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The Ravenstein Anime Discussion, Suggestion, and Dedication Thread

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edited May 2011 in Ten Forward
Here you go Raven, you all go for it!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    This shall be interesting
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    AWESOME!!! Let the discussions begin.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Cool.

    Raven, tell me about some anime series you think I might enjoy, and I'll look into them.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    We should probably start out listing some series we liked and disliked.

    Like: CardCaptor Sakura, Tsubasa Chronicle, Chobits, Trigun, Sailor Moon, Hell Girl, and Black Lagoon

    Hate: Naruto, anything Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, InuYasha, and so many more. :P
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    JCSWW wrote: »
    We should probably start out listing some series we liked and disliked.

    Like: CardCaptor Sakura, Tsubasa Chronicle, Chobits, Trigun, Sailor Moon, Hell Girl, and Black Lagoon

    Hate: Naruto, anything Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, InuYasha, and so many more. :P

    Wait, wait, wait. You hated Cowboy Bebop? You are the first person I have met who did not love that series.

    A quick synopsis for those interested:

    In the not too distant future mankind has spread across the solar system. No true FTL flight, but travel between the planets is facilitated by hyperspace gates.

    In this future there is a ship named the Bebop with eventually 4 bounty hunters and their dog. There is a former mob enforcer Spike Spiegel, former cop Jett Black, the woman without a past and a gambling addiction Faye Valentine, kid computer genius Edward, and their super intelligent dog Ein.

    They are the best bad bounty hunter in the system. You see, in order to collect a bounty, the bounty must be alive. However they always seem to end up getting over their heads and so rarely actually end up collecting their bounty. They travel across the system, meeting interesting people, having crazy adventures, and trying to make a buck.

    All the while their tragic pasts that they are running from occasionally catch up with them. Each crew member has an interesting backstory about how they ended up on a beat up old spaceship like the Bebop living from one job to another.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    JCSWW wrote: »
    We should probably start out listing some series we liked and disliked.

    Like: CardCaptor Sakura, Tsubasa Chronicle, Chobits, Trigun, Sailor Moon, Hell Girl, and Black Lagoon

    Hate: Naruto, anything Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, InuYasha, and so many more. :P

    Ummmm you just lost ALL credibility when you put Bebop on that list.....which is an A+ plus, when you have Sailor moon which is like C+ even within the whole girls with magical powers genre.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ravenstein wrote: »
    Wait, wait, wait. You hated Cowboy Bebop? You are the first person I have met who did not love that series.

    A quick synopsis for those interested:

    In the not too distant future mankind has spread across the solar system. No true FTL flight, but travel between the planets is facilitated by hyperspace gates.

    In this future there is a ship named the Bebop with eventually 4 bounty hunters and their dog. There is a former mob enforcer Spike Spiegel, former cop Jett Black, the woman without a past and a gambling addiction Faye Valentine, kid computer genius Edward, and their super intelligent dog Ein.

    They are the best bad bounty hunter in the system. You see, in order to collect a bounty, the bounty must be alive. However they always seem to end up getting over their heads and so rarely actually end up collecting their bounty. They travel across the system, meeting interesting people, having crazy adventures, and trying to make a buck.

    All the while their tragic pasts that they are running from occasionally catch up with them. Each crew member has an interesting backstory about how they ended up on a beat up old spaceship like the Bebop living from one job to another.

    That one I hear about quite often, but also have never seen. See, there's another story that would probably interest me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ummmm you just lost ALL credibility when you put Bebop on that list.....which is an A+ plus, when you have Sailor moon which is like C+ even within the whole girls with magical powers genre.

    He did have Trigun on his good list. But then he had Chobits...I saw a couple episodes of that and was less then impressed. Saw an episode of Hell Girl which failed to my interest and have heard mixed things about Black Lagoon.

    Depending on the season, Sailor Moon gets a B+ to D- from me.

    But he had Cowboy Bebop and Gundam in his hate list. Now Gundam isn't one of my favorites, but there are some good moments to it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ravenstein wrote: »
    He did have Trigun on his good list. But then he had Chobits...I saw a couple episodes of that and was less then impressed. Saw an episode of Hell Girl which failed to my interest and have heard mixed things about Black Lagoon.

    Depending on the season, Sailor Moon gets a B+ to D- from me.

    But he had Cowboy Bebop and Gundam in his hate list. Now Gundam isn't one of my favorites, but there are some good moments to it.

    Chobits gets very interesting later on Raven, you should give that one another chance.

    Black Lagoon, well I haven't seen all of that, but mainly because some of the DVDs aren't available through Netflix right now. It can be a pretty vicious series from what I've seen so far.

    I haven't seen much of Gundam, but what I saw didn't really catch my attention much.

