Do You Watch Anime?

[InformationGeek]

I should have ask this a long time ago considering how I'm into anime.  Do any of you watch anime TV shows?  Stuff like Naruto, Shin-Chan, Bleach, Pokemon, and Yu-Yu Hakusho or shows that are available only DVD?  I watch lots of this stuff and I have a decent collection of it as well.  My latest edition to it has been the 2 Disc Special Editions of Planetes Vol. 1 & 2 and Trigun Vol. 1.

So, do you guys watch any anime?  Here's one that the b-movie lovers here might enjoy!
Project Blue Earth SOS!  It features elements from Sci-Fi movies, like Body Snatchers; War of the Worlds; Independence Day; etc.

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[retrorussell]

Sure, I've seen plenty anime.  One of my favorites is Dangaioh.  I also like They Were 11, Appleseed, Cowboy Bebop, Excel Saga, Vampire Hunter D, and many others.

[JaseSF]

Sure although I was more into in the 80s and 90s than I am nowadays. It's rare I watch anime nowadays. Anyways I enjoyed the following:

Macross (Robotech)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Gundam Wing
Astro Boy (80s)
Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers)
Escaflowne
Voltron
InuYasha

[Jim H]

I occasionally watch it.  I'm in the middle of World's Greatest Disciple Kenichi, though it's been a month or so since I watched any of it.

I used to watch it a little more regularly, but I find it very hard to find anime I like enough to really get into.  Most anime I find take about twice as long to tell the story as they should.  In the case of One Piece, which I watched for about 120 episodes, it was more like four times as long.  Obviously, I still enjoyed it, as I watched 120 odd episodes of it, but it just takes FOREVER for some stuff.  Same deal with Naruto, though if you ignore the filler arcs it's not nearly as bad as One Piece.

The basic thing I've found is I should probably only watch series that are a single season long or semi-episodic, and always intended to be that.  Ones I've enjoyed along those lines are Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Trigun, Dragon Half, Black Lagoon, and Hyper Police. 

[Jack]

I watch a little bit of Anime.  Cowboy Bebop was probably my favorite.  Also got a kick out of Tank Police.  That stuff isn't a huge favorite of mine, but I enjoy it occasionally. 

[3mnkids]

yep. I just bought "when they cry" box set and I'm working my way through it. I like the darker stuff    

[Fausto]

I used to watch it a little more regularly, but I find it very hard to find anime I like enough to really get into.  Most anime I find take about twice as long to tell the story as they should.  In the case of One Piece, which I watched for about 120 episodes, it was more like four times as long.  Obviously, I still enjoyed it, as I watched 120 odd episodes of it, but it just takes FOREVER for some stuff.  Same deal with Naruto, though if you ignore the filler arcs it's not nearly as bad as One Piece.

This is usually because the anime is being created while the manga it spun off of is still being put out. Often they have a ton of filler episodes while waiting for the next issue to be released, so they can animate it. I agree, its easier just to watch self-contained series without all the filler bs.

[InformationGeek]

yep. I just bought "when they cry" box set and I'm working my way through it. I like the darker stuff    

You got the When They Cry?!  You are the most awesome mom ever (Next to mine of course  )!  That's some pretty dark stuff you are dealing with.  I'm currently reading the manga verison of it and it's just as dark.  I have the box set on my Christmas list.  If I don't get it then, I'll use the Christmas money I get to pay for it.  How's the voice acting for the show as it goes on?  I'm seen some of the early episodes and it's sort of hit or miss a couple of times until it really starts getting creepy.

[SPazzo]

I watch anime every once in a while.  Not so much series, but movies.  The Studio Ghibli stuff is amazing, but after that I don't get very far.  I do read the manga One Piece though.

[3mnkids]

yep. I just bought "when they cry" box set and I'm working my way through it. I like the darker stuff    

You got the When They Cry?!  You are the most awesome mom ever (Next to mine of course  )!  That's some pretty dark stuff you are dealing with.  I'm currently reading the manga verison of it and it's just as dark.  I have the box set on my Christmas list.  If I don't get it then, I'll use the Christmas money I get to pay for it.  How's the voice acting for the show as it goes on?  I'm seen some of the early episodes and it's sort of hit or miss a couple of times until it really starts getting creepy.

The voice acting is rough in the beginning but does improve.    I hope you get it for christmas so you dont have to buy it. It was worth the price though. 

[darthchicken]

I don't watch much anime.. but I do read a decent amount of manga. My friends are all into it though, and they even managed to get me onto the staff at a convention.  I do nothing anime related, I run Magic tournaments, but still, I'm surrounded by the stuff.

[venomx]

My top 5 Anime movies ...

1. Vampire Hunter D

2. Fist of the North Star

3. Legend of the Overfiend

4. Legend of the Overfiend 2

5. Ninja Scroll

[JaseSF]

If we're getting into films, I really enjoyed the following:

Patlabor 1: Mobile Police
Patlabor 2: Mobile Police
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
Galaxy Express 999
Vampire Hunter D
Demon City Shinjuka
Ninja Scroll
Dominion: Tank Police
Akira
Armitage III: Poly-Matrix
Casshan: Robot Hunter
Gall Force: Eternal Story
Green Legend Ran
Iria: Zeiram the Animation
Ghost in the Shell
Record of Lodoss War
E.Y.E.S. of Mars
Metropolis (2002)
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Princess Mononoke
Project A-Ko
Robot Carnival
Roujin Z
Spirited Away
GoShogun: the Time Étranger
The Venus Wars
Tenchi Muyo in Love
Castle in the Sky
Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth

[Fausto]

As far as tv shows:

Genshiken
Maburaho
Full Metal Alchemist
GTO
Sgt Frog
Black Jack
Wolf and Spice
Paranoia Agent (I once considered writing a college term paper on the show and the symbolism behind it)
Ranma 1/2
Inuyasha
Cowboy Bebop
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Case Closed (Detective Conan)
Shin Chan
Nerima Daikon Brothers (an anime parody of the blues brothers!)
Pumpkin Scissors
xxxHolic
Dragonball z
Excel Saga
Rozen Maiden
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

As for movies...

Anything by Hayao Miazaki (especially spirited away)
Anything by Satoshi Kon (especially perfect blue)
Fullmetal Alchemist: the conqueror of shamballa
Metropolis
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Akira

[Jim H]

I used to watch it a little more regularly, but I find it very hard to find anime I like enough to really get into.  Most anime I find take about twice as long to tell the story as they should.  In the case of One Piece, which I watched for about 120 episodes, it was more like four times as long.  Obviously, I still enjoyed it, as I watched 120 odd episodes of it, but it just takes FOREVER for some stuff.  Same deal with Naruto, though if you ignore the filler arcs it's not nearly as bad as One Piece.

This is usually because the anime is being created while the manga it spun off of is still being put out. Often they have a ton of filler episodes while waiting for the next issue to be released, so they can animate it. I agree, its easier just to watch self-contained series without all the filler bs.

Thing is, even when they're covering a finished manga or an arc that is done, they just take way too long for the amount of storyline.  Not always, mind you, but frequently it's quite obvious that they're stretching out scenes and filling them with padding to get to X number of episodes, rather than adapting the manga the way it should be. 

For example, one series I really liked a lot, Yu Yu Hakusho, has a few fights that just drag on for like 5 episodes, when the actual number of scenes should really have it at more like 2.  There are also some shows where a small amount of storyline is dragged out ridiculously.  Like the Sand arc in One Piece, which is like 40 episodes or something.  For the amount of things that happened, it could easily have been covered in 15.