Rate the last anime you watched out of 10

[fabio de lunatico]

Generally people either really like Darker Than Black or are indifferent towards it. I'm in the former camp, and agree with pretty much everything Doraemon says. Great characters, like the two episode story format, enjoy the mix of comedy, drama, and action, but feel it lacks something that would elevate it to classic status. Probably my favourite original Bones show nonetheless.

 

[Lupus]

Generally people either really like Darker Than Black or are indifferent towards it. .

Yeah, I think it's pretty **** in all honesty, Hei is anime cliché 101.

Btw didn't read what you said about Birdy but season 2 is better. Focus on Birdy since season 1 is all about Tsutumo and it really is quite boring, has some good moments, but yeah.

 

[Animefreak17]

indian summer - its a nother short anime with fan service its about a guy who gets his hands on a female robot and she live with him ( chobites ) as his maid even tho it was short and i could only watch it in japanese with sub it wasn't half bad i think it was the fan service that kept me going with this anime

7/10

minus 1 for lack of story
minus 1 for not have more the 6 episodes
minus 1 for not having more fan service

 

[sanji no 1]

RahXephon the motion picture
4/10
It was mostly made up of clips from the series.........Pardon my language but how f*****g cheap can you get? I expect better from bones! 2 hours wasted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good things:
Err...

Bad things
Mostly made up of clips from the series and because of this it makes the film REALLy boring

Overall, RahXephon isnt the worst anime ive seen, But it sure is hell is one of the worst Mecha anime ive seen!

 

[Animefreak17]

RahXephon the motion picture
4/10
It was mostly made up of clips from the series.........Pardon my language but how f*****g cheap can you get? I expect better from bones! 2 hours wasted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good things:
Err...

Bad things
Mostly made up of clips from the series and because of this it makes the film REALLy boring

Overall, RahXephon isnt the worst anime ive seen, But it sure is hell is one of the worst Mecha anime ive seen!

to be honest i only watched 15 mins it and only a few things changed in it and your right it was cheap

 

[ilmaestro]

minus 1 for not have more the 6 episodes

I don't get a) why you would start at 10 and "deduct" points and b) how the length of a series can be worth that "deduction" without some context as to how the length affects the show.

 

[Animefreak17]

minus 1 for not have more the 6 episodes

I don't get a) why you would start at 10 and "deduct" points and b) how the length of a series can be worth that "deduction" without some context as to how the length affects the show.

i dont know i was half tired and wasn't think straight

 

[Doraemon666]

Lelouch of the Rebellion R2.Now i love Lelouch,the first season was amazing it had a exellent build up of tension,edge of your seat cliff hangers and a mind blowing mix of OTT mecha action to drool over and Lelouch is such a great character as are all the supporting cast,now season 2 i was really looking forward to after the nail biting conclusion of season 1 and over all i was not disappointed,sure the way the story evolved it did lose some of its tension but it kept on moving at such a fast pace and Lelouch is always the scene stealer every time and one of my fave anime characters ever,for all its political overtones and acts of terroism and war its the camp humor of it all that i love,it is just so OTT in everything it does and that is why i love it so much and as for the ending i,m not going to spoil it but i thought it was a fitting ending to a truly fantastic anime series and has been the highlight of my viewing schedule these past few days.9/10.

 

[Sparrowsabre7]

Lelouch of the Rebellion R2.Now i love Lelouch,the first season was amazing it had a exellent build up of tension,edge of your seat cliff hangers and a mind blowing mix of OTT mecha action to drool over and Lelouch is such a great character as are all the supporting cast,now season 2 i was really looking forward to after the nail biting conclusion of season 1 and over all i was not disappointed,sure the way the story evolved it did lose some of its tension but it kept on moving at such a fast pace and Lelouch is always the scene stealer every time and one of my fave anime characters ever,for all its political overtones and acts of terroism and war its the camp humor of it all that i love,it is just so OTT in everything it does and that is why i love it so much and as for the ending i,m not going to spoil it but i thought it was a fitting ending to a truly fantastic anime series and has been the highlight of my viewing schedule these past few days.9/10.

R2 was an 8/10 on first watch for me (R1 having been 10/10) but upon a second watch knowing how it all pans out it was a 9. I agree it's not quite as stellar as R1 but there is a lot to like and I don't understand the hate it gets for being "code trainwreck" =S

 

[Reaper gI]

R2 was an 8/10 on first watch for me (R1 having been 10/10) but upon a second watch knowing how it all pans out it was a 9. I agree it's not quite as stellar as R1 but there is a lot to like and I don't understand the hate it gets for being "code trainwreck" =S

Did you watch it as it aired, with the plot for future episodes being leaked etc.
Code trainwreck was meant affectianatly (it was the name of the fansubber's blog, nothing more), trainwrecks are good they hold your attention. /a/ (/codegeass/ at the time, before it changed to being Animu & Mango) trolls haven't had that much fun in ages.

e.g

It ignores most of series one's lose ends totaly and has to make up a new plot (due to the sceduling changes). Having to add the timeskip and memory erasure to be able to introdce the series to it's new younger audience. Additions of huge numbers of characters so they can toy market their mecha, and it turning almost super robot. Then the plot leaks, and it seeming going back on track (i.e. according to season 1) for the end. Was glorious to watch.

