The Favorite Anime Topic

[link343]

Post your favorite animes here.

Mine are:
Inuyasha
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Full Metal Alchemist
FLCL

[einbebop44]

Cowboy Bebop. What a surprise, huh? *

Actually, it's the only anime series I've watched in full, apart from FLCL, and Ninja Scroll (the movie).

[djb1986]

Inuyasha
DBZ (Yeah, I joined the DragonBall bandwagon :smt009)
Yu Yu Hakusho (sp?)

[Mr. Casual]

The only Anime I have watched in full is Evangelion. It gets pretty retarded near the end, though.

[Calpis]

Hehe I got on the Dragonball bandwagon in 1993 before the story was ended in Jump.

Some popular titles I really like are: Lupin Sansei, Urusei Yatsura, Dragonball, Ranma, Inu-Yasha, Rurouni Kenshin... popular anime is popular for a reason, it's less sucky than most others!

Some years ago I was on a One Piece kick, then I got out of anime completely but I've enjoyed Cartoon Network's airings of the Sunrise animes (Cowboy Bebop and Big O) and Wolf's Rain and Super Milk Chan (Oh! Milk chan)

Of I gotta give props to almost anything Ghibli (especially Totoro which was my favorite movie as a little kid) same with post-Eva Gainax.

[Greatsaintlouis]

Of I gotta give props to almost anything Ghibli (especially Totoro which was my favorite movie as a little kid)
Same here! I loved that movie, and it's still awesome today. :-D

I think my super-favorite was Love Hina, just because it's so damn weird and offbeat. Having watched the anime first, I went back and read the manga and found the anime to be much of the suck in comparison, but when is it ever a case where the book is WORSE than the movie?
Also really like Full Metal Panic (both seasons) and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (movie). Both Ghost In The Shell and Akira are excellent as well. Other ones I liked were Azumanga Daio, FLCL, and Eva, and I'm currently watching and loving Mai Hime and School Rumble.

[Jasonkhowell]

Tenchi, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Full Metal Alchamist, Kenshin (Have bootleg DVDs on all the episodes), and various other series. Personally, I want to hear what Assembler watches...

[watcher]

Hokuto No Ken, the original series and the movie. I've seen a fair amount of anime and am a big fan of big robots if done nicely. Hokuto No Ken/Fist Of The Northstar has this strange addictive quality for me, perhaps it's because the relationships between the characters always seemed really hazy (I've read up on them read the Manga etc) and I had to figure out who was related to who, etc.

The start of the first series is a bit slow and I prefer the later episodes, esp Death Of Rei and the Sauzer death one.

Always dug the art in the manga and Testsuo Hara's designs.

[Calpis]

Oh, I completely forgot about Tenchi... that series sorta just disappeared! Last thing I watched was the 2nd movie Daughter of Darkness, brings me back to elementary school ;)

I always liked Hokuto no Ken the movie too because it was gushing with 80's quirkyness and the Mad Max setting never gets old. If movies count, I always liked Vampire Hunter D for some reason. I dig Masamune "Shirow"'s art but I don't like his works. Happy to see no one's mentioned Slayers :P (IMO full metal alchemist is a 75% better slayers haha)

If you gainax fans haven't seen it, I recommend Oruchuban Ebichu :D It's absolutely pointless to watch just as say Milk Chan.

[GaijinPunch]

I'm pretty much out of Anime, but some stuff that doesn't get old.

Maison Ikkoku (although it's a bit silly)
The first 18 Ranma's are fantastic... the rest are good, but not near as
Old school Gundam (Zeta mainly)
The Crusher Joe movie is quality
Top wo Nerae! Gunbuster (new PS2 game coming out!!!)
Most Ghibli stuff. Really pissed I'm missing Haoru no Shiro
Record of Lodoss War (even though I'm not such a D&D fan)
Yamato
Gatchaman

Crap I think is shit... then and now
Sailor Moon
Macross (Shitty Pop music will NEVER save the Earth people!)
Kimagure Orange Road was pretty weak.
... and a lot of other stuff.

It's amazing how accepted it's become though. When I got into Anime (1992 I think it was) the word itself was not yet a part of the English language... nor was the term manga. Now, it's everywhere. There are manga sections in the damn bookstores!

[Calpis]

'Cept everyone I know says "Maynga" :angry

Gunbuster :smt023

If Gatchaman = G-Force = "Eagle Riders" which I think it is, I masochistically watched that in english every sunday morning!

You're right! Kimagure Orange Road is shit, SOOO many people propped it back in the day like Ah Megamisama. I felt almost as if I were stupid for not liking them.

Oh yea, I almost forgot.. Samurai Pizza cats or Kyatto Ninden Teyandee can't think of an anime i'd rather watch.

[watcher]

always liked Hokuto no Ken the movie too because it was gushing with 80's quirkyness and the Mad Max setting never gets old. If movies count, I always liked Vampire Hunter D for some reason.

I thought these movies shared a common director or character designer but I have a sinking feeling I may be wrong. I am sure the Vampire Hunter D film shares one of the head production staff with another big title (I'm thinking Hokuto No Ken or Crying Freeman).

BTW try and watch the 2 eps I mentioned if you ever get the chance, some of the episodes I think match the movie easily.

I always find it interesting that I was watching some form of anime before I even knew what the origin of it was (well not just me :-) ), stuff like Battle Of The Planets (Gatchaman -badly edited I know), Ulysses 31 and Cities Of Gold being French/JP co productions, and others I missed out.

Always liked Ranma, bought the manga when I was at school, loved it but wish I'd collected the Hokuto manga also (the prices were kind of high compared to the usual US imported Marvel and DC comics).

Don't watch much anymore, but always found it slightly irritating that due to Manga video releasing some of the 1st official releases here people still call anime 'mangas.'

PS - Akira doesn't seem close to 20 years old to me. Made some Akira trailers once with some Technosoft game tunes for the audio, the music and images matched pretty well.

