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mtwinny wrote:When it's made by Gainax, it has to be good
Gainax made Evangelion and FLCL so that's clearly not true.

Panty and Stocking is okay, never finished watching it though. Spent too long being crude for the sake of crudeness instead of actually being funny or clever.

Caught up reading Vinland Saga, not quite as good when the main character somehow ends up a slave working on a farm. Still awesome though. Vikings are still cool.
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Reknoc wrote:Gainax made Evangelion and FLCL so that's clearly not true.


Well, the former was very well respected for its story, art and characters, until the major crap ending that almost ruined its fanbase (which btw I'm proud NOT to be part of). As for FLCL, that's right up there with anime I have major adoration for so long , even if its only six or seven episodes in its entire run.

That doesn't mean that all Gainax anime are good. I'm just saying anime made by those people are bound to unleash all kinds of crazy things into animation.
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mtwinny wrote:Well, the former was very well respected for its story, art and characters, until the major crap ending that almost ruined its fanbase (which btw I'm proud NOT to be part of). As for FLCL, that's right up there with anime I have major adoration for so long , even if its only six or seven episodes in its entire run.
Evangelion never had any of those things. Or to be precise, it did when you were 12 which is when pretty much everyone ends up watching it. When you grow up you realise it's just full of annoying 2D characters and bunch of random and stupid references to christianity that make no sense.

FLCL is like P&S in that it's just random for the sake of being random and never tries to be funny. It's just stupid non-sequitur.
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Reknoc wrote:Evangelion never had any of those things. Or to be precise, it did when you were 12 which is when pretty much everyone ends up watching it. When you grow up you realise it's just full of annoying 2D characters and bunch of random and stupid references to christianity that make no sense.

FLCL is like P&S in that it's just random for the sake of being random and never tries to be funny. It's just stupid non-sequitur.

Yet Evengelion is still credited as one the best anime ever made, and that wasn't stated from me. It was credited by anime critics and top reviewers all over.

I agree about FLCL, though it was stupid for good reasons, in my opinion.
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mtwinny wrote:Yet Evengelion is still credited as one the best anime ever made, and that wasn't stated from me. It was credited by anime critics and top reviewers all over.
Anime critics are below even video game journalists for me, but I'd still have a hard time believing they would consider NGE one of the best. Even if they just kept it to tv series.
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Gurren Lagann was a good Gainax series.
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Yea Gurren Lagann was good.

They did some amazing movies and OVAs aswell like the buster stuff and Wings of the Honneamise.
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Kaito-kun wrote:Gurren Lagann was a good Gainax series.
Quoted for truth.
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You know, twice I've attempted to watch something on the new UK streaming site anime on demand and twice I've just gone fuck it and watch it on crunchyroll which still gives better quality even with a free membership.

edit: In other news the first episode of Deadman Wonderland was pretty good.
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Reknoc wrote:You know, twice I've attempted to watch something on the new UK streaming site anime on demand and twice I've just gone fuck it and watch it on crunchyroll which still gives better quality even with a free membership.
There goes any questions I was going to ask on that.
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