What Anime are you Currently Watching?/Anime Recommendations

[SamuraiMegas]

Oh not six episodes, fifty six.
Anyways I had a cool anime dream last night. I dreamt that the fhfif cartoon where you created imaginary friends whilst you slept and my friend was spike spiegal. He brought me to the swordfish gave me some wiling bills and pulled out a communicator and my cowboy bebop complete series DVD set and then called Steve Blum. We flew to blums house and I got my DVD set signed. We then flew around in space for a bit. Then we landed and it was really late so I went to bed. When I woke up Yoko from gurren lagaan was there. Then I woke up.

[Dylan]

I'm really turned off by this school of "neo" anime design (reminds me of Flash shit), but willing to put up with it if it's a worthwhile watch. An example of this is Fullmetal Alchemist.. I abhor the animation style but the series had a compelling story to tell.

I agree strongly with this. There's something about most modern digital animation that just rubs me the wrong way, and particularly digital coloring. It gives things a generic and homogeneous appearance to me.

[Xeogred]

Yeah it's a shame. That early to mid 2000's stuff has already aged pretty badly and doesn't have much charm or style to it, unlike say 70's anime or something, where they're dated and "old", but there's a difference between that and "bad" looking.

I rewatched Outlaw Star last year and am rewatching Cowboy Bebop now as well, some of the last cel drawn shows (although Bebop has some digital scenes like other Sunrise shows at the time), and they look like damn movie/OVA budgets. Seriously I just can't believe how good these shows look. Intricate details everywhere. The first Hunter x Hunter was a good one too and I know I've heard Ippo is cel drawn, I can't wait to watch that one.

I'd easily argue Gundam SEED is the nastiest looking digital show out there by far. Now that one looks like Flash stuff at its best, utterly disgusting.

Digital has come a long way though. Check out Rainbow (the Madhouse show about the cellmates, not the stupid Rainbow Rio show lol), the new Hunter x Hunter remake, current One Piece, and some new movies look sick. Redline looks mindblowing but I guess it's a special case with 7 years of production and some insane key animators... but yeah. At this point digital to me has finally reached this "acceptable" level for me and I can get into it. But yeah sometimes some lower budget shows from a few years ago this past decade, definitely look sterile and that can be pretty off putting.

I used to dream of digital being so good someday it'll be able to replicate the cel drawn look, but the heart will never be there. It just won't ever happen and with all that talent in retirement now, it's just a thing of the past now.

Iria is probably one of the best looking OVA's to me. Definitely one of my nostalgic favorites. I can't wait to watch the BDrips of Bubblegum Crisis as well, that one will definitely be sexy.

[Pulsar_t]

Does anyone know whether the new Berserk movies would actually have a proper ending? There's no way to justify a story without some sort of conclusion (unless you're David Lynch in which case your story makes no sense to begin with).. not to mention the stories that will never be concluded properly (some game studios are notorious for this)

[brunoafh]

If by that you mean, is the ending going to be any more clear than the ending in the anime, probably not. The movies are only covering the arc that the anime adapted. If anything the ending will be even more abrupt, because the first movie didn't include the part where Guts is the Black Swordsman in the beginning like the anime did.

If you want the full story go for the manga.

[D.D.D.]

I have "Mine Fujiko to iu onna" AKA The Woman called Fujiko Mine on my DVR but haven't watched it yet... Has anyone? Is it any good?

[Nemoide]

^I haven't seen it but I've heard it's really good, though definitely not in the vein of Miyazaki-style Lupin. I'm planning on picking that up once it's released.

[garrett123]

this was good, I dont watch alot of animes.

[flojocabron]

this was good, I dont watch alot of animes.

I have that bad boy on tape! the whole setup. In a nice box set. Its been years since I watched it. I do kinda want to get it on dvd again. If its at a nice price, just maybe.

Lodoss is one of those animes that led to the anime boom here in the states. For some people, its their first anime. Back then anime was only seen as a sci-fi/fantasy thing. Not much anime was seen back then, and this series along with others helped make it a little more mainstream.

Early anime [in the US]was either really sci-fi or heavy on the fantasy. Not like the current stuff now with lots of variety.

gotta salute the classics!

[CFFJR]

The Denver Film Society is doing a little celebration of Studio Ghibli over the next few (and past couple) weeks. They're screening 15 Ghibli movies, 14 of them in the original japanese.

So today, I saw Castle in the Sky for the first time, and I had the great pleasure of watching it on the big screen! I loved it.