RZ.

Log Horizon's first season + finishing Yashahime. I also plan to finish a lot of the shows I've had on hold for about one billion years lol

I've technically cheated by throwing a manga in there, but Berserk 1997 was my first anime and I'm hooked on the deluxe editions atm.

When I finish watching an anime and I feel like something is missing from my life. I very, very rarely experience this. There's lots of shows I think are brilliant, but there's probably only a handful that left me feeling that way. Evangelion, Steins;Gate, Darker than Black, Noein. I had it very recently with Toradora which was a surprise as I'm not usually a fan of rom-coms. I also had it with Inuyasha but it has been remedied somewhat with the release of Yashahime.

Speaking of Toradora and moments, the kiss in the final episode was probably one of the most anticipated things I've seen in an anime

If you show me the flag of any country I can tell you what that country is within five seconds, as long as it is an actual country and not a state flag, overseas territory or something like that.

It's a completely useless talent, but one day it might win me a pub quiz

Damn, I'm not sure if I should say "no particular order", but I'll try to order them as I can:

1. Darker Than Black

2. Neon Genesis Evangelion

3. Steins;Gate

4. Noein

5. Inuyasha

6. Wolfs Rain

7. Otogizoshi (The 12 episodes)

8. Moribito

9. Speed Grapher

10. El Cazador de la Bruija

7-10 could be a toss up between any variety of different shows tbh.

The Dark Crystal is such a relaxing film for me. Especially when the Gelfling song plays.

When I get the chance  I am working through Shaman King's first three volumes and the deluxe edition of Berserk

I feel like this may be the perfect time to start watching Soul Eater

Welcome to the forums!

If you're looking for some good dubs I'd recommend Steins;Gate, Full Metal Panic, D. Gray Man, Darker than Black, Noein, Last Exile. All shows with great stories, action and mystery and decent English dubs, especially S;G.

Griffith from Berserk and Isley from Claymore

Seven Deadly Bins

The perks of working in a charity shop...

17 hours ago, efaardvark said:

It has always been the case that people had to decide what to believe and what information sources they were going to trust. 

This is what I was getting at I think. Back in the day there was only really TV and newspapers that could be classed as "reliable" (obviously they weren't, but they would generally be classed as more relable than some random guy you've never seen before). Now the internet has given the random guy we've never seen before, and thousands of them at thtat, a platform equal to that of the media companies. People have always had to choose what they do and don't trust, there's just far more to choose from these days.

17 hours ago, efaardvark said:

If we're playing the blame game I'd blame an education system that switched from teaching people -how- to think to telling people -what- to think.  (That and the fact that the "what" was so obviously false and self-serving of the powers-that-be that people rejected it in favor of narratives pulled from said echo chambers.)  IMHO we would be in a lot better shape if we'd had a culture that valued - and enforced, socially-speaking - critical-thinking skills before the likes of Facebook came along.  As it is, most people are no more prepared to protect themselves from the cesspit of viral memes that they're exposed to online than the natives of the Americas were able to protect themselves from smallpox and other diseases brought over from Europe

In my experience at least, the only subject that ever taught me proper critical thinking skills was Sociology, and maybe History to an extent. Were things really so different before the Internet though? It may have been different here in Europe, but it's hard to imagine the US education system had much time for critical thinking or teaching people "how" to think during the height of the Cold War.

17 hours ago, efaardvark said:

This is quite true, and not just in communications.  RNA vaccines, 100% reusable orbital rockets, 3d printing... the list is long.  If only our politics had made similar advancements over the same time frame.   

Internet caused politics to regress in a way. Well, more like it caused electorates to regress. People used to believe whatever they read in the newspapers or saw on the TV, which isn't good, but it kept things relatively harmonious when it came to the ballot box. The Internet has opened up us up to unfiltered media, both truthful and false. It's created a world where we're forced to question everything and trust nothing, except for that which reinforces our existing beliefs.

