Anime fans...

[Turcyn Rorke]

I've been on a serious download binge lately, and my next craze is anime films. I don't know squat about anime, except that I used to be a fan of Dragonball Z, heh. Seems to be pretty popular though, so I might as well give it a try.

Any recommendations?

I'd like full-length movies, but if there is a series that's absolutely great go ahead and pitch it in.

[Santhia]

Uh, Akira. Although, it's very weird. :lol Trigun is a good series, but you should wait for SWFans.net-chan to post :D

[Kaytor Surna]

Princess Mononoke and Angel Sancutary... um neather of those if you have a weak stomach and not angel sanctuary if you get weired about homosexuality and incest. NOT that I am into those things but it is still a good anime.

[Zeke]

Mononoke? Pah! Compared to Spirited Away, Mononoke is so much crap. Spirited Away has gotta be the best movie I've seen yet in anime.

[Fiend]

uhhhh... Trigun is tops, cowboy bebop, movies? Iria, yeah! Iria kicks butt when it comes to some fun stuph anime, not the best though, plus Photon the Idiot Menace was pretty crazy, funny but confusing, :lol another would be ummmm... Fatal Fury! yeah, thats old shool stuph there and you gotta realize that some of the best movies actually are a series too, just beware the Evangelions, those go a little bit too far in depth for my simplistic comprehension of guns and explosions :lol

[TheHolo.Net]

Mononke and Spirited Away are both good starter Anime films. (by the same director even ;))

Akira is more of an old cult classic, but is stil a good one though starting with it can be strange.

As far as series go, I'll also chime in with Trigun and Cowboy Beebop in that veiwing order.

[Sigil Roland]

What about Ninja Scroll?

You can't go wrong with a Ninja!!!

[Dae Jinn]

Dominin(sp) Tank Police. They used to play those movies and Ninja Scroll on the cartoon channel here all the time :lol

[Sejah Haversh]

The movie Grave of the Fireflies, and the Cowboy Bebop series and the Outlaw Star series are the only good newer anime I've seen.

I loathe most anime with a passion. Voltron is okay, though, because it's Old Skool, and I'm an old fool.

[Zakatiel Rhinehart]

Old School Transformers!!!

Best part of that series, having new Bots show up with no reason.

In one Episode, No Constructacons... Next, BOOM!!! Where did they Come from??? I don't know!!!

Personally, I like Hellsing, but being a noob on the Anime Scene, can anyone tell me other series like it?

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

depends on what you like, for comedy, I would say Ranma 1/2, Sorcerer hunters, Excel Saga and Those who Hunt Elves...um, action, Iria, Outlaw Star, Inuyasha....more gore and seriousness, try NGE or Hellsing....

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Turcyn Rorke, I'm in love with Colin Farrell. YOU GIVE HIM BACK TO ME YOU HEAR?!

;)

*huggles his avatar when he isn't looking* ^_^;

[Dae Jinn]

LD!!! :lol

Sorcerer Hunters is funny, but the manga is better ^_^; I hate Outlaw Star, the animation reminds me of Pokemon :x

[Miryan no Trunks]

Ranma 1/2, Love Hina, Ghost in the Shell, Golden Boy (Adult but funny as hell), Macross/Macross Plus/Macross 7 (in that order if you want to go chronologically, if I remember correctly. Also Macross 0, but I haven't seen any of it yet =/ ) Ah my goddess!, Evangelion, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop (of course) Serial Experiments Lain, One Piece, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Akira (of course) Wings of Honneamise (slow but excellent) Digi Charat (f***ed up and great) Patlabor, I"s (manga only, but if you can find it it's got the most incredible art and story) Area 88 (anyone ever play U.N. Squadron for snes?) Appleseed, Bubblegum Crisis, Please save my Earth...

Bunch more, but I don't feel like typing them all up. These are the ones I'd say you're most likely to find =)

[Soraya Taveres]

Anything from CLAMP.

[Sene Unty]

Akira rules all!

[Xander Caine]

The 2 Vampire Hunter D movies are good. Devil man is pretty good if you like the whole Demons riping each other to tiny peaces thing. Akira (which is good but not as good as everyone says). Cowboy Bebop, Lain, Lensman (think thats how you spell it) was good, X was okay, from what I've seen of Slayers its pretty good, Gundam wing....the list goes on

[Sanis Prent]

DBZ, Outlaw Star, Ninja Scroll, VHD, Cowboy Bebop, and thats about it. Generally, I hate most anime.

[imported_Taja Loraan]

Devil Man is funneh.

[Zasz Grimm]

Weiß Kreuz !!!!

Also spelled Weiss Kreuz.

Those Who Hunt Elves is pretty good (Humor...and random stripping of elf chicks.)

[Dae Jinn]

Vampire Hunter D was good :)

[Zeke]

Photon: The Idiot Menace. That one was absolutely hilarious. GTO wasn't bad either.

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

GTO is hilarious!

[Wei Wu Wei]

Let me see. I liked Irresponsible Captain Tylor. the man joins the military during a time of tense relations with another country because he thinks it's the "easy life" and through a gigantic chain of screw-ups, he becomes the captain of the most crappy space ship the fleet and he never loses. Tylor is possibly the funniest anime I have ever seen.

