<div class="IPBDescription">... i want to buy this 'craze'</div> Recommend an anime please! I want to buy a box set to see why people see this as a craze. If people could give descriptions of them that would be so helpful, and personal feedback.
Well, I've not much time and I only like about 15% of anime, but I must recommend the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series. Straight cyberpunk; cyborgs, the internet is a place, etc. Fairly realistic style as well.
But you've probably already heard of this series. It's on [adult swim] sometimes, so if I were you I wouldn't spend anything on it until you've seen it.
Cowboy Bebop is also good, but like I said I'm just about out of time, so Google it yourself.
Cowboy Bebop (It's about bounty hunters) Full Metal Panic (Giant robots and mercenaries) Hellsing (Vampires and guns... lots of guns) Outlaw Star (Outlaws in a giant space ship, travelling around and shooting stuff) Neon Genesis Evangelion (Giant robots and angsty teens) Gunslinger girl (Girl... Guns) Ghost in the Shell: SAC (Like he said... Cyberpunk) Naruto
Trigun is a good series, its done in a western setting on a planet that suffers severe droughts, and the main character Vash the Stampede is a devout pacifist but attracts destruction wherever he goes. The episodes start off very ligtht hearted and fun, but the serious side of the story starts coming out as you get farther to the end, finishing with an awesome final episode. Lots of gun play, and really, really good and fitting music.
Oh I should add that although the anime is in a western setting, there is still a large sci-fi element to the show <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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I think it's a little late to be calling anime a craze....I think it's more like a....passe phenom really. PRetty soon it should slip back into tried-and-true mere cult status, and all will be right with the world.
That being said, anything made by Gainax (Nadia, Mahoromatic, FLCL, Abenobashi) is a good bet. Although I would say to avoid Evangelion if it is your first foray into anime, as it tends to be a hate-it-or-love-it sort of deal.
wasnt there a thread exactly like this a bit ago? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
evangelion is the 2nd anime series i've gotten into and i love it! havent seen much else other than gundam seed and full metal alchemist... which also rock...but im gettin there..
<!--QuoteBegin-AnarkiThreeXSix+May 10 2005, 10:34 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AnarkiThreeXSix @ May 10 2005, 10:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> wasnt there a thread exactly like this a bit ago? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92691&st=0&hl=anime' target='_blank'>You mean this thread?</a>
Last Exile - Show that takes primarily in the sky, sorta like those old shows that depict 30s-40s sky pirates and whatnot, but it's got a strong sci-fi element as well. Uses some CG during flight, but mostly anime for people/indoor spots.
Ghost in the Shell - Sci-fi (Cyberpunk?) anime. Can't really describe it much more without making a multi-paragraph essay. Nice animation quality.
2nd vote for Bleach; though the show is probably a little less appealing to most people (childish but still fun to watch)... Plot about a 15 year old student turned Death God.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf's Brigade - Gritty futuristic anime about a rebellion against the government. Nice animation quality.
Samurai X - The precursor to Ruroni Kenshin, much more mature... About, well, a samurai... Some good action scenes and high-quality animation.
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie - Cursed with a horrible dub and a disgusting lack of a Japanese audio track, the movie's still got incredible action scenes (though the final fight vs. Bison is a little drawn out). Definentley check it out if you like the Street Fighter series.
Fullmetal Alchemist - Fun, 51 episode series. Most of the plot is revealed in the first three episodes (especially 3), so you can just buy the 1st DVD if you find it interesting. Sci-fi, but the setting is current/old fashioned.
3rd vote for Bleach--if you don't mind subtitles, since its not in English yet.
2nd vote for Hellsing--and the only Anime I perfer with English sound to the Japanese sound w/ subtitles
And Ranma 1/2--Mr Saotome made a deal with Mr Tendo years ago that Saotomes son would be betrothed to one of Tendos daughters. Ranma (the son) and his dad finally show up, except that they have recently been afflicted with a curse that causes them to shapeshift into new forms when splashed with cold water, reverting to normal with hot water. Ranmas new form--is female Ranma. Plus none of Tendos daughters actually <i>want</i> to be engaged. Martial Arts Action/Comedy with a little romance thrown in for spice. It goes to 156 episodes--if the thought of spending that much money on buying anime doesn't appeal to you, get the books instead, which are just as good and far cheaper.
If you are in future military with transforming robot planes watch
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The music is one of the best to and gives you a good intro to anime music by Yoko Kanno.
Edit: Oh and if the plot sounds familiar to the 2005 movie "Stealth" that is cos that movie ripped from it IMHO. The fact is that Macross Plus's main story of the competition fo design a super-stealth aircraft is based on real US air force story
The funny thing is, I'd like a lot of these military action series a lot more if they DIDN'T have transforming robot mecha things. You know, if they just had plain old realistic vehicles... Because we all know mecha crap will never exist, and if it does it will be pwn'd easily. There's no such thing as "gundamium" or whatever armor in real life.
<!--QuoteBegin-Mad Man+May 10 2005, 06:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mad Man @ May 10 2005, 06:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I like/ suggest all the ones said, but I am suprised no one has said GANTZ as I found it very good aswell <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I am enjoying the manga more then I did the anime.
<a href='http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,1243,ohjgii,kimi_ga_nozomu_.html' target='_blank'>Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien</a> is a good one to watch but I don't think it is out in the US and it's against forum and real life rules for me to tell you where to get it.
<a href='http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,1486,wohzmg,school_rumble.html' target='_blank'>School Rumble</a> is funny if you can find it.
