Just dropped the show Gundou Musashi after 8 of it's 26 episodes as it is, unironically, the worst anime I have ever had the pleasure of watching. The premise of the series is sort-of an "alternate history" of Japan where Ishida Mitsunari won the Battle of Sekigahara, thereby creating a world where the Tokugawa era of Japan never occurred. However, because of this paradox, demons are released across the country essentially trying to correct the course of history. One of the ways this will be accomplished is through the kidnapping of Princess Kaguya so that she can marry Lord Ryougen. However, standing in the way of this plan is Miyamoto Musashi, an expert thief skilled in gun-dou, a martial arts specializing in the usage of a katana and a sword (Yes, like the protagonist from Red Steel 2), who is said to be capable of exorcising the demons from the land. However, over the course of the eight episode I watched, six of them were devoted to a single battle centered on Musashi being told by a gun-dou master that he will not train him, and learning about a magical gun called the "gun-ki" that is capable of shooting bullets harder than any regular gun, in addition to being the only gun capable of firing magical bullets that would destroy any other gun. And, these six episodes literally had the villain just standing there, watching, and making fun of the Musashi and his groups while they talked about different ways to defeat said villain. Keep in mind that the plot hasn't even started, and these are majority of the episodes in the first quarter of the series. That's on top of the dialogue being so bad that it's a once-in-a-life thing to see. Please don't, though. The animation of the series is even worse. You could almost think that the show was handed to a bunch of interns, but I feel like that's giving it too much praise due to how even interns are learning the skills for a paid job. All of the animations are recycled, the actual movements of characters do not connect with other characters they're interacting with, and the artist for each character literally changes every camera angle. Photos and vids attached should help explain this. That's on top of the fact that nearly ALL of the backgrounds are literally photographs with a filter applied to them. As for the audio, the characters sounded alright, but the sound effects are absent half of the time during the scenes, and leaving me wondering where the audio engineer was. This is such a terrible series that there is nothing I can I can praise it for. While other shows have deserved my ire because of the terrible story (RoB:VS, Nadesico, Orguss) or inconsistent quality (Aquarion), Gundou Musashi has managed to combine both problems and make a product that has ZERO redeeming quality. If anything, THIS is the kind of anime you see parodied here in the West as "Look at those funny Japanimations, and how much better superior Western animation is".

>>3579 I'm serious, you need to see the "expert quality" of this shit.

>>3578 >3rd webm I think they could've done a live action better than this animation.

>>3578 I dont think you could purposely make a worse show than this one.

Finished off the three-part OVA Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer, and it was an enjoyable series. More so for the animation than the story. The premise is that, at the turn of the century, Tokyo experiences a major earthquake that sinks majority of the city into the ocean. Fast forward 15 years, and the rebuilt city has become a battleground between slime-like monsters and anonymous heroes who have access to special games called "kaizer stones", that give their users special powers. At least, that's the setup for the series. The actual plot of it all is that Shigure Kyousuke, a former users of said Kaizer stone, has made it his life's goal to kill Ouzaki Shizuru, the guy who created and gave the Kaizer stones to their users, owns the company that bought up all ruined Tokyo and rebuilt it, and the current host of Satan. And, the show encompasses the various people that Kyousuke crosses paths with, who begin to share in his same goal. To be quite honest though, the story doesn't make much sense, nor does it try to explain itself well. I already mentioned the goo monsters (Who just show up when the script demands it), but apparently there's also this entire dimension that contains a still-ruined Tokyo that apparently the Kaizer stone holders have been having tournaments in but is never shown beyond the first episode. In addition, two of the three "main" female characters just exist in the story for "reasons", with outfits that extremely clash with the rest of the show. So, the plot isn't the reason to watch the show. The animation definitely is, though. Gowcaizer is one of the best animated shows that I have watched as all of the action on display is extremely smooth and a joy to see. It's the kind of animated content that I miss seeing in a lot of works. In addition, it sports my favorite anime art style. Although, for some reason, it seems like the character designer for the male characters was either a woman or a fag because of how gay they all look. Overall, Gowcaizer is something that I would probably put alongside Transformers: The Movie. You won't care about the story, but you'll be watching it for the quality animation.

