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Let's start with a catch all.

Space Runaway Ideon / Densetsu Kyojin Ideon frustrated me a bit with its Tomino flair -instead of accustoming to it and to that of other renown directors I just think back to how good Yamato was- but the show and characters settle into place soon enough and it seems to be smooth sailing/suffering down the line, I'm just getting started (past the first 1/4th). 

Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch a.k.a. Jibun Wo - I should have watched ten years ago, and it's a guilty ride for me. It doesn't make me sperg out but it's been a while without a shonen-like dose. I almost don't feel like finishing it.
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>>23 (OP) 
I watched G Gundam not too long ago, though it was my first time watching the subbed version.
I plan on rewatching the old Zoids shows soon.
Should I give Brain Powerd another go?
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>>60
Yes.
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>>23 (OP) 
Watching Mugen no Ryvius/Infinite Ryvius.
So far I like it as a person who likes space operas (I kinda grew up watching long running, really boring, soap operas on hueland, so I am accustomed with the shitty part of this kind of things), and it is going in enjoyable ways for the time being (1/4th of the show). The only problem is some QUALITY here and there like in the first pic. 
I am thinking to watch a Ryosuke Takahashi show (Dougram, VOTOMS or even Gasaraki), or a more exaggerated '00s show (maybe Goddanar or Aquarion?).
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I've been watching Ryu Knight, it's the straightforward JRPG-style Fantasy setting/mecha hybrid I never knew I wanted so badly. The SD Gundam-like designs grow on you after a while, too. It lacks the huge budget of the other obvious mecha-fantasy series I can think of (Escaflowne) but it's a such a refreshing niche on its own I find myself not caring. 

>>23 (OP) 
Definitely stick with Ideon and watch Be Invoked at the end, the whole thing especially from around halfway through the TV run is a pretty wild ride. Geass was definitely best as a series people reacted to, it's such a damn rollercoaster of "this is great!" to "this is shit!". Rare in anything to be whiplashed quite so much.
>>123
It gets better?
>>124
Try Rahxephon if you want a trip.
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>>125
Yes Geass gives me that feeling of exploring something well used and left behind. Gonna leave R2 for later.
Only thing I wanted to share was my gladness about one of the first hetero doujins I looked up containing Suzaku getting fucked up the ass.

Ideon at ep. 20 already makes clear it can pelt you good.
>>130
I was watching RahXephon and I think that I got into episode 12. 
The problem is the my HDD died back then.
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>>163
*The problem is that my HDD died back then.
Danm, I do need to sleep.
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Everyday is Monday now, but at least taking it an episode at a time makes me taste it better.
Fucking Moera man, this outperformed a similar instance in LotGH by a wide margin. Different scale, but still indisputable.

>>163
RahXephon is well worth it, actually gets better around there I left it alone and when I came back I was pleasantly surprised despite being that deep in.
Still have to watch the movie, been told it was very good too.
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>>244
>Ideon
Feeling fine still?
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>>244
>RahXephon movie
>very good
For your sides, maybe.
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>>246
Not like this. Not yet.
Build divers Re:rise is the only example of a series getting better post break I've ever seen. It's like they took all the feedback and made a show worth watching. It's moving at a break neck speed and it's a shame Corona derailed it. Second half of re:rise is an interesting spin on Gundam's usual Space VS Earth conflict. Action is a step above and making use of suits gimmicks which the first half didn't. It's going to be a hard recommend, but it's probably watchable skipping the first half entirely thanks to the recap episode.
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Watching Dai-Guard.
It's simple good old fun. I love how useless the mecha is in this series. The MC is a true /m/an at heart.
He even throws the Dai-Guard's fist to simulate a Rocket Punch.
>>124
Godannar gave me way too many boners while watching. 
Also I thought Ryvius was pretty good,it becomes really fucking dark towards the end.
>>125
I was planning to watch that after this,nice to see someone likes it.
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Watched the first episode of Full Metal Panic, fun so far, might continue. 
Reading the original Giant Robo, might watch the OVA series. Good old pulpy little adventures. I can definitely see how it inspired The Big O.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnr2-l4j2-k
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>Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-Hen - 01
The question is not how high a hurdle it sets, but if I would've survived had I watched/read the original Mazinger since the translated manga is a disordered mess>>293
>>293
replying to say that I owe The Second Raid a watch since long ago.
Do you guys wanna setup a cytube at some point? I'd like to watch stuff with you again, I watched the first few episodes of VOTOMS like that ages ago.
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>>461
I for sure wouldn't be opposed to it. It should be a lot of fun.
Maybe even tell people on some other boards so maybe we can get back our comrades.
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>>293
Welp, I've taken the plunge back into The Big O, both mango and animu.  Beautiful designs and atmosphere, and the banter is a kind of snappy you'd see in old movies. 
Of all things, I found a pair of fanfictions yes, I know which recapture the feeling of the show quite well. They take opposite interpretations of S2's ending, which is fun.
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>>463
Fanfic wouldn't have such a bad reputation if so much of it wasn't written by horny teenage fujoshi with gore fetishes.
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>>465
True enough. Very well then.

