The All-New, All-Different Bore Anime & Manga Thread!

[Great Rumbler]

Japan 

Edit: It really feels like most studios just don't know how to do light-hearted and fun anymore. Instead it just ends up being brain-dead and dull. I'm watching this show called Angel Links [spinoff of Outlaw Star] and even though it's just some minor scifi-action series from 11 years ago that hardly anyone remembers, it's still better than most of the shows that have come out the past two seasons.

[Bebpo]

All you really need is Eva 1.11 and Funimation has said that this time around they're only going to release Eva 2.22.

I am so confused by this post.

Eva 1.11 = good movie, covers ep1-6 of anime in a well paced move form with some changes to characters.  Funi released it in the US on blu-ray and it looks and sound amazing.  Perfect release
Eva 2.22 = 2010 film of the year, covers general ideas from ep7-late anime but is a completely original film with incredible action scenes and lots of epic zomg shit, also best animation since final ep of Gurren Lagann.  Funi will release it in the US on blu-ray in the future and it should look and sound amazing if they don't fuck it up.

Eva 3 = Coming to Japanese theaters in 2011 probably, US release a year or so later.

[Great Rumbler]

Some bizarre wording, but what I meant is better explained here:

With the first movie, Funimation first released Eva 1.01 which was the first DVD/Bluray release in Japan. However, it was not the definitive version. Gainax released Eva 1.11 which fixed some visual issues and had some extra scened added in. Funimation didn't release that until several months AFTER 1.01, even though 1.11 had already long since been released in Japan.

With the second movie, Gainax only released 2.22 on DVD/Bluray, which is what Funimation is going to release in the States.

Which makes everyone happy.

[Himu]

Eva 2.22 = film of the year?

[Great Rumbler]

First it would have to beat Trigun: Badlands Rumble and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

[Bebpo]

It's really good himuro.  Definitely makes it into my top10 anime films.

One or two people don't like it, but the majority of people think it's totally awesome.  I liked 1.11 a lot, but 2.22 is by far a better film.

[Great Rumbler]

1.11 was basically just a recap of first six episodes of the series [although with a lot of the fat trimmed away so that the pacing was much better]. But 2.22 is much more it's own thing.

[cool breeze]

yeah, Evangelion 2.22 (or whatever they called it) is really great.  Makes the, what, 2 or 3 year wait for the next really hard.

[Great Rumbler]

yeah, Evangelion 2.22 (or whatever they called it) is really great.  Makes the, what, 2 or 3 year wait for the next really hard.

Eva 3.0 will probably be released sometime around summer 2011.

[Himu]

I'm not denying it probably isn't good, but the movie of the year? Does this encompass live action as well or just animated?

[Bebpo]

I'm not denying it probably isn't good, but the movie of the year? Does this encompass live action as well or just animated?

who cares?  It's awesome.  Watch it.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

shit computer version of break blade is out.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

http://www.mediafire.com/?1krk494e3eoh3r3
http://www.mediafire.com/?okffocrb8rh79o9
http://www.mediafire.com/?x8vv82pn6a0g44s

I would be suprised if they didn't know about it but you can be a bro and send it to them MCD.

[MCD]

I will just post it in their shoutbox.

thanks hon.

[MCD]

abcd9146  "haha thx, we already have them though :x"

huh.

[Mr. Gundam]

Eva 2.22 = film of the year?

Animu film of the year. It's awesome, so glad I imported the HK Blu-ray instead of having to wait until 2011.

[Himu]

what's on the hk blu ray

[brob]

Finished watching three of the Darker than Black OVAs. Pretty cool so far, third episode could have used some harder action and it seemed like the sub was translated through google or some such shit because it was barely intelligible, but I have high hopes it will finish strong with the fourth OVA. That's the last one right?

[MCD]

yes.

third episode = break from all the action so it was ok.

you have BSS subs?

[brob]

No, the first three were grohotun, but the fourth was BSS. I didn't mind the babelfish - got the gist of it and I'm mostly in it for the electric shenanigans anyway.

Fourth episode was really fun - I guess this OVA was supposed to connect the first and second seasons? I never finished the second one and the various anime connoisseurs around the internet are quite down on it so I thought maybe it was a retcon or something.

If the manga is still going I'm assuming they'll be making more? A third season maybe?

[Beezy]

I feel so lost. I dunno what's out or worth watching anymore. How many DtB OVAs are out and how many are left?

[Joe Molotov]

Should I marathon Darker than Black tonight? Y/N You decide, Evilbore.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

This isn't fucking GAF. It's all for fucking free, just fucking watch it.

They're 4 Beezy.

[MCD]

No, the first three were grohotun, but the fourth was BSS. I didn't mind the babelfish - got the gist of it and I'm mostly in it for the electric shenanigans anyway.

Fourth episode was really fun - I guess this OVA was supposed to connect the first and second seasons? I never finished the second one and the various anime connoisseurs around the internet are quite down on it so I thought maybe it was a retcon or something.

If the manga is still going I'm assuming they'll be making more? A third season maybe?

