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After binge watching season 1 & 2 of Kuroko's Basketball I'm definitely adding season 3 on my list of anticipated animes. Now it's on to Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (although I've watched 4 and a half episodes already to be honest).
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I'll give it a try next time I feel like picking up something new, but I generally dislike anime with really young protagonists."As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
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Originally posted by Darth Executor View PostI'll give it a try next time I feel like picking up something new, but I generally dislike anime with really young protagonists.Last edited by JonathanL; 01-03-2015, 01:47 AM.
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Well, the first Tokyo Ghoul episode of the new season's ending was a surprise."As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
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Time to perform some articial life-preservation to keep this thread alive. I've looked around for the fully translated version of the OP to the anime Sankarea for quite a while now, and just found it by coincidence.
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The anime wasn't even that great (not unwatchable though), but the opening itself is pretty good and it's even better when you actually know what they're singing about.
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So. Okay. I don't get Anime. Can someone teach me why its so interesting?
When I was a teen, back in the late 80s and early 90s there were a slew of awesome Japanese animated films. Teen me and my friends thought they were really cool because they showed a lot of violence and sexuality in a cartoon, which was totally a weird thing back then outside of like, Ralph Bakshi's American animations. They seemed to be a continuation of Heavy Metal magazine's (the American version of French magazine Metal Hurlant) weird and wonderful which included the artwork of Moebius, Richard Corben, Milo Manara, Boris Velajo, and of course in the background of it all was the influence of Frank Frazetta.
The films that we watched as kids included Akira, Golgo 13: The Professional, Ninja Scroll, Fist of the North Star, Vampire Hunter D, and a number of others. I remember being extremely turned off to really ridiculous animes that had goofy faced characters, but as long as it had a decently intelligent plot line I was all for it. Later videos I dug included Blood: the Last Vampire, Princess Mononoke, Ghost in the Shell, Spirited Away, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, and I think the last Japanese animated films I was into was the Cowboy Bebop movie, and maybe Steamboy.
What happened to Japanese animation between the mid 90s and the current period? It seems like it was a period over-populated with ridiculous kid cartoons like Pokeman, Digimon, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, and the like, and then it graduated to teen-bop animes like Naruto, Bleach, Death Note, and a number of other japanimation cartoons that I had no interest in. What happened between 1986 and the mid-90s that resulted in such kidified cartoons that were mostly devoid of the adult themes that Japanese animated films were full of? Did those types of films disappear from the face of the earth? Are they still making cartoons like that, or was that a golden period that we'll never see the likes of again?
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