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lol! Ah, funny that you mentioned Voltron. When I started watching anime again, I ried to track down which of the shows of my childhood were anime. Well, I wasn't able to remember the name, but the show with the "transforming mechanic lions" was definetly an anime in my opinion and had to find out how it was called. After lots of search I managed to find out that the show was called voltron yet it turned out that in fact it's a combination of two japanese series, Hyakujuu Ou Golion (Hundred Beast King GoLion) and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV (Armored Fleet Dairugger XV). (description of the two will come eventually...) So basically Voltron isn't really an anime since it doesn't meet the "must be made for the japanese market criteria" but since it's made based on animes and because it's just oh so cool, we can still talk about it. Anyway, I only saw the american version of it that was based on Golion so I don't really know what happens in the second series, though you might have seen those as well. Also that show has taken a great impact on my childhood. Basically it was the first giant mecha anime I've seen and back then I was like "woah, awesome!". Oh yeah: US Voltron opening Japanese Golion opening So which one do you think it's better? As a side note I was analyzing my description of Bleach and wondering, should I generally expand the story presentation (thus providing more info yet more spoilers as well) or not?

BLEACH And now for the first anime in the list named Bleach. Bear in mind that at the moment this counts as my favourite anime (entertainment-wise) so the post might be a bit biased, dunno. This anime follows the story of a manga (japanese version of comic books) by Kubo Tite. At the time of this post the anime had 119 episodes and the manga 267 chapters, both of them still running. Story: In a city in Japan, Karakura Town, lives a 15-year old high-school student named Kurosaki Ichigo. He isn't quite the average teenager basically because his natural hair color is orange which makes him stand out and sometimes gets him into trouble. But what really makes Ichigo special is the fact that for as far as he can remember he has been able to see and talk to ghosts. One day his life changes when he meets a girl named Kuchiki Rukia who tells him that she is in fact a shinigami (actual translation would be god of dead, but it's meaning is more like soul reaper). She tells him that she comes from a place called Soul Society and that her job is to deal with the spirits of those that have died. There are two types of spirits, first are called "plus" and are the normal friendly ghosts and a shinigami's task is to send them to soul society through a process called "soul burial". The second type of spirits are called "hollows" and are characterised by a monster-like appeareance, a mask on their face as well as a hole in their chest. This spirits live only to consume the spirits of those who have died as well as the ones of those who are still living. In order to fight them shinigamis use special swords (called zanpakutou - meaning soul cutter) which have many unique powers. Rukia's explanation is cut short by the appearance of a hollow and while fighting it she gets seriously wounded (due to Ichigo getting in the way foolishly). In order to kill the hollow she tells Ichigo that she will temporarily grant him half of her power. However something goes wrong and Ichigo gets all her powers and in fact appears to be even stronger and kills the hollow easily. Due to the fact that Ichigo received all of Rukia's powers, he is reluctantly made to temporarily take over her job as shinigami and fight the hollows. However as Soul Society finds out about this everything takes an unexpected turn and so the real adventure begins... Wikipedia Bleach on Wikipedia - Warning! Here there be spoilers! Videos: Bleach opening 1 - Orange Range - "* ~Asterisk~" Bleach opening 2 - UVERworld - D-tecnoLife Bleach opening 3 - HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR - Ichirin no Hana (High-quality version) Bleach opening 4 - Beat Crusaders - TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT Bleach opening 5 - Yui - Rolling star (High-quality version) Bleach opening 6 - Aqua Timez - ALONES Personal notes: Now why do I like this series? Well probably the main reasons would be the plot and the sword fights. The sword fights just rule. This anime is part of the same genre as Dragon Ball (information on this anime to be posted later on), however unlike in Dragon Ball where about all episodes were filled with fights that had little role in the storyline, here all the battles count to the development of the plot. And well, watching fights with swords that have all sorts of magic (kinda) powers is way more entertaining than watching fist fights. Other than that there would the humor, even though most animes have a certain degree of humor in them. The show has a lot of running gags during the episodes as well as a few seconds, usually 10-20, at the end of the episodes where the characters get involved in funny situations that have no effect on the plotline but just offer comic relief. The voice acting is very well done, each voice suiting its character perfectly and the actors put a lot of emotions in it. And then there's the music... Bleach has by far some of the best opening and ending songs found in animes and the songs used during the episodes usually match perfectly with the action. What else to say... So far I have watched all the released 119 episodes. as well as read 214 out of the 267 released chapters. That's about it for the first anime description. Well, this is the first of many to come and it might not be exactly as good as I would like it to be, but I'm sure that with practice my descriptions will improve.

