You /m/en watching anything good recently? G-Witch will thankfully end soon, what will you be doing until the next mecha show airs?
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You /m/en watching anything good recently? G-Witch will thankfully end soon, what will you be doing until the next mecha show airs?
Just finished watching Casshan Robot Hunter. Wished it was longer.
Watching Armada. Starscream best boy
did you watch the 1973 one too? It still holds up
Yeah, watched the 1973 one earlier at the beginning of 2023
i finished space dandy last week. People said that season 2 was better, but I feel like season 1 was more heartfelt
Well, I don't like watching shows on release, so I haven't followed G-Witch. I just finished watching Dougram three days ago and what a fricking ride it was, to the point I was also dissapointed as much as Crinn and co. as the events unfolded. I'm planning on finally watching Getter Robo (TV) because I keep postponing it.
I liked both, but season 2 had my favorite episode:
season 1 finale is best
Happy to read you enjoyed Dougram
excellent choice anon. I liked that cour 2 really swung for the fences with episodes like the band and afterlife, but the first cour had a much more rounded collection of stories.
I reeaaally hope this isn't just another **** blogposting thread OP.
That being said I'm watching Macross 7.
Macross 7 isn't anything good
listen to his fricking song
Being a contrarian doesn't make you an interesting person.
>anyone who disagrees with me must be lying
seek counseling
Same to everyone seething and G-Witch. :^)
>and
*about
I will not listen to his song
LISTEN TO MY SOOOOOONG
Hibiki, what did you do to Basara?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJzNzllwNUI
it's not just a meme
as much as a lot of M7 is Basara being a total fricking moron and singing to trees if you can last until the Mayor cashes in her insurance policy then business picks up
I will be reading the witch from mercury side material because I like the world
Could you provide some sources? Im also interested in the overall setting and didnt get much aide stories to see. Thought it would be a rare sight.
>spider tank with long gun on top
Avid is now playing in your head manually.
I just cannot into Imagawa no matter what I do.
His episodes start off so strong but by the end I'm so bored I watch something else.
So this is new shittaste blog
no that'd be /krg/
Hakf way into Shinkalion, at the point now where the yellow train shows up (what kind of name is Dr. Yellow?). So now that N700A pilot is using this what'll happen to his old bot? I just want to get the movie over with, wondering if it'll dethrone Shin Godzilla for worst Godzilla movie. Also 17 episodes into Blue Swat, it has gotten less entertaining and slower paced over time.
holy tourist
There he is.
>what kind of name is Dr. Yellow?
Because it's a yellow rail and overhead wire diagnostic train IRL, you fricking moron.
how is shin the worst Godzilla movie
Did Blue Swat ever get fully subbed?
I'm rewatching Big O for the first time since it aired on Toonami back in the day, just got to Season 2 and is it ever explained why Dastun suddenly knows that Roger controls Big O? Its pretty clear in the first that he has no idea about Big O but now it's pretty much common place for the whole cast to know about it.
Started some stuff on Sunday. I want to see Battle Hackers, Tetsujin 28 FX, and Enma-kun 1973, but nobody ripped the Discotek releases if the girst two and Skaro is dead so the third ain't happening until I find raws somewhere. So anyway...
>Stratos 4, 3 eps
Ecchi junk aside it's a low quality Gunbister knockoff. Turns out aside from this and some series called Glass Maiden I've seen this studio's entire discography.
>Made in Abyss Scorch Sun Gold City, 3 eps
So much literal shitty toilet hukor, I miss creature attacks. Lame mascot to boot.
>Netflix Ultraman Final, 3 eps
Where did Jack and Ace go? And it looks like it'll suck like season 1. Killing off Bemular should have happened sooner.
>Space Dandy, 3 eps
How did the crew survive episode 1? And frick me, ignoring the pretty animation this is terrible, easily the worst of the four I started. How the hell D180223 thinks this is the best anime of 2014 is beyond me. I will give Bones credit, it can't be easy to make a worse version of Putlaw Star (although Firefly by Joss Whedon was almost as bad).
>toilet humor
Amazing how bad my autocorrect is.
>Outlaw Star
Ugh, and there's others too. Oh well.
>toilet humor
it's fetish shit, the whole show is fetish shit
>how did dandy crew survive
there isn't really any continuity between eps
you seem to not be very perceptive
. . .
>implying outlaw star is bad
oh, you just have dogshit taste
>you seem to not be very perceptive
There's a reason they call him a speedwatcher.
>they
You talk about yourself in third person.
>G
Thought it was awesome to be honest but wasn't really a fan of Domon just powering up with the McGuffin and then removing whichever threat was on radar. The climax was a bit underwhelming, the attack with Raine to the Devil Gundam was cool but at that point Allenby was the better girl. Good twist with Schwarz though, but lmaoing @ last minute evilman Ulube
>Gundam Wing
It was okay, I think I enjoyed it more than G because it had a more conventional Gundam feel, but the story is downright schizophrenic and more of a means to move the characters forward, the Gundam pilots are cool and the Wing Zero is a neat concept, Epyon and Treize and Zechs and Tallgeese are based, Relena is the most bland piece of cardboard heroine in the series IMO.
>EW
Cool sequel, great animation and concept. Bit men in terms of pacing, somewhat rushed but a satisfying finale and the Katoki designs fixed a lot of the TV problems like Sandrock and Heavyarms. Still preferred TV Wing Zero however.
>Gundam X
Just started it yesterday, no idea how I feel about it yet but the post apocalyptic setting, the premise and the animation all have promise so far, the X is a neat MS.
I watched Macross Plus again, but the movie version rather than the OVA series for a change. It's so fricking good.
guess g-wtich was too smart for you
Dirty Pair Flash in honor of Kimura
Rewatching Seed Destiny, having just finished Seed. Seed is way better than I remember, but that might be because I'm comparing it to G-Witch where nothing happened for fricking forever. Seed definitely loses steam around the time the druggie pilots are introduced. Destiny doesn't start nearly as strong despite a colony drop. I also don't know why the FRICK nobody talks to Shinn like a human.
started watching macross delta as my first macross series.
do they all inexplicably involve idol groups?
either way it fricking owns i have clearly been sleeping on it the tone is just so good. perfectly silly in the right way and the mech design is so fricking hot
Delta is the first one to have idol groups, the rest usually just have one or two singers, and 7 has a rock band.
oh okay but like the core combo of mech pilots + musical group is always there?
