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Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:52 pm
by njb902
Shadowman wrote:
njb902 wrote:I'm not sure how I missed this but I found this awesome dbz parody series on Youtube by teamfourstar. I laughed my assignment(i typed in ass but this is what SwiftKey gave me so I'm going with it) off for hours today. They have up to the beginning of the Trunk's saga done and it is so worth it to watch.


DBZ: The Abridged Series. Honestly, the only Abridged series ever to hold my attention was Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series, which also happens to be the original. I very, very much didn't want to, since, like many people, I can't stand the concept of Yu-Gi-Oh, but relented at the insistence of a douchebag friend of mine who happened to be right.


Hmmmm I don't care for yu-gi-oh either but I do like parodies. Apparently teamfourstar is also involved with a hellsing parody. I'm very looking forward to watching it and trying to find the yu-gi-oh parody you mentioned.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:41 pm
by Shadowman
njb902 wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
njb902 wrote:I'm not sure how I missed this but I found this awesome dbz parody series on Youtube by teamfourstar. I laughed my assignment(i typed in ass but this is what SwiftKey gave me so I'm going with it) off for hours today. They have up to the beginning of the Trunk's saga done and it is so worth it to watch.


DBZ: The Abridged Series. Honestly, the only Abridged series ever to hold my attention was Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series, which also happens to be the original. I very, very much didn't want to, since, like many people, I can't stand the concept of Yu-Gi-Oh, but relented at the insistence of a douchebag friend of mine who happened to be right.


Hmmmm I don't care for yu-gi-oh either but I do like parodies. Apparently teamfourstar is also involved with a hellsing parody. I'm very looking forward to watching it and trying to find the yu-gi-oh parody you mentioned.


Right here, the original and still the best. Later episodes also feature TEam Four Star as the villains, so there's that.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:35 pm
by BeastProwl
Shadowman, you'll have a thing for Blair for months after this, you know...

Wigglez, Samurai 7 isnt like alot of anime, it's unpredictable, fun, and the best part is that the Samurai are mortal. They get wounded, hurt. My favorite character in that series died, but damn if ye didn't die like a hero! In the manly tears record right behind Zabuza and Solid Snake.

So, Im watching the Wolverine anime.

I just finished the first episode and I liked it. My only real problem is where does this take place in the -If any- timeline?

I need to know before continuing, is this an origin story in another country? Or do I need some prior knowledge before continuing to watch?

Also, both this anime and the upcoming Wolverine movie take source material from the same place, just a fun fact.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:04 pm
by Shadowman
BeastProwl wrote:Shadowman, you'll have a thing for Blair for months after this, you know...


Don't I know it. I do love a catgirl...

BeastProwl wrote:Wigglez, Samurai 7 isnt like alot of anime, it's unpredictable, fun, and the best part is that the Samurai are mortal. They get wounded, hurt. My favorite character in that series died, but damn if ye didn't die like a hero! In the manly tears record right behind Zabuza and Solid Snake.


Actually it's very predictable, seeing as it's based off of an Akira Kurosawa movie. If I remember right, all the deaths are pretty much the same between both. (The names certainly are)

BeastProwl wrote:So, Im watching the Wolverine anime.

I just finished the first episode and I liked it. My only real problem is where does this take place in the -If any- timeline?

I need to know before continuing, is this an origin story in another country? Or do I need some prior knowledge before continuing to watch?

Also, both this anime and the upcoming Wolverine movie take source material from the same place, just a fun fact.


The Iron Man anime was supposed to be set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe...except it's not technically part of the MCU. That is, you're probably not going to see them bringing it up in the Avengers. In particular, it's very contradictory to a lot of the themes in the second Iron Man movie. (Tony's protectiveness of his designs, and that he's the only one with working power armor)

And it can't be an origin story for Wolverine if he's got adamantium on him.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:30 pm
by BeastProwl
Shadowman wrote:Actually it's very predictable, seeing as it's based off of an Akira Kurosawa movie. If I remember right, all the deaths are pretty much the same between both. (The names certainly are)


If you saw that movie, yeah. Thats like watching a film based off of your favorite book.

