Anime junkies!

[Radical Edward]

I thought I'd post a thread for anime-related talk. I'm sure there've been a few before, but here's a new one. First off, favorite anime'(s)? Strangest anime'(s) you've seen? ( Let's keep the hentai out of this.) OVA's, Subbed, dubbed?

Go!

[Cabazon]

I enjoyed Cowboy Bebop (as you obviously do). It also has an amazing soundtrack.

Aside from that, I'll sometimes see an anime movie I enjoy, the two which come to mind are Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle.

[ShredderMaximus]

Galaxy Express 999 and Akira are 2 of my favorite movies, and like I said before, I really liked Cowboy Bebop, the whole style of it just oozed cool.

[Sbociol]

Some of my favourites:


Fist Of The North Star
Full Metal Alchemist
Full Metal Panic
Blue Lagoon
Slam Dunk
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop

and i'll think of more later

[Ben Lesser]

Besides some others mentioned:

Ergo Proxy
Blacker Than Dark
Samurai Champloo (a must for anyone who likes Cowboy Bebop)

[DwaynieAD]

Favorites:
Read or Die (the OVA)
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Full Metal Alchemist (whats the difference between the original and brotherhood?)
Big O

G-Gundam ; please discuss

weird ones:
Akira and Iria (first anime i ever watched)
still liked them both tho

and idk if you can count it but i'll throw it out there.. final fantasy: advent children

[DUC1098]

So many to possibly list

Some of my favorite series are:
Witchblade
Vampire knight
Soul Eater
Moonphase
Guyver
FLCL
Bleach
Inuyasha
Fullmetal Alchemist
K-ON
Highschool of the Dead
Crying Freeman

Several more that I would have to look up the names for.

For movies:
SpaceBattleship Yamato
Blood: The Last Vampire
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Final Fantasy (both movies)

Again several more that I would have to look up titles for.

Much of what I have is dubbed, many of the series and a few movies bought through itunes. But I prefer the original soundtrack with subtitles. Some day I will learn enough Japanese that I will be able to follow the movie/show dialogue without needing the subtitles.

[uethanian]

i wouldn't say i'm a 'junkie,' but i'm getting more and more into it...so far i've seen

cowboy bebop
trigun
samurai champloo
ergo proxy
code geass
evangelion
elfen lied
mushishi
flcl
akira
metropolis
steamboy
miyazaki's various films

my favorite work by far is flcl...both evangelion and elfen lied are a trip, in different ways. unless i can't get it any other way, i only watch subbed versions.

[skwee]

+1 ergo proxy. good soundtrack too. I have a stack to watch, given to me by a friend: what can anyone tell me about elfen lied? Grew up on Akira, GITS, and Robotech.

[uethanian]

Originally Posted by skwee

+1 ergo proxy. good soundtrack too. I have a stack to watch, given to me by a friend: what can anyone tell me about elfen lied? Grew up on Akira, GITS, and Robotech.

elfen lied...good animation, good soundtrack, but short at 13 episodes. really violent. like people getting their limbs ripped off and exploding. girl with mutant powers escapes from research facility, suffers amnesia, is taken in by a pair of hospitable students. research facility tries to retrieve/kill girl after she escapes.

[DwaynieAD]

forgot about spirited away.. only anime i've ever got my gf to watch.. she loved it

evangelion was alot to take in when i watched it 4 years ago, should probably give it another go, probably "get it" more now

[mcbosler]

Leaving off the ones that have already been mentioned, I'd have to add:

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Bleach (seen every episode and movie = nerd)
Claymore
D. Gray-man (just started this one)
Noein
Escaflowne
Death Note

Netflix has a lot on instant streaming, even more on disc.

[Radical Edward]

Originally Posted by uethanian

elfen lied...good animation, good soundtrack, but short at 13 episodes. really violent. like people getting their limbs ripped off and exploding. girl with mutant powers escapes from research facility, suffers amnesia, is taken in by a pair of hospitable students. research facility tries to retrieve/kill girl after she escapes.

I love Elfen Lied.

