Anime S/D (COD hahahaha d'oh)

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There's no way that I believe none of you are anime dorks. GAINAX! Let's go! I love what anime I've seen, but not having video/DVD player/background in ye COMIX, I am an anime beginner. So what is great? What is bobbins? What studios should I avoid? Do you recommend comics? Has anyone seen this crazy looking 'Sentimental Graffiti'??

Sarah, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If we've already done this, I do apologise, but I am in too much glee reading poorly translated synopsises of CARTOONS rah roXoR. I meant to go to the Anime Festival thing that was on at the Barbican (?) a while back, but for some reason POO I didn't end up going.

Sarah, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Metropolis is on at the PRince Charles in a couple of weeks. That's supposed to be good.

Pete, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Urusei Yatsura is the best comic.

jel, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

search STUDIO GHIBLI!!!...nausicaa, laputa, kiki, totoro, pon poko, only yesterday, mononoke-hime, porco rosso...num num good...

jess, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anime song lyrics are great too. I just remembered comics = manga. I think.

jel, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sod that Metropolis on TONITE at ICA. i have already made it a date.

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i've only seen what my best friend finds fit to show me from her bearshare downloaded anime. so when i go over we watch 4 or 5 episodes of revolutionary girl utena. it's lovely.

Maria, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alan, pls report back on 'Metropolis'; am hoping to find it on somewhere this weekend.

Ellie, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some good'uns: Akira, Ninja Scroll, Fist Of The North Star, Ghost In The Shell (if you're a patient person).

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The DIRTY PAIR!!!! I have videos (it's not dodgy, honest guv'nor)...

Anime lyrics

I really want to try and sing in Japanese!

jel, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

47 Pokemon song lyrics! This one is great:

Pokemon with Crayons

I will be quiet now.

jel, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Powerpuff Girls

electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ghost in the Shell manga = 100 * Ghost in the Shell movie, which was a pretty good movie anyway. Cowboy Bebop is my current obsession though.

Vinnie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ranma 1/2, baby. "I can't say anything, I'm a PANDA!"

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

metropolis review. ahem, well you seee. err. ok i did see it, but i kept snoozing off. I WAS/AM TIRED = it was a good w/e :-)

neva-thu-less, my friend says from how i recounted it, that tho i missed some early key scenes, that i did get the whole story. this is because the whole story is somewhat lacking in originality. On the cool looking animation -- yes it is top stuff. there's a lot of computer animation for the large machinery, lending it that "riven" feel in places, and there are some lovely backdrops. eye candy all over the place basically. and you get all the usual spectacle, massive amounts of destruction -- things fall apart... mere anime is loosed upon the world (heh).

A final impression: the whole thing looks more european than japanese. i was reminded of tintin a lot, not just in the idiosyncratic appearances of the characters (an enormous nose on this guy, bizarre flaring legs on that guy, a whacky moustache), but also in the cartoonish manner of their drawing constrasting with the lusher background.

I have to get back to work now.

Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh My Goddess! is clearly the best (and perhaps most twee) anime ever. Well, maybe not, but I like it and it has some great songs.

Paul Strange, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This lunchtime I popped to HMV and DROOLED over the amount of anime videos they had! So much Oh My Goddess! And Bubblegum Crisis! Has anyone actually *seen* Sailor Moon, cos I don't know what it's like at all or where to start. I so want to see Totoro and Kikis Delivery although I didn't see them on video. I need a DVD playa so much. And AHEM, if anyone wants to pop to my WISHLIST they will find a nice multi-region BARGIN for 149quid hemhem.

Sarah, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And I dunno, Belldandy being into motorbikes and bike fixing isn't exactly the same as knitting Keichi mittens. Fine tune the engine with love...

Sarah, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

on a less hardkore kick, i'd love to have Ulysses 31 on tape. far too exp tho. why o why o why is this show not repeated on my expensive cable feed.

Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me NoNo, small robot you know, friend of Ul-y-see-ee-ees.

