The Anime/manga thread (+ recommendations!)

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Jul 24, 2014 12:03 PM #1222529
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I'm pretty sure everyone does

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Not really.

Huh.

My guilty pleasure is Mushibigyo, the manga. It's pretty awful, but for some reason I really like the setting and the characters a lot. Not sure why I like it as it is.
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Jul 24, 2014 1:48 PM #1222548
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Youwishjellyfish and Drone, do you guys have any guilty pleasures for manga/anime? Out of curiosity.


I know I do... Shugo chara I don't admit to people... The manga I don't mind telling people about because it's not as kiddish or girly
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Jul 24, 2014 2:15 PM #1222561
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My top guilty pleasures would be New Cutey Honey, and Garzey's Wing for the unintentional comedy...

You name drop the most obscure anime, how much have you watched? Also while I remember, is Dirty Pair any good?

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I know I do... Shugo chara I don't admit to people...

I'd probably love that if I had the commitment to start a series with that many episodes... Nothing wrong with shoujo man.
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Jul 24, 2014 3:42 PM #1222587
It's really only a 102 episodes... After that they are only 10 mins of anime the other 15 mins is all bs worth skipping... Either way it's just something you start and keep going to power through episodes
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Jul 24, 2014 7:20 PM #1222674
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Youwishjellyfish and Drone, do you guys have any guilty pleasures for manga/anime? Out of curiosity.

Guilty pleasures? Weeeell, I suppose I liked Seikon no Quaser much more than I should have, and along with Raptor, I really liked reading Mushibugyou, even though it was pretty shit.
Can't really think of anything else though, if I like something I don't usually try to keep it a secret or anything
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Jul 24, 2014 10:03 PM #1222701
Oh my god after watching episode 4 of Tokyo Ghoul I want to skin a cat

Fucking hell, all that goddamn censorship is hurting me inside. And they ruined the arc! They got a mediocre arc and somehow turned it worse! And they're potentially skipping one of the best arcs of the whole series! Oh my fucking god! This is horrible. Absolutely atrocious. Drone, do you feel me here?
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Jul 24, 2014 11:53 PM #1222738
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Guilty pleasures? Weeeell, I suppose I liked Seikon no Quaser much more than I should have, and along with Raptor, I really liked reading Mushibugyou, even though it was pretty shit.
Can't really think of anything else though, if I like something I don't usually try to keep it a secret or anything


Holy fuck and I love Seikon no Qwaser lmfao.

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Oh my god after watching episode 4 of Tokyo Ghoul I want to skin a cat

Fucking hell, all that goddamn censorship is hurting me inside. And they ruined the arc! They got a mediocre arc and somehow turned it worse! And they're potentially skipping one of the best arcs of the whole series! Oh my fucking god! This is horrible. Absolutely atrocious. Drone, do you feel me here?


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Jul 25, 2014 12:18 AM #1222743
I love the fact you have to complain about censorship by cursing as much as possible.

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You name drop the most obscure anime, how much have you watched? Also while I remember, is Dirty Pair any good?


For years I never really followed any popular mainstream anime, or any new ones when they were just made. I usually just browsed through lists and thumbnails and just watched whatever looked promising or decent. And throughout that I've watched countless anime, but a lot of them are really bad and I can never find anyone agreeing with me since a lot of them are so unheard of. Lol.

Also that depends on which Dirty Pair you mean. There are 3 shows, the original 1985 show, the 1987 OVA seires or Dirty Pair Flash. I like all of them, personally. 2 of them have dubs, and the OVA series had some kind of boring sounding voice acting, and I haven't really found that many people who've watched it so I couldn't give you the general opinion. The animation on the 1985 anime is weird and awkward looking at times, but I got used to it pretty fast.

