Although, if I could buy anything related to anime, I would probably spend money on OSTs. Gorgeous, beautiful OSTs. I would buy the OSTs. I would name the OSTs. I would sniff the OSTs. I would lick the OSTs. I would date the OSTs. I would tuck the OSTs in at night and read them a bedtime story, ey. Ha! Hahahaha!
Although, if I could buy anything related to anime, I would probably spend money on OSTs. Gorgeous, beautiful OSTs. I would buy the OSTs. I would name the OSTs. I would sniff the OSTs. I would lick the OSTs. I would date the OSTs. I would tuck the OSTs in at night and read them a bedtime story, ey. Ha! Hahahaha!
I have all of Mushishi and Cowboy Bebop. I can burn you a copy if you want. My dad kind of stole my original discs though. THEY HAD ART BOOKLETS. ART BOOKLETS!
I have all of Mushishi and Cowboy Bebop. I can burn you a copy if you want. My dad kind of stole my original discs though. THEY HAD ART BOOKLETS. ART BOOKLETS!
That's okay. I'll get them someday. A shop an hour and a half from here sells imports. It's possible I may find copies at random there someday. Besides, I haven't even seen Mushishi yet. By the way, it sounds like you should keep your stuff as far away from your family as possible. I have a sneaking suspicion my parents sold most of my N64 games behind my back. It wouldn't be the first time, as they threw away my mint copy of Ocarina of Time in the gold box and didn't tell me until years later. The joke's on them, as I'll just buy it all again anyway, and laugh in their faces....even though I'm the one LOSING MY GORRAM MONEY! Er...sorry...rant over.
I just finished Fist of the North Star BTW. It's so obvious to me now that Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist is an homage to this series. I would be shocked if he wasn't. A big muscleman who lives in the desert and kills people by making their heads explode- if not an homage to this he's at least an homage to this uh...genre...if you could call it a genre. I'm sure Dashing will get peeved that I just made a comparison between Kenshiro and a character from FMA, but just what are ya gonna do about it, beeyotches!?
I'll give my rating in the movies thread. Oh, and the dub wasn't horrible, but I kept thinking of Hanna-Barbera cartoons while watching it.
I have a sneaking suspicion my parents sold most of my N64 games behind my back. It wouldn't be the first time, as they threw away my mint copy of Ocarina of Time in the gold box and didn't tell me until years later. The joke's on them, as I'll just buy it all again anyway, and laugh in their faces....even though I'm the one LOSING MY GORRAM MONEY! Er...sorry...rant over.
It amazes me how often I hear stories like this one, and it reminds me how lucky I am to still have every console and game I've ever owned.
I...don't own any really out there merch, just the OST to Record of Lodoss war and an Ayeka statue with a mini Asaka and Kamidake on the base. Not anime related, I'd like to get my hands on the Figuarts release of the Kamen Rider Black RX figure but I haven't really found a reliable source for it yet.
Hey, guys. If you combined Luffy and Goku, do you know what you would have? The ULTIMATE shounen hero. Oh, wait, Luffy already is the ultimate shounen hero. Goku's traits would just hold him back.
Hey, guys. If you combined Luffy and Goku, do you know what you would have? The ULTIMATE shounen hero. Oh, wait, Luffy already is the ultimate shounen hero. Goku's traits would just hold him back.
Wait, what?
Luffy is probably the only character in the pantheon of major Japanese animation in the past 30 years that is more one-dimensional than Goku. That's a pretty big thing, since Goku's whole thing is that he's pretty one-dimensional. That's his shtick. He's a backwater hick in the mountains who hit his head when he was little.
Literally.
He likes eating and fighting and beyond those two things he's a bit simplistic. He doesn't know that marriage isn't a type of food. He gets antsy for a fight when he's warned about powerful people that could kill him and all his friends. He let Vegeta go, not out of mercy, but because he thought it'd be a shame for such a powerful fighter to go to waste. He didn't have goodness in his heart, he was selfish enough that he would rather endanger the lives of his remaining friends than give up a chance to fight a powerful guy again. Again, one-track mind, one-track existence. Hell, he barely even notices his own son until the kid is seen as the key to beating Cell, and up to that point the kid's only father figure is the fucking devil. Who turns out to be a better dad, especially in the long run, since only the fucking devil(granted, fused back together with God at this point, but he was obviously speaking from the fucking devil's experience) knew that Gohan wasn't particularly built for fighting the way Goku was. Seriously, there is nothing to Goku. Which is why it's so surprising that there is less to Luffy.