Well, I was trying to pester gogo on MSN with some youtube videos mostly related to anime, but he was too busy and he just kept refusing to watch them. So I told him that I'm going to pester the forum instead and he said ok. First of all I'm going to start with the definition of what animes are. Most people would just say that animes are japanese cartoons, but in fact the term is much more than that. And since I might not be able to provide an exact definition by my own I'm going to post something from an anime-related wiki page: Now that we got that sorted out it's time to say what exactly this thread is about. What I am going to do in this thread is post from time to time information about some of the animes I watched, providing for each anime a few words of my own, a link to wikipedia and a link (or more) to a youtube video of it. (usually an opening or ending, or if not an animated music video of it. I wont be posting any download links for full episodes) So that's what I'm going to do, now moving on to what everyone else can do. Well you can discuss about animes you've seen as well, or about the animes that have already been mentioned here and you would like to find more about them. If you have doubts about this then feel free to send me a pm about it and I'll do my best to provide the answer you are looking for. Now moving on to the next topic, why am I doing this you might ask? Basically because I like animes and because I usually like to share information about what I like with other people. Also if you're wondering so far I've watched more than 150 animes totaling up to over 5000 episodes. Before you say "woah! freak!" , I'll just add that in fact more than 60% of those I actually watched as a kid on tv, without knowing back then that those were in fact animes and not just regular cartoons. Eventually, as I'll start posting information about older animes, you'll probably realised that you've watched more animes than you thought you did in the first place. As a final note I don't know how often I will be updating this in terms of adding new animes but the first ones should come in fast in order to provide a starting point. Dictionary: AMV - Anime music video, a music video containing images from one or more animes. While there are some official AMVs, most of them are actually fan-made. Manga - Japanese-style comics, basically a comic made in Japan. Mecha - Walking human-piloted robotic vehicles, usually built in a human-like shape, only bigger OVA - Original video animation. OVAs are animes not released on TV or at the cinema, but instead directly to video, such as on DVDs. The majority of OVAs have multiple episodes, though there are some made of a single episode. One of the main characteristics of OVAs is higher budgets than TV series. . Anime list: Aa! Megami-Sama! (Oh! My Goddess!) OVA Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou Bleach Ergo Proxy Full Metal Panic! Hyper Future Vision: GUNNM (Battle Angel Alita) Koukaku Kidoutai (Ghost in the Shell) Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) Noir Samurai Champloo . Post history: v1.0 - 22.03.2007 - post created v1.1 - 27.03.2007 - added dictionary and anime list

Leonidas and his 300 spartans will fight off the gremlins!!

Were the sounds...

Lol, I can eat cheese while playing the game, in fact I might even do that. Gah, you're not helping!! I guess the only way to fight off an addictive strategy game is with another addictive strategy game. Going to reinstall civilization 4 now....

Gah, 23 games in a day, this can't be good! :S As for suicide I need a less drastic solution. =/

Help! I've been spending my day playing this online version of the risk boardgame. Dominate Game? Gah, this is waaaaay too addicting! >_>

Mmmm, crickets!

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Fear the airplane gremlin!!

roman who was...

Poor gogo went to the dentist. But I guess it was worth it no? Gogo before -> Gogo now -> She only bites if you abuse her. Too much of the green fairy and you're in trouble.

That movie made it even more hilarious. Nice one.

Ooooh, more people on the forum. ^_^ Welcome to D.a.r.k. Omer.

Yeah, but I used it when I didn't have enough LFs. However the amount of LFs compared to the fleet is uhm a bit small.

Small cargos as fodder, interesting. Though shouldn't you have used more lfs instead? Nice hit overall, especially against that turtle.

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Lol, old school technology, nice. Though in my case 30kbps was 3 years ago. So in my case it was way bellow average. =/

In order of how well I can speak them: Romanian English (though in some cases better than romanian >_> ) French Spanish Italian I wanna learn japanese next and probably going to start doing so in autumn.

Guess the truck ain't going anywhere soon.

Kill it wih fire!

That's not so bad, I had something similar until recently and it was well, decent I guess. Heh, you should have seen my first connection ever. 30 kbps. >_>

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