The Saturday Morning Memorial Animated Series Poll: nominations

Technical question: would the Peanuts specials count as a series? Because I'd like very much to nominate and vote for them, if so.

― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 25, 2019 8:44 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Great Pumpkin and Christmas both placed in the shorts+features poll so I'm going to say no.

here's some more anime:

macross plus
gunbuster
nadia: the secret of blue water
ghost in the shell: stand alone complex
haibane renmei
now and then, here and there

i remember absolutely nothing about now and then, here and there except that it blew my mind in high school

The Big O

duane!!! thank you for nominating this show, the second season is a work of art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQVL5RG0DU

with the most Kinks/progge like theme song :)

i... have never heard that theme song before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA7Xl5CtHRM

this is the one i'm familiar with, which is way more elo than kinks

This makes me think I should ask for an additional top 5 OPs ballot from anyone who wants to do that

there's really not enough anime nominated itt

i'm not the person to do it bc i'm really a casual fan of the genre but it does seem like a glaring hole to have like every disney afternoon cartoon from the 90s nominated but comparatively v few anime (obv it would be insane to have an exhaustive anime list too but still)

on that note i'll nominate the totally trashy but still enjoyable:

Attack on Titan
Future Diary
Death Note

also lol wins

Family guy
American dad
The Cleveland show

i wondered how far we could get without any of those being nominated (nb american dad might end up on my ballot)

[q]The Big O was scored by Geidai alumnus Toshihiko Sahashi. His composition is richly symphonic and classical, with a number of pieces delving into electronica and jazz.[17] Chosen because of his "frightening amount of musical knowledge about TV dramas overseas,"[18] Sahashi integrates musical homages into the soundtrack. The background music draws from film noir, spy films and sci-fi television series like The Twilight Zone. The battle themes are reminiscent of Akira Ifukube's compositions for the Godzilla series.[19]

The first opening theme is the Queen-influenced "Big-O!".[20] Composed, arranged and performed by Rui Nagai, the song resembles the theme to the Flash Gordon film. The second opening theme is "Respect," composed by Sahashi. The track is an homage to the music of Gerry Anderson's UFO, composed by Barry Gray.[21] In 2007, Rui Nagai composed "Big-O! Show Must Go On," a 1960s hard rock piece, for Animax's reruns of the show. The closing theme is the slow love ballad "And Forever..." written by Chie and composed by Ken Shima. The duet is performed by Robbie Danzie and Naoki Takao.

Along with Sahashi's original compositions, the soundtrack features Chopin's Prelude No. 15 and a jazz saxophone rendition of "Jingle Bells." The complete score was released in two volumes by Victor Entertainment/[q]

Huh.. Never knew there were three theme songs! 'Yours' is def more ELO, but great all the same.

when i compared it to elo i was trying to not make the obvious flash gordon queen comparison, which i guess even the wikipedia page has lol

I was trying to one up myself but then I couldn’t think of anything worse than the Ricky gervais show

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Fullmetal Alchemist
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya

devilman crybaby
kaiba

Undergrads
Mission Hill
One Punch Man
Dr. Katz

Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series (YouTube, 2006 ff.)

Clerks: The Animated Series

K-On!
Nichijou
Non Non Biyori
A Place Further than the Universe

feels like the "saturday morning" part of the title is perhaps a red herring. but whattayagonnado. man... there are a bunch of dubious teen-pleasing 90s anime shows I almost nominated but then edited back down since I figured we were only nominating stuff we thought deserved to be in the top countdown. in the late 90s i watched the first 2-4 episodes of virtually every show to which the high school anime club membership had access, and most of em i can't defend or even remember particularly sharply. was such-and-such plot element in tenchi-muyo, yu yu hakusho, blue seed, or 8 eyes? was that romantic misunderstanding in ah! my goddess, here is greenwood, marmalade boy, or kodomo no omocha? all gone now sadly.

but i will add to my earlier anime noms:

Kimagure Orange Road
Ranma 1/2
Fushigi Yuugi

Batman Beyond

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
The Scooby Doo Show
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, July 26, 2019 9:19 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Where are you, what's new, and mystery incorporated can be distinct. Based on skimming wikipedia during work, "The Scooby Doo Show" seems like it should be lumped into What's New, as far as the format goes?

