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Cute · Thu, 1st-Sep-2011, 8:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Lemminks

Also we should post websites where you can read these mangas like mangafox or manga2u.

If you can get me a list, I'll update the OP

**Cordance** · Thu, 1st-Sep-2011, 12:46 PM

OK time to search my hard drives and work out what animia Series I have I should recommend to others.
* Naruto skip anything that looks like a filler (about episode 150+)
* Naruto Shippuuden again some of the fillers are bad.
* Bleach skip anything that is a single episode filler but the filler arcs are reasonable not as good as the rest though.
* Full Metal Alchemist is a not happy go lucky animia but good.
* D grayman like FMA not happy go lucky was a bit disappointed when it clearly got a bonus season tacked on it. Fillers are worth avoiding.
* Hellsing Classic I still feel like something was missing from it the more I rewatch it but solid.
* Deathnote. Awesome a mind game. (dont watch the second season it will be a let down)
* Gundum 00. Visually stunning awesome story. Both seasons are quality work I would sit down non animia watchers to watch this one.
* Code Geas. Mind games. Well played out story.
* Darker than black. Just feels awesome.

Now on to some other worth watching if your into it.
*Trigun. Very foppish I think is the best way to describe it. It has its moments and is good if your up for something not to serious.
*Cowboy Bepbop. If you want to get a feel for it go listen to the intro messa linked basically sets the whole tone and mood for it.
*Trinity blood. Also quite foppish.
*Black Cat. Solid start I felt they didnt continue with but good first ending (then they get another few episodes which arnt bad but felt added)
*Basilisk. A bit deadly for most when the story sets up when one team is all dead the other wins kind of what you expect.
*Samurai Champloo. Nice sword fights very layed back and stylistic.

Well all I have time for now. Ill come back and mention some movies and see if I can find any more worth mentioning.

**|Erasmus|** · Thu, 1st-Sep-2011, 1:19 PM

That stuff is in entirely the wrong order:

Bebop is the greatest... Naruto and Bleach are not worth it if you are older than 15. Too much crap in the middle of relatively generic fights.

Darker than Black is indeed rather sexy. And the music is more stuff by yoko kanno (who did cowboy bebop).

Champloo is also better than stuff like naruto/bleach... it's basically bebop, but set in the samurai era and with god awful music (whereas bebop is like sex for my ears).

Starcyph3r · Thu, 1st-Sep-2011, 2:45 PM

Samurai champloo was really dissapointing to me, I started watching it straight after bebop because I guess i was still hungry for more of the same. But the whole series just lacks drive imo. The characters never really develop anywhere, and the plot is too disjointed. Which I suppose you could argue for bebop but bebop's characters brought the substance. The whole anime of champloo feels like too much style and little substance. Also darker than black in a way is like bebop but for some reason I never really grew to like it as much. I still enjoyed it but imo it suffered from the same flaws champloo did.

Also naruto is ok when your still starting to watch anime, but really the number of episodes of a series will let you know the quality 9 times out of 10 -_-

**Cordance** · Thu, 1st-Sep-2011, 4:57 PM

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Originally Posted by |Erasmus|

That stuff is in entirely the wrong order:

Bebop is the greatest... Naruto and Bleach are not worth it if you are older than 15. Too much crap in the middle of relatively generic fights.

Darker than Black is indeed rather sexy. And the music is more stuff by yoko kanno (who did cowboy bebop).

Champloo is also better than stuff like naruto/bleach... it's basically bebop, but set in the samurai era and with god awful music (whereas bebop is like sex for my ears).

Im not saying bebop and champloo arnt good stuff Im saying they are much more mood orientated. Ive met people who have seething loathing for both of those two but naruto generally only gets boring or lame thrown at it. The people who told me they loathed those shows had no real reason which is why I put them in right mood.

Also as a foot note Bleach and Naruto best watched with DB subs shame they arnt doing their thing any more, I wish crunchy subs had taken those guys in. Those guys could turn even the lamest stories into something freaking awesome to watch with some creative license (probably least accurate but I still stake my claim they are the best and will defend it with all my nerdom). Some of the bests where their trolls random episode with completely different story over the top with subs

Octo · Thu, 1st-Sep-2011, 10:28 PM

I thought I would share the website where I dl all my anime in case any hasn't heard of it. http://www.instantz.net/
They don't do any actual subbing but they put links to pretty much every anime that comes out on their website (for download and streaming).

noobinater · Thu, 1st-Sep-2011, 10:56 PM

Cowboy Bebop is what it took to make me stop joking about Anime and actually realise some of it is damn good (when it's not about angsty teenagers).

Now for the only other Anime that's grabbed me:

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The show runs for 27 episodes and the dub is pretty damn good (I watched the show dubbed and the movies subbed, there's really not any quality drop in the dub).

It starts off with the coolest prologue of all time and its a fair approximation of what sort of level the show ends at.

You Tube

Giant robots fighting each other at physically impossible scales, fan service, seriously ridiculous characters, drills, awesome quotes ("Simone, don't believe in yourself. Believe in me. Believe in the Kamina who believes in you!" and "MINE IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PEIRCE THE HEAVENS!"), mechs piloting mechs piloting mechis piloting..., fanservice (for the ladies!)...

