/M/ NEVER DIES, BANZAI

Casshern. It was mostly monster of the week stuff but it was a fun show. Haven't seen sins yet but it's supposedly much darker.

Right now I'm watching Captain Harlock (1979), Samurai Flamenco (not wap), Gundam X, and Ideon with friends.

Only a little bit into Captain Harlock, so mostly I'm just impressed with how stylish it all is. I sing along with the theme song every time.

I'm enjoying Gundam way more than I thought I would. Yes, it loses some of the post-apocalyptic feel after the first couple of episodes and it feels like the world has stabilized on a bit higher of a standard of living than I think is entirely reasonable, but it feels very…refreshing, for lack of a better word. Garrod openly likes Tiffa and is willing to say so, and she clearly returns his affections, which puts them both above 95% of anime couples at the get-go. Newtypes feel less like space magic and more mysterious, like in 0079 (yes I know about DOME, I played Alpha Gaiden, but I'm trying to take the show as its own thing) The adults feel like adults, and the kids are plausible kids that were forced to grow up fast. It's just feels low-bullshit.

Ideon is incredibly Tomino. This is both a good and a bad thing, but mostly good for me. Kitty Kitten :(

>>1140
I've been having fun with Appleseed recently.
I wouldn't call it great, because I don't think it is a great work of sci-fi, beyond the artwork, but I will call it very good. There are too many issues with the writing to be great. But there's more than enough there to be very good.
I think it does count as the first real 'solarpunk' work, however. So it did innovate in that lens.
Otherwise it is very close to Otomo's work.

>>1140
>What have you been watching, /ar/?
Last week I rewatched Turn A Gundam. Designs of the mecha, especially of the eponymous one by no less than he who visualised Cyberpunk via Blade Runner: Syd Mead.

>>1084 Couldn't tell you, haven't watched more than 10 minutes into the first episode for Slayers. Been meaning to get around to actually starting the series.

If you ever do give Tenchi Muyo a watch though, definitely start with the first two Ryo-Ohki OVAs, and if you end up liking those check out the TV series.

Character backgrounds and overarching plot are different for the two OVAs and the show but if you're just interested in great character interactions there's plenty of that to go around.

>tfw no amelia love since it was posted
this thread needs some JUSTICE

>>3211
BASED AmeliaCHAD

>>1044
>>1046
>>1047
I want to make Nago go OH OH OH OHHHH

>>1084
You know how in slayers, there is a multiverse composed of 4 worlds, slayers being one of those worlds and Lost Universe being one of the other? Tenchi muyo is like that but cranked up to 11. Every show is basically it's own dimension/seperate universe that is being manipulated by the three goddess's that created reality (3 of the girls from the show).

So each show tends to have its own theme and is a different genre. The most dnd/slayers like fantasy tenchi muyo would probably be "Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar" also known as "Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari" which is about tenchi's nephew being sent to a fantasy world called geminar where he has to pilot fantasy knight mecha and fight with abunch of fantasy races. But its closer to escaflowne than slayers. Either way, thats a 2000s show. In the 90s one, I think universe is the best. But its more like lost universe than slayers, it's modern fantasy scifi with a jp twist.

I remember masturbating to Gunsmith Cats as a kid, but I can't really remember which scenes.

>>3208
I distinctly remember my first anime fap was to Burn-Up W, this scene specifically.

>>3142
Tenamonya Voyagers.
A moronic teacher and an ostracized space gangster travel the galaxy on a journey to Earth.
Lots of big robots too.

>>3218

I dont think ive seen this before.
Sell me on it.

>>3142
If you're willing to stretch into fly fast spaceship, the Ditry Pair OVA, movie, and Conspiracy Flight 005 might scratch your itch.

I love the anime out there but I do wish there was one that faithfully adapted the manga. It could get surprisingly dark. Makimura's death and Ryo's revenge against the drug cartel actually spanned a whole arc in the manga and it could get pretty dark with Angel Dust junkie zombies being involved. Ryo even brutally kills people like in pic related and derided pleasure out of mentally torturing and killing scum like the guy who kidnapped, raped, and killed women.

