I don't think we've had a thread on this but guess what is everyone's favorite Anime?
I'll start. Death Note - the main character kills criminals whats not to love?
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I don't think we've had a thread on this but guess what is everyone's favorite Anime?
I'll start. Death Note - the main character kills criminals whats not to love?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Batman must be the most disappointing hero to you, ever.Originally Posted by Lewkowski
I'll start. Death Note - the main character kills criminals whats not to love?
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The blood of thousands is on his hands.
Did you finish watching that series, Lewk? The "hero" tried to play God, and in his quest to kill criminals, he also killed a lot of "good" people too. Cops, investigators, an FBI agent's fiance, etc. I guess one can argue, in his warped mind, the ends justified the means. I enjoyed the series also, but for different reasons than you.
But if we are going to be serious in the thread, my favorite is still Vision of Escaflowne. One of the first series I watched that wasn't Americanized (though one American channel attempted to, and butchered it. Thankfully I had seen the unedited version first). Another world just beyond our moon, mecha units, catgirls, tarot cards, Isaac Newton, great soundtrack. Might be a little bit girly for some. Though, lots of blood interspersed in the episodes.
He was a flawed individual however I was rooting for him to the very end. There's a lot of points of view and generally I disagree with the notion that the ends justifies the means... but hey its anime, good old fashion escapism - so it was a pretty enjoyable experience. Another similar Anime I enjoyed the heck out of was Code Geass - again the same concept of do the ends justify the means.
Its interesting how Anime can have somewhat serious stories but throw in random silly nonsense at the drop of the hat. I'm not sure what it say about the culture it comes from but it definitely says something.
Well, some of my list:
Avatar - The last Airbender (not the movie!)
Full Metal Alchemist
Last Exile
Ergo Proxy
Darker Than Black
Shangri-La
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
This isn't anime. It's American.
Which one? The first one or Brotherhood? Apparently Brotherhood was better because stuck to the manga plot, or closer to it.
Obligatory Dragon Ball Z, Knights of the Zodiac, and the likes.
Obligatory
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Attempting to get into Avatar; looks kind of meh though. Probably would of loved it when I was growing up but now I'm having difficulty getting into it.
Once you get past the first few episodes (they are getting their sea legs for the series) it REALLY wows you. I enjoyed it when it cam out and I'm 41.
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I won't spoil it, but the darker episodes were what did it for me. Seeing the good guys lose for once was a nice change.
At first I thought you celebrated the absolution of the DBZ CC, but then serious names started popping up without sarcasm. Someone even took anime as a format of art to defense. Excellent! Being the guy who probably watched the most here, I'd like to highlight Honey & Clover (graduate art students conforming to work), Great Teacher Onizuka (earlier biker gang leader applying to become a high school teacher to check up girls, but rather becomes a freaky mentor teaching morals of the hard kind), Monster (Surgeon Tenma is forced to flee as an orphant who's life he saved as a kid, returns with a malicious mastermind resembling the ultraviolence of Hitler) and His and Her Circumstances (short manga featuring a girl who is suicidal and her meeting with a prisoner on death row organized through the church).
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
Strange, and here I was thinking that the term "Anime" was about the style and not the country of origin.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
It depends on who you talk to. In America, even if it of the same "style", it has to be Japanese made to be considered Anime. Everything else is Anime-style but not considered Anime. I think it differs elsewhere.
(Though, I do love Avatar and the new series, Legend of Korra)
I also enjoyed both series of Full Metal Alchemist, though it was very fucked up. There were a few episodes of the first one that really made me almost stop watching. But I got through it
Starblazers...only cause I was a kid when it came out...oohhh so looooong agoooooooooooooo
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Are Ghibli Studios movies considered Anime?
If so;
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Yeah they're anime, and anime is most properly defined as a style. And Avatar the last air-bender is one of the few good American made Anime's.
People often mock the medium but there is nothing fundamentally wrong with depicting a story through hand-drawn images, in fact it allows for liberties hard to capture in live action, or even live action with special effects. I find it laughable when someone says they don't like anime, or cartoons, that just tells me they don't watch it. That's like not liking books, or not liking movies. Any story found in a book or movie there is one that can be found in anime.
As for the above movies you should know them by their maker Miyazaki and not the Studio. That man has directed a lot of great work, including Princess Mononke. But, i've seen both of those as well, and they're good with great underlying messages of self-confidence, independence, not wasting your youth (in case of Howl's castle), and of course of protecting the Earth/environment for our children and all wild-life I would say is more miyazaki's angle.
Really good ones have been listed like: Ergo Proxy, Full Metal Alchemist. Other good one's that I'd wager a pretty penny Nessie would like would be Kino's Journey very philosophical and abstract but entertaining to those who even don't care much about those questions. My favorite probably is FMA even with all the Christianity Chastising it partakes in.
Movie-wise, I do love all of Miyazaki's films. I remember watching Nausicaa as a very small child. So, that was my first "anime". I have several of his movies in my DVD collection.
Hardly ever seen it, but I remember liking Spirited Away.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Er, I don't remember that being the premises of His and Her Circumstances, unless there is more than one series....
Ehh.. dunno why I typed that name. His and Her Circumstances is the English title for Kare Kano. A school romance made by the same people who did Honey & Clover. Both are definitely watchable.
The series I wanted to portrait, was Our Happy Hours (Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan).
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
I forgot Ghost in the Shell (and the accompanying series: Standalone Complex).
Shame on me.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I didn't like those movies. I did like the series though. I'm not sure how that worked out, but it's probably because of the movies' focus on the Major, who is the most boring character in the series.
Ah okay. I liked His and Her Circumstances, and my sister would tease that I was much like the female character Yukino because I acted one way in public and quite another at home.
It's one of my treasured romance series too. I actually like most of JC Staff productions; including Kare Kano, Honey & Clover, Toradora and Nodame Cantabile (sorted chronologically). The former two are very philosophical and reflecting, while they turned to warmer emotions in the latter. There is a difference anyway. Besides these I like NANA, Clannad, Ef, Bakemonogatari, Kimi ni Todoke and Ano Hana. All of them are really top tier. My opinion is that Japan are light years ahead in depicting slife of life dramas like these. They just play at your heart strings.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
Whenever an anime moves to slow for you, you should try the manga, as it's always more fastpaced.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
So I just finished watching Angel Beats. This was very different then what I thought it would be and to be honest if someone had told me what this was all about at the beginning I wouldn't have thought to watch it. There was one scene that made me laugh the hardest I've ever laughed in an anime and a few others than hit me like a punch to the nose. Really good stuff. I put it up there with Death Note and Code Geass as one of my favorite anime.
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