[ASSEMbler]

Lupin and Harlock, does it get any better?
I really like classics. The new stuff is so formulaic, cookie cutter,
and not even hand done anymore.

:smt033 :dance :dance :dance

[Calpis]

I have no idea where to watch Hokuto OVA, a few months ago I had Comcast On Demand, which had the series but I couldn't stand the first 3 eps. Now I have satellite TV and no "Action channel", the channel which was airing it.

[SilverBolt]

Neon genesis evangelion
Ghost in the shell

And currently realy into Naruto..damn it's a good show :smt023

[Yakumo]

I like quite a lot of anime but nothing recently. My No.1 has got to be Masion Ikokku followed by Bubblegum Crisis, Urusei yatsura, Ranma and many others. I also like Gunsmith Cats, Burn Out W, Patlabour, Cyber City (English version is actually better than the Japanese), Dominion (New dominion was a bit shite though) and many others as such classics as The Humaniod, Memories, Kimagura Orange Road and Hokuto No Ken.

Yakumo

[WolverineDK]

hmmmm i have seen this topic before in another way

but ok here goes

Vampire Hunter D 1 and 2

Blood The Last Vampire

Akira(and yes i am looking forward to getting it with danish subtitles :-D)

Streetfighter Alpha and the animated movie

Ghost In The Shell

Fist Of The Northstar (the movie)

Catgirl nuku nuku :-D (damn i love that film :-) )

The Adventures of Kekko Kamen

Bible Black 1 to 5

but my list can go on and on and Ninja Scroll :-)

La Blue Girl (all episodes they are even funny in japanese with english subtitles.)

[AntiPasta]

None at all, I don't like anime (though Ippatsu Kikimusume is enjoyable at times)

[TheDeathcoaster]

Hmmm.....

Trigun - ISn't Vash jsut the coolest? :smt023 And Wolfwood!

Neon Genesis Evangelion - Awesoem show, though not as great as "everyone" says

FLCL - Just....Awesome.

Naruto - Fantastic Ninja action! With great characters like Rock Lee and Shikamaru how can you not love it? And the possibilities of LAN parties with the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! :prayer:

Excel Saga - Interesting and funny....aslong as you dont watch the dub :|

Martian Sucessor Nadesico - Good show...but the best part is the show within the show! Lets go Gekiganger 3! Gekigan-punch! Gekigan-flare! Gai-super-upper!

Love Hina - Romance with action and comedy....its just brilliant :smt023

Cowboy Bebop - Kickass show with great characters. Ed is the best :-D

Chobits - Yet again another love story :) And who wouldn't want their own persocom?

Pokemon - Yeah! I said pokemon! Why, you ask yourself? Because of two characters. Jesse and James. Go Team Rocket!!

DBZ - Only from teh saiyan saga through to the android saga. After that (cell onwards) things got all lame). Saiyan saga was the best :D But Yamcha died :smt022

Tenchi Muyo - Yeah, it kicks ass :)

There are more, but I'm sur eI've bored you all enough already :P

[Alchy]

What... nobody's mentioned Lain? Probably my favourite anime series.

On the comedy side I'll go for a bit of Azumanga Daioh, the manga's fun too.

Miyazaki/Ghibli are pretty faultless, and some of Oshii's stuff is good as well. The new Ghost in the Shell movie was about as good as its predecessor, and given that the original is probably my favourite anime movie ever that's pretty high praise. Wasn't a huge fan of the first SAC series, the characters felt completely different from the film, in personality as well as drawn style. I haven't read the manga yet, maybe that'll help.

Not really feeling Comboy Bebop, Trigun or any of the "comedy-action" series. Also, death to dubbing!

[gamergary]

I like: (subbed only of the following)
One Piece
Naruto
Shaman King
Yu Yu Hakusho
Papuwa
Madara
Cowboy Bebop
Fist of the North Star
and some others I can't remember.

[Zilog Jones]

Lain's one of the freakiest series I've ever seen. And that's the good kind of freaky! Though I don't think a lot of people have heard of it, especially over here (probably due to Pioneer being douche bags and not selling any videos here or in the UK any more). Thank god for Amazon and the Region-X disc (for playing any region DVD video) for the PS2!

I haven't seen much anime outside of the kid's crap I get on TV here (my stupid cheap-ass cable doesn't include Cartoon Network or Sci-fi), my friend's 15-year collection of old Manga Video crap (Devilman, Gall Force, Akira Lensman, Project A-ko, etc. - please kill me now! OK, not all of it was crap), and some fansubs I've got off teh interweb (Love Hina*). OK, I've seen a lot of anime - just not much GOOD anime!

*I used to like Love Hina. I read most of the Manga (12 books?), then started getting some (truly awful Japanese->Korean->English) fansubs, but then it started to just annoy me and I realised how retardedly repetitive it got. There's only so many times I can laugh at Keitaro accidentally falling into Naru's tits! I think this - and Mahoromatic - have put me off ecchi forever...

Anyway, other stuff what I like:

- Evangelion (after watching it 4 times over it kinda makes sense. No wait... it doesn't)
- Big-O
- Stupid shit like Dragon Half
- Lupin III - ok, I've only seen Castle of Cagliostro but I *really* want to see the TV series as well! On a related note, Hayao Miyazaki's teh pwn :-D
- Cowboy Bebop
- FLCL - though I don't think it was the best thing EVAR like some seem to believe. It was awfully confusing/nonsensical at times...
- Err... can't remember anything else now. My brain's broken.

