What are you currently watching?

[FREEFALL]

more naruto season 5, and finally saseke is getting a bloody good kicking!

[windknight]

Got tipped onto something called Vipers Creed. A Private Military Company has to deal with leftover automated weapons that launch occasional attacks on cities.

Their front line troops use transforming bikes, and are paid according to what they kill in battle, but if they cause damage to the highways the fights take place on, they personally will have to cover the repair expenses out of their own pay.

[igniz13]

That sounds quite original (ish) what's the tone, is it all action boys stuff or slightly more serious?

[windknight]

Well, a nice touch is the Maneuvre Blades are actually pretty fragile. Another nice touch is that most of our heroes, viper squad, are very much in it for the cash, not heroics. The hero, Saiki, is a man of few words and seems unusually determined to stop the automated weapons (in the first ep, when most of the team have buggered off home, he takes it on alone, and destroys it, but in a manner that means his next two paychecks will be footing the repair bills).

I don;t mean this as a criticism, but the basic setup has a strong computer game feel to it (the heroes are effectively mercs, paid for what they destroy, penalties for collateral damage). And it looks like it would be a lot of fun to play.

[Leah Holmes]

I watched an old series called The Enemy's The Pirates! fairly recently. I don't know why I'd never seen it before (aside from the fact that it's over 20 years old and never got licensed). It's got cats and space pirates and more cats and a cheesy '80s rock soundtrack and more cats. Did I mention the cats? There are cats.

Here's the opening sequence.

[lobosoulman]

Ive just finished watching hellsing , well the first season anyhow (there has to be more )
I loved it.

And i watched "The girl who leapt through time".
That was very good as well.

I am VERY new to anime though I used to think it was all a bit seedy "young schoolgirls getting in various degress of se*ual contact involving pain with various... humans ... demons etc mostly unwillingly"

I got that from watching an anime i cant remmeber the name of years ago and thinking "wtf???"

[igniz13]

Those sort of shows do happen, but (as I'm sure you know) Anime covers a wide range of genres.

[lobosoulman]

I havent come across any yet..... but each to his/her own.

Next is Paprika for me

[igniz13]

I can't advise you go looking for them, its the otherside of Anime that often gets put up at the forefront whilst all the good stuff gets ignored.

Was in Forbidden Planet (in London) a while back and someone was getting advised by a clerk on which Anime purchases he should go for, the clerk wasn't much use and made a comment that a lot of it is "big boobs and guns" which is sadly true for some anime, but just ignores the wealth of good material out there.

Paprika being one such example.

[daveshans]

I watched the first three volumes of Initial D the other and I loved it. It's the perfect fusion of car geekyness and anime.