But as an Anime, I can't say it has alot of predictable moments, or powerups like Wigglez was saying. The only thing that I remember thats even close to that was when whatshisface learned how to kill, or when, in one or two cases, a Samurai would deflect a bullet, which as previously stated, bullets are a Samurai's one weakness. Other than that though, you wont get tired of it. Its not as cut and dry as you think. Watch it and maybe you'll see what I mean.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:21 am
by John Talbain
I love the wolverine anime.

Mikage Kikyo is still on my faves from youtube.

Yukio is fine.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:26 pm
by Wigglez
This isn't amine, but it should be I think because it still has Asian writing in it. I think that might have been a little racist... But I'm watching Avatar: The Last Airbender again. I'm about to finish it but I watched an episode where it was the "Lovers Tunnel" or something and pretty much told the origin story of earth bending. I want to get deeper and watch about the origin of fire bending, water bending and air bending. And to top it off, I want to learn the origin of the original Avatar and learn how he/she could do all 4 bendings. And then the avatar after that or however and see how they learned about their connection to the spirit world and the Avatar state. I love the series but I want to know more.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 5:41 pm
by Shadowman
Wigglez wrote:This isn't amine, but it should be I think because it still has Asian writing in it. I think that might have been a little racist... But I'm watching Avatar: The Last Airbender again.


100% American made. Not Anime in the slightest.

Wigglez wrote:I want to get deeper and watch about the origin of fire bending, water bending and air bending.


Firebending was learned from Dragons, Waterbending was learned by studying waves and tides, and Airbending was learned from the Flying Bison.

Wigglez wrote:And to top it off, I want to learn the origin of the original Avatar and learn how he/she could do all 4 bendings. And then the avatar after that or however and see how they learned about their connection to the spirit world and the Avatar state. I love the series but I want to know more.


The next season of the Legend of Korra is supposed to get into that.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:13 am
by BeastProwl
I dont see why another season is needed, it feels unnecessary. Korra rapped up good enough,

I heard on some panel that its mainly do to fan reaction, and money of course, but mainly the fandom. Wich is in itself, awesome.

Got to the point in Wolverine were Omega Red shows up, and I just feel like im missing something here. I wish the anime would have started when he was a kid, and explained things a little better. God knows what's happened in this show's version of the universe.

They explain Omega Red and his soviet background but I thought Omega Red, deadpool and a couple others were all on a team at one point?

Characters like Sabertooth and the X-Men are yet to make any sort of appearance or cameo, not even mentioned. There's a special feature on Disc 2 called "Wolverine meets the X-Men" though, so heres hoping that the X-Men anime continues off of this and becomes its own little series.

On the topic of Marvel Anime, Ide love an over the top, dark, gory, action packed Ghost Rider.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 2:18 am
by Shadowman
BeastProwl wrote:I dont see why another season is needed, it feels unnecessary. Korra rapped up good enough,

I heard on some panel that its mainly do to fan reaction, and money of course, but mainly the fandom. Wich is in itself, awesome.


It's not that they needed to, it's because they wanted to and because they could. And they knew the fans would be far, far more than happy to watch. That's actually why Korra happened at all, it wasn't necessary either, but the only way you can say you didn't want it to happen is to lie.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:31 pm
by BeastProwl
Its not that I don't want more, just maybe a 3rd Avatar series separate from either? A prequel maybe?

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 3:02 am
by Shadowman
BeastProwl wrote:Its not that I don't want more, just maybe a 3rd Avatar series separate from either? A prequel maybe?


Why a new series instead of another season? You never even explained how the second season of The Legend of Korra was unnecessary, by the way.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 12:25 pm
by BeastProwl
Shadowman wrote:Why a new series instead of another season? You never even explained how the second season of The Legend of Korra was unnecessary, by the way.


Because Korra answered all of it's questions. The season finale was supposed to be a series finale, hense the reason it ended like it did.

No bad guy got away, and everything was accounted for.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 1:44 pm
by Shadowman
BeastProwl wrote:
Shadowman wrote:Why a new series instead of another season? You never even explained how the second season of The Legend of Korra was unnecessary, by the way.


Because Korra answered all of it's questions. The season finale was supposed to be a series finale, hense the reason it ended like it did.

No bad guy got away, and everything was accounted for.


So what? Make new questions and a new bad guy. You know, like every other show on television.

