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Spartan Girl · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject: Anime

So, does anyone here like anime?

My obsession with anime was caused by my brother. He was the one who insisted on turning on Dragonball Z while we were eating dinner because he didn't want to miss an episode. At first, I blocked it out, but I gradually got interested, and since then, I've been a DBZ fan.

I know there are a lot of girls that like action anime, so it shouldn't be weird that I like the show. While I love the fights--although they are kind of drawn out--I also enjoy the humor and the characters. Another reason that girls may like DBZ because of the male characters. Goku's not Aladdin, but he is FINE! Embarassed

Today, I kind of prefer the Japanese subtitled versions to the dubbed, just becuase there was better written dialogue. Still, the dub has its moments (especially in the Dragonball series and later in DBZ). I wish Cartoon Network was still airing the reruns instead of the new Pokemon series Mad

I also like Rurouni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho. Cartoon Network has also stopped airing those shows, though they did finish up Yu Yu Hakusho... at 5:30 AM on SATURDAYS Mad

! I'm glad I was able to catch the last episode when two certain characters finally kiss Very Happy

Anyone else like these animes or have others to talk about?
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Syera · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject:

I was quite enjoying One Piece until they kinda stopped airing it on 4Kids... nargnarg.
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AmethystFae · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject:

It's "Anime" whether it's plural or not, because they don't pluralize anything in Japan, and China as far as I know. (Sorry, a minor pet peave of mine.)

I never got into DBZ, sorry. But I do love Yu Yu Hakusho. I didn't think I'd like it at first, but it has some elements and characters I've really gotten attached to.
Like a lot of people, Sailormoon is what got me into Anime. Then I got into Wedding Peach, then Card Captor Sakura, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Fushigi Yugi. I also like Blue Seed, InuYasha, El Hazard, Ranma 1/2, Pretear, and Tenchi. Just to name a few. I've watched a little bit of Fruits Basket (It's actually "Fruit Basket" without the S, but there was a faux pas in the translation.) but when I started watching it, that was around the time I got either more InuYasha or Yu Yu Hakusho, or during the time I was still into the Ranma boxset I have. I've listened to it in the background when my husband would watch it, and I think I might go back to watching it.
I've also seen Revolutionary Girl Utena and read a lot of the Manga series. The Anime was a bit weird, but reading the Manga helped me to understand it a bit better.
Also, I've seen and have every episode of Magical Stage Fancy Lala, but that series didn't do it for me. I think it was geared towards a very young audience.

Speaking of Anime that's geared towards little kids, does anybody here remember Maple Town? It was on Nick Jr. when I was a kid, and it is an Anime. I'd really like to see it in its original Japanese format. Actually, Nick Jr. showed a lot of Anime shows back in the day.

Ok, I'm fixing to go off on a tangent, so I guess I'll send this now. Laughing

~Hikaru
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Syera · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject:

AmethystFae · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:03 am Post subject:

I've seen that one, too...or more like it was on while I was folding laundry, but it was pretty good. The guy responsible for that movie is really big in Japan, I heard. (How do you spell his name? Laughing

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~Hikaru
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Nez · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:09 am Post subject:

Hayao Myazaki. I like his films alot. They're very whimsical.
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Janette Morgan · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject:

Spirited Away was absolutely awesome. Most of the character designs were extremely innovative (I loved the bouncing heads), and the backrounds were BEAUTIFUL.

And the plot wasn't bad either.

One Piece is great, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it air again (I think it's coming back on 4Kids).

I don't know much about Yu-Gi-Oh, but what I do know I like to make fun of. The whole "cursed Egyptian artifacts" is quite funny, and Yami Yugi ain't too bad, either.

I'm rather fond of Rockman.EXE/Mega Man NT Warrior, though unfortunately I haven't seen very much of it. You wanna talk fine, Hikari Yuuichirou is fine. And so are Searchman, Blues and Enzan (who look just alike) and Elecman.

Pokémon is one of my guilty pleasures, though to be honest I'm much more into the game than the cartoons -- although I have to admit I have a thing for Brock and James; an even guiltier pleasure, you might say.

I've also seen Mew Mew Power, and it's pretty cute, although the Americanizations were annoying. What the heck kind of a name is Tarb, anyway? I know it's "brat" spelled backwards, but/and it's stupid. And what's a "Predicite" or a "Cyniclon"? They really should have had better naming people.

And that's my anime experience in a nutshell.
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Iago · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject:

I am going to just come out and say it. I still watch digimon and love every minute of it Razz

I'm also a huge Bleach fan
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Syera · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:

If there's one thing that bugs me about anime, it's that it's pretty common for the 'heroes' to be lazy, gluttinous idiots. They don't actually do anything but slippyslide their way through their misadventures, surviving only to the next day because of their dumb luck or because they're just too darned powerful to actually get hurt.

I don't know who started the paradigm, but I want 'im caught and shot now. No, on second thought, I want the guys who thought they had to emulate this caught and shot now. It drives me crazy!
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AmethystFae · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:13 am Post subject:

Oh no no--nothing killed me more than the ones who use to get in FIGHTS over them at school Laughing

. And in the 8th grade, we had a Pokemon card rule that you couldn't bring them to school because at first the teachers thought it was a form of gambling ( Laughing

), but then people were stealing cards out of people's lockers. It was insane.

Janette Morgan · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:15 am Post subject:

Ergh... cards. Ugh. *vomits* I mentioned once that I was thinking about getting a Yu-Gi-Oh game for my Game Boy, and my eight-year-old brother immediately declared that I should buy real cards. No thank YOU, I learned my lesson when he tried to get addicted to Pokémon cards. *Shudders*

Syera, that's "gluttonous." And yes, that's annoying. Especially when ANOTHER character is overweight for no apparent reason.
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