Anime is getting better & better. Japan keeps coming up with the greatest animes ever. Like with "Trinity Blood," "Blood+," & many others. I haven't been kept up with the new animes. But at least their drawings are getting better.



That's what I heard. The fillers are done & the "time skip" is just starting.

DGZ is such last century.

No I mean like they drag out the fight screens. The Gara/Deidora fight seen did not need to last 7 episodes when it lasted 4 pages in the manga.


To late, I already di that months ago





I’m I’m Dling almost all of them… pitty it will be next year before I watch half of them





Not just starting, we’re tend eps in, yet its dragging out the fight sceens

Oh I see well I guess they are going to do that, and if you did read some of the manga you noticed the battles got longer too, well at least I thought the fight between Sakura, the old lady, and Sasori also the fight between team Asuma and team Kekashi fight with Kakuzu and Hidan were long, but they were exciting to me so no real complaints from me if they are long.

I finally got to see Seirei no Moribito well you can definitely see where all that money is being used for its the best looking anime series I ever saw i think my favorite anime "Monster" could be dethroned if they keep up the storyline (I read the source material was good) pacing and high quality animation.

And I have to correct my self apparently that list was an online vote not actual veiwer-ship data, faith in humanity restored!

I have a lot of anime I've DLed but never watched, including the first few eps of Seirei no Moribito. But because of your mention it I went and saw the first 3, very good, not move good like GitS, but very good for a series GITS: SAC.

I like fantasy anime, so its my kind of thing.... save for there being no shoujoai girls in sailor fukus

Glad that you like it, how is El Cazador de la Bruja was thinking about going for it, I'm on the fence about it though people are saying its no where near as good as Noir.

Actually, on watching the Seirei no Moribito e3 fight sceen again, I think it actually has better animation than a lot of movies


As for El Cazador de la Bruja, its not as good as Noir, but not a lot of stuff is, but its better than Madlax. Its not as violent - in fact the main character (a bounty-hunter) is yet to kill anyone even though she sayd she has in the past.

Naruto Movie 3 finally released about 2 days ago how could I have missed it anyway that came out of nowhere! I heard it sucked Hopefully I like it anyway since Rock Lee is in it, *puts on rose tinted glasses* and since just a little cameo of Lee make any episode automatically awesome this movie is awesome too.

I heard that in Movie 3. Naruto dies. O_O Is that true? That'll be kinda dumb if the hero of the story dies.

Well no he doesn't, not even close to dying. Movie three takes place after episode 196 and since the manga and tv show is in the Hurricane Chronicles then you can fairly guess he does not die.

Ok. Thank you for answering that.

Murder Princess is good, as is Claymore

Just to add, I've watched some Sola, and although episode 1 is boring, the rest is quite enjoyable.

Denno Coil came out yesterday, people first impressions on it are positive can't wait for fansubs

If there was no Anime....there would be no PSI balls.....




Mr Halfhand

erm.... yeah okay

Ok.

But anime is my life.

Anime is the true religion

Yeah anime is cool.

One leg was cut off and everything else was pulled off btw.

... dude, this is a family site

True.

No comment, Ashigaru.

That was from the best anime series ever, I take it you guys watch sh** like Love Hina?

I've heard of "Love Hina." But never seen it.

And I've never see that anime, Ashiqure.

That was probably the least gory part in Elfen Lied xD

They really should make a 2nd series of that... I wanna know if Lucy lived or died...

There was someone standing behind that door at the end which I assumed was Lucy.

did you read this thread before you posted this comment!

No, I didn't feel like reading 52 pages.

I saw Elfen Lied was mention on the first page though.

I was surprised at some of the stuff they put in that series. The kiddy porn and the kid getting cut in half mostly.

What is "Elfed Lied" about? I keep hearing that anime. And I want to know what it's about.

A quick overview of the plot from wiki:

The story begins with a naked young girl named Lucy escaping under odd circumstances from an insular research facility off the coast of Kamakura in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. Lucy manages to nonchalantly dismember and slay a fair number of the staff and guards with a form of seemingly supernatural power and gets outside. A sniper is seen trying to shoot her, only managing to ricochet a bullet off her metal helmet. Lucy then falls off a cliff into the sea, bleeding from her head but ultimately surviving and evading the research staff.

Lucy is not a normal human but rather a diclonius: a mutant variant of humans with two small horns on their heads (hence the name diclonius) that resemble cat ears. The diclonius race possesses telekinetic powers through use of their "vectors", invisible arms that they control with a number and length of reach depending on the diclonius.