>>3695 Okay, that explains a bit, this was all done to promote the fighting game of the same name: https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10347

Finished off the four episode series Tenamonya Voyagers, and I rather enjoyed it despite the cliffhanger of an ending. The premise of the series is that Miss Hanabishi, a ditzy teacher constantly looking for work and writing haikus, and Shichinomiya Wakana, a sports prodogy, have travelled to the other end of the galaxy to attend a prestigious school. However, when they arrive, they find out that the school went bankrupt on their trip over and are at a loss of what to do. While coming to the conlusion of returning home to Earth, a mecha crashes down and destroys the school, and out pops the pilot "Space Trash" Paraila, an organized crime head who is on the run from both how own gang and the police. She decides to accompany Miss Hanabishi and Wakana on their journey to Earth for the purposes of exploiting loophole in space law that results in one's criminal record being invalidated upon stepping on Earth. However, right on their tail is determined police officer Yokoyama Tatsue. And, that's pretty much it. All of the episodes are about the trio's exploits trying to get to Earth (Later with the addition of Paraila's underling Maako), and all the silliness that ensues along the way. Wakana and Paraila are constantly at each other's throats, meanwhile Miss Hanabishi and Maako either luck out or the source of constant humor. It all works and it's a very entertaining series. The only real shame is that episode four ends on a cliffhanger of never knowing if they ever got back home. However, where the show really shine is in it's animation. This is perhaps one of the smoothest cartoons I have watched in recent memory, and I cannot remember single poorly made scene out of the entire show. That's in addition to how it's all so colorful and vibrant that I would undoubtlyed recommend it on just THAT alone. That's also beside the point that it was one of the most unique and noticeable soundtracks I have heard. There's not a single bad thing that I can say about Tenamonya Voyagers. It's an absolutely excellent series, that will bring a smile to your face. Even if you frown at the prospect of it being a cliffhanger of an ending, still watch it as is one of the best animated shows I have ever watched. 'Tis a shame that I didn't care for some of the creators' later work as much, which include Noir and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

Finished off Iria: Zeiram The Animation, and had a fun time with it. The show focusses upon Iria, an apprentice and (Later) completely licensed "hunter". The show opens with her riding off with her brother (Glen) and another hunter (Bob) on an extremely dangerous mission to rescue people from a maroonned spaceship. Once they arrive, they find that the previous rescue teams were slaughter by a creature on board of the ship called a Zeiram, which is basically an almost indestructable xenomorph that looks like a samurai. In the process of trying to rescue the survivors, Bob is almost killed and later turned into an AI, Iria escapes the ship at the request of her brother, and Glen self-destructs the ship to destroy the Zeiram. However, the Zeiram survives, and the rest of the show is dedicated towards Iria trying to find a way to destroy the monster and uncover what happened to Glen. It's a very straight-forward plot that leaves little to be explained. The animation for the show is is rather well done. Not as good in quality as Tenamonya Voyagers, but it's very well made. I liked it. Struggling to find things to say because, despite being a good series, there's little to keep you attached. In some ways, the show is riding upon cliches, so there's little that you'll see that's actually unique or new, but it's constructed in such a way that you can just sit back and enjoy it.

Just finished Isekai Ojisan, i haven't enjoyed an anime this much in a while. >Synopsis: After a fatal encounter with a truck, Takafumi Takaoka's uncle, Yousuke "Ojisan" Shibazaki, lies comatose for 17 years. When he finally regains consciousness, Ojisan begins to ramble in a foreign tongue and reveals that he had been transported to a magical world. It's a lot like a guy telling fun stories from an mmo he used to play, every episode was funny, relaxing, but also had good action moments every now and then without losing it's relaxing tone. Last and most important for me is that i liked all the characters or at the very least i didn't dislike/was bothered any of them. Girls were cute too. I suck at expressing my thoughts and feelings.

