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Post by denite on Mar 7, 2007 23:33:41 GMT -5
I also have watch Flame of Recca multiple times but I still can't stand the ending. I swear so many good animes managed to ruin it with a lukewarm ending. Recently I just finished watching "Wolf's Rain" and it was good but oh so sad. Another of my all time favorite anime was Slam Dunk. Denite  |
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Post by yoshikochan on Mar 8, 2007 1:19:39 GMT -5
Flame of Recca is a wonderful classic =D but yeah, it's 'continued in the manga' but I don't like the manga as much as the anime. The mangaka's new series is Marchen Awakens Romance but it's not that good. Well it started out good but then it got slow and repetitive.
I still ahven't finished Wolf's Rain ^^;; Slam Dunk is so old school XD I was reading the manga but that was so long ago, I never finisehd it.
Code Geass[/b] is currently the best of the new series coming out =D it's awesome and I love the main characters (though the ones that are semi-antagonists annoy me as they rightfully should XD being antagonists).
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Post by hoixhoixnya on Mar 28, 2007 19:04:58 GMT -5
Don't know if someone suggested this but Jogoku Shoujo is pretty good. Somewhat like Death Note but it's still pretty good ^.^
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Post by denite on Mar 28, 2007 19:22:54 GMT -5
I have finished watching season 1 of Jogoku Shoujo and yes it is pretty good. But for some reason I am not obsessed with it and I think it has to do with how the episodes aren't really connected to each other. I love the theme song thou and I have started watching few episodes of the season 2, again sadness and tear jerking seem to be the main theme. I wouldn't have make any connection between Jogoku Shoujo and Death Note because other than the whole death and after life there really isn't much connection. In my opinion, Death Note rocks so much more and that is not just because of L and Light. It is the whole story line and there is no denying it .. the suspense and character development are very intriguing. But yeah if you like single story per episodes then Jogoku Shoujo might be your thing. oh and I adore Ai as a character. It is not often that I like the female character. By the way, there is also the live version of Jogoku Shoujo and in it they managed to get Kato to play Ren. LoL I think that alone is worth checking out the live action for Denite |
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Post by dyaoka on Apr 1, 2007 14:43:38 GMT -5
Hmmm....There is none from my corner since I haven't seen any new stuff in a while. The Romeo and Juliet anime coming out seems very promising however.
I'm cruising for Pokemon stuff right now. xD Nostalgia does this to ya.
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Post by Shloe on Apr 3, 2007 0:36:11 GMT -5
Pokemon...
Aah, the good times. <333
I watched [not even] the first episode of Meine Liebe. It's based off of the manga, drawn by the artist who drew Godchild and Angel Sanctuary. =] I can't promise you guys that the plot is omg!amazing, but I can assure everyone that the art is HOLYCRUD!prettyful. :33
Yes it is. and the title means "My Love" in German.
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Post by Sheenie on Apr 8, 2007 4:17:20 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but I heard that La Corda D'oro is a really good series. Classical music + anime. |
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Post by saro on Jul 22, 2007 7:31:19 GMT -5
Here's a list of what I'm currently watching: Gintama, RomeoxJuliet, Darker than Black, Gurren Lagann, Ookiku Furikabutte. Got some others downloaded (Tales of Symphonia, Death Note, Denno Coil, Devil May Cry, Hell Teacher Nube [pretty funny], Ghost Hunt [few continuity problems with the first eps], Black Jack 21 [who doesn't love Black Jack? :3]). Gintama = comedy, shounen, sci-fi. Samurai inhabited Japan has been invaded by aliens. Actually, they rule the planet and have real swords banned. Samurai are now one big joke, so Gintoki has to make do being a jack-of-all-trades (he'd make more money as a manwhore but...). Has lots of silly parodies and one of the main characters is like a clone of xxxHolic's Watanuki, screams 'wtf' at the crazy stuff, etc. Breaks the fourth wall occasionally. Good lively music. The dog's name is Sadaharu. RomeoxJuliet = fantasy, romance, action, drama in places, touches of comedy. If you're not going to do it exactly as the original story then go crazy! Flying dragon-horses, a living tree, Juliet's a crossdresser called Odin, William Shakespeare is camp, and Benvolio can't use a broom to save his life. Lots of pretty boys, can be soppy at times. Awesome music. Darker than Black = dark sci-fi drama, some bits are funny, mostly action. The world has been screwed up by the mysterious Hells Gate, the sky