Yeah, Macross is all about the triangle of robot planes, music and romance
Yes, and usually the music ends up playing a big part of the battle strategy and has some sort of underlying power. Original series had it more of a cultural and psychological shock weapon against an enemy that had lost the concept of music eons ago, while the other stories explore music having some more supernatural elements, or serving as a form of powerful control and communication, etc.
>inexplicably
pay attention you moron
>me saying it's my first macross series
>implying i should have known from some other previous season that i haven't seen
nice reading comprehension you fricking moron
I don't really know what this says but yes I think if you score your ribs first then marinate them you should get the flavour inside the meat
Good news, you started with the worst macross. It's all uphill from here.
Delta was the best Macross entry though
What philsophical purpose did the music serve in Plus? To tell us Yoko Kanno kicks ass? We knew that
just exploring the cyberpunk-ish aesthetic and idea of mind control through hypnotic music
goddamn, plus has some great visuals
Still watching Polymar. Don’t really have anything concrete in mind to watch afterwards but I’ve been debating rewatching Zeta or going for Dairugger
Go for Dairugger
4 episodes into Dirty Pair Flash. Pretty good so far.
>Shinkalion, 41 eps
It's dumb.
>Shinkaluon the movie Alfa X future celery
Heh, the villains look like Escaflowne. So is Godzilla a real monster in the Shinkalion continuity? Why did he specifically appear? Valsor was neat. Good but not great, sad to know Rei doesn't get eaten alive by siafu or whatever the Japan equivalent is of the bullet ants in the only good Indiana Jones movie.
>Stratos 4, 6 eps
I'm getting Infinite Stratos flashbacks, stupid shit that doesn't get idiots expelled or jailed makes me go what the hell.
>Made in Abyss season 2, 6 eps
Oh yeah, this is worse than season 1.
>Netflix Ultraman Final
Actually decent, no real complaints.
>Space Dandy candy mandy landy randy, 6 eps
Very cringe inducing and it can't e d any sooner
>Blue Swat, 23 eps
So is Gold Platinum a space angel? What's his veef with the Space Mafia? Is this Zaji body hostage shit going all the way to the final episode?
The guy above me is trolling right? Is it Duel ?
Yes it's him, it's his same old format of
>Show name, what episode he's on
along with his usual antics of using silly names (Space Dandy candy mandy landy randy), abject contrarianism (I can understand if you like it, but you have to be a special kind of moron to think Crystal Skull is the best Indiana Jones film, let alone the "only good" one), and generally stupid behavior (Watching a sequel movie to a show he's only 2/3rds the way through).
On the note of Shinkalion, you'd think it'd be right up his alley considering there's a mascot character in Shashot and the main cast is primarily young boys. This little homie is far better than Pitz and all those other animals he likes so much.
>you have to be a special kind of moron to think Crystal Skull is the best Indiana Jones film
It's true though, I never grew up with that franchise. They improved with every installment kind of like Watchers and Pumpkinhead.
>Watching a sequel movie to a show he's only 2/3rds the way through
Outside of not knowing who jester guy was (and ep 42 introduced him, saw that ep earlier) I had no problem knowing what was happening.
>the main cast is primarily young boys.
That was Clawshrimpy you philistine.
I've started watching Majestic Prince after playing SRW 30.
Im 4 episodes in and kind of like it.
Best thing G-Witch did was get me to watch G-Reco. I'm about halfway through and I'm looking forward to the movies
Almost finished with GGG; will watch Final right after then move on to another backlog title. Looks like weekly stuff is going to be light for possibly the rest of the year.
Gonna rewatch Gundam Hathaway, indulge in some toku and read Despair Memory Gundam Sequel for the real Gundam female protagonist we wanted.
Enjoy the wild Inoueisms
Recently watched the Crusher Joe movie and OVAs. Not sure if m, but they're great classic sci-fi. Kind of pulpy fun that doesn't get made anymore.
>very first shot of the crusher joe film is a giant spaceship
>is it m
hmmmm
Nothing, Gwitch was the peak of mecha anime for me. I'll just go back to play armored core while waiting for 6.
Kamen Rider Geats. Not too impressive at the moment.
Got a copy of Megaranger at Vintage Stock for 30 bucks let's go bois
Let's go
I finished Harlock last week and I was honestly blown away. What a masterpiece, frick anyone including my past self who thought or said that 70s shows were probably too simplistic. I love my ayy wife and Queen Rafflesia
Just not really sure what to watch alongside Gaiking though. Either another super robot show, rewatching Shin Mazinger, or something thought-provoking and depressing. Can't power through Ideon since I'm watching it with someone else
The old saying goes: "Always respect your elders". Datiarn 3 for a lighter tone series or Zambot 3 for a more serious one.
They hold up like Harlock did, plotwise? I was told by multiple people that Daitarn really starts to tell you its plot like, halfway in the show. And I know for Daitarn, the casualty rate of the protags is either 66% or 100%
I was tempted to try actually getting through Mazinger Z and Great, but I feel I'm setting myself up for failure if I went "this is the sole show I'm going to watch during meals"
>a world where robots subjugated humanity after becoming self-aware
How serious or bad-
>In a distant future, Earth has become a wasteland and humanity as we know it has died out. All that remains are sentient robots.
>literally like robots more than people
>sentient robots is a dream (in anime, irl prospects would be terrifying)
Anon I have a bright smile on my face, tell me more.
I forgot I'm watching GR: Giant Robo as well. Considered tabling it after the OVA, but apparently it's ok in its own right. Just want me more of my Egyptian robot friend.
The opening is actually quite the bopper..
Will it be a quiet-to-openly weeping sort of soul-decay, or the kind where you bleakly stare at the sky with a cigarette?
>original 70s series
I've legit never heard of either of these until now, thank you.
>what it means to be a hero and saving people that despise you.
Ok this sounds actually gut-wrenchingly depressing. Is there something light-hearted and chipper to alternate it with? The Gaiking remake's good so far, maybe Daitarn? I like Banjo enough, but he was never a big favourite
Both kinds of sad I'd say
On the complete opposite side of the spectrum you have Space Dandy which I will rec until I die, or GGG which is a certified /m/ classic.
