A long time if ever. I don't even think the US has the DVDs yet.



I bought that on DVD on special offer years back for £40 for the entire series. But I can't stand it. Its far too slow for me, I can see where its trying to be an epic with lots of plot, but personally I really just wanted some mecha-fighting like FMP. Still, each to his own.

My girlfriend is an anime nut, and today she introduced me to Bleach.
I liked it. (Woah)

I'm not much of an anime fan, but that was cool

thats because bleach rules!



Y_Y I hope it will... but probally not until the series has finished.

I just finished watching Rozen Maiden & its sequal Rozen Maiden Traumend. Words cannot express how good this series was. It'll easily make my top ten think ... well... given how many animes I've seen maybe top 20. But everyone just go watch it, the visuals, the character designs and both intro songs are fantastic.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encycloped...ime.php?id=4463
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encycloped...ime.php?id=5087

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So finally all you North Americans can see what we Europeans have been watching for the last 12 years







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Ah Jinki, I've got the Japanese version, its.... weird because it jumps back from past to present every 10 minutes, but I'd like to see an English version. Aobe should be played by Hilary Haag, and Rui by Monica Rial







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Paniponi Dash is one weird series. Like Azumanga on crack. Second Raid is good, as is KaleidoStar.











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I just finished a 14 episode series called The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya right now. I encourage everyone to see this series, its fantastic.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encycloped...ime.php?id=6430

One thing that annoys me about anime, and in particular - Bleach

Whenever Ichigo is in trouble... he somehow pulls off this huge spurt of power and BAM - enemy gone....
I don't want to see him dead, but yeah.. it annoys me sometimes

Then watch another anime One that doesn't involve superpowered fighters You could watch comedy like Azumanga, or a sci-fi police drama like Ghost in the Shell.

just finished watching Shingetsutan Tsukihime, a good anime though hard to keep track of due to all the secrets and forgotten memories.

It is about Shiki Tohno, the main character the anime follows, who has "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception" inwhich lets him see threads that connect everything, and if cut it destroys whatever he has cut. he was given special glasses, by a woman called "sorceress", that made him unable to see those lines - preventing the 'curse' from working, which he has worn for for 8 years.. He later meets a "true ancestor", an original vampire kept in nature, called Arcueid Brunested. She is out to destroy dead Apostles, the result of when a true ancestor drinks from a human. She is after the Apostle leader, Nemo Chaos which ranks as one of her most powerful foes. She forces Shiki to become her shield, due to him killing her which has left her weakend, a memory he has no recolection of, though Arcueid fills in with violent scenes. The story unfolds at a slow pace, with the unraveling of shiki's memory, Arcueid's sudden want to live her life and the Tohno household secret.

It's a short anime and a bit slow paced, yet I enjoyed it and its mysterious unravelings.

Sorry but the great movie was 'Spirited Away', really emotional, I read it in color comics.

Have anyone seen 'Akira: Christmas' something...it was an adult anime about Akira's flings and fantasy. Nice melancholic soundtrack though it was frame by frame slidehow type anime.

I love anime a huge fan.
My favorite animes are:

- All Ghibli movies(Miyazaki)

- Cowboy Bebop;

- Fullmetal Alchemict;

- Bleach(still need to be finished)

- and so on......

I have a huge collection of anime i am a big anime fan

Considering that there has been an anime done on just about every bloody subject imaginable in Japan, it's not surprising that a few have done a decent work on supernatural elements, or incorporate supernatural elements. Usually, these are 'Japanese' supernatural bits or have been 'Japanified'.

As for my opinion on Anime in general, I like a lot of it, hate almost all of the rest of it. Anime is like all entertainment genres; generally, most of it is fairly crappy. Naruto is pretty good, and the english episodes (almost entirely unedited, with good dubs) have been appearing in the USA. FLCL is a must see, and the Miyazaki works (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke)are among the best out there in the mainstream available to Americans.

I don't understand why people continue to patronize Inuyasha. Frankly, it has gotten lamer and lamer as it descended into Ranmaesque slapstick.

I finished that one too, and then watched it again in the right order.

It makes more sense then, but you can see why episode 6 is shown last.

Anyone else watching Nana? Its a really good anime about nothing more than the lives of two average girls.

