haven't checked out Rebuild yet, I'm kind of on the fence about even starting it, although the temptation is there.

in the past year I've finished Welcome to the NHK, which I liked for the most part.

Finished Gantz which I really enjoyed up to the last quarter or so, which seemed really contrived, and had a confusing non-ending.

I've also started K-on!, Serial Experiments Lain, Gurren Lagann, and Ergo Proxy, but haven't gotten more than half way through any of them.

As far as feature lengths go I really enjoyed Mind Game, which has a really unique visual style.

I'm watching Eureka Seven and Highschool of the Dead right now.
The last really good show I watched was Shigofumi.

>>271
same here... I also started watching Valkyria Chronicles, but I'm getting disappointed with it. The last good anime I watched was Angel Beats, which actually wasn't that long ago. I'm also thoroughly enjoying Highschool of the Dead, despite the titservice.

>>270
Go for Rebuild, it's worth it purely for the looks alone.
I feel the first story arc leading to the island retreat was a lot better than the later parts of Welcome to the NHK...
Also I <3 Toradora, even if it makes me a fag.

>>275
Then I am fag aswell...

I watch of the ongoing ones this season, can´t really recommend any of them though. Maybe Highschool of the Dead, fun despite fanservice.

Apart from the ongoing season i´m about to finish Cromartie Highschool, which i´ve enjoyed I guess.

Gonna watch the Evangelion rebuilds sometime soon when I can find some time.

>>276
Man, i missed a lot of words there D:

Cromartie is pretty entertaining. It felt a bit aimless at times though. Still, I like short animus, though I think Battle Programmer Shirase makes the msot of this format (and is probably of interest to megachan).

Looking forward to the return of Index in this Fall's season?

highschool of the dead episode 8 has aired

also damn file size limits

http://i37.tinypic.com/331gnk5.gif

>>281
i thought i was over fan service...
i was wrong.

>>282
Hey man, there's nothing wrong with titties dodging bullets. It's just physics at its best.

As much as I like my moe, outright fanservice mostly disgusts me...

>>283
Oh god I just watched that episode. That whole scene was shark jumping bad.

>>288
Hey man, you just don't understand the fundamentals of a zombie apocalypse with big titted women. Madhouse is fullblown realism.

So my copy of Eva 2.0 is annoyingly laggy, and has bad subbing. Fukken...

>>304
I d/l'ed myself the DVD-ISO when it came out.
Written Japanese is easier to understand for me than spoken, so I was really happy when I saw that it came with same-language subs.

>>305
Lvl 100 weeaboo. Dammit. I feel small.

I did eventually get a good copy. The bluray rip annoyed my vlc.

>>305
is that pic from when they're floating sketchily around seele's moon base? that scene struck me as being very cute for some reason.

>>318
I actually really enjoyed that bit. I've also enjoyed that Gendo is a bit more human in this continuity.

Just finished ep9 of HOTD. Finally an episode again with more zombie action than pure fanservice.

>>326
Finished it as well

Gotta love Saeko, especially now that she declared she enjoys killing people

10 is out and has a shittone of fan service plus some character development and i mean very little

>>339
I stopped it half way through. I was watching takagi bitch and moan about something and realized I watching this as an exercise to see how much i could take. I might fastforward through it and see what happens, but I think I'll just stop now. The first six episodes were alright. seven through eight were tits. nine was okay. ten was annoying.

>>seven through eight were tits.

You say that like it is a bad thing :p

>>350
seeing as its a cartoon (that's supposed to be about zombies), I'm going to agree that it is in fact a bad thing. A friend of mine showed me a few choice scenes from 10, so I'm probably dropping it as well.