<b>Cowboy Bebop</b>, TV and Movie - Cyberpunk/Western/Film Noir about bounty hunters. Great music, great cinematography, great action, good characters and plot. Ghost in the Shell, TV and Movie - It's The Cyberpunk Movie. It's like a William Gibson book or Bladerunner done in anime. Very influential, this is where the Watchowski brothers got many of their ideas for The Matrix. <b>FLCL</b> - Whimsical, extremely well animated show; it reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes. Great music. <b>Samurai Champloo</b> - Samurai action. It thankfully leaves out most of the cliches that Inuyasha uses (i.e. girl meets up with rough and tough warrior with a pure heart, plus a few friends, goes on a quest to destroy a great evil, with a few sidequests to acquire more powerful abilities) and the ones that it leaves in, it actually does well. <b>The Animatrix</b> - Animated shorts based upon The Matrix, done by a half dozen different anime directors. It's hit and miss, but the hits are really really good. You can watch 4 of the shorts on the official website (http://www.intothematrix.com/). Program, Detective Story, Beyond, World Record, and Kid's Story are my favorite.
The Second Renaissance ones are the only good ones, though the Matrix story makes even LESS sense after you watch them. Someone apparently forgot that nukes make great big EMPs.
<span style='color:white'>This gives me an excuse to repost my list. And upgrade it. ALL DESCRIPTIONS TAKEN FROM ANIDB, THE ANIME DATABASE. PLEASE FORGIVE ANY ENGRISH/MISSPELLINGS.</span> =================== <b><i><span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:yellow'>Highly Recommended:</span></span></i></b>
Anything made by <b>Hayao Miyazaki</b>, includes but is not limited to;
<span style='color:green'><u>Princess Mononoke.</u></span> <i>While fighting to save his village from the attack of a demon-god Ashitaka comes in contact with it and is inflicted with a deadly curse. In his search for a cure he is forced to leave his village forever and journey to the forest inhabited by animal gods. There he finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and a village led by lady Eboshi.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Spirited Away.</u></span> <i>Spirited Away is a fantasy adventure with a ten year-old girl, which starts in everyday Japan but goes somewhere very different. For young Chihiro and her family, a mysterious tunnel and haunted town lead to the Land of Spirits, inhabited by gods and monsters and ruled by the greedy witch Yu-baba. Chihiro`s parents are transformed into pigs; to rescue them, she must surrender her name and serve in this world. Luckily she finds friends and allies, including the handsome but mysterious boy Haku. Initially sulky and listless, Chihiro (or Sen, as she`s now called) finds inner strengths and establishes an identity in this strange world. But can she win back her name and return home? </i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Laputa; Castle in the Sky.</u></span> <i>A young girl, Sheeta, is kidnapped by secret agents working for a government. Rescued by the boy Pazu, they must together try to reach the legendary floating island Laputa, while avoiding both of the pirates and the army</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Howl's Moving Castle.</u></span> <i>Sophie Hatter, the eldest of three, is apprenticed to make hats for the people of Ingary, a place where spells, magic cloaks, and seven-league boots exist. She and all the young girls are warned to stay inside or be taken by Howl, the evil wizard whose black castle can be seen moving through the hills. After an encounter with a witch and with a spell cast on her to make her an old woman, Sophie goes to seek adventure. She heads towards Howl`s moving castle where she will encounter things she had never imagined. </i>
------------------------------ Anything made by <b>Shinichiro Watanabe</b>, includes but is not limited to;
<span style='color:green'><u>Cowboy Bebop.</u></span> <i>Once upon a time, in New York City in 1941... at this club open to all comers to play, night after night, at a club named "Minston`s Play" House in Harlem, they play jazz sessions competing with each other. Young jazz men with a new sense are gathering. At last they created a new genre itself. They are sick and tired of the conventional fixed style jazz. They`re eager to play jazz more freely as they wish then... in 2071 in the universe... The bounty hunters, who are gathering in the spaceship BEBOP, will play freely without fear of risky things. They must create new dreams and films by breaking traditional styles. The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called... "COWBOY BEBOP"</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door.</u></span> <i>Mars is under siege! Just before Halloween 2071, a terrorist bomb destroys a tanker truck on Highway One, close to a densely-populated crater city. There are casualties up to half a mile from the blast – 500 killed or injured by what appears to be a biochemical weapon. The reward for the bomber’s capture is a massive 300,000,000 woolongs... and there are four humans and a dog who really need the money. Down on their luck as usual, the crew of the Bebop get on the case.
The mis-matched crew of the Bebop are back, and this time they`re on the silver screen.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Samurai Champloo.</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- You WILL love this series. More than you would imagine. Puts all other samurai anime <i>to shame</i> with it's greatness.</span> <i>Mugen is a fierce animal like warrior with a unique break-dance inspired fighting style. Jin has a more traditional style but don`t think of this as a weakness because his skills are amazing. The two contrasting samurai warriors are far from friends, yet their separate paths seem to cross anyways. Mugen is wandering aimlessly through the woods when he stumbles upon a teahouse where he meets Jin and Fuu (A ditzy waitress, but don`t think she doesn`t have any hidden skills of her own). Fuu convinces them both to come with her in search of a mysterious samurai that smells like sunflowers and their journey begins. This modernized hip-hop tale breaks the barriers of the common, historical, samurai anime. </i>
----------------------------- Anything adapted from the works of <b>Masamune Shirow</b>, as follows;
<span style='color:green'><u>Ghost in the Shell</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie #1</span> <i>In the year 2029, the world is made borderless by the net; augmented humans live in virtual environments, watched over by law enforcement that is able to download themselves into super-powered, crime busting mecha.
The ultimate secret agent of the future is not human, has no physical body and can freely travel the information highways of the world, hacking and manipulating whatever and whenever required.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Tv series 1</span> <i>In the future, life between the digital and physical world has been blurred. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyond imagination with lives being led in both the electronic and physical worlds. With the melding of man and machine – a new cybernetic level of existence is being created - An existence that continues to redefine mankind. </i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie #2</span> <i>Batou is a living cyborg. His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and the memories of a woman.
In an era when the boundary between humans and machines has become infinitely vague, Humans have forgotten that they are humans.
