The General Anime Thread...

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If you're going to watch Haruhi, watch it in chronological order. (You can find it on Wikipedia.) It's far easier to follow than the broadcast order and wont result in confusion as characters suddenly appear without introduction as if everyone has known them all along.

Then again, you could always just not watch Haruhi and watch something better, however superb the Haruhi movie is at the end of it.
 
The Monogatari series would be completely incomprehensible if you tried to watch it in chronological order due to the lack of explanations in Nekomonogatari. Why hasn't SHAFT animated Kizumonogatari yet?
 
AOS-
"Yeah we're working on it"....

Meanwhile they dish out more and more other shows.
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They'll get around to it eventually.

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-> I might think those Always Sugoi stickies might look good on my car too! :)

-> But unfortunately, their products are so limited as so with their supply too.

-> I need a good I Love Anime sticker to represent while driving my M3... :(
 
TayeezSA
Good Question:

Is it better to watch The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in the broadcast order or chronological order?

I saw some of it sometime back (Years ago...) but it never made sense to me, maybe because I was young and dumb :p
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How I did it was broadcast of S1, then went back and watched S1-S2 chronologically. And do not skip Endless Eight (Well you mainly just need like the first two and the last of it), you'll see why later.

On another note, I like how its been nearly four years since Tanigawa has written anything period for the LN's.
 
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Can't wait for Food Wars to start up. Probably best I didn't post the trailer video, but if it packs that level of intense cooking competition, I'm sold.

The Vanishing Boy
I need a good I Love Anime sticker to represent while driving my M3... :(
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If I can be a bro for a minute: it's better if you didn't.
 
AOS-
Can't wait for Food Wars to start up. Probably best I didn't post the trailer video, but if it packs that level of intense cooking competition, I'm sold.



If I can be a bro for a minute: it's better if you didn't.
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Why not? Let your love for anime scream to the people around you. Seen it done countless times on other people's cars and it's very effective
 
Screaming your love for anime on a car, especially on a good M3, just makes you look like a complete scrub.
Despite how much anime I watch, I'm pretty subtle about it in public unless it gets brought up in conversation.

Yes that excludes my single Evangelion shirt.
 
Nothing wrong with some stickers. I think itasha is where I would draw the line... but I'd still do it.
 
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I try to be open about how I'm into anime in public. Unfortunately I've met very, very, very few anime fans IRL in my 6 years of being an anime fan. You would think with how much I've seen I'd have no problem discussing anime IRL, nope. 8th grade=Nope High school=Nope My part-time job at the movie theater I've had for 2.5 years=Nope

And when I do meet someone into anime, it's about Naruto, Hetalia, or SAO, ugh...

Real life is kinda suffocating for me as a result.
 
Downhill Dino
Nothing wrong with some stickers.
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Nothing wrong with stickers indeed, but if you're trying to stand out by making a statement, you may as well go beyond the norm to really wow the crowd. This goes beyond pre-made stickers, existing character art, title logos, and the traditional Itasha look.

It's possible; it's just that not many people do it.

Stuff like printed tees are no big deal. Stuff on cars are different. Cars are big purchases, and in car culture, the kind of car you want to drive says more about a person than the shirt they wear.
 
I actually know quite a few people at my school who watch anime. Most of them though it's usually AoT or SAO or similar. The majority of them don't really talk too much about it other than joke about hentai or something. And yes, the majority have actually seen anime that isn't mainstream ones.

I'm starting to think anime is a subtle sub-culture in the West that should be spoken when it actually gets good to talk about it.
 
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Downhill Dino
Nothing wrong with some stickers. I think itasha is where I would draw the line... but I'd still do it.
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It really depends on the sticker. Where you put it also makes a big difference for me at least. And a single sticker is acceptable, I guess. Just get some other non-anime stickers to complement it. That's just my taste, though.
TheCorvette
I try to be open about how I'm into anime in public. Unfortunately I've met very, very, very few anime fans IRL in my 6 years of being an anime fan. You would think with how much I've seen I'd have no problem discussing anime IRL, nope. 8th grade=Nope High school=Nope My part-time job at the movie theater I've had for 2.5 years=Nope

And when I do meet someone into anime, it's about Naruto, Hetalia, or SAO, ugh...

Real life is kinda suffocating for me as a result.
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Don't become a NEET, lol.
I've met tons of people who watch anime, but it's all the bad stuff. Ugh.
Technicolors
I actually know quite a few people at my school who watch anime. Most of them though it's usually AoT or SAO or similar. The majority of them don't really talk too much about it other than joke about hentai or something. And yes, the majority have actually seen anime that isn't mainstream ones.

I'm starting to think anime is a subtle sub-culture in the West that should be spoken when it actually gets good to talk about it.
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It's the same story at my school, but they've only ever seen AoT, SAO, and Akame Ga Kill and then they think those are masterpieces. Then they refuse to watch Cowboy Bebop. I've only ever met one person who even knew what Steins; Gate was at my school.

Then again, I've never gone in on the Anime club. But I don't want to be stuck in a room full to bursting with hardcore weeaboos.

Downhill Dino
I blame Toonami.
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But Toonami actually showed some good stuff, like BoBoBo. I loved the manga beyond belief, but I couldn't find it in bookstores.
 
Downhill Dino
I know right? It gets old, but luckily I've gotten some of my friends into more stuff.
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For the record I like Hetalia (S5 SUCKS though and is torture) and Naruto (Up until the end of the Pain arc), but it definitely gets old. Surprisingly I didn't ever come across AOT talk when it was airing (Which was towards the end of my senior year). I knew only one single person that was watching it.

