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[strike105x]

Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

It was also pleasant to see energy attacks without names.

lol so true there (oh, and yeah i for one liked it all including the ending)

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[strike105x]

I just saw the Initial-D third stage, animation just got better and seems they made changes again to the characters, still i thought i was gonna be b*tching about it being just one movie, but damn it so great just perfect XD, i never seen anything like this neither movie or anime i wonder how stage 4 is going to be until now it kept evolving with each stage.

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[SCHUMI_4EVER]

How on earth did you like the ending...especially with all the unanswered questions...

"Regain your memories"....yeah he regained about 10% of em...nothing really important though...although he did sort of decide they were no longer important to him...
"Help and lead Maria".....yeah erm...that never happened....
He kept on getting stronger and stronger eclipsing everyone with absolutely no reason why...and it's not like s-CRY-ed where that was merely the full power everyone should be able to attain...
Eiji: "O yeah I should give this back to you" ..... WTF IS THAT???? The Final episode should either resolve questions or resolve story....not throw gigantic questions at you...
Why is Eiji so strong and where was he?
Hikaru? rewritten memories?
Why the heck is Kei Kudou such a significant name...it's obvious the guy did something amazing but for pete's sake is a quick little 1 or 2 minutes history lesson too much to ask?
Espers? Why when where why what? Ashurum's history? Granted s-CRY-ed gave us roughly the the same info (or should I say lack thereof) on the Lost Grounds and the Alters...but we did find out more of a history and background on Hold and HOLY than we did on Ashurum and Aeses....

....and those are just for starters...to be kind I am excusing all those things where they mainly hinted at something and allowed us to assume the rest (like everything surrounding Maxim)

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[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by strike105x

I just saw the Initial-D third stage, animation just got better and seems they made changes again to the characters, still i thought i was gonna be b*tching about it being just one movie, but damn it so great just perfect XD, i never seen anything like this neither movie or anime i wonder how stage 4 is going to be until now it kept evolving with each stage.

4th stage has the best car-race visuals + animation.
the bad part is, its the last season ><

i'll probably finish the series this weekend :o

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[strike105x]

Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

How on earth did you like the ending...especially with all the unanswered questions...

"Regain your memories"....yeah he regained about 10% of em...nothing really important though...although he did sort of decide they were no longer important to him...
"Help and lead Maria".....yeah erm...that never happened....
He kept on getting stronger and stronger eclipsing everyone with absolutely no reason why...and it's not like s-CRY-ed where that was merely the full power everyone should be able to attain...
Eiji: "O yeah I should give this back to you" ..... WTF IS THAT???? The Final episode should either resolve questions or resolve story....not throw gigantic questions at you...
Why is Eiji so strong and where was he?
Hikaru? rewritten memories?
Why the heck is Kei Kudou such a significant name...it's obvious the guy did something amazing but for pete's sake is a quick little 1 or 2 minutes history lesson too much to ask?
Espers? Why when where why what? Ashurum's history? Granted s-CRY-ed gave us roughly the the same info (or should I say lack thereof) on the Lost Grounds and the Alters...but we did find out more of a history and background on Hold and HOLY than we did on Ashurum and Aeses....

....and those are just for starters...to be kind I am excusing all those things where they mainly hinted at something and allowed us to assume the rest (like everything surrounding Maxim)

Well i didnt said it was the greatest it just didnt bother me

Originally Posted by cottonvibes

4th stage has the best car-race visuals + animation.
the bad part is, its the last season ><

i'll probably finish the series this weekend :o

Same here >.< (PS: there's also extra stage and extra stage 2)

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[Samor]

...and battle stage 1/2 (but they're more like compilations of the races + some additions)

stage 4 concentrates more on racing and less on drama, btw...

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[cottonvibes]

just finished episode 14 of 4th stage. (@24:26 i LMAO'd, funniest moment in the series xD)


my main complaint with Initial D, is that every romantic-relationship in the series doesn't go well.
the show can alternatively be named "the lonely drivers."
i feel bad for them.

