Anime/Manga Fan Thread

Clamp are well known to make their characters have cameo appearances throughout their different series. Chobits has action figures from Angelic Layer appearing in them for example (though you have to look for them to see them), and as a certain place within the manga called Duklyon (another of their series).

That doesn't mean the two stories are related to each other in any way.

( Edited 07.12.2011 17:57 by Kafei2006 )

Cheesing it up said:
I was wondering if someone can clear this up for me. I just saw a manga called Tsubasa made by Clamp that appears to have characters from Cardcaptor Sakura (same names/character designs) but the plot seems completely different. I've even had a look at the wikipedia page and I still don't really understand what's going on. Are they supposed to be the same characters or not!?
Cheers for any help/explanation!

Practically what Kafei said, I've read the whole of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and it takes place in many alternate dimensions of the CLAMP universe with Shaoran and Sakura being the two main characters and alternate versions of their Cardcaptor Sakura selves., If you read that and xxxHolic you'll understand the full storyline, infact you should read them both at the same time, since xxxHolic takes place both before and after Tsubasa.

( Edited 08.12.2011 03:53 by Stulaw )

Cheers guys, that makes a bit more sense now. Seems like an odd concept to me, but there you go. I may well give it a read at some point.

I've just finished watching The Tatami Galaxy, which was awesome! It's about a guy who goes to Uni. It's about a guys first 2 years at Uni, and each episode plays out an alternative reality of what has gone before. It's only 11 episodes long (~20mins each) and it's a bit arty in terms of style and presentation but I'd thoroughly recommend it.

u guys are bad at anime omfffff

But anyway I've been watching

- Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
Which is really good and subverts the genre similarly to how Madoka does.. infact it's easy to see Madoka was partly inspired by this series. Unfortunately the third season is really bad so I don't recommend it?! The third season at least definitely watch the first two because they're great and then just pretend you don't know a third season exists.

- Haganai
Fan-servicey slice of life anime about people who suck at making friends which is annoyingly enjoyable considering what it is.

- Ano Natsu
Which I started today it reminds me of Onegai Teacher and the art is pretty.

Also I finished watching Penguindrum since I last posted here and WOW it's really amazing like really
really amazing
It blew my mind on many occasions and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who wants anything remotely deep since deep animu is rare to say the least.

Also I watched Persona 4 The Animation for about 7 Episodes or so before realising it was really bad and actually making me dislike one of my favourite games ever.
So there's that.

( Edited 20.01.2012 20:20 by SuperLink )

SuperLink said:
Also I watched Persona 4 The Animation for about 7 Episodes or so before realising it was really bad and actually making me dislike one of my favourite games ever.
So there's that.

Booooooooo

At least watch this week's episode (when it gets subbed ), it's the King's Game adaptation. Can't wait to see it myself.

Phoenixus said:

Booooooooo

At least watch this week's episode (when it gets subbed ), it's the King's Game adaptation. Can't wait to see it myself.

All of it is jokes.

Anyway I'll be watching this ep because CHIHIRO.

It's gotten better as the storyline goes on. The way they handled the battle in the Retro Videogame dungeon was interesting, and the past two episodes have had Yu in hyper-helping mode. Plus he's a bit of an asshole in some episodes.

They definitely needed a higher budget for the show, but its still enjoyable enough. ^^

( Edited 20.01.2012 20:41 by Phoenixus )

Phoenixus said:
They definitely needed a higher budget for the show, but its still enjoyable enough. ^^

I just feel kind of
like it's being treated without any real care, like an honest to good cash in. I care a lot about the source material so.. weh.

Well in Naruto

Show Spoiler

He's going to go full 9 tails mode

( Edited 20.01.2012 21:05 by Stulaw )

Okay, I know I said I'd stop emb-ing these, but I had to make an exception for this one. ^^

Aw yea Burn My Bread.

Also fandom secret, Igor's seiyuu died 2 years ago, all his lines in P4A are archived recordings.

( Edited 21.01.2012 16:58 by SuperLink )

My latest manga purchases :

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku Vol.11

Kimagure Orange Road Vol.1 to Vol.6 (Very happy about the reedition of this classic in French Speaking Countries by Tonkam, the original rights holder had discontinued the publication of the manga, years ago)

I also saw that 6 volumes of the Tales of the Abyss manga were already localized here and were tantalizingly sitting on a shelf in the book store I went to... but I lacked money to buy those on top of the rest that I had selected already.