This is the debauchery of the lonesome "ghost" of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity.
Innocence... Is what life is.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Tv series 2</span> <i>In the future, life between the digital and physical world has been blurred. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyond imagination with lives being led in both the electronic and physical worlds. With the melding of man and machine a new cybernetic level of existence is being created. An existence that continues to redefine mankind.</i>
---------------------------- <b><i><span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:yellow'>Action/Adventure:</span></span></i></b> <span style='color:green'><u>Appleseed</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie. Full CG. Beautifully done. Don't know much about the OAV that came before it though.</span> <i>Immediately after the nonnuclear great war which drove the world into the annihilation state in calendar 2131. The last Utopia which human beings gained in desolation "Olympus." 50% of the population was the human clone <biotechnology ROIDO> built for the purpose of the stability of man society. The young woman soldier who survived the great war, and the Dunant nuts are captured suddenly, and are taken to "Olympus." Once sweetheart BURIAREOSU was before Dunant who woke up. However, he got seriously injured in the North Africa battle line, and bodily [ the great portion of ] was mechanized. Dunant who loses language in the figure in which the former sweetheart was completely changed. However, the fate of Dunant and BURIAREOSU is involved in "the truth of Olympus" exceeding the astonishment ...</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Akira</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie. Very ground breaking. Cyberpunk.</span> <i>It`s 2019: thirty-one years after World War III and the authority of Neo-Tokyo is waging a constant battle against the Underground rebels. Caught in the middle is a motorcycle gang whose aim is just to make trouble. The gang leader Kaneda gets involved in more ways than one when an experimental psychic child escapes and results in gang member Tetsuo`s capture and subsequent experimentation. Tetsuo the "bitter runt" of the pack now has the power of Akira and soon escapes as soon as everyone realizes that his power can result in total destruction of Neo-Tokyo. Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo (Memories, Steam Boy)</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Bleach</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Unlicensed. Grab it while it's hot. Fun actiony series.</span> <i>Kurosaki Ichigo is not a regular 15 year old, because he has always had the ability to see spirits and ghosts. One day, a female Shinigami (soul reaper) named Kuchiki Rukia appears before him, hunting for an evil spirit. But during the confrontation, the Shinigami`s powers are transfered to Ichigo. Thus begins the adventures of Ichigo and Rukia and their mission to herd Hollows (fallen spirits who devour souls ).
Based on the manga by Kubo Taito.</i>
There's WAY more in the category. I'm tired though. So I'll leave it to the others. ---------------------------- <b><i><span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:yellow'>Mecha:</span></span></i></b> <span style='color:green'><u>Full Metal Panic</u></span> <i>A hidden military organization moblizes crack troops to secretly protect a young Japanese girl in the most dangerous battleground of all: High School. Their operative: a battle hardened veteran named Sagara Sousuke. Can he adapt to this new battlefield, and to the opposite gender? Will he stop bringing firearms on campus?</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid</u></span> <- You'll have to wait on this one as it airs Fall 2005.[/color] <i>Kadokowa Shoten has officially announced that a new Full Metal series, Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid, is to be produced. The series will once again be directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto, but is expected to be a serious adaptation of the two Full Metal Panic! Owaru Day By Day novels. </i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Neon Genesis Evangelion</u></span> <i>In the year 2015, the Angels, huge, tremendously powerful, alien war machines, appear in Tokyo for the second time. The only hope for Mankind`s survival lies in the Evangelion, a humanoid fighting machine developed by NERV, a special United Nations agency. Capable of withstanding anything the Angels can dish out, the Evangelion`s one drawback lies in the limited number of people able to pilot them. Only a handful of teenagers, all born fourteen years ago, nine months after the Angels first appeared, are able to interface with the Evangelion. One such tenager is Shinji Ikari, whose father heads the NERV team that developed and maintains the Evangelion. Thrust into a maelstorm of battle and events that he does not understand, Shinji is forced to plumb the depths of his own inner resources for the courage and strength to not only fight, but to survive, or risk losing everything.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie #1</span> <i>Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that reworked ending but after production overruns became only the first half of the first episode of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences. Over time, two newer director`s cuts of Death were produced, each including new footage not seen in the series - these were called Death (True) and finally Death (True)^2. Note that despite containing clips from the series, Death (True)^2 & Rebirth should be seen after the series itself to be fully understood.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie #2</span> <i>The end of the Neon Genesis Evangelion left many questions as to the fate of NERV, the Children, the Angels, and many other plot factors unanswered, unexplained, or otherwise hanging. To answer a legion of now befuddled Evangelion fans, Gainax remade the ending into a two-part movie known as Death and Rebirth which was to supersede episodes 25 and 26 of the television series, which then led to this movie, Death and Rebirth itself being recreated into part one of The End of Evangelion. It begins much in the same fashion, with the final Angel already having been defeated, and the current enemy switching to humanity itself as SEELE unleashes its own plan for the Evas and NERV...and indeed for the entire human race. What role will Shinji play in this ever-tense situation, as NERV gets chewed to pieces by SEELE`s crack commandoes? Will Gendo`s plan swallow up all of humanity? Will Hideaki Anno ever figure out how to end an anime? These questions and more will be answered in what looks to be the final installment of Evangelion. But at what price?
Note: The 2003 Renewal is a remastered version of the original End of Evangelion movie.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>RahXephon</u></span> <i> In the year 2012, Tokyo is suddenly attacked by a mysterious organization called "MU".
At that time Ayato Kamina is just a regular high school student. His father passed away when he was young, and his mother works for the government. Ayato meets a mysterious woman named Reika Mishima and discovers the existence of the angel-winged giant robot, Rahxephon. Apparently Rahxephon synchronized with Ayato. So could he be the key to save Japan?</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie</span> <i>Shitou Haruka -- a 29 year old lady who lost her life with her beloved in a flash. She tries to retrieve "something" that was important to her, and joins the special institution TERRA. Haruka`s target was Kamina Ayato. He was a high school student 12 years younger than her. However, that Ayato was the person she had feelings for when she parted with him in Junior High.
