― Sheldon, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Ranma 1/2 for sheer silly fun. "Why didn't you say anything?" "I can't say anything, I'm a panda!"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
also, search anime theme songs! and their lyrics on the net!
― jel, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― jess, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― DG, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― turner, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
DG: Akira = grate visuals (10+ yrs. later), nice vague cosmic plot; Ghost in the Shell = grate visuals, nice vague cosmic plot (something anime seems to specialize in, eh? ;]); Perfect Blue = never seen.
― duane, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― maryann, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
the theme song and animation for cowboy bebop are just wonderful. the rest of the show is missable, but i love the theme.
― Lyra, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
"Oh please sir! Don't double-dong me!"
Ack.
I should have known something would go wrong with the relationship when I discovered my ex had the *box set* (which retailed for over $150 Amurrican if I remember) of La Blue Girl (particularly heinous/ridiculous hentai porno toon) in her collection. .
My sisters are big into Anime though, and you know, it's really not bad at all. That Gundum Wing show makes absolutely 100% no sense though, and Sailor Moon is the worst thing I've ever seen. The rest of it seems alright. I don't watch too closely, I just wanted to tell you all that I have a friend who thinks Richey Manic looks like the guy off Voltron.
― Ally, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― nathalie, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
GR: Are robots symbolic of something? MO: Technology
― jel, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
as for anime porn, gotta go with _twin dolls_. it's just so sad and tries so hard to be perverted. and the thing with the giant penii - i think the whole country is worried about what it's packing downstairs; or maybe it just goes back to that religious sect that worships the penis.
― your null fame, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Sky Crawlers (new film from Mr Mamoru "Ghost in the Shell" Oshii) is suicidally boring.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 24 July 2009 09:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
i still stand by Sailor Moon
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
was this his next film after "ghost in the shell"? because this one is supposedly "OSHII'S BEST (since) GHOST IN THE SHELL"
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
naruto is awesome btw
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
I will admit to having watched more than a hundred episodes of Bleach in recent memory
― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh man i haven't watched bleached. would i regret starting?
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
why did i past tense that?
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
I smell a sequel
― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Friday, 24 July 2009 15:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
You should definitely watch start watching Bleach if you have, say, a phd dissertation you need to finish within the next month, or a grant proposal to write, or a significant other you've really been meaning to spend more time with lately
― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Friday, 24 July 2009 15:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Word to the wise, though: the first big story arc is also the best - the quality drops really quickly afterwards. No real need to watch anymore after past episode...60 I think?
I watched loads of Bleach fansubs at the insistence of a roommate and remember it going rapidly to shit once it's moved to the underworld-medieval-Japan-bureaucracy setting. I stopped watching fairly soon after, though, so I don't know if it picked up.
― Telephone thing, Friday, 24 July 2009 18:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I imagine a lot of anime has been rendered obsolete by introduction of cheap CG, so where are these live action movies that would have been anime?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 July 2009 18:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Bleach is a MAJOR obsession of mine! Things seem to have gotten interesting again now that they're back training for the massive confrontation with Aizen and they've pulled 5 of the Court officers into the human world to look after things while the main characters train.
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Friday, 24 July 2009 18:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Philip - lots of cheap CG 'live anime' - Cutie Honey, Tetsujin 28-go, Devilman & the over-egged likes of Casshern - but the space for 2D will always be mandatory - see NY Times pillow guys but not just them.
Anyway, decided to check what Kamen Rider was up to these days (a live action tradition so tech. off-topic but...)...This:
― xcixxorx, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oops. That, but also this for cheap CG meltdown:
― xcixxorx, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
the spelling error in this thread title says it all, really.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
i hav a gunsmiths cats t-shirt
― o comely wite kidz f8 has it in for u (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 19:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
says it all, really
Recommend me some psychedelic awesome vintage anime movies to watch. Maybe with wizards and supernatural kids or something. Less giant robots more non-stop insane flashing things and outer space and talking animals and mystical shit. Ok, some giant robots are fine...
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
You specifically looking for movies and not series? Because Bleach has become my go-to series.
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Series are fine! OK I'll check out Bleach, whats it like?
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Adam, have you ever seen FLCL?
― pax raggetta (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_%28manga%29
Here's a primer; the story largely follows the experiences of a Japanese high school student with the ability to see ghosts and how that ability leads him to discover the Soul Society, a group of spiritual reapers who are responsible for guiding lost souls into the afterlife. Things rapidly get much more complicated than this, though.
FLCL is another good one, and Paranoia Agent is amazing for a good long run of the 16 episode series (I was massively let down by the end but that may be because I am a jaded motherfucker).
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I really want bright colors, weird cosmic cutaways, psychedelic sequences, batshit narratives that move real fast and almost don't make sense. Also, i have no problem with English dubs.
Thanks for those suggestions!!!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I will cast another vote for FLCL.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is that just 6 eps?
