DuelGundam2099

Hey has anyone seen the Eureka 7 sequel? Any good?

Better than the first: Better mecha, humans, plot, monsters, and all while maintaining the mood of the original. Also it has a sloth for a mascot. The US dub was recently released so if you like dubs it is available in that format. People complain about the first half being too monster of the week-ish, but I just pull out my steel-toed boots and kick them right in the junk until their vocal cords stop vibrating.

Edit: Finally got around to seeing the third Patlabor movie which actually was not half bad. I mean for a franchise in the crime genre there was *gasp* CRIME! And they treated it like DETECTIVES. LIKE ACTUAL POLICE. NOT LIKE NIMRODS. Even if Waste 13 (the murderer) turned out to be a giant lungfish mutant. Why couldn't Protector O-She make the ovas and first two movies more like THIS? I mean sure the pacing is slow in places and it could have had more mecha aspects, but this had potential! Maybe Patlabor is like Indiana Jones or Pumpkinhead or Watchers where it simply improves with every next installment.

SM try to think positive about this, I mean it is a Batman and Superman team up movie, as long as they keep continuity and have plenty of action this will be fine regardless of what modern hominids play the parts.

Was that a thing?

It was on Kaiju Phile, I know that much.

I honestly don't care, I'll wait until the movie is out. Of course this will probably make decent Dare Devil jokes.

I've started to watch Valvrave. It's very Gundam SEED-ey so far.

It has more in common with Zegapain. It is basically SEED setting + Code Geass writing + Zegapain characters.

I needed some mecha in my system

You know Marzan I could recommend you some stuff if you want.

Edit: Well I just finished the series version of Ninja Scroll. Despite junk like monster rape, weird stuff like severed heads being attached to dogs, monster incest, steam punk cyborgs, and the two clan heads having toddler bodies I thought this was pretty dang good, definitely better than the movie version. I also never thought I'd see a monster of the week series done RIGHT with a 13 episode series without being mecha related, but now I have been proven wrong and am satisfied. Also giving credit for episode 10's friendly monster Raiko, a fat yet sympathetic guy sounding like Bender (yes I watched the dubbed version of this) and had quite the dedication to his cause; he could have been a neat character if given enough screen time.

Just got back from seeing it and enjoyed the fudge out of it.

So yeah yesterday I started watching the series version of Ninja Scroll aka why are there robots in medieval Japan; kind of cool so far although the music is bleh. I also watched Blade of The Phantom Master and it was kind of good, but it felt like two ovas thrown together with little in common.

I'm looking forward to My Hime and all its related work as I never got a chance to watch it back then.

You are missing nothing good; Otome is tolerable though. Then again you seem to be a fan of ecchi so unlike me you might get legit entertainment from it.

I'm a little dissapointed they didn't pick up AIKa: Zero. I've been waitng quite a while for that.

Look on the bright side RL1, when someone does pick it up you can get excited for panty shots and alien tentacles to your hearts content.

I just finished Zegapain. I'm not going to lie, while most of the issues were a bit of a downer, overall this has to be one of the best anime I've ever seen, top 10 easy! Not only that, but I also dare to say that Zegapain Altair is, as of today, my new all time favorite anime mech, it is just plain friggin awesome.... Which now makes me sad a little that Aquarion does not hold that title. On the other hand, I could throw my favorite Aquarion mechs with my favorite variable fighters list (and toss in guymelefs too) and make it a "best of Satellite mecha" list. Anyway, I have to give the creators credit for a well orchestrated final battle, very thought provoking philosophy and mentally stimulating symbolism, exquisite visuals, and a very well constructed romance. Not even joking, it is very rare for me to find romance in an anime as something other than shoehorned and this did it extremely well. I also found it weird that they revealed Mao was gay since it wasn't so much as implied, but oh well. This could have made top 5 if the music and villains were better.

Overall, here is where I rank it among my top 25 of all time

It is kind of weird since Dougram is my favorite anime mecha of the 20th century while Zegapain Altair is my favorite anime mecha of the 21st century. Despite all their faults they both make top ten. Both originate from Sunrise. Both have extremely few appearances in crossover titles like their popular counterparts. Both of them lose to fun, philosophy, and art by very little. Both of them have next to no fans at all. Both of them are essentially buried gems. Neither of their titular mecha are that powerful compared to other mecha in anime. With that I ask: Why? Why do I enjoy what I do? Why are they so high when so many that do so much so superior to them are inferior overall? So much of this going through my mind.

And yet I can never share this with much of anywhere else.

So yeah I caught up to Attack on Titan all the way to ep 18.... Alright, I admit, I was being a little harsh on this and it has improved. The characters are still kind of boring though.

Since Wednesday I've been watching Zegapain up to episode 16 and I have to admit this is very friggin' good. I like the mechs, action, setting, philosophical aspects, very little fan service, and character development is good, but it has problems. Aside from not caring about the music, the characters are not that interesting, the pacing is kind of slow, despite the fan service being mild it is still annoying, and for pretty much no reason Zegapain Caladrius is just destroyed in the first few episodes (Hraesvelgr at least got destroyed by Anti-Zegapain Coaticue AFTER it made it to the half way point!). Seriously, even the new pachislot game kind of just forgot about it, which is a shame because it was kind of cool (not like the other three Zegapains but still).

I don't think I have a guilty pleasure, a guilty pleasure would imply that- No, wait, Kottentail. That movie would have been better if they cut out the boobs.

