What is your favourite Anime/Manga movie

Rabies

Well what is it?

I only have Ninja Scrolls, Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Spirited Away. I like them all, although Ninja Scrolls does have one or two disturbing scenes :eek:

honru

Manga movie?

Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke is fantastic, and dirt cheap too. Favourite series would probably be Cowboy Bebop or Evangelion.

fantasy_fued

I loved Spirited Away.I rented it out for 3 days,and watched it about 10 times.My brother got me the official cinematic poster for my room cos he works in a cinema.I watched Ghost In A Shell,but I didnt really enjoy it,because I didnt really understand it.I remember watching myb rother play the game years ago,and I remember enjoying it,but I didnt like this.And Akira...well,It still doesnt make sence after 5 times of seeing it,but I liked it all the same.I think my second favourite,after Spirited Away,is Cowboy Bebop.Great movie.Some series I like tho are GTO and The Guyver.Dark...my kinda thing.

rainbow kirby

Spirited Away.
It's one of the prettiest movies I've ever seen.

Unit00

The End of Evangelion and Spirited Away are my favourites

po0k

do OAV's count?

Eva was cool, as were Cowboy Bebop, GITS, Akira, Princess Monoke.

Ninja Scroll or Final Fantasy are two of my favourites.

I know alot of people didn't like FF, but then again, alot of people I know didn't like Gattaca and I thought it was classic old-skool Sci-Fi.

monkeyfudge

I'd have to say Akira... as I used to watch it all the time when I was younger and I collected the entire comic book... I think it was something like 2600 pages overall...

My Neighbour Totoro has always been my favourite Studio Ghibli film.

Oh and the 2 Patlabor films are amazing... As is Wings of Honemise(I need to get that on DVD) and of course Perfect Blue.

moridin

Hmmm, I'm really looking forward to seeing the Naruto movie... but then I'm a bit of a nut for the series so it's to be expected

jared almasy

as ive just finished watching it, ill say ghost in the shell in french, mucho goodo

moridin

The original or GITS: 2?

Ardent

The only one I've ever seen was Crying Freeman - any one ever seen this? Thought it was quite good.

eoin5

Princess Mononoke was damn good, so was spirited away. Cant choose between em.
Metropolis was cool but its not really classic style anime.

CuLT

Hmm,

Laputa - Castle in the Sky,
Spirited Away,
Princess Mononoke,
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,
Fist of the North Star,
Nadesico - Prince of Darkness,
End of Evangelion,
Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust...

In that order, I reckon. I've a lot of favourites...

Ruu_Old

Im a fan of Armitage (yes i mainly, ok ok, i just watch it for Naomis outfits , Cyber Cities OEDO and the Dominion Tank Police Series. The Evangelion movies were cool.
I also have one of the Street Fighter, Animated Series on dvd, very very cool.

po0k

Blood: The Last Vampire was rather good

Kazujo

The Street Fighter Animated Movie(not alpha), Ghost in the shell, Patlabor 1 and Dominion Tank Police all great movies.

eoin5

Grave of the Fireflies was good but really depressing

pingoo

Ghibli's collection is fantastic, I abolutely loved Mononoke Hime. By the way Mononoke has been realeased in France in a ultra collector wooden box containing a statue and 2 magnificent dvds ... I have this version and can only recommend it to everyone (English subbed and dubbed as well on this dvd), it only cost 35 euros on some popular French websites and I was delivered in ireland

I hate the OAV from Eva, I didn't really like the idea of doing an alternate ending just because the fan didn't like the first one, that's life that's it

I recommend the latest Saint Seiya movie, Overture, a pure beauty ... so different that all the OAV that they did in the past.

doh.ie

rainbow kirby wrote:

Spirited Away.
It's one of the prettiest movies I've ever seen.

Big fan of this myself, along with Totoro and Akira.

Nukem

Oh where to begin - Akira,Street fighter,Appleseed,AD polive,Ghost in the Shell,Patlabor ,Blun Gender (Whole show)........the list goes on.
Play.com actually have a nice selection under Anime

herobear

nausicaa of the valley of the wind, similar-ish to mononoke hime, but far superior and made in 1984 to boot. for many, this is hayao miyazaki's masterpiece.
and

millennium acctress, directed by Satoshi Kon(perfect blue, tokyo godfathers) this is my favourite animated film of all time, absolutely superb!

Trebor

CuLT wrote:

Hmm,

Laputa - Castle in the Sky,
Spirited Away,
Princess Mononoke,
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,
Fist of the North Star,
Nadesico - Prince of Darkness,
End of Evangelion,
Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust...

In that order, I reckon. I've a lot of favourites...