If you're into toku you could watch Ultraman Taro for absurd wackiness.
>Space Dandy
I dropped it the first time because it was "too silly" and I was too good for silly things or /m/, then the second time because the group was watching it dubbed (the dub seemed ok, but all the other shows were dubbed too). GGG is great, waiting for the Might Gaine BDs to finish coming out.
>Taro
>Toku
I'm really really not big on Toku while I should give it a chance. Finishing Samurai Sentai from my childhood, Kabuto with a friend, or Giant Robo are on my list though, but I didn't really know where to start with Ultraman. The only vague experience I had was I think Tiga on Fox Box, the red/blue/purple one.
>had to check if this was Tomino, remembering that child's head being blown off one time
Ok, I know I asked for sad things, but sad things can be funny when you're already depressed. But if I watch this when I'm doing cheery, is it legitimately going to put me in a bummed out way? The opening is, again, such a bopper though.
Casshan is generally a pretty serious series, but he'll always do his best on being humanity's ally and hero despite giving up his own human life or how other humans think of him.
>spoiler
>not human, but the most human among them
I'm getting Superman/Jesus parallels, albeit I'm fond of both. He's totally gonna die in the last ep to save everyone, isn't he...
Casshan survives in the 70s series, but
passes away in Robot Hunter (the 90's ova)
>Jesus
Ah, the former's surprising. And with the results being 1:1 for each, now I'm really curious what the end of Sins will be like. Inb4 it gets crazy bad like Devilman's ending (consequences-wise I mean, I like the ending)
>trying to find one among numerous pics of Mazinger or Grendizer or any of its pilots being crucified, but found this instead
What is it with 70s Japan and crucifixion?
90's Casshan also has one of the coolest opening songs as well as one of Hironobu Kageyama's best songs
Oh man, this is also a big bopper, and I don't mean the 20th century musician
>that initial intro
This must have been pretty spooky as a kid. I know my mother mentioned stuff about some stuff like Golden Bat and Humanoid Monster Bem that was absolutely chilling for 70s' standards.
>jetdog, and variant forms
Ok this is surreal and chilling by my own standards
Yeah, the series doesn't hold punches with its tone and atmosphere
>remembering to when I was a kid, thinking "Amuro and Frau becoming war orphans was the saddest thing I've seen in early anime"
>aside from things like 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother that were based on books and designed solely to make children cry
Geez. And speaking of which, are there any /m/-related stuff sort of like the latter, where it seems like the director wanted to be paid in human tears instead of regular people money?
Dunno, but Zambot 3 can be quite ruthless
Finished -GR- Giant Robo. Was told that it was about eldritch stuff, so I was expecting something like kindly Max to be the Big Fire villain (just a program, and Big Fire is never named, only foreshadowed by the initials I guess) who wants to own the GRs to fight oncoming/returning ayys, instead it was some lawyer (who I think made a prior appearance?) whose only motivation is just Economics. The observation about humanity was fine, and the ending was good enough though, wish we got more since it was foreshadowing a sequel.
>totaling 13 episodes, with the possibility for two further seasons.[1] As of 2021, the series appears to have been cancelled.
Oh. Not sure how faithful it was to the manga but I've noticed some vague similarities with the OVA. It wasn't as cinematic an experience as the latter, but I was able to be immensely fond of GR1, as well as the main cast. RIP mommy Mackenzie, you were too good for this world. 7 or 8 out of 10
Time to find more robots and maternal figures to obsess over in Casshern Sins.
Oh right, the bombs, I forgot that that was in "dan dan dan dada, dan dan dan dada, Zambot SUREE" the light-hearted children's anime. I'm pretty sure I remember being told that the human bombs exile themselves away to die alone and harmlessly, depressing.
Sins also has Toru Furuya as Casshan's voice actor.
He voices Casshan? Not even my dad voiced Casshan before..
>What is it with 70s Japan and crucifixion?
Ultraman popularizing it in the 60s
First episode of the 70s series literally has a solider being dead in this frame
It's a pretty bleak series about the decay of the world and your soul, although there was some really weird stuff in the last third or so I didn't understand.
It's great though with episode 8 being a favourite of mine.
The original 70s series is worth watching too I'd say, it's more about what it means to be a hero and saving people that despise you.
>It's great though with episode 8 being a favourite of mine.
I don't know if I fully got it, but I teared up a little bit
>Do you even smile?
>if i fully got it
life be hard n futile n shit but you gotta keep pressing on daaaaawg
But I don wanna
but you gotta
Fine..
Mazin Go, Koji-kun
>thought provoking and depressing
Casshern Sins
Test
Is Escaflowne any good? Are the fantasy mechas worth putting up with the shoujo romance crap?
Nothing wrong with shoujo romance, except it'll taint your perception of women because you'll expect them to be actually kind and nice and not deceitful harlots
>Blue Swat, 33 eps
Starting from ep 29 not only does the budget go to near zero but now the Space Mafia wants to alter the atmosphere because in the past 28 eps they were hiding how unfitting it was for them? This is almost as bad as Spielban's time travel horseshit. It's like they're just making shit up as they go along.
>Shitkeklion, 50 eps
Since ep 40 the pacing has gone to a screeching halt and it still fails to be any good. Dumb Christmas episodes are dumb.
>Netflix Ultraman Final
Mostly great, having Reina as an Ultrawoman feels like a cop out. Second best anime this season after Kamikatsu.
I'll talk about the rest when I finish them, might even watch Area 88 this weekend.
Duel watches 50 episodes of a show he doesn't like?
watch five star stories (1989) and didnt know it slow and boring has hell 40 minutes
good last 10 minutes nice and detailed animation
Ultraman Blazar. Pretty good premiere.
Orguss 02 was interesting
The enemy prince is crazy and despaired of humans, so I could sympathize with his love of nature.
Didn't watch the first Orguss but enjoyed it
Directed by gundam 0080
Glad to read you liked Orguss 02.