 

[VivisQueen]

Memories:

The more I see of Katsuhiro Otomo, the more I like his work very, very much. And the more I wish I'd encountered his stuff earlier. I mean, everyone's seen Akira, but not everyone knows it's Otomo, and not everyone then goes on to check out what else he's done. Look at me, it took me years. I recently bought and read Domu and enjoyed it for its unabashed sacrificing of plot/characterisation for magnificent thrills. Explosions are his Mona Lisa. It's not a brilliant work but it's the kind of fun where you turn the book around so you can appreciate just how exactly that woman's head splatters under the weight of that pillar from a less obvious angle - precisely what you need for a lazy Sunday afternoon's lusting for artful destruction.

Memories, in that vein, doesn't disappoint. It has slightly better stories (I'm certain the manga that these anime were based on are not availabe in English, right?) while maintaining that sense of wonder for the chaotic. My favourite was 'Stink Bomb'. A madly dashing action piece all about how some guy who becomes a biological hazard. It's a funny set-up followed by grand shiny things blowing up in every which direction, followed by a funny conclusion. 'Magnetic Rose' was more of a conventional 'haunted house' story set in space, although it looked the most theatrical and beautifully composed of the lot (and I agree with Koji Morimoto when he says it's probably the least Otomo of the lot). Also, just look at some of the other talent behind this instalment: script by Satoshi Kon, music by Yoko Kanno. 'Cannon Fodder' is stupendous for a totally technical reason and that's the fact that it is one continuous cut. ******* amazing how they did that but retained a coherent enough dystopic parable, getting you to think a bit, pumping out some fun colour concepts (THICK BRIGHT RED CANNONS!!!), and crazy Tim Burton-esque character designs. Curious and intriguing but a strange note to end on for the collection, I felt.

Memories is a really great example of how an OVA should be done and how experimentation with animation should leave us feeling - tantalised, entertained, and not too overwhelmed by the newness.

7.5/10

 

[fabio de lunatico]

Blassreiter - 7/10 (first half 8/10, second half 6/10)

Gah, it was going so well at the half-way point. Until then Blassreiter is a fairly compelling story about a contagious disease that causes humans to transform into mindless biomechanical creatures, and about the members of the organisation charged with eliminating them. Aside from some forced plot developments and an over-reliance on flashbacks, some of which recall events that happened mere minutes earlier, there's not much to complain about. As character drama goes, it's good stuff.

One other thing worth mentioning is that Blassretier is not subtle. Given the pedigree (Nitro+, Gonzo, Itano) I wasn't expecting subtlety, and I got none.

It's the second half where the lack of subtlety is most pronounced, and because of it the wheels come off a bit. First up, the motivation of the chief bad guy (the second smug, self-righteous ******** of an antagonist I've been subjected to this week) is revealed, and it's neither original nor particularly convincing. Both he and the rest of the cast love nothing more than a good speech, so much so that I started to desperately hope they'd all just shut up. And with more focus on the plot in the show's latter half, the previously neglected secondary cast are given token sob story pasts, tossed off during brief flashbacks, in order to make them more sympathetic. That didn't impress me either.

But none of that could have prepared me for the ending, and indeed the whole final battle sequence, the cheese factor of which is almost unprecedented. A theme of Blassreiter is loss of faith, and after witnessing the final episode I now truly believe that there is no God.

Despite my negativity, I did enjoy Blassreiter overall, but I did find the first half much more interesting. It's one of the most consistently well animated Gonzo shows I've seen, with no obvious dips in quality and characters remaining on-model throughout, and the CGI was impressive if not always well integrated with the 2D animation. And I have to applaud Gonzo's effort to write a dark, mature story with an almost entirely adult cast, even if it misses the mark in some areas.

 

[Sparrowsabre7]

R2 was an 8/10 on first watch for me (R1 having been 10/10) but upon a second watch knowing how it all pans out it was a 9. I agree it's not quite as stellar as R1 but there is a lot to like and I don't understand the hate it gets for being "code trainwreck" =S

Did you watch it as it aired, with the plot for future episodes being leaked etc.
Code trainwreck was meant affectianatly (it was the name of the fansubber's blog, nothing more), trainwrecks are good they hold your attention. /a/ (/codegeass/ at the time, before it changed to being Animu & Mango) trolls haven't had that much fun in ages.

e.g snip for the grace of God.
It ignores most of series one's lose ends totaly and has to make up a new plot (due to the sceduling changes). Having to add the timeskip and memory erasure to be able to introdce the series to it's new younger audience. Additions of huge numbers of characters so they can toy market their mecha, and it turning almost super robot. Then the plot leaks, and it seeming going back on track (i.e. according to season 1) for the end. Was glorious to watch.

