What other anime/manga do you enjoy/watch?

tama chan said:
I enjoy his films as well. I think I might be in the minority on this one but I liked Tokyo Godfathers best.
That's the next one on my list. Another unintended consequence of Kon passing away, was we couldn't listen to more Susumu Hirasawa soundtracks. :judo:
 
Anime I like besides the obvious choice:

Claymore (wish they hadnt run out of funding...its actually the closest thing to Berserk in my mind)
Record of Lodoss War
Soul Hunter
Fairy Tail
Solty Rei
 
Salibu said:
Claymore (wish they hadnt run out of funding...its actually the closest thing to Berserk in my mind)

Episode 19 is when the story deviated completely from the manga and set the series up for a short, horrible ending.
 
IncantatioN said:
Episode 19 is when the story deviated completely from the manga and set the series up for a short, horrible ending.

Yes thats when they saw funding was ended and they derailed the story to give it a end.

It was just getting good with the males and the explanation of:
How basically the Claymores are an experiment on a big island for a bigger war going on outside of "this" claymore world.
 
New guy here, sharing some of his tastes in manga.

I don't watch much modern anime. Most of it looks pretty cheap to me and the themes and characters all feel homogeneous and interchangeable. I know more discriminating anime fans will have a differing opinion but I just can't get into the modern stuff. I loved the anime of the late 70s, 80s and early 90s. I still enjoy an occasional new anime now and again, but they are few and far between.

As for manga, I read quite a bit.

Berserk (obviously0
Vagabond
Blade of the Immortal
Vinland Saga
Wolfsmund
Real

Lighter fare that I enjoy despite their conventional approach:

Fairy Tail
One Piece
Naruto

Series I've read in the past that I really enjoyed:

Full Metal Alchemist
Monster Hunter Orage
Basilisk
Gunsmith Cats
Bride's Story
Lone Wolf and Cub
Bastard! (really wish Hagiwara would get the rest of these translated and also continue the story)
Kurohime (mostly for the great art-story is pretty bad, IMO)
Anything related to Street Fighter done by Masahiko Nakahira (big fighting game fan here)

There are a lot more, but those are the ones that stick out as being memorable to me in recent years.
 
Redfield said:
New guy here, sharing some of his tastes in manga.

I don't watch much modern anime. Most of it looks pretty cheap to me and the themes and characters all feel homogeneous and interchangeable. I know more discriminating anime fans will have a differing opinion but I just can't get into the modern stuff. I loved the anime of the late 70s, 80s and early 90s. I still enjoy an occasional new anime now and again, but they are few and far between.

As for manga, I read quite a bit.

Speaking of manga's im currently getting really into them, i have bought a few just the really popular ones, my question is are there any must by manga's to add to a collection? manga's that when you start reading them you just cant stop? like berserk and vagabond :guts:

the ones i own atm are:

Berserk
rurouni kenshin
Vagabond
Claymore(loved the anime!)
tenjo Tenge(loved the anime)

ive watched all of fairy tail, monster, full metal alchemist as well
currently watching slam dunk

thanks for looking! if people list manga's can you also describe in your own words a few things about it and why it should be a must buy?

Thanks!
 

Dar_Klink

Last Guardian when? - CyberKlink 20XX before dying
Recently finished Gunsmith Cats Redfield and I loved it. Just pure fun, eyecandy, gun porn, car porn, and BEAN BANDIT. I wish there was a full anime series of it, I just wanna see more of Bean Bandit animated. You've read Gunsmith Cats Burst right?
 

Walter

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bains1989 said:
Speaking of manga's im currently getting really into them, i have bought a few just the really popular ones, my question is are there any must by manga's to add to a collection? manga's that when you start reading them you just cant stop? like berserk and vagabond :guts:

You should definitely get Akira.
 
bains1989 said:
Speaking of manga's im currently getting really into them, i have bought a few just the really popular ones, my question is are there any must by manga's to add to a collection? manga's that when you start reading them you just cant stop? like berserk and vagabond :guts:

To speak of some of the examples from my own posted list:

Vinland Saga-My current darling, it's historical fiction taking place at the beginning of the 11th century and focuses on a group of vikings trying to find the promised land. It's written and drawn by Makoto Yukimura (Planetes) and is a rather unflinching look at viking culture of the time. It's hard to capsulate in a few sentences, but it has great characters that you care about, a compelling story that continually engages me, excellent pacing, action scenes that are creative without being confusing (as tends to happen in a lot of manga) and generally great artwork. It's a pretty violent manga but it still finds ways to interject humor and occasionally ease up on the intensity, even in the midst of a pitched battle. Yukimura is great at crowd reaction shots, and the plot twists generally feel organic and character driven.