You get the idea.

ops why did I put this in twice:

Basically, if you like your mecha to take it as seriously as the genre deserves, watch TTGL.

Depending on where you live, it can be watched legally for free here (up till a few weeks ago you could watch it in Australia but no more appaerntly

)
(you wouldn't believe how many horrible AMV's i had to sit through to find the video I wanted)

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Digby:

YEEAHHH GURREN LAGANN! :D

Cute · Fri, 2nd-Sep-2011, 12:01 AM

amv's are the bane of my existance t.t

Cyanide · Fri, 2nd-Sep-2011, 3:28 AM

I recently started reading this Manga called Stein's Gate over at mangastream.com. basically about time-travelling and john titor (dude who claimed he time travelled from 2036 to 2000). You guys can check it out and be the judge of it.

personally, I'm reading it because i'm too free and I quite like sci-fi stuff. even watch stuff on BBC about string theory and what not. Lol...

MazEi · Fri, 2nd-Sep-2011, 3:54 AM

Hey sup anime thread =D

I'm a dude who seems to like comedy/romance/drama and stuff closely related to that. Don't really like all those mecha stuff(I think action is fine since I loved Durarara).

Anyways, just wanted to ask any of you who watched Kimi ni Todoke Season 2. What do you guys think of it? I'm like at ep 4 or 5 I can't remember and I feel like its so slow and isn't as interesting as the first season =/

Oh and recommended stuff(just read the first post =P)

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**|Erasmus|** · Fri, 2nd-Sep-2011, 8:34 AM

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Hey sup anime thread =D

Sup. You may like bakemonogatari then, which I thought was pretty cool...

MazEi · Fri, 2nd-Sep-2011, 12:39 PM

Oh yes I loved Bakemonogatari, friggin LOVED it. Like I said, just couldn't remember a lot of the stuff I watched =P

Cute · Fri, 2nd-Sep-2011, 1:05 PM

Gonna do a huge ass update to the OP sometime over the coming weekend. Last chances for ideas of things that should be added!

Digby · Fri, 2nd-Sep-2011, 1:39 PM

Neon Genesis Evangelion and Trigun - Couple greta animes
Lupin III - Early series are like a psychadeilc comedy, the newer episodes are good too, but not as psychadelic and wierd great anime nonetheless
Lupin III Castle Cagliostro - Dubbed as one of the greatest anime films of all time
Afro Samurai - Lots of blood and guts - Voiced by Samuel L Jackson
Laputa Castle in the Sky - Movie

MazEi · Sun, 4th-Sep-2011, 6:30 PM

Ano hi mita...that long titled anime =P. Quite the tearjerker, shed a few manly tears at the end.

Cute · Sun, 4th-Sep-2011, 6:33 PM

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Originally Posted by mazei

Ano hi mita...that long titled anime =P. Quite the tearjerker, shed a few manly tears at the end.

I always just called it AnoHana. Loved that show. Shed manly tears myself

Uglymutt · Wed, 7th-Sep-2011, 8:00 PM

I've been checking the OP pretty consistently and now have a BIG list of anime to watch now. I've always like anime but never really watched a lot of it (mainly movies, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Yu Gi-Oh etc.). There's a lot more variety to anime than I initially thought. Hopefully I'll enjoy your recommendations, I've just got to finish watching all my Daria first

Cute · Wed, 7th-Sep-2011, 9:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Uglymutt

I've been checking the OP pretty consistently and now have a BIG list of anime to watch now. I've always like anime but never really watched a lot of it (mainly movies, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Yu Gi-Oh etc.). There's a lot more variety to anime than I initially thought. Hopefully I'll enjoy your recommendations, I've just got to finish watching all my Daria first

Glad that we've helped out at least one person!

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Originally Posted by Cyanide

Appleseed.

Studio Ghibli films (check out rottentomatoes for the ratings, they are generally good reflections of the movie).
I'll name a few: Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Borrower Arrietty.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

Girl Who Leapt Through Time was great. I haven't seen many Studio Ghibli films (a travesty I know, I'll get there). Grave of the Fireflies or Princess Mononoke is probably my favorite of the ones I've seen though!

And I promise that I'll update the OP soon. I'm getting there ><

Cyanide · Wed, 7th-Sep-2011, 8:16 PM

Appleseed.

Studio Ghibli films (check out rottentomatoes for the ratings, they are generally good reflections of the movie).
I'll name a few: Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Borrower Arrietty.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

**xpaperclip** · Wed, 7th-Sep-2011, 9:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Cyanide

Studio Ghibli films (check out rottentomatoes for the ratings, they are generally good reflections of the movie).

Porco Rosso, English dub. I know that's a controversial suggestion on both counts, but it's among my favourite Ghibli films and, while people tend to hate on dubs, Ghibli films I think have very high quality dubs which have a charm of their own. Give it a try!

Furthermore, there is not enough love for Makoto Shinkai in this thread. 5 Centimetres Per Second is the most visually beautiful thing I have ever seen.