Indy's anime thread, All about anime Options

[Cygnus]

No much to add..except music wise. I think Indy mention looking for music for Ghost in the Shell.

Yoko Kanno is a popular composer and has done many soundtracks for anime.

Inner Universe - sung by Origa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIVgSuuUTwQ

Rise - sung by Origa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bOhI-P6de4...feature=related

Tank!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zDfxZ4NcE

Battle Frontier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADIWb6Lrszo

Moon - sung by Gabriela Robin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjyjrIKy8s...feature=related

This post has been edited by Cygnus: Mar 26 2009, 01:13 AM

[myles]

Wolf's Rain

(Wallpaper, no idea if its official)

My gosh, this one rings up my memory instantly, esp. the ending theme. A perfect example of BONES' work. I love CLAMP more, but BONES has certainly been great to me.

I could not explain the world of Wolf's Rain w/o spoiling the story, so I will just say this. Excellent story, well woven continuity. On the surface, its about the journey of endangered wolfs who take human form, but the deeper individual plots eventually mainstreamed into one wholesome purpose.

The peek of the story is effectively the ending (although some might not agree with me), which is a paradox on its own. The ending is neither resolved nor unexplained, leaving it largely to the thinking of the audiences. It certainly has left a impression in my mind.

Wolf's Rain has gore and may not be suitable for children, but it definitely does not focus on violent, but more of a struggle for survival and future. Highly recommended.

[Arafinwe]

Wolfs Rain was a awesome Anime alright, it started slow with its story but from episode 6
it became better and better with each episode. It is definitely in my top 5 of best Anime.

My list of seen anime has grown a bit:

Blood+
Black Lagoon
Burst Angel
Ghost Hound
Claymore
Kaze no Stigma
Elfen Lied
Night Wizard
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Izumo
The Twelve Kingdoms
Guyver(2005)
Tokyo Majin
Tokyo majin 2nd act
Clanad
Chrono Crusade
Haruka
Devil may Cry
Decedents of Darknesss
Madlax
Tenjo Tenge
Ayashi no Ceres
Inuyasha
Kiba
Ayakashi
Demonbane
The Tower of Druaga
PERSONA-Trinity Soul
Shakugan no Shana season 1+2
Vampire Knight
Vampire Knight ~Guilty~
Rosaria+Vampire
Rosario+Vampire Capu2
Shinigami no Ballad
Tales of Eternia
Uchuu no Stellvia
Matantei Loki
Kamen no Maid Guy
Kage Kara Mamoru!
Rune Soldier
Shura no Toki
Ryoko's Case File
Otogi Zoshi
Night Head Genesis
Hajime no Ippo
Wolf's Rain
Scrapped Princess
Hellsing
Dragon Drive
Chaos Head
Kanon 2006
Sola
Flame of Recca
Elemental Gelade
Koihime Musou
Tokko
Loveless
Asagiri no Miko
Vampire Princess Miyu
Kenran Butoh Sai
Kurozuka
Shonen Onmyouji
Kamisama Kazoku
Majin Tantei Nõgami Neuro
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
Noir
Records Of Lodoss War OVA
Ga-rei Zero
Oban Star Racers
Busou Renkin
Higurashi no naku koroni
Kannazuki no Miko

That is it...for now.

[Timotheus]

I found an excellent source of anime and I'm using it to help me get through my anime cravings. I started out to find some short series, because I already have Bleach atm, and just started watching 07-Ghost.

I've finished Hellsing, Afro Samurai and Ayakashi in the past few weeks; currently I'm watching Blood+. (I already saw the movie, and this spin-off seemed interesting.)


Afro Samurai

A black samurai with a huge afro, hence the name Afro Samurai, wants to avenge his father's death. In the world of Afro Samurai, there are 2 supreme fighters: the Numer One and the Number Two. The Number One is the best fighter there is, and the Number Two is the only one who is allowed to challenge him.
Afro's father used to be the Number One, who got slain by the Number Two, Justice. As we watch Afro following a path of to get his revenge, the story unfolds. Through flashbacks you get to see his life: the death of his father, his training, and his path to the current events.

An interesting person in this story is a very chatty and lighthearted guy, who *seems* to be Afro's alter ego.


