Manga Stuff

tobi

Anyone know any good sites for Manga type
stuff?

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I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, its just a harmless little bunny, isn't it?

cheeky_monkey

you wot?

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Shinji

Clearly you mean anime. Manga is the name of a particular company who translated some particularly trasy anime. In Japanese, it means "comics", not anything animated. Just FYI

Start at www.anipike.com - there's plenty of info out there

Genius

Anyone got any recommendations for good anime videos to rent out ?

ThunderingMike

Ninja Scrolls, Akira, Dominion Tank Police, Devil Man, Ghost In The Shell, AD Police, Wicked City, Patlabor I/ II, Project AKO, Street Fighter II, 3x3 eyes.

All class.

That is a very small collection of the anime available in Ireland. Head to Forbidden Planet to buy a few. They have loads.

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Get 'em Marco!

Cake Fiend

EVA

SantaHoe

Yup, check out Akira... my all-time fave.

And, er... here's an anime site for you: http://www.animenation.com

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Grand_Izer

Eva & the earlier Tenchi Muyo vids are classic.

darthmise

Some of these may have been mentioned already but off the top of my head:-

Vampire Hunter D, Well worth a look.
Devil Man,
Macross Plus,
Guyver (theres about 12 of them)
Pat Labor

Chubby

If you're sick of cyberpunk or futuristic or demons with big tenticles, you might wannt look at animes by Hayao Miyazaki. He's the creator if Mononoke Hime and his other work includes Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: the Castle in the Sky, My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso etc. All excellent films. Can't think of anything else by him.

Another really excellent film, probably one of the best anti-war movies is "Grave of the Fireflies". Saw this years ago, can't remember who made it.

bugs

Oh god stop the madness, 3x3 eyes ???
What the hell , its bloody awful and the collection thats in forbidden planet is terrible.
My advice , get a DVD/VCD player and start buying online.
Sorceress stabber orphen , berserk , spriggan , princess mononoke , evangelion , ******* , generator gawl , ghost in the shell , akira ( subbed ) , giant robo ( for stupidness )

So many good animes that never even see the light of day over here. What a terrible waste.

Shinji

Grave of the Fireflies is another Studio Ghibli production (Ghibli being Miyzaki-san's studio) and Miyzaki-san had some input into it, although he didn't direct it. God it's depressing

Chubby

Originally posted by Shinji:
Grave of the Fireflies is another Studio Ghibli production (Ghibli being Miyzaki-san's studio) and Miyzaki-san had some input into it, although he didn't direct it. God it's depressing

Heeh I know. Show it to girls, it's garanteed to make them cry

sixpack's little hat

a question for ye:
i saw some anime ,on channel 4 i think , where there were 4 criminals forced to work for the police or they'd detonate some special collars they were wearing. anyone know the name of this ?
cheers
rogue

Hecate

cyber city oedo 808? (phew, what a mouthfull)

LoLth

yep, Oedo 808 it is.

there are three criminals

Were there only three episodes of this?

oh, nad Benten's a puff! Even compared to other anime lady-like boys (goyoken or something like that)...

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Grand_Izer

Whilst we're on the topic of good sites, can anyone recommend some sites that sell VCDs (Japanese/Cantonese language) ?

bugs

http://www.sasavcd.com , they do pretty much large chunks of cantonese stuff , nothing in english but how and ever.

Bard

I watched an episode of Dominion: Tank Police last night and jeez, it was awful crap. I hope it's not a good example of the quality of the rest of Manga... not very compelling if so.

BTW, - what did anyone think of the Manga/Animé version of Street Fighter?

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Grand_Izer

Its better than most of the other game to anime conversions. Don't ever watch Tekken tho, i have the misfortune of owning a copy

bugs

Dominion was written by masamune shirow , probably his worst effort , the comics are bordering on funny but the anime is crap, this from the man who did ghost in the shell , appleseed , black magic......
Tekken , even tho i'm a disciple of the game is dire , its done in the same animation style as dragonball , ie. crap , i'm guessing its done by the same guys.

Get rurouni kenshin OAV , or samurai X as its called over here for some unknown reason.
4 episodes and as far as i'm concerned the best anime i've ever seen.

Shinji

The Kenshin OAV rocks - I dunno if it's the best anime I've seen (I'd probably have to go with Gundam 0083 or 08th MS for that) but it's certainly amazing. The TV series is exceptionally good as well, much more light-hearted than the (exceptionally gory and quite disturbing) OAV, but it's huuuuuuuuge - over 100 episodes of wallet-damaging goodness

SCRUB

but its the seriousness of the anime that makes it so cool. Still the TV series from the 1/2 episode i looked at seemed ok ...

Berserk is still my favourite though
but Kenshin is a close second.

_CreeD_

Patlabor I/II
Ghost in the shell
(Both already on Region 1 DVD)
Vampire Hunter D (Soon to be out on DVD)

The rest I've seen have been woeful. Either unbelievably childish, or plain porn, or worse Both.
There was an explanation of Anime styles on one I saw recently and it tried to answer the age old question of why Anime women look like overly-developed school kids.
It put nearly everything down to fashion in Japan, which obviously is to look and sound like a young schoolgirl to be atractive. No wonder they export 40% of the world's kiddy-p0rn.
Hmmm, went slightly off topic....Oh well...

Jimi-Spandex

Hey,

I been a fan of the stuff since i saw Akira when i was 12. Just wondering since i have never seen them, which would the best Gundam DVD to get?

havok*

I know this is a bit short notice.
But there appatently a Anime show on in the IFC tonite.
Tickets are a fiver i think.
Dont know much about what there showing. Just heard it from a friend...

Panda

My User name is taken from a anime/manga cartoon called "Fist of the North Star", it
was on Channel 4 a while back.
Not bad at all.

bugs

Hahahahahah , oh jesus christ what a stain on the a55 of anime if you could even call it that. No offence like :P

Gyousei

Forbidden planet can't sell anime dvd's anymore!!!

apparently they were illegal coz they never went throught the irish censorship board.... does anyone know what happened to them all?