The Anime Thread

sinc_vision · Post by **sinc_vision** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 8:10 pm

You know you love it you slaaaaags!!!

Been in japan for a while now which has reinvigorated my anime love life, so thought i`d start a thread on the subject.

What do you love/hate about anime? Best series/movie? Any you wasted hours of your life watching thinking it might get good? Esp. heavy characters? Classic/catchy intro themes/general soundtracks? Little known gems? Life changing experiences? Guaranteed goose pimple-athons?

Would be nice if the comments about akira were kept to a minimum (5?), coz even your mum`s best friend`s cousin`s fuck buddy knows how much you love it even though you`ve watched it 15 times and still don`t understand it.
Meh, it`s a free world, if you love it that much feel free to try and say something that hasn`t already been said.

Best series i watched of late was Gankutsuou. It`s a retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo set in future Paris. Has style coming out of every orifice...animation, designs, music...proper killin it series but not one for action junkies, is more about story.
Have recently started Inuyasha...def feelin so far, gives me bare jokes. 10 episodes down, only 157 to go.

parson · Post by **parson** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 8:50 pm

funny, i just popped in akira

hadn't seen it in ten years back when it was on shitty vhs with shite translation

good shit

parson · Post by **parson** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 8:52 pm

anyway, i really loved gits2. saw grave of fireflies recently and was blown away.

also like miyazaki a lot

really like tenchi. both movies are fantastic as are the series

*grand* · Post by ***grand*** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:18 pm

hmm fell in love with gundam wing wheni was like 15.. alwyas loved robots plus it was a little deep.

hmm my true love though i guess happens to be cowboy bebop.. i dunno what it is exactly but it just captivates me, spike spiegal is just all round aweinspiering..

has fantastic music every episode.. honky tonk women especially and the coreography is just spot on.. but i guess its the mixs of guns, martail arts.. mysterioous characters violence spaceships and a vision of the future as to the reasons why i like it so much...

right now im watchign naruto.. so much so i have watched the first 80 episodes since after dmz christmas party.. its kinda mucky big up luke envoy on the recomendation.

parson · Post by **parson** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:26 pm

naruto is pretty sweet in a modern dbz kinda way

luke.envoy · Post by **luke.envoy** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:52 pm

bigup grand
keep ploughin thru them episodes but stop at 160 cause its filler up to the current episode 210, but i heard the filler ends in febuary. check dattebayo.com for updates (they WILL sub naruto when its back on track, dont watch the threats)

at around episode 120 u'll see this man-

2 big fights, 1 mad bloodline limit

when naruto started wasting with filler to let the comic catch up, bleach stepped up with the heavy bounto arc. we're still waiting on that waste Aizen to draw for the zanpakuto but its still very heavy in terms of fights and concept

the best manga series i've ever seen is Noein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noein

the best animation i've seen is in ergo proxy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_Proxy

all episodes of Noein and ergo proxy are on shinsen subs:

http://shinsen.b33r.net/
http://www.shinsen-subs.org/

:miyagi:

unlikely · Post by **unlikely** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:40 am

always loved anime, saw warriors of the wind (nausicaa edited poorly for international release) when I was 6 or 7 years old, then the robotech series and never looked back.

recently watched a lot of bleach but got a bit tired of the rehashing of footage, still damn good tho..

cowboy bebop and samurai champloo are heavy too.

the deepest, darkest, most beautiful anime I've seen recently was probably the Kenshin OAV's (very different to the series, which is also good), although they do push the poetic aspect a bit too far into the realms of pretention at times

no-one in any story telling form can tess Miyazaki though, all his films are incredible and the manga of nausicaa should be mandatory reading for everyone. Still havent seen Howl's Moving Castle, afraid of disappointment i guess.

*edit* how could i forget Evangelion? Starts off a little weird but still fairly standard, but by the end you'll be baffled, enthralled and more than a little disturbed. Especially after seeing "end of evangelion" which really twisted my psyche

highly recommended headf**k material

little boh peep · Post by **little boh peep** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:53 am

unlikely wrote:Still havent seen Howl's Moving Castle, afraid of disappointment i guess.

It's good, at least up to the "Spirited Away" standard.

I'd like to visit Colmar someday, it was the inspiration for many of the locations.

parson · Post by **parson** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:16 am

oh yeah i also wanna put out some love for FLCL and paranoia agent

sinc_vision · Post by **sinc_vision** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:42 am

Thanks to all for blessing this thread, i had a feeling it would catch on.

Big up to Parson feeling the Tenchi tip, love all the series, the ultimate for me being Tenchi In Tokyo. Animation frames took a bit of a dive but the story rocked. The female wrestler with the 500m suplex cracks me up every time.

For me, GITS2 started and ended well but had a vacuum of a middle. One things for sure, the main choral theme never gets boring, no matter how many times they use it. It`s like a more powerful version of the theme from the original. All about the 10min version for the end scene. Would love to hear a beat sampling that one day.