    It is blasphemous to hate Cowboy Bebop plain and simple :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Anime - mostly animation on film, manga - mostly printed graphics but with some moved on to anime or animesque film is great.

    It has been a long time since I followed the topic with any real interst though. I sometimes browse anime / manga sites when I'm bored. Some of the stuff out there is downright wierd!

    I have DVDs of;

    Final Fantasy VII and another - forgot name
    Highlander
    Spirited Away
    Howls Moving castle
    Blood the last Vampire (shortish!)
    Kiki's Delivery Service - loaned out and as yet unreturned!

    And some old and decaying VHS that I really ought to put onto DVD;

    3X3 Eyes (Sazan Eyes)
    Doomed Megalopolis
    Akira
    Golgo 13 - The Professional
    The Guyver - Genesis of the Guyver
    Thunder birds 2086 ( a few episodes)
    Urotsukidoji - 3 or 4 movies

    Bought for my nephews / nieces when they where very young;

    Card Captors VHS
    Pokemon

    Others I seem to remember watching when much younger or just plain bored (they where on TV!);

    Gundam Wing
    Science Ninja Team Gatchaman or its adaptations; G-Force / Battle of the planets / Eagle Riders etc.
    Dragon Ball X
    Avatar (No, not the new smurfs movie)
    Ulysses 31 - counts as anime I don't care what ya say - got access to all episodes!
    Mysterious Cities of Gold - yes it is anime :p

    I have a few more I cannot be bothered to look up just now too - in a cupboard somewhere!

    Me thinks me needs to place some orders! Cowboy Bebop looks .. interesting!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    And because I already typed the summary of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya up in Capulet's thread, I am reposting it here
    Ravenstein wrote: »
    Basic plot is a regular guy named Kyon meets a strange girl named Haruhi Suzumiya. Haruhi is 'not interested in ordinary humans' and wants to do extraordinary things like you see on TV shows. Especially the crazy anime series that have magical girls, giants robots, strange mysteries, and all that.

    In talking with Haruhi, Kyon accidentally gives Haruhi the idea to start a club dedicated to making strange things occur and then investigating them. Haruhi proceeds to form a club called the SOS Brigade and forces Kyon, the quiet and unemotional Yuki Nagato, the well endowed and helplessly cute Mikuru Asahina, and the mysterious transfer student Itsuki Koizumi to join upon pain of death. The club has been meticulously built to attract strangeness because everyone knows to attract strange things you need an intrepid leader, a seemingly normal guy to do all the grunt work, an unemotional girl, a cute girl, and a mysterious transfer student.

    Then the strange stuff starts happening. To Kyon. First the three other club members reveal themselves to be an alien, a time traveler, and a psychic who represent organizations that are monitoring Haruhi because they have reason to believe that she is able to subconsciously warp reality to suit her needs. Then his classmates attack Kyon with knives. Then Haruhi gets bored. When Haruhi gets bored, strange things start happening to the world to entertain her. If she gets bored/upset enough, she may even destroy the world and rebuild it in a more interesting form. All the while, Haruhi doesn't notice all the strange stuff going on or writes it off as 'normal'.

    Meanwhile, Kyon just wants to get with cute redhead time traveler. And survive.

    The series is largely a humor series that will parody anything and everything, especially other anime series. But it also has some cute romantic and social subplots going on.
    Ravenstein wrote: »
    Haruhi herself is like one big 'Just be Yourself' after school special that has taken copious amounts of caffeine and forces other people to bend to her will...

    And it features a rock show, bunny girls with AK-47s, epic space battles, giant monsters, computer viruses that kidnap people, knife wielding schoolgirls, murder mysteries, baseball games for the fate of the universe, and an entire episode dedicated to space heaters.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    My list is rather short, but here it is:

    Movies/Mini-series:

    Record of Lodoss War
    Orguss 02
    Fist of the North Star
    MD Geist
    Ghost in the Shell
    GunBuster
    BubbleGum Crisis/Crash
    AD Police Files
    Gunsmith Cats
    Akira
    Vampire Hunter D
    Howl's Moving Castle
    Princess Mononoke
    Spirited Away
    The Ninja Scrolls
    Dragon Knight
    Golden Boy