All the Dirty Pairs were some of the first anime I'd ever watched, so I'm probably just looking through rose-tinted glasses.
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Jul 25, 2014 6:03 AM #1222818
Are the Adventure Time comics any good?
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Jul 25, 2014 6:27 AM #1222825
Oh man they're mathematical bro.
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Jul 25, 2014 6:36 AM #1222829
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Oh my god after watching episode 4 of Tokyo Ghoul I want to skin a cat

Fucking hell, all that goddamn censorship is hurting me inside. And they ruined the arc! They got a mediocre arc and somehow turned it worse! And they're potentially skipping one of the best arcs of the whole series! Oh my fucking god! This is horrible. Absolutely atrocious. Drone, do you feel me here?

I haven't watched the fourth episode as of yet, but if it's seriously skipping that arc, then I seriously hate the direction the anime is taking
The whole censorship thing was an issue for me since the beginning, there's nothing I hate more in anime than censorshit, fuck those black gradients and physics defying rays of light and darkness, I curse it all.
I don't think I'll continue watching the anime for tokyo ghoul at this point tbh, it doesn't seem like it'll be worth my time anymore, although I thought maybe they would be able to somehow not fuck themselves through some godly streak of original plot, but it doesn't seem to be likely now.
On another note, I just finished katanagatari, and it was fucking amazing
I seriously went into it not expecting much after watching the first two episodes, but it was seriously something, top ten for sure, I don't care what anyone thinks
although the ending was a bit hyper anticlimactic, I would have rather it ended with
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but what's done is done, and the events of the last few episodes were more than enough to make up for he last like, 2 minutes
Edit: Also, the soundtrack is everything
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Jul 25, 2014 7:40 AM #1222845
Fuck it, jellyfish don't watch Tokyo Ghoul, read it instead.
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Jul 25, 2014 12:01 PM #1222907
Guys, guys, guys, real talk. Second season of RWBY just started, and I loved it... So yeah, I think I'm going to go ahead and say that RWBY is my guilty pleasure IF we're going to consider it an anime, which I suppose most wont. But seriously, 5 minute long food fight, whats not to love? Actually don't answer that, I already know the answer...

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It's really only a 102 episodes... After that they are only 10 mins of anime the other 15 mins is all bs worth skipping... Either way it's just something you start and keep going to power through episodes

Everything over 26 episodes seems like a massive commitment to me, I just don't have the time lol, I remember putting off Monster for about a year because it was so long and I suppose it's the reason I wont watch LoTGH.

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Also that depends on which Dirty Pair you mean. There are 3 shows, the original 1985 show, the 1987 OVA seires or Dirty Pair Flash. I like all of them, personally. 2 of them have dubs, and the OVA series had some kind of boring sounding voice acting, and I haven't really found that many people who've watched it so I couldn't give you the general opinion. The animation on the 1985 anime is weird and awkward looking at times, but I got used to it pretty fast.

All the Dirty Pairs were some of the first anime I'd ever watched, so I'm probably just looking through rose-tinted glasses.

I might watch Dirty Pair when my next set of holidays come around, which would be best to start off with? I'm thinking I might as well just start at the start and watch the original series, the OVAs, and then Flash, or is anything gained by watching Flash first seeing as it's an alternative setting?

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For years I never really followed any popular mainstream anime, or any new ones when they were just made. I usually just browsed through lists and thumbnails and just watched whatever looked promising or decent. And throughout that I've watched countless anime, but a lot of them are really bad and I can never find anyone agreeing with me since a lot of them are so unheard of. Lol.

What would your top 5 "underground" anime be? But that seems like a pretty hit and miss way of finding new shows, then again, it can't be any worse than gambling on airing shows. Which is an awesome segue into...

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Fuck it, jellyfish don't watch Tokyo Ghoul, read it instead.

To late, I started it, so now I have to finish it unless I get to busy with uni and drop it because of time constraints.
If it really bombs like you think it will I might even read the manga afterward when I have time, and we can have a nice talk about how 'the manga and anime are different'.
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Jul 25, 2014 12:05 PM #1222908
As a bonus I challenge you to read the first half of Deadman Wonderland at least. At some point in your life anyway.
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Jul 25, 2014 12:10 PM #1222909
Oh god, you're going to turn me into one of those elitist twats who refuse to recognize anything that isn't the source material...

But I might actually, that said, it'll be hard, even considering it is reopening old wounds.