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It's considered highly disrespectful, and taboo considering the Emperor is an important religious figure. Also borderline illegal, in general any depiction of a real-life person in an Anime risks hitting Japan's libel laws, and those are significantly more serious than the US's. The Imperial...

I've seen Gundam Wing described as "Everybody in the world wants to bring about an everlasting peace, just after they finish this massive giant robot fight." I find that's more accurate to most of Gundam than just Wing myself, though. I do have to admit I find the "Coexist with nature, even...

One thing worth noting on Redline is that it was entirely hand-drawn, without so much as a single frame of CG in it. This contributes a bit to its otherworldly feel since we're so used to CG now it actually looks slightly off the most viewers. I'm not 100% certain but I believe it was the last...

Anime doesn't tend to be utterly faithful to western mythology. If you showed this to anyone in the west who doesn't watch anime, I would not expect many to say "Yup, that's a vampire." Nor would I expect any ancient Greek who say this image to conclude you had an icon of Hephaestus.

I didn't take to PSG, the animation didn't bother me but none of the characters clicked for me. I just didn't like anybody in it. The odd admixture of various animation styles reminded me a bit of the now-ancient webcomic Purple Pussy, which had similar grossout humor and also combined every...

It would probably be easier for you to just threadmark them rather than try to keep an index page you constantly edit.

I wonder if we should turn things into a Review Megathread given @ATP is also posting reviews here.

The other Guymelefs are also powered by dragon hearts. At one point Van winds up in a sanctioned duel against three of them at once and the king running the duel notes that Van's going for their dragon hearts and precisely disabling the other 'melefs rather than risking killing the other pilots.

Escaflowne has some of the most gorgeous visuals in any anime, really top-notch there. I felt like the story was all over the place though, and they more they revealed the more the whole setting started to unravel into increasing nonsense. It was fine as an evil empire wiping out small...

... Well on the one hand fair, on the other hand, I can count the number of anime with solid satisfying endings without taking my shoes off. Ending things well is really not the medium's strong suit. Imma also note, using boobs as a gunrest. I can't take that as anything but comedic. Dropped...

That's fair enough, we're all entitled to our opinions and yours is just as valid. I personally dislike boobs and blood onscreen at the same time/in rapid succession. If it works for you this is a good show for you.

Could just be me, it's not as if it doesn't take all kinds and clearly plenty of people liked HotD. I personally can be nitpicky about structure and framing in my entertainment where some people don't care. For myself, it was more about how it disrupted the mood. F'rex, the scenes when they...

Yeah, pretty much. I have no issue with boobs but interspersing the deadly serious scene where Takashi's group is trapped against a wire net and surrounded by zombies with him using Rei's chest as a gunrest, with massive amounts of boob bounce each time he fired his gun, yeah that basically...

This is true, and HotD does have the advantage of being one of the fastest-spreading and most virulent zombie viruses* in fiction, going from "one infected bite" to "the entire school is overrun" in the space of what looks to be less than an hour. People go from "bitten" to "zombified and...

Well, that's the issue with all zombie flicks, you have to leave out how the zombies took over the world because there's no reasonable way the zombies both curb stomped all the world's militaries and can be defeated by your rag-tag team of survivors armed with farming tools. I don't blame HotD...

For me, mostly that they don't fit the tone of the piece and mess up the ambiance, so to speak. It's fine in Tenchi Muyo where it's central to the plot and works. It's fantastic in Ranma 1/2 where the harem is the entire point and it frames the ludicrous comedic martial arts battles. It...

I remember watching a couple episodes of this but I was a bit put off by the relentless... bounce. I will say it's possibly the only anime I've seen where the fat guy wasn't lazy, perverted, or useless, or a background character. It was almost startling to me to see that he instead was treated...

What's sad is that Titan A.E. is that it killed Don Bluth's career and ended one of the only animators who didn't work for Disney at the time. I'm under the impression that in the Titanverse, every planet capable of supporting life winds up generating it's own sentient race so there's no real...

But I mean, at least Angel Beats had every battle solved by Meifong saying a catchy one liner and then firing the Links Cannon instead of the frentic and exciting combat of Outlaw Star so... um... I just remembered I need to drop that ZZT review...

Yeah, I was looking forward to the salt from it. Angel Links would be at best average for it's time, I think, but given it was a spin-off of a show that was well above average it was a huge disappointment, more so I suspect than if it had been standalone.