Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="beta-ray" data-source="post: 1576867" data-attributes="member: 1259">*Raises hand meekly* Uhm... I am now past the mid 30 mark and I like "anime" maybe more than I did before. I was raised on both Japanese and American animation... Luckily I was able to watch many Japanese cartoons with the original Japanese dialogue with subtitles. Sadly much the animation that is imported now is dubbed badly. Although we had Astro Boy here, my love for Japanese animation started with Mazinger Z. For American animation it was probably Flintstones, Milton the Monster, Fearless Fly and the Mighty Heroes. Oh I liked the Marvel stuff from the 60s too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I don't care for Dragonball Z at all, though I did like the early episodes of Dragonball. Regarding Toriyama, I much prefer Dr. Slump. I liked Cowboy Bebop and Trigun too.Well I never thought they'd bring over FLCL... but they did! (like that wacky show as well) I don't think that the age of a show or it's budget necessarily have anything to do with the quality of a show... Many of the shows that I like are older and had a smaller budger than shows of today.A lot of it, is due to my nostalgia I admit. I still think shows like Raideen and Getter Robo are cool. Just pure fun. I also like Zeta Gundam the best out of the Gundam stories even though the main character can be a bit of a pill.Some random stuff I thought were good that were "anime" (not mentioned previously)... Robot Carnival (robot anthology stories)... The Hakkenden ("Eight Dog Tales" Buddhist Samurai story)... Giant Robo (over the top pulp action)... Raxhephon (people compare it to Evangelion... but funny I didn't really care for Evangelion)... Yukikaze (released recently in the USA, air force-type story)... Macross Plus (prequel to Macross or Robotech part I in the USA, not released here yet)... Spirited Away... Patlabor 2 (slow but interesting and not what most people would view as "anime art")...  Blood...  Jin Roh... Gosh I am sure there are tons I haven't mentioned...Japanese animation I agree with others on (being good): Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Ruroni Kenshin, Escaflowne, Wolf's Rain...Stuff I want to see... Last Exile, Ghost in the Shell: Man Machine Interface, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, and more I can't think of right now...</blockquote>

Verification