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nice. Yeah i looked up a torrent of Bleach and it was like 40gig. Gonna start w something smaller.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh yeah Bleach goes on forever, there are over 300 episodes
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
you can stop watching Bleach after like the second season, they start going into that dragonball Z style dragging out the storyline
― and the suggest banned tweeted on (dayo), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 23:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Telephoneface: you want Mind Game (movie) and Kaiba (series). Trust me on this. Neither are licensed in any English-speaking country so far as I know, so you'll have to steal 'em, but they're pretty easy to find on the Pirate Bay.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
You want to watch Paprika.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, most satoshi kon probably fits your bill ( rip :( )
― and the suggest banned tweeted on (dayo), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha the problem with suggesting flcl and kon flicks and mind game (which is like top twenty of the last decade for me, live action or animated) is it gets people thinking they're all like that and not 900 episodes of teenage kung fu magicians with upskirts and severely limited animation. (other than the limited animation that might appeal though, so.)
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's been awhile since i've seen mind game but my recollection was that it actually was about a teenage kung fu magician.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Who fights crime.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
crime-fighting kung fu whale with magical panties iirc.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
problem with suggesting flcl and kon flicks and mind game ... is it gets people thinking they're all like that and not 900 episodes of teenage kung fu magicians with upskirts...
hella upskirts in flcl
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean it's great, but...
yeah but its also insane.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean it's a gainax production. they practically invented the anime upskirt. they're entitled.
see, i did not know that
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
gainax: merging high-art with zero gravity bouncing boobies since 1984
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
900 episodes of teenage kung fu magicians with upskirts
Which anime is this a description of?
Been watching mostly Dirty Pair, mostly cos the intro is so rad and I like the clumsy Star Trek w babes storyline. Saw some FLCL and really enjoyed it but I got distracted and forgot about it. Must pick it back up...
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha it could be a MILLION of them but for sake of ease we'll say, oh, i dunno, tenchi
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you want OLD batshit colorful moving-too-fast anime, you should check out the second urusei yatsura movie, beautiful dreamer. directed by oshii, the guy who made ghost in the shell, but NOTHING like the stuff he's done in the last twenty years. more like flcl/mind game. you might need a little familiarity with the characters to fully getbit, but going in blind might also just add to the craziness. really special movie. you'll probably have to torrent it, though.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 03:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's kinda like a three's company episode written by borges. with space aliens in bikinis.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 03:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah beautiful dreamer is rightfully regarded as the best UY movie
leiji matsumoto would prob be up ur alley too
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 30 June 2011 03:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha i found this old pic cankles posted to some thread today
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs164.snc1/6128_146522375751_739675751_3455842_6954930_n.jpg
and it made me realize that maintaining the fanboy illusion that anime was some kind of superior-to-american-animation super art form was a lot easier in the '80s and '90s before you could actually watch a lot of it.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 3 July 2011 23:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/07/hatsune_miku_live.php
― buzza, Monday, 4 July 2011 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
and it made me realize that maintaining the fanboy illusion that anime was some kind of superior-to-american-animation super art form was a lot easier in the '80s and '90s before you could actually watch a lot of it.p
totally otm
― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 July 2011 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I finished watching the entire TV run of Dirty Pair. I really think it kept up the quality through the whole run. Great animation, cool spaceships, interesting storylines, shameless fan service. That last point gets a little more blatant towards the end of the series, and they cheekily acknowledge at one of the post-credits previews, telling all Otaku to watch the next show, same time, same channel. I really like some of the mystery stories they have too.
My favorite episode has to be #17 "Come Out, Come Out, Assassin!", which has Kei and Yuri in disguises (respectively as a nun and a stewardess!) trying to find a murderous hacker aboard a space shuttle before it's sucked into a black hole. It also has a kid playing a keytar melodica, DTMF tone phreaking, and a really cool 2001-style spacewalk.
I'll watch the movies next but I just found Mind Games and Beautiful Dreamer so I'm finally going to see them afterwards!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Plus, I can't get enough of space babes.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
for April Fools Adult Swim turned into Toonami for the night.seems to have been a popular choice, at least on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/adultswim/status/187004036824834049
― zappi, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 09:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's been a while but I found the theme of loss via relativistic effects of near-light-speed travel in Gunbuster really honestly quite moving. Also, giant mecha robots and space babes (only one gratuitous scene of space babes in communal shower iirc).
― God arrives for the apocalypse, having been traveling at the speed of (ledge), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 10:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
hmm...
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sgt. Frog is AWESOME
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Rented Redline from Netflix, I've heard good things. We shall see.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
Any opinions on Deadman Wonderland or Casshern Sins?
― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
Beautiful Dreamer was in my comedy films ballot
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
Still working my way through Sgt. Frog, on maybe ep 7 or 8 by now. It's gotten less interesting tbh, but the first 4 eps are really trippy and really fun. Some of the characters have incredibly annoying voices and every so often you will have an ep that just sounds like a bunch of screeching, whining kids yelling at each other really fast. The narrator is still probably my favorite part of the show, tho Keroro and the red frog are pretty much always super rad. And the mom is good for fan service.
