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Yeah, definitely too soft. It's something I'd like to wach if I'm ten years younger. Now I'd wach it if I want something that brings me back to childhood. But I'd rather watch Digimon in that case.
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The other thing I liked about Trinity Blood was the soundtrack, for the most part it's pretty good as you see in that video, unfortunately the series gets a little softer as things progress and the storyline isn't compelling enough in the anime to justify such a shift. I've read a bit of the manga and that has all the best parts of the anime with more politics so it's just better full stop.

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Yeah' date=' definitely too soft. It's something I'd like to wach if I'm ten years younger. Now I'd wach it if I want something that brings me back to childhood. But I'd rather watch Digimon in that case.[/quote'] Fair enough, I love Nichijou's humour and I'm not really a fan of serious anime but I can see why some would find it a bit childish and soft.
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I'd prefer not to watch the dubs but needs must I guess.
I don't know, I usually prefer the dubs. The one where that wasn't the case was Soul Eater because Lord Death had this hysterical nasal honking voice in the Japanese version but a sort of wispy, whimsical midget-in-a-Harry-Potter-movie kinda voice. Fairy Tail, Trigun and FMA Brotherhood, by contrast, are much better dubbed. The humor in Fairy Tail in particular is a lot better when I can hear in English.
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Finished Akame ga Kill recently and while it kinda sucks that the pacing was so breakneck sometimes (as there seemed to be plot points like the romance that just kinda popped up outta nowhere) and that the main character seemed a little dull, it's still by a massive margin one of the most enjoyable animes I've ever seen. In a sense it's even a strength; you'd be hard-pressed to find any filler nonsense anywhere. It's got the vibrant color palette and excellent character design from Fairy Tail along with the good fights and blood from Soul Eater. The show also has a nice sense of humor along with its dark tone (never gets too big for its britches in that regard) a fun and surprisingly nuanced and relatable set of villains with their own fun group dynamic and a great main villain who is herself deceptively simple.

Also this guy, who has a buzzsaw mace. You hear that? A f*cking buzzsaw mace!

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I'm revisiting Initial D and my thoughts are more or less the same. Racing sequences aside it's a worthless anime. Choice of cars is interesting I guess sticking the chief protagonist in the Toyota Trueno though I have more of an affinity for the secondary protagonists RX-7s. An anime about the Japanese drift racing scene could have been interesting if done right. Given drift racing is really the only form of motorsport which has ever managed to interest me it's disappointing to see how clumsy this particular anime is. Tough to suspend belief enough to buy into the idea that a professional racing spec engine could find its way into a standard road car as well.

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Yeah I've known about that for a while and it's kind of interested me but these days I can't see well enough to read subtitles and keep up with what's going on at the same time. If there was a dubbed version I'd watch it I mean hey can't be worse then Fast And The Furious can it?

 

Anyway just started on Gundam Wing recently. I remember seeing it as part of a big anime block years ago with I think Initial D, InuYasha, Trinity Blood, and some other anime that escapes recollection. Characters are a little one-dimensional and it isn't even close to as violent as I was hoping but I guess giant robots in epilepsy inducing combat scenes is kind of cool. I'm only about 4 episodes in so far though so nothing's had time to grow I guess. Also watched the first episode of Digimon recently and quickly remembered why I always preferred Pokemon.

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Worse than Fast and Furious? Yeah it is, if you find the drama scenes on the anime version totally boring then don't watch it.

There is  this one gundam anime I can't recall that I really loved as a kid. I remember getting into it cause the robot mimics the pilot's movement; not just pilot sits with control sticks. Aside from that anime  I really didn't like any other gundam animes.

 

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