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I'm an anime whore, I watch every little piece of anime I can get my hands on, I love the stuff. This is a place where you can discuss the anime that you like and why you like it.

I occasionally purchase Anime DVD's by the cover- no idea what I'm gonna get out the other end. I've bought some stinkers in my time, but also uncovered some real gems.


One that I've not seen mentioned here is Perfect Blue. It's a weird little murder mystery that is told in a very interesting style. More approachable than the average anime (plot makes sense!), and it's got a nice little twist in the end. Think anime Psyco or some other psych thriller and you've got it. About the only thing that threw me is that throughout the show, the main character is lamenting how she needs to become an actress to succeed, abandoning her career as a "pop singer". I mentally replace the term "pop singer", which implies "rock star"/Brittney, etc., to my mind with the term "children's entertainer", which seems to fit the tone of the show better.

I'm a cheap little [censored] with no money so I download fansubs of anime airing in Japan. If it's available in North America I prolly havn't seen it. (The only one I ever saw here I liked was Full-Metal Panic, it was awesome) I watch so many different shows, most of which just started recently, that it's hard to keep track, but my #1 alltime favorite is Naruto, though there are alot more series I like out there. School Rumbles pretty awesome, and the manga is great. DearS was great until it ended a while ago. Funny with a capital P for "perverted." Samurai Seven was cool until it got licensed. My Hime I personally like, and Bleach is an excelent up-and coming series. Of the ones that just started Ah! My Godess, Mahou Sensai Nagami, Jinki Extend and Air are pretty kool. Yup....I'm an anime whore.

I've got a small anime collection going.

I've got these:

Case Closed / V1 and 4 /w Collector's Box Set
Azumanga Daioh / V1 /w Collector's Box Set
Cowboy Bebop / V4
Trigun / V1-8 /w Collector's Box Set
Genocyber / Complete Episode Collection
Devil Hunter Yohko / V1-2
Love Hina / Perfect Collection (Episodes 1-24 and all three movies)
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
Grappler Baki
Akira / CD&DVD Combo Pack (includes Soundtrack)
New Fist of the North Star / V1 /w Collector's Box Set
Ai Yori Aoshi / V1 / CD&DVD-V1 Combo Pack (includes Soundtrack)
Princess Mononoke
Neon Genesis Evangelion / All episodes /w Collector's Box Set
Maps
Bubblegum Crisis / Collection 2 (Episodes 10-18)

It cost quite a bit of money though.

I've seen alot of anime too. Some of my favorites (that come on TV) are Fist of the North Star (even though they completely ruined it), Cowboy Bebop, and Vampire Hunter D.

I watch a lot of anime... heres a list that i came up with of the animes i have seen.

3x3 Eyes
.Hack//Sign
.Hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet
.Hack//Liminality
Akira
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV Dash!
Banner of the Stars I
[censored]
Berserk
Big O
Blue Gender
Blue Seed
Blue Seed Beyond
Chobits
Card Captor Sakura
Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie
Blue Submarine Number 6
Boogie Pop Phantom
Case Closed
Crest of the Stars
Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Digimon Adventure
Digimon Adventure 2
Digimon Frontier
Digimon Tamers
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Z: Coolers Revenge
Dragon Ball z: The Tree of Might
Dragon Ball z: Bardok, the Father of Goku
Dragon Ball z: Worlds Strongest
Dragon Ball GT
FLCL
Fruits Basket
Gate Keepers 21
Ghost in the Shell
Grave of the Fireflies
Gravitation
Gundam 0080
Gundam 0083
Gundam, Char Counter Attack (movie)
Gundam, G
Gundam, Mobile Suit
Gundam Seed
Gundam Wing
Gundam Wing Endless Waltz
Hamtaro
Inuyasha
Inuyasha Movie 1
Inuyasha Movie 2
Kaleido Star
Last Exile
Love Hina
Love Hina Again
Lupin III
My Neighbor Totoro
Neon Genesis Evangelion
N.G.E.: End of Evangelion
N.G.E. Death and Rebirth
Ninja Resurrection
Ninja Scroll
Outlaw Star
Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat
Digi Charat
Princess Mononoke
Pokemon
Digimon the Movie
Ronin Warriors
Rurouni Kenshin
Sailor Moon
Samurai X Trust and Betrayal
Samurai X Reflections
Serial Experiments Lain
Shaman King
Sonic X
Spirited Away
Super Milk Chan
Teen Titans
Tenchi Muyo: Ryo-ohki
Tenchi Universe
Tenchi in Tokyo
Tenchi the Movie
Tenchi the Movie 2: Daughter of Darkness
Those Who Hunt Elves
Trigun
Ultimate Muscle
Witch Hunter Robin
Wolf’s Rain
Yu-Gi-Oh
Yu Yu Hakusho
Zoids
Zoids Fuzors
Sailor Moon movie 1
Sailor Moon movie 2
Sailor Moon movie 3
Pokemon the First Movie: Mewtwo's Revenge
Pokemon 2000
Pokemon 3rd movie (Secret of the Unknown, or something like that)
Pokemon 4th movie: Mewtwo Returns
Naruto
Ai Yori Aoshi
Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie
FAKE
Speed Racer
Astro Boy
Project A-Ko
Abenobashi Magical Shopping Arcade
Ah! My Goddess!(OVA)
Ah! My Goddess! Movie
Mini Ah! My Goddess!
Angelic Layer
The Animatrix
Armitage: Dual-Matrix
Aura Battler Dunbine
Azumanga Daioh
.hack//GIFT
.hack//Intermezzo
Beyblade
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
Crono Crusade
Chrono Trigger
Comic Party
Creamy Mami
Cyborg 009
Dai-Guard
Di Gi Charat - A Trip to the Planet
Di Charat Shorts collection
Di Gi Charat - forgot the rest of the name...
Hikari
Visions of Escaflowne
Escaflowne Movie
Excel Saga
Final Fantasy Unlimited
Final Fantasy Legend of the Crystals
Full Metal Panic!
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
Wild Arms
Happy Lesson
Onegai Teacher
Psychic Academy
X
Samurai Pizza Cats
I, My, Me! Strawberry Eggs
Kanon
Irresponsible Captain Tylor
King of Bandit Jing
Kino's Journey
Saint Seiya
L/R: Licensed by Royalty
Maburaho
Macross
Mahoromatic - Automatic Maiden
Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful
Monster Rancher
Noir
GTO
Queen Emeraldas
Ragnarok The Animation
RahXephon
Record of Lodoss War
Reign: The Conqueror
Saber Marionette J
Saiyuki
Slayers
Slayers Next
Slayers-The Motion Picture
Slayers Return
Slayers Try
Street Fighter Alpha
Super Atragon
Tekken: The Motion Picture
Transformers (a bunch of em but cant remember all their names...)
Vampire Hunter D
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
ONE
Girls Bravo
Read or Die
Read or Die TV
Melody of Oblivion
Usagichan de Cue
Somedays Dreamers
Kare Kano
Texhnolyze
Mai HiME
Grenadier
Haibane Renmei
GITS Stand Alone Complex
Air
Negima
Onegai Twins
Ravemaster
Xenosaga
Love Love
Wind-A Breath of Heart
Ghost in the Shell 2

