What's the last anime you've seen?

[Poey]

I loved Paprika. Very cool, cool concept... it's like Inception, but... anime, and it came out first.

[Randamo]

finally finished that set of movies i got. I saw steam boy and memories.

steamboy has great visuals but a really long and sorta boring plot. the english voice acting was stellar.

Memories wasn't that great really, but I sorta liked stinkbomb, there's this one guy in a bio-suit who I liked. i can't really explain why.

[Randamo]

ugh, double post.

Watched the first half of Vandread. I liked it pretty well. Had some interesting and funny quirks to it, despite seeming like another giant robot series. The actual fights are done in CG. Apparently, this was one of the earlier series to use CG and they sort of didn't do it that well. It looks like they fused 2 completely different show together, but I'm not complaining.
Hibiki's voice actor is the same guy who did Prussia. Prussia has the bestest voice eva, too. He's the guy that makes naarghyhh sounds when he drinks and has the wierdest collection of laughs, from KESHESHESHE, to DAHAHAHAHA to the oddest "pipipdahahaha(he seems to choke laugh here)kyahahyahhi". Ah, good times. I really wish Hibiki's script called for that kind of stuff.

Anyway, if you have some time spare, watch it! Don't stop if you're into something else though. Just if you have a couple hours spare.

[Lord Il]

Vandread

That's another one of those first few anime series I ever bought. I thought it was kinda fun with the extreme gender gap thing. But yeah, the CG sequences can look very dated by todays standards. It always amazes me how far technology has come along (In this case, about a ten year span since release.)

[Randamo]

i want the next half - uguu.
Vandread does look pretty amazing for a show made in tha year 2000.

[ConvoyButterfly]

I've spent most of my time recently enjoying One Piece. I tried watching Naruto, but...no. I guess I'm more of a pirate than a ninja.

I've also started watching Lucky Star.


And I liked it.


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[Randamo]

have the second vandread series. Eh, Mistys alright, but she draws the attention away from Dita. Dita is the second bubble-headed girl I've actually liked. The first is Yui from K-on! The first half was better. It had more wierdness to it. Oh! but you had to enjoy Hibiki freaking out in the elevator trying to deliver a girl's baby. Hee hee

Bought a really cheap shojo love series - Peach Girl. I heard it was a good manga, so I gave it a shot. I knew who she'd end up with, but the show was pretty complicated and messy, I had no real idea what was gonna happen. You'd get a headache if you watched too much. I watched the last 3-4 hours. My head feels gooey inside.
But honestly, it was pretty good for a typical love triangle series. The main girl gets praise for looking and dressing like a Ko-gal, as well as being a strong, dependable person. None of that useless lead junk. Kairi gets praise for having England's(or Sasuke, if you watch Naruto) voice actor and amusing me when he finally admitted his feelings in front of the competition. I wont bother to expain, but it was just cute.(no one will agree, though).

[exckilla]

Watched that zombie high school anime, umm interesting but too focused on the girlies boobs and panties, i don't mind.

[Randamo]

Finished Rose of Versailles, a rather old anime. It's a historical drama following the French Revolution, Marie Antionette and so forth, but the main lead is a strong female named Oscar, who was raised to be a man and be in the military. She's great. Very strong and dependable, and even though acting like a man her whole life, she is very womanly. Ugh, I wanna be like her! The art is striking and beautiful at times, but for the rest looks a bit underdeveloped. The lines aren't the best... ever, but I really get caught up some times in the situations that come up. It really is a good anime. Unfortunantly, I read a summary of it on tv tropes or wikipedia, so I knew the ending. But maybe the shock didn't hurt so much because of that.

Is watching Sengoku Basara. Somewhat over the top, but enjoyable. Must say, when I saw the ninja girl in the OP, I thought she's be some butch femme fetale who'd drive me crazy, but the second she appeared, I fell for her. So pretty. Not that it matters really...