    TV Series:
    Robotech
    Macross
    Macross 2
    Star Blazers

    I really can't say anything about any other TV series, other than I thought DBall Z was stupid. Other than the Robotech/Macross series and Star Blazers that I grew up with, I didn't stick with TV anime. I was re-exposed to anime in film/short series versions when I was living in Japan back in the early '90s. Since then, I have slowed on my collecting Anime, much less keeping up with the latest and greatest, but I enjoy something with a nice storyline over just all out melee (other than Fist of the North Star, which is just fun as heck to watch).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I'm guessing it wouldn't surprise any of you that I hate Star Wars with a passion then. :D Chobits really does get great as it progresses. At the beginning, it's just another perverted Asian sticking his fingers in places there shouldn't be switches. (; Black Lagoon really has a raw and vulgar side that I like. Not all of the characters are memorable but Revi (engrish name) really leave an impact. Same with the weapons and drug smuggling nun. My tastes are very particular and vary for some reason. Hell Girl I think I liked because it was just an excuse for people to die in most episodes. What's not to love about that? :P

    I don't know why but I couldn't get into Cowboy Bebop. Trigun is just awesome! Vash The Stampeed is a memorable character that I really made the series great. Sailor Moon was something I started watching with my g/f at the time and continued to watch after we split. Ouron Highschool Host Club wasn't bad either. I did watch Pokemon in the beginning but last interest in it (all but the DS games) quite sometime ago. Yu-Gi-Oh was another series I liked too, just not the GX stuff.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    All I have is:
    StarBlazers: all three Seasons (I know a shocker)
    Robotech : All three Seasons, plus the Shadow Chronicles movie

    Used to have Ranma 1/2 on VHS, but non lasted past a few years
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    JCSWW wrote: »
    I'm guessing it wouldn't surprise any of you that I hate Star Wars with a passion then.

    I stopped reading here. Everything else you said is nothing but blahbidyblahblah, sir.
    *takes off gauntlet, slaps JCSWW's face, and tosses it on the ground*
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    All I have is:
    StarBlazers: all three Seasons (I know a shocker)
    Robotech : All three Seasons, plus the Shadow Chronicles movie

    Used to have Ranma 1/2 on VHS, but non lasted past a few years

    Well Robotech was very americanized. It was actually 3 completely seperate series smushed into one by Harmony Gold to meet weekend synidcation episode amount requirements. Each 'Season' is a different series.

    The three series in order of 'seasons'.

    1) Super Dimension Fortress Macross
    2) Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
    3) Genesis Climber MOSPEADA.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Xiaza wrote: »
    Well Robotech was very americanized. It was actually 3 completely seperate series smushed into one by Harmony Gold to meet weekend synidcation episode amount requirements. Each 'Season' is a different series.

    The three series in order of 'seasons'.

    1) Super Dimension Fortress Macross
    2) Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
    3) Genesis Climber MOSPEADA.

    I use to play the Robotech/Macross/Southern Cross RPG put out by Palladium :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ravenstein's Full Anime List

    Any questions on any particular series or shall I just go through them one by one?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    My favorite Anime Franchise would have to be the Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise, with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and GaoGaiGar tying for second. :cool:

    I haven't seen much of Cowboy Bebop, but I enjoyed what I did see, so it'd probably be in the top 10, maybe top 5. :D

    I also like Bleach, Zoids, MegaMan NT Warrior, Pokemon, and Hellsing--don't really know enough to develop a true honest opinion on other Anime.

    EDIT: Ravenstein, I'd actually recommend adding Mobile Suit Gundam 00 to your list--it's got a very good plot, and amazingly detailed characters. :D:cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ravenstein wrote: »
    Ravenstein's Full Anime List

    Any questions on any particular series or shall I just go through them one by one?

    Oh, this is all your thread, take it away Raven :-)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Vrano wrote:
    I stopped reading here. Everything else you said is nothing but blahbidyblahblah, sir.
    *takes off gauntlet, slaps JCSWW's face, and tosses it on the ground*

    lol The only good thing that ever spin off of Star Wars was SpaceBalls.

    Edit: Thanks to Raven's list, I just realized another anime series I hated. Fullmetal Alchemist.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    JCSWW wrote: »
    lol The only good thing that ever spin off of Star Wars was SpaceBalls.

    Well, I will agree that SpaceBalls was funny as heck.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ravenstein wrote: »
    Ravenstein's Full Anime List

    Any questions on any particular series or shall I just go through them one by one?

    Only on 61 of Bleach? Do you know you can watch up to ep 126 on Hulu? They actually have a pretty nice Anime selection there. All the episodes are free, aside from the three 30 second or less commercial breaks.

    The Bounts is skippable. They were just filler episodes anyhow, it doesn't get back to the storyline similiar to the manga until like episode 113 or 114 I think. . . been a while.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Witch Hunter Robin was a great series. My only complaint is that I don't like those open ended endings. I bought the complete set (the one that looks like the witches book). (: The engrish voice for Robin was actually decent as well (which is a rarity in anime).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    JCSWW wrote: »
    lol The only good thing that ever spin off of Star Wars was SpaceBalls.

    Edit: Thanks to Raven's list, I just realized another anime series I hated. Fullmetal Alchemist.

