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It causes me distress how little porns there are of the ladies from Venture Bros

ALPINE EDIT: GOOD porns

This post has been edited by balthy13: May 6 2022, 22:01

The venture bros. is a great anime. too bad it got cancelled.

Was it all destroyed by copyright requests? Kinda weird that there is very little.

Still watching Cowboy Bebop, still highly impressed with its quality.

This is a good anime.

This is a good anime.

Felt like it dropped off a bit after S2/S3 stopped watching ages ago. Might go back and watch at some stage.


BBC doesn't like good tv shows. I hope Doctor Who will recover, but not 100% sure if gay trans Doctor can restore balance to the force.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: May 15 2022, 02:45

I ignore them after Tom Baker.

I ignore them after Tom Baker.

I thought the new continuation was pretty good. Some of the writing was getting on the nose but had highlights by the time of John Hurt. The series reached a peak then they fired all the writers and it went down hill fast. edit: damn that was decade ago.

They also assumed that the current generation had not seen the original run. They made the first doctor sexist and racist like a man from 70 years ago but his character was never like that. It was retarded.

Then they turned the first doctor into a black lesbian, and it was ultra stunning and brave despite making no sense what so ever.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: May 15 2022, 05:24

Is this anime or one of my favorite songs?

I thought it was an Eva song, but they are telling me it is a noodle song.

Just watched Episode 7 of Bubblegum Crisis for the first time ("Double Vision"). I've been leaving huge gaps between episodes so that it'll last longer.

It was good, but I think 5 & 6 were both much better overall. 7 didn't feel like it advanced the overarching story too much, and with one more episode to go (which I happen to know is slice of life) that maddens me. If the series had seen its original number of episodes realized, then it would have bothered me less.
It was also disappointing how little interaction time Vision/Reika had with most of the main cast.
This one did have excellent animation quality and music, though.

With every episode I watch I get madder that it didn't get finished properly. I'll still try "Crash" and the AD Police Files series, but I think I've probably reached the peak already.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 26 2022, 23:48

I'm not sure about the new doctor who. It has gay races swap doctor, with trans race swap Rose. Its a bit creepy how all the journalists are talking about fapping about Yasmin Finney the new trans rose. For some reason the new doctor reminds me of axel folley

I'll watch one episode, it has the old writers coming back but I am worried.

I wonder if they will time travel to stop the January 6 'insurrection' trololo and also to time travel to fight for the right to kill babies. Throw in some climate change stuff as well with helping eco-terrorists.

The new season basically writes itself.

Maybe this is the new doctor who theme:

is dr. who the best anime?

The VHS dub of Double Vision used to be the best selling anime tape in the entire United States.

The VHS dub of Double Vision used to be the best selling anime tape in the entire United States.

Really?
Neat.
Do you have a citation for that? Doesn't really matter much but I'd be interested to see the rest of that list if you know where to find it.

It's a good episode, yeah - and a lot of neat stuff happens in it, and it's visually gorgeous, and the music is good.

I just still think "Red Eyes" (6) hit harder on an emotional level; it left me a sobbing wreck and can still do so on repeated viewings, because it hit so many points that I feel strongly about regarding human greed, the ethics of making robots, and "the meaning of life" for lack of a better phrase. Not "why do we live," but "what does it mean to live."

Also it's just really a massive storm of emotions for the whole second half of "Red Eyes." It puts into words a lot of stuff that "Moonlight Rambler" (5) suggested/hinted at. It also served as a cathartic ending for the story that started in "Moonlight Rambler," and was finally an episode that ended on a somewhat positive note after so much darkness. Though Sylia's last line in that episode just floored me. There's so much cruelty in the world the series presents, and the episode kind of drives home the power dynamic of humans essentially making a new species capable of independent thought and then enslaving them... it highlights the helplessness of the 33-S type robots in juxtaposition to the combat ones, and thus humanizes them in a way that it's easy to sympathize with them. They're as powerless against Genom and combat models as humans are, and their mortality is quite apparent.
Giving them actual blood was an excellent touch as well.

Spoiler text - Highlight to read...

