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 Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:45 am
I have thusly begun this thread to speak about favorite anime series. What do you recommend, or more importantly, recommend be avoided? Favorite shows, least favorite shows?
Personally, My favorite show is Gundam. All 30 years of it. Followed by 40 something years of Lupin. I also loved slayers, but that only lasted about 6 years.
More recent recommendations include Le Chevalier Deon. the truth finally revealed about the French revolution, in that it involved Zombies. For the freakin win.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:53 pm
I used to watch and enjoy just about anything.
Now it's the opposite. I am wonderfully picky now.
Lupin III is #1 a-okay bestest-favorite show of anime goodness.
Then Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, The Slayers, Cowboy Bebop, Cromartie High, and a scant few others.
I think I'll be hard pressed to find much else I'll like/love.
Don't get me wrong. I've seen a lot of stuff that is 'okay' (and even more crap on film) but it's progressively harder for me to find things that really me me say 'Yea!' D:
I need more stuff to renew my faith in anime...
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Booger Armstrong Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:54 am
The holy Trinity: Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Goldenboy. And that's how I was introduced to anime. After came the Lupin, the Hellsing, the FLCL (which is so beautifully animated that it taxes my brain cells) and the Excel Saga. I'm a fairly picky viewer, but I'm willing to give anything a warning shot.
As for movies, my favorite tend to be the Lupin films, with the note on Crisis in Tokyo as the best so far that I've seen. Perfect Blue is also wonderful but for completely different reasons, so your mileage may vary... but I encourage anyone who hasn't seen it to do so before they die, especially if you're into Hitchcock. It's just one of those things that ought to be experienced at least once.
There are more that I'm probably forgetting, and my g/f is constantly shoving new shows into my face (some for better, some for worse... I'm looking at you, Bottle Fairy), so my range is constantly being broadened.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:46 pm
Nodame Cantabile (hope I spelled the last portion right) <3
It's very humorous and really good. I also enjoy Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Lupin the 3rd, Hellsing, FLCL, Excel Saga, Gundams (still need to watch the latest one), Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Miyazaki movies, and Bleach. I also liked Millennium Actress, Ghost in the Shell and Lain. Ooh! Key the Metal Idol, Eva, and Darker than Black. I love Cromartie High! Got the first two volumes. The live action is pretty amusing as well.
I don't care for is Full Moon wo Sagashite. The manga was great, but the anime series was a huge let down. ;~; Usually I don't let manga cloud my vision of the anime, but... even if I didn't read the manga I wouldn't care for it much. ;~;
I like FMA! The fans scare me.
Old old anime makes me laugh or feel all nostalgic and giggly on the inside. X3 I don't know why. Guess because it's cheesy?
I guess I have general tastes?
Ooh! I forgot all about Heroic Age. <3 Thats a current fave. Shows you how much I'm thinking at the moment.
And another edit >< I forgot Mai Hime <3
Bubblegum Crisis/Crash.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:53 pm
Anime I recommend to those who might be picky. Nodame Cantabile and Heroic Age.
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:14 am
I just remembered one, having watched it once again during the Halloween hullabaloo: Phantom Quest Corp.! It's very corny spooky-time fun, nothing heavy, but what made drew me to it ultimately was this vibe... it's hard to describe, but it had a cheesy, romantically-tinged noirish type of feel that seemed to be evoking a parodic image of the Dawn of Hollywood. The main character is a constant inebriate with a taste for slaying evil and cocktail dresses who shares a love interest with a grizzled-but-chivalrous detective. All nice and old-school. It's also heavy on the comedy and on moderately bending horror archetypes (the first episode guest stars a polite vampire who owns a tea business and only drinks the donated blood of his girlfriend). I know there are some anime people out there who hate laughs, so they might want to avoid this one. But I loved it.
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Booger Armstrong Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:14 am
or perhaps in S L Y T H E R I N ////////////
_________________♥__________________
//////////you'll make your R E A L friends
There aren't many anime series I don't like, to be honest with you, there are certainly some I am not as fond of as I am others [Astroboy, Lupin, Full Metal Panic], but even those two I certainly will watch. I can't even really pinpoint a favorite to be honest with you, there are times when I almost want to say something really lame like Naruto or Yuugiou [uncut please], but really - there are so many down points that just null out the up points that I can't really say that is true. I think I am going to have to say Gundam Wing or Tactics -nods-.