OMG!! you read my mind

haven't seen Nausicaa, Nadesico or End of Evangelion but will look them up as i'm sure to like them. only other one i might add would be ninja scroll but only cause it's the only one i can seem to remember whenever anyone asks what anime i've seen.

hehe, just to be pedantic isn't manga the comics and anime the animations?

Retr0gamer

Wings of Homnneamise is my favourite.

Akira is great but I still don't understand it

Ghost in the Shell is another.

Loved Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke

Evangelion is my fav series.

CuLT

Trebor wrote:

hehe, just to be pedantic isn't manga the comics and anime the animations?

Yes, but if you only have access to anime sold in Ireland the distributors "Manga Entertainment" are the ones you see most frequently, so it's often confused.

Nice to see you around again Trebor; and you apparently made it to Scotland too! Kudos!

TCamen

My Neighbour Totoro has always been my favourite Studio Ghibli film.

Love that movie, it's so good

I've always preferred series though -- '3x3 Eyes', 'Doomed Megalopolis', 'Sailor Moon', 'Macross'....

Have 'Vampire Hunter Bloodlust' & 'Card Captor Sakura' for Christmas, can't wait

CuLT

3x3 Eyes isn't a series... it's a seven part OVA

TCamen

3x3 Eyes isn't a series... it's a seven part OVA

It's a series of parts

CuLT

Then I guess a film is a series of scenes

TCamen

Then I guess a film is a series of scenes

Well, a series of still images that we see as 'moving image'

Persistence of Vision and all that....

Trebor

CuLT wrote:

3x3 Eyes isn't a series... it's a seven part OVA

dumb question i know but i can't remeber, what is a OVA? and how is it different from film/series?


and yeah, made it to scotland but not the course i wanted, am doing basic computing, but i'm enjoying it. will be back next week for the first time since sept, can't wait

herobear

ova/oav= original video animation/ original animated video

basically a series that was specially made to go straight to dvd in japan, higher production values than normal tv shows and generally shorter

Manchegan

Originally posted by monkeyfudge
My Neighbour Totoro has always been my favourite Studio Ghibli film.

Something didn't click with this being a Ghibli film. The "evil" was missing. Sure enough...

Originally posted by eoin5
Grave of the Fireflies was good but really depressing

Hotaru no haka ("Grave of Fireflies") (1988)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0095327/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0095327/trivia

• Produced concurrently with Tonari no Totoro ("My Neighbour Totoro") (1988). Many of the animators had trouble remembering what film they were animating.
• This film was initially distributed with Tonari no Totoro (1988) because it was thought that this film was so depressing that a cheerful companion film was needed to lift the audience's spirits.

Zakalwe

Favourites. Hard to choose as I've seen a lot.

Series/OVAa

Azumanga Daioh. Plain hilarious
Excel Saga. Wacky to the extreme.
Trigun. Luuuvu and peeesu
Cowboy Bebop. Who doesn't like this?
Neon Genesis Evangelion. Even though it's over analysed by Fanboys and the ending.......
Mahoromatic
Naruto. Brainless formulaic fun that I never miss.
PlanetES. Excellent near future hard sci-fi
Lain. Great athmosphere, excellently directed and animated
Last Exile. Gonzo's anniversary work. Not a perfect ending ( but that's to be expected of Gonzo), but a great show.
Ranma 1/2 . More brainless formulaic fun.
Love Hina. Predictable harem comedy, but it's a classic.
Galaxy Angel. Side-splittingly funny.
The Irresponsible Captain Tyler. Again hilarious with some touching moments. A perfect anime
Hellsing. Vampires, big guns and nothing much else except a terrible ending that has nothing to do with the manga, but good fun.




Movies

Hoshi no Koe. Voices of a distant star. This is beauty wrapped in a 30 minute animation
Spirited Away. There's no need to explain this one I would hope
Grave of the Fireflies. See above.
Ghost in the Shell. Great animation. Although the plot is poor, it's still an above average anime.
Kiki delivery Service.
Everything else Studio Ghibli. I'm not going to bother typing them out anymore.
End of Evangelion. I forgive Anno for this film just because of the scene with Asuka, the Production Eva series and J.S. Bach. ERSTE!

sixtysix

defineatley either Akira or Ah My Goddess

monkeyfudge

Manchegan wrote:

Originally posted by monkeyfudge
My Neighbour Totoro has always been my favourite Studio Ghibli film.

Something didn't click with this being a Ghibli film. The "evil" was missing. Sure enough..

Ha. I don't know about evil. But that Catbus simply wasn't 'right'... it always freaks me out anyway...

I saw the Catbus in the background of the Simpsons once actually...