I'm not entirely sure what loose ends you mean? Could you refresh my memory plz. As for new mecha, yeah there was a pretty massive amount of LOL NEW TOY IS AWESUMS! then often never seen again, but it's not like the first series was without that, it's just a bit more obvious in r2. And no I hadn't seen it as it was airing. I think I began watching just after it had ended so I didn't know any plot leaks.

Memories:

The more I see of Katsuhiro Otomo, the more I like his work very, very much. And the more I wish I'd encountered his stuff earlier. I mean, everyone's seen Akira, but not everyone knows it's Otomo, and not everyone then goes on to check out what else he's done. Look at me, it took me years. I recently bought and read Domu and enjoyed it for its unabashed sacrificing of plot/characterisation for magnificent thrills. Explosions are his Mona Lisa. It's not a brilliant work but it's the kind of fun where you turn the book around so you can appreciate just how exactly that woman's head splatters under the weight of that pillar from a less obvious angle - precisely what you need for a lazy Sunday afternoon's lusting for artful destruction.

Memories, in that vein, doesn't disappoint. It has slightly better stories (I'm certain the manga that these anime were based on are not availabe in English, right?) while maintaining that sense of wonder for the chaotic. My favourite was 'Stink Bomb'. A madly dashing action piece all about how some guy who becomes a biological hazard. It's a funny set-up followed by grand shiny things blowing up in every which direction, followed by a funny conclusion. 'Magnetic Rose' was more of a conventional 'haunted house' story set in space, although it looked the most theatrical and beautifully composed of the lot (and I agree with Koji Morimoto when he says it's probably the least Otomo of the lot). Also, just look at some of the other talent behind this instalment: script by Satoshi Kon, music by Yoko Kanno. 'Cannon Fodder' is stupendous for a totally technical reason and that's the fact that it is one continuous cut. **** amazing how they did that but retained a coherent enough dystopic parable, getting you to think a bit, pumping out some fun colour concepts (THICK BRIGHT RED CANNONS!!!), and crazy Tim Burton-esque character designs. Curious and intriguing but a strange note to end on for the collection, I felt.

Memories is a really great example of how an OVA should be done and how experimentation with animation should leave us feeling - tantalised, entertained, and not too overwhelmed by the newness.

7.5/10

FFFFFFFFFF not really a fan of Memories, Magnetic Rose is the only part I like (guess why). Stink Bomb was well animated but it felt like one of those really really really long jokes with a crappy punchline where the REAL joke is that your time has just been massively wasted. (see Better Nate than lever for an example) Cannon Fodder was interesting technically but I didn't really like the art style, though I don't deny it's almost depression era style caricatures was fitting, it just seemed a little pointless (though arguably that was the point, a town created solely for the firing of weapons at an unseen foe with no guarantee of a hit or knowing if one connected or even if the enemy is still there).

Also, fun fact for Simpsons viewers: the opera song in Magnetic Rose is the same as the one used for Barney's film in the film festival.

 

[Reaper gI]

I'm not entirely sure what loose ends you mean? Could you refresh my memory plz. As for new mecha, yeah there was a pretty massive amount of LOL NEW TOY IS AWESUMS! then often never seen again, but it's not like the first series was without that, it's just a bit more obvious in r2. And no I hadn't seen it as it was airing. I think I began watching just after it had ended so I didn't know any plot leaks.

The loose ends were:
The plotline about Kallen/Karren's family, what's happened to her brother.
Why Suzaku can sense C.C.'s presence (when she's in the mecha, pre Euphy losing it)
Why is C.C. living with them and Nunally when they got sent to Japan.
The actual ending of season 1, although it did use a cop out.

I.e should have had less silly OTT mecha and more Geass and character related stuff.

 

[Doraemon666]

Memories:

The more I see of Katsuhiro Otomo, the more I like his work very, very much. And the more I wish I'd encountered his stuff earlier. I mean, everyone's seen Akira, but not everyone knows it's Otomo, and not everyone then goes on to check out what else he's done. Look at me, it took me years. I recently bought and read Domu and enjoyed it for its unabashed sacrificing of plot/characterisation for magnificent thrills. Explosions are his Mona Lisa. It's not a brilliant work but it's the kind of fun where you turn the book around so you can appreciate just how exactly that woman's head splatters under the weight of that pillar from a less obvious angle - precisely what you need for a lazy Sunday afternoon's lusting for artful destruction.

