Never saw any of his works.

meh

D:
Start now! Some of the best anime of all times.

I only watch animes like:
Death Note
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star
Scrapped princess
Trigun
Hellsing
Gurren Lagann
Code Geass
Vampire Hunter D
Rurouni Kenshin
DBZ
GANTZ

etc etc

*nod*

there isn't much in common for these
get an account here http://www.anime-planet.com/users/Demiurge
and you can find more stuff to watch

mmm i dont think ill watch those animes, doesn't really look too good to me.

i was gonna say "hard to judge them by description, your loss", but than i realized you listed Dragon Ball Z, so nevermind

DBZ among:

Full metal alchemist
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Full metal panic!
Gundam Seed
Chrono Crusade
Grave of fireflies
Blood the last vampire
Elfin Lied
Gun Grave
Last exile

(huge etc)

I've seen pretty much all the good anime's

Your animes are movies that dont really seem interesting, and paranoia agent which i can't get excited about.

And dbz fucking owned so lol

what do you mean 'your anime'? if you looked at the list of "my animes" on the site, you'd see everything you listed there. if you're calling satoshi kon stuff boring, you're just spouting ignorant nonsense. and if you like DBZ, lol indeed

Oh yes those fights that took 500 episodes to finish, awesome, I'm Charging My Laser It's over 9k xD please.But you like Grave of the Fireflies so props for that, fucking awesome movie.

DBZ characters were kick ass.

Vegeta was my main nigga.

He did everything he could.
-Trained 3x more than goku
-Had the will to never give up
- Is the prince of his world - which was ruled by power, so you know his father was super strong so he inherited that kind of blood, so he should be kick ass
- awesome lines man, 'Does a machine like yourself ever experience fear??'
- kick ass music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3GhHLLE0ig

Also, if you want pure action then i guess you should watch

DBZ movie 8.
Brolly the legendary super sayain. Goku/vegeta/trunks/gohan all SSJ vs Brolly kicking all ass.

DBZ movie 10
Brolly returns vs SSJ2 Gohan + Goten

DBZ movie 11
Goku and Vegeta are in Heaven and all hell (literally) breaks loose. Goku SSJ3 and Vegeta SSj2 vs Janemba, awesome action.

the original japanese OST is miles better than the american one.

also dbz has storyline issues after frieza's saga, because toriyama himself said dbz was meant to end there but they wanted more money out of it. That's why at that exact same time the story becomes retarded, for example reviving red ribbon, gods of the gods of the gods of the gods of the gods (and that isn't an exageration. That's exactly the amount of god tiers on dbz), etc...and not even mentioning db gt.
(edit: I wrote cooller instead of frieza rofl)

I like both, however Vegeta's main american theme always does it for me, i just imagine kicking everyones ass when I hear it.

Most of the movies are awesome, bojack and those aliens in movie 9 when gohan kicks their ass is spectacular.

One thing always pissed me off is vegeta never got to own any of the main bad guys. After they died he would get powered up stronger than them, but then he didnt win vs the new bad guy :(

Frieza > Vegeta
Then the androids > vegeta
Then Cell > vegeta
Then majin buu > vegeta

dbgt
Then baby > vegeta
Then dragons > vegeta

Movies
movie 6 gets owned by cooler 'his final flash is nothink on the lan'
movie 7 gets owned by android 13
movie 8 gets owned by brolly
movie 9 gets owned by bojack
movie 12 gets owned by janemba
movie 13 gets owned by hildegarn

Vegeta trains 3x more than goku and has royal blood, fuck this shit.

I think that's why Vegeta is easily the coolest cat in the whole DBZ though. He's just so fucking tenacious and never gives up on being the biggest badass ever. As much as i dislike DB series in general, i did like that character very much. +he scores additional points for being a cynical motherfucker and the douchebag vibe he gives off while kicking ass, it's awesome. I mean he basically calls his own son a faggot for having white hair or some shit, how low is that? What a baller. Wish he'd off a major baddie as well, he deserved it.

He did kick Goku's ass so much he needed some fat samurai turd, Krillin and his son to tag-team in order to not even kill him as much as just drive him away, though.

Ya he had goku owned hard in their first meeting, which made me happy.

The 2nd time they fought during majin buu saga, goku was holding back going SSJ3 cuz his time on earth would have ran out, which is insulting to Vegeta.

in that case try black lagoon for entertainment.

Seen both seasons

k

haven't seen that many, but i guess i have a similar taste.

i can recommend:
cowboy bebop
hellsing
and def missing on your list is samurai champloo

Seen those, Samurai champloo was pretty good, but my anime list is huge, so picking out good anime from it is actually hard.

