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Post by brutalis on Dec 27, 2017 8:22:21 GMT -5
Purchased several DVD's on markdown over this weekend. Big electronic store here which used to be one of the largest DVD retailers here has drastically cut down their DVD's from being 10 rows and is now only 1 row with 1 side Blu-ray and the other side DVD. Doing so they used to have a very sweet Anime section which is now non-existent and so they marked down the few complete series sets they had to get them off the shelf. Picked up Girls & Panzer for $15 and Black Bullet for $17. Also bought the second 12 episode set of Needless for $6 so now will need to look around for the first 12 episode set. But who can turn away a $6 Anime DVD? For $18 each I nabbed me Ninja Senshi Tobikage, Metal Armor Dragonar, Tower of Druaga, Godannar, Dragonar Academy, Karneval and Ben To. Now I just have to find some time to watch any of the many sets I have managed to grab lately.
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Post by Jesse on Jan 8, 2018 1:47:52 GMT -5
Perfect Blue (1997)  An excellent anime film and arguably one of the scariest horror movies of the era. This psychological thriller explores some interesting themes and there are some genuinely disturbing moments, as well as a great use of tension and suspense, while the score adds perfectly to the unsettling mood throughout. When a J-pop idol turned actress finds herself being harassed and impersonated by an online stalker she has a mental breakdown. As people in her life are being murdered she starts to question her own reality. There are some interesting twists that may leave the audience wondering what is actually happening as well while building up to the climactic ending.
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Post by Jesse on Jan 8, 2018 2:10:48 GMT -5
I watched the first episode of the horror anthology anime series Junji Ito Collection adapted from his manga work and mostly enjoyed it. The first story is more humorous that scary but the artwork is super creepy and it's about this weird kid who goes around putting curses on people. The trailer for the second episode with the doll looks terrifying.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 9, 2018 10:24:36 GMT -5
I was quite out of Anime in recent years with all my ongoing series ending.
Thanks to partly Netflix (got it recently) and in a large part to Team Fourstar's FourstarBento channel on Youtube, I've been trying out some anime series again.
For those not familiar with Team Fourstar, they are a group of (formerly amateur, by now professional) voice actors who redubbed and recut Dragonball Z (and a few other series) to make it shorter and more of a parody of the original series (but in many ways also making it a better adaption of the series than the original anime with its long stretches of nothing). The Bento channel was set up by them to do reviews of anime series and movies. They have recently done a series where they picked 10 different anime series that started last year and did a survival game with them. The indepth discussions they had made me pick up 2 of the series they really liked (Inuyashiki and Ancient Magus Bride) and I'm looking forward to see if I can watch MMO Junkie somewhere, another series they really liked.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 18, 2018 6:34:21 GMT -5
I watched Godzilla: planet of monsters on Netflix, yesterday.
It’s quite an unusual hard science-fiction premise for the big lug, and it might not be for everyone... but there are two points that I thought were outstanding in the effort:
1- No Godzilla movie or cartoon has ever been so successful at rendering the sheer size of the monster. I was really awed by the big G, even if it’s in a cartoon.
2- In all his post-original appearances, Godzilla was always sort of sympathetic, when he wasn’t downright heroic. Here he is returned to his original concept, and then some: that of destruction incarnate. I didn’t root for Godzilla at all, here, I feared him.
Netflix said this was “episode 1” so I guess it’s a series... I’ll probably watch the next ones, even if I sometimes fast forward through the my scenes of people talking around gorgeously rendered computer screens.
(The famous website “Barry’s temple of Godzilla” once explained that a Godzilla movie consisted of two things: big monsters fighting, and people talking about stuff. That hasn’t changed!)