Lovers parted by the time, a Sci-Fi setting and the test for the truth of people`s hearts. The movie heats up with Ayato`s RahXephon and the battle with the Dolems. If Ayato awakens completely, the world will turn into a horrific situation. To prevent that, Haruka needs to kill Ayato. Would Haruka be able to go pass this decision? And the "sleeping beauty" that is waiting for Ayato`s kiss. How would their love change?</i>
---------------------------- <b><i><span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:yellow'>Philosophical /Special Interest:</span></span></i></b> <span style='color:green'><u>Haibane Renmei</u></span> <i>When a young girl, Rakka, wakes up from a dream, she finds a ring of light over her head and she is welcomed by a group of girls who had wings on them.
Rakka then becomes a member of the Haibane Alliance, the group who protects the town of Guri, enclosed by walls.
Why did Rakka become a Haibane? Who were the Haibane? As Rakka continues her life in the peaceful town of Guri, the mystery behind her new friends begin to be revealed. </i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Infinite Ryvius</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- In my opinion it is, because when I see it, I think Lord of the Flies.</span> <i>In 2197 a strong solar flare created a strange region of high gravity, called the Gedult, throughout the plane of the solar system, which crushes any ship that strays too far into it. Nonetheless, humanity has traveled through space and colonized all the planets. It is here, in 2225, that Keiji travels to the Bratica facility along with thousands of other young men and women, to train for every kind of career in space, from salvager to stewardess. All is not as simple as it seems, as enemies they didn`t even know they had threaten all their lives with sabotoage, and a mysterious and powerful ship appears as their salvation. But even this powerful ship, the Ryvius, can`t protect them from themselves...</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Kino's Travels</u></span> <i>Composed in the form of a series of short stories, this is the story of the travels of the human Kino and the talking motorbike Elmes. Kino and Elmes visit various different countries.
A country that can`t live with others because of the development of telepathy (a country that understand people`s pain); a country that are striving to make everything equal, whose residents are extremely united (a country ruled by majority), etc. etc.
Then, when three days pass, they leave the country. Kino and Elmes are travelers (observers). Small ripples are formed in the usual lives of the people living in the various countries by the appearance of the unusual traveler Kino. But that is becoming a major incident that will shake up their usual lives.
What will Kino and Elmes see in their travels? And what will be left in the hearts of the people they encountered?</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Grave of the Fireflies</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Incredibly sad, beautifully done portrayal of World War 2.</span> <i>In the latter part of World War II, a boy and his sister, orphaned when their mother is killed in the firebombing of Tokyo, are left to survive on their own in what remains of civilian life in Japan. The plot follows this boy and his sister as they do their best to survive in the Japanese countryside, battling hunger, prejudice, and pride in their own quiet, personal battle.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Paranoia Agent</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Crazy to watch, no promises that it will make any sense though.</span> <i>This show is from the maker of Perfect Blue and Millenium Actress, the script is from the same man who did Boogiepop Phantom.
It`s not your average show, the title of "Paranoia" is really what this show is about.
A young boy on roller blades seems to roll around the city and whack people on the head with a baseball bat, and things don`t seem to be the same after that.
Shounen Bat is back home...</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Serial Experiments Lain</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Up to you. Some like it, some hate it.</span> <i>The first episode opens with the mysterious suicide of a high-school girl, Chisa Yomoda. Chisa-chan was a classmate of Lain Iwakura, a quiet, 14-year-old high-school girl. One of the other girls in the class has been receiving e-mail messages from Chisa-chan, and Lain discovers she also has mail from Chisa-chan. In the mail she explains to Lain that she just abandoned her flesh. She assures lain that she still is alive in the `wired` world. After getting a new `navi` and adding a `psyche` circuit, Lain spends more and more time in the wired. It seems that Lain has at least 2 personalities, and Lain`s first personality is changing even now. Who is lain? Who are the `knights`? Can the wired influence the real world with a prophecy? Is the real world nothing but a hologram of the information in the wired?</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-Misfire+May 10 2005, 08:14 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Misfire @ May 10 2005, 08:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> nice post
full metal alchemist? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Thanks. I should add the description of that one and Millenium Actress which I just watched.
Beck is great. I finished that last month. It's a Guitar/Band anime. Really fun stuff, and I love that guy's voice. Very distinct.
As for where I get that sort of knowledge? A.) Watching the shows. B.) Checking them on Anidb or AnimeNfo. Though I've watched pretty much all my list with a few specific exceptions.
:: EDIT ::
Here's an FLCL description. One of my own.
<span style='color:green'><u>FLCL</u></span> <i>Twelve year old pessimist Nandaba Naota turns around to a rude surprise one day while hanging out with his brother's hand-me-down girlfriend Samejimi Mamimi. A rude surprise that would not only fill his life with new and unforeseen complications, but one that would change the very way he saw and lived that life. Her name was Haruhara Haruko, a vespa riding Alien wielding a guitar and a galactic mission... Find Atomsk.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Scrapped Princess</u></span> <i>Pacifica Kasull was born into the realm of every girl's fantasy, a princess of some distant land. But fate was not so kind to her. Prophesized by the Oracle of the God Mauser to be the Poison of the world that would cause the destruction of the planet at the age of 16, her father the King had her sacrificed by being thrown off a cliff. She was saved by pure chance and now, at age 15, enemies assail her at every turn. With only her adopted brother and sister, Shannon and Raquel, to protect her, the minions of the god Mauser loom ominously around them, plotting their death at every turn...</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Chrno Crusade</u></span> <i>Sister Rosette is much like any good sister of the Church. Her faith is strong and she is incredibly devoted to her work. Her work however... is not so much like your average nun's. Part of the Church's special demon fighting taskforce, Rosette and her demon friend and servant Chrno fight against the minions of darkness. Chrno's old ally, Aion, however, refuses to be part of God's little game of good vs. evil. Longing to surpass the chains that bind him and fate him to lose his battle, he discovers a way to deny God's hold over him, and thus break his own limitations. Only Chrno and Rosette can put stop to his plans now, but will they manage in time?</i>
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But you've probably already heard of this series. It's on [adult swim] sometimes, so if I were you I wouldn't spend anything on it until you've seen it.
