Anime culture and D&D

[Ranger REG]

Blue Gender?!?! I'm a pretty big anime fan and that was the worst piece of crap anime I've ever seen. It was awful. And full of some pretty egregious animeisms itself, as well as apparently portraying people with 1 hp. (At one point 3 people die in a 5 mph collision. It was underwhelming.)

I like it, as much as Lovecraft fans love Cthulhu.

Only Japanese knows how to portray apocalypse, after having experienced it themselves, thanks to Americanos. Blue Gender trumps all those Tenchi Muyo craps I've been hearing.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Keeping in mind that I'm mostly talking about dubbed anime here... (Live action dubs are a WHOLE different kettle of fish)

I was talking about dubbed films, not anime, so we're kind of talking past each other.

It's certainly true that animated movies and television series don't really use the best actors all the time, and likewise that many anime series are adaptations of manga in the first place and don't always represent the "original artistic vision" anyway.

 

[Andor]

I like it, as much as Lovecraft fans love Cthulhu.

Only Japanese knows how to portray apocalypse, after having experienced it themselves, thanks to Americanos. Blue Gender trumps all those Tenchi Muyo craps I've been hearing.

Well they don't exactly have a monopoly on it. Dresden got pretty well ashed as well. Or east London.

But if I want depressing I'll watch Graveyard of the Fireflies. Blue gender was an odd mix of 1hp NPCs with supertechnology getting wiped out by supernatural neo-luddite bugs because they were all such freaking idiots. It was pathetic, the orbitals were supposed to be full of humanities best and brightest, but the seemed to have the collective IQ of soup.

Sorry, I don't mean to attack your taste in anime, but I'm honestly baffled by what you might find appealing in this.

 

[BroccoliRage]

I like it, as much as Lovecraft fans love Cthulhu.

Only Japanese knows how to portray apocalypse, after having experienced it themselves, thanks to Americanos. Blue Gender trumps all those Tenchi Muyo craps I've been hearing.

Not like they had it comin' or anything. :\

But aside from that, I looked at Blue Gender a long time ago, at a friends behest. I have to agree, the bit I saw wasn't terribly interesting.

I will state that I believe that anime seems to be a much better treatment of sci fi than fantasy, though I greatly enjoy fantasy anime such as Avatar and Fullmetal Alchemist.

I for got to mention that I enjoyed the anime-styled Masters of The Universe series that was running about four years ago. Yeah, it's pretty tame, but that means i can comfortably watch it with my brother.

 

[Ranger REG]

Sorry, I don't mean to attack your taste in anime, but I'm honestly baffled by what you might find appealing in this.

Because it is completely opposite of the other mecha anime films that tends to be epic.

That and there is no face fault.

 

[Andor]

Because it is completely opposite of the other mecha anime films that tends to be epic.

That and there is no face fault.

Heh. That's not what I disliked about it. There are other non-epic mecha animes out there, but let's face it, once a mech is past about 8 feet tall the physics goes so far out the window (principally the complete lack of attention paid to the cube-square law) that they are all science-fantasy anyway. If's it's fantasy it may as well be epic fantasy. ^^

And seriously, any orbital society that thinks the best way to fight bugs is to land and slug it out with mechs is such a pack of dribbling idiots is a miracle they don't space themselves. (Although come to that, they did exactly that in the end.) Sensible people would have dropped rocks on them.

 

[Sound of Azure]

That's the thing about mechs though. Mechs are easy to identify with. They're people shaped (for the most part), and the actions they do are human actions... on a much larger scale. It's probably why they're so popular.

 

[Kristivas]

I like some anime. The battles in Bleach are cool, and Naruto is pretty kick-ass (though I could do without 20 minutes of dialouge and backstory during a battle and between each attack). A lot of it's just plain cheesy or stupid-looking (the furry ears on that guy on Inuyasha, for instance). It just doesn't feel serious to me when a character has furry animal parts.

You just can't do a lot of Anime stuff in DnD, imo. Gaara from Naruto, for example. Baddest mofo on the whole show. How could you make him a DnD character without being rediculously high level or overpowered?

Yeah, just doesn't fit for me. There's no "special attack" my 5th level fighter can do when he's down at 3 hit points to summon up his chi in one last all-or-nothing blast to even the odds.

 

[Kaodi]

At least single encounters don't last for months worth of every weekday episodes. Dragon Ball Z, I am looking at you!

 

[Moon-Lancer]

what? naruto is dbz for a the next generation of anime fans, and they love it. ninjas, monks. whatever....