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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō – mega comf from the ’90s, it honestly doesn’t get more slice of life than this. It is actually surprisingly inline with something like Shōjo Shūmatsu Ryokō as it’s also about cute robot girls, photography and takes place after some great cataclysm. But this work is vastly superior due to yuri undertones.

Similar to SSR, but even more so, this is a very background-centric show – there are a lot of pillow shots demonstrating you the world around, the scenery, telephone poles and so on. All rendered with absolutely gorgeous watercolor backgrounds of soft pastel palettes that start to lose any definitive outline as they disappear into the horizon, giving them that hazy dreamy look. At times the effect is so extreme it could pass for a children’s book illustration. At the same time, the immediate surroundings are very detailed and sometimes strive for near-photorealistic usage of color.
The animation is similarly great, though the art style is deliberately simplistic; at least for the era, compared to the moeblobs of today it’s still pretty detailed.

There isn’t really a story, more like a premise and a few neat concepts that the show simply runs with and you together with it. It’s very ruminative in nature, both narrative-wise as well as for the audience, you would often just sit and marinate in some choice SoL sauce. Needless to say, the cute MC carries it.
Interestingly, there’s almost no music present apart from a few short song interludes that play almost like music videos; a unique approach that only strengthens that dreamy quality.
Classy stuff.

I also watched the 2002’s continuation, but even though it was done by the same studio and the two shows are just 4 years apart, there is a noticeable disparity in quality between them. The follow-up feels like it was trying to imitate the original but couldn’t quite capture the lighting in the bottle again. It is nicely comfy and follows all the same principles, but the look and the animation just aren’t as striking and on-point, missing those top-tier ’90s aesthetics. Even the character artstyle begins to take on that more angular ’00s look. This is why I often don’t watch sequels or remakes of the ’80s and ’90s properties made in the ’00s – they simply can’t capture that ethereal cinematic vibe the pre-digital era provided.
There is also music present now, very wholesome and chill, probably the standout feature of the sequel; I like both approaches and the different experiences they provide.
Narrative-wise, however, I didn’t like how there are way too many characters now, making the world feel much more mundane compared to the enigmatic melancholy of the original.
But it’s still a great watch, just can’t quite measure up to the golden age of the medium.

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Also, this smug Alpha .

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Thanks to the anon that recommended Penguin's Memory on the previous thread. Just watched it and was moved to tears in a scene or two.
Overall it's a very simple movie that contains a fairly simple romance plot with a tragic backstory. The simplicity was not a detriment to the story in any case though. If anything, I was shocked by how down-to-earth most of the characters were played out. In particular, the scene with the surgeon's resignment and shared struggles with Mike pulled me at the heartstrings.
I wonder if the fact that the director hadn't had any other involvement in anime beforehand contributed to this movie's quality.

>>85062
>>85063
I have never read the mange though I did watch the OVA. All two episodes from the first OVA, that is.
Kind of funny you're mentioning the second OVA here since I threw that one in the backburner after sitting through one minute of it.
Don't know if it's any good or not. My brain was already adapted to the easy colors on the original, so once the piercing digital colors from the sequel started flashing on the screen my brain had an aneurysm and I had to shut it down immediately. Perhaps watching them back to back wasn't the most appropiate idea.

>>85407
No problem.

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Makyou Gaiden Le Deus – a pretty cool treasure hunting anime; it’s sort of a mix between fantasy and sci-fi with some nice mecha action thrown in for good measure.

The exploration vibe is pretty strong here as it’s all about an ancient civilization in a post-apocalyptic world. Feels very much like an RPG of the era. This is actually an all-original project not based on anything, which I was surprised to discover; there were plans for a sequel apparently, perhaps to turn it into a series, but this remained the sole entry. Definitely a shame as it naturally lends itself to a serialized structure and the story clearly implies there’s more to it. The plot itself is all about the pre-established dynamics – it doesn’t introduce anything and instead we start right in the middle of the story and have to derive details from context. As such, we’re clearly shown there are powers at play that we didn’t get to encounter in this ‘chapter’. A bold choice for your first outing but I very much love this type of narrative.
At first it plays out much more straightforward but then in the second half giant piloted mechs are suddenly introduced for a really cool action sequence. There are actually a lot of action scenes of different kinds throughout the entire runtime, so it never sags. The way the main character smugly summons his trump card mech from a tracking “station” of sorts reminded me of Gun x Sword, you don’t see this type of mech operation very often.

The animation is pretty good, especially considering how detailed and meticulously shaded everything is. There are even a few sequences with fully animated moving backgrounds.
But I think the standout feature here are the painted backgrounds, they are extremely well made and detailed, and just beautiful to look at in every shot. Fit for a feature-length production. The variety of locations is also nice, they depict the exact type of “new world built on the ruins of the old one” scenery that I love.
The music is pretty good too and also feels very RPG-like.

Another standout feature are the great character and mechanical designs; really solid, inspired stuff I have to say. I decided to look up the artist and indeed those were done by a prolific mangaka of the era, Aran Rei. I then checked up on his bio and found a rather sad entry, which I will quote verbatim (I translated it from Japanese): “In his heyday, he was one of the most popular in the industry and had serialized his work in numerous magazines. However, due to the overload caused by his reckless expansion of his work, there was a succession of serials that were interrupted after only a few stories were drawn, and almost all of his works remained unfinished. In recent years, his works have occasionally appeared in adult-oriented manga magazines, but they do not get much attention because there are no longer many fans who knew him in his heyday, and the content of his works has become completely mellow.” 
Such is life.

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Just finished off the original Bubblegum Crisis, and it's follow-up series Bubblegum Crash, and I can see why it has a lot of staying power with people, but it's such a shame that the story is unfinished.

The premise of the series is that 11 years in the future (46 years when it first aired) Tokyo has become this huge metropolis (Megatokyo) that stretches out for miles and surrounds the headquarters of the Japanese multination company Genom, who supplies all of the world's technology, with their biggest addition being "Boomers", androids that are used for consumer and military purposes. However, despite already controlling the world, to the point that they even control the military and the politicians, it isn't enough for Genom, for whatever reason, so the company now spends their past time acting like dicks to the public by allowing their boomers to sometimes go a little nuts. The government's response was to form a special task force to combat these berserking units, called the A.D. Police, but they're rendered mostly useless due to the politicians not actually wanting them to do their jobs. Insert the Knight Sabers, a mercenary group of three of Megatokyo's ladies (Priss, an underground rock star, Nene, one of the desk job A.D. Police officers, and Linna, a fitness coach who later becomes an accountant), all lead by a "Super boomer" in disguise named Sylvia (This isn't a spoiler, it's literally shown in the first episode), who take it upon themselves to corral the rampaging boomers whenever the A.D. Police can't. And, that's the general gist of the series.

It's a nice simple premise, with story beats hinting at much more nefarious hands at work, such as a rival "Super Boomer" looking to overthrow Genom's works, but it ultimately doesn't go anywhere and leaves a lot of unanswered questions. And, this is before the jump into Bubblegum Crash (Which was produced immediately afterwards, not years later like other OVA sequels), where inconsistencies begin to really surface. For example, aside from a Boomer incidents being quite common and Genom not exactly being discrete with their work, the city is actually rather clean and neat, that offers almost anything that one could ask for. In addition to that, space travel is already a thing, but it's never relevant to the show outside of just one singular episode. However, that's also skipping over the impression the show begins to create about how is it that Genom manages to retain so much power, and why Boomers are such a threat, when any random person can begin to build themselves a combat suit or a supercar with nothing more than the pocket change they find in the sofa. Despite the Knight Sabers having suits that are so advanced that even the military, that Genom provides with almost the latest tech (Because Genom has moved on from suits and androids onto "living" robots), asks for their help, yet experience difficulty fighting whatever beast a disgruntled employee put together inside his garage.

This isn't to harp on the fact that the show is terrible with it's story, it's just that it's wildly inconsistent and throws up a lot of questions that the show either didn't think about or care at all to answer. Each episode is self-contained within itself, where something happens, and then it follows along with the investigation of seeing how it all comes to fruition in the finale of the episode. In some ways, it's a lot better structured than other shows I've watched, but that could also be due to each episode being 45 minutes long, so the story doesn't feel like it needs to rush itself.

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>>86678
The animation for the show is also rather beautiful with a lot colors, with the first episode looking a little off, but the rest really pump up the production quality, especially towards the end of the show. However, when you skip over to Bubblegum Crash, it's a little jarring to see just how the animation quality drops. It's not bad, mind you, but it's disappointing compared to the previous eight episodes. Also, what's rather interesting is that each episode for Crash does start with a nice 3D render of the city, so I'm sort of left wondering why the team didn't use that as a way to help keep the animation for the characters up to speed while not needing to focus with animating the background entirely. Also a great aspect of the show is the rock and roll songs that play during each episode's opening and climax, which is another thing that Crash lacks. If it sounds like I'm being too hard on Crash, it's possible that I am, but much of it is due to how great Crisis was in comparison. It's still very well made in it's own right, but you know that it's a step down to what the team previously did.

Overall, Bubblegum Crisis and Bubblegum Crash is at a crossroads for me. On the one hand, it's a beautifully made show with great music and a cast of characters that I really did like, however there's just so many questions I have the show's world and seeing none of them answered due both series getting canned before either could conclude makes this a hard recommendation for me. It's possible that the later remake of both the series, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, answers all of the questions that I have, but as of having yet to watch it myself, I don't know if it does. The only thing I would recommend is to download the official music videos for the series as that would likely offer the best experience.

>>86680
The 80s Appleseed OVA is better, and even more of a dick tease in terms of content.

>>85062
Perhaps you should watch Figure 17?

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Coppelion – continuing with the post-apocalyptic theme of sorts I also watched the subject at hand; it wasn’t deliberate, just a strange idiosyncratic happenstance.
I kinda expected more from this premise tbh, it was shaping up to be the next Sora no Woto or Shōjo Shūmatsu Ryokō but wasn’t anywhere near as good as those two, unfortunately.

The story is pretty flaccid overall; it’s okay, I dunno... There are a few interesting concepts and the setting is rather unique but they don’t really do anything with it. The show starts more episodic in nature and during that time you can see glimpses of potential for that SoL comfiness but then they opt to try and tell a “dramatic” narrative instead which was just bland.
So yeah, the setting was probably the most engaging aspect of the show. I did like the major industrial accident being teased throughout the story, evoking Chernobyl vibes; and also the whole ‘doing missions inside the zone’ – it’s like Stalker but with cure grils. But ultimately adding too many extra characters and attempting to tell a “dramatic” story without interesting writing to back it up was a mistake, it should have been just the three girls exploring the mysteries of the abandoned city akin to SSR.

Visually it’s decent but nothing particularly impressive, a B-team worked on this. I think they also ran out of budget because the penultimate episodes are really rough. And of course being a modern anime they try to mask it with heavy post-processing and digital effects, only making it extra ugly and unappealing. The backgrounds are done entirely through digital manipulation, and while it can allow for some extra details it also makes it extremely distracting and hard to see at times; there’s such a thing as too much detail. Due to that, the animation often gets very obnoxious since the backgrounds are all digital and the camera can fly all around, zooming in and out. It’s very spastic and unnatural. There’s also the token 3D modeling which sticks out like a sore thumb even more here.
The music wasn’t particularly memorable.

I actually wanted to drop it about halfway through, and not that anything happened to dissuade me, but the show is kinda unique it its own right, so I decided to finish it. It’s comfy enough but at the same time not enough to enjoy it that way, and it’s not interesting to watch it for plot development. It also doesn’t have much of a visual appeal since the animation is average and the art direction is just digital vomit of clashing colors.
I don’t know about the manga, maybe it’s much better, but the anime was disappointing. Great potential yet nothing substantial came out of it. But of course your mileage may vary. At least the girls wear amazingly short skirts.

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>>86620
You had me at that first sentence, and I was about to bemoan my backlog being too bloated for yet another series before discovering this was an OVA. Thanks for finding this!
>>86678
>>86680
>watched Bubblegum Crisis years ago
>somehow never knew it had a sequel OVA until now
>get my hopes up thinking the story was actually finished
>discover Crash was cancelled partway through
>mfw
I'm not going to lie, this new information is very disorienting.

>>86862
What timeline did you pop in from? Is it one where the Vita outsold the PS4?

>>86873
The Vita outsold the PS4 in Japan until 2019ish or so, after many efforts to kill the Vita and push shit unto the PS4 by force from Sony

>>86873
No fucking clue. I don't have a good excuse for this either.

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>>86862
No problem anon.

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So, I just finished off Ko Century Beast 3 and rather enjoyed it.

It's a seven episode OVA that takes place 12 thousand years in the future the where the Southern half the planet disappeared, resulting in America, Europe, and North Asia regressing to the point that humanity becomes primitive back-to-nature beastmen, meanwhile Australia enacts their authoritarian nightmare upon South American, Africa, and South Asia to turn the entire hemisphere into one big cyberpunk dystopia. Joking aside, Humans from the Southern hemisphere start attacking the beastmen on the Northern hemisphere in search of Gaia, and ancient computer that gives one power to control the fate of the entire world. And, to fight against these humans, three special beastmen (Wan, Bud, and Mei-Mer) gain the power to control powerful giant robots to fight them off so that they can find Gaia first. In regards to the story, it's mostly a fantasy type of affair, where you can replace the science with magic and not see the difference, where the characters are traveling across vast landscapes of what used to be civilization, with a simple "protect the planet" message at the end. Because, for some reason, writers seems to think that humanity will only ever destroy the planet or regress to hunter-gatherer societies, with balance inbetween ever being possible.

But, the story isn't the reason why I like the series, the real reason that I do is because I just absolutely adore the artstyle of the show. For some reason, THIS is the kind of 90's anime art that gets me to bust a nut and drives me crazy with how much I love it. That's not to mention that the show is also very well animated with everything go on.

Nothing much to say over the music. 

Overall, I feel like I can doubtlessly recommend the series as it's fun, well animated, and rather simple (Despite my issues with the story's direction).

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Finished Lupin Zero this past weekend, and I have very mixed feelings about it.
I enjoyed the ride overall, but it really felt bittersweet being the first work made after Monkey Punch's passing. I feel like it is codifying the 'new' backstory of Lupin while throwing the world and character building of parts 1-3 in the trash. I understand that there is an arguable delineation at RED VS. GREEN, but it is still hard to see the original series' lore and setting thrown in the trash in order to, in my view, keep up with the times. 
It also left me with many more questions than answers. The only real answer I can glean from the show is that Shinobu is Lupin's real mother, as Lupin reveals in Part 6 that Tomoe was not his real mother.
Did anyone else watch it, and if so, what did you think of it?

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>>86620
MIDNIGHT SHOUT
I'M A STARDUST

>>87425
>spoiler
I forget, what age was Lupin in the flashbacks in part 6? I thought this show retconned part 6 as it showed that he got his thieving skills from his time with his father and grandfather as opposed to from Tomoe. But I guess he could've learned from both of them Coming from part 6, this was a great anime. I wasn't that fond of part 6 in its later half, in contrast, this prequel was short and fun. It also didn't go overboard and introduce the other Lupin character's and break continuity but kept it simple instead with only Jigen.