OVAs are the missing parts from season 2 like

spoiler (click to show/hide)

why Hei is a drunken hobo, why is Yin some godly thing...etc.

[close]

In another words, prequel or like you said a bridge between the first and second season.

I say watch season 2, it has it's awesome parts (read: the action) and the moe is covered with Suou (you like K-On so you should like her anyway.)

Or read the manga when it's done, set before the OVA and season 2.

I feel so lost. I dunno what's out or worth watching anymore. How many DtB OVAs are out and how many are left?

Season 2 + OVA are done. Series is basically finished.

Should I marathon Darker than Black tonight? Y/N You decide, Evilbore.

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=33761.msg1181301#msg1181301

Will buy you this if you do.

[Joe Molotov]

This isn't fucking GAF. It's all for fucking free, just fucking watch it.

They're 4 Beezy.

I was going to do it anyway, I was just being cute, Junpei-kun. ^_^

Should I marathon Darker than Black tonight? Y/N You decide, Evilbore.

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=33761.msg1181301#msg1181301

Will buy you this if you do.

I'm definitely doing it now! 

[brob]

In another words, prequel or like you said a bridge between the first and second season.

I say watch season 2, it has it's awesome parts (read: the action) and the moe is covered with Suou (you like K-On so you should like her anyway.)

Or read the manga when it's done, set before the OVA and season 2.

I like my moe tension free - like eating cakes and shit, but I guess the little Russian lassie wasn't too bad. kinda creepy how she birthed a rifle every time she got into some shit though...

[MCD]

In another words, prequel or like you said a bridge between the first and second season.

I say watch season 2, it has it's awesome parts (read: the action) and the moe is covered with Suou (you like K-On so you should like her anyway.)

Or read the manga when it's done, set before the OVA and season 2.

I like my moe tension free - like eating cakes and shit, but I guess the little Russian lassie wasn't too bad. kinda creepy how she birthed a rifle every time she got into some shit though...

Rifles are guitars in Russia.

Season 1 is some good shit Joe, you are in for some good time. Chinese Electric Batman and November 11 mmmmmmmm homolust.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

and I wasn't joking about that moeblob figure.

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[Beezy]

Thanks Junpei and MCD. Gonna watch them tomorrow.

[Bebpo]

I didn't like the 3rd or 4th ep so much.  But I guess that's because I was hoping it'd be a lot more epic and not just a standoff with some MIBs and then a few laser blasts from the sky and epilogue narration.

[MCD]

The last scene with Hei is what made OVA4 the best.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

"She's still alive, you know."

music kicks in fuck yes.

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[Bebpo]

That was cool, yeah.

Was kind surprised how much the OAV had of the glasses chick who is going to die in it.  I thought she was the most boring out of the group.  Sword girl & Rockman were the two cool ones.


When are they announcing S3

[MCD]

you can read japanese, you tell me bro.

[Bebpo]

3 people: I'd like to see S3 be like this
Okamura: lol S3 lol

[MCD]

OKAMURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Joe Molotov]

The CIA vs. MI-5 vs. Batman vs. Mr. Freeze!

[Purple Filth]

3 people: I'd like to see S3 be like this
Okamura: lol S3 lol

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Joe Molotov]

Guy Kurosawa

[Joe Molotov]

He shocked his heart back started. 

[MCD]

Chinese Electric Batman

[Purple Filth]

Chinese Electric Batman

Indeed

[Himu]

Never seen DtB. Gonna check it out.

[Great Rumbler]

I've gotten through five episodes so far.

I'm really slow with this kind of thing.

[Joe Molotov]

Blood Elf and Naked Girl

[Beezy]

Never seen DtB. Gonna check it out.

I envy you. Enjoy the ride.

[brob]

watching Kamichu! and it's omg so moe. All this show needs now is a little cake...

The lead moe girl just went super sayan. this shit is off the chain. 

[Great Rumbler]

Kamichu! is really moe, but it's not like stupid-moe. It's like...religious moe.

[Joe Molotov]

Oh man, I wish Bara no Morris was a real anime, it looks pretty awesome. "Lots of guy-on-elephant love!"

[Joe Molotov]

Red hot collarbone action! 

[Great Rumbler]

And here, Evilboreans, is what's wrong with modern anime:

   
The second half of Demon King Daimao begins with perhaps the single worst episode of anime it has ever been my misfortune to watch. It starts off innocuously enough: The usual harem nonsense, unconvincing "emotional" turns, and generalized unevenness in full attendance, along with the rumblings of magical combat and the eternal hope that maybe it'll tackle Akuto's Demon King problem head-on. All very normal. And then Mr. X shows up and the episode goes straight to hell—faux Go Nagai-style. Shadows become pronounced, Akuto's muscles swell to Schwarzeneggerian proportions, everything gets angular, and Mr. X immediately kidnaps kid sister Yukiko and starts licking her armpits. A giant sea slug is raised from a lake and sicced on a nearby town, and Hiro acquires the world's ugliest, and most weirdly perverse, power suit, which he directs at the sea slug in a series of Mazinger maneuvers. It's obviously meant as some sort of parody, but it isn't funny or clever so much as bewildering and disturbing. Give the series credit for thinking outside the box, but sometimes the box is there to keep you from wandering naked into disasterland.

