Manga / Anime thread of GREAT JUSTICE - Spring '10 Edition!

[Nakor]

Not really sure why your wallpaper name says "hamsters" in it. Also don't get the jam joke from Kanon, since I haven't seen it yet. Maybe I'll watch it next year sometime, when Clannad finishes, if there's nothing else new in that genre that's as good.

Not sure either lol. It's the file name from the download - never changed it. (Unusual, since I almost always rename them.)

Read through about chapter 25 or so of Fairy Tail, which is just at the start of the cursed island story. This looks like it'll be a good one. I thought you said it was finished, but it's still being released in Japan. Is anyone still scanlating it? I sure as hell hope so.

On the contrary, it's only been around for 61 chapters, so it's got a long way to run. There's a few groups. Manga Share and Franky-House are both doing scans. Manga Share's a bit higher quality, plus easier to hunt down. Binktopia also does it, they're the only one using torrents that show up on TT - haven't checked their scans. (They release two chapters at a time though, so it's longer between releases.) Most of these are new groups to the series, so you may need to go with KEFI up until where they quit, and then switch.

Clannad - also made of win. CHAIN COMBO!!! I love the sarcastic goofiness spread throughout the show. The fact that the main character has personality, unlike 99% of other shows based upon games of that genre, helps immensely. Same thing applied to Air, which was also great. No surprise that it's by the same people.

Yeah, that's what I loved about Kanon 06. It had some of the best sarcastic humour I'd ever seen in anime to that point. Clannad's going the same way. Like you said - no surprise it's from the same people.

On the other hand, the key ep that ends the fight with Sakura and Chiyo vs. Sasori is a cut above in terms of animation quality, and it's blatantly obvious that they put all their attention on it.

Yeah, it wasn't bad I guess . . . but the antidote that would only last for "3 minutes" ended up lasting like an entire episode and half of the next one. Is time warped in the Narutoverse or something?

[Frong]

Yeah, that's what I loved about Kanon 06. It had some of the best sarcastic humour I'd ever seen in anime to that point.

What was the ep about? Was that the jam ep?

Yeah, it wasn't bad I guess . . . but the antidote that would only last for "3 minutes" ended up lasting like an entire episode and half of the next one. Is time warped in the Narutoverse or something?

Not any more than it is in DBZ, anyway. Actually, what I think it was was that while the antidote was working, she couldn't be poisoned, but even after it quit working, as long as she didn't get scratched again, she'd be fine. I think it was more like taking the safety net away after three minutes than saying "OK, three minutes up, you dead now."

So anyway, <INSERT REQUISITE REMINDER TO WATCH GENSHIKEN HERE>.

[Nakor]

I didn't mean ep 06, I meant "Kanon 06" (the remake was called Kanon 06 or Kanon 2006, can't remember which).

As for the antidote thing, didn't Sakura mention throughout that episode that "it's almost worn off" and so forth, so it was safe to get scratched again for a little longer? I'm pretty sure it was implied that the three-minute antidote hadn't worn off at all yet.

[Frong]

I didn't mean ep 06, I meant "Kanon 06" (the remake was called Kanon 06 or Kanon 2006, can't remember which).

Ah, OK. I thought it was a 2007 show, so I didn't make the connection. It actually started airing in October '06 and finished in March '07. If it's got the same feel as Clannad does, I'll probably watch it, then. That must explain the really high rating at AniDB, too. So anyway, what's up with the jam?

As for the Naruto ep, I dunno. I was basing that thought largely upon the fact that once the initial antidote wore off, she didn't go right back to being poisoned again. Thinking about it now, though, you're probably right - the probably did pull a DBZ of sorts and drag that three minutes out way the hell longer than logically possible. Weeeee.

[Nakor]

The jam is "special jam". The look on their faces when they first bite into the toast with it explains all.

[Frong]

So in other words, I'll have to watch the show if I want to get the joke that goes with it.

Anyvay, I'm considering picking up a new show called Ghost Hound once a few more of my current shows end. The original concept is by Masamune Shirow and the anime script is written by the guy who did Lain, Hellsing and RahXephon, among other things. It has something to do with an alternate world related to this electronic brain and traveling between the two worlds by extracting your soul or something. It's got a good rating and looks like it might be interesting, so I may give it a shot.

[Nakor]

Lain, that's another one I've been meaning to get my hands on and watch. A couple people at work recommended that I watch it. And by "recommended" I mean "ranted."

[Frong]

I'll probably never get around to watching Lain, primarily because it's way too old (and therefore only readily available on DVD, cheap bastard that I am ). What kinda sucks is that they watched it at the Ohio U. anime club the quarter I was in Japan. D'oheth. I think it's the kind of show that mainly people who enjoy a good mindfvck will appreciate. You know, shows like Paranoia Agent. I didn't get as much out of that as some brainier people did, either. I tend to like my shows fairly straightforward, with looney hilarity, teh shinies (read: awesome-looking action stuff), good character-driven drama, or some combination of the above. Too much thinking hurts meh brain meats.

