I have to get around to watching Attack on Titan sometime soon. Watched my first anime last night with a friend and ended up watching...all of that. Because wow is FLCL an amazing thing to watch. I'd imagine that show is a high point of entry for anime.
I gave Attack on Titan like 7 episodes. I hated it more and more as it dragged on. It seemed like an angry scene kid's spiderman fantasy. I absolutely adore Serial Experiments: Lain but I still haven't finished it, which says a lot about my relationship with anime.
Serial Experiments: Lain was actually what I was going to suggest for the first series. You think we should start small with a movie though, are you think Miyazaki?
Miyazaki! I could do that. Or SE:L because kb is good at recommending things. Really, if it's easily accessible I will try to watch it. Same goes for the #movieclub and once I'm settled in in about 9 days I'll be up for trying to join. Also, kleinbl00 that...makes sense. Many of the people I know who have recommended that show were scene kids for some period of their life.
You aren't liking Psycho Pass? I thought it was fairly good. So what kind of stuff do you like? What anime has pulled you in?
It's not that I don't like it, it's that I'm hella busy and I haven't had time to attach to it. I positively adore madoka magica and consider it one of the finest pieces of filmed entertainment in the history of the medium and it's the same writer. Stuff that I still attach to: - SE: L - Genesis Climber: Mospeada - Madoka Magica - mmmm... I sorta thought Planetes was okay. Again, it didn't keep me going. Stuff I haven't been impressed with: - Full Metal Alchemist - Attack on Titan - DBZ - Pokemon - Sailor Moon
Stuff I haven't been impressed with:
- Full Metal Alchemist
- Attack on Titan
- DBZ
- Pokemon
- Sailor Moon You just shit on my childhood KB. But, all of those have one thing in common: overdramatic. I'll be honest, I haven't see your like list, but I have Madoka and SE:L on my current to watch list. Also, what would you suggest tag wise to begin this? I have at least 5 people who are willing to participate, and that was my goal. I'm thinking about just using the #anime tag, as it has the most followers.
Here's the important take-away: you have stuff from your childhood that you still like. For those of us who grew up with GI Joe and Gobots? Not so much. I think there is a window to get into the above. I probably would have enjoyed the shit out of AoT as an angsty 14-year-old. Unfortunately Reagan was president when I was an angsty 14-year-old so I missed my window. Really, you guys win this one. Animation was shit back in the '80s.
I can't say I disagree. AoT was more recent for me. I had put it off for a long time, not very interested in it, but soooo many people claimed it was brilliant... While I don't think it was brilliant, it was over the top and dramatic, it had cool fight scenes and an at least interesting premise.. But, that's a common thing in anime. Over the top, overstated, idiotic characters. It is so difficult to find an anime that doesn't cost you IQ points, that it puts me off from watching it for months at a time. Too me now, all those shows are terrible. I've grown up and gained awareness of what I like and don't like. DBZ was like a cult for those of us who watched it as a kid. Now, I will only watch it out of nostalgia. I miss those summer nights when I was 11 where I stayed up passed my bedtime to watch it. Do I think the show is good? Hell no... The show is 90% filler. So, it makes me sad to hear you don't have those nostalgic shows to remind you of a more simple time.
Well, they were different shows. 11 and staying up too late was pretty much entirely Dr. Who, because the PBS affiliate would run an entire short series from 11pm until 2am. Star Trek was also on Saturdays at 4:30, which meant an afternoon of working on cars, followed by Star Trek, followed by working on cars. But the after-school stuff? Yeah, it was all shit. You'll notice nobody is nostalgic for it. Ducktales on the outside, but even that was because everything else sucked so hard.
So just the animated tv was crap? I don't know much about 80's tv, but I do know Dr. Who and Star Trek are iconic. Sounds like you guys had better live-action than we do know. Not much in terms of sci-fi series.