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I would have watched so much more Haruhi and Lucky Star if KyoAni had decided to keep either of those going. I usually don't start a story driven show (like an adaptation or something) if I know the anime doesn't or isn't likely to have an ending, so I haven't had to suffer through many half finished stories. But stuff like Haruhi and Lucky star which is just slice of life, I always want more of.

Took the bar last week, and I still don't have a job, so I've decided to take advantage of this little gap and finally watch Maison Ikkoku. I was a huge Inuyasha fan in high school, and I loved the 30 or so episodes of Ranma 1/2 that I've seen, so I've got high hopes for this one. I literally cannot wait to finally get some context for all the awesome gifs like this one that the Twitter algorithm has fed me over the years.

Woah!

This is exactly what I've always thought haha For me, I think I'd prefer a larger one so that I could sort of get lost in the crowd. Plus the larger ones are more likely to have industry people there, and that's probably what I'd be most excited for.

I think it'd be fun to get a thread going of people's favorite manga panels/pages. This one from Bleach may not be my favorite of all time, but it's the first one I ever remember saving and using as a wallpaper, so it holds a special place in my heart. What about you guys?

Attack on Titan is the show that got me back into anime in 2015. I binged the first season in like 3 days, and couldn't wait for the second to come out. Ultimately though, I dropped it after Season 3 because I literally couldn't follow what the heck was even supposed to be happening. If you're liking it so far, power to you. Also, definitely check out Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Same director and studio as AoT and, in my opinion, better character designs, animation, and story.

How does the original stack up against other 90's supernatural stuff? Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, in particular. I'm trying to decide if it's something that I should check out. Not super interested in the new one. I've seen some bits and, personally, I don't think they did a great job of translating the 90's designs to modern animation. Unlike something like the Yaiba remake which looks great.

Hey! I've never really done the forum thing before, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes. I've been watching anime since I was 16 when I stumbled upon its existence while reading TV Tropes. The first thing I watched was Kaze no Stigma (because it had a girl with a fire sword lol). Shortly thereafter, my family moved out of the country, and I all of the sudden had no friends and mountains of free time, most of which I filled with anime and manga. Once I started college, I sort of traded watching anime for watching people on Youtube talk about anime (eh :/), and it didn't really help that most of what came out in the 2010's just didn't really appeal to me, but I recently graduated, and anime in the 2020's has been on a bit of a bounceback, so I'm getting back in! Some of my Favorites: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, Kuroko no Basket, & Lucky Star Some of my Favorite Recent Shows: Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, & Jujutsu Kaisen My Guilty Pleasure Shows: Shokugeki no Souma, & Yugioh

Oh this looks like my jam. How have I not heard of this show before??

I'll always have a special place in my heart for the first Inuyasha ED. Inuyasha was the 3rd or 4th anime that I ever saw, but before this, I didn't get the point of OPs and EDs. I thought it was dumb that they were just pop songs instead of something like Pokemon or Yugioh's English themes. This is the one where it clicked. The imagery is simply fantastic. There's that atmosphere that 90's anime just seemed to nail, with the train and the ferris wheel and the snow that just speaks to a longing for love and connection.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I watched 7 episodes in 2014 and thought it was mid. Gave it another try a few years later, and it clicked. This also goes for just about anything released in the 90's other than Pokemon. I was in my late teens before I stopped dismissing it all as "old looking." I distinctly remember being very disappointed that OG NGE didn't look like the Rebuild movies.

I think the period between the release of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gurren Lagann is my favorite. The late 90's was peak. Yeah, 80's OVAs might be the peak of actual cel animation, but the stories were often underbaked. The late 90's combine great cel animation with better storytelling and characterization. The early 2000's adoption of digipaint did lead to a bit of a dip in aesthetics IMO, but NGE was still close enough in the past that studios were willing to crank out big, weird stories in hopes of lightning striking twice. Something like Mai-Hime, flawed as it is, only happens in 2005, and I think that's pretty cool. I think of TTGL as the end of this post-EVA era. After that, CGI integration starts to really take off, backgrounds start to suffer, and in the 2010's, pretty much 90% of anime looks ugly as sin. I enjoy plenty of modern shows, and I think anime as a whole is bouncing back in the 2020's, but I will watch pretty much anything from that 1995-2007 range. It's just my jam.

So, a bit of a deep cut but I just dusted off Mai-Otome yesterday. I watched Mai-Hime forever ago, and it was my first "Cute girls but it's also kinda dark" thing. Didn't exactly blow my 17-year old mind (although that Yuki Kajiura OST sure did), but I've always wanted to get around to Mai-Otome just out of curiosity. There was just something about early 2000's otaku-core shows like these that gets me in a way that its modern counterpart (isekai/reborn as X with a harem) just doesn't.