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Bloodsage's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:Neon Genesis Evangelion (didn't get past the first 5 minutes)
hahahaha
"I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
-- George Herbert Walker Bush
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Leftover Mog had this to say about Cuba:
Sage, defininately check out grave of the fireflies
I watched it before I went and saw Pearl Harbor in the theatres. Made me go, "Huh."
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael painfully thought these words up:
Fuck no. The animation is okay but the female lead looks like a boy when she's young and my grandma when she's old. They took a charming, romantic fairy tale story and turned it into this sprawling anti-war diatribe.
I think I remember hearing this from someone...but who?! 
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
I mean, you have two awesome samurai and one alright girl, but for every episode about Gin (imo, the cooler one) or Fuu (who cares), there are like forty for Mugen. After awhile, it just seems like the Mugen show and you get tired of him.
My favorite anime is still FMA. Dibs on Pride.
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Mr. Parcelan was naked while typing this:
Samurai Champloo is fun at a glance, but it quickly becomes waaaaay, way lame.I mean, you have two awesome samurai and one alright girl, but for every episode about Gin (imo, the cooler one) or Fuu (who cares), there are like forty for Mugen. After awhile, it just seems like the Mugen show and you get tired of him.
My favorite anime is still FMA. Dibs on Pride.
I'm a Mustang kinda guy, myself.
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Mr. Parcelan had this to say about dark elf butts:
Samurai Champloo is fun at a glance, but it quickly becomes waaaaay, way lame.I mean, you have two awesome samurai and one alright girl, but for every episode about Gin (imo, the cooler one) or Fuu (who cares), there are like forty for Mugen. After awhile, it just seems like the Mugen show and you get tired of him.
My favorite anime is still FMA. Dibs on Pride.
Samurai Champloo quickly becomes Cowboy Bebop in the Fuedal Era. Suck.
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Skaw had this to say about Duck Tales:
Samurai Champloo quickly becomes Cowboy Bebop in the Fuedal Era. Suck.
Except not cool.
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Skaw had this to say about John Romero:
Samurai Champloo quickly becomes Cowboy Bebop in the Fuedal Era. Suck.
With a twist. Because, OMG! The bounty is on them! HAHAHA!
Great pop art style. Not enough edgy plot severing itself from conventional anime.
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Skaw stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Samurai Champloo quickly becomes Cowboy Bebop in the Fuedal Era. Suck.
That's what it was from the beginning.
At least, that's how I saw it. Only saw a couple episodes though.
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Maradon! thought about the meaning of life:
Grave of the Fireflies is, bar none, the saddest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
I've been told I'm a horrible horrible person for laughing at it. It totaly has hilarious moments though if you have a dark sence of humor.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Y.O.T.C who doth quote:
I've been told I'm a horrible horrible person for laughing at it. It totaly has hilarious moments though if you have a dark sence of humor.
No, there weren't.
You're the kind of person who puts firecrackers up stray cat's asses, aren't you? Maradon! fucked around with this message on 03-26-2006 at 11:46 PM.
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Bloodsage had this to say about dark elf butts:
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So what am I missing that's must-see?
If you want to see something Gundam, Char's Counter attack. It is a little spazzy and preachy are times, but it does sum up the entire(and really most of the varient series) Gundam themes and ideals. Endless Waltz is a newer, and does the same thing, but I like the UC Gundams better.
Cowboy Bebop movie if you haven't seen the regular show. Again like the Gundam full lengths, the movie is more or less a rehash of the major themes and messages of the show. Honestly, if you haven't seen the normal show, it is worth it to do so.
Jin Roh was suffers from anime preachy-ness, but I liked it, and it is genuine animation for the most part too.
Looking for some really old school shit, Galaxy Express 999 or Captain Harlock, though I warn ya these can be hard to get right, Matsumoto's works tend to have bad cases of cut-paste-hack dvd's
Don't bother with the Armitage sequel, it blows. Patlabor is kind aboring.
Also see Ninja Scroll, very bloody, very fun.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, also very nice, modern totalitarian japan, similar environment as akira, complete different plot mechanics, no wtf superpowers iirc.
If you could ever be convinced to watch a serial anime, let it be Cowboy Bebop, I think its value is worth enduring 26 parts to it, it also has an amazing full length movie to it. But I'm also a fanboi, so my opinion must be taken with certain reservations.
My dad won't watch any anime that I'm watching at a given time, but he sat through most of Cowboy Bebop. He didn't watch the rest out of time issues. He said he liked it a lot though.
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabits doth run and play while Mr. Crabs gently hums:
hahahaha
wut?
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Señor Gains had this to say about (_|_):
What the hell is with people saying they hate Eva all of a sudden? For years it was the best animu ever for like...everyone. Now the last couple months, all I see is hate for it.
I've never liked it, aside from the last couple episodes. Even that is pushing it.
It's now on Cartoon Network, making it fair game for hatred.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Señor Gains who doth quote:
What the hell is with people saying they hate Eva all of a sudden? For years it was the best animu ever for like...everyone. Now the last couple months, all I see is hate for it.
The last parts with Asuka were awsome, but the rest just awful and made no sense at all.