>>3959 those files are from 2022 because i stopped watching back then and picked it up again a few days ago to finish it

Just finished watching two seasons of Rent-a-Girlfriend. Like all these types of anime the mc is super gay, cuck, you name it. He has two perfect girls (both in personality and looks), who are mad in love with him but no he wants to ignore them and keep paying for the escort because he admires how passionate she is about becoming an actress. I knew what to expect from this type of anime so i'm not too disappointed. There is a third season and i like to finish what i start but i don't think i'll watch it.

>>4027 bitch

So I downloaded Tenku Senki Shurato back in November, tried watching it over the next few agonizing months, before eventually dropping it back in March because of just how bored of the show I was, and have been kicking myself since about actually posting about it before I move onto something else. The short of the series is that's it's an isekai about two martial artists, Shurato and Gai, being brought to the world of Tenkuukai. It's a parallel world to that of Earth, where the peace in Tenkuukai allows our world to exist. However, the lead guardian of that world, Hyuuga, turns Lady Vishnu, the goddess of Tenkuukai, into stone for the purposes of bringing about some sort of doomsday. and he puts the blame for the act upon Shurato. On the run and trying to save Lady Vishnu, Shurato tries to survive traveling across Tenkuukai while being hunted by other guardians and a brainwashed Gai. This half of the plot eventually resolves itself by episode 25, with the remaining 13 episodes being about some sort of demon goddess that Hyuuga was preparing the way for, but I couldn't be asked to watch the rest because I was just so thoroughly bored. And it doesn't help that episode 11 firmly establishes that this show could be best summed up as an "idiot plot", where half of the shit that happens is because half the cast are idiots. To give context about that episode, Guardian Renge is absolutely in love with Hyuuga and will do anything for him. However the other guardians helping Shurato have figured out that Hyuuga is no longer a good guy and finally convince Renge that the man that she loves is no longer the same man. And how does she react? She doesn't fucking care! She declares that she will do anything Hyuuga demands of her because he makes her pussy just that moist and ends up dying (Until Lady Vishnu revives everyone in episode 25). This isn't the only instance of this type of bullshit happening, but it was the one that really stood out the most for me. And there were a few other things about the show that angered me to the point of not caring, but I forget what since it's been so long since I watched this series. The animation is good and audio is good, but I just did not like the show because of how stupid the story got.

Just watched Supernatural: The animation. As a fan of the original live action show (up until season 10 or so anyways), it was an interesting experience, I liked it a lot. Its got good Madhouse quality, you can tell they had some inspiration for Hellsing for some of the scenes. The sub is largely better than the dub, you can tell they didn't get much of a cast together for the dub besides Jared Padalecki (and eventually Jensen Ackles for the last 2 episodes) who were the protagonists in the live action. The sub, meanwhile, has a pretty great seiyuu cast all around who gave strong performances, it seems the 2 seiyuus who dubbed the protagonists reprise their roles here. Its interesting to see what aspects were changed for the animation and how the characters were changed. Dean was made to be a bit sillier/playful and more emotional, and Sam was made to feel more like a little brother than the original series had them as. Was a good change since it fits for animation, hard to have the same feelings like that when you see two adults in live action but in anime it just feels right for some reason. They handle some story aspects better than the actual show did, and I liked the way they handled certain scenes. Music was good too. Animation was generally solid, there were plenty of cool moments and enough badassery to satisfy. The monster of the week episodes could often have a surprising amount of emotional punch to them. Unfortunately the main story did feel a bit rushed towards the end, but it was pretty still well-handled all things considered. There was a chunk of stuff missing, but I liked it. I don't know if I would recommend it to someone who doesn't know what the show is, its hard for me to say if they explain the show well enough in context because it is a bit disjointed, but its not too hard a concept to understand imo, at least the first 5 seasons of the actual show anyways. That might be me talking in hindsight having watched a lot of it. It was also a bit enlightening to help me realize how edgy live-action often is compared to anime. In anime they usually don't explicitly show shit like beheadings and bloody throat-slittings, often cutting the "camera" away to the head rolling off or something, but in this one they directly try to show the bloody/gory stuff more than most anime, and the live-action show might be more violent than this. I'd recommend it, and would also recommend the live action of course if one happens to like the anime.

