Hmm, I have to admit, I like Eyeshield 21 so far. Especially since it’s comedy.

Also, do we get an explanation of why Hiruma looks like a demon?

Haha, I can see he’s complex enough already.

Up to chapter 11. Dunno what volume, I’m just reading off the internet.

Hiruma’s the main provider of comedy IMO.

Are You Alice?

Holy. Mother. Of. GOD.

My bad X( I thought that had already happened by the game against the White Knights, but I am wrong. Clearly I need to reread it again.

Oh, no, they recruit more players for their team instead of just relying on Hiruma blackmailing other clubs’ helpers. That’s not really much of a spoiler, though.

Oh, that’s just main character hair, not Goku hair specifically.

The three brothers you mentioned, are those the Huh huh brothers?

You’ll see.

Glad you like it. You probably haven’t even gotten to the really great stuff yet, unless you’ve been absolutely burning through it.

I actually think I’m gonna reread it again, seeing as how it’s my favorite manga ever.

Oh, you’re moving along at a pretty high clip. I love that whole Aliens arc, both for the quality and because I was born in Houston. That said, the team is really, really white given the city’s demographics, but there’s actually a reason for it, so I don’t mind that much.

Well, the writer/artist duo love their theme teams, and I guess the thing most outsiders would associate with Houston is NASA.

Panther is a cool character, though, and he surprisingly manages to avoid a lot of the condescending Japanese stereotypes of black people, aside from making silly faces occasionally.

Yeah, for me it’s probably a toss-up between Juumonji and Hiruma.

The ace linebacker for the Poseidon?

You are burning right along, jeez.

A Hail Mary is a pretty common football term, actually. It comes from a desperation pass Roger Staubach threw to Drew Pearson to beat the Vikings in the 1975 playoffs. It’s basically used to describe throwing the ball as hard as you can when you’re in a hopeless situation and and praying one of your receivers comes down with it. /football nerd

And yeah, Hiruma’s pass was actually a Hail Devil(which is pretty much impossible in real life thanks to physics), since, as he said, demons don’t ask God for favors.

Gaou is the awesomeness. And yeah, with one exception, they pretty much play nothing but top tier teams from here on out(and even the weaker team is unconventional enough to be dangerous, and has an epic intro).

Wait, how far are you now? I thought Gaou wasn’t until after the Shinryuuji game or so.

Wow, never mind, for some reason I thought the Hail Devil was against Seibu. Yeah, the Shinryuuji game was epic, and I was sure that would be the peak of the series after I finished it, but somehow the remaining games keep getting better.

Wait, there’s a female quarterback? Is that actually allowed?

I feel satisfied (and somewhat sad) that I’ve now completed reading Eyeshield 21 on my last day of term break.

At least I can say that I’ve read an awesome series in the school hols. Again, thanks, sansa for giving me a manga to read!

Haha, yeah, that was pretty cool. My favourite part though was Hiruma’s sad face. The only part where I couldn’t stop giggling.

Chuubou was a little bit awkward, like he’s just been thrown in for some new blood IMO.

I think the wrap up of the story was not top-notch as usual… the ending could almost be called pathetic but yes, it did have its good parts. Still…

And again, I agree with you. Plus, all the trick plays by Hiruma somewhere in the middle were pretty cool. Especially the ones in… which game was that? “‘Damn it, damn it!’ is what you think I’d say?” or something like that.

Run like him as in run a 4.2 in the 40 yard dash? Not a chance. That’s Deion Sanders caliber speed, and he’s the fastest to ever play the game pretty much, and he was a grown man.

I think the fastest 40 time in the NFL right now(to my knowledge) is the Titans RB Chris Johnson, who IIRC ran something like a 4.24, and he’s the best RB in the league right now.

So yeah, a Japanese high schooler being able to run a time like that is pretty absurd. It was just one of those parts where I suspended my disbelief, though.

/footballnerd

Ahh, I see. Well, you can always try it and see how it feels.

^^Yeah, I miss hearing that Brothers theme.

And for some reason, I watched a couple episodes of Clannad. It feels like an anime written by Nicholas Sparks.

