Anime Thread #2

Lost Wanderer · #1 Aug 18, '11, 5:23 am

Continuing on the from the last thread.

Come one, come all. This thread is for anybody who traverses the crazy realms of anime pop culture. Everything from mecha and mahou shoujo to Japanese video games and manga, feel free to discuss them all here!

NewsTheMan · #2 Aug 18, '11, 6:39 am

Subbed.

The only anime I'm watching this season is Kaiji S2. Oh and Ao No Exorcist. Oh. And Deadman Wonderland but that finished a while back, was very good though. Hoping Ao No Exorcist turns out to be awesome, it's good so far.

Sailor Kenshin · #3 Aug 18, '11, 7:16 am

I'm currently watching FAR too many shows at the same time. -_-

But if anyone wants to see a good example of self-sacrificing Christian love (though it's not a Christian anime by any means) then take a look at the actions of Syoran in Tsubasa: The Reservoir Chronicles.

Syoran LOVES Sakura so much that when she loses her memories (in the form of feathers with mysterious powers), he vows to find all her feathers and return her memories to her, even though, if he succeeds, she won't ever remember him. The hunt for the feathers is filled with mortal peril at the hands of various enemies.

He willingly goes through the pain of watching and hearing her talk about her memories, knowing that he has been erased from them.

I have a few 'other' problems with this particular anime, but Syoran's character is worth a thousand lukewarm homilies about self-sacrifice.

Kit15 · #4 Aug 18, '11, 12:07 pm

I've been loving "Stein's Gate" and enjoying "Tiger and Bunny"...but "Stein's Gate" is the show I could ramble on an on about.

DH and I are waiting with baited breath for the Type-Moon 10th Anniversary special "Carnival Phantasm" to become watchable (someone pleeeease license eet!)....and Shinryaku!? Ika Musume.

Also I decided to finally read One Piece.

Hastrman · #5 Aug 28, '11, 6:17 am

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I've been loving "Stein's Gate" and enjoying "Tiger and Bunny"...but "Stein's Gate" is the show I could ramble on an on about.

DH and I are waiting with baited breath for the Type-Moon 10th Anniversary special "Carnival Phantasm" to become watchable (someone pleeeease license eet!)....and Shinryaku!? Ika Musume.

Also I decided to finally read One Piece.

Actually Tiger and Bunny is the one I can ramble on about, but then, I'm also a superhero-comics fan (DC, not Marvel, because I'm a grownup).

And Shinryaku?! Ika Musume needs to get licensed, if it's not already, it's hilarious. Why is there like a genre of people plotting conquest, who are really bad at it—Ika Musume, Keroro Gunsou, Invader ZIM, Pinky and the Brain. Oh, and Excel Saga.

One Piece is the manga that has filler arcs, just fair warning. The thing helped Jump sell so well they basically asked him to pad it out.

nickybr38 · #6 Aug 28, '11, 11:49 am

Okay, so I'm a fan of anime and all but I have a complaint.

Why do they always completely mess up our theology?

Haha. Seems like you see priests in a lot of anime in varying formsand usually the priest is totally and completely unpriestly.

Granted I haven't watched most of these shows. When I see a priest on the cover or when pops up in the introduction I pass on by because inconsistent, faulty theology irritates me too much to get lost in the otherwise fantasy world.

Anybody seen the show named Priest? It was based off a Korean comic series. I'm curious about the series now, in all honesty, but I'm leery. Anybody read it? Would you recommend it?

Dubstep16 · #7 Aug 28, '11, 11:56 am

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Originally Posted by nickybr38

Why do they always completely mess up our theology?

Haha. Seems like you see priests in a lot of anime in varying formsand usually the priest is totally and completely unpriestly.

I think in Arakawa Under the Bridge there was a "nun" who was actually this enormous burly guy with a penchant for spraying machine-gun fire everywhere during Mass. It was weird. And hilarious.

Hastrman · #8 Aug 28, '11, 12:42 pm

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Originally Posted by nickybr38

Why do they always completely mess up our theology?

Haha. Seems like you see priests in a lot of anime in varying formsand usually the priest is totally and completely unpriestly.