Ayakashi

An Ayakashi is a parasite life force that gives superpowers to its host. The cost of using this force is some kind of physical or mental impairment.
Yū Kusaka is a student, who is possessed by an Ayakashi, one of the most powerful there is. However, he can't control his power yet, it's still slumbering. After he meets a girl named Eimu Yoake, his life takes some drastic turns. From that point on, he and Eimu face other Ayakashi and their hosts, trying to kill them. And slowly, the power within Yū awakens, just in time to save the world from "him", the one threatening to kill everyone alive.


Also, I've watched the Hellsing series, both the normal one and the Ultimate OVA.

The stories of the normal series and the Ultimate OAV are widely different, though.

Hellsing is based on the Holy Order of Protestant Knights. The organization originated from Abraham Van Helsing, with his heir at the top. Their mission is to protect Queen and Country from the undead and other supernatural forces of evil. Alucard, the main character, is Hellsing's trump card: he's a vampire who vowed to serve the organization.
In the normal series, Alucard and Hellsing face a force that's trying to eliminate Hellsing, using ghouls, vampires and a disturbed form of half-vampires which get named "freaks", created by implanting a so-called "freak chip" in a person.
The Ultimate OVA deals also with a force trying to eliminate Hellsing, but here, the force is an organization called Millennium. This organization found it's origin in the Second World War, it was an attempt of the German forces to create soldiers who would go on where others would fall.


My latest discovery:

Blood+

Saya Otonashi is a high school student, adopted by a man who has opened his life for 3 orphans. She has no memories of her past, she just has occasional flashbacks. And those are signs of a horrific life. At one night, Saya’s happy life is shattered when she is attacked by a chiropteran, a monster. Haji, a mysterious man with a cello on his back, comes to her rescue. From that point on her life gets turned upside down. She learns that she is the only one who can defeat the chiropterans, and that Haji is some kind of guardian to her.
She joins ranks with an organization called Red Shield, and embarks on a journey to kill chiropterans and rediscover her identity. The journey reveals the origin of the chiropterans and Saya's gruesome past, which extends into the mid-19th century.

This post has been edited by Timotheus: May 5 2009, 01:42 AM

[Timotheus]

Found a fun site which has a cool anime tracker:

You can add all anime series and movies you watch(ed), and it will transform them into time, letting you keep track how much time of your life you've spent on anime

This post has been edited by Timotheus: May 6 2009, 11:42 PM

[Crunchie]

I use Myanimelist.net

Here's a link to my profile

This site has an App that automatically updates your profile while you watch your anime. Since I'm following 11 series at the same time it helps a lot to keep track of where I am, and if I take a break from a series I won't loose my spot.

This post has been edited by Crunchie: May 7 2009, 12:34 AM

[myles]

I dislike monitor, it feels like I'm watching too much. Which I'm.

"Blood+" is good, although the drawing style is too bleak. I believe it could have had better rating if Saya is more stunning. Same with many of the minor characters. The story is actually good enough to go more than 50 episodes.

But then, the rating might not have gone that bad if its not put against "Major", which isn't good enough no matter how you look at it.

There are plenty of baseball animes far superior than "Major", I'm so surprise the fifth season has begun, still with stable rating. For god sake, the major character has only fastball, with which isn't that fast to begin. Now at least he learned a bit folk. Really, if pros only know this much, nobody should watch baseball at all. And Goro Honda has gone international... give me a break already.

I suppose its true that with baseball anything goes in Japan.

[Arafinwe]

I use Myanimelist.net

Here's a link to my profile

This site has an App that automatically updates your profile while you watch your anime. Since I'm following 11 series at the same time it helps a lot to keep track of where I am, and if I take a break from a series I won't loose my spot.

Only 11 Anime, HA rooky.

I am following 17, and luckily i have MAL list as well for that. On MAL just look for me with the same name as i use here.

And personaly i watch my Animes here; Otaku Center

This post has been edited by Arafinwe: May 16 2009, 10:10 AM

[Timotheus]

I've found a new series of epps I like, called Konjiki no Gash Bell!!



Exactly 100 demons come to the human world once every 1,000 years, to fight each other. Last demon standing will become the new Demon King.
Every demon has it's own special skills, which are recorded in special books. These books will be held by a human, and the spells will be revealed to the human (thus usable in battle) as their experience increases.
Gash Bell is a demon boy, who suffers from amnesia after being sent to Earth. Kiyo Takamine is a genius high school student, who lives most of his life alone. The appearance of Gash Bell changes this, and they fight together for Gash to become the new Demon King.

