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Anime

Lynortis

Lynortis

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What are your favorite Anime and Anime scenes?

Since I am a fan for two decades now my pile of favorite Anime is rather big, so I start with an Anime that actually is an Anime parody: Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, a hilarious TeamFourStar masterpiece.


My favorite scene:

 
It was DBZ that got me into anime. After the first World Martial Arts Tournament episodes i thought this is so over the top insane, they wont be able to top that... and not only they did, they did it with ease.

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Lynortis said:
It was DBZ that got me into anime. After the first World Martial Arts Tournament episodes i thought this is so over the top insane, they wont be able to top that... and not only they did, they did it with ease.

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Same. Dragon Ball isn't just my favorite anime, it's my favorite work of fiction. I could fill this thread up with just moments from Dragon Ball :P
 
I am not really a fan of anime, seen a few older ones like Vampire Hunter D and others I don't remember the name of. I saw a really explicit one at a guys house a few years back and have searched for more that were that explicit, but not speaking Japanese or knowing where to look, have no clue what is what. Any suggestions on what to check out?
 
MCDesigns said:
I am not really a fan of anime, seen a few older ones like Vampire Hunter D and others I don't remember the name of. I saw a really explicit one at a guys house a few years back and have searched for more that were that explicit, but not speaking Japanese or knowing where to look, have no clue what is what. Any suggestions on what to check out?
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It depends on what you mean by explicit really. I only like a few anime, so Lynortis will probably be of more help. But if you're looking for something with very adult themes I can kind of recommend Berserk :P it's one of my favorites, but it's unfinished, the creator died, and only the first arc was ever adapted to an anime. Here's a YouTube video of the English voice actors messing up their lines:
 
MCDesigns said:
I am not really a fan of anime, seen a few older ones like Vampire Hunter D and others I don't remember the name of. I saw a really explicit one at a guys house a few years back and have searched for more that were that explicit, but not speaking Japanese or knowing where to look, have no clue what is what. Any suggestions on what to check out?
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There are Anime for any possible (and impossible) taste. How about a classic that is slightly on the darker side:




And to finally give you the wrong idea about this Anime :)

 
Lynortis said:
There are Anime for any possible (and impossible) taste. How about a classic that is slightly on the darker side:




And to finally give you the wrong idea about this Anime :)

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Ohhhh, I've never heard of this but it looks sick. Especially like the opening music
 
Lynortis said:
It became quite common that Anime music, especially openings, are by top musicians and groups. I posted some examples in the music thread.
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Yeah, no kidding. An anime with bad music is a bad anime lol

Death Note's second season opening with Maximum the Hormone:


GITS SAC 2nd season with Origa:

I don't know who did the opening for Cowboy Bebop but it's iconic:
 
Lynortis said:
Love most of the GITS soundtracks :love:


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I know that a lot of the people who did the music that actually played during the episodes for SAC also worked on music for Cowboy Bebop. Though, I never finished SAC, I listen to the music from it quite a bit. There's one song I'm gonna post in the weird music thread from SAC cause the lyrics are nonsense, I just need to find the song again. Also, the 1995 movie is a masterpiece and was one of the big inspirations for The Matrix. I think that movie is required viewing. :P
 
Bakemonogatari. At first glance one might think it is a romantic comedy with fantasy/supernatural elements. But, thanks to hints given by translators like that the character for crab also can be read as (emotional) burden, I assume that everything in this Anime, dialogues, props, actions, even colors can be seen as symbolic. Wikipedia claims that Senjōgahara´s stapler symbolizes the claw of a crab. Actually Senjōgahara uses a whole range of writing and drawing instruments in my opinion symbolizing her sharpest weapons: Her intellect and her rhetoric abilities.

Somebody posted on an Anime forum: “I think you need to be Japanese to really understand Bakemonogatari”. Somebody replied: “Don´t sweat it, even we Japanese do not really understand Bakemonogatari.”

Or, to quote from Wikipedia:
Christopher Smith's article "The Text Inside Us: Text on Screen and the Intertextual Self in Bakemonogatari" examines how the anime Bakemonogatari uses disruptive on-screen text to create a Brechtian alienation effect, emphasizing the intertextual nature of the characters' thoughts, memories, and desires. By employing archaic Japanese orthography and integrating text deeply into the narrative, the anime not only highlights the constructedness of its story but also situates its themes within Japan's modern historical context. Smith argues that Bakemonogatari serves as a self-reflexive commentary on subjectivity in the postmodern world, suggesting that identity is not an authentic, isolated construct but rather an intertextual creation shaped by social and historical forces. 😵‍💫

From the first two episodes:



And the official trailer

 
A great interaction between 2 of my favorite characters of all time. I like stealing dialogue from this show among other things.
 
Let’s switch to the funny (and Chinese) side of Anime. The Chinese produced some amazing stuff lately.

A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized

It all starts when villagers try to sacrifice a little orphan girl to the dragon.


Since then the dragon tries to dump the girl on some humans to take care of, her but all his efforts fail. Mostly because the girl turns out to be a OP monster only this poor, anxious and herbivorous dragon can keep in check.

 
Lynortis said:
Lol, guess Fist of the North Star had quite an impact on Anime fight styles. Well, guess Dragon Ball might be the best example for that.
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They clearly didn't put a lot of budget into this episode. A lot of 80's and 90's anime had multiple studios working on shows that would work episode to episode. That's why you get a low budget episode in dragon ball with goofy nonsense like Goku slapping Frieza repeatedly, then the next episode is some of the greatest action choreography ever that has been copied dozens of times even in big budget Hollywood movies.

There are much better animated fight scenes in this show, and yes the Fist of the North Star and especially Dragon Ball influences are obvious in Yu Yu Hakusho, but I like this scene because of the interaction between these two characters rather than the fight itself.
 
DeanMcStabs said:
They clearly didn't put a lot of budget into this episode. A lot of 80's and 90's anime had multiple studios working on shows that would work episode to episode. That's why you get a low budget episode in dragon ball with goofy nonsense like Goku slapping Frieza repeatedly, then the next episode is some of the greatest action choreography ever that has been copied dozens of times even in big budget Hollywood movies.

There are much better animated fight scenes in this show, and yes the Fist of the North Star and especially Dragon Ball influences are obvious in Yu Yu Hakusho, but I like this scene because of the interaction between these two characters rather than the fight itself.
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Animation budgets have always been sketchy, no matter where, hand drawn frame animation takes a lot of time. Rocky and Bullwinkle was famous for having some of the worst animation on the planet, the plots and dialog made up for it. And they didn't even make this bottom 10 list...
 
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