No.17556
I'm currently watching Keroro Gunsou and at first was very skeptic of if I would actually be able to sit through a kids' show with 350+ episodes but I have to say, it's highly addictive so far. I'm 20 episodes in (over a course of 3 days) and never did I even consider dropping it. In terms of comedy, the episodes can be very hit or miss but it's generally quite comfy to watch seeing as most episodes take place in the household of the main characters.
So what are some lengthy shows that you think are worth watching in their entirety? I have at times considered watching One Piece one day once it finally finishes but seeing as I didn't even like manga that much I'm not expecting much from that plan. I've also been planning to watch Gintama for a long time but I'm quite skeptic about that one as well seeing as people online constantly claim it only gets good after 50 episodes or something.
No.17557
Don't watch Detective Conan. It ran for far too long and the quality dipped hard.
No.17558
>>17557
I would say one can watch Detective Conan, but ONLY the plot relevant episodes and skip everything that even seems like filler.
Old filler episodes were really nice sometimes, but the newer ones really do suck.
No.17559
>>17556
> I've also been planning to watch Gintama for a long time but I'm quite skeptic about that one as well seeing as people online constantly claim it only gets good after 50 episodes or something.
Gintama is a shounenshit comedy for 13 year olds.
>So what are some lengthy shows that you think are worth watching in their entirety?
None. Nothing good lasts more than 3 seasons.
No.17560
>>17556
Gintama is top tier fun. It takes a while to get rolling and almost every episode from the Shogun Assassination arc isn't as fun. Kagura's funeral was great though.
No.17561
No.17562
>>17561
>stop liking what I don't like
No.17571
The longer a show runs, the more resistant I am to getting into it. I've had Legend of the Galactic Heroes sitting on my hard drive for about a month now.
No.17601
>>17571
>LoGH
>long
I am of laughter at you.
No.17602
No.17605
>>17602
Does anybody actually try to tackle that from the start these days? I feel like series like Pokemon are like the Mr. Bones Wild Ride of anime, people unwittingly got on when they were much younger and now just stick it out because they're completely accustomed to it.
No.17608
>>17605
Pokemon was just an overglorified videogame commercial from the get-go. Pokemon the Origin was the best adaptation of the old games despite skipping everything and shoehorning Charizard X. The Pokemon anime will exist as long as there are games to sell. My disappointment is they couldn't let Ash win the first league and pass the MC role to a new character per region because the studio are a bunch of faggots. Ash strayed so much from source material that they had to redesign Red to show a clear difference from his former anime counterpart.
No.17609
>>17601
LoGH is literally the longest non-TV anime ever made and it's not even a close contest. Even by TV standards 110 episodes + another 52 of supplemental arcs is long. By comparison with your pic related there's never been a Precure that even hit the full 4 cour mark. Even its predecessor Doremi which is actually a continuous series just barely hits the 200 mark.
No.17611
>>17609
>Even by TV standards 110 episodes + another 52 of supplemental arcs is long. By comparison with your pic related there's never been a Precure that even hit the full 4 cour mark
>Teehee your show doesn't count as one long contiguous series, but mine does :^)
Shut up stupid. Bet you wouldn't even count Aikatsu or Pripara by this dumb arbitration either.
No.17612
>>17611
And every Gundam timeline should be counted as one series too, right? Stop being intentionally dense.
No.17613
>>17611
>>17612
Stop fighting in front of the kids!
No.17614
>>17612
>And every Gundam timeline should be counted as one series too, right?
Yes. I don't think you'd find a person on the entire planet who wouldn't call them Gundam so you're just pretty much 100% wrong, you mega turbo ultra final giga ultimate moron.
It's all Gundam, and it's all Precure. Only a NERD would make meaningless distinctions.
No.17616
>>17614
>A franchise and a series are the same thing
It's not a meaningless distinction, series have continuity. 'Gundam' or 'Precure' are licensing umbrellas, not series.