Kid's crap I watched too much on TV:
- Pokemon (trust me it was good at the beginning, but after ep. 18 it started going downhill - after about ep. 200 it just became FUCKING UNBEARABLE. The Japanese soundtrack's bitchin' though)
- Moomin (the early '90s TX anime series - best thing that ever came out of Finland and Japan together!)
- Digimon (I used to watch this religiously. I also used to have no life. Kind of nice how the different series were actually different - especially the 4th one)
- Megaman Windows NT Workstation or whatever it's called. It was watchable. Kinda.
- OK, they're not really anime, but the animation that Ashi Pro (I think) did for the crappy '80s Dic cartoons was wicked-bad - stuff like Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, MASK and The Real Ghostbusters, but especially The Real Ghostbusters!!

[Blur2040]

For all intents and purposes, I hate anime...but I occasionally see it as I flip through the channels.

And the only thing that's every interested me is Lupin III. I like cartoons where everybody isn't a giant robot or a ninja or a giant robot ninja. Lupin fits the bill, and is pretty damn entertaining...i've yet to see anything else I like.

I like stupid American cartoons...Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen, South Park, King of the hill...Simpsons, Family guy...Futurama...the list goes on.

[Greatsaintlouis]

Most Ghibli stuff. Really pissed I'm missing Haoru no Shiro
If it makes you feel better, Disney going to be localizing and releasing it here sometime in the near future like they did with Sen To Chihiro.

I'm sortof divided. On one hand, it's Disney. On they other, they did the American release for Spirited Away and are doing new DVD versions of Totoro, Porco Rosso, Nausicaa, and something else I can't remember...

[Chief Chujo]

Giant Robo - Best anime ever. Blows my mind as to how few have seen this. Go and watch it now you will not regret it.

Berserk - Awesome story and the toughest character ever(Guts)

Naruto - Funny, great characters and some of the best battles in anime(Rock Lee Vs Gaara would push for top 5 at least).

[WolverineDK]

Pokemon - Yeah! I said pokemon! Why, you ask yourself? Because of two characters. Jesse and James. Go Team Rocket!!


oops i forgot i like that too :-)

gotta cath them all (Hold The Line by Toto anyone ?)

[WolverineDK]

shite i also forgot digimon

american series

Family Guy

The Simpsons

Southpark with Kenny not after

comics GI JOE aka action force

and an arseload of other series and comics

Heman the first version on comic and the figures

and yadda yadda etc. bla bla and bla. :-)

[GaijinPunch]

If it makes you feel better, Disney going to be localizing and releasing it here sometime in the near future like they did with Sen To Chihiro.

It won't. :) I'll buy the JPN DVD before it comes out here. I just couldn't fathom watching a Ghibli movie dubbed.

looks like a few us here share the same thoughts -- old school is better. I did forget to mention Akira. I always took shit for saying this is pretty much the best anime out there. Think about it -- one of the first mainstream movies that had the balls to have a really GOOD... no EXCELLENT soundtrack. I even went and saw the team that made it perform in Shinjuku.


Giant Robo - Best anime ever. Blows my mind as to how few have seen this. Go and watch it now you will not regret it.

Agreed. I remember waiting some 9 months for each of them to come out. What a great show.... just reeks of quality on all fronts. Story, animation quality, and most of all --- style.

[Greatsaintlouis]

I just couldn't fathom watching a Ghibli movie dubbed

I dunno, I think you should give it a shot sometime. Most US dubbed anime has horrific voice acting in my opinion, but I didn't think the American releases were bad at all. Mononoke had some pretty high quality acting talent too - Billy Crudup, Gillian Anderson, Minnie Driver, Billy Bob Thornton. And there's nothing funnier than having Phil Hartman behind the voice of Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service. :smt043

[Mr. Casual]

I can recognise "The Dub Voices" in most dubbed Japanese/Anime movies and shows that come on around here in the USA.



OMG, Asuka's voice is in Gamera, too!!! And so is Kihl's VOICE!!!

[GaijinPunch]

I'm a stickler for "original" though. I'd rather watch/play anything in it's original language. It's just the way I am. I guess it depends on the topic but there's a lot of subleties that aren't easily transrated.

[Calpis]

Hehe, I know the biggest Lain fan ever, not my cup o tea. After watching the series a handful of times I felt no more enlightened. For a slight while in 2000, it had almost an American cult following you're truely a anime newbie if you haven't heard of Lain o_0

Berzerk was pretty cool, I like how it shames Evas unexpected ending hehe

I want to watch Naruto but I'm afraid, I'm afraid it'll be another Rekka no Honou. Modern Jump comics are loosing quality, I've got some 1960's manga that pwns in ninja content :D

[Mr. Casual]

When was Anime/Manga started? I know of Astro boy from the 50s, but what was the exact first anime/manga show?
I was reading in History one day, and saw some signs made by some Japanese people or something, with pictures on them, and No "big eyes". When was the "Big eyes" trend started?

[Calpis]

I think the big eyes thing was started in the 60's, (with Tetsuwan Atom which my Japanese teacher always recognized as the first anime.) Also she always said that says Japanese draw big eyes because Japanese like big eyes and many wish they had bigger eyes ;) I know that weekly manga dates way back to pre WWII Japan in the form as seen today, but of course characatures through ukiyo-e are like hundreds of years old.

[Yakumo]

I'm a stickler for "original" though. I'd rather watch/play anything in it's original language. It's just the way I am. I guess it depends on the topic but there's a lot of subleties that aren't easily transrated.

I couldn't agree more ! There are only two anime that I prefear in English and they are Dominion (1 to 4) and Cyber City. Cyber City has much better music than the japanese one plus the voice acting is top. just as you'd expect. Dominion has great voice acting too but the japanese music is far better than that cheap techno shit on the dubbed version. how does the japanese song go now ? Oh yeah - Hot dance on cherry moon, ooh ooh yeah...... :smt043

Yakumo

[watcher]

About the big eyes thing, I read years ago that Osamu Tezuka was influenced by the work of Walt Disney, I am not sure if that is true but it sounds very plausible.