(did not even mention comedies ive watched and the whacky anime/mangas like Naruto/onepiece/bleach/fairy tail, etc)

I have a huge list of shit i've seen, which if i listed would make me look kind of weird.

I've moved from anime onto manga.

-Berserk
-King of hell
-Blade of the immortal
-Basara
-Flame of recca
-Bloody Monday
- Kazan

(way more)

But still his anime don't look very interesting to me...

try ghost in the shell sac, regardless of if you liked the movies or not.

ah yeah, i've seen that aswell. was fun, not asgood as the the others i mentioned tho, and sac2 was obnoxious

Did you see Gun x Sword? If you like Trigun you'll love this one too.

Saw that, loved the revenge angle in it, but the mechs were not really explained much.

My fav mech-ish anime is still Gundam Seed + Destiny though.


I hope all you guys check out:

Gambling Anime
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One Outs
Akagi
Liar Game

Rojin Z!!!

I have perfect blue on my pc, didn't have a chance to watch it yet cause it's this gay .rm extension (real player movie file wtf). Gonna watch it now. Haven't heard about the rest of his work, gonna look into it. It's a shame to see an artist go, but it's kind of a good heads up for everyone, I think it will draw some attention towards his work.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/real_alternative.htm

enjoy :o
wish i could unwatch some things just so i can watch them again
by the way, the reason Real is used for anime sometimes is because the codec flattens out little details in more uniform areas but draws radical changes like outlines rather well. bad for cinema, perfect for anime :)

=^;_;^=

Naruto (Shippuden) - LOVING IT
Trigun - LOVED IT
Bleach - stopped watching due to being boring.
Samurai Champloo - Nujabes \o/ LOVED IT
Death Note
Inuyasha - seen on german television, cba to re-watch just to know whats it about.
bunchofothershitanimes.

wow thanks a lot

there is no ending for the inuyasha anime from what i read. i think the anime got to far ahead the manga. and lots of fillers episodes.

it had a decent beginning.

The ending is in the manga. And it's not bad, you can watch the anime, but that burns way more time than the manga, and they are basically the same.

kids

retard

go watch some chinese cartoons

go play some american games

futurama >

tard

futurama is very hit or miss in their episodes, and only really bender/fry are funny.

Simpsons around season 6-7-8 does it for me. When Homer becomes a total fucknut, its hilarious.

was just saying it to annoy the animefags...havent watched futurama in ages...s'all bout jap/korean live action

Switch bodies? I don't see why not. I also don't see why. *zing*

Zoidberg > *

wash bucket <3

such an awesome episode.

Threads like this one remind us all how nerdy this website is despite the glossy/trolly cover.

I don't really care if people call me nerdy, i like what i like and won't hide it.

I tell people I play quakelive, I jerk off young looking sluts, i eat massive amounts of chicken AND watermelon and I love watching anime/manga.

sup?

Hey more power to you and all who are proud to be whatever they want to be like.

i just realized your name sounds kind of black

Ya, I'm black. My name is Jamal Zeke Landers

Too bad! I loved Paranoia agent and Paprika; Japanese take on the collective unconscious = mind blown ((::

haven't seen "memories" yet..

tried to find something similiar to paprika and paranoia agent recently and found "serial experiments lain" which was pretty awesome. checking out the newer series by at least some of the same guys now called "Texhnolyze" xD

I mean. if people don't find an intro like this intriguing then why even bother :D

susumu hirosawa + satoshi kon = <3
damn you just made me really sad :(

here's the intro to serial experiments lain btw; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnGppxxyN94

same kind of problem, some people just won't see how it's different

I didn't really like Texnolyze, could be shitty subtitles.

yeah, i don't know; haven't gotten past first episode. was much more eager to see serial experiments.. but you saw all of texnolyze?

yep, to at least break even, as I suspected it would get better at the end

i'd still recommend serial experiments up front; it's slow and sometimes unclear, but it's always at least symbolically on a very interesting topic (like paranoia agent i would say)

(and you just marvel at the fact that it was made in 97 considering the concepts it struggles with and the natural sound of the e-music)

thanks, ive seen it, i posted a link to my list above

w00t. nice. pretty much agree with all the ratings; i've seen 10-15 of them :D -- guess "memories" is on my to-find list now

probably won't see texnognolyze now so thanks for saved time :P

*zing*

wutwut. i had already seen memories. watching first episode of melancholy of haruhi suzumiya now - i feel an epic coming on :D

so excited *\o/*

google the episode order list and watch it like that, fuck the random shit

watch it like how? what do you mean, i download episodes 1, 2, 3, ... etc. chronologically from rapidshare

Never mind, didn't know they actually have it re-aired in 2009 in chronological order and theres 28 episodes.. damn ok

In 2006 it was aired in non linear episodes, so shit was just scrambled and made no sense, weird stuff.

lool really.. didn't know that

the thing they did with episode 0 was kinda cool in any case (:

I mean, in the end, who the fuck cares about perfect pitch or compositional clarity when you're this awesome? :D:D:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSUA_Jd-4dg

My god I watched a part of that!

hahaha yes! now watch

first 25 seconds of this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6lWxprkKtA

and then first 50 sec of this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z566bOB5TR4&hd=1

that's some well-spent 75 seconds i say! :D

I should envy your knowledge of teh underground.