No.17618
>>17616
>It's not a meaningless distinction, series have continuity
Yes, of course, which is why you'll find that every single person on the planet is in accordance that you can gain the full experience and understanding of Gundams rich history and lore by watching precisely 1 show. Every single one of them has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the others and needs not be watched if you have seen any particular one. They should all be counted entirely as separate entities. After all, it is a franchise and not a series. Franchises have 0 continuity and are thus not series.
No.17629
>>17602
First season is the only one worth watching. Or at least that's what I'd like to say based on nostalgia but I have never rewatched it.
Still, I do remember it being a bit more focused on telling actual stories rather than just shilling cool pokemon so kids will want to buy the games.
No.17662
>>17605
If someone does start watching one of these decade long running series where nobody age from start to finish they should count all the explicit day to night and "x days latter" transitions.
No.17664
>>17618
Great false equivalence, nitwit. Most Gundam series are set far enough apart to not dorectly link them, if not taking place in an alternate universe. You probably only watched 79, and the supplementary UC shit. 0, seed, turn a, hell even g take place in seperate times, or different universes.
>>>/tumblr/ is that way
No.17666
>>17664
>You probably only watched 79, and the supplementary UC shit. 0, seed, turn a, hell even g take place in seperate times, or different universes.
Dragon Ball, Z, and Super are no longer directly related because GT exists. They're entirely distinct experiences and in no way, shape, or form interconnected.
Face it dumby, a long franchise split across different shows can be part of a series and thought of as a whole.
No.17670
>>17666
GT isn't canon, retard. Stop making a fool of yourself. You are doing mental gymnastics to justify your lack of comprehension and base interest in anime.
Are you that fag who made the cosplay thread? If so, please let me know so I can report you to be perma'd
:^)
No.17672
>>17670
>spoiler
I reported the cosplay thread as well but it's still up, I really don't understand why there is a rule allowing that shit anyway, no one except shitposters are interested in 3DPD. Maybe the BO made that thread.
No.17673
>>17609
LotGH has too much padding, to be honest. You could probably cut a third of the episodes, and a third of the cast, and lose nothing of much importance. I struggle to remember who half of the characters are.
No.17674
>>17672
Cosplay is part of Otaku culture. It only gets one containment thread. That thread however was started by a faggot newfag that wanted 3DPD twink images, so it started off badly. I rather the cosplay thread gets started with a cosplay gag image like a guy wearing a garbage can marked "Your Waifu" or Guts getting bothered by Idol M@ster cosplayers.
No.17676
>>17674
The Otaku culture part in the board title referred to 2D stuff.
No.17677
>>17674
If you admit it started poorly, why not delete it and make a better OP?
Sounds kinda lazy, imo. But I'm not the hotpocket, so I can't do shit about it
No.17678
>>17676
No it doesn't, shut up retard. It's anything that is otaku, up to and including 3D idols, trains, photography, etc etc.
No.17679
>>17678
>>>/jp/ exists for shit like that, faglord.
Why do you think this place is called animu?
No.17680
>>17677
Because I'm not a mod, so I can't delete it and start a proper one if I could.
>>17678
So far this board is mostly anime and manga but also covers
>Cosplau
>Tokusatsu
>LN
>VN
>Doujin Videogames like Touhou and such
That's it. But anime and manga is the main focus and takes up most of the board as it should.
No.17681
>>17679
You are certainly the dumbest nigger here. Board name alone doesn't determine what the topic is, nor does it inform upon the breadth of what that topic covers.
3D is 10 billion percent relevant. Stay mad, you piece of shit.
No.17682
No.17684
>>17680
>That's it. But anime and manga is the main focus and takes up most of the board as it should.
You newfags are so tiring. /animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture That's code for /jp/, you dumb fuck. If you want to know what topics that covers, just go take a gander at 4/jp/, or more specifically, /jp/ circa 2008-10. If you dislike what you see, you're more than welcome to get back to >>>/elsewhere/
Meanwhile
>Onaholes
>3D Idols
>Photography
>Trains
>Tea
>Shitposting
>Wch 2hu u fuk?
