Who loves anime here?

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MatsudaBerry said:
Hs anybody seen Kore wa zombie desu ka? Does it stay as violent as the first episode? The idea of a story centering on a zombie seems interesting, but the stuff from the first episode goes beyond slapstick. It’s too bad, and it reminds me of my general confusion over what constitutes gratuitous violence. I hope you’ll pardon me for sounding like a broken record; I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread.
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I’ve seen clips of worse things in that show… worse, but funny at the same time. :rotfl:
 
Nelka said:
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Why? If it’s because anime is violent or sexual, I completely disagree because there are TONS of anime out there that use nudity as an art form like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Elfen Lied and others which despite containing some very, very light rude jokes like Clannad are otherwise 100% clean. I just watched 2 episodes of Bakemonogatari and I dropped it ebcause not only was it boring but it was too unnecessarilly sexual. Ggoing to watch Baccano and Another instead.

Anime has some of the greatest stories known to men. FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Mosnter, 20th Century Boys, Rurouni Kenshin, Higurashi, Elfen Lied, Neon Genesis Evangelion. Why don’t you like anime then?
 
@sidetrack: thanks for the interpretation/review!

I’d like to ask others who have watched NGE: is it possible to interpret the show as yet another example of what happens when any mortal tries to build Utopia on earth? How man tries to perfect creation beyond God and acts as if he can play God? Whether Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc., Gendo and SEELE seem like they don’t care what happens as long as they get their way – “you have to break a few eggs” after all. Quite a story about “ends justifying the means”. (Of course, while one could say SEELE had some good motives, wanting to evolve humanity to the next level, Gendo’s reasons were more selfish. All were wrong to do so, of course.)

But what of Shinji and Auska? I think one could compare them to people who reject the “God” in the film and who are destined to live in hell.

Then again, I could have it all wrong. They both ruined third impact didn’t they? No one survived because of Shinji. The last part confused me. To this day I can’t figure it out.
 
Just finished Another and what can I say? It was amazing, much above average, maybe on Madoka Magica levels of amazement. It’s unique, original, genuinely scary and sad and the characters were all great, especially that of Mei. It was very, very good and is highly, highly recommended. It is very gory though and there are Higurashi levels of scary but I lvoed it a lot none the less, I really did. Really was an amazing anime even though the first few episodes did overuse some jump scares.
 
I’ve been enjoying UtaKoi lately. Very classy show based on old Japanese (Heian-era) poems. Lots of romance, but it never gets too serious.
 
Hey guys, what do you think of Wolf’s Rain? I hear it is very, very good and am going to watch it. If it is uninteresting like how Samurai Champloo was or downright bad like Ayashi no Ceres, I’d drop it but I heard nothing but praise for this show. Well, wish me luck.
 
You know I said before that I’ll continue to watch the entire Digimon show but from what I’ve seen from season 5 in both the english and Latino dub I’ve severly lost interest.It seems that they didn’t put as much effort and thought into that series even though it’s supposedly meant 2 attract fans of the first 4 seasons.I think I’ll just read the episode summaries for that season and season 6 -_-.Wish I had something more meaningful to say.I’m watching the very first episode of “Slayers” season 1 and if it turns out good I’ll see if I can watch all 3 90’s seasons.

If what I’ve heard is right then u Americans were lucky to get so much good anime during Cartoon Network’s mid 90’s-early 2000’s glory years.Series I’m hoping 2 finish

both seasons of Ghost in the shell
Slayers
early 90’s Tenchi Muyo
Wolf’s Rain
Kenshin
Weed (the dogs vs that bear)
maybe a J or K-drama while I’m at it ? 🤷

still waiting for JesuOtaku’s/Hope Chapman’s review on 2k3 FMA vs Brotherhood 2 see if it’s worth watching but 4 now I’ll stick 2 the manga
 
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
House of five leaves
Sengoku Basara
Jyu-Oh-Sei
Ramen fighter Miki
Casshern Sins
Hero Tales
Seriel experiments lain
Xenosaga
Midori days
Samurai 7
Excel Saga
Tsubasa Chronicle:reservoir chronicle anime
Now and then,here and then
Fractale
(maybe) Kenichi and 2k3 Astro boy

Maybe I’ll get a taste of a true Japanese tokusatsu the next “Kamen rider” series around but as far as live action stuff goes Moyashimon:tales of agriculture is filling my live action J-drama niche 4 now.Oh and dont get me started on my OVA,anime movie and manga pull list 🙂 (cough Narutaru/Shadow among them stars b/c I’d like to see a deconstruction of the “mon” series cough).

I liked the first episode of Slayers although I feel a bit bad that it’s out of my intended demographic.It definately seems like something I would have loved a dozen years ago sometime btw Pokemon’s Kanto region hey days and it definately seems like something that would have been on YTV back then and a better sub for all those shameful hours I watched Sailor moon to the extent that I knew and followed it more then my sister:D.Due to this I’m a bit more open to the idea of watching or reading shonen now but still not any of the big forcibly long-winded main stream ones that I’m skeptical about.

