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[Ratty Randnums]

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(Favorites, ones you hate. Anime fandom, whatever you like.)

[E-Master]

Out of luck, I know only several words in Japanese, and 99% of my DVDs are Domestic. So I'm no where close to being "The Big Anime Fan". But like my motto on my signature on the bottom, I am trying to watch as many as possible.

For Favorites: One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Detective Conan, Cyborg 009, 009-1, Coyote Ragtime, Air Gear, Lupin III, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Heat Guy J, Samauri Champloo, Dragon Ball(All 3 series), GTO, Anything from Studio Ghibli, Future Boy Conan, Akira, anything by Satoshi Kon, Getbackers, Ranma 1/2, & the list goes on.

Ones I hate but own them anyway: Brain Powered & Sonic the Hedgehog OVA(VHS only)

I'm part of an Anime Club at my college, so I get to spend time with people who actually know what I'm talking about. This Fall, I'm going to improve it with help with the new club president, cause the previous one wasn't good in providing us with anime or anything that's atleast Japanese related.

Currently I'm watching: Sgt. Frog, FMA Brotherhood, School Rumble 2nd Semester, Gatchaman, & the later episodes of Detective Conan.

[Cheezmatt]

I don't like anime. Particularly the 'animation' part of it.

[salamander]

One Piece is the only anime I'm really into right now. And I mean REALLY into, like, in the totally obsessed fashion. I'm deliberately staying outside of the fandom though.. no offense to other fans, but I'm really set in my ways about this series and I don't want to hear any different opinions.
I've been keeping up with it for a long time (since.. *checks* 2005), though off and on.. I was kinda worn out after the awesomeness of Water 7/Enies Lobby and just recently went back and powered through Thriller Bark to the current manga chapter. So many laughs, big gobby tears (how can this series make me cry about a god damn talking skeleton), and WTF OH MY GOD KICKASS moments.

But yeah, other than that, not much else in the way of anime lately.. I've gotten past the days when I was in love with anime-styled anything, and now I don't really have the patience to try out much new stuff unless it's really infamous. I read Death Note, which was pretty cool in parts, although the constant yammering on about outsmarting the other guy got a little tiresome by the end. I watched Eiken since I heard how much it sucked (and it did). I read the first few chapters of Naruto and got bored with it. I watched a bit of Cromartie High and Azumanga Daioh, which are pretty funny in small doses. And I finally watched Akira, which had some awesome animation. There are a few series I've been meaning to check out, and someday I'll get through the depressiong stuff like Evangelion and Grave of the Fireflies and Now and Then and Here and There. Right now though, I'm not really in the mood for any new stuff.

[furrykef]

I'm thinking of getting into Lucky Star, but I'm afraid I might not fully be able to appreciate it since I don't watch other anime or read other manga, and it apparently makes a lot of references to them...

- Kef

[chief]

Lots.... Which reminds me I should start up my reviews again soon...haah...

[The Man]

I've watched a few episodes of a few shows. Some E-master listed and others but I don't look at the things the same way I use to.

As long as it's genuinely written and a traditional story sure it'll work. They are mostly for entertainment to pass the time. There have some shows we've all avoided unless you like everything.

[chief]

Spice and Wolf is... probably one of the best ones right now.. currently in Season 2.. Hell after every episode myself and Penance talk about it haha.

[FreakyFilmFan4ever]

I will also be the first to admit I don't watch as much anime as I'd like to. I learned much more about the business and history of anime as part of film school than I did the actual animes themselves, so I'm off to learn all that on my own. But anyway, not counting The Animatrix or Batman: Gotham Knight (good stuff, but mostly American scripts. So I'm not sure how the anime community sees them)...

Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gunslinger Girl are my favorites shows now, as well as Akira and Princess Mononoke for the anime features not based off of a TV series.

I'm currently going through Full Metal Alchemist for the first time. I'm impressed so far. The art looked somewhat like Naruto, so I wasn't expecting much from the story at all. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised! I can't wait to see more of that.

