Everybody's favorite anime series

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:04 pm

Hmmmm... I'm not a fangirl for any particular series, but some of my favourites over the years have been...

-Excel Saga
-Fantastic Children
-Gankutsuou
-Haibane Renmei
-Kino's Journey
-Twelve Kingdoms
-Vision of Escaflowne (leave me alone, it was the first anime series I watched *knowing* it was anime, and it'll always hold a special place in my heart...

)

I generally dislike series that have more than 26 episodes; they tend to have more filler than plot. Also, Last Exile is totally overrated; I liked it for the first few episodes, but after that ... I don't know why it always shows up on these lists.

Isukiyomi · Post by **Isukiyomi** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:05 pm

Let's see...

Anime Series:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Rose of Versailles (without this there would be no Utena)
Gundam Wing
Ronin Warriors
Voltron
The Hakkenden(13 episodes of awesome)
Hellsing
Full Metal Alchemist

Movies:
almost *all* of Hayao Miyazaki's films-
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
My Neighbour Totoro
Spirited Away
Porco Rosso
Vampire Hunter

Bloodlust
Grave of the Fireflies

CLAMP pwns my manga collection >_>

Nicotine · Post by **Nicotine** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:14 pm

Keffria wrote: -Fantastic Children

I liked it too...I just wish the character designs looked better

.

Here are my fraves:
Maison Ikkoku
Galaxy Express 999
Candy Candy
Lupin the 3rd
Cowboy Bebop
Escaflowne
Now and Then, Here and There
FLCL
Ai no Kusabi
Gravitation
Neia_7
Gundam Wing

Movies:
Grave of the Fireflies
Akira
Spirited Away
My Neighbour Totoro
Millennium Actress

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:16 pm

Oh yeah! I forgot about Lupin the 3rd. I love the English translation of it.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:17 pm

Yeah, Ronin Warriors! That was awesome. And the plot moved really fast at times, unlike Dragonball Z and the like. Though there was a time I liked Dragonball Z.

I liked Lupin the 3rd, but I don't want to marry him.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:18 pm

The Neko wrote:Oh yeah! I forgot about Lupin the 3rd. I love the English translation of it.

I have the first three volumes of that I do think. I absolutely love them.

Keffria wrote:-Fantastic Children

Please say I was the one that recommended that to you.

Levi-chan · Post by **Levi-chan** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:20 pm

Hyuk hyuk!

- The Place Promised In Our Early Days*
- She and the Cat*
- Voices of a Distant Star*
- Samurai Champloo
- FLCL
- Evangelion (I don't care what the other say. HMPF)
- and...um...Fruits Basket. >_>

* Makoto Shinkai Movies

Nicotine · Post by **Nicotine** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:21 pm

Gengar003 wrote:1. Jungle Wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu

Ha, I forgot about that one. It's one of the funniest things I've watched; even the opening sequence is hilarious.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:25 pm

K-Dawg wrote:
Keffria wrote:-Fantastic Children
Please say I was the one that recommended that to you.

No, but you did get all fangirly about it when I commented I'd seen the first few episodes a while back.

Nicotine wrote:I liked it too...I just wish the character designs looked better .

Eh, it was hard to get used to at first, but at the same time, you have to admit, the animation was very distinctive. And I seem to recall the backgrounds being particularly good. Also, they did a great job of being mysterious and keeping you guessing, but explaining things before it got tedious, and tying up the loose ends; although the aura of mystery never completely dissipated, you didn't finish the last episode and think "WTF?".

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:25 pm

Fullmetal Alchemist, as of right now.

Levi-chan · Post by **Levi-chan** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:27 pm

Nicotine wrote: Neia_7

Woo! I was a bit meh about this in the beginning, being that nothing was happening. But man, when it reached the climax, it did it well. I fink I criied.

Also, that intro song is good in a weird way.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:31 pm

Keffria wrote:
K-Dawg wrote:
Keffria wrote:-Fantastic Children
Please say I was the one that recommended that to you.
No, but you did get all fangirly about it when I commented I'd seen the first few episodes a while back.

I did not go fangirly...ummm okay maybe I did, but can you blame me?

Nicotine · Post by **Nicotine** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:31 pm

Levi-chan wrote: Also, that intro song is good in a weird way.

It sounds like someone who's been smoking way too much

. But yeah, it's quite appealing.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:33 pm

K-Dawg wrote:
Keffria wrote:
K-Dawg wrote: Please say I was the one that recommended that to you.
No, but you did get all fangirly about it when I commented I'd seen the first few episodes a while back.

I did not go fangirly...ummm okay maybe I did, but can you blame me?

No, it's acceptable to be fangirly over a series that doesn't suck. :3

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:35 pm

I'm not really a fan of any anime right now, though that might change if I could get bittorrent working on one of my computers.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:53 pm

Maison Ikkoku and Aa Megamisama

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:46 pm

Don't read/watch too much Anime or Manga anymore, but I have a nostalgic spot in my heart for the Gunsmith Cats Manga/Anime and the related Riding Bean movie.

Berg · Post by **Berg** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:09 pm

I generally don't watch a lot of anime, but I loved GTO. Then I read the manga and realized that the anime actually should have been better than it was. The original manga is a friggin masterpiece.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:27 pm

my favorites, in the order I think of them-

Cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex- but I sometimes roll my eyes when the writers start using a thesarus to sound smart. NO ONE talks like that.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Trigun
FLCL
Samurai Champloo
Paranoia Agent
Lupin the 3rd
Hellsing

Evangelion to a lesser extent, it's actually the only series I bought but that's only because I have to keep rewatching it to understand WHAT THE HELL is going on.

Wolf's Rain was ok, but too depressing.

I love the characters on Inuyasha, but damn they've been repeating the same plot for several seasons. (Inuyasha- NARAKU!! Sango- KOHAKU!! Kagome- INUYASHA!! Kirara- *growl* Shippo- SOMETHING ANNOYING!! Miroku- heehee *pinches*)

the only One Piece I've seen was that god-awful Fox Box translation. I gather it was pretty good in the original dubs, but I'm too lazy to track them down.

and Naruto was overrated.

not to be seen by these eyes ever again-
S-cry-ed-I mainly watched it for the blue haired woman who sounded like Butters from South Park and Straight Cougar. and they both died at the end, leaving a terribly boring world ;_;
Big O- stuck with it until the end... then was terribly confused by the ending. I still haven't figured out what was going on, and unlike Evangelion I'm not interested in studying it to figure it out.
Blue Gender
Witch Hunter Robin

edit- oh yeah, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team rocked my socks off, but has a disappointing ending.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:32 pm

Goblin if you want, I know a site that is subbed up to episode 175 of One Piece or so.

All torrents.