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[WolverineDK]

manga started before the 50´s it was normal day paintings and drawings from the samurai age

but other than that

"The God Of Manga" he was inspired by Bambis big eyes so that is why the things with the big eyes (i will try to find the source in a magazine and translate it)

[Chief Chujo]

Agreed. I remember waiting some 9 months for each of them to come out. What a great show.... just reeks of quality on all fronts. Story, animation quality, and most of all --- style.

In Australia they released the first 6 episodes and just didn't bother releasing the last one. Took me a year or so to finally get it on import(can't quite remember but did Manga take forever on getting the last ep translated). Aus used to suck for Anime. A few bits here and there from Manga and only one import store(overpriced) and I didnt even know about fansubbers then.
I wish Imagawa could continue GR. The set up for the next story in the last ep still has me drooling. Hopefully......one day :smt022

Have you seen the new Tetsujin yet? Imagawa's doing that and looking at a few episode synops it has mention of a Dr Big Fire(Kenji's in it as well and maybe Chujo?).
Haven't been able to find and fansubs of it yet but I think it's out in the US soon.

[Alien Workshop]

Anime I like:

Every Gundam series
Record of Lodoss War
Slayers
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Inuyasha
Yu Yu Hakusho
Dragon Ball (not Z or GT)
Orphen
Outlaw Star
King of Bandits Jing
Full Metal Alchemist
Rurouni Kenshin
Samurai X
Akira

[Survival Tobita]

Since nobody mentioned these yet (I think):

Area 88
Here is Greenwood
Escaflowne
Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Big seconds on Maison Ikkoku and Lupin III. I own all of the graphic novels that have come out in English for each of them (that's 17 volumes thus far for Lupin).

[XerdoPwerko]

Xerdo's Favourite Anime list
(Not in any particular order)

1) Cowboy Bebop / Cowboy Bebop the Movie (Did you know that it's required to watch the whole series in many Film schools? There's a whole course on Cowboy Bebop)

2) Galaxy Fraulein Yuna Returns (The 3 episode OVA - the Series is not that great. This one is written by Satoru Akahori, an expert in suddenly depressing his audience. Who would have thought Yuna could have serious moments?).

3) Shinseiki Evangelion

4) Macross Plus (The Movie. First work of Watanabe, the Same director as Cowboy Bebop. You can see the style)

5) SDF Macross (The last 7 episodes are boring, though)

6) Genshiken (An anime about people who like anime)

7) Yakitate Japan (Like Captain Tsubasa... but about BAKING BREAD!)

8) Chobits (The design in it is SO great!)

9) Saint Seiya (But only the Mexican dub, because it's SO bad it's good! The series is quite cool in the japanese original, though. The Hades saga is great)

10) Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Come on, this is a classic! I, at least, enjoy a little bit of shoujosity and magical girlitude!)

11) Agent Aika (Me and my mom watched this on Cable, also. Believe or not, my favourite thing about Aika - beside Rion - is the music. It's so cheesy it's great! And at 72 panty-shots per episode, it's got a little thing for everybody)

12) Tales of Eternia (I like this because I loved the game. The anime is QUITE mediocre, but I really enjoyed it anyway. I'm too much of a fan... and Coleena is really cute. I hope they put her in the PSP version of ToE... not likely)

[Valdeargos]

Cowboy Bebop (series, English dub)
Lupin III (series, English dub though I get the feeling it'd be better uncut and untranslated)
Excel Saga (only the first couple dozen or so, and only subtitled)
Perfect Blue (dub)

[AngelHedgie]

Since nobody mentioned these yet (I think):

Area 88

Which one? ;)

[Survival Tobita]

Since nobody mentioned these yet (I think):

Area 88

Which one? ;)

Both of em. The original 80s OAV especially.

[Alien Workshop]

Shouldn't this thread be moved to the "Everything Japan" forum?

[id-republix]

'Panzer Dargoon the Anime' was an absolute masterpiece and glorified the name of the series to divine status!

[madhatter256]

'Panzer Dargoon the Anime' was an absolute masterpiece and glorified the name of the series to divine status!

Wher can i get this?

[dj898]

my all time fab anime is Lupin The 3rd.
I read manga and watched TV series when I was grade student...

followed by Zeta Gundam (i love how it ended) and Dunbaine(?)...
and anything from Ghibli Studio...

[Survival Tobita]

my all time fab anime is Lupin The 3rd.
I read manga and watched TV series when I was grade student...

followed by Zeta Gundam (i love how it ended) and Dunbaine(?)...
and anything from Ghibli Studio...

Oh yes, Aura Battler Dunbine is class. The DVDs can be had for like $12 each online in the US (at least the last 8 of the 12. The first 4 are around $20 unless they've retroactively repriced them since they were released).

[id-republix]

'Panzer Dargoon the Anime' was an absolute masterpiece and glorified the name of the series to divine status!

Wher can i get this?

It was a joke. Quite possibly the WORST anime ever made (not as bad as DBZ though, let's not go there). And a huge blight on the good name of Panzer Dragoon.

Should be on eBay for not much, VHS. Saw the LD on YJ as well.

[XerdoPwerko]

Yup, DBZ is PRETTY bad.

And everybody I know has seen like... every episode. At least those of us who survived the 90's in Mexico

I know I have.

Why? No Idea. Hell, if I find an episode now, I'll watch it.

Weird, huh?

[Alchy]

I wouldn't watch it if you paid me.

[Greatsaintlouis]

Just finished Kanon, which has skyrocketed to one of my favorite animes ever. Beautiful story, but it's damn sad though.

On a semi-related note(for anime, at least), while I have never seen an episode of Naruto, I found out that real naruto is that oddly shaped fish slices with the pink spiral in the middle that you can get with ramen or udon. This is both enlightening and reassuring, as I was always a little disconcerted by the fact that I never knew what the hell the stuff was, much less what it is called. I can sleep better at night now.

[SuperGrafx]

Ninja Scroll
Ninja Resurrection
Mezzo
Robotech series
Cowboy Bebop

Those are the most memorable animes for me that I've seen recently.

