THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Human Snorenado on July 08, 2008, 06:23:19 PM
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Granted, it was one that I'd seen a billion years ago (original Ghost in the Shell) but still, I'm the "hates wacky jappy and anything anime related" guy. This hurts my rep.
Anywho what I wanted to ask was, are the GitS:SAC series worth watching? What about the sequel to the original movie? I understand they're set in different timelines/realities/whatever, but I still enjoyed the movie enough that afterwards I was like, "wow I wouldn't mind watching more of this crap". Also I'm trying to kill time in between gigs, next footage doesn't show up for 2 1/2 weeks and I can't very well play EO2 ALL THE TIME. Altho my copy of Toll the Hounds should be showing up early next week...
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I remember the original gits movie
stand alone complex is great too
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Could I get the opinion of someone who doesn't think FFTA2 is a game worth playing?
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lol you like anime
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lol you like anime
:japancry
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I've heard nothing but good things about the recent GitS movie. Both series are well done, and imo better than the first movie its just not really my thing.
If you like action with intrigue, the GitS stuff is great.
So in short, Viz isn't wrong.
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animefag!
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I'm not a fan of the theatrical films, but both seasons of Stand Alone Complex are fantastic.
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animefag!
But but but cool futuristic setting with philosophical questions of existence and shit! Also hot cyborg chick running around killing shit!
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Question for distant and maf: when you say you didn't like the films but the series are great, are the series typically "anime-ish" for lack of a better term?
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Question for distant and maf: when you say you didn't like the films but the series are great, are the series typically "anime-ish" for lack of a better term?
There's a great deal of techno-babble and political-speak at times, but overall, they don't fall victim to "typical anime syndrome."
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I heard Elfin Leid was cool
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Whenever me and my buddies would get really high, we'd put on the first episode ever of Ranma with english dub and the english subs and would die laughing at all the times the silly slanty-eyes would mess up the subs over an english language.
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GitS isnt typical at all, I wouldn't worry about a HA HA ANIMU situation
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I heard Elfin Leid was cool
"typical anime syndrome."
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:usacry
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edit: nm, misread the op
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People will recommend Stand Alone to you and you will hate them for it. It is full of the worst nonsensical pseudo-philo-theo-socio-bullshit that anime can muster.
Check out Kon's work. Paranoia Agent is a good place to start.
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I've seen like two animes in my life and enjoyed them both. I'm sure I'm a future animefag, I just need to unleash my chains.
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Check out Kon's work. Paranoia Agent is a good place to start.
Don't start with Paranoia Agent. I love it, but it can be nonsensical and requires knowledge of Japanese history and popular culture to follow along.
Watch Perfect Blue or Millenium Actress for your first exposure to Kon. They only require 2 hours of your time each, and are very stand alone in nature.
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PA also parodies Anime culture, which is a plus! I don't have a huge knowledge of Japanese history, but it was the first Kon work I watched.
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smh, Triumph, smh. I'll be counting down the moments until you are watching something with sexy 2 year olds.
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smh, Triumph, smh. I'll be counting down the moments until you are watching something with sexy 2 year olds.
:japancry :japancry :japancry
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SAC is better than the main series.
SAC first season > second season > Solid state society > Gits:2 > gits: 1
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[youtube=425,350]ehY7rT_sE1A[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehY7rT_sE1A
only a matter of time before triumph reaches this level
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SAC is better than the main series.
SAC first season > second season > Solid state society > Gits:2 > gits: 1
If you think GITS2 is better than the first one, you *are* distinguished mentally-challenged.
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SAC is better than the main series.
SAC first season > second season > Solid state society > Gits:2 > gits: 1
If you think GITS2 is better than the first one, you *are* distinguished mentally-challenged.
It is better. You're the distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.
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SAC is better than the main series.
SAC first season > second season > Solid state society > Gits:2 > gits: 1
If you think GITS2 is better than the first one, you *are* distinguished mentally-challenged.
I thought we'd decided Arvie was a lil' bit slow long ago? Or at the very least special.
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SAC is better than the main series.
SAC first season > second season > Solid state society > Gits:2 > gits: 1
If you think GITS2 is better than the first one, you *are* distinguished mentally-challenged.
I thought we'd decided Arvie was a lil' bit slow long ago? Or at the very least special.
And it was Anime that made me this way. Get out while you can.
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What the hell. Just because the Braves are awful doesn't mean you have to resort to this. :-\
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SAC is better than the main series.
SAC first season > second season > Solid state society > Gits:2 > gits: 1
If you think GITS2 is better than the first one, you *are* distinguished mentally-challenged.
I thought we'd decided Arvie was a lil' bit slow long ago? Or at the very least special.
And it was Anime that made me this way. Get out while you can.
It's ok as long as I don't watch the loli and/or tentacle stuff, rite?
Also, Cajole: stfu. The Mets will implode once again, never fear. Go Phillies/Marlins!
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Gits is a stepping stone to Bible Black.
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Gits is a stepping stone to Bible Black.
wiki's bible black...
OH MY
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Millenium Actress is my favorite anime movie of the ever.
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Gits is a stepping stone to Bible Black.
wiki's bible black...
OH MY
FM has exposed Triumph to hentai...
Also hot cyborg chick running around killing shit!
...but he just might like it!
