What I've seen and What I Think
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| The Anime | The Art | Collection | Overall |
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| The Music | |||
| The Story/Plot | |||
| Lain Serial Experiments Lain |
The art really creeps me out. Lain's eyes...(shiver) | Nothing | I kinda like the art but Lain is the main character and I can't stand looking at her. additionally I really don't like having my brain scrambled. |
| I love the opening theme. the closing is okay and as for the rest of the music....I haven't seen much of the series so I really can't say. | |||
| I have no idea as to what this series is all about. I really don't like these series that screw with your mind. My face hurts after watching an episode because it's all scrunched up in confusion. | |||
| Laputa: Castle in the Sky Movie |
Typical Miyazaki(Studio Ghibli). Beautiful scenery and smooth round characters. Laputa isn't my favorite Miyazaki film but that doesn't mean it isn't good. I really like this guy's stuff. | Fansub Tape | Definitely see it. It's a Miyazaki film! Good stuff. |
| Pretty from waht I remember. | |||
| Interesting story with a female and male leads working together to solve the mystery of Laputa and her background. Simple yet complex. | |||
| Legend of the Galactic Heroes |
Old style. Decent | n/a | Good story but too involved for my attention span. |
| Classical all the time. | |||
| A very long and slow space opera. There are so many character they have to put the name on the screen practically every time you see them. There are two ship captains from the opposite sides of the never ending war that grow to appriciate each other. It can be interesting but it put me to sleep. | |||
| Lensman |
*gack* | N/A | Don't see this. |
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| *shudder* A slow and boring anime. Even when Otakon made it the Mystery Anime Theatre feature it still sucked. | |||
| Lodoss | |||
| Lost Universe |
Slayers-esque. Bright color schemes. | Idol Cards | Great! I need to see more. |
| Megumi Hayashibara songs. | |||
| Slayers *echo* in *echo* Spaaaaaaaace! *echo* Lots of silliness. ^_^ | |||
| Love Hina |
Cute, so cute. Warm colors. ^_^ |
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So cute. Must See!! |
| I love the opening. It toally grabs you. The background music is synthisized but fun to bounce and sway in you seat to. ^_^ | |||
| Keitaro is a student struggling to take the entrance exam for Tokyo University (difficult school) and he ends up as the manager of the Hinata Inn....A Girls dormatory. Poor Keitaro, he is so abused. He's not a pervert. Its accidental. | |||
| Lupin III Various Movies/Series |
Well honestly the body proportions feel off. The legs are way to long. The torsos too short and sometiems odly shapped heads, but aside from that I do like it. It's a silly series and drawn to go with that. | Fansub Movie:Twilight Gemini | Lupin is good stuff. Definitely see as much Lupin as you can. |
| Fitting. Sometimes silly but good for the series/movies. | |||
| In general Lupin is a thief after some valuable object with help from his sidekick. Plus a cop always after him along with many female distractions for Lupin. Makes for good comedic scenes. | |||
| Macross 7 |
It's alright. It's not my favorite styles but I do like the colors. Note: Lots of stock footage. | CD: Fire Bomber Acoustic | Pretty good. I liked it. |
| It's all about Fire Bomber and Basara's musical whims. Just as a warning if you don't like hearing one song over and over again this series is not for you. They repeat the same song over and over in one episode, but for me that's not a problem. | |||
| This is another series in the grad scheme of Macross. I think the plot is a little thin, but I haven't seen that much of it. you follow the band Fire Bomber on their way to getting recognition, but also the strange race of beings that continually attack. Hmmm. I think I need to rethink this part. I'll do it later. | |||
| Macross Plus Movie |
Beautiful. The colors are great. Additionally I love the dogfights. Ahhh the missle spray. Love how that is animated. | Subtitled Tape | It a good movie. |
| It's Yoko Kanno!! This stuff is great. The music is very diverse from distant whispering songs like Voices to the strange computeresque BGM. This stuff is cool. I need ot get the soundtrack. | |||
| Three friends come to terms witht he dynamics of their relationships. Additional myster that adds more conflict to the slready straind relationsships. | |||
| Magic Knights Rayearth |
It's CLAMP! The spell sequences are beautiful. The characters tend to go SD alot but that is cute and lightens up the series. And don't forget about adorable Mokona. (Mokona in NOT Kirby) | Plush Mokona | Really good. I became and instant fan. |
| The opening theme is very capitvating and exciting. The rest of the music is sooooo RPGish it's scary. But it's good stuff. | |||
| Three very different school girls are transported to a magical world. They learn to work together and become friends. Very uplifting series and lots of fun. | |||
| Mahoro Matic |
Made my Gainax so I like the art. | Digital Fansubs | Its kinda sad. But promising |
