Anime Discusssion Thread
 

RIP ANIME DISCUSSION THREAD 2007-2013

Well folks, it's been 6 years and 5000+ posts to the old anime thread, but I've received a PM requesting me to do this because it is time for it to be put down. But don't shed a tear folks, for just like the Land of the Rising Sun, the light will always shine on this thread. I only wish my opening post can do it justice.

I think it's appropriate to start the new thread just as the old one started, since there's so many new faces. Personally, I'd like to thank Near, and Seph, and HoL, and all the other old timers that made that thread great for years, and once again welcome all the new faces of more recent years.

To start this thread: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ANIME AND WHY?

1. Initial D: The manliest, most bad ass, car anime around. Wangan Midnight? Pfft. Can't touch Initial D, and now that Season 5 is under way after a 7 year hiatus, it's the perfect time to catch up the first 3 seasons and movie. Takumi Fujiwara is what Ryan Gosling wishes he was in Drive.

2. Last Exile: I don't think there's enough shows out there centered around fighter pilots, let alone in a steam punk setting. I don't know how anyone could watch the intro and not at least check it out. Once again, had a recent sequel, not on par with the original, but still gripping for me. IMMELMENN TURN.

3. Fist of the North Star (original): So fucking badass, I wish I could go around really life screaming like Kenshiro.

4. Dragonball: Z usually gets all of the love, but I argued more then once in the old thread that Z is where the Dragonball franchise started to decline, not GT. Dragonball is such an amazing and whimsical adventure with maybe some fighting and martial arts tournaments thrown in. Z is nonstop fighting, save the world bullshit.

5. Yu Yu Hakusho: 2nd and 4th seasons stand above the rest for me, 4th season normally gets a bad rap, but 3rd season was far worse for me.

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I'm not an anime guy, but I've seen Fist of the North Star. I have no fucking clue what was going on but it seemed like some people had the inexplicable ability to grow ENORMOUS out of the blue. Oh and one guy punched skyscrapers to the ground and walked through the rubble...I mean literally walked through the concrete. Oh shit it's all kinda flooding back...RAU.

There was a live action Fist of the North Star as well. It had Chris Penn. It owned.

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Favorite anime? I can't really name my "favorite" but Ergo Proxy instantly comes in mind since I really enjoyed that anime.I can't really name why,I guess it was just the Gothic Cyberpunk atmosphere in the anime and the music that drives me to love the anime.

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Shounen Junkie

Naruto

Air Gear

D Gray Man

Were some that I enjoyed from start to finish. Gray Man isn't finished yet, nor is Naruto thou. Hope they bring back Gray Man in anime form one day.

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YOU DON'T EVEN REALIZE YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD!

(or something like that lulz)

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Samurai Champloo, Revolutionary Girl: Utena, NANA are some of my favorites.

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Not an aficionado by any stretch, but I can watch Akira again and again and I also loved the second Vampire Hunter D, Bloodlust, made in 2000.

Fist of the North Star is epic, but like Mr said, it took me a few watches before I understood what the fuck was going on.

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(Y) on Ergo Proxy, I loved that anime to death.

Texhnolyze and Ghost in a Shell are some other good cyberpunk style animes worth checking out. Though i'm sure most of you are familiar with GIAS already.

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To name my favorite anime would take paragraphs upon paragraphs, something even I don't wanna read right now (and I am egotistical enough to go back and read some of my own stuff) I'll... Just leave a very shortened list.

(summary for each anime in spoiler so they can be avoided if you do not want to read, also Image heavy)

Needless



Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann



Durarara! And Bacanno!



Tokyo Godfathers



Oh, and Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films... Seriously, nothing more needs to be said about that... Miyazaki rules.