Anime

[FoxySarah]

Originally Posted by CreativeMind

Anime is terrific. I love it just because the Japanese have a truly fantastic sense of production design and story execution. Of course that said, business is still business -- so it still depends on what property you're talking about or which production studio was involved. Like anything else, you have some studios producing higher end, artistic things...but then you have just as many studios overseas cranking out product to meet a lowest common denominator sales point. So I guess some things really are universal no matter what country you're doing business in!

As for the names tossed out on this thread, what, no love for AKIRA?

Akira was the first Anime I ever saw! I still love it, it's so wonderfully bizarre. My absolute favorite anime is a series called Wolf's Rain. It's beatifully animated, though it's very dark (particularly towards the end)

[Excaliborg]

no, not anime again. i thought i was over my addition. currently i have

blood
basilisk
deathnote
hellsing amd hellsing OVA
gto
claymore
scryed
spawn
and way too much one piece for any sane person
and other crazy ass animes like sexy commande and dokuro chan
and i dunno whatelse

[SweetCharmer]

Everyone has to see samurai champloo its so funny its like fuedal japanese samurai but mixed in wit hmondern days stuff it just fucks time over but its hella cool plus the soundtrack is briulliant done mostly by a band called Nujabes here's on of the songs from the anime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l605JEbxe4 nujabes are a brill japanese band too look em up

[threnn00]

New guy here on the board. Did a search for "anime", and althought this thread is a bit dusty, I just wanted to put my two cents in...

I'm a long time anime fan. Some of my favorites are Shōjo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena), Ghost in the Shell (movies and TV), Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, Escaflowne, Code Geass and pretty much anything by CLAMP, especially the X TV series (not so much the movie). Also recently enjoyed Macross Frontier. First "real" anime I ever saw was Ranma 1/2. Should have guessed I was into Tgirls from that... :D

Love to resurrect some anime discussion. Anyone else game?