>first ten episodes of Durarara!

>11th episode of Durarara!

>12th episode of Durarara!

What the fuck is durarara anyway?

>>66081
An anime based on a light novel written by the same guy who wrote Baccano

>>66082
Only it's complete shit, unlike Baccano.

>>66083
I wouldn't call it complete shit. Just really, really boring.

>>66083
>>66084

>>66085
Ninja it's fine if you've never seen Baccano, just don't go praising Durara if that's the case.

Of what is Durarara!! about anyways?

>>66087
Pretty much fucking nothing. There's a Dullahan with a motorcycle that is actually a horse, but she's female so obviously they spend most of their time making her more moe than a spine-whipping blood curdling terror monster. Other than that, it's mostly about pointlessly flat self-serving dialog.

>>66087

It's about how salient and networked social connections are disarming the tyranny of individualism. Also some really thoughtful visual and thematic discourses regarding the mind-body duality amidst modern technology (and technology-mediated culture) and the unending failures of optimism.

Sprinkle in a huge cast of very distinct characters and some very ticklish music and you get Durarara!

Haters gonna hate.

>>66089
>It's about how salient and networked social connections are disarming the tyranny of individualism. Also some really thoughtful visual and thematic discourses regarding the mind-body duality amidst modern technology (and technology-mediated culture) and the unending failures of optimism.
Holy FUCK you are worse than an NGE fan.

>>66087
A modern fairy tale set in Japan that uses the idea that our current technology can be magical in it's own way. It's about people connecting and how we can find friendship and people to depend on even in the anonymity of the modern internet life. It's also basically an anime about moot and/or 2channel.

It's a cool concept and, like Ninja said, has some boss ass music. I actually like it a whole lot more than Baccano!'s. Celty's theme is perfection incarnate. It sorta loses it's steam about halfway through tho, imho

>>66080

That's almost exactly where I ragequit the series.

>>66090

Everything Ninja says there is accurate. What he's leaving out is how hamfisted and boring the execution is. Everything is told in long, drawn out, expository flashbacks, sapping the show of any possible narrative tension. That this show was made by the same studio and written by the same author of Baccano, which displayed an absolute mastery of withholding information and using timeline jumps to their best possible effect is unbelievable.

There's really no excuse for something with as many fun ideas and characters as Durarara to be so boring. It's absolutely criminal. There is no way this series could not be improved by making it more like Baccano, none. In fact, it feels like an amateurish precursor to Baccano. The studio moved backwards with this production.

It's not a complete mess, of course. Because the ideas and characters are so fun, from time to time it surfaces through the morass of narration and you lose your shit laughing. But it holds itself back horrendously. It should have been one of the best series of the last ten years, and it's just not.

Also Shinra/Celty pissed me the fuck off. Not that it happened, but the way in which it happened. That was what pushed me over the edge into dropping the series.

>>66093
What little I watched I had absolutely no idea what was going on or why I should care.

I'll agree that Durarara! is a multielement character study somehow trying to fit into a narrative dress, but I won't agree that it's boring or hamfisted. Not yet, anyways. Only on episode 13.

>>66070
Hero what is wrong with you why don't you fuck the sexy demon lady :I

>>66109
Because it's manga.

>>66109
>66113
From what I'm told they do actually fuck not too long from this point in the novels.

>>66087
>Of what is Durarara!! about anyways?
The story of the city of Ikebukuro in Japan and more specifically, about an anonymous-internet gang, the Dollars, and a dullahan working as an underworld courier in mysterious circunstances. Plus Isaac and Miria cameos!!!

>>66087
A headless Irish fairy surfing Japanese 4chan crossed with zombies and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

>>66126
>Japanese 4chan
that's called 2channel dude

>>66124
It sounds like a William Gibson novel.

Persona 4 Anime (ペルソナ4…

Hnnnng waiting for this to get dubbed is gonna be hell.

>>66143
This is looking like it'll easily grab the 2nd best show slot for Fall season.

>>66144

1) This (and the fighting game) had better be brought to the states.

2) If (which had better be a fucking "when") it does they need to bring back all the VAs of the game.

(Actually, did Amanda Wynn Lee retire? I hope not, we need her for Yukiko.)

>>66144
>2nd
What exactly could beat Persona 4?

So was Michiko to Hatchin any good? I remember intending to watch it and then just kinda... forgetting it existed.

>>66149
Why? She's really young for a VA.

>>66153

It's just that voicing Yukiko was the last role she ever had and that was back in 2008. Hell, Yukiko in general was the last thing she's ever done as an actor, writer, director or an anything. Makes a dude worry.

>>66143
HHHHHNNNNGGGGG

So excited.

And you know /a/ and /v/ is going to have over 9000 bawww threads about this when the romance doesn't follow whatever path they took.

Kanji and Naoto forever, single MC is best tier

>>66158
>Kanji and a woman
ahahahaha

>>66152
It wasn't as remarkable as it could've been imo, but it was still pretty good. Awesome soundtrack too, and Brazil scenery porn everywhere.

>>66150
Fate Zero, and it'll do so very easily.

P4 will probably still be okay though, don't see why it wouldn't be.

>>66158

I...I also ship those two. It's too adorable.

>>66159

Hey now, Atlus themselves said his sexual orientation is ambiguous. His whole Social Link is about Gender Roles after all, not his sexuality.

I...kind of want this...

>>66176
In before contracts get signed with that pen.

Heat Guy J is a really fun anime. Between J spouting lines about men pretty much everything else, each episode is quite enjoyable in its own right.

Well that was... something.