is no longer real, there are no genuine stars and... there are secret organisations fighting to gain info and artifacts from the Gate. On their sides are contractors and dolls: contractors are people who gain powers from the Gate but with a cost (for example, one character has to smoke a cigarette each time he uses his power to freeze liquids); dolls have lost all emotion and independant thought, they're programmed to stay put and keep watch using 'spectres', the main doll character uses water to channel her's. Some pretty boys, a couple of comic relief characters appear (a detective agency who, like the public, don't know about contractors or dolls). Opening theme is by Abingdon Boys School and was performed at Live Earth this year. Gurren Lagann = mecha, lots of laughs (GAINAX is good with silly designs and references), some drama following a character death, plenty of action and a hint of romance. Humans are living underground without the slightest hope of living on the surface, until one man decides he's really going to try it. They meet a girl from the surface and discover that it's not that great. Pretty with lots of sand and the odd waterhole with Grapehippos, but ruled by beastmen, who have giant robots. Being quite daring and having already found one underground the humans decide to steal a robot or two and so the war begins! Great music for opening and ending, really suits the style of it. Ookiku Furikabutte = sports (baseball), looks like there's a little romance going on but we're assured it's just the manly bonding between catcher and pitcher. Lots of cute boys, large breasted coach, little girl for manager, a corgi, Inui's uncle or something and of course the traditional rambling about sporting abilities and techniques. The main character is an adorable kappa face who doesn't believe in his own super secret special abilities that his previous team never realised he had. Or something. The opening and ending themes are very suiting to the mood, makes me wonder if it's really for girls. Here's a fanmade opening. Not anime, but probably relevant to a crack-addict's interests is the British live-action sci-fi Jekyll. It's a modern sequel with a fuckton of crack, camp and good acting. Hyde is incredibly funny. |
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Post by dyaoka on Jul 24, 2007 2:21:50 GMT -5
Ah~ Ghost Hunt. Ghost Hunt is awesome. I actually really like it. :] It's not the best of the two Fuyumi Ono's adaption, but it's still nice. The main character isn't annoying; instead, you just absolutely adore her! Well, I do anyway.
Hitman Reborn isn't bad either. It's a somewhat generic shounen comedy, but I do like it. I don't know why, but the series has me complete hooked. I'd recommend the manga over the anime though.
Darker than Black wasn't the greatest. I think that the show just doesn't live up to it's name. It's a action show and yes, it is dark, but is it darker than black? I don't think so. I was expecting something along the lines of Narutaru: Shadow Star dark, but obviously not. Well, to some this just might be the exact thing in the action world that they're looking for. Not too dark and not too light.
Just for the hell of it, watch AVATAR: THE LAST AIR BENDER. Good god people, watch it. This show, despite not being japanime, is really good. It's got the elements of a classic shounen anime, it's cute and funny, and it also knows when to take itself seriously. It's not just fight-fight-fight; it's so much more than that. The gaining of friendship, love, trust; there are so many things tied into Avatar that makes it unique to the animated world. Sure it may not be deep in a symbolic sense like Pale Cocoon and may not hold some unique graphics like Gankutsuou, but Avatar just has that little magic that grudgingly pulls it into your heart.
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Post by saro on Jul 24, 2007 7:27:12 GMT -5
Spoilers spoilers spoilers: I say dark because of the number of times you go 'is she gonna die? Oh, no, they're all dead, hahaha' (never once thought the title would be an indicator, just a title. Possibly describing the gate or the non-exisistant sky where the real stars have disappeared). And the whole Havoc and Hei's sister thing. I mean, does that srsly mean she's dead? Seeing her bloody image in the gate? Also that trippy explosion was so funny. The guy just disappeared. o-0 And the coincidence of 'thingy's dad dies in a plane crash so the piano instructor flirts with her mum but she catches them in the act and runs away into the street where her mum is killed by a truck, whoo~ everybody dies~'. There was at least four character deaths shown that episode alone.
I suppose I wasn't looking for something particularly dark, I like things with a hint but with funny bits. Mostly I like being attached to characters and you slowly (and quite well actually) learn about the personality of each and how they feel about their situations.