I just want to reiterate how kickass Fairy Tail’s soundtrack is. Download it right now.

DO IT.

Seriously, I’m trying to use it as a soundtrack as I edit right now and I can’t decide on which song to use because there are too many badass ones.

ARE YOU DOWNLOADING IT YET? DO IT.

Satoshi Kon died. ;_;

What the hell happened to Ash’s eyes?

I know nobody/hardly anyone in this forum cares about One Piece, but IT COMES BACK AFTER ITS MONTH BREAK IN THE NEXT DAY OR SO!!! So excited. There is spoilers out and everyone is discussing the chapter already but for once I have sworn not to read them to keep the chapter pure. A tiny bit of non-important things have somewhat been ruined for me though. The bastards.

So yeah, this is such a huge moment for One Piece since there’s been a timeskip and the crew will be entering the second half of the Grand Line soon. So to all of you who dont see the brilliance that is its author Eiichiro Oda, you really should give One Piece a try and get up-to-date with the series because it only going to get more epic from here on out. READ IT! Or watch it, but majority of the time reading is better.

Um, I care about it a little.

I only read up to a certain point, I can’t remember where. It was brilliant, yeah, but I stopped because my library didn’t have any more volumes.

However, now that I’ve discovered online manga for free, I plan to start reading One Piece in the summer holidays.

Yay No One. Took you quite a while to discover online manga for free.

Marquis, well the longer you put off reading it the length will only get longer… I dislike it when people who have read like 300+ chapter series at once say they dont want to read One Piece. Because does another couple of hundred on top of that really make much difference? Damn the Naruto fans who complain about One Piece’s length saying it also gets old when they dont even realise Naruto is only like 95 chapters behind it and is gets so so so so so much older. I have struggled to get through some long series but I made it. I suggested a friend of a friend to read 50 chapters a week for 12 weeks. So 7 chaps a day but you could make that a round 10 to account for new chapters. But the guy didnt wanna do it :(

I watched the first episode of Bakuman (I’ve read it all) and while there was some lols to be had, I dont think Im going to bother following it in the anime. Its not like some action thing where its good to see fights animated. So theres no need to watch it too. Plus I dont think its that great of a series. All this bullsh*t romance crap and not that exciting or different plot twists. I just liked it cos it showed you how WSJ worked but even then a manga about mangaka only really makes sense as a manga.

Just finished watching Code Geass, and that was a damn good ending. I don’t know if I’m happy or sad (EDIT: aw, now I’m starting to feel apathetic again…).

Why do you toy with my emotions, Japan? Rather, why can’t western entertainment toy with my emotions as well as Japan can, however temporarily? Argh….

God yes. That show was the fucking shit back in elementary school. Though sadly, it pales in comparison to the other two of the Sci-Fi Western Anime Trinity (Cowboy Bebop, Trigun).

...My brother made me watch Chi’s Sweet Home. It is digustingly cute.

WHERE IS GURREN LAGANN, MARQUIS

I DO NOT SEE IT

WHAT.

A FINE QUESTION

Hmm… that’s actually kinda tough. Anime only, or can I sub in manga in places where print is superior?

Well, that eliminates Eyeshield from contention, since the adaptation was so turrible. Lemme think.

1. Gurren Lagann
2. Rurouni Kenshin(manga is better)
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Samurai Champloo
5. FMA:B
6. Heroman
7. Monster
8. Regular FMA
9. FLCL
10. Death Note

I probably forgot something awesome and I’ll feel dumb about it, though.

Read my first manga ever (kinda behind on all this Japanese stuff) about a week ago, Uzumaki by Junji Ito. Freaky but still pretty good. And some of those scenes with the pregnant women (anyone who’s read it will know what I’m talking about) will definitely stick with me.

The name Gundam Unicorn sounds so silly... What's the unicorn part about? I am not TOO into robot anime but I will watch them. I watched Gurren Lagann and Code Geass. I might watch Gundam. What's the best series of it?

I can believe it's been that long. I haven't checked out any of the new seasons since when I watched it. I think the last one I watched had those special eggs and there was a red t-rex digimon or something who would use the egg to become this awesome electric thing. I dunno... I should so rewatch the entirety of Digimon!

