what anime should I start collecting?

[thatdarncat]

Consider this another vote for Rahxephon

Also, I just picked up Spirited Away for the kids at Seri-chan's work. Honest, it's for them... ummm for this afternoon at least Must go set up TV

 

[jdavis]

Cartoons are also spread around here (perhaps more so than America). We get Futurama on Sky One (sattelite + cable) and Channel 4 (network), for example, and Pokemon, Zoids, Yu-Gi-Oh are on Sky One and ITV (network). Nadesico, Evanglion, and Bubblegum crisis were all shown on Sci-Fi (Why oh why did they take away Anime night? *cries*). Sailor Moon and Jackie Chan Adventures are both shown on Fox Kids (Sailor Moon on ITV as well), along with the unforgettable Dungeons & Dragons. Then there's the Disney Channels (no Anime there, though).

While CNX sounds cool, there is the problem that all the stuff that we get, you get months before us. I'd love to see .hack/sign, and a lot of the other stuff you get, but I'm not likely to see it until Autumn at the earliest.

Out of curiosity, do you get Boomerang? It's the Cartoon Network channel that shows old shows like Scooby Doo and Hong Kong Phooey.

This is Western Kentucky, I'm happy to have cable at all. I'd love to have Boomerang (big Jonny Quest fan) but it's not offered and I don't have the money to get a dish. I haven't seen Anime on Sci Fi in several years and then it was 4 or 5 shows repeated over and over again on Saturday mornings, they did have a Anime week once a year a long time ago, but how many times could you sit thorugh Roujin Z, Iria, Galaxy Express 999, Casshan Robot Hunter and Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture? Which was what they showed pretty much every time (OK they did have Akira on several times too). Anime is pretty hard to come by on basic cable in America.

 

[Enchantress]

Cartoons are also spread around here (perhaps more so than America). We get Futurama on Sky One (sattelite + cable) and Channel 4 (network), for example, and Pokemon, Zoids, Yu-Gi-Oh are on Sky One and ITV (network). Nadesico, Evanglion, and Bubblegum crisis were all shown on Sci-Fi (Why oh why did they take away Anime night? *cries*). Sailor Moon and Jackie Chan Adventures are both shown on Fox Kids (Sailor Moon on ITV as well), along with the unforgettable Dungeons & Dragons. Then there's the Disney Channels (no Anime there, though).

I have seen all of these shows except for Sky One and Evanglion, and would things like Jackie Chan Adventures and Futurama count as anime? If so, that REALLY makes my list of animes that I've seen longer.

 

[Alzrius]

would things like Jackie Chan Adventures and Futurama count as anime? If so, that REALLY makes my list of animes that I've seen longer.

In a word - no. Those are animated shows, but they are produced at the behest of American corporations, for consumptions by Americans (I may be oversimplifying where it gets shown, but you understand what I mean). Neither of those shows are "anime" in the sense we use the word (that "anime" is animation made in/by Japan, for consumption by Japanese people primarily).

I know that someone is going to disagree with me here, so before doing so, please read this article, which is very informative on the subject.

 

[WizarDru]

I know that someone is going to disagree with me here, so before doing so, please read this article, which is very informative on the subject.

While I'm coming from the old school, before the terms anime or 'japanimation' were used, I tend to think that these days, on both sides of the atlantic, the article is true. Twenty years ago, when I was paying $35 for a VHS laser-disc bootleg of "Castle of Cagliostro" sans subtitles or dubbing it was not. Even in the animation industries, anime was just 'japlish' for animation, including Disney and the Fleischers.

But now that anime has finally found it's footing in the US market, it's become like a mirror staring at another mirror, with the image echoing into infinity. Personally, I'm a little worried when anime fans starting getting a quite as exclusionary as the anime nation article seems to suggest they should be. Maybe I'm getting old, but I used to enjoy Johnny Quest and Captain Harlock equally, but for different reasons. There's sort of an underlying sentiment that anime should be put in a little box, and it shouldn't get out of that box.

Mind you, I don't have a problem with the use of the word as they describe in the article...just the sort of implication that if it isn't anime, it's not that good. I mean, clearly, it's not who makes it, but who it's made for that's the important part. Otherwise, the Simpsons would be Korea's most popular cartoon, and "Santa Claus is coming to Town" would be considered anime. But the lines blur quite a bit, and I think worrying too much about whether it's 'officially' anime or not is probably silly.