>>4541 Didn't know it had an animation.

>>4541 >>4554 Supernatural: The animation's made 6 years after Supernatural, Eric Kripke created both. It's 22 episodes, Supernatural's 327. 12 episodes adapted from the first 2 seasons of Supernatural, the other 10 were original.

I finished the first season of Megalobox yesterday. Nowhere near as good as Ashita No Joe, but I liked it enough to want to give season 2 a go. Will start it later today.

>>3959 This went under my radar, been following the manga for a long time. Watched some eps now and I'm glad to see it got a good adaption, although the fancervice was a bit too much for me. Easier to skim/skip it in the manga

Rescuing this thread from the bottom of the catalog, I'm sure more people would need a thread like this

So just finished off the /m/ anime Dai-Guard and found it to be a rather good series The short of the series is that it's basically Pacific Rim in it's premise: that a kaiju shows up, destroys everything in it's path, and the military has to resort to a nuke to finally kill the damn thing. And immediately regretting that they had to do so, start comissioning the the creation of a giant robot so as to minimize the damage the next time one of those things appears. Except it doesn't for the next dozen years. So seeing the weapon as pointless, the military return ownership of it to the 21st Century Corporation, who originally built the "Dai-Guard", which is now shown around as a tourist attraction for various trade events and PR campaigns. And now that the kaiju actually have reappeared, the people in charge of piloting the machine are the very PR managers at the company. All things considered, the series isn't as silly as that sounds, and actually gets rather serious. In fact, majority of the show's drama is centered around the clashing between the military wanting to take control of the Dai-Guard and everything related to it for no other reason than pride and a feeling worthless as the company does their "job" for them, and the company effectively stone-walling them (Or I should say the CEO has he is removed at one point and replaced by one of the greedy board members) because THEY own the Dai-Guard and even built the machine in the first place was because the company's CEO didn't believe that the military is capable of dealing with such incidents due to the political and petty nature of the military chain of command. That isn't to say that they spend all their time ridiculing the army, as one of the primariy characters in the show is a military liason and there are innumerable incidents where it's shown that his experience and contributions do end up saving the day much to people's chagrin. But it's one of those series where the actual human drama taking place is much more interesting than the premise of them fighting monsters. And I sort of need to emphasize that part because many of the later episodes in the series move away from that drama to focus on the actually characters operating in the PR division, and they're just not as strong as the earlier episodes and it creates a bit of a pacing issue towards the latter half. But over all, I'd very much give the series a solid recommendation. It's a good show.

Just finished watching Sonny Boy. Been a long time since I watched something that was this confusing. It was pretty good.

One fucking hell of a necrobump chain lol.

Does catching up to the current released chapter count even when the story is not over yet?

Finally sat down and finished Eureka Seven. A Really sweet coming of age story which I found endearing not to mention the stellar soundtrack. I think this is the only anime where I liked every single OP and ED. The first and middle parts were the ones I enjoyed the most with what I feel like was a rushed end during the later parts. This might be a 50 episode long anime but I'd be lying if I said It felt boring of was full of filler at any point.

>>73316 I loved sonny boy I'm glad you liked it

>>73372 >This might be a 50 episode long anime but I'd be lying if I said It felt boring of was full of filler at any point. Honestly I feel like a lot of 12-24 ep anime would be better off with 48 eps minimum to let the plot breathe a bit more. And when shit like one piece exists (or any shounenkuso for that matter) it's hard to call 50 eps that long.

