Anime Thread

[Cell Shaded Envy]

Actually, the first first season (or season zero whatever) was pretty serious and deadly. Yami Yugi was pretty much evil, and challenged people to deadly games and stuff. He made this one guy go insane iirc, set a robber on fire, and mentally broke Mokuba (who ran a gang of 7-year olds with guns and tasers for some reason).

Holy shit something was wrong with Mokuba. He and Yami Yugi played capsule monsters, and if YY, Mokuba was going to cut his fingers off.

[Mutsukki]

The first season, with Pegasus, was nice. After that when the portable hologram machines are released by Kaiba Corp, that's also cool. Even the Egyptian God Cards were OK. But it's when the deadliness happened that it was getting slightly too serious for me.
I'm not saying it became horrible after that, it's still Yu-Gi-Oh. It's just that what I find annoying in anime is when some harmless game like Duel Monsters is created, and then after a while it becomes so serious that the fate of the world rests on it.

I don't think the fate of the world was ever compromised, but I can't even remember Marik's motivation.

But really puggsoy, what's funny is that this picture you're getting, is backwards, mainly because of 4kids.

The original Yu-Gi-Oh manga had PLENTY of violence and games to the death chapters, most people Yami would fight against would end up getting a gruesome punishment. Then the card games started and it got milder. Almost 0 death duels. Then Battle City stayed on the same boat, with a little more danger, but still.

The thing is, the (second and more well known) anime picks up on the more "gentle" part of the series, it's not that dangerous or violent, even on the original japanese version, but there are plenty of things that 4kids masked to make it look like they would just be sent to the "dark world" instead of actual death.

Bottom line, Yu-Gi-Oh was always "serious", so they didn't really get that much away from how the series started.

[Gaia]

Mokuba.

Then he returns and befriends Yami or shit like that. Gets crazier after that.. but when you see something like Digimon.. holy shit does it get rather dark after the first series (though, there's this dark water thing that was NEVER picked up on again, what the fuck is up wthat?).

Battle Spirits DOES follow the card game =/= world conquest or shit like that.. buy you want insanity, skip to episode 27. Generally most anime tends to have it's akward moments (anyone remember Kusha's knockout drink from SRW: The Animation (and other sequels, it's a running gag of sorts)?).

Then there's Guilty Crown, an anime I recently finished some two or three days ago. Starts pretty typical (Guy finds Girl, trying to be top shit) then, if you want dark you got it, as kids start killing eachother for their own gain and there was a planned bombing! (Also arms being cut off, but everybody does it), so afterward everyone goes starscream and plays the traitor game. In the end it's all about Shu abusing his power.. (Reminds me of Ben 10, who also abused his gift at one point)

[Chris2Balls [:B]]

I just finished watching Trigun. It's been a while.

[Joseph Styling]

Viper Fate Zero's last episode is next week, you could start watching now
Also this episode was fucking amazing

[puggsoy]

@Envy & Maidsukki: See, that's what I mean. It's been ages so I barely remember any of this.

BTW, I just realised what "The Homunculus Envy" means. From Full Metal Alchemist, unless I'm much mistaken.

[~Axis~]

Just downloaded the entirey of the Frieza and Android saga of DBZ. These sagas are awesome.

[Joseph Styling]

Oh shit those Sayonara Setsubou Sensei theories, it really blew my mind.
Where's Frario, he's the only one who watched this.

[Helmo]

I liked how in Yugi Oh people would go "aaaaah" whey the holograms hit them.

[BynineB]

Mysterious Girlfriend X is pretty darn great barring the main character but then again is the main character ever good

I mean, he's all right, but kind of annoying.

"It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular!" is a new series, and I like it because I can sympathize with the main character. Not to mention it's actually fairly funny.

[Mutsukki]

Oh shit those Sayonara Setsubou Sensei theories, it really blew my mind.
Where's Frario, he's the only one who watched this.

What theories? I'm a huge fan of this show, I'm curious now, I know the manga ended recently, is it something related to that?

