Good anime - Page 3

wahine · 01-10-2003, 12:50 AM

I don't get into the whole world of anime, I watch the cartoons on my off days with the volume off and end up duplicated the characters. Japanese artists are very imaginitive, and I love they way they fuse in certain poses, and the costumes are always very tangible. I have been an aspiring cartoonist for a very long time, and have recently taken anime as like my main form. Very epic. But I do like Jingo Araki, and Michi Himeno, specifically. The eyes, it's all about them.

TwirlingString · 01-12-2003, 10:38 AM

I just got through the himiko-den series. It sweet, but the plot mainly consists of the main character getting kidnapped a lot, her boyfriend running around in circles looking for her, and everyone else wishing they could ignore them because they've got more important things to do ( a war) but having to help cux they're the secret weapons.

Diaxion · 01-16-2003, 08:11 PM

I don't think the batman series really counts as anime'

Brokehorn4000 · 01-19-2003, 11:27 AM

Miyazaki is the best! The first of his films I had seen was Princess Mononoke. It was very creative and the quality of the animation was spectacular (not that the rest of his films are any less). The next one I saw was My Neighbor Totoro in my Japanese class. The cat-bus was my favorite character. Then I saw Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away. As soon as that comes out on video, I am going to buy it!
Other than movies, I like Zoids (all series), Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, G Gundam, and Gundam Wing.
Some people might say I'm sort of obssesed with Zoids. At one point I wanted to learn how to make robots and all so that eventually I would have gained enough knowledge to build a full scale Zoid that you could pilot it. But that recurrent daydream faded as I realized that no government would allow that (unless it would come with nuclear weapons that had the potential to blow their enemies to smithereens). Now, I've gone to collecting the model kits. Currently, I have 10. I haven't stopped thinking about a Zoids arcade/simulation game, though.

Gwaimir Windgem · 01-20-2003, 12:18 AM

EG: Did you see Bloodlust? I didn't really think that the original was all that great, but Bloodlust was great IMHO! Cool hero, great story, powerful elements, and vampires and vampire hunters!

TwirlingString · 01-20-2003, 12:45 PM

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Originally posted by Brokehorn4000
Miyazaki is the best! The first of his films I had seen was Princess Mononoke. It was very creative and the quality of the animation was spectacular (not that the rest of his films are any less). The next one I saw was My Neighbor Totoro in my Japanese class. The cat-bus was my favorite character. Then I saw Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away. As soon as that comes out on video, I am going to buy it!
Other than movies, I like Zoids (all series), Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, G Gundam, and Gundam Wing.
Some people might say I'm sort of obssesed with Zoids. At one point I wanted to learn how to make robots and all so that eventually I would have gained enough knowledge to build a full scale Zoid that you could pilot it. But that recurrent daydream faded as I realized that no government would allow that (unless it would come with nuclear weapons that had the potential to blow their enemies to smithereens). Now, I've gone to collecting the model kits. Currently, I have 10. I haven't stopped thinking about a Zoids arcade/simulation game, though.

That's actually a very good idea. I don't think it would be any fun, yet because what would be the point of a zoid that wasn't an AI? Princess Mononoke is one of my favs, but spirited away definately tops that. Why hasn't anyone not in my schools anime club heard of fruits basket?

durin's bane · 01-22-2003, 07:50 PM

I like Yu-Gi-Oh and Hamtaro. And I used to LOVE Vision of Esca Flowne, until those dopes at YTV took it off and replaced it with Pokemon and Digimon (which were two animes that I used to like, long ago, but now I know better

)

katya · 01-22-2003, 09:21 PM

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Originally posted by Adrian Baggins

Does Hamtaro count as Anime?
If so it is the best right under SM [/B]

I like Hamtaro!!!!! They are so cute!!!!

TwirlingString · 02-16-2003, 10:11 PM

Yay! I finally finished all of the fruits basket series! It was so sweet, and depressing, very depressing...but not?

How does that work?!

galadriel · 02-21-2003, 08:47 PM

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Originally posted by Ërendil
Until VERY recently I haven't been interested in Anime, but I have really got into Escaflowne. I love the music.

