"Dio (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) also was cited frequently thanks to his coolness and awesome lines. One respondent claimed that 'he's strong, so I would feel at ease with him as a friend.' Another mentioned as a reason that 'he could easily throw me with the palm of his hand.'"
Other noteworthy choices include Ichijou (Kaiji), since he "knows how to get by very well"; Hanagata (Kyojin no Hoshi); Muska (Castle in the Sky), since "his choice of words is interesting"; Utsumi (Patlabor the Mobile Police); Hisoka (Hunter × Hunter); and Koro-sensei (Assassination Classroom), so you can touch his tentacles.
you ever have that thing where you have a show that you watched when you were really little and all of a sudden you remember a few details and you spend ages googling them until you figure out what it was?
the space elves have blue hair, speak a conlang based (IIRC in cannon for some convoluted reason) on ancient japanese, and in their society smiling is basically means "i hate you"
well i guess there's a few things i'm kinda addressing in that long-winded post:
* troperizing (i.e. thinking of things in tropes) * obsessed with newness / "throwaway culture" * people not taking serious stories seriously or otherwise cheapening or ruining the experienceand perhaps more subtly: * thinking of it through the lens of and/or with an emphasis on social interaction
Oh you would hate me then. :P
I love joking about stuff, even with my favorite series. I can take serious stories seriously mind you, but I do enjoy poking fun here and there.
Probably why I love FFV Advance's translation as my favorite translation.
well i guess there's a few things i'm kinda addressing in that long-winded post:
* troperizing (i.e. thinking of things in tropes) * obsessed with newness / "throwaway culture" * people not taking serious stories seriously or otherwise cheapening or ruining the experienceand perhaps more subtly: * thinking of it through the lens of and/or with an emphasis on social interaction
Oh you would hate me then. :P
I love joking about stuff, even with my favorite series. I can take serious stories seriously mind you, but I do enjoy poking fun here and there.
Probably why I love FFV Advance's translation as my favorite translation.
hahahaha :)
well, incidentally, I haven't played FFV's Advance translation fully, but I expect to prefer RPGe's translation, because I actually took its story seriously and enjoyed it.
but yeah, it's like, i get annoyed at jokes about chihaya kisaragi being flat-chested, for example. that one example of a very persistent meme in the fandom that bugs me.
best known for being a little too serious, not particularly interested in the flashier show-biz aspects of being a pop idol, and a really, really, really good singer.
That's a basic summary of her character right there. Also she's one of my favorite characters.
FYI, if you ever want to watch a series that's about show biz, and one with a very interesting (and thoughtfully-presented) set of characters, check out "The iDOLM@STER". (Don't bother with Idolmaster Xenoglossia; that's a weird-ass mech show.)
Thanks for the offer, but I honestly can't say it'd interest me that much. Doesn't really looks like it has much of a grab on me, nor does it really align with my taste.
What's your taste like, just curious? That said it's probably nothing like mine, haha, so I don't think I'll have much I can even rec...though I shouldn't rec anything since you aren't exactly asking for it.
Yeah, asides from shared stuff in our video game taste (Mostly Mega Man and Castlevania), I tend to lean more to Shonen or Comedy than anything. I have watched stuff like Cowboy Bebop and Eureka Seven if it kinda helps (I'm mostly a casual fan of them to be honest), but it's predominantly those two taste things.
Also binging on Gravity Falls cuts to my anime time since that show is more to my tastes (God I love that show.)
Yeah, I pretty much don't do anime comedy, with a handful of exceptions. Heartwarming comedy, maybe, but not wacky comedy.
Shonen is sort of a larger group, and also a demographic label more than a genre label...so I can't say much. If it's stereotypical fighting action shonen we're talking about, I don't mind it, as long as the setting and characters are interesting, I guess. Though I also have a preference for female protagonists but this doesn't always hold true.
Yeah, I figured as much. Our tastes really don't intersect for the most part.
And call me a sucker for fighting series, it's what I primarily grew up on and I still find enjoyment out of them (Ie: Dragon Ball and the like. I totally need to get into Fist of the North Star.)
And aye, I do like me female protagonists even if most of the anime I like is notably lacking in that regard. :/
The more I read about people's tastes the more I think that what we watch when we're young strongly influences it.
That said, let's see...for me, I watched Voltron and Pokémon, primarily. Voltron is a super robot show, but I primarily enjoyed it for the character and setting drama. And Pokémon for the adventure, which I guess it primarily is. It also has great music. lol
So maybe it doesn't really work for me...though I guess I do still like fantasy adventure and character drama.
Maybe I got my liking for teamwork stuff from playing RPGs. I kinda like it when a party gradually accumulates interesting allies along the way.
Incidentally one thing that is a bit of a pet peeve is those stories involving everyone fighting everyone else in a battle to the death because...just because. It's like, hey, we're gonna have characters fighting each other just to show off special effects. It feels meaningless. You can maybe throw some philosophical lines about the meaning of fighting into there, but that doesn't help it much.
