Thanks for the clarification. 
well, me myself, i enjoy the db:gt (getting kind of old though). princess monoke was very good. very good. also saw some of the evangellion series, outstanding. however my personal favorite is blood: the vampire. that movie kicks so much ass.
I am pretty sure that is a bootleg set, and that is why the subititles weren’t quite right. I don’t think there is any legitimate box set.
Shows I’m watching, right now?
•Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
•Last Exile
•His and Her Circumstances
•Read or Dream (R.O.D. TV)
By “right now” I mean new shows that I haven’t seen all of yet. (Mostly because either Netflix is being agonizingly slow in releasing all the DVDs in the series, and/or TechTV hasn’t aired them all, yet. Argh.)
Looks at the date the thread was made…
Ah, another zombie thread for halloween!
Related to the undead and the spirit world, I have to say that I like to watch InuYasha.
I watch mostly hentai for review purposes – and because I like 'em, the better ones anyway. The best I’ve seen lately is Viper GTS, which has nothing to do with vipers or vehicles called vipers – a more accurate title would be “Harry Potter Does Demonesses.” Great animation – Carrere, the lead demoness, has a bod that is wonderfully well drawn. It’s a lighthearted story and lots of raunchy sex – unusual in that most of the sex is consensual, although there is a scene where two demonesses are bound and raped by angels – angel chicks with dicks, that is. It’s totally weird fun.
Re-watching Shoujo Kakumei Utena, because I just love it. The series, not the movie, although I do watch the movie to die laughing on occasion. (Yes, yes, I understand there’s all this “deep” and “meaningful” symbolism in the movie, but I love the series so much more).
**Ah! Megamisama ** - working on it.
Just finished **Love Hina ** with my husband, I thought it was sweet.
Also, like another poster, slowly working my way through Slayers - and by God I’m going to watch them all, even if they suck, because I bought the entire series. :eek:
Another one I’m going re-watch in the very near future is Card Captor Sakura. It’s one of my all time favourites - it’s very simple, very sweet, very colourful to watch, and makes me giggle. Easy on the heart, easy on the brain, leaves you feeling kind of warm and fuzzy and feeling like “surely, everything will be alright!” :o Funnest. Music. Ever. And it’s rubbed off on my husband. There’s just nothing funnier than seeing him, cruising around downtown in the 300ZX, a broad shouldered, large football player of a man with four o’clock shadow… bopping along to “Fruits Candy”, played as loud as possible. (How could I not have married him?)
Hubby just started Chobits, but I might watch it with him. I’ve already seen it, and I really enjoyed it - ever since I’d read the manga I’d been waiting for it to become an anime. And yay! It did!
Anything by CLAMP is usually a hit with me.
Most recent tiles: Azumanga Daioh; Millennium Actress; R.O.D. the TV. I’ve been lent some Prince of Tennis but havn’t had a chance to look at it yet.
Re-watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex (Gee, that’s a mouthful, 2nd Gig is even worse) as it comes out on DVD. The Tachikomas rock! And I like Motoko’s character much better than in the movie. I’m also hoping that 2nd Gig gets released here soon after the first season is done, I haven’t seen it yet. Though I’m worried it may ruin the ending of the first part.
Recently got the Read or Die OVA. Loved it. I’d love to get my hands on the TV series.
Today I found a two-episode Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OVA, and watched the first episode. It’s pathetically hilarious. Shedder is nothing like his American counterpart. It reminds me of Power Rangers, only cheesier. Yeah, I didn’t think that was possible either.
I’ve also been following Naruto and Bleach and recently finished Live Action Sailor Moon. The first two are pretty good, the third…was alright. I’m divided on the ending, and some times the show was really, really bad. It’s quite different from the anime, though, which I was thankful for.
I’m going to re-watch Iketeru Futari when I get another copy–the CD it was on warped on me and doesn’t work now 
Interesting show though.
I’m currently renting Azumanga Daioh and Great Teacher Onizuka on DVD from Netflix. They’re similar in that they’re both about the lives of close-knit students and their unconventional teachers, and both are terrifically funny, but Azumanga tells the story from the students’ point of view, while GTO is from the teacher’s pov.
I’ve also seen a couple DVDs of Excel Saga but Netflix doesn’t carry it so I don’t know when I’ll get to see the rest. And we rent Yu Yu Hakusho intermittently.
And, though I prefer unedited, subtitled anime, I also like free anime, so I watch whatever is on Adult Swim: Inuyasha, Case Closed (aka Detective Conan), Lupin III if I can stay up that late. I saw Read or Die last week (very good), and I am looking forward to Fullmetal Alchemist and the Super Milk Chan Show.
Haven’t read the thread, so I don’t know if these titles will be alien to the other posters here, but…
Naruto - my “Brain is on vacation” show. Not cerebral, certainly exciting, and is so undyingly popular that it won’t be long before someone brings it to the U.S.
