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Baccano! (I can't remember if you had already watched this). Set in the same universe as Durarara!! (Although at vastly different time periods and in a different location). It's a bit confusing at first, because the story essentially starts backwards, but if you make it past the initial confusion and start understanding what is going on, it is a good anime. In Durarara!!, you can actually see several posters hanging around the downtown movie theaters in the backgrounds, with screenshots of Baccano! characters on them. Not to mention that two characters from Baccano! actually make a cameo appearance in Durarara!! (Isaac and Miria). Baccano! is half the lenght of Durarara!! (Well, a bit more than half if you include the OVA's) and I personally find it very much worth a watch, if you liked Durarara!!... Actually if you wanted to get the full effect of the background references and mini-cameos in Durarara!!, you should probably have watched Baccano! first. It's not really a problem though, because it doesn't take from the story at all, if you had not seen it beforehand. http://myanimelist.net/anime/2251 --- Speaking of anime that make cameos in Durarara!!, I watched "Cencoroll" today (Another anime that can be found in various background posters in Durarara!!). It's a 26-minute long OVA and honestly, it was pretty decent. It was made mostly by one guy, major props to him. Link here if anyone is interested, I'd dare say it is worth a watch, considering the short lenght. http://bakabt.me/149005-cencoroll-koharubi.html

No, that's just bullshit through and through. We're gonna have to agree to disagree then. Just so we're clear, I'm not saying that "moe" hasn't always been a thing, nor am I one of those people who is of the mindset that moe is "ruining" anime. I've actually watched quite a lot of anime that are or could be considered moe and enjoyed them. But if you seriously believe that the whole moe phenomenon did not see a rise in the early 2000's and onwards, then I think you're deluding yourself. Moe characters have expanded within the Japanese media market. In 2004, the market for moe media such as printed media, video, and games was worth 88 billion yen; roughly one-third of the estimated 290 billion yen otaku market in Japan.In 2009, Brad Rice, editor-in-chief of "Japanator", said that "moe has literally become an economic force... more and more products -- especially shows -- are geared towards include [sic!] some moe (or be entirely made up of it) in order to sell better, both as a show and in the ancillary market where hardcore fans will buy excessive amounts of items related to the character of their desire... It's not as though creators go out with the intention of creating moe works, but there are many steps in the whole process of getting a manga and anime put together and released to the public, so somewhere in there is a conscious decision to include moe." http://www.japanator.com/-just-what-on-earth-is-moe-is-the-question-of-the-day-10704.phtml As the first decade of the 2000s unfolded, moé became increasing popular and recognized, invoking a commercial interest in manufacturing and exploiting moé. As this process occurred, moé evolved from being a non-sexual desire to hug, love, and protect to being a sexually sublimated fascination with cuteness. Moé shifted entirely from a two-way interchange between character and viewer to becoming distinctly a characteristic of particular characters or a focused fetish of viewers. Particularly anime including K-On Lucky Star,deliberately revolved around adorable, whimsical, clumsy, early-adolescent girl characters in order to evoke, enflame, and manipulate the interests and affections of viewers. These characters no longer evoked moé feelings; they were literally moé characters – not characters that naturally and unconsciously evoked a paternal reaction from viewers, but rather characters that were the physical manifestation of the defining characteristics of the moé movement. These girl characters were adorably cute, just a bit sexually appealing, and self-conscious but not yet cynical. They demanded notice and adoration from viewers rather than passively earning adoration and protective feelings. http://www.animenation.net/blog/2012/05/28/ask-john-what-are-the-defining-moe-anime/

I'm currently reading Berserk. And if Light Novels are allowed in here, I finished up Koimonogatari not too long ago ... Tsuki/Koyomi/Owarimonogatari translates when? Koimonogatari left me with so many questions ;_;

99% of dubs are bad, 90's most definitely wasn't the golden age of anime. I won't say that there hasn't been a lot of generic moe since the release of stuff such as K-On and Lucky Star, but there are several anime from the 2000/2010's that have been excellent, streaming anime depends on the circumstances, but I never do it on my lonesome. I think we'll get along.

I am watching KLK because I like Trigger, but it is rare for me to watch things that are airing, because I get really into something and then it kills me having to wait a week.

When do we compare notes? I'm curious as to what substitutes as bad taste for you. Other than that welcome yadda yadda. You probably won't recognize me because I posted under a different name on SPUF and probably also the fact that I haven't been active on that website for... close to two years soon I think... maybe one and a half.