[Fiend]

beware DBZ, it gets old, n one dies, they keep coming back, they might die but not really, they just come back for a wee bit with a halo and then leave, and then come back, and then leave, and then come bak, the whole time, going from black hair nd black eyes to Hitler's super race with blond hair and blue eyes, not to mention the Nazis show up in one of the movies, conspiracy?

But I do have tosay Those who hunt elves is classic and GTO is way up there on the list of places to go and things to see, plus, for those looking for newer stuph, Raxephon and Gundam: Seed is the stuph

[Sanis Prent]

DBZ is better than 99% of the horrid tripe from Japan. At least its goofy, and knows it, and doesn't take itself seriously, which can't be said for the likes of Gundam, Akira, blah-dee-freakin-blah, etc.

[Fiend]

too true, it is, but it got old as it went on, there is a lot of crap out there, its the ability to see through the cap for what we can appreciate, DBZ has ome of the coolest developed characters and villians, but some shoulda died some time ago

[Sanis Prent]

Nah. Its got its niche. Its animated pro wrestling :)

[Fiend]

wow, good conclusion

[Wei Wu Wei]

DBZ started out like this:

Save Earth from the Evil Alien Real Estate Agents.

That's what they did. Then they killed the man in charge of the Real Estate company.

[Xander Caine]

lol..sad but pretty much true

[Miryan no Trunks]

Yep, and from there on out, the story remained consistant.

"OMG, he's the most powerful guy Ever!"

"OMG!"

"Oh I'm stronger now, Kaboom!"

"Yay, let's have a BBQ!"

"Hey, who's he?"

"OMG, he's the most powerful guy Ever!"

"OMG!"

"Oh I'm stronger now, Kaboom!"

"Yay, let's have a BBQ!"

"Hey, who's he?"

And then we went to DBGT, where the earth got really dead, Gokou got small, and the story went like this:

"OMG, he's the most powerful guy Ever!"

"OMG!"

"Oh I'm stronger now, Kaboom!"

"Yay, let's have a BBQ!"

"Hey, who's he?"

"OMG, he's the most powerful guy Ever!"

"OMG!"

"Oh I'm stronger now, Kaboom!"

"Yay, let's have a BBQ!"

"Hey, who's he?"

Until Gokou was a demi-god and everything was happy. The end.

Now let's have a BBQ.

[Sean Piett]

Neon Genesis Evangelion and Bebop are my favorites, but Escaflowne is awesome and I enjoy Trigun, Outlaw Star, and a few others.

[Sigil Roland]

Originally posted by Miryan no Trunks
Yep, and from there on out, the story remained consistant.

"OMG, he's the most powerful guy Ever!"

"OMG!"

"Oh I'm stronger now, Kaboom!"

"Yay, let's have a BBQ!"

"Hey, who's he?"

"OMG, he's the most powerful guy Ever!"

"OMG!"

"Oh I'm stronger now, Kaboom!"

"Yay, let's have a BBQ!"

"Hey, who's he?"

And then we went to DBGT, where the earth got really dead, Gokou got small, and the story went like this:

"OMG, he's the most powerful guy Ever!"

"OMG!"

"Oh I'm stronger now, Kaboom!"

"Yay, let's have a BBQ!"

"Hey, who's he?"

"OMG, he's the most powerful guy Ever!"

"OMG!"

"Oh I'm stronger now, Kaboom!"

"Yay, let's have a BBQ!"

"Hey, who's he?"

Until Gokou was a demi-god and everything was happy. The end.

Now let's have a BBQ.

You forgot the part about getting the 7 balls and making the world safe for BBQ's, and bringing everyone back to life...

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

:lol

[Fiend]

dude, and no one can shoot down Speed Racer, did yu know the guy who did almost every male voice in Speed racer in America did Astroboy and Gigantor, and now he's the genius behind Courage the Cowardly Dog Show and several other hit cartoons now

[Miryan no Trunks]

You forgot the part about getting the 7 balls and making the world safe for BBQ's, and bringing everyone back to life...

Pfft, like those factors were anything more than byproducts of the kabooms and omg's =P

[Wei Wu Wei]

Dragonballs? You mean, some poor dragon....

You finish the sentence :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Originally posted by Miryan no Trunks
Pfft, like those factors were anything more than byproducts of the kabooms and omg's =P

LMAO. you so funny MnT ^_^

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

:lol

[Pearl Topaz]

El Hazard.


Just cos it looks f-ed up.


Or you should watch.............


Sailor and the Seven Balls.


:mischief

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

El Hazard is kinda cool but a bit slow....Shayla Shayla was cool though.....

[Morgan Evanar]

Macross Zero. Now.

[Pearl Topaz]

I never understood Macross............

*shakes fist at Teletoon*


And I repeat:

SAILOR AND THE SEVEN BALLS.

[Zeke]

Avoid Evangelion. Evangelion is what you would get if you got a bunch of Christians high and showed them giant robot cartoons. It makes no sense at all, with so many lame biblical references and cross shaped explosions it's not even funny.