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[Srsly]

No Sailor Moon?
No Strike Witches?
No Lucky Star?
No Powerpuff Girls Z?

 

[Q8D3vil]

I was always a fan of Blood: The last vampire and Blood+. And Inuyasha. Before you start, I don't care if they're for girls, I like em.

seen blood the last vampire and first 30 episode of inuyasha. didn't click with but it was fun.

Why isnt Dragon Ball Z on your list?

DB is meh.
but i know that US love it to hell.

I thought the same thing at first. A friend of mine wanted me to watch it and turned it on for me. I thought I'd have to suffer through it (even a good ways through the first episode), but it really picked up, and I started laughing way more than I thought I would. But, yeah, not for kiddies.

All of the other good ones seemed to have been named here. Just making sure another great one got a mention.

is it like ping pong club ?! because i loved it.
not for adult x100

 

[Risette]

GAF, I can't find these animes at all.
wtf.
:/

PM me the site or link it discreetly.

I think they're all hentai lol

 

[akachan ningen]

Cowboy Bebop
Haibane Renmei
Monster
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Castle in the Sky
Azumanga Daioh
Baccano!
Escaflowne
My Neighbor Totoro
Superflat Monogram
Now and Then, Here and There
Whisper of the Heart
Grave of the Fireflies
Kiki's Delivery Service
Dennou Coil
Fullmetal Alchemist
Kino's Journey
Macross Plus
Nausicaa
Evangelion 1.0
Angel's Egg
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Time of Eve
Voices of a Distant Star
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
5cm Per Second
Sword of the Stranger
Ponyo
Paranoia Agent

Start with these. Except Monster, you can skip that shit.

 

[Verano]

I think they're all hentai lol

I fugured that out like 15min ago...still I do wish there was some hentai streaming sites.

 

[rpmurphy]

You also missed all the awesome and fun animes that most of us as kids watched all the time. Since you're not a kid anymore... well, sucks for you.

 

[Kite]

ok serious post, no cartoon porn this time :lol

Crest/Banner of the Stars
PLANETES
Millennium Actress
Mushishi
12 KIngdoms
Twin Spica
Eve no Jikan
Cross Game
Bastard!
Great Teacher Onizuka
Monster
Giant Robo

and...

Moonlight Lady ~NSFW NSFW~ <=

 

[Linkhero1]

Start with these. Except Monster, you can skip that shit.

Wow what the fuck. No skip all that and watch Monster.

Actually watch Baccano! and Cowboy Bebop too. I love those.

 

[Verano]

Wow what the fuck. No skip all that and watch Monster.

Actually watch Baccano! and Cowboy Bebop too. I love those.

I managed to watch 50 episodes and I just threw in the the towel. First 20 episodes is good, 30 alright, and around 40 it gets stale...very stale. The pace was too slow for me and the suspense gradually faded away...
:/

 

[Linkhero1]

I managed to watch 50 episodes and I just threw in the the towel. First 20 episodes is good, 30 alright, and around 40 it gets stale...very stale. The pace was too slow for me and the suspense gradually faded away...
:/

it gets way better after 50. I remember people complaining how it gets really slow around 50 and I agree but after a few episodes it picks up again.

 

[MidnightScott]

Well I just watched Ponyo on Netflix streaming. That was the kiddiest Ghibli film I ever saw. Most of the other films have adult elements lol. I'm not complaining or anything as I already knew the plot kind of.

Am I the only one who likes Kekkaishi?

I've seen:
Pokémon (currently running)
Bleach (currently running)
Kekkaishi (currently running)
InuYasha
Digimon (watched all of season 2, plus the movie)
Code Geass (I only watched the first season)
Lucky Star
Rockman.EXE
Ryuusei no Rockman (I only watched the first season)
Trigun
Great Teacher Onizuka
Gungrave (I own it but only watched the first disc)
Powerpuff Girls Z
Dragon Ball Z
Dirty Pair
Dirty Pair Flash
The Big O
FLCL
Sailor Moon
Cardcaptors (the dub...didn't watch all of it)
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Tsubasa Chronicle
Dennou Coil
Lupin the 3rd
Astro Boy (the 1960s one)
Astro Boy (the 2003 one)
Fullmetal Alchemist
Ghost in the Shell
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Eureka Seven
Kikaider
Cyborg 009
Paranoia Agent
Shin-chan (The FUNi dub...)
Tenchi Muyo
YuYu Hakusho
G Gundam
Some other Gundams
Speed Racer
Yugioh
Yugioh GX
Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales
Gintama (still wondering why it hasn't been dubbed)
Rurouni Kenshin
Sonic X
Hamtaro
.HACK//SIGN
Zatch Bell
Transformers