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>>87475
From what I can understand, Lupin was trained by Tomoe when he was living with his grandfather, before his father came and took him to Tokyo. He mentions learning a lot while living with Lupin I and feeling angsty towards Lupin II for taking him to Tokyo and telling him to stay on the straight-and-narrow

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>>86620
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Having just seen Makyou Gaiden Le Deus, I'm surprised at just how much it feels like a pilot episode over a standard OVA. Even its pacing feels more like a 24 minute introductory episode (albeit a really good one) than a 40+ minute OVA, and it seemingly exists more as a vehicle for showing you the cool setting, visual designs, and production values than anything. But there's one element that really throws this off, and I suspect it's why this OVA didn't go anywhere.
It's the fight scenes. The antagonist's minions make impressive entrances and seemingly throw their all into catching their foes off-guard or intimidating them right off the bat, but fucking suck at anything beyond that. I get the impression that these guys have zero combat experience and likely drill these entrances heavily without focusing on much else, and that would fit the overall decadence and decline you can see in the setting, but is it intentional? I can't tell. Thing is, even if it was intentional, was it really a good idea to include this in your pilot OVA? Personally, I don't think so. I appreciated the OVA's overall show, don't tell approach to the setting, but if this one thing was intentional, being at least a little more explicit about it would have done MILES for the OVA.
I wish I lived in a world where this got a sequel or a full-blown TV series to explore Makyou Gaiden Le Deus' setting better. Alas, I don't. But hey, turns out there's another anime based off this mangaka's work: a three-episode body horror mecha OVA based off a short hentai manga he did in the 90s called Iczer One. That sounds cool as shit, so I think I'll add it to the backlog and see if it's any good.

>>86718
looks interesting. going to check this out

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I just finished watching Excel Saga and i hate how much i laughed because most (all) of the humor is 'LOL sO rANdom xDD'

>>87677
Iczer One focuses less on the porn than might be expected. There's a little of it, but it's more like how old movies had the "money shot". It's fine as long as you aren't expecting the sort of lengthy scenes you get from modern hentai.

>>87677
>I wish I lived in a world where this got a sequel or a full-blown TV series to explore Makyou Gaiden Le Deus' setting better
Tale as old as time, anon. But the market in the 80s and 90s was extremely viscous and competitive, getting a sequel to something seemed a highly unlike event.
Attested by the fact that so many sequels and continuations/conclusions to IPs only started appearing in the 00s, when it cooled down a bit.
>But hey, turns out there's another anime based off this mangaka's work: a three-episode body horror mecha OVA based off a short hentai manga he did in the 90s called Iczer One.
Iczer One is from the 80s iirc. In the 90s they made 2 more OVAs including one with an updated art style.

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Unkai no Meikyū Zeguy – a pretty neat isekai OVA. Just like with Le Deus I was sure this is based on a manga, it has that distinct feel about it, but this is also a completely original project written by the director.

See, an OVA, especially back in the day, was almost always an advertisement for the manga so the short/abridged nature of the product was kinda par for the course. But when you see something like this, where someone tried to create an all-original work in very limited conditions that feels like it’s part of a large franchise, well, it’s just nice to see a piece of someone’s creativity; like a voice from the past.
It has a feel of “yup, this is a 30-volume fantasy manga from the ’90s that used to be popular but then got completely swallowed by time.” Just as you start watching it, the character and mechanical designs, the world, the concepts – all are of a higher grade and scream of being based on some guy’s prolific work. But like I mentioned it’s an original project.

The story itself is nothing special, it’s a simple isekai very much inline with something like Escaflowne or Inuyasha (though it predates them both). It also reminded me of Go Nagai’s Kuro no Shishi with time-traveling samurai fighting cyborgs and shit. Obviously it’s quite brisk to have everything be wrapped up in just 2 episodes but they likely couldn’t afford more. That being said, I did like the world and its scenery, it’s pretty creative and comfy and I think in the limited runtime that they had, they packed a decent amount of stuff in here. The main girl is a likable ditz and her turning into an action heroine by the end was a nice twist.

The animation is generally tv-grade, and not the upper echelon variety, but it’s not bad and has a few cool technical moments here and there that please the eye. The general art direction is rather good as well with some nice usage of color. Also there’s a lot of pantsu, these guys had it figured out. 
But the music is actually pretty solid and exciting; you know that’s the case when the first image result on Japanese jewgle is the OST.

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>>87677
I'm glad you're back to reviewing anon. I like your reviews. Also, it feels like some of your watches come from my recs.

There's a loli hentai magazine called Lemon People which is where Iczer One was originally published, Aran Rei was one of the artists who were often featured in the magazine. The thing is that japs seem to mix porn with art, I sometimes try to find downloads of the magazine so I can get more art because it has some really good art, not at all to masturbate. The original Iczer One OVA is one of my favorite anime ever, I've watched all anime media belonging to Urusei Yatsura except for the 2022 anime and those 3 magical episodes of Iczer One stuck to me more than those 195 episodes + many OVAs and movies of Urusei Yatsura, although both are forever burned into my memory and constantly in my thoughts. The Iczer manga is also good but not to this point, the anime staff really did magic with the source material.

You might be disappointed in learning that Iczer One is really a Toshihiro Hirano work, at some point I noticed that I had watched a few anime he worked on and really liked them, and began working on watching as many of his works as possible; Iczer One, out of the ones I have watched, is the one that most strongly defines his style, and indeed, as you can see on anidb, Toshihiro is credited with many positions in the Iczer One production. I've watched both Iczer One and Le Deus and I can't tell what defines Aran Rei's style or how it shows in either anime, but everything about Iczer One screams Toshihiro at his finest. 

It's truly a shame Le Deus is so short, it absolutely deserves to be fleshed out in a longer series, but unfortunately it's confined and limited by being a short OVA. Also, now I'm curious about finding more Aran Rei anime and looking into his manga. Let's hope anidb is incomplete here because it says he only worked on Le Deus and Iczer One, and I really like both anime.

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Finished off the series Shamanic Princess, which is, most simply, a six episode OVA that amounts to a four part movie with a two part prequel

The premise of the series is that Tiara, a girl with magical capabilities, comes from a parallel world, called the "Guardian World", to Earth in search of an object called the "Throne of Yord". In doing so, she crosses paths with her old friend Lena and he childhood love Kagetsu, also inhabitants from her world, and find out that Kagetsu stole the Throne, which is actually a painting, for the purposes of saving his sister. There isn't much more I can really tell about the story's plot without spoiling it because it isn't that deep of a show, and there's a reason why I referred to it as a "four part movie", as each episode of the series flows right into the next. It's a nice simple series to watch from that perspective, but I also felt like I wanted to see more of the shenanigans going on between the Guardian World and Earth. Granted, the last two episode, which essentially act as a two-part prequel, sort of fulfill this purpose, but it also comes across as a little hollow because we don't really learn or see anything new with the story and world of the series due to much of it already being explained in the previous four episodes.

As for the animation of the series, I'd have to say it's fairly well done and well detailed. The only really complaint I had is that the female characters' faces looked a bit odd at times, but that's just me nitpicking. Also, don't be fooled by the show's OP and ED as the series is more along the lines of mystery or something rather like Hell Girl rather than the shoujo magical girls series it comes across as.

The only other thing I can really talk about regarding the series is the omake produced afterwords, called Mahou Tsukai Tai! vs Shamanic Princess, which is just two three minute shorts poking fun at the Magic Users Club and Shamanic Princess.

Overall, I would recommend Shamanic Princess if you're looking for a simple series that you can just sit back, relax, and enjoy.

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>>87916
>finish most of Shamanic Princess
>neglect to watch the prequel episodes
>hold off for several months
>now I've been beaten to writing about it
jej
I'm surprised you didn't mention the soundtrack, given how distinctive it is. I particularly like how percussion-heavy it is compared to most soundtracks, and it makes me wonder if Yoshikazu Suo's other OSTs are this interesting.

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>>87923
I know the music is important for media, but I tend to not really care about the quality of them, for whatever reason, unless they're really good (As in, go out of my way to buy them like with DragonHeart soundtrack), a really important part of the work (Like I did with Bubblegum Crisis), or really bad. Personally, the only song that really stood out for me was 'Kaze no Matsuri during the sixth episode, which was why I clipped it out: >>87917

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>>87752
>You might be disappointed in learning that Iczer One is really a Toshihiro Hirano work
On the contrary: it was quite encouraging, as I was worried I'd downloaded a guro hentai OVA (which would probably still have some interesting stuff in there, mind you). Instead, I got a fine action OVA with parasitic bioweapons and mecha fights.
Note that I said fine, not utterly amazing. The story isn't terribly special, especially at its climax, and you could argue that its fight choreography isn't all that dynamic compared to other action OVAs. But it's the execution that makes it work so well, and boy howdy, does Hirano and the crew ever execute this well.
I'd say there's two aspects where the execution especially shines, with the first having some overlap with the second, and that first aspect is the characters. They and their arcs don't sound all that original if you just write them out, but the character designs, animation, framing, editing, pacing, and vocal performances all come together and solidify what could have been a forgettable cast in lesser hands. Take the mother and her daughter that Nagisa meet in the second episode, for instance: you've seen these two a million times in other stories, you practically know what is going to happen to them, but that familiarity is used to create dread and sympathy rather than for a tedious going through the motions.
The second aspect is the art direction, and this is where the OVA really strikes gold. The entire OVA has one striking design and scene after another, all of which are artfully rendered, lit, and animated. None of this comes across as showing off or flair for the sake of it either: this is clearly a case of passion for their work and a desire to execute it as best they can. This is particularly evident in a certain running joke, which is elevated through sheer draftsmanship from potentially just funny and kind of pathetic to jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring, and the sheer impressiveness of it all makes the event's repeated failure even funnier.
Execution, execution, execution: that's really what Iczer-1 is all about. It's proof that newness isn't everything and that stock characters and formulas exist for a reason, because deep down, buried under all the layers of hacks, frauds, and forgettable stories using them, is a potential that calls to people: a potential that that a good artist can bring to light. Sure, Iczer-1's execution isn't perfect, as some slightly better writing would have taken this from well-done to truly great, but through it something that could have been mediocre or just okay became really, really good. It possesses the kind of quality that's often overlooked in an era obsessed with novelty or "originality," usually by people who no longer understand creativity or inspiration, and we are all the poorer for it.

That last paragraph brings a remark from The Discarded Image on medieval storytelling to mind:
>I doubt if they would have understood our demand for originality or valued those works in their own age which were original any more on that account. If you had asked Laʒamon or Chaucer "Why do you not make up a brand-new story of your own?" I think they might have replied (in effect) "Surely we are not yet reduced to that?" Spin something out of one's own head when the world is teeming with so many noble deeds, wholesome examples, pitiful tragedies, strange adventures, and merry jests which have never yet been set forth quite so well as they deserve? The originality which we regard as a sign of wealth might have seemed to them a confession of poverty. Why make things for oneself like the lonely Robinson Crusoe when there are riches all about you to be had for the taking? The modern artist often does not think the riches is there. He is the alchemist who must turn base metal into gold. It makes a radical difference.

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>>87941
The 2 main things I look for in anime are girls and beauty, and that and the execution are exactly why that anime is one of my favorites: it does all of that excellently. Excellent review anon.

But you forgot the extremely good soundtrack, featuring Chumei Watanabe, also at his finest. Speaking of Chumei Watanabe, the guy was born in 1925; he was nearing 60 years old when he composed that soundtrack, and he's still alive. He's an excellent example of vitality and remaining active and juvenile (in a good way) in old age. How many men are out of touch and can hardly stand up from the sofa at age 40?

Have an OC gif and the soundtrack torrent: 
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>>87653
Speaking of Lupin, I watched Scoopers an OVA made by monkey punch. It was only 47 episodes and had a Lupin-esque android solving a crime with a hot blonde lady, with how short it was it became unremarkable. Didn't help that the only available torrent has awful quality. 
>>87971
>girls and beauty
Would you be interested in dark beauty?

>>88107
>47 episodes
meant minutes.

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Alright, watched some old hentai
>Injoku no Heya
<1/5
27 minutes, MC has an incurable disease and falls in love but his evil twin brother escapes prison and rapes his brother's beloved. The most noticeable thing about this is that the torrent came with a German dub. 

>Dragon Rider
<1/5
Similar to Injoku no Heya in how generic it was. A fantasy hentai that did have a monster rape scene but nothing else out of the ordinary. 

>Mahou no Shiho-chan
<3/5
Watched it since the protagonist was JS but I was immensely disappointed when I found out that her transformation was just her turning into an adult. Even when she was naked in loli form the gave her tits. I'm tired of this hag-washing that constantly happens to lolis whenever they show any skin, same shit is still going on with stuff like Illya. Anyway it was a two episode OVA that reminded me slightly of Cardcaptor Sakura with an MC who was in love with an older man, a best friend who was in love with Shiho, and even an annoying shota who liked the MC. However unlike CCS there weren't any action scenes like in usual Mahou Shoujo anime, instead each episode had a transformation sequence which resulted in Shiho having sex with someone to extract their 'eros'. 

Princess Road
<1/5
Generic and similar Dragon Rider. 

All in all I'm surprised by how little sex scenes there were compared to modern hentai, there was definitely more story but the ones I saw were still pretty bareboned in their story and/or just boring.

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>>88131
Watch Balthus: Tia's Radiance, it's a hentai with a plot and a philosophical treatise on the evils of industrialized society and the deeds of the elite.

>>88131
Are there any Fantasy Vanilla hentais?

>>88162
Youkoso! Sukebe Elf no Mori e, Dragon Pink & Words Worth all spring to mind, the latter being well known for pic related plenty of vanilla though.

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>>88178
>Words Worth
>Vanilla
Eh?

>>88162
Depends on your definition of vanilla, does non-NTR rape count as vanilla? If so, then Darcrows.

>>88221
It depends, does the rapist takes responsibility?

>>88221
>alicesoft
>vanilla
Come on, anon.

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>>88221
>does rape count as vanilla?
Rape is the last bastion of romance. The pursuit, the struggle for your beloved, the strong emotions shared together! My heart throbs with excitement just thinking about it...

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The Vision of Escaflowne
After nearly a year's delay, I've finally finished my rewatch, and I already know I want to do another soon. A lot more clicked with me on this reviewing, and my appreciation for the show's themes and details like Emperor Dunkirk's true identity grew a lot, but sadly, my almost year-long break between episodes 22 and 23 really hurts my ability to do a cohesive writeup of this thing. Not that I mind the idea of rewatching Escaflowne again (far from it), but I am a little disappointed in myself for not being able to do it justice yet.
What I will say is that The Vision of Escaflowne is really fucking good, easily one of my favourite anime, and that you should definitely watch it if you haven't yet. It's a shoujo fantasy mecha show themed around divination, and it's set on a moon hallucinated into existence by the dying dreams of Atlantis. If that doesn't sound rad as shit and convince you to put it on your backlog right fucking now, I don't know what will.

>>88278
What subs did you use?

>>88292
NakamaSub. I don't know how good their subs are compared to other fansubbers, but I downloaded a lot of their stuff back in the day because they encoded their 720p episodes very slowly to keep filesizes low.

