Anime, Manga, Visual Novels, ect.

[Wings of Fire]

Oh, alright.

I'm finding it kind of hard to get new vns, as /rs/ and torrenting sites are starting to fail me more and more as I move out of the mainstream. Like Ever17, shit do I want to play Ever17.

[crimsonxking]

I played most of the visual novels I played a few years ago, Ever17 included. I found most of them either by google or hongfire.

Chaos;Head is really damn good too. Horrible anime adaptation, though.

[Wings of Fire]

I'm from the UK, we have a law stipulating that my internet can get cut off if I go on any torrent sites which hold stuff that's copyrighted in the west. So that's basically everything except nyaatorrents, tvtoshio etc.

Also did you prefer the anime or the vn of Clannad? Because I definitely prefered the anime of Kanon, although I loved the vn too.

[Emesdee]

Chaos;Head is really damn good too. Horrible anime adaptation, though.

Oh, that was horrible. The VN has been translated though?

[crimsonxking]

I much prefer the visual novel of Clannad. It's got everything the anime had and more. All the major routes are romantic and some of them aren't properly represented in the anime (not the anime's fault at all, of course) and it has some other mini-routes that never made it to the anime. Plus it all flows very well and is really fun to play. The anime is great too, though, even if it does get kinda hard to follow at the end of the second season.

For Kanon, I think I like the anime more. But only because of the annoyance I mentioned earlier about how they handled separating the routes. But there was still a lot of stuff I liked about the visual novel over the anime.

Oh, that was horrible. The VN has been translated though?

Yeah, the visual novel is translated. I highly suggest giving it a try. The anime was a horrible horrible god-awful representation of it.

[Wings of Fire]

I liked the Kanon anime better because of the final arc, and how it brought the whole cast in for the grand finale and that amazing scene with them all treating Ayu.

[Pilot]

So... why are there only like two people posting in this thread?

[Sekto Springs]

I'm sure Strike Witch will join in on the fun soon enough. She can be the large coke.

[Strike Witch]

hahahahha fuck you

I'm not a depressing VN person, but I do like Umineko. I also played Aoishiro a bit.

As to manga, I read Hayate the Combat Butler, One Piece, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, The World God Only Knows, Sasameki Koto, and Break Blade.

On the Anime front, I've recently being enjoying K-On!!, Seitokai Yakuindomo, Working!!, and Strike Witches 2. I'm a big Gundam fan, and in the live shows department I like Kamen Rider.

Also I own pretty much every Touhou Project game.

[Wings of Fire]

She doesn't like Type Moon OR KEY.

She's such a bitch.

[Strike Witch]

Stop trying to impress your new friend Joe.

[Wings of Fire]

I'm so fickle nano desu

[Pilot]

I'm so pickle mato dressing

Fixed.

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

[crimsonxking]

Umineko [...] Hayate the Combat Butler [...] The World God Only Knows, Sasameki Koto, [...] Gundam [...] Touhou

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.

[Alcar]

Oh hai guys I liek Naruto.

Alcar...

[Wings of Fire]

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!'

[Strike Witch]

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.

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

[crimsonxking]

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.

[Alcar]

Has anything important happened since I stopped reading?

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

Alcar...

[Strike Witch]

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.

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.

[crimsonxking]

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.

[Strike Witch]

Fuck you

slice of life is fanfuckingtastic

[Wings of Fire]

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.

[crimsonxking]

Fuck you

slice of life is fanfuckingtastic

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

[Emesdee]

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

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

[Strike Witch]

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

Then your opinions are invalid to me.

[Wings of Fire]

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

[Mac Sirloin]

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.

[crimsonxking]

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.

[Strike Witch]

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.