Written by Vathek on 26.03.2010 at 04:45

Bleach is sooooooo good. www.bleach7.com
It makes me laugh, and feel epic. Everything is epic. The lead character keeps getting more epic. The right blend of humour and awesome sword/magic showdown action. The characters in it are great, do watch it in Japanese though, it's so much better. When they visit the Hollow World things just get more and more awesome... 256 episodes and counting...

Hehe.. I dont share that opinion...

From the most successful animes in the last decade (One Piece, Naruto and Bleach), Bleach is the worse by far. If it wasn't for Soul Society arc, the series would be a complete waste of time.

The characters simply have no connections anymore, it's just random battles, no emotional attachments to the past, no bitterness inherited in the characters (except for Rukia), everyone is shallow to the bone. Ichigo must be one of the worst main characters ever, he is annoying, arrogant, and a pretentious nerd-like asshole. And the worst part, he's past was resolved soon in the 18th episode or so... so he has nothing more to offer us, and could have died in Soul Society saga.

The author simply created too many useless characters, there's a LOT of them, and all without a hint of charisma... it is simply too easy to hate them all just because... to finish the bad points, the manga flows sooooo slowly that the anime has to put on lots of fillers, and even when the canon arcs comes back, it follow the same super-slow formula of the manga...

all that = bored to tears = Bleach sucks

But hey Katekyo Hitman Reborn is waay worse, so that's great news

About a week ago, I finished watching the box set of Haruhi Suzumiya. The show is great except for the last episode which consisted mostly of padding (I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in watching Yuki read a book silently for 5 minutes straight). Come next month, I intend to purchase the Azumanga Daioh boxset. I can tell I'm in for a fun ride based on the cheerful opening and the SATA ANDAGI.

Have u ever seen Air?? darn it made me cry...unbelievable!!

Written by Uirapuru on 26.03.2010 at 16:28

Written by Vathek on 26.03.2010 at 04:45

Bleach is sooooooo good. www.bleach7.com
It makes me laugh, and feel epic. Everything is epic. The lead character keeps getting more epic. The right blend of humour and awesome sword/magic showdown action. The characters in it are great, do watch it in Japanese though, it's so much better. When they visit the Hollow World things just get more and more awesome... 256 episodes and counting...

Hehe.. I dont share that opinion...

From the most successful animes in the last decade (One Piece, Naruto and Bleach), Bleach is the worse by far. If it wasn't for Soul Society arc, the series would be a complete waste of time.

The characters simply have no connections anymore, it's just random battles, no emotional attachments to the past, no bitterness inherited in the characters (except for Rukia), everyone is shallow to the bone. Ichigo must be one of the worst main characters ever, he is annoying, arrogant, and a pretentious nerd-like asshole. And the worst part, he's past was resolved soon in the 18th episode or so... so he has nothing more to offer us, and could have died in Soul Society saga.

The author simply created too many useless characters, there's a LOT of them, and all without a hint of charisma... it is simply too easy to hate them all just because... to finish the bad points, the manga flows sooooo slowly that the anime has to put on lots of fillers, and even when the canon arcs comes back, it follow the same super-slow formula of the manga...

all that = bored to tears = Bleach sucks

But hey Katekyo Hitman Reborn is waay worse, so that's great news

Ok admittedly haven't watched NAruto, but I found One Piece's characters far more annoying, couldn't really get past that fact to watch past the first episode... I do love the characters in Bleach and the particular brand of cheesiness, Nel is an awesome surprise character, and the Hueco Muendo Arc just has so many funny bits in it... I guess I find it appealing for the comic sections as well as the action and story. But I do like the story arc and the betrayals, and there are way more interesting characters than Ichigo, like Kisuke, the awesome campy story owner, and the little robot chick. I find the small arcs that build up the side characters almost as or more interesting than the main one.

That said, damn, I wish they'd made 250 episodes of Full MEtal Alchemist...

Anyway, my top favourites are

Akira
Elfen Lied - gore and crazy jap chick weirdness to the max
Full mETAL ALCHEMIST
Cowboy Bebop
Scrapped Princess (That was surprisingly epic)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (yeah, the lead character gets annoying, but the robot battles are so epid... and the angst is amusing in parts)
Grew up on MAcross...and 1st gen Transformers...
Desert Punk is hilarious
Coyote Ragtime Show was pretty cool from what I saw
Hiyao Miyozaki

I've watched Rebuid Of Evangelion 2.0 in a cinema few days ago. It was fantastic! More action than in 1.0 and it's just amaizing how much they squeezed in one movie. Must watch for EVA fans!

So any recommendations for decent, intelligent anime? Along the lines of Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost in the Shell etc. Also recs on any anime that's especially strange and unusual would be extremely welcome.

I also must remember to get hold of Angel's Egg too.

Written by ylside on 16.02.2010 at 13:57

Urotsukidoji

Any opinions on these ? Haven't started any but maybe I will.

I'm a huge fan of the first 5 OVA's of Urotsukidoji. The OVA's are better than the edited version (of course) and far more explicit, kinda hard to track down, or at least it was. I'm not sure how anyone could regard the progenitor of tentacle rape in anime as average though. Especially considering it's nearly as old as I am.