XD Alucard!!! Hellsing * * I am much in love with it.

I loved Howl's Moving Castle.
Romantic, funny, and tragic all rolled together with the very lovliest music I have heard in a long time.

Too bad there are not more like that.

okay so now that i fangirled over the hellsing icon...

my top fave right now is Yami no Matsuei, but in no order the rest are:

NightWalker
Hellsing
Ah Megami-Sama
Shamanic Princess
Vampire Princess Miyu
Both VHD movies
almost all of Miyazaki's films
The original Yu-Yu-Hakusho movie
Cowboy Beepop
Ceres
X/1999
Yu-Gi-Oh/Gx i have no idea why but heh...
Sailor Moon XD it was my third ever anime and I was only 14, you gotta hang onto these things.
Speed Racer * * first ever anime. XD i was so in love with speed when I was ten
Kimba the White Lion
The Last Unicorn
Goku13

^^; the list goes on and i'm also into a lot of manga too. i'll watch just about anything once.

anyone here Yami no Matsuei fans? It's hard to find them these days since the dub came out. X.x i like Eric Stewert but Watari he does not do well.

Has anyone seen "Please Save My Earth"?
It's very interesting and somewhat messed up without being overly violent.
Features some interesting psychic battles too.

i enjoyed spirited away.

I just very recently started to get into anime because of my friend. I'm really liking it so far.

I've been watching the series Full Metal Panic (seen eps 1-7 so far). My friend is sending me a few episodes over msn each night (that way I wont watch them all at once, which I have a tendacy to do ). I'm gunna see if I can buy it on DVD though somewhere in town.

I think this sums up why I'm liking this! Found it on a forum somewhere.

"I watch anime because it has all the cool things:
hot babes, guns, rockets, missiles, fires, explosions,
robots, high technology, hot babes, revenge, death, animation,
hot babes, and teleportation, and space travel."

I look forward to watching more series after this one!

The Melancholy of haruhi Suzumiya.If you havent seen it watch it now.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G-51ePE1Jjg&...##Haruhi######1

Go to fansub tv,if you want a better quality version.It's not yet licensed outside of japan,so it's legal unless you are Japanese.The first episode is a spoof movie that the main characters make for a cultural festival,The episode order is mixed up on purpose.

Who does the narrator for this?

XD she's so cute!!!!!! XDDD edit: of ciourse i mean the girl character *the bunni girl* is cute, i realize the narrator is a man...

Soo much good anime, soo litle space to wirte...

Cowboy Beboop, Akira, Macross Plus, Perfect Blue, Jin Roh, Ghost in the Shell....and a lot other. In fact, i have found anime movies whit better argument and realization than most live movies

By the way, the other day i see some USa translated anime.....why? 4kids people deserve to be hanged from their toes. I have to agree whit the guys of VGCats, One Piece was mutilated and moronized.

Ah, FMP that’s a great anime. Also great is its sequels The Second Raid (FMP will less comedy more action), Fumoffu (FMP will more comedy and less action), and the Tessa Special (30 minutes of cuteness).


Have you seen anything else other than FMP?

Tomokazu Sugita,or as he is known on the anime,Kyon

Well DB and DBZ when I was younger on TV and of course..Pokemon..haha. All dubbed though of course, which always sucks.

But thats it.

my turn.
note: watch all anime subbed. reading out the storyline adds imagination to the characters, they can be the true heros they deserve to be. Dubbed or english voice overs ruin the experience. Also they change the words and ruin the author's original expression, which is an obvious american conspiriacy to keep you dumb.

SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN ******
Rurouni Kenshin, OVA's over the series... but the series is life changng.*****
Ninja Scroll*****, Ghost in the Shell****, Akira***.
Outlaw Star****, Cowboy Bebop (i need to rewatch) ****

Golden Boy****, Trigun ****

Hellsing ****
Vampire Hunter D ***
Dragon Ball Z *****

Full Metal Alchemist *****... they other guy is insane and doesnt appreciate the occult backgrounds behind this work.

I am digging Nuratu(sp) and Paranoid Agent and Scryed(sp)

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Anime is shaping todays youth. I admire japs more than any other human types. I love to watch them with my girlfriend.

urrrrrrrrrrh, not really good titles to get to know anime by. Pokemon is the the Japanese equivent of Micky Mouse, and DB/DBZ while enjoyable are not pinicples of anime.

