Yamatotakeru on 27/8/2013 at 08:18
Legend of the Galactic Heroes is really good. Didn't finish it, though. Got to get back to it ASAP :D .
Robert4222 on 5/9/2013 at 00:22
(Re)watching Death Note's anime:
"I'll take a potato chip.. (Hard breath).. AND EAT IT !
I love the background music and how the main character exalts while trying to focus on two things at the same time.
demagogue on 5/9/2013 at 11:16
I haven't watched much anime or manga since I've been living in Japan. My job's office is even in Akihabara, the otaku mecca. (I'm here for school, but I still go into work sometimes.)
But as for my favorites, it's still Cowboy Bebop for anime, and recent issues of Lupin III for manga, which I'll sometimes take on as a translation project. Pretty sure those are too straight laced to count towards otaku credentials though.
Robert4222 on 5/9/2013 at 14:49
You work at Akihabara ? Really ? I'd kill (not literally, just in case) to go there !
Yet, it sucks that although you're living in Japan, you seem too busy to even read mangas.
How long have you been living there and how did you like the place ?
demagogue on 6/9/2013 at 06:10
This is my third time living in Japan, and I lived with a Japanese woman for six years or so, so at this point I can more or less consider it home-turf. And when a country becomes home-turf, it sort of stops being a place one visits as a tourist to do "Japanese" things, and more a place one lives in like a normal person that just happens to still have a lot of Japanese things around. But I've only been here since July this time. As for living here, my experience is like most expats I know, a very familiar love-hate relationship with the country & culture that you eventually come to terms with as part of the package living here.
Most Japanese aren't actually very otaku. I mean your baseline is the salaryman, who's perpetually in a rush & self-conscious about how people see him... But I'll grant what's considered "mainstream" is itself already a lot more in the otaku direction than other countries, I mean like the kinds of characters they use for like safety notices or tv commercials.
My main motivation for reading manga or watching anime or Japanese movies is learning Japanese. And I probably know more manga than western comics at this point.
henke on 7/9/2013 at 09:24
Just watched Vexille. Not bad! It starts off quite slowly, but around halfway through the story really picks up and the ending is quite strong.
DaBeast on 10/9/2013 at 04:23
Quote Posted by Yamatotakeru
It's a new series called Ghost in the Shell : Arise. It's supposed to be about Section 9's beginnings. Before it came out it was very controversial due to changes in character design etc., but when it launched, everyone changed their opinion. Apparently it's pretty awesome.
Here's a trailer:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlakdSH3G4)
Trailer needed more run rabbit junk to get me pepped, though it does look interesting. I wonder if the Spielberg production is ever going to go ahead. It's be on the shelf for some 5 years now.
I used to have this massive fascination with mechs, mainly because of the mechwarrior game. I even sat through a whole season of Hypernauts purely because it had mechs in it. Although my first experience with anime/manga was watching Cybercity O-EDO when I was around 12 (and eye opening experience to say the least) when Channel 4 were doing a Manga season, next up was Patlabor which I really loved. Patlabor 2 was kind of a let down.
I think though that as I've gotten older I've grown out of anime in general. This Full Metal Cowboy stuff just all seems the same to me. I'll watch some Miyazaki films and I might try out the new GITS, but I just cba with most of it now.