The fact that you're trying to argue against more Korra is just mind-boggling to me.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:03 pm
by BeastProwl
And the fact that your only reading into part of my comments is equally confusing.

I'm not saying I DONT want more Korra. I'm just saying more Korra doesn't make much sense. Two different things.

I'm all for another season, I just dont see were it could go. Besides getting into ancient history and spiritworld stuff, which is always fun, there isnt much for Korra to learn. Maybe she can refine each skill individually? Travel the world, learn from the masters?

Or the series could introduce a new type of forbidden bending, who knows?

A radical fire nation group rises up to repeat ancient history and reclaim it's people's spot as rulers of the world?

A million and one possibilities. I'm not against it. I just dont see anything being a threat to Korra if she already knows everything.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 5:02 pm
by njb902
Wouldn't you guys like the story to end on a high note than be dragged down into mediocrity?

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:49 pm
by Shadowman
BeastProwl wrote:I'm not saying I DONT want more Korra. I'm just saying more Korra doesn't make much sense. Two different things.


Why does it have to make sense?

BeastProwl wrote:I'm all for another season, I just dont see were it could go. Besides getting into ancient history and spiritworld stuff, which is always fun, there isnt much for Korra to learn. Maybe she can refine each skill individually? Travel the world, learn from the masters?


The first season established Korra has a very weak connection to the Spirit World, which is supposed to be part of the second season.

BeastProwl wrote:I just dont see anything being a threat to Korra if she already knows everything.


Then all they have to do is make something powerful enough that even a fully realized Avatar would struggle against it. It's not that difficult to conceive of.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:16 pm
by BeastProwl
Shadowman wrote:Then all they have to do is make something powerful enough that even a fully realized Avatar would struggle against it. It's not that difficult to conceive of.

Now, what could possibly take on the Avater? Thats worth speculation...

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:19 pm
by Shadowman
BeastProwl wrote:
Shadowman wrote:Then all they have to do is make something powerful enough that even a fully realized Avatar would struggle against it. It's not that difficult to conceive of.

Now, what could possibly take on the Avater? Thats worth speculation...


I'm guessing something out of the Spirit World. There's tons of stuff in there that's far more dangerous than any Fire Lord or Blood Bender.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:50 am
by Wigglez
To be honest, I would've been happy if they just had only the first series and never touched it again unless they decided to make it come out on Blu-ray. But I think the new one is a pretty good addition. But my favorite character of every single character out of both shows is Iroh. I would definitely drink some tea with him. :lol:

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:37 pm
by Shadowman
Wigglez wrote:To be honest, I would've been happy if they just had only the first series and never touched it again unless they decided to make it come out on Blu-ray.


You know why Korra happened? It's to make sure our last memory of the series wasn't the movie.

Wigglez wrote:But I think the new one is a pretty good addition. But my favorite character of every single character out of both shows is Iroh. I would definitely drink some tea with him. :lol:


Ooh, sorry, the correct answer was Toph.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:24 pm
by BeastProwl
Really? Did Toph sing leaves from the vine and kick you right in the feels? Or did you forget how awesome Iroh was?

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:49 pm
by Wigglez
Toph was a good character especially when she figured out how to metal bend. But even being from the fowl Fire Nation, Iroh became peaceful even if it was due to his son dying. Without being the Avatar, he still managed to somehow visit the spirit world and relearned fire bending from the dragons who also taught Zuko and Aang. Not to mention, he was a high ranked member of the Order of The White Lotus.

And I agree that they needed people to forget the live action movie ever happened. But I have another solution, getting rid of all traces of it or going back in time and shooting Shyamalon after he made Signs.

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:11 pm
by Shadowman
BeastProwl wrote:Really? Did Toph sing leaves from the vine and kick you right in the feels? Or did you forget how awesome Iroh was?


I didn't forget how awesome Iroh was. I just remembered how much more awesome Toph was.

Wigglez wrote:Not to mention, he was a high ranked member of the Order of The White Lotus.


Out of like, what, five guys total?

Re: The Anime Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:52 pm
by BeastProwl
Shadowman wrote:I didn't forget how awesome Iroh was. I just remembered how much more awesome Toph was.

I dont understand anything you just said.