Many times I feel the author does a cop out when writing several different endings. Of course, if the story is an adaption of one of those dating games (why not go out and date for real instead if you are young?) with many different paths, there kind of needs to be an ending for each candidate I guess.

Different endings are par for the course for a VN, if all the choiche branches would get you to the same ending they would be quite meaningless choiches.

It's not a dating game either, not that there's anything wrong with them.

Fun Fact: Shotaro Kaneda from Akira got his license this exact day.

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I feel your pain brother of another mother (from another species).

Sooo we can post anything manga/anime related here? Cause in that case i wanna give my mandatory shoutout to the criminally underrated Rideback.

Rideback! It's good! More people need to know it exitsts!

Same goes for Dennou Coil, Kaiba, Haibane Renmei, Simoun and Kino's Journey. If you're looking for something unique and different from your usual vanilla anime flavor put those on your watch list. No gurantee that you'll like it, but it is defintiely different.

Still no Neo-Tokyo from Akira.. X-D At least we have ONE officially recognized Kaneda's Bike.

That was quite funny. What I've read, few Japanese zoos are collaborating with Kemono Friends and are quite happy to see people (other than otakus too) to come visit. :)

Haibane Renmei and Kino's Journey are great (I've seen those). But slice-of-life is always bit hit or miss.
Some like slower story-building and some just hates when "nothing happens, boring.." X-)
With Dennou Coil, problem might have been that it wasn't licensed in NA until 2016 by Sentai Filmworks, (under Maiden Japan). Only way to get it before was either import from Japan or import it from Australia in R4 & PAL-discs (feel free to correct if wrong).

Currently Reading FullMetal Alchemist. I love the art work, particularly how the minimal use of line and shading conveys so much visual info. I'm on Vol. 7 at the moment, so Greed has just made his entrance. I know his name because I started watching FMA Brotherhood on DVD. I got to Episode 20 and then decided I wanted to go back and read the Manga before watching any more Episodes. I did this because if I'm going to have a spoiler effect from one, I prefer to get it from reading the Manga more than watching the series.

Story wise I couldn't be more thrilled. The foreshadowing of things I know are going to be important later is fantastic. The interactions between Ed and Al are by turns hilarious and touching. I'm a big Dragonball Z (TV series) fan, but I like how FMA is different in that the characters are more fleshed out and feel more relate-able at this point.

As for what I'd like to read/watch in the future:
1. Hellsing. Would love to see what this whole universe is like and being older than 18 I can handle the gore, which I've heard there's a lot of.
2.Mobile Suit Gundam (and spin-offs/movies). I used to watch this when I was about fifteen. I was taken in by how human the Gundam Mechs were, also to me, this is where all the Mecha craze started. Could be wrong on that last part, but still think Gundam is a classic. The story-line is great and the action ain't bad either.

I recommend checking out Patlabor. It is a slice-of-life thing, where mecha are used for law enforcement, construction, and so forth.

As for the Gundam 0079 UC, it comes in two flavors: A three-video trilogy that condenses the plot of the series, and an anime that consists of 43 episodes. Figured you would want to know, since there is a sizable time investment for watching the full series.

Ah, I just saw that Record of Lodoss War (OVA + Chronicles of the Heroic Knight) is getting a re-release on Blu-Ray in July. First Iria, Magic Knight Rayearth, Key: The Metal Idol, and now this, it's great that so many of my favorite classics are getting re-released. The prices for the old out of stock DVDs had become ludicrous, I'm glad my patience has paid off.

Sorry I forgot to give a spoiler warning on my post about FMA and other things I'm interested in. I am still new here. Hope I didn't bug anyone too bad.

Lots of nice Ghibli-esque commercials made for Kyushu-based bakery Francois.
Animated by
Yoshiharu Satō (animation director for My Neighbor Totoro, Only Yesterday) and
Akihiko Yamashita (key animator for Spirited Away, The Wind Rises)

Some more info of these at ANN.

So NHK Best Anime 100 poll ended finally and the results are:

Top 20
1. Tiger & Bunny (2011)
2. Tiger & Bunny The Movie -The Rising- (2014)
3. Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)
4. Love Live! School idol project (first season, 2013)
5. Love Live! School idol project (second season, 2014)
6. Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning (2012)
7. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006)
8. Card Captor Sakura (1998)
9. Love Live! The School Idol Movie (2015)
10. Mr. Osomatsu (2015)
11. Gintama (2006)
12. Joker Game (2016)
13. The Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)
14. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
15. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (2008)
16. Is the order a rabbit? (2014)
17. Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
18. Digimon Adventure (1999)
19. Psycho-Pass (2012)
20. Sword Art Online (2012)

Top 10 for male voters:
1. Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)
2. Love Live! School idol project (first season, 2013)
3. Love Live! School idol project (second season, 2014)
4. Love Live! The School Idol Movie (2015)
5. Is the order a rabbit? (2014)
6. The Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)
7. Girls und Panzer (2012)
8. Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
9. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
10. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006)

Top 10 for female voters:
1. Tiger & Bunny (2011)
2. Tiger & Bunny The Movie -The Rising- (2014)
3. Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning (2012)
4. Mr. Osomatsu (2015)
5. Joker Game (2016)
6. Gintama (2006)
7. Card Captor Sakura (1998)
8. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006)
9. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (2008)
10. Haikyu!! (2014)

Full lists are here (NHK site)

It's kind of funny both males and females have one franchise 3 times as best anime.

Has anyone heard? Nyaa is gone for good. Sad day, as it's the biggest anime everything on this planet. :(

Absolutely! Feel free to post, I can link almost anything back to manga and anime in one way or another anyway. ;)

Nah, you've nothing to worry about. I don't really see any spoilers in your post. Naming the characters isn't spoiling anything. Neither is the "foreshadowing of things". Your post is just fine! :)

More for those interested. Oh, and [url=https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/855674523588280320/pu/vid/1280x720/NSe1GfZFwWltp1Jc.mp4]this.

Thanks for updating that! I'm so busy I've forgotten when the results are supposed to be revealed. Hmm, I should re-watch Tiger & Bunny just to refresh my memory... At least Code Geass is consistent across both genders, that's good. I hope the upcoming Resurrection won't disappoint.

Btw, YoI isn't even in the top 400? That's a bit surprising after grabbing all the headlines not so long ago. In other recent news, Evgenia Medvedeva improved on her Sailor Moon routine.

Somewhat reminds me of and its follow-up 1 year [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUwTFYsOno8]later.