CuLT

Hoshi no Koe. Voices of a distant star. This is beauty wrapped in a 30 minute animation

Didn't like this at all; seemed entirely overhyped to me. I mean, fair play to the one guy on his own who made it with Flash or something, but the animation is dodgy and the cg is awful.
And in the end it's the entertainment value that matters, not the prodution methods .

Zakalwe

CuLT wrote:

Didn't like this at all; seemed entirely overhyped to me. I mean, fair play to the one guy on his own who made it with Flash or something, but the animation is dodgy and the cg is awful.
And in the end it's the entertainment value that matters, not the prodution methods .

I adored the story. It was a sappy tale of love across an impossible divide. The character designs didn't fit and were too simplistc, but apart from that I was more than happy with the animation.

I'm really looking forward to Beyond the Clouds, Makoto Shinkai's next work that's due out very soon.

Raphael

CuLT wrote:

Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust...

Never seen Bloodlust, though the first D was amazing IMHO. Shame I could only get a dub...

Zounds

i saw D, it was incompprehensible i prefer things with more talking and storyline like Hellsing and Akira

Zakalwe

Retr0gamer wrote:

Wings of Homnneamise is my favourite.

I forgot this one for my list. It's an excellent movie, even if it is tainted by the totally out of place attempted rape scene ( and the WOMEN apologising the next morning ).

Steven

Zounds wrote:

i saw D, it was incompprehensible i prefer things with more talking and storyline like Hellsing and Akira

You may have thought that you were missing out on something, but you weren't. Vampire Hunter D is about as deep as a snowdrift in the Ivory Coast.

Girl in trouble. Big stereotypical quiet loner hero guy arrives. Girl gets kidnapped by ultra vampire and kicks crap out of D. D uses super powers to win.

But it wasnt really the story that turned me off it, it was the clumsy animation and the frankly sub-par design of the

hundreds of monsters that for some poorly contrived reason lived in Magnus' castle

I liked GITS but I thought they dragged the end out a bit much, feeling they had to explain exactly that had happened when everyone I was watching it with knew before she/it started talking. Poor ending couldn't spoil a good movie though.

Zounds

I think i prefered it when i thought i was missing something

Retr0gamer

Zakalwe wrote:

I forgot this one for my list. It's an excellent movie, even if it is tainted by the totally out of place attempted rape scene ( and the WOMEN apologising the next morning ).

If there is only one thing i can say that is good about censorship it's that the Manga version of this film with the attampted rape scene cut out is a much better film. It really wasn't needed. They should have left it out and let the pervy members of the audience get their rape scene thrills from elsewhere.

monkeyfudge

Retr0gamer wrote:

If there is only one thing i can say that is good about censorship it's that the Manga version of this film with the attampted rape scene cut out is a much better film. It really wasn't needed. They should have left it out and let the pervy members of the audience get their rape scene thrills from elsewhere.

But that sort of scene is something Gainex like to do alot isn't it?

If you watch and episode of Evangelion that doesn't have a scene that makes you cringe with shame and embarrassment for one of the characters, you'll feel short changed...

CuLT

I'd rather watch a series/movie on my own, late at night than watch it censored.

If I'm going to watch something I don't really want anyone other than the creator deciding what I should and shouldn't see.

Retr0gamer

I prefer my films uncensored but that scene is so out of place in the film it really is better off without it. I agree with monkeyfudge about the same sort of scenes in evangelion and how they made me feel about the characters but when I finally saw the uncut version I didn't feel embarassed for Shiro. I just didn't have any respect for him to the point of hating him for what he did.

CodeMonkey

pingoo wrote:

I hate the OAV from Eva, I didn't really like the idea of doing an alternate ending just because the fan didn't like the first one, that's life that's it

Well actually, the alternate ending is much closer to the original ending planned by the maker. The tv studio forced the anime team to make the ending they used for tv cause the materials contained in the script was unsuitable for tv or something.

Makaveli

End of Eva
Spirited Away
Patlabor
Castle of Cagliostro

Ninja Scroll is totally over-rated imo.
Ghost In The Shell is not that great either, although Stand Alone Complex is my favourite series, can't get enough of it.
Berserk is another series that I really like, just fantastic.

Nichololas

I like Naruto. There I said it. :cool:

Helped by the fact that eircom aren't charging for going over caps yet (4.4gb torrents).

Danger_Dave

Macross, Guyver, Vampire Hunter1,2 and Akira, Id love if they did the last 12 episodes of guyver but think the guy is happy with them just bein comics

Makaveli

I wish they would do so more Berserk,

massive cliff hanger ending, so you have to go and find the manga to find out what happened.