I recently went out and bought my first manga. I usually read it through *ahem* legal means... but this time I thought I'd support my favourite series - One Piece. It's good to read the early stuff again and there are so many amazing quotes. For my fantasy novel idea I really need to learn how to come up with epic little bits of dialogue. Like:

"I'm not the kind of fool who hunts rabbits with a cannon" when this guy was talking about how much of an amateur his opponent was that he could beat them without his main weapon.

and "I'm going to become such a great master swordsman that my name will be known even in heaven"

Though One Piece and anime/manga in general might not be the best example for epic dialogue. I watched Game of Thrones and have been reading the second book and I really liked lines such as "There is only one true god, and his name is death. And what do we say to the god of death? Not Today."

Maybe epic quotes will just come to me when there is a need for them.... hopefully.

What’s the unicorn part about?

It has a horn on its head.

sniff So cool!

I love Whistle! That manga actually inspired me to play soccer last year.

I have finally bothered to finish Skyward Sword (a videogame if you don’t know) and my holidays are sadly pretty free so instead of doing something productive like what I mentioned in the goals thread, I think I will try to finally force myself to watch all the anime I have obtained through illegal magical means ages ago but never watched or randomly stopped halfway through. That was a long sentence. I think I will finish Trigun. Then Cowboy Bebop.

Any suggestions of what to watch after those? Even though I should watch what I have I will magically obtain other things. You can suggest films.

From memory this is what I have watched or read minus what I already mentioned:

One Piece – read/watched
Naruto – read/watched a decent amount
Bleach – read/watched a tiny bit
FMA – watched including film
FMA:B – read/watched
Death Note – read/watched a tiny bit
Fairy Tail – read/watched a tiny bit
Afro Samurai – watched including film
Code Geass – watched
Dragon Ball Kai (sigh why didn’t they redo the Buu saga?) – watched and read the Dragon Ball manga
Elfen Lied – read
High School of the Dead – watched
Ninja Scroll film (can’t find the series sequel) – watched
Samurai Champloo – watched
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann – watched
Golden Boy – watched (do not judge me!)
To Love Ru – read (again do not judge!!)
Claymore – read about half
Air Gear – read about half
Bakuman – read about half
Toriko – read until it apparently went on hiatus or stopped getting fansubbed
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Howl’s Moving Castle
Laputa
Princess Mononoke
Whisper of the Heart

That’s all I can really remember right now. I started some things but stopped very quickly so they’re not worth mentioning. Also I obviously watched all the classic anime as a kid like Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Beyblades, YuGiOh, etc. But if you think it’s cool to watch them in Japanese and see the seasons I never saw them suggest them.

Yes, Legend of the Galactic Heroes. And shame.

Toriko? It’s still ongoing. You can get the latest manga chapters online at 7manga.com.

If you like sports, read Eyeshield 21 (American football) and Whistle! (soccer).

i am gonna ignore what you said about football and agree with no one to give eyeshield another chance because it goes from kinda silly to good to very good to outright fantastic and you dont really need to understand football to enjoy it

and obviously the lack of bebop is shameful

Well that’s Cowboy Bebop done. Was pretty awesome. Animation and action was way better than Trigun’s. Did I miss something or was Faye’s past and the gate incident never really properly explained? The movie was okay but didn’t really add anything to the world or characters. The show kind of reminds me of Firefly but I think Firefly did the whole random group of people on a ship all with secret pasts and stuff thing better.

Now I think I’ll play Arkham City before going on to another anime.

On the subject of anime…

This is what is sounds like to people in the next room.

Why am I getting distinct Monty Python vibes?

Google is so good. I’ve found a bunch of old shows and games I forgot the name of by Googling keywords. On that note, I’m off to watch that Italian song! I loved it the first time but didn’t expect to be able to find it via Google.

Looks pretty interesting. I’ll keep my eye on it.

I have a masochistic relationship right now with Monogatari Second Season. I try to figure out why other people like this show, and the characters just don’t flow naturally to me.

Kill la Kill spoilers