Cowboy Bebop is also good, but like I said I'm just about out of time, so Google it yourself.
Cowboy Bebop (It's about bounty hunters)
Full Metal Panic (Giant robots and mercenaries)
Hellsing (Vampires and guns... lots of guns)
Outlaw Star (Outlaws in a giant space ship, travelling around and shooting stuff)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Giant robots and angsty teens)
Gunslinger girl (Girl... Guns)
Ghost in the Shell: SAC (Like he said... Cyberpunk)
Naruto
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (Original's good as well but I prefer this)
Oh I should add that although the anime is in a western setting, there is still a large sci-fi element to the show <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That being said, anything made by Gainax (Nadia, Mahoromatic, FLCL, Abenobashi) is a good bet. Although I would say to avoid Evangelion if it is your first foray into anime, as it tends to be a hate-it-or-love-it sort of deal.
evangelion is the 2nd anime series i've gotten into and i love it!
havent seen much else other than gundam seed and full metal alchemist... which also rock...but im gettin there..
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92691&st=0&hl=anime' target='_blank'>You mean this thread?</a>
Ghost in the Shell - Sci-fi (Cyberpunk?) anime. Can't really describe it much more without making a multi-paragraph essay. Nice animation quality.
2nd vote for Bleach; though the show is probably a little less appealing to most people (childish but still fun to watch)... Plot about a 15 year old student turned Death God.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf's Brigade - Gritty futuristic anime about a rebellion against the government. Nice animation quality.
Samurai X - The precursor to Ruroni Kenshin, much more mature... About, well, a samurai... Some good action scenes and high-quality animation.
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie - Cursed with a horrible dub and a disgusting lack of a Japanese audio track, the movie's still got incredible action scenes (though the final fight vs. Bison is a little drawn out). Definentley check it out if you like the Street Fighter series.
Fullmetal Alchemist - Fun, 51 episode series. Most of the plot is revealed in the first three episodes (especially 3), so you can just buy the 1st DVD if you find it interesting. Sci-fi, but the setting is current/old fashioned.
Has anyone recommended a Gundam series yet?
I forgot it was licensed.
2nd vote for Hellsing--and the only Anime I perfer with English sound to the Japanese sound w/ subtitles
And Ranma 1/2--Mr Saotome made a deal with Mr Tendo years ago that Saotomes son would be betrothed to one of Tendos daughters. Ranma (the son) and his dad finally show up, except that they have recently been afflicted with a curse that causes them to shapeshift into new forms when splashed with cold water, reverting to normal with hot water. Ranmas new form--is female Ranma. Plus none of Tendos daughters actually <i>want</i> to be engaged.
Martial Arts Action/Comedy with a little romance thrown in for spice. It goes to 156 episodes--if the thought of spending that much money on buying anime doesn't appeal to you, get the books instead, which are just as good and far cheaper.
Macross Plus
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The music is one of the best to and gives you a good intro to anime music by Yoko Kanno.
Edit: Oh and if the plot sounds familiar to the 2005 movie "Stealth" that is cos that movie ripped from it IMHO. The fact is that Macross Plus's main story of the competition fo design a super-stealth aircraft is based on real US air force story
The funny thing is, I'd like a lot of these military action series a lot more if they DIDN'T have transforming robot mecha things. You know, if they just had plain old realistic vehicles... Because we all know mecha crap will never exist, and if it does it will be pwn'd easily. There's no such thing as "gundamium" or whatever armor in real life.
I just saw Shingetsutan Tsukihime which was really good but not really an action anime. (but it has good music)
Akira's good to watch IMO, so is the original Ghost in The Shell.
Evangelion is good and a fairly short seiries.
I vote Samurai Champloo also.
Ninja scroll is a classic movie, subbed or dubbed version.
A lot of irt depends on whether you'd be up for some kind of future anime or one set in the past.
It was bound to happen.
I have to say I'm partial to this one, too, but it's like the Britney Spears of anime.
I am enjoying the manga more then I did the anime.
<a href='http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,1243,ohjgii,kimi_ga_nozomu_.html' target='_blank'>Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien</a> is a good one to watch but I don't think it is out in the US and it's against forum and real life rules for me to tell you where to get it.
<a href='http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,1486,wohzmg,school_rumble.html' target='_blank'>School Rumble</a> is funny if you can find it.
No.
<b>Cowboy Bebop</b>, TV and Movie - Cyberpunk/Western/Film Noir about bounty hunters. Great music, great cinematography, great action, good characters and plot.
Ghost in the Shell, TV and Movie - It's The Cyberpunk Movie. It's like a William Gibson book or Bladerunner done in anime. Very influential, this is where the Watchowski brothers got many of their ideas for The Matrix.
<b>FLCL</b> - Whimsical, extremely well animated show; it reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes. Great music.
<b>Samurai Champloo</b> - Samurai action. It thankfully leaves out most of the cliches that Inuyasha uses (i.e. girl meets up with rough and tough warrior with a pure heart, plus a few friends, goes on a quest to destroy a great evil, with a few sidequests to acquire more powerful abilities) and the ones that it leaves in, it actually does well.