Memories, in that vein, doesn't disappoint. It has slightly better stories (I'm certain the manga that these anime were based on are not availabe in English, right?) while maintaining that sense of wonder for the chaotic. My favourite was 'Stink Bomb'. A madly dashing action piece all about how some guy who becomes a biological hazard. It's a funny set-up followed by grand shiny things blowing up in every which direction, followed by a funny conclusion. 'Magnetic Rose' was more of a conventional 'haunted house' story set in space, although it looked the most theatrical and beautifully composed of the lot (and I agree with Koji Morimoto when he says it's probably the least Otomo of the lot). Also, just look at some of the other talent behind this instalment: script by Satoshi Kon, music by Yoko Kanno. 'Cannon Fodder' is stupendous for a totally technical reason and that's the fact that it is one continuous cut. **** amazing how they did that but retained a coherent enough dystopic parable, getting you to think a bit, pumping out some fun colour concepts (THICK BRIGHT RED CANNONS!!!), and crazy Tim Burton-esque character designs. Curious and intriguing but a strange note to end on for the collection, I felt.

Memories is a really great example of how an OVA should be done and how experimentation with animation should leave us feeling - tantalised, entertained, and not too overwhelmed by the newness.

7.5/10

Exellent summary of a classic OVA,i love all three OVA,s,hell i,d buy it even it just included Magnetic Rose which is just beautiful in every way and pure japanese animation at its finest but as you said all three of the OVA,s are so special in there own way and the work and imagination put into them is spellbinding,a true wonder to behold.

 

[Doraemon666]

Lelouch of the Rebellion R2.Now i love Lelouch,the first season was amazing it had a exellent build up of tension,edge of your seat cliff hangers and a mind blowing mix of OTT mecha action to drool over and Lelouch is such a great character as are all the supporting cast,now season 2 i was really looking forward to after the nail biting conclusion of season 1 and over all i was not disappointed,sure the way the story evolved it did lose some of its tension but it kept on moving at such a fast pace and Lelouch is always the scene stealer every time and one of my fave anime characters ever,for all its political overtones and acts of terroism and war its the camp humor of it all that i love,it is just so OTT in everything it does and that is why i love it so much and as for the ending i,m not going to spoil it but i thought it was a fitting ending to a truly fantastic anime series and has been the highlight of my viewing schedule these past few days.9/10.

R2 was an 8/10 on first watch for me (R1 having been 10/10) but upon a second watch knowing how it all pans out it was a 9. I agree it's not quite as stellar as R1 but there is a lot to like and I don't understand the hate it gets for being "code trainwreck" =S

Yeah i,d give both seasons 10 but i see nothing as being perfect so i always try and give fair ratings to series i have watched no matter how much i love them and Code Geass being in my all time fave series list,its easily in my personal top 20.

 

[ilmaestro]

Stuff

Your obsession with how much of a smarky fan you are of the series and how awesome 4chan was during its run is borderline disturbing.

 

[Animefreak17]

iv watched all season 1 of naruto and first time you watch it you dont know what to expect and i gotta say when i did watch the zabuza and the first part of the chunin exams it got you on edge.
first time watching it 9/10

 

[Sparrowsabre7]

I'm not entirely sure what loose ends you mean? Could you refresh my memory plz. As for new mecha, yeah there was a pretty massive amount of LOL NEW TOY IS AWESUMS! then often never seen again, but it's not like the first series was without that, it's just a bit more obvious in r2. And no I hadn't seen it as it was airing. I think I began watching just after it had ended so I didn't know any plot leaks.

The loose ends were:
The plotline about Kallen/Karren's family, what's happened to her brother.
Why Suzaku can sense C.C.'s presence (when she's in the mecha, pre Euphy losing it)
Why is C.C. living with them and Nunally when they got sent to Japan.
The actual ending of season 1, although it did use a cop out.

I.e should have had less silly OTT mecha and more Geass and character related stuff.

Well I don't think I really missed any of those, (plus her brother died no? Pretty sure that was explained) SUzaku sensing CC is I think because Lelouch interfered when she was making him freak out about his Dad the first time, she didn'tseem too happy about it, so I guess that created a connection between them, either way didn't bother me.
I'm not sure why CC living with them is a problem? It's only natural she stay with the person she has a contract with no?
Ending of s1 was explained, doesn't matter if it was haphazardly done so, it still was.

Dora: I actually did buy Memories just for MR to complete my Kon collection

 

[Ian Wolf]

Claymore

Certainly an interesting show. I liked the characters and plot. Was a little perlexed at first by the backstory episodes, but it did make sense. I would have probably started with that at first and done the whole series chronologically.

Score: 8/10