Best Anime/Manga

Neomystik · Post by **Neomystik** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 10:25 am

I dunno...

I was told Akira...

Then Spriggan ...

Then Ninja Scroll...

Then Oh! My Godess...

At the moment... I would definately have to stay with my all time favorite...

Evangelion...

Never got into DBZ... or Sailor Moon...

Just whatever I come across on Kazaa or Morpheus...

I dunno...

Anything else thats really good?

Watched a few Gundams over Kaworu's house...

Saw Macross Plus (really liked that one)

Vampire Hunter D was pretty good...

Whats the best????

Something that is unbelievably awsome....

Princess Mononoke (however you spell that) was great.

Street Fighter Alpha was pretty good...

Street Fighter 2 was better than alpha... (only because it was more revealing of Chun-Li)
even had a little Cammi-White....

I mean but seriously... These were all great... But anything else...

Ghost in the Shell was ,in my opinion, OK.....

But I would of liked to see a 2nd out of it....

hrmmm....

X was pretty good...

I dunno! I like the longer animes....

Watched a little Cowboy Bebop.... That caught my attention pretty well...

But right now...

Besides Evangelion...

I would go with Ninja Scoll and Spriggan ...

Slayers wasn't me....

There is a Final Fantasy anime... that probably was alright.... didn't see it though...

ADV has tons of Anime Dvds...

I dunno! I dunno! I dunno!

I used to watch alot of Monster Rancher... very nice...

Loved the big eye ball guy

Whadda you guys think?

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 10:37 am

Record of lodoss war. my all time fav. and long.

runners up:

3 x 3 eyes, iria, grave of fireflys, and many more but you will have to forgive me im at school and cant recal them all.

I didnt like X though, and you are right about ghost in the shell...it was ok...maby even neet but not super duper as others would make you think.

Greg

Neomystik · Post by **Neomystik** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 10:57 am

Glad you brought up some that i've never saw...

Record of lodoss war...

is that the one where all those rings are used as a weapon????

or is that something else?

I'll have to go check those out

I highly reccommend (i can't spell either) "Spriggan"...

Spriggan (1998) - The most recent flick on this list and, not surprisingly, the one with the most spectacular animation. This movie is, in a blurb, Akira meets Metal Gear Solid. An expeditionary team discovers the remains of what appears to be Noah's Ark on a mountaintop in Turkey. A rogue paramilitary outfit wants it for their own purposes but they are opposed by the Arcam Corporation, an organization dedicated to finding and confiscating dangerous ancient artifacts from around the world. Arcam employs special agents known as Spriggan for espionage and sends in one of them, Yu Ominae, to secure the Ark. Of course, the paramilitary team has special agents of their own. Unlike anime features that have enjoyed success on the art house circuit, Spriggan doesn't spend much time philosophizing about anything. It's unapologetically filled with action and, for that reason, is poised to become the next Ninja Scroll. Things blow up, people get killed, and mass destruction reigns! Good stuff. I want a sequel. And don't fret about the fact that it hasn't made it to the USA yet because AD Vision plans a wide-release for this film in theaters in 2001. It's the anime equivalent of a good big-budget Hollywood flick and deserves to be seen on the silver screen.

Neomystik · Post by **Neomystik** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 11:08 am

the website

http://www.sprigganthemovie.com/

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 11:53 am

Spriggan on DVD is due April 23rd, I hardly can wait to buy it.
Check the reviews and especially the AoD recommends section on http://www.animeondvd.com/
It's hard to select THE best, there are to many very good ones:

- Cowboy Bebop, yer have to see them all, one of the best stuff I've seen recently.
- Princess Mononoke
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Akira
- Battle Angel
- Ninja Scroll
- Perfect Blue
- LAIN
- Gunbuster
- Golgo 13
- Ghost in the Shell
- Wrath of the Ninja
- Black Jack
- Birdy the Mighty
- Patlabor

I'm currently waiting for another DVD shipment:
- Blood: The Last Vampire (knowing it's to short)
- Castle Of Cagliostro (1980)
- Kite Director's Cut (this is rated M material)
- Knight Hunters - Weiss Kreuz Vol. 1: Dead Ringer
- Mezzo Forte (Director's Cut) (also definetly rated M stuff)
- Trigun Box Set
- X - The Movie

My first Anime was "Golgo 13 The Professional" and the second one was "Akira" and since then I'm collecting this stuff.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 1:18 pm

Hay DOC if you like Kite check out Mezzo forte uncut.