Two episodes into Kamen Rider Black Sun. It's alright so far
>Giant Robo OVA
>GR: Giant Robo
>The Big O
What are some other shows with a similar vein of a hulking possibly-sentient friend and political intrigue amidst an overarching mystery?
wait until you find out what this board is
Wh-what
Heaps and heaps of mecha are like that. Try out Neo Ranga and Gasaraki
Also, dumb question but I'm not sure whether now is the time to give Brigadoon a watch or not. I'd still like one positive and hopeful show that's not straight-up cartoonish, rather than tears and depression for every show I'm watching. But I recall hearing that Brigadoon causes a lot of tears.
I mean, I guess I was a bit vague. The Big O tried to be a spiritual successor to Giant Robo(?) and obviously the Giant Robo shows are related. I wouldn't count literal Evangelion as what I want, although technically satisfying requirements. But I'm not really sure how to word what sort of feeling/mood I'm after either. You guys know more than me, so hopefully you know.
>Much of the initial plot is driven by means of news reports.
>Set in the near-future, the series is formed around political narratives that concern a fictional war between the US and the fictional Middle Eastern country of Belgistan
I was hoping for supers, but this sounds up my alley for when I want a political story and a "I wish mankind would stop waging wars" ending like GR
>three orphaned sisters who have, through a mysterious twist of fate, inherited their very own god
I have no basis or point of comparison so as to have an appropriate reaction!
I haven't seen Brigadoon but I assume the genki girl has tons of fun adventures with her robot buddy and it's not sad or depressing or bleak in the slightest 🙂
I mean, you're worrying me but at the same time how bad could it possibly get, it can't be just 26 episodes of crying girl and then robot death
Why the second man, and I trust Yoetani, I think. Do I? I mean, if you love someone it's probably good to at least know what they're capable of unrestrained
Brigadoon is Yonetani at full creative director power level for bettermanman or worse.
I remember watching Gasaraki only for Hiyama as the MC. From what I remembered, pic related didn't get used that much.
>was not warned that Casshern would be so pretty: even his first friendly encounter comments on this
He's going to suffer tremendously isn't he
>spoiler
This sounds criminal
Dude looks like Seiya
>ep1
>nothing is explained and it's already intense suffering
Excellent
>think Luna's voice sounds familiar, like C.C.
>it's Sally from Might Gaine and Dorothy from The Big O
I was thinking Hakaioh Mamoru, but I see the resemblance here too
Speaking of Hakaioh, there's a new manga chapter coming out in July 14
What a depressingly lonely anime. I'm excited.
I've still yet to catch up, surely the contents of the newest chapter is what will get me on board. I think I got filtered by an inability to track motion or see the new robots very well. But there ARE reasons to get into it, despite all that
The previous chapter had Lamia and Guy battling each other.
https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21576183/#q21643964
https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21576183/#q21644001
>Worseman vs my <redacted>
and there it is, a reason to get into it..
Just baked this webm before going to work tomorrow
What a treat as always, thank you. Hope work goes well.
Also watched some Kamen Rider stuff today. The Tycoon meets Shinobi special was one of the few times Keiwa genuinely got to be cool instead of being the total buttmonkey
>Keiwa genuinely got to be cool
Aw, I'm really glad to hear it!
Unfortunately for Keiwa in the current state of Geats, his family got killed again shortly after they were revived.
>spoiler
>what seems like a meta-note
Is it just suffering all the way down? Is it going to culminate in him killing the irl writing staff in the last episode?
For Keiwa, definitely yes because he is Yuya Takahashi's (Geats' headwriter) punching bag.
Storytime of it
That's intentional. Umakoshi was influenced very heavily by Shingo Araki's work on Seiya so Casshern is his homage to that.
So infulenced, they got Furuya as part of the cast too
*influenced*
Dunno, either:
> seed destiny for the movie and to see how bad it can he
> finish zeta and continue my old UC journey
> watch a Kamen Rider for the first time maybe, maybe Den O
Geats, not ready for it to end
Finished some things over the weekend.
>Stratos 4 plus those two extra eps
Actually okay overall, not sure why literal autism stops starseeds from possessing people, but it was decent overall. Glad the ecchi bits were minimal.
>Space Dandy season 1
Terrible, I'm even amazed how slow paced the last two episodes were. Not ready to watch season 2 of this manure. I have to give Bones credit, you have no idea if what they put out will be worth it since they have titles with just about every score from 1 to 10 out of 10.
>Made in Abyss Golden Sun Scorching City or whatever
So slow paced and obnoxious with another double lengthed last episode for no reason again. It's horrible overall but still better than Space Dandy (half tempted to call it cosmic candy).
>what will you be doing until the next mecha show airs?
Complaining about mecha shows I never watched. lmao
Gorider. Much more enjoyable than Chou Super Hero Taisen
>Blue Swat, 38 eps
Oh look, something plot wise is happening - Why does Platinum Gold use a race car for a space ship?
>Shitkeklion, 55 eps
Rei still has a punchable face and Shashot should be remamed to snotshit.
>Cosmic Candy Cane season 2, first ep
talk about a dumb use of string theory. I would watch a series about depression Dandy if it wasn't framed as a comedy.
I don't understand why this guy watched 50 fricking episodes of a show he hates?
I have never dropped anything in my life, not starting now especially sincevthete are only 21 episodes left. It is still betyer than trash like Heybot, Outlaw Star, and most of Trigger's discography.
>Heybot
>trash
Congrats Duel, you now have officially confirmed yourself that you're a certified moron who actually doesn't get the shit he (speed)watches.
You guys love overreacting to nothing.
>Trigger
>discography
Here you go, pal, have a pack on the house.
Don't eat them all at once, thou.
That's a fricking moronic attitude, then again you are genuinely the most braindead poster I've seen on Cinemaphile
Why are you posting on a dead forum?
Why do you screencap random dead boards and make off topic posts?
>doesn't like the modern classic that is space dandy
holy shit you have bad taste
I started the FFS manga a while back, but I stopped somewhere around the third book/volume.
>Casshern Sins ep just opens with him screaming
>a world where friendlies soon become enemies or don't even last long anyway
>even the fricking dog can't decide whether he likes or hates him
>can't die or save or do anything desired
I'm just absolutely beaming, I didn't know this is what I wanted
Did you see episode 8 yet
No sir, I am only 5 episodes in. Haha, I bet that's the cheerful and positive episode, right?
