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Baccano Spoilers ahoy so be careful A pretty bizarre show this one. Set in 1930s America, it's a tale of immoral immortals, mafia and an assortment of other weird folk getting mixed up with and mostly trying to kill each other. It's almost Tarantino-esque it's blend of brutal ultra-violence and...

Thanks for highlighting this or I might not have realised this was on at all. It's pretty cool, there's a whole heap of good films worth seeing on the big screen here. I'm also tempted by that Patlabor double bill, though not yet sure if I can afford it, But hopefully.

The Tatami Galaxy Would my precious university days not have been the rose coloured kind I imagined they should have been, would I not have found the true love I tirelessly pursued to the complete exclusion of all academic work, if I only had just joined that other cooler looking society? Would...

I thought I'd create a new thread to encourage people to write essays on the Monogatari series. Why do you love it, why do you hate it, what are its virtues? What are its failings? What does it mean to anime and what is its place in this medium or art form? Is it comparable to anything else? Let...

Book series have "seasons"!? Madness. But thanks for explaining, though I'm starting to suspect this author (or their publisher) just enjoys confusing people. But what are the things people love about this show (or hate)? I know people love this show, so fill me in:)

Outlaw Star eps 1 to 5 (or 6) What could be lazily described as the poor man's Cowboy Bebop, but very lazily as it's nothing like Cowboy Bebop at all. Thus it fails to fill the hole in one's heart that Bebop leaves there. It's crazy to think the two shows came out the same year as Outlaw Star...

This show is so confusingly ordered/titled. What adds to the confusion in my mind is the way the "seasons" are actually comprised of multiple mini-series of varying length. And what then makes it even worse is the way that image above lays out all the mini-series of season 1 and 3 by their...

Really nice interview, Ian (and Ciaran of course!), I really enjoyed reading that. The hope was palpable, and I was glad to get all those anime recommendations which I'd never heard of before but sound interesting (including Requiem of the Rose):)

Old, dead forums are as sad and sometimes treasure filled as sunken ships found at the bottom of the ocean. Little makes me feel as melancholic as dead forums that were once clearly thriving hubs but now lie desolate as a post apocalyptic city. I found a a forum a few weeks ago where there was a...

Maestro..there's a blast from the past. We'll never forget you @ilmaestro

(I lost the the first couple paragraphs of this long Cowboy Bebop review...but it was mostly waffle) BIG SPOILERS OF EVERYTHING IN THIS COWBOY BEBOP ANIME REVIEW. ONLY READ IF YOU'VE WATCHED ...hill melancholia it really was!), my first watch was too perfect, too moving and gave me too many...

Have to say one of my favourite things about this thread is getting little glimpses of the depth of @Professor Irony and @Orgun 's knowledge of and love for 80s (and 90s?) anime. You two have a book in you that I would buy.

I find this a hard thing to answer really, especially as I'm not really knowledgeable about the science/psychology and trans issues beyond the relatively light reading here and there I've done and people I've spoken to. The other day this actually somehow came up in conversation with my close...

I haven't much knowledge on the subject, but my ignorant initial guess is that you could well be right about transgender female athletes having an unfair edge in sport against biologically female ones (I know some argue we're all born with different biology and hormonal levels anyway though even...

The Handmaiden Didn't know anything about this before watching it, and wow what an experience! Stunning to look at, utterly gripping, surprising, touching, more than a little raunchy, and very very weird. 9/10! The Chungking Express Watched this a few months ago actually, but just want to say...

Yeah I voted for Sadiq too in the end because I think he seems like a decent person and like he's trying (despite being unable to do much thanks to having funding starved from him by the Government trying to make him look bad), but I really struggled to bring myself to do it as I didn't want to...

I see, thanks, so I take it what I watched was the four original episodes or "borders" that were OVAs. So annoying and weird that Netflix only has two of them. It's like how they only have the first series of Attack of Titan. Frustrating. Is it the same case with Jojo, is there any chance of...

I'm kind of confused, about GITS Arise, I watched the series years ago when it first came out, I remember it being like a short series. I felt to rewatch it and assumed it was the Arise that was on Netflix but that seems to be two films. Looking at the wikipedia has only somehow confused my...

If this is true, it is a very sad state of affairs. So executives are making more money from anime and the industry is expanding, but conditions are only getting worse for animators? That sounds very depressing. Why don't these companies wake up and start treating their employees properly. Has...

@orgun Definitely give Wolf's Rain a watch, Orgun. Would be interesting to hear you're thoughts. Personally I'm in the love it camp. It's been years since I've seen it of course so could do with a rewatch, but I really enjoyed it and thought the concept, imaginative fantasy world, atmosphere...