Ikaru

Added a bit of stuff about the team that Wes wrote to the original post, if anyone isn't already on it.

starting to really appreciate this one after the last two episodes, not that I didn't like her before

IkaruKazuna, big surprise basically this and in fact the official site itself offers a torrent link for downloading (or, at least, the SEA version did (because i was able to access it and, you know, read it, for all the two days it wasn't blocked)) so that's fine, granted, we obviously can't use that ... It is and isn't, and most of it is one-time only.

I have no idea who this is but I like this one

So it is written, so it shall be done. Remember Dobby- with great seasonal power comes great seasonal responsibility. Although, I'm going to avoid pinning this one since we recommended that everyone tries to use other topics now that there's an entire subforum for what used to be this topic's purpose. If you guys disagree I can still do it, but, as of right now I don't think I want to.

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In addition to my previous post I just happened to have been looking for these before, and jelly mentioning her, my personal favorites of smug-chan: oops, maybe a bit much. EDIT: why did they all shrink, im mad

I was going to ask the same thing a couple days ago but decided maybe not, thinking that having the general topic pinned and all the attention brought to it might take away from the reason (or justification) behind making an individual topic for a given series. Since Jericho got that ball rolling when I initially decided against it, I'll go ahead and see what you guys think this time. Additionally, would anyone be willing to take care of making the new seasonal topic each... well, season? The way I see it, we'll rotate pinned topics like Jericho does for in-season sports in the Radio Tower, except it'd be a new topic each time.

dude I love her facial expressions 90% of the time she's great

if he had specified "better in x areas" there wouldn't be a problem but THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN AND I'VE BETRAYED MISAKA

I want to note that I went through all of the Radio Tower and moved anything that was anime/manga themed when the board was made; this includes incredibly old topics for the sake of consistency, and I'd like to remind everyone that the rule regarding necroposting definitely still applies! I realise a lot of the much older posts are still visible on the first page simply because there aren't a lot of topics to begin with, and by all means if they're still relevant, go ahead and contribute, but I do mean actually "contribute."

I LIKED THIS POST BEFORE I NOTICED "BETTER THAN MISAKA" I SHAKE MY FIST AT YOU KNOWING I CANNOT UNDO WHAT I HAVE DONE Provided you're fine with someone inevitably refuting it, I guess Whenever someone says Cordelia is best I allow it because she is the reason Severa exists, and is pretty great herself (and I also really like Tiki but that's unrelated) Anyway, I'm not sure FE counts as animation or manga so let's say no to be safe.

>100% humidity AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA it's the WORST literally THE WORST i hate it

First of all, LOL Second:

There's a Reborn facebook group and a lot of people have their own Skype groups, but I don't know of anything outside of that. EDIT: right, there's Reddit too, but I'm not sure those really qualify as hangout places on the level of alternatives to the forum/server.

Yes we do, yes it is, and we know why. I'm not going to go into detail of course, but, rest assured this isn't the first time something like this has happened and just go about everything as normally as you all can. Leave the technical and investigate-y stuff to us; y'all ain't gotta worry bout nothin'. except what to do if the site is down Ideally things will be back to normal sooner than later.

Okay gather around and listen up boys and girls and persons of unspecified gender identity, because we've got a little story to tell. Recently as you may have noticed we've gone through a bit of unannounced downtime in regards to the server and forum. Unfortunately, we had the displeasure of experiencing the ire of a bored child with access to resources allowing them to enact a DDoS attack on our server, which hosted both the forums and the showdown server on it. As such we've had to bear some downtime while we repaired some things and communicated with the host to get ourselves unlocked (they'd locked the site to prevent the attack from impacting other servers due to the amount of bandwidth we were consuming as a result of the DDoS). A brief description for those who don't know: a Direct Denial of Service attack (DDoS) is an attack wherein the attacker attempts to deny service via overwhelming the server with packets that usually stem from a set of compromised (usually by a Trojan virus) machines referred to as a 'botnet'. [if you wish to get more informed about these, here is a link that goes into a little more depth on the subject: http://www.digitalattackmap.com/understanding-ddos/] So once again, here we are born anew with the server and forums back up and running, but things will be a little shaky at the beginning as the DNS resolves things so there might still be some intermittent connection issues until tomorrow. Regrettably, this event will mean that we have to update our registration with Showdown so you'll have to access the server from a different link. On-site links to the server will be changed until we re-register, which should happen as early as Thursday. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconveniences caused by this. Hope to see you back on the server and read your posts on the forums! ~ Dan "Blind Guardian" Severo Scanlan [TL;DR REDACTED. JUST READ THE POST]

[: The tipping point of my interest in the raildex series that made me start watching it was that someone had this picture as their avatar on the terraria forums: I think I prefer Yukino but that's partly because she's not 14 and it's a little less weird lol a fair point and I'll go ahead and say that Hachiman Hikigaya and Houtarou Oreki are two of my favorite male anime characters, and Mukuro Rokudo was my boy back in the day; I even had Ame make me a signature for him: (ty ame) And all my wallpapers of old included Mukuro and/or Chrome

I knew I liked you. It's her or Mikoto Misaka as far as I'm concerned.

I'm going to second this, although we talked about it a bit more and honestly this could fall under rule 1 or maybe even just common sense tbh; nobody is here in a recommendations topic to read non-constructive negative opinions. As for my own recommendations so that I'm not just the big bad auth guy, at the moment the three things I've been trying to make Ame watch enjoyed the most and come to mind first recently are- Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. or My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (and its sequel) To Aru Majutsu(/Kagaku) no Index(/Railgun) or A Certain Magical(/Scientific) Index(/Railgun) (and the movie) Aldnoah.Zero or Aldnoah.Zero They're all pretty different genres and/or premises so I think there's probably something here someone would enjoy regardless. I appreciate Oregairu in particular because romantic comedies are probably my favorite thing, and Yukino in particular is my favorite type of character (not necessarily tsundere but definitely an ice queen) so a lot of my investment in the series was paying way too much attention to her and Hachiman's interactions. I liked Hachiman a lot because yeah he's the anti-social main character wow so original but he's also not. Aside from the way he's introduced in the first two episodes (that is, incredibly pessimistic and whatnot) I always thought he was pretty real for the loner rom-com MC. He hates nice girls, but not because he thinks they're fake or because they won't date him as we might see in the real world, and instead because he finds himself thinking more into their niceness than he should. He's not getting special treatment. They're this nice to everyone. Idk about anyone else, but man, I've been there and reminded myself that so many times. He makes himself the target in most situations because he doesn't put any value on himself; things are resolved by him becoming the common enemy. He's actually a pretty cool guy. It's another anime about a group of friends in high school realising everything's not quite as easy as it once was and I like to think it has some pretty real themes. It's got an endearing art style in the first season (imo) and then the second season really steps it up in terms of visual quality, and the two things I look for most in a series aside from the obvious stuff are the art style, and the soundtrack. I think it does pretty well in both of these. If anything bothers me about Oregairu as it is now, it's the "read the light novel" ending. I realise I went into a lot of detail about Oregairu and probably won't do the same for the other two, but, if nothing else- Raildex as a whole is a longer series (98 episodes + OVAs and a movie) that I kind of picked up on a whim, having known of its existence for a long time but never actually thought about watching it. I'm not an expert on the series by any means, but I did like the very fictional take on religion vs science along with all of the blurred lines in the form of the main character's friends. I'm a little upset, again, by the "read the light novel" ending here, but, at least in this case I waited long enough to watch the series that there ACTUALLY IS more of a LN to read for this one, if/when I get around to it. misaka is best girl how could you not love this face As for soundtracks like I mentioned above, the movie in particular really stood out to me (probably because one of the introduced characters is a very good singer, surprise) to the point that I made a playlist of most of the vocal songs and throw it up in the background whenever I'm doing something that doesn't require sound or CPU power For Aldnoah.Zero we're going to open up with the soundtrack this time because WHOO BOY it's my favorite part of the series. You know that guy, Sawano Hiroyuki? Like, Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, Guilty Crown? it him. he here. it good. very good. shut up, ame. I'll be fair and say that the plot of the series really kind of bothers me, because it's all one major miscommunication after another. Later on this is shown to probably be intentional, but it still doesn't change the fact that if these people had talked rationally about everything, the series could have ended in two episodes. But it didn't, and you know what, that's good because the really cool insert songs start in the third episode. If you like robots and upset victories because the main character is really fuckin' smart, here's a series. ___ So that's those and now I'm obligated to mention that Kyoto Animation is my favorite studio so some of my "old" favorites that I really really like include (in very short description) Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! or Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (and the sequel) - its SO GODDAMN CUTE AND SHICHIMIYA IS BEST GIRL AND EPISODE 10 OF THE SECOND SEASON WAS HEART WRENCHING BECAUSE I WAS IN HER EXACT POSITION AT THE TIME AND UNDERSTOOD Kyoukai no Kanata or Beyond the Boundary - Incredibly well-animated and is an original (I think?) spin on a maybe-not-so-original concept. Complete with a movie following up on the series sometime this year, and KyoAni tends to not disappoint with their non-recap movies (read: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya), so I have high expectations. Hyouka - Super chill and little to no drama; I love it because I DON'T HAVE TO FEEL. no jk but really this is something really chill if you want to just hang out and watch a series that isn't going to hype you up or tear you apart. It's a mystery anime, but, as opposed to really big dramatic mysteries, it's more about (and I read this quote in a review that I really liked) "finding wonder amidst the everyday." It's another high school setting yeah sure, but, I found that the main characters all had something about them that made me appreciate them and they all had their moments and I liked watching the opposite personalities interact. It's also cute (but not, like, moe-moe-desu-kyaa so don't worry if you don't like that) so I really enjoyed it. It's probably my favorite of these three.