I dont know any of you people yet :D , so here is my first question to the masses:
Does anyone here watch Anime ?
If so, what anime do you watch ? what is your favourite series? How much Anime do you watch a week ? Are you obsessive like me or have only ever seen shows like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll ?
I watch so much Anime now its silly, it doesnt help that my girlfriend loves anime, plays videogames and loves metal - all the stuff I like. Well it does help in a way because if I blow money on crap, its usually crap that she wants anyway :D hehehe.
I used to watch a lot more than I do now, one of my old friends brought loads of the films & we'd spend ages watching them all, but he's moved away & i've lost touch with him & the anime scene pretty much these days.
There is loads of anime you can get on the net that is classed as "unlicensed" , IE, not commercially sold in US or EU. Its very dodgy but basically, if something is "unlicensed" then the anime studios in Japan dont mind the fan-subbing that goes on. If however something becomes Licensed, then they tell the fan-subbers to stop.
I dont know the complexities but I do know this, if you ever have liked anime in the past, there is so much stuff you can download off the net (and its not on dodgy sites like vip-torrents or anything like that).
Heres a few links of you if your interested :)
http://www.baka-updates.com (http://www.baka-updates.com)
http://www.animesuki.com (http://www.animesuki.com)
http://www.gotwoot.net (http://www.gotwoot.net)
http://a.scarywater.net (http://a.scarywater.net)
Thats just for starters. Anime's Id recommend are:
- Naruto
- Bleach
- One Piece
- Vandred (although its licensed now)
- Hellsing (again, licensed)
- Bakeretsu Tenshi
- Tenjou Tenge
And loads more besides :D
Catch you later.
what is anime??I reall don't now?? :blush:
an·i·me Audio pronunciation of "anime" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-m)
n.
A style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sex.
[Japanese, short for animshon, animation, from English animation.]
Ok thank you. must be nice :unsure:
Hmm if you go by the cliche' that all un-educated westerners go by then it is simply :
-Japenese Cartoons
but it is far more than that - also, the majority of Anime that I have seen does NOT feature sex. Only the 80's manga uprising that occured (Manga as in UK anime label, not Japenese Manga) - those are just crap, swaring swaring, sex and vilence, then more swaring.
If you want to see some more commertial examples of "true" anime, check out:
- Spirited Away
- Read or Die (OVA)
- Dominion Tank Police
- Hellsing
All the above can be baught from HMV's Anime section.
Its just good stuff to watch :D
For a quick and easy example, watch something like the following :
http://www.ninjai.com/ (http://www.ninjai.com/)
And multiply its quality by about 100 and you have what Id call the creme' of Japanese Animation :D
P.S and remember , Pokemon is Anime, but it is children's anime and is at one end of the scale. At the other end there is the sickening Urotsaikydojo (sp?). I watch Animes in the middle of the spectrum that are great entertainment for all ages :)
It's spelt UROTSIKIDOJI .........so they say :eyebrow:
Ok i haven't seen much japanese anime but my favourite has to be guyver. I love the action! Hence guyver three is my avater ;) I think GFK is into anime in a big way and so is Ice Hawk from some of their previous post i feel this may be true! Nice to find someone into japanese anime too i hope you try guyver as its really cool!
I watched some Guyvar episodes a while back and they were pretty cool, I think I saw the first 3 but isnt there something like 14 videos or so... I cant remember :)
Out of the old classics I like Ninja scroll, Armatage 3, 3x3 Eyes, stuff like that. These days I dont want anything that is anywhere near as bloody and violent. Like Naruto, Kyou Kara Maou and Bleach (well two of them are viloent but not as much as the older stuff).
What other animes do you watch ? Anything that is pretty un-known ? Would be nice to see something I havnt seen before.
I'm gonna jump in and accept I know bugger all. Is it all the great big jumpy shouty crap that I think it is, with glorified transformers and doe eyed dollies fighting some post apocalypse death tank with some nubile alternative doing speed moves that involve a closeup of a characters face and some ropey blurred background?
I've seen Akira, did enjoy it, but much like Warcraft, a great big unpenetrable world to a newb. I can't be TANGO'd with it. At this point I'll hold my eyes open and weight for you to convince me otherwise...which I'm hoping you can do.
QuoteOriginally posted by Gazz@Feb 15 2005, 09:48 AM
I watched some Guyvar episodes a while back and they were pretty cool
Wasn't that McGyvar ? :lmfao:
Seriously though - Like Benny I know very little about Anime so if you've giving a Anime-101 to Benny then I'll listen in at the back of the class
PEN
Oh ok , err where to start :D
J/K
If you dont want to show an interest in the first place, you probably will never get into anime because it takes up a lot of time. I never watch TV , but Im forever watching anime that I download off the net. If you really want to see what I would call a "good anime" go to this weblink and watch the first 3 episodes of this series, and I mean the first 3 eps, it takes a while to get into the story line and you'll probably find the first 1 and a half eps boring :
http://a.scarywater.net/lunar/ (http://a.scarywater.net/lunar/)
Go there and download the anime called "Bleach". Its a relativly new anime and is very popular in Japan at the moment :)
There are so many different types of anime out there though, its like drama TV shows, yes they all have actors and are filmed for TV audiences, but the storylines are always different.
Think of a film and there will be an anime in that style , horror, adventure, action, romance (eugh!) , drama, comedy... Im sure you can think of loads more different types ;) you just need to have the patients to download a few different series and find out what you like. Not everyone likes the same things :D
Another way to look at it is Disney cartoons (but NEVER compare them to Anime directly). Something like Beauty and the Beast is nothing like Toy Story or Monsters Inc, or Ice Age. I know a lot of people who would watch Ice Age but wouldnt touch The Little Mermaid with a 10ft bargepole :)
Anyway Ive waffled along waaay too much on this topic already so I think I'll call it a day. If you have an interest in anime, you will probably have already gone out of your way to get stuff on your own by now :)
I used to watch it but have kinda given up due to time constraints, but then I never watched a great deal as it was. I have a friend whos heavily into it and buys loads, but I've now moved away from that area of the country.