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| In the future androids are made to fight in battles and stuff. When they finish their military service and before their power supply dies, highly decorated units are allowed to choose their profession to live out the rest of their days. This unit decides to be a maid. It's cute. But very sad cause you know what will happen in the end. She will "die." | |||
| Mahou Tsukai Tai I Want to Learn Magic |
I like the bright and varying colors. The characters' hair is a bit spiky but typically anime defying gravity styles. | Idol Card | Fun Series. I need to see more. |
| Can't currently remember it. | |||
| High School Magic Club vs. Evil Robots from Space. Comedy ensues from inexperienced magic users. | |||
| Mamotte Shugogetten |
Bright colors. I like the style. |
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Very cute. I want to see more. |
| Fun. Catchy opening. | |||
| A boy who lives at home alone since the rest of his family are archeologist treking the world for strange artifacts. One item they send him is magical and Shoulin appears. She proceeds to turn his life upside down because she wants to protect him but misunderstands the way of the world. Very cute series. | |||
| Megami Kouhosei | |||
| Memories Magnetic Rose Stink Bomb Cannon Fodder |
A | N/A | Strange but good. |
| The music in the first segment was composed by Yoko Kanno. The rest I can't remember, its been a while. | |||
| Three independant stories. First, Magnetic Rose, is about a resuce mission who encounters a ghost of an opera singer who is manifesting her memories. The second story, Stink Bomb, is about an unfortunate man from a phamacudical company that accidently takes an experimental pill. This pill causes him to expell a foul green gas from his body which is deadly when inhaled. But he can't smell it because he has a sever head cold which he was trying to remedy with a pill but he took the wrong one. The third, Cannon Fodder, is about a city that constantly fires missles at an unknown enemy. | |||
| Metropolis |
Kind of an older stlye. Baggy clothes, big feet, but still anime. | DVD | Decent film. |
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| It is the future. Robots are a work force in the city of Metopolis. There are those that oppose the robots, "they took our jobs", causing trouble. There is this guy, his profile looked like a hawk, ws building this "megaweapon" to be controled by a very special android. There is a decent amount of action. And yes, it is very pretty. | |||
| The Mini-Giddesses |
Same as Ah, My Goddess just always super deformed. It's sooooooooooo cute. | Digital Fansubs | Totally Adorable. |
| Ending song is cute. | |||
| The goddesses from Ah My Goddess can become small and these 8min long segments tell of their adventures with their friend the rat. | |||
| Minky Momo Fairy Princess Minky Momo |
Old skool. Outlandish color combinations. | none | --- |
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| 15 minute rule. Saw the end of the series during Crazy Monkey Hell at Animazement 2002. Everyone cringed at first but then cheered. | |||
| Miyu | |||
| Miyuki-chan in Wonderland |
It's clamp so it's very pretty. | nothing | Very interesting, and fun to watch. |
| I don't remember too much so i have no objections or outstanding remarks. | |||
| An anime version of Alice in Wonderland with a few sadistic twists. Funny and weird. If you are familiar with Alice this should amuse you. | |||
| Mononoke Hime Princess Mononoke |
Studio Ghibli art style. Breath-taking landscapes. Beautiful mix of CG and traditional work. | DVD Plush Yakkura |
Amazing. A must see! |
| M | |||
| A wonderful Miyuzaki film. The highest grossing movie in Japanese history. A story about Nature vs. Man. Man industrializing and stripping the land for resources has upset the animal gods. A great war is about to begin. | |||
| My Dear Marie Boko no Marie |
I think this was done by the same artists who did Touch. The ears and faces are similar (especially the ears). Once I got used to the ears, I really enjoyed it. The colors are bright and fun. | wish i had it | It's really cute. It is definitely NOT hentai which is what the ADV box leads you to believe. Be asured since I do not watch hentai. |
| No objections. | |||
| Cute story. The guy wats the girl, but can't get girl, so builds robot that looks like girl for himself yet robot meets real girl.... It's such a pitty it's only 3 episodes. | |||
| My Neighbor Totoro |
Studio Ghibli. Totoro is a bit scary but so snuggly and cute. The cat bus is definitely an interesting design. | Dub | Wonderful family film. |
| M | |||
| Another Miyazaki classic. A young family has moved to a house in the country. The young daughters meet the forrest spirit Totoro and they have some adventures. | |||
| Nadesico Martian Successor Nadesico |
I became a fan of Kia Asamiya's art from this series. I really like how the eyes are drawn. | It is a lot of fun. Space battles and romances... | |
| The opening song is really awesome. But I can't really comment on the rest. | |||
