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The Anime Thread: Finding Good Anime

Started by DragonmasterDan, 07/08/2011, 12:15 PM

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SignOfZeta

Quote from: Ji-L87 on 08/03/2012, 06:59 AMI just picked up a whole bunch of LDs, among them the music video for On Your Mark by Ghibli. Short but sweet - as they say. I need to try and record this on DVD and show my friends :P
Yeah, this is an amazing video that is also extremely depressing. The angel leaves us to our hole in the ground, we as humans are completely fucked. The lyrics to the song, depending on how you take them, sort of make up for it...sort of make it worse. Overall, amazing, A+.
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Burnt Lasagna

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Quote from: Ji-L87 on 08/03/2012, 06:59 AMMaybe I'll check it out if I can find it.
Ahem, I recommend putting this text into google
QuoteWindaria baka
Then hit enter. The top result is interesting. 

(...wait, I just realized that ATLUS's logo is in corner! Why! :shock:)
Windaria (1986)

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092218/
wayback://www.atlus.co.jp/dvd/windaria/
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SignOfZeta

If I had to guess I would assume they had a go at DVD publishing at some point. A lot of strange stuff happened in the early 2000s when anime was transitioning to DVD and the industry was collapsing.
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DragonmasterDan

Thanks for the tip on how one might be able to find it!
--DragonmasterDan

Burnt Lasagna

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Quote from: SignOfZeta on 08/04/2012, 01:30 AMIf I had to guess I would assume they had a go at DVD publishing at some point. A lot of strange stuff happened in the early 2000s when anime was transitioning to DVD and the industry was collapsing.
Hm, after further inspection that does indeed seem to be the case. I wonder if they did this for other anime/movies in Japan around the same time or if this was just one odd business decisions that they never repeated?
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RegalSin

It does not matter what we look for, they know what you look for, they are the ones who uploads it. They store it, and then when a new law passes, they come looking for you. Art is not a western thing, unless it is Monalisa, nothing of comic book origin, is loved, or like whatsoever.

They just want us to OBEY, like sheep that has been clean shaven. That is all. I am not talking about any NEC nonsense. It is like that animation with the notebook, the moment  they know your name, all they have to do, is just write it down.

Remember thirteen Warrior. They are not monsters, they are humans.
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DragonmasterDan

I just watched Windaria, it was decent though it had an obviously intentionally depressing ending. Thanks for the recommendation.
--DragonmasterDan

VenomMacbeth

Jin Roh, Macross Plus, Interstella 5555, Cowboy Bebop (the movie), Macross Frontier, and Big O are some of my favs.  I also like SDF Macross, Gundam 0079, and Gundam Wing.  I've been getting into Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood lately, as well.
Quote from: Gogan on 08/01/2013, 09:54 AMPlay Turbografx.
Play the Turbografx. PLAY
THE TURBOGRAFX!!!!!!

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Burnt Lasagna

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Quote from: DragonmasterDan on 08/05/2012, 12:13 AMI just watched Windaria, it was decent though it had an obviously intentionally depressing ending. Thanks for the recommendation.
Glad to hear you got some form of entertainment out of it.

Also here's another recommendation from 1986.

Ai City (1986)
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This movie is one of my favorite B movies!
With all personal reasons for liking it aside, it's an okay movie with allot of trippy 80's Japanese animation. Which is always a plus for me.
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PunkCryborg

Quote from: DragonmasterDan on 08/05/2012, 12:13 AMI just watched Windaria, it was decent though it had an obviously intentionally depressing ending. Thanks for the recommendation.
That was a really popular release when it came out here but yeah it's way to depressing for my taste

DragonmasterDan

I haven't seen Robot Carnival in about 17-18 years. I'm going to try and watch that for the first time in ages.
--DragonmasterDan

Burnt Lasagna

I saw Robot Carnival sometime last year. Great collection of short films that's for sure!
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DragonmasterDan

I picked up "Memories" yesterday. Is anyone familiar with it?
--DragonmasterDan

Burnt Lasagna

Quote from: DragonmasterDan on 08/22/2012, 06:55 AMIs anyone familiar with it?
I am! Love that collection of short films! Especially the first one, which I believe was directed by Satoshi Kon. The man behind Paprika and Millennium Actress.
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SignOfZeta

Yeah, Memories is pretty great. One of the last great theatrical anime.