I haven't watched a lot of anime either, and still don't like most of the shows - although some of the art is gorgeous - but Escaflowne is one of the few that I could watch without getting terribly bored. I think the action scenes bother me the most - the bad guys are usually mindlessly evil and it's hard to buy into or care about the fighting. Escaflowne had its share of these, but otherwise, the characters were pretty cool, and the fantasy setting was fun. And besides, there's something oddly fun about watching hours of episodes all in Japanese.... Not something that I could ever obsess over, but there are worse hobbies out there.

Diaxion · 02-23-2003, 12:07 AM

I think good anime is anime in Japennese wth english subtitles

Celebriel · 02-23-2003, 12:47 AM

I stand by what I say: Cowboy Bebop is the best anime I have ever seen. Such great religious, technological, scientific, and sexual undertones. It really made me question my beliefs on life. Plus, the animation and music is great.

-Celebriel

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-23-2003, 02:32 AM

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Originally posted by Diaxion
I think good anime is anime in Japennese wth english subtitles

I definitely know what you mean. I saw (most of) the Escaflowne series in Japanese with English subtitles; then I saw the Escaflowne movie in English, and it just seemed...I don't know...worse than in Japanese with subtitles, to me.

**Nurvingiel** · 02-23-2003, 04:51 AM

I agree with that, if you're gonna change the language of a movie from the original, keep the real actors expression and subtitle it. But at least Jackie Chan can dub his own lines!

My favourite anime are Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Vision of Escaflowne, Slayers, Good Housekeeping (manga drawn by Akira Toriyama) and Vampire Princess Miyu!

katya · 02-26-2003, 10:37 PM

I haven't really seen much since I am just getting into it but nowadays I watch Zoids, G gundam, Dragonball and Dragonballz, and....that's it...except I guess Hamtaro but I only watch that if I'm pretty bored. I like the way anime looks. I wish I was a better artist.

[edit] and also yu yu hakusho. that just came on toonami so i just started watching it. i thought it was worth mentioning but not worth a whole new post.

Diaxion · 02-28-2003, 06:31 PM

G Gundam is not that great compared to other anime, but since it is Gundam its o.k. in my book.

Brokehorn4000 · 03-02-2003, 11:18 AM

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Originally posted by TwirlingString
That's actually a very good idea. I don't think it would be any fun, yet because what would be the point of a zoid that wasn't an AI? Princess Mononoke is one of my favs, but spirited away definately tops that. Why hasn't anyone not in my schools anime club heard of fruits basket?

Well if I ever get advanced enough in engineering and programming in the future, maybe I could develop an AI system (organoid). That would be great! But for now, I'm only trying to do my best in school. Perhaps my interest in computers will produce positive results towards my dreams! Strategy! Oh, how I love strategy! That's what Zoids is for me

.

Diaxion · 03-03-2003, 01:04 AM

THat is sort of how I would like to design my own Gundam if I had the proper schooling on the neccessary subjects.

TwirlingString · 03-10-2003, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by galadriel
I haven't watched a lot of anime either, and still don't like most of the shows - although some of the art is gorgeous - but Escaflowne is one of the few that I could watch without getting terribly bored. I think the action scenes bother me the most - the bad guys are usually mindlessly evil and it's hard to buy into or care about the fighting. Escaflowne had its share of these, but otherwise, the characters were pretty cool, and the fantasy setting was fun. And besides, there's something oddly fun about watching hours of episodes all in Japanese.... Not something that I could ever obsess over, but there are worse hobbies out there.

Lots of the time the are like that, but thats why Princess Monokee and Fruits Basket are two of my favs, everyones views make so much sense that you can't be sure if there is a bad guy

Saru_da_man · 03-11-2003, 03:04 PM

My all time favorite anime is Escaflowne, both the movie and the series. I absolutely LOVE the characters and the story, though I'm a bit disappointed at the ending.

My second favorite will have to be Princess mononoke or Spirited away.

01-10-2003, 12:50 AM	#41
wahine The Original Amazonian Coconut Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Answering no questions, telling no lies. Posts: 753	I don't get into the whole world of anime, I watch the cartoons on my off days with the volume off and end up duplicated the characters. Japanese artists are very imaginitive, and I love they way they fuse in certain poses, and the costumes are always very tangible. I have been an aspiring cartoonist for a very long time, and have recently taken anime as like my main form. Very epic. But I do like Jingo Araki, and Michi Himeno, specifically. The eyes, it's all about them. __________________ Hem, hem Last edited by wahine : 01-10-2003 at 01:02 AM.

