it’s also based on a taiyo matsumoto manga so it has a flawless pedigree
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If you are reading the anime thread on Select Button Dot Net and you haven’t watched Ping Pong, you should watch it. Also, if you have watched it. It’s about as universal a recommendation as I can imagine for the kinds of personalities who lurk here.
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caught up with the jojo anime and am vaguely regretting it
since i’m only halfway through phantom blood in the manga
i want to skip over part 3 because of the length and i kinda
just saw it?
but, i probably won’t
it’s been awhile since i was excited ab a series and just kept
going with it so i’m happy. it’s my new favorite thing.
going to start watching: d-gray man hallow (loved the original) and Iron Blooded Orphans tonight. if anyone has some recommendations on slice of life, thad’t be great!
Man, what the fuck - how come no one told me the Giant Robo OVA was a goddamn fucking masterpiece and that I should’ve watched it when I was a kid so I would’ve aped it ages ago and grown up a much better artist for it??!
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I thought it was common knowledge!
Dude I am _ certain _ we have told you this before; Giant Robo is extremely important.
You clearly don’t follow enough of the right anitwitter peeps. Hardly a month goes by where someone doesn’t gush about it.
Probably one of my best random purchases in best buy when I was in a state of just enough money to afford an anime box.
Why doesn’t every anime/show have a badass leitmotif for every character/flashback? What’s wrong with this modern age
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Seems I have a lot of Yuasa works to check out. Giant Robo is indeed super good.
Currently about to watch either The Irresponsible Captain Tylor or Akagi with my anime binge buddy. Been ages since I’ve seen the former and we loved Kaiji so I’m curious how much we’ll enjoy its predecessor.
I watched all of Akagi recently and let me tell you that you’re gonna want at least a mahjong primer beforehand. there’s a shitload of rules that speed by constantly, and if you don’t some kind of grip on it, you’re gonna miss a lot of the context.
also, slight spoiler for the end it ends on a cliffhanger continued in the manga
The real impressive thing about Akagi’s ending is (manga spoiler) that mahjong game’s still not over, after more than 20 volumes dedicated to it. They’re up to drawing what may be the last tile but it’s not done yet. I’m convinced Akagi’s plan is to let Washizu die of weakness before he can finish the match.
I figured there’d be some finer details they’d go over but if it’s that fast paced and in depth, then primed I shall get. Thanks!
ep 35 of jjba part 4
just (( fucked me up ))
that poor kid
why
araki is trying to give anno a run for his money
it’s a two parter but i just can’t bring myself
to watch the other one right now, this is bullshit ; o ;
I was gonna say something about what came first but then I looked it up and
I can’t wrap my head around that Dragonball Z was wrapping up after Diamond is Unbreakable ended and while Eva was still on TV. Boggles my mind.
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I finished The Big-O some weeks ago after a two-and-a-half-years break from anime and it was very good. Slow, too. Looks like that Justice League cartoon. Hell, it’s basically japanese batman with weird existencialism.
i think the second season was actually funded by cartoon network
It was, and was kind of ostentatious at that, too. It came three years after the first one, I think.
I was organizing some things over the weekend and came across my VHS tapes. I have only a handful left after getting rid of most years ago, but two that I kept are a fansub and the notorious localization of Nausicaä.
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