Peak nostalgiabait
https://animethemes.moe/anime/city_hunter_movie_shinjuku_private_eyes/ED1-NCBD1080

>>3204
>discotek
I havent downloaded any anime in years, where can i watch this show?all the sites i knew from a decade ago have been purged or 404'd.

>>3222
>where can i watch this show?
all of it should be up on nyaa.si

>>3223
Thanks anon,i know i may sound like a retard but the last time i watched anime, i would just go to animetake and it pretty much had everything.

Sorry for the late reply, some stuff got in the way but I did finish HxH. I found the ending of HxH to be quite good, when I figured out why they brought the Accompany card I was actually pleasantly surprised and enjoyed how the 1999 version had a pretty decent ending when HxH still goes on until today. It's a shame they could only bring three cards and used them up at the end, I would've loved if they kept a certain, literal ace up their sleeve of an Angel's Breath or something for when a fight was wayyyyy too difficult for them.

I enjoyed the final fight with Bomber but I do think it was a bit lackluster to have a random bad guy introduced at the end of the series to be the final bad guy defeated by Gon, still a great fight though.

>>731
>Yeah in the Hunter eaxm. He was suppressing his Nen without knowing what Nen was which got Hisoka very excited.
Alright, that's pretty cool I like that.

>Like you say the Dodgeball starts with bullshit "let me just copy" myself but then you have to respect the rules, emission is not efficient, enhancement makes you more powerful, In can hide nen....ect
Honestly, after you explained Nen and I actually started to pay attention to what was happening in the show I started to enjoy it more. I originally thought it was bullshit powers that were limited by whatever Togashi wanted to limit them by, but after finishing the dodgeball fight and the fight with The Bomber I finally saw that it was a lot more deeper than it seemed.

When he split into 7 copies he didn't really have any other ability beyond that, he was just powerful himself and once I noticed that I enjoyed the fight a bit more because he was VERY powerful but that was the limit of his power which Gon, Killua and Hisoka were able to bypass. Also, Hisoka being on their side for a bunch of episodes was great.

>>732
>I was refreshing up on Nen after reading this thread and it's interesting to even look at something as basic as the category hexagon.
In a way, I wish Nen was explained either during fights or in a way that wasn't so God damn boring. When they were explaining this hexagon I really thought it wouldn't be that Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>733
Well there's always the Chimera Ant arc which many consider to be the peak of the series. But I would say there's no rush if you enjoyed the experience. take a year or so off from the series dwell on it allow yourself to forget it and then maybe watch HxH 2011 from the beginning to the end, it does end on a much better note than Greed Island.

>>734
Doubt you're still here but I thought I'd bump the thread due to the increase in users since maybe there will be a few more posts about HxH to some degree. Anyhow, just want to say that a lot of the opinions I've expressed in this thread have changed massively since watching 2011 (which I'll try to keep to a minimum in terms of discussion and would rather use it to relate to 1999)

For one, I actually like and understand Nen now and I'm not sure if you've watched the 1999 version but it actually does a terrible terrible job of explaining Nen, and showing it be used in a satisfying way. In the 2011 version you learn that Nen is sort of an ability that everyone has but only a few can master and if they can they're treated as geniuses or super humans (with examples such as a world class boxer or genius musician) which then leads into explaining each part of Nen and then we see Nen in action in the Hisoka v Kastro fight. Meanwhile the 1999 version pretty much explains Nen as being sort of like "willpower" or the power of our spirit, goes straight into Ten, Zetsu, Ren and Hatsu, uses an example of using Ten to intimidate Killua and then it's straight to training, then fucking SKIPS the Kastro fight where you can see and learn Nen in action and we're just meant to understand it with probably a fucking 2 minute explanation of the whole thing.

It never improves from there, meaning that someone like me (where 1999 was the first HxH thing I saw). I was completely lost on Nen from the start. 2011 by comparison does whatever it can to show each part of Nen with examples, fights and even showing that when Gon was hiding from Hisoka he was using Zetsu unknowingly.It just reinforces everything so well that it makes so much more sense.

