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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM8RufZr5lw

What is the official Amarna Forum opinion on SAO? One of the first anime I watched consciously.

Also observe the decline of AOT through the decline of it's OPs. The first three are absolutely incredible, especially the third.

Virtue Wrote:Also observe the decline of AOT through the decline of it's OPs. The first three are absolutely incredible, especially the third.

I can't force myself to have a strong opinion about AoT OPs except for that the first is the very best, the fourth is the worst and the rest don't dramatically differ in quality but are good relatively speaking among anime. As for the quality of the series, the absolute peak of enjoyment for me was Season 3 Pt 2 and Season 4 Pt 1, while I found the Royal Government arc to be the most boring part.

Virtue Wrote:What is the official Amarna Forum opinion on SAO? One of the first anime I watched consciously.

I had the same experience, SAO being the first anime I sat down to watch. I only saw the first season, and then later listened to Digibro bitch about the show. I don't remember anything to contradict the notion that it is "a cringe, played out self-insert isekai" but I can appreciate the "spirit" of said genre: Sensitive Young Men desiring adventure and a waifu that doesn't look like the Venus fertility deity statue. Speaking of the waifu, as far as I can remember the relationship between Asuna and Kirito was pleasant to watch. I do not mean to counter-signal loli and siscon but I believe what SAO represented was a more sophisticated expression of the same impulse that leads a title like Oreimo to be popular among the anime youth.

On the subject of early anime experiences, I can only remember 2 encounters with anime that I had before SAO: I saw a clip of Mirai Nikki (episode 2, specifically) on YouTube, and I caught a few episodes of Deadman Wonderland airing on Adult Swim as I fell asleep. I later went back to watch both. Mirai Nikki gets a bad reputation but similarly to SAO I "get it" because I consider the popularity of the yandere archetype to be a yearning for higher romance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p4e0URzGyE

An upload of the full No Game No Life OP was once the most viewed anime OP on YouTube. However, it was later copyright striked by ZOG. You can see that upload here, when it sat at 155,000,000 views: http://web.archive.org/web/2021081423180...aksNlNniis

(10-04-2023, 04:51 AM)Unformed Golem Wrote: [ -> ]AMV:

If Akio wasn't Indian (and from a girls' show) he'd be a "literally me" meme character for a generation of anime fans despite the feminist author's "Nooo you can't live in a penthouse and drive a cool car and have sex with hot young girls that's being a child you need to grow up"

chevauchee Wrote:
Unformed Golem Wrote:AMV:

If Akio wasn't Indian (and from a girls' show) he'd be a "literally me" meme character for a generation of anime fans despite the feminist author's "Nooo you can't live in a penthouse and drive a cool car and have sex with hot young girls that's being a child you need to grow up"

At least he kept his brown hands off Nanami.

OP: The Vision of Escaflowne.

The opening of Sakura no Uta, a visual novel written by SCA-Ji who also wrote Subarashiki Hibi and Sakura no Toki which is the sequel of Sakura no Uta.

Was thinking of watching this one again. Can't remember much about it other than the fact that mongoloids called it Japanese Batman, but from what I remembered it had more in common with a spy flick than the modern detective shtick that Batman attempts. I guess you see a guy dressed in black beating people up and you think Batman when you are an idiot. I recall it having the tendency of intentionally leaving important plot points very vague, leaving the viewer to ultimately accept whatever holes are left from the half-answer , which I remember being much disliked by a lot people on the internet if only because most popular Japanese animation tends to reveal the entire mystery to the viewer at some point (the archetypal flashback episode). I just remembered it being cool when I was younger and disliking the sequel because the original protagonist is just a deadbeat alcoholic in that one.