Others for me:

Photon, the idiot adventures (if you like ammusing anime)
M.D. Giest (for the bloodynes)
8man after

and for multi disks:

Gasaraki
Esca Flowne
Trigun and cowboy bebop are both Great!
and the street fighter series.

Most the ones Doc mentioned are up there. Would argue with a few...but thats what opinions are for.

Lodoss war is kind of like the lord of the rings if you want to think of it that way...Major battles, strange group of people, on a misson.

Extreamly good.

And if you havent check out sputnik7.com

Greg

FuNPoLiCe001 · Post by **FuNPoLiCe001** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:25 pm

for some reason i really really like escaflowne (the series and the movie)

thats the first one that comes to mind right now...

didnt like ninja scroll that much. I saw the dubbed version and it was nothing special...cept the blood and rape and blood and rape...

Fu Manchu · Post by **Fu Manchu** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:44 pm

i like
Robotech of course ... everyone that knows me personally knows thats my favorite anime ever
macross + 
akira was ok
X is good
appleseed is good .. (robotech type movie)
Evangelion is good
(this is for zyph here lol ) cool devices is good ehehehe (anime pr0n)
labluegirl .. or something like that .. but its good (anime pr0n)
twilight of the dark masters is good yet strange though

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 4:01 pm

man, I thought twilight of the dark masters was Bad. I didnt like it at all.

Greg

Fu Manchu · Post by **Fu Manchu** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 4:07 pm

it was not the best .. i think i jsut liked it because it was so different .. jsut one weird anime if you ask me

TheManiacal1 · Post by **TheManiacal1** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 5:44 pm

SLAYERS! woohoo

Cheap · Post by **Cheap** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 5:55 pm

kenshin

Kaworu · Post by **Kaworu** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 6:56 pm

Do I need to even answer this question?

EVANGELION

Zyph · Post by **Zyph** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 8:00 am

Gonna have to agree with Kawrou that Evangelion was a great Anime.....with alot of stuff you learn after seeing it a second or third time. (very detailed and a heavy plot.......but watch the alternate versions of episode 25/26 [aka "End of Evangelion"]......they are soooooo much better than the originals and explain the whole series.)

CCS (Cardcaptor Sakura) (original, unedited, japanese version.....not the hacked up "Cardcaptors" american version) was a great anime too. (Yes, my favorite so far......and the original version is VERY different from the US version.....love interests [which actually moves the story along]......swearing.....even sometimes more violence [not blood of course]..........and alot more animated effects.) use this as an idea........there was originally 70 CCS episodes (and two movies.......which were also great).......the US number of episodes were a little more than HALF of that (sometimes they combined more than 1 episode into a half hour show they were so heavly edited, on top of that they dropped episodes altogether).......plus they started at episode 8 instead of 1!

Plus no movies in US.

Cool Devices (yea, hentai) is one of those that you watch just to get a change of pace. (you know you liked it joe.......admit it!)

Revolutounary Girl Utena aka "Utena" is also a great anime......though it gets very slow closer to the end......But the movie was GREAT! You must see it! (and you can see the movie without seeing the series and still be caught up......they run indepently of each other......all the characters are reintroduced.......actually the story was re-written.......but makes alot more sense in the movie.

My list of "anime watched" has grown 100-Fold since subscribing to Netflix. They are one of the best services out there (keep this in mind, when I was short on money.....I cancelled my cell phone instead of Netflix!)

Originally posted by Kaworu
Do I need to even answer this question?

EVANGELION

Kazer · Post by **Kazer** » Mon Mar 04, 2002 10:23 pm

If you like comedy then I suggest Love Hina. One of my favorites. 25 tv eps, 2 specials and 3 ova's. Tied with CCS as my all time favorite animes.

All around Card Captor Sakura (Japanese version) is good. 70 eps and 2 movies. I saw the one on tv and thought it was the stupid, and who would want to watch young kids getting cards. Then I watched the japanese version and was like "holy shiet, this didn't happen in the american one, it rocks" hehe. It's currently my most favorite anime, I'm just sad that there is no more. Wish they could continue it somehow.

If you like action with crazy powers then you'll like Read or Die. 3 eps only. All 3 eps were pretty kewl.

I watch all my anime in Jap + English subtitles. I don't know about you guys but I can't stand the english dubbed stuff, it sucks so hard.

I'd pretty much name everything in my collection but it's way too much so these 3 are what I recommend for now.