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Posted: Feb 18 2011 12:00 am

Sehkmaenzo wrote:

I watch the Azumanga Daioh video everytime I look at this thread :3

i also watched it again and again. it's some fantastic nonesense!

Posted: Feb 18 2011 11:19 am

That clip is good, but by far my favorite moment is in the second festival episode where Tomo plays out a childish fight between two cat toys. Unfortunately, there isn't a good clip of it on YouTube.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

lavalarva wrote:

The-Excel wrote:

Drew Linky wrote:

Has someone said Negima yet?

Yeah, Negima.

Be warned that the ending to the first series was so awful, they remade it six times, none of which have been licensed in America.

Does one of them at least try to follow the manga in any way whatsoever?

Let me say something to that effect: the animes are all pretty much blah. 1000% almost doesn't follow the manga at all, Mahou Sensei's ending is AWFUL, both in the fan edit and the real version... the only anime of it I can recommend is Ala Alba, and it starts way into the series and was meant only as a special tie-in in Japan to the Magical World arc.

In short, read the manga first. And then watch Ala Alba if you can find it.

Posted: Feb 22 2011 01:03 am

Can i get the entire series of Mobile Suit Gundam from the 90's on DVD? How many of these shows are still running and are they avaliable on DVD if they are not? I forgot how i was gonna watch all these rofl

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

oh god. I can't believe I missed this before, considering I'm one of the big resident Gundam nerds on this board.

Which Gundam show are you talking about specifically? Mobile Suit Gundam (the first one, with Amuro and Char and the White Base and the Zakus and shit) was from the seventies. The ones from the nineties that were most often remembered were Gundam Wing (milliardo, zechs, heero, gigantic beams, tallgeese, gundam epyon) and Mobile Fighter G Gundam (domon, dark gundam, master asia, SHINNIIIINGNG FINNNNGEEERRR!!!). There was also Turn A Gundam, but I doubt you're talking about that one (moonlight butterfly, moon people, gundam had a mustache, what THE FUCK were we thinking when we designed this show?)

You can get almost ANY anime on DVD somehow. I know quite a few of the Gundam shows have been licensed by funimation and are able to be boughten on deeveedeeez, especially the ones from the nineties. I have almost every Gundam show ever on my computer. you can find most of them on Demonoid. Let me know if I can be of any more service and I'll help hook a brother up. Gundam is one of the all time greats, and I would love to help you fall in love with it like I have.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

Wanna be cool like me? watch Ouran High School Host Club.

Posted: Feb 26 2011 06:17 am

or To Heart.

Posted: Feb 26 2011 11:18 am

FNJ wrote:

oh god. I can't believe I missed this before, considering I'm one of the big resident Gundam nerds on this board.

Which Gundam show are you talking about specifically? Mobile Suit Gundam (the first one, with Amuro and Char and the White Base and the Zakus and shit) was from the seventies. The ones from the nineties that were most often remembered were Gundam Wing (milliardo, zechs, heero, gigantic beams, tallgeese, gundam epyon) and Mobile Fighter G Gundam (domon, dark gundam, master asia, SHINNIIIINGNG FINNNNGEEERRR!!!). There was also Turn A Gundam, but I doubt you're talking about that one (moonlight butterfly, moon people, gundam had a mustache, what THE FUCK were we thinking when we designed this show?)

You can get almost ANY anime on DVD somehow. I know quite a few of the Gundam shows have been licensed by funimation and are able to be boughten on deeveedeeez, especially the ones from the nineties. I have almost every Gundam show ever on my computer. you can find most of them on Demonoid. Let me know if I can be of any more service and I'll help hook a brother up. Gundam is one of the all time greats, and I would love to help you fall in love with it like I have.

This is the show i remember so its definatly Gundam Wing thats the show i used to watch as a kid on Toonami (A weird hour of television on CartoonNetwork that basically played dragon ball Z and other anime stuff) and i remember it being super cool because of the energy swords these massive robots had. I seriously need to get some external hard drive space so i can get some of these shows.
Edit: I also remember watching these shows a few times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Defender_Gundam_Force but that show was kinda a weird baby gundam toy thing. I also think i watched this a few times

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

FNJ wrote:

Wanna be cool like me? watch Ouran High School Host Club.

I'm biting my lip in remembrance of good times. That show was fan-fucking-tastic.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

Drew Linky wrote:

FNJ wrote:

Wanna be cool like me? watch Ouran High School Host Club.

I'm biting my lip in remembrance of good times. That show was fan-fucking-tastic.

I watched the entire first episode one day, and kept saying "This is so fucking gay. why the fuck am I watching this homo shit?" Then after the second episode ,when you find out the dude is really a chick, and start to discover that the whole show is a parody of that kinda stuff, it becomes REALLY entertaining.

Gundam Wing, Evangelion, and I'm pretty sure Gundam SEED are all available on DVD, probably for relatively cheap, too. I got the special restored box set of Eva, in the shiny box, for fifty bucks. I know Wing is available under that horrible "Anime Legends" line, and when I bought Mai-MiME like that, it was twenty bucks. I bought both of those at Best Buy, but shop around.

SD Gundam is fucking stupid. You should check out 00 Gundam:

and no, he's not saying he loves another dude. he's saying he loves fighting the guy.

Posted: Mar 16 2011 04:46 pm

No love for "Tenchi Muyo!"???....For shaaaaaaame! Razz

I also like:
"Dual" (same company as Tenchi)
" Gunsmith Cats" (although they tend to get a little too fanservice-y in the middle of all the gun-and-car-porn),
"Photon: The Idiot Adventures"
"Battle Angel" (my first DVD)
"Black Magic: M-66" (decent Terminator rip-off)

I was ticked off when they released Black Magic on DVD and they went with this cover:

...when they had an infinitely more awesome cover on the VHS:

(the lettering on the spine glows in the dark, too Very Happy

)

A lot of these are probably impossible to find in stores, since they are so old.

<tangent>
And am I the only one who hates modern anime for the fact they start a show with awesome animation quality, but then they dump that for shitty, spastic off-model junk that use all the classic anime corner-cutting? I was disappointed when Samurai Champloo did it (around episode 7, i think), and I was really pissed when Gurren Lagann did it with episode 3!!! Evil

(or was it 4...it was when they met the guy and his sisters) Everyone was off model, lots of hold shots, describing action happening off-screen...I finished watching the DVD but can't bring myself to watch the next one....maybe only artists care about that kind of stuff?</tangent>

Posted: Mar 16 2011 05:02 pm

I can't find it in me to get into any new shows anymore, regardless of how promising it might be. It seems that every time I try, I strike out and the show turns out to not be as good as I was told. That or I'm too busy to follow it up until it ends.