Anime and Manga

[Superbacon 380]

The Summer 2013 season is shaping up reasonably well.

[Jazzmaster 716]

More or less about animals and mangos, but does anyone have any opinions here on Evangelion and its supposed connection to Pacific Rim?

 

I think both are excellent, but are sort of their own thing.  If we're going to compare the two just because they involve mechs, we might as well be comparing them to every other member of the mecha/kaiju genres, no?

[Odainsaker 2,134]

Well, I must admit I did start thinking particularly about Evangelion while seeing "Pacific Rim."  Granted, "Pacific Rim" is something of an homage to the giant mecha and monsters genres, and so similar themes and tropes are inevitable.  Still, we get an escalating progression of titanic alien monsters that can only be stopped by giant humaniform mechs controlled through neuroconnections made by special pilots who, in the process, also expose their deepest psychological family traumas.  Naturally, these unresolved traumas threaten to send the linked pilot and mecha haywire, dooming all Humanity.  It just screamed for Ikari Shinji.

 

Of course, it would have been even more trippy if they had a teenage j-pop idol singer suffering from unrequited love demoralize and wipe out all of the hostile aliens with the shell shocking power of her music.  Kyary Pamyu Pamyu could mind rape enemy imperial forces with kawaii shock and awe.

 

 

"I know it's weird of me, guys, but...I like to cosplay as Minmei-chan.  Is that really so wrong?"

[Easy Bakes 253]

  Kyary Pamyu Pamyu could mind rape enemy imperial forces with kawaii shock and awe.

 

 

Good lord that was awful

[_marsh_ 1,117]

I haven't watched much Anime, but I am kind of getting into it at the moment. Cowboy Bebop is my last series I finished and my god is it good. I think I categorize animes under just any good show, its own genre just. The series that got me into anime would be when my friend showed me Fooly Cooly. A ridiculous but mesmerizing and easily obsessable show, which I promptly ordered the manga for.

 

Then there's Evangelion which I just recently started and It's, again, very very good. I have not seen Pacific Rim so I cannot state any similarities. On my list for the next are Rurouni Kenshin and Full Metal Alchemist, which I've seen only a little of each.

 

I'm not too far deep into anime yet, every episode I listed here are all the ones I've seen (loving every one) with the exception of Big O. It obviously deserves a second shot but at the moment I didn't get too into that show.

[Odainsaker 2,134]

Egads!

 

Amazon.com is offering a new imported DVD disc of Vol 3. of the historical fantasy romance "Saiunkoku Monogatari," released 2006, for...

 

...US $176,467.78

 

+ $3.99 shipping!

 

At 5 episodes per volume, that's $35,294.35 per episode.  I thought this was a gross mistake, but other volume discs from this series are listed at $2000 to even $3,897.89.  At these sorts of prices, all 9 discs of just the First Season could eventually push us over a million dollars billed to PayPal, and we would still have to buy the even rarer Second Season.  That's a lot of shoujo!

 

$176,476.78 and these two still haven't even kissed yet!

For + $3.99 shipping we should at least get some fanservice.

 

If only I knew then to stick my pink and pastel Saiunkoku collection boxsets sealed into a bank vault rather than opening and watching them all.  Suddenly, my friends are asking to borrow the show...

 

______

 

 

Incidentally, like us overseas Star Blazers fans discovering the 2010 live-action popcorn flick "Space Battleship Yamato," overseas Rurouni Kenshin fans may enjoy the 2012 live-action movie "Rurouni Kenshin," for which two more sequels are now in the works.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Egads!

 

Amazon.com is offering a new imported DVD disc of Vol 3. of the historical fantasy romance "Saiunkoku Monogatari," released 2006, for...

 

...US $176,467.78

 

+ $3.99 shipping!

 

At 5 episodes per volume, that's $35,294.35 per episode.  I thought this was a gross mistake, but other volume discs from this series are listed at $2000 to even $3,897.89.  At these sorts of prices, all 9 discs of just the First Season could eventually push us over a million dollars billed to PayPal, and we would still have to buy the even rarer Second Season.  That's a lot shoujo!

 

$176,476.78 and these two still haven't even kissed yet!

For + $3.99 shipping we should at least get some fanservice.

 

If only I knew then to stick my pink and pastel Saiunkoku collection boxsets sealed into a bank vault rather than opening and watching them all.  Suddenly, my friends are asking to borrow the show...

 

______

 

 

Incidentally, like us overseas Star Blazers fans discovering the 2010 live-action popcorn flick "Space Battleship Yamato," overseas Rurouni Kenshin fans may enjoy the 2012 live-action movie "Rurouni Kenshin," for which two more sequels are now in the works.

for that much at least the shipping  should be free right?

Oh and im going to watch that Yamato movie