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 18, 2018 7:36:09 GMT -5
I'll be watching that either tonight or tomorrow. it's supposed to be a series, yes, but like Castelvania, it seems more like a movie. Perhaps it'll be a series of movies  |
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Post by brutalis on Jan 18, 2018 8:39:38 GMT -5
Godzilla: planet of monsters is meant to be a trilogy. If it catches on then there is the possibility for more being made. The big G is all about the big $ in Japan  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 25, 2018 22:08:40 GMT -5
Godzilla was quite good, though not much Godzilla in it. I really liked the set up with the aliens and the Battlestar Galactica riff... hopefully they will develop it more. The fight was pretty decent, too. I don't love computer rendered art (it's great for space background, but lousy for people) but this was really good rendered art, such that it was bearable for the humans and awesome for the space scenes.
I'm hoping they go more in depth with the story alongside what is clearly setting up to be some sort of MechaGodzilla battle.
I also watched Black Clover a bit.. up to what they've played on Adult Swim, anyway. Not bad, though a little too goofy, and the tendency to repeat the last couple minutes of the previous episode as the beginning of the next as filler is really annoying. I'll probably continue to watch if I remember its on.
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 29, 2018 13:01:00 GMT -5
I'm watching/editing DBZ. Up to episode 58 now, that should've finished the Namek Saga, instead of the official #67.
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Post by Jesse on Apr 29, 2018 14:49:00 GMT -5
Started rewatching FLCL as it's reairing on Toonami Saturday nights. I'm exciting about checking out the new episodes as they air as the original is one of my top 10 all time favorite anime series.
Another upcoming series that starts airing next week is My Hero Academia which comes highly recommended so I'm looking forward to checking that out that as well. I've seen the Japanese dub of the first episode before but never got around to watching the rest of it.
Another series airing on Toonami that I've been enjoying is Black Clover. I feel like it gets better as it goes.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 30, 2018 8:05:41 GMT -5
Finished yesterday the Freeza Saga. The amount of rubbish filler was just as staggering as I recalled (more than 50%).
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 30, 2018 22:03:27 GMT -5
The Dragonball series (especially Z) are SO filler... you really have to do something else while you're watching them. I've been re-watching Wolf's Rain with my teenagers (which has been fun) and some Robotech (Netflix has the rights atm)..it's like the silver age DC of anime. |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 31, 2018 0:50:34 GMT -5
The Dragonball series (especially Z) are SO filler... you really have to do something else while you're watching them. That's true in general, but it varies greatly from saga to saga. I'm talking Z, the original one had much less filler material. So far, The Saiyan had the least filler (basically in the 1st episode), about 10%. The Freeza Saga is way worse, both in terms of running time as well as "dispersion". For example, I can recall subplots that spawned several episodes, and which were easy to remove: Gohan escaping from the training grounds, the expedition to Namek getting derailed, Goku having all sorts of mishaps en route, Bulma as the star of her own adventures... The final stretch, Goku vs Freeza, had only two relevant subplots to speak of: the gang on Earth attempting to go to the rescue and the Ginyu Force arriving on Kaio-sama's world. The difference in these cases, was that the subplots were in no way contained to some specific episodes, and run for many episodes, making them a pain to remove. Add to that, the fight itself was greatly inflated with "filler moves", which makes for a rather unpleasant watching experience of the edited result. |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 31, 2018 7:25:30 GMT -5
Started rewatching SD Gundam Force. Loved it to pieces when it first came out, felt like a homage to Samurai Pizza Cats, in the sense that it was stupid as drokk but never took itself too seriously
Really always liked Zero, The Winged Knight of Lacroa, and still treasure my little figure of him
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Post by brutalis on May 31, 2018 8:09:21 GMT -5
The Dragonball series (especially Z) are SO filler... you really have to do something else while you're watching them. I've been re-watching Wolf's Rain with my teenagers (which has been fun) and some Robotech (Netflix has the rights atm)..it's like the silver age DC of anime. Yes Dragonball Z has LOTS of filler, which is why I prefer the edited Z-Kai to watch. Moves much faster without out all the jumping around to other stuff that has little to nothing to do with the story. Filler is one of those things found in Anime you learn to accept/ignore or fast forward through. |
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