What's After Hours' favourite anime?

Links234

Lighthearted thread for a bit of change, what's your favourite anime?

hellas

Pokemon

Duckworth_Luas

Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles

The Backwards Man

Bugs Bunny

Links234

*sigh*

Karl Stein

I don't know what anime is.

Edit: Okay just googled it and its Japanese animation.

The only anime I'm aware of, or have any interest in, is the Daft Punk album 'Discovery' which has a feature length anime musical called 'Interstella 5555' as videos for the songs/tunes on that album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-FJsYj1ck

The Backwards Man

Links234 wrote: »

*sigh*

What's up Doc?

NachoBusiness

Fist of the North Star (1986).

Ruu

Retro but still great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX5QFvG_L8k

Adyx

I haven't watched much and a lot of the time I was going wtf? but I did enjoy Knights of Sidonia on Netflix. I've just started Psycho-Pass and that seems pretty good too.

Karl Stein

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What's up Doc?

Links234 is frustrated that people don't automatically know what Links234 is banging on about this particular time. Some might describe that as egocentrism.

Lapin

Le Lapin du metro Parisienne !

Cookie_Monster

the kind you find on adult websites

creolebelle

Cowboy bebop
Sailor moon
Tenchi muyo

Links234

Ruu wrote: »

Retro but still great.

No no no, you need to post the whole intro! :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

Lone Stone

Naruto season 1 was beautifuly animated

The Backwards Man

OK, I'll do serious answer too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvq9r6R6QAY

kneemos

Don't get it.
Just looks like crappy cartoons.Is it because it's Japanese that it's cool,fashionable or ironic?

Lone Stone

On my so eh can't link properly
This made me want to be an animator when I was a kid
http://youtu.be/RK4rXbYbbX8

Links234

kneemos wrote: »

Is it because it's Japanese that it's cool

Yes, that's exactly it alright

(Do you want a serious response?)

kneemos

Links234 wrote: »

Yes, that's exactly it alright

(Do you want a serious response?)

Of course.

The_Valeyard

Was a fan of

Venus Wars,
Cosmo Warrior zero
Space battleship Yamato,
Captain Harlock.

But I think that's all manga? Not sure what the diff is between manga and anime

Links234

The_Valeyard wrote: »

But I think that's all manga? Not sure what the diff is between manga and anime

Manga is comic books, anime is animation.

Speaking of, have you seen they made a Captain Harlock movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1oIG9yusS8

Sephiroth_dude

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Fist of the North Star (1986).

I love fist of the north star

Has to be death note or the slayers for me , i didnt want either to end

J. Marston

Samurai Champloo.

Death Note is up there too but it fell off a little in the second half of the series.

The Diabolical Monocle

death note.

watched the whole lot on youtube.

thats the only real animation series I could watch as an adult - minimum swashbuckle, zero tentacles and an intelligent plot.

(even if it does involved invisible flying demons with a fetish for apples)

Karl Stein

Hactually come to think of it I loved this as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPJ0H1N1ASg

I believe it's an Americanised version of anime.

Does that make me a senior 'jipster'? :pac:

Links234

kneemos wrote: »

Of course.

Essentially, in Japan, it's not automatically assumed that animation is just for children or just for comedy, so anime can be pretty much anything. You can have serious science fiction, romance and dramas, dark psychological thrillers, you name it. Even sometimes when they wouldn't have the budget for a live action movie, they'd just animate it instead. There's varying degrees of quality, and there's a lot of crap out there, but at the same time there's some incredibly good stuff. When it's good, it's really f*cking good. Anime has had quite an impact on mainstream movies, obviously on stuff like The Matrix, and director Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika) has had a profound impact on American moviemakers like Daren Aronofsky and Christopher Nolan. Hell, Black Swan practically is Perfect Blue.

Nodin

Links234 wrote: »

Lighthearted thread for a bit of change, what's your favourite anime?

Don't like Anime.

Links234

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

death note

J. Marston wrote: »

Death Note

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

death note.

I like you guys

Here, have a strawberry.

The_Valeyard

Links234 wrote: »

Manga is comic books, anime is animation.

Speaking of, have you seen they made a Captain Harlock movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1oIG9yusS8

Yes I have watched it, pretty good,

Im currently awaiting an English dubbed version of the Yamato film.

