PLANETES
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UPDATED: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 00:22
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Quote:This is what I intend to get, right?
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex (a.k.a. Season 1)
The laughing Chrisisall
"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010
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Ep # 12 of Planetes still amazing me! Funny AND serious all at once!
So many spoilers I can't even discuss it.
Best purchase since Firefly.
The laughing Chrisisall
"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010
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I have a strong dislike for anime but y'all have convinced me to at least give this a shot. So far the one and only anime show I've ever enjoyed was cowboy bebop.
I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.
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Quote:Just remember, no guns or fight scenes. Strictly SF.
Originally posted by DMI:
y'all have convinced me to at least give this a shot.
The laughing Chrisisall
"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010
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That's fine with me. I just have a strong aversion to the anime style of animation. What attracted me to Cowboy Bebop and allowed to see passed the anime wasn't the fight scenes it was the compelling story line and full characters. And the music. The music was just amazing and from what I heard of the Planetes theme song above is a strike against it but I try not to judge a show by its credits.
I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.
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Quote:Planetes has that.
Originally posted by DMI:
compelling story line and full characters.
Quote:The song in the front end is passable if nothing special. The song on the back end is WAAAY too pop-upbeat junk, and never seems to match the tone of the end of the episode. I conjure with a few commercials as a buffer, it wasn't so bad, but on DVD I just skip it.
from what I heard of the Planetes theme song above is a strike against it but I try not to judge a show by its credits.
The music IN the show, ahhh, very Firefly-like, the composer was definitely told to go for that kind of sound. Minus the western riffs.
The laughing Chrisisall
"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:This is what I intend to get, right?
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex (a.k.a. Season 1)
Yeah, that's the best place to start. The Laughing Man cuts out most of the good parts, and 2nd Gig picks up off the ending of the first series.
(Hint: the "Stand-Alone Complex" thing is a three-layered pun: the show is divided between "Stand-Alone" episodes and "Complex" episodes [which tie into the ongoing arcs]. It's also a computer term [stand-alone computers networked together to form a system], and a psychological term [a "complex" describing people who don't fit in with "normal" society].)
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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Well, DMI, Planetes certainly has that, I had a reccommendation thread going for a while, and if I knew your interests could probably reccommend some things - if you liked Cowboy Bebop, which has a Fireflyish bent at times, you might also like Outlaw Star, although it's a bit stranger...
I still think Ed is related to River, they're certainly both odd enough.
But for compelling story, fully realized characters, and better artwork/animation than you'd expect, I'd say go with Last Exile, as well.
Oh, and Chris..
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I was sooo biting my tongue when you busted on Fee for her nicotene habit, so as to avoid spoilering episode #12 for ya, heh heh.
-F
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Quote:That was sooooo good, Joss could have written it!!!!
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I was sooo biting my tongue when you busted on Fee for her nicotene habit, so as to avoid spoilering episode #12 for ya, heh heh.
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Poor Toybox
Just got Blu-Sub #6 in the mail ($11.41 new...)
WOOhOO, I'm in animecrack Heaven!
The laughing Chrisisall
"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010
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Heh heh, I'll bet!
I'm a bit annoyed since the distributor I ordered Lyrical Nanoha and Pumpkin Scissors from put it on backorder as soon as money changed hands - I HATE that, when some place says "in stock" and as soon as you pay for it kicks it over to "backordered", grrr...
Tis a reputable distributor which just means I have to wait for it, and not much longer than *most* dimwads take to get around to shipping it, but that always annoys me cause there's a couple game distributors who have a scam based on that, someone orders a game, they "put it on backorder" and 91 days later say they couldn't find it and refund your order, but what they're *really* doing is taking all the money they received that day and socking into a 90day CD account, skimming off the profit and then throwing it back.
I out those creepers when I spot em, but my State Attorney General is useless, and the Better Business Bureau can be bribed so easy it ain't funny.
So I'll wait, but curse it, I wanna see some ppl get "befriended"...
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befriend (v.): To use mecha-class beam weaponry to inflict grievous bodily harm on a target in the process of proving the validity of your belief system.
PROtip: If Nanoha knows exactly where you are, even if you ARE deep in your mountain fortress, start running!
I swear it looks like Raging Heart loads .50BMG, dunnit ?
-F
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