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i loved this show as a kid, and i canāt believe no-oneās ever done a mashup of its opening theme with killer queen
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I have a burnt dvd copy of an old VHS I used to have that has Dorothy in the Land of Oz on it, and I watch it every Thanksgiving. Itās not great; I probably know the words to every song.
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koike lupin coming back (in theaters)
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I hope that Zenigata movie he was planning hasnāt been cancelled.
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A friend from ye olde internete has started a weekly anime club, and all involved, myself included, are true blue christian god-fearing weeb-ass anime enjoyers. This means there is no lower limit to what we will watch, and zero accounting for taste.
Here are the things weāve watched recently:
Record of Load-Ass War
This was quite good for about the first half. The art style is really cool, the world feels lived-in, it was a grittier and more ārealisticā take on fantasy than you often see in anime.
Big thirsting from our group for Orson (rage mode) and Shiris.
THEN it switches to Chronicles of the Heroic Knight with a completely different cast with perhaps the worst dub ever achieved, and they truly just meander around without direction until the show runs aground. If this was a ttrpg, like it was based on, this would be like a GM having a falling out with his entire friend group and carrying the campaign over to random drifters in a comic store, and all of the drifters suck.
The intro fucking ROCKS by the way and writes a lot of checks the show cannot cash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEgz76YKHHY
I was struck by how dragons are sort of pitched into this show at random points to give a big fight, then do not become relevant otherwise. It is very D&D in that you can just grab some super-monsters from lore and throw it in, thus making it seem arbitrary, because like, are there 20 superdragons out there? Are there 5? At one point a king of all dragons shows up and like, I donāt remember him being explained or built up to? Weird show. Deedlit is the best part of course, and I ultimately became a huge Garrack stan because his voice actor fucking blows it big time with every blessed word he speaks. Extremely funny to me.
ALSO, THESE LITTLE TACHIKOMA DAYS SHORTS AT THE END OF EACH EP END UP BECOMING SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN THE SHOW ITSELF, A SCATHING INDICTMENT OF THE QUALITY OF THE SHOW
Chobits
True and complete agony.
Higarashi: Those Who Cry
True and complete agony.
My Deer Friend Nokotan
True and complete agony.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Really enjoyed this one. Everything in my body is telling me they canāt possibly keep this premise going for more than a handful of episodes, but then they do, and to great effect. Big fan.
Otachan!
True and complete agony. Irony-poisoned 4chan slop.
Suicide Squad Isekai
True and complete agony.
Bang Brave Bang Bravern
Overall I liked this, but it started getting distracting how thoroughly heād need to fail before he exploded into saving the day in 20 seconds. Nice seeing a show this gay.
Oshi no Ko
Completely insane show which I canāt seem to get into. Everyone else loves it.
Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
Okay I was not into this at all for a while but as it got deeper and deeper into the shit I really got on-board. Once the main guy and his friend infiltrate the sentai squad, I really started to like this.
Getter Robo Armageddon
LEGENDARY. Holy shit this rocks, amazing show. This is what itās all about, folks.
Ruin Explorers
Absolutely loved this. It is a very short OVA with a cast of very fun characters, and that goofy Slayers-like style that I dearly miss. Very cartoony and kintetic.
Unfortunately, after about three episodes, it doesnāt know what to do with any of this and defaults into a bog-standard evil wizard they must thwart or the world will etc etc etc. Tragic.
Iām actively looking to get my hands on the manga version of this, because I really was charmed over by the concept and style of it all.
Macross 7, Macross Frontier, Macross Delta
I am an enormous fan of the original Macross and DYRL. I really respect the way later Macross series show society dramatically and irrevocably changed by the events of the previous show, and I love how fun and functional the tech is.
I do not actually enjoy watching any Macross past the first series/movie. I can respect their decision to turn music into a form of magic, but that wasnāt what the original series was doing, it was more about the power and draw of culture, and its ability to sway millions.
Itās now become a sort of dystopian setting where music is weaponized in war and likeā¦ manā¦ I donāt think thatās really what the O.G. was aiming for. I can get behind it if they wanted to depict it as being a fucked-up military engine that turns propaganda into weaponry but theyāre also not interested in doing that. 
Big fan of the huge-ass giantess characters continuing to show up! Showing both scales of people co-existing is really cool.
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ruin explorers is so frustrating. everyone online loves the anime, the manga, the character designs. but no english publisher gives a shit!
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Look giant ladies and giant robots can be extremely load bearing elements for the right kind of person.
(The kind of person who shall remain nameless in this thread.)
That said, I have never watched past the original series besides the immaculately good Macross+, which sounds like it actually sticks to the OG series themes better from your description here? It feels like an exploration of vocaloids and vtubers twenty years early.
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my littlest brother strikes again he basically locked me in a room with the Dungeon Meshi anime & made me watch the whole first half/arc & of course i fucking love it why did i put it off for so long whats wrong with me
every single character is so lovable, senshi is obviously the GOAT but i think marcille is actually my fav i love all the funny reactions she gets. let girls be funny imo
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the next arc in particular for you is maybe the easiest anime recommendation on earth
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oh yep i just learned about the catgirl
not even what i was thinking of, but youāre better off watching than reading
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Look giant ladies and giant robots can be extremely load bearing elements for the right kind of person.
Klan Klang was kind of a miracle of the right horny bastard or bastette in the right place, though Max Genius being the most author-wish-fulfillment character of all time having his giant warrior princess wife really put it into the DNA of the series. She and the entire miclone/maclone society was what kept me sticking with Frontier long after it had dawned on me that I super duper donāt care for magic robot shows like this. I think when everyone can do everything and all rules can be broken, it becomes numbing. Itās my problem with a lot of later Macross series.
Sufficed to say, I will always come back to the Macross well and almost always be disappointed, but, it usually has enough strange and fun ideas that Iām happy I put the time in.
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I watched that new Kite Blu-ray about two weeks ago. Fired up the uncut version and very swiftly switched it to the only slightly censored cut.
Anyway I got to the end of what I thought was the first episode and was like āhmm, thereās credits, time to fire up the second episode and find out where it goes from thereā and nope, that was it. Bleak as hell.
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Randomly watched the first episode of Dougram and not only was I into itās very grounded military sci-fi vibes, but itās really cool to see a bunch of mechs I was first acquainted with from Battletech moving around in 80s anime style.
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are they uh
zooms in, clears throat
Ah
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Playlist, seems to be fairly complete; somewhat jarring transitions between the ~4 minute chunks.
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god i forgot what a little goober Bakshi Samwise is
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