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debaser said:
Summer Wars was my favourite film of last year though if your only looking for films.
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i really liked summer wars too it's very fun and the way they stylised the net environment was interesting

most epic moment... doing maths so fast you get a nose bleed
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Gunbuster (the first one of course)
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just as a warning to anyone who goes to watch this the first episode is RADICALLY different in tone to the rest of the episodes it's a parody of sports manga so unless your already seasoned enough to get the jokes it will somewhat incomprehensible as well as maybe giving a false impression that this is a comedy... which it really isn't
 
jeff_leigh said:
big list of anime...
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well to comment on those i've seen

Berserk
one of those ones i know about have seen tones of clips of and read through the basic plot but never actually sat down and watched

it's a dark in tone show based around fighting relationship and betrayal from what i can make out

ghost hunt
not watched/read looks very shoujo (not that that's a bad thing i love a lot of shoujo stuff although there is often really formulaic character structure )

darker than black
never got into this one watched the first two or so episodes buuuut it just didn't grab me...
also i got the relly it's not actually as deep as it wanted to be... but like i said i never really watched more than the beginning so i can't really comment

samurai champloo
anacronistic tale of a girl wandering japan in search of her past and her two companions
i really liked this show although i would say it works best if you know the types of stuff it's referencing
but.. just watch this


busou renkin
ehh... it's alright
fighting show... basic premise is to do with alchemy and monstrous homunculus although that is basically just a small side dish of plot to the big bowl of rice that is boy using special powers to fight evil
quite like the lead female though
but my biggest problem with this is it's by the creator of rurouni kenshin and it's not even in the same league as that if you have to pick one to watch go for kenshin (although actually go for the manga the anime dropped in quality noticeably after the kyoto arc where it stopped following the manga story line)


gyakkyou burai kaiji
i liked this one. (ざわ．．．ざわ．．．)
it's about a man down on his luck getting involved with underground extreme gambling where your life is on the line it's about how he has to use his wits first stay alive and in the game and then try and take on the game masters
if you like this there is also Akagi which is about mahjong gambling although i must say i never got passed the first episode... i think it helps if you kinda know mahjong..... although that being said i did watch all of saki rinshan kaihou!

black lagoon
i have a statue of roberta...
however the rest of the show for me couldn't live up to the awesomeness of the terminator maid
basic premise everyday salaryman ends up becoming part of a modern day pirate crew on the south seas

shakugan no shana
urasai! urasai! urasai! (yes i'm a fan of sorts)
young boy finds out that there is a hidden world of magic and people are being erased from existance in an age old war..
what it's really about... melon pan eating loli beats up monsters with a flaming sword
also has a battle maid and the most adorable mothers around

ergo proxy
strange psychological artsy scifi
i have this but never got into it... it's something you have to make time to watch rather than just sit and enjoy... it's probably very rewarding if you do ... it's just i get easly distracted by other anime that have things like maids with guns

ghost hound
very nice animation and an interesting dark tone, i'm really embarrassed that i got side track and never finished this series
it's all about mysterious supernatural happenings occurring in a remote mountain town

afro samurai
i found it interesting but a little hollow samurai champloo has a similar style but is far better in my opinion
plot is exactly what you think it is... i mean afro samurai it does exactly what it says on the tin

furi kuri
i am contractually obligated to love anything by gainax
seriously though it is an excellent anime it's a short ova series not much longer than a movie so just go watch it
it has mecha and sky surfing bunny girls... s in terms of action it top notch it has animation which can justifiably be called art and a interesting story but again with a lot of gainax stuff it's not really about the plot but about the character relationship and the main characters growth

full metal alchemist
the first anime, the second one or the manga?
all of them have good action and interesting plots but the first anime goes off in quite a different direction compared to the manga or second anime
main plot is about two young brothers who are genius alchemists but are involved in a horrible alchemic accident which leaves one with an arm and a leg missing and the other a disembodied soul inhabiting a suit of armour and their decision to do whatever it takes to get themselves back to normal even to the extent of joining the authoritarian (well.. evil) government


boogiepop phantom
not watched, though it sounds interesting and the studio and director has done some classic stuff

black blood brothers
really? i found this one to be mediocre at best
vampire action comedy style thing
the major problem i felt was that the anime just felt like a companion piece to a much more detailed manga or light novel i don't know if that's true or not but that's the impression i got


night wizard
again really? it's not bad but this one really is just a companion piece to the night wizard game ... i did like the character of Akari Himuro though and Anzelotte is reasonable as evil loli

paranoia agent
again one that i really feel i should watch but never get around to watching so i can't say much
more of a darker psychological feel to this one

