Comments | melengro: Geek!woe!

melengro

Geek!woe!

Mar 19, 2008 17:26

So my psycho ex has taken it into her head to get me an anime box-set for my birthday as 'retribution' for me forcing City of Death on her (er, yes, she liked it, but this is how she thinks). As I still consider her a friend, I'm not about to reject this.

But despite my FMA!love, I know next to nothing about most anime. I've heard very good things ( Read more... )

weird anime, geekgasm, other fine programming, my psycho ex, give me presents

Comments 11

airie_fairy March 19 2008, 21:38:18 UTC

So she's getting revenge on you for showing her something she liked by giving you something you'll (potentially) like? ...you have the best psycho ex ever.

melengro March 19 2008, 21:59:26 UTC

Don't I just?

Truth is, she's not really that nutty. I just like saying 'my psycho ex.'

paapaagena March 21 2008, 10:31:16 UTC

I was just going to say...I wish my psycho exes bought me DVD sets.

But nooo. Mine are the kind who just lie and cheat. D:

stormyskies March 20 2008, 00:20:09 UTC

My knowledge of anime stops at Sailormoon and Pokémon. Both of which my inner eleven-year-old highly recommend. Because I'm sure you want the opinion of a preteen girl who used tried doing her hair in that stupid bun/ponytail combo and carried a stuffed Pikachu around because she thought it made her look cool I AM SO ASHAMED.

melengro March 20 2008, 01:25:45 UTC

I'd really rather have the opinion of a sane mature widely-watched person, but I'll take your preteen suggestions under consideration.

Hm...what would Romana watch...?

biichan March 20 2008, 02:38:43 UTC

Revolutionary Girl Utena? It's just as awesomely complicated and weird as NGE and it doesn't punish you for caring about what happens to people on the show.

biichan March 20 2008, 02:35:20 UTC

NGE is kind of emo. I watched it back in the day, but I don't know if I'd watch it now. Don't get me wrong, it's very well done, but it's also as confusing as all heck and if you end up getting invested at all in what happens to the characters you'll get your heart stomped on.

melengro March 20 2008, 20:37:16 UTC

Wystan says that it's 'angst on crack.'

Apparently I can choose between an ending that makes absolutely no fucking sense, or an ending where everybody on Earth is turned into sentient Tang. But my heart doesn't really need stomping on? Right now? At this point in my life?

I am not a number, I am a free man! pimpmytardis March 21 2008, 01:08:56 UTC

Hmm, I sort of abandoned anime fandom for Doctor Who fandom, so I don't know what's new and good along those lines.

However, along the lines of tried-and-true anime classics like NGE, in my opinion Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are better. I've never been fond of big ol' mecha suits, and while NGE does have some deep allegorical subtext, it's so damn hard for me to get past those mecha suits!

My vote goes to Cowboy Bebop for beautiful art, a wonderful jazz soundtrack, and being the best-written anime I've ever seen.

Re: I am not a number, I am a free man! melengro March 21 2008, 01:49:11 UTC

Man, me/GIANT FIGHTING ROBOTS=OTP. And me/dodgy allegorical symbolism=also OTP. HOWEVER! Me/depressing endings=/=OTP.

Fun fact: just as the 'Eva' is the standard unit for measuring dodgy religious symbolism in fiction, the 'Baker' is the algorithm produced by dividing the size of a budget into the audacity of its script!

The Prisoner scores 376 Evas and 9 Bakers, as compared to, for example, 238 Evas and 1.4 Bakers for the new Battlestar Galactica.

Re: I am not a number, I am a free man! pimpmytardis March 21 2008, 02:24:13 UTC

Hmm, Me/depressing endings may not be otp but I don't mind them at all. Then I go and watch the end of Gaudy Night again for happy understated Latin love and wish Petherbridge/Walter did Busman's Honeymoon.