# Terribly sorry... Another "Recommend me an Anime" thread!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 11, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-sorry-another-recommend-me-an-anime-thread/224051 "2004-01-11T22:01:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-sorry-another-recommend-me-an-anime-thread/224051/42 "2004-01-18T00:44:23Z")

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**Perfect Blue** is a movie, right? The one with the singer who decides to become a movie actress or something? I did want to see that.  
I take it that **Naruto** has more to the fight scenes than the standard sky blowing by at amazingly quick rate, huge uber-attack that leaves giant smoking holes in the ground, etc, etc? I mean, I like that up to a point, but then I think I’d really like to see some actual sword fighting/hand-to-hand maneuvers being pulled.

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**Author:** ![cletus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cletus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cletus)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-sorry-another-recommend-me-an-anime-thread/224051/43 "2004-01-18T05:37:08Z")

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> [@audiobottle](#):
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> **Perfect Blue** is a movie, right? The one with the singer who decides to become a movie actress or something? I did want to see that.

Yes, that’s the same Perfect Blue your talking about. It’s very good and a nice change of pace from the giant robots that seem to be everywhere in anime.

I take it that **Naruto** has more to the fight scenes than the standard sky blowing by at amazingly quick rate, huge uber-attack that leaves giant smoking holes in the ground, etc, etc? I mean, I like that up to a point, but then I think I’d really like to see some actual sword fighting/hand-to-hand maneuvers being pulled.  
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It’s not Dragonball Z at least. The fights are a little more detailed and choreographed. They don’t focus on ‘powering up’ for 30 minutes. Definitely one of the better action animes out there.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-sorry-another-recommend-me-an-anime-thread/224051/44 "2004-01-18T06:56:13Z")

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> [@cletus](#):
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> It’s not Dragonball Z at least. The fights are a little more detailed and choreographed. They don’t focus on ‘powering up’ for 30 minutes. Definitely one of the better action animes out there.

It has fairly long fights, but stuff’s actually HAPPENING. And it has a) interesting techniques, and b) neat ‘explain what the HELL just happened’ bits which are often more amusing than the fights themselves.

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