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The recent discussion about live action anime made me wonder what everyones favorite anime is. Mine are,

1.Porco Rosso
2.Castle of Cagliostro
3.Key The Metal Idol
4.Nausicaa
5.Whispers of the Heart
6.Cowboy Bebop
7.Yawara
8.My Neighbor Totoro
9.Gunbuster
10.Kare kano(I've only seen the first 4 episodes but I really    like it)
11.Mahou Tsukai Tai! Oav

Least favorite,
Fist of the North Star movie(so poor, especially when compared to the tv show)

Well, my 12 year old daughter loves anime, so i get to see my share of anime. Anime isn't like the cartoons I use to watch. Some of these cartoons are very deep. Cartoon Network and Nickolodeon are her two channels. She watches:

Tenchi (her current favorite)
Gundum Wing (my favorite)
Sailor Moon (she collects the magna books for this show)
Dragonball Z
Pokemon (saturdays, its slipping in interest, probably an age thing)

She also likes:

Sponge Bob Square Pants (i even like this one)
Hey, Arnold
Rugrats

Her favorite TV shows are:

Different Strokes (her current favorite)
Brady Bunch
Lassie (she loves dogs)
Amanda Show
Bill Nye


When I was a kid I  didn't watch cartoons to much. I usually watched westerns, war movies, Abbot and Costello movies, and baseball, but when i did watch cartoons I watched:

Popeye (original one only)
Scooby Doo
Bugs Bunny & Road Runner
Josie and the p***ycats
Fat Albert
Underdog
Speed Racer
Magila Gorilla
Pink Panther

Encore Action Channel also shows alot of the Anime movies on a daily basis, but I dropped that channel a couple months ago when they wanted money for it.

I can think of only one anime series I really like and have no problem with, and that is... Tekkaman! You know, the series about a boy and his big-nosed pet robot, Unicorn, (or maybe unicorn was the robot in Technoman) and their journey across space to stop... uh, some aliens, I guess. I haven't seen any Tekkaman for a while.
I'm also partial to the sort-of remake series, Technoman. Was I the only person who watched that?

If you haven't seen "Princess Mononoke" then you really should give it a try.  From the same group that brought us "Nausicca" and "Laputa." Fantastic story and animation.

"Bubblegum Crisis" (especially episode 5) and "Battle Angel."

The unedited version of "Class of the Bionoids" is a great film with some big differences from the series version.  Max actually kills Miria (the alien female) during their fight, then the ship they were duking it out in explodes.  I really want a good quality DVD of this to come out.

"Grave of the Fireflies" - wrenching, it will make you ache inside.

"Star Blazers" will always hold a special place in my heart too.

Andrew

For what its worth, heres my 3 cents worth.....>  Patlabor (both movies)  >  Nausicaa  >  Tenchi  >  Lupin  >  Macross (Robotech and the Films)  >  Slayers( the adv translation is funny!)  >  Princess Mononoke (well duh)  >  Robot Carnival(The Duleing steam tech robos is the best gag, the guy who made the android girl is oddly compelling )  >  Appleseed(only  1 ephisode, but it lives up to the manga)  >  Ghost in the shell.  <<    I've not see a lot of anime yet, but i'll keep trying.

Too many to mention, but as far as movies go,
my faves are Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies,
Battle Angel OAV and Perfect Blue (an AWESOME
anime horror flick).

I also like Galaxy Express 999.

Dragonball (But all the cheeky humor was taken off TV.)
Dragonball Z (this is more of a guilty pleasure than DB.  It's not nearly as good but I love those fights)
Trigun
Initial D
Akira (the comic was better though)
Excel Saga (Extremely weird but funny.  Il Parazto Rules)
Captain Harlock (I might be 19 but I still like some of the retro stuff)
Ranma 1/2 (Sex changes made easy.  Species changes made easier)
Castle of Cogliastro (Zengata: "Look at all of this counterfeit money.  Whatever shall I do?")
Vandread (A future where men and women form separate colonies and each colony claims that the other is evil.  There's propaganda that features women as killer monsters.  Histerical)
Cowboy Bebop
Tenchi Muyu
El Hazard (Tenchi Muyu meets the Wizard of Oz.  With Lesbianism.)
Slayers
Inu Yasha (recently made into an anime.  Fansubs rule!)
Komodo no Omocha (This is extremely Weird but funny.  Hayama's dad rules!)
Neon Genisis Evangelion (The movies gave me a headache though.  Avoid them.)
Mahou Tsukai Tai! Oav
Maison Ikkokou
Lum (Everyone loves someone else on this show.  Pity them all.)
Lost Universe
Pilot Candidate
Detective Conan (17 year old Detective trapped in a fourth grader's body.  Surprizingly gory murder mysteries sometimes.)
Love Hina (Extremely Weird but funny.  That jungle girl rules!)
Porco Rosso
Princess Monoke
Pokemon (STOP LAUGHING AT ME!  I like it for the same reasons as Dr. Freex.  I also hate the first movie for the same reason as Freex.)
Digimon (I have no excuse for this one.  Just a guilty pleasure.  I'd rather see a subtitled version though.)
Vision of Escaflowne
I know it's a long list but my favourites always change depending on my mood.

