No.55817 [View All]
/a/ deleted this because they suck cocks
So I saw weebm related on /b/ awhile back. It looked like hand drawn awesomeness. I downloaded every episode of every series, and even downloaded the 3DPD series for good measure. I started at the beginning. I watched the original 4 episode OVA and was blown away. The animation is gorgeous hand drawn sex. It has a good story and good character development and the girls are super qt3.14s. Yoriko hnnnnnnng.
So then I started the television series, which is basically supposed to pick up where the OVA left off. Holy shit the production values are garbage! There is none of the scene porn and beautiful hand drawn detail. Also there's a new character! A fucking tranny…
Is it even worth continuing? Does it get good again?
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No.73202
>>73073
Read the story of Gennady "Muhammad" Tsevma, fits Who Will Save the World perfectly.
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No.73203
>>73057
animation was top notch but I was expecting a more serious plot instead of patlabor without robots. I hope the rest of the OVAs aren't also joke episodes.
>tfw no qt braid mechanic-fu
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No.73234
>>73203
It's a comedy, so you're going to be pretty disappointed about the joke episodes. There's quite a few of them. The latter part of the second season of the TV show gets pretty damn serious, so if you stick it out, you might enjoy it.
>>tfw no qt braid mechanic-fu
She was the inspiration for the goddess in Oh My Goddess. Says a lot.
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No.73239
>>73203
>patlabor without robots
heheh
This is exactly what came to mind.
I like it though.
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No.74180
I'm just stopping by again, to thank OP for bringing this up.
This thing is pure eye candy.
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No.74198
>>73234
but belldandy wasnt a mechanic.
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No.74243
>>74198
She was a gridgirl though
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No.74245
>>74180
Thanks. Hopefully after the new year starts I will finish Full Throttle. I'm going to be moving soon, and I'm looking for a new job. I have two interviews later today. Wish me luck.
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No.74248
>>74245
Good luck, we're rooting for you.
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No.74442
>office lady/buddycop/o/racing/romcom
>gorgeous animation and art
indeed a nice rec
the lack of the usual whimp MC is refreshing too
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No.74448
>>74442
How about that Yoriko?
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No.74456
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No.74457
>>74448
cute, conniving, and probably bland without the glasses.
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No.74458
>>74456
You just made an enemy for life, pal.
>>74457
Conniving? Not at all. Nosy? Yes.
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No.74462
>>74458
>wants to know more about braid's reasons for taking off a weekend
>instead of asking her about it directly, drops hints to various actors to probe braid
>observe braid's actions in response to scheming and eventually find out
>not conniving
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No.74585
>Anime has plenty of waifus
>But it also has Kenster, there to steal your waifu no matter who she is
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No.74587
>>74585
Kenster is a good cop and not a loose cannon but for how masculine he is he sure is a fuck up about taking charge asking a girl out.
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No.74698
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No.74729
>>74698
HNNNNNNNG top tier waifu material.
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No.76552
OP here giving a small bump so I don't lose the thread. Almost moved, I hope to finish up the franchise soon. I'll probably just start full throttle over, since I didn't get far into it before shit went to hell. Anyway, enough blogposting.
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No.78238
I miss them all.
They revived my autobike longing too.
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No.78287
>>78238
>extra light motorcycle during storm
deathwish really
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No.78353
>>78238
FUCK
Why isn't Kenster my dad?
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No.78384
>>78353
because he never asked out braid
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No.81649
Just a quick bump so the thread doesn't fall off the board. Going to hit some Full Throttle this weekend.
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No.82843
Finally watching Full Throttle again. Even with so much time off, the character designs still bother me. Miyuki in particular is just too lean and lanky, and her jaw is too square, and they way they draw the eyes is off somehow. Whenever they show her in profile she looks like a scared typhoid victim with a manjaw. That is not how she looked in any of the previous incarnations. When this is over I'm going to have to rewatch the OVA to cleanse my palate.
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No.84841
Just finished the beach episode. Apparently some bad dues are sneaking pics of all the sexy japanese girls at the beach, so the team has to use their beach day to stop them, because God forbid they get the day off for once. So they find the guys using Braids anf Penisgirl as bait. The guys run for it on bikes.
