Hunter X Hunter S3:
This may in fact be the best season yet. This one is more about the Phantom Troupe than it is about the main characters, and they are absolutely awesome. The main downfall of this season is that it's fairly predictable. You know what's supposed to happen from the beginning of the season, and that's pretty much exactly what happens.

One day I really need to watch this.

Moe males with no females kinda just makes me look the other way each time, lol.

Actually, S3 adds in a few females. Besides, you can always just pretend that Kurapika is a girl. He looks the part lol.

RWBY - This is the show we've been waiting for. The spark that will lead to a flame of western developers creating anime.

The lack of inner dialogues and monologues with the obvious western style comedy *Eastern comedy is way more influenced by us then the other way around* mixed in with moe character designs. I can not declare enough love for this.

Anime, lately, has turned to crude humor, explicit language, and sex jokes for the majority of it's comedy. Even shows not considered comedies typically only use these forms of humor. From the accidentally falling down on girl routine to slap-stick over the top joy-rides, anime tends to go all in or all out with comedy.

But RWBY finds a middle ground that western writers are so well known for. You'll recognize the styes of comedy instantly from Game of Thrones, Community, and pretty much anything on Showtime or HBO. It's fast paced, eye to eye comedy. Meaning while they talk very fast, they engage directly with each other, creating some really great skits that both entertain and progress the story or characters growth.

And where there's so much good going on in the plot, the setting even gets it's own episode dedication to help flesh out the world, and it ends up being very well thought out and interesting. Even the monsters get a dedicated episode to explain them, if this show had a Like button I'd be smashing it.

and even with all the greatness in the plot and setting, still better yet is the animation. I could caps lock a lot of descriptive words, and it would be well deserving. But I think you all know what I mean, episode 1 food fight was just orgasmic, and they do that kind of fight scene once every 2-3 episodes.

People jumping higher then buildings then casting magic using "dust" *Great concept for the show to use* combining some of the best Kung-Fu with high movement explosives everywhere action.

And that's still not even my favorite part of the show, i love these characters. Weiss is my favorite by miles, a poster child Tsundere, and she's western made, it's just exciting to see. The rest of the cast too, just charm the socks off you, then blow them off with there intense stunts and willingness to show very real sides to make them so much more then 1 sided characters.

Even the sub characters get amazing plots, my favorite sub character is the red head amazon girl, she's not only charming and easily the strongest, but has the purest heart of them all.

I could go on and on about all the different elements I enjoyed, but I'll stop, and say, damn, should of watched this earlier.

Dude, I've heard an endless amount about One Punch Man. After that I think it's probably whatever season of Monogatari is currently airing.

Mayou is really good.

Despite the rack on the main Heroine, its more about politics and economics than anything. IIRC, made by the same dude who gave us Log Horizon.

Actually gonna read the manga as well, I really enjoyed it.

Mayou is akin to Spice and Wolf, from there beautiful brush-painted backgrounds, to great yet simple character designs.

If you liked one you'll love the other.

Seen both.

And Log S1.

I love shows like that. Need Moar.

Utaweruomuno

Seen both.

And Log S1.

I love shows like that. Need Moar.

Stumbled across Bakemonogatari a few years ago when it started airing. Blasted away by the first episode. Animation was unique and familiar (Shaft head tilts anyone?). Dialogue was off the charts, introducing me to many different things about Japanese culture that I never knew about. Characters were developed extremely well. For me though, the music: when you hear it, it's like nothing you've ever heard before from other works of art. And then after you hear it, you can't confuse it with any other musical pieces either - the moment you hear the notes, you can immediately tell it's Monogatari from a mile away. Most music for me is quite forgettable or is too close to other generic pieces of music that it's hard to tell where it came from. Monogatari goes well beyond that and creates memorable music pieces that distinguish it from other works of art.

(Currently, the one that's airing is Owarimonogatari. I need to add that to my queue now that you mention it.)

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One Punch Man. The hype that the internet created on this was about on par with Kill La Kill. The premise is absurd too: where do you go with a story where the main character can defeat any foe with one punch?

I wasn't going to get on that hype train. I was under the belief that it was just Kill La Kill all over again. (Sidenote: I loved Kill La Kill, but I can go into more detail about the pros and cons of that later.) I believed it's animation would be ok to great. Story wasn't going to go anywhere though. Too much hype, better stay away.