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Hyper Combat Unit Dangaioh
Years ago I downloaded this by accident, as I had somehow mixed up Dangaioh and Giant Gorg, and only last night did I discover my mistake. Shame, as I was looking forward to seeing what Hirano would do with a hulking, monolithic mecha like Gorg, but I still got a decently fun (albeit undercooked) super robot OVA in Dangaioh.
Dangaioh is something you watch for the overall production values, the fights, and the girls (mostly Pai Thunder), not the story. See, Dangaioh was apparently cobbled together from a cancelled Mazinger OVA and draped a bunch of its characters, visual designs, and story elements over the skeleton of a new story. I said skeleton because its events, themes, and characters felt more like ideas and frameworks to be fleshed out later, rather than things the writers had figured out beforehand. Some characters and themes were developed a little over the OVA's three episodes, mind you, but Dr. Tarsan's sudden change in allegiance made this problem especially clear. There was an idea for this change and why he would make it, but how he would make it evidently wasn't given much thought, and the OVA was left with a jarring leap between his two states that it never quite recovered from.
So what of those aforementioned production values? As you'd expect from Hirano, pretty good, but sadly not as striking as his work on Iczer-1 or Macross:DYRL (both of which set a very high bar). There's a lot of detailed shading and well-timed animation, with plenty of cool designs sprinkled throughout, and some of its fights are more dynamic than Iczer 1's, but they don't quite match Iczer 1's sheer hot-blooded passion. Neither the writers nor animators "feel" the characters nearly as well as they did in the former, and outside flashes of it in the second and third episodes' concluding battles, you're left with something that's decently executed on some level but lacking something.
That's a good way to describe Dangaioh, really: lacking something. I enjoyed it a lot, and think back on it fondly, but I can't help but let out a certain disappointment when I talk about it. It could have been so much more, even unfinished, but it just isn't. It doesn't just need a continuation of the story (which Great Dangaioh apparently tried and failed to do): it needs a fleshing out, and sadly, Hirano's belief that the series is cursed means we'll likely never see another stab at it.

Ah well, I guess I have the real Giant Gorg on my backlog now. I'm also curious to try Daimaju Gekito: Hagane no Oni, as I've heard it's also descended from that Mazinger OVA, but I can't say my hopes are all that high.

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>>88358
This post is dedicated to Pai Thunder and her gravity-defying hair, neither of whom made it into the screenshots. Somehow I also forgot to mention the second episode's 10 minute recap and whatever happened to the third episode's artstyle, but I guess those aren't terribly important.

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>>88359
You downloaded the DVD, there's a blu-ray.

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>>88372
>blu-ray

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>>88375
Witness my GIF-making skills. And up yours.

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>>88358
I just rewatched Dangaioh because I barely remembered it, so it felt like it was the right time.

The 1st episode is extremely good. You got lots of original story happening and being revealed to you, nice writing portraying how the characters intelligently pick up on their situation and memories, absurdly high production values, absurdly good screen play like that moment in the 20 episode mark when Pai shows her middle finger, or the scene right after that in which Lambda can't use her E.T. (heh) power and the camera swoops to Mia which looks just perfect and feels very sastisfying to watch, the girls always make sexy poses which is very pleasing to the eye, Gil being a badass traitor, a plot twist, it's just very good anime all around.

The 2nd episode has a moderate amount of the 1st episode's virtues, and it's still very good to watch, but ultimately it's just inferior.

By the 3rd episode the pattern of the plot of every episode is visible: Gil, now a pathetic loser, is revived again, The Bunker finds some sickos from space and hires them to go attack Dangaioh again, we find out the backstory of someone in the main cast again (this part is good writing, but it still contributes to the repetitiveness), and so on. The Bunker, once portrayed as an almighty, undefeatable, evil, crushing weight bearing down on the heroes now seems something casual and unimportant, having humiliated themselves by underestimating and losing to 4 kids again. Those 4 kids may be the "ultimate weapon" but considering any aircraft can fire a laser and make them suffer it doesn't seem like The Bunker is all that powerful if it can't deal with this. Production values drop, there's no remaster for this episode because they lost the film, even the new soundtrack is inferior. We get an inconclusive ending that doesn't tie up anything and just sets the series up for a new episode following the same pattern of the previous 2 that was never produced.


Indeed, that magical 1st episode carries the whole series and makes it something amazing, but ultimately, due to the shortcomings of the 2nd episode and specially the 3rd episode, Dangaioh is "lacking". It's lacking the genius of the 1st episode for a big part of the total runtime of the series, it's lacking a conclusion, it's lacking something truly new happening after the 1st episode, it's even lacking a chance for Mia to show her pacifism again properly after the 1st episode so it just feels like a very emotional girl like her coldly dropped it out of nowhere. I made another GIF.

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>>88515
That's a pretty good analysis. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't plan anything beyond the first episode and just tried to expand on its themes a bit (notice that all the main characters are either some kind of traitor or perceived as one, with Pai's story having multiple levels of betrayal), but at least the first episode was classic and the series went out with a memorable bang.
The overall disappointment from Dangaioh's second and third episodes pushed me to try Hirano's other 1987 OVA on the following night: Daimaju Gekito: Hagane no Oni. It was a very different beast: a slow-paced, self-contained OVA about a guy returning to his old research facility after receiving a weird letter from an old friend. It had a muted cast and preferred a less in your face approach, which leaned towards good environmental designs and building suspense over wowing viewers with flashy animation. This approach apparently bored a lot of people, and I can see why most dug the OG Dangaioh episode over this, but I personally found it a nice change of pace.
But anon, you may be asking, what the fuck does this have to do with that sick-ass cover art? Well, it's a taste of what you get if you make it through the slow bits: constantly transforming, interdimensional biomecha demons slugging the shit out of each other and blasting each other with God knows what. This is a case of overly busy mecha designs done well, as it adds this overwhelming confusion to the fight that fits the context and gives the animators a chance to really flex their muscles. Screenshots or production drawings do not do these things justice: they're something you have to see in motion, and I have to commend Koichi Ohata, the animation crew, and the bubble economy for pulling this off.

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>>88616
Would I recommend Daimaju Gekito: Hagane no Oni? Possibly, depending on your tastes. If you can handle a slow burn and enjoy sick mecha transformations, it's no classic but contains some good fucking shit. Otherwise, you'll most likely be bored out of your mind by the buildup and the sluggish (if visually impressive) fight at the end. It's an OVA for a very specific kind of person and doesn't give a rat's ass about appeasing anyone else, and you know what? I respect it for that.
This reminds me: I should set up a GIF exporter for Shotcut. Manually cutting stuff from longer videos within ffmpeg is a bit of a pain, and as much as I admire Suckless.org's autism I am not fucking with https://tools.suckless.org/blind/ for something like this.
>>88372
Yeah, I realized that after starting the OVA. I'll likely download the blu-ray rip if I ever rewatch it, but I'm in no rush to see Dangaioh again in 1080p anytime soon.

>>88616
>Spoiler
Huh, is the idea of biomechanical demons remotely common in Japan? Wondering now if Gekito might have served as some minor inspiration for a few games in a series I enjoy, or if it's a more general idea that can't readily be traced back to one series.

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>>88629
I wish I knew. I can't think of any other examples I've seen outside cases like Evangelion (I was going to mention Overman King Gainer, but I've realised I don't remember what the hell its mecha were outside having skeletons in the intro) where the mecha is biological but the armour and cockpit are synthetic.
Looking up the organic mecha tag brings up pics related. Out of these I've seen Evangelion, Knights of Sidonia, Cencoroll, and Eureka Seven, but I'm pretty sure Sidonia and Eureka Seven had synthetic cockpits and Cencoroll is likely too late to influence much. Speaking of which, it looks like Cencoroll gained a sequel since I last saw it.

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Like a lot of plebians, my only exposure to Lupin III until recently was through secondhand knowledge and having seen The Castle of Cagliostro several years ago. Picking up the manga a while ago changed that. I went nuts over it. Monkey Punch's art was rough, sketchy, distorted, and ridiculously expressive, his unhinged characters lurched violently from one absurd pose and emotion to another in each panel, and I wondered: how the fuck was anyone supposed to animate this? I heard there were two adaptations which nailed this and the characters particularly well: the pilot film and the infamous
The Mystery of Mamo
(Lupin III if you're Japanese in the late 70s, or Lupin III: Lupin vs. the Clone if you're Japanese nowadays)
Now this is how you animate Lupin III. Forget smoothness: these are nuts from a slapstick manga. The characters don't move smoothly from one pose to another like >>86326; they are violently jerked around by their passions and the stupid situations they bring upon themselves, and not even Goemon is completely free from this despite his efforts. The chases are as fluid or jerky as they need to be, the setpieces have an excellent sense of scale; really, visually this thing is near perfect for its aim. I cannot speak of the characters and their writing separately from their animation, and I love it. It's so good, so fucking ridiculous that I laughed multiple times as I skipped through the video afterwards in search of screenshots, and that's something I've never had before.
Speaking of screenshots, I had to show a lot of restraint in choosing four for this review, as I wanted to be clear that I was reviewing a Lupin film and not some pompous /film/bait. The Mystery of Mamo is the kind of film where you watch it and something about the shots and imagery tell you, they scream at you that the director and cinematographer mostly make niche arthouse stuff and that this is their rare mainstream outing. For once you'd be wrong. Keishichi Kuroki mostly handled cinematography for various World Masterpiece Theater series, and Soji Yoshikawa? He has never directed another film in his life. Yoshikawa was previously an animator on the OG Astro Boy and directed some episodes of Tomorrow's Joe, but since then he's only directed a Kirby anime in the early 2000s. Otherwise he has mainly been a screenwriter, writing on the likes of Zambot 3, Future Boy Conan, Combat Mecha Xabungle, Lensman, and Panzer World Galient.
If this sounds like a masterpiece, it almost is. It's almost, painfully close to it, but The Mystery of Mamo misses the mark on one crucial area, and that's the antagonist: the titular Mamo.
Mamo sucks. The behind him idea was incredibly ambitious, but proved to be too absurd even for these filmmakers: a near-godlike billionaire who's supposedly cloned himself for millennia to shape human history. His character design is flat out terrible, and his speech, mannerisms, and overall behavior lack both the ridiculousness and gravitas needed to pull off a character like him. He even fails as an ironically pathetic figure who can't live up to everything he's supposed to be, and this failure hurts the film so badly that it becomes near-unwatchable for a lot of people. Yoshikawa clearly wasn't satisfied with him either, and went on to revisit Mamo in Armored Trooper Votoms of all places, where, assisted by a great difference in tone, he finally managed to do the little weirdo justice.

Don't let that dissuade you from watching The Mystery of Mamo if the rest of this sounds up your alley. Accept that the main antagonist won't live up to the rest of the movie, and you will still have a great fucking slapstick movie and a good adaptation of the manga. Don't let people treat you like some kind of nerd for liking this either, as they are faggot plebian anime secondaries who will never laugh their asses off at Monkey Punch's manga and probably think The Castle of Cagliostro is peak Lupin III rather than its own thing.

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Yūgen Kaisha – a really sweet yokai hunting comedy OVA. An all-original work again (this just keeps happening), and of course criminally short as always. At least they got to 4 episodes which is more than a lot of OVAs get but this one really should have been a proper series, its episodic nature lends itself much better to a longer narrative where some underlying themes could eventually emerge. For example, the director said that if they were to continue, the romantic angle would have been developed further. And it definitely feels like one of those shows that start goofy and lighthearted but then get more and more poignant towards the end.

So like I mentioned there isn’t really a story, the show is entirely episodic with each subsequent chapter being about a new case of yokai hunting. Very cozy stuff. Fun cast with a slatternly drunkard main lead, she definitely steals the show as a lead should. They also gave her a pretty unique weapon – a lipstick that turns into a lightsaber, basically. I felt perplexed when it didn’t just continue after the last episode, despite knowing the episode count, you just want to click on the next one and keep watching due to that nice segmented flow.

The animation is solid, as are the backgrounds, this is ’90s Madhouse after all. The artwork is simple but there are lots of sakuga moments and nice action scenes; in fact, at times it feels like the animators’ showreel. The direction is also really good, with interesting compositions all-around and a prominent usage of parallaxes and multilayering, giving the presentation the look of a much higher grade production than it almost certainly was. The whole thing also has a really cool urban vibe to it, especially since most of the show takes place during the nighttime. On this note, the music undeniably helps with that atmosphere; it’s a great OST with some funky jazz and blues rock tunes.

I guess it didn’t sell well enough to warrant at least another OVA or something, really; very unfortunate but it is what it is.

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Got two.

First is Summertime Render. Starts off as a compelling mystery about best girl being dead, then the mystery is built up and the systems of the game are introduced. Things go back and forth until episode 15 where things genre shift from mystery like Higurashi to shounen like... shounen. I didn't mind it as I found the characters compelling enough but it could take some people by surprise if they're not expecting it. I'd still recommend it, even if it's just for Ushio and Shinpei trying to save her.

Second is Mushishi, specifically the first season. I loved it. I haven't seen it in a decade but if anything I think I appreciate it more now as an adult than when I was a teen. Each story is lifted from the Manga, 50 chapters making 48 episodes including a special that was made in 2014. The music and the simple way the Mushi cause problems for humans and the nonviolent ways Ginko helps people recover. It's just what I've been looking for in an anime for a few years now.

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>>89928
There's one part in Hihamu Kage where they show each person looking at the Eclipse. I made a list:
Part 1:
Renzu and Shinra from The Green Seat. Biki and Sui from Light of the Eyelid. The shed behind them is overgrown so they've been neglecting it, which is good.
Maho and his Grandmother from Tender Horns. Jin ended up dying a few years later so he's not featured.
People from the Island of Those who Inhale the Dew. Io is featured later.
Koro and his Rainbows, he's still building bridges. Shirou and his wife by the beach.
The Immortal Priest from the Heavy Seed. Tagane and her Mushi Inkstone, still wandering the mountains.

Part 2:
That's Kodama from The Sleeping Mountain, having taken over the Mushishi position from Mujika after he was eaten by the Kuchikawa. Nui is with the Ginko so she's not featured. 
Zen from One Night Bridge is dead so he's not featured. Kisuke from Inside the Cage though, he's raising his two bamboo daughters. An actual happy ending to that story. This would have been approved by Yuki herself, so it's canon.
Suzu and Miharu from Pretense of Spring. Kaji with Sayo enjoying some dango.
Kind of hard to see but grown up Aya with child like Ito. Another canon happy ending and probably my favorite. Kai from Clothes Embrace the Mountain with his niece.
Fuki and Seijiro from String in the Sky. Tanyuu is locked away, unfortunately so she can't see and is not featured.
Aki with her husband watching the eclipse. On her back is a child that isn't the Hitotake from Cotton Spore, meaning she finally had a child that lived.

