Recommended Anime/Manga?

[iconoclast]

Any recommendations for similar things?

Memories sounds similar. There's also Aoi Bungaku, which is a 12 episode series featuring adaptations of six short stories from Japanese literature. Might not be the same thing, but it's a great show nonetheless.

[xbl0x180]

I just watched the short collection Meikyuu Monogatari (neo tokyo) the other day, thought it was excellent. Any recommendations for similar things? I will have likely seen many of them by now, but I'm sure there's some I haven't. I've been using the article at pelleas.net on "karisuma animators" as a exploratory guide of sorts, which has been really illuminating: http://www.pelleas.net/animators/ . Shmups would really benefit from something of that caliber for game design/company histories.

The Cockpit (which features another Kawajiri Yoshiaki segment)
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Daft Punk's Discovery album)
Robot Carnival
Tenshi No Tamago

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... and those Pink Floyd animation videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzaykWhlXs


I also dig some Russian, Central, and other Eastern European animation. It looks so - so different

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1bdhlqY4SU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wImBk5PO9GQ

Apeiron
http://youtu.be/dGxZ4K-J5YE

Diskjockey
http://youtu.be/oBgJhNW3jEI

Fehérlófia
http://youtu.be/2cRfmAMdIeM

Matrix III
http://youtu.be/ZrKgyY5aDvA



Classic cartoons:

Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land
http://youtu.be/YRD4gb0p5RM

Geometry of Circles (music by Philip Glass)
http://youtu.be/ch-R1aIM-C0

Norman Normal (late 60s WB Googie, Space Age-styled cartoon)
http://youtu.be/OxYo0BrmnhI

Peynet (with a music score by Ennio Morricone!)
http://youtu.be/wK45uom54xI

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Was paging through some old manga from the early 1990s..."Be-Bop High School" is certainly old-school manga alrighty.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Raytrace]

on episode 8 of SDF Macross - lovin the constant tape delay's all over the giant's voices :p

[Frenetic]

Where I only got into the 2nd season of Kaiji to watch last season (any other recommendations from last season/year?) I'm happy to report that Mysterious Girlfriend (heartwarming first love mixed with magical realism ala Borge) and Nyarko-san:Another Crawling Chaos (omg Cthulhu Mythos and anime!). Say what you will about the moe phenomonon, I think it's finally reached a saturation point and now a "2nd Wave" is coming which really remixes the genre. As an older otaku, it is much more palatable than what had come before. Thank goodness.

--the F-man

[Raytrace]

Watching Area 88 OVA - I've a feeling I'm gonna love this for at least 2 reasons: a) I love the shmup and b) I love military aircraft anyway, 15 minutes in it's looking good so far

[xbl0x180]

Watching Area 88 OVA - I've a feeling I'm gonna love this for at least 2 reasons: a) I love the shmup and b) I love military aircraft anyway, 15 minutes in it's looking good so far

Shintani Kaoru's designs looked a lot like shoujo manga, but the theme couldn't get any more manlier: mercenaries/soldiers of fortune trying to buy their way outta sure death from their conscription into a foreign legion or men who have nothing to lose who sold their souls to a far off war in the unforgiving sands.



The theme songs for these 3 OAVs were solid Romantic Pop with a Rock flare

"So Long, My Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLqkDtdm_vE


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[Raytrace]

Watching Area 88 OVA - I've a feeling I'm gonna love this for at least 2 reasons: a) I love the shmup and b) I love military aircraft anyway, 15 minutes in it's looking good so far

Shintani Kaoru's designs looked a lot like shoujo manga, but the theme couldn't get any more manlier: mercenaries/soldiers of fortune trying to buy their way outta sure death from their conscription into a foreign legion or men who have nothing to lose who sold their souls to a far off war in the unforgiving sands.