Series I've Finished
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star
Samurai Champloo
s-CRY-ed
Basilisk
Blood+
Gantz
Death Note
Ghost Hunt
Samurai 7
Eden of the East (fansub)
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (fansub)
The Sacred Blacksmith (fansub)

Films
Pokémon 1-12
Bleach 1 & 2
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Sword of the Stranger
Akira
Steamboy
Memories
Princess Mononoke
Kiki's Delivery Service
Pom Poko
Porco Rosso
Grave of the Fireflies
Castle in the Sky
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Ponyo
Metropolis

Probably Will Buy Someday
Trigun
Gurren Lagann
Great Teacher Onizuka
The Big O
Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Evangelion remake films

I know I've probably seen more than that but I just can't think of everything.

 

[Lafiel]

I managed to watch 50 episodes and I just threw in the the towel. First 20 episodes is good, 30 alright, and around 40 it gets stale...very stale. The pace was too slow for me and the suspense gradually faded away...
:/

Should have stuck with it. The last 15 or so episodes are excellent.

 

[To Far Away Times]

Required anime checklist:
[]Cowboy Bebop
[]Trigun
[]Samurai Champloo
[]Ghost in the Shell
[]All the films by Studio Ghibli

 

[Q8D3vil]

You also missed all the awesome and fun animes that most of us as kids watched all the time. Since you're not a kid anymore... well, sucks for you.

hey my childhood was pretty awesome .

Tiger mask nisei

Captain tsubasa

Grendizer

Mazinger

Time Quest

guess thats why i like most of go nagai stuff ( specially getter robot ).

so many awesome memories.

Required anime checklist:
[]Cowboy Bebop
[]Trigun
[]Samurai Champloo
[]Ghost in the Shell
[]All the films by Studio Ghibli

all check except ghost in the shell.
by the way, should i watch the movies or the series ?!
i heard the movies are godly.

 

[rpmurphy]

All right, not bad. I was just unclear on what your history with anime was.

Btw, original DB is good. It's miles above the quality of DBZ.

 

[Mumei]

Start with these. Except Monster, you can skip that shit.

Monster > your favorite anime. Whatever it is. Even if I haven't seen it.

 

[Dresden]

I managed to watch 50 episodes and I just threw in the the towel. First 20 episodes is good, 30 alright, and around 40 it gets stale...very stale. The pace was too slow for me and the suspense gradually faded away...
:/

Monster is better read than watched.

 

[Linkhero1]

Monster is better read than watched.

I used to disagree with this because I enjoyed hearing voices and seeing it in color but I read through it this past month and enjoyed reading it more than I did watching it.

Monster > your favorite anime. Whatever it is. Even if I haven't seen it.

Let's be friends.

 

[Jex]

Monster is better read than watched.

I couldn't disagree more with that statement. The direction, pacing, animation and music are excellent.

People who find the anime too slow should obviously do that, but I'd say you're getting bored too easily. It's great either way.

Also, there are hundreds of great titles, and hundreds more mealy good titles to see. Obviously.

Start with these. Except Monster, you can skip that shit.

No.

 

[Lafiel]

Monster is better read than watched.

It's a good suggestion to people who find the anime to slow. Although i never had a problem with the pacing myself.

 

[Dresden]

I prefer the creator's original vision over an anime adaptation that merely manages to be faithful, rather than brilliant. It doesn't improve on the manga and is only preferable if you just prefer animation to manga in general. Just my opinion.

 

[Mumei]

I think if you liked the initial story of Monster, but felt like it was taking too long for things to happen because of vignettes or characters whose importance wasn't absolutely necessary or readily apparent, I do think that the manga would be better just because you can set your own pace.

But I preferred the anime for the reasons Jexhius mentioned - I think that the direction, pacing, animation and music are all excellent and do a lot for the series' immersion that might be lost if you skimmed through it.

Let's be friends.

 

[Jex]

I prefer the creator's original vision over an anime adaptation that merely manages to be faithful, rather than brilliant. It doesn't improve on the manga and is only preferable if you just prefer animation to manga in general. Just my opinion.

Fair enough, but I disagree. It manages to be faithful and brilliant. Adapting those scenes into a televised format wasn't simply a case of straight up copying. I'd say it even improves the work because it brings the mood of the piece to life in the ways I've mentioned.