Written by Guest on 04.06.2010 at 13:28

So any recommendations for decent, intelligent anime? Along the lines of Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost in the Shell etc. Also recs on any anime that's especially strange and unusual would be extremely welcome.

I also must remember to get hold of Angel's Egg too.

A couple of good more recent ones are Durarara!!, Bakemonogatari, Eden of the East and to a bit lesser extent Katanagatari.

Written by Guest on 04.06.2010 at 13:28

So any recommendations for decent, intelligent anime? Along the lines of Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost in the Shell etc. Also recs on any anime that's especially strange and unusual would be extremely welcome.

Paranoia Agent.

I'm certain you've seen Cowboy Bebop, but I have to mention it

I've heard good things about the show "Monster." It sounds like it might be what you are looking for.

I wish I could recommend the Berserk anime, but the manga is sooooo much better. It takes a little time at the beginning to get good, but when it does....

You might be able to find something else good on this list.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Seinen

Last few anime's I've watched in the past year or so:

Gundam 00 (both seasons) - Contender for best fucking anime series ever made. Gundam Wing was good but 00 is phenomenal.

Darker Than Black (season one) - Had a pretty classic feel to it, good new series. Started the second series but it didn't grip me as much.

Higurashi (season one) - Suprisingly twisted and dark. The question/answer format was pretty cool. Season two is next on my list.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Leagues better than the originals.

Elfen Lied - Was ok, I was a little disappointed because it had been hyped up a little.

For the past 64 weeks or so my favourite anime has been Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I watched the original anime quite some time ago and I liked it. Then I read the manga, because people were saying how the story is better and I started enjoying the original anime less. Then, by accident I stumbled on "FMA2" a day after launch and was pulled in even regardless of the filler episode, because last few scenes implied that it will take on the manga storyline (I didn't know about it before, I just randomly found some new FMA video)
Almost all characters felt more likable than the first anime, with the exception of Hughes, whom I considered a more active persona in the first one. The main story was better, battles on a larger scale, animation more advanced, music more classical and the finale made sense. Furthermore, the lack of long filler sequences makes it one of the closest manga adaptions yet.
This is also the only anime where I have both the opening and ending songs (all of them) downloaded as full songs and still listen to quite often.

With the exception of a few Miyazaki films I despise anime. It's the only genre where fights will be stopped at any moment for an indeterminate amount of time to debate whether love and hope exist. It's the only genre, where a kid with a gun can be more successful than an entire army.

Written by Guest on 04.06.2010 at 13:28

So any recommendations for decent, intelligent anime? Along the lines of Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost in the Shell etc. Also recs on any anime that's especially strange and unusual would be extremely welcome.

I also must remember to get hold of Angel's Egg too.

ergo proxy you need to see it!

Naruto= anime to much fillers so beter read the manga
bleach= is ok now the manga seems to be ending
dead note= really good but very over rated
ergo proxy= exelent master for me
evangelion= exelent
one pice= have two real mangas till some clown pirate, but went i try to wach the anime didn't like the Drawings
gudam00= first seasons exelent good second one not to good didn't like the ending
berserk= another master piece also the manga exelent!
gantz= another master piece
claymore= good

i really recommend ergo proxy, berserk, gantz, claymore

Written by nana.MD on 27.03.2010 at 21:20

Have u ever seen Air?? darn it made me cry...unbelievable!!

I saw it a few months ago, and I gotta admit that I got too emotional in the last episodes (tho, not cried).

Recently, I started watching this new anime series called Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, it is relatively new, at the moment they have just have showed 2 episodes(which I watched thanks to YouTube), and the third one will be released this friday(October 15). It'w one of the most bizarre anime series I've watched, and the animation style reminded me a lot of Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network shows mixed with the japanese anime style, there's even a character who is an obvious reference to Gir from Invader Zim, throughout the series, you'll see lots of references from both american/western shows and japanese anime(as well as pop culture from both). So well, I'll put 2 videos from YouTube if anyone's interested:

Written by joaquin on 06.10.2010 at 01:33

Written by Guest on 04.06.2010 at 13:28

So any recommendations for decent, intelligent anime? Along the lines of Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost in the Shell etc. Also recs on any anime that's especially strange and unusual would be extremely welcome.

I also must remember to get hold of Angel's Egg too.

ergo proxy you need to see it!

Seconded. It is the only anime series I have ever liked, in fact I loved it so much I didn't know how to go one after I finished watching it.

Written by Malphas on 11.10.2010 at 21:38

Is this Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt a joke? u can't be serious...i just loled xD

Well it's a comedy anime series full of parodies and that, lol.

Today I completed watching Welcome to the NHK. I'm not telling the plot, as I wouldn't want to know it if interested in watching the show XD This was kinda slow I guess, and didn't really grow on me much, but at least the last 5-6 eps were very good and kinda made up for that, I'd rate this a 6.5 or sthg.

I'd recommend this to people who are bored by "typical" anime with giant robots, cowboys, guns and fights.