This post has been edited by Timotheus: May 28 2009, 09:26 PM

[Timotheus]

I've found a show I used to watch as a kid:

Teknoman

[myles]

I've found a show I used to watch as a kid:

Teknoman

Good show? What's it about?

[Arafinwe]

Good show? What's it about?

This what it reads on MAL;

http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=1459

[genmei]

wow i just found this thread very impressive i actually own most of these animies physical copies i post some pictures of my games/cinema room when i finish building it this month its almost finished so my animie is in storage, but more to the point. i actually lived in Japan in 2006 for year teaching English travelling around japan. have those picture too:=)

[KnightoftheRose]

Ah! An Anime thread I hope this isn't grave digging, but I have been watching a lot of anime to help with my Japanese language studies.

There is a group called Clamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_%28manga_artists%29) that does manga, but most of their work gets adapted to anime. What is unique about them is:

1) They are very solid and established -- almost 25 years now. This is nearly unheard of for an intact team.
2) They are a group of 4 women, but they do mostly drama/tragedy instead of Josei. Some of their stuff will really break your heart.
3) They have created an expanded universe that is self consistent and leads to a lot of cameo and cross over.

I can't list them all, but my favorites from them are:
1996 2000 Cardcaptor Sakura
1999 2001 Angelic Layer
2001 2002 Chobits
2003 ongoing xxxHolic
2003 2009 Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle

Themes include the value of life in tragedy, the worth of "artificial" life, magic and dark fantasy, and the meaning of love.

What hooked me was Tsubasa Chronicles (the anime). The first episode totally rocked me, and the sound track left me completely spellbound. After that I became a fan of all tings Clamp for life

A Youtube clip can't do justice, but I included one anyway. I think it really captures the spirit of the Clamp genre as a whole

[promatolya]

Claymore

A small series (cant remember exactly, I think 24 episodes). This is definately ranked in my favourites. It's a subgenre if you will, that you either like, or don't like.
I've seen hardcore anime fans that don't like this, and people who practially spit on anime watch this like their life depended on it.
The visual quality is amazing. The level of detail is extremely high, and troughout the story, a more 'serious' atmosphere is maintained.
You won't get characters dropping buckets of water when crying, having their heads grow monsterous when they get mad or any of the likes.
This is partly the reason why I love it so much. Even though the story is completely fictional, the laws of the real physics don't apply, and yet a sense of realism is built throughout the story.
I absolutely love it.
Allso emotions get a highly ranked spot in this series. Sensitive viewers might end up crying. A good friend of mine actually cried.

Story:
In a medieval-like time period there are monsters called the Yoma. These monsters have different abilities, depending on their 'level of strenght'.
All of them have the nasty habbit of feeding on human brains though.
Extremely strong and hard to defeat, the normal population relies on 'The organisation' to help ward off these monsters.

In the organisation beings known as Claymore battle the Yoma.
Claymore are all female, but are part Yoma and part Human. This allows them to abide to the lows of social conduct (read: prevent them from going beserk), but yet they maintain certain powers connected to the Yoma.

In this organisation, depending on the level of danger, higher ranked Claymore are sent out.
The least powerfull of em all ... Claire. (or so they think).
The story revolves around claire and her human travelling companion.

The story will take unexpected plot twists, show every emotion from fury and anger to love and despair.
You will learn about Claire's history, the history of the organisation, the Yoma, the physical laws of the universe in which the story is set, etc etc...

I can't do anything but recommend this to lovers of the fantasy/anime genre.

This was one of the first anime I ever watched. Being a fan of fantasy and books, I found the step to 'pokemon-like' appearances in stories very uninteresting.
Like I said having heads the size of boats when you are mad, crying rivers of water, geting strange marks on your forehead when you shout, etc... was not appealing to me at first.

Claymore was the perfect transition between the fantasy and books setting to the anime setting for me.

Seriously people, if you have not watched it, then watch it!
if you still don't like it by episode 4-5, you are probably amoung the people who will never like it.
If you do like it, you will be hooked by episode 2

ps: I watched it virtually non-stop. Took me 48 hours or so to finish it.