Fricking hell, I legit hate it when writers do this
But why, why go through all of this trouble
Yuya Takahashi has the writing habit of getting "Mr. Nice Guy" bullied/suffered to point of rage and vengeance. Previous characters like Aruto has the advantage of being the main protagonist, so he was guaranteed to have cool victories and moment under his belt. Keiwa, on the other hand, is not the main protagonist of Kamen Rider Geats so he keeps on suffering and sucking in various lows with little highs in return.
What the hell man? I know characters like that can be annoying, but then just write them better? A personal grudge of some well-meaning bumbling nice guy he knew as a kid? Is it just fun? Man. I know I'm enjoying a sad show about suffering, but this sounds depressing unenjoyably
Yuya Takahashi just loves using the nice guys as punching bags and jokes that much. Plus, he heavily favors rival and villain characters to the point of making them Rider 2s and overshadowing the official #2s in his stories. I.e. Buffa being more prominent than Tycoon/Keiwa
Ok I like renegade rivals becoming begrudging friends too, but that was prevalent since like, the 90s. And it got a bit tiring a few years after 2002, for no reason at all. To the point where "edgy evil rival is just as powerful" almost foreshadows an eventual team-up, just from the fact that that character exists. Goofball dumbasses or just simply decent people becoming important helpers can be fun too, I honestly always liked them way more (when they weren't just being shat on by the universe).
Unless I misunderstood you and sometimes it's just Rider vs Rider for the entire series, but I feel that can also get old after a while.
>served as head-writer for Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Kamen Rider Zero-One, and Kamen Rider Geats.
I'm tempted to sort of just avoid him..
Nice 555 digits
>I'm tempted to sort of just avoid him..
You have to see it to believe it just to witness how much Keiwa gets dunked on.
Thank you, you too. What a bopper of an opening. This feels moreso like an anime opening than a toku one, I can almost see the supporting characters showing up and giving a cheery wave or pose, then a big cliff revealing the main antag/rival, etc.
>You have to see it to believe it just to witness how much Keiwa gets dunked on.
But would I want to persist in the journey? I was already unpositive about gag/slapstick characters routinely getting dunked on and not taken seriously, let alone this Kamen persecution
It takes courage and bravery to see non-main protagonists you like get pummeled. Keiwa could relate to them a bit.
>using my favourite buzzword
Tempting! However, I feel there's a difference between watching characters go through trials to overcome by heroism, and the writer just having a personal grudge against a character. 3G getting their shit kicked in during FINAL before making it out okay was good, but there was the hope that things would work out and not have everyone stuck in space jail for a non-animated sequel. Have other niceguys in his writing made it out okay?
>Have other niceguys in his writing made it out okay?
Pretty much yeah.
Speaking of courage, bravery, and heroism, there's a new upcoming Brave web comic
That's amazing but also what about Baan Gaan, what the frick?
Have you found the later episodes repetitive? I had that small hurdle with Harlock, and that definitely exists for a lot of shows. Glad to hear you're enjoying 999, definitely mean to pick it up some day.
No anime or manga for Baan Gaan, he's just there for the sword ride.
>Baan Gaan legitimately and actually never
Baan Gaan truly is the most suffered Brave character in existence.
Perfect. After I finish Casshern Sins, I can think deeply about Baan Gaan.
>have a dream about Casshern
I'll take it as a sign that I should catch up on Gaiking instead..
How could you bully such a face
Sometimes I feel the urge to blast this song (Count Brocken's theme, interestingly) and just scream "ENERGERRRRRR ZEEETTTTTO" at the top of my lungs. Shin Mazinger is worth a rewatch soon.
>apparently Great is made up of his other hand
>probably would have had an interesting power or scrander like Z, but SRW never includes this, just goes straight to Emperor
What the frick happened to poor Zeus
>going from optimism to uncertainty, a forced smile, and then despair
Ah, thank you!
I'm... watching the wrong show..?
>I'm... watching the wrong show..?
Don't listen to them, Sins just has some dedicated schizos on this board for a long time.
Yessir
I wonder whether the various frens of the week are from prior sources or completely original. Margot (the painter) was very very endearing. And that makes it the halfway mark!
Geez, it looks like he's the future villain at this point
Because the last straw broke the Tanuki's back and he's on a rampage, fighting Geats in the next weekend's episode..
>cheerily expect some exposition
>receive immense pain instead
Even the slow episodes of Casshern Sins are deadly
... man. I don't even know anymore.
Keiwa's mental state snapped so hard, even Michinaga (Buffa) is trying to talk him out of this
>was
Oh dear
Keiwa's sister was a dead tree person and Geats was trying to figure out a solution for it, but thanks to Keiwa's wish
, things went even further south with Sis' second death[/spoiler]
This is an absolute nightmare and I'm glad I'm watching comparatively cheerful shows like Casshern Sins and Ideon
For cheerful shows in a non-sarcastic way, there's always the Eldran series
Despite me having enjoyed a relatively cheery Gaiking episode, I want something a little bit more serious, like Mazinger or Getter tier to alternate with kid-friendly shows. I'll get to Eldran eventually though.
Was today well?
Perhaps Tekkaman Blade on the serious side and having more of that Tatsunoko rush after Casshern Sins.Today was dreadful because of the heat
I feel this is the show where everyone just bullied and hated the protag constantly for a bit. A classic and /m/ staple but with an initially unbeloved protag..
Frick, I'm really sorry to hear that, hope you can rest and recover comfily at home though.
Despite Blade's protagonist suffering constantly, at least he's not Keiwa.
>protagonist suffering constantly
I wish there weren't enough suffering protags for them to have a competition of it!
Oh please I'm begging you, Akito the Exiled (and mommy Leila), please don't be suffering
Treated myself with the current Ultraman series, Blazar. Pretty good with its current three episodes.
The final stage of Keiwa
I've mostly been watching Gold Lightan and Bubblegum Crisis. I've put off Bubblegum Crisis way too long. Gold Lightan is actually pretty good -- its animation is nice, the battles are pretty cool, and the music slaps.
Where are these panels from?
https://archive.org/details/YushaBraveSaga2Vol1/p7.jpg
The first volume of the Brave Saga 2 manga
Wasn't Brave Wars manga about him?