The theme songs for these 3 OAVs were solid Romantic Pop with a Rock flare

"So Long, My Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLqkDtdm_vE


[/brofist]

cool stuff yeah I really like it - I think when I finish it tonight I'll open up shmupmame and play it - I need to be forced to set back up all my emulation and controllers anyway (I've recently reinstalled my OS)

[Obiwanshinobi]

I think when I finish it tonight I'll open up shmupmame and play it - I need to be forced to set back up all my emulation and controllers anyway (I've recently reinstalled my OS)

Try out the SNES port/remake. Just saying.

[Raytrace]

I think when I finish it tonight I'll open up shmupmame and play it - I need to be forced to set back up all my emulation and controllers anyway (I've recently reinstalled my OS)

Try out the SNES port/remake. Just saying.

I shall indeed play that also...

[Raytrace]

is there any other decent military aircraft theme anime?

[xbl0x180]

is there any other decent military aircraft theme anime?

Yukikaze? Nowhere near as good as Area 88 because of all that s*** CG, but still a decent watch (and it's only 3 OAVs as well!).




There is also The Cockpit, which has two aircraft segments (the third is a motorbike anime). The first one done by Kawajiri Yoshiaki is most excellent

[Raytrace]

is there any other decent military aircraft theme anime?

Yukikaze? Nowhere near as good as Area 88 because of all that s*** CG, but still a decent watch (and it's only 3 OAVs as well!).




There is also The Cockpit, which has two aircraft segments (the third is a motorbike anime). The first one done by Kawajiri Yoshiaki is most excellent

cool thanks I'll check these out - for some reason watching Area 88 reminded me of playing Strike Commander.

[Raytrace]

loving how Aslan is some bizarre hybrid of Egypt, Santorini, Athens and Constantinople...

[drauch]

Finally finishing Armored Trooper Votoms today. It's going to be sad to see it end, though. Has anyone seen any of the OVAs? Also been watching Devil Hunter Yohko. It made me all giddy to see the PC-Engine Duo-R, the Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket, Super Famicom, and a Mega Drive sitting in her room.

[xbl0x180]

Yohko was the Buffy of her day. I love that cartoon! They sure don't make them like they used to

[Raytrace]

Finally finishing Armored Trooper Votoms today. It's going to be sad to see it end, though. Has anyone seen any of the OVAs? Also been watching Devil Hunter Yohko. It made me all giddy to see the PC-Engine Duo-R, the Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket, Super Famicom, and a Mega Drive sitting in her room.

cool Votoms is deffo on my list to watch next, yeah I loved when Asuka rocked a SEGA Saturn in Eva :p -

just finished Area 88 OVA - pure brilliance...

[PC Engine Fan X!]

That Yohko scene sure accurately depicts the gaming scene from the early 1990s. Interesting to see a white colored Atari Lynx I handheld variant though shown in that scene from 1989-1990. (Atari Corp. only sold a black colored version for the U.S. market and eventually replaced it with the all black colored Lynx II smaller handheld in 1992).

Yeah, watching "Battle Fairy Yukikaze" and it's "not too serious" OVA sidestory of "Fighting Fairy Girl: Rescue Me Mave-Chan" is cool. The first two OVAs of BFY were released in a timely manner for the U.S. but the third one seemed to be released about a year or so later. It was well worth the wait for it indeed. The FFG OVA could've been developed into a more serious one-off with some T&A shots for fanservice but really doesn't go into that territory.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Raytrace]

jus watched episode 11 of SDF Macross - 'My Boyfriend Is A Pilot' is now officially one of my favourite anime songs...

[Raytrace]

now watching the original Appleseed (OVA) - love it

[PC Engine Fan X!]

For Raytrace,

Be sure to check out both CG versions of Appleseed and it's sequel of Appleseed: Ex Machina...both have some cool action/stylized gunfight scenes worth viewing. Even John Woo added his stylized gun fight choregraphy/flavor to one of the CG Appleseed flicks as well.

The 5th Blu-Ray release of Unicorn Gundam OVA series will be out on June 8th, 2012...same day as that of the much hyped Prometheus prequel debuts on the big screen.

Here's a link for it via Right Stuf's site:

http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827 ... 4902/4/0/0

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[chempop]

Picked up the boxset of Teknoman purely based on the fact that it was 1000+min and only $20.
No original voices, but for something old and cheesy I don't mind.

