Does anyone besides me watch Japanese animation?

[Enchantress]

This isn't an anime, but I really enjoy watching the cartoon of x-men evolution. The plot's good, it's got action, surprising endings, and is a major cliff hanger show. I may also like it becuse half the characters on this show are the voices of half the characters on Gundam Wing. Again, Yes I am obsessed.

 

[Chun-tzu]

This isn't an anime, but I really enjoy watching the cartoon of x-men evolution. The plot's good, it's got action, surprising endings, and is a major cliff hanger show. I may also like it becuse half the characters on this show are the voices of half the characters on Gundam Wing. Again, Yes I am obsessed.

Holy cow! You're right!

Kirby Morrow - voice of Cyclops and Trowa Barton
Brad Swaile - voice of Nightcrawler and Quatre Reberba Winner
David Kaye - voice of Professor X and Treize Khushrenada
Scott McNeil - voice of Wolverine and Duo Maxwell

Even now, I'd have to watch those shows back-to-back to detect any similarities.

 

[Enchantress]

Well that just, once again, shows that I am indeed obsessed.

 

[Templetroll]

This link to the Anime network

Any info on this list of shows? I've only heard of a couple.

"Titles include Spriggan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Excel Saga, Martian Successor Nadesico, Gasaraki, Noir, Dai-Guard, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Orphen, Golden Boy, Sorcerer Hunters, Kimera, Ninja Resurrection, Tekken, Those Who Hunt Elves, Gunsmith Cats, Burn Up W and Samurai X: The Motion Picture."

Interesting mispelling:

"... team of Sorcerer Hunters ready to take on any
rouge magic user that crosses their path."

 

[hong]

I'm terribly ashamed to admit it's taken me THIS LONG to get around to watching Slayers. Having now devoured the first and second series, I have come to the conclusion that it absolutely rocks. Especially Slayers Next.

These guys ARE a D&D campaign. It's uncanny how close some of the stuff they get up to is to what goes on in a game.

 

[Black Omega]

This link to the Anime network

Any info on this list of shows? I've only heard of a couple.

"Titles include Spriggan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Excel Saga, Martian Successor Nadesico, Gasaraki, Noir, Dai-Guard, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Orphen, Golden Boy, Sorcerer Hunters, Kimera, Ninja Resurrection, Tekken, Those Who Hunt Elves, Gunsmith Cats, Burn Up W and Samurai X: The Motion Picture."

Samurai X..AKA Kenshin. IMHO, not worth watching when dubbed. If Tekken is the one I'm thinking of, it was pretty bad. But that's typical for anime based on fighting games, save for the Street Fighter TV series.

Excel Saga, outrageous comedy but not for all tastes. When it was funny it was very funny. Most of the time it was too silly for me, though.

Those Who Hunt Elves is in much the same boat, though not -quite- as silly, that says more for Excel Saga, since TWHE is still pretty darned silly. One of the anime that constantly look off 'camera 'to talk to those watching.

Bubble Gum Crisis is pretty good, and a sentimental favorite since I watched the original when I broke into anime.

Ninja Ressurection is the sequal to Ninja Scroll if memory serves me right, and not nearly as good.

even so, it sounds like they have a good variety lined up. But no hentai mentioned yet, tsk!

 

[Mr Fidgit]

Ninja Ressurection is the sequal to Ninja Scroll if memory serves me right, and not nearly as good.

IMHO, fans of Ninja Scroll should ignore the fact that Ninja Ressurection is supposedly a sequel. it wasn't very good at all...

 

[WizarDru]

It's not a sequel...just an attempt to cash in on a pretty successful production by association. The same way you'll see a movie touted as being from the same producer as a successful film, no matter how little that person actually had to do with said content.

 

[Turgenev]

I've been a fan of anime ever since I first saw Battle of the Planets (G-Force/Gatchaman) as a kid. Course I didn't recognize it as anime then and it wasn't until I saw Robotech as a teenager that I realized there was a whole genre of the stuff.

I haven't really watched anything new over the last few years but I still have my personal favourites. To this day I'm still a huge Gatchaman fan (own all of the original episodes of the 1st series - untranslated without subtitles).

Other stuff I enjoy is (not in any order):

§ Lupin III tv series & the movies (especially the Castle of Cagliostro movie)
§ Anything done by Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, etc.)
§ Bubblegum Crisis (Bubblegum Crash wasn't as good but is okay)
§ Ranma 1/2 tv series and some of the OAVs
§ Akira (but can't watch it any more -- seen it too many times ;p )
§ Golgo 13: The Professional (like the manga more though)
§ Wings of Honneamise
§ Phantom Quest Corps (Yuugen Kaisha)
§ Vampire Princess Miyu
§ El Hazard (fantastic series)
§ Gunsmith Cats (not great, but fun)

I've been watching anime now for over twenty plus years so I've seen a lot of stuff that I have now forgotten about and some stuff I wish I could forget about.

Cheers,
Tim

 

[Alzrius]

I'm writing this post from a certain college in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. The reason I'm here is because anime got be so interested in Japanese language and culture (specifically anime) that I'm majoring in it, and hence am over here as an exchange to it. I discovered anime at Gen Con '96, thanks to the wonderful guys at Hades Pro (who deserve some major major thanks for what they do every year for us Gen Con goers). So for me, D&D and anime are inextricably linked!