Galaxy1001D Here, this is the author of the stuff I'm reading right now. Just the name so someone doesn't sperg about links. Start at ACT 27.  He has some foibles like repeating descriptions, but his character writing is so on point that I read the characters with their spoken voices.
>>465
That's because good writers won't touch it with a ten foot pole: it's one thing if some random fujo writes a fanfic, but if notable authors do it without permission the publishers and lawyers start getting anxious. See, official sequels made by different people are just fanfics with a bigger budget and lawyers backing them, and if unauthorized fan projects get too good suits worry they'll become competition. People might have badthink ideas about today's retardedly OP copyright laws and bring an end to our donut steel faggotry, maybe even revive memetic folk culture outside imageboards.
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Same anon from the post >>124
Finished Ryvius yesterday. What a ride it was.
Watched from episode 14 to the finale in a single day, which is not common for me so it demonstrate just how over it I was. The darkness and tension in the latter episodes was pretty well done and got my attention all the way through.
The finale was okay and did the job right, I was expecting at least a subtle sad/dark note, but seeing the characters going well in their new lives was satisfying anyway.

>>291
Watched some episodes from Godannar and it was quite... enjoyable, indeed. 

>>244
I am going to go back to RahXephon again today, as I downloaded it again. I will take some time and make a post here with my impressions latter if I remember to.
Unrelated, did we loss our BO?
I started to watch Iron-Blooded Orphans, I just really like their mecha designs, even the Gundams ZAKU ALL THE WAY! . I've came to notice that human charcter designs are also nice; cartoony,  no sameface and somewhat 70's shoujo style (specifically Kudelia). I'm 6 episodes in and it's pretty interesting so far. 


>>125
>Geass was definitely best as a series people reacted to, it's such a damn rollercoaster of "this is great!" to "this is shit!". Rare in anything to be whiplashed quite so much
I'm watching it now and it started really great, but I noticed it slowly starting to deteriorate with contradictions "we don't kill innocents"-proceed to kill Shirley' father. And I still have no idea why the fuck they did it  and forced drama Euphemia and  Lelouch end up agreeing on working together, le sudden loss of control over the Geass power and Lelouch failing to catch and stopping Euphemia. Fucking BS . 
Another downside to Code Geass is the Mecha designs which seems to be rather bland, boring and ugly for the most part; you know something is wrong when the humans are sexier than the mecha. Thought, they do start to grow on me a little.
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>>488
Isn't IBO, y'know, pretty bad?
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>>495
idk, I heard it was well received among Western audience where not so much in Japan. I'll keep watching both shows and then share my (personal) final verdict.
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I've finished IBO and now can see why it's bad...man, that dumb soul-crushing ending They all died horrible death and lost, but that way they got what they wanted LOLXD FUCKING BS 
I should've stopped at the reasonable end of season 1 and avoid the trainwreck of stupidity that was season 2

Space Travel, Mobile Suits, Nanomachines, etc…all that advanced technology and they can't even heal physical disability. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! I get that those kids who went through Alaya-Vijnana system' surgery are poorfags who can't afford medical care, but they had money at that. It would make much more sense and would've been cool if the nanomachines would enhance the pilots healing ability rather than having their bodies "magically" healthy only when they're connected to Alaya-Vijnana system.

The number of traitors is this series is ridiculously high and same goes with death flags.  The whole plot moving forward rely on that which reach to the point of being lazy and stupid. There might as well been traitors betraying the traitors at this point.  As for the death flags, dare I say too many of them are just as bad as too much plot armor. 

I felt the show really going down the hill when the kids at Tekkdan kept easily misled by Radiche and Galan like a complete idiots, after all they didn't survived that far by being brainless. 

The toy commercial was too intrusive and forced; quick appearing and disappearing of certain mobile suits my beautiful centaur Trooper Kimaris did nothing the galaxy canon enthusiasm near Shino death which felt really distasteful   

At the beginning of the show it seems to have libertarian~AnCap massage/direction, but of course it ended with statism.  
 