Got memed into watching the anime of this dumb cat bitch. All things considered, it could have been worse for something with a girlboss MC with absurd amounts of luck. Most of the plot is literal filler though. Very well directed season ending at least.

So, I just finished off the series Galaxy High School And my prognosis is that it's honestly not that good. In case you're wondering why I'm posting about an American series, I need to establish that series is actually an "English-language anime". While it was developed by Chris Colombus (Home Alone, Harry Potter, and Night At The Museum ) with character designs by John Kricfalusi (Ren and Stimpy), the show's animation, distribution, and ownership lies entirely with TMS (Tokyo Movie Shinsha). And some of the people who ended up working on this series included Ishiodori Hiroshi (Bubblegum Crash!, Duel Masters), Aono Shirou (Detective Conan films), Takahashi Hirokata (Cat's Eye, Black Jack), and Oono Hiroshi (God Mazinger, Virtua Fighter) to name a few. Hopefully that legitimatizes it enough, let's move on to talking about the show itself. The series focuses upon the two human characters Doyle and Aimee, the former is the typical high school all-star jock while the latter is the school's bookworm with the highest grades. They're sent to Galaxy High School as the school's first human exchange students, with Aimee effectively being given a "free ride" due to her GPA while Doyle is stuck having to pay his tuition by working at a pizza parlor and told that this is his "last chance" to succeed in school. At that's pretty much it. It's the story you hear in the theme song. Now with that being said, the writing is all over the place in the series. Despite the premise, Doyle is actually the "main" protagonist and the most interesting character because he ends up being the one saddled with "saving the day" half the time. And the episodes where he screws up, like where he gets high on brain steroids, feels extremely hamfisted. Don't take this as being an example of "subversion", because the show, itself, has some of the worst writing I have seen for a cartoon. Especially when it feels like every episode's script had to double it's length from 15 to 24 minutes. But then the show also has ongoing continuity, where characters and events from previous episodes are referenced in later ones. As far as the show's humor, it's relies upon catch-phrases ("X stinks") and pop culture references (Alien Mick Jagger, Star Trek and BTTF parody). The animation for the series is all over the place, but the show does deserve credit for getting better the further in. While the earlier episodes have animation like you see in second vid, the quality immediately jumps in episodes 6 and 7 and stays there for the rest of the show (Like in third vid). As for the audio, the music is perhaps the best part of the program, to which I have to give Don Felder (Guitarist for the Eagles) a lot of credit. However the voice acting isn't that noteworthy other noticing that hearing Susan Blu (Arcee), Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson), Pat Carroll (Ursula), and Neil Ross (Green Goblin). Overall, I have seen worse, which is a sad statement to say as I really cannot give the show much praise. Would I recommend it? Only if you're interested in obscure 80's series. But other than that, no. You can find the series available for free on TMS' official JewTube account if you want to subject yourself to it: https://redirect.invidious.io/playlist?list=PLj2Ugc-vxcWF4xi3UUb5C52EXCw31hISR

>>74063 >In case you're wondering why I'm posting about an American series, I need to establish that series is actually an "English-language anime". It legitimately looks like a westoid cartoon, thus it is a westoid cartoon. Having a random japanese name or two attached to it doesn't mean much as even the OG transformers movie counts by this cope, which if anything would be a better example given it at least does look closer to something JP than this shit.

