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[Xblade]

Anyone here watching the simulcast of Shangri-La and Kurokami on crunchyroll?

Kurokami is beastly............props to sunrise for recreating it so well.

Believe it or not this is the only video of the scnd opening of Kurokami on youtube.......


This is the Shangri LA opening

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Originally Posted by Sonic2036

the PS3 needs to be a little more slimer??? the way I see it , its as big as a laptop lol
i remember psp slime was more slimey

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Last edited by Xblade; June 2nd, 2009 at 05:14..

[strike105x]

It seems to me there's a chick as the main character when this aint ongoing anymore me needs to watch XD.

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[Proto]

The OP video of Shangri-La looks gorgeous and absolutely stunning. Does the series live up to it?

About KuroKami, I'm up to date with the manga scanlations, but the anime received pretty poor reviews when it just launched. How has it fared so far?

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[Xblade]

Kurokami received poor reviews because it only very loosely follows the mangas plot.
Which is what makes it so awesome. I've got 5 people to watch it in RL and they went ahead and watched the next 10 episodes without telling me.
During the first episode.
MY sister said "OH ****" out loud while she was on the phone.
My other friends jaw dropped.
Just watch the first episode through to the end
Shangri-La is an experience..........lol.........

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Originally Posted by Sonic2036

the PS3 needs to be a little more slimer??? the way I see it , its as big as a laptop lol
i remember psp slime was more slimey

V
l

[strike105x]

Btw i was referring to kurokami :P the second one shangri la doesnt seem to be my cup of tea at least not in the art work department

Originally Posted by cottonvibes

random anime thought:

anyone remember the bad-ass scene from Gundam Wing, where Heero is told to abort the mission and self-destruct his gundam so it doesn't fall into enemy hands.
And then he just says something like "understood", and self-destructs with himself still in the gundam.

...idk. i was just reminded of that awesome scene xD

Random Reply: i didnt really liked Gundam Wing but that part was awesome XD

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[Xblade]

Originally Posted by strike105x

Btw i was referring to kurokami :P the second one shangri la doesnt seem to be my cup of tea at least not in the art work department

There are several main characters in that anime........but the events revolve around the girl.
The second one is similar but the main characters roll is dominant. You might like it if you don't dislike transvestites in supporting roles *Cough*

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Originally Posted by Sonic2036

the PS3 needs to be a little more slimer??? the way I see it , its as big as a laptop lol
i remember psp slime was more slimey

V
l

[skoreanime]

Kurokami isn't bad...but it feels like there's no set path to the plot or story. You have some grasp about it, but then the next episode just does something different. So like I said, not bad, but for straight forward people it can get annoying

[Xblade]

Originally Posted by skoreanime

Kurokami isn't bad...but it feels like there's no set path to the plot or story. You have some grasp about it, but then the next episode just does something different. So like I said, not bad, but for straight forward people it can get annoying

I'm guessing you read the manga first?

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Originally Posted by Sonic2036

the PS3 needs to be a little more slimer??? the way I see it , its as big as a laptop lol
i remember psp slime was more slimey

V
l

[skoreanime]

A bit...and by that I only mean a handful of chapters. I knew right away it was going to turn out to be a very good dramatic series with a ton of cliff hangers. So I'm just going to wait out this series and just read and watch it in one go I hate waiting a week for the next chapter/episode on series like that

A lot of my friends think it's weird, but sitting down and watching an entire series in a week just makes you appreciate the story more. Lots of people only remember parts that just stood out more but not necessarily defining. A lot of my friends, including my older brother, usually only remember "cool" scenes well.

Like fighting scenes for example. Sure, they're flashy and heart pumping at times, but it's usually easy to see where they go. Bad guy whoops ass, good guy comes bounces, we see a little dramatic scene of the bad guys past, bad guy starts whooping again, but the good guy always wins in the end. A lot of times nowadays I just scroll through scenes like that. Not the dramatic story part, but the whole roaring, screaming, power upping scenes... I have enough of that from DBZ

[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by strike105x

It seems to me there's a chick as the main character when this aint ongoing anymore me needs to watch XD.

i can't get into action-anime if the main protagonist is a girl.
for funny anime like school rumble, lucky star, ouran highschool host club, or azumanga daioh, i don't mind female leads.

well actually i don't mind female leads in action anime if the girl doesn't play the tough-guy part.
like Inuyasha for example has Kagome as the main protagonist, but Inuyasha is the tough-guy doing the main fighting.
Its just hard as a guy to get-into an anime where a female is the tough-character doing the fighting.
I also don't like videogames where the main fighter is a girl.