01-12-2003, 10:38 AM	#42
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	I just got through the himiko-den series. It sweet, but the plot mainly consists of the main character getting kidnapped a lot, her boyfriend running around in circles looking for her, and everyone else wishing they could ignore them because they've got more important things to do ( a war) but having to help cux they're the secret weapons. __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

01-16-2003, 08:11 PM	#43
Diaxion Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 112	I don't think the batman series really counts as anime' __________________ good day

01-19-2003, 11:27 AM	#44
Brokehorn4000 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: America, Land That I Love! Posts: 179	Miyazaki is the best! The first of his films I had seen was Princess Mononoke. It was very creative and the quality of the animation was spectacular (not that the rest of his films are any less). The next one I saw was My Neighbor Totoro in my Japanese class. The cat-bus was my favorite character. Then I saw Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away. As soon as that comes out on video, I am going to buy it! Other than movies, I like Zoids (all series), Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, G Gundam, and Gundam Wing. Some people might say I'm sort of obssesed with Zoids. At one point I wanted to learn how to make robots and all so that eventually I would have gained enough knowledge to build a full scale Zoid that you could pilot it. But that recurrent daydream faded as I realized that no government would allow that (unless it would come with nuclear weapons that had the potential to blow their enemies to smithereens). Now, I've gone to collecting the model kits. Currently, I have 10. I haven't stopped thinking about a Zoids arcade/simulation game, though. __________________ ****************************** "Even if you're going in the right direction, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-- Paraphrase of a quote from some famous guy.

01-20-2003, 12:18 AM	#45
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	EG: Did you see Bloodlust? I didn't really think that the original was all that great, but Bloodlust was great IMHO! Cool hero, great story, powerful elements, and vampires and vampire hunters! __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

01-22-2003, 07:50 PM	#47
durin's bane Lady of Westernesse Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada (Help! Our parliament building is melting!) Posts: 761	I like Yu-Gi-Oh and Hamtaro. And I used to LOVE Vision of Esca Flowne, until those dopes at YTV took it off and replaced it with Pokemon and Digimon (which were two animes that I used to like, long ago, but now I know better ) __________________ Yada, yada, yada

02-16-2003, 10:11 PM	#49
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	Yay! I finally finished all of the fruits basket series! It was so sweet, and depressing, very depressing...but not? How does that work?! __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

02-23-2003, 12:07 AM	#51
Diaxion Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 112	I think good anime is anime in Japennese wth english subtitles __________________ good day

02-23-2003, 12:47 AM	#52
Celebriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 139	I stand by what I say: Cowboy Bebop is the best anime I have ever seen. Such great religious, technological, scientific, and sexual undertones. It really made me question my beliefs on life. Plus, the animation and music is great. -Celebriel

02-26-2003, 10:37 PM	#55
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	I haven't really seen much since I am just getting into it but nowadays I watch Zoids, G gundam, Dragonball and Dragonballz, and....that's it...except I guess Hamtaro but I only watch that if I'm pretty bored. I like the way anime looks. I wish I was a better artist. [edit] and also yu yu hakusho. that just came on toonami so i just started watching it. i thought it was worth mentioning but not worth a whole new post. Last edited by katya : 03-10-2003 at 07:48 PM.

02-28-2003, 06:31 PM	#56
Diaxion Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 112	G Gundam is not that great compared to other anime, but since it is Gundam its o.k. in my book. __________________ good day

03-03-2003, 01:04 AM	#58
Diaxion Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 112	THat is sort of how I would like to design my own Gundam if I had the proper schooling on the neccessary subjects. __________________ good day

03-11-2003, 03:04 PM	#60
Saru_da_man Sapling Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Endless fields of flowers... no really Orthanc Posts: 6	best anime My all time favorite anime is Escaflowne, both the movie and the series. I absolutely LOVE the characters and the story, though I'm a bit disappointed at the ending. My second favorite will have to be Princess mononoke or Spirited away. __________________ Survey! I am Saruman of many colours! ... Ooops, I forgot to separate the whites again! Last edited by Saru_da_man : 03-11-2003 at 03:06 PM.

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