Am I kawaii, uguu~?

http://aya.shii.org/2011/09/17/european-philosophers-become-magical-anime-girls/

>>66228
nothing, sacred, etc.

Reading Air Gear just kind of depresses me now.

It's such a pity because Oh! Great!'s art is so fantastic and his sense of style is top notch but his writing is... just...

>>66228
The fact that they're little girls isn't as bad as the fact that these fuckers will butcher any philosophical form of thought they'd likely use as their core personality.

>>66228
I'd teach that Nietzsche the joys of life if you know what I mean.

>>66230
>nothing, sacred, etc.
I'm aware that you can find a Nietzsche quote to support pretty much any position you want to espouse, but wasn't that half the point of some of Nietzsche's philosophy?

>>66228
I finds myself reminded of that one Dresden Codac comic, where electricity is generated by famous writers spinning in their graves.

>>66228
>Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger
>No Mill, Popper or Russell

Ugh. I long for the day when Continental Philosophy isn't treated as the Kool Kids Klub.

Iiiiiiimanuel Kant was a real pissant,
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could drink you under the table...!

>>66228
FUCK
As a philosophy student, this is just beyond ridiculous.
And als-
>Hume and Berkeley are twins
>Hegel is tsundere
goddammitjapan.jpg

>>66242
At least they are spared of this humiliation.
Specially Popper.

OH GOD, I actually liked this manga, it was like Fallout with more robots and no monstrosities, THEN HURP DERP IT WAS ONLY 15% of the population and it's all down hill from there.

>>66217
Just don't watch the series. I dunno about the manga, but the Hen Zemi show is fucking awful compared to the OVAs.

>>66228
I feel like I should take some sort of revenge for this. Like use major japanese figures and turn them into boring, overweight deviant artists or something.

>>66286
Turning famous Asian historical figures into moeshit? They do that themselves.

>>66287
Indeed.

Of course, Sengoku Rance is actually GOOD so maybe it doesn't count.

>>66176
I really want this.

>>66307
So you can set it on fire? Because that's why I'd want it.

I couldn't sit through 5 minutes of Seikon no Qwazer. Does it get any less awful?

.....I don't even know what it's about.

>>66314
No, it actually just gets worse.

>>66314
you do know what fetish it is out to sate though, right?

>>66334
Periodic tables. *FAP FAP FAP*

>Black Rock Shooter

>>66369
The manga or anime?

Because the anime is a paddlin'.

>>66334
No fucking clue, but judging from the first scene, I guess it could be, y'know, guro. Probably.

I really like not knowing what a show is about before I start watching it. Sometimes this experience is solid gold, like with Kannazuki no Miko. Other times, I get burned really bad.

>>66377
iirc, the fighting mechanics are based around drinking chick's breast milk. from the tit.

yyyyeaaaahhhhh.

>>66370

The movie.

>>66418
It's not a movie, it's an OVA.

>>66418
Paddlin'

>>66369
I would watch the FUCK out of that show if the characters were 10-20 years older. As is, zero interest.

I HATE Oreimo now

You laughed, admit it.

>B Gata H Kei
THINGS HAVE OFFICIALLY HAPPENED!

>>66662
Didn't they fuck ages ago?

>>66663
He didn't get it up.

Falcon Punch

7 years ago today, one man saved us all. With just one punch.

>>66665
Holy shit, he has a face under that mask?

>>66666
Don't be ridiculous, he had his face replaced with a backup mask years ago. I'm told he keeps the real face in a jar by the door, though one wonders who is it for? Perhaps all the lonely people.

>>66220
Is Penguindrum any good? I only watched the first three episodes and it didn't keep my attention the way Utena did.

>>66668
The fourth episode is when things and by "things" I mean "Ringo" start to go nuts.

After reading what's been translated of Oumagadoki Doubutsuen so far and the original one shot, I'm not sure which one's better. I want to say the one shot, but the final draft looks more refined, shonen cliches aside. Hmm

Nichijou × Samurai Logic [loop ver.]
ARRRGGGHHGH!!! GET IT OUT OF MY HEEEAAAADDDDD!!!!

Well...this didn't suck. It wasn't perfect, it didn't really resolve most of the issues between them like I'd hoped. But it didn't suck, and given what a trainwreck this manga's become, that's a blessing.

And now that the only thing I was still reading this manga for is done with, I'm out. Let me know if something as awesome as the King/Netero fight happens again.

>>66722
Will do.

Glad the author isn't dead!

Read a bit of Trinity Seven on /a/'s suggestion, it's a pretty funny little manga so far. I do like a main character who just doesn't give a fuck.

>>66722
what is this?

>>66738
HiatusxHiatus

>>66739
wow did it really end like that

what a bad path it set down on

>>66717
Here, let me remedy you with some easy listening.
Helvetica Slamdard - Quad City…

>>66722
Goodbye king ;_;

>>66748
Superior
Unlimited Slam Works - Quad Ci…

>The final episodes of The Big O
You were doing so well, and then you pulled some NGE/Last Exile/Outlaw Star shit.

>>66758
>the end of Big O S2
thank you for reminding me of that immense disappointment. Never in my life was I so excited to get a second season for something, only for the end to be complete and utter bullshit

>>66765
>>66758
Apparently they were trying to hook us for a third season that they never ended up getting the budget for.

http://slide.extrascans.com/reader/read/maoyuu_maou_yuusha/en/0/5/page/1

>>66769
That's really not a risk you should take in that position.

>>66765
Hey if Tiger and Bunny fags are willing to plunk down money for The Big O BDs we might finally get something. But Roger will probably turn gay.

