Anime
<div class="IPBDescription">Recommendations?</div> Seeing as a lot of you seem to be interested in anime, I was wondering if I could get some help. I don't really know anything about it, but I'm interested in getting some movies that people who are in the know recommend, so... anyone have a good movie or series they'd like to recommend that I see to get started?
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Cowboy BeBop
Trigun
Vampire Hunter D (new, AND old)
FLCL
.hack (all of the series)
<i>Princess Mononoke</i>
<i>Now and then, Here and There</i> (I liked this one a lot)
And I second the motion on <i>Trigun</i>, <i>Cowboy Beebop</i>, and <i>.Hack//Sign</i>.
But that <i>Neon Genesis Evangelion</i> series, it may get a little too bizzare for your liking towards the end. If you want to see that series with most of the taste and none of the filler, get <i>Death and Rebirth</i> and <i>End of Evangelion</i>. However, if you decide to watch every episode of <i>Eva</i>, you can skip <i>Death and Rebirth</i>, which is just a recap of the series. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <i>End of Eva</i> is a remake of the final 2 episodes of the <i>Eva</i> series.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Rave
Chobits
Final Fantasy Unlimited
Angelic Layer
Hand Maid May
Hellsing
Hikaru No Go
Initial D
Inuyasha
Kiddy Grade
Magic Knight Rayearth
Outlaw Star
Saber Marionettes
Saikano
Saint Seiya (if you can find any, its real old)
Shadow Skill
Star Ocean EX
Tokyo Underground
Weiss Kreuz
Witch Hunter Robin
Full Metal Panic
X
Scryed
Naruto
edit: WT F can't believe I forgot Gundam Seed
And definitely, definitely, definitely NOT Cowboy Bebop. It is a disgrace to the anime name.
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you dont watch it ... you experiance it ...
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Chobits is pretty funny too. Blood is just .. cool .. Princess Mononoke ...
personaly, I cant stand Trigun and I loved Cowboy Bebop ... so ... what ever Vash
different strokes for different folks.
Don't EVER watch Ghost in The Shell, if you want a boring story no one cares for and three scene of Action watch it.
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Screw you man, Ghost in the Shell is the greatest anime EVAR!!111!11!
Anyway yeah pick up Ghost in the Shell and do a search on Kazaa or some other P2P for "Stand Alone Complex". Its the TV series of Ghost in the Shell thats airing in japan right now. Kicks mucho ****.
I'll divide this up into categories:
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The best anime of all time:
Excel Saga - hands down, the best evar...but you have to watch other anime to understand it
Puni Puni Poemi - a 'spin-off' of Excel Saga
Hayao Miyazaki - he gets his own category for being awesome:
Castle in the Sky Laputa
Mononoke Hime
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Melodies from the Heart
Mecha/mech-suits
Full Metal Panic - Fairly new anime, and Shimokawa Mikuni ROCKS
Evangelion - had the worst ending ever...despite being a great series
Guyver - was never finished
Zoids - ...err...no.
Gundam - i despise Gundam even though lots of people love it
Macross - Better than Gundam imo
Martian Successor Nadesico - standard mecha/spaceship anime
Vandread - funny mecha(well, spaceship) anime :D
Vision of Escaflowne - darn good.
Megam Kohousei (Candidate for Goddess) - Never finished either
Standard combat (Hand-to-hand, supernatural...etc)
Iria: Zeiram - Futuristic combat vs some sort of invincible alien dude
Flame of Recca - Lots of fighting
Gatekeepers - weird 'gate' powers
Saber Marionette J - female robots on a world without real women...hmm
Trigun - err...comedy + shooting. A win-win situation
Record of Lodoss War (OAV) - classic 'D&D' scenario
Rurouni Kenshin / Samurai X - sword fighting
Yuu Yuu Hakusho - supernatural abilities, fighting vs. demons, whatnot
Inu Yasha - girl travels through time to magic + demon infested time...etc
Ranma - I hate it, even though some people think it's funny
X - blarg, it's ok I guess. The TV show isn't bad.
