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[color=sienna][font=comic sans ms] I thought id just add that one of the things viewed in the very brief trailer of dirge at the tokyo game show was cait sith...I found that interesting that to my knowledge hes the only FF7 character that isnt appearing in the Advent Children. I wonder what that means? [/color][/font]

[color=sienna][font=comic sans ms] I must say ive thought the quality of this series has varied to a good degree...Some epsidoes where excellent while others seemed rather mediocre... But this series has earned its place in my heart with this episode tonight. [spoiler] And it did it with one elegent and incredibly sad scene...That scene would be when cher fell to her death...It happened in such a split second but it was just so heartwrenchingly sad...I mean just seeing the pain in hubbs face as he watched her dieing... He had spent so much time trying to find her...Hed been so close and now that he was finally with her and they seemed happy and this even came out of nowhere...Id say it ranks up there with julias death in Cowboy bebop as one of the saddest things ive seen in anime... [/spoiler] So yea thats the mark of a great series to me...One that makes me care so much for the characters that it can draw a tear from me... [/color][/font]

[color=sienna][font=comic sans ms] Hmmm well the only series I can think of that id like to see sequels to have been done in manga form, but nonethless id like to see them animated too. [b]Hellsing:[/b] Like was said before the series doesnt do justice to the manga. While it did have amazing animation it was just alittle bit more confusing then it needed to be and it lacked the depth of the manga. It would really be nice if they went back and animated alucards other adventures and got more into the characters. [b]Trigun:[/b] This is wishful thinking I know but id really love to see nightow's trigun:maximum series animated. THe original is still really great, but I do quite like maximums take on the storyline. I know that nightow has stated it wont be made into an anime but maybe he'll change his mind someday... [b]KareKano:[/b] As I understand it this series was one of the(if not the last)series anno worked on and he quit quite suddenly(I heard he perfers to work on live action now and wont have anything to do with anime...). However the manga did continue on for quite some time and it would be nice if they went ahead and animated it. I believe the manga is up to like 15 or 20 some volumes? Needless to say that would provide plenty of content to make an extentsion of the series. [/color][/font]

[font=comic sans ms][color=sienna] Wow only one person mentioned akira as far as I can see (Sorry I skipped all of the spam posts) and it was in the negative... Ahem well let me come to this great films defense. While ill agree the first version of akira that most english speaking people saw was a poorly translated version that was more the fault of the dub and not the actual product. The new dub done by pioneer is far superior and makes alot of things more clear. Although the film is still slightly confusing (You really need to read the manga series to understand it completely) it remains a visual masterpiece and a storytelling triupmh. I dont know if any of you have the DVD but I reccomend getting it. Theres a very good feature on it that translates all of the graffiti seen all over the city and it almost adds another layer to the storytelling. It clues you in more on the unrest and open rebellion going on in the city. I also enjoy the characters alot. Kaneda does have some things incommon with the typical anti-hero but hes still a joy to watch (Not to mention his bike still stands as one of the coolest things ever in anime :cool: ). As for visuals...it still looks amazing after all these years. Especially the bike chase scene near the start...It has a great sense of motion and the fighting between the gangs is visceral and really has wieght to it. Well ive gone on enough needless to say Akira is my favorite anime movie. End of Evangelion would be a close second though. To use comic guys cliche...Best Ending EVER. [/color][/font]

[color=sienna][font=comic sans ms] Here you go dagger...you can see that theyve aged yuffie nicely...Unfortunatly I could get a real good image of zack :rolleyes: But you can see his head at the bottom left of the page lol :p [/color][/font] [url="http://img59.exs.cx/img59/2338/jp0823-1.jpg"]Click here for the image[/url] [color=red][size=1]I've just provided a link here, because the image was so large that it was warping the thread. - James[/color][/size]

[font=comic sans ms][color=sienna] Wow...I just saw the E3 trailer and it was even better then the original japenese one. I must say im getting pretty psyched about this movie. The brief scenes that showed tifas fight scene where simply breathtaking. This is the FF movie square should of made in the first place :p It would be grand if it was a theatrical release but im sure it wont be. I look forward to seeing vincent and red back in action...Hopefully in the next trailer :D [/color][/font]