>>66774
I like both series, so I'd do it. But what are you talking about? How is that related?

>Durarara!

Yeah, okay, I can dig it.

Till My Head Falls Off by TMBG

>>66781
Tiki have you still not watched Baccano?

HNNNNNNNNNNNNGH

So… the Mirai Nikki guy is doing a new manga. MN was a manga with a promising premise and some neat action scenes that went completely apeshit and terrible for the last 3rd of the story.

This new series is also quite promising, as the singular chapter released so far indicates that this is Mirai Nikki+Code Geass and I am VERY MUCH ALRIGHT WITH THAT.

http://www.mangareader.net/big-order/1/3

>>66783
I've started now that it's dubbed.

They Might Be Giants - Hall of Heads

>>66774
Hopefully this means I finally get my fucking Zetman anime.

>>66795
Not to bust on Zetman, but oh god I hope they can fix the pacing for the anime because JESUS CHRIST THAT MANGA IS BORING SOMETIMES

>>66795
they gon' amp up the Kouga/Jin homolust to astronomical levels

This manga is pretty amusing.

>>66803

>>66804
Only three chapters so far though.

http://www.mangareader.net/jiya/1

>>66805
Actually I guess it's only three chapters long.

エヴァ（残酷な天使の…
Da'wwww!

>>66815

>>66805
That was a rather fun read.

>>66821
For real, I want more of it.

So, I watched the first episode of Girls Bravo! and it was as horrible as I expected, but they mention that the main character's hobby is fishing.

Do they elaborate on that more? Like, are there scenes were he just spends time fishing and being introspective? Does he work out his problems while fishing? I'm willing to sit through more terrible harem comedy bullshit as long as there is also a strong emphasis on fishing.

HOLY SHIT THIS ART!!

http://www.mangareader.net/jabberwocky/1/2

>>66844
IT'S LIKE SOMEONE MADE A FRANK MILLER MANGA!

IT'S...SO BEAUTIFUL.....

>>66844
>>66845
So...lemme give you a synopsis here.

In a heavily stylized Black and White manga set at the turn of the last century we have a heavily drunken British female secret agent who carries numerous bottles of liquor concealing bladed weapons, An American anthropomorphic Oviraptor who is a firearms specialist that always wears a raccoon skin cap and the Russian equivalent of Alfred on a mission to kill a Russian Duke and reclaim the Holy Egg of the Russian Dinosaur Prince before the Duke amasses an army of Russian Dinosaurs who are bound duty to follow whoever holds the egg which contains the Dinosaur Prince.

I SWEAR TO GOD I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP, THIS MANGA IS THAT AMAZING!

>>66826
Meh, the only real fun I had at that show is making a joke about Ed from Full Metal being shorter then the main guy from that show.
And it had some lolz momends and works as fapfule if you can do better...
Still, its better then DearS...

>>66885
Dude, I've been stabbed before and that was better than DearS.

>>66889
Your words are True.
Also WORST OP MUSIC TEXT EVER!

Finished Baccano, I cannot tell if I like the Bootleggers or Isaac And Miriam more.

>>66894
>Miriam
How do people misspell these characters names?! They are right there in the opening credits in big bold letters.

>>66896
Sorry, I'm horrible at typing, I have big fingers, bad eyes and I'm in a dark room.


Also I decided the Bootleggers are my favorite.

Does Thorfinn ever kill Askeladd?

>>66909

No.

Someone else beats him to it, right in front of his eyes.

>>66910
And then Askeladd, while dying, manages to break Thorfinn with one question.

Even to the end, the most glorious dick.

Every time I try to sit down and read some Manga I reach a point where the series either remains incomplete, in-progress, or untranslated.

Do any of you know some good classic series that have concluded, or such as with Jojo's, had specific narrative arc conclusively ended?

>>66913
Hellsing, Fullmetal Alchemist, Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Trigun, Mushishi. . .maybe Yu Yu Hakusho. Depends what length and genre you're after.

>>66913
>>66914
>Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer
THIS. GO NOW. READ. WHAT ARE YOU STILL HERE FOR.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/b_gata_h_kei/v09/c286/2.html

FINALLY! (Completely and totally NSFW)

>>66913
>>66914
>>66917
Biscuit Hammer and TWGOK are both manga I picked up with just a few chapters scanned because the title were weird.

NO REGRETS, SWORDFISH KNIGHT IS KNIGHT OF THE YEAR ALL YEARS

>>66917
>>66922
Thirding Biscuit Hammer. It handled the traditional shonen battle manga tropes so well and didn't allow itself to fall into the rut that the more popular, long-running series do.

Even if it was actually a seinen manga that was just in the style of shonen battle manga. Or maybe because of that, I dunno.

Either way. Likeable characters, great execution, clear art and nice subversions of expectations more often than you'd expect. Well worth a read.

DAT ED

KIDS REACT to Hatsune Miku
Im just posting to for a) the lols and b) to tell you that when I found out what Miku really was my mind was blown Sqvidverd style!
Still not my flaver of j-pop...
Also THE FUTURE IS NOW! Enjoy it~

神山健治監督最新作『…

>>66942
Nice!

>>66978
AHAHAHAHA! Man, epic miss post.

http://www.mangareader.net/kutsuzure-sensen-witch-vasenkas-war/1

Baba Yaga’s Daughter in the Red Army during World War 2.

~Japan~

What's the name of that Alice in Wonderland anime? The recent one? I think it was a movie.