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Serial Experiments Lain seems a bit up your alley, if you're into the slightly cyberpunk settings with lots of philosophical questions of existence. It's a bit of a mindfuck and even after watching the whole thing twice, I'm still not too sure what it was about. 13 episodes, and could be purchased for pretty cheap since they re-released it a few years ago. Not really that big into anime, apart from game art, but this is one of the few series that compelled me to watch the whole thing.
And yeah, the girl looks like 12 years old, but there's no loli/pedo shit in it so don't fear.
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It totally succumbs to "typical anime syndrome," but Gurren Lagann makes me so incredibly happy. :D
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ah its a fun romp, there's worse anime out there *coughluckystarcough*
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I heard Elfin Leid was cool
Demi recommended me this, and it's not like other anime at all! It's excellent!
Run the fuck away from Elfen Lied.
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Stand Alone Complex kicks the movies ass in like 10000 ways. It is classic.
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GitS movies and tv series are entirely different.
The movies emphasize philosophy as a major theme. SAC places emphasis on politics, intrigue, and self contained stories. It's like a cop drama, but in anime form.
This is why a lot of SAC fans tend to hate the movies but love SAC 1 and 2. The movies come off as preachy and sometimes are entirely boring. SAC has everything going for it.
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The Stand Alone episode "Runaway Evidence – TESTATION" is probably my favorite anime episode ever.
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The Stand Alone episodes are so amazing.
I'd actually prefer if the series was nothing BUT Stand Alone episodes.
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I agree with Himu, though there is plenty of philosophy in sac, actually everything from the movies is in there it's just not so in your face.
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I agree with Himu, though there is plenty of philosophy in sac, actually everything from the movies is in there it's just not so in your face.
Yeah, it's much more blatant. If the GITS movies were more like the Stand Alone episodes in terms of how they handle philosophy.. omg
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Lucky Star is the shittiest animu ever, the second GitS movie is 'meh' at best, and I echo any pro-Kon rhetoric several times over,
:bow Satoshi-san-hime-baka-kun-sugoi-desu :bow2
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Satoshi Kon :bow
Even Tokyo Godfathers was good.
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I wrote this before until I realized you weren't asking for recommendations in general and then removed it. But since the thread has turned into that anyway, might as well repost it.
Coming from someone else who generally hates anime and japafags...
Cromartie High School if you like Adult Swim type humor ala Sealab, Aqua Teen HF. Truly inspired.
The Ping Pong Club for South Park type humor (before South Park was topical)
Serial Experiments Lain for mystical shit
Most of the rest I've seen is poop. Actually, an episode I've seen of Gantz looked intriguing, but I never bothered buying it. Maybe some day. All the usual "anime recommendations for people who don't like anime" you'd see on GAF and similar places are 95% of the time things only a full blown anime dork and/or 18-year old would enjoy, like Berserk and Samurai Champloo and Rurouni Kenshin that kind of juvenile angsty sword garbage. They're just trying to ensnare you into their hive. Don't fall into their trap, man. Stay strong. :usacry
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I liked Berserk and Champloo :shh
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I wrote this before until I realized you weren't asking for recommendations in general and then removed it. But since the thread has turned into that anyway, might as well repost it.
Coming from someone else who generally hates anime and japafags...
Cromartie High School if you like Adult Swim type humor ala Sealab, Aqua Teen HF. Truly inspired.
The Ping Pong Club for South Park type humor (before South Park was topical)
Serial Experiments Lain for mystical shit
Most of the rest I've seen is poop. Actually, an episode I've seen of Gantz looked intriguing, but I never bothered buying it. Maybe some day. All the usual "anime recommendations for people who don't like anime" you'd see on GAF and similar places are 95% of the time things only a full blown anime dork and/or 18-year old would enjoy, like Berserk and Samurai Champloo and Rurouni Kenshin that kind of juvenile angsty sword garbage. They're just trying to ensnare you into their hive. Don't fall into their trap, man. Stay strong. :usacry
How the shit can you hate on Berserk and Kenshin :(
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sup himu! :dur
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hi
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How the shit can you hate on Berserk and Kenshin :(
They're bad recommendations for people who don't generally like anime. While those series aren't filled with stereotypical submissive blue haired lolis with saucer eyes, they're both really angsty and pouty. It's still stuff aimed at teenage boys, nowhere as deep or well written as people tell you they are. At least in my experience.
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kino's journey Kino's Journey KINO'S JOURNEY
You should watch it. It's good.
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How the shit can you hate on Berserk and Kenshin :(
They're bad recommendations for people who don't generally like anime. While those series aren't filled with stereotypical submissive blue haired lolis with saucer eyes, they're both really angsty and pouty. It's still stuff aimed at teenage boys, nowhere as deep or well written as people tell you they are. At least in my experience.
Most people with taste in anime don't suggest the tv series.
They suggest this:
[youtube=425,350]T6QJLdeIcL4[/youtube]
Mupepe can vouch for me. He's not a big anime fan, and I let him borrow it when I got it 8 years ago. He loved it. It's the anime I suggest to non-anime fans all the time.
And yeah, Kino's Journey is a pretty unique short series.
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Avoid Kenshin tv series at all costs. I only like it for nostalgia. And Kyoto.
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Avoid Kenshin tv series at all costs. I only like it for nostalgia. And Kyoto.
Its worth a watch until the end of the Kyoto arc. Fucking loved Seijuro finally throwing down to protect Yahiko.
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Read the manga instead.
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And miss out on Shuichi Ikeda? Never.
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the manga has an actual ending.