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Does anyone besides me watch Japanese animation?
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Agamon
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Once upon a time I watched anime, but not so much anymore. I still have a copy of subbed Ranma 1/2 #1 and dubbed Ninja Scroll and Ghost in the Shell, but I sold the rest of my collection to a friend that was quite the ravenous anime fan.
Edit: Geez, forgot to post my favs...
Ninja Scroll
Record of Lodoss War
Ghost in the Shell
BGC
Akira
Ranma 1/2
Dragonball Z (as mindless as it was...)
Edit: Geez, forgot to post my favs...
Ninja Scroll
Record of Lodoss War
Ghost in the Shell
BGC
Akira
Ranma 1/2
Dragonball Z (as mindless as it was...)
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Enchantress
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*sniff* why don't you watch it anymore?
WizarDru
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You should give more recent shows a try. Many shows that were aimed at an older audience appeared in the last few years. It's rather refreshing to see some shows where the protagonist isn't a middle or high-school student.
I'd highly recommend Cowboy Bebop: odd name, brilliant show. At turns both funny, tragic and very noir, it defies a lot of conventions. There are many, many more, but that's the one I'd use as a gateway, if I were pulling people into anime, these days.
I'd highly recommend Cowboy Bebop: odd name, brilliant show. At turns both funny, tragic and very noir, it defies a lot of conventions. There are many, many more, but that's the one I'd use as a gateway, if I were pulling people into anime, these days.
Epametheus
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Hooray for fan-subbing.
Shows that I have seen all of (that I think are worth looking at):
Vision of Escaflowne
Neon Genesis Evangelion (subbed, thank god)
El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, El-Hazard 2, El-Hazard: The Wanderers, El-Hazard: The Alternate World (Wanderers is the TV series; the rest is OVA).
Initial D & Initial D: Second Stage
Vandread (both seasons; each season is 13 eps)
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star
Fruits Basket
Noir
Read or Die
Full Metal Panic!
Kenshin OVA (NOT Samurai X, for god's sake; I hate ADV)
.hack//sign and its attendant OVA series, .hack//luminality
SaiKano (not its full name, but even the official japanese website (saikano.net) calls it SaiKano)
Probably more in that list, but I'm having a brain fart.
Movies:
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Oh! My Goddess movie (I cannot remember its title)
Inu-yasha: Love that Transcends Time
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Patlabor: the movie 2 & 3 (note: 3 really isn't a Patlabor movie; it's just a neat movie that happens to have the Patlabor license for some reason)
Kenshin movie (can't remember the proper title; good except for excessive use of one flashback)
Yuyu Hakusho: 2nd Movie
Great Conquest: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (covers the first 17 chapters of the novel, with some cutting)
The End of Evangelion
On the currently watching list:
Inu-yasha (seen up to episode.. *checks* 90! And still more coming down the line)
Witch Hunter Robin (seen up to ep 8; amusingly enough, the only difference between the Hunters and the Witches is that the Hunters work for an organization; this will have interesting repercussions further down the line, I'm sure)
Azamungah Diaoh (only seen a few eps of it, but I will see more at some point)
Kenshin (I really need to watch past ep 24)
On the "was-watching-until-the-local-anime-club-died-momentarily" list:
Onegai Teacher (not sure what to make of it yet)
Card Captor Sakura (in contention with Fruits Basket for cutest damn thing ever)
Hellsing ("It fires depleted uranium? Is that even legal?")
Scryed (can't give a single sentence summary that does it justice)
+ a bunch of shows actually in my "already seen list"
I think that covers it...
Edit: Realized I'd neglected to place SaiKano in the list..
Shows that I have seen all of (that I think are worth looking at):
Vision of Escaflowne
Neon Genesis Evangelion (subbed, thank god)
El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, El-Hazard 2, El-Hazard: The Wanderers, El-Hazard: The Alternate World (Wanderers is the TV series; the rest is OVA).
Initial D & Initial D: Second Stage
Vandread (both seasons; each season is 13 eps)
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star
Fruits Basket
Noir
Read or Die
Full Metal Panic!
Kenshin OVA (NOT Samurai X, for god's sake; I hate ADV)
.hack//sign and its attendant OVA series, .hack//luminality
SaiKano (not its full name, but even the official japanese website (saikano.net) calls it SaiKano)
Probably more in that list, but I'm having a brain fart.
Movies:
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Oh! My Goddess movie (I cannot remember its title)
Inu-yasha: Love that Transcends Time
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Patlabor: the movie 2 & 3 (note: 3 really isn't a Patlabor movie; it's just a neat movie that happens to have the Patlabor license for some reason)
Kenshin movie (can't remember the proper title; good except for excessive use of one flashback)
Yuyu Hakusho: 2nd Movie
Great Conquest: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (covers the first 17 chapters of the novel, with some cutting)
The End of Evangelion
On the currently watching list:
Inu-yasha (seen up to episode.. *checks* 90! And still more coming down the line)
Witch Hunter Robin (seen up to ep 8; amusingly enough, the only difference between the Hunters and the Witches is that the Hunters work for an organization; this will have interesting repercussions further down the line, I'm sure)
Azamungah Diaoh (only seen a few eps of it, but I will see more at some point)
Kenshin (I really need to watch past ep 24)
On the "was-watching-until-the-local-anime-club-died-momentarily" list:
Onegai Teacher (not sure what to make of it yet)
Card Captor Sakura (in contention with Fruits Basket for cutest damn thing ever)
Hellsing ("It fires depleted uranium? Is that even legal?")
Scryed (can't give a single sentence summary that does it justice)
+ a bunch of shows actually in my "already seen list"
I think that covers it...
Edit: Realized I'd neglected to place SaiKano in the list..
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Epametheus
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WizarDru said:
Nope, haven't seen a single ep. of it. Guess I should remedy that at some point...
Enchantress
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You should add Gundam Wing to that list too. In case you haven't noticed, it is my calling in life to convert everyone I meet to the religion of Gundamism. May the Zero system be with you.
Epametheus
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Enchantress said:You should add Gundam Wing to that list too. In case you haven't noticed, it is my calling in life to convert everyone I meet to the religion of Gundamism. May the Zero system be with you.
Forgot about that... heh. Most of the guys I know are generally at best indifferent to Wing, while the girls all love it. Overall, I actually liked it. Except for one little bit.
I hated Wu-Fei. They had to put out a special episode 0 (manga form only, if I remember right) just to explain what the hell was wrong with that boy.
Now, original Gundam (while being pretty silly in of itself -- the mechs are fighting while standing on fighter hets) has one of the best lines I've heard in a dubbed anime in a while.
Char: "The best way to flush a rat out of its nest is to carpet-bomb it."
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