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Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:13:56

Finished Attack on Titan, great show overall.

Ended, obviously with a second season to come? I thought the second half of the season was pretty good, obviously they couldn't maintain the same momentum as the first few episodes with the reveal and tragic situations. There's something quite horrifying about the Titans, when I saw one squeeze someone to death in their hand like a bug, well it brings up the image, what if humans were a food for a predator species.

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Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:00:15

Kill la Kill Moves Forward to November 17

Anime Limited has posted that its upcoming 'Collector's Edition' of the first volume of Kill la Kill will be released on November 17. This is three weeks earlier than its previous release date of December 8.

Volume 1 of the series will carry the opening 9 episodes, plus clean titles. The box will carry a 188-page 'Keyart and Storyboard book, replicated 100% from the Japanese booklet in their Part 1.'

The Blu-ray edition of Part 1 will have an RRP of £59.99, while the DVD will have an RRP of £49.99 (though discounted prices are available at the above link). The series will be released in 3 parts.

Anime Limited has also released a new trailer for the series, above.

Yeah 9 episodes for £60 sounds fair. indecision

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Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:08:54

Crunchyroll to Stream Case Closed, Bonjour Koiaji Pâtisserie, Ultraman Max

Hong Kong Man Arrested for Uploading One Piece on bitshare

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So I finished watching Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star story. It's essential for FOTNS fans but being essential doesn't mean it's good. It's a decent little slice of 13 episodes and there is a lot of crossover content with the main series. It does feel like a shadow series with the real 80s FOTNS being more colourful, more memorable and better.

Also really getting into One Piece, I look forward to each new episode with almost as much anticipation as a new Fairy Tail episode. They are very similar series, shame One Piece is so ugly and relatively old, it's great fun otherwise. Word of warning, don't show this to kids, it can be brutally violent and includes a few swears too.

EDIT: Also updated my 1st post big list of best to worst anime, added Attack on Titan, Jojo, Legends of the Dark King and One Piece about 33 different series watched now. And to me it's striking that still, out of everything I've watched Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood is still in a league of its own.

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Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:20:23

JoJo's Kakyoin Makes His Paris Fashion Debut

Avant garde Japanese designer Junya Watanabe and Japanese high-fashion brand Comme des Garçons surprised audiences in Paris when one particular male model came out sporting a familiar hairstyle. The clothes were inspired by traditional British cuts and textiles but ...

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Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:06:18

Saw the 2nd and final Eden of the East film Paradise lost. Although the 11 episode series is pretty perfect as it is, the two films which continue the story are fairly pointless and redundant.

Especially the second movie where the writer doesn't come up with a show stopping conclusion to book end the whole saga. It's a shame as both movies just come across as episodes smushed together, the story peters out and the final solution Takizawa comes up with is a damp squib that it's hard to believe working.

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Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:06:06

I just watched the 15th episode of Sword Art Online II. Episode 14 ended the GGO (Gun Gale Online) story arch, and ep 15 starts a brand new one in the ALO MMO world. It appears that most of the original cast from season 1 will play much bigger roles this time! Grinning This ep didn't fuck around, and got to business quickly. I really enjoyed the GGO story arch, and this looks like it'll be quite good too.

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Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:20:20

I finished to the point where the world was collapsing with the guy outed.

I just finished Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple. 50 episodes of badassness.

I really like the show, it's nothing deep, no convoluted backstory. Just earnestness, school hijinks and a lot of fun. Definitely reccomend it for a lighthearted show.

The final episode didn't do the series justice though, they had this 5 minute montage of moments from the whole series right near the end of the episode and you're thinking, instead of showing conclusions to everything and the aftermath you're showing me a collection of clips? Why?!

Nijima didn't get his proper hero moment and Miyu and Kenichi's love seems to remain unrequited. And the Great Sage Fist didn't square off against anyone so the final episode failed on a number of levels.

