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matt0

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1 hour ago, Mallet said:

I was dropping off a few things I no longer need in a local charity shop earlier. I just happened to look at their DVDs, remember them, and low and behold they had some Anime. I got Ghost in the Shell, Perfect Blue, Ninja Scroll and Street Fighter 2 the animated movie on DVD for a few quid.

 

I just watched Ghost in the Shell and good god what a film! The story, the concepts behind the story, the characters and the soundtrack were all brilliant. The soundtrack is all sorts of amazing! I was actually worried how the DVDs would look but Ghost in the Shell looked fine when played on my series x to a 42" c2 Oled. 

 

5/5

 

A decent selection of stuff you've picked up. It just occurred to me though that if that's the first time you've seen Ghost in the Shell, by "not seen any anime" you really did mean "not seen ANY anime". As in you've never seen Akira? Once you've worked through what you've already got watch Akira. I can't guarantee you'll like it more than Ghost in the Shell but it's possibly the most ambitious animated film ever made. There's really nothing else on that scale, before or since.

 

And also I'd put in another vote for Vinland Saga on Amazon.

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Mallet

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2 minutes ago, matt0 said:

 

A decent selection of stuff you've picked up. It just occurred to me though that if that's the first time you've seen Ghost in the Shell, by "not seen any anime" you really did mean "not seen ANY anime". As in you've never seen Akira? Once you've worked through what you've already got watch Akira. I can't guarantee you'll like it more than Ghost in the Shell but it's possibly the most ambitious animated film ever made. There's really nothing else on that scale, before or since.

 

And also I'd put in another vote for Vinland Saga on Amazon.

yes, I mean I have never seen any Anime.

 

I just ordered Akira on Blu Ray from amazon, it has a lot to live up to now!

 

 

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Mallet

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Thanks for all the suggestions, I will check them all out.

 

I just watched Ninja Scroll which I enjoyed as well, it wasn't up to the quality of Ghost in the Shell but enjoyable none the less. Certainly, more enjoyable than a lot of what Hollwood produces these days.

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I think to really appreciate Ninja Scroll you really have to watch it in the way it was intended: on Channel 5 with questionable dubbing, on a grotty little portable TV, in the back of a camper van late at night.

 

That was how I watched it and I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

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Mallet

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30 minutes ago, Girth Certificate said:

On a panned and scanned VHS from Manga Video

 

id totally start on Evangelion (series not movies), why smoke fags when you can mainline heroin?

Where can you even watch the original series? I can't find it.

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Mallet

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10 minutes ago, JohnC said:

It’s on Netflix if you have that. 

I'm tempted to buy the Blu rays of any anime I can find at a reasonable price. I'm seriously starting to think that plain old 1080p Blu rays give 4k streams a run for their money in picture quality let alone HD streams. I normally have 50+Mbps download speeds and I still get colour banding, which drives me nuts, in HD streams. 

 

Streaming is just so damn convenient though...

 

Is this the Evangelion people mean?

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354315537756?hash=item527eda0d5c:g:64oAAOSwWldjPWPt&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoG7yL6Y6cQv9EOSQMum5SGBH75GPyynlcT5IqP6p%2F7xrtrnp25P%2BatEjhrvqMH6GMBganfbSgq5QzkT2eRTSfEcHl6bnhQ0ErbCCb3iMlMwwgzC6wSmhCewyQPMA%2FGcVX4jehkIgwX8tNidp3Uav%2BX8UjRXiqZYxMlDGT%2BQQns89vQQFHdiiB9B01LYv6GwwH6SOtCRsYs2uot7oU5R8Ork%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8Tr2biMYQ

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Lorfarius

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I've given up on 4K, not all its made out to be and 1080p more than does the job on things like anime. If streaming is struggling then 720p is fine too.

 

I've decided to take the plunge and do a full run through of the gundam shows. Started with the first 3 films and realised there was a lot of context missing so went back to the full show. Enjoyed it so far and just clocked 20 eps of Z, some of these shows are 50 episodes long so should keep me going for a few months 🤣 A good chunk are on CR but its the high seas for the rest as really hard to find some of the less popular ones.

 

Seems to be a light season as I've only got 15 shows on the go.

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Just now, layten said:

I’m liking the latest series ‘The Witch from Mercury’ so far. The main protagonist being female and not a whiny annoying emo is quite the change. 

 

Kamille from Z getting slapped all the time might be one of the funniest things I've ever seen in anime.

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Arn X Treme

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57 minutes ago, Mallet said:

I was in CEX looking for 4k Blu Rays and I spotted Eden of the East on Blu ray for £3, no idea if it is good but I thought it's only £3 so why the hell not?

 

I enjoyed that!

 

If you can find the film too, you're in for a treat.

 

Didn't Oasis do the opening for it?

 

noblesse oblige

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Arn X Treme

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1 hour ago, Lorfarius said:

 

It's based on a very famous anime/game from almost 20 years ago...

 

 

 

It was never a patch on Trigun though.

 

Although I did read somewhere that the game was a retooling of a never released Trigun game.

 

Not sure how true (or if i remember it right) that story was. 

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Lorfarius

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If anyone wants to tackle the Gundam lot, this is the list I've been using:

 

Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam 1, 2 and 3 (movies combine the first show from 40 odd eps. They spent a bit more money on this to improve story and animation for the later parts. Even the creator seems to think this is better)

Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Mobile Suit Gundam F91
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
Metal Armor Dragonar
Mobile Fighter G Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
After War Gundam X
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Turn A Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73 Stargazer
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
Gundam Build Fighters
Gundam Build Fighters Try
Gundam Build Divers/Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise
Gundam Reconguista in G
Gundam Reconguista in G I: Go! Core Fighter
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt

 

Mobile Suit Gundam NT is a movie

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Arn X Treme

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On 11/11/2022 at 14:34, layten said:

not a whiny annoying emo is quite the change. 

 

You'll have to link me the version you're watching. 

 

Anyone else caught up with Episode 6 that was some epic stuff!

 

I can't believe I was going to leave this series on the back burner and watch it when it was complete. 

 

I was a little surprised (Well maybe not it's Gundam after all) by

 

Spoiler

Elan being a body double.

 

And what do we think the blocked memories house? I don't believe that is a throw away plot point. 

 

It will be nice to leave all that High School stuff behind. 

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