ShadowHearth

Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Death Note
Attack on a Titan

I really love that Netflix started adding a lot more anime. I am not the biggest fan, but I like to watch it now and then.

BlaasForRafa

Karl Stein wrote: »

Hactually come to think of it I loved this as a kid.

I guess you aren't so bad then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPJ0H1N1ASg

Karl Stein wrote: »

I believe it's an Americanised version of anime.

You're pretty much correct. The original japanese version was called Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. The rights to distribute it in America were bought by Sandy Frank enterprises. The original Japanese version had much more violence and serious emotional themes, these were basically cut out and the 7-Zark-7 interludes were inserted to protect the sensibilities of American children, for instance the main villain Berg Katse (renamed to Galactor in Battle of the Planets) was transgendered which wouldn't have really gone down well in the bible belt.

You can find english dubs of the Gatchaman all over youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57WlbRb4_4&list=PL8kIpEdB_DW_zk2evTIIFQv7bqTE8ymLv

The_Valeyard

Starblazers

This theme tune could easily get stuck in your head

BlaasForRafa

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Starblazers

Agreed, Matsumoto Leiji was/is a genius. Yamato, Harlock, Galaxy Express 999 all the way up to Interstella 5555 were great.

I like a good mecha anime too, stuff like Gundam (various editions), Macross, Gunbuster, Evangelion were great.

Links234

Speaking of mecha, what did you think of the Rebuild of Evangelion?

BlaasForRafa

The films look great, the animation has certainly moved on a lot since the original. Speaking of which I'd probably have enjoyed the films more if I hadn't seen the original series but the films work well on their own merits.

Magico Gonzalez

captain caveman.

Omackeral

kneemos wrote: »

Don't get it.
Just looks like crappy cartoons.Is it because it's Japanese that it's cool,fashionable or ironic?

I was in a bar last week that I'd never been in before and it was very hipster. This weird ass stuff was on screens all over the gaf. Some fella at the bar was drinking Buckfast. I don't know which was stranger.

ozmo

Never into it much - but watched this whole series - thought it pretty amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGRm4IzK1SQ

Available to watch legally here:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/attack-on-titan

Links234

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

The films look great, the animation has certainly moved on a lot since the original. Speaking of which I'd probably have enjoyed the films more if I hadn't seen the original series but the films work well on their own merits.

I tried to watch the series when I was much younger and just couldn't get into it, so I came into the movies knowing the setup but it was pretty fresh to me. I really want to try watching the original series again at some point though, because I really didn't give it a chance at the time. I guess I just expected straight up giant robots, and what I got instead was existential nightmare fuel

Dravokivich

ozmo wrote: »

Never into it much - but watched this whole series - thought it pretty amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGRm4IzK1SQ

Available to watch legally here:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/attack-on-titan

I haven't read the manga, but I watched that entire series for what happened in the last couple of seconds before the closing credits of the last episode. Took way too long to get there imo.

i only kept watching it because everyone was raving about it.

chopperbyrne

Bubblegum Crisis

circadian

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Steins:Gate
Some of the Gundam universes are great
Guyver
Fist of the North Star

Bleach was ok but got repetitive.

Umekichi

Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Azumanga Daioh!, Ghost in the Shell, Yume Nikki, Zetsuen no Tempest and Innocent Venus.

Blackgrass

:oJormungand
Code geas
Gurren Lagann
Pandora hearts? iirc

Years since looked at any really

BizzyC

Deathnote
Ergo Proxy
Darker than Black
Samurai Champloo
Outlaw Star (first series that ever grabbed me)

Fuzzytrooper

Black Hawk Down....The Musical

whatdoicare

Ghost in the shell,
Gunm,
Dominion tank police,
Bubblegum crisis,
Macross,
Anything by studio Ghibli,
Death Note,
Vampire Academy,
Doomed Megalopolis.
Devilman.

I used to love Bravo when I was a kid, they used to show anime every Saturday night from 9pm.
I also loved The Maxx animation but that's not anime. Took me years to realise it was all about rape victims. Duh.

Robsweezie

hentai

eviltwin

Sailor Moon, Nana and Kill La Kill