Anime?

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FLCL…Fooly Cooly is awesome. 6 episodes. Its absolutely insane, and addictive as crack. Loaded with some sweet guitar riffs. I got it permently TiVo’d.

Another one that’s way out there on the strange end of the scale is PARANIOA AGENT. It airs late at nite on the Cartoon Network. Psychological Thriller type show. 13 episodes I think.

TECHNOLYZE is a good one for the cyberpunk fans. Its basically the whole group who did Serial Experiments Lain (skip SEL. it takes waayyy to much effort to follow). Solid animation work. Some pretty decent violence.

Samurai X. Just watch the OVA series. Lots of sword play and bloodletting. Skip the Samurai X series (lame and goofy) and watch TRIGUN (goofy, but in well executed way).

FULL METAL PANIC! FUMOFFU
You can watch the original series FMP! if you want. Decent Mecha stuff, but nothing to write home about. However the FMP! FUMOFFU (a series of short 15 min. shows) is the funiest anime I have ever seen. It had me cracking up for days.

STEEL ANGEL KURUMI. Steam Punk. Solid animation. Looks like a kiddie show but the language is pretty rough. Good action sequences. Skip the 2nd season.

GHOST IN THE SHELL 2 : INNOCENCE sequel to the original movie. A must see for GITS fans. The animation is out of this world. I wish to hell they would produce an English dub. Would be nice to just watch the visuals instead of splitting my attention to cover the subtitles.

HERE AND THERE, NOW AND THEN. Another steam punk anime. Future/Alternate Earth setting. The story is just heart rending. The story revolves around children, but the story might be too much for your kids. Some very serious subject matter.

IGPX. This one really surprised me. Some very recognizable names in the vocal cast. Solid story and animation. Incredible race scenes.

Other Must sees:
Cowboy Bebop. Heat Guy J, Samurai Champloo, Bubble Gum Crisis 2040. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Two animes to keep an eye out for is Basilisk and Speed Grapher. Basilisk is about two ninja clans duking it out for superiority. Has much the look and feel Ninja Scroll the movie. Speed Grapher is freelance photographer who winds up in some deep shit. The animation and villains remind me of Outlaw Star. Just saw the 1st episode of each, looking forward to the complete series.

For those of you reading Manga or want to give it a try Dark Horse Comics is publishing english trnslations of Kazuo Koikie’s & Goseki Kojima’s LONE WOLF AND CUB series and SAMURAI EXECTUTIONER series in their original size format. These are timeless classics worth every minute and every penny.

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[quote]Donut62 wrote:
As for movies, Grave of the Fireflies is probably the most powerful anti-war movie I’ve ever seen. It disturbs me in a way that few movies have. Anything by Miyazaki is great. I just watched Princess Mononoke and enjoyed it a lot.[/quote]

I just got around to watching Grave of The Fireflies last night actually. Definitely stirred quite a bit of emotion, I wouldn’t say its the most powerful I’ve seen…possibly the most powerful animated, but I have a severe attachment to Empire of The Sun. I did however think about Grave for hours before I drifted off to sleep, it has impact and beauty.

I used to be very skeptical of anime, but these days find myself engrossed a bit. I enjoy Inuyasha, which some sarcastics will say is just Dragonball Z for girls. I care not. It is the only anime to hold my attention for care of the characters, despite plot lacking. Once again I am humbled since once upon a time, I would have not batted an eye lid, but I see what is good in the good…eventually, …always.

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Guyver
Fist of the Northstar
Tekkaman Blade
Golgo 13
8 Man After
Kenshin
Crying Freeman
Fatal Fury

EVERYONE in here needs to check out Fist of the Northstar and Golgo 13, Guyver is also highly recommended. Currently taking Japanese at my university (UT Austin) so I can watch and read the anime and manga with out the need for subs or translations. That would be sweet…

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I second Miyazaki. All of his stuff is at a different level, Porco Rosso, Chihiro, Princess Mononoke, as well as his script for Whispers of the Heart.