And yeah it's the "Saturday Morning Memorial" poll b/c as far as I know the format no longer exists, today's cartoons are streaming and have been airing in prime time on cable since I was a kid. I think the shows on the WB were more or less the last gasp of the network cartoon program format, in terms of its vitality/continuity.

i haven't watched them since high school, but iirc: tenchi muyo, in ova, series, and tenchi in tokyo form, is real inconsistent, in tokyo particularly terrible

yu yu hakusho was so fun and so... so long

feels like the "saturday morning" part of the title is perhaps a red herring. but whattayagonnado. man... there are a bunch of dubious teen-pleasing 90s anime shows I almost nominated but then edited back down since I figured we were only nominating stuff we thought deserved to be in the top countdown. in the late 90s i watched the first 2-4 episodes of virtually every show to which the high school anime club membership had access, and most of em i can't defend or even remember particularly sharply. was such-and-such plot element in tenchi-muyo, yu yu hakusho, blue seed, or 8 eyes? was that romantic misunderstanding in ah! my goddess, here is greenwood, marmalade boy, or kodomo no omocha? all gone now sadly.

― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, July 29, 2019 11:39 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Beautiful post. And so otm. Especially the "all gone now sadly" part.

I've the melody of a theme song of a late 90s/early 00s anime etched onto my brain. It plays nearly every single day, I'm reminded of it constantly, it's been with me for 15, 20 years now. Yet I can't for the life of me figure out which anime it was. I've checked my hdd's, my mp3's on old computers and laptops, my blogs of yore for a mere chance mention, weeding through wiki anime series lists.. Nothing.

Until the day Shazam will be able to identify a very poorly whistled or hummed tune for what it is, it's lost. Tears in rain. Ah well.

Perhaps it wasn’t anime? I’ve had this phenomenon before and I had misremembered some aspect of it that prevented me from tracking it down.

Dungeons and Dragons, y'all

Akagi, mahjong anime

i'm glad somebody else mentioned THE REALM OF DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS because i didnt want to be accused of just nominating things out of nostalgia.
anyway
Dragon's Lair

I wasn't too into it myself, but I think Batman: The Brave and the Bold deserves a nom. HBO's Spawn as well.
And another anime I just though of - Trigun!

Last Exile
(I barely remember that tbh)

there was an anime I quite liked but can't remember the name of about a white-haired dude who traveled the countryside checking out ghosts. It was extremely gentle to the point of soporific

Mushishi?

that's it!

Puffin Rock

a bunch of anime that hasnt been nominated yet and i can remember enjoying a fair bit, mostly recent-ish:

land of the lustrous
mob psycho 100
jojo's bizarre adventure: diamond is unbreakable
ping pong: the animation
steins;gate
the tatami galaxy
monthly girls' nozaki-kun
planet with

Lucky Star
Barakamon

Puffin Rock

― ☮ (peace, man)

Very charming show.

Hyouka
Laid-Back Camp
Kaguya-sama: Love is War
Tanaka-kun is Always Listless

The Head

I watched the first episode of Over the Garden Wall and didn't really like it -- how far should I get into it to get a proper sense of the series?

― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Monday, July 29, 2019 2:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

If you've seen the first two stories and don't like them, you don't need to continue, it's not for you.

Cosign that and it wasn’t for me either

Depending when the rollouts happen, I might be willing to help with the images. I liked doing it for the Spoon poll.

I am looking forward to the anime stuff because it's an area I don't know that much about, the obvious Ghibli films aside, and would probably be into.

(same goes for LBI's Czech/Hungarian/Russian stuff, if that encourages anyone to nominate any more of those, or anything else outside my comfort zone of Anglophone 70s-80s kids' shows)

a few I'm not sure I'll vote for but then again I might:

Pinky and the Brain
DuckTales reboot (2017-)

btw rescind my nomination for terrahawks - was puppets, not animation.

the cartoon i remember from my youth is a show called galaxy high. this was my favorite cartoon when i was young. i remember this because my parents were a little exasperated that i was watching garbage (as parents get sometimes). one morning one of my parents actually came down and watched an episode of the show in question, and when it was done asked me "see? wasn't that terrible?". which confused the heck out of me, because i had loved watching it! that was my parents, though, they wanted to treat me as if i was a miniature adult.

The theme tune from that is by Don Felder from the Eagles! I like it more than anything by the Eagles except the HGTTG theme tbh.

I loved the show as a kid and watched it every Saturday for many years as a kid. There are only 13 episodes. I didn't notice it repeating.

Invader Zim
Camp Candy (with John Candy)
Gummy Bears
Smurfs
Tailspin
Captain Planet

Kidd Video
Heathcliff

Garfield and Friends
The Oblongs