You know how this show has always had a gearhead theme running through it? Miyuki is always wrenching on her car. She's always tring to get better performance so she can catch the bad guys better in her tiny car that has a glorified motorcycle engine in it. So what do they do to chase down these guys? Miyuki and Natsumi hop into her personal car and chase after them? They hop into Aoi and Yoriko's peronal car? The hop in whatever unmentioned mode of conveyance Saori took to get there? (I forgot to mention she's visiting in this episode.) Nope, they all put on fucking rollerblades and chase down the young men that way. In fact, it seems to me that there is a lot less of a focus on the vehicles in Full Throttle Furu Suryotoru. Yeah, I learned kana. There is some mention of Natsumi and the Motocompo, but I don't recall seeing Miyuki sperging out over car parts or really working on her car in this series.That's kind of a big part of her character. That girl has gasoline in her veins.
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No.84846
>>84841
>Penisgirl
kek
>rollerblades
That's not so much fun. I only watched the first OVA on the stream, and vehicular admiration/abuse is an important part of it.
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No.84883
>>55817
>he didn't know what it was
>he made an entire thread about something non-ironic, non-new fans know about
No wonder it was deleted.
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No.84919
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No.85683
So the last couple of episodes seems to have plots that are particularly… contrived? Ham-fisted? Obvious? I'm not sure how to describe them, but you can see this shit coming down broadway. In one episode, Natsumi and Miyuki are having a fight, and int he course of this fight, Miyuki does some fancy driving and hurts her shifting wrist. They make up and Natsumi shifts for her. They way they went about it was just so unsublte, and you could see it coming down broadway a mile away. The one good thing about the episode was that we got to see Miyuki doing some fancy driving with good heel-toe downshifting. A skill I need to work on myself. Rush hour in a manual is brutal. Now we just need her to sperg out over car parts like she used to.
The next episode starts with a girl impatiently waiting at an intersection to cross, as soon as the light of the cross street turns yellow, she makes a break for it. (The Japanese are super anal about crossing the street. At 3AM on a night with zero traffic, they will still wait for the light to change before crossing.) The girl neither sees nor hear's the truck coming, and gets splattered. Back to the present: Miyuki is gone on a trip, so Natsumi goes out on patrol with Yoriko.Yoriko mentions that a girl died at a particular intersection awhile back. That night Natsumi goes by that intersection on the eay home and has a Vietnam-tier flashback to the accident, which she has no actual memory of and just learned about earlier that day. The wind blows, and she looks into a tree with the setting sun shining through the leaves and see's a diary. If you can't already tell who's diary it's going to be, you might be retarded. Natsumi is retarded. She reads the whole thing and finds that it's from a first year high school girl that sees a guy from the all boys school on the train everyday and is madly in love with him. The last entry is about how she is going to finally talk to him and tell him she likes him. She draws a sketch in her diary and everything. Natsumi does some research in the Police database and it finally get's through her thick skull and into her thin cortex, and she finally realizes it's the girl that died at the cross-walk. After thinking really hard, she realizes why the girl was in such a hurry that day. She decides she's going to track the guy down on the train and explain the situation, but can't do it when she overhears him looking for the cute girl that always rode the train before break so he can tell her he likes her. Then like a typical woman, she backeards rationalizes the whole thing to it being better that way. On the plus side Yoriko is super cute in this episode.
>pic unrelated
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No.86046
Just watched the fourth to last episode. They're cranking up the drama for the big finale. Joyriders are absolutely terrorizing the town every weekend. People are super pissed, The cops can't seem to catch these assholes. They devise a plan to go out and catch the fuckers. One of the other motorcycle cops puts the idea in Nakajima's head that he shouldn't let Miyuki go out lest she get's hurt. He suggests this to her and she almost gets butthurt. They go out and are chasing after the joyriders. All of a sudden this red car appears, gets to the front of the pack, and starts spewing a red smokescreen. The joyriders crash, and so do one of the motorcycle cops.
Word gets to the public and he becomes kind of an antihero. The traffic section makes pllans to ry and capture him too. The next night the traffiv section is out looking for him. Nakajima is on the radio with Miyuki and Natsumi back at the station. He chases the car to a roadblock, but he puts in in reerse, bust through it, then does and j-turn and keeps going. Miyuki's pride gets her and she and Natsumi go out there in the kei patrol car without the chief's permission. They almost block him in, but he spray his red smoke and gets away. Miyuki and Natsumi are sitting there dumbfounded, when Ken drive's into the smoke and doesn't brake intime, slamming his motorcycle into the passenger side door of the patrol car, and flying through the air until he slams into a chain link fence. You would expect him to get some pretty severe spine damage from this, if not die, but he somehow get's away with a broken forearm.