Then again, the story can meander, which is why I imagine a sizeable chunk of viewers prefer the manga. Which is why the standard advice ends up "Start with the anime and then, if you need to , switch to the manga".

 

[DY_nasty]

Watch Lain.

Its a helluva drug.

 

[Linkhero1]

Watch Lain.

Its a helluva drug.

I watched this and I disagree. Don't bother with it because you will just be confused and you will get irritated. I should have stopped after the first few episodes but I watched it all

 

[Dresden]

Fair enough, but I disagree. It manages to be faithful and brilliant. Adapting those scenes into a televised format wasn't simply a case of straight up copying. I'd say it even improves the work because it brings the mood of the piece to life in the ways I've mentioned.

Then again, the story can meander, which is why I imagine a sizeable chunk of viewers prefer the manga. Which is why the standard advice ends up "Start with the anime and then, if you need to , switch to the manga".

We'll just agree that Monster is excellent. I did watch the anime in the end and enjoyed it, but still found the manga to be the better, more focused experience overall.

 

[Jex]

Folks, recommend him stuff Pre-2000. Seriously. Most of the stuff you're recommending to him is within recent memory and are acting as if there wasn't anything great in the 90's.

Not to mention the 60's, 70's and 80's. It's not a medium that you can easily "complete", although I did once have the same thought myself.

Also no mention of The retro, classic, nostalgic, unmissable anime list thread? For shame.

 

[akachan ningen]

You monster fans have way too much patience for filler. Nobody should have to watch 70+ eps just for a good payoff at the end.

 

[Ninman]

Michiko et Hatchin

 

[DY_nasty]

I watched this and I disagree. Don't bother with it because you will just be confused and you will get irritated. I should have stopped after the first few episodes but I watched it all

Lain is great. Disturbing as all fuck... UGH

Just thinking about it makes me want to watch that acid trip all over again.

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Also gonna come and say that the anime of Monster is something special. A real nailbiter of a story that keeps you coming back for more. Really excellent mystery and drama. Best of all it has some very interesting characters. Its a show where I watched five episodes a night and still wanted to see more.

Hearing how good the Manga is I think I want to check it out instead of rewatching the show again. I also don't have time to sit through 75 eps. I am kind of excited because I don't remember like 75% of what happened in it so it should feel somewhat fresh.

 

[Linkhero1]

Lain is great. Disturbing as all fuck... UGH

Just thinking about it makes me want to watch that acid trip all over again.

Were you really high when you watched it? :lol

 

[Dresden]

Hearing how good the Manga is I think I want to check it out instead of rewatching the show again. I also don't have time to sit through 75 eps. I am kind of excited because I don't remember like 75% of what happened in it so it should feel somewhat fresh.

Nice thing about starting one of his series is that you can then, eventually, work your way up to Pluto.

 

[Jex]

You monster fans have way too much patience for filler. Nobody should have to watch 70+ eps just for a good payoff at the end.

I think you're conflating "filler" with : "world-building", "character-development" and "story progression".

Filler is where something unrelated to any of the above happens. Even when the central character was just travelling around talking to people, we were learning more about him and the show was always referring back to it's central message.

The pay-off was not just at the end, it was everything in-between that led to that payoff, without the travelling the destination wouldn't have been so rewarding.

Finally. "70 episodes" is just a big number, it's not actually a useful measure of time. That's about the length of 1.5 full seasons of a regular television show, which isn't very long at all. Especially when those are often nothing but stand-alone events (although recently we've had an amazing amount of great drama on TV).

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Nice thing about starting one of his series is that you can then, eventually, work your way up to Pluto.

I did a quick look at Anime News Network for Pluto Manga and it sounds interesting. I don't know a thing about Astro Boy though. Sounds very different than Monster. Is it really good? If so I am gonna check it out as soon as I am done with Monster.

 

[Wazzim]

Gundam ofcourse, Gundam is always good man. I get a anime burnout every day lol but Gundam stays fun to watch.

And I everytime hear people talk about Monster, gonna watch it soon to see if it is finally an anime that rivals MS Gundam since Gundam is tha best, most popular and money making anime EVER. It's so awesome that even Santa can't bring me a real one but that doesn't matter because the series is satisfying enough for me.

Spoiler

Yeah if it wasn't obvious, I really like Gundam.

 

[Linkhero1]

Nice thing about starting one of his series is that you can then, eventually, work your way up to Pluto.

I'm reading 20th Century Boys right now and then Pluto after. I love his work.

 

[akachan ningen]

I think you're conflating "filler" with : "world-building", "character-development" and "story progression".

