Anime that you're currently watching?, For those anime fans. Options

[chrishawke]

So I decided to drop everything and just watch BakaTest 2. Comedy is the way to go.

[aerozero]

So I decided to drop everything and just watch BakaTest 2. Comedy is the way to go.

You should watch the Penguin anime too

[DustyHaru]

Watched Redline, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, and Voices of a Distant Star. Working through Cowboy Bebop with a friend.

ALSO NICHIJOU HNNNNNNNNNNNG

This post has been edited by DustyHaru: Sep 26 2011, 03:41 PM

[Shadow]

Purseowner 4 The Animation is out, so I'm watching that.

Also Yu-Gi-Oh!, for nostalgia purposes.

[Hayate]

Purseowner 4 The Animation is out, so I'm watching that.

Seconded.

I actually wish they had paced the game like the first episode. It felt waaaay too slow and boring in the beginning, but with the animated series they just jump right into the three party members, so to speak.

[DustyHaru]

Getting my friends to watch Persona 4 with me. Also Fate/Zero.

[aerozero]

Ben-to: For some reason I can strangely relate to people beating the shit out of each other for half-priced food...maybe it's cause I'm a poor college student ;_; But yeah definitely my most favorite show airing this season. It's just so fun to watch.

Fate Zero: Fucking amazing

And then of course Persona 4, Mirai Nikki, etc.

[DustyHaru]

Fate Zero - Dat Best Rider. Dat Best Bazaka. Dat Best Waaaavaaah.
Persona 4 - Dat SYMBOLIC
Boku Ha/Wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai - I swear I'm going to catch up.

And apparently me and some other people are going to marathon Madoka on Tuesday.

[chrishawke]

Hanasaku Iroha - I can't believe I'm saying this. I really like this show. Damn. I can't believe I just said that. And the thing is, from what I hear, the second half of the series is supposed to be amazing, and I've only just finished with the first half.

[DustyHaru]

Fate/Zero - Need to watch 9.
Persona 4 - Caught up. Dat MC.
Haganai/whatever - Meat x Kobato :|
Guilty Crown - Me and my friends are continuing to watch it. We're not sure why exactly.
Madoka - Started and Finished in two days. Pretty cool stuff.
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namaewhateverthisis - Gonna start this soon.

[DustyHaru]

Fate/Zero - Expected EXCALIBAAAAH instead got Cliffhangaaaah
Persona 4 - DAT TIMESKIP. DAT BROTAG AND BROSUKE BROMANCE. DAT PURSEOWNER CORNUCOPIA.
Haganai - sad that it's ended :(
Guilty Crown - WHAT'S A PLOT, WHAT'S CHARACTER MOTIVATION, WHAT'S A CHARACTER I DON'T EVEN.
The girl who leapt through time - Needed more Chiaki ending.
Index - Starting Deep Blood Arc.
Bakemonogatari - I'm gonna finish this hnngnnnfg
Steins; Gate - I'm gonna start this hnngnnnfg

[chrishawke]

Infinite Stratos - Marathon'd this with a friend and joked about everything throughout the entire series. Fun times.

[DustyHaru]

Steins;Gate - AWWW YEAAAH. Started on Thursday when my internet was out and finished it yesterday. SCIENCE AND FRIENDSHIP AND OVERCOMING TIME FOR LOVE, FUCK YEAH.

Debating whether or not I should start another series before I leave for school. Probably going to be Eden of the East or Ano Hana.

[valkan]

Disappointingly the last good anime I saw was Rental Magica. I haven't really watched anything after that.


Yeah....

[P.P.A.]

 A few weeks ago, I downloaded a bunch of old anime, most of which I have not gotten around to watching yet. Among them was Dragon's Heaven, a single 35-minute OVA, which I decided to try out just now. Throughout the whole time, I had a broad and delighted smile on my face.

 It is very short, the story simple, and the characters few. Thousand years before the main events, a war raged between man and machine, on the side of the former fighting SH06H cyberoid “SHAIAN”, his rival on the battlefield being El Medine. SHAIAN's pilot is killed, and thus he decides to fall aslumber.
Though humanity ultimately wins the war, it is not until over a millennium later that the young lady Ikuru passes the site of his sleep, and he thus awakens. The city Ikuru hails from is being attacked by the Brazil Empire; SHAIAN agrees to help protect it with Ikuru as his pilot, moreso as he learns that El Medine is still around, and has become a general of the Brazilian Emperor. That's all there is to it, without any plot twists, or narrative highlights.

 However, even if you were to deny this simplicity to be charming in and for themselves, the anime would more than compensate for it through its artistic excellence.
 Its style is one of a kind, from the animatronic(!) opening, over the drawings which look like they have been inked, to the simply gorgeous designs of anything every crossing the screen (a large part of which is gritty war machines). If the art is not among the most splendid of animation, then it still stands out for being unlike anything else. (I guess it helps that I have a kink for the aesthetics of war, which this caters to delightfully with its numerous battles.)
All while the music is like the greatness of any and all eighties' soundtracks condensed (the beautiful orchestral pieces nonwithstanding)—simply an orgy for the ears.

 It's strange, it's short, but it's an outstanding and ensouled piece of art well worth seeing, which fails not to entertain greatly during the half of an hour it lasts. The effort put into it—of which one can catch a glimpse of during the credits roll, which shows the anime's creators building the robot models for the opening—is admirable, and not wasted the least. My most heartfelt suggestion; heartfelt for Dragon's Heaven has already lodged itself in my heart, unlikely to be expelled from there again.