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[meganbmoore]

[Poll #1143316]But I think I'll watch the Slayers OVA first. For snark purposes.

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[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm still stumping Gun x Sword

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I already had you scribbled down for it.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I've got nothing against Blue Seed and Last Exile either though.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I love me some Last Exile and I've even gone so far as to write Big O fanfic, but I'm going to have to give the nod to The Gokusen. Really, it's its own special brand of crack. Though I have to admit the manga is just a wee bit crackier. (The live action show also seems to be completely different and yet, still crack. I haven't seen that one though.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The live action was my first asian drama, and one of my favorites. But yes, from what I understand, they're very different.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

The anime keeps fairly close to the manga, though it's only 13 episodes so it only gets so far. I've no idea how close the live action is (and aren't they doing a new season of it?).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yup. The second season of the live action had a completely new class, and I'm sure the third will, too.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Gokusen got my vote too: kick-ass school teacher heroine, how could I not pick that?

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

I've seen some of Gun X Sword, it's alright. I liked Last Exile. I won't lie, the ending left something to be desired (just because they have to rush it all in at the end due to the detail of the other episodes) but it's a nice ride.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard that a lot about the ending of LE. But...well, I'm rather used to it by now...

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

I just Wiki-d the show once I finished to understand the ending better. Worked fine for me! :)

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Wow, we're really not being helpful, are we?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm hoping that SOMETHING comes out ahead in the next coupla days...

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Voting for Last Exile as it was rather amusingly steampunky, one of the airship captains is a dramatic angstmuffin, and there's a bit of Mustang/Hawkeye vibe between him and his first officer.

Gunlock...how far have you read in the manga? It's not particularly spoilery; there are a LOT of non-manga filler episodes this time around, when it does bother to stick to the manga continuity it kind of sort of follows up to the very beginning of the stuff with Hazel...and then it goes waaaaaaaaaay off into left field. Hazel and Gato here, compared to in the manga, are vastly less interesting (I particularly hate hate hate what the anime did with Gat, who is my favorite woobie undead anime Indian...ok, so he's the only one, details details!). The animation is also just painfully inconsistent -- yes, even more so than the two previous series. When it's good, it's not much better than mediocre, and when it's bad, it's downright HORRIBLE. I'd really only recommend it if you're a desperate Saiyuki completist, or you feel like mocking cheesy filler scripts and sloppy art.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I've been told about the dramatic angstmuffin in LE at length before.

"I'd really only recommend it if you're a desperate Saiyuki completist, or you feel like mocking cheesy filler scripts and sloppy art."

Uhm...uh...all the above? I actively despise Hazel(very interesting character, but I get much pleasure from my hatred) but do like Gat, but definately don't want spoilers for beyond Vol 7 of Reload. And...uhm...I freely confess I'm in the anime for the Kougaiji. They tend to include him a lot in the fillers, based on the first two episodes.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Angstmuffin!captain has a great gift for managing to strike dramatic poses in spots where the wind will dramatically blow his hair and cape about. The dub also has him voiced by Crispin Freeman, which is always a nice, appreciated touch if one is stuck watching the dubs on broadcast. (I prefer subs just so I can keep my ears open for little bits that aren't getting translated, but love CF's voice to bits.)

And Gunlock is definitely primo snark-blogging fodder. There are some good Kougaiji moments, but probably not enough to make you happy -- although IIRC he doesn't have as many wildly OOC moments as some of the others do.

Judging by the RFB broadcasts, I think you're pretty spoiler-safe as the manga canon really doesn't seem to be going in the same direction as the anime did -- and really, they suck out so much of the personality and change the backstory enough for Gat and Hazel that they're scarcely even the same characters any more.

And just think of the QUALITY art (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/telophase14/NDVD_024.jpg) you have to look forward to!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Aaah...I do love it when my angstmuffins know how to pose dramatically in the wind. Crispin Freeman is also a bonus.

That art is...I shall choose to believe that everyone but Sanzo is deliberately drawn that way.

In this lifetime, there will not be enough Kougaiji to make me happy. I must love him enough to compensate for those who don't.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I'm suuuuure it's deliberate. Just like the scene where there's a three-way rumble between the Kou-tachi, Sanzo-ikkou, and Hazel-ikkou, and you see Gat holding Doku off the ground one-handed while holding a gun to his head with his other hand...while reloading said gun with his OTHER other hand. *headdesk*

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

"I must love him enough to compensate for those who don't."

I think you've just summed up the very existence of fandom as a movement in that sentence.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Except I do not automatically hate any character in his vicinity who has a vagina, nor do I imply that those who do not love are stupid, nor do I write dissertations about how he is far superior to anything else in the universe. Nor do I center my internet life around him. There are far too many things to love for any of that.

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

Those examples are just what happens when fandom goes too far, though. I like to think that most fans have better hold of their own sanity than that. (Note, I'm saying "sanity", not "normality"... even sane Fans can't really be described as "normal"... and anyway, a lot of the time, "normal" is just a nice way of saying "boring"...)

[sanada.livejournal.com]

I voted for Blue Seed since it's such an overlooked little gem of a series (yay for likable female characters!) but Last Exile is my second choice (angst, more angst, and really neat airplanes - too bad the ending kind of falls apart). Big O and Gokusen are also good choices, you really can't go wrong with most of your choices! But DON'T watch the Gunlock anime, noooooooo!!! It's terrible. I like Hazel, and the anime pretty much sucks all of the personality and devious intelligence from him and turns him into a ridiculous cartoon villain. And Gat is even worse. I only watch Saiyuki for the Japanese voice actors... x__x; And Kougaiji filler. (I met his voice actor IRL, and he was adorable despite having that strange Japanese affection for ugly plaid outfits... so now whenever I think of Kougaiji, I imagine him in plaid...).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I watch the anime for the Kougaiji and I'm not ashamed to admit it. The fact that more Kougaiji means more Yaone. Doku and Lirin also helps.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

There are at least some nice nice Doku and Yaone bits to go with the Kou bits -- the best ones being the few that are straight from the manga, of course. Lirin, OTOH...there's this whole crazy Hazel-and-Lirin section that's part of where the anime goes off into crazyland, and another Lirin-and-Sanzo filler episode earlier where both characters seem to have been replaced by pod people.

[irenak.livejournal.com]

Last Exile is awfully pretty, but I'm putting a vote in for the first season of Big O. Batman meets James Bond with a giant robot and a remarkable number of Isaac Asimov references. It is cracktastically awesome and has two great female characters to boot.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

That's...basically what I'd gathered from descriptions.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

I voted for Blue Seed. It's one of those series which moves along in a seemingly cliched manner, only to end up in a very interesting place, and you realize at that point that that's where it was always headed.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Sounds rather like Princess Tutu(with a completely different plot) when put that way.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Last Exile starts out fantastic, then slowly and progressively falls apart until it concludes with an incoherent whimper.

Big O has an intriguing premise which goes nowhere.

Saiyuki Gunlock is apparently hilariously bad.

I haven't seen the others.

[kingcrankycat.livejournal.com]

Last Exile is the only series on the list that I've seen, or desire to see, and thus gets my vote.

[lillypuff.livejournal.com]

I had to throw in a vote of Gunlock, simply because of the horror of it, which is why I like it (Masochist, me? Nah!). Some of the filler episodes crack me up though.