Maybe a bit optimistic all considering but I'd like to think its still up in the air about whether all of them will manage to be stoned before they died.
Fuck that shit, we need more anime about delinquents beating people up in the front of the local 7-11 like the greasy chavs that they are. Never seen a proper one ever since the days of Cromartie and GTO. Soundtrack preferably being a Japanese composer aping 70's King Crimson.
Like I don’t think anyone will die but if they do the most likely candidate would be Stanley and Hyoga probably, everyone else would be fine.
I think I heard something bout the guy surviving a zaku gun at close range?? No idea if I got the right dude-
I do still have my brick ass ps3! Only problem is that it wheezes? Maybe it's a fan issue but I am tech illiterate so I mean if it still works I MEAN- IT STILL WORKS-. I'd probably need to dust it off since I played a ton of Jump Starts VS+ and JJBA All Star Battle on it tbh. I'll check my gamestop but I guess I can just borrow the 360 and dork around with DWG 3 later. I know i'd have to avoid the Char stuff I think since when my bro fired it up a few days ago it was counter attack Char annnnnnnnd yea I want no spoilers. Accidently hit a big spoiler but I'm like "suuure mhm- I don't believe you" by the time i'll get there i'll probably forget and be shooketh.I only got so far into Destiny before giving up due to the disappointment of them largely giving up on Shinn and switching back to Kira/Athrun. He started from an interesting position as someone orphaned as a direct cause of something that happens in Seed who directly lays blame on Kira's side (from what I remember) because of believing they were the cause of the fighting to erupt. I really wanted to see him develop from an angry traumatised (literally saw the blown up corpses of his mum/dad/little sister and carries around said sisters phone) 16 year old over the course of the series through mentorship from Athrun, instead he gets tossed aside to villains so Kira can shine.
The artsyle when it comes to the character designs is specifically Hisashi Hirai's unique look, though a lot of people don't like his designs I do. Does suffer a bit from sameface (or Hirai face) though I think his newer stuff like Majestic Prince or Fafner's later season really show an improvement.
I've once again reminded myself that I need to watch the later seasons of Fafner for my boys Kazuki and Soushi.
I think even with the ending being spoiled it's worth watching to see how it got to that point.
I've bought a few, but haven't played a bunch since I've not played an actual game in a while. The ones I do have are: DW Gundam (2, 3, Reborn) - I played the crap out of 3 since it was a fun button masher and I liked the character interactions, never got around to playing 2 or that much of Reborn. Heard 2 is really good story wise.
Gundam Breaker (1, 2, 3) - Very fun make your own OC gunpla game with the 3rd being the best of the lot, 2 is fine but 1 is literally unplayable now I think because you needed online to actually complete the last several missions as the team ai was shit and it was really restrictive on what parts you could actually use to make a half decent suit. If you can find the Break edition of the 3rd it comes with all the DLC and I think there's a SEA release of it that comes in English (the one I have).
Gundam Extreme VS - Suck at it, but fun to dick around as a party game with friends. Contains an opening by Linkin Park. I'm somewhat interested in picking up some of the later games, but I suck at fighting games and would have no fun online.
Gundam 0081 - I sucked super hard and couldn't get past the janky ass controls, made me realize I'm not that good at video games.
Gundam Battle Operations (1 and 2) - 1st is long dead, but the second is still around if you want a f2p team based shooter that swings between amazing matches and blood boiling rage. All the suits are early UC with them just hitting ZZ (I think).
SRW V - It has Gundam in it so it technically counts, haven't got around to actually playing it yet. Comes in English even if the translations are somewhat wonky.
Everything but SRW V, Gundam Breaker 3, and Gundam Battle Operations 2 are ps3 with those 3 being ps4.
I've come to better appreciate Gonzo over the years the more of their shows I watch on my PTW/randomly come across. Gankutsuou is their most ambitious, I personally believe, like holy shit they should've won awards for that.
