Like anime, Like basketball?

[StevOz]

Then you really should do yourself a favour and checkout this anime series..

Just a really tight scripted and realistic premise with no overly outrageous super powers involved..

http://myanimelist.net/anime/11771/Kuroko_no_Basket

torentz here..

http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=search&cats...erm=Kuroko%27s

I don't even care for basketball that much, though really enjoy every episode, the story line is that strong and the animation is second to none.

For Ike, just watching Death Note now.

[tiltjlp]

I love basketball but absolutely hate anime. What a waste of a good sports theme.

[StevOz]

I find it strange myself that you can "hate" Japanese animations, why whatever did they do to offend you so?

[sleepy]

I've always felt that the Japanese artwork and anime styles
served the advancement of video games and their popularity very, very well.

I'm only saying.

[tiltjlp]

Originally Posted by StevOz

I find it strange myself that you can "hate" Japanese animations, why whatever did they do to offend you so?

They've never done a thing to me. I have vision problems and flashing lights can and have caused me serious physical discomfort. But I'm fair in that I dislike most animation period. I'm just not big on cartoons, other than The Simpsons.

[StevOz]

Either way your afflictions are not relevant to this thread John, this is for those that can appreciate this art.

[Itchigo]

Death Note ROCKS!!

[tiltjlp]

Originally Posted by StevOz

Either way your afflictions are not relevant to this thread John, this is for those that can appreciate this art.

I agree. But you did mention you don't like basketball but like anime, and that was what my original post eluded to. My second post simply answered your question, and this post points out why I'm involved in this thread at all.

[StevOz]

Well

sermantics

Semantics

aside.

Originally Posted by Itchigo

Death Note ROCKS!!

If you liked death note then I can highly recommend this anime Mirai Nikki.

http://myanimelist.net/anime/10620/Mirai_Nikki_%28TV%29

http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=search&cats...ot+speed+Mirai

[StevOz]

For a change of pace...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798188/

Absolutely enchanting...

[Ike Savage]

pardon me- long passion-inflamed post coming!

Originally Posted by tiltjlp

I agree. But you did mention you don't like basketball but like anime, and that was what my original post eluded to. My second post simply answered your question, and this post points out why I'm involved in this thread at all.

"alluded," FYI.

john, i share some of your sentiment about anime, just not as extremely as you do. the japanese are such a weirdly narcissistic culture in many ways and a lot of that shows in their anime, for better or worse. still, you're doing yourself a disservice if you haven't checked out certain stuff, like miyazaki's "castle in the sky," "princess mononoke," and "spirited away."

at the peak of miyazaki's game, there is no better animation / storylines in the history of animation. not disney, groening, linklater, bakshi, bluth, or anyone else's work i've ever seen. spirited away also won an academy award, if that means anything to you. but to be specific, miyazaki's work is rich and rife with childlike flights of imagination married to themes of mythology and subtle commentary on the nature of man. quality is similar to disney, but without the canned, hokey and predictable nature that disney's films fell in to, especially after walt passed away. no, miyazaki's work is deeply satisfying on many levels... not unlike the simpsons that you mention. (well, at least seasons 1-9, before it became a weak parody of itself)


@steve and dan,
i'm glad that you guys liked death note. i was a little let down by the ending, but overall was thrilled by the quality of storyline and art. i wish more modern manga was remotely of that quality, because wading through reams of school-girl / school-boy-themed self-important rubbish to find something equally good is... tough.

anyway, thanks for the recommendations of mirai nikki, kuroko no basket and poppy hill!
i desperately need to free up space on this HDD so i can start DL'ing again. :S


re: manga,
the most recent stuff i found that was of top quality was osama tezuka's old stuff, like his series on the life of buddha and the other one about adolf hitler's secret jewish heritage.

recently i've found that the best graphic storytelling has been from europe... they call them "bandes dessinees" (drawn strips). at best, the subject matter deals with fascinating real-world issues from history, such as the one about the female chinese spy in pre-red hong kong ("white tigress"), the one about nero drusus of early rome ("the eagles of rome"), the tolkienesque / richard adams-esque ("watership down") mythology about a group of medieval mice functioning in a world of hostile predators ("mouse guard"), an alternate story to anne frank's ("a jew in communist prague")...

graphic-storytelling has never been more excellent IMO. i'm proud of how very far these guys and gals have come the last decade or two. the work is both educational, gripping, and outright fascinating, like the best of contemporary literature. just that, again, there's an ocean of mediocre crap to wade through in order to get to the really brilliant stuff.


side-note on films and japan: not too long ago i watched "what's up tiger lily?" for the first time in ages. oh my gosh... that film has aged remarkably well! still hilarious after 45 years, and still a pretty rare format for feature-length films- replacing the audio on an old film to make a brand new story and dialogue. riff-trax and the LA connection do that very well with shorter material even today, but feature-length releases are still quite rare IME. i did hear that "kung fu shuffle" does that format to perfection, but i haven't seen it yet.


