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Anime anyone?
LeeC:
I just finished Season 2 of Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon R). Its pretty good. I know a lot of fans hate the Ail and An arc but I honestly enjoyed them. We watched the first episode of season 3 (Sailor Moon S) and I am not sure if they got new artists or if it was part of the manga, but the villainesses are extremely busty. I noticed it but thought it was just what I observed until my wife said something. When watching the preview for the next episode, the next monster is a well endowed cat woman. My wife and I found this to be very funny.
So far I would sum up the 3 arcs as such:
Season 1 "Dark Kingdom" is Power Rangers without the giant robots, and more about interpersonal relationships.
Season 2 "Ail and An" arc is about an alien couple that cuck each other while feeding their house plant.
Season 3 "Black Moon" arc is Back to the Future and Terminator put in a blender.
I am not sure whats in store for season 3, but my wife is excited (she's been watching Sailor Moon Crystal). Also poor Mamoru, dude can't catch a break. Good show so far.
Gyrre:
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu if you're after something utterly ridiculous.
Thrillho:
I recently burned through the whole of the first Fullmetal Alchemist series.
It's actually had a profound effect on me - adjusted my viewpoint on things somewhat.
Some truly gruesome, horrible, sickening things happen in this show - it is almost relentlessly dark with plot, even if there are quite a few gags to lighten the tone. I've often said that I don't really understand people who are fans of things that are predominantly dark, who have ideas in them as disturbing as, say, (click to show/hide)being a sentient suit of armour, and someone hides inside you, and then someone just plunges their sword in through a gap in the armour and she just died INSIDE YOU and her blood is leaking out through all the other gaps in the armour and FUCK.
But having watched it all the way through now... this show clearly has issues with religious fundamentalism, but is not critical of having a religion in itself. There is a terrorist character, but one who is depicted with complete sympathy as a human being outside of his actions. It's pretty heavily anti-fascist, down to the head of state being called the Fuhrer, and the military having committed countless atrocities. It's a show that depicts humanity happening upon knowledge of what they COULD do, but questions about whether that means that people SHOULD do it. None of the heroes are without failures or mistakes. Few of the villains are completely lacking in sympathy. I'm just, really fucking impressed.
It's also given me a taste for anime back again after Netflix took Death Note off while I was still watching it.
pwhodges:
I'm glad you watched the first anime. These days FMA Brotherhood is people's default.
There's good reason for that, in that it follows the manga to the end - in 2003 less than half the manga was written, so much of FMA 2003 is anime original, and the main plot is fundamentally different. But it was well done, and I marginally prefer it to Brotherhood which has pacing issues - at the start it rushes through the parts already animated in the earlier version, and towards the end the plot slows down and is stretched out far too much (a problem in the manga as well, which it follows faithfully in this regard).
Both are worth watching, but perhaps not back to back. FMA 2003 has a film sequel (The Conqueror of Shamballa) which gets very mixed reactions. It takes place mainly in a version of Nazi Germany in the 1920s. I think it's worth watching, even if not as good as the series - it gives more closure to the brothers' story as well.
Thrillho:
I watched much of the first half of Brotherhood with my students and found it very irritating. I now plan on giving it another shot, just to see where the plot goes. And I will eventually, I think, read the manga.
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