Also going though Cowboy Bebop and Trigun. Good stuff. Both have entertaining gunfights, but in radically different ways.

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water was good and fun until writer/director Hideaki Anno gave it off to someone else. But he only went on to work on Evangelion, so that's more than forgivable to me.

I also saw Ponyo today. Not my favorite in the slightest, but it was good.

[Anaesthesia]

I had a borderline weeaboo phase some time around late middle school and early high school, but after a time I got a little more taste and realized that Inu Yasha was actually a terrible show and most anime really do look the same after a while. I still enjoy anime, but I've become a lot more picky about it.

There's a DVD of Tekkonkinkreet lying around in my room that I need to get around to watching before I get back to school, and I just have to catch Ponyo as well because it looks insanely cute.

[chief]

I will also be the first to admit I don't watch as much anime as I'd like to. I learned much more about the business and history of anime as part of film school than I did the actual animes themselves, so I'm off to learn all that on my own. But anyway, not counting The Animatrix or Batman: Gotham Knight (good stuff, but mostly American scripts. So I'm not sure how the anime community sees them)...

Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gunslinger Girl are my favorites shows now, as well as Akira and Princess Mononoke for the anime features not based off of a TV series.

I'm currently going through Full Metal Alchemist for the first time. I'm impressed so far. The art looked somewhat like Naruto, so I wasn't expecting much from the story at all. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised! I can't wait to see more of that.

Also going though Cowboy Bebop and Trigun. Good stuff. Both have entertaining gunfights, but in radically different ways.

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water was good and fun until writer/director Hideaki Anno gave it off to someone else. But he only went on to work on Evangelion, so that's more than forgivable to me.

I also saw Ponyo today. Not my favorite in the slightest, but it was good.

Yeah, when I first watched Full Metal Alchemist I wasn't expecting a in depth story. But... It has one. One of my favorite animes... That and I also like Gunslinger Girl.. Both seasons, although you will find a lot who don't like the second season because a different animation company does it. But the nice thing about the second season is it jumps straight to a plot... the first season went through arcs with each girl pretty much then.. end of season.


Cowboy bebop is also good... The first anime I ever watched was the Cowboy bebop movie when I was in the hospital getting lung surgery..

My anime watching was.. well Id watch this and that but only random stuff, not looking for anything. If it came on tv and looked decent (so only anime movies really cause any show that makes it onto TV here is some kiddie bull shit... I thought all anime was that at first till I found out there is a huge adult market) After one channel showed both Armitage 3 movies thats when I finally started looking for good shows. I first remembered a friend talking about Last Exile.. So I watched that.. Love it! Then it was Full Metal Alchemist, as well way better then I expected.
After FMA I went to a comedy, which was School Rumble... great show in my opinion. Then... I figured "hey, I can get another comedy with this show called 'School Days'. . . Its.. not a comedy..

[Ratty Randnums]

Then... I figured "hey, I can get another comedy with this show called 'School Days'. . . Its.. not a comedy..

Haahaha I still remember my old roommate (Huge Otaku, though in denial over the term "otaku", he once uttered the sentence "Wow, I have more anime DVDs than most Otaku do!") woke me up one night because he was so freaked out after stumbling on the ending to "School Days", he talked about it for weeks (he didn't know what the show was called.)

Also awesome comic Anna, saved.

[chief]

Its a fucked up ending man! The last half of the episode I watched with my mouth open going "ehhhh whaaaaa holy shit!"


Then there is Serial Experiments Lain which leaves you going "okay if she did.... and that did.. and now is.. but when did..? huh.... okay start over... if she did.."

[FreakyFilmFan4ever]

Haha! Funny. But I have to point out that to the Japanese, everything animated is called "Anime", from Astro Boy to Bugs Bunny, simply because "anime" is the Japanese word for "animation".

Words like "Japanimation" and "Cartoons" would distinguish the two better. Animation was dubbed "Cartoon" in the States because when it first became popular in the early 1900s it was mostly put to musical tunes. Even today most animated films end up becoming musicals.

The Japanese studios started making animated films shortly after the Americans when their budget stared to allow for it. And thus "Anime" was born.