Ooooh, just found out there are many OVAs to watch Grinning

An OVA produced by Brain Base was released on March 14, 2012. The story continues from the Ragnarok Arc entering the Yomi arc. The second OVA featuring later story in the yomi arc was released on June 18, 2012, and a third OVA was released on November 16, 2012.[1] The fourth and fifth OVA were released on September 16, 2013.[2] The sixth and seventh OVA were released on November 18, 2013.[3] The eighth and ninth OVA have been announced and released on February 14, 2014.[4] The tenth and eleventh OVA were released on May 16, 2014.[5] The main cast for the OVA series is the same from those of the anime series except for Rie Kugimiya who replaces the late Tomoko Kawakami as Miu and Yuzuru Fujimoto who replaces the late Hiroshi Arikawa as her grandfather Hayato.

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Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:31:39

12 Kenichi OVAs, none of them on amazon and none on Crunchyroll. Where am I supposed to watch them?

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Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:37:30

Foolz have seen the original Jojos Bizaare Adventure? It's about 8 episodes long? I'm on Stardust Crusaders ATM, just saw that thing attached to old Jojos arm.

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Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:10:02
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Foolz have seen the original Jojos Bizaare Adventure? It's about 8 episodes long? I'm on Stardust Crusaders ATM, just saw that thing attached to old Jojos arm.

No, looked for it briefly and failed. Know where I could watch it?

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Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:01:04
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No, looked for it briefly and failed. Know where I could watch it?

I heard it was on 'animetycoon'.

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Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:01:30

I finished the Rao Story arc in original Fist of the North Star.

Epic........ just epic.

14 discs, each disc with about 3 hours on it. It seems very rare for a non-child friendly anime series to have so many episodes like this does. They stories are all interconnected, it feels like an epic saga because of the room the series has to grow. There are iconic Titan like characters, whose confrontations will rock the heavens. It's a posturing, powerful, manly martial arts series with enough subversion and out of this world death scenes and confrontations to really stand out.

Like any good anime worth its salt it has startling and well worked revelations, a deep backstory and some awesome action scenes.

Made more epic by the period it was made in. Yes, you can lump it in with other 80s media like Robocop, Predator, Aliens, Rambo etc. It looks, feels and sounds like the 80s and is better for it. Getting to watch the full series so many years after the 80s movie I used to love makes it feel very special.

And I can back the Official Chinese 24 disc edition with English Subtitles, the picture quality is far better than expected and the translations are mostly very solid, like 97% solid and the rest you can make sense of quite easily.  

Note: Is on cruise control till Ken faces Shin. Then the series gets better.

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Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:19:52

John Lasseter Gave A Heartfelt Speech About Miyazaki

John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studio, and DisneyToon Studios, gave an hour-long speech at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Lasseter spoke at length about his respect for Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki

Hellsing Ultimate Finale Will Not Air on Toonami

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Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:24:18

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Finished Supernatural The Anime

21 episodes-ish long.

A strange one this, it remakes some of the first two seasons episodes in anime form, whilst also producing original exclusive episodes. It's pretty decent, if patchy and the copies of the live action episodes come off best. For fans of the show only, this is a decent but not spectacularly successful anime. It's nice to see a western american setting in anime and more western like format and stories. Overweall, maybe a C - (minus).

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Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:53:33

Misato Fukuen Joins JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Anime's Egypt Arc as Iggy

New installment in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime premieres in January ― The official Twitter account for the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure franchise announced on Sunday that Misato Fukuen (Yozakura Quartet, Rosario + Vampire) will play the role of Iggy in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:

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Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:32:25

Parasyte -the maxim- is a new anime series on Crunchyroll. I watched the first three episodes, and it's quite good. It's about a high school boy who is attacked by an small alien slug that now lives in his right hand. It's a more serious anime (no humor) wherein the alien and the boy must work together to survive against other aliens that wish to kill them.


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Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:28:31

Nice, I'll check it out at some point.

Pretty good trailer

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Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:54:06

I'm almost 80 episodes into One Piece and it keeps on giving. Really good show aside from the early Captain Bucky episodes. Anyhow, there was episode last night, f*** me it was Grave of the Fireflies level of feels, I wasn't expecting that.

Poor old Chopper.

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