>>350
Me, I don't think cartoon titties are something terribly bad, but if I wanted to see those, I'd just watch an actual porn anime. When you want it to be with the characters from some specific show, there's bound to be some rule34 fanart for you out there.
I don't mind that there's fanservice in shows like Rosario+Vampire, where the premise and advertising for it make it pretty clear that it's the main selling point. But damn, it's everywhere. Why can't they keep that shit out of my shows about zombie apocalypses, world domination ambitions and robots?
All it does for me is make it really awkward to recommend any anime shows to other people, nevermind watching it together with them, especially when they're female.

>>352
I agree wholeheartedly.

>>352
personally, i wouldn't recommend any show to someone who isn't already into anime, or at least expressing interest in getting into anime...
especially if they're female.

not that i care about social stigma, or anything like that. i just don't see the point of sharing
something with someone who is likely to 'just not get it', and most women who aren't already anime fans fall in this category.

>>355
It's not like I go to people and say "hey, I heard you like history, WW2 and all that. There's this show called 'Strike Witches' you might wanna..."
The thing is that I get asked for recommendations sometimes. I read manga in public (on the bus, in line at the supermarket etc.), so anyone who gets to know me will sooner or later find out that I'm into this stuff.

Anyone here play dojin games, VNs and all that?
I have to say I'm positively surprised by how much success Recettear has in the west (second-best-selling game on Steam as of now).

I've been trying to get into anime thanks to peer pressure from a friend. So far, Cowboy Bebop, Planetes and Serial Experiments Lain have hit the hardest.

Now that he knows I'm hooked, he's trying to convert me into overly moe anime like K-On and Azumanga Daioh. I'm afraid I'll give in one day.

>>363
yuck, save yourself and go watch some good stuff. your friend is stuck in highschool moe fantasies.

>>363
I wouldn't lump Azumanga Daioh in with moeshit like K-on - it's a legitimately good comedy anime, where the characters happen to be female. it predates (some would say it actually led to) the current moe fad.

A Certain Scientific Railgun Mishap

>>370
Railgun was a good anime desperately trying to escape from the moe that it was infected with. Some decent storylines, it really had promise... I love Index too, and it's moe up-the-shitter though, so who knows?

AzuDaioh is NOT moe though. It certainly predates the trend, and I am horrified that newcomers are mistaking it as being in any way like K-on.

>>370
>>372

I just started watching Railgun the other night. Typically I'm not a fan of the all-young-female-characters kind of anime (apparently referred to as "moe" but I wouldn't know - the only other stuff I really watch is GitS and HSotD), but this one seems to be okay... so far, anyway.

>>363
Meh. Why fight it? Either you don't like that sort of stuff and stop watching it, in which case your situation is no different than before. Or you do like it, in which case you've actually gained something.
For a recommendation, check out Perfect Blue, which is one of my favorite anime movies. It's about a pop idol.

>>372
>AzuDaioh is NOT moe
lol, yeah it is. It pretty much defines the genre. You're just saying that cause you like it and the "moe" label has become such a stigma.

>>375
I don't care about any stigma. Yes, there is a lot of cuteness in Azumanga, but what sets it apart from moe shows is the fact Azumanga Daioh has actual comedy- surreal, weird stuff at times- whereas moe shows are nothing but cute girls doing cute things.

I watched the first season of K-On because I was interested in the musical aspects of it. When I realized that that wasn't really a major part of it, just a minor detail, I lost interest because there was nothing holding it together except for how adorably dumb the girls were. Azumanga kept me watching because I wanted to know wtf is going to happen next.

>>376
>what sets it apart from moe shows is the fact Azumanga Daioh has actual comedy
I haven't watched/read K-on, but I know it's supposed to be a comedy show.
So, because you like the humor in Azu more than the humor in K-on means it's a whole 'nother genre?
Then you might as well argue that Strike Witches isn't a moe show because it has somewhat enjoyable action scenes.
>moe shows are nothing but cute girls doing cute things.
...just like Azumanga.
By the way, check out this wikipedia article about 4 panel mangas:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9E%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB#.E8.90.8C.E3.81.884.E3.82.B3.E3.83.9E
1990年代末に萌えを重点とした4コマ漫画が増え始め、この様な作品は一般的に萌え4コマと呼ばれている。増え始
めたきっかけとなったのは1999年に『電撃大王』で連載されたあずまきよひこ『あずまんが大王』が大ヒットし�
�からだと言われている。
"The end of the 1990s was marked by a drastic increase in four panel comics with a main focus on moe, which are generally called 'moe-yonkoma.' They are considered to have had their breakthrough in 1999, because that was the year in which the hugely successful Azumanga Daioh was serialized."