Wolfsmund-This is another historical fiction manga based on the story of William Tell and the revolution against Austria. I would argue that the main character is actually the villain, a governor named Wolfram in charge of a mountain pass checkpoint. Because revolution is in the air and there are rebellious factions both inside and outside of the Austrian controlled territory, Wolfram has to oftentimes use heavy handed and brutal forms of punishment to intimidate the locals and keep them under control. He is a character in the 'magnificent bastard' mold and I guarantee that you will hate this person. He's completely unrelenting, and his methods are often cruel and unfair. This is a pretty heart wrenching series at times. It's not for the faint of heart at all, but it's still a fcompelling story that I am morbidly fascinated with.

I could go on and on, as I have a tendency to be a bit long winded at times, but I'll relent because I'm a new guy and don't want to post walls of text this early into things. But if you like Berserk, and why would you be here if you didn't, you might dig these series.

I'd also endorse Walter's recommendation of Akira. It's a classic, and I prefer the black and white Kodansha editions over the Marvel/Epic Comics colored adaptation. Steve Oliff and Olyoptics did some great work coloring the series, but I prefer the black and white so I can more clearly see Otomo's linework.

Dar Klink:

I've read all of Gunsmith Cats, original and Burst. It's just a fun series and I really enjoy it on that level.

As for a Riding Bean anime, I think I would have been on board ten or fifteen years ago. I just don't trust the animation studios of today to actually put the money into it to do it right. Now, if they wanted to go retro and do it 80s style like they did the original Riding Bean anime, or even the Gunsmith Cats OAVs of the 90s (I believe), I'd be cool with that. But even then, I fear that modern anime storytelling sensibilities might be too overbearing and I'm just not into most of the modern stuff because of that. As we've seen from the SAGA Project, even when it comes to a no brainer like simply adapting the source, the sensibilities of the production team distort the original work far too often. This would be fine with me if the deviations were good supplements to the source, but all too often they're just missteps.

That is just my .02 on the subject:)
 

Oburi

All praise Grail
Going through my anime dvd collection recently and I've forgotten how much I have. A lot of classics - Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Ninja Scroll, Jin-Roh (which I never even watched :isidro:) and some recent ones that I really enjoyed such as Sword for a Stranger, Redline... But most of the anime I bought over the years were older horror type stuff since that's the anime I loved the most. Urostukidoji, Wicked City, Demon City Shinjuku, Biohunter, Twilight of The Dark Master, Psycho Diver ... etc. I love that violent body horror cheesy anime. Closest thing to my 80's horror movie obsession.
 
i read an Manga called Sun-Ken Rock on Crunchyroll and i have to say that i really enjoyed it, even if it had sometimes too much of Fanservice

The art is fucking fantastic, seriously it looks amazing (here you have an example)

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Kompozinaut

Sylph Sword
Oburi said:
Wicked City

Impulse bought that waaay back in the day. Pretty fucking bizarre. I was expecting some sexual content, but man, it was more than I bargained. I still have the dvd somewhere. I may have to watch it again just for old time's sake.
 

Deci

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I can't stop my eyes from being drawn to articles about the new Sailor Moon series to be released. My sister was a huge fan when the original aired so by collateral I ended up with some nostalgia about the series. I think the concept of the princess walking powerless through a haunted forest to save her love from an evil queen is just a really fun story-telling blueprint that I'm attracted to.

Anyway, the only series I actually plan on watching is anything Studio Ghibli I haven't seen and Shinichiro Watanabe. Space Dandy. I've also heard that a new Dragonball manga series by creator Toriyama is rumoured to be in the works? I grew up with that like my sister with Sailor Moon.

My old favorites,

Macross DYRL
Project A-ko
Galaxy Express 999/Captain Harlock
Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo
Ranma 1/2
DBZ
Vampire Hunter D
Record of Lodoss War
Hakkenden
Venus Wars

And I'll stop there. If you watched those then you pretty much summed up my anime childhood, and in my opinion they all hold up pretty well.
 

Dar_Klink

Last Guardian when? - CyberKlink 20XX before dying
Redfield said:
Dar Klink:

I've read all of Gunsmith Cats, original and Burst. It's just a fun series and I really enjoy it on that level.

As for a Riding Bean anime, I think I would have been on board ten or fifteen years ago. I just don't trust the animation studios of today to actually put the money into it to do it right. Now, if they wanted to go retro and do it 80s style like they did the original Riding Bean anime, or even the Gunsmith Cats OAVs of the 90s (I believe), I'd be cool with that. But even then, I fear that modern anime storytelling sensibilities might be too overbearing and I'm just not into most of the modern stuff because of that. As we've seen from the SAGA Project, even when it comes to a no brainer like simply adapting the source, the sensibilities of the production team distort the original work far too often. This would be fine with me if the deviations were good supplements to the source, but all too often they're just missteps.

That is just my .02 on the subject:)
I completely agree on that sadly. I wish today's anime industry could better emulate the style of that era. The 80s and early 90s were perfect for making a series out of Gunsmith Cats and Riding Bean but we only got short OVAs. Maybe a movie could have the budget necessary to replicate that high detailed style of early OVAs? In any case I don't actually expect to see that ever made :judo:
Anyway, I agree on Vinland Saga, it's one of the manga I'd recommend alongside Berserk and Vagabond.