On the other hand, I'm a big fan of stories that involve people forming (and even breaking and re-forming) alliances to accomplish certain goals or oppose each other. Not necessarily in overt ways, but in kinda "organic", dynamic ways. The Tower of Druaga is an example of this -- you have the designated antagonist, Druaga, atop the tower, and you have multiple groups of many characters climbing it -- but as it turns out, each with their own agenda in mind, and they often run into each other, on not necessarily friendly terms. And things happen, and the characters start to discover more about each other, their personalities, their motives, and they also themselves change in the process. And then more things happen...
I didn't want to draw attention to it before but I wonder if it means something that one of the two VNs that I've read and highly praise (granted I've read very few VNs) is advertised as having "western storytelling" and "eastern art" and the other is actually a fully western production.
No, no, no. There's nothing inherently geocultural about styles of storytelling. This is just a coincidence. Both sides are just as capable of writing good (and bad) stories.
there's nothing inherently geocultural about styles of storytelling but there are definitely certain tropes and influences that are going to be way stronger in certain places than others
The Vanishing of Nagato Yuki-chan is the corniest thing ever made and I love it to pieces. I squeed in a way that adult humans are not supposed to when Haruhi finally made her first appearance.
My only real issue is that despite being (thankfully) significantly toned down from the original series, Mikuru is still basically treated as a thing.
You guys should watch Trigun. It's like if you blended everything wrong with the 90s, slapped it onto a ridiculously optimistic story and watched as it became something legitimately powerful.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_of_the_Stars
i must have watched this when i was like 7 or something and i remember it being really good
(The other Jane)
that said that description works too
i'm posting this in the Anime thread because i inextricably associate this piece with Kiddy Grade
(hey, it does very roughly follow the plot of the series...more specifically, the journey of the primary protagonist, Éclair)
so yeah, when people talk about that series, i think of something of this amount of grandeur, poignancy, and depth and breadth of emotion
I love joking about stuff, even with my favorite series. I can take serious stories seriously mind you, but I do enjoy poking fun here and there.
Probably why I love FFV Advance's translation as my favorite translation.
well, incidentally, I haven't played FFV's Advance translation fully, but I expect to prefer RPGe's translation, because I actually took its story seriously and enjoyed it.
but yeah, it's like, i get annoyed at jokes about chihaya kisaragi being flat-chested, for example. that one example of a very persistent meme in the fandom that bugs me.
Also I have no idea who the fuck this Chihaya person is.
best known for being a little too serious, not particularly interested in the flashier show-biz aspects of being a pop idol, and a really, really, really good singer.
That's a basic summary of her character right there. Also she's one of my favorite characters.
FYI, if you ever want to watch a series that's about show biz, and one with a very interesting (and thoughtfully-presented) set of characters, check out "The iDOLM@STER". (Don't bother with Idolmaster Xenoglossia; that's a weird-ass mech show.)
Thanks for the offer, but I honestly can't say it'd interest me that much. Doesn't really looks like it has much of a grab on me, nor does it really align with my taste.
What's your taste like, just curious? That said it's probably nothing like mine, haha, so I don't think I'll have much I can even rec...though I shouldn't rec anything since you aren't exactly asking for it.
Also binging on Gravity Falls cuts to my anime time since that show is more to my tastes (God I love that show.)
Shonen is sort of a larger group, and also a demographic label more than a genre label...so I can't say much. If it's stereotypical fighting action shonen we're talking about, I don't mind it, as long as the setting and characters are interesting, I guess. Though I also have a preference for female protagonists but this doesn't always hold true.
And call me a sucker for fighting series, it's what I primarily grew up on and I still find enjoyment out of them (Ie: Dragon Ball and the like. I totally need to get into Fist of the North Star.)
And aye, I do like me female protagonists even if most of the anime I like is notably lacking in that regard. :/
That said, let's see...for me, I watched Voltron and Pokémon, primarily. Voltron is a super robot show, but I primarily enjoyed it for the character and setting drama. And Pokémon for the adventure, which I guess it primarily is. It also has great music. lol
So maybe it doesn't really work for me...though I guess I do still like fantasy adventure and character drama.
Maybe I got my liking for teamwork stuff from playing RPGs. I kinda like it when a party gradually accumulates interesting allies along the way.
Incidentally one thing that is a bit of a pet peeve is those stories involving everyone fighting everyone else in a battle to the death because...just because. It's like, hey, we're gonna have characters fighting each other just to show off special effects. It feels meaningless. You can maybe throw some philosophical lines about the meaning of fighting into there, but that doesn't help it much.
On the other hand, I'm a big fan of stories that involve people forming (and even breaking and re-forming) alliances to accomplish certain goals or oppose each other. Not necessarily in overt ways, but in kinda "organic", dynamic ways. The Tower of Druaga is an example of this -- you have the designated antagonist, Druaga, atop the tower, and you have multiple groups of many characters climbing it -- but as it turns out, each with their own agenda in mind, and they often run into each other, on not necessarily friendly terms. And things happen, and the characters start to discover more about each other, their personalities, their motives, and they also themselves change in the process. And then more things happen...
No, no, no. There's nothing inherently geocultural about styles of storytelling. This is just a coincidence. Both sides are just as capable of writing good (and bad) stories.