Lately I've been into Space Brothers. Its a realistic near future story about two guys who made a deal to both become astronauts and go to the moon when they were children, but only one seems to be making it. Its one of the best shows I've seen in ages. You can watch it on Crunchyroll for free.
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DragonmasterDan

I just watched "From up on Poppy Hill" I thought it was pretty good.
--DragonmasterDan

PunkCryborg

I wish I had all my issues of Animerica still.... My wife had me get rid of them when we were clearing out stuf but I really miss them. I had every issue from 94-96 plus a ton of other issues from earlier years. Anyone else read that magazine back in the day? I also read TokyoPop, but it wasn't around for very long.

SignOfZeta

Quote from: PunkCryborg on 08/26/2012, 01:11 PMI wish I had all my issues of Animerica still.... My wife had me get rid of them when we were clearing out stuf but I really miss them. I had every issue from 94-96 plus a ton of other issues from earlier years. Anyone else read that magazine back in the day? I also read TokyoPop, but it wasn't around for very long.
I have a significant number of the early years stuff. It was the only national anime magazine back then so even though it was mostly just a mouthpiece rag for the parent company I was very excited to get it every month. I also have quite a few issues of Anime UK.
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PunkCryborg

I loved reading Galaxy Espress 999 every month. My mom worked at Borders back then and I'd go there and read all the manga.  I fell in love with Battle Angel Alita. Too bad that one didn't get a good anime release, just that one kinda lame OAV. Now when I go to a book store and see the manga it's all girl stuff and naruto. None of that dark edgy stuff from the 80s and 90s. Back then all the manga on the shelf was dark, only romance stuff was like Ranma, Kimagure Orange Road and Ah My Goddess.

SignOfZeta

Yeah, mainly what's at the store now is shounen/shoujo shite. The times are a lot different too, but what gets picked up for US localization is...not as great as it could be.
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RegalSin

Speaking of not-manga a whole bunch of Korean drama comics are constantly released by Tokyo Pop, It does not matter, we live in the wrong hemisphere.

Check this out dude, the people who under 25, especially the ladies,
and all those Kingdom Hearts fans, who dress in that black non-goth ( but it is still is goth ) fashion, tell me "they are graphic novels, and are
more sophisticated". What is sad is how all, the original 1965 people agree with them.

Because they are young and gets the support, from the older crowd.
They will never listen. Saying the word, comic is like saying the f-word,
to them. They get so angry.

It is like....no place for old men, but instead is no place for no hipsters.
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Nando

Quote from: PunkCryborg on 08/26/2012, 10:28 PMI loved reading Galaxy Espress 999 every month. My mom worked at Borders back then and I'd go there and read all the manga.  I fell in love with Battle Angel Alita. Too bad that one didn't get a good anime release, just that one kinda lame OAV. Now when I go to a book store and see the manga it's all girl stuff and naruto. None of that dark edgy stuff from the 80s and 90s. Back then all the manga on the shelf was dark, only romance stuff was like Ranma, Kimagure Orange Road and Ah My Goddess.
That's too bad, we get all sorts varied titles around here. Hell even the local library carries some decent manga and comics.

RegalSin

QuoteNone of that dark edgy stuff from the 80s and 90s. Back then all the manga on the shelf was dark, only romance stuff was like Ranma, Kimagure Orange Road and Ah My Goddess.
Back then our idea, of mature was boobies, blood, and profanity. The majority of buyers was men, as well. That alongside horror, and sci-fi it exsisted. Looking back, you realize that people were immature and while some had the right idea, this nation never had the respect for it. I am talking like back then in the early 1990's.

Generally everything released nowadays, is censored, still but is obviously made for children no matter which way. Even the sexploitative animations that came over here
were censored. Chung Lee bathing scene in Street Fighter the Movie was censored.......cough cough localized.

Let me say how stupid people are. You have this comic ( the illusionist or something ) and it is promoted as a plus size women comic. Like cloud princess from Adventure time is really all that.

About the darkness, that is how the city life, was and it matched the world that we lived in, at that time. I miss those jolly rancher days. It was the stench of the youth, the mercury smell of the streets, and the sounds of hard drives beeps, bleeps, and bops.
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SignOfZeta

It is odd how they censor anime now. Shit like Queen's Blade is perverted as hell but they show it on Crunchy Roll with censored boobies. WTF is with that? The show is basically just flat out porn...censored.
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ParanoiaDragon

I think Japan has shrunken back(pun intended) on nudity to some degree, atleast with anime.  For instance, in Dragon Ball Z Kai, they always cover up young Goku's doodle, where in the past, it was no big deal, since it wasn't sexual in the first place, but apparently now it is.  Kinda strange.
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SignOfZeta

Yeah, it's something that has been going on since the late 80s when parents started getting concerned. I have issues of Jump weekly from as far back as 1985 that often have full frontal nudity...not going to happen now.