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ACES! Another post by Led:
I liked it. I really really did. Up until the final few episodes, which made me want to gouge out my brains with a spoon.The last parts with Asuka were awsome, but the rest just awful and made no sense at all.
Well, episodes 24-26 are supposed to be replaced by the End of Evangelion movie, so maybe you should rent that and see if it makes it up for you. :/
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Led impressed everyone with:
I bought that, too. It still made me a very very sad bunny for spending so much time and money on an awsome series that ended so horribly.
Yeah. I can't argue with you there. Even if you make sense of it in your own way (that's how you make sense of Eva) the ending sucked. Pretty horribly.
I still liked the anime on a whole though. Shinji should've died. They killed almost everyone else. Why couldn't he go too? 
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Led said:
I bought that, too. It still made me a very very sad bunny for spending so much time and money on an awsome series that ended so horribly.
Other Gainax series (Melody of Oblivion and Kare Kano specifically) end just as badly. They seem to have a penchant for throwing the plot to hell in the last five episodes in favor of pointless bullshit.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Kuroi Madoushi wrote this stupid crap:
Other Gainax series (Melody of Oblivion and Kare Kano specifically) end just as badly. They seem to have a penchant for throwing the plot to hell in the last five episodes in favor of pointless bullshit.
Kare Kano didn't have an ending. What the hell is you be smokin'?
That series could've went on for several more seasons. 
And I would've bought it all oh christ I want more. 
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Check out the big brain on Señor Gains!
Kare Kano didn't have an ending. What the hell is you be smokin'?That series could've went on for several more seasons.
And I would've bought it all oh christ I want more.
I was more referring to how the last five episodes devolved into tangential crap unrelated to what was happening in the story.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Those Who Hunt Elves. Very awsome short series. I LOVE it. However, they made Ritsuko's T72 into a total joke when they let it get possessed by a CAT SPIRIT. I mean, a main battle tank meowing at things and acting all =^.^=!?!??? That really made me cry >.<
Martian Successor Nadesico. I loved this series too... heck I need to rewatch it, I seem to have forgotten the point I was going to make about this series 
Umm... if I remember right, at some point the lil blue haired girl was 'found out' to be some sort of omg crazy space princess. I mean, seriously, what idiot thought that was worth introducing to the plot?
Gah! I used to know a lot more, but they are not coming to mind at the moment 
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Check out the big brain on Kuroi Madoushi!
I was more referring to how the last five episodes devolved into tangential crap unrelated to what was happening in the story.
Yeah well...that's because at the end of any Gainax series, they have to fire their entire crew because they made the first half or more of the series so amazing with animation that they couldn't afford it for the butt end of the series. So they stick to metaphorical and symbolistic bullshit.
A good way they did this was the manga episode of Kare Kano when they danced cutouts in front of the camera the whole episode. FUCKING BRILLIANCE.
A bad example of this would be the elevator scene and also the scene where Unit-01 is holding Kaworu about ready to pop his frickin' head off. CHEAP ANIMATION FTL. Also how most of the last two episodes of eva were done in black and white or just line animation or cuts of words. Seriously Gainax save some money. D:
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Led painfully thought these words up:
Martian Successor Nadesico. I loved this series too... heck I need to rewatch it, I seem to have forgotten the point I was going to make about this seriesUmm... if I remember right, at some point the lil blue haired girl was 'found out' to be some sort of omg crazy space princess. I mean, seriously, what idiot thought that was worth introducing to the plot?
I don't remember Ruri being a space princess haha. But Nadesico is my favorite space/mecha anime by a longshot. It's so awesome. 
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Led's account was hax0red to write:
The saddest thing about Evangelion is how I bought the entire thing, and watched ALL of it before I decided I hated it >.< DOH
Buying the Gasaraki boxset (like $150 bucks!) only because it looked neat, without finding out anything about it beforehand.
I sat through it all on principle, and I was literally so bored I cried. I also think I slept through parts of it ;P
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Maradon! had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
No, there weren't.You're the kind of person who puts firecrackers up stray cat's asses, aren't you?
I didn't feel very sad at Grave of the Fireflies, but who laughs at this kind of thing? Nerd alert.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Maradon! said:
No, there weren't.You're the kind of person who puts firecrackers up stray cat's asses, aren't you?
Ok, The part I laughed at, which apparently I'm the only person that ever found the ironic comedy in this, is where the americans are firebombing the city and the main character is running through cheering the americans on as hes looting stuff. I found this to be funny, and everyone jumps on me and tells me I'm a horrible person before I can make my case. Then even if I do get to make my case nobody remembers this scene as its a like 2 second scene in the directors cut version that nobody remembers.
And no, cats are too cute to put firecrackers up the butts of. I do enjoy useing canned air to freeze bugs though.
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Bloodsage enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
Can anyone recommend any good film-length anime? With very few exceptions, I detest the serial stuff.
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Led wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
The dumbest purchasing decision ever made?Buying the Gasaraki boxset (like $150 bucks!) only because it looked neat, without finding out anything about it beforehand.
I sat through it all on principle, and I was literally so bored I cried. I also think I slept through parts of it ;P
I feel bad for you.
I only saw an episode of Gasaraki and it was awful.
