What anime are you watching?

[yagamikun]

Finally getting around to watching Trigun Stampede (2023). Picked up the Blu-Ray set. It's quite good so long as you don't go in expecting/wanting it to be exactly like the 1998 original. Plenty of liberties have been taken with the source material, and it's overall more dire from the outset, but vibe is there and the animation is quite good. I don't like it more or even as much as the original, but my experience with the 90's anime is laden with nostalgia so... That said, it has a fucking BANGER of an OP song.

Trigun is my favorite anime/manga ever and I've been reading the new oversized, hard cover manga editions by Dark Horse as well.

Bold is exactly why I dropped 2 Bennies on this. And it comes with a bunch of other cool shit too. It's my favorite Macross ever so I figure it's worth it.

Details of what's included here.

Good set? Worth the price? I've had my eye on it. Like you, MP is my favorite Macross Story and the original US OVA on VHS was my literal intro into anime in 1995.

 

[Taiso]

Finally getting around to watching Trigun Stampede (2023). Picked up the Blu-Ray set. It's quite good so long as you don't go in expecting/wanting it to be exactly like the 1998 original. Plenty of liberties have been taken with the source material, and it's overall more dire from the outset, but vibe is there and the animation is quite good. I don't like it more or even as much as the original, but my experience with the 90's anime is laden with nostalgia so... That said, it has a fucking BANGER of an OP song.

Trigun is my favorite anime/manga ever and I've been reading the new oversized, hard cover manga editions by Dark Horse as well.


Good set? Worth the price? I've had my eye on it. Like you, MP is my favorite Macross Story and the original US OVA on VHS was my literal intro into anime in 1995.

I haven't opened it yet but given that this is a limited set of my favorite Macross ever, it's already worth it to me.

 

[GhostSeed]

WTF the guy who founded Animego made Wizardry?!?! He's thee progenitor super weeb.

https://www.mediaocd.com/animeigo-history

Robert Woodhead first attained fame for co-developing the early computer role playing game Wizardry while he was a student at Cornell. It came out for the Apple II in September 1981. By 1988, he and Roe Adams were working on the fourth game in the series. When they took a break from development work to play with Robert's new toy, the "Colorspace II" video overlay card for the Macintosh II, Roe asked if it could possibly be used to subtitle anime for his anime club. At the time, the only way to watch anime in America was off of blurry, low quality VHS tapes in raw Japanese, while someone who knew the language attempted to narrate what was happening. (Yes, we really did that back then.)

 

[wataru330]

Hajime no Ippo 2001 w/ my son
Spy Family with my daughter

My Neighbor Totoro with myself because I’m a motherfucking sap…but you know what?

On the strenth?

I made it in Japan.


Just to lose it in Amerikkka.

Fuck All Y’all.

 

[SouthtownKid]

We seem to be going through an anime phase lately, for whatever reason. Maybe because it's getting harder to find good movies or series on streaming that we haven't already watched.

Currently watching Vinland Saga season 2, which is okay, but filled with Danish viking-type characters who behave much more Japanese. The wife likes it, so I'll stick it out. It's not bad or anything.

Dandadan as new episodes come out. Fun.

Also watched the first episode of Sumertime Render, which seems promising.

 

[Taiso]

Takeshi Koike is returning to direct a 2D Lupin III flick and if this teaser is anything to go by, it looks like it will be very faithful to the original manga-ka Monkey Punch's vision. This will be the first fully 2D entry in the series in about 30 years.

 

[Tron]

Recently Megazone 23 got another release for bluray and i got it last month.I just finish watching parts one and two and all that is left now is part three.

 

[terry.330]

Recently Megazone 23 got another release for bluray and i got it last month.I just finish watching parts one and two and all that is left now is part three.

Does this new release have any upgrades over the previous one or is it just a re-release with new packaging?

 

[SouthtownKid]

Takeshi Koike is returning to direct a 2D Lupin III flick and if this teaser is anything to go by, it looks like it will be very faithful to the original manga-ka Monkey Punch's vision. This will be the first fully 2D entry in the series in about 30 years.

This is a follow-up to a number of connected 2-part OVAs with the same intro, each focusing on an individual character.

 

[Taiso]

Recently Megazone 23 got another release for bluray and i got it last month.I just finish watching parts one and two and all that is left now is part three.

I got the Kickstarter version a number of years back. To this day, I still have yet to watch part 3. I should do that soon.

Part 1 has, maybe, one of my favorite endings to any animated production ever.

 

[Tron]

Does this new release have any upgrades over the previous one or is it just a re-release with new packaging?

Seems the same to me just a different insert for the cover art.

 

[Tron]

I got the Kickstarter version a number of years back. To this day, I still have yet to watch part 3. I should do that soon.

Part 1 has, maybe, one of my favorite endings to any animated production ever.

