Must have anime.

Rabies

What movies should be in everyone's collection.

I'm only getting in to anime so need a few ideas.

Unit00

The Evangelion collection
Perfect Blue

Rabies

The Evangelion Collection is on its way right now from cd-wow.
Never heard of Perfect Blue. Must look in to it.

Art_Wolf

Never watched Perfect Blue - heard its slightly mind bending

Yeah for the NGE and yeah for choosing Cd-Wow!

Possibly look into getting Trigun...

Retr0gamer

Get Perfect Blue. Its really good.

Others you should have are Ghost in the Shell, Akira and Wings of Honneamise.

Steven

Add the Cowboy Bebop series to that list. Great final ep. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I've heard good things.

Karl Hungus

The films of Hayao Miyazaki.

Makaveli

I tend to watch series more than films.
If you're gonna go for any series I'd recommend
Trigun
Berserk
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex
FLCL

Infini

You should add Zone of the enders - Dolores,I and Z.O.E. 2167 Idolo to that as well. Also RahXephon is also a good series to add as well.

Placebo

GITS - stand alone, is ****e

must have - Ninja scroll
-princess monoke
- vapmire hunter d: bloodust

Raphael

By the consensus of most people I know the original D is a lot better than bloodlust

CuLT

The Original D is awful.
Bloodlust is much better, good soundtrack too.

Raphael

I haven't seen bloodlust, been looking around for it but nyit

Makaveli

Placebo wrote:

GITS - stand alone, is ****e

must have - Ninja scroll

heh

Kain

The Neon Genisis Evengelion series, the Cowboy Bebop series and film Knocking On Heavens Door, also the Martian Successor Nadesico series and probably the movie as well, but i STILL haven't seen that yet . The Burn Up Excess series is also good, and RahXephon and of course, Spirited Away.

Cloud

Akira
Princess Mononoke
Trigun
Ranma
Love Hina
Evangelion

Fenian

The castle of cagliostro (dunno if thats right)
Read or die
Spirited away
laputa castle in the sky
nausicaa of the valley of the wind (my fav anime EVER)
porko rosso

Infini

Full Metal Panic, don't forget that one. It's really good.

moridin

Naruto!

Infini

moridin wrote:

Naruto!

That a fansub you know

Kastraelie

Knockin on Heavens door wasn't nearly as good as the series though...

Don't forget Serial Experiments in Lain, and Haibane Renmei--also did anyone mention Love Hina?

CuLT

Kastraelie wrote:

also did anyone mention Love Hina?

*shudder*

I hope not.

Plot summary of every Love Hina episode:

OMG Girls! - You Pervert! - *Punch in the Face* - Sappy "serious" moment.

The dead horse is mush! make the bad man stop ;_;


I was, however, a big fan of Lain, and Haibane Renme kept me interested.
(My computer is called "Navi", my secret shame :E )

Art_Wolf

CuLT wrote:

(My computer is called "Navi", my secret shame :E )

I had such hopes for you ;P

Kastraelie

I guess I really liked the manga and so I am fond of the anime. But it still is a pretty fun one. Excel Saga also is dang funny.

CuLT

Kastraelie wrote:

Excel Saga also is dang funny.

Ah yes, I loved Excel Saga

Brilliant job they did.

Nietzschean

Kain wrote:

RahXephon

Must agree, watching that atm n its class

Ramses

Samurai Champloo is a great fansub.

Recently got Rurouni Kenshin and Gungrave but can't comment on them till I watch them.

I highly recommend these anime films (Ninja Scroll, Street Fighter 2, Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, and Princess Mononoke) as well

nadir

puni puni poemi

americanCat

movie wise, Akira is a classic must have... so is Grave of the Fireflies... any film by miyazaki is good. oh, and Ghost in the Shell 1 and Ghost in the Shell 2: innnocence are *awesome*

series:
Full Metal Panic
Full Metal Alchemist (angsty)
Saiyuki
Yami No Matsuei (Descendents of Darkness)
Hellsing (a very gory ish must have)
Weiss Kreuz (about assassins)
Trigun
Gungrave (by the same guy who made Trigun)
Wolf's Rain
Naruto
Escaflowne
DNAngels (i can't quite remember if that's right)
Angel Sanctuary (rather twisted tho)
Get Backers ( i personally haven't seen it, but it's been recommended)
Digi Charat (it's funny in a cutesy kind of way)
Witch Hunter Robin (a definite must see)
Noire (girls and guns.. that's all i have to say)
Bubblegum crisis (girls and tight mecha suits)

anyways, these are all excellent series that i definately recommend. ^_~

Scratch Acid

americanCat wrote:

