manga & anime [Archive]

Kajinku

March 23rd, 2003, 02:07 PM

Since I was a kid, I'm watching anime. My favourite was DragonBall and I bought the whole manga collection a year or two ago. Actually I was so obsessed with DragonBall that the others were kind of left behind. I remember loving the "Nicky Larson" character as well. I believe the manga is called "City Hunter" or something.
Today I bought the Akira DVD to catch up. It's considered as a "must-see movie" for anime freaks, so that's what I'm gonna do tonight. I surfed the web a bit, and found out that "Evangelion" and "Trigun" were also very popular. Is it any good? What other manga do you recommend? I'm more into cool, tough characters then Sailor Moon girls... I don't want "Gundam Wing" stuff either, I thought the anime was total crap. It's the same boring stuff all the time.
I'm looking for something special, cool and with a story in it.
So, where are the manga and anime freaks here? :beam:

nobody

March 23rd, 2003, 02:13 PM

Cowboy Bebop is amazing. It has the best art and storyline I've ever seen in an anime. I don't like the cowboy bebop manga however.

Aislin

March 23rd, 2003, 02:19 PM

I've always been a dragonballl z fan, though not so much anymore. I used to collect things, and watch the show, and now I just have some of what I collected (a binder of stickers) and some memories of the show they re-ran more than anything I've ever seen in my life.

My love for DBZ was re-ignited on YTV's DBZ Movie Marathon, which basically showed all of the best DBZ movies in one night until like 3 am. That was fantastic. All dubbed, all with rediculously good soundtracks.

Yeah. *sighs happily*

And I agree, Gundam//Escaflowne//every single other mech-oriented anime just sucks. If they'd stuck with just one, the original, it may have kept that unique shine, but it got out of hand.

Lynx

March 23rd, 2003, 02:21 PM

Well, I don't like DragonBall (but my sisters watches it everyday :) ), but I love the Simpsons and South Park =)

Kajinku

March 23rd, 2003, 02:23 PM

Originally posted by Lynx
Well, I don't like DragonBall (but my sisters watches it everyday :) ), but I love the Simpsons and South Park =)

...which are no anime. ;)

nobody

March 23rd, 2003, 02:24 PM

I think the concept behind mech animes is really good, but the actual ones just kinda suck. I love the idea of giant robots pummeling eachother into oblivion. If they had like DBZ with mechs it would be pretty cool.

On the note of DBZ, I used to be super obsessed with that show. It's the whole reason I got into art and stuff, I wanted to draw DBZ characters, so I got into drawing and got pretty good at it, then I wanted to make DBZ webpages so I got into photoshop and Dreamweaver. It started it all for me, but I don't like the show as much anymore.. I haven't watched it on Cartoon Network for a while. I own a few of the movies and a retardedly huge amount of the cards. I wanna see DBGT though..

Aislin

March 23rd, 2003, 02:26 PM

me too, I've been waiting for DBGT for like.... ever.

And I bought some of those card game cards, LoL. I sold them off, but I did have the tech foil of trunks and all his forms! WOO!

I'm sure cartoon network will snatch up the GT rights eventually.

I don't watch it anymore, but if GT did start running, I'd be there.

Lynx

March 23rd, 2003, 02:28 PM

Well, I guess i'm not anime lover =) :P Oh, I got two friends who
are maniacs. They know everything about every person in DragonBal.
It's kinda strange lookin at those guys whatchin that show.

nobody

March 23rd, 2003, 02:29 PM

I heard a while ago that Cartoon Network already has the rights to GT.. I think they are gonna air it sometimes towards the end of the year or something.. but leave it to Cartoon Network to delay it by like 6 years. Have they started airing the final saga to Z yet?

Law

March 23rd, 2003, 02:30 PM

has anyone seen the film metropolis. beautiful backgrounds.

Aislin

March 23rd, 2003, 02:34 PM

isn't that a 1931 movie or something? lmao. Anime is in color, for one, and it's <i>anim</i>ated, for two.

ribcage

March 23rd, 2003, 02:38 PM

Ghost in the Shell & Wind ninja Chronicles, also known as Ninja Scroll. As well as Vampire Hunter D not too mention the Gatchaman series from the 90's and the televised stuff (Battle of the Planets)from the early 80's.
All the stuff above are excellent examples of Anime at its finest , Alot of folks really like Princess Mononoke as well.
Mind you this stuff is more mature than Dragon BallZ but I think you might find
them interesting none the less.

Kajinku

March 24th, 2003, 04:42 AM

Yeah, I heard about Ghost In The Shell... I will check this film out one day. In the meantime, I watched Akira, which I think is very well made. I don't get the very last part of the story 100%, it's kind of confusing with Akira coming back and taking Tetsuo and all. Anyway, I'm glad I bought it, this anime film has some "grandeur" in it.