I missed it's first release so this second one was a must buy for me.Highlight for me is part one music and it's characters designs to.Still i all ways found going from part one to part two for the change in the character designs rather jarring.

 

[Taiso]

I feel that. I think, however, because the first thing that made me fall in love with anime as a medium was Robotech, my young brain was trained to accept stylistic alterations in the flow of a 'series'. Later, I would learn it was three different series Frankensteined into a single entity to get it into syndication but that's beside the point. At that time, I wasn't questioning the difference in art styles, I think, for that reason. Adult me would have certainly been confused by the drastic change in art direction between Megazone 23 parts 1 and 2. Seems like 2 and 3 are closer in terms of visual style.

 

[HornheaDD]

Started watching both the OG Gundam, and the original Ranma 1/2. I saw that a new version of Ranma came out on netflix and it reminded me that I never watched it. The closest thing I got to anything Ranma as a kid was playing that god awful SNES conversion of the fighter. I can't even remember what it was called. I wanna say Fighting Street but I know thats the TG 16 version of Street Fighter.

Only two eps into Gundam and its already way more intense than I thought. First ep of Ranma was ok, definitely a 80s/90s anime.

 

[Taiso]

Whenever people in the Anime & Manga club where I work ask me why I like old anime so much, I tell them that Macross and Gundam have more intensity and grit in a single episode than entire seasons of most of the shit they're watching today. Gundam is practically a seinen by modern standards.

This is not to say that modern anime is worthless. Some of it is really great. But a good chunk of it lacks that that 80s and 90s grit, that darkness, that I need. A series occasionally comes along that has it, though. Or possess other qualities that are so potent that there is a maturity in their execution that belies their underspoken outward appearance.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

Started watching both the OG Gundam, and the original Ranma 1/2. I saw that a new version of Ranma came out on netflix and it reminded me that I never watched it. The closest thing I got to anything Ranma as a kid was playing that god awful SNES conversion of the fighter. I can't even remember what it was called. I wanna say Fighting Street but I know thats the TG 16 version of Street Fighter.

Only two eps into Gundam and its already way more intense than I thought. First ep of Ranma was ok, definitely a 80s/90s anime.

The first season of ranma is amazing. It is all rapidly downhill once they renewed the series for further seasons. Prepare for nothing but formulaic stupid ass DBZ fighting by about mid season 2.

 

[HornheaDD]

The first season of ranma is amazing. It is all rapidly downhill once they renewed the series for further seasons. Prepare for nothing but formulaic stupid ass DBZ fighting by about mid season 2.

Would you say the story is completed by the end of season 1?

 

[SouthtownKid]

Would you say the story is completed by the end of season 1?

Ranma's story never completes. Just like Urusei Yatsura, it just settles in to a status quo, which continues until Takahashi gets bored and wants to draw something else.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

Would you say the story is completed by the end of season 1?

STK summed it up well.
Basically watch until it becomes boring or tedious then leave with the good memories of the parts you enjoyed.

 

[wataru330]

STK summed it up well.
Basically watch until it becomes boring or tedious then leave with the good memories of the parts you enjoyed.

This.

1st season of TV plus the PC•E CD fighter, are all I need to scratch the Ranma 1/2 itch.

 

[SouthtownKid]

This.

1st season of TV plus the PC•CD fighter, are all I need to scratch the Ranma 1/2 itch.

The second Super Famicom game was pretty good, also. Way better than the first one that inexplicably got revamped into that SNES release.

 

[wataru330]

That weird re-skinned SNES game put me off of checking out the second one.

Thanks for the good word; I’m going to give it a go on the rombox in-between SotM runs.

 

[Ralfakick]

Started watching both the OG Gundam, and the original Ranma 1/2. I saw that a new version of Ranma came out on netflix and it reminded me that I never watched it. The closest thing I got to anything Ranma as a kid was playing that god awful SNES conversion of the fighter. I can't even remember what it was called. I wanna say Fighting Street but I know thats the TG 16 version of Street Fighter.

Only two eps into Gundam and its already way more intense than I thought. First ep of Ranma was ok, definitely a 80s/90s anime.

We got that other Ranma game on the snes as a ranma game in the us



This is that other ranma game that was reskinned

 

[daskrabs]

Just about to finish this, first time with any Macross content. Fun stuff.

 

[Ralfakick]

That new macross game is still supposed to come out in the us

https://www.amazon.com/Macross-Shooting-Insight-Playstation-5/dp/B0DFD1XDX3/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=16LP2LPIBDHPQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2X46sxmfCOQQu1wJt6URJBjGWXP1WJz3zWAZ8V0pBv3GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.NxP29yBc6eriRlZxKxeTRCF61q1ZpwP0pQuB1kJWvFE&dib_tag=se&keywords=macross+ps5&qid=1733282751&sprefix=macross+ps5%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1