Kawajiri is fucking great. He did Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, Cyber City Oedo 808, and a bunch of those other classic ultraviolent anime movies from that era. His still seems like just pure gore-porn at first glance but they have amazing animation, art, coloring, and directing.

Oshii is phenomenal too. If you enjoyed Ghost in the Shell you really need to watch the Patlabor movies, especially 2. It has some of the most well directed and atmospheric scenes I've seen in anime and some amazing mecha-gore. You really need to watch Jin-Roh Oburi, it's one of my favorites.

What I'm getting into now is Leiji Matsumoto and Osamu Dezaki's stuff. I've watched the 1979 Harlock series and loved it, watched Oniisama E and it became one of my favorites, and I'm watching Rose of Versailles and GE999 right now. I love seeing how their styles influenced later stuff. You can see so much of Dezaki in today's directors, especially Ikuhara who is my favorite current anime director along with Yuasa. Speaking of which, going through some old Miura comments I found through the Japanese wiki, he mentioned watching Oniisama E as it was coming out, which was a nice surprise.
 
Dar Klink said:
I completely agree on that sadly. I wish today's anime industry could better emulate the style of that era. The 80s and early 90s were perfect for making a series out of Gunsmith Cats and Riding Bean but we only got short OVAs. Maybe a movie could have the budget necessary to replicate that high detailed style of early OVAs? In any case I don't actually expect to see that ever made :judo:

Man we are on the same exact wavelength right now.

I don't want to sound like I'm casing on modern anime, because I know there are a lot of fans of stuff coming out today, but I've been watching anime and reading manga since the late 70s, and I love the art direction of that era all the up until, I'd say, when Tenchi Muyo became popular. Then there was, in my opinion, a noticeable shift towards harem anime and hypersexualized women that weren't portrayed ironically (like, say, the Puma sisters from Dominion or Yuri and Kei from Dirty Pair). I'm sure there are some elements of the change I'm not recalling, but in a general sense it's just how I'm remembering it.

Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross), Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (Gundam), Nobuteru Yuki (Lodoss War), that entire era. It boggles the mind to have lived through the start and end of that style of artwork. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto is another great artist, but he managed to survive the change, as he was the character designer for Neon Genesis Evangelion, certainly one of the most influential animes of the modern era. Pretentious, but it's impact on a generation of fans cannot be denied.

I don't know how well it would play on big screens, but I'd love to see a Riding Bean/Gunsmith Cats live action mashup. With the technology available to make moves like Fast and Furious, I believe the action scenes would be phenomenal. And who couldn't love things like Bean Bandit performing ridiculous feats of strength with his bare hands and angrily biting through walnuts? I think that audiences expecting another racing movie would find themselves in weird, and welcome, territory the second Bean did one of his crazy feats of physical strength.

Dar Klink said:
Anyway, I agree on Vinland Saga, it's one of the manga I'd recommend alongside Berserk and Vagabond.

I'd recommend Mugen No Junin (Blade of the Immortal) if you haven't tried it yet. The dialogue is a bit anachronistic, but as the creator has stated it's an intentional decision to help relate the characters to modern audiences. I really, really love this story.

Dar Klink said:
Kawajiri is fucking great. He did Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, Cyber City Oedo 808, and a bunch of those other classic ultraviolent anime movies from that era. His still seems like just pure gore-porn at first glance but they have amazing animation, art, coloring, and directing.

Dude was an artist. It takes special talent to make something so amazing out of something so simple.

Dar Klink said:
Oshii is phenomenal too. If you enjoyed Ghost in the Shell you really need to watch the Patlabor movies, especially 2. It has some of the most well directed and atmospheric scenes I've seen in anime and some amazing mecha-gore. You really need to watch Jin-Roh Oburi, it's one of my favorites.

I enjoy Oshii's films but he tends to have a very dour presentation. His films are like London rain. I wouldn't call them 'cold', but they certainly have a gloomy atmosphere to them. I LOVED Patlabor 2. I also thought GITS 2 Innocence was pretty underrated, although it's definitely a strange trip. And Jin-Roh is one of my favorite animes of all time.

Also, I generally trust anything Hiroyuki Yamaga is involved with on an authoritative/directorial level. He co-wrote Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Gunbuster, Otaku No Video and ESPECIALLY Wings of Honneamise, which is simply a classic.

Dar Klink said:
What I'm getting into now is Leiji Matsumoto and Osamu Dezaki's stuff. I've watched the 1979 Harlock series and loved it, watched Oniisama E and it became one of my favorites, and I'm watching Rose of Versailles and GE999 right now. I love seeing how their styles influenced later stuff. You can see so much of Dezaki in today's directors, especially Ikuhara who is my favorite current anime director along with Yuasa. Speaking of which, going through some old Miura comments I found through the Japanese wiki, he mentioned watching Oniisama E as it was coming out, which was a nice surprise.

You simply cannot go wrong with Matsumoto. I heart anything with Harlock or Space Cruiser Yamato.
 
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