post apocalyptic anime?

[unozero]

I know of Nausicca and Fist of the North star what else can you guys recommend?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Blue Gender, Trigun (though far enough into the future for people to be somewhat established after the apocalyptic scenario that you learn of in the series). TBH I've got a number of others but the shows are more based on how they reacted to the apocalyptic scenario and that makes them quite different. Like I'm sure you've seen Trigun and sort of get what I mean. But yeah Blue Gender is much more direct. Neon Genesis Evangelion is also more direct but yeah, just look'm up and I'm sure you'll like'm. I'll list the others with explanation if you're interested.

 

[unozero]

yeah blue Gender was the first anime that I bought on DVD good shit...Trigun I could never get in to allthough I hear it gets better further in.
NGE I also have the DVD set.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Trigun is definitely teh_roxors. I HAD to get the limited collector's edition DVDs (a buttrape to get 2 years after production stopped), and am now reading the manga which has a different storyline. I also have everything I listed on DVD

As for the others; Darker than Black, which has a response somewhat similar to Big O but the anime is of course very different in its respects. Macross Frontier is many years later (traveling on fully functioning biospheric ships, fighting aliens). Wolf's Rain which you must've seen. Claymore is pretty cool though its not quite 'apocalyptic.' On another note I got Chrono Trigger after many eons (I swallowed my Turn based RPG hate and jumped on it), enjoying it.

 

[unozero]

Wolf's is the bomb I sold my DVD set though
great OST too.

I shall try to acquire Trigun and get in to it.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I'm planning on getting this some point in time http://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Rain-Le...8MLO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250231483&sr=8-1

 

[Sedako]

yeah blue Gender was the first anime that I bought on DVD good shit...Trigun I could never get in to allthough I hear it gets better further in.
NGE I also have the DVD set.

Trigun turns extremely serious by the end. It enjoyed it all the way through though.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Pick up the manga if you haven't sedako, he made the first 2 vols before the anime (and that alone is quite different), and he made Trigun Maximum 1-14 after the anime, which I have yet to read but know that its a ****rape of greatness.

 

[David.Seth2]

Now and Then, Here and There is set in an alternate, post apocalyptic world. Higly recommend it.

And Akira has elements of it too.

 

[Lucid]

Isn't nearly all anime pretty much post-apocalyptic? :|

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Not at all, I had to sort through a list of about 70 and found only those.

 

[unozero]

I have akira on bluray btw...it's awesome.
when I go to bed tonight I' acquire Trigun

 

[Vegeta897]

Isn't nearly all anime pretty much post-apocalyptic? :|

Wut ?

You must have never looked outside of what your american television shows you.

 

[CyberPitz]

Mmmm Blue Gender. That one ranks up there with my favorites along with Trigun.

 

[Lucid]

Wut ?

You must have never looked outside of what your american television shows you.

Nope.
Not much interest in anime, save for what shows Toonami used to air years ago.

 

[kupocake]

Barefoot Gen was made into a couple of animated movies from being a 10 volume or so Manga. It's about a kid living through Hiroshima and the aftermath, making it about the closest you can get to based-on-fact Animated Post Apocalyptica. Of course, it's strictly more comparable to Grave of the Fireflies, but it depends on whether your love of the Post-Apocalyptic is about Mad-Max badassery or humanity with its back against the wall.

Gundam flirted with the Post Apocalyptic in its original series (North America is mostly a wasteland IIRC, it just doesn't come up much), but eventually got round to making two full-blown, technically unrelated series on the theme. Gundam X was about a future earth where a war in space climaxed with hundred of space colonies being dropped on Earth, resulting in the near annihiliation of humanity, but otherwise it was standard Mecha fare a tedious enough that it got cancelled several episodes short.

Turn-A Gundam lacks the apocalyptic deserts and radiation you may associate with the theme, but takes place in a far flung future where technology on earth has been destroyed and a race on the moon is returning to stir up its new-industrial age relatives. If I told you that it involved biplanes fighting a 20 foot robot with a moustache, I would be overselling it. I mention Gundam simply because you'll probably like it if you liked it in any other form, not as a recommendation, though these two series are the closest the creators have ever got to not rehashing the same tired story.

Macross is technically post-apocalyptic, but with the pitfalls that, 1) In the original series, the apocalypse coincides with the point at which the show becomes really quite crap and 2) Every sequel series (Seven, Plus, Frontier) takes place in colonised space with little reference to the fact that humanity was all but killed off.

Akira bares mentioning. I've never been a massive fan though, and have been waiting the best part of a decade for someone to publish the manga the right way round. And continuing the theme of 'Manga > Anime', the Nausicaa movie is comparatively rubbish, covering and mixing up only the first two volumes of a seven volume story, dated in animation terms (even in black and white ink, the books are far more beautiful), and tying it all up with a cop-out ending a million miles from the real thing. If I haven't already moaned about that before.

The best option however, is as always when dealing with Anime: Go watch something good instead.

 

[unozero]

mhm the ending of Trigun was weird....