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[strike105x]

Well at least in initial D you know how they end , what i generally hate in anime is that the relationships dont end in a way that makes you certain that those two characters are gonna live happily ever after or broke up


EDIT: that chase in Third stage near the end on the snowing pass when mogi was kidnapped was epic XD

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[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by strike105x

Well at least in initial D you know how they end

well thats the thing, you don't really know how it'll end.
Initial D will have some breakup, and then ~10 episodes later the characters will start talking to each other giving you the impression they're going to get back together, only to breakup again...

i don't want to spoil anything, so i won't list specific examples. but i'm constantly being 'tricked' into thinking there's going to be a happy ending, but they always breakup

Originally Posted by strike105x

EDIT: that chase in Third stage near the end on the snowing pass when mogi was kidnapped was epic XD

yeah that was cool.
in initial d 4th stage, my favorite race so far has been the one against the professional racer.
i won't spoil how the race ends, but the ending was very cool IMO xD

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[Samor]

Originally Posted by strike105x

EDIT: that chase in Third stage near the end on the snowing pass when mogi was kidnapped was epic XD

I like the Irohazaka battles in the movie better....

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[strike105x]

Well does where excellent hat off to the devs and driving/action wise they where superior, but i probably liked the snowy battle more than those because that guy was a totally @$$ and he got owned (and probably because of the "knight in shining armor riding on a trueno" coming to save the princess scenario ).

PS: this made me wanna watch it again

Edit: also no other anime or movie or show or scene got me so involved as this one i kept thinking "zomfg takumi get the f.. home and answer the damn phone" lol

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[Radix865]

Initial D invasion in progress it seems... Never watched that... Sorry!

Anyone know if Umineko no naku koroni is as good as higurashi, the game I mean? As its getting anime next month if I remember it right

I tought K-ON would end in the last episode as the episode title kind of hinted that, luckily I was wrong!

Also, anyone watched the new haruhi, the second episode of 2009 is subbed now! Pretty nice episode too!

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[Samor]

I didn't watch Extra Stage 2, but I watched the other Initial D eps (save battle stage, because it's just a compilation and couldn't hold my interest).

as for k-on, the next ep. has "extra" in the title so it might still end after that... or they're just playing with our minds

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Anyone know if Umineko no naku koroni is as good as higurashi, the game I mean? As its getting anime next month if I remember it right

It's different, don't arrive to it expecting a Higurashi 2, it's a great game in its own right. Personally I like Umineko more.

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Ikkitousen: The story revolves around Hakufu Sonsaku a high school girl who enrolled into Nanyou Academy. She participates in tournament battles against other schools while at the same time trying to avoid the tragic destiny of her heritage.


The story is based on the Three Kingdoms and unfortunately some of character development and motives are lacking. The characters would make a decision that would make the situation worse, but they made that decision because that happened in the Three Kingdoms story!

There are two subplots that I found interesting (The whereabouts of the Nanyou school Leader and betrayal of the main villain in the story).

The story starts out on a light note but as it progress it becomes tragic and violent. There is rape scene that leads to the death of one of the characters which is distributing.

The series is infamously known for its fan service. Women’s clothes are torn a like tissue paper when they fight. It would have enjoyable to watch to see two women battle it out but the fights also involve men as well. It’s not my cup of team when I see a guy beating the stuffing out from a girl.

I had low expectations for the series. After watching the first season it’s not as bad as I thought it would be. I still consider this to be rental.


Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny: There is all out war between the three main rival schools. (Nanyou, Seito and Kyoshou)
The main focus of the story is on Seito. Two warriors Kan’u Unchou and Chouhi Ekitoku, are trying to protect their bookworm leader Ryuubi Gentoku from the feuding war.

The violence and sex seems to be up a notch in the second season. There is a sex scene that is borderline hentai. The number of causalities is higher with students killing students. I found the violence to be more disturbing (A girl’s head is crushed into a cement wall by the main antagonist). I sometimes wonder where the police are with all this mayhem going on.

Like the first season the characters make their decisions based on the Three Kingdom which leads to situations that does not make sense at all.

There is a scene where a Kyoshou adviser warns the antagonist not to make the same decision that lead to his predecessors defeat in the Three Kingdoms, but he still made it anyway! It feels like the characters are operating on auto pilot without thinking at all.

The second season suffers from character bloat. A dozen new characters are introduced but the given very little screen time. A character may appear in one scene and then never show up again in the rest of the series. This leads to non-existence character development.

The story tries to be complex by basing it on the Three Kingdom story, but actually leads to weaken character development.