Could've sworn the manga was about Saber Varion/Victorion and his rival, Swordion.
Also hope today was well!
Today was fine. Actually started watching Legend of Galactic Heroes today. I'm liking Reinhard and Yang.
Glad to hear it! Is it your first time? Or a rewatch? How figuratively blind are you? I know missing or backtracking on 100+ episode previews might be frustrating, but I'll note that it does spoil some things pretty explicitly, unlike some of the vague or misleading previews we might have seen before. But I'm excited, I'll try to keep an eye out on any LoGH threads you might make also.
First time watching it. Only anime I've really rewatched recently in their entirety were GGG and Final
You are in for a treat! Here's a watching guide that I never followed, meant to go through it properly for a rewatch of the OVA. Also yeah, you can't go wrong with liking Reinhard or Yang, the fifty billion people in the OP/ED have likable traits and moments as well, but they are the stars of the show.
>episodes 7 and 8 back to back
This is so lonely...
Then I don't know, I'll have to keep an eye out for what happens to Keiwa
As of now, Geats has 6 episodes left, so maybe there is hope for Keiwa
It might be because I've had a few cheeky bourbons but this image reminds me of the aesthetics of Ace Combat 3
Nope, no suffering children for today
>so maybe there is hope for Keiwa
I wish him the best, I don't really hope much for anything anon, that's why I asked for a recommendation like Casshern Sins
Keiwa is trying to recover himself
As are we all.
Glad to hear things are going well in Ultraman, hopefully on a cheerier note too.
>hopefully on a cheerier note too.
Well the cast aren't treated like Keiwa, so it's instantly cheerier.
I don't know when/why Heroman was recommended or why I dropped it after 1-2 episodes, but it's actually really nice..
That doesn't sound like a very high bar to pass!
I know.
>he's also been put in a literal fricking cage
Someone get this man a hug
Dude even got tricked by his kitty Rider friend, leading to that cage scene
>try to start watching Casshern Sins
>feel like crying
Heroman fits that niche of being cheery but not childishly bright like the Gaiking remake
>a literal fricking tripwire
>literally a fricking tripwire
>by his friend who proceeds to brand his face
Keiwa's second cage moment
>again
No more, someone give this poor man a break
Keiwa doesn't catch a break for most of the series
Just as long as he gets a reward for surviving the unending nightmare..
>even without his powers he still fights
He is a real hero...
And not someone else in the 1st century?
>he gets a reward for surviving the unending nightmare..
Just 4 Geats episodes left for Keiwa to have some salvation in the end
>the joke character who caused this entire problem to begin with is actually a p level-leaded, mature, and overall reliable guy
Sure he's the sole adult in the picture aside from like, the head of state, but this is still nice
Here's hoping.
And a brief hiatus in August? Can't believe it's going to be August already..
It's always a treat when you come across one of those recognizable moments.
>brief hiatus in August
A baseball event happening on that week
>going to be August already.
Ah yes, my Birthday month
>baseball
The Japanese love their baseball! (Me too)
Wouldn't be the first time that sports messed up an anime/etc schedule. tl;dr: sumo match delayed the episode schedule by 4min where people would have usually recorded the series finale of Cardcaptor Sakura.
Ahh right, when was it? 26th? I used to know.. ;_;
Speaking of Cardcaptor Sakura, the new upcoming Rider, Gotchard, is having the card-based monster premise too
August 8
>it looks somewhat cool but somewhat tacky
Here's hoping Kabuto blows me away, or that something other than Samurai Sentai (enjoyed but unfinished) gets me into toku
Blue/cyan protagonist designs are always cool
I know you like blue and I do too, but it looks like he's dressed up for skiing with the goggles and the orange
His helmet does get funnier when you compare it to an exposed Rider 1 mouth. Plus his blue is like a more saturated version of the original Rider 1 suit.
Whoops forgot my pic comparison
>now it's just four-eyes
This is too silly!!
The Grasshopper goggle eyes can slide up and down too
My first i/m/pressions have always been wrong, but this looks unenthusing
I mean, Kamen Rider designs aren't exactly everyone's cup of tea. However, Gotchard is having Keiichi Hasegawa (SSSS Gridman and Dynazenon) as one of its head writers
1, 2, V3 are fine, Kyuga's fine, Kamen Rider Knight looked very cool, Kabuto looked good, the two trenchcoat looking guys (before Decade, and before Gaim) look good, Gaim I begrudgingly like, the orange bee one next to anime-hair look good, the rest aren't that enthusing other than maybe Amazon or the buddy to his right. If it's too flashy and tacky, it feels like it's designed to sell children's toys rather than to be a cool hero.
>Gridman and Dynazenon
>first one had better story development
>second one had better character development
They both felt like they could have benefited from being twice as long, so having a long show like Kamen Rider will probably be good for both departments for his writing.
>Gaim I begrudgingly like
He has one awesome looking upgrade at the very least.
Alright, he looks more like a samurai instead of the fruit motif they were having for some reason. Were they trying to sell fruits that time, and not toys?
>wouldn't even have noticed if it wasn't pointed out
Gaim had some cool suit designs in spite of the fruit motif. I consider it an example of silly sounding concept, but strong execution.
>the orange one look good
>much like Giant Robo and Tetsujin-28, Heroman cares deeply about his boy companion
I'm gonna cry
Ah, the yellow jacket (orange) rider was ghost? I thought the white diamond head one was ghost.
>have rider's head resemble a halloween bedsheet worn by people to pretend to be ghosts, call it Fourze
>have rider's head resemble a fearsome bug that flies to and stings people's foreskins, call it Ghost
Orange, then red, then black and gold, and finally white
>immediately lost the trenchcoat and then the bee head
>gained trenchcoat-like robes while actually now looking like a ghost, after lacking it during ladybug and glow-in-the-dark mini-golf phases
Like robot, like boy companion.
>actually wants heroes to keep training for future threats
It's always vexing when they don't do this, why is goofy and unreliable Prof Denton consistently the best and most reliable character (despite causing the initial mess)
Why are you doing this to me
Why did you keep watching it
I know I dropped it but still
Never forget it
You're lying to me, I cried when it happened but I know he made it out okay
>the episode preview didn't even have any dialogue
Anon why
Why would you do this to yourself if you know you're not going to like something
Described my feelings with Orange Road
I was supposed to keep watching the highly-praised FLCL and it wouldn't have been that hard, but it was too "xD lolrandum" for me to power through even five more episodes.