<b>The Animatrix</b> - Animated shorts based upon The Matrix, done by a half dozen different anime directors. It's hit and miss, but the hits are really really good. You can watch 4 of the shorts on the official website (http://www.intothematrix.com/). Program, Detective Story, Beyond, World Record, and Kid's Story are my favorite.
...fyi
Doesn't look like it:
<a href='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913860/' target='_blank'>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913860/</a>
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<b><i><span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:yellow'>Highly Recommended:</span></span></i></b>
Anything made by <b>Hayao Miyazaki</b>, includes but is not limited to;
<span style='color:green'><u>Princess Mononoke.</u></span>
<i>While fighting to save his village from the attack of a demon-god Ashitaka comes in contact with it and is inflicted with a deadly curse. In his search for a cure he is forced to leave his village forever and journey to the forest inhabited by animal gods. There he finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and a village led by lady Eboshi.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Spirited Away.</u></span>
<i>Spirited Away is a fantasy adventure with a ten year-old girl, which starts in everyday Japan but goes somewhere very different. For young Chihiro and her family, a mysterious tunnel and haunted town lead to the Land of Spirits, inhabited by gods and monsters and ruled by the greedy witch Yu-baba. Chihiro`s parents are transformed into pigs; to rescue them, she must surrender her name and serve in this world. Luckily she finds friends and allies, including the handsome but mysterious boy Haku. Initially sulky and listless, Chihiro (or Sen, as she`s now called) finds inner strengths and establishes an identity in this strange world. But can she win back her name and return home? </i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Laputa; Castle in the Sky.</u></span>
<i>A young girl, Sheeta, is kidnapped by secret agents working for a government. Rescued by the boy Pazu, they must together try to reach the legendary floating island Laputa, while avoiding both of the pirates and the army</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Howl's Moving Castle.</u></span>
<i>Sophie Hatter, the eldest of three, is apprenticed to make hats for the people of Ingary, a place where spells, magic cloaks, and seven-league boots exist. She and all the young girls are warned to stay inside or be taken by Howl, the evil wizard whose black castle can be seen moving through the hills. After an encounter with a witch and with a spell cast on her to make her an old woman, Sophie goes to seek adventure. She heads towards Howl`s moving castle where she will encounter things she had never imagined. </i>
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Anything made by <b>Shinichiro Watanabe</b>, includes but is not limited to;
<span style='color:green'><u>Cowboy Bebop.</u></span>
<i>Once upon a time, in New York City in 1941... at this club open to all comers to play, night after night, at a club named "Minston`s Play" House in Harlem, they play jazz sessions competing with each other. Young jazz men with a new sense are gathering. At last they created a new genre itself. They are sick and tired of the conventional fixed style jazz. They`re eager to play jazz more freely as they wish then... in 2071 in the universe... The bounty hunters, who are gathering in the spaceship BEBOP, will play freely without fear of risky things. They must create new dreams and films by breaking traditional styles. The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called... "COWBOY BEBOP"</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door.</u></span>
<i>Mars is under siege! Just before Halloween 2071, a terrorist bomb destroys a tanker truck on Highway One, close to a densely-populated crater city. There are casualties up to half a mile from the blast – 500 killed or injured by what appears to be a biochemical weapon. The reward for the bomber’s capture is a massive 300,000,000 woolongs... and there are four humans and a dog who really need the money. Down on their luck as usual, the crew of the Bebop get on the case.
The mis-matched crew of the Bebop are back, and this time they`re on the silver screen.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Samurai Champloo.</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- You WILL love this series. More than you would imagine. Puts all other samurai anime <i>to shame</i> with it's greatness.</span>
<i>Mugen is a fierce animal like warrior with a unique break-dance inspired fighting style. Jin has a more traditional style but don`t think of this as a weakness because his skills are amazing. The two contrasting samurai warriors are far from friends, yet their separate paths seem to cross anyways. Mugen is wandering aimlessly through the woods when he stumbles upon a teahouse where he meets Jin and Fuu (A ditzy waitress, but don`t think she doesn`t have any hidden skills of her own). Fuu convinces them both to come with her in search of a mysterious samurai that smells like sunflowers and their journey begins. This modernized hip-hop tale breaks the barriers of the common, historical, samurai anime. </i>
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Anything adapted from the works of <b>Masamune Shirow</b>, as follows;
<span style='color:green'><u>Ghost in the Shell</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie #1</span>
<i>In the year 2029, the world is made borderless by the net; augmented humans live in virtual environments, watched over by law enforcement that is able to download themselves into super-powered, crime busting mecha.
The ultimate secret agent of the future is not human, has no physical body and can freely travel the information highways of the world, hacking and manipulating whatever and whenever required.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Tv series 1</span>
<i>In the future, life between the digital and physical world has been blurred. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyond imagination with lives being led in both the electronic and physical worlds. With the melding of man and machine – a new cybernetic level of existence is being created - An existence that continues to redefine mankind. </i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie #2</span>
<i>Batou is a living cyborg.
His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made.
What only remains are traces of his brain and the memories of a woman.
In an era when the boundary between humans and machines has become infinitely vague, Humans have forgotten that they are humans.
This is the debauchery of the lonesome "ghost" of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity.
Innocence...