You should watch Ghost in the Shell the series if you like sci-fi, oh and if you like dark complicated assassin stories watch Noir. Hellsing is a good gothic vampire anime.

Since this thread's getting so much attention, can we just merge it with the longer running anime thread Mods?
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...showtopic=27709

Oh btw, I've been watching the Japanese version of Powerpuff Girls.


Its so sickenly cute I'm enjoying it, plus the intro them is so catchy

haha i know pokemon and DBZ arent great quality anime.

Just finished watching three episodes of FMP again today stopping at episode 10. Man im loving this. Its so funny! Plus good drama. I almost wish it was just a comedy haha. Sagara is priceless.

Well I don't want to spoil it for you, but around episode 5 it becomes less comedy and more action for a while, and then again at the end of the series. But if you thought those three eps where funny definately check out Fumoffu and the Tessa Special (the later's only avialable in Japan so you'll have to DL it or wait a year or so) their both insanely funny.


If you like Comedy anime also check out Azumanga Diaoh and Excel Saga, there both insanely funny comedy animes... although when I saw 'insane' in reference to Excel... I mean it.

Yah I've noticed the more action. But thats cool, because i like it to.

I'll have to check out those other ones then. Im currently downloading Cowboy Bebop.

Whats Fomoffu and Tessa Special?

Fomoffu is the sequal to FMP, and since its avalaible in North American, you should buy it or borrow it off someone if you can. And the Tessa Special is a 30 minutes... special ( ) about Tessa's day off were she's trying to find her lost teddy bear.

Talon, I heard that there was a new GitS movie called solid state society coming out. Do you have any idea when it'll come out? I was only able to find jap release dates.

In America and the UK? No way to tell.
The PPV launch is September 1, and the DVD out on November 24 for Japan. It’s pretty certain it will be available for LD at those times. However an official western version will take time to be released, but most likely given how big GITS is that wont take long
Both Bandai Entertainment and Manga Entertainment are both companies which release anime in the west and who are on the production team, while Bandai is primarily interesting in the Japanese market, Manga is a western distribution company, which means if its involved its already likely got the licence rights.
Problem is it could take months to be dubbed and released in the US and then another 6 months for a UK release. My guess, we won’t see an English language version of GITS: SSS until early/mid 2007, but I have no doubt it'll come.

anyone here ever see Otomo's MEMORIES?

I just looked that up on IMDB. Sounds intresting!

AHA! he was in X. I knew I'd heard him before.

Here's a good site for anime info;
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php




No, although I've seen it available in the shops

I got an anime in the mail thismorning called Sol Blancia 1 & 2. Sci fi space-pirate anime from 1990. Pretty old but it was entertaining, not fantastic, but a fun 80 minutes.

*Grumble* At least I should have my Wii to occupy me by then. (That still sounds weird.)

has anyone seen Elfen Lied? its a short anime serie of 14 episodes. very good and also very bloody. i have only seen it on youtube.com but i really liked it.

other fav anime: naruto, bleach, karin, hellsing

Animes I love: Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki!, Outlaw Star, GitS, Dragonball, Inuyasha, Battle Angel Alita (manga).

Animes I dislike: Dragonball Z (repetative), One Piece (crazy), Naruto (annoying voices), Kenshin (Found the series uninteresting, but strange that I still like Inuyasha. ).

Animes I like, but haven't had the chance to obtain large doses: Chobits, Trigun, Silent Mobius, Crest of the Stars.


Basically, I think the pattern here is that I like anime with sexy girls with superpowers.

I've got the OVA but I've never gotten around to seeing it.

i cant beleve no1's mentioned full metal alchamist yet, that show rules! also naruto and battle vixens are pretty sweet too btw the dude that said that thing about not having too put japanese infront of anime is rite its like asking for a brazil nut...... when your in brazil!

I've got a friend who's obssessed with it, and I've got a few eps, but I wasn't that impressed.




I've got a few later eps of Naruto, I'm waiting until I can get earlier eps before I watch them.

Battle Vixens is a poorer version of Tenjo Tenge I feel (although thats pretty poor too). I've got Vol 1, but the biggest turn off from getting the others is the shoujo-ai in it both die... how depressing.