| There is a really mystery as to what is going on with the Jovians and the war. The character are very funny and there is a lot of things to be explained but they present it in a fun tounge in cheek kind of way. | |||
| Nadia: Secret of the Blue Water |
I really like it. This is a Gainax series so you can expect alot from the quality of animation. | N/A | I liked the art and the story seemed worth seeing more. |
| No that I remember... | |||
| I only saw the first few episodes but it looks like it gets way more complex and interesting. | |||
| Nausica and the Valley of the Wind |
Another Miyazaki film. Again i like the smooth round character designs. The flight sequences are breathtaking. | Fansub Movie | It's Miyazaki! Go see it. |
| Beautiful and moving. The echoing song sung by a child easily gets stuck in your head. | |||
| Girl tries to protect polluted/dying world world from rampaing giant insects. Beautiful environmental analogy/alagory (lack of vocabulary) story. | |||
| Neon Genesis Evagelion Shin Seki Evangelion |
Sometime you don't know why you like something you just do. Well I just love the art and colors of this series. | I love the art and music but the story lost me half way. I do highly reccomend this series regardless. It's just not My personal favorite. | |
| The musice is great. it really gets you into whats going on. Plus the familiar reused BGM that lest you know what's going to happen. This series released so many CDs its hard for a fan to keep up. | |||
Young Boy helps to save the world (sort of against his will). The series started out as "monster of the week" but then changed into a total "mind screw" bringing up very confusing concepts and deep issues. The movies were een worse in the "mind screw" department. For best story/plot continuity I reccomend this order....TV eps 1-24;Death and Rebirth(movie);End of Eva(movie);TV eps 25-26. As confusing as the latter half and movies are this actully can help you make a little bit of sense out of this. | |||
| NieA_7 Neia Under Seven |
By the character designer of Lain. At least all of these character have normal pupils. ^_^ | DVD vol1 | Fun series. |
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| An alien mothership crashed to earth a while ago and aliens have been integrated into society. Most of the aliens have little cute antenna, but some the "under sevens" (a classification) don't have antenna and are considered freaks within alien groups. The story focus on a girl trying to get into college who has an "under seven" freeloading at her place. | |||
| Ninja Mono Ninja Cadets |
I really like this. The solors are pretty cool too. I must say I've always loved how explosions, smoke, building demolishment etc are drawn in anime. They use so much detail. | I really enjoyed this. I just wish there was more. | |
| no outstanding comments | |||
| A group of ninjas on a quest. Kinda a cheesy plot device for the revelaing of a characters "secret past" The villans are streotypical but funny. This is good stuff. | |||
| Ninja Ressurection |
Since this is done by the same people who did Ninja Scroll the art style is the same. | N/A | This is the supposed sequal to Ninja Scroll while it is actully a sperate story. Anyway, I generally didn't like it. |
| Not memerable. | |||
| I don't really remeber much. I think my mind is blocking out a few things. But generally there is a lot of blood, violence and killing. | |||
| Ninja Scroll |
The art is pretty good. Some of the characters are drawn too "pointy" and "sharp" for me, but the characters and the blood flow nicely together. I think the best animated scene is the lady with the snake tatoos | N/A | It was alright. Don't really care to se it again. Too dark and dreary for me. |
| No memerable for me. | |||
| If I remember correctly Jube is on some quest and killing a lot of people/things along the way. Also someone wants Jube dead and there is this ninja girl. I don't really rmember much except the blood, killing, rape and sex. All the bad things that anime is streotyped with. | |||
| Noir |
Modern style. Similar to Bubblegum Crisis 2040. More realistic color scheme but still bright and anime like. | Digital fansubs Pencil Board |
A must see!! |
| Backgound music is a cross between classical and techo. The opening and endings are great! | |||
| A series about a female assasin who's code name is Noir. She encounters a junior high girl with amnesia who has assasin skills and doesn't know why. Its a mystery.....Those women kick ASS!!! | |||
| Nuku Nuku All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku |
Bright colors. Fun technology. | Idol Card | The original is the best. |
| Megumi Hayashibara. Enough Said. | |||
| A boy is lonely and wants a friend. His dad an android/AI specialist builds him a girl with the brain of a Cat. Silliness ensues. | |||
| Oh, My Goddess Ah, Megami-sami |
I like it. The hair and goddess dresses are really cool and flow so well. | Subtitled Ep 2 | I like romantic comidies. enough said. |
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| Very sweet love story that suffers from MAJOR manga compression. But overall very good. | |||
| On Your Mark |
Studio Ghibli | Digital Copy | So good! |