It such a shame since the show has more like HAD so many likeable characters ; I felt bad for their death, even for the space pimp and his mistress with the only exception being Aston because he was an idiot who died by his own idiocy. which made the ending even more insufferable.
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>>522
Look up the post series interviews. It's a progressive ending. Mika's whores get dyke married and raise his kid. They talk about how pedophilia is legal. A whole bunch of pozzed up shit.
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>>547
>Mika's whores
You may call Kudelia a whore, but Atra is pure!
>They talk about how pedophilia is legal
What?! McGillis literally talked asbout how he wanted to create a world where his engagement/marriage with Almaria is seen as normal and he failed . 
>It's a progressive ending
>A whole bunch of pozzed up shit
The real problem is shit writing and progressiveness is mainly a means to conceal it, e.g. Legend of Korra.
>>547
Who even wrote this crap?
>>522
Of course, this is Gundam, where in UC the entire fanbase will point out the hypocrisy of Zeon, but make excuses for the Federation. Even though its a corrupt oligarchy that lets a monopolistic corporation sell weapons to their enemies and start constant wars that cost countless lives all in the name of profit. But they're the "good guys" because they never do anything as overtly evil as a colony drop
"Fuck you, the Titans don't count" every UC fag when defending the Federation
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>>556
>Even though its a corrupt oligarchy that lets a monopolistic corporation sell weapons to their enemies and start constant wars that cost countless lives all in the name of profit
Wow! Did it happened in the original series as well?! Does it occour through the all different UC series? 
Well, I guess Bandai need to keep selling new model kits somehow
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>>561
YES. To one degree or another, Feddies have always been commie sociopaths. Legit, the Cosmo Babylonia was a good alternative to them, and that whole extermination plan felt like it was thrown in hamfistedly to make sure we remembered who the badduns were.
>>125
How closely does it follow the manga? Asking since both actually seemed to at least finish the same year, which makes me at least hope it doesn’t deviate too much for lack of material to work with. 

Also, considering I see one torrent on nyaa being a whopping 15gb, I assume it got a rerelease in some format, but none of the torrents listed are English subbed. Do you know if there’s been any interest in porting the translation forward, or retranslating using that? Just wondering if I ought to go with an old subbed set I found elsewhere, or if it might be better to hold off just in case. Though, for all I know, if it did indeed get a rerelease, it could well be a shitty upscale job.

That opening has a hell of a lot of charm to it regardless.
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>>623
>DVD 480p WMV
Doesn't sound like a rerelease if you were thinking BD. I'm guessing Triad hardsubbed it? I wish I had kept my bakabt credentials, fuck. If it were softsubs you could just remux it yourself assuming the 15GB raws are higher quality than what was released by Triad. Otherwise the only choice is to download both and make your own softsubs from the hardsub translation or settle for the hardsubbed copy's quality. And then there's the possibility the wmv raws are shit even at such a bitrate, and if you had to get really autistic about quality, you'd have to find the DVDs on Yahoo auctions and encode/remux them yourself. I'm so glad ASS softsubs have taken off, I find great joy in remuxing shit just the way I want it. Not so much buyfagging with how expensive it can be, but at least the option is there when I want it. I usually settle for shitty releases for first time viewing though to avoid burnout.
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>>626
Yeah, the ones I found were a hardsubbed set credited to Triad. I'm guessing the uploads are at the original dimensions/resolution, but they wind up looking pretty damn small on modern monitors, or looking too soft/artifacted in full screen.
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>>627
Also, I don't suppose you have that final OVA episode you could perhaps upload somewhere? And are the OVAs worth watching in addition to theTV series anyhow?
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>>637
English subbed, that is.
>>623
is the manga translated anywhere?
Also, might be wrong, but isnt the artist the one from Outlaw Star?
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>>639
>is the manga translated anywhere?
Actually hadn’t looked myself prior. Mangaupdates suggests no one has translated it into English. It apparently did see official Spanish and Italian translations (or “translations”?) though.

>Also, might be wrong, but isnt the artist the one from Outlaw Star?
Far as I've heard, yes, he was mangaka for both (Ryu Knight actually being the earlier of the two).
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>>522
>IBO
Reminder that the season 1 finale takes place in fucking Edmonton, Alberta and it looks almost exactly the same as it does now.
Now i get reminded i never finished Kuromukuro, only saw the first episode and forgot about it for years.
Was it interesting?
>>641
>Spanish or Italian

How complete are those? Remember that both people really like their Shonen.
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>>648
I’m not sure I don't even know what the chapter count in Japan was, though it's listed as only having a total of three volumes. You might have to check if there’s online listings for the publications by release and see what chapter they stopped at. The Spanish version was by “Planeta DeAgostini” and the Italian one by Panini Comics’ “Planet Manga”.
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>>649
i think the spaniard version was divided in 8 volumes instead of the 3 from Japan
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>>650
I'd make a guess that maybe it was 24 chapters or something. The Japanese publisher released monthly from what it sounds like, and ran from sometime like 1993 to somewhere in 1995. Maybe Europe got the whole thing?
I've started Dunbine.
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>>939
What think?
Been on The Big O.
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