So am I the only person here who likes that show's kind of artwork?

And,



Yeah, well, sorry about that. Brainfart moment, you know.

While I don't LOVE the artwork, it never really bothered me, mostly because the characters were designed by CLAMP (X/1999, Card Captor Sakura, Chobits, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic; are the long, lanky characters making sense yet?). I've generally liked CLAMP's work so I guess I was just used to their style. I ended up criticizing the story more than anything because, for me, it kind of turned into a mess towards the end.

It's not the lankiness that bothers me. Hell, I love Lupin III because of the lanky character designs.

No. It's shit like...what the fuck is wrong with their eyes? And why are their mouths drawn and placed so shittily?! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THEIR FACES?!?

Huh. I guess stuff like that didn't bother me . . . somehow. Still doesn't. However, it makes me wonder how you feel about the faces in Escaflowne. Looking at those pictures you posted made me think that they were trying to strike a balance between shojo (girls demographic) and shonen (boys demographic) styles the same way Escaflowne did. Maybe that kind of blend just doesn't sit well with some people.

Uhhh what. That looks like fairly standard anime art style to me...

Magic Knight Rayearth eyes > Code Geass eyes.

As far as size is concerned anyway. (And whaddya know, they're both from CLAMP).

I pretty much only like Naruto, Death Note, and Pokemon. Yeah, the popular ones, I know.

THAT FUCKING MOUTH IS SHAPED LIKE AN OBTUSE TRIANGLE MOUTHS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY

I repeat... it's Anime art. You also complain about purple hair or oversized eyes?

If it's ugly, yes.

Also it's CLAMP art, the same people who came up with characters like this. Not really the best artists to be looking to for facial realism.

But at least that style MAKES SENSE and doesn't have HORRIBLE, UGLY MOUTHS.

The eyes are only slightly less ridiculous than the ones in Code Geass, though.

i watch a wide variety of anime, and am currently hooked on the deathnote manga. i love the art in anime and love creating my own as well as drawing others.

Woohoo! Tonight I finally get to finish Monster and I finished downloading all 110 episodes of LOGH, Yay!

I'm totally stoked to finally be able to watch this one.

Watching Monster and LOGH back to back, not sure if it gets better than that.

Dougram is awesome too. A lot more dated, but it's amazing and the closest thing to LOGH in my book. Comes from the Votoms creator, the best most mature mecha stuff out there.

Broly - TLSSJ

Felt boring and rushed, and it basically amounted to a Bojack Unbound, but with a Saiyan villain. Fights were lame as Broly did the same move every time. Plot itself sucked and the villain was a crazy douche that added nothing.

Broly - TSC

Watching the first half hour I thought "this is REALLY the plot?" Not too bad seeing the tikes do some action, but c'mon, don't revolve an entire movie with them like this. While the other one padded fighters, this one didn't whatsoever. The gag of Piccolo saving Gohan irked me yet again, but then it being Kuririn for some reason just made it seem dumb and wtf.

Bio-Broly

As much as this movie is garbage, I actually enjoyed it more than the other two because it actually had a plot. It's retarded, yeah, but it's likable in a Dragon Ball way where there are more people involved and it was more indoors and CQC. None of the main-main characters get to fight, but whatever. 50 minutes of dumbness. Oh yeah and the plot's fucking retarded.

Not to mention all the continuity errors with these films, but that's a whole debate I leave for the die-hards on other forums.

Definitely do not forget the movies are an alternative canon.

As much as I love DB/Z, most of the DBZ movies are fucking terrible, simply put. The ones I liked are Bojack and Fusion Reborn (Gogeta is in this one). It would have been cool if these were full arcs in the series, Bojack would've been a cool tournament falling back to DBness, and Janemba had a really badass design, admittedly his character was just like Buu though so maybe that would have been repetitive.

I think the worst thing about the first Broly movie was that Vegeta was completely out of character. He was a complete pussy and wanted to run away, what da hell? He was so bad. Broly himself... always sounded cool on paper too growing up, but wow his character was basically RAWWWW GOKU MADE ME CRY ME ANGRY. I can't even remember the second one, but I remember the third since Bio-Broly looked like Clayface and it was so terrible.

The third DB movie is pretty awesome. Those are all around better than the DBZ movies, but still nothing special.

They're better when TeamFourStar does them.

http://teamfourstar.com/page-episodes <-- check out their version of Lord Slug

Lord Slug is SO bad I don't even know if I can stomach a parody of it, lmao. Man, that one is leaps and bounds the worst of the worst. I remember the dub had like System of a Down or Disturbed mixed into the shitty OST as well.

Dude Xeo I'm with you about these movies. The only ones I like are the History of Trunks one (TV special but whatever) and the first three (Dead zone, World's strongest, ToM) for nostalgic purposes. I remember those on VHS at my library back in 1996 and I used to get them every few months to watch (they were in Japanese). Alternate canon I'm aware of since I've roamed on a few forums. Some of them I'll stay away from like that Slug stuff. So dumb. And Gt, which I'll never watch. I only see anything DB related in Japanese now, btw.

