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Yeah, that was kind of a worthless post I made there, wasn't it? I think I was going to add something else to it and then I didn't.
Kumi Koda is doing the theme song for that new Muv Luv anime.
Words cannot describe how appropriate that is.
I'm so behind... I still have to finish watching like 11 shows before I'll be able to start any of the new shows this week... :c
Also I do not know who Kumi Koda is, so... (is it because she did the theme songs for Final Fantasy X-2, which I just learned now from Wikipedia?)
No, that was back when she was um... tamer?
Now she basically wears a bra and hot pants on stage/in her PVs all the time.
Right now I'm not too behind, but with the pre-uni classes I'm taking starting on Monday I doubt I'll be able to keep up... This wasn't a good time to re-watch No. 6...
RahXephon episode 11: I'd forgotten how trippy this one is. Man, it's like that one Futurama episode with the giant bees, but with mecha.
Pretty darn well, I'd assume.
Brotherhood is possibly my favourite anime of all time.
I should watch it again sometime (with the dub); it's really long though...
I haven't finished the Brotherhood anime, but I read the manga and IMO, it's the best shonen fighting series ever made.
I need to get around to reading the manga too.
^^^ It seriously is, though. The only thing that really comes close is One Piece, which is better in other respects but not what I instantly imagine when I think "shounen fighting series".
Favourite is between Cowboy Bebop, TTGL, and Brotherhood for me.
Cowboy Bebop, Brotherhood, and Macross Plus for me, probably. GITS is pretty neato too, though.
Though, I'm actually not sure about anything after Heartcatch. Figure 17 might also be up there somewhere.
One Piece is good, but it's really, really long, and that doesn't lend itself to FMA's thematic and narrative cohesion.
As for the best manga overall, 20th Century Boys. No contest.
Oh, and Cromartie High always cracks me up too.
^ Yeah, One Piece is more of an epic than shounen fighter, to me at least.
Oh, it's definitely a shonen fighter, just an odd one. I'm just saying why I don't think it approaches FMA quality.
I really like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.
Would you say Spirited Away is too trippy/scary for a two year old to watch?
I would say no.
On that note, my favorite manga should go without saying. I would have to say my favorite anime is K-On!!, followed by either AnoHana, Eden of the East, or Durarara!! Favorite animovie is Evangelion 2.22.
"cohesion"
See, that's another thing I like about One Piece; in spite of being one of the longest-running comics out there, it's remarkably consistent.
Nyarly,
Talking about K-On!, I just watched the fourth episode of K-On!!, the imaginatively titled second season. It's the Kyoto episode, in which the appropriate dialect appears (mostly just faked by Ritsu). And just as I feared, they used Bavarian (which isn't so much a dialect as much more a form of acoustic torture) for it in the German version. I will never watch this episode dubbed. Never.
I think that sounds a little weird, but I guess foreign language dubs kind of have to make odd decisions when it comes to stuff like that. Is there another German dialect that you think would have worked better?
I feel like it can be sort of interesting seeing how English versions of a show deal with dialogue that was in English in the original too. I guess the most "unique" way I have seen of dealing with that problem was the FUNimation dub of Bamboo Blade having an American character speak in valley girl to distinguish her from the Japanese characters.
As for favorite anime, Fullmetal Alchemist (both series)/Haruhi/Sketchbook/Bokurano/Bamboo Blade would probably be mine, but I doubt I have really seen enough to make a good list.
Oh man, I totally forgot about how amazing the Engrish episode of Bamboo Bladewas.
Favorite anime:
Eureka Seven, UN-GO, Eden Of The East, .hack//SIGN, Angelic Layer, Heartcatch Precure and Paranoia Agent.
Folks. Stop talking about K-On and go read Biomega now. Like seriously this is a great manga. You owe it to yourselves to get a break from talky shonen, moe-blobs talking and mechs meching to witness hyper violence in kooky megastructures with an acid trip sci-fi plot and fantastic art.
I'll not hear a word against moe blobs good sir!