How has no one mentioned Gintama? Its probably the funniest thing ive ever seen, anime or not
Also Bleach, because of Hichigo
Also Bleach, because of Hichigo
What is your favourite anime?
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Planetes, a show about garbage men in space. Its a comedy, but also a romance, drama, and action series, and manages to switch between the genres rather subtly. It also shows a love of space and space exploration that I haven't seen in any other series (seriously, the opening of the show is basically a montage of the space program throughout human history). And its a hard sci-fi, which is incredibly rare in anime.
Established favourites would be: TTGL, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell SAC and Cowboy Bebop.
However I just finished watching Future Diary/Mirai Nikki a couple of weeks back and I went back and watched it from the start again. It is definitely one of my favourite shows now. I love so much about it how it deals with changing the future, Some plot twists which I never saw coming, The amount of foreshadowing for the plot twists which were tiny but incredibly important especially on the second watch through when I knew what was going to happen.
However I just finished watching Future Diary/Mirai Nikki a couple of weeks back and I went back and watched it from the start again. It is definitely one of my favourite shows now. I love so much about it how it deals with changing the future, Some plot twists which I never saw coming, The amount of foreshadowing for the plot twists which were tiny but incredibly important especially on the second watch through when I knew what was going to happen.
I have no intention of being a dick here but I'd really love a level-headed explanation of what's so great about Hellsing apart from it's violent as hell and Alucard is a badass?Headdrivehardscrew said:
I watched the entire thing and found the story to be a bit of a mess and nothing seemed to have a point other than spectacle. I haven't watched Hellsing Ultimate or read the manga, and I know that the anime strays far from the manga, so maybe thats why.
OT: My favourite anime?
One Piece - Adventurous, fun, light-hearted, great action, good stories, good overaching plot, very well crafted and explained characters. Compelling protagonists and great villains, love it.
Dragon Ball (and Z, and GT, but less so) - Because it's just so damn fun to watch and the story is really good and very creative, though the follow ups are a touch less so. Oh and the dub is really damn good.
Bobobo-bo-bobobo! - Because nose hair thats why. Amuses me no end though it's very nonsensical.
Shaman King - Great story, great characters, fairly original, shame it's a bit of a butchery of the manga but it's good none the less.
Otherwise I quite like Gravitation and Naruto isn't bad at all though it's very long winded and I gave up and read it instead.
On the topic of One Piece, aren't you glad that the anime finally hit Punk Hazard? Fishman Island was good (Zoro slashing Hody down in a single blow and destroying the octopus guy in the blink of an eye being highlights, and I'm glad they showed off peoples new powers and gave Usopp and Chopper some badassery, shame Franky didn't get to be a badass again) and all but it really dragged it's heels in the middle. (A bit like Impel Down and to a lesser extent the Whitebeard War)TizzytheTormentor said:
My favourite so far has to be Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Imagine Powerpuff Girls, but sluttier.
I'm about to watch some new anime (FLCL, NGE, Cowboy Bebop, K-On!, Angel Beats, DT, Gintama, Rosario + Vampire and Say "I love you") so that may change soon.
I'm about to watch some new anime (FLCL, NGE, Cowboy Bebop, K-On!, Angel Beats, DT, Gintama, Rosario + Vampire and Say "I love you") so that may change soon.
Bakemonogatari and all its relateded series.
For so many reasons it's my favorite but I mostly just love the interactions between the characters in surreal situations.
Which is most of the show by the way.
The animation, character design, voice acting, background music and the rest of it fit together perfectly in my mind.
I just can't not love it, it's like it was made just for me.
For so many reasons it's my favorite but I mostly just love the interactions between the characters in surreal situations.
Which is most of the show by the way.
The animation, character design, voice acting, background music and the rest of it fit together perfectly in my mind.
I just can't not love it, it's like it was made just for me.
#1: Genshiken
#2: Detroit Metal City
There's maybe 10 anime at this point that I'll even tolerate though. It's an extremely polarized medium for me.
'oh but it's a self-mocking look at fanservice in anime'
I don't care. So it's mocking something a ton of people subscribe to. /rant
#2: Detroit Metal City
There's maybe 10 anime at this point that I'll even tolerate though. It's an extremely polarized medium for me.
