even to black niggas. shit is surreal to me.

it's like they think that shit speaks to them.

to me, it looks like action cartoons, set in asia. with fireballs.

is it simply because there's so much of it? there does seem to be a never ending content stream.

what's the appeal?

Or Cowboy Bebop?
At least start there.

it seems campy.

like blaxploitation?

i like king of the hill. and the south park movie.

those were nice cartoons.

i feel like afrosamuri might take itself too seriously.

as do all anime.

...

is it the art?

the story?

the long, ever-available episodic content?

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they need to bring that shit back out.

or by an animator who was living and working there for Disney.

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it's true what they say...people are strange, when you're strangers.

not compassionate....only polite.

I am not like you at all and i cannot pretend.

Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
Ninja Scroll
Princess Mononoke

Watch them and you will see for yourself.

Best series:

Cowboy Bebop

you know damn well i aint about to watch no anime film.

...

MAYBE on a plane.

Anime can cross boundaries and do things you can't accomplish with Live Action.

Spirited Away is an incredible adventure and has superb story telling.

don't bring up no afro samurai.

You will see a lot of spirits/demons or gods though.

I thought Afro Samurai was meh, to be honest with you.

Here is a screenshot:

http://s1078.photobucket.com/user/dbatta/media/animatrix_gross1.jpg.html

You'll have to see the story to see what goes down though. Haha.

There is another story about a Black runner as well.

Ninja Scroll is good.

Very true. Its awesome. :)

but seriously, if everything dude does is fucking insightful. If you can't appreciate at least one of his films, you might be dead inside.


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

doc on him and his half of the studio, the people totally live up to who you want the folks making these movies to be.

being a child was.

my wife came home yesterday with copies of Totoro, Howl's, The Cat Returns, Spirited Away, Arietty, and Kiki.

not really a fan of series

>

Golgo 13: The Professional
Castle of Cagliostro

Rumor has it that Steven Speilberg referred to Castle of Cagliostro as one of the greatest action movies of all time.

I also liked Golgo 13 and Wicked City, but it's been a long time since I watched any anime.

Cowboy Bebop is essential anime viewing.

It's insanely good, I think I'll re-watch it.

Check out anything by Studio Ghibli or Masaaki Yauasa (Mind Game). If you can't at least understand why someone would like those, you just hating.

lol. Opinions are like assholes.

i think people get caught up in it being so radical at the time

theres a lot of good technical stuff there, but i think its a little overrated

really? come on, don't be snobby.

And they push the boundaries of subject matter. Most American animation is for kids, talking animals, silly stuff.

the huey avatar has me thinking.

it's the small mouth.

Killer Kung Fu Wolf Bitch episode comes to mind

LOL!!!! I wanna watch that episode now. :)

look up LeSean Thomas. he's been on his media tour for Cannonbusters

he moved to Korea for a while because thats where most American animation is done to try and understand it all. He worked on Boondocks and Black Dynamite with JM Animation and Korra with Studio Mir

Here's the doc he did with Creative Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvGqAanK0FI

and here's a recent podcast he did with Meltdown where he goes over all his stuff and how animation works overseas
http://www.meltcomics.com/blog/2015/03/01/meltcast-3-0-7-getting-animated-with-lesean-thomas/

Americans prefer use a more acting, motion style. most frames are different
since most of this animation happens overseas, there's a lot of hands-off direction which can lead to some weird mistakes. less so now because its been going on so long.

in anime, its more keyframe/pose based they can afford to be more detailed, but because of tight budgets and schedules, not a lot of actual animating gets to happen. Its more about economy. Some shows have A LOT of still images and recycled animation.

its just two sides of the same coin. I don't prefer Ninja Scroll over Steven Universe. neither is better, just different.

...doesn't mean they draw and animate much better than here. Stiff poses, mouths that don't match the words, and yes that includes the original Japanese vocals, same few drawing styles on damn near all them joints. Get our top 24 fps animated joints and compare the gracefulness and stylings to anime. No contest.



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we aight at this animation thing. japan just does it on another level.

we got them on comedy but they get us in every other genre. Bad.

....in its animation than our best. The drawing styles of too many of their shows and movies are too similar to each other. I'd put their stories over ours since we don't do enough adult oriented animation but that's it. When it comes to character design, we have way more variations and our top level animation is way more fluid.


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Just 1 example will do.

my nephew loves it

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even when it may exceed its effective scope."

