WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ANIME?

[President Television]

I rather liked Cowboy Bebop.

The problem with a lot of anime (or it might just be popular anime) is that the main character is a well intentioned idiot.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann takes this idea and runs it into the ground. The result is AWESOME.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qym7XbQ7ApE&list=SL

There's even a part after the rebels finally overthrow the oppressive Beastmen where you can see how poorly their newly-established government functions. Really, one character keeps the entire thing afloat, and he almost ends up killing off a sizable portion of the population to keep the rest of the society alive.

[Suu]

Anime sucks.

but, but ... Bobobobobobobo is about a kind of samurai cowboy with a blonde afro and who uses his tentacle-like nose-hairs as whips.

I mean, I agree with you on all other instances of anime, but you gotta give me that one.

BO BO BOOOOO!!!!  I haven't seen that since college. Damn.

FLCL is like the Discordian Anime... It is like a requirement, really. BEWARE THE VESPA!!! 

It's pretty standard issue Gainax fare. Look at what Evangelion did. Evangelion is Operation Mindfuck all the way.

Yes, this. Also, Shin Chan!!!

I fucking hate Crayon Shin-Chan. I never had the patience for it. Again, something else I saw waaaaaaaay before it came out stateside.

Recent anime has devalued the old fandom. I used to have to order VHS tape fansubs from a black and white flyer I picked up at Jacon, now you can just watch it on the internet. I remember when Anime Nation was a hole-in-the-wall warehouse in Clearwater that I had to beg my dad to drive me to on a Saturday afternoon when I was 16 years old, not a large operation out of Tampa. (I also remember the retail store they had for a few months in St. Petersburg, too.)

Anime used to be that thing I watched that made everyone in high school think I was fucking WEIRD. I have portfolios of bad sketches I did from 1998. Now I just capitalize off of it, and as of my last comic con, I think I'm finally going back to western style art and beating the shit out of kids in masquerades on the master level wearing costumes from stuff they've never heard of because I'm mean.

I can't stand going to Otakon and dealing with 22,000 fat brats bitching that they don't want to spend $5 on a print because I use colored pencil and not Photoshop to color while spending 3 days underground in a goddamn cavern of a convention center in one of the grossest cities of the United States.

The reason I still do Anime Boston is because I'm loyal to the staff and it's my longest running convention appearance to date. Other than that, most anime cons can screw. Bakuretsu was fun up in Vermont, but it was rather juvenile. I made good money though and I wouldn't mind checking it out again when New York Comic Con decides to go back to February where it belongs and not allowing NY Anime Festival to hang onto it's coattails to save it.

I just can't fucking stand the bullshit anymore. What was fun when I was 18 is just annoying at 28. I still have my anime and manga that I LOVE, but I just can't get myself back into the swing of it. It's safe to say that it's finally time to grow up and move on.

[Xooxe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRsXU4Q6a0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cvZD2WBcco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmRUeZpsSFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BchXX_AsQgk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=250DNDdl2go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_iRZMZlx0

Not anime.

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Akira,

The end of Akira was so bad, I wanted to nuke Hiroshima again.

There is no such thing as good anime.  Period.

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gD8nV8RlPU

[Kai]

Akira,

The end of Akira was so bad, I wanted to nuke Hiroshima again.

There is no such thing as good anime.  Period.

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gD8nV8RlPU

And on that note, I give you Moyashimon aka Tales of Agriculture.



Imagine this, will you: What is the coolest power you could ever think of? Lazer eyes? Flight? Superstrength?

No.

If you're a biogeek like me, you'd kill for the ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE WITH MICROORGANISMS. Thus the plot of Moyashimon.

Moyasimon follows the life of Tadayasu Sawaki, a first-year college student at an agricultural university, who has the unique ability to see and communicate with micro-organisms and bacteria. Additionally, these organisms look much different to him, and much larger, than what can be seen under a microscope by normal people. This ability has brought him a bit of fame as when he entered the university, Tadayasu discovered that one of the professors there, Keizō Itsuki, already knew about his gift via Tadayasu's grandfather. Professor Itsuki's coworker Haruka Hasegawa has trouble believing what Tadayasu claims at first, but later comes to accept it. Tadayasu enters the university with his good friend Kei Yūki whose family runs a sake brewery.

The cast includes the main character that can talk with bacteria, his best friend a crossdressing goth lolita, his advisor, a fermentologist adicted to the rancid smells of fermentation, the advisor's postgrad student who constantly dresses like a dominatrix, two other grad students who are the epitome of lazy dirty grad students everywhere, a germophobe neatfreak, and of course, all the little animated microorganisms as pictured above. Every episode includes a sequence on food microbiology as explained by the cartoon microbes, which is fucking EPIC. Exchange microbes with bugs, and THIS IS MY LIFE AS I WISH IT, FOLKS.

And unfortunately, they only made 11 episodes. So sad.

[Elder Iptuous]

Paprika was pretty good one i saw recently
i liked the old macross series...
i like just about all of the miyazaki movies...

[Eater of Clowns]

Paprika was pretty good one i saw recently
i liked the old macross series...
i like just about all of the miyazaki movies...

Miyazaki's son (which, I guess, still makes him Miyazaki) is having his first feature released in the US.

I've seen very few Anime.  Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll (which I own), and Akira, and a handfull of Miyazaki.  I'd have to say his are my favorite.  I think I said this on the boards before, but if the world were to die of acute cute, Ponyo would be its destroyer.