New Anime? Anything good?

Scoundrel Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 403

way to trick me

you are mean

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:41 pm

hyah213 wrote:

I don't know what loveless is but it sounds terrifying

Loveless is the title of the eponymous 1991 album by the British musical group, My Bloody Valentine. I thought this was common knowledge?

Street Musician Joined: 16 Feb 2003 Posts: 530

The only song I remember off that album is Only Shallow.

Fan Boy Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 7

Just finished Sukisho and plan on watching Loveless next (the first raw is out).

I don't plan to watch many upcoming series (FMP sequel sounds good, though).

Groupie Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 118

Loveless? That catboy yaoi angst thing...? Bah, maybe can counteract some of that "He is My Master" male fetish crap.

Fan Boy Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 7

If I don't faithfully watch the yaoi, who will?

Groupie Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 118

Emeryl wrote:

If I don't faithfully watch the yaoi, who will?

I support your cause, if only because I would rather have yaoi drown out the maid/harem fetish stuff. And heck, I loved Gankutsuoh...and Weiss Kreuz...and uh....okay I'm going to stop there.

Amateur Musician Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 197

Why's everyone hung up on the genre, surely if it's good it should be watched regardless, right?

Anyway the reason I'll be watching He is My Master, is not because it's a maid/harem style show, but because it's a Gainax production directed by Shouji Saeki based on a manga that I thought was quite funny.

So nerrr! =P

Fan Boy Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 29 Location: transit

since the anime scene appears to be devoid of interesting shit, let's talk about My Bloody Valentine instead.

The first time I heard anything by them was when i found Loveless in a pile of vinyl me and my friend 'borrowed' from a radiostation his dad was working at. I was about thirteen at the time, and I had just started listening to Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and the rest of the warp catalogue, which is a pretty lame excuse for not realizing what I had in my hands. It then went on to spen something like three or four years keeping all the other stuff we took company in the basement.
Just before the finals in my second year of highschool I got bored and figured that instead of studying I would organize these records by genre and ride the wave of cool a properly systemized vinyl collection would make and backflip my way to a 10 on the upcoming economics test.
I immediately listened to the album some four times in a row and realized this was THE musical representation of a sunday, tests were unnecessary and the sky was red, we just couldn't see it because it was tinted blue with a screen raised by the squares in an attempt to stop the earth from expanding to it's right size so they could increase profits.
How I did on the test is irrelevant aside from the fact that I passed.

So remember kids, economics is bad for your headstuff and a proper record collection DOES in fact help with getting sex, jobs, good grades and free liquour.

and this post was written while listening to 'Honey Power'

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:09 am

I didn't really get a chance to hear My Bloody Valentine until way later in the game, during my college years. I think I was about 13 when Loveless came out, and unfortunately, I wasn't nearly as musically hip as Frikki at that age (what kind of a sick person would listen to Squarepusher at the age of THIRTEEN?!).

The shoegazing band that I WAS into during the years they were active (albeit their final years) was Ride. Their 1990 debut, Nowhere, was a fixture in my CD player when I was in high school - God knows how many times I played that thing. It's not as widely acclaimed as Loveless, but it's one of my all time favorite discs, and possibly my favorite debut album ever.

I have to say though, that the disproportionate amount of time I spent at secondhand record stores when I was in college probably had a detrimental effect to my grades. I'm firmly convinced that if not for that, I'd be making about 15 million yen a year at an investment bank, with a couple of Ferraris in my private garage, and possibly engaged to a hot, voluptuous model. All that while translating Japanese comic books illegally.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:13 pm

I'm watching Akagi right now. Wow I dont understand JACK of Mahjong. Aside from that, pretty good show.

Roadie Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 66

Back again after a long hiatus dealing with "real life".

Good anime out right now:

Kemonozume: TV show from the guy who did Mindgame, and like mindgame it features amazing animation, direction, and a plot that actually makes you care about the characters. The story is about a guy who is part of a demon hunting organization who happens to fall in love with a girl who transforms into a demon and the challenges assotiated with it. The show is wonderful, and on par with the kind of manga one would find in Ikki, but its in anime form!

Flag: Not as good as the earlier, but interesting nonetheless (I've only seen about 3 episodes of it) basically its an anime about a photographer who goes to a middle eastren country that's strangely like afgainistan along with a military force on some kind of operation. The show is actually shot kind of like a documentary, with still photographs, and realistic camera work, as well as shots done through the reporter's camera, giving it a rough realistic feel. If I had to criticize the show, its that it has too much of a technofetishist overtone to it, they spend stupid amounts of time drooling over the mech, something that the show would be better off for if it didn't have.

Not a TV show, but I'll be seeing Satoshi Kon's Paprika this weekend in Chicago... I'll write what I think about it soon Smile

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myanimelist profile · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:39 pm

neilworms wrote:

Kemonozume: TV show from the guy who did Mindgame, and like mindgame it features amazing animation, direction, and a plot that actually makes you care about the characters. The story is about a guy who is part of a demon hunting organization who happens to fall in love with a girl who transforms into a demon and the challenges assotiated with it. The show is wonderful, and on par with the kind of manga one would find in Ikki, but its in anime form!

There's actually one of those Kifuuken guys that reminds a LOT of a character in Freesia.
Masaaki Yuasa directing a Freesia anime? One can only hope.

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:38 pm

Kemonozume works amazingly well when it comes to focusing on the main characters. Practically every scene featuring them together is amazing. It's pretty rare that you get characters that not only feel like real people, but you care about. Certianly beats the usual cardboard cutout characters (that was one of my few gripes about Haruhi Suzumiya: much of the cast were made up of cliches, which otaku labeled as somekind of postmodern commentary on anime). The plot really hasen't been very compelling yet, but even if that aspect doesn't come around Yuasa's direction is more than good enough to carry the series. Flag was a solid but a bit dry; the attempt at social commentary hasn't gone anywhere yet, and even with the odd (and somewhat gimmicky) style of directing it feels like a cheap version of Oshii's Patlabor 2. Still, I'll follow it through to see where it goes.
On a seperate note, hiya neilworms. My screen name is diffrent, but you know me from the ANN boards (think late-Kurosawa).

myanimelist profile · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:45 pm

Oh wait, you're Kagemusha?
Shi, I wouldn't have guessed.

You "sound" scarier on ANN.
But that's just a scary place all together that I prefer to avoid, so yeah.