Yes, badime is back. The triple A blockbuster success that critics everywhere are calling "a... thread" is rearing it's ugly, white-head dotted head again in your neighborhood. But this time the thread has a twist. I will be putting up a poll on the forums and will be personally streaming the top 3-5 winners on a live stream, with encores if everyone feels like it. At the moment, I'm just gonna bring whatever I have on my hard drive to vote. This means we will have to deal some actual decent anime being in our prensence but we'll have to soldier through. In fact after making the list I find that it's actually mostly decent. Oh fucking well.
I'll set a concrete date for this sucker once (read: if) I get a dencent number of votes in the poll.
Anyway, without further ado, your choices for dumb girl cartoons are...
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Imagine Salior Moon with stroger central characters and more of a focus on how fucked up people can be. Oh, and lesbianism. There's a fair bit of that going on. It's an interesting little show, a bit forulaic but it's pretty fun. It's a magical girl show done by the creator of Salior Moon and runs through a lot of the same motions. The strangest thing is that inbetween the Salior Moon levels of innocent zaniness there are a lot of people wishing for terrible things brought about by some terrible cases of young angst.
But most importantly, Utena bears the distiction of being one of the only animes Riftoff has watched.
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Michiko to Hatchin
This is an anime by the same studio that brought you Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. That alone probably should've sold you on it. Michiko to Hatchin is the story of an agressive bitch of a woman and a young girl searching through modern Brazil for the man who is the former's ex-lover and the laters father. And that's about it. Like the studio's other works, the stories are mostly episodic with a single plot thread that ties everything together. Also like the studio's other works, it has heavy western influences and is very un-anime.
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Steins;Gate
Really popular a while ago. Still haven't touched it. Probably really good based on what I heard about it. I know nothing about it since it's not terrible or some dumb hipster anime. Something about sending emails though time or some shit, there's a fair chance people in the forums know more about it than me.
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Katanagatari
Simple little action show about a loose interpertation of a martial artist collecting increasingly loose interpertations of swords. Honest show with nothing to hide and has some unique character designs to go with it. If it was on toonami back in the day I probably would've loved it to death. The only other thing to note is that each episode is a bout an hour long, so bear that in mind.
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Little Witch Academia
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Score: KickstarterIs/Control
Mnemosyne
Hey remember when I said there was decent anime here? I lied. This shit is decidedly indecent. I'm sorry, and you will be too after you watch this shit. Mnemosyne is not a nice anime. Mnemosyne is like a newborn baby; it's bloody, naked, loud, and really not all the pleasent to look at. It's on par with the shit that was in the previous badime thread. You know the ones. I don't remember the plot, I just remember showering afterwards
Please be aware that there is a fair amount of nudity and frankly this shit is borderline torture porn. I know I basically just solidified this shows victory with that sentence but it's a fair waring.
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dat riff
Trava Fist Planet
It's a movie called Fist Planet and it looks like that.
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Score: It's called fucking Fist Planet.
Dennou Coil
Again, another anime I have lieing around my hard drive that remains untouched. I just got it because it got some big anime art reward and looked neat. I don't even remember what it's about. Now let's see here...
Well shit, that actually sounds pretty cool.Wikipedia wrote:Dennō Coil (電脳コイル Dennō Koiru?, lit. Electric Brain Coil or Computer Coil), Coil — A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality (AR) technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging city-wide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city, using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to manipulate the digital landscape.
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Black Lagoon
A Japanese pencil pusher ends up working for an illegal delivery company called Black Lagoon. The show then basically turns into a bunch of Metal Gear Solid bosses beating the shit out of each other. It's a run and gun action show, but it's good at what it does. Again a lot of the stories are self contained within an episode or 2 and I may end up skipping the earlier episodes because of it.
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Kaiba
A stylish anime that follows a boy who travels to different planetoids to regain his memories. It's all held together by the concept that memories can be stored on to chips and are released as little yellow pelletes upon death.
No, I'm not saying anything snide or clever about this show. The story, characters, visuals and music are all wonderfully unique and beautiful. I fucking love this show.
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Kino no Tabi
So I guess I like shows about dudes cruising around and doing shit. Because Kino no Tabi is about a girl and her talking motorcycle cruising around and doing shit. They only allow themselves 3 days to stay in each town before moving on on their endless travels. The stories are pretty self contained in each episode and the focus is more on the strange towns that the 2 protagonists visit and believe me, you have to be a fucking showstopper to constantly steal the spotlight from a talking motorcycle.
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Great Teacher Onizuka
A somewhat old comedy show about a gang leader who retires to become a teacher. It's considered by many people to be a classic. It manages not be solely the typical japanese comedy style which is "Do whacky thing -> Reaction -> Repeat until credits" routine. I like it. It feels good on my eyes. It's cooool. I'm getting tired writing these descriptions at 12:30 am, can you tell?
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Outlaw Star
HEY I LIKE SHOWS WITH EPISODIC STORIES ABOUT DUDES DOING SHIT HERE'S ONE IN SPACE IT WAS ON ADULT SWIM OR SOMETHING
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Serial Experiment Lain
This is some wierd shit. Like not wierd in a Japanese Panty Machine way but wierd in a unnerving ambient way. I am never sure what's happening and I feel the need for a hug by the time it's over.
Lain is the story of a little girl who discovers an digital network of computers called the wired. I think. Probably. It's all very strange and difficult to follow. The show likes to fuck with you a lot. However the one thing that I do understand is that the show makes some very poignant observations on internet sociology considering the show is from the mid to late 90s. Things like internet ghost stories and anonymity making you an asshole are all addressed inbetween some bizarre conspiricy story centered around Lain that I don't really get.
It's good though. Trust me, probably.
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Puni Puni Poemi
I showed this show to my friends 4 years ago and they still won't take any suggestion I give them without apprehension. I watch it with Denzo and all he did was scream "what?" while I told him "you're not ready" repeatedly.Lovecraft-sensei wrote:And it was then that Puni Puni Poemi came out of Japan What it was, none could tell, but it was of the old native blood and looked like a Mahou Shoujo. The fellahin knelt when they saw it, yet could not say why. It said it had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that it had heard messages from places not on this planet.
Denzo is not ready.
My friends are not ready
I am not ready
Humanity is not ready
You. Are. Not. Ready.
Puni
Puni
Poemi
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