Mostly I like big-screen anime, basically all of the big ones: Mononoke, Castle of Cagliostro, Akira (personally I like the film better than the comic), Ghost in the Shell (again, better than the manga... and only the subtitled version is worth watching), Grave of the Fireflies, Perfect Blue (INSANE!!!), Ninja Scroll.  Another theatrical film which hasn't been seriously distributed here yet is Spriggan, which I saw at a campus anime club--it was totally in Japanese without subtitles, but I still loved every damn minute of it.

My favorite TV series is Serial Experiments Lain.  It's awesome--like if you took a computer programming genius and put his nightmares on TV.  And it's just 13 episodes, so it won't drain your wallet too much...

Only anime I've really seen are

Ghost in the Shell (very enjoyable)
Princess Mononoke (incredibly well done in just about every aspect)
Escaflowne (the Fox Kids version, but still damn good)
Blue Seed (meh)
Gunsmith Cats (not bad, wish I could find more episodes)
Digimon (Oddly addictive, sometimes so bad it's good)
There's also something that I suppose I can say I saw called 3x3 Eyes or soemthing similar, but I had lost my glasses, so I couldn't read the subtitles or see much ofthe picture.  Damn my pathetic grasp on Japanese. . .

Hey, I thought of another one I like: Giant Robo. Princess Mononoke was a great film, but I find it hard to watch since every character radiates incredible amounts of stress and anger, and that just reminds me too much of my family.

Darn it, I posted a message and then immediately thought of something else I should of put in. Anyway, I have trouble watching most anime for the same reason as Princess Mononoke, and that is that the characters all seem to have a lot of repressed feelings of anger or sadness, and it just depresses me to much. I've found this to be true even in the comedies.

I haven't seen a ton of anime, but I quite liked Ghost in the Shell and Akira.  Good stuff.

I coulsd never really get into the Ghost in the Shell but the scene where the guy realizes his wife and families are just false memories is sad and powerful.
Look for the sequel real soon.  Also the guys who made Akira have made another film (Spriggan) but this is more of an action adventure than Akira was.

As**taka does not have a "bad aura," instead the youthful prince spends much time fighting the taint that has infected him.  He even seems resigned to his fate.

It's interesting, but the god animals (Morrow, the boars, etc) and Mononoke are the ones with all the hostility.  Eboshi and her people are only killing them because they have to.

I still don't like Eboshi though...

Andrew

Most people have repressed feelings of anger or sadness, I'm afraid.  Even not-anime ones.

Faerie Of Death wrote:
>
> Most people have repressed feelings of anger or
> sadness, I'm afraid.  Even not-anime ones.

That's my point; I get more then enough of that in real life, so I just can't handle large doses of it in my entertainment

Yeah, I know As**taka is fighting it, and the whole point of the movie is that people should move past those feelings of anger, but I still maintain that everybody is royally p**sed off through most of the movie. That's why my favorite character was the Monk, even though he was terribly immoral, at least he was cheerful about it.

IT IS NOT SPELLED "IL PARAZTO"!!!!! ITS SPELLED ILLPALAZZO! DANM U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love anime these are my favorites.

Dragonball/Z. I hate the dubbing version!

The original Gundam. I think a day after 9/11 this was taken off the air.

Cyborg 009. Recently added.

Bio Boosting Armor Guyver. Only 12 episodes made but still one of my favorites

Pretty much anything made by the guy who did "Princess Monoke"

That's all I can come up with at the top of my head.

Why avoid the Evangelion movies?  They're thought provoking and visually stunning, and fit very well with the rest of the series.

Anything by Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli.

The entirety of Evangelion.  I actually shelled out $200 for a boxed set of this, that's the most I've spent on anything, ever.

