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Code Geass People!!!
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I live in a place where NOONE watches anime and i need to talk about Code Geass With someone!
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This is not the right place, now if you want to write about manly shows like Go Nagai or G Gundam I will be all eyes
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I have never watched either of those shows. But I do watch Cowboy Bebop and Gundam Wing.
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Gundam Wing? Manly?
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I didn't say it was manly. I just said I watched it.
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Remember guys, try not to scare off another new member
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Don't worry, I don't scare easily. I am a Dragon Overlord afterall.
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Screw all of you. This thread is now about the manliest show in the universe.
http://www.t2k.ac.th/deedaweb/Picture/Little_snow_fairy_sugar.jpg
That's right, Little Snow Fairy Sugar. -
I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to post pictures of gay asses then ?
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Uh Gokiburi I don't know what's more scary. You thinking that that's manly, or the fact that you even know that anime exists.
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[quote="MLKJrLordOfDragons"]Uh Gokiburi I don't know what's more scary. You thinking that that's manly, or the fact that you even know that anime exists.
I will always beliebe in Goki because he walks at the rhythm of this manly song
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I HATE YOU CHRONO!!! I HAD THAT SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR 3 HOURS!!!!
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[quote="MLKJrLordOfDragons"]I HATE YOU CHRONO!!! I HAD THAT SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR 3 HOURS!!!!
You are welcome!
Now that you are more manly, you are ready for this
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Sorry but this is manlier.
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As manly as GaoGaiGar is, Sugar's opening is manlier:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lbN90rC5S1Q
Listen to those lyrics. It's all about crying manly tears, not wanting to feel love, and mourning your dead mother. I'm talking Danzig levels of manliness here. -
[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]As manly as GaoGaiGar is, Sugar's opening is manlier:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lbN90rC5S1Q
Listen to those lyrics. It's all about crying manly tears, not wanting to feel love, and mourning your dead mother. I'm talking Danzig levels of manliness here.
This is even manlier
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=eZl2XWHaxPA
I will never forget you Minky momo
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[quote="chronocross_xp"]This is not the right place, now if you want to write about manly shows like Go Nagai or G Gundam I will be all eyes
Go Nagai not a show, he's a dude. A tiny Japanese dude. However if you meant show written and made by Go Nagai, then you would be right about that. Even Cutey Honey is manly. Kinda. -
Thank you AS.com
I think I understand people's complaints. It can't seem to decide if its a hard hitting deconstruction of the fantasy of anarchic rebellion or humiliating exercise of it. I mean am I really supposed to care or even find Lelouch nice just because he shows taste in women his age and is a jerk all the time and conerned only with people as they relate to him? -
My main issue with code geass is that the main character is a douchebag
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You can thank Death Note for that.
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You can thank Death Note for that.
I'm sure the tradition of having the protagonist in a shonen action series be a total jerkwad goes back further than that. The difference is that nowadays shonen heroes can not only be jerks, but also murderous psychopaths. I can see what Daryl means when he talks about shonen taking cues from gekiga and seinen manga. -
[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]
You can thank Death Note for that.
I'm sure the tradition of having the protagonist in a shonen action series be a total jerkwad goes back further than that. The difference is that nowadays shonen heroes can not only be jerks, but also murderous psychopaths. I can see what Daryl means when he talks about shonen taking cues from gekiga and seinen manga.
Are you saying that Golgo 13 is a jerk? -
[quote="chronocross_xp"][quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]
You can thank Death Note for that.
I'm sure the tradition of having the protagonist in a shonen action series be a total jerkwad goes back further than that. The difference is that nowadays shonen heroes can not only be jerks, but also murderous psychopaths. I can see what Daryl means when he talks about shonen taking cues from gekiga and seinen manga.
Are you saying that Golgo 13 is a jerk?
No way. He was doing a favor to all the women he slept with by brutally murdering them. He knew that they would never again experience a moment of such pure, unadulterated bliss, and therefor ending their lives was the most merciful thing he could possibly do. He'd be a jerk if he didn't kill them afterwards. -
Golgo 13 is GEKIGA, people, not shonen!
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[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]
You can thank Death Note for that.