Noir - a spy anime
Hellsing - One word: Vampires!
Slayers - it deserves its own category :)
Slayers/Slayers Next/Slayers Try (TV Series)
Slayers Premium, Slayers Gorgeous, Slayers Great, Slayers Return, Slayers Perfect (Movies)
Slayers Excellent, Slayers Special (OAVs)
Romance/Shoujo
Aa, Megami-sama - one of the best anime ever;)
Mahoromatic - mmm...Maids are always lovely
Kareshi Kanojou no Jijou (His and Her Circumstances)
Love Hina - a very good anime
Fushigi Yuugi - personally my favorite although it might not suit you
Comedy:
Photon
Those Who Hunt Elves
Golden Boy
Other:
Three Kingdoms
Hikaru no Go
Kacho Oji
Strange Dawn
Slam Dunk...if that's your kind of thing
H2
FLCL
Hunter X Hunter
Cyber Formula GPX
by the way, .Hack was whack...but the music was great! Definitely get the soundtrack at least.
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They're even worse than dragonball /Z/GT/whatever, because dragonball at least has a semblance of plot, even if it takes years (i'm not kidding, there's like over 400 episodes in the whole dragonball lineup, as well as 13 movies) to get to the story.
Ghost in the shell and Akira have no comprehensible story line.
They are pure crap.
Also, if you have the guts to watch it, Ninja Scroll - it's fairly graphic but I think you'd agree that it is freaking cool.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Rave
Chobits
Final Fantasy Unlimited
Angelic Layer
Hand Maid May
Hellsing
Hikaru No Go
Initial D
Inuyasha
Kiddy Grade
Magic Knight Rayearth
Outlaw Star
Saber Marionettes
Saikano
Saint Seiya (if you can find any, its real old)
Shadow Skill
Star Ocean EX
Tokyo Underground
Weiss Kreuz
Witch Hunter Robin
Full Metal Panic
X
Scryed
Naruto
edit: WT F can't believe I forgot Gundam Seed
And definitely, definitely, definitely NOT Cowboy Bebop. It is a disgrace to the anime name.
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Chobits is a good one...
I didn't like FFU, it was pretty boring...
Angelic Layer was decent
never saw Hand Maid May but heard it was pretty good..
Rayearth was annoying because of the freaking rabbit, but it was pretty good overall...
Tokyo Underground started off badly but it turned out decent, especially the manga.
Star Ocean EX is your run of the mill anime...it's not great.
Weiss Kreuz is pretty cool.
Saint Seiya isn't *that* old
Naruto isn't as good as the manga - get the manga instead, if you can.
Oh, you reminded me of some other series
Grave of the Fireflies
Oja Majo Doremi
Gensou Maden Saiyuki - it's a rework of the traditional chinese tale Xi You Ji (it's about a monk who's traveling to India to study the sacred texts of Buddha)
Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
Bubble Gum Crisis /2040
8 Man After (pretty old)
Legend of Arislan
Project A-ko - even if the anime is pretty much a joke, the American-composed soundtrack rocks.
Tenchi! Muyo
Bakuretsu Hunters
DiGi Charat
Fatal Fury
Knights of R(L)amune
Getbackers
Onegai Teacher
Sol Bianca
Sakura Taisen
To Heart
Doremon
Fist of the North Star - fun to watch, but not great
Anime that aren't worth watching:
Armitage 3
Any dragonball series
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Ninja Resurrection
Street Fighter Alpha
Any dubbed anime (yes, there are decent ones...but just to be on the safe side)
heh, so much anime...so little time to watch
Cooking Master Boy! (It's addictive despite the crap title)
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Recommended series in no particular order:
Groove Adventure Rave
.HACK//Sign
.HACK//Liminality
.HACK//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet
Pretear
Abenobashi Magical Shopping District
Aquarian Age
Inu Yasha
Trigun
Cowboy Bebo
The Vision of Escaflowne
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
Magic Knight Rayearth
Saint Seiya (HADES SAGA! YAY!)