Filler is where something unrelated to any of the above happens. Even when the central character was just travelling around talking to people, we were learning more about him and the show was always referring back to it's central message.

The pay-off was not just at the end, it was everything in-between that led to that payoff, without the travelling the destination wouldn't have been so rewarding.

Finally. "70 episodes" is just a big number, it's not actually a useful measure of time. That's about the length of 1.5 full seasons of a regular television show, which isn't very long at all. Especially when those are often nothing but stand-alone events (although recently we've had an amazing amount of great drama on TV).

You can call it whatever you want, it was boring as fuck.

 

[DY_nasty]

Were you really high when you watched it? :lol

Oh god no. I would've put my head under a lawnmower if I actually watched that while under the influence.

I would've jumped off a building. There were times in that series where there was true fear in my heart. Lain was covering things that were way ahead of its time. It started off very slow and confusing, but once things get started... omfg.

And the ending? I cried.

No, not manly bro-tears either.

Its not a 'casual' show at all though. If you're looking for something with fun loving bit every now and then, it never comes.

 

[faridmon]

Baccano, I don't see it.

You just missed the best character in the whole medium

this is just few of his quotes:

"Why? Is there anything in it for us? If you were a woman, I could expect a kiss or so, but you're a guy! On the contrary, you could just die there. I mean, just die. It is your destiny to die here!"

Depending on your request, whether I will laugh or get angry, that will decide your lifespan, boy

and you missed the second best charcter in the whole medium:

Let me show you! I really don't like you! Since I don't, I'll CLOBBER you! I'm gonna beat you as much as I want to, you hear me!? I'M GONNA HURT YOU OVER AND OVER AGAIN! What's wrong with that, huh? Tell me! You can't, can you!? You should be GRATEFUL! Thanks to my unbelievable attack, you don't have to offer any more of your pathetic EXCUSES!

 

[Mumei]

You can call it whatever you want, it was boring as fuck.

Yes, but at least we've established that it wasn't filler.

 

[Dresden]

I did a quick look at Anime News Network for Pluto Manga and it sounds interesting. I don't know a thing about Astro Boy though. Sounds very different than Monster. Is it really good? If so I am gonna check it out as soon as I am done with Monster.

I think it's better than Monster, but of course, personal opinions and all that. Knowledge about Astro Boy isn't required at all.

I'm reading 20th Century Boys right now and then Pluto after. I love his work.

 

[akachan ningen]

Yes, but at least we've established that it wasn't filler.

I still don't buy it. In those "on the road" episodes you got like one little nugget of new info per ep. It's hardly worth sitting through a boring story for 25 mins just to get that.

 

[Lumpy Onion]

I think it's better than Monster, but of course, personal opinions and all that. Knowledge about Astro Boy isn't required at all.

Sounds great and something to look forward to. I will definitely be checking out that and 20th Century Boys soon.

 

[Mumei]

I think it's better than Monster, but of course, personal opinions and all that. Knowledge about Astro Boy isn't required at all.

I go back and forth on that.

It's definitely more emotionally affecting for me, at least.

 

[Jex]

I still don't buy it. In those "on the road" episodes you got like one little nugget of new info per ep. It's hardly worth sitting through a boring story for 25 mins just to get that.

I believe that if you were only "looking for info" you may have been missing the point of those episodes, as that would be a rather superficial reading.

Whether their point of these episodes (the shows message) was good or bad is up to you, but they certainly weren't just devices to deliver content relating to the main story arc.

Not that this needs to be the "defend great anime" thread.

Bible Black
Nightshift Nurses
Kite xD
Mezzo Forte

Go forth young padawan~

edit: I joke nsfw nsfw

Dude.

 

[faridmon]

I echo the notion that Lain is just trash that wanst to be something different and it just falls flat on its face.

 

[Lafiel]

I loved the "ending" of serial experiments lain. I barely remember anything about the series apart from that though.

Sometime i ought to re-watch.

 

[Dresden]

Baccano, I don't see it.

You just missed the best character in the whole medium

this is just few of his quotes:

Not sure about the best, but Ladd--with the beginning of episode 4--is the reason I got truly hooked on Baccano.

 

[akachan ningen]

I believe that if you were only "looking for info" you may have been missing the point of those episodes, as that would be a rather superficial reading.

Whether their point of these episodes (the shows message) was good or bad is up to you, but they certainly weren't just devices to deliver content relating to the main story arc.

Not that this needs to be the "defend great anime" thread.

Of course not. The point of any show should be to entertain and I was not entertained by ~80% of the episodes I saw.