Anime talk

[Zetsubou]

Which anime have you watched? What are your favorites?


I have watched too many anime but I have made some favorites.

I My Me Strawberry Eggs
Darker Than Black
Canvas 2 - Nijiiro no Sketch
Tsukuyomi Moon Phase
Fate/Stay Night
Fate Zero
Card Captor Sakura
Campione!
Gosick
Tactical Roar
Gunslinger Girl
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Idolm@ster
Kodomo no Jikan
Wake Up Girls
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda
Rozen Maiden
Zero no Tsukaima
Infinite Stratos
Cooking Master Boy
Grander Musashi RV

[Enigmatic Undead]

Currently I'm enjoying both Blue Exorcist and Black Lagoon on Toonami. I'm also watching Hellsing, A Certain Magical Index and Texhnolyze on the FUNimation Channel.

[EterenalPsylocke]

Black Lagoon is on Toonami???? wow I'd never thought I'd see the day. (I don't have cable so I'm out the loop with toonami's list of shows)

currently I'm watching:

Break Blade (TV series)
Black Bullet
Nobunaga The Fool
Nisekoi
Captain Earth
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns

My favorites:

D. Gray-Man
Ghost In The Shell S.A.C & 2nd Gig
Lunar Legend Tsukihime
Crest/Banner Of The Stars
Cowboy Bebop
Tenchi Muyo OAV/Ryo Ohki
Trigun
Eureka Seven & AO
Vampire Hunter D & Bloodlust
Sword Of The Stranger
Perfect Blue
Record Of Lodoss War OAV
City Hunter
Card Captor Sakura
Macross (Series + Movies)
Ah! My Goddess
Rurouni Kenshin
Full Metal Panic/Fumoffu/TSR
Wolf Children
Summer Wars
Angelic Layer
Onegai Teacher
Escaflowne
El Hazard
Dual: Parallel Adventures
Black Lagoon
Samurai Champloo
Akira
Aquarian age
Kids On a Slope
Un-Go
Star Driver
Tenchi Muyo War On Geminar
Lupin The 3rd: Women name fujikomine
Michiko&Hatchin
K ON
Guilty Crown
Akira
Kara No Kyokai
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Yakushiji Ryoko

[Josh]

Five episode in and I must say, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders might be my favorite anime of all time

[EterenalPsylocke]

http://www.mangahere.com/news/new-sa...n-26-episodes/

[Kid A]

I've enjoyed these:

Akira
Paprika
Spirited Away
Ghost in the Shell (didn't care for GITS tbh)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Cowboy Bebop
FMA
Psycho Pass

Currently watching Hunter x Hunter, pretty fun and kind of feels like a more "mature" version of Dragon Ball

[t hedge coke]

My overall fave anime are probably the first season of Eat-Man and the movie Terra E/Towards the Terra.

Eat-Man was one of the first midnight anime, after the afternoon/evening got more regulated in the late 90s, and the showrunner was doing great things with pacing and symbolism right up front and not as, as is more often, gilt. Its refusal to come out and vocally say things that both audience and characters can already intuit gets pushed to an almost impish level, but it really does draw the line in the sand. Ethical conflicts were resolved obliquely, plots and social/political actions were addressed glibly or with brechtian avoidance, but raw symbols and resonances were loud and dominant.

Towards the Terra is a gorgeous movie, fluid, rich animation, great acting, and enough high intensity melodramatic scenes for a season of world-changing soap opera.

As for recent stuff, last season, Golden Age really got my attention. Fairly retro in look and style, it follows an amnesiac guy attending college and trying to carve out a new life for himself. It can shift from funny and light to moody and terrifying remarkably smoothly, and was one of the better TV programs I've seen in recent years, anywhere.

Kill la Kill was the big thing, lately, but for me, it never escaped the sum of its parts. I like some of Kill la Kill, but the bits that bugged me kept me too distanced from it for there to ever be any true love.

[JaggedFel]

Yes it was good, still not better then Gurren Langann

[Hazard]

I liked Sanageyama.

I was sad he didn't get more screen time because his episode was one of the best in the show.

[Pinsir]

I'm not really an anime person, but out of the blue I did watch Madoka. I liked how it looked and once I started watching it I couldn't stop.

I did watch Digimon recently on Netflix, but its not a true anime.

Also Avatar is anime.

[Hazard]

I did watch Digimon recently on Netflix, but its not a true anime.

I'll fight you.

Watch Tamers.

Do it.

[Pinsir]

I'll fight you.

Watch Tamers.

Do it.

Ive been thinking about it and I have heard good things.

Surprised I got you 'fighting' at my Digimon comment though. My 'Avatar is Anime' bit usually gets people certain anime people upset because apparently unless its made in Japan...

[danmar85]

Then maybe the thread should be renamed to Anime/Animation? For instance, Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of my favorite series ever. It was actually commissioned to a studio in South Korea.

[t hedge coke]

How is Digimon not, but Avatar is?

[Pinsir]

How is Digimon not, but Avatar is?

I'm being a little coy. It's just this;

When people my age watched Digimon we really didn't distinguish between it and other cartoons (Same for Dragonball, Pokemon). By the time Avatar came around 'anime' was a word used in school for a specific type of cartoon and it became its own sub-culture. Nowadays if you watch Bleach or Naruto you know its from Japan and you probably would consider yourself an anime enthusiast.

As for the Avatar comment there are people who consider it not to be anime purely because it was not made in Japan. Its stupid, but I was testing the waters. You all passed.

Anyway I've also been thinking about Kill la Kill too. I know its suppose to be different, but I don't want to watch a show about girls killing each other.