Anime Fanatics Club v3!

[Treize]

Welcome back Xanatos! Yeah, I was gone for like for 3-4 months, and the club died. Right now we're probably still not that active, but we've always been off and on, I guess.

I feel like I'm talking to no one when I talk about currently airing anime, but has anyone been following Bakuman or Tegami Bachi? I would say those are the anime that I most look forward to watching weekly these days.

Tegami Bachi is simulcasting, so perhaps someone has been watching it. It has been a little boring in the past, but the past few episodes have been progressing the plot more. I'm really curious as to where it's going, but with the number of episodes left and the state of the manga, I have a feeling that it's not going to have a solid conclusion. I guess I'll have to wait a few more years. <_< Monthly serialization really annoys me because they take forever for the story to progress.

As for Bakuman, I really like the concept, but I think the anime is moving too slowly. I've read about 30 chapters, and the anime still doesn't seem that close to catching up to where I am. It seems like they've animated about 1/5 of what's currently out so far. I'm really curious to see where the story goes, but perhaps I should just read the manga. The anime doesn't look like it's going to get too far anytime soon.

So, has anyone else see these or have any other anime that they've seen recently that they would like to discuss?

[Andromeda]

Well part of that might be that not a lot of people are watching the current season of anime or watching different stuff. If I had the time to afford it I'd probably watch everything, but I don't. So I pick the ones I really want and The World God Only Knows finished up its first season already. So I'm eagerly awaiting the second season, which I think is slated for the Spring Season. So I'm afraid I can't really talk about the other things currently airing.

If you want to talk Bleach I can, since the only other show I'm currently following that is airing new episodes. I stopped Naruto until they get out of filler, because the filler is really boring on Naruto. Bleach filler tends to be better produced, still more of a meh quality, but higher quality meh than Naruto. >.> If that makes any sense to anyone other than me.

I've gained 3 more volumes of Negima, a volume of Pretty Face and another volume of Fruits Basket. Fruits Basket still manages to make me cry even though I know it is going to do so. And it is just words and pictures. Still I love the manga.

[Linus Li Lelouch]

I tried to watch Bleach, but for some reason just couldn't get into it as much as everyone else did.

I got into Naruto for a while, but lost interest after watching about 60 filler episodes in a row. I started reading the manga for it a little bit before Jiraiya infiltrated the one village where Pain was in. After that I never went back to the anime, well I did for the Jiraiya vs pain fight, naruto vs pain, sasuke vs 8 tails, etc.. pretty much the major fights I watched the anime for.

I'll try again with Bleach later, but for now I'm just looking new series to watch, already got a few suggestions, gonna check them out soon.

Recent favorite so far is Hellsing, yeah I know I'm late but eh.

Right now though aside from watching some new I'm buying up a collection of my all time favorites that rarely got on my nerves.

[Treize]

If you want to talk Bleach I can, since the only other show I'm currently following that is airing new episodes. I stopped Naruto until they get out of filler, because the filler is really boring on Naruto. Bleach filler tends to be better produced, still more of a meh quality, but higher quality meh than Naruto. >.> If that makes any sense to anyone other than me.

I would, but I'm still so far behind on Bleach. I'm almost 200 episodes behind now. I've been looking at what's been happening recently, and it looks like there hasn't really been much that happened in the past 200 episodes. Is it slow paced, or is there just that much filler? I might just go to the manga if the anime is unbearably slow.

As for Naruto, I'm still stuck in the filler before Shippuuden. I don't really want to skip it and go on, but I never find myself in the mood to watch the boring filler, so I'm stuck. I guess it's been that way for a few years now. I'll probably end up skipping the filler sooner or later because the Naruto filler is just so boring. I completely understand what you mean, but I'm sure it gets worse latter on than where I'm at.

As for FLCL, I've never really liked it. This might just be my bad memory because I watched it so long ago, but I don't think it even made sense half the time. It was just random.

The best 6 episode anime I've ever watched was Eve no Jikan. It actually has a more comprehensible story. I didn't really like the open ending, but I guess there will be another season at some point in time.

I've never liked Gantz either. I watched the first four episodes, and it was way to tacky for my tastes. I thought that it would be pretty good from the beginning, but I was turned off after watching a couple more episodes. The manga is still ongoing, so I am a little curious how the story developed. From what I saw, it didn't look like it had that much to work with to go for more than ten years.

Recently, I've watched the first episode of the new .hack OVA, .hack//Quantum, and I'm really liking it. I may be biased because I've always liked the idea of .hack, but this might be the best anime .hack since .hack//Sign. The story seems pretty interesting, and I like how it involves more of the real world in addition to The World. The animation is really nice especially in comparison to the previous series, too. It was a little cheap of them to reuse character designs for pretty much every character, but I guess you can just consider it homage.

So, does anyone have any preferences on where we go with this club. I'm not really sure where we're going if we're going anywhere yet. I find it interesting how we always have 4-5 posts in one day and then nothing for a week, and then 4-5 posts again repeating.