And then there was rage as well over it, specifically the fact that the manga elements of it were highly detailed and people were essentially screaming "YOU BETTER NOT F*CK THIS UP!!!". Another mark for me in which I would stay away, seeing that most of the time the anime doesn't live up to the manga. Figured I would stay away from the ragestorm that would follow.

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Browsing on the internet, I came across it again through ANN. Figured I'd give it a look to see what they said for it since they are some of the most critical anime critics I've ever come across. Clicked the link. 4's and 5's across the board.

Somewhere around the range of "it delivered" and "stayed true to the manga" as well as them saying it had a great story premise even though your initial thought is that it wouldn't be able to go anywhere with that. (Hey, they read my mind.)

Wow.

I can't even write a good enough review on it. Furthermore, after watching One Man Punch, I felt like a kid again watching Saturday morning cartoons. And then beyond that there came the comments something around "it lived up to the manga" and "it did better than the manga". And finally, I found out that Madhouse essentially hired all of the "Gods of Anime" to make this.

If you haven't tried watching One Man Punch, just go and watch it.

No, Traps are pure evil.

Hmm, I might try out OPM, but tbh I don't really like Saitama's character design. I'll look into it after it's finished airing.

I currently have a lot on my plate. The next anime I have lined of to watch is Kyoukai no Kanata (Beyond the Boundary).

As for the Monogatari series? I want to watch it, but there's just so much to go through, and I don't really have the time for that.

I can understand you there. I feel like I've missed a ton with Hunter x Hunter and I don't think I'll ever be able to see all of that, even if I marathon that. Couldn't get into Naruto or One Piece and now I feel like I've missed the train there. Pokemon is another one I used to watch regularly as a kid, but then high school hit and now that I have free time, there's already like 10 seasons and several movies. I'm never going to catch up to that.

So I can understand that feel of never going to be able to catch up due to length and time. I think we're showing our age.

Dude, didn't you hear? Kill La Kill saved anime. It saved it.
As for the Monogatari series? I want to watch it, but there's just so much to go through, and I don't really have the time for that.

So, if I may ask, what was wrong with Log S2? I just got around to watching it myself but, although I haven't made it through all of season 2 yet, haven't found anything too completely "boring" with it as some people have said...

Or is it in these last couple of episodes I'm about to watch? (I'm on 20 or 21 right now I think)

Was I the only person that didn't enjoy Kill La Kill?

Was I the only person that didn't enjoy Kill La Kill?

As for Monogatari...give it a shot. It took me about five or six episodes to really get into it...and then I went watched the rest of the series. Some really great characters and the ultimate "sexy teeth brushing" scene!

Kill la Kill - I gave it a 7 just because it had a real, if not insane, story. It did a good job turning villains into good guys and creating tension and some bad ass moments. However, it wasn't Guren Lagan, whose characters were a lot more traditionally anime looking. It's a good watch in Dub over the Sub for a lot of reasons believe it or not.

Log Horizon S2 - The show was already slow, this just took the slowness and made it both repetitive and knowingly frustrating when trying to get to any of the real plot. It isn't even using the cast in enjoyable ways, if anything S2 shows how much certain characters charisma carried the show, and with several of them missing or on side quests, the rest of the cast barely keeps up. The Ninja girl is for looks only to me at that point, turning into a melodramatic idiot.

Oh, and Gurren Lagann? I got 3 episodes in before dropping it. It was boring, and I couldn't stand the whiny ass MC.

If you really wanna see some good action stuff just go watch FMA:B. Of course, this is coming from the guy who actually likes SAO, and Bleach so my opinion is irrelevant.

Aww, you missed when the MC became a badass and throwing galaxies as shurikens.


*high five*

Although, when I go back, I see a lot of plotholes and missteps, but I still love them for their premise.

Video Editor Update

I'm on the market for a new computer, and plan to buy hollywoods most expensive editor, lol

Kinda sucks it's over 300 dollars :(

But I'm about ready to get back on movie making, but rather then 'critical' reviews I've been doing, but thinking of mixing it up and making 'biased' or 'opinionated' reviews.

Like, a "10 reasons to watch this show"

or

"Why you, as a genre fan, will love/hate this show*

then rather then breaking down the entire show for all it's qualities, just highlight the more interesting points. I still want to do critical reviews, though

You probably don't need the most expensive video editor youtube.

Price is not linear in regards to quality.

Find something decent for a good price.