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Post by Maruno on Nov 26, 2008 22:48:09 GMT
I didn't like Lain, but I did like Dennou Coil. They may both be about computer stuff, but they're quite different.
Anime Soc showed Kino's Journey the other year. It was pretty good. As I recall, there's no overarching plot; it's just an episodic thing.
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Post by Little Yellow Owl on Dec 5, 2008 11:57:04 GMT
I liked Kino's Journey! I'd second that recommendation ^^ - also, yay Berserk! Good taste there As a separate recommendation: Claymore! The anime is 26 eps, so not too long (the manga is still ongoing though). No fanservice, interesting world setting and characters, and pretty art! :3 I'd recommend it to anyone, especially the manga. (The manga follows the anime closely up to the last 2 or so episodes, after which it continues with the plot just getting thicker ^^ )
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Post by Maruno on Dec 5, 2008 14:03:41 GMT
I'd also suggest Fullmetal Alchemist for you, but it's 50-something episodes long so that might be a bit much for you.
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Post by Little Yellow Owl on Dec 5, 2008 16:15:38 GMT
As a completely different suggestion... I just wasted this afternoon reading a josei/seinen manga called 'solanin' - it's quite a serious slice of life about a girl just out of uni, and only 2 volumes long.
If you don't mind slice-of-life stuff then give it a read!
(That and 'yokohama kaidashi kikou' - much longer but more relaxed and happy! And with androids.)
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Post by Maruno on Jan 16, 2009 19:35:12 GMT
Maria†HolicDon't read anything about it, just watch the first episode, at least (there's only 2 out at the moment, by the way). All you need to know is that it's a high school anime, there are lots of pretty girls, and it's made by Shaft (of "Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei", "Pani Poni Dash!", "Negima" and others fame). And if that's not enough, here's part of the OP video: gg fansubs are subbing it.
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Navarre
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Post by Navarre on Jul 22, 2009 21:56:13 GMT
SOUL EATER. THE ONLY 51 EP SERIES I WILL WATCH.
Funky art, the characters are completely mad (we've got the Cool-dude, the Wannabe and his sidekick, the Neurotic, the crazy sisters, and don't get me started on Shinigama-sama), I've only watched four episodes but I'm hooked, and usually the creepy moon would have put me off by now, but hot DAMN if a show about students who use other students who turn into weapons to fight demons so they can eat their souls to grow stronger isn't just one of the shiniest things I've seen in a while.
Also Slayers, if you have a lot of time on your hands (original three nineties series numbers up to around 78 eps, and there's a new 26 ep series coming out now) it is worth the effort. So much slapstick humour, it's fantasy that revels in it's complete insanity, with the main character, as Matt once put it 'using explosions as a device to move plot forward'. Truly a classic.
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Post by Maruno on Jul 22, 2009 23:17:44 GMT
I helped out a group (Tsubaki Subs) with fansubbing the last 10 episodes of Soul Eater, so that's when I leapt into the action. Rather confusing, really. The first episode or two I saw seemed to imply a Psychonauts-like thing going on (the Dr Stein bits around that time in particular). It took me a while to decide what the world was doing and how it behaved.
Also, I'm strangely attracted to Crona, despite the nose and the gender ambiguity (or perhaps even because of the latter).
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Post by Falciferum on Jul 24, 2009 22:06:42 GMT
This is Chrona?
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Post by Maruno on Jul 25, 2009 15:38:34 GMT
Yup, that's him/her (on the left).
Maybe it's the personality (what little I've seen of it)...
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Post by Navarre on Jul 25, 2009 15:55:55 GMT
OH GOD. Just watched the first two episodes with Krona, and god DAMN do I want the little bastard to die in a fire. Up to episode 9 now, and Franken Stein swiftly went from 'creepy' to AWESOME in about sixty seconds, although Maka seems to have undergone a sudden shift from 'self assurred win-win-winner' to 'ohgodeveryoneelsearoundmeturnstodust' in the space of two episodes with no real reason.... Also I HAVE THOSE FANSUBS HELL YES. Although I'm liking the job Tadashi are doing with the first 26 eps so it have better be good, and I wouldn't worry about Krona's nose, I think they all look like that
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