Although you might call Azu moe by that definition, it really doesn't fall into the category of stuff like K-on. Contemporary moe seems more to be pedo fanservice.

Talking of contemporary moe, though, I do like Haruhi, etc...

>>379
I won't argue that Azumanga inspired/created the genre, but it did not itself put the focus on the cuteness. It had a bunch of girls as main characters, which the fans then sexualized; anime creators saw this and ran with it, created the moe genre that exists today.

The comedy in K-On is focused on the cuteness of how the characters act in the situations. Aw, how adorable, she named her guitar and dressed it up for a tea party. Aw, she's clumsy all the time. Like Strike Witches having action, sometimes they slip up and actually manage to play music in K-On. Sometimes.

I would argue that the comedy of Azumanga would work just as well if the characters were male. Moe shows can't make that claim.

>>380
I like Haruhi, too, but the thing that makes it appealing is the sci-fi and LOLDEEP philosophical aspects of it; some of the fanservice in it is parody, but most of it I just suffer through for the good parts. Reading the novels are a good way to skip the fanservice, but it really is adapted well enough that it is worth sitting through.

I've yet to get a good copy of Disappearance, I'm not happy to just watch a camrip.

I have so much animu to catch up on, being on holiday with my gf means I didn't get to fucking watch any. Bitches, huh.

Anyone else here do something to keep track of which animus you've watched already?
I've got a .txt file into which I write every title I've spent more than 30 minutes with, and in which language I watched it. Has roughly 60 entries.
I'm not entirely sure anymore why I started this, but it's nice to have in online discussions.

I just use a spreadsheet

>>428

Since i raraly delete stuff I watch, i simply seperate the shows I have watched from the rest in different folders.

This mostly tells me what shows I´ve seen the last one or two years really.

>>430
>i rarely delete stuff I watch
I'm pretty much the opposite. I rarely keep stuff after I watch it, only like 5% or so. A few selected titles like Evangelion, Akira, Lain, Satoshi Kon movies and so on. Most of it gets deleted right after I'm done with it.
And shows of the current season don't get saved in the first place. I either download the episodes onto a RAM disk or, if I can make the time, watch them via stream as they air.

I keep my favourites but delete the rest. Most of what I finish watching gets saved, I don't really finish watching the ones I don't love, so they're deleted to save on space.

I used to keep track, but a part of me detests having external references like that. If it doesn't make a huge impact of me, then I'm not going to remember it as much, so therefore I'll remember my favourites without having to check.

I used to keep a list of everything I had downloaded but hadn't watched, but I kept forgetting to update the list, so now I have a small blackbox plugin in the corner of my screen that lists my progress on shows I am currently watching.

I'm a bit of a data whore, so I never delete any show I've downloaded. I'm up to 199 anime series, not counting the previous season.
(pic related, but not me)

>>446
how does it work? You just have it record the file name of every bit of video you play, or what?

>>453
The plugin is really just a small notepad box, and I just one line for each show, and when I'm finished watching, I change the number to the next ep to watch. So it'd look like:

Lain10
Highschool10mazui

(For shows currently airing, I list the sub group because I usually change the filenames to my own formatting)

>>455
hmmm, my phone failed at formatting. I actually do use spaces on my list.

