So, erm, this manga stuff then.....

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » September 10th, 2006, 3:56

Meh. ive finally gotten round to watching my megre collection of manga again (akira, appleseed, steamboy, and detonator orgun).and i sodding hated D.O.

i want more, so what films/series are worthit, and what to stay away from.

Post by **deject** » September 10th, 2006, 4:12

Stay away from anime.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 10th, 2006, 4:15

I enjoyed the Ghost in the Shell serieses (the movies weren't so good)

Hellsing kicks arse too.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 10th, 2006, 4:18

Neon Genesis Evangelion is essential too, just because it's fucking mental.

also: http://anime-xplosion.com/?bt may be handy for some stuff, their hellsing rips are very nice

http://gits.no-jutsu.com/gits/ should be handy too (best source for ghost in the shell), but it appears to be dead

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » September 10th, 2006, 8:29

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I enjoyed the Ghost in the Shell serieses (the movies weren't so good)

The 3rd series/season is comming out soon too, GitS Solid State Society.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 10th, 2006, 8:29

Akiakaiu wrote:The 3rd series/season is comming out soon too, GitS Solid State Society.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » September 10th, 2006, 8:42

Well

Heard nothing but good thing about Ah! My goddess. Try that.

Seen a few early episodes of Naruto (japanese with subs, not the american translation). Seems very good.

Guyver was always a personal favourite of mine, even if it get alot changed from the mangas and is far far shorter than them too.

Tenshi Universe I always found good for a giggle

Lastly Gundam Wing was what got me into animé so that'll always be somethign special to me.

Hope that helps

Post by **Dog Pants** » September 10th, 2006, 8:46

I love manga names. There must be a random generator for them somewhere.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 10th, 2006, 8:49

Dog Pants wrote:I love manga names. There must be a random generator for them somewhere.

There is Name Generator

Post by **Dog Pants** » September 10th, 2006, 8:57

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
There is Name Generator

Well that wasn't very good. Laser Pigeon Fanciers just came out as a load of question marks.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 10th, 2006, 8:59

you need the language packs installed.

failing that, just stick them into german or spanish and back to english.

for example.

Laser Pigeon Fanciers to dutch and back comes out as.

The stud Fanciers of the laser

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » September 10th, 2006, 10:30

Personally I'm loving all the Hayao Miyazaki stuff these days (Spirited Away, etc) and seen most of his films. I also loved the series of Neon Genesis Evangelion but the film finale was a such a load of bollocks it made me angry.

Spriggan is worth checking out. It's not a great film but got some very nice visuals and action sequences in it.

Post by **Grimmie** » September 10th, 2006, 11:24

Bits of what spoodie said.
Stuff from the Studio Ghibli collection. Search for that on Play.com

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » September 10th, 2006, 11:29

Oh yeah, also:

Blood
Read or Die
Cowboy Bebop

Post by **Roman Totale** » September 10th, 2006, 11:31

Spirited Away and Princess Monononononononke are both very good.

But personally I have to say that Akira, which most people rave over, bored the tits off me.

Duke of Ted · Post by **Duke of Ted** » September 10th, 2006, 18:25

Ninja Scroll (the film, not the series) is worth a look

Street Fighter 2 - The Animated Movie is another good one.

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » September 10th, 2006, 20:57

You might also want to check out: Black Lagoon, Trinity Blood, Elfin Lied... Bleach is good too. I will agree the movie version of Akira was bad, but the manga was great. Going back to Ghost in the Shell, the 1st movie was eh, but the second movie, Innocence, is my #1 movie for animation. The colors and designs were beautiful. Especially the parade scene, there are colors in there I've never seen before.

http://www.tokyotosho.com/index.php? Is a great site for fansubs, I use it for all my anime fixes. Then again all I watch is anime, even got rid of my TV cause all I watch are fansubs. Nothing like watching a show a day after it airs in Japan complete with subs.

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » September 10th, 2006, 21:26

Neon Genesis Evangelion is essential too, just because it's fucking mental.

berk speaketh the truths, NGE is a bit of a skull fuck at the end but tis really very good

Post by **FatherJack** » September 10th, 2006, 21:56

There are many types, depends what you like.

Generally rather good classic ones:
Patlabor, Wings of Honneamise, CyberCity/AD Police/GenoCyber trilogy, Black Magic M66, Bubblegum Crisis, Armitage III, Metropolis, Plastic Little

Ones that have done the rounds on TV, etc:
Tenchi Muyo Ryo Ohki, Mezzo, Fullmetal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, Love Hina, Great Teacher Onizuka, Dominion Tank Police, Louie the Rune Soldier, Ah My Goddess

Super Magic Girls:
Project A-Ko, All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku, Saber Marionette J, Moldiver, Gunbuster, Magical Girl Pretty Sammy

Girly: (school life, romance, magic fighting dollies)
Azumanga Daioh, Fruits Basket, Angelic Layer, Pretear

Cute Girl, Emotionless Killer:
Gunslinger Girl, Elfen Lied, Noir, Serial Experiments Lain, Kiddy Grade

Cute Girl that is actually a powerful robot masquerading as a maid:
Hand Maid May, Chobits, Mahoromatic, Amzing Nurse Nanako

Boyish: (robots, fighting)
Full Metal Panic, Tokyo Underground, Burn Up W/Excess, Green Green, Hyper Police, Inu Yasha, Kino's Journey, Ninja Scroll, You're Under Arrest

Fantasy: (historic, RPG-style)
Record of Lodoss War, The Herioc Legend of Ar(i)slan, dot Hack, King of Bandit Jing, Magic Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

Comedy, Quirky:
Excel Saga, Furi Kuri (FLCL), Ushio & Tora, KO Century Beast Warriors, Ranma 1/2, Di Gi Charat, Dragon Half, Ground Defense horse Mao-chan, Puni Puni Poemi, Slayers

And anything by Studio Ghibli, they are drawn with a more western style, but are great stories and the worlds created are amazing. Howl's Moving Castle is their best to date, Grave of the Fireflies was the one I've watched most recently, and was very moving.

There's also the horror, super-violent and porno ones, but I've never seen anything of very high quality, except the Ichi the Killer short, which somehow managed to be more violent than the live action version.

More info here: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » September 11th, 2006, 16:32

Blimeh! i didnt realise that there were so many!

cheers one and all, i shall now commence legitimatly owning some or all of these fine animated features.