[Evangelion-01]

Maison ikkoku
urasei yatsura
evangelion
hunter x hunter
dai no daibouken
mikami
ranma
tenchi muyo
flcl
SAINT SEIYA!!!
hajime no ippo
mazinger z
"captain tsubasa" old one
shaman king
Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai
kimi ga nozomu eien
科学忍者隊ガッチャマン ;)
ghibli stuff
mmm and akira

GATCHAMAN FRIGGIN RULZ!!!

[Evangelion-01]

Neon genesis evangelion
Ghost in the shell

And currently realy into Naruto..damn it's a good show :smt023you'll get bored, gets anoying at about episode 90.... it just... argh.... becomes crap

[djb1986]

I started watching Rouroni Kenshin and it's pretty good.

[TheDeathcoaster]

you'll get bored, gets anoying at about episode 90.... it just... argh.... becomes crap

You meaning Naruto? Hell no!

ITs still awesome and I'm at Episode 123 :)

Plus Rock Lee just re-appeard :smt082 Episode 124 is gonna be so awesome.

[Mr. Casual]

I have a question about Utena. Is it a lesbian anime or what?

[Calpis]

Totally

[Aridyme]

I started watching Rouroni Kenshin and it's pretty good.
Kenshin is one of my favourites. However, the quality of everything past the Shishio arc (episode ~55? 65? I forget) is kind of meh because the story isn't written by the original author.

The TV show was following the manga and the mangaka took a break, so there wasn't anything to animate. So they decided to write their own stories.

[Greatsaintlouis]

How about Trigun, where the first compiled manga volume was barely released before the anime started? :smt043

[Baseley09]

Macross is the be all and end all for me.

For a classic Anime, id vote Project A-Ko, have it all on VHS, before the double parter, its classic stuff.

Transformers Masterforce is also a trump for me.

[Mr. Casual]

Totally
:dance
GOTTA...GET...THE....WHOLE...SERIES... :D

[id-republix]

Korean anime is getting fairly decent now as well.

[Baseley09]

It was a joke. Quite possibly the WORST anime ever made (not as bad as DBZ though, let's not go there). And a huge blight on the good name of Panzer Dragoon.

Should be on eBay for not much, VHS. Saw the LD on YJ as well.

Word on that, it's pretty much just a cartoon version of the FMV in Saturn PD, I was so excited getting this, i still wouldnt get rid of it heh.

[macwest]

I like Robotech and battleship yamato(star Blazers). Two others I enjoy which are not cartoosbut are fun to watch are Ultraman and Johnny soko and his flying robot

[jethro jazz]

dragonball z
battle angel alita
bleach

[Greatsaintlouis]

Just finished watching Air and Beck, and I think those have to go on my favorites list as well, excellent stories both (aside from Air's ambiguously confusing ending). They both had excellent music, and Air's animation style was the best I've seen in anime outside of GitS2. Beck had some really nice visuals, but the animation was really choppy at parts. Of course, having what seemed like half the series in hilariously done Engrish definately made up for it.

[Paulo]

Saint seiya
Elfin Lied

[Pek0]

Up tp date the only anime i've really enjoyed is "Wings of Honneamise" (aka Royal space force).

[TheDeathcoaster]

*points up*

Yeah, Wings of Honneamise was awesome. I havent seen it in ages though (borrowed it when it first came out on VHS inthe UK).

[Codeman1]

Saint Seiya
Excel Saga
Cobra Space Adventure
Future Boy Conan
FLCL
Transformers
Lain
Totoro (となりのトトロ)

[Fabrizo]

Full Metal Alchemist (high quality art and animation, little filler, and good plot)
Slayers (I own all the box sets, and most of the movies. For some reason I just find it very appealing)
Haibane Renmei (Some might say its a boring series, but I felt it was very inspiring)
Serial Experiments Lain (The most complex and difficult to understand story I have seen)
Naruto (back before it was nothing but flashbacks)
Spirited Away (Truly a masterpiece, one of the greatest animated films of all time imo)
Bleach (I've been keeping up with this one for a while now, although I think the current plot is getting a bit long winded, its still one of the best i've seen).

Their are plenty others I've liked alot (Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Rahxephon, eyc.), but those are my fav ones.


death to dubbing!

Actualy, I prefer the dubbing in some animes, Spirited Away and Tenchi Muyo being examples.

[PrOfUnD Darkness]

I'm into Fruits Basket right now...it's very nice.

[Drazic]

Gundam Seed (Destiny)
Turn-A Gundam :D
Bleach!
One Piece!!!!!
Hunter x Hunter
Gantz
Mai Hime
Elfen Lied
Beck
All good anime :P!

[SilverBolt]

I'm into Fruits Basket right now...it's very nice.

A friend of mine gave me all 26 episodes i must say it's quit good better then i expected.

Still Naruto is my fav anime by far. :happyhap:

[The VGM]

The only anime I don't hate:
Hellsing
Berserk
Those DVD's that came with the .hack games

[Greatsaintlouis]

Totoro (となりのトトロ)
Hell yes.

Mai Hime
Beck
HELL YES.

It's really sad - a few weeks ago, I was watching about 5 different series, most of which all wrapped up at the same time leaving me with very little to watch now. :( Negima's still going steady, but the other two series' I'm into have extremely sporadic releases - I'm lucky to see a new School Rumble every three weeks. :angry

Has anyone here seen the Tsukihime anime? Is it any good?

[Paulo]

I hear there is a new 14th episode of elfin lied?

[ezekiel]

evangelion
anything hayao miyazaki
cowboy bebop
escaflowne

ghost in the shell

[Mr. Casual]

What did you like about Evangelion? Just asking.

[Survival Tobita]

There are three titles by Manga Video that everyone needs to watch dubbed in English: Angel Cop, Mad Bull 34, and Violence Jack. Classic moments throughout.

