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<blockquote data-quote="atra2" data-source="post: 1725697" data-attributes="member: 10914"><p>I know the purists will scream at me, but consider Robotech (at least the first series, though the other two are cool too) and an oldie but goodie: Star Blazers.</p><p> </p><p>Oh, on Ranma, a few (3 or less) of the very early episodes mix in comedy scenes at the shower, with some brief nudity, as the other characters learn that for Ranma, hot water = stay boy or return to boy form, and cold water = stay girl or return to girl form. The producers quickly leave the "naked 3 stooges humor" behind, and the next zillion episodes don't use that comedy device, or at least provide convenient scenery.</p><p> </p><p>Ranma is well-written, though be cautious about showing anyone the first 6 episodes. It's kinda sad, because the first few episodes explain the story, but you can't exactly show a 10-year old them, even though the majority of 70+ episodes have no such situations. Again, not porn, just 3-stooges female nudity.</p><p> </p><p>Record of Lodoss war is indeed good, though keep in mind most people are referring to the 2-dvd set original to video, not the 4-dvd set that is ~24 episodes of a tv series done to treat the 2nd dvd of the first set correctly. (IE, they started running low on money, so had to compress 24 eps each 22min into 1 DVD, so the 2-dvd set is missing some story elements, things are compressed, etc. However, the TV series had poorer animation, so it's ok if you skip the 4-dvd set ($90 at amazon) in favor of the 2-dvd set (<$40) and you won't even know what you were missing.</p><p> </p><p>Here's another hint: cartoon network shows some anime (dragonball z and stuff) during the daylight hours, but some stuff (a bit more adult, but not nudity/sex stuff) late at night, like midnight. Just look in your tv guide, and the series titles will tell you by their airtime what's more adult, what's more kiddie, or at least safe.</p><p> </p><p>Sadly, Anime on DVD has no ratings system here, though stuff that would be NC-17 is at least set aside in a "mature" section. Still, at suncoast movies and other dvd stores, anime with serious gore is alphabetized right along with pokemon and dragonball Z.</p><p> </p><p>I suggest you find people in your city who are big anime fans, take them down to a suncoast or indy anime dealer, and have them grab the first 5-10 dvds they see that aren't skinfests, and show you the top 2 or 3 based on quality and your genre interests.</p><p> </p><p>This is the equivalent of having an "anime librarian." Librarians become far more useful</p><p>when the bookstores don't helpfully separate things by genre, though you can miss</p><p>out on a lot of genre-mixing authors that way. (Many of Isaac Asimov's sci-fi books</p><p>are more properly detective stories set in the future, and really belong in the Mystery</p><p>section, for example.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="atra2, post: 1725697, member: 10914"] I know the purists will scream at me, but consider Robotech (at least the first series, though the other two are cool too) and an oldie but goodie: Star Blazers. Oh, on Ranma, a few (3 or less) of the very early episodes mix in comedy scenes at the shower, with some brief nudity, as the other characters learn that for Ranma, hot water = stay boy or return to boy form, and cold water = stay girl or return to girl form. The producers quickly leave the "naked 3 stooges humor" behind, and the next zillion episodes don't use that comedy device, or at least provide convenient scenery. Ranma is well-written, though be cautious about showing anyone the first 6 episodes. It's kinda sad, because the first few episodes explain the story, but you can't exactly show a 10-year old them, even though the majority of 70+ episodes have no such situations. Again, not porn, just 3-stooges female nudity. Record of Lodoss war is indeed good, though keep in mind most people are referring to the 2-dvd set original to video, not the 4-dvd set that is ~24 episodes of a tv series done to treat the 2nd dvd of the first set correctly. (IE, they started running low on money, so had to compress 24 eps each 22min into 1 DVD, so the 2-dvd set is missing some story elements, things are compressed, etc. However, the TV series had poorer animation, so it's ok if you skip the 4-dvd set ($90 at amazon) in favor of the 2-dvd set (<$40) and you won't even know what you were missing. Here's another hint: cartoon network shows some anime (dragonball z and stuff) during the daylight hours, but some stuff (a bit more adult, but not nudity/sex stuff) late at night, like midnight. Just look in your tv guide, and the series titles will tell you by their airtime what's more adult, what's more kiddie, or at least safe. Sadly, Anime on DVD has no ratings system here, though stuff that would be NC-17 is at least set aside in a "mature" section. Still, at suncoast movies and other dvd stores, anime with serious gore is alphabetized right along with pokemon and dragonball Z. I suggest you find people in your city who are big anime fans, take them down to a suncoast or indy anime dealer, and have them grab the first 5-10 dvds they see that aren't skinfests, and show you the top 2 or 3 based on quality and your genre interests. This is the equivalent of having an "anime librarian." Librarians become far more useful when the bookstores don't helpfully separate things by genre, though you can miss out on a lot of genre-mixing authors that way. (Many of Isaac Asimov's sci-fi books are more properly detective stories set in the future, and really belong in the Mystery section, for example.) [/QUOTE]
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