| I love that song. | |||
| A Miyazaki short about a girl with wings. Its like a music video. | |||
| One Pound Gospel |
It's alright. The characters are smooth and rounded and drawn fairly realisticly. | It's cute. I liked it. | |
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| Stereotypical constantly hunger lead character, yet this time he can't always eat or even afford it. The tension between the boxer and the Nun is cute too. I liked it. | |||
| Onegai Teacher |
Beautiful bright colors. Exactly what I expect from new animes. | Digisubs | Adorable. I need to see it all. |
| Cute and suits the series. | |||
| An mysterious woman arrives in town and become a new teacher. One student discovers her secret and in turn she discovers his. The collaborate together. It is really really cute. I didn't want to spoil anything so I tried to be vague. | |||
| Otaku no Video |
Gainax style. This is also one of their early works. But with all Gainax series they insert something different into the anime. | N/A | A must see for anyone who claims they are an Otaku. |
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| "How Gainax got started" with "documentary" footage of real Japanese Otaku who's faces and voices are distorted to hid their identities. The story is silly, but any Otaku will enjoy this. | |||
| Outlaw Star |
A bit angular for me but the ships are cool. | N/A | I must see the begining, because I liked the end. |
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| Um....I'm not going to comment since I saw the end of the series without seeing the begining.... | |||
| Patlabor |
Fair. | none | Deffinately NOT "high octane mecha combat" but it does have mecha. |
| No comment | |||
| Spanning a few different seasons and a few movies the basic premise is a police force and the mecha they use. | |||
| Perfect Blue |
A realistic style. | DVD | Strang but good. |
| Good stuff. I want a Cham CD. | |||
| ack....my head!! This movie will mess with you brain and perception of reality. Very Hichtcockian.... About a Pop-Idol turned actress and a series of mysterious murders around her. | |||
| Phantom Quest Corp Yogen Kaisha |
I like the colors and the character are drawn in fairly realistic proportions. The magic and explosions are cool too. | Sub Vol 1-2 | I really liked it. Just like most "one shot deals" I wish there was more. |
| The opening song is pretty cool along witht he ending. The background music can get a bit creepy but it fits the scene well. | |||
| Fun story of a finacially struggling group that fight demons and the supernatural. Plus the lead female witht he cool ass powers and sword. | |||
| Photon |
This series is so OBVIOUSLY done by the makers of Tenchi. I like tenchi, but this is just a little different. The Hair styles are more like flowing cream puffs than hair, but hey anything goes in anime. | N/A | Funny stuff. A little strange though. |
| No objections | |||
| Most of the time I was thinking "Poor Photon." He vowed to protect this girl (sorry can't remember the name) yet she is a complete bimbo and gets in trouble. Then there's another girl... | |||
| Pita Ten |
It's just so cute | Need to see it again. | |
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| Insanity and jealous girls. I need to watch this again. | |||
| Pokemon |
I enjoy the bright colors. I think Pikachu is adorable along witht hte rest of the pokemon. | I need to see more of this series. Espically the subtitled "pokemon get drunk" episode. | |
| haven't seen enough to really comment. | |||
| This story is such a marketing ploy "Gotta catch them all." But it does touch on "coming of age" and becoming more independant. But it never seems to mention the "happy slavery" (quote from a friend) that the Pokemon are in. | |||
| Pretear Shin Sirayukihime Densetsu Pretear The New Legend of Snow White - Pretear |
Beautiful vibrant color scheme. The Pretear costumes are interesting. She has a different costume for when she merges with each of the Knights. | Digital Fansubs | Interesting mix of genres. I want more. |
| Fair. No objections or outstanding features. | |||
| A mix of magical girl and bishounen. The Leaf Knights, 7 bishounen of various powers, protect the leaf/spirit of living things on earth. A force has appear that take leaf from living things. The only one strong enough to seal all these leaf sucking things is Pretear. Pretear is an average high school girl. She merges with one of the leaf knights (transformation sequence) and they become her shield and weapon. | |||
| Project A-Ko |
Old skool 80's style. Scary manly looking women. | Parodies | Fair. |
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| It's been quite some time since I've seen the original. C-ko is just annoying. There's lots of rivalry/ego battles that A-ko always seems to win. And lots of other random goofy stuff. | |||
| Project Arms |
Too angular, pointy and ugly for my tastes | n/a | Too macho for me |
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| There are people who have an ability to control an "Arm". So essentially, average high school guy begins battling people and discovers this "Arm" and goes on a journey to figure it out. | |||