[Kaim]

Death Note
Monster

[Gaming]

Afro Samurai.
FLCL
Cowboy bebop.
Shin chan.
Big O.
Samurai champloo.

[graciano1337]

wow, bumping a 4 year old thread...

Digimon.

[Sojiroh]

Gundam 00
Death Note
Cowboy Bebop
School Rumble
Lucky Star

[Jamtex]

wow, bumping a 4 year old thread...
Indeed, but this thread could never get maggot infested.


Digimon.
You are taking the piss, aren't you?

For me it would be

Natsume Yuujinchou (as recommended by Assembler)
Maison Ikkoku
Urusei Yatsura
Genshiken
Azumanga Daioh
Lucky Star
Hidamari Sketch
Card Captor Sakura
Yawara
My Neighbour Totoro
Pom Poko

For a start....

[Yakumo]

Indeed, but this thread could never get maggot infested.


You are taking the piss, aren't you?He must be.....or then again ......:fresh:


For me it would be

Natsume Yuujinchou (as recommended by Assembler)
Maison Ikkoku
Urusei Yatsura
Genshiken
Azumanga Daioh
Lucky Star
Hidamari Sketch
Card Captor Sakura
Yawara
My Neighbour Totoro
Pom Poko

For a start....

Hmm, some good titles in there.

Maison Ikkoku - Oh yes! Best anime of all time for laughs, sadness, storyline that is sort of believable and the ONLY anime I've EVER watched that had me saying "Go on you soft sod! Tell her you love her!" at the TV.

Urusei Yatsura - Again a wonderful classic although I found one or two of the movies a bit on the turd side.

Genshiken - No idea on this

Azumanga Daioh - Oh fuck yes! This is the one where the guy turns in to some sort of blue mutant killing machine, right?

Lucky Star - Not my cup of tea but have saw a few.

Hidamari Sketch - No idea.

Card Captor Sakura - Eh??? You've got to be joking :110:

Yawara - No idea

My Neighbour Totoro - Classic! Well worth a watch.

Pom Poko - Can't stand this myself to be honest. I found it rather annoying.

Yakumo

[Sojiroh]

Hey, Card captor sakura is awesome. In fact I don't know why I didn't put it in my list, I used to watch it everyday.

[A. Snow]

The last few I really enjoyed were Death Note, Code Geass, and Black Lagoon.

[graciano1337]

Hey, I like the first season of Digimon.

Probably my favorite anime movie is Paprika. The story is meh, but the visuals and music are super awesome. I haven't seen hardly any series or anything like that.

[FirestarterCL]

What's wrong with Card Captor Sakura? I really enjoyed that show too. :icon_bigg

Some of my other favorites:

Azumanga Daioh - High school comedy, not a killer blue robot (Maybe you're thinking of Guyver? Or maybe I missed a joke :lol: )
Bubblegum Crisis
Fist of the North star
Macross
Excel Saga
Serial experiments Lain
Ghost in the Shell (Movies + TV)
Lupin III
Heat Guy J
Read or Die
Slayers
You're Under Arrest
Dai-Guard

...and like Jamtex, that's just the start of it.

[Yakumo]

Azumanga Daioh - High school comedy, not a killer blue robot (Maybe you're thinking of Guyver? Or maybe I missed a joke :lol: )Ah, no. I must be mistaking the anime for another. The one I'm on about has a guy who turns in to this blue monster guy thing then kills a shit load of army guys. Very bloody.

Anyway, yeah, there are loads of great anime's. I myself own the following full sets on LD, VHS or DVD here or in my UK home.

Masion Ikokku
Bubblegum Crisis
Bubble Gum Crash
AD Police
Dominion
New Dominion
Macross 7
Macross Plus
Macross the Movie (the original)
Urusei Yatsura movies (all)
Urusei yatsura TV shows
Ranma 1/2 (movies, TV and OVA)
Tenchi Muyo
City Hunter
Dangaioh (Not the wank western version by Manga Ent)
Slayers Return
Slayers
Zillion
Gundam Zeta
You're Under Arest (Original series)
Gun Smith Cats
Mamerlade Boy
Video Girl Ai (for some reason I really got in to that show)
Kimagure Orange Road
Shin Kimagure Orange Road (not as good as the original I think)
Oh My Godess

and so on. These days I hardly ever watch anime so I know nothing of the stuff from 2000 onwards to be honest. I'm more of a 80' to 90's anime fan. Oh, and am I the only one who thinks Evangelion is a sack of shite?

Yakumo

[Tatsujin]

These days I hardly ever watch anime so I know nothing of the stuff from 2000 onwards to be honest. I'm more of a 80' to 90's anime fan. Oh, and am I the only one who thinks Evangelion is a sack of shite?

Yakumo
dito. the last great anime i watched was GTO:lol:

same for mangas. i like the 80~90s style the most :)

[SilverBolt]

Soul Eater
Legendz
Gundam SEED
FMA
Death Note
Ghost in the shell SAC

[easyXmode]

dito. the last great anime i watched was GTO:lol:

same for mangas. i like the 80~90s style the most :)

i wish that they would have continued the rest of GTO's story instead of stopping halfway through the manga's story and making up an ending.

my anime list off the top of my head..

Baccano
Blassreiter
Bokusatsu tenshi dokuro-chan
Code geass
Detroit metal city
Initial D
Kurenai (amazing animation quality)
Macross frontier
Minami-ke
Shakugan no shana
World Destruction
xxxholic

[_SD_]

I have a bookcase full of Graphic Novels, most of it is manga. I'm so happy now that the mainstream companies are leaving translated manga in it's proper right-left format. I actually sold all my original Gunsmith Cats GNs to a friend and replaced them with the four new unflipped collected editions.

As for anime, I like Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, that sort of thing. Both series of Stand Alone Complex are incredible. The Patlabor movies are boring, tbh, but I really enjoy the TV/OVA series. Silent Mobius is well worth watching. Original Bubblegum Crisis is still fun to watch too.