TQB

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[quote]wfifer wrote:
^That’s a good one.

I used to be watch a lot of anime; now I’m down to a weekly fix of Naruto and Bleach. Some of my favorites were Trigun, Outlaw Star, Akira, and Cowboy Bebop. [/quote]

Fillers are over!!!

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[quote]En Sabah Nur wrote:
Guyver
Fist of the Northstar
Tekkaman Blade
Golgo 13
8 Man After
Kenshin
Crying Freeman
Fatal Fury

EVERYONE in here needs to check out Fist of the Northstar and Golgo 13, Guyver is also highly recommended. Currently taking Japanese at my university (UT Austin) so I can watch and read the anime and manga with out the need for subs or translations. That would be sweet…[/quote]

Dude, are we like brothers or something. I’m so glad you mentioned Hokuto No Ken/Fist of Northstar and Golgo 13. Good shit. True anime.

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I like my Anime like all men should like it:
Violent, Bloody, Bad ass heroes and villains, tight art, and great looking.

Here’s my list:

MD Geist: MY FAV
Vampire Hunter D: The shiznit
Street Fighter II:Animated Movie: Please watch this
Ninja Scroll:OWN IT. Masterpiece.
Fist of the Northstar: You wa Shock
Robotech series:I tear up just thinking about the intro to the show. Shit was dope.
Red Hawk:Actually made by Koreans
Guyver: the 90’s one, not the new shit they’re making.
Dragonball Z: How can you not like this show. It owned my life in 8th grade.
Ronin Warriors: So damn good
Voltron
G-Force: original name is Gatchaman
Grappler Baki: 90’s version, not this new shit.
Sailor Moon: Yeah, I said it. I can’t say I liked the show…I watched it. It killed time.
Gundam: Gundam wing is tight, but stuff from Universal Centural like Stardust memory and Z Gundam is ALOT better.
Berserk:What can I say? 100 Man Slayer is bad ass. I never thought I’d see something in anime this good post 2000.

There’s more, I just can’t think of any more. But since 99, anime took a turn for the worst. First sign was when I saw Pokemon before it was a big hit. All the good anime got replaced by Yu-Gi-Oh, Naruto, and Hamtaro. I know you remember Hamtaro.

True Anime down at the bottom:

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I’m Otaku from a long way back:

Some realy good ones:

A wind Named Amnesia

Nausica

Riding Bean

Gunbuster (One of my favorite OVA series)

Dangahio

Mamino Hunter Yohoko

Vampire Princess Miu

FLCL (Fooly Cooly)

Robotech (Watch the Collection videos where they have the origional Series and the Americanized versions. Quick History: What we know as the three generations of Robotech; Macross, The Masters, and Next generation was origionaly three total unrelated series; Macross, Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospedia. Harmony Gold cobbled them together and made a Trilogy out of them.)

Honestly, there are too many to name. Most of the older stuff is better. The newer stuff is starting to use CGI and it’s diluting the art.

La’
Redsol1

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I’m pretty sure nobody has mentioned Bleach yet. It is by far the best anime series currently in production.

I can’t wait for Naruto to start again after all that god-awful filler.

Evangelion seems to be a series that ‘switches’ people to anime but it’s not the best in my opinion. The fact that their budget ran out for the last few episodes was a blessing in disguise. All those discussions about dualism and existentialism are what cemented that series, to the layman, as being a ‘serious’ work rather than ‘just a cartoon’.

Eureka 7 was incredible, it ran for 50 episodes and took elements of environmental awareness from Miyazaki films, Perfect Blue type musings on Philosophy and had mechs flying around on surfboards… justice.

