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[flameofdoubt]

As a quick note, this is not the place for Bleach. Nor is it a place for Death Note. It is especially not the place for Naruto. If you like these anime, that's fine, and you are very welcome to them, but i am hoping to talk, possibly in depth, rather about the ones i am more interested in, and which may be slightly more obscure. For these see Trigun, see Lucky Star, see The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, see Fruit's basket among others.

Here's hoping this doesn't flop with me looking like an arrogant *beep*, so fingers crossed everyone...

Now then i find it hard to know what to talk about here as i always thought that these anime were particularly well rounded off, with few questions to be asked or flaws to be pointed out, so rather i'd like to applaud the makers of Trigun for such a clever plot intermixed seamlessly with various levels of comedy (read- fun for all the family), so it is a shame that for various reasons that company went under and the people who worked on it were dispersed among another. As far as both Trigun and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and now that i think about it Fruit's basket go i saw the american dub, but Lucky star was of course in good old fashioned text, as the dub is only coming out around now. Unfortunately they didn't...get the best voice cast but i feel they did a good job considering how badly they could've gone.

Any opinions chaps and chapettes? I'm all ears.

[saiyanlogo]

I've seen fruit basket... but the voice for the orange haired guy (i forget carrot tops name) his voice actor(aka jimmy kudo aka happy bunny) didn't match the charator until near the series where you got used to it...

What i hate about funimation is that they reuse voices

ex:
Piccolo - solty rei
Krillin - slingshot boy from one picece
ect. i think you get my point

[flameofdoubt]

Hmm, He be called Kyo if i recall correctly, and aye re-using people rarely works well, though i think i can safely say that Johnny Bosch never gets old, and likely never will. Just keep living like some giant snapping turtle or some such.
...i may have mixed up my meanings there but hopefully you can see what i mean.

[LeoNz]

Have you watched Dennou Coil? One of my recently finished animes. The ending was great in my opinion, better than most i've watched. I've stopped watching Bleach and Naruto, i just read Naruto's manga.

[Theredbaron]

Ah, Flame, I think I might like you. A nice none main-stream anime thread.

I love Trigun, and am trying to get Lucky Star. As for Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya or Fruit's Basket, I have heard of them, but not much. Are they any good? What type of show are they?

My favorite are SciFi shows with a bit of romance thrown in, AKA Vandread, Chobits, ect.

[flameofdoubt]

Fruit's basket is a romanticy sort of people-who-don't-fit-in drama, with a transforming family thrown in for fun.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is very science fictiony, there's lots of stuff like time travel and alternate dimensions and philosophical dilemmas and the like. But with quite a bit of comic relief in too, and generally fun to watch, though there is quite a bit of "fanservice" insofar as the charachter Mikuru but i'd say everyone acts as befitting their charachters so it makes sense. And yes it has romance too. Interesting too is that i gather the second series will be appearing at some point in the near future so there's that to look forward to.
I'm kinda new to this myself, i'm just fortunate that the one showing me all this has such good taste- hence i have heard of but know nothing about Vandread or Chobits.

[saiyanlogo]

Chobits: it's a show about a mass killer robot name LUcy, the Killer
she kills and kills until she mets another robot where they settle down and stop killing.

Real Chobits: It's about a robot who has no memory of anything and a boy finds her in the trash, and steals her. he lies to himself and says "it's recycling" as he develops feelings for the robot she to does. Long story short. dude finds robot, ask for help on how to take care of it.

[Ferrous]

Imo Demonbane is pretty solid. I really dont like dubbed anime since it really takes away from the characters. Hence why the japanese version of dragon ball will always be my fav. As of naruto not sure why a lot of people flame on it, but w/e. As of thought Steel Angel Kurumi is sorta like chobits but with a more steampunk super weird 1920 era with awesome future Poopy in the past.

I still say hands down though that the best anime i ever watched was Fencer Minerva(it's a hentai.) J.k
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Though I'd have to say if you really want a good fresh anime i'd go for XXXHolic, synopsis:

Boy sees ghosts!!!

lol

[kyuubiuchiha12]

i like full metal panic its kinda funny
any of u seen it???

[Theredbaron]

Up intill a few months ago I stayed away from straight romance because I don't really like "ecchi" scenes but I got stuck away from home, and used PSPtube to get some shows, and Ai Yori Aoshi was easy to find. I really liked that, so now I do watch them too. So I guess I should give Fruit's basket a try. And now I have to watch The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

And closest thing to "hentai" I have ever seen is a very "ecchi" show called CPU. I watched it because I was told that it was a bit like Chobits. It was, but well, very, very, very ecchi. not hentai, but dang close. However it was one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. When the dang apples showed up, I could help but laugh.

Full Metal Panic is another of the shows I have sitting on my hard drive waiting to watch. I have over a dozen shows waiting to be watched. I really need to get around to it.



By the way, anyone have an Anime Planet account? It helps me keep track of what shows I have seen, watching, and ones that I want to watch. I would give a link to my profile, but it seems that I can't access the site for some reason.

[saiyanlogo]

Up intill a few months ago I stayed away from straight romance because I don't really like "ecchi" scenes but I got stuck away from home, and used PSPtube to get some shows, and Ai Yori Aoshi was easy to find. I really liked that, so now I do watch them too. So I guess I should give Fruit's basket a try. And now I have to watch The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

And closest thing to "hentai" I have ever seen is a very "ecchi" show called CPU. I watched it because I was told that it was a bit like Chobits. It was, but well, very, very, very ecchi. not hentai, but dang close. However it was one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. When the dang apples showed up, I could help but laugh.

Full Metal Panic is another of the shows I have sitting on my hard drive waiting to watch. I have over a dozen shows waiting to be watched. I really need to get around to it.



By the way, anyone have an Anime Planet account? It helps me keep track of what shows I have seen, watching, and ones that I want to watch. I would give a link to my profile, but it seems that I can't access the site for some reason.

I saw CPU when i saw it i was like WTF and just closed it out. that was acutally an hentai.
i didn't know it was an hentai. I DIDN'T KNOW MAN

[Theredbaron]

It really isn't. It gets damn close, but never shows anything. And it is funny as hell, though you are a bit young to watch it. So go ahead and don't watch it.

[Kylainn]

obscure....Trigun...Fruit's basket

Oh, hi. You must be new to the Internet. Enjoy your stay. ^^

But srsly: Trigun fucking rocks.

Also, Azumanga Daioh.

Also, Paradise Kiss

Also, Loveless.

Fuck yeah.

Edited by Kylainn, 22 March 2008 - 09:05 AM.

[Theredbaron]

Here is my Anime Planet profile page. Seems I have watched 3 weeks 17 hours and 7 mins worth of anime. At least the ones I can remember, and that I found on the site.

[saiyanlogo]

another show that i found out was a hentai is

love (heart sigh) love ?

it doesn't go hentai until like half the season before that it's just eechi.

[Theredbaron]

Don't you just hate that. Did you stop or did you keep watching? I don't like watching hentai, but I also hate not finishing a series that I have already seen alot of. I guess that is the time where you just fastfoward a bit.

[saiyanlogo]

I watched all 3 episodes... the eps (expeccialy the 3rd) are hentai's

[Theredbaron]

Anybody else have an Anime-Planet account?

[saiyanlogo]

i might get one with your constant advertising for them |

[Theredbaron]

I really like it. The only way for me to keep track of the crap I have watched, and the crap I think looks cool.