No.149
>>147Is Ergo Proxy underrated? Or do you mean underrated at the time?
I really like R.O.D TV but don't really hear a lot of people talk about it.
No.150
this one was fun and once it stops becoming episodic it's a wild ride
>>149this looks pretty cool, should I start with the tv or the ova?
No.151
>>150The TV is pretty much a sequel to the OVA just with a different cast of characters and a few changes here and there. So start with the OVA.
I like them both and they remind me of Metal Gear Solid a bit with their modern world and super powers that you'd see in something like MGS2.
Plus, Yoriko is a pretty fun character due to her easy going nature of just wanting to read books and avoid trouble which usually leads to her getting into fights she desperately wants to end. TV has a new set of characters with similar powers to Yoriko and they're just as fun.
No.152
>>151yeah that sounds awesome. and I saw there's some steampunk influence, quite an alluring package there
No.153
>>151I was thinking about watching this because
meganekko christmas cake No.154
>>149I've heard multiple poor things about the R.O.D TV series but I absolutely loved the OVA. Should I go ahead and continue with the TV version after all?
No.155
>>154I'd rate it better than the OVA to be honest, a lot more story occurs and the new characters are pretty fun, but if you're in it for Yoriko then ROD TV pretty much makes her a secondary character and focuses on the new characters for around 15-17 episodes before bringing her back in and making the story focus on her for the final few episodes. I think it also retcons some stuff from the OVA and the story is debatable whether it's good or not. I thought it was fine.
If you liked it for the late 90s/early 00s world, and the action I'd say you'd enjoy it but if you dislike any of the new characters from the start then you'd probably dislike it. Give it a try anyhow, I watched it last year and can't really remember much beyond just liking it.
No.156
>Aria: the animation
>Keroro
>Hamtaro
and that's all i can think about.
No.157
Twin Spica
Arjuna
Gankutsuo
I wanna say Twelve Kingdoms and Candidate for Goddess but neither got an ending.
No.158
>>149Ergo proxy is just cult anime. Stuff like this doesn't rlly hit mainstream.
No.160
>>159FLCL is pretty popular imo
No.162
>>159Never heard of it, your taste is too obscure for us plebs
No.163
Skullman is decent. Never seen anyone ever mentioning it online
No.166
>>165>abrmxWhat does this mean? Did a cursory search but didn't really find anything helpful.
No.167
>>166A catchall term for a remux done and solely shared on that one notorious anime-related private tracker.
No.170
>>168> FFU> needs more loveYikes, Even the OP for that show is terrible.
Gonzo had a lot of decent shows back in the day but that aint one of them.
No.172
>>171In all fairness the story and world isnt the problem here, the different worlds connected how they were wasnt uninteresting, the way they walked you thru the whole thing was.
No.173
>>162i love how flcl viewers are serial experiments lain,kill la kill,Space Patrol Luluco veterans like me lol
No.175
>>174the 2020 movie about doremi fans sure was depressing
No.176
>>147all you posted is shit. garbage thread
No.177
>>147all you posted is shit. garbage thread
No.179
>>168>Strange Dawn>Two girls get isekaid to another world full of foot fetishist gnomes as part of some prophecy to save the world>Are essentially useless save just being bigger than everyone by a long shot>Abruptly ends without things getting solved in the worldI'm not even dissing the show, I enjoyed it, but boy was that ever a weird one.
No.183
>>182Only Gungrave is any good
No.184
>>181I started watching it recently and I can see why it would not be highly rated; the gags are on the weak side, and the episodes' plots are less imaginative than could be expected from the generic frame. Not to say it's not enjoyable, but 6 episodes in, the cute girls are carrying the show.
Here's another space aliens comedy.
No.192
>>191>Tominointo the trash
No.194
>>193I did,back then I just finished watching Nadesico and was looking for something similar.
It was surprisingly enjoyable but I can see some people getting turned down by the early CG scenes, I remember thinking they could get hard to follow during the earlier episodes.
No.195
>>194Nice, I like Nadesico as well. I wasn't put off by the early CG I thought the series was quite comfy and was huge into anything remotely harem troped at the time. Which brings me to another underrated series of the 2000s. Girls Bravo!