Generally I'll watch anything decent involving spaceships, heavily armed mobile suits and cute gals ;) I do sometime go off on a tangent though: I feel like watching Record of Lodoss War.

[GodofHardcore]

Samurai Champloo
Kenshin
Trigun
Excel Saga
Anything Ghibli
Otaku No Video
GTO
Ghost In the Shell
Project Ako
Blue Sub 6
Cowboy Bebop

that about covers it

[graphique]

Oh, and am I the only one who thinks Evangelion is a sack of shite?
I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I couldn't appreciate it much after I realized the whole thing was actually about the mother issues and difficulty with interpersonal relationships that characterizes postwar Japan.

Hmm, some of my favorite anime:
Captain Future (aka "Capitaine Flam" - the French dub was excellent)
8 Man After (OVA)
Rose of Versailles
Slayers
The first half or so of Excel Saga before it got tedious
And in the "guilty pleasures" column, I've watched a quite substantial amount of DBZ, Saint Seiya, Naruto... I make no apologies for this :lol:

[Importaku]

Hmm lets see.....

Tenchi muyo
Naruto
Onepiece
Ebichu the hamster (Imagine a peverted version of Hamtaro)
Doraemon
Lucky star
Rozen maiden
Rockman exe
Viewtiful joe
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
This is one series that used to make me laugh so hard that tears would flow, it's a travesty it got liscensed in the west & totally fucked up. The fansubs used to be amazing. I'd have paid anything to get the entire series with english fansubs.

[GodofHardcore]

Evangelion Killed anime by making it OK to have the Protagonist be a complete and total pussy

[sephiap]

Oulaw Star
Berserk
GTO
Guyver (OVA and Bio-Boosted)
Orguss O2
Violence Jack
Vampire Hunter D

etc etc... too many in the collection!!!

[Mr. Casual]

I liked Digimon...

After watching it again though, I realize its pretty childish. But I loved that shit for like a looooooong time, and watching the first season always makes me go on a nostalgia trip.

I don't really have any other anime...in physical form anyway.

The Arc the Lad anime was decent, but it was damn short.

I think Evangelion is like this:

Decent story, then it has the most retarded ending ever, everyone's emo, the mecha fights are awesome, but thats like maybe ~2~ hours of the whole series. The rest is Shinji going "UNFAMARU CEIRING ME SO RONERY SO ME MASTURBATURU TO UNCONSCIOUS WOMAN" Ok, that was dumb but you know.

Its not as deep as its retarded fans claim it to be, its about as shallow as shallow gets, like a ton of JRPG storylines and etc.

I love Hayao Miyazakais films, I think they are the only Animes I've seen that don't try to be deep or incredibly violent but still manage to captivate you in some way, and are pretty family friendly.

EDIT: Yakumo, I noticed you mentioned Pom Poko. Yeah, thats probably the only Ghibli movie I didn't really like. It dragged on forever, almost all the Tanookies died anyway, and you could see their balls. Gross.

[GodofHardcore]

Xenogears is MUCH deeper than Evangelion is and ever will be.
Far as deep animes go though nothing beats the two Ghost in the Shell Movies.

Ever notice how horribly animated Sailor Moon is?
yet I still have a soft spot for it.

[chaoticdaos]

Big fan of ecchi!:thumbsup:

Girls Bravo
Nagasarete Airantou
Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan
Zero no Tsukaima
Sekirei
Akazukin Chacha
Vandread
Ranma 1/2
Full metal Alchemist
Fruits Basket
Pokemon (season 1-5)
Sailor Moon (season 1-2)
Tenchi Muyo OVA

[GodofHardcore]

Hokoto no ken needs some love

Kenshiro Facts

Kenshrio once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

If you ask Kenshrio what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds 'til." After you ask, "Two seconds 'til what?" he says You're already dead and you explode

Kenshrio once shot down a German fighter plane with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

Kenshiro can hit you so hard that he can actually alter your DNA. Decades from now your descendants will occasionally clutch their heads and yell "What The Hell was That?"

[PhreQuencYViii]

Xenogears is MUCH deeper than Evangelion is and ever will be.

Xenogears:pray:

I think everyone my age had a thing for anime at one point, but I think around high school when I actually started watching it (I have friends that are obsessed with it) I realized I just seriously don't like it, especially these newer ones. I do like Lupin The Third a lot, and Shin Chan, and a few others were cool. I think it's some of the art styles I liked but....yeah. I think a lot of this comes from not knowing japanese, I know there's subs but still. I honestly think I like just straight up cartoons a huge amount more.

I did like reading some of those mangas though, my friend had almost every Ranma and I think I read about 20 of them. There, well, comic books, and I like those, though I barely read them. Those were pretty cool. There was this one called Confidential Confessions that was pretty entertaining.

[chaoticdaos]

ToLOVERu
Rurouni Kenshin
Cowboy bebop
I cycle through the following every year whenever I can't travel.
1. I listen to the same 400 songs, like right now it's punk, later random japanese stuff, further heavy metal. Sonic and Ocarina of Time OSTs are pretty much year round.
2. Gaming and Anime flip flop my focus, like now any PS2 game will reduce my ADD better than any ecchi. By fall after the ladies start wearing less sexy clothes i'll be watching ecchi again.
3.Live action stuff will take center stage over all cartoons even long time favorites like Reboot...

The point i'm trying to make is this.

We're cyclical creatures by design. Does anyone else go through perceived odd roundabouts through the course of the year?
In the back of my head I know i'll be replaying Ocarina of time for the 17th time...
When did Xenogears get an anime? I can't bring myself to finish the game.:shrug:

[Mr. Casual]

Hokoto no ken needs some love

Kenshiro Facts

Kenshrio once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

If you ask Kenshrio what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds 'til." After you ask, "Two seconds 'til what?" he says You're already dead and you explode

Kenshrio once shot down a German fighter plane with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

Kenshiro can hit you so hard that he can actually alter your DNA. Decades from now your descendants will occasionally clutch their heads and yell "What The Hell was That?"