Does anyone else think old Japanese monster movies and the whole tokatsu genre has a had a tremendous influence on anime and manga esp.the “monster” ones? .Personally I’d consider Godzilla like the “spiritual ancestor” of the “Mon” shows.Yet isn’t it odd that even with all his fame there’s yet to be any anime about Godzilla?.Wouldn’t writers scramble at the chance of making animated stories for the iconic kaiiju?.

You know I think that what “Star wars” was to ppl in the late 70’s I think that anime and manga was the same thing to us in the mind-90’s esp.since we got the first full wave of dubbed anime and translated manga after older generations only got glimpses of occasionel stuff like Osamu Tezuka’s stuff along with sci-fi robot stuff like Mazinger/Tranzor Z,Starblazers and Robotech/Macross,Voltron and Battle of the planets/Gatchman.Dont you think so?.

But the 90’s:o…the years that unbeknowest to me at least would be the twillight years of TV produced some rock solid animation on both hemispheres.Ah,twas a beautiful time to be a child watching TV in those days :rolleyes:.That I will treasure.
 
Ok guys, I’m going to watch Cowboy Bebop and finish it before I watch Wolf’s Rain. Right now, watching episode 10, it still didn’t affect me. The concept and the way the story is told is good I guess but there are many other shows that did it better like Watchmen in my opinion. Who knows, maybe I will be blown away in the end.
 
Forget what I said about Bebop, I’m dropping it because I still didn’t like it. I don’t get what is so special about this show for it to be called the greatest anime ever. I mean, what is so special about it? Half the thigns it did were done better in Watchmen and for a show that examines and focuses n a lot of themes, it sure doesn’t have interesting ones nor does it have interesting characters. I was so bored by it I jsut read the plot on wikipedia and found that there were only like 5 episodes after episode 10 that focused on anything resembling a plot (the plot being Spike searching for Julia and stopping Viscious and the Red Dragon Syndicate). The other episodes just seemed so boring and bland and had no purpose at all. Now I don’t mind episodic anime but even episodic anime must serve the plot in some way. Bleach and Evangleion were episodic for their first 13 episodes yet in their first 4 episodes, I had mroe reason toc are for the characters than 10 episodes of Bebop made me care for their characters.

All around, while far from horrible, Bebop was boring, uninteresting, bland and just ovverated in my opinion.
 
Me!!!
Inuyasha, Blood +, Claymore, Wolfs reign, Elfen lied, and some more.
I know I am forgetting some, but def huge fan of Blood and Claymore.
 
Could anyone recommend anymore? I am really into good vs evil anime whether it has demons or vampires, or zombies lol.
 
archangel04 said:
Could anyone recommend anymore? I am really into good vs evil anime whether it has demons or vampires, or zombies lol.
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Good vs evil anime? I highly recommend Monster, Rurouni Kenshin and FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood. If you want to view a list of anime I saw or am seeing, go here: myanimelist.net/animelist/philipmarie
 
I’m kind of thinking. Is this thread focused specifically on animation? Should discussions about manga have a thread of its own, or are we fine as we are?
 
Eh, I’d say the two overlap enough to keep it to one thread. Besides, some of my favorite series are manga only! : D
 
Anyway, just wanted to thank y’all for some pretty cool suggestions; I’ve been following this thread, and have a list of shows I wanna check out. Forgive me for not participating more; I’m afraid I get anxious discussing my favorite series with people, especially on a religious forum. I always fear that others will find immorality and sin in what I enjoy, even if I myself inteperite it differently, and will no longer be able to enjoy something based on anothers opinion. In any case, thanks, and cheerio!
 
patrick457 said:
I’m kind of thinking. Is this thread focused specifically on animation? Should discussions about manga have a thread of its own, or are we fine as we are?
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Fine as we are. It’s pretty darn clear that the culture of anime spans mediums. Long live the otaku culture! @w@
 
MrSylvester said:
Forget what I said about Bebop, I’m dropping it because I still didn’t like it. I don’t get what is so special about this show for it to be called the greatest anime ever. I mean, what is so special about it? Half the thigns it did were done better in Watchmen and for a show that examines and focuses n a lot of themes, it sure doesn’t have interesting ones nor does it have interesting characters. I was so bored by it I jsut read the plot on wikipedia and found that there were only like 5 episodes after episode 10 that focused on anything resembling a plot (the plot being Spike searching for Julia and stopping Viscious and the Red Dragon Syndicate). The other episodes just seemed so boring and bland and had no purpose at all. Now I don’t mind episodic anime but even episodic anime must serve the plot in some way. Bleach and Evangleion were episodic for their first 13 episodes yet in their first 4 episodes, I had mroe reason toc are for the characters than 10 episodes of Bebop made me care for their characters.

All around, while far from horrible, Bebop was boring, uninteresting, bland and just ovverated in my opinion.
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Dude, you’re moving on to different anime too quickly and watching episodes too fast. Also, only people watching with heavy nostalgia goggles will say that Bebop is the greatest anime ever and I am puzzled even more by you comparing it to Watchmen. Bebop is a very good anime but it is not the greatest anime ever.