The day after Lucy's escape, a boy named Kohta arrives at Kamakura to meet his cousin Yuka. Kohta has come to study at the local university and has been given lodging at an old, family-owned inn, the "Maple (楓, Kaede?) Inn", provided he acts as the caretaker. After meeting with Yuka, they go for a visit to the beach and find Lucy washed up on the shore, still naked and bleeding from her head. The head trauma Lucy experienced causes her to develop a split personality. In stark contrast to the cold and sadistic Lucy, this personality is completely docile, harmless and is incapable at first of saying anything other than "Nyū". Not knowing what to do with her, Kohta and Yuka take her back to the inn to look after her and name her "Nyū". Yuka quickly decides that it will be best that she also live at the inn.

Kohta, Nyū, and Yuka begin settling into their life at the inn and Nyū begins to dredge up painful repressed memories from Kohta's past. Meanwhile, the researchers from the laboratory where Lucy was held begin searching for her, dispatching both human and diclonius agents to hunt her down.

Thank you, Ashiqure.

I'll check it out now.

The series is on that website I posted a day or two ago. It's subbed though but it shouldn't be to hard to find a dubbed torrent.

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/3/192

Ok. Thanks again, Ashiqure.

There are a couple things I found odd about the series though. For one the credit song seems really out of place, compared to the intro even more so. And the second being, how the hell do they get the clothes off so damn fast?

The words of the credit song fit but the kind of upbeat tempo doesn't. Although after watching an episode you may need something upbeat.

I love Elfin Lied, and that's coming from a 38yr old mum.

Currently I've watched the Death Note movies, they were really good as well. Can anyone compare the movies to the anime version, I've heard there's a lot of difference in them.

I’m well aware of what it’s from, but that doesn’t stop the fact that an image of the mutilated body of a little girl on a family site is rather sick, even if it is animated.


And as for what I watch, its all over the thread, I make up something like half the posts

As for Love Hina, yes I saw it, an okay anime but nothing exceptionable. Felt it was strongest at the start and then dragged by the end.




I’ve never see the movies, but the anime is 30 episodes and still going. I think there are 42 episodes planned in total. That’s 14 hours, so the difference will be massive from the 3 or 4 hours the two movies make up.

Overall the anime follows the manga almost word for word, just with a few changes here and there.

Fantastic series, you need to see it.

Is anyone watching "Blood+" on Adult Swim? OMG! I LOVE this show so MUCH! I LOVE Saya. She's the best main character ever. I only missed one episode & that was it. Good show so far.

I watched the first few eps, and then got bored. What episode are you on?

Like episode 10 or 11. I have to pay attention to the episode number. This Saturday's episode.

I'm now watching Gift - Eternal Rainbow, quite good

I hope Setsuna and Konoka are a couple in it


Source: Animenation

Did you watch 009-1? How is it? For some reason the art work just looks ugly and retro I can't stand to look at it but the story looks interesting.

Code Geass, Fate/ Stay Night, Deathnote, Bleach, Oh My Goddess are some of the animes that i watch these days.

I just got started on 'Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya' subs. Finished ep.2 so far, and it's pretty fun and satisfying! I'm probably really late in noticing, but ah well...

Next to that, I also should be getting 'Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny' soon enough. I thought the first series ended abruptly and I was annoyed by that.

I've been watching the Gundam Wing series lately. Old school anime ftw! I haven't seen any newer anime series that I'm interested in.

Just saw the first episode of 'Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny.'
As the first series, it's idiotic and laughably perverted. I think I'll watch more.

No I haven't seen it yet. I Dled ep 1 before it was licensed, but haven't gotten round to see it yet. But it does look interesting, I hope they have a decent dub and bring it over to Scotland soon.






I haven't seen Code Geass yet, but it is one of the biggest anime’s this year, a lot of hype. I hope it does live up to it

Deathnote is fantastic and everyone should watch it

Oh my Goddess is obviously fantastic

Bleach was fantastic until the Bound saga, and while I hate the Vizard, now that its following the Manga again its one of the better series airing right now.

As for Fate/Stay night, I thought it was pretty average myself. I was disappointed that despite all the Saber/Rin shoujo-ai artwork and all they never turned out to be a couple, even though in the video game they were.





Haruhi is a very good series, but be warned they play the episodes in random order to heighten in insanity, so by the time you get half way through the series you have no idea what’s going on... much like Haruhi's life. Episode 1 for example is really episode 12.






