Anime- any fans?

[Melf]

We had a pretty good discussion going on at the old board, so I figured we should start it up again. I'm into movies and short series (2-3 volumes), as opposed to long series like Naruto and such. I just picked up Judge for $11, and my favorites are Baoh, Guyver, and the original Bubblegum Crisis.

[Drixxel]

Pretty much all I watch these days in terms of anime are Miyazaki films.. the first anime I ever saw was Galaxy Train, and.. ehh, I didn't know what to think of it at the time. In the late '90s I really liked the original Slayers, and then became interested in the Gunsmith Cats manga and the subsequent 3 half-hour anime episodes (which pale in comparison to the graphic novels, sadly). It's been years since I've followed any particular series, although I have watched quite a bit of Lupin the 3rd lately. Other than that, it's mostly just the films now. Some of my favourites are Ninja Scroll, Castle In The Sky, Spirited Away (saw it in theatres.. pure awesome), Castle of Cagliostro, Akira (subbed is the only way), and maybe Tokyo Godfathers.

[Melf]

Gunsmith Cats was pretty cool (never read the manga), but I sill haven't seen Castle of Cagliostro. Everyone speaks well of it, and I've been meaning to pick it up.

[Genesis Knight]

I watch what I can find, as long as it isn't overly raunchy. And no, I'm not a huge mecha fan. Those shows get old reeeeeeally fast. Gundam is good, though.

[Drixxel]

I highly recommend Castle of Cagliostro, Melf. One of my favourite movies, let alone anime.

...yeah, mecha does get stale. Still, I wish I had a giant robot..

[Genesis Knight]

...with which to crush my many enemies. ^_^

[Melf]

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:D

I still would like to Get Dangai-O on DVD. :(

[Mel]

I watch plenty of anime. I'm a huge fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I gotta install the region switch on my saturn soon to fill that hunger....

[j_factor]

Castle of Cagliostro is a classic.

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of anime, but I don't dislike it either. Some of it's good, some isn't, just like everything else.

My favorite anime stuff is Cowboy Bebop anything, Lupin anything, Please Save My Earth, Urusei Yatsura, Spirited Away, and Porco Rosso (Crimson Pig).

[Drixxel]

Porco Rosso.. I've wanted to see that for quite some time. I was planning to buy the Disney rerelease a few months ago, but that very week the stores around here jacked up the price to around $35 Canadian and that did a fine job of scaring me away. Profiteering heathens..!

Maybe I'll just rent it. Yeah.. that could work.

[NintendoDieScreaming]

I was into anime for a good while around 8th Grade. However, I discovered that all I really like are Hayao Miyazaki movies. The man is astounding. In my opinion, the only filmmakers that have him beat are Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino.

[StRiDA CoL]

Has anyone seen Fist of the North Star?

cause it sounds like a cool anime series

anyway I hat to admit it but one of my fav anime series is DragonBall

[Mel]

I'm going to start watching gundam x, soon. I haven't found much anime i really like lately.

I liked gundam seed, but the english dub really sucked.

I loved cowboy bebop, nothing like it since.

I also found Nadesico to be hilarious. I'd like to get ahold of the movie, so I can see what happens to all the characters.

[Vicman]

Liked Cowboy Bebop? Checkout Samurai Champloo. Very slick and stylish with lots of action and cool/interesting characters.

As for my interest in anime I enjoy good art , characters, and stories irregardless of format. However, character development is a big issue to me and my tastes.

I've enjoyed anime since 1995, and spent 2 years (fall 2002-spring 2004) as president of a college anime club. I built that small club, that averaged less than 10 ppl per meeting in a small room & had less than 150 items in it's library, into one that had over 80 members, watched anime in a 250 seat theater, and had about 800 items in it's library when I stepped down. It was alot of work, and quite time consuming, but I was very proud with what I did with the club.

Personally I rarely ever watch anything dubbed and used to download alot of anime that would get digi-subbed just days after it aired in Japan. The last year & 1/2 I haven't watched much because I got burnt out on anime the year before running the club. Nonetheless I do have my favorites and they are: Slam Dunk, Hajime no Ippo, Berserk, Golden Boy, Great Teacher Onizuka, most works by Satoshi Kon, and I really used to enjoy Rurouni Kenshin back in the day.

These days I'm much more interested in Japanese Historical TV Drama's & Asian/Japanese movies. The last asian flick I saw was "The Hidden Blade", a great movie, and I'm eagerly anticipating watching "Year One in the North" with a proper english sub. :cool:

[Melf]

Has anyone seen Fist of the North Star?

cause it sounds like a cool anime series

I would love to finally get the original movie on DVD. Every copy I've seen on eBay goes for an arm and a leg. :(

[Sega Uranus]

My Favorite anime I have seen was Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, because it is just so goofy, funny, and perverted. The art is mostly high quality, and has an intresting flair, and presintation. I also like FLCL, Lupin the 3rd, Read or Die, and while it dosn't really count, KILL BILL vol.1&2 are the best action movies I have ever seen, next to Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is the BEST MOVIE EVER! I'm not into anime that much though, but my friend, now she knows some good ones!