>Why would you do this to yourself if you know you're not going to like something
Because if you drop anything your opinion is worthless. Besides, it's just 11 episodes and the Gridman movie, then I can say I've seen everything that was every adapted to a SRW game minus the limited additions for X-Omega. Life goal about to be crossed off.
The /m/an Among /m/en
>Why did you keep watching it
I never drop anything.
>Stratos 4 Advance, first ep
Saw this yesterday, I question if this was meant to be a full season but got cut down to fund Strain and Aika R-16. New girls are annoying, that's about it.
>Blue Swat, 40 eps
And it took this long for the press to notice anything going on because....? Strangely enough this is the best episode since that alien broadcast brochure to lure marauders to Earth.
>Shitkeklion, 56 eps
Thousand Fangs are officially my favorite motw from this series by default of almost terminating the metrosexual pile of feces that drives the 800. It's like how I like teachers getting fired, you know it won't happen and it won't get you out of anything, but at least it makes the day tolerable.
I'm on like episode 60 something of Galaxy Express 999 now. To be honest I wasn't loving it for a long time, was never really bad but just repetitive. But lately, I can't tell if the show has gotten better or if I have finally attuned myself to Matsumoto's wavelength, but I've been really looking forward to watching it every day. Lots of good two parters, and the art and animation is so so good. Beautiful backgrounds and storyboards and, while there aren't many "sakuga moments" the drawings are really high quality, with great use of light and shadow, etc.
My personal favourite episode so far is 49, "The Future Planet".
What's the deal with Neo Ranga, why is it only 15ish minutes per ep?
Recently finished Yamato II, which was kinda boring for the first 10 episodes but really picked up with the return of Dessler and the expedition to Telezart. This is where it starts to properly expand on the Farewell Yamato movie's story, instead of just extending it to fill for time.
I also watched The New Voyage, which puts a nice bow on the lingering threads of the first two series even if it's primarily a spectacle film and a springboard for later projects. Starsha sacrificing herself and her homeworld to protect her infant daughter definitely makes up for how little screentime the new recruits get, they kinda fade into the background once the action ramps up.
I prefer the original series overall, especially as someone who prefers space adventures over space wars, but the so far the sequels aren't too shabby.
Is Casshern's design meant to be lust-inducing
I want to save this pretty robot from despair
>despair
He spent half the episode buried under a rock, I want to hold him and tell him everything will be okay
Casshan feels miserable no matter the incarnation.
I'm so assured that he's going to just die at the end, I am 100% positive that he's going to die to make up for things and save the world, I have absolutely no belief that he's going to make it out of this okay
>literally actually met one incorruptible and sane person in this nightmare world
Maybe there is hope
He's immortal.
That remains mysterious and therefore unspoiling, thank you.
>tfw thought that the captain was protag's dad, but was indeed thrown off by that red herring
He's probably Ruru's dad then, judging by his care for her.
What an absolute treat of a show though, and apparently there'll be even more surprises later. The jaguar butthole joined a few eps ago and the secondary antag was revealed.
Trying not to spoil, but a core part of the tragedy of Casshan is that he's immortal from being a cyborg.
Urdr Hunt every two weeks
Legend of Daikyu Maryu BDs fricking wheeeeeeen
In 2025
Only if they also reprint the artbook.
Should I watch Casshern or Casshern sins as a newcomer to the franchise?
The OG one
Why?
First one, unlike Sins it's actually worth watching and does a dark story better than most anime especially by showa era standards.
First, then Robot Hunter, then the weird movie, then Sins
Don't listen to the homosexual that got filtered by Sins, he's been shitposting for literally a decade now.
Sins really is that horrible though.
Yeah where are the epic quips, stock footage and them screaming that the same move is approved every time
This shit sucks
Oh please, it was badly written and paced with atrocious characters and you know it.
Yes it also insisted upon itself and had tropey writing
have a nice day homosexual
Finished Blue Swat on Saturday, the last ten eps mostly prevented the overall series from being bad, but man did the slow pacing and inconsistency of the Space Mafia hurt this so much (and Gold Platinum makes less sense the more he changes including sacrificing himself, why not use that blackhole on the meteor about to crash into Earth?). Honestly if Spielvan's time travel didn't utterly destroy it's continuity so hard I'd have zero trouble calling Blue Swat the worst Metal Heroes series. Started B-Fighter yesterday, two eps in and it's... Ohranger flavored Black RX with some Space Sheriff minutua. *shrugs* I'll comment on Shitkeklion another time, all I'll say is it is quite pathetic that a clipshow did a better job of explaining the villains than the entirety of the previous 56 episodes.
>keiwa
>reiwa
Skibidi Toilet. Rest assured, late gen z and gen alpha will carry on the torch of mecha.
But, continuing on a serious note, Iron Blooded Orphans. 2nd season's alright.
>Literal Breast Fire
I'm convinced this series is a way to trick Zoomers and Alphas in to watching mecha anime.
New kino dropped!
By the way, what animes would you guys recommend that are primarily Mecha vs Kaiju? Almost done with Gundam IBO, and something to the tune of this video.
NOT EVA[spoiler]
Betterman, godzilla SP and the gridman anime are all kaiju kino
Is there a light-hearted but not children's-show tier show I can watch instead of rewatching Shin Mazinger or Giant Robo? I like Imagawa a lot but I honestly want something a bit more than just the Brave experience. Maybe Astro Boy from 2003?
Maybe for non-suffering protagonists, G Gundam (Imagawa) or Gundam X (Takamatsu, Might Gaine-Goldran's director)
Watching G Gundam with a friend but I haven't touched Gundam X. Seems it's in its own timeline with nothing else I would have missed? Same deal as G?
>Goldran
I mean, it was my favourite Brave show hands-down, while I'm waiting for Might Gaine's BDs anyway
>Seems it's in its own timeline with nothing else I would have missed? Same deal as G?
Pretty much yeah, X is its own timeline
I've torrented Shin Mazinger for a rewatch but I'll put X on the soon list. I'd imagine it's not supers, but what am I in for?