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[quote]Bujo wrote:

<<< Another one that’s way out there on the strange end of the scale is PARANIOA AGENT. It airs late at nite on the Cartoon Network. Psychological Thriller type show. 13 episodes I think. >>>

<<< FULL METAL PANIC! FUMOFFU
You can watch the original series FMP! if you want. Decent Mecha stuff, but nothing to write home about. However the FMP! FUMOFFU (a series of short 15 min. shows) is the funiest anime I have ever seen. It had me cracking up for days. >>>

[/quote]

Yes Paranoia Agent was way off the charts for the bizarro factor as was Lain: The Serial Experiments.

Speaking of the Bizzaro factor how bout Boogiepop Phantom?

I actually liked the First FMP series better, but the FUMOFFU series was hilarious. The interplay between that GUNG HO nut Sagara and the ever petulant Konami Chiddari is priceless. It was even funny in the first series, but they emphasized the humor in FUMOFFU.

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[quote]redsol1 wrote:
I’m Otaku from a long way back:

Some realy good ones:

A wind Named Amnesia

Nausica

Riding Bean

Gunbuster (One of my favorite OVA series)

Dangahio

Mamino Hunter Yohoko

Vampire Princess Miu

FLCL (Fooly Cooly)

Robotech (Watch the Collection videos where they have the origional Series and the Americanized versions. Quick History: What we know as the three generations of Robotech; Macross, The Masters, and Next generation was origionaly three total unrelated series; Macross, Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospedia. Harmony Gold cobbled them together and made a Trilogy out of them.)

Honestly, there are too many to name. Most of the older stuff is better. The newer stuff is starting to use CGI and it’s diluting the art.

La’
Redsol1

[/quote]

You and me need to have a discussion about Robotech

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OK I got my robotech names a little messed up. the origional titles were

Super DImensional Fortress: Macross
Super Dimensional Calvery: The Southern Cross

and

Genesis CLimber Mospedia

La’
Redsol1

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LIVE FOR IT!

My first memories are from when i was 3 and lived in Taiwan and they would show a lot of it. Some show with a White Lion, Voltron, all that.

As i got older i started watching it again. LIVE for Vampire Hunter D.

But nothing to me beats Noir! Cant get enough female assassins!

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[quote]redsol1 wrote:
<<< The newer stuff is starting to use CGI and it’s diluting the art. >>>
[/quote]

Point well taken, but I think there’s room for both. I hope they never stop doing hand drawn anime, but the visuals in the Gonzo stuff for instance is mind blowing. I’m in the middle of the second Vandread series now and the space battles are just visually scrumptious.

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[quote]Agent Frost wrote:
<<< Some show with a White Lion >>>[/quote]

OMG, Kimba The White Lion. Around the same time as Speed Racer. I used to watch Kimba when I was a little kid in the late sixties early seventies.

http://www.kimbawlion.com/

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Another one the kids will love, though I loved it too was Angelic Layer. Very cool and cutsie.

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-Trigun
-X/1999 the series
-Escaflowne
-Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
-The Gundam series’

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[quote]t3h_Squirr3l wrote:
-Trigun
-X/1999 the series
-Escaflowne
-Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
-The Gundam series’

[/quote]

I gotta say I liked the Vision of Escaflowne series a lot more than the movie. With the movie they turned Hitomi into a suicidal depression case and Van Fanel came off like an overly bloodthirsty savage. I have nothing against blood or savagery (on screen anyway), but they way overplayed that in the movie. Van shed plenty of blood in the series, but he had a different attitude about it.

Not only that, but they tried to compress the rest of a 26 episode saga into a single movie which just didn’t work that well for me. Anybody who is judging Escaflowne by the movie alone should check out the series which is an all time classic.

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Dude, I just remembered one.

Curse of the Blood something…

It was like a young ninja who was fighting demons. I’ll think of it. He fought a demon horse on the beach. And he killed a spider lady too. Damn.

Back to Vampire Hunter D

Bloodlust was cool, but the original was amazing. I loved the ending theme where he was riding off and they were waving at him. I got it on comp.

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You guys really need to check out Baki the Grappler it is definately my favorite. Plenty of fighting and gore.

Besides that Dragonball Z is pretty sweet and Naruto is allright.

N. Robinson