Perfect Blue

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Wings of Honneamise

Samurai X (The Rorouni Kenshin OVAs, four episodes.  Sooo..good..)

Serial Experiments Lain

Dominion Tank Police!

Hrm.  I've got more, but can't think of it off the top of my head.  I think this' a good start, though.

Everything else has probably been said.

Some of my favourite anime, in no particular order...

Vampire Hunter D - Loved his "sidekick"!
Captain Harlock - Still own a copy I've was bought whe I was 7!
Cyber City OEDO 808 - Very cool
Urotsukidoji - Legend of the Overfiend - very nasty
Project A-Ko - Superhuman schoolgirl action...with a bloody big space battle! Smashing!
The Guyver - 12 parts of bio-boosted warfare!
Streetfighter 2 - Anyone spotted Akuma sitting under a tree in India?
Doomed Megalopolis - Yasunori Kato is one of my fave bad guys!
Macross/Robotech - Transforming war machines and space battles, groovy!
Dragonball/Z/GT - Only problem I had was in GT and Vegeta's bad "Porn actors" moustache!
Tenchi Muyo! - How many girls fancied him? Lucky sod...
Armageddon - Nice theory of where we come from and why.
Urusei Yatsura! (Those obnoxious aliens!) - Just mad and all over the place, but I liked it!

But I can't stand Pokemon. Complete crap designed to sell a product, rather than a cartoon that inspired products to be made, the best slating I could give it has already been given in the Chinpokomon episode of South Park.

I think that my favorite Anime wether it be a movie/series would be in this order:

1. Chobits - Perfectly animated beautiful romantic scifi.  Bought an imported 3 DVD copy from Japan recently.

2. Vampire Hunter D - I hate the new one, but the orignal is a pure classic.   Fantastic story and also very well animated.

3. Angelic Layer - Don't know how many people have seen this, but it is great!  It's about fighting robots...but tiny robots.  You just have to see to understand.

4. Ghost In The Shell - Do I really have to say anything else?

Seems to be a big trend here but I have to go with Perfect Blue and Ghost in the Shell on principle.  Awesome stuff.  Ninja Scroll=a guilty pleasure as well.

Akira was good, but I've always thought that if it was just based around guys with motorcycles I would've enjoyed it more! :-p  Also although it was a enjoyable, I didn't think Spriggan was very good as a stand alone movie.  It just required too much knowledge of what was going on outside of the movie [ie the manga] and that just frustrated me to no end.  

The movie 'X' did that as well, and I also liked it but found it too much based on the comic.  Also 'Blood: The last vampire'' was pretty good but too short [45mins or so] to be really enjoyable; I kept waiting for something to happen after it finished, and when it didn't I almost started crying!

I guess that's why Akira and Ghost in the Shell stand out so much more: they can operate outside of their manga-based world, and stand on their own two feet.

Some big time favourites that haven't been mentioned yet are Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within [not sure whether it should be classed as Anime, but it's japanese so I'll count it!]  I thought it was fantastic and shouldn't have bombed as much as it did at the box office.

Another one is the Animatrix.  How could you possibly go wrong with pretty much every single legend animator\directors in the business.  I saw this at the cinemas before reloaded came out and couldn't help thinking ''f**k me, this is awesome''  I mean i could have come up with something more meaningful, I'm sure, but it kinda blew my mind.

In terms of Animated series [and movie spinoffs]  Neon Genesis is the be-all-end-all.  It is awesome!  Also Cowboy Bebop is pretty good, as well as Gunsmith Cats and Hellsing [crazy vamp that kills stuff]

Um..Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was not from Japan.

>>>Um..Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was not from Japan.


Still, pretty much everyone involved in it was japanese [behind the scenes that is] including the director and has many conventions of what would be considered Anime instead of a western animation, therefore I am still counting it.  Not to mention that alot of the content is Japaneseish in basis [The Gaia theory amongst others.]  And it's based on a Japanese game series.

When I watch a behind the scenes featurette that has pretty much every person as Japanese, I tend to think it's Japanese [Not to mention that the two main songs in the end were Japanese, or by Japanese, or in Japanese]

So you'd forgive me for thinking this was a Japanese-based movie!

It was written (for the screen) by Americans.  It was directed by two Japanese men.

All animation nowadays is done overseas anyway (I'm not talking key animation, but the actual animation itself), so that arguement is invalid.

It starred Americans.  This is not a Japanese movie, and is definitely not anime.  But this' just semantics anyway.