Watch Legend of Galactic Heroes, and watch it before anything else. Also:
Kaiji S1 and S2
Akagi
Kara no Kyoukai
Mononoke(different from Princess Mononoke)
Mushishi
Katanagatari
Kurenai
Phantom Memory Kurau
Eureka Seven
That should be enough to get you started
Crest/Banner of the Stars are also great
I know im not a regular here but can I get a suggestion on an anime similar to Berserk or Claymore? Even if it deviates from those themes a bit… I just need something good.
http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Gasaraki&status=2&order=4
Check the synopses of the stuff I have marked as 10s and 9s
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll check some out for sure. Getting Mononoke right now.
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Negima 334
So what the fuck just happened? I feel an anti-climatic end to this already dragged out arc. Akamatsu better be bringing out a 50 page colored chapter to explain all these loose ends.
Ah, thanks a lot dude.
On Penguins (oh shit, I’m like a day late)
Apple girl’s really getting an added depth of tragedy now to keep her from being utterly, universally unlikable. I just hope more of this develops before they inevitably pair her off with Shoma so I won’t vomit as much. There are really strokes of genius in this series outside of the artwork, and it’s progressing to be darker. Like an FLCL dark, uncanny with a deceptive surface of colors. There are hints of the director having a clear direction, and hints at it unraveling to be a steaming pile of shit. Because it’s anime, I’ll assume the latter until proven otherwise. Please let me be wrong.
and where is my Himari incest?
Quick question: Have you watched Utena? If you did, you’d know what to expect from Penguindrum’s director.
I haven’t. Probably because it was a shoujo, and I usually am not well read on those…though if anything the 90s had decent shoujos.
Utena had a different author, so I meant more direction as a writer. I’m not sure but think mawaru penguin drum is the first story he wrote to be broadcasted. There aren’t many original anime today so it’s hard to say.
Well, it is pretty much different from the normal shoujo series…actually, it’s pretty dark. And he pretty much ran the shots when it came to adapting the anime; and it was a group that involved him which started both.
And yeah, Penguindrum is an original work and is co-written with someone else (who is pretty new at it).
Utena is trippy. Still loved it though.
Something Utena did that you didn’t expect
Plot advancing recap episodes. And fucked up recap episodes. Just go watch ep 33 and you’ll know what I mean.
the Utena anime is more of a re-telling than a straight adaptation of the manga. From what I know it’s also only shoujo in the marketing sense, not in the stereotypical way.
Also, I just found out something really interesting. The original Utena manga is credited to “Be-Papas”(Story) and Chiho Saito(Story&Art). This Be-Papas is a group of 5 people (including Saito) that CREATED the Utena manga. Considering this that leads me to believe the anime was actually the original project.
Either way, even if the anime isn’t the original, it does mean that the director actually helps create not just the Utena anime, but also the manga itself.
Utena anime and manga were created simultaneously.
It was created with more intent as an anime, though.
yeah its supposed to be for a pachinko machine i think.
news on the new kenshin series…plus a new live action movie and a video game
bout to start summer wars and then [COLOR=#ffffff]The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, seems like its a madhouse kinda of day. got any suggestions for me after i finish these two films?[/COLOR]
Tokyo Marble Chocolate, quick two episode OVA about a couple falling in love. One of my personal favorites but I’m a softie like that.
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