Author Topic: The Anime M@sterthread - Platinum is a Full Metal Panic Edition (Read 167496 times)

Matti · « **Reply #90 on:** 13 June 2018, 13:51:21 »

Quote from: MadCapellan on 13 June 2018, 12:52:38

I was definitely thinking stuff like Hakuoki,Token Ranbu, & Sengoku Basara, but I suspect that's not what Matti has in mind.

Yeah, never heard of any of them. I looked them up and all I get is:

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Sorry, due to licensing limitations, videos are unavailable in your region.

Wait, Hakuoki Reimeiroku seems to be available for me.

Also I know about Ambition of Oda Nobunaga. And she's a girl. I wish Vagabond would have gotten an anime...

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On closer inspection, Crunchyroll says this about Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings:

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Get ready to feel the rush of non-stop, over-the-top battlefield action

All right, not gonna buy it either.

HobbesHurlbut · « **Reply #91 on:** 13 June 2018, 13:55:26 »

Quote from: Matti on 13 June 2018, 13:51:21

Also I know about Ambition of Oda Nobunaga. And she's a girl. I wish Vagabond would have gotten an anime...

It seems like, from what I can remember, that the protagonist got sent into the game that became real. The game was about obtaining characters including Oda Nobunaga for your harem (and they're all female).

Istal_Devalis · « **Reply #92 on:** 13 June 2018, 14:00:02 »

The Sengoku period is one of the most popular anime settings around. Anything involving Nobunaga Oda (and man does he show up a lot.)? Sengoku period.

The other really popular one is the Bakumatsu period. That's when the Shinsengumi showed up.

Matti · « **Reply #93 on:** 13 June 2018, 14:18:21 »

WARNING! Following video features rant and insults by an Italian!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGJIfDAhRJI

Quote from: Istal_Devalis on 13 June 2018, 14:00:02

The Sengoku period is one of the most popular anime settings around. Anything involving Nobunaga Oda (and man does he show up a lot.)? Sengoku period.

The other really popular one is the Bakumatsu period. That's when the Shinsengumi showed up.

Leaving aside the equivalents what Metatron ranted about, do you have anything to recommend to me of the genre?

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #94 on:** 13 June 2018, 15:26:35 »

Edit: nevermind, was supposed to be a reply to a post from the previous page

Matti · « **Reply #95 on:** 13 June 2018, 15:42:05 »

So there is no anime equivalent of Vagabond or Seven samurai?

MadCapellan · « **Reply #96 on:** 13 June 2018, 16:08:53 »

Quote from: Matti on 13 June 2018, 15:42:05

So there is no anime equivalent of Vagabond or Seven samurai?

Most hard-boiled samurai stories are told through live action, since historical period drama is an entire genre of TV & film in Japan equivalent to Westerns in America. There are some more fantastic takes like Blade of the Immortal, Sword of the Stranger & Samurai Seven, but ultimately most period anime skews towards female fans.

kato · « **Reply #97 on:** 13 June 2018, 16:12:26 »

Well, there is Samurai 7 loosely based on Seven Samurai... ( plotwise it's based on it, it just mixes in some cyborgs ;) )

which isn't available on CR for me in my region so probably not for you either.

P.S.: Did you check Basilisk, of which the second series is airing this season? It's set against the backdrop of Tokugawa Ieyasu's death (i.e. the succession after the generation that ended the Sengoku warring states period) with the first anime series set right then in 1614, the second ten years later. Both the manga and anime are rather, uh, seinen in my opinion.

pheonixstorm · « **Reply #98 on:** 13 June 2018, 18:00:28 »

Quote from: HobbesHurlbut on 13 June 2018, 13:55:26

It seems like, from what I can remember, that the protagonist got sent into the game that became real. The game was about obtaining characters including Oda Nobunaga for your harem (and they're all female).

For which one? One of us might be thinking of the wrong anime... I think one is where the girls are sent to modern day Japan, the other the male is sent back in time (or whatever it was). In either case the leaders were all female.

pheonixstorm · « **Reply #99 on:** 13 June 2018, 18:09:31 »

And the actual title is The Ambition of Oda Nobuna. The other I was thinking you were talking about is still unknown.. I just can't remember the name of it and so far haven't been able to locate in via google or a quick search on CR.

MadCapellan · « **Reply #100 on:** 13 June 2018, 18:09:47 »

Quote from: pheonixstorm on 13 June 2018, 18:00:28

For which one? One of us might be thinking of the wrong anime... I think one is where the girls are sent to modern day Japan, the other the male is sent back in time (or whatever it was). In either case the leaders were all female.

Sengoku Collection is the one where genderswapped sengoku lords were brought forward in time. I'd still like to give it another try, if only out of loyalty to my man Keiji Gotoh.

Ambition of Oda Nobuna was the one where the protagonist went back in time but all the sengoku lords were women.

pheonixstorm · « **Reply #101 on:** 13 June 2018, 18:16:01 »

Yeah I just found the title for Sengoku Collection. I started both around the same time but only finished the first episode of Sengoku. It didn't capture my interest as much as Ambition. I have thought about giving it another try but something else usually catches my eye first.

Matti · « **Reply #102 on:** 13 June 2018, 22:10:59 »

What about Golden Kamuy? Any good?

HobbesHurlbut · « **Reply #103 on:** 14 June 2018, 07:29:28 »

Quote from: MadCapellan on 13 June 2018, 18:09:47

Ambition of Oda Nobuna was the one where the protagonist went back in time but all the sengoku lords were women.

Again, rewatch the first episode. It was like the game he was playing came to live. But apparently the twist was that they become women, in contrast to the game he played.

Istal_Devalis · « **Reply #104 on:** 14 June 2018, 10:09:28 »

Sengoku Era anime I like and hasnt been mentioned:

Ninja Girl & Samurai Master/Nobunaga no Shinobi: Short form anime about a girl who serves as Nobunaga's ninja. History + Comedy.

ENGOKUCHOJYUGIGA: Another short form anime. A more outright gag comedy featuring the popular sengoku era personalities. The show conceit being that everyone is drawn as an animal based on woodcut art.

Matti · « **Reply #105 on:** 14 June 2018, 12:50:27 »

About Re:Monster:

Quote from: MadCapellan on 13 June 2018, 10:48:02

It's pretty amazing that you can make a living as an author in Japan taking the plot from generic fantasy porn manga & removing the graphic content! ;D I still don't know how products like that even sell.....

What sold the manga to me is badass protagonist who don't take crap, beats and kills those who cross him, is still respected and admired by those who are not jerks (even if they are captured enemy soldiers), and isn't abused by women nor by anybody else. Power fantasy you say? And still he lost an arm!

Wrangler · « **Reply #106 on:** 14 June 2018, 14:57:04 »

Has anyone been following Lupin the Third: Part 5? I haven't had chance watch it. I've heard good things so far.

Moonsword · « **Reply #107 on:** 14 June 2018, 16:27:51 »

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Moonsword · « **Reply #108 on:** 15 June 2018, 15:18:11 »

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DarkSpade · « **Reply #109 on:** 15 June 2018, 16:30:15 »

For New Game New Life, after the first episode or two I was kind of regretting the purchase of the full season. As other's mentioned, the protagonist is rather grating. I stuck with it though, and I'm glad I did. All the main characters grew on me(the angel woman was awesome) and I really enjoyed it. Bummer that it looks like there won't be a second season. Haven't figured out where to pick up the story with the Manga. Is New Game New Life Plus where season two would have gone, or is that an off shoot story?

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #110 on:** 15 June 2018, 16:32:50 »

Voltron: Legendary Defender season 6 drops today.

I hope it's longer than season 5.