Rather than Luffy being a more one-dimensional Goku I've always thought of him as Goku if he was a pirate. Also, at least Luffy knew what marriage was and knew to refuse it (I'll be honest though, I'm a LuffyXHancock supporter so I was a bit disappointed >.>)
Luffy is probably the only character in the pantheon of major Japanese animation in the past 30 years that is more one-dimensional than Goku. That's a pretty big thing, since Goku's whole thing is that he's pretty one-dimensional. That's his shtick. He's a backwater hick in the mountains who hit his head when he was little.
Literally.
He likes eating and fighting and beyond those two things he's a bit simplistic. He doesn't know that marriage isn't a type of food. He gets antsy for a fight when he's warned about powerful people that could kill him and all his friends. He let Vegeta go, not out of mercy, but because he thought it'd be a shame for such a powerful fighter to go to waste. He didn't have goodness in his heart, he was selfish enough that he would rather endanger the lives of his remaining friends than give up a chance to fight a powerful guy again. Again, one-track mind, one-track existence. Hell, he barely even notices his own son until the kid is seen as the key to beating Cell, and up to that point the kid's only father figure is the fucking devil. Who turns out to be a better dad, especially in the long run, since only the fucking devil(granted, fused back together with God at this point, but he was obviously speaking from the fucking devil's experience) knew that Gohan wasn't particularly built for fighting the way Goku was. Seriously, there is nothing to Goku. Which is why it's so surprising that there is less to Luffy.
I totally knew you'd miss the joke and write a long rebuttal.
Luffy is probably the only character in the pantheon of major Japanese animation in the past 30 years that is more one-dimensional than Goku.
I do have to say something to this though. As someone who waded through over two hundred shitty episodes of Bleach and Inuyasha combined, I will argue to the death that Luffy is a genius with the depth of a Dostoevsky character compared to any character in those series.
You know what really made me go slightly insane? When I realised that Light Yagami is actually the Antagonist in Death Note and L was the protagonist.
Uh, no, Light is a villain protagonist, but a protagist nonetheless. I mean, he's the guy the story is following most of the time, not L, specially not during the second half >__>
I hated how on Dragonball Z all the powerful charecters in Dragonball became pussys and the only chance to win a fight was to be a Super Sayin [insert number here]
I've never been interested in the anime super series like DBZ, Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, or InuYasha. The story just goes on too long to be coherent.
I enjoy harems if they are more than just pervert guy with a bunch of girls or something equally lame. I do love the Tenchi series and find Ouran to be incredibly funny.
I want to like mecha but I haven't found one that holds my interest. Friends have tried to get me into Gundam and Geass, but I couldn't stay interested. I do enjoy Full Metal Panic! but I don't think it counts...
Some of my other favorite series are Lupin the Third, Shin Chan, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Death Note, and FlCl. I've seen some other enjoyable ones like Fruits Basket, Rune Soldier, and The Big O.
As for movies, I'm just going to say 'Miazaki' movies to save time. Also, Akira and Steamboy. Metropolis was good too.
I know I've seen more but they escape me at the moment. I just started watching xxxholic based on a friend's recommendation. Hooray Netflix!
I enjoy harems if they are more than just pervert guy with a bunch of girls or something equally lame. I do love the Tenchi series and find Ouran to be incredibly funny.
And yet I don't see you mention The World God Only Knows, you should fix that =/
I know I've seen more but they escape me at the moment. I just started watching xxxholic based on a friend's recommendation. Hooray Netflix!
I'd say don't, and read it instead, but that's mostly because the anime takes away all of the crossover with Tsubasa than because it's a bad adaptation (which I wouldn't be able to say).
I'd say One Piece is more about the adventure, action and the crew than the story anyways. Besides, I don't see why it wouldn't be coherent right now.