Best soundtrack I've heard in a while.

i just heard about, and then subsequently watched this today. it's really good for a short, and apparently there's a sequel in production.

torrent:
http://www.bakabt.com/149005-cencoroll-koharubi.html

youtube & wiki:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa2RVNhmjDA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cencoroll

Watching this season:
Panty and Stocking (haven't watched ep2 yet, might still change my mind)
Nurarihyon no mago (DAT VOICE)
Marika and Galileo season 2 (needs moar Tesla)
omae umaso da na (might drop it and wait for the movie instead)

I saw the first episode of Kuragehime earlier today and recomend it.

I'm not watching any of this season's anime myself. I simply can't see anything that doesn't look like something I've seen before. There's very little originality in anime any more.

>>659
There's never really much originality, but I wouldn't fall prey to dismissing an entire season out of hand. Sure, there are bad seasons and good seasons, but I ...enjoy old plots with different art. Apart from the usual neckbeard-appeal romances, Bakuman has never been presented in animated form, and Soredemo Machi looks like a typically interesting SHAFT take on the staple Maid Cafe. Just two random examples taken from this season. If I didn't watch anything that reminded me of something I'd seen before, I'd be stuck in the late 80s and early 90s.

Elfen Lied bitches!

I'd suggest watching Texhnolyze when you get bored with this "mainstream" anime. It is a unique anime. The toughest would be getting past the first 11 minutes of the first episode. After that you might have a chance at finishing it.

>>714
What's wrong with the first 11 minutes of the first episode?

>>716
There's no dialog. Just slow "shots" of the environment, background noises like dripping water, metal clinks and clanks.There is the event that sets everything in motion for our protagonist (Ichise) but no dialog. You *might* find it boring and give up.

>>723
Actually, that sounds intriguing

>>724
Not the guy you're replying to, but this is why I stopped watching after I completed the first episode. I thought the entire series was going to be like this. Was I wrong?

Also, I just watched Welcome to the NHK. It was awesome. It blew my mind. It made me happy. I, as I'm sure many have, connected with this series so well. I'm not an otaku, but I really felt for Sato in some parts. Though there were times I wanted to kick his teeth in.

this is a real spoiler:
I thought it was brilliant to create a heroine that wasn't affixed on the character because of their morally virtuous actions, but rather that they needed someone lower than themselves to compare themselves to.

>>726
this reminds me, i was looking into the book, and manga versions of NHK. while the anime shares the book's ending, the manga apparently doesn't end there and goes on for several more chapters, which i've been told are PURE INSANITY.

>>729
Pure insanity in a creative and enjoyable way? Or in a this is fucking stupidly ridiculous way?

>>730
can't say i haven't read it yet, but i think it's pure inanity of the shocking revelation variety. which i suppose could go either way.

>>724
The guy you replied to. Though generally I don't, I found it fantastic. I was so bored watching "loud" anime.

>>726
More or less. The general style of the series is ambient. But no, it doesn't always stay like that. There's some pretty heavy dialog, political, philosophical etc.

>>734
The more I hear about it the better it sounds.

>>737
It is. Great opening theme too. Guardian Angel (Xavier's Edit) by Juno Reactor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlzz1POfTM

Watch it I guess... Maybe you'll like it. Maybe you'll even love it like I do ^_^;

Texhnolyze is awesome. If you like it, be sure to read Blame! (vice-versa)

>>739
First I was like: O_O
Then : ^_^

I'm soooo going to check this out.

Last season was crap IMO.
In this one there's Madoka Magika, which is pretty cool. I ignored it for months because I thought it's just a run-of-the-mill magical girl anime, but immediately jumped on it when I read that it's written by the same guy who wrote Saya No Uta (Lovecraftian horror) and Kikokugai (cyberpunk mafia story). So far I have not been disappointed, it's exactly what I expected after seeing the staff that's working on it. Can't wait for ep11.

Well, look what's finally coming out, and with a theatrical release, no less.

http://www.funimation.com/trigun/

>>2138
Make a contract with me, ey?

>>2511
sure, selling my soul to Teddybear Lucifer seems like a completely reasonable idea.