Yami No Matsuei (Descendents of Darkness)

Woah, for a minute there I thought you meant 'Alien Of Darkness'...
Aheh.

hamorhage

ts ts...I'm dissappointed we're missing out on the classics:
- Dragon Ball
- Saint Seiya
- The Fist of The Northstar
- Record of Lodoss War
- Escaflowne
otherwise I can confirm whats above, and if you want to read a cool manga try: Bastard! by kAzushi Hagiwara

Ramses

For a messed up story with some good action, you can't go wrong with Spriggan.

Kain

Ramses wrote:

For a messed up story with some good action, you can't go wrong with Spriggan.

I thought that Spriggen was a great film, and the story was really good.

gamer

perfect blue,ghost in the shell 1 ,and 2.perfect blue is a more intellectual anime ,not full of action or robot mechs ,its got a more realistic story than sumthing like appleseed.i prefer to rent dvds from laser video rather than try and buy everthing cos theres loadsa dvds coming out ,its not necessary to buy them all.

nadir

Kain wrote:

I thought that Spriggen was a great film, and the story was really good.

ahahaha

btw: i second perfect blue

sme

perfect blue is just an anime version of most american thrillers. although the stalker fan was a good character.

evangelion the series
trigun
bleach
serial experiments lain
anything by Miyazaki (especially princess mononoke)
saikano

Fenian

Venus wars is a great anime, M.D Geist is a terrible anime but he has the coolest armour i've ever seen.

quon

Particular Favorites of mine include:


Series:

Serial Experiments Lain
Haibane Renmei
RahXephon
Evangelion
Escaflowne
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Kino's Journey
Cowboy Bebop
Macross Plus


Movies:

Anything from Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli
Ghost in the Shell
Perfect Blue
Akira


Fansub stuff:

AIR
Bleach

Noteworthy anime: Noir (lots of killings but sweet FA blood ) , Boogiepop Phantom (may require multiple viewings)

Rei-chan

Uhh..Movies, I'd say...
Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust,
Grave of the Fireflies,
Spirited away,
Princess Mononoke,
The Evangelion movies and maybe some clamp stuff...

For Anime...
Full Metal Alchemist,
Excel Saga,
Chobits,
Puni Puni Poemi,
Dragon half (Isn't there only two eppisodes...?)
Evangelion Series... I haven't seen all the eppisodes though.Is there some shonen-ai stuff going on sometime in that series?
Martian Successor Nadisco,
DBZ,
One Piece,
Rave Master,
Pita-ten,
Kodocha,
Maybe Tokyo Mew Mew if you're into the magical girl stuff...

I have seen some funny prievews Anime...In japanese, though...
Panda-Z... Some weird Panda in a giant panda robot fighting cute evil animals,
Gunslinger girl... A bunch of little girls with guns killing people... That looks so pointless to me.
And that Anime with the frogs... What's it called? SGT Frog? I'm not sure, I forget. Oh well...

Raziel

Typical, but I got to say...

Akira.
Ghost In The Shell.
Perfect Blue.
Spirited Away.

Nothing obscure there, but still good.

Tar.Aldarion

never call GitS:SAC crap ahhhh!

fuu123

i can't live without anime

Tar.Aldarion

thats what i want to hear !!!!