rosario to vampire
is porn.... well no not quite but it's that kind of ecchi anime that is all about girls fighting over a guy ... buy without a lot of the stuff that made shows like tenchi (the classic harem anime) more than just about the girls
it's not bad as such... i did watch all of both seasons it's just.... porn with out the actual shagging, see also shows like ladies vs butlers and kanokon they are all just about sex
it's like shaved ice ... you might pour a flavoured syrup over the top of it but in the end it's still just a big bowl of frozen water
basic premise for what it's worth is generic anime lead male gets transferred to a school populated by mystical creatures
most notably a split personality vampire (lead female) a succubus a yuki-onna (snow woman) and a loli witch

bus gamer
never watched, had some people recommend it to me though
action type show

hatenkou yuugi
now this i started to watch but for some reason i never finished
goth loli girl with some magical talent goes travelling with her two hot male sidekicks


hope that adds a little extra information to those intrested
 
Durararrar! has been the only decent show for a while, the summer has been particularly dire the black lagoon OVA is pretty much it... Oh Black Rock Shooter (I think it was called) hour long bit of yuri with some lovely stylised action just about worth a watch.
 
gamma globulins said:
Will this do? It's in the tate-mod at the moment.

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Girl skipping with a rope made from the milk of her oversized breasts.

I second Evangelion. Though Debaser's right, it's rare to find an anime with a truly satisfying ending.
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this is fucked up :D
 
debaser said:
Fanservice of the dead up there then is it? :D
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i've not got passed the first episode of that... tits n zombies are.... wierd

i mean if it was just fan service of the ecchi kind that would be fine but it's also proper hardcore zombies and brutality so it just strange to watch

the OP was just so over the top i had to laugh though... especially that bit with the fence and the wet top... i cracked up it was sooo out of place
 
I like full metal panic which can't decide if its a serious drama about mercenaries with giant robots or a high school comedy.Mahoramtic really is the classic Anime botched ending.It a wierd little comedy about a female cyborg warrior who decides to spend what little time she has left caring for the orphaned son of the commander she had to kill in the war ever episode no matter how light hearted ends with a countdown to how many days she has left to live.
Planetes is a nice little sci fi show.
Evangelion either the original show or the new films
 
that's why i like full metal panic fummufu it just drop all the drama and ramp up the comedy... it's really really funny
i'm not sure why the hate for the mahoromatic ending... i guess people didn't like the fact she really does die... and how the final episode is open to interpretation (the manga is a lot clearer about what happened) when i watched the recent mahoromatic OVA it just reminded me of how bitter sweet a romance it is
eva is eva..
 
Yeah think your right about full metal panic it is a better comedy than drama.Though they did have some memorably mad bad guys.The ending of Mahoromatic is just a bit jumbled and leaves lots of questions unanswered.Still would recommend it. Like rocket girls whose last episode seems to have been edited by the work experience bod so ruining the effect they were going for.
 
So what happens at the end? I got a bit bored after a few eps but liked the finite countdown to destruction / shutdown idea. I seem to remember there was some very cool music during some of the fighting.
 
ok
first off between the first and second series a bit of a wierd plot change happens which introduces a third party an evil human organisation dedicated to causing trouble between saint and vesper
they create cyborgs in the hope of producing a mahoro like warrior
one of the failed experiments is minawa who becomes mahoros sister charactor
one of the others is a strong blond boy who has managed to duplicate mahoros glowing hand attack the one that eats away at her life energy
they of course end up fighting this evil organisation and in that fight it is suggested that sugurus grandfather and slash die (his grandfather being his last living relative)
mahoro and he manage to destry their main base but the blond kid survives and goes after suguru... mahoro gives up her life to save him by basically suicide bobmbing the kid

suguru is left broken and alone he never returns home as it's too painful and he spends the next twenty years hunting down the remaining survivors of the evil organisation he become a bitter individual whos soul satisfaction in life is hurting those who hurt him however in a battle with one of them he is badly injured (even though he has undergone extensive modification and is mainly cybernetic) as he wanders through the city injured he sees mahoro standing before him ... and he is once again reduced to a lony boy he goes to meet her and the scene transforms into the garden where hydrangeas bloom.

some people hate the ending as it's never explicitly stated what happens... is this him dying? a dream or reality?

the manga is a lot clearer as an android based on saint technology mahoro's soul (as it were) became part of the saints which stores mother computer the memories of all saints passed androids, however saint feels indebted to mahoro for what she has done and decide to give her a human body unfortunately it takes 20 years to grow (her approximate human age at death....)
 
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