Anime Fanatics Club v2

[CloudTide]

so r we taking about Neon Genesis or Kannazuki no Miko?

[Treize]

so r we taking about Neon Genesis or Kannazuki no Miko?

We're talking about Neon Genesis Evangelion now, but we were talking about Kannazuki no Miko earlier. I usually bring an anime up to discuss once a week or so, so that the club doesn't just die out, but if there is a specific anime you would like to discuss, you can bring it up. It can almost get to be a free for all at times. Notice how four different anime were brought up in the last few posts.

Care to share your opinion about one of the anime that we've recently discussed?

[CloudTide]

have u guys talked about Buso Renkin yet?

[Treize]

No, we haven't. I haven't seen the anime, so I haven't brought it up. I was going to watch it at one time, but decided not too, so I'm not really sure how good it is. If someone else has seen it, and wants to share their opinions too (Andromeda lol), go ahead. If you post your opinions about it, someone will probably post if they've seen it too.

[CloudTide]

alrighty then
ive only watched the first episode so dont tell me any thing if u guys have seen it
i like how this show gives a WHOLE different story of alchemy then that in FMA
its freakin hilarious too
bout 2 watch ep. 2

[yuki]

no me too i havent seen it is it realy cool i liked fma so if its kinda similer i might watch it .........

[CloudTide]

its not similar but its really good
its kinda like Bleach
if you've seen Gurren Lagann you'll like it
if u havent you'll still like i

[Victoria]

Buso Renkin is an okay anime. I'm not going to spoil it for those who haven't seen it, but I didn't quite like the ending very much.

I also just finished Master Keaton. I'll be writing a review of it soon. Then I have to rewrite and reformat some of my reviews, and finish all the other anime I'm in the process of watching so I can review them.

[CloudTide]

well im watching ep. 6 right now
it sucks that Chono's father doesnt even care about him
but it was a genius plan of wrapping the power cloth of Kuzuki's Buso Renkin to boost its power so he could kill the Hawk Humunculus
Chono's brother is a jerk

[Treize]

I was looking for mecha anime to discuss, and I came across Escaflowne. There have been several times where I thought about watching this, but I was wondering if it is really worth watching. Can anyone here recommend watching it? I'm a little turned off by how old it is, but I think that if the story and characters are still good and well developed, I'll enjoy it.

If anyone has an anime in mind for discussing, bring it up. It seems like a lot of the members wanted to talk about mecha anime, but I don't think that I've seen that many mecha anime besides the big ones like Gundam, Code Geass, and TTGL.

Also, I'm thinking that I'll start a new activity this week some time. I'm still deciding what to do, but I'll decide within the next day or two and post something. I'm hoping that at least half of the members participate.

[Victoria]

Escaflowne is a classic. Watch it or die.

YouTube - hbi2k's Channel (Abridged series. Highly recommended.)

Stop letting age be a factor. >.> Escaflowne's not -that- old...(Okay so it's like 14 years old... but so what?)

[Treize]

Escaflowne is a classic. Watch it or die.

YouTube - hbi2k's Channel (Abridged series. Highly recommended.)

Stop letting age be a factor. >.> Escaflowne's not -that- old...(Okay so it's like 14 years old... but so what?)

If the anime is half as good as this abridged series, I think I'm going to enjoy it a lot!

Thanks for the link and the recommendation. I'll try to watch it sometime soon now.

[Andromeda]

You can find the entire series in a complete collection these days for a pretty good price. The fact that Bandai keeps it around after being out for so it is bit of a proof that it is worth keeping on shelves. I know that I have really enjoyed watching the series and a fantasy mecha anime makes things a lot of fun. Plus you have Yoko Kanno doing the music, how can you say no that?

Have you seen Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040? That is a pretty good mecha series as well. If you can get past the stupid levels of fan service Gravion and Godannar are rather interesting as well.

[sephirothsbigfan]

never heard or seen any of the animes discussed here but i might watch them sometime
and sorry i haven't been on cause of no internet service at home since i am out of college for summer vactation and like never go to the library but i am at a place with wireless internet now but idk when i will be on next time

[Xanatos]

Escaflowne is a must watch, classic, I highly recommend it to you. If you're lucky you can even find it in a package with movie, surprisingly, really cheap. The movie's also great, you don't really need to watch the series to enjoy this one, though I recommend watching the series first just to appreciate it's approach a little bit more.