I'm sure the tradition of having the protagonist in a shonen action series be a total jerkwad goes back further than that.Yeah, but weren't they usually jerks who deep down had a heart of gold? Or at least a heart of mostly decent? Death Note really threw me when I started watching it a few months ago because I kept waiting for the standard shounen trope of the brash protaganist realizing he has to use his new power to fight for good. It was only about nine episodes in that I realized Light was just an unrepentant asshole. -
[quote="shaloop"][quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]
You can thank Death Note for that.
I'm sure the tradition of having the protagonist in a shonen action series be a total jerkwad goes back further than that.Yeah, but weren't they usually jerks who deep down had a heart of gold? Or at least a heart of mostly decent? Death Note really threw me when I started watching it a few months ago because I kept waiting for the standard shounen trope of the brash protaganist realizing he has to use his new power to fight for good. It was only about nine episodes in that I realized Light was just an unrepentant asshole.
Asshole is too light a word, he was a cunt. -
I'd rather let a bad ass dick get the lead , than some nerdy pointdexter.
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[quote="djdrastic"]I'd rather let a bad ass dick get the lead , than some nerdy pointdexter.
Hear Hear!
Also, Death Note's author's will never be at the same level as the master of suspense Naoki Urasawa. I can just imagine a Golgo 13 manga by him -
I agree 150% with djdrastic, because if you watch the series, if Lelouch was nerdy, it'd basically be a harem with some robots. (Never seen one of those before.)
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[quote="MLKJrLordOfDragons"]it'd basically be a harem with some robots. (Never seen one of those before.)
And we hope it does not exist. -
Golgo 13 is GEKIGA, people, not shonen!
I think chrono was responding to me saying that shonen titles were taking cues from gekiga and seinen manga with the Golgo 13 quip; I don't think he meant to imply that Golgo was shonen.
And isn't Golgo technically seinen? I thought gekiga was a period, not a genre... -
As always Goki is right!
except when it comes with G Gundam -
I freely admit that I could be wrong about G-Gundam. But I also think that show would be better served without the word "Gundam" in the title. I could probably watch it and enjoy it for itself if I wasn't constantly trying to reconcile it with other Gundam productions.
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[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]I freely admit that I could be wrong about G-Gundam. But I also think that show would be better served without the word "Gundam" in the title. I could probably watch it and enjoy it for itself if I wasn't constantly trying to reconcile it with other Gundam productions.
Fair enough, now lets reconcile this with this list of manly heroes
http://vizer.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/kamina.jpg
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc246/liwilinmary/GAOGAIGAR.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d31/blackhelmetman/Grobo.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc180/KuroNekoKawaii/Anime%20Stuff/GetterRobo-BlackGetterWall.jpg
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[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]But I also think that show would be better served without the word "Gundam" in the title.True that.
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[quote="shaloop"][quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]But I also think that show would be better served without the word "Gundam" in the title.True that.
Who CARES what the title is? It's awesome. I don't hear you getting pissed that Giant Robo The Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still is nothing in tone like the 1960's Giant Robo aka Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot! -
YES! Time to discuss Gurren Lagaan.
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So I heard you wanted to talk about Code Geass...
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/1018/1213106753740ot5.jpg
Let's talk about it. -
I wonder how many people pronounce it "Code Gay-Ass"
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Everyone.
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[quote="Digitalguardian"]So I heard you wanted to talk about Code Geass...
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/1018/1213106753740ot5.jpg
Let's talk about it.
I guess that means that Dave and Joel have to review it -
[quote="Digitalguardian"]Let's talk about it.
At least yours wasn't official. This one? Very official.
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Yeah... Code Gayass.
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Who CARES what the title is? It's awesome. I don't hear you getting pissed that Giant Robo The Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still is nothing in tone like the 1960's Giant Robo aka Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot!
For me, a title is part of the holistic experience of a show. Case in point: Snakes on a Plane.
You have to admit certain words in certain franchises evoke specific expectations. If you hear about a series with the word "Macross" in the title, you expect some amount of singing and some form of transforming plane / humanoid robot. Likewise, if you hear about a series with the word "Gundam" in it, you expect things like politics and Newtypes and a relatively "real robot" setting. You don't automatically expect super-robot style gladiatorial combat, plug-suits complete with 1950s style antennae, and horse robots that are also piloted by an actual horse.
G-Gundam is a pretty serious departure from your typical Gundam show. That's why I said I think the show would have been better served if it didn't have the word Gundam in the title. -
Fuunsaiki was one of the reasons why I loved that show
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[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]
For me, a title is part of the holistic experience of a show. Case in point: Snakes on a Plane.
