Anime suggestions

Yeah Champloo was on AS.


So I've been trying to think of mystery/comedy series to recommend to you...and the only comedy series I can think of right now that's made me genuinely laugh is 2x2 Shinobuden. I know there's probably more than that...but I just can't think of them right now. I'll try to think of some comedy and mystery ones after I've slept on it.

Oh, but if you want to read a funny manga, read Bowling King. I wish there was an anime for that. I can't say enough good things about Bowling King.
 
Aww the image in my post won't show :|

Anway if you are interested in comedy azumanga daioh and school rumble are good choices I think.
 
There's a lot of stuff listed in this thread, and most of it really isn't to my taste. But then, I'm not sure I even like anime, I just watch a lot of it.

The only stuff I'll unequivocally say is good are the Ghibli movies (Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbour Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle) Stuff by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, Paranoia Agent) and err... no I'm done.

Anime fandom is basically built upon the assumption that Akira and Ghost in the Shell were actually good movies. So there's no denying that whatever Anime fandom says is completely two-girls-one-cup wrong.
Darkside55 said:
Go watch Nadesico
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No, don't! This show made me realise that watching Japanese comedy is just one big weeaboo love-in where you chuckle quietly to yourself because you're recognising references to Japanese culture and television that are already practically paraded out with massive arrows saying 'THIS IS A HUMOROUS POP-CULTURE REFERENCE'. Watching Nadesico is just like watching a foreign language version of Family Guy with Macross in place of all the Happy Days references.

"This reminds me of the time Peter told Relena Peacecraft that he would kill her if she interfered with the mission! lawl."

If you want a hilarious mecha show, watch Zeta Gundam. Because anime is most consistently funny when it isn't supposed to be.
 
Anime fandom is basically built upon the assumption that Akira and Ghost in the Shell were actually good movies.
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Heck even I'll admit they are a bit overrated. GITS tv series is alot better I think.
 
kupocake said:
I'm not sure I even like anime, I just watch a lot of it

Anime fandom is basically built upon the assumption that Akira and Ghost in the Shell were actually good movies. So there's no denying that whatever Anime fandom says is completely two-girls-one-cup wrong.
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Alright look man. You and I have meshed on a lot of opinions before, but listen, this time we're going to have FUSION-HA or GATTAI or something. We must combine into one single being. It's clear from this paragraph that it is our destiny.

'THIS IS A HUMOROUS POP-CULTURE REFERENCE'. Watching Nadesico is just like watching a foreign language version of Family Guy with Macross in place of all the Happy Days references.
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Man...Bowling King has a lot of pop culture references too but it's awesome. Nadesico's still good...even if it did blatantly copy the Evangelion intro for shits and giggles.
 
I rarely if ever have anything to add to threads like these, hell I'm only affiliated with one major anime site and like it that way. I'll just check whats coming out through IRC bots or bittorrent and grab things to see if I like them.

Darkside55 said:
Outlaw Star :thumbs:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_EigrG8VQ

kupocake said:
Anime fandom is basically built upon the assumption that Akira and Ghost in the Shell were actually good movies. So there's no denying that whatever Anime fandom says is completely two-girls-one-cup wrong.
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That's an assumption in itself. Bravo.

kupocake said:
No, don't! This show made me realise that watching Japanese comedy is just one big weeaboo love-in where you chuckle quietly to yourself because you're recognising references to Japanese culture and television that are already practically paraded out with massive arrows saying 'THIS IS A HUMOROUS POP-CULTURE REFERENCE'. Watching Nadesico is just like watching a foreign language version of Family Guy with Macross in place of all the Happy Days references.
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Bah Nadesico is fine. My brothers a fan of Nadesico (his nick is Rurisu after all) so I've watched it a few times whenever he's had it on. If your chuckling to yourself and only just manage to get the jokes you're watching the wrong show and need to find something else. I find it funny you mention Family guy which I find to be a terrible show.

kupocake said:
If you want a hilarious mecha show, watch Zeta Gundam. Because anime is most consistently funny when it isn't supposed to be.
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Only if it's horrendously bad i.e. QUALITY anime.
 