Also, I pretty much love all of the anime named above that I've heard of.
I'll check out some of the other.
Oh, has anyone seen "Blue Gender"? It's based on the, "Starship Troopers" movies. Really messed up and a bit hard to follow, but if you like more intense anime, that's for you.
Oh, also S-cry-ed. Love that.
Anyone cosplay? I have some cosplay pics I'll try to find and post. ^_^
Going to get married at Jafax this year! Sooooo excited!
(I'm entirely too hyper right now.)

[Sbociol]

Originally Posted by DwaynieAD

Full Metal Alchemist (whats the difference between the original and brotherhood?)

Brotherhood is supposed to be closer to the manga's storyline...some changes in the first anime series made not much sense to be honest.

Originally Posted by Radical Edward

Oh, has anyone seen "Blue Gender"? It's based on the, "Starship Troopers" movies. Really messed up and a bit hard to follow, but if you like more intense anime, that's for you.

I'll definitely check it out,thanks for the heads-up

[Sbociol]

Oh and I forgot,Beck Mongolian Chop Squad was pretty damn good too.

[Radical Edward]

Oh, there's an anime called Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge ( I think that's how it's spelled ) that I seen a few episodes of. It was really funny in a cutesy-stupid sort of way. A good comedy.

[Lady Kayri]

started out with Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman, then Yamato and Macross.

Favorites:

Tekkaman Blade
Guyver (manga as well as anime)
Samurai Troopers
Z and ZZ Gundam, as well as the original Gundam series; Gundam 0083 (I sometimes wish that when they went to Gundam Wing and those that followed, which basically threw out the original Gundam storyline, they had changed the "Gundam" part of the titles to something else...sigh.)
Vampire Miyu
My Neighbor Totoro
Karula Mau!
RG Veda
Saint Seiya
Nadia
8 Man and 8 Man After
Shinshu Sudama Hen
Sonic Soldier Borgman
Five Star Stories
Kujaku-Oh (Peacock King)

Lots of others I've enjoyed - at one point I had about a thousand VHS tapes filled with anime....but those are the favorites. I prefer subtitled to dubs, mostly because I like the Japanese voice actors' voices a lot more than most of the ones they use for the US dubs. I have quite a bit of stuff that's just in Japanese, though.

I also have enjoyed over the years a fair number of Japanese live action series, like the various Hissatsu ("Assassins" - think of L&O or CSI franchises, with the main characters being hired assassins who usually end up righting wrongs and assassinating bad guys, with different sets of characters over time, set in different cities, etc.) and the varous "Ninja High School Girls" series. Plus various semi-horror movies based on Japanese history, mythology and folklore.

[Lady Kayri]

What's strange is that the Japanese also did a series of "Starship Trooper" OAVs that were a lot truer to Heinlein's books than the American movie series...although they made the Philippino main character, Juan Rico, into a blond and blue-eyed American, Johnny Rico...

[Lady Kayri]

Used to do cosplay at US SF conventions, but that was years ago. I still have most of the costumes; there is a FEMC Headliner (mecha pilot) uniform (I'm not nearly thin enough to play a fatima!), a Gatchaman outfit (for a fanfic member of the Gatchaman back up team, Raptor Force - I HATE pink and Jun / Princess's character tends to irritate the heck out of me at times...) a Cosmo Tiger (Yamato fighter pilot) uniform in my collection. (In addition to the costumes based on other American SF books, like Keeper's garb (from Darkover), two different uniforms from Space:1999, a Star Trek uniform from the first few movies, an Imperial fighter pilot's uniform from Star Wars... I was also in the SCA and had 6 or 7 medieval outfits, several Japanese kimonos, hakama, etc. that I sewed, (some of which got used in the SCA for a Heian period character I was running) and currently participate off and on in Civil War re-enactments. At one point, while I was in the SCA, I was actually able to make some pocket money by sewing garb for other people who didn't know how to sew... Yep, for a while was a member of the SF/F Costumer's Guild as well.

[Radical Edward]

Oooh! You should make a perdy outfit for me Lady Kayri