Big up to the Warriors of the Wind crew, saw it when i was about 6 as well.
Best Miyazaki for me has to be Spirited Away. Has the most original story of all his films, always surprised me and the level of imagination is off the chart. Japanese people, however, will almost always say their favourite is either Nausicaa or Laputa (although many girls have bare love for Kiki`s) most people i know grew up watching these.
Didn`t like Howl`s much. Started really well then fell into a mess of ideas around the 40 minute mark and never recovered after that. Disagree with Boh Peep, i reckon Spirited Away stamps all over Howl`s, (but i love the picture u posted, the inspiration is clear). Still, Howl`s soundtrack was good and the imagination was there at least.
On the non-Myazaki Ghibli front it`s all about the Cat Returns, loved that film big time, but i think it`s more one for cat lovers like myself.
Grave of the Fireflies was good but i guess it was too hyped for me to fully enjoy. After approximately 15,384 people told me that no matter how masculine i thought i was i was going to cry i was expecting this to be the saddest thing i ever saw...and it wasn`t.

Cowboy Bebop, another classic. Grand pretty much covered what makes that series so heavy but there`s one thing that takes it to the next level for me and that`s the episode with the grinning, fat, cyborg dude. That was *PRAP*PRAP* all the way.

Naruto. Big. Of course.
For me Shikamaru is the don. It`s all about the guy with bare skills but doesn`t give a damn.
Lee is also the embodiment of gangsta.
Then there`s Kakashi, big daddy don.
Man, too many good characters.
Although Sasuke is a bitch.
In general it`s hard to talk about Naruto in fear of spoiling anything for Grand, there`s one thing around ep. 126 that is just tooooo much but it would be wrong to bring it up.

Bleach, also has X amount of heavy characters and the Soul Society story was top notch. Characters i love: Zaraki Kenpachi, Zaraki`s lieutenant (pink haired little girl), the little girl from the store (with the fat off bazooka), ichigo`s dad, maaaan, again too many to mention.

Big up to unlikely, the Rurouni Kenshin OVA`s are one of the best. Proof that animation can contain as much raw power and emotion as any live action. Music was fucking mint as well, goose pimples all the way.

You said it all with Evangelion. Classic. The imagery towards the end of `End Of...` was amazing. Well worth all the bafflement and hyperbole.

Anyone feeling Fullmetal Alchemist?

biomat · Post by **biomat** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:51 am

i just watched these days NGE series for 3rd time) ...its still my favorite
also paranoia agent is great...gits a classic

biomat · Post by **biomat** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:56 am

yeah and what about grave of the fireflies?)) that stuff killed me in fulleffect..now only when i see that two kids on cover iget shivery

*grand* · Post by ***grand*** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:55 am

that episode the one u talking about is calle pierrot le fou.. was first episode i watched haha bloody disgusting.

hmm i dunno u named quite a few good series on this thread over the years i have seen one or 2 of the episodes for instance evangelion and what not OVA i guess though now is the time to sort of bang them out.. let me deal with naruto im on episode 89 lol i started after dmz on sunday morning.. then i wil move on to bleach and evangelion.. can thunder cats be deemed an anime cos if so that was truly banging.

luke.envoy · Post by **luke.envoy** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:45 pm

feeling spirited away on many levels but personally miyazakis best work is (princess) mononoke hime. mankinds struggle with nature always comes out big in anime

DJ Sinc Vision wrote:For me Shikamaru is the don

defo

biomat · Post by **biomat** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:32 pm

for me still best ghibli work is

got allready downloaded live action but dont have nuts to see it yet

...n also cant wait for this one
http://www.evangelion.co.jp/theater.html
...first one will come in summer07 i think

btw thanx luke for noein n ergo tips...will chek em out soon

rickyricardo · Post by **rickyricardo** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:25 pm

I don't watch as much anime as i used to....mainly b/c I don't have the patience of plodding through 50+ episodes of *anything*. All of the series I've enjoyed the most have been short ones (FLCL, Read or Die, Macross Zero)

parson · Post by **parson** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:25 pm

DJ Sinc Vision wrote:One things for sure, the main choral theme never gets boring, no matter how many times they use it. It`s like a more powerful version of the theme from the original. All about the 10min version for the end scene. Would love to hear a beat sampling that one day.

http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=10642

j_j · Post by **j_j** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:10 pm

in wicked city ...the girl with the carniverous p.ussy...UH-OH !!!

is adult swim anime ??lol its fucking class.

parson · Post by **parson** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:31 pm

J_J wrote:in wicked city ...the girl with the carniverous p.ussy...UH-OH !!!

yeah thats the same dude who created the character in ninja scroll who poisoned any man who had sex with her.

dudes got issues

docdoom · Post by **docdoom** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:27 am

not too up on all this...but i enjoyed a series called 'hellsing' about hunting vampires.

and the Ghost in the Shell Standalone series too.

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