If you're up for mecha Z.O.E. Dolores,i is another great one, funny, maybe even more than Full Metal Panic! It's not that old and it has great characters and story.

Another one that comes to my mind is Candidate for Goddess, though it's really short, only twelve episodes, you'll end up watching it in no time. It's not that bad, I remember watching it on MTW, bough DvD soon after that, I must say I'm really disappointed with the ending, got a strong felling like it shouldn't have ended there, like it's canceled or something.

[CloudTide]

Ill chaeck out that anime cuz ive never heard of it.
Theres also NEW mecha anime called Heroman thats made by Stan Lee from Marvel.
Its really good i recommend that.

[yuki]

escaflowne i realy just saw the 3 first eps thats all i know about it but one of my friends say its real good

[Treize]

Okay, I've decided on the next activity. Please tell me if you think this is interesting. If no one wants to participate, I'll just think of something else.

We're going to have another drawing contest. It seems that drawing is more popular than I first thought.

I thought it would be cool if we all tried to design our own characters for an original anime/manga. I think this idea could spice up the activity from just a normal drawing contest a little and try to spark some creativity.

Here are the rules:

1. You must draw at least three original characters that would go well together in a manga or anime. Therefore, it would probably be to your benefit to draw them all in the same art style. You could also draw non-human characters too if they would fit appropriately.

As of right now, I'm going to say that you can either draw each character separately or all together in one picture. You will probably fair better if you draw them all together in an interesting way, though.

2. The drawings must be in color. It doesn't matter how you color them, but I don't think I'm going to allow black and white. It shouldn't take that much more effort to use some color.

3. I'm not sure if I should make this a requirement, but I think it would be nice if you named your characters.

I may think of a few more requirements within the next couple days if I think of something or if I get some feedback from other members.

If anyone has a suggestion to amend the rules, send me a PM.

Also, I will be needing a couple judges. I'm thinking that I will accept just about anyone who wants to be one, but remember that you can't participate if you are judging. I think two or three would be a good number. If no one wants to judge, I'll be the judge.

*I will even consider people who aren't part of this club and just lurk about.

If you are thinking about participating, please send me a PM telling me that you will. This way, I'll be able to tell if this idea will be successful or not, and I can plan accordingly. This may also be anonymous, so I'm not sure if we should reveal who are all participating before hand.

I'm thinking that the deadline will be June 13, but that could change depending upon when most people turn in their finished product.

If anyone has any questions or comments, send me a PM, and I'll try to clarify.

I'm hoping that this turns out to be a success, and we could possibly use these character designs again for something else like story writing or an RP of some sort.

[CloudTide]

i already got my three characters
wait did they have to be on Photoshop or sumthin?

[Treize]

i already got my three characters
wait did they have to be on Photoshop or sumthin?

No, you don't have to use Photoshop if you colored it all by hand.

When you are done, just send me a PM with a link to the picture. I'll tell you if it doesn't meet the requirements or something.

[CloudTide]

i sent u the pic but its in low quality because i took the pic with my comp's camera

[sephirothsbigfan]

i'll try my best to get them done in time for the deadline i really love to draw since its my career im going to do in the future

[CloudTide]

hey until that deadline comes ill start a new conversation
has anyone seen Elemental Gelade
i started watching it yesterday and its awesome
i'm only on ep. 3 though

[Treize]

hey until that deadline comes ill start a new conversation
has anyone seen Elemental Gelade
i started watching it yesterday and its awesome
i'm only on ep. 3 though

I watched the first two episodes about half a year ago. It looked pretty boring, so I haven't watched more.

I think I only started watching this for savage genius, anyway.

[Andromeda]

I've only seen one episode of it. It came on the DVD in my Newtype magazine and looked fairly interesting. But I haven't gotten around to actually pick up the complete collection. Though I don't think I see it at Best Buy anymore, which is going to be really annoying. But Best Buy has been slowly shrinking their anime selection over the last year or two. A very frustrating note.

[CloudTide]

ok
sice nobody has really WATCHED E. Gelade lets just talk about sumthing that we didnt finish a while ago
BUSO RENKIN
i just finished watching ep. 14
its so cool how Kazuki transformed into that third type with the black kakugane just like Victor
but i was watching it on MegaVideo and i passed that stupid 70 minute limit
so i have to wait 52 minutes until i can watch the next episode

[Andromeda]

I haven't seen any of Buso Renkin. I only know about it because I see the box sets of it in the stores. That is the extent of my knowledge of that show. Has it appeared on TV any? I know that WB will pick up a random anime at times.