I only decided to watch those Broly movies because I was copying over my current DB edits, which took over an hour. I still have about 5 or 6 sagas left until I'm completely finished.

Oh yeah, the two TV specials that are canon I think are pretty awesome though. I really enjoyed the Bardock one, probably mostly because it's just more Namek/Freeza awesome sauce (still my favorite saga). History of Trunks was cool too.

I forgot to post this the other day but I finished Monster. Good story, not so great ending.

Watching Inspector Runge kick major ass in the last few episodes was amazing though, as was anything involving Wolfgang Grimmer. Awesome, awesome character.

You got the ending, right? lol.

Yes, I got that, Maybe I'm missing something, but was that really necessary?

EDIT: Added spoiler tags.

From what I've heard, Naoki Urasawa likes to keep the endings of his works open. People have interpreted the ending of Monster in so many ways, it'll make your head spin. Everything from 'Tenma-really-was-Johan-after-all' to 'Johan-was-the-physical-manifestation-of-the-unrest-in-Europe-during-the-80s-and-90s' and other really, really weird shit.

Yeah, I remember liking how subtle and unorthodox the ending was. Felt right to me.

Most of my friends tend to say 20th Century Boys is even better, it's been years but I keep crossing my fingers that it'll get an anime adaptation someday.

So, I've been thinking about maybe watching Rurouni Kenshin sometime in the future, and I was wondering if any of you can tell me if the english dubbed version is worth watching, or if just watching it in subs is better.

I ask largely because I heard the main character is voiced by a women in the japanese audio, despite the fact that he's a male.

I find it annoying how male characters are often voiced by women, I understand if it's a kid but you have pubescent and adult males being voiced by women and it's fucking stupid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5VRKecXFM&t=02m12s & 03m12s
Woman.

I really enjoy anime, don't care what anyone says, it always appeal to me. I usually go for more of the slice of life/drama shows, I am not a big fan of the Shounen Jump shows. Some of my favorites include: Monster, Now and then here and there, Planetes, Bartender, The Visual Key stuff (Air, Kanon, and Clannad), Welcome to the NHK, Beck, Cowboy Bebop, Kinos Journey, etc.

You know, I think I found a new love for Naruto... hentai mangas. I found this one called Tsunade no Inchiryou that, even having seen maybe 10 episodes total of the show, was hilarious. The studio / circle that made it has a decent style that isn't annoying looking.

that was so bad, i need to watch Madoka to get that art out of my eyeballs.

oh i almost forgot, Strike Witches kicked so much ass.
and don't even start bitching about Loliness.
give in to the cute..



DO IT

While I admit that I haven't seen much of the series (LOVED the manga!), I do know that there are actually two dubs. First is the American dub by Media Blasters. This was the one that hit Toonami and (as I understand it) it's decent. The other one is the dub by Animax for the Southeast Asia English stations. They renamed the series to Samurai X and (again, as I understand it) it's TERRIBLE. Apparently, all of the Samurai X dub is available online (YouTube or Hulu, I'm not sure which). It's also worth noting that the series got dropped before they could finish adapting the manga series, but I don't think it ends on any kind of serious cliffhanger.

To be honest, having girls dub guys (either Japanese or English) has never really bothered me. Despite minoring in Japanese, that middle-pitch range is really hard to discern a gender for me. I think it would work anyway, given that Kenshin (the hero) is kind of a small, light guy with a cheerful disposition. I'm sure you could find clips or trailers on YouTube if that concerned.

I like this guy already.

I haven't watched Kenshin yet myself, but the canon material ends at episode 60 something. The final filler arc is supposedly fucking terrible, and when I heard it does something to a certain main character, I laughed so hard. It's hilariously bad. On the other hand, I hear the final arc in the manga is amazing.

It's VERY amazing. I understand that they tried to do parts of it with the movies and OVAs that came later, but they've never done the whole Enishi's Revenge arc. That's why, when it was announced that they were going to do some new Kenshin movies here in the last year, fans were clamoring to have that arc done. Instead, they chose to reanimate the Kyoto arc (or at least that's were the first movie starts). While I imagine it's still good (I haven't seen it yet), I still want to see the last four or five volumes of the manga animated, because that stuff is awesome.

On that note, I think Samurai X (Trust and Betrayal) is completely overrated. I read 10 volumes of the manga years ago and liked it way more than the movie. So I can assume I'll like the main series a lot more as well. Been wanting to get back to it for awhile now.

The new Ghibli movie is pretty nice. As should be expected. Glad to see there's at least one team left who doesn't make shitty anime...

Has anyone seen Mushishi?

Aye, I have, and liked it. And since we're asking questions, has anyone seen the new FMA movie? The completionist in me says I should watch it, but I've heard it sucks sweaty donkey balls...

@Morrigan: Is that Arrietty, or the one they did after that? 'Cause IIRC their most recent was directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son... And in that case I'll have to watch it. Since you say it's good, I'm curious to see if he's improved since he did Tales of Earthsea (which was disappointing IMHO).