And the comedy. If one doesn't like ultra-silly, stupid, slapstick comedy with insane, quirky worlds and facial expressions and such things, then One Piece just isn't for them. Actually, One Piece's humor is very much it's own. It's similar to Dragonball, but there are some major differences in style and tone somewhat. One Piece easily feels sillier to me, but also more fun. Then again I've only read several chapters of Dragonball; I've hardly read really far into it.
And the comedy. If one doesn't like ultra-silly, stupid, slapstick comedy with insane, quirky worlds and facial expressions and such things, then One Piece just isn't for them.
On that subject, I'm gonna get flack for this, because I don't know if I can say it so that it makes sense, but I don't like the One Piece anime, just the manga. Not just because there's not one good dub of the series IMO, but also because I read One Piece partially for Oda's artwork, drawn by him and his assistants. I'm not interested in the animated version, because a huge part of my interest lies with what is on the printed page. His art style; simple as hell but incredibly efficient, and filled with imagination consistently without constant recycling. Sometimes he even reinvents characters completely. One Piece is the manga that makes me think the most, "How the hell can a man have such a wide imagination as to design so many unique places, fauna, flora, animal life, people, etc and have it consistently make some weird sort of sense?"
Yes, I know his art style is emulated in the anime, but it's not DRAWN BY HIM AND HIS ASSISTANTS, which means I don't give a crap for what's in the anime.
Every time I've tried to read One Piece, I've ended up with a huge headache. I think it's because I feel all the characters are screaming at me nonstop through the whole thing.
Rule of thumb with anime is that you should never watch shounen anime. Go directly to the source; the manga. Much better, faster paced and no filler episodes.
I've never been interested in the anime super series like DBZ, Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, or InuYasha. The story just goes on too long to be coherent.
And the comedy. If one doesn't like ultra-silly, stupid, slapstick comedy with insane, quirky worlds and facial expressions and such things, then One Piece just isn't for them. Actually, One Piece's humor is very much it's own. It's similar to Dragonball, but there are some major differences in style and tone somewhat. One Piece easily feels sillier to me, but also more fun. Then again I've only read several chapters of Dragonball; I've hardly read really far into it.
Haha, of course, the humor is also part of why I love OP. However, he really should try at making Luffy's expressions less silly in moments like
Ace's death
. I mean, seriously, it didn't ruin the moment to me but it certainly would've been better without it =/
Rule of thumb with anime is that you should never watch shounen anime. Go directly to the source; the manga. Much better, faster paced and no filler episodes.
True, but it also gives us things like this
Also, without filler we wouldn't have the episode when Goku and Piccolo try to get their drivers license, and I loved that episode.
Oh, and kinda related to the thread. Today I found Jojo's Bizarre Adventure vol5 at my comic store. Awesome And no, I don't mean Viz's vol5, I mean the real volume 5, the one with the death of the first Jojo and the beginning of Joseph's adventure when he was still badass. If you have no idea what I'm saying then you should read JJBA, and no, it being 900+ chapters is no excuse for you to not read one of the best shounen's ever.
People can argue against Luffy's depth all they want, but to me, it's like arguing against John McClane's depth. He's a badass. He doesn't give a shit about consequences. He can handle it. If someone is an asshole, or a bastard, he punches the hell out of them. I like that. I get plenty of depth from other series; it's nice to have something I don't take so seriously. To those who complain about the constant crying (which isn't constant at all), and the bizarre facial expressions, well, that's just part of the humor. I honestly think Oda intends for even the saddest moments to be light in tone, and I'm fine with that. Mugen from Samurai Champloo is just as depthless as Luffy and no one ever faults Mugen. Probably because he's voiced by Steve Blum.
Bleach and Naruto both do several things that make me despise them in favor of One Piece-
-Take themselves too seriously
-Arcs take too damn long
-Arcs aren't interesting
-No imagination (Waits for Naruto fans to come bursting in shouting my curses; Bleach fans couldn't because Bleach fans know deep down their show has no imagination; Naruto fans have some small portions to cling to)
-No pirates
-Takes forever to be badass and then...usually isn't all that badass
-Characters I can't bring myself to care about - If I had a choice between saving Nico Robin and saving Rukia from a pit of deadly spikes, RUKIA WOULD FALL
-Boring villains, which is saying something as Aizen was the only interesting thing about what I saw of Bleach
-Stupid plot
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Other than that, I guess the weirdest is my Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Disk.