Speaking of things that I can't find on BT now, Kanon 2006 got licensed by ADV two months ago. Now normally, that wouldn't be a major issue, since somebody almost always keeps a torrent running even after a show is licenesed. The problem here, though, is that the show was only English-subbed in its entirety by a.f.k., who's one of the responsible subbers. The second it got licensed, they took the whole damn show's torrents down and nobody seems to have replaced them since. Feck. Stupid licensing companies... if I could watch anime in Japanese on TV like people in Japan can, I would. I almost never buy anime on DVD anyway, so I'd just as soon never see any of them licensed. Wankers...

[Nakor]

Well you should. >_> Anyway, I'm pretty sure I have a DVD with all the Kanon eps on it in my binder. The only problem is, uploading it to you would take me forever even if we planned a time; I get an upload speed of about 40-45kB/s max usually. It'd still be about 5 days of consecutive uploading lol.

Also, Bamboo Blade taught me hitting people is fun.

[Frong]

I wouldn't worry too much about Kanon. If I absolutely had to, I'd buy it on DVD someday.

Also, Bamboo Blade taught me hitting people is fun.

Well, duy. Didn't you see the Beating Each Other With Foam Weapons For No Particular Reason In Particular episode in Mahoromatic, or have you not seen that show? Best random episode evar. The entire town had a festival where they beat the crap out of each other with all kinds of foam weapons (like LARP-type foam weapons), pretty much just because they could. I say every town should have a festival like that.

[Frong]

I wouldn't worry too much about Kanon. If I absolutely had to, I'd buy it on DVD someday.

Also, Bamboo Blade taught me hitting people is fun.

Well, duy. Didn't you see the Beating Each Other With Foam Weapons For No Particular Reason In Particular episode in Mahoromatic, or have you not seen that show? Best random episode evar. The entire town had a festival where they beat the crap out of each other with all kinds of foam weapons (like LARP-type foam weapons), pretty much just because they could. I say every town should have a festival like that.

[Nakor]

Christmas shopping for Tanis is evil. It generally involves looking at all the manga and anime available, which usually results in me wanting most of it, but not finding something I'm sure he'd like. (I don't think he wants me to start him on another manga series that he has to complete at this point. ) A visit to the Del Ray site has already ensured I want to buy way more manga than I should be. (They've got - aside from Negima and Sukuran - Genshiken, Pumpkin Scissors and Fairy Tail.)

And I still haven't found anything (that's already out) for him.

[Frong]

I didn't know there was a Pumpkin Scissors manga. The show was OK, but it didn't conclude or explain anything at the end, giving me the distict impression that they simply ran out of time and money, so they just cut it off right there. <INSERT EVA HERE> Too bad, too, since the setting and the premise of war relief were interesting and the characters were good, too. Oh well. Maybe the manga is better.

Now that I finally got done playing FFTA for the fourth freakin' time, maybe I can get back to finishing some of the anime I have sitting around on my computer. The last three eps of Romeo x Juliet have been sitting there for probably two months now, and I've only watched the first ep of Shakugan no Shana II, even though they've subbed up to ep 9 already. Blah. FFTA eatz meh brainz. I shudder to think how much of my time FFTA2 will eat when it comes out sometime next year.

[soloist]

Many apologies for interupting the flow if this thread,
but I recently started watching Baki the grappler
and got very much into it! Yes, I know it is
dated, animation-wise and, well, it's
old (laughs). Add to the pain th-
at I am viewing the English
dub (ducks chair), but
the English dubbe-
d intro and e-
nding mus-
ic fit-
s!




Japanese intro...






English dub intro (music only)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byiNEXx4 ... re=related[/youtube]



You may now continue
your regularly sch-
eduled real a-
ime disc-
ussio-
ns.

[Nakor]

@Soloist: Flow of the thread? Nah, this is just random commentary about whatever anime/manga we feel like talking about at the time. Your comments would fit perfectly within the flow of the thread, should this thread be considered to even have a flow, as it dies and lives. As far as Baki the Grappler, I've never really given it much of a glance. It's not the kind of anime that would probably catch my attention, but perhaps I should check it out.

@Frong: Personally, I thought the Pumpkin Scissors anime was great - but cut short. They scheduled it for 26 right from the start I think. Anyway, that's why I was glad to find the manga, which continues the story beyond that point (if I'm not mistaken).

I need to finish my Ranma GN collection soon so that when these new manga start coming out, I won't have as much on my plate. >_>