>Nip vidcons
and such will all be relevant to this board. JAVs too, but the BO screeches autistically about that.
No.17685
>>17678
I'm the former BO, though I can't prove it so if you don't want to believe me that's up to you. The "otaku culture" part was meant for shit like Touhou and VNs, not for 3D bullshit, no one is interested in that kind of stuff except a handful of retards. Since there's a kpop board you can just make one for Japanese idols as well if you're that into it.
No.17686
>>17684
JAVs ain't otaku culture.
>>17685
Just filter the cosplay thread and move on.
No.17687
>>17685
I'm also the former BO. Otaku culture explicitly refers to /jp/ and we don't pick or choose based on our whims what content that means. If it's /jp/ it's all good.
No.17689
>>17687
You aren't the former BO, I AM!
No.17690
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>17685
>>17687
>>17689
There can be ONLY ONE!
No.17691
Whichever of you niggers is the board owner, please make a new meta thread.
No.17692
>>17691
Why is there a need for one right now?
No.17713
>>17691
>>17692
There's no need because the current BO will probably not remove the cosplay rule anyway.
No.17732
>>17713
Just filter the cosplay thread and move on.
No.17743
>>17732
In that case why are you not allowed to make JAV threads? People could just filter them.
No.17744
>>17743
Because it's not otaku culture.
No.17746
>>17744
Had the idea to resurrect the /japan/ board if /animu/ were to ever grow and be stable in the 300s. The /japan/ board could be used for everything Japan outside of the anime/otaku stuff such as news, history, language, films, game shows, JAVs, traditions and travel guides. But with the current drop in this board, not likely anytime soon.
No.17747
>>17744
If JAV isn't otaku culture then neither is cosplay, they're both 3DPD bullshit. Besides, there are JAVs where the actresses wear cosplay clothing, is that otaku culture? And see: >>17687
No.17950
>>17559
>Gintama is a shounenshit comedy for 13 year olds.
No it's a masterpiece.
>>17560
>Kagura's funeral was great though.
Every Kagura episode is a great episode.
No.17951
>>17950
>Every Kagura episode is a great episode.
No.23291
>>17556
Its good up until season 2 and they do that shitty filler where its basically a reintroduction into the series and they undo all character growth in an instant. Its not until the 5th season where shit finally starts to improve to season 1 tier. The movies are all good though.
>>17558
The animation is also pretty lackluster as fuck compared to the earlier material. Even the character designs have gone to shit with most characters now have the lower parts of their face jut out like the maws of deformed horses whenever they turn to the side.
No.23529
Doreamon, Crayou Shin Chan
No.23769
>>23291
>Its good up until season 2 and they do that shitty filler where its basically a reintroduction into the series and they undo all character growth in an instant
I have gotten to that point recently, on one hand it's understandable why they did it because for someone who had seen it on TV on a weekly basis while it was actually airing those kind of things wouldn't have been as fresh in their memory as for someone who can torrent the entires series in one go. Still, what is annoying about it is the fact that certain episodes are almost exact copies of older ones from the first season.
So, do they do this after every season? I like the show but I wouldn't want to sit through the same rehased episodes over and over again.
No.23794
No.23816
>>23794
I really hope you're joking.
No.24193
Halfway through Legend of Galactic Heroes OVA. I'm enjoying it a lot and I'll read the original novels when I am done with the anime, probably won't bother with the other animated material. The space battles and space physics makes me sperg out a bit but I recognise that these details are far from the most important thing in the show. I would have liked to see more little bits of worldbuilding about the various cultures—Phezzan, Heinessen, FPA frontier planets, Empire nobles as compared to Empire commoners.
Often while watching it I am conflicted on which side I want to see victorious in the current space battle. It always vacillates between the FPA, Reinhard, or both. Reinhard at the beginning was motivated by wanting to take back his sister from the nobles but at this point (end of Episode 54) he has not even spoken to his sister for a long time. I expect that to come crashing down at some point.