[Ratty Randnums]

Haha! Funny. But I have to point out that to the Japanese, everything animated is called "Anime", from Astro Boy to Bugs Bunny, simply because "anime" is the Japanese word for "animation".

Words like "Japanimation" and "Cartoons" would distinguish the two better. Animation was dubbed "Cartoon" in the States because when it first became popular in the early 1900s it was mostly put to musical tunes. Even today most animated films end up becoming musicals.

The Japanese studios started making animated films shortly after the Americans when their budget stared to allow for it. And thus "Anime" was born.

Yes, but the comic is written in English rather than Japanese. So it's safe that short cuts like that can be taken for space and timing.

[FreakyFilmFan4ever]

Oh, I wasn't nitpicking the comic. It just reminded me of useless information. It won't happen again, I swear.

[furrykef]

Animation was dubbed "Cartoon" in the States because when it first became popular in the early 1900s it was mostly put to musical tunes. Even today most animated films end up becoming musicals.

Well, the word "cartoon" dates from at least 1671. Those little political doodles you see in newspapers have been around since at least the 18th century (the most famous example would probably be those by Thomas Nast in 19th century), and they were called "cartoons" then too. Applying the word to comic strips, and then animation, only seemed natural.

Looney Tunes did get its name from that concept, though, since it was a take-off on Disney's Silly Symphonies. That's why it's Looney Tunes and not Looney Toons.

- Kef

[Vlad Yvhv]

Not a fan of most Japanese stuff as a whole. Most anime is just too "Japanesey" for my taste... I'm more inclined to be able to watch the ones that don't have all those weird, confusing Japanese words in the dubs. Stuff like Hellsing.

[furrykef]

Yeah, putting "anime" words in translated Japanese stuff pisses me off. If you really wanna get the "Japanese flavor" of things, then learn Japanese. Yes, it's extremely hard -- I know as much as anybody, I'm doing it -- but there's just no reason to translate "oniisan" as "oniisan" instead of "big brother", for example. It doesn't add anything to it except making it look like it was written by a fucking geek.

Yes, sometimes nuances in the Japanese cannot be translated into English very well, but guess what? Those usually aren't the nuances that are preserved by translators who leave Japanese words in...

- Kef

[FreakyFilmFan4ever]

Not a fan of most Japanese stuff as a whole. Most anime is just too "Japanesey" for my taste... I'm more inclined to be able to watch the ones that don't have all those weird, confusing Japanese words in the dubs. Stuff like Hellsing.

Hellsing is, hands down, awesome. Well, the two episodes I've seen so far. Unfortunately, my internet is slow and ancient (a.k.a. dial-up). So if I don't see it at someone's house, I don't get to see it often.

Yeah, putting "anime" words in translated Japanese stuff pisses me off. If you really wanna get the "Japanese flavor" of things, then learn Japanese. Yes, it's extremely hard -- I know as much as anybody, I'm doing it -- but there's just no reason to translate "oniisan" as "oniisan" instead of "big brother", for example. It doesn't add anything to it except making it look like it was written by a fucking geek.

Yes, sometimes nuances in the Japanese cannot be translated into English very well, but guess what? Those usually aren't the nuances that are preserved by translators who leave Japanese words in...

- Kef

I've never seen an anime that did that. Other than leaving the word "san" or something after someone's name.

Oh, yeah. I did get around to seeing some of season 2 of Gunslinger Girl. Meh. It did get into the plot quicker, which was a plus. The characters looked different, but that didn't bother me much. But all of the little things I liked about season one, like the subtle facial expressions, over-exposed lighting, lack of "speed lines", and diverse camera angles, were gone from season 2. All of the girls' had exaggerated expressions, I saw the "speed lines" again (not really an issue for me, but the lack of those made season one stick out from most other anime, I think), the lighting and camera angels were "normal", the music was more generic to Europe than it was specific to Italy.

Again, not all bad differences. It's just that season two didn't look as good as season one. I'll still watch it to see what happens next, but I can't say that I like it as much as I did season one.