Rurouni Kenshin (All series and OVAs)
Chobits
Hand Maid May
Hand Maid Mai (They are 2 different series)
Argento Soma
Hellsing: Psalm of the Darkness
Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu (The Jungle was nice, then came Guu)
Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu Deluxe
Naruto
Ayashi No Ceres
Project AKO
Now and Then, Here and There
Ai Yori Aoshi
Blue Gender
12 Kokuki
Kanon
Wolf's Rain
Witch Hunter Robin
Azumanga Daioh
Dual: Parrellel World Trouble
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Licensed by Royale
Initial D (All series)
X: 1999 TV
Spiral
Angelic Layer
Tales of Eternia
Scryed
Digi Charat
Captain Tsubasa (All series)
City Hunter
Full Metal Panic
Read or Die
Detective Conan
El Hazard (All series)
Bakuretsu Hunters
Urusei Yatsura
Stop! Your Under Arrest
Street Fighter V
Street Fighter Alpha
Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar
Macross (All series)
Vampire Princess Miyu
Gate Keepers (All series)
Rune Soldier Louie
Ebichu Minds the House
Battle Atheletes Victory
Maison Ikkoku
Sister Princess
Slam Dunk
Prince of Tennis
Slayers (All series)
Dragonball (All series, including Z IT HAS TO BE SUBBED ****)
Golden Boy
Record of Lodoss War
Saber Marionette J (All Series)
Sakura Wars (All series)
Marmalade Boy
Martian Successor Nadesico
Boys BE
Maze
Orphen
Pitaten
Serial Experiments Lain
The Soultaker
Bubblegum Crisis (All series)
Ah! Megami~sama (Ah! My Goddess)
Lost Universe
Mahoromatic Automatic Maiden
Video Girl Ai
The Hakkenden
Full Moon Wa Shagashite
Hanaukyo Maids
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Outlaw Star
Love Hina
Excel Saga
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Kareshi Kanojo no Jijyuu (AKA His and Here Circumstances)
Generator Gawl
Tenchi Muyo (All series)
Great Teacher Onizuka
Onegai Teacher (Please Teacher)
Haibane Renmei (Charcoal Feather Federation)
One Piece
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Noir
Macross Zero
She, The Ultimate Weapon (AKA My Girlfriend, The Ultimate Weapon AKA Saishuuheiki Kanojo)
Shaman King
Photon: The Idiot Adventures
Colorful
Hoshi No Koe
Weiss Kreuz
Fruits Basket
RahXephon
Vandread
3x3 Eyes
Battle Angel Alita (They took one of the best mangas ever created and turned it into this 2 part pos. I still need my Alita fix though)
Shamanic Princess
Tsukikage Ran
Fushigi Yuugi
Key The Metal Idol
Those Who Hunt Elves
Flame of Recca
Yu Yu Hakusho
Da! Da! Da!
Gundam (Any series except Wing, because it sucks)
To Heart
Ranma 1/2
FLCL
****
Kanon
Hikaru No Go
Berserk (Manga kills it though)
Psychic Academy
Heatguy J
Hajime No Ippo
Getbackers
Adolescence of Utena
Movies:
Akira
Arjuna
The Wings of Honnemiase
The Vision of Escaflowne
Macross Plus (Even if it is an OVA it originally aired as a movie)
Ninja Scroll
Ghost in the Shell
Perfect Blue
Spriggan
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
One Piece
Vandread: Motion Stage
Initial D (Any movie)
Ah! My Goddess The Movie
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heavens Door
Anything by Hiyao Miyazaki
Armitage III (both movies)
Any Urusei Yatsura movie
Ranma 1/2 (both movies)
Mononoke Hime
Fist of the North Star
Street Fighter II The Movie
Metropolis
Pon Poko
Blood
Vampire Hunter D (Both movies)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death And Rebirth
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Patlabor (All 3)
Any Lupin III movie
Ok, that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I could go looking through my CD wallets, but meh. This list is good enough.