What I find stupid though is that on the whole there is way more creepy shit in mainstream shows now than there used to be. There are a full dozen shows on TV at any given time that are predicated on teen panty shots. Whether or not there is actual nudity in these shows or not doesn't make them any more or less creepy. Honestly, cleaned up H is even worse that full on H, to me.

Of course there was really horrible murder rape stuff in the 80s and 90s like Overfiend and Cool Devices but it was OVA series directed at adults, not mainstream TV anime aimed at 14 year olds sponsored by Bandai and Sony.

The casual nudity in shows like Ranma or even sometimes the early Gundam shows is gone, but there are tons of shows where either cleavage or barely concealed asses take up 25% of their run time.

It's all fucked up.
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Lilgrafx

Watched Lupin the III on netflix the other day and loved it, anything by Myazaki is gold

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Quote from: Lilgrafx on 08/29/2012, 10:26 PMWatched Lupin the III on netflix the other day and loved it, anything by Myazaki is gold
If you like the movie check out the frist season of the tv show.It is out now on dvd through discotek media.
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RegalSin

Quote from: ParanoiaDragon on 08/29/2012, 07:05 PMI think Japan has shrunken back(pun intended) on nudity to some degree,
Japan is going threw a nationalist state right now. The lolita fashion also reflects the current mens fiction trend, Also because people like us, go over their alot, The government has tighten censorship. Anything that happens over since 2004, like a bunch of men coming out and admitting the priest all touched them, will also affect over their. Alot of Japanese people are also coming here to work. I mean, it seriously, it is insane. Then their was that retarded crying monkey mascot, which a couple of Africanized Japanese protested, I mean seriously, it is not Amerika, it is Japan. Then they have a retarded space housing issue, with the worlds smallest house, to apartments.

Back then being naked, never really mattered at all. It was moving towards the idea of nudism spreading, but because everybody got
old and tired, nobody is fighting for anything. All the fun got sucked out.

We start to mix with westerners, and now look the place.
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wilykat

Yeah too many pedo lurking about.  I remember many years ago (I was 6 or 7 then, visiting Japan) at an outdoor water park it was rare to see anyone under 8 wearing swimsuit.  A few had just underwears or panties, but most were fully nude.  I didn't go get wet as I didn't have towel back then.  I bet that water park now requires swimsuit

RegalSin

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No, no it is not about perverts, at all. It is because our generation grewe up, and the older generation was ignored, and the newer generation are getting all sorts of stupid ideas, like the ones you mention. Things were innocent and normal back then, and now their is so much peace, they need something else to be against. Nobody is a pedo, and if so, it is small occurrences. Back then when I was growing up, everybody was calling all rape sex, and now they are calling straight people, pedophiles. The more people talk about things the more they come true. Now their a bunch of retarded laws, that defend paranoid people. Okay? They took normal actions between men and women and turned it into, an all out war between girls and boys. It is like nobody grew up, when it came to sex. Romance is something that is innocent, and is up to people to decide these things, not for the mass media to turn it into, sissory.

I blew a kiss to somebody outside, you know what they did? They tried to take a picture of me, and called 911. Not even yuck, or some sorta negative response, but snapping pictures at me, with a blasted cell phone, because I blewed a kiss. Do you want your children to live in that kind of a world??? 911, officer this guy blew a kiss at me. Some states in the US, have laws where you can't even curse out-load, even if you are in danger.

One day we are all going to have a chip that will talk back to you. It is called a fish tank environment, where people who do not want to live near you, will see you on their tracking meter built into a cell phone.

Their is a difference between reality and fiction. These morons, are conceiving the idea of censorship, even into our art? Why?? Because idiots like us all own cellar phones and will pay for data that has no trade value. You think it is not costing you anything, but on a scale of millions that is billions of pounds, added up. All your getting is something that will never add-here to the next generation and will die, when you die.
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DragonmasterDan

This thread has been buried for a bit too long.

I've been watching the new(er) Lupin series. "Lupin the Third: A Woman Named Fujiko Mine" and been enjoying it so far. Has anyone else been watching anime lately?
--DragonmasterDan

xcrement5x

I actually watched High School of the Dead awhile in the background ago while I was working on other stuff.  Damn, that show is all fanservice. 

Still working on Nadia, but I kind of dropped off when I hit the filler.  I'm almost done with it but need to just take the time some weekend and barrel through. 

I also started watching some Angel Beats which seems okay, but I'm only like a couple episodes in. 

