Volitions Advocate on 8/4/2012 at 10:39
Funny thing is.... I saw that show for the very first time today. Saturday programming is way different than weekdays on treehouse. Still... I'm not planning on making my SON watch it. That might be worse than grown men.
Once he is old enough I hope to get him hooked on Teddy Ruxpin and The Raccoons. Won't do to get him all confused with MLP. Yo Gabba Gabba is scary enough.
Daraan on 8/4/2012 at 13:29
I haven't read all the post here I try give some recommends based on your answers. (especially less mecha).
But first a question what do you mean with dark movies? melancholic, horror, desolate ...
(what about spatter like?)
Since you have to read a lot I try keep my explanations short.
The rating is relative and based on what I can remember at the moment.
I want to begin with a anime that is not so much well known:
Kaiji
Story:The main character Kaiji is highly in dept and his dpt collector makes him an offer to participate in a special gamble in which the winners can make good money and the losers have to expect a much worse situation. And this is only the beginning.
Opinion: There are not very much animes who forced me to watch them all night long. The anime has the ability to build up very much tension with some very interesting turns.
The style of drawing is very special and I must say it fits perfectly to the story and its dark atmosphere.
Action: 4
Tension: 10
Humor:not considerable
Emotion(love):0
A hint about session 2 and not a spoiler
The second half of this session is very lengthy I would recommend to read the manga there.
Releases: 2 Sessions - Manga continuous
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DeathNote
Story: One day Light Yagami finds a notebook which was dropped by a god of death from another world soon he finds out that he can kill people with this book and also control them. His aim is to clear the world from all villains with the help of this book. His actions make the "super detective" and opponent L appear on the scene who want to catch light together with the police.
Opinion:"ahh one of the best anime/mange out there"(according to various community opinions). Also a anime with lots of tension and strategies how to eliminate/catch L/Light and whats really nice you don't know how it will end.(well 50:50 chance)
Also interesting is the question that automatically comes to your mind while watching it:"What would I do?"
Action: 5
Tension: 9
Humor: not considerable
Emotion: 2
Releases: 1 Session - finished
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Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion
Story: In 2010 the kingdom Britannia invades Japan from now on it's called Area 11. Lelouch the main character is the son of the king. A few years ago terrorist killed the queen (his mother) but the king didn't care he then vows to obliterate Britannia. Lelouch is sent to Japan together with his sister. One day he gets into a fight between terrorist and the military during the fight he mets a girl called C.C who gives him the power to control other people. He helps the terrorist in the fight and soon he becomes their leader known as Zero.
Opinion:For everyone who likes DeathNote this is nearly a must see. Which of the both you like more is up to you fact is this anime as an amazing story with lots of turns and tension (yes again this argument). I really liked that in session 2 the episodes were called 'turn' which is absolutely right lots of surprises and most things are not predictable(Like that):angel:
Well you can put this anime into a mecha genré but I absolutely don't want to withheld from you it's worth it.
Action: 8
Tension: 9
Humor: - can't remember -
Emotion: Here and there
Releases: 2 Sessions - Story finished - 3rd Session announced last year on the main page
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Steins;Gate
Story:WikiQuote:"Rintarō Okabe and his friend MayuriRadio Kaikan building for a conference, where Rintarō finds a girl named Kurisu Makise lying in a pool of blood. As Rintarō sends a text message about the incident to his friend he experiences a strange phenomenon. After later running into Kurisu, who is strangely alive, and discovering the message he had sent to Itaru had arrived a week before he sent it, Rintarō soon deduces that the 'Mobile Microwave' he and his friends had been developing is, a time machine capable of sending text messages to the past."
Soon they are a target of SERN an organization which is also researching on time machines.
Opinion:In my opinion and also in the opinion of many others this was the best anime released 2011. Steins;Gate is really an amazing anime I would nearly call it perfect it is very multifaceted and thought-out the story is very thrilling (especially if you have to wait a week for the next episode - that was horror), with great characters and it's also not predictable.
The first episodes might be a be a bit strange but with the info above and the later episodes everything becomes clear.
Action: 6
Tension: 10
Humor: a lot
Emotion(mostly not love): a lot
Releases: 1 Session - finished
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I highly recommend the animes I described above and a look into the following is certainly not wrong.
Great Teacher Onizuka - an older anime but very very funny. A very good anime and manga worthy to watch/read.