[David J.]

I'm a fan, but not a real giant one. I download quite a bit, but never watch most of it.

[Nazza]

I watched mostly the anime on Adult Swim that was on a few years ago, like Cowboy Bebop, BGC 2040, Trigun and Tenchi Muyo. Nowadays the only anime AU Cartoon Network shows (barring 4Kids translations) is Full Metal Alchemist which I don't watch.

[lemmy_kilmister]

Yeah, I enjoy anime. I'm mostly only into the classic late '70s, '80s, and ultra violent stuff, though I admit I enjoy Naruto. Some of my favorites series and movies include:

Berserk
Record of Lodoss War
Devilman
Violence Jack
Black Jack
Lupin the 3rd
The Hakkenden
Urotsukidoji (yeah, I know.. hentai. But it's awesome. Besides, it's a Testament song)
Ninja Scroll
Ronin Warriors
Wrath of the Ninja

[Elusive]

I'm not really a fan. One of my friends got me briefly hooked on Azumanga Daioh, though, but from what I've heard that's pretty much the 'entry drug' of anime. There's no way I'm falling down that rabbit hole ok :I

[Cataulin]

If theres one show to watch that started to be subbed. Its Jyu Oh Sei. thats show is some hot shit.

Now go and download it.

[Obviously]

I'm more of a mecha fan than I am an anime fan in general, and I'm more into super robots as opposed to the real robot genre created by Gundam.

I have a thing for the cheesy over the top action and some modern remakes like Getter Robo Armageddon and New Getter Robo and Mazinkaiser and so on and so forth are really awesome because I like watching the corny old super robot shows and the modern versions really do an awesome job bringing the classics up to date. I'll watch Gundam as well though and Robotech/Macross is what got me into anime probably, other than Speed Racer and the New Adventures of Gigantor.

I don't know, I could just never get into anime that tries to take itself too seriously and Miyazaki films just plain bore me. I can appreciate their genius but I can't get behind them.

Just give me shallow, unbelievable action and a lot of fun and giant robots and I'll enjoy it. I'm simple like that, I like to be entertained more than challenged so I stay away from a lot of series and I also like to watch movies and shorter OVA's than full shows because I don't have the time for that.

[Genesis Knight]

I've been watching Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop lately. Bebop deserves all the praise it can get - the production values are so high, and it has none of the corny, lame moments you find in so many other animes.

Evangelion, however, has thrown me for a loop. I'm on episode 15 and so far I see nothing that should merit acclaim as the 'best anime ever'. It seems like just another largely silly mecha title, with some admittedly awesome mecha designs that beat Gundam into the dirt.

[Obviously]

Cowboy Bebop was a real work of art. It avoided all the anime cliches and it has such a jazzy sense of cool, like the 70's being replayed in outer-space.

A few episodes later in Evangelion, the whole thing just takes a steep nose-dive into "whatthehellisgoingonville?!" A lot of people claim this all to be deep and symbolic but it's really nonsense in my opinion and the writer admitted he was depressed at the time. I didn't care for the show at all and I like to think of myself as a huge giant robot fan (but yes the EVA's are cool looking indeed). People have been telling me Rah Xephon is better but if anything is compared to Evangelion I stay away from it like the plague.

I really liked Big-O however. It's the only giant robot show with symbolism and mystery that I could really get behind. I love the art style and the mature and intelligent main character who's a great break from the loud and obnoxious classic super robot pilots or the angsty and whiney brat real robot pilots. The Western influenced art style is also flipping awesome in my book. It's really unique but unfortunately Japan didn't love the show as much as its American audience. I've been meaning to watch Big-O again and catch what I missed last time.

[David J.]

I'm a bigger fan of Tokusatsu than anime. I adore Kamen Rider.

[Obviously]

Since Tokusatsu and super robot anime go hand-in-hand almost, I too really enjoy it. Part of the reason I love Viewtiful Joe is the slew of references few people get.

[Melf]

This reminds me, I still have a ton of anime I got off of ADV's last sale that I have to watch. Summer's as good a time as any!

[David J.]

I have a lot of Tokusatsu I need to watch also. Damn!

I'm looking at buying offical Toei DVD's of many Super Sentai shows when they hit DVD, but I'd have to hack up a ton of plasma just for one volume. One of thos shows that I plan on buying I watched dubbed in portugese, and in what seemed like 20th generation VHS.

[Cataulin]

I'm more of a mecha fan than I am an anime fan in general, and I'm more into super robots as opposed to the real robot genre created by Gundam.

I have a thing for the cheesy over the top action and some modern remakes like Getter Robo Armageddon and New Getter Robo and Mazinkaiser and so on and so forth are really awesome because I like watching the corny old super robot shows and the modern versions really do an awesome job bringing the classics up to date. I'll watch Gundam as well though and Robotech/Macross is what got me into anime probably, other than Speed Racer and the New Adventures of Gigantor.

I don't know, I could just never get into anime that tries to take itself too seriously and Miyazaki films just plain bore me. I can appreciate their genius but I can't get behind them.