[Raytrace]

For Raytrace,

Be sure to check out both CG versions of Appleseed and it's sequel of Appleseed: Ex Machina...both have some cool action/stylized gunfight scenes worth viewing. Even John Woo added his stylized gun fight choregraphy/flavor to one of the CG Appleseed flicks as well.

The 5th Blu-Ray release of Unicorn Gundam OVA series will be out on June 8th, 2012...same day as that of the much hyped Prometheus prequel debuts on the big screen.

Here's a link for it via Right Stuf's site:

http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827 ... 4902/4/0/0

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

thanks man yeah I'm definitely going to watch the 2 CG Appleseed movies too

definitely excited for Unicorn 5 - 4 was amazing - thanks for the link to pre-order - I've never seen that rightstuf.com site before - looks great

[xbl0x180]

Honestly, those CG Appleseed were absolutely horrible. They symbolise pretty much the worst aspects of modern anime: weak and cheap0 CG out the wazoo, weak story, blah music. I think the only thing they had going for them were the designs themselves, which would be better in a video game than a movie or OAV. I thought the original Appleseed OAV was bad, but that was because it wanted to compress a lot of the story aspects from the manga rather than focus on one or two things. The mecha for it was pretty good and the shooting scene choreography was one of the best I had seen up to that point (save for a few teevee intros). The music was definitely better in the first OAV (i.e., the sax solo and the ending theme for sure). The weakest part of the first OAV were the chara designs, but the new ones have too many things wrong with them

[drauch]

Honestly, those CG Appleseed were absolutely horrible. They symbolise pretty much the worst aspects of modern anime: weak and cheap0 CG out the wazoo, weak story, blah music. I think the only thing they had going for them were the designs themselves, which would be better in a video game than a movie or OAV. I thought the original Appleseed OAV was bad, but that was because it wanted to compress a lot of the story aspects from the manga rather than focus on one or two things. The mecha for it was pretty good and the shooting scene choreography was one of the best I had seen up to that point (save for a few teevee intros). The music was definitely better in the first OAV (i.e., the sax solo and the ending theme for sure). The weakest part of the first OAV were the chara designs, but the new ones have too many things wrong with them

Yeah, this is pretty much how I feel...

[Raytrace]

Honestly, those CG Appleseed were absolutely horrible. They symbolise pretty much the worst aspects of modern anime: weak and cheap0 CG out the wazoo, weak story, blah music. I think the only thing they had going for them were the designs themselves, which would be better in a video game than a movie or OAV. I thought the original Appleseed OAV was bad, but that was because it wanted to compress a lot of the story aspects from the manga rather than focus on one or two things. The mecha for it was pretty good and the shooting scene choreography was one of the best I had seen up to that point (save for a few teevee intros). The music was definitely better in the first OAV (i.e., the sax solo and the ending theme for sure). The weakest part of the first OAV were the chara designs, but the new ones have too many things wrong with them

while I did proper like the old Appleseed I was thinking the newer CG ones do look kinda cr4ppy, but tbh Imma still watch them cos I like the universe. Yeah the vehicle/mecha design was certainly a lot better in the OVA than the character design.

Has anyone watched the Appleseed XIII episodes yet? I presume they'll be even more 'modern anime'y (ie something I wont like )

[Kaiser]

Has anyone watched the Appleseed XIII episodes yet? I presume they'll be even more 'modern anime'y (ie something I wont like )

I think Icarus did and he said they are crap.

[Raytrace]

Has anyone watched the Appleseed XIII episodes yet? I presume they'll be even more 'modern anime'y (ie something I wont like )

I think Icarus did and he said they are crap.

awws

[Raytrace]

god I love LOTGH :

http://r4ytrace.tumblr.com/post/2166159 ... es-marquis

[Randorama]

Gundam 00 is a good series. It is not canon, and uses several serious themes in a well-paced and intelligent way. I wonder why Sunrise was producing that silly Code Geass thingy at the same time.