I finished watching that the other day, I really enjoyed it. The last two eps do feel rushed, but apparently the manga goes on for much longer, so maybe they will bring out another series to finish it. Certainly I want to see more girls in short skirts!





I never really got Gundam Wing myself. However there are a number of great series out there right now, including Deathnote, Claymore, Bleach (only the Japanese though), Naruto (only the Japanese though), Murder Princess.

This may have been already spoken about but...

I'm relativly new to Anime and the first Ghost in the Shell movie and Akira were my introduction into the genre. Akira was fantastic but after reading about GitS (reviews etc) I was really dissapointed, after hearing all the hype about it and then watching it just didn't live up to my expectations, did anybody else feel this way?

Other way around for me

Akira was so hyped, but it wasn't my thing, so I hated it when I saw it.

On the other hand, GITS was one of the first anime I saw before I knew anything truly about anime, so it had nothing to live up to and I liked it. That said, I do feel the series is stronger. The problem with GITS is that its a movie dealing very much with the questions of 'what it means to be human' and integrates this into the story. Simply looking at GITS from this angle it is a fantastic show dealing with psychological concepts in the form of a sci-fi show. However, looking at GITS purely as a sci-fi show is not going to result in as enjoyable experience because it’s too psychological.
Essentially what I'm saying is GITS is a thinking-anime, and I don't think the hype emphasises on this enough, and attracts to many people who just want a sci-fi thriller and are left disappointed. That’s one of the reasons I prefer the series, because its has a mix: while the show's emphasis is on 'what it means to be human' with both the Laughing Man and the Individual Eleven terrorist groups fighting their own war against the loss of self to technology, it also has lots of elements of what people are looking for in a sci-fi i.e. terrorists and cops shooting at each other, mechs shooting at each other, stories of cops spying on criminals, stories of cops finding a body and having to piece together the clues to find the killer, someone framing a cop and the others having to get the truth to free him, cop going awol and the others having to get him back to their side before the special ops shoot him, stories of good cops vs bad cops etc etc

GITS like all anime therefore it subject to taste, in the same way as I know a number of people who hate Akira while the vast majority of people love it.
My advise to you is avoid the sequel as its even more psychological, and take a look at the series, failing that if you like sci-fi maybe take a look at Cowboy Bebop, its another sci-fi epic with a lot of hype which it lives up too, but its purely interested in action and plot rather than hidden meanings.

Yes I agree with that the series i by far better, I think it blends the action and the thinking side of things excellently.
Even though the anime that I have watched is pretty limited, the series of GitS still sticks in my mind. Like the whole laughing man thing , J.D Salinger and if AIs have souls/ghosts.

I've heard that Akira had to be seriously condensed to fit into a watchable movie, i've been trying to get the Manga for a comparison but really it is to expensive.

Cowboy Bebop, from the little that I have seen of it seems really good, but does the movie follow the series or is it stand alone.

wow you like Akira but dont like GITS

All I have to say the thrash that is Akira the movie does no justice to the manga if you can get a hold on the manga i believe they all have been translated read them and be blown away.

Ghost in the Shell I agree with everything Talon has wrote.

As for cowboy bebop the movie yeah it can be watched without watching the series and is a good film too. could of won an Oscar but its submission was turned away twice because of some stupid rule. shreak and Nemo are lucky.

If you like sci-fi may i suggest

Legend of the Galactic Heroes an epic space opera old school anime 1 2 3

"PlanetES" its a realistic view about humans first baby steps in everyday space travel 1 2 3 [spoiler]the third link is for if you liked to check out tone or two episodes if you do but the dvd's, just scroll down and look for planets and choos to download episode 1 in you bittorrent client[/spoiler]

"Evangelion" mecha sci-fi

everything "Giant Robo" another old school mecha sci-fi

and look for the "Patlabor" movies ecpecially 1 and 2 very good stuff

just post if you want non sci-fi stuff there are some great stuff outside the sci-fi genre of anime

If you have the chance, get the graphic novel for GitS. The reason that SAC is really good is that it's a lot more like the manga than the first movie. The movie's plot is pretty simplified, and the manga has Masamune's drawings which are always awesome. Finally, Kusanagi actually has a sense of humor in it. Be amazed.



I would also suggest:

Outlaw Star - I don't know why, but this one usually goes ignored when people talk about great anime. It's a bit more silly than things like GitS, but the animation is really great and so are the characters.

Crest of the Stars - I have no clue why I like this show. I've only seen about six episodes and love it for some reason. It's more space opera stuff, but it has a lot of political and military content. Also, I think Lafiel is cute.