One sidenote though:
The story has a very (read: very!) open ending. I've been waiting ages for them to bring out a sequel, but the story never really finished. none the less I thought it was amazing.

edit:

Searched for a video that didn't reveal anything about the story, but yet showed you nicely what I meant.

This AMV does that quite nicely. It shows the gore, style of drawing, and general setting of the story, without being a spoiler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJsOsGo_bCU

places to watch it for free (legally)
www.anilinkz.net
www.animefreak.tv
www.animecrunch.com

This post has been edited by promatolya: May 24 2010, 10:48 AM

[Stormwing]

I'll be a fellow gravedigger. Just noticed this too. Been hooked to anime for about 6 years now. And in Japanese culture and other stuff in general. Too bad I haven't had chance to properly learn the language, as I do find it quite fascinating. But I'd say watching all those animes and playing games have helped to form some kind of basic understanding.
And, considering Clamp, I'm not a huge fan, though I found Chobits to be quite an enjoyable series. And they did the charas for Code Geass, which was one of my faves too. I might want to try that Tsubasa if I ever get the time. Still having about 200gigs of anime waiting.
Click
There's my listing at AniDB, if by wonders someone's interested. ^^

promatolya: Haven't watched yet, but I'm intending to. As with so many other series. Anyways, too bad that's one of those series with open ending, just waiting for a second season. Which in most cases never happen...
Heck, might as well put it on dl queue. Now that someone's actually written a small description.

This post has been edited by Stormwing: May 24 2010, 10:56 AM

[promatolya]

list of anime I currently watch: As in, they are coming out weekly

* Bleach
* One piece

Anime I have watched
* Claymore
* Full metal series
* Death note (Seriously , this is the bomb)
* Blood +
* Darker then black
* GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)
* Kenshin (aka Samurai X) + OMV
* Cowboy bebop
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan
* Devil May cry
* Air Gear
* Hellsing
* Elfen Lied
* Code Geass (recommended!)
* Hunter x Hunter
* Soul eater
* Noir

anime I started but didn't like for a variety of reasons
* Dragonball series (nothing happens. You watch for 5 episodes, 1 thing happens. Too slow imo)
* Naruto (don't know why, just didn't like)

[Stormwing]

promatolya: I gave up trying to ger on par with One piece. Seeing 400+ ep behind. I'm only seen the Captain Kuro Arc in anime. And giving my flanky wireless net, there's just no will to get all that stuff. Same reason why I don't watch anime online. Just hate the buffering...
Though I do read the manga. We're almost on par with Japanese release here in Finland. ^^
But that aside. I managed to keep in touch with Bleach. Which is the only gargantuan series on my list. Getting slightly annoyed with Orihime's constant "Kurosaki-kunnn!" weeping. Atleast we got to see some neat power-up, so that kinda makes it up.

I have some of those series you listed just waiting to be watched. I know, hoarded just too much stuff in buffer when I had the change.

For Dragonball, you haven't lost much. I gave up somewhere during the android saga and dropped the sucker. It's... just... too... damn... slow... paced... >_< But I do have the manga. Much, much better, and no annoying fillers and crap.
Also, I don't like Naruto either. Dunno why, it just never piqued my interests...
By Full Metal, I assume you meant Panic! Or am I totally wrong? If it's Panic! I really like it too. Hoping there's some continuation, as there's so much material to cover. Light novels, mangas and so on.

[promatolya]

Full metal alchemist & Full metal panic
Alchemist being my favourite amoungst the two, because this one actually nearly made me cry at some point.
apart from when I was a child, I never cried at television, books or other types of media.
FMA got me close though ... it was intense

This post has been edited by promatolya: May 24 2010, 12:16 PM

[Stormwing]

I'm all there with you. FMA was one of my faves too. Well, still is, even more with the new Brotherhood takeover. Still, I'd say the ep 07 of the '03-'04 anime, Night of the Chimera`s Cry , was one of the most touching pieces in anime. And not to forget, Hughe's funeral.
Heh, guess there could've been awfull lot worse pieces of anime to start off. I remember original FMA was my first long series. Watched it twice in two-three months time, when I was at summer vacation. Quite a marathon, nearly 10 hours anime straight. Also, my mom gave me kinda earlful, as I was still living with parents. Good times.

Also, talking about emotionally charged animes, I could recommend the whole Clannad+Afterstory series. Had me crying in several occations, it was just so emotional. Nagisa's struggle and all. *tear..* ^^