Report Septmb's Profile

I love it! Episode 25 has probably been the most impactful episode of an anime I've seen all year.

Why do u have Rikiishi > Youko?

Ranma will always have that place in my heart.

Thanks man! It's a good time, though perhaps a bit slow

Heyo AL friend. Nice to see you on here too!

I've seen Captain Harlock and Space Battleship Yamato, the original, that is. And I've seen the GE999 movies, but not the show.

Hi! My name is Alians0108, I am new to anime! Nice to meet you!

Thanks for the friend request! You've also got amazing taste! At the moment I'm not really watching any anime since I was going pretty all out on watching a little while back. Recently though, I have been reading some visual novels for the first time - despite most VNs really being explicit works. However, I have just completed the absolute masterwork called Fata Morgana no Yakata. I'm not sure if you've read this before or even heard of it so please let me know and we can chat about it. Finally, I'm ready White Album 2 now and getting though Closing Chapter. Nowhere near as brilliant as Fata but again if you're interested to ask more about this please go ahead! Trying to keep this short haha

How about yourself? Anything you're keen on sharing? :)

Yeah, I am enjoying it. It does contain some scenes you can't get away with today.

Are you talking about the new or old one?

Hey man, thanks for the comment! Absolutely, I'll be sure to update you when I form an opinion on it properly, but if I forget please remind me, I won't be offended! First impressions though, I think it had a decent opening episode. Definitely very dated, but quite elegant in the way that it utilised it's resources. I find it quite odd that it was only a year before ashita no Joe 2, although if I were to guess I would say that they feel about 5 to 10 years apart in their productions. If I could compare it to other shows, I would say that it feels like a mixture between legend of the galactic heroes and utena. It has very strong shoujo vibes, artwork and writing but the dramatic politcal backdrop brought back some flashbacks of legend of the galactic heroes as well. Looking forward to seeing how things go with it, I have high expectations!

Same to you! Very much enjoying classic Cyborg - though certainly less time for long watch sessions nowadays.

I don't know if you seen my filler cheat sheet video but I will elaborate a bit here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l66iXcCTb0s

In my experience, the filler did bother me which is why I made the video. The series can get profound in the way it handles heroism and sorrowful drama but it's hard to believe that when the first arc is about a martial arts action hero saving his fiancée from hordes of bad guys for 22 episodes. Sort of has that "Will Kenshiro rescue Yuria? Find out next week." type of vibe. The series in general can get outrageous but it's never THAT corny or over the top. The way it performs feats of inhuman strength are more akin to mythical legends. There will be the occasional minor villain that's there to be humorously killed. Basically, it's on par with Ashita No Joe in terms of tragic men & having an emotional ost. While it influenced JoJo & Sakigake!! Otokojuku, FOTNS isn't played that absurd, most of the time. When the series gets great for me is around the late 40s/early 50's in terms of episode count. From that point onward it became a must watch for me. I just wish the filler wasn't so prominent in the beginning and the ending of the series.

Hey, thanks for the message. I had watched Utena a long while back, in 2018, but I remember how I felt quite vividly. Essentially, the whole story is a repetitive, pretentious mess in my opinion. It thinks that it's so clever, but all that I got out of it was watching the same scenes happening over and over again with bland caricatures battling each other out. I mean, there was very little that I found interesting. The world felt flat and artificial (not in a good way), the characters were just stereotypes with bright hair and the storytelling was very clearly an original take with rather poor progression. I'm not sure if you would agree with me, but it did not have to be that long, I swear it could have been one cour if told correctly.

The real problem with utena though is the fanbase. What I mean by this is that the fanbase will go to any length to defend the show by saying that if you criticise it you either didn't think hard enough or were not paying attention. For example, the world feels artificial because 'that's how they meant it to feel that way', or the characters feel bland and uninteresting because 'the writer wanted them to be robotic because blah blah blah'. It's a very toxic thinking process, and really all that happens is you see perfection in an otherwise incredibly boring product. The only areas I liked where the animation quality, which was at times very impressive, some standalone episodes, especially a bit closer to the end and occasionally the ost, which was good but like the rest of the series, repetitive and far too bombastic.

In summary, utena was probably the most difficult time I have had watching a series. I FORCED myself to sit through it when I probably wanted to drop it in episode 5 or so, just because I wanted to see what people were raving about. Unfortunately all that I got out of it was a bald spot on my head from yanking out hair one by one.

Old people try lean for the first time