Welcome! I too joined whilst you were inactive... and was inactive myself... and then came back again lol.

On 8/12/2021 at 5:06 AM, efaardvark said:

Online?  Not so great tbh.  In the late 90s/early naughties for most people bandwidth was measured in kilobytes per second.  (My own 'Net connection was a unix-based NetBSD system with an on-demand dialup PPP link through a 56k modem.)  Being on unix, my main browser was Mosaic.   Yahoo was basically just a collection of symlinks.  google as we know it basically didn't exist either. Archie and gopher were the go-to protocols for search & download.  Youtube didn't exist until 2005.  Streaming of any sort really didn't exist.  Certainly video was painful, if you can even call grainy, postage-stamp sized slideshows "video".  Lo-fi audio (32kbps mp3) was just barely possible on higher-end consumer hardware.  Even 64kbps encoding doesn't fit through a "56k" modem that usually didn't get anywhere near that in practice.  Neither did social media exist until Friendster came along in the early/mid naughties. 

My main hangouts in the 90s/00s were usenet and IRC.  (Undernet mainly, since EFnet had issues).  There actually were some decent anime channels, but it was all text based.  Again, typically available bandwidth pretty much precluded downloads or streaming.  Even the occasional posts of (uuencoded) pictures was often frowned upon as too bandwidth intensive for the main channel and the .binary channels/groups were always full of .. stuff.  Interesting, but often quite, er.. well, let's just say "off-topic" material.  Email was still pretty primitive too - often text-only - and I actually was still doing a significant amount of online activity via BBS through my local  fidonet node.  That and GEnie.  (Anyone ever play a text-based online RPG called Dragons Gate?  At $0.10/minute in data charges and 1200 characters per second probably not, or at least not for long.)

Damn, I knew there wasn't any meaningful video or audio back then and that everything was text-based. I didn't realise it was so expensive to browse the internet back then. The technological advancement in the last 20 years really has been astounding.

Wayback machine is awesome! I started becoming involved with forums and the internet in general around 2008-09, so I was a relative late-comer. I sometimes I wonder what it was like back then in the late 90s and early 2000s, especially in anime circles. A time when Inuyasha and Serial Experiments Lain would be classed as currently airing...

Hello and welcome

Welcome to the forum! I'm also a fan of RWBY and it does seem as if story-writing quality is inversely proportional to animation quality lol. Have you watched up to volume 8? I've only seen up to 7 so far.

It has a unique world. Kind of like if Erementar Gerad and Gundam had a child lol. As a Brit, I quite like the nod to the old British navy in the- I'm not sure what they're called, but they fight The Guild (I think?) at the start. The uniforms and the slightly stereotypical chivalry mantra was interesting. And yes, the characters are very likeable, especially the main duo!

If I enjoy the series I'll definitely give the sequel a watch. I didn't realise there was one until you mentioned it. This is why I should always look at the related section on MAL

Welcome back! I see one of your favorites is Last Exile. I just started watching the DVD boxset yesterday and I quite like the historic vibe going on with the world

Noein is a masterpiece, possibly the closest thing to perfection I've watched since Steins;Gate.

Starting Last Exile next

Update : I dropped this after the latest episode (5). The story is uninteresting, there's basically no character development so I don't care about the ones that died regardless of how shocking they try to pass it off as. Also, the CGI monsters look stupid.

The intro is probably the only redeeming quality. 

6 hours ago, EnviousEnvy said:

Right?! 

Honestly though I should be able to watch even the anime that is appropriate for kids (like Zoids, etc.) without getting hate.

Definitely. It always makes me laugh that these criticisms come from people who'll settle down to watch their favorite Disney movies the same evening, as if they're any less child-orientated. We like what we like!

8 hours ago, Tantei conan said:

Thanks . I watched the 2 seasons of steins gate. I will watch psycho pass

Is eden of the east that good?

I think so, as do a lot of others. I think perhaps the sequel movies are not as good. We all have different tastes so I suppose you won't know until you try it