"Roll me further bitch"

Just browse the Hulu anime section.

it go - tv : movies : anime

really, what kinda shit is that?

why it can't be in tv?

they're not movies?

i've never seen any kinda categorization involved.

like. they got comedies? dramas? spoofs?

http://bit.ly/1MvALLq

anime got mad genres, but they always lump it all together
Netflix is like that too.

Just cause i watched Sword of the Stranger don't mean i'm down for Lucky Star, nigga.

thats whay they make so much weird fucking shit over there. they're pandering to the small subset that will trick off dollars on $100 poseable figures and build model gundams and shit.

That's like calling musicals niche. Their appeal may not be broad but their subject matter and genre spanse is wide.

just a higher percentage of people are into it because of the culture. thats what i've been told first hand anyway.

more people fuck with manga tho

shit that makes us scratch our heads over here. they play incest and pervy shit completely straight.

even the goat directors from the 80s/90s look at the current scene like "the fuck is wrong w/ yall shut-ins"

Which was my point. It's not all flying people and fireballs.
There's anime for food, abstraction, sci fi, robots, fantasy, murder mystery, sports, drama ... etc.
It's such an expansive universe of art, that someone saying they don't like anime because they don't like flying and fireballs is akin to someone not liking a museum because they don't like French Impressionism.

I mean it's like asking why comic books, or comic book movies are popular.

I've never been a huge anime head but I made sure to get home in time for Toonami when I was a kid.

And as a few posters have mentioned in this thread, compared to American cartoons the art is both A) MUCH more impressive and B) the subject matter is MUCH more mature.

I'm willing to bet Dragon Ball Z and the Street Fighter II movie got a lot of dudes into anime in the 90s. That SF movie is bananas.


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Voltron and Tranzor Z in the 80s.

the only anime i've watched mad times.

particularly in long story form.

So yeah, there's some cliche's in the genre that can be annoying (all the male protagonists are 17, women are eyecandy, the comedy that even a five year old would find childish), but there's some gems. And its one of the few places where you can go really nuts with the ideas because you aren't beholden to ratings, just nerdy fans.

I don't watch as much nowadays since there are so many good shows in the US I barely can catch. But shit like Death Note, Cowboy Bepop id take the Pepsi challenge against any HBO show


>even to black niggas. shit is surreal to me.
>
>it's like they think that shit speaks to them.
>
>to me, it looks like action cartoons, set in asia. with
>fireballs.
>
>is it simply because there's so much of it? there does seem to
>be a never ending content stream.
>
>what's the appeal?
>

Shit is amazing and so complex. I mean, look at this description from Wikipedia:

"The show is a hybrid of multiple genres, including comedy, the detective caper, action fiction and thrillers, and film noir. The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles. Multiple philosophical themes are explored using the characters, including existentialism, existential ennui, loneliness, and the effect of the past on the protagonists. It draws extensively from multiple western genres, including the western and pulp fiction. The series also makes specific references to or pastiches multiple films, including the works of John Woo and Bruce Lee, Midnight Run and Alien.

The series also includes extensive references and elements from science fiction, bearing strong similarities to the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson. Several planets and space stations in the series are made in Earth's image. The streets of celestial objects such as Ganymede resemble a modern port city, while Mars features shopping malls, theme parks, casinos and cities. Cowboy Bebop's universe is filled with video players and hyperspace gates, eco-politics and fairgrounds, spaceships and Native American shamans. This presentation, and the balance of ethnic groups, has been described as "one third Chinese, two thirds Western"

It's in my top 10, but I'm a fanboy.

But then, I've harped on this enough already.

and the poignancy of the Wire won't allow me to ever have Cowboy Bebop float higher than the top 5 of my list, but man does it put up a good fight.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

because you brought up Twilight Zone, lol. *sits down in agreement*

I don't know what it is, but something about that show just draws people in.


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

unless you have a hang up about cartoons i don't really get the question
the plot lines be just as good as the matrix or inception etc

They run with a few side plots from The Matrix in anime style. It's pretty amazing.

Lot of replay value. I've seen it probably 10 times by now.

you hit it on the head

execution that really set it apart.

mutha fucking bullet time.

Champloo, Slam Dunk, Lupin, etc.
it spans every genre

Probably because its good. :)

It depends what you watch and what you are into. There are several anime series that I just love.

Cowboy Bebop
Michiko y Hachin - is AWESOME!!!!
Naruto - was long but good
Afro Samurai
Bleach
Blood + - I really liked this one
Desert Punk - seriously one of my favorites. Its ecchi, but funny as hell!!!!