Part 3:
Mio and a more grown up Isana from Shrine of the Sea.
Tetsu and Shige wandering the mountains from a Sound of Rust. Yahagi with some of her students looking out for Mushi. The mountain seems to have recovered after being burned down in Flames in Fields
Amane may be blind but even she would probably know the drop in light levels. And Taku and his family still watching over the hills.
Last two are a male I don't know, thought it was Kai but no, he's already featured. Might be Adashino. The last one is Io from the traveling swamp, she took up residence in Adashino's village after being let go by the Mushi she was traveling with.
It's a bit of fanservice that I didn't catch back in 2014, think I appreciate it more now that I've gone through S1 again and know these people's stories.

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Finished off Chou Kousoku Galvion last night and it is an okay show.

The premise that humanity finally achieved space travel towards the end of the 21st century with the help of extra-terrestrials. However, the very first thing we did after establishing ourselves among the stars is humanity going to war with itself. Horrified by these acts, the aliens push humanity back to Earth an then erect a barrier around the planet to prevent us from leaving. "Somehow", humanity and civilization has continued to thrive despite being restricted to our planet. But, there is a new cabal of industry elites, calling themselves "Shadow", who form and decide that their goal is to shape the direction of the world going forward. Opposing Shadow is a secret mercenary group working for the government called "Circus", who stumble upon Shadow's activities and make it their goal to bring Shadow down. This group is led by automobile industry heiress Rei Midoriyama, who hires two cons, Muu (An illegal street racer) and Maya (A hacker), with the deal that they will be released if they rack up enough points doing assignments for her group.

Despite how "hard" the premise of the series might sound, it's actually rather lax with itself. It seems like there's not real rush to Circus trying to find out who Shadow is, with direct confrontation between the two almost happening by accident rather directly planned (At least, until the later episodes). In fact, much of the earlier episodes focus upon conflict between Circus and the newest member of Shadow, Henry McMillam, who sees to take over Shadow and the world for his own mysterious purposes. In same ways, it's one of the series that gets better the further into the show you get as you see the different parties all pursuing their own interests.

However, despite all that being said, the show was also cancelled during it's 22nd episode (Also perhaps the weakest episode of the show), with a 30 second voice-over wrap up that explains where the show would have gone had it be given a chance to continue. So, the show just ends with multiple plot threads left up in the air and no real conclusion. Based on outside material such as art books and interviews given, it's possible to see the show's conclusion, but I sort of feel pleased that I didn't see it come to fruition when the ending the series would have mirror that of the far later Rage of Bahamut: Virigin Soul (Which, as far as I can tell, none of this series' staff was involved in).

The art style of the series comes across as a little odd at first because all of the main characters essentially have "Pinocchio noses", but it takes some getting adjusted to. As to the animation, all of the human encounters come across as a little stilted or odd meanwhile the action scenes are all very well animated and well worth seeing in action.

Overall, it feels like I cannot really recommend Chou Kousoku Galvion. It's not a bad series, but it really takes it's time getting started, it being cancelled with none of the loose ends ever resolved, and that there's little reason to watch it unless you want to see the action scenes.

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>>90402
That sounds right up my alley. Thanks anon.
I like how these threads dig up a lot of cool anime you rarely (or never) see mentioned on anime charts. They're kind of like Youtube's old music recommendation algorithm in that they highlight some good stuff, but you can absolutely tell when someone only finds anime through them.

>>90411
Part of it could be due to the fact that Anons just watching things at their own pace and just blog about it.

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Tales of a Street Corner
I have an anon in the Share Thread to thank for this one, as I found it while going through his Tokyotosho uploads.

This is an animist short film. A street lamp, a teddy bear that's fallen into an eavestrough, a host of posters along the wall; these are some of its main characters, and they do not speak or move, but live and dance in relation to each other. There are living characters who sometimes enter into their world, sometimes interfere, but they are vastly outnumbered by the posters, and the tree sits on the edge.
Now, its subject matter may be very Japanese, but aesthetically it is not. This is an Osamu Tezuka short (directed by Yuusaku Sakamoto and Eiichi Yamamoto) which predates the Astro Boy show by around a year, and thus it was born in a time where the anime look was not yet solidified. There's traces of UPA combined with shots more reminiscent of Soviet animation (don't ask me to expand on that one, I don't know that much about cinematography), Soviet montage, and pseudo-Cyrillic lettering all over its many posters. It's a meeting of East and West, yes, and a beautifully executed one, but not the now more familiar one seen in Astro Boy or Tale of the White Serpent.
Where the film falters a bit is when it goes beyond the inanimate. The girl, her father, the tree, the passers-by, and even the soldier are handled well as part of the street, but the mice come across as a little trite and the street punk moth is frankly just an awkward idea. The solider's posters are also handled a little too hamfistedly, even if they are an interference with the street's life. These three strike me (although I could be mistaken) as a way of grounding the film as a more conventional cartoon or as a political statement when it really doesn't need to be either.

I'll be honest: it's really hard for me to write about this without sounding pretentious as shit. I could blather on about how it uses montage to express the interrelated life of the street, bla bla bla, but then it'd sound like I'm talking about some boring arthouse garbage instead of a charming, touching little film with two posters who love each other very much. It's a pretty easy recommendation if you're the kind of the guy who watches weird little Soviet animations on Youtube, and even if you aren't, it's good shit and you'd probably like it.
As a barely related aside, here's a dumb fact I remembered while writing this. The retarded theoryfagging behind modern street planning does NOT take the street's architecture into account. I'm not even joking. A lot of it is descended from the work of a couple guys who wondered what made medieval towns so charming and...autistically mapped out their street layouts and theorized them without considering the buildings at all. It's hilariously fucked. No one else is dense enough to think about towns that way, and artists sure as shit don't when they draw fictional ones, but somehow these tunnel vision specialists think this is the way to make good cities and everyone trusts them despite their constant fuckups.

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>>88638
Escaflowne is the big name when it comes to organic mecha recs.

I watched Detonator Orgun and the sort of "background story," that is, the story that is explained to you as the reason everything in the anime happens is extremely good, but the story you actually witness is meh. I found it pretty neat that the protagonist wears fashion that was current when the anime was made (although his leather jacket is actually a "luftwaffe jacket") but it's set in the distant future so everyone comments on his weird getup, it's a fun watch even if you forget it in a day.

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>>90402
Sounds like Star Control II.  I recommend playing that instead.

>>91120
Not him but I couldn't figure it out when I played it. Also the source code is extremely bad.

>>91141
What couldn't you figure out?  It isn't Myst...  Talk to everyone you meet and you'll learn what you need.

>>91143
To be fair SC2 does not hold your hand one bit, although if you pay attention to conversations/ take notes generally it's a very well made adventure game. Although there's like one time where I didn't know where the fuck to go and the only time you're given a clue is from a very rare conversation with one of the alien races who are not directly involved in the quest.

>>91143
I just went to the moon, did the quest, returned to earth, and after that I don't remember if I figured out what I was supposed to do but I went out onto other systems and didn't have much success with that, I always got dunked by stronger ship eventually.

>>91145
You should explore all the planets in the solar system, it will give you literally one of the best ships in the game as long as you can keep it alive but it will be able beat like 90% of the ships you run in to as long as you're not shit. Then you should concentrate on upgrading your capital ship ASAP.

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Finished off Zombieland Saga Revenge (Season Two), and it was okay, but it didn't seem to have the same charm as the first season.

The premise is that, after the ending of the first season, the girls attempt to do a gig at a giant stadium and absolutely flop, and left with an enormous debt. Afterwards, leading up to the start of season two (Revenge), they work odd jobs around Saga in an attempt to pay off the debt while rebuilding their reputation. In same ways, I think part of the reason for it being more bland has to do with the fact that much of the content feels like a repeat of the previous season. However, there are a couple of highlight episodes, such as the SoL episode with best girl, and the two part "The Saga Incident", which actually do show the girls influencing the world around them. However, I do feel like the it has stinkers of an episode, such as one where they accidentally get an eighth member, and the final episode (Sadly enough).

The animation of the show does show a budget increase as the dances in season one were entirely CGI, however these ones threw me for a loop because they did look entirely drawn. However, the rest of the show is okay as it looks pretty standard for everything else. Unlike the first season, all of the songs are JPOP, so be warned if you're not interested.

Overall, I think I may have received the series better if it hadn't been so long since I watch the first season (Which was 2018 for context), but it's an okay addition. Also, wondering what the Hell that ending was about.

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Genmu Senki Leda
Yet another great find from the lads in the share thread. 

Now this was an OVA made by people at (or near) the top of their game. The director had finished Magical Princess Minky Momo a while back and was about to move onto Windaria, the mechanical designer had come off Birth and would join him on Windaria, and the character designer (you guessed it) would also work on Windaria. Reading the production staff for this thing almost makes Genmu Senki Leda feel like a Windaria rehearsal, and in a way it kind of was, but with a different writer and composer (who'd later go on to score Megazone 23, Nadia, and Evangelion).
The results are a joy to watch, plain and simple. There isn't a single visual design in this OVA I could call phoned-in, and it's such a joyfully animated work that I frankly should have snapped webms instead of screenshots. Take that curvy green fucker in the first screenshot: they're hard to screenshot because their stills often look weird, but something about their poses and animation timings - the way they bend and jerk around - is fucking perfect for what they are. I love it. To ape King Agrippa for a moment, "Almost thou persuadest me to be a sakugafag."
Pretty girls (all two of them), great mecha, GREAT animation, solid music; Genmu Senki Leda is great stuff all around. It's the kind of OVA where you love it so much that you immediately look up the staff to see what else they worked on and let it shape your future watchlist. The worst thing I can say about this is that the story isn't on par with Windaria's and that there's a couple minor QUALITY moments near the start, but that's just being picky, and I give this OVA a score of real fun/10.

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>>91147
The other time I played I couldn't find Pluto, now I did. Went to Sirius and it was too dangerous to land, now I'm scavenging Alpha and Beta Lyrae.

Also, I saw references to Symbian OS and the like in the source code. I wonder if the game still works on such obscure platforms.

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Instead of working on my backlog I've been sporadically watching random anime I came across. 
Sotsugyou
A two-part OVA about a group of friends' last trip together before they all graduate and eventually lose contact. The premise was simple and there wasn't anything too remarkable about the OVA. It was basically CGDCT but before the genre had really made any improvements to be as cute as the CGDCT genre is today. The anime is based of a bare-bone dating sim with the same name, but unlike other dating sim anime this one had no male MC, just girls hanging out. The girls each played into the typical archetypes that exists for this genre 
>Megane-girl that is shy and smart
>ditzy loli-esque character that also fills an imouto role
>rich oujo-sama that has some family-conglomerate problems, like not being allowed to choose your future job/husband
>two tomboys
The two tomboys even had the same backstory, so I'm curious on why there's two of them. And the plot was quite dull to the point where I even forget what it was about. The most interesting thing about this is that it spawned 4 'sequels'.

Sailor Five
A 2 ep alternative universe of Sotsugyou with the main cast being mech pilots. Nothing special about this one, but Mami (the lolita character) being cute and receiving a robot clone, so you can have twice the Mami than before. 

Oujo-sama Sousamou
According to MAL this shares characters with Sotsugyou but I think someone made a mistake as I don't believe the two shows don't share any characters at all. However, this one is about 5 teenage girls all being targeted because they're from high profile families. The girls try and act as bait themselves to find whoever is targeting them and fight back. What's most interesting is that the girl they chose to be in the anime are; a triad heiress, two zaibatsu sisters, a descented of the Russian royal family, and someone who is distantly related to Hitler. There's also a giganiga.

Kekkon: Marriage
The last OVA is the actual sequel to the first anime. It's a very interesting anime because as far as I know this is the only anime that shows all the heroines from a dating sim being married or in relationships with someone who is not the MC, furthermore all the guys that the girls get married to are the male leads in the female oriented version of the Sotsugyou dating sim: Sotsugyou Side M. But that aside I'm also fairly certain that this was made with the help of the Japanese government as the plot of the anime is getting married rather than being married. The OVA also has in-between scenes where they break the 4th wall and talk about how and when to find a potential marriage partner, including showing data from singles. The story itself ties in to these in-between scenes, with the anime being about the oujo-sama being the last one in the group to get married and trying to find a husband.

Lastly, I didn't watch the Sotsugyou Side M anime as I had watched too much of this franchise.

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>90% of women want to get married before 29
All those depressed Christmas cakes...

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>>91666
>The anime is based of a bare-bone dating sim with the same name
Isn't the game about playing as a teacher and you have to teach qt girls?
>>91667
>All those depressed Christmas cakes
I blame the bank of japan, I wish the nips killed all those fucking traitors.

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To continue on random anime I've been watching.
Hit wo Nerae
An ecchi show about the newly hired TV producer Mizuki and her attempt to make a failing TV show work. As with most ecchi shows centered around an adult women the ecchi comes from her being sexually harassed by her coworkers in ways that constantly reveal her panties. In fact the entire plot of the show is her not being taken seriously because she's a woman and because she's small (149 cm). While bending over a womanlet is pretty hot it got boring quickly. 

As it is an ecchi show the plot isn't expected to be all that good, the ecchi was plentiful and so were the girls. I saw that this was a side story to the anime Love Love which is also an ecchi show featuring one of the male characters (a TV writer) from this show in his own harem, but due to this one being lackluster I decided not to watch it. 5/10.

Platonic Chain
This one was garbage, I only watched it because the DVD cover showed Okazaki Takeshi's art and I foolishly thought that the anime would look as good. Turns out Okazaki Takeshi was the character designer for this but it also turned out that this was a CG anime from 2002. To make it slightly better the anime is 24 episodes but with only 3 minutes per episode. It takes place in modern time where an omniscient website had been released. Hijinks ensue and the girls use the website for petty things like finding out where you left the keys, or finding the perfect diet to lose 4 kgs in a week. 

Out of curiosity I looked for the manga and found a non-english translation, I couldn't read it but I recognized some chapters from the anime and the tone of the manga was much more serious and not as light-heartened as the adaptation. It's not all too surprising, with only 3 minutes of screen-time you don't have the time to do any serious story telling. 4/10, it's short enough to not be absolutely horrible, and it had some cute JK moments. 

>>89599
Sounds (and looks good) I'll have to give it a watch.>>91669

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>>91805
>Someone else might watch The Mystery of Mamo
Do it.

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>Shin Hurricane Polymar
Watch it niggers.

A remake OVA of a sentai style anime from the 80s. It kept the usual stuff, superheroes in costumes, sentai style villains with their henchmen that scream gibberish when attacking (in this one the henchmen were cat-sharks), but it also renewed itself with nudity and plenty of violence and some gore. The fighting animation is great as is the other parts of the anime, you'll sometimes have money saving scenes but these were just dialogue heavy scenes, so nothing too important lost. The animation style was familiar and it didn't really hit me until I saw the main girl that I realized that this was done by the some of the same guys that did Mezzo Forte (it wasn't the same studio but the animation director, character designer, and some of the key animators were the same).

Unfortunately for lovers of good fighting anime and sentai, it's only an hour long so I won't go into more detail in fear of spoiling too much. If you have good taste and an hour to spare I definitely recommend this.

>>92188
The style looks like A Kite.

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>>92188
Watched it, it was a breath of fresh air, I haven't watched sentai other than power rangers. And the art style was excellent. Have a stitch.

