I personally watch anime streaming online.
SciFiBoy said:
i dont know about the others, but im watching via the internet |
Yes, if you could send them to my mailbox here that would be great. I don't have messenger.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
I just started watching Ranma 1/2 again xD bringing the good old memories back
03/10/09 HUGE day in my life:
Basquash: First off, it's just plain gorgeous. Second off, it rocks. It's so much fun. Definitely my favorite so far.
Cross Game: Lacks the visual flare of Basquash but has some excellent story telling.
Shangri-La: Cool scenario with the carbon credits, and I like the character designs. It looks like it has potential.
FMA: Brotherhood: - It's FMA, 'nuff said.
Hatsukoi Limited - Funny, and looks very good. I'm hoping the romance side of things is well done.
Sengoku Basara - It's 24 minutes of testosterone-filled awesomeness. Know this show is all about action, and don't go in expecting a lot of plot, and it's great.
I still need to watch Eden of the East and that Phantom one. I might check out Guin Saga if I have time.

Khuutra said:
This is an excellent show but it's not anime. |
Err... why not? I guess it depends on whether you think anime is a subgenre of animation or a strictly Japanese cultural phenomenon that nobody else can play with. There are tons of American mangas that are recognized as "mangas" instead of "comics," and that's based on the style not the country of origin.
@OT, I'm 2 episodes deep into Paranoia Agent, and just watched FLCL for the first time and then all of Evangelion for the millionth time. I'm mostly watching anime movies right now, but when I have time I got some Naruto to catch up on.
Sounds like a great idea for this new Dragon Ball though. I watched the Frieza saga in high school, and I could have easily cut out 70% of it. Now after film school ruined my brain I could probably cut out 90% of it.
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Err... why not? I guess it depends on whether you think anime is a subgenre of animation or a strictly Japanese cultural phenomenon that nobody else can play with. There are tons of American mangas that are recognized as "mangas" instead of "comics," and that's based on the style not the country of origin.
@OT, I'm 2 episodes deep into Paranoia Agent, and just watched FLCL for the first time and then all of Evangelion for the millionth time. I'm mostly watching anime movies right now, but when I have time I got some Naruto to catch up on. Sounds like a great idea for this new Dragon Ball though. I watched the Frieza saga in high school, and I could have easily cut out 70% of it. Now after film school ruined my brain I could probably cut out 90% of it. |
I ain't arguing with no film major!
I mostly refrain from calling Avatar: The Last Airbender "anime" because doing so tends to start up a lot of arguments, particularly from people who hold that Western animation is inherently inferior.
Khuutra said:
I ain't arguing with no film major! I mostly refrain from calling Avatar: The Last Airbender "anime" because doing so tends to start up a lot of arguments, particularly from people who hold that Western animation is inherently inferior. |
Hm, I just Googled it and apparently it's a huuuuge controversy I've never heard of. Weird. I think it should be called anime or maybe "American anime" in the way we call Japanese rock "J-Rock" to show that it's their take on a foreign genre. But it's not like we make other countries come up with new words for rock and hip hop, which came from America and are now global genres. When German Expressionism came to America we didn't call it American German Expressionism, we just called it... German Expressionism, and then... horror... and then noir. It was all stolen from Germany though. Why can't we steal anime back from Japan? They stole it from Betty Boop anyway. I think these labels will get really dumb when we have a new word for a Japanese take on an American take on a Japanese take on American animation.
I think when somebody who doesn't know Avatar was made by Americans sees it for the first time, they'd assume it's anime. And I think that's what the labels are for. If it looks like anime and smells like anime and tastes like anime, ya know?
I'm in an anime class right now. It's soooooooo awesome. I should bring this topic up to all the anime nerds and my professors and see if they agree or get really mad at me. But then again we watched Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which is computer animation, by Japanese, with American voices, for America. But since it's FF-related it's still somehow considered "part of anime culture" or something. Ugggh...
| naznatips said: DBK is DBZ's original footage completely recut. The series is planned to be reduced from 290 episodes to about 100 episodes. In other words a lot of filler is going to be cut, as well as a lot of yelling and flexing and reaction shots lol. |
I remember watching the Freeza fight, it was suppose to take 5min for the planet to blow up & ended up taking 5 episodes! I stopped watching that stupid show ever since. That was about 10 years ago, but i this is true, i might actually check this out again. Is it in english?

arsenal009 said:
I remember watching the Freeza fight, it was suppose to take 5min for the planet to blow up & ended up taking 5 episodes! I stopped watching that stupid show ever since. That was about 10 years ago, but i this is true, i might actually check this out again. Is it in english? |
japenese with english subs
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Err... why not? I guess it depends on whether you think anime is a subgenre of animation or a strictly Japanese cultural phenomenon that nobody else can play with. There are tons of American mangas that are recognized as "mangas" instead of "comics," and that's based on the style not the country of origin.
@OT, I'm 2 episodes deep into Paranoia Agent, and just watched FLCL for the first time and then all of Evangelion for the millionth time. I'm mostly watching anime movies right now, but when I have time I got some Naruto to catch up on. Sounds like a great idea for this new Dragon Ball though. I watched the Frieza saga in high school, and I could have easily cut out 70% of it. Now after film school ruined my brain I could probably cut out 90% of it. |
That's true about manga.
I can't believe anyone can get through Evangelion multiple times. I was ready to kick Shinji in the nuts, strangle him, and drop him off a cliff by halfway through my first watching of that anime. I barely finished it, and only because of how many people had told me it was such an "important" anime and an "artistic triumph."
What I found was something made by a depressed psychopath and a show that was schizophrenic at best. It clearly had lost its budget halfway through the production, and ended with something the writer probably thought up while taking numerous very potent hallucinogens.