>transformation, mega guns
Reminiscent of what I've seen of Wing, but the protag looks almost Brave levels of cheery and friendly.
>the protag looks almost Brave levels of cheery and friendly.
Yeah, Takuya visual vibes with a wholesome relationship of the heroine
Forgot about/neglected Heroman forever, was tempted to delete it but I'm giving it a chance. /m/'s recs were 100% right so far and I just have to power through shows until I get accustomed. That being said
>femboy protag is too weak
>human antag is vexingly unlikable, bullying a wimp and a cripple and scoffing at their attempts to be heroes is so bewildering that it legitimately makes the show unpleasant and not just the antag
>getting used to the designs
>was indifferent about Heroman but it's way more refreshing coming back into it with Giant Robo and Tetsujin
>hfw he's legit surprised at protag's bravery
It's only the third episode. Might even get fun politics stuff in, judging from the opening and what looks like one of the Bushes as president
You're right, it really is Takuya!
>does not regularly threaten the main heroine with death
Surreal
>Surreal
This is almost moe I'm surprised it's Gundam
>inb4 bait-and-switch and one of them tragically dies or they fight horribly
One of them gets freakout moments
Alright, she's adorable. I'll give at least 1 or 2 episodes a chance this month, despite not being that into Gundams. I know UC and the OVAs are praised a lot, as is G and Wing, even the later F91/Crossbone/Victory ones are mentioned, even literal Turn A now and then, but rarely X from what I saw. Could I ask why that is?
Also, Grendizer-related question:
How important/neat was the Double Spazer in Grendizer? Debating on what Infinitism kit to get after Z and Great, torn between Grendizer, Getter Dragon, and Zero: not sure if the pricepoint increase for the Double Spazer is worth Grendizer, whom I only know from most of the manga. I'd think his weird UFO spazer is more iconic, but apparently this is the one that Koji developed and piloted.
I recall Double Spazar being essentially Grendizer's equivalent of the Jet Scrander in terms of roles.
>lady actually rides in wienerpit and uses psychic cyborg powers to talk directly to the satellite... which doesn't strike enemies directly but does power the Gundam's cannon, fulfilling its name by technicality
So this is the power of AU Gundams-
>even the civvies/non-combatants were vaporized by this warcrime-level weapon, hence the absolute terror in what I thought was a cute reaction out of context
Ok NOW I believe you that this is Gundam. The bulkiness of the Gundam reminds me of the Penelope and Xi, but the X thing on the back does reminds me of Da Garn, so overall I can see myself becoming fond of it, thank you.
>essentially Grendizer's equivalent of the Jet Scrander in terms of roles
The go-to thing for flight? The regular Spazer didn't cut it for earthern flight? I suppose it's the most fun and applicable out of the spazers, and it would have just bumped up the price even more if it was the UFO or drill one. But man, what a tough choice.
Power of AU Gundams like G Gundam having the all-gold mode like half the Brave series
>The go-to thing for flight?
Pretty much, yeah
Well that too, I haven't gotten that far though, latest episode was John Bull Gundam.
>Pretty much, yeah
Whereas what comes with Jeeg are the drills, whereas Grendizer looks stronger, and I'm going to want to cobble up the other spazers out of pipe cleaner or whatever, too. But I don't exactly want to watch Grendizer without having watched the other shows, which aren't particularly bingeworthy.
Ah, I keep forgetting that's on my list. You know what, I'm putting that as a high priority.
No more tricks, I will not be tricked again
Jisariz, pretty good for what it is
I'm watching Irresponsible Captain Tylor now. Its a very fun show.
Argento Soma and yeah, its pretty good. I like a lot, probably my favorite of the artsy sunrise 90s shows.
Astro Boy 2003 too now that its subbed. Good god, this show has besutiful animation.
Dirty Pair Flash. Enjoying it as much as the original Dirty Pair
Finished Stratos 4 Advance on Saturday, felt unnecessary especially since the last two episodes were a separate ova for no reason. It seems like a plot for a movie they tried too hard to stretch out. Pretty bad. Also made it to episode 64 of Shinkalion.
>Shashot dies, sad boo hoo
>Just kidding lol
>BTW Hayato I, the main villain, made a Shinkalion just for you!
Ep 64 seemed like the finale, but somehow there is ANOTHER twelve episodes! Why?
>Why?
It's beyond your speedwatching comprehension that train anime was such a success that the only thing that made it stop (for a while) was the 2020 Olympics, because TV timeslots. And then covid happened.
>And not someone else in the 1st century?
Eiji Tsuburaya was catholic, and well, the Portuguese certainly tried in the 1500s, but they gotten kicked out and the Dutch took over foreign trade easily by not messing with religion. Like the pre-commie China, pre-Meiji Japan really didn't like religious preachers telling them what to do.
I never speedwatch, anon. It's just a joke show that has a clown for a mouth.
Why was I being a gay moron and ignoring Heroman? I hope the president gets to do cool things, his evil scientist just showed up
>Eiji Tsuburaya
Frick, I now realize that I was shown Ultraman movie on Easter, precisely because of its crucifixion scenes. Can't remember which one it was. So he just thought it'd be a fun idea to include it? I don't know how prevalent this was or whether this narrows- ok apparently it was the Ace Killer two-parter.
And oop, I didn't know about how the Dutch did it, thank you. I still get stuff that Toyotomi and Tokugawa did confused, I only vaguely know they were "no Christians aloud" but didn't know the rest of pre-Meiji were similar, thank you!
I just watched Orguss 2 for the very first time this week and had no idea it was where the "I've been pretending to be moronic" meme was from. A big smile crept across my face when the moronic prince did the "shifty eyes" and I will admit I basedfaced when he finally said the line. Otherwise a solid 7/10.
Geats episode 45. The Keiwa edge arc and its conclusion left a lot to be desired.
Finished Dirty Pair Flash 2. Just have Flash 3 left to go now
Finally finished Space Dandy. Yeah, this one was terrible, it really wanted to be incoherent and then make sense of it all in the last two episodes. Not the worst /m/ title from the 2010s, but definitely bottom barrel.
Finally got around to watching Shikalion ep 65. So... That mechanical bird for the Overcross... where'd it come from?