That's such an interesting thing that i've been mulling over lately.

The kind of distance there is between different genres and so on. The potential reach you have with five mouseclicks are endless, yet we're trapped by this barrier of not knowing what to look for.

Youtube is the perfect example of a place you can find pretty much anything, but for lack of key-words to search for you have nothing but the crap that goes up on the main page. This is a general thing.

There are methods like metacritic or imdb where you rely on some sort of critics, but I find even with this meta-awareness of method in searching for new things i'm more often struck by new things as if by accident; for instance looking up the score of a movie or noting the likes of an artist i like in an interview.

One good strategy is rely on a strength you have to find new things; so say if you are musical, you can rely on people who recognizably have skill to recommend art in other domains.

It's really hard to branch out, and you have to go against your preliminary instincts sometimes; that's why there's a certain level of trust involved when you try to leap into a new domain. For instance if you equate anime with childishness then you need some friend you really trust with quality to insist on it.

here's some gamelan

Just to point out why this is important, if it's not obvious: One of the reasons people watch mediocre movies and the shit on youtube frontpage is because they don't have the capacity to find what they really like.

There is a paradox that the most watched movies do not get rated high on imdb.com; you can explain this 1. by saying people who vote on imdb are more sophisticated, 2. it reflects movies as lowest common denominator.

The 3rd way to explain it, which i think is the most interesting factor, is simply that people don't have the extra energy to figure out which movies they would really like. To recognize how recurrent and problematic this is takes us a step in the right direction i think.

I hope anyway ;D

Thanks! :D

Btw. I've come to love those kinds of blogs, where you get a personality and a taste-profile that you can trust in a psychologically specific way :))

rofl, downloaded "she - orion"

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fm20090925l2.html

"She does not exist — the CD inlay explains that she is a replicant, making for the sort of album detective Deckard would listen to in his flying car in "Blade Runner". Her sound is a dirtier version of the prevailing chart-friendly techno-pop; her voice provided by five different singers; her face designed in Photoshop."

"The music, production and artwork are the labor of Lain Trzaska, a Polish producer and artist based in Sweden whose catalog of free-to-download albums takes in chiptune, electro, house, ambient and acoustica, and caught the ear of someone at Japan's Pony Canyon last year."

fuck. another postmodern lain blurring the lines between reality, fiction, human and cyborg :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfu5vSDr3g

holy shit hahaha.. i've been crawling all over the web searching for music for a full year now and nearly every time i make the tiniest ammount of effort to find something, there will be something new to take me aback (:

so from that key i unlocked connections to lets see, all she albums, joe hisaishi - end of the world, cornelius - sensuous, simon and garfunkel - bridge over troubled water, and chara - something blue..

jezuz christ it's too much stuff

simply tracing connections in the most natural way from a metal-blog and all this magically turns up.. xD

" For instance if you equate anime with childishness"

I don't get why people do that? That is as ignorant and preconcieved as it gets. Animation is THE most creative medium, only limited by imagination. I would take it over cinema any day.

Given the culture i've grown up it's a fairly obvious thing to do. If your experiences are limited to cartoon network and disney then clearly it's not easy to break the association.

This is such a general thing though. In the end some people will have a more difficult time, regardless of ability, to judge their own tastes reflectively instead of instinctually.

It's very hard work and has to be repeated in all areas where upbringing has limited you. Whether it's morality, food, art.. Some people are more fortunate than others regardless of honesty, intelligence, etc.

Of course, one naturally gets lead to consider whether there is something deeper to the inclination to regard cartoonishness as something childish besides mere accident of history.

On this deeper consideration i'm inclined to think that there's something special about japan that they let the cartoon world take a deeper hold. Perhaps, to speculate, their notions of life or whatever it is that lets them (?) consider robots less uncanny and more friendly, are the same kind of considerations that lets them more naturally accept the cartoon claim to reality.

I'm reminded of the low status that was given to Lord of the Rings in Portugal when I wanted to watch it with my siblings. It's hard to relate how they view it, but the relation was very much like the relation between the people here uninitiated in anime have to a "real fictional movie".

They lacked the associations that bound witches and wizards and spells and so on to the "real" world. It was irrelevant to life.