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Nodame Cantabile
Had this one in my backlog for a very long time and didn't know much about it aside it being seinen. Turns out it's a slice of life rom-com, normally I'd be wary of the rom-com genre in seinen as it often steers into some 2DPD but with an autistic pianist love interest and a 'no-way-fag'-MC PD is kept safely at bay. The story centers around a gifted conductor Chiaki who due to childhood trauma can't go on airplanes and is thus severally limited to find work in the classical music business in Japan, and the autistic but also gifted pianist Nodame, who also tries to date Chiaki throughout the entire season. Other characters are introduced but they don't have much screen time and in the 2nd season they move away from the season 1 cast anyway.  

Similar to other seinen anime all the characters are adults, in this case adults going to musical college. It's musical theme differs from other musical anime which often can be about the journey of becoming a good musician, in this one all the characters are already established as good at their craft and the anime is about the journey of becoming professional musicians. I enjoyed it thoroughly, as it did have the rom-com elements that high school anime usually have but also wasn't as formulaic due to it not being in a high school setting and it being seinen. I wasn't too keen on starting this since all 3 seasons total up to 50 episodes but the 1st season was good and I'll probably finish the entire show.
>>92818
I was curious how toned down it was compared to the original and it seems like the original is pretty violent to, minus the blood. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkqWThCEQw

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>>92838
I love it, if the cartoon is going to be violent, the villains better get a proper beating. He even steps on the dog, lmao.

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>>92188
>you'll sometimes have money saving scenes
And then you have Joe Kuruma crying in 24fps. Shit was a lot of fun, thanks for recommending it.

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Just finished of the series [C]: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control, and I really liked the show.

The story is centered around Yoga Kimimaro, a wannabe miser who's working two jobs and going to a financial university for the purposes of getting a government job so that he can have an "average" family with an "average" life, all supplied by an "average" and stable salary. However, disrupting that life of "average" pursuit, a Willy Wonka style character named Maskaki enters his apartment to give Yoga a magical pass to the "Financial District", a "parallel world" that exists in all of the world's largest financial centers. Anyone with the ability to enter this world is called an "Entrepreneur", and is paired with an "Asset" that represents that person's potential future. However, every "Entre" (As it's eventually shortened) and their Asset has to fight at least once a week with other Entres for the purposes of maintaining the financial district's "stock market", with an Entre and Asset's magical power tied directly to the financial capital in the Entre's bank account. And, if an Entre becomes broke, they lose their Asset, access to the Financial District, and the potential future that was traded collateral for their ability to access said parallel world in the first place. To sum it up in practice, it's basically Digimon with a lot of banking terms used for battles.

However, don't take that to mean that the show takes what sounds like an interesting idea, and squanders it to be shallow attempt at sounding smart. The show actually does center itself on how important money is and operates in the world, which setups the overarching conflict of the show. One of the first characters Yoga meets in the Financial District is Mikuni Souichirou, a financier (And, the show's antagonist) who uses his acquired wealth for the purposes of dictating government and corporate policy and actions behind the scenes, all under the justification that he's "saving" people, and spends the show building up the Starling Guild for the purposes of "controlling" the Financial District. Yeah, I don't have to explain how well THAT goes down when the Financial District is essentially a magical international bank. Anyways, Mikuni desires to take Yoga under his wing because he sees a piece of himself in the kid, however Yoga is unsure about what it is that he actually wants. Seeing the possibilities the Financial District is offering, and the effects of it (Both positive, and especially negative) cause him to second guess if his aspirations and everything he thought he wanted out of life is really sound or just him being selfish and angry. In some ways, I found it quite relatable because he attitude at the start of the show comes across a very similar to the mindset a lot of modern people have. And, seeing his growth over the course of the show to actually fight for a future more grand than he ever thought does make you really want to root for him.

The animation for the series is also really good, but does take some getting used to. First of all, the show does a lot of weird jump cuts between animations, which first comes across as animation errors when you're first watching the show, but soon see that said cuts are intentional for story purposes. Another oddity is that the show makes some occasional use of CGI, but never for the battle scenes. Instead, the CGI is used for some conversational scenes and I cannot explain why, especially when much grander scenes and battles are almost entirely traditionally animated (Very well, I must add).

And, like always, I cannot such about the shows audio other than it's good and I love the OP and ED. However, I can say that it does have some of the best Engrish audio I have ever heard.

Overall, I will doubtlessly recommend that you watch [C] if it sounds at all interesting. At the most basic level, it's just another take on Digimon (Which should sell you itself), however it is a much better show than that similarity may grant it.

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>>94236
>who uses his acquired wealth for the purposes of dictating government and corporate policy and actions behind the scenes, all under the justification that he's "saving" people
Oh, so he is the bank of japan?

>>94239
Worse, he's their Federal Reserve.

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Di Gi Charat is a very good cunny anime but there are some annoying characters like the 14 year old boy that I thought was a girl for the first few episodes that he was in and the elderly couple in Nyo. Most of it is good though so if you enjoy premium quality cunny anime like Ichigo Mashimaro, Mitsubishi Colours and Kill Me Baby then you will enjoy almost all of the ~200 episodes of this. Just don't watch Winter Garden, there is no cunny to be found in that one.

Gabriel Dropout:
4/10 it's not very good. Too much ecchi for my tastes, not nearly enough ecchi for a coomer's tastes. Too depressing; it's sad that Gabriel never finds a free non-p2w MMO so that her divine tugboat could be enough to support her hikikomori life forever without wageslaving at a diner. Gabriel is the only cute girl, Satania is the only funny girl.

Bocchi the Rock is shit, don't watch it. The extreme social anxiety gimmick gets old after the first episode, none of the characters are interesting and nothing that happens is interesting. If I had bought a physical copy of this I would break it and pee and poop on it haha and then throw it in the trash but I torrented it so I can't lol xD. If the show had focused on Bocchi's cute little sister and the cute friends she probably has at elementary school it would've been good but she gets maybe 30 seconds of screen time throughout the entire 12 episodes. They could've also made the anime about Bocchi's childhood when she was a cute loli but anime "artists" have no originality and always just follow the manga as if it's a movie script so all we get is the equivalent of urine and fecal matter smeared all over our TV screens and faces as they make one boring high school anime after the other.

>>94975
>>94496
Please go back to wherever you came from.

>>94496
>>94981
Please come stay with us forever.

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>>94975
>so all we get is the equivalent of urine and fecal matter smeared all over our TV screens and faces
Judging by your images, I'm pretty sure you'd enjoy that.

>>94988
Yes. Side note to my Bocchi review: out of over 1900 results on rule34.xxx not a single one contained scat and only a few include peeing, and even those depict Bocchi with giant breasts and a pornstar landing strip instead of the beautiful unshaven bush that she obviously has which shows that it's an anime only for normalfags with the most vanilla tastes, further cementing my conclusion that it's not worth watching.

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>review

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>>94988
not that anon but I'd love the urine part

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Have you ever wondered what japanese high schools are like? No? Neither has anyone else because that's what ~80% of anime is about, brought to you by the creatively bankrupt jap mind. The only thing that sets Azumanga Daioh apart from most high school anime is that Chiyo and Osaka are very cute and for that it's worth watching if you fast forward through all the parts where Chiyo and/or Osaka aren't on the screen.

>>95265
Tell me about some other shows you don't like.

>>95265
I've been meaning to watch this for a while since it was a big part of imageboard culture during the 2000s, but I just never got around to seeing it

>>95270
I've seen a couple episodes and it's pretty solid. It's pretty different from what I've seen of newer SoL shows (as is Lucky Star, although that's different in another way), but if you can get past that I'd say it's a worthwhile watch.

>>95265
What are your thoughts on Tomo and Yukari, i.e. objective best grills?

>>95279
nasty drunken hags like Yukari don't belong in CGDCT and Tomo is so forgettable I forgot which one she is but I know she's not a cute girl because she's not Chiyo or Osaka.

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Zillion (1987, 31 episodes + 1 OVA)
Basically, humnas in the years 2387 live in a distant space colony on a planet similar to Earth called Maris.
The alien species Nozas wants the planet to reproduce and lay eggs, so humans must die.
Nozas seem inmune to all known human weaponry.
But somehow humans have the Zillion weapons, obtained from unknwon civilization, that can swiftly destroy the Nozas units.

Basically this whole thing was an advertisement for the Zillion Laser Tag toys.
The japanese got Zillion show, and the americans got Laser Tag Academy cartoon.

The show is typical 80s sci-fi TV anime. Protagonist are Hothead rookie JJ, young sweet and multitalented Apple, and more experienced Champ. And the best character, villain Baron Ricks
Show starts slow, after first episodes intros its 1 episode plots with some military tier drama  thrown around. 
Around episode 9 or 10 Baron Ricks becomes obsessed with fighting JJ, and the team get new specialized weapons.
At episode 16 they have a face off with Baron Ricks on his floating fortress. Is implied Ricks "dies" in the explosion.
After that The alien Empress Admis takes over, sending special alien troopers (shapeshifter, sniper, etc,etc) for some episodes.
At episode 23, the Noza cyborgs are introduced, being more durable as their bodies are divided in parts and can't be fully destroyed on one shot.
Ricks makes a comeback on episode 26 beating any Noza that gets in his way to take revenge on JJ (cause Ricks is cool)
Sadly, best guy Ricks dies of natural causes on episode 29, shwoing that the Nozas have a specific lifetime, as many start dying, turning into some sort of grey sand.
Last 2 episodes is the showdown at the moon.
Admis is dying and begs for the eggs of his progeny to be saved, OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE some yellow glowing pyramid arrives, takes the eggs to some far away green planet, turns the Zillion guns into orbs of lights and the heroes have a monologue about life and stuff.

Its an old show, that was created to sell laser tag toy guns.
It was ok, but not great

The OVA is just a better animated "what if zillion but with normal guns and gangs instead of aliens"
Where Admis is a human mafia mother and the cyborg Nazos are her kids trying to kidnap Appl to marry one of em. Also Baron Ricks appears as a human too cause he was cool and shit.

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Pugyuru is one of the only comedy animes that is actually funny and it's also one of the very few animes that has no r34, probably because its deep and subtle psychological and philosophical humor goes way over the heads of the kinds of subhuman degenerates that produce or commission pornography.

>>95666
Lots of shōjos don't have anything up on exhentai.

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Just dropped the show Gundou Musashi after 8 of it's 26 episodes as it is, unironically, the worst anime I have ever had the pleasure of watching.

The premise of the series is sort-of an "alternate history" of Japan where Ishida Mitsunari won the Battle of Sekigahara, thereby creating a world where the Tokugawa era of Japan never occurred. However, because of this paradox, demons are released across the country essentially trying to correct the course of history. One of the ways this will be accomplished is through the kidnapping of Princess Kaguya so that she can marry Lord Ryougen. However, standing in the way of this plan is Miyamoto Musashi, an expert thief skilled in gun-dou, a martial arts specializing in the usage of a katana and a sword (Yes, like the protagonist from Red Steel 2), who is said to be capable of exorcising the demons from the land. However, over the course of the eight episode I watched, six of them were devoted to a single battle centered on Musashi being told by a gun-dou master that he will not train him, and learning about a magical gun called the "gun-ki" that is capable of shooting bullets harder than any regular gun, in addition to being the only gun capable of firing magical bullets that would destroy any other gun. And, these six episodes literally had the villain just standing there, watching, and making fun of the Musashi and his groups while they talked about different ways to defeat said villain. Keep in mind that the plot hasn't even started, and these are majority of the episodes in the first quarter of the series. That's on top of the dialogue being so bad that it's a once-in-a-life thing to see. Please don't, though.

The animation of the series is even worse. You could almost think that the show was handed to a bunch of interns, but I feel like that's giving it too much praise due to how even interns are learning the skills for a paid job. All of the animations are recycled, the actual movements of characters do not connect with other characters they're interacting with, and the artist for each character literally changes every camera angle. Photos and vids attached should help explain this. That's on top of the fact that nearly ALL of the backgrounds are literally photographs with a filter applied to them.

As for the audio, the characters sounded alright, but the sound effects are absent half of the time during the scenes, and leaving me wondering where the audio engineer was.

This is such a terrible series that there is nothing I can I can praise it for. While other shows have deserved my ire because of the terrible story (RoB:VS, Nadesico, Orguss) or inconsistent quality (Aquarion), Gundou Musashi has managed to combine both problems and make a product that has ZERO redeeming quality. If anything, THIS is the kind of anime you see parodied here in the West as "Look at those funny Japanimations, and how much better superior Western animation is".

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Majokko Tsukune-chan is one of the best animes ever made but unfortunately it's only 6 half-length episodes and episode 3 is shit but the other episodes are all great. This is a must watch for everyone regardless of what genres you're into, unless you don't like cute little girls because you're gay or something. This screenshot of her playing with a frog says more than words ever could.

>>95954
>that isn't remotely normal
It was before western governments started doing whatever they're doing to lower the average male's sperm count by half. I only eat real food grown on my farm. If most of what you eat is processed/artificially grown in globohomo factories/factory farms that's most likely why seeing an attractive half naked girl doesn't give you an erection. It doesn't just affect your genitals, it also affects your brain which is why you think raping single women who choose to flop their breasts around in public is wrong even though that's how humans have bred for hundreds of thousands of years. When women say they don't want to be raped they mean by weak soy creatures that jerk off to anime, don't grow their own food and don't have the resources to easily support a family of at least 5.

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Finished off the three-part OVA Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer, and it was an enjoyable series. More so for the animation than the story.

The premise is that, at the turn of the century, Tokyo experiences a major earthquake that sinks majority of the city into the ocean. Fast forward 15 years, and the rebuilt city has become a battleground between slime-like monsters and anonymous heroes who have access to special games called "kaizer stones", that give their users special powers. At least, that's the setup for the series. The actual plot of it all is that Shigure Kyousuke, a former users of said Kaizer stone, has made it his life's goal to kill Ouzaki Shizuru, the guy who created and gave the Kaizer stones to their users, owns the company that bought up all ruined Tokyo and rebuilt it, and the current host of Satan. And, the show encompasses the various people that Kyousuke crosses paths with, who begin to share in his same goal. To be quite honest though, the story doesn't make much sense, nor does it try to explain itself well. I already mentioned the goo monsters (Who just show up when the script demands it), but apparently there's also this entire dimension that contains a still-ruined Tokyo that apparently the Kaizer stone holders have been having tournaments in but is never shown beyond the first episode. In addition, two of the three "main" female characters just exist in the story for "reasons", with outfits that extremely clash with the rest of the show. So, the plot isn't the reason to watch the show.

The animation definitely is, though. Gowcaizer is one of the best animated shows that I have watched as all of the action on display is extremely smooth and a joy to see. It's the kind of animated content that I miss seeing in a lot of works. In addition, it sports my favorite anime art style. Although, for some reason, it seems like the character designer for the male characters was either a woman or a fag because of how gay they all look.

Overall, Gowcaizer is something that I would probably put alongside Transformers: The Movie. You won't care about the story, but you'll be watching it for the quality animation.