Sunrise is still around because of existing IPs, but they're no longer the juggernaut they once were because the mecha genre is not capturing the hearts and imagination of anime fans anymore. I think they also lost their identity, in a way. Like you can look at an anime and just know or have an educated guess that it was made by a certain studio, and Sunrise was definitely one of them you could spot from a glance not just because of mecha designs, but because they had beautiful character designs, too. They just knew how to draw anatomy while showing touches of it clearly being Japanese-made. This lasted even well into the 2000s at a time I like to call the "tween years" where anime studios were transitioning to digital animation, which then makes you wonder why Studio Pierrot's quality has dropped when Sunrise and even freaking DEEN were able to work just fine with digitally animating their shows.
They haven't been as active lately, as far as I can see, but SHAFT/Shinbou very much had a signature style.
Not sure what your talking about. I dont remember anybody surviving that kind of blast. Gundam seed has more plot armor then the UC.
Eh, I have to disagree on Sunrise, think they aren't too bad because when they want to flex they do, be it with their mecha series or other. Their recent Love Live series had phenomenally good cgi for the dances considering the usual level along with just the standard animation level of the series being pretty high. It had a lot of charm to it for fans of the series rather than just a cheap cash grab. You can look at any time Kasumi is on screen to see the animators having fun with her expressions when a lot of studios wouldn't bother:
I don't really get this because I still find that Sunrise has a very distinct character design where I can usually immediately go "Is that a Sunrise show?" Hell, you have people like Kumiko Takahashi that have been working for Sunrise since the 80s (mainly for key animation) that is noted for her very memorable character design adaptions (Ouran, Unicorn, Snow White with the Red Hair, Tetsuwan Birdy, Gundam NT, etc.) along with her work as an animation director that is still working with the company. That isn't even touching on Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's contributions to Sunrise where his style is pretty much linked with the studio as the Sunrise style and showed up recently in the lavish Origin adaption or Katoki being the Mechanical Designer behind a good chunk of Gundam series to this day.
I think Doga kobo shows stand out pretty well, they have a feel to them, especially in their SOL offerings. Would also say the same for Studio Orange with their CGI work and maybe Xebec because of their signature ass shots/ecchi.
I thought I was the only one that remembered this series.
Loved Cromartie, sad we never got anything quite like it again.
Like I said, they were inconsistent but always consistently interesting and you could almost always identify a Gonzo series just by looking at it once upon a time.
From what I understand the Sunrise that gave us shows like Cowboy Bebop split off into Bones and Manglobe (maybe?)
Many such cases it seems. Sad.
As I said I feel like Bones has suffered some loss of identity but maybe I haven't been paying close enough attention, but it does seem like most studios are becoming generic with no little touches and styles and that is honestly quite sad.
Oh boy, SHAFT is a GREAT example of what I'm talking about with recognizable house styles, but from what I understand SHAFT has just recently suffered a huge staff departure meaning they too will probably become generic or fold entirely.
Bones' work on Mob Psycho reminded me a lot of "old school" Bones with just how much passion oozed from the whole series. You still see that classic Bones but it depends on the project and who's working on it, not ever show gets the A team and even old school Bones was known for its notoriously dogshit endings
Blame how lucrative isekai trash is and the people that eat it up. You still find buried nuggets among studio output where there's clear passion put into it over "just another paycheck/HOLY SHIT THIS PRODUCTION IS A MESS, I HAVEN'T SEEN MY FAMILY IN WEEKS AND THE PAY ISN'T EVEN GOOD!"
They're gone. They were essentially sold to Sunrise and Production I.G.
I definitely try to be cautious with that myself, although I get accused a lot of being an overly nostalgic a person a lot.
Now that's a real shame.
Same with Mushoku Tensei and Re: Zero, where for the latter they actually had episodes with extended runtime, meaning they had to beg the stations to cut out commercial time because they were unwilling to leave anything else on the cutting room floor.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I think we’re going to get more isekai as time goes on. It’s basically just wish-fulfillment for middle aged people who feel life has passed them by: getting to redo life with all the lessons you learned, but young, healthy, sexy and strong again.
I like Hirai's style too, it's very distinct. I just wish he knew how to draw more than one face.
DW Gundam 3 was very fun, but I liked the larger maps of the first DW Gundam. Plus the story mode where you had Domon, Zechs, and Puru on the same team with constant interactions is legendary.
Huh, I keep forgetting that anime actually airs on TV in Japan. Do most Japs tune in to watch it weekly, or do they have some sort of streaming option for new shows?
Do you want to know or you will suffer when the time is right?