Why can't I discuss something I actually want to discuss? orz
 
I'm quite open about liking anime, and have a few friends that are interested in it. While these friends find SAO amazing I've forced them to watch some actually good anime which they seemed to enjoy. I can't stand it when people say they watch anime when all they do is watch Naruto, though.
 
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Most of them though it's usually AoT or SAO or similar.
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People don't want to admit they like the softer stuff (IRL at least), unless they've found a group they can completely open themselves to or reached rock bottom. Otherwise, you won't see hear many people mention much outside the mainstream stuff. It's a stigma North Americans are struggling to deal with.

I know a video game group I visited all were gung-ho about AOT at one point. I could tell these guys aren't new to anime but no one has ever talked about anime until AOT came around. Nobody has ever talked any further on the subject.

I'm not comfortable talking about anime IRL either. I find it especially awkward to talk about fan-service heavy shows. But this is one of the reasons I don't invest time into these sorts of shows, as there's little I can take away that I can use to chat about without turning the atmosphere all awkward.

Not_A_Guest
Then again, I've never gone in on the Anime club. But I don't want to be stuck in a room full to bursting with hardcore weeaboos.
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Not that I'm targeting you, buddy, but the basis of this mentality reinforces what I mentioned above.
 
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Not that I'm targeting you, buddy, but the basis of this mentality reinforces what I mentioned above.
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That's true :lol:
It's just that the majority of people that I've met IRL aren't into the more obscure or older works out there, and therefore they don't share interest with me.
 
AOS-
I'm not comfortable talking about anime IRL either. I find it especially awkward to talk about fan-service heavy shows. But this is one of the reasons I don't invest time into these sorts of shows, as there's little I can take away that I can use to chat about without turning the atmosphere all awkward.
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I don't mind talking about anime to other people... provided they know what anime is. I agree, its tough to talk about anime to people who don't know what anime is.
 
I talk about anime quite a lot IRL, personally. The Anime Society at my university appreciates me, which is nice; we go the student union bar after every meeting, and discuss animus. Who cares if there are muggles around overhearing tales of my cartoon underage panty-quests? Plus, the friends I've made outside of AniSoc are all either into anime or getting into it; anime's netted me more friends than I have time for, to be honest, and I'm thankful for that.

Really, the only person who I came close to falling out with was the head of the Japanese Society. I found it hilarious that in the Chinese Society, most members were Chinese, and in the Indian Society, most members were Indian - but in the Japanese Society? Not a single Japanese person to be found.

Then they openly call the Anime Society "weeaboos", which is as pitiful as it is ironic.

That's not why I fell out with him, though; he questioned my knowledge on Madoka without the means to back himself up, and then just fell back on complaining that I kept calling the series "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" as opposed to "Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica". I then reassured him that "Puella Magi" has always appeared in the franchise's Japanese logos, to which he just pulled a face and dropped the subject. Later on in the same conversation, he mentioned Ghost in the Shell, and I asked (in as piss-taking a manner as I could possibly manage) why he wasn't referring to it by its Japanese title, "Kokaku Kidotai" - and he just told me to **** off.

Serves him right for being such a petty little Japanophile, really.

I'm running for a position on the Anime Society's exec team this semester, though I'll probably be competing against a friend of mine, which'll suck. Honestly, all I have to do is say "the other guy gave Love Live a 9/10 on MAL", and nobody will vote for him. There isn't any dirt to spill on me, thankfully; I'm practically introduced as "Jack, the loli-loving autist" nowadays, but that doesn't seem to have hurt my popularity at all. Sometimes I feel like my position is to be openly perverted so as to make the closet perverts feel more comfortable.

And believe me, there are a lot of closet perverts in the Anime Society. :3
 
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AOS-
If I can be a bro for a minute: it's better if you didn't.
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Not_A_Guest
Screaming your love for anime on a car, especially on a good M3, just makes you look like a complete scrub.
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^ FYI, I'm not going to turn my car into a Hellafush mobile. It will be a subtle stick on:

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^ Similar to what I did to my S2K in the past. :sly:


Downhill Dino
Nothing wrong with some stickers. I think itasha is where I would draw the line... but I'd still do it.
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^ What I would do, is do a temporaray itasha magnetic stick-on while doing some SCCA stints...

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^ Infact, I would add my Charlotte Dunois (from IS) on it! :O


Technicolors
Why not? Let your love for anime scream to the people around you. Seen it done countless times on other people's cars and it's very effective
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^ In fact when I still had my S2K, a passenger from car behind me was an anime fan and took a pic of my S2K simply because "I represent." :D


TheCorvette
And when I do meet someone into anime, it's about DBZ, Pokemon, or Sailor Moon, ugh...
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^ Corrected that for you... :indiff:


TheCorvette
Real life is kinda suffocating for me as a result.
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^ I feel ya bro...I'll you borrow my Charlotte:

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Houki>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Charlotte :p

So I watched Tsukihime.... I have to turn in my anime fan card now to the hardcore TYPE-MOON fans. Acknowledging there is a Tsukihime anime is punishable by death.

Anyway I liked it, but it's decent at best. I can only wonder how the VN was (Especially since I've known for a while the anime changed many things, hence TYPE-MOON fans refusing to accept an anime exists), especially since it's obvious they didn't bother trying to cram all the stuff into just 12 episodes which was nice (The pacing was more slow than fast than anything). Also that OP, oh man...
 
^ Sorry, but that OP is to 'cathedral' for me. Almost Elfen Lied-like...


~> And Houki is a bit too rough for my liking, although overall she IS hotter than my Charl. Charlotte is the type of girl that will definitely calm me down after a long days work!
 

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