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Haunted Junction (1997, 12 episodes)

A huge pile of nothing.
Its a supernatural comedy 

3 Students are forced to take part of the Holy Student Council at their school by the school chairman.

The students are:
Haruto Houjou, son of a christina minister, who just wants to have a normal school life.
Kazumi Ryudo, son of a buddhist monk, who can be easily possesed by spirits
Mutsuki Asahina, daughter of the owners of a shinto shrine (and a huge shotacon)

The 3 must deal with ghost and similar beings that appear in the school (as the school is located in the middle of a triangle frmed by the church, the buddhist temple and the shinto shrine)

During their firts case they must help the chairman locate 7 medals, each guarded by the 7 school mysteries:
-Nino, the spirit of the Ninomiya Sontoku statue
-Akai Manto Kamen, handsome guy who wears a red mantle and drives girls crazy
-Gym's Giant, only seen from the knees down
-Bones Suzuki and Haruo Sato, the biology classroom anatomy model used by 2 ghosts
-Mirror girl, a little girl inside a mirror
-Toilet Hanako, a very sexy version of the popular ghost
-The chairman, who also happens to be a ghost.

The show is adapted from a comedy manga, wich had 13 Volumes.
But the show is basically pure filler.
You could only watch episodes 1,2,11 and 12 and get the whole story.
Everything else is kinda pure 1 episode stories, sometimes giving you some backstoy of the 3 students or the school ghosts, or introducing a one-shot villian (some o fthose characters come up for the final push on the 12th episode)

Wouldn´t recommend it, also the manga remains almost untranslated (only like 1 or 2 chapters saw fan-stranslation)
There was also a PS1 puzzle game based on the show.

>>97372
Well that is a shame, I really like the art.

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I finished Uchuu Senshi Baldios.

The Baldios movie is strange. It's mostly a recap of the entire TV series condensed to 2 hours. It makes no sense, it's a sequence of unrelated scenes joined together to make a rushed and out of context movie. Most of the scenes aren't reanimated, they're copied from the TV series. Among the copied scenes and the minority of reanimated scenes, there are a few new scenes, some of which change the plot in slight ways. You can notice the TV series scenes were copied from lower grade film. Also, many of the voice actors change in the movie. However, halfway through the movie, there is the first significant divergence from the TV series' plot, and that opens the way for a lot of new scenes and a new ending. The poem in the ending credits is very beautiful. It's a rehashed bad movie with a few good minutes in it.

The TV series was cancelled, so the BDs include unaired episodes. There are many loose ends in the anime that are never solved because of this. The majority of the series is spent in a stalemate in the war between S-1 and Earth, and the narrator himself describes it as such many times across episodes, which doesn't sound very fun. The bad guys have the stormtrooper aim and die in one shot while the main characters can survive anything, so the fight scenes are cheesy. One of the machines that combine to make up the Baldios mecha has a stupid design: it's an excavator with a laser beam instead of a claw. The combination of the Baldios mecha itself is also stupid: there are 3 machines, 2 of the machines become Baldios' legs, and the 3rd is the entire rest of its body. The one that becomes the rest of the body isn't even necessarily the biggest machine, but Baldios fails to depict their relative sizes consistently. Also, there are many scenes inside Baldios, and the interior looks different almost every time. There's more jank in it.

The plot is simple, and is not explored much. There's the far off planet S-1. Advancements in technology left S-1 uninhabitable due to radioactive pollution, and the inhabitants live underground while the government comes up with a fix. The military kills the emperor and throws a coup before the scientists can figure out how to clean up the planet, then goes on a journey with S-1's entire population to conquer themselves a new, inhabitable planet (Earth). The protagonist's father is killed in the coup, so he flees and ends up on Earth where he joins the Blue Fixer crew to avenge his father.

Still, there's something about Baldios. The OP/ED both have very good lyrics, and the ED is good music in general. The OP's lyrics explain why the protagonists are called "Blue Fixer" which is neat. The art style is a cross between late 70s shōjo and mecha anime, I like it. The animation is serviceable. The production values improve as it goes on despite being cancelled. There's a shower scene for every main female character, and I like their designs. I watch anime very slowly, but Baldios captivated me somehow, and I watched it in a week. Baldios is an adventure of the week anime, a tragedy, and a quite good reflection on war. Every episode, the Blue Fixer crew go somewhere new to do something new which keeps it fresh, and there are few formulaic episodes. It's fairly different and more brutal than most mecha anime partly because it's a tragedy, although there is no gore.

But the real star of the show is Aphrodia, she elevates the anime far above what it is: she's one of the best female characters I've seen. Her character design is 10/10, her voice actress' voice is excellent, and she's a tomboy. After the military coup, the new führer (Japanese 総統, Hitler's title), he promotes Aphrodia to commander-in-chief. Don't you want your planet invaded by a cute tomboy who sieg heils her führer?

I give this a 5/10, equally worth and not worth watching. I had to condense this post to make it fit the character limit.

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Also, I found this cel of one of Aphrodia's shower scenes on Yahoo Auctions.

One thing that is slightly interesting is that the foreground part of the cel is in the anime, but the background is not. So it's a scrapped scene.

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Dirty Pair Flash (6 episodes, 1994)

A solid adventure with some 90s take on the Dirty Pair/ Lovely Angels.
Kei and Yuri work for the 3WA (World, Welfare, and Works Agency). They get involved in a plot by the criminal organization Lucifer to take over military space station.
Twist, turns, and lots of action.
I actually enjoyed it and would recommend it

Dirty Pair Flash 2 (5 episodes, 1995)

Ley and Yuri must escort 3WA computer expert Touma to World´s World, an amusement park that reenacts Earth past eras. In the area that recreates late 90s Japan, The master computer Silica 2000 is malfunctioning. To make things worse, somebody is trying to eliminate the trio while they are on this mission.

Inferior to the first series. and the problem is a huge unfunny Filler , literally 3 out of the 5 episodes are filler.
You can watch episodes 1 & 5 and ignore the rest and still it would make sense

Episode 1:Slowly sets up the story, has some action in the last part.
Episode 2: Girls have to stay in a girls school that is also haunted, Kei hates it, and Yuri constantly puts her on edge. But since its an amusement park, the ghost were fake all along
Epsiode 3: Girls run into a scammer and try to teach him a lesson, just for him to constantly try to escape.
Episode 4: Touma falls for a lovely flower shop owner, in the end she was a lesbian interested in Yuri.
Episode 5: Finale of teh story, badguy is revealed and explosion are had.

Animation still good, but plot is very boring and 3 episodes of pure nothing in the middle.

Sadly wasted potential

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Dirty Pair Flash 3 (5 episodes, 1996)

This one feels odd, as its made of 5 completly non connected episodes
Also their boss is replaced by a black dude named Poporo.

Episode 1: Kei is returning from World´s World when her plane is attacked by mercenaries. Leaving her stranded on the cold mountains to take care of a bay survivor, who might be the inheritor of a billionare empire.
Episode 2: A young assassin named Monica De Noir plans to kill the Lovely Angels as her debut on the criminal world. She uses several traps and tricks to try and kill the girls.
Epsidoe 3: The girls must win a Beach Volleyball tournament to catch a wanted crimelord. But the girls know nothing of Volleyball and must go trougha  training montage witha  strict coach to win.
Episode 4: Kei accidentally destroys a Robot that looks like Yuri, belonging to the son of one of 3WA richest sponsors. Now the real Yuri must replace the doll so not to lose financial support.
Episode 5: Out of nowhere, criminal terrorist engineer Berringer and space despot Mad Dog team up to try and kill chief Poporo and destroy the 3WA with some Mech power suit designed by Berringer. Of course the girls wont go down without a fight.

Animation is still ok, but the disconnected plot feel like wasted potential.
Plots of episode 1,2 and even 5 could have worked for something if connected (episodes 3 & 4 are there for comedy, but feel very mediocre)
Sadly doesnt live up to the first series of OVAs

According to wikipedia there are 3 Novels, 4 Stereo Dramas and a pair of mangas by Dengeki comics (not translated)

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Finished off the four episode series Tenamonya Voyagers, and I rather enjoyed it despite the cliffhanger of an ending.

The premise of the series is that Miss Hanabishi, a ditzy teacher constantly looking for work and writing haikus, and Shichinomiya Wakana, a sports prodogy, have travelled to the other end of the galaxy to attend a prestigious school. However, when they arrive, they find out that the school went bankrupt on their trip over and are at a loss of what to do. While coming to the conlusion of returning home to Earth, a mecha crashes down and destroys the school, and out pops the pilot "Space Trash" Paraila, an organized crime head who is on the run from both how own gang and the police. She decides to accompany Miss Hanabishi and Wakana on their journey to Earth for the purposes of exploiting loophole in space law that results in one's criminal record being invalidated upon stepping on Earth. However, right on their tail is determined police officer Yokoyama Tatsue. And, that's pretty much it. All of the episodes are about the trio's exploits trying to get to Earth (Later with the addition of Paraila's underling Maako), and all the silliness that ensues along the way. Wakana and Paraila are constantly at each other's throats, meanwhile Miss Hanabishi and Maako either luck out or the source of constant humor. It all works and it's a very entertaining series. The only real shame is that episode four ends on a cliffhanger of never knowing if they ever got back home.

However, where the show really shine is in it's animation. This is perhaps one of the smoothest  cartoons I have watched in recent memory, and I cannot remember single poorly made scene out of the entire show. That's in addition to how it's all so colorful and vibrant that I would undoubtlyed recommend it on just THAT alone. That's also beside the point that it was one of the most unique and noticeable soundtracks I have heard.

There's not a single bad thing that I can say about Tenamonya Voyagers. It's an absolutely excellent series, that will bring a smile to your face. Even if you frown at the prospect of it being a cliffhanger of an ending, still watch it as is one of the best animated shows I have ever watched. 'Tis a shame that I didn't care for some of the creators' later work as much, which include Noir and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

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>>98023
Looks like fun, I will give it a watch, the art reminds of Photon.

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hey i forgot this thread existed, I finished at least 3 animes since last posting.

Houkago Teibou Nisshi (Diarrhea of Our Days at the Poopwater xD haha) is like k-on with fishing poles instead of guitars, I rate it 7/10

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou (Girls' Ass Poo-er) is like girls und panzer but they only have one little tank so it's kind of boring, I give it a 8/10

Binzume Yousei (Bottle Fairy) is like mitsuboshi colors but with fairies, 7/10

here's a screenshot of one of the animes lol try to guess which one it's from x-D it might not be the one you think

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Gundam F91

Saw some screenshots of this and thought it looked pretty and gave it a go. It's a movie that follows the typical Gundam format of
>MC lives a quiet life
>MC's home gets attacked by the antagonist
>MC joins some resistance force and finds out he's a newtype and is the only one who can pilot [new Gundam model]
Can't give any more details as it's only a two hour movie. As for where this takes place in the Gundam universe, it's the 2nd installment after Char's Counterattack. The story is not something too unique but the visuals make up for the weaker plot. No prior Gundam series is needed to watch as the movie works fine as a standalone. I'd rate it a 3/5.

>>99053
>F91
I remember it being decent enough. It's kind of a shame that the series never happened, but IIRC there was a series of novels or a manga that covered whatever it would have been.
Reminds me, I gotta get back to Gundam Wing so I can work my way up to Turn A Gundam.

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>>99053
>Tomino shit
Let me guess: every character is an insufferable moron and there's a hamfisted love triangle?

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>>99060

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Sorcerer Hunters/ Bakuretsu Hunters 
(1995, 26 episodes + 3 OVAs)

Just read the manga/10
This is supposed to be an ecchi story with fantasy/adventure elements

The story takes place on a fantasy world, on the Spooner Continent.
In this world besides humans there exist Sorcerers, humans with triangles on their foreheads that can use magic
Normally sorcerer rules over humans in small communities.
But some sorcerers abuse their power exploiting, enslaving tormenting and even murdering humans
The Sorcerer Hunters are an organisation under the Stella Church, led by Big Mama.
Most of the stories focus on a specific group Hunters:
-The lecherous Carrot Glace
-His younger brother Marron Glace
-The sisters Chocola Misu & Tira Misu
-And the strongman Gateu Mocha

The anime is a very loose adaptation of the manga, missing many interesting arcs and omiting side characters, backstories and subplots.
The result feels very floaty and vacuous.
The parts of the manga that got adapted are those short easy villina of the week kinda plots.
Most of the episodes are kinda filler , you could ignore like 16 episodes of this. 
You could watch episodes 1, 2, 3 to get a basic idea, then go to episodes 15 & 18 for some plot stuff, and then episodes 21 to 26

The manga gives you a more complete backgorund and a proper ending.

The OVAs
The first one is simply a Hotsrpings episode that has lots of fanservice and introduces many characters left out by the anime adaptation.
The second one is actually decent, it adapts the 'Necronomicon Arc from the manga. Wish the show has been more like this.
The third one is another comedy adaptation of a Tree festival, introducing even more characters that were left out by the anime adaptation.

The original material were 6 lightnovels.
There wer also some videogames for the Saturn and Playstation (and the RPG Bakuretsu Hunter R)

>>99061
>another hackneyed Tomino script.jpg

>>99064
I should give the mango a read.
>mango is scans from a guy that bought all the comics and just shoved on a scanner
I guess it could be worse.

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>>99064
Bakuretsu Hunters is the closest I ever came to realizing my lifelong wish of being whipped by those strippers from Streets of Rage.

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Finished off Iria: Zeiram The Animation, and had a fun time with it.

The show focusses upon Iria, an apprentice and (Later) completely licensed "hunter". The show opens with her riding off with her brother (Glen) and another hunter (Bob) on an extremely dangerous mission to rescue people from a maroonned spaceship. Once they arrive, they find that the previous rescue teams were slaughter by a creature on board of the ship called a Zeiram, which is basically an almost indestructable xenomorph that looks like a samurai. In the process of trying to rescue the survivors, Bob is almost killed and later turned into an AI, Iria escapes the ship at the request of her brother, and Glen self-destructs the ship to destroy the Zeiram. However, the Zeiram survives, and the rest of the show is dedicated towards Iria trying to find a way to destroy the monster and uncover what happened to Glen.

It's a very straight-forward plot that leaves little to be explained.

The animation for the show is is rather well done. Not as good in quality as Tenamonya Voyagers, but it's very well made. I liked it.

Struggling to find things to say because, despite being a good series, there's little to keep you attached. In some ways, the show is riding upon cliches, so there's little that you'll see that's actually unique or new, but it's constructed in such a way that you can just sit back and enjoy it.

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>>99240
Iria's expressions are 10/10. I recall it was full of plot holes in what little plot it had, but I don't remember the details anymore.

And I hope you didn't watch the DVD of a series with a good blu-ray again.