and a bunch of other ones i cant really remember -- but thats most of them... I gotta find more....

Wow, outta all of those I like maybe 5. Ever seen Sailor Moon Live Action? mM two friends and Ipissed ourselves laughing at the first episode. God, we just couldn't stop laughing, throughout the entire half-hour, it was that pathetic, but sooooo much fun to make fun of. (The version that we had actually came with full Japanese comercials, and let me tell you, asian Ronald McDonald looks WIERD.

I don't even remember all of the anime I've seen. I used to rent alot from Blockbuster and other movie rental stores.

I've watched a surprising number of those on the list, despite the fact that I don't watch stuff available in North America. So, out of all of those which do you actually like? Must leave, Naruto calls.

Hoo, boy, the only anime I need to live is Cowboy Bebop. Absolute perfection. Music, plot, comedy, and a heck of a lot of violence. No other anime I have watched or will watch will ever compare.

However, some other stuff that I have found and enjoyed is the Wolf's Rain series (hurry up and put the rest on DVD! I'm impatient!), and Last Exile. Both are pretty good ways to enjoy anime.

Sailor Moon and DBZ/GT/Whatever are absolutely dead to me.

Cowboy Bebop is overated in my opinion. I've seen better.

Agreed - Fruits Basket is better, CCS is better, GITS SAC is better, -- i could go on with a huge list but its not going to change your mind. It is a good anime but its not the best it just appeals to most Americans and "western" countries more. And Personally -- I hated Wolfs Rain, huge step down for the same studio that created Cowboy Beebop -- they need to hurry up and make up for Wolf's Rain by showing Samurai Champloo on Adult Swim so i can finally finish it... I cant afford to buy it and well - I dont download anime that has been licensed... i gotta look up to see if they are going to show it...

Dragonball's plot was too repetitive. Goku always ends up beating an enemy and a stronger one comes along. It's like that from Dragonball to Dragonball GT.

There may be anime that is better then Cowboy Bebop, in some people's opinions, but it doesn't really matter if someone says it's their favorite anime. Also, telling them that it's overrated is pointless.

I just get annoyed sometimes because it seems whenever I talk to any "anime fan" on the web about anime the first things out of their mouths are Comboy Bebop, Dragonball Z, and Inuyasha (sometimes even sailor moon). I've had people proclaim that anime is their way of life, and yet those three are the first, and most of the time only, ones mentioned. It sends shivers down my spine.

This is why I didn't like your comment. You said people could discuss the anime they like and you started attacking (not violently) someone when they mentioned they liked Cowboy Bebop...

By the way, I'm not trying to start a big arguement.

Dont worry about it - Cowboy Bebop is a great anime but some of us anime fanatics get so tired of hearing people talk about it like its the end all be all of anime
"the only anime I need to live is Cowboy Bebop. Absolute perfection. Music, plot, comedy, and a heck of a lot of violence. No other anime I have watched or will watch will ever compare. "
Perfection is something i never agree with and neither is saying that there will never be something better-- two of those things i really cant stand-- Stating that its overated is more like stating a fact in this particular case ^_^ sometimes we think we need to state this stuff so people wont think- Well thats the end of that-- no reason to watch anything else since this was so perfect...

So it wasnt him saying that he liked Cowboy Bebop that cause this -- it was him saying that there will never be anything better and it was perfect in every aspect-- which as an animation student-- has been embedded in my skull as "The true great sin" -- once you say something is perfect theres no chance for you to see anything beyond that- and as soon as a creator decides his work is perfect - he looses everything his mind held so dear to his hear- you cant possibly make something perfect in the eyes of everyone- so the artist has to be the one to never be happy with with his work and never settle untill its due. And i know for a fact they rarely ever reached that point with Cowboy Beebop- because even i can see the errors in animation in it and ive only been truely studying this for a little over a year.

there -- i have used this place to discuss anime that i like. But maybe i discussed it a bit to much. Sorry i just thought i should get that out of the way before i just blow up later ^_^