[QUOTE=Mitch][size=1][color=red] I have one word for you: [i]Stuntman[/i]. The difficulty of that game is god-awfully annoying as hell. Also, [i]Final Fantasy Tactics[/i], for the PS. Hard game. Well, I got to this one pig boss someplace in it. I believe it was at Riovanes Castle. Well, the game lets you save randomly at dungeons and so on, so I saved. Well, this pig boss was next, and I was screwed over then since I couldn't go out and train my guys more. So basically, that was 30 or so hours of the game down the drain. Bye bye. Never to be seen again, all because the game tells you to save, and you do it, but it doesn't tell you there's some big *** boss coming that's going to be hard as all hell. Err.[/size][/color][/QUOTE] [color=sienna][font=comic sans MS]I feel your pain mitch...I had the same problem except it was against the Arc Knight guy that turns your party into vampires. I foolishly saved before I went to his castle and I got stuck there...I tried and retried to beat the same level time and time again (I stoped counting after 53 or so) I went online only to find out I needed an item called 108 jems so there went my entire game up to that point...Pissed me off to no end. All those hours down the drain... :flaming: [/color][/font]

[font=century gothic][size=1][color=royalblue] Well my FF experience is abit limited(ive only played 7-9 and 11) but ill give a go at this nonetheless. Im going to cheat abit though because there really isnt any ONE game that I like more then the others...Each has strong points and weak ones. FF7's best aspect has to be the characters hands-down. The gameplay was kind of so-so and the story telling abit muddled but the characters where really what made the game for me. As for FF8 its one large redeeming factor was the storyline. I loved the story of FF8 more then any of the others. But almost everything else in the game was unpleasent to me...I really hated the junction system and some of the characters where downright annoying. But again great story. If I had to lean towards one game as a favorite it would probably be FF9. Certain parts of the story where kinda strange but I loved otherparts aswell. All of the characters where really fun(Especially steiner and vivi) and I absolutely loved the overall look of the game. The same praise goes to the gameplay. I loved that you got 4 chracters and that everyone had there role instead of being all interchangable. FF11 I hate to even mention...That stupid game was insanely addicitive but in the end it was pretty horrid which was even more annoying...How could a bad game be so addicitive? I have no idea but ill warn all of you to stay away from it. (youll know what I mean if you get to around lvl 50+) So yea thats my take on the handfull of FF games ive played...I really should pick up some of the older ones because I hear there quite good and im not really hung up on gfx (I actually enjoy 2-d :cool: ) ***edit*** My apologies I completely forgot that ive played and beat FFT about a dozen times lol...Completely slipped my mind...Personally I love the IDEA of FFT and such but sometimes the game can be extremely frustrating in the fact that many enemies later on have one hit kills and its much, much too easy to lose your characters that you worked so hard and long on. Needless to say I did alot of resets. :flaming: [/color][/font][/size]

[color=royalblue][font=century gothic][size=1] Eh...this IS a toughie :wigout: But Ill have to say in general any of the characters from FF9...They where all pretty interesting ,and unlike the previous 2 installments, wherent all moody and depressed. Out of that large cast id probably have to pick steiner as my fav. He may have had clanky old looking armor but he was a really good guy at heart. He was loyal to a fault and very protective of garnet(And later vivi). He did his best to keep his dignity and honor intacked even while zidane was making fun of him :laugh: . Lastly he was just a really great fighter, especially when paired with vivi. He had a equally courageous and strong gf and got to wield excalibur...Whats not to love? :cool: [/color][/font][/size]

[color=royalblue][font=times new roman][size=2]Well you guys could read my post just one page back...Oh forget it ill just do a synopsis. This is gonna be pretty basic...Dont want to write some huge thing. [spoiler] Well ill just cover the highlights. Lets see the first important thing is that koga runs into inuyasha and company because there both tracking naraku's scent(They say normaly you cant track him) He does his usal koga stuff (making eyes at kagome and running over inuyasha as he leaves) The other important thing at this point is that tonight it will be the new moon and inuyasha will become weak so kagome suggests staying away from naraku for tonight even though he can track him and knows hes near. Theres also some shoots in narakus castle showing kagara and kana(The little girl all in white with the mirror) Kana tells kagara naraku has left and thats why the barrier around the castle is weak she then shows kagara that koga is nearing the castle. Kagara goes out to great koga with an undead army of skeletons. The fight is pretty even until kagara sucks koga into a tornado full of bones that starts slicing him up. At the same time kogas wolves/fellow demons run off to get inuyasha's help but find out that hes a weak human now but inuyasha still goes. Meanwhile koga leaps out of the tornado after getting pretty beat-up but as soon as he does kagara slices the shards out of his legs. at the same time inuyasha and company come running up and kagara flees. Koga and inuyasha get into it AGAIN and they all play nice in the end...For alittle while atleast. Back to kagara...Her first instinct is to bring the shards back to naraku but she laments over her fate as his slave then she remebers there is someone that could kill naraku for her...Sessy. She goes and visits sessy(Him rin and jakin where in a few scenes earlier and rin wished on a shooting star to always be by sessy's side...It was so kawaii ;) ) Sessy too has been tracking naraku for his own reasons and she meets up with him. His first instinct is to draw his sword but she offers a truce...She will give sessy the shards in exchange she wants him to kill naraku. The last scene we see is of a really mangled naraku in what looks like a basement saying something about betrayl. We later learn that just like inuyasha naraku weakens and becomes human under the new moon...Unlike inuyasha that just turns human all of his demons seem to come out of him or something...he looked a mess and very un-naraku :devil: [/spoiler] PHEW...ok thats it...I probably missed alot of smaller things but thats the basics of it :laugh: [/color][/font][/size]

