is caught by humans and cooked, and when she heads to the surface to pay her respects, she eventually is forced to eat her friend, and she loves it!
Yeah, it eventually turns into every attempt at paying respects into her eating her subjects, trying to hide everything from her Kingdom, trying to restrain herself and it's just a weird manga about a Princess of all people loving to eat beings she talked to, there is one chapter where she eats the guy she had a crush on(a big fish) and while you see those flashbacks, you get the typical cooking manga scene of her absolutely loving his taste.
So, if you ever wanted to see Little Mermaid where Ariel eats the sea life around her...there is suprisingly enough, a manga that tries to be just that.
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Post by kaoru on Aug 20, 2019 1:19:37 GMT -5
Been (re-)watching some of the Rumic World OVAs. Fire Tripper, Maris the Chojo, and Laughing Target. They are all... fine. I think it is somewhat noticable that the one-shot Manga chapters aren't really giving the kind of material to fill 50 minutes. Fire Tripper has a boring middle, and Maris goofs around for the first half. They are all decent, but I can see how they didn't set the world on fire back in the 80s and 90s when they were just one of many picks on the OVA market. Somehow, though, they have some amazing insert songs!
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Post by silentstorm on Aug 26, 2019 16:21:16 GMT -5
Oh, found another manga with an old main character and no perverted designs that revolves around martial arts, it's called Peerless Dad and it's pretty fun and good.
As the name implies, it follows a father, though it's quite a way to the past, anyways, he was trained by his really strong father that he never beat until his dad died and thus he became a mercenary thinking he was weak, until he got some wins making him think of becoming a full blown martial artist and entering Murim(basically the life and world of all martial artists) and his first opponent just happened to be the very strongest martial artist in the world, or one of the strongest, who easily beat him without telling him how strong he was.
And thus, the main character quit being a martial artist and became a mercenary...thinking he is incredibly weak or at best average even though he can beat almost everyone, and he finds a woman he falls for, they get married, she dies giving birth to triplets.
And then the actual story starts as one single dad tries to raise three kids while giving them the best education he can, becoming a guard for a master who wants to hide his skills as he finds himself getting further and further involved in life and death battles without realizing how badass he actually is(for a long while, it takes a while to realize he is better than average at least) while trying to be just a great father.
It's basically a family slice-of-life series, only the father is a badass martial artist that sometimes has awesome battles, and no, there is no fanservice of any kind, not even any "moe" designs in case anyone was wondering, just straight up fights and family niceness.
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Post by kaoru on Sept 17, 2019 5:37:28 GMT -5
Watched the first Mardock Scramble movie. It's… ok but nothing special. Kind of like Ghost in the Shell, if the movie hadn't been made by Mamoru Oshii into the headspacy smart SciFi that we associate it with and stayed truer to the pulpy manga. Quite a bit of Yasuomi Umetsu's Kite in it too, but without the porn. The movie clearly thinks it is smarter than it is, and at parts is quite tryhard edgy, but I guess it is just the start of a trilogy, so it could get better. I liked the look of it, tho.
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Post by silentstorm on Sept 17, 2019 8:23:19 GMT -5
So, Chihayafuru is coming back after the last season in 2013, can't believe it since it's niche as all Hell, being about an obscure old japanese card game that not even people in Japan care about for the most part, Karuta, since only very few people play or even talk about it in Japan.
But hey, nice seeing an incredibly niche show get a new season.
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Post by JoeQ on Sept 17, 2019 8:35:10 GMT -5
So, Chihayafuru is coming back after the last season in 2013, can't believe it since it's niche as all Hell, being about an obscure old japanese card game that not even people in Japan care about for the most part, Karuta, since only very few people play or even talk about it in Japan. But hey, nice seeing an incredibly niche show get a new season. The manga is still ongoing and fairly popular, I think. |
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Post by silentstorm on Sept 17, 2019 9:53:07 GMT -5
Yeah, but translation is really weird, in that they were translating each chapter and then suddenly jumped so many chapters that one has to see the second season unless you know japanese, oh, don't worry, they translated some of the material that goes into the 2nd season, but just when they were getting to translate that, they stopped translating and went to a bunch of chapters again.
I ended up giving up on the manga, but the anime seemed to be over too, well, at least now we are finally getting a 3rd season so i can continue the story, i just wish it hadn't taken years to arrive though.
And yes, the manga translation is like that, it's like the people translating the manga want to force people to watch the anime.
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