All I currently own are pins of Edward Elric and Monkey D. Luffy I bought at a fair. Save me from my boring normality!
This one.
Except mine doesn't have those lines running down the stockings.
Where might I purchase this glorious curiosity?
Although, if I could buy anything related to anime, I would probably spend money on OSTs. Gorgeous, beautiful OSTs. I would buy the OSTs. I would name the OSTs. I would sniff the OSTs. I would lick the OSTs. I would date the OSTs. I would tuck the OSTs in at night and read them a bedtime story, ey. Ha! Hahahaha!
I have all of Mushishi and Cowboy Bebop. I can burn you a copy if you want. My dad kind of stole my original discs though. THEY HAD ART BOOKLETS. ART BOOKLETS!
That's okay. I'll get them someday. A shop an hour and a half from here sells imports. It's possible I may find copies at random there someday. Besides, I haven't even seen Mushishi yet. By the way, it sounds like you should keep your stuff as far away from your family as possible. I have a sneaking suspicion my parents sold most of my N64 games behind my back. It wouldn't be the first time, as they threw away my mint copy of Ocarina of Time in the gold box and didn't tell me until years later. The joke's on them, as I'll just buy it all again anyway, and laugh in their faces....even though I'm the one LOSING MY GORRAM MONEY! Er...sorry...rant over.
I just finished Fist of the North Star BTW. It's so obvious to me now that Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist is an homage to this series. I would be shocked if he wasn't. A big muscleman who lives in the desert and kills people by making their heads explode- if not an homage to this he's at least an homage to this uh...genre...if you could call it a genre. I'm sure Dashing will get peeved that I just made a comparison between Kenshiro and a character from FMA, but just what are ya gonna do about it, beeyotches!?
I'll give my rating in the movies thread. Oh, and the dub wasn't horrible, but I kept thinking of Hanna-Barbera cartoons while watching it.
It amazes me how often I hear stories like this one, and it reminds me how lucky I am to still have every console and game I've ever owned.
or my replica of Edward's pocketwatch (which is in need of new batteries -___-)
....Where did you get that figure?
A convention. I wanted Goku too, but other than Luffy they only had Bulma and I wasn't really interested in her cosplaying as Nami >__>
I have the strangest combination of confusion and anger.
Luffy is probably the only character in the pantheon of major Japanese animation in the past 30 years that is more one-dimensional than Goku. That's a pretty big thing, since Goku's whole thing is that he's pretty one-dimensional. That's his shtick. He's a backwater hick in the mountains who hit his head when he was little.
Literally.
He likes eating and fighting and beyond those two things he's a bit simplistic. He doesn't know that marriage isn't a type of food. He gets antsy for a fight when he's warned about powerful people that could kill him and all his friends. He let Vegeta go, not out of mercy, but because he thought it'd be a shame for such a powerful fighter to go to waste. He didn't have goodness in his heart, he was selfish enough that he would rather endanger the lives of his remaining friends than give up a chance to fight a powerful guy again. Again, one-track mind, one-track existence. Hell, he barely even notices his own son until the kid is seen as the key to beating Cell, and up to that point the kid's only father figure is the fucking devil. Who turns out to be a better dad, especially in the long run, since only the fucking devil(granted, fused back together with God at this point, but he was obviously speaking from the fucking devil's experience) knew that Gohan wasn't particularly built for fighting the way Goku was. Seriously, there is nothing to Goku. Which is why it's so surprising that there is less to Luffy.
I totally knew you'd miss the joke and write a long rebuttal.
I do have to say something to this though. As someone who waded through over two hundred shitty episodes of Bleach and Inuyasha combined, I will argue to the death that Luffy is a genius with the depth of a Dostoevsky character compared to any character in those series.
I had the same feeling when I relised Yagami was "Im a gay" backwards
Uh, no, Light is a villain protagonist, but a protagist nonetheless. I mean, he's the guy the story is following most of the time, not L, specially not during the second half >__>
I enjoy harems if they are more than just pervert guy with a bunch of girls or something equally lame. I do love the Tenchi series and find Ouran to be incredibly funny.