Has anyone seen the whole series? I like how surreal meta and fast and WTF the first bunch of eps are, but it seems to be settling down into something that, while still wacky and strange, is a little more standard episodic anime.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
Ok so ive been watching a few more. Some of them are really pervy, but there's nothing explicitly sexual in it. It's really pretty awesome. There was an episode where they have to fight cavity monsters and shrink down and make Incredible Voyage jokes. Then the frog who has the cavity uses a tiny robot avatar to go inside of his own mouth. Lots of Gundam references, post-post-modern silly dialog, futuristic dominatrixes, and alien space frogs freaking out and acting like Rambo follow.
There seems to be tons of bizarre alien villains, i think they fight a new one each week, though they take plenty of time to be completely and charmingly absurd about the whole situation. Like the narrator popping in to say "He has worse aim than Dick Cheney!" or resolving all plot holes by joking about it. Three of the characters are a boy with an after school Occult Club, a Manga-writer M.I.L.F., and a Gundam model-obsessed frog, so it's 100% pandering to Otaku culture. But it's in an extremely fun way!
It seems like Netflix is the very best bet, and three seasons are streaming now. Lots of the localization changes they made to names and stuff have been fixed. Like apparently the girl cat used to be called "Mr. Furbottom" in America, and now it's "Mrs.". Quality is super nice too, and this is a show that likes to bloom the screen constantly so it looks really nice in HD.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 00:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Ok that synopsis reminded me that I need to check out Excel Saga soon.
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 04:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sgt. Frog is pretty up-to-date with it's references. The episodes I saw made fun of the top 1% and needless corn inflation subsidies.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2012 01:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yup, definitely recommend Redlined. Absolutely insane, but the visuals and energy are top-notch. They even kind of almost sell the love story.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
watching Highschool of the Dead has reminded me why I only ever sporadically go on anime kicks; there is a LOT of panty-flashing and ridiculous breast humor in this, the apex of which is probably the scene where one of the male characters is shooting a rifle at approaching zombies while a busty female character is smacking them around with a wooden sword, nimbly doing the splits over one bullet and managing to shimmy her breasts out of the path of another bullet one at a time, in slow motion
(this is after the scene where all of the female characters get into a bath together and start squeezing the shit out of each others' breasts while asking "why are we all bathing together, anyway?")
(you may wonder, "what does this have to do with zombies attacking high school students" to which I respond "EXACTLY")
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeh there is a gif of that bullet time breastflop which seems to crop up on the web when i least expect/want it. (think i lasted about 10 mins of the first episode of HOTD)have you seen Gantz DJP? judging by your tastes you might enjoy it, lots of scenes to make you go 0.o
― zappi, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
tbh I've only stuck with it so far because I wanted to prove to myself I could watch a zombie thing without having nightmares; the first episode is far and away the scariest, probably because it has the least amount of panty-flashing
have not seen Gantz but based on the Wikipedia synopsis I REALLY REALLY WANT TO
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
lol of course this is on Youtube:
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
Good positioning of the "play" button!
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
OMG ROFL
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
saw an ep of deadman wonderland on adult swim recently and really dug it, djp!
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sgt. Frog guys. It's amazing.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah Deadman Wonderland is totally my kind of shit, just the right mix of violence and wtf
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Sunday, 17 June 2012 03:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
also kinda battle royale-esque
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
Recently watched Paranoia Agent and FLCL and loved them to bits. Currently watching Outlaw Star and Azumanga Daioh.
Outlaw Star is like a campier, more adolescent version of Cowboy Bebop - set in a similar universe, with an expanding family of characters flying from planet to planet - only with more magic, ninja robots, space battles, and other Saturday morning cartoon stuff. A bit stilted and cliched at times, but a lot of fun to watch.
Azumanga Daioh is a slice-of-life comedy based around six schoolgirls (quiet type, sporty type, hyperactive girl and her "straight-man" best friend, child prodigy, airhead spacer). I honestly haven't laughed so much at a TV show in quite some time.
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
<3 Osaka & Nyamo-sensei
― zappi, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah, cute/moe anime is mostly garbage but Azumanga Daioh is on a whole other level
― Chris S, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
― zappi, Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
mind game was awesome
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 20 September 2012 12:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
absolutely adored Humanity Has Declined (Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita), which just finished. on the surface it seems like some ubertwee fairytale, but this is undercut with unsettling black humour & social satire. try the first episode, by the end you'll be thinking "what the fuck did i just watch". its also one of a bunch of Japanese speculative fiction that i've come across recently that could be described as having a "cheerful dystopia" setting, which i can't get enough of.
― zappi, Thursday, 20 September 2012 12:33 (8 months ago) Permalink