The all things Anime related thread.

lsg1r · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:09

Sparky__H said:
some of you guys frighten me a little bit...

what, why?
We're not that bad, once you've been brainwashed into loving anime

manveruppd · 30 Jun 2009 at 02:35

I never really got into anime soundtracks in themselves, though some are quite catchy (the Vandread tunes spring to mind), but I'd happily listen to anything by Yoko Kanno or Kenji Kawai whether it was originally composed as an anime soundtrack or not.

despotofmidnor · 30 Jun 2009 at 02:43

Can some one recomend me a new series of Anime to watch?
I own all of 'Gungrave', awesome anime. I like 'Rune Soldier', and i realy enjoyed Death Note, but now i need a new anime to watch as ive seen all of these now

Im still working my way through one piece durring lunch breaks, but i want something with a lil more story lol, doesnt need too much, but if you've seen one piece i think we can agree it lacks anything.

Keep in mind i dont like ninjas and i realy dont like the ones where theres realy long pauses with no dialog, or at least no real noises e.g. ghost in the shell.
I know this is often down to dubbing, but i just cant take it, its like when you cant skip through dialog boxes in rpgs, you just want it to hurry up! ha.

Stelly · 30 Jun 2009 at 05:18

Is it just me or the the Cyber Punk and Mecha anime drying up??

Stelly

memyselfandi · 30 Jun 2009 at 06:05

aa6972 said:
But seriously, sometimes I do wonder if I am too old be enjoying anime

Doubt it ... I'm probably older than quite a few people here and even my dad has some series he likes. In fact I probably didn't really start collecting until I was older than most people ...

Given the price of anime it's helps to be is a reasonably paying job particularly if you are getting anything from R2J, (woohoo my copy of Clannad After Story vol 8 LE has shipped!).

Sparky__H · 30 Jun 2009 at 06:51

Stelly said:
Is it just me or the the Cyber Punk and Mecha anime drying up??
Stelly

Their not really the flavour at the moment. There is normally at least one mecha series per year but the current trend is in slice-of-life anime.

But theres still Macross, Code Geass, Gundam, Zoids, Euraka, Gunparade, Nadeshico...

despotofmidnor - If you want a recommendation of a anime that NO-ONE can possibly hate then Full Metal Panic is normally good material for people starting out.

And if you want something to laugh yourself silly then Love Hina is very good.

Phoen1x · 30 Jun 2009 at 06:54

Here's one for you - can someone recommend some widescreen sci-fi/horror/cyber anime? Getting alittle bored of watching square pictures on my plasma

I have all of GitS:SAC which iirc is widescreen, but always after more. I am watching the 4:3 stuff on my PC at work in lunchtimes so it's not going to waste, I just want some stuff to really show the TV at its best.

Sparky__H · 30 Jun 2009 at 07:20

Phoen1x said:
Here's one for you - can someone recommend some widescreen sci-fi/horror/cyber anime? Getting alittle bored of watching square pictures on my plasma

You playing through a media pc or from a dvd player?

Phoen1x · 30 Jun 2009 at 07:21

Sparky__H said:
You playing through a media pc or from a dvd player?

A bit of both, although the DVD player is part of the Media PC

Sparky__H · 30 Jun 2009 at 07:29

Phoen1x said:
A bit of both, although the DVD player is part of the Media PC

Ahh good:

Haali Media Splitter
FDDShow
CoreAVC

I use these behind a MediaPortal front end and they will scale anything to the aspect ratio you want.

Phoen1x · 30 Jun 2009 at 07:32

I use these behind a MediaPortal front end and they will scale anything to the aspect ratio you want.

Sounds good, but how does it avoid 'fat head syndrome' in taking a 4:3 and stretching it to 16:9 for example?

memyselfandi · 30 Jun 2009 at 07:37

Stelly said:
Is it just me or the the Cyber Punk and Mecha anime drying up??

Stelly

These sort of things come in cycles, as Sparky__H says at the moment the preferred genres are more at the slice of life / moe end of the spectrum but I expect that this will change again over the next couple of years, (partly because of the current crack down on some genres of Japanese games which means that the source material at the moe end will decrease).

The problem, I think, with Mecha anime is that they are immediately compared with Gundam, Eva and Rahxephon which makes it hard for a new series to stand out. Personally I haven't seen any of the former and found the latter two only meh.

Sparky__H · 30 Jun 2009 at 07:46

Phoen1x said:
Sounds good, but how does it avoid 'fat head syndrome' in taking a 4:3 and stretching it to 16:9 for example?

Well The built in player for MP is customisable so you could up scale then crop the top and bottom. Just have a good mess about with the setting until your happy.

This is my customised front end to Mediaportal. Sorry it looks squashed I'm RDP'ing into the media box and it runs at a higher resolution then this one.