( Edited 24.01.2012 14:18 by Kafei2006 )

Yesterday I finished Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Haganai for short) while procrastinating.
It's a nice feel good anime with a lot of really unnecessary fanservice. Sometimes it's nice to have fanservice in moderation but sometimes I'm like WHY. There's this pervert girl in it who's always making really stupid sexual innuendos and omfg can we not please.
But yep the anime is about kids who have no friends, they make a club in order to make friends and they all have kawaii character development together - they do a lot of cliché animu stuff like go to the beach and to go summer festival and despite all this they're like GOD WE HAVE SO MUCH FUN TOGETHER WE HAVE NO FRIENDS (basically they're idiots).
And the last episode was half nice and half extremely anti-climactic so there's that.

I'm going to be keeping up to date with Ano Natsu de Matteru because it's got a really pretty style and animation. And it reminds me of an anime from about a decade ago called Onegai Teacher.. infact it's ridiculously similar in a lot of aspects, I've heard people calling it a reboot and stuff.
It's nice though! It's funny too.

Just slugged my way through endless eight of Haruhi Suzumiya. Not only was it the stupidest concept I've ever come across (they should have just cut it down to say, 4 episodes), but the ending was pretty silly too.

Endless 8 was probably the only part of the Animé I didn't really like too much, the rest, and especially the Movie was quite good and I hope they make another series, just not in a jumbled up order, they should put it in the Book/Manga order.

Started to watch the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime again. Ahh great memories! Used to love as a child and plan to watch it all through again. It's a bit of a pain trying to find the episodes online though.

I've started reading Bakuman, I'm on chapter 65.

My daughter was the first to start iradeng Manga in our family. I started making her costumes so that she can cosplay with her friends. Next thing I knew, I started iradeng them so I would know what she was talking about. I'm hooked on them now! I think I've read about 300 or so books since the beginning of summer 2010. My daughter now sings songs in Japanese, wants to try new Japanese and Asian foods and many other new things. I think this is great and it is all from getting into Manga books!Last year we even tried to get more Manga books into the Middle School. Our problem was finding ones that were appropriate for that age level. Our Media Center person was very willing to bring more of it into the school. She had told us that the Lexile (reading level) for Manga books was higher than most of the regular books that kids that age were iradeng. So why not read Manga?I think Manga has brought positive influences to my daughter's life and mine. I just hope I don't run out of books to read .

Naruto looks like it might end in the next couple of years, it's really building up.

It's great that other people(guest) like Manga, this thread should really be more popular, in fact, the whole site should.

Where did you read the latest chapter?

Read them on http://www.goodmanga.net/ , well it's last weeks (576), but they've been licensed so I've had to resort to finding random sites that upload them, GoodManga's quite good because it doesn't actually host any of them.

Oh yeah, and in relevance to last weeks Naruto:

First two episodes of Korra came out. Really predictable, but I really like the characters so far (maybe because Korra is very similar to me). Still has the lovable corny humor, and the incredible martial arts and bending forms. I really hope that they touch on some dark and adult themes, considering that it takes place in a steampunk inspired city with lots of urban problems. Idk if they will though because of nick

I'm REALLY excited for that show. I own the boxed setes of the first three seasons. Doesn't premiere her until April 14th though. Can't wait!

Avatar has always pushed the boundaries for Nick and I think they trust the writers enough at this point that you'll see some stuff that's a little more edgy. They had stated in the past that they wanted this new series darker.

Oh yea, forgot about that. I really liked that episode, it was freaky. The first two episodes are online at korranation.com

Oh dang. I'm re-watching the original Avatar series (I'm about halfway through), and this thought randomly hit me. You know how the avatar cycle gets broken if he/she is killed in the avatar state? I have some really ominous feeling that this is going to occur at the end of Korra. Idk, with the whole anti-bending sentiment. Also, the era (I'd say about 1920's) is when the world is starting to become increasingly materialistic while straying away from religious and spiritual thought. If Korra does end up dying at the end of the series, it would sort of be fitting (unfortunately). Or maybe not.