>finishing Usagi Drop (animu)

oh god it's just like Baccano! where I knew it was going to end but didn't want it to but it did anyways and i wasn't ready oh god

>people who post a doujin page on Tumblr but WON'T PROVIDE SOURCE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
>EVEN ASKED THEM AND DIDN'T GET A RESPONSE

no seriously fuck you, person on tumblr, i hope you fucking die

Anyone know what manga this is? Because it looks a lot like a sort of Japanese Asterix, and that would be awesome.

>>67033
The big text there, which I assume is the title, is "History of Japan." I'm not certain (one of the kanji is not one I recognize), but it looks like the subtitle might be "1. The Birth of Japan" or something to that effect

It looks like it's....not a textbook per se, but a school learning resource manga....thing.

>>67033
>>67035 again. Forgot to add: if you need to look for it on Amazon.co.jp or something, the title (assuming that is the title) is 日本の歴史.

>>67035
>>67037
Ah, OK. Thanks!

Guys, I need help. Where's this from?

>>67051
Fate Zero

Thanks

God damn, these last few chapters of Vinland Saga have been intense.

You know, Heat Guy J is one of the better animes I've seen in a while. It reminds me of a less serious Big O; "mysterious" survival circumstances (though they're explained part way through the series), an odd robot, a detective-like protagonist who wears shades and has a ride that can change slightly.

It has its thought-provoking moments but is otherwise skin deep, but in such a way as to allow you to just enjoy the ride. Also, J has great quotes. I need to make Manly J images in the vein of Courage Wolf.

Watching FMA:BRO Ep55. Only ten minutes in and this is the most epic episode yet.

DOSE MUSCLES
DAT TWINKLE
DAT BROSHAKE

TRUE BROS

>>67159
Every episode of FMA: BROS4LYFE from episode 50 on is the most epic one yet.

...Fucking dammit. Linebarrels of Iron was beginning to look interesting the first few episodes. Okay, it has high school kids and plenty of T&A, but that's par for the course. The story that began was really interesting, especially when the lead role became a psychopath and turned on his one good friend in the name of justice.

Then I get to Episode 6 and they're like 'LOL JUST KIDDING THIS IS A HAREM MECHA ANIME WITH EVERY FUCKING CLICHE EVER'. y u do this Japan

I'll go another episode or two, just to see if this is some sort of retarded filler, but I'm jumping ship if it doesn't revert back.

Also I've given up on Bleach 100%. And nothing of value was lost.

>>67216
lol GONZO

Soooo... is Birdy the Mighty a good show?

>>67229
Decode isn't good at all, but the OVAs are quality.

I don't even understand what's happening in HunterxHunter anymore

The combined hiatuses have destroyed all my memory of this thing

>>67231
Good thing the new anime started, then.

>>67230
I dunno man. I liked Decode.
The story was par for the course, and I really enjoyed how the fight scenes were animated.

>>67231

Ging is Gon's dad. Netero was the chairman and then he died and now they're doing elections to replace him because apparently Togashi thinks electoral politics is some snappy shit now.

Pretty much everything else from the last few chapters is new, I'm pretty sure.

>>67236

Ging is fine, as we didn't know much about him in the first place. But now we have all these new characters to try to keep straight, as well as the reappearence of some characters that haven't shown up AT ALL in the last hundred chapters. You expect me to remember the names of the characters from THE FIRST HUNTER EXAM?!

Also, I don't think Hisoka has ever done that... percentage ranking thing before. Kinda struck me as weird. Well, at least it looks like things are picking up again; mindfuck elections don't impress me, either.

>>67230
Well I just watched the first six episodes on Hulu. They weren't bad. I've watched worse (B Gata H Kei, I am looking at you).

Since we're talking about HxH anyway: Is it just me, or is Togashi trying to know Goku off of the throne of 'shittiest father in shonen manga'? I mean vanishing without a trace like that is a pretty big dick move on a father's part, but refusing to visit your son while he's dying in a hospital? That's a--

Oh. When I put it that way, everything becomes much more depressing.

>>67249

I thought Ging was a terrible person long before that. But really, he's just more of a coward than anything.

He anticipated (somehow... that whole plot was a gambit that would impress Xanatos) that Gon would sneak the cards out of Greed Island and use Accompany to meet him. He had it set up so that he would go to him if Gon was alone, but go to Kaito if anyone else was with him. He just didn't want to face any of Gon's friends.

Then again, Ging might just be Dangerously Genre Savvy. He knows damn well his son isn't going to die, 'cause he's the freaking main character!

>>67250

Yeah, just...read my post in the context of Togashi's ongoing fight with serious illness. I wonder what his relationship with his father is like.

GODDAMN IT AIKI I WOULDN'T READ YOU IF THE FACES WEREN'T SA'DAMN FUNNY!

>>67254
I still would. The MC is the best fighting manga MC ever conveived.

>>67254
Also, impressive how you manage to ignore the huge fucking watermarks and continue to read it on Mangareader...

Is there any other anime more gay than Getter Robo? I don't mean Code Geass gay, but real gay. Getter is proper gay. Man gay. Hard gay.

>>67272

>>67257
>>67259
Yeah, the fights are incredible too, also I'm not a baby so I don't care about watermarks.

>>67257
Seconded.

I'm also really interested in seeing how this thug's role in the story continues.

>>67275
Kinda hoping he ends up Super warrior.

>>67275
>>Is He part of still part of-

Was that a goof in translation?

Holy fuck, I actually really like the new HxH so far. It's funny how Ging just casually dropped into the series after being a shadowy figure for so long.

>>67281

Too bad he's a complete prick.