Bebop can be described for the most part episodic but that shouldn’t detract you from sitting back and enjoying the show. There’s a lot of subtlety and brilliant nuances that you might miss from blazing through each episode with the thinking of “when will the plot move forward, when does these shenanigans stop?”. Most of the character development, theme and setting exploration happen in these seemingly filler episodes and you’ll definitely miss them if you blink or put your attention to somewhere else.

“I came to the discovery, upon watching CB a few times, that the ‘bebop’ mentioned in the title really isn’t about the music at all . . . it’s about the way the story of CB is presented. Two to five musicians, jamming and improvising on a particular theme, playing according to the mood of the moment. The stories in CB are disjunct; I wouldn’t go so far as to say ‘episodic’, but rather a mix of episodic and continual (because there is a continual theme at the heart of it). Each individual jam session may have it’s own point or punchline, but in way the entire ‘album’ has a overriding theme.” -Jazz Messenger

Episodes 1,4,5,6,7 and 9 were brilliant episodes both in content, context and animation direction it also offers lots of easter eggs and nods to pop culture from John Woo gunfight scenes, Bruce Lee choreographed fights, odes to Desperado and Woody Allen etc…
In the first 10 episodes a lot of facets of Spike’s character has been at show from being sympathetic, apathetic, ruthless, haunted, melancholic and annoyed but caring which paints a picture of a complex lead. You also have development for Jet and Faye in these episodes and the introduction of Ed.

Most anime like Cowboy Bebop is more concerned about the journey rather than the destination and it is just disappointing that you rushed in and spoiled yourself to see the ending rather than enjoy the show for what it is.

Well the good thing about anime and literature in general is that media that you may not have liked when you first saw it becomes something you may like in a different stage of your life when you have had more experiences for you to relate to it or to appreciate it.
Watch more anime (but don’t plow through it) and then come back to those anime that a lot of people seem to put into high regard and try to see how they hold up to those that you have seen and liked.
 
tantumquantum said:
Dude, you’re moving on to different anime too quickly and watching episodes too fast. Also, only people watching with heavy nostalgia goggles will say that Bebop is the greatest anime ever and I am puzzled even more by you comparing it to Watchmen. Bebop is a very good anime but it is not the greatest anime ever.

Bebop can be described for the most part episodic but that shouldn’t detract you from sitting back and enjoying the show. There’s a lot of subtlety and brilliant nuances that you might miss from blazing through each episode with the thinking of “when will the plot move forward, when does these shenanigans stop?”. Most of the character development, theme and setting exploration happen in these seemingly filler episodes and you’ll definitely miss them if you blink or put your attention to somewhere else.

“I came to the discovery, upon watching CB a few times, that the ‘bebop’ mentioned in the title really isn’t about the music at all . . . it’s about the way the story of CB is presented. Two to five musicians, jamming and improvising on a particular theme, playing according to the mood of the moment. The stories in CB are disjunct; I wouldn’t go so far as to say ‘episodic’, but rather a mix of episodic and continual (because there is a continual theme at the heart of it). Each individual jam session may have it’s own point or punchline, but in way the entire ‘album’ has a overriding theme.” -Jazz Messenger

Episodes 1,4,5,6,7 and 9 were brilliant episodes both in content, context and animation direction it also offers lots of easter eggs and nods to pop culture from John Woo gunfight scenes, Bruce Lee choreographed fights, odes to Desperado and Woody Allen etc…
In the first 10 episodes a lot of facets of Spike’s character has been at show from being sympathetic, apathetic, ruthless, haunted, melancholic and annoyed but caring which paints a picture of a complex lead. You also have development for Jet and Faye in these episodes and the introduction of Ed.

Most anime like Cowboy Bebop is more concerned about the journey rather than the destination and it is just disappointing that you rushed in and spoiled yourself to see the ending rather than enjoy the show for what it is.

Well the good thing about anime and literature in general is that media that you may not have liked when you first saw it becomes something you may like in a different stage of your life when you have had more experiences for you to relate to it or to appreciate it.
Watch more anime (but don’t plow through it) and then come back to those anime that a lot of people seem to put into high regard and try to see how they hold up to those that you have seen and liked.
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You’re right. I plow through anime too much and too fast and honestly, it isn’t doing good for my health. I literally watched FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood in three days and yes, I still love it although I think I love Evangelion and Elfen Lied the most because those are the anime that took me the longest to watch despite Elfen Lied being shorter than most. At the same time, I think I can recognize a good anime between a bad one even if I were to watch it in one day or not. I could watch twenty episodes of Bleach in one day and I’d still say that it has an atrocious narrative. I said it from the start and I will always hold that opinion.

It’s better if I watch 10 episodes of an anime a day instead of what has become 18 a day like I used to. Clannad was one of the first anime I watched with Evangelion, Elfen Lied and Death Note and I watched it in 5 days and I still love it.

Currently, I want to watch Trigun, Wolf’s Rain, Baccano and Berserk the most. Especially Trigun and Wolf’s Rain as I already watched a few episodes of them and Trigun looks like it will serve some sort of breather to me before I watch WR which looks like it’s going to be very, very good. Waht do you guys think of these shows? I’m putting Bebop on hold for now in order to wathc these other shows
 
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