The art was nice. A high schooler repeatedly physically assaulting a 6 year old in order to see her underwear being played off as humor was not as nice.Shinsei-J said:
'oh but it's a self-mocking look at fanservice in anime'
I don't care. So it's mocking something a ton of people subscribe to. /rant
I think you might find the best of year reviews from ANN a good place to start.
A link to 2012: http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/feature/2013-01-01/
Follow those backwards a few years- 2010 was especially good.
I have a huge list of anime I've thought amazing, some of which have been mentioned so far. But you don't really say what you like, just that you've watched some good ones. Perhaps you don't really know; I don't think I do.
One that has not been mentioned, and deserves to be, is Berserk. The best character development in a short series I have seen, in any medium. It remains the only anime that, when it ended, I simply had to hunt the manga down, once I realised they had dramatised only an arc of the manga. Berserk is now being made into movies, of which two have been released so far. I do not recommend watching these before watching the original 1990s series. They have gutted most of the character development in place of action scenes.
A link to 2012: http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/feature/2013-01-01/
Follow those backwards a few years- 2010 was especially good.
I have a huge list of anime I've thought amazing, some of which have been mentioned so far. But you don't really say what you like, just that you've watched some good ones. Perhaps you don't really know; I don't think I do.
One that has not been mentioned, and deserves to be, is Berserk. The best character development in a short series I have seen, in any medium. It remains the only anime that, when it ended, I simply had to hunt the manga down, once I realised they had dramatised only an arc of the manga. Berserk is now being made into movies, of which two have been released so far. I do not recommend watching these before watching the original 1990s series. They have gutted most of the character development in place of action scenes.
It's a toss-up between Full Metal Alchemist (haven't seen brotherhood) and Planetes for me. FMA I enjoyed more overall, but I like the unusual things Planetes did, even if not all of them worked out. I especially respect them putting out what is by far the most realistic depiction of sci-fi space travel I've ever seen.
Of the less than 10 anime series I've watched, The Vision of Escaflowne I liked most. It's great, despite somewhat running out of steam towards the end.
This is a slightly dated list on my part (besides one newbie) but I'll post it anyways.
1.Garden of Sinners - simply amazing. Type-moon at it's finest.
2.Evangelion - already been mentioned but still good.
3.Death Note - same
4.Gurren Lagann - yup
5.Haruhi/Lucky Star - don't make me pick (haven't seen haruhi movie or season 2 though)
I've seen the first GL movie but not the second (probably watch it later this year), and I have no clue when I'll watch the rest of haruhi besides season 1. I found Lucky Star hilarious, even moreso when I started watching Sgt. Frog. Speaking of which, I should consider replacing one of my picks with Sgt. Frog.
1.Garden of Sinners - simply amazing. Type-moon at it's finest.
2.Evangelion - already been mentioned but still good.
3.Death Note - same
4.Gurren Lagann - yup
5.Haruhi/Lucky Star - don't make me pick (haven't seen haruhi movie or season 2 though)
I've seen the first GL movie but not the second (probably watch it later this year), and I have no clue when I'll watch the rest of haruhi besides season 1. I found Lucky Star hilarious, even moreso when I started watching Sgt. Frog. Speaking of which, I should consider replacing one of my picks with Sgt. Frog.
That was a very fun show.bartholen said:
There's few anime that feel truly adventurous, and even less where the protagonist is a girl.
It had a big, fat non-ending though. And I heard the movie didn't conclude much either.
All time favorite? It's a toss up between Darker than Black and Akira (though I prefer the manga).
I do not feel like I've been exposed to your unmentionables yet, kind sir.SkarKrow said:
I liked the manga already, and at first I did not like the Gonzo spectacle that, indeed, strays quite a bit from the manga material. Yes, I had a moment or two of genuine WTF? before I sat down and watched beyond, what, episode three.
Contrary to my expectations, I ended up liking both rides, and - up to now - I felt no need to check out Hellsing Ultimate yet, as I am happy with the Hellsing experience I got up to this point. I didn't pay much attention to the release of Hellsing Ultimate when it first came out, and now that Umanosuke Iida is dead, I just somehow don't feel like checking out Hellsing 2.0. It might be awesome, it might be good, it might be better, I really don't care right now. As I said, for the time being, I'm good.