 

[Sixchan]

This is Western Kentucky, I'm happy to have cable at all. I'd love to have Boomerang (big Jonny Quest fan) but it's not offered and I don't have the money to get a dish. I haven't seen Anime on Sci Fi in several years and then it was 4 or 5 shows repeated over and over again on Saturday mornings, they did have a Anime week once a year a long time ago, but how many times could you sit thorugh Roujin Z, Iria, Galaxy Express 999, Casshan Robot Hunter and Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture? Which was what they showed pretty much every time (OK they did have Akira on several times too). Anime is pretty hard to come by on basic cable in America.

Probably more than a few times, since none of them have ever been shown (as far as I can tell) over here.

Originally poted by Enchantress
I have seen all of these shows except for Sky One and Evanglion, and would things like Jackie Chan Adventures and Futurama count as anime? If so, that REALLY makes my list of animes that I've seen longer.

I'd be surprised if you had seen a show called Sky One, since it's a television channel.
No, Futurama and the like aren't anime, but I was more referring to the fact that Futurama is shown on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network in the States, whereas it's on a different channel here (Sky One for cable and sattelite, Channel 4 for network).

Originally posted by Alzrius
I know that someone is going to disagree with me here, so before doing so, please read this article, which is very informative on the subject.

I wouldn't call it informative so much as a developed opinion. IMO, however, Anime and Manga are just terms to define a style of art/animation, the same as impressionism or expressionism. Take Megatokyo, for instance. It's not produced by a Japanese person (Fred Gallagher is American), and it's not aimed at Japanese people (it's a web comic, so it's aimed at everyone), but given it's style (some strips now are even in vertical 4-koma Japanese format), I'd still call it an online Manga. If it was made into an animated format, I'd call it an Anime.Going by AnimeNation's criteria, if Scooby Doo had been made by a Japanese company, and wass aimed at Japanese people, it'd be an Anime. I think that no matter where it was made, or who it was aimed at, I could never call something with the art style of Scooby Doo "Anime".

To me, Anime is a cartoon medium drawn in a style used mainly in Japan.

 

[Uruk]

And, uhhh...Not that I'm not flattered that you think I'm an actress, but what made you think I was?

I glanced at your profile and mixed up your interests with your occupation. My wife majored in creative writing (poetry) though so I know the same sentiment unfortunately remains. (though we always hope otherwise)

 

[jdavis]

Probably more than a few times, since none of them have ever been shown (as far as I can tell) over here.

Trust me you got the better end of the stick with

Nadesico, Evanglion, and Bubblegum crisis were all shown on Sci-Fi

Roujin Z is definatly odd (I hated it but many people liked it): http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/reviews/display.php?id=271
Galaxy Express 999 is about a space train (yes a "space" train) set in the Captain Harlock Universe. Being as they never showed any of the other anime from this Universe it was quite confusing. It was put out in 1981 and looks it too. They did show some really good anime(they also showed Green Legend Ran, Project A-KO and 8 Man After) but they just showed the same anime over and over again week after week and the anime week every year was just them showing last years anime week over again, they never tried to get anything new. These were all OVA's or movies, they had about 20 hours worth of anime which they recycled for several years. I havent seen any anime on Sci Fi at all for at least 4 years now.

 

[Sixchan]

Trust me you got the better end of the stick with
Roujin Z is definatly odd (I hated it but many people liked it): http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/reviews/display.php?id=271
Galaxy Express 999 is about a space train (yes a "space" train) set in the Captain Harlock Universe. Being as they never showed any of the other anime from this Universe it was quite confusing. It was put out in 1981 and looks it too. They did show some really good anime(they also showed Green Legend Ran, Project A-KO and 8 Man After) but they just showed the same anime over and over again week after week and the anime week every year was just them showing last years anime week over again, they never tried to get anything new. These were all OVA's or movies, they had about 20 hours worth of anime which they recycled for several years. I havent seen any anime on Sci Fi at all for at least 4 years now.

Point taken. But Project A-KO sounds good from what I've heard of it. I think I saw it(can't remember if it was the DVD or not though) in the local comic shop, and I might buy it.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

The Vision of Escaflowne is very cool, gorgeous and a cool sci-fi fantasy story.

I haven't seen it in a while, but I'd imagine it's available online and in most anime shops.

~Sheri