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Postby Valiantan » Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:35 pm

Robotech, Gatchaman, and the highly debated whether or not it is truly anime, Digimon.

I love all 3 of those shows and I have seen every episode of Robotech and Gatchaman. I stopped at Season 4 of Digimon because it got horrendous at that point.

Robotech and Gatchaman are older shows from the 80s that my dad used to watch and when he purchased the collections of both straight from Japan a few years ago, I sat and watched all of them with him. Those shows were amazing and I love them to this day.

I grew up with Digimon and that show was basically my childhood.

If anyone has heard of the first 2, that would be pretty awesome. It seems no one ever tends to know what they are and its kinda frustrating as I have no one to talk to about them when a topic about Anime arises. I understand Death Note, Code Geass, and a few others are popular today, but you cant forget the classics.
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:01 pm

Valiantan wrote:Robotech, Gatchaman, and the highly debated whether or not it is truly anime, Digimon.

I love all 3 of those shows and I have seen every episode of Robotech and Gatchaman. I stopped at Season 4 of Digimon because it got horrendous at that point.

Robotech and Gatchaman are older shows from the 80s that my dad used to watch and when he purchased the collections of both straight from Japan a few years ago, I sat and watched all of them with him. Those shows were amazing and I love them to this day.

I grew up with Digimon and that show was basically my childhood.

If anyone has heard of the first 2, that would be pretty awesome. It seems no one ever tends to know what they are and its kinda frustrating as I have no one to talk to about them when a topic about Anime arises. I understand Death Note, Code Geass, and a few others are popular today, but you cant forget the classics.


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Postby The Akasha Colony » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:36 am

Valiantan wrote:Robotech, Gatchaman, and the highly debated whether or not it is truly anime, Digimon.

I love all 3 of those shows and I have seen every episode of Robotech and Gatchaman. I stopped at Season 4 of Digimon because it got horrendous at that point.

Robotech and Gatchaman are older shows from the 80s that my dad used to watch and when he purchased the collections of both straight from Japan a few years ago, I sat and watched all of them with him. Those shows were amazing and I love them to this day.

I grew up with Digimon and that show was basically my childhood.

If anyone has heard of the first 2, that would be pretty awesome. It seems no one ever tends to know what they are and its kinda frustrating as I have no one to talk to about them when a topic about Anime arises. I understand Death Note, Code Geass, and a few others are popular today, but you cant forget the classics.


Robotech's hardly obscure, the problem is by many it's considered a bastardized version of Macross, which it is. Harmony Gold didn't do a bad job with it, it's just that generally Macross itself gets more attention.
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Postby Nationalist State of Knox » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:13 pm

Just finished Ao No Exorcist, it was decent, the ending was a little lacking.

Is Code Geass any good?
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When is episode 2 of Akito the Exiled due to be released/
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Postby Old Tyrannia » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:18 pm

Nationalist State of Knox wrote:Just finished Ao No Exorcist, it was decent, the ending was a little lacking.

Is Code Geass any good?

Yes. Very.
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Postby Nationalist State of Knox » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:19 pm

Old Tyrannia wrote:
Nationalist State of Knox wrote:Just finished Ao No Exorcist, it was decent, the ending was a little lacking.

Is Code Geass any good?

Yes. Very.

I'll get started right away. I heard it was like Death Note but with mind control powers instead of a notebook that causes death.
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Nationalist State of Knox wrote:Just finished Ao No Exorcist, it was decent, the ending was a little lacking.

Is Code Geass any good?


No, Not really.
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Postby Nationalist State of Knox » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:26 pm

The Zeonic States wrote:
Nationalist State of Knox wrote:Just finished Ao No Exorcist, it was decent, the ending was a little lacking.

Is Code Geass any good?


No, Not really.

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Postby Old Tyrannia » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:27 pm

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Old Tyrannia wrote:Yes. Very.

I'll get started right away. I heard it was like Death Note but with mind control powers instead of a notebook that causes death.

It's not that similar. People just say it is because both protagonists are morally ambiguous chessmasters. Code Geass is much more of an adventure story, whereas Death Note is more a supernatural crime drama. At least, in my opinion. And there are actual villainous characters in Code Geass who the antihero comes up against, whereas Light is the villain protagonist and L & co. are the hero antagonists in Death Note.

There's still plenty of gray and grey morality, though. It's by no means simple, and the plot is similarly twisty-turny.
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Old Tyrannia wrote:Yes. Very.

I'll get started right away. I heard it was like Death Note but with mind control powers instead of a notebook that causes death.

I don't see the resemblance between the shows just the main characters; Lelouch and Light, both were corrupted by power and try to shape the world in their image but Lelouch was also driven by revenge (at first at least, not going to spoil anything).
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Nationalist State of Knox wrote:I'll get started right away. I heard it was like Death Note but with mind control powers instead of a notebook that causes death.

It's not that similar. People just say it is because both protagonists are morally ambiguous chessmasters. Code Geass is much more of an adventure story, whereas Death Note is more a supernatural crime drama. At least, in my opinion. And there are actual villainous characters in Code Geass who the antihero comes up against, whereas Light is the villain protagonist and L & co. are the hero antagonists in Death Note.

There's still plenty of gray and grey morality, though. It's by no means simple, and the plot is similarly twisty-turny.

What part of Code Geass adventure? As well as the mecha, fantasy and politics, there's the drama, the relationships between Lelouch and his classmates and how his terrorist acts affects them, don't really see the adventure aspect.
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Postby Old Tyrannia » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:43 pm

Chinese Regions wrote:
Old Tyrannia wrote:It's not that similar. People just say it is because both protagonists are morally ambiguous chessmasters. Code Geass is much more of an adventure story, whereas Death Note is more a supernatural crime drama. At least, in my opinion. And there are actual villainous characters in Code Geass who the antihero comes up against, whereas Light is the villain protagonist and L & co. are the hero antagonists in Death Note.

There's still plenty of gray and grey morality, though. It's by no means simple, and the plot is similarly twisty-turny.

What part of Code Geass adventure? As well as the mecha, fantasy and politics, there's the drama, the relationships between Lelouch and his classmates and how his terrorist acts affects them, don't really see the adventure aspect.

Maybe adventure isn't the right word. More fantasy? Anyway, there's more fighting and giant robots in Code Geass.
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Postby Nationalist State of Knox » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:53 pm

First episode was decent.
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Chinese Regions wrote:What part of Code Geass adventure? As well as the mecha, fantasy and politics, there's the drama, the relationships between Lelouch and his classmates and how his terrorist acts affects them, don't really see the adventure aspect.

Maybe adventure isn't the right word. More fantasy? Anyway, there's more fighting and giant robots in Code Geass.

Yes I said mecha and fantasy. Have you seen the OVA; Akito the Exiled?
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Postby Old Tyrannia » Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:27 pm

Chinese Regions wrote:
Old Tyrannia wrote:Maybe adventure isn't the right word. More fantasy? Anyway, there's more fighting and giant robots in Code Geass.

Yes I said mecha and fantasy. Have you seen the OVA; Akito the Exiled?

Not yet. I've been meaning to, but I was disappointed when I learned that they apparently aren't bringing back any characters from the original. Would a cameo or two be too much to ask?
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5 episodes down, and so far Lelouch definitely seems like he's going to become a Kira-esque protagonist/antagonist.
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Postby Chinese Regions » Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:55 pm

Nationalist State of Knox wrote:5 episodes down, and so far Lelouch definitely seems like he's going to become a Kira-esque protagonist/antagonist.

Was Kira the first protagonist of his kind (at least in anime)?
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