I want to like mecha but I haven't found one that holds my interest. Friends have tried to get me into Gundam and Geass, but I couldn't stay interested. I do enjoy Full Metal Panic! but I don't think it counts...
Some of my other favorite series are Lupin the Third, Shin Chan, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Death Note, and FlCl. I've seen some other enjoyable ones like Fruits Basket, Rune Soldier, and The Big O.
As for movies, I'm just going to say 'Miazaki' movies to save time. Also, Akira and Steamboy. Metropolis was good too.
I know I've seen more but they escape me at the moment. I just started watching xxxholic based on a friend's recommendation. Hooray Netflix!
I'd say One Piece is more about the adventure, action and the crew than the story anyways. Besides, I don't see why it wouldn't be coherent right now.
And yet I don't see you mention The World God Only Knows, you should fix that =/
I'd say don't, and read it instead, but that's mostly because the anime takes away all of the crossover with Tsubasa than because it's a bad adaptation (which I wouldn't be able to say).
Edit: Oh hey, post 1k.
And the comedy. If one doesn't like ultra-silly, stupid, slapstick comedy with insane, quirky worlds and facial expressions and such things, then One Piece just isn't for them. Actually, One Piece's humor is very much it's own. It's similar to Dragonball, but there are some major differences in style and tone somewhat. One Piece easily feels sillier to me, but also more fun. Then again I've only read several chapters of Dragonball; I've hardly read really far into it.
like this?
On that subject, I'm gonna get flack for this, because I don't know if I can say it so that it makes sense, but I don't like the One Piece anime, just the manga. Not just because there's not one good dub of the series IMO, but also because I read One Piece partially for Oda's artwork, drawn by him and his assistants. I'm not interested in the animated version, because a huge part of my interest lies with what is on the printed page. His art style; simple as hell but incredibly efficient, and filled with imagination consistently without constant recycling. Sometimes he even reinvents characters completely. One Piece is the manga that makes me think the most, "How the hell can a man have such a wide imagination as to design so many unique places, fauna, flora, animal life, people, etc and have it consistently make some weird sort of sense?"
Yes, I know his art style is emulated in the anime, but it's not DRAWN BY HIM AND HIS ASSISTANTS, which means I don't give a crap for what's in the anime.
Except for Zorro. He's cool.
Filler episodes create arguments like these.
Haha, of course, the humor is also part of why I love OP. However, he really should try at making Luffy's expressions less silly in moments like
True, but it also gives us things like this
Also, without filler we wouldn't have the episode when Goku and Piccolo try to get their drivers license, and I loved that episode.
Oh, and kinda related to the thread. Today I found Jojo's Bizarre Adventure vol5 at my comic store. Awesome
Ummm...gee....hmmm....I really don't know what to say.
People can argue against Luffy's depth all they want, but to me, it's like arguing against John McClane's depth. He's a badass. He doesn't give a shit about consequences. He can handle it. If someone is an asshole, or a bastard, he punches the hell out of them. I like that. I get plenty of depth from other series; it's nice to have something I don't take so seriously. To those who complain about the constant crying (which isn't constant at all), and the bizarre facial expressions, well, that's just part of the humor. I honestly think Oda intends for even the saddest moments to be light in tone, and I'm fine with that. Mugen from Samurai Champloo is just as depthless as Luffy and no one ever faults Mugen. Probably because he's voiced by Steve Blum.
Bleach and Naruto both do several things that make me despise them in favor of One Piece-
-Take themselves too seriously
-Arcs take too damn long
-Arcs aren't interesting
-No imagination (Waits for Naruto fans to come bursting in shouting my curses; Bleach fans couldn't because Bleach fans know deep down their show has no imagination; Naruto fans have some small portions to cling to)
-No pirates
-Takes forever to be badass and then...usually isn't all that badass
-Characters I can't bring myself to care about - If I had a choice between saving Nico Robin and saving Rukia from a pit of deadly spikes, RUKIA WOULD FALL
-Boring villains, which is saying something as Aizen was the only interesting thing about what I saw of Bleach
-Stupid plot