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Venus Wars
Somehow I imagine I'm the only person in this thread who hasn't seen this. Well, that's been corrected, and I guess this'll fit right in with the recent discussion of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko other work (character design on Gundam F91 and Dirty Pair).
You've probably heard endless praise for this film's mechanical designs and animation quality, and, well, yeah, in this area it's incredibly good shit. Not only are the designs solid, but there's a lot of neat camerawork and setpieces that are ambitious even for an 80s bubble economy film and really set this film apart. Even the convoy attack with live-action backgrounds comes across as a way for the animators to show off incredibly dynamic POV driving shots instead of a cost-saving measure. If you're into this stuff as much as I am and somehow haven't seen Venus Wars yet, watch it retard.
So why don't you hear anything else about it? To put it quickly, it's very visibly written by a cynical, disillusioned former marxist in a way that stops it from being satisfying. You can see bits and fits of ideas and themes, marxist or not, break out that end up being put aside as the film moves along, and it ends with a victory that feels oddly hollow compared to the mid-film crane slugout. Perhaps you could make a case that this is the cast and Yasuhiko growing up, and there's definitely some of that, but it also comes across as Yasuhiko just not knowing how to resolve things well in his post-marxist lefty state.

Writing woes aside, it was a neat watch and I'm glad I gave it a shot. It has made me curious about the manga though, as it started out as self-admitted bait for a film adaptation but evolved enough that it ended with a victory for the opposite side. Did it handle its characters and themes better than the film? I won't know unless I try it, but at least it'll have Yasuhiko's character designs and brushed inking going for it.

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>>99331
Fugg, forgot to include one of the screenshots. They aren't super representative of what people seem to remember from the film, but I figure everyone's already seen a bunch of tank and soldier gifs from it already so I went for something slightly different.
Also forgot to mention Joe Hisaishi's score. People seem to forget he did anything but a very specific kind of symphonic Ghibli music, but back in the day he had a lot of range, used synths frequently, and scored a couple non-Ghibli films along his live-action work. I wouldn't put it on the level of his work on Nausicaa or Laputa, especially since those had more traces of his minimalist lineage, but it's a pretty fun score that most people would never guess came from babby's first anime composer.

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>>99240
It's been a long time since I watched it but I remember really liking the Zeiram, I greatly enjoy an unstoppable force slowly progressing towards the protagonist. With it being an OVA I was hoping they'd take some liberty and give us nudity.

>>99331
Had it a more interesting plot than Armitage III?

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Varbiable Geo
Variable Geo Neo
Forgot that I even saw these. Based on a fighting game of the same name featuring waitresses fighting, and the loser has to strip naked. The original OVA had a good first episode with good fighting animation but the animation got worse for each episode (there's only 3 episodes in total), that being said with it being an OVA from the 90s it already has better animation then the average anime being release today. Plot wise it's very basic, MC has a sick brother and enters a fighting tournament run by a mysterious organization in hope to win the prize pool. The only reason you'd watch this is to see cute girls fight, but even then there are much better anime to see if you want to see girls fight and then get naked. 

The hentai was released in the mid 00's and features characters from the last game installments of the franchise. It's a downgrade in every sense of the word. Also 3 episodes but I'd never recommend anyone to watch this.

>>99557
The whole game is about rape, but the first cartoon, didn't have any, only the second one.

>>97151
I watched Gowcaizer and I have no idea wtf I just saw. Good job catching that single frame in your 3rd screenshot though, I 
didn't. Dat butthole.

>>99064
Chivas 1-2-3
(1999, 2 OVAs)

A.k.a Sorcerer on the Rocks.
This series takes places on a parallel version on the Sorcere Hunters universe.

The Sorcerer Shibas Scotch, along with his "servants" the priestess Gin Fizz, the werewolf Kiss, and the samurai Genmi, take on jobs to get money.
He  gets hired by Count Cuttlefish to kill a monster that is attacking his town. But he gets tricked and his body gets destroyed.
Now, taking over Gin Fizz body, he must solve this situation.

The story is entertaining but its only 2 episodes long.
(the manga is 7 volumes long and has not been translated)

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Shinkai Densetsu MEREMANOID
(1997 - 26 episodes)

Needed more Budget/10

So, its like a Fantasy adventure, but underwater and everyone is like mermaids and such

The story takes places in the Land of Mer, there the mystic knights Mary Jo and Oz arrive to the kingdom of Moslem searching for Goda, a giant whale like monster.
In this world Mystic knights are seen as freaks and lesses beings despite having special powers.
Mary Jo and Oz soon get involved in an invasion to the kingdom of Moslem by the Kingdom of Bars, lead by the former mystic knight Rusmira, who now serves the forces of  
Dark Reef.
Rusmira uses her powers to corrupt the Local champion and pretty boy Madam (yea its a guy) and take down the kingdom of Moslem
Slowly Misty Jo and Oz get involved in a quest to retrieve 2 mystical seashells and protect the Prince Leon and Princess Layla from Agadia.
Rusmira remains the main antagonist...for a while...

Sadly its hard to find a good quality of any of the episodes, and the show seems to have had a tight budget (many still frames, and even in crowded towns theres always low population of characters)
The story is generic but interesting

 Meremanoid for PS1 
So, there is an untranslated PS1 RPG from 1999
From what i read on some places the game uses many of the main characters (including villians) from the show in a new story, but is not a sequel nor prequel.

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>>99495
Can't say, as I somehow haven't seen Armitage III yet.
Speaking of things I've taken ages to watch, apparently I had Photon: The Idiot Adventure on my hard drive for almost 10 years without watching it or knowing what it was (all the while thinking it was subtitled The Idiot Planet), so last night I finally got around to watching it.
If you've ever read through Grimm's Fairy Tales, you'll know it has a surprising number of stories about downies retard-braining their way through life and into success. And if you liked those, I'm pleased to tell you that Photon: The Idiot Adventure is very much in that spirit. The MC is not your average dumbass shonenshit protagonist: he's a sub-downie retard who stumbles his way through the story, assisted by the power of sheer tard strength, an accidental marriage he is literally too stupid to comprehend, and an immunity to psychic energy weapons (which the story doesn't abuse nearly as much as it could).
What really makes this kind of story work is that the protagonist isn't just lucky at a couple key moments. Luck alone is not everything: it's what you do with the opportunity that counts, and through sheer stupidity and obliviousness Photon seizes the moment in ways no normal person would. It's strangely satisfying to watch and really makes you root for him in a way you wouldn't for a more generic protagonist in his shoes, even if watching him is sometimes painful. It even makes him being such a chick magnet make more sense, somehow.
if it isn't obvious, yes, if it pulls off a MC like that, it's pretty funny. There's loads of great gags and reaction faces in here, with a particular emphasis on comedic nudity and 3D clipping jokes. I imagine most people who talk about this OVA will spend most of their time here, and rightfully so, but its comedy wouldn't land nearly as well if the MC's successes weren't so satisfying, the animation wasn't so great, and if the fights weren't so sick. If this OVA were a pure farce with no weight to it, one where you weren't invested enough to actively root for the retard and just laughed at his failures, it would leave the jokes floating airly about in a meaningless, somewhat funny void and leave you unsatisfied.

This ain't much of a review and probably reads more like a big gush. It's less that I think this is a masterpiece (it isn't, good as it is) and more that this style of comedy feels a bit more difficult to do writeups on, but it did end up being a pleasant surprise, and I'm also surprised that I've heard so little about this outside the odd mention in old recommendation charts. Aren't the other Tenchi Muyo entries pretty popular, or am I just out of touch?

>>104622
Is a great OVA, watched it back in the day, the girls are cute, the mc is retarded, a fun watch, but it got dark out of nowhere at the end just for shock value.

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>>104622
I think Tenchi Muyo fell through the cracks by now and most haven't heard about it anymore, specially a spin off like Photon. 

Watch Eien no Filena, it's about a warrior princess and her chaste yuri marriage. Apparently, the only reason it doesn't have more episodes is production issues, according to the LN's author: https://www-style-fm.translate.goog/as/05_column/shudo84.shtml?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
It's a shame, because it's great.

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>>104622
It's worth it, try it if you want to see inadvertent satire of nu-feminism.

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>>104624
I wouldn't say that it was just for shock value. They topped off their action comedy OVA with a funny idea (the plot is happening because the antagonist got bored and screwed up his own plans for shits and giggles) and played it straight.
Chocolate Panic Picture Show
Early Gainax OVA about a destructive trio of niggers encountring civilization. It's more or less a 25 minute music video and I'm not going to overanalyze it.

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>>104636
>It's more or less a 25 minute music video
Back in the day they really had too much money to spend on anime. I recall downloading some cool looking OVA only to find out it was a long music video.

Roujin Z
Pretty movie with a pretty nonsensical plot. A caretaker has her patient stuffed in a hi-tech bed that's supposed to perform all the tasks a caregiver does. The bed, however, is actually made of military technology and somehow turns into some sort of mecha. The movie is nicely animated but that's about it, a solid 5/10.

>>104626
>inadvertent
I don't see what was inadvertent about Armitage III's anti-feminism. Even Dual Matrix, while less blatant, still re-enforced its themes.

>>104961
What's unexpected here is how reality follows the fiction nowadays.

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Band of Ninja
Like Photon: The Idiot Adventures, I've had Band of Ninja on my hard drive for almost 10 years. Unlike Photon: The Idiot Adventures, I could only take 15 minutes of this before I turned it off.
You see, this is a manga adaptation by prominent Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima, and this is the closest he ever came to directing an anime film. I would not call this anime, and to even call this a manga adaptation is a major stretch, as it's simply the camera flashing between manga panels with voice acting, narration, and sound effects overlaid onto the frames. Sometimes you'll get a panning shot if you're lucky, and that's it.
The results are often disorienting, even without my rip's mistimed and badly translated fansubs. Many shots feel slightly too long or too short, or are flashed so quickly that the eye barely perceives them, but worst of all are the shots which feel as though they'd be just right if they had even the most minimal animation. You start to grow unusually aware of both how anime and manga "flow", how artfully both use still frames in different ways, and how utterly this misses the mark of both. Even the panning shots are often poorly-timed, going too fast over panoramic views meant to be taken in slowly, to the point that I sometimes suspect the director is doing this intentionally. Take the second webm: as the camera jerks unevenly over the field of corpses, the sharply-lined figures melt into a jaggged, indescript mush, with the leftmost corpse cut away from immediately instead of lingered on. It's so contrary to the panel's natural flow and way of portraying the war dead that it almost comes across as the director putting his own spin on the scene, but one that's so jarringly at odds with both mediums that it grows exhausting to watch.
Needless to say, this style of manga movie did not catch on, and Nagisa Oshima did not attempt it again. It isn't an entirely worthless film, as it makes the viewer conscious of qualities that it (deliberately?) foregoes and thus might be worth studying for amateur directors or comic artists, but other than that there's no reason to watch this besides morbid curiosity or a thorough exploration of Oshima's filmography.

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Gundam Wing
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Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Gundam Wing is worse than bad: it's the exact wrong mix of fucking retarded writers, sick mecha designs, and the occasional neat idea which isn't used to its full potential to be a truly exasperating watch.
Its biggest problem is that, for all its ambitions of being this sprawling show about the absolute clusterfuck of war and the constantly shifting ideologies, technologies, and alliances that shape it, it's completely and utterly detached from the shifting reality of combat itself. Take the introduction of mobile dolls, for instance. In outer space and in the air their supremacy makes more sense, but on the ground they're as static as any other grunt mecha and rely mainly on their automated shields to tank enemy fire, and said shields seem less effective at melee range. A better Gundam show would have a gradual shift in tactics to deal with them, but Wing? Wing gives almost zero shits about tactics or troop deployment. Almost every conflict that doesn't involve hotshot pilots is determined solely by who has the better equipment, so for the remainder of the show the mighty OZ (who in the show's eyes have lost their hotshot status) just stand around dumbly and shoot at them from a distance.
Yes, the Gundam pilots are the least interesting people in the show. Yes, its muh pacifism autism is fucking retarded. Thing is, the show is unhinged enough and its political situation unstable enough that it'll sometimes shove these people and ideals into hilariously stupid situations, and by the end almost every main cast member has assisted or outright worked with almost every faction, including ones directly opposed to their original goals. If this unpredictability and constant shifting had caried over into the fights, Gundam Wing would have been at least consistently hilarious, but the actual battles are (usually) so static and predictable that it just kills the show for me.

All this is less of a problem in the show's earlier episodes, from what I remember (I watched the show over several months with very long breaks, as I can only take so much of this at a time, so my memory of the earlier parts is hazy), but as the show progresses its worse traits solidify until its combat is almost completely deterministic. When they finally remember that strategic troop deployment and attrition matter in the 44th episode, it's treated as a groundbreaking revelation which lasts for exactly one episode and is quickly forgotten. It's as though the writers become as inattentive, lazy, and detached from warfare as the deployers of mobile dolls, who see battle as though it's settled by the press of a button with zero consideration of the enemy, and by the time the writers have wrapped up the show's political machinations there's little left to do but watch them hit that button over and over as the least interesting part of the show plays itself out.
This writeup is pretty lousy and doesn't cover much, but fuck me, do I ever hate thinking about Gundam Wing. I hated Wing so much that it prompted a several year break in my Gundam marathon until I could bring myself to revisit and finish this show, then break release order to get Endless Waltz out of the way. The best part of finishing it is putting it behind me, moving on to better Gundam shows, and knowing that I'll never have to touch this trash again.

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>>104659
The movie is mostly a comedy, but how did you miss the plot this hard?
>somehow turns into some sort of mecha
The bed linked with the patient's mind because its supposed to know when he needs to poop and know when he's hungry and things like that, since he's a vegetable, but instead the machine seeks to accomplish his true wants/needs which was to give him his freedom and take him to where he was happy with his wife by the beach, while the bed company tried their hardest to suppress it, because its a prototype and this looked bad for them, which prompted it to just try harder to give the old man what he truly desires; his freedom, his wife, his old home.

I havnt seen the movie in years and i still remember that being the main point. It's about treatment of the elderly, dignity, etc.

>A caretaker has her patient stuffed in a hi-tech bed
The caretaker was against the bed because it was so inhumane and impersonal, she found it degrading and even wanted to help him get free. because even though it took care of the elderly persons needs better than they could, it lacked human interaction, and even attempted to replace that by talking to him, which is why it "became" his deceased wife.

It's not a perfect movie by any means, but damn, try turning off the tic tokers, vtubers, and subway surfers before watching your next movie.

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Dragon Pink
Three part hentai about an RPG party, and their brown slave cat. Watched it only for the brown cat but was pleasantly surprised by the other /monster/ scenes. 3/5, could've had more cat sex. Anyone got any recommendations for /monster/ hentai?

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>>105618
Youkoso! Sukebe Elf no Mori e is 100% /monster/ approved.

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Sei Michaela Gakuen Hyouryuuki
This one is only an hour long, so the non-spoiler description is: during WW2 a delinquent girl transfers to a christian all-girls school and rebel against the school. The spoiler is the girl is actually a boy who died when escaping slavery, after having been sold off during the children's crusade towards Jerusalem (in 1212). Feeling betrayed she came back to life to rebel against God. The school itself is actually part of a military project to raise virgins and send them off to the front line where they will work in brothels and help relieve the soldiers fighting in the Asia-pacific theatre. and finally after having burned down the school, all the girls are sent back to the 17th century to fight against the Japanese government because of its persecution of Christians. Somehow this results in religion being abolished worldwide. There's also a sequel to this but last time I checked there was no translation for it.

>>105660
>christian all-girls school
didn't even read the rest, torrenting it right now.

