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I'm currently towards the end of Blue Exorcist. It's pretty much Hellboy as as shounen anime/manga; the illegitimate son of Satan is found on earth and does battle against the forces of darkness as a part of a formal anti-demon task force.
It starts out pretty slow -- in fact, the main plot doesn't really pick up until the beginning of the second season. The episodes before then are spent setting up the characters without a whole lot of relevance happening. If you can get past that, then it's certainly worth a watch. Not a work of genius, but a solid anime. If you like supernatural throwdowns in an urban fantasy setting where guns, swords and holy scripture meet, then there's no reason not to watch this.
Which I'm pretty sure is all of you so
(I was also impressed by how well handled some of the characterisation is handled. There's some archetypical stuff in there, too, but also some legitimately creative and touching character elements.)
It also has the problem I have with a lot of shonen that a lot of the side characters (like Mephisto) are more interesting.
That said I can never get enough of Japanese comic interpretations of Catholicism.
I think what makes this so great in general is that the Japanese view Catholicism as a kind of medieval black ops thing. Like, your average Westerner has no idea what Shinto is, right? Not really. Average Joe would probably tell you something about demons that live in rocks and that's about it. So it's the same in reverse, except the Japanese focus on hunting werewolves with silver bullets and divine hymns rather than long-ass Masses and eating funny bread.
hey man the funny bread is awesome
you best recognize
I gotta say, back when I was practicing, the funny bread was one of my favourite bits.
Not even joking.
I fucking love the funny bread.
Same, man.
I admit I liked it because it came with wine and I felt like a total manly man because i was drinking alcohol and stuff
The bread never came with Wine when I assissted to mass.
yeah well
it's because you suck
How good of you to point that out.
I know, I'm such a dashing gentleman.
Dashing? Unless you are a speedster, I sincerely doubt so.
>I think what makes this so great in general is that the Japanese view Catholicism as a kind of medieval black ops thing. Like, your average Westerner has no idea what Shinto is, right? Not really. Average Joe would probably tell you something about demons that live in rocks and that's about it. So it's the same in reverse, except the Japanese focus on hunting werewolves with silver bullets and divine hymns rather than long-ass Masses and eating funny bread.
I think the thing that I like about Trinity Blood despite having a lot of flaws in world building is that while it does have that whole 'catholic x-men' thing going on, it gets a lot of the most important aspects of Christianity right to me. It genuinely has one of the most moving moments of Christian love and forgiveness I've seen in a show.
Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase is alright. Comedy, sort of romance thing with a cute vampire girl. It's not really great but it's reasonably fun. Plus, Akiyuki Shinbo.
Dance in the Vampire Bund is... good at times, and also a Shinbo anime, but... I'm sure you've heard of it and can imagine why I wouldn't really recommend it.
Also, Nyanpire is pretty funny but I doubt it's what you are looking for. Still, it takes like an hour to watch the whole series so whatever.
Hey DYRE, there's a video that might amuse you, over in IJBMer Updates.
Dance in the Vampire Bund is... okay. But more or less an experiment in trying to get away with as much pedoshit as possible. You know, immortal jailbait and shit like that.
Not only that, but the screenshots I've seen tend to highlight something about the art style that really puts me off. Not sure exactly what it is, though.
Also, currently watching Angel Beats! so I can finally begin clearing out my anime backlog. Once I've finished that, hopefully I can finish iDOLM@STER as well (got up to episode 21 before BitTorrent put a giant brick wall in front of my face). Disregard. Gonna finish iDOLM@STER first, now that I actually can. Whoo!
Yeah, I've seen some of the cover art.
Nyanpire and Tsukuyomi pique my interest, though.
Characters having noses! But yeah, actually, the art does look pretty weird at parts (and not in a good way). It's certainly not SHAFT's best work.
I watched (most of) it. I liked it! It also made me feel like I liked Yuru Yuri, but I didn't... >.>
I have no idea what series that is.
Yuru Yuri. It's a slice-of-life comedy. I didn't like it because Aki Toyosaki's character is terrible. :c (well, and because other than that it was kind of boring) It's apparently pretty popular.
It's also full of yuri (Maybe, but I'm sure there's some since that's the entire premise).
It's not actually yuri. It's like... typical yuri subtext stuff like in every other moe slice-of-life comedy except more obvious.
Oh...
Some people describe it as a traditional moeshit show if it were actually honest.
Holy ship I was going to download Akira and it's a 7 GB file. All the other movies I downloaded with the same quality were like 3 GB only. I guess I'll have to delete it after watching
Wow. You know, you don't have to watch it in 4K.
It's a blu-ray 720p rip, it shouldn't be that huge, right?
Unless the encoders were being really really really anal and wouldn't tolerate even the slightest bit of artifacting, no. No, it should not.
Check the content of the torrent. Is the Akira movie the only file in it?
Yes it is. It has dual audio though, maybe it's for that?