This is an anime about nose hairs with karate skills or something. If you want one sure sign that anime is a horrible type of entertainment then look no further than this shining example of typical Japanese cuteness/strangeness. Absurd with no plot, crude for no reason, and confusing beyond all belief, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is as incomprehensible as the title would lead you to believe. If there's one anime that you avoid watching this year make it Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. NEXT.
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This show is about a kid who moves to an elite tennis-based boarding school and has to rise through the ranks by beating upper-classmen at their own game. Tennis. TPoT avoids a lot of the cliches that befall nearly every anime ever produced, but it still has scenes where the only sound you hear is a cicada, and it still goes on for much longer than it needs to - a quick Wikipedia check tells me that it's 178 episodes long, plus 26 OVAs, plus 4 more OVAs plus 4 more OVAs on top of that. That's too much tennis! NEXT.
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This is something that I was really excited about before I actually saw it. I was all, "Whoa, dudes in sewers with gas masks and guns? Sign me up!" It was only later that I realized that sewer-based entertainment is nearly always bad, and that the gas masks and guns were pretty stupid and boring. To be honest I don't remember much about this other than how disappointing it was and that there was some scene where a missile bounces off a guy. Oh, and apparently the whole thing is a Little Red Riding Hood adaptation. LAAAAAAAAAME.
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Man, are these stinkers. I bought Lain because the cover made it look interesting (although I just looked it up on Amazon and it looks meh at best to these eyes), but the content was really... bad? Not awful like Bobobo, and not tedious like TPoT, but it was really quiet and repetitive and there were literally cicadas EVERYWHERE. So I ended up not even coming close to finishing SE:L, but I chose to continue on and try out Boogiepop Phantom, which was done by the same studio, I guess. I only remember one thing about Boobiepop Phantom, that being a scene in what I think is a playground where the main Boogiepop Phantom is standing in the rain? I dunno. Both of these were really bad.
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The thing with FLCL is I used to really really like it. If you had asked me what I was thinking about in the days and weeks after I first watched it I would probably have answered either "FLCL" or "DTAV Amy". FLCL is a show about a baseball from outer space who comes to Earth to kill a boy with a robot in his head and there's a giant iron (not to be confused with the superior Iron Giant). There are parts of this show that I still absolutely love, namely the animation and the soundtrack. I don't think I ever "got" FLCL, instead choosing to stare dumbly at the pretty pictures on the screen. I think that's the way it was meant to be taken in.
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There isn't much to "get" in FLCL. The plot isn't complex or deep, it's just told in a way that gives you critical information at the end in an unclear way.
FLCL is probably the most rewatchable anime there is though. There are so many little things that you can miss even on multiple viewings that it always feels fresh.
Yeah, I've probably watched it through four or five times. It's one of the few anime that I'd actually recommend to just about anybody, simply on the strength of the visuals and the soundtrack, and the fact that you can finish the whole thing in less time than it takes to watch The Big Lebowski.
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Spirited Away is a really fantastic movie. I like it a lot. I think the pacing is solid, the visuals and character designs and personalities are all extremely well-done, the music is fitting, and the overall experience of watching it is a true afternoon's delight. This might have become the world's best piece of animated art in some alternate universe where Sen doesn't cry freakishly huge tears while eating rice balls, but alas, she does in fact cry seriously oversized tears while eating rice balls, so this otherwise perfect film drops 4 spots.
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From: FreakinLincoln | Posted: 8/8/2011 3:59:31 PM | #006 9: The Prince of Tennis
This show is about a kid who moves to an elite tennis-based boarding school and has to rise through the ranks by beating upper-classmen at their own game. Tennis. TPoT avoids a lot of the cliches that befall nearly every anime ever produced, but it still has scenes where the only sound you hear is a cicada, and it still goes on for much longer than it needs to - a quick Wikipedia check tells me that it's 178 episodes long, plus 26 OVAs, plus 4 more OVAs plus 4 more OVAs on top of that. That's too much tennis! NEXT.
I disagree. Prince of Tennis is not about tennis. It's about dinosaurs.
(Yes that's from the actual series)
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