No.196
>>193I downloaded it a while back, but I'm yet to watch it. I love the character designs so I'll give it a go!
No.197
Anyone remember Birdy Decode? Late double OO but I feel like in spirit it fits in pretty good. Plus the openings and endings are great I still listen to them today.
>>151I watched this and I legit don't remember anything from it.
>>180I also vaguely remember this anime but I don't remember watching it Maybe my memory is just bad.
No.198
>>197>I watched this and I legit don't remember anything from it.Funny, neither do I. I just remember enjoying it a lot.
No.200
>>199Crusade was the first series I bought the entire DVD set for, long before I knew how to torrent things.
God that ending was depressing. I have the ED song burned into my brain too at this point.
No.203
>>147I was confused when I learned that it was classified at cyberpunk. It's more of a post-cyberpunk to me, given how it strays far visually and thematically from the cyberpunk everyone knows.
I'd say Ergo Proxy is hard to watch cause you have to have a favorable state of mind, or mood at least, to watch continuously. Almost as if this sits beside how Tarkovsky intentionally makes his films; crafted to filter out people who can't sink time on it.
No.204
I recommend Tokyo Godfathers: a 2003 movie that speaks about a trio of homeless people on their quest to find the parents of a toddler they found on the streets.
It may look like a complete comedy at first but it has its serious tones.
No.207
>>206I watched the anime last year and loved it,I keep hearing good things about the manga so I probably should read it one day.
No.254
Can't believe the anime that in the past was considered surface level is now pretty obscure. Anyway, does anyone remember this? I enjoyed it for what it was despite some issues with it.
>>206Currently watching this now and I love it a lot. Looks like it's going to become one of my favorites.
No.256
>>169I feel like the Metarex Saga would definitely be an interesting premise for a 'Sonic Adventure 3' type game. Sucks that it was an anime-only story. Cosomo was a qt
No.257
>>254I find it more odd that only Lain got regularly talked about. Especially how until recently I considered Texhnolyze to be better than Lain. I'd need to get around to a rewatch sometime soon since somebody made an HD remaster a year or two ago.
No.264
>>170hah, I know I'm replying to such an old post. but I remember watching that FF anime and liking it at the time. but then looking back at it, it really was terrible. even if it WAS fun and I appreciate it. it's a fond memory. but uh no it's not good. girl had a nice ass but that's all it has going on. LOL
No.282
>>185I remember when that would come on on Toonami at like 4AM and I'd be tired and it was so slow, and dense, and visually pleasing I could fall asleep.
No.287
>>154>>155I greatly prefer ROD TV to the OVA, it's a much more complete story.
>retconsFor all I know it's a completely different continuity, the mangas and novels also each have their own continuity.
No.291
This may be a controversial opinion, but Azumanga Daioh. There used to be a lovely forum about it like this place but it's been a few years now
No.292
>>291Azumanga Daioh is definitely not underrated, but it's getting to be forgotten about because it's been like 20 years. Absolute classic.
No.293
>>291There used to be an imageboard about Azumanga. It died a year or two ago. I knew they had a discord, so I went there and asked what happened. They said they forgot to renew the domain and didn't have a back up, now they have to build it again. Some guy said he is on it, but to this day I haven't seen the new one.
No.294
>>292I'm thinking because it's kind of been forgotten about it's not on the radar but everyone does seem to like it once they get to check it out.
>>293Yeah that might have been what I was talking about but it's been I don't know how long at this board. It was called idlechan network and I think it ran wakaba. It was even slower than this place by the time they finally let it go. I think it was run by different owners across the network. I think sovietrussia.org went first and the others followed within less than a year. Great place. I think it's been like 5 or 6 years now or something, maybe less
No.422
i finished Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne recently, it's about a private detective and her assistant who both happen to be immortals, one day while on a job looking for a missing cat the titular Rin ends up mixed up in supernatural bullshit. Six part miniseries and it's an absolute gorefest but if you're ok with that then it's worth a watch imo!
