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Megathread The OFFICAL Anime Appreciation Megathread! vers Moshi Moshi

That Basilisk looks great, I'll have to check it out

anyone looking for a summary here is one:
Koga and Iga were ninja clans that had been fighting for 400 years. Gennosuke of Koga and Oboro of Iga, loved each other and promised to break down the cursed bond of conversion. However, they were destined to kill each other.
It was Keicho Era 19 (A.D. 1614), 73-year-old Ieyasu was wondering which of the brothers he should choose as a successor, Takechiyo or Kunichiyo. Takechiyo was the elder but he was stupid, while his younger brother Kunichiyo was clever. In order to choose the successor, Ieyasu decided to make Koga and Iga fight against each other. Both clans would choose ten best ninja to fight. If Kouga ninja survive, Kunichiyo would succeed to Shogun. On the hand, Takechiyo would become the next Shogun if Iga ninja win. Because Hattori Hanzo the first made them achieve a truce, they hadn't had an apparent fight for years. Therefore, when the truce was broken, they went for fights as if they were unleashed hound dogs. The only weapon they use were their own bodies. They had special abilities that men could hardly imagine.
Now that, the battles of twenty ninja including old, young, men, and women began. They made most of their special abilities to fight. During the harsh battles, they were killed one by one. Which would win, Koga or Iga? Who in the world would survive? Then, what would become of the love of Gennosuke and Oboro, who were separated by the battle.

source:http://www.animenfo.com <-- good site similar to imdb for anime
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Robotech is kinda cheesy, looks like sixties stuff. Blood the last vampire doesn't only leave you wondering "huh?", it's just leaves you "fuck me for buying/downloading this crap".. It's all round bad. No character development, no real plot, a story line which is so bad you wanna crap your pants, digital animation my ass, it just sucks.
 
Nah, I really thought it sucked. =D

I see the vampire hunter d (not bloodlust though, that's a masterpiece) comparison with robotech, the animation and the voice acting for example, but ninja scroll, how come? Can't really put ninja scroll in the same boat, IMO. I really think robotech was a bit too much "americanized", it reminds me a hell of a lot of transformers.
 
I'm inclined to agree with you on that. Just a little more detail with the animation in ninja scroll compared to robotech I think anyway. I reckon the voices in wicked city didnt suit the characters.
 
Yeah Trigun was just all-right. It's been a few years since I've seen it, but I remember at least that much.

You might want to check out Hellsing, they're not really the same by any means. But they both share a fair amount of gun fights, and IMHO Hellsing does a far superior job. It's got a pretty cool story and some awesome characters. I almost would go so far as to say, Alucard is the best character of anything EVER. Not to mention it has a bad ass soundtrack.

If you're looking for some others like that, Gungrave is alright. Worth watching maybe (I wouldn't watch it again or anything). The Full Metal Panic ('Cept for Fumoffu, which is just plain funny) series is good too, but that's more mecha-based. Gantz is another all-right one. The characters were annoying (wishy-washy, always contridicting themselves), but the concept is cool. And it's nice when they beat the shit out of some aliens.
 
Yeah ive seen hellsing...tis pretty good. I would have like them to stick to the manga in terms of plot but entertaining none the less. I havnt seen the ovas but i heard they continue the hellsing plot as it was meant to be.
 
Great graphic, with great story: Berserk
Great fighting: basilisk, streetfighter series, fatal fury, naruto
Other great series: Escaflowne, Tenchi Muyo OAV, Rorouni Kenshin, Full Metal Alchemist, Initial D

Some hentai are great. They actually tell a good story. Better than porn with their poor story, and bad acting.
 
Because of a few impressive, conceptually brilliant films, I've done a lot more research into anime than most other people that also think 95% of it is unbearable. Some paragons, for better or worse:

Ghost in the Shell (original): has a striking harmony of theme and animation style/kinetics that amplifies its psychological impact for me two-fold; the second movie's smooth, plasticy CGI unfortunately loses this.

Memories (written by the director of Akira I believe): The first and last stories in this three story collection are fantastic, dealing with themes of memory and systematic delusion (in a world where the chief industry is manufacturing gigantic guns) respectively.

Most anything Miyazaki; Nausicaa is lesser known but is a high quality, more mature film along the lines of Mononoke.

FLCL: Post-modern, self-reflexive insanity with a simple story at its core. For adventurous tastes.

Urotsokduji (sp?): Legend of the Overfeind: Saw it tripping, it was deeply disturbing, like testosterone to the level of evil. It will give you deeper insights into the minds of homicidal rapists than every "serial killer" movie combined. Power, lust, ego inflation, humiliation, inadaquacy, it's all woven into the designs and movements of monsters that rape and kill women with giant tentacle dicks (yeah that's right); the ORIGIN and nidus of hentai (at least in video). I can't say if the animators were trying to communicate these things or if they were so overflowing with perversity that it spilled out of them in ink.
 
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Millennium Actress

Millennium Actress is a film from Studio Madhouse that treats the life story of a legendary and reclusive actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, a child actress who rose to stardom in pre-war Japan; her popularity peaked in the 1950s and 60s, after which she ceased making films and withdrew from public life.

The story’s framework is epistolary in nature and therefore fairly complex; a documentary filmmaker is interviewing the aged Chiyoko, who recounts her life and the beginning of her career. However, as she runs through her past, many of the “life stories” morph into iconic scenes from her movies. The interviewer, Genya, and his cameraman begin to appear as characters in the stories and the line between reality and fiction is very consciously blurred for the entirety of the film. Everything is tied together by Chiyoko’s pursuit of a mysterious anti-government painter she met as a young girl who gave her a key. She crosses paths with this character several times throughout the film.

The climax deftly blossoms out of the narrative during the final scene, when Genya reveals that the painter who Chiyoko sought her entire life was killed by police during the pre-war years when dissidents were being brutally repressed. Chiyoko never knew (she herself dies shortly before the information comes to light), and thus spent most of her life chasing a shadow.

I don’t typically like anime that is grounded in reality (the medium is much better suited for fantasy), but this film works OK. It is a very interesting reflection on Japanese history and cinema, as Chiyoko’s filmography and life experiences span multiple time periods and cinematic styles and influences. I don’t know enough about either of those subjects to comment intelligently on the movie’s portrayal of them; but it certainly piqued my interest in Japanese history.

The animation is very good, employing various styles. There is one sequences that involves a quick progression forward in time (through temporal time as well as Chiyoko’s movie lifetime) that is especially noteworthy. A decent soundtrack and score make this film pretty good. Be advised, it is quite sentimental and definitely falls into “chick flick” territory so you might want to avoid it if you are extremely macho.
 
Gundam - right from 0079 thru to gundam seed :D

w00t for gundam geeks - building gunpla :D w00t.

lol... My anime collection spans wider than most oceans imo :P too much shit in there to mention... but if i had to name things other than gundam,

Kenshin, Inuyasha, Ikki Tousen, Dragonball etc.. :D w00t..

watched chobits lately, for something kinda 'queer', it wasn't all that bad :P
 
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