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/b/bd/Already_Fat.png

He also has the power to turn people fat.

[GodofHardcore]

Chuck Norris Fears Kenshiro

[Aypok]

Cowboy Bebop
Cromartie High
Detroit Metal City
FLCL
Ghost In The Shell
Love Hina (yeah, shut up)

[GodofHardcore]

Love Hina is SOOOOOOOOO Cleche' but Good

[Orochi.Kyo]

My favorites

Naruto
Berserk
Death Note
Bleach
Gantz
Kenshin
Basilisk
Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien

[anime4ever]

Having a favourite anime is tough just like a favourite game but anyways heres some of my favs off the top of my head,

Oh and just on a side note, one movie from Japan that isnt an Anime that you should check out is called "DROP" released in 2009, its FREAKING HILARIOUS.


Anime Series:

Hajime no Ippo *Boxing/Comedy* (Funny as hell but also really gets you into the story and caring about the characters)

Ranma 1/2 *Comedy*

Ghost Shell: Stand Alone Complex *Sci Fi/Action/Drama* (Intense well developed story that you would expect from Ghost in the Shell)

Cowboy Bebop *Action/Comedy*

Samurai 7 *Action/Drama/Sci Fi* (Really good animation and a nice spin on the original live action story line)

Last Exile *Action/Drama*

Valkyria Chronicles *Action/Drama/War* (It follows the video game pretty faithfully but with enough extra dialogue/scenes to keep it interesting)

Pumpkin Scissors *Action/War/Drama* (Similar in ways to Valkyria Chronicles but only in style, it really is its own series)


Anime Movies:

Anything Ghibli *Children/Fantasy*

Nausicaa *Action/Sci Fi*

Akira *Action/Sci Fi*

Ghost in the Shell *Action/Sci Fi*

Summer Wars *Drama/Comedy* (One of my favourite movies, anime or not)

The Girl who Leapt Through Time *Drama/Comedy*

Origin: Spirits of the Past *Drama/Sci Fi*

Metropolis *Drama/Sci Fi* (Love the art style and feel to this movie)

[graciano1337]

I got Samurai 7 and the Evangelion Platinum series off of Amazon for pretty cheap a while ago. I haven't had the time to watch them yet.

The order in which I'm supposed to watch Evangelion has confused me a little. And one of the movies, End of Evangelion i think, is it out of print or something and pretty expensive everywhere. =/

[pool7]

Evangelion is meant to be watched in order... Ep 1 through 26.
Death and Rebirth is more of a recap of the 26 episodes... and IIRC it adds a little info to the story, in case you didn't understand something... but it may confuse you more.
The End of Evangelion is the actual movie of the series, and it helps understanding the series a little bit more.

So basically I'd say you watch the series in order and then The End of Evangelion. Death and Rebirth is no big deal; you may leave it for some other time.

[graciano1337]

Evangelion is meant to be watched in order... Ep 1 through 26.
Death and Rebirth is more of a recap of the 26 episodes... and IIRC it adds a little info to the story, in case you didn't understand something... but it may confuse you more.
The End of Evangelion is the actual movie of the series, and it helps understanding the series a little bit more.

So basically I'd say you watch the series in order and then The End of Evangelion. Death and Rebirth is no big deal; you may leave it for some other time.

And then I also picked up a few other dvds for cheap. Let's see... I have Evangelion 1.11 You are (not) alone and 2.22 You can (not) advance. And from what I understand they're the series remastered or redone or whatever? But what also confused me, while reading the wiki, it refers to these movies as Evangelion 1.0 and Evangelion 2.0. But then 1.01 was released on dvd, and now I have 1.11?? And I haven't discovered if all 3 of these are the same?? I feel like it's not as straight forward as it could be... hahaha

[pool7]

I read about these new releases; I think it's the series in movie-length episodes (less episodes, but same story...).
To be honest I'm not sure if they changed something (ie. graphics or story wise) and I didn't know there were several versions of the same (1.0, 1.01, 1.11)... can't help you there :S

[A. Snow]

I haven't seen the rebranded Evangelion movies yet (I won't until it is finished) but from what I have heard there are some significant differences and not just a rehash in movie form.

[ASSEMbler]

Seikai no senki
Seikai no monshou
Hi-Speed Jecy
Binchou-tan
Macross
Nodame Cantabile
Patlabor
Inachu Ping Pong Club
Popee the clown
Touch
Cross Game
Urusei Yatsura
Hoshi no Koe
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Tiger and Bunny
Kaiji

[graciano1337]

I haven't seen the rebranded Evangelion movies yet (I won't until it is finished) but from what I have heard there are some significant differences and not just a rehash in movie form.

Good to know.

A buddy just told me to watch anything related to Evangelion in the order in which they were released. So that's probably what I'll end up doing.

[Theguyatthekeyboard]

My favorite animes are:
Azu Manga Dioh
Avatar(not sure if it qualifies but oh well)
Ginga Densetsu WEED
Dragon Ball Z
Gundam Wing

And thats all at the moment

[Legion]

Scryed is good and so is redline (ok the last is a movie but..)

[Legion]

Scryed is good and so is redline (ok the last is a movie but..)

Code Geass ..
Death note...
usual ones ^^

[Shou]

Cowboy Bebop (all)
Gunbuster (OVAs only)
The Heroic Legend of Arslan (all)
Kimagure Orange Road (all)
Laputa
Lupin III: Chateau De Cagliostro
Lupin III: Moero Zantetsuken
Macross Plus (Movie only)
Nadia (TV minus the Korean made episodes)
Orguss 02
Record of Lodoss War (OVAs only)
Rurouni Kenshin (OVAs only)