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:25 pm
Booger Armstrong I just remembered one, having watched it once again during the Halloween hullabaloo: Phantom Quest Corp.! It's very corny spooky-time fun, nothing heavy, but what made drew me to it ultimately was this vibe... it's hard to describe, but it had a cheesy, romantically-tinged noirish type of feel that seemed to be evoking a parodic image of the Dawn of Hollywood. The main character is a constant inebriate with a taste for slaying evil and cocktail dresses who shares a love interest with a grizzled-but-chivalrous detective. All nice and old-school. It's also heavy on the comedy and on moderately bending horror archetypes (the first episode guest stars a polite vampire who owns a tea business and only drinks the donated blood of his girlfriend). I know there are some anime people out there who hate laughs, so they might want to avoid this one. But I loved it. Sounds like one I should look into. ^.^ Thanks for sharing
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:26 pm
Mistress Ophiucha or perhaps in S L Y T H E R I N ////////////
_________________♥__________________
//////////you'll make your R E A L friends
There aren't many anime series I don't like, to be honest with you, there are certainly some I am not as fond of as I am others [Astroboy, Lupin, Full Metal Panic], but even those two I certainly will watch. I can't even really pinpoint a favorite to be honest with you, there are times when I almost want to say something really lame like Naruto or Yuugiou [uncut please], but really - there are so many down points that just null out the up points that I can't really say that is true. I think I am going to have to say Gundam Wing or Tactics -nods-. YuGiOh is just amusing because of how serious everyone is about card games. I love the Abridged >.> X3
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:27 pm
NeoLordMaxwell I have thusly begun this thread to speak about favorite anime series. What do you recommend, or more importantly, recommend be avoided? Favorite shows, least favorite shows? Personally, My favorite show is Gundam. All 30 years of it. Followed by 40 something years of Lupin. I also loved slayers, but that only lasted about 6 years. More recent recommendations include Le Chevalier Deon. the truth finally revealed about the French revolution, in that it involved Zombies. For the freakin win. I enjoy Gundams <3 oh and I'll look into Le Chevalier Deon. Zombies are nummy.
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:02 pm
Ahaha, well, if Gundam is your thing, I'm dinfatly the guy to talk too... lolz.
Thing about Le Chevallier is that it's most fun if you know your 1700's european history. Mostly for just how much it gets plain wrong, while also seeming like they actually did try and do some research. Very amusing to see what they get right and what they don't. Add in Zombies and you have a solid dramatic series with a lot of unintentinally wonderfull WTF moments.
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:16 pm
NeoLordMaxwell Ahaha, well, if Gundam is your thing, I'm dinfatly the guy to talk too... lolz. Thing about Le Chevallier is that it's most fun if you know your 1700's european history. Mostly for just how much it gets plain wrong, while also seeming like they actually did try and do some research. Very amusing to see what they get right and what they don't. Add in Zombies and you have a solid dramatic series with a lot of unintentinally wonderfull WTF moments. Which Gundam is your fave? I know enough of History to get things...I hope. I need to look at an image and then I would know. I'll look into it to see if I can spot what they got right or wrong.
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:13 pm
SenshuuIruka Which Gundam is your fave? I know enough of History to get things...I hope. I need to look at an image and then I would know. I'll look into it to see if I can spot what they got right or wrong. My favorite series is First Gundam. As for things they got wrong in Chevalier D'eon, it's more in an order of events sort of thing. They compress about 50 years of history into a years time frame, make up characters, change events, ect. The buildings tend to be quite accurate, though.
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:11 pm
ooh. Accurate buildings. I like when they put effort into that. ^.^
Been forever since I've seen the first one. I remember Char, the one who made concealing identities a fad X3 I also remember his sister, but can't remember her name. An of course Amuro
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:05 am
SenshuuIruka ooh. Accurate buildings. I like when they put effort into that. ^.^ Been forever since I've seen the first one. I remember Char, the one who made concealing identities a fad X3 I also remember his sister, but can't remember her name. An of course Amuro Sayla Mass. One of my greatest longterm crushes. But that is a not very closely guarded secret. The three are techincally my favorite anime characters, period I think.
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