There are plenty out there. I occasionally watch now (Before Zoe, I watched a lot more). Being a black geek girl, when guys find out you like sports, anime and video games, its like you are a frakkin unicorn. :)

.

Before you had to have the right cable channels or cop expensive ass DVDs. Now you can watch any anime show in real time with dem torrentz

what you know about them 6hr bootlegs? Sol Bianca, GitS, Escaflwone

that's how we all got into anime. One cat showed us Fist of the Northstar, made me a copy, I made a copy for one of my boys, and we circulated it like that.

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Like there is stupid, and then there is you, and then there is dead. - VAsBestBBW

R.I.P. Disco D

I had neighbors who were nerds into Anime Robotech/ Macross, Dragon Ball, Akira, Fist of the North Star etc so that is how I knew of it.

I didn't hang with anyone in school who was into anime that much and if they were they weren't passing tapes around.

With the internet you can pretty much stumble across anime and get into it on your own plus since cartoons have been killed for kids(Saturday mornings and things are leaning towards more adult centered and anime like animation (Toonami) I think it is made more palatable for people.

Vampire Hunter D (some of the first anime movies I saw edit).

If you can't watch 'Shingeki no Kyojin' (Attack On Titan) and get hype, you have no pulse.

If you can't see the appeal of 'Cowboy Bebop' or 'Samurai Champloo'... your loss, I guess.

Good anime has great stories, characters and animation allowing the story to
push beyond the boundaries of what live action could do. What's not to love?

I just saw the movie Lucy and all I could think was that it'd have been better as an anime.

I do love Samurai Champloo. :)

aaron really made them look blasian

but it looks extremely cheesy and hoky to me. like animated versions of those old dubbed godzilla movies.

For those who think Anime is all science fiction, I recommend you watch Naoki Urasawa's Monster. One of my favorite anime shows. It's a thriller type show with murder, intrigue and no fireballs.

Here's a link if you'd like to check it out.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v4087364WpsfA2S

Why in the shit is hip-hop so popular? Hip-hop is popular because it speaks to people. Anime/manga speak to people and gather audiences based on that appeal. We can play this game with any and everything popular.

Stop with the elitism bro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUpV63YHj34

From the series Samurai Champloo.

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Like there is stupid, and then there is you, and then there is dead. - VAsBestBBW

R.I.P. Disco D

Also, Ichiro Suzuki is the muthafuckin man.

Ichiro might just be some type of good luck charm when it comes to Japanese names.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iO5-ic0Ug4
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

when you hit 13-17 you're too old to watch the shit you been watching but live-action is still more or less boring. The regular american action shows are pretty tame and still trying to sell toys, and usually really condescending or just really terrible because they're still trying to appeal to 8 year olds too.

meanwhile anime has all the gore, deep plots that you're into cause you're into puberty and full of emotions and hormones, and usually more interesting art thats different than what you're used to.

and you can really just grow with it cause they make stuff geared toward whatever age you are. They even make stuff for the 40+ set. Every genre. Every theme. Something for everybody.

They made Cowboy Bebop for niggas that don't like anime

>
>meanwhile anime has all the gore, deep plots that you're into
>cause you're into puberty and full of emotions and hormones,
>and usually more interesting art thats different than what
>you're used to.
>

Is why I watch.

DBZ was basically Breaking Bad for pre teens. Shit had us just as hype as BB did 10 years later

up until then you took what you could get

I keep trying to find other animes/movies that are just as good but to no avail.

The way people feel about Cowboy Bebop, I feel that way about Ghost In The Shell

Shigurui

Watch that, there is an English dub now, but I prefer the Japanese one. Somehow the Japanese voices and language add to the effect.

Some of craziest gore/story telling you will ever see. This one literally sent chills down my spine. it's ruthless, bizarre, gory, and horrifyingly good.

It's a masterpiece made with blood.

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"Today is your day to have a better life -- it's your right."

*explosions*

*cool percussive music*

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>.
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>"Today is your day to have a better life -- it's your right."


I dont't care for an hour of cartoonish mutations and explosions.

Did you really just call Akira corny?

lol

The movie Akira was kinda like trying to stuff all 3 LOTR books into a 2 hour movie.

because the shit they did technically in that movie is next to magic considering when it was made. I haven't seen anything that pushed it that hard with the technology that was available since.

You could argue GITS, i suppose

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"Today is your day to have a better life -- it's your right."