Is what life is.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Tv series 2</span>
<i>In the future, life between the digital and physical world has been blurred. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyond imagination with lives being led in both the electronic and physical worlds. With the melding of man and machine a new cybernetic level of existence is being created. An existence that continues to redefine mankind.</i>
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<b><i><span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:yellow'>Action/Adventure:</span></span></i></b>
<span style='color:green'><u>Appleseed</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie. Full CG. Beautifully done. Don't know much about the OAV that came before it though.</span>
<i>Immediately after the nonnuclear great war which drove the world into the annihilation state in calendar 2131. The last Utopia which human beings gained in desolation "Olympus." 50% of the population was the human clone <biotechnology ROIDO> built for the purpose of the stability of man society. The young woman soldier who survived the great war, and the Dunant nuts are captured suddenly, and are taken to "Olympus." Once sweetheart BURIAREOSU was before Dunant who woke up. However, he got seriously injured in the North Africa battle line, and bodily [ the great portion of ] was mechanized. Dunant who loses language in the figure in which the former sweetheart was completely changed. However, the fate of Dunant and BURIAREOSU is involved in "the truth of Olympus" exceeding the astonishment ...</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Akira</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie. Very ground breaking. Cyberpunk.</span>
<i>It`s 2019: thirty-one years after World War III and the authority of Neo-Tokyo is waging a constant battle against the Underground rebels. Caught in the middle is a motorcycle gang whose aim is just to make trouble. The gang leader Kaneda gets involved in more ways than one when an experimental psychic child escapes and results in gang member Tetsuo`s capture and subsequent experimentation. Tetsuo the "bitter runt" of the pack now has the power of Akira and soon escapes as soon as everyone realizes that his power can result in total destruction of Neo-Tokyo. Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo (Memories, Steam Boy)</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Bleach</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Unlicensed. Grab it while it's hot. Fun actiony series.</span>
<i>Kurosaki Ichigo is not a regular 15 year old, because he has always had the ability to see spirits and ghosts. One day, a female Shinigami (soul reaper) named Kuchiki Rukia appears before him, hunting for an evil spirit. But during the confrontation, the Shinigami`s powers are transfered to Ichigo. Thus begins the adventures of Ichigo and Rukia and their mission to herd Hollows (fallen spirits who devour souls ).
Based on the manga by Kubo Taito.</i>
There's WAY more in the category. I'm tired though. So I'll leave it to the others.
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<b><i><span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:yellow'>Mecha:</span></span></i></b>
<span style='color:green'><u>Full Metal Panic</u></span>
<i>A hidden military organization moblizes crack troops to secretly protect a young Japanese girl in the most dangerous battleground of all: High School. Their operative: a battle hardened veteran named Sagara Sousuke. Can he adapt to this new battlefield, and to the opposite gender? Will he stop bringing firearms on campus?</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid</u></span> <- You'll have to wait on this one as it airs Fall 2005.[/color]
<i>Kadokowa Shoten has officially announced that a new Full Metal series, Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid, is to be produced. The series will once again be directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto, but is expected to be a serious adaptation of the two Full Metal Panic! Owaru Day By Day novels. </i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Neon Genesis Evangelion</u></span>
<i>In the year 2015, the Angels, huge, tremendously powerful, alien war machines, appear in Tokyo for the second time. The only hope for Mankind`s survival lies in the Evangelion, a humanoid fighting machine developed by NERV, a special United Nations agency. Capable of withstanding anything the Angels can dish out, the Evangelion`s one drawback lies in the limited number of people able to pilot them. Only a handful of teenagers, all born fourteen years ago, nine months after the Angels first appeared, are able to interface with the Evangelion. One such tenager is Shinji Ikari, whose father heads the NERV team that developed and maintains the Evangelion. Thrust into a maelstorm of battle and events that he does not understand, Shinji is forced to plumb the depths of his own inner resources for the courage and strength to not only fight, but to survive, or risk losing everything.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie #1</span>
<i>Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that reworked ending but after production overruns became only the first half of the first episode of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences. Over time, two newer director`s cuts of Death were produced, each including new footage not seen in the series - these were called Death (True) and finally Death (True)^2. Note that despite containing clips from the series, Death (True)^2 & Rebirth should be seen after the series itself to be fully understood.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie #2</span>
<i>The end of the Neon Genesis Evangelion left many questions as to the fate of NERV, the Children, the Angels, and many other plot factors unanswered, unexplained, or otherwise hanging. To answer a legion of now befuddled Evangelion fans, Gainax remade the ending into a two-part movie known as Death and Rebirth which was to supersede episodes 25 and 26 of the television series, which then led to this movie, Death and Rebirth itself being recreated into part one of The End of Evangelion. It begins much in the same fashion, with the final Angel already having been defeated, and the current enemy switching to humanity itself as SEELE unleashes its own plan for the Evas and NERV...and indeed for the entire human race. What role will Shinji play in this ever-tense situation, as NERV gets chewed to pieces by SEELE`s crack commandoes? Will Gendo`s plan swallow up all of humanity? Will Hideaki Anno ever figure out how to end an anime? These questions and more will be answered in what looks to be the final installment of Evangelion. But at what price?
Note: The 2003 Renewal is a remastered version of the original End of Evangelion movie.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>RahXephon</u></span>
<i> In the year 2012, Tokyo is suddenly attacked by a mysterious organization called "MU".
At that time Ayato Kamina is just a regular high school student. His father passed away when he was young, and his mother works for the government. Ayato meets a mysterious woman named Reika Mishima and discovers the existence of the angel-winged giant robot, Rahxephon. Apparently Rahxephon synchronized with Ayato. So could he be the key to save Japan?</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Movie</span>
<i>Shitou Haruka -- a 29 year old lady who lost her life with her beloved in a flash. She tries to retrieve "something" that was important to her, and joins the special institution TERRA. Haruka`s target was Kamina Ayato. He was a high school student 12 years younger than her. However, that Ayato was the person she had feelings for when she parted with him in Junior High.
Lovers parted by the time, a Sci-Fi setting and the test for the truth of people`s hearts. The movie heats up with Ayato`s RahXephon and the battle with the Dolems. If Ayato awakens completely, the world will turn into a horrific situation. To prevent that, Haruka needs to kill Ayato. Would Haruka be able to go pass this decision? And the "sleeping beauty" that is waiting for Ayato`s kiss. How would their love change?</i>
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<b><i><span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:yellow'>Philosophical /Special Interest:</span></span></i></b>
<span style='color:green'><u>Haibane Renmei</u></span>
<i>When a young girl, Rakka, wakes up from a dream, she finds a ring of light over her head and she is welcomed by a group of girls who had wings on them.