Kind of hoping it'll be last and they'll do it in chronological order.

I forgot to mention that yesterday I watched the Ninja Gaiden OVA, you'd think there would be plenty of ninja action but nope, feels more like a cop story with mutants. Not bad though.

Knowing you for the last couple of months? You'll probably hate a lot of stuff

Possible, but until I dive in we won't know for certain.

Got anything worth betting on?

I just finished Inukami! and to be honest.... This was surprisingly very well done. After episode 10, not unlike Gun X Sword it actually makes effort at being funny, gets less fan servicy, characters get decent development (a few inukami don't for whatever reason), some back story was set up, and Jasei has to be one of the best anime villains ever and I am not just saying that because he has the same voice actor as the Getter Robo Armageddon version of Professor Saotome. The final battle was also very well done. Youko being so angry to the end still makes her very annoying, but she isn't top 5 worst anime characters ever material (more like near the bottom of top 50); Tomohane and the otaku Naoki are also annoying although to lesser degrees. I feel bad for Shirou always being a butt-monkey, you'd think someone voiced by Sho Hayami would be better, but he was a cool character in his own right and I'll give the character credit for trying. To top it off the opening theme has grown on me a tad, not by much, but enough. I have to admit I did not think I'd enjoy this series, but I proved myself wrong.

As Major Focker wrote above, you tend to express negative views on most of the stuff that a lot of people here like. I don't do bets, specially the online variety, but I do think that if you're curious about Bebop, you should give it a try.

Bebop has been in my backlog for a while so I am going to watch it eventually. Currently debating as to what to watch next.

Which is what Crossboy said two posts up.

Somehow I missed that.

It just wastes SO. MUCH. TIME.

I can tell by this you never saw L.Gaim or Tomino's post-Victory works.

I'll stream the episodes for the hits and we'll see what other shows they're willing to give us.

I won't. Not because I dislike ZZ (I don't), but because I almost never rewatch things.

ZZ Gundam was recently given an official US stream if anyone gives a darn.

Normally I'd be telling you to hurry up and watch it as soon as possible since it's a great series and a true classic, but I have the sneaking suspicion based on the viewing preferences you have expressed so far in this forum, that you would not like it.

What makes you say that? You have a minimal score of what qualifies as "like"? Does this include the movie? Want to have a bet on whether or not I will like it?

Anyway, got up to ep 12 in Attack on Titan. I will bite, episode 11 was pretty good and the action has (somewhat improved), plus Armin is not so useless now. Maybe it'll end up being good, just not "the modern classic" much like how every episode of Unicorn except 4 is looked at as. I also intend to marathon the rest of Inukami tomorrow since I watched ep 13 this morning and I do not want distractions while Shark Week is on.

Macross 2 was recently added. Other good titles include The Devil is a Part Timer, Godannar, Death Note, Pretear, Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean, Star Driver, Viper's Creed, the FMP series, X, and the greatest mecha series of all time: Aquarion. There is plenty of stuff on there I like/dislike/don't care for, but I have no idea on your tastes so there is some entry level stuff. Plus I am morbidly depressed so yeah.

Neat find Shaorin, even though I've never seen Cowboy Bebop outside of a random episode on AS and part of the episode with the fridge blob.

Oh hi Vepariga, never though I'd see you post he-

This, even on other forums Ive seen him on he is overly critical of everything except Aquarion and Ultraman.

Now that's not true either! I am not overtly critical on movies I watch in theaters or (most of) the tokusatsu I watch!

Bear in mind that DuelGundam2099 doesn't like anything if other people like it. Just ignore him.

This is incorrect, I have enjoyed things other people tend to enjoy as well and vice versa.

I made it to episode 8. Minor improvements but that is not saying a lot. Apparently titans can be controlled if you enter the back of the neck.... after getting eaten.... I also did not mention this before but the editing is just off to the point where exposition could have been used. "Uh oh a cutesy titan is looking at me and I'm out of gas lol I'm away from it in the next scene somehow!" And for the first seven eps how come only Misaki can kill any of them? Everyone else just gets caught and munched.

no cosplay, no maids or butlers, no insanely powerful student council, no beach or hot spring episodes

Or fanservice or boob bouncing or anything sexual which is a plus. Come to think of it I don't think I've seen much anime with butlers or maids or a super student council.

Get to episode 7, you'll understand

I did and there is a possessed titan that kills others.... What am I supposed to understand?

On an unrelated note I got up to episode 12 in Inukami which actually is improving with actual monster battles and the comedy is actually trying (not that it has much success though, but at least it tries), but Tomohane proves to be stupid now since she can't figure out "hmm this chocolate was on the ground and munched on by dogs SO I AM GIVING IT TO KEITA TO EAT IT"- This is first grade reasoning being skipped over! The holographic card was understandable since it is not, you know, edible, and can be cleaned. And then Keita.... Actually having the loli in one of his fantasies, just.... *shrivels* So wrong. Then again he says he does not like girls that are too young in the next episode so it kind of balances sorta I don't know. What I do know: The series improved. Not character wise, but story wise.

I started watching Attack of Titan with the first four episodes.... So why do people like this trash again? The only things it has going for it so far are the titans themselves and the scenery, everything else comes off as forced (the comedy and attempts to be emotional), unnecessary (did we really need boot camp and refugee scenes?), or ugly (namely music and the character designs).