>>74076 >It legitimately looks like a westoid cartoon, thus it is a westoid cartoon. Anon, you do not want to make that the basis of your argument. At "best" it starts going down the path of saying series like Speed Racer: Next Gen, Totally Spies, and W.I.T.C.H. ARE "anime" because of their art style despite none of the series ever touching the shores of the country while legitmate anime like Panty & Stocking are "not anime" because of the series' primary art style being so "Western" in influence and direction. At worst, the argument goes down to saying that this board shouldn't even exist because "all anime" is actually "Western" in origin since so much of anime's influence comes from Tezuka, who based much of his art off works coming out of Disney (To the point he even did officially licensed Disney manga). That's why I emphasized the fact that this series is solely a product of TMS and the people who worked there. It is nothing like Transformers, or even the DCAU, which had Japanese studios handling the grunt-work and where one of only a handful of studios doing work on it. And if your argument is more that the ideas "came" from the West and therefore should not be considered anime, where does that leave other similar produced shows like Sherlock Hound, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, and Oban: Star Racers? Or even anime like Future Boy Conan, Uchuu no Senshi, and Ashinaga Ojisan, which are all based on Western novels but haven't seen a Western (English) release until relatively recently?

>>74063 Sunrise worked at Batman TAS, but that doesn't make it an anime. Same with Thundercats and other shows that outsourced to Asia its animation.

>>74081 It's westoid, it's that simple, it's not rocket science. Why the fuck are westoids so obsessed with rule sharking to make their kuso count as something japanese?

>>74081 Can't be anime from outside Japan. It doesn't stop you from eliminating things for whatever reasons you come up with but it does stop you from deciding anything from outside could be anime.

And now I finished off Cybersix Before you get your panties in a a wad: <1 This is hosted on TMS' official Jewtube account as well, with you being able to find the series here: https://redirect.invidious.io/playlist?list=PLj2Ugc-vxcWG40YiVkqJql0vge0qy_TGF <2. The Japanese creators were much more involved when it came to developing on the series, like how majority of the episodes were written by Takeuchi Kouji and directed by Furuya Keiichirou, when it wasn't the rest of the office staff (Though strangely EVERYONE who worked on this show had some previous experience working on Lupin The 3rd, be it the shows proper or something else) <3. It has an official AniDB page: https://anidb.net/a1524 <4. Thus far, I don't have any other "anime the looks like a Western cartoon" to talk about, unless I decide to watch Sherlock Hound or Anisava The premise for the series is that a Dr. Frankenstein wannabe wants to rule the world and figures that the best way to do so is unleash his creations, all of which are references to horror movies (There's even an episode that's a takeoff of The Birds), on the unsuspecting citizens of Meridian City. The logic is that this will show his "power" and then threaten to do the same elsewhere unless they bow to his demands. However, there to foil his plans is Cyber-6, one of his "failed" creations that has gone rogue and has made it her life's mission to foil Dr. Frankenstein's plans of world domination. And as for why he didn't know how SHE was still alive, it's because she disguised herself as the male high school literature teacher Adrian Seidelman. However this choice of an alter ego has caused some "problems" for her as she begins to fall for her fellow biology teach Lucas, including getting rather close to him emotionally when she isn't in a disguise. Adding to the list of problems, C6 cannot actually find the good doctor because he is in hiding and has his "son" Jose actually being the one unleashing the monsters for majority of the episodes. To put it simply, the show's setup and development is typical "monster of the week" shenanigans, starring a character that is effectively a "female Batman". I'm not really complaining about the show being cliche, but you may feel more inclined to watching something else if it wasn't for the show's animation. The animation is actually one of the most excelling aspects of the series. Everything is very fluidly animated, and it comes across like there was "no expense spared" when it came to the budget (Of $360k). In fact, I'd say that it's one of the best animated television series even to this day. Just a shame that the voice acting feels standard (Not bad, just average), and the sound effects use the same stock library as every video game from the early 2000's. Even have to sort of admit that I didn't really care for the show's music, especially since it most repeats a stringed version of the main theme. Overall, I would give Cybersix a solid recommendation. It may be "average" in several respects, but the animation is why it's worth watching. Just too bad that it ends on a mild cliffhanger. If anything, it at least makes me want to look for scanlations of the comic (Which has never been official released in full outside of Argentina).