/turn on freedom, *read*

don't like anime so i don't know who he is...

he made this

nuff said

don't like anime animation 'style'. so i don't think I'll watch it anytime soon.

that's cool. can accept that it is a good movie even though you don't like it - like i can accept that there are good wines even though i have no intention of learning how to like them

on the other hand you must be careful placing your trust when you can't have relevant first-hand experience with the quality.. hm! (just thinking randomly here)

this looks pretty $$

(:

Inception

haha, true. maybe.

haven't seen inception yet (:

are a few of those though, what's that one called where they can stop time or something and it's like a huge city island floating in space? not to mention spotless mind. really hope it's getting more trendy.. the shutter island was perhaps an indication of the same thing. or like, synechdoche (which i for the record starchily hate) instead of, you know, like trueman show for instance where it's a more concrete case of paranoia/conspiracy. (or even 1981/brave new-world to go even further back the evolution-line)

what's awesome about paprika is that whatever axis you make for fundemental existential doubt/noia about reality, this plurality of actors in your own mind (as well as others) infesting reality from the inside out is the most far-out yet i think (:

then there's neither a concrete reality you can doubt (like in the trueman show), nor is there a specific individual you can doubt (like yourself as was the solution in shutter island), but it leaves everything wide open where doubting nothing is as silly as doubting everything or anything in particular.

how does that sound? lol

Dark city

Better than inception really except noone ever saw it.

So is V for vendetta probably.

V for vendetta was pretty bad, nowhere in the realm on something like Paprika

V was pretty damn fun

Except for people who keep trying to be overly intellectual about watching a movie.

It sure beat 99 % of the crap released the past decade

"trying to be overly intellectual about watching a movie."

*trying not to fall asleep

Read V for Vendetta graphic novel, it's much better than that shitty movie

V for vendetta too yeah.. that's kinda the revival of the older ones.. there's a zillion of those 1981-type things, like brazil (which is twisted in the kafka direction).. v for v is almost a step between something like children of men on the one hand and twelve monkeys or something on the other:: which leaves me in uncertain terrain, because i have no idea why children of men was a good movie (as the critics claim it was)

I'm a sucker for the kind of inland empire mood atm; i'm listening to Klaus Schulze "euro caravan" on Kontinuum album now while reading and it gives off the same awesome new vibe that I can't quite yet get my head around.

I can't recall dark city now. I do feel the inland empire mood and this euro caravan song to represent *something*, or like the deep sound in the back of many "burial" tunes.. I have no idea what roots that kind of mood has, it's not really absurd or surreal, or maybe it is, a new version of it.

I always hated those old movements, so i wouldn't know :(

Children of men was pretty damn dull to me, dunno why so many critics and people consider it to be such a great movie

But ure rly overanalizing all this :-)

there are certainly a lot of relations there. i don't think i can capture them by analysis, but it's interesting to swim around speculatively because, for sure, there are certain issues here that escape hard analysis.. this is much better as a social play or game though; it's just too bad i'm the only player usually :p

say, like, it's not only superficially as genre classification, but psychologically the times have different fears and issues etc. don't you think? psychoanalyzing the movies ftw :D

like, if anyone particular person invented any one scenario as in any of these movies and believed it you'd diagnose the person; after all, inventing is a half-step there, and popularity is a kind of gauge! :D

I suppose Children of men tried to use one of the basic urges exhibited in 95 % of mankind... the need to procreate and prolong their bloodline.

In that sense i can see why it would be a scary dystopia for the vast majority of viewers. However for people like me (who lack the urge to procreate) it kinda failed miserably at conveying any sense of terror or suspense.

V for Vendetta on the other hand did strike a chord with me , since there isn't a single human who doesn't value their freedom... or at least the illusion of being free.

12 monkeys would be much the same as children of men in essence, however disease related extinction is far more in your face and hence worked a lot better imo.

The human race is predestined for extinction sooner or later, if youre gonne portrait it at least do it in a dramatic fashion rather than some lame "women cannot give birth any more" line.

Ya, that's a double fail on my radar: I don't care about end of the world scenarios or procreation much. (:

Or maybe i'm just bored with it. Or don't think it very relevant atm.

Surrogates was relevant. Avatar was pseudo-relevant. Hm.

Which is why this is the best article in.. like.. forever. :D:D

That article sure is a lengthy way for saying people just don't get excited any more by unspectacular deaths :P

Nowadays we want some torture and gore to go with our fatalities goddamned! Cheap thrills ftw.

Haha. What I loved was how it continued with epic investigative effort after the question mark where a normal article and person would end content with raising a somewhat quirky but perhaps interesting question :D

He's like, "screw this, i'm gonna be the only person on the planet who goes ahead and looks into exactly _this_; why? because.. it is.. interesting!"

....was pseudo-intelligent boredom in comparison.

NYU