I can't stand reviews, so I never read them. I just watch things for myself, and if I don't like it, I move on. Out of my 215 some years of watching anime I can count the amount of anime I absolutely regret watching on one hand. I told myself if I ever did reviews, they wouldn't even be reviews. Just like...general information?
Thanks for mentioning "The Samurai" thought greg! Now that I know it looks like Ranma 1/2, I might grab a copy. I love watching anything with even a remotely similar style.
Anime reviews are worthless. If I ever have to read again about how the animation in Macross DYRL is "dated" or "not up to par with current technology" I'll fucking scream.
danth wrote:Anime reviews are worthless. If I ever have to read again about how the animation in Macross DYRL is "dated" or "not up to par with current technology" I'll fucking scream.
Someone who actually says this should never write anything again. I've even read people say something along these lines about Akira. I mean, Akira is better animated than most Ghibli stuff, even.
danth wrote:Anime reviews are worthless. If I ever have to read again about how the animation in Macross DYRL is "dated" or "not up to par with current technology" I'll fucking scream.
Someone who actually says this should never write anything again. I've even read people say something along these lines about Akira. I mean, Akira is better animated than most Ghibli stuff, even.
Agreed on both accounts! Anyone who even uses the word "dated" with me, I don't generally talk to.
ryoran wrote:Thanks for mentioning "The Samurai" thought greg! Now that I know it looks like Ranma 1/2, I might grab a copy. I love watching anything with even a remotely similar style.
I actually snagged one off of Amazon for real cheap after it was mentioned here. Thanks, ZenAmako!
danth wrote:Anime reviews are worthless. If I ever have to read again about how the animation in Macross DYRL is "dated" or "not up to par with current technology" I'll fucking scream.
I once read an anime review that totally trashed Gall Force, and the main reason was because of the lackluster English dub. Well, stop watching the crappy dub and watch the subbed version, you frickin' moron! I was like, really? That is the reason why you trashed this awesome OVA?
Okay, so I just finished watching The Samurai. It certainly hails from the height of the '80s OVA boom before it started to slow down. It's a 40+ minute one-shot episode, and it sure is over-the-top. My memory served correctly---the lead character's sister wears a see-through night gown. Yet inexplicably, he falls to pieces when he sees any other nude girl's body. Weird. At the end, he runs along a vertical wall to catch his girlfriend mid-air, all while holding his sword in his teeth. This was after the adversary twin sisters had crashed some giant, mechanical head into the pagoda in which his girlfriend was tied to the top of. It's pretty wild.
Oh yeah, and this is another example of stupid ADV replacing the title with their own English language one. It doesn't even blend well. So stupid. At least they left the credits intact.
Okay, here's an anime TV series I saw when I was 12 or 13 that nobody has been able to identify whenever I bring it up.
It's an 80s series (or no later than early 90s) about a boy (8-10 years old) who carries a bokken around wherever he goes. He's a spunky and optimistic kid--your typical shonen hero. The gimmick in this series is that he has this irresistible compulsion to do everything in right angles--90 degrees. He trims hedges in right angles, cuts food/paper crafts in right angles, his sword slashes are all right angles. Despite this eccentricity (or probably because of it) he is a nearly unbeatable swordsman. Various opponents appear during the series to challenge him or try to make him adjust his attack moves to more "normal" attacks (which would basically be the same thing as losing for him). Inevitably, he always figures out a way to win with a right angled attack move.
It is for the most part a lighthearted kids' series. It has a similar look and tone to the original Dragon Ball when Goku was a kid. It's not an adventure series, though. The series' format is that he basically goes to school and gets into hijinks with his classmates, and his life is interrupted ever so often by opponents coming from faraway places to try to challenge him.
Although I don't know what time period it takes place in, the series takes place in a rural type setting. I do not recall much in the way modernity in the series.
Needless to say, this show has never been released in any form whatsoever in the West.
Google brings up nothing whenever I use these descriptions.
Huzzah! After 20 or so years I have finally found it! It's called Chokakku The Stubborn Samurai Boy (knowing that 'chokakku' means right angle would have helped earlier) It's a 1991 anime series animated by Studio Pierrot.
Out of my 215 some years of watching anime I can count the amount of anime I absolutely regret watching on one hand. I told myself if I ever did reviews, they wouldn't even be reviews. Just like...general information? 