Which is a real shame because while 1999 has a better Hunter exam in my opinion, it drops the ball by the time Nen enters the picture. Perhaps I'm an idiot and Nen was explained PERFECTLY well here but I honestly feel like I was completely and utterly lost by the time it was introduced and underway. Skipping the Kastro fight along with giving such a lackluster explanation of Nen is just terrible for the show. It's still entertaining since I did find Yorknew and Green Island enjoyable but it just loses so much by the Nen explanation being so poor as I believed Nen was just magic bullshit but it's actually a system that's qPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>727
>I will say the first couple of episodes were…fine, I'm still not entirely sure what the plot is. Sure, Gon is trying to find his father and that's the goal but the whole idea of Hunters just seem odd. The fact Gon and that other hunter in the first episode were seen hunting animals and Gon wants to become a hunter kind of makes you think Hunter's are animal hunters, but then they add several characters who don't really fit that niche at all which makes the term "Hunter" kind of confusing. I guess it's more like a catchall term for someone who is exceptional and reliable in everything and thus the guy you go to for troubles, like an official bounty hunter or mercenary.
I never liked the term or this part of the concept until a certain arc that happens after 99

Shameless shilling is shameless, but I have been operating an episode-by-episode 1999 Hunter x Hunter for a few months. Essentially I just slowly talk about each episode, what they do differently, and how they might contribute to 1999's overall alternative take on the material.
https://kurorosanime.tumblr.com/ (not a webmaster so blogposting is easier to do here)

I've made a few interesting discoveries while doing this- primarily in contrasting how Gon and Killua get characterized here in comparison to the manga, but also getting way more information on the alt ending that even more dedicated Japanese fans didn't know (entirely thanks to making a thread about it at the right time on 4/a/).

I can't stand how they made all the characters thin and skinny in the new series.
Dragon Ball characters are muscular, get it? Muscular!

>>3177
I am the BIGGEST ToriyamaFRIEND here probably, and my preferred method of viewing is in Japanese with the broadcast audio, though I have a slight nostalgia for the original ocean dub- specifically, this DVD that was packaged in boxes of Kraft Dinner in Canada that recapped the first two arcs of Dragon Ball Z.
I also do have a deeper soft spot for those shitty DVD singles Funimation did (not the bricks) and have slowly been building a collection of them starting from Dragon Ball.
Really funny thing about them is that Funimation could not legally publish the Dragon Ball Volume 1 'Saga of Son Goku' DVD in the west, so they just started from volume 2. You can get volume 1 but only from Australia (which means it's retardedly rare).

For Dragon Ball Z I've been checking out Dragon Ball Z Jartcut, that tries to remove as much filler as possible. So far I've only watched the Saiyan saga, I'd say it's pretty alright although I admit that some padding during the training for the saiyans would have been good, as it is it feels very fast (mostly an issue in the manga too).
From what I heard they were going to update it when the Seed Of Might Color Correction is released, using it as base.

>>3187
I own the two Ocean dub DVDs of Dragonball (Not Z) that are the first 13 episodes and the first movie, those are technically part 2 even if not labeled as because they didn't redub it till TV airings.

>>3215
Yeah, that one isn't hard to find because it got super overproduced. I haven't really considered nabbing it for my collection just because I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. Right now I'm just waiting for a Saga of Son Goku DVD to pop up (and a "Red Ribbon Army Saga" DVD since those have vanished into the ether).

What I'm more excited to start collecting are the later DVD Box Sets- love how clean a lot of these sets were where you get Volume 1 of a "saga" and then fill it up with the other volumes. GT especially has four slick box sets that are probably the best thing about the show.

>>3160
Such a great ost.

I unironically think the opening is one of the best anime openings of all times. I would sing along every time. Also the atmosphere of this anime is unmatched.

awesome, i happen to stumble upon this thread the day i started watching the show ^.^) i really do love the atmosphere, and >>3188 -kun is right, i love replaying the opening

>>3202
Perfect anime to watch late at night. I got interested in Key because of Xenogears (they have the same character designer) and just like Xenogears, the plot is god-like. You will ejaculate over how good it is.

>>3157
PIZZA SHOCK

Best OVA evurr.

she need discipline

from Galhound 4

just jungle heat hard

from Wild Wet Quest 4

what's with the pale, nude one hanging from above ?

from Hellcat 4

>>3061
Awesome stuff!

I wish he worked in Black and White more often these days.
His digital inking is okay, but it smoothes things out too much for my tastes.
His line work is so crisp and clean that it is almost a shame to adulterate it in any way.