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Originally posted by Infiltrator-SF:
I for one never liked Anime,

In my eyes, Walt Disney was the master of drawn animation, since I started drawing from a very little age, I kind of looked up to him and his work, it was very inspiring and it compleltly capured me.

I saw some anime, but it never impressed me, I just felt dissapointed more and more as I began to notice how often they are just repeating the same animations over and over and over, or the obscene amount of slo-mo scrolling, anyway, it all made the impression that too many shortcuts are taken when it comes to anime.

Anyway I had to get it out once I saw the thread, sorry

Try Princess Mononoke

I'll try to find the titles you suggested, however, I strongly doubt my view of the whole genre can change based on 2-3 films

If you watch Mononoke and Spirited away, I dare claim so.

Akira, Mononoke, Spirited Away, Berserk, and Nausicaa are all good. Oh, and whatever you do, don't watch any of them dubbed except for possibly Mononoke and Akira (Akira got dubbed multiple times, one is good).

Hmmm I actually think I saw Mononoke. Is it the one where there's some corrupted worm thing in the start that consumes everything? And sometime later the wolf head jumps around and bites stuff? I didn't like it if that's the one you're talking about.

Infiltrator, watch FullMetal Alchemist and then tell me if you didn't change your mind about anime

I liked Spirited Away even more than Mononoke and I think that Ghibli movies are a must see

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Originally posted by Infiltrator-SF:
I for one never liked Anime,

In my eyes, Walt Disney was the master of drawn animation, since I started drawing from a very little age, I kind of looked up to him and his work, it was very inspiring and it compleltly capured me.

I saw some anime, but it never impressed me, I just felt dissapointed more and more as I began to notice how often they are just repeating the same animations over and over and over, or the obscene amount of slo-mo scrolling, anyway, it all made the impression that too many shortcuts are taken when it comes to anime.

Anyway I had to get it out once I saw the thread, sorry

i dont like anime either. i agree with everything infiltrator said and more. all the drawings of stuff look so stupid.
anime watcher = nerd

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Originally posted by aetherburst:

quote:

Originally posted by Infiltrator-SF:
I for one never liked Anime,

In my eyes, Walt Disney was the master of drawn animation, since I started drawing from a very little age, I kind of looked up to him and his work, it was very inspiring and it compleltly capured me.

I saw some anime, but it never impressed me, I just felt dissapointed more and more as I began to notice how often they are just repeating the same animations over and over and over, or the obscene amount of slo-mo scrolling, anyway, it all made the impression that too many shortcuts are taken when it comes to anime.

Anyway I had to get it out once I saw the thread, sorry

i dont like anime either. i agree with everything infiltrator said and more. all the drawings of stuff look so stupid.
anime watcher = nerd

So stupid? have you look at gantz?fullmetal alchemist? evangelion? cowboy bebop? and i can name lots and lots of anime of excelent quality.
Disney is fine if you have 10. If you say anime is stupid you dont know anything......
most of the new disneys movies are ****, nothing of real, real quality made entirely by disney.

I like Disney and the like a lot more too... *runs for cover*

Heh. Don't get me started. You're dealing with a woman who saw Akira in the movie theatres when it first released...

Old favs:
Ah Megamisama
Eva
Escaflowne
Urusei Yatsura
Yu Yu Hakusho
Lain (duh - look at the avatar)
X
Perfect Blue
Kodocha
PATLabor
Ranma
Kite
Nausicaa
Angel's Egg
Kare Kano

... shall I go on?


You know, I've always been fascinated by the high correlation between anime fans and gamers...

I thought Disney was Dubbing Ghibli's Films and bringing them to the US? Or am I just remembering incorrectly?

i really want to watch these HealingAura' suggested anime, but..
Link expired. at /usr/local/sbin/Pancake line 406, line 17
wtf?
i really liked Disney, but i read his comic-books more. Recently,I saw Samurai X and I liked it more. What about futuristic? I like GITS (Ghost In The Shell), although I don’t like futuristic movies considering.

I'm talking about drawn cartoons, old time disney long-cartoons have been incredibly well drawn (took years to make) and I respect that very much.

Now that does not include any of the new rendered stuff (although I really liked some, like The Incredibles).

I just feel rejection when I see huge eyes, small mouths and noses, weird hair-do's ect.