>>67252

If I may play armchair-psychiatrist here, I'd suspect he doesn't have a father — that is, his father left the family when he was really young or before he was born.

If you look at the characters in his works, there either isn't a father at all, or very terrible ones. Silva Zoldyck (are we EVER going to get a concensus on HOW to properly spell "Zoldyck"? I don't really want to go with the officially translated manga (since they tend to Anglicize half the damn names anyway [like who the fuck is Melody? You mean Senritsu? Yes I know what "Senritsu" translates to, but you don't call "Kakashi" "Scarecrow" in the damn translation of Naruto!] and otherwise the Kanji/Kana don't help, and several times the guides Togashi released himself had BIZARRE romanizations of names... anyway, I just kinda make up a new version every time. it's fun: Zoldyeck, Zoldeck, Zoldyk, Zaoldyeck, Zolldick, whee!) at least tried to be nice to Killua, but at the same time utterly failed. Besides, what father allows his 12-year old son to wander the world? Even if he IS able to easily murder 99% of the people in the world with his bare hands. Sheesh. This all due to the fact that Togashi really doesn't know how a normal father is supposed to act, or how he is supposed to support his children.

But I don't know. Japanese people are extremely private, so we will definately never find anything out about his family. All we can do is guess.

>>67283
Uh, we know all sorts of things about Togashi's family. He's married to the Sailor Moon author, their life is out in the open whether they want it or not.

>>67283

I was actually thinking that his father may have been absent in much the same way so many Japanese fathers are absent: Never home because they're always working. Exactly like with Ging and Gon, except here 'never home' means literally never, and he's a big prick about it.

http://www.mangareader.net/1690-53750-1/lives/chapter-1.html

Holy Shit you guys, Holy shit, you HAVE to read the first two Chapters, Jesus Christ this manga.

>>67285
Japan is fucked up. Not as in 'lol tentacle rape and schoolgirl panties' but as in one hell of a repressed and xenophobic culture.

>Penguindrum 14
I am incredibly aroused and horrified at the same time! Arousified!

>>67301
>Japan is fucked up. Not as in 'lol tentacle rape and schoolgirl panties' but as in one hell of a repressed and xenophobic culture.

I always laugh when I see Japan in anime and manga being portrayed as either a the dominant world power (Ghost in the Shell, Infinite Stratos, etc.) or somehow subservient to another country or countries (Code Geass, Guilty Crown, etc.). They're the world's third largest economy, what's with the victim complex?

>>67309

They were basically forced into joining the 1st world thanks to American intervention (read: bombing/slapping for their activities in World War II) and have been a barrier between America and Russia for the longest time.

They've been sandwiched between growing giant world powers for eons and granted little to no military strength.

>>67307
What are you talking abou-OH GOD JESUS WHAT NO GODDAMN IT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DATE RAPE! DATE RAPE! DATE RAPE! AHHHHH AHHHHH!

Sublime - Date Rape

It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular is the strangest thing.

>some comic about a batlady and a blind dude
>nothing happens
>but its cute as hell

WHY NO TRANSLATED

>>67365
Actually it's pretty true-to-life to a half-year of my life in high school as an unremarkable, socially awkward girl, just after I'd moved. Just change the obsession and switch out the younger brother to an older sister, and that was me.

I mean, I got better and got friends and stuff, but for that period it's sometimes so close to home it's disturbing.

>>67381

>that feel

Check out Kimi Ni Todoke for more oh god it's my biography as an awkward introvert.

>>67383
Don't get me wrong, I fucking love Kimi Ni Todoke, but it's waaay more sugary than the average friendless high schooler experience.

Silver Spoon. Gin No Saji. Whatever you want to call it. Why have we not talked about it?

http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/GinnoSaji1/239557/

>>67432
Because there's not much to talk about? It's a bit like Aria and Yokohama Shopping Trip - once you get past "boy, this is well done!" and "man, this series sure is interesting and peaceful", where you gonna go?

Uh, there's a Silver Spoon thread already I think.

Why the fuck are their so many Gundam series?

>>67500
Because it's a profitable franchise with great brand recognition. It's not that complicated.

>>67501
The question's rhetorical, I'm just shocked and the sheer enormity of the franchise.

>>67500
You can sort of tell when the Gundam folks started wondering the same thing and saying "Whoa man, what are we doing? WHAT ARE WE DOING?" And then they goofed off by remaking Gundam as shounen and shoujo manga, and we got G Gundam and Gundam Wing.

Now everyone just accepts that there are a bajillion Gundam series, and the best Gundam show these days is.... um, Code Geass. :/

>>67503
G Gundam was no goof boy, No goof!

"One of the Best Gundam Series Ever" is a more appropriate designation.

>>67507
Well of course it's fucking awesome. It's G Gundam. Saying "G Gundam is fucking awesome" is like saying "the sun is warm."

That doesn't change the fact that they couldn't have made it without an executive decision to not take all this "Gundam" nonsense seriously for a while. Can you imagine if Paramount suddenly made Star Trek Ball Z, complete with Super Vulcans? That would be fucking awesome, too, but we all know it's never gonna happen.

Star Trek Nemesis was sort of like that, though instead of being awesome it was fucking retarded. Seriously, 'Fuck the Prime directive I wanna ride a dune buggy and shoot at primitives' and Picard generally acting like he's schwarzenegger.

>>67501
It's because the original Gundam was one of the few anime to break into the mainstream in Japan even among adults. Despite what western fans like to believe, it's fairly rare that non-otaku continue watching anime into their adulthood other than with their children, aside from a few rare exceptions like Miyazaki movies. Mobile Suit Gundam was one of those exceptions, and it's comparable to Star Wars in how it was able to break out of the Science Fiction Ghetto and become something that even normal people would admit to liking to.