NoNo, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NoNo!!!!! hehehehhehehhhhhh i don't understand *any* of this thread... except NoNo!

katie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that is to say *ahem* you can get all kinds of info about Ulysses 31 *and* download the rather groovy theme tune at the TV cream website!

katie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ulysses was on the sci-fi channel for a bit iirc, before they started showing battle of the planets. Have you tried some of the kiddie channels Alan? They seem to show a lot of Japanese stuff.

chris, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe this may be the same Ulysesses theme tune I was played when very very very tired and perhaps a little emotional. I thought it would have been the best thing evah, if I hadn't wanted to DIE from tiredness. I think I must hear it again when I function slightly bettah.

Sarah, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Lain: Serial Experiment' = total work of genius. Sort of Michael Mann doing a version of Neuromancer featuring a sad little Japanese girl including one episode where they recap everything in 10 minutes before the final two episodes kick off, scored with endless ace psychedelic guitar wankery. The rest of the soundtrack is great too, all cool ambient noises, etc.

Omar, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Daddy Warbucks best.

Pete, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sarah: I've seen all of Sailor Moon. The first season is pretty slow, but necessary for character introductions. You could get by only watching the plotty episodes, but it would annoying to find out just which episodes those are. But if you can make it through the slow first season and the crappy first half of the second season, everything past that is awesome.

Vinnie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As for what it's like, um, cute girls who fight evil monsters. Silly, but also very serious and plotty at times.

Vinnie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

search: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

can anyone recommend some anime tv series and movies? the library at my school recently opened up their audio visual collection for browsing and it turns out they have an enormous collection, like a full wall probably 500 dvds? of anime, from what i could tell including chinese, japanese, and what looked like korean(?) anyways i don't know anything aside from a few bigger titles, all violent stuff a cousin of mine is into, took out a Berserk box set, but i really want to explore this collection

flopson, Monday, 17 September 2012 23:46 (thirteen years ago)

Sgt. Frog / Keroro Gunso

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 17 September 2012 23:51 (thirteen years ago)

The Dirty Pair is consistently rad as well.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 17 September 2012 23:51 (thirteen years ago)

Series:

Kino's Journey
Haibaine Renmei
Paranoia Agent
Azumanga Daioh
Mushi-shi (haven't watched much yet but looks interesting)
The first season of Haruhi Suzumiya was good fun.

I guess I have a preference for "thought-provoking" anime.

Films:

Perfect Blue
Millennium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Paprika

Spirited Away
My Neighbour Totoro
Porco Rosso
Nauisicaa
Only Yesterday
Grave of the Fireflies

Metropolis
Ghost in the Shell
Urusei Yatsura 2 - Beautiful Dreamer
Memories

Night on the Galactic Railroad (that may be hard to get hold of)

Also, I'm insanely jealous you have access to such a library!

Duane Barry, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:58 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, anything Satoshi Kon or Miyazaki worth biting on

Nhex, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:58 (thirteen years ago)

Serial Experiments: Lain

clouds, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:42 (thirteen years ago)

Korean –––––– cjeck if they have Aachi & Ssipak

pet carrier (Crabbits), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:46 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rKuqM_8XM

pet carrier (Crabbits), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:47 (thirteen years ago)

thanks a lot everybody

flopson, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:21 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

prob late to the game since everyone i know who watches anime has already seen this but i've been into "attack on titan" lately

http://www.cgnexus.eu/wp-content/uploads/Shingeki.no_.Kyojin.full_.1-Animefullfights.com4_.jpg

kobaïas fünke (clouds), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 06:15 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

love dr stone - lots of wholesome science

Mordy, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 06:09 (six years ago)

ilxors sure posted in a strange way c2002

YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 07:52 (six years ago)

Gonna rep for youtuber Stevem again - video essays that go deep into anime directors. Right now he's doing a series of mini-videos tackling every Madhouse release.

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:05 (six years ago)

i didn't like dr stone at all from the first few eps heh

i did end up liking vinland saga though it took me until the second half of the season to really warm to it

ciderpress, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 17:23 (six years ago)

two months pass...

just discovered ‘Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey'...it's awesome and definitely my favorite anime adaptation of Matsumoto's Captain Harlock manga

Bstep, Sunday, 1 March 2020 19:40 (six years ago)

four months pass...

I keep seeing Azumanga Daioh mentioned (incl in that thread), can anyone recommend it? I've seen it namechecked along side Polar Bear Cafe which is one of my v v v favorites

vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 18:17 (five years ago)

oops that was for the other anime thread lol

vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 18:18 (five years ago)


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