Elfen Lied is one of the best new anime's out there... I recommend anyone to check it out.

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Originally posted by tadaeusas:
i really want to watch these HealingAura' suggested anime, but..
Link expired. at /usr/local/sbin/Pancake line 406, line 17
wtf?
i really liked Disney, but i read his comic-books more. Recently,I saw Samurai X and I liked it more. What about futuristic? I like GITS (Ghost In The Shell), although I don’t like futuristic movies considering.

Sorry for that. To solve this I updated the links so now you get to the AMV page so all you need to do is scroll down choose "Local" and enjoy
Of course you do need to login to the AnimeMusicVideo.org site but it's worth it

Anime rox.. shame it's almost impossible to get the good stuff down here in Oz.

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Originally posted by GrimReaper84_AU:
Anime rox.. shame it's almost impossible to get the good stuff down here in Oz.

What are you talking about, you can get anything here... just order it over the net, its also much cheaper if you get the sets over ebay. Berserk on ebays about 10 to 30 dollars for the whole set where as from ezydvd.com.au its $114... although the quality can vary on some items.

I have:
- Cowboy BeBop (fav by far)
- Noir (i dont like it)
- Escaflowne (series + movie)
- Berserk (complete series)
- Trigun (okay)
- Hellsing (good)
- Vampire Hunter D (Awesome old oldschool anime)
- Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust (not as good as first, although the gfx are pretty impressive for a amime)
- Ninja Scroll 10th Annaversery Ed
- Bleach (just download it... the dvds are a rip off no matter where you get it from)
- Studio Ghibli Collection
(^ be carefull where you buy this from!!!, alot of theme are sh_t pirate rips, audios out of sync & contains only 6 movie rather than all 10 & poor image quality)

Ive also got alot of overseas movies such as Zatoichi, The Ultimate Versus(director's cut, pretty cool), azumi ect...

Theres many more i wanna get but having no money sucks

Also

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Originally posted by GhostDracolich:
I thought Disney was Dubbing Ghibli's Films and bringing them to the US? Or am I just remembering incorrectly?

This has been done... although i still watch them with subs, prefer jap voices.

Also @ infiltrator:
Howls moving castle & spirited away are far better animated than anything ive seen from disney, So's Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust. Also I didnt like Princess Mononoke either... it was too long and boring. Also disney uses alot of computer animation where'as ghibli's movies are much too old to use any (except for a few newer ones.)

You have also made a often misconception that everyone always make about Anime... Anime is not suppose to be a abbreviation of animation.

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Anime definition from dictionary.com:
- a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- Japanese for "animation," a term that seems to have arisen in the 1970s, apparently based on the Eng. word. Manga (q.v.) is Japanese for "comic book, graphic novel," but anime largely are based on manga and until 1970s, anime were known as manga eiga or "TV manga." The two terms are somewhat confused in Eng.

Its more confusing now that there is japenese anime films that nolonger fit the definition of anime. As far as im concerned anthing with less than a M rating is not anime.

Some of the best animes would have to be (that i havent mentioned yet):
- Akira (I love this film!)
- Neon Genesis
- Spriggin
- Ghost in a shell (other that the mech at the end i dont like)

... ill cut it short there otherwise ill go on forever.

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Originally posted by smith-b-d:
Also @ infiltrator:
Howls moving castle & spirited away are far better animated than anything ive seen from disney, So's Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust. Also I didnt like Princess Mononoke either... it was too long and boring. Also disney uses alot of computer animation where'as ghibli's movies are much too old to use any (except for a few newer ones.)

You have also made a often misconception that everyone always make about Anime... Anime is not suppose to be a abbreviation of animation.

Haven't seen those two. Even if they are animated well, they can't be taken as the standard genre animation because anime as a whole is filled with crappy animations that keep getting recycled over and over and OVER even in the same cartoon. Of course not only anime used recycling. Some Hanna Barbera cartoons also used this cheap move (Scooby Doo comes into mind).

About disney using computers etc. - If you read more carefully, I already said that I'm talking about older, drawn-only cartoons. And I will again say that those are truely master pieces in my opinion, when I draw stuff I continually have this tendency to picture or compare it to some old disney cartoon, even if doesn't have any connection to it whatsoever.

And where did I make the misconception? I never said anywhere that Anime stands for animation, it would be pretty laughable if it did though.