Kyorisu said:
If your chuckling to yourself and only just manage to get the jokes you're watching the wrong show and need to find something else.
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Which is kind of just exactly what I just said. Unless you're Japanese, you are watching the wrong show. I'm hardly sitting there scratching my head over the references. ("practically paraded out with massive arrows saying"?) There's just something patently unfunny about laughing at something you couldn't enjoy in a room full of perfectly balanced individuals.
Kyorisu said:
I find it funny you mention Family guy which I find to be a terrible show.
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... well yeah ... Isn't that kind of implied by association?
Kyorisu said:
That's an assumption in itself. Bravo.
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Sorry, I can't actually bring myself to write a third alternate version of 'that's the point, duh'.
 
One goes to sleep for a few hrs and...holy crap you guys have a lot of pent up ani-rage.
 
When They Cry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6olqeKND7w


seriously, this series gave me the creeps



Shigurui is good too. Very brutal.

But in general im into the lighter stuff (Toradora!, White Album, Lov*Com, Welcome to the NHK, Beck, etc).

Haibane Renmei and Kaiba are my two favorites and are worth checking out.
 
kupocake said:
Which is kind of just exactly what I just said. Unless you're Japanese, you are watching the wrong show. I'm hardly sitting there scratching my head over the references. ("practically paraded out with massive arrows saying"?) There's just something patently unfunny about laughing at something you couldn't enjoy in a room full of perfectly balanced individuals.
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There's a lot to be said for widget serieses. Or widget genres.

If I'm reading your sentence correctly, you're saying there's something unfunny about... getting references that other people don't get?

Seems an odd view to take.
 
Jintor said:
you're saying there's something unfunny about... getting references that other people don't get?

Seems an odd view to take.
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Why on earth is that odd? So long as you socialise with intelligent people, falling into fits of giggles over something they wouldn't also get is a good chortle enabled by your own arrogance, and is a LOT more amusing for everyone who looks at you, sad creature that you are, with no idea what you're on about.
 
Darkside55 said:
Digimon.
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Man, I loved the hell out of Digimon. One of those things that I loved just when I was making the transition from childish to somewhat less childish taste. Tried to play the Digimon Movie! on my VCR the other day and it got totally ****ed the hell up. I actually cried.

I'm gonna go out of my way to add you on steam Broseph.
 
Darkside55 said:
TRANSLATORS OF ANIME SERIES

AT WHAT POINT DOES "Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni" BECOME "When They Cry?"

I THINK YOU ARE MISSING A WORD IN THERE SOMEWHERE

MIGHT IT BE CICADAS? I THINK IT IS!
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I don't know, can't read the language

Darkside55 said:
Yeah, son.
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Thanks dad.

Darkside55 said:
Disapproving reaction face, son.
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what? dad are you serious? nah just kidding.


In all seriousness, I don't really care about the titles and how they translate... although Kimi ga Nozomu Eien being translated as Rumbling Hearts... thats kinda weird.
 
Guide to watching Higurashi: DON'T FLIP OUT AFTER THE FOURTH EPISODE. YES, IT'S MEANT TO DO THAT. NO, YOU'RE NOT JUST GOING MAD. HANG IN THERE. (I wish somebody had told me this.)

Guide to watching Elfen Lied: Don't. Go look up some guro instead and save yourself thirteen episodes of steadily mounting depression.
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How about don't?

Don't watch Anime. It's stupid.
 
David.Seth2 said:
what? dad are you serious? nah just kidding.
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Your mother and I are very disappointed in you son.

In all seriousness, I don't really care about the titles and how they translate... although Kimi ga Nozomu Eien being translated as Rumbling Hearts... thats kinda weird.
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Had a friend who almost went berserk when he saw that. He's a big fan of the show...he's even got the Dreamcast game.

You know what translation I hate? My Hime. It was Mai Hime for a reason; it was a clever little play on words. It didn't need to be changed at all.
 
I only recently saw Nozomu...then I read the english title and some wiki entries about the dub and how it utterly butchered the character's lines...afaik, the dub doesn't exist.
(Also Vista enhanced PC version of the game ftw!)
 