They're no worse than the West's fumblefisted portrayal of Buddhism. Which is not a defense—I'm by no means "pro-idiot"—but that's basically all it is.

nickybr38 · #9 Aug 28, '11, 1:57 pm

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They're no worse than the West's fumblefisted portrayal of Buddhism. Which is not a defense—I'm by no means "pro-idiot"—but that's basically all it is.

It's 'write what you know or make something new up'... or at least that's how it should be.

I just think people shouldn't write stories about things they know nothing about. I remember watching Supernatural and thinking to myself: Now I know how people who know Greek mythology feel when they watch shows that mess the mythology up.

Lost Wanderer · #10 Aug 28, '11, 3:58 pm

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Originally Posted by nickybr38

Okay, so I'm a fan of anime and all but I have a complaint.

Why do they always completely mess up our theology?

Haha. Seems like you see priests in a lot of anime in varying formsand usually the priest is totally and completely unpriestly.

Not all of them are unpriestly. I don't watch Trinity Blood much but I find Abel the perfect image of a bumbling priest (no, that's not a bad thing

). His Krusnik form though is just plain awesome.

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Originally Posted by nickybr38

Granted I haven't watched most of these shows. When I see a priest on the cover or when pops up in the introduction I pass on by because inconsistent, faulty theology irritates me too much to get lost in the otherwise fantasy world.

Well it's a fantasy world so I don't put too much stock in them having gotten our theology right. I'd just rather see a priest kicking butt and being rockin' hardcore (even that whack job Alexander Andersen) than the stupid pedophile jokes American comedy likes to make about our clergy.

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Originally Posted by nickybr38

Anybody seen the show named Priest? It was based off a Korean comic series. I'm curious about the series now, in all honesty, but I'm leery. Anybody read it? Would you recommend it?

Ah but here, I'll quickly make an exception. I've watched the film version and if it's anything even remotely resembling the manwha, it's not worth it. This isn't so much about the faulty theology as it is about having the same rehash of anti-establishment cliches.

nickybr38 · #11 Aug 28, '11, 6:21 pm

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Originally Posted by Lost Wanderer

Not all of them are unpriestly. I don't watch Trinity Blood much but I find Abel the perfect image of a bumbling priest (no, that's not a bad thing

). His Krusnik form though is just plain awesome.

Well it's a fantasy world so I don't put too much stock in them having gotten our theology right. I'd just rather see a priest kicking butt and being rockin' hardcore (even that whack job Alexander Andersen) than the stupid pedophile jokes American comedy likes to make about our clergy.

Ah but here, I'll quickly make an exception. I've watched the film version and if it's anything even remotely resembling the manwha, it's not worth it. This isn't so much about the faulty theology as it is about having the same rehash of anti-establishment cliches.

I'm a vampire freak.

I enjoyed the movie but the manga makes me leery. Hollywood would tone down things for sure.

I don't mind rehashes... ideas work because they're good. Even when they get repeated. Every story ever told can be found in the Bible, doesn't make the Bible uninteresting and doesn't make new stories boring.

Oren · #12 Aug 28, '11, 7:23 pm

I'm watching 'Beezlebub' this season. I like it so far, it's funny. I always watched Subbed.

I keep up with Naruto and One Piece and Bleach. I just got finished watching One Piece all over again from the beginning. Awesome stuff. One Piece actually doesn't have as much filler arc as a lot of other shows. FYI.

I tried to watch AO no Exorcist but I couldn't get into it and I could never get into Fairy Tale either...the main girl's voice annoys the **** out of me...

Some older ones I love are Code Geass, Inuyasha, Samurai Champloo, Elfin Lied, Darker Than Black, Death Note, Fruits Basket, Ouran Highschool Host Club, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Soul Eater, Phantom Requiem, Casshern Sins, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vampire Knight, Loveless...

I love anime! I speak some Japanese...I'd say I'm about intermediate level. Anyone else?

Hastrman · #13 Aug 29, '11, 3:45 am

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Originally Posted by Lost Wanderer

Ah but here, I'll quickly make an exception. I've watched the film version and if it's anything even remotely resembling the manwha, it's not worth it. This isn't so much about the faulty theology as it is about having the same rehash of anti-establishment cliches.

Well, Korea isn't Japan: it's 1/4 Protestant, and most of those are the "Gospel of Prosperity"/"Pope is the Antichrist" types.