You have to admit certain words in certain franchises evoke specific expectations. If you hear about a series with the word "Macross" in the title, you expect some amount of singing and some form of transforming plane / humanoid robot. Likewise, if you hear about a series with the word "Gundam" in it, you expect things like politics and Newtypes and a relatively "real robot" setting. You don't automatically expect super-robot style gladiatorial combat, plug-suits complete with 1950s style antennae, and horse robots that are also piloted by an actual horse.
G-Gundam is a pretty serious departure from your typical Gundam show. That's why I said I think the show would have been better served if it didn't have the word Gundam in the title.
Paul, way to completely disregard everything I said. Let's try this again.
THIS is Giant Robo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N3aXU1dUaM
Yet somehow you don't have a problem with Giant Robo The Animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us073fYmopY
This is wildly different in both tone and style. Reconcile this. -
This is wildly different in both tone and style. Reconcile this.
I don't have to. I saw the Giant Robo animation first. It wasn't until many years later that I ever learned of the existence of Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot. It was never an issue of cognitive dissonance in that regard.
On the other hand, I'd seen Char's Counterattack, the UC Gundam compilation movies, War in the Pocket, and a few episodes of Zeta before I saw any G-Gundam. I had certain expectations going into it. Those expectations were not met. It's possible that I might have had a different reaction to the show if it wasn't burdened with the baggage of the Gundam name. Hasn't Imagawa himself admitted that the Gundam connection in G-Gundam was only because the producers wanted to sell toys? -
[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]
This is wildly different in both tone and style. Reconcile this.
I don't have to. I saw the Giant Robo animation first. It wasn't until many years later that I ever learned of the existence of Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot. It was never an issue of cognitive dissonance in that regard.
On the other hand, I'd seen Char's Counterattack, the UC Gundam compilation movies, War in the Pocket, and a few episodes of Zeta before I saw any G-Gundam. I had certain expectations going into it. Those expectations were not met. It's possible that I might have had a different reaction to the show if it wasn't burdened with the baggage of the Gundam name. Hasn't Imagawa himself admitted that the Gundam connection in G-Gundam was only because the producers wanted to sell toys?
So in a parallel universe where Goki watched G-gundam before all the other Gundam. Would have appreciated it better and even like it.
People of the earth!
I can demostrate of the existence of parallel universe because that parallel Goki came to our universe and had to change its name is Daryl Surat! -
[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]
This is wildly different in both tone and style. Reconcile this.
I don't have to. I saw the Giant Robo animation first. It wasn't until many years later that I ever learned of the existence of Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot. It was never an issue of cognitive dissonance in that regard.
On the other hand, I'd seen Char's Counterattack, the UC Gundam compilation movies, War in the Pocket, and a few episodes of Zeta before I saw any G-Gundam. I had certain expectations going into it. Those expectations were not met. It's possible that I might have had a different reaction to the show if it wasn't burdened with the baggage of the Gundam name. Hasn't Imagawa himself admitted that the Gundam connection in G-Gundam was only because the producers wanted to sell toys?
Well, enjoy being WRONG then. -
Digitalguardian wrote:
Let's talk about it.
At least yours wasn't official. This one? Very official.
[quote="Digitalguardian"]Let's talk about it.
At least yours wasn't official. This one? Very official.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i243/Solmanni/date76766mn2.jpg
Every show gets little teenage fangirls that imagine a world where an anime they like is yaoi. That was example A. -
[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]
This is wildly different in both tone and style. Reconcile this.
I don't have to. I saw the Giant Robo animation first. It wasn't until many years later that I ever learned of the existence of Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot. It was never an issue of cognitive dissonance in that regard.
On the other hand, I'd seen Char's Counterattack, the UC Gundam compilation movies, War in the Pocket, and a few episodes of Zeta before I saw any G-Gundam. I had certain expectations going into it. Those expectations were not met. It's possible that I might have had a different reaction to the show if it wasn't burdened with the baggage of the Gundam name. Hasn't Imagawa himself admitted that the Gundam connection in G-Gundam was only because the producers wanted to sell toys?
Wouldn't by your logic mean that ∀ Gundam is super awesome? ∀ Gundam delivers on all of the "traditional" Gundam shticks. Except for the fact that Loran's black!!. I mean ∀ Gundam cool and all but people just like to hate on ∀ Gundam. Maybe it's because an AMERICAN designed it?
