Favorite Anime

[Radical Ed]

What is your fav anime? Do you love anime or loathe it? Japanese Animation or Anime for short. Some populart anime include:
Pokemon
Dragonball Z
Gundum Wing
Cowboy Bebop

Whats your ideas of these really really popular cartoons?

[jrs]

Akira - The one and and only!

[Monkeypunch]

Excel Saga is pretty damn funny. The entire show is insane. I like the Emergency Food Source/Dog, Menchi (who also howls out the ending credits), and the eternally unlucky migrant worker, Pedro, who's line "Why would you do that to Pedro?" always makes me crack up. It's like anime for South Park fans.

[Jonny Goodboy]

The Ghost in the Shell ...by a country mile.:yup:

[Mary Loquacious]

I've gotta go with Sailor Moon (it's my kid's favorite, too), but only the R and S series. Don't care much for the SuperS stuff.

[Logan]

I suppose really there has to be at least three top ones which are in no particular order but are;

Akira, Fist of the North Star and Ghost in the Shell but there are plenty of others that I like a lot and have in my collection.......but they are generally inferior in some way to these three.

[John Kruger]

T R I G U N- v.good anime with a cool post apocalyptic setting and likeable characters.

[Mary Loquacious]

Akira, Fist of the North Star and Ghost in the Shell but there are plenty of others that I like a lot and have in my collection.......but they are generally inferior in some way to these three.

Wait--isn't this thread about TV anime? Or were these three serieses (series's? serii? ;) ) at some point and I didn't know about it?

[Monkeypunch]

Actually, my all time favorite anime has to be Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's a weird mix of the whole giant robot genre, Ultra-Man, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, 1990's culture, art movies, theology, Jewish mythology, and blasphemy. It's mind blowing stuff, not for those who like everything neatly wrapped up or even explained to them. The first movie just came out, which is the alternate ending to the tv series, which clears up a lot of the series loose ends. If this wasn't so graphically violent at points, they should run the whole series on Sci-Fi channel or even MTV, where it would fit in pretty well.

[Dante]

Originally posted by Monkeypunch
Actually, my all time favorite anime has to be Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's a weird mix of the whole giant robot genre, Ultra-Man, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, 1990's culture, art movies, theology, Jewish mythology, and blasphemy. It's mind blowing stuff, not for those who like everything neatly wrapped up or even explained to them. The first movie just came out, which is the alternate ending to the tv series, which clears up a lot of the series loose ends. If this wasn't so graphically violent at points, they should run the whole series on Sci-Fi channel or even MTV, where it would fit in pretty well.

Evangelion is pretty cool, I agree. My favorites right now are:

Project A-Ko
Castle of Cagliostro
Metropolis
Akira
Perfect Blue
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Gunsmith Cats
Cowboy Bebop
Serial Experiments Lain
Excel Saga
Ranma 1/2
Tenchi Muyo

can you tell I like Anime? Jeez. I watch way too much

[Monkeypunch]

New good show:

Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses. This is a weird, weird, weird spinoff from Oh my Goddess (or Ah my Goddess) where the shows characters shrink down to tiny size to help a rat with his problems, but mostly end up making them worse....It's bizzarre, and I don't even know why I find it so hilarious. I don't really like the show it's spun off from, but I like this. Go figure....

[linespalsy]

here are some all time faves of mines.

series (26 episodes and up):
1. future boy conan
2. eva
3. glass mask
4. votoms
5. nadia
6. heidi, girl of the alps
7. aim for ace
8. gundam z
9. super dimensional fortress macross
10. super dimension century orguss
11. 3000 leagues in search of mother
12. eight man (original 60's)
13. anne of green gables
14. lupin III (series 2)
15. getter robo
16. hikaru no go
17. kare kano
18. revolutionary girl utena
19. ge ge ge no kitaro
20. harlock tv
21. galaxy express 999 tv 1


series (and oav's under 26 eps):
1. giant robo
2. gunbuster
3. otaku no video
4. gundam 0080
5. sherlock hound
6. panda kopanda
7. votoms oavs
8. now and then, here and there
9. key, the metal idol
10. berserk
11. escaflowne
12. shin getter robo
13. here is greenwood
14. glass mask oavs

movies:
1. horus: the little norse prince
2. royal space force
3. spirited away
4. gorsch the cellist
5. gundam 0079 movies (and char's counter attack)
6. robot carnival
7. memories
8. neo tokyo (labrynthe tales)
10. akira
11. toward the terra
12. chie the brat
13. pompoko
14. princess mononoke
15. jin roh
16. beautiful dreamer
17. animal treasure island
18. my youth in arcadia
19. kiki's delivery service
20. space battleship yamato

shorts:
1. the whale hunt
2. the order to stop construction
3. koro's day out
4. daicon 4
5. daicon 3

[Revenge of Mr M]

Originally posted by John Kruger
T R I G U N- v.good anime with a cool post apocalyptic setting and likeable characters.

You better damn well believe. It blows everything else out of the water. Vash is the coolest character ever (no offence to Wolfwood)

[rocklarky]

anyone seen ninja scroll?

[Beale the Rippe]

Psycho Diver.

[JudgeoftheBlind]

I watch a lot of anime and my Fav. of all time is
Berserk-the best story ever along with the greatits character devlopment i have ever seen in any thing

[Beale the Rippe]

Mine is now Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, though I plan to watch a few more very soon...