SignOfZeta

Quote from: guest on 03/29/2013, 06:37 PMStill working on Nadia, but I kind of dropped off when I hit the filler.  I'm almost done with it but need to just take the time some weekend and barrel through. 
The ending of that show is SO BAD ASS. Its worth it, trust me.
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SignOfZeta

I've been buying tons of laserdiscs lately. I'm most of the way through the Dirty Pair box (TV + the 10 ep OVA series). I've been re-watching Gundam 0083 and Aim for the Top!. I got the Sherlock Hound LD box the other day too, which will take me a while to blow through.

Also, Gundam Unicorn EP6, I'll be watching that tomorrow. Loud. With one EP every 6 months you have to make them count. :)

The next big LD box for me is あらいぐまラスカル
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SignOfZeta

Honestly, 0083 isn't very good. The animation is very very good, and its probably the best looking Gundam on Laserdisc, but most of the characters pretty much suck. I still respect it for being such a grandiose project though. A very aggressively priced OVA with terrific animation and a whopping 13 episodes...its pretty amazing. They never pulled off anything like that again. Even 08th MS Team was kind of cheap looking by comparison.

I just find the politics kind of boring, most of the twists and turns not all that twisty and turny and the compete lack of newtype metaphysics to be a let down.
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nectarsis

not to mentiom 0083 hasePIC suit designs...Xamel FTW!!
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SignOfZeta

The best MS in 0083 are shoved into the background. They did such a great job updating the Zakus and GMs and only the grunts use them. The Xamel is really really coo, but you see it for 3 seconds. The Gerbera Tetra is magnificent (PC Engine related!) but it only shows up near the end.

My favorite is the GM Powered.
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DragonmasterDan

Quote from: SignOfZeta on 03/29/2013, 10:36 PMI've been buying tons of laserdiscs lately. I'm most of the way through the Dirty Pair box (TV + the 10 ep OVA series). I've been re-watching Gundam 0083 and Aim for the Top!. I got the Sherlock Hound LD box the other day too, which will take me a while to blow through.
I've watched about half the Sherlock Hound episodes. I like it a lot. Nice pickup on the LDs.
--DragonmasterDan

xcrement5x

Quote from: SignOfZeta on 03/29/2013, 10:36 PMThe next big LD box for me is あらいぐまラスカル
Heh, I picked up the Rascal SFC game a couple months ago because it's supposed to be a pretty fun puzzle game, but never found the show.  I heard that's the one that caused a lot of people to import raccoons as pets and then eventually release them, totally screwing parts of the ecosystem in Japan.

SignOfZeta

Yeah, they're culling 10,000 raccoons a year in Japan because of that fucking show.
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DragonmasterDan

I may re-watch Bubblegum Crisis for the first time in a long time (15-20 years). I actually re-watched episode 1. I also picked up Bubblegum Crash as well, which I've never seen
--DragonmasterDan

SignOfZeta

Try not to get too mad about how bad Crash sucked. :)
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DragonmasterDan

Quote from: SignOfZeta on 04/03/2013, 02:10 PMTry not to get too mad about how bad Crash sucked. :)
Ah, is it that bad? I was thinking of picking up AD police as well. Any opinions on it?
--DragonmasterDan

SignOfZeta

It's not super terrible, but it's not very good. The three episodes were produced at a much smaller budget. Also, whereas each episode of Crisis is different from the others, totally different plots, new characters, different running times, each one feeling like a stand alone movie almost, Crash is clearly one long low budget episode broken up into three parts. It's still totally worth getting, but the difference in quality from Scoop Chase to Crash is...considerable.

AD Police doesn't even resemble either show though. IMO it sucks.
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xcrement5x

Lol, someday I'll finish Nadia but I watched half of the Oh My Goddess OVA on Laserdisc the other night, hopefully I'll finish the other couple episodes this weekend.  Watching old AnimEigo releases is such a nostalgia bomb.

SeymorOnion

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I'm not sure if these have been mentioned yet, but here goes, in alphabetical order:

A Little Snow Fairy Sugar
Angelic Layer

Bottle Fairy

Cardcaptor Sakura

Diamond Daydreams

Fancy Lala
Figure 17

Kaliedo Star

Magical Meow Meow Taruto
Mao-Chan
Medabots

Nanaka 6/17

Panyo Panyo Di.Gi.Charat
Petite Princess Yucie
Princess Nine

Risky Saftey

Scrapped Princess
Someday's Dreamers

The Adventures of Mini-Goddess

Ultra Maniac

SignOfZeta

I've seen Risky Safety. I liked it.
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