Posted on 12/09/2004 10:24:12 PM PST by Simmy2.5
Maybe I missed it, but I haven't heard anyone mention Lensman yet. Think it came out in the early 80's. Great anime.
NoirThis is intermixed with Kurosawa films, MST3K, Zatoichi, and America's great animated series Starship Troopers: Roughnecks.
Lain
Wind Named Amnesia
Coyboy Bebop
Now and Then, Here and There
The Twelve Kingdoms:
RahXephon
Rurouni Kenshin
Neo Tokyo
The Big O
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone
Armored Trooper Votoms
Dominion Tank Police
Slayers
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Argentosoma
Fist of the North Star
Berserk
Betterman
Yeah, I have to back you up with "Princess Mononoke." That was a terrific film.
One of my communications professors was giving us a lesson the "expectancy-violation theory" and he used that film as an example. Apparently he had rented it for his kids to watch, thinking it was a simple kiddie cartoon. Well, needless to say, his expectations were very violated by what the movie was actually like! LOL. I had a good laugh over that one. I imagine his kids will never want to visit a zoo again!
Man, who didn't? The original dubbed voices were actually excellent matches to their Japanese counterparts, but it's obvious lots of dialogue was changed so it wouldn't reflect just how violent that show could get!
Then Funimation takes over, gets those lame new voice actors, and it's like nails on a chalkboard...not to mention the changes made to the music made me want to wretch!
I saw that on Sci-Fi channel years ago. It had kind of a bizarre ending, but it was very good.
"Ghost in the Shell" a great but highly weird movie.
I'm glad it's beginning to catch on. I love anime myself.
I wouldn't mind having a red elk in my paddock.
Anime ping!
Dubbing is evil.
I have taught you well, grasshopper...
Geesh, anime's been big in America for as long as I've been paying attention (I think I was ten when I first heard of it). Sure, it's exploded now with the internet making it oh-so-easy to watch the latest releases from Japan. Too bad this season is so lacking. Nothing to replace Fullmetal Alchemist. Only Bleach is worth watching...
Well... they did. I hate that dub so much. Kenshin is too masculine, Kaoru's a whiny little you-know-what, Sano sounds like a muscle-brained moron, and Yahiko can't even pronounce his own name.
Also there's the fact that Cartoon Network managed to edit out half the blood... I watch in Japanese. I make my friends/victims learn to read subtitles.
It's awesome being in graduate school, everyone likes anime. I've borrowed Neon Genesis Evangelion off one friend, "Trigun" and "Full Moon wo Sagashete" off another, and loaned my precious "Fullmetal Alchemist" fansubs to two more people thus far... oh, yeah, and I just loaned my stack of "Lost Universe" dvds to a friend to watch over Christmas.
Hell, this would have been news in 1989. I remember the popularity of many Japanese animated series. Macross, Starblazers, Danguard Ace, Starvengers, Galaxy Rangers, Robotech...and many more.
Just so you know, geek still isn't cool
D'OH!
www.hlj.com
go to the scifi section, click Macross,
enjoy
Um, this headline would have been out of date ten years ago.
That is what I was thinking.
Geek is cool. We rule the world. You just don't know it.
Right on. and 'geek' is way more normal than it use to be. Nintendo put a little geek in everyone...
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