[color=royalblue][font=century gothic][size=1] Very nice indeed. Much sleeker then the boxy design of the old one...It sure does let it compete with the PSP more in the looks dept. Still kinda sad not to see a analog stick but ill live :D Now the waiting begins... [/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='vash-san']me and a friend just recently rented this much acclaimed anime.... after watching the first episode... actually not even teh first one we decided to turn it off because it definatly was confusin.... i didn't understand what was goin on and whats with the whole manga showing scene it made no sense at all it just made me think that they were too poor to afford to make the entire movie all in th same way.... i kno a lot of ppl say that u hafta watch the first 6 before u can understand it but i frankly have no motivation to watch all of them especally after this first episode i dont think that ill be givin it another chance! just out of curiousity however would it be any easier to understand if i had read teh manga first???[/quote] [color=royalblue][font=century gothic][size=1] Actually vash the manga is more confusing then the anime :wigout: But trust me you'll want to see all 6 episodes because the series is just amazing. I had some similar thoughts as you after I saw the first ep but once you get past that one it only gets better. You'll get some of the best battle scenes ever, lots of crazy comedy, and best of all some amazing music. Id suggest this series to any otaku out there...Its just way too much fun to miss :D [/color][/font][/size]

[COLOR=royalblue][FONT=century gothic][SIZE=1] Wow found the inuyasha thread buried back on page 4...Ofcourse I know people can only "Discuss" The inuyasha-kagome-kikyo love triangle so much :p Well anywho I just wanted to comment on last nights episode. It was pretty interesting and ofcourse sense it included sessy it was great :D The 2 intresting things happened last night...For one kagura deepened as a character for me. Up until now shes been for the most part a pretty 2 dimensonal villianess but this episode really showed how shes almost imprisoned by naraku and desperatly wishes for her freedom. I actually caught myself for a moment feeling sorry for her. And the fact that shes trying to enlist [spoiler]Sessy to kill naraku for her should be interesting...Im betting on sessy on that battle :devil: [/spoiler] The second thing is that they revealed[spoiler]Just like inuyasha Naraku also weakens under the new moon. It should be interesing to see how/if this weakness of his could be exploited[/spoiler] All and all im really looking forward to the next episode. This series amazes me that it just seems to keep getting better and better. :cool: [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[COLOR=royalblue][FONT=century gothic][SIZE=1] Could of sworn I posted in here before...ah well :p This is a really fun series that I look forward to seeing each week. The characters are strong and interesting(Even the supporting ones) The mysteries themselves are always unique and I myself can only solve maybe alittle less then half of them myself...The rest im just clueless :D Although I do have one worry...While this is indeed a great series I dont think it would hold up as well on repeat viewings. I mean the greatest pleasure I get from the series now is solving the mysteries but when it goes into reruns I will already know who the killer is each time so a measurable amount of the fun would be gone :( I guess ill just have to wait and see if the series is as enjoyable on the second viewing :cool: For the meantime ill enjoy all the new episodes and my attempts at solving the mysteries. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[COLOR=royalblue][FONT=century gothic][SIZE=1] Duel masters was OK at the start of the series...But now its just one LOOONG joke thats getting pretty old. At first its whole tounge in cheek making fun of the anime genre was amusing but its just relentless and doesnt let up this act for a second. It would be nice if the series could be alittle serious atleast for a second. For this reason I cant get too into the series because its all just so ridicolous...Everyone makes dumb comments about everything going on the world, I guess there trying to be witty but it just comes off as obnoxious. The series just lacks the emotional punch of Yu-Gi-Oh's duels. You could really care less who wins or loses. :rolleyes: So bottom line to me...Interesting idea of satiring Yu-Gi-Oh and anime in general but poor execution. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]