I'm guessing that Lothar will finally reveal his true villainy at some point.

kato · « **Reply #111 on:** 15 June 2018, 17:12:47 »

Quote from: DarkSpade on 15 June 2018, 16:30:15

Is New Game New Life Plus where season two would have gone, or is that an off shoot story?

I assume you mean No Game No Life and No Game No Life, Please!. The latter is a sidestory shootoff that focused on Izuna (the werebeast child from the last couple eps). The anime adapted the first three volumes of the light novel - currently on volume 10, if you want to read the continuation read that. Up to volume 6 is available in English (7 and 8 can be preordered). The manga publishes extremely irregularly on a scale of 1-2 chapters per year. Not even sure it has caught up to the anime by now.

There's also the No Game No Life Zero movie out (...in Japan; official trailer) which provides a backstory of the world from a couple thousand years earlier and for known characters therefore only includes Jibril.

pheonixstorm · « **Reply #112 on:** 15 June 2018, 17:43:30 »

There is an AMV on youtube that uses footage from the NGNL movie which looks pretty decent.

Dies Irae · « **Reply #113 on:** 15 June 2018, 18:50:48 »

There was a post about bad dubbing somewhere in here before everything plunged into the to Political Discussion abyss.
I believe iamfanboy challenged us to find a recent bad English dub.

I tend to prefer subs or watching in the original Japanese myself, but I'll seize upon any opportunity to mock the absolute trainwreck that is Netflix's "A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-" dub.

Show was average leaning towards good. Dub was abysmal.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #114 on:** 15 June 2018, 19:32:34 »

Are you saying it was bad because the voice acting was poorly integrated to the animation or just because the voice acting itself was bad?

Dies Irae · « **Reply #115 on:** 15 June 2018, 19:50:59 »

Yes. ;)

To elaborate, the dubbing was very poorly done. Delivery was flat with problematic casting which didn't suit the characters. Stilted delivery, bad timing and even broken English in some spots. There are parts where the VAs, who feel like they're just reading off a script respond to character movement by just reading faster, changing tempo mid-sentence or pausing mid sentence.

It was just objectively bad.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #116 on:** 15 June 2018, 21:44:08 »

See, I found the show so uninteresting that I forgot about the quality of the dub.

DarkSpade · « **Reply #117 on:** 15 June 2018, 21:45:46 »

Quote from: kato on 15 June 2018, 17:12:47

I assume you mean No Game No Life and No Game No Life, Please!. The latter is a sidestory shootoff that focused on Izuna (the werebeast child from the last couple eps). The anime adapted the first three volumes of the light novel - currently on volume 10, if you want to read the continuation read that. Up to volume 6 is available in English (7 and 8 can be preordered). The manga publishes extremely irregularly on a scale of 1-2 chapters per year. Not even sure it has caught up to the anime by now.

Doh! Yeah, that's the one I meant. :facepalm: Not really up for a novel on this one though. Oh well, guess I just let it go.

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There's also the No Game No Life Zero movie out (...in Japan; official trailer) which provides a backstory of the world from a couple thousand years earlier and for known characters therefore only includes Jibril.

Wow that looks... like crap. :-\ That's like if Full Metal Panic! decided to do a movie set during the french revolution.

Matti · « **Reply #118 on:** 16 June 2018, 11:37:57 »

Quote from: Matti on 13 June 2018, 15:42:05

So there is no anime equivalent of Vagabond or Seven samurai?

I may have found one: Hakuoki Reimeiroku. 2 episodes down and so far so good. While I can tell sword techniques shown are less than authentic, nothing goes too much over the top. Yet.

Earlier seasons of Hakuoki are region blocked for me, but description says something about vampires?

Top Sergeant · « **Reply #119 on:** 17 June 2018, 14:09:19 »

Quote from: pheonixstorm on 13 June 2018, 18:00:28

For which one? One of us might be thinking of the wrong anime... I think one is where the girls are sent to modern day Japan, the other the male is sent back in time (or whatever it was). In either case the leaders were all female.

The most surprising thing was that the show turned out to actually not be a harem.