This whole thing has Miyuki super pissed. She finds out headquarters is gong to get involved, and she talks back to the chief in front of every one. He is pretty cool about it, and tells her to hold on to her feelings until the time comes, but she should just do what he says for now.
Cut to late night, Miyuki and Natsumi are working on paperwork. Natsumi leaves to go change so they can go home. When she laves, we see that Miyuki is writing a letter of resignation.
So yeah, that's quite the cliffhanger for the first part of this final arc. We don't usually see Miyuki get worked up like that, much less decide to quit her job over something. Natsumi is usually the fiery one while Miyuki is the voice of reason. This can't live up to the crazy drama at the end of the second season, though. That shit was intense. I almost stopped watching that time. Ken/Miyuki is clearly the OTP.
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No.86162
Well, This is it. The last blogpost for this thread. I guess we can finally let it die.
So the epic arc I was expecting kind of petered out. I figured chasing down this red car vigilante would be the final story for the series, but it was just a two parter. In the second episode, Ken's dad and his buddies get kinda pissed that the traffic section has their hands ties, so they go out and try to bait the red car guy in their own. Ken tells Miyuki, and she goes after them. They sucessfully bait out the red car, and Miyuki chases him. Ken gets Natsumi, and they take off on his bike with her driving and him sitting bitch with his broken arm. It ends in a wreck, with both vehicles sliding down a cliff. Ken and Natsumi catch up. They see what happened, and Ken freaks out, rips off his sling, and tries to scurry down the cliff to find Miyuki and save her. He slips and slides off into the darkness. Natsumi goes for help so they can mount a proper search. Miyuki comes to and arerests the guy. He calls the cops hopeless. She tells him off a little, and in a flshback we find out he was some kind of former cop and Ken said something very similar to what she said once. This thread is never brought up gain. We never find out who this guy actually is, or how exactly he knew Ken. I think maybe this was going to be more than a two parter like I initially expected, and it got cut short, because the next two epsiodes seem like filler, though one of them is pretty good. The dude's leg is broken, so Miyuki splints it and tells him to stay put while she goes to find help. Ken took his fall just fine and it searching for Miyuki with a flashlight that he must have been keeping hidden in his rectum, because he didn't seem to have one before he fell. Miyuki isn't in very good shape herself as she sets off for help. She can't get signal on her cell, and isn't walking too well. She see's the flashlight and collapses. Actual Spoilers: She slips into a dream where she can Ken are on the roof of the Station, and he asks her to marry him. The way the actual conversation goes though, it sounds like they might actually be talking in the woods, and she's more hallucinating than dreaming. Anyway, she kind of smiles, then comes to with him carrying her on his back through the woods. Then they start to have the same conversation. She cuts him off and says, "Yes." Then it fades to white and goes into a montage of them pulling the today out of the woods, and the red car guy getting carried out on a stretcher. Then Miyuki is in the hospital recovering, and Ken goes back to work and the episode if over. So are they fucking engaged or not?
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No.86163
Had to split it up into two posts.
So anyway, moving on to the next episode. This episode alone makes Full Throttle worth a watch. It's an Aoi and Yoriko episode! They realize that they don't really accomplish much compared to the supa-combi of Miyuki and Natsumi. They decide to change that. Suddenly wwe see a redone title sequence with Aoi and Yoriko in place the supa-combi. After some snopping through Natusmi and Miyuki's desks to try and find the source of their powers, Aoi decides it's Miyuki's love for her Today that is where she draws her power, so she decides to show the same love to their mini patrol car. Also, if anyone knows what model the regualr mini patrol cars are, let me know. Anyway, Yoriko decides she needs to become strong like Natsumi. Aoi shows Yoriko their redone patrol car and it's been decked out with a shitlod of cutesy shit. They head out on patrol and find a bike theif. They decide to split up after he runs. Yoriko get's a razor scooter out of the trunk to use like Nasumi uses her motocompo. Hilarity ensues. Next they try to go after a speeder. Aoi decides to use the ace up her sleeve and hit a special button on the dash. Instead of Miyuki's nitrous, the trunk opens where Aoi has put a desk fan with some roman candles placed around it. Needless to say, this doesn't help much. Also, it looks like the fan blades are spinning in the wrong direction. They go back to headqaurters and get chewed out by the chief, and decide to use their own strengths in the future. The go out on patrol, and after almost helping a bad guy, they catch him. This episode is pretty hilarious, and defintely worth a watch.