@bill,
if you're following- i finally got myself a paperback copy of "dangerously funny" and have been enjoying the read, so far. that's the one about the smothers brothers and their show, of course. good fun so far, and youtube has proven an excellent resource to look up specific bits and specific songs as they're mentioned, like "tom dooley" by the kingston trio. never realised what a fabulous vocal performance that was until now!

[StevOz]

@steve and dan,
i'm glad that you guys liked death note. i was a little let down by the ending, but overall was thrilled by the quality of storyline and art. i wish more modern manga was remotely of that quality, because wading through reams of school-girl / school-boy-themed self-important rubbish to find something equally good is... tough.

anyway, thanks for the recommendations of mirai nikki, kuroko no basket and poppy hill!
i desperately need to free up space on this HDD so i can start DL'ing again. :S

Thanks for your reply, I suppose it all comes down to individual taste, for surely it seems you might not like some stuff that I've found quite intriguing at the very least. Such as "The World only God knows", although this series did seem to run out of steam from time to time.

http://myanimelist.net/anime/8525/Ka...zo_Shiru_Sekai

Also one I'm currently watching Mysterious Girlfriend X which is just so strange I can't help but keep watching it.

http://myanimelist.net/anime/12467/Nazo_no_Kanojo_X

Though I'll leave you the one that I would rate most highly, if you ever get the disk space or a spare drive..

http://myanimelist.net/anime/6746/Durarara!!

Having said that I find most anime of late has been of exceptional quality although there are as you note many and I would say about 50% that I would not bother with..

[Ike Savage]

cool... someone bonk me over the head if i fail to check this stuff out in a couple weeks.

[StevOz]

Really enjoying the Broken Blade movies now..

http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?q=broken%20blade

https://thepiratebay.se/search/broken+blade/0/99/0

[Ike Savage]

i need to start moving all my media over to a new storage drive i bought. everything was proceeding according to plan with the last one, and then i went and dropped it.

been really hard to find motivation to do the process all over again. :S

[StevOz]

Ike I think you really need that frog with the laser sabre to jump all over your ass, preferably when your not carrying a portable hard drive.

Two more I've just tuned into...

Muv-Luv Alternative

http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,5...v_alterna.html

Sure mecha and school girls + Attack from Mars, though what's wrong with that when it's done so well.

and...

http://myanimelist.net/anime/12967/Arcana_Famiglia

Great opening episode, looks great..

[StevOz]

Another, there are some really promising and excellent anime series coming out of late...

http://myanimelist.net/anime/12293/Campione!

Also I tend to agree with Ike, many anime series do tend to have weak endings, although I thought the ending of Death Note was alright and better then most.

[StevOz]

This one is also looking great!

http://myanimelist.net/anime/11757/Sword_Art_Online

[StevOz]

Now this anime really surprised me, it seemed insane, then it just all comes together in wondrous ways...

Well worth watching, looks great on my new AussiePAD.

http://myanimelist.net/anime/6547/Angel_Beats!

720i dual audio/subs..

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7585...%5B720p%5D_mHD

[Ike Savage]

over three months later and i still need to do the major backup to free up DL space. thanks for keeping this list here.

in the meantime i kind of randomly stumbled on the manga "angel densetsu" and am reading it online. probably the most hilarious graphic novel i've read by anybody, ever:
http://www.mangareader.net/178-11606...chapter-1.html


and, aussiepad...?

[StevOz]

Ah yes my AussiePAD..

I was going to go the whole google Nexus 7 16GB for $299 AU here, then on further research I decided on the AussiePAD instead for the same price with a free leather cover thrown in as a sweetener, 32GB upgradeable to 96GB via SD, also HDMI out, so it won me over better bang for buck and the screen is amazing and a 10 inched display, battery goes for 8 hours...

Anyway I'm well pleased with it, has played every app or movie format I've thrown at it, a few minor audio issues, thus far, slight clicks, JB has just been released for it, though I'm still on ICS and am awaiting the next update as the JB update seems to have it's own issues to date.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=AussiePAD

[StevOz]

Oh and thanks for the manga link, here's mine.

http://www.onemanga.com/directory/

[Ike Savage]

sounds a little more powerful in all ways than my ASUS, which i paid $350 for about half a year ago. good going.

LMGTFY is pretty cool in a wiseass sort of way. although sometimes we ask questions not because we're unaware of how to use google, but because we're interested in hearing another person's POV.

[Ike Savage]

well... finally started offloading stuff onto the new HDD, thereby clearing download room.


problem is, i don't do torrentz because US ISP's are monitoring that activity very closely these days. but i did find some DL sites with kuroko no basket episodes in portuguese. at least that's a start... :S


re: onemanga,
how do you actually read the content there?

[StevOz]

mmm...strange onemanga used to work for me, though it doesn't seem to now?

Anyways here's a direct download site for anime..

http://www.animetake.com/?s=kuroko&x=0&y=0

[Ike Savage]

thanks!

kind of struggling to get through the early episodes at this point. hopefully it will take off soon...

if so, that would be the opposite of "legendary angel," a series (made in to anime) which started off utterly brilliant, then become totally mediocre and boring by around chapter 13 or so. then sort of salvaged itself in the early 80's final chapters.