[Top Gun]

Someone needs to inject a heaping helping of GAR into this thread, stat.

[Moomba]

AKB0048 is pretty damned good. Combining moe idols, awesome mecha battles, singing, dancing, cyborgs, gynoids, and a variety of other things that should work together into a single anime where they actually end up working really well. It's also directed by the people behind Macross F and written by Kawamori (the mastermind behind the entire Macross franchise and Aquarion EVOL).

Speaking of Aquarion EVOL, since it's pretty much set as the best anime of 2012, if you haven't watched it you should go do so. Like now. Right now.

[Yami]

Originally Posted by Moomba

Speaking of Aquarion EVOL, since it's pretty much set as the best anime of 2012, if you haven't watched it you should go do so. Like now. Right now.

Should I have watched the first Aquarion for this?

[Moomba]

Originally Posted by Yami

Should I have watched the first Aquarion for this?

It's not really necessary - most people didn't. The original Aquarion is supposedly not that great. Fortunately, everything you need to know about it is covered in some form over the course of Aquarion EVOL so you'll never find yourself lost for not having seen the original.

[urdailywater]

Watching the K-ON! Movie.

I'm in moe heaven, and I love it.

[Unstable Hamster]

Wait this Aquarion EVOL is good? I watched like the first episode of the first Aquarion and it drove me nuts from how generic it was, and how creepy it was for the mechs to combine (Pilots should not be making those noises when their mechs combine.) Turned me off this show.

If you can give me a good reason to watch this new one I would be more than happy to check it out.

Also watching Trigun, on episode 11 now, good stuff.

[Moomba]

Originally Posted by Unstable Hamster

Wait this Aquarion EVOL is good? I watched like the first episode of the first Aquarion and it drove me nuts from how generic it was, and how creepy it was for the mechs to combine (Pilots should not be making those noises when their mechs combine.) Turned me off this show.

If you can give me a good reason to watch this new one I would be more than happy to check it out.

Rather than give one, I will instead link you to twenty.

But if you were turned off a show because of innuendo, this is probably not going to be the anime for you...

[Unstable Hamster]

Thanks for the link, I'll still check the anime out. I think the problem is for me is that aquarion seems been really funny to me on paper, but then actually watching/hearing it they seem to go a tad to far to just creepy. I'll check out AKB0048 too cause I'm a sucker for anything like Macross frontier.

[DJLionheart]

Originally Posted by Moomba

and there was no way Guilty Crown could ever live up to the hype that was generated by claims of being on par with Code Geass

You know, there were a few things in Guilty Crown that I was kind of let down with, but overall I really enjoyed it. I thought their use of the opening and closing theme songs throughout the show was very fitting and symbolic. The words to the second op. theme (The Everlasting Guilty Crown) are pretty meaningful to me, and I've got a few of them in my signature.

I loved the concept of "voids," and how each person's void represented their identity or soul in some way. And holy cow, there were some deep topics dealt with (deep for me at least) - like (SPOILER ALERT) what should Shu do in a situation like the one where he has someone asking him to end his life so he won't be a burden on his brother anymore. Moments like that provoked a lot of deep thought for me.

I'm almost at the end of Bleach right now (ep. 357) - I've been skipping the "filler seasons." AWESOME. And I'm trying to watch Code Geass as well. Loving both of those shows right now.

[Mirby]

I finished Rockman.EXE Axess finally (fansubs were completed for the last 11 episodes). Pretty awesome. Started on Stream (since the first ep has subs too).

All I have to say about the first episode of Stream is... what the fuck, Wily?