Oh, and if they can call laugh-a-minute Jekyll a 'dark modern take' on Jekyll & Hyde then Darker than Black is definitely dark. :X But there must be fans of darker stuff grumbling that the mainstream media has it all wrong...
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Post by dyaoka on Jul 24, 2007 16:33:46 GMT -5
Eh, DtB just didn't hold my interest. It seemed to be trying too hard to be serious and I didn't particularly feel very connected with any of the characters; they were all too one dimensional and their stories are too predictable. Oddly enough, Hei reminds me a bit of Aya from Weiss Kreuz.
Death in episodes doesn't necessarily make an anime dark. I don't mind mainstream; it's the fans that sometimes gets me annoyed. Narutards are a big example...........>>
Shows that are levels darker than DtB that I'd recommend to see are: Narutaru:Shadow Star, Bokurano, Wolf's Rain, Le Chevalier d'Eon, Gankutsuou, and those are just a few! xD; I like the stuff that are just a tad more serious than normal.
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Post by tessa on Jul 24, 2007 21:59:17 GMT -5
Just for the hell of it, watch AVATAR: THE LAST AIR BENDER. Good god people, watch it. This show, despite not being japanime, is really good. It's got the elements of a classic shounen anime, it's cute and funny, and it also knows when to take itself seriously. It's not just fight-fight-fight; it's so much more than that. The gaining of friendship, love, trust; there are so many things tied into Avatar that makes it unique to the animated world. Sure it may not be deep in a symbolic sense like Pale Cocoon and may not hold some unique graphics like Gankutsuou, but Avatar just has that little magic that grudgingly pulls it into your heart. I agree. Avatar is pretty awesome. What can't you love about a 12 year old boy that's been frozen for 100 years only to find out he's the only one who can save the world that's in the middle of a war that's been going on for almost as long as he's been frozen? Add in the love-interest and all the enemies... Is it bad that Prince Zuko's my favorite character, especially since he cut his hair and gone to the Earth Kingdom? |
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Post by whitelilacs on Jul 24, 2007 22:38:27 GMT -5
ahh... DtB... yeah, I think I stopped around ep 5 or something ^^; then again I haven't watched anime in over a month... (I just rewashed PGSM live action... mostly for cosplay reasons XD; )
well... just waiting around for Code Geass last eps. and catching up with RomeJuli...and then maybe I'll wanna watch more anime...
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Post by saro on Jul 25, 2007 8:04:39 GMT -5
D: It's the same everywhere. It's like I'm the only one really following Darker than Doom 3...
And I haet things that take themselves too seriously. But I also haet things which forget their own rules to not take themselves seriously.
Edit: Hey, I just realised, Hei's voice actor is the same as Yuushi's (oh, and Dr Tenma's! Hahaha...). And Mao's was Renge's father in Ouran. :X Her dad is a talking cat.
Hmm... I tried watching Avatar when it was on UK terrestrial but it 'didn't hold my interest'. And I found the main characters irritating. Nothing to be attached to; just to punch. The episodes I did see were either boring or really bad generic shounen. Then again, it being UK terrestrial, and GMTV/ITV in particular, it probably wasn't in order and they probably muddled the episodes with others half way through.
Tried to catch Le Chevalier d'Eon's first eps at the Expo in May with a friend, but fukken Vic Mignogna ruined the entire day with his ego (he talked for about two hours longer than he was meant to and didn't let Spike Spencer get a word in for much of it... we know because we were standing outside waiting for over an hour and could only hear his voice). When we did watch it, my friend could not stop giggling at how ridiculous she thought the plot was. Even my parents thought it was bad when I tried explaining why I was excited to catch a glimpse of it. >:T Then my friend being an expert on Frenchiness ('ZOMG I'M 1/16TH FRENCH AND CAN SPEAK IT') started taking he piss out of who the characters were, how unrealistic they were and asking 'is that a he or a she?' through what little we got to see before going to the masquerade (which was delayed with a hueg queue as well).
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Post by tessa on Aug 8, 2007 21:14:46 GMT -5
Hana Yori Dango / Boys Before Flowers
It's a good series, though personally, I like the Chinese drama Meteor Garden that's based off it better.
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