The newer dub just ain't right to me.


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forcing myself to actually respond to you is like bathing in ebola virus. - Binlahab

Like there is stupid, and then there is you, and then there is dead. - VAsBestBBW

R.I.P. Disco D

I waited until this latest re-release just for that reason. I gotta hear "What's wrong with helping out a buddy!?!!?" in my Akira.

Plus... the voices in the original dub just sound right... and I've been watching the same version of it for nearly 25 years, shit just ain't the same.

... Also, I HATE how they changed the pronunciation of the name "Kaneda". The original dub version just rolls off the tongue so much better. I don't care if the second dub is accurate or not, it sounds like shit.


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http://www.booooooom.com/2013/05/21/the-simpsons-akira-bartkira-community-project/

"I had no idea until yesterday that the greatest project in the history of comics and the Internet was already well underway. More than 300 artists (and counting) are contributing to the Bartkira community project in which Ōtomo Katsuhiro’s manga classic Akira is re-told using characters from The Simpsons."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9iiZax1ZQ

One of the dopest in all of movies, tv, or literature. Comics, novels, alladat. There is absolutely nothing "cheesy" or "corny" about Berserk.

If you like Game of Thrones, fuck with Berserk. The anime and the manga. Right the fuck now.

Also, about your Berserk mention... *points to avy*

didn't give a shit about any of the characters

i just can't get into them for some reason.
i feel like i should like them more than i do but shit like dragon ball z and sailor moon ruined my perception of them.

i have a movie on my computer right now that my brother recommended to me
that's just been sitting.
i think i will try to watch it later thanks to this post.
i'll report back.
the movie is called paprika.

It has just the right amount of gore and story to be appealing.

all of Satoshi Kon's stuff

this may be something to watch beforehand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE

i was enjoying it but was really tired when i started watching.

thanks for the link.

was not expecting this

I've tried, I don't fuck with it.

im convinced some people in here to go to concerts and movies dressed like their favorite characters so its not far fetched.

.

cats be on that 401k slash rogue scholar slash family man / woman slash bumpy knuckles / MMA slash literati / late sippin slash film snob slash nerd anime life

thas a whole lot of identities

>cats be on that 401k slash rogue scholar slash family man /
>woman slash bumpy knuckles / MMA slash literati / late sippin
>slash film snob slash nerd anime life
>
>thas a whole lot of identities

lord knows i've tried.

i couldn't get past 7 minutes.

LOL!!!!

Basically everything is better high so thats not saying much


does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

A lot of the others do too.

Anime appeals to sci-fi and fantasy fans who want to see things on screen that just can't be done in live-action.

I loved it.

The gore is crazy.

You're like, "Did he just.... awww snap! *keeps watching*"

I tend to stick with live-action films these days as it is.

frowney face

Like i grew up drawing and liking comics and cartoons but never liked anime


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How are you gonna ask why something is popular, yet you've not spent any time to sit down and watch said thing to maybe figure it out yourself.. da fuck ?

super easy to go in blind and be confronted with a bunch of shit you don't like

but it looks so boring

I wasn't blown away, but I liked it.

which there is plenty of.

Like Bin said, it's better high. Most of the shows are 20 minutes a piece so I can easily watch them alongside any live action American dramas/comedies. If JPN got they own Breaking Bad or The Wire with subtitles, I might fuck with it too.

Shit is entertaining, you don't have to take the next step and fetishize Asian culture and try to learn Japanese and go to conventions and alladat.

I treat anime just like American tv. Most of it is trash, keep your ears to the grapevine and folks will talk about the real dope stuff, and then see what appeals to you from there.

BigReg is right tho, American tv is so on point right now that's hard to keep up. I only watch one or two series at a time, if that.

before you find the gems. This is my only problem with it.
I don't want to watch cutesy stuff with big-boobed school girl harems.
And I don't have the time to dig for the good stuff like I used to.

see what seems ok
but usually i just find maybe 3 interesting ones per year

I keep telling them that I'm cool on that shit.

I got out of the Dragon Ball Z type animes when I was in high school. I don't need to see a bunch of drawn out fights and over-developed (read: unnecessarily complex) plots.

If I'm going to watch something like that in Anime I'd prefer for it to be "High" Fantasy, and not just a mash up of whatever cool shit the creator likes. If you don't have a good story I'll get bored with whatever cool visuals you're throwing out there.

