Manga/Anime You Read/Watch

[quote=xIchi][quote=Bryun] Need some more anime to watch, any recommendations? I'm currently watching these: HunterxHunter Fairy Tail Haikyu!! The Irregular at Magic High School Naruto Shippuden Glasslip Sword Art Online 2 Hamatora Akame ga Kill! -The new anime for this season are really lackluster =/ I tend to like shows with supernatural powers for some reason x_x [/quote] MONOGATARI SERIES #Fanboying[/quote]

[quote=YayaFTW]So I finished [i]Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin[/i]. I feel like if it wasn't for the characters, this anime would have been horrible. This is one of those anime that doesn't tell its story well. I mean the plot itself isn't bad at all, but the anime ended with no plot developement for like 6 episodes straight. To make it simple, the goal of the MC is to find the killer of a dead girl living in the room he rented for the year through collecting items with special powers that once belonged to said girl, and all of this so this same girl can peacefully cross to the other side. After 12 episodes, the anime comes to an end, and that's it. They simply wrap up. The killer has not been found, not all the items were collected, romance sub plots were left hanging, and more than half the characters had no impact whatsoever after their initial appearance. Well other than this major flaw, the rest was fine imo. The characters are entertaining and not dull. The comedy is pretty good and the animation is not bad at all. Soundtrack wasn't outstanding, can barely recall it. Oh well, it's not the end of the world if you watch it, but it's not the end of the world if you don't either. Guess for this one you just gotta try it or let it be. Anyway, it's time I pick up [i]Mikakunin de Shinkoukei[/i] and finish it. Hope it'll be good.[/quote]

[quote=xIchi]Mikakunin de Shinkoukai? Is that Engaged to the Unknown? Pretty medicore romcom, light and fluffy to watch :p. Relevant to me being a monogatari series fanboy: http://puu.sh/ab4Q4/5b4411a6af.jpg Got this TShirt yday lol[/quote]

[quote=YayaFTW][quote=xIchi] Mikakunin de Shinkoukai? Is that Engaged to the Unknown? Pretty medicore romcom, light and fluffy to watch :p. [/quote] Yea it's Engaged to the Unknown, but dunno, lifebaka said it wasn't bad, I think :P [quote] Relevant to me being a monogatari series fanboy: http://puu.sh/ab4Q4/5b4411a6af.jpg Got this TShirt yday lol [/quote] Where I live, I can't publicly wear anime stuff or my social life will take a fatal blow :P I'd have went for something more subtle that only dedicated people would notice, like so: [img=http://ih2.redbubble.net/image.14921582.5334/fig,brown,mens,ffffff.u7.jpg width="400"][/quote]

[quote=xIchi]Well I won't wear it in public, but maybe at gamescom :DD My friend who was in NY often buys little prank gifts for others, and since he knows I am a diehard monogatari fan, this was kinda appropiate xD Edit: And I am not saying Engaged to the Unknown is bad, it is medicore, so it is just enough to entertain someone but doesn't offer anything now. If I am talkin about bad, that would be stuff like Guilty Crown, Accel World, Black Bullet, Sword Art Online etc. etc :D[/quote]

