Something happens in my heart when I see Seiya with his first anime cloth... I probably have seen some random episodes of Speed Racer and Kimba before, but I really got into anime when Saint Seiya aired in my country in 1994 and I was 5yo. After its success there was a huge flood of anime on free TV. Dragon Ball, Shurato, Ronin Warriors, they'd even show some random OVAs like MD Geist and Genocyber for the kids between Sailor Moon and Captain Tsubasa. I also got a VHS of Akira back then and fell absolute in love with it, no wonder I became teenage punk later on. Some anime I watched in the 90's I hold dear are Street Fighter II V, Yu Yu Hakusho and Samurai X (and Akira!).
In 2001, when I was 12yo, my family got a paid TV service and there was an anime channel. I got to watch tons of random stuff but also Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, Jin-Roh, Perfect Blue, Animatrix, among others, that blew my mind and completely changed my view of anime. In 2003 we changed service and I no longer had that channel, the anime on TV were the likes of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Bey Blade and I couldn't get into those, my bar was set too high already, and I didn't watch anime through the rest of my teenage years.
In 2008 I started watching some episodes of One Piece and Naruto on my lunch break and it was quite entertaining but they didn't air too many episodes on free TV. I got curious to see how the story would continue but my internet wasn't good enough to watch online so I looked for the manga, then I discovered that manga (of those shounen, at least) are so much better than anime. It's fast paced, they don't repeat the same dialogue ten times per episode nor have a flashback every five minutes, and from there I started reading a lot of manga, and although friends got me reading some stuff I regret wasting so much time on like Fairy Tail and Noblesse, I also discovered Berserk, Basilisk, Gantz, Attack on Titan, Eden, Death Note...
It was late 2015, I was hanging at a friend's house and the guy said there was this cool anime I had to watch, I thought he was going to show me yet another shounen and I was pretty bored at the whole genre already, but he showed me the first episode of Gangsta. and I absolutely loved it. When I got back home I watched the whole thing, there were nine episodes out and I was so excited but then, like a curse, when I finally got back into anime after twelve years, the studio went bankrupt and the anime was dropped two episodes later, not even completing the season lol.
But now I was back at it and started looking for other stuff, discovered Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze, Sky Crawlers, Darker Than Black, Code Geass, From the New World, Terror in Resonance, Psycho-Pass... I was watching a lot of stuff, and then I found MyAnimeList, joined Jan 5, 2016. The rest of my updates you can see on the site :)
I watched the ONA completely blind a couple weeks ago. Even though it is meant to supplement the manga, I couldn't help but be helplessly enthralled with the universe and how obtuse the story was with no prior knowledge. I bought the first volume of the Master Edition and it was over. I knew within the first 30 pages I was going to love it. Without hesitation I bought the rest. I'm not versed in much manga but Blame! is already, without a doubt, up there among my favorites and I don't see it ever changing. Already a masterpiece in my mind and I have not finished yet.
So story time on how I ended up here. I was searching through the "idol (female)" category for no particular reason and stumbled on Yuki Terai in Virtual Hawaii which led me to Yuki Terai. It has so few members and you have the lone discussion post. Had to click on your profile and see nothing but pure culture. Jin-roh (absolute masterpiece), Memories, EVEN The Animatrix on the favorites (just re-watched). Love that! I have seen 9 out of the 10 favorites you have (most 3+times) but I have NOT seen Dorohedoro. Going to be watching it purely because I know I will love it from your favorites.
not particularly on this site really, which is nice to see. Outside of the site though it seems pretty common that I see people calling the short a 'representation of dementia'.
Yep! That's absolutely what it is. I'm impressed by the color, texture, and mood in the first one at times, but it really is Conan + isekai + Lovecraftian gods.
I looked at it before. I wasn't familiar with a good number of these. Kind of wanted to try the Neuromancer one, but unfinished. :(
I read three volumes of Richard Corben's Den recently. I'm not a fan, but the first volume had an interesting style and atmosphere. Worth a look, but I probably would stop after volume 1.
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I read three volumes of Richard Corben's Den recently. I'm not a fan, but the first volume had an interesting style and atmosphere. Worth a look, but I probably would stop after volume 1.