There is one more season of Ikkitousen I have to watch, but for a series that promotes itself as anime chicks beating each other up, there are not enough of these scenes.

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[strike105x]

Originally Posted by RZetlin

Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny:
The second season suffers from character bloat. A dozen new characters are introduced but the given very little screen time. A character may appear in one scene and then never show up again in the rest of the series. This leads to non-existence character development.

The story tries to be complex by basing it on the Three Kingdom story, but actually leads to weaken character development.

There is one more season of Ikkitousen I have to watch, but for a series that promotes itself as anime chicks beating each other up, there are not enough of these scenes.

Strange DD seemed the best in the series to me and it didnt seem to suffer from character bloat, just because they appear on the screen a and give there names it doesnt neccesarly mean that they got to have more screen time (at least for me) also story seemed a lot better.

As for S3 for me it was a let down, its to bloated with fan service and lacks in the rest also they made Kanu lesby damn them :/.

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[cottonvibes]

Finished Initial D series (well i still have extra stage 1 and 2, but they're side-stories that aren't important, and i'm not sure if i'll watch them...)

i hope they make a 5th stage sometime, this series turned out to be pretty great. i'm glad strike105x posted that youtube video a while back, or else i wouldn't have bothered watching it.

anyways, now i'm looking for another anime to watch... :/
sadly the more anime i watch, the harder it is to find other good series...

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[strike105x]

I still have to watch 4th stage but i think i'll watch the extra stages as well as the battle stages.

PS: until now this remains my fav part i cant get enough of watching this:

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Originally Posted by strike105x

Strange DD seemed the best in the series to me and it didnt seem to suffer from character bloat, just because they appear on the screen a and give there names it doesnt neccesarly mean that they got to have more screen time (at least for me) also story seemed a lot better.

As for S3 for me it was a let down, its to bloated with fan service and lacks in the rest also they made Kanu lesby damn them :/.

But I thought it added more personality to her stoic demeanor.


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Ikkitousen: Great Guardians: The wars between the three rival schools are over. The leaders of Nanyou and Seito have formed new relationships and are living peacefully. This changes when a new sinister force starts to infiltrate into the schools.

I have mixed feelings of the third season of Ikkitousen. The Three Kingdom storyline isn’t clogging up the character development like the previous two seasons. I like the lighter tone of the episodes. The 3rd season only introduces 3 new characters and doesn’t suffer character bloat like the last season.

Unfortunately, the writers of the third season seem to be creatively bankrupt. The main storyline feels like something out of a bad fan fiction:

- Introducing a long lost sister
- Bringing back a popular dead character in season 1

Great Guardians worked best when it is doing the filler episodes, but it is at the worst when dealing with the main storyline.

The main storyline keeps pulling a deus ex machine of bringing characters out of nowhere to resolve the solution or further the storyline.

The antagonist motive for attacking all the schools doesn’t make sense because she only needs to target one person.

There is less fighting in this season so some fans might be disappointed.

Some of the characters benefited with development while other suffered in the third season.

Spoiler:

Sonsaku Hakufu: Denser than usual. Her personality is reduced to 5 year old with a short attention span. She doesn’t even question why a long lost sister appears out of nowhere. She doesn’t even remember the battle with the Ryofu Housen in season 1. No character development at all – only there to fight.

Sonken Chuubou: There is no reason to introduce her to the storyline. She gives quotes from the “Art of War” book and can’t even fight. Her presence is there for window dressing.

Shuuyu Koukin: The only person who some sense to question of the situation around them.

Ryomou Shimei: The only character that benefited with character development in this season. We get to see her past and her conflicted love relationship.

Gakushuu: Very little screen time.

Kan'u Unchou: She developed a romantic jealous crush and with her leader. Some fans didn’t like that fact Kan’u has been reduced to a comedic support, but I thought it added more personality to her stoic demeanor.

Ryofu Housen: She’s presented as a dangling carrot to get the fans excited. It feels like the writers are playing around with the fans’ feelings. Just as things get good she’s snatched away at end which is very frustrating.

The 3rd season feels like a creampuff where it looks good but you feel empty after eating it.

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[cottonvibes]

anybody watched Fist of the North Star or Flame of Recca?
i'm thinking about starting one of those next.

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