The Anime/Manga Discussion & Recommendation Thread

[Mushu2083]

Also GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) is pretty good.

[littlefuzzy]

Ahhh... I've been waiting for a topic like this... *cracks knuckles*

I haven't had the money to buy a whole lot recently, but I have about 400 anime DVDs, ~150 anime laserdiscs, and ~300 mangas... I have been an anime fan since 1990, although I was watching Speed Racer, Star Blazers, etc., on TV in the 70s, as a wee lad...

A couple of the discs listed below may not fit quite right where they are listed... Basically, I am calling a single-disc OVAs (2-3 episodes) movies, and multi-disc OVAs (4-5+ episodes) TV Series...


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CAUTION: Some of these may not be suited for all ages, so check the ratings/get parental permission if you think you might have a problem...
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Here are some of my favorites:
Movies/Short OVAs:
All Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli titles
Armitage III (4 OVAs made into 1 movie, plus another movie)
The Castle of Cagliostro - Lupin IIIrd, from Miyazaki
Cowboy Bebop Movie
Dragon Half - super funny, for older teens
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Spirit of Wonder: Miss China's Ring - probably hard to find.
Tokyo Godfathers - PG13

TV Series (or long OVAs):
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Ah My Goddess - also Adventures of Mini-Goddess
Angelic Layer - from Clamp - all ages (some violence,) and would appeal to boys & girls
Azumanga Daioh - Super Funny
Chance Pop Session - about a girl studying music
Chobits - from Clamp - Mature rating, I think
Comic Party - about a manga artist, funny
Cowboy Bebop - one of the best out there...
Cromartie High School - funny, weird, probably older audiences.
El-Hazard
Escaflowne
Excel Saga - Funny, Weird, Funny, Crazy - older teens
Full Metal Panic! - Funny
Full Metal Alchemist
The Fuccons - weird Japanese mannequin show, some rude humor.
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka - funny, older teens
Haibane Renmei
Inu Yasha
Iria: Zieram the Animation - There are some cool live-action movies on this.
Kiddy Grade - Older Teens
King of Bandit Jing
Kino's Journey
Legend of Black Heaven - Older Teens
Love Hina - Older teens
Lupin IIIrd
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi - funny, probably older teens
Maison Ikkoku - probably not a lot of action
Outlaw Star
Photon - Funny, Older teens
Rune Soldier - Older Teens
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Sherlock Hound - Miyazaki (think The Great Mouse Detective...)
Tenchi Muyo - also Tenchi Muyo GXP, several other series and movies.
Trigun - Older Teens


Manga and novels:
anything Clamp
everything in Shonen Jump
A.I. Love You
Angelic Layer
Azumanga Daioh
BECK
Bleach
Cardcaptor Sakura
DeathNote
Dr. Slump - from the Dragon Ball creator
Flame of Recca
GTO
Kingdom Hearts
Kodocha (Sana's Stage)
Magical Knights Rayearth
Monsters, Inc.
Negima Magister Negi Magi
Planetes
Psychic Academy
Ranma 1/2
Rave Master
Remote
Sandland - from the Dragon Ball creator
Sgt. Frog
Slayers Novels
Star Wars Manga
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
Tuxedo Gin
xxxHolic

I think that covers most of them...

[Mushu2083]

Akira is extremely bloody and violent so it may not be appropriate for younger viewers. It's still a good movie though.

Films:
All the Studio Ghibli Films
Akira
Steamboy
Metropolis

Films I want to see:
The Neon Genesis Evangelion Trilogy
Ghost in the Shell 1&2
Pefect Blue
Memories
Wings of Honemaise (sp?)
Voices of a Distant Star
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Millenium Actress

T.V. Shows
Outlaw Star
Dragon Ball
Tenchi Muyo
Pokemon
Digimon
Sailor Moon
Yu Yu Hakusho

Manga:
None, too lazy

[littlefuzzy]

I updated my post... Check 2 posts up.

[Sotiris]

My second love after disney animation. My favourite genres are shoujo/mahou shoujo/drama-romance and thriller...

Some of my favourite anime series are:

Candy Candy
Sailor Moon
The Rose of Versailles a.k.a Lady Oscar
Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl)
Tokyo Mew Mew
Cardcaptor Sakura
xxxHolic
Air
Hello Sandybell!
Magical Princess Minky Momo
and many others especially 80's anime

Some of my favourite anime movies:

Every Studio Ghibli one with Spirited Away on top!
Tokyo Godfathers
Millenium Actress
Perfect Blue
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

How about you?

[RyougaLolakie]

I do have a limited taste in anime, so I'll narrow it down to one of my favorite animes of all time, including films in no particular order.