    Gah, How could you hate Full Metal Alchemist too. . . geez.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    KiraYamato wrote:
    My favorite Anime Franchise would have to be the Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise, with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and GaoGaiGar tying for second. :cool:

    I haven't seen much of Cowboy Bebop, but I enjoyed what I did see, so it'd probably be in the top 10, maybe top 5. :D

    I also like Bleach, Zoids, MegaMan NT Warrior, Pokemon, and Hellsing--don't really know enough to develop a true honest opinion on other Anime.

    EDIT: Ravenstein, I'd actually recommend adding Mobile Suit Gundam 00 to your list--it's got a very good plot, and amazingly detailed characters. :D:cool:

    Any comments on the above?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Xiaza wrote: »
    Gah, How could you hate Full Metal Alchemist too. . . geez.

    It wasn't hard. :P The loincloth for starters. How... silly was that?!

    Edit: I picked up the Black Lagoon complete series on Amazon a month or so ago for next to nothing. It was only $30 then but it's a lot more now. ): I had volumes 1 - 3 before hand but gave them away because the series set was that much cheaper than the second series.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    JCSWW wrote: »
    It wasn't hard. :P The loincloth for starters. How... silly was that?!

    The loincloth? Al's loincloth he wore over his armor...the armor his soul inhabited? That is what you didn't like? And that has caused you to not like the series?

    Well anyway, I just finished the series Pani Poni Dash. I, and most of the world, would classify it as a humor series.

    It stars Rebecca Miyamoto, a twelve year-old super-genius who has graduated from MIT and has gotten a teaching job at a high school in Japan. Problem is she has the emotional maturity of a twelve year old and a penchant for hiding behind the curtains.

    Furthermore the school seems to be mistaken for an insane asylum as all the students are nuts. Then again most of the teachers are either drunkards or TRIBBLE so nobody really notices. Rebecca also has a pet rabbit that tries to help her but lacks thumbs and thus is pretty much useless and relegated to being a lab animal for Rebecca's strange experiments she seems to get involved in on a daily basis.

    Furthermore some aliens in a spaceship that looks just like the USS Enterprise are 'secretly' observing Rebecca for some odd reason.

    Trailer
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ravenstein wrote: »
    The loincloth? Al's loincloth he wore over his armor...the armor his soul inhabited? That is what you didn't like? And that has caused you to not like the series?

    That's the one! It just seemed silly to have. It was like the armor was missing a piece and he took the cheap way out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Xiaza wrote: »
    Only on 61 of Bleach? Do you know you can watch up to ep 126 on Hulu? They actually have a pretty nice Anime selection there. All the episodes are free, aside from the three 30 second or less commercial breaks.

    The Bounts is skippable. They were just filler episodes anyhow, it doesn't get back to the storyline similiar to the manga until like episode 113 or 114 I think. . . been a while.

    Yeah...but the Bount...

    I have heard bad things about that.

    Anyway, I can also recommend Bleach...at least as far as I have seen.

    Contrary to the title, laundry does not seem to factor into this series at all. Unless it is the magic ingredient they use to remove the copious amounts of blood that everyone seems to spray everywhere they go in this series. So yeah, its an action series.

    It features Ichigo Kurosaki, a boy who can see dead people. Instead of Bruce Willis coming to help him come to terms with this, he actually seems pretty cool with this arrangement. Then one day he meets a Soul Reaper named Rukia Kuchiki. Soul Reapers are ghosts who help spirits pass on to the afterlife and fight evil ghosts called Hollows that feed on the souls of the dead and living.

    Soon after, as if to illustrate the situation, a Hollow attacks Ichigo's house and Rukia is injured in the fight. Ichigo takes up Rukia's sword and defeats the Hollow. However Rukia is now stuck in the human world and cannot return to her world until her powers return. Thus, Ichigo has to fulfill Rukia's Soul Reaper duties until she recovers. They have some adventures in the human world fighting Hollows and being heroes. That is basically season 1.

    Then Rukia gets in trouble with her masters in the Soul Society and they send a team to recapture her. Despite Ichigo's efforts they succeed and take her back to the Soul Society to be executed. Ichigo and his friends assemble a team to travel into the afterlife to save Rukia. What follows is two seasons of Ichigo and his friends running around the Soul Society trying to save Rukia. Meanwhile, a civil war seems to be brewing amongst the ranks of the Soul Reapers.

    This series has lots of sword fights, action, convoluted plots and secret plans, and flashbacks. They loooooove flashbacks. And everyone who has a name will totally kick some TRIBBLE at least once in the series.

    Back in Champions, Ravenstein had started a fanfiction in the Bleach Universe that she continues to work on occasionally.
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