| Oh well, if you don't like mecha the first half was always going to be completely underwhelming. |
| personally, I found the characters were too extreme for me to empasise with in the first place |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| Ouran is a much easier 'gateway anime', and it has fewer aspects that might detract from the series, whereas Utena requires more effort/a higher tolerance level for things like repeated animation, old school shoujo character designs, etc. So I'd recommend Ouran first, even though watching Utena before Ouran would allow one to better appreciate some of the stylistic choices in the latter. |
| I'm not a big fan of either, but Ouran is probably more easily acceptable. Utena is a lot more weird and repetitive. |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| I thought the question was what should you recommend to people first. To answer that question, I think Ouran tends to be a better recommendation because it's more main stream and Utena's more of an oddity that's harder to appreciate. What you're now talking about is assuming you're gonna watch all of them, what leads into what. For THIS question, the natural order is actually: Rose of Versailles -> Utena -> Ouran. Rose of Versailles is a totally different kettle of fish to Utena, however, the inspiration for Utena herself is Oscar, the central character of Rose of Versailles. Being the daughter of a general who wanted a son, she's a woman who was brought up as a man and taught in the ways of the military. It's an awesome historical drama/shoujo series, though the very dated production style may put a lot of people off before they get to appreciate the substance underneath. It's on my A list though :D |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| Yay! I'm glad you liked it. The soundtrack is by one of my favourite Japanese bands, 'the pillows' - if you'd like more of their music, I'd be happy to supply it. :D |
| I'm baaaack :D And I recommend Hikaru no Go to Mike :D |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| Recommendation accepted, although I won't start it for a while, still got stuff to watch and really need to get through a ton of work in the next 2 weeks. I'll probably start watching it when I get round to starting Saki. |
| Points to Kajia for Berserk. Also Kajia how on earth did you manage not to continue on and read the Berserk manga with that ending? |
| It's because I don't read manga at all back then. But recently, I read the Hikaru no Go manga online after watching the anime, so I'm thinking of rewatching Berserk and maybe read the manga online for that too, specially since the Berserk manga is ranked #1 in MAL. |
kekekeKajApr 18, 2010 2:13 PM
| Take off every SIG!! |
| Kajia also needs a point for Welcome To The NHK |
| I did recommend it to Janice, but she'd already seen it (I've still not watched it though) |
| I thought it was okay, but it's hard for me to appreciate something that's like 20 seconds long tbh :P I guess that's why I'm not really into poems either. |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| Just watched it, it was pretty good. |
| Yay, glad you're enjoying the songs! Sadly, Japanese CDs (and DVDs) are always hideously expensive, apparently because they're of much higher quality. I managed to buy some singles by The Pillows once, when they were on sale... nothing since. Here's a lyrics site I often use - some translations have minor mistakes, but it's generally reliable. The Pillows often have surprisingly angsty lyrics: http://www.pirouzu.net/lyrics/lyrics.html |
| speaking of music, I just remembered the "Woke From Dreaming" song from Gunslinger Girl. The dreary feeling is so appropriate for the anime. A pity they only used it in one scene in the entire series (that I can recall)... and only for like 20 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNs6hIL34o8 |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| Alan: Can I get into the Monster recommendation, too? And Mike recommended it as well - we sort of tried to convince you all together xD |
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| wuhoo! (assuming he likes it ofc, otherwise it'll be "doh!") |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| A big double plus for Janice for recommending Monster to me <3 |
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| Kajia can get his points for Hikaru no Go now. |
| 1,000,000 points to Selina for GITS 2nd Gig. |
| Make sure you watch Solid State Society as well |
| lol does recommending sequels count? :P |
| Take off every SIG!! |
MikeP said: Make sure you watch Solid State Society as well I intend to :D |
| And another point to Kajia for Nodame Cantabile |
| we should have showed it this year instead of H&C :P |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| yes he did. He's recommended me quite a few series over FB chat the last few months. Some of which I've still not watched. Including Genshiken which really wasn't that great. |
MikePJul 29, 2010 5:42 AM
| lol guess that one's a miss then :P |
| Take off every SIG!! |
| Current list of unwatched recommendations from Kajia to me. Gankutsuou Gundam Seed Last Exile Rumbling Hearts |
| Plus a stupendously large number of points to Janice for Monster. |
| Points to Kajia for both Gankutsuou and Gundam Seed. |
| lots of points to Selina for House of Five Leaves! |
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