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So I downloaded Tenku Senki Shurato back in November, tried watching it over the next few agonizing months, before eventually dropping it back in March because of just how bored of the show I was, and have been kicking myself since about actually posting about it before I move onto something else. 

The short of the series is that's it's an isekai about two martial artists, Shurato and Gai, being brought to the world of Tenkuukai. It's a parallel world to that of Earth, where the peace in Tenkuukai allows our world to exist. However, the lead guardian of that world, Hyuuga, turns Lady Vishnu, the goddess of Tenkuukai, into stone for the purposes of bringing about some sort of doomsday. and he puts the blame for the act upon Shurato. On the run and trying to save Lady Vishnu, Shurato tries to survive traveling across Tenkuukai while being hunted by other guardians and a brainwashed Gai.

This half of the plot eventually resolves itself by episode 25, with the remaining 13 episodes being about some sort of demon goddess that Hyuuga was preparing the way for, but I couldn't be asked to watch the rest because I was just so thoroughly bored. And it doesn't help that episode 11 firmly establishes that this show could be best summed up as an "idiot plot", where half of the shit that happens is because half the cast are idiots. To give context about that episode, Guardian Renge is absolutely in love with Hyuuga and will do anything for him. However the other guardians helping Shurato have figured out that Hyuuga is no longer a good guy and finally convince Renge that the man that she loves is no longer the same man. And how does she react? She doesn't fucking care! She declares that she will do anything Hyuuga demands of her because he makes her pussy just that moist and ends up dying (Until Lady Vishnu revives everyone in episode 25). This isn't the only instance of this type of bullshit happening, but it was the one that really stood out the most for me. And there were a few other things about the show that angered me to the point of not caring, but I forget what since it's been so long since I watched this series.

The animation is good and audio is good, but I just did not like the show because of how stupid the story got.

>>105683
Last time i checked, the author went to do ecchi and Hentai only, until like 2019 when he made some mecha stuff

>>105661
If you like christian all-girls schools there's St. Luminous mission high school, I've only watched two episodes but it seemed fine (it has harem traits and isn't yuri). You probably already know about MariHolic and Maria-sama ga Miteru.

>>105683
That is TRUE love and she did nothing wrong.

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801 TTS Airbats
After having watched GATE I was interested in watching other military anime and found 801 TTS Airbats. It starts off with Isurugi (your usual plain MC) being transferred to the aerial acrobatic team which the laughing stock of the air force, as well as being the only team that has female pilots. A love triangle between Isurugi (your usual plain MC), Haneda, and the delicious brown tsundere Mitaka is set up in the first episode. Most episodes start off with some dispute between the JSDF higher ups and the Airbats' attempts to be taken seriously and wanting to be fighter pilots instead of being relegated to an acrobatic team. In most episodes the girls wanted to prove that they were just as good as the girls and fight against the discrimination they faced, the irony with this is that in almost half of the episodes the girls almost kill themselves because they let their personal disputes influence them during flight. In the second episode Mitaka almost killed everyone because she was mad at Haneda for flirting with MC, in another episode Mitaka (again) almost killed another fighter pilot mid flight because they were having a disagreement. It's fair to say that the high ups were 100% justified to keep the girls in the aerial acrobatic team.

My other issue was how plain Haneda (who I assume wins the MC-bowl at the end) was. There aren't even many words I can use to describe her aside from perhaps 'pretty' and 'nice'. Mitaka was atleast a tsundere with fan service. My final verdict is that this is only worth watching if you like brown tsunderes because there was plenty of that. I'd recommend Hisone to Masotan if you want to see a pilot anime with cute girls instead of this, or perhaps Idol Defense Force Hummingbird but I haven't watched it yet so I can't say if it's good or not.

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Now and Then, Here and There
(1999, 13 episodes)

Suffering/10
This show is about suffering and bad shit happening to a bunch of kids, with some sci-fi elements.
Shuu is some annoying kid going to a kendo practice, after getting called out by another student for only caring about making points, he goes back home kinda bummed.
On the way home he notices somebody sitting atop the smokestacks of an abandoned factory. Climbing to the next one, he notices a blue haired girl watching the sunset. While trying to talk to her, time freezes and a group of soldiers driving snake-like mechas try to kidnap the girl (named Lala-Ru)
Shuu tries to protect her but is also taken with her into a military fotress in a distant future surrounded only by desert.
From there they try to escape onyl for things to get worse.
Show features child soldiers, torture, a demented child-like adult despot, implied rape, death...
And mostly all the atrocities of war through the eyes of young people.
Lala-Ru is some sort of thousand year old being that can control and produce large amounts of pure water instantly.
The story is short and has an ending.

Extra materials
None
This is a straight to TV anime, no manga, light novels or anything else

>>105970
>your usual plain MC
I'm glad that cliche is no longer as much as a requirement as it was back that but man, di it ruin many series back in the day. Give me an interesting male MC, give me CGDCT or give me yuri, but dump that kind of trash MC into the only kind of trash genre they are common these days: isekai.

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>Angel Densetsu
Boy looks evil but is actually a very nice and gentle person, misunderstandings happen. My favorite comedy manga, 10/10 manga but a lackluster anime. The adaptation only being 2 episodes long meant that even the essential characters like Ryouko weren't introduced. Length aside, it was a very good adaptation of the first few chapters but it should've had more episodes. Highly recommend to watch/read this if you want a comedy anime/manga where comedy isn't the sub-genre like it is in so many modern 'comedy' anime.

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Seraphim Call
The seraphim of Seraphim Call cover their eyes with their wings to behold themselves and cry "holy, holy, holy" as an act of self-worship. It's an anime fascinated with self-perception and reflection, and like a woman's reflection it's often pretty and finds interesting angles to show itself off, but also like a woman it grows obsessed with this reflection and becomes vain and narcissistic, and ironically loses itself through this self-obsession.
At the heart of the show are two nearly identical episodes about two nearly identical twins. They receive a love letter with the recipient name burned off, addressed to "My Dear," and in the process of trying to understand each others' reactions to this find themselves gazing back at themselves, and through this lose their selves. They burn the letter and fall in love, not truly with each other, but more with their reflected images, and they return in the final episode to give the show's concluding speech:
>All there are in the skies are stars. There is no God, there are no angels. The stars in the sky, and me watching the stars. That is reality. The angels are in me.
>What meaning do dreams and desires have? Dreams will never come true. Desires will never come to fruition. The only thing that means anything is reality. I will create reality.
>There is no such thing as eternity. No matter what I do, I will not exist in the 22nd century. In the end, that's all there is.
>I am not afraid of being alone. I am not afraid of dying. What I am afraid of is abandoning my true self. That's all.

I wouldn't call this bad in the usual sense. It has a lot of individually well-written and framed episodes (I wasn't being completely metaphorical when I called it "obsessed with reflection"), some of which benefit from rewatches, but it grows into such an unsatisfying whole that its parts become painful in context. There's absolutely people here who could look past this and see it as a decent anthology series; I'm sadly just not one of them.

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>>105660
I just watched it and... it's a masterpiece.

I made a color correction profile which mostly fixes the green tint in the Orphan release (which is the best one):
https://files.catbox.moe/d8za63.zip
https://web.archive.org/web/20240817065751/https://files.catbox.moe/d8za63.zip
You need mpv to watch it, the README.txt has instructions on how to apply color correction to each episode which assume you know how to use mpv.

The sequel has an official overseas release which was renamed Sins of the Sisters, it has Japanese audio and English subs and it's on private trackers. I made a public upload: >>106860
Sequel synopsis btw: "Eventually, all religions are wiped out in a worldwide atheist jihad, and the battle-hardened schoolgirls decide to go back in time again to save the original Hans."

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>>106861
I just watched Sei Michaela Gakuen Hyouryuuki II and it's bad.
In the 1st entry in the franchise you have a nice art style and serviceable production values, the crazy plot, and it's actually a fun watch.

In the 2nd entry it's just asspull after asspull, nothing new, nothing crazy, downgraded art style and animation (save for more detailed breasts), the 1st episode is mostly a recap, the video quality is much worse than the 1st, it's bad. Don't even bother.

The 1st one is barely a hentai too, there is non-hentai anime with more nudity. The 2nd one is more on the hentai side of things, but not quite, but it wasn't what I was looking for anyway.

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>Sousou no Frieren
I watched all of it in 3 days and finished it Friday (it's now Sunday evening) and I'm not someone who watches anime quickly or who watches modern anime in general. It's safe to say Frieren is the Lodoss of this generation, and its qualities compete with the best of LOGH.

Production values and direction are consistently good, with lots of moments with very detailed animation spread around the anime. There are hundreds of highly detailed stills, pans, or animation loops which are shown for brief moments, never to be seen again. It's as ifd to the makers they're nothing special where other anime would have few of them and drag them on. And I say this as someone who hates all digital animation deeply, I wish it was hand drawn, but they did what they did well. Characters in Frieren often make meaningful poses and expressions beyond the stereotypical anime ones, too, an increasingly rare form of animation direction.
 
In Frieren, characters have unique, realistic personalities, motivations and things they can or can't do, their own ways of thinking, they have dimensions to them. Female character design, too, is good. There is no sameface syndrome, female characters have their own personalities and don't all fall into archetypes, and they're all disticnt from each other. They act differently, like or hate different things, all that makes characters stand out and be memorable and likeable. Male characters are a minority which is nice. 

Worldbuilding is excellent. Spells in Frieren aren't words that make anything happen, the anime gives you explanations on how magic works that make sense in-world. It even gives you a sense of how magic was in the past and how it is now, and how far it has progressed or changed. A lot of time in the anime is spent in Frieren's memories of the past, and through this you're shown much of the history of the world of Frieren, and it's all quite good and original and makes a lot of sense in-world. Even the behaviors of different species of monsters are explained through Darwinistic thinking in ways that make sense and fit into the world. It's just great. 

The plot is simple, the genius kind. Frieren is an elf, her lifespan is far longer than that of all the other races. Because of the general characteristics of her race and her personality which essentially takes her racial characteristis to the extreme, she can't empathize with shorter lived races or make sense of them. We witness Frieren's life in the present day as she reminisces the past, the most important present event and the moment the anime starts with being the fact that she recently joined the Heroes' Party and defeated the Demon Lord. The anime starts at the celebrations after the Demon Lord's defeat. With this set up, you have a new adventure every episode where you learn more about magic, more about the world's history, more about Frieren, more about her adventures in the heroes' party, you see how the past affects the present, you see how a present event allows Frieren to understand a past memory of hers, you witness Frieren's experience show, and so on, and her character is developed, or some progress is made in her goals, and it's just excellent storytelling in general.

Frieren is one of those anime that does everything well. Its writing is good, direction is good, characters are good, female character design is good, production values are good, it just does everything well. It's one of those rare cases where an anime deserves its ratings and popularity. Frieren is an obligatory watch for anyone who likes anime. It has everything that makes a TV series good, it can be liked by anyone. Frieren is going to go down as a timeless classic, the only thing that binds it to the current era in anime is the "Demon Lord" stuff which is only background plot you don't even see, everything else exists out of time and trends, which is oddly fitting. The only flaw I see in Frieren is all the coincidences, but they're not bad.

It's also quite nice that anime clichés are the icing in this anime, not its content.

>>106877
>the Lodoss of this generation
Lodoss wasn't very good to begin with.  The art direction was nice but the plot and characters were really shallow, fitting for a fanfiction written by D&D players.

>>106876
>>106861
Turns out it's loosely based on a real historical event, which itself is mostly fiction to begin with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Crusade

Didn't expect my hentai to be this deep.

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Fantastic Children
2004, 26 episodes

Its upposed to be a Mystery show with sci-fi elements and such.

From the get go the story thows at you the mystery of the Befort Children, a group of white haired children that appear and disappear through out history. Some belives them to be demons or vampires.
Theres also Detective Cooks, dealing with missing children cases but running into the legend of the Befort children.
Also theres Helga and Chiito, a pair of orphans trying to run away from their orphanage.
And Tohma, an energetic martial-arts prone young boy from a  nearby island.

Epsiodes 1 to 13 serve as an slow gathering of the characters and plot, as each episode solves and adds a new questions, drop by drop, aswell as important plot elements like Helgas painting, Dumas, the  other white haired kid. The GED organization, etc.
Episode 14 is a summary of all events from the first 13 episodes.
Episodes 15 to 19 covers the whole backstory of both Helga and the Befort children
Aliens, aliens all of em
And episodes 20 to 26 work as a wrap up, with a couple of twists and turns.

Its an ok show, not great. Has a weird ghibli-esque feels at times.
The "Backstory" of Helga and the Befort children feels very strange, but once you get pass it, its just another paragraph to the plot.
There are some loose ends as you only get to see Helga as an adult in the end, but nothing about the others.

Extra materials
Theres a 2 volumes manga (no translation)
Also, theres a GBA game from 2005. From the perspective of Tohma, also untranslated.

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>>106877
I FUCKING LOVE FEET

>>107012
The proportions in that Cirno pic are bad and you should feel bad for posting it. Why  here though? Too mentally disabled to use the catalog?
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>Hayou no Tsurugi
A solid sword & sorcery anime with incredible and original aesthetics and generally great art direction, particularly the colors and backgrounds. Animation direction, too, is generally good, with lots of expressive, fluid, and natural gestures by the main character which are sometimes a bit exaggerated when she talks, giving the impression that she's Italian, although other characters are lacking in expressiveness beyond the typical anime poses. There's nothing innovative about its decent execution, it's your average "supernatural evil kidnaps girl and warrior with a legendary sword saves her" story, if this isn't the first time you watch such a plot you already know how it ends in the first few minutes, but being a shōjo makes it fresh relative to the rest, for one, the one saving the girl is a girl, and girls can't love girls, at least in this anime. However, a large portion of its runtime is nothing but anime tropes with nothing to add or dramatic, slow scenes that fail to be dramatic or entertaining. Production values are good and consistent throughout, although there are some scenes that go as high as 1 animation frame per video frame, a rarity in anime. The female protag is really nice and an excellent action protagonist. The 1st ED is beautiful, both the sound and visuals. The Orphan release is the best quality you'll ever get out of a VHS tape.

It's an above average anime in general, it has its shortcomings, but there's plenty to like about it. Why I hadn't heard about it until I watched it, specially because I've spent plenty of time looking for fantasy anime, asking for recommendations, etc is a mystery. Listen to the 1st episode's ED and download the soundtrack at >>106999. The track in this post is the 2nd episode's ED.

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>>107089
>girls can't love girls, at least in this anime.
It was so damn close...

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Claymore was amazing. The only issue is that I hate that Raki faggot, Claire should have picked up a girl as a pet, but at least he disappears for half of the anime.

The order of the hottest claymores goes Flora > Jeanne > Galatea > Claire. All the claymores are hot, even Undine is good when she's not puffing up for the pool, so it's a hard pick.

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Phantom Yuusha Densetsu
A former Japanese fighter pilot finds himself in the middle of a CIA conspiracy. It's only a one episode OVA so it's very fast paced. The video quality was pretty bad but still watchable, definitely worth watching if you're in the mood for manime.

rewatched Sekai Suru Kado for the third time https://anidb.net/anime/11762

still holds up and would recommend