No.556
>>169On one hand, it does suck we're never getting a game adaptation based on this. On the other hand, with the current writers and devs at Sonic Team, I have zero faith that a Metarex Saga adaptation would be good.
No.690
They're remakes of 80s properties, but I liked the Area 88 and Birdy the Mighty remakes
No.694
>>557Megane had some really fat tits in this anime (they were bigger in the manga)
No.714
>>147In truth there is no better place to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTxoH_5CnhMGunslinger girl season one is super good. If yall haven't seen it I highly recommend.
No.715
>>148im sorry but yokahoma shopping trip is the superior female riding a mopad anime.
No.716
>>199>chrono crusade>amazing ending ;)you monster.
No.721
>>147Ergo Proxy sucked but man was the intro cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAXrRWLKzkoIt nails that aughts post-grunge vibe so well. I can just imagine the affliction shirts over long sleeve shirts.
No.724
>>718>>721some anon once told me (source:dude trust me) that a lot of these 'dark' early 00 animes were the direct result of western investment trying to shit-up anime in japan and make it more like western stuff. Emo-edgey stuff was popular in the west at the time and it just seems odd that japan just suddenly started doing it and then just as quickly stopped. Does anyone have information on this or was it just a shitpost?
i watched ergo proxy at release, it was a popular anime to talk about on /a/ and was completely shocked at the ending. the show became more and more deranged as it dragged on, and then suddenly 'lol u people arent real, now we will kill you :D' That felt really western in tone to me. Japanese shows usually have some kind of underlying ethnic nationalism in them, or at least promote a homogenious monoculture with fairly strong community values, ive never seen a show promote the idea that its characters are just disposable automatons who have no value to society like that.
No.726
>>724You can see who was on the production committees if you dig around. ADV for example funded Elfen Lied and Kino's Journey, and Geneon USA funded Ergo Proxy. Though I doubt they did so alone.
No.730
>>724What the fuck are you talking about? Shows dealing with cyberpunk aesthetics and postmodernist malaise are by necessity going to be in conversation with Western ways of doing things. Their source material is overwhelmingly Western.
There was no conspiracy to shit up the cozy wap schema you have of Japan; the Y2K era had a strain of creators who were critical of the modern condition all around the world.
No.794
>>724I strongly doubt it. Especially since there was a lot of dark stuff in the 80s with hyper violent OVAs that was reviled by a lot of westerners, especially internet critics of the 2000s. Hell look at Genocyber which was peak nihilism and postmodern critique. The same guy that did Genocyber went on to do the plot of FMA 2003 which was more nihilistic than the source material.
I think it's less to do with western influence and more a sub-sect of that Japanese generation at the time that grew disillusioned, I am not that good at Japanese Cold War history, but part of me thinks it has to do with all the wacky shit that was going on in the 60s-70s with those extreme leftist groups that were taking over schools and causing literal sieges (I think there was even one that was a literal self-hating anti-Japanese group?).
Also post-modern critique in Japan is nothing really new. So I don't really believe that either. It just so happens it more easily appeals to western tastes because westerners are a lot more cynical.
>>730I wouldn't be so harsh, he heard it from another anon so I strongly doubt it's his own beliefs. But I can see why it would be easy to jump to that conclusion if you only looked at it superficially. If you look deeper it doesn't really add up that much honestly.
No.795
>>199>It's as if Gonzo wanted to atone for how much they butchered Hellsing by taking a similar IP Nah take that back. Hellsing 2001 was great.
I get it wasn't faithful, but I just found out more interesting than Hirano's original version (I like the tone, characters, writing, style and music more). Hirano's original manga felt too rushed since Hirano was just too lazy to actually write the damn story, which is part of the reason why the anime was mostly original instead of faithful.
I wish Hirano had more of an attitude like Arakawa when it came to unfaithful adaptations, I would've liked Hellsing 2001 to run for a bit longer before then having Ultimate come out much later so Hirano could've taken more time to actually finish the manga instead of rushing it in such a weird way. But nah, Hirano threw a hissy fit about 2001 and probably got any continuation shit-canned.