Marz

March 24th, 2003, 04:51 AM

Ghost in the Shell is awesome.
Akira is great
Dragonball rocks..
I love TRIGUN!
Cowboy Bebop roXors your boXors
And Wild Arms is looking **** good!

http://www.fantom-stranger.com/~mentalconcepts/files/playamarz.gif ~ playamarz

eyeinfinitude

March 24th, 2003, 04:51 AM

It's been a long time since I watched any Japanese anime, but these are my favorites:

1) Akira
2) Bubble Gum Crisis
2) Ninja Scroll
3) Street Fighter 2 Series
4) Golden Boy
5) Guyver

vts31

March 24th, 2003, 05:03 AM

I R TEH ANIME NERD!!!!

Kajinku

March 24th, 2003, 05:49 AM

Originally posted by playamarz
Ghost in the Shell is awesome.
Akira is great
Dragonball rocks..
I love TRIGUN!

Trigun... hm... is it a manga as well? Or just anime series? That Vash guy is certainly looking cool. :)

Kajinku

March 24th, 2003, 05:53 AM

Originally posted by electrongeek

2) Bubble Gum Crisis

Hm... this does ring a bell, but I'm not sure where. ;)

ribcage

March 24th, 2003, 07:06 AM

short lived but really cool was The Battle Arena Toshinden-2 episode movie, characters based on the original playstation game .
Probably my favorite fighting game of all time . ..Sweet moves.
Mondo Rocks!!!!

Lunar_4u

March 24th, 2003, 08:30 AM

DBGT has already been made in english, being released next month i think or sommet like that. But you can already download the episodes for evaluation purposes :P. They changed all the voices from dbz though and goku just didnt sound rite to me :(, so i prefer the subtitled japanese version.

But if neone plays counter strike/Halflife there a new dbz mod out for it where u have 2 teams and have to fight each other or collect db's using ur fave chars etc :D. It pretty cool especially when u have two full powered kamehameha's hitting each other and u gotta see who over powers who :D. It even has all the transformations like ssj2 or buus transformations which look and sound class. It still beta now but it has all the sound effects from the show and u can fight in places like kamis lookout.

Lol neway back to the subject, Dbz my fave anime and i thought gundam was quite good, aint really seen many others apart from tenchi which i wernt a big fan of

Jubba

April 19th, 2003, 01:47 PM

Ok, I never used to watch Anime, but recently I have become obsessed with Trigun (Vash is awesome), Inuyasha, and Cowboy Beebop. I still can't stand DBZ but those three are my favorites...

*just thought I would dig up this old thread instead of creating antoher one. :)

Kajinku

April 19th, 2003, 01:51 PM

I was a bit disappointed with Trigun. Vash is designed to be cool, and he's a clown...
And check DBZ again, but in Japanese. I can't stand the English version. Horrible voices!

lava

April 19th, 2003, 01:55 PM

Robotech... best cartoon ever.

Jubba

April 19th, 2003, 01:57 PM

true the voices are horrible. I have the japanese w/ english subtitles... :) I was forced to watch DBZ with my Japanese roommate last year. No sub-titles and I don't speak Japanese so I was screwed... the animations were cool but I couldn't get into the story-line

Yu Yu Hakashu is pretty decent as well... similar to DBZ tho...

nobody

April 19th, 2003, 01:58 PM

Cowboy bebop and Robotech are sooo cool
Has anyone ever played the robotech game?
its mad fun

grimdeath

April 19th, 2003, 02:06 PM

ninja scroll one of my favorites, ghost in the shell is awesome too, metropolis has some great cg effects with anime mixed into it its a very impressive movie in terms of effects other than that i didnt like the story much, vampire hunter D, Berserk wtf nobody watched it?? Cowboy bebop, akira is like a classic, guyver, street fighter series, fist of the north star great flick too, gatchaman or gforce and voltron was awesome the original 5 lion version not that crappy 32 piece voltron that one sucked mans thers so much anime its impossible to name all the good ones

lava

April 19th, 2003, 02:27 PM

Originally posted by xxviii
Cowboy bebop and Robotech are sooo cool
Has anyone ever played the robotech game?
its mad fun

DUDE! YOU KNOW ABOUT ROBOTECH! AND YOU PLAYED THE GAME??? YOU ARE AWESOME MY FRIEND!!!

XXVIII points: + 1000

I played the game... it was SO awesome... just like the cartoon.

Hawk

April 19th, 2003, 02:31 PM

evangelion / cowboy bebop

best anime ever!!

hawk

(i used to draw anime, its a neat style)

nobody

April 19th, 2003, 02:34 PM

Raf,
Score, so that brings me up to 1001 points! I'm gettin closer every day.
I played the game robotech before I saw the anime, but then the game was cool, so I looked into the show, it's pretty cool.
I'll probably buy some dvds next time i get paid