The last episode is Miyuki and Natsumi showing some new revruits around the station. It was a very anticlimactic way to end the series. Ther's still no mention of wether or not Ken and Miyuki are actually engaged. Also they seem to unretcon the whole thing about Natsumi and Miyuki being in the academy together. They're back to meeting like they did in the OVA.
Soooooooo, now on to some overall thoughts on the franchise:
It's pretty great. The animation in the original OVA and the movie are top notch. The first two TV seasons are bit formulaic plot wise, but it's all about the characters anyway. The second TV season is where the franchise really hits it's stride. The mini specials are just fanservice filler. You could skip them if you want, but they're fairly entertaning, and it's pretty hilarious when Miyuki zaps that one dude with the car battery. Full Throttle is good, but it doesn't quie live up the previous seasons. They try to crank shit up, but just end up flanderizing the characters, and making Natsumi more cartoony and kind of a mary sue. It's still worth watching for the Ken/Miyuki shippers and for that hilarious Aoi and Yoriko episode.
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No.86166
>>84883
>Making threads about old anime that people know in a serious way is ban worthy
the current state of /a/
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No.94222
>>73066
>>73073
Yeah, Modern Talking is very gay but also very good.
Download their In The Garden of Venus album, plenty of songs like that. As far as what they have made, there's that album and a handful of other songs in that style (which include the one in the OP's webm, it's not in the album), but they're not many.
The song in this webm is "Who Will Save the World", also by them.
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No.94236
>>94222
Holy shit. What page was this on when you bumped it?
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No.94242
>>94236
Not him, but this is a good thread, it doesn't deserve to die yet. Good animation deserves to be remembered.
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No.94252
>>94236
Sorry, forgot I was browsing overclock.net
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No.94289
>>94252
Lol chill, bro, I just thought this thread was gone. I'm OP.
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No.94299
>>56685
>>not reading a chapter a day
>Not binging anything worth reading
Whether it's books, manga or television, media is best enjoyed with as few breaks as reasonably possible from beginning to end. There's some famous dead person or writer who said something like that about books, and I find it to be true of anything that's better than mediocre.
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No.94325
>>94299
Fuckineh. I read the Tom Clancy novel Without Remorse in one day. I also read Neuromancer in once sitting, and the first time I watched Evangelion was a binge watch.
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No.94326
>>73066
I love Modern Talking. That 80s Eurodisco/new wave is gr8. I deleted their discography due to a lack of space but this reminded me to get it again.
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No.94386
>>55817
>stopping an out of control car solely with her heels
lol, this seems like good fun, but that 80s music, oh my it got me hooked, I could watch it just for the music.
There also seems to be a ton of related stuff online as well. So anon, sell me on it, and more importantly, tell me which version should I look for.
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No.94388
>>94386
Not the OP, but that's an easy one. Start with the first OVA, then go from there, in release order, as you feel like it.
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No.94809
>>94386
I am OP, and >>94388 (heil'd) speaks the truth. Just start at the beginning. You can skip the "YUA in America" OVA if you want, but if you get that far, you probably won't want to. Once you see it, you'll wish you had skipped it. Also, don't be surprised when the TV show isn't as amazingly animated as the OVA. It just picks up where the OVA left off. It is even numbered episode 5.
pic unrelated
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No.106157
bump so i can get around to downloading and watching this series
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No.106169
>>55817
Same thing with Slayers. The OVA's are fantastic, and the first season is ok, but past the first season of the series the characters lose all their personality, their IQ drops to double digits, and they all just stand around shouting each others names. All the world building is tossed into the garbage.
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No.106191
>>106169
> but past the first season of the series the characters lose all their personality, their IQ drops to double digits, and they all just stand around shouting each others names.
Are you sure it's not your IQ that dropped? The characters and even the setting continue to develop over time, events from previous seasons actual impact the ones that follow. The last two more recent season were kinda bland though. It feels like nothing was really achieved there.
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No.113809
Wow. This thread is over a year old. I can't really post now, but I have some things to share later.
This is OP btw
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