Revy: "Which side do you wanna be on"
Rock: "Me? I am where I'm standing. No where else."
"I was afraid of the days that were nevertheless flying by mercilessly" - Takemoto
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - Kusanagi Motoko
"Now that I think about it, I was absolutely clueless back then. I didn't know what it meant to pray for a miracle, nor the price of one." - Madoka Magica (Sayaka)
"No matter how many prosthetic bodies you've went through this was the one thing that was always ticking away, keeping the same time as you. Nowadays that's far to fleeting, people entrust their memories to external devices because they want to set down solid physical proof that can distinguish them as unique individuals. That watch is all you have though, isn't it? Your only external mnemonic device that identifies the person you've been up to this minute." - Batou
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?" - Nietzsche
"The flaws in man's knowledge lead to flaws in man's reality." - Ghost in the Shell 2
"We are saddened by a bird's cry, but not a fish's blood; blessed are those with voices." - Ghost in the Shell 2 (Motoko)
"Killing people is easy. Just forget the taste of sugar." - Mr. Rosso
"From up here you can't see any borders, all you can see is the Earth." - Planetes
""Mountain. Heavy are the mountains, something that changes through the ages. Sky. Blue sky. Something visible, something invisible. Sun. Something unique. Water. Something agreeable. Commander Ikari. Flowers. Many of them alike, many of them useless. Sky. Red, red sky. Red color. Red color that I hate. Water flow. Blood. The smell of blood. A woman that does not bleed. Made from the red soil are humans. Made by Man and Woman are humans. Town. Something that humans made. Eva. Something that humans made. Humans are what? Something that God made. Humans are things which humans made. The things I possess are my life and mind. The vessel of a mind. Entry plug, the throne of a soul. Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? I am myself. This object is me, the figure which forms me. This is the me that is visible, though it feels as if this is not me. A strange feeling. My body seems as if it is melting. I cannot see myself. My figure is fading away. I am aware of someone else. Who is there before me? Ikari-kun. I know this person. Major Katsuragi. Dr. Akagi. People, my classmates. The pilot of Unit Two. Commander Ikari. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?" - Rei Ayanami
"So, where is my dream? It is a continuation of your reality. But, where is my reality? It is at the end of your dream." - End of Evangelion
“Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.” - Dostoyevsky
"Give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other" - Serenity Prayer
“The world is not beautiful. Therefore, it is.” - Kino
Hermes: "But what would you be doing if the world was really going to end tomorrow?"
Kino: "The exact same thing I’m doing right now."
"What her camera was capturing was pictures of people who were desperately trying to stick to the road map that was laid out on a whim by the powers at be. Pursuing all the while the fragmented peace that lay ahead like the image at the end of a kaleidoscope." - Flag
Lol man. I just overrate stuff. Anything nowadays that I even have time to "finish" would get a 7 by default. Unless it's some crapfest like Guilty Crown or something that started out good and failed horribly hard.
Not sure what to watch after this. I got GITS 2nd season after this as well but I don't remember anything that happened in the first season. Maybe some Nichijou or whatever leftover anime I got delayed for ages.
Still a very... forgettable series thus far. Cliche family troubles. Inability to deal with loss. Using imagination as a way of escapism. Etcetc. I'm not even laughing as much now. And I can't stand marathoning this at all. And now there's a second season? Reaaaaaaaaally.
I just didn't find it very engaging. I actually skipped 10-15 minutes of the child rearing arc, because I felt like it was just dragging on and on. The movie looked beautiful, there's no question, but the characters just didn't click with me. My least favourite of his movies, for sure.
Holyshiat dude. Shingeki no Kyojoin is like the best anime this year. It's so good. Like, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood good. But I'm jumping on the hype train as the others. The animation is top notch (like the actual action set pieces). The story slowly unwraps itself, and plenty of likeable characters to choose from. Highly recommended for anybody who remotely likes action as well as keeping up with a decent plot.
As for Chuunibyou, dayum, man. I thought the romance under MAL genres might just be a side thing, pffft. Not sure if I can take it either.
I just went to my friend's house and caught up with attack on titan to ep5 and watched some Chuunibyou.
Chuunibyou is ah, a bit too moe for me. I might watch it with my bud again next week. I feel kind of silly watching this alone. I think when I said I grew out of high school-related anime, it's mostly true. I'm sure if I watched this before I'll probably like it as much as I did Haruhi.
It did kind of throw me off when I expected a love triangle only to have shown that the cheerleader had an ulterior motive, lol. But if anything I'm going to assume a love triangle will happen regardless. It's yet another one of those anime where they probably tried to get the viewers to feel "I wished my childhood was like that" or something of the sort. Knowing Japan.
Thanks. I'm going to grad school in September and TAing at the university I'm going to over the summer.
From this season I'm watching Aku no Hana, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S, and Yuyushiki. Aku no Hana is the rotoscoped anime that caused a shit-storm. I think it's pretty good, but I've been less into it the past few episodes. The first episode is by far my favourite so far. Railgun is Railgun. In it for the moe and action. Yuyushiki is a generic school/moe/comedy. It's had a few hilarious moments, but otherwise it's really average. I should have dropped it, but it's my guilty pleasure, I guess.
Yeah the aborted children depiction was kind of weird, haha. Artistic, though. I agree about it having some thrilling moments. Especially later on.
I didn't hate Madoka, I just don't see it as anything more than a simple concept well executed (as opposed to the masterpiece that many see it as). The story was kinda cool, but fairly linear and not particularly creative. The backgrounds and artistic direction were great, thanks to based Shaft, but I felt like the character designs ruined the art a little for me. Overall I just feel really "meh" about it.
To be honest I haven't felt like having intense anime discussions lately. I think it's because I'm not super "into" anything I'm watching and also because I just graduated university, so I'm thinking about that a lot. Need to start a few new shows to get my passion back :P.
Haha, yeah. He's pretty much invincible. So, now that you're done the show, what do you think? Personally, I found the ship/fish arc (believe it was the 2nd or 3rd) and the final arc to be the most fascinating. Really enjoyed those two. I also began to appreciate the art more in the later episodes.
And oh shit, just realized I never replied to your Penguindrum post. Sorry, I'll get around to doing that Wednesday probably, since I'll be out all day tomorrow and am tired tonight :P.
Well, Mushishi is both an "8.5 or higher series" and something of a slice of life, though a darker and creepier one than most. It's sort of like a...historic Japanese X-Files SOL anime, or something. I love it so far. For a more bright and cheerful SOL, Aria is wonderful. It's very slow-paced and might seem to be kind of...uneventful at first, but if you stick with it and watch it at a relaxed pace of maybe one episode per night, you'll probably come to like it. Personally, I didn't realize how much I'd come to love it til it was over.
Oh, it's just a 25-or-so-minute movie, but you should also definitely watch Little Witch Academia. It's super cute and brilliantly animated. Trigger put it up on their youtube channel, but you might want to download it anyway.