Samurai Champloo - Another new series, though I somewhat admit I may be sketchy on whether or not it’s actually licensed. Follows the adventures of one boorish Samurai (think Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai), one disciplined, but masterless Samurai, and a cute girl who has them bound by a code of honor. Very funny and entertaining.
Gundam Seed Destiny - Easily the most grim and sobering Gundam I’ve ever seen.
Bleach - Brand spankin’ new. The show’s only on Episode 5 as of today. Follows the story of Ichigo, a fifteen year old who can see and talk to ghosts. His world’s turned upside down when his family is attacked and a grim reaper risks her life to save him. He soon becomes a Reaper himself (or a “Death God”), but not by choice.
Inuyasha - I add this, even though I just finished it. The anime series is eventually over and only the manga exists right now. The show ends on a very bitter note, with nothing actually being resolved. Fans will have to wait a year or so until Rumiko Takahashi is ready to bring the show back on the air to finish.
I just bought the Cowboy Bebop box set.
It’s worth it.
I’m not a fan of any of the anime series. It may be a culture thing, but I just can not follow the transitions and plot points- this is true for all of the anime I’ve seen on Adult Swim, as well as some of the stuff I’ve gotten from Netflix.
That said, there are a few anime movies that I think are very good.
Ninja Scroll
Vampire Hunter D (1 and 2)
Doomed Megalopolis
Wicked City
Fist of the North Star
I am also a sometime fan of hentai. I actually find that I like a higher percentage of these than regular anime…but a lot of that is because I love anime as a medium for horror.
btw- any recommendations for horror anime?
If you like hentai with a horror theme, you might want to check out Imma Youjo IV - The Erotic Temptress. It has one of the niftiest plotlines I have ever seen in ANY piece of fiction, as the bad guys unknowingly, step by step, seal their own doom through their evil behavior. It’s set in medieval Europe/Japan, where a lot of hentai are set. A brave young nobleman, Count Mayatola, opposes the evil Count Pickerel and his witch hunters, who are devastating village after village in their search for witches. But Count Mayatola’s secret proves his undoing – and ALSO the bad guys’ undoing.
I just got through watching “Miyuki-Chan in Wonderland”. It’s very pretty, but kind of dumb. Heh.
Most of the anime that I have recently scene have been the result of word of mouth and then going on Netflix.
Standouts include: Gravitation(which is adorable), Serial Experiments: Lain(slow, but very interesting), Grave of the Fireflies(exceptional), Ninja Scroll(also exceptional), Yami no Matsuei(excellent) and Tokyo Babylon(decent).
In my Queue: Mirage of Blaze, more Lain, more Gravitation, Saiyuki, RahXephon, Revolutionary Girl: Utena, Noir, Strange Love, Please Teacher, Crying Freeman, Sakura Diaries, Knight Hunters(aka Weiss Kruez, I think), and Subeken Deka. I’m sure more will be added. Heh.
I’m not even much of an anime fan, but it’s taking up the bulk of my 120 movie line. Heh.
I’m finding the TV series to be a pretty big letdown from the OVA, but then I’m only 2 discs into it.
Also watching Azumanga Daioh, and I will be quite sad when it finishes. Easily the best anime I’ve watched in at least 2 years.
mblackwell, you’ve revived a thread for which the last prior post was a year and a half old. The comment you’ve made, while intending to be helpful, is pretty much useless. Most of the posters to this thread have not posted in the last six months.
I’m gonna leave it, because others have responded after you did, but in future, please don’t pull up dusty old threads to offer comments to posters who are no longer around, OK?
I’ve heard that the TV series picks up after the OVA partway through. Obviously, I wouldn’t know if it does or not. Does the TV show explain where her powers comes from?
Like I said, I’m still really early in the show. I’m hopeful that things will pick up but I can’t really tell you much other than the near total absence of characters from the OVA (No Agent Paper, no Drake Andersen, obviously no Nancy. Cameo appearances by Joker and Wendy, apparently as the bad guys.)
Also, the directors notes from the first DVD mention an admiration for Charlie’s Angels, of all things.
The series so far is also structured weirdly; approximately every other episode has the three Paper Sisters (no relation) jaunting off around the world somewhere to recover a rare book. These episodes seem like filler, since each of them so far has been entirely self-contained and doesn’t advance any of the actual plot threads of the series.
Meanwhile, in the other episodes, they are living in Japan harrassing a popular novelist that they’re supposed to be protecting and in one :rolleyes:-worthy case attending Japanese school. Because God knows, we can’t have an television anime series without someone parading around in a school uniform the whole time. I enjoy these episodes more, aside from the previously mentioned :rolleyes: .
WHAT?!?!?!
sighs I’ll probably check it out some day. I’ve debated joining Netflix, if it’s avaliable in Canada (I’m assuming no, but I can’t find a definate answer on the site). Right now, my bank book is saying ‘no’ either way.
Anime eats up far too much of my money.