Reccomendations:

For Action lovers: Fairy Tail; Claymore; Elfen Lied

For Adventure lovers: RahXephon; Erementar Gerad

For Sport lovers: Air Gear; One Outs

For Drama lovers: Blood+; Berserk; Needless

For Comedy lovers: Kampfer; DearS

For Slice of Life lovers: Lucky Star

For Psychological lovers: Umineko No Naku Koro Ni; Death Notte; One Outs; Chaos Head; GANTZ

For Ecchi lovers: Kampfer; School Days; High School Rumble; DearS

For Fantasy lovers: Avenger; Claymore

For Shounen lovers: Pokemon; Digimon; Beyblade; Dragon Drive

For Sci-Fi lovers: Heroic Age; RahXephon; Neon Genesis Evangelion; Angel Links

For Tournament lovers: Battle Athletes Victory; Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters [Duelist Kingdom]

For Mecha lovers: RahXephon; Gundam Wing


I think these are the best in their genre.

I haven´t found something new and nice...any suggestions?? I've seen alot and I'm like at the end of a road and still on vacations, heeeelp

Written by nana.MD on 31.12.2010 at 03:03

I haven´t found something new and nice...any suggestions?? I've seen alot and I'm like at the end of a road and still on vacations, heeeelp

Any particular direction you want it to go in? Something dark? Something funny? Just something 'interesting'?

Nostromo has simply the most distinguished sense of artistic representation for his works.

For fans of sci-fi/drama animes, this video has scenes of Pale Cacoon with the music of British techno DJ Andy Hunter. I recommend downloading the HD version on AMV.org.

This video comes way back from 2006, but its still one of the best ever produced. Just watch it.

Wow it's the first time a see this topic!!!!
Well...... As many of you I like One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.... One Piece is definitely the best of the three and Bleach the worst! but my favorite anime (manga) is Slam Dunk!!
I also like Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), Ronin Warriors, Dragon Ball and Golden Boy!
When I'll have spare time I'll start Code Geass, Beelzebub, Death Note, Drifters, Rave - The groove adventure and Scott Pilgrim!!

Written by Zenzero on 09.01.2011 at 05:11

Wow it's the first time a see this topic!!!!
Well...... As many of you I like One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.... One Piece is definitely the best of the three and Bleach the worst! but my favorite anime (manga) is Slam Dunk!!
I also like Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), Ronin Warriors, Dragon Ball and Golden Boy!
When I'll have spare time I'll start Code Geass, Beelzebub, Death Note, Drifters, Rave - The groove adventure and Scott Pilgrim!!

Is Beelzebub out yet??

Written by Guest on 09.01.2011 at 13:58

Written by Zenzero on 09.01.2011 at 05:11

Wow it's the first time a see this topic!!!!
Well...... As many of you I like One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.... One Piece is definitely the best of the three and Bleach the worst! but my favorite anime (manga) is Slam Dunk!!
I also like Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), Ronin Warriors, Dragon Ball and Golden Boy!
When I'll have spare time I'll start Code Geass, Beelzebub, Death Note, Drifters, Rave - The groove adventure and Scott Pilgrim!!

Is Beelzebub out yet??

I use the net to read manga and see anime... all subtitled! i think beelzebub til now is only a manga... but soon will be done an anime too!

Written by Zenzero on 09.01.2011 at 14:23

Written by Guest on 09.01.2011 at 13:58

Written by Zenzero on 09.01.2011 at 05:11

Wow it's the first time a see this topic!!!!
Well...... As many of you I like One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.... One Piece is definitely the best of the three and Bleach the worst! but my favorite anime (manga) is Slam Dunk!!
I also like Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), Ronin Warriors, Dragon Ball and Golden Boy!
When I'll have spare time I'll start Code Geass, Beelzebub, Death Note, Drifters, Rave - The groove adventure and Scott Pilgrim!!

Is Beelzebub out yet??

I use the net to read manga and see anime... all subtitled! i think beelzebub til now is only a manga... but soon will be done an anime too!

Yeah, though so, I know it is definetly coming out this winter though so was wondering if it was here already lol.

Tell the world!

Written by nana.MD on 27.03.2010 at 21:20

Have u ever seen Air?? darn it made me cry...unbelievable!!

Then watch Elfen Lied....It made me depressed after 8th episode...

Written by Guest on 04.06.2010 at 13:28

So any recommendations for decent, intelligent anime? Along the lines of Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost in the Shell etc. Also recs on any anime that's especially strange and unusual would be extremely welcome.

I also must remember to get hold of Angel's Egg too.

Cowboy Bebop....its like western in 23th century in space!

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 18.01.2011 at 12:08

Written by Guest on 04.06.2010 at 13:28

So any recommendations for decent, intelligent anime? Along the lines of Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost in the Shell etc. Also recs on any anime that's especially strange and unusual would be extremely welcome.

I also must remember to get hold of Angel's Egg too.

Cowboy Bebop....its like western in 23th century in space!

Yeah that's still my favourite series of all time. There needs to be more stuff like that ;]