Thus, it became Japan's Star Trek/Star Wars analogue in more ways than one: countless spinoffs (both official and unofficial, since someone's already pointed out that Code Geass is basically a Gundam series told from the point of view of the Char) of varying quality trying to cash in on the success of the original.

>>67522
Only recent anime of note that was geared towards adult normalfags I can think of is Tiger & Bunny, and even then it can be argued that the show's also marketed towards fujoshi, at least in terms of side material if not the show itself.

>>67523
>Only recent anime of note that was geared towards adult normalfags I can think of is Tiger & Bunny
Usagi Drop

The noitaminA block generally has shows for "normalfags" as well, like Nodame Cantabile and the like.

I completely forgot there's going to be a Ranma live-action (or it's a toku?).
ZIP 111021 ranma Gakky chunk 1
Despite the changes to the plot, I'm still cautiously optimistic.

>>67559
My first reaction was "lolwhut?" but I am also cautiously optimistic. What do you mean by changes to the plot though?

>>67559
Are there going to be titties? Otherwise I'm not interested.

>>67562
>Plot will be center towards Akane.
>Instead of Akane being the heir of the Tendo Dojo, Soun suddenly says "Wait, only males can be heir of the dojo" or something like that.
>There is some new antagonist called Okamada.
>Ranma will be in the search of a "secret hot water spring" that will remove the Jusenkyo curse.

As long as this series keeps all the wackiness and silly shenanigans that are part of the original source material, I'll be happy with it.

>>67566
This might be the next whacky Japanese TV show I've been looking for. I miss the stupidity and WTF that was Nodame Cantabile.

Oh thank god it didn't suck. I could have done with less fanservice in the first two scenes, but everything else was solid.

Except for that one shot where Dio's twirling around in his vanship - the melding of CG and non-CG animation really didn't work in that shot.

Mawaru Penguindrum
or
Let me tell you about how all parents are malicious psychopaths

>Shiki

There is a point where you get so meta people will just stop being invested, Medaka Box.

>>67639
Outside of Kumagawa it's all they have going for them.

>5 cm/s
>I look at him
>and I love him!
>CRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

At least the scenery was nice?

And once again Gintama ganks a Bleach plot twist and turns it into good comedy.

>>67759
This week's episode was amazing. Starts as a slow burner and completely escalates at the end.

>>67759
Could you please give me some Gintama advice? I like the idea of the series, and I really want to read the manga--but the scanlations that I ran across are so clunky that I hardly know what's going on. What is the best manga scanlation that you know of? Or should I buy an official translation, or skip both and maybe move on to the anime itself? Thanks in advance for your time and trouble.

http://www.mangareader.net/hunter-x-hunter/322

When the hell did this become a Junji Ito series?

>>67859
Hmm hmm hmm.

Well, I'd actually recommend the anime over the manga, first off. Don't get me wrong, I adore the manga, and the anime is pretty much a straight adaption of it. But the thing is, physical comedy is just better when it's actually moving. Same jokes, but funnier when more visceral and with calculated comic timing. Plus, the voice actors are ace all around and that really adds to it.

Both the anime and manga are slow starters, because they have to introduce the supporting cast before they really kick it off and become crazy funny. For the manga, that's about volume 4, and for the anime, that's about fifteen-to-twenty-ish episodes.

So I'd suggest you start with the anime or official manga translations (which are adequate, though if I remember correctly translate the jokes with equivalent substitutes instead of accurate translations,) and as soon as you can get to the stuff by rumbel-subs, who are great because they go above and beyond when it comes to explaining some of the more obscure references (sometimes a bit too beyond, but their hearts are in the right place.) Then when you burn through all of that, switch back to the manga for your Gintama fix. You won't miss anything from going from one to the other, they're literally the same thing except one has movey bits.

It's a great series, through and through. I hope you enjoy it!

>>67869
Oh, and I'd like to mention that while the anime does occasionally have filler, it's actually quite well done and funny in its own right. I even look forward to the filler episodes because I know they'll be good.

>>67869
Okay, thanks for the advice! I'll start with the anime.

>Asagi with braided hair
HNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG

>finally watch Shugo Chara

My heart is filled with warmth and joy! Why didn't I pick this up sooner? And why can't I stop crying? ;______;

http://slide.extrascans.com/reader/read/maoyuu_maou_yuusha/en/0/6/page/1

SWORD AND DEMON 6: GOTTA SELL THAT CORN

>>67870
Hey, name a good filler episode for me! I feel like starting off with something random and fun.

>>67914
Well, if you don't know the characters yet, try the Jump Festa specials! The first OVA especially was written to introduce the audience to the tone of Gintama.

>>67914
Yeah I have to second everything Gintabro has said. Literally down to every single detail, so it probably seems like a samefag.

>>67920
It's okay, dude. We can all be Gintabros.

>>67868
It's had plenty of grim moments, but they've been background details (i.e. this random valuable collector's item is one of 73 knives a serial killer forged, one per victim). This chapter was creepy as shit, pretty awesome.

Read the first volume of Blue Exorcist today. It's...alright. Some good stuff, some not-so-good stuff.

Anyone here read it? I want to know if it improves or degrades before I sink any more time into it.

Finished Speed Grapher. Considering the rest of the series, I found the ending horribly formulaic. One of those series where the journey is worth more than the destination (and what a journey it was.)

