Obligitory Animes Thread

Which anime eras are you into?

  • Old School

    Votes: 29 17.7%

  • New School

    Votes: 13 7.9%

  • Both

    Votes: 107 65.2%

  • Anime? What's that?

    Votes: 15 9.1%
  • Total voters
    164
LKV said:
is violent, action-adventure-oriented, and/or philosophical

kicks as much ass as Death Note, Berserk, Akira, Ghost in The Shell, Ergo Proxy, Rurouni Kenshin, and Samurai Champloo.

thanks much,
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Ubel Blatt, Battle Angel Alita (and the followup Last Order)... Oh, and Gantz.

(Should be noted that I'm somewhat cheating and naming manga here. I know Gantz has gotten picked up and that BAA has only a fraction available as an OVA. Ubel Blatt AFAIK has not been animated at all. It does have a lot in common with Berserk tho so it is usually entertaining.)
 
well i wasn't expecting Death Note to be a Derridian deconstructionist critique of Kantian values, but morality was a constant theme in the series, so there was at least that. his descent into madness and corruption was fun to watch, as was his death god sidekick. and L, of course. i only watched the second season to see how it ended-- the copycat girl is the epitome of everything i hate in anime. second season aside, this type of thing interests me more than, say, how powerful a teenager can be if he believes in himself and never gives up!!! lol.

now, if Emo Note's philosophy is weak, what would be a better example?



thanks Marginal, will check those out too.


did anobody like Noein?
 
I just bought the entire DVD collection of "Air" and I cant wait to watch it. I also bought both published versions of the movie cuz I didn't know what the difference between the two was... Gosh golly, I'm such a consumer whore. ^.^;
 
The only anime I've seen that stood up (actually, it improved) with repeat viewings and showed any kind of depth was FLCL. Not the kind of thing that tries to make you think, but there's something there, under the surface, if you want to find it.

Everything else either tries to hard or doesn't try at all. The latter method is preferable.
 
well ya it's freaking FLCL. And what's wrong with yuri? yuri is just a genre and it's not like there's a million show, new or old that are about it.

@mizu, the Air movie is really bad. It's not just different, it's bad.

lol @Ass, it's one of the FEW samurai anime to come out in the last few years, so of course it's gonna be up there. Take out the story portion of your argument and you've got a possible point.
 
You can't compare shonen to a samurai action movie like you're making a point.

Shonen is a genre that is about a character with hidden powers who slowly builds himself into a badass by collecting mystical objects or performing quests or whatever. That's what shonen is, so pointing out that One Piece has that as the main theme is kind of redundant because we all know that -- it's shonen!

This is like comparing Yojimbo with GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra and saying that the latter didn't have the same amazing directing, acting, and setting as the former, while on the other hand, Yojimbo doesn't have very good special effects (IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE COLOUR!) or epic set piece battles under that polar ice caps. It's an utterly pointless and facile comparison.

Besides, from all I've heard One Piece is probably the best shonen manga/anime running right now.

That said, Sword of the Stranger was a fine action movie, but not because of the story, which was kind of retarded, or the characters, who were kind of obvious. Good animation and nice action scenes were the reason to watch it.
 
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Shonen is a genre that is about a character with hidden powers who slowly builds himself into a badass by collecting mystical objects or performing quests or whatever. That's what shonen is, so pointing out that One Piece has that as the main theme is kind of redundant because we all know that -- it's shonen!
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that's the stereotypical type of shonen series anyway. for example, some shonen series focus on comedy rather than fighting. shonen just means that the target audience is teens.
 
More specifically, young teen boys. And you'd be hard pressed to think of a series that wasn't like that. They can downplay the quest/powerup angle, but it's still about dudes with special powers fighting it out in ever more elaborate ways.

And it's true that it doesn't have to be like that, but One Piece is a Shonen Jump series, so you can pretty much tell what the general deal is from that alone.
 
Tiamat said:
I would not be hard pressed for manga titles that shounen+not fighting oriented.
examples:
yankee-kun and megane chan: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=10829
hyakuen!: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=42759
ichigo 100%: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=48
akuma jiten: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1408
mahoraba: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=430

mostly comedy and/or romance
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Even then, they're usually focused on getting stronger in their field of choice. There's usually a rival etc.
 
What are these, slice of life and harem series?

I guess I forgot about those.

They're easily forgotten.
 
Tiamat said:
that does not apply to any of the ones listed...or else you are being way too broad.
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Even in harem nonsense, there's usually a rivalry and a goal that's trying to be reached. (Usually a random dorky guy's the goal and the girls are in competition for him etc.)
 
I thought this might be relative to some people's interests.
It's a video of Super Driver (Haruhi OP2) in Rock Band 2 using Audition Mode.
 
for all of those listed, it basically falls under what Marginal stated.

Ichigo 100% is an easy one since it's probably to most famous of the group, but not only is he going between multiple girls, each of which aiming for this loser, he's also trying to become a better movie director/photographer/camera man, and throughout he faces challenges that makes him choose things for better or worse and learn from it.

YAY FOR SHOUNEN
 
Tiamat said:
too broad. you guys lose you just haven't realized it :P
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I'd argue that it's supposed to be that broad. It's a wide genre classification. Getting into harem stuff, slice of life, battle manga etc just creates subcategories within the genre rather than new genres all together.

It's just like how Shojo and Sienen bring certain kinds of content with them. Or how fantasy is a subgenre of science fiction/speculative fiction.
 
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