I appreciate anime that has a lot of noir elements in it or ones where character development is paramount. I can deal with a slow burn, what I can't deal with is nonsensical bullshit thrown in there for 13 year old.s

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

I stopped watching right after Rock Lee became a drunken master for a day, lol.
Not because it stopped being good but I guess I just got over it by the time it resumed.

It was good though.

most people aged out of it

Too much of it uses similar stylings for my tastes. Yeah, I know they're not all exactly the same but still, I seriously gotta be in the mood to watch one of them joints because of that aspect.



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you like, it actually helps with finding anime you're probably going to like.

Every time I'm browsing and the drawings make me double take, I usually end up liking the show/movie.

Conversely, I know to keep scrolling past the shows with cutesy girls in the thumbnail.

i agree it doesn't happen enough tho. i tend to be attracted to anime that looks different so i've been like a catalog for that.

but you'd enjoy Takeshi Koike's stuff probably. He did the runner short for Animatrix, he did the pilot for Afro Samurai, art directed for the newest, gritty Lupin III series, among other things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPe7E1YrY4


There's also Masaaki Yuasa who's style is more gestural and very distinctive.
He's worked with Studio 4°C on stuff lik Mind Game and Genius Party.
You should check out My Neighbours the Yamadas, Ping Pong, or The Tatami Galaxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcSuAhbtIFg


Makoto Shinkai is another one. his bread and butter is sheer detail. I don't think his characters are much to write home about designwise, but the level of detail in his environments, and the lighting and water effects are impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTTRweJ7jVs

there's more than these three obviously. its out there

Since 1976

delete this shit.

I imagine watching these you've picked up some of the language unless you just mute it and read the closed captions (which would be really weird)..or listen to corny english voice overs

Asian cinema (well foreign film period, really) on top of anime, so I'm often surprised by how much I've picked up.

I can't speak it but I often understand more than expected. Same for Hindi and Korean though.


But I love language. If I hit the lottery and had nothing but time, I'd just study languages and become a polyglot.

I actively study though and go there typically once a year. It's cool going back and watching stuff I used to dig and understanding more of the Japanese this time around.

My goal is once I'm really good I'll read the original Akira manga. I'm saving that to read in Japanese.

Its hard as hell to learn.

latest episode was dope

lawd, the soundtracks...SO DOPE

Most of em are just library music with pop songs for opening and ending themes. Every oce in a while you get a good one.

or it was just really inspired, like Samurai Champloo.

It's pretty much like Hardware said.

I'd love it if you recommended some banging soundtracks though, so I can look 'em up.
I'm not ashamed to listen to them (or vg music, lol).

I don't know why I thought she did music for ALL the animes lol

but this right here? The first time I saw this shit on adult swim?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrkQUBysMk

....BLEW.MY.FUCKING.MIND.

I was hooked from then on.



>or it was just really inspired, like Samurai Champloo.
>
>It's pretty much like Hardware said.
>
>I'd love it if you recommended some banging soundtracks
>though, so I can look 'em up.
> I'm not ashamed to listen to them (or vg music, lol).

I do have one that wasn't Yoko Kanno I'll look it up for you.

Not sure if many series can claim that tho.

that's the last frontier of samples.

...

>to me, it looks like action cartoons, set in asia. with
>fireballs.

by hip hop?

i only know the 'classics' and peeped some of the new shit because of my kid but like someone said above, they got shit for all ages and it's for niggas who wanna see some outlandish shit that can't be done in live-action OR for niggas who like good moving stories with flawless looking characters and shit.

there's as many different types of anime as there are any other genre of film/tv. Well, except anime has more fantasy elements i suppose.

There's a lot of good stuff in it, and a lot of bullshit in it. People find the shit they like, then watch it.

and you can be a fan of anime without having an asian fetish.

Hip Hop as you know is great and alot of cultures pick up on it. Its basically the same thing with anime. Its an art that another culture created that we like. Shouldn't be that hard man.

mf's so into that shit

thought of only for kids, to the point where adult cartoons like Family Guy. The Boondocks, and South Park are seen to some degree as being scandalous just for existing.

Grown-ass people are into anime because there are anime shows and films made for grown-ass people. As well as for kids.

