My favourate ANIME

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McBain

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Here’s some links to anime movies I know you will enjoy.

The vision of these films is amazing. The design is stunning, the characters likeable and familiar, and they all have a similar feel.

These are the Studio Ghibli movies. Check out

Princess Mononoke,

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY[/media]

Nausicca,

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtXkqpR0UdE[/media] - if it was a real movie the production design would be phenominal)

Howls Moving Castle,

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hbntEofuT0[/media]

Laputa Castle In the Sky

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtbXk65W3Ew&mode=related&search=[/media]

My Neighbor Totoro

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp9PDj_zb1k[/media]

Porco Rosso,

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FBjyF2jgLc&mode=related&search=[/media]

Kikis Delivery Service

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dkLobz4bpw[/media]

Castle of Cagliostro

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuRWACmbc5Q[/media]

Spirited Away.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSr9wqXeBb0[/media]

They are great, epic, stylish movies.

[media]http://www.onlineghibli.com/films.php[/media]

Other notable Anime movies-Ill just post the wiki link and a trailer.

Wings Of Honneamise (my favourate – stunning animation – scope - story – music. Worked on by the most famous animators of the time)

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Honneamise[/media]

Akira (The most famous Anime ever made.)

[media]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/[/media]

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film[/media])

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_SLtKoeVY[/media]

Cowboy Bebop (The coolest anime, with the coolest characters. The lady who does the music rocks! Also check out the series, its just as good if not better)

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_bebop[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au1AO1xaEts[/media]

Ninja Scroll (My second favourate – this movie is frightening to me. The way the characters are depicted and the hero Jubei is awesome.

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Scroll[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PSLpA6iZU&mode=related&search=[/media]

Ghost In the Shell (Design wise the best movie. Guns, ideals, it’s a great piece of art)

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28film%29[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP2Pt6m3yKU[/media]

Wicked City (Cool movie, made before Ninja Scroll by the same team)

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_City_%28film%29[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fO9Xf5nMEU[/media]

Metropolis

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28anime%29[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9WJN03xs8Y[/media]

Steamboy (This is an amazing movie. All the backgrounds are 3-D, and the story is inspiring. Most expensive anime movie ever made)

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboy[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvSWcCjCy4k[/media]

Paprika (I haven’t seen this yet, but it looks amazing)

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_%282006_film%29[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NclRSeV4pBA&mode=related&search=[/media]

Appleseed (best Japanese 3D Movie)

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleseed_%28film%29[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih2Cnr_7bn8[/media]

The Professional – Golgo 13 (Classic 80’s hitman- you gotta love this film)

[media]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgo_13[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7rmRBwrOJU[/media]

These are my favourate animes for the last 20 odd years. Each one of these films is quite simply stunning. Ive enjoyed everyone of them. If we can make films like this (of course the scale would be phenomenally expensive) but stylistically and design, character wise, we could make some amazing films. Let me know if you want any of these movies before I go, but please, do yourself an favour and watch them. They are much more advanced films than you will see from Hollywood. Even James Cameron agrees!
 
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Fist of the north star for the win....i recommend you look it up McBain if you have never seen it.

Cowboy Beebop, Akira, GITS, Ninja Scroll and Wicked City all kick ass.

Devilman is my all time favourite though. Oh, Guyver is quite good too.
 
Fist of the North Star?!!!

How could I forget that classic?!!

It hasnt come out on DVD here, and I havent seen it in yonks.

Top movie.
 

Not been in to Anime since I was 11. Used to like Vampire Hunter D though. I wrote a few tunes based on Akira a while ago, awesome idea for a film. Tetsuo ftw!
 
I got a collection of about 200 anime dvds. With the exception of Miziaki films (Mononoke, Kiki's, Howl's, Tortoro, Spirited Away) and Kon's films (Tokyo godfathers, millineum princess, perfect blue), the television series are far superior to the movies (especally avoid movies based off TV shows).

If you are lucky enough to live in the states all this stuff can be rented off netflix

Top 10

1. FLCL
2. Full Metal Alchemist (believe it or not the movie was actually good too)
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Blue Seed
5. .hack//Sign
6. The 12 Kingdoms (watch in subs)
7. Escaflowne TV Series
8. Excel Saga
9. Martian Successor Nadesico TV series
10. Crest/Banner of the Stars (avoid english version)

I watch most of my anime in subtitles however with the exception of #6 and #10 all these animes have excellent dubs. All Miziaki films need to be watched in subs also.

Other good ones: Inuyasha, Outlaw star, Boogiepop Phantom, Kare Kano (his and her circumstances), Evagelion, Nana, Robotech 1st season.

Here's a good site that you can watch fansubbed anime (fansubs are often better than licenced stuff) that hasn't been licenced for the west yet.

www.crunchyroll.com
 
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You like Studio Ghibli then? :D

Ghost in the Shell is an amazing piece of work, recommending watching for everyone.
 

Rob said:
You like Studio Ghibli then? :D

Ghost in the Shell is an amazing piece of work, recommending watching for everyone.
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Yea Ghibli is cool. I haven't seen Howl's moving castle yet though: work, school, everton etc.

If you liked Ghost in the Shell, there's a decent anime out there called Serial Experiments Lain that's pretty similar. They also made a 2, 13 episode TV seasons of Ghost in the Shell in 04-05, they are decent (dub is lousy though). They've been out on DVD for a couple years now.

Akira is pretty good, but there is stuff out there that is 1000x better, its kind of a shame that's the only thing most people have seen.
 
Dubs belong hell to never come back, a piece of art should be presented as it was made, for language purposes subtitles are the least intrusive way of making the artwork more enjoyable for those who don't speak whatever language the work is in.

This works both ways, Action films dubbed in Japanese are so stupid, big black guys with weird Japanese accents.... it just loses any atmosphere straight away!

In short, dubs die, subs rule!
 
Rob said:
Dubs belong hell to never come back, a piece of art should be presented as it was made, for language purposes subtitles are the least intrusive way of making the artwork more enjoyable for those who don't speak whatever language the work is in.

This works both ways, Action films dubbed in Japanese are so stupid, big black guys with weird Japanese accents.... it just loses any atmosphere straight away!

In short, dubs die, subs rule!
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That's not necessarily the case. Some dubs, like Cowboy Bebop and Samuari Champloo, are far superior to the Japanese versions. However those two series were targeted for a western auidence. FLCL's dub is in my opinion a little better in English too. It depends on the quality of the VAs and translation.
 
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