Just give me shallow, unbelievable action and a lot of fun and giant robots and I'll enjoy it. I'm simple like that, I like to be entertained more than challenged so I stay away from a lot of series and I also like to watch movies and shorter OVA's than full shows because I don't have the time for that.


Mecha is a sub genre of anime. so what your really saying is that you like anime. :confused:

[Genesis Knight]

Big O did rock the house. Even if there was nothing more to Big O than the theme music, it'd still rock. "Cast in the name of God, ye not guilty! We have come to terms, Big O!"

Riiiiiiight.

[Cataulin]

Big O did rock the house. Even if there was nothing more to Big O than the theme music, it'd still rock. "Cast in the name of God, ye not guilty! We have come to terms, Big O!"

Riiiiiiight.


DOOD thats my favorite anime ever.

[Obviously]

Mecha is a sub genre of anime. so what your really saying is that you like anime. :confused:

Well not all Mecha is Japanese or anime, but what I meant is it's the only part of the genre that really sparks an interest in me.

[Kusanagi]

Anime is like a lifestyle to me,
I'm a huge "ghost in the shell" fan and other cyberpunk anime like "Serial Experiments Lain"
other series I like are:

neon genesis evangelion
noir
cowboy bebop
wolfs rain
trigun
hellsing
streetfighter (especially the movies)
Hayao Miyazaki movies
bleach
naruto (till they ruined it with filler eps)
vampire hunter D
love hina
appleseed

[Genesis Knight]

Can anyone give me their opinion on Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door before I go rent it?

[kain611]

Is Ark considered Anime? If so that was pretty cool from the 30 minutes I watched. Thanks to DVR I can watch it later :)

[Nazza]

Can anyone give me their opinion on Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door before I go rent it?

Is that the movie?

[Cataulin]

Is that the movie?


Yes it is. Just think of it as a Better drawn longer episode. Like one of those three parters with Vicious.



Anyways anyone watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni?

Excellent show. its currently at episode 9.

[Genesis Knight]

Lil' comment about Cowboy Bebop:

I couldn't believe Spike died! I had no clue that was coming, because I foolishly thought that the movie took place *after* the series was over. What a shocking ending, at least for me.

[Cataulin]

Lil' comment about Cowboy Bebop:

I couldn't believe Spike died! I had no clue that was coming, because I foolishly thought that the movie took place *after* the series was over. What a shocking ending, at least for me.


yeah well they did mention that only they could kill each other so it was bound to happen

[Nazza]

I was more confused by the explanation of what it symbolised, not sure where I read it :S

Yeah the Cowboy Bebop movie was pretty cool, I liked it. Good memories.

[casualmoviewatcher]

I usually just get to watch the anime shown on adult swim. So far my favorite has to be Cowboy Bebop and I've wanted the series on dvd for a long time, but I just haven't gotten a chance to get it yet. I did watch Samurai Champloo and I enjoyed it about as much as I enjoyed Cowboy Bebop. I watched Wolf's Rain and I like that show too, but it was a little depressing and not as fun. I like WitchHunter Robin and Fullmetal Alchemist. The only anime I'm watching now that has new episodes is Inuyasha, but it's lasted too long in my opinion. It's a decent show, but sometimes you just want to yell, "Kill Naraku already, will ya?" I'd be very interested in anybody who enjoys any of the shows that I've just mentioned if they would like to discuss them with me. Any Miyazaki fans can talk to me too. Out of the movies of his that I've seen so far I've liked most of them and I own two of them so far, Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away.

[casualmoviewatcher]

Anime is like a lifestyle to me,
I'm a huge "ghost in the shell" fan and other cyberpunk anime like "Serial Experiments Lain"
other series I like are:

neon genesis evangelion
noir
cowboy bebop
wolfs rain
trigun
hellsing
streetfighter (especially the movies)
Hayao Miyazaki movies
bleach
naruto (till they ruined it with filler eps)
vampire hunter D
love hina
appleseed

I like Miyazaki movies, cowboy bebop, neon genesis evangelion, and wolf's rain. I heard that neon genesis evangelion has made a few movies. Are they any good? I haven't seen them yet and I was wondering if I should check them out?

[Kagome]

I love Cowboy Bebop!! Does anyone like Inuyasha?:cool: :p

[Genesis Knight]

Is Ark considered Anime? If so that was pretty cool from the 30 minutes I watched. Thanks to DVR I can watch it later

Although it definitely tries to imitate anime, I don't really think it can be considered as such.

[Sega Saturn x]

Evangelion, however, has thrown me for a loop. I'm on episode 15 and so far I see nothing that should merit acclaim as the 'best anime ever'. It seems like just another largely silly mecha title, with some admittedly awesome mecha designs that beat Gundam into the dirt.
That's because the show is pretty trashy, I wrote a long review on it and ended up giving it a D.

I drift in and out of anime, the shows I like the most are mecha and comidies. Macross is still the best anime ever made IMHO.

[Genesis Knight]

Did you ever read the Macross novels? Those were great.