[Mezza]

Warning: Super long post

Here's the list of Anime that I really enjoyed watching, I'm not keeping current with this season's or even last year's stuff but some of these are oldies but goodies.

1. Cowboy Bebop
My favourite anime of ALL time.

Super highly recommended if you're a jazz/blues/bebop type music lover. The soundtrack for this 26 parter with an anime movies made for it is absolutely to die for. There's something like 6 CDs worth of soundtrack for this 1 season anime, which is MAD.

The music is mostly composed by this japanese housewifey looking woman who is otherwise known as 'Yoko Kanno' and honestly some of her work is downright brilliant. She's also written music for other well known animes like the Ghost In The Shell, Gundam series and Escaflowne. They've even done concerts like many years after the anime ended just to play music from the anime, seriously the music following this anime is a phenomenon onto itself.

The storyline is set in the future about this band of kooky intergalactic bounty hunters who have all their lives and stories intertwined somehow, and the lead female is a Singaporean girl who wears yellow hotpants and has purple hair and is called 'Faye Valentine'. The lead male character 'Spike Spiegel' vaguely reminds me of Kakashi from Naruto.

There's a rumour that they're gonna make a live action version of it casting Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel (dear god). But I haven't heard an update to that story in quite awhile since last year. This anime is truly legendary, and if you're looking for a classic, this will be it.

Here's the opening theme, its catchy and energetic as hell, say it ain't so?

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And the live in concert version of it.

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2. Ghost In The Shell
This series has 2 seasons of anime and 2 anime movies and an OVA. I haven't watched the OVA myself but the first 2 seasons and the 2 movies are awesome. This anime gets rather philosophical at times and its all around a great series.

They've got these incredibly cutesy robots called Tachikomas (resurrected as Hachikomas in the 2nd season) that are really awesome and I'd really like a plush toy of someday. Lol.

I haven't got much to say about it apart from the fact that its pretty much alot of science fiction, about cyborgs and androids and artificial intelligence and hackers, but yeah, there's some philosophical bits here and there, which makes it all in all a pretty non kiddy anime which I enjoyed.

3. Romeo X Juliet
I really dig Romeo and Juliet. Like the play by William Shakespeare. And I was never really gonna miss the anime remake of it. It's a complete bastardization of the story, where everything's set in a floating city called Neo-Verona, the characters ride winged horses, and loads of other crap.

But the animation is exceptionally gorgeous. And so is the soundtrack. You judge for yourself.

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4. Hellsing
This is another one of those short 1 season things. Unfortunately the anime deviates so drastically from the manga towards the end, but still, this anime scores high on my list of favourites for its high level of badassery.

The main character is Alucard aka Dracula. (Lol, right? Seriously, Japanese author dude, you gotta do better). But everything's dark and dingy and you've got this crazy badass bloodthirsty Vampire who wields two guns, one black and one silver and if you're into the whole goth/vampire lore thing, this one's kinda cool.

5. Furi Kuri aka Fooly Cooly aka FLCL

A six episode gem with an 3 entire albums of soundtrack for it by this awesome band called "The Pillows". (Notice a trend here about animes and their soundtracks?)

This super short anime is just some seriously weirdass shit about a Vespa-riding-electric-guitar-wielding-pink-haired alien girl who went around smashing the lead male character on the head with her guitar and as a result lead to him sprouting some seriously badass robots from his head.

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

Just watch it man. Its way awesome. Seriously.

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6. Gundam 00

There's 2 seasons worth of this incarnation of Gundam as well as a movie. This is the first ever Gundam series that I've watched and its rendered beautifully in 1080p which is great. Its a mecha type anime obviously but there's some real world issues about war and peace and shit, which makes for a really awesome watch and with some rather pensive moments.

The soundtrack for this anime isn't anything too fantastic, but there's still occasional gems like this

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Here's a list of some other anime that I've watched that if I find the time to, I'll write something about them.

1. Naruto (I've given up watching the anime pretty early oncos it stopped being that awesome sometime after the Chounin exam)

One of Naruto's ending themes

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2. Bleach (same issue as Naruto, given up on the anime and just reading the manga)

One of Bleach's ending themes

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3. Initial D (not really fantastic, but cars are awesome, so)
4. Nodame Cantabile
5. Afro Samurai - this one is rather short and I remember it was pretty cool because Samuel L Jackson (yes, the BAMF himself) was doing some of the voice-acting, so yeah. This one was wayyy cool.

Quick Comments

	EveJeonSa:	holy shit
	Cute:	awesome post! we have completely different tastes, but awesome none the less!
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