Rakka then becomes a member of the Haibane Alliance, the group who protects the town of Guri, enclosed by walls.
Why did Rakka become a Haibane? Who were the Haibane? As Rakka continues her life in the peaceful town of Guri, the mystery behind her new friends begin to be revealed. </i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Infinite Ryvius</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- In my opinion it is, because when I see it, I think Lord of the Flies.</span>
<i>In 2197 a strong solar flare created a strange region of high gravity, called the Gedult, throughout the plane of the solar system, which crushes any ship that strays too far into it. Nonetheless, humanity has traveled through space and colonized all the planets. It is here, in 2225, that Keiji travels to the Bratica facility along with thousands of other young men and women, to train for every kind of career in space, from salvager to stewardess. All is not as simple as it seems, as enemies they didn`t even know they had threaten all their lives with sabotoage, and a mysterious and powerful ship appears as their salvation. But even this powerful ship, the Ryvius, can`t protect them from themselves...</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Kino's Travels</u></span>
<i>Composed in the form of a series of short stories, this is the story of the travels of the human Kino and the talking motorbike Elmes. Kino and Elmes visit various different countries.
A country that can`t live with others because of the development of telepathy (a country that understand people`s pain); a country that are striving to make everything equal, whose residents are extremely united (a country ruled by majority), etc. etc.
Then, when three days pass, they leave the country. Kino and Elmes are travelers (observers). Small ripples are formed in the usual lives of the people living in the various countries by the appearance of the unusual traveler Kino. But that is becoming a major incident that will shake up their usual lives.
What will Kino and Elmes see in their travels? And what will be left in the hearts of the people they encountered?</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Grave of the Fireflies</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Incredibly sad, beautifully done portrayal of World War 2.</span>
<i>In the latter part of World War II, a boy and his sister, orphaned when their mother is killed in the firebombing of Tokyo, are left to survive on their own in what remains of civilian life in Japan. The plot follows this boy and his sister as they do their best to survive in the Japanese countryside, battling hunger, prejudice, and pride in their own quiet, personal battle.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Paranoia Agent</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Crazy to watch, no promises that it will make any sense though.</span>
<i>This show is from the maker of Perfect Blue and Millenium Actress, the script is from the same man who did Boogiepop Phantom.
It`s not your average show, the title of "Paranoia" is really what this show is about.
A young boy on roller blades seems to roll around the city and whack people on the head with a baseball bat, and things don`t seem to be the same after that.
Shounen Bat is back home...</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Serial Experiments Lain</u></span> <span style='color:white'><- Up to you. Some like it, some hate it.</span>
<i>The first episode opens with the mysterious suicide of a high-school girl, Chisa Yomoda. Chisa-chan was a classmate of Lain Iwakura, a quiet, 14-year-old high-school girl. One of the other girls in the class has been receiving e-mail messages from Chisa-chan, and Lain discovers she also has mail from Chisa-chan. In the mail she explains to Lain that she just abandoned her flesh. She assures lain that she still is alive in the `wired` world. After getting a new `navi` and adding a `psyche` circuit, Lain spends more and more time in the wired. It seems that Lain has at least 2 personalities, and Lain`s first personality is changing even now. Who is lain? Who are the `knights`? Can the wired influence the real world with a prophecy? Is the real world nothing but a hologram of the information in the wired?</i>
MORE TO BE ADDED.
full metal alchemist?
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Thanks. I should add the description of that one and Millenium Actress which I just watched.
My god millenium actress is great.
Full Metal Alcchemist was fun. Akira was a great movie. Ghost in the Shell was also pretty good.
Has anyone heard anything about BECK(I think the title is all capitals or summat)?
As for where I get that sort of knowledge? A.) Watching the shows. B.) Checking them on Anidb or AnimeNfo. Though I've watched pretty much all my list with a few specific exceptions.
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Here's an FLCL description. One of my own.
<span style='color:green'><u>FLCL</u></span>
<i>Twelve year old pessimist Nandaba Naota turns around to a rude surprise one day while hanging out with his brother's hand-me-down girlfriend Samejimi Mamimi. A rude surprise that would not only fill his life with new and unforeseen complications, but one that would change the very way he saw and lived that life. Her name was Haruhara Haruko, a vespa riding Alien wielding a guitar and a galactic mission... Find Atomsk.</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Scrapped Princess</u></span>
<i>Pacifica Kasull was born into the realm of every girl's fantasy, a princess of some distant land. But fate was not so kind to her. Prophesized by the Oracle of the God Mauser to be the Poison of the world that would cause the destruction of the planet at the age of 16, her father the King had her sacrificed by being thrown off a cliff. She was saved by pure chance and now, at age 15, enemies assail her at every turn. With only her adopted brother and sister, Shannon and Raquel, to protect her, the minions of the god Mauser loom ominously around them, plotting their death at every turn...</i>
<span style='color:green'><u>Chrno Crusade</u></span>
<i>Sister Rosette is much like any good sister of the Church. Her faith is strong and she is incredibly devoted to her work. Her work however... is not so much like your average nun's. Part of the Church's special demon fighting taskforce, Rosette and her demon friend and servant Chrno fight against the minions of darkness. Chrno's old ally, Aion, however, refuses to be part of God's little game of good vs. evil. Longing to surpass the chains that bind him and fate him to lose his battle, he discovers a way to deny God's hold over him, and thus break his own limitations. Only Chrno and Rosette can put stop to his plans now, but will they manage in time?</i>
<b><span style='color:green'>FLCL</span></b>
I'm no good with descriptions, so maybe ColdNite can help me here.
Those are my two favorite anime's. And if you hate shows with crappy **** endings, don't watch Neon Gensis: Evangellion...worst...ending...ever.
And what everyone else said isn't bad animes at all