Which anime are you currently watching?

I'm currently keeping up with the latest Bleach and Naruto Shippuden episodes as they come out. Also working my way through Inuyasha episodes as well.

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Sonic Solider Borgman, Flint The Time Detective and Zoids Genesis.

I finished Mouryou no Hako. It was refreshingly unique and interesting, but despite managing to keep my attention all the way through, there were some fatal flaws that really dragged down what could have been a magnificent series.
Roughly half of the show was purely exposition. Even the two-episode climax was just dialogue (monologue, rather), with one guy telling the audience what really would have been better shown. Even in a book so much exposition is considered bad form; to see it in an active performance is baffling.

There were even two (entire) episodes, half way into the series, that just consisted of three guys sitting around a table talking, barely touching on the plot, to a gentle melody--the show is LITERALLY trying to put the audience to sleep!
On top of that, we hear people talk a lot about characters we've barely seen at all to know who is who, which makes following the story needlessly complicated, again, because the story isn't being shown to us, but told to us, by people we're simply being shown talking!
It's a shame, because it was really a GREAT story and concept. It just needed better delivery and directing to bring out that potential.

I didn't see the issue with characters that weren't shown. i remembered watching all of them, or seeing them. They just played their short role for the plot then left. I found the dialogue rather interesting, building up the story, and describing what certain things are and why. Such as history and other things. I found it good, it fit kind of my odd tastes in a way.

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Originally Posted by Spose'

I didn't see the issue with characters that weren't shown. i remembered watching all of them, or seeing them. They just played their short role for the plot then left. I found the dialogue rather interesting, building up the story, and describing what certain things are and why. Such as history and other things. I found it good, it fit kind of my odd tastes in a way.

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I didn't say they weren't shown (did I? :-/ ), they just weren't shown enough for me to remember all their names. My memory is crap and the show threw like a dozen people at me in two episodes, and then the remainder was four of them talking about the others.
"Wasabi Mitsubishi just got killed!"
*gasp*
Who the hell was he again?

I like dialogue when it serves a stronger thematic purpose. I love the tension in Death Note's exchanges, and I love Ergo Proxy, which is mostly an exploration of phenomenological idealism, and of course GitS, which goes into many a theoretical discussion. . . but Mouryou's drawn out lessons on the history of Japanese exorcism got dull for me fast, especially when so much of it was wrapped up in etymology I don't understand.

If you're into that, though, you might want to check out Dark Myth. It actually cuts away to a narrator (OFTEN) for its historical exposition, rather than having a story character do it in-scene, but it's the same basic principle.

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Originally Posted by Ikusagami

I didn't say they weren't shown (did I? :-/ ), they just weren't shown enough for me to remember all their names. My memory is crap and the show threw like a dozen people at me in two episodes, and then the remainder was four of them talking about the others.
"Wasabi Mitsubishi just got killed!"
*gasp*
Who the hell was he again?

I like dialogue when it serves a stronger thematic purpose. I love the tension in Death Note's exchanges, and I love Ergo Proxy, which is mostly an exploration of phenomenological idealism, and of course GitS, which goes into many a theoretical discussion. . . but Mouryou's drawn out lessons on the history of Japanese exorcism got dull for me fast, especially when so much of it was wrapped up in etymology I don't understand.

If you're into that, though, you might want to check out Dark Myth. It actually cuts away to a narrator (OFTEN) for its historical exposition, rather than having a story character do it in-scene, but it's the same basic principle.

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Maybe I really enjoyed the dialogue because I love anything mystery, and I like being explained a lot of things about anything, I love learning useless things when I can. I felt all the characters lived their part of the story, and left before they felt like they were being dragged out. The collective discussions about the case, with multiple people talking about it and Mouryou explaining the history of spirits and exorcism really struck a cord for me.

Well, I just finished Mobile Suit Gundam, so I'm onto Zeta Gundam now.

Kill la Kill, anime of the year of all years.

Golden Time and Log Horizon are probably the best series of this season.

I finally finished the Berserk Golden Age trilogy with Advent. While a lot of people complain the characters aren't as developed in the movies, which is really what the series did best with its dialogues and monologues, but I think the directing and music really capture an emotional sense that conveys the intended impact remarkably.
I liked that it went past the Great Eclipse, showing how the climax was resolved rather than ending all cliffhangery like the series.
And damn was I shocked at how brutal they managed to make the Eclipse. The rape wasn't as graphic as in the manga, but the spiffy high-end animation quality and directing gave it a level of visceral horrificness that I don't think even the manga conveyed so well.

I was most hyped about dat Black Swordsman clip post-credits. :wacko: I want to see the troll arc animated so bad.

And I still think that the original TV series/manga is better. The movies look good but I cannot view it as anything but a supplement for those that have already seen the original. And it jumps around a lot.

I score the trilogy a 9, but that's only taken independently of the source material. Compared to the animanga I'd give it an 8 (2 points lower than the series).

As for the trolls, that was the worst part for me. That sequence dragged for longer than anything else in the manga, and I actually stopped reading mid-volume for over a year (at the troll cave part). Funny thing is it got interesting again almost immediately after where I'd dropped it--Slan and the Skull Knight show up, then the new Band of the Hawk, Berserker armor, etc.
Last place I left off was they're on a ship heading for Fairy Island or whatever, with pirates attacking.

Turn A Gundam.

Pretty good so far :wacko:

Sat down and finally watched the Steins Gate movie. Story-wise I felt like it really wasn't needed (the OVA ending was perfectly fine and I actually prefer that), on the other hand if you want to see Kurisu do adorable things this is the movie for you. :wacko: