Ranny

I liked the first episode of Witch Hunter Robin.. maybe it was the music. Or the initial confusingness of it. I mean I got the point, but I really didn't because I only saw the first episode.
Paranoia Agent does have a moral to it! I just... forgot what it was. Something about facing reality instead of creating your own to escape it, right?
I felt the same way about Eureka 7, but only because I really felt a connection between Gundams and their whutevermacallits. But I did like S-cry-ed... or was brainwashed into liking it by Ryuho, who I have a crush on. D:

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SS2 Vegeto

I hated Gundam Wing, because it was emotionally dry, didn't feel human, or alive, just..distant, plain in it's development of characters..impersonal, that's what I'm saying, and I hate that. The complexity of the plotline didn't actually do it any good for me either, because it only served to make it excruciatingly boring until about the last ten episodes, which it seemed like the whole series was spent setting up. That said, those ten or so episodes were good, yet that's ten to the forty that I hated. It was far too..not human, not real in it's feeling for me to form connections, and thus, dull for me to watch while it was moving more slowly.

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Ranny

I didn't really connect much with Gundam Wing, I loved G Gundam though. I don't really know.. I had a crush on Domon? And was a shipper for Rain/Domon? So I guess the romance involved in G Gundam kept me watching. I felt that some episodes were stupid though, while others were amazing. The whole idea behind the G Gundam kept me compelled.. but maybe I'm simple minded? Cause I really didn't get Gundam Wing. =/

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Super_17

I liked GW because it flipped the two sides around showing how there was an evil side on Earth and a good side in space but then it flipped in the end reversing the two sides again at the end

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Crayne

So I read this manga called Ai-Ren. It's a dramatic slice-of-life with the obvious fanservice.
It's about a guy who is about to die, and he decides to get a sort of human doll, Ai-Ren - "love person" if we want to translate that. The Ai-Ren grows mentally only, and otherwise doesn't change much, so the manga is about the Ai-Ren and the guy facing days of their lives and facing signs of their death.
It was... sad. Eventually. There was some lulz, but not much... which is good, because if there had been more humor, forced or not, it just wouldn't have fit to the atmosphere of the manga. I can't say that it was excellent enough to make me feel empty after finishing it, but hell, I enjoyed reading it anyhow.
Or maybe it is that I have already finished so many excellent series, that no other series anymore can match up to the level of emptiness after finishing such awesome, epic series.

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Ranny

So it was kind of like Chobits, but he was dieing?

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Crayne

Let me tell you this much - The main character was in a colony spaceship that was orbiting the Earth. The colony spaceship fell down to the earth, everybody died, except for the main character, who had been "fixed" with alien technology never before seen. As his body starts to reject the technology, he is dying.
Ai-Ren is basically a human being, perhaps a dead human even, who was cryogenically frozen, memories wiped out, and is then reawakened. As such, they are not meant to exist, and have only a lifespan of... say, 10 months.
And also, the main character's teacher(who also has the hots for the main character) is an "evolved human". She was enhanced in some way, can't remember anymore how... but essentially, she is a "perfect being" now. And as such, she will slowly lose control of her arms, legs, and eventually lose her eyesight.
So, many characters will die because of "special conditions". And the series is about how they tackle events of their lives and how the nearness of death affects them. Or something like that.
And to distinguish Ai-Ren from Chobits, the Ai-Ren grows mentally. From a child to an adolescent and eventually to an adult.

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Ranny

Ohhh, ok. Just needed an elaboration. ;P
Sounds interesting, more like the idea that humanity is constantly trying to play 'God' and theres a cause and effect to that. SOUNDS DEEP. And awfully depressing. =[

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Crayne

It's even more depressing when you get to find out what is the main character's end.
It's good. I enjoyed reading it. But the slice-of-life series just don't appeal that much. But for a series that is mostly if not completely slice-of-life, it was helluva good.

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Amerowolf

I have never seen Anime Society so consecutively active. (At least not for a really long time.) Makes me wanna cry a lil. ;___; Love you gaiz.
On a different note, my anime collection just got whipped by Dino's manga collection. Not that my anime collection is even big but....Wow. Seriously, BIG shelves full of manga and games. So I'm gonna go live at Dino's home. That made me want to cry tears of joy as well.

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Crayne

So I watched all of School Days now. Crappy seinen harem. But it rawked. Because of the bad end. And only because of the bad end.
(Makoto kind of deserved it.)

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Super_17

I don't know why I'm going back to this but paranoid agent was too complex for me to understand maybe because it seemed like a bad acid trip.

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Amerowolf

Or maybe it was a good acid trip!? You really have to watch it sometimes because some episodes have important symbols or secret meanings that you have to be watching to catch. My favorite episode is and will forever be Happy Family Planning, the one with the three internet pals meeting up and trying to kill themselves.
That shit made me lulz and rocked my brain at the same time.

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Shirogetsu

Funimation licensed Ghost Hunt, Amero, also, I slept through Halloween... again.

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SS2 Vegeto

The series is symbolic of humanity's paranoia and inner weaknesses and insecurities, the innability to distinguish fantasy from reality, involving the unwillingness to face reality.

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