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back when they were made to run in theaters.

there were cartoons that were friendliER for kids (Casper and other Paramount/Famous Studios cartoons, for example) and could be stitched together for Saturday matinees, but sitting through a handful of Looney Tunes should reveal jokes that, while not dirty, are definitely grown people humor. Plenty of cartoons, however, are a little (or a lot) salacious (see also, Betty Boop pre 1934)

What turned the tide in the US was television, where old cartoons were chopped up and used in live kiddie-show packages, and new cartoons were produced under the strict eye of parent groups

I never got into that stuff. Or comics, for that matter. I think it just appeals to who it appeals to.

characters, than you will find plenty in anime. Man, you guys are treating this like it's some kind of foreign alien language, it's story telling, lol.

I'll try it before I deny it.

Trust me, it's a wonderful film.

How old is your son btw? If he's a teenager he will probably be into something more serious, let me know and I can recommend a few.

I'm gonna try a these suggestions out on him.

My Neighbor Totoro.

They are both heart warming and great movies.

I guarantee it (C) that suit nigga

they're just well done

what kind of stuff does he like?

Justice League, Avengers and a few other superhero animated shows/movies. I've been buying him a lot of old-school cartoon DVDs recently. He LOVES Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse, Woody Woodpecker and Quick Draw McGraw.

>what kind of stuff does he like?

not DBZ. its kid friendly and pretty fun action
i believe the english dubs are on Hulu still
the 2003 Astroboy series
Transformers
anything by Ghibli
One Piece
any classic giant robot shows

anything by him

very very good


something not appropriate for kids but awesome


attack on titan

wait this probably wasnt intended for me, my bad

some people like things, other people don't. we're all unique like that.

dislike it and be disgusted at what you like.

or only like what they suggest.

I had a friend/roommate who would throw tantrums like a kid if it was a good movie he didnt recommend.

Opening credits... "awe man, this shit looks wack"

First scene.. "I already know where this is going"

2nd scene.. "man, this is wack, how long is this movie?"

stfu

Oh, I can't forget my guilty pleasure. It's so bad its good...

Fist of the North Star.

I lived for that ish!!!!!

Five Finger Point Star Exploding Heart Technique!!!!!

:)

I have a special affinity for that film.

You gotta think about time and place when you reccomend it. I aint saying its wack but when you look at the landscape, it was never really unique. The plot was basically any ronin movie. Kenshin was deeper.

It just happened to hit at the right time for adolecent/teenage boys in america who'd never seen anything like that.

It took me a few viewings to actually get FLCL. My hubby loves that ish! LOL!

I just couldn't...

i like the more serious anime, the 3 episodes ive seen of aldonah zero were good, im looking for an english dub

one thing anime gets wrong are the over the top emotions like on attack on titan. all that yelling and screaming make it unwatchable for me

Bebop, Lupin, GitS, Golgo 13, Mushishi, Moribito
and usually stuff that borders more american

im into the more serious anime

gore means nothing to me
im not against gore but i dont have to have it
and gore just to have gore is a turnoff

Akira was visually fantastic
good background story, but something about the execution i didnt like

i hate
absolutely HATE the random silly characters they seem to throw into serious anime
Full Alchemist Brotherhood
the Tachikomas on GitS

that shit is hella annoying on to me and unnecessary

i LOVE Miyazaki movies
Spirited Away is my favorite
so im not against humor it just has its place

ive only seen the first 3 episodes of Cowboy Bebop
it looks promising

i agree with you mostly

i disagree with the tachikomas. i find them the most interesting since they're the only real 'robots' in the show; ones without 'ghosts'. They constantly try to understand the line between living thing and object, which is something the human characters seem to deal with eternally.

it think its an interesting way to treat the constant pontificating found in the movies by using it for specific characters who, by all intents, shouldn't even be able to. They're voices get kind of annoying but i kind of accept that representing their childlike curiosity considering the designs are so fun looking. It did feel like some heart was missing when they were gone in season 2

i agree with you though....kinda

i agree that it goes with their 'young' inquisitive programming

however i still feel like anime overcompensates too much with too many things
and thats a distraction for me

you could still pull a voice off like that with the robots without it sounding like a 5 year old little girl

this is mostly stuff thats dubbed and mostly stuff that wasn't on Toonami/Adult Swim at some point or talked about in this post. I'm missing some cause i've seen so much bullshit over the past 15/16 years, i lose track.

