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OftenBen  ·  3937 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scifi club No. 4: Fantastic Planet

I can't like Gurren Lagann. I've tried, doesn't sit right with my gaijin palate. Too over the top for me.

And Attack on Titan is more than cool, it's FRESH.





user-inactivated  ·  3937 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You need more over-the-top, Ben. Nothing like robots the size of the universe punching each other in the face with galaxy-sized fists to really pump you up. And that soundtrack. unf.

Attack On Titan is so horrendous in pacing that it almost made me quit. But I'm reading the manga, so there's that.

kleinbl00  ·  3937 days ago  ·  link  ·  

See, and for me the coolest anime I've seen in years is Serial Experiments:Lain. No giant robots, but plenty of Marshall McLuhan references.

OftenBen  ·  3937 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's over the top, and there is absurd, GL crosses into absurdity for me, and I can't take it seriously or find it funny. It's like the running gag in Anime that the main character has to be obsessed with food, anything that follows that trope ruins my immersion.