Also, seeing Priss's sheer humanity, compared to the monstrosity that Mason became as he essentially discarded his own humanity in exchange for ultimate power, said a lot for me about peoples' capacity for good and evil. For all of the evil things people can do, it sort of made me hopeful that people like her might exist.

To me, philosophy and character study matters more than any amount of action, so maybe that's why I like Moonlight Rambler as much as I do.

Anyway, yeah, Double Vision. A good episode - and great music - but 5 and 6 were still better done. If Double Vision had been a full hour, I think it would have probably had more time for character interactions and I'd probably have a higher opinion of it; there's still a lot of awesome stuff there.

There were also times in the episode that I would have written differently; when Reika walks out of the room with Linna/Rinna tied up, I would think she might have offered to help, or at least to be there for her. She knew a lot that Reika never realized she did - and she was the only one to witness her murder. It just feels like a lot went unsaid that probably should have been said.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 27 2022, 04:19

I saw it on Usenet a long time ago, citing the monthly bestsellers list in Previews IIRC. I think it was in response to the common complaint that the AnimEigo BGC dubs were garbage and the NA VAs sounded like crack addicts.

I saw it on Usenet a long time ago, citing the monthly bestsellers list in Previews IIRC. I think it was in response to the common complaint that the AnimEigo BGC dubs were garbage and the NA VAs sounded like crack addicts.

I just have learned to hate all dubs to be honest.
Even in Project A-Ko, where you get to choose between screeching C-Ko in Japanese or poor voice acting in the english dub, I prefer japanese w/ english subs.
Even for non-japanese stuff, like "The Seventh Seal," I prefer subbed.

I have much longer "essays" I've written about the Moonlight Rambler and Red Eyes episodes of BGC, written mostly just to articulate my own thoughts so I could understand why they hurt me so badly. If you want to read more of my thoughts on the episodes, PM me and I'll send them to you.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 27 2022, 04:20

is dr. who the best anime?

Yes?

The VHS dub of Double Vision used to be the best selling anime tape in the entire United States.

Publisher used to claim that, but not sure if it was true.

My favorite of the long Bubblegum Crisis 2032 fan-fiction stories is Drunkard's Walk. I think it is worth a look. Unlike most fan-fictions, it seems to keep the known original characters behaving in reasonably "Canon" form. The flexibility of non-canon behavior comes from the few new characters introduced into the story.

I had desperately wanted more Bubblegum Crisis 2032, and this fan-fiction story filled my desires to see the story continue beyond. A number of loose ends in the original BGC story are also covered.

Drunkard's Walk II:
[accessdenied-rms.net] http://accessdenied-rms.net/dw2.shtml

I like my own interpretations/guesses for a bunch of the loose ends in the story. They probably aren't right, but they feel right to me.

I might read that at some point, but for now I am happy with what I have.

My biggest regret is that most of the knight sabers really didn't get a moment to shine like Priss did.
I am somewhat confident in my analysis of what's up with Sylia/what her past looks like (and where and how Mason became involved), although it'd be nice to see it confirmed.

Unless episode eight changes anything (I kind of doubt it), we really haven't gotten a spotlight episode for Nene - it sort of seems like the series has been building up to Leon finding out about Nene's "other job" in episodes six and seven. We've seen little bits and pieces of her personality and thoughts, but I still wonder what keeps her motivated.

Linna/Rinna sort of has had a "spotlight" moment or two, but remains mostly a mystery.

I'm not desperate enough for answers to turn to fan fiction just yet, though; I'd rather keep my interpretation true to itself, at least for now. Thanks for the recommendation, though.

Side note: Episodes five and six have the same director, and are the only two episodes that he directed. So now I wonder what other stuff he's been involved in. I like his style.

I also think I definitely should look at Key the Metal Idol. And I'm interested in other recommendations along these lines, since the concept Bubblegum Crisis seems to revolve around is the same one that got me to fall in love with manga in the first place (via Chobits, Karakuri Odette, and "Astro Boy") - and I can never have enough of it. It's a near perfect embodiment of what I want.

I love the question of robots' place in a human world - and humans' place in a robot world.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 27 2022, 12:11