Anime Corner

[Sparhawk]

Well I promised a post or two, so here's the first.

 

For all those Anime fans out there, whether you be few or many, here I shall give a list of Anime that I feel are good, and even review some, and review others upon request. Everyone here is welcome to post their thoughts on an Anime as well.

 

Highly Recomend:

 

Mahoromatic

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Chrono Crusade (Nuns with Guns)(Was very good, but ending was sad...haven't cried like that over an Anime in a while... :'( )

Mai-HiME

Ah! My Goddess

Bleach

Gundam Seed

Gundam Seed Destiny

Slayers/Next/Try/5 Movies/2 OVAs

Hellsing

Naruto

Full Metal Panic/Fumoffu!?/The Second Raid

RahXephon

Transformers Generation 1 (The original 1980's version)

Fafner in the Azure/Sokyu No Fafner

Chobits

Excel Saga

Escaflowne

Full Metal Alchemist

.hack//SIGN

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Technically CG, but still very good)

(There might be more but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head)

 

Recomend:

 

Rurouni Kenshin

Wolf's Rain

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen

Sailor Moon (Yes Sailor Moon...I watched it dubbed liked it, told the subbed is even better)

Evangelion (...haven't seen all of it, saw the middle and end...I suppose it's worth at least a recomendation)

Ranma 1/2 (Seen first 6 episodes, laughed my head off. Can't Highly recomend til I see more)

Midori no Hibi (Guy wakes up with a girl for his right hand...it was weird, but the story was good and so was the end)

Gundam Wing

Love Hina (Good, very good. 6 months ago I would have highly recomended. Manga is better)

Love Hina Again (3 Episode OVA sequel to Love Hina)

Macross Zero

Macross II The Movie

Macross Plus (Not as good as the other 2, but still worth seeing)

Better Getter Robo (I think that's what it was called. Saw I think the sequel I guess, was alright)

Dragonball/Z/GT

Generator Gawl (Time Paradox, was interesting. )

Fruits Basket

Scarpped Princess (Have yet to watch, but looks good)

Onegai (Please) Teacher/Twins

Trigun

Samurai Champloo

Spirited Away

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Laputa's Castle in the Sky

Witch Hunter Robin

Inuyasha/4 Movies (Was good, but ending kinda sucked, and the Manga is still on going)

Hoshi no Koe (Very sad)

Princess Mononoke

Card Captor Sakura

Ultra Maniac TV (kinda funny)

Shaman King

Ninja Scroll

Appleseed Movie

Tokyo Mew Mew (Mew Mew Power is the Dub)

Blood the Last Vampire

Vampire Hunter D

Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust

Bubblegum Crisis/Tokyo 2040 (only saw one episode of Tokyo 2040, the sequel, but looks good)

Video Girl AI (I believe Wyvie said this was good)

D.N. Angel (I've heard good things about that too)

(Again could be more, but I can't remember everything I've seen)

 

Avoid like you would the Plague

 

Genshiken (only one I'm going to put on here...you watch Anime to escape reality, so to speak, Genshiken is about a bunch of University students in an Anime Club called Genshiken...nothing magical, or interesting happens...watch the first episode and I couldn't bring myself to watch anymore...almost like watching a Soap Opera about University students in clubs...)

Edited November 25, 2005 by Sparhawk

[Sparhawk]

Chrono Crusade

Ok so Zadown has requested a review of this Anime. So here goes. I'll start off with an official review from someone else:

"The 1920`s were well known as a period of excitement and change. It was a time where the women were fast and loose, and the booze flowed freely, in spite of prohibition laws. For the elite of society, they have found a new form of excess, conjuring devils. By 1928, things were getting out of hand. "

So the main character is a Nun, Rosette Christopher, and she belongs to this order of Nuns, The Magdalene Order. And their job is to basically hunt Devils. Now here's the ironic part. Rosette herself has made a contract with a Devil. That Devil's name is Chrono.

So she made a contract with a Devil, but she had her reasons. #1 He's a good guy and she's loved him for a while (but of course won't admit it) #2 Thanks to sins from his past this other Devil took away Rosette's brother, and gave him Chrono's horns. So she made a contract with Chrono so that Chrono would have a source of power so that he'd be able to help find the other Devil, Aion, and her brother.

Now here's the catch. She wears a watch around her neck, that watch ticks away at her life. And everytime Chrono reverts back to his Devil form he takes up a chunk of her lifespan. So basically everytime Chrono uses his power, her lifespan decreases.

This Anime is actually very religous in some points and therein lies the Enigma. Usually (in my opinion) Anime and religion does not equal good. But Chrono Crusade was a very good series. 24 episodes long, and when it gets close to the end, it starts to get very very sad. By the time it ended I had tears streaming down my face... I won't tell you how it ended though, you'll have to watch it to find out.

[Sparhawk]

*sigh* I guess there aren't that many Anime Fans here, I had hoped this place might be a little more popular...

[Tamaranis]

Here's something I can't recommend enough, (Not that I really make much of an effort anyway,) Irresponsible Captain Tylor.

 

I'm not going to try and steal your thunder or anything here, so I won't say anything about the series other than I enjoyed it and I'm officially requesting a review.

[Zadown]

I get my anime reviews and info from AnimeSuki and AniDB, so talking about it here as well gets a bit redundant for me. I'm more than willing to discuss it on IRC though.

[Zariah]

I speak for two members here who are interested in anime. Just haven't had the time to post any comments about what we've seen.

[Sparhawk]

well sometimes you may not have heard of an Anime until it's mentioned somewhere else, (like for example, I've never heard of Irresponsible Captain Tylor, before) and the title of this topic is "Anime Corner" not "Sparhawk's Anime Corner" So anyone is free to make a review on anything or request a review if they wish.

[Sparhawk]

Mahoromatic

Ok I'll give you a quick review of this one. I just finished it in class the other day...yesterday actually. So basically this Combat Android is given a choice. She can live for about 35 more days and continue to be a Combat Android. OR She can live for about 395 more days and do whatever she wants and give up being a combat android. So of course she chooses Choice B and becomes Misato Suguru's Live in House Maid. And of course like all stories, they develop feelings for each other. At the end of each episode you're told how long Mahoro has until she stops functioning. Towards the end of Season 1, the Alien force that she was fighting when she was a Combat Adroid, sent their own combat adroid down to investigate if she was really retired and why and all that. They fight at the end of Season 1, he interferes and tries to get the fighting stopped. Once Ryuga (The other Android) realized that Mahoro's special technique basically shortened her life span, he decided to call off the fight. That made everyone happy, and Mahoro continued living, and at the end she promises Suguru that she'd be with him forever. Second season begins. They meet another Combat Android, one who does not have a heart, and she is running from another organization, one called Management (Management is kind of like one of those Aluminati societies that runs, or tries to, the world from the shadows and don't like anything happening that wasn't planned by them). They take her in and she becomes Mahoro's little sister. Second Season started off very funny, then got a little slow, but got good at the end again. I won't say what happened at the end, but I will say this: The ending is kinda Half Sad, Half Weird. The second last episode, which most people would probably think is really sad, made me feel sad and wish it didn't happen, but the strange thing is in the next episode, the final one, that was the one that really got to me...so to conclude this, this was another Anime I'd Highly Recomend and, yes, it is also another one that made tears coem down my face...no idea why it got to me that much, but if it can do that much to me then imo it must be good.