I did love how the VAs for the President, Condi, and... was that Rove or Cheney? were attempted in earnest.

I wish Ginza would have become a Euphoric at some point, her power probably would have been weird as hell. (Also, canon yuri.) Kinda like, when she first meets Kagura, she goes "I WANT THAT TOO SO HE'LL LOVE ME", kisses Kagura deeply, then we get a bit of wtf.

>Most recent chapter of HunterxHunter
>Bizzare Nen ability
>Awesome rewards if you do it right
>Convoluted rules to use it
>Follow them carefully or HOLY FUCK BAD SHIT HAPPENS.
>Its all rather terrifying.
>Just like old time HxH!


I'M SO GLAD THE ANT ARC IS OVER, AREN'T YOU?!

>>68030
>oldtime HunterxHunter

That's when martial arts actually mattered instead of magical Nen powers.

>>68031
oldtime HunterxHunter featured magic bees, killer clowns with deadly playing cards, and all manner of magical creatures.

>>68030

Actually Bad Shit happens if you do it right, too. It just happens to the next person down the chain.

Neither the bees nor cards had magic powers. Ponzu's bees were trained to attack people near her and Hisoka was a skilled assassin.

Hell, none of Hisoka's Nen abilities are related to his cards at all.

>Reading Rookies

Shit, I haven't been this invested in a comic since I was reading Kaiji.

>>38036

That's completly wrong. Hisoka was hardening his cards with Nen (I forget the term for it, but it's the same thing that Gon and Killua did with the shovels when Bisuke made them dig through mountains) to make them as sharp as knives. Also, he was surely using Ren to increase the force of his punches the entire time.

Sure, it had nothing to do with his two Hatsu abilities, but skilled Nen users are basically using Nen all night and day automatically, even if they're lesser techniques of it.

>>68049
Seeing how Nen was introduced so late and ao abruptly, I'm inclined to think that'd be retconning it the same way Togashi retconned Hisoka's bloodlust as a Nen ability.

>>68061

I'm not sure we're reading the same manga, here. Hisoka's bloodlust is just one of his many odd character traits, but it's pretty clear that YOU CAN'T KILL SOMEONE WITH A NORMAL PLAYING CARD regardless of whether or not you have immense strength.

I thought it was very clear that Gon and Killua, despite their natural talent, still weren't coming close to Hisoka/Illumi for a very good reason. That reason was Nen. It seemed perfectly natural to come in when it did. That was in chapter 45, also; hardly "late" if you ask me.

And one more thing: if you're reading a shounen series and expect there to NOT be some magical, chi-like special powers... yeah. You missed the memo.

While we're talking about the introduction of Nen: Anybody else find it pretty weird that Killua grew up in a family of high-class Nen users and yet had never heard of the stuff? Maybe there was an explanation in there I had missed, but that always seemed odd to me.

>>68064

I did find that odd, also. Considering that his family basically took him right from the womb and stuck him in a pool filled with poison and plugged-in toasters to prepare him for his life as an assassin, it's weird that they didn't teach him Nen when he was very young (like Zushi). Especially considering this new business with Alluka that has been going on since they were little kids. Did they just tell Killua that his insane ability was magic? I can see Gon falling for that explanation, but not Killua; he's actually pretty savvy. It would make more sense if Killua had been very sheltered by his family (which he kinda was, since he was supposedly the favorite and all that) but then again, he claimed to have already killed hundreds of people before his introduction, and he was also sent to Celestial Tower when he was freaking six years old. At least they had the sense to have him stop right before the floor where Nen users would have EATEN HIM ALIVE.

I suppose it's all Illumi's fault, though. I get the impression that Illumi was completely in charge of Killua's development (as an assassin and as a human being) from day one, and Illumi perhaps just decided Killua didn't need to know about Nen until he was a teenager. Dunno.

Perhaps he was afraid that Killua might surpass him...? I could see that.

>>68064
I thought it was just that Togashi hadn't invented nen yet.

Reading Dr. Slump for the first time. So dumb, so beautiful, so funny.

Why was this so funny to me.

So moe~ I'm gonna die!

>>68114
Man, this chapter was awesome.

>>68114
Chapters like these are what made me love Hunter x Hunter to begin with.

The more I watch Durarara!! the less I understand the hate for it.

I was mostly fine with Durarara except for the music. Holy FUCK what was wrong with them when they were making this show, Baccano had an AMAZING soundtrack and they follow it up with this shit?

>>68131
It's less hate and more disappointment due to the name Baccano! attached to it. It's not really that bad. Just disappointingly mediocre.

>>68138

Pretty much this. It would have been a decent first effort, but we already knew how much better the studio and author could do.

Early Christmas present from Hyadain

クリスマス？なにそれ…

>>68114

>Silva: There are some complicated rules to Alluka's ability.
>Illumi: There are a few more rules that are very important.
>Killua: There is one more rule that only I know about.

My mind esplode...


Also, I'm beginning to understand Illumi when I find out that he REALLY THINKS that Killua loves him more than Gon.

Also, he and Hisoka have to be in a relationship, and I don't mean a professional one, either. They've been together all throughout the series, and now they're bantering like a married couple? It's obvious!

>summarizing anime plots as Rob Schneider movie pitches
Sometime, just sometimes, /a/ can still be truly great.

>>68151
Now, I hate exposition as much as anyone - probably more so since I fucking hated Inception - but for some reason whenever Hunter x Hunter does it, it's never tedious or boring and I love every fucking second of it.

>>68197
I disagree, especially since JoJo's does it better and more efficiently.

