Forum - View topicDo you have an anime itch that isn't being scratched enough lately?
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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Dripping sarcasm or not you best watch out, that just might become a possible show for next season lol. |
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Key
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While not exactly badminton, I am pretty sure that one episode of Full Metal Panic! did have a brief scene in it where mecha are playing oversized table tennis at a military base field day. As for an anime itch I'd like to see scratched? I would love to see another period drama not set in Japan, like Le Chevalier d'Eon. Or just more series which display thoughtful intelligence even close to being on the level of a Moribito, Ghost in the Shell, Spice and Wolf, or Simoun. |
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meiam
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HSoTD was an horror show alright, it was horrifying how they killed a perfectly good premise. "It's still alive, you can still save it, it's gonna be okay. No no NOOOOO! An entire episode dedicated to a bath scene?! *Flatline sound*" I guess my itch would be a good smart mech show, free of annoying teenager MC and any element of harem or mysticism, but last one I can think that could fit the bill would be like Patlabor, so I've pretty much give up on that itch ever been scratched. |
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Key
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Flag would probably be right up your alley, then. It was one of my Top 5 picks for the 2000s, features no teenage characters, and takes a very different approach, including some remarkably bold sociopolitical statements. |
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Blood-
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I would love to watch Flag but the first episode's conceit of seeing everything through a camera view finder so irritated me that I didn't go farther. Did they do that for the whole series?
Fair enough. But what sort of show would make you happy? |
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Key
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Yes. The documentary-style approach is, admittedly, going to be a big barrier to appreciating the series for a lot of people, but I think the approach is crucial to making the series work like it does. It makes for a more analytical approach to the events, allows the series to smoothly jump around between locations and time frames, and offers a clever way to focus a limited animation budget into a smaller number of quality scenes. I think if you give the series a couple more episodes then you may eventually find the content's quality overriding your distaste for the defining gimmick. |
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meiam
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I remember hearing about it but couldn't actually find anyway to watch it at the time, I guess it's been licensed while I wasn't looking. I'll definitely check it out, thanks for pointing me in its direction. I'm fine with socio political statement, still think the second movie of patlabor was one of the gretest movie I ever watch. |
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Key
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It was licensed and released back in 2007-2008 but sold terribly, so it was never rereleased to my knowledge. If you're looking for physical copies, fair warning that this is one of those series where 3/4 volumes are going to be really cheap and one is going to be quite expensive. (On Amazon Market, for instance, Vol. 2 currently costs $56 but the other three combined cost less than $7.) |
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Animegomaniac
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I must have seen different shows because I don't remember Ghost in the Shell:SOC being thoughtful {the less I think about the cyber antiterrorism commander spoiler[wiping out an entire new species of cyber life] the better} or Moribito being intelligent {wow, the king's men spend an entire series trying to kill her and her ward but spoiler[team up with her in the end] because it was a really dumb order that had no repurcussions spoiler[for the man on the throne who gave the order... to kill his own son]. The guards must be crazy or at least easily swayed}. But they're perfectly fine shows for the Adult Swim crowd I guess. The other two are a bit too ... contemplative and cerebral... for that audience. My itch is to be simply entertained on a well written show with above average direction without the neccessary trappings for a show being produced in the present business model or to put another way; shows that have less thought in the concept and more thought in what comes next. My impossible search ... continues... |
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meiam
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Ghost in the shell was a movie. I'm more surprised by the inclusion of simoun, never watched it but considering everything I've read on it place it firmly in the porn but not porn category my curiosity is picked. When most of a show synopsis seems to be about justifying the Yuri element, I can't help but roll my eyes and move on. |
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dlm
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Things without gimmicks. This is probably why I'm such a fan of romance shows, since they are usually free of them. (High point: Toradora!) Strangely enough, I did like Arpeggio of Blue Steel because of the setting and the story. The mecha-y aspects weren't really the focus of the series, but more of part of the background. Yeah, sentient ships, whatever, we have naval strategizing to do. I wanted to like Wizard Barristers because it looked like an interesting take on the police/legal procedural show, but that freakin' verbal tic frog thing pissed me off so much that I didn't watch more than a couple episodes. |
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Touma
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That must have been a synopsis of one of the early volumes. The review of the last volume concludes with this line: "This may have started out as a yuri sci fi series, but by the end its yuri component no longer registers; it is simply a wonderful sci fi series, and that's all that truly matters." I definitely agree with that and I will freely admit that I started watching Simoun because of the yuri elements but stayed with it because there was much more to it. The yuri aspect never did go away. It was there until the end, but it was not the focus of the show and I doubt that anybody watched it just for the yuri. |
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danilo07
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Political issues in Ghost in the Shell:SAC are a joke.Whenever they appeared,I always thought that Kamiyama was creating some sort of misguided conservative satire.And it is not like the abstract philosophical discussions are that complex either.Hell they don't even occupy much of a screen time.
Ghost in the Shell:SAC is a great sci-fi thriller , but it is not as nearly as cerebral as people credit it to be. |
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Chiibi
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Sarcasm aside, I have a suspicion that an anime with gundam-type mecha playing badminton would be rather popular. 
Someone, make a .gif of this. |
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Boomer
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I echo the sentiments already expressed that I want to see more cyberpunk titles released, especially after the disappointments that Mardock Scramble and Appleseed XIII proved to be. I do want to see Psycho Pass, which I haven't gotten around to yet. I am also eagerly anticipating Ghost in the Shell: Arise and the next addition to the Appleseed franchise.
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