Stop trying to impress your new friend Joe.

I'm so fickle nano desu

Fixed.

It's okay man, the McDLT will never die. Party on, dudes.

I like all of these things a lot. Sasameki Koto is one of my favorite manga, right under Bakuman and The Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer. I just wish it updated a bit faster. The people who translate it wait for the volumed releases.

Oh hai guys I liek Naruto.

Alcar...

Has anything important happened since I stopped reading?

I think I stopped reading when Killerbee said 'Naruto mah boi, control of their tailed beast is what all true warriors wish for!'

I'm patient. It's better to wait.

It's definitely worth the wait for sure. I'm quite invested in the series by now. I just wonder how long it can continue with what has happened recently.

Yes. We've just met Kushina, and are going through the Kyuubi's attack on Konoha.

Alcar...

Honestly, the neverrending dancing about pisses me off. The only reason I continue is because I'm invested in the story, so I can't let it go.

Ah well, least I have K-On.

I liked K-ON for like 4 episodes, then it got on my nerves.

I'd much rather KyoAni do something of more worth. Like another season of Full Metal Panic, considering their take on it (The Second Raid) was the best the series has ever been. I've also been waiting for a Little Busters adaptation. They fouled up the second season of Haruhi pretty bad too, but I was never super crazy about Haruhi anyway.

I have nothing for me this season, sadly.

Fuck you

slice of life is fanfuckingtastic

Oh yeah. I finally finished Haruhi a few days ago.

The plot arc was great, the slice of life episodes were boring as shit except for the murder mystery.

I love slice of life. I just don't like K-ON.

Airing the show in a random order was genius, because the series was pretty boring in chronological order.

Then your opinions are invalid to me.

Just like hers are invalid to 99% of the internet.

I recently came across an anime called Big-T!me Ollyfont. It's about a time travelling skateboarder and his greasy, middle-aged uncle who can write things into existence. Lots of wordplay and puns about lettering that aren't just endless streams of half-comprehensible Japanabullshit. The real draw for me was that they fight Kaiju monsters, a lot of which are parodies or out-and-out cameos of creatures or stuff from western culture.

The whole series is 30 episodes long, with about 26 Kaiju battles throughout. Highly recommended since it's legitimately funny for people who aren't fucking anime nerds and the Kaiju battles have some of the most efficient use of music, animation and aesthetic that I can think of. They're seriously fucking incredible.

Haruhi has a lot of potential to be a really good show, they just refuse to embrace that potential and fill it up with fluff like baseball and whatever the hell they thought they were doing with Endless Eight.

I still enjoyed the first season regardless of that, and I'm looking forward to seeing the movie. But I never got why people got so obsessed with it. I normally get annoyed by them implying more interesting things were going on and never dealing with them.

Basically, Haruhi was a decent show but it had good character dynamics that made them memorable.

Lucky Star slowed the fuck down, but it also had decent character dynamics that would have been better if it followed the manga a bit closer in regards to relationships (IE Miyuki's position adjusted etc).

Then K-On which has the best character dynamics down to an art.

Haruhi had the best animation though.

I like Lucky Star way more than Haruhi or K-ON, because the references make me smirk. Speaking of which, I need to buy the last three DVDs of that show... it's just a hassle because I have been buying the Limited Editions.

Eh, Lucky Star kinda bled references when you cut it.

It was kinda like Transformers Animated in that it had way too many cameos, homages and references. I mean, sure, if it works for jokes, but you don't need to jam them in everywhere.

That was the fun of the show for me, though. Without the references, the show would have just been more of the same of other shows of a similar nature.

Disagree, I appreciated the jokes about food, politics, karate, random notions, and word gags more.

I liked those too, but they really wouldn't have made Lucky Star stand out to me as much if they didn't have the references and homages to top it all off.

I think Sayanora Zetsubou Sensei does that kind of humor much better personally. I like that series a lot.

I read a crap-ton of the manga, didn't feel the need to watch the show.

Of Sayanora Zetsubou Sensei? I read it and watch it. I like both.

I made the same mistake. I eventually just sold my Haruhi and Lucky Star DVDs, since by that point I realized that I was spending way too much money on something I didn't enjoy enough.

Another good one was Train Martyr>48 Station, Jordan has a mysterious DVD Boxset of it. It's from the early or mid 90's and basically just a really, really long-ass detective story. It didn't use that 90's Anime Jazz that Golden Boy and City Hunter gloriously birthed into the world, but you anticipate it because it's so 90's Anime.
Oh, and it's 90 episodes long. Each episode is 45 minutes, then there's the movie that ties in around episodes 40 to about 50, and another movie that closed the series.

The main character has to follow an elderly man along his tour of Europe and Africa, but I don't think they ever state why. Instead, at about the 6th episode mark, he starts seeing the same people wherever he goes, seemingly making it there before him. It's really engrossing and super interesting, but, you know, almost 100 hours long.

I tend to one or the other. Though I tend to swing towards Manga as it's closer to creator intent.

I didn't bother with the Haruhi LE. Only LE's I bought were Lucky Star and Code Geass. Because I wanted those extras. I like merch and whatnot.

Speaking of long-ass detective stories, though. I need to finish watching Monster one of these days.

I was caught up in the hype leading to it's release, with those cheesy live action internet shorts that were getting released every couple months.

I really need to pick up the light novels of Haruhi some day.

I have the Fate/Zero ones.

I'd buy Fate/Zero but it's not out in English and I don't buy things I can't read.

I've been wanting to read those, but not sure if I should wait and start up Fate/Stay Night again, or just read Fate/Zero and do it in chronological order.

You've read the F/SN visual novel? Did you finish it... or...?

I only got partway through the Fate scenario. I lost interest because at the time I was impatient and wanted Unlimited Blade Works awesomeness.

Definitely do not Fate/Zero first!

I say go for F/SN all the way first. Fate is pretty boring. But the awesomeness of Unlimited Blade Works and grand story of Heaven's Feel make it worth it.

Really Fate is more like a prologue to the main story, it's like the best case scenario.

I was kind of pissed I only ever got to see Caster's face once. Come on HA translation!