[quote=lifebaka][i]Mikakunin de Shinkoukai[/i] was a solid romcom. Slow, light, not too much goin' on. Better than mediocre, because it doesn't over-rely on tropes, but I don't know if I'd quite say that it's good. I absolutely loved it, of course. I went to MomoCon (one of Atlanta's many, many cons) a few weeks ago and bought a Madoka shirt. Specifically [url=http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/35136958/aview/51Av0FxOUZL._SX385_.jpg]one of these[/url] without the white stitching. When I got home, I realized I'd accidentally bought a woman's medium instead of a unisex. So I did what any reasonable adult would do: Wore it anyway. 'Cuz fuck it, I look fucking [b]good[/b] in that shirt. So! Other anime that's had their first episode now! [i]Tokyo ESP[/i]'s first episode was... Visually impressive, I guess, but kinda' nothing happened. Other than a bunch of [i]Ga Rei Zero[/i] cameos. Bad guys with super powers show up, destroy lots of things, and then the hero (also with super powers) shows up to save the day, episode ends before the day-saving gets started. This could be worth watching if the plot develops, but there wasn't really enough story in the first episode to give me a real idea of how good the storytelling is. Also wants to be kinda' dark, as far as I can tell, and at least so far seems to be better at it than some of this season's other offerings. [b]Official lifebaka Rating:[/b] Fight scenes are not a valid substitute for plot / 10 [i]Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance[/i] is pretty terrible. Total harem show, gonna' be full of tropes and nonsense and girls falling for a guy even though he acts like an asshole for the simple reason that there are literally no other male characters available. Not just in the series, I mean there are literally no other men around. So yeah. Not exactly good. Also magic stuff without a real indication that there's a system in place for how magic works and action sequences that aren't particularly impactful and don't make a particularly large amount of sense. If stupid harem shows with action are your thing, this is perhaps worth watching, but even then there's already a better one this season. [b]Official lifebaka Rating:[/b] Watch at your own (considerable) risk / 10[/quote]

[quote=YayaFTW][url=http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2apjtt/anime_tournament_day_8_quarterfinals_voting_and/]Reddit's Anime tournament[/url] Dunno if you guys are following this but the [i]Monogatari Series[/i] is winning [i]Toradora![/i] by 100 votes, which is kinda a surprise since I've always thought Monogatari was a niche anime (niche as in godlike at what it does, but appreciated by few). I expected Toradora! to win by a fair margin since it's arguably the best romcom to date. On the other hand, [i]Stein's Gate[/i] is manhandling [i]No Game No Life[/i] like it was a 3/10 80's anime, with a whole 280 votes. EDIT: I rewatched the first episode of [i]Mikakunin de Shinkoukei[/i] and 2 things bothered me: The voice actors and the fact that it's a slightly shojo romance anime, which is not the kind of romance anime I like. I don't specifically hate shoujo romance but I don't like it either. It's usually girlish and always tries to be cute, and I really don't like that kind of romance anime. This is the main reason I'm putting Mikakunin on hold. The voice actors actually pissed me off. It feels like it's a Japanese dub of an english show, dunno if that makes sense :/ I'm gonna start watching [i]Hitsugi no Chaika[/i], see what's the hype about.[/quote]

[quote=xIchi]Monogatari Series has alot of circlejerking going around so it is fairly obvious it is going to win vs Toradora, which is prolly the best romcom to date, tho I hated it. And I guess there are alot more people actually liking Monogatari Series but not Toradora :p. Steins;Gate vs NGNL is the same as above. Steins;Gate has a really hardcore fanbase (regarding it is actually based on an eroge hentai game). Since NGNL is rather new, there is also circlejerking going on about Steins;Gate being so gud n stuff etc.etc.. I personally dislike Steins;Gate lol. CG vs TTGL was pretty close, but I don't think a gainax anime can win over CG lol FMA:B vs Psycho Pass. This one is fairly obvious. First of all, FMA:B is just better, and has a retardedly big fanbase xD[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=lifebaka] I went to MomoCon (one of Atlanta's many, many cons) a few weeks ago and bought a Madoka shirt. Specifically [url=http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/35136958/aview/51Av0FxOUZL._SX385_.jpg]one of these[/url] without the white stitching. When I got home, I realized I'd accidentally bought a woman's medium instead of a unisex. So I did what any reasonable adult would do: Wore it anyway. 'Cuz fuck it, I look fucking [b]good[/b] in that shirt.[/quote] Pics plz. You too Ichi. Show off your sexiness. I'd do it too if I had a shirt like that. But I can just post pic of me in a shirt with ham on it if requested.[/quote]

[quote=XeresAce][quote]FMA:B vs Psycho Pass. This one is fairly obvious. First of all, FMA:B is just better, and has a retardedly big fanbase xD[/quote] Idk man Psycho pass isn't exactly a show you can easily beat :P Personally, psycho pass was better. You do have a point on the fanbase... first ranked anime on MAL and all (not like MAL has much merit *cough* fairy tail ranked in the top 40 or something *cough*)[/quote]