I'm curious if anyone here likes Anime. If so, what are your favorite series?

Don't yell at me .... but ...
I lost those files AGAIN .... those 10 episodes (of that show where people's facial expressions wouldn't change for like 10 minutes despite overly exaggerated soap opera style plots) you kept sending me like 5000000 times)

Haha. Yeah, those were the "Marmalade Boy" episodes. Really good series. Nice love story... but I don't know if you like that or not... most girls prefer that stuff. Still my favorite series of all time has got to be "Initial D." It's a racing series. The CG racing scenes are just outstanding. The music also adds more excitement. What I like also is that use real brand cars, not fictitious.

Here's some info:
http://www.tokyopop.com/dbpage.php?p...e=introduction

Here's a trailer of it:
http://www.tokyopop.com/dbpage.php?p...&page=trailers

And I just saw the trailer. If you're REALLY going to get into this series, I recommend you watching the original Japanese subtitled version. What I hate is when they "Americanize" it - which means "chopping off it's balls." (They've done it in the past, with popular series such as Speed Racer, Dragon Ball Z - they were more serious series, but because America toned it down, it made it seem for kiddies.) The original series is uncut of course, but their voices are better, and the music is better. I have all the original episodes, if you'd like to watch them, let me know.

didnt realize Speed Racer was anime, but now that u mention it - yeah! used to love watchin that show!

Yeah it was good. I still prefer original Japanese anime through, undubbed. When I was little I used to watch Thundercats, Voltron, Noozles, Adventures of the Little Koala, Grim's Fairy Tales - all good series. Sucks that there's very few Anime fans out there. :cry:

oooooooooh Grimm's Fairy Tales! Those used to be on Nick Jr. when Nick Jr. first debuted on Nickelodeon !! hehe I used to watch those nonstop when I was lil - I think I saw all of them 10X

Great I got the theme song stuck in my head. http://members.fortunecity.com/toontracker/grimm.html

Lyrics:

Hey come along and join the fun,
It's the time for fairy tales.
Magical kingdoms in the South.
Come along, come along.

Meet friendly elves and witches too
in a world of fairy tales.
Enchanted castles wait for you,
come along, come along.
To where life is a fantasy
and every story ends so happily. (giggling)

This is the place where dreams come true.
A world of fairy tales for you.

Though I don't consider thunder cats anime, they ruled in the day.

Most of the junk they try passing off these days is not really that good. Pincess Moninokie (wrong spelling) was great.

I picked up the taste for it when I was studing in Corea. And yes it is spelled with a 'C' not a 'K'. The japanese changed the original spelling durning the occupation during the '50s.

Yeah I consider Thundercats more American Anime, if there's even a classification for it. I agree with you however, that a lot of what's coming out is crap, probably because they think that it's a cartoon, and think it should be made for children, thus short plots with a simple story, with some goofy slaptic and corny phrases... what a mess.

I like Anime because it's the complete opposite of American cartoons. The stories are actually better; they're more involved. One thing I love is character development. A character learns throughout the entire series and looks back on what he's learned. Also, many deal with real life issues. Not everything is about little monsters that shoot out fire. That's just the story. There are also no restrictions. Just because its like a cartoon (I even hate relating that word to Anime) it doesn't have to be PG. It does whatever it needs to do to get it's point across, whether is showing blood or scenes that portray sex, just like a R rated movie. I have to add that most of best movies I've seen have NOT been rated G or PG13. The art is another thing all together.

Most of the time, the artwork is a lot better. I think many of you can agree on that. The music is also better I think. Most series have their own soundtrack with usually more than one soundtrack (Initial D has over 8 soundtrack CDs I think).

Just my thoughts on Anime. The current Anime I'm watching now is Chobits and Hajime No Ippo. I think my favorite Anime though, the one I've enjoyed the most has been Initial D still.

I think Anime is pointless.. Are we talking about the porn, or like that dragon ball Z show ?