Hunter X Hunter - a very funny and adventurously anime with nice characters. And watch the original and not the remade 2011 (crap) version.
Monster - I haven't seen him yet but I only read good thing about it -> gfleisher
Full Metal Panic - One of the first (real) animes I have seen. Mecha genré but in my opinion very funny with good action.
Gantz - the love it or hate it anime:cheeky: btw. manga >>>>>>> anime
(maybe not a suggestion but its interesting what people think about it)
Blood+ (not BloodC) - I first expected a splatter, lots of boobs and other ecchi stuff but thank god no. In my opinion a good anime, sentimental(not love) and sad.
One Piece - hmm I don't know if you will like it if you don't like naruto (read the manga) but I think you would be the first person I met.
It's a still on-going anime with >500 episodes: nice characters, settings, storys and funny.
Mr.Duck on 8/4/2012 at 18:57
Quote Posted by Volitions Advocate
Once he is old enough I hope to get him hooked on Teddy Ruxpin and The Raccoons. Won't do to get him all confused with MLP.
And Teddy Ruxpin is -not- going to confuse him?, careful there, bub.
Stick to The Raccoons only. Awesome Canadian cartoon with humor, drama, and above all, soul.
:D
Volitions Advocate on 8/4/2012 at 21:07
what is wrong worth teddy ruxpin? that show is awesome!
Mr.Duck on 9/4/2012 at 02:47
Watched and loved the show when I was a kid m'self, but after recently watching the intro.....*shudders*
Volitions Advocate on 9/4/2012 at 03:15
yeah but that's the intro. C'mon! the bad guy's name is the "Supreme Oppressor", how much more badass can you get than that?
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Koki on 9/4/2012 at 07:10
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Without getting too complicated, 99% of the time anime = Japanese animation. While there are genres distinct to anime, and the result of being the product of one culture and its market forces means that a lot of anime are very similar, it's really just a medium (animation) plus a national/cultural origin (Japan). The noir analogy does not hold.
Neither does "animation from japan" because if anime wasn't substantially different you wouldn't be calling it anime, it would just be "cartoons" like you do cartoons from, say, Serbia. You don't call cartoons from Serbia "animacija" - which is Serbian word for cartoons - because they're not very different from other cartoons.
Anime is, mostly because it's been created by the most intellectual development retarded nation on Earth. (though I understand someone who watches MLP, a show for preteen girls, at the age of ~30 could have not noticed)
Out of curiosity, what kind of worthless studies includes a class about anime?
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Oh and I also forgot to add I've seen Grave of the Fireflies, a brilliant movie and a de-facto counter-argument to anyone claiming anime is for kids.
I love when people play the [insert non-anime full motion picture title here] card and then go back to watching the very retarded 13-year old material they claim anime isn't. Like you did with FMA, .hack, Elfen Lied or Slayers. And don't even get me started on people's suggestions in this thread.
Hypocrisy and denial makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
june gloom on 9/4/2012 at 08:03
You lost me at calling Elfen Lied retarded 13-year-old material.
Koki on 9/4/2012 at 08:16
Elfen Lied lost me at the opening which was oozing with inane pretentiousness. If we ignore the opening because openings in all of animes are universally pure undistilled shit, it lost me when the Super Mysterious Girl With Amazing Powers was escaping from the Secret Facility and they wanted to shoot her from 100 meters away with a Barrett M82 lookalike and instead of shooting at the escaping Super Mysterious Girl With Amazing Powers they spent twenty seconds on an extremely forced dialogue in which the shooter explains how it is a very powerful rifle and nothing could possibly survive after being shot with it, thus estabilishing that the Super Mysterious Girl With Amazing Powers will totally survive.
demagogue on 9/4/2012 at 08:24
Dude I think that's the vodka and butter making you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
You're not going to win an argument that Grave of Fireflies and Naruto aren't really anime. You've got the exaggerated eyes, the stylized mouth, the flash cuts, the faces go chibi, the dialog is so characteristic ... With Naruto, the fight scenes are pure anime and you even get full-on chibi shots FFS. Even under your own theory (that you can really distinguish the animation culture from the style, which unless a Japanese studio is making a really conscious attempt at emulating a Western style I'm not sure about) but even if you could you don't have much of a case actually adding up the elements to the style.