pingoo

- Clamp X (watch the serie before you watch the movie, it will spoil the entire serie)
- weiß Kreuz Glühen (better than the original serie in terms of design and animation)
- Gensoumaden Saiyuki (season 1 and 2 and the manga, Reload was pretty bad in my opinion, bad design compare to the first 2 series)
- Eva (coz you have to watch it )
- One Piece (Kaizoku-Fansubs Rocks!!!!!!!!!!! As well as Luffy and CHopper!!!!! )
- Fullmetal Alchemist (don't express an opinion before you get to more than around 10 episodes, that's when it starts to get even better ... heavenly! )
- Saint Seiya (it is my childhood all over again )
- Get Backers
- Furi Kuri (completely outta control/guitar smashing/total freak bitch )
- GTO (because Onizuka is the teacher that we all dreamt of having some day)
- Abenobashi Shopping Street (because like Furi Kuri it is completely crazy!)
- Fruit Basket (watch the anime, scratch the last episode from your head when you finish and read get your hands on the manga for the rest)

So much more but too tired to continue

Graki_Khan

Evangelion Series (best series ev0r)
End of Evangelion
FLCL
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu!
Samurai Champloo (second best series ev0r)
Full Metal Alchemist
Spirited Away
Noiseman Sound Insect (Studio 4C's 15 minute short film)
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence (the film)
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (When it comes out - you just know it's gonna be all that)

hmmm..... thats it I think in terms of must haves. When it comes down to it, theres not that much Great animé really, is there?

Anime that you probably should watch, cause it's good

Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Gantz (altho the manga is faaaaar better)
Azumanga Diaoh
Gravitation
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter Alpha
Speed Grapher
Sunabozu
All of Studio 4C's work (mainly they do shorts)
Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop film
DNAngel
Escaflowne
Fake (slightly ghey but good)
Great Teacher Onizuka (Altho the Manga is waaaaaaay better)
Irresponsible Captain Tylor (the series now, the OVA's are the equivalent of faecies)
Ebichu The Housekeeping Hamster
Ninja Scroll
Vampire Hunter D
Grave of the Fireflies (if you don't cry at this you have no soul)
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbour Totoro
...Basically any Miazaki thing you can get your hands on
Read Or Die OVA
Macross Zero
Saikano
Serial Experiments Lain (ONLY if you like your head f*cked)`
Spriggan
Tokyo Godfathers

....im sure there's more can't think at the moment

Cravez

Some of my favourites:

Cyber City Oedo 808
Geno Cyber,
Ad Police,
3x3 eyes,
Devilman,
Ghost in the Shell,
Blood: The last vampire (suprised no one has mentioned this yet, one of the best looking Anime iv seen anyway and made by the peeps who did Ghost in the shell, very short though 45 mins, for a movie),
Vampire Hunter D ( Both original and Bloodlust ),
Ninja Scroll,
Princess Mononoke,
Spirited Away,
Street Fighter 2,
Street Fighter Alpha,
No one has mentioned Fist of the North Star either, i haven't watched it myself but i thought it would be quite popular?

Laguna

The anime I own, in categories of excellent, alright and ****e are..

Excellent

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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Ghost in the shell: Standalone Complex
Samurai-X (Rurouni Kenshin)
Hellsing
Vampire Hunter Bloodlust
Cowboy Bebop
Metropolis

Alright

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Akira
Animatrix
BlackJack
Ghost in the shell
Ninja Scroll
Perfect Blue
Rahxephon
Street Fighter II: The movie
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away

****e

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Vampire Hunter D
Golgo 13: The professional
Patlabor
Martian Succesor Nadeisco

Would someone tell me if the following are any good

Gungrave
Witch Hunter Robin
Cowboy Bebop: The series
Excel Saga

Nice one!

evad_lhorg

is AD police any good?

Art_Wolf

Heh cant actually recall the last time i've watched it

I'm assuming you mean the movie/OVA AD Police (the prequel to the very good Bubblegum Crisis)

There is also the spinoff AD Police but never seen it.

Personally I really like the Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 - a remake of the origional Bubblegum Crisis...wow hadnt reallised how much anime was based in that world till now ^_^;;

evad_lhorg

ok im not big on the whole anime thing but i have started watchin it a bit.

I have seen spirited away, Akira and princess mononoke all recently. I thought all were brilliant although i couldnt help but think i was missing a meaning to all those films.

Tar.Aldarion

evad_lhorg wrote:

ok im not big on the whole anime thing but i have started watchin it a bit.

I have seen spirited away, Akira and princess mononoke all recently. I thought all were brilliant although i couldnt help but think i was missing a meaning to all those films.

lol,i hope your up on your japanese politics for akira