VectorSatyr Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I watched Paranoia Agent when it was first showed on as. The first episode I saw (I believe it was the third, but it was the one you saw) I absolutely hated. It was nothing but a whiney kid complain about losing popularity. But for some reason, I decided to give it another try and watched the next episode and was pleasantly suprised that the story in no way revolved around him. Yeah, I saw Paranoid Agent when it was first around, too. My first ep. was the one involving the woman with the split personality trapped inside her head. I didn't get to see much of the episodes, but I did see the last few and was throuroughly satified by the ending. It wasn't until recently when I saw the first episode that I understood what had happened... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twodee Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 i hardly ever watch adult swim, or anime anymore for that matter- but i caught this show awhile back and i realllly do enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Winslow Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 I honestly don't know whether I hate it or love it. One episode I love for how amazingly understandable it is, the next one drives me nuts, and there's a few that leave scratching my head thinking "what did I just watch?" Now the episode with the three dead people was pretty amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed the overall strangeness of their odd predicament, especially when they met Lil' Slugger. The next-to-last episode was funny in how Lil' Slugger kept tearing the house down while the lady talked, simply waiting for her to give in. the fact she never did, though, drove him off. The last episode, even though it explained everything, was still the oddest thing I have ever seen. It made perfect sense, it just did it in a truely abstract fashion. As for Geneon's dubs, I think they're okay, for the most part. I enjoyed the Dub of Gungrave, up until the "Beyonda de Gravu" section. (reference to japanese dub, which was rather iffy.) This was the point where they started messing it up, changing "Deadmen" to "Superior". though I'm rather glad they didn't scream "GRAAAAAVE!" continuously. "BRAAANDOOON!" was MUCH more bearable. but I never liked that section of the anime, because how off it was from the game, and he LOST HE F$#@ING COFFIN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheonix Gamma Posted July 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 http://www.adultswim.com/shows/paranoia/bts/clips/video01.asx kinda explains the show (minor spoilers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 A blessing!? A false salvation and escape. That's what the whole ending was about. Lil' Slugger helped noone. He's the embodyment of a depraved emotion. He's denial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Okay. Final Episode was on again tonight. I decided to sit all the way through it. Same silly ending with the horribly drawn out, obvious, backwards storyline. But at the end, the guy is scribbling what I can only assume to be math on the sidewalk. Right before he solves the equation he gets some revelation like he solved the meaning of life and then it ends. Does this have ANY relevance to the story, and, what the fsck is it about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hol Tiger Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 It's interesting, I've seen all the episodes. I wouldn't call it an anime as much as a japanese multi-part tv-movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tentril Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Paranoia Agent made me angry when I first saw it. The first few episodes just bored me. I started watching again a few months ago, and I'd say its good if you don't try to get into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorSatyr Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Okay. Final Episode was on again tonight. I decided to sit all the way through it.Same silly ending with the horribly drawn out, obvious, backwards storyline. But at the end, the guy is scribbling what I can only assume to be math on the sidewalk. Right before he solves the equation he gets some revelation like he solved the meaning of life and then it ends. Does this have ANY relevance to the story, and, what the fsck is it about? Silly boy! It's a replay of the beginning of the first episode, point for point, meaning that the nightmare has simply started over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzMaster Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Ew, anime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 But What The ____ Is He Doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorSatyr Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Actually, I didn't watch enough to see what his deal was. You'll have to look it up. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 I started watching this a few weeks ago and it really drew me in, because it immediately made me think, "wow... this looks pretty deep". I went ahead and downloaded all of the episodes... and then watched them, and I was really psyched until the second to the last episode. On the second to the last episode they remove any semblance of depth from the series and just generally ____ it up. I had guessed what the origin of Little Slugger was from the very first episode with little difficulty, and uh... I was expecting them to throw me with a major twist before the end and they just didn't. Instead they turned it into standard anime shocker bull____. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorSatyr Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 I hadn't, so the ending was somewhat satifying for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 I saw the ending yesterday it blew my ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckboy Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 I never made any effort to even check out this show, but it happened to be one when I came out of the bathroom last night. There were two humans, and then every other character appears to be a cardboard cutout. I don't know if this was because they were at some carnival, or if that's how they always do that, but I changed the channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 {some spoilers are probably in this post} That was Ikari's (the older detective) old-fassioned land of make believe where Tsukiko Sagi was hiding from Little Slugger and the world's scorn. But What The ____ Is He Doing? I think the main point was to show that the younger detective (Maniwa), because of this incident, had become the same type of crazy that the old man he kept running into was. You know, that whole mirror, doubling thing. To be fair, it had showed that he was already pretty unballanced in how he so willingly played into whatever farfetched proposition came before him and the way he was preaching about Little Slugger on a suicide discussion chat room. Anyway, the story's not that deep and meaningful and I don't know that it was meant to be. The only person who might have had something thoughtful to say in the story was Ikari's wife. The story had more emphasis on a believable, but a little extreme, human, display of emotions and repressions and such than having a deeper meaning and great twists. I'm pretty sure you were supposed to figure out the origin of Little Slugger- they had spelt it out for you. I'm not saying it was an amazing ending, because it wasn't, but the momentum and presentation that the show had developed was very much realized in the ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Anyway, my conclusion on this is that symbols alone don't make a good story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorSatyr Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Anyway, my conclusion on this is that symbols alone don't make a good story in America. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 What does that even mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rael0505 Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Clearly Aero was saying that symbols alone make good stories in Japan, unlike in America. Because it makes a difference where it was made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 ..ookay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckythemutant Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 I flipped to it last night, and as soon as I saw it was anime I changed the channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 I flipped to it last night, and as soon as I saw it was anime I changed the channel. Thanks for your ____ty input duckboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckboy Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 lol ur so funnee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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