(always under construction!) Favorites Extended: (no particular order, same goes for my top 5 list)
- Ghost in the Shell [everything you could say, though I do prefer SAC over the films]
- Seirei No Moribito
- Monster
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
- Texhnolze
- Boogiepop Phantom
- Crest/Banner of the Stars [All]
- Macross: Do You Remember Love?
- Mobile Suit Gundam [summary trilogy] and others, especially GX.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Armored Trooper Votoms For the epic nostalgia...
- Gunbuster
- Bubblegum Crisis OVA/2040
- Iria Zeiram
Ratings: Anime vs H-anime - They're completely different and the ratings between the two should never be directly compared, for my list personally. So, I might give [B] h-anime an 8 and [C] anime an 8 as well, but I might like one of them drastically more or less than the other. Same can be said about reviews. Hope that makes sense.
Yeah, what's up with that? I thought Misa was a popular character...I guess not enough to be even mentioned.
SDF Macross is the only in its franchise that can be considered a space opera. Well, for me anways. The others Ive seen so far haven't quite lived up to the majesty of the original.
So far, they alluded to Max, Millia, Minmei, and Hikaru, but no Misa so far. It would be cool if they show Hikaru and Misa in Macross 7, but it seems unlikely :(.
Sorry about that - my sentences have been becoming more and more convoluted in recent weeks, probably because of my return to uni and a bunch of poets who ignore syntax. But yeah, I meant that LoGH does have a good, conclusive ending (I see you've finished it now) but that at the same time I wished there was more of it.
Oh, that's to bad about Hikaru's VA. He captured his persona really good in the series and DYRL. Hikaru/Rick and Misa/Lisa have to be my favorite characters of the whole franchise. Roy, Max, and Miria are cool as well.
Once you get to episode 3-ish, you will probably notice that Miria's and Max's role have kinda swapped. Didn't Max mention he didnt like fighting that much in SDF Macross? Well, he's a captain of a fleet now. Miria seemed to enjoy the thrill of flying a VF and fighting. Now she's gone mayor... She and Max still look young in Macross 7; I don't think she can use the excuse of, "Im too old to fight." However, she may have gotten tired of fighting, but her Zentradi nature makes it kind of doubtful. Something major must've happen to make her drop fighting, or there may be another reason. Eh, Ill shut up and continue watching it lol ;P
Basara...it's too early to judge him, but so far, I think he's a goof-ball(I guess its kind of good and bad simultaneously). His song is kinda getting annoying though lol.
I'm not much of a PC Gamer either, but i've always been a fan of most of Blizzard's games, particularly Warcraft so i'll be getting it on launch day as well.
I know what you mean with Diablo, they're fun, but I grew tired of them fairly quickly as well. I'll probably pass on Diablo 3 and catch up on something else instead.
eh, I thought LOGH had an amazing ending actually.
*checks Leuconoe's comment*
Are you sure that he wasn't saying that he was worrying about LOGH not having a proper ending when he was still watching it? Because I find it hard to believe someone not being satisfied with the conclusion. I mean sure the story could indeed continue, but I felt they ended it at the perfect spot. Infact I'd say it's a Terra e.../Ryvius level ending, I sincerely doubt you'll be disappointed :).
In Macross 7 they refer to the females as Meltrandi as well. In just the first episode, they made a couple of references to DYRL. Yeah, Minmay in DYRL wasn't as stupid as she was in the series :o
I personally liked that scene where Misa and Hikaru stumble on the protoculture residental ship. When I saw Misa break down, I thought back to that shakespearean line, "Frailty, thy name is woman." However, I mean it to be a compliment. It was one of the few moments where we see Misa as a woman/human being rather than a soldier. It seems Hikaru sees it as well.
Hmmm, you kind of got what I was trying to say about Zero and DYRL lol?
Reuentahl's death - well, it was pretty clear that it was coming - but what they did with his son completely blindsided me (cue manly(?) tears).
And I know exactly what you mean about not wanting LoGH to end: the only thing worse than LoGH ending is the prospect of the story not having a conclusion!
One day I want to rewatch the whole thing and do episode-by-episode coverage on my blog, but I don't really have the time or the energy right now . . .
DYRL was a pretty good movie. Minmay wasn't portrayed as much of a bitch as she was in the series--probably due to the circumstances in how she met Hikaru. That, and she is quicker to realize her feelings but this is a movie, so there were time constraints...Overall not bad, but I wanted to see more of Max's and Millia's aftermath.
Hikaru wasn't as capricious as he was in the series. I admired that he was able to come to a resolution and admit his feelings to Misa. So, that was another plus.
"Protoculture" played a larger role in the movie. I liked how they went into more background with them as well. After watching this movie, I see more of a connection between Zero and SDF Macross. Before, I felt as if Zero occured in an alternate universe, but I, myself, can draw a connection between DYRL and Zero. Why? Since the movie had a crashed protoculture ship, which further showed that Protoculture had a direct relationship with "indigenous organisms"-- the human race.
Since the original SDF Macross series didnt allude to any protoculture ship wrecks or protoculture having any direct influence on humans, I couldnt draw any connections with Zero and SDF Macross. With DYRL, the connections seem to solidfy even more. I then fill in the blanks with my own thoughts and conclusions.
I don't know if my discourse makes any sense to you lol...I guess it's harder to explain than I thought haha. Well, it makes sense for me anyways...;)
I saw your comments on Leunconoe's (or however you spell it, IKnight, as he's otherwise referred to depending on location) wall thing - I just finished LoGH, best anime I've ever seen, I think it killed anime for me, since I doubt there's anything that could come close to it. But I could be wrong, hopefully so.
I loved the relationship between Mittermeyer and Reuenthal. It was the most gar-ingly gar case of "mamoru-ism" ever. None of that played out chivalry, it was really sincere. I mean, there's just too much to talk about it. I'll probably have to rewatch the entire show just to start writing about it, since maybe the first time through was just for the visceral experience.
