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Post by OttselHero on Jul 22, 2014 10:33:25 GMT -5
Talk about your favorite anime and manga here! When discussing spoilers, please mark your responses with a "*spoiler*" at the top of your post.
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Post by OttselHero on Jul 22, 2014 11:55:48 GMT -5
I've recently gotten into Attack on Titan. What an incredible show. I'm halfway through the first season, so I just started seeing the second opening. I'm under the distinct impression that Linked Horizon is Japan's Dragonforce. It makes for an awesome opening sequence, that's for sure.
But that opening sequence doesn't beat the first one, in my opinion:
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Post by Tross on Jul 22, 2014 14:20:25 GMT -5
I've heard a lot about that show. I'm not sure if I want to jump into another anime now, or wait for a while, but that one's definitely on my list.
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Post by OttselHero on Jul 23, 2014 10:08:03 GMT -5
I've heard a lot about that show. I'm not sure if I want to jump into another anime now, or wait for a while, but that one's definitely on my list. Dunno what you're watching at the moment, but if it's short enough, go ahead and finish that before checking this one out; if it's a never-ending milker that will never end like Naruto, I wouldn't wait. I'm beating myself up right now for not having checked it out sooner.
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Post by Tross on Jul 23, 2014 13:35:01 GMT -5
I've heard a lot about that show. I'm not sure if I want to jump into another anime now, or wait for a while, but that one's definitely on my list. Dunno what you're watching at the moment, but if it's short enough, go ahead and finish that before checking this one out; if it's a never-ending milker that will never end like Naruto, I wouldn't wait. I'm beating myself up right now for not having checked it out sooner. When it comes to anime, I don't actually watch never-ending series. I find that the Japanese style of storytelling lends itself better to finite stories that have an ending, and ongoing series tend to feel stretched out for me, like they're padded out. My friend actually just started me on Sword Art Online, but Attack on Titan is next on my list after I finish that. I'm not personally of the opinion that it's a bad thing to be late to the party with stuff like that. Some of my favorite games are non-nostalgic favorites, such as Chrono Trigger. You already know I'm way late to the party with MLP:FiM. I've watched series like Steins Gate well after they aired. IMHO, a good measure of a truly great work of fiction is that it's still enjoyable no matter when I watch/read/play it. I should be done with SAO around the middle of next month, or possibly a little later than that, and given the amount of praise AoT has received, I think I'll have to check it out then.
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Post by Tross on May 19, 2016 2:39:46 GMT -5
I didn't want to make a new thread for this, so I'll just post it here:
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Post by OttselHero on May 19, 2016 11:23:11 GMT -5
Nice! It sounds like you had a good time! I used to subscribe to the North American Shonen Jump monthly a long time ago. Each issue was pretty thick, but maybe only one-half to one-third the thickness of the volumes you brought back (and this was before each issue was downsized considerably at one point to about half its former thickness). The PSP was such a wonderful system, so I'm glad there are places in the world that still sell used PSP games. I really wish that they kept the system going as opposed to moving forward with the Vita, but I do understand Sony's desire to move away from the UMD format. Otherwise, it's great that you can download most PSP games on the Vita from the PS Store. What else did you do there? What was the atmosphere like?
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Post by Tross on May 19, 2016 19:25:38 GMT -5
Nice! It sounds like you had a good time! I used to subscribe to the North American Shonen Jump monthly a long time ago. Each issue was pretty thick, but maybe only one-half to one-third the thickness of the volumes you brought back (and this was before each issue was downsized considerably at one point to about half its former thickness). The PSP was such a wonderful system, so I'm glad there are places in the world that still sell used PSP games. I really wish that they kept the system going as opposed to moving forward with the Vita, but I do understand Sony's desire to move away from the UMD format. Otherwise, it's great that you can download most PSP games on the Vita from the PS Store. What else did you do there? What was the atmosphere like? Manga is amazingly huge in Japan. You can get these huge magazines at most corner stores. I mean, not all of them as you might have to go to a manga store or a store that happens to sell manga to acquire certain ones if you want a particular one, but a lot of the main shonen series can be acquired at 7 11 and other such corner stores. Moreover, there are manga cafes which are like a combination of a manga library and an Internet cafe that can also serve as a cheap alternative to a hotel that's better than a hostel or pod hotel(and even more inexpensive too). Manga is available to read at places like cat cafes and even some restaurants. People read it all the time on trains, even businessmen. It's actually kind of incredible. Japan still sells new PSP games too, as well as PS2 games, which is amazing. It also supports the Vita, unlike here. Thanks Best Buy but you've lost my business for not having so much as a tiny Vita section. The Vita and other modern systems can have costly games though. Even a used Vita game can go for ¥3500-4000, but the price is right with PSP games. The store I went to called Book Off apparently doesn't price its games according to market value, as Kanon, Clannad and probably Snow are all quite costly on Amazon. I know because I considered importing them at one point and decided to pass because they were too expensive. I would have invested in some DS games but while the used market is pretty large for DS, new DS games are a rarity, and even the used DS games I saw happened to play second fiddle to finding out I could own Kanon, Clannad and Snow. I guess Japan has mostly moved on to the 3DS, as that's mostly what I saw Nintendo handheld wise. Pity Nintendo has that anti-consumer region locking policy now, as my 3DS wouldn't be able to play them, and I wasn't about to get a Japanese 3DS to play a few games. Forget it. I did a lot of great stuff. I got to go to a maid cafe, and it is as cheesy as it sounds. I went to a cat cafe too, and that was an experience. I went to a lot of shrines, including the burial site of the 47 Ronin. I went to Tokyo Tower and went up to the special observatory, which has a reflective floor and a mystical soundtrack playing in the background. I can see how mangakas like Clamp could get inspiration for series like Magic Knight Rayearth just by being up there. I got to see two parts of Tokyo and the town of Kobe, and even spent a day in Kyoto. I don't get why Japanese media makes fun of Osaka as I passed it on the train and it doesn't look all that different from any other Japanese city. All in all, it was a fun trip and I hope to go back again one day.
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