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Favorite Animes?
BillAdama:
Noir, Berserk, Excel Saga, Perfect Blue, FLCL, Monster, Hajime No Ippo, episodes of Cowboy Bebop that revolve only around Spike and his past (Esp eps 5, 25-26).
I actually kinda despise NGE. It does that thing where they throw a bunch of metaphysical white noise at a dark atmosphere with a sense of grandeur to create the false appearance of depth. (You know, like Final Fantasy games.)
To quote a friend of mine, "It's got symbolism. Symbolism is deep, right?"
I've seen a lot of anime I like, but I don't like the general approach to anime. The spiky haired aloof main characters who can shoot huge super-beams out of their butts if they concentrate hard enough, the rampant fanservice, the apocolyptic grandeur, the broody misanthropy, the clumsy superficial symbolism.
I'm waiting for Monster to get licensed in the US so I don't have to deal with Bittorrent, but unfortunately the anime that sells to adults in the US is the anime that sells to thirteen year olds in Japan.
Edit: Oh yeah, also the prequel OVA to Rurouni Kenshin. I forgot about that one. I never got into the series, a bit too formulaic.
Lunchbox:
I am not a huge Anime fan but I have watched a fair few, mainly movie-lengths rather than series. My favourite series is probably Hellsing, my favourite movie Blood: The Last Vampire, but then I do own two Ah! My Goddess DVDs and a couple of posters from Chinatown.
Sorcerous Stabber: Orphen is the hottest thing ever to be drawn (there's actually an Orphen cosplay outfit stashed in our wardrobe) but I've only seen a handful of episodes.
My boyfriend is trying to get me to torrent some uncut subtitled DragonBall Z episodes, but nobody seems to be seeding them. Pah.
Scytale:
--- Quote from: BillAdama on 14 Mar 2007, 22:07 ---
I actually kinda despise NGE. It does that thing where they throw a bunch of metaphysical white noise at a dark atmosphere with a sense of grandeur to create the false appearance of depth. (You know, like Final Fantasy games.)
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I thought the phillosophical aspects was what made Evangelion really good, granted they were a bit oblique in some parts, but mostly they were spot on, it really starts to get really good when the last Angel shows up, after that the series is superb. "End of Evangelion" is the best thing about NGE, I love the last 45 minutes or so of it, where you're inside Shinji's head. Especially the part where the animation cuts out to live action video and you've got that whole monologue on what it means to dream. I disagree with you completely here I didn't think it was that shallow of superficial at all it was pretty critical to the course of the story and Shinji's acceptance of himself...
The ending to the movie reminded me a lot of "Nausea" by Jean by Sartre, I think Existentiallism played a pretty huge roll in the whole series, as each of the three kids grappled with what their existence meant to ach of them.
Granted I haven't watched a huge amount of Anime but I thought .Hack//Sign was a fairly similar series, both foccused on character development and the concept of characters grappling with responsibilities.
imapiratearg:
--- Quote from: Lunchbox on 15 Mar 2007, 00:32 ---my favourite movie Blood: The Last Vampire,
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There's a TV series of related to Blood i think, that i started watching called Blood+. I wanna see the movie.
Bibliophile:
I have seen and enjoyed: Ah! My Goddess, Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball Z, Digimon, Fruits basket, Full Metal Alchemist, His and Her Circumstances, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Trigun, and a whole bunch of <3 Miyazaki <3 films.
Basically I am still at the stage where all anime is good. No matter what.
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