That foray into disasterland is the series' death-knell. Prior to that episode, there was always a chance, however slim, that the series would somehow even out and salvage something compelling from the tattered mess it had made of its promising premise. After watching aesthetic atrocity Mr. X slop saliva all over his nubile captives, no such illusions remain. When the follow-up episodes bog down in some unfunny business involving an arranged marriage, when they betray Akuto's atypical intelligence by having him act the dunce in a romantic farce, it's hard even to get mad anymore. This is a series so obviously off the rail, so clearly destined to become a train wreck, that you can do nothing but sit back and watch it crash and burn.

And crash it does. Having spent its first nine episodes with eyes affixed firmly to bust and buttock, having squandered every opportunity to develop its plot and left its (relatively) strong cast to atrophy while it amused itself with dropping them into dumb rom-com situations that challenged them not in the least, the series is left with three measly episodes to cram in a finale. A villain is introduced—a time-hopping pretty boy—and one of the girls is put in mortal danger (Keena), which forces Akuto to fully assume the role of Demon King. This puts him at odds with Junko and newly hero-ized Hiro, even as a divine (as in hatched by the gods) conspiracy is implicated in his dark destiny.

It isn't a terrible set-up for a climax, but the restricted time frame—made all the more so by the occasional return to romantic complications best left in limbo—leaves it no space to unfold. Events are mashed up against one another like frightened sardines in a particularly small can, and you can practically see the series eyeing its watch as it plows through emotional confrontations, stripping them of all resonance. The pace is hectic, the progression of events is sloppy, and betrayals of character are common as there is no time to sufficiently justify anyone's behavior. The effect is disastrous, lending even the most obviously premeditated events an air of pulled-from-the-rear randomness. Akuto's long-anticipated transformation in particular is so flagrantly unconvincing that it fairly burns the enjoyment out of the entire climax. And then, just to bake the ashes a little more, the series reaches for the reset button, looks you right in the eye, and presses it. Crash. Burn. And with any luck, never return.

So catastrophic is the narrative self-destruction that it's difficult to honestly enjoy even the non-plot-dependent qualities. The pervasive high-end fan-service becomes a hindrance during the climax, time being an endangered resource even before panty shots start eating it up. The way the intrusive censorship yanks us out of the fights doesn't help either. From a purely technical perspective, the fights themselves are excellent. Their mix of impact-heightening shortcuts, punchy intercutting, smartly-deployed animation, and magical CGI glitz is rock-solid, and the inclusion of the student council and various ninjas and villains mixes things up nicely. But while undeniably cool, they aren't very interesting—a direct consequence of us not caring whether the participants live or are reduced to ectoplasm.

A similar argument can be made about Tatsuya Katou's score. It has some wonderfully hammy flourishes up its sleeve, particularly on the orchestral fantasy and modern rock ends of its sonic spectrum. But they're utterly wasted once the series runs amuck and splatters itself on its own finale.

There is one thing you can take from this particular wreck—a little lesson of sorts about what happens when you use fan-service, not as a spice, but as a meal unto itself. Allow the purveyance of naked girl-flesh to edge out basic storytelling, and like Demon King Daimao, chances are you'll choke.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/demon-king-daimao/episodes-7

[MCD]

Red hot collarbone action! 

THE COLLARBONES THAT SAVED ME

[cool breeze]

DtB s2 is basically:

blah blah blah blah some girl sailor moon shit

[youtube=560,345]e3IpEZyPqeA[/youtube]

YES! collarbones incoming!

[Joe Molotov]

Wait, was that Mao that got kill just....OMG LESBIAN SAMURAI NINJA CHICK WITH LIGHTSABER ACTION! 

[MCD]

how dare you forget...



BURGER-KUN

[youtube=560,345]NzatBz9ikyg[/youtube]

[Joe Molotov]

Bug Bitch, Rock Man, goth loli twins, a girl that squirts anti-tank guns out of her chest, Mao is a flying squirrel, this season has everything!

[Himu]

What the fuck is this show about?

[Joe Molotov]

Hot Lesbian Samurais

[Bebpo]

Bug Bitch, Rock Man, goth loli twins, a girl that squirts anti-tank guns out of her chest, Mao is a flying squirrel, this season has everything!

Pretty much why I like S2 more than anything else DTB.

It also has a way better WTF IS THIS CRAP ending than S1.

[Purple Filth]

Bug Bitch, Rock Man, goth loli twins, a girl that squirts anti-tank guns out of her chest, Mao is a flying squirrel, this season has everything!

Pretty much why I like S2 more than anything else DTB.

It also has a way better WTF IS THIS CRAP ending than S1.

All it needed was Chinese Batman becoming electric again  :'(  Although he proved himself as Batman even more.

[Joe Molotov]

Don't look at those contractors or they'll take your bellybutton! 

[MCD]

I'm a magician, you see.