Afro Samurai (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0yOW6FpEM)
Michiko e Hatchin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQmWrRZKS60)
Lupin III:
• A Woman Called Fujiko Mine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xwSP-kDiE)
• Jigen's Gravestone
• Secret of Mamo
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUi0L28WJyc)
Golden Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZC5OO18V6M)
Dead Leaves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB87PwTKJyc)
Black Lagoon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SliXyNnhnC4)
Claymore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDxS6QxnYrM)
GTO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vULtNabXn6c)
Ping Pong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcSuAhbtIFg)
Kino's Journey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udmx3ioHWDI)
Space Brothers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciS3fDqT1Vw)
Samurai Champloo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaNIN90QOT0)
Hajime no Ippo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yEJkWkcIok)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_gYTXzM9k&list=ELodfehz4fB38)
Redline (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPe7E1YrY4&feature=relmfu)
Gunsmith Cats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBVAdfdym20)
Welcome to NHK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYLsjJ8RThQ)
Monster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N-L6j2oDZw)
Genshiken (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHMZE-UIwwU&t=893)
Ergo Proxy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTPHVz6OOg)
Gankutsou: The Count of Monte Cristo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWibk4KbyQ)
Sword of the Stranger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04MP2b5obz4)
Tekkonkinkreet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-a6yZXIDLw)
City Hunter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkyzPuSW_Q)
Golgo 13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k3TGibkwM8)


***Anime for nghs that like film and snob nghs***
Millenium Actress
Paprika
Grave of the Fireflies
5 Centimeters Per Second
Princess Mononoke
FLCL
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Metropolis
Neon Genesis
Perfect Blue
Macross Plus
Mind Game
Serial Experiments Lain
Tekkonkinkreet
Planetes
Human Crossing


***Anime for old nghs that fuck with anime tropes heavy***
Baccano
Trava Fist Planet
Excel Saga
Durarara
Speedgrapher
Birdy the Mighty: Decode
Niea-7
Monster
Psycho-Pass
Space Dandy
Cassern Sins
Steins;Gate
Ghost Hound
Gatchaman Crowds
Deadman Wonderland
Shiguri
Gilamesh
Hell Girl
Night Raid 1931
Riding Bean
Shadow Skill


***Anime for kids and nghs that like to be happy sometimes***
Dragonball (original, not DBZ)
Heroman
Summer Wars
Ponyo
Shaman King
Spirited Away
Sgt Frog
Oban Star Racers
Zoids
Gad Guard
Astro Boy(2003)
Digimon
Hare + Guu
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi(kinda)
Toriko
Sherlock Hound


*mediocre/bad anime for old nghs*
Gun x Sword
Trinity Blood
Geneshaft
El Cazador de la Bruja
Heat Guy J
Flag
Kids on the Slope
Canaan
Samurai Flamenco
Xam'd
Murder Princess
Red Garden
Rideback

so everytime a post comes up its 200 posts of DBZ, Ninja Scroll, Bebop, Miyazaki, and whatever happened to be popular in the past 6 months.

no shade tho. nghs aint got that kind of time. lol

i just know when you get old and jaded, you don't really like the shit you did when you were 16. I'd have recommended Ranma 1/2 back in '01, i loved it, but if it came out now, i'd 100% not be watching it. These posts tend to feel like recommending cough drops for athlete's foot.

i mean, are we really out here in 2015 telling people to watch Inuyasha?

i agree
looking for anime on Hulu or Netflix is a pain because its all grouped together and not split up into genres of Anime

someone makes an Anime thread and the replies do the exact thing we complain about Hulu and Netflix doing

once again
thanks for breaking it down

Are you really recommending that to a grown person who isn't still in high school? Hell I love Naruto but I don't tell people to start watching it now.

But props to Hardware for doing the work. He's a great ambassador.

That's a show for ngas who don't fuck wit anime like that, for sure

I'd add Planetes and Mushishi to your show list and Mind Game to your movie list.

