Yeah, I'm from Western Md, not far from Pittsburgh, I like to watch British shows as well, usually Doctor Who, and I use a British pronunciation on occasion.

Same way with me. This seems to be happening to alot of people. I was big into anime about 10 years ago, but slowly dropped out because there wasn't anything that interested me. And now, boom, everyone's talking about anime again, including myself.

I think Crunchyroll, the return of Toonami, and the successes of Attack…

I feel the same way. It can be a bit jarring in the first episode maybe, but once the show takes off, everything else towers over it; the character interaction, the fight scenes, the comedy, the creative use of animation. I just don't notice the fanservice anymore.

You know what the definition of being an adult is? Not caring whether someone likes "cartoons" or not.

This is most certainly not something one would show to children. And you think people are only watching it for the violence and fanservice? You think they're only watching it to say to themselves "DURR I'M SO NAUGHTY…

You do know anime isn't a genre, its a medium, right? There's as many genres in anime as there is in live-action. And there's quite a few anime films and series which are considered to be timeless classics among ALL mediums. There's good stuff and bad stuff, as all other mediums have, but hating on all of it is like…

Needs some classic Gyorgi Ligeti as the soundtrack to get the full effect.

Yeah, I didn't recognize her. She just looked like another generic moeblob to me.

Those aren't cliffs.

Yeah they used to, but not anymore since they restarted Toonami on Adult Swim. There's still some (usually barely noticeable) edits, but nowhere near the extant of what it used to be.

Toonami played Akira over the weekend with the barest minimum of edits. They just edited over a brief nipple-shot (done so well I barely noticed it) and any instances of the word "fuck". Everything else was left in, all the violence and gore and other cursing, including "shit".

Things are getting better for anime on…

I remember watching it in the late 80s-early 90s here in America.

I hope there's a minigame where you get to slap Joffrey.

I actually really liked Nichijou. It was hilarious and stylized perfectly. Its a shame it didn't do so well in Japan, which made KyoAni go back to their safe zone.

Yeah, if you watch more anime, you can tell who's got a budget and who doesn't. However, for me, that's not the most important part of an anime. Its whether its entertaining for me or not. KyoAni's got a huge budget and some of the most fluid beautiful animation out there, but they waste it on cute moeblob girls…

Yeah, having all the episodes be a similar quality would be nice, but, yeah, anime studios don't work like American studios. It is Trigger's first broadcast series, so they gotta work with what they got. They are capable of fluid, awesome animation when they have a budget, like with Little Witch Academia. Maybe their…

I'm pretty sure the unit of measurement for over-the-top-ness is Gurren Laganns.

Well, Trigger right now only has about 20-30 employees, so the animation quality will obviously change from episode to episode, depending on how important that episode is. For example, the third episode had great quality, while the fourth episode was this side of Inferno Cop. Then it went back up for the fifth…

Titanic

Draw me like one of your French girls.