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Post by Ammie on May 2, 2013 21:06:46 GMT -8
I mentioned this before, but there's a great new anime that ran last year in Japan called Sword Art Online. It's brand new, so it hasn't been dubbed yet for those who have some aversion to subtitles. Good news is, it's free, and you can watch it here: www.crunchyroll.com/sword-art-onlineBasic premise: Full-immersion VR is a reality, special headgear intercepts brain signals and lets you move your character in the MMO space. Mad programmer guy waits till first 10,000 people log on, and shuts out the Log-out function. Sets special headgears to fry users brain if they die in game or if someone removes the headgear. Forces players to finish all 100 floors of the game world, or they can never leave. The show is about how people adapt, begin to build in-game societies and support each other. Weaker players stick to cities and form alliances and governments while the raiding guilds keep pressing the fight to get out. I thought it was a great story, well written, and really enjoyable for those who like MMOs, or good anime in general. Wanted to share it with those of you who dig this kind of thing, before it gets imported, licensed, dubbed, and yanked down off of the free sites like this. |
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Post by Carl on May 2, 2013 22:24:50 GMT -8
My own interest in anime pretty much begins and ends at Cowboy Bebop, but decided to sit down and watch the first episode of this. And wow! Consider me hooked, Ammie. Going to check out episode two when I'm done posting this.
I had to think about if this happened to us in TSW. How many of us would refuse to leave the main cities out of fear of death by Ak'ab swarm? ;D
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Post by Ammie on May 3, 2013 0:49:47 GMT -8
So glad to hear that you like it!
I like a lot of anime, but I dismiss a lot of it too - I like to think I can tell the shit from the sugar.
I have a firm belief that when people say "I don't like anime" it's like saying "I don't like ice cream." Just gotta find your flavor.
I've gotta say that TSW would be a hell of a lot different without the whole "you're pretty much immortal" thing. TSW is a game that starts off by smacking you around, and then when you get more powerful it just smacks you around again. I'd never leave London. I'm aware of this. And if none of us could get out until some raid team beat all the NMs, NY, and Eidolon without dying....I'm pretty sure we'd better just get comfy.
Also, Carl -
Cowboy Bebop is an amazing show. Most people will agree that the reason is that it's the love child of director Shinichiro Watanabe and musical genius Yoko Kanno.
If you like that, you might check out that director's other show "Samurai Champloo". Some -amazingly- animated (and shockingly accurate) swordfight scenes, and the same kind of bittersweet soul.
Yoko Kanno also did the score to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (and 2nd GiG), and her music never fails to amaze. Plus - GitS has the type of over-complicated, pseudo-scientific story that you'll probably get glued to.
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Post by sersi on May 3, 2013 1:05:34 GMT -8
ghost in the shell SaC was one of my first anime's that I watched and let mysf get into. all the paranoia and intrigue - loved it. similar, but I think a more TSW vibe would be Witch Hunter Robin.
...of course it doesn't have Kanno Yoko's music.
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Post by @Jewel on May 3, 2013 2:57:23 GMT -8
My last personal journey, and I do mean journey, into anime was the much beloved & Canadian-made 24 chapter epic, "Broken Saints", the brain-child of former AE storycreator, Brooke Burgess . I came across a request for work as I was working in audio-visual and was tracking it down on the web. I think this was 10 years ago. Anyways, I was intrigued enough to sit down at home to watch the first chapter. Ended up watching 6 in one sitting, it was so addictive! It was a bit slow in a few places but that following Saturday, I was just glued to the end like 10 hours later. The site is now gone but the chapters have been converted into video format & added voice acting as it was all originally done in Flash. I've watched it a few times over the years but it's scary just how closely it predicts things in technology, global oligarchies' control, etc. And it must have been so cool at the time when it had its own ARG component considering this web project had been started back in 2000. The chapters are still on YouTube. This series you mention sounds cool, Ammie, so I'll definitely take a peek at it and it sounds like it's something that I get hooked to.  |
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Post by effinfitz on May 3, 2013 7:36:29 GMT -8
Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo are both incredible. GitS I actually used to own some of the TPB collections for. But for a true TSW experience, one needs to watch...
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
Not because it has ANYTHING to do with conspiracies or monsters or or superpowers or anything that's not giant robots saving the world, but because El Profesor draws a heavy amount of inspiration from some of the speeches therein. They're just. That. Awesome.
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Post by Ammie on May 12, 2013 17:25:58 GMT -8
Interested to see if anyone else gave this a shot. PM me or something. ^^
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Post by Carl on May 12, 2013 22:32:06 GMT -8
I'm already up to Episode 9 of SAO, Ammie. I've been amazed at how effective the storytelling is, and the visuals are simply gorgeous. Definitely going to keep watching the entire series of this.
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Post by sersi on May 13, 2013 13:10:45 GMT -8
it's on my "to watch" list, along with Tiger-Bunny
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Post by sersi on May 14, 2013 0:44:31 GMT -8
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Post by Ammie on May 14, 2013 0:57:01 GMT -8
Wooooo! Huge Monty Oum fan! I've been looking forward to this too!
Followed Dead Fantasy forever. Still waiting for the end of that. Haloid was great too, and I loved his work on the last couple of seasons of RvB.
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Post by Ammie on Jul 20, 2013 23:14:29 GMT -8
I've just seen a preview for the english dubbed version of SAO, to be starting next Saturday on Adult Swim.
While this is good because there are people who can't do subtitles and because you can now DVR it, it might affect the licensing rights for places like Crunchyroll and Hulu to be able to keep showing the subbed version for free. So if you don't wanna wait week-to-week, and don't mind subtitles (and really, the voice acting is generally better in the JP version anyway), might want to jump on the link in the original thread post.
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Post by Carl on Jul 20, 2013 23:48:11 GMT -8
Watched the whole SAO series and it really is a work of art. Defintely recommended viewing to everyone who's played an MMO.
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Post by sersi on Jul 21, 2013 0:30:15 GMT -8
i really need to start it. its prolly the next show i'll work on XD
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Post by kovergirl on Jul 21, 2013 1:21:50 GMT -8
The second season of Monogatari is airing. Totally excited over that show. ^_^
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