The Anime/Manga thread

Oriphiel · 03-08-2018, 06:09 PM

I guess I'm about to find out

~~MicShazam~~ · 03-08-2018, 11:44 PM

I have three of the movies in a box. There's some really funny moments, but they also give me a headache. A bit too frantic at times. Especially that one where there's a lot of trouble with a wedding. I can't remember them so well.

I bought that DVD box some years ago because I wanted to catch up with the very first anime series/movies I ever watched on VHS.

It was things like one of the A-Ko movies, Gunbuster, Dominion Tank Police and some Rumik World short movies. Also something called Ambassador Magma, which I haven't seen in 20 years.

Of those, I've also got Dominion Tank Police and Gunbuster on DVD, but haven't gotten around to re-watching them.

Oriphiel · 03-09-2018, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I have three of the movies in a box. There's some really funny moments, but they also give me a headache. A bit too frantic at times. Especially that one where there's a lot of trouble with a wedding. I can't remember them so well.

I bought that DVD box some years ago because I wanted to catch up with the very first anime series/movies I ever watched on VHS.

It was things like one of the A-Ko movies, Gunbuster, Dominion Tank Police and some Rumik World short movies. Also something called Ambassador Magma, which I haven't seen in 20 years.

Of those, I've also got Dominion Tank Police and Gunbuster on DVD, but haven't gotten around to re-watching them.

Yeah, I remember talking with you about Maris the Chojo and other Takahashi Rumiko stuff awhile back, when you posted that you were throwing out old VHS tapes. I love her work. Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, and the Rumic World videos (even the one with the weird flesh eating mermaids) are all >>>

~~MicShazam~~ · 03-09-2018, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

Yeah, I remember talking with you about Maris the Chojo and other Takahashi Rumiko stuff awhile back, when you posted that you were throwing out old VHS tapes. I love her work. Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, and the Rumic World videos (even the one with the weird flesh eating mermaids) are all >>>

I've never heard about the one with the flesh eating mermaids, but it sounds like it's got a premise much like this really, really freaky comic book I've read called Princess Mermaid (by someone named Junko Mizuno).

I did read some Ranma ½ as well back then, but I've really only been through a fraction of all the stuff Rumiko Takahashi has made.

The Batlord · 03-09-2018, 02:58 AM

**** yeah Gunbuster!

~~MicShazam~~ · 03-09-2018, 07:53 AM

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**** yeah Gunbuster!

I'm 100% sure Gunbuster was the first anime I ever watched - and before I'd ever read any manga too.

As a result, I've got a soft spot for the drawing and coloring style of a lot of old Anime.

The ending to Gunbuster was a major bummer! As in good, but also a pretty extreme and depressing way for things to end for the heroine.
It's just too bad they apparently couldn't afford to fully animate and color the last ~1/6 of the series.

The Batlord · 03-09-2018, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

The ending to Gunbuster was a major bummer! As in good, but also a pretty extreme and depressing way for things to end for the heroine.
It's just too bad they apparently couldn't afford to fully animate and color the last ~1/6 of the series.

And so it goes for Hideaki Anno.

~~MicShazam~~ · 03-09-2018, 02:16 PM

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And so it goes for Hideaki Anno.

Not too familiar with this guy's work. I've got a Cutie Honey anime, but apparently not one which he was involved with. Still only read maybe 1/4 of the Evangelion manga. The last part of Gunbuster was published as an anime, but was made incredibly cheaply and in B&W, so I'm curious about what Hideaki Anno has suffered in terms of incomplete anime? I read his Wikipedia article and can confirm that I know **** all about his work aside from the few volumes of Evangelion I read 10+ years ago. Anything I'm missing?

The Batlord · 03-09-2018, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

Not too familiar with this guy's work. I've got a Cutie Honey anime, but apparently not one which he was involved with. Still only read maybe 1/4 of the Evangelion manga. The last part of Gunbuster was published as an anime, but was made incredibly cheaply and in B&W, so I'm curious about what Hideaki Anno has suffered in terms of incomplete anime? I read his Wikipedia article and can confirm that I know **** all about his work aside from the few volumes of Evangelion I read 10+ years ago. Anything I'm missing?

There's dispute and speculation over the reason, but the last two episodes of Evangelion were barely animated, showed random pictures for long periods of time, and the actual plot of the third to last episode was basically ignored for a surrealistic, existentialist screed. Many have theorized that the show either ran out of money or time to animate the last two episodes. This was fixed with the movie End of Evangelion, but no one has ever really answered the question of why those two episodes happened the way they did.

Those two episodes were great to watch while stoned though.

The Batlord · 03-09-2018, 03:35 PM

The manga is pretty great tbh, one of my three favorite things about anime. You should definitely read the first two arcs of the manga. The first is a more fleshed out version of the first episode of the anime and is just better, the second was completely cut out but is one of the most gloriously dark and nihilistic fantasy stories you'll ever read. It shows Guts as being the hardass developed by the "Golden Age" origin story from the anime, with brilliant action scenes involving that giant sword from the first episode, and shows just how far he will go to get to the God Hand after what they did at the end of the anime, all the way up to shattering his body and fighting a Lovecraftian horror as just some guy with a sword. It's pretty mindblowing.

After that it goes to the origin story for a long time, but when it goes back to the "current" time period it goes very hard. There are those questionable moments I mentioned (which still fit with the horrendously dark tone of the series), but holy **** is it worth it to read one of the best fantasy stories of all-time. And the art is unparalleled in its painstaking detail. You really need to at least give it a shot. The Berserk manga is amazing. There's a reason they went back after all those years to explore all that **** they left out in the original anime.

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I have three of the movies in a box. There's some really funny moments, but they also give me a headache. A bit too frantic at times. Especially that one where there's a lot of trouble with a wedding. I can't remember them so well. I bought that DVD box some years ago because I wanted to catch up with the very first anime series/movies I ever watched on VHS. It was things like one of the A-Ko movies, Gunbuster, Dominion Tank Police and some Rumik World short movies. Also something called Ambassador Magma, which I haven't seen in 20 years. Of those, I've also got Dominion Tank Police and Gunbuster on DVD, but haven't gotten around to re-watching them.