[Treize]

On April 27, 2009, the series made its North American television debut on the FUNimation Channel.

I don't get the FUNimation Channel.

I haven't seen this anime either. It looked kind of generic, and I didn't really like the character designs, so I skipped it.

CloudTide, how do you think the story is shaping up? I heard that it was pretty unoriginal or cliche...

[Xanatos]

I bought Erementar Gerad despite hearing some bad things about it, my pockets full of money and cheaper price than usual were the main reasons for such decision. All I can say, it's a decent anime. Story's certainly not the strongest point, it gets better near the end, though, too late I'm afraid. On the other hand characters are more than well done, especially the main protagonist. I hear there's even a fighting game, I hope it's better than anime itself.

[Andromeda]

This is an open invitation to all that wish to participate in the open beta testing of a new Club/Social Group Project.

A brief explanation of the project: the social group format that currently exists as a separate group where members can create threads and post freely will be recreated within the Club Forums through the use of Sub Forums individualized for each Club or Social Group.

That is the short of it, here is the longer version please read everything before making your decision so you understand what it going to happen.

What we’re going to be doing is running a base model of the final fully feature product that we have envisioned. It will have all of the basic functionality we want, but it will lack all of the bells and whistles that we want to add to make things more robust. The beta test will be a way for us to get things started to see how people like it and where we can make improvements. Even without the bells and whistles it can still functional fully as intended, as a Club or Social Group. Everyone that participates will be able to provide feedback and suggestions on additional features to add to make it something that everyone can enjoy.

The base model is pretty simple for now, but as we have the time available to make the mods needed to it things will grow and you’ll be able to test out the new stuff we add. What the base model will be is a sub forum located in the Clubs Forum of the main forum. There the sub forum will be given whatever name the group that participates wants along with a brief description. With the sub forum you’ll be able to continue discussions and talk as you have previously in the social groups. This will mean that the clubs rules from before will be relaxed significantly more than they ever have to accommodate the posting environment of the social groups.

The club forums will become a “Main Club Forum” which will be the hub for all of the groups. The main club forum will be used as a “front desk” for the groups or as I like to call it a job fair. Each group will have a thread where forum members wishing to join will sign up and you’ll be able to look at your applicants. All requests for giving forum members access will go through me first and I’ll handle the work.

So that is how things will work for the beta after the setup. The creation of a sub-forum for your group will be very similar to how clubs are made. You will make a post in the registration thread of the club forum requesting a sub-forum for your group. Do note that if your social group or club already exists it will be automatically approved all you’ll be doing is giving me the necessary information to fill out to personalize your sub-forum to your group. If anyone wants to make a new group in the sub-forum that doesn’t already exist then it will go through an approval process that you see happen in the thread currently. You’ll want to read the main post to see the form that you’ll need to fill out since it’ll be different from the norm as well as necessary so you can have your sub-forum read the way you want it.

Now to answer why you would want to do this if it is going to be mirroring the social groups. With this move to the club forums as a sub forum you’re threads and post will appear in the main forum providing greater visibility to your group as a whole (such as the “new posts” and “posts in the last 24 hours”). This can help to promote and increase your own group’s interest and activity in the forum. Your social group will no longer be hidden in a specialized area that does not even provide updates or notices to its members. All of the features you use in the forums will be available for you to use such thanks, new posts in your User CP and forum subscriptions.

I want to take a little time to explain what we want to eventually make the final product of this to look like. The plan will be to allow the sub-forums to be customized with icons and images that represent the groups. They will also be available to be listed in your own profile like inventory items are so you can show off and advertise for your own groups. You’ll be able to select which ones you want to display just like items. Some of these features will require us to create our own mods to have it happen as they don’t exist. So it should be understandable why they won’t be available at the start.

As said before, any additional features can come from the suggestions and ideas you give us. We won’t be able to promise to do everything, but it will never hurt to give every idea you have. We’ll let you know if it is possible and if we will try it out. Anything new we do will be run through the beta testing groups until we hit an end point that we feel it is finished.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact me through PM or responding to this in here. I’ll answer everything that I am able to do.

This does open immediately and there will be no limit on how many groups we accept into beta testing. There will also be no time limit on joining the testing. It will always be open unless we deem it unsustainable or the project fails. Please check the Club Forums for further updates and work for the beta testing.

Thank you for your time and sorry for the intrusion.