I'm the type of person that likes to personify myself with the character; not the type that watches the show objectively.

Originally Posted by strike105x

Random Reply: i didnt really liked Gundam Wing but that part was awesome XD

yeah that part was awesome.
the other part i thought was awesome was when Heero falls off a mountain or something (forgot what happened) and breaks his leg.
then he just pushes the broken bones back together and walks it off!

Originally Posted by skoreanime

with a ton of cliff hangers.

aww those suck.

Originally Posted by skoreanime

A lot of my friends think it's weird, but sitting down and watching an entire series in a week just makes you appreciate the story more. Lots of people only remember parts that just stood out more but not necessarily defining. A lot of my friends, including my older brother, usually only remember "cool" scenes well.

yeah thats why i also like to just watch anime when its finished.
but with some series like Bleach theres no-end in sight, so you're forced to wait every week for new eps.
and like you said, a bunch of events are forgotten that way.
its even worse with naruto where they fried our brains with like ~100 fillers in a row; does anyone even remember what happened in the first episodes? xD

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I kinda do...but I remember the manga a lot more

[Proto]

i can't get into action-anime if the main protagonist is a girl.

So you don't like ghost in the shell? o_o

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[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by Proto

So you don't like ghost in the shell? o_o

its alright.
i watched the dub (only first season and missed a few episodes).
it wasn't bad, but its one of those anime you have to be in a certain mood to watch i think. and i don't really feel like watching it in its entirety anytime soon.

but when i think of that anime, it falls more into the weird/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic genre, not really what i meant by an 'action' anime.

but for instance, with something like Claymore, the main reason i havn't watched it is because of the female Berserk-like main character.
i loved Berserk, but if Guts was a girl, it'd just make the series not as cool to watch IMO.

and i'm not trying to be sexist here. as i mentioned i like to personify/relate myself to the main character; it doesn't work out too well with a female lead which just forces me to watch the show objectively as an outsider.

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[Xblade]

You kind of are being sexist, very sexist.

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Originally Posted by Sonic2036

the PS3 needs to be a little more slimer??? the way I see it , its as big as a laptop lol
i remember psp slime was more slimey

V
l

[strike105x]

In my case its almost the opposite i need a female cast even if it isnt the protagonist but it sure has to be the secondary i like to see some interaction between the male and female even if it is vague (dont think of hentai here :P, more like romance) or if there isnt any at least i want a female cast (as for claymore i dont know why but the artwork always made me to stay away from it, as for guts being female maybe i would finally watch berserker to ).

Originally Posted by cottonvibes

yeah that part was awesome.
the other part i thought was awesome was when Heero falls off a mountain or something (forgot what happened) and breaks his leg.
then he just pushes the broken bones back together and walks it off!

Heero was more of a terminator & cold hearted then the terminator lol.

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[Proto]

strike105x

Then you don't like Akagi, or Kaiji? D:

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[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by Xblade

You kind of are being sexist, very sexist.

no i'm not.
according to wikipedia "Sexism, a term coined in the mid-20th century, refers to the belief or attitude that one gender or sex is inferior to, less competent, or less valuable than the other."

just because i don't like watching anime where women play a more tough-action role, doesn't mean i believe they aren't capable of doing it or are inferior to men.

that's like saying all straight guys are gay-bashers, because they themselves aren't into men.

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[strike105x]

Originally Posted by Proto

Then you don't like Akagi, or Kaiji? D:

Akaji no way in hell i would like it , Kaiji maybe i could watch it though i dont like the artwork

The only exception was Kyou Kara Maou! which made me lol so hard

Side Note: what i wouldnt give for a sequell for Hatenkou Yuugi :/

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[Proto]

Akaji no way in hell i would like it , Kaiji maybe i could watch it though i dont like the artwork

Why do you say you woudln't like it? Maybe it's just me, but I have found those two to be one of the best environment and setting based series I've ever seen. Yes, the artwork is kind of wierd, but you get past that by ep. 2.

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[strike105x]

Series that involve Mahjong, Card battles etc never where my thing and i reexpress my self i dont like the character artwork :P.

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