Phoen1x · 30 Jun 2009 at 08:11

Well The built in player for MP is customisable so you could up scale then crop the top and bottom. Just have a good mess about with the setting until your happy.

I'll give that a go, thanks for the suggestion

memyselfandi · 30 Jun 2009 at 08:31

despotofmidnor said:
Can some one recomend me a new series of Anime to watch?
I own all of 'Gungrave', awesome anime. I like 'Rune Soldier', and i realy enjoyed Death Note, but now i need a new anime to watch as ive seen all of these now
Im still working my way through one piece durring lunch breaks, but i want something with a lil more story lol, doesnt need too much, but if you've seen one piece i think we can agree it lacks anything.

Keep in mind i dont like ninjas and i realy dont like the ones where theres realy long pauses with no dialog, or at least no real noises e.g. ghost in the shell.
I know this is often down to dubbing, but i just cant take it, its like when you cant skip through dialog boxes in rpgs, you just want it to hurry up! ha.

have a look on Anime Planet and see what recommendations it throws up based on what you like.

Phoen1x said:
Here's one for you - can someone recommend some widescreen sci-fi/horror/cyber anime? Getting alittle bored of watching square pictures on my plasma

I have all of GitS:SAC which iirc is widescreen, but always after more. I am watching the 4:3 stuff on my PC at work in lunchtimes so it's not going to waste, I just want some stuff to really show the TV at its best.

I want to suggest Solty Rei but I can't remember if it's widescreen or not ... to be honest I tend to just stretch most things to 16:9 anyway ...

lsg1r · 30 Jun 2009 at 16:08

Stelly said:
Is it just me or the the Cyber Punk and Mecha anime drying up??
Stelly

Actually you might be surprised at how many 'new' anime (either this season or just finished) out there that are mecha (atleast in my view) -
azura cryin (also has demons)
kurogane no linebarrels
basquash
true mazinger (remake iirc)
vipers creed
rideback (pushing it a bit maybe but)
Legend of Daiku Maryu (remake of original)
code geass

You've also just had gundam00 season 2 plus the gurren lagann and eureka seven films.
Then you've got all the older ones, patlabor, rahxephon, eva, gundam (take your pick), overman king gainer, wings of rean, soukou no strain, Koutetsushin Jeeg, fmp, vandread, zegapain, zoids plus a load of others.

Cyberpunk, not so lucky really, you've got some 'darker' animes such as kurokami but theres no real cyberpunk like gantz, last exile etc. Although s-cry-ed, tales of the abyss (probably more steam punk though) and the bullets and carnage ova might just about pass as this topic.

Phoen1x said:
Here's one for you - can someone recommend some widescreen sci-fi/horror/cyber anime? Getting alittle bored of watching square pictures on my plasma

I have all of GitS:SAC which iirc is widescreen, but always after more. I am watching the 4:3 stuff on my PC at work in lunchtimes so it's not going to waste, I just want some stuff to really show the TV at its best.

Ironically - assuming you can split the genre's - gundam 00, eureka seven, kurogane no linebarrels and vandread are all available as widescreen

ergo proxy and gilgamesh are available as widescreen iirc

However most of the widescreen anime's I've seen are generally just a chopped version (unless new and made widescreen) of the notmal 4:3 ones, so as suggested just chop off the top and bottom of yours and move the subs

Demoniser · 1 Jul 2009 at 18:16

Just watched the Clannad: Kyou Chapter episode which was great.

To think it is the last ever clannad episode

.

Fingers crossed for Tomoyo After or another of Keys visual novel adapations, they're just so good.

Sparky__H · 1 Jul 2009 at 18:44

Demoniser said:
Just watched the Clannad: Kyou Chapter episode which was great.

To think it is the last ever clannad episode .

Fingers crossed for Tomoyo After or another of Keys visual novel adapations, they're just so good.

NO! The Tomoyo After story should NEVER be animated. It will have me blubbering like a little girl... its too soul destroying...

n1kunj · 1 Jul 2009 at 20:30

Arg it seems there's going to be yet another random filler arc in Bleach now

Tis very dissapointing after such a good latest episode...

I've just been watching Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge, about halfway through it. The art is horrible, but the humour is just plain brilliant

ANDARIAL · 1 Jul 2009 at 21:31

n1kunj said:
Arg it seems there's going to be yet another random filler arc in Bleach now Tis very dissapointing after such a good latest episode...

I've just been watching Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge, about halfway through it. The art is horrible, but the humour is just plain brilliant

yup fun series

Got the first 3 discs ADV version .Then they went **** up.
After funimation started to re release i picked up the remaining discs
I started to read the manga but when i was about 3 chapters in i found the anime,think i will carry on where i left off or maybe start again
Anyone know if the manga progresses the story?