I don't doubt it, from what I understand this is the case for a lot of anime (Although I'm pretty sure the Raildex series is one of the worst, because I couldn't actually finish it, it was that bad to me). I'm not really big on manga/light novels/whatever though, I don't think I'll be reading it anytime soon.

I'm currently watching "A Certain Magical Index" and I really don't have any idea why. This show is so mediocre it's not even funny. Filled with drawn out fight scenes, typical Shounen motivational speeches and many other shounen clichés, melodrama and retarded antagonists. Despite all that, I think I might just have to come to terms with the fact that I like Shounen clichés, even when I know certain characters are about as Mary Sue/Gary Stu as they can get in these anime, because despite me knowing at the back of my head that I am watching some pretty B-tier stuff, I am still enjoying myself for the most part. I think it's because the world this takes place in is pretty cool, even if the dialogue is trashcan tier. Send help, I never asked for bad taste.

There isn't actually much else I want, but with a backlog like this (and continuing further off-screen) There are a lot of options.

I actually want to watch Nanoha... But then again, there's so much stuff I want to watch. It is, and it's about to become cooler.

I started watching Haibane Renmei this evening and immediately I remembered that anime loves telling me stories about young girls suffering, not that I personally mind, but it seems to be a common theme in anime in general. The end result of her suffering is pretty damn cool though as she did in fact sprout wings

Image is broken for me. Top left: 11Eyes. Top Middle: Elemental Gelade. And yus you should watch soranowoto man it's pretty cool Oh right, I remember you talking about Elemental Gelade.

I don't know what the top left and top middle anime are, I have to admit. Other than that, Steins;Gate is good, Baccano! is good, Angel Beats is not my cup of tea, I haven't actually seen Upotte!!, Madoka Magica is good, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I've heard is good, but I haven't seen it and finally there's Sora no Woto which I've been meaning to watch for ages. Been meaning to watch Higurashi, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is great, Toaru Majutsu no Index is not my cup of tea, I've been meaning to watch Toradora because Taiga looks adorable as fuck, I don't know what the bottom left anime is, I don't know what the bottom middle anime is and I've actually yet to see Death Note believe it or not... At least I think that's Death Note.

I'm bored and hoping that you guys will amuse me. It's 3x3 time. Basically, you go here, and then you fill in your nine favourite shows/movies/OVA's/whatever for the rest of us to see. So if you're bored out of your mind like me, this can pass 15 minutes or so. Also I've found great anime via other people doing this in the past, so maybe we can even help each other... Heh. Starting from top left and going right this list contains: Cowboy Bebop, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Welcome to the NHK, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Berserk, Steins;Gate, Bakemonogatari, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rurouni Kenshin.

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Corv bait

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Speaking of Madoka Magica (Also don't fucking spoil Rebellion if you've seen it, I will literally come to your house and punch you), I just bought this.

I honestly don't know what Trigger are doing with this, but I am going to keep watching in case it turns into something good... Please Trigger ;_; EDIT: Ok, episode 4 was positively hilarious. Anime might still be saved.

I am enjoying Katanagatari a lot. A lot, a lot. I love the simplistic art, I enjoy the short but intense fight scenes and the dialogue is great. To be expected though, considering it is written by the same guy who did Bake/Nise/Nekomonogatari, even though those three are set in a different universe from Katanagatari and are completely unrelated. I'd recommend this to you all, if you haven't already seen it. ... All of that being said, I have yet to finish it, so it might go to shit in the end. Who knows. EDIT: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHj11IWgKbg

Chocolate taste, eh Huff?

That fucking chocolate cone. The rest of the show goes from meh to ok from there, Nichijou and WataMote does it far better. I haven't seen either Nichijou or Watamote actually, but people I know personally have nothing but praise for both of them.

Too many "in-jokes" about other shows that you'd have to know in order to fully appreciate the show. An incredibly, incredibly, INCREDIBLY boring first episode. Holy fuck, that episode is so fucking pointless. I was beyond baffled the first time I watched it and they talked about food for literally 14 minutes.

If you like cute girls doing cute things, go for it friends. On the note of cute girls doing cute things, this fucking OP has been stuck in my head for a good 7 months and I don't even like the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJXi-FU7sA