[Sedai]

Features:

Akira
Perfect Blue
Ghost in the Shell
Ninja Scroll
Blood: The Last Vampire
Macross Plus

Series:

Cowboy Bebop
Serial Experiments: Lain
Gasaraki
Record of Lodoss War
Noir
Robotech (Macross/Invid Saga)

[Revenant]

I love Anime. It is an undervalued movie medium.

I've seen and loved ....

Guyver: Bio-booster Armour
A bloody (but mild compared to other anime) series that has spawned an American cheap-S**t mini movie franchise. Mark Hamil was in the first one made. Kooky fun but nothing magnificent. But the Japanese anime is great and dark. However Mizuki a character in it deserves to be shot, the Dawn of 'Buffy' style, only much worse. :eek:

Akira
The movie and I've read part of the manga series the film was taken from. Waiting eagerly to get hold of the other parts.

That's just two, one series and one film, I've seen lots more.

I haven't seen much in the way of Anime lately,or at least as much as I used too, having seen most of what I have in my early teens. :bawling:

I have read and heard good things of Princess Mononoko, which I'm considering getting hold of.

I need to get my Anime groove thing going again.

[Senefra]

I concur...it's effect on current cinema, especially indies and foreign films, needs to be aknowledged more often...

Right now into Perfect Blue... (http://www.perfectblue.com/)

[Fall-from-Grace]

Witch Hunter Robin is my favourite, followed by The Big O, and Cowboy bebob (who *doesn't* like bebop, I ask, who?!)

[LTwedge]

My favorite anime show is probably GTO because I heart Onizuka sensei. Others I like are FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Ruroni Kenshin (spelling?), Dragon Ball Z, and the Tenchi series.

[Tea Barking]

I love anime too.
And i like ninja scroll as you can tell from my picture :)
But living in england i got to download most anime from kazaa, bah!
My favs are, chobits, very very funny
Oh my goddess
Dragonball
Tenchi
Cowboy bebop
And started watching big o wich is on tv now, altho not not best anime i enjoy it.

Akira
Blood: the last vampire
Fist of the north star
Ninja scroll
Ghost in the shell
Street fighter 2
Violence jack (altho maybe a little to violent for some)

[bluebottle]

I can't be bothered to list all the anime I like, and most have been mentioned anyway, so I'll just give an honorable mention to Akira, for being the film that got me hooked in the first place.

[quiball]

Ruroni Kenshin without a doubt. It has the best mix of comedy, action and romance I have seen. YuyuHakusho is pretty good, too.

[John McClane]

Akira also got me started into Anime. I've seen only a couple of shows and films. I watch .hack//SIGN on "The Midnight Run." The other films I've seen include; Spirited Away, a couple of the "dirty" anime flicks ;), and X. All, in my opinion, are good. I only liked the "dirty" ones for the reason of...Well, you know.... ;) I'd have to say, Akira was the best.

[Richard Hell]

easly said my favorite anime is saiyuki witch is the tru story of journy to the west like DBZ but more tru to the story. I also like slayers

[Pyro Tramp]

Ninja Scrolls is hands down the best anime.
Ghost in the Shell i always like
Akira is awesome when i watch it but when i look back not as good as Ghost in the Shell
Urotsukidoji, Legend of the Overfiend, and Demon Womb are the most messed up sh1t i've ever seen
The Miyazaki films a great, better than Disney (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) and arnt just childish
Violence Jack is cool, i only liked the 1st episode tho

[Garrett]

I really only like some movies... I don't like the shows.

Here's a list of some of the ones I do like:
Akira
Ghost In The Shell
Ninja Scroll
Princess Mononoke
Porco Rosso
Spirited Away
Vampire Hunter D

[Pyro Tramp]

I interested as to what Vampire Hunter D is like, i heard lots of different things, i want to get Bloodlust as well but cant

[AboveTheClouds]

Ninja Scroll
Trigun
Wings of Honnaemaise(sp?)
Macross
3x3 eyes
Bubblegum Crisis
Slayers
Photon:The idiot adventures
Utena
Akira
Patlabor
Demon city

[LordSlaytan]

I can't imagine loving anything more than...

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/graphics/Spirited-Away.jpg

[AboveTheClouds]

I wasn't a huge fan of "Spirited away" I thought It had to much of a western edge to it (If that makes sense)

[The_Rage888]

Here's my favorite Anime:

Movies:
1.Ninja Scroll
2.Ghost in the Shell
3.Akira
4.X
5.The AniMatrix
6.Blood:The Last Vampire
7.Perfect Blue
8.Cowboy Bebop the Movie
9.Street Fighter:Alpha
10.Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust

Series:
1.Yu Yu Hakusho
2.Berserk
3.Samurai 7
4.Cowboy Bebop
5.Ninja Scroll the Series
6.Rurouni Kenshin
7.Samurai Deeper Kyo
8.Shaman King
9.Soultaker
10.Trigun

My view on Anime is that it has become one of the biggest, if not the biggest fad to ever go on in America.The only is that fads usually die out, but not Anime.Anime will continue on and on.The best things in the world to me are Movies, Music, Video Games, Sports, Anime, and Girls!Martial Art and Hong Kong Action Films are the best!