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I've heard worse reasons to watch something.

I am seriously lacking in Super Robot things that I have watched.

Seriously, I've got, like, Voltron, and that's really about it.

I hear Ikki Tousen is tangentially related to the Three Kingdoms, which would be the only reason I might ever watch it, but chances are they screwed it up anyway.

...Hey, most of my knowledge of the Three Kingdoms era is from the Dynasty Warriors series, and I doubt that's particularly accurate.  I know Liu Bei got one hell of a whitewash, as historically he was a huge asshole, while in DW he's practically a saint.

Also, Wei, Wu, and Shu.  All of which were in China, and were more or less warring to become the new Emperor.  The leaders, that is, not the kingdoms.

EDIT:  Hm.  The site keeps logging me out every time I make a new post.  I have no idea why this is.

Last edited by Tribute. (2009-09-23 01:28:18am)

Yeah, that was also written 1000+ years after the events occurred and changed a bunch of stuff, so it's probably no more accurate than DW is.

Soul Eater: I don't remember what I was looking for, but on some forum that didn't have that, someone had Death the Kid in their sig. He's an interesting enough character design that I looked it up. It's quite good. I am happy to live in the modern era wherebefore I think the art style of this would have been too... interpretive? I was thinking about some other things when I had that idea, maybe I don't mean it.
I got the manga first (they download faster), and the problem with that is in this order I get the idea of what people should sound like, and that idea isn't how Soul or Black*Star sound. Shinigami-sama is strange sounding, but I knew that already, it's just a different kind of strange then I imagined. Also, they've translated Shinigami-sama's name (the subs say 'Grim Reaper') and not Brea (which is what her name sounds like in Japanese, but it's probably supposed to be Blair. Because she's (not) a witch. Ha1)
Anyway, motion and colour do add significantly to the esthetic value, although the art is necessarily less odd. The fighting is cool though, it's almost enough to convince me that a scythe is a viable weapon (which, in spite of their awesomness, I'm convinced they aren't), but people can't actually move that fast.
Why am I saying all these things when I've only seen one episode and can't even tell you that Kid sounds wrong yet? Well, I've read half the manga and I can probably say it'll be about that good. Also, if you look closely you'll see that I haven't really said anything.

Candy Boy: What's that I said about me looking like a pervert in this thread? Ha ha ha ha! *sigh*

IkkiTousen: Second season now, because the first got better near the end. And I don't mean the episode with the hot spring. I'm hoping Kanu is in this one more. I have a habit of finding peripheral characters more interesting then the central ones.

Gintama.  I picked it up recently and have enjoyed it thoroughly.  It fills the gag referential anime hole that was left when Yakitate!! Japan ended, among other things.

I'll be honest, anime is pretty goddamn terrible, the last one I seriously watched was Shin Mazinger and that is because I am a gigantic faggoty fanboy for Go Nagai and his giant robot stuff.

There's exceptions to this, but I mean really.

Gungrave.

I love it. Easily the best anime adaptation of a video game I've ever seen (then again, the bar isn't set very high on those kinds of adaptations.) The fact that it's got character designs by the guy who wrote Trigun just makes it better.

After so many years of hearing the name Hellsing, I still have no idea what it's about.

On another note. I'm watching all these Rockman.EXE episodes.
Never realized how much stuff they cut out in the English ones until I watched the Japanese ones. o__o

I like how it's filed under Violence. D

Maybe you mean something else, but is your computer this guy?

Birdy the Mighty: Yeah whatever. I'd give up if it wasn't so easily accessible
History's Strongest Disciple (manga)(title translations vary): Also easy to get, but better!

Phantasy Star III is my favourite game I've never finished (because I suck at RPGs, and *spoilers* dies right away anyway).