>this is mostly stuff thats dubbed and mostly stuff that
>wasn't on Toonami/Adult Swim at some point or talked about in
>this post. I'm missing some cause i've seen so much bullshit
>over the past 15/16 years, i lose track.
>
>Afro Samurai (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0yOW6FpEM)
>Michiko e Hatchin
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQmWrRZKS60)
>Lupin III:
>• A Woman Called Fujiko Mine
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xwSP-kDiE)
>• Jigen's Gravestone
>• Secret of Mamo
>Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUi0L28WJyc)
>Golden Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZC5OO18V6M)
>Dead Leaves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB87PwTKJyc)
>Black Lagoon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SliXyNnhnC4)
>Claymore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDxS6QxnYrM)
>GTO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vULtNabXn6c)
>Ping Pong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcSuAhbtIFg)
>Kino's Journey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udmx3ioHWDI)
>Space Brothers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciS3fDqT1Vw)
>Samurai Champloo
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaNIN90QOT0)
>Hajime no Ippo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yEJkWkcIok)
>Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_gYTXzM9k&list=ELodfehz4fB38)
>Redline
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPe7E1YrY4&feature=relmfu)
>Gunsmith Cats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBVAdfdym20)
>Welcome to NHK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYLsjJ8RThQ)
>Monster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N-L6j2oDZw)
>Genshiken (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHMZE-UIwwU&t=893)
>Ergo Proxy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTPHVz6OOg)
>Gankutsou: The Count of Monte Cristo
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWibk4KbyQ)
>Sword of the Stranger
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04MP2b5obz4)
>Tekkonkinkreet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-a6yZXIDLw)
>City Hunter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkyzPuSW_Q)
>Golgo 13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k3TGibkwM8)
>
>
>***Anime for nghs that like film and snob nghs***
>Millenium Actress
>Paprika
>Grave of the Fireflies
>5 Centimeters Per Second
>Princess Mononoke
>FLCL
>Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
>Metropolis
>Neon Genesis
>Perfect Blue
>Macross Plus
>Mind Game
>Serial Experiments Lain
>Tekkonkinkreet
>Planetes
>Human Crossing
>
>
>***Anime for old nghs that fuck with anime tropes heavy***
>Baccano
>Trava Fist Planet
>Excel Saga
>Durarara
>Speedgrapher
>Birdy the Mighty: Decode
>Niea-7
>Monster
>Psycho-Pass
>Space Dandy
>Cassern Sins
>Steins;Gate
>Ghost Hound
>Gatchaman Crowds
>Deadman Wonderland
>Shiguri
>Gilamesh
>Hell Girl
>Night Raid 1931
>Riding Bean
>Shadow Skill
>
>
>***Anime for kids and nghs that like to be happy sometimes***
>Dragonball (original, not DBZ)
>Heroman
>Summer Wars
>Ponyo
>Shaman King
>Spirited Away
>Sgt Frog
>Oban Star Racers
>Zoids
>Gad Guard
>Astro Boy(2003)
>Digimon
>Hare + Guu
>Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi(kinda)
>Toriko
>Sherlock Hound
>
>
>*mediocre/bad anime for old nghs*
>Gun x Sword
>Trinity Blood
>Geneshaft
>El Cazador de la Bruja
>Heat Guy J
>Flag
>Kids on the Slope
>Canaan
>Samurai Flamenco
>Xam'd
>Murder Princess
>Red Garden
>Rideback
>

Nothing puts the elements together like Bebop which is why its so revered.

Shinicho Watanabe modeled Spike after Lupin III tho if you couldnt tell by the clothes and all the jazz in the show

>Nothing puts the elements together like Bebop which is why
>its so revered.
>
>Shinicho Watanabe modeled Spike after Lupin III tho if you
>couldnt tell by the clothes and all the jazz in the show

Especially the new joint

All of these shows have elements of Cowboy Bebop that I have found similiar. Its not the same show but if you like Cowboy Bebop I think you will enjoy those shows. They all mix martial arts, gun play, bounty hunters, westerns, jazz (kinda), pirates, capers, and strong scripts. Some are more funny than the others (Black Lagoon, Outlaw Star, Trigun)

I'm glad I've only watched one show on the bad list and didn't finish it. It was Heat Guy J and that was from my Sci-Fi channel anime days.

Both were recommended by the same person.

Its the type that has good elements that dont really come together. Its entirely too melodramatic and/or cliche than it should be. I was pretty high on it when it came out, but upon second viewing, it didnt really feel as dope.

See also:
S-Cry-eD
Darker Than Black
Geneshaft
Most stuff from Gonzo post-2007

Idk what it was but they talked about the money Viacom spent on Heat Guy J for MTV and how bad it flopped. It was a cautionary tale for networks for a while.

I just meant that you shouldnt expect it to move mountains despite how it looks on the surface

I like really bloody/disturbing anime.

an anime appreciation & recommendation post! hahahaha

i brought up anime to a few ppl & instantly the cartoon porn/moms basement porn deviant loser masturbator jokes started

and that shit looks anime as hellll to me.

i guess like deadzombie said, it's the stereotype/subject matter.

they even worked with studio Mad House on season 2/3

I'm on it now. Jaw dropping.

I didn't finish Kill La Kill.

it had a few misses but damn if the characters weren't cool as fuck

the first suggestion is anime, so you are not alone.
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