As we enter into one of the busiest times of the year, we here at the Recommendation Club would like to extend our wishes for each and every one of you to have a wonderful holiday season!
Since the September newsletter, our club has gained many new members, and seen the return of old ones. We would like to keep the momentum going, and with our member list now at 3,111, that should be no problem at all! ^_^.
We would like all of our members, old and new, to help keep this an active, and fun club, a place to Chat and to seek out recommendations in our General anime and General Manga thread as well as the specific anime genre threads, such as Drama and Romance and Sci-fi and many others as well.
It’s a great place to make new friends, or renew past friendships, and we urge all of our members to drop by, and post in the various threads and comment section, as well as share you expertise with other members.
With the fall season upon us, the club has not been as active recently with our members being busy with work, school, and the other things life throws our way, but we here at the Recommendation Club want to let all of our members know that we haven't gone anywhere! We welcome you all to drop by, and say hello to old friends, or make new ones. We have a large member-list, and we would like to see all of you joining in, and sharing, your anime and manga knowledge with the club!
Loads of new members join all the time, either wanting recommendations, or eager to share their expertise with others, so don't be shy, and join right in! Like to chat? Well we have a thread just for that. New to our club or like to greet others? Check out our Intro thread. Looking for a new anime to watch or manga to read? Head on over to our General Recommendation Thread. Don't see what you want to know? Please feel free to make new threads to get your burning questions asked, or just join in with the others in the comments section!
We are currently seeking help with our member cards, so if you feel like lending a hand in this area you are more than welcome!
We look forward to seeing all of you at the club ^_^
Our club is almost one year old and we'll be most likely celebrating it with lots of specials and contests, so you might wanna check out the club at least once every few days as something new might appear in the horizon. :D
We noticed that while the member count keeps growing by day, we aren't exactly as active as we should be. It would be nice to see more and more people chatting in the comments or in the chat thread. I'd like to mention that a chat thread in our club gets closed after a comment or so is made on page 50. I'd like to get this one closed so we can start one anew in our next club year. Thanks in advance.
I'd also be glad if you introduced yourself in our special threads or warmly welcome our new members that have posted there. Also, if you have any trouble deciding what anime you want to watch or if you want to help others, take a look at the recommendation thread and post there.
If anyone is willing to make member cards, just post the templates in this thread or pm them to me. If you have made some other kind of graphic for the club you can post it in the comments or, again, pm it to me.
oh wow YESS!! I am so excited, they just upgraded the animation for the big pirate war. I guess funimation wanted to make this arc a high budget since its going to be a spectacular grand arc.
Remember its the one arc that oda dubbed his "mid conclusion" to one piece.
Damn this awesome, I was afraid the arc was going to have poor character quality and bad animation because impel down did and also it continued till like 460, but that officially changed on ep 461. The next 40 or so episodes are just going to amazing.
The animation is so good now its like borderline "clannad" type art lol.
Awesome, thats a great series, you should like it.
I'll spoiler tag my review if you want, you can read it.
One piece is by far the greatest action shonen series ive ever come a crossed. People that try to ignore it because of the different animation style are totally missing out. I am just simply stunned and blown away by this series. As a huge fan that has seen various other genre's and is not much of a shonen junkie, i still consider one piece one of my top 5 anime series of all time. Its a shame that alot of shonen fans are turned off by it due to the fact of the different animation style. But usually shonen's have a mixture of action, story and very deep character development. I will tell you this, one piece excels in all of these area's. Perhaps one of the strongest aspects of the show is the character development. Ive never seen character development so strong in a shonen series, its usually linear, and one sided. One piece is just full of multi layer story telling and multi personalities for each character.
It's funny cause One piece is the one show that people either hate or love. The people that usually hate it, don't even give it a chance, 80% of the community that watches OP usually has it recommended by some one else or get curious and wonder's what all those OP fanboys are hyping over so much so they give it a chance. The other 20% are manga readers and read the OP manga along with the show. But not to many people like that.
If you look at alot of the topics on here. Particular the first few episode discussions. You will notice alot of people just kick them self's for hating it so to speak. Like i see people say "man i can't believe i talked so much crap bout this show, this show is just awesome, im a fool" or something similar to that. Because it gives you the impression that the show is just really goofy. I mean if you look at a random scene you think, WTH is this crap?? But then if you stick with it, most people eventually find out why its so awesome cause despite the weird animation style used, the story and character development are just 2nd to none when it comes to anime. I was the same way. This show has been going for 15 years and i just recently started watching it like maybe a year ago. I didn't believe any one, even my friends tried to get me to check it out cause i was a huge naruto/bleach fan back in the day but i still turned them down, Finally i said hell with it and gave it a chance.
Also you have to remember that this show started way back in 1995 and its still on going. How is it possible for a writer to write a story so consistent and that makes sence from start till now. I mean jeesus thats like a 20 year time gap from the time the author first started writing the story. I think he actually planned the entire script before hand and i commend him for that, not alot of writers would do that and i think thats why one piece is so successful.