[exckilla]

1st episode of full metal alchemist brotherhood in hd, anime certainly works well in hd

[ConvoyButterfly]

...Still getting through One piece, but slowing down a bit now. The characters are entertaining enough to watch, but the situations (especially the inconsequential ones) they find themselves in feel over-extended in terms of the amount of episodes devoted to them, so that it becomes a chore to get through to the parts of the story that matter.
On the side I've bought The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Complete Season One, just because, as well as finding Serial Experiments Lain volume one in HMV for £7 ( !) and taking it before anyone else sees. I've also been considering Eureka 7, but whilst I like the look of its trailer, I have yet to find a reliable recommendation to inform my decision making. Meow?

[Randamo]

Eureka Seven.... I liked it at first and the Anemone and Dominic parts are definitely interesting, but after ep 25 (which had a really great art sense and looked pretty cool) I lost interest. The plot is cryptic, there are annoying buzz words I always forgot the meaning of. The ending doesn't exactly make sense, nor did it leave me with a good feeling. Characters seem to change their character abruptly (anemone). And as well, there are rare random boubts of graphic violence I was not prepared for. I haven't watched the movie, but I plan to because I heard there are changes. So I didn't HATE E7, but I got bored and lost alot.


Finished The Tatami Galaxy in one or two sittings. Also, I finished all the available Hetalia episodes. The extra nordic episode was great because, unlike every anime I've seen, it followed the comic to the tee. I've seen censoring on the show and footage cut from the webcomic, so I was happy to see it.

[ConvoyButterfly]

Hmm. Alright, I'll give Eureka 7 a try. Thank you for the advice Senior Randamo! 

[Randamo]

Watched Brain Power'd. Directed by the same guy who did the early Gundam series. Read that it was his take on Eva, so I gave it a try.
Because I like to write a bit about the animes I watch and I also realise not everyone likes to read a wall 'o text, I put it in a spoiler.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The plot follows Orphaned Hime who discoveres an Eva Brain Power'd being created via something called B-Plates. These Brain Power'd are organic mechas that have the ability to be piloted by someone they accept. They have pretty strong feelings and humans can communicate with them. I find them cute because they make Jurassic Park dinosaur sounds when you talk to them. Because the pilots practically have to talk the Brains into fighting, the story is more character based and none of the fights are all that spectacular. Saying that, most of the characters are very strong and positive, with no real angst. That doesn't mean they can't have creepy characters. Jonathan Glen, the resident bad guy, who in any other series would have been killed off after 2 episodes, has mother issues that Freud would have a field day with.
It also has pretty good protagonists, Yuu and Hime. Hime is positive and kind, and doesn't get jealous or petty, ever. Yuu is one of the best main pilot characters ever, he has Sasuke (FMP) - like badassery and a lone wolf streak, and is very capable. After watching people like Shinji and Amuro, he is a breath of fresh air.
They downplay romance like hell, and you don't even realise they're a couple until other characters make statements about them being a couple that they don't even react to. I expect: "We are NOT a couple!" lines being thrown out there, but then they have couple scenes and I go: "Oh gosh, they're together?!" It different, I say, and it's cool not to see a long drawn-out will they-wont they atmosphere.
The music is damn good too, classical and dramatic. The Opening is wack though. It contains the entire female pilot cast being competely naked and is more suggestive than a james bond movie.
While I can go on about it, it really wasn't THAT great of a show. The beginning was rather good but it got repetitive after a while. Maybe I should take a break from Mecha anime for a while.

[E^D Crow]

I'm in the middle of way too many series...

Black Butler

Birdy The Mighty Decode

Ai Yori Aoshi

And, in between all that, I watched Clannad, again.  It's so sweet, and so sad... one of the few that I can watch whenever, and still enjoy it.  This time, I watched it dubbed, and The dub is surprisingly good.  There are a few pronunciation oddities, and the awkwardness of Nagisa singing 'Dango Daikazoku' as 'Big Dango Fam-i-ly' was weird, but that only happens once.  Just waiting for After Story to arrive.

All that, and I'm still backed up...  I'll get to Gantz and Hell Girl: Three Vessels sooner of later.

E^D