[Joseph Styling]

It has one chapter left and mindblowing spoilers ahead:

Spoiler

Kafka is already dead at the start of the show, every single part of her body was used to save the lives of every other girl in the class including the teacher, that's why you don't see all of them at the same time and why Kafka in general got little to no focus in the show despite being the main girl, the random body parts shown in the OPs are parts of her body and other parts that you assume is just SHAFT being SHAFT are actually foreshadowing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKRHiue2s...re=related
The Kanji that appears on Kafka's face is "Lie" as in it's a lie she's alive
Every girl turns into Kafka at 0: 38
At 0:54 Kafka dances on the corpses of every girl meaning if she's alive they can't be.
At 1:06 the lyrics say something along the lines of "I am here and you are not" followed by an animation of the Teacher pulling Kafka's rope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCDWz6opjA
Kafka being pregnant at the end, indicating she's the reason why the teacher is alive
Also the lyrics say "Just realize that I am here"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdAnLzHA...r_embedded#!
0:48 Kafka is lacking an eye she gave to Abiru who has two different colored eyes

1: 30 fuckload of Kafkas wearing the clothes of the other girls
There's probably loads of hidden hints in the OPs and EDs in the form of Kanji or SHAFT being SHAFT too.



Copypasta from 4chan:
When Meru's phone ran out of battery, she said that you can tell what people are trying to say just by looking in their eyes. When Meru did so, she saw murderous hatred.
- Later in that episode, she handcuffed a crying Meru to herself while they were doing that creepy cirle dance.
- Träumerei
- The ending animation of Zetsubou Restaurant (Especially after the paper-cutout episode)
- Commenting on how beautiful the flowers are. Those flowers were also known as Hell or Death Flowers.
- The whole college-student thing.
- Blank, detached eyes and dismissive comment after Chiri burnt down the school in the Dojikko sketch.
- She is named after Franz Kafka, an author well known for having suffered severe depression throughout his life.
- Throwing flowers over the corpses of her dead classmates in the third OP of Goku.
- She is never shown spending time with the other girls in a casual context. She just kind of appears next to Nozomu whenever shit hits the fan.
- Bandaged wrists in some episodes
- It's heavily implied her mother was possessed, and her father had multiple suicide attempts.
- Her uncle is in prison (Don't recall if this was in the anime, but I remember reading it in the Manga)
- She's seen crying in the first season episode where Nozomu goes with Harumi to see his "doujins". Just before this, he told her he loved her, then took it back, which didn't seem to bother her initially...
- The "soft landing" episode. While every character gets a relatively normal scenario to demonstrate, Kafuka goes through step-by-step instructions on how an alien race could slowly infiltrate earth and turn humanity into livestock.
- In the third Goku OP, she is shown with the kanji for "Lie" in place of her face.
- During the "detox" episode, we never got to see how Kafuka changed after being detoxed. She just disappeared between bathing and everyone going back to normal.

[Mutsukki]

welp welp welp welp

I usually find these theories to be pretty dumb, but this is some serious shit.

Oh god are we getting a Katte ni Kaizo-style ending? I know that was under different circumstances (even though, I think the author's pissed at some new Kodansha policy, the same reason the Negima author stopped suddenly), but shit.

WELP just found the last chapter. Gotta read.

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Holy fucking shit my mind is so fucked right now I can't think properly.

HUGE SPOILERS

turns out everything is true. She never existed. What's worse, Kumeta had this planned since the first chapter apparently (and the SHAFT staff knew it too. They're geniuses), he didn't pull this out of nowhere. He must have been quite nervous after the abrupt end of Katte ni Kaizo (it had a similar mind-blowing ending), and wanted to plan things. But damn, keeping things this subtle over 300 chapters. I, wow. I always saw that this series had something special in it, but this is too much. I think this ending alone made it reach this work reach the level of "masterpiece" on my personal ranking. I feel like crying now, for some reason, shit.

But I'm still confused as to why Nozomu sees her, was this explained or did I miss something?

Since Brazil will probably never get this, I'll have to buy the american volumes again (I have up to vol.5). I know that Del Rey stopped after 8 volumes and that Kodansha USA picked it up, but is it still going?

[Joseph Styling]

Jojo Steel Ball Run is fully translated.

[Cell Shaded Envy]

so this week's new One Piece chapter was awesome, I wonder what next week will One Piece is on break next One Piece is on break next week One Piece is on break next week