The Anime Thread

[The Mask of Norro]

Norro, I just watched the first episode of Soul Eater and enjoyed it. Are you happy now?

Not until you watch the rest, bitch.

And your reliance on torrents amuses me. Go to veoh.com and type "Soul Eater" in the search bar and you could watch them all in one day. Honestly, not everything is answered through torrents >_>

[stokeriño]

We also have Veoh (when I say we, I mean my girlfriend, who uses it mainly to watch live-action Japanese dramas that try to be as anime-like as they can...in other words, camp as hell ), but I've not been inclined to use it. Generally I'm never lacking in the a) disc space or b) time to download a torrent (not than a single episode takes very long anyway...nor much disc space, come to think of it) and I like to actually have the video left over at the end in the likely event that I want to watch it again some time - or even burn the thing onto disc and watch it via my XBox 360 and the shiny shiny 32" LCD screen attached to it, which I find myself doing more and more these days with shows I like.

Except Soul Eater. Because, you know, I don't.

Edited May 26, 2008 by Gul Stokeriño

[Ruki]

I have difficulty watching anything on my computer....I get distracted. Hence the me downloading, burning and watching on the DVD player. Although I am pissed off...the left side of my headphones seemed to have stopped working....

About half way through FMP:F, then FMP:SR, and then I dunno what....I'll throw in Soul Eater randomly when I am bored on the computer.

[Plubby]

Score another one for the Naruto armies! Ace likes it! Take THAT, you anti-mainstream elitists.

[GoGo Yubari]

Plubby, the term is "Narutards." Even they use it half of the time.

[stokeriño]

Hey, I may be thoroughly elitist, but I'm not completely anti-mainstream! Like...uh...FMA! That was mainstream, dammit.

Plus, what GoGo said.

Edited May 27, 2008 by Gul Stokeriño

[Plubby]

When I say armies, I mean me, Ruki and now Ace. Not the obsessed people.

[Ruki]

...I haven't watched Naruto in about a month or two...sorry Plubby.

[GoGo Yubari]

Oh. Okay then.

I mean, honestly I'm pretty fine with Naruto; at its best Kishimoto was good at creating a good supporting cast (aside from female characters, which he's gotten progressively worse at writing to the point where he outright admits that he sucks at writing women well these days) and plotting out excellent fight scenes. The Chuunin Exam was absolutely the peak of his ability, with everything since that just sort of going from okay to meh once you hit post-timeskip aside from a couple of characters he introduces here and there.

But really, one of these years once the anime gets to Sasuke vs. Deidara (and at this rate that'll be 2009 maybe) I'd love to see anyone on EWB try to defend how unfathomably bad it's gotten. Really, truly horrible.

[Plubby]

It stopped showing on TV after the Byakugan mirror-match in the Chuunin Qualifiers. Are you saying that I'm missing the best of it?

Edited May 27, 2008 by Plubby

[GoGo Yubari]

... I can't recall anymore. Is Rock Lee vs. Gaara before or after Neji vs. Hinata? Because that is the best Naruto gets, quite frankly.

[Plubby]

I saw both of those. I believe Neji vs Hinata comes last.

[Ruki]

Rock Lee vs. Gaara was all kinds of awesome.

[GoGo Yubari]

I saw both of those. I believe Neji vs Hinata comes last.

No, the last match of the qualifiers is Chouji vs. Dosu.

EDIT: In fact, I just checked; Lee vs. Gaara does come after Hinata vs. Neji.

Edited May 27, 2008 by GoGo Yubari

[Plubby]

I meant last out of the two...but somehow i'm not surprised that Channel 10 showed them in the wrong order.

[Robsturgh]

I also loved how well they built Gaara up, bastard fucking scared me in the earlier episodes.

But The Chuunin exams were actually pretty fucking good, a lot of flashbacks, but what can ya do?

[Ruki]

Soul Eater episode two down...and from the previews of Episode 1...I was expecting Black Star to be all fucking bad ass and stuff, but I loved his fight!

Also, Death The Kid (that's his name, eh?) seems like he will be a fun little character.

Spoiler: Click here to view

I also love how they are killing historic characters like Jack the Ripper, Al Capon, and Lupin.

Edited May 27, 2008 by Ruki

[VinnyT]

I think Lupin got away.

And aren't new episodes supposed to be released every monday? Or is that just for the Raw show?

[The Mask of Norro]

Yeah. Raws are on Mondays, the translations usually are out between Tuesday and Thursday.

[gunnar hendershow]

http://www.ewbattleground.com/forum/index....showtopic=63927

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