That said shouldn't we make a HxH thread by now? Between the new anime and it seems to me like Togashi has no intention of going back onto hiatus any time soon

>hey Ninja you should check out this thing called Sora no Woto
>it's the story of a group of little girls who enlist in psuedo-WWII
>"holy shit that sounds awesome"

>it's K-On

>episode 25 of Duararara!!

IT'S LIKE A BEACH EPISODE BUT NOT AT THE BEACH

ALSO INCEST

Oh Octopus Lips, when did you become so bloodthirsty?

>>68378
Since always

Christ, what an asshole.

I have no idea what the fuck is going on anymore, yet I feel deeply touched and can't stop watching.

Finally got around to end this. Not the best thing ever but it was nice. On the other hand Reiko Tamura has become one of my favorite characters ever.

Charlotte hug scarf

The one you can trust to keep your neck safe

>Newest Beelzebub
>Oga steamrolling ALL the demons

Mari Singing (dub)

EVANGELION 2.22 AMAZON LIGHTNING DEAL $13 GO GO GO GO

>>68450
Thanks Ninja. I was on the fence about buying, but 13 is pretty cheapo. Bought it with 4 minutes left.

>>68454

>>68454

Also be really really careful about removing the stickers from the cover sleeve.

So, was the Tekken 3D anime movie any good?

>find out that Gakuen Handsome has a tag on pixiv
>it has a 100 users tag, even
>I will never walk again

Oh by the way guys, Ubel Blatt updated.

It was just, uh, a pretty lame chapter. Like reading weak anime filler.

>>68380
ON THE OTHER HAND, BATTLE ANGEL ALITA IS STILL AMAZING. SO LIFE IS GOOD

>>68537
life will start to be good when gunnm will start to have amazing porn.

>>68539
CLANK CLANK CLANK

Been watching Color Wars on Netflix after seeing a few episodes at Nekocon. Pretty trashy, but enjoyable. Having just finished episode 6 I'd say that in terms of entertainment, Purple>Green>Red>Blue>>>>Yellow. Not really all that fond of any of them otherwise since they're just cutouts. Akuto and Hiroshi are pretty hilarious though.

>>67639

It's a battle manga for people that have read too much battle manga.

As such, it's perfect for me.

>>68549
For all the things you can say about Medaka Box there's something i can say clearly: it's interesting. Like fucking interesting. Have lots of problems with the plot and some characters but still. Having say that i hadn't liked the last issues but i will wait to see where is all going on.

Finished watching Uta no Prince-sama. Wasn't as remarkable as pixiv artists led me to believe and it didn't really pick up until near the end, but I did get some laughs out of it. Worth the single watch through, but not much else.

>>68597
There's no way it's as good as Ouran!

>>68600
Yeah, it's a poor man's Ouran if anything.

>>68619
Well it was based off an otome game, so it's kind of a given it wouldn't be that great.

But even then it was much better than Starry Sky and La Corda D'oro...

>endless eight

>>68661
You were warned to skip season two and read the books.

You have only yourself to blame.

I actually slogged through most of Endless Eight. I was having fun comparing the tiny differences. The last three or so, I just fast forwarded through it all to catch key scenes.

>>68661
Now imagine you were Nagato and had to go through that thousands of times!

>>68663

>end

>>68664

>less

>>68665

>eight

Your Phone's Ringing Kyon

>>68659
>Starry Sky

I remember when /v/ did a playthrough of the Spring game. So mind-numbingly awful, but so hilarious...

>>68661
I WARNED YOU ABOUT ENDLESS EIGHT BRO

I TOLD YOU DOG

>>68670
【MAD】エンドレスエイ…

Yup, Linebarrels of Iron is a dud. Stupid fanservice, convoluted, contrived plot that I don't have the slightest interest in, and all sorts of cliche.

Gonna watch what's left in my queue (up to ep 12) and then just forget about it. The first five episodes had amazing promise, too...

So this feels kind of like Death Note if the entire cast (shinigami and all) was on unfathomable quantities of PCP. I think I like it.

Also: Cutest serial killer ever?

>Go to con, root around stall of some guy selling discount trades
>Find Black Jack vol. 1
>It's £3
>Hell yes I am buying that
>Meet up with fellow cosplayer later on
>Dude's a big anime fan, tells me how upset he was at TokyoPop going bust
>I pull out my purchase (mostly to brag, cause I'm a shit like that)
>mfw he clearly doesn't know who Tezuka is

He was a nice kid, and I recommended Go Nagai to him, but... Christ.

>>68711
Not knowing Tezuka really ought to be a crime, whether you're an anime fan or not.

Also this is still funny.
Dragon-Half Ep.1 1/3
But the manga is better. (do to not being two episodes long.)

>Working!!

>>68736
Oh Ninja, did you finally find your bland moe flavor of the season?

Ben-To is weirdly bad/good

I kinda want to keep watching for the fight scenes

But literally everything around them that isn't The Wizard is awful

Awful awful awful

The girl with Madoka's VA is pretty ok for some jokes but fuuuuck anytime they go deeper with her character than comic relief

I guess that is how i feel about the rest of the characters too

Its like it wants to be an all action show but somewhere along the line, someone or something told them they gotta put in average-ass hgh school anime-ass average high school anime plots and romance

>>68737

Waiters gonna wait.

>>68741
Oh hey there Sanji

>>68742
Someone must have put him on meds to get him not to be flirting with those waitresses.

>Watching MAR on Hulu
>Half the subtitles are missing for some fucking reason
>Same goes for Naruto
>Still pretty much understand everything that goes on

THIS EPISODE