Yes, you are right; there is spectacle, and it's rather over the top most of the time. But the portrayal of the ongoing struggle and just how the different characters are trapped in their own destinies, world views, belief systems and pre-determined places in the world is, methinks, pretty much the closest an anime got to, say, Shakespeare or Dante Alighieri level material. It also reminded me, at times, of the smirking little French rat-faced funnyman, Molière.
Then there's the character of Alucard. Just the name 'Alucard' is so overused in Japcrap material of all sorts that one is tempted to disqualify it, roll it up into a dunce hat and set it on fire; that would, however, be a mistake. It's just how the Japanese handle these things. I like parts of the portrayal of Christianity (or faith, in general), I like the bio-punk, cyberpunk steampunk melange of visual style. I like the bonus added content of vampires and undead and demonic whatevers and that sprinkle of Lovecraftian Ctulhu thingamabobs. I like the general feeling of dread and despair and the Edgar Allan Poe vibe they got going.
Alucard is, in one way, a reiterated, recycled interpretation of, say, Blade, just without the Wesley Snipes antics and illusions of grandeur. Alucard really is, as you put it, badass, and he's so overpowered it made me wonder constantly about why he would do a lot of the things he does, and why he does them the way he, well, did. Past tense. He's pretty much a supernatural version of the Joker of Morisson/McKean's awesome Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, the graphic novel that inspired Heath Ledger to become the Joker of Christopher Nolan's one seriously impressively good Batman movie. He used to be the super-villain, the main antagonist, the dude Bram Stoker wrote about back in the day. In this alternate universe, he was not eliminated, but enslaved for generations in human terms. Then he was locked up in the basement, the key thrown away. He should hold quite a grudge against the Hellsings and humans in general.
Alucard, the über-killer obeys to Integra Hellsing's calling, but he refers to this very circumstance as "pitiable" and "pathetic". He also likes to mention that he'll never understand humans, driving home the point of him being not only not entirely human, but being something else entirely.
When he gets down to do the dirty work, limbs will fly, bodies will get torn apart, his molten silver cross bullets will tear through undead meat and time and space like the free radical he himself is. When he lets himself go, he's bound to make a mess, and it might remind one of the berserker form alter egoes of say, Alice in American MgGee's Alice or Torque's monster form in The Suffering. But with Alucard, it's different. It's as if his more human form is actually not his proper self, just a form of less offensive, stiff upper lip disguise, a sort of public service because it would suck being a monster amongst all these pious weak meatbags all day long.
Yes, he was enslaved and turned and put on a leash, but young Alegra Hellsing released him. It really looks like he chose to hang around and lend a hand by his own free will. I think it's this bit that impressed me most, and it's a bit of lore or read-between-the-lines material that makes the whole premise that much more powerful to me.
Also, he saved Seras Victorias 'life' by turning her into a vampire after she has been mortally wounded. However, she still refuses to drink blood and is hellbent on clinging on to her humanity, which is, of course, but a fading memory, a figment of her imagination, a thing of the past. (Insert random Dark Souls quote here)
This TV series (DVD box set, nudge, nudge) focuses on Alucard and Seras Victoria, which, I think, is fair game and an excellent decision.
Paladin Alexander Anderson is sort of the Agent Smith of this rewritten re-telling of choice cuts of the Hellsing lore. He's an epic foe, although not quite a villain, and he's got some sort of Godly cheat code on all the time. Just a man with an agenda and a different opinion on what's hot and what's not. Sort of what you'd get if you were to put Perez Hilton and the Pope into Brundlefly's excellent teleportation pod. The PerezPope.
Oh, and then there is Incognito. What an excellent antagonist. Come one, undying vomitus maximus with a giant axe and a grenade launcher he fuels with demon vomit. You can't get much more genuinely wacky-scary than that. And he only exists in this TV series.
Just another sprinkle of awesome.
Level-headed enough?
Why just 2nd Gig? The whole series was excellent and if the OP hasn't watched it yet I highly recommend it along with the Solid State Society movie. Get the full series though, NOT the Laughing Man and Individual Eleven "movies" they made after the series ended it's run. They changed all the voice actors around and from what I've heard it really hurt the quality.Scarim Coral said: