What anime are you watching or manga are you reading?

Gunmonkey

Gonna try start Berserk (original series) sometime soon, damn game backlog is crushing my free time.

GalwayGuy2

Originally Posted by Links234
nothing puts me off an anime like fanservice does

True.

It's very jarring when it's like High School of the Dead.

Mind you Fairy Tale's fanservice is okay, and so's freezing.

Although, one character is always swims naked...

Jimai

The World God Only Knows.

Watched the first two seasons about 2/3 years ago. It was quite funny but nothing really special. So much so that I was going to skip season 3. I am glad I didn't. The 3rd season really makes it. I liked it so much that I am now reading the manga!

J.

megaten

Jimai wrote: »

The World God Only Knows.

Watched the first two seasons about 2/3 years ago. It was quite funny but nothing really special. So much so that I was going to skip season 3. I am glad I didn't. The 3rd season really makes it. I liked it so much that I am now reading the manga!

J.

I felt the complete opposite. I loved the manga initially but I felt it really fell of in terms of quality around halfway through the goddess arc

Jimai

megaten wrote: »

I felt the complete opposite. I loved the manga initially but I felt it really fell of in terms of quality around halfway through the goddess arc

Some parts of that arc did seem a bit messy especially after watching the anime first.

I am mainly reading the manga to find out what happened after the Goddesses Arc (and to fill in some of the skipped bits) but he has changed direction and it will be awhile before he get backs to what I am looking for.

The current arc isn't great but it does add to the story and there are moments...

J.

Jimai

High School of the Dead

That was hilarious! It was so outrageous! Those bullet dodging scenes!

A bit of shame really, as I liked the story. Perhaps, I'll pick up the manga.

phlex

High school of the dead was amazing,

Samurai Champloo, my all time favourite.
Downloaded it again for a rewatch.

Sephiroth_dude

phlex wrote: »

Samurai Champloo, my all time favourite.
Downloaded it again for a rewatch.

I agree,great show!

phlex

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I agree,great show!

Sword of the stranger!, I was looking for something like samurai champloo and this movies amazing. I'd more than reccomend it!
and tekkonkinkreet.

I wish there were more like these, but I havent really been immersed in any recently

Tar.Aldarion

Love samurai champloo, great stuff, good opening song

Links234

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

True.

It's very jarring when it's like High School of the Dead.

I actually don't mind the fanservice in HSotD because it's so OTT and the show itself is very tongue-in-cheek, so it's not like I take the show seriously at all. What especially annoys me about fanservice is when it's in a serious show and it sorta breaks the immersion in the story, and that's always a bad thing.

phlex

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Love samurai champloo, great stuff, good opening song

I downloaded the ost straight away! nujabes is incredible...or was incredible r.i.p he was an amazing producer

Sephiroth_dude

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Love samurai champloo, great stuff, good opening song

Yes

FamousSeamus

Recently finished the Guyver series (newest version) loved it, pity it got canceled after season 1 Thinking of getting the manga to find out what happens!!

cherryghost

Almost done with Gatchaman Crowds. Excellent show

Links234

Catching up a bit with GTO atm

Finished the first season of Darker Than Black, great show

cherryghost

cherryghost wrote: »

Almost done with Gatchaman Crowds. Excellent show

Finished. Amazing show, no fanservice either And S2 was announced this week which is great news!

Jimai

Links234 wrote: »

Catching up a bit with GTO atm

Finished the first season of Darker Than Black, great show

Yes, great show. Don't forget to watch the OVA before the second season.

Is the manga any good?

Sephiroth_dude

Think im gonna give up on ghost hunt,not really enjoying it at all.

Vojera

Just watched episode 8 of Attack on Titan. WTF?

Links234

Finally finished Monster What a show

Wondering what I'll start watching next, Death note, Gantz, Claymore, Black Butler? Hmmm so much to choose from

Links234

Gantz is weird.

entropi

Vojera wrote: »

Just watched episode 8 of Attack on Titan. WTF?

:cool: Just keep on going!

cherryghost

Links234 wrote: »

Gantz is weird.

I'm somewhat relieved that's your opinion

GarH

Gantz really annoyed me.
I kept shouting at all the characters cause they were so unlikeable.
Maybe I shouldn't have had that bottle of vodka before watching it

Links234

I'm only 4 episodes in, but yeah, unlikeable for definite so far. I didn't have any illusions of it being deep and amazing, just a sci-fi action gore brutal mess sometimes I like that in a show.

showing herself Jin-Roh

Sephiroth_dude

So I finished ghost hunt,not a great series tbh,thought it might get better but alas it didn't :-/

Onto to something new now tonight :-D

Sephiroth_dude

So started watching Lunar Legend Tsukihime,Not bad so far if a little confusing.

Konata

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

So started watching Lunar Legend Tsukihime,Not bad so far if a little confusing.

I haven't watched it yet but I hear the anime is dreadful in comparison to the visual novel!

Clandestine

Re: Gantz

The anime stops right as the manga starts getting really good (volumes 10-24 or so are brilliant.) Shame the series ended so badly.

Sephiroth_dude

Konata wrote: »

I haven't watched it yet but I hear the anime is dreadful in comparison to the visual novel!

Not read the novels,Its not bad so far but not great either and the dubbing great either

GalwayGuy2

Fairy Tail.

Damn, it really does pull at the heartstrings.

Sephiroth_dude

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

Fairy Tail.

Damn, it really does pull at the heartstrings.

I love that show so much,laughed so much while watching it,it reminded me of the slayers .

GalwayGuy2

I love that show so much,laughed so much while watching it,it reminded me of the slayers .

It's great how they mix humor, action and emotions.

The most non spoilery humour scene that I can think of would be

the one where Ezra said they could take a bath together. 'What sort of relationship do ye have?'

Sephiroth_dude

I only got as far as episode 78 I think it was,will they be releasing the rest dubbed do you know?

GalwayGuy2

I watch subbed. I love the Japanese accent, and especially when English words are pronounced. :P

I think all that subs are released so far. I'm on episode 126, so there's a good bit left.

And it's on, hopefully temporary, hiatus for a bit.

ZenPit

Currently watching Corpse Princess

Links234

Me and herself have been watching Hellsing Ultimate She's not seen it before and is loving it

Art_Wolf

Well after initially turning off Log Horizon after a few minutes ( and re-watching Sword Art Online as if I had cheated on it..) I randomly threw it on last night and watched it up to the latest episode. Overall not that bad, but when compared to SAO people seem to have gotten acclimatized to being in a game at an amazingly fast rate

Martonio

Finally watched Ponyo! What a cute movie.
I also gave up watching "Monster" the series. The length of the show didn't bother me but the pace of it did. It just wasn't interesting. A bit drawn out.

Vojera

I'm reading A Bride's Story. I like it so far. It's a very "gentle" story, if you know what I mean, and the art style reminds me of a refined CLAMP.

Jimai

Art_Wolf wrote: »

Well after initially turning off Log Horizon after a few minutes ( and re-watching Sword Art Online as if I had cheated on it..) I randomly threw it on last night and watched it up to the latest episode. Overall not that bad, but when compared to SAO people seem to have gotten acclimatized to being in a game at an amazingly fast rate

I randomly picked up Log Horizon too. Haven't watched SAO (yet), so can't compare the two. The constant MMO explanation is a bit annoying and I am surprised there is no in game support Still it's alright and the plot is picking up now...

Must remember to buy an appearance change potion the next time I log into my MMO!

Jimai

P.S. Any news of Accel World 2?

baron von something

watched a few episodes of ninja scroll today

Dartz

Marathoned Bodacious Space Pirates...

And now I want to watch more of it.

Links234

I watched Children Who Chase Lost Voices, or Journey to Agartha as it's known in the UK apparently

Great movie, but very derivative of Miyazaki. I know it's meant to be a homage, but I felt myself playing a game where I was trying to spot all the visual references to Miyazaki's work as it went on, like there's homage and then there's just obsession... Still, really loved it, but felt it was actually getting bogged down with all the ghibli love-in

Tar.Aldarion

Think I'm going to watch Arrietty now

Links234 wrote: »

Me and herself have been watching Hellsing Ultimate She's not seen it before and is loving it

What is it in comparison to the series?

Art_Wolf wrote: »

Well after initially turning off Log Horizon after a few minutes ( and re-watching Sword Art Online as if I had cheated on it..) I randomly threw it on last night and watched it up to the latest episode. Overall not that bad, but when compared to SAO people seem to have gotten acclimatized to being in a game at an amazingly fast rate

Came here to say I was gonna watch log horizon but I'll check out SAO too, thanks.

Links234 wrote: »

I watched Children Who Chase Lost Voices, or Journey to Agartha as it's known in the UK apparently

Great movie, but very derivative of Miyazaki. I know it's meant to be a homage, but I felt myself playing a game where I was trying to spot all the visual references to Miyazaki's work as it went on, like there's homage and then there's just obsession... Still, really loved it, but felt it was actually getting bogged down with all the ghibli love-in

Saw that in the lighthouse, when Makoto Shinkai visited to talk before it. Ignore the ghibli stuff, it's amazing film in it's own right.

We got giant posters handed to us at it, the cover of the DVD, they are great.

This pic as a poster without all the crap:



One of my cats had a vendetta against my one though.

Links234

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

What is it in comparison to the series?

It's like what FMA: Brotherhood is to the first FMA series

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Ignore the ghibli stuff, it's amazing film in it's own right.

Oh it is good, but it felt too much like "Shinkai does Ghibli" for me to ignore


Myself and herself are watching Death Note now so far she loves it!

Tar.Aldarion

and so she should! My cat that destroyed the poster is called Misa.

Sephiroth_dude

Started season 2 of black butler over the weekend