Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

[eldargal]

Well there will be a middle aged troll livigint at home doing that to about anything so best not to modify behaviour on their account.

[Gotthammer]

That's part of why I don't actually like recommending people watch "anime" as it is a very large umbrella term, like saying you like "live action TV" can mean a whole lot from Walking Dead to Brooklyn 99. I prefer to just rec certain series based on them being good, not just because they're anime, as there is loads and loads of crap out there.

[eldargal]

Yup, part of that misconception of anime as a genre rather than a medium. Which I had for ages too.

[Kirsten]

always annoys me when people say 'I don't like anime' it is like saying 'I don't like music'.

[Gotthammer]

[Kirsten]

awesome

[Gotthammer]

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"Now I will show you the true power of the Nishizumi school!"

[Kirsten]

lol

[Darren Richardson]

I find it all a bit Savilesque.

I think the fact one of the first animes I saw, after Akira, was Legend of the Overfiend. You just don't know when it's all going to get a bit tentacle based, and I'm not terribly keen to see that.

Got nothing against the medium, just not my cup of tea.

Sigh your missing out on classics then, Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed, Hellsing, Steamboy, Slayers, anything by Studio Ghibli, Legend was the Hentai (anime porn) which went mainstream, not very good either to be quite honest....

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That's part of why I don't actually like recommending people watch "anime" as it is a very large umbrella term, like saying you like "live action TV" can mean a whole lot from Walking Dead to Brooklyn 99. I prefer to just rec certain series based on them being good, not just because they're anime, as there is loads and loads of crap out there.

Yeah I agree, it's too big and broad a term, thats also why I recommend series and not the genre as a whole....

You know all this talk about tanks got me thinking about Little Napoleon..... from Tank Police!

And to think Shirow wrote Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed and then went and wrote this as well

[Kirsten]

Legend was the Hentai (anime porn) which went mainstream, not very good either to be quite honest....

yeah there was a review of it in the Daily Telegraph of all places, so I thought it must be pretty mainstream. the review went on about how extreme it was but I thought, in the national newspaper, can't be that bad. watched it. pretty tedious really. poor animation, bad voicing, bad plot.