He even stated in a interview that he already knows what the ending of the show will be like way before the anime even came into existence.
Another thing i really love is the huge cast of characters. Not ever does the writer ever kill off the characters in the show. What i mean by this is that they never appear again. Each character has a huge meaning in the story and always has some significant part they play. Even characters you see like in the very start of the series that may seem like generic characters become actually important characters later on in the show. ODA really is a genius writer for being able to do this in a shonen show. Where as if you look at a series like bleach. Most of the evil characters are not fleshed out enough, there background and character devolopment is just horrible.
I personally watch anime because of the character development and story progression. Those are the two main things i pay attention to with anime. Having good character interactions and background stories and just all around awesome mixture of comedy, action and strong emotional drama is truly what makes a anime series wonderful.
Hopefully that didn't bore you. If your wondering i did not actually type all that out for you, I just edited some parts of the review since it contains spoilers from like episodes 20-35. Since your only at ep 5 currently. Episode 4 i believe is the first one that shows the true character development in the series and the backstories of one of the characters.
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Recommendation Club Newsletter~Holiday Edition
As we enter into one of the busiest times of the year, we here at the Recommendation Club would like to extend our wishes for each and every one of you to have a wonderful holiday season!
Since the September newsletter, our club has gained many new members, and seen the return of old ones. We would like to keep the momentum going, and with our member list now at 3,111, that should be no problem at all! ^_^.
We would like all of our members, old and new, to help keep this an active, and fun club, a place to Chat and to seek out recommendations in our General anime and General Manga thread as well as the specific anime genre threads, such as Drama and Romance and Sci-fi and many others as well.
It’s a great place to make new friends, or renew past friendships, and we urge all of our members to drop by, and post in the various threads and comment section, as well as share you expertise with other members.
We look forward to seeing you all here !
Recommendation Club Newsletter
Activities:
1. Nominations and voting:
*Special* Anime theme of the Month
Anime Song of the Month
AMV of the Month
News:
With the fall season upon us, the club has not been as active recently with our members being busy with work, school, and the other things life throws our way, but we here at the Recommendation Club want to let all of our members know that we haven't gone anywhere! We welcome you all to drop by, and say hello to old friends, or make new ones. We have a large member-list, and we would like to see all of you joining in, and sharing, your anime and manga knowledge with the club!
Loads of new members join all the time, either wanting recommendations, or eager to share their expertise with others, so don't be shy, and join right in! Like to chat? Well we have a thread just for that. New to our club or like to greet others? Check out our Intro thread. Looking for a new anime to watch or manga to read? Head on over to our General Recommendation Thread. Don't see what you want to know? Please feel free to make new threads to get your burning questions asked, or just join in with the others in the comments section!
We are currently seeking help with our member cards, so if you feel like lending a hand in this area you are more than welcome!
We look forward to seeing all of you at the club ^_^
Activities
1. Nominations and voting
Nominate the Anime of the Month
Nominate the Manga of the Month - Oneshot Special
*Special* Vote the Featured AMV of the Month
Vote for the song of the Month
2. Club Topics and Discussions
Opinions on Winter, Expectations for Spring
Featured Anime and Manga of the Month Discussion Thread
News and Request for Help
Our club is almost one year old and we'll be most likely celebrating it with lots of specials and contests, so you might wanna check out the club at least once every few days as something new might appear in the horizon. :D
We noticed that while the member count keeps growing by day, we aren't exactly as active as we should be. It would be nice to see more and more people chatting in the comments or in the chat thread. I'd like to mention that a chat thread in our club gets closed after a comment or so is made on page 50. I'd like to get this one closed so we can start one anew in our next club year. Thanks in advance.
I'd also be glad if you introduced yourself in our special threads or warmly welcome our new members that have posted there. Also, if you have any trouble deciding what anime you want to watch or if you want to help others, take a look at the recommendation thread and post there.
If anyone is willing to make member cards, just post the templates in this thread or pm them to me. If you have made some other kind of graphic for the club you can post it in the comments or, again, pm it to me.
P.S.Make sure you save the card, bcs I'll delete it.
I also wrote a OP review, you can check that out to.
Remember its the one arc that oda dubbed his "mid conclusion" to one piece.
Damn this awesome, I was afraid the arc was going to have poor character quality and bad animation because impel down did and also it continued till like 460, but that officially changed on ep 461. The next 40 or so episodes are just going to amazing.
The animation is so good now its like borderline "clannad" type art lol.
Awesome, thats a great series, you should like it.
I'll spoiler tag my review if you want, you can read it.
Hopefully that didn't bore you. If your wondering i did not actually type all that out for you, I just edited some parts of the review since it contains spoilers from like episodes 20-35. Since your only at ep 5 currently. Episode 4 i believe is the first one that shows the true character development in the series and the backstories of one of the characters.
You caught me I view a lot of random profiles ;)