Princess Mononoke (the greatest Anime movie!)
Escaflowne (The Movie, a little weird but cool)
Battle Angel (I've seen episode 1 & 2, damn cool)
Berserk (Big sword + strong guy = Dark haired Cloud Strife)
.hack//sign (strange but cooool)
Akira (I've seen it 4 times. I understand it now)
Inu Yasha (pretty good, can't go wrong with half-demons)
Hellsing (Vampires + guns = mucho funo)
Gundam Wing (I like the one with Wing Zero, Sandrock, all those)
Starship Troopers (ok, not true anime but still really good)
Yuyu-Hakusho (pretty cool, can't argue)
Ruruoni Kenshin [sp?] (Samurai's = win)
Can't ever go wrong with Eva and Kenshin either.
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-Kenshin OAV (TV sucks, I'm sorry.... Hope I didn't make too many enemies... *cringes in fear*)
-Cowboy Bebop & Cowboy Bebop Knockin' on Heaven's Door
-Noir (for the MUSIC!! ending sucked imo)
-Witch Hunter Robin
-Serial Experiment Lain (some people will LOVE it, some will LOATH it... I loved it.)
-Saishyuu Heiki Kanojo or "Saikano" (very sad)
Princess Mononoke
I'm positive you'll like it.
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Stuff I like:
Movies: (most you can pick up at blockbuster)
- Akira
- Ghost in the Shell
- Princess Mononoke
- Cowboy Bebop Movie
- Transformers: The Movie uncensored version ^_^
Series:
- Hellsing (my current fav)
- Trigun (some love it, some hate it)
- Cowboy Bebop
- Berserk
- Akira: The anime is a shortened up version of the six telephonebook-sized mangas, which rock so hard I can't put them in the same shelve with breakable objects. I recomend to read them and stay far away from the movie.
- LAIN: Definetely one of the best pieces of Cyberpunk I've ever seen. It takes time to get into, but is worth it.
- Cowboy Bebop: The best anime series ever. Period.
First series: Neon Genesis Evangelion (And my what a crap ending!)
First Movie: Akira (Whoa that was wierd, but the general kicked ****!)
Cowboy Bebop is a lot less intensive on the head (Most likely as a lot of the episodes are stand alone rather than one big story). Evangelion is fine but perhaps not the ideal starting anime. The technical term given to this series is "Mind-F***" (Watch the series and find out why, that of the second part of the film. That was some scary crap. Espesially the Gendo hand and Rei scene.)
Ghost in the shell is good but it has more story telling then action. (Unlike Blood which had more action than story telling...) And Akira is fine but it takes at least 4 viewings to get what goes on...
Basically don't go for Eva and Akira as your first thing to watch. They can both be a little harsh to start with. Try something a little less weird. Like Cowboy Bebop. In fact thats the best one to start with
Then theres manga, (And I only own Ghost In The Shell and Cowboy Bebop, but they aren't that bad! I just needed the Cowboy Bebop OST in the background just to get the feeling right!)
and don't forget Generator Gawl.
Anyway, the guy was looking for a starter list not a list of all the anime you've ever seen/read/heard about/saw out of the corner of your eye while looking through some .jp site (which is why my list wasn't like 3x longer - i easily thought of 40-50 more).
Vampire Hunter D 2001: Bloodlust - has very kickass video quality...American-made, but still top-notch. It's also great because it was in native English, no crappy translating or dubbing. Story is lackluster/not very developed, but it's so freaking cool that it didn't bother me that much. And the original Vampire Hunter also rocked.
Trigun
Akira
Fist of the North Star
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Princess Mononoke!!!
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