Anime & Manga Thread v.4 FAQ/IRC: See OP. Thread over. Move onto v.5

General Discussion
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Version 3 of this thread is righthere.

ALSO: #SRKanimu @ irc.rizon.net. The NEW SRK A&M thread chatroom. Use an IRC client or a web client such as Mibbit and talk with other people just like you.

New forum, new look, new anime and manga thread! As usual, this’ll be the place to discuss what you’re reading and watching from Nippon land.

As usual, newcomers to the thread will likely ask many questions about recommendations or places to watch, thus the return of the FAQ.

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BASIC FAQ

Hey, where do you guys download your anime?

Tokyotosho is a good place to start with. It has a really simple search engine and covers almost all of the torrent releases when it comes to both anime and manga, be it subtitled or without.

You may want to get a Bittorrent client such as Utorrent to download any of the files there.

I got no time to download! I wanna watch my anime NOW!

No problem, sir. You’ve got streaming sites such as Goodanime.net or Anilinkz.com that could help you out on that.

How about manga?

You’ve got separate sites for this too. You can try any of the following:

Mangastream
OneManga
Mangastream.toReccomended
Mangafox
Haven Reader
Batoto Reccomended

to satisfy your urge for reading manga.

You’ve told me where to get the anime and manga, but what shows should I watch or read?!

This all depends on the genre you’re interested in. Obviously, a lot of shows tend to combine a number of them, but in general, these shows are usually enjoyed by the anime populace, so do give them a try.

This list will probably not cover everything, but mostly the major (and some minor ones). If there’s anything major missing, do tell.

Many of these shows and manga are already licensed outside of Japan, so if you want to support them, buy their DVDs or books from you local or online retailer whenever you have the chance!

Some series may have a few other genres it can be defined into; and for these, you’ll find 'em in brackets close to the title.

Disclaimer: Before checking the lists as a reference, read this post first.

Action

Fantasy Adventure

Comedy - Romance

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Comedy - General

Mecha

Slice of Life

Horror

Drama and Mystery

Magical Girl

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Sci-Fi

Sports & Martial Arts

Board Games and Gambling

Where can I find news about upcoming shows and other related stuff?

You’ve got Sankaku Complex (NSFW!) and theAnime News Network that you’d might want to check often.

So a new anime season starts and I want see the latest pics and info for each week’s episode. Where should I check, outside of SRK?

The Animeblogger Antenna covers a lot of the bigger anime blogs and has frequent posts by the hour.

Umm…What anime IS airing right now, anyway?

Current:
Fall 2012

Older seasons:
Summer 2012
Spring 2012
Winter 2012

Summer 2011
Spring 2011
Winter 2011
Fall 2011

Credit goes to Moetron and @Animuchartsfor most the charts.

Anime is bad nowadays. Whatever happened to the good old days?!

Read this.

Anime and manga are for fat and slobbery otaku! Comics, cartoons, movies and everything else is where it’s at!

This ain’t the thread for you then.

Hey uhh who is that shiny knight guy from the fate stay thingy. He looks all gold 'n purdy.

GIRUGAMESH!

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Nice, all shiny and new.

Picking up where things left of, what’s the opinion on X-Men anime?

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Haven’t been here in a while either. Fell off after Madoka. Been playing chaos;head VN(glad I held off watching the anime) and Hearts of Iron 2 Darkest Hour which crashes frequently. 1-2 episodes away from catching up in Iroha and Lotte.

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so as i said in the old thread, i started watching tiger and bunny, it looks cool so far

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I tried Hearts of Iron 3 once with my brother. We played for like forever and the war didn’t even start :smiley:
Paradox games are too hardcore man.

Also, I think I understand waifus now. <3 Marceline the vampire queen

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Not liking this new forum format, but whateva~

Wonder if there are still spoiler tags. Time to test.

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Spoiler

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FML. No spoiler tags… I hope they get put back in soon.

HANASAKU IROHA 08 SPOILERS:
God damn it I will be SO pissed if Ohana and Kou don’t get to meet up. Of all the things going on in this show, I really hope they improve their relationship because I’m a sucker for good romance.

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Have you checked out Ano Hana yet? You should give that a try too.

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They will both be forever alone with misunderstandings.

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This shit is mad ugly…

Wow, times flies, I’ve seen 3 anime threads come and go…and now I don’t watch anime no more. Sad times.

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Yin: The X-Men anime is a lot better than the previous Marvel/Madhouse offerings. To many, this may not be saying much, but it sort of reminds me of a '90’s anime style action series. You won’t go wrong with it, IMO.

Good to see more people watching Adventure Time. I await Season 3 with much anticipation.

It’s seemed that you either moved on or you needed a break from it.

No spoiler tag is a bummer, though.

Random thoughts about some shows (some spoilers ahead, maybe):

Gintama #209: Troll episode! Mostly recycled footage in the form of the Shiroyasha Koutan OVA re-shown again and Hasegawa’s song. Next week will be worth it though, since it’s the start of the 4 Devas arc.

Tiger & Bunny #8: An Origami Cyclone development episode. Not like it was bad, but it certainly was surprising to see him getting the spotlight this time. Also, Barnaby finally acknowledges Kotetsu. Took you long enough! Now even Lunatic is taking Kotetsu seriously.

Hanasaku Iroha #8: I liked Ohana’s resolve during the episode in wanting to follow her grandmother’s rules and going all the way to get Tohru from that wedding he’s attending. The Kou cellphone scene was a bit cliche, but I’ll laugh if we’ll get a misunderstanding between Tohru, Ohana and Kou in some way or form.

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Yeah. I started a lot of anime this season. Iroha and Lotte are just the only ones I’ve managed to get back to. Pretty much the only anime this season I haven’t started on are C and Steins;Gate(I feel compelled to finish Chaos;Head first).

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Dumb new forums, yay! Aria, go add Baka Test to the Comedy recommendations.

EDIT: Image size is a lie. It’s not 200x200, its 96x96. :\

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Scrolling signatures?!

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GET YO OLD PREMIUM SON

In which premium still isn’t back!

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Fovever on the first page

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God I hope not. :frowning:

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Madoka ost is out now. The torrent says its low quailty but it sounds good to me.

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Hey Aria, how can Katanagatari not be in the recommended anime list?!