Fucking Anime

[josephturner]

Personal faves

Akira(Yes it's typical but it's one of my favorite movies of all time and my brother showed it to me when I was 8 and forever effed me up)
8 Man After
Crying Freeman
Corpse Princess
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Perfect Blue
Fatal Fury OVAS/MOVIE
Green Legend Ran
Record Of Lodoss War
Ronin Warriors
Wicked City
The Slayers
and there's more.

Recently watched:
Hellsing(Took me a while to sit down and watch it)
Paranoia Agent
Genocyber

Holy shit I'm a fucking nerd.

EDIT*
Forgot to add Serial Experiments Lain to that list of recently watched.

[CitizenOfUlysses]

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[FANTASTIC WOUND]

Anyone actually prefer a lot of the mangas to their anime counterparts? Like, my favourite manga of all time, called BLAME! had an anime made of it that was so thoroughly disappointing. The whole premise of the manga was a bleak cyberpunk future of this guy more or less wandering around immense rotting landscapes, often without a single word being uttered in a whole issue. Needless to say, it did not translate well. Anyone else find that happens (or something similar) with some series?

[CitizenOfUlysses]

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[phantomlimb]

Kinda surprised at how good Eden of the East was once I started in on it. I wish they'd do an anime series of Ikigami, the manga is fucking phenomenal.

[FANTASTIC WOUND]

Anyone actually prefer a lot of the mangas to their anime counterparts? Like, my favourite manga of all time, called BLAME! had an anime made of it that was so thoroughly disappointing. The whole premise of the manga was a bleak cyberpunk future of this guy more or less wandering around immense rotting landscapes, often without a single word being uttered in a whole issue. Needless to say, it did not translate well. Anyone else find that happens (or something similar) with some series?

I think the problem with Blame (even though I haven't read/watched it yet, still on my backlog) is that the animated stuff was meant to be complementary to the manga, not a standalone work kind of thing. When taken as a standalone work, I've heard it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Yeah, that's more or less the issue. You're right, it was a companion, but it just wasn't good. Anyway, to be fair, the manga makes very little sense as well. I had to read it in its entirety about four times to get everything that was going on, but maybe that's just me. Still, if you haven't read it, I HIGHLY recommend it. Hyperviolent, moody, incredibly dark... Plus, I'm pretty sure that jap band Killie is named after the protagonist.

[riderofbrohan]

Kinda surprised at how good Eden of the East was once I started in on it.

just finished this and watched the first movie and MAN i think it might be a new fav. I haven't seen anything Production I.G. have done that i didn't like

[phantomlimb]

Kinda surprised at how good Eden of the East was once I started in on it.

just finished this and watched the first movie and MAN i think it might be a new fav. I haven't seen anything Production I.G. have done that i didn't like

Yeah, my friend told me to watch that and Speedgrapher. Wish I could find more time to just laze around and watch anime.

[CitizenOfUlysses]

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[riderofbrohan]

Did anybody else hear about Toonami coming back last night? I don't have cable so I wasn't able to watch any of it ;_; I don't know if anybody here was part of that era (I was on the ass end of it) but shit man, that's a lot of nostalgia.

yeah i heard about that shit but wasn't too stoked since from what i remember, Toonami was mostly Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon