What anime are you watching?

[Atria35]

Heroic Age 10-11 - Well. A battle plan that soley consists of "we're gonna shoot them" is surely fail-proof, right?

[airichan623]

omgosh, it's airichan!

...what's that supposed to mean? -_-

[FourFourSeven]

Heroic Age 10-11 - Well. A battle plan that soley consists of "we're gonna shoot them" is surely fail-proof, right?

Not exactly. You gotta nuke the entire site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.

[ABlipinTime]

...what's that supposed to mean? -_-

I hadn't seen you around much. That's all.

[GrubbTheFragger]

RomeoXJuliet Episodes 1-5 with my wife. I am really enjoy the series its starting off pretty strong.

[Maokun]

Finished NGE. Appropriate thoughts on my Going In Blindly blog. Now to write a review for Paper Chimes....

Well done, now onto the movies! I left a substantial comment on your review of episode 25

[rocklobster]

Just stay away from Death and Rebirth. Or as I like to refer to it: NGE: Cliff Notes.
anyway, starting Honey and Clover season 2

[Xeno]

Finished éX-Driver. I liked it, but the over all concept seemed pretty stupid. Might make a review for it if there isn't one. Onto Wangan Midnight!

Just stay away from Death and Rebirth. Or as I like to refer to it: NGE: Cliff Notes.

I want to comment on this so bad.

[Atria35]

I'll be watching both Death and Rebirth and End Of Evangelion, because I am very curious about End.

Heroic Age 12-15- ARGH! Just... the sexism... and stupidity....

[the_wolfs_howl]

Accel World episodes 6-7

Chrno Crusade episodes 5-12

[MangaRocks!]

Hyouka, ep. 17.

(Thoughts on it in the dedicated thread, as usual. )

[AngelicTotoro]

Hyouka, Oh, goodness, I just love the members of the classics club so, so much~! and Sword Art Online, which has such an neat main character! I seriously like this guy, he's the usual, kind of dorky personality main character, without being a pain, and he's still a bad@ss while doing so. And Asuna is becoming less Tsun and more Dere, which is great.

[metolosophy]

Started Trigun this morning and I'm already on episode 12! ^L^ Thank you to those who recommended it!

[blkmage]

One Off: new SatoJun slice of life iyashikei OVA, this time with motorbikes and more Round Table.

[Atria35]

Heroic Age 16- Make it stop. Just somebody... make it stop.

[the_wolfs_howl]

Accel World episodes 8-9 (the latter was a very fun episode)

Chrno Crusade episodes 13-17

[TheMewster]

Recently watched Digimon Tamers episode 1 and I can't remember whether I finished episode 2 or not. Someday I'll get around to watching more of it, God willing.

[eightluvver888]

I just finished Baccano!. Epic awesomeness, highly recommended. Sigh, why did it have to end? On to Durarara!! I suppose. But please, someone warn me if the violence is worse.

Still watching Brotherhood and Accel World. I'll finish them... eventually.

[Atria35]

Black Lagoon - FJDKAFJD:AJFLD THE AWESOMENESS. JUST THE AWESOMENESS. I have a new show to show my brother.

[Agloval]

I finished watching Bubblegum Crisis, which was interesting. From what I can gather BGC was a big noise among anime-watchers in North America in the early 90s; then it was reassessed by the next generation of anime people, some of whom had it forced on them in university anime clubs and didn't much care for it; and then it gradually faded from fan consciousness.

So it's a collection of pretty well-animated and fairly self-contained OVA episodes -- if there was an over-arching plot it was subdued and never really went anywhere because BGC was cancelled -- about some vigilantes fighting weaponised, er, androids, I think? And I thought it was alright! Not perhaps the be-all-and-end-all of anime, but an interesting thing from a different kind of anime industry. I'm glad I watched it. There were some startlingly good robot/powersuit battles in there, and it had a lot of 80s music in it which was fun if not always good.

(Content-wise, if anyone wants to know, it's at the late-80s OVA level: frequent, sometimes bloody violence, and brief nudity.)

[mechana2015]

Just finished Moretsu Pirates.
Thoroughly enjoyed it, even if it would have been nice for the final antagonist to get a few more episodes to explain who she is and what she does.

[FllMtl Novelist]

I just finished Baccano!. Epic awesomeness, highly recommended. Sigh, why did it have to end? On to Durarara!! I suppose. But please, someone warn me if the violence is worse.

Violence/blood isn't. There is, however, an episode with some (undetailed) female nudity. There are reviews covering other stuff here.

[eightluvver888]

Violence/blood isn't. There is, however, an episode with some (undetailed) female nudity. There are reviews covering other stuff here.

Yeah, thanks. Violence was the only thing I was really concerned about 'cause Baccano! is pretty heavy, so I should be fine with everything else.

Anyway, back on subject, I watched the first 2 episodes of K-On! with my 13- and 10-year-old brothers. Strangely, the 13-year-old was more interested in it...I didn't expect either of them to go for it.

[Maokun]

Black Lagoon - FJDKAFJD:AJFLD THE AWESOMENESS. JUST THE AWESOMENESS. I have a new show to show my brother.

Neane and I rejoice on your seeing the light.

[quote="Agloval (post: 1584340)"]I finished watching Bubblegum Crisis, which was interesting. From what I can gather BGC was a big noise among anime-watchers in North America in the early 90s]

I strongly recommend you to watch Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 which has a fully wrapped up story and is basically more of the stuff you liked of BGC with even greater production values.

[Agloval]

I strongly recommend you to watch Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 which has a fully wrapped up story and is basically more of the stuff you liked of BGC with even greater production values.

I dunno, I hear bad things about it trying to have a plot. And how can a 26-episode late 90s TV show have better production values than a late 80s money-sink OVA? That staff doesn't look as promising either.

[Maokun]

I dunno, I hear bad things about it trying to have a plot. And how can a 26-episode late 90s TV show have better production values than a late 80s money-sink OVA? That staff doesn't look as promising either.

Admittedly, my judgement is tinted by being watched when I was younger and more impressionable (and had seen less anime altogether) but I remember clearly thinking "man, this looks slick". Also, my comparatively lower opinion of the production values of BGC (which I also watched around that time) may be purely based on the character design. So yeah, take my advice with a grain of salt.

Having said that, I'll stand by my opinion of its plot. I thought (and still think) it has a superb sci-fi premise that was carried throughout the series with a few well placed twists and a satisfying end. I do think the series suffers of taking itself a bit too seriously (compared to BGC) and pacing problems but it was all worth it in the end.

[Agloval]

Having said that, I'll stand by my opinion of its plot. I thought (and still think) it has a superb sci-fi premise that was carried throughout the series with a few well placed twists and a satisfying end. I do think the series suffers of taking itself a bit too seriously (compared to BGC) and pacing problems but it was all worth it in the end.

Hmm, okay. Maybe I'll cautiously try watching it some time.

[Atria35]

Evangelion movies D&R and EoE (yes, both of them). A half hour from the end of EoE, I stopped being sad and started having a headache. Wha-? More thoughts on by Going in Blindly blog next Sunday.

[MangaRocks!]

Hyouka, ep. 18.

(Thoughts on it in the dedicated thread, as always. )

[ABlipinTime]

Finally finished Usagi Drop!!! (It only took me several months)
Very nice ending.
[spoiler]Just based on the last episode, Daikichi's family belongs in the "Are you Awkward" thread. Rin is the only normal one, at least from my experience.[/spoiler]
The only sad part is now I have nothing clean, relaxing, and family-oriented to watch when I'm bored.