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Anime Recommendations?
imapiratearg:
I realize that was a sort of ignorant statement, and you are correct to assume I haven't seen a very wide variety of animes. I did not intend to offend anyone with what I said, it isn't what I actually believe, but more of a passing observation or assumption based on the way women are usually drawn in animes. Which is surely a very poor way to derive a conclusion about an entire group of people.
De_El:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 05 Mar 2008, 23:21 ---I prefer Excel Saga to FLCL in the "wacky" category.
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FLCL is like a wackiness rocket launcher, Excel Saga like a wackiness machine gun turret. There's something in both for everyone, but choosing between the two is ultimately a matter of specialization.
I second Fist of the Northstar, FMA, Trigun, Tokyo Godfathers, Perfect Blue (Did anyone else like Millenium Actress? Cus I did), Ninja Scroll, and Hellsing up to as point, but not actually the whole thing. At some point the storyline shifts and the show becomes not as good. if you don't mind mangas, the Hellsing mangas I find are more entertaining.
Oh, and Rurouni Kenshin. But really, you could just watch season 2, and ignore the rest of the show.
What else? Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is basically better than the movie. Seasons 1 and 2 of that are both great.
Finally (this is getting kind of long) people should watch Kino's Journey. It's very episodic rather than serial and every episode is like a weird examination of a hypothetically posed philosophical dilemma. It's awesome, do it up.
imapiratearg:
Ghost In the Shell: SAC is awesome. I haven't seen it in forever, but I remember loving every bit of it.
Alex C:
I tend to stick with OVAs since they don't suffer from the billion episode syndrome and generally have higher production values. Really though, as Zerodrone said earlier, it's quite rare that billion episode syndrom becomes a big problem, and it usually only affects anime adaptations of manga series, particularly super popular ones that are still in production (unfortunately, these are some of the most visible anime productions of all, hence why so many people are misled into thinking this is common). Although I haven't watched it myself, I'm under the impression that Rurouni Kenshin is one of the best examples of this phenomenon. Basically, the manga was incomplete and the anime production schedule eventually resulted in the television series catching up with and outpacing the manga author. The resulting filler episodes resulted sapped the show's popularity and eventually resulted in cancellation, despite the initial success of the series. See Also: Naruto, Inuyasha, One Piece, etc.
De_El:
This is quite true, exactly what happened. But still, there was a time for RK when everything fell into place. The 2nd season is really awesome. And the OVAs of it are good.
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