The Anime Thread

[Ruki]

So, I finished Beck...the episodes were hit or miss. But the last 5 or so were just awesome, I loved it.

And now? Now I start on 07-Ghost. Still need to find a Needless torrent that has the episodes in AVI.

[Slide]

Alright...

Well I did happen to find something on Youtube today. I do believe this is the longest Opening complete opening sequence of any anime that I have ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh86cjsRXJs

[stokeriño]

Well, it is an OAV...so it doesn't have to worry about the TV schedule like those shows with their measly 90 second openings do. >_>

[Slide]

Yeah, I did like how it paid homage to the whole series prior to it though.

Oh by the way, am I the only excited about Fate/Stay Night : Unlimited Blade Works movie coming out soon.

The Visual Novel that Fate/Stay Night was based on had three paths that the story could take. The Anime followed the canon ending.

The UBW movie on the other hand is going to cover the "OMFG! This shit is bad ass!" ending which was the most popular ending in the first place.

Here is a trailer for the movie.

Edited January 13, 2010 by Slide

[Ruki]

Holy fucking shit! They're making a Fate/Stay Night movie? FUCK YEAH! I did not know such a thing was going to exist. I like you now

So, it comes out on the 23rd?

[Slide]

Comes out on the 23rd in Theaters I do believe. We probably wont see a DVD release for at least another 6 months after that.

I will say this though. Archer in the Unlimited Blade Works path was the term "Gar" came from.

[Ruki]

You're assuming I've heard of the term Gar.

[Slide]

I assumed you might. It became a pretty popular term couple of years ago.

Don't confuse the meaning of the word with the Fish (a gar is a type of fish).

There is no single word in the english language that has the same meaning as the word as I am using it. Urban Dictionary has a few good ones though.

Gar

1. A term used towards male characters and individuals who are sooverwhelmingly manly that your own masculinity is absolutely *buried*,leaving you naught but a whimpering, swooning girl-child before them.

Here are some examples gar characters: Archer from the Unlimited Blade Works Storyline, Kamina, Brock Samson, Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, Conan the Barbarian, Simon Belmont.

[Ruki]

Kamina

[The Mask of Norro]

Archer was the start of GAR.

Kamina just perfected it.

... Simon did good too, granted. He just did it with starglasses.

[Slide]

Pretty sure Brock Samson beats Kamina in the Gar department...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl-JlDfz_dQ

[Ruki]

No one beats Kamina. Ever.

Norro....future name change: RuKamina?

[GoGo Yubari]

Brock Samson >>> Kamina. A million times over.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Soooo Daisuke Gōri committed suicide. If any of you watch One Piece, he voiced Jinbei. He also voiced Dondachokka in Bleach and I believe his most recognized work was as a seiyu on various Dragon Ball shows. Apparently he committed suicide in the street with an onlooker watching and his last will & testament on him.

[GoGo Yubari]

Wow, I just watched the first episode of One Piece with Jimbei in it last Friday. He sounded really good in the role; I don't know what all happens in the Impel Down arc or how much left they have to record, but surely they'll have to recast.

[stokeriño]

Stokerina's been rewatching Vandread as of late...

It's a decent enough series (in spite some virtually-pornographic elements), but it always strikes me as weird how ridiculously popular it is amongst female anime fans I know. This is a series that is derived from an H-game, for goodness' sake!

Makes no sense to me.

[Ruki]

Been watching 07-Ghost, not a bad series thus far. But lots of yaoi bait :/

[Slide]

So apparently, they have gone back and made a two episode OAV released strait to DVD that summarizes the events in the Fate Stay Night anime storyline.

Raws are already out for the two episodes, I don't know if there are any fansub groups that plan on subbing it though.

There is a new OP of course which can be found here.

[stokeriño]

Sounds...extraneous.

[Slide]

It is and it isn't.

If your experience with the series is the anime than it would probably seem that way.

In the visual novel, Fate/Stay Night, there are three major paths in the storyline. The original path is called the "Fate" path. The second path is called "Unlimited Blade Works". The third path is called "Heavens Feel."

Now here is where it gets complicated.

Even though all three paths occur simultaneously, the events in Unlimited Blade Works require that the events in the Fate path happened. And in order for the events in Heaven's Feel to take place the events of Unlimited Blade Works and events of the Fate path to have happened.

I'll put a few of the details in regards to UBW a spoiler tag, but don't read it unless you have no intention of waiting for the movie to find out about it.

It was hinted at very strongly in the Anime, but it was never said outright.

Archer is Emiya (protagonist) from the future. The reason Archer was summoned was because of the Rin saved Emiya's life she left the gem behind that she used to bring him back to life and Emiya kept it until the day he died. When the Servants are summoned, if the summoner is in possession of an item that the Servant kept close to them that will make it will summon that Servant.

Now after Saber and Illiya are the two characters that Emiya can end up with on the Fate Path. Saber of course returns to her own time right before her death in the ending. Illiya has a rather weak constitution, and dies a couple of years later. So in the Fate Path, Emiya ends up living out the rest of his life alone.

He stays busy though. Over the next few years he hones his skills and ends up becomming the hero he talked about being in the Fate Path and eventually becomes qualified to become one of the Grail Heroes and and Servant that way. By that point he had already realized that he was Archer. Eventually there was a large gathering held to Honor Emiya by all the people that he had saved.

Unfortunately, his enemies used the opportunity to get their revenge. In the end, everyone Emiya had saved died because he'd saved them.

As Emiya grew close to death, he saw his life as a life waisted. He remembered that would be summoned to fight in the Grail War as a servant, and made a vow to that during Grail War would alter the course of events by killing his younger self and preventing those events from ever happening, and to spare Emiya of having to witness his ideals betray him.