The Anime Thread (pix and stuff)

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Aha Dirty Pair was one of my favorites for ages cos some boys decided it was about me and my friend (I had bright red hair then).

I want to see Spirited Away...how is Metropolis or Princess Mononoke?

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what you like?

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vs.

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Rumiko Takahashi is the Queen of Manga!

HAHA that one picture is girly sports style!

manga is anime mainstreamy -i guess. stay away from hentai?? -unless you are into the monster*robot-rape -sailor moon thing . momus to thread?

and I've messed up the picture I posted!

Manga Video = major US anime releaser. Its just a name.

astroboy is a waste

Which Neon-Genisis Evangelion DVD is the one with the alternative ending??

Gunsmith Cats and Buddlegum Crisis?

Chicks w/ Guns. Yawn.

this guy also did Ghost in the Shell & Blood.

I GUESS!!!!!

There seems to be a Blame! OVA out there. If I could only read this gibberish here...

x-post. Gunsmith Cats! because Bubblegum Crisis = Streets of Fire + Blade Runner = worst films evah combined.

... nothing says the future like delegating crap to a machine.

I don't think Mononoke is as great as it's been hyped up to be, but then I've never really been much of one for Ghibli anime. It's good, but not exactly the saviour of animation.

Don't know if Cowboy Bebop: The Movie has been released (it was shown at the ICA London recently, which implies there's an official version available), but that is just fantastic.

Yes, it's kind of frustrating. I'm not sure if the filmakers ran out of funding in the middle of it or what, but that's what is seemed like.

I thought the Cowboy Bebop movie was pretty good, though the villain seemed kind of lame to me.

I'm actually trying to find images from the episode that involved a really scary carnival sequence with an enormous teddy bear and clowns but cannot. That was the most fucked up thing I'd seen in a long, long time.

http://www.anime-universe.com/Pictures/bebop-sv.jpg

Lensman and Robot Carnival impressed me but they don't exist on DVD. Fuck you MGM.

Also Manga = comics. Printed on paper.

Anime = Japanese cognate for animation. Hence things appearing to move thanks to the magic of film.

And while I'm thinking of flight anime, Wings of Honneamise is incredible - massively slow, and gradual, and quiet, a slightly older style of animation and a tad too long, but it's fantastic to just get caught up in this subtle little story.

Also manga entertainment: not to be confused with manga films , the spanish film company.

**if you like the matrix this is what inspired the movie. It was the ~only~influence according to the W’ brothers

http://www.animeboston.com/
(i think they are going to run similiar one in baltimore this year)

http://www.animeboston.com

Destroy: Vampire Hunter D movie by the way.

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Fooly Cooly is the only good anime I've seen w/ the past year or so.

Okay, I need a suggestion: want a funny adventure/quest/fantasy series.

KO Century Beast (Warriors) is a good one.

Samurai Champloo - supercool hip-hop samurais on a quest in ancient Japan

yeh that's a good one, made by the same guy behind Cowboy Bebop.
would also suggest Kino's Journey, excellent series about a traveler and a talking motorbike visiting fantastical countries - episodic, like an early 80s Ghibli version of Gullivers Travels.

It's not exactly "funny" but I've been trying to get people to see Kaiba, this amazing show from the guy who directed Mind Game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpfAHHMQIcE&feature=related

It has this great superflat Astro Boy look and some great WTFery.

looks interesting. is it tweeish sci-fi? Japanese are awesome at making tweeish sci-fi, was going to make a thread about that at one point (love YKK, Aqua, Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Planetes etc)

Ditto on Champloo. It's got a cool hip-hop soundtrack (think MF Doom's "Special Herbs" series) that suits it fairly well. The overall arc is total garbage, tho. It's more Firefly-esque in that "enjoy it an episode at a time" vibe.

by garbage, I mean it's about a girl's quest to find a samurai "that smells like sunflower seeds" and 2 dudes tagging along with her for little, little reason. Their adventures along the way are fun - but then they finally meet this samurai and "the big reveal" as to his relevance isn't all too gratifying.

but in a lot of ways this was my qualm with Cowboy Bebop - so if you enjoyed that, expect almost exactly the same feeling in quality. A lot of plots are actually just transfers of ones Bebop did.

xpost It kind of is, yeah- tone-wise it's pretty close to Kino's Journey, though a lot more visually inventive (not a knock on Kino, but praise for Kaiba). There's definitely a bit of Cat Soup in there too.

What is good anime to watch on netflix???

pref instant watch obv

Well, it's not instant watch, but try Paranoia Agent. It's also a 13 episode mini-series. Trust me, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0_fOTxiLXE

oooooooh hype
Shinichirou Watanabe (director of Cowboy Bebop & Samurai Champloo) has a new show starting in April called Sakamichi No Apollon - Yoko Kanno who scored the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack is also onboard!
trailer http://www.noitamina-apollon.com/mp4/pv_ver1.mp4

sweet!

I just started following two series that are on Adult Swim's Saturday night Toonami block; Deadman Wonderland (a kid survives the murder of his entire junior high class only to be convicted of their deaths and thrown into a maximum security prison/amusement park where the inmates are treated like "Running Man" entertainment fodder) and Casshern Sins (a killer android with no memory is wandering a ruined Earth populated with rusting robots who want to eat him so they can stay alive, and somehow all of the destruction he's seeing is his fault). CS is diverting enough but DW is fucking insane and great.

first promo clip for the Saint Young Men film, can't wait!

Buddha and the Jesus shared a low-rent apartment in Tokyo. The two holy beings have landed on Earth and now experience the mortal life in Japan. The two then proceed to get yelled at by their landlady because they did not separate their trash, and Jesus tells Buddha that he has always wanted to look up the idol group Momoiro Clover Z.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWh8i9EY_U

for the last few years the Japanese govt has run an initiative to help fund the training of young animators via series of short films.
one of the short films made this year is Little Witch Academia and has already become a breakout hit - beautifully animated, has the feel of an old school 50s Disney film. The production company just put an official English subbed version on their Youtube. If you have any interest in anime or just animation in general you should watch it now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjyhka0lM5Y