TV Series:

- Lupin III (the second series)
- Cased Closed (In japan, its called "Detective Conan")
- Azumanga Daioh (definately one of the funniest animes around!)
- Crayon Shin-Chan
- Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z (up to the freeza saga)
- Sailor Moon (up to sailor stars)
- Galaxy Express 999 (80's anime)

Films:

- All of Studio Ghibli films

[Jasmine1022]

i do like anime, but im an anime virgin. i dont get a lot of anime.... but what i have seen i love.

TV Shows
Inu Yasha
Sailor Moon (what I've seen)
Wolf's Rayne (idk how it was spelled)



Movies
(the two ive seen)
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle

[Disney's Divinity]

I don't read very many manga, so I'm going more on the shows than anything:

Sorceror Stabber Orphen
Wolf's Rain
Tenchi Muyo/Universe
Samurai 7
Digimon (only the first season)
FAKE (never seen the show for this one)

I enjoy Full Metal Alchemist, Inuyasha, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball (Z), but there are so many episodes (with so little happening in each) that I get bored most of the time.

The Ghibli films are good, too (though I haven't seen all of them). The older ones (Nausicaa, Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky) tend to keep me uninterested. But I've seen Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away so many times, I'm thinking about adding them to my 'favorite movies of all time' list.

[JamesDFarrow]

I've just started to get into Anime.

I ordered the following DVDs and hopefully they will be here next week:

Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Complete Season 1
Last Exile, Complete Series
Record of Lodoss War, Complete Series

James

[PixarFan2006]

I used to like anime shows like Pokemon and Digimon, but now I am sick to death of anime. Look what it has done to Toon Disney! I think most anime shows today are just an excuse to market toys.

[Jasmine1022]

the cheesy ones are out to market toys. i dont think many people buy inu yasha action figures i would buy an inu yasha back pack or plushy, but i dont think people really buy the toys.

also, the anime movies dont sell toys. i have never seen a chihiro toy anywhere..... or a yubaba one, for that matter.

[Sotiris]

I used to like anime shows like Pokemon and Digimon, but now I am sick to death of anime. Look what it has done to Toon Disney! I think most anime shows today are just an excuse to market toys.

You mustn't overgeneralize situations. Don't judge from a few cases and state that all anime are created just for the toy market. Especially if you don't have an thorough experience with that media. Personally i never liked Pokemon or Digimon.Nowadays, everything can be exploited for financial reasons from disney products to quality live-action movies. If for example the lame merchandise of Disney Princesses make me sick or infuriate me that doesn't mean that the disney films that inspired that products are not worth-while, right?

[Jasmine1022]

true. very, very true. i hate to say this, but disney will do whatever they can to make money. they treat their PE dvds HORRIBLY, and they target it toward a younger audience, leaving us older disney lovers to cling to memories

i used to LOVE pokemon. in fact, i still have the card of my favorite one!

[Lazario]

Sailor Moon was one of my favorite TV shows for years when it broadcast on Fox Kids. Of course, die-hard fans of the show say the only version worth a damn is the original Asian version, but I like the American / English-speaking voices too much to go back. It would be nice to see the English-speaking episodes get a DVD release one day, but I have all the original Fox-run episodes recorded on VHS (unfortunately though, I had to record 1 of the episodes, "Wedding Day Blues," off of USA during their run of the show and they cut A LOT of stuff out of the episodes).

And one of my favorite movies as a kid was The Fantastic Adventures of Unico. I have that movie on a VERY badly worn and worn out VHS that also contains the "Too Smart for Strangers" special done with the live action, people in costumes, Welcome to Pooh Corner characters, a recorded off of the original VHS copy of Disney's TV movie Justin Morgan Had a Horse, and the Unico sequel, but only the first 20-something or 30-something minutes of it, The Island of something.

[Sotiris]

If you like Sailor Moon i know a site that has in high quality all the seasons in japanese with english subs and seasons 1&2 dubbed. Are you interested?

[Jasmine1022]

i am, and i know a friend of mine that would be, too!

back when i met him my friends used to call me serena and they called him darien, even though i look nothing like her. lol.

he's hot like darien, though

[Sotiris]

Here: http://www.sailormooncenter.net/index.p ... a212e13850

It has direct downloads, no spams or viruses. Enjoy!

[Jasmine1022]

that site is AMAZING. i think i will spend most of my day there lol

[Siren]

I don't like many anime

Princess Mononoke
Unico
Ringing Bell

Are really all that come to mind. I keep meaning to watch Wolf's Rain though.

[danfrandes]

My favorite tv show is POKEMON.