I'm still a little pissed about Kenshin being called "Samurai X." What the **** was that shit about? The worst part was they only renamed the OVAs (and the movie, which I haven't seen), which were SUPER SERIAL and grim and gory and awesome and completely the wrong tone for a supremely fabulous name like SAMURAI X!!!, whereas the series' name was left intact, and that's all wacky shounen bullshit with tons of sweatdrops and glamrock and other such nonsense (as far as I could stand watching, anyway).

ríomhaire said:
On a random note: **** ANY AND ALL CARTOONS THAT USE STOCK TRANSFORMATION/ATTACKING FOOTAGE
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Except for Magical Princess Minky Momo. That shit was HOOOOOOOOOOOT when I was ten.
 
the manga is twice as long, and twice as depressing.
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Yeah I liked the anime but I didn't like the manga :|

BTW isn't higurashi literally translated as when the cicadas cry? Why did they call it when they cry?
 
I have no idea what anyone is talking about.
I'm seeing all these Japanese names and stuff being thrown around and I'm completely lost.

Didn't realize that there was more anime than meets the eye.(since I only know of what I've seen on Toonami/Adult Swim.(from skimming the TV guide))
 
Lucid said:
I have no idea what anyone is talking about.
I'm seeing all these Japanese names and stuff being thrown around and I'm completely lost.

Didn't realize that there was more anime than meets the eye.(since I only know of what I've seen on Toonami/Adult Swim.(from skimming the TV guide))
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Yeah, I don't go too deep in the anime world. I watch a lot of mainstream stuff, then some "underground" stuff. I don't go too out of the norm for that, I just don't enjoy it enough. I guess I'm not a true anime fan.
 
I recently started Shangri la and 07 Ghost. Seems interesting enough. Sometimes its nice to watch new shit that's coming out.
 
Lucid said:
Didn't realize that there was more anime than meets the eye.(since I only know of what I've seen on Toonami/Adult Swim.(from skimming the TV guide))
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yeah, there is a lot. over at AnimeNewsNetwork.com, they have their own encyclopedia, which is kind of like their own wiki/imdb page for almost every anime made. here are some stats:

At the moment, the encyclopedia holds:
- 10560 titles
- 5146 anime titles (+ 318 related)
- 2105 TV series, 1767 OAVs, 991 movies, 221 TV specials, 37 ONAs, 25 omnibus
- 4867 manga titles (+ 229 related)
- 4803 manga, 64 manga anthologies
- 3743 licensed / 6817 unlicensed
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I got introduced back in 99 when a friend lent me Ghost in the shell and Perfect Blue on vhs. and then in 2000 my local pbs station was showing Evangelion. ten years later, im still watching like the nerd i am.
 
David.Seth2 said:
yeah, there is a lot. over at AnimeNewsNetwork.com, they have their own encyclopedia, which is kind of like their own wiki/imdb page for almost every anime made. here are some stats:



I got introduced back in 99 when a friend lent me Ghost in the shell and Perfect Blue on vhs. and then in 2000 my local pbs station was showing Evangelion. ten years later, im still watching like the nerd i am.
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Wow.
I'm not a die hard fan at all, heh.

I'm just a passer-by, watched a bunch of anime when I was younger but I guess I outgrew it.
 
I wouldn't say I'm a die-hard fan. I do like it a lot, but my interest has wavered over the years. It's like I get really into it and watch a lot in a short amount of time, then I get burned out and don't watch anything for a year or two, then the cycle repeats. I will say that as much as I have loved the art form, I have never been one to go to a convention or cosplay (or both).
 
David.Seth2 said:
and then in 2000 my local pbs station was showing Evangelion
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I remember when PBS used to show anime. I volunteered as one of the people who took donation calls when they were showing Urusei Yatsura.
 
oh nice. I watched Urusei Yatsura for a while back then, so i may have seen you on tv. my memory is spotty, but i might have also seen an episode of Key the Metal Idol back then too. I eventually got it on dvd. That was a good series.
 
That WAS a good series. Very rarely spoken of, though. That's where I first saw it too, on PBS.

Man, they need to run anime again.
 
Also picked up Asura Cryin, Tears to Tiara, and the remake of FMA
 
Are you looking to watch the anime or just read the manga or both even?
 
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