Anime and Manga

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:04 am

Anyone here into Anime and/or Manga? Discuss it here!

Sonuna · Post by **Sonuna** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:36 am

I generally watch anime with my dad (who's cool about such things :D), so he gives me recommendations.
For fans of Rockman/Megaman, especially Battle Network, I'd suggest watching Rockman.EXE Original/Axess/Stream, which makes up about 4 full seasons of 26 episodes in all. Might not be everyone's cup of insert drink here, but I liked it. Watch the fansubs at all costs, though. The official dub is awful-type.
Read or Die's pretty awesome. And has the best special ability ever. The movie's vastly better than the TV series, but both are pretty good whether or not you've watched both (although the TV series has a massive tie-in episode around the middle that doesn't really make sense without the movie.) The movie's dub is good, but I'd recommend watching the fansubbed TV series.
Sakura Wars is also pretty cool, about 25 episodes in all. And as far as I know the DVD subtitles are good. That's all I ever use to watch it.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Neko no Ongaeshi/The Cat Returns, and Spirited Away are all Studio Ghibli movies. Need I say more?
I'm bound to think of more later. Then I'll come back and post again. Yay.

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:54 am

I dislike the stuff myself.

Evil Chick · Post by **Evil Chick** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:53 pm

I think the art is pretty, but I don't watch any of the shows or read the comics or anything like that.

EK · Post by EK » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:14 pm

I read it live it love it im currently tring to collect every SJ graphic novel out there *Needs knights of the zodiac vol.2*

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:17 pm

Eugene Kendall wrote:I read it live it love it im currently tring to collect every SJ graphic novel out there *Needs knights of the zodiac vol.2*

Do you eat it as well?

xiao · Post by **xiao** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:18 pm

I only like the art style, I and I only like some of their art styles. If that counts.

HarlowRoxMySox · Post by **HarlowRoxMySox** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:16 pm

I have a couple of friends obsessed with it. The only show I watch is Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce, Go! (Golly Gee Whilikers!, 10 billion of you just prejudged it just from the name, I know it.) But it's a really good show on Toon Disney. I knew it would come out sooner or later, but this show is one of my obsessions, and that's what my Avatar is, just so you know.

But, I guess technically it's not quite an anime. It's more like cartoon based on anime. But w/e.

The Top Crusader · Post by **The Top Crusader** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:25 pm

I wish they had made an anime based on the regular Mega Man series... that was always my favorite, although a Mega Man X one could be cool. I know (before someone reminds me

) that there was a Mega Man cartoon a few years back based on such, but, it wasn't very anime like (which all the drawings and such in the instruction books were), and overall wasn't very good.

But anyway, I'm not much into anime. Back when it was on Toonami my senior year of high school, I developed a certain affection for the various Tenchi series floating around out there, but that's about it.

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:47 pm

Xiao wrote:I only like the art style, I and I only like some of their art styles. If that counts.

I guess it would. I'd love to be able to draw that style of art . . . too bad I'm no artist.

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:24 pm

I've seen a little bit of it but I wasn't impressed.

Bmuntz · Post by **Bmuntz** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:20 pm

Screech wrote:I dislike the stuff myself.

Same here.

David O · Post by **David O** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:23 pm

Of course, being a fan of the Wachawski Brother's work, I have seen the Animatrix. Other than that, the only Anime I have invested the time and money into being interested in is Gungrave. Personally, I can't afford the time to watch the stuff. I love it, but for me it's so addicting that I stay away from most all anime. And of course their is all the edgy stuff that's so frequently thought of as characterizing all anime...

EK · Post by EK » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:48 pm

Screech wrote:
Eugene Kendall wrote:I read it live it love it im currently tring to collect every SJ graphic novel out there *Needs knights of the zodiac vol.2*
Do you eat it as well?

nope but i know some that do

Top Cat · Post by **Top Cat** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:50 pm

I don't really like it all that much

Elrohir · Post by **Elrohir** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:34 pm

Anime makes up a lot of Japanese TV. Saying you don't like anime is like a Japanese person saying they don't like American TV. It's like... well, what kind of TV? Kids's shows, talk shows, primetime shows...? Anyway, my point is not all anime is the same for someone to say they just don't like it. Some is good, some is bad.
My favorite anime shows are Digimon, Big O, and Detective Conan.

Lord Sesshoumaru · Post by **Lord Sesshoumaru** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:02 pm

Inuyasha (hence Lord Sesshoumaru)
Yu Yu Hakusho
DB/Z/GT
Outlaw Star
Sailor Moon
Robotech
Gundam Wing/G Gundam
Trigun

Lord Sesshoumaru